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028 [Text/Audio/Action for Violet City]

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There was a casualty to the bombing yesterday. A boy named Danny Fenton was mailed a bomb, and Cobra Commander has threatened to take us out for getting in his way. He doesn't know the Corps exists, but be on your guard regardless. Don't handle anything suspicious and avoid traveling alone at all costs until we can deal with him and whoever else he may be working with. Avoid mentioning us in public, as well. We'll need every advantage we can get for as long as we have it.

[Audio; Filtered to: Leon, Hope, Serah, and Ven.]
We should leave the city before something else can happen. Are you ready to get moving?

[Action for Violet City Inn, Room 221]
[Anyone who seeks Lightning out today will find her in her room at the Inn, flitting between a pad of paper on the desk and the bag she's packing. The paper is covered with notes that are easy to read and the bag is smartly packed, so it's a sharp contrast to Lightning who looks a bit...frazzled in comparison to her normal self. Someone seems just a bit out of her element for some reason.]

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[Good luck countering it, Coop. Good luck.]

I'm not saying it won't. I'm just saying we should be prepared to find another way if we can't get anything that can help from his memories. It won't help to have our only plan fail before it gets out the gate.

_{[Thanks, he'll need it.]

[He doesn't sound too troubled, because he knows and expects the others in the group to be resourceful, but he's still serious when he goes on.]}

It's not our only plan, Lightning, but our first. I can give him a call in a few days and see what I can glean from him.

In the meantime, I think it would be a good idea to keep some kind of documentation on confirmed Rockets and what we know about them as well as come up with a strategy on how to deal with them on a personal level. I know a lot of people, you and me included, like to get involved whenever they make themselves known to the Network.

[If he thinks it'll work...fine. Can't hurt to try, right? And what other options do they have?]

He's in Ecruteak, if you'd prefer to do it in person. I don't think he'll be leaving the Pokemon Center for a while.

The only person who's been confirmed to be a Rocket is Cobra Commander. Other than him, unless your source has come through with information, we don't have any other people to confirm or suspect.

[Their inside source isn't really coming through, sadly...]

[It's liable to happen anyway, but so long as he doesn't seek out trouble, things should be fine. Truly.]

We should be, if we can keep everybody from running off to take him on alone.

[Because thirty some people coming at him one at a time may raise some serious flags and they don't need that. At all.

Oh, she knows she's supported and loved. Which is why she wants to keep her loved ones out of his sight, so she'll take the big target. It's a never ending cycle, really.]

I might. Thanks.

_{[He'll be looking that up shortly.]}

Then he's first on our list. He seems to consider himself the leader, but in addition to being admittedly dangerous he's also arrogant and paranoid. It's possible we could make him slip up with information if we play our cards right.

And no, she hasn't yet. Don't we have someone inside Team Rocket?

[A nod would go here, but since it's audio, there's only a moment of silence while she considers what he's said. Play the cards, huh?]

So long as we don't give him enough reason to think there's more than a handful of people standing against him and Team Rocket. Wouldn't do us any good to have them all come after us now.

We're supposed to have someone inside, but they haven't gotten us any information or even contacted us since the squads were formed. [Which is making her wonder if they've got a problem. A really big one, at that.]

_{[-- well, damn, that is actually really alarming.]}

Is there any way to get in touch with them?

[And there's the reason for at least part of her pessimism. Starting to make sense now?]

The same way we get in touch with anyone else, but there's no way to be sure if the line is secure and we won't blow their cover by doing it. I doubt Team Rocket handles traitors with a light touch.

_{[Yep, and she shall never be questioned again. .. for a while, anyway.]}

I think you're right about that.

_{[Man, this could be tricky.]}

Is there any way to signal them? A code word you agreed on before they went undercover?

[Oh, she's fine with being questioned because she's still re-learning how to lead. It's just that when her instinct is questioned that she has a problem.]

There wasn't any time to come up with that. They were already in Team Rocket when we founded the Corps, so they couldn't stay to be handled properly without someone catching onto something.

_{[Well, yes. But questioning her pessimism is not happening for a while onwards.]}

Have they been in Team Rocket since their arrival?

[Which she appreciates. It would be one thing in a peaceful, happy situation, but now? Yeah, no.]

I think so. We would have heard something by now if Team Rocket was recruiting people after they arrived.

How did they become involved?

_{[Asking all the questions now, yeah.]}

I'm not sure. Ven and I weren't involved in recruiting them; we only knew to contact them when the squads were formed because we had a list left behind by the person who started this.

[And his notes were, sadly, not that extensive. She can't fault Merlin for it, but now...now it's annoying.]

Merlin.

_{[He says it mostly to confirm it, as he resumes thinking out loud.]}

I think our best bet would be to try to adress them openly and urge them to get back to us as soon as they can, in any way possible.

Hmm.

[A moment of silence afterwards as she tries to think of a way to do that, but there's a slight issue.]

The only question would be how to do it without arising any suspicions. I get the feeling that some people are already being watched to see if they're threats to Team Rocket's goals.

[And Etro knows she's already painting a target on her own back, so who's to say others haven't done the same?]

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That is a problem, but I have every confidence that we can think of something.

_{[This guy was the ~inspiring leader~ back home, pretty much.]}

[She was born ready to be a beach bunny.]

I'll try to keep that in mind.

[Unless it's a pokemon egg and then she'll forget. Oops. So if Serah does end up a breeder, Lightning's going to be frazzled by the amount of eggs that shows up, huh?]

[Hugs are good things and both sisters needed one anyway if they were honest about it.]

But you're going to worry anyway, aren't you?

[Little sister knows her ways all too well.]

Going to have to work fast, though. Who knows how much time we've got left before they make their move.

[Hopefully he still can be. Because this...may get messy.]

[Good. Because they will be beach bunnies again soon.

And yes, frazzled would be one way of describing her should Serah become a breeder. That many eggs would be very hard to move and big sis has trouble with holding still these days.

Of course they needed hugs. It's why Lightning hasn't let go yet, too.]

Do you even have to ask that?

[True... He's definitely not looking for any danger on his own, at least]

That'd be...bad. Gotta make sure everybody knows better than that.

[Indeed, they don't want to start looking like a problem themselves.

Oh Pinksis. So many pouting little siblings]

[Which is good. Because he's got a crowd of sibs that would charge in after him if he did, too.]

Most of them do, but some...[A sigh, and she shakes her head a bit.] I barely managed to talk Saber into warning her squad before she lets Cobra come after her.

[And that could still devolve into a rather large issue on its own. They really don't need more trouble on top of it.

If they all dogpile her she won't know what hit her...or be able to get past them. At all.]

I understand that risk and will keep you informed as soon as details are made to me. I will keep my squadron updated as well. Until he strikes either at myself or some other person, we have no way of telling. If I can serve as a suitable distraction and acquire some information, then it would be wonderful. In the meantime, I will keep from getting too involved.

[A hum of assent. He gets it, really. He's hardly opposed to moving up there, especially with so many of their numbers gathered around Goldenrod and Ecruteak. A little distance won't hurt.

He knows there's something deeper at stake here, though--and his hand squeezes gently.]

Don't start doubting yourself now. You can handle this.

[By 'you', he means 'we', and there's an unspoken 'I'm here to help' lurking beneath his words that he's confident she can hear.]

Yeah, I wouldn't take him on by myself, even with my strongest Pokémon. If you do figure something out, though, I'm more than willing to step in and help out.

Half my team's probably restless, anyway.

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