soggypastry | 033 [Video/Action for Goldenrod + Anon Text]

[Private Text to: Riku and Xion]
Team Rocket's list of targets changed. You're both on it now, so stay sharp and watch your backs. I don't know when they'll move on any of us.
[/private texts]

[It's been almost three months since he left, with only a letter to say goodbye. To say that Lightning hadn't been thinking about him as the day that would have been thier first anniversary drew nearer would be a lie, and she's taken it with remarkable grace when all things are concerned.

Or maybe she's just used to getting left behind. Who knows. All she knows is there's a house on the beach with too many memories and dreams, and she can barely look at Lucky or Strike without expecting him to be right at her side. She has to put that part of her past to rest if she's going to be able to lead the Corps in the best way she can, and so she's come to the seaside once more. Something a young boy once taught her matters more than she ever thought it would now.

Those passing close to the Radio tower will find her crouched at the railing, a lit sparkler in one hand and a bottle with a letter in the other as her Lucario stands guard nearby, gear in paw. Today would have been special, if he were here. But he isn't and it's just one more anniversary of loss. One more thing that needs to be shaken off.]

Turn it off, Sen.

[The Lucario in question yelps, but it's only in surprise, not fear. Lightning's voice is steady and quiet, and she rises to her feet as the sparkler burns out and leaves ash in the wind. She moves to the railing now, but Sen manages to end the feed just as the bottle that was in her hand drops out of sight and into the ocean.

A few minutes later, however, something else hits the network. The fact that it's an anonymous text may make people wary, but there's nothing untoward about this one. No, this one is the exact opposites of the others that have gone out.]

[Anon Text]
If someone gave you a chance to help protect this world and everyone who lives here from the people who want to harm it, would you do it? Or would you stand by and watch it burn like the Lighthouse?

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That'd depend.

Penny for your thoughts?

[Well, it wasn't often that he got to meet her, and while he's probably going to get an earful or two from her, it doesn't really matter; someone's down in the dumps, and that's not always a good thing.]

On what? The options you were given?

[Sen reacts to his presence first, whirling on his feet and growling with his fangs clear to see, but he calms at Lightning's touch. Shinn's no threat, after all. Well. Not to Lightning, anyway.]

It's just a bad week.

[Down in the dumps is an accurate description, but she's had her time to grieve. Going back to talk about it again...it's not going to help her or anyone else.]

[Normally Cecil would not comment on that sort of video, especially when it's not wanted. But in this case...]

...A bottle and a flame?

Right, because that's not a loaded question at all.

...Bad week, huh.

[He's going to lean on the railing.]

Considering how often shit hits the fan in both of the regions? I'm not really surprised.

It's just a question. I won't do anything to this world even if you don't answer it, if that's what's bothering you.

[Well. So much for the video being off. Ah, well...]

Something I was taught. [siigh.] There was a letter in the bottle. For Leon.

[HALP, CECIL. HOW DOES DEAL WITH FEELS!?]

[[Page's reply to the anonymous text comes quite quickly after it's sent; this is right up her alley, after all.]]

I would dedicate my life to it. It's what I've always done.

[[That strange man who attacked the Lighthouse worried her quite badly; she didn't realise this place had such people, with such powerful weaponry.

It's typical, really. She knew the peace couldn't last.]]

Of course I'd take it. I don't want to stand around and do nothing.

[She watches him for a moment, absently petting Sen's ears. Who's surprised anymore? But it's not even just the shit hitting the fan, sadly. It's a lot of bad bad timing.]

I don't think anyone who's been here for more than a month is. Not anymore.

[She remembers you, Page. Didn't peg you for the type, but...]

And what if I told you there was a group trying to do just that? Would you join them? Or would you work on your own?

Framed like that, are you really stupid enough to think anyone's going to leap at the chance to answer "no, sir, I'm perfectly happy sitting around watching the world blow up and thereby being part of the problem through inaction"?

This isn't 'just a question'. It's bait.

So if someone told you there was a group that was working to try and protect this place, would you join them or work on your own?

I'm aware of that. But when your enemy blows up lighthouses, hospitals, and hurts people without warning or understandable cause? You take whatever option you have. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Isn't that how it goes?

It's complicated.

Is it really? Either you take that chance or you don't. It's your call, no one elses.

[Oh hello there anonymous text on the network. Let Cobra type out an actual response once he's done laughing at it.]

Neither. I'd be the one making it burn.

[Well. She should have expected this.]

And making yourself burn in the process. Playing with fire has consequences.

So what, now you're the front-line defender of justice around here?

Sure, I'll sleep well at night knowing the guy dedicating himself to standing between me and a bomb under my bed is a blithering imbecile. I feel better already.

I'm surprised you can sleep at all, with all the complaining you're doing. If my methods bother you so much, maybe you should do something about it instead of whining.

Why would I work on my own? There's more power when you work with your friends.

Gee. What if I already am? Too bad you didn't ask that question instead of some loaded and reactionary false dichotomy, but I guess it's more important to fire up the masses than actually be productive, huh?

[[Don't worry; she gets that a lot.]]

You have power in numbers. One person alone can do very little. It would be stupid to avoid joining the group in favour of being a lone hero. That never get anywhere.

You can have that as my answer, I suppose.

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