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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[Well. That was...rather long winded. Why the heck did this person use text for all that? Somebody's certainly bored.]

Not really. If it was just one person working alone, it would be, but there's strength in numbers.

*because he's still yet to get the hang of the idea that typing a message =/= writing a letter or report :|b ...and sometimes other reasons, but*

While there's certainly truth to that, not even numbers alone could truly make a difference if not employed effectively. To give an example, an army may have both superior numbers and armaments, and yet be easily defeated if enrusted to a commander who cannot effectively utilize those resources, or if the soldiers themselves are too poorly disciplined to properly put their orders into action. Whereas a single agent acting alone can, if used correctly, potentially demoralize and thus defeat an entire army. It is the ability to use resources at hand, in the forms of manpower, physical resources, and perhaps most importantly information, and to do so strategically, that is what makes the difference whether in war between nations, or dealing with criminals within a single nation or region.

This is also, of course, perhaps one of the greatest flaws of the local law enforcement; while I could hardly say for certain as to what resources they do or do not have at their disposal, what has been seen of their responses to such situations as the recent occurrance in Olivine suggests that they do indeed suffer from such critically poor organization that they are unable to effectively deal with that sort of situation regardless.

[Regardless of his reasoning, he's really just wasting his time and annoying her. It was a simple question. She had a script of what to say once she had an answer because otherwise she'd have asked why the hell they hadn't done something beforehand. She...isn't all that fond of speeches, unfortunately.]

Or it could be that they just don't care. You stop to consider that?

*he's already given her as much of an answer as he cares to in public; whether she reads between the lines for it (not to mention acting on it) is up to her*

You refer to the police? While it's certainly possible, until there's reason to believe otherwise I would rather give them the benefit of the doubt; it's not unlikely that the local laws here served this world's residents well indeed before we foreigners arrived.

Though I presume from your response that you are indeed disastisfied with their handling of the matter, as I asked in my first comment. In which case one might then presume you have an interesting in either aiding them, or forming a vigilante system of justice of your own?

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