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soggypastry[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.
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[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?
Anon Text
Date: 2012-09-01 07:04 am (UTC)Regardless, it's still your call to make whether you watch the world burn or do something about it instead. You don't have to be dragged in by someone else being an idiot.
Anon Text
Date: 2012-09-02 08:40 pm (UTC)[Then again, her home world needs idiots like Amu ...kind of, as much as it annoys Utau to admit it inside her head. But hey, talking about different kind of idiots he-- Ouch, damn you for that last sentence. Good thing this is just anon texts. Not that her poker face fails too much.
Ummm, but no. She's not going to open up about her life to a stranger.]
Indeed, because I work alone, so I can always make my own decisions.
[No she can't because she's been dragged in evil organizations because her parents are idiots -- and because Johto's random system seems to make fun of it too by making her a Rocket. But that's just details! Besides, it's not like she doesn't still try to make things her own way ...Sometimes.]
Anon Text
Date: 2012-09-03 04:46 am (UTC)You can. But working alone also means getting out of trouble on your own. Having someone to watch your back isn't a bad thing.
[learned that the hard way. and bloody. it wasn't pretty, to say the least.]
Anon Text
Date: 2012-09-05 05:08 am (UTC)I can get out of trouble on my own just fine. Having someone to watch my back would just end up in situations where I don't want to be anymore.
[+locked/private/whatever you call it]
But then again; I'd rather hear about the fire and give an advance warning to people who don't know about it.
[And then add some fuel to the fire, but hey, you don't need to know all the details of her so called plan. She has her own goals. Letting innocent people get hurt by actions of others is not on that plan. Been there, done that - not very into doing it again if she can avoid it somehow.]
Anon Text
Date: 2012-09-06 02:34 am (UTC)[The sudden addition of a lock catches Lightning off guard, and makes her wonder just who this person is, exactly. If only she had names instead of just gear signals for most of them...]
Then I'm guessing there's a fire you need to warn people about. Why else would you bring it up?