halloflamer | POKEGEAR (MoM IC Contact)

W/e I'm not obligated to him anymore I said what I gotta say Thank Camerupt for me though

Of course. You wouldn't be even if you two hadn't had your fight. Tell him yourself. His favorite berries are Leppa.

Yeah w/e Fiiiiine I'll come give him some this weekend! Or he can come hang w/ Arcanine, he's been bored lately

Oh, that is a good idea. Mightyena could use something to do as well, he gets bored far too easily. Maybe it will be good for them both.

K Btw Is that really the best you could come up with??

What are you talking about?

[He switches to video for this, because he's a turd]

[After he steadies the camera, he flaps both arm to the side with a shitty, shitty grin, and he hardly makes it before he busts out laughing and reaches to send the video reply.]

[maxie also switches to video, confused for a moment before he recognizes his VERY COOL SALUTE

and scowls] You... saw our salute? Why are you laughing?!

Your salute!? Haha! Man, I know you Magma losers were lame, but this is something else!

[(Btw Blue definitely has a bruised jaw where Archie snapped him)]

[That's not stopping him from giving his stupid, stupid salute.] I got a way cooler salute!

[he takes note of this but. in a rare moment of tact doesn't mention it. yet] It is not lame! All my grunts agreed it was inspired!

[he makes the most unimpressed face] That's dull. You call that a salute? Where's the showmanship?

Yeah, big surprise in a team full of lame-o's. [Blue waves a dismissive hand.]

It's not dull, it's casual. True showmanship means you're cool without trying! It's just the icing on the cake. And the cake is-- well, for me, it's battling. I don't know what dumb stuff you Magma losers do, study rocks I guess.

What's wrong with studying rocks?! [this fucking conversation.

he breaths out his nose.] At least I have a salute. It was a team building excercise.

They're boring. [SORRY NOT SORRY]

Yeah, well, I guess. Teach that loser asspirate some artistic vision, huh?

They are not boring! They are the building block of the Earth and can teach us not only about ourselves but about Pokemon, the balance of nature and future developments! How is it boring to understand the very ground we walk on? Why- [please assume he goes on like this for a while i can't fucking even my eyes are glazing over]

[anyway.] Ugh, he wouldn't know art if it bit him. Too used to letting Sharpedo chew on him for that.

[Good because Blue's eyes also glaze over, in fact, he glances away for a few moments and starts.... doing something else, making lunch or grooming his Pokémon or whatever, you do you Maxie.]

Hah! ...Hey, you've known him a long time, right? [Blue's head tilts to the side, thoughtful.] Can I ask you something?

[good. he doesn't notice, assuming he was heard. excellent. wonderful. did it.

and he pauses.] Hm? Yes, for... Arcues, a long time indeed. What is it you wanted to ask?

[Blue pauses for a long moment, then goes back to making lunch or whatever instead of looking at or being in the video feed, because talking about this without looking is much easier (or you could just switch it back to text, Blue, you infant)]

[But that would be weird]

[Anyway]

How'd you... guys end up doing all that, anyway?

Forming teams like that. [Which is only scratching the surface, really, of what he really wants to ask about; but it's unthinkable to him, to consider how these villainous groups got their start. It was easy to imagine madmen, drunk on power, abusing their way through a region. But knowing them, now... How did it even enter their minds to do this?]

[Well, Blue had some idea.]

[maxie would have words about that but the question throws him off. he might be more defensive about the topic but it was blue, and if anyone probably deserved to know it was the kid he potentially harmed with his stunts.

he goes quiet, considers his answer.] Archie tells me you know we were in Team Rocket. What do know of that?

[There's a long silence while Blue is looking away from, outside the scope of his comm's feed, and the video is just a blank stream of the kitchen wall for a few moments. Then, it's disturbed slightly, shadows passing over the light as he moves around the kitchen, clanking from dishes.]

You were one of 'em too, huh.

[His voice doesn't sound especially surprised.] Doin' what? You don't seem the grunt type.

I was a scientist, or at least worked in the science team. Our focus was legendary Pokemon- Giovanni had a very... narrow focus there.

[god this was awkward. so fucking awkward.] At the time it seemed like the best chance to get to actually work with something I was passionate about. I was aware Team Rocket was... unsavory but you must understand, I was new to Kanto. I didn't know much besides overblown rumors.

... not that it excuses anything. I should have dug deeper but I thought I'd be willing to deal with some corruption in upper ranks to be able to move forward.

[Another long lack of words follows broken by kitchen noise.]

Don't tell Red. [Is all he finally says on that matter, and he's not going to press any further on it. Who cares what they were involved with; the Rockets were long since toast.]

Why'd you leave and make your own team, then? You guys both, right?

[Whatever stupid thing had caused them to focus on opposite sides of the spectrum. He didn't get it, their opposite focuses on Hoenn's legendary Pokémon, or why it mattered which one they picked. Messing with legendary Pokémon always ended the same, either way.]

I can't promise it won't come out. Frankly... maybe he should know. [sighing forever. life was suffer.]

Their treatment of Pokemon was what drew us away. I met Archie when he was assigned to help me on an assignment, we... well, we became friends. We both felt strongly about the abuse going on and ended up leaving rather unceremoniously when it clearly would continue.

After that... [he adjusts his glasses and considers again, long and hard.] I won't speak for Archie. Our ideological differences set us on different paths but we both wanted to incite change. Even if we left Team Rocket on bad terms the idea behind a team of Pokemon trainers isn't necessarily a bad one. Or so I thought.

It wasn't some instant decision, I started to gather people who shared my flawed vision and it naturally progressed to making a team.

[Blue shrugs half-heartedly; he tried. If they wanted to get on Red's bad side, well.... he wouldn't get between that.]

[It wasn't as if Blue had never seen what the Rockets did. It wasn't as if his own inaction was because he didn't care. It was just... he was a kid. He was one kid. What was he supposed to do, when the police even couldn't put a stop to them?]

[But Red did it. To this day, Blue wasn't really sure how he'd managed it, how he and his team had fought through that army of thugs right down to the boss all by himself. He didn't like to think on it for too long. It could have ended so differently. And then where would he be? What would he have done, if he'd just left Red there at the Silph Headquarters, and he'd never come back out?]

[Would he have fought, then? Or would he just take the coward's way out after all.]

[Whatever the change was that they'd looked for, he didn't get that either. He didn't get any of these people that took matters into their own hands.]

So, what now? That change you wanted... you didn't get it, right? [He intones, sounding bored, but probably put-on.] What was the change you wanted so badly?

The change I wanted was misguided. I was so sure of the logic and righteousness behind my actions I was blinded to the fact I was- [well, he's getting emotional again!! shocking. he grits his teeth, exhales through his nose.] I was an idiot. Narrowminded, just like Giovanni.

[bluh bluh seriously why did maxie think his stupid plan made any sense, question for the ages] I wanted to make more land with Groudon's power, more space that I saw as dwindling and taken from the Pokemon on land. There's arguments to be made for the limit of resources and how we have used too much but-

You've seen. It was foolish, I played with powers beyond me and others paid for it. The path to hell paved with good intentions, as it were.

[Okay well it's Pokémon logic so somehow it makes some sort of sense to Blue. Or as much sense as a madman can make. Blue's not going to ask how he ever thought he would manage to bring a legendary weather god under heel, as if the ancients could do so, as if that was the biggest thing wrong with this entire plot.]

[He just shrugs it off. He'd heard it already; Archie had said all the same things.]

What'll you do now? [Here, whatever, back home. Sure, they were from his past, and he'd never known them back home; he had no way of knowing what they could have been up to by his time.] Change things a different way?

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