You put Jirachi through that. You put all the Pokémon you capture through something terrible. What do you think Giovanni does with them? Send them off to a happy pasture?
[he gestures at inkay and mareanie.]
But you don't treat them like that. Would you kick Mareanie if it meant a promotion? Shut Inkay away in a box?
No, it's not. You believe the rhetoric, you're helping it happen. Maybe you're just a lowly grunt, but without the grunts the team won't work. You think Gio would go out and do your work himself? The admins?
[this is something he's had to admit to himself recently; he's willing to take responsibility for his team, but he can't take away their autonomy in the events either.]
[he closes his eyes and sighs, turning away in the water to look back to sharpedo and marenie.]
One day you're gonna be ordered to do something you don't wanna do. Maybe you'll have to turn someone else's Inkay into sushi. I just hope you're able to realise Giovanni going too far before it gets personal.
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[not at least because all the trainers here are quite powerful.]
I don't understand. How can you care so much but so little?
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...I'm not sure I understand the question.
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[he gestures at inkay and mareanie.]
But you don't treat them like that. Would you kick Mareanie if it meant a promotion? Shut Inkay away in a box?
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[Well, maybe once upon a time, but not anymore.
He snarls at the fact that Archie would even ask.]
They're my buddies!
Part of the team!
All for one and one for all!
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Headquarters decides what to do with them.
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[he groans, dunking his own head in the water for a moment.]
That's what I mean! If Inkay went back and Giovanni decided he wanted to sell it as sushi, you'd have no qualms?
[is team rocket brainwashing really this bad...?]
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HE WOULDN'T DO THAT!
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He wouldn't.
That's not what our Organization is all about!
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[seriously??]
Then what is it about? Arceus, at least I could say when my team had fallen to the depths of villainy because of me.
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We want to rule the world, not destroy it.
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[as angry as he is... this is an interesting look into rocket stuff he never would've gotten before...]
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Maybe they won't mind it in the end.
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[He snorts, but his voice has a note to it that suggests this is something he tries not to think about too much.]
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[this is something he's had to admit to himself recently; he's willing to take responsibility for his team, but he can't take away their autonomy in the events either.]
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I'm an elite field agent, thank you very much!
[He'll get to the larger point in a moment but he feels his ego being wounded here.]
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[He snaps his fingers.]
We'll unify the world under our banner of evil.
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One day you're gonna be ordered to do something you don't wanna do. Maybe you'll have to turn someone else's Inkay into sushi. I just hope you're able to realise Giovanni going too far before it gets personal.
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We've done it before.
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[how did he not guess that everything about james' world would confuse him so!]
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[Awkward pause.]
...So we tackled him off the side of a wall.
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[it makes him feel worse, if anything. the water becomes clear around him and still-- very cold, too.]
You were fine letting him go back to doing what he did that led him to slipping that far?
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sorry for the wait!
np my dude
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