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"For the love of..." Carrie rubbed at her temples. "Charles, come back!" She shouted, irritated. "It's too far to run the whole way! Just walk like the rest of us!"
Greg facepalms.
"The hell is wrong with you? Stop acting like a Rattata on crack. We need to stick together."
"Just let him wear himself out. Hopefully he'll learn from that." Ray responded, trying hard not to smirk from the 'Rattata on crack' comment.
"Did anyone bring rope? I think we ought to fashion a leash for him, personally. A muzzle would be nice, too.
"Unless he wants to get torn apart by wild pokemon, of course."
"Pacing, my friend. Pacing." Ray responded. "You must learn to keep a steady pace."
Jackie shook her head. "Well, at least one of us is patient."
"I like the leash idea."
Jackie tromps over to him. "I am literally this close to breaking your nose, kid. Shut your mouth."
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Greg keeps his distance and tries not to get involved in the conflict.
Ray's face was firmly planted in his palm. "Are you finished? Or have you all forgotten lives are at stake? None of us should be resorting to petty jabs or threats of violence. Now let's get going all of you. We have a job to do, and Arceus help I will do it without you if I have to!"
Greg keeps walking.
Carrie just massages her temples. She can feel a headache coming on. "Jackie, stop threatening the idiot. Charles, be less annoying. We have importantthings to do, remember?"
Jackie glared back harder, entirely unfazed by his retort. She felt bad for Snow and Dynamo, though, so she held herself back this time, if only for their sake. Plus, there was walking to be done. So she walked.
"I apologize, Ray, Greg, Carrie, Snow. You're right; let's keep moving."
"As I was saying," Ray said, pulling out a notebook. "Team Rocket is much older than we think and they've had plans spanning hundreds of years. It's unlikely this is a simple case of theft for pokemon that are simply powerful."
Carrie sighed. She was starting to sympathize with Jackie. Just ignore him. "I think you're right. There's easier ways to nab powerful Pokemon than attacking the League itself. There's more to this."
Wait, he seriously thought I was referring to Mercer? Jackie shook her head, but she felt a little better knowing that there weren't actually any ill intentions. Just Charles being unaware about something, as always. It wasn't a statement she'd forget, though; just the thought of putting a leash on a Pokemon drove her up the wall, well-intended or not.
Attempting to push the outburst out of her thoughts for a few moments, she wanted to say something to Ray about the dragons that Team Rocket wanted to summon, but she hadn't actually heard anything she disagreed with out of him so far, and she had never been one for analytic thinking.
"I'm afraid I'm not as up on legends about Pokemon as this particular case asks for. I'm afraid I tend to look for more... concrete pursuits." Ray said, flipping through his notebook and scribbling but managing to effortlessly avoid any obstacles in his way. "It's possible Team Rocket believes they are fulfilling some prophecy... or some sort of apocalypse... can't rule out world domination."
Ray began less talking to others and muttering to himself as his pace became slightly more brisk. "Perhaps related to ancient myths.. perhaps..."
"Vulllllll...." Phillip said. His master was in one of his moods again.
"People actually believe in prophecies?" She shook her head with a wry smile. "If I had to guess right now, my money would probably be on some kind of world domination. Team Rocket is a gang. I doubt their ultimate goal is much deeper than money and power. An apocalypse would leave them with neither."
Bob shifted on Carrie's back.
Ray turned to Carrie and insisted 'That's what they want you to think. Looking into history it's shown that Team Rocket and variants have been around throughout history! The fact that they're so forward means they must be planning something big!'
"Oh, my." Jackie was starting to get worried now. Well, more so. "Wait, are we talking literal apocalypse--volcanoes all erupting at once, the seas overtaking the land, all that shit--or just something equivalent, Ray? How many Pokemon could do something like that? And why the hell would Team Rocket do that? I'm not seeing where it helps them." She held her chin in her hand, only to turn up no new ideas.
"A cult?" She turned to Carrie, noticing that she had almost mimicked Carrie's gestures. "I would imagine such a successful gang of criminals being more savvy than that."