cyan_maid | Victory Road IC Inbox

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Ring, ring...ring, ring... beep!

Hello! You've reached Jane Crocker. Sorry I couldn't pick up at the moment, but if you could please leave your name, number, and a brief message, I'll get back to you as soon as possible!

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I know where they are keeping the Meganium. I don't know for how long, but I know the location it's at right now.

[D8 !!!!!]

What can I do to help?

Well, I was hoping to hire the services of the Fletcher Gym in retrieving this pokemon.

Unfortunately, the location is nowhere near the Islands, and I'm worried that if I travel there myself, they may have already moved the Meganium by the time I arrive. You are located much closer to it than I am. And as a fellow E4 champion, I trust that you have the skills to deal with any sort of defence Team Rocket may have set up.

I'll pay, of course. Whatever your going rate is. I just... want to try and get this pokemon back to Kazuki.

Pay? Jesus, Armin, I'm not going to charge for this! Just let me know where to go and I'll be bringing my associate along to do what we can. Hopefully we can get in and out without having to fight anybody, but we'll be prepared if it comes to that...

We can argue about payment later.

[Armin feels like he is still taking up a lot of Jane's valuable time and thus she should be compensated. Even if this is also the sort of thing he'd do without payment. Maybe they can compromise and donate money to a cause Jane cares about or something. But still, that is a concern for later.]

I wish I could give you any information about how Team Rocket might be defending it, but unfortunately, the location is all I've got. Do be careful, okay?

[And he'll be sending Jane a message with the address information he got from Steven.]

[Armin! The important thing is to stop Team Rocket! She didn't find a way to make her gym also a detective's office for the money!!]

I'll be quite careful, I promise.

[And she'll...go get Riz? Should I go to his inbox or do you want to bring him here?]

All right. Thank you.

I will say I haven't... I haven't told Kazuki about this yet. I don't want to give him false hope in case the lead doesn't pan out. Do you think I should?

[He values Jane's judgement here.

and also, his inbox works fine.]

That depends on how you think he'd take the news. Would he try to save his Pokemon on his own? Put out a more public notice and put the kidnappers on alert? I don't want to say you shouldn't tell him, but...just try to consider his reaction before you decide.

Before all of this, I would've said he absolutely would not go and confront them. That's not-- he's not from a world where it's normal to fight, thankfully, so he has never had to. It's not in his nature.

But before all of this, I also would have said it's not in his nature to not be positive and he's definitely been struggling with that since getting attacked. Which is understandable -- there is not a person in the world that wouldn't be changed by something like this, especially not someone as empathic as him, but it does make me worry I can't predict his actions as clearly as I could before.

Hm...then I think...maybe we ought to wait. If he's not used to confrontation, then I wouldn't want him to hurt himself doing anything rash.

You're right. I wouldn't want to give him false hope either. That just might be more painful in the end.

I'll do my damnedest to make it not-worse, but it is better to be cautious in that regard, you're right.

I know you'll do the best that you can. That's why I came to you, after all.

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