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 Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:40 pm
"Heh... I, uh, hope not, but given everything recently..." She nodded in agreement; they did come across a lot of weird, or dangerous, stuff. And usually when they went with the intention of relaxing.
She gave another nod when he suggested they submit the analysis.
"I think that would, uh, be the best idea. The analysis and the summary, actually; I think seeing it in summary form will simplify it... I, uh, hope I can interpret it as best I can, but it depends what shows up... My expertise isn't in chemistry, really, though I can make sense of most organics..."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:08 pm
"No matter," Aulus smiled and shrugged, "we'll give them the info we've got - and whatever you can decipher will be more than I can - and once a few clerics... that's the wrong word, a few clerical types have read it they'll pass the data on to somebody who can interpret all of it. Hopefully quickly." Aulus' smile was replaced by a frown and he shook his head. "Whatever's out there I doubt it belongs to the League, they don't do 'shoot first ask questions later'. That leaves either people we don't know about or...." Galactic had been scattered, shattered, but pieces could still remain. Tethys hadn't been with the airship when it went down. Tethys knew they had Deimos. If it was her... if it was.... If it was her then he was going to fight her, beat her, and cut off her stupid pretentious hair. They'd been back to the ship, to the cell, and he'd dealt with that. He could deal with her too.
"Or there's another possibility," Aulus added as the thought occurred to him, still frowning and now looking a bit tense too from his previous train of thought. "Yveltal, those two women who had it. We never really found out what they were all about, that neat little gadget they had... well it's hardly the same thing as owning something that shoots missiles and is potentially fog generating and pokemon controlling somehow but given our list of suspects is kind of low I don't think we can strike them off it."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:13 pm
Tambrey nodded and couldn't help the corners of her mouth quirking up as Aulus mentioned 'clerics', but then she nodded slowly as he voiced possibilities.
Slowly though, because she'd found herself pondering something else.
"Um. I agree with those but... Those aren't the only possibilities." She'd lowered her voice a little, even if no one was around. "There is, um, at least one more suspect..."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:16 pm
Aulus frowned. "Am I being slow? Who else?" he asked, lowering his own voice to match Tambery's tone. Team Rocket had plenty of enemies of course, it was just that Galactic tended to occupy his mind the most. Funny that. Tambery had thought of another possibility though.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:20 pm
"Us." Tambrey replied, then realized she probably needed to explain herself.
"I mean, um, Team Rocket." She wasn't sure about explaining herself further until they were back in one of their rooms, and she wondered if Aulus might have the same idea or come to the same decision; she had a few thoughts in mind, but they certainly needed explanation, and discretion in which to voice them, true or not.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:26 pm
"Us?" Aulus paused and looked over at Tambery. It was possible. Some kind of off shore secret base? If that was the case.... "Well if it is us then we should have an answer pretty quickly right? Asgard might even get an apology." Aulus did not especially sound as though he believed what he was saying, which was because he didn't believe what he was saying. If there was something secret out there it wouldn't be revealed to a pair of Agents who stumbled on it by mistake.
"Where does the dead Sharpeado fit in though? Ha, or is it just a red herring?" Even when slightly worried about the potential consequences of filming a secret TR project he couldn't resist a pun that obvious.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:32 pm
Tambrey did give a slight smile to the 'red herring' comment, at least, but she shook her head.
"Maybe, but I don't know." And didn't think so. "I'll, um, explain my... thoughts when we get back to the rooms. I might even, uh, be seeing things that aren't actually there, but..."
She trailed off; /weird/ things kept happening. Weird things that could be coincidences and yet were so close in theme despite being apparent opposites.
Team Rocket had clearance levels; things that were above grunts, then things that were above agents... and even things that, despite rank, never crossed departments. Even sub-departments.
"Let's get up to, uh, your room?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:36 pm
"Right."
Aulus walked the rest of the way in silence, chewing over the new and uncomfortable possibility and what it could mean. Weird things had happened recently, like somebody coming back from the dead for example. He didn't see how that tied up with a something hidden in the fog but.... Dead shark, live grunt? No, the two were too far apart but... but to stop somebody being dead for no good reason did you have to in turn make something dead for no good reason? That was crazy but the concept of reviving the dead was pretty crazy to begin with.
It was something of a relief to reach his room and beep in via his arm; he was pretty sure 'private' areas of the base were monitored as much as the halls, work areas and training rooms but at least they wouldn't be overheard by other people.
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:05 pm
Tambrey had, mostly, just not wanted to talk in the halls and, quite likely, sound crazy if anyone happened to walk by them and overhear.
As soon as the door shut, she explained.
"Um. So... There's a lot of... stuff going on. I mean, uh, I can agree that it might be related to one of the... 'players'," she decided if they were going to talk 'conspiracy', she may as well sound the part "that you mentioned, but um... okay, this will sound weird but a grunt, Kirk, came back to life. As far as we... have worked out, right? And, um, that was definitely 'us', I mean, Rocket... So there's research going into /that/. The Sharpedo was... dead. Um. That's it. No... cause, just. 'dead', and Asgard suddenly comes back with tales of a fog shrouded... something firing missiles... and him being 'chased off' by Sharpedo in the area though, um, that could be a coincidence..."
She shook her head.
"We, should, uh, examine the footage, the results, but I wonder if its not something to with... well, us, Team Rocket."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:11 pm
"I was just thinking about that actually," Aulus replied with a nod, still frowning. "When you mentioned us, and weird stuff.... People being alive who shouldn't be, things that shouldn't be being dead.... Let's take a look at the footage, I'll route my laptop to put the screen on the TV." That hadn't been very well worded but meaning had been communicated and that was good enough. "Maybe looking at this will give us some clues," he said as he woke the laptop up from sleep mode. "I mean, if the missile has 'A Gift from Galactic' on it, mystery of 'who dunnit' is probably solved - though that could be another carmine haddock - but I somehow doubt it's going to be that convenient."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:21 pm
"Mmhm. The video should help, though I'm rather more interested in whatever readings and data the sensors gathered... Asgard, uh, would probably have seen just as much as the camera and would have had been able to explain it already, I think. We'll, uh, see." Plus, to her mind, things like radiation levels, chemical traces and their concentrations were what would tell them more about what was going on... Of course, if the thermal imaging had at all been able to pierce the fog (and she wasn't sure about that), that could yield a very nice visual answer to a couple of questions...
She took out her 'dex after a moment and tapped a few times.
"Just getting Turing set up. Can I, uh, network him to your machine or could you send a copy into our cloud for him?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:00 pm
"Oh, go ahead and network him," Aulus nodded, heading over to turn on the TV mounted on the wall.
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:11 pm
Tambrey nodded, seeking out the local network that was, mostly, Aulus' laptop.
A few moments later, and data packets between the dex and the laptop were giving Turing the ability to pass from one to the other.
She was pretty sure Turing would respect Aulus' privacy, but she was also pretty sure that even if, for some reason, he tried not to, the laptop was probably secure enough to stop him going anywhere he shouldn't.
"He's in." She said, then made to take a seat to watch the video once Aulus had gotten it set up.
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:19 pm
"Right," Aulus muttered, frowning to himself as he hooked everything else up. "Okay, here we go then." Sitting down on the edge of his bed Aulus pressed play and lent forward to watch the footage intently. It started slow, just ocean, and so he fast forwarded until he spotted the Tentacool that Asgard had mentioned. Not long after that the water grew murky and then... well, things got interesting.
When the camera jerked at the impact of the first attack Aulus flinched slightly, sucking in a breath between his teeth. He shouldn't have sent Asgard alone, he should have sent somebody else with him... But who? Thanatos was getting stronger, yes, but he wasn't experienced enough for something like this. It couldn't have been anyone else but he still felt cold with guilt as he watched the screen. And the missiles the hiss and boom of them was chilling, if Asgard hadn't been so accurate with his attack or had been slower.
Once the footage reached the point where Asgard and Fox had reunited Aulus paused it and turned to Tambery. "Well then."
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 2:56 pm
Tambrey watched, splitting her attention between the screen where the video was playing, and results rolling off from the chemical sensor, double checking what she could see as Turing provided a timeline and list, creating a chronological summary.
She frowned at it, rather disappointed, and double checked it.
"He certainly had an eventful time but..." She sighed, feeling bad about what she now had to tell Aulus after Asgard had been through all that.
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