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 Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:01 pm
The smell of low tied waved up from the port. Now was the best time to strike, which is why he chose it. Shade was already sent forward to blackout the camera. He leaned up against the building on the other side of the street waiting for the ok signal.
He had decided do this a few weeks ago. Partially to provide information for future raids, and partially to take a little extra something for his pocket, if he could find it. There was bound to be something in the office besides papers. A small smile crossed his face, and he tugged at his gloves a little. The car was parked a few blocks over, ready when they were. He cast a small glance at his drafted temporary partner to check on her. This was an easy task, but she was still green.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:11 pm
The female grunt was cursing in her head. 'Lets go,' He said. 'It'll be fun!' He said. Yeah, well, Luxury wasn't seeing the fun. What she was seeing was lots of ocean, an older but important building, and docks with boats of various sizes. They had sent a pokemon, Shade, she remembered, to go knock out the cameras so they could sneak in. While the girl didn't seem happy, she was actually a bit excited about her first mission.
She wasn't excited about the one who drug her along. Last time they talked, her ability to perform (and no, not that way) was called into question when she mentioned her fear of falling. Unfortunately she happened to be outside skating and off duty when Panther suddenly flew by and recruited her. Of course, she didn't have much else to do.
Peering around her partner, she tugged her own gloves up. She loved her uniform gloves, and hat, so often she wore them off duty. The rest of her attire was a black tank top and grey jacket, and tripp pants with the chains removed. Seemed her every day attire was quite perfect for sneaky sneaky things like this.
Wait... movement caught her eye. Was that the signal they were waiting for, or was someone on to them?
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:24 pm
It was defiantly the signal. Shade the Gengar floated just above the door and waved his purple hands at them. Agent Panther grinned. "Tallyho." he said quietly and then took off in a purposeful trot across the street.
He had explained the mission on the way there, it was fairly simple. Though he hadn't chosen to explain why he had chosen her. It wasn't quiet because she had been the first grunt he had seen, she wasn't. There were several he had passed on by, with more experience, older, and more likely to tell him no. Besides, he wanted to see her in action.
He pulled out the lock tool before getting there, working quickly with the old style lock. Shade hung in a corner, red eyes watching the street. He would stay there as a look out. As the agent's most trustworthy pokemon, he was the best choice for the job.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:54 pm
She couldn't help but smile a little before scurrying after him across the road. Her first mission... Unofficial, but still. She was doing something important for the good of Team Rocket. Awesome.
Luxury stuck close to AP, as she'd come to call him by, hands in her pockets to look more calm than she felt. Briefly she wondered about his motives for dragging her into this, but really it wasn't that important to her. What was important was getting in, taking pictures, refiling everything perfectly, and getting out unnoticed.
She nodded to the ghost as they approched, thankful at least one of them had a useful pokemon for the job. Chora was her best one, and she touched the ball for a second as a self-reminder that she may indeed be needed. Well, that is, if anything was to be stolen. Since that wasn't the original plan Luxury knew to keep the klepto little cat under lock and key.
Speaking of lock and key, the girl leaned in close to see AP's work. Lock picking was a skill she had yet to learn, and she made a mental note to make him teach her when they were done here. "Remind me exactly what we are looking for?" She whispered under her breath when the lock clicked open under the Agents skilled hands.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:30 pm
"shipment orders. This little company runs between here and the main land with cars and parts and other heavy supplies. Sometimes they ship pokemon too, depends on what is on order." he picked at the lock moving the device through the different spaces inside the keyhole. A soft click told him the door was ready and he pushed it open.
Shade floated quietly in his space disappearing into the darkness.
"Alrighty then, I don't see any signs." he lead the way in, his flashlight scanning the ceiling and walls. "I'm thinking that way leads to storage space, usually offices are up stairs.” he gestured with the light dawn the hall and quietly tromped up boots echoing, unaware that their presence had alerted something in the darkness.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 10:10 pm
The grunt nodded as AP spoke. While she never did much digging into what this place was or did, she knew they imported and exported some pretty pricy stuff.
The kind of pricy stuff that could be quite nice for a certain organization.
Following AP up the stairs, and trying to be more quite than him, she flipped out her dex for her own light. The last thing she needed was to trip. Once to the top, she looked around. More hallways, and rooms. Offices. Bingo.
"You go right, I go left?" the grunt suggested, and headed off without waiting for a reply. She refused to be his shadow, she was useful on her own and she was going to prove it.
The first two doors she came to were locked, but the third had not been shut all the way. Pushing it open with a small, drawn out squeak the girl shined her light around. File cabinets lined the walls, and there wasn't even a desk in this one. Perfect. "Must be where they keep a lot of their records..." She mumbled, and started leafing through the files and snapping pictures of what looked important.
Somewhere downstairs she could have sworn she heart something move, something big... Nah, Luxury was just paranoid.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 10:43 pm
"Sure." He noticed her taking off without much of a stop for his direction, but decided it didn't matter. He doubted they would get caught. No one should be by for another few hours as the owner was overseas and the manager had turned in for the night,
He walked right, flash light bobbing as her tried the doors, looking for the locked one that he found on the end and then set to picking the lock once again.
For a breath he though he heard something and he took his glasses off, peering into the darkness towards the stairs. His hair pricked into the back of his sweater as he cocked his head listening. Something didn't feel right. That foot step must have been Luxury he thought, and went back to opening the door with a little click that made his shoulders tense.
Pushing the door open he walked in going to open the cabinets, and taking photos quickly. The bad feeling made him want to get out of there quickly.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 10:54 pm
Yes, yes, yes, yes. This was good, this was so totally good! The grunt marveled at the information she was finding! Ooooo they were going to have a field day with this, and Mr. Panther was going to be sooo proud of her! Not that she cared, but, he was still her superior so his approval of her did matter professionally. At least. Right? Yeah. Professionally. Personally she couldn't care less. But he was going to be sooo proud!
... !
Something shuffled outside at the same time the battery of her dex died. Oh. Crap. Luxury flicked a pokeball, then put her finger to her lips as her newly evolved fire fox popped out with half a delighted squeak. Both of them froze.
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All was quiet again. Trae lit a small fire in her mouth, giving the grunt time to re-file the papers and snuck out the door, shutting it with a soft click behind Trae. "Panther?" She called out quietly, sneaking down the hall, past the stairs... And she froze. Something was down there. Waiting. Something... big. "Panther..."
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:15 pm
The door on the end was the only door open. Agent Panther was searching through the files, finding routes and supply lists, taking pictures of the pass five years quickly. He ignored the one marked donations, and skipped to the invoiced of the passed few months. Or he intended to, until Luxury called him.
"I'm almost done." he said, snapping another photo. Shade hadn't warned them that anything was amiss, and he didn't hear anything like a fight. She must have just been nervous. "Just relax."
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:04 pm
That sun of a biscuit eater covered in jelly! 'JUST RELAX?!' Did he not hear anything down there?
Looking down, she realized Trae had gone stiff, staring into the dark. Oh. Crap.
"Panther." Luxury called again, grinding her teeth. Now she knew they were not alone. Why had Shade no alerted them? Was it possible this thing was already inside? And what the heck was it?
All Luxury knew was that if AP didn't get his Agent butt out there right this minute she was going to skin him alive.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:23 pm
He snapped one more photo and then put the files back in the cabinet. Maybe he had pushed her too long, it sounded like she was too nervous. "Alright alright, I'm coming." the draw clicked closed and the camera went back into his pocket.
Joining her at the door, he turning the other side of the lock on his way out as he closed it. "What's the matter? I want to go down to the first floor and see what they have in storage." his flashlight lit the floor between them, and he turned sending the beam down the hall way.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:50 pm
Trae was starting to crouch low now, her flame becoming brighter. Luxury pointed at her, and sent a meaningful look at AP when his flashlight shone on her.
"We're not alone, Panther." She murmured, and as if on cue a growl came from the floor below, making Trae's flame shoot out in warning and Luxury skitter behind the agent. "See?" A million thoughts were going through her head. Chances were it was just a pokemon, of course, but a large on and probably one she hadn't encountered before. And they had no clue where this pokemon came from, either, or what it was doing here.
Trae seemed to be more than ready to attack, and after taking one step down the stairs was returned to her ball.
Between her flame and the light of the flashlight, the female grunt caught sight of a very large Arcanine glaring at them from the floor below.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:20 pm
He looked down the hall at the sound of the growl. "That sounds like Mooch... so it must be an arcanine. Hey let's go steal it." Adding members to his team was always helpful.
Touching his belt he let out Sebastian who veeded happily shaking his mane and stomping his foot. "Sebastian, we are going to go steal a pokemon. Your job is to keep it distracted. Then, dang, Shade is out there... oh well, we can test run Ayako, have her use thunderwave or just knock it out. Unless there is more then one." he mused, pausing and turning his at Luxury, his glove touching his chin. "Got anything with a sleep move?"
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:36 pm
Luxury swallowed. Ok, ok this was when she needed to prove herself. Since joining TR she'd only stolen one pokemon, and it was small and she took it in it's ball. Luxury let that pokemon out now, and Nova let out a yawn before looking at her with a board expression.
That was what she got for not training as much as she should.
"She knows confuse ray?" Luxury offered. She knew she needed to step up. Like, now. But how were a few small pokemon going to take down one large one? The grunt shook her head and released Trae again. "Stay with Sebastian, that's an order." Trae mewled happily, bumping her friend with her nose.
"Age before beauty?" Like she was going to lead, she was still a grunt and as much as she hated to admit it, Panther had a lot of experience on her.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:49 pm
"I'm not that old." he grunted and nodded at Nova. "And that should do. If not, I have some other tricks up my sleeve." he lead flashlight scanning the floor ahead of them until he got to the stairs and peered down with it.
Sebastian pranced behind Panther head held high. he had a job. He was gonna be the best, gonna do really good. He was that cool. "Flare!" he spouted a bit of flame.
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