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"Tooooooo obvious!"

1337 had been doing his fair share of diddling about on the internet. His own efforts with researching Team Galactic's current whereabouts had been relatively fruitless. He had tried pretty much any backdoor tactic he could manage, but it seemed as if Galactic had upped their game.

However, when a user called "Chrome" had asked about a very familiar aircraft, he couldn't help but feel that it was too easy. Someone was trying to bait someone else. However, who they were trying to catch with the bait was not clear.

Chucking a Pokeball out to his side, soon enough the computer hacker was accompanied by a shiny red plasma Pokemon. Even though he had that ever constant smile upon his face, he spoke in an even tone. "Task: Log in."

With a chittering "Tom tom tom tom tom," the Rotom proceeded to move towards a familiar device resembling a laptop. Phasing out for a moment, the Pokemon soon enough possessed the device, the device shifting to a red color. On the monitor, two eyes seemed to blink open. With its bolt-like appendages, it saluted to the visored man.

The man proceeded to type in the air using his own tech to send a message directly to the Pokemon on the laptop. It had the directions for what he wanted it to do to start.

For a brief moment, the face on the screen seemed to blink as it processed the request. The Pokemon could complete the task, but the speed in which it was processed had always been slow in a sense. The Pokemon was still training on how to manipulate the computer from the inside, and though it was familiar, it was not the master of data yet. Once the task was set up, the face seemed to vanish from the screen to show a home page.

1337 grinned a bit. "Let's have a bit of fun, shall we? Task: send a private message to username 'Chrome.' No title, message as follows in capslock: 'A slash S slash L question mark.' End task."

In a slow manner, the task was completed, each of the requested symbols typed in one character at a time per second. On the area for the message, the rotom entered what had been requested. "A/S/L?" For a moment, a pair of blue eyes popped up on the monitor, looking to 1337 for approval.

The hacker merely offered a thumbs up.

"Message Sent!"

After the message had been sent, the hacker began to pull up some fun little tidbits for later use.

As the Rotom seemed to wait, it's eyes seemed to look about, back and forth, almost like one of those cat-clocks with the eyes that went side to side as its tail swung beneath it. Its little bolt arms seemed to vibrate excitedly as it waited to see what its owner was scheming up. Before anything fruitful seemed to pop up, the strange laptop called out "ROTOM!"

"My... someone was fast to reply..." Not even to bother stopping with the current task on his own little system, the hacker spoke aloud.

"Task: Open up private message and display on monitor. End task."

With a predictable amount of lag, the monitor blipped out the face that had taken the screen and showed off the message back.

1337 spared a glance to read the message silently. "...Classic skepticism... such a horrid disease on the internet..." People really did seem to catch that condition a lot on the internet. However, he already knew that it was thanks to people like himself that made people that paranoid.

His hands started to type out a message to send back to Chrome, then forwarded it to the shiny Rotom. "Task: Copy the text forwarded to you and paste it into the message window. Send reply to message send by username 'Chrome.' End task."

For a moment, the pair of blue eyes blinked back onto the screen as it attempted to translate what had been given to it by its owner. Its eyes rolled in a dizzy manner, almost like it was a cartoon character. However, the eyes blinked out again and it proceeded to process the data as requested.

Soon enough the message was sent.

"1 |<||0// |/|0|2€ @ß0µ7 ¥0µ|2 |/|0|/|"

The agent continued his little digging about on the internet until once more his Pokemon called out to him. This time it took a bit more time for a reply, which had given him plenty of time to find some fun little videos. Once more, he repeated one of the commands from earlier. "Task: Open up private message and display on monitor. End task."

Obediently, the Plasma Pokemon did as told. However, once the message popped up, a pair of confused eyes looked it over uncertainly. "Rotom tom tom ro rotom?"

Did 1337 understand what the Pokemon had actually said? No, not so much. However, it was a common reaction people had when confronted with such symbols in such an order. The fact it was a question meant the Pokemon was probably asking for a direct translation.

In a humored tone, the Rocket gave the tool the information it desired. "'The fact that you speak like this just proves you need to get laid.' I will teach you how to write like that in the future... which symbols you need to substitute to make for good 1337-speech. However, you need to learn the basics first, Pokemon."

There was a big snicker that escaped the Pokemon and a wide grin that had managed to take up the full monitor. Apparently it was just as amused with the response that had been received.

Just like before, 1337 wrote out exactly what the Pokemon would need for the message and gave the exact same task as before. "Task: Copy the text forwarded to you and paste it into the message window. Send reply to message send by username 'Chrome.' End task."

The Rotom, now that it was able to understand that all of this was a joke of sorts, couldn't help but snicker as it did the task. What it sent out was something like the following...

"7|-|€ |=@[7 ¥0µ |23p£¡3Ð 7|-|¡§ //@¥ $|-|0//$ ¥0µ ||33Ð @ 900Ð |=µ[|< @$ //3££

£37'$ 937 ¥0µ|2 |/|0|/| |=0|2 7|-|3 _|0ß $|-|3 |<||0//§ //|-|0 ¡$ $3><¥"

(OOC: If you have problems translating, let me know in PM... Gaia keeps cutting some of the symbols out xd ;;; )

"Task: Open up private message and display on monitor. End task."

The Rotom did as told, and let out a faint, yet disappointed "Tom" as it saw the text was merely standard characters. Of course, 1337 did not even seem phased by the series of insults spared in his direction. Insults couldn't get through his seemingly thick skin, nor alter that smile spread upon his face. He didn't even have to justify his reasoning for finding all of such entertaining. He truly had a much more superior level of entertainment, and what was considered uncool, he could easily find cool in spades.

Only the truly cool didn't care what others thought of the way they upheld themselves.

Where as the other half of the "conversation" seemed to give up on the art of 1337, the hacker had no intention of dropping the act. With his hand, he wrote out a small message, but also added something else for flavor. Or rather, 50 attached images of the same thing, all for his mere entertainment.

"Task: Copy the text forwarded to you and paste it into the message window. Send reply to message send by username 'Chrome.' End task."

The Rotom easily did as told, though the pace was still far slower than either the hacker or the Pokemon would have liked. Once it had finished the task at hand, its face appeared on the screen, attempting to imitate one of the 50 identical images added to the message.

"|-|@73|2$ 90|\||\|@ |-|@73!"

"Task: Open up private message and display on monitor. End task."

The Rotom did as told, then blinked its blue eyes as a different type of message showed up this time. Behind his visor, the hacker couldn't help but also have a similar double take occur. He was easily able to read the message, but the fact it was a message in binary when he hadn't hinted at being able to read it at all was concerning.

The message itself also read in a rather familiar tone. "I love all humans," he uttered aloud in a low tone. If anything, everything had pieced itself together just now with that simple binary message sent to him. A fellow Rocket was phishing for the information on the Galactic vehicle and incident. It was another avenue to take, but the hacker still didn't think it was a very fruitful one if anything.

As he had figured out who the other person on the other side of the internet was, that individual had figured out who he was. It wasn't exactly like 1337 was truly trying to hide his identity, since that rarely was the point of his trolling. However, now that he had been "figured out," it was now a more interesting challenge to see if there was a way to guide the Grunt's suspicions away from himself.

"...let's see what ya gotta say to this message..."

With a grin, he began to type up a simple message to hopefully lead his momentary opponent off of his trail.

"Task: Copy the text forwarded to you and paste it into the message window. Send reply to message send by username 'Chrome.' End task."

"|20|=1, \/\/7|= ¡$ \/\/¡7|-| @11 7|-|3 23|20$ @|\|þ 0|\|3$?!"

After the message had been sent, 1337 started laughing loudly, completely unconcerned by who might have been around. This was fun, just too much fun. He needed everyone to know how amused he was!

A pair of blue eyes blinked at the hacker as he laughed loudly, before it, in turn, showed off a big grin taking up the whole monitor. It let out a chittering sound that was probably its version of laughter. Laugh and the world laughs with you, right?

Once the new message had arrived, the shiny Rotom-computer paused in its laughter and prompted its owner with a simple "Tom tom!"

One thing that did suck about the visor he wore was the fact if he laughed too hard, he couldn't wipe away the water that might have built up at his eyes. However, he was used to it by now. His laughter calmed down to a mere cackling for a bit, then eventually he repeated the same command he had been giving pretty much this whole session.

"Task: Open up private message and display on monitor. End task."

When the text popped up, the Rotom, in its excitement at the type of text that showed up, managed to let out a couple of synthetic sounding slow claps. Despite how slow the clapping sounds were (which tended to make for a sarcastic sound), it was genuinely amused. Eagerly, its eyes looked to its owner for a translation.

1337 was the master of this obnoxious form of language, and rather easily translated aloud the message. "'Sorry, must have been an error in my system. I don't know what might have triggered it, unless you've been sending me some sort of virus.' You know I've been a good boy, right?" The insinuation that 1337 was guilty of sending a virus wasn't without base. He totally would do such as a gesture of his affection to the general populous. Fun little destructive presents from him. This Chrome was quite thoroughly lucky that the hacker wanted to keep toying around a bit.

The Pokemon's face showed up on the monitor again, for a moment nodding before its features seemed to twitch. The hacker, did not seem to notice the change.

That was, until the Pokemon cleared the monitor on its own, opened up a text document (slowly), then typed up its own little message.

CHECK FORM

The man leaned forward and read the message three times to himself before adding a comment. "...'Forum' has a 'U' between the 'R' and the 'M'..." A pause before he gave the Pokemon permission to show off such. "Task: Bring up the Forum and refresh page. End task."

It took about a minute for the whole process to be processed by the Pokemon, but soon enough a new post showed up.

"...that seems Phishy..." There was a hint of amusement that returned to his voice. Once more, his hand resumed typing, and soon enough another message was forwarded to his Pokemon.

"Task: Return to the first window. Copy the text forwarded to you and paste it into the message window. Send reply to message sent by username 'Chrome.' End task."

"|\/|@¥ß3 ¥0µ _|µ$7 |-|@\/€ @ [|2@p [0|\/|pµ73|2. \/\/|-|@7 ¥3@|2 \/\/@$ 17 |\/|@þ3? 7|-|3 319|-|713$?"