*RING RING RING!* You heard the phone before anyone else moved.
*RING RING RING!**RING RING RING!**RING RING RING!*
"Latias." <Papa loud noise.> She said pointing at the phone with a confused gaze.
"I know…I'll get it." You said as you waltzed over. "Mura here…"
" Mura. I'm sorry to ask but I'm here to talk to you about a noise complaint." The man on the other end said calmly.
"I've been working on it sir, getting all of them trained is an experience." You said.
"I'm actually calling about the Snorlax in the basement. I'm sure it is yours?" He said asking.
"I'm sure to change his barry diet." You said. "If not go to management." You said.
Damn…remember the code phrase work.
TRANSLATE: Noise Complaint = The operational integrity of the Unit in the Region is failing. Likely due to the chaos caused by Operation Director Ikami's assault outside of headquarters.
Trained is an Expirence= Cover is intact and operating as intended.
Snorlax in the Basement=Operational infiltration has been a success?
Change Barry Diet Working as intended, but Adjusting.
"Excellent…we're adjusting a new system and updating your resume to involve new training and equipment." He said calmly. "Hit dead drop B…and make sure you are not followed."
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You looked at Dead Drop B and sighed looking at the package, it was a bit small, but you knew damned well that they liked making things inconspicuous as all get out.
This better be worth it.
You opened the package and saw the cell phone, a small burner with a handful of numbers on it.
You picked it up and dialed the final number. "Hello?"
"We are authorizing Protocol 7 of Ranger Deep Cover Rocket…specialized training and previously unauthorized use of ranger training has now been authorized… be safe Agent Mura."
Oh…Oh now you have to dust off your old hat skills, while you were trained primarily to infiltrate Team Rocket, you were also fully trained to be a spy in a variety of scenarios.
"What if they ask about how I suddenly learned all these skills?" You said.
"We'll hammer up a document from your month-long training trip and say we did it for free."
"Seems a bit lazy boss." You said.
"It's the Elder, they'll believe it." The Ranger on the other end said as they hung up.
Now, what exactly did you intern for again during training?:
(Choose 1)
[]Ranger Care and Breeding: Working in a Pokemon Breeding and care home has always been one of your fallbacks in life, and now you can show off a little.
[]Ranger Pokecenter Oversight Committee: Working in the Pokemon Center, is a Job everyone has done, and will do in the course of their career, and it lets you work at the center and go into the back room.
[] Kanto Police Internal Affairs Division: Internal Affairs, people don't like them but they are needed, hopefully that Looker guy won't give you the cold shoulder when you come there looking for data.
[]Your Team Rocket Battle Ribbon: It started as something to blow off steam, but then you got really into it, and even got all the way to bronze, and even Gio got impressed, everyone (Except Latias, shes' far too young for this.) had a great time.
Choose your mission that you are sent on at the start of the year:
[]Operation Sweeping Day: SO…Jessie, James and Meowth are asking you to get involved with a minor operation, nothing serious its just theft, of a Pokemon center, in Vermillion City…are these guy's trying to make noise? Or are they just doing this because Giovanni told them to?
[] Mr Mura Goes to PokeCon: PokeCon, the mass Political and Cultural Summit near the start of the new year, and you are going with them to be the big PR stunt and help smooth things over as a member of Team Rockets "Pokemon Fan Club" sort. You hope the Elder doesn't hear about this…
and
[]The Dark Day Blues: You are babysitting Sabrina, thankfully you can ask Erika to help but still, you have to be in the same room as the ticking time bomb and try not to die…from her various mood swings and sheer depression-inducing apathy for life.
Oh no…
AN: Its the Real Sequal to Crimson's Adventue we've all been waiting for!
Crimson Mura
Age:17
Occupation: Pokemon Ranger (Undercover Operative)/ Team Rocket Duo Leader, Pokemon Gym Daycare Supervisor, Game Corner Clerk.
Stats:
Charm/Inspiration: 19+1=20 (Crimson has an air of charisma and grace with him that makes him nearly inspiring a figure)
Might/Martial:15+1+1=17 (His battle and strategic prowess are that of a professional trainer with years of experience.)
Organization/Stewardship:7+1=8 (He's… capable of keeping himself solvent…thats it.)
Cunning/Intrigue:12+11=23 (He's successfully infiltrated Team Rocket…without incident. And continues to play them along.)
Science/Learning:18+1=19 (In another life, he would have made a fine researcher.)
Prowess/Personal Combat skill:20+1+1=22 (His mind and body in combat are strong…and he is very brawny)
Spirit/Occult Potential:13+1=14 (Crimson has quite a powerful spirit, for one without training or even awareness)
Traits:
Pokemon Ranger: You are Pokemon Ranger, a Specialized Law enforcement officer who operates above and beyond the Rule of any individual nation or law, when relating to matters of Pokemon and the stability of the Regions. (+1 all stats. +5 to all rolls within the Kanto Region, can intimidate people with authority.)
Battle Body: You have been trained and conditioned to the Peak of Human Ability, to keep up and defeat all dangers. (+10 to Martial Rolls, Pokemon will recognize your dominance and challenge you for your Alpha rank.)
Permanent Roll Bonuses:
Disciplined: You are a man of focus, dedication and skill, you do not strike in anger or fury, your mind is like water. (+5 to combat with Humans and Pokemon)
Singer: As it turns out you can sing, and its nice. (+5 to diplomacy Rolls in a public setting, can calm pokemon)
Confident: You have an unnatural ability to seem like you are in control of a situation and this comes in handy when serving a conversation or a lie. (+5 to Diplomacy and Intrigue rolls. ???, You charming little scamp you.)
Pokemon Empath: You seem to have an understanding of a Pokemon's thoughts and feelings, it helps with the bonding process. (+5 to Pokemon-related Rolls)
Achievements:
Team Rocket Battle Ribbon: You are the winner of the first Team Rocket Battle Bonding Tournament, wear it with Pride. (+1 to Martial and Prowess Stats)
[X]Ranger Care and Breeding: Working in a Pokemon Breeding and care home has always been one of your fallbacks in life, and now you can show off a little.
[X]The Dark Day Blues: You are babysitting Sabrina, thankfully you can ask Erika to help but still, you have to be in the same room as the ticking time bomb and try not to die…from her various mood swings and sheer depression-inducing apathy for life.
[X]Ranger Care and Breeding: Working in a Pokemon Breeding and care home has always been one of your fallbacks in life, and now you can show off a little.
[X]The Dark Day Blues: You are babysitting Sabrina, thankfully you can ask Erika to help but still, you have to be in the same room as the ticking time bomb and try not to die…from her various mood swings and sheer depression-inducing apathy for life.
[]The Dark Day Blues: You are babysitting Sabrina, thankfully you can ask Erika to help but still, you have to be in the same room as the ticking time bomb and try not to die…from her various mood swings and sheer depression-inducing apathy for life.
Babysitting the most powerful psychic in the world, which is also mentally unstable. It'll likely take more effort or crazy dice to make a difference, but at the same time she is insanely powerful
[]Operation Sweeping Day: SO…Jessie, James and Meowth are asking you to get involved with a minor operation, nothing serious its just theft, of a Pokemon center, in Vermillion City…are these guy's trying to make noise? Or are they just doing this because Giovanni told them to?
This. Well, given Red/Ash is the same person in this, it's doomed to go absolutely pearshaped. But, the most important part is encountering the resident protag and the high potential tricksters that is the Trio.
[] Mr Mura Goes to PokeCon: PokeCon, the mass Political and Cultural Summit near the start of the new year, and you are going with them to be the big PR stunt and help smooth things over as a member of Team Rockets "Pokemon Fan Club" sort. You hope the Elder doesn't hear about this…
This is in some ways the most simple. It basically is going on a PR stunt, but it does offer the potential to make connections with various important people of the region. Which, also makes this option more of a wildcard. I mean, there are many possible characters we could meet, including characters that hadn't shown much in any canon like James's parents.
[X]Ranger Pokecenter Oversight Committee: Working in the Pokemon Center, is a Job everyone has done, and will do in the course of their career, and it lets you work at the center and go into the back room.
[X]The Dark Day Blues: You are babysitting Sabrina, thankfully you can ask Erika to help but still, you have to be in the same room as the ticking time bomb and try not to die…from her various mood swings and sheer depression-inducing apathy for life.
Honestly, while either is fine. I am interested in seeing what fresh chaos is gonna get unleashed on poor viridian. Especially as one form of escalation could very well be the involvement of merc groups thanks to James's family and fiancé getting more proactive, such as putting a bounty out to try and see if anyone could find him. Plus, this might give an opportunity to meet the force of nature in training that is Red, and possibly help nudge the trio into becoming possible allies. Given they aren't hardened criminals, rather more people whom fallen into a wrong crowd while seeking out recognition.
"So, what the hell happened?"
"Well, it seems as if the Viridian trio has been getting bolder, coming surprisingly close to successfully robbing a Pokémon center from a daring and almost idiotic plan of striking at night. It was only because one of the new dex holders and a recovering pikachu that the operation failed, thanks to the current system which forced the present trainers to rely on whatever pokemon they are able to call out from reachable pokeballs when the pokecenter was attacked. Of all the places to need a security overhaul, the pokecenters were not a place I would expect to be on the list."
"But here we are. It seems we may need to change the current system to mitigate the potential problems exposed by said attack. Though more pressing, is the involvement of PMC's in the incident, which has caused the incident to escalate further with reports of gunfights and armored APcs on the streets."
"it seems that such activity was the result of a new bounty, relevant because one of the members has a striking resemblance to the missing child of the oda family. One of the night shift employees was quick to cash in on the bounty of information that also was posted relatively recently."
"It has been almost a decade since the disappearance, why are they only now mobilizing their fortune to find him?"
"War is on the horizon. That is clear after that incident. There is an uptick in weapon smuggling and 'lost weapons', no connection but it doesn't take a genius to realize that Team Rocket may be arming themselves, and the Rangers are clearly preparing for something. In the current climate, it makes some sense why they may be getting nervous, and worried about what may happen when Kanto becomes a war zone, which also incidentally why we have some PMCs moving in. Not only for the manhunt , but in possible future demand."
"Explains the APCs and that one tank. The possibility of a lost scion of a Zaibatsu family, complete with their family effectively announcing they want to bring him back to the family through a bounty for his safe return. No wonder things got messy, if the rocket agent turned out to be the said scion, it would have been a massive boon, and worth fighting each other for."
*Sigh*
"Why did this have to start before my retirement."
A/N: definitely not canon, considering the fact the poke center heist hasn't happened yet.
But you had to…because no one else in the damnable organization you were spying on wanted to do it.
After all, who wanted to babysit a force of nature upon the world? No one, because no one wanted to deal with the consequences of screwing up the situation.
Sabrina was no laughing matter no matter what her therapist said.
Giovanni looked at you with a small look of some degree of something resembling guilt and pity. "Just stay calm and indulge her for a few days, she's not that bad once you get to know her."
"What kind of games does she play that traumatizes and or shakes the organization?" You asked as he shrugged.
"The kind that requires you to stay on your toes with her. Remember that she's a bit different when it comes to playing games." He said.
Sabria Natusume, Gym leader of Saffron City, has always been one to overreact over her games being played…from what the Ranger Unions databases keep telling you, she was some kind of Psychic weapon project they abandoned in the post-war chaos.
Raised by the previous gym leader and given the title at 14 years of age, her tenure has been fraught with…incidents.
Children being turned into Dolls for two weeks, Gym Trainers being given grave senses of paranoia and mental issues such as stress and lack of trust in their Pokemon, the sort of things that no amount of therapy and cute Pokemon could fix easily.
It's been nearly two years and she had gained a reputation as a cursed and terrifying monster, more fitting as a child storybook villain than a person.
No wonder she easily fell to Team Rockets' Influence…
"We'll call when I'm done," Giovanni said as you smiled.
"I'm sure you will." You said.
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Is Erika here?: D100 => 100 (Yes…not only that she's happy to be here.)
"Alright, everyone." She said to her Pokemon. "You all remember Sabrina do you?"
"Gloom." <I hope she's Okay. We like her.">
"Tangela." <Does she still have the weird City Diagram to Play Monster in?>
"Victreebel." <Don't worry about it, if things go wrong, I have Stun Spores.>
She smiled. "Okay good, we all remember our last hang out with her, now don't panic, and be aggressive, put your foot down if you need to."
They all nodded in agreement as she turned to see you leaving the car. "Oh Crimson, what are you doing here?"
"I'm the one babysitting Sabrina? I volunteered for the Job?" You said as she looked at you, as the Rocket Car left.
"And riding with Giovanni's private car is the best way to get here?" SHe asked.
"He was in the neigborhood." You said.
"That he was…now." She said. "Where is everyone?"
"Oh…Guys come out!" You said as the Pokeballs all opened.
"Slowpoke" <Why did I have to Travel in the Ball today? Was it because I was clammy?>
"Growlite!" <Its because it was Imported leather man, let it go.>
"Vulpix." <FREE AT LAST!>
"EEVEE!" <Hi Crim.>
"Alright… that's four…where is Latias?" You asked looking around.
"Latias! It's Mom and Dad…come out now." Erika said as you looked at her with apprehension.
"We are not Latias's parents…Does that imply we're more than dating?" You asked.
"Thats basically what we are to her Crimson." She said moving a hand across your face.
Oh no…this is what we get for sharing a bed with Latias's Soul Dew.
"Latias…Latias!" She said flying around the little plaza in front of the gym, her reflective down feathers making it hard to see her even to a well-trained eye such as yours. <WEE I'm happy, We are in a new Place and I wanna fly around!>
"Come down here…" You ordered as she floated/flew down as you started patting her head with your hand, causing her feathers to ruffle in happiness. "Do you think we spoil her too much?"
"She's our little baby, so maybe a little." Erika said as she brushed around her neck.
"La La." <I want happy rubs mama!>
"Aw, you like that…There's plenty more where this comes from." Erika said as Latias cried out in happiness.
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Sabrina's Mood: D100 => 84
"Oh she's in a great mood today," Erika said as the gravity in the gym seemingly went out to lunch.
"Why are we floating?!" You shouted.
"Because she's trying to flex her powers over us, puny mortals…I once got turned into a Doll for a week." She said.
"Oh…how did that work out?"You asked feeling concerned.
"It wasn't that bad, I just really needed to go to the bathroom when I turned back into a human." She said.
"Oh…" You said.
Sabrina was floating over. "Hi Erika, glad you could make it…nice boy toy…"