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So, who here's heard of dinosaurs?

[ He's been reading Michael Crichton lately, sue him. Also, he genuinely wonders how many not-Earth people have, given a lot of animals do seem similar between a lot of worlds, but... dinosaurs though. ]

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[ Well, there are normal staples of Masaomi's day: you can see him working the Convenience Store if you want, you can see him shopping for clothes, you can see him in the library (perhaps picking up some books in the aforementioned dinosaurs), or training (in a tank top and shorts) at the Battle Dome. At the end of the day you might also see him going to HQ for the end of the night.

But... something else is at the Dome today fore someone who wants special stuff. Namely, once he's tired and sweaty and Linda has worked herself hard, Masaomi is still using his room, but he's using it to project images of all sorts of dinosaurs based on a picture book that he picked up at the library. To see them in motion, because why wouldn't you try to do something like that? ]

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So he's the prophet of the sea gods, who pulled them into the future-past? That's deep.

[Pffft] I suppose that's one way to look at it...either way, after we met them, those Pokemon went back to their own time and Team Rocket had been successfully defeated and chased away from the mountain. So, everything since then has had a normal flavor to it, at least from what I can recall.

[Or rather, "from Cilan's current canon point", anyway. He hasn't been updated on TR's next plan involving Meloetta and all that stuff that happened, or the stuff with Team Plasma, so...yeah, as far as he knows, things are alright at the moment.]

[ He nods, chuckling a bit more as he thinks about it. But soon enough, he clams down and asks, quite rationally: ] So that would make you and yours right heroes, wouldn't it? You fended off some big time criminal organization's plan, even if it was whacky.

Heroes? [...] I don't think I've ever thought of it that way before, but yeah, I guess that would make us like heroes, wouldn't it? [ahahaha]

...Oh, but I think those Pokemon we met were perhaps the true heroes of this particular encounter with Team Rocket, since they were the ones that were able to give the extra push needed in order to drive them away. Without them, I'm not sure how things would have gone otherwise.

Okay, okay. Then I'll have to make a badge for them - the heroes of the future-past.

Oh, how nice. [Hmm] I'm sure you would have liked them, if you had been there to meet them--those Pokemon truly had a magnificent taste to them, and it was amazing to get to see these ancient Pokemon in person.

[Dumb as the plot was, it might have been a little worth just to see these Pokemon.]

Yeah, I bet. It'd be nothing short of miraculous for me to see dinosaurs under the circumstances that exist in my world, and the same's got to be true of your own... or well, I'd say that, but you did see them. Either way, I guess you "owe" Team Rocket that much.

[And here, he gives a dramatic sigh] I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that--the idea of "owing" Team Rocket anything would be enough to leave a bad taste in one's mouth just from thinking about it...

Haha... yeah, I guess it's not in the interests of anyone to be indebted to criminals.

I should hope not, especially in regards to criminals like Team Rocket. Even if their bizarre schemes don't always work out, they are still thieves who try to do bad things, so being indebted to people like them would certainly not be in good taste.

[Comic relief trio is sort of tolerable once in a blue moon, but they are still the bad guys at the end of the day.]

Oh, so that's not a unique incident?! The gangsters of your world are known for outlandish plans?

More or less. [A slight pause.] Though...I suppose the incident I described before is probably the strangest one that I can recall having happened before I arrived here, but I would be lying if I said that they haven't tried other fairly elaborate ways to steal Pokemon before then. To compare, the most straight-forward plan that I can recall them ever having was...hm... [He actually has to stop and think about this for a second.] ...Perhaps the time when they tried to steal the other ancient Pokemon we met before, Archeops? After it evolved from an Archen, they showed up and simply tried capturing it with an electric net, but it broke free and attacked them, causing them to quickly retreat.

[That said, though...] But, for a group with terrible taste in ideas and actions, they were certainly rather dedicated to doing whatever they could to steal more Pokemon whenever there was an opportunity to do so: in fact, I don't think I even have enough fingers to count how many times my friends and I have had to deal with certain members of them being constantly up to no good. [Even with being comic relief, those guys definitely didn't know when to quit, that's for sure...]

Well, it does tend to be the nature of gangsters to not give up just because they had some setbacks... but then, the ones in my world might've had some more elaborate and less silly plans. It's hard to imagine the Awakusu operating like that for example...

[ But then, maybe Team Rocket and the Awakusu aren't a one to one analogy, despite what he heard from Silver. But at the same time... oh, wait a minute: ]

So wait, are these the same agents, you're running into over and over?

...Yes, as a matter of fact, it always did seem to be the same people each time. I think I might have even mentioned them before a long time ago, about three specific members of the group that we've run into before several times: Jessie, James, and Meowth.

[At least, he thinks he recalls probably talking about Rockets before at some point. ~~Or his mun does now but she still hasn't found the thread that had that conversation yet.~~]

Those three are always involved somehow every single time, and based on what Ash has said about them, they were always up to something even when he was traveling around in other regions prior to arriving in Unova. In fact, he probably knows more about them than I do, actually. [He'd have to after having to deal with them stalking him and his friends for years now, right?]

[ ~~I think that might be familiar but honestly I don't have a thread either~~ ]

.. Seriously? That's sort of creepy.

[...Yeah, it kinda is, when you really think about it. Maybe that's why he hasn't asked too many details from Ash about past history involving these guys...]

Now you understand why I don't particularly like them, right? Normally I would admire one's determination to succeed in normal trainers, but with Team Rocket...no, this taste is just despicable. They're quite a nuisance to have to contend with, especially those three members in particular that I mentioned before.

[He can think of maybe one time when they barely qualified as "tolerable", but even then that was a situation that could have been potentially avoided, maybe, if they had not been around.]

Not to mention they apparently follow around a... what would Ash-kun be, eleven? Twelve, maybe? That's something we'd have to call the cops on before they even commit a crime where I'm from.

I don't think there's a lot that the local police can do about it, at least in regards to some things that happen when you're traveling outside of the cities. And even then, Team Rocket always manages to escape before they can be caught and taken to jail whenever their plans go south.

[If there's one thing those guys are good at, it's running away.]

Sounds lie your cities might need better cops.

[ A beat ] Still, that's impressive in it's own way, on their part.

I can't speak for every other city in Unova, but I thought the police officers we have in Striaton City were doing their jobs well enough. [Not enough to stop Team Rocket from escaping that day when they met them, but otherwise Officer Jenny did everything else by the book from what he can remember.]

But I think part of the problem is that Team Rocket has access to gadgets and other items that most people don't have: for example, that trio I mentioned before? They liked to make flashy getaways involving jetpacks whenever they needed to escape.

Eeeh, but couldn't any random flying pokémon keep pace wit ha jetpack?

[ Even if that sounds awesome by his own world's standards ]

[Hmm] There are some flying pokemon that could potentially keep up with them, but I suppose there is the risk that Team Rocket would try to do something to them if they were followed.

[Though honestly, it's not even that being the main issue: he and his friends are usually just relieved that they're leaving and easily distracted by their victory rather than even thinking of going after them most of the time.]

Huuuh. Fair enough, then.

[ No need to question could've beens. ]

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