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Lightning and Hope are gone, which leaves us without leaders. That also cuts our numbers down to ten.

So, my question for your guys is "what next?" I don't think we should disband; just a quick look at the network will show that goons like Cobra are still at large. Still, we're gonna need some structural changes. New leaders, possibly new squads, and, more importantly, new members.

I guess I just want to know what you think. I don't know every one of you personally, but the PGC is supposed to be a team, so everyone should have a chance at giving feedback. I think if we sort out our strengths and weaknesses, that could help us with restructuring. It might be better to have multiple leaders so that if anyone disappears, there's people to fall back on. Maybe each squad can have one, beats me.

I'm gonna throw up an anonymous message in a sec to see about gathering newbies, though. If you've got friends you'd like to recommend, might as well bring them up now.

[Shortly after the PGC message pops up, a second message appears:]

Anonymous;

What does this world mean to you? Do you think it's something worth protecting, or would you rather sit on the sidelines and watch it burn? This place is more than sunshine and Pokémon battles. If given the choice to make a difference, would you take it?

[He remembers Lightning doing something like this before. He'll just have to keep his fingers crossed that it works.]

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[It won't be the same without Lightning, but... the show must go on.]

I'm still up to continuing with the PGC. We need people to deal with Team Rocket, after all. I do have a recommendation as a member. Tenten is a very skilled trainer and she has a lot of strong Pokémon. She's been against Team Rocket before. Also we still have an information source within Team Rocket. I'm getting informed on what happens in the private network of the team, even though I'm no longer a member, since I have a strong ally by my side. So I can keep us informed on anything important happening.

What've you got in mind?

Now that's interesting; it seems to me I've heard this song before.

This channel is private, in case you were worried about prying eyes.

this world means more to me than i can really put into words.
but maybe that's just because i'm bad with words.
what sort of difference are we talking about here?

Not sure it's so black and white... There are plenty of people here that sit on the sidelines and I'm not sure they'd want to see it burn. [ Of course, he's thinking of various NPCs... like mom. ]

I'm not so much interested in the Pokemon Battles anyway; I don't think I plan on collecting all the gym badges this time, so what is it you're offering?

Every world is worth protecting, you know.

I don't know much about that, just that I have a lot of people that I care for here. Some of those people made this place feel a lot like home to me when I was alone, so...if there was some way to help, I'd do it.

...The problem with all of you anonymous people asking such grand questions is that you could be someone trying to neutralize heroic-minded young newcomers, for all we know.

[Cecil probably wouldn't be saying that had he not drunk a third of the liquor bottle a certain pink-haired woman gave him for Christmas. But he has and he is.]

[Well, you're just going to get anon text in return, Riku, hope you don't mind.]

My, that's a loaded question if I've ever seen one. How many do you really think are going to respond with "No, I'd rather watch it burn, thank you very much?"

[One of these days, Cobra is going to figure out that when these things happen, the best thing to do is play along. After all, then he'd be able to infiltrate and possibly destroy whatever this nonsense is.

Today is obviously not that day.]

You're forgetting a third type. The ones who start the fires in the first place.

the only thing that matters to me here is my friends and family, sorry. if i could change one thing... i'd make it so we could go home.

[... huh, now that's an interesting question. Without knowing the identity of the person who posted it to the network, Yusuke can't know for sure what, exactly, the motivation for posting it was, so there's a part of him that's more than a little wary. He'll answer it anyway, though. Even if it's actually a trick and this is just some idiot with a hokey bad guy agenda trying to mess with people, Yusuke isn't afraid of putting his name out there - or his face, for that matter, which is why he opts for video instead of text.]

This world's a hell of a lot more boring than mine is, and I don't really like it that much, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't protect it or the people here if some asshole came along and threatened them. People who put innocent lives in danger just to prove a point piss me off no matter who they are or where they come from.

Why do you ask?

Edited 2014-01-06 07:03 (UTC)

[It was de ja vu. He had received a message just like that before, when he first arrived here. Was it really that long ago? It felt like ages. He remembered feeling mad - especially when that person pointed out how under-leveled his team was.

Well, his team wasn't any stronger now - Poochy was finally in the 50s and still didn't evolve, and he was still looking for a way to help turn his super cool Nuzleaf into a huge forest guardian.]

I can't sit around and do nothing if something bad were to happen. But I know that I'm not strong enough right now to do much fighting for it. ...I really like this world. So I'll do what I can for it.

Is that an arson threat?

This is a world my brother and I have been brought to. If any harm comes to it, I can't sit idly by and watch.

This world is God's second chance to me. I would protect it with everything I have.

Why should this world mean anything to me? I didn't ask to be brought here, and so I don't particularly care what happens to it.

I mean, I wouldn't say I'd watch it burn, but that's just because I'm currently living in it.

[You know. Priorities and all.]

[ well you know Sora is more or less hovering over a shoulder. gotta see those replies! ]

Any bites?

You know, you and Lightning really are similar when it comes to the messages you use for recruitment.

[Not that it really matters, she just finds it amusing.]

Does this mean I call you "Commander" now, Riku?

I definitely want to keep going, and I think you have good ideas already about what we should do. I hadn't thought about it that way before, but a leader to each squad would be a good idea. If something like this happens again there are still other leaders we can report to.

I was part of Lightning's and Hope's squad, so I think that just leaves me with one teammate right now. Restructuring definitely needs to happen. I'm in Goldenrod with France (and Envy) right now, if that matters.

And there's a girl here who helped out with the fundraisers and training the Pokemon guarding the boarding houses, she might make a good addition? Her name is Tenten.

A man named Minato Namikaze, too. I've seen him in action once and I definitely think he's someone to trust.

Edited (I am so sorry for all these edits. |D) 2014-01-07 16:25 (UTC)

Depends on what you mean by protecting. What difference is this that needs to be made?

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