[X] My Assistant

[Umbrae Calamitas]

Do not apply for this RP. The participants have already been decided and no more are being accepted.

Any bunnying of characters has been pre-approved by the RPers in question.

Let the games begin...

Sagira rarely grumbled. It was unbecoming. But she was annoyed, to a degree that nearly traversed the level of pissed, so she was indulging in less-than-lovely habits.

Mainly, grumbling.

"What the hell do they think I am? I'm no damn dog - that's the mutt's position. They don't collar me, so they shouldn't be the ones telling me where to go, what to do, who to roll over for." She bristled. "Damn Elites. Sure, their pokemon are stronger, but I'd like to see any one of them kick ass like I can on their own." She took a moment to admire the metal claws on the ends of her gloves. She'd made them herself years ago, and she did a damn good job, if she had any say.

And her say was the only one that mattered.

Walking down the empty street, eyes narrowed on the pavement, she thought back to a few hours before, when her CO had called her into his office.

”I’m sending you on a new mission,” he said, observing her strongly. “You’ll be working with a new recruit.”

“A new recruit?!” Sagira demanded, unable to rein in her temper. “What about the mutt? She and I worked well enough together!”

“Kylarian is working on a separate mission,” he said, choosing to ignore her loss of control. “I need you on this mission. It is of the utmost importance.”

Sagira stifled an annoyed growl. “What’s the mission, sir?” she asked through clenched teeth.

“You’ll be infiltrating a small Magma base.”

An entire base? she wondered.

“It’s located in an area of abandoned warehouses. They don’t believe we know about it, so the security is lax. You’ll need to find a way in. Once you’re in, you will need to retrieve two items.”

“A reconnaissance mission, sir?” she asked. He nodded. “Couldn’t someone else handle this?”

“This is a mission that must be completed successfully, Smythe,” he informed her.

Is he forgetting that my last mission was a complete failure? That was hardly the mutt’s fault.

“The first item you must retrieve is a pokemon. A Vulpix, trained for two years by Aqua for the specific purpose of passing information from one base to another. It is to be captured alive, no matter what. The second item is the disk it was carrying, which contains important information that we cannot afford to lose.”

He met her eyes, his expression hard. “You will be working with a new recruit from Sector B. The name is Lange.”

Great…

“Here are the coordinates where they were told to meet you. I don’t have any more information for you, but Lange is a new recruit, so I wish you luck.”

“Thanks a lot,” she muttered, but saluted him smartly. It was returned, and she left.

Sagira came to a stop at her destination: an abandoned factory building in the middle of a dead part of town. Her eyes roamed the immediate area. This was where she was supposed to meet her new partner. Temporary, hopefully.

Nonexistent, if she had her wish.

"Lange," she muttered under her breath. "What kind of name is that, anyway?"