route_1065 | Operation: Express Car; [train plot log]

Who: Everyone who wants to participate!
Where: Goldenrod City, the Magnet Train, Saffron City.
When: November 23rd, 11AM-5PM
Summary: Heist on the Magnet Train!
Rating: Might go up to PG-13, possibly R if exceptional violence of swearing occurs.
Log:

They've spent the last few days preparing. He wasn't sure at first, how this was going to turn out, but the Team is confident. They are confident and now he, Archer, is also confident. He has no reason to expect failure; he tells himself, even if they fail, this will cement them back in the public eye. A threat again. It makes his collar hot to think.

He reviews the plans again, Petrel's notes and schematics, engineering details. Phase 2 will be the most delicate, but he's confident in the abilities of the recruits. The aliens, the outsiders, are strange, but useful. They have skills no other Grunt would possess. Archer recognizes he has been given a tool, and only a fool would fail to use it.

At 9:30AM on November 23rd, Archer sends a message through the Rocket Network. It is short, and simple, and jubilant.

Operation: Express Car START

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It's a nice day out, considering. Cold, yes, but the kind of cold that buries itself deep in the lungs and blows the mind into crisp clarity. Cheeks are red, movements brisk to retain heat, and around Goldenrod's white-dusted Magnet Train station, the energy is thick enough to taste. People in their thick winter coats press together, some alone, some with families and friends, most with their trusted pokémon. The larger creatures are returned to their balls, tragically fated to miss the voyage, while smaller breeds are held in their trainers' arms or scurrying around their ankles.

The station attendants are supervising while customers pass through, touching the microchipped Rail Pass to the card readers and moving in slow, sluggish trails through the gates. There is no shoving; the atmosphere seems too cheery for it, excitement manifesting in the form of loud, vigorous conversation. The train itself is gloriously slick, smooth and polished as a new bullet or a freshly-minted coin, humming with power. We ask our passengers to please mind their electric-types, reminds the stationmaster over the PA, as we seek to avoid any trouble or inconvenience during the ride.

Once you've passed the gate, find a seat and stow away your luggage. Relax, unwind; it's a long six hours ahead.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I'm so glad they did! I mean, this train's going all the way across Johto, right? I've never even heard of the city that this is going to!

Neither have I. It's not on any map I've seen of Johto.

Yeah, it's like it's in another country completely...

I don't know if it's another country. Region, perhaps.

A brand new region...! That sounds really cool! Do you think everyone'll have accents there?

...Uh...why would they have accents?

Ah, that's what it's like in Japan, sometimes! People from different areas have different ways of speaking, so it might be like that here, too!

Huh, I didn't know that. But if this place is truly modeled after Japan, then I suppose it's possible...

It's still really strange thinking of this place as being modeled after Japan...

You think so? I mean, this originally was a video game, right? And there are quite a few cities that use traditional Japanese architecture.

Y-Yeah... it's even weirder thinking of all of this as a video game!

I know what you mean. Despite that, it feels so...real.

Yeah! I mean, video games are getting REALLY realistic, but I never knew they'd gotten this good already...

Assuming this is some sort of virtual reality. We could be living in a world that's real, but still made artificially.

I guess... after that thing where everyone went blocky, I can kind of believe that.

...Yeah, that and the music.

Yeah, the music...

... wow, I've been hearing it for so long that I almost forgot about it.

I forget about it half the time, too. I think that's just a testament to how well humans can adapt to their surroundings.

Yeah! Kind of like guinea pigs!

[That nets a look.]

Guinea pigs? Really?

[He may be intelligent, but he's not too up on his biology.]

[... honestly, neither is Yayoi]

Yeah! I... um, I think so? I mean, I THINK they're really good at adapting, too... or was it something else?

...Maybe you're thinking of coyotes?

[At the very least, he vaguely remembers coyotes appearing in a list of animals for nearly every land-based biome. Though how Yayoi would have gotten from coyotes to guinea pigs is well beyond him.]