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[fingersandteeth]

Is there any reason I *shouldn't* release a six-foot-tall, extremely bouncy, spherical whale who keeps spraying water in my face back into the ocean?

[No seriously, is there? Because after this thing sprayed him at the beach, he'd decided to catch it so he could passively-aggressively turn it in for his Rocket Quota, but it turns out that the damn thing isn't high enough level for them to want it!]

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[fingersandteeth]

Or it might be the organization is full of incompetence on every level, but there's just enough members that *can* tie their own shoes that they make up for all the ones that can't. It's hard to tell.

[schachmeister]

Somehow I'm not sure which one would be more terrifying.

[fingersandteeth]

Until someone publishes a tell-all book after they get caught, I doubt we'll ever know.

[schachmeister]

I guess so. In any case, if you are worried about anyone targetting you, it's people like that you need to look out for. And they won't be targetting you for, well, any of those reasons you mentioned before.

[fingersandteeth]

Yeah. Only because I'd have something they want. Which means I probably shouldn't brag too much on here when I do have Pokemon worth stealing, in case they're listening in.

[schachmeister]

That might be for the best. This network is only supposed to be available for us outsiders, but there is no guarantee nobody is passing information to Team Rocket. Or part of them.

[fingersandteeth]

If they do have other world transplants like us among their ranks, that would explain the wildly varying levels of competency.

[schachmeister]

Well, while we might not be originally from this world, many of us have adjusted pretty well, I'd say. We even have some gym leaders among our ranks. So I'm not sure if that is the correct conclusion to draw.

[Not how he doesn't bother mentioning that he is one of those gym leaders. Or could be, at least. If he actually bothered to open a gym. He has the credentials for it, at least!]

[fingersandteeth]

[Oh Armin. He meant that the Transplants were the competent ones, not the other way around.

But he's not going to correct that assumption. Because it occurs to him that might give too much away.]

Huh, really? I hadn't known that.