Igneous Earth

~Magma Admin Courtney~ {part of insurrection rp group, closed RP blog}

[kiretsujishin]

New Mauville (Courtney | Open)

Of course, Courtney would do it. She had gotten the email from one of their only sources of information, and, if she didn't follow it, she would be absolutely blamed if they had their power taken away.

She stood in front of the entrance to new Mauville, with thirty grunts at her side. The grunts were arranged in a serious formation, proving at how much more adept they were compared to the grunts that were given the spots on the team a few years ago. Courtney smiled when she thought about this, knowing how much more powerful this made her team. 

Her Ninetales was in front of her, with the sun glowing when it hit its yellow fur. It was ready to unleash a powerful Flamethrower whenever Courtney gave the word, as she prepared for the resistance. She had gotten word that others had received the message, but she knew that she had to hold the ground at her home fort. She let out a deep sigh, before waiting patiently, until she saw a ripple in the calm water. 

Courtney looked up, and saw someone, before seeing who it was. "Oh, isn't it funny to find you here?" 

[kiretsujishin]

Scouting {Open}

[blueexecutive]

It was dissimilar of the executive to arrive behindhand for any scheduled meeting of the sorts— especially a meeting that involved the discussion of the single hazard that threatened the rule of any of the region’s teams.

He silently scolded himself as his shoes clicked consecutively against Saffron’s sidewalks, black coat swinging by his knees in motion with his steps and assumed smile spread across his lips. Archer had purposely dressed himself in an outfit that would not catch immediate attention on his way to the city, but of course he had ended up with multiple eyes on him, thus resulting in the occasional waves and smiles directed towards various clusters of people.

Anything to retain public manipulation, he supposed.

Still slightly despondent towards the idea of being late, the executive kept his posture formal as he approached the designated post. Attention seemed to be drawn to the area as well, which very likely meant the other scout had already arrived. 

Which would also mean they were aware that he was late. Fantastic.

Now close enough to the looming Silph. tower to make out faces, Archer recognized the other as Team Magma’s admin Courtney seconds before she greeted him.

"Hello, admin Courtney." He returned the greeting with his usual public tone and smile. "My apologies for my tardiness— and not so recognizable attire."

Team Magma and Team Aqua had been the last to acquire any grip on power through the help of other various team leaders, though still respectable in all sense. Maxie and Archie’s quarreling seemed to had toned down, though Archer was unaware whether or not quarreling was completely absent among the once rival teams.

It wouldn’t become a problem of Team Rocket’s unless it released Maxie and Archie’s dictation on Hoenn anyhow.

"You look well."

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"Well met, admin Archer." Courtney did a little curtsy, before deciding to throw shade at his remarks of tardiness, and his attire. Of course, it was all for her own pleasure, but it was just sometimes fun to tease. 

"Oh, don't worry Rocket Admin; I know that Kanto people aren't usually punctual. And Arceus knows that Team Rocket didn't win the best outfit competition we had back at the base, so it's no surprise why you didn't wear your usual attire." Courtney chuckled to herself, enjoying her little ploy with toying with her fellow admin. Her red shoes clicked as she walked closer to the Team Rocket Administrator. 

Of course, she had known that Team Rocket had taken over Kanto and Johto fairly quickly, and consecutively. Hoenn had been a definite problem due to the region's high defenses, and the division that was only ceased by the other teams' assistance. For now, the quarrel between Archie and Maxie was kept under a wave of silenced hush, to maintain the illusion of peace between the leaders. 

The sun shone, reflecting the light off of the Silph Co. Tower. Courtney looked behind her for a quick second to check if anyone was keeping an eye on her, before quickly turning back to her blue-haired companion. She quickly pulled the sleeve of her left arm upward, revealing a small video watch. Courtney clicked a button, before a hologram appeared, and moved to show the admin she was with. Her video watch was given to her by Maxie, after Team Magma had received new communication devices that were modeled after Lysandre's Holo Caster. 

An image of the Holo Caster regular assistant popped up, and Courtney quickly scrolled through the documents she had saved. She quickly opened one of them, and showed Archer; the document was recovered from one of the resistance's supposed bases, which was located at the Scorched Slab. Courtney found a single piece of paper, with Unown writing inscribed on the document. 

"Thank you for meeting me here, Archer. If you look at my video watch, you can see this holographic document. I need you to translate this, please. I recovered it from one of the enemy's supposed bases in Hoenn, and we need all the info we can get."  

Courtney pressed a button on her watch, causing the document to materialize onto a sheet of paper. She held it out for Archer, waiting for the Rocket Admin to take it. 

[kiretsujishin]

Scouting {Open}

So far, she hated this place.

Going back to Hoenn won't be soon enough. Courtney huffed, eyeing down the buildings of Saffron City. She absolutely hated Kanto, especially with its problems with technology. Quite frankly, Courtney preferred the more natural landscape of Hoenn, as opposed to the mechanized look of Kanto. It looked ugly, and Courtney had to hold her tongue's bad comments, lest she wanted to be noticed.

Where is that scout supposed to be? Courtney crossed her arms, waiting in front of the Silph Corporation Building, in the center of the city. Under Maxie's orders, she was supposed to meet a scout from one of the teams at Saffron City. Of course, with Kanto people being generally unpunctual, she wasn't quite surprised. 

The Magma Admin knew that she would draw attention to herself, considering that she wore her uniform in the presence of the Kanto people of Saffron City. However, this would make it easier for her scout to see her, so that they would discuss plans of action against the growing resistance. Courtney knew that the leaders wouldn't talk about it, so as not to draw any news towards it, but she knew better; if the threat was not contained, Maxie's plans and ambitions would perish. 

Suddenly, she saw a person in the crowd, and Courtney squinted to get a better look at them. She stepped closer to the person, feeling as if they recognized them. 

"Hello." That was the word that Courtney said, as she didn't know how else to greet the person. 

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Distractions || Cyrus & Courtney [open]

Hmm, that was an idea. Controlling Arceus, if he could just find a way to locate it, would take a Red Chain approximately 5 times stronger than one of the ones he had used for Dialga and Palkia. That sounded reasonable enough. With the Lake Trio recaptured, the extraction of the crystals would take… ten years. No, that calculation had to be off, it only took a few hours last time. What could be… oh, right, it would be a longer process partially due to the fact that the lake guardians had been used a few years ago. Still, maybe…

No, that would be too predictable, Cyrus needed to go with something completely new. Maybe controlling a legendary wasn’t the way to go, but rather draining its power into himself? Cyrus began researching that for a bit, and it seemed that only a god could handle that much power inside of it, so that one was a catch-22. Unless there was some sort of process that could gradually allow him to take that much power… wait, wouldn’t that take years, though? He’d be dead by then, and the Pokemon he was draining power from would surely break free even sooner than that. Unless…

Okay, there was that headache again. Maybe it was time to stop and continue this planning later… nah. This was the first time in a week that Cyrus finally was getting to working on his plans and not his duties ruling Sinnoh, he’d be an idiot not to take this chance while everyone else was presumably sleeping.

Cyrus pulled out a bottle of painkiller pills labeled “maximum strength” from his desk, shook a few out, and took them with a small bottle of his custom-tailored energy drink. That should be enough to deal with the headache, now to get back to work.

However, as Cyrus continued trying to work, it just got harder and harder to concentrate. Odd, because Cyrus had never had that problem before. The pills didn’t seem to be working, either, for once, the headache was even worse than it had been before. Cyrus could also swear he heard somebody talking, but that was ridiculous, the long hallway outside of Cyrus’ office should be empty except for a patrolling grunt, and the window to the outside world was shut tight. Maybe Cyrus really did need a break. He saved his notes and shut off the computer he was using.

It was rather cold outside, especially considering the time of year, but Cyrus didn’t mind. It had been hot and stuffy indoors ever since Cyrus had moved buildings, since he hadn’t had time to contact his subordinates to put in better air conditioning units. To be honest, he really didn’t have time for much anymore, as even his plan to remake the universe had been put on hold by his new duties.

Unfortunately, the cool, fresh air seemed to be doing nothing for Cyrus’ headache, and the faint voices he had been hearing were now growing louder and almost audible. Looking around, however, there seemed to be no people close by. Weird, but maybe the voices were coming from that nearby alleyway? It was worth a small investigation.

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[kiretsujishin]

Despite the fact that she didn't enjoy it as much as Hoenn, Courtney did find it in herself to enjoy Sinnoh's innate winter climates. However, her opinions didn't matter; only Maxie's orders mattered. The Team Magma boss had ordered her to go to Sinnoh, as a way for scouting. Courtney knew that information on other regions' takeovers was essential to maintaining the order that they had worked so hard to attain.

For now, however, she would have to deal with gathering information. She saw Galactic grunts stationed around harbors, as well as airports to other regions. It was as the Magma grunts had reported; a complete takeover. 

At night, Courtney was in one of the cities that she had forgotten the name of; it had been so long since she had visited any other region from Sinnoh. Now, she was in an alleyway. 

Of course, she saw a crazy man check a garbage can. How perfectly surprising was it to see that uncivilized people were not in Hoenn- not. However, when the man stared at her, everything locked into recognition. 

That man was Cyrus, leader of Team Galactic. Recently, she had gotten reports that he was growing uneasy from his control. Of course, he probably wouldn't know her; she only recognized him from Maxie's description. 

"I am Courtney, a Magma Administrator under Maxie. You don't need to worry about me, Mr. Cyrus." She absolutely refused to call him "Sir," or any other kind of title. That only belonged to Maxie, and she didn't care if he was a deity; it would still be the same.  

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cat and mouse [Courtney - May]

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Hitting the sand gave May a newfound burst of speed. Just a little further - she reached for Swampert’s pokeball, veering towards the shortest path to water. A little further and she’d be sailing away from what was probably imminent doom. 

That was, had the ground in front of her feet not blown up. Should’ve seen that one coming, May. Sand blasted in all directions. Her feet slipped out from under her as she tried to stop. Dammit! 

She had to think fast. Her grip on Swampert’s pokeball had slipped - who knew where he was, now. “Shit, shit - ” the trainer let loose a flurry of swears while she groped around for her starter. (Because, if escaping wasn’t hard enough, that sand in her eyes just added a little more challenge to the matter.) 

Well, luck hadn’t totally abandoned her. Yet. The pokeball found its way into her hand in a few short seconds - an instant later, Swampert was rearing and ready to go. “Keep her off my back! Don’t care how, just do it!” 

Swampert gave a battle cry and May stopped paying attention - her starter could handle himself. She was a little more concerned with getting back on her feet. While she got back upright, blinked the sand out of her eyes, and started digging in her bag for the rest of her team, Swampert took the offensive. He reared up on his back legs, letting loose a torrent of water. Scald. Aimed a little more towards Courtney than her pokemon, but no doubt intended to hit them both, and hard.

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Courtney saw the girl fall, as the sand in the area blasted around her. The Administrator quickly ran faster after her, regaining energy after seeing her fall. However, she saw that it wasn't long before she gripped the Poké Ball of one of her Pokémon, and she threw it into the air. A Swampert was released, and it prepared for an attack.

Ah, this might be a bit interesting... Courtney grinned to herself, seeing the girl look through her bag for a Poké Ball. Then, she saw the stream of boiling water aimed at her and her Togekiss, and she quickly uttered a command.

"Togekiss, use Air Slash on the water!" Courtney pointed at the stream of boiling water. The Jubilee Pokémon made motion, going backwards and forward, while propelling itself forward. It raised its wing, and slashed downward, as the wing glowed a faint blue. 

The air was slashed at such a high speed that it was visible. When the water hit the slash at the exact moment, the water was deflected to the other side, away from Courtney. The water ended up hitting one of the markets, decimating it into the ground. Courtney looked at the rubble, before focusing on the battle once more. Courtney saw the girl blink uncomfortably, and she deduced that the sand had, at least, somewhat impaired her vision. After noticing this, the Magma Admin decided to take the offensive.

"Togekiss, use Nasty Plot!" Courtney commanded, as her Togekiss began to close its eyes. Cruel and bad thoughts filled its head, as a visible dark question mark in a puff of smoke appeared over the Fairy and Flying-type. The bad thoughts raised Togekiss' special attack considerably, as Courtney awaited the girl's next move. She would only activate her cruelty if need be.  

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cat and mouse [May&Courtney]

Just to be abundantly clear: under any normal circumstances, May would probably rather fall off a cliff than resort to stealing supplies. As it was, however? She was getting a little desperate, and - hey, you know what they say. “Desperate times call for desperate measures" and all that crap.

At least the bazaar in Slateport was easy enough to get away with; her pokemon did the hard part, distracting the vendors just long enough for May to swipe something and make break for it. Swablu alone was inconspicuous enough that no one thought anything of it until he was flying in their faces. Maybe it didn’t last long enough for her to get much, but at least it worked.

Usually. Results tended to vary.

Take today, for example. The plan had been going off without a hitch up until the "take the food and run" part. Nope, evidently Swablu hadn’t managed to draw everyone’s attention off of her, and, of all the people who could’ve seen her, it just had to be a Magma Grunt. Great luck she had.

Somewhere between cursing like a sailor and sprinting away, she managed to shout out for Swablu to attack. (Another thing she wouldn’t condone normally: having her pokemon attack a person. Then again, she didn’t quite count those grunts as “persons”.) That managed to get the one grunt off May’s tail, at least. Sure, the chaos from the guy shouting like an idiot would probably get her more attention, but… one down! Better than nothing, eh?

(Who was May kidding, she was screwed. Her best chance was getting to the beach and taking off on Swampert before anyone could catch up, and even that was slim.)

[kiretsujishin]

Courtney could still hear the rings of her ears when the Magma grunt had screamed at her what had happened. She was in patrol near Slateport City, right near where the various vendors sold items such as Zinc, Carbos, and Iron. She had been patrolling the area, due to the increased rate of crime. 

"Admin Courtney, one of the recognized resistance members has just stolen an item!" One of the Magma grunts had told her, as she saw a commotion up ahead where a girl with brown hair had a Swablu. Instantly, memories flooded back to the girl who had meddled in Team Magma and Aqua's affairs, as she felt her body run after her in reaction to do that. 

The girl had already managed to take down one grunt, whom Courtney rolled her eyes at when she ran. The girl's Swablu was clearly resourceful, but, from what she could see, it was no match for Courtney's own Pokemon, at least from what she assumed.

Courtney stopped, feeling herself breathe quicker from the burst of energy she got from running. Suddenly, an idea occurred to her. She grabbed a Poké Ball from her waist, before flicking her purple hair back. She tossed it into the air, revealing her Togekiss.

"Togekiss, use an Aura Sphere, and try to land it in front of the girl!" Courtney commanded, pointing a finger at the running girl. Her Togekiss gathered a sphere of energy, manifesting its aura into the attack. With a quick motion, the sphere of energy was released forward with great force, managing to hit the ground in front of the girl. This caused a minor explosion, as black smoke clouded the area. Courtney could see people run away, as the smoke cleared, revealing what had happened. 

Immediately, she placed a finger on a button on her wrist, ready to activate her cruel side if the time had come for it.