The Saffron Airdrop [Mission]

[Paige]

It was probably not the best idea to entrust this mission to her. In fact it was probably a horrible idea, but...well. It wasn't as if the Republic had millions of people working for it, and besides, she had insisted on taking on this mission. She even would have waited to get a partner for the mission, that would have made it a lot easier for the poor people of Saffron to take her seriously, but she had waited for a little while and no one had popped up. So what other choice did she have other than to proceed with the mission anyway? The people of Saffron could not wait any longer, and that was what fueled her as she proceeded through the town, stopping here and there upon seeing people that had yet to receive any food from her. She didn't let them take advantage of the situation either by, say, trying to steal the food.

The Leafeon walking beside her, watching each and every person, was enough of a deterrant. Plus she had to stop people from, say, trying to get seconds, and the Leafeon was an excellent aid at helping her see if someone had come by before. While she focused on handing food out, her pokemon focused on remembering the people. It was working excellently so far, and in fact she had just finished handing out some more food. "Good luck!" she said to the small group, giving them a polite little bow and a smile before turning and prowling through the city once more. The bag of food she was carrying had, at first, been quite heavy and difficult for her to manage, but it was getting much lighter now, and she appreciated that.

Though she would have to go back to the Republic's truck. It had a ton of food supplies, though not ALL of it was going to be distributed here. It was just in case. "Sure is tough work, huh?" she glanced down to the Leafeon but, of course, she was still on guard. Smiling a little, the girl looked up and her smile grew. There were more people over there, huddled next to yet another big building of Saffron's. Humming, the white-haired girl made her way over there, her Leafeon sticking right beside her.

[carth]

There was rarely a better afternoon that was not spent polishing guns. That's how Carth was spending his day so far, polishing his many private guns in a medium sized room in the basement of a magikarp deli mart. Yes they have those. Of course, he had a lot of guns so he brought three of his grunts to polish them with him. By that I mean they did most of the polishing and he just kind of laid there on a few boxes and looked at his shiny guns from afar.

Of course having his grunts do the hard stuff meant he also had to suffer through their "stupid ass" conversations. Like the latest gem of what a Cubone looks like under its skull. "For the love of fuck just pull the damn skull off if you're that curious!" It's been going on for a while. "Come on Carth we can't just pull it off. That would be Pokemon abuse. Plus I'm pretty sure it would kill it." Carth scoffed, "Whatever, pick a different subject you idiots are giving me a headache."

There was a long silence before another subject was suggested, "What does the rest of a Diglett look like?" Carth was about to go for some more verbal abuse when another one of his grunts came into the room. He huffed and puffed for a moment before saying, "Mr. Bouras, the....the...the...the..." Carth interrupted, "Breathe, dumb ass."

The grunt took several breaths before continuing, "There's this...chick going around. She's...she's giving out food to people." Carth sat up. "Is she a Lux official? Or one of our people from that poor house front?" The grunt took more breaths before responding, "She's not wearing a Lux uniform, there ain't no insignia on her, and the poor house don't got food of her quality." The other grunts looked to Carth and Carth bent his head down in thought. After a moment he chuckled, "Boys, it would seem a kind soul has intruded on our territory. Let's go thank her for her generosity." Carth stood up and walked for the exit of the basement, grabbing a shiny Uzi and a couple of clips as he left. The grunts followed him out, grabbing a few pistols just in case. As he exited the basement, Carth hid the Uzi and clips in a specialized pocket in his coat and snapped his fingers. Four other grunts eating magikarp sandwiches at a nearby table got up and followed Carth and his other grunts out of the deli.

The mini platoon made their way to a building near where the huffing grunt saw the girl last. They went to the top floor and as soon as they looked out of a window they saw her giving out food to a large group of gamblers near one of the old business buildings. Carth was given a pair of binoculars and through them he took a closer look, while also being careful not to be too close to the window. Just in case someone looked in that direction. Strange hair color, rather young face, no sign of an insignia, and an adorable Leafeon. He handed off the binoculars to another grunt and turned to the grunt who saw her first, "Was there anyone else with her? Y'know giving out food?" The grunt shook his head.

"Hey, I've seen this chick before." Said the grunt currently looking through the binoculars. Another grunt scoffed. "No no I'm serious, I saw her on TV one time. On the news." Carth rubbed his chin, "Who is she?" The grunt stuttered, "I-I don't know, I was a-a bit preoccupied. But I saw her!" Another grunt took the binoculars, "Guess she's a cook or something." Carth growled, "She can be a damn nun, that doesn't change the fact that she's intruding and has to be taken care of." A grunt laughed, "Cool, I'll go get Big Yipper from the deli." Big Yipper was a sniper rifle.

Carth grabbed that grunt and pushed him back before he could get moving, "What's your rush? Come on think for once in your life. We can't just kill her. That wont solve anything. No, we have to send a message. We have to say that we don't like it when random cook nuns come 'roud our territory and give non-Lux regulated food out. It ain't sanitary. OR safe, and isn't it our duty to keep these putrid numb nuts safe because they are obvious not smart enough to take care of themselves? This little lady has a source, whether it be a warehouse or a shitty apartment or whatever. When she runs out of food, she'll go back to that source and we'll happily follow her there and take care of everything."

Carth's training in the art of military strategy kicked in and he soon formulated a plan. He motioned to seven of the grunts, "All of you will take positions from here to the old mart complex. Keep watch for her, use your pokegears to keep track of her movements. If she comes by you, grab some food to deplete her supply. When she runs out, follow her. Discreetly. Jump from the rooftops or some shit, I don't care just don't get caught. And only follow her if you're the guy nearest her. If she passes all of you and still has food, the last guy will keep track of her the rest of the way. The rest of you come back here. When you find her source, call me and get back here. We'll regroup and strike afterward alright?"

The grunts scratched their heads, trying to keep track of all that information without having their brains explode. Carth eventually growled, "Get going! Come on!" The seven grunts scurried off. He stopped the one who wanted the sniper rifle, "You got some business to take care of. Due to the 90 percentile of those idiots losing her because they would be stupid enough to try the food and get lost in it, I want you to go up to the roof of the Happy Meowth Co. office building and keep track of her. After those shithead get all the food, see where she goes and report back to me. Got it?" The grunt nodded, "What are you gonna do?" Carth took out his sleek red and black pokegear, "I'm gonna make sure the police are on a doughnut break for the next two hours." Carth was about to call when the grunt asked, "Can I use Big Yipper?" Carth rolled his eyes, "Yeah but if you shoot anyone I am feeding your balls to the homeless. Now get going." The grunt giggled and ran out while Carth began his call to the police.

[Paige]

Paige...was not stupid. She knew when something was up, and right then? Something was definitely up. She wasn't quite sure what, but something about a few of the people she passed was a bit, well, off. They were not dressed in the type of clothes you'd expect a homeless person to wear, not at all, and she had an eye now for what a homeless person would look like. She'd seen a few during her time searching for her sister, and now she had seen even more here in Saffron, and some of the fellows she was passing the food out to didn't look like it at all. Still, it would be just plain wrong of her to assume that these guys she was seeing weren't homeless and to refuse to give food to them. What if they WERE homeless and just didn't look it?

So grudgingly she kept her thoughts on the situation to herself and continued onward. Still, she just couldn't shake the feeling at all, so for a quick moment she darted into a small alley and took a second pokeball out, tossing it on the ground. "Stalwart, keep quiet. There's something off here. So, once I get out of this alley, I want you to wait a couple minutes, then fly away from it without me. Go to the truck in the northeastern section of the city and hide behind it. Keep an eye out for anything strange, but don't show yourself unless anyone we don't recognize shows up, okay?" she instructed the Salamence, smiling when a nod was given.

Paige patted the cheek of her pokemon, and rubbed her head a little as well, before she continued walking down the alley, showing up on the other side. It would be suspicious if she left the same way she had came, after all. With that said and done, she went back to passing out food, her Leafeon keeping a suspicious gaze on everyone now, even if she didn't mean to. She couldn't help it after hearing Paige's tone when speaking to Stalwart, even if it did seem to be scaring a few of the genuine homeless people a bit. At the same time, several minutes after leaving, the Salamence followed Paige's directions to the letter, quickly flying into the sky and heading off.

It was a couple more minutes until Paige found herself running out of food again, causing her to let out a sigh. There were so many homeless, but...she thought she had gotten to the majority of them. One last run and they ought to be able to get out of there and call this a success. It seemed a bit too easy that no Lux had butted in and complained about them giving free food out, but...well, with the war the way it was right now, it was no surprise they couldn't spare anyone to watch out for Saffron. "Say, Serene...I've always wondered something. What's the pokemon food we feed you guys taste like?" the white-haired girl asked yet another few minutes later, after having grabbed some more food and departed from the truck again.