he'd heard the same rumours, and now dominic found himself lingering in the interior of the cave.

a crown of pale hair in the gloom prompts dominic to straighten. the voice he doesn't immediately recognise - not when it's amplified to an echo by the cave - but dominic can place it to the face.

"looks like it's just me."

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He wasn’t alone but he wasn’t getting this overwhelming sense of dread that he figured he’d get if there was some berserker Pokémon coming after him. Instead, it was a familiar face that he had not expected to see here.

”What the…?” It was certainly a surprise.

”What brings you all the way out here? Heard the rumors of the wild Pokémon terrorizing the place?” The Pokémon nearby certainly weren’t the culprits.

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dominic raises a shoulder in a shrug. sure he was interested in the vague concept of "powerful wild pokemon", but he lacked the energy to personally train them to be useful in any capacity. if anything, he would likely catch them and hand them over to someone else.

"yeah, i was curious. thought i might grab it and bring it back for one of the grunts to handle."

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Samuel thought about what Dominic suggested he’d do if he found the Pokémon and started laughing. ”You really think that’d be a smart thing to do?” He asked, shaking his head.

”If the Pokémon’s actually all that powerful I wouldn’t trust one of the grunts in this organization to train it. They'll probably end up getting themselves killed, the lemmings. I swear I've never been surrounded by so many fuck ups before.”

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one corner of dominic's mouth quirks into a smirk at samuel's words.

"interesting thought. hey, if they die, they die. i'd just say it was a test or something." the amusement in his tone indicates that he is, in fact, explicitly joking, and does not actually think so little of his colleague's lives.

dominic catches movement somewhere in the depths of the cave but it doesn't pique his interest enough to pursue the wild pokemon any further.

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Again the wild Pokémon that appeared weren’t exactly that threatening but one of them caught Samuel’s eye.

”All in the name of science, right?” He shrugged, releasing his Milotic from its capsule.

”Speaking of our employer. How have things been going for you?” He asked as he watched his Miltoic easily take down the Baltoy with a simple Water Pulse.

”Big changes but I figure at this point you’re more than used to big shake-ups.” He added as he threw an empty Pokéball at the Baltoy.

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dominic watches samuel secure a capture, thinking over his response for a moment.

"it was going to happen eventually, i can't imagine it came as a surprise to anyone unless they haven't been paying attention." he says with a half-hearted shrug. "walsh will provide us with the leadership we need."

he doesn't comment on the darkrai because that's a subject he's not sure how to even broach.

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”I guess so.” He hadn’t been with Rocket for that long and even then his “membership” felt more like contract freelancing than actually be a part of the group.

So this meant that there were some finer details that he was unaware of.

”But I hope this guy can pull it off. Rocket most definitely needs it.” Though Dominic did sound pretty confident in the guy, Samuel guessed if anyone came in the way Walsh did it’d be hard to think that guy was playing around.

”You know this new boss well?”

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dominic hesitates for a long moment, uncertain how much samuel knows about the exact nature of the thing that binds him and walsh, and then raises a shoulder in a shrug.

"sure," he says, nonchalant. "better than i knew cadis. or silas, or his ol' papa." which, perhaps doesn't say much, because even though he had been underboss under all three, their interactions were always limited either by professional constraints (the former) or insanity (the latter).

"you'll like him." he didn't know that - in fact, no he didn't think samuel would like walsh - but he spoke with the same reassuring conviction he used exclusively when talking a brand new teenage grunt through their first mission.

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