"How's the force?"

He exhaled, smoke curling out in the cold January air like a Gyarados tail.

[break][break] She didn't say it, but he could tell the bite behind her words. Though they weren't very close, Flynn knew enough about Lulu Flint to know the hidden disdain that she had for cops. Not that it was particularly uncommon or ungranted.

[break][break] All cops were bastards. He told her that.

[break][break] "They're bastards, as usual, but what can you do?" He shrugged, flicking the cigarette into the ground in front of him and crushing it with the heel of his boot. He folded his arms over his chest as he looked over at their target. It was the typical posh jewelry store you'd find in a city like Mauville, probably full of diamonds, rubies, and sapphires or some shit. Flynn himself didn't care.

[break][break] In fact, Rocket probably didn't either. There was something else of interest.

[break][break] "The report says that they're hiding something special in their vault too. No idea what it is, or if it's even actually valuable, but it must be special if they sent you along too." He glanced at her, sideways. They'd been co-workers, technically, but she'd always been a step above him. The fact that she arrived on a Hydreigon of all things was proof enough for it.

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"Shoot 'em dead." [break][break]

Now there was a thought. It wasn't a thought that Flynn hadn't once considered before, especially when the precinct's commissioner was spitting in the face of their captain, probably over something stupid like numbers. Just like in Rocket, Flynn rarely had any weight in the way that the precinct worked. His existence there was intended only to be physical - just stay there, lie low, and do your shit. Any special acrobatics were better left to people more fancy than him.

[break][break] But Lulu knew that. There wasn't a need for the reminder.

[break][break] Though, she felt the need to remind him that she had read the report. Flynn said nothing in response to that, fingers clutching over a bicep, and trying to hide his aggression. There was no need to get feisty - after all, they were on the same team anyways.

[break][break] At her question, though, he was at a bit of a loss. He shook his head. "Nope." She could look over him all she wanted, but there weren't any fancy gadgets to be found on his possession. He wasn't sure if they just didn't have it, or they thought he wouldn't need. Most of his rocket jobs were intended with him - or people like him - in mind anyway, and usually meant that he had to just muscle his way out of any situation if he found himself in one.

[break][break] In other words, they usually left him to the dogs.

[break][break] "Sometimes simple's best. We could just go in through the back, and fuck up anyone who gets in our way." A pause, as he glanced as the horizon where the sun was beginning to dip past the skyline, bleeding orange and purple. "I do know my way around a lockpick." He looked back at her, then added, "I'm pretty good with my hands."

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Unsurprisingly, she doesn't like his idea and she tells him as much.

[break][break] It doesn't come as much of a shock to Flynn, who already knew who would be pulling the strings from the moment that Lulu Flint landed on the rooftop. Her reputation precedes her, and sure enough, she is pulling out gadgets and gizmos that Flynn has seen more than enough times before. It reminds him all too much of the first time that he had to get his cop gear all set up, too many things to keep track of, too many things to remember.

[break][break] He doesn't fight her on it, though.

[break][break] Instead, Flynn puts on the ear piece and puts the thermal imaging camera into his pocket, to be used for later. His interest, however, is piqued when she offers her palm to him and an ant-like device is staring up at him with beady eyes. Fingers close around the small object, and he watches it - impressed - as it attaches itself to the fabric of his jacket. "You make this?"

[break][break] As she pulls out a Klefki and makes a comment, Flynn's tone is wry with his response. "Duly note." He glances back towards the smokestack buildings, and then says, "So, you wanna take my bike, or you have a different way you wanna travel?"

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Uh. Flynn blinked with surprised at the passion in which Lulu responded; he wasn't used to seeing her exhibit such an amount of warmth and affection to any human being on the planet. Honestly, like many Rockets, Flynn had once wondered if she was capable of it.

[break][break] But... it was kind of cute. Not that he was going to tell her that.

[break][break] "It's pretty neat," he admitted, even though these days he rarely complimented anything, and then let it latch onto his clothes. It was only a few moments later, but he let Lulu call the shots. After all, she seemed to already know how things were going to go, so there was hardly a point in trying to fight her about it. He nodded and then hauled himself on top of the Hydreigon.

[break][break] Flynn had never had a pokemon quite as big as the beast - frankly, he much preferred his feet on land - but it wasn't too difficult. In a matter of moments, the descended into another dark alleyway and Flynn watched as she released a Magnezone as he slid off of the dragon and onto to the ground below. For his part, he released Blue from his pokeball and the Mightyena was instantly on high alert, recognizing the feeling in the air for what it was.

[break][break] Work.

[break][break] The Team Rocket grunt nodded as she relayed the instructions to him, grabbing the flashlight from her grip. Blue may not have been any of the fun gadgets that Lulu had, but her senses were sharper than any human he'd ever known and the two of them were familiar with each other. If Lulu was going to act behind the scenes from the outside, then he needed someone on the inside to watch his back.

[break][break] "I'll find the safe," he told her, since that seemed to be the only thing left in their agenda. With any luck, their mission would be a quick and clean one - no causalities. Or so Flynn hoped.

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The Magnezone went first, and it was only a matter of moments before the electricity was cut and the lights went black. Though, this was all in Flynn's favor, as he was hiding along a corner when a night-shift bodyguard was about to end a corner. When the lights above them flickered and shut off, they let out a bewildered shout, which was muffled by Flynn's gloved hand. His hand snapped lightly but firmly against a pressure point in the back of his neck, and it was only a matter of seconds before the bodyguard went limp in his arms.

[break][break] Flynn placed him on the ground, gingerly, but out of sight, just as Lulu Flint 's words came in crackling through his earpiece. He pressed his fingers against it to hear better. "Unfortunate," he said back, his voice probably transmitting as a crackle of sound.

[break][break] The Team Rocket grunt pushed himself to his feet and flicked on his flashlight. Blue went ahead of him, clearing a path and making sure that there were no others before turning back to him and wagging her tail to signal him that it was ok to pass. Fortunately, that one guard was the only one - it seemed - in the vicinity, or the rest were on a late dinner or early breakfast break. Or maybe asleep, somewhere. Either way, it made things easier.

[break][break] Like Lulu said, there were no obvious signs for the safe but Flynn had done enough of these heists to know better. Plus, the nose of a dog - or rather, wolf - was always far better than that of a human. He looked down at Blue and grunted, "Smell anything?"

[break][break] Sure enough, she led him to a piece of the wall that looked fairly normal yet ... He grabbed the painting off it's hinge and placed it gingerly on the floor. Jackpot. "Think I found something," he reported through his earpiece, just as her Klefki came into view.

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"Yep."

[break][break] The Klefki turned it's body into the keyhole of the safe and it fit perfectly. The door swung open wide, showing a pile of glittering gems and dollar bills, all of which Flynn shoved quickly into a dufflebag and then threw over his shoulder. He nodded at the Klefki, signaling that it was good to close the door, and waited as the door shut closed before placing the picture frame back on the wall. He stared at it crically for a second, making sure that it looked exactly how it'd been placed, before ducking back down the corridor whence he had came.

[break][break] Flynn quickly made it to the door, but before the exit there was an obstacle. Likely for Lulu too, if she was coming down the steps of the security office.

[break][break] Luckily, Flynn had a plan for it. Shutting off his flashlight, he reached into his pokeball and released the Magcargo that he had caught of Lilycove's beaches. The pokemon sludged forward carefully, emanating heat, as the two bodyguards remained ignorant to the approach of both Team Rockets and their pokemon.

[break][break] Opening it's maw, the pokemon released a YAWN which let out in slow-moving puffs of air and then hit the two guards in the back of the head. Within seconds, they crumpled to the ground, asleep, and Flynn jerked his head towards Blue to use THIEF on them to steal any important information, though he doubted they had anything relevant.

[break][break] Swiftly, Flynn made it back to the entrance that they had come from, stepping over the bodies. With any luck, due to the shuttered security cameras, any passerby would have just assumed the two nightguards had just taken too many night shifts and though they could sneak in a nap or two.

[break][break] Left in the cold air of the outside, Flynn waited until he spotted Lulu Flint . He tossed her the items that Blue had pried off of the guards, which would be a small camera and a keyset that looked sort of peculiar, a skull-shaped key that didn't look like it belonged to the jewelry store they'd just ransacked. "Thought this might be interesting."

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