briar doesn't know what to think of the mission. she never really thought the league would call on her for active duty like this, but she suppose it's never to late to make dad proud. they stand outside the research center. from the looks of it the other two seem happy to be here, so she tries to emulate the enthusiasm.

"i would hope so," she says, eyes friendly but smile wry. she tosses a pokeball out and summons jira- a giant among giants that easily towers above mossdeep's trees and many of its buildings. the steelix eyes the humans before graciously bending over so briar could pet its head. "keep an eye out," she instructs, before turning back to the boys.

"let's head in."

an afterthought: "oh, i'm briar, by the way."

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briar raised her eyes at the other one, and here she thought her wry smile had been teethering on cynical; what a wonder to get those sentiments confirmed by the man himself. she looks at him strangely, not exactly used to the world-weary cop but definitely no stranger, either. almost everyone she knew was an official or the other, and somehow their posts had melted them into strange and curious people. she hoped that would never be her.

"the infiltration might've already begun," she said, her tone overly dramatic and smile teasing. she did toss a glance brendan's way, but she wasn't looking for anything telling. though clearly the juicier scandal would've been a rogue gym leader. she had to snort at the thought.

briar walked in the door without sparing the man a glance, but watched him let it close for poor brendan. on second thought, she'd have preferred a bunch of dumb kids. "huh. thought a gym leader might be able to hold his own." there was no wide-eyed wonder. briar's tone was as unimpressed as it could get: she used to hand out in the fortree gym too often to believe that prodigal trainers were any kind of rare breed.

but she was, ultimately, a girl from fortree. she had never been to mossdeep before, let alone its space tower. while brendan seemed relaxed and nikolai seemed sharp, she gave herself the freedom to simply gawk at the sight before her. "whoa," she said, shaking her head as if in a daze. "right...so how should we start?" briar was blunt and to the point- she had no job pretending she knew this job any better than she did science, mossdeep, or her teammates.



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briar was beginning to get annoyed at them ignoring her, but even then she was far from deferrential. a little too used to arguing with her dad, arguably a far more imposing presence of authority than either of the two boys here, briar hasn't really ever been one for convention.

when you need to find out what's wrong, just assume that everything is.

she let out arcanine quietly, smiling and patting his mane as soon as he appeared. just like hiro to cheer her up. miss, please, we don't usually--

"he's behaved," she interrupted. thanks dad and his dumb mandatory police training. she hadn't been painfully separated from her growlithe all those years ago just so he could be waved away as some undisciplined runt. hiro, as far as she was concerned, was more of a trained officer of the law than she was. "if you want our help it'll be by our books." using 'us' here seemed a little like a courtesy. "check for anything out of the ordinary. people, pokemon, c4. the like." hiro, duty-bound, immediately turned to nikolai and scowled.

"no, he's a friendly," she said, in the dull monotone that could only really be achieved by a police officer, or, in this case, by associating too much with them. hiro took one last whiff of the clinging stench of alcohol before beginning his patrol of the building. she didn't bother to justify her pokemon's actions to the man himself. from personal experience, pokemon instincts were better than human instincts.

she took after brendan: she was relaxed, unhurried. she didn't know enough about technology to give any useful suggestions for how to prevent a breach. if there was someone suspicious, she could give them a run for their money. she turned to brendan, curious as to how a professor would evaluate the situation. "if you had to infiltrate this place, how would you do it?" she asked.



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dog? only she can call hiro dog, and that too with utmost love. she eyed nikolai, but didn't say anything until he provoked her. "bad choice of cologne," she explained, as though the arcanine's taste was some kind of absolute judgment. nikolai joined her discussion with ha. wasn't he about to explore the basement?

wait. was she she only one with a clue as to what was going on here?

she frowned at brendan's suggestions. not really because she didn't like them, but simply because they would be a chore to explore. the staff? well, to be sure, that would make the most sense. holding the door open for someone...hm. "gira outside should preclude any direct assault. and we're here in case someone new arrives. so let's assume the intruder is already among us, already keyed in." she used brendan's phrasing. it sounded fancy.

the scientists and resarchers were working as though nothing had gone on, either side stepping hiro or ignoring him entirely as he sniffed the air and the ground. tch. what a crowd. well if they needed staff help, then there were many ways they could receive it, with or without a friendly audience.

"then we just get them to follow protocol, right?" she nodded at professor ha. on the table she had been leaning on, there was a fancy red button. blame the village girl from fortree for wanting to press it. the case read "emergency lockdown." she slid up its glass case and pressed it down.


"everyone!" she said, voice clearly used to being loud- although this was mostly to scream over the din at her studio. who knew it would work like this, too? "this is an intruder drill. gym leader petrov will be overseeing it."

superficially, the excuse here was that she was just a cadet. what did she know about running intruder drills? but she mostly forced nikolai into the limelight so that she wouldn't be the one to blame if anything went wrong. better a false alarm than no alarm and a robbery. and if they were doing a false alarm, she'd rather not have her dad give her a lecture about doing the wrong thing.


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