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Gunner returned to the conference room with two paper cups of coffee, made precisely to order. He handed one to Paxton and kept the second for himself. The two men were huddled together to investigate the identity of the terrorist leader, who'd led the assault on the State of the Region conference just days ago. [break][break]

Unfortunately, they had been working for hours already without any success. [break][break]

Sitting down at the conference table, Gunner sipped his coffee while his eyes scanned the screen of his laptop. The civilian database was open, a pop-up window indicating that a scan for profiles had finished. [break][break]

"No results found for anyone matching the composite sketch," he said, heaving a tired sigh. "And the audience members I've already interrogated haven't seen him before, either." [break][break]

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Paxton felt his eyes grow red and bleary, pulling away after trying almost every which way of combinations and search strings. Nothing. The most abundant, prolific databases and no one had seen nor heard of this guy. And that couldn't be true. Not really. He'd been too experienced. This operation had been executed too well. Surely any one of the rocket's there that day would've been identified. The few that had sketches, nothing. And the rest of the bodies? Gone.

He leaned back in his chair, rubbing his eyes as he heard Gunner come back. He sipped his cup gratefully, slow to open his eyes and look at his companion. "I've expanded to our search and nothing. I even sent out requests to INTERPOL in case they'd seen something. No emails back yet." he said with a drawn out sigh. He blew on his cup as he closed his eyes again. "I've branched out into other gangs that may have been absorbed by Rocket and nothing neither." His frustration is obvious. They'd been at this for hours.






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Cradling his coffee cup in his hands, Gunner blew on the hot liquid to cool the surface before taking a sip. His brow knitted together in frustration. [break][break]

"I don't get it. Nothing adds up. We rounded up the injured and dead Rockets, and now they're effectively 'missing'. There aren't any reports on them, statistics, or anything." [break][break]

He raised the index finger of one hand. [break][break]

"Second, there's no record of their leader in any database—the civilian one, the known criminals, INTERPOL's." [break][break]

He held up a second finger. [break][break]

"Third, I've interviewed every single member of the security team from that day. Not only did all of them pass their initial background checks, but none of them saw any suspicious activity on site." [break][break]

A third finger joined the other two, before Gunner dropped his hand to his lap. His frown deepened as another piece of the puzzle wormed its way to the forefront of his mind. [break][break]

"The worst part of this whole thing is how dismissive Penny is acting. She's quick to remind me about how imperative it is to close out this investigation, but she's too busy to provide support." [break][break]

He didn't want to blame her, of course. was busy with her work on the Council, preparing for an imminent attack from Team Rocket and managing public relations following the conference.



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"That too. Who was covering the people we captured? The bodies we gathered-" he stuttered to a pause, a thought bubbling up as gunner continued speaking. The issue with was easy to dismiss, albeit annoying. But the woman wanted answers and, considering her best employees efforts, shouldn't she have answers by now?

"She's just trying to get something for an update. No news is good news and all that." The terrorist attack had been quelled, for the most part but. He remembered the bodies. Hopper had definitely killed one of them. And he had definitely tried to move another victim. As he goes over the day in his mind he swerves back to a memory he'd almost forgotten.

"Gunner that day- I did see something strange. Do you have the personnel file on-" he snaps his fingers, and begins pawing at the laptops and switching tabs before going a list, looking for faces. He finds his suspect. "This guy. . He was with me when I was about to move some bodies- he said he's take care of- of this baby girl and a Rocket-" Chain of custody ended there. "He didn't say anything weird to you?"







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Gunner leaned toward the laptop with 's profile, eyes lighting up with recognition upon seeing the face in the attached photograph. [break][break]

"I know him," Gunner confirmed with a nod. "He was a member of our security team that day. I interviewed him yesterday." [break][break]

A frown pulled at the corners of the agent's mouth while his brow creased with consternation. "He didn't mention anything about a girl or a Rocket, no. In fact, when I pulled security footage of the area, I saw him battling at a different part of the conference from where you were." [break][break]

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Paxton frowned as Gunner gave a description of the man in question. Once more, he wished they had the light of Reshiram to help discern truths quickly. But that woudl be too easy. He shouldn't rely on a short cut like that. "A Zoroark then, impersonating ." There's another pause. "It's plausible...but it's also a gamble. I'd never made CONTACT with him before, but I could've easily been interfacing with him for years." Then again, perhaps the chaos of the day was cover enough.

"It doesn't make any sense. Why would the bodies be miss-...who were the dead grunts?" he said. "Without a body, we can't ID them, but that's never been something Rocket does before right...?" Hell, half their strongest had wanted posters all over HBIC and HQ. Posters in pokemarts and running hourly on HNN and HBC.

"I trust your judgement on this Gunner. But can we trust him?" If he vouched for that man, Paxton would let it drop. "I just....somebody was doing body recovery in real time. There could've possible been...two groups. One for attack ,and one for recovery." More people than they had originally thought, just waiting but... why?





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Gunner spread his hands in the universal gesture for not knowing. "I only met Hisakawa for this assignment, so I can't say I trust him. But he passed the background check, and nothing about his interview struck me as suspicious." [break][break]

Gunner sighed and dropped his hands into his lap. A somberness emerged in his voice as he continued, "I'm still working through the rest of the security team interviews, though. It's been slow going because we did lose some men and women in the attack, so I've had to make some family visits." [break][break]

At least the families of those deceased did not have to wait long to learn about their loved ones. Calls had already started to pour in from the relatives of injured or dead civilians, whose bodies the HBIC had collected in the immediate aftermath of the attack. [break][break]

"The missing bodies are troubling me, too. I haven't been able to get any data on them—no reports, nothing. When I talked with Penny this morning, she said she'd handle it." Gunner shook his head. "She wouldn't need to if we just had access."



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Paxton huffed through his nose. "Copy pasted with a pokemon seems more plausible then. No bodies, no way to trace them back to...wherever they came form. No fingerprints or dental." That would for sure identify them if a face didn't work.

"I'm sorry. If you need me to help carry those out I'll make time." he said, familiar with the unpleasant work. But it was work all the same. He'd heard every kind of response by the time he'd finished tracking down families and trying to give them something to console them. It was never enough. But he thought it better they had closure than to always wonder why.

"But again, it wasn't just Rocket's missing. The civilian child I found, she disappeared as well. That other Eduardo said he'd take care of her." He said, voice slowing down as he reviewed the memory in real time. "But I'd been about to check her...because something had struck me as odd." he said, remembering the unnatural way bones bent and skin split. But...why had it been strange? "Penny needs more prodding for tasks considering how busy her schedule is. Maybe it's some sort of Council only intelligence?" he offered with a frown. Something higher than both their clearances that only the Council and knew.

"We'll do what we can with what we know. I can remind since I'm...more likely to see her. I guess. Her office is next to mine anyway." he said, remembering he'd seen the redhead less and less.




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"I appreciate that," Gunner said of Paxton's offer to help speak with the families of those who'd died. "I imagine we'll be doing a lot more of it once the report of the missing and dead is released to us. Because you're right: Rockets weren't the only ones we took in." [break][break]

Gunner stared at his laptop's screen, no less stumped than he was when he and Paxton first started scouring the databases. Sipping his coffee, he checked his email again for any new messages. While he found a handful, none of them were about the requested access to the mysterious report. [break][break]

"That would be great if you could," he said when Paxton offered to speak with their boss. "Maybe she'll listen to you more than she has been listening to me." [break][break]

With a sigh, he closed his laptop, putting it to sleep. [break][break]

"In the meantime, I have to conduct more interviews. I'll catch you later?" Gunner asked.



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"I think it would be appropriate to prime those who haven't found their loved ones in the ERs yet." he said after a moment of consideration. He sighs through his nose. As usual, Rocket was responsible for another domestic attack and people still wanted to claim they could change them. How delusional.

"This is hard on all of us." he said, trying to both comfort and allow some slack even if she wasn't here. But that had been her event. She'd organized it, hadn't she? He threw back the last of his coffee, drinking quickly still warm brew.

"Yeah, I get it. Let me know if there's anything I can do to lighten the load. I'll be online. I'm just covering for Penny for the next 3 ish hours." he said, pointing to the laptop on the table before giving him a small cheers gesture with his empty cup. "Sometimes intelligence takes time. We'll figure it out." he said with a small smile to his friend before tossing the cup away. "See you. Don't forget our sparring sesh on Thursday." he said as he left, leaving no room to argue. Now, even more than ever, they had a reason to stay training.







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Despite the high stress of the investigation, Paxton's words of support helped reassure Gunner somewhat. As he packed up his laptop and other belongings, he flashed the other man a grateful smile. [break][break]

"Thanks. I really appreciate the help," Gunner said. [break][break]

Slinging his laptop bag over one shoulder and finishing his coffee, he started for the door. Only when Paxton mentioned the upcoming sparring session did Gunner pause, his hand on the handle. [break][break]

"See you there," he promised, smirking. "You better get your ass ready for a beating." [break][break]

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