Charming, but at the risk of putting you out of a job, this could have been an email.

WILL .ᐟ@futuresighted.bsky.social · last wk.

A-hem! I come with a message from LANCE himself: "Stop emailing me about applicants vying for the role I currently have. Also, he wishes. No, WILL, don't send that last part."

Go squeal in his ear about it. I'm sure he'll appreciate your criticism.

Karen@karen.pokenavs.net · last wk.

I’m furious THIS is how I find out.

I like to think I contributed to Lance deleting just a little. Now if only he'd delete in real life.

People should have more respect. You included.

Karen@karen.pokenavs.net · 3mo ago

Oh so close. You’re only one buzzword away from being a LinkedIn thought leader.

I'm sick of these copycats. We'll be using, of course.

[Archer shops Proton away, as if fanning some air at home might blow him further away.] You don't get to put words into my mouth just because you're dead. Now excuse me. I have a flight to Vermillion City to catch.

?Proton? (Kid Event)@dropofblood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If I knew, he'd be dead. You can find his lackeys hanging out in Vermillion. Got a base near diglett cave. I'm sure you can persuade them to lead you there, one way or another. [He smiles and floats closer to Archer.] So you really do care about me, huh?

Like you let those idiots kill you? [Archer rolls his eyes. 'Don't let him kill you', how patronizing. That was a default.] Tell me where to find him and I'll go. I'm taking out your killers no matter the cost. No one gets away with disrespecting Team Rocket like that.

?Proton? (Kid Event)@dropofblood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Yamask. At least you'd still get to see my face... Ah, yes. Those guys... I didn't really, you know... see them. It all happened so fast, and then I was gone... But I might have an idea where you can start looking for clues. [Proton seems agitated just thinking about it.] [+]

You were going to be reincarnated as a pokemon? Which one? --wait, no, that's not important. What do you remember about the people he hired? We'll hunt them down, they're not getting away with this.

?Proton? (Kid Event)@dropofblood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Not a joke, unfortunately... Wish it was. It'd be way funnier. Look, the guy I was supposed to go after? He hired some extra muscle. Wasn't expecting him to wise up like that. [He floats over to his body.] [+]

...you're talking. I don't know if that makes things better or worse. If this is some kind of elaborate joke... [But he'd seen the body. That wasn't a fake. So this...] What the hell happened?! Who got you? How the hell did you end up a ghost???

?Proton? (Kid Event)@dropofblood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

[Proton stares for a moment before bursting out into uncontrollable laughter.] You should see the look on your face! Ah, I wish I had a camera, that's priceless. [Once his laughing fit calms down, he floats closer to Archer.] Didn't know if you'd come get me yourself or not.

[Ever alert, the rattling draws Archer's attention. He turns around, prepared to see a stray pokemon or somewhere prying where they shouldn't, and instead... His face turns white, an unseemly string of cuss words leaving his mouth.]

?Proton? (Kid Event)@dropofblood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

[Proton hadn't strayed too far from his body yet, so when there was a commotion, he took notice. The sound of rattling chains slowly grows louder as the ghost of Proton approaches Archer.]

The kind of missions Proton went on weren't precisely scheduled things. They were complex tasks that required the kind of judgement that only came with years of experience, and sometimes something as simple as the target going for lunch an hour later than usual could throw off weeks of

four hundred on 'pansexual'. his hands are for everyone, after all.

Betting pool on Bruno's sexual orientation, talk to me or Ariana about getting in.

I look forward to it.

Make more work for you? I would never.

Speaking of concussions, I should sue Lance for giving me brain damage.

Silver was such a cute child. It's a shame how he turned out.

Skipping the acetaminophen, this is a morphine sized headache.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

INDIGO LEAGUE BECOMES RAINBOW LEAGUE? IT'S CHAMP ON CHAMP IN THIS RECENT LEAGUE SCANDAL

Sweet dreams of the trickle-down wealth that's never coming, Millennial.

I'd love to, but I have a boardroom full of managers to terrorize. Maybe some other time.

Oh, it's you. How unfortunate.

🥱

[There Proton goes, getting dragged down the hall by some grunts. He is not going quietly, kicking and shouting the whole way.]

It is RIDICULOUS that we need security to control the security.

Get in here and STOP HIM.

𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒍@disguisedjester.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Oh my, the girls are fighting."

[So anyway Archer is about to get his ass kicked.]

?Proton? (Kid Event)@dropofblood.bsky.social · 5mo ago

YOU DON'T THINK I'M BEING REASONABLE? YOU EXPECT ME TO JUST TAKE YOUR INSULTS WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES??

Proton, be reasonable. There's no reason to fight over this.

?Proton? (Kid Event)@dropofblood.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tch. Fine. Whatever. Call your grunts or whoever, I'll go through them first! No Problem!