* Not At First, But You Sweeten The Deal... * (Takeshi And Misty Are Not So Clean And Wholesome As They Used To Be...) *

Misty looks at your extended hand like it were a venomous Arboc, that she really wished she could make her pet, and you get another of those soul-deep feelings: Misty WANTS to accept, but she can't, cause right now she herself is on your little hit-list somehow...

"You want to accept, but you're afraid. Tell you what, I'll sweeten the deal: as long as you stay loyal to the Foundation Group and the Quest, stick with Takeshi and me, come Hell, High Water, the Devil, and the Deep Blue Sea: it won't matter what sins you may have committed in the past. We have your back if you have our own, alright? Isn't that right Takeshi?" You say, and Takeshi nods solemnly.

"If she agrees to this I'm going to be calling in the 'barely-huge-but-still-huge-favor' that Luce owes me to get ourselves starting teams, an operating budget, seed money, motorcycles, weapons, cover identities, and a base to work out of. If this is as bad as it looks, I'm sure Team Rocket is involved in it somewhere and that means we are going to be going DEEP into the darkness." Takeshi says deathly seriously.

Somehow, Misty doesn't seem to be put off by what Takeshi just said, instead, it tips her from the 'maybe' column into 'So on board, you have no idea!' And she seizes both your hands and pumps them vigorously "Deal, but if we are going to be a team, I want us all to go to the meeting with Luce, that's how you prove to me this wasn't all just a prank...."