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001 Shot Fired [text; action for Rocket Base]

I'm going to list a series of words.

If they are at all familiar to you please respond otherwise dismiss this.

Cold War
Spetsnaz
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nikita Khrushchev
Tselinoyarsk

[About an hour later on the Rocket frequency:]

My name is Adamska. Code name Ocelot. Call me either. I'm a GRU Major if that means anything to any of you.

I would like to speak with whomever is in charge here.

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That's perfectly fine.

My orders often come by way of telegram as it is. Or did, at any rate. I'd like to know what is expected of me. I know what the booklet says but I would prefer to hear it from someone knowledgeable.

My one real caveat is this: I am a soldier. Unpleasantness is a fact of life and I have done whatever the mission requires of me. I don't understand the significance of petty thievery.

[Wait a minute...

Raikov takes this moment to sort through all the mumbo jumbo he's heard about alternate time lines and what not.]

... What's the last thing to have happened back home?

The American destroying Shagohod.

What's a video game?

Bluntly put, the significance of petty thievery is to pass the time and collect a paycheck between missions. If it can be done easily and you get rewarded for doing it well and doing it consistently, I don't see why you would refuse. Deciding that it's beneath you isn't going to endear you to those higher up the chain of command.

However, I'm a soldier myself, and I've been here long enough that I don't have to rely on such things anymore. I take far more interesting missions, and I hand out several others; it's far easier to carry out the sort of thing I prefer doing with others than it is on my own.

In other words, I may have work for you from time to time, should you want it.

Yeah, me too. To an extent.

Good to be resourceful anyway. A cool head is a lot more useful than getting worked up.

[ .............unacceptable. He gets a notification to his gear that user Chiaki Nanami has purchased Buneary Bounce for him. It's an incredibly sugary and cute platformer wherein one controls a Buneary. Who bounces! The soundtrack is intensely upbeat bubblegum pop and the entire color palette is rainbow bright.

...Look she is spreading the word of video games to all y'all and she won't be stopped. ]

It's something like that...

Then I'll do it.

[But that doesn't change the fact that he thinks it's fucking stupid.

Thinks the guy who literally helped a country steal billions of dollars from another country. And plans for a walking nuclear tank.

Ocelot, your choices.]

I'm listening.

[Oh, does that bring back memories. And not good ones either. The sight of Volgin's lifeless body in Raikov's arms as they sat atop the Shagohod still haunts him to this day.]

So it's still 1964, right?

[Well, in fairness, there's a difference between grand larceny and stealing poor Lass Maryanne's level 20 Drifloon.

So yes, it's fucking stupid, but sometimes you have to kiss ass.]

Do you have a particular specialty?

Infiltrating places. Blending in and not being noticed.

You could say I enjoy playing the long con.

I have training in codebreaking, though the technology is probably severely dated. I also have knowledge in weaponry. Mostly guns but I know a little about explosives as well.

You'll find that your proficiency with guns isn't going to be much help to you; if you had any on you when you were brought here, you've been stripped of them for the duration. I don't know where they are, nor does anyone else; I'm just aware that this place - or whomever runs it, more likely - doesn't like us having conventional weapons.

However, explosives are fair game, and if you're as good as you say with your other skills, it's safe to assume you're a quick study and I doubt the technology will be much of a problem.

It's 1915 where I came from, for reference, and I'm managing just fine despite our technology apparently being backwards even by that year's standards.

I noticed.

They were antiques so the loss is actually rather irritating. I'm sure I'll find something, though. These Pokemon, though, are interesting. I was given some sort of ghost and a lizard that spits fire.

So weapons aren't allowed but a baby monster is. Not that I'm complaining.

That would be World War I in my own world. Technology has improved some, but there's still nothing like what's here.

Exactly.

Losing your head is a good way to get killed.

Naturally.

Ask away.

I take it you mean the ghost that was inside that red and white ball when I woke up.

[Sorry, Raikov.

He actually really doesn't care...]

That's correct.

... Then for what you've been planning to do next, you're a backstabbing son of a bitch.

A name would be nice, to start with. A codename is fine, if you'd rather; I'm not picky. I'd just like something to call you.

[Poker. Face.]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Well this is the most confusing thing he's ever seen.]

I see.

[EXCEPT HE DOESN'T]

Don't question the logic of this place. We can't keep bladed weapons that are more efficient than the average butterknife, but one of my coworkers was given what amounts to a humanoid thing the size of a small child and absolutely covered in swords. As long as we're allowed something, I'm not going to complain too much.

I think I know what world you're talking about, if that's the case; it's not my own, either way. I know a few things about it, however; I assume that you're working for the Soviet Union at this point?

Though that one obviously has nothing to do with wars...

This place never had a cold war, I think. Though, it sounds like in some of the regions there used to be conflicts a long time ago.

Don't play dumb with you. You betray the Colonel and leave me to rot in a gulag for years!

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