001 Shot Fired [text; action for Rocket Base]

[shest]

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.

Comments

[text]

[paopuprincess]

Why fight at all then? If both sides are going to lose anyway, isn't it better to try and get along?

[text]

[shest]

[And that's a thought that has never crossed his mind ever.]

Conflicting ideologies on how the world should be run prevent that.

A stalemate is the best one can hope for in this situation.

[text]

[paopuprincess]

Why can't there be two worlds? That way everyone would be able to live how they want.

[text]

[shest]

Because there's only the one.

[text]

[paopuprincess]

Then what do you call this place?

[Cheeky. Don't get smug with the strange soldier man, Kairi.]

[text]

[shest]

A place where the Cold War has ended.

[At least he's not getting threatening. That's a good thing.]

[text]

[paopuprincess]

Or never existed in the first place.

[Not that she's particularly well-versed in Johto history, but she's got her "Devil's Advocate" hat on now and she doesn't plan on taking it off.]

[text]

[shest]

That doesn't change the fact that it exists in my world and will continue to exist.

East and West forever at odds with each other with soldiers ready to take up arms for the cause.

[paopuprincess]

I'm sorry.

[She really doesn't know what else to say to that. She's not exactly unfamiliar with the concept, however.]

[shest]

There's nothing to be sorry about.

I'm a soldier. It's my job.

[paopuprincess]

Is it just a job to you?

[The thought of someone entering the battlefield willingly, for nothing more than money. It's just alien to her.]

[shest]

To tell you the absolute truth, I was given little choice in the matter.

It was a position I was born into. It's everything I know but that's not something I see as a negative.

[paopuprincess]

As long as you like it, I guess.

[shest]

It's not a matter of liking or disliking it.

It's simply a job.

[paopuprincess]

Shouldn't you like your job?

[Especially if you were born into it. She figures most people would either embrace it or run for the hills.]

[shest]

There are aspects I enjoy.

[Bullshit. He loves everything about it.]

[paopuprincess]

Like killing people?

[Not beating around the bush, here. Are you a good guy or a bad guy?]

[shest]

Only a madman enjoys killing people.

[Killing people is the job of a soldier. Kill or be killed. It doesn't mean he enjoys it, at least not in the way she's asking, he doesn't think.]

[paopuprincess]

[That didn't really answer her question.]

Will you be okay? Being away from the war, I mean.

[shest]

Hard to say. I haven't even been here for a day.