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Handsome Jack here! I'm way too busy being awesome to answer the phone, but tell me why you're calling and if you're important enough, your people will hear from my people.

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[Dryly,] Of course they do.

Huh. I'm no more than average as a photographer, but the fuzzy bat the Team gave me is oddly adorable. I could provide you with photos of him? Or, better yet, if you have a photographer in-house, bring him in to model for you. On paper, it would be freelance work and you'd be paying me. In actuality, you could funnel the money you claim you're paying me elsewhere and we'd do whatever Rocket business we need to while William is getting photographed.

[He chuckles.]

It wouldn't have to be just me. That excuse would work for practically any of us you'd need to meet with. Or if you need to meet with more than one of us at a time--just set up a photography session where we each bring in a Pokemon. People just love those pictures where you have two different cute animals together. Especially if you add something trite like 'BFFsies 5-Eva' in sparkly letters.

Ya know something, champ? I like the way you think. I dig your brain. Not too many people around here got one.

Cuz I use freelancers already - it's a legit company, that's the key here. And been around a long time now, it's established. People know me, they know the Hyperion brand.

Certainly not on Team Rocket, anyway. You, I, Carly, Connie, and Orange Guy aside, that is.

[If there's anyone else worth knowing on the team, he hasn't met them yet.]

Well, then. I think I've already begun to pay you back for helping me.

Edited (I FORGOT HE DIDN'T KNOW DIRK'S NAME YET) 2020-02-19 09:13 (UTC)

Yeah and notice we're all transplants. Orange has his shit together, Carly listens good, Connie seems pretty eager and I get the idea she's one of those overachiever types. There's another kid, too. He...

I mean even a hunk of rock has got potential to the right sculptor, and he knows how to steal. So I'm not writing him off, but I give him a lotta shit.