Jon and Alyssa Drake
Safe House C
Affected RPers: @Neo Emolga

"Perfect timing." Jon replied irritably, "Matt and I were having a friendly little chat..."

When Steven asked for Jon's take, he took a breath, trying to think rationally about all of this.

"It could go either way." Jon explained, "I have Matt's phone, which the emails were sent from. Which means I could accidentally send something through with my name, and make out that the photos came from me. They were taken by Alyssa's camera when we thought you may have had the books booby trapped, and her Gardevoir is just visible on the edge of some of the shots. If I used Serena in the battle tomorrow night, we could basically just add all this to Jon Drake's rap sheet, by the end of it if the League were to officially deny an invesitgation into the three of you. We just need to make sure there are no more leaks, so I'd want to pay Lance a visit..."

"But it's not my decision." Jon explained, "Ultimately it's up to Steven and Cynthia, and I'd hope that you three have proven yourselves willing to cooperate enough that the league would allow the three of you to have some say in what comes next."

"I'd be okay with involving you in the decision. Whether we continue to pursue this cover-up, or not. Cynthia probably as well." Steven said, "Whilst we were justified in investigating you, your safety is now at risk because of one of us, and no amount of cheating warrants that. Personally I would like to see this covered, and not have to restructure the entire league to try and prevent this from happening again, but we would need your help to make that happen, and it is obvious this is putting a massive target on your back."

"Regardless, two things are happening." Jon explained, "The first is that I am going to be stepping back from battling. The crap I pulled last night with Ethan, both in and outside of the match was to get the audience already annoyed at Jon Drake. Now that it's hit the fan, if we don't go ahead with it, my reputation is already on its way downhill. That and I don't want to compete in what the league will become if we can't cover this up, with one exception. I'm still willing and able to tank it further to sell the story, but I agree with Steven. If it is putting you three in danger, and you would rather cut your losses, then I will respect that. Don't get me wrong, I still think we can make this work. We just need to plug up the holes before tonight. And speaking of that..."

"The second thing to happen is that I will pay Lance a visit." Jon explained, "He has made this personal, not just for you three, but for myself as well. He thought this f**ker had overwritten the footage, but Steven had one of his guys get a copy of him about to try and kill you and frame me."

"Lance is an egomaniac? Regardless of what decision we make here, I am going to let him know that we have this, and that if the truth about you three gets out, and this cover up doesn't stick, I will burn his whole world to the f**king ground. Starting with his reputation, by sharing this video." Jon explained, "If we go ahead with the coverup, maybe this can be the persuasion he needs to give us the names of all his idiots before tonight, including this coward calling themselves Karma, and to call them off. And if we don't, I want to see the look on his face when he realizes that all the s**t he has pulled in the last eighteen hours to spare his pride was for nothing. And because in that scenario, Jon Drake will still be allowed to battle, if by some miracle he isn't rotting in prison, I will challenge him for his title, like I could have done years ago if I didn't mind the attention, and I wil put him to the ground like the b***h he is. That is the exception..."

"Long story short, how we go about the rest of this cruise is up to Steven and Cynthia, but you three should have a say in this as well." Jon explained.

"So what do you all think?"