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"Poison." It was an easy answer. What else would a mad scientist's favorite type be? "My turn!" Nyx sat back in her chair and rubbed her chin, thinking hard about what she should ask. She couldn't squander her turns... But she already knew quite a bit about Mau, didn't she? He liked plants, and plant-y pokemon... and... plants. And not swimming. And cake. That was everything, wasn't it?

"Okay... What... Oh! Did you ever do the pokemon league... thing?" Nyx hadn't. She had never had aspirations to be a trainer. Her acquisition of multiple pokemon was a completely unintended side effect of joining Team Rocket. Now it was compulsive to just... own Pokemon.

No wonder Mau was so good at battling, he had done all of that trainer stuff. At least skipping out on that meant she was a science master, instead of a pokemon master.

Nyx shrugged when Mau asked about her parents, "Nothing extraordinary. Dad works at the power plant in Vermillion, Mom is a teacher. They're very nice, have always been very supportive of my and my sibling's interests, no matter if we accidentally killed the family pokemon or not." She looked down at her glass and pushed the straw around the cup. There wasn't much to her family, as far as she was concerned, it was hard to describe something so familiar to someone. "I call them at least once a month. Mom likes to tell me about what the neighbors are doing, a new book she read, you know... Mom stuff. My dad is... I suppose jolly would be a word to describe him? He sort of looks like Santa Claus." She chuckled.

That was enough about that. Mau didn't get to hear any about her siblings unless he used a question. "Alright. Same question."

That was... awkward. She was not expecting a story like that when she asked about Mau's parents. "I'm surprised you ended up so nice-" Oh, she just said that out loud didn't she?

"... That's two questions, but alright. Yes, they're older than me, and I have two. Brother and sister." Nyx was the baby of the family. She wasn't sure what her siblings were up to lately, the last few times she'd called, she'd forgotten to ask, and her mother was too busy talking about everything else. Now it was her turn. "What did you do before?" Before Team Rocket.

When was their food going to come? Surely they'd run out of questions soon.

She'd have to remember the other questions she'd thought up after dinner. There were pieces missing in Mau's story, like how he went from trainer, to scientist, to Team Rocket.

"Oh!" Nyx smiled as their food was placed on the table in front of them. It looked and smelled... interesting. She definitely had never had anything like it before. There were some initial poking tests conducted with her fork before she actually put anything into her mouth.

Spice was a sneaky thing sometimes. Waiting until after you'd already swallowed the carrier before attacking your mouth with fire. Nyx had already put another fork full into her mouth before she noticed anything. The absent-minded smile she'd been wearing on her face while chatting with Mau fell slowly. "Haaa... Ohh... Haaa." Mau's date's eyes started to tear up, and she reached for her glass to chug down as much cool liquid as she could to try and put out the inferno raging in her mouth.

"Whaa... Ohh... Noo... I'm fine. This is- I'm good. This is nothing..." Lies. Why did she even bother trying to lie? Nyx chugged down Mau's glass of water, knowing full well it wouldn't help, but the need was compulsory; At least she wouldn't complain about Mau cooties.

What switch indeed. Though, if they had switched plates, Nyx would have been silently grateful. Taco Bronzong spicy was not Indian food spicy; A lesson that she would not soon forget. Surprisingly enough, there were no claims that Mau was trying to kill her thrown about the table after the spice incident; That would have required admitting out loud that she'd over estimated her abilities.

After walking to her door, there was standing at her door. Nyx wasn't sure what you said after a date, or what you did, or... anything, really. She wasn't exactly tired of Mau's company, either. "Um. Would you like some tea? Or coffee?" There was absolutely no way that Nyx would realize what someone usually meant when they asked a date if they'd like to come inside for some coffee, or else she would have found a way to clarify.

"Yours I think- Oh!" Nyx had forgotten the mess she'd made in her rampage to get ready earlier that evening. There were clothes strewn about all over the place, exactly where she had left them after they were deemed unsatisfactory garments for dining. "Uh- Yes. You- Don't look! Ask questions!" She hurried around her room, trying to pick up clothes and stuff them back into her closet before, she hoped, Mau could get too much of an eye full of anything; Especially that pair of undergarments that had made itself comfortable on her lamp.

It was a few moments before she could think about putting the tea on.

"Oh, uh. Yes." Nyx closed her closet, finally having corralled her clothes out of sight. Now it was safe for Mau to enter and sit somewhere. "Mother's sister." She said absently while she was distracted putting the tea on. "She does bake sales... and visits mom quite often. I think all they really do is talk." The pair of them chatted like hens, laughing and gossiping for hours.

"My turn!" Nyx announced while sitting on her bed. "Why did you join Team Rocket?" That was what she'd wanted to ask at dinner, when Mau had only told her the research he'd been doing before. The missing steps were interesting, how he went from research to rocket; She already knew he had an ex-wife, where did that fit in?