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Eose walked into the room with Maddy, Caleb, and Allen "Good afternoon, boss." Rose said in greeting as she approached, she found herself chuckling when she noticed the marking on Maddy's face "W...what happened?"

Sure enough, one of the Larvitars slipped off the fan and crashed down through the floor and into the basement. Maddy gazed down into the gaping hole and saw a little blue Larvitar looking up at her, giggling cutely and rolling around on the downstairs couch.
"Good thing I stole most of Team Flare's money when we defeated them..." The girl muttered, stuffing some bacon in her mouth.
The second Larvitar, which was pink, jumped down from the fan and through the new hole in the floor, landing on the couch next to her brother.
"I guess they're heavier than they look..." She then sighed and turned to her companions.
"Bad news, good news, and more bad news. Our time in the Anistar house is up in a few days, so that's a bit of bad news." She said. "The good news is that we can stay in my awesome house until we figure out a base. More bad news is the house is in a state and my Larvitars put a hole through my god damn kitchen!"
She opened the pantry door, which revealed a hidden staircase, and angrily stepped down into the basement. Angry yelling ensued.

Rei stumbled out from a broom closet, his unkempt hair matching his face-doodle, with one hand clutching an empty bottle of whiskey tied up in a blue bow.

"Where... Where did my whiskey go...? I had... I had a bottle..." He looked down at the floor.

"Huh. I don't feel hungover yet. That's... that's great." He turned and waved hello to the group.

"Hey guys. Great party. That smells... good. Yeah. Good. Heh." He glanced at Caleb.

"Lookin' fancy there, Caleb. That's a surprise. Nah, I'm just kidding. Have you seen the Countess? She has my whiskey. I like whiskey."

He chuckled, remembering the night's events. "Man, that was crazy. Sycamore. Sycamore was all 'Maddy I love your eyes' and Dark was... Yeah. He was all 'Maddy I luvs you' and I said 'I love whiskey' and then there was a hot tub with rainbows and stuff and then we brought in the Jynx Quartet. That was weird.

"Then... Well, then I think I ate a potted plant... The plant... But then I told Sycamore that he wasn't good with his liquor aaand... and he didn't like that much so we had a drinking war and I won. I know I won because I have the trophy!" With that, he raised his empty bottle in the air. Upon closer inspection, the blue bow had a drunken scribble that was only legible to someone highly intoxicated.

Rei winked at the group. "And that's not even half of the story."

A Zubat flew from the broom closet and pushed Rei to a soft chair, which he plopped into. The Countess determined that, despite sleeping for over twelve hours, Rei was still drunk. He crashed on the chair, immediately falling asleep.

"Maaaan!" Allen whined, "I SO wish I would have been here for that." He remembered we was holding a large thing of coffee for people who needed them. "In case anyone needs it, there's some coffee here." He set the thing on the counter.

The Zubat grabbed a mug, set it on the table, and after much effort, poured coffee into it. She then spilled the entire contents on Rei's lap.

"AUGH! ARCEUS, WHO THE-" The Countess placed the cup down and slapped his face with her wing.

"Countess?!? Ughhh. I'm gonna have burns in horrible places...!" He rushed into the shower. Twenty minutes later, he returned to the group, a bit surly and with a terrible hangover but otherwise fine.

"Oh. Hey. Coffee. I'll have some," he grumbled, drinking it black.

Allen witnessed the whole thing go down and hissed when he noticed the coffee tipping. "Oooooohhh, I know that hurts..."

There was a a bunch of banging on the door, loud enough to wake the dead. "Man, are they trying to bust the door down." He glanced to Maddy through floor, "I'll get it. Probably just some people complaining about noise last night anyway. I'm sure it got loud enough for that kind of thing." Not to mention there were some pretty snooty people in his neighborhood. He had to basically play hopscoth to avoid stepping on anyone passed out on the floor. The person at the door pounded again as Allen was reaching for the doorknob. His brow came together, looking a bit more annoyed, "Alright alright!" He called out, grabbing the knob and ripping the door open. "I guess you're here about the party last nig--..." Upon noticing the face of one of the man standing at the door his face paled.

"Hello Allen, good thing you're here. And here I thought we were going to have to kidnap a few people to get to see you again." The tall man gave a crooked grin, showing his yellowed teeth. "You're doing well I hope. Heard about the whole Team Flare thing, bunch of fools if you ask me." He scoffed, "Legendary Pokemon, never would have thought it." Allen breathed slowly and started to say something but was interrupted, "To cut to the chase, you an' me, we're taking a stroll. Bring a few of your friends here. Make sure that leader of yours is there too."

Allen lowered his head, going over the information in his head, he turned back, "Guys!" His voice wavered slightly.

Caleb walked over, raising an eyebrow. This guy clearly wasn't from Aqua. At least he hoped so. He glanced at the other men outside. Yeah, he really hoped so. His Noibat glided over, a little wobbly than usual, before landing on his shoulder.

Marshtomp strolled over, punching his fist into the palm of his other hand. Trouble? Not on his watch.