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"Oooooodd~" Lykas chimed in a playful voice, after hearing Keiko's confession.

"Don't even!" Odd responded, glaring at Lykas. "Sub would have our heads and you know it."

"Can we keep her?! Plllleeeeeeeeaaaaaaassssseee?" Lykas continued, anyway.

At the sound of the Egg's hatching, he looked over to see what this "Rare" Pokemon was going to be. He'd explain to Keiko the facts of a Trainers life after the birth of her new Pokemon. The fact that trainers often made plenty enough money to survive on through battles should pique her interest plenty.

Odd shook his head in the negative. "Nah, he's not mean, but he's our leader. He's in charge of who gets to stay and doesn't take kindly to people just up and showing up. We have to keep our presence a secret, after all."

Lykas nodded in agreement with Odd. "But she wants to stay! Can't we at least ask Sub about it?" He pleaded.

"You are so childish, sometimes." Odd sighed. "If it'll shut you up, I guess we can ask him about her staying." He told the younger male."

Lykas cheered before taking a closer look at the egg Keiko was holding. "Any clues to what it might be?"

"........" Lykas couldn't help the frown that escaped him when Keiko mentioned asking her parents to leave home. She had a family that actually cared about her....

"I now that look." Odd announced as he stepped between Keiko and Lykas, placing his hands on the other male's shoulders. "This isn't about you and your father. You can deal with him on your own time but you can't get upset every time someone else mentions their family just because theirs gets along." He whispered to the blue-haired teen so Keiko wouldn't hear. She didn't need to be exposed to this just yet.

".............." Lykas didn't say anything but he nodded calmly.

"I know he's cute but sometimes he acts like that's all he's got going for him." Odd finally announced to Keiko with a goofy grin on his face. "I know it's not true but he makes me wonder sometimes, ya know?" It was then that both he and Lykas noticed that the egg had fully hatched at this point.

"Is that-"

"PINK!" Lykas jumped back, whistling loudly as he did. Before he moved any further, he had a Dewott armed with Scalchop fans, a Quilava with it's cloak aflame and a Luxray with sparks coursing along her body standing between him and it.

"Really!? You're really gonna do that to a newborn?!" Odd asked as he walked over, giving the trainer a rather stinging slap to the face. "You just begged me to let her stay and now you're going to attack her newborn Pokemon just because of it's COLOR?!" He was obviously not pleased.

"I never said I was gonna attack......." Lykas pouted as he rubbed his cheek. "I just wanted something dangerous between me and it so it stays the hell away from me." The look on his face spoke volumes of how much he was hurt, not only by the fact that Odd was upset but that he'd actually slapped him. He'd never gone that far before. It had always been playful.

"Gods, this phobia of yours is ridiculous! You have got to get over it. There are more Pokemon we know of that are pink than there are that are other colors." Odd rationalized, though he had idea just how far off he was. The inability to read left him with the urge to avoid trying to do research for the fun of it.

Keiko turned around immediately and saw the newborn. She immediately picked the baby up and hugged it. It was so cute! "Aww! Look at you!" she cooed, playing with the baby as it called out to her.

...what was that? Oh, Lykas had daddy issues? Well, that's probably a rude way to put it. Sure, Odd was whispering about it, but there wasn't a lot of background noise at the moment, so it was hard not to eavesdrop. She was about to say something when he flipped out over the color of her newborn's ...fur? Skin? She didn't have time to ponder that, but instead she held up the baby, away from the mean-looking pokemon, and opens her mouth to say something else, but Odd's intervention not only covers everything she was going to say, but adds some extra info into the mix as well. Lykas was seriously afraid of pink? Then why hasn't he flipped out about her outfit yet? Maybe it wasn't pink enough? She thought it was, but...

"I think we need to find a pokeball for you, baby," Keiko whispered into the newborn's ear.

Sub would soon reappear back at HQ with the young Vulpix hybrid in his arms. The trainer was still chilled from their frozen voyage, and now all he wanted to do was jump in a bath full of hot water. "Man, where is the thermostat? We need to crank the heat up in here." Sub said as he walked off to find the thermostat, Tails still in his arms, he got sort of used to carrying him around.

"Yes, please do," Night said, taking residence on the nearest couch before using her tails, once again, as a blanket, "And remind me never to go to that frozen hellhole again."

"What's with Tails?" She finally asked once she'd noticed the young hybrid in the boy's arms.

"Hm? Oh, he kind of over did it, I assume. He's a little worn out from scaring off a large group of Sneasel." Sub had explained to Night. "Well, what would help you recover quicker?" He asked the tiny fox in his arms.