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At Shawn's complaint, Alba smirked and adjusted his glasses AGAIN. He may have finally discovered his calling. Too bad he was already bound to committing crimes for the remainder of his life. "Keep up the whining, and I may just make that 8 pages." He glanced around for the rest of the team, now keeping his voice lower. "Let's give... independent studies... a try, shall we? Meet back when you're ready to start those papers, hmm?" That should be enough reasoning for anyone who may be overhearing them.

Alba would wait until Asch and Shawn had both disappeared through the side exhibit before going through, himself. It wouldn't do if one got pulled aside by security for causing trouble, and then couldn't locate their "teacher." After they were safely gone, he worked his way closer to the side exhibit and eventually disappeared through the doors as well.

He didn't get to the same room as the others until after Jerome had seemingly vanished. He did happen to look up as Bro was appearing. "Yah!" He definitely did not just jump back three feet and clamp a hand over his mouth. Nope.

Lore stood aside while the Rockets piled into the small space. When Jerome balked at the door he looked prepared to object, but watching the large man shimmy up and disappear above the large machinery, he shrugged instead. Nobody was going to find him up there, and if he was going to end up out of his wits with claustrophobia during the wait he'd be of little use to anyone.

Once the last Rocket squeezed inside Lore climbed in after them, carefully avoiding stepping on anyone, then shut the door, plunging them into darkness.

A moment passed.

"So. Who's up for charades?"

- - -

The evening spent in the closet was about as much fun as anyone would expect. The cramped quarters didn't allow the release of any pokémon, or much movement. They were allowed to use their pokédexes, at least. The small displays provided enough illumination for the Rockets to make each other out. They also helped keep track of the time. Those that were sleepy or bored were allowed to doze. This was a mission sure, but at the moment their only mission was to be still and quiet. You didn't need to be awake for that.

Finally Hayes shifted and turned his dimly illuminated face toward the door. It had been a long time since there'd been any footsteps. "It's past nine. I think we're good, guys."

Lore looked up from whatever he was doing on his pokédex. It had been making distinctly tetris-like noises for the last twenty minutes. "Oh hey, already? Man.. time flies when you're having fun." Wincing, he sat up, "Also I can't feel my legs."

Once the doors opened for the Rockets to stumble out Lore looked up at the Gengar who'd been occupying the ceiling, "Mind letting your trainer know we're good to go?" He stiffly exited the room along with the others, rubbing the small of his back, "So that was exciting. Now for the boring part where we steal a priceless artifact."

Hayes, on the other hand, was not. Or if he was, he wasn't saying anything about it, just looking over the Rockets as they tumbled out of the electrical room and getting a crick out of his shoulder. All there.. He glanced up at the ceiling to see if he could spot Jerome.

"Well hey, hold up." The elite, looking a bit rumpled after half a night wedged between the floor buffer and a stack of paper towel boxes, held up a hand to stay Aulus and nodded at Lore. Never mind the higher rank; he was the expert in this situation. "I saw cameras and motion detectors. Anything on your end?"

Fun? Only if fun involved forgetting to grab a coffee before going into hiding. Alba groaned as they... reentered the other room. He got out an aspirin to stave off the impending withdrawal headache that had started to poke at him behind the eyes.

Once he'd finished stretching and twisting and smoothing his hair, Lore plucked the two poké balls under his jacket out and released Espresso and Cappuccino. The two Whimsicotts blinked in the dim light and glanced around.

At Hayes' question he looked up, "Cameras and motion detectors." A nod, "Sensors on the glass too, but that's it. I didn't see anything else." He stretched an arm and rolled his shoulder, "I'll be honest it looked kinda lax out there for the sort of stuff they've got in this place. Wouldn't be surprised if there's more measures we couldn't see. Probably best to have our more incorporeal poké-buddies take point. They spot anything wacky they can give a heads up before we blunder into it."

Tambrey had spent the time in the closet crouched or sat, trying to take up the least amount of space that she could, while she either read entries in her pokedex, or at one point, closed her eyes for nearly an hour.
She didn't sleep, but she found the time spent with her eyes closed, if not restful, then helpful anyway.

She was all but ready to bolt from the cupboard as soon as it was time to exit and found herself stretching on reflex as soon as she had enough room to do so. Things were asleep, or aching, and neither was a pleasurable feeling to put up with. However, it was also enthusiasm for the task itself, for once, and not just the glee of escaping the cupboard, that lent a spring to Tambrey's cupboard exit.
If she'd thought Lore was serious, she'd probably have found herself disagreeing; this point wasn't going to be boring at all!
Sky Plate! Museum heist! ... Frak, the fact that they were in a museum after closing at all was fun.
She stood to the side of the cupboard, watching the elites and waiting for instructions while she listened to the security talk.

"Buggered if I know what those spots would be," Aulus shrugged, admitting ignorance with grudging ignorance. "I'll just follow somebody more used to sneaking around cameras I guess." i.e. Hayes, and that was even what he was kind of meant to be doing anyway!

At the talk of cameras and blind spots, Xander pulled out the note book and flipped to a certain page. "I wrote down a few places we can walk freely." He told Hayes and Lore. He quickly deciphered his code on another page and held it out for one of them to take. "It's not all of them though, just the ones I noticed." He then looked around at the others. "Anyone else notice any?"