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Through all the talking, loud chatter of various pokemon, and even the sizzling crackle of Deo's cooking. Jezebel let out a loud laughter that echoed throughout the chambers. With a big smile she took a deep drink of your berry juice to give a quick flirtatious look at Lykas.

"There's no need for that all that now Keiko." She said standing up and smiling. She puts throws a solid foot onto the table; with a even louder voice and throwing her dress behind her.

"GINGER TITS?! claiming with a comical laugh, "Oh honey, I may not have the largest chest. But this quality is always better than the quantity." Before anyone could realize what was going on or being said; Lykas was firmly in-between her bossom.

"Do these meet your "professional standards?" She laughed with a lascivious.
Pulling him back off her chest, she spins him around towards Odd.
"Now that i've rallied him up for you Odd; yall go on and enjoy yourselves."

She walked over to the fridge to grab another glass of juice.
"Also i'm an experienced babysitter; I did it for my Caravan on many occasions." She offered the young couple. "Oh look at yall, so young. Full of life. I may take you up on that offer Odd; i do have a question about a certain fire channeling ability i had in mind." She finished by let out a smiling sigh.

"Ight now; What should i make for a good Five star HQ quality meal for everyone? So many choices, so many different taste buds."

Jezebel looked over at Sub; "You know; i haven't been forging for a while. Are there any mission post for Gathering herbs, berries, or plants? I know we have the greenhouse here. Nothing beats getting in the dirt to for fresh veggies and produce." She exclaimed with sugary gumption.

"One more thing, Sub. I have some prototype energy bars that i would like for you to look at; my theroy is for them to offer a slight power boost when eaten. The bars are good for both Humans and Pokemon alike; However my concern are more on how Hybrids might react to them. I could use your assistance or expertise on this matter when you have an opportunity."

Brian watched as Sub interacted with a few of the others. When the three aforementioned Pokemon were revealed, he had to smile. Ah, so he'd been correct about Valdemar, then. Hydreigon were well-known for their tempers, so it wasn't a surprise when Valdemar let out a roar upon his entrance. When Sub asked what he'd made, he gave a nod.

"I wanted to try and make something for each of yer Pokemon, based on their preferences," he said, indicating each food in turn as he spoke.. "Based on the information ye gave me, I made Lenore's with both ground meat and eggs, along with a few berries that should give it a bit more of a savory flavor and fried them lightly. Of course, if she's into any specific berries or ingredients, I can always make another batch. For Anteros, I made Pokepuffs with a mix of diced Aguav and Aspear berries, to give her that bitter flavor she likes. And they'll go well with mustard, too.

Now, Valdemar was a little tricky, since ye mentioned he likes eating a different flavor with each head. Keeping that in mind, I mashed Oran berries into a paste, added diced Lum berries to one serving, Magost to the second, and Nomel to the third, and added leeks and onions to the entire thing to give it a bit more flavor and baked them into balls. This way, he's got a different flavor for each head. The only thing that remains now is to see how well each of them like the offerings I've made for them."

Deo's eyes rolled heavily, this new pokemon was indeed big. Though he had other things on his mind, the meatloaf. After finishing it and stuffing a poffin in, he was filled up, like always. So now he went to clean up his dish, and to leave the area to go to his room. He felt sort of insulted after all. "Dee Dee"? What kind of a name was that, he wanted to be known as Deo, not Dee Dee, not Pig, but Deo.

"...not the first time?" Cera asked, trying not to laugh at the impression Darts did of Sub. It was a good effort, but to her it sounded almost half mocking, half respect. The best kind of impression. Back to the matter at hand, she felt like she'd get more out of whatever kind of story her question might lead to than anything concerning the 'task of vital importance' that he seemed less keen on divulging further on. "I mean, I'm not sure the academy really has dropout in their vocabulary with how it felt there, but I'm guessing school wasn't really your thing."

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Though Aden would be making a mental note about Sub was saying about the food preferences of his Pokemon, he'd realize he wasn't sure why the topic came up in the first place. And, much as he could ask, he felt awkward about doing so in the first place... especially when he didn't have a Pokemon to attach to Valdemar's name until a few seconds later when he saw the Hydreigon. That answered that question in his mind, at least. Shrugging, he'd sit down with his finds from the fridge and some bread to assemble a quick sandwich, hearing Sub talk about some mission from Lum. "Lum? That's... the guy from the berry fields in that Celebi outfit, right?" He sounded uncertain despite still having a recollection of him. "Wonder if maybe the soil's just really good there or something. I... don't know anything about the route, though."

Lenore would pick up one of her poffins, skewering it with one of her claws, and gave the baked good a suspicious sniff. Soft and fluffy baked goods certainly not what she was partial to but it at least smelled good. Hesitantly moving it closer to her mouth the Weavile would take a very small bite of the poffin, deciding it wasn't immediately repulsive, and then took a bigger, more proper bite that was needed to actually taste the food. After a few seconds of chewing Lenore would swallowing and let out a happy, "Weavi vile!" It declared happily before taking another bite, chowing down on it happily. Looks like she liked it.

Anteros would be equally suspicious as she poked the poffin from a distance with her extending ghostly hand, the Mimikyu itself sitting several feet away from the poffin. Once the Ghost type decided it was comfortable grabbing the poffin it would and reeled it in closer to its body, apparently sniffing the poffin through its sheet before deciding it was decent enough to bring it underneath. The next thing anyone knew Anteros was violently eating away at the poffin, crumbs scattering out from underneath the sheet, Anteros' arm then flying out to snatch up another poffin and devour it. Needless to say she liked them.

Valdemar wouldn't be as suspicious of the food as the left and right heads snatched up their poffins and began to chew them up, the middle head hanging there as if in thought, deciding whether or not it liked the food. Grimacing a bit Valdemar would let out a low growl before reaching out with its central head and ate the third variety of poffin, chewing it for a long while, considering all the flavors for a good time. Once the food was thoroughly masticated the dragon would swallow and sit there is silence for awhile longer, what it was thinking was anyone's guess. It was strange to see a Hydreigon silent and still for so long. The quiet would be broken a bit later as Valdemar finally made a quiet. "Gon." Sub knew what that meant.

"Heh, always gotta play it cool, huh Valdemar?" Sub said with a chuckle before turning his focus towards Brian. "Valdemar liked it, in case you were confused. That's the best reaction you'll get out of him though."

Taking a deep breath as he finished his somewhat terse answer to Crystal and Aden's little inquiry, Reno would return his gaze to the....myriad boards that he and Sol had hauled out and were now decorating the main room with. Right in front of him was the board that he had designated as "The Land of Misfit 'Mons". Scattered across it were a myriad of Occulture articles proclaiming things from invading space probes and ancient mushroom mons to chemical weaponry deployed in water supplies and the recent sightings of a man-sized Dustox around Paldea. Alongside some of these articles would be entries from the Scarlet and Violet books, highlighted and scribbled on. All of these would be divided into four distinct categories. Under "Personally Witnessed" would be the articles and book entries for Sandy Shocks, Iron Valiant, and many others matching the descriptions of what Freth had seen on her own exploratory mission into the depths of Area Zero. Next to that would be the category "I mean, If The Other Ones With Book Entries Exist...", where things like a monstrous gymbro Volcarona, a roboticized Delibird, and a mohawk-clad Cyclizar appeared as entries. The next category would be "Not Absolutely Insane After The Other Things", which is where the wilder and/or could just be attributed to hybrids at a distance articles were grouped. And finally, there was "HOW MUCH GLUE DID YOU HUFF FOR THIS!?". It was, admittedly, not the most graceful title but it only had two entries at the moment so it didn't need a precision title. One entry from each of the books, displaying a sketch of some crazy amalgam of the Legendary Beasts and the Swords of Justice.

Staring at the work for this first board and nodding, Reno would pick up the chunk of crystal he....well, Rome had retrieved from the caverns they had ended up in. "Okay, I think we have this board sorted out with the most recent batch of articles from Occulture. I think.....did I forget to check the mail?" He asked, looking to where he hoped Sol would be. It was hard to say, he had been doing the whole telepathic conversation for a minute, the Ho-Oh hybrid could've left for a drink or food while waiting for the call to finish.

Reno let out a snicker at Sol's remark. "I'm pretty sure if we asked the Stone Corp dudes about warranty, they'd say I voided it because I went interdimensional jumping with it. Or from the punching things man was not meant to punch. One of those." Picking up the Occulture off the coffee table and beginning to flip through, he continued. "Nah, it was Crystal and Aden. Apparently, Aile informed Aden about the existence of board 1 and the fact we have at least two live specimens off of board 1. So I had to field a few questions on that subject. Pretty sure we'll get more questions later on all this but that's a problem for once we know for sure we have the board as complete as we actually can." Placing down the magazine back down on the table, Reno would sigh before turning over to where he had set up board 2 for his other personal project that he was hard at work outlining for someone else to actually look at.

The subject at the top of the board would just be "MISTER MUSHROOM" and a few myriad different things related to this channeler. The most sparse section would be the likely associates area, where all there was was a headshot of Barbara alongside a pair of question marks in case those two weird hybrids Tristen encountered were part of it. Right next, as the second smallest section, was the plans portion which just had steal Herba Mystica and infect school with mushrooms as the notes. Next would be the likely channeling partners which had a Parasect front and center after the revelations from the nurse's office. Below it would be a trio of Pokemon that all had the word potential next to them, which were an Orbeetle, an Exeggutor, and a Rabsca. The final section for the board would have a string that connected to the Rabsca, as this one pertained to what details Reno had managed to gather from his sparse points of contact with Mister Mushroom's influence. There was the myriad of things from the way he spoke about the Ziton, all of which pointed to him having some actual knowledge and familiarity with the thing. The memory of Reno being at Snowpoint was intriguing, as that either meant MM could see the Ziton's knowledge somehow or he had been there himself. The weird lion thing indicated some knowledge of places outside this universe or originating from them, since most people would use Pyroar in that particular turn of phrase. And while it wasn't anything definitive, the small inkling about the Dark One from his deep dive implied at least a greater deal of indirect knowledge than most people or, if Rabsca ended up an actual thread to follow, potentially actual direct knowledge from existing at the time. It wasn't like other channelers from that era hadn't found ways to carry on, his own master was proof of that.

Continuing to stare at the board that basically represented his own personal descent into madness, Reno would sigh as there was still a severe lack of insight into this particular subject beyond what he had. "I know you basically do your own decompression or whatever while I....spiral out out of control staring at board 2, but you got anything to add that I missed?" Reno questioned, scratching at his eyebrow as he attempted to settle his own restless mind over not being able to really get any full answers.

Reno would look towards the connection he'd been drawing between Rabsca and the other historical details involving Mister Mushroom and blow out a breath through his teeth. He'd take a minute before responding to that one. "It's not the whole Paldea thing. It's moreso just....every thing I can link to Mister Mushroom has him having a lot more information and interactions with the Ziton to be that confident, and potentially more direct knowledge of the Dark One for what Eri said in the Nurse's Office. So when I see a Pokemon whose entire thing is reincarnation and Mister Mushroom potentially being a Bug channeler....Its an inference, but if I didn't note it down I'd go bonkers." Giving the string a slight pluck, he would back off as he heard more of Sol's discussion around the Team Star connections to all of this. He had left all of them off of the board since he couldn't think of any real direct connection outside of the mushrooms, but that might've been dismissing things too quickly.

Picking up a quintet of pictures, Reno would quickly begin presenting the ones he knew for sure the direct information on. First up would be Ortega. "Easy enough here, goes on associates but likely just mushroomed." Tacking the picture on, he would look next at Eri. "Not going up since she got cleared of infection." Throwing the picture onto the table, he would now be staring at Atticus. "Ninja boy got got in Clavell's office and I'm...mostly sure got fungicided. So maybe put it up with a question mark." A few tacks later, he would now be staring at Mela's photo. "The two Zoroark hybrids that tried to jump Tristen were under her command, but her whole situation is...weird. And I'm not certain where she ended up, so...actually should go on the associates." Tacking up the photo, Reno would be left looking at Giacomo's photo. "And then.....this guy. Who never really caused a problem outside of the whole being a part of Team Star thing....what exactly did he do?"

Pausing as the sudden blank spot of information was brought to his attention, Reno would already be pulling up the semi-official report they had for the whole encounter. Apparently tried to trojan horse their way in, got some info about a benefactor giving tech (not a surprise after all the chi converters), dealt with the kid. Apparently was a Dark type specialist with the whole tech focus and had....two.....Zoroark hybrid members. Darting his eyes to the two he had identified as Mela's goons from the whole thing that happened to Tristen, a strange feeling began to settle itself in his mind. Mela had gone off after her capture, as had Atticus. But...Giacomo was directly in contact with known agents that could've infected him to be another Team Star goon to throw into the mix. So why hadn't that happened? A quick scroll would tell Reno that Giacomo was still being detained after all the Team Star stuff and had increased security after the escape of two-thirds of the captured leaders.

"Sol. Thank you. Because I had missed a few small details with the Team Star members that are telling me one thing: Giacomo needs to be questioned again in light of all this. He was in contact with and directly leading the two hybrids that reappeared to jump Tristen, only they affiliated themselves with Mela for that incident. And based off how Cera's trojan horse plot was received, there is absolutely no way they would do that if they held any loyalty to their individual team. And the timing for those two to jump Tristen like that and be as cognizant of everything compared to how Eri was means they are like Barbara, active and willing participants in whatever this plan was." Turning to face the Ho-Oh hybrid, he would add, "Now, out of three Team Star captains that were captured, two of them broke free through some manner of things but likely from the two Zoroark hybrids. So why didn't they break out their supposed boss or infect him with the mushrooms to get another body out in that fracas?"

Cracking open a Pokeball and nodding towards his Alakazam, he would extend his one hand to Sol. "I know we promised Aile it would just be boring information collation but....I need to check this one out. Do you want to come along?"