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"It's a long story... She's not to blame or anything, but..."

"Do you need to be doing something soon, Master,"

"No... fine. It's my fault she's been out. I left the team to go be with Rose, who's my ex-fiancee since you're wondering, about two and a half years ago. I left War and the rest of the team in the nearest Day Care since I felt I wouldn't need them for real life things. When Rose... well, we had an argument about half a year ago, and I walked out on her. When I came back to the Day Care, my Houndoom and my Charmeleon were the only ones left. I got a call from a friend this morning who had a message for me from Rose. We met up this afternoon, she apologized, we made up. Nothing fun happened, but that's when she showed me War here, said she'd found her wandering about and recognized her."

Chaos sighed, and this is about where my tour group entered the kitchen. "This is where the food is. Feel free to help yourself... ...is that Warbringer, Chaos?

"That's my name, yes," Warbringer said. "Hello."

"Huh. You know, Lim... I mean, JT sent me after you a couple of times, to tell you what happened to Chaos. Before the jailbreak." I explained.

"Sorry. I moved around a lot. Lots of trainers mistaking me for a wild pokemon... it got annoying kinda quick." Warbringer sighed.

"I guess that's understandable. A wild pokemon who can speak human? You must have been pretty popular out there." I guessed.

"Not just that. I mean, I didn't talk to all of them. Just being a Combusken in the wild was enough to get them going.' Warbringer explained.

"Looks like I got a lot of ~/~ to kick in Johto," Chaos spat.

"Masterrr..." Warbringer moaned.

"If you had a woman with a body like that begging you to live with her, you'd think anything was a good idea at the time. But hey, that's the stuff regrets are made of," Chaos said with a smirk and a shrug. "So you can imagine why I'm in such a good mood right now."

"I can't really blame you. Though I do wonder what happened to Warbringer. The reason why she was gone, I mean." I thought out loud.

"I don't want to talk about it," Warbringer pouted.

"Eh, you can tell me the story later. How's the food coming?" Chaos asked.

"The noodles are cooking..." Keiko said quietly, causing one of my eyebrows to shoot upward.

Connor was somehow dragged into the tour that he didn't plan on attending. He'd find his own way around, one way or another. Looking at Alice, he wondered if she was thinking about what he said as she didn't answer him yet. 'It's a simple yes or no answer. Just answer it!' he thought to himself, a little annoyed. Glancing around the kitchen, he didn't take much care in what was being cooked. Upon seeing the Combusken, Connor got wide eyed and stared at it with awe. Not only was it a fighting type but it talked! "How...how can it speak?" he asked aloud, though he meant to say it to himself.

Entering the kitchen with Freya, he could have sworn they were going to Sub's office. The instant he smelled food though, he didn't really care anymore. It seemed there was another new face along with everyone else. "Who's cooking and what?" Dan had to ask.

"So, you're one of those," Chaos laughed. "Then she's probably your type, though you seem to have your own."

"That's my sister you're talking about," I glared at Chaos, crossing my arms.

"Master let me eat a Rainbow Pokeblock when we first met," War explained. "And Mr. ...I don't think I got your name, sir." War added at Al's direction.

"I... I'm fine," Keiko lied, although the lack of sudden movements from Chaos has been instrumental in calming her down.

Chaos sniggered. "Who slapped you with the 'shitty name' stick as a kid? Not that I can say anything. My name sucked so bad that I killed myself, only to be reborn as the badass that I am today."

Warbringer joined me in glaring at him that time. "...anyway, Mr. Al is cooking Pamtre Alfredo," War answered Dan.

Al sighed at Chaos' comment about his name. "Truth be told, my mother wanted a daughter and named be as such when I was born. Father wanted none of it but when your baby's mother has the temper of a Primeape at it's worst and the strength of an adolescent Tyranitar, you don't argue." He admitted with a bit of a laugh at the remainder of his comments about his own name. "So I take it you chose a new name for yourself?" He asked, assuming that must be what the man was referring to.

To Dan, he smiled. "It's actually quite good. My mother taught me to make it when I was a teenager." He told the boy as he added the parsley he'd just cut into the sauce, stirring it for the umpteenth time. Once that was done, he turned it down to simmer while he prepared the berries. "The key is to use only the purple parts of the berries. They're the sweetest parts and that's what really gives it the flavor." He explained as he cut off the smaller tip of the berry and the larger brown end, coring out the seeds before he cut the remainder into moderately thin slices. Setting the slices of the first berry aside, he picked up the brown end and bit into it, letting out a small "Mmmmm" as he did. The driest parts of the berry was his personal favorite but they weren't good for making this dish.

Al laughed lightly at Chaos' agitation. "My apologies, friend. I didn't mean to state the obvious. Simply me trying to ascertain if I'd heard correctly." He admitted as he finished cutting the berries he'd need for the food. He'd decided to pull a few extra ones down since he had more people than originally planned for now showing interest in his food.

"Actually, I'm almost done, thanks to Miss Keiko starting the noodles for me. They should be just about done." He told Terashi as he pulled a colander from another cabinet and set it in the sink. After checking the noodles to make sure they were tender enough, he poured them into the colander and drained away the water, returning them to the pot afterwards. It took a moment of looking but he found the plates afterwards and began to set out the dishes.

Spooning noodles onto the plates, he set a few slices of berry on top before drizzling a light coat of alfredo sauce across the dish, enough for a mouthful of flavor in every bite. Speaking of, the dish would taste of a smooth, slightly sweet, buttery garlic flavor.