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After a few days of heavy training for his eevee, he decided it would be best for Yasu to take a break, who opted to take a nap in his room. So, instead of going to the training room, he decided to check out one of the rec rooms to see what they kept there.

Inside, he saw various game tables, pool, air hockey, arcade games, even a dance dance eeveelution machine. There was also a table with some chairs around it in the center and a tv with some couches gathered around it in a semicircle. To his left he noticed a small closet, and when he checked inside he noticed a variety of board and card games, but one thing in there stood out from the rest which he most certainly did not expect.

Oh wow, they have a baduk board in here. I wonder who's it is? Almost nobody plays baduk in this region.

He takes the giant block of a board and looks it over, it looked like it was taken care of rather well, albeit aged, on the back next to the indentation at the center he saw the initials S.K. S.K.? why do people always have to put only their initials on these things? It always makes it so difficult to figure out who's it is that way. he carefully replaced it in the closet, making sure not to disturb the bowls of stones situated next to it.

He then made his way to the TV and looked to see what all came with it. He saw, to his great joy, a Nintendo Wii, an Xbox 360, AND a Playstation 3! He wasn't really expecting this from Team Rocket, but perhaps it was to keep the morale up or something. Who knows? He decided to scope out the games and among many games he found just the one he hoped to find.

Super Crash Bros. Annihilation! Heck yeah, now we're talking!

He made sure the Wii was properly hooked up to the tv and popped it in, sitting on the couch in the center he then begins playing.

As Zach finished his brawl, he heard a familiar voice behind him. He looked over to see panther and grinned, "Hey, good to see you. Grab a controller and a seat, the more the merrier." He paused a little for consideration, then added, "So what's your favorite character? I prefer Garth personally."

As Zach finished saying that however, he noticed somebody else come in. In response to what he said he replies, "Want to join in? The name's Zach by the way." At the end of this sentence he reaches out his right hand to shake hands.

"Hey." The blond raised the book in his hand in an ersatz wave, along with a brow. "Rest of the night? Thought you said you're getting early morning surveillance shifts."

When he was presented with a hand, Hayes' first response was to reach forward with his right, but there was a barely noticeable grimace when his shoulder started to move and he let his arm drop to his side again. Instead, the agent set his book on the armrest of the couch long enough to loosely accept the shake with his left. He shook his head at the offer, still smiling but in a rueful way. "I better not. But nice meeting you - I'm Hayes, like Panther said."

Still, it had been a while, and on this day beating the crap out of virtual opponents was more appealing than reading a book he practically knew by heart. Hayes glanced at the screen. As he did so, Nemerle leaped gracefully onto the back of the sofa.

How strenuous was sitting on a couch and pushing buttons?

"Yep. Well, I'll have to leave for that, sometime before 5. I took a nap, this afternoon, I'll be fine. I only have one shift, and I'll just crash in bed after it." he shrugged, his sleeping patterns were always sporadic at best. "You should play anyway. Come on, Video games only fry your brains a little." He noticed the slight wince, but didn't think much of it.

Zach's grin grows wider at his response. "Awesome." He notices the glaceon as he makes his way to his seat, "That's a beautiful glaceon you have there, does she have a name?" He goes through the menus and proceeds to pick through the settings. 5 lives, no timer, random level, no cpus, no handicaps, all items on, that should do it.

As attention turned to her, the Glaceon looked at Zach and blinked calmly, just once, with a graceful inclination of her head.

"Yeah, she's pretty." Hayes smiled briefly at the ice type, then raised his eyes to the screen to select his character. "I call her Nemerle. She seems all right with it."

As if to confirm this, the Pokemon stretched out her front paws and laid her chin on the blond's knee in an almost proprietary fashion as he watched the loading screen, holding the controller loosely but at the ready, wearing a faint grin. "I've got a brace on. It does the same thing."

It also let him have both arms free to play video games.

As fate would have it, a certain tall elite was passing through at that very moment. On his way to the battling rooms to kick Kofuku's a**, Seth had stopped to check on today's Pokepit battles to make sure they were following the rules.

He was passing the TV and the three guys surrounding it when the game on the screen caught his eye. Seth slowed his pace and came to a momentary stop, recognizing the game instantly. He then stepped up behind where Panther was sitting to loom over him. His arms folded across his chest and a usual frown on his face as he watched the battle play out.