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It wasn't often Nyx was at the pool. Despite how much she enjoyed swimming, life as a Team Rocket scientist was a busy one. But, today was one of those fabled 'days off', and Beaker had insisted on going to the pool. Unfortunately for Nyx, the Blastoise's negotiation techniques were shrewd at best, and potentially deadly at worst.

So, on this particular day, Nyx grabbed her pokeballs and a towel and made her way to the women's locker room for a quick shower before her swim.

The door to the pool opened and out scurried a red bikini clad Nyx. "Cold cold cold cold!" She tossed items that were best left dry onto a nearby chair, released her water pokemon, and quickly dived into the deep end of the pool.
"Ahhh..." Nyx sighed and pushed her hair out of her eyes when she surfaced. Though her hair was naturally poofy, it did not maintain its poofiness when wet.

Beaker was content to float shell up on the surface of the water for now. The water, lacking any crocodilian shaped rivals, seemed to calm her quite a bit.

"Wh-Woah! Hey!" The vaporeon was unexpected, and a rescue attempt was unnecessary. Nyx flailed a bit as she tried to free herself from lifeguard Aki and return to the deep end of the pool. "Come on!" It was too hard to fight against the living current, so Nyx turned and walked herself all the way to the shallow end and up the pool steps.

Nyx pulled her sopping hair behind her shoulders and placed her hands on her hips. Whose Vaporeon was that? It didn't take long for her to spot the owner. Mau.

Her feet made plopping noises as the soaked scientist stormed towards her rival, and the deep end of the pool.

Nyx crossed her arms over her chest, both as a gesture to signal displeasure and because it was really cold out of the water. "Well. I can swim just fine." She looked Mau over, her eyes lingering ever so briefly on the unbuttoned shirt area. "Where are your swim trunks?" Nyx smirked, "Or are you a speedo sort of guy? If so, I warn you, Beaker is not."

Beaker didn't care, to be honest. What she did care about was that there was another pokemon in her pool. The miniature island floated lazily around, keeping an ever watchful eye on the intruder.

Nyx rolled her eyes, as if his broken arm was just an excuse to get out of things. "You could at least get your legs wet. Or if you were a real scientist, you'd invent something to keep your bandages dry while you swam around the deep end. You know... like a plastic bag."

She grinned at Mau and turned away, walking to the edge of the pool before diving in. "Well. When your arm is healed, you won't have any reason not to swim." Nyx called out as she waded backwards towards Beaker.

"Blaas..." The pokemon raised her massive leathery head as her trainer grew near. What did she want? There was a whole pool for her to be pathetic in.

"What, can't swim?" Nyx laughed. "What are you, three? Can't invent plastic bags OR doggy paddle?" She dipped lower in the water as she became preoccupied with laughing at Mau instead of moving her arms. A mouth full of water later, she remembered. "You should have Aki teach you."

She finally reached her floating island. Nyx spun around in the water and reached up and pulled herself on to Beaker's shell. This did not sit well with the giant turtle.
"Blastoise blaas!" She shook from side to side in the water, maybe Nyx would slide off.

Beaker had no intention on stopping until Nyx fell off, apparently, because she kept rocking side to side as she moved through the water. Nyx had a good grip on the Blastoise's cannons, however, and wasn't going anywhere. "Beaker, knock it off. Why can't you behave for once?"

Beaker's reply was a simple one. She submerged completely under the water, leaving Nyx to either let go or learn to hold her breath for a long time. She opted to let go.
"Stupid- Ugh..." Nyx swam over to the ledge of the pool to keep talking with Mau, since Beaker wanted to be difficult... Maybe she needed to ask someone for help training her pokemon.

"Well, get some floaties." She crossed her arms on the ledge of the pull and rested her chin. "I don't. Really. But Beaker does, so... I can't really get out of it. What I want to know is how I keep going on raids and coming out unscathed, but you." Nyx gestured to Mau's arm. "Flimsy like Newton."

Her eyes narrowed at Mau's joke about her pokemon. It wasn't funny to her. She harrumphed and sunk her head further into her folded arms.

"Mm... I remember..." Being shot at had not been fun. Nyx was a coward at heart, and having to risk life and limb to save wounded comrades had not been fun. At least all she had to deal with last raid was climbing out of that wreck. "Newton makes a good air bag."

"Pfft. I don't look down!" Nyx turned her head and puffed out her lower lip. Raids were a touchy subject, especially since the last one resulted in... Aila being recruited. Nyx made a face like she'd just drank sour milk when that girl's name popped into her mind. She shook her head and switched subjects.

"Why can't you swim? Its easy. You flail around and don't sink." Nyx kicked her legs a little, which raised her bottom half higher in the water briefly before she stopped.