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Deine had been a little put off by how many kinds of food there were. Why couldn't humans be like pokemon, and settle on just a few kinds of things? She'd toyed with a few items, pushing apples across a plate and making a precarious stack of sandwiches wobble. Usually she wasn't out when Repo was eating. What did he like? It had to be just right. She'd fainted and let him get hurt, it was the least she could do.

Oh? She remembered this drifblim. They'd played with the big ball at the raid together. A bit more sullen, she replied. "Blim? Drif. Drifblim." At least one of them seemed to know what was about human food. With one arm she grabbed a bowl that had been placed for the purpose of filling, and with another she scooped a handful of the cake up and tossed it into said bowl. The two other arms grabbed pasta and some fish. Into the bowl it went! That...looked about right, didn't it? She couldn't be sure, but it was all put out for humans. Humans had to like it. Weird-looking stuff that it was.

Maybe the blue drifblim's trainer could give some input? "Blim! BLIM!" She flailed one of her now empty arms in the man's direction. She held up the bowl, her beady red eyes watching for his reaction to the contents. If it was good, maybe he would even help her take more to Repo?

Oh, so that was how it worked? Why didn't Nuu say so? Deine had thought she was supposed to put the pasta IN the cake! With a waggle of her dangly arms, she wafted over to a random table and plopped the mixed bowl down before a random trainee. There. He'd take care of it, she was sure.

She floated back to her new friends and managed to get two of the bowls, with two arms on each. If they spilled, she'd have to go back for more, so better play it safe. "Blim, blim drifblim." She puffed at Nuu in thanks. It would take too many trips to get all this back on her own. And surely Repo could use some company. And...it'd be nice to hang out with another drifblim. The only other one she'd known around the base was her father, Kunal. He'd followed her after her in her flight from the medical bay, but she'd lost him somewhere in the halls. Probably he'd gone back to Max.

She looked intently at Mau, her eyes growing angry--their typical look. She might be distraught, but that didn't change her base attitude. "BLIM!" She commanded, and puffed towards the door.

Deine floated with purpose directly back to the infirmary. When she was confronted with the nurse who barred her way, she began to complain loudly, "Blim! Blim, blim drifBLIM!" Of course, the nurse just didn't understand. Thankfully that nice blue drifblim's trainer talked to her, and Deine stuck her tongue out as she floated past, and wound her way through the rows of beds.

Some time had passed since their return to base, more than the drifblim had realized. Thanks to the swift work of the doctors (who'd shooed Max away nearly an hour ago now it seemed) he'd been sufficiently patched and reordered. And heavily drugged for pain. The little machine attached to the tube feeding grossly from his chest whirred away, the only sound in the room until the clamor of Deine trying to set both bowls down at once. The redhead jerked upright, winced, and fell back. Even with the rib no longer thrusting through his lung, that hurt.

Ah, and it looked like his pokemon'd brought friends. He peered up at the vaguely familiar faces, trying to put them to names. Nope, no luck. He knew the blue drifblim on sight, but the man..well he'd been on the raid, that much he remembered. "Sorry if she...roughed y'up a wee." He gave Deine a look. She gave him one back. "...She's a pushy ol' cow." And he was thankful for his condition briefly. Had he been well, she surely would have gusted him off his feet.

Repo gave as good a glance around as he could without moving anything but his head. True, some of the lingering staff were giving them odd looks. He could only assume it was because of Mau. He personally had done little more than cough and wheeze, and that couldn't possibly offend them that badly. Or maybe it was the two drifblim. At least the giant floating balloons were ghosts, and could be passed through with some ease.

"So I'd heard...canna say I was ready for it. Wee bugger packed a punch." Honestly if the ice block hadn't been there though, he would likely be in much better shape. Being blown off his feet and sent flying didn't hurt. Crashing into something very pointy and hard, that did.

He raised a brow at the agent. "Nah. No' on my account, at least. Deine though, an' Laidir too...All I did was get m'arse handed t'me by a tiny lil' flowerpot with legs. Aye?" He was very proud of his pokemon. They'd fought hard and been key in winning the day. Honestly though, two of them, the jigglypuff and the drifblim, had acted mostly without his command. At best he'd served as another target to draw the Galactic's fire from the pokemon.

Alright, alright. So maybe he had had a hand in the day's victory. His pokemon had performed better than even he'd imagined they could. Had helped the rockets in getting the Galactics handled and getting their technology. He was very eager to hear the report on that giant mass-catching pokeball. Who knew how long it would take to reverse engineer it. More distantly he wondered what would become of the many bug pokemon it had contained. Rockets weren't apt to waste, they'd likely be distributed amongst those in need of pokemon. Or cloned. Something.

"Puh. Canna' say tha' sounds much better! Either way y'see it, I got reefed by a wee plant. Aye, Repo." He offered his right hand for a shake, wincing slightly. "Funny, ne'er imagined so many parts o'me made muscles in m'back an' chest move..." Oh he was so sure that his entire back was one big bruise on top of everything else. Had he thanked Arceus for pain killers in the last ten minutes? No? Thank you, Arceus. "So...Have I missed anythin'? Figured ou' what's gonna happen to tha' oversized pokeball?" Trapped as he was by the medical staff, and with Max gone back to their room, he had no link to the outside, bar Deine, who wasn't the best at relaying information.

Speaking of, the blimp was balefully watching Nuu. This...was one very upbeat ghost pokemon. Deine had inherited her mother's foul attitude, but thankfully Repo'd a firmer hand than Max, and had taught her patience. She had to admit it was true, Nuu's person had helped hers...And there weren't many other drifblims around. She wondered what moves the blue blimp knew. And she bet she could do ominous wind better. Repo and she'd worked on that for weeks. "Blim, blim." Yes, it would be nice to hang out some time. Maybe train. Training was fun. Once Repo was better, that was. "Drifblim?" It seemed they both had drifblim fathers. Her mother was a pikachu, but what was Nuu's?

He nodded and retracted his hand. "Tha'd be good. I'd like t'know, especially if we figure out how t'make our own." It felt a little like cheating, to be able to catch many pokemon at once. But they WERE team rocket after all. Cheating was in the mission statement. "T'think of havin' tha' many pokemon at once wi'you...Heh. T'be honest I think I'd be happy enough wi'm'three. They're a handful enough. Wouldn' say no t'a few more, but not twenty." That reminded him. "Any idea what's t'be done wi' all those bug pokemon? Wager a few of th'recruits'd be itchin' t'get their hands on 'em."

"Drif?" But Deine knew shadow ball. Didn't Nuu? Deine bobbled nonchalantly. "Blim. Drifblim." She'd been a testtube egg as well. Both of her parents belonged to Max, Repo's roommate. She pointed a wobbly arm at the dark marking on the top of her head. "Blim." Those were from her pikachu mother.

"Really? Somehow tha' surprises me. Canna say I've ever heard of Team Rocket lettin' pokemon go." Huh. That'd definitely be something to think about. He let his mind wander, watching the two blimp pokemon cavorting near the ceiling. In his home region there weren't many types of pokemon. Maybe twenty, thirty? Part of why he'd ventured to Kodo was to see more of them. All three of the ones he had now would be novel in his hometown, heard of, but not seen in the wild. He still wanted to see more of the kinds of them. "Wha' else d'you have? Aside from tha one. I donna remember seein' you using any others on th'raid. 'Course, my memory's no' th'best righ' now, aye?"

"Blim! Blim blim!" Shadow ball was one of the best, yes. Oh? Hex? She didn't know that one. But she knew Astonish! That one was nice. She got to be loud, and sometimes it startled her opponent so badly it forgot whatever it'd been doing. "Drif...drifbliiiim." It was good to use on people too. That's what ghosts were supposed to do, scare people, wasn't it?