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A Pidgeotto wandered out first, though she wasn't too far ahead of another swimsuit clad rocket.
Tambrey padded cautiously out to the pool, though not really looking too carefully at where she was going as she was beckoning for a pokemon to follow along and was keeping an eye.
She wasn't sure if a Chikorita would even like the pool, but it had to be worth a shot. Palu had to hop a little to the side as she'd paused to look at all the pokemon, and the agent, already here.
"Geeoh-to!" She warbled for Tambrey's attention. 'Others are here!'
Tam's towel bag swung a little as she turned to look, her glasses still on, but googles dangling from her left wrist.
Treestar halted abruptly to peer around her ankle as she stopped. New place, new pokemon; ooh! o.o Curious but a little shy.
As was Tambrey.
There was someone in the pool, and lots of pokemon; somehow she'd forgotten to account for this.
Um. Ooh, pretty pokemon! No; no distractions until situation solved.
She moved to, cautiously, sit at the pool edge, after setting her bag down, feet dangling into the water.
She'd ask if it was okay to be here when there was a chance; there couldn't be harm in that, surely.
Palu was staying a little back from the water, but Treestar had trotted up to peek around his owner.

Tambrey's nerves were certainly affected by the display from the bird, but she was trying not to show that she was too bothered by it and focus on talking to the human.
She was aware, however, that Palu certainly wasn't going to ignore such a thing.
Besides, she had to make sure Treestar was alright and now there was an adorable puppy-pokemon snuffling around. o.o
Tambrey actually absent-mindedly reached to pet the cute thing as it inspected her, and Treestar seemed suddenly much less shy and, indeed, pleased to meet a brand new potential friend.
He wiggled his leaf at the Growlithe and smiled with bright, curious, eyes.
"Chee-chikoree!"
"Um. It's fine. She's cute... and I love the name 'Artems'." Tambrey turned her head from pup, as she sat, to Claire again. "Uh, Tambrey." She supplied, then, as if worried the answer could be misinterpreted, added "My name, I mean. I hope you don't mind? I, um.. wanted to get Treestar," She indicated the little grass type with a bob of her head "used to some more of the base and, well, I, um, wanted a swim..." And, then, as if it were vitally important she add it too "You have beautiful pokemon, by the way! All, very pretty."

Palu, meanwhile, had been trying to puff herself up to as impressive as she could look. So, she wasn't, and apparently couldn't be, a Pidgeot, but she was still a proud and a fancy bird. Her warble was certainly accepting that the other bird was more impressive, her behaviour with a hint of wariness, but with a little uppity tint of protest that, apparently, she didn't care about who was more dominant than who. Palu was Palu, and she was, in her own view, a perfect bird with a right to be tall and proud. Plus, she had a very fine scarf.

"Uh, nice to meet you too." Tambrey smiled.
This Rocket wasn't that scary. She was pretty sure that Claire had to be an agent or higher though; it was just that sort of impression plus she seemed to have acquired a certain paranoia that anyone she couldn't see the uniform of likely outranked her.
Again, Tambrey reached shyly, if a little more deliberately, to pet the happy-seeming puppy.
And Treestar was delighted by the attention. He wobbled his leaf again and pretended to be sniffing and snuffling back at Artemis; a pleased and dopey smile written across his face. "Chee!"
He certainly wanted to play! New friends were awesome! And Artemis seemed so happy! It was a bit infectious.

Palu watched the larger bird puff up and display with wary eyes. She was proud, but not foolish enough to want to fight the larger pokemon. The Pidgeotto ruffled up her feathers and then deflated, though with an attitude of disdain; pretending as if the display simply wasn't worth the effort, instead of a display of deference like, perhaps, she should have done.
And, anyway, the larger bird was getting told off by her own-
"And you Palu. I know you were puffing up and provoking right back."
Ah, ratatas... Well, it wasn't too embarrassing then, if both backed down for their humans... Still, Palu kept a wary eye on Odette.
"It's okay. Um, Palu can be far too uppity for own good anyway; it's probably somewhat good that there's a pokemon that she has to play safe to." Tambrey smiled, the next bit obviously intended for the Pidgeotto "Might teach her some, um, humility..."
Palu seemed to roll her eyes.

"We wouldn't dream of insulting her and she is a -very- pretty bird." The Grunt was quite sincere and smiled as she looked back out at the pool when Claire did. "You pick good names; they... suit well. 'Odette' and 'Artemis'... I like them a lot; It's nicer, I think, when the name isn't stuck. And, um, thankyou..." Tambrey looked a little embarrassed. "I didn't mean that I thought you and the pokemon would take up the whole pool, but, uh, I know sometimes... some people seem to quite like being here without anyone else and I'm... just a grunt, so I don't want to upset anyone higher..." Maybe she shouldn't be quite so honest, but she was feeling a tiny bit of a panic to get a lot of words out of her mouth all of a sudden.

Artemis' reaction to attention made Tambrey helpless to contain a smile. It was a such a cute noise and such cute behaviour from the puppy pokemon.

Treestar, meanwhile, was similarly delighted by the fact that the fire type really wanted to play. The young grass type watched and then attempted to copy the Growlithe, putting his own behind into the air and clumsily hop-stepping to one side in a crude mimic of Artemis' bounding.
"Cheeka!" He declared gleefully, and looked ready to chase or be chased, his leaf wafting back and forth in place of a tail.

The name 'bluetooth' got an appreciative lip-twitch of a smile from Tambrey, but 'Jasmine' didn't get quite the same level of distaste that Claire seemed to have for it. Sure, it wasn't a name that she would have chosen, but Tambrey didn't think it the worst name in the world.

The reassurances did actually work as reassurances, which was nice. There was a visible relaxation in her behaviour, like a subtle 'deflate'.
There was a little bit of a nervous smile in learning that, yes, Claire was an agent, but still, she seemed like a nice, tolerant agent and hardly scary at all.
"Um. Thank you..." was followed by an awkward pause as Tambrey found more things to worry and wonder about.
"Can I ask where you work? I mean, I'm in the labs, but I don't even know the people there all that well." It was sort of an apology, just in case.

"Reee!" Treestar called gleefully, stumbling over as he turned and then trotting off as fast as his little legs would allow him, leaf fluttering as the game began.
This was the first time, since he'd gotten here, that he'd had a real playmate.
Palu was not really 'play-friendly', Pygi was, but she was a bird and far too soft to make chase fun, Lasi had to be the best at everything and everything was a race, it was best to not even mention Neph, while Ella was far too sweet and concerned about hurting someone in a game of chase.
Playing with Artemis was the best fun so far.

Tambrey nodded.
"Well. I'm not allowed to do much in there, even if I'm allowed in. Grunt level kind of restricts the things that I have permission for and the jobs I get assigned to do..." Infiltration and espionage sounded fascinating and a little intimidating again, but still Claire seemed nice. "What's it... like?" To be a field agent, she meant; Tambrey had never really seen herself as being cut out for something like that, despite holding some interest. She had, however, tried her best on the Spinarak-mech encounter... That mission had left her with a broken arm.

Tambrey slipped herself down into the water, still holding the side for a moment as she heard the agent warn the Vaporeon. Hm.

Palu had decided to roost a little back from the pool, one eye closed, one open, alternating between watching the Chikorita and Growlithe play chase and what the other bird was doing. The humans were probably fine and swimming wasn't that interesting.

Aw, the Chikorita was going to be sad about leaving Artemis later. She was an excellent playmate and, with no interest in gnawing, Treestar was doing his very best to be as entertaining a playmate for her. He was liking this new home a lot so far; it was turning out very fun.

Tambrey was tempted to add 'if that ever comes' but then again she wasn't too sure she minded being grunt beyond the lab restrictions. She could be patient and better she was actually ready for something than suddenly finding herself with so much more to worry about. Still, a little more freedom would be nice.
She twitched her lip as clarification was asked for and tried to think of how to better phrase what she meant...
"Um. To do that? Espionage and sneaking around? And- ah.. um.." She'd backed herself up against the side of the pool as the Vaporeon had appeared and started growling.
At Claire's success at getting the water type to 'behave', Tambrey breathed a sigh of relief and then looked curiously to the agent.
"How do you get her to listen to you like that?" It was very interesting, given how much resistance Tam' encountered from Neph every time she tried to use her.

With tiny little legs like his, Treestar wasn't too good at the whole bounding thing. He could, however, trot and run after the puppy pokemon as fast as his legs would allow him. He nearly fell over in turning at the nudge, wobbling to turn his oddly shaped body around, a big grin on his face as he took up his roll of 'chaser' now.
"Chee!" So he could easily be outrun by the canine fire type, but that didn't matter to him, nor did the fact that he'd probably tire out before the growlithe either.

Tambrey smiled, not as nervously as before but she had the wariness toward Jasmine now.
"She obeyed though. Even if she'd difficult, she's listening to you, so something's working, right..?" Unlike Neph. She couldn't exactly threaten to take away Neph's swimming time... And, as far as she knew, Neph didn't actually like anything so she was at a loss at how to use that sort of thing to control her. Even keeping her in the pokeball didn't seem to affect her either way.

The grunt took off her glasses finally, waving Palu over to come and gently take them in her beak.
"Put them with the bag and towel, okay?"
She watched the blurry shape apparently obey before pulling the goggles onto her head and then down over her eyes. Not quite as good as her glasses, but still miles better than nothing.
She looked for where that vaporeon had gone before slipping further into the pool.