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Tenth Snapshot | Action;Video

[Someone has been hard at work since returning from Glacier.]

[Or at least, trying to be. Space wasn't really the issue. He'd found a small room and with permission, set it up as a temporary dark room. He really needed to just rent out a studio but for now, being as he was still settling after the Oakenshield residence went up for sale, this would work for what he needed it.]

[He had some pretty important pictures to develop. It's too bad the place covered in huge, extroverted pokemon made that really difficult.]

[About the sixth time someone tried to open the door (Three or four times with it still being locked somehow) Hayato just set out his two biggest pokemon to guard the door while he worked.]

[Feel free to still try to bug him. Nikon is kind of a pushover and Fuji is really easily distracted. He could probably use an interruption.]

[Video]

[When the video clicks on. Hayato can be seen with a bright grin. He's wearing a work apron and a pair of goggles on his head- his usual for working on photos. As such his antennae are visible for once instead of being crammed under a hat. They flick and twitch with his expressions.]

So it looks like everyone had a pretty good trip. We made out okay even if I've gotta be kind of hush hush about the details, but what about everyone else? Got anything fun to share?

[It looks like he's about to say something else when there's the distinct sound of a door opening and a creaking of hinges. He jolts, antennae flicking straight up and he turns towards the hall he was standing near.]

Oi!

[Someone tried to go in the dark room again. The feed ends as he's running towards the source.]

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[The Skitty was displeased.

You could observe this by watching him. The way he narrowed his eyes every time he passed by Hayato's impromptu 'dark room' and swished his tail whenever he saw the weird bug man were clear tells of that. Atlas had told him to be nice; Orpheus had told him to go pester Agravain, but neither suggestion was satisfactory to the ornery skitty. After being forced from his home when that jackass Dragon attacked the city, Baccus had been more defensive of his territory.

You do not deny him access to any part of his home.

That was why, currently, he was engaged in a staredown with the guards the Bug Man had assigned to his 'dark room'. What, oh what could he do to distract them...?]

[Nikon the Aggron and Fuji the Gogoat were taking their jobs pretty seriously. As serious as they could. Nikon, for all her ability to be intimidating was clearly faltering because she ran out of metal to snack on. BUT she didn't dare leave. Nope. Nope...]

[Fuji, meanwhile- well. Ever since he was a skiddo he'd had issues communicating. So instead of communicating he just headbutted things.]

[In an attempt to ask what Baccus wanted he just decided to charge him instead. Yep.]

[Ugh! This thing was worse than Bucephalus-- just as dumb, but a lot bigger!

Hissing in agitation, Baccus jumped out of the way and started to claw his way up the door jamb...because climbing shit was totally his jam.

These two lugs wouldn't be as annoying as that Doublade's Garchomp, that's for sure!]

[You think wrong, friend. Nikon sees you and while she isn't a bully, she definitely tries to follow Trainer's orders. Enjoy that towering shadow over you.]

[Just what are you doing there sir.]

[Hissssss

Baccus snarles at Nikon, fearless despite their obvious difference in size. He was dodging your friend there-- the brat is absolutely rude! It's unacceptable!]

[Ah, sorry. That's how he says hello. He didn't mean anything by it. Here, let her help.]

[She might be reaching over to pluck you off the door jamb.]

[She's afraid she can't let you in. Trainer is very hard at work with something very important and any light getting in would ruin his work!] </small

[Baccus just hisses again and claws his way higher, not at all caring about any damage he might be leaving in the wooden frame for their trainers to worry about later. This was his house first, Miss, and he wouldn't stand by some new kid telling him that he couldn't go anywhere!]

[But she is pretty sure he got permission to use this room...]

[Yeah-- from the dweeb who cries in the face of gods.

Baccus is just going to continue climbing higher until he reaches the top of the door jamb, delicatly balancing on the slim ledge by the very tips of his toes, with his tail bristling in agitation.

Just because the dweeb was the human here didn't mean that he was in charge.]

[She's pretty sure that's exactly what that means, or at least, as far as she could tell he was the one who paid for everything. Either way, she's been requested to watch the door and that's what she'll do. Sorry!!]

[Also you can climb as high as you one, Nikon is still much taller than the door. All you did was put yourself eye level with her.]

[Riiiiight. Way to miss the point-- dweeb still wasn't in charge here.

Seeing that he could go no higher than the door frame, Baccus contented himself to stand there momentarily, staring down Nikon with an utter lack of fear. This was still his territory, and he didn't like weirdos in it.]

[It seems we are at an impasse.]

[Until the door opens on it's own, anyway.]

Oi, Nikon. I'm packing it in for the day, where's Fu--

[Hm. He gets the feeling something terrible is hovering overhead.]

[Terror, in the guise of a fat pink kitten with claws.

In no time flat Baccus dove for Hayato's head, claws bared and teeth flashing. What do?]

[He shrieks. Which causes Nikon to Shriek. Which makes Fuji Goat!Shriek.]

[There's a lot of shrieking.]

[And also Hayato trying to get the stupid thing off his head without actually hurting it with his claws.]

AAuuughhh!!

[Success!!

Taking advantage of the chaos, Baccus darts inside the interior of the dark room to find some place small and tight to hide in. Have fun!

Meanwhile...

A thump can be heard down the hall way as Waver, his clothes rumpled and hair mussed from an impromptu nap, stumbled out into the hallway.

Blinking at the gathered crowd blearily, he leaned against a wall and tried to rub the sleep from his eyes.]

What-- what's happening? Where's the fire?

[No fire, but Hayato is standing there with a few trails of blood streaming down his face as he just stares forward like he just got down gazing into the abyss.]

[Nikon meanwhile is kind of panicking and its making the walls shake a little.]

Waver I might have to put your cat in a stew.

[He buried his face in a hand, already feeling a headache start to form in reaction to this mess.]

And I might have to make your Aggron into kebabs for the whole of Union unless you make her stop. Do you want to give Grandma Martha a heart attack?

[Sigh. He looks over at Nikon and just reaches both his hands to try and settle her. Even if she's like a foot taller than him.]

Easy, easy now. Don't bring the place down.

[That takes a moment or two for her to settle but she's pretty spazzed out.]

Does that pokemon have any particular malice for photos? Should I be concerned it made a beedrill-line for the closet?

[Please give him some good news.]

[It was a mixed bag...]

He couldn't care less about anything made of paper-- he prefers little Ratata toys, or feathers-- but he's been really touchy about his space ever since Ever Grande decided to attack us. That was his first time out of the house since I brought him to Union, and he's not realy a combat or travelling pokemon.

...

What's going on, Hayato?

[He gives the door a disparaging look before looking at Waver again.]

I'm just trying to get these photos from Glacier done but it looks like curiosity is at an all time high when I try to work.

[Such was life in a house full of pokemon, really. ]

But if he won't go for paper, then maybe it's fine.

[He doesn't want to fight the little menace out of there anyway. It would probably cause more damage.]

[Of course it was something like that. Life with pokemon was always chaotic-- that was why he was glad to have some fairly reasonable members of his team that he could rely on, for the most part.]

Makes sense. Everyone's really after what we found at that camp-- I didn't even get much time with the notebooks before I had people from the Academy come to get them. But...

You said 'closets' right? Baccus likes closed-in spaces, so he might try to hide in one. You're not working out of a closet, are you?

Well... yeah.

[He rubs the back of his head a little.]

I can't use my own room and I didn't want to ask for a whole separate room so I figured the closet would be unassuming enough.

[LOOK WHO WAS WRONG.]

....You better have copies of your films, then. Baccus is smart, but he doesn't get the things we do sometimes.

I still have the negatives.

[It should be fine. Maybe.]

I'll take a break for now, Maybe he'll settle and when I go back he won't try to take my head off this time.

[Without warning, Waver cast a Heal Pulse on Hayato while he was in the middle of speaking.]

So be glad for that-- and get yourself cleaned up. Bloody faces are better for the field, not at home.

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