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004. [Video/Action for Rocket HQ]

_{[There are plenty of newborn Pokemon that enter the world squalling or cooing.]

[This one entered with a whole lot of growling and then nearly took somebody's finger off.]

[The little Deino on the screen, which happens to have a faintly-sparkling green coat rather than the customary blue, is yanking and worrying at the end of one of the scarves that its trainer had received for Christmas as well as the egg it had just hatched from. It's been in the world outside its eggshell for about five minutes and it's already filled with fury at the fact that this long soft thing exists in its general vicinity.]

[Wrath is thrilled.]

[He turns to the camera (which is presumably held by his Kangaskhan) proudly, apparently unconcerned that the tiny dino-dragon is nearly tugging the scarf right off of him.]}

The rock turned into a sparkling animal!

Her name is Mad.

Mad likes to bite.

_{[... A little like her trainer, actually. They also share the same hairdo aesthetic. This is clearly a match made in heaven.]}

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_{[Judging by his incredibly liberal attitude with regards to the information he shares, Wrath hasn't even remotely begun to develop a sense of what normal people are or aren't horrified to hear yet. FORTUNATELY FOR GREED.]}

Oh, then I'd probably like them.

Oranges are great.

Meat is my favorite, though.

Do you like meat, Dar-yus?

It comes from animals.

[This is very good.

Greed's safe for a little while longer!]

'Course I like meat. Hamburgers and hotdogs, and steak too.

I've had hot dogs!

My friend Ralph says they taste like they're probably made of real dogs. They're pretty tasty, so he's probably right.

_{[Wrath may or may not have missed the point of why Ralph was sarcastically saying they were made of real dogs.]}

[...Wh-]

Kid, I think your friend was joking.

[Otherwise he's going to have to be putting together a shit list of people lying to children in a hurry.]

... Oh.

_{[Sounds like that honestly had not occurred to him.]}

Maybe he was. He does that sometimes.

_{[Now he's frowning, though.]}

But if they're not made of dogs, why are they called hot dogs?

[That is actually a good question.]

You know, I really don't know. Maybe it's slang.

[He pats Wrath on the shoulder, smiling.]

Guess I'll have to find that one out.

Okay!

Tell me if you do.

Cuz now I'm hungry and curious!

[That makes him smirk.]

Y'know, we could go for hot dogs instead.

_{[Wrath's eyes widen.]}

--Really?

CAN we?!

_{[OH BOY]}

[Greed already has developed a nasty habit of being unable to say no. This just makes it worse.]

Come on, I know a place. It's not far.

[And indeed it's not. Greed leads Wrath to a small, quiet diner.]

Try not to harass the patrons too much.

_{[It doesn't help that Wrath is pretty damn hard to say no to.]

[Pleased as punch, Wrath bobbles along after Greed until they get to the diner, at which point he lingers by the door a little. He's been to diners before-- post-mission refueling sessions. But he's also gotten kicked out of at least one for disruptive behavior.]

[Orders is orders, though, so Greed's suggestion is all he needs as permission to enter.]

[He scrambles over to one of the stools by the counter, climbing onto it.]}

Can we get the soft yellow twigs, too?

_{[.... he's talking about french fries.]}

[You know, Greed considers this a very good day. He can't say no to the kid, sure, but he'll work on that eventually. Until then, Greed's fairly pleased with the situation. This way he can get to know Wrath a little more and keep an eye on the kid for the rest of the homunculi, and he can keep an eye on the kid himself, something he honestly prefers without his old eyes and ears.

He watches carefully to see the kid settling down. He's good at following orders, and while that might be Dante's fault, Greed can't help but feel a little grateful for it right now.]

...soft yellow twigs?

[Greed's brows raise as he sits down next to Wrath, and it's a moment before he smiles, realizing what the kid's talking about.]

Sure, of course.

_{[Dante might have done a lot of damage, but well, it had made him somewhat easier to handle if you knew what you were doing.]

[Which Greed, being one of the oldest of them all, does.]

[The boy grins broadly when his request is okayed. If he were a dog, his tail would be wagging. He sets the growling Deino down in his lap like a stuffed animal and brushes his hair back a little so that the Zubat perched on his head has more room to sit.]}

I like those things.

They're salty and taste much better than the kinds of twigs you find outside.

[...the implication of Wrath eating twigs isn't lost on Greed.]

They're much better for you than the twigs you find outside, too.

[Because they're actually food. Homunculi can't get away with eating nothing here in Johto after all.]

_{[HEY, HE SPENT AT LEAST A FEW WEEKS RUNNING AROUND NAKED ON AN ISLAND. THERE WERE A LOT OF THINGS THAT WENT INTO HIS MOUTH THAT SHOULDN'T GO INTO MOUTHS!]}

Good!

I bet Mad will like them.

She's a baby so she needs soft things. Right?

[...honestly that thing looks like it prefers meat, but he doesn't think that Mad will be picky. At least his own Pokemon never are.]

Sure, I'm sure she'll appreciate the food.

Mmhm! Everybody appreciates food.

Or if they don't, everybody SHOULD.

Food is pretty great.

[And that's something he can agree on. He didn't know much about eating before becoming human, but now that he's human...

Well, he likes eating, that's for sure. Greed can't quite mask the way his eyes brighten.]

Lots of places to eat at around here, that's for sure.

Yeah!

A bit ago, I got to go to a place with a big colorful picture of a pink cow on the front, and I got to eat a thing called a brr-grr.

_{[He swings his legs a little bit as he elaborates on this fabled food.]}

It was really good, but since I didn't eat the bread, it got kinda messy.

_{[Most of it had wound up ON him instead of IN him.]}

[...Wrath, why wouldn't you eat the bread?]

Any reason you didn't eat the bread with your burger?

_{[Wrath looks up at Greed matter-of-factly.]}

It's full of snakes, remember?

_{[GOSH GREED, WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS!]}

[...no Greed, the response to this isn't "but baking would kill the snakes."

Thankfully he manages to keep himself from saying that little tidbit.]

Bread isn't full of snakes. I've told you that before.

_{[Bread being full of DEAD snakes would still be pretty alarming, Greed.]

[In any case, Wrath sniffs slightly, shrugging and rocking the Deino in his lap.]}

Better safe than sorry.

_{[Where the hell did he pick THAT one up? It certainly hadn't come from his OWN inner vault of worldly phrases.]}

[Greed's head tilts.]

Where'd you hear that from?

[Maybe it's too obvious of a question; Dante was much too cautious and calculating to ever say something like that.]

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