004. [Video/Action for Rocket HQ]

[garbagechild]

<sub>[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.]</sub>

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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[ossifragant]

[...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.]

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[garbagechild]

_{[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?

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[ossifragant]

[...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.

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[garbagechild]

Mmhm! Everybody appreciates food.

Or if they don't, everybody SHOULD.

Food is pretty great.

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[ossifragant]

[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.

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[garbagechild]

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.]}

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[ossifragant]

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

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

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[garbagechild]

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

It's full of snakes, remember?

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

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[ossifragant]

[...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.

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[garbagechild]

<sub>[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.]</sub>

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.]}

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[ossifragant]

[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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[garbagechild]

Hm?

OH!

My friend Ralph says that sometimes.

Usually when I ask him things. Like why I should always knock on closed doors before going in.

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[ossifragant]

[..well, it's good advice as far as Greed's concerned. He's not a particularly cautious guy, but if it keeps Wrath out of trouble...]

Sounds like Ralph knows his stuff to me.

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[garbagechild]

Oh yes!

Ralph is real smart.

He teaches me lots of things! Like what germs are, and which buttons not to press on the fizzy water machine.

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[ossifragant]

[Ralph might not be someone Greed knows, but he seems like he knows his stuff. At the very least he knows it well enough to keep Wrath from getting into too much trouble. Greed can't watch the kid all the time, so this is as good as he's gonna get.]

He sounds like it.