(Cont. from https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/273525620/ ) “Oh, you’re Team Galaxy, aren’t you?” Junior asked, his eyes widening slightly as he recognized the group. “I’m Junior, for now at least, I’ll think of something better later… but I’m sure mom already mentioned me to you by now,” he added. Kangaskhan chuckled at overhearing the comment, “I can’t always refrain from talking about my own child! As much as you seem to want to slip under the radar.” “It isn’t slipping under the radar, I just don’t want my life story told to strangers,” Junior sighed, “what are they doing here, anyway?” he questioned. Kangaskhan sighed, “Team Galaxy will be resting here for the next few nights as they work on building their new team base,” she explained briefly. “You guys are building your base?” Junior repeated. “Yeah! We’ve, uh, hired some help though,” Keahi replied. “From who?” Junior questioned, taking one of his slips of paper and putting it into the book so he could set it aside without losing his place. “Some of the mankeys,” Keahi answered, “from Uproar Forest,” zie added. “Oh, I’ve met them before. Maybe not the same mankeys, but some. They’re pretty good at building, despite their tempers,” Junior hummed. “Ah,” Tsuki responded, “should… should we be introducing ourselves now?” “Normally, yes. But now that you mention it, I was to see if I can remember all your names!” Junior hummed, approached the quartet more. “Mom talks about you all, all the time… Nelvana, the cubone… Key… Kea-hi? How do you pronounce it?” “It’s pronounced key-chee,” Keahi told him. “Kinda surprised you could pronounce my name,” Nelvana commented. “Yeah… I think mom talks about you the most though,” Junior murmured, leaning closer. “I swear she wants to adopt you,” he whispered. “Ha! I knew it!” Keahi exclaimed, spinning on Nelvana. “Goddammit!” Nelvana groaned, tossing her head back. “What’s going on over there?” Kangaskhan questioned, glancing back at the group. “Nothing, mom! Just talking about names!” Junior answered, holding back a snicker at the reaction of the pair. “Speaking of… we have Alex, the grovyle. And…” he let out a sharp hiss, “you’re the new one with another weird name…” he mumbled. “Tsuki,” Tsuki introduced herself. “Yes! Suki?” Junior responded, missing the “t” sound as he attempted to say the absol’s name. “Tsuki,” Tsuki repeated patiently. “Tsuki…” Junior paused, rolling around the name on his tongue before continuing. “But hey, at least I remembered everyone! Just not how to say them…” “And look, we remember your name too, Junior,” Alex joked. “Oh, hardy har har.” Junior rolled his eyes. “Anyway, it’ll be awhile until stew is ready, wanna play a game or something? We’ve got some board and card games, and I don’t get to play them too often. I don’t bring in guests often.” “Why not?” Keahi asked. Junior shrugged, “I’m usually doing my own thing here. Besides, the kids that usually hang out in Pokemon Square are a few years younger than me. They can get annoying.” “That doesn’t surprise me,” Alex snickered. “Anyway, what games do you have here?” Keahi continued. Junior brought out a stack of board games from on one of the shelves, and they began going through them. As they played, they chatting amongst one another. As it turned out, Junior did know a bit about construction, but only a bit. He had built a couple chests before, and helped with repairs in the past, but no big projects yet. However, he offered to help with some of the final parts, just to ensure that everything would be secure and sound. They also spoke about rescue teams, and Junior admitted that while he admired the work that they did, he wasn’t interested in joining or forming a team himself. “I want to inherit the storage business!” Junior told them, “and if I feel too cooped up and bored, I can always go off to some untravelled land and build a new storage statue.” Team Galaxy made sure to tell stories about their adventures, especially the recent expedition, where they put use to the storage statues. Tsuki mentioned that even though she still isn’t connected to the device, she found use for just the simple function of a chest, and was pleased that there was even one put there to begin with, even though most don’t travel that path. This simply encouraged Junior to want to put up more storage statues, now energized by hearing about their continued use, even to those who weren’t customers. After their first game, Keahi stopped by the other room to see how Kanaskhan was doing, and found that she was just finishing up cutting the vegetables. Zie offered to help, at the very least with the cooking itself, but Kangaskhan excused zim from the kitchen, briefly going over how she could handle this on her own, and that the torchic should just relax and enjoy zirself here with the others. It was midway through the second board game when the food was ready, and everyone enjoyed the hot meal.
Once finished, they helped Kangaskhan put away the dishes, and then she joined them in the next game. They continued playing long after the sun had set, cracking jokes and having a good time. Finally, it grew late, and Kangaskhan put all the games they had pulled out back onto the shelf. “Alright children, I believe it’s time that you all get some rest. It’s a bright new day tomorrow!” Kangaskhan hummed. “Aw… fine, mom,” Junior sighed, stretching. “Where are we sleeping?” Keahi asked, standing up and shaking zir feathers. “Ah, right! We have a guest room this way…” Kangaskhan responded, and then proceeded to guide the quartet down the hallway. Junior followed them, but not for long as he opened the door into another room, “goodnight!” he called before entering the room and closing the door behind him. “Goodnight Junior!” Kangaskhan called back, despite the door already being shut. “Okay dearies, right in here,” she continued, opening another door. This new room was mostly empty and clean, the only furniture being a large bed and a cabinet against a wall. There was a window off on another wall, the light curtains already pulled closed. Unlike the flooring in the other two rooms they had been in so far, which had been simple hardwood, here it was a soft, grey carpet. “I’m afraid that we only have one spare bed… but it’s fairly large, so you could share. Or I could see if we have a cot folded up in one of the closets or something,” Kangaskhan said. “I think we can handle sharing! Thanks again Kangaskhan!” Keahi chirped, scurrying over to the bed and attempting to hop up, ending up having to dig zir claws into the blankets and flutter zir way up atop the mattress. “Here, I’ll get some more blankets and pillows for you all. Hold on for just a moment!” Kangaskhan responded, leaving the quartet alone in the guest room. Nelvana approached the bed, clambering on it after Keahi and sitting with her legs crossed. Alex simply hopped on, now crouching with the others, not sitting down yet. While Tsuki could’ve hopped up like Alex had, she took the slower option of propping up her forelegs on the side, and hoisting herself up. Even with all four of them up on the bed, there was plenty of room for everyone to stretch out. Clearly, this was a bed made for a larger pokemon. Kangaskhan returned quickly, carrying a pile of various blankets, quilts, pillows, and cushions in her arms, “here you are dearies,” she hummed, placing down the huge stack onto an empty space on the bed. “Do you think you’ll need any thing else, or should I leave you be for the night?” she asked. “I think we’ll be good, thanks!” Nelvana replied, leaning back and flopping on the bed, only to shoot back to sitting up moments afterwards. “We should use these to make a blanket nest!” she whispered loudly. “Ooh! Like a pillow fort?” Keahi exclaimed. Kangaskhan chuckled warmly, “goodnight kids, sleep well, and have a good time with your pillow fort,” she said before leaving the room. “A pillow fort?” Tsuki repeated, looking over at Keahi and Nelvana. “Yeah! We pile up all the pillows and blankets and make a fort out of it!” Keahi told her, “kinda like building a house, except way simpler!” zie added. “Oh, I was a bit confused when you said ‘pillow fort’ but I guess we were thinking of kind of the same thing anyway,” Nelvana giggled, “let’s get started then!” “Won’t this just get destroyed when we go to sleep?” Alex asked, tugging out a soft sky-blue blanket from the pile. “Well, yes, but it’s still fun!” Keahi replied before picking up a pillow in zir beak. Shrugging, Alex gave in, and soon everyone was stacking up pillows and draping blankets over top. It started out messy, and unsturdy, as the pillows would flop over and the blankets would dip in the middle without enough support. Eventually, Nelvana grew tired with the countless attempts to stack everything up, and just flopped down on top of the mid-construction pillow fort, crushing their most recent work. She then proceeded to stretch out before curling up, ensuring the shifting of the fabric. “Nel!” Keahi yelled. “What? This is much comfier than a fort,” Nelvana murmured. “Yeah… but you ruined it,” Keahi sighed, pouting the best zie could with a beak. A mischievous gleam crossed the torchic’s brown eyes for a moment, and zie grabbed on of the discarded pillows in zir beak again. Before anyone could question what zie was doing, zie suddenly swung the pillow at Nelvana, hitting the cubone. “Gah!” Nelvana sat up again, stiffening at the sudden, yet harmless, attack. “Pillow fight!” Keahi proclaimed, dropping the pillow from zir beak for a moment to speak, only to pick it right back up. Art, characters, and plot belong to me Pokemon and PMD belong to Nintendo Please don't remix First: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/203259124/ Next: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/273527493/ Previous: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/273525620/
