And now, a...closet? (open)

[desatio]

In this musty laboratory there was a large man, wrapped in bandages, wearing a pair of black slacks, a black turtleneck sweater, and his sueded Jacket. Of course on his large frame, he looked like a freaking mammoth.

This man was currently clearing out a Janitor's closet that he had requisitioned to serve as his room for interviews. To be frank, he didn't care about standard procedures here. He needed to conduct his interviews in private. He would work with others on profiles, development, and negotiations, but how could his patients be forthcoming with a bunch of cold-hearted clinical punks watching their every move?

The Large, tranquil boulder known as Dhanus was telekinetically doing most of the heavy lifting. Alpharabius was mostly using their twelve eyes to figure out where furniture was best placed. "A little to the left" one of the eggs said as Solrock complied, moving the couch slightly. It wasn't too hard for him, honestly.

Zinn was meditating, and thiking about the area. "No windows. That's rather unpleasant, frankly. Honestly, we're gonna have to use lots of lights to even begin to make this room friendly."

Sackeim had already done his job of re wiring parts of the room and nodded. "Just get me some more lights. I can make them fit."

Right now the room was rather dull. Gun-metal grey, metal door, it was so...spartan. So unpleasant. Michael smiled at the new door he had gotten. A light teak finish on white fir. Definitely more cheerful. He nodded to Zinn. "Help me with the wall paper, will ya?"

The Medicham nodded and began helping Michael put on the wall paper. Michael shrugged as he heard the door open. He hoped it wasn't the Janitor. He didn't feel liek arguing about why the cleaning supplies were out here.

[victoria]

There she was, in the halls, walking about again. No one was about to tell her off as she trotted around happily, Tama in her arms, ranting at the poor Spheal about her new squad; now, she had yet to meet the members of said squad, but that was far from the point. Tama, of course, had absolutely no idea what was going on, but as long as it involved either people who would love him endlessly, food, or both, he could have cared less right now!

However, the new squad had absolutely nothing to do with the walking about the halls, tripping over things as she happily ranted needlessly about something that she was unable to greet right this second. No, there was something else she was going to be walking into.

Showers did mention something about Pravus hiring a therapist.

Actually, Showers mentioned it awhile back, around when the announcement was made, but Victoria had been attempting ever-so-hard to ignore her Vaporeon. Granted, the Pokemon did mean well, but Victoria refused to see someone who was going to analyze her thought process or anything strange like that. She was far from insane! There were much more insane people getting a paycheck from Pravus! She could probably ramble off names if she needed to!

However, she probably did not need to. It was probably a bad idea to ramble off names of some of the higher ups in Pravus as 'completely loco.'

That was far from the point, however. Showers was now trotting alongside Victoria, making sure the girl got exactly to where she needed to go, or else it was pain of death for the Lumineon morph.

And Victoria was pretty sure she did not want to be dead.

She waltzed right into the laboratory, not bothering to knock this time, assuming most of the scientists had left on some random field assignment, but stopped when she realized there was indeed some form of person in the room.

A big form of person to be exact...

Along with a bunch of Pokemon, some of which she had never seen before in her life, others she thought she knew, but, right next to that man? They were all scary. Granted, she only saw a brief glimpse of them, but it was enough to leave the impression...

Of course, they were cleaning out... the janitor's closet? What was all that about?

She stared at the door, wide eyed, for quite some time, before deciding it was probably a good idea to open the door to the janitor's closet, to see what was going on.

Nevermind that Showers was sniffing at it.

"Get away from there," Victoria hissed, picking up her Vaporeon before staring at the door some more. Showers rolled her eyes, and swung her tail upwards towards the doorknob.

"I bet he's the psychiatrist."

"I bet he's the lab's new scary, monstrous janitor."

"... Stop being silly Victoria."

"Stop being the death of me Showers!"

Showers did not respond to that, merely opening the door as if to end the conversation. Victoria sighed, peering her head in, eyes as wide as before.

"... Hello?"

[desatio]

Desatio laughed as he turend around. "Sorry it's such a mess, still workign on setting up the office."

Zinn recognized them immediately, having memorized everyone's pictures from the personnel files Desatio had to read through. "Miss Kensington, I presume."

Michael just shrugged. "Victoria, if my memory serves. Like I said, sorry about the mess."

Sackeim and Dhanus simply continued re-arranging things and working on the room's decor, the light looks substantially more cheerful than they did a minute ago. Dhanus let out a noise that soudn liek a mixture of sigh and and instrigued "Hmmm."

"So," the floating boulder began heartily, "this is one of those morph things all the people around here keep talking about. Interesting."

"Dhanus, manners," Michael quickly scolded the boulder. "She is a person, not a thing. And more importantly, she's a guest. Show a little hospitality, ya floating brick heap."

He smirked, analyzing her movements. "Sorry if my appearance frightens, but I can't find a pretty color to et the bandages in," he said with a smirk. "I don't look good in pink. Ya think orange would work?"

Zinn merely smirked. "You look like a shrinked-wrapped wrestler regardless of color, Mike. By the way, I'm Zinn."

[victoria]

Victoria's eyes went wider when they all spoke to her, more out of sheer fright than the thought of watching a spectacle. Tama, of course, gawked rudely, and without any shame.

It was Showers who prevailed in this situation yet again, stepping forward and starting in on the introductions.

"This is indeed Ms. Victoria... I am Showers, and that ball of fluff and blubber in her arms is Tama..."

"I am not blubber!" Tama protested angrily. However, Showers paid absolutely no heed, nevermind the fact that Tama was completely wrong. If he did not have any blubber, he would not be a proper Spheal, and would promptly die in any cold temperature, though she was pretty sure if he was going into the freezing cold, he would die from pure shock anyways.

He was so pampered.

"... I like blue," Victoria murmured after a moment or so of gaping, giving the large, bandaged man a sheepish look, "Or maybe a nice forest green. If you don't want to stick out too much anyways... they're pretty colors and much more settling on the eyes..."

Victoria was being rather quiet, which Showers completely expected. The Vaporeon did not expect so many Pokemon at once, and, since Victoria was half of each human and Pokemon, she was sure to think of everyone as equals and would be just as nervous at both of them.

Of course, this did not change the fact that Victoria looked about ready to self consciously morph into her Pokemon form and flail around helplessly in a confused attempt to get out of her situation.

"If you're trying to stick out though..." she continued, "... Orange might look much better..."

[soap]

Michael just laughed.

Zinn nodded. "Showers, that's a nice name. Very tranquil," he then shook his head. C'mon, Zinn. Yeah, she's kinda cute, but she's like you--too busy trying to help her trainer out to have any real fun. He shook his head, his thoughts wandering a little.

Dhanus simply went back to moving furniture.

Michael nodded at the girls color comments. "You know, you can relax. I promise, none of us are gonna kill ya or anything. Dhanus has been in too good a mood, and Alpharabius is just a musician."

"Just?" The eggs said while bouncing. "Music's our calling boss!" they said, chiming in with various other quips and things.

"I'm certain it is," Michael said with a smile.

The computer sparked briefly as a small ball of glowy plasma came out of it. "Hi, I'm Sackeim! Pleased to meet ya!" the lightning bolt chirped happily.

Desatio looked at Sackeim nervously, hoping the little ball of energy wouldn't terrify these poor kids.

Alpharabius just went back to what they were doing, which was helping Dhanus coordinate the furniture.

"Seriously, though you guys want anything to eat or drink? The fridge is pretty well-stocked...I figure I won't get a lot of time for cafeteria runs on busier days," he said with a wide friendly smile, not really bothered by the staring. He was, in all honesty, used to it.