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The fact that someone had decorated the sub whatsoever was almost hilarious in and of itself. You'd have thought a literal mafia wouldn't care about holiday spirit, but evidently someone cared enough to put up tinsel and lights, even a tree in the foyer topped with a sweet little Eiscue figure. Someone else evidently didn't care enough to remove it, so things had been just slightly festive for a while. In all honesty... it was pretty nice.[break][break]

Until, very suddenly, half of the decorations disappeared. They looked as though they'd been torn down pretty roughly, from Izzy's point of view, at least. He'd been pushed onto the case with someone else who'd be joining him shortly, if they even bothered to turn up. He wouldn't have blamed them, after all - who wanted to take the job of finding some dork who hates Christmas and telling them to probably not be a dick about it?[break][break]

Izzy runs his hand across a string of red tinsel that had been on the floor when he turned up. If someone wanted to pull all the decor down, why leave so much of it behind?

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Hoenn was entering the thick of the holiday season, and yet Barnaby found himself assigned to the ROCKET sub for an indefinite amount of time. It was actually really bad timing overall. He had deadlines to meet for HNN and interviews to conduct for his show. His higher-ups in the network never questioned his absences, in part because he was an excellent liar, but mostly because he had always delivered an exemplary product. They had no reason to doubt him. Gullible fools. [break][break]

So, here he was, bored in his living quarters.[break][break]

Barnaby casually wondered if Summer Atreides or Killian Decker were onboard today, but didn't feel inclined to actually check. Killian was a busy man, after all, and Summer... well, Summer would probably just ignore him if he tried to hang out. With a sigh, the grunt pushed himself off of his bunk and went to grab a snack from the galley.[break][break]

As he made his way down, Barnaby noticed that the sub's cramped hallways, normally drab and claustrophobic, were now lined with tinsel, sparkling garland, and strings of cozy lights. It was a nice change, to be sure. But the sight ahead of him was even nicer.[break][break]

"Izzy! What a pleasant surprise." His voice was warm and inviting. He wasn't lying, for once; it was good to see the other man again.[break][break]

Barnaby's attention quickly snapped to the mess surrounding Izydor Baranowski though. His eyebrows scrunched in confusion and concern, but there was a playful smile on his face.[break][break]

"Not a holiday person, huh?"

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POSTED ON Dec 18, 2021 22:51:59 GMT

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To call Izzy a holiday person would be untrue, but it wasn't really his own fault. He'd always had hesitant interest in holiday celebrations. His family had been poor, sure, so there'd never been any extravagant gifts around Christmas, no decent costumes for Halloween. But he'd always seen other kids dress up and decorate and be festive, and a part of him had envied them. That same part of him was the one that had smiled when he'd first noticed the sub decorations.[break][break]

The sub itself was a source of stress more than anything else to Izzy: a reminder of things he'd done and would continue to do, and those stains were hard to scrub off even when he wasn't in the belly of the beast itself. With the presence of underbosses, beasts and Martín del Mar lurking around every corner, the sub never felt like a place that would be nice to live in.[break][break]

He reaches up for a moment on tippy-toes to try and pull at a string of lights, but he's just a little too short to reach, which causes a gentle pinkness to stretch across his cheeks - so embarrassing.[break][break]

The voice that reaches out causes him to redden further before he even recognises it, internally dying at the fact that someone had seen him struggling to reach something. He turns and does, indeed, recognise the fellow wandering towards him with that bright-as-stars smile.[break][break]

"Bee..."[break][break]

He almost smiles back, as if it's a conscious effort not to. He follows the taller man's gaze to the strewn-about decorations, and then lets his own trail back to the lights he couldn't reach.[break][break]

"Mmhm. Very funny - wasn't me, obviously. Hey, can you, uh... pull those lights down?"[break][break]

It was embarrassing to have to ask, for sure, but the fact that Izzy had worked with Barnaby before calmed his stresses just a little bit.[break][break]

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POSTED ON Dec 20, 2021 18:06:37 GMT

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This was a chaotic scene, to be sure, but Barnaby could find the humor in it. Especially when he locked eyes with the fellow ROCKET in front of him. He watched as the red in Izzy's face began to soften, as his expression changed from one of embarrassment to one of recognition. A singular, unexpected thought sprang into Barnaby's mind: cute.[break][break]

"Of course. Here, let me help."[break][break]

Given the tight quarters on the ship, it didn't leave him much room to maneuver around the shorter man. So, he didn't. [break][break]

Barnaby reached from behind Izzy, closer in proximity than he had ever been before. So close that Izzy could likely hear the other man's heartbeat. Close enough to feel the warmth of Barnaby's body millimeters from his own.[break][break]

"There we go," Barnaby breathed, his voice low and gravely against Izzy's ear. "All done." [break][break]

And then he pulled away, the string of lights in tow. [break][break]

Once the lights had been taken down, per Izzy's request, Barnaby looked around to really inspect the damage. Holiday ornaments of all colors, sizes, and patterns were strewn about the floor. Garland and tinsel hung in odd places along the walls of the room. Even the Christmas cookies, left out for Santa, had been devoured. Luckily, though, the culprit left a trail of crumbs behind leading down a separate corridor.[break][break]

"Looks like we're on hunt again, hm?"

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The submarine was a tight squeeze at the best of times, even considering Izzy's below average height, so for there to be space to house the both of them involved a little... manoeuvring. Izzy tried to pre-emptively wriggle out of the way, but with the lack of space and the fact that Barnaby wasn't the kind of person who had to process and internally have a panic attack before interacting with people, he was already reaching for the string of lights and Izzy was still very much there and in the way.[break][break]

It happened so fast that suddenly Barnaby's warm body was cosied up behind him, any closer and Izzy would have felt his stomach against his back. It sent a shock through his mind like coursing electricity, and brought back that embarrassingly familiar bright red to his cheeks.[break][break]

Breathe, Izzy, he's just a guy. He's just doing what you told him to do.[break][break]

"All done"[break][break]

Izzy felt his breath hitch in his throat for a moment, and nearly covered his mouth to prevent it. Everything like this - the hot breath on his ear, the presence of a larger, stronger body behind his - it all felt so distracting, so unneeded... and terribly dirty, on top of all that. It caused his mind to wander far beyond what he wanted it to at all, let alone with a fellow Rocket.[break][break]

It wasn't that Izzy didn't want to do the things he spent long, lonely nights thinking of. Sometimes it was all he could think about - he was still a young man, after all - but he'd never had a chance to even attempt anything like that. Back in Unova, life was hard and busy and he kept himself distracted by stealing and starting fights, those kinds of things never lead to relationships; kissing, or anything else. He'd never even held someone's hand beyond his parents as a young child, and even that was short-lived.[break][break]

"Y-yes, yep, all... done" He steps away quickly, not giving himself the chance to dwell on thoughts and subconscious wishes, all-but snatches the lights Barnaby delicately pulled down into his own hands and turns away again to take a look at them. Looking for bite marks, claw marks, perhaps? Anything that would give a clue, and anything that would focus his mind away from... wandering.[break][break]

As Barnaby speaks again, a part of Izzy wants to tell him to stop talking and go away forever - it's childish, but it would certainly solve his current problems. Sadly, the taller man is making a valid point, as Izzy's eyes find their way to the crumb trail too, beside a clod of half-chewed tinsel and the shattered remnants of what was once a candy cane-striped bauble.[break][break]

"Ah. Yeah... guess we are." He looks up at Barnaby, then back on the trail. "...I'll go. Ahead, I mean. You can come too. If you want. Not that you... have to. Ugh--" He hurried off before he made even more of a fool of himself.

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POSTED ON Dec 22, 2021 0:46:13 GMT

However self-assured and immaculate Barnaby perceived himself to be, he did have some flaws. A big one being... well, he liked to indulge. Blame it on his Kalosian heritage. And in this particular instance...

God, was he a tease. He just couldn't help himself.

Izzy's visceral reactions didn't help lessen this impulse, either. The deepening of his blush, the catching of his breath, his stuttering response and hasty retreat. Barnaby didn't miss a thing. And it intoxicated him.

"I'd love nothing more than to accompany you." One sweet sentiment followed by another, "Wouldn't want you to get snatched up by whatever's causing this mess, hm?"

The pair followed the trail of broken things for a while longer, but didn't immediately find the culprit. Time to bring out a little extra assistance. Emphasis on little. Barnaby released one of his newer Pokémon, a particularly diminutive Eevee. The tiny beast squeaked happily as it shook out its coat. The jingle of sleigh bells rang out as it did so; Barnaby had fitted the little guy with a festive collar for the holidays.

"Pepin, lend us a HELPING HAND, love? We're trying to find whatever did this." Barnaby gestured around at the general chaos surrounding them.

The Eevee nodded excitedly before putting its nose to the ground. It circled the area for a moment, then - it was off!
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Izzy had enough troubles dealing with physical contact and hot guys as it was, but if he knew that Barnaby was doing all of this on purpose? Dead. On the floor. Deceased. His poor, sweet, secretly romantic and also virgin-since-teenagerhood heart can't handle it all. So many hormones, so many emotions.[break][break]

"Right, yeah, um--" He clears his throat and thinks to himself just how great it would be to be snatched up by whatever wild pokémon haunted the sub's halls, and maybe to get violently bitten apart and not have to think about Barnaby Finch any longer.[break][break]

Nothing jumped out at them just yet, though, and his partner for the day has his own idea. He releases one of his pokémon: a tiny - very tiny - Eevee, festively decorated with a jingling collar. Izzy takes inspiration and begins to grab one of his own pokéballs, but after the drama that Myszko caused the last time he'd been with Bee, he didn't want to embarrass himself further, and instead goes for a different ball than his usual Salandit.[break][break]

As the darling little Pepin disappears around a corner, following it's nose (wherever it goes), Izzy lets out his Torracat to assist.[break][break]

"Czer, follow that Eevee. Don't let it get jumped on, yeah?" The thing was so small, after all, if it happened to come across whatever chompy beast had chewed on the decorations, it might not stand a chance on it's own.[break][break]

He almost stops for a moment to after you to Barnaby, but shakes it out of his head. This was his mission, after all, Izzy couldn't go all blushy and submissive anytime someone offered to help him out. Not on the submarine, at least, where anyone could see! Instead, he balls his fists a little and steps forward to follow the Eevee first.[break][break]

"Keep up" He says, simply, before disappearing around a corner.

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POSTED ON Dec 24, 2021 16:48:56 GMT

Barnaby smiled as he watched Izzy give directions to his Pokémon. The shorter man seemed a little different, somehow, since their last encounter. More confident. Well, at least when it came to work and not Barnaby's teasing.

"Thank you," He grinned, adding, "Pepin could use the help. Who knows what's up ahead."

Pepin was surprisingly fierce, though. Napoleon complex, perhaps? Whatever the case, he wasn't to be underestimated. The little guy knew devastating moves like Double-Edge and Iron Tail - and he wasn't afraid to use them. However, the EEVEE chirped a happy greeting as Izzy's TORRACAT ran up beside him.

"Oooh~ Lead the way."

By the way he marched subduedly forward, you'd think Izzy was Charon, leading the dead to the Underworld. Barnaby would have happily followed, regardless.
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Was Izzy more confident in just the short time he'd known Barnaby? If you'd asked him, he'd probably think a resounding no, but perhaps it was more to do with how he felt around Bee himself. He'd only met with him properly twice, once at the old house and once now here, and seen him in the distance at Rocket functions... but he did feel a little more comfortable with him, in general, then he had. Maybe it was to do with Barnaby's demeanour - flirty and confident though it was, it was also relaxing; as though Izzy didn't have to pretend to be someone he wasn't.[break][break]

"Hopefully not ghosts again, huh?"[break][break]

Czerwony, despite being much larger than the little Eevee, allowed Pepin to lead. It was refreshing for Izzy to own a fire type that didn't have brain worms and wasn't constantly causing trouble, but the cat kept up calmly as Izzy followed along, and then, in tow, Barnaby.[break][break]

"Don't say it like that" He half-grumbles, but there's a slight smile-tone in the way he says it. He's never been flirted with much as far as he remembers, but there's silliness in the way Barnaby ooooh~s at him, and it's almost like sharing a joke with a friend.[break][break]

They turn a corner again into a side-room, seemingly used to store things that didn't have a place anywhere else. Boxes full of tat and shelves housing broken pokéballs that someone probably kept around with the intent to fix but never did.[break][break]

Splayed across the floor was a crunched-up display of various baubles, decorations and sprigs of plastic tree. Izzy frowns as the two pokémon head in to sniff about.[break][break]

"The hell happened here? This shit looks like it's been chewed to bits"

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"Haha, hopefully not. I'm not looking to repeat that experience." Although, their escapade in the house on Phantom Lane had introduced them to one another, so perhaps it wasn't so bad.

Their search continued until the pair found themselves at the end of a long hall, cramped in a small side-area. It looked as if a Delibird had emptied its sack into the room and then promptly jumped all over the contents. Holiday decorations of all kinds were strewn about, destroyed, but also added to the mix were various half-opened gifts.

Barnaby moved forward and knelt to inspect the presents. Luckily, most of them were intact and still had the gift tag attached. They could be salvaged and returned just in time for the annual ROCKET holiday party.

"Whatever this is... it's pretty bold to cause so much mischief and leave a trail in its wake." He observed, rubbing one of the discarded ribbons between his fingers.

Suddenly, Pepin went berserk. His ferociously tiny squeaks, paired with the jingling of his collar, echoed throughout the storage room. The little guy was clawing at the base of a nearby shelving unit, nestled in the very back corner of the space. A box at the very top of the shelf started to shift suspiciously.

Barnaby let the ribbon slip from his fingers and quickly righted himself. Perhaps unconsciously, he stepped a little closer to the shorter man and raised an arm up in warning.

"Careful, Izzy... this might be it."
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"Pft. Tell me about it"[break][break]

The haunted house had sucked, for sure, and while it had indeed made it so Izzy and Barnaby had met and become, eh... "friends", in some way, it also just fuckin' sucked. And that was coming from someone who adored ghost types, like Izzy did. Not to mention the fact that he still hadn't handed in the Yamask he'd caught there...[break][break]

"Probably something looking to cause trouble, then, right? Or I guess it could just be some pissy water type that snuck in from outside" Czerwony took his moment to sniff around the outside of the door - always one to feel more comfortable keeping guard than pulling himself through small storage rooms.[break][break]

Izzy turns up some gifts and ribbons himself until his attention is drawn by the sounds of his partner's Eevee, the little thing peeping and squeaking and jingling as it dug it's little body close to one of the shelving units.[break][break]

Subconsciously moving towards it, he collides softly with Barnaby's outstretched arm. He moves away, forever over-aware of physical touch and his apprehension towards it, even in a situation that could be counted as dangerous - in truth, Izzy could receive life-saving mouth-to-mouth and still be like wtf don't touch me that's so embarrassing... after regaining consciousness.[break][break]

Izzy looks up at Barnaby and nods, reaching for his belt and pulling a pokéball from it and letting out his trusty Inkay.[break][break]

"Check that box, Wira, but be careful"[break][break]

The little squid floats up and gently pats her tentacles against the outside of the box, waiting a few seconds, and then squeaking delightedly when something from inside taps the same tune out towards her. Again, as if performing a song, she pats again - three on the left, two on the right. A few seconds go by and the box replies in the same way, three little taps to the left, two little taps to the right.[break][break]

Izzy furrows his brow and Wira looks at him expectantly. He looks at Barnaby then back at his Inkay, and sighs a little. "I... sure, open it, yeah- doesn't seem like it wants to attack" He pauses then adds, quieter "Not yet, at least..."[break][break]

As Wira peels open the folded top of the cardboard box, a pink and purple head peeks out. It climbs out and begins to interact with Wira, still holding small pieces of Christmas decoration in it's hands. The two chatter briefly, and Izzy furrows his brow harder. Culprit found, sure, but a larger question remained...[break][break]

"...How the hell did some random Impidimp get on the sub?"

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The soft thud on his outstretched arm barely registered to Barnaby, but he lowered it nonetheless. His attention was soon focused on the floating INKAY and the suspicious movement on the shelf. A few tense moments passed as the box answered Wira's thumps and then, finally, a pink head emerged. A stowaway! How the hell did it manage to get past all their security?

"I... have no idea." He responded, almost laughing at the absurdity of the situation.

Knowing it was caught and that its rampage had come to an end, the IMPIDIMP hung its head in defeat. There was no getting out of this predicament, after all - he was completely surrounded by three Pokémon and their trainers!

"Come on, little one. Time to answer for your crimes." Barnaby beckoned the imp forward with his index finger. Surprisingly, it did as instructed until it was slumped at the tall man's feet. The poor thing honestly seemed terrified now that it'd been caught. Crouching down closer to their stowaway, Barnaby withdrew a Poké Ball from his pocket and presented it to the IMPIDIMP.

"It's alright, mon chou. You've had your fun, now I'm sure you just want to go home, hm? Come with me and I'll take you there." The imp looked at him, then down to the ball, then back at him. Up, down, up, down. It seemed an eternity had passed until it stretched a shaky hand to the middle of the red and white ball. Then, a second later, their investigation was complete.

Still kneeling, Barnaby looked up at Izzy (for once, bless the smol man) with a winning smiling. "We solved the case! Dare I say that went more smoothly than last time?" He winked and then continued, "We're getting better at this."

Great, that was done. Now... to clean the mess. Sigh. A grunt's work is never complete.

[after much cleaning and redecoration]

"Oh, Izzy, I almost forgot. There's something I wanted to give you. Let's go to my room real quick." It wasn't so much a suggestion as an assumption. Barnaby turned to leave and had full faith that Izzy would follow. After a few winding hallways, they arrived.

Barnaby's living quarters on the sub, like all low-level ROCKETs, was nothing to write home about. The space was tight, with little else besides a twin bed and a small dresser. A far cry from his lavish penthouse back in Mauville Hills, but Barnaby figured this was the price that he'd have to pay to climb his way to the top.

He casually waved for Izzy to sit, which in such a small space meant on Barnaby's bed. While his guest made himself comfortable, he'd open the top drawer of his dresser and pull out something dark and spherical. It was a Luxury Ball, adorned with a sparkling red bow.

Taking a seat beside Izzy, Barnaby smiled as he extended the gift toward the smaller man. "A little something for the holidays." He'd wait for the present to be accepted before continuing, "It's a Gengar I found lurking about. I figured you might like it on your team."
Izydor Baranowski
mission: TRAPINCH WHO STOLE XMAS
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