Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 18: Adults Night
The next day had come and gone for Gar and the health of his ears were still steadily declining with everyday Mic taught them. It was about three hours since class had ended and all students were released to go home. Gar was sitting in the nearly completed dorm at the couches, in nothing but his boxers and sweatshirt, munching on some chips, while watching TV with a few of his Pokemon around him. As he comfortably flicked through channels, he heard someone enter the dorm. He turned his head to the new person and saw the pro hero and math teacher of UA, Ectoplasm, standing in the doorway.
Gar waved at the man, mouth half full of chips and greeted him. "Hey Okina."
"Greetings Garfield.", The man replied.
A silence fell over them until Gar asked, "Sooooooo do you need something?"
"I came to ask you a strange question. If that's alright.", Ectoplasm stated.
"That depends on the question.", He said back while turning his attention back to the tv.
"I heard a rumour floating around about you and I wanted to make sure it's true or not before diswading my students.", He went on.
Gar sighed in exasperation and stated, "Am I in a relationship? Yes, and happily so."
Ectoplasm looked at him weirdly and stammered out, "I, uh, er, what? No no no no! Not that.", He took a breath to steady himself and asked, "Is it true you're actually 20 yrs old?"
Without looking from the screen he snapped his fingers and called out, "Rotom. Pull up my trainer ID."
The phone flew out of nowhere and floated into Ectoplasm hands. Ectoplasm watched as the Pokemon pulled up a picture of Gar with his name, height, weight, age, blood, and so forth. Ectoplasm's eye was first caught by the picture of Gar who looked much much much younger than he does now! Pasty skin with pudgy checks, and large eyes that held so much happiness and hope, with shorter uncolored hair, and braces. Along with a smile and auar of pure adrenaline filled excitement that could rival Izuku! Ectoplazma had to suppress his laughter from how cute he looked! If it weren't for the mask, he would have the biggest goofiest grin right now.
Gar could tell from his body language what he was actually looking at. He sighed a moan of embarrassment and stated, "Yeah, it's an old photo. I…. never got around to change it."
Ectoplasm pulled his eyes away from the photo and towards the info where he saw his date of birth, which was only a few years off from their current year, so that made Gar just a few years older than he is.
Letting the phone go he said, "Huh? So you are."
As Rotom flew back to Gar, the older teen still continued to watch the tv while Sableye climbed up his body and onto his face, and asked, "Any reason you wanted to know?"
Ectoplasm looked flustered at first, as he shuffled uncomfortably in his full body cape, but eventually asked him, "Well I know you've been stressed out these last couple of days, and a few of the others and I are going to a bar. So I was wondering if you'd-?"
Suddenly he was cut off as Gar exploded from the couch practically yelling, "Oh yes please! I've never been this stressed in my whole life, let alone in one week! And the week isn't even over! I need alcohol in my body! I could down four bottles of saké by myself!"
Ectoplasm stared at the suddenly hyper teen for several moments, as Sabeleye hung onto his hood by its teeth. After some more awkward silence between the two and a stare down that could rival the ones in western movies, Ectoplasm finally said, "I'll take that as aaaaaaaaaaa yes?"
Gar gave a relaxed sigh and in a much calmer tone he said, "Yes, I'd love to get some drinks.", Gar looked down at his 'attire' and quickly followed up saying, "But first I should change into something more appropriate."
Ectoplasm looked down at his own and agreed with him, saying, "So do I. I'll meet you by the gate and we'll go from there."
Local Bar
Meanwhile at one of the town local bars, several of the UA staff were standing outside waiting for their last arrival in their civilian clothing. The heroes were Nurmie aka Midnight, Shota aka Eraser Head, Yamada aka Present Mic, Sekijiro aka Vlad King, Nezu, Thirteen, Ken aka Cementoss, and Kanaga aka Snipe. Some of the heroes were making small talk, Nurmie fixed her makeup and hair for the hundredth time, Shota stood in the background quietly, and Present Mic was tweeting on his phone and taking pictures of the establishment or with the other heroes.
Shota saw this and sighing softly he complained, "Would you stop that, we're trying to enjoy not doing work."
Mic waved him off and replied, "I'm tweeting, not working. Gotta give the fan what they want."
"That's still work.", Aizawa deadpanned.
Mic blew a raspberry at him and stated, "Comeon Shota, you gotta live a little. Have some fun."
"I do have fun. In my own way.", he said back frimley.
Mic pulled down his glasses while shooting Aizawa a skeptical look and said, "Holding that pink body pillow sized pokemon around 24/7 dosent count as 'fun'.", while motioning to the Wigglytuff tucked under his arm.
Aizawa then hugged the pokemon to his chest and replied in a pout, "But it's comfy."
As the two men conversed, Midnight had just finished putting the finishing touches on her face when a cold wind blew by her and she exclaimed, "OH! Why'd it get so cold!?"
"Cause you're wearing such a revealing outfit.", Aizawa deadpanned.
Nurmie's casual wear today was that of a tank top, vest, and skirt with heels.
Midnight growled at him and stated back while rubbing her arms, "That's cause it was supposed to be warm tonight! When did it fall?"
"I think that's the cause.", Nezu butted in while pointing toward the sky.
The other heroes looked up and saw a large blue bird flying overhead. Sparkles, like that of crystals, emanate in a trail behind its ribbon long tail.
"Isn't that another of Garfield's pokemon?", Ken asked.
"Yeah, which one was it? That Legendary one with the ice.", Kanaga added in.
"Articuno, the Legendary bird of Ice. Able to generate and manipulate ice in any degree it chooses, and is responsible for keeping the earth magnetic alignment with the sun.", Nezu explained to the heroes, who all stared at him in surprise and confusion at his knowledge. Nezu noticed this and said, "I've talked with Garfeild a lot recently."
Just then, the bird flew towards the ground a few yards from the group of heroes, making the area become suginfitatlly colder. It landed in a cloud of sparkles and on its back was Gar and Ectoplasm, complained by two other pokemon. Both of which were in casual wear. Ectoplasm wore a normal shirt with jeans and shoes on his prosthetic legs, and Gar wore a muscle shirt with jeans, shoes, and his sweatshirt around his waist.
When the two men slid off the birds back, Ectoplasm had the most shell shocked expression as he said dazed, "That was perhaps the seventh most exersiling thing that's ever happened."
Gar snarked a laugh down as he stated back, "Seventh? Geeze, maybe I should try harder next time.", He pulled out a pokeball and returned the bird saying, "Thanks for the ride Articuno."
"Um, Garfield?", Ectoplasm called for his attention. "Are you sure it's safe for….this to be biting me?", he asked while pointing to Sableye, who was loving and lightly biting the top of his flat bowl haircut.
Gar chuckled and replied nonchalantly, "Sableye is just giving you love nips. If he starts to get too rough just pull on one of his ears and he'll stop."
Ectoplasm looked up nervously at his head where the small impish pokemon still continued to nibble on his head.
"Seems Okina-kun brought a pulse one.", Midnight observed while pushing up her glasses.
"I still can't believe Garfield is 20.", Cementoss stated.
"I still cant believe none of you noticed before.", Nezu added in.
"Garfield is 20?", Snipe asked.
"Heh, sweet. Bet the fan will love this.", Mic stated while not even paying attention to the scene, eyes glued to his phone screen.
Gar and Ectoplasm walked to the group who greeted the two individually, until Gar's eyes momentarily glazed over Nezu. When they did, his brain immediately released a butt tone of dopamine and adrenaline as it went into 'Gotta Catch Em All' mode, and he screamed while brandishing a pokeball, "A POKEMON!"
Ectoplasma grabbed his arm before he could throw the ball and stated, "No! That's Nezu!"
The adrenaline of dopamine immediately drained out of Gar' sas he took another look and saw it was Nezu he was attempting to catch. And Nezu didn't look pleased to be, yet again, attempted to be captured. Though the smile on his face didn't show it very well.
Gar relaxed his arm and after Ectoplasm let go, he nervously and embarrassedly apologized, "Hehehe, sorry about that….again. Force of habit. I'll properly recognize you as not a pokemon…..eventually."
Nezu didn't say anything but kept the cold and unflinching smile on his face while staring down Gar. Making the older teen start to sweat bullets.
After that awkward incident passed, Gar tried to strike up conversation again by saying, "But speaking of pokemon, I see someone still hasn't let go of Wigglytuff since I lent it to him.", he stated while looking up to the uncaring glaze of Aizawa. "And I see that certain someone is looking 100 times better since the last time I saw him. Mr Mummy."
Sekijio burst out belly laughing as Aizawa shot him a death glare and exclaimed, "That wasn't funny! Shut up!"
"It was hilarious! BWAHAHAHAHA! You did look like a mummy!", Sekijio bellowe out his laugh! Only making Aizawa growl.
"And I hope you've been actually taking care of Wigglytuff and not just holding and hugging him 24/7.", Gar stated as the hero still laughed.
"Don't be ridiculous, of course I've been feeding him. What kind of person would I be if I didn't.", Aizawa stated back a bit insulted.
Gar shrugged and shot back, "Just checking. Many household Wugglytuff die at a young age due to owner negligence, since they refuse to do anything but touch and hold them all day.", he then kneeled down to Wigglytuff's eye level in Aizawa's arm and asked in a cute voice, "Has he been taking care of you Wigglytuff."
Wigglytuff just spread out its stubby arms with a bright smile as it and a happy cry. Gar sighed in relief and sated, "That's good. Now can I have him back?"
"No.", Aizawa replied while turning away and hugging the squishy pokemon tighter.
"I'll trade ya.", Gar offered slyly.
"Gotta be a good trade.", Aizawa craned his head over to him with a sparkle of interest in his eyes.
As this was going on, Mic was still tapping away on his phone while pointed away from the group. Gar saw this and decided to pull a prank on the distracted man. Giving a sly smile in the direction of the man to the rest of the group, they all could tell what he was thinking, and by their smiles he could tell they were on board.
Gar started off by saying loudly, "Hey Everyone, I brought my pussy!"
This of all things actually got Mic's attention. It caught his attention so much that it also caught him off guard, so much so that he ended up tripping over his own feet and grabbing hold of a light post for dear life!
"OHHHHHHHHHH! That's such a nice looking pussy. Can I touch it?", Midnight asked with a coo.
"Sure, this spot right here is a good one.", Gar offered.
"Your pussy is so soft and sleek.", Ken stated.
"I've never touched anything like it.", Sekijio added in.
"Can I get a handful of that pussy?", Aizawa asked.
With every word they spoke, Mic slowly started to slide off the pole till he was laying on the ground. He felt his stomach, senses, grasp on reality, bodily functions, all slip away from his grasp! His face was flush as he sweated profusely and his breath was rapid and horse. He didn't know if he was having a fever dream or if this was real! But he had to make it stop and now!
So he quickly got to his knees and pointed a convicting finger while shouting, "What the hell are you guys doing! In the middle of the street in publiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…", Mic trailed off as he finally saw what everyone was actually doing.
The other heroes were all standing around and petting a very large pokemon that looked like a panther sized Siamese cat with a red gem in its head. All the heroes were trying their best not to laugh at the blond man's flabbergasted expression, while both Gar and the cat pokemon were making the same smug expression.
"Oh hey Yamada, you finally decide to join us.", Gar said smugly.
"What are you guys doing?", Mic asked in a small yet dread filled voice.
"We're just petting Garfield's pussy, Persian. You wanna feel?", Aizawa offered with an unsettling smile.
Mic looked like he was having a crisis as he stammered out, "But I-I thought you-I-!"
"You what, Yamada? What did you think we were doing?", Midnight asked slyly while tucking a stray strand of hair out of her eyes.
Mic looked like he wanted to answer, or cover his ass but nothing came out. Just open air in his open mouth. Eventually he just picked himself off the ground and trying to hide his face in his jacket he quickly and embarrassedly said while entering the bar, "Nothing. Let's just get drunk already."
The moment Mic entered the building, everyone started to belly laugh so hard that some of them fell to the ground!
After the laughter ended, Midnight turned to Gar and asked him, "So you're not gonna try and go incognito after all the attention you've gotten recently?"
Gar shrugged while giving a defeated sigh and replied, "What the point? Even if I did, at some point someone was going to recognize me here, so I might as well not even try and hide it. Besides, that's why I brought Persian with me. Extra security in case I need it.", he explained while motioning to the smug looking cat.
The heroes managed to convince the waitress to give them a more private table at the back of the bar/restaurant away from the other pantances. Some of which recognize the heroes and Gar, especially with two of his pokemon out in view. Persian walked elegantly at Gar's side while Sabeleye rode on Ectoplasma shoulders, grabbing hold of the man's hair with its tiny legs around his neck, lightly kicking his collar bones as his head leaned backwards with his mouth open. Pretty much acting like an overly excited child.
Once they were seated they ordered drinks and a large stir fry for all of them to share. Gar, Aizawa, Ken, Sekijiro, Okina, and Kanaga all shared a bottle of Sake with each other while Nezu, Nurime, Yamada, and Thirteen all had regular beers. The heroes talked and laughed with one another as they ate and drank for the rest of the coming week.
Gar took another swig from his shot glass and stated, "Whooooooooo man! Thats some good sake! I can't even remember the last time I had a drink. Thanks for the invite Okina, I really needed this!"
"Considering you lived the life of a politician, a hero, a false crime victim, and it's not even the end of the week, I think anyone would need to get this.", Ectoplasm said while topping off Gars shot glass.
"Speaking of getting, you got Mic real good. I dont think Ive ever seen him that red before.", Aizawa chuckled while taking a sip as Wigglytuff tried to reach for the cup, seated in the man's lap.
"I don't think anyone has seen you laugh that hard before.", Sekijiro commented.
"Or at all.", Ken added.
Gar shrugged while taking a sip and said, "What can I say, the moment was too good not to take. Though I do feel a little bad. I mean, just look at him.", he motioned to Mic, who was sulkingly hiding his red face in his beer.
"If you were actually a student, I'd make you top of the class just for that.", Aizawa stated while taking another long sip.
"Speaking of which, I expect we'll see you back as our homeroom teacher tomorrow?", Gar asked with a bit of pleading in his voice.
Aizawa didn't notice the plea as he nodded and replied nonchalantly, "Chyio said I'm good to go, so yeah. Your pokemon really work wonders. The old lady didn't even have to use her quirk on me."
Suddenly Gar threw his hands in the air, spooking the pokemon and others at the table as he exclaimed, "Oh thank Arceus! I don't think my ears can take another lecture with Sensi Big Mouth."
"Now you know how I feel.", Aizawa laughing into his cup.
"Speaking of pokemon, could you tell your goblin thing to stop trying to eat my glass!", Ectoplasma stated as he tried to keep his shot glass out of reach from Sableye's grasp.
Suddenly the little pokemon changed gears and stopped trying to snag Ectoplasma's glass, he then hopped over the table to Snipe, who had just placed his glass down, and snatched it before he could react! The little pokemon then licked his lips, opened his mouth of sharp teeth, and then popped the glass right inside! The pokemon bit down and began to crunch the glass cup with a very painful sound! The other heroes watched in shock as the pokemon gobbled down the shot glass like a piece of meat and couldn't quite process what to do in retaliation. All while Gar looked less unfazed and more amused.
"Is that safe for him?", Sekijiro asked with some confusion and concern.
Gar nodded as he answered, "Sableye eat gemstones. Glass is like taffy for him."
Gar then flagged down a waitress and ordered a new shot glass and several empty beer mugs. The waitress came back a few minutes later with the glasses, and just in time as Sableye was eyeing Ectoplasm's glass again.
Gar gave the new shot glass to Snipe and handed one of the mugs to the small pokemon while saying, "Here buddy, eat this instead of our cups."
The tiny gemstones eyed pokemon took the large glass mug in his hands and in another moment he bit down on the mug and crunched off a large chunk while making more ungodly sounding chewing noises. The heroes watched on in disgust as the pokemon only seemed to enjoy every bite it took from the several glass mugs around it.
Snipe pointed to the pokemon and asked, "Knowing he eats gemstones, is giving him glass such a good idea health wise?"
"Aren't gemstones just minerals that have been put under heat and pressure? Kinda like how sandstone is turned into glass.", Gar explained.
The other heroes looked at him, then at each other, the back to him where Ken said, "You're….not wrong."
The other heroes looked like they wanted to voice their concern or disgust, until Nezu walked up with his own beer mug in hand and stated, "Don't worry so much about it Ken-kun. After all, young Garfeild here is an expert in the field of pocket monsters and I bet he wouldn't allow his pokemon to eat something they weren't supposed to."
The other didn't like this answer/ end of the topic, but respected nonetheless and dropped the topic as they queasily watched and listened to the small pokemon munch away on the mugs.
Gar took another sip from his glass and asked the small animal, "Speaking of my expertise, is it really okay for you to be drinking Nezu?"
"Why not? Of all the things people have made, alcohol is one of the best.", Nezu said cheerfully while downing the rest of his beer.
Gar looked a bit concerned at the intelligent animal as he followed up, "Yeah, but, aren't you like a poke-I mean, animal? Isn't that really bad for you?"
"Aren't humans technically animals, yet you still drink poison?", Nezu asked back smugly while asking a waitress for a refill.
GAr sweat dropped while replying, "Yeah, but like, part of our evolution and cultural base was ingrained in booze. We're designed to consume this stuff without dying. And you're just a really smart poke-I mean, animal."
"Yes but what kind of animal am I?", Nezu stated smugly with a glitter in his one good eyes.
"Oh boy, here we go again.", Aizawa pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Am I a dog, a rat, a small bear or a child?", Nezu continued, ignoring the groans and complaints from the others.
"Nezu, no.", Ken tried to stop him.
"I'm the principal of UA!", Nezu exclaimed triumphantly.
Gar's left eye twitches violently at his description, as he feels his 'Gotta Catch Em all' mode engage into full throttle wanting to know what Nezu really was. And says, "Now I really wanna catch you.", this only makes Nezu chuckle as he takes in a new drink and begins to spi on it.
As this happens, Persian is slinking around the table of men and eyeing Nezu like a piece of meat. Vulnerable, distracted meat. The pokemon licks its lips and gets into a crouching position ready to pounce on the unsuspecting animal.
Until Gar stopped dthe pokemon by grabbing his scruff and pulling him back while exclaiming frimley, "No Persian, that's not food."
Gar pulls the cat pokemon away and coming close to Nezu's ear he says in a low tone, "I'd watch him if I were you. He's crafty as a Scrafty."
Nezu looks at the pokemon, who stares back at him with a smile and expression that says, Don't worry. I'll get you eventually. Nezu gulps and decides to take his seat with the other beer drinkers, far away from Persian.
The Night continued on with more small talk, joking, eating and drinking around as the heroes reminisce and disques about the days ahead. Ken and Sekijiro even managed to get into a drinking contest with each other as Gar, Aizawa, Okina, and Kanaga watched in amusement. But eventually the two yielded at the same time, bringing the contest to a draw. Sableye finished off his glass beer mugs and scampered around the table looking or trying to disturb anyone he could for a laugh. Eventually he settled to sit on Okina's shoulder and watch the men drink, laugh, and talk.
Persian slunk around the table looking curiously at everyone as they focused on each other. The pokemon also seems to take a strong interest in Aizawa for some reason. Whether to play with his long hair, try and eat his capture weapon, or mess with Wigglytuff was unknown. As much as Aizawa loved cats, he really didn't like how Persian took every and any opportunity to mess and try and swipe Wigglytuff from his lap. Even going so far as to swipe a paw at the spoon he was using to feed the pink pokemon stir fry.
Aizawa tried to bring this to Gar's attention, but the older teen just waved it off and told him that when Wigglytuff had enough, he'd stop Persian quickly. Eventually that did happen, Persian tried to pull on one of Wigglytuff's ears and the pokemon got a grim look on its face that even made Aizawa quiver. The pokemon broke free from the hero and grabbed Persian by its whiskers and inflated its body till it was the size of All Might! The pink pokemon let out its cry in a deep and menacing tone, and Persian finally went submissive.
Once Persian has stopped its pestering of Wigglytuff, the pink pokemon lets the cat go and deflate right back to normal size. He then waddled right back into Aizawa's lap where it opened its mouth waiting to be spoon fed again. The other stared at Gar with shock and confusion on their faces and the teen just calmly and simply told them that Wigglytuff can suck in air and expand their bodies 20 fold.
After that experience passed, another eventful part of their night was when Persian decided to pester the beer drinker in an attempt to snag their food. The only person he managed to bamboozle was Mic. The pokemon put on a friendly cuddly cat manner and rubbed up to the man affectionately. Mic seems to really enjoy this until Persian uses his tail to block and district Mic attention. And once it was averted, the pokemon swiped his paw against his plate of stir fry and the whole thing clanked to the ground! Persina then lunged at the food and began to engorge himself on it!
"NOOOOOOOOOOO! My food! Bad cat! BAD!", Mic scolded the pokemon, who did not pay any attention to him.
Gar snorted a laugh as he said from across the table, "Like I said, you gotta watch him. He's crafty as a Scrafty. He knows that until it's on the floor it's not his."
"But my food! He tricked me!", Mic cried!
Nurime rolled her eyes and served him a new plate as she said, "Don't be such a baby, Yamada-kun. There's still plenty here.", as she served a new plate to the still crying man, she turned her attention to Gar and stated rhetorically, "And I wonder where your pokemon picked up that habit?"
Gar took another sip and explained, "Yeah, unfortunately it was me.", Mic gave a glare to the older teen with his mouth full, and even the other gave condescending glares at him. Gar looked around at them and defendedismelf saying, "What?! I was like 3 years old, sue me!"
After this passed, Sableye obviously got bored of just sitting and waiting, and then decided to climb down Okina and into his line of sight. The large mouthed man stared at the pokemon who stared back with his gemstone eyes for several seconds. The pokemon then bared his teeth at the man, making him jump a bit. But the pokemon just kept grinning his teeth at him. Ectoplasm and Sableye just kept staring at one another for several seconds until the large toothed man asked what the pokemon was doing.
Gar swallowed some of his stirfry and answered, "He's just having a grinning contest with you, that's all."
"Grinning contest?", he asked back.
Gar wiped his mouth leaned and explained further, "Even though Sableye are solitaire, they grin their teeth at one another in a display of passion, dominance, or play."
Okina looked back at the pokemon who was still staring at him with teeth shown bright. He sighed and decided to ignore the small pokemon.
"Well I can see why he started it.", Ken suddenly blurted out, gaining Ectoplasm's attention. "Your chompers could rival him any day.", he vexed him, causing everyone around to laugh!
Ectoplasm rolled his eyes and shot back, "Be happy he hasn't decided to sample you."
Ken stopped laughing for a moment and nervously looked over to the pokemon with sweat running down his neck!
Gar chuckled at this and reassured him saying, "Oh don't worry Ken. Sableye don't eat concrete, not good for their stomachs.", Ken sighed and Okina made a soft growl at Gar for taking his side. But the older teen pulled a fast one and followed up saying, "Although, even if he did, he wouldn't be sampling anything high quality."
This made everyone laugh again as it was now Ken's turn to lightly growl at Gar for taking sides!
"Speaking of teeth, for the longest time I thought those chompers were a part of your costume.", Gar blabbered out as he took another drink.
Okina looked at him weirdly and asked, "Why would I want to put big scary looking teeth into my costume?"
"Your costume as it is, is already pretty scary."
"Whadda mean?"
Gar sighed in slight irritation and stated, "Okina I'm gonna be blunt with you; if you were in any movie, I'd be a horror movie with you as the antagonist monster."
This made a few people laugh and Okina roll his eyes at the joke as he said back sarcastically, "Wow! Like I haven't heard that one before! 10/10 here fokes."
"Hey don't take it too hard on yourself. It's nothing braces can't fix.", Gar stated while patting his back.
"I'm sure you can attest to that.", Okina slid in craftily, making Gar spit up his drink!
"What?", Midnight asked with a sincere sparkle in her eyes as she materialized behind the group of men!
"Oh, you didn't tell them did you?", Okina asked vexingly.
Gar coughed the rest of his drink up and exclaimed with a convicting finger, "Okina, dont you fucking dare!"
"Tell us what?", Aizawa encouraged with a dry smile.
"Don't you get on it too!", Gar half yelled at him!
"Oh Rotom.", Okina called for the pokemon.
Though Gar gave the man a smug and self assured look as he knew his buddy would never sell him out for anything! However.
"At your service. Buzzt.", Rotom stated as he popped out of Gar's pocket.
"Rotom you get right back in my pocket this minute!", Gar shouted while trying to grab the phone!
Rotom made a thinking expression and humed, "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…..nope. Buzzt."
The pokemon then flew into the heroes hands where he showed Gar's Trainer ID with his cut old photo!"Here it is.", Okina said as Gar felt himself cave into his own being!
The heroes all crowded around one another as they stared at the photo of Gar, snickering, laughing, and cooing at the photo!
Midnight was the one who enjoyed it the most as she squealed happily, "OH MY GOD! Garfeild! You were such a cute boy!"
"Its an old picture!", Gar complained as he hid his face into his hands!
"And the braces make it even cuter.", Midnight cooed further as even Aizawa tried to stifle his laughter.
"Feeling embarrassed?", Ken patted the red faced teen back.
Gar looked at the man with malicious intent on his face as he growled, "Oh you want embarrassment Ken? I'll give you embarrassment!"
Ken immediately realized what Gar was alluding to, and nearly dropping his shot glass he stated with hands at the defense, "Garfield, lets not be hasty here."
Midnight's neck snapped to their conversation and zoomed behind them faster than wind! She leaned over both of them and exclaimed, "What?! More gossip? Tell me, tell me, tell me!"
Gar laughed and started to explain, "A few days ago, Ken here-."
"Garfield!", Ken tried to cut him off, but he still continued on.
"Watched me make food-."
"DONT!"
"In my underwear."
"GARFIELD! NO!"
Everyone looked strangely or sweat dropped at Ken who was trying to hide his face in his hands. Until Midnight suddenly exclaimed, "OMG! Ken you perv!"
"It was an accident! I didn't know how to approach him.", Ken tried to defend himself.
"And your best course of action was to watch me in utter silence for 30 minutes?", Gar shot back with a smug smile and malicious look in his eye.
At this time everyone was belly laughing at the stone faced heroes who was more read than a sidewalk covered in red chalk! Even Sableye and Persian laughed with them!
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", Ken squealed into his hands. He then looked desperately at the phone pokemon and begged, "Rotom, please tell me you have something even worse than an old photo?!"
Rotom smiled and replied, "Buzzt. Better, I have a baby photo!"
Gar shot his head to the pokemon ad exclaimed, "You don't mean...that one!", Rotom smiled sinisterly at him and Gar turned pale and he yelled, "Rotom don't you dare!"
"Too late. Buzzt.", Rotom said as he flew up into the air and pulled up a new photo on his screen for all the heroes to see.
This one was of a much much younger looking Gar. No older than 2 years old, fat as a piglet, with sparse spotty hair on his head, cute little overalls with no shirt, a big pair of purple glasses on his face, the brightest and cutest smile adorned with pudgy cheeks, while holding a cat pokemon that was just too big for him to carry. The pokemon looked like Persian, but significantly smaller, with a different shape, and a coin on its forehead instead of the gem.
All the heroes were trying so hard to hold back their laughter and baby voice at the sight of baby Gar! Until Midnight broke the mold again and exclaimed, "Look at how pudgy and cute you look! And Glasses! This couldn't get any better!"
"Why the glasses?", Aizawa asked after stuffing his laughter away.
Without taking his head off the table, where he slammed it down, he answered, "I was born extremely nearsighted. I got corrective surgery when I was 4."
"And look at the cat! It's so big and you're so small you can barely hold it off its feet!", Midnight cooed while laughing!
At this point some of the heroes were belly laughing so hard they had fallen out of their seats and were rolling on the ground! Making the whole experience even worse for Gar!
"Buzzt. That Meowth in the pic is actually the Persian with you all. Buzzt.", Rotom explained.
Mic looked toward the giant cat pokemon, who was trying to sneakily eat the big plate of stir fry while everyone wasn't looking, and asked, "You mean him?"
Still without bringing his head up, Gar explained in a muffled tone, "It was my moms before she gave it to me. So in some ways you could say that Persian was my first pokemon ever."
Thirteen, who had been quite most of the night, finally spoke out and stated, "I don't believe you."
Gar lifted up his head, revealing his beet red face, and said in a serious tone, "I see where this is going. You just want me to do an after shot with Persian.", all the heroes smiled at the older teen, practically begging him with their faces! Gar couldnt help but get suckerd into doing it, no matter how embarrassed he felt right now. And coinciding defeat he moaned, "UGH! Fine! Only if this conversation will drop."
Gar then got up from his seat, but not before taking another swing straight from the Sake bottle, and marched over to Persian, where he scooped the pokemon under its front limbs and pulled him up to his height. Gar stuck a pose similar to what he looked like in the baby photo, albeit without the happy smile, glasses, and overalls. Persian on the other hand looked totally fine with this, as he leaned back against Gar with eyes closed and a relaxed body posture. Perisan was still too big or long for Gar to hold above his body length and the cat's back legs stayed sweeping against the ground, just like in the picture.
"Happy?", gar complained.
"The boy to cat ratio stayed the same!", Midnight snorted out, which made everyone laugh at the older teen still holding the relaxed oversized pokemon.
"Cute.", Aizawa commented while making an unsettling smile, while Wigglytuff bounced in his lap.
Gar received more comments like Aizawa's in between bursts of laughter, and felt his face grow hotter and redder with every second! Persain could sense Gar's rising emotional turmoil and began to purr in an attempt to calm him down. Which only worked enough for the embarrassed teen to blather out comprehensible words.
"Can we please get back to drinking?", he asked in a low tone as everyone was still laughing at him, to which Persian gave him a comforting lick on the face, only making Gar even more embarrassed and sad.