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_{[The interior of a disheveled Violet Poke'Mart as seen through a crack in a heavy door is the backdrop for today's broadcast from Maurice. The building has been evacuated save for himself and an entire pride of colorful lions shoving things off shelves and fighting one another for a bag of Magikarp-shaped sweet rolls Maurice had dropped all over the register.]

[And where is Maurice? Held up in the janitor's closet. When he speaks, his voice is low.]}

I don't think they saw where I went...

_{[The plastic casing of the Poke'gear creaks a little as he fumbles it around so that the camera is pointing at him. His work uniform is sooty, his hair is standing up from crackling static electricity and he is very clearly missing an eyebrow. Tucked under each arm is a sleepy Litleo cub and a Shinx who is trying to eat his name tag.]}

Managed to grab these little guys on my way back here...they're so cute. Guys. They're so cute, I thin I'm gonna cry... _{[He actually sniffs.]} Or maybe it's my allergies. I haven't actually met any cat Pokemon until now.

But since I think we're gonna be in here for a while...anybody got any ideas for names for these little guys? The fire lion who kissed my eyebrow off is a girl and the blue one who just swallowed my name tag is a boy.

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KISSER AND EATER.

That's what you should name them.

_{[You're welcome.]}

_{[Maurice opens his mouth...then he shuts it.]}

I think I wanna save KISS for a Pokemon that's black and white.

_{[Wrath tilts his head. The pop culture reference is completely lost on him.]}

Why?

_{[Don't you worry, Wrath, Maurice is ALL KINDS OF READY to teach the youth of today about the power of ROCK.]}

There's this group of musicians where I'm from--and they're AWESOME. And when they go on stage, they paint up their faces in black and white. They're called KISS and I wanna name a Pokemon that looks more like 'em after 'em.

_{[He tilts his head the OTHER way.]}

Why do they paint their faces?

Is it war paint?

_{[He understands war paint!]}

Kinda, yeah! Only they're fighting with music!

... How do you fight with music?

_{[He likes music a LOT, but he fails to see how it could have any connection whatsoever to fighting.]}