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No, Henry is definitely not home right now.

Envy's not sure what to do this time. Last time he'd just sort of yelled until Henry snapped out of it. Maybe a loud noise...but he also isn't looking to get attacked with a molten Heatmor Pocket.

So he goes to stand on the other side of the couch when he drops an entire Pokemon chemistry textbook onto the floor with a loud, sharp WHAM.

The book does the trick. Henry's body does an impressive full-body jump without his feet ever leaving the floor. He actually turns in a different direction and looks down the hall before his eyes flutter and he returns to the present.

He spots Envy. And those terrible rattling windows again. There's melted cheese running down his hand from the split side of the Heatmor pocket.

"Oh...I did it again."

"Yeah...you did. What happened?"

Did he see something out the window? Now that Henry's back to himself, Envy walks back around the couch and over next to his friend, glancing out the window too. Had Henry seen something spooky out there? He has no idea.

"Nothing I--was just remembering. It hasn't stormed for a while and I don't guess I was expecting it...oh. Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow."

He finally noticed the molten cheese. He hissed through his teeth and rushed over to the paper towels.

"My apartment used to do that even without it being stormy out. More--uh. Evil god stuff."

Envy starts forward at Henry's 'ows', but there's not a whole lot he can do to help with cheese burns.

"You okay?"

He looks back towards the windows, just as another gust of wind and rain buffets the house and rattles them more. It has to be the rattling, right? They're not really doing anything else. That's something he can do!

"Here, hang on, I'll try--"

He goes over to them and starts fiddling with the latches and pressing on the frame, trying to see if there's any way to get them to hold still.

Henry looked up from where he was tending his hand. Every time it happened, Henry found himself touched by how this group he'd fallen into just...accepted his weird ticks. And what was more--even tried to relieve him of anything that set him off. He couldn't remember the last time there was chocolate milk in the fridge.

It was the little things.

"Thanks, Envy...luckily, I don't think anything else that was wrong with my apartment can happen in this world."

Suddenly triggered flashbacks are something that Envy--all homunculi, really--can understand very well.

"Well, I sure hope not, because just from what I've heard--"

Envy doesn't get to finish his sentence, because he moves the latch just a little bit too much, while pressing on the window frame, and it swings open into the storm, taking Envy halfway outside with it while he tries to go for it to pull it closed again against the wind.

In the bushes outside the window, a whole lot of pairs of yellow ears poke out curiously. A way inside!

Before Envy even knows what's happening, there are Pikachus leaping up onto his head and scrabbling over him to pile inside.

"Henry!"

When his friend is halfway ENGULFED BY THE STORM, Henry abandons his hotpocket on the counter and hurries across the living room to help.

"Envy, what--"

And then they arrived. Henry is at the window, one arm on the sill, the other reaching for the back of his friend's shirt to help tug him to safty but THEY HAVE COME. One after another, what quickly becomes dozens of soggy yellow bodies start piling into the house.

Henry started yelling because that's really all you can do.

Envy is yelling too. Everyone is yelling, except for the Pikachus who are alternately making darling squeaking sounds and hissing like an opossum who's had a light shined on it.

On one hand, they're lucky that nobody else is home right now to see this because it's embarrassing.

On the other, there's nobody to help.

But Henry's help turns out to be enough for Envy to at least get hold of the edge of the window and yank it back inwards, slamming it closed as he falls backwards.

"Get the latch!"

There are soaking wet yellow rats everywhere.

Once Envy was no longer being devoured by the storm, Henry reeled backward, letting go, and spinning around to look at the...new problem that they had.

There were so many.

"There are so many."

Henry slowly brought a hand to the side of his brow as though he suddenly had a headache. What on earth were they going to do with them? A terrible rattling startled Henry out of his shock because now that the window was swinging free it was noisier than ever.

He had to finish what Envy started!

With a grunt, Henry steadied the window and reached up to twist the latches. A last Pikachu managed to flatten itself out like a creepy little rodent pancake and squeeze through the gap without losing the tip of her tail. With a loud snap, the portal to the Pikachu dimension was shut.

Edited 2016-03-29 02:44 (UTC)

The window is closed, but they've still got a big Problem.

"How are we going to get them out?!"

Envy's trying to sit up, and the ten seconds his head was outside in the downpour was enough to get him dripping wet too, and he tries to get his hair out of his face enough to try and see the rodent horde. There are so many, and they're all scurrying around exploring or shaking water off.

Envy drags his hands down his face, slowly.

That's when thunder crashes particularly loudly, and the lights flicker and go out.

"Really?!"

Edited 2016-03-29 03:10 (UTC)

"I could go get the broom...or we could get a big blanket and try to scare them into a corner."

Henry had seen something similar on an episode of No More Box Space on television.

But then he was out of ideas because they were plunged into darkness.

"Oh."

Well that sure happened.

"Boo, come out!"

In a burst of red light that sent all their new housemates' ears standing straight up, the Litwick appeared and yawned. They could now see, but at the cost of Henry growing increasingly drowsy right out of the gate.

"Come on...let's...find the camping lantern."

Envy's face screws up with an unsure expression when Henry calls Boo out for exactly that reason. He doesn't want to wind up with Henry asleep on the floor and having to deal with the swarm all by himself.

They'll just have to find the lantern quickly.

"I think I saw it in the front closet last?"

OFF THEY GO TO FIND IT. Envy walks close to Henry just in case he keels over.

With Boo on his shoulder, Henry stumbled along. Closet...closet. He remembered there being a closet somewhere.

"Oh yeah..." He broke into another enormous yawn and one of the nearby Pikachu copied him. If all else failed, maybe all the yellow creatures would just fall asleep.

Soon enough the closet presented itself and Henry cracked it open oh so carefully in case Wrath was in there and decided to surprise him.

"Do you see it?"

Luckily for everyone, Wrath is not hiding in the closet like a goblin today. The camping lantern isn't immediately visible, but Envy could have sworn they stuck it in here last time they used it. So he goes digging through all the coats and umbrellas, until he gets to the back corner. And there it is!

"Found it! Here, put Boo away before you fall over."

He flicks on the light, further illuminating the number of Pikachu that are milling around their feet.

Boo was patted for doing a great job and dismissed. It only took a few moments for Henry to straighten back up. His eyes widened at the flood of yellow creatures they were now left with.

"Envy...what are we going to--ah!"

One of them was CLIMBING HIM. Another had started wiping itself off on his pants leg.

Envy is staring too, almost as wide eyed, and jumps when Henry shouts. He reaches over and plucks the yellow rodent off of Henry with no real resistance from the Pikachu...but now he's holding a Pikachu.

"....well, shit. I don't know if we can do anything about it."

He's also half soaking wet himself he doesn't have the patience to herd rats right now. He sets the squirming Pikachu back down on the floor, but it sticks around near their feet. In fact, more and more of them are noticing the light and are coming over to them. Envy sighs heavily.

"Let's just go in the kitchen I guess, before they drip all over the floor and we get in trouble with Greed later."

Henry nodded and picked his way through the pikachu like a cat walking through dew. Despite his best efforts, at least two more were climbing him by the time they were all standing on the kitchen tile.

"I didn't pay attention to the weather report...how long is this supposed to last? What are we going to say when someone comes home to find all of this?"

He gestured to the sea of yellow rats.

"What if more come in when they open the door?"

"No idea, I didn't pay attention either."

Envy stops and takes a moment to wring his hair over the sink. Ugh, it's going to take forever to dry...

"We can just tell them what happened...sort of. In a way that makes it sound less like I fell out the window."

"But you absolutely fell out the window."

Henry stated this plainly and without bias. Almost without realizing it, he reaches down to pat one of the shivering Pikachus attached to his right knee.

"Think they're hungry?"

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean everyone needs to know."

The Pikachu are all beginning to really gather in around them from where they were scattered around the living room before, making the kitchen floor look more like some kind of moving yellow carpet than linoleum. Envy looks down at the squeaking horde.

"...maybe. Do we have enough treats? I don't want to start giving them anything if we don't have enough."

Henry gave a thoughtful hum. He knew what he had to do.

"Be right back."

The taller man retreated back into the gloomy house, Pikachu and all, and much thumping around is heard. Finally he returns with a humorously large bag of Dodritos.

"If they all get one each that should be enough."

As he speaks, his voice is tight. This is quite the sacrifice he's making here.

Envy's eyes widen as he sees Henry prepare to make that sacrifice. Meanwhile, a whole bunch of little ears tilt towards Henry. Noses start twitching.

The Dodritos.

"I'll buy you a new one."

There is a hiss of air and the crinkling of plastic as the bag is opened and Henry slowly lowers himself to the kitchen floor.

"Alright, everyone, line up. If you know what a line is. You're rats. I don't know."

Thunder cracks overhead again. Somewhere down the street, a pair of Houndoom start yowling.

"It's going to be a long night."

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