Another 2 story? I must be on a roll... or really venting a lot of stress from school =,= anyway this is a sequel/continuation to this story
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The picture here was drawn by the wonderful  Myoti and haphazardly colored by me, original print of it can be found here ^,^
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In this chapter we not only find out more about Petie's mysterious older cousin Barry but we get to see him in an actual match. What sicrets does the cubchoo hide? How powerful and skilled is he? How many times will he be motivated to smack Petie? Read to find out! =D

Special thanks to  asuraludu for letting me use his characters and RPing with me to help the story ^,^

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Petie & Barry owned by me
Raidy, Cathy & Gina, and Jessica owned by asuraludu
Pokemon owned by neither of us

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PCA – The Bear Truth 2



“Damn it brat, when are you gonna learn to change your own damn diapers?”

“I-I’m trying…”

“Try harder! And roll over, gotta get your tail through the hole in the back.”

“T-thank you Barry…”

“Yeah, yeah whatever… don’t make a scene of it. There, now get up and get lost.”

“… w-wanna hang out a little?”

“Ha ha ha… no.”

“… please?”

“No.”

“Pleeeeeease?”

“Ugh, FINE. If you’re gonna be a baby about it. I got some time to kill.”

It’d been a normal day at the PCA for Petie including trying to hide and get help when he’d needed a change… that’s when he’d bumped into Barry. Despite barely knowing the guy Petie already felt a close kinship with his older cousin, he’d never known about till earlier this week, simply on the basis that Barry had apparently gone through what he’d gone through and beaten it. The older bear had insulted Petie, cussed, grumbled, and then lead Petie off to an out of the way locker room and changed him despite all of that.

Sitting there in his new diaper Petie was looking at Barry as the cubchoo was packing away the changing supplies into the teddiursa’s backpack and doing his best to pretend Petie didn’t exist. There were so many questions Petie wanted to ask the bear but he had no clue where to start. He’d thought he was completely and utterly alone with suffering through wetting himself like a toddler… but apparently Barry went through it too and beat it! How did he do it? Could Barry help him do it too? Suddenly a light rap on the noggin snapped Petie out of his thinking as Barry glared at him.

“If you got something to ask brat, ASK. Don’t stare stupidly at me.”

“Uh… um… er…”

“Arceus, just start going goo-goo gaa-gaa if you’re going to act like this! TALK ALREADY YOU BRAT!!”

“Please tell me more about you!”

Petie squeaked as he was shouted at, shutting his eyes tightly and expecting to be smacked due to the usual relations he had with his older brother… the smack never came as a rough chuckling sound greeted his ears instead. He opened his eyes to find Barry leaning back against the lockers and looking up as he pulled a piece of bubblegum out of his pocket at started chewing it. “That all?” he asked “Really brat, your setting your expectations way too damn high if you think I got anything special to tell.”

“… I’d still like to hear it, you’re my cousin after all…” Petie said trying to sound as mature as he could after Barry’s earlier comment… before he blushed and held his paw out “And can I have some of that bubblegum?” he asked cutely making Barry roll his eyes and reluctantly give the teddiursa a piece. Petie noisily chewed on it for a moment as Barry blew a bubble… that got popped by his frozen booger much to his annoyance. Wiping it off his face he took a deep breath “Well for starters I took after my dad in his younger days and looked sickeningly cute from birth apparently.”

He paused to chuckle again “I’ll admit, I was a little punk-ass brat from the moment I hit school. Always got mistake for a toddler or little kid so I decided I’d fucking prove to them I wasn’t by being the toughest little shit they ever dealt with… got punched a lot back then since I couldn’t back it up too well. Got some bones broken too.” He blew another bubble “Yeah… not that it stopped me any though, I just got worse and worse… hell I managed to con my way into getting a friend of a friend to give me this.” He said turning his back to Petie and yanking up his shirt.

Petie blinked in confusion till he saw what Barry was talking about. Plastered across the cubchoo’s back was a large tattoo of an angry Duskull mask. The teddiursa had to admit it look pretty cool. “Oh you won’t BELIEVE how hard my folks busted my ass for this once they found out.” Barry said, laughing like it was a happy memory “But after that things started going downhill like a gravler some fuckwit kicked off a mountain.” He grumbled, suddenly sinking down a little as Petie looked at him in confusion.

“Always had trouble making it to the potty on time… round 10 or 11 was when things really kicked in and started being unable to avoid pissing myself.” He gave a bitter laugh “Then dear ol dad breaks the news bout the family curse to me and I find out I’ll be stuck in diapers like a damn baby for the rest of my school life.” He paused to pop another piece of bubblegum in his mouth “Yeah I fought it, but after making a damn fool of myself in front of everybody one too many times I gave in and worse the fucking diapers.” He grumbled as Petie winced, all too aware of what Barry must have been feeling.

“That’s bout the time when I decided I would be better off dead.”

“… WHAT!?”

Okay apparently Petie had NO clue what Barry had felt when this had happened to him. Barry saw the horrified expression on Petie’s face and gave a sad looking smirk “Yeah… lost the few friends I’d gotten thanks to pissing myself in public and became the laughing stock of the school. Didn’t matter if I could beat the crap out of anybody who made fun of me or not cause the mocking didn’t stop. Ever.” He blew a smaller bubble before rechewing it “Yep… locked myself up in my room and tried to think up some creative way to end it all… then I said screw it and went looking for a razor. Luckily I’m not that good at being sneaky and my folks caught me before I could find one around the house.”

Petie just stared horrified as Barry went on “So my folks got me to a shrink for some help… guy sucked ass at his job, but he helped me figure out how I could deal with all this shit in my life… yes I mean that literally, so don’t ask.” Petie snapped his mouth shut “You see the idiot managed to damn well piss me off good and proper for the first time in years. It was then I figured out I didn’t want to die… I wanted to show those bastards who they were fucking dealing with! I wanted to take these stupid diapers and shove them down their throats! I wanted to…” he stopped at seeing Petie back away from him a little “… well you get the idea.”

“Anyway I decided since I couldn’t get rid of this I’d make it work for me.” Barry said simply pausing as he chewed on his bubblegum more. Petie just stared at him blankly for a moment till the cubchoo gave him a look “… you have no fucking idea what I mean do you?” he said in a deadpan manner that made Petie flinch a little ‘Um… I er… well… no. How can you make looking like a toddler, make needing to wear…” he looked at his middle sourly “diapers, work for you?” Petie asked as Barry blew a bubble and smirked.

"Be cute, be timid, be silly, let them laugh at you, let them underestimate you, let them write you off as an idiot who just looks cute... then take that arrogance and shove it down their damn throat. I can't change how I look brat, neither can you, so I make it work for me. I get them off guard, weird them out, make them laugh, anything to get the one opening I need to come out the winner."

Petie blinked, remembering how Rose had mentioned the baby costumes she put him in were supposed to do this too “But…” he started, pausing to try and word this right “… isn’t that embarrassing?” Petie asked making him wince as Barry gave a short, sharp laugh “Fuck being embarrassed! Fuck what those idiots think! I worked hard to get myself fucking potty trained again without anybody’s help and I’ve never had a friend since they up and abandoned me so screw other people! I can damn well do what I please and get along fine on my own!!”

“… s-so… should I try to be more like you?”

“Fuck no, I’m an asshole.”

“Huh?”

Barry laughed out loud at that giving Petie’s hair a rough tousle as he gave a slightly scary grin “I’m an antisocial, cussing jerkass with anger management issues and a bone to pick with and shove up the ass of the world. If you wanna be ANYTHING brat then don’t fucking be me.” He said before hopping to his feet as Petie sat there confused. Not bothering to care Barry yanked the waistband of his jeans out a little to check his brightly colored training pants “No accidents, good. See ya brat.” He said as he unceremoniously picked up his backpack and headed for the door. Petie blinked and realized what was happening as he scurried to pull his pants back on.

“W-wait! Where are you going?”

“I’ve got a match to get to brat. Remember? I only said I had a little time to kill.”

“I’ll go with you then, I wanna see you fight!”

“Oh FUCK no!”

Petie had been scurrying to catch up to Barry as the cubchoo suddenly wheeled around and looked down at the little bear intimidatingly “You aren’t going to be ANYWHERE near my matches, you got that? I don’t wanna see you there… fuck I don’t wanna see you bother me anywhere in public at all! And NOBODY finds out were cousins, got it!?” he growled as Petie squeaked and shrunk a little as he nodded quickly. “O-okay!” the teddiursa said “B-but why?” he managed to get up enough courage to squeak out… as Barry bopped him on the head in response “Because you diaper brat, I don’t wanna have to deal with you and that stupid little posse of yours bothering me cause they find out we’re related, and I don’t wanna deal with any of these relative crap like meeting your family. You stay way fucking far out of my way. Got it?”

“O-okay… I g-got it…”

“Good, maybe we’ll hang out like this again sometime when nobody’s around. But don’t hold me to that.”

“Um… o-okay?”

“See ya brat, keep your pants dry and take care.”

After that comment and giving the teddiursa an almost kind or affectionate smile Barry walked out of the locker room leaving Petie to try and figure out the extreme mixed messages his cousin had just left him with.


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The main arena was decently full for a PCA afternoon despite there not being any big team on team matches for the day. Instead there was a senior vs. .senior match up… which were usually exciting to watch but this one was a little different than most. This particular match would be the first match of a senior who’d just arrived meaning nobody had seen how he fought before… and on top of that there were rumors buzzing about his connection to a certain small and cute teddiursa that was well known in the school. So people were curious to see what would happen.

None were more curious then his opponent for the match, a muk girl by the name of Raidy “Jelly” Leibman and the alternate of the senior group Team Change of Heart. She adjusted the straps on her leotard as she cheerfully waited for her opponent to arrive, curious to see if the rumors about the cute but bad tempered little red haired cubchoo were true. Suddenly there was a sound from the other side of the arena as a small figure emerged… and caused everybody to stare at it in confusion.

Barry waddled into view, an uncharacteristically large and goofy smile on his face partially hidden by the large pacifier (with the mouth guard made of Icy Rock) stuck in his mouth. He was wearing an equally surprising outfit. It was a downy white footed sleeper covered in tiny baby blue, matching the color of his face, polka-dots. There was a childish white bib sewn into the front of it trimmed in blue with a blue teddy bear face on the front. It was utterly adorable and silly but not at all what you were supposed to wear into a fight, especially if you were a senior. The fact he was moving in a deliberate waddle and seemed to be happily giggling just made it weirder.

Raidy stared in confusion as Barry waddled to the center of the arena with her and the referee… who seemed just as confused as everybody else. “Um… are you Barry Flanagan?” the befuddled charmeleon ask as the cubchoo nodded, goofy grin and innocent look still plastered across his face. Raidy tilted her head and looked at Barry hard “Hey Are you trying to make fun? I thought this was a match?” she asked as Barry just continued to smile and the ref cleared his throat “W-well then… if both fighters are ready then the match between Raidy Leibman and Barry Flanagan can beg”

“Go Barry!”

A small, young, and reedy voice broke through the confused mumblings of the crowd drawing everyone’s attention to it. Sure enough a familiar cute and toddlerish looking teddiursa was clinging to the side of the arena to pull himself up enough to properly see as Petie cheered for Barry. Raidy clapped her hands together as it suddenly all made sense “Ooooooh Ok I get it. Petie-chan gave you advice. That cute stuff won't work buddy. Artime made me immune.” She said with a grin as she clenched her fists and took on a fighting pose.

Barry meanwhile had a decidedly different reaction to seeing the bear as his pacifier fell from his mouth, dangling from the strap connecting it to his bib, as he bared his fangs and angrily hissed “I told you not to come!!!” at Petie as all Barry’s cutesy demeanor dissolved away in an instant as he looked good and properly pissed off. Petie probably squeaked in fear and lost his grip, falling out of view as Barry grumbled and looked back at Raidy “Well that fucks up getting you off guard… anyway I don’t know that brat if that’s what you’re thinking.” He said as Raidy just smiled disbelievingly at him.

“Yeah, right, sure.”

“Oh fuck it, can’t use my toxic and now this shit. Lets just get this over with!”

The ref nodded “Begin!” he shouted as Raidy blinked “Hey, wait a minute! What’s wrong with Toxic?” she demands, having a particular pride in poison and poison type moves “It’s a great move. You should be glad you know it. Some of the best tournament fighters in the world rely on it. Why even in the Elite Four th-“ Barry didn’t bother to wait for her to finish as he place his paws on his hips and grimaced, striking a pose and hitting her with Swagger, As the surprised muk staggered he launched into Double Team as a ring of Barry after-images surrounded her.

“Oh yeah?” Raidy said as she staggered, looking at all the images of Barry “Well two can play that” she blinks in surprise as an Ice Punch forms around her fist instead of the Fire Punch she wanted “Oh crud I mean!” before she can try again all the toddler dressed cubchoo’s surrounding her start eagerly clapping like they just watched a funny cartoon “S-stop makin fun of me!” she shouts, swinging another unwanted Ice Punch due to the Encore “Hold still! I'm gonna put you in time out! Fight like a man!”

All the bears surrounding her chuckle together giving an odd chorus like effect “Your in MY playpen now...” they say together as they glow, clouds form overhead, and Hail starts falling down in a bad snowstorm “And your spanking starts now!” they shouted as they seemed to vanish into the falling snow both due to their costume and ability. The hail knocking on her head snapped her out of the Encore as Raidy managed to lean forward and slug one of the Barry’s with a Fire Punch “Not this muk, baby!” she shouts even as the bear vanishes revealed to be a Double Team clone.

The hailstorm just seemed to get worse as Raidy tried to see through it as multiple Barry’s and their Snow Cloak ability made pinpointing her opponent difficult. Jumping forward she struck with a Poison Jab and a Pound but her fist passed through cold empty air as the Double Team clones vanished and a huge gust of cold air struck her from behind as Barry launched a Frost Breath on the girl. Wincing she shivered, feeling her gelatinous form starting to become ridged in the cold and hail as the remaining doubles and the real deal circled her slowly, staying just far enough in the storm she could only see their outline.

Standing there shivering Raidy’s mind raced for a moment before she hit an idea and took a deep breath… before shrinking down to Barry’s height with Minimize, her leotard barely staying on her reduced form. Before she could do anything more Barry flew over her head as the Focus Punch that would have struck her in the jaw hit empty air making him hit the ground hard and scramble to get back up to his feet and recover “Eyes here!” Raidy shouted getting Barry to look at her for just a split second letting her drive a Fire Punch right into the polar bears nose with all her might, sending him flying back into the storm.

“Gaaaaargh!! My node! Yu bitch yu burned my node!!” Barry’s voice could be heard over the hail, a slight lisp to it due to his injured nose. A smug smile crossed Raidy’s face at hearing that “Such language. If I was your nanny I'd give you a bigger spanking!” she clenches her fists as a Fire Punch and a Shadow Punch sprung to life on them “Looks like I will!” she shouts, charging into the storm after him.

“Bwing it bitch! Owowowowow!!!” Barry shouted, as she managed to see him clutching his burned and blackened nose before launching a Blizzard right at her. Raidy winced as the wind, snow, and hail tore at her… only for the Muk to blink in surprise. Something was wrong. This Blizzard didn’t hurt as badly as his Frost Breath had and it was supposed to be twice as powerful as that moved. Then it dawned on her. The Cubchoo’s nose and frozen snot was where they produced their ice attacks so having burned barriers meant he wasn’t able to use them fully! It was kinda cheating… but she could deal with it.

Blinking Raidy realized she’d lost Barry in the Hail again as another Blizzard hit her, this time from behind. Wincing she turned and jumped into it, catching the cubchoo by surprise as he let out a squeak of fear. Before he could flee again she swung her fist forward and planted a Poison Jab into his gut… only for there to be a puff of smoke as the cubchoo vanished and was replaced by a cubchoo plushie with a mocking expression and its tongue stuck out. Thanks to the Substitute having distracted her she was blindsided as another Blizzard struck her, from the side this time, causing ice crystals to start forming on her body.

Wincing she could see Barry’s shadow moving through the storm as another Blizzard hit her. Launching a Mud Bomb at it she struggled to move and shake off the ice forming as her jelly like body threatened to harden. “I can take those all day baby! Your little sneezes aren’t going to stop me!” she shouted as she looked around for Barry and began to prep something. She knew just the trick to finish this… she just needed the cubchoo to play into it…


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Barry was doing his best to keep from cussing aloud and giving away his position. This was a clusterfuck if he ever saw one. Wincing he held his nose as the slightly melted snot dripped from it. Thanks to the lucky Fire Punch earlier his best weapon was at half strength or less, he was disoriented, and the stupid Burn would take him out if he wasn’t careful. To make things worse his Hail was about to run out and it’d leave him a sitting duck if he tried to set it back up in this condition. He could try Double Team again and hope she missed long enough for him to get Hail running but he knew that was underestimating her badly. He could try another Focus Punch but if she got him before he could launch it or he missed he was dead… time for something desperate and stupid.

Slipping through the fading Hail he suddenly rushed right at Raidy from behind, sharp little claws popping out of his otherwise cute and soft paws as he jumped and swung a Night Slash right into the muk girl… as she turned right into the blow and the upper part of her leotard slipped down. With an unpleasant SPLAT sound he sunk into bare muk flesh and cleavage coated in… something. “Acid Armor… no escape now, cutie.” Raidy said with a grin as Barry’s eyes went wide and he started to panic.

“Nu! Nununu!! DAMN IT!”

He didn’t even bother to try and keep track of what she hit him with as he couldn’t properly defend himself with a trapped paw or do anything to stop the brutal pummeling that he received. The world started to go black as he felt himself being hugged to her chest, saw her blushing face, and felt her leotard threatening to slip off her due to the acid armor. As he fainted he heard her say to somebody as she used him to hide her chest “Can someone hold him? I'm having an emergency here.” Before everything went black.


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Barry was awake… and grumpy as all heck as he sat on a bed in the nurses office, one of the doctors working to apply Burn Heal and bandages to his damaged nose. Across from him in another bed was Raidy as the nurses worked to slowly and carefully thaw out her still half frozen body. The muk girl was in a noticeably more chipper mood than Barry as she smiled at him “Thanks for the awesome match!” she said as Barry glared at her and let out an annoyed sounding ‘Mmmph! Mmph mph!!” around the bandages to hands tending to his nose and muzzle. Raidy didn’t let it bother her as she smiled cheerfully for a minute more before dropping into an annoyed tone of voice.

“But you shouldn’t have called Toxic useless! It’s a great move! They even use it in the Elite Four! Why the poison master there”

“WELL IT DOESN’T DO SHIT AGAINST POSION TYPES LIKE YOU DOES IT!?”

Barry shouted, ripping the bandages off in sheer aggravation to say it… as he winced and cussed in pain again from his nose and the nurse bopping him for ripping the bandages as she held him firm and got to work reapplying them. Raidy blinked for a second… but only a second as she promptly launched back into her spiel “It may not have an effect but there are more uses for it than that. For example the poison master of the elite four use it as an oil slick to trip up opponents. With all the ice you used that could have been really effective and…”

Barry just groaned weakly through the bandages as she continued to ramble on. Till there was a ruckus near the front of the nurses office involving one of the nurses and a familiar childish voice that made Barry groan even more.

“I’m sorry, but you can’t come in. You might bother the patients.”

“B-bu-but…”

“I’m sorry, unless you’re a close friend, team member, or family member you’ll just have to wait.”

“But he’s my cousin!!!”

“… huh… well I’ll be… you two look a lot alike actually, in a strange way… I guess it’ll be okay then.”

Even with his muzzle being bandaged Barry managed to a few half understandable cuss words as a familiar little teddiursa scurried past the nurse and to his bedside. Barry pulled back his arm to bop the teddiursa hard for revealing they were related but stopped when he saw Petie was visibly upset as he looked at the cubchoo with big apologetic watery eyes and sniffled “I’m so sorry for going to your match when I wasn’t supposed to but I wanted to see you fight and I’m sorry for ruining your trick at the start like that and I’m sorry for…”

Barry just sighed and rolled his eyes as he gently patted the teddiursa’s head in a “yeah, yeah, I forgive you already” way to alleviate the baby’s sobbing… and hopefully to shut him up. Unfortunately it had failed to shut Raidy up as she was still jawing on, oblivious to Petie’s arrival “And that’s not taking into account how to properly regulate the PH levels of the poison for maximum sickness within the rules of the matches. Not taking into account being able to control what the poison targets and…”

Barry just sighed and tried to tune her out as Petie fiddled with something at his side. Holding up a bag of gummis he was carrying he gave Barry a slightly apologetic smile “I was gonna share these with you to apologize to… but this is the only way I know to stop her…” opening the plastic bag Barry watched in surprise as Petie’s little paws quickly shifted through the candy and like something out of a magic trick pulled out every single Pink Gummi in it. “Raidy? Yu wike des right?” he said, holding the small mound of pink candy out to the muk girl.

Raidy stops in mid-sentence as her eyes went wide “I-Is that a gummi?” she asked, almost drooling as she tries to sit up only to be stopped by the nurse working to thaw her “C-can I please have one?” she asked eagerly as Petie just smiled and dumped the pile of pink gummis into her hands “Sure! Enjoy!” he said as the candy was snapped up and vanished into the muk’s mouth in a blink, Raidy making happy noises as she enjoyed it. While the nurses gave a sigh of relief and one of them even patted Petie’s head in thanks for managing to quiet her down.

Barry leaned back, obviously relieved the poison rant was over “Mmmph mpph.” He mumbled around the bandages the nurse was reapplying as Petie just smiled without missing a beat and replied “You’re welcome!” making Barry start at him in surprise before sitting up and exclaiming “Mmpph mmph mppph?” only to get yanked back down onto the bed by the annoyed nurse. Petie just giggled and smiled “Yeah I can understand you, I've had to translate for toddlers before and” Petie stops abruptly as he could FEEL the burning hatred of Barry’s glare burning into him daring him to continue with that sentence “u-u-uh I mean I can understand you!” the teddiursa quickly stammered.

“Mmmph mph mpph mmmph!”

“Um… Raidy? Barry wants you to swear you won’t tell anybody we’re related.”

The muk girl grinned as she eyes the bag of gummi’s obviously intent on negotiating more candy from them for that. Petie just gave her a flat look “... I gave you all the pink gummis already, the rest are for me and Barry...” he said making Raidy pout “K.... I'll let everybody think he's Anne's brother. It’s not that far-fetched an idea. It’s already in the student rumor mill.” She said as Petie groaned at hearing that and Barry smacked himself in annoyance, promptly letting out a cry of pain as it reminded him his nose was still injured.

Suddenly the door opened and two of Raidy’s teammates entered the room. First was Cathy the kangaskhan, a close friend of Petie, followed by Jessica the kabutos. They quickly hurried over to Raidy’s side only to stop short as they noticed Petie “Raidy! Are you ok? That was a lot of cold for a mu- Hi Petie. What are you doing here?” Cathy asked, looking down at the little bear as Jessica looked up from the ice chunk she’d snagged from the arena and been working on carving. Petie meanwhile was completely surprised by their sudden arrival and before he can stop himself loudly blurts out.

“I’m here making sure Barry’s okay… oops!!”

He squeaked timidly, not daring to look at the cubchoo as he could feel Barry’s angry gaze drilling into him. Luckily Raidy tried to make the save as she quickly explained “Petie was giving him advice.” she said as Cathy looked at the two bears curiously for a moment before looking back to Petie and asking “He a friend of yours? You look.... similar?” causing Petie to panic again as he stutters awkwardly “N-no we don't, we're just friends! He's not my cousin or anythign silly like”

BOP!!

“Ow!!!” Petie whined as Barry’s fist connected lightly with the top of his head as a more annoyed nurse was forced to make him lay back down again while the cubchoo angrily muttered “Mmph mmpph, MPPH!!” through the bandages making Petie hang his head and mutter quietly to himself “I’m not that bad a liar…” suddenly there was a light squirming sound as Cathy’s daughter Gina suddenly popped her head out of her mommy’s pouch to declare “My teddy!” as she glared at Barry as angry as a baby could be.

“I thought you were napping?” Cathy said to her daughter as Gina reached out towards Petie “My.... Teddy!” she declared again as Petie just chuckled and picked the tiny khan out of the pouch and gave her a gentle hug to reassure her he’s okay. She nuzzled him happily before waving to Raidy “Hi goo!” and resuming nuzzling her favorite teddy bear. Cathy just smiled a little as she watched this “You’re going to spoil her.” She said as Jessica stepped up, looking at the two bears herself before questioning Petie.

“So chico, how do you know the bear mummy? I didn't think you'd let anyone steal your gimmik? Hey that means I can carve two bears for the price of one!”

Petie squirmed nervously as he gently bounced Gina in his arms “Um... uh... er... we... uh... I met... um...” he stuttered, unable to think up a good excuse as the nurse, still working at tending to Barry’s muzzle, flat out says “They’re cousins.” Making Petie groan and look at her “... we also said we didn't want anybody to know.” He whines as she just shrugged and pointed at Gina “The baby was being more articulate then you, I figured I cut the babbling short.” She said as Barry shrugged.

“Mmph mpph mmmph.”

“You don’t agree with her on the articulate part…”

Cathy laughed at this, a grin on her face as she looked to Jessica and laughed “HAH! Knew it. PAY UP!” she said as Jessica pulled out five bucks and gave it to her teammate before looking at the bears again “I thought he was Anne's brother..... He isn't right?” she asked making Barry groan and shake his head to confirm he wasn’t Petie meanwhile looked at them pleadingly as he whined “Please don't tell anyone or he'll bop me.”

Cathy looked to Jessica for a moment before turning back to Petie “Well.... It'll come out eventually. But we'll keep quiet in the meanwhile... I still gotta collect money from Charlie and Artie.” She added with a smile as Jessica giggled evily “Heh... The look on Artie's face will be priceless. He had plans to help Petie impress Anne's brother.” She said as Barry looked to Petie and muttered “... mmph mmph mppph?” as he reached over to give Gina a pat on the head. “Who’s Anne? I’ll introduce you to her later… and no she’s nothing like you.” Petie said as Gina pouted and tried to Water Pulse Barry’s hand resulting in a spit bubble instead as she squeaked “Bad teddy!”

Barry raised an eyebrow at this as Petie chuckled and gives Gina a gummy “Naaaaa, he’s not bad… just a grumpy pants is all.” which earned him a flick on the ear from Barry making the teddiursa squeak. Gina growled and swung a baby version of Hammer Arm down on Barry’s toe, the cubchoo not reacting in the slightest, before she hugged Petie protectively “My. Teddy.” The ladies laughed at this as Cathy said “Can’t flick him with her around.” as Jessica added in “it’s cute actually” while Petie looked to Barry nervous about how he’d react.

Barry lay there for a moment in silence… before he managed a good natured laugh despite the bandages as Petie could swear he saw the corners of a smile while the cubchoo reached over and gave Gina an affectionate head pat despite her protests. Petie just shrugged and looked up a little “Yep… he’s definitely a relative… weird as heck too.”


The End…?