"Come back here!"

A little Eevee disappeared into the grass giggling, leaving behind a trail of bent blades in her wake. Her trainer stood up, giving out an annoyed sigh as he did.

'Ugh, what now?' he thought to himself while walking toward the chest high grass. 'She's in so much trouble when I find her. Why I oughta...' OOF!

The devious Eevee tackled her trainer onto his back, pinning him down at his arms to show her dominance. A wide grin spread across her lips, obviously having fun.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?! In your Pokéball you go, right now!" the bewildered trainer spat out as he struggled for the Pokéball at his waist.

"Lex, time to wake up!" the Eevee mouthed at him.

"When...did you start talking?" Lex lay there, puzzled.

"Wake up dear or your breakfast will get cold!" she shouted at him, still grinning.

"...Mom? What the hell is..." he blurted out.

The blurred surroundings faded into darkness as Lex drifted towards the dimming sky hopelessly confused.

Total darkness enveloped everything.

Silence.

Lex peered at his surroundings with a sleepy eye. Morning sunlight gently beamed through the window blinds, casting off a warm golden glow throughout the room. Rosa, his recently given Eevee, was gently snoring on his chest, refusing to stay in her Pokéball and claimed his chest as her personal bed. Brenda, his Combusken, was nowhere to be seen, maybe having breakfast.

'Jeez, she bothers me even in my dreams' Lex thought groggily.

Gently shifting Rosa onto the bed as to not wake her, Lex stood up and stretched, giving off a hearty yawn heard throughout the household. Rosa bolted up ready to attack. Realizing it was only Lex, she growled menacingly at her trainer to show her displeasure of waking up too early for her taste. Ending his yawn with a chuckle, Lex reached over to the temperamental Eevee before him on the unkempt bed.

"Sorry to wake you up a little early, Rose," Lex said, shuffling her brown, pointy ears.

Rosa shot him what seemed like an 'I'll-get-you-back-later' kind of look and resumed her morning beauty nap.

"Yeah good morning to you too," he said walking out of his room.

Lex lumbered down the stairs and noticed something was different about his mom's usual cooking this morning.

*gRrrrrRRRRrrr*

His stomach growled upon smelling food emanating from the kitchen. Musing over what was his mom prepared for him, Lex shook the thought out of his mind after deeming it too torturous to think of food in his sleepy stupor. He rounded the corner and stared at the scene before him.

A woman busily shuffled around by the open fridge, slamming it closed with inattentive care, humming the day away. Tottering quite precariously in her arms were a couple of drinking glasses and a jug filled to the brim with refreshingly cold Miltank milk. She dropped all of the items near a plate full of something, Lex couldn't quite make it out. The sleepy in his eyes needed some rubbing away. She turned around to pour herself a glass of milk and noticed Lex gazing around the kitchen with a glazed look.

"Good to see you're finally up, Lex! I was starting to worry that you'd oversleep the big meeting your father arranged," Catherine exclaimed, setting down another cup of milk along side a plate loaded with pancakes, over-easy Chansey eggs, and some sausages.

Lex looked over at his mother. She was currently attacking a pile of dishes and pans in the sink with a tenacity no other woman he knew could. Her usual attire consisted of a light yellow t-shirt with a white apron woven around her waist, spotless as usual. Khaki colored jeans hid behind the apron that were only apparent on the bottom, along with her favorite Rattata shaped slippers she wore indoors. Brown wavy hair hung neatly to her shoulders and caring dark brown eyes glanced over her shoulder to her son.

"You have about 30 minutes 'til the meeting starts so hurry up, eat up, and get ready," explained Catherine.

"Yeah okay," replied Lex. Saliva started to overflow his mouth at the sight of the filling breakfast before him. He greedily sat down in front of the plate and ate as fast as humanly possible without choking.

"Oh, woreisbeda?" Lex managed to say through a mouthful of eggs.

"What dear? Swallow your food, I can't understand you," Catherine replied.

Grabbing the glass of milk and drinking until the food was secure in his stomach, Lex asked again.

"Where did Brenda go? I didn't see her on my way down."

"She's out back, doing her usual training in the morning."

"Oh okay. Thanks for breakfast oh great Mother of mine," Lex said, giving his mother a quick peck on the cheek and ran back upstairs to get dressed.

"That was awfully fast of you to eat like that. Slow down next time," said Catherine in a mock scolding tone. She turned around to grin at Lex, only to be greeted with the empty plates and cup left by Lex. Muttering to herself about Lex and his laziness, she grabbed them and released them alongside the other dirty dishes.

Bounding up the stairs three at a time, Lex stopped in front of his door, half expecting an Eevee to jump out at him. Peering through the crack of the door, he scanned the area for any sign of Rosa. The bed is still unmade. An indent of where the Eevee previously slept is currently unoccupied. A pile of dirty clothes littered the floor. Lex opened the door cautiously.

'No sign of her,' he thought. 'I hope she's downstairs.' Lex deemed the room free of any vengeful Eevee's and headed in to grab some clean clothes. Still no sign of Rosa anywhere so he headed for the shower.

Rosa lie quietly under the bed, her mind set on how to punish him for that unexpected wake up call. Silently snickering, she watched as Lex walked into the bathroom and closed the door. The familiar 'click' of the lock rang out and the muffled rustling of clothes being hastily thrown off was quickly overpowered by the zip of the shower curtains.

'Perfect. Now for his due punishment,' thought Rosa. Crawling out from under the bed frame, she couldn't help but grin while grabbing the essential materials for her plan to work. A chair, some books, and of course more books. She heard the shower head turn on and some off tune humming that Lex was prone to doing every once in a while.

Quietly, gently, Rosa scooted the chair so that it leaned against the bathroom doorknob and started to pick up the books one by one, stacking them in a way so that no amount of banging would knock them off the chair. She stood back, admiring her handy work. A fit of giggles escaped her, her mind's eye portraying her version of events to come.

*A surprised Lex bumping into the door, finding it won't open. After attempting to open the door, some banging would ensue, along with some profanity thrown in for good measure. An enraged Brenda comes crashing up the stairs to save her trainer while Rosa hid under the bed, enjoying Lex's pleas for help.*

'Now that's good enough for me,' mused Rosa. She strutted downstairs with an air of personal accomplishment. All that plotting and moving objects really worked up her appetite so she was looking forward to some Magost berries for breakfast. As Rosa rounded the corner to the kitchen, a rustled Combusken walked in from the front door, with ruffled feathers and a few scratch marks marring her arms.

"So how was training this morning?" Rosa asked in her native tongue.

"Well it's the usual. You're not up to anything today, like planning world domination or something hair-brained and dangerous?" replied Brenda casually, trying to catch her breath.

"Nothing that'll hurt anybody so don't you worry. Not yet anyways," Rosa said, smiling toward the kitchen, bushy brown tail waving behind her in delight.

'Hope that 'not yet anyways' doesn't involves Lex,' Brenda thought to herself. Passing it off as Rosa's usual morning attitude, Brenda shrugged it off her mind and entered the kitchen to eat something as well.

"Oh hey ladies. So I'm guessing you both are hungry," Catherine said to the two Pokémon as they entered and claimed their spots at the table.

"Eevee!" "Combusken!" they both cried in agreement.

"Heheh okay I see that you both are starving. Just lemme finish up a bit and I'll get right to your usuals." Chinkling of plates being shoved into the drainer were quite prominent for about a minute. Then Catherine went over to the fridge and pulled out a plate full of Magost and Razz berries.

"Well eat up then. Brenda, you should clean up a bit for that meeting Lex has. You too Rose. From what Darin was talking about over dinner last night, it sounded like Lex will need you both at the meeting with him." Both the Combusken and Eevee nodded their heads in unison, their mouths too full of berries to say a verbal 'Yes' as Catherine headed outside to take a break from housework.

Meanwhile upstairs, Lex finished up showering. Groping around for the towel nearby, he dried himself and looked in the mirror. A young man stared back at him with brown, unkempt hair dangling about around his neck and a lighter shade of brown eyes. He wasn't really toned, but still some muscle features poked throughout his body.

'Well time to head over to the Devon building. Dad'll get annoyed if I'm late again,' Lex said to himself. Grabbing his clean clothes, he rushed to put them on and glanced at his watch laying on the sink.

9:13 A.M. it blinked.

"Oh man only 17 minutes 'til the meeting starts! Better skip brushing my teeth, I gotta go now!" exclaimed Lex to no one in particular.

Making sure that he had his card for entering the Devon Corp. building to prove he worked there, Lex turned the doorknob and pushed. The door refused to open, only shaking a little to show it was securely shut. Lex looked down at the doorknob to making sure it wasn't locked. Puzzled, he grasped the handle and heaved with all his might. It opened only a few millimeters then stopped. Lex thought for a moment, then it hit him.

"DAMMIT ROSE! COME AND OPEN THE DOOR RIGHT NOW!," hollered an annoyed Lex through the door crack.

'Dammit I'm gonna be late.'