"I'm leaving," I announced cheerfully.

"Taking off early? Well just be careful, Vex. Your older brother will have my head if anything happens to you."

"See you later Uncle Alex," I responded before logging my self out of the labs network and swapping my white lab coat for my normal light tan one.

It was a cool day in early spring and as opposed to teleporting straight home like normal; I decided to take a walk in the park. It was bright and sunny and most of the park was crowded with humans, other hybrids, and various species of Pokémon, but I wanted a little peace and quiet so I teleported myself to a large pond in the nearby forest. Normally this part of the forest was abandoned, with the exception of a few wild Pokémon. So I was surprised to see another person sitting next to the water.

"Hi," I called out. The person who was obviously a hybrid got up from where he was sitting and turned towards me. I noticed that his eyes were deep yellow with black rings around them, his hair was blue, and his skin had a feint blue tinge.

"What do you want?" he croaked out while eyeing me distrustfully.

"Oh nothing. I'm Vex , what's your name?"

"Luther," he said in response.

"Well it's very nice to meet you. Are you heading to the city? Because if you are I could help you find your way," I beamed.

"Why? Why would you help me?" Luther asked, apparently still not trusting me.

"Why wouldn't I? You would be new to the city and it's the right thing to do," I said with a smile.

"Thank you," he replied again with some apparent difficulty.

I began walking closer to him intending to offer a hand shake, but before I reached him I was forced to stop and was brought to my knees clutching my head by an extremely strong telepathic attack. It was a like an entire chorus of voices, but they where all saying the same thing.

(Vex it is time for you to join us. Your place is with your own kind and not with these lesser beings. The time is now. Give us your power so that we may give birth to our Utopia.)

"No. No leave me alone. I can't help you. I won't help you. Just leave me alone," I whimpered.

(Vex you must join us. It is your purpose, your destiny. We are coming for you and you will join us.)

(Big brother help,) I whimpered telepathically before losing consciousness under the pressure of the psychic assault.

While I was unconscious Luther crouched over me to see if I was alright. This would have been fine except for the fact that a few moments later my Arcanine-hybrid older brother Aiden arrived, and upon finding me unconscious with a stranger standing over me made the worst possible assumption about the situation.

"You bastard!" Aiden growled in blind rage, his red eyes blazing, and his fangs bared.

"This isn't how it looks. He just CROAK" began Luther, but he was quickly interrupted by a round house kick that he just barely avoids being decapitated by.

"How dare you hurt my brother!" yells Aiden, who then sinks in to a boxers stance and begins to unload on Luther with a series of Fire Punch attacks.

Things continued in this manner, with Aiden attacking and Luther skillfully barely avoiding the high speed attacks, until the noise from the fight managed to shake me from my incapacitated state.

"Big brother wait!" I shouted, knowing full well that in his enraged state Aiden wouldn't hear me. So to stop the onslaught I teleported myself between Aiden and Luther, and took the full force of Aiden's last punch, and then the entire world faded to black again.

" Vex. Vex please be ok. I am so sorry," I heard Aiden pleading as I slowly slipped back into consciousness . He was kneeling with me cradled in his arms like a small child, with his black motorcycle jacket wrapped around me, my five harvest gold colored tails draped across my torso, and the faint scent of hyper potion was in the air.

"Hi, big brother. Thank you for coming to save me," I said with a weak smile, my crystal blue eyes looking up into his normally fierce, but currently very soft red eyes.

"I could have killed you, why would you do something like that?" he asked.

"Because big brother, I couldn't let you hurt anyone, especially not because of me. I'm not worth it."

"Vex please don't say that," Aiden protested, punctuating his dismay with a soft growl before rising back to his full rather intimidating height, of six feet five inches, as if my weight made no difference.

"You alright?" interrupted Luther, who was standing off to Aiden's left at a slight distance.

"I'm fine."

"Vex, I should get you home," said Aiden.

"Wouldn't you rather go back to having coffee with Officer Jenny," I said jokingly, after noticing the faint smell of coffee on his breath, and that he was still wearing his Jubilife City P.D. detectives badge. "Just kidding big brother, but could you put me down please," I continued, blushing slightly, to which Aiden responded by chuckling softly, pulling me closer to himself, and raising his body temperature which quickly lulled me back to sleep.

(Big brother he's my friend, be nice to him, please,) I managed to get out, before sinking helplessly in to the safe warmth of my older brother.

"Hey you, If Vex called you his friend I guess I have no choice but to be nice to you. So come on and follow us home. Oh and if you are just taking advantage of Vex's kind, innocent nature I'll do a whole lot worse than just tossing you in a jail cell." said Aiden, baring his fangs slightly at the end to emphasize his point.

"Understood."

Following this brief discourse Aiden with me securely in his arms took of at what he considered to be a brisk jog, back towards the city, with Luther running to keep up. The trip from the forest pond to the apartment that my brother and I share would normally be a twenty minute trip by foot, but thanks to the quick pace set by Aiden it took us only a little over nine minutes to reach i

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