In the middle of the Sinnoh region, in the small town of Solaceon, the Daycare facility

is receiving eight new members; a Jolteon, Vaporeon, Flareon, Umbreon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, and an Eevee. The ensuing flash that occurred as all the Poke Balls opened simultaneously temporarily lit up the small Daycare building. As their trainer left the Daycare, the Eevee and its evolutions padded outside to see off their

departing owner. Their trainer came over to the fence and crouched down, so as to speak with them at their eye level.

"Okay guys, I'm going to Johto for quite a while to collect as many of the Pokemon that reside in that area as I can. Normally, I would bring all of you with me, but most of you are too high leveled, and I wouldn't dream of splitting you up by taking only those who would be helpful in catching the Johto region Pokemon, so I've decided to leave you all here together." At this point he paused to look at the Jolteon and Vaporeon standing side by side in the middle of the Pokemon pressed up against the fence, and gave a slight chuckle." Heh, all right you two, I'm counting on both of you to keep everyone safe. After all, you're the parents of almost everyone here." He paused again to give each of the eight Pokemon standing at the fence a friendly ruffle between the ears. After having done this, he stood up and took a step back. "Needlefur, Torrentpaw, I'm counting on you both."

"Jolttt."

"Vaaa."

"Heh, I guess I'll have to take your word for it. See all of you in a couple months." Having said this, their trainer headed north towards Snowpoint City to catch a ship to the Johto region.

Having watched their owner vanish into the darkening horizon, all of the Pokemon stepped back from the fence.

Needlefur, the Jolteon, called all of them into a group, then sprang onto a stump, to sit alongside Torrentpaw, then proceeded to address the entire group.

"Okay everyone, we'll be on our own for a couple of months. It won't be too much different, except that Eric took out Poke Balls with him, so we'll have to sleep out in the open."

At this point Torrentpaw spoke aloud to the group, the small fin on its head twitching slightly back and forth as it did so.

"Fortunately, I don't sense any rain approaching, so tonight we should be able to sleep without a shelter, but building one should be our first priority tomorrow. All right everyone, let's call it a night."

At this point the group split into two smaller groups; one of them consisting of Needlefur, Torrentpaw, the Umbreon, Espeon, and Glaceon. The other, smaller group was comprised of the Flareon, Leafeon, and the Eevee.

As the Eevee curled up upon the ground and placed its fluffy tail warmly across its paws, the Leafeon strode smoothly behind the Eevee, lay down, and wrapped its leaf-like tail around the small Pokemon in front of it. The Leafeon then lowered its head towards the small brown figure nestled safely in the curve of its body, giving it a light lick between its ears. Although the Eevee was half asleep it heard the Leafeon say,

"I love you."

The Eevee replied in a drowsy voice thick with sleep, "I love you too...Mom." Then the quiet calm of sleep enveloped the small Pokemon.

The Flareon padded up silently so as not to wake the Eevee. His head also descended towards the Leafeon's head, which was looking at the Eevee in deep sleep, and gave her a loving lick on the back of her ear. The Leafeon then said in a soft voice, "I don't know what we would do if anything ever happened to him." Here she looked down at the Eevee snuffling about as it dreamt quietly.

The Flareon then lowered his head farther down and licked the Eevee between the ears as the Leafeon had done a few minutes before. As he did this the small Eevee issued a small whimper. He then laid down next to his mate and replied, "Neither do I."

Meanwhile, in Veilstone City, in an office high up in a tall skyscraper, a chair spun swiftly around to reveal Cyrus, the leader of Team Galactic in Sinnoh.

"I have heard that there is a blue-eyed Eevee appearing around this area. After we were recently ousted by a teenage boy, this is exactly the kind of Pokemon we need to get to earn the favor of the international Galactic Organization. Failure is not an option!"

The two grunts in the room nodded and stood up. They then exited through the sliding metal door to perform Cyrus' bidding. As the door slid shut behind them, a large monitor flickered to life to life across the wall behind Cyrus. A dark silhouette appeared on the screen.

"Do they know what to do?"

"They should." replied Cyrus, without even turning the chair around.

"Good." The monitor then turned off and the silhouette disappeared.