Mo sighed as she couldn't believe how fast her kids had grown up. It felt like only yesterday they were just born and now they were teenagers. Right now, Estelle was with her girl friends, listening to a boy band as they sang along to the words together and they all had fun together and where Akito was with his guy friends at the gym while Vincent was painting.
"The kids are so busy these days..." Mo was both happy and sad.
"Ah, they've grown up, Mo..." Atticus comforted his wife.
"You need to learn to let go sometimes..." Cherry replied. "Who knows what the future holds?"
"Funny you should mention that." Drell smirked as he appeared.
Cherry narrowed her eyes at him.
"What?" Drell shrugged.
"DON'T YOU EVER KNOCK?!"' Cherry yelled in his face which blew his hair back.
"I like to make an entrance." Drell said.
"What do you want from us now, Drell?" Mo asked the warlock as she poured tea for everybody.
Drell was about to say something, but the house was soon shaking with loud pop music playing.
Mo groaned as she took out a broom and thumped it against the ceiling. "TURN IT DOWN!" she then called out to her daughter and her friends. "You may continue."
"Thank you..." Drell cleaned the inside of his ear while Estelle and her friends listened to a famous boy band called The Sulky Boys. "Now, there's an assignment in the future."
"Is it Acmetropolis?" Cherry asked.
"Not that far," Drell replied. "Further, but not too, too, too far... It involves a family called The Jetsons."
"Okay, and this has something to do with us, how?" Atticus asked.
Drell took out a file and read through it to tell them why it was their concern. "A factory is being opened up on a new planet where there are endangered creatures called the Grungees."
Cherry and Mo gasped as that was a bit of an environmental problem from the future. What with Cherry being in FernGully and Mo being the niece of the one and only Captain Planet.
"Okay, that would make this our problem." Atticus said.
"Exactly..." Drell replied. "Jetson's boss is making him move over there with his family."
"Does he even know what he's doing wrong?" Atticus asked.
"I don't think he even cares..." Drell sighed with a shrug. "Cosmo Spacely is a tough nut to crack."
"Then we're going." Atticus said.
"We are?" Cherry asked.
"Can we bring the kids?" Atticus asked Drell.
"I strongly advise with it." Drell approved.
"Alright then." Mo smiled.
"Luckily this won't be such a bad move like when you guys moved to SouthDale." Drell said.
"I didn't have to worry about moving my child, she's flexible..." Cherry smirked as she sipped her own tea.
"And will we have to include Lee?" Atticus asked.
"I was thinking this could be just family, but if you insist on bringing Lee..." Drell smirked.
"Well, he is dating Estelle." Atticus said.
Drell smirked.
"No, I'm not going there..." Atticus narrowed his eyes.
Later on, Drell left home and it was going to be time to announce the newest adventure.
Estelle was on her way down to dinner, she was about to close her window until she saw a spider from a web outside come down and gobble down a harmless fly. She remembered seeing Charlotte do that on Zuckerman farms, but for some reason, seeing it made her stomach churn about animals being killed just for food. "Oh, my..." she gulped at the sight of a predator against its prey.
"Dinner!" Mo called out.
There was of course steak for dinner. Estelle couldn't help but stare at her meat instead of eating it like the others.
"Aren't you hungry?" Mo asked.
"I think I lost my appetite..." Estelle rubbed her arm.
"Something wrong, Estelle?" Atticus asked.
Estelle sighed. "I think I'm a vegetarian now."
"You saw a spider eat a bug, didn't you?" Vincent asked.
"I just think it's unfair..." Estelle frowned. "Why do animals have to be born just to be killed and eaten?"
"Steak is awesome, if you don't eat meat, you're just a wuss." Akito said as he began to eat his meat.
Estelle soon used her magic with narrowed eyes as she turned Akito's meat into a vegetable only plate.
"MOM! Estelle ruined my steak!" Akito complained.
"I just can't stand animals being eaten!" Estelle glared.
"It's like when Madeline met that chicken..." Mo said as she then decided to make a salad for Estelle. "Here you go, sweetie."
"Thanks, Mom." Estelle smiled and then ate the salad much easier than the steak now that she decided to become a vegetarian.
Akito was going to use his magic to turn his food back into steak, but decided to just eat the food that was on his plate. Estelle smirked as she then ate her dinner.
"All right, I suppose now is a good time to tell you all," Atticus said to the family. "Drell came by to visit while your Aunt Cherry came for tea, and we'll be going to the future."
"What's going on in Acmetropolis?" Vincent asked as he cut his steak.
"We're not going to Acmetropolis." Mo said.
"Oh..." The Fudo siblings replied.
"We're going to meet the Jetsons," Atticus explained as he took out a file that Drell gave him. "George, his boy, Elroy, daughter, Judy, and Jane, his wife."
"Cool." The Fudo siblings smiled.
"Any questions?" Mo asked.
"Um, could we bring friends?" Estelle asked while blushing.
"Yes, Estelle, you can bring Lee." Atticus said.
Estelle beamed brightly and clapped her hands together. Akito and Vincent rolled their eyes slightly at the mention of Lee but smirked to their sister.
"Drell wants us to leave tomorrow so that should be enough time for you to get your friends together." Atticus said before Cherry snuck up behind him with a futuristic device in her hands that looked like a hula hoop.
"Aren't you two going out?" Vincent asked Estelle.
"Not tonight..." Estelle replied. "I heard Drell while listening to the Sulky Boys with the girls, so I told him I would date him some other time."
Atticus's eyes widened. "They're already going on dates?!"
"You should have seen this coming." Mo said.
Atticus soon simmered down.
"Uh, excuse me?" Cherry spoke up which made Atticus jump for the first time in years. "I thought we could use this for when we meet the Jetsons." she then held out the hoop to show everyone.
"A hoop?" Vincent asked.
"Not just any hoop," Cherry replied. "Estelle, come up here, please."
"Yes, Aunt Cherry." Estelle nodded as she came out of her chair and stood beside her aunt.
"What sorts of outfits do you like?" Cherry asked her niece as she held the hoop in her hands for now.
"When I'm as Princess Tutu." Estelle said.
Cherry pushed a button on the hoop and held it over Estelle and then dropped it. When the hoop went over Estelle, it changed her clothes into her Princess Tutu form which shocked and amazed her and her family.
"Cool." Estelle smiled.
"How did you do that, Aunt Cherry?" Akito asked.
"This is a changing hoop, just part of the technology from the future that my Uncle Emmett showed me," Cherry replied. "I just thought you guys could wear some futuristic clothes to fit into the time period for when we go see the Jetsons."
"Alright." Vincent said.
Cherry then took the hoop off of Estelle after setting her clothes back to the way they were before.
"Aunt Cherry, you are the best." Akito beamed.
"I know." Cherry replied.
"This is going to be great." Vincent smiled.
"Can we go too, Maman?" Felicity asked hopefully.
Cherry shrugged. "I have been wanting to have something to do while your father visits Belle and Adam for Gabrielle's coronation."
"Yay!" Felicity smiled.
Cherry had a small smirk about her daughter's happiness.
"I guess we'll just be some of the new neighbors for the Jetsons on this adventure..." Mo said. "All right, kids, go ahead and invite whoever you would like to come."
They went to do just that.
"I wonder if there's cute boy bands in the future..." Estelle said to herself. "Of course, there's no one like Lee Clark." She soon knocked on the Clark family front door.
Karen answered the door with a smile. "Ah, Estelle, so nice to see you."
"Hello, Mrs. Clark," Estelle smiled back. "Is Lee home?"
"Yes, he is." Karen replied.
"May I speak with him?" Estelle asked.
"Come on in, dear," Karen smiled as she allowed Estelle into the house to meet her oldest. "Oh, Lee, you have a visitor!"
"I'll be right down, Mom!" Lee called back.
Estelle then sat on the couch to wait for Lee.
After waiting for a little while, Lee was finally downstairs.
"Sorry about that," Lee smiled to Estelle. "What's up, Buttercup?"
"I wanted to know if you would like to come with me to the future." Estelle said.
"The future...?" Lee asked.
"Yes, we're going to meet a family called The Jetsons." Estelle replied.
"Nice." Lee said.
"Yeah, I was hoping you could come with me." Estelle replied.
"Of course I can," Lee smiled to her. "Um, do they have any kids?"
"A teenage daughter and a six-year-old son from what I know." Estelle shrugged.
"Great," Lee said. "Mind if I bring along Arcanine?"
"That should be fine," Estelle smiled. "Hmm... Now I wonder if they'll have Pokemon there?"
"Who knows?" Lee shrugged before whistling through his fingers to call for his Pokemon.
Arcanine soon rushed in like an obedient dog and stood bravely while posing like a wonder dog like Lassie or Thunderbolt.
"Hello, Arcanine." Estelle smiled.
Arcanine smiled back to Estelle.
"We're going on a trip, boy." Lee told his Pokemon who was basically like the dog he'd always wanted.
Arcanine was excited for this trip. Lee laughed and hugged his Pokemon. Estelle smiled back as this was going to be a lot of fun.
Soon enough, everyone was getting ready to go while Drell was getting a way for them to travel into the future.
"So, how're we gonna get to the future?" Cherry teased. "Ask Anakin Skywalker for help?"
"Nope, you'll get there by the Pokemon Princess." Drell said.
"I like my way better." Cherry smirked.
Drell towered over her and reached for her. "I'M GONNA TEAR YOU A NEW-"
"Ahem!" Atticus glared.
Drell smiled sheepishly and patted Cherry on the head innocently. Cherry just smirked which showed her vampire fangs. This caused Drell to back up slightly. Cherry and Atticus smirked to the warlock as he couldn't scare them anymore.
"Anyway, you'll need the help of the Pokemon Princess to travel into the future." Drell told them before popping his lips and putting a smoke pipe in his mouth.
"Thanks for the info." Atticus said.
"Of course..." Drell replied.
"I guess Akito's girlfriend will be involved..." Cherry said since she was told about Emi and her destiny with being the Pokemon Princess and all.
"Yep, and she's been learning many different things about being a princess." Drell said.
"I always knew that girl was special from the moment Akito introduced me to her." Atticus smiled.
"She's also learned not to let her power overtake her." Drell said.
"That's great..." Atticus replied.
"How have you been, Drell?" Cherry asked.
"Sometimes I kinda miss it when you guys were still young and learning how to deal with your magic..." Drell sighed as he remembered when they were still in school with Sabrina before having magic training lessons in high school before graduation. "Other than that, I've been kinda okay, I guess I can't complain."
"By the way, why weren't there ever any Pokemon back when we were teenagers or kids?" Atticus asked.
Drell smoked his pipe which actually had bubbles instead of actual smoke as he paused to think about that before he took it out to answer his question. "Hm... I don't remember... Apparently they go back to ancient times if that Ingrid girl's had one during those adventures your kids had in the Ice Age with that mammoth, sloth, and saber-toothed tiger."
"But that doesn't explain why we've never encountered any." Cherry said.
"Meh..." Drell shrugged.
"Are there any other creatures we should know about?" Atticus narrowed his eyes.
"I think sometime in the future that Jenny Foxworth girl will discover a species called Neopets." Drell replied.
"Ooh." Mo smiled.
"I guess I just decided you guys werent' ready to find out about Pokemon yet," Drell shrugged. "But, I hope you guys have fun in the future."
"We will," Atticus smiled. "By the way, will everyone soon find out about the existence of Pokemon?"
"Yes, but by hunters who will capture them." Drell frowned.
"Hunters?" Mo's face paled.
"That's right; there's an entrance to the Pokemon World to where they are connected to this world." Drell said.
"Drell, surely you can do something to help us..." Cherry replied. "Please... Help us..."
"I don't know what I can do..." Drell shrugged. "I don't know much about Pokemon myself and I'm just a retired old warlock."
"Who will be the first to find them?" Atticus asked.
"I'll have to look through my crystal ball..." Drell replied. "Besides, you guys don't need me around..."
"Drell, even though we just met you when we were twelve, you've been looking after us our whole lives..." Atticus said. "Please, just this once, come with us and help us..."
Drell came to Cherry and Atticus with his crystal ball and sat in between them. "This should tell us about the Pokemon hunters."
"I hope so." Atticus said.
Drell soon asked his crystal ball about the Pokemon hunters and saw their names. "Bree and Sloan Blackburn." He then said the names aloud.
"Not those two again." Atticus said.
"Ugh..." Cherry groaned.
"You know them?" Drell asked.
"Know them?" Atticus scoffed. "They kidnapped a cheetah cub with our kids' Pokemon when we met the Thornberry family!"
"Whoa." Drell said.
"I always thought Bree seemed familiar when we saw her and Sloan get arrested though." Cherry replied.
"Ooh, sounds like someone remembers Witch Academy~" Drell smirked before showing a certain teenage witchling in Ms. Hag's school uniform and had it next to Bree's mugshot when she and Sloan were arrested for poaching and it was a perfect match as they were the same person.
"Whoa." Mo said.
"Surprised she didn't use her magic then, she probably didn't wanna cause suspicion, but those are the main ones you have to look out for," Drell replied. "As for the other Pokemon hunters, I don't have anything on them yet, but if you really want me to come along, I'll just need my crystal ball with me, and Atticus, I want you to not let Akito tackle me, I'm a little sore from moving furniture for Zelda into her new home."
"Okay." Atticus said.