Ruby awoke. The room was dark and quiet. He sat up and looked around. After looking at the clock he decided to get up. Looking at his calender he sighed. Today Emerald would trade a baby Treecko to him as a present. He opened up the PC box and checked his pokemon, looking for one to trade. "Liloone, Duskull, Lotad, Plusle, Hey, I thought I left you back at The abanded ship?" It had been a long almost 7 years since that had happended. Ruby was now 18 and living in A small house in the forest next to littleroot bought by his Mom before she died about a month ago. Ruby sighed again at the memory. This time he didn't have Celebi to save her, as he had realeased it. He brushed the thought away, petting Kiki the Delicatty he had owned on his jorney. He quickly dressed in his hand-made clothes, an almost replica of what he wore on his jorney. He wanted to look "profesional". A bright light lit up the room, coming from his side table. It was his DexNav. He turned on the light and read that Sapphire had messaged him. How odd, He thought. It was 9, so it wasn't suprising that she was up. He read the text: meet me 7, Littleroot. Huh, that's really odd. He thought. He shrugged and texted back: Sure! The lab or..? She didn't respond so he shrugged again and went into the living room. Nana, his Mightyena, was rolled up in a ball, still sleeping. After setting out food for Kiki and Nana he released Rara, Mumu, Feefee and Fofo. After feeding them, he pulled out the Eon Flute and played it. D,E,B,C',D'. Latios quickly appeared, and after climbing atop him, sped off. "To Fortree" He said to Latios. That was where they had agreed to go. He could already see Emerald. He waved and Ruby waved back. He landed in front of the pokemon center and waved Latios good bye. "Hey! You made it!" Emerald exclaimed. "Yeah, guess so" He replied. "You got a pokemon to trade?" Ruby looked nervous. "Uh... I uh, Kinda do.." "Whatta you mean?" Emerald asked. "I got this" Ruby held up a baby Mudkip. "Mumu's child?" Em asked. Ruby nodded. It had hatched just last night. "Well, cool! Let's put them in the trading machine!" He looked giddy and ran over to the machine. Ruby dropped the Mudkip's ball in the machine and Emerald did the same. When the new pokemon came out Ruby released it instantly. It looked cute, like most Treeckos. "Thanks!" Ruby exclaimed. Emerald nodded. "Anytime" Ruby looked at his watch. It read 10:21. Damn. He thought. "Hey, Emerald!" Ruby called, running after his direction. "Huh?" He looked confused. "I'm free all day; wanna do somethin?" He said, which was true. "Uhh, sure! Battle?" Emerald gathered his wits. Ruby's face turned to disgust. "Really? It's bad enough pokemon hurt each other natually, but forcing your pokemon to hurt anothers? I-" He started. "Yeah, Yeah, you don't like battling. Forgot" Emerald's face turned back to confusion. "Huh. We could..." Ruby trailed off. Suddenly Emerald's face lit up, "Hey! We could invite all the dex holders over for a party!" Ruby's face lit up too. "A party party?" "Yes, that kind of party" Emerald replied. "Then we have to go to Kanto... the drinking limit in hoenn is-" Ruby started but was interrupted by Emerald, "Screw the law! We saved the world once or twice, we deserve it!" Emerald stated so matter-of-factly. "Fine. Just lemme change; I don't wanna get something spilled on this new outfit" At this Emerald rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Meet at your place" Ruby nodded and called Latios and flew off.