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A/N: You guys should really enjoy this chapter you'll be seeing some old friends here.

Clay's Sister

When we last left them Max, Liza, and Clay had decided to head for Midnight City together. Now they are seen having some lunch before heading out on the road. "Wow Clay, this tastes amazing." Max says. "Why thank you." Clay Responds. "Lunatone and Ralts seem to be enjoying their meal too," Says Liza, "you must be a very good cook, because Lunatone is very picky." "I have to be a good cook to be a Pokémon Breeder. Right?" Says Clay. "That is probably true, Brock is a Pokémon Breeder and he's a great cook." Says Max. "We had better get going my sister's house is on Route 232, and that is East of here." Clay says, and so they took their leave eastward heading towards the home of Clay's sister, not noticing the eyes watching them in the bushes.

After hours of walking Liza and Max were getting tired. "Are we there yet?" Said Max to Clay in a tired tone. "Gee Max, I did not know you were such a wuss, but yes we are. Look that is my sister's house right there." He said pointing to a building about three meters away. "You don't have to point," said Liza with a grumpy voice, "There's only one building here." "Well I am sorry, I was only pointing because it was kind of a reflex, when you are showing something to someone you usually make some type of gesture towards whatever you are trying to show them." He chuckled, "Holy run-on sentences Crobatman." The three of them laughed at that for a short time before Max decided to ask a question that was on both his and Liza's mind, "Hey Clay, why is it that you don't use many contractions, I mean you used some when we first saw you, but you haven't used any since then." "I decided to stop using contractions a while ago, currently I cannot remember why, but it is kind of fun watching people's reactions when they notice it. It is a relatively recent change, and I guess I accidentally used contractions earlier out of excitement at seeing you guys." Clay responds as they enter his sister's house.

The first things that they saw were 7 pairs of eyes in the shadows as 7 creatures jumped towards Clay. "Why did those two Ditto, a Pupitar, a Tailow, a Pikachu, a Charmeleon, and a Butterfree just jump you?" Max asked Clay. "Oh, these two are my sister's Pokémon Ditto and Mini-Dit," answered Clay, pointing to each Pokémon in turn "and the others are her boyfriend's Pokémon Cruise, Rose, Sparky, Zippo, and Happy." He finished while petting Sparky. Then a voice said, "Well, would you look who it is; how're you little brother, and what about you Max?" Clay's sister said, "and who's this girl?" "My name's Liza," she said. "Well I welcome all of you to The Ikiiki House of Imité. My name is Duplica Rorschach, and this," she gestured towards a brown haired boy in a green outfit, "is my boyfriend Ritchie." "Well sis, all three of us are fine. Are mom and dad here?" Asked Clay. "No, they've got business in Kanto, so they're staying at our house in Kanto." Duplica answered. "Dad is letting you stay home, on another island, completely alone, with no one to keep you company other than your Pokémon and your boyfriend? I find that surprising for some reason." Clay said with a patronizing tone. "Dad knows Ritchie. He knows that Ritchie won't try anything." Duplica retorted. "I also know that Ritchie would not try anything." Clay shot back. "Maybe you two should calm down." said Max, realizing that things were starting to get out of hand with his cousins. "Right!" said Duplica, "let's get down to business," she looked at Liza, "So how long have you and Max been dating?" She asked causing Liza and Max to blush in surprise and embarrassment and caused Clay to burst into a fit of laughter. "What, why do you think we're dating!" They both said at the same time. "Well if you," Duplica said pointing to Liza, "were dating Clay he would have told me, so I guessed that you must have been dating Max." "I'm not dating either of them!" Liza yelled. "Oh," said Duplica before grinning, "well you know my cousin here is quite the catch, so maybe you two should get together." This caused both Max and Liza to turn an even deeper shade of red as Clay said between laughs. "As funny as this is I think you have teased them enough, big sis." "Yeah, you may be right there little bro." She acknowledged. "So," said Ritchie to Max, "have you caught any Pokémon yet?" "No," Max responded, "so far I just have Ralts." "Well," began Clay, "we should correct that, should we not?" "I guess so." Max says. "Well then lets go," he says grabbing Max's arm, "there are Pokémon all around this house, in fact I saw one near some power lines that, if I am remembering correctly, you told me you liked."

When the five of them got to the power lines they did indeed see several Pokémon including a few Porygon, which Max had indeed once told Clay that he would like to have. "What are you waiting for," Clay said to him, as he gave Max five Pokéballs, "go get it." Max then sent out his Ralts and prepared for battle with the wild Porygon.

"Ralts use Hypnosis." Max orders, and the attack causes the wild Porygon to fall asleep. "Now, Psychic." He says, which hits the Porygon both hurting it and causing it to wake up. Max realizes that the Porygon will be easier to catch if it gets put back to sleep, so he tells Ralts to use Hypnosis again. "Okay," he says, "Pokéball go!" The Pokéball moves around a bit before stopping and revealing that he had captured his first Pokémon, and so Max did the first thing that came into his head, "Yes, I caught Porygon," he said mimicking Ash's famous pose. Ritchie and Duplica both looked at Clay with questioning glances. "Remember when May told us that her and Max traveled with your buddy from Kanto." Clay said, causing Ritchie and Duplica to reply with, "Oh yeah." "So now that you've caught your first Pokémon what are you going to do?" asked Duplica. "Well I guess we should probably get going if we want to reach Midnight City sometime soon." Said Liza. "Yeah, you're probably right." Said Max. "Then we are off to Midnight City," Clay said, as he became dazed and finished, "The home of the most beautiful girl in the world."

And so the trio left saying farewell to Duplica, Ritchie, and the rest of the residents of the House of Imité. Things were looking bright for all, but Max was worried about the frighteningly familiar behavior that his cousin had shown as they were leaving.

A/N

Do all of you get why Max is worried, if not you will find out in the next chapter

Now a question for you: In the first chapter Venom's egg was shown, do any of you know what Pokémon was in the egg?

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