"And… Done!" Sky smiled at her reflection in the mirror as she finished tucking her hair into a black baseball cap that had a masterball stitched onto its front. "Perfect."

When she had gotten home from her conversation with Amarillo, she had gone straight to her room and exchanged her school uniform for something more travel conscious. Gone were the short pleated skirt and sailor style shirt. In their place, Sky had chosen tan cargo pants that could hold anything she needed to be able to reach quickly, and a black t-shirt that sat snug against her body so that it wouldn't get caught on any branches.

"Wait!" She cried, suddenly remembering something. She dashed past where Voli was lying on her bed, watching her with interest. "It's best to be prepared for anything." She laughed, pulling a plaid shirt with a hood out of her closet. She didn't put it on, but stuffed it in the green backpack she had filled with supplies.

She didn't expect the trip to Pallet town to be that difficult, but she was only going there to get directions. She had no idea where Professor Oak might send her. She wasn't going to be sent somewhere cold with nothing but a t-shirt.

"Let's go, Voli." She called as she shouldered her bag.

"Vee!" Voli happily jumped off the bed and ran over to Sky, jumping up onto her other shoulder.

"I think we should be able to reach the lab by morning." Sky told Voli as she descended the stairs. "If everything goes well, then we-"

"Sky?" Green was looking at her from where he stood in the kitchen. She could smell frying onions and grilling burgers. He was making her favourite for dinner, hamburgers with caramelized onions. "Where are you going?"

"To Pallet town." Sky told him while walking toward the kitchen. From this side of the counter she could see the frying pan. The onions were almost done, and they looked really good. "I, um, was going to leave right away."

"What about school?" Green asked, flipping a burger. Sky watched as he put shredded cheese on it, her favourite way of eating a burger.

"Golduck school." Sky said quietly. She watched as the cheese melted. She wouldn't have stopped staring at it if Voli hadn't poked her in the ear, making her jump.

"Sky!" Green said angrily. He stepped into her sight line, cutting off her view of the cooking food. "Language!" He glanced out the window to the field where his Pokémon, including a Golduck, usually spent their time.

"What?" Sky said, trying to look innocent. "All I said was Golduck."

"I know what you meant." Green knew all of Sky's Pokémon swear words. Because of this, they had lost most of their entertainment value, but there was still the occasional time when she would use them.

"Yeah. Fine. Whatever." Sky leaned to the side to look around Green. "That burger's done." She informed him, slipping into her seat at the counter. Pallet town will still be there after dinner.

"If you go traveling," Green started to lecture her as he placed her burger in front of her. "Then you will miss a lot of school."

Sky took a big bite of her burger, slurping at the onions that dangled from her mouth. "You skipped school to go traveling." She reminded him with her mouth full. "So did Red and Amarillo." Now that she thought about it, she didn't think most people continued school to age fourteen, and most stopped around age eleven.

Green looked like he was about to say something, but then he paused. After a long pause, he sighed and shook his head. "I guess I'd be a hypocrite if I told you not to go."

"Yup!" Sky chirped, taking another bite of her burger. "Besides, right now I'm only going to visit your grandfather."

Green sighed again. "Alright."

"How should I introduce myself?" Sky asked Voli as she walked through the little wood that lay between Veridian and Pallet. They had left right after Sky had finished eating and chugged a glass of water. Green had even still been eating. Now they were halfway there and it was starting to get dark.

Sky stopped and picked a tree to use as her pretend great grandfather. "Hi!" She said cheerfully. "I'm your great granddaughter, but we may not be related by blood."

Voli let out a laugh and jumped from her shoulder. "Vee!"

"I know, okay." Sky frowned at Voli. This was part of why she had never been too excited to meet her great grandfather. She had absolutely no idea how to explain to him how they were related, since she didn't even know if they were. This was the only thing she didn't like about her family.

She knew that, biologically, Amarillo was her mother. She also knew that, legal family register wise; she had no mother, but two fathers. Biologically, she was either Green's daughter, or Red's daughter. Who she was related to by blood ever seemed to matter, Green was her dad, and Red was her dad.

But sometimes there were people who didn't understand that.

Sky sighed heavily and sat on the ground. "Who would have thought, huh?" She said with a half smile to Voli. "Who would have thought that the hardest part of this journey would be meeting the professor?"

"Vee." Voli crawled into her lap and curled up there. "Vee."

Sky sighed again and looked at Voli fondly. Then, all of a sudden, she felt like laughing. "This is crazy!" She shouted. "Even if I'm not Green's daughter by blood, then it's like he adopted me!" She wrapped her arms around Voli in a tight hug. "We are related." She mumbled to herself.

Voli placed a calming tail on her arm. It helped.

Then the tail curled around her arm and she jumped. Looking down, she saw that it wasn't Voli's tail at all, but that of a Rattata. The small rat Pokémon was looking up at her with understanding in its eyes.

Sky laughed slightly. "Thank you." She said, reaching out and scratching it behind the ears. Then she got to her feet with Voli in her arms and gave a determined sighed. "Come on." She said to nobody in particular. "Let's go find Ditto!"

"Vee!" Voli suddenly jumped down toward the Rattata. When Sky looked, Voli was staring at, not a Rattata, but a Pidgy.

Or rather, a Ditto.