Authors Notes; Welcome back for yet another chapter, also thanks for reading story. Remember Pokémon belongs to Nintendo, Game Freak and other respective owners. The next chapter is going to be reeeeal long at least double the usual length, so about 8k or 10k words maybe 12k depending on if I can get some over-time, anyways enjoi* this chapter and have a good one. :D

A new dialogue structure for telepathy will be –'Example' is talking through telepathy. –'Example' is thinking without the other knowing. So remember when they're talking to one another its regular font not Italic.

Also thanks yet again Forgoten4Now I'll take you opinion into consideration.

Chapter 2

+=+=+=+=+ Outside PetalBurg on Route 104 +=+=+=+=+

=~=~=~=~= PoV Kirisugo =~=~=~=~=

I walked with Claire still on my shoulder, one thing I've learned after working for the syndicate for over 3 years; leave the site as fast as possible, without getting seen. However we got lucky and that part of town isn't that nice so there wasn't anybody nearby. I let out a sigh of relieve but knowing that we won't be able to return here for a while, I look at Claire who seems to enjoying the Sun's rays but for some reason my thoughts are invaded by a feeling of content, but It didn't feel like my own. I honestly felt like I was going through the syndicates mind wave reader or whatever they called. I never cared for it much, because it always felt like there was another person in my head, but the feeling right now is similar but it doesn't feel as invading or violating to my mind, it feels more like it's trying to sync our minds together in a sense.

I look over to Claire to see she's guided my hand to one of her orange horns, once that happened whatever was prodding my mind grow more consistent and softer to the touch.

-"What are you doing?" I ask her with some curiosity and some anxiety considering our agreement to at least warn me before she enters my mind.

-'Oh since I evolved I was just trying to get a better psychic bond with you so we can talk through telepathy at greater distances.' Claire responded with, I just nodded and soon I realized that this feeling of content is coming from her. But how was she doing it, I understood she could read my thoughts and emotions, but why I'm I feeling some of hers? I didn't realize that my mood had shifted from relaxed to confused and Claire instantly could tell.

-'Are you alright Kirisugo?' She asked I just nodded my head and responded.

-"Yeah I am fine it's just well, I got a question how rare is this ability to be able to talk to through Telepathy with Ralts and their evolution line? And be entirely honest." Once I mentioned it, Claire just seemed to get a bit nervous; I could see it in her face, her small smile; turned into a small scowl, which I thought didn't suit her face quite well. I preferred when she smiled for some reason it filled me with a sensation of calmness, I also felt someone's anxiety pulsing in to my mind.

-'Alright I'll be honest this time, most humans don't treat us Pokémon like how you do, well they do treat them with respect and love… They treat them more as pets, more than friends. So I'd say out of a rough calculation of the humans I've met over the years about only 1.6% or maybe 2.2% of human can complete this far of communication with my evolutionary line the reason for this is that humans never see the Pokémon as equals.' Claire said with clarity, her explanation was good enough for me.

-"Huh, so I know that we need to go through these woods to get to one of the larger cities of this region and we'll see if I can find a map of the Earth." I say as I approach the entrance to these woods by the sea-side I was lying at earlier, as I cut a path through the tree's Claire changed positions from my right shoulder alone to both of them and her head just barely above my own, I was beginning to get a red face due to her burying her face into my hair. I felt her warmth from her face as she played around with my hair, I honestly don't think there's no meaning behind her closeness to me and I'm assuming it how Ralts act once they get accustomed to their Trainers, but I wasn't her Trainer not now and not ever, we're a team, a mutual agreement to help one another without expecting things in return. So she's my partner, I think and smile softly.

-"Yeah I like the sounds of that." I say out loud, Claire looks at me with wonder and I once again feel this prodding sensation but it was followed by a short headache. I hear her give off a bell chime cry and grips more tightly onto my head and hair.

-'I like that idea too; we see each other as equals right?' I hear her ask anxiously. –"Of course." I respond and look up at her eyes, those strangely hypnotic orange and not any variant of orange. The type you see in ancient texts when the sun makes ray fit for the gods themselves, I soon realized we've been staring at each other for a while now and I almost tripped on a log. –"Woah Crap!" I spit out as I regain my balance and look back at Claire.

-'It's okay Kirisugo, but thanks for compliment…'She says while burying her face into my hair so all I see is her sky blue hair invading my vision, with her two horns placed so they won't rub against me too hard. Theses orange horns are really warm and I feel large amounts of infatuation and yearning pulsing off them, I quickly remember our psychic bond grew so she can read my mind a lot easier. I also pull out the Trainer I.D I paid for and the Poke balls, after meeting Claire I want to get more Pokémon companions but not through capturing them, I want us to become friends and them to follow me out of their own will. I know that may be difficult at some point, for certain Pokémon but I think it wouldn't be fair if Claire was the only Pokémon not bound be Poke ball. I chuck the small Poke balls and I.D away.

-'Why did you do that?' I heard Claire ask, 'I was there, you said you hated waiting in lines for government I.D's now you just wasted three hours of your life by throwing it away.' I just sighed.

-"I've just decided that if I am to get more Pokemon, I want to be their friend as well, so they can follow me without the need for a Pokeball like you. Even though trainers can catch you all still because of this fact, I'd prefer it this way." I respond and she gives a bell chime cry.

Claire and I continued down the beaten down part of forest for a while until we encountered a few Zigzagoons that thought I'd make a nice dinner and Claire a wonderful desert, long story short it ended with a pile of 5 fainted zigzagoons. I didn't even do anything Claire just focused on them and they went slamming into the trees to our left and right, she then slammed them of few extra times against the ground to be sure.

-'Stupid bullies, that'll show em.' Claire said with a huff, I just chuckled lightly and I began thinking. Firstly I checked to see if Claire was tuning in to my thoughts, she's seems to be too busy with playing with my hair some more. What is our connection, I mean I usually never get flustered even when Blanche herself would flaunt he features to me, I wouldn't budge plus her assets weren't something I won't ever forget. But this girl on the other hand made me feel like I was in middle school again, it's not like I don't approve of the idea of her and I being together in a relationship that is beyond friendship. It's just I seriously doubt she has feeling for me that way; so I'll try to find her a nice fellow to settle down with. Plus I think Pokemon-Human relationships are frowned upon here. I continued to have my mental conflict but was controlling how I let my emotions flow; instead of feeling self-confusion I replaced it with worry about our surroundings.

I just wished my Phone made it here with me I miss my music, it made traveling like this a lot more eventful I personally think and one thing the Syndicate taught me is if we have music playing whilst we do their work, our failure rate drops by 34%.

Makes sense it's better to 'Take care of' Targets to a sound track; also my phone got taken away when entering the Russian base although I kept the memory stick, somewhere my vest.

-'Don't worry Kirisugo, I won't let anything happen, friends help one another.' Claire spoke quietly, I nod and continued walking for another half an hour until we decided to stop for lunch, and we found a pond in a light clearing in the brush. I let Claire down and sat down in the grass beside the pond, and begin humming a song. It was Ivy and Gold by Bombay Bicycle Club; I used to play a lot of their songs when I had a guitar.

I grab out our lunch I had packed, Claire I hand her the sandwich I made for her and she instantly dug into it. I just laughed lightly and started eating as well. Soon I felt once again a light prodding sensation which was followed by a small headache, I just pear down at Claire who's eyes are shut in concentration, I shrug and laugh a bit even though it's getting kind of weird having her poke around through my head some more. -'You know Kirisugo, the humans here are probably a tiny bit more advanced technology wise, while not really into military means such as your home. So I'm sure you can find a new device that can use that chippy thingy you like so much.' I hear her say finally opening her eyes; I scoff and look at her.

-"You could at least ask before just rummaging through my head." I say teasingly, she just gave me embarrassed look and rubbed the back of her head.

-'I'm sorry it's just a habit, it's usually how I communicated with my parents, but I forgot you can't control your thoughts as well as we can.' She responded while looking down at the mention of her parents, I rub her head gently.

-"It's fine but I kinda wanna know…what exactly are you doing?" I ask eagerly, to be honest I wanted to know more about her, well and Ralts and their evolutionary line's psychic abilities. She was surprised at my question but nodded.

-'Well I was checking your mood I felt you yearning for something, so I checked what it was but all I know it's a small chippy thing' She responds, I continue or refine my question more.

-"So what would I need to do to be able to communicate like your parents?" I ask she begins to think for a while.

-'Maybe you'd need to open up your mind more to me, or allow me to pass through more easily?' she says then shakes her head.

-'I'm honestly not too sure how humans work but that's what my parents told me to do.' Claire finished with grabbing my hand and putting both her small hands in my one; she uses one to hold my right hand palm on the pinkie side and pressed her thumb on to center of my hand. Using her other hand she put in into my fingers. 'Please hold my hand.' I close my fingers onto her small hand; she proceeds to shut her eyes.

-'Okay I'll start the link.' She states as I feel the familiar prodding sensation. 'Now we're going to send our emotions back and forth understand?' Claire asked as if it was an easy task; I gave a long sigh and tried doing as she said.

-"I don't really know what you mean by send our emotions back and forth to be honest Claire." I say sheepishly, she opens her eyes and the prodding sensation left.

-'We're going to do something simple like happiness, just think about what makes you happy and mentally send it to me or that sensation you mentioned and I'll send what makes me happy back so we'll have a basic emotional link I guess' She says then closes her eyes once more and I felt her presence in my mind once again, so I remember the cool breezes of Ontario and the rushing waves against the rock cuts of lake superior rushed my mind, as a child this was my secret spot and I only went here when I was angry or sad, and for some reason the calmness of the lake and the atmosphere there made me happy. I then sent this memory and emotional attachment to it to the heart of the prodding sensation; I soon was invaded by a picture of a tree in a small clearing and two what I'm assuming are Gardevoir greeted me, soon one picked up a young Claire and they all gave a synced bell hum and began eating whatever her parents had foraged that day.

The feeling that emitted off this memory was pure bliss and happiness; after leaving the memory I realize I've had my eyes shut this whole time, I open them to see Claire staring at me. I gave a warm smile and got up; she gave a small smile and got up as well. 'That was interesting. But I really liked that spot in your memories.' Claire said with some eagerness, I pick her up and place her back on to my shoulders.

-"Yeah it was different, I was wondering we're they your parents?" I ask while picking up out lunch garbage, I feel a moment of sadness from Claire but then it passes.

-'Yeah they were, my daddy risked his life to get my favorite fruit which is mango's that came from a nearby farmer's market.' She said with a somber tone, I pat her head and try sending waves of sympathy to her, which she looked down at me once she started receiving them.

-'Kirisugo did you just…' She began I just nodded and she exploded with excitement. 'Kirisugo you can control your emotions, but how? It's almost Kirlia like but more on the young Ralts side considering how sloppy it was' Claire said, I'm just shocked that what I had tried even worked.

-"To be honest with you, I thought that I could only do that when you were holding my hand." I say sheepishly, Claire brought her hand to her mouth and looked like she was deep in thought. I just put my focus on my path through these woods, from what I found out while at PetalBurg's market is that this forest is about 45km in distance from the next town but they said that's including the marshes that lead up to city which made up 10km of that distance. So considering I've been walking for 3 hours, I think we got about a 3 or 4 day trek to get to the marshes and possibly 1 day or less to get through the marshes. Now realizing the situation we're in once it comes to food, I'll have to go back to my Training in the Syndicate to get through a situation similar to this and I also remember I have a veteran of this Planet on top of my shoulders, well compared to me anyways.

-"Claire we may not have enough food for the whole trip so if we see anything that you know is safe to eat and I don't care about the taste either, one time while I was in South America during a secret conflict between nations, I had to eat five day dead oxen in order for me and my squad to survive." I say but Claire just makes a face filled with disgust, I just chuckle at the memory while it may have been bloody it was a nice to have some comrades.

=+=+=+=+= Flashback to 2015, May 29 – Middle of the amazon jungle =+=+=+=+=

-"Hey Terra we got two more platoons of American infantry coming in, plus they got a few M134 on three Blackhawks!" Screamed Alpha at me while he fires another burst into a wall of trees an occasional scream or yelp of pain would be heard from behind it.

-"Doesn't matter! We're ordered to hold them back until the Forward team gets their Objective and get out! So hold your pants up and keep shooting!" I yell back at him, in return he gave a loud screech while pumping his M249 SaW, towards the oncoming squadrons.

-" ! The forward team was whipped out and the operation was a setup by the U.N. we need to get out of here!" I stop shooting and look at Olive; she was the youngest yet more brutal out of us all. It was rare to see fear on her face and it was showing.

-"God damnit those bastards knew this would happen! Why did they even give the green light then!" I yell back as a round takes my barrette off, I turn to the direction the round came from and filled the area with a full magazine from my F2000 into that direction until five or four cries of pain came out of the brush line.

-"Relax Terra!" I hear through my radio piece, I grind my teeth and respond. –"So you're behind this plan aren't you Blanche!" I yell out, the whole squad hears her laughter.

-"No it wasn't me but you guys and that forward team were just a distraction from getting what we really wanted, now go three kilometers to the north-east and pop an orange flare onto of the left over military base, Evac will be there with in thirty minutes after the flare has been popped. However you guys got three days to get there until we, the Syndicate are pulling out of the South American conflict for we have acquired our sought after." I hear her say but before I could protest she finished.

-"Oh and Terra I expect all my agents to be alive and well once they get here. Commander Blanche out." I just grit my teeth and think about how we're even going to move with half the American army on our ass and closing in.

-"Okay Olive, go get the rest of the squad and get them here ASAP!" I bark out and she complies by booking it into the brush to get our other three squad mates, I turn to Alpha.

-"Hold them off until the rest of the Pack gets here understand!" I yell at him, he just huffs and nods and we continue firing in the 180 degrees area our thought to be enemies were coming from but some rounds at our five o'clock and six o'clock cut our only exit to the North-west now and we need to cover 270 degrees of tree's now.

-"Okay Terra let's get the hell outta here!" I hear Olive yell I keep firing and tap Alpha and the shoulder, -"Go I'll keep cover fire GO!" I bark at him, He ran to the bush line and I hear Olive scream at me.

-"Hurry the fuck up Terra!" I comply and run towards the Pack, once I was with the other members; I instantly ordered -"Full retreat 500 meters North-West then we'll head 3.5km to the extraction point!" The sound of American tanks and helicopters filled the air but for some reason they're assuming we're still on top of that hill.

=+=+=+= Present time, 2017, August 18, Hoenn Region Route 104 =+=+=+=

-'Hello Earth to Kirisugo? HELLO!' I hear Claire voice cut off my memory and I look up at her. She just gives me a look of annoyance, and continues.

-'You do realize that, our bond has grown so I can feel your emotions a lot better Kirisugo and I felt some anger and resentment come up while you looked spaced out.' I just give her a shrug.

-"Well it's just my occupation before the series of event that led up to now; just a few months ago I was a tool for THE most powerful influences on my planet. I'm just not used to doing nothing besides hiding behind my designated mask." I say and Claire seemed to understand but pressed on. -'I've known you for just a little while now, Kirisugo but you seem like the most caring human I've met. Although I was wondering how you could… be so cold when you needed to be.' She said, and I looked up at her.

-"Well when it came to work I had a completely different mind state and persona, they drilled into my head that when it came down to my objective, I would shut down all emotions and run purely on Logical and Rational decisions, which in turns makes me to be, a cold and ruthless tool for their means." I say with a truly somber tone, I only get some feelings of reinsurance and acceptance. 'So what if that's what you did in the past, I like the Kirisugo I've met and I think you should look forward instead of backwards?' Claire says with a light smile, I return it. –"You know Claire; you know just what to say. Thanks." I say once again I feel her plunge into my hair so all I can see is her sky blue hair.

=~=~=~=~=~= PoV Change Claire (Kirlia) =~=~=~=~=~=

-'Thanks Kirisugo, but I was just speaking the truth on the matter.' I say to him while burying my face into his hair again, I didn't want him seeing my face its red like a cherry. The last thing I wanted was for him to find out about my crush on him because I feel like it would make our friendship too awkward, if he knew his little Claire had the biggest crush on him. I let out a short sigh and look down at his face, he's just gazing to the brush line and he's keeping his eyes peeled for the halfway marker the people at PetalBurg spoke of.

-'So how long until we should reach the exit?' I ask Kirisugo, who just scoffs and responds. –"About three or four days at most, it's for that reason we might need to rely on your foraging know how to pick some eatable plants or berries from the toxic ones." He said to me.

-'Okay sounds good; I'll try my best to keep my eyes open.' I say to him, and began scanning my surroundings; we're in a small valley so to speak. There was a rock face of about 10 feet on each side, on top of these rock cuts were trees and a few bushes. In the part we're walking in, it looks like a dried up river bed, so I'm thinking during the spring runs pretty high. The air today was humid but thanks to the wind the suns heat wasn't too bad, the river bed looks like it's has been used by other travellers or Pokémon before. Also the people in PetalBurg spoke of a dried river so I think this is what they were talking about, they said it should cut our trip in half if we follow it until we reach some large old Oak tree. Roughly I think we'll be in this small valley for at least the rest of our travel time today and maybe some tomorrow to get to the half-way marker.

-"Hey Claire? Can you possibly tell me more about this planet, I know it's a bit much to ask but I'd like to know more about my new home." Kirisugo asks, I bring a hand to my lips and begin to think about all I know about this 'planet' as he called it.

-'Well I think there are 6 larger continents that make up six of the regions, 5 smaller continents are another five and I think theres a small islands bunch that's considered a region but I don't know much about it.' I say, and Kirisugo then looks up at me expectantly.

-"Awesome lots of places to see and cause shit storms, hehe and its there anything else?" He asks with a slight shine in his eyes, I give a small laugh at his words and I quickly respond.

-'The standard language here in Hoenn, is Hoennese and some English although it's not used by the older generation of Hoenn people. But English is standard all over, nowadays with humans but still the traditional methods of speech from each region are up kept by its inhabitants.' I continue with a proud smile on my face, for knowing so much about human culture yet never meeting one in direct contact, but when it comes to my species culture, I'm kinda brain dead. My mom never had the chance to teach me about our traditional ways of sealing a mating bond with someone. But I know the basics on how all the Gardevoir Tribes do their business but that's it.

-"So since, I could understand what Arito wrote that message was in Japanese, I'm going on a hunch that Japanese and Hoennese are exactly the same and knowing English is used all around the planet." Kirisugo said with a large amount of excitement, I really love his carefree attitude; it's a nice change from the self-righteous trainers that I used to read or that one scientist fellow who didn't care about the pokemons well beings but acted like that for the public. Humans are weird but Kirisugo reminds me of the Elder Matriarch of our, community of Gardevoirs and their offspring. She was always carefree but when she needed to be she could take down a full grown Graveler or a pack of Poochyena, But I don't know what happened to the rest of them after those men in red came after my shining gene.

-"Hey does that look like a huge oak tree to you?" I was pulled away from my thoughts when Kirisugo mentioned the mid-way point, I look up and see down at least 500 meters of walking until we reached it and this is only the half way through the forest. I looked around and see we're at a cliff… -'Wait did they MENTION we had to climb down a cliff!?' I yell at Kirisugo whom just giggled and nodded.

-"Yeah I asked them if they knew any fast and exciting ways to the next town and a few rock climbers mentioned this, a fast cut through the trails and probably made our trip a 2-3 day trek now. We're making great time." He said almost too laid back like, I just peered over the edge and it's about 90 foot fall.

-'Kirisugo… IF YOU BEGAN CLIMBING DOWN THIS ILL GIVE YOU ONE HELL OF A MIGRAIN!' I scream like a child and an audible bell chime yelp emitted out my mouth. All he does is giggle even more and begin climbing down the rock face.

-"Squeeeeee~!" I yelp as he goes over the edge.

Authors Notes; I cut this short only due to me working late the past couple nights, so like I said at the top the next chapter is going to be 8k to 12k words. And I'll get into detail about both our Characters here;

Kirisugo Tsubaki (Karl Terra. Alias under the Syndicate)

After joining the Syndicate, Tsubaki quickly grew through the ranks due to his, rational and logical solutions to the issues brought with his missions, he has seen service in many different countries and quickly had a squad of the best of the Syndicate, they were called 'Masked Pack' as a code name.

His outfit currently is a thin long sleeve black shirt (Hole in right shoulder) with a leather belt under the arm vest that consists of two 10' Katana holster and a handgun holster and some extra pockets containing three magazines, a sharping stone and his phones music memory card. Also covering his back is a trench coat like cloak that made of an advanced alloy that simulates cloth but is bullet proof against small arms fire (Pistol Bullets) and most knifes or swords for that matter. Not going into detail about his undergarments due to it being not really needed to be described. He wears a pair of black cargo pants made of the same material of the trench coat and finally a pair of black combat boots that stop just after the ankle.

He has currently two advanced alloy Katana for weaponry, his P99 was dropped and picked up by who knows, Team Magma ;).

Claire (Shiro/Kirlia)

Before Kirisugo came to Hoenn, she spent her time in the shadows watching passing human and reading their thoughts and emotions, and she didn't have any family or knows what happened to the other Gardevoir living in the same tree bunches as her and her parents and her name when she lived with her parents was Shiro and I'm honestly not too sure why picked that so, don't question it. xD

Claire is a *Shining* Kirlia that has sky blue hair and portion of her dress, while her horns or heart is a sun set orange, her eyes are a shad lighter than that of her horns but altogether look about the same in retrospect.

I plan on making these two denying their feeling for each other for a while, I don't want this being a stereotypical 'You saved me, now I love you human!' story. I want them to at least build some written chemistry before they finally decide to come clean about their feelings of each other. So anyways have a good one and thanks for checking in. EnjoiXLyfe

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