Lucc opened his eyes to a ray of sunlight hitting his face, he winced and lifted his head up to get away from it, shortly after he felt warmth near his lower body, Silva was asleep, curled up right next to him. She was a good friend, the best he had.
Lucc sighed to himself, knowing that he had to head back to his trainer. He had an okay relationship with him, however there wasn't much of a mutual bond between them. Most of the time it felt like they were only working together, it's why Lucc went over to Silva's often instead of his own home. He just didn't feel as comfortable around his trainer like he did with Silva. Lucc silently got down from her bed without waking her up, no sign of Silva's trainer around the house oddly enough. He could only hope that she was okay and exited through the backdoor as he made his way back home.
Lucc silently entered his home through the "doggy door" that his trainer had set up for him once he got there and overheard two voices in the living room, one of them belonging to his trainer. Lucc quickly hugged the wall that was near the entrance to the living room with his body so he wasn't seen and perked his ears up to listen to the ongoing conversation.
"And you said your name is Ryan Dash, correct?" Lucc quickly peeked around the corner out of curiosity and saw his trainer and another man sitting at the table in the dining room which was right next to the living room, his trainer sitting across from him. Lucc couldn't see anything other than his back so he couldn't make him out other than the fact he wore a tuxedo-like suit.
"Yes, that's right." Ryan replied and pushed his black hair back off of his slightly tan-colored face with his hand, he tried his best not to seem nervous. Sitting across from him at their small table was one of who worked at the corporation that owned and allowed Ryan to use their pods. His skin fair and his short blonde hair slicked back. A typical wealthy businessman appearance.
"You can call me Levaughn. I'm here to speak with you about the shards you've acquired yesterday." A dead silence fell over the room. Why? Because Ryan hadn't told anyone about those shards yet, in fact, they were still inside of the pouch. "You see Ryan, when you flash freeze any item...all of the data is processed and sent directly to us so that we can then thoroughly study it. We don't typically go after what our users find because the data we receive lets us re-create the valuables, but...black rubies are far more valuable to us than you could ever imagine, and they contain a component that unfortunately won't allow us make any copies. What I ask of you is that you turn in the shards to me that you've obtained yesterday and tell me the exact year that you found them in. It's all very beneficial to our research." Levaughn seemed friendly about this, at first anyway. Of course, Ryan didn't want to hand over what him and Lucc had found but there really wasn't much of a choice being given to him. He didn't want to lose the ability to use the time pods either so his best bet was to comply.
"Sure, and I found them in the year 3065." Ryan reached down into his left pocket and took out the bundled up pouch.
"I appreciate how easy-going you are compared to the problems we run into with some other employees." Levaughn took the pouch and emptied it into his hand, sure enough, these rubies were exactly what they needed. "I have just one more question...is there a way for you to find more in that era?" He asked and tossed the empty pouch back to Ryan.
"I mean...I could try." Lucc had gotten a few from that Vaporeon on their last trip, and as risky as that was. It may have to be done again. "Good. I'll reward you generously if you happen to find any, see you around Ryan." Levaughn gave Ryan his business card and exited his small white house, fortunately he didn't seen Lucc on the way out. "Were you standing here this entire time Lucc?" Ryan knelt down and lightly patted his head. "Well, that means you heard everything then. We need to return to the same era...you got those shards from that Vaporeon right? Maybe you can see if she has more. Risky or not, we need to get this done and just stay quiet about it. Pod is getting dropped off tonight, that's when we'll head back out." His trainer explained to him.
Lucc hoped that the reward was money, he needed a nano camera upgrade. The one he had built in now was an outdated version so it lacked many convenient features. What was mostly on his mind at the moment was how happy he was to be going back to Aura's era, and since his trainer was allowing it he could possibly learn a lot more about her. He felt a hint of nervousness as well since this was still a risk, hopefully it played out well tonight.