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Chapter 7

Professor Sycamore

A beam of early morning sunlight falls across my face waking me up. I immediately feel several heavy spots on me and my entire right side is covered by person. Of our current Pokémon only Fletchling is not curled up on the bed, he is sitting in the windowsill watching the sunrise. Seeing me awake he gives a low chirp good morning which I return with a wave.

Carefully extracting myself from the bed I open the door to retrieve our fresh cloths. Heading to the bathroom I get ready for the day. When I leave the bathroom Shauna is awake sitting up in bed, she has bed head, all the hair sticking up on one side. Overall she has a cute rumpled look about her. I stand there smiling at her as she yawns. She sees me watching her.

"What?"

"Just thinking how cute you look in the morning, with your messy hair and wrinkled cloths."

Blushing and with a mumbled thanks she quickly grabs up her things and heads for the bathroom. I duck out quickly to grab some breakfast. When I return she is ready and, after a quick breakfast, we head for the front desk. Before we leave the room I pick up the red flower and replace it in her hair. As we approach the desk I give the nurse a smile.

"Hello, we would like to see the Ralts and Flabébé that were checked in last night, please."

"Certainly, follow me." She leads us through the back door and down a sterile white hallway. "They are both doing very well. They have been playing with each other all morning."

We walk into the room to see Flabébé floating around Ralts who so grabbing at her playfully.

"They are ready to leave anytime, just bring them to the front desk when you are ready."

"Thank you so much for helping them." Shauna says as the nurse leaves.

Looking at the two of them playing I say "Well you two look like you are ready to go" I say to them. Ralts appears in front of me.

"Thank you for saving us" Ralts says.

"Your very welcome, why were you two being attacked?" I ask

"We were just playing in the fountain when suddenly we were surrounded. They attacked us but I managed to teleport away from them. The next thing I remember is waking up here." Ralts explains.

"Well I'm glad we found you two. Before we leave I want you two to know something, to help you we had to catch you. If you want to be released we will take you back to where we found you." I explain.

With a quick look at each other Flabébé flies up to Shauna and looks her in the eye, being only slightly bigger than her eye, then, apparently seeing something good, settles on the flower in her hair. Ralts looks up at me. I pick her up and she snuggles into my arms.

"We would like to stay with you two, you are good people."

"We would love to have you both along. Let's go check you guys out then we can leave." Shauna says.

We leave the room and head for the front desk. When we get there we see two familiar people walking through the sliding door. Sina and Dexio see us and start walking over. With a quick word with the nurse Ralts and Flabébé are free to leave. We turn to greet them.

"Good morning Sina, Dexio." I say and Shauna waves.

"Good morning to you two as well. I see the injured Pokémon you rescued are fine, we're glad to see it." Sina says.

"Are you ready to meet the Professor?" Dexio asks.

"I can't wait; I hear he knows more about Pokémon than anyone." Shauna says excitedly. With that we follow them out of the center. As they lead us down the road to the Professors lab we take our first real look at the city. The building tower over us, the glass sparkling in the morning sunlight, the roads are divided down the middle with islands of grass and trees, Pokémon and children playing in them. The roads are full of people doing their daily business and taxies carrying others.

"Man what a huge city, we could easily get lose in a place this big." I say.

"On a normal day it's very easy, however today much of the city is closed off due to a massive power outage." Sina tells us.

Dexio points to a huge tower that looks to be in the very center of the city, its hundreds of windows glinting in the light. "That's right. Even the Gym, the biggest and brightest building in the city, is without power, as well as most of the shops in the city." He adds.

After a few minutes of walking we stop outside of a building that sticks out from the towering glass structures around it. With a small garden in the front with a stone path leading from the road to the door, the three story building looks like an old library. Made of old brown stone with large window set into it, this building looks nothing like the laboratory of a famous Pokémon Professor. Sina and Dexio lead us through the front door into a large reception room. Potted plants and chairs line the walls with short tables covered with the latest science magazines.

"Alright we are going to leave you here. Just step into the elevator and head to the third floor, the Professor is expecting you." Sina tells us, point to an elevator directly across from the main door. They head over to the main desk to talk to the receptionist. We step into the elevator and head to the third floor.

When the doors open we are greeted by who we assume to be the Professor. Taller than me by a good six inches he has shoulder length blue hair and is wearing a lab coat that reaches his ankles.

"Good morning to the two of you. I'm Professor Sycamore nice to meet you." He says in a cheerful voice, holding out his hand.

I step forward to shake it, "Hey I'm Mike and this is Shauna. Nice to meet you." I say as we both shake his hand.

"Unfortunately we have to rush this meeting this time; I have another appointment very soon. First I would like to thank you both for agreeing to help me in my work. You are helping me greatly. Now let's get right to business, I would like to see both of your Pokedexes." We hand them to him and he examines them both. With a nod he returns them.

"You are doing well though your friend Trevor has almost double your scanned Pokémon. I understand he is more focused on that particular task than you and that is perfectly fine, you each have your own goals and I don't want you straying from them on my account."

"I have some rather grave news I also have to share with you. Lately there has been a group going around causing trouble around the region. This group, known as Team Flare, has no set goal that we can see. I have a couple of people trailing them and trying to keep their mischief to a minimum. All the same I would like you both to be on the lookout for these people and stay out of their way, they may be dangerous. I do not wish any harm to befall you because of me."

"There is one more favor I would like to ask of you. Would you do me the honor of battling me? I have a space set aside for battles on the roof." He asks me.

"Alright let's go, this should be interesting." I accept. We follow him up to the roof. The whole space is cleared and battle field lines have been painted on the rooftop.

"Young lady, would you mind being our referee?" Sycamore asks Shauna.

"Sure I don't mind." She says.

"So with your approval this will be a three on three battles. As the challenger I will I will let you make the first move. Agreed?" He asks. With a nod we each grab out first Pokeballs.

New Pokémon Scanned: 0

Total Pokémon Scanned: 15

Author's Note: Surprise! I decided to post this chapter right away for two reasons. #1: This chapter is a little boring. It's all talking with no battles. #2: I have not been posting reguliary and I already had this chapter done so here you go. The next chapter will be more interesting, i promise. So with that thanks for reading and PLEASE REVIEW! :)