AN : Sorry about that. Thank you Felix the Eeveetrainer, pikachuhunter1, Echoing Echoes, Foxyjosh, Roggamer22, and Lady of DarkFire for reviewing.
X : The Morning After
JoAnn fights her self
Riddly speaks to his father
Brian had Rose's shirt off, as their front door opened, and Max and Stephanie came in.
"You have got to be fucking kidding me" Rose whispered, "Why are they back now?"
"I dunno, I can't control the, but lets not let that ruin what's just started" Rose sighed.
"I can't do it, the moment is gone"
"Fuck"
The rest of the first week held little of interest, other then the sliders going to see the matches of other trainers, some of whom could be future competition.
The morning of the first day of the second week, Brian had awoken at sunrise, but didn't leave his bed, instead staring at the sleeping figure of his wife. He gently stroked her, before getting up and leaving.
Stephanie and Max were asleep in the living area, so Brian creeped past them, and out the door. It was early, and the rising sun bathed the stadium in an orange glow. Few people were out, as Brian headed down to breakfast, but he did recognize one of them.
"Miguel" He called, as Miguel looked up from a table, sitting alone.
"Brian, how are you? Sit down"
"Thanks man. Are you here alone?"
"No, my beautiful wife is here, in fact, here she is" A short, but pretty, woman sat down beside them. She was very tanned, with dark brown eyes, but Brian kept staring at her hair. It was shining black, and perfectly straight, but seemed out of place some how. "Brian, this is my wife, Maria"
"Hello" She said, extending her hand. Brian was still paused, staring at her hair.
"Oh, um, hi" Brian slowly shook her hand, but both Maria and Miguel gave him curious looks.
"Is their something the matter?"
"Uh no, its just" Brian shook his head, trying to clear it. "Are you a trainer also?"
"No, actually I detest pokemon training" Maria smiled. "I'm a nurse" She flashed a bracelet around her wrist with a medical symbol on it.
"Isn't that the symbol for nurses in the hybrid army?"
"I severed as a human in the hybrid army. I loathed that fool Julius" She leaned back. "I wonder what ever happened to that creep"
"Uh, yeah that's one of life's little mysteries. So Miguel, when is your second match?"
"I have no idea" Miguel sighed, "I wish I at least knew what field I would be battling on"
"I have a question" Maria butted in, "They said they have an electric type field, and a psychic type field, correct?"
"Correct"
"May I ask what in the world those are"
"You know, I've been here a week, and I have never been to either of those" Brian said. "How do you have a psychic type field?"
"Maybe all of the pokemon float on it, so they can use only psychic type attacks"
"That would be a zero gravity field A, and B, the only move a dark type could use would be faint attack, although that would probably still win considering psychic type moves don't affect dark types"
"Why are dark and psychic types even grouped together? Its stupid!"
"Don't remind me" Brian sighed. Miguel gave him a curious look.
"You look like a man whose having trouble in the sack" This earned Miguel a punch in the stomach from Maria.
"I apologize for Miguel" Maria said, "He's a stone brained idiot"
"It's okay"
"LET ME GO" Brian turned around, followed by Miguel and Maria, to see two tournament security officers dragging off a very hassled man, who was screaming at the top of his lungs. His body looked human, but in this contest who knows? "I DIDN'T DO ANY THING WRONG!"
"Hey officers, what did he do?"
"This man was competing in the tournament as a pokemon, not a trainer"
"As a pokemon?"
"This man is a ditto slider"
"I've read about those" Miguel said.
"Miguel, you don't know what you're talking about"
"Sure I do. Ditto sliders, if I remember correctly, can use transform. Even in human form. Ditto hybrids can only become other hybrids" Brian smiled.
"Even human form?"
"Even human form"
"Well, this has been fun" Brian said, ideas rapidly flashing through his head, "I've got to go"
"Your son is here, Mr. Sinclair"
"Thank you, send him in" Rueben Sinclair was an extremely busy man, so much so, that he had to schedule time to see his friends or family. As Riddly came in, Rueben made him shut the door, and walk up to his desk. Rueben got up, and began pacing.
"Riddly, I manage to see your little interview on TV"
"Did you like it sir?" Rueben walked over to Riddly. He placed his hand on the side of his sons face, smiling gently, before drawing his arm back and smacking Riddly so hard he fell to the ground.
"I hated it, you little shit" Rueben said in an icy voice, his face losing all expression. "You were arrogant, and you came off as being a jackass"
"I'm sorry" Riddly muttered, slowly pushing himself up by his hand, "I shouldn't have done that. I should have know that theirs only one jackass in this family, and I should rob you of your title"
Rueben kicked Riddly under the chin, causing him to scream, and roll over on his side in pain. Rueben kicked him three more times, before reaching down, and yanking him up by his shirt.
"Listen you little fagot. I'm your father, I brought you into the world, and when I chose, I will take you out of it."
"Fuck you" Rueben ripped the sunglasses off Riddly's face, revealing two black eyes.
"I'm going to ignore you said that. In fact, I'm going to ignore all that you've said"
"I don't care what you do" Riddly laughed, "The day I get scared by a man who gets his rocks off by beating on his kid, and beating his wife to death, is the day I quit being a man. So fuck you, daddy-o" He said, flipping twin birds at his father.
"I'll ignore that too boy" Rueben snarled. "I don't want you giving any more embarrassing press conferences. If you look bad, I look bad, and I will kill you if you make me look bad. Now, you had better win boy. You reflect me, and I can't have a loser in my family"
"Oh daddy, I'm going to win, but not for you. I've got a so much more important reason to win" Rueben growled, and shoved his son into the chair in front of his desk. Rueben sat back down, tossing Riddly his sunglasses, before pressing a button on his desk. As his assistant came in, Rueben put a happy face back on.
"Yes Mr. Sinclair"
"Teresa, please get me a cup of coffee, I'm feeling thirsty"
"Yes sir. Any thing for you Mr. Riddly?"
"Oh, just a 22." Rueben shot him an evil look, and Riddly laughed. "What's the matter dad, can't take a joke?"
JoAnn stared at her reflection in the mirror, hoping it would go away. It was 2pm, and she had just woken up, with a pounding head ache. Her reflection made her look like she had the shit kicked out of her. In the back ground, she could see her mother and father.
"Your still trying to forget the truth aren't you" Her mother asked in a mocking voice. "You can primp, and pluck all you like, but your still cheating"
"I don't care" JoAnn said in a ragged voice, "I have to do this, for them"
"Oh do you now?" Her father asked, "I'm sure that Gail will forgive you"
"You leave Gail out of this!" JoAnn screamed, turning and swinging at people who weren't there. "Leave me alone" She began to sob, "You're a voice in my head"
"How do you know your not a voice in ours?"
"You two are dead!" JoAnn yelled in desperation, "Your dead, your dead, your dead dead dead. You two can't hurt me any more"
"Oh, but we can. Remember the last thing you said to us? You hated us. We will never forgive you JoAnn" JoAnn fell to the ground, sobbing. This happened every morning.
"Alright Brian, we're here" Natasha said, yawning as the tired group stood in Brian's living area, "What do you want?" Brian grinned.
"I think I figured something out about Grovyl's inside man"
"You dragged us out of bed for that?" Cameron asked.
"Cameron, you sleep in Raichu form, in a ball in the closet"
"Yeah, well Dimitrius sleeps in the bathtub!"
"Have you seen that room? It's disgusting! It's all I can do not to throw alcohol all over every thing to disinfect it. Then their was that girl Jonah tried to bring home last night"
"Svetlana was a nice girl! You're the one who tried to run a vacuum over her"
"I can't believe you picked her up, you don't know where she'd been"
"GUYS" Brian yelled. "I said I think I have an idea what Grovyl's inside man might be. Cameron, you said you made files on every type of Slider, correct?"
"Yeah, I did" Cameron flipped his laptop on, and pulled up his Sliders folder. Per Brian's instructions, he flipped to the file on Ditto Sliders. "Ditto Sliders, retain all of the functions of Ditto. Since Ditto can learn one attack, Ditto Sliders can use transform even in human form. Ditto Sliders can be discovered easily, since no matter what form they take, they retain the weaknesses of a normal-type pokemon"
"A Ditto Slider? That might work" Natasha said. "One of the soldiers from LifeForce, Julius couldn't have had his claws in all of them. One of them had to be friends with Grovyl, especially considering very few people actually knew Julius was running LifeForce" Cameron flipped on the live internet feed of the stadium. "Our inside man is out there. The question is, which one?"