Forbidden Future

by killalao

next story in series is Forbidden Fortune, editing and corrections will be done on an as noticed basis. Several chapters were given a minor retcon "Sentient pokemon" were changed to "sapient" because I feel the word fits better. Also justified all the text to the left while I was at it, and fixed a few spelling mistakes.

36. Family Time

-Chapter 36-

We were awoken by a loud crash in the middle of the night, comming from Nina's room, we dashed over there to find the tv on the floor, smashed, and Nina sitting on her bed, crying.

Me: "What did you do to the tv?"

-scared- Nina: "I didn't mean too."

Phoebe: "Cj calm down."

Phoebe: "Nina, honey what's wrong?"

Phoebe: "Are you ok?"

-scared- Nina: "Nightmares."

Phoebe: "Oh...sweety."

Me: "Yeah but what about the tv?"

Me: "You know we're going to have to pay to replace that."

Phoebe: "Cj, it's not her fault."

Phoebe: "She didn't mean too."

-crying- Nina: "Team rocket...they were hurting me, and they killed you and...-crying-"

Nina: "And then the tv fell down on its own and woke me up."

Phoebe: "Oh sweety, it didn't fall down on its own, you did that."

Nina: "But...how?"

Phoebe: "Your powers..."

Phoebe: "It's going to be okay sweety, we're here for you."

Phoebe wrapped her arms around her and pulled her close. She started to calm down.

Nina: "I'm so scared."

Me: "It's going to be ok sweetheart."

Me:"We love you."

Phoebe: "You can sleep in our room tonight if you want."

Me: "Phoebe..."

Phoebe: "What, Cj she needs our help."

Phoebe: "Or I can sleep next to you..."

Nina: "Ok mommy."

Phoebe: "Allright then."

Me: "-sighs- Goodnight you two."

Nina: "Goodnight daddy."

I kissed them both goodnight and went back to the other room, though it was hard to get back to sleep without Phoebe, luckily she snuck away from Nina after she fell asleep and came back to me.

-quietly closing the door- Phoebe:" Cj?"

-quietly- Phoebe: "Are you asleep yet?"

Me: "Of course not..."

-quietly- Phoebe:" Good."

She got in bed next to me and snuggled up.

Me: "Nina allright with you leaving her?"

Phoebe: "She doesn't know, she's asleep."

Me: "Ok."

We kissed, and fell asleep some time later.

Morning came, I got up and got in the shower, and Phoebe went over to Nina's room once again to make sure she took a shower as well. Then she came back to our room and got in the shower with me once again.

Me: "Goodmorning sweety."

She hugged me.

Phoebe: "Goodmorning Cj."

Me: "So we're doing this again huh?"

Phoebe: "Mhmmm."

Me: "You kinky little thing."

Phoebe: "Well, unless you don't want too..."

Me: "Why would I not?"

Me: "Come here Pheebles."

Phoebe: "Hehe..oh Cj."

I kissed her, and felt her up a little bit, and then we had sex in the shower once again, I'm not going to go into detail this time to avoid being repetitive, anyway, the rest of the morning went by normally, and after breakfast, we hit the streets. Phoebe dropped me off at the gym, and then went with Nina to the airport to go to Celadon. Flying there would save time, since it was about a 3 hour drive one way, and I highly doubted I could spend 6 hours at the gym without getting bored and missing my little Pheebles. I don't really think she liked it when I called her that, kind of like how she didn't like being called cute...ah well.

The gym was open today, as expected, and very busy as well, though not as busy as it was when we passed by it yesterday. Anyway, I got in line, kissed Phoebe and Nina goodbye, and watched them ride away to the airport in a taxi. Phoebe kindly offered to leave her car here in case my battle ended before they got back. This was kind of strange, being without herm because usually if we were apart, something was seriously wrong. Ah well, they would only be gone for a few hours, nothing major, and if anything happened she could always call me.

After waiting out in the hot sun for what seemed to be an eternity, I finally got inside the nice air-conditioned gym. It was very crowded inside, and a rumor was flying around the crowd that this gym was very tough. I watched as many trainers left the gym looking depressed, like they had lost. I wasn't afraid, this gym may be more challenging then the rest, but I was ready.

Soon enough, it was my turn, and I entered the arena, taking note of my surroundings. The arena was fairly plane this time around, astroturf floor, standard thick plexiglass protecting the crowd from potential wayward attacks, fake grass, and standard chalk outlines. It looked like and indoor version of the arenas behind every pokemon center. The final gym leader was an elderly man, and it seemed obvious that this gym battle was going to be different from all the others. We met in the center of the arena, as always, and shook hands, the man didn't even give me his name, and simply said.

Gym leader: "6 on 1."

Me: "What?"

Gym leader: "All your pokemon against just one of my pokemon."

Me: "Um...ok."

He just stared at me coldly, as we shook hands and returned to our respective sides.

I was somewhat excited to see what his pokemon would be, having no knowledge or indication of what type this gym was. But with all six of my pokemon against just one of his, I had a feeling it wasn't going to be just a normal pokemon. Well the old man drew a ball from his pocket, I noticed right away it was an ultra-ball, furthering my suspicion that it had to be something big. Without saying anything, the man tossed the ball into the air, it opened up, and a big green serphantine creature came out."

Me: "Uh...a rayquaza?"

Figuring I had plenty of pokemon, I sent out rhyhorn first. And no, just in case you're curious, this man looked nothing like Blane. Though I was extremely curious on how he had a rayquaza, maybe there was more then one after all? I don't know, anyway the rayquaza gave out a loud echoing roar, and the battle began.

Damn this thing, it was fast. Way faster then rhyhorn, it didn't take long for me to realize I would regret sending him out. Rhyhorn was too slow, he couldn't land a hit on the flying dragon, and eventually Rayquaza attacked with hyperbeam which knocked him out in one hit. I returned him and sent out Bubba. Although Bubba was able to hit rayquaza with his cannons, it seemed to do very little, and rayquaza kept attacking. That thing was really aggresive, and it was flying through the air at amazing speed.

Me: "Try to grab on to it.."

Bubba: "Blast."

It was no use, Rayquaza was too fast, Bubba was doing his best just to avoid his when did gym leaders use legendaries? Awe well, atleast Bubba was holding out, but I kept wondering how long would he be able to keep it up. Eventually, I changed strategies and returned him, thinking I would have better luck landing attacks with Golbat. Since he could fly as well. And this way, if golbat failed, I would still have my strongest pokemon. Anyway, both pokemon flew very quickly around the arena, they were moving so fast it was hard to see what was happening.

Me: "Supersonic."

Golbat screeched.

Rayquaza got even more aggresive, it even hit the sides of the arena a few times, but it was still flying. Then it used hyperbeam, which missed Golbat and disappeared into the wall, which seemed to be coated in something that absorbed hyperbeams. Anyway, despite it's power, rayquaza was having a hard time actually hitting golbat, which was exactly what I was hoping for.

-meanwhile-

Phoebe and Nina had arrived in Celadon, and were just leaving the airport in another taxi.

Nina: "How often are we going to go on the airplane mommy?"

Phoebe: "Oh...we fly around a lot actually."

Phoebe: "You'll get used to it, don't worry."

Phoebe: "I used to be afraid of airplanes too."

Nina: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Your father is not the best pilot."

Nina: "Daddy flew a plane?"

Phoebe: "Barely...he crashed it."

Nina: "Oh."

Nina: "Why did he do that?"

Phoebe: "Because he didn't really know how to fly it, but decided too anyway."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "We're just a few minutes away from the Celadon Department Store sweety."

Phoebe: "I think you will really like this place, it has a lot of stuff you can buy."

Nina: "Like what?"

Phoebe: "Lots of things, clothes, pokeballs, shoes, almost anything you could imagine."

Nina: "Ok."

-back at the Scarlett City Gym-

Rayquaza finally conected and slammed into Golbat, knocking it to the ground, it was too weak to get back up. I returned it before it inevitably fainted and sent out Graveler. Golbat had managed to bite rayquaza a few times, drawing some blood, but it was still going strong.

Me: "Um...try rockblast."

Graveler: "Grav..."

Graveler generated rocks and tossed them at Rayquaza, only 2 of them hit, causing a slight amount of damage, but not enough to knock it out. Rayquaza retaliated with a hyperbeam, which Graveler was just barely able to avoid. 2 of my pokemon were down, and I only had 3 left, more like 2 since I had my doubts oddish would last very long, but then again I had Hellblade with me as well, even though I didn't use him, I just kept him around so I could have a full team. Of course, he hadn't fought in a long time, but maybe my other pokemon wouldn't mind if I used him just once.

Rayquaza used hyper beam again, while graveler dashed around, frantically trying to avoid it. Graveler threw more rocks at rayquaza, this time 3 of them hit, but it still didn't do much damage. This time rayquaza smacked into Graveler, knocking him down. He was hit hard, but he managed to roll out of the way before Rayquaza hit him with yet another hyper beam. Then Graveler went straight into a rollout attack, smacking into rayquaza, who still seemed to just shrug it off.

What level was this rayquaza? Graveler kept hitting it with rock attacks left and right, yet it didn't even seem to be scratched, aside from a few bite marks from golbat. Graveler, on the other hand, just seemed to be one solid hit away from fainting. Although I will admit I was impressed with how Graveler was doing, he had lasted way longer than Rhyhorn had, and I was pretty sure the two were around the same level, ah well. Eventually rayquaza managed to connect with hyperbeam, and graveler was knocked out.

I didn't quite want to send out Bubba yet, so instead, I sent out oddish.

Unbelievably, rayquaza had a hard time spotting oddish in the arena, as her leaves provided camoflage against the fake grass floor, which was now scorched in places do to the hyperbeams.

Me: "Oddish, stay in the grass areas, he can't see you very well."

Oddish: "Oddish."

Me: "Now wait for it to get close and hit it with stunspore."

Rayquaza eventually got low to the ground, searching for its opponent. Only for oddish to spray it in the face with stunspore. Which caused rayquaza to slow down significantly.

I switched oddish out with Bubba, seizing the opportunity to go on the offensive.

Several water attacks and poorly aimed hyperbeams later, Rayquaza was almost finished. It fell to the ground and later fell unconcious at Bubba's feet.

That was it, I had won. I returned Bubba and the mysterious gym leader returned his rayquaza. Then I met with the old man in the center of the arena again, he simply handed me my eighth badge, and said congratulations, nothing more.

-meanwhile in Celadon-

Phoebe and Nina entered the Celadon Department store, the front desk lady greeted them.

Front Desk Lady: "Welcome to the Celadon Department Store."

Front Desk Lady: "Is this your first time?"

Phoebe: "No, I've been here before."

Front Desk Lady:" Well would you like a map anyway?"

Phoebe: "Sure."

She took a map from the stack next to the Front Desk Lady. Then Phoebe led Nina to the elevator and they went up to the second floor.

Nina: "Mommy, I never knew I could have my own clothes."

Phoebe: "Awe..well you can."

Phoebe: "And today we're going to buy you some."

The elevator doors opened, amazing Nina with the vast array of clothing for sale, Phoebe took her hand and led her to the gardevoir section.

They did some shopping, and Nina tried on various clothes, picking out a few outfits to purchase. After that they went up to the other floors to see what else they were selling.

-back in Scarlett City-

Shortly after I left the gym Oddish popped out of her ball on her own and began to glow.

Me: "Oh cool, oddish is evolving."

I quickly texted Phoebe the news.

Gloom: "Gloom Gloom."

Me: "Good."

Phoebe texted me back, from inside the Celadon department store."

-in text- Phoebe: "So you want me to buy you a leaf stone or a sun stone?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "What do you want to be gloom, a bellosom or a vileploom?"

Gloom: "Gloom gloom gloom gloom."

Of course, I couldn't understand its answer.

Then Phoebe called me.

-on phone- Phoebe: "Hi honey, you won right?"

Me: "Uh yeah."

-on phone- Phoebe: "Good, Nina and I will be back in a little while."

Me: "Ok."

-on phone- Phoebe: "So do want me to get you a leaf stone, or a sun stone, or what?"

Me: "I don't know, what does gloom want to be?"

-on phone- Phoebe: "Um...let me talk to it.."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "Come here gloom.

I held the phone up to gloom.

Me: "What would you like to evolve into?"

-into phone- Gloom: "Gloom...Gloom, gloom."

-on phone- Phoebe: "Um...I think it said it wants to be a belossom."

Me: "Ok then, get the sun stone."

-on phone- Phoebe: "Allright, oh and I also found a king's rock."

Me: "Ok...I thought you were shopping for clothes for Nina?"

-on phone- Phoebe: "Well, I was, but then after that I decided to look around some, and see what I could find, it turns out there's a whole store on the fifth floor that just sells special stones."

Me: "Ok, for how much?."

-on phone- Phoebe: "Oh...just 500 for the sun stone, and 150 for the king's rock."

Me: "Um...ok."

Me: "Just make sure you have enough money left to get back here."

-on phone- Phoebe: "I did."

Me: "Ok."

-on phone- Phoebe: "We'll be back in a little bit, I just need to buy these stones and then we'll leave."

-on phone- Phoebe: "I love you.."

Me: "I love you too baby girl, I'll see you later."

Me:" I'll be waiting for you two at the pokemon center ok?"

-on phone-Phoebe: "Allright."

Me: "Tell Nina I love her too, ok?"

-on phone- Phoebe: "Ok..I will, Goodbye."

Me: "Bye."

Shortly after i hung up I noticed gloom smelled absolutely horrible, though not as bad as grimer. Like grimer, and other pokemon that smelled bad, they weren't aloud outside their balls in most buildings.

Me: "-ugh- Gloom, I'd hate to say it, but you don't smell very good."

It looked down in shame.

Me: "Oh come on, don't take it like that, you're still a good pokemon."

Gloom: "Gloom, gloom."

Me: "And I'm pretty sure that smell will go away once you evolve right?"

Gloom: "Gloom, gloom."

It nodded.

Me: "Um...let's get you back in your ball for now."

I got in Phoebe's car and headed to the pokemon center.

-Meanwhile, in Celadon-

-putting away phone- Phoebe: "Allright Nina, that's everything, let's go now."

Nina: "Ok Mommy."

Phoebe: "And your father said he loves you."

Nina: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina: "Good."

Phoebe: "Nina, you know he loves you, he just doesn't show it very well."

Phoebe: "Trust me, I've known him for a long time."

Nina: "Ok."

-cutely- Phoebe: "And you know I love you too."

They hugged.

-cutely- Nina: "Awe...Mommy."

Phoebe: "Come on, let's pay for this stuff and get back to Scarlett City."

Nina: "Allright."

They payed for the stones, and left the department store, getting a taxi ride back to the airport. An hour later Phoebe called me.

-on phone- Phoebe: "Hello? Cj?"

Me: "Yes honey?"

-on phone- Phoebe: "Can you pick us up at the airport please so we don't have to pay for another taxi?"

Me: "Oh..yeah..sure."

Me: "Are you there now or?"

Phoebe: "No, but we'll be landing in just a few minutes."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "I'll get over there then."

I found the address to the airport on my phone and got there easily thanks to Gps. I watched the planes come in, wondering which one my girls were on. It took a few minutes for us to find eachother. Her telepathy couldn't help much either because there were just too many people around.

Me: "Oh there you girls are."

Phoebe: "Oh...hi honey."

We all hugged.

Me: "I missed you."

Phoebe: "I missed you too."

We kissed.

Me: "And how's my little girl hmm?"

-cutely- Nina: "Hi daddy, I missed you so much."

Me: "I missed you too sweety."

I kissed Nina on the cheek.

-cutely- Phoebe: "Awe..."

Phoebe: "Where's my car?"

Me: "Oh..it's in the parking lot, come on, it's a little ways away."

Phoebe:" Ok."

We all walked to the car together.

Phoebe: "I'm driving you know.."

Me: "Yeah, I thought so."

Phoebe: "So how's the gym here?"

Me: "Tough."

Phoebe: "Awe...how so?"

Me: "Rayquaza."

Phoebe: "You're kidding."

Me: "Nope."

Me: "The leader is a creepy old man with a rayquaza."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj, he can't be that creepy."

Me: "I didn't even get his name, he barely said anything at all."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "I'm not even sure he's human."

Phoebe: "I'm not human..."

Me: "Well...yeah...but...awe...honey you know what I mean."

Me: "That, and how did he come into the possesion of a rayquaza?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Nina:" What's a rayquaza?"

Phoebe: "It's a big green dragon pokemon."

Nina: "Oh..."

Nina: "What's a dragon?"

Phoebe: "A giant lizard."

Nina: "What's a lizard?"

Phoebe: "Nina..please stop."

-crying- Nina: "But I don't know."

Nina: "Is it a pokemon?"

Me: "No...a lizard is..well, do you know what a charmander is?"

Nina: "Um..sort of."

Me: "It's sort of like that without the fire."

Nina: "Oh..."

Nina: "So it's a dead charmander?"

Me: "No...it's just a lizard."

Nina: "Um...ok."

Me: "It's not even a pokemon."

Nina: "I don't get it."

Me: "That's allright, just quit worrying about it."

Me: "It's not that important."

Nina: "Ok."

We got in the car.

Me: "I mean seriously honey, he took out three of my pokemon, and what's even stranger is he didn't give out a single command."

Phoebe: "Well, rayquaza are powerful, they're strong enough to fight on their own."

Me: "I know, but, when you go up against him, just be careful."

Phoebe: "I will, but first we have to do some trading."

Me: "Yep."

Phoebe: "You want to watch some pokemon evolve nina?"

Nina: "Yeah...sure."

Phoebe: "Cool."

We arrived at the pokemon center a few minutes later.

Phoebe: "Here Nina, take these clothes up to your room and come back down."

Nina: "Ok mommy."

Nina went upstairs, carrying a shopping bag full of her new clothes.

Phoebe fished Polli's pokeball out of her purse, and let Polli out.

Polli: "Polliwhirl."

Phoebe: "Here Polli I got something for you."

She took out a box from a bag she was carrying and opened it up. A small, crown-shaped rock was inside.

Phoebe:" Hold on to this."

She handed the rock to Poll

Polli: "Polliwhirl."

Polli happily took the rock, and put it on his head like a hat, or a crown of sorts

Phoebe: "Aw...how cute."

Phoebe took a picture with her cellphone, then returned Polli. I took graveler's ball out of my pocket.

Me: "So uh...do we just switch balls or?"

Phoebe: "I don't know...I guess."

The nurse was watching us. She must have seen this happen a lot in her time working at the pokemon center here.

Nurse: "No that won't work, you have to use the trading machine."

Phoebe: "Um...ok."

Nurse: "It's over there in the corner."

Phoebe: "Allright."

Phoebe: "Thanks Nurse."

Phoebe: "Come on Cj."

Me: "Ok."

So we placed our pokeballs into the trading machine. Then we had to insert our trainer and press a button. Both pokeballs went into the machine, and came out on the opposite sides.

Phoebe: "Did it work?"

Me:" I don't know."

Nina came back down.

Me: "Come on out Polli."

Phoebe: "Graveler let's go."

We let out both pokemon, and they both began to glow right away.

Phoebe: "It worked."

Me: "Mhm."

Graveler evolved into Golem, and Polli evolved into Politoed.

Me: "Allright now let's trade back."

Phoebe: "Wait."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "You said the gym leader has a rayquaza right?"

Me: "Um...yeah."

Phoebe: "Well...um...I was wondering if I could use Golem just for the gym match and then we could trade back."

Me: "Makes sense, he did really well in the gym battle anyway."

Phoebe: "Good."

Me: "Of course he got knocked out, but...he probably did the most damage."

Phoebe: "I promise we'll trade back after I get the badge ok?"

Me: "I trust you."

Polli: "Pollitoed, pollitoed."

-cutely- Nina: "Awe...what kind of pokemon are you?"

Polli: "Pollitoed."

-cutely- Nina: "Oh...ok."

Polli: "Polli...pollitoed."

-cutely- Nina: "mm...ok..I'll dance with you."

Polli: "Pollitoed."

So Nina and Polli started dancing together, while I kept talking to Phoebe

Me: "You ready to take on rayquaza again Golem?"

Golem: "Golem."

Me: "I guess I should name you."

Me: "If you want a name."

Phoebe: "How about Rocky?"

Me: "Um...It's a little generic but I guess that will work."

Golem: "Golem...gol."

Phoebe: "He likes it."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "So I guess your name is Rocky from now on."

Rocky: "Golem."

Phoebe: "Ok now that that is taken care of.."

Phoebe: "Just what is our daughter doing with Polli?"

Me: "Hmm?"

Phoebe: "Take a look."

Me: "Oh."

Polli and Nina were dancing together, strangely there wasn't any music though.

Me: "I don't know what she's doing."

Phoebe: "I don't know either...it looks cute though."

Nina: "Mommy come dance with us."

Phoebe: "Nah...let's go back up to the room, you can dance more up there."

Nina: "Ok."

Nina: "Can Polli come?"

Phoebe: "Yes Polli can come, we'll even leave him out for awhile so you can play with him."

Phoebe: "But you keep your clothes on."

Nina: "I will mom..."

Phoebe: "Good."

Rocky: "Golem..."

Phoebe: "Ok...you can stay out for awhile too."

Phoebe: "I guess."

Phoebe: "But only so you can used to your new body before the gym battle."

Rocky: "Golem gol."

So we all went up to the room. Phoebe and I cuddled on the bed, while Nina went to her room to play with Polli and Rocky.

Me: "How long are you going to let her play?"

Phoebe: "Mmmm...for a little while atleast."

Phoebe: "She's having fun, probably the most fun she's ever had."

Me: "Ok."

She kissed me.

Phoebe:" I missed you."

Me: "I missed you too babygirl."

Me: "So are we going to evolve Gloom now or?"

Phoebe: "Hmm...maybe later..."

Me: "I know that look."

-cutely- Phoebe:" Oh you do?"

Me: "Yeah.."

-cutely- Phoebe: "You want to have some fun Cj?"

Me: "How could I say no?"

Phoebe: "Hehehehe..."

She crawled on top of me. And we kissed.

Me: "I love you so much you know that?"

Phoebe: "I know, and I love you too."

Phoebe: "That's why you and me are going to have voir voir right now."

Me: "Hehe...ok."

We kissed again.

And you could imagine what happened next.

-meanwhile-

Nina found the music channel on the tv and the dance party continued. Though she couldn't get Rocky to dance, unfortunately. She was quickly becoming friends with Polli, however.

Nina: "Oh Rocky, why won't you dance?"

Nina: "Do you not like the music, or what?"

Rocky: "Golem...gol."

- in the next room-

Me: "Oh honey, I can't believe we did that."

Phoebe: "Oh come on, you liked it."

Me: "I know, but, twice in one day, a smoking hot chick like you?"

Phoebe: "Awe...Cj...you're too nice."

Me: " 3 years ago, I never would of thought this could happen."

Phoebe: "Awe.."

We kissed. Then we noticed we could here the tv in Nina's room.

-yelling- Phoebe: "Nina! Turn it down."

-Yelling back- Nina: "Sorry."

-Yelling- Polli: "Pollitoed."

Me: "Oh look at you sweety..."

Me: "You know I said you would be a great mother."

Phoebe: "Awe...Cj..."

Me: "And you still have such a nice body."

Phoebe: "And it's still all for you."

Me: "Oh honey."

Phoebe: "We should probably go check on Nina."

Phoebe: "Make sure she's ok."

Me: "Allright."

Phoebe: "You go."

Phoebe: "She'll take one look at me and know what we've been doing."

I got up, and got some clothes on.

-getting dressed- Me: "Yeah, probably."

Phoebe: "The downside of being a gardevoir with big boobs."

-getting dressed- Me: "Hehehe yep..."

I kissed her one more time before I left for Nina's room.

Me: "Hey sweetheart, let me in."

Nina: "Oh sorry daddy, I'll get the door for you."

-once in her room-

She shut the tv off.

Polli was dancing in front of the Tv while Rocky was just awkwardly standing in the corner.

Nina: "You having fun with Mommy?"

-somewhat nervously- Me: "Hehe...yeah..."

Nina: "Good."

I never actually found out if she knew exactly what that meant, or if it was just another one of her many questions.

Me: "I just came in to check on you, make sure you're ok."

Nina: "I'm allright, I'm having a great time with Polli."

Me: "Good."

Nina: "Rocky won't dance though."

Me: "Oh he won't?"

Nina: "No..."

Me: "Not even for a pretty girl like you?"

Nina: "Nope."

Me: "Hmm...I guess he doesn't like to dance."

Rocky: "Golem..gol..."

Me: "What's that?"

Rocky: "Golem."

Me: "I can't understand what you're saying."

Nina: "He says he wants to go back in his ball."

Me: "Oh, thankyou Nina."

Nina: "Your welcome Daddy."

Me: "Well then stay here for a second while I go get it."

I went a back to our room. I would have let Rocky come back with me, but Phoebe was laying in bed naked.

Phoebe: "Is she doing ok?"

Me: "Yeah, Rocky wants to go back in his ball though."

Phoebe: "Um ok."

Phoebe: "Bring me my purse."

Me: "Ok."

I brought her purse to her and she got Rocky's ball out.

Phoebe: "Here, bring it back when you're done."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Return Polli too and tell Nina to come back with you, I'm going to get some clothes on."

Me: "Allright baby girl."

She got up, still naked and walked over to our suitcase. Not even slightly afraid to flaunt her amazing body to me.

-cutely- Phoebe: "Have a nice look Cj..."

Me: "Hehe...oh sweety...you're too good to me."

Phoebe: "Hehehehe..."

She picked out one of her dresses and put it on.

Phoebe: "You know this reminds me, I have to get our clothes washed today."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe: "As soon as my boobs go back to normal I will."

Me: "Allright."

As Phoebe got dressed, I went over to Nina's room, returned Rocky, and let Nina say goodbye to Polli before I returned him.

-cutely- Nina: "Goodbye Polli I'll see you again soon."

Polli: "Pollitoed."

I returned Polli

Me: "Allright sweetheart, come back to our room with me."

Nina: "Ok Daddy."

She followed me next door, Phoebe was dressed now.

Nina: "Mommy what happened to your boobs?"

Me: "Hehehehe, -in a more serious tone- Nina, don't ask questions like that..."

-worried- Phoebe: "Is it that obvious?"

-cutely- Nina: "Yes."

Phoebe: "Awe...well."

Phoebe: "Come here Nina, let's spend some time together as a family."

Nina: "Ok."

Me: "Here Rocky's pokeball sweety."

Phoebe: "Oh...thanks."

She the pokeball from me and slipped it into her purse. Then

We all snuggled together on the bed, with Nina in between Phoebe and me.

Nina: "Mommy, why are your toes blue?"

Phoebe: "Oh sweety it's just my nail polish."

Nina: "Oh."

Phoebe: "You want me to show you how to polish your nails?"

-unsure- Nina: "Um...maybe later."

Phoebe:" Ok."

Nina: "Can they be other colors too?"

Phoebe: "Yeah...of course."

Phoebe: "They make polish in lots of different colors."

Nina: "Ok..."

Phoebe: "It's getting to the point where I need to repolish them anyway.."

Me: "So...uh what's on Tv?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, turn it on, let's find out."

Me: "Oh Nina, I noticed they replaced the tv in your room."

Nina: "Yeah, or they fixed the one that I broke."

Phoebe: "By the way Cj has the nurse said anything about a replacement fee or something?"

Me: "I haven't heard anything yet."

Me: "Did Melissa pay us?"

Phoebe:" Yeah, we just have to go to the bank to get the money."

Me:" Ok good."

I turned the tv on, since Phoebe's powers hadn't come back yet from us...well..having fun. A familiar face was on the tv, Christine, aparently her trial was some sort of big deal.

-on tv- Newsreporter: "And now we're back to the case of a young gardevoir named Christine, who is on trial today for selling her own kind as sex slaves among various other crimes she had commited as an agent of the villainous team rocket."

-cowering- NIna: "It's the evil lady."

Me: "Oh sweetheart relax, she's on the tv, she can't hurt you."

Phoebe: "Yeah, remember, we beat her."

Me: "Yep."

-on tv- Newsreporter: "What makes this case so special, is it's the first time a sapient pokemon has been tried by human standards under the Sapient Pokemon treaty, enacted by all known regions just 3 decades ago ."

-on tv- Newsreporter: " Of course the irony of this case is, she's being tried for violating some of the laws of this same act."

Newsreporter: "Including, the illegal capture or possession of adult sapient pokemon, in this case gardevoirs."

Me: "Wow, that's wasn't all that long ago."

Phoebe: "Yep."

Phoebe: "Still before we were born though."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "My mother told me about that before."

Phoebe: "When she was teaching me history."

Me: "What other pokemon are covered?"

Phoebe: "Gardevoir, obviously, Lucario, Arceus, Mewtwo, Slowking and Alakazam."

Phoebe: "Although Slowking and Alakazam are very rare in the wild, and there is only one real arceus, an Mewtwos are artificially created."

Phoebe: "The same act also made it legal for sapient pokemon to marry humans."

Me: "Awe."

Phoebe: "So in essence it's what allows us to be together Cj."

Me: "That's nice."

Me: "Wait...Alakazam can exist in the wild?"

Phoebe: "Yes, but it's extremely rare."

Phoebe: "My mother told me an old myth , that a kadabra that lives for a thousand years will become an alakazam."

Phoebe: "I don't know if that's true or not."

Phoebe: "But it sounds interesting."

Me: "Yes it does."

Nina: "I like your stories Mommy."

Phoebe: "Awe...thanks sweety."

Nina: "But what happened to your boobs?"

Phoebe: "hehehe...wha?"

Me: "Nina don't ask questions like that..silly girl."

Nina:" You and mommy were having sex weren't you?"

Phoebe: "Nina you really shouldn't be so nosy."

Nina: "I'm sorry."

Phoebe: "It's allright."

Phoebe: "And yes we were having sex, but your and I are really close, so it's ok."

Phoebe: "It's not like it's the only time we've ever done it."

Phoebe: "You know girls your age really shouldn't be concerned with such things."

Phoebe: "I understand what team rocket put you through, but we are different."

Phoebe: "Most girls your age aren't even gardevoirs yet, so you're really special."

Nina: "Awe...thanks mommy."

Phoebe: "I think the same applys to human girls doesn't it Cj?"

Me: "Um...yeah...pretty much."

Me: "Alls I know is my life sucked when I was twelve."

Phoebe: "Awe...come on, it couldn't be much worse than being locked in a palace all day."

Phoebe: "While watching everyone else your age evolve into kirlias and have a great time playing outside."

Me: "Um...yeah I guess I see your point."

Nina: "You grew up in a palace?"

Phoebe: "Yeah...you want to know a secret?"

Nina: "What?"

Phoebe: "You can't tell anyone."

Nina: "Who am I going to tell?"

Phoebe: "Nobody."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Your mommy is a princess."

-in disbelief- Nina: "No way..."

Me: "It's the truth."

Nina: "A real princess?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina: "I want to be a princess."

Phoebe: "Oh...you are...sort of."

Phoebe: "Since I'm your mom now."

Me: "Uh...technically."

-unsure- Nina: "I am..?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

-cutely- Nina: "Yay..."

Phoebe: "Hehehe.."

Me: "Awe..."

Me :"So honey are you going to challenge the gym today or what?"

Phoebe: "Um...maybe."

Me: "Did you two have lunch yet?"

Phoebe: "No..did you.?"

Me: "No."

Phoebe: "So you want to go out for lunch?"

Me: "Um..yeah that would be nice."

Phoebe: "Ok...just wait a few minute for my boobs to go back to normal."

Nina: "hehehe...mommy."

Me: "Allright."

Phoebe: "Till then I guess we could just watch tv for awhile."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "Let's watch something other then the news."

I changed the channel.

The next channel had some sort of action movie, it looked fairly old, with some guy fighting a bunch of machokes and some other guys.

Nina: "What are those things?"

Phoebe: "They're machokes."

Me: "That's what they look like?"

Phoebe: "Yep."

-sarcastically- Me: "And I was worried."

They were ugly, with huge rips in their muscles and pale blue skin. I never noticed the rips in the game, but they were there, and looked pretty painful.

Me: "How are they not constantly in pain?"

Phoebe: "Those rips in their arms aren't as painful as they look."

Phoebe: "In fact, I heard they're actually a sign of health."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, if a machoke does not have them, something is seriously wrong with it, it doesn't have the muscle mass that it should, and it is probably very sick."

Me: "hmm...weird."

Phoebe: "I know, but's it's interesting isn't it?"

Me: "Yeah I guess."

Phoebe: "Also, steroids are very toxic to them."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, because their bodies already produce a high level of steroids naturally."

Me: "So?"

Phoebe: "Yes, their muscles are because of roids."

Me: "Hehehe...you're kidding?"

Phoebe:" Nope, ask the nurse."

Me: "Why do you know all this stuff?"

Phoebe:"Because I was really interested in becoming a nurse once, but my parents wouldn't let me."

Me: "Oh..."

Me: "Well that's strange, most parents would encourage something like that.."

Phoebe: "Not when you're a princess."

Me: "Hmm."

Phoebe: "I spent a lot of my afternoons reading books."

Me: "Ok.."

Phoebe: "I didn't have much else to do, I wasn't aloud to go outside and we didn't even have a tv then."

Me: "Awe...poor baby."

Phoebe: "Hehehe...Cj...that's my line."

Me: "Hehehehe."

Nina: "Daddy, don't steal mommy's lines."

Me: "Why do you take her side?"

Nina." I don't, stealing is wrong."

Phoebe: "That's right Nina."

Phoebe proudly kissed Nina on the cheek.

Me: "You ready to go yet honey?"

Phoebe: "No..not really."

Phoebe: "I kind of like just lying here with you two."

Phoebe: "It's so nice to be a family."

Me: "Awe...honey."

We kissed.

Nina: "Awe...you guys love eachother."

Phoebe: "Yes we do."

Me: "Of course we do, we're your parents sweety."

Phoebe: "And we'll allways be here for you."

Phoebe: "Don't you worry."

Nina: "Awe...mom."

Me: "She's right you know, your mother is always right."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj...not always."

Phoebe: "Just most of the time."

Me: "Hehehehe of course."

Phoebe: "Actually now I am feeling hungry."

Nina: "I feel hungry too."

Me: "Well then let's go find something to eat."

Phoebe: "Allright Cj...I'm almost back to normal."

Phoebe: "Nina why don't you go change into one of your new dresses."

Nina:" Ok."

Nina got up and went to her room, then Phoebe got up to put her shoes on.

Phoebe: "Hey Cj?"

Me: "Yeah? "

I shut the tv off, and got up.

Phoebe: "Remind me when we get back to do the laundry."

Me: "Ok."

I kissed her.

Me: "I love you."

Phoebe: "I love you too."

Me: "There's just one thing that's bothering me right now."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "If we get called on another mission, what are we going to do with Nina?"

Me: "We can't just leave her on her own, and if the rockets find out about her, they'll put a target on her back."

Phoebe: "Well...the nurse could watch her for us I guess."

Me: "Yeah...maybe."

Me: "-sighs- Just something to keep in mind."

Phoebe: "I know."

We kissed.

Phoebe: "I'm going to go check on her to make sure she's not having problems getting dressed, and then we'll go."

Me: "Ok."

She left the room to check on Nina. Then they both came back a few minutes later.

Phoebe: "So how does she look Cj?"

Phoebe: "She picked her clothes out herself."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Well...I helped her a little bit."

-cutely- Nina: "How do I look daddy?"

She twirled around in a very cute manner, tripped, and almost fell, but fortunatly I caught her.

Phoebe: "Oh...Nina be careful."

Me: "You look very pretty sweetheart."

Nina: "Thanks..."

I helped her get back up.

Me: "There you go."

Nina: "Thanks for catching me."

Me: "No problem."

Phoebe: "Hehehe, come on let's go."

Me: "Ok."

It was passed 1:00pm now, they weren't serving lunch in the lobby anymore. So we had to go to a restaurant to get food. On the way out the nurse stopped us.

Nurse: "Wait a minute, I'd hate to bother you, but you guys need to pay for the tv you broke."

Phoebe: "-sighs- how much?"

Nurse: "Here's the bill."

Phoebe: "300 dollars?"

Phoebe: "-sighs- Phoebe: "Please, let us go to the bank first, ok?"

Phoebe: "We're low on funds right now."

Nurse: "Allright, as long as you pay eventually."

Phoebe: "We will."

We left the pokemon center, got in the car, and took to the streets, looking for restaurants.

Me: "So where do you want to eat?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, just somewhere where we can go in and sit down."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "I feel like pizza for some reason."

Nina: "What's pizza?"

Me: "It's bread, and cheese, and sauce."

Nina: "Oh..."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I guess we could find a pizza place."

Phoebe: "Of course Cj you realize pizzas here are a little different than what you're used to."

Me: "Have you had one before?"

Phoebe: "Once... it was gross."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, but I guess it was only because it had remoraid meat on it."

Me: "What like sardines?"

Phoebe: "Yeah."

Me: " You know there's different kinds of pizza."

Phoebe: "Yeah..I guess I can try a different kind."

Me: "Just try cheese, if you don't like cheese then you don't like pizza."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Of course the cheese in this world was made from miltank milk, and the sauce from tamato berries, but that would be the only real difference.

Anyway, we found a pizza place, and went inside. The pizzas they made here were huge, so you bought them by the slice. They had about 5 different kinds to choose from. The kind Phoebe mentioned earlier with tiny remoraids on it, plain cheese of course, tauros meat, and even one with pinap berries, and then there was one that was basically pepperoni, although the pepperoni was made with tauros meat. There was no pokemon equivalent to pork, oddly enough. Just beef and fish. Nobody ever though about cooking up a torchic or a grumpig. You couldn't really cook a torchic properly any way, it's a fire type and naturally resistant to fire. The temperatures needed to cook a torchic would nearly be equivalent to molten lava.

Anyway, we each got a giant slice of pizza and sat down at a booth. With Phoebe and I sitting across from Nina. They both got cheese, I decided to try the tauros peperoni. It actually turned out to be pretty good, though a little heavier on spice than what I was used to in the other world. It was still a pretty delicious pizza. After we were finished eating, we payed the bill and then went to find a bank to withdraw the money Melissa had paid us. After that we went back to the pokemon center and paid the nurse for the tv Nina had broken. The, after going up to the room, Phoebe went to do the laundry, while I took our newly aquired sunstone and went out back to evolve gloom, Nina decided come with me.

-outside the pokemon center, in the battle arena.-

Some other people were training outback, there was a lot of highly trained pokemon here, but also there were some newbies with starter pokemon. Scarlett city was in the far north of Kanto, so there were a mix of kanto and Jhoto starters, and occasionally you would see wild pokemon like murkrow and houndour around. Anyway, we found a spot away from anyone else, and I sent out Gloom.

Gloom: "Gloom Gloom."

Me: "Ready to evolve?"

It nodded."

Me: "Um Ok..."

Nina: "Ew...what's that smell?"

Me: "Gloom."

Nina: "Oh...why does it smell so bad?"

Me: "I don't know."

Anyway gloom, I'm not sure how this works, but here's a sunstone."

I set the sunstone down by gloom, who happily approached it.

As soon as Gloom touched the stone, it began to glow.

A few moments later my Gloom had become a Bellosom. The sunstone cracked up and fell apart, it's power drained. Bellosom was a cute little thing, it's leave like skirt rustled as it walked.

Nina: "Hey it doesn't smell bad anymore."

Me: "Yep."

-cutely- Bellosom: "Bellosom."

Nina: "Awe...it's cute."

Nina: "Do you like to dance too?"

-cutely- Bellosom: "Bellosom."

Me: "Nina come on, we're not here to put on a show."

-cutely- Nina: "Awe..."

I returned Bellosom, then went back inside, Nina followed.

Phoebe was in the laundry room, which was adjacent to the lobby.

Nina: "What do you want to do now Daddy?"

Me: "I don't know, let's just go upstairs and wait for your mother to finish with the laundry."

-cutely- Nina: "Ok."

It was never hard for me to tell Nina apart from Phoebe, Nina was a lot smaller and younger, and their faces were a bit different as well. That and Nina always seemed to ask a lot of questions. She didn't really seem to know much, but she was learning, and Phoebe and I were very willing to teach her.

Anyway, we both went up to the room to watch tv. Phoebe came up a little bit later.

Phoebe: "Awe..you guys look so cute together!"

Phoebe :"Let me take a picture."

She took a picture of us with her phone.

Me: "Why don't you come join us baby girl?"

Phoebe: "Um..maybe in a little bit, I have to go move our clothes to the dryer in just a few minutes.

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Did Gloom evolve ok?"

Me: "Yeah."

-cutely- Nina: "And it doesn't smell anymore."

Phoebe: "Oh...well that's always good."

Phoebe: "Well I'll be back in a little bit, you two play nice."

Nina: "We will."

Me: "hehehe.."

I kissed Phoebe, and then she kissed Nina and headed back down to the laundry room.

Nina: "Why is mommy doing laundry anyway?"

Me: "So we can have clean clothes that don't stink."

Nina: "Oh..."

Nina: "What's on the tv?"

Me: "I don't know, looks like a pokemon cartoon of some sort."

Nina: "Oh...what pokemon is that?"

Me: "Um...it looks like a growlithe."

Nina: "Ok."

It was some animated pokemon cartoon, it wasn't the main pokemon series of this world but rather it's own cartoon, featuring talking pokemon as characters. The main character was a growlithe named Torch. It was obviously aimed towards kids, and portrayed a very friendly and unrealistic world. Nina fell in love with the cartoon, and after that episode ended, another one came on. She wouldn't let me change the channel.

Shortly after the first episode ended. Phoebe finished with the laundry and carried up a bag full of clothes, she had reused one of the shopping bags from Celadon to carry the laundry around, since we didn't have any baskets.

Phoebe: "Ok I'm done with the laundry."

Me: "Um ok."

Phoebe: "I got your dress all nice and clean Nina."

Phoebe: "I don't think it's ever been washed."

Me: "Hmm, wouldn't be surprised."

Nina: "Team rocket never took very good care of any of us, they just don't care, they only cared about how much money we made for them."

Nina: "And if we smelled bad from lack of bathing them stripped us naked and washed us with ice cold water."

Phoebe: "Awe...poor baby."

Phoebe: "Well it's going to be ok now, you can have all the nice hot showers you want."

Phoebe: "We're going to take care of you."

Nina: "Awe...thanks mommy."

Me: "Why don't you come liy with us now Phoebe?"

Phoebe: "Oh...ok Cj..."

She slipped out of her shoes and snuggle up next to me, so I was between her and Nina.

I kissed her.

Me: "I love you."

I kissed Nina.

Me: "And I love you."

Nina: "-giggles cutely-"

Phoebe: "I love you too Cj."

Nina: "I love you too daddy.."

Me: "Well good, I was worried."

-cutely- Nina: "Hehehe."

Phoebe: "What show is this?"

Me: "I don't know, it's some cartoon show she likes."

Phoebe: "Hmm..."

Phoebe: "It's not too violent is it?"

Me: "No..haven't seen any blood yet if that's what you're asking."

Phoebe: "Ok."

-playing theme song -tv : " Torch the growlithe...he's a pokemon...fights with flames...on the road too...fortune and fame..."

Me: "Hmm...I guess there's another episode."

-playing theme song -tv : " Fighting the evil forces of Morty the Murkrow..."

Phoebe: "What?"

Phoebe: "This is silly..."

Nina: "I like it."

Me: "It's a kid's show, it's supposed to be silly and unrealistic."

Me: "It's where everyone lives in happy friend land."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj...now you're being silly."

Me: "So what?"

-on tv- Announcer: "And remember kids, you can find all your favorite Torch the growlithe characters at your local pokemart in the toy aisle."

Nina: "Awe...I want some toys."

Phoebe: "I never had much for toys when I was little."

Nina: "I never had any."

Phoebe: "Your father had lots of stuff though, his room is still full of it."

Me: "Hey..."

Phoebe: "Well it is."

Me: "I gave most of my stuff to my little brother and sister though."

Phoebe: "I know, but still."

Nina: "Can I please have some toy Mommy?"

Me: "Of course she asks you."

Phoebe: "I don't know...we don't have much room to carry stuff around, you know that."

Nina: "Can I have just one toy?"

Phoebe: "You know you're not going to have much time to play with it."

Phoebe: "What toy would you like anyway?"

Nina: "I want a Torch the growlithe doll."

Me: "Well that's strangely specific."

Phoebe: "Well atleast she knows what she wants."

Nina: "Mhm."

Me: "Well, I guess we could get her something to play with."

Phoebe: "Oh allright."

Phoebe: "Ok...Nina...I'll go get one for you, you stay here and hang out with your father ok?"

Phoebe: "You two need to spend some time together."

Nina: "Ok Mommy."

Phoebe: "Cj I'll be back in a little bit ok?"

She got up and slipped her shoes back on.

Me: "Ok..just be careful sweety, I love you."

Phoebe:" I love you too."

She left for the pokemart, leaving Nina and me in the room, and taking her purse with her. Nina just sat there, quietly watching the tv, fixating on it. Ah well, atleast this meant she wouldn't cause any trouble, especially since Phoebe wasn't here to handle it. Phoebe came back from the store about a half hour later, holding a brand new plush toy for Nina.

Phoebe: "Oh sweety I got you something."

Nina grabbed the toy and pulled it close.

-excitedly- Nina: "Thankyou mommy I love you so much, thankyou thankyou thankyou."

Me: "Calm down sweetheart."

Phoebe: "We both love very much..."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe once again slipped off her shoes and snuggled up to me on the bed.

-quietly- Phoebe: "Has she been good?"

Me: "Yeah..she's been fixated on the tv since you left."

Phoebe: "Oh."

Phoebe: "That show is still on?"

Me:" Yeah, it's on the third episode in a row now."

Phoebe: "Hmm."

Me: "I think the channel is running a marathon or something."

Phoebe:" Ok."

Phoebe: "Well I guess we know what her favorite show is now."

Me: "Mhm."

Nina looked very cute holding that plush toy, and it was obvious that she would treasure it for a long time. It was the first thing that she ever owned, and she became very protective of it as well.

It was just a little growlithe plush, that would probably look as normal in the other world as it was in this one. Of course it was made by a company of this world, but still it could pass as a licensed pokemon product.

Eventually the marathon ended, and a different cartoon came on, It was called Bad Luck Psyduck, and featured a psyduck as the main character. Episodes entailed the psyduck trying to accomplish something simple, but ending up in extremely unfortunate and often humorous situations. The episode was called "Psyduck goes Shopping" . The episode started with Psyduck driving to the store, but then he got stuck in traffic, behind a car being driven by a slowpoke none the less. He turned off the highway and tried to take another route to the store, but then he had to stop for a train, which was moving very slowly. Then the episode cut to when psyduck actually got to the store an hour or so later, he remembers to get his favourite cereal, only to realize they only have one box left, which is on a shelf that is too tall for him to reach. After struggling to reach the box, a slowpoke, which could have been the same one he got stuck behind in traffic earlier, grabbed the box. Thinking the slowpoke was helping him, Psyduck reached out his arm to take the box from it, only for the slowpoke to toss it into his own cart at the last second before he could grab it and walk away, like psyduck wasn't even there. This infuriated psyduck, to the point where he left the store emptyhanded, but before he could get back in his car, it was rear ended by a marill who was trying to drive, but is too short to see over the dashboard. The marill, scared out of its mind, reverses, then goes forward extremely fast and flattens the poor psyduck, who is cartoonishly squashed into a pancake. The psyduck pops back into shape, now more angry then ever. Just as the slowpoke that took his cereal is walking out of the store with a cart full of groceries. Psyduck then attempts to steal the box of cereal from the slowpoke. And follows him to his house, although it takes awhile because the slowpoke drives very slowly, causing multiple traffic jams on its way home. After a short montage of Psyduck following the slowpoke home, the episode cuts to the slowpoke's house. The psyduck attempts to sneak inside, as the slowpoke is watching tv. The psyduck, trying to stay quiet, enters the kitchen and begins to look through it for the box of cereal. Once again, it finds it on a shelf that is too high for it to reach. So it gets a chair from another room and climbs on top of it to get up to the shelf. Then it slips and falls off the chair. The slowpoke looks towards the kitchen, then looks back at the tv, deciding the noise meant nothing.

Psyduck quickly leaves the house and hears police sirens in the distance. Thinking they are comming for him, he quickly sprints back to his car, just as he gets in, the marril from earlier passes by driving at insanely high speed, knocking the car's door off. Several cop cars following behind. Meanwhile, the slowpoke is still inside watching tv and completely unaware of what is going on.

The psyduck, now relieved that the cops weren't after him, escapes with the cereal and drives away. He makes it to his house without any further trouble, and parks acrossed the street, he gets out of his car, carrying box of cereal, then trips and falls face first onto the street. The box of cereal flys up in the air and lands in the middle of the street, and before psyduck can get up and retrieve it, the marril drives by once again and runs over the box, along with several pursueing police cars, crushing it and destroying its contents. The psyduck then begins to cry, and the cartoon ends.

Phoebe :"Well that was kind of funny."

Nina: "Yeah...that blue thing was silly, trying to drive the car."

Me: "You mean that marril?"

Nina: "That's what it's called?"

Me: "Mhm."

Nina: "Oh..

-cutely- Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Hey Nina, you want me to show you how to do your nails?"

Nina: "Um...I don't know..."

Phoebe: "Come on, it will be fun."

Nina: "Ok...if you say so."

Phoebe: "Come on, we'll do this on the other bed."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe dug through her purse, and found her little bottle of nail polish.

Phoebe: "Ok we'll do your hands first, now you watch me and see how I do it ok?"

Nina: "Ok mom."

She opened to bottle, and began to polish her fingernails.

Phoebe: "You need to be careful not to touch anything until it dries or you will mess it up."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "And you also have to careful not to get it on your fingers."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Ok Nina now you try."

Nina: "Um..ok."

Phoebe: "It's allright if you mess up, we can just wash it off and start over."

Phoebe: "Just go slow and be careful allright?"

Phoebe: "There you go...see how easy it is?"

Nina: "This stuff smells weird."

Phoebe: "It doesn't smell as strong when it dries."

-unsure- Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Keep going your almost done."

-unsure- Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "And then we'll wait for that hand to dry before we do the other."

-unsure- Nina: "Ok."

So they did their nails together, while I continued to watch tv. Eventually they were done.

Phoebe: "There we go...see how much prettier you look now?"

Nina: "Hmm...I don't know."

Phoebe: "Oh we'll see."

Phoebe: "Cj come here."

Me: "Yes sweety?"

Phoebe: "Doesn't she look so much prettier now?"

Me: "Yeah...she looks really pretty now."

Phoebe: "See Nina?"

-unsure- Nina: "Um...I guess so."

Phoebe: "Awe...what's wrong?"

Nina: "I think it looks silly..."

Phoebe: "Oh Nina, girls do their nails all the time, that's why I do it because I want to look nice for your father."

-touched- Me: "Awe...honey."

Nina: "Ok...if you say so."

Phoebe: "Trust me, it's not silly, it's beautiful."

Phoebe: "Right Cj?"

Me: "Mhm."

I kissed her on the cheek.

Me: "Your mother's right sweetheart."

Phoebe: "Cj don't touch my feet they're still drying."

Me: "Ok..sorry."

Nina: "hehe..silly daddy."

Nina: "Mommy?"

Phoebe: "Yes Nina?"

Nina: "Can you teach me some more about my powers?"

Phoebe: "Of course I can."

Phoebe: "What would you like to learn today?"

Nina: "Um...I don't know."

Phoebe: "Well, I can teach you telekinesis...hypnosis...lots of different things."

Phoebe: "Do you still remember how to teleport?"

Nina: "Um I think so."

She teleported to the door and back, just testing to see if she still remembered how.

Phoebe: "Good."

Phoebe: "Well then. I guess I'll you'll start learning telekinesis today."

Nina:"Telewhat?"

Phoebe: "Telekinesis."

Phoebe: "Basically it's just using your powers to manipulate objects instead of your hands."

Nina: "Um ok."

Phoebe: "To do this you have to close your eyes, and concentrate hard on the object."

Phoebe: "Try to focus on this little clock over here."

Me: "Don't break it like you did the tv."

Phoebe: "Cj be quiet, she needs to concentrate.

Phoebe: "Now just like with teleporting, focus on where the object it."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Try to lift it up."

She lifted her arms.

Phoebe: "Not with your hands..silly."

Phoebe: "Focus, keep concentrating on the clock."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Now try to move it without using your arms."

The clock glowed in a faint purple light, and began to shake, making a somewhat annoying noise.

Phoebe: "There see now your affecting it, but you're not concentrating enough, that's why it's shaking."

-softly- Phoebe: "Lift it up."

-softly- Phoebe: "Gently."

Nina: "I'm trying."

-softly- Phoebe: "You're doing good, you're a lot younger than me, so your powers aren't as developed as mine."

-softly- Phoebe: "But you should still be able to lift the clock if you really try."

Nina: "I am trying."

Phoebe: "You need to focus more, think of the clock, and only the clock."

Phoebe: "Forget everything else around you, just think of the clock."

The clock glowed a little brighter, and started to shake just a little faster.

Phoebe: "Now concentrate on lifting it up."

The clock floated a few inches into the air.

Phoebe: "Good...you're doing it."

Phoebe: "Now stop."

The clock fell back down onto the desk.

Nina: "Am I doing it right?"

Phoebe: "You're doing fine, you just need to develope your powers a bit more."

Phoebe: "See, I can lift it without closing my eyes."

Phoebe: "The heavier the object the more you have to concentrate on it though."

Phoebe: "See, this clock is small, it doesn't require much to move it."

Nina: "But I could barely lift it."

Phoebe: "It's allright Nina, you'll get stronger the more you use your powers."

Nina: "Ok..."

Phoebe: "See watch, i can lift Cj up."

I felt an odd sensation and realized I was floating.

Me: "Hey what the? Honey...put me down, this isn't funny."

Nina: "Hehe...daddy's flying."

Phoebe: "Sorry."

She set me back down on the bed.

Me: "Why did you do that?"

Phoebe: "I was just showing Nina what she could do."

-grumpily- Me: "What? Pick me up for no reason?"

Phoebe: "Um...I'm sorry."

Me: "It's allright, just don't do that again."

-somewhat scared- Nina: "Daddy don't hurt mommy."

Nina cowered in fear, for no apparent reason, I guess team rocket must have been real hard on her.

Phoebe:" Nina it's ok, your father is not going to hurt me."

Phoebe: "He's just a little annoyed with me, it happens."

Nina: "Are you sure?"

Phoebe: "I'm sure...Cj has never, ever tried to harm me."

Nina: "Ok."

Me: "Why would I hurt her Nina? I love her."

Phoebe: "Yeah..see."

She gestured me to kiss her, so we kissed.

Phoebe: "It's allright."

Me: "Come here Nina."

Nina was still very scared. I just wanted to give her a hug, but she freaked out.

Nina: "Don't touch me..."

She got up and ran to the other room.

-confused- Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "I don't know.."

Me: "She's really scared."

Phoebe: "Yeah...poor girl."

Phoebe: "-sighs- You stay here, I'm going to try to talk to her."

Me: "She just doesn't like me that much does she?"

Phoebe: "Cj...she loves you, it's just...her past...everything that team rocket put her through, and...well...she sensed your anger, and even though you didn't mean any harm, she reacted to it."

Phoebe: "Because she has been traumatized to the point where she associates anger with beatings."

Me: "So she really thought I was going to hurt her?"

Phoebe: "Mhm...even though I know you would never."

Phoebe: "It's best if I talk to her ok?"

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "And just, try to control your feeling around her."

Me: "If you can control yourself."

Phoebe:"Oh Cj...I didn't think it would bother you that much."

Me: "It's allright, let's just get this sorted out."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe got up and went into Nina's room. Nina was in tears on the bed.

Phoebe: "Nina...sweety, what's wrong?"

-crying- Nina: "I thought he loved me."

-softly- Phoebe: "He does love you...I love you...we both love you very much."

-softly- Phoebe: "We're not like team rocket ok? We will never hurt you."

-softly- Phoebe: "You just have to trust us Nina."

-softly- Phoebe: "We wouldn't have accepted you into our family if we didn't love you."

Nina: "Ok..."

Phoebe: "Now stop crying, and come on back to our room."

Phoebe: "It's going to be suppertime in a little while."

Nina: "Allright."

Phoebe came back, with Nina behind her, she stuck close to her mom.

Me: "You ok sweetheart?"

-sniffling- Nina: "Mhm."

Me: "Good."

Me:" I'm sorry if I scared you."

Nina: "It's ok daddy."

She hugged me.

Phoebe: "Awe.."

Me: "Come on, let's watch tv for a little bit more, then we'll go get dinner."

Nina: "Ok."

Me: I guess your mother isn't planning on challenging the gym today."

Phoebe: "Nah...what's the rush?"

Me: "I don't know, just get it done so we both have eight badges and don't have to worry about it anymore?"

Phoebe :"I'm not worrying, are you?"

Me: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "Look Cj, I will challenge the gym tomorrow, today, let's just spend some time together as a family like we have been doing."

Me: "-sighs- Allright."

They both snuggled up to me, and Phoebe used her powers to cover us up with blankets.

Phoebe: "Hehe..comfortable?"

Me: "ehh..good enough."

Phoebe: "I was getting cold."

Nina: "Mommy?"

Phoebe: "Yes?"

Nina: "Which one of you is a better trainer? You or Daddy?"

Phoebe: "Oh...I don't know...it has been awhile since we battled eachother."

Me: "She beat me last time."

Phoebe: "Well yeah, but that was just a one on one battle with pokemon we just caught, that doesn't necesarily mean I'm a better trainer than you."

Me: "That's true."

Nina:" But who is the better trainer?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "I guess right now your father is because he has all eight badges."

Me: "Yeah...maybe, but I'm sure you'll get your eighth soon enough."

Phoebe: "Hopefully."

Nina: "I want to watch you battle eachother."

Phoebe: "Maybe tomorrow."

Phoebe: "If your father is ok with it."

Me: "Um..maybe, you get your eighth badge first and then we'll see."

Phoebe: "Ohh...ok."

Me: "You can watch mommy battle at the gym tomorrow, how does that sound?"

Nina: "Um...ok."

Nina: "She's going to use her pokemon right?"

Phoebe: "Of course."

Phoebe: "You know it's funny Cj, for as long as we've been together, I don't think I've ever been in a real battle."

Me: "You know what? You're right."

Outside the games, she's never been in a real pokemon battle, of course we have been in combat together many times before, but that was different.

Phoebe: "That's so weird."

Me: "Yeah, I guess so."

Me: "It wouldn't very fair to use you in battle anyway."

Me: "You're too strong hehehe."

Phoebe: "Yeah...I guess."

Nina: " I've never battled either."

Me: "Well that's good."

Me: "Hopefully you won't ever have to."

Nina: "But I want to battle."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Phoebe: "You know you could get seriously hurt."

Me: "Yeah, have you ever seen a pokemon battle sweetheart?"

Nina: "No..."

Phoebe:" Well, you will tomorrow."

Nina: "Ok."

We watched tv for a little while longer, until it got to be about 5:00pm, then we left the pokemon center to get some dinner. While at the restaurant, Phoebe decided to talk about her upcomming gym battle.

-inside a restaurant, at a booth, waiting for our food-

Phoebe: "So Cj...what attacks did this rayquaza know?"

Me: "Um...Hyperbeam for sure, and I think it also used fly."

Me: "It moves really fast, so most of the battle you're pokemon will be struggling just to hit it."

Me: "It's also not the best shot, but if it hits, it's pretty much a one hit KO."

Me: "It took out half my team before it even started to get tired."

Phoebe: "Oh...ok..."

Phoebe: "And the gym leader never even gave you his name?"

Me: "Nope."

Me: "He barely said anything at all."

Phoebe: "Well that's strange."

Phoebe: "The ref didn't say it?"

Me: "There was no ref, just him."

Phoebe: "Hmm."

Phoebe: "You think, maybe the rayquaza is the gym leader, and the old man was just a puppet?"

Me: "Honey, that's a crazy idea."

Phoebe: "Well it's plausible, legendary pokemon are known to display signs of high intelligence."

Me: "But why?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "You know what, you're right, it is a crazy idea."

Nina: "I'm hungry."

Me: "Our food will come in just a little bit."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "You're always hungry."

Nina: "Team Rocket never fed me much."

Phoebe: "It makes me so mad how they mistreated you."

Me: "Yeah, I know."

Phoebe: "I mean seriously team rocket have got to be some of the lowest people in this world."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "I know we shut down their operation, but I'm still so mad at them."

Me: "Well, it's only a matter of time before we'll end up fighting them again."

Phoebe: "-sighs- I know, and arceus knows what they're going to be doing next time."

Nina: "I don't have to fight them do I?"

Phoebe: "No..Nina, of course not."

Phoebe: "When we get called on the next mission, we'll leave you at the pokemon center, and the nurse can look after you for awhile...Ok?"

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Hopefully Team Rockett won't know we adopted you, so they won't come after you."

Nina: "I hope not."

Me: "And we'll try to keep it that way as long as we can."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "And maybe someday you'll have a little sister or brother to stay with you."

Me: "Woah..Phoebe...slow down."

Phoebe: "heheheh...I'm just joking Cj."

Phoebe: "But it would be nice you know...to have a baby."

Me: "I don't know, all babies do is scream and poop...and scream some more."

Phoebe: "Not gardevoir babies."

Me: "Really? You expect me to believe that?"

Phoebe: "Mmmm...maybe."

Nina: "I don't want a brother or sister."

Phoebe: "Why not?"

Nina: "Because...I want you to pay attention to me."

Me: "Well that was pretty blunt."

Nina: "Hehehe...I'm sorry."

Phoebe: "It's ok Nina, I understand."

Phoebe: "It's not really a good time to talk about this now anyway."

Me: "Yeah...maybe after we beat the league."

Me: "And then maybe after that."

Me: "We'll consider letting you go on your own pokemon journey."

Me: "How's that sound?"

Nina: "You mean I would get my own pokemon?...but I am a pokemon..."

Me: "So...you're mother has pokemon, and she's a pokemon."

Me: "You could be just like her."

Me: "And she's a great trainer..."

Phoebe: "Oh Cj...I'm not that great."

Me: "Considering I've been playing pokemon games since I was ten..."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "And you're probably just as good as I am."

Phoebe: "I don't know..I mean, one of us has to be better right?"

Me: "I don't know, I guess we'll find out in the league."

Phoebe: "Hehe...I'll be looking forward to it...Cj."

In many ways, Phoebe was like my apprentice, I was the one who had given her her first pokemon, the one who introduced her to the games, but right now, I had no doubt in my mind that my little baby girl was becomming as good at pokemon as me. Of course, her powers provided her with a little bit of an advantage, she was able to understand her pokemon alot easier then I could mine, heck, she could even talk to them. We had trained our current teams together, so who the strongest trainer was between the two of us, was a good question.

Our food came, and the discussion died down as we began to eat.

A half hour or so later we were getting ready to leave the restaurant.

We hit the streets, and began to cruise around a little bit.

Me: "Where are we going?"

Phoebe: "Uh.. I don't know, I just though it would be nice to cruise around for awhile."

Phoebe: "Do something besides watching tv."

Me:" Eh...ok."

Phoebe: "Enjoy the sights, maybe even find a nice park to stroll around in."

Me: "Ok...that sounds kind of nice actually."

Me: "How about it Nina?"

Nina: "Ok Daddy."

Phoebe: "Allright, I look around for a park."

We eventually found a park near the center of the city, it was a very peaceful place, but it was getting late, so there wasn't many people around.

Nina: "Daddy?"

Me: "Yes sweetheart?"

Nina :"Can you send out Polli and Belossom so I can have somebody to play with?"

Me: "Of course."

I got their pokeballs out of my pocket, clicked the buttons and through them into the air, letting them out.

Polli: "Pollitoed."

Bellossom: "Bellossom."

Phoebe: "Awe...Bellosom, you look so cute."

-cutely- Bellossom: "Bell."

Me: "I think I'm just going to call you Blossom from now on...is that allright?"

Bellossom: "Bellossom."

She nodded her head, accepting her new name.

Me: "Good."

Phoebe: "Don't wander off too far ok Nina?"

Nina: "Ok."

Me: "Oh and be careful with Blossom, she can be mischevious at times."

Nina: "Ok."

Nina: "Come on guys let's have another dance party."

-happily- Polli: "Pollitoed."

Me: "hehe."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "Her and her little dance parties."

Phoebe: "I think it's cute."

Me: "Yeah..me too."

Phoebe: "So..you want to go for a walk with me?"

Me: "Sure...let's go."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me: "But wait.."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "What if some kid tries to catch her?"

Me: "She's never actually been caught in a pokeball, she isn't registered as either of our pokemon."

Phoebe: "Well, we'll track the kid down and release her."

Me: "Although you're registered as mine somehow..."

Phoebe: "That's because the experiment is linked to the real pokemon database."

Phoebe: "Any pokemon caught in the games is registered in real life."

Phoebe: "Including me, even though my pokeball was destroyed."

Me: "Yeah..."

Me: "Well I didn't think it was right to keep you locked up like that."

Me: "As my wife I mean, it just weird."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I know."

Me: "But Nina can still be captured if someone trys."

Phoebe: "Yeah, that's true."

Me: "Why will pokeballs still capture gardevoirs if gardevoirs are illegal to capture?"

Phoebe: "Well they left that in there just in case a gardevoir chooses to accept a trainer."

Phoebe: "It doesn't happen very often, but just in case."

Phoebe: "And pokemon are alot easier to transport, and alot safer in pokeballs most of the time."

Me: "What happens if a pokeball is destroyed when a pokemon is inside?"

Phoebe: "The pokemon is either released if possible, or transfered to the pc system."

Me: "Allright."

Phoebe: "It depends on how the ball is destroyed."

Phoebe: "The balls themselves are actually quite durable."

Phoebe: "Made out of an aluminum alloy, although ultraballs use a more expensive titanium based alloy for even more strength."

Me: "How do they work?"

Phoebe: "That I don't know."

Me: "What's it like inside of one?"

Phoebe: "I couldn't tell you."

Phoebe: "Pokemon are kept in stasis inside pokeballs."

Phoebe: "That's how they're able to be returned while they're dying and healed in a pokemon center."

Phoebe: "Pokeballs are a very advanced technology, that even I don't quite understand."

Phoebe: "The modern design itself dates back several decades into the past."

Me:" I've heard rumors that they hypnotize the captured pokemon into obeying the trainer."

Phoebe: "No...that's not true, remember when you caught your rhyhorn?"

Phoebe: "And it wouldn't listen to you?"

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe :"Rhyhorns have a very small brain Cj, it's very easy to manipulate."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: I could show you, if you want."

Phoebe: "But don't expect me to do this very often, although it is possible for psychic types to control minds through hypnosis, most don't like to use these techniques because it's very immoral."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "But I'll show you real quick, just to prove this myth false."

Me: "Allright."

I sent out Rhyhorn. He grunted a little bit.

Phoebe: "Ok Rhyhorn hold still."

Phoebe: "Watch this, it's going to be funny."

Phoebe: "But stay quiet so I can concentrate."

Me: "Ok."

She closed her eyes, and soon rhyhorn went to sleep as well.

Then rhyhorn opened his eyes, stood up on his hind legs and spun around, like he was dancing.

Me: "Hehehe..."

Nina came over to us out of curiousity, Polli and Blossom trailing behind her.

Nina: "What pokemon is this?"

-quietly- Me: "Shh..it's my rhyhorn."

-quietly- Nina: "Ok."

Rhyhorn finished spinning around, took a bow, and went back to sleep, Phoebe opened her eyes.

Phoebe: "He'll wake up in a little bit, sorry but I had to put him to sleep, otherwise he would just keep dancing."

Me: "That's allright, no harm done."

Me: "That was interesting."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "But like I said, most psychic types rarely do that, it's more of a last resort."

Phoebe: "Because it's very easy to abuse power like that."

Me: "Yep."

Phoebe:" Oh hi Nina."

Nina: "Why was the pokemon dancing?"

Phoebe: "He wasn't, I was controlling him."

Nina: "Oh...can you teach me how to do that?"

Phoebe: "Not until you're older and have learned some responsibility."

Nina: "Awe...why not?"

Phoebe: "Because it's very easy for young gardevoir to get into the habit of abusing power like that, and besides that, you need to develope your powers a bit more before you can even come close to doing it anyway."

Nina: "Ok Mommy."

Nina: "I just wanted to use it so I could get Rocky to dance."

I returned rhyhorn, who was still asleep.

Phoebe: "I know, but it starts with something simple like that, and ends with you enslaving people against their will and using them to do your bidding."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Really..."

Me: "How do I know I'm not being hypnotised right now?"

Phoebe: "Oh Cj...don't be silly."

Phoebe: "You realize the fact that you're even able to ask that question is a sign of your freewill, and that you are obviously not hypnotized."

Me: "Hmm...I guess your right."

Phoebe: "come along Cj."

Me: "Allright."

Phoebe: "Nina you can go back to playing with your pokemon friends."

Nina: "Allright."

Nina wondered back over to the playground, Polli and Blossom following her.

After awhile she was getting tired of dancing, and was trying to find something else to do. There were no kids around, as it was late in the afternoon, the sun was getting near the horizon, creating a pretty orange sky. Phoebe and I were just strolling around the park, not expecting her to get bored any time soon. Then she saw it, a bird pokemon, sitting up in one of the many trees. It was only a common pidgey, but Nina thought it was the coolest thing, and for a moment, thought about the possibilities of having her very own pokemon, just like her parents.

Nina: "What kind of pokemon is that?"

Both Blossom and Polli had seen the pokemon before, from their time as wild pokemon, as pidgey were as common as regular birds in the other world and could be seen everywhere. There were even some in the other world now, where they quickly adapted to become one of the most common pokemon there too. To the point where they could almost be scene everyday, along with regular birds. Fortunately this wasn't much as a problem as pidgey were as peaceful as they were weak, and would only attack if provoked.

Blossom :"Bellossom."

Nina: "You've seen it before, but aren't sure exactly what it is ?

Blossom: "Bell."

It nodded in agreement.

Nina: "So..do you want to help me catch it?"

Nina didn't know what she was doing, as she and Blossom went over to the pidgey as Polli stayed behind, Polli went over to a small pond filled with magicarp, and decided to swim to a small island in the middle of it. From there he watched as Blossom and Nina tried to capture the pidgey.

Of course this attempt didn't go very well, as Nina had no idea what she was doing. Anyway, they snuck up to the pidgey, who was alerted by Blossom's skirt rustling around.

Just like most birds, the pidgey took off and flew to another tree, Nina and Blossom followed it from tree to tree, until Blossom hit it with stunspore in midair and it crashed to the ground. Nina didn't know what Blossom just did, all she knew was the pidgey was down, and she might be able to capture it.

Stunned, but unhurt the pidgey got up and began to run, trying to get back in the air, until the full effect of stun spore kicked in and it tripped, finding itself unable to move, Nina excitedly ran over to it and picked it up, which was a mistake, as the stun spore rubbed off onto her hands and began to affect her as well. She didn't have any pokeballs on her. And she didn't think through enough to know what to do after she had the pidgey in her arms.

-excitedly, then weakly- Nina: "I got it, I got my first poke...mon."

-concerned- Blossom: "Bell?"

-weakly- Nina: "I...I don't feel so good."

Her arms started to feel numb, then her entire body became numb moments later, she fell to her knees, the pidgey rolled out of her lap and onto the ground, kicking and shaking, struggling to get back up.

-scared, weakly- Nina: "I...I can't move..."

Blossom: "Bell?"

-weakly- Nina: "Help..."

Polli came over, having saw everything.

-worried- Polli: "Polli...pollitoed."

Nina: "Go find my mom and dad."

It nodded it's head and ran off to go find us. Blossom stayed, intending to protect Nina in case something else came. It blamed itself for this, and felt sorry, despite being mischevious, it never intended for this to happen.

-Meanwhile-

Phoebe and I were having an interesting conversation, and were just about to start our second lap around the park.

Phoebe :"So you see Cj...that's how the pc system works."

Me: "Ok..."

Me: "Honey, you're so smart."

Phoebe: "I know, but you're pretty smart too."

Phoebe: "For a human..hehehe."

Me: "Oh honey."

Phoebe: "I'm just kidding, I don't really think I'm much smarter than you."

Phoebe: "I just know more about this world than you."

Phoebe: "And you know more about your world."

Me: "Yeah, I guess so."

We kissed. Then Polli came out of the bushes.

Phoebe: "What's up Polli? Where's Nina?"

-in a very worried manner- Polli: "polli, pollitoed polli, pollitoed, pollitoed polli."

Phoebe: "Oh no."

Me: "What? What did he say?"

Phoebe: "Come on, we have to hurry."

Phoebe :"Show us the way Polli."

Polli led us to Nina. Who was still on ground. Blossom was tugging on her arms, trying to get her to stand up. Although immune to its own stunpore, the small flower pokemon was much to weak to lift her.

Me: "What the? Sweetheart are you ok?"

-weakly- Nina: "Caaaaan't...mooooove."

I tried to help her up, but Phoebe stopped me.

-urgently- Phoebe: "Cj, don't touch her."

Me: "Why?"

Phoebe: "It's stun spore, if you touch her you could get paralyzed too."

Me: "So what do we do then?"

Then we noticed the pidgey on the ground in front of her.

Me: "What's with this pidgey?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, but it's paralyzed too."

Phoebe: "What happened Nina? "

-weakly crying- Nina: " I just... wanted my own... pokemon.."

Phoebe: "So you tried to catch this pidgey?"

-weakly- Nina: "Mhm,... and Blossom... helped me."

Phoebe: "Ohhhh...I see.."

-nervously- Blossom: "Bell..."

Me :" Did you use stunspore on her or the pidgey?"

Phoebe: "Cj, it's not her fault, she hit the pidgey, then Nina tried to pick it up and ended up getting stun spore on herself."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe: "Listen, all of you, stay here and protect Nina, I'm going to go get some paralyze heal from the store."

Phoebe: "I won't be gone long Cj."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe kissed me then left, I stayed there with Nina, who was unable to move.

-weakly- Nina: "Daddy... am I...in trouble?"

Me: "No...I don't know."

-weakly- Nina :"Am I...going to...die?"

Me: "I don't think so, you're just paralyzed, we can fix it."

-weakly- Nina: "I can't...talk very...well."

Me: "I can see that."

Me: "It's going to be ok, just hang in there."

Blossom: "Bell..."

Blossom was starting to cry.

Me: "Blossom, it's not your fault, don't cry."

Me: "It's going to be ok, Phoebe will back in a little bit with some medicine."

Blossom: "Bellossom."

Phoebe came back just a few minutes later. Thankfully there was a small pokemart nearby.

Phoebe: "Ok, I got the medicine."

She pulled a small bottle of paralyze heal out of her purse.

Phoebe: "Ok Nina, this might hurt a little bit, but it will wear off eventually."

-weakly- Nina: "Ok."

She sprayed some onto Nina...and she gradually got the feeling back in her body, unfortunately this also resulted in a pins and needles effect, so she got up quickly and squirmed around in a little bit of pain.

Phoebe: "Now what are we going to do with the pidgey?"

Me: "Heal it too..then let it go."

Phoebe: "Ok."

-tantrum- Nina: "No...I want it, it's my pokemon."

Me: "No it's not..."

Nina: "But..."

Phoebe :"Nina calm down."

Me: "We should get going, the sun will set soon."

Phoebe: "Yeah."

She sprayed some more on the pidgey, and it got back on it's feet and scurried away.

Nina: "No..come back."

I grabbed her arm before she could chase after it.

Me: "Nina."

Nina: "But...Daddy..."

Phoebe :"Nina, you're not ready for a pokemon."

Phoebe: "There's a lot you need to learn first."

Me: "Yeah, like not to do this."

Nina: "I didn't know."

Phoebe: "You're lucky we were here, you could have been stuck there for hours until the paralysis wore off on its own, and who knows what could try to harm you."

Me: "That pidgey could of healed before you and pecked your eyes out with you unable to defend yourself."

-sarcastically- Phoebe: "Ok Cj ..thanks for that thought."

Me: "I'm sorry."

Phoebe: "It's allright, come on you two, let's get out of here before it gets dark."

Me:" Ok."

Nina fully recovered and stopped shaking.

Me: "And you two can return for now."

I returned Polli and Blossom, and all three of us left the park and went back to the pokemon center for the night.

-inside our room, at the pokemon center-

Phoebe: "Nina..I don't want you trying to catch anymore pokemon for now? Ok?"

Nina: "Ok mommy."

Me :"Your mother is right."

Me: "And that was just a pidgey? Could you imagine what could happen if she tried to catch something more powerful?"

Phoebe: "-sighs- I don't think I want to."

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "Nina, you got really lucky. You realize that?"

Nina: "I know Mom."

Phoebe: "Good, because you can't always rely on luck to save you."

Nina: "I know."

Phoebe: "Now go change into your night gown, you're going to go to bed soon."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe and I cuddled on the bed, as Nina went to her room to change.

Phoebe:" I just can't stop worrying about her Cj."

Me: "Yeah...it's allright, that just means you're a good mother."

Phoebe: "Now you're making me think of what my mother thinks of me."

Me: "She probably worries about you too."

Phoebe: "Probably.

We kissed.

Phoebe: "Do you think she'll try to catch another pokemon?"

Me: "After this, I doubt it."

Phoebe: "I hope so."

Phoebe: "I mean she's just not ready."

Me: "Yeah..."

Phoebe:" This entire thing could have gone so much worse."

Me: "I know."

Phoebe: "I'm just glad she's allright."

Me: "Me too."

We kissed again.

Me: "I love you baby girl."

Phoebe: "I love you too Cj."

Me: "It's going to be allright, I'm not going to tell you not to worry, because you're supposed to worry, but it's going to be ok."

Phoebe: "Awe...Cj.."

Nina came back, wearing a pretty green nightgown.

Nina: "Ok I'm back."

Phoebe: "Oh..you look so cute."

Nina: "Really?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Why don't you get to bed now ok?"

Nina:" But it's early."

Phoebe: "I know, but I want you to be ready for tomorrow."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Cj why don't you put her to bed tonight?"

Me: "-sighs- ok."

She kissed us both goodnight, and I went back to her room to tuck her in.

Me: "Goodnight sweetheart."

I gently pulled the blankets over her.

Me: "Try not to have any nightmares tonight ok?"

Nina: "I'll try daddy."

Me: "Ok."

I kissed her on the cheek, turned out the lights, and quietly left the room, closing the door behind me.

Phoebe was waiting outside the door for me.

Phoebe: "Awe...that was so sweet."

Me: "Well she's my daughter, you're not the only one that loves her."

She kissed me, and we went back to our room together.

We cuddled on the bed for a little while, occasionally making out. But as it got late, she turned off the lights and we drifted off into sleep.