Chapter 31: I have run out of titles for chapters.

Hey. Now that I have no school for three months, I plan to be updating more often. So… That's good, right?

Anyways…

HQ, 6 PM, A few months after last chapter, TPOV

Today started out fine. Breakfast of some toast, a few rescue missions, and getting some smoothies afterwards.

But then… It happened. Blu, she… It's just… She… Her… I don't know any other way to say it. She was ready.

We all rushed to get her to the hospital. I carried her, because if she would've walked there, it would've been too late. At the hospital, Audi told me to bring her to the bed. When she got there, I held her hand and Mira and Luke walked out of the room. I kind of wanted to, too, but it was I who'd done this to her… So I stayed. And I watched as she laid an egg. It was beautiful, but at the same time I wanted to close my eyes until it was over. She had a strong grip on me, too. I knew I would feel that for a few days.

After a while, her – I mean, our – egg was out. It was blue and yellow. Blu sat up, as she was very tired.

"Thunder…" she started, as I walked over to her, holding the egg. "I love you."

"I love you, too." I replied, as my hand stung.

She hugged me, with the egg between us. The egg felt warm, as if it was… happy, I guess. Somehow it must've known it was the two bodies beside it that had made it. Blu smiled as she held the egg. It shook a little.

Mira and Luke came in, and they store at the egg. Luke grew a huge grin, ear-to-ear, and Mira smiled.

"Baby brother?" Luke asked, walking up to the egg and sniffing it.

"We don't know that," Blu started, petting Luke. "It could be a sister, ya' know."

"I think it's a brother." Luke said determinedly. He must've wanted a little brother since I told him about it.

We all shared a laugh except for Luke, who kept staring at the egg.

TEH NEXT DAY

The hatching period of a pikachu egg is usually 2-3 months. But for an oshawott, I read somewhere that it's supposedly only half a month to 1 month. I didn't really care. I was happy just knowing that Blu and I had created something special… A life.

Blu suggested telling my mom about it.

"She'd like to know about it, too, wouldn't you think?" Blu said, stopping with the egg.

"Well, yeah, I guess, since she is going to be a grandma."

"Then let's tell her!"

We turned towards my old house. It'd been so long since I had been there, I felt nostalgic. Mom met me at the door with a smile. At first, she didn't see the egg.

"Oh, hello, Thunder!" she said, still smiling.

"Hi, mom." I started. "We've come to tell – and show – you something."

"Really?" She asked "What is it?"

Blu held up the egg. Since mom was now a serperior, I guess her head was so high she could barely see us.

"Oh, my…" She said, her smile toning down a bit. "You two…"

"Yes, Mom. We did." I cut her off. I didn't want her to say what she was about to say.

"It seems like just yesterday I was giving you a bottle." She said with a sigh. "You grew up so fast, Thunder."

"Yeah, I know." I said, smiling at her. "I've missed staying at home with you. But now, I'm okay with it."

She gave me a hug – at least, all she could do for a hug without arms – and we said goodbye.

Then we headed home. At HQ, some of the other teams were saying congratulations.

The next month, 10 PM, TPOV

I slept with the egg, like with Luke, but instead we both slept together. Then, one night, I saw a crack. Luke had been with the egg a lot today, so I assumed it was from him. But I was soon proven wrong. A beam of white light shone through it. I woke up Blu, and she store at the beam of light and gasped. Luke and Mira slowly woke up as the beam of light grew larger and hit their eyes. Then their mouths gaped open.

"Brother?" Luke whispered, waiting for something to happen.

The light kept growing until eventually, it engulfed the whole egg. The light was near blinding, and me and Blu were close.

Soon, the light died down, and a baby pichu lay, sleeping, in my lap. Its tail was a little tint of dark blue instead of black, and so were the parts of its ears where it should be black. Slowly, its eyes opened and they were bright green. It rolled over to its other side, as it must've been tired. It was cute as it slept.

The next morning, Blu shook me up. By doing so, the baby had woken, too.

"What're we gonna call it/him/her?" she asked.

"First, we need to know what its gender is." I replied, glancing at the baby.

He/she stuck its tongue out. Neither of us knew what that meant. Blu lifted him –which is what we knew now – into the air. He looked down, tongue out, and started crying.

"He must be scared of heights," Blu started, lowering him down as he stopped crying. Then he smiled.

"Or he's just a baby." I added.

He stuck his tongue out again, this time with wide eyes. He started patting his tongue now. It started to become clear to me what he wanted. His stomach gurgled, and he began patting his tongue harder now.

"He's hungry!" Blu said, lifting him up to her face. He giggled and waved his arms.

"What should we feed him?" I asked.

"You should know, he is your species."

"When I was little, all I remember is eating things I found around the house, but then immediately feeling sick."

"I don't think that's how we should feed him."

"Maybe we could feed him some milk?"

"Old-fashioned? Because Mom didn't give me any formula."

"I'll run out to get some. Until I come back, yes."

"Okay…"

I left to the store. When I got back, Luke was sitting next to him. Mira and Blu were watching. The baby kept touching Luke's fur, like he had never seen a Pokémon like him before. Which he hadn't, since he was just born last night. Luke glared at him, smiling. Every so often, when Luke looked away, the boy would smack Luke's side, and Luke would snap his head at him, angry. He would laugh so hard, that he fell on his back. They were a cute pair.

"So, what're we gonna call him, then?" Blu asked.

"Didn't we decide on Bolt?" I replied.

When I said Bolt, the boy looked at me.

"He seems like he's already been called Bolt." Blu started, puzzled. "Bolt it is!"

Bolt looked at Blu this time. He already knew what his name was. He didn't want to be called anything else. But after a while of looking confused, he and Luke returned to their little game.

I, I just…. I still can't get over the fact that I'm a father… biologically, that is.

Bolt is up, now. That makes five in the immediate team. Plus Jane, that's 6 in the team. :D

SEE YA NEXT TIME.