Side Story 02/05 – Daily Life of Espeon Before Team Doom

Nuvema Town

It was a beautiful day in Nuvema Town, the blue cloudless sky with the sun shining brightly down on the town, the perfect weather for a great day. Especially for a certain Pokemon who goes by the name of her species; Espeon who lives with her trainer now a white Dewott after being attacked by a Shiny Latias who had injected Zack with a serum known as the Doom serum.

It had been over a month since the change and with it new things; Zack learning how to use moves of his own Espeon, Totodile and Dewott had helped him learn for about two weeks on what they knew, and Espeon finally remembering how much she loved to stay at home to rest up after months of travelling through different regions all on various missions; escorts, deliveries, assisting a town or people with their problems they need help with such as bandits or a troubled Pokemon here and there running amok.

Espeon was lying on her back on the grass in the back yard of Zack's home looking up at the blue sky taking in the suns radiant light feeling at ease with how things have been recently; the attack by Shiny Latias, her trainer/best friends sudden change from human to Pokemon, not being on a mission this time and just… relaxing. "Hmm… haven't seen a single cloud up there yet, so I guess cloud watching is out of the option for me then." She sighed, shifting her eyes over at a plane passing by. "I wonder where that plane is flying towards? This region over in Mistralton City airport? Another region… maybe towards Sinnoh if I am facing the right way. Hundreds of people up there all travelling here and there for many reasons; a vacation, honeymoon, business trips, a chance for a new start… why the heck am I talking about planes like that for? And also, why am I talking to myself?" Espeon chuckled to herself as she continued to watch the plane fly by in silence until it flew out of view. Now she all she had to look up at was the blue sky.

Espeon walked back into the house to see Zack's mom Ayaka sitting on the couch watching a crime show. Espeon had often seen her watch that show most days and sometimes joined her not knowing who the characters were or what was going on, but she would have fun in trying to guess the criminal, the mastermind behind today's episode. Espeon sat at the corner of the couch and watched the show with Ayaka, but today's episode of the crime show was the second and last part of a continuing story arc which involved a murder case in two separate cities close to another. They dubbed the killer 'The Face Stealer' for leaving their victims dead in hotel rooms with their faces cut off. The show never revealed dead bodies or anything too gory in the show since after all it was shown in the daytime close to a kids channel for all cartoons and kids movies.

Espeon sat back on the couch and imagined herself out of the living room and being warped to another place far from here. She imagined being in a black and white room sat at a desk wearing a black fedora whilst leaning her head on top of the desk in a deep sleep exhausted over a crime she couldn't quite solve. She had been solving a hard to crack case for a week now, the killer who would leave his victims dead behind a butcher's all with their left hands cut off with no trace of the hand anywhere else. One night, Espeon woke to a knock at her office door. Opening the door, a man wearing a black suit and tie entered another detective and partner who went by the name of Gillian. A man in Espeon's daydream who didn't resemble anyone she knew or had seen before, a man with a cleft chin, small nose, and sunken back gray eyes with short black hair cut approached her desk and told her with an inaudible voice to go to the back alley to investigate the scene of what appears to be the killers latest crime.

The scene suddenly changed to a dark back alley behind a butcher's. A lone street light shined down over a body covered by a white sheet. The body underneath like the other victims all had but one hand removed. Cut off by a murderer with unknown reasons as to why they were doing this. A murderer the media had dubbed 'The Hand Stealer' a murderer for some unexplained reason within the daydream had Espeon up late nights and wanting justice for the victims lives this murderer had taken, all to steal their hands.

Walking up to the body, a cop walked beside her to uncover the sheets. "It appears to be a dead body underneath the blanket." Muttered a cop standing beside Espeon with an unenthusiastic tone of voice to it.

"Ya think?" Espeon replied sarcastically as she levitated the sheet up from the man's face to reveal…

Suddenly, Espeon's daydreaming was destroyed by the familiar sound of loud music she had heard so many times before. Music that started off all fanfare like and rock and roll before a mal announcer yelled out followed by the laughter of so many children 'Super Latias!'She was back in the living room and saw that the crime show had already ended and the TV was now onto the kids channel showing Super Latias, one of Latias' favorite TV shows of all time. Sitting next to her wasn't Ayaka anymore, but it was Latias with the remote held up by her paw close to her chest as she sat and watched the show with a big smile on her face. "Do you like ever watch anything else other than this show, Latias?" She asked Latias, her eyes not turning away from the screen as she shook her head, a wide grin at the moment her favorite character 'Super Latias' appeared on screen to quote her starting catchphrase for every show/movie/video game 'When there is crime, Super Latias is here to save the day!' something which Espeon rolled her eyes at. She didn't hate the show, she often found it amusing at times with a few good action scenes and emotional moments here and there, but watching it constantly draw her mad; the music, the catchphrase Super Latias said almost every episode, she just wanted to watch something different for a change. She could wait for the show to be over and then the remote would be back in her paws to flick over the hundreds of channels in search of good television… but Super Latias shows were thirty minutes too long for her to sit through, so she just got up and left the room to explore the house for a change. She couldn't remember where she was going with her daydream, a killer who had cut off the left hand of their victims behind a butcher's in the back alley. "Hmm, maybe if I finally finished up where I was going with that, I probably could've sold my idea to a network and be famous… oh well."

Espeon's first place to explore was Ayaka's room, a room Espeon only had been in once the first time she entered Zack's house to meet his mom and sister Yuri. Inside the room weren't exactly much inside other and a double size bed and a wardrobe. She walked up to it and opened it with help from her Psychic, slowly opening it to see it full of not only clothing hung up, but old notes, books, and trinkets from long ago stacked inside a box at the bottom. Espeon using her Psychic held up and opened up one of the books to the front page; it was a diary from when Ayaka was a teen.

"'This book belongs to Ayaka Amano, HANDS OFF.'" She read from it whispering to keep her voice down should either, Ayaka, Yuri or Zack find her inside rummaging inside of other people's stuff that don't belong to her. Espeon placed the book over to one side and reading through some of the many notes all stacked together, reading what they were "Recipes, gardening tips, Christmas gift checklists from previous years, to do lists from a few weeks ago… hmm, so it has come down to this, exploring the house and intruding on people's private belongings... "

Espeon left the room to move on to Zack's sister Yuri. In a few months time she would be leaving Unova to go off to join an art academy. At first, Espeon didn't really think much of Yuri, but when Yuri painted a canvas of Espeon sleeping, she was instantly in love with her for how marvellous she looked and requested for her to paint more of Espeon doing things. In her file, she showed the academy her paintings of Espeon among her other pieces of work, and they accepted her in amazed at the detail and depth put into each work of art, especially works involving Espeon.

Yuri wasn't in the house at the time Espeon walked in to her room to look around, snooping in on Yuri's stuff. But Espeon didn't care, about things that weren't Yuri's art that is. There were several canvases in the room, most with unfinished paintings or various fruits and trees outside. Works she would be showing to the people at the academy no doubt. Espeon loved her art, even going as far as treating Yuri as some kind of celebrity she admired. "She has talent." She smiled as she looked at the unfinished paintings, excited at what the finished painting may look like. "Hmm, I wonder what she'll do with it I wonder. A famous painter? Comic books? Who knows…"

And finally the last room of the house she decided to visit was that of her own trainer and best friend Zack, sitting on his bed and reading from a book Espeon immediately saw as she entered the room as a book about Pokemon moves, a book she had taken a few glances at and was surprised to read about how well and detailed how each move was used, how training is required before use and how it could be improved upon making it stronger. Espeon had taught Zack all she knew about Psychic type moves, and was happy to see Zack still learning even after training. "Hey Zackary, reading from that book again I see."

Zack looked up from his book to see Espeon enter his room, smiling he greeted her, closing the book and placing it to one side. "Just going over a few things I was confused about; like Protect. In the book it doesn't explain how long I can use it for, only that I can make it stronger by training with it."

"Well, Protect doesn't last long despite if you are attacked physically or not. Usually lasts around I'd say… ten seconds. That's how long I can use it until someone tries to attack me until it shatters upon impact. The book is right about training will make your protect stronger, meaning your Protect will grow bigger allowing you to either protect yourself from further distances or protect someone or something close by." Espeon explain, grabbing the book with her Psychic and flicking through the pages before returning it to Zack to place it back on his bed.

"Zackary, do you mind if I use your computer? I'm feeling kinda bored at the moment just waiting around for Latias to finish up on watching her Super Latias show." Zack smiled and nodded before jumping off his bed to leave his room to go downstairs. "Sure, I don't mind."

With that, Espeon happily jumped up on the chair in front of the desk with the computer on top, using her Psychic to move the mouse to browse the internet for anything to kill her boredom which was slowly creeping on her. She had browsed for what seemed like hours of searching for something, anything that would make her laugh; to find something that'll gain her interests, but sadly she couldn't and was just clicking on many web sites and different videos of things she had already watched before.

Espeon eventually found a forums page about the Super Latias show; theories, favorite moments shared by the fans, ask me anything's from the show makers, even by the Latias who plays Super Latias on a few occasions. Espeon noticed that there were two thousand people already online and there was a section where she could create a post on just about anything she wanted asked by the people online, things like 'Why do you like this show?' 'What is so special about the show and should I watch it?' Then a smile had crept up on her. Quickly, she clicked on the box and began to type with her Psychic 'Super Latias is overrated, come at me!' Espeon finished typing with a sinister grin as she moved the pointer to click onto 'send' to post for the entire world to see. She wanted to spark a reaction, to have fun and read the comments left behind by others already logged on.

Within a matter of minutes, she got responses by at first three people, five, then ten, a hundred, two hundreds of responses almost nearing the thousand mark. But the thing is, only several people actually responded to Espeon by raging how 'Super Latias is the best show eva, so dont you say 'come at me!' like you all knowing!' so instead of seeing a comment war about her comment, the comments were then followed by comments that weren't even about her comment and instead yelling at other comments about how this episode was better than that episode over and over again:

Pikafan82 'Episode 489 was THE best epsiodde yut! So stfu anon 01!'

FatManDynasty 'y don't u 'stfu' episode 200 was the best!'

anon 18 'episode 211 prooved my theory that Super Latias has a split personality!'

anon 12 'OMG Spoilers much anon!'

MegaDiaz 'OMG don't use ! after a comment, its soooooo stupid'

anon 03 'Like your comment 'MegaDiaz''

anon 15 'Learn to spell 'anon 18' it's proved, not 'prooved' you stupid ****'

Jamjar484 'lol'

iampickles 'Check out these amazing deals by clicking on the link here: amazingdeals4u. Totally not a virus!'

Espeon decided that was enough internet for one day and walked out of the room. Instead of seeing the raging fans commenting on her comment, they all just focused on something else not relevant to what had been posted. So she walked back down stairs again to see Latias still watching her Super Latias TV show with a happy smile on her face. Unfortunately it was still the first episode out of four showing today, so Espeon would be waiting a while before the TV was hers again, so she decided to go back out and watch the sky but not before stealing a bag of chips from the kitchen table.

As she lied down on the grass, to her delight she saw small clouds for the first time that day. With a relaxed sigh, she popped open the bag of ships and ate as she watched the clouds form up into larger ones so she could begin her favorite pastime; cloud watching. With the current events with Zack being a Pokemon and hearing all about how he was thinking about leaving the Saviors for a better start; Espeon wondered what life would be like without the Saviors, without missions. "I wonder if I'll be having more days like this one; cloud watching, starting humorous arguments on websites over a stupid post, eating bags of chips. It may sound boring not being with the Savior's anymore, but at least we can all go out for some fun times elsewhere; amusement parks, hiking in the woods, just living it up away from it all… I guess it sounds fun."

Espeon looking up at the clouds started to imagine herself and her friends going places such as amusement parks, hiking out in the middle of the woods, eating ice cream outside an ice cream parlor or some other relaxing fun activity.

"I guess if we did that all too often, then I would become fat… a fat and lazy Espeon… hmm, then this is the start of a regular day of Espeon. Hah, I referenced the title of the side story…. And once again I am talking to myself, *sighs* somebody stop me… I really hope my life isn't this boring after leaving The Savior's, I really don't want to be this bored ever again."

Trivia:

The daydream section of Espeon trying to solve the case of 'The Hand Stealer' was added at the last minute and instead focused on her and Ayaka watching the crime show.