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Chapter 4 -/- Section
Mia walked Eileen and Allen to the main desk, and went to a computer, accessing some files. Eileen looked around the room, there were only about ten more Agents in the room, and they all seemed more to be older than 17, Mia herself looked about 20.
"Well I know you two aren't registered yet," Mia said as she looked over her computer screen, "So we might as well get you listed and move on to Azalea Town..." she trailed off as she over what little they had on their permanent files as agents. "I see no one's given a pokedex or you pokegear yet, must have slipped Alana's mind while she argued for your weapons...." She laughed as she pictured Alana discussing with her own unit on the phone, "wait here, I'll get you some," she rushed upstairs and entered Mineko's office without knocking, coming out with two pokedex and pokegear in hand. She walked over back to where Eileen and Allen where standing and handed them one of each.
Eileen held her pokedex and looked over it with curiosity as she remembered how the trainers that always went to challenge Clair always had a pokedex and their pokegear with them. Her pokedex was a bright red color and had a small pokeball sketched on it somewhere around the middle, Allen's was the same model, but his was back and the pokeball was sketched in red. She had seen many versions of the pokedex, but this was the first time she saw this version. Unlike the ones she normally saw that flipped open like a book, this one was more of a rectangle and opened twice. She flipped open the two parts of it, the top " opened over it and the middle ¼ opened to its right, the division seemed to be marked by the pokeball on it. It had a blank screen where the top had opened and something that looked like an arrow board, "start' & "select" buttons, and "A" & "B" buttons of her Playstation 2 controllers. She was a little confused at that fact.
The pokegear, she noticed, would replace her watch. It had different options in it that made it able to hold telephone numbers, a map, and a radio, all in the size of a watch! It was mostly gray and the time 12:00 was on the screen, waiting to be adjusted.
Mai explained to them how to operate their pokegear and afterwards told them to take out their ID cards. "These pokedex were given to us by an association made by several professors who support our organization. They are pretty much like the regular pokedex, but when an agent swipes their ID card here," she pointed at a rupture in the solid part of the pokedex that went from top to bottom, "your Agent data will be displayed. But right now we need to get your data in them," She signaled them to pass their ID cards (the barcode area) through the rupture.
Eileen watched as her picture appeared on the screen and a voice spoke. "Eileen Crimfire. Trainer from Blackthorn City, ID # 09420. 14 years of age," it said. Allen's did the same for his, "Allen Fugissaki. Trainer from Pallet Town, ID # 05996. 15 years of age."
Mai took up Allen's pokedex and swiped her card through it. "Agent Allen Fugissaki Section Ω, ID # 12162," it said now, as his statistics rolled across the screen over his picture. Then followed Eileen, "Agent Eileen Crimfire Section Ω, ID # 49003."
Mia explained that the pokedex would keep a record of the pokemon each of them saw and it would keep tabs on their behavior as well, though she didn't explain how. She took the pokedex and inserted one at a time in a sort of "pokedex slot" the computer had, and on the screen came their information, "Now you're registered as part of section Omega," Mia explained.
After handing the pokedex back to their new owners she moved on to explaining about the pokegear. She explained it could be used a lot of different ways, as Eileen had discovered earlier. Mia taught them how to swap phone numbers, by holding the pokegears in front of each other and pressing one of the buttons on it. She made them swap numbers with herself, each other, and the computer in lobby, which according to Mia, had Mineko's phone number in it.
After the poke explanation, Mia walked back to the front of the room, she clapped her hands one time and whistled; everyone looked over. "Section Ω, I would like to like you to meet our newest members, Eileen Crimfire and Allen Fugissaki," She said as she looked over to the partners.
"So which one's the senior?"
"He must be, she's too young"
"They both look pretty young..."
"Give 'em a chance!"
"Yeah, they are Agents on our section, you know"
Voices began to rise, when things got too loud, Mia repeated the signal, one clap, one high whistle, "Please make them feel welcomed," she suggested in a tone that made it sound like an order.
"Now, we need to leave for Azalea Town," she said turning her attention from the new partners, "Keilin, Adam please watch over Eileen and Allen," she signaled to two of the older members to her left.
The senior agents walked over to Eileen and Allen. "So, what section are you guys from?" he asked, violet eyes beaming with curiosity.
Allen and Eileen exchanged glances and remembered what Mineko had said about an "exception" for both of them, "Actually we're both novices," Allen said.
"But that's--" Adam began.
"Impossible," Allen finished for him, "According to Mineko, we're an 'exception' to that rule, she said it had something to do with graduating in half the time a normal agent does," he half-lied. Mineko had never said such a thing, yet he, and Eileen, and everyone so far involved with the new-assigned agents, knew it was part of the reason.
"You graduated in half the time? Now that's impressive," Keilin said, placing a hand on her partner's shoulder. She had light cerulean eyes and dark green hair, "So she assigned you to an advanced unit because of your 'incredible skill'," she said smiling and eyeing the two, and then smirking, "Well, that won't matter once you're settled with the group."
Eileen smiled at the comment; she felt less out of place, as any new comer would. "So you two are...?" she asked.
"Oh, I'm Keilin Hyrum, and this guy's my partner, Adam Elliot," Keilin explained, smiling.
"Nice to meet you," Eileen said as she stretched out her hand for Keilin to shake, but Adam beat her.
"It's a pleasure," he said smiling slyly while holding her hand. Keilin came over and pushed him out of the way and took Eileen's hand, "You go and greet Allen," she whispered to Adam.
Adam mumbled and shook Allen's hand, "So, what weaponry do you specialize in?"
Keilin smiled, "Don't get too close to Adam," she warned, "he shows his liking for girls a little too much, if you know what I mean... and a young, innocent looking woman like yourself could be his next target," Keilin said in a joking tone, but was dead serious.
Eileen blushed at the comment, but brushed it off. "I see," she smiled.
It was around two in the afternoon that Mia led the section outside and instructed they would go by foot. It would take them about two to three days to get to Azalea Town, and it was decided they would not travel by night.
They began out through Route 32 past the entrance to the Ruins of Alph. The route was a rocky landscape that contained a 'bridge' that went over water, because the land part in that area was too close to the trees perhaps.
Not too long after they began walking, Keilin had started in a conversation with other Agents and Adam was trying to hit on a particularly pretty blonde Agent that was blushing at his comments.
Allen walked up to Eileen, "So what were you apologizing for this morning?" he asked in a carefree, yet somehow concerned tone.
"Oh, well...you seemed really upset last night after I talked to you about you psychic powers," Eileen explained, looking down. '
"Don't worry about it, and I'm sorry too, for lying to you," He said, Eileen knew he was talking about the academy transfer from Saffron to Fuchsia.
"Oh it's alright, I understand," she smiled at him.
The day worn off quickly and Mia told them to prepare camp when they found themselves in front of the Union Cave. There weren't enough tents to share, and they were too many to fit in the pokemon center, so they borrowed some blankets and camped outside, setting two fires. Allen and Eileen sat around the one with Keilin and Adam, they talked and ate and then went to sleep.
Next morning it was the smell of food that had woke Eileen. She stretched as she remembered she had actually changed into her pajamas for the oddest reason that she could not figure out, but she recalled she hadn't been the only one. She took some clothes and a brush out of her bag and went over the pokemon center to change.
Allen woke up soon after her, noticing and remembering the same thing, he unknowingly copied her, taking clothes out of his bag and walking over to the pokemon center, not willing to change with all those older women around him.
He got to the pokemon center and as he was walking in noticed a fully well rested Eileen walking towards him with a bunch of evolved Eevee behind her. He blinked and rubbed his left eye, then looked again, they were still there.
Eileen noticed him staring at her blankly, she approached him and stood in front of him looking at his trance-like expression staring unfocused a little past her.
The Eevee on Eileen shoulders turned its head even more confused than its master, and slowly leaned forward and licked Allen's nose. The Eevee knew who Allen was and vaguely remembered him, but it was just odd for him to stare at it and its relatives like that.
Allen snapped out of the trance and focused his eyes back on Eileen and her...swarm. There was one of every Eevee evolution. Espeon, Umbreon, Flareon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon, and then there was the small Eevee on Eileen's shoulder. "Tell me those aren't the Eevee from two years ago..." he said in disbelief.
"They are, they were tired of the pokeball so I decided to let them out, don't worry, I'll put 'em back when we go in the cave," she explained.
He still stared at all the Eevee evolutions, which stared back him as if saying, "What are you looking at me like that for?" he could almost hear the thoughts of one, the Jolteon, which stared at him rather bitterly; "I'm going to shock him so bad...."
Allen walked past Eileen and into the restroom to change. When he came out she was waiting for him. "What did you wait for?"
"You"
"We're partners, right?"
"Well yeah, but –"
"And you want to know about them," she pointed to the pokemon at her feet. He sighed and nodded.
"So how did you get the stones? I can understand Espeon and Umbreon, but elemental rocks are very expensive," he said, looking over at the yawning Flareon.
Eileen opened the door to the pokecenter and walked out, followed by her Eevee and Allen, "Yeah I know, I got the fire, water, and thunder elemental stones as a late birthday present when I turned twelve from my sis, right after she was promoted to chief in the Crimfire company," Eileen explained smiling.
"I see...so those six, are now these...six," it still seemed hard for Allen to believe that his partner owned the five Eevee evolutions. However, he didn't get to say anything else, because within the next minute, about three fourths of the unit was petting and praising the Eevee, not giving him a chance to speak.
The crowding stopped when Jolteon gave a light shock as warning that it was getting annoyed and walked over to sit besides it trainer, glaring at every Agent in sight. The Vaporeon too, kept melting into liquid and reforming to show her wanting to get away, and Flareon had resorted to feinting bite attacks. Eevee remained well out of reach around Eileen's neck, Umbreon had given quite the bad impression when it began to growl at everyone that came close to it, running away to it's master's side, and Espeon was using her powers to direct everyone's attention to her counterparts, sitting close to Eileen and wrapping her tail around her leg.
Eileen panicked for a moment when she saw how irritated her pokemon were at the attention and called them back, leaving out only the Eevee around her neck and the growling Umbreon, which made everyone complaint, "C'mon! Let 'em out a little longer!" said the blonde trainer Eileen had seen Adam talking to. Everyone started to ask and plead for Eileen to let her pokemon out again, and it got to a point were Umbreon gave a quick, sharp screech to shut everyone up and urged Eileen to return her to the pokeball. Eileen gave up and returned Umbreon as well.
"I'm sorry, it seems my pokemon don't like human contact as much as I thought," Eileen apologized, "Perhaps some other time, when their not feeling...harassed," she explained as she got through the crowd that quickly dispersed.
Eileen sighed as she felt the Eevee at her neck give a sigh of relief as it came out of Its hiding place behind her hair and placed itself around her shoulders.
Eileen kept walking and noticed two trainers that hadn't even noticed the commotion about her Eevee, they were two women, the older one was sitting down. She had bone-white hair and sunglasses covered her eyes. She wore pants of pure white and a light see-through violet long shirt over a white tank top. The younger one had pitch-black hair and eyes; she was standing and looking over her counterpart. She wore black leather al over her body, pants, jacket, gloves, everything. Perhaps Eileen was staring at them too obviously.
"Those are Lucifer and Karla," came a voice behind her as Eileen turned around and saw it was Mia. "Lucifer's the white one. She's a psychic; all of her pokemon have a psychic attribute. Karla's a dark trainer, she was assigned with Lucifer so that Lucifer wouldn't go out of control, being psychic and all..." Mia explained.
Eileen thought for a minute, Yea, dark pokemon are really powerful against psychics... she wondered what Lucifer's case was...but more so, what Karla's case was. Being paired up with a powerful psychic that could turn dangerous? Wait...isn't that my situation? She looked around to Allen, then shook her head.
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