Chapter 6

Author's Note: This is word emphasis

-this is telepathic conversation-

Vermillion City:

Red sighs wearily as he wakes up for the day, Citrine practically on top of him. This was going to be tedious, to say the least, when it come to extricating himself. If not for a rather insistent call of nature he would be quite content to stay where he was for a little while longer. -'Trine, can you let me up? I promise to come back for a little while.-

The blonde on top of him mutters incoherently, but shifts just enough for him to actually get off the bed. Red runs a hand down her left arm before he slips off to the ensuite bathroom to relieve his bladder. After he washes his hands he runs them through his raven colored locks, if Blue could be with Citrine he'd feel better about her waiting on Kanto Route 12 for him. Did the PokéDex have the capability to call anyone? He decides to check on that later, he heads back into the room proper, and joins Citrine back in bed. She immediately reclaims her former position, and Red just lets one hand lazily run up and down her back as he uses that as a means to enter his mindscape to see if he could find the center on his power, his Aura.

Red really didn't want to examine too closely why he didn't mind having Citrine sleep on top of himself. He hadn't quite realized that Citrine was in fact female. Instead he still just thought of her as a friend. It would take him a few years to actually realize that he was actually attracted to Citrine, and had actual FEELINGS for her as well. Citrine was more than happy to wait for his emotional intelligence/maturity to catch with his physical maturity, and natural battling prowess when it came to pokémon.

Time Gates:

Sailor Pluto smiles, glad that female Eevee she'd spent so much time looking for in Kalos had been found by her reincarnated hime. A hime that had yet to remember her last life, and Pluto sincerely hoped she never did either. Looking back she could see how unintentional or not the hime had been isolated from her non-senshi friends. How'd none of them had taken into consideration that for the late night battles she had to sneak out past her family, she was really the only senshi that had, had actual family she had to deal with. She and the other Outers had all lived together, Mars' father only cared about her when he needed to show he was a family man. Mercury's mom worked almost constantly, her father happened to be a painter that went wherever his muses took him, Venus' parents weren't all that attentive, and Jupiter had been orphaned. Moon, the Hime, had been the only one of them with actual family she had to answer to! Hell, even Mask had been orphaned as a child as well. How the fuck Luna didn't realize this, and then react accordingly with the senshi under her guidance Pluto would never know.

No wonder the Hime had enjoyed Fighter's presence so much, they actually took the time to care about her well being, all of it! Fighter had seen what the rest of them had refused too until it was too late, that the Hime did not have romantic feelings towards the man she had agreed to marry. She was doing so out of DUTY! It saddened Pluto that she was only learning all of this in hindsight.

Kanto Route 11/12:

After getting their new bikes, and having Citrine's ribs checked at the hospital in Vermillion City, they were healing nicely, but still needed to be kept wrapped Citrine had headed to the starting line with Red, Haunter and Misdreavus were both hiding in her shadow today, and Red gives Dor to her as well. He'd need the others with him. Citrine joins the others that would be taken to the finish line after wishing Red good luck. It was just a good thing that the bikes were collapsible. The blonde sits on one of the provided benches for those watching the race, and calls her Eevee out so she can brush her. Her ghosts stay hidden, but they keep alert for anyone that gave Eevee any greedy looks, " Well, well, well, Citrine, what are you doing on Route 12 without Red anyhow? "

" Oh, hey, Blue. Red's entered in the race. My ribs can't handle the rigors of a bike race just yet. " Citrine answers.

Blue cocks his head to the side, and then sits beside Citrine on the bench. He could stick around long enough to help deter unwanted factors. " Where'd you get the Eevee anyhow? "

" Believe it or not I nearly tripped over her just outside of Cerulean City before Red and I met Bill. " Citrine states.

" Wait a minute, did you say her? The Eevee line is predominantly male, and you just so happen to nearly trip over a FEMALE Eevee? " Blue asks in a hushed tone incredulously.

Citrine just shrugs, she knew how remarkable that happened to be, but she didn't care one whit about that in the slightest. All she knew was that she had an Eevee female, that she was working very hard with during the daylight hours while also bonding with her, hoping her Eevee would choose to evolve. " Let's just say that I know about a couple more Eeveelutions that those of Kanto don't, Blue. "

Blue looks at her, she did grow up in Johto until she had enough, and somehow managed to make it to where Red and Poli found her. That Mew stated that she would be safe as long as she was with Red...well, looking back Blue could fully understand why you could hardly ever see Red without Citrine, or the other way around. Red was very much an instinctive Pokémon Battler, so deep down some part of him must have sensed what Mew had told Citrine. Blue and Citrine both look towards the finish line just then to see Red pedaling for his life away from a very hungry Snorlax. Blue smirks, primes a Ball, and catches the rampaging Snorlax. Red and Saur both sigh in relief, and Citrine looks at Red, " Is that Beedrill Honey that Saur is covered in? "

Blue, Citrine, and Dor all listen in stunned disbelief as Red tells them about the race. " You, Red, are insane. " Blue deadpans.

" At least he isn't allergic to Beedrill stings. " Citrine says, continuing to brush her Eevee. Eevee was lapping up the attention even as Red sits on Citrine's other side since Blue had reclaimed his seat after catching Snorlax.

Blue snorts at this, " You do raise a good point, Citrine. That would have made things life threatening for Red. "

Red shudders at this, he hadn't even thought about possibly being allergic to Beedrill stings. That put a much more dangerous spin on things. " 'Trine, did you have to point that out? I would have been happy never having that thought in my head. "

Citrine just smiles at him, even as she continues to brush Eevee, the little lady was just lapping the attention up. She looked adoringly at her trainer, " Hey, Citrine, when/if she's ever ready to breed can I have one of her eggs? " Blue asks her.

" Ask her. " Citrine ripostes.

" Eevee, if/when you ever feel like breeding, can I have one of your eggs? " Blue asks her.

Eevee looks at Blue appraisingly, and yips her approval. He'd take good care of one of her babies. " Thanks, Eevee. " Blue says.

Dor looks at Eevee, and the female ignores his looks for now. He had yet to prove he was worthy of her attentions. She did want to be a mom, and she knew her trainer would take care of any babies she kept. Some might be released into the wild after hatching to try and bring the numbers in Kanto back up. Eevee didn't mind that, all pokémon knew how to instinctively survive in the wild. " Where are you headed next, Blue? " Red asks his friend/rival. They had noted that their PokéDexes were beeping in close proximity to each other. Red and Citrine had learned how to change how theirs alerted to each other. Now they would only go off if they were separated from each other for a significant amount of time. This was different if Blue approached them, and they didn't know this yet, but Professor Oak had, had a fourth one as well that was stolen.

Blue gives Red a considering look, " I was thinking of heading for Lavender Town, why are you interested? "

-I think you should wait until I can get my telepathy and telekinesis trained up properly. I just know I'm in for a confrontation with Sabrina. We're going to head back towards Viridian Forest via means Diglett's Cave.- Citrine says, she links all three of them up, as this was a conversation best left unheard.

-Is there anything else I should know. I can agree to waiting to handle Lavender Town until you two catch up. I'll just chill in Vermillion City until then.- Blue replies.

-Yeah, Koga, the Fuschia City Gym Leader is working for Team Rocket, faced him down in Mt. Moon with Misty Waterflower, the Cerulean City Gym Leader. Surge, the Vermillion City Gym Leader was behind the thefts of the Vermillion City Chapter's Pokémon Fan Club's pokémon. I think that's all the pertinent information you should know.- Citrine says.

-Cresselia left a Lunar Wing behind for Citrine as well. Once we're done in Viridian Forest we'll head back to Vermillion City. We'll head to Lavender Town together. Besides, Citrine is the Ghost Pokémon expert. She might find another ghost type that she wants to add to her team.- Red adds.

Blue agrees it makes sense, and decides he can train around Vermillion City until Red and Citrine returned. He could understand her wanting to get her psychic abilities up to par before having it out with Sabrina. Hearing about two untrustworthy gym leaders awakened his sense of caution, tempering the Oak Arrogance just enough that he would wait for them. He knew that Red would also be working with his team as well. If they were going to have to face gym leaders then they needed to train their asses off, no two ways about it. -Work on your range, and keeping your telepathy from being hacked, Citrine, this could be a huge advantage for us.- Blue states.

Citrine nods at this, -I will. Try to catch a psychic type of your own. Oh, Dark Types are immune to psychic, and really effective against them as well. Bite is a Dark Type move, make of that what you will.-

An almost unholy light appears in Blue's eyes, he needed to talk to his gramps cousin Samson Oak. Rattata happened to be a Dark Type in Alola. Maybe catch a regular one to trade? Blue did know a little bit about the different pokémon in different regions. Specifically Kanto, Johto, because his Gramps taught Professor Elm, and Alola because of his Gramps cousin. If he could potentially run a foul of Sabrina of all people, yeah he needed to put in a call to his Gramps' cousin, post haste. Red also raised a good point in saying that Citrine knew ghosts and ghost types, it would be better to wait until Citrine could go with him. -I think I'll go scope things out in Lavender Town, and then return to Vermillion City. Something tells me we'd like some forewarning of what we'll be doing there.-

-Intelligence gathering only, Blue.- Citrine warns him.

Blue nods seriously at this, he knew damned well the need to be careful right now. Besides, this happened to be Agatha's granddaughter he was dealing with. She specialized in Ghost Types, -We'll need one pokémon with either Foresight or Odor Sleuth. Growlithe can learn Odor Sleuth, that would be our best bet. Once hit by either one of those attacks Normal Type attacks will in fact affect Ghost Types.- Citrine says to Red and Blue.

-I'll catch the Growlithe, and then train him or her up until they learn Odor Sleuth, it is natural to them, right?- Blue asks.

Citrine nods firmly at this, and Blue gets a determined look in his eyes. Whatever was going on around here nowadays he needed to be smart about things. Which meant putting his ego on the back burner for a little while. He could do that, he had to.

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