— Good Father, Bad Father —

It was a relatively quiet morning in the hospital as male Flareon waited, pacing back and forth in the reception area. To be honest, he has already done this like three times already so surely he should've gotten used to it by now and not be so worry about it, right? Well, obviously no. Although his wife have survived many pregnancies beforehand, he still couldn't help but constantly worry that something might go wrong and pray to the Lord beforehand that nothing goes wrong. Then again, despite being married for probably more than a half of a decade, he has yet to realize that his wife is the Anastasia, aka the Glaceon who was said to have been bless by the Lord Himself with the most craziest luck imaginable, which would pretty much allow her to survive each and every pregnancies while also getting the 1/8 chance of getting a female everything, but this has not been proven as such an encounter would certainly not go well with a certain Eeveeon.
Anyway, it wasn't long before the woman herself finally enter the reception room, cradling the two newborn Eevees in her arms. One had long flowing hair while the other one has shorter but curly hair. After each traded a word to each other, the parents both went into their car parked outside and drove up to their estate. Upon reaching the front door, the Flareon noticed the doorknob turning, suggesting that someone was trying to open the door from the inside. Surely enough, someone opened the door but it wasn't who they expect.
The person who opened the door was a six-year-old Eevee girl wearing a simple black collared dress and a moon-shaped hairpiece.
"Aw, Velvet. You've finally learn to open your first door," The Glaceon squealed with joy.
"I'm Phrona," the Eevee replied.
"Whoops, sorry Velvet. I tend to get you two mixed up," The mother apologizes.
"Mom, you always get everyone mixed up," Phrona replied cheekily. Anastasia was taken aback by this, but rather than argued about it further like she normally does with her sister, she decided to just to let it go and continue walking onward. The Flareon, aka Reynard, look at Phrona skeptically.
"First time lyin, Velv?" He ask, to which the Eevee nodded. "So, then where's Phrona?" And as if on cue, Velvet's twin soon came out of hiding, donning a white buttoned dress with a sun necklace.
"H-Hi, dad," Phrona said nervously.
"Hey, how it's going?"
"Good. J-Just a bit tired, that's all."
"Phrona, you literally just ran around the house like two times in a role with no signs of stopping. How are you tired now?" Velvet complained.
"I-I just am, okay," yarned the white-coated Eevee.
"Now, now girls. Please don't argue while the babies are upstair." their father warned.
"Fine…" Velvet grumbled before suddenly asking, "Where do babies come from?" Reynard was completely dumbfounded and had to think of a way to turn them back so he doesn't give them the Bird and the Bee talk and get a scolding from his wife.
"O-Oh, um, well, you'll found out when you're older… Like a decade older," Reynard replied before he bend over to pick up Phrona. "And I guess it's time now to take you to be-"
"But daddy! I wanna go see the twins!" Phrona complained. Reynard silently obliges to his daughter's demands, much to Velvet's slight annoyance. To her, it was pretty much clear that something was wrong with Phrona, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

Once Reynard took Phrona upstair to see the twins, he left her and Velvet there with his wife so that he could go fetch the other girls. Getting Vivi was no problem as she was with Belle, who was sitting by her bed reading a bedtime story to herself. Yes, to herself and definitely not Vivi, who was just bored at this point. After convincing the two to go see the new twins, Reynard took them to the twins's room and then went to go find Cora and Kate.. Unsurprising, they were both fighting when their father came into the room. Of course, they stop doing so when he open the door, in fear of incurring his wrath. Like he'll actually do so, but still.
But anyway, once everyone was rounded up to the twins' room, Reynard couldn't help but feel the need to go outside. He told Anastasia about wanting to use the restroom, and was told to come back within twenty minutes as the photographer would soon arrive to take the picture of the newborn twins.
In reality, he didn't want to use the restroom but rather want to go to the front door, in anticipation of a certain Mienshao. Soon, the bell rang and Reynard open the door. To his annoyance, he found his sister, said Mienshao also known as Miep, standing just outside the house.
"So, how was it, Reynard?"
"Miep, what do you want?"
"Just waiting for you to dump that slimy-old bitch and return back home," Miep answered. "Like seriously, what is taking you too long to just leave this place and stay with me and Julie? Weren't we considered your dearly beloved sisters at one point?"
"Look, Miep. Things happened and-"
"Is it about those soon-to-be whores? Those wretched lowlifes do not deserve your parenting at all. In fact, they shouldn't even existed," Miep argued. Upon hearing this, Reynard's expression changed from annoyed to seething with anger.
"You. Take. That. Back."
"Just think about it, Reynard. Your gloriously stalwart blood mixing with that of that filthy, pathetic space of existence to those little abominations you called yo-," As Miep continuing to speak, she notices the increasingly-angry look in her brother's eye and could clearly sense the burning fury within him.
"Oh alright, fine… I guess you can take them. Maybe I can teach them on a few lessons of how to be a pureblood and make them married the purest of bloodlines, if only to root out their slutness of course," the Mienshao said, chuckling slightly at the end. Reynard stared at her rather blankly, and then his face quickly turns into a scowl.
"Please get out of my house," Reynard told his sister sternly.
"Why you… I say it's a good trade off. You get to keep those little brats and I get to finally be rid of that bitch once and for all," Miep suggested, though it was clear that Reynard was not going to accept this at all.
"Leave or I'm calling the cops," Reynard warned, to which his sister was taken aback, if not confused. Regardless, Miep obliges and slowly back away from the house while Reynard slowly enters the house, stressed from what could very well be his last conversation with his sister.
As he walk into the newborns' room, Reynard tries to forget about what Miep said about his daughters but no matter how hard he tries, they would always just come back. Eventually, Reynard decides to put on a happy face instead and hope that seeing his daughters' faces could make him forget about Miep. Thankfully it did and once it was all over, Reynard have reach the decision to essentially disowned his sister and leave her in the dust. He didn't want to do this but felt as though he had no other choice.

Meanwhile (or to be precise, a few weeks later), at a Victorian manor in Korkerd (Cork, Ireland), an Espeon women who appears to be in her early-to-mid 30s, was playing around with her daughter, Nyxie, in the living area. Nyxie wasn't your average every-day Eevee newborn. Aside from a shiny Eevee, Nyxie had a very particular appearance. For some reason, her right ear was bent in an unnaturally way. Her eye and hair color also look quite dull and felt somewhat monochromic. But despite looking strange, Sakura, her mother, wasn't fazed by it and loved her daughter with all of her heart, warts and all.
However, Nyxie's father, Ansgar, (an Umbreon for those unaware) wasn't too keen on the young Eevee, despite her being his daughter. He felt that she was too imperfect for his— no, her liking. So rather than make love with Sakura again or take her for surgery, he does the most logically thing any sane person could do — that is if replacing your daughter with a biologically advanced clone could be considered a logical or sane thing to do. But he does, but that leaves one question — How the fuck was he able to do it, especially without being caught? Well, lemma tell you.
It all started literally the moment Nyxie was born. Once Ansgar drop Sakura and his secretly-disowned daughter off at the manor, he went straight to the laboratory he work at on the outskirts. Being a renowned scientist, Ansgar was able to access the top secret area in the basement where classified genetic equipment was kept without being reprimanded by any of the guards. And once he got to the underground lab, he wasted no time in creating what he deemed the perfect daughter. Once she was born (albeit in an unconscious state), Ansgar took her back to the manor and waited to his wife to fall asleep so that she doesn't catch him off-guard. Once she was sound asleep, he went upstairs to find the room where she's keeping the inferior offspring in and swapping it with his perfectly-created daughter in its place.
Now that replacing this inferior being has taking place, Ansgar only now ask himself what he's suppose to do with it. He thought about throwing the baby in a trash can, but that would be stupid. Literally anyone could be able to hear the baby's cries and it would only a matte of time before he gets found out. Fortunately, he had a friend visiting Korkerd, who runs a textile mill (and secretly a brothel for any girls who disobey him enough times), so he decided to come for him. Despite wearing a black trench coat and a fedora, Ansgar was still able to identify his friend in the somewhat-populated cafe. He had the baby inside a basket, wrapped tightly, as he approach his friend.
"Hey, Ansgar. How long has it-"
"Not now, Oskar. We can talk later."
"Ohhh, about that. I got to go back to Sylvania in an hour, so-"
"That's perfect. Now, listen closely. I want you to do something for me."
"Fine, you better make it quick."
"Take it on the plane and do whatever you want with it. Got it?"
"Wait, wha-" Before Oskar could ask, Ansgar immediately gave him the basket and darted out of the cafe. Oskar was left speechless and decide to look at the basket's content, and gasp at horror. "Oh, f-" And then the alarm on his watch rang, making him realized that he was late to his flight. And so without a second thought, he took the basket with him and head to the airport. Now, you may be wondering on how he Oskar was able to go to his flight without the first Nyxie being found out by security but that's another story for another day.
Anyway, Ansgar decided to go back to the manor to get some sleep, but was surprise when he saw one of the lights turned on. And then to his horror, he saw that it was coming from the baby's room. He slowly enter the manor through the backdoor, hoping to not get caught but he soon found his wife standing right in front of him, hoping the baby.
"Ansgar, could you explain to me what is this?" Sakura demanded, looking sternly at their baby.
"It's our baby, Sakura. Don't you recognize her?" Her husband responded.
"No! I can tell it's not our baby. Just look at it! S-So… So!"
"Look, maybe this is just Arceus's gift for you for loving your daughter despite her appearance?" Ansgar suggested as he look at the clock which read 12:34 PM. "Maybe she changed at midnight."
Sakura look at the clock, and despite vaguely having a bad feeling about it, she decides to go along with it, "Well, I guess it could be Their gift…" She then look at Nyxie, who was sleeping soundly in her loving embrace. "I'm so sorry, Nyxie. I didn't know what gotten into me," she said as she walk back upstairs. As she left, Ansgar couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
I cannot believe it work, but I can't complain. The ends does justified the means, after all. Hehe… The Umbreon scientist chucked to himself as he follows Sakura upstairs.

Author's Note: Okay, I can already tell that I'm going to get flack for this particular story, especially since it's vastly different to the other stories I've done. But aside from that, I don't really have much else to say about this one other that I hope it's enjoyable and makes your feel something in regards to the two father figures that I've never really show much of until this point, especially since they're either dead/missing in the current day. To be honest, I think I created one of the most evil characters to ever existed but that's just me.

Before I go, I would like to clear up something that I neglected to mention in the story itself. Nyxie was Erma's original name given to her by her mother, Sakura. When Ansgar left Erma with his friend at the cafe, he did not spoke her name to Oskar, mainly so a way to disconnect Erma from the rest of his family. Once Sakura find out that she've been taking care of a clone of her real daughter, Sakura did not find out about the name change so she spent most of her time finding any Eevee named Nyxie. And when she did realize that her daughter's name must've been change, Sakura pretty much went around the world trying to find her long-lost daughter. Not too sure if that's complicated but there you go.

I'm sorry if this does not include any expansions. Being a late father's day, I don't think I could really get away with it. That being said, let me know your thoughts and opinions in the reviews. If any of you got any suggestions on future stories, then feel free to private message me. Until then, I'll see y'all next time!