Chapter 2: The Delta Eye

The next time Eric woke up, he saw a much older red-haired woman at his bed. She looked a little bit like Roxanne, but she also looked familiar… "Hey kiddo," she said with a smile that reassured Eric that she was in some way related to Roxanne. Eric hopped out of the bed, and found that he had finally recovers from being paralyzed for so long.

"Who are you?" Eric asked as he found his balance again. He was starting to remember the woman a little better now. He knew that he had seen her on TV at some point. He just couldn't remember why she was on the TV.

"Oh, I'm Roxie's sister, Rui" She went to the door of Roxie's room, opened it, then peeked out a bit. No one was there, so she ushered Eric out. "I'm going to take you back to Orre and find you're parents, guardians, whoever's raising you."

Eric finally recognized the woman when she said her name, she was the girl with the Shadow Eye. Six years ago in Chiper's first attempt at mass manufacturing Shadow Pokemon, she helped a young man Wes identify the Shadow Pokemon and stop two teams up to evil deeds. He only gave this a second's thought though, because he missed his parents again. "My parents… some men came into my house and kidnapped them, then paralyzed me and knocked me out with a couple Electabuzz,"

Rui shook her head and said, "Ok, we'll go down to the police station as soon as we get to my house. It seems that you'll be staying with me a little longer than planned." She looked back over to Eric and sighed; what would anyone want with this kid's parents? Again she guided Eric out of a door, and they were in Holon Town.

Eric almost froze up as he walked out of the door; Holon Town was one of the most amazing places he had ever seen. There were markets and people walking everywhere, greeting each other just as in any other town. Everything, however, was completely high-tech. There were stock-bots in every market stall and flying greeter-bots going every which way. Oddest of all though was the amount of Pokemon with a silvery mist hanging around them… "Do you notice anything odd about these Pokemon?" asked Eric as he looked up to Rui.

Rui tilted her head to the side and stared at the Pokemon. Did this kid have a Shadow Eye too, one stronger than hers? No, no she assured herself that it was impossible, but what was the kid seeing then? "No; why, what do you see?"

Eric looked back to the Pokemon once again to be sure what he saw. "I don't know, its kind of like an aura, and it looks all silvery." While looking around, his eye caught a Bulbasuar berating fire. Of course! he thought, they're Delta Pokemon. "I think its Delta Pokemon that are all like that…"

Delta Pokemon… yea, Roxie had told Rui about those. So he wasn't seeing Shadow Auras, but manipulated Elemental Auras from Delta Pokemon. She brushed away some hair from Eric's face (for it was just long enough to cover his eyes) and looked in his right eye. There was no denying it, this boy had an Eye for strange Pokemon too. "You must have a … Delta Eye," she said with a nod.

Eric was almost overcome with joy, he thought he would become a hero just as Wes and Rui had with the Delta Eye. The word almost is used here because Eric saw a fire starting in the upper levels of the large tower in the Center of Holon Town. He saw a lot of silver haze coming from the tower; it must have been where Delta Pokemon were manufactured.

Worst of all, he saw 2 menacing Electabuzz paralyzing some scientists that were trying to escape before the fire spread lower. He made a dash for it, thinking that his parents could be somewhere near. It didn't even cross his mind that the Electabuzz would just knock him down again.

Rui didn't see the chaos though, and in Eric mind it may have cost him being reunited with his parents. Rui grabbed Eric's hand, then the hand of an Abra that popped onto her shoulder. The three of them disappeared from Holon and reappeared in a beautiful house. Eric appeared next to a window, and outside he saw miles and miles of sand. There was no doubt, he was back in Orre.
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Side Notes:
-If you didn't catch it, I mentioned that this story takes place 6 years after Collo. in this chapter, which is also 1 year after XD.