Chapter 3: Shock and Preparations

Eric blinked for a few moments before he gathered his wits again. He broke his eyes from the window and looked around frantically. Then he saw it; the Abra that had teleported them into the obviously expensive house was knocked out and at Rui's feet. He also saw that Rui was wobbling, partly because she was dizzy from the teleportaton and partly because she was trying to avoid stepping on the Abra. Eric grimaced and looked around once again, maybe another Pokemon could take him back. All he saw though was Roxie entering and looking in complete shock at the Abra.

"What the… you didn't teleport here, did you?" Roxie asked with a glare up to her sister. She ran over to the Abra and picked it up. After a moment's inspection she said, "He's gonna have to rest for at least a week before he's able to do it again. Why do you think I took the ferry here? Abra can't teleport too far too much in a short period of time!"

Rui sighed, and oddly enough it sounded almost exactly like her sister's sigh. "I didn't know anything about that. You're the one who wants to be a Pokemon nurse, maybe you should have reminded me before I went to pick him up."

"Its only common sense… Besides, I wouldn't have had to stay here to help you if Wes hadn't gotten into that battle yesterday. You should be grateful that such a good nurse in training was here to help heal all the Pokemon," Roxie said in a haughty tone. She set down the Abra in a chair and began rubbing an ointment on its stomach. "Oh, hey Eric," she said with a small wave.

Rui rolled her eyes and walked away as Eric pulled up a chair beside Abra. It was obvious in his voice that he was anxious when he said, "Erm, hi gain Roxie. Is there another Abra around that could take me back to Holon?" He went over it oven and over again in his mind, seeing the Electabuzz and than being pulled away to… Wait where am I?

"Why would you want to go back there? Rui's and Wes's is much nicer than my house… plus I don't have to worry about my parents finding you here," Rui said as she glanced up at Eric. She thought she might have looked a moment to long, blushed, and got back to helping the Abra.

Eric's voice strained even more as it all came out, "I saw the Electabuzz that paralyzed me and I'm pretty sure that their trainers were there too… So I thought they might have had to take my parents along with them."

All of the sudden a guy come into the room, and he looked about 20 years old, maybe a little older. He had short, spikey, incredibly light brown hair, tanned skin, large piercing odd eyes, a small nose, and oddly enough, a reassuring smile on his face. He was wearing a nice black suit with a gray tie and a white shirt underneath, but he would have been more recognizable in a blue and red coat and tight black pants. Yes, it was Wes who had taken down Cipher's first Shadow Operation six years ago. He looked over to Eric and said, "Ah, don't worry, I'll get one of my units near Holon on it right away." He plucked a walkie-talkie off his belt and mumbled something into it.

Eric tilted his head to the side, he couldn't believe it, even if Roxie had mentioned it before. For a few moments he just spaced out, but eventually he managed to squeak out Thanks-…"

Wes blinked uncertainly, but was able to found out what the kid's problem was and said, "Oh, you can call me Wes." He put the walkie-talkie back in its holster on his belt and smiled at Eric again. "So, you were taken down by a couple Electabuzz, huh? Don't you have any Pokemon?"

Eric shook his head, too confused to say anything more. He had wished that he could have been a trainer, but there were so few Pokemon in Orre other than in the Pokespots. He decided he would become a Pokemon Watcher because he was a great artist, but it was a challenge to get a natural pose from a Pokemon when none of them were wild. At least I still have my sketchpad in my jacket, he thought as he reached into his jacket for it.

Wes tossed a Pokeball over to Eric and he took his hand out of his jacket to catch it. "Well that's no good. You need to lean some self defense in case something like this happens after we find your parents." He looked over to Roxie and raised his eyebrows in a questionative way. "And perhaps you can help him since its tradition to fight in double battles around here?"

Roxie was all done taking care of the Abra, so she shrugged and nodded. "Sure, why not? So, should we head over to the stadium?" She grabbed the only Pokeball on her belt, it must have been the Furret.

Wes walked toward a door and opened it with great ease, He ushered the 2 children into a room with a large dirt floor and a Pokeball like symbol printed in the middle. "Welcome to my Stadium," Wes said with another smile. He went of to the right side of the room and said, without looking back, "You guys take that side of the arena."

Roxie and Eric took walked to the opposite side, occasionally stealing glances at each other. Eventually they looked at the same time, blushed, and looked away. Once all 3 trainers were finally in their spaces, Wes threw out two Pokeballs. Out of them came one Umbreon and one Espeon. Eric's eye's widened, because around each Pokemon was a silvery aura; they were Delta Pokemon.
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Sidenotes:
-Wes is now the leader of an international security company.
-Wes isn't the reason why they have enough money to afford such a nice house, I'll explain why in the next chapter or so.