Author's Note: Hi, people! Here's a new chapter of this story! Yeah, I'm kinda busy with school and all, but hey, I'm an authoress here, too. This is my job, of rather, part-time job, to post stories and keep on updating. But I think y'all are familiar with this. I just wanna tell y'all this coz I may not update some stories later on. It's only the beginning of the year and I'm already trying hard to find time to post stories/updating. So, this is just a warning. It may or may not happen but it's just to warn everyone.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything here, except for Stan's past, my made-up characters, Pokémon nicknames, etc. Idea's from Pokémon Gamecube games.

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Chapter 3 – Leads of Delcatty's Case

Stan's POV

We talked for I-don't-know how long… Amma's probably worried about me. I told Mom and she said that it was OK, but I don't feel too good about leaving Mom like that. I already feel bad enough about leaving her those 4 ½ years ago. It must've hurt her badly. And when I meant hurt, I meant it as emotional pain. But, still, a promise is a promise. I promised Amma I'd go and find her Delcatty for her and I will fulfil that particular promise.

"Mom… I got to go now. I have to find Delcatty."

"Wait, what'd you say?" Mom sounded like as if she didn't hear me, so I repeated what I had told her.

"I have to go find Delcatty?" I repeated.

"No, no, I meant, you called me 'Mom'. Does…" I braced myself. I expected that to come from her. She was going to ask if I had forgiven her. "Does… that mean… you forgive me?" See? I knew it beforehand. She is my mother! Sigh… Actually, I don't know anymore. I feel like I should forgive her, but thinking back about what happened years ago… I'm not so sure. Should I really, as in, REALLY forgive her? And let bygones be bygones? Sure, there's a chance that she's lying now, but there's also a chance that she was lying before and not now, I mean, if you get my drift. The point is, I'm in a dilemma. Oh… What should I do?

"Um… Mom… Can I tell you later?" That was all I could say. I saw her nod her head as a form of understanding so as quickly as I could, I darted off, running in my home's direction. When I reached there, I greeted Amma impatiently and gathered Myuu, Nightshade and Danielle. Of course, Evolution is busy scolding my Ditto Changeling jealously for flirting around again, so she couldn't go with us… Ha. If only Changeling knew that the one that really loves him for who he was is right there in front of him… So, anyway, I definitely heard something from Vapour, Joltz and Fahrenheit…

"What the heck?! Why'd Stan choose them instead of us?" I heard Vapour complain.

"Grr… Those two little irritating siblings of ours are in for it when they GET HOME!" Fahrenheit replied back.

'Oh, Stan, if you're hearing me, please make them shut their yapping… I can't get my afternoon nap with their irritating complaints… PLEASE MAKE THEM STOP!!!' Joltz yelled in his head. As I heard THAT in my own mind, I shook my head and I could feel that I was smiling. I don't know whether I was happy or just plainly because I could smell fried Vaporeon and Flareon, though there's no reason how they can be fried by a Jolteon's Thunder attack…

"Hello? Earth to Stan? Let's go already!"

"Oh, uh… Right, Myuu…" Then we set off to a place I had ostracized since an accident happened there. A place no one from my family dares to go after that one particular accident… Gateon Port.

"Have you found anything yet, Nightshade?" Danielle asked her older twin brother. I must emphasize that they are fraternal twins… How else can they be an Espeon and Umbreon respectively?

"No, not yet, little sister." Well, Nightshade sounded like me when I talk to my own little sister…

"How about you, Myuu? Everything OK there?" I asked. Myuu was floating around, looking like as if she were wasting her time away levitating like as if she had never levitated in her whole life before, which, I might add, is not normal for a Mew like her at all.

"There's nothing here, so far… Whoa! Hold your horses!"

"We don't have any horses, Myuu," Danielle stated solemnly.

"It's an expression. Well, look here, I found something!" Danielle, Nightshade and I went over as quickly as we could, as we had to find Delcatty before Amma blows her top and goes insane. And no one should ever see Amma insane. You'd be lucky if you come out alive from my house when you see her go insane.

"Hey, that looks neat! Let me hold it!" Nightshade exclaimed excitedly when he caught sight of something that resembled a CD-rom.

"How can you? You're a four-legged Umbreon."

"I'll take that as a compliment, thank you very much, Myuu," Nightshade rolled his eyes and stated sarcastically.

"Now, could you keep quiet while I look at it for a while?" I asked, trying hard not to get in the middle of their argument. I took the CD gently from Myuu and analyzed it carefully. Sure enough, it was 100 percent a Data Rom. See, a Data Rom is a Rom in which contains very important and valuable information that has to be kept top-secret. It, obviously, contains data about missions and such. This Data Rom that I have is black with a 'C' painted crimson red on it. That seems familiar… Yes! It is Cipher's!

"… Cipher…?"

"Hm? Yes, Stan. what is it?" Danielle asked. That was when I realized that I had blurted it out without me even noticing. I wanted to keep my family's 'ties' with Cipher as I didn't want my Pokémon to get implicated, but… Well… At least Myuu knows about Cipher.

"I'll tell you and your brothers about this later. Right now, we have to figure out what kind of information is in this Data Rom."

"I know!" Myuu exclaimed. "How about going to Orre?"

"Orre? You know that place?" Nightshade asked curiously. Oh, boy… This will take a LONG time…

"Sure I know that place! It was where Tora's parents lived!" I perked my ears upright when I heard Dad's name.

"My grandparents lived there? How come no one told me about that?" I asked Myuu who seemed quite uneasy about answering to my question, so I kept quiet while Myuu continued.

"I'm very sure Cipher is connected to the disappearance of the S.S. Libra which would mean that we're very close to solving Delcatty's case, but we'll only succeed if we go to Orre!"

"That is, if Amma allows me to," I muttered under my breath, but since they all had Psychic, they heard me loud and clear.

"Come on, Stan! I'm sure Amma will allow you to! This is for her Delcatty, isn't it?" Danielle said. Mentally, I felt that she was right. There was no reason why Amma shouldn't allow me to. Besides…

What could possibly go wrong?

Well… How about me for a change?

"WWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I could've sworn I was deaf for half an hour.

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A/N: How's that for humour? I toned down on the angst parts, so maybe I should change the genre to Humour/Mystery or something like that. Ah, I know! Humour/Humour!

… Nah, I was just kidding…

Chapter countdown: 1 more chapter to go! Next AND last chapter: Amma won't allow Stan to go to Orre unless he wins the Hoenn League Championship, and the friendship between Amma and Siberia becomes tightened when Stan has to decide who to follow. Does he really forgive Siberia? Will he leave with her? IF not, can Amma let him stay with her forever without a guilty conscience? Find out in the concluding chapter of My Siberian Mom! Sorry if chapter is short today… All the ideas are left for the conclusion!

Dedicated fic countdown: 8 more days to go! And my friend has decided on her username! It's Umbreon-Blue so I hope y'all can support her when she joins on her birthday. It's OK if I don't get any reviews for the dedicated fics. I don't expect any of you to even spare some time to read them. I just want to give her a birthday present, that's all.

OK, next chapter… Tomorrow morning!

… I hope…