Late Night Trouble

"Okay, Becky you take care of the Flareon, I'm going to get some plywood from the basement and patch up the hole in the glass sliding door." With that Matt heads down into the basement grabbing onto the handrail being still weak from the defeat he had. Okay Mat, you just take it slow and easy, no need to rush mom and dad aren't to be home until this evening, Matt then lets out a small chuckle, after all it is one in the morning.

Becky just watches Matt head into the basement, she then shakes her head and turns her full attention to the Flareon who was still out like a light, "Hey Stripes, can you get me some apples to put next to the Flareon?" Becky called to the passing Furret who was carrying in a broom and dustpan. "Uh…. Never mind Stripes, just finish whatever you started." Becky said in a complete baffled voice, she then shakes her head. That's a first, a Furret carrying a broom and dustpan, well tonight is just full of weird surprises.

Downstairs Matt is looking around for a big piece of wood when suddenly he feels some very painful fangs biting into his ankle. Dropping the hammer he was carrying which landed on his other foot and thus causing an imbalance as he tries to deal with both feet at once, well he falls down onto the hard cement and then the thing that attacked his leg pounces onto his stomach only to stop it's growling as it gets a good whiff of the person's sent.

"Vee eevee, vee Eevee vee, eevee." (I'm so sorry, I thought you where some Ninetales that Team Rocket sent down here.) Eve then climbs off Matt as he pulls up his pant leg only to just stare at the wound; it was already beginning to heal, Once again my Ninetales side is showing, great what's next I don't get burned that easily? Matt then just hobbles up, oh, so if I hurt myself with human things it takes reality time to heal, but if attacked by a Pokemon, I heal at their speed. He thought as the pain from the hammer that felled on his right foot was still hurting like mad. "Ethan, if you hear me I need wood upstairs to repair the sliding door, I'm going upstairs because Eve attacked me and well I dropped the hammer I was carrying onto my foot, so I need to put ice on it. So please get some wood for me." Matt hears a small grunt like an agreement, and Matt hobbles off upstairs to get some ice on the now burning pain in his foot.

Becky was also having some troubles of her own also at that very moment. "Easy there, Easy, you're not in danger of being eaten or trapped. You're safe and sound at my friend's house." Becky was now talking in a soothing voice with a hint of strain in it as she is trying to calm down a very confused and disoriented Flareon who was yelling in a very scared voice

"Flare Flareon? Flare flare flare flareon eon?" (Who are you? Why am I here?) The Flareon was just trying to get up but it was still very weak from a long time trekking out in the wild.

"My name is Becky and you're here because you collapsed in Matt's Backyard." Becky replied to the Flareon's question. But this just made the Flareon just bolt upright muttering in a very fast voice.

"Flareon! Flare flare eon flareon eon Flareon." (Matthew! I got to get out; he's going to get me now.) This last phrase made Becky just look at him with the weirdest look.

"Matthew wants you? I never recall Matt ever wanting a Flareon, or trying to catch one before." This one statement calmed the Flareon down enough to see his error in thinking and he mutters an apology for thinking that Becky's Matthew was a Team Rocket executive.

Becky was going to say something more when from the doorway another voice sounds into the conversation. "Doesn't surprise me, seeing how there are many Matthew's in Kanto that one of them would have joined up with Team Rocket." Matt says the name with a slight human growl underneath it. He then walks over to a recliner chair and sitting down he just puts his feet up and then puts a pack of ice on the right foot.

"Matt? Where is the wood? And why do you have ice on your foot?" Becky was beginning to sound like Matt when he's in a thousand question's a minute.

"I can answer that with one word, Eve." He then looks at the Flareon who was looking at Matt with a gaze of sadness. "Hey, what's the matter? If it's because you think I'm offended that you thought I was another Matthew, Don't be, it's all just a big misunderstanding. In fact I have no hard feelings… say what's your name Flareon?"

"Flare, eon eon Flareon." (Flare that is my name new master) the Flareon said with a slight bow of the head, the next word out of Matt though completely took Flare off guard. Mainly because of the words but also because he said it in a very forceful voice

"Don't ever call me master again; I never liked being called master." Matt then takes a deep breath and then continues letting his normal happy sounding voice return. "So Flare, why are you in the Mount Moon region? I mean I don't ever recall seeing reports of a wild Flareon or lost pet for that matter." Matt was now leaning back in the recliner as he waited for a response from the Flareon that was lounging out on the couch.

(A/N Okay this is going to be a long story and since both Matt and Becky are still being affected by the battle it will be in English.

"Well, mast… Matt that is a long story and it's a sad one, first off, I call you master because of what was drilled into me as an Eevee right before they forced me to evolve," Flare said the word evolve with some anger behind it.

"I take it you didn't want to evolve at that time, that I can understand, never really liked training just so you could have the next higher evolution. You there to help the Pokemon achieve there dreams… Sorry I got side tracked, please continue."

"No problem," Flare replied, "well when I was still an Eevee my mum died, mind you I was born in Hoenn, well when my mum died I was sold to Team Magma and they put me on all these hard missions, but I never could bring myself to do them, so they set me free right into the middle of the wilderness and if not for a kind caring girl who took me in I would have died their, Unfortunately team Rocket attacked us the first day in this land, I was separated from her and since then I've been running and trying to live off the land. If I ever get my paws or muzzle on that group I've…."

"Easy Flare, I don't want you setting my house on fire." Matt said interrupting Flare's beginning of a rant of rage and anger.

"Matt I got you the wood." Ethan yelled from the door of the basement this was followed by a loud series of loud bangs as wood fell onto tiles of the kitchen.

At all this noise made Flare just pull his ears back and sinks low to the floor totally not enjoying the loud yelling which was directed at Matt. "Flareon, flare eon." (Please, stop yelling) Flare whined as he was trying to look as small as possible.

"Sure, I'll go talk to Ethan, just make yourself as comfortable as you like, and I'll get something from the fridge." Becky said as she gets up and as she heads to the kitchen she picks up the melted bag of ice from Matt's leg as he just now fallen asleep and goes to do what she said she would do.

(Vixen house, Evening time)

"Tim I really am getting a strange feeling that something happened while we where gone, I just can't shake it out of my mind." Mrs. Vixen said as she pulls the car onto the street leading to the road that leads to their house

"Now, now Renard, I sure there fine…." At this Tim stops because their in the middle of the road was a tree, now both knew that the tree was cut down on purpose because of living up in this village so long they both could tell healthy from sick trees and this one was as healthy as a Ponyta. "You know what, I hate it when your right." They then both get out of the car and run the rest of the way home, pulling out the Pokeballs that they took to protect themselves, now regretting that they left nothing of power at home to help out.

"Look at the yard, it's a total mess. Look at the burn mark here, its electricity all right. Ruth must have battled here," Renard Vixen said. "and this scar on the tree, made by a light Flamethrower, made by Drake I hope, but these marks here and here," she said this while pointing to blackened spots that looked like fading shadows, shadows that even now were fading into the night. "This must have been where some dark type moves hit the ground, they must be very powerful for them to last this long." She then turns to the front door and barges right in and just stops and stares at the end of the hallway. There standing in the wood floored hall was a Rattata pushing a dustpan with its nose, and a Furret controlling with difficulty a broom and both where sweeping up glass that was underneath a boarded up window. "Tim, you've got to see this, Matt's Pokemon are doing chores."

"That isn't all, they've boarded up the sliding door also," Tim Vixen said as he walked up behind her, "I must say it looks like the military did drills out there, and someone cut the phone line so we couldn't reach them." Tim said as he walked further into the house only to be stopped by a Flareon who was growling at them from the entry into the Living Room.

"Flare flareon, flare eon eon flareon." (Get back, you're not taking my new trainer) Flare was in a battle stance, but then there where shouts from both Stripes and Sir Thief.

"Fur Furret ret furret furret." "Rattata, rat tata." (Stop the attack) (Family, their part of the pack) this just made Flare stop and then looked sheepish.

Both parents had sweat dropped upon being confronted by this angry Flareon but the moment that both Pokemon had shouted in frantic voices but also keeping their voices down, and when this situation was done both went back to cleaning up the mess. Flare then steps aside allowing the parents to enter the "recovery area" only to be once again amazed. The room looked like it had become all the rooms of the house, well except for the bathroom. There where dishes on the coffee table all clean of food, but did have food on them at sometime during the day. The couch had on it all fire type pokemon. As for Matt and Becky they are asleep on the two recliners that are facing the front window, which had survived the battle without a single crack. Ruth was asleep on Becky's stomach, everything was very peaceful.

Mrs. Vixen then notice under one of the glasses of milk, which was empty except for the ring at the bottom of the glass telling that it had milk at one point in the day, that there was a note stuck underneath it so that she could read it

MOM

1. Ethan has come down with Torchic Pox; he is asleep upstairs in his room.

2. TR attacked us last night, reason for mess, tried cleaning up as best as we could.

3. Flareon collapsed in backyard, took him in to help, and hasn't finished deciding what to do.

Well all we can do now is just finish what these guys started. "Tim, I want you to call the Home repair place and order some window replacement."

"Right honey, I'll do that as soon as we get that phone line fixed, in fact I'm heading over to see Frank right now." Tim Vixen said as he walked out with a winter coat on seeing how the sky was that pink color that shows up at night right before a big snow storm.

"Did I hear someone needed help with a video phone?" a Voice sounded from the front of the house.

"Frank!" Timothy yelped and jumping a inch off the ground, "When did you get here?"

"Right after I tried calling your house and all I got was "We're sorry but the number has been disconnected" So I came over to see what was going on… and boy something sure did happen." With that Mr. Sparks pulls out the Vixens ladder and starts to reconnect the Phone cord. All the while listening to the two parents talk about all they could about last nights attack.