"You are always so impatient." Her father said. "What do you plan on doing if you leave? Do you even have a plan?"
"Uh, no." Aludra replied. "I haven't really thought about it much."
"Well you should think about it now." said her father. "You'll never make it if you aren't prepared."
"Fine dad, I'll think about it tonight. There's our clearing, let's go." Aludra and her father walked through the stones towards their home in silence, only speaking again once they reached the burrow entrance.
"Tomorrow I will train you with your new abilities." her father said. "So get some rest."
Aludra nodded at her father before lying down on her grass bed. She was tired from the day, but she stayed awake staring at the ceiling thinking about what she would do next. "Do I want to stay around here with my friends?" she thought to herself. "Or should I go somewhere else and make my life there? I wonder what Chase would think now that I've evolved." The thought of the Riolu she met the week before made Aludra smile, but she quickly shook her head and stopped smiling. "Why should I care what he thinks. He's just a wuss who can't stand fighting. If Rigel and I hadn't shown up, he would have just let Tarazed get eaten by that Larvitar brother of his. How in the world is Thuban his brother anyway? He really needs to explain that some time." She then rolled over and closed her eyes. "I'll have to talk to Rigel and Tarazed." she thought. "I'll find out their plans and go from there."
"I should probably go in ahead of you." Rigel said to Meissa as they approached their burrow. "Remember how mom reacted when she first saw the new me?"
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." said Meissa. "I wouldn't want them to attack me. Hey Gauss, where do you think you'll sleep?"
"This unit does not require bedding." Gauss said "Sleep mode will be activated wherever operator Meissa has space."
"Just saying anywhere would have worked Gauss." Rigel said as he walked into the burrow. "Wait here, I'll get mom and dad."He found his parents inside talking to one another about their day.
"Hi Rigel," said his father. "You're home kind of late. Where's your sister?"
"Mom, dad, I've got something to tell you about Meissa." Rigel said. "She evolved. She also found this weird thing named Gauss that says she's his operator or whatever."
"She evolved, really?" asked his mother. "Where is she?"
"She's outside." Rigel said. "I just wanted to tell you so it wouldn't be like when you found out I evolved."
"Sorry again about that, honey." said his mother. "But let's go see her. Is she a Vaporeon?"
"Well, no." Rigel said "I'm not sure what she is exactly, but it's definitely not a Vaporeon." Rigel then walked out of the burrow with his parents close behind and called out to his sister. His mother and father gasped upon seeing Meissa's new form, but the shock was soon replaced by happiness now that both of their children had grown up and evolved. After talking about the day's events for a few minutes, Rigel and Meissa's parents turned their attention to Gauss.
"Meissa, what is this, and where did it come from?" asked their father. "I don't think I've ever seen anything like this."
"Greetings." Gauss said. "Subject not saved in memory, please enter subject name."
"Um, Erakis."
"Subject saved as Erakis, father of Rigel and operator Meissa."
"Dad, this is Gauss." Meissa said. "I found him over by the mountains buried under some rocks. I don't know how he got there, but he's made me his boss, so he does whatever I tell him to."
"Oh, alright then." her father said before turning toward the family's burrow. "We should get inside, it's getting pretty dark out here."
After about an hour of talking, the family all layed down to sleep, with Rigel volunteering to sleep on the floor now that the grass bed he shared with his sister was too small to hold them both. "Well, I guess I should get ready for that dream." Rigel thought to himself. "I've had it every night since I evolved, so I'll probably have it again." He soon drifted off to sleep, wondering what the strange recurring dream would show this time.
Rigel stood on top of the stone again, looking down on the landscape below. "Knew it." he thought. "I just knew it." This dream was much like the last one, with the bright sun obscuring his vision, but this time as he walked down from the stone, instead of a burrow in the distance he saw an odd structure, rectangular in shape and grey and yellow in color, with five figures that looked like the silhouettes of pokemon standing in front of it, two of them being quadrapedal and the other three being bipedal. The quadrapedal silhouettes were both blue in color, one of them being larger than Rigel, the other being about the same size as him, with the smaller one being a lighter blue, while two of the bipedal ones stood at the same height as each other, a few inches taller than Rigel, and were black and dark brown in color. The last silhouette was a light brown, and absolutely towered over Rigel and the other silhouettes. Rigel tried to speak with the figures, but they simply ignored him and walked into the structure as it's doors opened to reveal another figure. This one was white in color, and did not look like any pokemon Rigel had seen. The body plan was similar to a few he knew of, but he couldn't think of what this figure could be. Suddenly his mind began fogging again as the doors of the structure closed and and a strange feeling of anger washed over him.
