I walked along the road to professor Oak`s lab. Douchebag ran far away from me, but then slowed down, aligned with me and walked near.

"Don`t you want to tell me about you scar?" He asked me.

"My scar?"

"Yes, your scar."

"What scar?"

"On-you-damn-face scar!"

"Oh that scar… Ah, nothing special. It was just a Bisharp"

"A wild Bisharp?"

"No…" I really didn`t want to talk about this. Too bad memories were connected to it. Douchebag noticed my unwillingness to continue this conversation and, despite being a douchebag, asked no more.

Soon we reached the large building on the border of town – the Pokemon Laboratory. Lab is located right next to vast forest, so near to pokemon they research. This is a very clever place for a lab, I should say.

Douchebag accelerated again and ran inside building. When I stepped inside the lab, I felt some strange smell. If a science could have a smell – this would be definitely it! A mix of metallic computers and other different devices, paper in the books – some of them looked really old, and fresh air of the nature itself. There was a special room for pokemon to watch over them, a recreation of their habitat. Through the glass I could see a lot of different kinds of pokemon from Kanto region: Sandshrews, Arboks, Geodudes, Parasects and much more. I was amazed by this view, although I never liked pokemon very much. I managed to live separately from them somehow. Except for some quite bad memories…

By that time Douchebag ran deep inside the lab in search for his granddad.

"Gramps! Where are you? I`m here!"

Very soon I caught up with Douchebag in a very big room full of different scientist technologies. Computers, holographic maps, scanners and much other – these guys definitely have a lot of money for their researches. I wonder where do they get it?

"Can`t it wait for a bit? I`m in a middle of some experiment!" The old grumpy voice called to him somewhere from the other side of the lab. Douchebag had no intention in waiting for the end of this experiment and headed straight to the room where his granddad was. I shrugged and followed him.

We entered another room, smaller than the previous. Professor Oak stood in front of the table, covering everything behind with his body. He was alone in this place – maybe, because it was early morning? When we entered, he turned his head to us.

"Oh, why I can`t have some rest of you even in my lab?"

"What are you doing?" Douchebag asked.

Professor sighed and made a step away from the table behind him so we could see an Eevee and a strange box near him.

"I`m going to set an experiment here, with this little guy." He pointed to the Eevee. "And, as I think I will not be able to get rid of you, you can watch for it."

"Oh, really appreciate that, Professor Oak!" I said with some sarcasm. He heard my voice and looked over the Douchebag`s shoulder and only just now noticed me.

"It`s you! I remember… Good to see you alive and well after all these years. Where have you been?"

"Well, you know, I travelled. Had many things to do, places to see, people to find…"

"Then you are quite a busy young man… not like my grandson…" He stopped for a moment, looks like he forgot the name of his own grandson. As always.

"…Douchebag…" I whispered him to help.

"Ah, yes! Like my grandson Douchebag… Ow, my son also wasn`t very reliable person. And had no fantasy at all."

"Gramps!" Douchebag shouted. "I`m not a douchebag, and I amd a busy man too, I have a job!"

"So why are you here, in my lab, distracting me from MY job, instead of being on YOUR job, Douchebag?"

Poor old man took my joke too close to heart. Little Douchebag got what he deserved.

"Because I am going to start my journey around the world! Beating trainers, catching pokemon, challenging champions and defeating them… You know, usual stuff."

"Well, that is a meritorious thing to do! But I wonder where did you get that idea, first of all?" Professor asked suspiciously. "All these years you was pretty satisfied with your life. Why would you suddenly want to become a trainer?"

"I asked him the same question when he came to me this night, grandpa!" Douchebag pointed at me.

"You want that too?" Professor turned to me.

"Really, this idea came from me in first place. I don`t know why HE suddenly decided to go too."

"Ah, youth… I remember myself so young, unpredictable and foolish, just like you…"

"GRAMPS!" Douchebag started to get angry at his granddad. Professor made a satisfied smile, in his victory over successfully trolled grandson.

"Okay, okay, calm down, dragon…" Professor Oak turned back to his table with Eevee. Pokemon was lying on table and sleeping, even with all this Douchebags around, screaming. "Let me just finish this experiment, and I will give you your starters."

I came closer to the table to watch over the action. Professor gently scratched Eevee`s ear, and pokemon woke up, making a very cute yawn.

"What are you going to do?" I asked professor.

"You know Eevee, of course. You know that he can evolve into a different pokemon by different ways and conditions. I`m going to simulate some of this conditions at once and see, what he will evolve into."

Professor took his box and opened it. The box contained some colorful stones, some of them I managed to recognize. There were Fire, Water and Electric stones, the other two were unknown to me. They looked like some sort of Leaf stone and Ice Stone, but the leaf one didn`t look like a regular Leaf Stone, and I know that Ice Stone doesn't exist. Also there were a separated little pocket inside the box, and I saw a Rare Candy inside it.

"What are these?" Douchebag was interested in the other two stones too.

"Oh, these… Let me explain the idea of experiment. With the Fire Stone Eevee evolves into a Flareon. With the Water Stone he evolves into a Vaporeon. With an Electric Stone he evolves into a Jolteon. When training him during the night he can evolve into an Umbreon, if you are in good relationship with him. The same goes to the day, when he can evolve into an Espeon. These two…" Professor pointed at two remained stones. "Are parts of Moss Rock and Ice Rock from the Sinnoh region. If you level him up near these, he can evolve into Leafeon or Glaceon respectively. And there are still a lot of other types that he can evolve into... But yet never did for now."

"I see" This experimented interested me a lot. "And you are going to throw all this stones at him?"

"That didn`t sound good, but yeah, sort of. And its early morning now, when the day and night cross their times. Espeon and Umbreon are both possible too." Professor nodded and started to lay out all stoned on the table. Eevee looked interested in them too and tried to touch the Fire Stone. Professor noticed that and easily smacked his paw.

"Not yet, MEE-Three. Wait patiently."

"MEE-Three? You named a pokemon MEE-Three?" Douchebag suspiciously asked.

"Yes, what`s wrong? It`s a Multi Evolution Experiment, object number 3. Everything is correct."

"What happened to the previous two?" I asked even more suspicious.

"Well…" We really managed to catch professor confused. "The first one was too fast and evolved into a Jolteon even before I noticed it stole the Stone. The second… I don`t know, where it is, but all I know that the guy who had to deliver that Eevee to me, was attacked by some bandits. I guess they took it."

"Team Rocket, I guess." I said. That was obvious without and evidences.

"Maybe. I hope someday we will know what`s happened. But for now… Let`s finish this. Are you ready, MEE-Three?"

The pokemon responded happily by nodding. The professor nodded in answer and put his hands on the table. After examining all items in front of him, he took the Rare Candy and brought it closely to Eevee.

"Do you remember? When you feel the evolution is coming, you step on all these stones at once. Yes?"

Pokemon nodded again. Satisfied with such answer, professor opened the candy and gave it to the Eevee. Pokemon gladly took the candy and swallowed it at once. With a satisfied smile it looked at professor and after a few seconds its body started to glow.

The evolution started.

And, as the professor said, MEE-Three stepped on the other stones, making them glow too. The Fire, Water and Electric stones were absorbed into the shape of Eevee`s form, while other simply continued shining. The light from pokemon`s body filled the room and it began to change.

We were really amazed by this view, and waited until the process is finished. But suddenly MEE-Three stopped deforming its body and returned its original shape. In a few seconds he normalized back, and glow faded away. The creature on the table still looked exactly like a usual Eevee, but… Something was very odd in his look, I couldn`t understand what.

"How is that possible? He didn't evolve!" Professor was really shocked.

"But he did change, look!" Douchebag said. "Its eyes are red now!"

And he was right, eyes really changed to blazing red color, like Flareon usually has. During the next examination professor noticed other signs of changes, specific for other forms of evolution.

"Fascinating. I need to research this. How are you feeling, MEE-Three?"

Eevee looked at him and yawned.

"Of course, you are feeling okay." Professor took pokemon on his hands and directed to another room, where he put sleeping Eevee on the couch and locked outside. "Have a rest, I`ll bring some food and check you later, MEE-Three."

After that he turned to us and sighed with a relief.

"So, boys… Let`s go and get you some pokemon!"