Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

6. Enter the Villian

-chapter 6, enter the villian-

For the first time in a while we both got up the next morning at the same time to get Nina to school. However, we decided that Phoebe would take her in today by herself, while I stayed behind so Charley could continue to sleep. This also gave Phoebe a chance to drive her Camaro. She was still attached to that car, despite not being able to drive it most of the time. She always had it tarped up in the driveway, since we couldn't fit it in the garage. We could have parked it in the back of the store in Slab Town where I had a few other cars stashed, but she wanted to keep it here so she could drive it on days like today, it still ran well, and we were also using it to try to teach Nina to drive.

Anyway, after the girls left I was completely alone for about an hour until Charley finaly woke up.

I changed him, got him dressed, and got him some milk to drink, and we watched tv for about an hour. After that I shut the tv off because Phoebe didn't want him to watch tv too much. And if a working tv happened to be in the room, it was hard to get Charley to do anything but watch it, it didn't matter if the most boring documentary was on, his eyes would be glued to the tv.

Me:"Allright Charley, I think that's enough tv for now."

I turned the tv off. He looked at me for a moment, then looked back at the black screen, then looked backed at me and frowned.

-upset- Charley:"Cawey wa teephee."

Me:" Calm down."

Me: "Why don't we play blocks?"

Me: "You can build another tower for Murkrow or something…."

-upset- Charley:"Noooooo! Dawhy….Cawey wa teephee."

Me:"Charley, please….settle down."

-blatantly lying- Me:"It's broken."

Charley:"Noooooooo!"

I got down on the floor with him, and gathered some of his blocks around, while he continued to be upset about the tv.

Me:"Charley, come on."

-crying- Charley:"CAWEEYWAAAAATEEEPHEEEEEEE!"

-calmly- Me:"Stop crying."

-calmly- Me:"Charley…"

He came over to me, still crying. I picked him up and held him, hoping he would calm down.

It took a bit longer than I was hoping, but eventually he seemed to forget what he was crying about.

Charley:"-sniffles- Cawey...wa dow."

Me:"You done crying?"

I set him back down, he still had a sad expression on his face, but he wasn't crying anymore.

Me:"You want to play blocks now?"

I handed him a block, and he slowly reached for it, before seizing it in his tiny little hand.

Charley:"Bwa…"

Me:"Mhm, you want to play?"

-unsure- Charley:"Dawhy pway Cawey bwa ?"

Me:"Sure..."

By the time Phoebe came home, we were busy making a little kingdom for murkrow, basically a throne with walls built around it, we didn't have enough blocks to make anything fancier. The golden wartortle became a knight trying to break into said kingdom.

Phoebe came in through the front door.

Me:"Hey baby girl."

-curious- Phoebe:"Awwwe, what are you two doing?"

Charley:"Mawa!"

Phoebe:"Hi sweety, daddy taking good care of you?"."

Charley:"We ma…..ah…..keedo.."

Me:"Yeah…we made a kingdom didn't we?"

Charley:"Keedum."

-amused-Phoebe:"-giggles-."

Phoebe:"Ok, we have to go back in to see Dr. Nash.."

Me:"What...right now?"

Phoebe:"In a few minutes."

Phoebe:"Come here Charley:"

She picked him up and kissed him on the cheek.

Phoebe:"Awe...what happened, it looks like you've been crying?"

Me:"He got upset when I turned off the tv."

-understandingly- Phoebe:"Ohh….ok."

Phoebe:"You got him to calm down though, that's good."

Charley:"Teephee bwokeh..."

Phoebe:"It's broken?"

Phoebe:"I'm sure daddy can fix it."

Phoebe:"Are you hungry?"

-awkward silence-

Phoebe:"I'll take that as a no."

Me:"I gave him some milk to drink..."

Phoebe:"Oh..ok..."

Charley:"Newa ah...skewel?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"You ready to go see Dr. Rambler again?"

Charley:"Rabluh..."

Phoebe:"Hehe.."

Phoebe:"Come on let's go get you in your car seat.."

Phoebe:"You can watch Puppet Town Trainer in there."

The was the name of that somewhat creepy puppet show he liked.

On a side note, we still couldn't get the pokemon world tv channels here, although the available pirate channels seemed to grow every day. With the emergency news and local news, now going by Midwest news, still soldiering on as the only non-pirate channels available, despite the fact that the disaster and even the war in the west was pretty much over with. Unfortunately, we had no connection to other continents, so what exactly was taking place over seas was anyone's guess. the news networks were looking in to using the portals to quickly get over there and get, atleast something. It was a common sight to see news vans from around the world wandering around the experiment facility, trying to find a portal across the pond, and occasionally being informed by other Devon Agents that could not broadcast in the pokemon world (as it would technically be pirating the pokemon world's airtime, if not outright hijacking the signal), this could get difficult sometimes if the crews couldn't speak english. Because of this, and a few other situations, a few lucky people from our world were hired by Devon as translators, as a few of our languages, such as chineese, were too complicated for even psychic pokemon to figure out right away.

The emergency news was now a compilation of status reports from 6 major news networks around the United States, Midwest News, which covered the bulk of the midwest and was also the only other news channel available to us, East Coast news, which was stationed somewhere in New York, covering, New York, obviously, and several smaller east coast states. Miami News, which covered Florida, Louisianna, Georgia, basically the southeastern tip, Dallas News, which covered Texas, Oklahoma, and sometimes the northern parts of mexico, border security had albeit disintegrated at this point, though in the midst of all the other chaos of the disaster, nobody really cared, Seattle news, and L. A. News, which both covered their respective regions. All these networks relied on the surviving infrastructure of pre disaster news channels, so they were about as well equipped as FOX, CNN, ABC, etc, used to be, using their vans and aircraft, and even some of their staff.

-excitedly- Charley:"Puh-tow twaya!"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

I followed her outside, and got in the sedan, after she put Charley in I had to wait another minute or so for her to retarp her Camaro, after she was done with that we pulled out, and headed to the portal in Slabtown.

-after arriving at the lab complex-

Phoebe: "What do you think they're going to have us explore today?"

Me: "I don't know.."

Charley:"Explo?"

Phoebe:"Not you little guy, it's too dangerous for you, you get to see Dr. Rambler again."

We made our way to the lab. Bob, Dr. Rambler, and Dr. Black were here, but Dr. Nash wasn't

Phoebe:"Ok where's Dr. Nash?"

Bob:"He's across the hall, the portal changed again last night, they have another team in there now. "

Phoebe:"Ok."

They already had the probe inside the portal, and were currently running a safety check.

Dr. Rambler: "He did give us the go ahead to start without him, if you two arrived before he was done with the other team."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Phoebe:"Where are we headed?"

Dr. Black:"Uh...we appear to be in a forrest."

Dr. Black:"Bio scanners aren't picking up anything, so I think you guys should be safe as long as you watch your back."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe:"Allright then, let's go."

Dr. Rambler:"Here, I'll look after Charley for you."

Phoebe:" Thankyou."

Phoebe:"Ok Charley, be good for Dr. Rambler."

She handed Charley to him while the probe was being recalled.

About a minute later we both headed into the portal together, we had a radio, a safety line wrapped around our waists, and not much else."

We found ourselves in a forrest, it was pretty warm, but everything was lush and beautiful.

Phoebe:"I can't hear anything."

Me:"You sure your powers are working?"

Phoebe:"Yeah, I can hear you."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe:"And the rest of my powers are working too."

Me:"Good."

Me:" So that means we're either not in a game, or there's something else here that has powers like yours."

Phoebe: "I hope it's the first."

Me: "Me too."

Me: "Um I just realized, your safety line broke."

Phoebe: "Huh? Oh it must have done that when I teleported...-sighs-, I forgot it was there."

Phoebe: "Aw well we still have yours."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Do either of you have your cellphones this time? Why don't you check them real quick to make sure they haven't changed?"

Me:"I left mine in the car again."

Phoebe:"Mine looks the same as usual, except I have no signal."

Me: "Ok, so we're not in a game then."

Phoebe: "I guess."

We wandered through the forrest for 20 straight minutes without finding anything of note.

There were some bugs, however, and I tried to keep them off me as much as possible, they didn't seem to bother Phoebe though, just me.

Me:"How are you not getting bit?"

Phoebe: "I don't know...my perfume I guess, they must not like it."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Here let me try something.."

She closed her eyes for a bit, and air around her sparked with purple...

Phoebe:"Ok there."

Me: "What did you do?"

Phoebe: "Low power psychic wave...killed all the bugs in the area.."

Phoebe: "It was too weak for you to feel but lethal to the bugs."

Me:"Aren't you weak to bugs?"

Phoebe:"Normal bugs are alot weaker than the pokemon variety Cj."

Me: "True."

Phoebe:"Now if they were big, we might have problems."

Me: "hehe, ok."

Phoebe:"Wait a minute."

Me:"What?"

Phoebe:"I hear, somebody else...another human."

Me: "Where."

Phoebe: "This way."

She led the way to a dirt road, There seemed to a horse drawn carriage in the distance, moving away from us.

Phoebe: "-sighs-, we're too late.."

Phoebe: "No wait, another one is comming."

Me: "Maybe you should hide, I'll talk to them, remember they don't know what you are."

Phoebe:"Yeah, you're right."

-meanwhile, in the castle of the great wizard Myrenthal, about three miles down the road.-

Myrenthal is a powerful psychic human, in this strange land, who spent most of his time in his castle hooked up to a crude psychokinetic amplification device, powered by what was essentially a giant lead acid battery, devised by Myrenthal himself, because of his psychic powers, and an extremely advanced understanding of technology like this, he was regarded as a wizard by his underlings, though very few people outside his castle knew him, in a similiar manner to team rocket's fortresses he used technology to combine the powers of many lesser psychics to cloak his castle, so even fewer people knew of it's existence. It it important to note that unlike in the pokemon world, psychic humans in this world were a bit more common, at about 1 in 10, but their abilities varied greatly, some could barely levitate a coin, others, like Myrenthall, were as powerful as psychic pokemon.

-surprised- Myrenthal:"Thisss can't be!"

underling:"What's wrong sir?"

Myrenthal:"This girl, I can't, I can't read her mind, she's resissssting me."

underling:"That can't be possible."

Myrenthal"Which means she's atleast half as powerful assss I am..even with thisss device."

Myrenthal:"Not just that, but she came out of nowhere along with thissss other man."

Myrenthal:"And I can't understand anything he thinkssss, they must not be from here."

Myrenthal."Send some men up the road, I have to investigate thissss further."

underling:"Yes sir."

-back on the road-

I was able to convince the carriage driver to give me and my unspecified wife (Phoebe) a ride to the nearest town, Phoebe climbing onboard when nobody was looking. Unfortunately this meant I also had to cut my safety line, but Dr. Black assured us as long as it was visible from the road, it wouldn't be hard for us to find our way back. And since we weren't exactly expecting to stay over night, it wouldn't be a problem.

-inside the carriage-

Me:"It looks like we're in medieval times or something."

Me:"So let's see how are we going to explain you..."

Me:"I guess we could say your a princess visiting from a far away land, that might get us VIP status..or something.."

Phoebe:"Mhm, and it would be true.."

Me:"Yep."

Me:"But what if they accuse you of being a witch?"

Me:"That's what I'm concerned about."

Phoebe:"Why, they can't contain me."

Me:" True..."

Phoebe:"And they won't believe I'm a princess if we tell them we're married."

Phoebe:"Unless we tell them that you are a prince."

Phoebe:"So maybe we should tell them that we're a visiting king and queen."

Me:"The only problem with that is they'd expect our arrival to be a bit more flamboyant, not via the carriage of a kindhearted passerby."

Phoebe:"True."

Me:"Then again, with our modern clothes, we may be able to convince them that we're wealthy."

Phoebe:"Maybe."

The carriage was comfortable, but there wasn't a whole lot of air movement, and it was so warm that Phoebe and I refrained from snuggling.

We enjoyed the ride for what seemed to be a half hour before the carriage pulled over.

Phoebe:"I hear a lot of people Cj...and they aren't happy."

Me:"Hey driver what's going on?"

Driver:"Theys ah wantn ya to get out."

I stepped out, surrounded by atleast a dozen men with swords and plate armor.

-unsure- Unknown knight:"Where's thee girl?"

Phoebe suddenly teleported behind them.

Phoebe:"Step away from my husband or I'll kill all of you..."

Unknown knight 2:"She be a witch!"

-fearfully- Unknown knight:"hehe...that's ok , we're not here to fight...?"

Unknown knight:"Don't curse us please...miss...uhh...wha was ur name agin miss?"

They lowered their swords, as if they knew what she was capable of.

Phoebe:"That's Queen to you."

-surprised- Unknown knight:"Queen?"

Phoebe:"I am queen Phoebe of america..."

I had no idea what she was talking about, but I went along with it.

-unsure- Me:"And I'm the king..?!"

Unknown knight:"What sort ah-land is awe- merica?"

Phoebe:"It's far away, across the seas, we came here by ship, but we fell overboard and we wound up here."

Unknown knight:"Yah should come with us...our lawd, the great psychic Myrenthal wants ta meetcha."

Me:"Pheebles, how are you doing that?"

Unknown knight:"I thought ya said ya name was Phoebe."

Phoebe:"It is."

Anyway, we got back in the carriage, and started heading in the opposite direction, being escorted by these knights.

Me:"Who the hell is Myrenthal?"

Phoebe:"A psychic, apparently."

Me:"Did you notice how they were specifically looking for you?"

Me:"They knew we were here."

Phoebe:"But there's no way he could have that much range."

Phoebe:"I'm kind of worried."

Me:"Yeah and we don't have any guns either do we?"

Phoebe:"What good would that do?"

Me:"We're in a land where guns haven't been invented yet, even a single pistol would give us a huge advantage in a fight."

Phoebe:"If Myrenthal is powerful enough to know about us, a gun would be useless against him."

Me:"How do we even know he's a bad guy?"

Phoebe:"I can tell from the thoughts of his lackys, they remember things he has had them do, he has extorted kings for profit, he has burned down entire villages, he has conquered entire citys, and even now is plotting to conquer that town we were originally heading too."

Phoebe:"We're on thin ice Cj."

Me:"-sighs-, crap."

Me:"What's our plan?"

Me:"He didn't kill us outright, so he probably wants you to join him."

Me:"Which means he'll want me dead...so he can marry you."

Phoebe:"I don't care what he says I'm not marrying him."

Me:"Good girl."

Phoebe:"We're going to escape."

Me:"How?"

Phoebe:"Let's wait till we get back to the safety line."

Me:"Ok."

She peered out the window, it was another half hour until we got back to the safety line.

Me:"What are you going to do?"

Phoebe:"Just watch."

Once we passed the line, she shut her eyes, the carriage suddenly stopped. All the horses went crazy, then Phoebe teleported out.

Me:"Pheebles?"

I heard the knights panic, I got a bit worried she would get hurt, but eventually I was relieved of any worry when she opened the carriage door.

Phoebe:"Come on let's go before they wake up."

Me:"Ok."

I got out. All the knights were on the ground, unconscious, and all the horses had taken off.

Driver:"What about me horses?"

Phoebe:"If I see any I'll send them to you."

We headed back into the forrest.

-back at Myrenthal's castle-

Myrenthal:"This is an OUTRRAGE!"

Myrenthal: "I couldn't even trust them with a simmple retrrieval mission."

Myrenthal: "I'll have to retrieve them mysssssself."

underling: "Sir you're going to leave the castle?"

Myrenthal: "Yessss."

Myrenthal:"If she won't come quietly I'll have to drag her backk here."

He closed his eyes, and teleported out.

-back in the forrest-

We were making our way back to the portal, following the safety line.

unknown voice:"Stop...I just want to talk."

Me:"huh?"

Phoebe took my hand.

Phoebe:"Run."

This strange old man chased us back to the portal, despite his age he seemed to have a ridiculous amount of stamina.

-gasping for breath- Me:"Who is that guy?"

Phoebe:"It's Myrenthal..."

Me:"Damn..."

She occasionally threw a shadowball at him to keep him at bay, but he was fast and usually dodged them. When we finally got back to the portal, he teleported in front of it.

Phoebe:"-gasps-."

Myrenthal:"So this is where you're going..."

Myrenthal:"So strange..."

Myrenthal:"Where does it go?"

Phoebe:"Get away from it!"

Myrenthal:"And give up the oppourtunity to explore another world, I think not."

Myrenthal:"Clearly you're not human, so what are you? Are there more of you in here? I shall have to see..."

-on radio- Dr. Black:"If you can't get him away from the portal we'll have to shut it off."

Phoebe:"No wait."

-on radio- Dr. Black:"We can't risk a security breach."

Phoebe:"Rrrrr.."

She teleported along side him and threw a shadowball , scoring a direct hit that knocked him to the side.

We ran through the portal before he could get back up.

Dr. Black:"Kill the portal, before he gets through."

Bob:"Right."

He through the other end of the safety lines through, and threw the power switch.

Bob:"Uh, it's not shutting off, something's caught in it."

Phoebe:"Huh?"

Myrenthall:"Helllo...new world..."

The old man emerged from the portal. Phoebe tried to throw a shadowball at him, but he quickly teleported away, seconds later the portal shut off like it was supposed to.

Dr. Black:"Who wants to inform Melissa?"

Dr. Black: "-sighs-, I guess I'll have too."

Dr. Black: "No sense in scrambling the troops, seeing as he can teleport."

Me: "Awe don't worry about it, if he's as bad as she says he is, it's only a matter of time before he turns up again."

Me: "Besides he's in a modern world now, it's going to take awhile for him to get used to the technolodgy."

Dr. Black got on a red phone attached to the wall.

-on phone- Dr. Black: "Look we just had an escape, we need all portals shut down ASAP, repeat we need all portals shut down asap."

I heard an alarm go off down the hall.

Phoebe: "Isn't that a little drastic?"

Dr. Black: "We can't risk him getting to the other world and causing another disaster."

Dr. Black: "Aside from that it's protocol, I have too."

-cutely- Charley:"Mawa!"

Phoebe:"Charley are you ok?"

Dr. Rambler:"He's allright."

He handed him to her.

-cutely- Charley:"Cawey luh Mawa.."

Phoebe:"Good."

Me:"So what now?"

Dr. Black:"We're on lockdown, nobody's allowed to leave the building for the next hour."

Phoebe:"Not even us?"

Dr. Black:"Yep."

Me:"Awe..come on."
: "It's protocol."

Me: "Yeah...yeah..protocol.."

Phoebe: "Cj..."

Me: "What?"

-insistently- Phoebe: "We should follow the rules..."

Me: "-sighs-, fine..."

Me: "But what are we supposed to do in here, for an hour?"

Phoebe: "I don't know.."

Charley:"Mawa, Cawey wa dow..."

Phoebe:"Charley we can't just let you wander around in here."

Me:"We can take him to the lounge."

Phoebe:"Yeah we should, I don't think he wants to hold still for an hour."

Phoebe:" Come on Charley, lets go to the lounge."

Dr. Black:"When the lockdown is over an announcement will say you can leave."

Me:"Ok...good to know."

I followed Phoebe out of the room and into the lounge down the hall.

There was a tv in the lounge, suspended from the ceiling, but we couldn't find the remote to turn it on, and it was one of those lcd tvs that annoyingly don't have any buttons, so without the remote, it was completely useless. Charley kept himself occupied by crawling around the room, but it wasn't long before he had seen everything to be seen in the little room, which led to him crawling back to Phoebe and getting upset because he was bored. So I got down on the floor with him and tried to get him to stand up, holding his tiny hands so he could balance. He could only stand on his own for a few seconds without losing balance, but he had such a strong grip that he could stand indefinitely as long as he had something to hold on to. We did this with him atleast once everyday, hoping that at some point, his legs would be strong enough for him to stand on his own. It seemed to be working, because just a few weeks ago, he would lose his balance immediately, but now he almost always continued to stand for a few seconds after being let go, and even though a few seconds isn't much, it still showed signs of progress. Of course, when he fell we always caught him so he wouldn't hurt himself. Once he learned to stand, we could finally start teaching him how to walk.

Anyway this kept us occupied for the rest of the hour, afterwhich we headed home.

In the parking lot, some idiot pulled out behind us and immediately backed into the car behind them, then the car in front of them, and, well it basically looked like they were drunk, or didn't know how to drive in the first place.

While this was quite an amusing thing to watch, with Charley getting tired, we were kind of in a hurry to get him home before he fell asleep in his car seat, so, thinking nothing of it, we proceeded out of the lot and back into the portal facility.

Then we heard a thud on the roof.

Phoebe:"Oh crap...he's back..."

Me:"You've got to be kidding me."

We saw his hands come down from the roof as he tried to break the windshield...which was bullet proof...

I panicked for a brief moment, mostly because Phoebe screamed...before slamming the breaks and sending flying off across the hood and onto the pavement.

His cape caught on the hood ornament and got ripped up pretty bad, but that was the least of his concern as I had half a mind to just gun it and run him over.

Unfortunately, he teleported out of sight before I could do so.

Me: "Where did he go?"

Phoebe:"I don't know..."

I got out of the car for a brief moment and looked around, while Phoebe tried to calm Charley down.

I couldn't see him anywhere, but the car we had seen earlier that had pretty much screwed up every car around it had stopped moving, had he been trying to drive it so he could follow us?

Anyway, I got back in the car.

Me:"I don't see him anywhere, you wanna report this to security or something?"

Phoebe:" I'll tell Melissa about it later, if he's trying to follow us I think it would be best if we kept going."

Me:"Ok."

Me:"You can't tell where he is?"

Phoebe:"No...he's psychic too remember? He can cloak himself."

Me:"Can you cloak yourself?"

Phoebe:"It didn't seem to work in that world."

Phoebe:"And then he'll just be able to find Charley anyway because he has a bracelet, and doesn't understand his powers enough to be able to cloak himself effectively."

Phoebe:"Which …..um….by the way…."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"Charley are you hungry sweety? You seem to be thinking about food."

-cutely- Charley:"Cawey huhwy..."

-happily- Phoebe:"I thought so."

Me:"What's he thinking about? Pancakes?"

Phoebe:"-giggles- ...actually...yeah..."

Me:"Hehe..really?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"See I can read his mind, but even Nina is able to keep me from reading hers."

Charley:"Cawey wa ancays..."

Charley:"Mawa may ancays fah Cawey?"

Phoebe:"We'll see little guy."

Phoebe:"I think we have some left over from breakfast this morning."

We had breakfast with Nina before he woke up.

When he got home, Phoebe heated up some pancakes for him, afterwhich we had a light lunch together. After getting something to eat, we played with Charley for a few minutes until he got tired and Phoebe brought him upstairs for a nap.

Anyway, it was one of the rare times Phoebe and I had the house to ourselves, so naturally I wanted to make the most of it.

Me: "Hey baby girl."

I called out to her as she was coming back down the stairs.

-cutely- Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "Charley's asleep, you don't have to leave for atleast an hour..."

Phoebe: "It's 2:30, I had to leave 10 minutes ago."

Me:" No...because Nina's staying after school today to take part in some battles..."

Phoebe: "Ohhhh...right...I forgot..."

Me: "Sooooo..."

I went up behind her and wrapped my arms around her just as she left the stairs.

-lovingly-Me: "You wanna have some fun?"

Phoebe:"-sighs-…..ooooh Cj..."

-cutely- Phoebe:"I don't knowwww..."

Me: "Oh come on sweety, when are we ever alone like this anymore?"

-unsure- Phoebe:"-sighs-..."

Me:"When's the last time we ever did it in broad daylight?"

-surprised- Phoebe:" Um….I don't remember..."

Me:" Exactly.."

Phoebe:"-sighs-."

Phoebe: "But...we did it twice last night..."

Me: "True..."

Me:"But last night was kind of...I don't know.."

Me:"Did we even do it twice?"

Me:"I can't remember actuall doing it the second time?"

Phoebe:"I can remember doing it, but I can't remember it actually ending.."

Me:"Weird..."

Me:"And the first time...it just..."

Phoebe:"Yeah...we didn't have the same passion we usually do..."

Me:"Right..."

Phoebe:"I have a better idea."

Me:"What?"

Phoebe:"Why don't we just spend this time doing something together, instead of just for more sex that will just contribute to it's loss of meaning?"

-sincerely- Phoebe:"We could try to get some of that passion back by reminding ourselves how much we're in love?"

Me:"You know what?...That sounds good."

-lovingly- Me:"So what do you want to do baby girl?"

Phoebe:"Hmmm."

Phoebe:"We can't leave the house...so, what about video games?"

-simulataneously- Both:"Midnight club?"

Me:"Hehe."

-cutely- Phoebe:"-giggles-..."

So we played midnight club for a bit, and then moved on to grand theft auto after a few races. She had never played grand theft auto before, so the game was completely new to her, I let her play on her own, since san andreas' two player mode wasn't very well thought out and frankly, kind of sucked.

Anyway after a few minutes of playing and showing her the controls, she was driving around Las Venturas in a buffalo. Which was the closest thing in the game to her camaro, and was apparently her favorite car.

Phoebe:"Why are the cops after me?"

Me:"I think it's because you ran that guy over.."

Phoebe:"I didn't mean too, the car behind me pushed me."

Phoebe:"Oh no bus get out of the way."

She t-boned a bus, and then a cop car slammed into her, causing her car to catch on fire.

Me:"You better get out of there, they're all going to explode."

She got out of the car, and immediately got hit by a passing sedan that was driving fast because the cops were shooting at her. Before she could get back up, her buffalo exploded, the police car exploded almost immediately afterwards, and the bus caught on fire.

Phoebe:"Awe...my car exploded..."

Her character got up, but then the bus exploded, igniting a passing police car which then proceeded to run her over, exploding on top of her and killing her.

Phoebe:"What just happened?"

Phoebe:"That made no sense..."

Me:"Hehe...that's Grand Theft Auto for you."

Phoebe:"Ok where am I now?"

Me:" You're by the airport."

Phoebe:"Where am I going to find that car again?"

Me:"You'll just have to be lucky enough to find it."

Me:"There's other nice cars don't worry."

Phoebe:"You told me there would be nice cars here, but all I see is trucks."

Me:"You have to wait till it's nightime, and you have to go further east where the casinos are."

Phoebe:"Ohhh ok."

Phoebe:"I'll just take this guy's pickup..."

Phoebe:"It's called the yosemite..."

Phoebe:"What's a yosemite?"

Me:"It's a national park up in Wyoming...I wonder if it still exists..."

Phoebe:"Maybe we could visit some time?"

Me:"Uh...it's quite a long ways away..."

Me:"But maybe, if we get the time."

-cutely- Phoebe:"This is a fun game."

Me:"Yeah, just don't get addicted to it like I did."

Phoebe:"Hmmm..?"

Me:"Back when I got this, I devoted entire days to playing it..."

Phoebe:"Oh ...you weirdo.."

Me:"It was summer and I had nothing better to do..."

Phoebe:"But ok I'll try not too -giggles- ."

Phoebe:"So where were all the nice car again?"

Me:"Press start."

Me:"You see the mod garage on the map?"

Phoebe:"Mhm..."

Me:"It's that road that's straight north from there. Just keep driving up and down it at night and you'll come across some nice cars."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me: "Here let me see the controller, you can set a waypoint."

I set a waypoint for her.

Me: "There, just go there and drive up and down that road when it's dark."

Phoebe: "Ok."

It was quite a fun afternoon, even though I didn't play much, it was fun to watch her experience a game I knew basically every facet of by heart for the first time, it reminded me of when I myself experienced it for the first time, and, perhaps, more importantly, when I met her for the first time, when we left on our own, when she knew next to nothing about this world, and I didn't even know hers existed... and I realized that, even though passion can fade, sex can become meaningless...the memories we shared together, would always be enough to bring it back.

Me:"Hey Pheebles?"

Phoebe:"mhm?"

Me:"How much time we got?"

Phoebe:"Not enough to do what you're thinking."

Me:"Oh come on..."

Phoebe:"Cj we already agreed we weren't going to."

Phoebe:"-giggles-"

Me:"Oh you..."

Me:"hehe..tormenting me again aren't you?"

Phoebe:"Mhm...you'll have to wait..."

Me:"Till when?"

Phoebe:"When we have another time alone like this."

Phoebe:"And then..."

-seductively- Phoebe:"You can ride me all...over...the house..."

-aroused- Me:"ehhhhhhhhhhhh... baby girl..."

Phoebe:"-giggles-."

Her cell phone wrang...

Me:"Melissa?"

-curious- Phoebe:"No it's Nina's school."

She headed into the kitchen.

-in the distance- Phoebe:"You what?"

-in the distance-Phoebe:"Yeah, ok, I guess you can do that..."

-in the distance-Phoebe:"Your welcome...I love you too sweety."

-in the distance-Phoebe:"Goodbye."

Me:"What's going on?"

Phoebe:"They're having an unofficial pokemon tournament at her school."

Phoebe:"She wants to take part in it, so we won't have to pick her up until six."

-lovingly- Me:"Which also means..."

I got up and wrapped my arms around her...

-relieved- Phoebe:"-sighs-..."

She kissed me, and looked me in the eyes.

-mischeivously- Phoebe:"You can show me more about the game."

-awkward silence-

-concerned- Phoebe:"Um... you ok?"

-worried- Phoebe:"I didn't mean to shoot you down that hard..."

Me:"-sighs-, I...uh...I'll be fine."

Phoebe:"We agreed we weren't going to..."

Me:"Yeah...you're right..."

Phoebe:"Please just wait...ok?"

Me:"Why?"

Phoebe:"Because I want to spend real quality time with you..."

-worried- Phoebe:"Is that so wrong?"

-sincerely- Me:"Baby girl...I'm sorry that was so stupid.."

-terrified- Phoebe:"What?"

-on the verge of crying- Phoebe:" How could you say that..?"

-urgently- Me:"That's not what I meant..that's not what I meant...I'm sorry...please don't cry..."

-relieved- Phoebe:"Oh..."

Phoebe:"You mean you were stupid.."

Me:"Yeah...I'm sorry.."

She hugged me.

Phoebe: "It's ok."

-relieved- Phoebe:"-sighs-..."

-lovingly- Phoebe:"-sniffles- Can we go back to playing the game?"

Me:"Sure."

Me:"-sighs-, I love you baby.."

Phoebe:"-sniffles-, I know..."

Phoebe: "I love you.."

We returned to the couch, and she went back to playing grandtheft auto.

Just minutes later, the phone wrang again.

-sighs- Phoebe: "I wonder what she wants now."

Me: "Nina again?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Here, take over for me."

Me: "Ok."

She handed me the controller.

-phone conversation-

Phoebe: "Hello sweety."

Phoebe: "What? You lost already?"

Phoebe: "Who did you lose to?"

Phoebe: "Oh...yeah, scythers are tough to beat..."

Phoebe: "Awe well."

Phoebe: "Do you want me to come get you now or do you want to stay awhile?"

Phoebe: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe:" Well I'll be there in about an hour then."

Phoebe:" Mhm..."

Phoebe: "Ok, see you there.."

Phoebe: "Love you too sweety."

-end phone conversation-

Phoebe: "-sighs-, I guess I have to leave now."

Me: "-sighs-, awe..."

-surprised- Me: "She lost already?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, and she doesn't sound too happy about it, she was put up against a senior who had a scyther."

Phoebe: "I better get over there before she causes a scene."

Me: "Wait a minute."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "Pheebles.., some day this week, why don't we find a sitter for the kids, and then I will take you out on a date..."

Phoebe: "Ok...where too?"

Me: "I don't know yet but we'll figure something out.."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Ok."

-lovingly- Phoebe:" I like that Cj...I think we should."

Me:"Cool."

Me:"Ok then it's official."

Phoebe: "Good."

Phoebe: "Tomorrow is saturday, maybe Nina could watch Charley for us."

Me: "Maybe..."

She gave me a kiss on the cheek and then headed to the bathroom. She came out a few minutes later as I continued to play grand theft auto.

Phoebe:"Ok Cj, remember to listen for Charley."

Me:"Mhm..see you in a bit baby girl."

Me:"You taking your car?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me:"Ok."

Phoebe: "Love you.."

Me: "Love you too baby."

Me:"Call me if you run into any trouble with that wizard guy, he might still be looking for you."

Phoebe: "I will, don't worry, goodbye Cj."

Me:"Bye..."

She headed outside, untarped her car, and left for Goldenrod, leaving me alone with Charley, just like this morning. Charley was asleep, so once again I was basically on my own. It was almost an hour before I heard Charley crying from upstairs...

I shut the game off, and went upstairs to check on him.

He was holding on to the rails of his crib, looking very upset, but he quickly calmed down when he saw me.

-sadly- Charley:"Dahwhy."

-sadly- Charley:"Cawey wa ow..."

-kindly- Me: "I know, I got you."

I picked him up out of his crib.

Me: "Did you sleep well?"

By the time I changed him, got him into some normal clothes and brought him downstairs he was in a much better mood.

-on the couch-

-playfully- Me:"You want to go outside?"
-unsure- Charley:"Ow-si?"

Charley:"Wa ow-si?"

Me:"You don't remember?"

Me:"Well come on then, let's go."

I picked him up, and brought him out the front door, it was a nice day out, so it wouldn't be too cold for him. He liked to play around in the grass, ripping it up and making little piles of it, as it was the middle of autumn, there were also a lot of leaves on the ground, and he liked to play with those as well. However, just a few minutes after we walked outside, I got a text on my phone, saying that Myrenthal was after her and Nina, though it wasn't from Phoebe it was some unknown number pretending to be Phoebe.

So I texted Phoebe, saying that Myrenthal seemed to be up to something.

Then she called me.

-on phone- Phoebe:"Are you sure it's him?...there's nothing going on here, I just picked up Nina and we're on our way home."

Me:"It has to be, it's not your number, and who else even knows about him..?"

-on phone-Phoebe:"What's the number?"

Me:" 6584-97831"

-on phone-Phoebe:"Yeah...I think he might have taken someone's phone..."

Me:"Maybe Melissa can trace the number?"

Phoebe:"I don't see how that will help..."

Phoebe;"Look Cj, just stay there, I'll be home in a little bit."

-on phone-Me:"Ok."

-on phone,sternly-Phoebe:"Don't you dare put Charley in danger.."

Me:"I won't...I promise..."

-on phone, concerned-Phoebe:"Now you got me worried..."

Me:"Why?"

Phoebe:"Myrenthal might be after you."

-on phone-Phoebe:"Just keep Charley safe, for me...ok?"

Me:"Ok."

-confidently- Phoebe:"If he shows up, I know you can handle it.."

-on phone-Phoebe:"Love you."

Me:"Love you two baby girl."

She hung up on me.

Me:"Charley where did you go?"

-cutely- Charley:"Dawhy!.."

Me:"Oh...there you are..."

He was playing in a little ring of dirt around a tree in the front yard.

-playfully- Me:" Watcha doing?"

-unsure- Charley:"Cawey dunno."

-unsure- Me:"Why are you all covered in dirt?"

He picked up some dirt and sprinkled it over himself. The sensation he got from doing this seemed to amuse him. I didn't think much of it, aside from that it was an extremely weird thing to do.

-bewildered- Me:"eheh...Why... are you doing that...?"

-innocently- Charley:"Cawey dunno."

I brushed him off and picked him up.

Me:"Ok.. come on..there's no good reason to make a mess of yourself. "

-affectionately- Me:"You little goofball."

Charley:" Cawey no goobah.."

Charley:"Dahwy seewee."

Me:"You wouldn't say that if you got that dirt in your eyes."

Me: "Come on, let's go back inside, you'll be safer there."

Me: "You can play with your blocks."

-grumpily- Charley: "Cawey no wa pway bwa..."

Me:" Well, we'll find something else to do then."

I took him back inside, just in case Myrenthall showed up, even though it seemed unlikely.

Despite what he said, once I set him down on the floor he began to play with his blocks anyway, I joined him of course, curious as to what he would build, but after a few minutes I decided to see if I could get him to stand.

Me: "Here Charley, let's see if you can stand.."

I carefully lifted him up by his shoulders.

Charley: "Cawey wa dow."

Me: "Hang on a second."

He gripped my arms as tight as he could.

-upset- Charley: "Cawey wa dow."

Me: "Shh...just a second.."

My phone went off.

I carefully let him down before checking it.

Another text message, from Phoebe, asking me to meet up with her at the pokemon center, this one seemed legit, but I called her just to be sure, while Charley went back to playing with his blocks.

-on phone-

Me: "Baby girl did you just message me?"

Phoebe: "No...why?"

Me: "He's at it again...except he was able to replicate your number this time."

Me: "It's like he hacked into the network."

Phoebe: "There's no way he could've figured out how to do that Cj. I'm surprised he even figured out how to send the first message."

Me:"What if he found someone that knew how and read their mind?"

Me: "Isn't there a telephone company headquarters not far from the experiment facility? He could have stolen intel from one of the technicians that works there."

Phoebe: "You mean the dodrio building?"

Me: "Right."

The headquarters I was refering to was a big building with a large sign featuring a white silhouette of a running Dodrio against a bright red background, and the words Godrio Wireless, in large black letters, we passed by it everytime we went to Goldenrod, although it had little significance until now. It was also the same network our phones were connected too.

Phoebe: "I'll tell James, maybe he'll send somebody to check that place out, he should be aware of the situation by now."

Me: "Probably."

Phoebe: "We'll have to stop using text messages, ok?"

Phoebe: "Until they find this guy."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "I'm getting a bit worried though."

Me: "This guy keeps trying, and he keeps getting better at pretending to be you."

Phoebe: "Yeah, but he can't fake my voice can he?"

Me: "I don't know.."

Me: "How do I know I'm talking to you right now?"

Phoebe: "Because Nina's with me, and Myrenthal can't possibly know about her...see?"

-solemnly- Nina: "Hi dad."

Me: "Hey sweety."

-a moment later-

Phoebe: "See, it's really me."

Me: "Ok, I'm convinced."

Phoebe: "Good, just stay home with Charley until I get back..ok?"

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "If I ask you to go anywhere, don't listen, because it's not me."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe:" I love you...and we'll be back soon.."

Me: "Ok."

She hung up.

-a few seconds later-

-cutely- Charley: "Dawhy...Cawey may towa..."

Me: "I see that."

He had made a tower out of his blocks while I was on the phone.

Me: "What else can you make?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "You want to try standing again?"

Charley: "Cawey no wa stah.."

Me: "You'll have to learn eventually."

Charley: "Cawey wa mo towa.."

Me :"You're going to make more towers..?"

Me: "Ok."

Charley: "Watarwol may Towa fah dow..."

Me: "Wartortle is going to make them fall down?"

Me:"Why?"

Charley: "Watarwol luh towa fah dow."

Me: "ooookay..."

-cutely- Charley: "He seewee."

-playfully- Me: "I think you just like to make them fall down."

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "I thought you'd say that."

I kept myself occupied by keeping him occupied, and by the time Phoebe returned we were still having fun making things out of blocks and subsequently knocking them down.

Me: "One of these days we need to get you some legos, but you're too little to play with them now."

Charley:"Cawey ma pehmih..."

Me: "You made a pyramid?"

Me: "Yeah that's sort of a pyramid."

Me: "Looks a bit lopsided though."

He threw the wartortle plush at it, knocking it down.

-cutely- Charley :"-Giggles-, pehmih fa dow!"

Me: "Hehe...I see that."

Me: "Is wartortle ok?"

Charley: "watarwol tywo..."

-playfully- Me: "Well, an entire building fell on him, so...I can't imagine why..."

Charley: "Watarwol go slee."

Me: "Hehe..."

Charley: "Mawko geh awl peesahs.."

Me: "What?"

Me: "Since when were pizzas involved?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

I heard Phoebe pull in.

Me: "Hey your mother's here."

Charley: "Mawa?"

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "And Nina too."

-excitedly- Charley: "Newa!"

Me: "Mhm."

They came in through the front door moments later.

-concerned- Phoebe: "Honey what's going on?"

Me: "Hey.."

-concerned- Phoebe: "Did he call again?"

Me :"No, not since I called you."

Phoebe: "Well hopefully we won't have to worry about it then."

-meanwhile-

Nina: "Hi Charley, watcha doing?"

Charley: "Cawey Ma pehmih.."

Charley: "Newa pway?"

Nina:"Sure I'll play with you."

She got down on the floor with him.

Phoebe: "Nina, stay inside ok?"

Phoebe: "Someone might be after us."

-unsure- Nina: "I'm playing with Charley."

Phoebe: "That's fine, just don't go outside."

Phoebe: "Cj we need to go to the kitchen."

Me: "Why?"

I followed her into the kitchen.

Me: "What's going on?"

Phoebe: "We need to talk about what we're going to do about this guy."

Phoebe: "He's dangerous, and at the rate he's able to figure things out, he could be a supervillian by the end of the week."

-Meanwhile, at the Godrio communication complex, which had now been infiltrated by Myrenthal.-

Myrenthal used his powers to bypass security and take over the monitoring station, hypnotizing all the workers there, because of this, the rest of the facility was unaware of his presence.

Enslaved technician: "They've gone cold sir."

Myrenthall:"They're ssstill onto me...?"

Enslaved technician 2:"According to their last message they switched to using voice only."

-surprised- Myrenthall: "You mean these things can transmit voice as well as words?"

Enslaved technician 2: "That's correct..."

Enslaved technician 2: "But it wouldn't help you, they'd recognize your voice, and we can't change it to be like there's."

Myrenthall:" You can transmit voice through air, but you can't change it...?"

Enslaved technician 2: "Correct."

He heard someone comming, so he quickly teleported away.

The supervisor came in.

Supervisor: "I have to inform you that Devon agents are going to be here shortly, they think we're up to something, but they won't specify what."

Supervisor: "As a legitamate company, if any of you are found to be violating company policy, you will be fired, this includes using company assets to spy on individuals, creating fraudulent messages and other violations and or crimes."

Supervisor: "They may also be looking for data, so have your logs ready to hand over as well."

Supervisor: "That is all."

He left the room, not noticing anything out of the ordinary, just the technicians working at their stations as usual.

Myrenthall teleported back in.

Myrenthall: "I don't know what he just said, or what Devon Agents are, but make sure you do them."

Enslaved technician: "Yes sir."

Enslaved technician: "Should we delete the evidence?"

Myrenthall: "What?"

Enslaved technician: "Phoebe and Cj sir, we've been spying on them since you arrived."

Myrenthall: "Will it make it harder for them to find me?"

Enslaved technician: "Yes."

Myrenthall:" Then delete it...all of it."

Enslaved technician: "Yes sir."

Myrenthall: "Also what are Devon agents?"

Enslaved technician: "They're like the police sir, they're probably looking for you."

Myrenthall: "I thought so."

Myrenthall: "Well then...perhaps it's time I moved on."

Myrenthall: "Where are they located?"

Enslaved technician: "I don't remember..."

Myrenthall: "I thought you had it on your screen."

Enslaved technician: "You told us to delete it."

Myrenthall: "What?"

-angry- Myrenthall: "CURSES!"

Enslaved technician 2: "I have a printout."

Enslaved technician: "Then put it through the shredder, it needs to be deleted..."

Myrenthall: "No you idiots...give me that."

He seized the paper before the technician put it through the shredder.

Myrenthall:" Now, go back to, whatever you were doing before I got here."

He teleported out, and his hypnotisim suddenly ended, all the technicians were completely confused as to what had occured over the passed couple hours, so when the agents arrived, they were completely unprepared, and there was still plausible evidence that atleast something had happened, as they couldn't recall anything the supervisor has asked them to do.

-that evening-

We spent the rest of the afternoon inside, Nina spent some time with Charley and also spent some time watching tv in her room. Phoebe made some dinner, afterwhich Melissa called, so Phoebe was on the phone with her in the kitchen, Nina was in her room, doing some more homework which she hadn't told us about until dinner, and Charley was watching tv and kind of playing around with his blocks on the side.

-from the kitchen-

-on phone- Phoebe: "Well don't forget to tell me when they come ok? You were there for me I want to be there for you."

-on phone- Phoebe: "Ok, thanks Melissa..."

-on phone- Phoebe: "Bye."

She walked into the livingroom.

-playfully- Phoebe :"Charley what did you get into?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Your clothes are all dirty."

Me: "We were outside for a bit while you were getting Nina."

Phoebe: "Oh...ok..."

Phoebe: "Why's he so dirty though?"

Me: "He was throwing dirt...on himself..."

-bewildered- Phoebe: "Why?"

Me: "Charley reasons?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-, you goofball."

Phoebe: "Come on Charley, you need a bath."

She picked him up and brought him into the bathroom.

Phoebe: "Let's see if we can put you in the bathtub this time."

Phoebe: "Cj can you go get his pajamas?"

Me: "Yeah no problem."

Phoebe: "Thanks."

Me: "Mhm."

I brought Charley's pajamas to her, and then played with her and Charley for a few minutes.

Me: "Do you think he'll be able to learn how to swim someday?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, it would be nice though."

Phoebe: "Ok Charley, let's get you clean."

She poured some water on his head to get his hair wet.

-grumpily- Charley: "Cawey no wa.."

Phoebe: "Well if you didn't smear dirt all over yourself earlier you wouldn't need a bath, but now you do."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Silly boy."

He started to cry.

Phoebe: "Oh don't cry, it's just water."

Phoebe: "And now we need some shampoo..."

Phoebe: "Um...Cj can you get his shampoo, it's in the kitchen..."

Me: "Yeah ok."

Anyway Charley began to get grumpier as she bathed him, so I went back to watching tv.

However once she came out of the bathroom he was in his pajamas and fairly calm.

Phoebe: "There we go Charley, now you're all clean.."

She sat next to me on the couch.

Me: "Hey little guy.."

-tiredly- Charley: "Dawhy.."

Me: "You don't like baths do you?"

Phoebe: "He likes the water he just doesn't like being cleaned."

Phoebe:"And now he's a bit tired."

-defiantly- Charley: "No Cawey no tywo, Cawey wa teephee."

Phoebe: "-giggles- You're not tired until you fall asleep aren't you sweety?"

Phoebe:"Oh well."

Phoebe: "Maybe daddy can tell you a story?"

Me: "Hehe..maybe.."

Me: "You want me to put him to bed?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Ok."

She handed him over to me, and I took him upstairs.

I set him down in his crib, and tried to think of a story to tell him.

Charley: "Cawey no wa beh.."

Me: "Shh, you're not in bed yet."

Me: I still have to tell you a story.."

Charley: "wa stowy?"

Me: "I don't know yet..."

Me: "Ok...once upon time...there was an evil old lonely man who lived in a pyramid. "

Me: "He was so evil he wanted to steal all the pizzas in the world."

Me: "So a giant golden wartortle came by and knocked down the pyramid."

Me: "And then the evil old man had nowhere to live, so he ran away."

Me: "The end."

Me :"You asleep yet?"

Charley: "Cawey no tywo."

Me: "-sighs-, ok, how about another story then?"

Since I was out of my own ideas, I told him stories I remembered as a child, classics such as goldylocks and the three bears, and then little red riding hood, which he fell asleep about halfway through, so I quietly snuck out of his room and closed the door. When I made it back downstairs, Phoebe was in Nina's room, helping her with her homework, which was usually involving history class, unfortunately neither Me nor Phoebe knew much about Johto's history outside of that legendary elite movie we saw awhile back. Phoebe knew a lot about Sinnoh's history, but Nina's class didn't cover that, also she only had the textbook to go by, since the pokemon world's internet was too slow to access, due to low bandwith and few connection points. So it was a bit difficult for her. To access the other world's internet, you had to go to a special website, . , this website basically acted like , but all the websites were pokemon world websites, there was a lot more complicated tech going on behind the scenes, but in general, this website was slow because the network was very limited, and this was the only access point, so a lot of people were trying to use it. The website was developed as a joint effort between Devon co's research division, which was responsible for the software and behind the scenes tech stuff, and the Jhoto National Wireless Internet Company, hence the ".jnwireless" in the name, which owned the tech and maintained the servers and what not.

Me: "So what does she have to get done?"

Phoebe: "She has to write an essay about the Sinnoh-Kanto war..."

Me: "That was along time ago wasn't it?"

Phoebe :"200 years, that was when Kanto broke off from Johto and became it's own nation."

Phoebe: "If I remember from that movie we saw way back in the arctic."

Me:" Hmm...ok."

Me: "You know sweetheart you can use the computer in our room if you want..."

Phoebe: "If it still works.."

Me: "It should."

Phoebe: "I can even remember the last time we used that thing."

Phoebe: "Probably when we first met..."

Me: "Nahh, I've used it a handful of times since then...I think."

Phoebe: "Oh yeah because you were showing me what youtube was..."

Me: "Yeah..."

Nina:"Can I get my own computer?"

Me: "Uhhh...I think I have an old one in the basement, but why don't you use our for now since it's already set up?"

Nina: "Ok."

We all headed upstairs, and I started up the computer for the first time in several months.

Me: "See Pheebles, it works."
Phoebe:" But what about the printer?"

Me: "ah crap..."

Me: "The ink's probably dead."

Me: "I might as well go get a new printer anyway."

Phoebe: "No, we shouldn't leave the house."

Me: "-sighs-."

Nina:" So I should just keep writing then?"

Me: "Yeah, sorry sweetheart, I tried."

Nina: "It's ok."

We headed back downstairs.

Phoebe: "Nina, when is this due again?"

Nina: "Next week."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me: "Maybe we could take her to a library tomorrow...she could use the computers there."

Phoebe: "Maybe, if we could find one."

Nina: "But what about the gym?"

Phoebe: "We can take you there too."

-unsure- Me: "So we're taking her there now?"

Phoebe: "Of course we are, she's been training hard all week, you've seen, I've seen it."

Me:"Yeah, you're right, I just didn't know if that was the plan or not."

-somewhat relieved- Nina: "Thankyou mom.."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Thank yourself, you put in the effort."

Phoebe: "Why don't you come watch tv with us for a little bit, you can work on this more tomorrow."

Nina: "Ok."

We all left her room and watched tv for an hour or so before we sent Nina to bed. Not long afterward we went to bed ourselves, as usual we snuggled together, and fell asleep around the normal time.

Unfortunately, though we didn't know it at the time, this was going to be a long night.

I may have slept for an hour or so until Phoebe shook me awake.

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "He's here."

Me: "Huh?"

Me: "Oh..wizard face.."

Phoebe:"Yeah."

I was suddenly thrown against the wall.

-in pain- Me: "ah..what the heck?"

-worried- Phoebe: "Cj!"

Myrenthall:" Come with me or he dies."

Phoebe :"No please..don't."

I fell to the ground, after breaking it..."

Myrenthall: "What the ?"

-crying- Phoebe: "Cj..."

-annoyed- Myrenthall :"I didn't say you could get down."

He tried to pin me back up, but I was able to resist, regardless, it still felt like my head was going to explode, and my chest were throbbing in pain.

Myrenthall :"Why...won't... you ...obey?"

He kept trying to pin me to the wall.

Phoebe: "Cj?"

Phoebe: "-giggles- I forgot you could do that.."

-in pain- Me: "I...still...need help..."

My nose began to bleed and I started to feel light headed. I could barely stand.

Phoebe: "Leave him alone you bully."

She hit him with a shadowball, knocking him over.

Myrenthall: "How do you do that?...Show me! I've never seen magic like that before."

Phoebe: "Never."

Myrenthall: "Then I guess I'll have to kill him."

Phoebe: "No...you won't."

Phoebe: "Cj get out of here."

She held him off.

-weakly- Me: "I...I can...I can..."

I could barely concentrate...there wasn't much I could do.

Last I saw she was still holding him off when I blacked out.

When I finally awoke Phoebe was standing over me.

She hugged me.

-crying- Phoebe: "Atleast you're all right."

Me: "Atleast?"

She started to cry...

-worried- Me: "What...wha...what's wrong?"

Phoebe:"Charley won't wake up."

Me: "WHAT?"

Phoebe: "Myrenthall did something to him."

Phoebe: "The nurse said he's in a coma..."

Phoebe: "Myrenthall won't heal him unless I marry him."

Me: "I told you that's what he wanted.."

Phoebe:"Are you listening?..."

-freaked out- Phoebe: "Charley won't wake up!"

Me: "Calm down..."

Me: "Let me think for a bit ok?"

Me: "I just woke up..."

Phoebe: "I'm sorry."

Me: "What time is it?"

Phoebe: "4:00am."

Phoebe:" Nina's still asleep."

Phoebe: "Charley's at the pokemon center, I just got back.'

Me: "oh-Ok."

-in pain- Me: "Honey I need some potions, my back is killing me."

Phoebe: "Ok."

She went to get me some potions.

Phoebe: "I'm sorry Cj."

Me: "It's ok..."

Me :"Why won't he wake up?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, Myrenthall said something about stealing his soul."

Me: "Just tell me you're not going to marry him."

Phoebe: "Of course not, unless it's the only way to get Charley back, but then I would leave first chance and come back to you."

Me: "Honey, there's no guarantee he would actually heal Charley, you know that right?"

Me: "Besides that, Charley's our son, if he wants to marry you he'd have good reason to want him out of the picture."

Phoebe: "Oh arceus you're right."

-upset- Phoebe: "What if he can't bring him back?"

Me: "We'll get him back, don't worry."

Me: "If nothing else will find a way to torment him until he does."

Me: "Now, he has to have some sort of plan."

Phoebe: "Hmm?"

Me: "He had to have told you to meet him somewhere right?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "So it's guaranteed that he'll be there."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "He hasn't seen our pokemon yet has he?"

Phoebe: "Nope."

-smoothly- Me: "Then how about we just go bag him and tag him?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-, I'll never understand how you can be so calm."

Me: "What time does he want you to meet him?"

Phoebe: "3:00pm tomorrow."

Me: "Ok, so one difficulty."

Me: "We can't let Nina find out what happened to Charley, you know she'll go off the handle."

Phoebe: "You're right."

-upset- Nina: "It's too late..."

We then noticed she was standing right outside the door.

Phoebe: "Oh no..."

Me: "How long have you been standing there?"

Nina: "Long enough.."

-upset- Phoebe: "Nina...please...let us handle this..."

Phoebe: "He's too strong for you."

Nina: "I'll marry him..."

Me: "No you won't.."

-crying- Phoebe: "No..sweety...no..."

Me: "We can handle it."

Me: "You're going to battle the gym tomorrow, and you're going to pretend you never heard any of this."

Phoebe: "It's best you just let us take care of it."

-upset, somewhat angry- Nina: "Screw that, I'm tired of pretending things never happened."

Phoebe: "Nina!"

-upset- Nina: "Nobody takes my family away from me! Never again!"

Me: "Sweetheart calm the fuck down."

-upset- Nina: "Myrenthall is going to regret ever hurting Charley."

-deranged- Nina: "I'll kill him, I'll kill his friends...I'll kill everybody he's even smiled at.."

-quietly- Me: "I doubt he even has friends..."

-angry- Phoebe:" ENOUGH!"

That was the loudest I've ever heard her yell, she was furious...worse still it was beyond cute and pretty much just terrifying... But neither of us were in the mood for more of Nina's shenanigans.

-extremely angry- Phoebe: "Nina, this is not the time for this..."

Phoebe: "We lost Charley, we don't want to lose you too."

-scared- Nina:"Mom?"

-crying- Nina:"I'm sorry."

Nina: "Don't hurt me.."

Phoebe: "When have we ever hurt you?"

-trying to calm down- Phoebe: "Please,... just...try to calm down and let us handle it."

-calmly- Phoebe: "Go back to bed...ok?"

-crying-Nina: "I'm sorrrrry."

-upset- Phoebe: "I know sweety."

They cried it out for a few minutes, before Phoebe took Nina back to her room.

To be honest, I couldn't cry because I knew the game wasn't over yet, Charley was still alive, and I was willing to do anything neccessary to save him, I had plenty of time to cry when and if we failed. Nina was right about one thing, Myrenthall was going to regret ever messing with us.

Phoebe: "So what should we do now?"

Me: "Well, we should probably just go back to sleep."

Phoebe: "I don't know if I can."

Me :"We have to, for Charley."

Me: "We need to get as much sleep as possible so we can be ready to kick Myrenthall's ass tomorrow."

Me :" Baby girl, you know what your problem is?"

Phoebe: "Hmm?"

Me: "You're looking at this situation like we've already lost."

-sternly- Phoebe: "We lost Charley..."

Me: "I know, but we will get him back, he's not gone for good."

Me:"What I mean is, we lost this battle..."

Me: "The war's not over yet."

Me: "And we have a hand full of cards to play."

Phoebe: "Hmm?"

We got in bed.

Me: "We'll get him back, don't worry."

-calmly- Phoebe: "Can you hold me? I need you..."

Me: "Of course baby girl."

-sadly- Phoebe:"You're so strong."

-sadly- Phoebe: "I'd be lost without you."

Me: "Are you kidding, I'd be lost without you."

Me: "I'd be like, Charley's gone? Oh..um...ok...maybe I should do something about ...oh look there's a tv..."

Phoebe: "-giggles-, you weirdo."

Me: "ten minutes later, oh yeah, Charley's gone...why haven't I done anything about it yet? Wait...what was I just watching.. "

-amused- Phoebe: "-giggles-"

-pleased- Phoebe: "I love you."

Me: "Love you too baby."

Me: "You need to sleep ok? I know it will be hard, but we have to be ready to fight tomorrow."

Phoebe: "It won't be hard as long as you're here."

-unsure- Me: "Iiii don't even know what to say to that."

She turned around and kissed me.

I kissed her back, and then we fell asleep not long after since we were both exhausted by this point.