+ -chapter 21-

The next morning passed by without anything out of the ordinary happening, before long we were all in the car on the way to work, and nothing seemed off until we made it to Slabtown, which seemed to be a lot busier than normal. Then we found out why, the portal wasn't on, so traffic was backed up, quite a bit.

Me: "Well, I guess we aren't going to work today."

Phoebe: "Maybe we should wait for a bit, or we could try another portal."

Me: "Um...I guess we could drop by Victorville, see if they have one."

Me: "I think all the other small town portals got closed, that's why it's so busy."

Phoebe: "What if this one is closed?"

Me: "No, they wouldn't close it, because it's the one closest to us and if they did the portal machine would disappear, they just turned it off, I don't know why, but maybe it has something to do with whatever happened there yesterday."

Phoebe: "Ok then, let's go to Victorville, we should atleast check to make sure there isn't another portal we can use."

Me: "Allright."

Me: "It's been awhile since we've been over there, I wonder how it's changed."

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Nina:"What's Victorville?"

Nina: "You've been there before?"

Phoebe: "Oh yes, sweety, it was one of the first towns we went to after the disaster, when your father and I were on the run."

Nina: "How come I've never known about it until now?"

Phoebe: "Because you didn't ask, silly."

Nina: "Why were you on the run?"

Me: "It's a long story sweety."

Phoebe: "Cj, we have a few minutes."

Nina: "What was the disaster? You never told me about that either."

Me: "Well."

Me: "It has a lot to do with how we met."

Nina: "It does?"

Me: "Your mother and I, not you and me."

Nina: "Oh."

Just outside of Slabtown, we passed a small cattle farm that appeared to be doing well.

-excitedly- Charley: "Mawa loo, es pomah."

Me: "Um Charley, those are cows."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina: "What do they do?"

Me: "That's what hamburgers come from."

Nina: "Oh...ok."

Nina: "So what was the disaster?"

Me: "Welllll..."

Phoebe: "You see sweety, it all started a few years ago..."

This conversation lasted all the way into Victorville, as there was so much to tell her about the adventures Phoebe and I had together before we had met her on that fateful day in Cinnabar. She seemed to be fascinated, but shocked at the same time. Once we arrived in Victorville, we discovered that they had a portal, and that their portal was working normally, so we headed through it, and ended up in the experiment building as usual, the VictorVille portal was deep inside the building, but we got through pretty quickly as traffic wasn't as heavy as usual. We arrived at work, about twenty minutes late, but Dr. Black already knew why so we didn't have to explain it.

Dr. Black: "Something escaped, we had to do an emergency shutdown."

Me: "What escaped?"

Dr. Black:" We don't really know, but we managed to force it back into the portal it came out of."

Dr. Black: "It wasn't human, it's wasn't a machine, it's wasn't any known pokemon, it's wasn't one of what you call 'animals'."

Dr. Black:"Have you heard of the Alola region?"

Me: "Nope."

Phoebe: "Nope."

Dr. Black: "It's a chain of islands on the western hemisphere, nearly on the opposite side of the globe from the Hoen region, a few hundred miles off the coast of Unova."

Dr. Black: "They're doing research there into what they call ultra beasts, strong, extra dimensional pokemon."

Dr. Black:"I wonder if what escaped was one of them."

Me: "How do you know if it wasn't some random lifeform from one of the portals?"

Me: "I mean we've come across living lego people, it's pretty safe to say that anything can be out there."

Dr. Black: "Yeah, well this one came out during a glitch that occured yesterday evening when the portal was supposed to be deactivated."

Dr. Black:"Which means it doesn't belong in the world the portal leads too either."

Dr. Black: "Now, let me make something clear, these portals lead to other universes, dimensions are different, in a sense."

Dr. Black: "Dimensions, are basically a part of a universe."

Dr. Black:"And since these portals are completely unpredictable when glitches occur, perhaps in that brief window it led not to another universe but to another dimension."

Me:"Why not another dimension of another universe?"

Me:" Like what if it was halfway between this universe and another it was supposed to lead too?"

Dr. Black :"Well...we just don't know."

Phoebe:"So what are we doing today?"

Dr. Black: "Well, you two need to check out the portal we banished the creature to."

Phoebe: "What? Why?"

Dr. Black: "Because we haven't explored it yet."

Dr. Black:"The creature has wandered away from the portal site, so we've already sent the probe in and confirmed that it's safe for you to enter, so go and collect your gear and get to it!"

Phoebe:"But what about the creature?"

Dr. Black:"Just try not to lure it back to the portal."

Me: "I'm sure we can handle it babe, don't worry."

Phoebe:"Ohhh ok."

We began to put on the cameras and we also picked up a radio, as usual.

Dr. Black:"Also before you go, that truck that you 'made' yesterday, did it work?"

Me:"Nope, it's still toy size, actually it's still sitting out behind the house, I forgot all about it."

Phoebe: "Hehehe."

Dr. Black:"I thought there would be some sort of catch."

Dr. Black: "Apparently stuff made there isn't allowed to defy the rules of..."

I felt like the victim of a cruel joke, nearly every car I've wanted, so close to being within my grasp, let down by complicated extra physics most people, including me, couldn't even begin to understand. And now they had all been turned into toys, that, perhaps Charley would appreciate.

Me: "Yeah ok, we get it, come on Pheebles. You ready? Let's go!"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm, ready Cj."

Dr. Black: "Allright then, proceed into the portal."

We left the lab, and entered what appeared to be an alleyway ordinary small town, except it was about the middle of the day here and there was nobody around. Though that may be because the creature from earlier caused them to flee. Signs of damage all around brought back memories of the disaster. Freshly broken glass littered the sidewalks, indicating the damage was quite recent. In the distance we spotted what appeared to be a police roadblock, complete with the flashing lights of police cars. Phoebe and I took to the rooftops, just in case we came across somebody. However, once we made it to the road block, which was right before a railroad crossing at the end of this abandoned block, we found it to be abandoned as well.

Me :"Well whatever that creature was it appears that whoever lives here doesn't like it."

Phoebe: "You saw what it did to those buildings, they had a reason to."

Me: "It's also hostile, apparently."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "But where are the bodies then?"

Phoebe:"I don't know, I'm not good at finding dead people."

Me: "Maybe it didn't kill anyone, or they had time to move the bodies?"

Phoebe: "That's a possibility."

Me: "So, you wanna keep to the rooftops, or should we take a joyride in one of those police cars down there?"

Phoebe: "I think it would be safer if we stuck to the roofs, we don't need to get the local police after us for stealing their cars."

Me: "True, but they're nowhere to be seen."

Phoebe: "Well they got to be somewhere, I don't think this is another virtual world."

Me:"Unless we're in another open world game, like grand theft auto."

Phoebe: "Again?"

Me: "It could happen. You know how many different versions of grand theft auto exist in our world alone?"

Me :"And then you add in similiar games like Saint's Row, or Just Cause."

Me: "And then add that to all the versions that exists across time and exi..."

Phoebe: "Ok I get it."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Let's just keep to the roofs for awhile."

Me: "Allright, if that's what you want."

- a few minutes later and a few more buildings down the street.-

There were a few abandoned cars parked alongside the street below.

Me: "You getting tired yet?"

Phoebe: "No."

Me: "You think we should take one of .."

Phoebe: "No."

Me: "Baby girl, we made it two blocks without comming across another living being."

Me: "I don't think they'll care if we borrow a car just to get around."

-unsure- Phoebe:"I don't know Cj."

Phoebe:"If we take a car the police might come after us."

-somewhat annoyed- Me: "-sighs-."

Phoebe: "Ok, let's just go one more block, if we don't see anybody by then, we'll see about getting a car."

Me: "-sighs-, allright."

-about halfway down the next block-"

Phoebe: "Ok wait."

Me:"What?"

Phoebe:" I hear somebody."

-in disbelief- Me:"No you don't."

Phoebe: " Yes, I do, they're scared, they're hiding from whatever made everyone else leave."

Phoebe:"There's two of them, a mother and...I think just a baby."

Me:"Where?"

Phoebe:"In one of the apartments below us."

Phoebe:" Here, go in that door over there and go find them."

Phoebe: "You have to talk to them I can't they might freak out."

Me: "I know, I know."

I headed through the door, down to the top floor, Phoebe followed me."

Me: "I thought you were gonna stay on the roof."

Phoebe: "Well, I thought I should show you where they are atleast."

Phoebe: "Then I can teleport away before they see me."

-into radio- Me: "You seeing this doctor?"

Dr. Black: "Roger that, proceed with your plans to investigate the survivors."

-into radio- Me: "Um, ok."

Me: "Survivors? "

Me: "We can't even tell if anyone has died yet."

Phoebe: "Would you be surprised if some did?"

Me:" At this point? No, not really."

Me:"Except there's still no bodies anywhere."

Phoebe:"Ok, they are two doors ahead, on the left."

Phoebe:"I'll wait for you on the roof."

She kissed me on the cheek before teleporting away.

I headed to the door she told me to go to and knocked upon it.

Me: "Hello? Is anyone in there?"

A woman answered, but did not open the door.

Unknown woman: "Is it gone?"

Me:"Is what gone?"

Unknown woman:"The creature, the jellyfish thing."

Me: "The what?"

Me: "Yeah, it's gone, I guess, I haven't seen it."

Me: "Can I come in? I have some questions."

By now Dr Black had actually given us a list of questions to ask whatever intelligent life forms we could find, just as a baseline for research.

Unknown woman: "About what? I told you guys already I don't have any money."

Me: "What? No, this has nothing to do with money."

Me:"This is uh, a psychological evaluation survey."

Me: "You have witnessed something your government did not want you to see, and you are required by law to take a survey so we can, uhhh... properly estimate the damage to the psychological health of the ge-general public in the uh, in the affected area."

Unknown woman: "Fine, come in."

She opened the door and let me in.

Unknown woman: "Am I in trouble for not leaving? "

-unsure- Me: "Um...no..."

Me: "So uhhh...let's get started shall we."

Unknown woman: "Sure, go ahead, just be quiet cause the baby is sleeping."

Me: "What year is it?"

Unknown woman: "Are you kidding me? It's 1991."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "What country is this?"

Unknown woman: "It's the ROA, duh."

Me: "What's ROA? "

Unknown woman: "Republic of America."

Me: "Oookayy."

Unknown woman: "You work for the government don't you?"

Me: "Yeah, we just need to be sure you remember where you are, last person I was sent to speak to thought they were in europe."

-meanwhile, on the roof-

Phoebe :"-sighs-, this world is boring."

-unsure- Phoebe: "I wonder where all the people went?"

-to self- Phoebe: "Maybe I can go check around the block real quick, make sure there aren't some more survivors hiding out somewhere?"

Gun fire erupted in the distance.

Phoebe :"What the?"

Phoebe:"That can't be good."

-back inside the apartment.-

Me: "Ok that's all the questions I have."

Unknown woman: "Ok."

Me: "So it's the year 1991 , this is the town of Springfield in the Republic of America, Taured is a country, Man has never stepped on the moon, and there is no such thing as pokemon or dimensional portal technology?"

Unknown woman: "Did I pass?"

Me: "Mhm."

Me:"Congratulations."

Me: "Do you know if there's any others hiding out somewhere?"

Unknown woman: "Nope."

Me: "Ok, thanks for your time."

I left the apartment, Phoebe suddenly teleported in front of me..

Phoebe: "I heard gunfire in the distance."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "You want to head over there then? Maybe see what this super beast is made of?"

-correctively- Phoebe: "Ultra beast."

Me: "Oh...well, you get what I mean."

Phoebe:"We don't have our pokemon."

-on radio- Dr. Black:"Do not engage the beast at this time, return to the lab, retrieve your weapons and pokemon, then you can go back in to face it."

-on radio- Dr. Black:"Not much research has been done on ultra beasts, and this is the first that has appeared outside the Alola region, thus it is imperative that we attempt to capture it."

Long story short, we returned to the lab with the information we had gathered, which was then archived as normal, then we took a quick trip home to get our pokemon, and a few guns, then returned to the lab once again and headed back into the portal, all while Corina watched the kids for us the whole time.

Me:"Ok, we're taking a car this time, it's way too far to walk."

Phoebe:"Agreed."

It was a good thirty minutes until we found a working car, the police cars at the roadblock both had dead batterys by now, however when we got to the other cars we had spotted over by the apartments, one of them, a somewhat cheep sedan, was unlocked with the keys in the ignition. Once we started it up and pulled away, we cautiously headed towards the gunfire we had both heard plenty of by now. It was only a few minutes later when we saw an ultra beast for the first time. We were approaching an intersection, just about ready to get out of the car and look for the source of the gunfire, when a large white, and somewhat odd looking jellyfish like creature hovered acrossed the intersection. It stopped in the middle of the intersection to turn around, and sprayed a strange black liquid at whoever was pursuing it, then it turned around again, and continued in the direction it was originally heading, completely ignoring us.

Phoebe: "That's not normal."

Me: "Nope."

A large swat van drove passed, followed by a pair of trucks that greatly resembled humvees, and were obviously military in nature, they ignored us as well.

Me: "Allright how are we going to do this?"

Me: "It looks like both the police and national guard are after it."

Me:" We could just let them capture it and then take the swat van."

Phoebe: "Cj."

Me: "Well, how else are we going to get it back to the portal?"

Me: "I guess we could try to stuff it in this thing."

Me:"Also, it can spray black goop at people."

Phoebe:"It's probably toxic."

Me:"Yeah, probably."

We began to head after the chase, very casually though, as we weren't sure what we were going to do yet.

Behind us lay another humvee, covered in black goo, as we pulled away, the goo ignited and the humvee started to burn profusely, belching black smoke as the vehicle began to slowly melt away underneath it. The crew was nowhere to be see, but they had ample time to escape.

Me:"Uhhh, yep it's toxic."

Phoebe:"That is really strong acid."

Phoebe:"We can't let it hit us."

As the fuel tank ruptured, what remained of the vehicle was engulfed in intense, diesel fueled flames.

Me:"All the more reason to let them catch it first."

Phoebe:"But what if they can't?"

Me:"I don't know."

Me:"To be honest, with an attack like that, I'm kind of afraid to send my pokemon against it."

Phoebe: "Me too."

Me: "We could use Bubba to dilute the poison, it looks like it takes awhile to set in."

Phoebe :"A few seconds atleast."

Me :"As long as we don't get swamped in it, we should be allright."

Phoebe: "Maybe, but that was only one attack, what else can it do?"

Me:" I don't know."

Me: "We gotta do something though.."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

We followed the military cavalcade through several blocks, until we arrived on a dead-end street in a residential area, where the military had the creature surrounded. we headed to the adjacent street, and parked in somebody's driveway, from there we approached the ongoing firefight with extreme caution.

-urgently- Phoebe:"Cj I need to go now someone saw us."

Me: "Awe what?"

She teleported away, while yet another humvee entered the street. The driver got out, and seemed a bit angry, but was not acting in a threatening manner.

Unknown soldier: "What the hell are you doing here? "

Unknown soldier: "All civilians were supposed to be evacuated to the national guard station, for their own safety."

Me: "But."

I couldn't help but notice the flag on his uniform, same general design as the american flag, but all the colors were switched around, the stripes were red and blue, and the corner patch was white with black stars.

-interupting- Unknown soldier: "If I see you out here again, criminal charges will be pressed, do you understand?"

Me :"Where's the station again?"

Phoebe teleported in behind him.

Phoebe: "We're not civilians, we're here to help."

Me: "Pheebles would you make up your mind on whether you want to hide or not?"

Unknown soldier: "What are you?"

She reached out and touch him on the head, a few moments later he fell unconcious. I couldn't help but notice it took a bit longer for her to knock him out than usual.

Me: "What's with the delay?"

Phoebe :"It's their helmets, I can't have as good of a connection to their brains."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Me: "Oh wow, you already got the ones inside the humvee. I didn't even notice that, how did you do that?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Hehehe, I'm stealthy."

-playfully- Me: "Hehe, yes you are."

-seriously- Phoebe: "Allright now, come on loverboy, let's go."

We headed down the street a little ways before crossing over to the adjacent through somebody's backyard. Phoebe teleported us to the roof of a house, so we could get a better view of things, we watched as the creature fought the local national guard in the middles of the street below, as well as some police forces. The creature retaliated to the gunfire by spitting more black, corrosive goo at them, the vehicles were quickly destroyed, but the soldiers managed to avoid it, with some barely managing to get it off their clothes before it started to burn. Aside from the acid, it also grabbed a few soldiers with it's tentacles and flung them into the air, all while everything was shooting at it, dealing little, if any damage.

Then stuff began to get crazy. The creature wrapped itself around one of the soldiers, and appeared to take full control of him. He turned on his comrades and began to gun them down. In response his surviving 'friends' began to fire upon him as well, and well, he basically didn't stop shooting until one of the last surviving soldiers threw a grenade, which blew him up completely, and appeared to severly wound the creature. All of the soldiers were either dead or dying at this point. Only a handful were still breathing.

-somewhat horrified- Phoebe: "Oh wow..."

Me: "Ok, so it can control people."

Me:"And that's why you don't just go charging in."

The creature was struggling to get back up.

Me: "Go in and get the survivors to safety like I know you want too, and I'll keep this thing occupied."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Awwwe, how'd you know I'd want too?"

She teleported away.

Me: "Gunfire doesn't work, but that grenade seemed to hurt."

I sent out magnum.

Cap'n'Magnum: "Magna, magnazone."

Me: "Hit the jellyfish thing with magnet bomb. Keep it away from Pheebles."

-affirmatively- Cap'n'magnum:"Zone, Magna!"

Me: "Watch out for the black goo, don't get it on you."

The magnet bombs did minimal damage, but the creature was so lightweight it was thrown around all over the place and found itself unable to attack, giving Phoebe more than enough time to move the wounded soldiers out of harms way.

Unknown man: "Nice toy you got there."

Me: "He's not a toy, he's a fully sentient pokemon."

Unknownman: "Didn't learn your lesson last time did you?"

Me: "Say what? "

I looked back to see a space police officer behind me, he litterally came out of nowhere.

Me: "What the hell? You exist here too?"

Unknown Man: "Space police, you're under arrest for violating the laws of space time, drop the weapon and stand up, quietly."

Me: "Yeah, right."

He seemed to mistake Magnum's pokeball for a weapon.

Phoebe was already looking this way and preparing to attack.

A moment later and he was hit by a shadowball, which knocked him off balance and caused him to slide all the way down the roof, falling off the house and hitting the ground with a hard thud. It was the most hilarious thing I had seen in awhile. He was in pain, but nothing that wasn't survivable.

-strained- galaxy police: "Ow...I n-need backup."

He spoke into his watch.

Me: "Well this complicates things."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

She was on the roof with me now.

She sent out Bulby, tossing his ball out over the roof, which then opened and released him on the ground.

Phoebe: "Come on Bulby, use your vines to grab that jellyfish thing."

Bulby: "Venusaur!"

Me: "You capture it, I'll go back for the car."

Me: "We'll meet, we'll throw it in, then we'll head back to the portal, before we get swarmed with these space freaks."

Phoebe:"Ok."

She teleported us off of the roof, then we split up.

I headed back to the car, got in, and headed back to the other street, within five minutes, Bulby and Magnum managed to knock the creature out, but now they were fighting off a pair of space police officers that appeared out of nowhere, likely the back up for the one that just fell off the roof.

The space police were a considerable threat without our pokemon, but since we had them with us this time, they were as big of a deal.

Phoebe:"Bulby use petal dance please, let's try to slow them down a bit."

Bulby:"Saur!"

She teleported behind me while Bulby began to fill the air with a vortex consisting of thousands of petals, the teleporting space police were unable to avoid this attack as it blanketed the whole area. Meanwhile, Magnum took to the skys avoiding it entirely. While the petals weren't very effective against the space police's armor, it stopped them in their tracks as they struggled to protect their faces and other parts that weren't completely covered, instead of teleporting out, or trying to attack us. I decided to take advantage of this.

Me: "Allright Magnum, use thunder now! While they're too dazed to move."

A direct hit knocked both the officers unconcious, moments later the flurry of petals subsided, and Bulby began to pant heavilly and became a bit woozy from exhaustion, fortunately, he was still able to help drag the unconcious jellyfish monster to the car.

Me: "Ok Magnum, while we do this, keep an eye out for more galaxy police."

-urgently- Cap'n'magnum: "Magna, magna!"

Phoebe: "He says he sees some aircraft comming this way."

Me: "Awwe...crap, national guard reinforcements probably."

Me: "Right, let's get out of here, those are probably blackhawks, they can carry a lot of people."

I was somewhat afraid they would have miniguns, though they were too far away to tell at this point.

The creature had a weird slimy feel to it that made it hard to hold onto, fortunately, though, this also meant it wasn't difficult to stuff it into the backseat of the car. Once we did that, we quickly returned our pokemon, got in and drove off.

Eventually the helicopters flew over us, and ignored us entirely, but then several rockets came out of nowhere and brought both of them down.

Me: "What the hell did you see that?"

Phoebe: "I see, but...I don't understand."

Me: "My guess is more space police showed up, and they don't want their officers to be captured and reveal their existence, so now they're fighting the national guard, trying to keep them back, atleast until they can get their buddies to safety.."

Phoebe: "That's terrible."

Me:"That's what happens when you keep secrets, end up hurting the same people you're trying to protect."

Me: "Hopefully this means they'll be preoccupied and we'll be able to escape."

Phoebe: "But what about the ones I saved?"

Me: "I don't know, did you hide them?"

-worried- Phoebe: "No I left them in plain sight so their friends could find them and help them."

Me: "Well, if they stay down, and don't do anything stupid, they might be left alone, who knows?"

Just then, a strange dune-buggy like vehicle rounded a corner and began to chase us at surprising speed.

Me: "Are you kidding me? They got buggys now?"

Me :"What happened to the deloreans?"

The buggy looked kind of weird, with a bubble for a cockpit remniscent of a bell 47 helicopter, and fairly large offroad wheels, with the front wheels mounted on spring loaded arms that extended past the cockpit.

-on speakerphone- Space Policeman: "You are all under arrest for violating the laws of space time, and for possession of a dangerous interdimensional animal, pull over, this is your last warning, "

Me : "Pheebles..."

Phoebe: "Mhm?"

Me: "Tell Dr. Black we're comming in hot."

Phoebe:"Ok."

She radioed Dr. Black, while the buggy kept chasing us.

We were flying through the streets at 80mph, twice the supposed speed limit, and the buggy was actually catching up with us, much faster than it's appearence would suggest.

However, as it was alone, it really couldn't do much against our heavier sedan.

It tried to pit us out, but I hit the brakes, which brought us right along side them. I then tried to force it to crash into a parked car, but the driver saw this comming and braked hard to avoid a collision, they scraped our tail, but not hard enough for me to lose control, giving us a lead of almost an entire block, we made it to the portal, then we got out of the car, and Phoebe once again set Bulby to work to drag the creature back into the lab, I had to deal with our pursuer. I left the alleyway and headed into the street while the buggy was approaching. Wanting to deal with this quickly, I sent out Aggron.

Me:"Don't attack yet, just hold on."

The buggy approached, and casually slowed to a stop, the driver seemingly unsure of how to deal with the 20ft tall steel dinosaur blocking the road before him.

Me: "You see that buggy? Roar at it as loud as you can.."

He took a few steps forward and roared really loudly.

The driver panicked, turned around, and hightailed it in the opposite direction.

Me: "Hehehe..."

Aggron started to chase after it.

Me: "Hey, no, come back, we don't have to chase them."

-roaring- Aggron: "Grrrrrrrrooooooooooaaaaaaahhhhhhh!"

It was no use, he couldn't hear me and was already out of pokeball range.

-from behind me- Phoebe: "Where is he going?"

Me: "I don't know."

He ran about a block, then threw up his arms in defeat and decided to come back.

Aggron: "Groooah, a groooahh"

Phoebe:" He says it's too fast."

Me:" That's allright, you didn't need to chase them anyway."

-unsure- Aggron:"Grraaaaahhhhhhn?"

He gave me a confused look.

Me:"It's allright, don't worry about it."

I returned him to his ball.

Me: "Allright we ready?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

-affirmatively- Bulby: "Venusaur!"

Me "Ok, let's go through the portal then."

Me:"It's been out a long time, are you sure we didn't kill it?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, don't worry, I just put it into a really deep sleep, for safety."

Phoebe:" It will probably wake up in about 8 hours or so."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Unless they keep it sedated."

Me: "Hehe, they probably will."

We headed into the lab with Bulby carrying the creature on his back.

As we entered the lab we noticed the room had been rearranged since we left. Bulby set the creature on top of a cart that was waiting for him, and then Phoebe thanked and returned him.

Dr. Black: "I though you said you were comming in hot?"

Me:" Change of plans, didn't need to."

Dr. Black: "So we moved everything out of the way for nothing?"

Me: "Yep."

Dr. Black: "Nevermind, atleast you escaped the space police and capture the ultrabeast."

Dr. Black: "Or whatever it is."

Dr. Black: "Bob, get this thing to the operation room and establish contact with the pokemon research lab in Alola."

Bob: "Yes sir."

Me: "We also came across the space police again, apparently it's another world they think is under their control."

Dr. Black: "Hmmm, very peculiar."

Me: "They keep trying to arrest us just for entering their world."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Dr. Black: "Perhaps sometime you should let them arrest you, it would alllow us to get more intel."

Phoebe:" Um, no, we have a record now, it would be better if you sent another team in that they don't know."

Me: "Yeah, and then who knows if they'll even let them leave afterwards."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Dr. Black: "Well we need to learn more about them somehow, that's the second world we've discovered that's 'in their jurisdiction'."

Dr. Black: "We don't know if they're good, or bad, or if they can be reasoned with."

Dr. Black: "But it's important we find out more about them, because it appears they have similiar if not more advanced technology to ours, we should even ally with them if possible."

Dr. Black:" So this afternoon, we shall send another team in to negotiate. "

Phoebe:"Ok, if that's what you think is best."

Dr. Black: "Also, I have to ask that their existence be kept secret."

Phoebe :"Ok."

Dr. Black:" This conversation does not leave this room until further notice."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Dr. Black:"Now, while the creature is examined in the observation room by another team of scientists, we have another portal to explore that Bob hasn't set up yet."

Dr. Black: "If you have the time to check it out it would be greatly appreciate, since you're already here."

Me: "Sure we got time."

Phoebe: "Ohhhh, I dunno Cj."

Me: "Oh come on, the chance we run into another

Dr. Black: "Allright, good."

Dr. Black: "So we'll have to wait for him to get back."

Dr. Black: "You can take a break for awhile if you want."

Me:" Ok."

We both headed to the lounge to see Charley.

Charley: "Cowewah, Cawey see Mawa Dahwey."

-playfully- Corina:"Oh you do?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Hey sweety."

Corina:" Are you done for the day? "

Phoebe: "No we're just on break."

Me: "Nina, you holding out ok?"

Nina: "Not right now dad, I'm battling an elite four guy."

Me:"oh ok, which one?"

Nina:"I don't know."

Me:"Really?"

Nina: "Come on emboar, you can do this."

Nina: "No...no...nooooo, don't die, don't die, don't die, don't die...NOOOOOOOO!"

Nina: "I lost."

Me:" Well it's ok sweetheart, you can try again."

Me: "Remember it's just a game now, they don't have anymore real pokemon in there."

Nina: "They don't?"

Me: "No they moved them all out awhile ago."

Corina: "She hasn't looked away from the screen since she got here."

Me: "Oh really?"

Me:" Well she has to pass the time somehow."

Nina: "I could go to whirlyworld."

Me: "We're not letting you wander around Whirlyworld by yourself, besides it's freezing out and I think it's closed this time of year."

Phoebe: "He's right, it is."

Nina: "Awee."

-cutely- Charley:" Cawey dunno woweewah."

Me: "Hehehe woweewah?"

Phoebe: "He means whirlyworld."

Me: "I know, but it's just funny the way he says things sometimes."

-unsure- Charley: "Woh..wa..whowee...

-confused- Phoebe: "What?"

Charley:".wowohlee...wa...wohleewa!"

Charley: "Cawey dunno wohleewa."

Me: "Ehh...a little bit closer."

Phoebe: "You've been to whirlyworld before Charley."

Phoebe: "You probably just don't remember."

Phoebe: "I think I have a picture of you on the merry-go-round somewhere."

-unsure- Charley: "Cawey dunno mawa."

Phoebe: "Oh that's ok , you'd probably know it if you saw it."

Corina: "You've been to Whirlyworld? I drive by that place a lot, but I never been inside it."

Phoebe: "You've never been there?"

Phoebe: "It's fun, you should go visit it sometime."

Nina: "The rollercoasters are fun."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe:" But even if you don't like rollercoasters, they have other rides and things too."

Corina:"I don't know Phoebe."

Phoebe :"Also how's Melissa? Have you seen her? Is she allright?"

Corina: "She's not feeling well I'm afraid."

Corina: " She's very busy preparing for the arrival of her young."

Phoebe: "Doesn't surprise me at all."

-jokingly- Me: "Their nursery probably has some sort of laser defense system."

Phoebe: "-giggles-, mhm."

-jokingly- Me: "Cameras everywhere."

Phoebe: "Hehe, yep."

Me: "It would be like, Fort Knox, daycare center.."

Corina :"Huh?"

-unsure- Corina:"I don't know what fort knox is, but it does have a camera."

Me:"Ok."

-jokingly- Corina: "I don't remember them saying anything about lasers though."

-bored- Charley: "Cawey wa dow."

Phoebe: "Ohhhhh, ok sweety, here you go."

She set him on the floor, where he then crawled over to his golden wartortle plush. He seized it in his tiny little hands and held it up.

-playfully- Charley :"Cawey geh Watarwol."

Me: "Yeah, you found him didn't you?"

Me: "You still looking for pizzas?"

Charley: "No Dawhy, Cawey no see peesah, Cawey loo ehwehr."

Me: "You looked everywhere huh?"

-playfully- Me: "Are you sure?"

Corina: "He's pretty sure, he's been going on and on about pizzas and he's been crawling all around the room looking for them since you left him here.."

Corina :"Has he ever had pizza?"

Phoebe: "Yes, but not for quite awhile."

Phoebe: "It's like his favourite word or something, he doesn't know what it means, but he likes to talk about it."

Phoebe: "And it's involved in his favourite little game, hehe."

Phoebe: "Along with castles and pancakes."

Corina: "Where's he get all these ideas?"

-happily- Phoebe: "Cj."

-awkwardly- Me:Hehehe, yeah...I guess."

We stayed in the lounge waiting for them to get the second portal ready to go, only for Bob to come in.

Bob: " Unfortunately the portal you were supposed to go explore has failed the probe test and is not safe for you enter, the air is contaminated with high levels of nitrous oxide and other toxic gasses."

Bob:"That said, you're free to head home now."

Phoebe: "Ok, thanks."

Nina: "Are we going shopping now?"

Phoebe: "I guess so."

-excited- Nina: "Yay, let's go, let's go."

Me:"Come on Charley, it's time to go."

-cutely- Charley: "Es tie go?"

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Thanks again for looking after Charley Corina."

Corina: "Mhm, it's no biggie."

I picked Charley up off the floor.

Me: "Allright lets go."

Me: "Charley you better hold onto your toy."

He had a habit of throwing them whenever he was being carried.

Charley: "Cawey dunno dawhy ses."

Phoebe: "He's saying wartortle can't fly, so hold on to him."

Charley: "Seewee mawa, watarwool cah fwy, see?"

He tossed his wartortle plush, which as expected fell to the floor.

-somewhat annoyed- Me: "Charley."

Phoebe: "No, he can't, he can only fall."

I picked his toy back up for him.

Me: "Now hold onto it."

Phoebe: "Is that the only toy he brought with him?"

Phoebe: "I thought he had his lotad plush too."

Me: "Um..."

I glanced around the room, and spotted his lotad plush nestled under a chair."

Me: "Yeah it's under that chair can you get that."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I'll get it, just take him out to the car."

Me: "Ok."

At this point Nina had already left the room, anxious to get to the department store. I followed her through the halls until it became obvious she was lost when she stopped for a moment, after heading the wrong direction and ending up on the wrong side of the building.

Nina: "Um...where did we come in at?"

-jokingly- Me: "You don't remember? "

Me: "You're going the wrong way you goofball, the exit is back this way."

Nina:"Oh, ok."

-cheerfully- Charley: "Dawhy ses Newa es goobah!"

-somewhat annoyed- Nina:" I know."

-cutely- Charley: "Seewee Newa."

Charley: "Newa es goobah."

-annoyed- Nina:" -sighs-."

Nina: "You're a goobah."

Charley: "Seewee Newa, Cawey no goobah, Newa es goobah."

-jokingly- Me: "Can't argue with him you know?"

Nina: "I know."

Me: "Allright let's get going."

Charley: "Wehgowee?"

Me: "To the store."

Charley: "Cawey dunno stow."

Charley :"Es eywa gowee ta stow?"

Me: "Yes everyone is going."

Phoebe: "Now what are you up to?"

She had just come around the corner behind us, near the end of the hall.

-jokingly- Me: "Nothing baby girl, Nina just decided to go exploring."

-defensively- Nina: "I did not."

Phoebe: "Well come on sweety, the sooner we get out of here the sooner we can get to the department store."

Nina: "I know mom."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "You can explore later."

-annoyed- Nina: "Moooooomm."

-defensively- Nina:"I wasn't exploring, I got lost."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "It's about the same thing isn't it?"

We all left the lab together, got in the car, and headed to the Goldenrod Department Store. Once we got there, Phoebe took Nina dress shopping, while I took Charley to the toy store to kill some time, more for his sake than mine, because if he got bored he wouldn't hesitate to make a scene about it, but in a toy store, it was easy to keep him entertained with all the colorful toys.

I took him to an aisle that had quite a variety of plush toys available, from the insanely popular Torch the Growlithe toy line as well as others. Among them was a stuffed Pyroar, and several pokemon I couldn't recognize, presumably from the Kalos region as they were all made by the same company.

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey see po-mah."

-playfully- Me: "Yeah, there sure are a lot of them here aren't there?"

Charley "Dahwy geh po-mah fo Cawey?"

Me: "We'll see, though you do have plenty of them already."

In the next aisle there was a table with a little wooden trainset on top (very similiar to brio or thomas the tank engine) that children were allowed to play with, pretty much all of the trains in the set were also available for purchase, but we had plenty of them at home already.

Me: "Here Charley you want to play with the trains?"

I lifted him out of the cart and set him on the floor next to the table.

Charley:"Es tway."

Me:"Mhm."

He seemed to look around for a controller, of course, being a wooden train set, there wasn't one.

Charley: "Cawey dunno, may tway go."

Me:"It doesn't move on it's own Charley, you have to push them around."

He picked up a wooden figure of a miltank, that was part of the train set. It was designed so it could be carried around in one of the train cars. There were a few other figures as well, including your stereotypical conductor, a stereotypical business man, and a granbull of all things, all consisting of solid wood with colorful pictures painted, or otherwise applied to them.

-cutely- Charley: "Loo Dawhy, es cow."

Me:" No that's a miltank, it's kind of like a cow, but it's smaller, and it's a pokemon."

Charley: "es go stah tway."

Me :"It's going to stop the train?"

Me: "Why?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Charley: "Cow ses tway no go ay mo."

-amused- Me: "Hehe, it's not a cow Charley."

Me: "It's a miltank."

Charley: "Es mahtang."

Me: "Miltank."

-cutely- Charley: "Mahltang."

-cutely, defiantly- Charley: "Seewee dawhy, es na mahltang, es cow."

He refused to believe me, very confident that he knew what a cow was.

Me: "-sighs-, if you say so."

To be fair, the way that it was drawn made it somewhat mistakable for a cow, except for it being pink. In reality, you'd have to be blind to mistake a miltank for an ordinary cow, they're smaller, and quite a bit more intelligent, they can also walk on their hind legs, something normal cows would never do, but the miltank depicted on the toy, shown on all fours with no discernable scale, was about as close to a cow as a miltank could sensibly be depicted.

He seemed content to stick around and play with the trains, so we stayed there for a bit. As it was a toystore, it wasn't long before other children came in and joined him, and this was where we ran into problems.

A small child, who couldn't have been more than 4 or 5, came up and started to play with the trainset as well, for a few moments it looked like they would get along just fine, then the child happened to take a particular train that Charley decided was his, and, well, he exploded.

-upset- Charley: "NO ES CAWEY TWAY! CAWEY WA NOW!"

-defensively- Unknown child: "He wasn't playing with it!"

The child briefly glanced at who I assumed to be his mother, who was on the edge of the next aisle, amd not paying attention at the moment, and then at me.

-awkwardly- Me: "Yeaaaaah. I know, I saw."

-loudly- Charley: "ES CAWEY TWAY!"

He reached for it, and tried to pry it away from the kid, without success, until the kid decided it wasn't worth fighting over and let him have it.

Unknown child: "Ok, ok, stop yelling."

-spitefully- Charley: "Es Cawey Tway!"

Me:" Charley if you keep acting like this we're going back to see your mother, I don't care how boring dress shopping is."

-concerned- The child's mother: "What is going on here? Did you make that little baby cry?"

Unknown child: "I didn't mean too."

Me: "It's not his fault."

Me: "My son is just going through the "my" phase."

The child's mother: "Ohhhh, that's your son?"

Me: "Yeah."

The child's mother: "Yeah, I remember when Stevie was going through that, you really got your work cut out for you."

Me:"Ehh, shouldn't be any more difficult than anything else so far."

The child's mother: "Maybe not as bad as psychic powers."

Me:"Huh?"

The child's mother: "He's half gardevoir isn't he?"

Me: "Um yeah, how'd you know?"

The child's mother: "Oh there's a girl in Stevie's preschool class that's a hybrid too."

Me: "Hey, wasn't she like the first?"

The child's mother: "I think so, yeah."

The child's mother: "They say even Phoebe and Cj had a child together, can you believe it?"

-awkwardly- Me: "Hehehe...actually, you know, his powers aren't that hard to deal with."

Me: "That's why he's wearing this bracelet, keeps them under control until he can learn how to properly use them."

Me:" Anyway it was nice meeting you, but we should probably go."

The child's mother: "Um, ok, sure, nice meeting you too."

I was starting to get the feeling it was only a matter of time before she discovered who we were, afterall, there were only a handful of human\gardevoir hybrids around.

Me:"Come on Kevin."

I picked Charley up along with his wartortle plush and left the store.

-annoyed- Charley: "Cawey wa tway!"

Me:" We have some at home you can play with."

-upset- Charley: "Buh Cawey waaaaaa."

Me: "Charley."

He cried all the way back to the clothing store.

Phoebe must have been able to hear him immediately, as she quickly found us before we found her.

-worried- Phoebe: "What did you do?"

-worried- Phoebe: "Why's he so upset?"

-upset- Charley: "Mawa!"

Me: "He's just mad because he wants this little wooden trainset they had in the store."

I handed him over to her so she could attempt to calm him down.

Me: "They had it on display, so I let him play with it for awhile. Then another kid came, and he decided he didn't want to share."

Charley: "Mawa, dawhy no geh tway fo Cawey."

Phoebe:" Ohhh, Charley, you can't always get what you want sweety."

Charley: "Es Cawey tway."

Me: "No it's not, it belongs to the store."

Charley: "ES CAWEY TWAY!"

Phoebe: "Shhh, let me handle this."

-calmly- Phoebe: "Charley..."

-upset, interupting- Charley: "ES CAWEY TWAY!"

He flailed his arms in anger.

Phoebe: "Shhhh."

-upset- Charley: "Essss Caweeeeeeeey twaayyyyy!"

Phoebe: "Ok, he doesn't want to cooperate."

Me: "Should I just take him out to the car then?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, there's nothing I can do, he's too upset to reason with."

I carried a screaming Charley out of the store, and strapped him into his car seat, then I sat up front and turned the car on while he continued to scream.

Me: "Do you want your wartortle back."

He took the plush from me and immediately threw it to the ground.

Charley: "Noooooo! Cawey wa tway."

Me: "Well good luck with that."

Me :"You're definitely not getting it now, you won't learn anything if you do."

Charley: "Buh Cawey wa.."

Me: "Well too bad."

Me: "Here, watch tv. You like puppet town trainer don't you?"

I got out and opened his door to make sure his tv was on.

Me: "See, there you go."

Me: "Watch the tv."

-whining- Charley: "Cawey wa tway."

-insistent- Me: "Forget about the train, watch tv."

Charley: "Buh Cawey wa."

Me: "Let it go Charley."

This was the most stubborn I've ever seen him be up to this point, I guess he just really wanted that train. Fortunately it didn't take long for him to tire out from crying. Even now he was begining to settle down, not because he forgot about the train, but because he was getting tired, and simply didn't have the strength to keep screaming about it.

Meanwhile, Phoebe was still inside helping Nina look for a dress, and I had no indication on how close they were to being done. Eventually Charley calmed down, but now I was getting bored just sitting in the car, and I didn't want to bring him back to the toy store, partly because I didn't want our identities to be discovers, and also because I didn't want him to throw another fit about that silly train again.

So I texted Phoebe trying to alleviate some boredom, and sure enough, before long we had a conversation going.

-via text-Me: "Hey baby, you there?"

-via text-Phoebe: "Mhm."

-via text- Phoebe: "Is he calm yet?"

-via text-Me: " He stopped crying atleast, I don't know if he's still mad about it."

-via text-Phoebe: "We won't be long."

-via text-Phoebe:" She has almost made a decision."

-via text-Me: "Ok, good."

-via text, concerned- Me: "Nothing too revealing ?"

-via text-Phoebe: "It will be fine, trust me."

-via text, playfully- Me: "You sure ?"

-via text-Phoebe: "Yes."

-via text, playfully- Me: "Are you sure you're sure ?"

-via text-Phoebe: "Yes."

-via text, playfully-Phoebe: "I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure, to infinity."

-via text- Me: "Ok then."

-cutely- Charley :"Dawhy..'

Me: "Mhm?"

-calmly- Charley: "Cawey wa tway."

He now appeared to be trying the 'cute and innocent' approach.

Me: "Wait till we get home."

-demandingly- Charley: "Cawey wa tway now!"

Which didn't last long.

Me: "Well too bad."

Charley: "Dawhy geh tway fo Cawey?"

Me: "No, Cawey be quiet fo Dawhy."

-loudly- Charley: "Cawey wa tway!"

Me: "No."

Charley: "No!"

Me: "No."

Charley: "No!"

Me: "Quiet."

Charley: "No!"

Me: "You're starting to annoy me now."

Charley: "Cawey wa tway."

-softly- Me :-sighs-, just let it go.."

-softly- Me :-sighs-, he'll forget about it."

-loudly- Charley: "CAWEY WA TWAY!"

-sternly- Me :"Charley."

-loudly- Charley: "CAWEY WA TWAY!"

-via text- Me: "Charley is going on about the damned train again."

-via text- Me: "He won't stop screaming about it."

-via text- Phoebe: " try singing."

-via text- Me: "What?"

-via text- Phoebe: "Just sing anything, maybe it will distract him."

I sung the first song that came to my mind, for whatever reason.

-awkwardly singing-Me "For the light...buh buh buh buhh, love isn't allways on time..., woah woh woaaah."

-awkwardly singing- Charley: "Cawey wa tway!"

-singing- Me:" It's not in the way that you told me. buh buh bum bum bum bum."

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way you say you care."

-singing- Me: "Buh buh bum bum bum bum."

-screaming- Charley: "NOOOOOOO! TWAY!"

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way that you treat my friends."

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way that you stay to the end."

Charley: "Cawey wa TWAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way you look for the things that you say that you do."

-singing- Me: "Hold the li-i-ine...love isn't always on ti-i-ime."

-singing- Me: Ohwohwohooh."

-confused- Charley: "Hoh why?"

-unsure- Charley:"Dawhy ses hoh why."

Charley:"Cawey dunno hoh why."

-via text- Me: "Omg it worked."

-via text- Phoebe: "Told you :)"

Charley: " Hoh why."

Me: "Love isn't always on time."

-unure- Charley: "luh es way oh tie."

-unsure- Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "It's a song, you're supposed to sing it silly."

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

-singing- Me: "Hold the li-i-ine, love isn't always on ti-i-ime."

-cutely attempting to sing- Charley: "Luh es ahway awe tie"

Me:"Yeaaaah, you get it, sort of."

-attempting to sing- Charley: "Luh es ahway awe tie."

-attempting to sing- Charley: "Hoh li, luh es ahway awe tie-ie."

Charley: "Wheh Mawa?"

Me : "She's still inside the store with Nina."

Me :"She'll be back in a bit."

Me: "Don't worry."

Charley: "Doh wohwy."

Me: "Mhm."

-cutely- Charley: "Mawa go way."

Me: "Yes, but she'll come back."

Charley :"Cawey go see mawa?"

Me:" She doesn't want to see you, you were too loud."

Charley: " Buh Cawey miss."

Me: "You just saw her five minutes ago, but you decided to scream your head off, so she doesn't want to see you right now."

Me :"Momma doesn't like it when you cry."

Me: "Neither does daddy for that matter."

-upset- Charley: "Cawey wa mawa!"

Me: "Just wait a little bit."

-via text- Me: "Now he's about to cry again because he wants to see you."

-via text- Phoebe: "She only has a few more to try on, just keep him occupied."

-via text- Phoebe: "Start singing again :D."

-via text- Phoebe: "Wuv you :3."

Me: "-sighs-, you mother thinks I should keep singing to you."

Charley; "Cawey wa mawa."

Me: "I know you do, you just don't realize she'll be out here in just a little while."

Me :"Anyway, let's try this again."

-singing- Me: "Hold the li-i-ine, love isn't always on ti-i-ime."

-attempting to sing- Charley: "Hoh liiiiiiii, luh es ahway awe tie-ie."

-singing- Me: "woh woh woh-ohhh."

-cutely imitating- Charley: "Woh woh wah-oh."

-amused- Me: "Hehehe."

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way that you told me."

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way you say you're mine ooooh."

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way that came back to me."

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way that your love set me free."

-singing- Me: "It's not in the way you look for the things that you say that you do."

-attempting to sing- Charley: "Es nah way Cawey dunno."

-jokingly- Me: "Hehehe, yep it's definitaly not the way you don't know, that's for sure."

-attempting to sing- Charley: "Es nah way Cawey dunno."

-attempting to sing- Charley: "Es nah way...Cawey dunno...aythee."

-playfully- Me: "Hehehe, sooo close..."

Charley: "Dawhy see ageh..."

Me: "Again...allright, fine..."

-About 30 minutes later-

Phoebe had just left the store with Nina following behind, they had finally found a new dress and were on their way to the car.

Nina: "So what are we going to do now?"

Phoebe: "Um...I dunno."

Phoebe :"We'll probably just go home."

Nina:" Is Charley still upset? "

Phoebe: "I don't know, it's been awhile since your father has texted me."

Phoebe: "I think he's allright,."

Meanwhile, I saw them approach so I unlocked the doors.

-cutely- Charley:" Dawhy es Mawa!"

Me: "I know I can see."

-cutely- Charley: "Mawa Cawey miss!"

Me: "I don't think she can hear you very well through the windows Charley."

-excitedly- Charley: "Mawa!"

-excitedly- Charley:" Es Mawa Newa."

Me: "Mhm."

Eventually they made it to the car and got in.

Charley: "Mawa! Cawey luh Mawa! Cawey Miss!"

Phoebe: "Hi sweety, you look a lot happier than when I saw you last time."

Phoebe: "The singing worked then?"

Me: "Surprisingly..."

Nina: "What singing?"

Charley: "Dawhy see ageh!"

Me: "Why don't you sing? You know most of the words by now."

Phoebe: "He does?"

Charley: "Hoh li...luh es nah ahway ah tie!"

Charley: "Woh woh wohaaaow!"

Phoebe: "What?"

-sing-song- Me: "love is not always on time."

-cutely attempting to sing- Charley: "Es nah way holwheee."

-cutely attempting to sing- Charley: "Es nah way ses cay."

-surprised- Phoebe: "You taught him all this?"

Me: "Well, he picked most of it up on his own."

Me: "He doesn't know the whole song though, just a few lines."

-cutely attempting to sing- Charley: "Es nah way Cawey see."

Me: "And then sometimes he just puts his own words in."

Phoebe:" Hehehe."

-cutely attempting to sing- Charley: "Es nah way you co bah mee."

Charley: "Es nah way Cawey dunno aythee."

-playfully- Phoebe: "You don't anything huh?"

Phoebe: "I disagree."

Phoebe:"It looks like you know a little bit."

-enamored- Phoebe:" You little cutey."

-confused- Nina: "What song is he singing? I don't get it?"

Me: "Ah you've probably never heard it."

Me: "I don't even know if your mother has ever heard it."

Phoebe:"Yes I've heard it before, it's on your old phone."

Me:" Oh, ok then."

Me: "Well then, should we go home?"

Phoebe: "Sounds good to me."

Nina: "Mhm."

Me: "Allright then."

We made it home without anything strange happening, once we got there, Nina stashed her new dress in her room somewhere and then immediately headed outside to play with her pokemon. It was a relatively warm day for once, warm enough for the snow to nearly be melted away. I spent the next thirty minutes moving the livingroom trainset to Charley's room. After that was finished Phoebe and I stayed up there for awhile to watch him play with it. He had wanted to play with it ever since we got home, and if we didn't let him he would probably be upset for the rest of the day. It was hard enough for Phoebe to keep him calm while I dismantled it before taking it upstairs. He seemed to think I was destroying it.

After about an hour Phoebe sent me outside to check on Nina while she stayed with Charley.

After searching around outside I discovered she had wandered out of the yard and was heading towards the timber, on her own.

-yellling- Me :"What are you doing?"

I yelled as she was quite far away.

-unsure, distant yelling- Nina: "What?"

-yellling- Me: "Come back here."

Me: "You shouldn't just wander away from the house without telling us."

Nina: "But I'll be fine."

I headed out after her.

Me: "Yeah well, how are we supposed to know?"

Me: "If I came out a few minutes later I'd have no idea where you were."

Me: "Besides, you're pokemon haven't been back there before."

Me: "What if they get lost?"

We met somewhere halfway, a few hundred feet from the house.

Me: "Don't you remember when Matches got lost when he went back there?"

Nina:" Yeah, I remember."

Me: "Your other pokemon could wander off just as easilly."

Me :"And then who knows how long it will take to find them?"

Nina: "I'm sorry."

Me: "Why did you wanna go back there anyway? "

Nina: "Just to explore, I got bored."

Me:"Fair enough."

Me: "Maybe we'll go up there tomorrow, but just stay in the yard for now."

Me: "Because, seriously honey, there could still be some rogue pokemon out, and, it could be dangerous up there at night because of it, and if your pokemon get lost, and you have to spend the rest of the evening looking for them, I don't want you to get stuck up there in the dark."

Me: "So just stay in the yard."

Nina:"-sighs-, ok."

I saw something moving in the grass.

Me: "What the?"

Nina:" Oh don't worry it's just Matches."

-playfully- Matches: "GRRRuff!"

Me: "Oh hey Matches."

The puppy pokemon playfully leaped out, outside of battles, I don't think I've ever seen him in anything but a playful mood.

Nina: "Looks like we have to go back home ."

He didn't seem to care, he was just happy to follow us back, dashing ahead of us, then turning around, only to dash back behind us. He was so full of energy, I don't think I've ever seen him sit still.

Nina: "Can you atleast watch me train for a little while."

Nina: "I need someone to evaluate my progress."

Me: "Evaluate your progress huh?"

Nina:" I don't know, I heard my teacher say it to somebody once."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Me: "Allright, I'll watch."

Nina: "Great."

Me:"You can start when we get back to the yard."

Nina: "Ok."

A little bit of walking later we made it back to the yard.

Me: "Ok So who are you going to send out first? "

Nina: "Um, Spike and Cobalt."

Me: "Allright."

It was best for pokemon to train against others they couldn't hurt very easilly, preferably others of similiar typing, that way both of them could train harder and longer without the risk of severe injuries due to type disadvantages.

-Meanwhile-

Charley had once again succeded in derailing the train.

Charley: "Kwash!"

Charley: "Mawa tway es bwokeh."

Phoebe:"Charley, why do you keep trying to crash the train?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Charley: "es seewee."

Phoebe:"You wouldn't find it amusing if it were real."

Phoebe: "People can get seriously hurt in train crashes."

Charley: "Watarwool es hur."

Charley: "He geh owie."

Charley: "Lotah geh hur."

Charley: "Mawko geh hur."

Charley: "ewheewa geh hur."

Phoebe: "Why?"

Charley: "Seewee tway cwash."

-worried- Phoebe: "Um ok."

Phoebe: "You know it's not good for people or pokemon to get hurt right?"

Charley:" ewheewa nee mawa."

He handed her all of the plushes one by one, even the ones that weren't riding on the train.

Phoebe: "Why?"

Charley: "ewheewa geh hur."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Ummmm...ok."

Phoebe: "Am I supposed to be a doctor now?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Charley:" ewheewa nee mawa."

Phoebe: "Hehe, ok."

Phoebe :"Well they all look fine to me."

Charley:"No mawa kees."

Phoebe: "You want me to kiss them?"

Phoebe: "How's that going to help them?"

Phoebe: "I'll hug them instead how about that?"

She hugged them all.

Phoebe: "There, are they all better now?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Charley: "Mawa may tway go ageh?"

He attempted to put the derailed locomotive back on the tracks without success.

Phoebe: "-sighs-, Allright, I'll fix it for you."

Phoebe: "Maybe in a little bit we'll practice walking again."

Charley: "Cawey no wa."

Phoebe: "Ohhh, we'll see about that."

She set the train back up for him.

Phoebe: "There, now, no more making it crash."

-meanwhile back in the backyard-

Nina: "OK Cobalt use metal claw, Spike use gyro ball."

The two steel types collided, sparks flew, neither was hurt but Spike was thrown quite a fair distance, digging a shallow hole in the ground where he collided.

-concerned- Me :"You're going to patch that up later right?"

-nervously- Nina: "Mhm."

Me: "Allright then, continue."

Me: "Actually wait a second."

Me: "Where's that toy truck?"

I wanted to move it before it got destroyed in the crossfire.

Nina: "Oh that thing? I moved it up by the house so wouldn't get in the way."

Me: "Oh, ok."

Me: "Continue then."

Nina waited until Spike got himself out of the hole he created.

Nina: "Ok Spike gyroball again."

Nina: "Cobalt, use confusion."

Cobalt: "Tang..."

Cobalt released a series of psychic waves causing headaches, along with minor visual and audio hallucinations, including blurry\double vision, color distortion, and audio slow down, equivalent to a mild psychadelic. Unlike drug induced psychadelics however, this state only lasts for a few seconds, and can easilly confuse the target, be it human or pokemon, and put them in a state of "What just happened?" The beldum line does not have the extensive abilities of a pure psychic type, but they can still mess with your head.

To a bystander the attack was completely innocuous and in this case, the only indication that anything had happened was that Spike momentarily stopped attacking.

Nina: "Are you ok Spike?"

Spike: "Ferro ferro...ferro?"

Nina: "It's allright, the illusion is over."

Spike: "Ferro?"

He started to look around frantically, showing signs of confusion and astonishment.

-unsure- Nina: "Spike?"

Me: "He's confused."

Me: "Just wait a moment, give him some time to come to his senses."

Nina: "But what if I want to teach him how to snap out of confusion?"

Me: "It doesn't work like that Nina."

For a few moments, Spike awkwardly wobbled around, but within the next minute he regained his senses and was ready to go again.

Nina: "You ok Spike?"

-affirmatively-Spike: "Ferro!"

Nina: "Ok, just remember in a real battle, you might not get any time to recover."

-concerned- Spike: "Ferroseed?"

Me: "Don't worry about it too much, you probably won't have to deal with confusion attacks too often."

Me: "You'll probably evolve before you'll have to worry about facing psychic types on a regular basis."

Me: "And you'll be stronger by then."

-unsure- Nina: "Can he evolve?"

Me: "Yeah, he'll evolve into a ferrothorn someday."

Spike: "Ferro? Ferroseed.."

Nina: "Ok cool."

Me: "Allright, ready for round three?"

Nina: "Mhm."

Nina:"Spike use rollout, Cobalt try to dodge it."

Spike slowly began to roll, it took awhile for it to pick up speed, and even then it wasn't that fast. In fact, Cobalt decided it wasn't even worth dodging, Spike harmlessly jumped up and bounced off the side of him.

Nina: "What was that?"

Me: "He needs more time to get his speed up."

Me: "That and it would probably do more damage on something other than a steel-type."

Spike was now rolling around us in wide circles.

Nina: "Ok attack again Spike, go."

Nina: "Cobalt, dodge it if you want, if not ,I don't know."

-unsure- Cobalt: "Metang?"

Nina:"Just do what you want."

Cobalt:"Tang."

Cobalt suddenly dawned a mischeivous look.

Me:"Bad idea."

Cobalt caught Spike and tossed him a fair distance away, he landed in the tall grass just outside the yard.

-annoyed- Nina:"Cobalt, I didn't say to throw him into orbit!"

-apologetic- Cobalt: "Metang? Metang...metannnnnng."

Nina: "Yeah right, you did that on purpose."

Nina: "What were you thinking you could've hurt him?"

Me: "Was it his idea to put gulpin on the roof too?"

I was never going to forget that.

Nina: "No..."

Me: "Ok..."

-annoyed-Nina: "Cobalt go find Spike and bring him back, now."

-affirmatively- Cobalt: "Tang!"

He sped off towards where Spike had landed.

Spike eventually rolled out of the grass on his own and started to make his way back over to us. Cobalt noticed this and turned around. Now Spike, being a ferroseed, did not have many facial features, but you could still see a lot of rage building in his eyes. Suddenly, he turned and attacked Cobalt with pin missile, Cobalt flew away and went clear around to the other side of the house.

Nina: "Spike, stop attacking!"

Nina: "Cobalt where are you going?"

Me: "You're just lucky he didn't hit the house."

Nina: "It's not my fault, he attacked on his own."

Me: "Well, he is your pokemon."

Me: "If your pokemon hurts someone on accident, it doesn't matter if you told it too or not, you're going to be blamed for it, that's just how it works."

-frustrated- Nina: "mmm."

- a bit desperate- Nina: "Cobalt, come back!"

-aggravated- Spike: "Ferro! Ferro!"

Nina: "I know you're mad at him."

Cobalt slowly hovered back around, looking quite nervous.

Nina:"Dad? What am I supposed to say?"

-quietly- Me:"Well, he should know better than to throw Spike around like that."

Nina: "Cobalt you really should know better than to throw spike around like that."

-quietly- Me: "Tell him to apologize."

Nina: "Now go apologize."

-sincerely- Cobalt: "Metang...tang.."

-still annoyed- Spike: "Ferro!"

Me: "Well he's not happy."

-grumpily- Spike: "Seed...ferroseed!"

-gloomily- Cobalt: "Tang."

-gloomily- Cobalt: "Metannng."

Nina: " You threw him, of course he's mad."

Spike: "FERRO!"

He began to use pin missile out of anger again.

Nina: "Spike stop it!"

Cobalt was hit several times, but the pins did very little damage to him. He retaliated with metal claw, once again sending Spike flying, but not as far as the first time.

-annoyed- Nina: "Rrrr. Cobalt return!"

-surprised- Cobalt: "Metang?"

She clicked the button and he began to get sucked back inside the ball.

Nina: "You keep causing trouble."

Spike: "Ferroseed."

Spike recovered from his fall and began to roll towards us.

Nina: "You too Spike, until you can cool off."

She returned Spike as well, who still looked very angry.

Me :"So what now?"

Nina: "Can we go inside? I wanna see Charley."

Me:" Pokemon got you frustrated?"

Nina: "A little bit, they stopped listening to me."

Me: "Yeah, it happens sometimes."

Me: "Keep an eye on those two next time you have them out, they may have a rivalry budding."

Nina: "Ok, I will."

-unamused- Nina:"Let's go see Charley now."

Me:"Ok."

She headed inside, I followed her after retrieving the truck from the back deck. Phoebe was still upstairs with Charley, so we all ended up squeezing into his room.

-playfully- Nina: "Hi Charley."

-cutely- Charley: "Mawa es Newa."

Phoebe: "Mhmm."

Charley: "Newa wa pway?"

-playfully- Nina: "Sure, watcha playing?"

Me: "Here Charley I brought you something."

I set the truck beside him.

He looked at it, and removed one of the cars from the trailer, the jaguar.

Charley: "Es cah."

Me :"Mhmm."

Charley played with it for a moment, and then placed it in a traincar, along with the charger and gtr, and the truck itself, without the trailer.

Charley: "Mawa may tway go?"

Phoebe: "Ok."

She throttled up the train, and it began to make it's way around the track, bringing much amusement to Charley every time it passed him by.

-playfully- Me: "Can you stand?"

Charley: "Cawey no wa."

Phoebe: "He's being stubborn about it today."

Me:"Ohh, I see."

Me: "Charley you know you're gonna have to learn to walk someday."

Charley:"Cawey no wa, Cawey wa pway."

Phoebe:"We're gonna have to separate him from his toys."

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "Well, we can work on it tomorrow, if we separate him now he's just going to throw a fit."

Phoebe: "Mhm, that's true."

Charley: "Newa look, es Cawey tway."

Nina: "Mhm, I see."

Charley: "Tway go kwash."

Nina: "Why? "

He set the trailer on the tracks.

The train pushed it until it got to a curve, where the rear tires caught on the braces of the track, which lifted the front of the locomotive up and promptly rolled it over.

-cutely- Charley: "Tway Kwash! keekeekekekekeeheekeekee."

Phoebe: "Charley."

Charley: "Es bwokeh."

Charley: "Mawa fih tway fo Cawey?"

Me: "Is that a new word?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, he just started saying it a few minutes ago, everytime he makes the train crash."

-demandingly- Charley: "Mawa fih tway!"

-sternly- Me :"Charley."

-sternly- Phoebe: "Don't be rude."

Phoebe: "Besides I keep telling you to stop making it crash, but you won't listen."

-cutely- Charley: "Buh mawa, Cawey wa tway kwash, es seewee."

Phoebe: "I know you think it's silly, but I'm getting tired of having to fix it every time you break it."

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

-cutely- Charley: "Kwash es seewee."

-playfully- Nina: "It's silwhy huh?"

Phoebe: "He won't be laughing when I stop fixing it for him."

Me: "Yeah, but he will be screaming."

Phoebe: "Well then I'll just put him in his crib and we'll all go downstairs for a little bit."

-unsure- Phoebe: "I guess."

-observantly- Nina: "He sure gets upset alot."

Phoebe: "That's because he's a baby."

Phoebe:"He doesn't quite understand yet how to communicate any other way."

Charley "Mawa may tway go ageh."

Phoebe: "Oh you... wait a minute."

Me: "Here Charley, play with the cars."

I took the cars out of the lower deck of the trailer for him.

-defiantly- Charley: "No, mawa may tway go."

Me: "Charley..."

-angrily- Charley: "Noooooooooo!"

-annoyed- Phoebe: "Ok that's enough."

Phoebe :"No more train today."

-upset- Charley: "No mawa, es Cawey tway."

-sternly- Phoebe: "If you're going to throw a fit about it."

Nina: "Can I play with it?"

Phoebe: "Not right now, we're going to leave him alone.."

She got up and picked him up, and set him in his crib.

Charley:" No mawa, Cawey wa pway!"

Charley: "Mawaaaa."

Phoebe: "No."

Phoebe: "We're going to break your whining habit, and to do that we can't let you have your way."

Charley: "Mawaaaa!"

Charley: "ES CAWEY TWAY!"

Nina left the room first, then I followed, until I realized Phoebe was just standing there while Charley continued to scream.

Me: "Pheebles, this was your idea and you can't go through with it?"

-concerned- Phoebe: "I don't wanna leave him."

Me:" It's for the best, he'll calm down don't worry."

Charley: "MAWAAAAA!."

I took her hand, and slowly managed to lead her out of the room.

She clung to me almost immediately after we got through the doorway.

So I gave her a hug as Charley continued to scream his head off behind us.

Me: "It's allright."

Me: "He can't keep it up forever."

Me: "See?"

He was starting to settle down, coughing just a bit, starting to lose his voice from screaming so hard.

Me: "It's ok baby."

Me:"See, he's calming down."

Phoebe:"He's hurting himself."

Me:"Shhh, don't let him hear you."

Me:"If he knows we're still here he'll keep trying to cry."

Me:"It's allright baby girl."

-desperately- Charley:"Mawa!"

Phoebe: "oooooohhh."

Me: "shhhhhh."

Charley: "MAWA!"

Phoebe: "My baby needs me."

She broke away from me.

Me: "NO! PHEEBLES!"

I grabbed her and pulled her close.

-annoyed- Phoebe: "Hey..."

Charley: "DAWHY!"

Phoebe: "Well now he knows you're here."

Me: "Let's go downstairs, come on."

-upset= Phoebe: "Mmmm."

Me: "This is for the best, you know it is, so come on."

Me: "It's not like we're going to leave him there for the rest of the day."

Me: "Just a few minutes at most."

Me: "You know that, so come on."

By the time Charley stopped crying ten minutes later, I couldn't even manage to convince her to come halfway down the stairs.

Phoebe: "Shhhh."

Phoebe: "Listen."

Phoebe: "...He stopped."

Me: "Yeah, he did."

Phoebe: "Can we go check on him now?"

Me: "-sighs- allright."

Phoebe:"Charley?"

-upset- Charley: "Mawaaaa!"

-upset- Charley: "Cawey miss."

Phoebe: "I know."

Phoebe: "But you were throwing a fit and wouldn't listen to reason."

She picked him up and held him close. He wasn't screaming, but he was still noticeably upset.

Phoebe: "Come on, let's go downstairs."

-concerned- Nina: "Is everything ok?"

Me :"Everything's allright, he just settled down."

Me: "You allright little guy?"

-upset, strained- Charley: "Dawhy..."

Phoebe: "I think he has tired himself out."

-upset- Charley: "Cawey tywo."

Phoebe:" Yeah, you're going to need a nap soon aren't you?"

-lovingly- Phoebe:"Shhhhh, it's ok."

She gave him a kiss.

Phoebe: "Why don't you two leave? I'm going to try to coax him to sleep."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "Come on Nina."

Nina: "Awe but I wanna play with the train."

-jokingly- Me: "Don't go throwing the same fit Charley just did."

Nina:"I won't."

Me:"Allright then."

Nina: "So I can play with it?"

Me: "No, not right now, Charley needs to sleep."

Me: "Besides you have trains downstairs, go play with them if you want."

Nina: "-sighs-, ok."

She headed to the basement, I sat on the couch and watched tv. Just a few minutes later Phoebe came down and snuggled up beside me.

Phoebe: "He's asleep."

Me: "Good."

Phoebe: "Where'd Nina go?"

Me: "I think she's playing with the trains downstairs."

Phoebe: "Oh, ok."

The rest of the weekend wasn't very eventful for us, but we enjoyed having some peace and quiet after a long week of adventures.