Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

25. Chapter 25

-chapter 25-

Unknown to anyone at Devon Co, at a Top Secret Galactic research facility, somewhere around Mt. Coronet, Team Galactic scientists were hard at work studying their own portals, based on technology stolen from Devon. They had managed to build about a half dozen portals, which could be programmed to different coordinates. Much like Devon, they were interested in exploring where the portals went. They've even encountered the space police.

Meanwhile, while everything seemed to be proceeding normally, at another space police HQ, on the alternative 1980's world, stationed in San Angeles, the space police were beginning to get concerned with the pokémon world, and it's frequent intrusions into their own. Because of this, several planetary chairmen and the resident sector chairman were meeting together. Planetary chairmen were very high ranking officials of the space police organization. Responsible for keeping tabs on all the actions of one planet. They were the 4th highest rank, next to sector chairmen, who had a similar job, but were basically chairmen of the chairmen. The meeting was brief, decisive, boring, and ridiculously professional, the decision was made, a team was formed, and a plan of attack was developed. They decided to add the pokémon world to their system.

Of course, first they would have to find a way onto our world, and as fate would have it, that very day, Team Galactic decided to go exploring. A small team of not even a dozen men made it through the portal and fought their way out of the base, through galactic grunts and pokémon. As the base itself was in a remote location, and it's existence was completely illegal, nothing was reported. The team escaped and there wasn't much Galactic could do to stop them. After they escaped, they pretty much disappeared, whereabouts unknown, for what they were planning, they knew they had to keep a low profile.

It was just another normal day for us, after a rather uneventful Sunday that consisted mostly of sitting on the couch, unsuccessful attempts to get Charley to walk, and watching tv, we got up, took Nina to school, went to work, and came back home. Nina tried to skirt her punishment by spending more time at school, which kind of worked, but as the clock struck 5:00 and she hadn't called us to come pick her up yet, Phoebe decided to go get her anyway. At work we explored a representation of the digital world from digimon, though the exact season it was from was hard to determine, if it was even from one of the seasons, there wasn't much to say about it aside from that it was very beautiful, and it was basically a land that was entirely populated with digimon, unfortunately we didn't have time to explore it very much, though a prolonged digimon adventure did sound exciting.

It looked like the next day was going to turn out the same, and for the most part, it did. We were running out of portals to explore, this was exacerbated by the fact that many of the portals we hadn't visited yet were found to have highly toxic atmospheres, there was also another one that apparently led to somewhere underwater, so it was never opened because if it was, it would constantly spew water, extensive plans were being made to drop it in the ocean and explore it via minisub. So today, instead of exploring somewhere new, we returned to a world we referred to as Crazytown, to check up on it, it was one of the first new worlds we explored after all, and probably the most interesting. After a few months since we last visited we found that not much had changed since we left. Nya and Johnny were still in control, but were currently absent and conducting an expedition to see what was on the other side of the desert, with the tank battalion and a few others. While they were gone, we were shocked to find that Persiamon had temporarily assumed control once again. We had a brief conversation with her about the digital world we discovered the day before, but we didn't have time to take her back now, she also insisted upon staying atleast until Nya returned, though it wasn't clear when they would be back. It was a nice, pleasant reunion with some old friends, but it wasn't until after work that things began to get interesting. Nina stayed late after school, as she did the day before in an attempt to minimize her punishment, and once again, five'o'clock came around and we hadn't heard from her, so Phoebe and I headed to the school to pick her up, taking Charley with us. But when we got to the school, we found it surrounded by police, and Nina was nowhere to be seen.

We found Cindy however, one of her friends that she usually hung out with.

-upset- Cindy:" She's not here."

Phoebe: "What do you mean she's not here?"

-upset- Cindy: "They came out of nowhere, they took her, there was nothing I could do."

Phoebe: "What?"

Phoebe: "Cj..."

Me: "I..."

-upset- Cindy :"I'm sorry."

-calmly- Phoebe: "Oh sweety don't worry, it's not your fault."

-upset- Cindy: "They gave me this note, they told me to make sure you received it."

Phoebe: "Oh…um….ok."

Me: "Ok..."

We headed back to the car and opened the note up.

"We apologize for the inconvenience, but we demand your services, and there was no other way to get your attention. your daughter will be returned to you if you meet us at 2392 Bayleef Dr. Do not bring any other agents or police with you, or you will never see her again."

There was no signature.

-overwhelmed- Me:" Ok...welll..."

-worried- Phoebe: "Let me see."

Me: "Here you go baby."

- a few moments later-

Phoebe: "Where is that street? We have to go there right now."

Me: "Hold on a second."

Me: "How do we know this isn't an ambush?"

Me: "We don't even know who wrote the damned thing."

Me: "It could be Myrenthal for god sakes."

Phoebe: "But we have too."

Me: "I know baby girl."

Me: "But let's go home and get some supplies first, we have time."

The police were doing their own investigation at the moment, a pair of growlithes were sniffing around, helping to search for evidence.

-on the way home-

Phoebe: "Ohhhhh this is bad this is bad this is bad."

-upset- Phoebe: "Nina, I hope you're ok, I'm so sorry...I thought you were safe…."

Me: "She's all right, don't work yourself up, we need to be ready to fight."

Phoebe: "How do we know she's not allready dead?"

Me: "If they wanted to kill her they would've already."

Phoebe: "How do we know they didn't?"

Me: "If they did they're be no point in leaving a note or hiding the body, and well, they probably wouldn't of hesitated to kill Cindy and a few other bystanders too."

Phoebe: "But what if they plan to kill us too?"

Me: "Pheebles, relax."

-calmly- Me: "I don't know what this is about."

-calmly- Me: "But I know she's still alive."

-calmly- Me: "She's going to be ok."

Me: "Though I can't say the same for her captors."

We made it home as fast as we could, though it still took about 50 minutes.

We gathered our pokémon, and I grabbed my trusty pistol and a knife.

Me: "Are you going to take your sword?"

Phoebe: "Ummmmm..."

Phoebe: "Not today, I want to practice with it first."

Me: "You've had 3 days."

Phoebe: "We had other things going on."

Me: "What about Sunday?"

Phoebe: "I didn't think about it then."

Me: "Hehe...ok, I'll let you off the hook."

-playfully- Me:" cause you just so adorable."

-annoyed- Phoebe: "-ugh- , Cj...come on let's go."

We left the house, dropped Charley off at my parent's real quick, and slowly made our way over to where we were supposed to meet these guys. By the time we made it back to Goldenrod it was starting to get dark, so while we found the street thanks to GPS, it was difficult to read the building numbers, but we did find the place eventually.

Phoebe: "Something's not right."

Me : "What about this is right?"

Phoebe: "No I mean, just hear me out."

Phoebe: "You and I both know that there has to be someone in that building."

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "But I can't hear anybody."

Me: "Maybe they're psychic too."

Phoebe: "Or, they're wearing metal hats."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe: "That would explain why they were able to capture Nina so easily."

Me: "So we're blind then?"

Phoebe: "Mhm . "

Me:" So what?"

Me: "Why don't you check the roof? I'll head in."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Me : "If hell breaks loose back me up."

Phoebe: "Ok."

She kissed me before teleporting away.

Unknown: "Well whadaya know? He showed up. "

Some man with a weird aluminum helmet on his head spoke to me. It kind of looked like a ww2 army helmet, but thicker, unpainted, and made of aluminum.

Me: "Where's my daughter?"

Unknown: "Don't worry, she's ok."

Unknown: "We just have something to ask you before we return her."

-unamused- Me: "You went through all this to ask me a question?"

Unknown: "Well it's actually more of a request."

Me: "Like we owe you anything."

Unknown: "You don't understand the situation."

Unknown: "We couldn't go to Devon with this."

Me: "Well gee I wonder why?"

Unknown: "Shut Up!"

Unknown: "Ok, listen, we were messing with the portal technology, something really bad escaped."

Me: "And you need us to track it down and kill it?"

Unknown: "Shut up! I mean...yes."

Me: "And who are you morons? "

Unknown: "We're Team Cyber.."

Me: "Team what?"

Team Cyber Grunt: "You really thought you could take down Team Rocket, and nobody else would rise from the ashes?"

-dismissive- Me: "It was worth a shot."

Me: "I didn't think anyone would be that stupid."

I heard a loud thud, and then a gunshot, then a metallic clanging noise and another loud thud.

Both of us were surprised.

Me: "What the heck?"

Team Cyber Grunt:"What's going on back there?"

I drew my pistol, hoping that what just happened, was what I thought just happened.

Me:"Hands up!"

Phoebe came out of the backroom seconds later, so it was what I thought just happened.

Me: "Pheebles, you were supposed to stay on the roof."

Phoebe: "I found a way in so I took it."

Team Cyber Grunt: "What?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "Did you get Nina?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Nina: "I'm here."

She emerged from the doorway, she looked all right, except she was in power bracelets.

Me: " Allright then, come on."

Phoebe: "What about this guy?"

Me: "Knock him out."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Cyber Grunt: "Wait, no, not yet let me explain."

Phoebe:" -sighs-, aluminum, a psychic pokémon's worst enemy."

Phoebe knocked off his helmet, he reached for a pokeball on his belt.

Phoebe: " Don't be stupid."

-sternly- Me: "Hands up or I'll shoot."

-scared- Cyber Grunt: "Ok."

Me: "Let her do her thing."

Me: "Why don't you get some information first baby girl?"

Phoebe: "Right."

Phoebe: "Ok, first, I need to get all the information you have, so we can handle it."

Cyber Grunt: "Or I could just tell you."

Phoebe: "Thanks, but no thanks, this way, you can't lie to us."

Cyber Grunt: "Why would I lie to you?"

Me: "You kidnapped our daughter and you think we'd put you above that?"

Me: "Go on Pheebles, I'm watching him."

Phoebe: "Ok, let's do this."

She placed her hand upon his head and closed her eyes for a bit, I kept my gun trained on him, incase he decided to try something.

Cyber Grunt: "Ow..."

Cyber Grunt: "Get out of my head!"

-playfully- Phoebe: "I need a little bit more, where is this thing?"

Cyber Grunt: "It escaped the lab, I have no idea where it went after that."

Cyber Grunt: "That's all I know."

Cyber Grunt: "Can you stop now? Please this hurts."

It seemed that she was hurting him on purpose, but I couldn't blame her.

-playfully- Phoebe: "Nope, I need the key code for the power bracelets you put my daughter in."

-in pain- Cyber Grunt: "It's, um... 5738432"

Phoebe:"There we go."

The grunt fell to his knees, breathing heavily and trying to collect himself.

Nina: "I can't enter it mom, I can't reach the buttons."

Phoebe: "Wait a minute Nina."

Phoebe: "Also you kidnapped our daughter and for that we can't let you go."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe :"So you're going to take a nap now."

She knocked him out.

Nina: "KILL HIM!"

-sternly- Me: "Nina."

-cheering- Nina:" Turn him into a pretzel, Mom!"

Me: "Nina..."

-cheering- Nina: "Turn him into a pretzel man!"

Phoebe:" Sweety we can't, you know that."

Phoebe: "That would be very mean."

Me: "You were hurting him on purpose."

-playing dumb- Phoebe: "Oh..I don't know about that? Maybe he was just sick or something."

-sternly- Me: "Pheebles."

Phoebe: "Ok fine I hurt him on purpose."

Me: "Hehe, thought so."

Phoebe:"I'm not going to turn him into a pretzel though."

Me: "Allright."-

Nina: "-giggles-."

Me: "Are you done?"

-calmly- Nina:" Yeah..."

Me: "Allright, let's get out of here."

Nina: "Why did they kidnap me?"

Me: " Because they're stupid."

Me :"Come on let's go."

Nina: "What about my bracelets?"

Me: "We'll get'em off when we're in the car."

Nina: "Why not now?"

Me: "Because I know if I did that now, you'd turn these morons into a fine red mist."

-dissapointed- Nina: "Awwww you're no fun."

Nina: "How do you know that?"

Me: "Hehehe...because I know you too well sweety."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina:" I'm sorry I wasn't at school, they came out of nowhere."

Me: "It's not your fault, even morons have new tricks sometimes."

Nina: "I never want to be kidnapped again."

Me: "Nobody wants to be."

-worried- Nina: "Am I in trouble?"

Phoebe :"No...you're not in trouble for getting kidnapped."

-in disbelief- Me: "Seriously?"

Nina:"But I wasn't at school when you came to pick me up."

Me: "It wasn't your fault."

Nina: "I should have fought them off."

Me: "Nina..."

Phoebe: "Sweety, you're 14, no one is expecting you to be able to fight them."

Phoebe: "You don't need to feel guilty ok? You'll get stronger."

Phoebe: "Now let's go."

Phoebe: "I'm going to call Melissa so we can get some more agents here to handle these guys."

-concerned- Me: "I heard one of them shoot at you."

Phoebe: "Yeah, but he missed."

Me:" You should have stayed on the building."

Phoebe: "It worked out fine so why are you complaining?"

Phoebe: "Or would you rather have killed that thing they were talking about and let them get away with kidnapping our daughter?"

Me: "We weren't going to let them get away, we were going to get Nina back, and then we would kick their asses."

Me :"You ever think about what would happen if they didn't miss?"

Me :"We'd all be screwed."

Phoebe: "Oh shut up already, it went fine, it's over, there's no point in arguing about it."

Me: "Yeah, until next time you almost get yourself killed."

Phoebe: "CJ..."

Phoebe: "We'll talk about this later."

Me: "Fine...fine..whatever."

Phoebe: "Nina? Are you ok?"

Nina: "I'm ok Mom."

Nina: "I'm used to it by now."

Phoebe: "Awwee sweety."

Phoebe: "Come on, we'll go get ice cream, how's that sound?"

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "But first let's get these bracelets off."

Nina: "Yeeah, finally."

She put in the key code, and the bracelets unlocked.

Nina: "Mom..."

Phoebe: "Mhm?"

-sweetly- Nina: "Dad's right you know, they did almost kill you."

-solemnly- Phoebe: "-sighs-, yeaaaaaah, I know."

Me:" Thankyou sweetheart."

Phoebe: "But I'm the one that saved you!"

Nina :"You got lucky."

Phoebe:"Oh really?"

-cutely- Nina: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Well maybe we won't get icecream then."

Me: "Ok, now you're taking it too far."

Phoebe: "You stay out of this."

Me: "But this is totally between you and me."

Phoebe: "You're right, it is."

-sincerely- Phoebe:"Why are we fighting?"

She kissed me.

Phoebe: "I love you."

Me: "I love you too baby."

I kissed her back and we made out a little bit.

Phoebe: "I'll try to be more careful next time."

Me: "Ok."

-disgusted- Nina:"Get a room, you weirdos."

Phoebe: "NIna..."

Phoebe: "You know you don't have to watch..."

Me:"So trrue me amore."

Phoebe: "Awwwwe."

We made it to the car a bit later, we got in, and headed to the nearest ice cream place. Once there, we sat at a table inside so we could talk about what we needed to do about this beast.

Me: "So, should we wait until we're told to go after it or should we just go after it?"

Phoebe: "We don't even know where to begin to look for it."

Phoebe: "I know where it escaped from, but not where it went."

Phoebe: "Hopefully it just wandered out into the forrest somewhere and won't cause any trouble."

Me: "Hehehehehe..."

Me: "So where'd it escape from?"

Phoebe: " From a hidden research lab on the north side of Mt. Moon."

Me: "Also do you think we should be worried about these Team Cyber freaks?"

Phoebe: "I don't know...they started using aluminum helmets, they might be getting smarter."

Nina: "No you'll kill them all easilly."

Me: "Nina, this is serious."

Me: "Also we can't just start killing them, you know that, we're supposed to be the good guys."

Nina: "But you used to kill them all the time."

Phoebe: "Noooo...sweety, they get revived"

Phoebe: "Then they go to jail."

Me:"Or they get put on ice, like...myren-what's his face."

-dramatically- Phoebe:" Dark Lord Myrenthall."

Me:" Hehehe, yeah."

She gave me a weird look.

Me:"You ok? Pheebles?"

Phoebe: "my arm is starting to hurt now."

Phoebe:"Owww, now it hurts really bad."

She braced her arm in pain.

Phoebe:"It's spreading...I think I'm poisoned."

Me:" Allright then, come on, let's get you to a pokemon center."

Phoebe: "Owww."

Nina: "But I haven't finished my icecream."

Me: "You can finish it in the car, come on."

We made a beeline for the nearest pokemon center, Phoebe fell unconcious about halfway there. We panicked, but we made it to the center in time and after the nurse administered a full heal, and several bottles of potion she began to recover.

A few minutes later.

Nina: "Mom?"

-unsure- Phoebe: "What's going on?"

She said as she began to wake up.

Me:" You remember that bullet that 'grazed' you?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Me: "Welll, according to what the nurse said it was coated in arbok venom."

-realizing- Phoebe: "Ohhhhh..."

Phoebe: "Well that's new."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "How long?"

Me: "Huh?"

Phoebe: "How long have I been out?"

Me: "Not long. about thirty minutes maybe."

Me: "You fell asleep on the way to the center."

Me :"You were poisoned, but it took awhile to kick in."

-sincerely- Nina: "Mommy are you ok? We were so worried!"

She ran up and gave her a hug.

Me:" Easy sweetheart."

Phoebe:"-giggles-...yes sweety I'm allright."

Nurse:"Is she awake?"

She came to check in on us.

Me:"Yeah, thanks nurse."

Nurse:"Good."

Nurse: "You're Cj and Phoebe right?"

Nina:"And Nina."

Me: "Um yeah, why?"

Nurse: "So this isn't really out of the ordinary?"

Phoebe: "Nope, not really."

Me: "We already have other agents working on it, there's no reason to call the police."

Nurse: "Ok."

Nurse: "Well, good luck you two, you can leave whenever."

Me: "Allright then, let's go home."

Me: "It's getting late."

Nina: "But Mom almost died."

Me: "I know that, I'm just trying not to think about it."

Me: "And what about that means we have to spend the night here?"

Phoebe: "Nina, don't be silly, I'm fine now, I just need a minute to locate my things..."

Phoebe :"Where are my shoes?"

Me: "Um, there in front of the bed."

Phoebe: "Oh...ok."

Me: "Can you get up?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, everything seems back to normal now."

Me: "Ok, good."

By the time we picked up Charley and made it back home, it was already his bedtime, in fact, despite my parents only living a few minutes away, he managed to fall asleep in the car before we even made it home. So we carefully brought him up to his crib, trying not to wake him, while Nina went to watch some tv. Then we went to bed, mostly so we could talk in private.

Me: "I hope those bullets aren't standard equipment."

Phoebe: "It's not that big of deal, we just have to stock up on full heals."

Me: "or antidotes."

Me:"You know, I've been thinking. maybe we should have went in together."

Phoebe:"Yeah maybe."

Me:"I just thought it would be cool if I could handle something on my own for once."

Phoebe:"Not with our daughter on the line, are you stupid?"

Phoebe: "Stop worrying about being strong all the time."

Phoebe:"You are strong, and I love you, so don't worry about it ok?"

Me:"-sighs-, but I almost got you killed."

Phoebe: "You didn't tell me to go in there."

Phoebe: "You didn't pull the trigger, you didn't put me in front of the bullet."

Phoebe: "You didn't coat the bullets with poison."

Phoebe: "You did not almost get me killed."

Phoebe:"That was a fluke and you know it."

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

Phoebe: "Just remember I don't love you because you're strong, you goofball."

Phoebe :"Even though you are, in some ways."

We heard Nina come up the stairs.

Me:" I wonder what she wants?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

We heard her knock on the door.

Nina: "Are you guys going to come back down?"

Phoebe: "Ummm, maybe, we're kind of just talking about things right now."

Phoebe: "And stay quiet, Charley is right next door you know?"

Me: "If you wake him up, you have to calm him down."

Nina: "Ooookayy."

Nina: "Should I just go to bed then?"

Phoebe: "You can stay up for a little bit if you want."

Nina: "Ok, then I'm going to go watch more tv."

Phoebe: "Ok sweety, just keep quiet."

We both fell asleep sometime later.

As we somewhat expected, when we headed into work the next day, we were called away from the portals to meet with James in the briefing room to talk about the previous day's events, expecting to be sent to look for the supposed beast, we brought our pokemon with us just in case.

James: "So, as you are aware, yesterday 3 former team rocket grunts were arrested at the sight you directed us to."

Me: "Actually, they say they're part of Team Cyber now."

James: "And that they've been experimenting with portal technology, and that something escaped."

Phoebe: "And they tried to get us to take care of it for them."

James: "Which you will of course."

James: "This portal situation is getting out of hand, we tried to hold them back, but now it appears that atleast 2 criminal organizations have access to and are experimenting with the portal technology. "

James: "Anyway, we've located Team Cyber's base on GPS, to the northwest of Cerulean."

James: "It's only accessible by mountain roads, so there's a helicopter with a jeep onboard waiting for you."

James: "The skarmory team is already over there, running thermal scans of the area, trying to locate the supposed beast."

James: "They've found nothing but a few mankeys as of yet. It appears Team Cyber have already vacated the area."

James :"Hopefully we'll be able to locate it before it makes a mess of Cerulean."

James:"Team Cyber has run below the radar so far, so the media will likely blame such an incident on us."

Me: "You mean on the research division right?"

James: "Correct."

James: "But a failure of the research division in the eyes of the public is a failure to Devon Co. as a whole."

James: "So we have to stop it at all costs."

James: "You should go now, the skarmory team could find it at any minute."

Phoebe: "Wait, how's Melissa?"

-jokingly- Me: "You should know, you keep texting her."

-defensively- Phoebe: "I haven't seen her in so long though."

James: "Don't worry, she's doing fine, the nurse says it should be any day now."

-cutely- Phoebe :"Awee, you must be so excited."

Phoebe: "Allright then, come on Cj let's go."

Me: "Allright."

We left the research facility and headed to the airport.

Me :"It's been awhile since we've left Goldenrod."

Phoebe: "Yes it has."

Phoebe :"Can we go to Sinnoh again sometime soon?"

Me:"Yeah, we'll visit your parents again, sometime."

Phoebe: "Great."

Me: "But I don't know when we'll be able to go."

Me: "Do we get vacation?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Me: "We should after what happened yesterday."

Me:"You almost died, Nina got kidnapped."

Phoebe: "Atleast they beefed up security at her school so it won't happen again."

Me: "Yeah...atleast... "

Me: "We should keep a look out for more Team Cyber punks too."

Phoebe: "I can't hear them though if they have more helmets."

Me: "I know, but you still have eyes don't you?"

-cutely-Phoebe: "Mhmm."

Me: "Ok then."

Me:"Because there's a good chance there will be more of them out here."

Phoebe:" James said the skarmory team hasn't found anything yet."

Me:"Yeah, but how long have they been out there an hour or so?"

Phoebe: "I dunno."

Phoebe: "You want to stop at a pokemart, and get some antidotes just to be safe?"

Me: "If we pass one."

Phoebe: "There's one up here."

Me: "Oh..ok."

It was a tiny little convienience store, very reminiscent of the pokemarts seen in the games. Didn't have alot of stuff, but it had fullheals, and that's all we were looking for. We went in, bought a couple syringes, and headed out.

We made it to the airport, and boarded the helicopter we were directed to, leaving our car behind.

Pilot:"Hello again."

-unsure- Me: "Have we met before?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, he was our pilot, back when...um...I remember your voice, but I don't remember when..."

Pilot: "It's allright, I get that a lot actually."

Pilot: "Douglas Mcmansfield, I brought you to the Team Rocket Airbase awhile back."

Me: "Ohh...ok."

Phoebe: "That was a long day."

Douglas: "Anyway, we should be there in about 40 minutes, give or take, we'll be landing in this open area here, then we'll offload the jeep and you'll be on your way. "

Douglas: "Sound good?"

He said as he fired up the engines.

Me: "Yep."

Phoebe: "Sounds simple."

-playfully- Me:"Is that good?"

Phoebe:"Yep."

Everything started out fine. We took off, got a nice view of the ocean and a pair suspension of bridges leading out of the city, one for the magnet train and another for road traffic. We followed the magnet train line up until we got into the mountains, which we had to fly over to enter the Kanto region, flying through the magnet train tunnel was not the brightest of ideas. About a half hour later, we were well across the border into Kanto. We could see the large abandoned powerplant in the distance from the windows, with a few of Cerulean's taller buildings visible on the horizon, with the moon mountain range in the background.

A few minutes later we were flying over Cerulean, over Nugget bridge and the Cerulean river below. Then we flew over a heavilly forrested area, with Mt. Moon now dominating the background, allow with Mt. Hideaway and some other Moon Mountains. Then we headed north for a few minutes, towards the ocean, until we were on the north side of the mountain, passing over Rifure village in the process, a small, gymless town that wouldn't get any attention if it weren't for the fact that it supplys badges for many of the gyms in both the Kanto and Johto could only imagine how many trainers had ventured out their looking for free badges. It has a population of less than 200 but a large percentage of it's citizens are skilled in the largely forgotten art of metalworking, anything from badges to tools and knives can be purchased there, all of premium quality.

A few minutes after we flew over the village, we heard a buzzing sound from the cockpit.

Douglas: "Brace yourselves, it's a missile lock."

-nervously- Phoebe:" Here we go again."

Douglas: "Dispersing flares."

Douglas: " Ok I think we dodged it."

We heard a loud explosion seconds later, followed by a clanging noise, and then another explosion, shortly after the second explosion the helicopter began to lean backwards to the left.

What sounded like gun fire began to ping against the hull, fortunately it wasn't strong enough to penetrate it.

Douglas:" I don't know what that was, but it wasn't the missile. "

Douglas: "Number 3 turbine's losing oil, we're gonna have to land short of our destination, Number 4's electronics are going haywire, hang on, this could get rough, strap yourselves in, we're going down!"

Me: "Pheebles, can you teleport us out?"

Phoebe:" Yeah, if you want to be impaled by a tree."

Me: " Um...no, no thanks."

Phoebe: "We're going too fast, we're probably better off in here."

-worried- Phoebe: "Now hold me I'm scared."

-understanding- Me: "Oh, Allright."

It got rough as we began to lose altitude and the chopper smacked against several trees before finally coming to a rest. Strapped to a bench in the cargo hold, we were shaken but alive.

Me:"Wow, that was rough..."

Me: "Pheebles you ok?"

Phoebe:" I'm allright."

Phoebe: "I don't want to do that again though."

Me: "Me neither."

Douglas stumbled out of the cockpit, noticeably shaken.

Douglas: "We're caught between two trees, we gotta go out the back."

Douglas: "But the hydraulics are shot."

Phoebe: "I can teleport out."

Douglas:"Yes, but it looks like the jeep survived, so we might as well try to get it out so we can use it, otherwise we're stranded."

Me: "Right."

I sent out Rocky and Rhyhorn.

Me: "Allright I need you two to force that that door open so we can get out of here."

They both charged at the door, and, after ramming it a handful of times, they gradually forced it open, then we got in the jeep and drove it out the back.

Me :"Ok so we have the thing we're hunting, and some other hostiles."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Douglas: " Contact the skarmory team, there should be a radio in the glovebox."

Unknown: "Mag."

Me: "What the?"

Phoebe :"Um...it's a magneton."

A magneton hovered out of the trees.

Me:" Is that what shot us down?"

Douglas: "That would explain the interference."

Me: "I don't think it's friendly."

Phoebe: "It's weird for a magneton to be out in a forrest."

I sent Rocky back out, knowing from experience that shooting at a magneton was pointless.

Me: "Look out for that magneton, prepare to engage."

Rocky: "Golem!"

Magneton: "Magneton...mag."

It quickly retreated back into the forrest.

Me: "What the? Hey! Come back here, who do you work for?"

Magneton: "Mag!"

Phoebe: "Come on let's follow it."

Douglas: "Good luck with that, they can fly at over 40mph."

Phoebe: "I know, but we have a jeep."

Me: "Honey...we can't drive that fast through the forrest.

Rocky: "Gol-Golem."

Phoebe:"He says he can chase it."

Me: "No you're not, you could get lost, and what if it leads you into a river or something?"

I returned him to his ball.

Me: "Let's just get out of here before it leads its trainer back to us, along with god knows what else."

Douglas: "It's trainer is probably several miles away, I've heard about this before, they'll send magnetons directly at aircraft, then they cling to the sides undetected and once that happens all it takes is a few well placed magnet bombs."

Me: "Dam I wish I thought of that."

Looking back at all the times I had to deal with pesky helicopters.

Douglas: "It was an old tactic developed by the rocket lads, I haven't seen it in awhile though. Before you were even working for Devon, some other agents busted one of their facilities, they confiscated over 100 magnemite and about half as many magneton."

Douglas:"And they found it because one of their shadow companies tried to buy over 50 of them at once, and nobody really does that, most just buy 3 or 6 for security reasons."

Douglas:"It's a lot cheeper to catch them then to buy them of course."

Me: "How do they end up in the wild?"

Phoebe: "Ok Cj, come on focus."

Me: "Right, sorry."

Phoebe retrieved the radio from the glovebox.

-into radio- Phoebe: "Skarmory team? Are you there?"

-on radio- Skarmory team member: "Skarmory team reporting."

-into radio- Phoebe:" The chopper is down, but we're ok."

-on radio- Skarmory team member: "What? How did that happen?."

-into radio- Phoebe: "I don't know, I think it was a magneton."

Douglas: "Here I'll tell em what they need to know."

Phoebe: "Ok."

-into radio- Douglass: "We're at grid cordinate p9, ya need to scan east of our location for potential hostiles."

-correctively- Me: "Confirmed hostiles."

-into radio- Douglass: "Repeat, there are potential hostiles, watch your backs. It seems we were brought down by a magneton, that has since buggered off somewhere."

-on radio- Skarmory team member:" Oh, I'm at h5 right now, I'm closest, I'll head out there ASAP."

-into radio- Douglass: "RIght, thanks, keep us informed of your findings."

While they were messing with the radio, I carefully drove through the forrest, it wasn't easy, some of the roughest driving I've experienced, trying to avoid all the trees and ditches, thankfully, after making it about a half mile away from the chopper, we found a pathway, otherwise the jeep would likely run out of water before we got out of there, it took nearly twenty minutes to make it that half mile.

Me: "Ok we found a road, what do we do now?"

Me: "You want to meet up with the skarmory team? Or should we go after whoever shot us down?"

Phoebe:"We don't know how many of them we're dealing with, it'd be best to see the skarmory team."

Me: "Allright, if you say so."

Me: "So that guy said he was at h5, then all the skarmory team are still to the west of us."

Douglas: "That's right."

Phoebe: "Just remember we'll probably see their skarmorys before we'll see them."

Me: "Mhm."

Me:"So we'll just start heading west then whenever this road gives us a chance."

Douglas: "The Gps says, there should be an intersection in about 3 miles."

Me: "Allright then, let's get going."

We stuck to our plan and headed west towards our allies, as we were in a forrest, miles from the nearest town, there wasn't much traffic out here, there were a few small cabins scattered around and as it was winter, there weren't that many wild pokemon about, most were hybernating or had migrated south to Cinnabar, with very few exceptions.

Me: "Do you think there could be some abras out here?"

Phoebe: "What makes you think that?"

Me: "They were near Cerulean in the games, and we're still kind of close."

Me: "What if they have their own city out here?"

Phoebe: "You mean, like the gardevoir city, but for alakazams?"

Me: "Yeah."

Phoebe:" I don't think so, people live out here."

Phoebe: "It's not remote enough."

Phoebe: "If one exists it would probably be closer to the mountains, away from all the cabins."

Me: "Maybe you're right."

Phoebe:"And you know how hard it would be to find?"

Phoebe: "Alakazams can make really powerful illusions, and even abras are very difficult to find."

Douglas:" An abra hey? I've never seen a wild one. I thought they were created in a lab somewhere, you know the old stories?"

Phoebe: "No."

Douglas: "They say a child with psychic powers woke up a kadabra one morning."

Me: "Hey, yeah I know that."

Phoebe: "You do? I don't remember that."

Me: "Yeah it was in the games, it freaked a lot of people out."

Phoebe: "It was?"

Me: "Well, as a pokedex entry, nobody actually turned into a kadabra."

Phoebe: "Ohhh."

Me:" Is that a true story?"

Douglas:" Uhh, no, it's more an urban legend."

Douglas:" Could you imagine someone suddenly changing into a pokemon?"

Me: "Maybe it was a ditto."

Phoebe: "Maybe..."

Douglas: "Nooo, the myth is older than the dittos."

Douglas: "It's ancient."

Douglas: "It existed fore they even had a complete understanding of the abra line."

Me: "Ok, what if the city is like, ride along side the road here, but they're cloaking it to make it look like another patch of forrest."

Phoebe: "No, they wouldn't put it right next to the road Cj, what if somebody is walking along and they wander into it."

Phoebe: "If it exist, and it's here, it's going to be closer to the mountains, far away from civilization and away from any roads."

Me: "Ok, if you say so."

-cutely- Phoebe :"I know so."

Me: "Allright where are we now?"

Douglas: "Section O-8 if the gps is true."

Douglas: "This road is gradually turning north, but there's another road that goes back west in a few miles, you'll know it when you see it."

Me: "Right, got it."

Me: "Pheebles, let us know if you 'hear' anything."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Mhm, I know."

-A few minutes later-

Phoebe:"-sighs-, There is nothing out here Cj, nothing but some mankeys, and it doesn't sound like they've seen anything."

Me :"Just keep listening."

Phoebe:"Oh wait, there's some zubats that are sleeping on the ground."

Me: "Ok.."

A large tree fell onto the road, and soon after a large ape like creature, unlike any pokemon I've ever seen before emerged from the forrest, quickly crossed the road, and dissapeared into the trees on the other side. Covered in fluffy white fur, it kind of looked like a yeti.

Me: "The hell was that thing?"

Phoebe: "Um...I think that's what we're looking for."

Me: "Why didn't you hear it?"

Phoebe: "I started to, but I didn't have time to figure out what it was, you saw how fast it was moving."

Douglas: "Looks like a primeape."

Me: "Yeah a little bit, but I don't think they get that big do they?"

Douglas: "Nope."

-into radio- Douglas: "Section N-8, The creature is in section N-8."

Douglas: "It's running through the forrest, pursuit not possible."

I sent out Cap'n'magnum.

Me: "Allright, Magnum, let's go."

Phoebe: "Cloudela, come out now."

Me: "We need you to keep tabs on the thing that made this path, it just passed by seconds ago, if you hurry you should be able to catch up to it, but don't engage, ok, if you get knocked out in there there's no guarantee we can find you, understood?"

Magnum: "Magna Magnezone."

Phoebe: "Same goes for you Cloudela, just follow Magnum for now, and be safe."

Cloudela: "Clou Clou..."

They both flew off, Magnum flying a bit slower than usual so Cloudela could keep up.

-concerned- Phoebe: "You think they'll be ok?"

Me: "Yeah, it made a pretty wide path, so they should be able to find their way back to us right?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, I think so."

Me:" They can fly so they're not going to get lost as easilly as Rocky, or anyone else really."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Hold that thought."

She got out and headed in the opposite direction.

Me: "Where are you going?"

Phoebe: "Just wait, I got this."

-faintly- unknown: "Meooooooow...meooooooow."

Me: "What is that?"

Phoebe:" It's a meowth, it's trapped in the debris."

She rescued it, and pulled it out from beneath the branches, it was frightened, but allright.

Phoebe: "There you go little guy, go find your family."

Wild Meowth: "Meoowwwwww."

She quickly set it down and it scurried off in to the forrest, shortly afterwards another one clambered out from under the debris.

Phoebe: "I can hear more of them now..."

Phoebe: "We should have brought some potions."

Me: "Pheebles, I hate to say this, but before you get too involved, this path is probably miles long, we don't have time to help every single pokemon caught in it's wake."

Phoebe: "I know."

She rescued another meowth from the debris. This one wasn't so lucky.

Phoebe: "We should have brought some potions."

-weakly- Meowth: Meoaaw.."

Phoebe: "It's hurt bad."

Chansey: "Chansey."

A Chansey emerged from the forrest, for the record wild Chansey are extremely elusive, they live all over kanto, and wherever they can manage to get themselves too, but they go to great lengths to avoid being captured, and will rarely, if ever, appear before humans. For one to just aproach us out of nowhere is relatively unheard of.

Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "Oh hello."

-concerned- Chansey: "Chan.."

Chansey: "Chanseeeey...chaaaan."

Phoebe: "Yes, it is hurt pretty bad."

Phoebe: "If you're worried about us trying to capture you, don't be, we're only out here to stop whatever did this."

Chansey: "Chansey."

-surprised- Phoebe: "Oh wow.."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe:" Just watch."

She looked towards to the forrest, and motioned 5 other chanseys closer.

Me: "What the?"

Chansey: "Chanseey channn, Chanseeeey channn."

Douglas: "Where they all come from?"

Phoebe: "She says they want to start by the road first, so they don't have to worry about human contact as much later on."

-unsure- Me: "Start what?'

Phoebe: "Rescuing the pokemon."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Silly Cj, you thought chanseys only worked in pokemon centers?"

Me: "Um...kind of, yeah."

Phoebe: "Taking care of injured pokemon is their life's work."

Phoebe: "Why do you think they try so hard to hide from humans."

Phoebe: "They can't help injured pokemon if they're in a pokeball."

The chanseys began to dig through the debris, searching for injured pokemon.

Phoebe:"Here you go."

She handed the wounded meowth over to the chansey, who handed it over to yet another one waiting on the edge of the forrest.

Phoebe: "Ok I'll help you out."

Phoebe: "Um just wait a minute."

She closed her eyes for a few moment.

-unsure- Chansey: "Chaaaan?"

Me: "Just wait..she's good at this."

A few seconds passed before she opened her eyes again.

Phoebe: "Ok, listen carefully, it's hard to keep track of this many at once, but, here goes."

Phoebe :"Right here under this tree, there is a oddish that is hibernating, it's not hurt, but you need to move the tree or it won't be able to come back up in the spring."

Phoebe:" There's another meowth burried here, but it's very faint, it might be hurt bad."

Phoebe :"There's a geodude over here, and 3 Zubats over here, try not to expose them to the sun too much, they're shocked, but they should be fine."

Phoebe: "There's a few more oddish sleeping in this area, but they should be fine."

Phoebe: "There's a mankey under here, it can't feel it's legs."

Phoebe: "And this tree over here has trapped a nidoran in it's hole."

Phoebe: "You're going to have to find a stronger pokemon to lift it though."

Phoebe: "Bulby and Nidoqueen should be able to help."

Phoebe:"Come on out you two."

She sent out her pokemon.

Me: "What about agron?"

Phoebe: "If you send him out he'll probably end up squishing somebody."

Me: "Well we're going to have to fight the monster somehow, aggron is the only one big enough to take it down."

Phoebe: "Well, then just save him for when we have to fight, not right now, you don't want him to get tired do you."

Me: "Oh allright baby, if you say so."

Phoebe:"I got this, Bulby and Nidoqueen should be able to handle it."

Meanwhile, after speaking with the apparent leader of the chanseys, Bulby and Nidoqueen were already trying to move the tree.

Phoebe:"Now Bulby where did you go?"

Bulby:"Venus!"

Chansey:" Chan chaaansey Chaaan!"

Phoebe:"Oh, you already told them what to do... ok."

Me: "They listened?"

Phoebe:"They probably figured that's what I was going to tell them to do anyway."

-cutely- Phoebe :"And they were right."

We spent the next hour or so helping the chancey with their rescue efforts. Using our pokemon to replant some of the trees that had been pushed down, gradually moving away from the road. Eventually, a wild onix showed up that was strong enough to move the trees on it's own, along with a small army of machop and seemed that pretty much any wild pokemon that was present in the area showed up to assist. With all the wild pokemon around, it didn't take long for the skarmory team to find us once they made it to our section. A skarmory flew overhead, sending some of the smaller pokemon running.

-concerned- Chansey:"Channnsey?

Phoebe:"Don't worry they're friendly."

Phoebe: "They're the ones we've been waiting for."

Chansey: "Chanseeey."

Phoebe: "Sorry, but we need to go now, we have work to do."

Chansey: "Chaaan seeee."

-cutely- Phoebe: "Good luck to you too."

Phoebe: "Bulby, Nidoqueen, come on, we need to go."

Nidoqueen: "Nido..."

Phoebe returned her pokemon and then we headed back to the road just as another jeep approached with a skarmory riding in back.

Douglas: "He headed down that path, They already sent some pokemon after it, haven't seen them in awhile."

Skarmory team member: "Well hopefully we'll be able to catch up."

Skarmory team member: "Allright Knives, follow that pathway, until you see what we're looking for.

The skarmory turned to face the path, and spread its wings before leeping off the jeep and becoming airborne, making quite a lot of noise as it's metallic feathers clanged against eachother.

Me: "Ok so now what?"

Skarmory team member: " The rest of the team is on it's way as we speak, once Knives catches up with the beast we should be able to figure out where it's heading and find a way to intercept it."

Skarmory Team member:"My name's Benny by the way."

-suspicious- Benny: "Did you set all these trees back up?"

Phoebe: "Um...not really."

Phoebe: "The monster did a lot a damage, there's a bunch of wild pokemon working to fix it."

-distant- Cloudela :" ellla Clou."

Cloudela descended from the sky.

Phoebe: "Cloudella? Why are you back so soon?"

Me: "Where's magnum?"

Cloudela: "Cloudelllllla Clouuu...Cloudellla."

Phoebe: "Oh..ok."

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: " It says the beast woke up another large monster and now they're fighting."

-unsure- Me: " A large monster? "

Phoebe: "It doesn't know any better."

Me: "How far away?"

Cloudela:" Cloudela."

Phoebe: "It doesn't know."

Phoebe: "It's been almost an hour, so probably about half that, unless it was goofing around."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "You weren't goofing around were you?"

Cloudela: "Clou.."

It shook it's umm...body.

Phoebe: "Thought so."

Me: "Yeah, but half an hour for it is how long for us?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

Benny: "Ok, according to this screen, the path gently curves to the west. "

Me: "You got live video?"

Benny: "Of course."

Benny: "And radio, thermal vision, and everything."

Benny: "While Knives flies I can operate it's camera and communicate with it remotely from here."

Benny:" So it can fly up to ten miles away and I'll still know where it is."

Me :"Cool."

Phoebe: "Ok Cloudela, why don't you rest for now, since you're back."

Phoebe: "We might need you again later. So be ready."

Cloudela: "Clou..."

She returned it, and then she came over.

-curious- Phoebe:"So what's going on over here?"

Me:"Not much."

Benny: "Knives hasn't caught up with it yet, it should be any minute now though, he's about 500 ft up, about a mile down that path."

Benny: "Is that a chancey over there? "

Yet another Chancey was on the opposite side of the road, peeking around a tree at the edge of the path created by the monster we were chasing.

Phoebe: "Yep, they're looking around for wounded pokemon, it's best to leave them be."

Benny: "Allright then, don't see that everyday."

Benny:" Wow, there is a lot of pokemon showing up on the thermals..."

Phoebe: "It's all for damage control."

Benny: " Really?"

Phoebe: "Yeah they all have to help eachother out, you know how long it would take for those trees to grow back?"

Benny: " Yeah I got, I just, never seen so many at once."

Phoebe:" That monster has done a lot of damage, it will take awhile for them to finish."

Benny: "Ok, here we go."

Benny:"Dam, that thing is bigger than a snorlax."

Benny: "Ok, so your magnezone is out here too , between the snorlax, your magnezone, and my skarmory, we might be able to take it down."

Me: "Maybe."

The screen went fuzzy.

Benny: "What the?"

Benny :"We're getting attacked."

Benny: "It's a magneton."

Benny: "Hang in there Knives, retaliate with swift."

Me: "You got a speakerphone or something?'

Benny:" Ummm..."

Me: "It would help if I could talk to my magnezone, I told him not to engage after all."

Benny: "Allright go for it."

Me :"Magnum, you're clear to engage all hostiles, the magneton needs to go."

-distant- Cap'n'magnum: Mag!"

Me: "Keep an eye out for it's trainer, and lookout for whatever else they might have."

Benny: "Ok, this just got interesting, we need to get over there asap."

Me: "Right."

Me: "Come on Pheebles."

Phoebe: "Comming."

Phoebe :"Douglas..You comming ?"

Douglas: "No, I'll stay here it's fine I don't have any weapons or anything...I'll just get in the way."

Me: "Ok, we'll leave you with a jeep then."

Benny: "The extraction point is in section c-5, there's another chopper waiting over there, but you might be waiting for awhile."

Douglas: "Allright, I guess I'll be heading that way."

We headed off the road and into the forrest, it was a rough drive, but a bit easier than earlier, as the monster had made a crude path.

Phoebe:"We need to keep an eye out for injured pokemon, we don't want to make this any worse."

Me:"If we don't stop that thing it will only get worse."

Phoebe: "We have a little bit of time though."

Phoebe: "Snorlax are very strong."

Me: "It's not about the snorlax though Pheebles."

Me: "If that magneton is there, whose to say they don't have more pokemon? "

Me: "Whoever they are."

Phoebe: "Ohh..I didn't think of that."

Phoebe: "Magnum could be in trouble."

Me: "Maybe."

Me: "And the sooner we get there the sooner we can help."

Benny:"I don't see any pokemon, we're doing fine."

Shortly after he said that we jolted out of our seat for a moment as one of the wheels bumped into something.

Phoebe: "Oww."

Me: "Watch it."

Benny: "Sorry, didn't see that rock in time."

Me: "You ok Pheebles? It threw you pretty high."

Phoebe:" I'll be ok..."

Me: "Good."

We felt another bump.

Phoebe: "Oww."

Benny: "Sorry...there was a branch."

Me: "Have you ever driven offroad before?"

Benny: "Yeah..but we're in a hurry."

Phoebe:"We're not in such..."

-bump-

Phoebe: "a hurry that you can't.."

-bump-

Phoebe: " go around a few branches."

-bump-

A few seconds went by without a bump.

-bump-

Me: "Seriously?"

Benny: "Just hang on, we don't have much..."

-bump-

Benny: "Further to go."

-annoyed- Phoebe: "Just don't run over any pokemon..."

Phoebe: "Maybe you should drive."

Me: "Maybe."

-bump-

I don't know if the bumps were getting more severe or I was just noticing them more, but the difference between this ride and when I was driving through the forrest earlier, was very clear.

Several minutes of Phoebe desperately trying not to fall out of the jeep later, we finally made it to a clearing where the beast was fighting the snorlax, and where Magnum and Knives were fighting the enemy magneton. As it was steel on steel, even with the number advantage, the battle was doomed to go on for awhile. The wild snorlax, angry from being woken up, was doing a good job itself.

Phoebe:"Finally we're here, my butt is starting to hurt..."

Phoebe: "Cj's driving back, you suck."

Benny: "Sorry, I was in a hurry because knives was attacked."

Phoebe: "You could have missed some of those bumps though...arceus..."

Me: "You need help getting out baby?"

Phoebe: "No, I got it."

-angry- Snorlax: "SNOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRR!"

-angry- Monster: "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAR!"

You could almost feel the impact of the punches thrown by those massive beasts as they continued to fight, however we were more focused on the magneton.

Me: "Probably shouldn't use Hellblade."

Phoebe: "No you shouldn't, it's too dry."

Me: "No wind though."

Me: "I was thinking more about range Pheebles, that magneton can just avoid his flames all day long."

Outside an arena, Magneton were hard to combat, they were tough, and, while there are faster pokemon, they aren't exactly slow, and they're quite manueverable, something the games never really reflected. Of course, Magnum, being it's evolution, could take it easilly, but it would still take a long time.

Just moments later, a houndoom joined the fray, along with another magneton, and an arbok of all things. For the record, wild Arbok would never be out in the winter.

Phoebe sent out Draco, then teleported away unexpectedly.

Despite what I said earlier I sent out Hellblade anyway, feeling Bubba could be vulnerable to the magneton.

Unknown: "What is this a battle?"

A man emerged from the forrest he took aim at hellblade, I took aim at him, but before either of us could fire, Phoebe teleported behind him and promptly knocked him out. Then she returned the arbok to its ball and teleported behind me.

Me: "Where'd you go off too?"

Phoebe: "There's more comming, three more, all of them have pokemon."

Phoebe: "I can't take them out, they're too alert, they have helmets, it's too risky."

Phoebe: "Two I can do, but three will kill me."

Me:" Really?"

Phoebe: "It's an old proverb...team cyber is not the first to try to use aluminum against a gardevoir."

-unsure- Me: "How do you know they're out there then if they got helmets?"

Phoebe: "I watched them from the trees, and their pokemon know where they are."

Me:" Ooooh."

Phoebe: "Did you get that houndoom in check?"

Me: "Yep."

I've never seen another houndoom as strong as HellBlade, somehow he always managed to take down other houndooms.

Phoebe: "Allright then."

She sent out Bulby.

Thick black smoke erupted from behind the trees, obscuring our view even further, and soon, a pair of arboks, a raticate, and another houndoom emerged.

Phoebe released a strong psychic wave that quickly incapacitated the arboks, the 2nd Houndoom went straight for Bulby, and managed to land a flamethrower before Hellblade could intercept.

Bulby was hurt, but still able to fight.

-in pain- Bulby: "Venus."

Phoebe: "Bulby, you ok?"

-gunshots-

-in pain- Bulby: "VENUS!"

Me: "Son of a."

Phoebe: "They're shooting at us."

Me: "Dammit."

Skarmory: "Knives, use swift now, support fire."

A well aimed swift attack kept our attackers at bay long enough for Phoebe to take my hand and teleport us to cover, as another magneton emerged from the smoke, Draco fired at it with icebeam, but missed.

Me: "Where's all the smoke comming from?"

Phoebe: "It's a weezing."

Me: "Oh."

The smoke started to move into the clearing. Meanwhile, Magnum was still fighting the first magneton, and the wild snorlax was still fighting the mystery beast. While we were fighting what I could only assume was some detachment of Team Cyber.

Phoebe: "Bulby don't forget to use leach seed, heal yourself."

Between a rather severe burn and multiple bullet wounds, he was hurt pretty bad.

Bulby: "Venus."

He used leach seed against the raticate, healing some of his wounds.

Hellblade moved on to fighting the second enemy houndoom, but the second magneton was targeting him with thunderbolt.

Me:" This is getting rough."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

I sent out rhyhorn.

Me: "Go help HellBlade."

He grunted, then charged into the clearing. One take down was all it took to knock out the 2nd houndoom.

-into radio- Benny: "Confirmed hostiles ...we're under attack...hurry, please."

Me: "HellBlade focus on the magneton."

The 2nd houndoom was down, as the smoke continued to invade the clearing.

The thunderbolts got to HellBlade and shortly after I noticed his paralysis he got shot in the leg, I returned him, since he was basically a sitting duck at that point.

Me: "You thinking what I'm thinking?"

Phoebe: "Yeah."

Phoebe: "Bulby prepare to use petal dance combo, now!"

Bulby: "Saur!"

I sent out Blossom.

Bulby picked her up.

Me: "Sleep powder now!"

Blossom: "Bell."

-injured- Bulby: "Saur!"

Bulby collapsed, dropping Blossom to the ground.

-concerned- Phoebe: "Come on Bulby...don't quit now."

Me: "Return him, he's done..."

-weakly- Bulby:"Saur..."

Me: "That burn must have got to him."

Phoebe: "Ok."

-in pain- Draco:"Draaaa!"

Phoebe: "Draco!"

Draco had been hit, somewhere in all of this, Phoebe returned him as well.

Blossom: "Bell."

Me: "Get back over here before you get shot."

Blossom ran back over to us as fast as she could, somehow she made it safely behing a nearby tree.

Me: "So what they got a weezing, two magneton."

An electrode suddenly rolled out of the smoke, approached rhyhorn and exploded, rhyhorn collapsed shortly after, and it was clear both of them were out.

Me: "What the?"

Me: "Are you kidding me?"

Phoebe:"Electrode."

Me: "They got suicide pokemon now?"

Phoebe: "Not really suicide they just run out of power."

Phoebe:" And whadaya mean now? They've always been like that."

-hurt- magneton: "Mag nnnnnneeeeeee tonnnn."

The first magneton finally fainted.

Me: "Ok, good, allright Magnum go for the second magneton."

-annoyed- Magnum: "Mag..."

Me: "It's not my fault they have more than one magneton, and you're the only pokemon I have that can follow them."

Phoebe sent out cloudela.

Phoebe: "We need you again."

Me: "I need a way to get an effect spread of sleep powder."

Blossom: "Belossom."

Me: "Hey! Skarmory guy!"

Benny: "Yes?"

Me: "Can you get your skarmory to land for a second."

Me: "Can it carry my bellosom for a moment, so we can use sleep powder?"

Benny: "Yeah, it's worth a shot, Knives come back here."

Knives crashed to the ground in front of him.

Benny:" Knives?"

Benny: "Sorry, but he's hurt bad."

Me: "Dammit."

Blossom: "Bellosom."

Phoebe: "No you can't go out there on your own, you're too vulnerable."

Phoebe: "They have guns."

Me: "Can't even see those cheating bastards, hiding behind their smoke screen."

Phoebe: "How can they see us?"

Me: "I don't know, maybe they're just going off of sound?"

Me: "I got an idea."

I sent out Rocky.

Me: "GO! Now, rollout into the smoke, flatten anyone you see."

Rocky: "Golem!"

He curled up into a ball and rolled out towards the smoke, dissapearing behind it, several shots rang out but they were all useless, and then we heard a very loud crunch as some unlucky bastard got squished, not the most pleasant way to stop them, but we were running out of options, we did try using sleep powder after all.

-cringing- Phoebe: "What did you just do?"

-jokingly- Me: "You gotta break a few bones to make a human pancake."

Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "I don't know."

The black smoke dispersed and was slowly replaced with purple smoke.

Phoebe: "Arceus that's poison gas."

Me: "Rocky get out of there!"

He rolled out of the smoke, which was now clear enough to faintly see the weezing behind it in all it's hideous glory. This is one those pokemon where the game freak rendition was much friendlier then the real thing, I don't think I've ever seen another pokemon that looked so ugly. With scaley purple skin, and a second head that looks like a tumor for the first, the poor thing looked like a living case of cancer, there was not a patch of skin that was without wart, blister, or burn, but all that is natural for them, the most confusing thing is that they don't seem to feel any of it, you'd think something covered in various chemical burns (usually from their own doing by the way) would be constantly screaming in pain, but they don't.

Weezing: "weeeeeezzzzzziiiiiinnnnnggggggg."

It said in a voice that sounded like it had serious breathing problems.

I shot at it, but it didn't seem to do anything, the bullet holes healed remarkable fast.

Me: "What the?"

Phoebe: "Bullets don't work?"

Me: "Guess not."

Phoebe: "Let me try."

As the smoke cleared, I could see the outline of a Team Cyber member, hiding behind the trees.

Me: "Ok, Hit it! I'll cover you."

Phoebe: " Right..."

Her hands started to glow as I exchanged fire with the cyber grunt on the other side of the grotto. The weezing was extremely lightweight and she could manipulate it really easily.

Meanwhile, Cloudela and magnum were still fighting the second magneton overhead, and the snorlax was still fighting the mystery beast.

Phoebe: "Hey look at this it's like a balloon."

-in peril- Weezing: "Weeeee"

It smacked into a tree.

-in peril- Weezing: "zinnnnng"

It smacked into another tree.

It was completely helpless.

Phoebe: "This is fun!"

Me: "Hehehehehe."

Me :"Try smashing it into the magneton."

Phoebe: "If I hit it too hard it will explode."

Me: "Exactly."

Me: "Magnum! Get clear of the magneton."

Phoebe: "You too Cloudela!"

Our pokemon quickly retreated, the grunt wasn't even firing at us anymore, too astounded by what was happening.

Weezing: "Weeeeeee!"

Magneton :"Mag!?"

The weezing smacked into the magneton, it didn't immediately explode. But, when the magneton instinctively used thunderbolt at point blank to defend itself however...the sparks ignited the gas inside the weezing and it exploded, making a loud bang, and releasing a huge cloud of smoke, and little pieces of purple flesh everywhere, weezings don't have much for guts, fortunately. Today we learned that they have a weird anatonomy that is hollow and ball-like. After the smoke cleared, both it and the magneton layed on the ground, with a good chunk of the weezing's main head gone, the small head then inflated to the size of the big head and was somehow still alive, but it was in too much pain to move. We were only met with the sight of a mortally wounded weezing for a few seconds before the grunt returned it to it's ball, along with the magneton.

Me:" Pheebles come on, he's right there, let me shoot him."

Phoebe: "No! Let him return his pokemon."

Phoebe: "That weezing was hurt really bad."

Me: "Pheebles."

Cloudela: "Clou..."

Magnum:" Magnazooooone magnaaaa."

Blossom: "Belll."

Benny: "Is it over?"

He went over to all his fallen teamates and returned their pokemon as well.

Me: "He's not shooting anymore."

Me: "Magnum, go use thundershock on him."

Magnum: "Mag."

Phoebe: "But Cj."

Me: "He's almost done and you know we can't just let him walk away."

Grunt: "No wait."

He shot at Magnum 3 times, all three hit, but none did any noticeable damage, his gun clicked as he ran out of ammo, barely able to stand from the shocks.

Me: "Ok you know the drill."

Phoebe: "Right!"

She teleported over to him, slipped off his helmet and knocked him out without a fight. then she came back.

-into radio- Benny: "Medical assistance needed, we just went through a full fledged fire fight, we still haven't got the beast in custody yet. Knives is down, several of Cj and Phoebe's pokemon are down, we need reinforcements asap, there might be more of them out there."

-weakly- Rocky: "Golemm."

Me: "Rocky? "

Me: "You ok."

-weakly- Rocky: "Goleeeeem."

Phoebe: "He didn't get out of the poison gas fast enough."

Me: "Ok then, you can rest now."

I returned him, and then sent out Bubba.

Bubba: "Blassst, blasstoise?"

-translating- Phoebe: "Where are we?"

Me: "We're out in the forrest, we need to capture, that thing over there, fighting the snorlax."

Me: "Don't attack yet though, let's just take a break and, see how this fight turns out."

Bubba: "Blassstoooissse, blast, blassssssst."

Phoebe: "He says it looks like he missed the fun part."

Me: "They had magnetons, it wouldn't have been that fun for you."

Bubba: "Blassst."

Me: "Anyway, I'm basically down to you, magnum, and blossom."

Bubba: "Blastoisssse, blasssst blasst."

Phoebe: "They call themselves team cyber, they're just a bunch of rocket leftovers, it's no big deal."

Me:" I wouldn't say that, they put up one hell of a fight."

Me: "Anyway, we just have to wait for this snorlax to finish off this mystery beast."

Me: "However if the snorlax loses then we'll have to take the beast down ourselves."

Phoebe: "Why don't we just help the snorlax?"

Me: "Because we should save our energy until team cyber returns."

Benny: "We'll get reinforcements don't worry, the rest of my team is on their way."

Me: "How long?"

Benny: "Another hour or so, skarmorys could arrive any minute though, depends on the wind."

Me:" You realize team cyber could regroup an launch another attack within the hour?"

Phoebe: "That's true, they're supposed to have a base somewhere around here."

Me: "Might not be much left of it though, remember the mystery beast escaped from it."

Phoebe:" Yeah, I know."

Phoebe: "But if we help the snorlax maybe we can defeat the beast before Cyber can return."

Me: "Yeah, but not before we get it out of here."

-curious- Phoebe:"How are we going to get it out though?"

Benny:" We're going to need to get another chopper for that."

Benny: "The one you came in on was supposed to carry it back, so now they have to send another from Goldenrod, and to keep it from getting shot down again it's going to head to Cerulean and stay there until we have the area clear. "

Me:"Ok, sounds good."

-angry- Snorlax:"Snooooorlax!"

-cheering- Phoebe:"Come on you big teddybear, you can do it!"

Me: "Hehehehe."

The mystery beast wailed on it, throwing one punch after another. It put up a good fight so far, but we could both tell it was running out of steam.

Phoebe: "We should step in now before that Snorlax gets seriously hurt."

Me: "Wait a minute."

Phoebe :"Cloudela, light beam!"

Cloudela: "Clooooou."

Me: "-sighs-, Magnum, use thunder on that thing, try not to hurt the snorlax."

Magnum " Magnnneeeeezooonne!"

Bubba: "Blassst?"

Me :"Go on and use hydropump buddy."

-excitedly- Bubba :"Blasstoise!"

Me: "Aim for it's chest."

Me: "Magnum, hold off on the thunder until Bubba get him all soaking wet."

-affirmatively- Magnum :"Mag."

Phoebe: "Good Idea."

Blossom: "Beeeell?"

Me: "You got anything that can hit that thing without hitting anyone else?"

Blossom: "Beelllllosssssoommm belll beelllosssom."

Phoebe :"Actually, I think it would be better if you sat this one out."

Me: "Yeah, I think so too."

Phoebe: "If it squishes you you're done for."

Me: "Mhm."

-solemnly- Blossom: "bellossom."

Phoebe: "Don't take it that way."

Phoebe: "Some pokemon just can't do some things."

Phoebe: "Like rhyhorn, you can't expect him to swim."

Me :"Or you."

Phoebe: "I can swim better than rhyhorn."

Me: "Ehhh..slightly."

Phoebe: "Rhyhorn will just sink, atleast I can float."

Me: "True."

-unsure- Blossom:"Beeeeelllll?"

Me: "Why don't you just go back in your ball for now Blossom?"

Me: "We might need you again if more Team Cyber goons show up."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

I returned her to her ball.

Phoebe: "Come on out nidoqueen, we need you again."

Nidoqueen: "Nido!"

Phoebe: "Use poison sting on that giant primeape thing, try not to hit anyone else though."

Nidoqueen charged into the fray.

Phoebe: " I guess I'll just start throwing shadowballs."

Me: "Ok."

-exhausted- Snorlax:"Snooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor...snooooooooooor."

Phoebe:"Uh oh."

Phoebe:" LOOKOUT! It's falling asleep!"

The large pokemon had finally exhausted itself, and fell backwards, falling asleep before it hit the ground.

Me:"Is it out?"

Phoebe: "It doesn't look that hurt, I think it's just resting."

Skarmory team leader: "The lazy things are only awake a few hours out of the month."

Skarmory team leader: "They only wake up to eat, and they only eat to sleep."

Phoebe: "Really?"

Skarmory team leader: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Well they have to mate sometime too don't they?"

-awkwardly- Skarmory team: "Um...uh...yeah...sometimes."

Me: "Thanks for that thought Pheebles."

-awkwardly- Phoebe: "Ohhh, come on, it's not that bad, I bet they make cute little chubby babies."

-cutely- Phoebe: "So chubby!"

Me:"Hehehe..."

Me: "I thought you were going to start throwing shadowballs at the monster?"

Phoebe:"Ohhh yeah, I forgot."

Me: "Hey come here."

-unsure- Phoebe: "What?"

I pulled her close and kissed her.

Phoebe: "Ohh Cj.."

- calmly- Me: "What are you so worried about hmm?"

Phoebe: " Half our pokemon are down, and if Team Cyber comes back I don't know if we can take them."

Benny: "Reinforcements aren't too far away, we just have to hope they get here before Cyber comes back."

Me:" Yeah, it will be allright baby girl, this is the hardest fight we've seen in awhile, but it's not the worst, we'll make it."

Phoebe: "You promise?"

Me: "I promise."

She clung to my arm.

Phoebe:"I miss Charley too."

Me: "The sooner we can bag and tag that thing the sooner we can get back to him."

Phoebe: " -sighs-, I guess you're right."

Suddenly, the strange beast let out a loud roar as it slowly fell to its knees.

Phoebe: "Oh look, there it goes, it's fainting."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "LOOKOUT EVERYONE!"

From it's knees, the beast proceeded to fall face down on the ground, convulsing a bit from the electric shocks.

Me: "Is it dead? "

Phoebe: " No, but it's out cold."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "COME BACK EVERYONE! THAT'S ENOUGH ! "

Me: "Yeah, any more and you could kill it."

They began to make their way back to us.

Benny: "Ok, now all we have to do is make sure Team Cyber is out of the area and call the chopper in to carry this thing away."

Me:"What are they going to do with it?"

Benny: "Maybe they'll ship it to the h.a.v.a.c base for further study, I don't really know."

Benny: "If would be nice if we could find the cyber base, which might lead us to find where it came from."

Me:" I just realized, that must be a huge portal."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "There's no way that thing could fit through one of the portals at the facility."

Benny: " Their base is at the old Take-a-Break Interactive studio."

-confused- Me: "The what?"

Benny:"I had an uncle that used to work there, a long time ago."

Benny: "It's a game studio that went defunct a few years back."

Phoebe: "And?"

Benny: "You know what the experiment was about right? You took part in it."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Benny: "They sent lots of pokemon into those portals, in order to make a game, using predictions made by an alakazam in order to contact the other world and what not."

Me: "You mean my world?"

Benny: "Yes."

Benny: "Before that, way back in the 1980s, they used to use these giant portal machines, based on similiar technology to digitize things to help speed up game design, models, simulations and other things, they were only called digitization machines back then, they could only insert things into a premade 3d world, powered by the trinity game engine, developed by IceBeam."

Benny:" Barely a year after they started to take off, they were heavilly regulated because people could use them to duplicate money, guns, valuable objects, even people and pokemon. "

Benny: "Mostly thanks to teams galactic and rocket, who were, by far and large, the main culprits."

Benny:"You ever wondered why Nurse joys used to all look alike?"

Me: "That was a thing?"

That was probably one of the last things I expected to be real.

Benny: "Yep."

Benny: "Each region found one woman with so called ideal nursing traits, and they cloned her, to run the pokemon centers, for awhile they did the same with the police too, until some people got concerned about the clones being used as slave labor."

Phoebe: "I don't remember that..."

Phoebe: "Then again I never really went to the pokemon center much when I was little, and whenever I did it was always the same one."

Benny: "Anyway, now they don't do that anymore, and most of the Joys and Jennys are retired."

Phoebe:"So there's a bunch of identical grandmas somewhere?"

Benny:"Hehehe, yep."

A few seconds later several skarmories flew overhead in a delta formation.

Phoebe: "There's our backup."

One of them broke off from the group and headed over the path, back towards the road, shortly after the entire group broke up and headed off in every direction.

Benny: "Allright, the skarmories are here, the rest of my team will be arriving shortly."

-concentrating- Phoebe: "Wait a minute."

-realizing- Phoebe: "It's waves are fading."

Me: "What? "

Phoebe: "Nidoqueen must have poisoned it or something, either way it's brain waves are getting weaker, and soon it will be dead."

-unsure- Me: "Does it matter?"

Benny: "It would be nice to keep it alive long enough so it can be studied."

Phoebe: "Cj do you still have the full heals from earlier?"

Me: "Um, yeah actually."

I had the syringe clipped to my pocket.

Me: "You want to inject it or should I?"

Phoebe: "Just go do it, we don't have much time, it's dying."

I went up to the beast and injected the contents of the syringe into it's arm.

Me: "Well?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-, I don't know."

Phoebe: "It's just one needle, it's a big monster, it might take a bit to kick in."

Phoebe: "It's hanging on, but it's not getting any stronger."

The beast suddenly grumbled.

-surprised- Me: "Woh crap!"

I pulled the needle out and backed the hell out of there before I became a pancake.

-concerned- Phoebe: "Careful!"

Phoebe: "Yeah, it's starting to get stronger now."

Phoebe:" Ok that should be good."

Phoebe: "I just need to make sure it stays asleep."

-smugly- Me: "That would be a great idea."

She came over to ensure the beast was put into a deep sleep. After that it was a few minutes before anything really happened. We kind of just hung around, and tried to keep a conversation going for a few minutes until a pair of jeeps arrived with the rest of the skarmory team.

-distant- unknown skarmory team member: "Benny!"

Benny: "Mitch?

Benny:" It's about time you made it."

Mitch: "Ramiro was checking out the old studio."

Ramiro: "I didn't find anything, but it looks like they left in a hurry."

Benny:" Yeah, that makes sense."

Mitch: " You said Knives was down?"

Benny: "Yeah unfortunately."

Mitch: "But you three managed to fight them off."

Me: "For now atleast."

Me: "I guess Cyber is still out here trying to cover their tracks, didn't like it when we found their secret before they did."

Phoebe: "Well, after yesterday, they probly weren't expecting us."

Me:"Mhm."

Mitch:"Is the snorlax ok?"

Phoebe:"Yeah, it was helping us earlier, but now it's sleeping again."

Mitch: "Yep, hehe, that sounds like a snorlax."

Mitch:" Well, so far, none of our skarmories have come acrossed any more of team cybers goons, we're running thermal scans now, but we're not picking anything up."

Mitch: " Our skarmories are about 2 miles out from here, if there were more cybers closing in, they would probably be closer than that."

Phoebe: "But they have helmets."

Mitch: "Shouldn't matter."

Me: "Pheebles, that's not how it works."

Phoebe: "Ohhhh."

Me: "It's thermal vision, it goes off of temperature, hotter things appear brighter."

Me:" Which allows them to see through trees and things to a certain extent."

-correctively- Mitch: "Actually, we can't see through the trees, just makes them easier to spot."

Me: "Oh...ok."

Mitch: "Anyway, we're going to run one more formation over the east, and if that's clear, we'll call in the chopper to get this thing out of here."

Mitch: "So we'll just have hang tight until then."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "That's pretty much what we've been doing for the past few minutes."

Long story short, it was about another 20 minutes before the skarmories had the area clear. After that, the chopper was called in. Ten minutes after that, the chopper arrived. And then we had to carefully slide a net under the beast, using our pokemon to lift it up when neccesary, this wasn't an easy task, and took about a half hour. After that the mystery beast was carried away, and we finally headed back to the road. We didn't head back to Goldenrod until about five in the afternoon. By the time we arrived at the airport it was almost 6. The chopper was packed with us, the entire skarmory team, and two jeeps. After we arrived at the airport the chopper returned to Kanto to get the two more jeeps that were left behind.

As it was late, after we left the airport, we dropped by Nina's school to pick her up, then we finally headed back to the experiment facility.

Nina: "So you were in Kanto all day?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, for the most part."

Phoebe: "And we saw some chanceys."

Nina: "Those pokemon that work at the pokemon center?"

Nina :"They exist in the wild?'

Phoebe: "Of course sweety, where do you think they came from?"

Phoebe :"But, they're extremely rare."

Nina: "Why didn't you catch them?"

Phoebe: "Because there were a lot of injured pokemon, if we scared them off, the pokemon wouldn't be able to get any help."

Me: "Besides we have enough pokemon for now."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina:"I don't."

Phoebe: "You have enough for now."

Me: "You want us to catch your whole team for you?"

Nina: "No."

Phoebe: "Spike is the only one you caught by yourself."

Nina: "I know, but chanceys are rare."

Me: "Hehe...you didn't know that a few minutes ago."

Nina: "But I..."

-interupting- Me:"Even if you were there your mother wouldn't let you catch them anyway."

Phoebe:" Mhm."

Sensing this was going nowhere fast, I decided to change the subject.

Me:"So what was school like today?"

Nina: "It was ok, I didn't see any pokemon to catch."

-sarcastically- Me: "Oh really, there's no wild pokemon wandering around the school?"

Nina: "There's a meowth that comes to visit sometimes."

Phoebe:"Really?"

Nina: "He wanders around the parking lot, and sometimes he sneaks inside and watches the battles in the arena, nobody wants to catch him though because he's kind of the unnofficial mascot."

Phoebe: "Ohhh...ok."

Me:" Did you win any battles?"

Nina:"Just a one on one with some guy, but it didn't last very long."

Phoebe:"Oooh some guy."

-defensively- Nina: "Ewww mom, no , it's not like that."

Phoebe: "Same guy that asked you to prom?"

Nina :"Um...no, just some random guy."

Phoebe:"Ok..if you say so."

Me:"Only one little battle and school has been out for over three hours."

Nina:"Well, the arena was busy, people want to get some battles in before winter break and prom and stuff."

-unsure- Phoebe: "Winter break?"

Me: "Whens that come sweety?"

Nina: "3 weeks."

Me:"How long?"

Nina"Two weeks."

Nina:"And then prom is on the saturday of the last weekend."

Me:"Ok."

Nina:"Is that ok?"

Me: "Yeah it's allright."

Nina:"Where's Charley?"

Phoebe: "Corina is still watching him at the experiment facility, we'll pick him up on the way home."

-realizing- Me: "She's had him for almost the entire day."

-solemnly- Phoebe: "I know, I miss him so much."

Me: "Well we'll have him back in the next hour or so."

-the next hour, or so-

By the time we reached the lab, it was begining to close down for the evening. The sun had set and it was already nightime.

Corina was still waiting in the lounge though. Charley was not happy that we had been gone for so long, even though it was outside of our control.

Corina: "Oh good you're back."

-upset- Charley: "Mawa!"

-concerned- Me: "Awww what's wrong little guy?"

Corina: "I kept him from crying as long as I could, but he's been crying for ten minutes now."

Me :"Well, you tried."

Corina:" He was starting to think you left him."

Corina: "I couldn't even distract him with the tv and that usually works."

Me:" Wow, he really is sad."

Phoebe: "Ohhh, my little baby boy, I'd never do that, come here.""

She picked him up and held him close.

-upset- Charley :"Mawa!"

-upset- Charley: "Weh u go?"

-upset- Charley: "Cawey miss.."

-upset- Charley: "Cawey miss mawa, miss dahwy, miss ehwywa."

-calmly- Phoebe: "Awwe, I missed you too sweety."

-calmly- Phoebe: "We just had to work a little longer than usual today, that's all."

She gave him a kiss and held him for awhile, until he started to settle down.

Corina: "Ok, now that he's calmed down, I hate to say this, but we need to leave the building, they're going to lock it up soon."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Phoebe :"Come on little guy let's go."

Charley: "Ho?"

Phoebe: "Yeah we're going home."

Charley: "Cawey see Newa?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, she's waiting in the car."

Charley: "Cawey wa teephee?"

Me: "Hehehehe."

Phoebe: "Hehehe I don't know...it's getting pretty late."

-cutely- Charley: "Buh Cawey wa."

Phoebe :"You can watch tv on the way home, how about that?'

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey luh mawa!"

Phoebe: "-giggles-, I love you too you little sofa topo."

Phoebe: "Are you hungry? "

Charley: "Cawey no huhwy."

Phoebe: "Did Corina get you something to eat?"

Corina: "I took him out for lunch, he should be fine."

Phoebe: "Oh, thanks, ok, good."

-concerned- Phoebe: "Where did you take him?"

Corina: "To the waffle house, I got him some pancakes and he ate some there, and he's been munching on some leftovers throughout the day."

-playfully- Phoebe:" So you've had pancakes all day."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey luh pancays."

Phoebe: "Well I know that."

-playfully- Phoebe: "That makes you lucky doesn't it?"

-unsure- Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "hehe."

-cutely- Charley:" Cowehwa may pancays fo Cawey."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Yep, that's what she said."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey luuuuuuuhhhhhh pancays."

-playfully- Me: "Oh you luuuuuuuuhhhh them huh?"

-jokingly- Phoebe: "He doesn't just luh them, he luuuuuuuuuuhhhs them."

Corina: "Then he took a nap, and then he woke up a few hours ago, played for a little bit, and then he got upset because you still weren't back."

Phoebe: "Awee."

Corina: "Well, my cars over there, I'll see you guys tomorrow."

Me: "Ok goodbye."

Phoebe:"Be careful, it's getting late."

Corina: "I will, don't worry."

We left the lab, got back in the car, and headed home.

Charley: "Newa! Cawey miss!"

Nina: "I missed you too little guy."

Nina: "How was your day?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Nina: "You don't know?"

Nina:"What were you asleep most of the time?"

Charley: "Cawey no see mawa."

Nina: "Yeah, they were really busy today weren't they?"

Nina: "Hopefully tomorrow will be different?"

Phoebe: "We'll have to see, I don't know what will happen tomorrow."

Phoebe: "We may have to spend the rest of the week in Unova."

-defensively- Nina: "Nooooooo!"

Me: "Oh relax, she's just joking."

Me :"We won't leave the continent without you."

Nina: "What's the continent?"

Me: "The Kanto\Johto regions."

Nina: "Oh."

Phoebe: "Well, we might go to the orange islands."

-worried- Nina: "Mawwwwwwwm."

-sternly- Me: "Pheebles..."

Phoebe: "-giggles-, sorry.."

Me: "We're not going anywhere sweetheart don't worry."

-cutely- Phoebe: "You don't want to go to the islands with me?"

Me: "I'll go if we're ordered to, not that it will happen."

Nina: "Dad."

Me: "If it's our job Nina, we'll have to go, we have a great job, ok, it may be risky, and we may have to travel sometimes, but we get a lot more time off than most people do."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me:"Time we can spend with you two."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina: "But not today apparently."

Me: "Well yeah, somedays are longer than others, like today we had to go to Kanto, so ...yeah."

Nina: "Because of Team Cyber?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, kind of, we had to fight them off a little bit."

Me:"They shot down our helicopter."

-sternly- Phoebe:"Cj.."

-shocked- Nina:"They did what?"

Phoebe:"Sweety, it happens ok, we made it back safely, you don't need to freak out."

Nina:"If I see them."

Me: "Nina..'

Phoebe: "If you see them you'll let us handle it."

Me: "Uh...yeah, good enough."

By the time we made it home, Nina was pretty much caught up on our adventures of the day.

It was dark, but it was still another hour or so before Charley had to go to bed, so we let him watch tv with us for a little bit. At first he wanted to play around on the floor for a little bit, but just a few minutes later he changed his mind and decided that he specifically wanted Phoebe to hold him. So she held him for awhile as we watched tv, and by the time his bed time came up he had already fallen asleep in her arms.

-quietly- Phoebe:"Charley? You ready for bed?"

-no response-

Me:"It looks like he's already asleep."

-quietly- Phoebe: "Awwwwe."

-quietly- Nina: "Can I hold him?"

-quietly- Phoebe: "Ok, just be careful."

She handed him over.

-quietly- Me: "You want to take him up to his crib for the night?"

-quietly- Nina: "Um, I don't know..."

-quietly- Phoebe: "Here, come on, we'll go with you."

-quietly- Nina: "Ok."

-quietly- Phoebe: "Allright then, hold him carefully, let's go."

We all headed up the stairs to put Charley to bed.

-quietly- Phoebe: "All you need to do is carefully put him in his crib, be very gentle so you don't wake him."

-quietly- Phoebe: "And then you take his little blanket, and you lay it over him like this so he won't get cold."

-quietly- Phoebe:" And then you take Mr. Lotad over here, and this um, squirtle thing, and you set them in the crib with him so if he wakes up early he has something to play with and won't get upset so quickly."

-quietly- Phoebe: "And that's it."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Goodnight little guy."

-lovingly- Me: "Goodnight Charley."

-quietly- Phoebe:" Allright come on, let's go back downstairs."

-quietly- Nina: "Ok."

-lovingly- Nina: "Goodnight baby brother."

-A bit later-

Phoebe:"There isn't much on tv tonight is there?"

Me:"Nope not really."

Me:"Same old movies we've seen time and time again."

Nina:"What's on the sci-fi channel?"

Me:"Looks like a random zombie b movie."

There was no title posted, so it was just a random low budget movie set in a zombie apocalypse. With all the tropes, lots zombies, stupid characters that often end up feeding said zombies.

Me:"Ok we're not watching this."

Nina: "Why not?"

Me:" Cause if both of you get nightmares, the house might not be standing in the morning."

Nina: "Dad, I won't get nightmares that's silly."

Phoebe: "Hey that only ever happened once."

Phoebe: "And that was before I knew zombies weren't real."

-surprised- Nina: "Zombies aren't real?"

Phoebe:" No, not in this world."

Me: "We haven't come across a movie world yet."

Phoebe: "I don't think they exist."

Me: "What do you mean?."

Phoebe: "Well think about it."

Phoebe:" What happens if we go into a movie world, and change a bunch of things?"

Phoebe: "Like if we stop the bad guy before the heros do."

Phoebe: "What happens to the movie in this world, does it change to reflect that, or does it stay the same?"

Me: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "Because, you know movies, kind of, they always move forward."

Me: "Linear Progression."

Phoebe: "Right."

Me: "Well, remember when we were in grand theft auto land, we had limited interaction with a player character."

Me: "So, the gameworld does change somewhat to accomodate us, we were able to say things and act in ways that normal npcs would not. "

Me: "But it probably went back to normal after we left."

Me: "Then you know, online games are usually on servers."

Phoebe: "What does that mean?"

Me: "There could be thousands of identical game worlds running at a time."

Me: "And periodically those servers shut down for maintenance, or simply when games get old."

Me: "I wonder if that's why those portals changed."

Phoebe:" I wonder too."

Me: "If those worlds were destroyed, maybe the portals just redirect to another world."

-confused- Nina: " Whaattt?"

Me: "Oh don't worry about it Nina."

Me: "We may not ever understand."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina: "So what are we going to watch then?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "The Matrix?"

Me: "Terminator?"

Me: "Transporter?"

Me:" The Expendables? "

Phoebe: "I'm bored with those."

Me:"Yeah, I get what you mean."

Pretty much no new big budget movies, of any genre, had been made since the disaster. The only ones being made now were low budget scy fy or horror movies that didn't require much experience or equipment to make. Some of the more interesting ones had pokemon acting as monsters, combined with some makeup that made them hard to recognize they were pretty convincing.

Me: "I wonder what's on the anime channel?"

Nina: "Anime?"

Phoebe: "Um, yeah that's probably true."

Me: "Yep."

Me :"Ok."

Phoebe: "Wanna play our usual game?"

Me: "Hehe, sure why not."

Me: "The pause button is ready."

Nina: "Yay..."

I paused the tv so we could analyze the scene and try to guess what would happen next. This was a game we played every once in awhile with untranslated anime, sometimes even if it was dubbed over, we would mute the tv so we could play. Then we would watch again later with the sound so we could see what was really going on. Phoebe had long since forgotten how to speak japanese, so she was just as unsure as the rest of us.

Me: "Ok so they're having a conversation."

Phoebe: "About the stones on the table."

Me: "Mhm, probably magic."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina: "Maybe they're like evolution stones?"

Me: "Nina, this isn't pokemon."

Nina: "I mean they have special powers."

Me: "Yeah, that's what I said."

Phoebe: "Ok play it."

They had their conversation, which none of us could understand, then the scene changed to a different woman, in an alleyway, with red eyes, and fangs, and blood red lips..

I paused the tv again.

Me: "Well this just got more confusing."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: " Vampire?"

Me: "Yep probably."

Me: "She's going to kill somebody."

Phoebe: "Play and find out."

-not even ten seconds later-

I paused it again.

Me: "Yep she killed somebody."

Me: "Called it!"

Nina: "Eww, she's drinking his blood."

Phoebe: "Now what?"

Me: "I don't know."

I pressed play.

Two police officers walked around a corner.

Phoebe: "Here come the police."

Me: "Are they going to shoot? "

It happened before I could finish the sentence.

Me: "Yep."

Phoebe: "She's not dead, no way."

Phoebe: "Yep, see, she's getting back up."

-playfully- Nina: "Oh no! Run cops! Run!"

Me: "Hehehe.."

Me :"Nobody ever aims for the head."

Phoebe: "Wouldn't be a very long show if they did."

Me: "Yep."

I paused it again.

Me:" So who will win, vampire lady or the cops?"

Phoebe :"Cops are going to die."

Nina: "Noooo!'

When I pressed play the Vampire lady quickly jumped on one of the cops, and well...he died. The other turned and ran in terror only to be slaughtered seconds later.

Me: "Oooh she's fast."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Nina:" She killed them!"

Me: "Yep."

Phoebe: "Nina calm down, don't wake Charley."

Me: "Hey now we are back to the two girls from earlier."

Phoebe: "They're walking down the street."

Phoebe: "There's a police car."

Me: "Mhm."

-overly dramatic- Nina: "Oh no they're going to die too!"

-sternly- Phoebe:" Nina."

Me:"No, they're probably heading to where the other ones died."

Nina: "But that's where the vampire lady is."

I paused it.

Me: "Oh really?"

Phoebe: " I don't think she would still be there sweety."

Me: "Yeah somebody had to see the bodies to call the police."

Nina: "Maybe she called them so she could get more blood."

Me: "I don't think she would need that much blood."

Nina: "Maybe she wants to sample different kinds?"

Phoebe: "Maybe, we'll just have to see, press play Cj."

Me: "Allright."

The police car passed them by, and dissapeared over the horizon. Drawing the two women's attention.

Then they passed by a store and a tv in the window appeared to display an incredibly convienient news story.

Me: "Well now they know what's going on."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Nina: "What are they going to do now?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "Maybe fight the vampire lady?"

Nina: "They'll get killed."

Me:"Well maybe the stones can kill the vampires."

Nina: "I thought vampires were weak to silver."

Me:" That's werewolves."

Nina: "Ohhhh..."

Me: "Vampires are weak to sunlight, but it really depends on the story."

Me: "Sometimes they're weak to crosses, other times they can only be killed by a stake through the heart."

I paused the tv.

Nina: "Like the food?"

Me: "Hehe...no, a wooden stake. "

Nina: "I don't get it."

Phoebe: "It's like a pointy stick."

Nina: "Ohhh..."

Nina: "Wouldn't that kill anything?"

Me: "Yeah, pretty much."

Nina: "Because then they can't love."

Me: "What?"

Me: "No, Nina that has nothing to do with it."

-in disbelief- Me:"Hhehehehe.."

Me: "The heart circulates all the blood throughout the body, in most living things, without it, the blood can't circulate and the body will die."

Me: "I'm not sure if the same thing works for vampires, as they're technically undead, most of the time, but ..."

-interupting- Nina: "Most of the time?"

Me: "Well, like I said, it depends on the story."

Nina: "Ohh."

Me: "Anyway, a lot of the time a stake through the heart will kill them."

Nina:" What does undead mean anyway?"

Me:"It means...that...they died...but they're not dead anymore, they're undead."

-unsure- Nina: "So revived pokemon are undead?"

-unsure- Nina: "Are you undead?"

Phoebe:" No."

Me: "No, that's different."

Phoebe: "Usually undead things are evil, living corpses."

Me: "Revives bring things back to life."'

Me: "No... Nina , undead things don't have working organs or beating hearts and technically by all means shouldn't be alive except for whatever magic or curse makes them so."

Me: "Revives restore all bodily functions."

Nina: "Oh...ok."

Phoebe: "Are we going to go back to watching tv now?"

Me:" Well, Nina do you have any more questions?"

Nina: "No it's ok we can continue with the show."

Me: "Ok."

Me :"See that might be why the cops couldn't kill her earlier, because she's undead so the bullets didn't have any effect."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Nina?"

Nina: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "Remember, don't teach Charley any of this, I know you tend to get creative when you play with him."

Nina: "I won't mom I promise."

Phoebe: "Good."

Phoebe: "He doesn't need to know about blood or vampires or things like that."

Me: " Mhm."

Nina: "I know."

Phoebe: "Ok then."

Phoebe: "Back to the show."

Me: "Right."

So we finished watching this vampire show, and by the end the two women managed to confront the vampire lady, but in typical anime fashion, the episode ended before they could begin to fight.

Nina: "Awe, the didn't get to the fight."

Me: "Well then we'll have to wait till the next episode."

Nina: "When will that be?"

Me :"Um, I don't know, same time tomorrow maybe."

Phoebe: "Shh, here's the host."

The tv showed the face of a man who couldn't have been any older than us. His was sitting behind a desk a facing the camera on a somewhat proffesional looking set. This was one of their 2 hosts, the other one worked from midnight to noon, this one worked the other shift. The channel showed it animes in a series, with one or two sequential episodes per day, when they got to the end of one anime, they'd swap in another one. The next in the series if they could.

-on tv- Anime Channel Host: "Allright that was the original pilot of Nagoya Vampire Hunters, episode two will be shown tomorrow at the same time."

-on tv- Anime Channel Host: "Next up, we'll begin our late night 1980s block by continueing our viewing of Dragon Ball, right where we left off on episode 35, I think, then we'll continue with the original transformers series, episodes 23 and 24, and Mobile Suit Gundam episode 16, then Fang of the Sun Dougram, episode 33. This is N double A C, North American Anime Channel, providing you with the finest animes the internet has to offer since the Pokemon Disaster of 2012 and the abandonment of the old Chicago News studio we now call home. "

Before the disaster, this channel would be completely illegal. After the disaster, it was interesting as hell, because you never knew what you were going to see. Robots? Pokemon? Supernatural entities? Romantic Comedy Dramas? Really obscure anime shows that never left Japan? This channel had everything everyday, it was crazy.

Me: "They're up in Chicago?"

Phoebe: "That's what they said."

-unsure- Nina: "Fang of the what?"

Me: "I don't know."

Me: "They said it's the 1980s block, so it was probably made in the 80s."

Me:"Other than that I never heard of it before."

Phoebe :"And it's on just passed your bedtime."

Me: "Mhm."

Nina: "Awwe, but I wanna see what a dougram is."

Me: "It's a gram, of dough."

Nina: "It is?"

Me: "Yes."

Me: "It's a show about baking."

-unsure- Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "I don't know."

Phoebe: "You're making that up."

Me: "No duh."

Phoebe: "Don't lie to her like that."

Me: "You do it all the time, what are you talking about?"

Nina: "How long are you guys just going to stare at eachother?"

Me:" Sorry, we were, talking about...things."

-curious- Nina: "What kind of things?"

Me: "Well uh...tv things."

Nina: "What kind of things are you talking about that you can't tell me?"

Phoebe: "We were talking about sending you to bed and having sex on the couch."

-facepalm-

Me: "Pheebles."

Nina: "Ewwwww...you guys are so weird."

-surprised- Me: "What the hell?"

Phoebe: "I had to tell her something."

Me :"So you went for the most embarassing thing you could possibly say?"

-defensively- Phoebe: "It's not the most embarrasing."

Me:"Oh really?"

Phoebe: "Just try me."

Me: "Nina that's not what we were talking about, you're mom is just..."

Nina: "Being weird."

Me:"Yeah, pretty much."

Phoebe: "Hey!"

Phoebe:"Oh it's on now."

Nina: "Then what were you talking about?"

Me:" You know what? I don't even remember."

Nina: "Really?"

Me:"A lot has happened since then."

Nina: "It's only been a few minutes."

Me: "That's a lot in conversation time."

-jokingly- Me: "Look at this conversation, it's a senior citizen now."

Nina: "What?"

Nina: "Mom do you remember?"

Phoebe: "No."

-playfully- Nina: "You're lying."

Phoebe: "How do you know?"

Me: "Hehehe."

Me: "It's our little secret."

I put my arm around Phoebe and pulled her close.

-playfully- Me: "You'll never know."

Nina: "Neither will you, you don't remember."

Phoebe: "-giggles-"

Me:"hehehe...yeah, you're right."

Phoebe :"Let's just drop it and get back to watching tv ok?'

Nina: "Ohhh, ok Mom."

Nina: "What's this dragonball show about?"

Me: "It's about Goku, and some other people going around looking for dragonballs."

Nina: "What are those?"

Me: "I think there's like 12 of them scatttered around, and if they find them all they grant wishes or something."

Me: "I don't really remember, I never really watched it that much."

Phoebe: "Maybe they're testicles from a dragon."

Me: "Good god Pheebles."

Phoebe: "It makes sense."

-unsure- Nina:"What are testicles?"

Phoebe: "They're..."

-interupting- Me: "Don't answer that."

Me: "And how do you not know what they are?"

Nina: "I never heard that word before."

Nina :"Will you tell me?"

Phoebe: "They're dragon's balls...you know balls? nuts, family jewels. "

Nina: "Ooooooh...ok."

Me: "Seriously?"

Phoebe: "Yeah seriously. You didn't know what it meant either?"

Me :"Have you been drinking?"

Phoebe: "No."

Nina: "Drinking what?'

Me: "Well sometimes she tries to pass wine off as grape juice."

Phoebe:"It was one glass, years ago, in japan I was thirsty and the only other thing in the fridge was pepsi, and I don't like pepsi that much."

Me: "Then you spilled it all over your dress."

Phoebe: "That's cause Rio busted through the wall."

Phoebe: "I don't drink, your father is just trying to get back at me for talking about balls."

Nina:"Well you were saying a lot of weird things."

Me: "Hehehe."

Phoebe:" Well I... uh..yeh you're right they were weird."

She leaned against me.

Me:" And now you wanna snuggle huh?"

Phoebe :" A little bit."

Me:"Truce?

Phoebe:"Truce."

Me:"Ok then."

Nina: "Is she going to get in trouble?"

Me :"Nina, she's your mother."

-jokingly- Me :"What am I supposed to do ground her?"

-adamantly- Nina :"Yes you can."

-jokingly-Me: "Ok fine, Pheebles you're grounded."

-in disbelief- Phoebe :"What?"

-jokingly-Me :"You have to stay on the couch with me for ten minutes."

Phoebe:" Oh...oookayyy."

She kissed me on the cheek.

-playfully- Phoebe: "Can I stay longer?"

Me: "Of course."

Nina :"Hey that's not a punishment!"

-jokingly- Phoebe :"Well yeah, you really think he can ground me?"

-lovingly- Me:"Couldn't if I needed too."

-lovingly-Phoebe: "You know it."

We kissed.

Nina: "Oh brother."

Nina: "Why not?"

Phoebe: "Do you really not understand that?'

Phoebe :"I'm his wife, you're our daugther, big difference."

Me :"Mhm."

Nina: "I know."

Phoebe: "Then why are you asking?"

-unsure- Nina:" I dunno."

-worried- Nina: "Are you mad?"

Phoebe: " It's allright sweety, let's just get back to watching tv."

Nina: "Ok..."

Nina: "So where's the dragonballs?"

-jokingly- Phoebe:"Under the dragon."

Me: "Pheebles..."

Phoebe: "Sorry."

Me: "I don't know, they don't show up very often."

Nina: "Weird."

Me: "I don't even remember seeing an episode where they found one."

Phoebe: "Really."

Me: "I imagine they exist, but I've never seen one."

Nina: "Hmm."

Nina: "Ok."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "Is there an episode where they look under a dragon?"

Me :"Pheebles, enough with that."

-A few hours later-

We were about halfway through Mobile Suit Gundam at this point.

Phoebe: "Did you ever see this when you were little?"

Me: "If I did it was less than dragonball, I remember it being on tv though."

Me: "Or one of the later series."

Me: "Never really understood what it was about."

Me: "I don't even know if that was it actualy, because the one I remember had a lot of animal based mechs."

Me:" But I was probably like 4 or 5 at the time."

Me: "Even pokemon was barely a thing back then."

Phoebe: "I see."

Nina :"Can I see sun doughram?'

Me: "Um, how about we record it, and you can see it tomorrow."

Phoebe: "Nina it's almost 10."

Phoebe: "You should go to bed, you got school tomorrow."

Nina: "-sighs-, ohhh, ok."

Nina: "I really want to know what it's about."

Me:"We do too, kind of."

Phoebe:"Mhm, and we'll find out tomorrow."

Phoebe:"But now you need to go to bed."

Nina:"Ok, fine."

She got up and headed to her room.

Phoebe:"And we should go too."

Me:"Just let me set it to record real quick."

Me:"We'll record this block and the next block because we don't know which one the episode will end on."

Me:"And there we go..."

Me:"Pheebles?"

She had teleported away while I wasn't looking.

-playfully- Phoebe:"Come on, the bed's getting cold!"

Me:"That doesn't even make sense."

Phoebe:"Well it's really warm now see."

Phoebe:"So warm that I feel like, I have...to take all my clothes off."

-awkwardly- Nina: "EWWWW MOM SHUTUP!"

Obviously she could hear us.

-sternly- Phoebe:"Nina, don't yell you could...!"

-interupting- Charley: "MAWAAAAA! CAWEY TYWOOOOO~"

Phoebe: "Great, now you woke up Charley."

Me:"Or did you wake up Charley?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-."

I followed her up the stairs so we could comfort Charley and get him back to sleep.

It didn't take long, Phoebe just had to hold him for a little bit.

Phoebe: "-sighs-, that girl, I swear."

Me: "You said you were going to take your clothes off within earshot of her, that was kind of your own fault."

Me: "I know you're trying to be sexy, but you could have waited till I got up the stairs."

Phoebe: "Yeah you're right, that was stupid."

-upset- Cawey:" Cawey no sleeee."

Phoebe: "Ohhh it's ok little guy."

-calmly- Phoebe: "We'll get you back to sleep don't worry."

She gave him a kiss and gently set him back down in his crib.

-softly- Phoebe :"There, we'll make you all comfortable."

-softly- Phoebe: "Then we'll turn out the light and leave you be."

-softly- Phoebe: "Sleep well baby boy."

-quietly- Phoebe: "Ok let's go."

She took my hand and led me to our bedroom.

Me: "How horny are you tonight huh?"

Phoebe :"Enough to want youe thingy inside me."

Me:" Well we're gonna have to keep quiet, you know Nina's still awake."

Me: "And Charley might be too."

Phoebe: "I know."

She said as she slipped out of her dress.

Phoebe: "Now do you want me or should I just slip my nightgown on?"

Me:" -sighs-, come here baby girl."

Phoebe: "I was hoping you'd say that."

-lustfully- Phoebe: "I wanna drain those dragonballs."

Me:" Well you know how."

-lustfully- Phoebe: "Oh yes I do."

We started to make out, and then sometime later we both ended up naked in bed, whispering softly as we held eachother close.

-softly- Me :"Love you baby girl."

-softly- Phoebe :"Love you."

-softly- Me :"Ready for tomorrow?"

-softly- Phoebe :"As long as you're with me."

-softly- Me: "I'll always be with you."

-softly- Phoebe: "I know."

-softly- Me: "I'll always be here to hold you like this."

-lovingly- Phoebe :"Awwwwe."

-softly- Me: "And kiss you."

-softly- Me: "And whisper to you softly just like now."

-enamored- Phoebe: "I love you."

-softly-Me: "Love you too baby girl."

-softly-Phoebe :"Goodnight."

-softly-Me: "Goodnight."

-softly- Phoebe :"Wait...Cj?"

-softly-Me :"Mhm?"

-softly-Phoebe: "Are you really mad at me for drinking wine that long ago?"

-softly-Me: "Huh? Oh...no baby are you kidding?"

-softly- Me: "You can drink it if you want, just be modest about it."

-softly- Phoebe: "No it's ok, I didn't really like it anyway."

-softly- Me: "Oh...hehehe...ok."

Me: "Also why do you keep trying to freak Nina out?"

Phoebe:" I wasn't, I had to say something, and I knew that might make her stop asking."

Me: "Yeah, that's true."

Phoebe: "I don't get how she's still so disgusted even though we caught her watching us once."

Me : "She was in heat for the first time, she could barely control herself."

Phoebe: "Yeah, you're right."

Me:"Then she got sick, and that was a scary week."

Phoebe: "Yep."

Me :"But she seems to have gotten over it pretty quickly."

Phoebe: "Not really, a few days ago she was asking me question after question about it while you were in the shower."

Me: "Oh really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, I keep having to reassure her that the next time won't be so bad."

Phoebe: "She's scared her own body will let her down again."

Phoebe :"To be honest, i'm kind of worried too."

Me :"How come?"

Phoebe: "She was forced to evolve prematurely, you know that."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe :"The complications that could arise aren't completely understood."

Me :"Well it's the same thing with Charley isn't it?"

Me: "There's only a few of him out there, all of which are still children."

Phoebe: "Now you're starting to scare me even more."

Me:" Oohhh baby girl, it's gonna be fine."

Phoebe: "Don't worry right?"

Me :"Right."

Phoebe: "They're my children."

Me: "You can't help it."

Phoebe: "Very good."

Me:" Well just do what my parents used to tell me."

Phoebe :"And what was that?"

Me :"Focus on the positive."

Me: "We're together, both our kids our perfectly healthy as of this moment."

Me: "They're safe.'

Me :"We're safe."

Me: "And we're about to fall asleep and have a wonderful night of beautiful dreams."

Me: "And then in the morning, I get to wake up next to you."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Oh Cj."

We kissed.

Me :"Now goodnight my love."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Goodnight."