Chapter 33- Family Matters

A/N: This is a original Pokemon Fan Game, made by Amethyst. if you wish to check it out and play the game download it at Reborn Evolved. search for it on your web browser if you want to get to the website.

Time: 17:10

Location: Yureyu Building

It was just near the end of the battle between Nero and Marie. Lucille, Percival, Cain, Charlotte, Anna, Noel, Shelly and Heather had just gotten to the Lobby. Percival the one most worried for Marie, rushed straight out.

"Elec! Vire!" Marie's Electivire, Tesla, had just gotten up from a powerful Earth Power from Nero's Hydreigon, Orcus. Percival could tell from just a glance that Tesla was badly damaged from that attack, though the look Tesla had, knew it had defeat Orcus or it could hurt its trainer Marie. Tesla rushed the Hydreigon, fist becoming cold for an Ice Punch.

Though unfortunately those fists were caught by the two heads of the Hydreigon. At this Nero smiled. "Heh, you still think you can win." Nero smirked, "Orcus finish—"

Before Nero could give a command, someone had screamed. "No… Ahhhh!"

The scream had been expected by none, it caused everyone to look at the person it originated from. Percival turned quickly to notice that it was Lucille she was horrified, pale, losing footing.

Where Percival acted quickly to make sure she didn't fall. "Woah!"

"Orcus Return!" Nero yelled, returning Orcus to its pokeball, seeing how this was no longer one on one, but surrounded by multiple people. though before, Nero ran he locked eyes with one person. "…"

As Nero started to dash away, Charlotte yelled and chased after him. "Hey! Oh no you don't!"

Bssushh! It was almost as immediate as Nero's dash as he threw down a smoke bomb. As the smoke cleared no trace was left.

"Tch… Damn coward." Charlotte clicked her teeth, as she returned back to the group.

While Percival was helping Lucille calm down and have her sit down. he checked on how Marie was doing. So, it was up to Cain to ask the question he and Percival were thinking. "Sooo… you know that guy?"

"He's just an ex-Orphanage member so I used to." Charlotte responded.

"Ex…" Cain said almost surprised.

"I mean he has… well it clearly evolved, a Zoroark. Though the damn Doctor locked away our Pokémon, Nero still managed to somehow get that one back." Charlotte explained how Nero escaped. "Though he doesn't seem to have changed much… whether that for the better I can't tell… Though probably not, speaking of what I've heard about him."

"What have you heard about him?" Cain asked

"A lot of bad stuff surrounding him." Charlotte scoffed. "it's almost fitting that he has an Absol. You know since how they all are beasts that drag disaster around them."

"…Absol don't bring disaster… They predict it…" Lucille warily said, through a piercing pain in her mind.

"Tomato, tamato" Charlotte responded to that, without much care. "though I can't say they don't look pretty. You really have to scream at that Hydreigon?"

"…" Lucille shuddered hearing the name of the Pokémon… "I was attacked by one once…"

"…Sorry…" Charlotte sighed realizing how inconsiderate she was. Then noticing how the group had one more head… well half a head, as they were about the same size as the other children with them. "So, who's the new kid."

"Oh, hello." Marie had bowed her head, as attention was now put on her. While Cain and Charlotte were talking, she had gone to use medical supplies to heal her own and everyone else's Pokémon. "My name is Marie Whitehall. I am the youngest sister of Percival."

"?" Charlotte had question marks flying over her head, as she heard that. Then turned to Percival quizzically.

"She's one of the good ones." Percival kept his comment quick and short. "So… anyone have an idea of what to do now?"

"We still have my sisters' place in Chrysolia, if everyone still wants to go?" Charlotte asked everyone to see if they still wanted to do that.

"I don't have anywhere else to go, so…" Shelly's voice got silent as she was drowned out by Anna.

Anna was pale and looking a bit shaky. "H-hey, we should go quickly, okay? Nostra isn't feeling very good…"

"Nostra?" Noel spoke dumbfounded as he stared at his twin sister. "Don't you mean you're not feeling well? You look pale."

"N-no, no… It's definitely Nostra, she says she's dizzy and tired…" Anna protested at any meaning of not feeling well.

Which wasn't believed by Noel. "Uh huh…"

"Speaking of pale…" Percival looked at Lucille, who was white as paper.

"…" Lucille trembled and held her head as she suffered through a headache.

"Well, I'm going where ever Percival is going." Marie answered.

"Kay, if we hurry. We should exit the Rail net by sunset, and be at the place by night fall." Charlotte smiled and everyone entered the rail net. Though there was a locked door that blocked to go further, Marie easily disarmed that with her Rotom. Impressing Charlotte further, though as they went further into the Rail net, Charlotte closely examined Marie.

"…Hey Elitist are you and her really related?" Charlotte started walking beside Percival, trying to quietly asking Percival the question. Though it wasn't easy as Lucille was currently struggling to walk, and was being helped by Percival

"…Yes." Percival answer, rather defensively.

"You sure, you two look nothing alike." Charlotte said, wondering how these two were from the same cut.

"Just because we don't look similar, it doesn't mean we're not related." Percival said to Charlotte.

"Percy…" Lucille shook her head as she listened into the conversation. "Didn't you say… your mother died when you were young?"

"Oh, half-sister. Gotcha." As Charlotte heard that, she understood quite fast.

"Hey, what are you guys talking about?" The one in question asked.

"…" Percival looked off to the side.

"oh…" Marie understood that look immediately. "How Percival has a different mom…"

"You know?" Charlotte wasn't sure if she should have been surprised by that Marie knew.

"Yeah… it's not much of a secret in the house." Marie sighed. "Though I never knew her, I know she'd be a great mother for Percival. I mean her only gift to him was Artemis."

"Giving her son a Pokémon. Heh." Charlotte smiled and ruffled Percival's hair. "good for you Elitist… wait, she gave her Pokémon to you instead of your older brother?"

"uh oh…" Both Marie and Percival sighed as they heard that.

"Normally wouldn't a Pokémon be given to the eldest?" Charlotte asked.

"…" Percival fell silent, Lucille could easily read that Percival was dreading that question.

"…" Marie as she heard that ran off to check on Cain. Neither sibling wanting to answer.

"*Sigh*… Alright I understand." Charlotte said… getting an understanding of what Percival's situation. "Another question, did you know your mom was from Reborn?"

"What?" Percival responded to this bewildered.

"*sigh* so I guess your mom isn't true to your family…" Charlotte sighed once again. "Yeah, your Gardevoir is shiny, but shiny Pokémon from Reborn are unique, they don't look like other normal shiny Pokémon. A normal Shiny Gardevoir is blue… or at least I've heard. Yours is black and red, one that's known in Reborn."

"I… Never knew that…" Percival had his eyes wide as Charlotte explained that to him… He quickly looked at Artemis' pokeball. "So, when I came Reborn… were you excited to return home?" Though as Artemis was still in her pokeball she could not respond, but Percival could feel her shake from the inside. "Thank you, Charlotte…"

"It's no problem. Family is important." Charlotte smiled. "Also, Lucy how ya feelin'?"

"Head still hurts… but I'm managing." Lucille smiled, through a piercing headache.

"Good, we should be at the exit—" Charlotte cut herself off as she saw a pile of rocks blocking any and all way forward. She sighed heavily, and kicked the ground. "Of course, the path would be collapsed."

"Maybe we could climb—" as Lucille was to suggest that.

"I don't think you, or two others are in the state to do that." Percival indicated to her, then pointed at Anna and Heather.

"You gotta a better idea?" Charlotte asked, reading to try and climb over the rocks.

"Um… Um, maybe?" This was coming from Shelly her arm raised in the air, like a student in class. "Maybe… I remember reading about this place, and… and um, basically, it used to be a subway for Reborn City, right?"
"Ooooh!" Marie cheered, reading into what Shelly was thinking. "I like this idea!"

"…" Percival groaned internally as he saw that eccentric look on Marie's face.

Shelly timid as she was, continued her statement. "T-this might be a little bit dangerous, but… There's a chance there's a leftover train car from back then, right?"

Charlotte now getting at what shelly is suggesting smiled, devilishly. "So, you wanna just bust a train right through here, huh?"

"U-um, that… that is—I'm just saying it's theoretically—" Shelly wasn't able to finish as she was cut off by Marie and Charlotte. Who were both giving her a thumbs up.

"You are so much more wicked than I thought!" Marie cheered. "Oh, this is going be so much fun!"

"You are one psycho-awesome wallflower, you know that?" Charlotte smiled.

However, Shelly only grew pale. "H-huh?"

"Oh, come on. It's a compliment; don't look like I just told you you're gonna die in 48 hours. I was at least gonna save that for when we got out of here." Charlotte said, ruffling her head. "All right, scouts. You all heard the mad woman. Let's find a train to catch."

"On the double!" Anna was immediately filled with energy and quickly left with Noel and Marie to go find a train.

"…" Percival again grimaced internally.

"What have I done…" Meanwhile Shelly looked like she just destroyed the earth.

"It's alright." Percival said to her in an attempt of condolences. "Marie would have thought of an extremely worse idea if you didn't say anything. She's very… 'special' I would say…"

"but isn't she the better one of the family?" Shelly looked at Percival a bit worried.

"She is one of the nicest of the family… but she's also the mad scientist of the family…" Percival groaned, remembering several times he heard Marie blow something up.

"So… I think we should try to supervise as best we can…" Lucille understood, and said through her headache.

After about another hour wandering through the Railnet. They eventually found a functioning Train Cart. Anna was the one asking the question to Charlotte "Well? What do you think? Can we use it?"

"What, you think I know anything about this stuff?" Charlotte responded by with another question to Anna.

Though Marie happily joined in. "Oh, this will work just fine. We just need make sure that the tacks are intact, and connected to the exit."

"and how about them brakes?" Both Cain and Percival asked cautiously.

"Who needs those?" Charlotte and Marie responded with devilish smiles.

"…" Percival knew he should have expected that response, while Cain looked at Percival with worry.

"So, our first job hast to be making sure the tracks connect, right?" Anna asked Marie.

"I did see a lot of switches out there…"

"Only twelve." Both Marie and Noel answered. Where Marie then looked at Noel warily.

"We have about… 46,656 combinations." Marie explained. "Though if we ignore the tracks that are broken the amount of combinations fall to…"

As Marie calculated, Noel answered. "8 possible combinations."

"Right…" Marie said, now glaring at Noel

"How do you know that?" Cain asked in surprise. Percival didn't say anything as it was to be expected of Marie.

"Isn't it obvious?" Marie and Noel answered.

"Yeah, my mistake…" Cain gave them a smile, then turning to Percival and Lucille. "How is that obvious?"

"It's only obvious to them…" Percival sighed.

"All right, Marie, you're up." Charlotte commanded. "If more than one person does this, we're likely to mix stuff up. Look for a route for this train to get to the exit and have Noel check it over. Then we can get this show on the road"

"Yes, ma'am!" Marie cheered an left the train cart, to go move the switches into the right orientation. As Maire went off and did that, Anna and Noel left the Train to wait for her. About fifteen minutes. "There, that should be the right orientation."

"Good now we can get the train from where it is without stopping!" Anna cheered.

"Without stopping…" Noel grimaced, he was hoping for a safe train ride.

"Right!" Anna cheered happily. "Because Charlotte doesn't care about brakes."
"I think I'm going to go double check Marie's handiwork." Noel said trying to not get back on the train.

"Oh, just touch the rail and you'll see that it's fine." Marie said.

"Touch the rail?" Noel said, as he touched the rail. His hair started to stand on its end. "huh?"

"I left Franklin at the end of the place." Marie explained. "He's running a low voltage through the rails, nothing to interfere or cause any damage, but enough for it to act like static electricity."

"Impressive." Noel said in shock.

"You did it~ Nostra says congrats, you two!" Anna said doing a little dance as she then fell over "Ow—"

"Anna?" Noel asked his sister as he didn't expect this.

"You good?" Marie asked extending her hand to help her up.

"I'm okay! I just slipped." Anna said, blushing slightly. "C-c'mon, let's tell the others!"

"Alright…" Both Marie and Noel said slightly suspicious.

As the three of them got back on to the train, Marie had gone over to thank Shelly. "Thanks… Shelly, right? this is probably the safest of any plans that I could make."

"It's… So… So, you finished with the tracks?" Shelly asked back. As Marie nodded, Shelly looked a bit happy. "U-um, does that mean—Was I useful at all?"

"Heck yeah girl!" Marie said raising her hand for a high five.

It took shelly a second to understand, but she quickly did respond. With her own happy smile. "I-I'm really happy! Okay, let's get out of here and get Heather to safety!"

"Hell yeah!" Marie shouted with her own smile.

"All ready to set sail, captain!" Anna shouted to Charlotte.

"You do know this is a train, not a—Doesn't matter." Charlotte started to say, but brushed it off. "Marie you know how to start this thing?"

"Sure thing!" Marie shouted and had a smile on her face, as she went to the control panel of the train and started to push buttons.

"Hey, Anna why you covered in dirt?" Charlotte asked as she noted Anna's looks a bit dusty.

"I just slipped on a rock! I think." As Anna explained, Charlotte gave her a worried look. "It shouldn't happen again!"

"Fine… Path's been blazed for us. You all set to do this?" As Charlotte called out to them. everyone who was for it, Anna, Marie and Charlotte were. Everyone who wasn't kept their mouths shut, as they knew couldn't win against this. "Sweet. All right, let's do this."

Tschk!

A buzzing sound went off as Marie turned on the train's sound system. Then gave the speaker back to Charlotte. "This is your conductor speaking. We will be departing from the station shortly. Please keep all arms and legs securely inside the vehicle at all times, and hand the fuck on."

As that was said everyone braced themselves as the train accelerated faster, and faster. Percival was the one to ask Marie the question first. "So… when will we be crashing."

Marie looked down at the clock on her phone. "Judging on what the current speed is… just about… No—"

BRRRK *Crumble noises*

As Marie said that the train had barged through the exit of the Rail net. And slowly came to a stop. Causing a bit of confusion for everyone.

"Did you change your mind about the brakes?" Cain asked Charlotte, a bit thankful thinking she did.

Charlotte however was confused. "As if…"

"So… So, what just happened?" Shelly was perplexed by this as well.

"Oh… we probably ran out of tracks." Marie answered, as everyone looked to her for an explanation. "I mean trains like this run on electricity. Where they get that electricity is from the rails. Though seeing as this was abandoned, I had my Rotom, Franklin, to power the rails… though that's not important. What you need to know is that we stopped because we have no power."

"Oh…" Everyone took a moment to think about how it worked… but either way they had arrived safely.

As everyone got off the train random tidbits of conversation rang through.

"Tch, brakes. Just who does he think I am…" Charlotte complained to Marie.

Anna had her hand on her doll Nostra's head. Then holding it towards Noel. "Hey, does Nostra feel cold to you?"

Noel who was more concerned with how pale, Anna looked. "Anna, are you really okay."

"…" Heather through the whole thing didn't make a reaction.

"I'm not sure which I'm more concerned about: What happened to the train, or the fact that Heather hasn't reacted even to that." Cain said to Percival and Lucille absolutely worried for the poor girl.

"… She hasn't said a thing, has she?" Percival said scratching his chin. Starting to worry more for the mental state of Heather.

Though it was less than a second as Heather got off, she ran a head of the group sent out her Salamance and flew off. Leaving everyone dumbfounded. Shelly was particularly hurt… "Oh, oh, um… okay, bye?"

Cain just sighed as she ran off. "Aaaaaand second, she sees sky, she's gone."

"Not like I wanted to help my friend or anything…" shelly said to herself kicking a nearby pebble.

Cain looked at the group and said. "Heyyy, I'm still gonna go after her, all right?"

"You sure that's a good idea?" Percival asked, knowing what happened last time Cain did that.

"Just until I can make sure she's safe." Cain said, starting to run after Heather in the direction she took off. "I'll catch up with you guys later!"

"See ya, Princess!" Charlotte waved as Cain ran off.

"U-um… So… Where…" Shelly tried to ask as, now they were on the outskirts of the city surrounded by forest, a mountain, and the Rail net exit.

"We should be nearby the place." Charlotte answered. "Just a little bit of a trek."

"Anna's practically white." Noel said, as Anna had now started to shake as well.

"N-no, I'm fine!" Anna protested, though she didn't seem to be doing well. "It's Nostra who's not feeling well, promise!"

"Lucille doesn't seem to be doing well either…" Percival said, as he felt Lucille losing strength in her legs more.

"…" Lucille didn't even seem to have the strength to either protest or agree as she grabbed her aching head.

"Uh huh. Then how about we start waling so we can get to my place so that Lucille and 'Nostra' can rest?" Charlotte said, walking towards the mountain. "Follow me, kids… and Elitist."

As everyone had entered the mountain, and had started to continue through Charlotte looked a something similar to a construction work. "This metal junk is new. I don't think that's a good sign."

Rumble

As Charlotte said that the mountain then shook. Anna the most frightened by that. "Wh-what was that?"

"I don't know." Charlotte answered honestly. "let's keep moving."

As they continued Charlotte lead them through a small tunnel, which lead to a hidden grove of the cave. In the middle there was a huge lake, the blue water reflected the newly night sky well. though around the lake was precarious rings of flowers. As they were walking around the lake towards, Charlotte began to count the number of flowers inside the rings and the rings present. "These flower rings… one, two, three… Eight. One, two… eight. Eight… *Sigh*. Laura's at it again I see…"

"Is that a problem?" Percival asked, understanding the pattern in these flowers.

"Shouldn't be too bad, come it's just up a head." Charlotte lead, eventually reaching the house. As Noel and Anna went straight into the house. Everyone heard a voice call to them from inside.

"Noel? Anna? What are you two doing here?" The voice asked.

That was then Charlotte entered with Lucille, Marie and Percival. "They're with me Laura."

The woman, Laura had pink hair like Charlotte, but Laura also wore a green dress. When everyone entered the house, Laura looked on in surprise. "Charlotte! But shouldn't you all still be at the Orphanage... ... ..?" [A/N: Damn auto correct for Laura's ellipses, she supposed to have eight periods in her ellipse, but it gets auto corrected to three, so f-ing annoying. to get it right I need to type three periods, space, three periods, space, two periods. so annoying]

Charlotte snickered, and said. "We decided we'd had enough of the geezer, so we hooked him up to his own shock machine and gave him the once-through."

Laura showed a reaction of surprise… but mixed with slight glee. "Wh-what, really... ... ..?

"I wish. But we flew the coop, and need to lay low here for a while." Then she turned to Shelly, Percival, Lucille and Marie. "Everyone this is Laura. My sister."

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you all, if unexpected." Laura gave them all a warm smile.

"Um, it's—um, nice to meet you too!" Shelly greeted in her usual shy fashion

"Hello, my name is Marie and this is my older brother Percival." Marie said introducing themselves. "The one he's carrying on his back is Lucille."

"Oh... ... .. My I should have noticed sooner." Laura said in surprise. "Come, this way we should have a spare bed upstairs."

"Thanks." Percival said, and followed Laura while carrying Lucille upstairs.

"Come on Anna." Noel said dragging his sister as well. "Nostra isn't feeling well too, apparently."

"Of course... ... .." Laura gave a smile as Noel and Anna trailed along. "follow me upstairs."

That left the following three people down in the living room of the Belrose Mansion. Say mansion though in reality it was a two-story house with several rooms, a kitchen and a bath. Back to the topic at hand, Charlotte, Shelly and Marie were left in the living room.

"Laura was kept with us at the Orphanage too, until very recently. She just turned 18, so as a legal adult, she was finally free to go." Charlotte explained.

"But… aren't you related?" Marie asked, where Charlotte nodded. "… the hell? Is this another stupid Reborn Law?"

"What do you mean?" Charlotte looked at Marie perplexed.

"In case of loss of one's parents… the oldest gets rights as the caregiver." Marie said. "you told me you had two older sisters… if Laura's 18… shouldn't the oldest get rights of custody?"

"…Not sure." Charlotte shrugged. "Laura might know."

though as they were in conversation Laura and Percival came down stairs. Shelly was the first to ask them a question. "H-hey… how's um… how's Anna and Lucille doing?"

"The both seem to be sick... ... .." Laura answered.

"Do we have any medicine around?" Charlotte asked.

"No, I'm afraid not." Laura sighed. "The Poke Mart in Spinel Town Should be selling some."

"Well… it might just be a slight cold." Charlotte shrugged. "If it gets worse Percival and Marie could just run into town and get some more… though it could just be a cold, and it's late. So why not go tomorrow."

"Right… I could use a rest." Percival said, finally feeling the fatigue hit from the day.

"Hopefully they'll feel better." Shelly said worried for the two upstairs.

Author Note: Even though I'm no longer doing a damage calculation type deal, I thought I should just give a layout of what Pokémon my four (current) characters use

Lucille:

On Hand: Chesnaught (Theros), Gothitelle (Athena), Gyarados (Livia), Arcanine *shiny* (Blaze)

Past members: Musharna (Luna), Simipour (Simon), Zebstrika (Helios) [though was traded to Marie]

Marie:

On Hand: Jolteon (Sparky), Rotom (Franklin), Eelektross (Geissler), Ampharos (Edison), Lanturn (Shuckie), Electivire (Tesla)

PC: Zebstrika (Helios)

Nero:

On Hand: Greninja (Izanami), Zoroark (Hela), Honchkrow (Raven), Houndoom (Hades), Hydreigon (Orcus), Absol *Shiny* (Grim)

Percival: Delphox (Oracle), Aerodactyl (Aero), Milotic (Phoebe), Gardevoir *shiny* (Artemis), Leafeon (Vee), Metagross (Steel)