Pokemon: Corruption of truth and ideals.

[Empyre]

Leaving Rem to ponder his thoughts Jak and Daisy left for the pokémon centre. Rem was still sore that he let the Belgian get away again, and this time he had no idea where he was at, putting him all the way back to square one. Suddenly Rems bag began to rumble. Fumbling around in it for some time, Rem withdrew his phone and proceeded to explore it.

"WOW! Thirty-Seven, missed calls from Mom, sounds like I'm going to get an earful, maybe I shouldn't call her back?" Rem said aloud. It was a tempting offer, but Rem knew it was going to get the worse the longer he left it, so better to get it over with now. "Oh, and a message from my service provider, I wish these guys would leave me alone. I tell you, you spend a few hours in a cave..." Rem continued, looking to Byrnie. When he realized she was paying him little heed, he stopped talking and made the phone-call he so dreaded. The phone rang three times then...

"REMINGTON! WHERE THE HECK HAVE YOU BEEN!" Came the flustered response.

Rem massaged his ear hole, trying to recover from the sudden verbal onslaught. "Not even a hello? Is that any way to treat your favourite son, mother dearest?"

His sarcasm didn't go down well, his mother began to growl a little in anger, but she ceased her shouting fit and began speaking normally for a change. "I've been worried sick Rem, I called you like thirty-six times in the last few hours. What have you been doing?"

Rem flinched, he didn't really want to tell his mum everything that had transpired only a few hours ago, the woman was in her mid 50's after all, a shock induced heart-attack wasn't completely out of the question, so he decided to downplay it a little in hopes to avoid such an outcome. "Oh nothing special Mom, the usual; Caves, pokémon, Team plasma battles, you know the drill. That's why I didn't get your calls, no signal in caves."

There was silence on the other end of the phone, that rarely meant a good thing, yet for once rather than go off in a rant his mother sighed a relieved sigh, and spoke back in a rather exasperated, but not annoyed tone. "Rem, what am I going to do with you? You do the silliest things sometimes. Well so long as you're OK. By the way, your father is here, he wishes to speak with you."

Rem froze "N-no, Mom, it's fine, you don't need to put dad o-"

"Junior" Came a sudden reply, a mans voice in place of his mothers, interrupting Rems sentence.

"F-father, hello" Rem answered back, standing up straight. It was no secret that Rem felt forever intimidated by his father, it was not intimidation through fear, but mainly through confusion. Rem never understood where he was with his father, it was a trait also shared by his sister Ceci. Despite having the same name, Rem and his father were two very different people, with Remington Senior being a well-spoken, often serious and sullen character, and Rem being....well Rem. Remington Senior was not without his good points though, the serious persona was often adopted only when the time called for it. In other instances he was seen as quite a friendly and loving character, he always made an effort to remember his childrens birthdays, spoiling the both of them of course, and would occasionally play videogames with Rem, winning the majority of them as well, which ticked Rem off a little. Even though his father wouldn't grill Rem if he chose to speak of him more like a father and less like a school head teacher, Rem did so out of personal obligation as well, he'd never admit it, but he had deep respect for his father. before moving to Silph and eventually making CEO, his father was the sole heir to an already existing business, three times larger than Silph, that was ran by Rems grandfather, whom Rem had never met. In an odd, medieval twist, Remington senior would have inherited that company and been rich beyond his wildest dreams, if he married the daughter of the owner of another rich company, to complete a business merger. Alas Remington senior chose to give it all up, marrying his households head chef instead and being disinherited by his father, Rem and Ceci's grandfather. It wasn't all for naught however, Remington senior did make his wealth through Silph in the end, and both Rem and Ceci were raised with an uncanny ability to cook at least a 4 star standard thanks to their mother, even if Rem favoured junk food more than anything.

"Your mother told me everything." Remington Senior continued, his voice seemingly emotionless as his persona dictated it should be. "I won't make you come home Rem, but you should, this wasn't your fault, and you should leave this to the proper authorities."

Rem sighed "I know dad, I know I can't blame myself for Ceci being kidnapped by Team Plasma, that sort of thing is way beyond my, or anyone's control, but I still wanna save her, I've gotten so close, I just want to make things right.

There was a long pause from the father, he was likely surprised by the unusual determination from a son who was not long ago an unambitious good-for-nothing "Understood. Just be safe Junior, I'll get the best people I can find on this, I'll forward you their number. If you need anything else, there are some business cards of mine in Ceci's bag, they were to be used for business, but they have a number to my direct work phone. Good luck out there Rem."

He was about to hang up, but Rem stopped him just in time "Wait, one more thing dad before you go, what can you tell me about Black pokéballs?"

His father hmm-ed, thinking hard about the question before answering. "I'm not sure Rem, Silph are taking on a lot of projects at the moment, but a black pokéball? I get the feeling you're not talking about luxury balls, seeing as thats Persephone's ball, and you've definitely seen it. Tell you what, I'll talk with Sergay as this is his specialty and get back to you ASAP."

"(Ah, uncle Sergay.)" Rem thought to himself "(I wonder how he's doing)"

"On a other matter" His father continued "When are you next at a Pokémon Centre, your mother said she has something for you."

"Eh...oh...It's a while a way" Rem lied waving his hand dismissively at the pokémon Centre a mere few yards away. "Tell her I'll contact her from there in like...a few hours or something."
Rem was lying of course, it's not that he didn't want to talk with his mum, but he was desperate to see Fennel and wake up his poor Umbreon from its sleep. It had waited long enough.

"Understood. Talk to you later Junior" Answered his father, and with that he hung up.
Rem put the phone back in his bag.

"Well at least now I get to give Jak and Daisy a proper goodbye before we head off our separate ways" Rem said aloud, before folding his arms and assuming what appeared to be a stance of Zen-like thinking. He didn't want to admit it, but he was going to miss them, even if had known them for only a short while. Nevertheless he made way for the pokémon Centre, and after that, to wake up Umbreon.

[Bow-Bow-Kun]

It had been a little while, neither of them getting much sleep; jumping between sleep and awake. The pair eventually gave up and went downstairs to the front desk of the Pokemon centre. Nurse Joy was already there waiting for them, Audino holding one set of pokeballs and Nurse Joy another set.
"Thankyou for waiting, you're pokemon are fighting fit once more" she told them, handing over the pokeballs and smiling.
They took their pokemon, and clipped them onto their belts, "Now for that gym, ready?" Jak said enthusiastically.
Giving a determined nod Daisy fist pumped, "Heck yeah!"
"Do take care." Nurse Joy finished off and waved them goodbye. As Jak and Daisy headed for the door, it swung open before they reached it, Rem blocked their path. But he seemed distracted.

[Empyre]

Rem meandered into the pokémon centre, his mind lost in thought, he was processing so much at this point that he wasn't focused on where he was walking and almost collided with Jak who was coming through the same door.

"Ah jeez, sorry man, I should really keep my eyes on whats in front of me, rather than what's in the clouds." he forced a smile, but considering everything that had happened to him so far, he was having a hard time dealing.
"Actually it's good I got to see you before you headed out, I wanted to thank you for everything you did. If you weren't there for me back in the cave, and through all those fights, I'd have been mincemeat. You know, when I set off from Castelia my bag was loaded with healing items and whatnot, I couldn't even make them last the journey to Striaton. ha if I was even half the trainer you were-" Rem looked down, he'd intended to make this a short speech, but he was having trouble trying to end the conversation. Attempting to drop the sentimentality and change the mood to a happier one rem continued.
"Anyway, I wanna wish you luck in your battle, I know this won't make up for all those potions I sponged off you, but..." he pulled one of his dads business card out of his bag and began scribbling on it.
"These are usually intended for business purposes, but this is a special case. My dads like a CEO of Silph co. or whatever, give him a call if you ever need anything. I've written my number underneath." Sure enough, upon closer inspection, Jak read the card, underneath Remington Seniors name and number Rem had crudely scribbled his own, with a happy face at the end.
"So yea, take it easy you two." Rem extended his hand to Jak, who shook it firmly. he then proceeded to do the same to Daisy, who did the same, just less firmly.
As they passed each other Rem looked around watching as Jak and daisy left the pokémon centre. They were mumbling something to each other as they did, Rem examined how Daisy looked up to Jak as she spoke to him, smiling as she did and he he would look down on her almost forcing a smile himself, a little intimidated by her friendliness, but also endeared by it. It could have been the obvious age difference, or how daisy was roughly the same age as Ceci, but as Rem watched them leave he was reminded how of he and his sister would converse in the years before he left. Ceci too was oft a cheerful figure, a trait Rem had difficulty coming to terms with being kind of lazy and uninspiring. he would always indulge her nonetheless, reciprocating her smile as if nothing was wrong.
"(Hmm, better not tell those guys that)" Rem thought to himself "(If at any point they decide to get romantic, this'll end up being awkward for the lot of us)"

Breaking from his trail of thought Rem approached the Pokémon centre counter.
"Hello again Nurse Joy, looking as lovely as ever I see" Rem said flirtatiously, he was feeling oddly confident for some reason.

The nurse turned to him. "Oh have we met?"

Rem was a little hurt by this, to be forgotten so easily. "Umm...Yea, the other day, I went to the dreamyard to stop team plasma, there was this whole event and stuff?...Ring any bells?"

The nurse pondered for a moment, then she lightbulbed "Ah sorry, yesterday was my sick day, so I got my friend and neighbour, Nurse Joy to fill in for me, people think we look like sisters, but i assure you we're not even related." She said waving a hand as if dismissing the thought.

Rem squinted at her, determining whether she was serious or not. He then decided it was more than likely considering the weirdness he'd witnessed so far with the Joys and Jenny's "You're neighbour, right, makes perfect sense." Without wasting another word, he left his pokeballs with her, helping Byrnie atop the counter in the process and walked towards the phone, mumbling to himself as he did to "(Androids, they gotta be androids, you just can't explain that.)"
Reaching the phone Rem inhaled. He knew his mother wanted him in the pokémon centre for some reason, she probably wanted to check that he wasn't malnourished or anything knowing her. It was probably in Rems best interest to call her on the video phone, save wasting calling credit. Putting the coins into the machine, the videophone began ringing. It rang three times before the screen went static for a time and his mother face popped up on screen, or well what appeared to be her face, she was clearly in the middle of some treatment, her face was covered in brown mud, her orange hair was done up in a bun and she was wearing a dressing gown.

"Err...Been at the spa, Mom?" Rem questioned her.
His mother, who had actually seemed too preoccupied fiddling with her eye cucumbers had hardly noticed he was there. "Ah Remmy, hi sweetie!"

Rem squinted "Mom, I told you not to call me that in public, people are looking at me now, are you happy?"

His mother paused for a second and continued on like he hadn't even said anything. "Anyway Remmy, I'm glad you rang when you did, I've got an hour before this mud hardens and I can wash it all off, so I need a distraction. Such a lovely young man who gave me a massage Remmy, he said I didn’t need treatment, and that I already look half my age.”
Now it was Rems turn to get her back, he hated being called ‘Remmy’. “Yea that’s great Mom. Did you tell him that you’re NOT in fact eighty?” He smirked as for a moment he left her speechless, unable to come back at this. In the end his mother gave up pursuing a decent retort and continued with what she was saying.
“So Remmy, why I called you; See I was out in the market today, and I met that lovely young English teacher you used to have in pre-school, the one you said you were going to marry when you grew up?” Now Rems mother smirked as Rem flinched back, obviously she wasn’t without her fair share of whit. She continued. “So we got to speaking and it turns out her grandmother runs the daycare up past Verdanturf. Their own Whismur had recently given birth to several baby Whismurs and they were trying to flog them off to trainers. So all of them went except for this one little guy, nobody would adopt it, and your teacher said her grandparents could sleep peacefully at night knowing their last Whismur was out helping a responsible trainer. So Guess what Remmy?” She held up a pokéball to the screen. “I GOT IT FOR YOU!!!”
His mother was only a little too giddy this that she began juddering up and down, unaware that her gown was relatively loose, causing her ‘natural’ breasts to jiggle up and down uncontrollably. Rem gagged, and sicked up in his mouth a little at this, thankfully his mother was too distracted after her little jig talking with Rems father off screen who had obviously overheard the conversation. Rem could just make out what he was saying:

“Alisa, do you really have to encourage the boy? We’re supposed to be trying to get him home, not egging him on, plus I really don’t think giving him that ‘Whismur’ is such a good idea-“

As she was about to dismiss him, Rem piped in, for once he agreed with his father. “Yea Mom, this is the Unova region after all, most folk haven’t really seen a lot of Pokémon outside their region. I’m already pushing it with a Torchic, a Snorunt and an Umbreon- Oh yea, I caught an Umbreon, he’s kind of out cold now so you can’t see him- Do I really want to push it with a fourth one?”

Rems mother merely waved her hand at him, dismissing as she had done his father moments ago. “Rem, Rem, Rem. I gave you permission to stay there, don’t think I’m beyond dragging you back by force. Just take the Pokémon and I’ll be off your case for good. Promise.” She held her index finger up, obviously shushing Rems father before he could have his input.

Rem sighed. “Fine Mom, just send it over now, but no more Pokémon , you hear? It’s all Unova from here on out.”
Rems mother nodded, she placed the pokéball in the machine and there was a flash on her end. Moments later the same flash appeared right before Rem and a pokéball appeared. Rem picked it up and held it in his hand. “Wow, that was way better than e-mail, ok let’s give this Whismur a lookie-“
The pokéball flashed open to reveal a Pokémon. Rem paused for a moment before looking back to his mother on the screen. “Mom, I…Think you made a mistake there, you were supposed to be sending me a Whismur? I think you owe someone an apology, because on my end it appears like you’ve accidentally snagged someones Loudred.”

Rems mother only nervously smiled in response. “Well you see Remmy it’s a long story, and I know how you hate long stories, so I’ll make it brief. As this Whismur watched all its brothers and sisters go, and not getting adopted itself it got quite depressed and began eating a lot of berries. It ate so much that eventually it evolved? Funny huh?”

Rems eyes began to water, the story was touching to say the least. “Aww, poor little guy” Rem said stroking the Loudreds head. “How could no-one have wanted you? You’re adorable.”
The Loudred opened its mouth to respond, but what came out was no mere response. The sounds of the glass smashing all around could be heard for miles to come as all the windows in the Pokémon centre shattered. People began covering their ears in pain as the cacophony began invading their ears.
It seemed to last forever, but the noise emanating from Loudreds mouth suddenly subsided. Without pausing Rem raised the pokéball over his head and returned the Pokémon to it. Infuriated he turned back to the screen, which was no just a little bit cracked.

His mother was sweating beads from embarrassment. “Did I mention that it may be a wee bit deaf and unable to control the volume of its voice?”

Rems face was bright red both from anger and embarrassment. “Oh I’m sorry, a WEE bit deaf? Beethoven would be rolling in his grave if he heard that eardrum bursting noise. You’ve saddled me with the devil Mom, I’m not even downplaying that.” Rem showed no sign of calming down, everyone was looking at him, making him more embarrassed and more heated. “I’m going to remember this at Christmas, if I don’t get a damn Ponyta, I’ll sue.”
Rems mother began looking around wildly for an excuse to get out of this before she settled on the lamest one “Ohh Remmy, time to go wash this mud off my face now, Mommy loves you sweetie. Kisses” and the screen went dead.
Rem snorted. “Mighty short hour that was. I’d have almost called that an excuse.”

Suddenly Rem was approached by Nurse Joy pushing a trolley, who was still teetering from the shock of all that noise.
“Y-Your pokermans, Mr Remi-Rem!” And she fainted.

Rem picked up his pokéballs, opening his arms out in the process for Byrnie to jump into them, she had become quite fond of Rem, he almost wished he could harvest some of her love and sprinkle it on his ungrateful Snorunt.
Rem looked down at the incapacitated Nurse Joy and, massaging his earhole, he smiled at her. “Much obliged Nurse.”

Rem made his way out of the Pokémon centre, spying the same couple from before who seemed to spending less time devouring pockeys, and more time devouring each other’s face. Rem snorted in disgust a little. Despite PDA being one of Rems top pet peeves, in truth he had no ability with women and was a little envious that it actually annoyed him. All that plus the fact that he still blamed his demand for pockeys for getting him booted out of a moving plane by Team Plasma, so the whole situation stunk for rem.
Turning his face away from the sight that displeased him Rem made his way towards Dr Fennels office, ignoring the shattered windows of the surrounding houses and gone off car alarms as he did so.

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POKéMON:

TORCHIC
Name: Byrnie
Level: 16
Gender: Female
*Trait: Hot-headed and easily provoked.
Attacks: Scratch, Peck, Focus Energy, Ember.
Ability: Speed Boost (Speed increases by one stage each turn except the turn that the Pokémon is switched into battle)

SNORUNT
Name: Snorunt
Level: 9
Gender: Female
*Trait: A bit of a bitch. Doesn't listen to Rems commands.
Attacks: Powder Snow, Leer, Double Team.
Ability: Ice Body (HP is restored when it’s hailing)

UMBREON
Name: Umbreon
Level: 16
Gender: Male
*Trait: Wishes it was an Espion. Won't learn any dark moves.
Attacks: Psychic, Sand-Attack, Tackle, Helping Hand.
Ability: Synchronize (When this Pokémon becomes POISON, PARALYZE, or BURN, so does the opponent. However, Fire-type and Water Veil ability Pokémon cannot be BURNed, Poison-type and Steel-type and Immunity ability Pokémon cannot be POISONed, and Limber ability Pokémon cannot be PARALYZEd. )

*LOUDRED
Name: Loudred
Level: 20
Gender: Male
*Trait: Partially deaf and can't control volume. Often hears the wrong command or pops out of pokéball unannounced.
Attacks: Uproar, Astonish, Extrasensory, Bite.
Ability: Soundproof (Unaffected by sound moves. If this Pokémon switches out with Baton Pass, Perish Song against the switched out will not be nullified.)

(* Indicates changes)

[Edit] OOC: I thought I'd add a traits section seeing as all of Rems pokémon are a bit special.

[Bow-Bow-Kun]

Jak accepted the card and shook his hand, Daisy doing the same. They said their goodbyes, hopefully not for the last time.
"Hope to see you at a gym battle, or in the league. We'll be rivals from now on."
"Yeah, like it or not, you're really good Rem!" came another enthusisatic response from Daisy.
They left the centre and headed for the gym. The door opened automatically and revealed a small dining area where three boys were serving customers. Were they waiting for a gym battle?
One of the boys looked up to Jak and Daisy. "You are no ordinary customer are you? You are here for the delightful feast trainers desire!" one said, his green hair swaying as he literally spun around like a bit of a prissy dude.
"What he's saying is you want a gym battle, you got one!" a more aggressive boy said.
"What they are both trying to say is, welcome to the Striaton gym. That is Cilan, this is Chili, and I am Cress.
They were an odd bunch. Were they going to battle all three. Unova gyms were so different from Hoenn and Johto gyms.
Jak stepped up, "I'm Jak, from the Hoenn region and I challenge this gym."
"You must be the one with the Aron, correct. Don't worry the town has been a buzz with rumors of foreign trainers. Umbreon, Aron, Torchic. Such rare pokemon here. So for this battle, I shall be your opponent. Prepare yourself." the boy with strange blue hair declared. Jak's first proper gym battle was about to get uderway.
They made their way through to the back where a large battlefield laid.
A man dressed in referee gear was stood at the side in line with the centre of the field, "This battle is between, Jak the challenger from Hoenn and Cress the gym leader of Striaton Gym. This shall be a best of two pokemon battle. The winner is the trainer who defeats all his opponents pokemon. In addition only the challenger may switch pokemon during the match. Begin!".
"Now my Lillipup, come forth!" he called out as he released a Lillipup from his pokeball.
"Alright! Aron, lets do this!" shouted Jak a he tossed his pokeball, released the Iron Armour pokemon.
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JAK's POKEMON:
Aron- Level 18
Rock Head
Tackle, Iron defense, Headbutt, Metal claw.
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Larvitar- Level 15
Guts
Bite, Screech, Sandstorm, Chip away
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Pansage- Level 17
Gluttony
Scratch, Leer, Vine whip, Leech seed
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DAISY's POKEMON:
Lulu (Riolu)- Level 17
Inner focus
Quick attack, Endure, Counter, Force Palm
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Flora (Snivy)- Level 15
Contrary
Tackle, Leer, Vine whip, Growth
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Bubbles (Panpour)- Level 17
Gluttony
Scratch, Leer, Water gun, Fury swipes

[Empyre]

On his way to Dr Fennels Office Rem past by the Striaton City Gym, he stared at it for a moment.
"(Wonder how Jaks getting on in there)" He thought to himself "(Good luck at any rate dude)"
He continued wandering around like a lost sheep, Fennel had never really told him where her lab was, so right now he was just keeping an eye out for a place that looked even remotely like a lab, when he finally saw it.

"Yea...That'll be it" Rem said aloud and approached the door. Far from inconspicuous, the lab stood there alone, not far from the gym, with satellites and all sorts littering the roof and surrounding area, it almost looked like an alien mother-ship.

Rem knocked on the door "Hello, Dr Fennel?" the door creaked open upon his knocking, it was dark inside. "Well...That was oddly creepy." Rem looked behind him, not too late to make a break for it. The he remembered Umbreon and, taking in a deep breath, walked inside.
Thanks to the light filtering in from the outside and from Byrnie who was glued to his leg Rem could just make out where he was going, he'd navigated a pitch black cave before, a small house should have been a cake walk. Suddenly Rem saw a pink light eminating from what appeared to be a door in front of him, he opened it slowly.
"He-Hello?" He whispered.

Before him stood a monster; tall and thin with great big eyes, it's pink brain was exposed and was shining brightly, it had three arms one was shaped like a syringe, one was big and bulky and the other hand loosely by its side.
"Greetings!" came the response.

Rem fell back in fright. "Sweet Arceus, please don't eat me! I taste nasty. All bones, no meat! I'll probably give you a hernia! I- I-!"

The lights flicked on and the demonic figure revealed itself to be no more than Fennel. Munna was perched atop her head, she had a soldering iron in one hand, which she appeared to be using on some sort of matrix, her other was removed from her lap coat and appeared to have some sort of metallic arm guard on. She looked down at Rem who was still in a state of shock. "Umm. Mr Rem, are you ok?"

Rem got up and dusted himself off. "Yea, I'm fine...Why are you soldering in the dark?"

Fennel looked back at Rem, perplexed by his question. "Well why do you have a pink bag? Are we done with irrelevant questions now?"

"(What a strange woman)" Rem thought to himself, but he didn't dwell on it, he was here for a reason, and that reason was not to have a weirdness contest with the woman he still suspected to be a visitor from another planet. "Anyway, you told me to come here earlier, you said you had a way of curing my Umbreon of it's sleep disorder or something?"

Fennel looked thoughtful for a moment? "I did?...Oh yes. I did!" Pressing a button on her metallic arm guard the back wall of the room began rotating, the table she was soldering on pushed to the side, and out from the wall appeared a giant machine. It had a large circular pedestal in the middle and connected two what appeared to be cryogenic pods. "BEHOLD!" Yelled Fennel "MY DREAM STATION!"

Rem marveled at the machine for a short while "I thought 'Dream machine' would have been a better name for it. How does it work?"

Fennel only waggled her finger at him "No No, my creation my name. It's quite simple really, firstly you have to understand there are different levels of sleep, for example light sleep and heavy sleep. You also have to understand that for a dream to occur while sleeping one must enter a stage of Rapid-eye movement or REM...Hah, REM and Rem, you're almost like stage of sleeping, isn't that funny." Fennel giggled girlishly as Rem nodded along, faking a smile. Fennel continued her speech. "Anyway, dreaming is perfectly normal thing to do, baby's do it a lot, it's almost like a mini gateway into your subconscious and allows you to process various things you couldn't while awake. However that's not always a good thing, you're subconscious contains a lot of essential and volatile information. Even your reflexes are located within your sub-conscious, by messing around with that you can alter and disfigure your perception of reality. That dream mist we encountered back at the Dreamyard, I've been studying it for some time, it has the ability to induce a deep coma like sleep and puts the subject in a stage of REM."

"Seriously?" Rem retorted. "Now this is REALLY starting to sound like inception. There's gotta be a lawsuit in their somewhere. So what you're saying is all this time my Umbreons been dreaming, and it's totally possible for me to invade its dream and alter everything it sees and believes? Is that what that 'Dream Station' is for? I gotta invade its dream, wake it up and you'll wake me up by pushing me off a chair or something?"

Fennel began laughing uncontrollably. "Oh Rem, no no, that's just stupid. Pushing you off a chair? What will that accomplish? No a loud noise will do just fine, but everything else you got spot on. Be sure to take your strongest pokémon as well."

Rem gasped "There's going to be fighting as well now? I thought this was a dream."

Fennel slapped her forehead. "Yea, why do you think I included two pods? Your Umbreon goes in the middle and I gas him with a little more dream mist to induce a REM state, meanwhile you go in one pod, your pokémon in the other and I do the same to you. You'll all be linked to this machine and if it all works right you'll both land in Umbreons dream, when you recover him from inside the dream world, the three of you will enter light sleep and I'll be able to wake you up from here with a loud noise. This is actually my first time actually trying, but all the tests have been successful so there shouldn't be any problems."

"Yea that sounds comforting" Rem said, unconvinced. "But, I guess I gotta do this so I'll have to take your word for it."

Fennel nodded "Good, now the only thing we have unaccounted for is the loud noise. Last time I used tested this I used an alarm clock, but unfortunately the alarm clock accidentally fell out of the window all on its own and broke...Funny story."

Rem raised an eyebrow at Fennels failed excuse. "Well, have no fear for I have a perfectly useful loud tool to get the job done." He handed Fennel a pokéball. "Do not open this until the time is right, I'm dead serious."

Fennel rolled the pokéball in her hand and smiled back at Rem "Sure thing, let me know when you're ready, k?"

Rem looked down at Byrnie who was all fired up. "Ok kiddo" He smiled at her "Ready to go?"

[Bubbalubber]

The crowd cheers as Will steps down from the battle podium. He walks around the edge of the battle arena to meet the three gym leaders at the center point of the arena.
"Well done Will" Chilli says, shaking Wills hand as they reach each other. "That was a great match"
"I agree" Cress says as he goes to shake Wills hand aswell. "And so we are happy to award you the trio badge"
As Cilan comes up to shake Wills hand enthusiastically with both hands he leaves behind the trio badge in the palm of Wills hand. Will smiles widely down at Emerald as Cilan says
"What an excellent marriage of flavors, blended together perfectly and served up as a perfect pallet of battles"
Will is about to leave when Cress stops him.
"You also get this" He says, handing will a small disk type object. "Its a TM that allows you to teach your pokemon moves, this one is TM83, Work up."
"Thank you all for an amazing battle" Will says, bowing to each gym leader in turn before setting off to the pokemon centre to get his pokemon healed up.

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Will exits the pokemon centre with Spike, Arachne and Emerald by his side.
"Ok guys, our next goal is Nacreme city and the Nacreme gym, according to my map its just through those woods" Will says, indicating a westward direction.
Just before he sets off his visible eye suddenly flashes cerulean and he quickly turns to look over his shoulder, looking up towards the roofs of nearby buildings before muttering "Must have just been imagining things" to himself and setting off along route 3 towards Nacreme city.

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Up above the streets of Striaton city a pokemon pokes its head back over the lip of a roof, staring at the retreating back of the boy with the strange aura. The pokemon was worried when it almost got spotted but narrowly managed to get out of sight in time.
Laughing to itself slightly it floats up and begins to follow the strange trainer.

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current team

Sandshrew
name: Spike
sex: male
level: 17
nature: jolly, proud of its power
moves: scratch, sand attack, dig, rapid spin
ability:sand rush

Joltik
name: Arachne
sex: female
level: 17
nature: timid, alert to sounds
moves: leech life, thunder wave, electro web, string shot
ability: compound eyes

Servine
name: Emerald
sex: female
level: 17
nature: hasty, likes to run about
moves: tackle, vine whip, leer, leaf tornado
ability: contrary