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Shinobu had knocked loudly on Bella and Tiamat's door next. This mission was a waste of her time, and no information has been acquired yet. Though Tiamat was asleep by now, Fenrir had woken up and had borked loudly at whoever was knocking.

Shizuka had fallen asleep on the bench, using Sayaka's mane as a pillow of sorts, as Floof went back to Viola and Dahlia's room.

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Bella was asleep so Slip went to open the door "Goodra?" {Hello?}.

Viola had gone back to her room. She flopped on her bed and basically went to sleep.

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"..... Has anything strange happened lately?" It was clear that Shinobu was getting fed up with this. On top of that, Fenrir was growling at her simply for being a hooman and existing near him. Azazel eventually had to come pick up Fenrir by the scruff just to keep him from attacking the stranger.

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Della was healed and slept on dae's head. Dae sat on a bench looking for some more of the kids.

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Slip shrugged, being a Pokemon and not understanding human. Rosa had also come and curiously stared at the human.

Viola let Booster sleep at her feet and Psybee next to her. Even with that, Twilight popped out of her Great ball and rested her head on the bed.

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Shinobu stormed off towards an area where no one was around, sent out Garuda and ordered her to keep watch, and then dialed up Shroud on her phone.

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he whispered to his pokemon. "Della are you okay?" Della replied with a yawn. "Sneasel" {Yes dae}

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Slip and Rosa walked off, not intrested anymore

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Daemon leaned on the outside of the pokecenter. "ugh, that kid." He pet his sneasle which was asleep.

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Lace sighed and flopped back down on her bed, swinging her legs up after herself. “Guessing she wasn’t worth it?” she called to the girl. Void jumped up beside her and sat at the foot of the bed, curled up like a guard dog. Lace had carried Rend in her arms when she had strayed over to the window, and therefore the purple fox-like creature was now sitting on her chest.

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“Hello, Shinobu,” Shroud responded, having received a call from the executive. “Trouble?” Already, the woman had guessed that the kids wouldn’t be too quick to talk, and knew exactly what she would instruct her team to do next. A soft clicking noise echoed around her office as she tapped her nails thoughtfully on the arm of her chair.

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"Yes. So far, we have been unable to gather any information thus far," Shinobu whispered into her phone, "and I fear that some of their Pokémon may be onto us, as two of them in particular seemed to be acting aggresively towards me. What do we do next?"

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“Understood. Refrain from interacting with them any further. However, remain there. If they attempt to leave the Pokémon Center, follow them. Your clothing possesses a noise canceling ability; if you enable it, they won’t be able to detect you unless you are in their range of sight. I will have the microphone drones attach to their clothing. We will hear every word they say, and perhaps they will lead us to Mew,” she instructed. Through their research inquiries conducted on various species of Pokémon with the ability to move noiselessly, her company had developed shoes that did not produce footsteps. This technology had been implemented in the clothing issued to all project managers, as well as that of herself and her executives.

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"Understood. Bye." And Shinobu had hung up, before ordering Garuda to keep watch while she slept."

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Dae leaned on the wall, not sleep from all the energy drink in his blood system, he just looked on his phone. "Sne- snea- Sneasel?" The Della yawned {Are you as tired as me dae?"}

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Sizune-
The red-eyed woman was still sitting in a shadowy corner of the Pokecenter, her eyes flicking around the room, still as wide as saucers. Her hands trembled slightly, but one flick of Mr. Mime's hand, who was sitting on her shoulder, and the trembling ceased. Her head moved from side to side in an almost mechanical way, and occasionally, despite Mr. Mime's movements, her foot would twitch. The aura of the Banette who was circling her surrounded her completely, making her look even more like a pale phantom, her reddish eyes a dark spurt of color in the ghostly cloud. Mimkyu, on the other hand, slithered around the floor, it's long "tentacles" reaching out as far as they would go.


Xavier-
The boy, still smug about winning the battle against the "Polling Service" man, had headed back to his room. Emolga somehow had, in the short amount of time that he left, completely destroyed one of the lightbulbs, casting a shadow in the room that pierced through the lights that he had forgotten to turn off when he left to find the source of the loud music that had disturbed his sleep. He stood in the doorway and groaned. "Emolga, why?" Emolga, who was sitting on the bed chewing on some wires it had torn out of the broken lightbulb like a lion eating a carcass. Xavier stepped around the pile of broken glass and snatched away the wires. Emolga let out a little protest, like a small child having the candy it wasn't supposed to eat being taken away from it, but Xavier ignored her. "Now I'm going to have to go all the way to the Pokemart and see if they have any lightbulbs." He glared at the Sky Squirrel pokemon. "And you're going to help me replace it." Emolga pouted, and flopped onto the bed. Bolthund and Elekid had somehow slept through the entire thing, but Elekid had awoken at the sound of the boy's voice and was now staring at him with wide eyes. Xavier couldn't help but smile a little. "You wanna come with me?" he asked Elekid, who responded with an excited, "Ele Ele!" "Alright then!"

Since Xaiver had already put on his coat and boots, he swept up the tiny pokemon in his arms, and dissapeared through the doors of the Pokecenter after a quiet word with Nurse Joy apologizing for his Emolga, promising that it would go back in it's pokeball, and that he would pay for the lightbulb and put it in itself, and headed to the Pokecenter. About 15 minutes later, he returned holding a bag, and vanished into his room. It only took about 20 minutes before the damage was repaired, and Emolga was in it's pokeball, sitting motienless on the bedside table. With bolthund still fast asleep at the foot of the bed, and Elekid on top of the radiatior-Elekid was a strange one indeed, he sat on the edge of the bed, watching the tiny sphere.

Xaiver sighed. What was he going to do with Emolga? It was constantly causing trouble. Got him banned from the gym. Destroyed a lightbulb. How much more trouble could the rascal get into? And now that he was about to do something for Mew, a pokemon of mythical status, he couldn't have Emolga making him be on his toes, always apologizing for it's actions.

For a minute, the boy's mind flashed to the white Pokemon Boxes on the first floor. Even though he didn't battle, and had never thought of taking the gym challenge, he knew what they did. Anyone could use them, and the process was rather simple. Just a push of a few buttons and...Xaiver shook his head. No. No way. It didn't matter how chaotic Emolga was, Emolga had been his first pokemon. When it seemed like no one had understood him, Emolga was there to take his mind off of his troubles. Emolga was there to make him laugh, to make him forget about his frustrations in life. He took one last look at the red and white sphere sitting on the table. It didn't shake, just sat there. Most would have found that concerning, with the amount of energy that she had. But Xaiver knew Emolga the way that one would know a best friend. He knew that Emolga was sorry that it had caused so much trouble. Xaiver would tell his other pokemon jokingly that Emolga had the attention span and amount of energy of a three year old, but Xaiver knew Emolga better. He knew what was going through her mind right now.


Flopping back onto the bed, Xaiver stared at the smooth ceiling of the room. Now that he had decided that he would simply have to grim and bear it where Emolga was concerned, his mind turned elswhere since he was too energirized from the battle to sleep. He hated the idea of having to work with others. Whenever he tried to bring his ideas, they always just seemed to come out wrong. When he was alone, he never had to think about others, or have to help him. He could focus only on himself, and his pokemon. He remembered one day, when his father asked him why he never nicknamed his pokemon. His Voltorb, Mortimer, was at his side, and he was already in costume and about to head to work. Xaiver remembered his answer, as clear as day: "Because I prefer to keep my partners away from Mockery, unlike some I know."


Xaiver had never thought of his pokemon as friends. It had never occured to him that his pokemon were anything more than partners, associates. He knew vaugley how Elekid thought of him, but he never really cared. Elekid could admire him all that he wanted, but he simply saw Elekid the way that he saw Emolga and Bolthund: Partners. Nothing less, Nothing more. His mind turned back to Mew's request. If only he could've been left out. If Mew wanted people who could work well in a group, why pick him? He didn't understand it. Of course, Xaiver had a lot to offer, that wasn't the problem. The problem was that he couldn't even fathom the idea of cooperation with others. There was a reason that he spent so much time away from the aparntment that he shared with his father. Xaiver wasn't selfish. No. Of all the things that he was, selfish wasn't one of them. He just worked differently than others. Better. With that thought in mind, he had the weapon he needed to push down the tiny voice inside that suggested that he was being prideful. "No," he said aloud, breaking the silence.

With a sigh, Xaiver sat up, shrugging off his coat, and removing his boots. He was ready to sleep now, and hopefully, he would make it through the night and to morning without anymore innteruptions. All inner battles were at a standstill now. He needed to sleep. He would get through this for Mew's sake. The thoughts flowed through his head, slowing as his eyes fluttered closed, and his mind shut off, darkness covering his eyes. There.

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Alex had slept through.. that mess, as well as his minccino. His mouth was open and his face was peaceful as he slept.

Honey was asleep, still the only person in her room. Her venonst was watching the tv.

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Viola was woken up by a screeching Booster.

Bella was still asleep, with Slip already awake and walking

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{Time skip to the next morning: It is roughly 9 am; the trainers have pulled together numerous tables and chairs in the cafe that this particular Pokemon Center has recently added. In what they think is a secluded spot, they have begun to discuss Mew's message and what their roles may be.}

Lace sat up straight in her chair, her body language involuntarily closed off and nervous. She had purposely seated herself so that she wasn't pinned in a corner as some of the others were; her back was to the rest of the center. Though the girl knew that the others may find out eventually, she still hoped with every fiber of her being that her claustrophobia would remain a secret, and intended to do whatever she could to keep it at bay. The same thing went for her fear of the dark; one of the, though not the primary, reasons for her need to sleep with Rend at her side. The orb on the Espeon's head gave off a faint glow. Thoughts of how the trainers around her might react if they were to find out about these ridiculous, irrational fears of hers bubbled up into her chest, and she quickly jumped into the conversation in an attempt to push the ideas away. "Who do you think the human that experiments on Pokemon is?" she questioned. Granted, the girl had her suspicions, but she feared the others would laugh them off or be offended.

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Viola shrugged, stroking Psybes's fur "I don't know. But it could be anyone.". She's been wanting to mention Brayon acting weird to the lady who asked her but she didn't.

Bella also shrugged

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Shizuka, with Sayaka standing near her, just shrugged. "Honestly, I have no clue. There was this strange lady who was talking to me in these... incredibly cryptic messages. No clue what's up with her, to be honest." Tiamat was choosing not to speak at the moment, and Dahlia was feeding some berries to Floof.

Shinobu was awake as well, having called Garuda back about an hour ago.

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