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The phone rang.
"This is the Viridian gym."
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"The gym leader is very busy right now. May I take a message?"
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"The what?"
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"I see. I'll tell him."
Click.
"Sir. It appears you need to go to the hospital. They are claiming that your daughter was just born."
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"All right Sparkle! Ice Shard!"
The Alolan Vulpix glittered with frost as she spat out heavy shards of ice at the flaming Ponyta.
"Flame Charge, Ponyta! Melt it before it hits you!" Ponyta neighed as he was covered in a layer of fire.
The eleven-year-old girl jumped and clapped her hands with glee, seeing that her plan had worked as she thought. "All right, that's enough! Ponyta, you should go rest. Sparkle!"
The fox bounced her way to her human, using the pink dress as a climbing aid to reach the childs arms.
The girl signaled a dark spot in the sky and waited. It was a Corviknight, and he waited patiently as the tiny girl climbed on his back before taking off towards the giant mansion in the distance.
The little girl ran through the hallways of the mansion. She was aiming for the solid oak door of her fathers office. Screeching to a halt, she laid her ear against the lock.
"...Giovanni, sir. The labs have all been secured and prepared for testing the new-"
Quickly becoming bored, the doors were thrown open as she threw herself to the man behind the large desk, leaping over the Persian who tried to stop her.
"Oof" Giovanni grunted, as his lap was suddenly filled with a squealing little girl. "Amaryn, what have I told you about interrupting my meetings?"
She beamed, "Not to. But look!" Pointing out the window, "Karpy evolved!"
In the now far too small and full pond in the gardens sat a large purple polka dotted Gyarados.
"That's... That's great. How did that happen?" Giovanni was very confused. It should have taken at least two more years for Karpy to evolve.
Sparkle trotted in and nuzzled Persian before sending a glare to encompass the men in the room. The scientists flinched into each other, glad that their boss wasn't paying any attention to them at the moment.
"I don't know. We were talking and then he evolved." Amaryn shrugged and pulled out a camcorder. "I caught it on tape! Do you wanna see it?"
The 'businessman' smiled gently at his daughter and began to usher her off his lap. "Maybe later darling. Right now, I'm in a meeting. We'll watch it later, alright?"
"'Kay." The brunette kissed her father on the cheek and scooped up her Vulpix before taking off again, pokéballs bouncing around her neck and waist.
Giovanni closed the door, once again all business. "You were saying...?"
Persian yawned, showing off her sharp teeth as the scientists flinched again.
The room is pink. It is covered in pokédolls and toys. A black and pink whirlwind makes its way through the chaos, tossing clothes and books into a bottomless bag. It stops to close the pocket and open another, this one for the small stockpile of medicines and berries she had saved up. Many items get tossed into many pockets as Amaryn packs her life into the backpack.
"This seems a bit much."
Amaryn paused. "Huh? Oh, no it's not. I'm going to go to Kalos. I'll need everything I can take."
" But do you really need the dolls?"
She looks down at the Clefairy doll and giggles, "I guess not."
The large bipedal cat uncrosses his arms and picks up the bag to open the pockets. "Let's see what you have in here now, and what you don't need."
As he repacks the bag she sits on a Lapras doll, still holding the Clefairy.
"What do you think Kalos is like?"
"I have only been to Lumiose City once with your father. It was... busy." Mewtwo replaced the medicines and camping gear before teleporting to the kitchens and coming back with food to take the place of the dolls.
"I don't think I want to go to Lumiose just yet... Maybe somewhere south?" Amaryn mused and got up. She moved to the balcony, where a huge perch sat, and grabbed the Kalosian map from under it.
"If it hadn't been for dad saying Karpy had to evolve, we would already be in Kalos. I need to rename him, maybe Mister Dragon? Anyway, maybe here?" Holding up the map for Mewtwo to see, she pointed at the second southernmost town.
"Vaniville town?" Mewtwo peered at the map and everything paused, floating in the air.
"Yup! Or maybe here?" She moved her finger up a bit. "Aquacorde! I think we could stop here before training!"
Mewtwo scratched his chin. "Well, it's ultimately up to you."
"And I want to fly there!"
Everything stopped once more. "Fly? That would take a while. A few hours by plane, days by Shine. Which were you thinking of?"
"Um, Shine?"
The Corviknight landed on his perch with a caw. "I heard my name. What's up?"
Amaryn lowered the map and ran to hug the giant Steel-type bird, and then the faceplate of the purple Gyarados as he put his head by the balcony.
"We're going to go to Kalos for our journey! Do you think you can fly there?"
Shine clicked his beak. "Definitely not all the way. But with Karpy here we can go over the ocean as well and let me rest."
"Oh yeah! Karpy, we should change your name! How's Mister Dragon? ...But if we do that I'm going to need my swimsuit and a rebreather! In case I fall off. Right?" She looked over at Mewtwo who was just about done packing. He held out a pink ruffled shirt and blue shorts with a questioning look. She flapped her hand at them and he held up a kimono for consideration. Amaryn threw him a distracted smile and tapped on the bathroom door. "You done in there?" she called.
A flap at the bottom opened and Sparkle the Vulpix jumped through. She was, like her name, sparkling clean. "Quite done. We need more fur conditioner."
"Good!" The girl threw open the bathroom door and began gathering hair accessories and brushes. Soaps and other essentials floated out behind her as she brought her findings to Mewtwo.
"Is this everything?" "I think so? I think we're ready to go!" "Not so fast." "Daddy!"
Giovanni opened his arms for his little girl to run into. He and Persian had just finished their meeting with the scientists and were only vaguely surprised that Amaryn was packing for her journey.
"I want you to at least wait for morning, Amaryn. It's far too late to start out now. I want to see you go as well." He smoothed down her waist-length hair until it looked more normal, rather than the tangled mess it was before from her whirlwind packing.
To be honest, Giovanni didn't want to see his daughter leave at all. He had made a promise to her though. And though he was a ruthless businessman when around other people, he tried to keep his promises to his daughter.
Which means he'll have to let her go…
He was not entirely happy about this.
"Daddy, I'm eleven. The other kids have been gone for a year now!"
"That does not mean you go off on your journey at sunset. Get ready for bed, you can go in the morning."
Mewtwo was already braiding her hair as she stepped away. "Okay…"
Persian began to nudge Giovanni out of the room, though she stayed behind. Giovanni got the message and closed the door behind him as his demeanor changed and he stalked off.
"Get Archer!" He spoke rather harshly to a waiting grunt.
"Yes sir!"