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“EMMET!” A voice rang from the crowd, a busy day at the station. It’s been 4 months since Ingo disappeared. It was so bad the first month. No one would come in, they only came in to ride the standard train or to see how Emmet was doing. 

No one came into battle and it was torture, over the next 3 months, people finally came into battle Emmet. Something he has been waiting for. All up to the point today, one of the busiest days, where he had to take a break for his pokemon's sake. 

Emmet looked over to where the voice came from. It wasn’t Elesa’s voice. No, it was deeper. Emmet looked as he saw N’s green hair stand out from the crowd. Pushing through people to get to him. 

“N?” Emmet asked into the crowd. He wasn’t a yeller like his brother and didn’t want to start. However, N popped out of the crowd, in front of him, dragging some poor blonde kid with him. 

“Emmet! Hi, it’s been a while”

“Yes, it has”

“Well, meet my partner in pokemon documenting! Volo” N said, pointing to the blonde kid with him. 

“Nice to meet you Volo, I am Emmet, I am-.. was a subway boss with my twin Ingo, however lately It has just been me” Emmet introduced himself, holding his hand out. Volo grabbed it, a smile on his face. 

“Nice to meet you too Emmet. We’re here about your twin. We know where he is.” Volo said so smoothly and calmly. It almost didn’t register in Emmet's mind however it soon hit him like a train. 

“What? You…what? Why didn’t you bring him?” Emmet cried, looking around trying to 

“Well, we need your help to get him!” Volo explained, smiling and messing with his backpack. 

“Okay, Elesa is coming with food so uh she’ll be helping” Emmet pointed out, seeing the blur of a yellow puff that is Elesa. 

“Okay, I’m good with that,” N said, putting his hat back on, Emmet didn’t notice that he didn’t have it on until now. 

Emmet nodded, he felt lightheaded and shocked, and frankly, the train noises blaring and the music looping overhead weren’t helping him. He walked to the stairs where Elesa was walking down, trying to avoid people, but failing.

“Oh! Emmet! I got us burgers, and yes, I told them no to-...Is that N???” Elesa was speaking before noticing N and Volo standing next to him, Emmet could see on her face that she was confused however happy. She got down the steps, standing taller than the group. Only by a couple of inches, nothing too big. 

“Yeah, it's me!” N said, Elesa smiled when she saw it was N, handing Emmet the food and drinks, and hugging N.

“It's been like years! How have you been?” N hugged her back, they were always huggy with each other in school. 

“I’ve been great! This is my new friend and partner for pokemon discoveries! Volo!” Elesa stopped hugging N and turned over to Volo

“Hello, what’s your name?” Volo asked holding a hand out to Elesa. Elesa took it.

“Elesa. Now, I didn’t know you were coming, I would have gotten you food as well N” Elesa broke the handshake rather quickly, turning back to N, ignoring the man she shook hands with.

“Well, we should get to my office, they have some news for us,” Emmet said, finally getting hold of the food and drinks. Walking over to his office. It wasn’t that far. Built into the wall facing towards the trains.

It was once a closet where Emmet and Ingo spend their time getting work done for school. They used to work as depot agents while schooling took place. So they sat in the closet together during their breaks and did their school work.

The place meant a lot to them both, so they decided to expand it into a full office for the two of them. Besides, it was easier to watch the trains. Emmet wishes he could say ‘oh lately it's been messy with paperwork, as Ingo deals with it’ but the paper mess, with the pen and pencils everywhere. The papers stick left and right and centre. Cabinets opened and bags laying around has always been a thing. 

Neither one of them could sit there and clean it and make everything look ‘neat and clean’ so instead they learned to work like it. Besides, it keeps Emmet much more relaxed and on task. Everything so clean and orderly messed with Emmet’s mind. It was much harder to work, it felt stiffer and slower to work. Same with Ingo, Emmet thought, however always on his side, was a bit tidier .

Emmet noticed after he hadn’t touched anything of Ingo’s. His side was messier while Ingo’s was a tad cleaner. He wonder after that if his side messed Ingo up. After they get him, he’ll have to ask he supposed. 

Opening the door with one hand and trying not to drop anything was difficult but he did. The area looked just as messy as it was this morning when he clocked in. Emmet sat the food down and Elesa grabbed one of the bags and sat in Ingo’s seat. She was the only one allowed to.

Ingo, whenever she came over, let her sit there while they talked and ate, and he sat on the other random chairs they had in the room. Emmet asked after the 3rd time, ‘why do you let her sit where you sit?’ and Ingo replied ‘you get to sit in my chair, why can’t she?’ and so, Emmet never kicked her out of Ingo's seat.

Even after his disappearance. He knew Ingo wouldn’t be happy, and besides, she knows not to touch anything of his. So it’s fine. Emmet grabbed the other bag and sat in his chair. Looking at it, no tomatoes, mayo, onions, mustard or weird sauces on it. Ketchup, Pickles, and Lettuce, just how he liked. 

Emmet sat the cheeseburger down and he started eating fries, even though that burger place was amazing, he didn’t know if he could stomach it. N sat on one of the random office chairs that he and Ingo had. While Volo just stood there. 

“You can sit,” Emmet said, he didn’t want to seem rude, but the look Elesa gave said otherwise. 

“Anywhere, just grab one of the chairs. Uh, what did you want to tell us?” Elesa asked as she took a bite of her burger.

“Well, we know where Ingo is,” N started as Volo who didn’t take a seat yet, walked over to Emmet, placing a Sinnoh history book down. Flipping through until landing on a page with a corner bent down. Walking back a step. 

The first thing that went through Emmet’s mind is how the hell did he get a Sinnoh history book? So that's what he asked. 

“How did you get a Sinnoh history book? I don’t think we have these over here?”

“I stole it,” Volo said, shrugging “When we get back to Sinnoh before calling god, I’ll return it.”

“It’s going to be super overdue, just keep it at that point” Emmet pointed out.

“Just look at the page”

“Okay, sorry for pointing it out, Jezz” Emmet sighed as he actually looked at the page. 

Really, saying that they ‘know’ where Ingo was is a stretch. They knew how to point him out in a history book, in ancient Sinnoh. Where they’ve never been to. Which is like years in the past. Before they were born. Before their parents were born….how the hell did Ingo get in the history books way back then??

“Wait, wait wait. Elesa for your minor you study the history of the world? Right? Did yall like read the history books of Sinnoh?”

“Yes, why?” Elesa asked, confused tone of voice.

“Was Ingo in them?” Emmet asked, looking over at Elesa, confused and worried.

“Of course not? Did…is…? You guys said you know where Ingo is? Correct?” Elesa said, shaking her head, and starting to piece some things together.

“Yeah, we did say that,” N said, nodding along.

“...Is Ingo in the past?” She asked, firmly. 

“Yes” N nodded to what Elesa just said. 

Emmet's head started spinning even more. Oh, you know where he is. But what does that do when HE’S IN THE PAST! Emmet better just accept it, Ingo is dead, and he’ll never see his brother again. He means, how could he even get Ingo back. His appetite was lost. Right there. He looked at N and Volo, holding his burger out. 

“Anyone want it?”

N snatched it and started eating before Volo even got a chance. 

“I’m sorry you had to find out this way,” N said, after swallowing a bite “however, we know how to bring him back to our time” 

Emmet snapped right back, depressive spiral be damned, “what?”

“There's a flute that can summon Arceus, we can either battle or beg for him to bring your brother back.”

“Where is the flute?” Emmet asked, standing up, the bag of fries on his lap falling to the ground. Whoops, Emmet forgot about that, but he’ll pick it up later. 

“That's the thing, we don’t know. There's a map here in Unova, however, it's guarded heavily and not open for photos or any jazz like that. We need to steal it to read it.” N said, shrugging and taking another bite of the burger

“Yes, me and N are great at stealing, we stole a lot of artifacts together however we need someone to give a reason for the map to work.”

“What does that mean, give a reason,” Elesa asked, leaning in, looking at Volo confused. 

“Well, it only works if there's a valid reason to see god. Like say you wanted to meet god for a selfie and you get ahold of the map? It doesn’t show you anything. If you want to meet god just to meet him, doesn’t show you anything/ However with Emmet, his want is for his brother, that’ll hopefully show the map.”

“Oh, well then, are you okay with this Emmet?”

“Yes, if I can get my brother back, a small bit of stealing won't hurt anyone”

“Okay then...I’m in if Emmet’s in. The moment Emmet backs out, I back out. Got it?”

“Well let's shake”

“Okay” Elesa and Volo shake hands again, Elesa looking much more untrustworthy of Volo. Slightly glaring at the man with an eye covered and a smirk on his face. 

“How long will this whole thing take?” Emmet asked, planning to figure out who he can make cover for him.

“Hopefully less than 6 months” N replied, already finished with the burger. 

“6 months?? That's a long time, I don’t even know if anyone can cover for that long” Emmet said, in a hushed yell. 

“Just get some depot agent.” N pointed out like Emmet was thinking about that

“For 6 months???”

“Say burn out, I mean, loss of a family member is hard and that your train engine has been chugging along for this long without breaking down, counts for something. Explain your brain did the sad thingys things and now you need 6 months off.” N shrugged. 

“6 months is a long time!” Emmet said, with dramatic hand gestures. 

“And it’ll be worth it. Your brother will be back! Or just close the station”

“I can’t close the station” 

“Get a depot agent!”

“Well they have to do pay, and the bills, and the everything! I can’t make some guy do that!”

“Ask someone else to keep an eye on the money stuff. It’s simple!” N said,  standing up and grabbing the fry bag that fell and tossing it. 

“I can get Skyler to do that. She’s good with money” Elesa chimed in, breaking her glare with Volo but hand still gripping tight. 

“Are you sure?” Emmet looked at Elesa, worried 

“Yeah, of course, she does the bills for our house, I’m sure she can manage the other bills!” Elesa said, waving him off. 

“Oh…house bills, I’ll have to turn my all off. I'm glad at least me and Ingo own our house…” Emmet rubbed his face.

“See, you’ll be fine!” N said, cracking his neck, confusing Emmet but going with it. 

“My joltiks won’t!” Emmet said, standing up. 

“Oh, yeah…uh….ask someone to pet sit them?” Elesa said, with worry in her voice.

“Who?? Who is going to feed them batteries in a house with every bill turned off?” Emmet sighed, plopping right down into his chair. 

“Well, they don’t need food to live. Pokemon are slightly different” N explained

“I give mine food.” Emmet did a small glare over. 

“They’ll be fine, besides you can ask Syker or a depot agent to feed them once a week!” 

“...Fine, sure.” Emmet crossed his arms like a baby. He need to think of two agents who would actually be good for the job. Two people who knew what they were doing. He could trust Jackie, so he was placing Jackie on that list.

7 other depot agents, he didn’t know which one to pick. Cloud, Pamses, Isadore, Cameron, Furze, Hank or Josh. Hank and Josh just started, so they were off the list.

Cloud and Jackie were close, however Jackie and Furze were also close. But if Furze was in charge Pamses would have a issue, but Pamses can’t be in charge because Ingo put them in charge once….never again. Isadore, and Cameron were also good people who he trusted, but Jackie wasn’t close to them.

So it was sletted but crossing people off a check list. Cloud and Jackie were in charge. Ingo always had these brightly coloured uniforms that, at least to Emmet were a eye sore, Blue and Yellow jacket and hats that match theirs, a bit wonky as Ingo made them, but close enough. He made them, just incase they left for more than 2 days, so people and depot agents could tell who was in charge while they were out.

It sucks that Ingo wasn’t there to give these out, however it was a way to do what Ingo liked? Besides Ingo will see them in when they get back. Even better news was that when they got bac, and Ingo saw them, and contragated them, they could retire them to the back. Those bright colour eye sores. 

Arceus could probably see the damn colours from where he is. They’re that fucking bright. Emmet sighed as he pressed the intercom, doing the shush face to everyone. 

“ Ahem Can Jackie and Cloud come to mine and Ingo’s office please?” Emmet said through the intercom. He couldn’t hear a reply however Emmet stood up and went to the tiny closet that held the eye sores themselves and grabbed them, before walking out. N was more busy pleading with Elesa for her fries and Elesa was busy glaring down Volo and Volo? He had no idea but Volo didn’t say anything.

He stood outside of the office, tapping his foot as the two new temporary subway bosses walked over. With the group of depot’s following behind, wanting to see what the fuss was about. It was so normal it would be weird to not see them. 

“Yes Boss?” Jackie asked, beating Cloud by about a second. 

“I….am taking a break, for 6 months. Max. While I am gone, you two will run this subway. Have these jackets and hats Ingo made for just in cases like this.” Emmet said, begrudgingly, handing over the outfits. 

“Really? Like? Not joking?” Jackie asked as they grabbed the blue one, leaving Cloud with the yellow one. 

“Not joking.” Emmet sighed, which then Jackie and Cloud hugged him. He didn’t plan for this to happen. Quickly the other depots came over and hugged him as well.

“YOUR TAKING A BREAK! Finally!” Cloud said smiling. The other cheered, and slightly crushed his rib bones. 

Emmet smile, was an real one, for once and he hugged them back “You can say that, I guess I am” 

He didn’t remember the last time he saw them all this happen since Ingo disappearance. 

“We’ve been waiting for you to say that. You have to rest your enginee. You don’t want it to die whilse running!” Cameron said, a smile on their face as well. 

They hugged for longer soon they broke it off as Jackie and Cloud put on their new, eye sores of uniforms. 

“Right! We’re in charge, you listen to us!” Jackie said, in the most goofy way, trying to ‘sound like emmet’ It wasn’t going well for them. 

Emmet thinks, nah he knows , that he didn’t want this moment to end.

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Emmet, Elesa, N and Volo sat in Emmet’s and Ingo’s house. Everyone but Emmet was on the couch. Emmet was in the kitchen, he offered to make burgers as Volo didn’t get one and N got a hand-me-down of his burger and he also didn’t get to eat a burger.

Everyone was good with burgers so Emmet was making the burgers, seasoning them and all of that jazz as Elesa, N and Volo sat, planning. Emmet could hear small tidbits of info but nothing really he could piece together.

He placed the burgers on the pan, hearing them sizzle before walking over to the group and sitting on the couch. Unlike their office, everything was much more ‘clean’ mainly because most of their stuff was in their room, bathroom and basement. The couch area had a tad bit of build-up of boxes and cans.

Messest it’s ever been. Mainly because Ingo was gone, it wasn’t enough to have to kick away, Emmet just had to clear the table real quickly before making food because of the cans.

“What's the plan?”

“Well, we first go to the museum, we figure out where vents are located, and what would be the best way to get the map without anyone knowing,” Volo said, however, the map layout of the museum at stuff and plans already written down.

“There's writing on the museum layout, however?” Emmet said, pointing that out

“The idea we have, the layout isn’t 1:1 with the museum that's why we’re checking it out in person, however, the idea is that there's a vent close by, and if someone can figure out a way they could climb on the ceiling and then grab it like that,” N explained, pointing it out with his finger

“We just need a way to climb on the ceiling…” N sighed

“Emmet, you have your joltiks, right?” Elesa asked, out of the blue

“Yes? Why?” Emmet replied, confused about where she was going with this

“Couldn’t they walk on the ceiling and grab the map?” Elesa asked

“I mean, I can see if Ticket can?” Emmet said, for once taking his hat off and taking Ticket out from under the hat, petting her and pulling a battery from his pocket. Ticket ate the battery and Emmet’s smile grew.

“Alright Ticket, let's see if you can walk on the ceiling,” Emmet said, standing on a chair and placing her on the roof. Standing there in case Ticket fell, lucky for them, Ticket stayed on the ceiling.

A sigh of relief was released from everyone in the room. Emmet was pretty sure everyone else's sigh was over the plan actually working. For Emmet, however? It was over Ticket not falling for getting hurt.

Ticket meant a lot to him. Ticket was a shiny one he got when he got his now-evolved Galvantula. He promised her that he’ll never evolve her. Emmet was someone who wanted to win, yes, but Ticket was his ‘ticket’ for getting his Galvantula. He never wanted her to battle.

So instead, he kept her under his hat. Bringing her everywhere with no one knowing. So Ticket being helpful meant there was a reason to bring her, besides being important to him.

“Okay, so the joltik can come and help with the plan,” Volo said.

“Her name is Ticket. Of course, she is coming. Even if she was not able to help!” Emmet said, taking Ticket off of the roof and placing her down on the table.

“Well, that works, how are we going to make her get to the map?” Elesa asked, pointing out the one flaw in the plan, that she made up. So maybe she already thought of that?

“N, can’t you talk to pokemon?” Volo asked, all eyes turned over to N, which lead to N rubbing the back of his neck

“Yeah, I can talk pokemon, it's just that I don’t know if they listen?” N said, sighing

“We have about 5 hours to get Ticket to listen. Let's get this a-going” Volo said, grabbing the map of the museum and placing it on a table

“It doesn’t look like that. The map is being held and it's surrounded by glass. So we need to figure out how to remove the glass and get Ticket to grab the map.”

Emmet sat there and thought. Before heading to the kitchen, removing the book and grabbing the book stand. Handing it over to Elesa. Emmet flipped the burgers while he was over there, they seemed to be almost done, so he grabbed cheese and placed it onto the burgers.

Elesa gave Volo the book stand and Volo placed the layout on the bookstand.

“Does anyone have a glass box?” Volo asked, making everyone look over to Emmet, Emmet sighed before shaking his head.

Why the hell would he and Ingo have glass boxes? They don’t even have plastic boxes. They have drawers only. It gets to be a pain after a while but it makes them look a bit more organised which Emmet is not.

Ingo also just thought they looked better than boxes, so they didn’t waste any money on boxes. Besides they aren’t as easily breakable. Emmet sighed and looked for something to mimic a glass box. However, before that, he moved the burgers off of the pan and onto a plate.

Emmet walked up to the stairs, looking around and peeking into each room. Knowing how they don’t own any glass things. Joltiks plus free roaming pokemon plus glass objects and stuff equal broken glass. Plastic and Foam are the way to go.

Emmet sighed, upstairs was much more of a hallway with doors to go into other rooms. His and Ingos, the guest room now turned into emmet’s second room, the bathroom and their model train room.

The best bets was the bathroom or the model train room. Emmet decided to move over to the model train room. The door hasn’t been open since Ingo disappearing. Emmet sighed and opened the door.

Everything was dusty and grainy to him. The bulb burned out, so Emmet pulled his phone flashlight out shining it over everything. Looking around and sighing, the room was the same, a closet left open, showing unopened trains, showing old train boxes and unused tracks. The room was clean, the ground was mess free and the trains sat there unmoving. Turned off.

Emmet looked around, looking for any clear box of any kind, but there was nothing. He shrugged and left the room, closing the door behind him. Locked away for the next 6 months. Poor trains. Confused about why they are being unused.

After the model train room, he walked to the bathroom, heading to the counter and the cabinets under the skin. Finding a single plastic box. It holds pads and tampons for Elesa and any other guest that needs it. They normally keep it under the skin, Elesa knows that at this point but whenever there is a big gathering at their house, they leave it out on the counter.

Sometimes they get complimented because of it, however, it just confused both of them. There was no reason to get complimented for something so simple and so kind. However, it’ll have to do. No guests are coming over anytime and besides Elesa could pocket the products as they’ll be gone for 6 months.

So he grabbed the box and headed downstairs, handing the box to Volo.

“The tampons and pads are for Elesa. The box is for this.” Emmet said, as Volo sighed and handed the box over to Elesa who grabbed everything and put it in her purse.

“Thanks, Em,” Elesa said, smiling handing the box back to Volo

“You're welcome,” Emmet said smiling as Volo placed the box over the map.

“Okay, I’m pretty sure the box has an opening in the top or the side facing the wall, so we need to teach Ticket how to open latches,” Volo said, thinking.

“I got some joltik safe cabinets that ticket could try and open” Emmet pointed out, walking to the kitchen and opening one of the empty cabinets.

“Good enough,” Volo said, looking at N, N sighed and stood up and walked over to the cabinet, shutting it and started speaking to the Ticket.

Emmet didn’t know how he did it. However, it wasn’t his issue. He grabbed the buns that he have and started to plate the burgers. They were still slightly warm. Leaving stuff out to put on the burger. N and Ticket behind him were opening the cabinet.

Emmet handed the burgers out to everyone, on his he had lettuce, pickles and ketchup. Sitting on the counter, watching to make sure that Ticket didn’t fall or get hurt. Behind him, he can hear the making of burgers. They have most of the weird food because Ingo likes them, so there are a lot of wrong options to put on your burger.

It took around 2 hours of just watching this happen until everyone was sure that Ticket could do it. Emmet already knew that his baby could do it. So next up for the next 3 hours they watched Ticket grab the map. They ditched the box, Emmet was slightly upset over it, but it was whatever.

Emmet never really knew why Volo thought Emmet had the same box that the museum has, but it was a whatever for Emmet. Truly. He wasn’t salty. They all sat on the couch, looking over at Ticket and N doing this. Emmet didn’t know how N felt but god N must have been miserable. Emmet would have been.

Soon after the first hour, Elesa turned on the TV and she and Volo started watching whatever was on. Emmet however got up and sat over with N, showing that he cares about what N was doing. Even if it was boring.

“Maybe we should move the map into the cabinet and see how she fairs with that,” Emmet brought up, “If she does good like I’ll say 5 times in a row we can stop”

“I’m good with that,” N said, grabbing the map and the map stand. Emmet grabbed Ticket and brought her over to the cabinet. They set everything up and Emmet sat on the counter again. Grabbing a pack of batteries from a drawer. He put it in his coat pocket for Ticket.

Him and N watched as Ticket kept opening the cabinet and grabbing the map and leaving. They both sighed and Emmet grabbed Ticket and the map, N put the book stand back and they moved to the couch and sat down, sighing.

“Ticket is trained enough for it at the point. We should get going soon” N said, sinking into his seat

“Alright, give us 30 minutes, we gotta see what happens next,” Volo said, as he and Elesa were glued to the screen. It was a random tv cartoon. Emmet didn’t know how they watched it, however, him and Ingo only watched train-related shows, movies, and documentaries. It was a small bit of an issue. So he guess he couldn’t judge.

N sighed as he closed his eyes, probably trying to sleep. Emmet just sat there watching a train documentary on his phone. Emmet only watched the ones him and Ingo watched together, ignoring all of the new stuff. He wanted to watch it with Ingo together. It just felt wrong to watch the new things without his brother.

30 minutes soon passed however everyone was still busy with what they were doing so they decided to do it the next day. Volo crashed on the ground, Elesa crashed on the couch, after pushing Volo off, N had been crashed out on the chair and Emmet slept on the other chair. No one.

Emmet was the last to sleep, letting him re-finish a documentary on the big tv.

He woke up early in the morning after N and his joltik zapped him away. Rubbing his eyes he looked at N. N was standing over him, a smile on his face

“Hey, can I use your shower? And borrow some clothes?” N asked, Emmet, got up stretching and nodding, doing the hand motion of ‘follow me’

Emmet walked up and grabbed some old clothes that he hasn’t worn in 4 months and gave them to N. N smiled and nodded. Emmet pointed at the bathroom door, N walked in there and gave Emmet a thumbs-up before disappearing into the bathroom.

Emmet, in his and Ingo’s room, decided to change into something better than a button-up and fancy pants. If he was going to steal and do all of that jazz, he would need better clothes. He grabbed a pair of white leggings and a white turtleneck. Took his normal train jacket off and hat. Deciding to pack them and Ingo’s spare jacket and hat.

Emmet pulled out another jacket. White with a train where the heart is. Elesa saw matching ones and got them for him and Ingo. Emmet changed into his new clothes. Grabbing new shoes, dress shoes were quite loud. He grabbed white sneakers and put them on. He looked like a pure white entity.

Emmet knew he should grab some other clothes for Elesa and Volo, grabbing sweatpants and a white tee-shirt for Volo and grabbing one of Elesa’s jumpers she leaves at their house. Her jumper was one of the only non-white things in his closet. It was a baby blue colour.
Leaving them out on his bed, he grabbed Ingo’s spear jacket and hat, and a bag, putting his and ingo’s jackets and hats into the bag. Throwing the bag over his shoulder, he grabbed the clothes and went downstairs. Tossing the clothes onto each person. Both of them moved, however, stayed asleep.

Emmet sighed, moving into the kitchen, grabbing the eggo waffles, and popping them into the toaster he sighed. He sat on the counter, texting Jackie.

Emmet
How was the first day?

Jackie - Depot Agent
Pretty good! We just had to explain that we’re the new bosses!

Emmet
That’s good. I wish you luck with it.
If you need help, just text me.

Jackie - Depot Agent
Alright! Thanks Boss!

Emmet smiled as the eggo waffled dinged, startling him. Jumping and semi-falling off of the counter. Emmet grabbed the eggo waffles, plated them on 4 plates, placing them on the table, in front of where everyone was sitting or sleeping.

Elesa woke up, due to the ding, and the smell, she rubbed her eyes and sat up, looking at the one eggo waffle, she smiled.

“Thanks, Em” Elesa said, moving her jumper to the side.

“You don’t even know if it was me?” Emmet pointed out, as volo started to move.

“Your the only one who would make only one eggo waffle” Elesa fired back, shrugging and grabbing her waffle.

Emmet sat there, grabbing his waffle and biting into it, angrily. Elesa laughed and Emmet rolled his eyes.

“You look much more dapper, why?”

“It felt right, we are stealing, I don’t want to be dressed up to much, besides it’ll be good if I’m not in my work clothes,” Emmet said, shrugging, Volo sat up, groaning and cracking his back.

“The floor never gets better” Volo stated, making Elesa laugh

“Yeah, no it doesn’t. But I get where you’re coming from Emmet, is that why you gave me back my blue jumper? And Volo some random clothes you have?” Elesa pointed out, making Emmet nod

“Yeah, besides I also gave N some new clothes, he’s in the shower if you want to change, you can go into mine and ingo’s room or wait for the bathroom to be open” Emmet shrugged, finishing his eggo waffle.

Volo nodded before tossing the clothes back. “I don’t wear white sweatpants, besides I have my own clothes in my bag.” He said, pointing at the bag he left at the door.

Emmet nodded, before just pushing the clothes to the side, it’ll be fine if they are left there. He’ll just explain to Ingo why the place is a tad bit of a mess. Elesa grabbed her jumper and walked up the stairs. He was pretty sure she was heading to the bedroom.

As she walked up, N walked down the stairs, showing off how he was wearing a white and red train shirt and white jeans. Emmet hates jeans, it's just that a lot of people buy things in pairs for them.

“You look fancy, if you want you can keep the jeans,” Ememt said, shrugging “I hate jeans”

“Yeah, I thought it was weird that you had jeans but thanks! The shirt?”

“No, you can have this white shirt however” Emmet tossed over the white shirt Volo wasn’t going to wear to N. N smiled and went over to Volo’s bag, shoving it into a pocket.

“Thanks, Emmet” N said, sitting on the chair and eating the waffle, smiling.

“Alright, after Elesa gets back, we go to the museum and see how we can plan the plan to fit better. Then around 12am we go back and steal it.” Volo said, standing up, walking over to his bag grabbing it and heading upstairs.

N shrugged and smiled at Emmet, Emmet’s smile was always on his face however he ‘smiled’ back. N took the random smile.

That was about as calm as their day was going to get. As things were about to get a whole lot more hectic.

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Everyone was ready, they were all standing right at the door. Elesa in her blue jumper and blue sandals. Volo in black jeans, a black shirt and black sneakers. N in his white train shirt, white button-up as a jacket, white jeans, green sneakers, and hat. Ememt is in his white turtleneck, white leggings white jacket with a train on it, and white sneakers. 

“Pfft, you and N are twining” Elesa noted, as Ememt and N just stood there, looked at each other and laughed. 

“Alright, maybe we can tone down the white” Volo laughed, tossing N a black jacket. 

N grabbed it and put it on, tossing Volo the button-up, which where he put in his backpack. 

“I’m going to be honest, it’s weird seeing you without your hat on Emmet” N noted, flicking some of his hair

“Well, I don’t need to wear it right now. I’m not at work and I don’t own any other hat.” Emmet stated, fixing his hair before Elesa ruffed with it, making Ememt snap his head over to her. 

“Well, here,” N said, grabbing the hat off of his head, and slamming it down on Emmet’s head. Patting Ememt's head before opening the door. “Let's get going!” 

Emmet sighed, and moved with the group, trying to fix the hat. It was a bit of a struggle to make it look okay. Still, he managed to get it to look semi-okay by the time they got to the Unova Museum of Artifacts and History. 

Volo opened the door when they got there, everyone walked into the museum, looking around for where the map would be. Volo pointed them to where they are meant to be, so as a group they headed over. They looked at the glass and saw it was a latch on the back side of the glass. 

Emmet and N gave a sigh of relief. They teached Ticket on how to open it that way. Now the only issue was opening the door, as everyone noted that it was locked. Before they decided to move on from staring at the map, heading over to another part of the museum. 

“Right, it's locked” Volo whispered in a hushed tone as they looked at Acreus’s whole wall. 

“We need to lockpick it,” N said staring at some of the text on the wall. 

“Yeah, but how,” Elesa said, leaning on the wall, there was no one else in the room

“Ticket can’t lockpick it, and I really don’t want to train her to do that,” Emmet said looking at the other text.

“Alright, who’s the best at lockpicking?” Volo asked

“Not me,” Elesa said, “Never done it before”

“Right, N, Emmet?” Volo asked

“Emmet?” N asked

Emmet shook his head, “I’ve done it once or twice before, I’m not the best”

“Right, Volo can you?”

“Nope,” Volo shrugged, as he started to walk out of the room “‘side the whole reason we have Ticket getting the map is because we don’t want to get caught” 

“Volo wait, who’s on security tonight? We might be able to convince someone to unlock it” N asked, looking at him and Elesa.

“I don’t know, you guys any guards we can beg?” Volo asked, Emmet looked right at Elesa, and she sighed before nodding

“I know, only one guard but I don’t know if they're working tonight, and even if they’ll leave it unlocked, I mean what am I even meant to say to them?” Elesa pointed out, struggling to think of what to say.

“Really, we just need Emmet to hold the map so we can take a picture of the locations,” N said, sitting down on a bench. 

Emmert sighed sitting down as well. “Yeah but, the locations could change, it’ll be better to keep the map with us” 

“We shouldn’t be discussing this in the museum guys,” Elesa said dropping her arms from her resting arm crossing 

Everyone nodded and sighed. 

“We should still contact your friend Elesa” Volo said, before walking out of the room. Elesa nodded before heading back out the way they came. Emmet and N were confused however they decided to stay in the room, looking at the text on the wall. 

A lot of this was old stories Emmet remembers being told as a small child. However, there was information about how Ingo could have been taken. Time rifts and The Distortion World. He never knew these things existed. He only did a quick scan over the text but they both seem to say that they can take someone from one place to another time or a whole other world. 

N soon left. Emmet soon followed behind. Not wanting to be left behind, getting back to his house, Elesa and Volo were already there, calling Elesa’s friend, trying to not explain things and stay vague.

 N got there just by a minute, snooping in the fridge, trying to find food. Emmet sighed as he took his shoes off, falling on the chair he slept in, he turned the TV to another train documentary. Keeping the volume down so Volo and Elesa could beg and pled with the other person. 

Emmet sat there and lost track of time, he knew he already watched it, however, he was more of thinking more about his brother.

He missed Ingo. He tried not to let it show to anyone other than Elesa, however, he missed Ingo. Everyone knew, but no one knew . It’s been hard and rough because they were together, all the time. After Ingo got stolen. It was a struggle to move. To go anywhere outside of the subway. So he just sat there. Sat there in the subway, on the public benches, and slept when he could in the office chairs. 

He was always there, Ingo was always in the subway and leaving for 6 months, was hard for Emmet. He had to push through. He’s been ignoring his emotions because he needs this. He needs this. He needs his brother back.

If Volo and N were being serious about this map, this flute, and god himself, then he’ll get his brother back. That’s more important than the subway. That’s more important than anything. 

He sighed as he tuned back into the world around him. Elesa and Volo were thanking the friend, N was just watching the train documentary with him, with a cup of juice and an apple. He leaned back into the chair. The documentary was decent however some things are outdated. It was still good. Him and Ingo just decided to agree and take what this one says with a grain of salt. 

Volo and Elesa sat on the couch, Volo making a small voice, making Emmet and N look over.

“Elesa’s friend is a camera watcher, so we don’t need to worry about the cameras,” Volo stated, sighing

“So, we go in, beat up the guards and leave with the map?” N asked, sarcastically. 

“No, good idea, but no” Volo said, 

“I…that was an AWFUL idea Volo??” N said, waving his hands around confused. Ememt chucked at that. 

“No, we just need to lock pick the lock during the day and night shift,” Volo said

“It’s at 12am,” Elesa said, smiling

“The museum closes at 11:30 however?” Emmet points out

“That’s why we sneak in at 11pm and hide,” Volo said, nodding.

“Okay, but if we do a lock pick at 12am, why not grab the map?” N asked, confused

“Because there's not enough time, Emmet you lock pick and then set Ticket free. N will speak to her and then we’ll get the map, and leave with the map before 12:30am! Any questions?” Volo asked, crossing his arms, smug

“Okay, how about this, Where do I hide? We were in the hallway! There is nowhere I can hide!” Emmet complained, he knew he should just figure it out, but still, this was difficult and if he gets arrested, that's it for him and getting Ingo back. 

“Figure it out! It’s night they can’t see well! We just need to buy you a lock picking kit and you need to perfect it!” Volo said, standing up and starting to walk out the door. 

“Do you have money?”Emmet asked, worried

“Nope, but you do!” Volo said, flashing his credit card

“You don’t have my pin” Emmet crossed his arms, if Volo didn’t have the pin, he couldn’t use his and ingo’s money

“Yeah I do, it's 2525, a really bad pink number, fyi,” Volo said, holding the I out before dipping out the front door. Making Emmet jump out of his seat, slipping his shoes and running out the door

“Volo!” Ememt ‘yelled’, running after Volo who somehow slipped into the very busy crowd. Why was there a crowd today? Right now? What is going on? 

The crowd was enough to slow down Emmet, he had to move with it and it was upsetting. Volo was about to steal his money! How did he even get the pin number? He’ll have to ask. Elesa didn’t even know! Well, now she does. 

Finally pushing himself to the front of the crowd. The whisperings of ‘is that Emmet?’ ‘the subway boss?’ ‘I heard he took a month off’ ‘i heard a year’ ‘it's weird not seeing him in his jacket’ flooding his ears. At the front, he saw these people just standing there. He didn’t care enough so he just scanned for Volo.

Seeing Volo go into a store, he started running after Volo, trying to stop Volo from using his money. Getting into the store, opening the door and walking in. He brushed his clothes down and looked for Volo. Seeing Volo in a corner, he sighed and walked over there.

“Volo” Emmet said, crossing his arms and in a done tone of voice.

“Emmet, heyy! You see…I just wanted to get you something! Haha” Volo said, smiling with a lockpicking kit under his arm. It looked real and not like a kid's toy.

“...Is that real?” Emmet asked, pointing at the box

“Yeah, this shop has the real deals!” Vol smiled, shrugging

“...That’s not good,” Emmet said, looking around, if the lockpicking kits were real then probably everything else is. 

“Well, it’s good for what we need to do! I’ll pay you back, promise! I have money in Sinnoh!” Volo smiled before placing it on the checkout table, putting in his card and using his pin. Emmet was unhappy. 

“How did you know my card pin?” Emmet asked

“I guessed!” Volo smiled at him again, it felt fake, what volo said felt fake but he just had to go with it. 

“No more buying with my card,” Emmet said, after the card was approved he pocketed it. 

“Well there’s no need, let's go,” Volo said, leaving the store. Well, at least Emmet knows to stay clear from the store now. The only good thing he got from this.

Emmet and Volo pushed threw the crowd. Both of them ignored the preaching that was going on. They had other things to do and listening to some randos was not on their to-do list. 

They go back to the sound and volo handed Emmet the box. “Solve it,” Volo said before sitting down and switching the tv to the show him and Elesa were watching. 

Emmet started the lockpicking. N sat with him and watched as he did that for most of the day. It was boring however he soon got really well at it. Emmet knew that he was finished, giving the lock-picking box to Volo. 

“Maybe you solve, you’ll find more use with this than I would.” Emmet's smile was more of a smirk as he moved to the kitchen, grabbing himself some leftovers Elesa made a couple days before. He heated it up and gave some to Elesa and N. He never really had a huge appetite, so Elesa making him huge batches of food always confused him but at least he had stuff to give to others. 

Soon 11pm rolled around him and Volo were the lockpickers of the group. Elesa said she would never touch a lockpick so she never needed it and N said after this he’ll probably try to do it. N was smart. He could think of code and formulas just right there, and Emmet was jealous. 

However, formulas couldn’t help when it was a key lock. However N never really needed to do key locks, pattern locks, or code locks that was his thing. No one could beat him.

He was like the smartest person when it came to things like that, memory, math, hell even the most random pokemon facts, he knew it all. Made Emmet happy that he was on his team. 

They walked out of the house, the crowd was gone, and Emmet would hope that they were. Soon making it to the museum around 11:10pm. Walking in they started taking their places. Emmet had to be in the room with the map. This was going to be a long night and a boring one. 

Soon the speakers came on, telling everyone that “The museum is now closed, please exit the building.” Making Emmet sigh, 30 more minutes. 30 more minutes then home set to Ingo. How bad could it be? 

Well, it could go pretty bad because within waiting, N was busted, Emmet heard as a guard chased him down. N steps were pretty lightweight so it was quite hard to hear. Besides, he saw a glim of green hair when he peered out, checking to see what was going on. 

N was down, which was not good. Him, Elesa and Volo were left, and if N got busted it was only a matter of time before it’ll be one of them next. Emmet kinda was confused about how N got busted first. He was one of the smartest people, so Emmet thought he would have picked one of the best places to hide. 

After a while, not 12am, however, him checking his watch made sure of that, Aatext ping Emmet heard. His phone was on vibrate so it couldn’t be his. Soon the sounds of sandals and Elesa's voice echoed out, begging for a pokemon fight and if she won she could stay for the next 30 minutes. The guards didn’t entertain her as the door was opened and closed. No more sandals sounds were heard after that. 

Him and Volo. At least the two lock pickers were left. Soon the watch hit 11:58pm, the doors opened and guards left their posts, going to talk to the other guards before the shifts switch. Perfect.

Emmet got out of his hiding place, his heart racing and beating faster than he thought it could. Volo told him to take the stuff from the kit and shove it in his pockets and he did that. He grabbed the lock-picking stuff and got to work. His heart was racing and soon, right before the guards came back, he got the lock open. 

Emmet hurried back into his hiding place. Releasing Ticket and N getting found just hit him. That N couldn’t try and speak to Ticket to get Ticket what they need. So Emmet needed to do it. 

He let out a shaky breath, as he grabbed Ticket back. He had to steal a map. This is it. He was going to jail. He pulled his phone out and texted Volo.

Emmet

I have to steal the map. N got caught. He can’t speak to Ticket. It’s up to me.

Volo

Did you at least, lockpick the map?

Emmet

Yes

Volo

Alright, grab it, hide again and text me. I’ll cause some noise and get everyone after me.

Emmet

Thanks

Emmet sighed, it was now or never. Why couldn’t N hide safer? Emmet peeked out and looked at the guards. They seemed tired. It could be easy. He just had to open it, grab the map, close it and hide. Without getting found out. 

In pure white clothes.

Why couldn’t his motif be black instead? 

Ememt shook his head, crawling over to the map. Hiding behind everything he could. He was finally able to get to the map. The guards seemed to be somewhat asleep? They need to start sleeping earlier and get up earlier. 

Emmet opened the case, hiding again but that didn’t seem to shock them. Emmet sucked his breath in, making no noise as he grabbed the map. The map in his hand his smile let up as he hid again. He just had to close the box. However the map isn’t in there, it doesn’t matter? Does it?

Emmet rolled up the map and shoved it in his pocket. Frankly, he found this whole map stealing to be pretty easy. Moving back to his actual hiding place, he texted Volo again.

Emmet

I got the map.

Volo

Got it. Get ready for some pokemon

Emmet

Wait. What???

As that text sent, the sounds of pokemon running around the halls of the museum filled Emmet’s ears as he covered them. God, middle of the night noises were loud as all get out. With the guard chasing pokemon, Emmet stood up and ran out, pushing threw the doors and running to the square. He sighed as he started to walk back to his house. 

The noise rang threw Nimbasa, he guessed as even if his house was 10 minutes away, the noise was just as loud. He pulled his phone out and saw a text from Volo.

Volo

Got out?

Emmet

Yes

Volo

Good because I’m also out and now we need to get my pokemon back.

Emmet

Right now?

Volo

Yeah.

Emmet sighed as he turned back around and towards the museum. The pokemon were out on the street which seemed good enough for the museum guards. As all of them were inside, ignoring the pokemon problem. 

Volo was standing in the middle of them as he tried to catch them all again, grinning, it didn’t seem like he regretted his choices. Emmet sighed as he grabbed two of Volo’s small ones and started to walk off. 

Letting Volo take care of the rest. He knew Volo would be pissed, but pokemon? In the museum? They both could have been arrested. Now that he’s thinking about it, N and Elesa were probably arrested when they got caught. Or will be when they see the map is missing. 

When Ememt got home, he dropped the pokemon to the ground as he saw Elesa and N were pacing the floor worried. Elesa seeing Ememt sighed and hugged him

“Oh my Arceus! You’re okay Emmet!” Elesa's hug didn’t let up and Ememt hugged her back, sighing and finally being able to relax his heart. 

“Did you get caught? Did you get the map?” N asked, worried, messing with his fingers.

“Yeah, Yeah I’m okay and I got the map. Thanks to Volo releasing Pokemon.” Emmet said, his smile unwavering like normal. 

Soon Volo came back, with the pokeballs and putting the other two into their balls. He sighed and sat down. 

“Well that was a mess” Volo sighed

“And a success” Elesa pointed out. Everyone nodded as Emmet put the map on the table. 

“You guys were caught! You guys will probably be arrested for ‘stealing the map’” Volo said, rubbing his face as he leaned and looked at the map. 

“We were found way before the pokemon. We could call the friend to erase the footage of Emmet lockpicking, stealing the map and the pokemon.” N started, pointing at Elesa, which she took as to text her guard friend. 

“We can frame that it was during the time the door was open for the guard switch, for someone to get in, and as the cameras weren’t ‘working’ and the pokemon making noise and a mess it gave whoever it was a chance to steal the map” N finished as Elesa handed him her phone.

“Type that out, I can’t copy what you just said” Elesa sighed, as she stood up. 

“I have my bed clothes somewhere in your closet, I’m taking a shower and sleeping in your bed Emmet,” Elesa said as she started up the stairs. 

“Got it” Emmet replied, giving her a thumbs up. 

N finished the text because he turned Elesa’s phone off and set it down. “Let's see where we need to go tomorrow,” He said, as he looked at Ememt to open the map.

Emmet unrolled the map and sat there, holding it, as nothing showed up. They sat there for a while as nothing showed up. Even Elesa came down, grabbed her phone and went to sleep and nothing happened. 

“It must have been a fake. Things must have happened by now.” N stated, standing up and rubbing his eyes.

 “I’m sleeping on the chair. Emmet, can I use the sweatpants you gave to Volo to wear?” N asked, pointing at the pants on the chair.

“Sure, go ahead, but I think you’re right. It’s a fake.” Emmet sighed as he dropped the map. 

“Great, we could get arrested for a fake map. Lovely!” Volo complained as he flopped back on the couch. 

“I’m going to sleep, please turn the light off,” Volo asked as he rolled over to his side. Emmet got up and turned the lights off, kicking his shoes off he passed on the couch with N’s hat still on.

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“Alright, the map is a fake” Is how Ememt started his day out. What a lovely way to wake up, hearing Volo’s voice echo threw the house. He opened his eyes as N, Volo and Elesa were talking.

“What do you mean the map is a fake?” Elesa pressed on as Emmet groaned and sat up.

“It didn’t work last night, it didn’t do the thing of showing where the flute is” Emmet groaned out as he stood up and leaned over the map.

“Besides, in this better lighting and not being tired, the edges are burned! The map was never burned! The edges were messed up because of the rain, weather, and just being carried threw large amounts of terrain. Wear and tear basically.” Volo complained, pointing and slamming his hand on the paper.

“Okay, if that map is fake, then where is the real map?” Elesa asked, confused

“Good question, Emmet any ideas?” Volo asked

“No” Emmet sighed, before walking around to try and feel more alive.

“Alright, N any ideas? You were the king of team plasma, they must have told you something?” Volo asked, Emmet knew that they were running out of options.

“No… Team Plasma is gone and done with, so I am unable to ask them about it…it must be here in Unova,” N said, sighing

“Why here in Unova?” Elesa asked, “Couldn’t it be like anywhere else?”

“Well yes, however..there had to be a slip-up..however, everyone said that it was here…it will be our best bet to find it here,” N said, rolling the fake map up and tossing it over to the side.

“Okay. We look here. Could the champion have it?” Emmet asked, “It makes sense. The champion has a huge building. A room in there could hold the map.”

“You…you have a point Emmet” Volo said, pulling his phone out “How do you meet your champion?”

“Beat all of the gym leaders, get their badges, beat the Elite Four, fight Alder,” Elesa said, off the top of her head. It seemed like she told herself that a lot

“However… Hilda and Hilbert had to go through me first..you don’t need to worry about that…” N added, unnecessary but still somewhat helpful?

“Okay, well I’m not doing that. We need another way” Volo tapped his foot in anger and being upset.

“Okay. Any ideas?” Emmet asked as he looked over at Elesa.

“Um…I heard that he was having a get-together dance sort of thing, I said I couldn’t go so they won’t expect me there.” Elesa remembered

“Okay, when is that?” Volo asked

“Why were you unable to go?” Emmet asked, he was more confused about why she said she couldn’t go. She was normally free and this was probably before this trip to bring Ingo back.

“Well Volo, it’s this Sunday, and I said I wasn’t going because I just didn’t want to go to a dance-party-thing...” Elesa said, Emmet knew she wasn’t telling the whole story but that was for her to tell. He guessed.

“Okay, this Sunday…and they don’t know you're going? How the hell are we getting in?” Volo asked, sighed and sat down.
‘“His parties are out to the public. The gym leaders, Elite Four and others he invites. They go to this fancier place. There is better food and drinks. More about work, however. Ingo went once. I was verrrrrrry sick.” Emmet stated as Elesa nodded.

“We go down there sometimes to talk to everyone but most of the time we’re out of sight and it's more of a town party while the important people talk about their gyms, battle subways, pokemons and what they need to do” Elesa added on.

“Okay so basically we have to pretend to be normal people and sneak into the ball and then find and sneak into the library and steal the map?” Volo asked

Everyone nodded

“Okay let’s be real here, we all are pretty stand-outble. I mean you are a gym leader, a subway boss, and the king of the ex-team plasma. We don’t really blend in” Volo said

“Well, I’m good with making people look different. I have things for disguises for everyone” Elesa beamed before grabbing her keys for Emmet’s house and hers “I’ll be right back, I’m going to get the stuff for disguises!”

“Alright..I’ll make breakfast. Love the one eggo waffle, Emmet, however, I don’t think any of us had food for a minute…. So I’ll make some food,” N said, walking over to the kitchen, looking around as Ememt just sat back down

And that’s what happened Elesa was gone for a while, as everyone just relaxed. N made eggs and pancakes off of what was in the very much empty fridge. He’ll have to go get some more stuff for when Ingo comes home.

Emmet doesn’t want Ingo to be here with no food, starving and hungry…well if he was starving…Emmet would probably go to one of the restaurants and get him whatever he wants. Frankly, Emmet just missed Ingo. He wanted his damn brother back. He wanted Ingo back. So badly.

Emmet and Ingo were a duo. Anything and everything was together, School, home, work. Of course, they had fights with each other, where they change tracks before finally getting back on the same track. It was normal. Their fights were never that bad.

However, Ingo left to check the broken track after a small disagreement. It needed to be checked and fixed anyways and they both knew that their trains next to be on different tracks for the time. However, Ingo never came back from the track, leaving Ememt alone and now he’s in the past. Emmet didn’t and still doesn’t know what to do. Would even remember the fight? Does that even matter anymore?

Does Ingo blame him for what happened?

Emmet sighed as N brought him food and he ate. It was good, pancakes and eggs. Emmet was sure that N was magic because there was no way that he had enough food for pancakes and eggs. Emmet couldn’t even remember if he had anything to hand-make the batter?

When Elesa came back, she had bags and bags. It was like she was moving in, and frankly. If she was it wouldn’t change anything. He’ll just have to clean out the guest room for her. However, she dropped the bags down at the door, shut the door and sighed.

“Right, well I have makeup, normal suits, normal dresses, and ways to make you guy's hair, ahem Emmet and N ahem look more like a normal person's hair.”

“Wigs?” Emmet asked

“I made you food,” N said, at the same time that Emmet asked about wigs.

Elesa sighed before opening one of the bags, showing hair products and wigs. “Thanks, N, I’ll eat it in a minute”

Emmet walked over and started going threw the wigs. Him, Ingo and Elesa did a whole drag queen-inspired look, due to him and Ingo losing a bet(He was still verrrrry upset he didn’t like losing) with the other gym masters.

Emmet quite enjoyed the idea of wigs, his hair was impossible to style, so wigs were a pretty easy way after he found out about them. He never bought any but that didn’t mean he didn’t like them.

“I am taking the black one,” Emmet said, pulling it out from the masses.

“I thought you would have picked white to fit with your whole mofti,” Volo joked as Emmet rolled his eyes.

“Ha” Ememt replied placing the long-haired black on the table

“Right so N, pick a wig from hell, then before the ball, we need to flatten your hair to hell and back,” Elesa said, shaking the bag before heading into the kitchen and grabbing her food.

N nodded as he looked threw, grabbing a light pink one. “I think this is long enough to hide any of my green hair”

“Alright,” Elesa said, finishing the bite of food in her mouth. After N put the pink wig next to the black one on the table, Ememt put the bags and bags of wigs back into the bag and zipped it up.

“Next issue, our voices?” Volo pointed out, Emmet shrugged

“I can do sign language,” Emmet said, showing off some sign language, he just did a simple I am Emmet, I like winning

Elesa nodded “Same, but I’m better at reading it than signing it”

“Okay, so you two will just sign your way in conversations? Not weird or suspicious at all” Volo sighed, rubbing his head

“I can try deepening my voice? However, I don’t know how many people remember my voice…” N said, tapping his chin.

“As long as it sounds different and more natural, then it’ll be fine” Volo sighed before walking out of the house. Not telling anyone where he was going. The rest of them spend the day hanging around.

Soon Elesa stood up “Right, we’re going to need some food. We’ll be here for the next 3 days. So we need food for those days”

Emmet nodded and got up and grabbed his credit card. Luckily Volo didn’t steal his card so he’ll be fine. N decided he’ll go with them.

Walking around Unvona was something. In Nimbasa, the city was popular but wasn’t the biggest and best. That title goes to Castelia, however, Nimbasa was close up on second. It was a bit more calm and chill, and more homely?

Maybe it was Emmet’s view of this place. He didn’t know however it was a big city. It was big and he likes how it feels. He knows that Ingo was a fan of it well, the Ferris wheel being his favourite. Ingo and N had that in common at least.

They arrived at a store, grabbing a lot of frozen foods to store to eat. As well, N brought up getting trail mix and food like that. Everyone agreed which led to a lot of trail mix and m&m’s in their cart as well.

Elesa needed a travel bag, luckily Emmet has his trusty Joltik bag that he can take with him. So they also bought Elesa a travel bag, as it was kinda needed. Tote bags were great, but for travel? Elesa, Emmet and Ingo already knew that they weren’t the best idea. So added to the cart was a bag.

With everything ready, plus some gum as well as Emmet they checked out. Came out to around 40,000p and Emmet felt his soul die. That was so much money. Elesa patted his back “I’ll back you back for the bag”

Emmet sighed and shooked his head “I am Emmet. There is no need.”

Grabbing his bags he started heading out. Elesa and N followed behind him in a convention that Emmet ignored. The city was lovely and bright. And Emmet rather look and listen to what's going on. There was another group of people, a smaller crowd of people.

Emmet just ignored that until Elesa and N pointed it out

“Whats that group?” Elesa asked

“Seems like a gathering that Team plasma used to do” N shrugged, “Wanna check it out?”

“Sure” Elesa replied which then lead them over to the group.

The moment they walked over, N stopped in his tracks “That’s Team Plasma.”

“Great their back…” Elesa groaned before turning around “No need to hear their speech. Let's go”

However N just stood there, Emmet sighed and stood with N, he might as well listen to what they're saying. With them standing there, Elesa came back and crossed her arms.

“We know the fear you all feel! Someone broke into the museum! Someone stole important documents! Because of Pokemon! Which is why we need to get rid of catching pokemon! Because more things like this can happen! Banks! Ruins! Even Houses! Which is why we need to band together and get rid of keeping pokemon!” One of the team plasma grunts preaches loudly to the crowd.

Emmet could tell what he was trying to do. Strike fear into everyone. Emmet just rolled his eyes, before sighing.

“I am Emmet. We should leave. I wish to sleep.” Emmet said, in his monotone voice. Elesa nodded in agreement

“Yeah, besides they don’t know how to give up. It’s no use listening to the same speech over and over again. Come on N”

N nodded walking away with them, Getting back to the house, N flopped on the couch, with Emmet just sighing and putting everything away.

“I am Emmet. I will pact the bags for this trip.” Emmet threw Elesa’s new bag at her before heading upstairs and grabbing his joltik bag. Seeing all of the old pins on it. His smile grew.

Emmet and Ingo before and after they were subway bosses got a lot of train pins, from Gear Station and whenever their Uncle Drayen went to another region, they got train pins from said region. Ingo had a foam block for pins. Emmet got a joltik bag with pockets made to show pins off.

It reminded him of the times with Ingo, maybe it would bring them good luck when they go to get Ingo? It didn’t matter if they had good or bad luck. Emmet would push through and get Ingo back. He wasn’t allowing no for an answer.

Bringing the bag downstairs he starts grabbing the mass amount of trail mix and M&M's and putting them into baggies. Easy use and the baggies only hold too much so no one could clear a whole big trail mix bag on accident. They would have to go and dig for one of the tiny baggies.

It was a way to keep their food longer. Of course, they had a lot of trail mix, around 10 bags of it and around 5 bags of M&M's. However, Emmet might go back out and grab some more food to take. Trail Mix is good however it’ll get boring and everyone will want something different.

It would be good to be prepared.

After making all of the baggies, around 15 bags in total made around 80 little baggies. Which would give everyone 20 bags.. that's not a lot. He would need to get more food. Non-perishable food.

Emmet sighed, before standing up and walking out of the house. Emmet didn’t tell anyone where he was going. Maybe he could go out without running into Volo for a second time. He didn’t want another credit card stealing. However, that was wishful thinking. The team plasma gathering was gone. However, what was left was Volo.

Emmet sighed as Volo called his name, looking over at him. “Yes. I am Emmet.” Emmet said, with a bitter tone of voice, however, the bitterness was buried under his normal monotone.

“Hey, Emmet, where you going?” Volo asked, after catching up to him

“Getting for food for our trip,” Emmet said walking into the store again, grabbing a basket

“Well let me help. I’m the best at this.” Volo said, grabbing the basket out of Emmet’s hand. Walking forwards into the store and looking around.

Emmet sighed and followed behind. He had really no idea, he might as well let the man who has done this before, take charge.

As they went through the aisles Volo just strolled past, shoving some nicknacks in his pockets. Emmet rolled his eyes. He didn’t see anything that Volo was doing, he told himself. However, he knew that he wouldn’t be able to lie.

Soon they got to the aisle that Volo needed to get to. Filling up the basket will food and things. Emmet sighed as he knew he was going to be broke after all of this. He couldn’t even pick up another job during the whole finding his brother. As that would be impossible.

He might as email his government and say he's a trainer again. Doubt that would work, however. He sighed. He was going to be majorly broke doing this. He might as well live with it.

Volo filled the basket with a smile, “This should be all!”

Emmet nodded. He didn’t know if he should tell volo to put the things he pocketed in the basket however he decided against it. He’ll just figure out how to lie. Fast.

Emmet and Volo tag teamed scanning and bagging the food. Emmet also picked up some more baggies. After they finished the scanning, which took longer than they would have liked. Emmet was sure people were staring him down and breathing on his neck in anger for taking too long.

Emmet wasn’t a fan, he hated it. He felt like he was something wrong, which he guess he was. He stole and he is sitting around as another stealing was happening. Maybe this was Acreus judging him. Maybe it wanted Emmet dead because he knew about where his brother is.

Well, Emmet couldn’t blame Acreus he assumed, grabbing most of the bags for Volo they walked out, Emmet not showing any of his emotions on his face. Yet the spike of fear when they walked out of the store came and yet, no alarms, nothing big to notify them that Emmet just walked out of the store with someone who stole things.

A small sigh of relief washed over him. It was stupid. He was going to be stealing a lot more, during this trip to get Ingo back. However, it still didn’t make him upset and worried. He was a ‘rule follower’ albeit with his own rules.

Not stealing was however, to the downfall of himself rightnow, one of his rules. So now he’ll probably cause his own downfall. Emmet and Volo walked home, a deafing quiet fell over them.
Emmet opened the door, watching in and dropping the snacks down. Starting to bag them up again.

Emmet did that for most of the night, stopping once when they made the microwavable food. The pasta bowl was okay. He liked his homemade pasta however. Emmet worked until he was finished. Which was around 1am.

Standing up, he trudge his away over to the chair, which Volo stole. Emmet sighed, collapsing right infront of the couch. Where Elesa was asleep. Passing out, soon after.

Chapter Text

Emmet awoke due to Elesa stepping on him and yelping before apologizing. Emmet sighed and nodded before laying there. Elesa awoke everyone else, so all of the noise of everyone getting up and moving around kept Emmet from falling asleep again.

After most people moved away from the couch, Emmet pushed himself up. Elesa was calling Skyla and asked if she wanted to join them for breakfast. Emmet really didn’t know what breakfast stuff he had.

“Look, Skyla! It would be great, after this we’ll only be able to text until I get back! It’ll be fun!” Elesa said, trying to beg her girlfriend to go to breakfast

“I am unsure if we have breakfast food.” Emmet said, looking at Elesa

“Yeah, we’re going out to eat” Elesa smiled, sticking her tongue out. Emmet sighed

“I am Emmet. You pay”

“Yeah yeah, I’ll pay. So Skyla, please come! You just heard I’ll pay!” Elesa said, still begging Skyla to go.

Emmet looked at Volo and N, they were dividing the baggies that Emmet made last night into piles. Probably one pile for each person. Emmet sat on the counter, Elesa giving up and accepting not seeing Skyla, showing her with “i love you’s” and “I’ll miss you’s”

Emmet wished he was able to say “i love you” to Ingo again. Emmet yawned, cracking his neck before stretching his legs out on the counter. He was pretty tried, still. It hit Emmet that he hadn’t changed out of the clothes he’s been in and he didn’t think anyone else has.

Maybe he should? However really whos going to know? If you knew him from only the subway he wore the same thing, day in and day out. So it wouldn’t be that different. Emmet soon got off of the counter when Elesa ended the phone call.

Elesa sighed and stretched her body out.

“Right, well, Weird bag piles aside, we’re going out to breakfast!” Elesa smiled as she started towards the door. Emmet followed behind

“You’re paying, right?” N asked

“Yeah, of course! All of you, now come on! There's a cute cafe shop around here” Elesa pointed out.

Emmet and Volo looked at each other, warry from the events the happened two nights ago, even if the footage got erased, they were sure that N and Elesa would be questioned by the police thanks to getting caught. Honestly Emmet should have been more worry about going shopping with the two of them the day prior..

“What if you guys get questioned? You guys got lucky yesterday but what if today the police show up and take you two into custody, you were trespassing even if you were out before the map was stolen.” Volo pointed out what Emmet was thinking.

Emmet didn’t want to lose Elesa and N because they got arrested for tresspassing in a museum, that would mean it would only be Emmet and Volo going around the world to find this flute to call on Arceus and beg for Ingo back, which if Emmet was being truthful, wasn’t something he wanted to do without Elesa and with a complete stranger.

“Fair point, counter, your paraoid, besides I can talk my way out of anything, so dont worry, even if it does happen, I’ll save me and N with my smooth talking” Elesa smiled as she moved towards the door, slipping her sandals on

“Now come on or eat one sad eggo waffle” She called out before walking out of the house, causing Emmet to sigh and follow Elesa quickly, slipping his shoes on, he looked over at the other two who were still buried in small bags full of food. N quickly stood up, bags falling off of him as he went to leave too, leaving Volo alone for a second before he followed.

The day was honestly pretty nice, the sun felt nice of Emmet face as they walked outside, following Elesa as she walked with a purpose. Emmet hasn’t been to cafe with Elesa since Ingo’s disappearance, he’s been too out of it, unwilling to truely face the reality it would be just the two of them at the table, instead of three.

Crowds of people and pokemon littered the streets as people walked to and from other shops, their houses, the subway, or just wandering. Honestly it was pretty overstimulating however Emmet just took a deep breath and stared at the clouds as he followed Elesa to wherever she was taking them all.

N and Volo were behind him, they were having a conversation, yet Emmet wasn’t paying attention to whatever they were saying, it probably wasn’t important, and if it was, they would bring it up again, pretty simple.

Elesa stopped at this cute cafe it had a patio area and everything, it was a nice place and it didn’t seem to busy, Emmet followed as Elesa walked in, the other two stayed outside just talking

“Hey! We’re a party of 4 and I was wondering if we could sit on the patio?” Elesa asked the hostess and she nodded, leading the two of them out of a 4 seater and leaving menus out. Emmet hummed as he searched the menu for something to drink before landing on a tea, soon N and Volo joined them, sitting across from the other. Emmet had half a mind to ask what that was about, however it wasn’t his business he assumed.

“What are you guys thinking of ordering, because I’m eyeing this pancake challenge that up to 4 people can perticate in and was wondering…if yall would do it with me. It’s a 100 pancake challenge, so if we spilt it up, thats 25 pancakes each!” Elesa said, closing her menu and clapping her hands.

The other 3 stared at her blankly before shaking their heads. None of them wanted to down 25 pancakes, Emmet couldn’t even eat 2 eggos waffles without feeling full, no way he was going to eat 25 pancakes and the other two shared the look that they also couldn’t eat 25 pancakes

“Elesa..I can’t even eat 4 pancakes, no way am I eating 25” N said, holding her hand in a sarcastic apologetic manner, causing Elesa to flick his hand away

“You all suck, it would have been so fun!” Elesa sighs as she goes back to looking at the menu, decicing a back up dish. Honestly Emmet was sure that was the reason she wanted to come, was to attempt such a challege.

The waiter came over and asked about drinks, Emmet ordered a green tea, so did N, while Volo order a black coffee and Elesa ordered a lemonade. A simple order as Emmet started to look at the dishes.

There wasn’t anything that called to him, granted he also wasn’t that hungry..,Emmet sighed as he kept flipping threw the pages..he wanted eggs and toast and yet he always gets that, maybe he should spice it up? Searching he found a fruit bowl and toast meal. It sounded decent, he liked all of the fruit that they would serve with it and he had no issue with getting bread with it. So he deemed that would be his breakfast.

After a while, of the 4 of them sitting in silence, the waiter came back with drinks and took all of their orders, Emmet with fruit bowl and bread, N with an omlet, Volo with hashbrowns and eggs and Elesa with pancakes.

After the waiter left, Emmet sighed and decided he wanted a conversation to happen, “What should we do tomorrow?”

“Lets do a ferris wheel! I love the ferris wheel!” N smiled, he was clearly excited about such an idea and no one had an issue with going on the ferris wheel so again the group moved into silence. Honestly Emmet liked being outside, seeing everyone in Nimbasa wander, however he wished they stayed home, because then at least he could rewatch a train documentary.

They all sat there, either on phones or watching people walk around the whole of Nimbasa, seeing familiar faces, seeing people none of them even knew existed, it was fun to do while they waited for food.

The waiter came back and placed everything down, causing Emmet to snap away from staring at people walking around and actually pay attention to his food.

The toast was good, not dry, not stale, not wet, it was a good bread texture, a 8 out of 10, they didn’t mess up the bread. But the fruit…oh god the fruit Emmet was so disgusted with how it looked he didn’t even eat it.

They all looked soggy and like they were melting together. Fruit juice basically filled the bowl as Emmet tried to stab one of the of the pieces of fruit with a fork and it just..squished…Emmet stared at the gross fruit and sighed, decided that eating such a thing, was not worth his time or taste buds.

Emmet sat there waiting for everyone else to finish, drinking his green tea as he stared at people walking again. Emmet and Ingo never had lulls in conversations like this, they always bounced off of one another, it was bugging Emmet. It was bugging him a lot there wasn’t chatter right now, because normally, there would be, if Ingo was here. But he isn’t. And that just hurt Emmet again. Like a constant wound reopening every time he wakes up and every time he remembers his brother, his body ached and he feels like vomiting. He misses Ingo. It wasn’t fair, why was it Ingo? Why couldn’t it be him…or why couldn’t god erase his memories so it would be easier to deal with the lost of his other half…

Emmet rubbed his eyes as the others were finishing eating, and Elesa paid for the food, something Emmet was thankful for. After she paid they all stood up and went to leave. Emmet was still tired and just wanted to crash and watch a train documentary when he got home, he was probably just going to sleep in his room.

His body just needed a lot of rest, for whatever reason. Emmet yawned as they all walked back to his house. It was around 12pm to 1pm..so a midday nap before hanging out with everyone else was a good plan Emmet assumed as he got to his house. The walk back was faster, mainly because Emmet was ready to crash so he husted himself to get home faster. Emmet slipped his shoes off before going upstairs, getting changed and going to bed on his own bed

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Around 5pm Emmet awoke, yawning and rubbing his eyes, Emmet moved down stairs and sat next to Elesa as she, Volo and N were doing a card game. Emmet hung out with them for the rest of the night, playing cards as the TV ran in the background until 12am rolled around, in which Emmet promptly fell asleep against Elesa.

Chapter Text

When Emmet awoke it was around 10am, and the tv was playing a train documentary, with everyone gone and a note that read “getting things for a big dinner, as we’re almost about to leave!

Love Elesa!”

Emmet sighed as he turned off the tv and stretched. He opened his muffin from the gas station and started eating. He started to fix the kitchen, moving the bags of food away, and putting them in one of the boxes.

Grabbing masking tape and taping out the area where Emmet would be sitting on the counter as he was banned from making anything. Burning water was a breaking point for Ingo. So he sat on the counter, stopping Joltiks from getting in the food.

After clearing the kitchen, he decided he might as well clean it, knowing N he would have ideas and then people please to the others and the back and forth and back and forth. Elesa telling N to tell his idea and let them decide.

He doesn’t know how Volo would act, but he was sure Volo would act like Elesa. At least on that front.

So, he had time to clean the kitchen. So that's what he did, he watered the sponge, adding soap to the sponge and started washing the counter. His Eelektross came out of his pokeball, staring at the tap he didn’t turn off. Starting to struggle into the skin, Emmet laughed.

He left the sponge where he was. It wasn’t too bad so far, as he just started, and he pulled Eelektross away.

“Fish, Fish, come on! I’ll run a bath for you” Emmet said, smiling. His Eeletross was named Fish, as Ingo saw it and went

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“A fish pokemon? Emmet, you know how bad most of them are!” Ingo said, staring at Emmet and his new Tymano.

Emmet’s smile faltered, going into the best he can manage of a frown.

“An eel” Emmet corrected, crossing his arms, holding Tymano.

“Looks like a fish to me” Ingo shrugged, holding his Litwick.

“Says you with a candle”

That made Ingo gasp, gasp dramatically and like Emmet just told him someone awful. Emmet just stared, waiting for Ingo’s gasp to be finished

“My ‘candle’ will be a very pretty chandelier! She's also a ghost type! Yours is a water” Ingo fired back, making Emmet narrow his eyes at Ingo

“I am Emmet. Tymano is Electric.” Emmet corrected “Besides, yours right now is a candle”

“I don’t wanna hear it fish pokemon trainer”

Emmet rolled his eyes and walked into the kitchen and started using their Uncle Drayden
charger to give Tymano electricity. Making Ingo panic

“You're going to get us into trouble!” He ran into the kitchen, playing Litwick on a pile of paper.

Emmet waved him away “I am Emmet, Tymano will be fine. We will be fine”

“No! You might blow a fuse, Emmet!” Ingo worried as he tried to unplug what charger was plugged into the wall.

“Nonsense, Tymano isn’t that powerful” Emmet was pushing Ingo's hands away. Trying to keep what was plugged in, plugged in for Tymano to eat off of.

Then out of nowhere, Litwick started setting papers ablaze, as Ingo and Emmet turns around the moment they saw a bright light. Both of them now panicking and blaming each other for why Litwick set the papers aflame, they started trying to find cups or bowls to fill with water and toss onto the fire.

After Emmet and Ingo got a cup and a bowl filled with water, the lights went out, Ingo glared at Emmet as Emmet shrugged and smiled sheepishly.

They tossed the water onto the paper fire, finally ending the fire. But now they were in a dark house with a Litwick with violent intents apparently, and a Tymano who took too much energy. So upsettingly enough, they grabbed their starters and moved outside. Sitting down waiting for Uncle Drayden to fix what happened.

“Fish”

“Arsonist”

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The bath was already drawn and Eeletross was happily laying in it, for whatever reason. Emmet got back downstairs and went back to work cleaning the counters. Whenever finding a joltik, tossing them away to the living room.

It was calming. He had his music playing, however, most will find his music not calming but, it calmed him. Having most everything in the kitchen clean. He finished the counters and the stove. He moved the floor, sweeping and washing it.

He hated sweeping as it was annoying. Making small piles of dust and crumbs and sometimes joltiks, to sweep into a pan to toss in the trash. After picking out the joltiks from the piles, of course. No harm to the tiny passengers of the Joltik breeding train.

Emmet finished sweeping and started to mop the floor, to give it a shine if you will. Emmet sighed, it was an okay task. It was just wet and gross on his feet. However, after a while of cleaning, he finished the kitchen floor. Deciding that was it for the day, Emmet moved back to the couch, it was around 11:30am

He sighed and turned the t.v back on, playing a game while waiting for them to come back.

It took them another 30 minutes to arrive however when they did they had bags and bags of food and stuff. Emmet just stared, blinking before just looking back to his game.

They all moved in, setting stuff down, and unpacking. Elesa grabbed bowls, pots and pans. Preheated the oven and did some other things. Volo moved the small table in the kitchen to the middle of the floor, making Emmet regret cleaning the floor.

N and Volo moved most things to the table, shoving all of the bags that held everything into a cabinet.

Emmet walked over after pausing his game. Sitting down on the counter, in the tape-lined area, watching everything go down.

“Right, Morning Emmet, first of all, second of all, start handing me stuff. I need the noodles, a pan filled with water. I need the sour cream, and the cornbread stuff and the corn!” Elesa said, as N grabbed the pan and started filling it with water. Volo started placing the most sour cream he’s ever seen next to Elesa.

4 boxes of cornbread mix, 4 cans of normal corn and then 4 cans of creamed corn, 4 things of huge sour cream(they couldn’t have needed that much...) and a box of butter sticks.

With then milk, a box of noodles, 2 more boxes of butter, 2 package of chicken, 5 bottles of parmesan, 2 cloves of garlic, and 2 heads of broccoli left on the table. Emmet couldn’t even think what any of these would make together.

N finished filling the pan with water, and placing it on the stove, Elesa turned the burner on, grabbing the salt that Emmet has and dumped a lot of it into the water.

“Volo, find a cup, like the measuring cup!” Elesa said while waiting for the water to boil

Volo nodded as he started digging through the drawers. Emmet sighed, and stood up, making sure not to hit his head, while he walked on the counter. Nothing was in his pathway, luckly, everything was on the other side of the stove. So he was able to walk to the cabinet where the measuring cup was, and handing it to Elesa.

“Oh! Thanks, Emmet, forgot you were sitting there!” She laughed as she opened the sour cream, dumping the whole thing into the cup. It held up to 2 cups however the whole container filled the whole cup, Emmet sighed and shook his head.

“Oh, well we only needed two of these I guess!” Elesa said as she dropped the sour cream into the bowl. Grabbing another container, opening it and dropping it into the bowl as well.

“Well, maybe! If you listened to me, we would only have two!” Volo said, crossing his arms and rolling his eyes.

“My bad! I didn’t trust your off the top of your head calculations!” Elesa fired back rolling her eyes as N passed over heated-up butter from the microwave. She dumped it into the sour cream, grabbed the creamed corn and looked for the can opener.

Emmet opened a drawer and passed it to N who passed it to Elesa. Who then opened the cans and dumped the corn into the mix. All 4 cans of creamed corn. While Volo was stabbing holes into the normal corn cans to drain them.

Frankly, Emmet was worried that Volo was in the kitchen. Yes, he burned water, but at least he followed safety checks. And didn’t stab cans of corn to drain them. Frankly, he was worried for Volo’s safety more so.

However after the cans of corn were drained, Volo passed them over to Elesa who opened them and dumped them into the mix as well. Emmet couldn’t be the only one who thought that was too much corn.

Elesa started opening the boxes of cornbread mix and dumping them into the mix as well as N dumped the whole box of noodles into the pan as the water was boiling.

Elesa handed the mix of corn and sour cream to Volo with a whisk “Mix” was all she said before grabbing another pan and started to add the milk, butter, parmesan cheese, and garlic to a pan. Mixing it up and letting it cook? Form? Emmet was sure it was meant to be a sauce so he ignored it, and then Elesa grabbed another pan and started to season the chicken.

Emmet was sure that maybe, just maybe they should have planned the whole cooking process a bit better. The noodles cook faster than the chicken and probably whatever cornbread mix of a mess Volo is whisking together.

Which means the noodles would just be sitting there in hot water for a while…..besides it's only 12:30? Its not even dinner time? Emmet sighed and shook his head, knowing that this wasn’t going to turn out well.

Volo finished mixing everything and poured it into a pan, shoving that into the oven, which wasn’t even preheated yet? Set a timer for 5 hours and smiled.

“Right, everything is cooking now!” Volo said, with confidence

“I am Emmet. You should have started the noodles 10 minutes before the pan dish was done. Started the chicken around 30 to an hour before the pan dish was ready. Also, this is lunch now. Not dinner.” Emmet said, staring at the kitchen mess.

“Well, the cornbread casserole can be for dinner!” Volo snapped back, and Emmet just blinked at him.

“Uhhhh….I think there are joltiks in the noodle water???” N said, picking one of the now many in the noodles.

Emmet jumped off of the counter, almost slamming into Volo, and ran to the oven. He turned the burner off and took the water and noodles off of the stove so he can pick out the joltiks. He stuck his hand into this still very much so boiling water, grabbing two of the little pests, he turned on the tap water to freezing and placed them under it.

He grabbed two more and put them with the other two, and he grabbed the last one who was in there, sticking him also in the water.

“Ouch, my hand,” Emmet said, shaking it

“Uh, Yeah! Ouch, your hand?! That water was boiling Emmet!” Elesa yelled, grabbing Emmet’s hand to try and see how bad it was

“I performed safety checks for my joltiks” Emmet replied, staring at his hand

“Maybe perform it for yourself before the joltiks Emmet,” Elesa said, shaking her head.

Emmet shrugged as Volo had 3 more joltiks covered in the milk, and cheese sauce, tossing them into the sink as well

“Well, your joltiks messed up the chicken alfredo.” Volo shrugged, filling another bowl with the cold water and sticking the joltiks in that to have them wash and cool off.

“Emmet, I think you might need to go to the doctor to like, make sure your hand is fine?” Elesa said, dropping his hand and going to grab an ice pack and giving it to Emmet to hold onto.

“Probably” Emmet nodded

N sighed, turning the oven and stove off, taking out the cornbread casserole, and tossing it into the trash.

“Welp, uhhhh that was a mess?” N said, shrugging, as everyone else nodded.

“Before we go to the doctor, I need to grab Eeletross, he is in the bathtub,” Emmet said, heading up the stairs

Emmet opened the door, seeing Fish laying in the tub, and Emmet laughed a small bit, as he was too big for the tub.

“Right, Fish, come back,” Emmet said, holding out Fish’s pokeball with his non-burnt hand. Fish luckily returned to his pokeball and Emmet drained the tub, sighing before walking back downstairs where most everyone was waiting.

“Real smart idea to basically burn your hand right before going undercover,” Volo said, as Elesa hit his arm

“Shut it Volo, but yeah, kinda stupid, let's go,” Elesa said, as she opened the door, everyone piled out with Emmet being the last.

It was much quieter here as most people were hanging out in their houses after a long week at school or work. Of course, there are still some random people around the streets and some trainers here, of course. It was normal, he noted.

The group, after a long quiet walk reached the doctors, and walked in, looking at Nurse Joy, Elesa grabbed Emmet and dragged him to the front

“He stuck his hand in boiling water,” Elesa said as Emmet rolled his eyes

“I am Emmet. I was pulling joltiks out of hot water. There was a reason.” Emmet said, giving Elesa the ice pack.

“Well, come back here with me, and I’ll see what's wrong,” Nurse Joy said, as Emmet, Elesa, N and Volo followed.

Emmet sat on the bed as Nurse Joy checked his hand, Emmet's pain stopped after a couple of minutes, probably due to the ice pack, however with Nurse Jot grabbing and touching the burnt hand, Emmet couldn’t feel anything.

The only way he knew that Nurse Joy was touching his hand, was by him looking at it. Frankly, he didn’t know if that was normal at all. Against his better judgment, he asked, it was to perform all safety checks

“I can’t feel what you're doing,” Emmet said, pretty blunt and to the point however inside he was nervous

“Oh…um… that's not good, how hot was the water?” Nurse Joy asked, looking around

“It was at a rolling boil and was taken off the stove for around a couple seconds before Emmet stuck his hand in the water,” Elesa said, glaring at Emmet

“We were trying to cook dinner, the water was for noodles,” N said, getting slightly worried.

“Okay…yeah, Emmet you have a 3rd degree burn. I’ll need to clean it, wrap it, and give you antibiotics via needles” Nurse Joy stated as she went to go grab stuff to clean his wound

Emmet shook his head “No needle, can I take pills?”

“Well that's normally for smaller burns, however, I’ll allow it to happen as to bandage your burn, I’ll apply antibiotic ointment.” Nurse Joy said as she grabbed a wet towel, some soap, a health potion, a bottle of something and some bandages.

Emmet watched as Nurse Joy put some soap onto the wet towel, and patted the burn lightly, before reaching over to her cart of tools and grabbed tweezers. She started removing some of the skin around the area.

“What I’m doing right now is removing the dead skin, then I’ll drain the blisters around the burn area, you might want to look away for that part. Then I’ll apply some antibiotic ointment with a spray of the health potion, then I’ll wrap your hand.”

Nurse Joy stated as she was removing the skin, placing them into the trash can right next to her. Emmet was nervous over this, Elesa was on her phone, maybe letting Skyla know? Volo and N were doing a quiet thumb war, which from what was going on, was understandable.

“I will let you know, that you need a skin graft,” Nurse Joy said after what Emmet assumes is being done by removing his dead skin

“What's a skin graft?” Emmet asked, beating Elesa who looked up and seemed like she was about to ask as well.

“Well, a skin graft is a surgical procedure in which a piece of skin is transplanted from one area to another. It’ll only take 1 to 3 hours. However, from the size of the burn, you’ll need to stay overnight whenever you do it.” Nurse Joy stated such matter of factly.

Emmet looked at Elesa, and she shrugged, saying ‘your choice, you pick’

“I am Emmet, I’ll do it tomorrow,” Emmet said, as Nurse Joy hummed in acknowledgement before grabbing a needle.

“I do not like needles” Emmet stated as he saw the needle

“I need it to drain the blisters, just look away, it’ll be a small poke to the skin, and then I’ll drain. I’ll tell you when I drained all of the blisters” Nurse Joy said, as Emmet nodded and looked away.

Not having feelings came in handy as he couldn’t even tell if Nurse Joy was doing anything. Maybe it was also due to Elesa thinking it was funny to put on baby sensory videos. Which did keep his attention. That new knowledge would not leave this hospital room.

The room itself was fine, nothing was really out there. No posters, a weight measurer and a height measurer, and some chairs which Volo, N and Elesa sat on, with some drawers. He didn’t know what was in them and frankly, he didn’t care enough to know.

After just one baby sensory video was done, it was about 20 minutes long, Nurse Joy smiled

“I finished with the blisters, I’ll now add anti-biotics and the potion.” She said as she opened the bottle, grabbing a small amount of the ointment from the bottle and applying it to his hand.

Emmet nodded as he watched as she did it. She did it to what he seemed was light, not pressing down at all, maybe it was to make sure nothing does even more damaged? Emmet didn’t know how soon after she started she wiped her hands off on another clean towel before grabbing the potion. Giving a light spray over both sides of his hand.

Nurse Joy placed the bottle down and grabbed the bandages, and started wrapping it around his hand, wrapping it around his wrist and then moving up, not going up to the fingers. Wrapping the palm first a couple times over before taping down.

She then grabbed another type of bandage, gauze, if he remembered correctly from the safety meeting he and Ingo, attended while ago when they first became subway bosses. Nurse Joy wrapped the same area she just did. Giving it two wraps before taping it down.

The question of why she only wrapped the palm was answered when she started wrapping each finger, making sure that it was fully wrapped but not cutting the blood from reaching there. She did that for all of the fingers. Giving them around 4 good wrap-around, then moving back to the gauze, giving them two wraps and then taping it down.

“Right, so here,” Nurse Joy said, handing Emmet a bottle of pills, Anti-Biotics

“Take two tonight, I will let you know that during tomorrow's surgery you will be out, and we will need to put some IVs in you, so if it's okay with you, you’ll have one for anti-biotics and for electrolytes,” Nurse Joy said

Emmet nodded, “That's…okay” Nurse Joy nodded and smiled

“I will see you back here at 11am so we can be finished by 2pm so you’ll have much more time to rest.” Nurse Joy waved them out of the hospital and Emmet just sighed after they all got out.

“Damn, it's like 5pm,” Elesa said, looking at the time

“How the hell is it 5pm? It didn’t take 5 hours” Volo said, in shock and confusion

“It felt like 5 hours,” N said, shrugging

“Whatever, what do we do now? Dinner is ruined because of someone!” Volo said, staring at Emmet.

Emmet was just staring at his newly wrapped hand. He can’t feel anything anymore, how could this happen? Well, he could still feel things, just not on one hand. Emmet felt kinda sick.

“We could go on a Ferris wheel?” N suggested, Volo and Elesa shrugged

“Yeah that seems fun,” Elesa said, tapping Emmet’s shoulder “You open for a Ferris wheel?”

“...Yes,” Emmet said, looking up at Elesa

Elesa's stare lingers for a moment longer than normal, pity and worry in her eyes before looking away as N leads the group to the Ferris Wheel, while going to the Ferris wheel, N was going on about how Ferris wheels work and how they were made.

Emmet felt and heard only static how could he not. His hand has no feeling, and he has to go into surgery. It was nerve-racking. Everything right now was nerve-racking. If anything, he felt like he was about to throw up. That was the only feeling right he could place.

When they got to the Ferris Wheel they were told only two in each carriage. Everyone just stood there and looked at each other.

“Well, who wants to ride with who?’ Volo asked, N shrugged, same with Elesa, however, her eyes flickered over to Emmet in worry.

Emmet didn’t care enough who he rode with it. It didn’t affect him. Not as much as his hand.

“Well N and Elesa you guys are in front of me and Emmet so you two ride together and me and Emmet ride together,” Volo said, as Elesa and N nodded, getting onto one of the pods together and Emmet and Volo got onto another one.

“So Emmet, is everyone from Unova a Ferris Wheel fan like N?” Volo asked as a joke and Emmet just hummed, Volo sighed and just stared at Emmet.

“Trains?” Volo asked, trying to get Emmet's interest.

“Trains? What about them?” Emmet asked, looking back at Volo

“Anything?” Volo said, shrugging

“Well, did you know you know that one of the earliest sights of trains or at least a station like the building was in Sinnoh? We wanted to see it. However Ingo isn’t here, so I haven’t seen it yet.” Emmet replied, Volo leads to Volo lighting up

“I’ve seen those ruins! They are so pretty and a shock of what Hiusin people could make! Imagine making that? With the tools, they had back then? They didn’t even use pokemon!” Volo ranted, which in turn made Emmet curious.

The whole ride up until when they go to the top, which is when they stood up and stared out the window together. Seeing the sights of Unova, Nimbasa. Emmet pointed out Elesa’s gym, and Gear Station, some small stores and cafes that him and Ingo go to with Elesa and Skyla.

Volo pointed out some other buildings and said that they looked cool, and when they started heading down, they sat back down on the ‘chairs’ that the ride had. Going back to the history of trains and Volo talking about the ruins of the oldest ‘train station’ like building there is.

When the ride stopped, Emmet and Volo were still chatting about ruins and trains. Frankly, it was two different conversations at the same time. Elesa and N got off just a couple of seconds before them, N was talking about how the Ferris wheel itself works. Elesa seemed to be slightly interested in N’s rambling and talks about Ferris Wheels.

After Elesa saw them, they started to Emmet’s house. They had one more day, well more so two, as they have to wait for the night for their plan to start. For Emmet, one of those days will be taken by surgery. Not really what he wanted.

He stared at his bandaged hand. Grossed out by the idea. Grossed out about his hand. Grossed out about…needles.

“Hey guys, look! An ice cream shop! We should get something, it's better than nothing” Elesa said, pointing at the shop, everyone looked and nodded. Walking over and deciding what to buy.

“So can I get strawberry?” Elesa asked “Two scoops? Cone?” And the guy behind the counter nodded. Elesa always had confidence. Somehow.

Emmet was next up, “I am Emmet. One salted caramel. One mint chocolate chip. Bowl.” He was nervous and he was getting one scoop for Ingo, even if he knew the favour together would be weird. Emmet will deal with it.

N ordered next “Uhhh, um, one scoop of chocolate? Bowl?” N said, quite awkwardly. N was like the opposite of Elesa, he was nervous whenever he had to do something or ask for something. Emmet was slightly worried for him.

Volo was last and he was as simple and as boring as Emmet thought. “One scoop vanilla, bowl” Emmetr stared in pure worry. Not even like vanilla, with a cone. A bowl. A bowl. Emmet didn’t know how Volo existed.

Elesa paid, as they got their ice cream. Deciding to walk home instead of eating in. The walk to the house was much quieter as they were all eating. Emmet was a bit weirded out about the flavour mix however it wasn’t too bad.

When they arrived home, Emmet went to grab the joltiks out of the water bowl he made. Making sure that they are all okay, and spraying them with a potion he keeps on him. He sighed. Ingo was right about giving some of the little buggers away.

However, Emmet never wanted to because who would understand them as much as he understands them? Emmet sighs as he looks at his hand. Debating what to do.

Everyone is still talking about whatever or eating their ice cream. Emmet was already finished and he wasn’t really ready to start in basic conversation right now. So instead he climbed the stairs and opened his bedroom door. He hasn’t slept in his room for a while.

However, he knew that people downstairs won’t sleep until way later and he just wanted to get this night over with. So he closed his door, changed into his train jammies and flopped onto his bed. Releasing Fish and Battery, his Galvantula to sleep with him.

They crawled on the bed, laying on top of him as Emmet sighed and closed his eyes, falling asleep soon after.

Chapter Text

Emmet woke up early, due to Battery shocking him up. Emmet nudged Battery and Fish off of him, which Battery crawled off and Fish flopped down to the ground, making Emmet chuckle. 

Emmet got up after Battery and Fish got off of him, he put them back into their Pokeballs and changed into the outfit he would most likely have to change out of when he gets to the hospital. Emmet put on white sweatpants and the white turtleneck he wore when they stole the fake map. 

Really bringing up his criminal record with him. Emmet sighed as he walked out of his room. Elesa, N, and Volo were all on the couch, Elesa taking up most of it, in the middle. N was curled up to the right side, and Volo was taking up most of the left side. 

Emmet smiled before checking the clock. It says 9 am. So Emmet made himself food, ignoring his non-feeling hand, and stuck in a singular eggo waffle. As he waited, he pulled his phone out and started playing one of the many horrible mobile games. However, it was train related so Emmet downloaded it. 

Emmet stood there until the waffle was ready, grabbing it and eating it. After he finished it, he just hung around, sitting on a chair and texting Jackie, asking how the subway is.

Emmet

Good Morning Jackie! How is gear station?

Jackie - Depot Agent

It's okay! Got out of hand, but we handled it.

Emmet

That’s great! What happened?

Jackie - Depot Agent

Oh y'know, someone brought a banned Pokemon and then threw a fit when we said it was banned.

Emmet

Hm. What did you do?

Jackie - Depot Agent

We told them to either take back the banned Pokemon and leave as that was their last Pokemon or be banned from the subway in full. 

Emmet

Fair Punishment 

Jackie - Depot Agent

Oh yeah, trust me, They were screaming about how you and boss Ingo wouldn’t do that, me and Cloud just laughed to each other. I was meant to tell you about what happened when it happened but paperwork for banning something was first and then it slipped my mind!

Emmet

No worries Jackie, I'm glad you two handled it

Jackie - Depot Agent

Thank you, Boss! 

Emmet

You are welcome Jackie

Jackie - Depot Agent

OH! Boss! How has your break been?

Emmet

Well, I have to go to surgery today, nothing bad I’m fine. However, it’s been fine so far. On Monday I’m leaving Unova

Jackie - Depot Agent

SURGERY???? BOSS WHAT HAPPENED?? ARE YOU OKAY?? Also, what region?

Emmet

I am fine. I burnt my hand badly. So I need a skin graft. And I have no clue about the region. Elesa is keeping it hidden from me

Jackie - Depot Agent

Oh, I hope it goes well!! And take photos of where you go and send them to me!! I would love to show the others!

Emmet

Of course, I will send photos. And It should go well. If you wish, as I’ll have to stay overnight, you can visit around 3 pm, it should be over by then. 

Jackie - Depot Agent

Okay! I’ll tell the others so if they want to visit they can!

Emmet

Thank you, Jackie,

Jackie - Depot Agent

You’re welcome, Boss!

Emmet's smile became an actual smile as he closed his phone and stood up, and went to the small bookshelf that Emmet and Ingo both shared. Grabbing one of the many chapter books that they have, he started reading it. He wanted to read the book, so he was going to read as much as he could before going under and then picking right back up after he came back to consciousness. 

Emmet read, through Elesa, N, and Volo waking up, getting food, and getting ready for the day. Emmet only stopped when Elesa tapped him and said “It’s 10:30 am, you should start heading out, do you want me to go with you?”

Emmet stood up and shook his head “No thank you. However, you should visit around 3 pm when Jackie and the other depot agents will arrive.” 

Elesa hummed before nodding, clicking her smile, and winking “You better know we’ll be there!” 

Emmet's smile grew into another actual smile, before heading off. Slipping on his white flip-flops, he walked out. Heading for the hospital. Emmet was nervous. Of course, he was. However, he tried not to think about it. 

He’ll be out for a while. That's not scary. He tried to tell himself. It was like sleeping, but he had to. He managed to get to the hospital without a panic attack. The book was held in his hands, as he walked to the room. 

He was nervous. Everything felt tunnelled. He had to regulate his breathing. However, he didn’t know if he was doing it. His sight was blurry. His steps felt unstable. Felt like one wrong one, the floor or his body would collapse as he walked to the room. Nurse Joy spoke, he couldn’t understand. He was a wreck. He knew it. But did everyone else know it? 

He walked into the room, and put the book on the bedside table. As he laid down. The room was dark and bright shining lights into his eyes. Nurse Joy kept speaking, Emmet kinda just stared and nodded. 

With a mask going over his face, he soon blacked out. 

—

Emmet ran over to Uncle Drayen. Grabbing onto his legs and hugging him, hiding his face between his legs. 

Uncle Drayen was outside, out on his lawn as he was trying to make swings and things for Emmet, Ingo, and Elesa. Uncle Drayen tried to explain it as ‘You kids need to burn off energy’. However, Elesa, Emmet, and Ingo play dress-up and trains as a mash game. 

However, Ingo and Emmet wouldn’t disagree for a swing set. The one at school is always taken so they can’t play. So this is an upgrade. However, it did make the front of their house even more crowded and nature-like. Frankly, Uncle Drayen’s house was like a forest. Ingo called it that, as there were a lot of trees around, the grass is normally overgrown. With wildflowers, bushes, and Drayen’s dragons all around. 

Emmet hates how tall the grass feels, so he has to wear long pants. Ingo is also like him, hating how the grass feels so long pants as well. However, because of the new swing set, the grass was cut so that Uncle Drayen could make sure that everything is fine and won’t fall and break. 

Uncle Drayen patted his head and kneed down, looking at Emmet with a soft look that most people didn’t get. “Emmet, what's wrong? Where's Ingo?’ he asked, concerned for Emmet. 

Emmet just pointed over where he came from, and then pointed to his leg. Uncle Drayen sighed and picked up Emmet. Before heading from where Emmet came from. 

Emmet was holding onto Drayen’s shirt. Drayen was walking somewhat fast, as it wasn’t really normal for the Twins to be apart. Drayen was slightly worried. He soon got to where Ingo was. With a litwick and a burn on the side of his leg. It wasn’t anywhere near bad. 

Drayen sighed as he put Emmet down and kneeled down at Ingo’s side. 

“What happened, Ingo?” Drayen asked. Uncle Drayen was worried, as Ingo sniffled, he was crying and had big fat tears in his eyes.

“Me sniff and Emmet sniff wanted our own sniff pokemon. I found this litwick sniff and they burned me!” Ingo cried, grabbing onto Drayen, and Uncle Drayen hugged him. Emmet pulled out the last Pokeball he had. Emmet was trying for a Tymano. He didn’t catch one yet, and he only had one left. While Ingo was trying for a Drilbur. Running to a litwick, Ingo decided, that he wanted them instead. 

That drilbur will come later down the tracks. Well, Ingo was correct on that. Drayen wouldn’t let them Pokemon hunting for a while now. Emmet shook his head and readied his last Pokeball, he tossed it at the Litwick. Crossing his fingers it’d work. 

Uncle Drayen finally finished getting Ingo to stop crying. It took a minute of pleading and trying to make Ingo feel better. Even trains were not working. He was carrying Ingo. 

When he looked over at Emmet, Litwick was caught. Emmet jumped up and grabbed it. Rushing over to Ingo and Drayen, jumping up and down, before shoving the Pokeball into Ingo’s hands. 

Ingo stared at it, before stimming with the Pokeball

“You caught me the litwick!” Ingo said, his voice carrying as he yelled. Emmet just nodded, his smile grew bigger before jumping up and down. 

“EMMET! Thank you!” Ingo kicked his feet and stimmed with his hands. Uncle Drayen just smiled. 

“I am Emmet,” Emmet replied, still jumping.

“Alright my joltik 1 and 2, Let's go and fix up Ingo’s burn.” Drayen just laughed, before he started to walk back to the house, Emmet skipped behind Uncle Drayen as Ingo talked about Litwicks. 

—

Emmet and Ingo were out in the backyard, they were bigger this time, facing each other off in the grass. 

“Emmet, you are so going down!” Ingo yelled, before sending out his newest Pokemon, the Drilbur he wanted. 

Emmet shook his head, before sending out his newest Pokemon, Archen. 

Emmet’s smile grew wide as Ingo ordered his first attack. 

Emmet commanded a dodgem however they weren’t fast enough, as Drilbur’s attack came in and hit strong. 

Emmet panicked a tad bit, it was their first time actually battling, Ingo deemed Litwick to be too pretty to battle with. 

So Emmet decided that he would do the same for his tymano. 

Now here they are, doing their first Pokemon battle. With his Pokemon taking a pretty damaging hit, Emmet was panicking he knew moves. He knew what was strong, what was weak. He didn’t know what happened after they got hurt too much. 

Emmet knew better than to stop the battle. However, he was panicking over what will happen. He didn’t want to bury a Pokemon.

Emmet weakly ordered an attack, it was more like an ask at the moment. 

Archen came and hit Drilbur, landing a hit, however, Ingo didn’t seem worried at all.

Emmet braced himself for the next attack. 

When Ingo gave his attack command, Drilbur hit Archen and then he fell down.

Emmet screamed. Panicking and shaking Archen. Ingo also panicked, as that was the loudest he ever heard Emmet, ever. 

Ingo ran inside with Emmet following right behind.

“UNCLE DRAYEN!” Ingo cried, With Uncle Drayen stopping right before he hit the two boys

“What happened? I heard a scream!? Are you two okay? What happened?” Uncle Drayen asked nervously, kneeling down and checking both of the boys.

“We were battling! With Drilbur and Archen!” Ingo managed to get out, Emmet was crying and hugging Uncle Drayen.

“Archen fell” Emmet cried out, crying into Uncle Drayen’s shoulders. 

Drayen sighed, picking up Emmet and ruffling Ingo’s hair. “Archen is just fine. He fainted. It's normal. Don’t worry.” 

Drayen walked outside and set Emmet down. “Can I have your Pokeball?” He asked as Emmet nodded his head, handing it over to Uncle Drayen.

“Thank you,” Uncle Drayen said, putting Archen back into his Pokeball “Ingo, You should also put Drilbur into his Pokeball. I’m going to take you guys to the poke center”

Ingo nodded and called Drilbur back into his Pokeball. Uncle Drayen smiled before mentioning Emmet and Ingo to follow him. They followed Drayen until they reached the town's Pokecenter. 

“Alright, So, normally you would meet with a professor and they would teach you about pokecenters and Pokemon. However, because you’re younger than when professors come around to teach about Pokemon and pokecenters I will” Uncle Drayen started. 

Emmet and Ingo nodded, as they walked inside the pokecenter.

“So this is where you buy Pokeballs, potions, and treats for your Pokemon.” Uncle Drayen started, pointing at the shop that was in the pokecenter. 

Uncle Drayen walked over to the main part of the pokecenter, with a lady standing behind the counter

“And this is Nurse Joy, she heals up your Pokemon!” Uncle Drayen said, handing back Emmet’s Pokeball

“Go on and give her your Pokeballs” Uncle Drayen said, as Emmet and Ingo stood on their tippy toes and handed Nurse Joy their Pokeballs. She smiled at them, before putting them away

“They’ll be healed quickly!” Nurse Joy said, and before long, Nurse Joy handed back their Pokeballs

“All healed up” She smiled as Emmet released Archen, and there she was, running around, Emmet sighed and hugged Archen. 

When they had to head back home, Emmet decided to carry Archen.

—

Emmet watched as a group of bullies came up to Ingo. Emmet didn’t say anything. 

Emmet watched as they pushed him. Emmet didn’t say anything.

Emmet watched as they challenged Ingo to a Pokemon battle. Emmet didn’t say anything.

Emmet watched as Ingo agree. Emmet didn’t say anything. However, he knew, that Ingo would be beaten. 

Emmet didn’t step in. Emmet didn’t know if he could. Emmet also knew that if he joined in, at the same time as Ingo. They would still fail. 

So, Emmet sat there. He said nothing.

Emmet watched as Ingo stood strong against the bullies. Taking down one of their 4 Pokemon. Emmet's smile grew as he damaged the other two on the battlefield. Bring them closer and closer to falling.

However, Ingo’s drilbur and Litwick, who Ingo brought out to fight begrudgingly, weren’t able to beat them. Emmet sadly knew that. 

So, Emmet after Ingo failed and the bullies were laughing, grabbed a rock and hit one of them. Square in the face. Making the both of them turn to Emmet, hate in their eyes.

Emmet shared the same settlement as them. He held out one of his pokeball’s with a glare.

“Ohhh..frowny’s tough guy brother wants a part of this action? HA! Sure, we’ll give it to him?” Bully one teased, nudging Bully two who nodded and laughed. As they readied their Pokemon. 

Emmet let out Tymano. Their Pokemon was a Patrat and a Glameow. Emmet couldn’t tell what the other Pokemon they had, however, Emmet wasn’t going to give up.

So, Emmet commanded Tymano to bite them. Emmet normally goes for strategies instead of brute force. However, he knew that to win, brute force was needed. The bite hit the Patrat, which got one of the bullies out.

Emmet was thankful for Ingo and what he did. Taking out one and leaving two on one more hit. Emmet would have to thank Ingo and tell everyone that Ingo was the strongest of them,  for right now. 

The Glameow did a scratch, leaving Tymano slower, which Emmet sadly knew that it was a strong hit. However, one bite to Glameow knocked out Glameow.

Emmet sighed, he was sure he was going to win. At least he was for Ingo. 

Bully one growled as he brought back Glameow and let out Cubone. Leaving Emmet scared. 

Cubone was a fighting type. Tymano is electric and Archen is Rock/Flying. Tymano was sitting there in a somewhat sweet spot however Tymano was about to fall. One more hit and Tymano is over.

Archen is a double edge sword right now. Flying types are strong against Fighting types, and Fighting types are weak against Flying types, however, Archen is also rock. Rock types are weak to Fighting types, and Fighting types are strong against Rock types.

So, Emmet really didn’t know how this was going to play out. However, it was the bully's turn. Using headbutt, Tymano was out. 

Emmet took Tymano back, he was upset. Tymano didn’t deserve that. However, he had to rush forwards. Bringing out Archen, Emmet worried. 

However, after battling With Ingo with many wins as there were fails, Archen learned Pluck. Which was great. 

So, Emmet with full force, ordered Archen to use Pluck. Attacking Cubone, Emmet could tell it was strong. The bully rolled his eyes and ordered a headbutt. 

It hit Archen however Archen seemed mainly unaffected by it, Emmet ordered another pluck attack. Archen nodded and attacked Cubone, leaving Cubone close to being done for.

The bully was getting angry, and as he ordered another headbutt, it hit Archen again, however, Archen was still standing.

Emmet really didn’t know how he got this lucky, ordering another pluck. Archen hit Cubone, making the Pokemon fall. 

The bully screamed in anger. Making Emmet flinch and call back Archen. The bully marched up to Emmet and grabbed him. Even if they were in 5th grade, Emmet was pretty tiny, so was Ingo, and this bully was tall and big. 

Emmet kicked around, trying to be dropped. 

“How did you beat me ?!” The bully screamed in his face, scaring Emmet. Ingo ran off, probably to tell someone. However, Emmet wished he was still here.

Emmet started to try and sign what he wanted to say. 

“Oh yeah, forgot the freak can’t speak.” The bully slighted Emmet.

Emmet rolled his eyes before he saw Ingo dragging a teacher over. Emmet sighed as the teacher screamed and told the bully to put him down. 

The bully being scared, let go of Emmet, dropping Emmet onto the pavement. Emmet groaned as Ingo ran over to make sure Emmet was okay. Emmet just hugged Ingo. 

—

Emmet awoke, his mind feeling blurry and groggy. He laid there, blinking in a daze. 

Nurse Joy was right next to him. Emmet was able to tell that, and he was in a normal hospital room then the one he was in. He looked over, groggily asking “Done?” 

Nurse Joy nodded “Yes you are! Your hand is all patched up, however, you still won’t have feelings for a while in that hand” She let him know. He just nodded.

“What time?” He asked, asking for the time, however with his half-awake and working mind, he failed to finish what he wanted to ask. However, she understood him quite well. 

“It’s around 2:30. We finished around 2, like how I predicted, however, you were out for a bit longer.” Nurse Joy let him know, and he just nodded. 

“I’m going to check and make sure the IVs are working, so if you want, look away” Nurse Joy let him know, and he did just that. Looking away.

He wanted Ingo. Emmet wanted to hug Ingo, however even in his half-working brain, Ingo wasn’t here right now. 

Nurse Joy finished, and Emmet thought that it was quick. 

“Well, you are free for visitors now, so if you want to contact anyone, you are able to now,” She said, before leaving the room, leaving Emmet alone.

He grabbed the book he brought, and he kept reading, waiting for people to arrive. 

After a while, the door opened, and in came Jackie, Cloud, Pamses, Cameron, and Furze came in. With gifts and flowers. 

“Hey, Boss! Are you doing okay?” Jackie asked when they all came in, smiling weakly

“Yes, my hand is fine” He replied, closing his book. 

Everyone gave a sigh of relief. 

“Thats so good to hear! What even happened?” Cameron asked, and Emmet explained the joltiks, the badly planned dinner, and the boiling noodle water. 

Pamses just rolled their eyes “Boss, that was stupid, you know? Don’t do that again! We can’t have both of your hands not working!” 

Emmet sighed and nodded “I doubt we are doing anything like that for a while. Monday I’m leaving Unova” 

“Oooo!! Where will you be going, Boss?” Cloud asked as Emmet shrugged

“Oh, Elesa is keeping it a secret from me” He replied, as his co-workers slash friends talked among themselves

“Well, maybe! Ahola?” Furze asked as Pamses rolled his eyes again

“No! I think Johto!” Pamses said as Emmet laughed 

“I think Sinnoh would be pretty to visit!” Cloud said

“Nooo, you’re wrong! Galar is super pretty! I feel like Elesa would take you there!” Jackie said, smiling as Emmet laughed louder

“Oh! Hahaha! I doubt it” Emmet replied, laughing pretty hard

“Oh, where do you think you’ll go?” Cameron asked

“Well, I was thinking, perhaps Kalos, it seems like something Elesa likes,” Emmet said, wiping away a small tear that formed from laughing.

They all talked longer, with Emmet laughing a lot from the silly things they were saying, but soon they had to leave to make sure the station wasn’t in chaos with Josh, Hank, and Isadore being the only depot agents in the subway. 

Emmet was given a minute to breathe before Elesa, N, and Volo walked in. Elesa smiled and ran over

“Emmet! Sorry we are late, but they said your room was filled, and I was confused until I saw the depot agents!” Elesa said, hugging Emmet ad Emmet hugged back

“Well you’ll be here for the night unless we break you out,” Volo said, laughing to himself before N hit him

“Do you even have a tv? Volo asked, looking around

“No” Emmet replied before Elesa handed him her phone

“Here, we share every streaming service anyways,” Elesa said before she pulled up one of the chairs right next to him. 

Emmet smiled as he pulled up a train documentary to watch. Elesa sat there and watched with him. As Volo and N made small talk before the two headed out after a couple of hours. 

Elesa and Emmet were able to ask(beg) if Elesa could stay for the night, to which Nurse Joy agreed. So they stayed up watching stuff about trains before Emmet fell asleep.

Leaving Elesa to the same fate a couple of minutes later, laying her head on Emmet’s hospital bed, and Emmet had his fingers tangled in her hair.

Chapter Text

Emmet woke up, looking around the hospital room. He sighed when it was only him, Elesa gone. That worried Emmet. She was here when he fell asleep. Where was she.

If only Emmet didn’t have IV’s and other medical stuff on him, then he’d be able to walk and look for her. He’s worried after all.

The doctors always gave him a bad vibe bur he could never pin point why he felt distaste for being in a hospital.

Ingo was always there with him before and this time Elesa was with him but now she's gone and the thoughts of being truely all alone is creeping up on him like joltiks crawling over him whenever he holds the remote.

Emmet sighed as he tapped his fingers on the hand that wasn't burned, he tried to calm himself as the remembered he brought a book, he grabbed it and started to read it, trying to distract his thoughts from being truly alone. The ache from being alone was always there after Ingo disappeared but now, it was worse as he was in a quiet hospital room with no one else in there.

There was only so much a book could do to numb his mind as he laid on the bed, holding the book awkwardly thanks to burning his hand. Like an idiot, however it was for the best, for his joltiks, not him though.

Elesa walked back into the room, shocking Emmet, with Nurse Joy quickly following

“Good news Emmet, you’re allowed to leave, thanks to be doing all of the paper work! No need to thank me” Elesa boosted, her voice in a joking manner as Nurse Joy went to go remove the IVs

Emmet quickly looked away as he hated seeing needles, just in general. Elesa and Nurse Joy talked through out as Emmet just laid there, his thoughts being noisey as he realized the whole plan for sign language might be off…it seemed unwise after getting this skin graft to do a lot of motion with his hand.

“Okay, so, you need to keep it dressed in bandages for 3 to 4 weeks, you will need to spray a health potion on it every time you change the bandages, you need to do it 2 times a day,, and don’t do a lot of motions with your hand until its healed. Come back if you have any questions” Nurse Joy say, bandages the hand before letting Emmet and Elesa leave.

Emmet walked down the cursed wallway quiet with Elesa following him, they both didn’t really know what to say. Today was the day of the dance, and he as to bandage his hand a twice a day, this was not going well.

They stepped out of the hospital and Emmet just sighed loudly. “This is awful.”

“Oh so those are your first words this morning, great to know” Elesa laughed sorta before dragging Emmet off somewhere “Why is today so awful”

“I have messed up the plan Elesa…” Emmet groaned as they stopped at a small hole in the wall restaurant, Elesa gave him a look that she would pay, made him feel a bit better.

“I don’t think you have, its just a bit more difficult but it’s always been. Hey wait, what if you went as yourself? Talk to people and cause a distraction for us!” Elesa say as she started to talk to hostess, asking for a table of two and then the two of them being lead to a table.

“I suppose..but wouldn’t that be unfair to you and N?” Emmet asked looking at the menu seeing nothing he really wanted however he just came out of a surgery, so it would be wise to fill his engine with something

“How? Because me and N aren’t going as ourselves? I don’t think its that big of a deal, besides it’ll help us out” Elesa said, not even having her menu open. “Besides, I’m sure Alder would like to see you before we leave for…well wherever we go” Elesa said crossing her arms and leaning back in her chair.

Emmet was aware for a hot second that it could look like they were on a date before he remembered they both were public figures and that Elesa was public with her relationship Skylar…so that should not fear him.

“I…your right, besides it would be wise for me to talk to Alder, it's been awhile besides, he might something about the flute” Emmet sighed as a waiter came up to the two of them, Elesa ordered a iced tea while Emmet just got water.

“Yeah see! It's fine dude, Besides I'm not looking forwards to figuring out your sideburns things and how to hide them” Elesa laughed as Emmet chuckled, she was right, when they did drag it took like an hour or two of fighting to hide the damn side burns and a whole lot of gel. It was a miracle they stays hidden the whole time time.

“Besides, you are going to have to flatten all of N’s tangled mess of hair and hide that too. It would not be a fun experience if you had to do that as well as my hair” Emmet laughed

“Oh god…don’t remind me…thats going to be torture” Elesa groaned before putting her head on the table as Emmet again chucked at her misfortune

“The woes of being public figures” Emmet hummed as their drinks came, Emmet asked for a couple more minutes before either one ordered anything as Elesa was regretting every life decision that led her over to this point in her life.

“Uaghhhh okay okay, I can work with N’s hair if only you come over to help me with the the straightening. It’s going to take forever if its just me” Elesa said and Emmet hummed and nodded, she was right, it would take forever if it was just her, with how fluffy N’s hair and how much there is, its insane, a miracle N could manage it.

“I am Emmet. I can help with the hair. Can I ask, why you took me to a random breakfast restaurant?” Emmet asked, sipping his water

“Because I wanted one on one time and also I can’t stand Volo and I need to tell you I hate him without him around. He follows you like a lost puppy. It was a miracle he didn’t follow us to the hospital” Elesa complained before taking a glup of her tea.

“Dude hes like obsessed its insane! Besides don’t you think its a bit weird he saw your brother in a history book and immediately knew Ingo has a brother and went to find you?” Elesa asked, pointing at Emmet as he waved her hand away

“I’m aware you are untrusting of him. However I don’t think Volo knew, he has been with N the whole time. N must have saw Ingo was said they had to find me” Emmet reasoned

“I guess..still its weird, I never saw it in any of my books and yet, here comes Volo with it…its feels…like a set up! And he knows way too much about that damned map too! He just….just…uaghhh hes fishy! Like Fish!” Elesa threw her hands up before finishing the rest of her tea, fast. Emmet sighed and pushed his water over towards her.

“I am Emmet. I don’t think its that much of an issue? As long as I get Ingo back. I do not care what, or why, or how.” Emmet said as the server came back, and they both ordered eggs and toast

“I get that, I want Ingo back as well I just, feel like hes not the most trustworthy guy around” Elesa said, swirling Emmet’s glass of water softly.

“He most definitely isn’t the most trustworthy guy. He is quiet the opposite, I wouldn’t even trust him with a book, however he has more knowledge then any of us. We have to go with him if we want Ingo back.” Emmet stared at his bandaged hand..maybe he should have picked an easier dish as it was his dominate hand he burnt in the water.

“I’m sure we could find someone else….” Elesa hummed

“Someone who would be willing to tell us anything we want to know? Someone who would be willing to work for free? I doubt it, hes our best bet right now” Emmet sighed

“Damn! Why do you have to be right?” Elesa complained as they moved into a different conversation for the rest of the time. Talking about trains and Emmet judging Elesa’s poor joking skills about trains and his burnt hand.

Their food came out and Emmet just decided he would eat the toast with the broken yolk instead of fighting to eat the whites.

Conversation moved into a comfortable quiet as they both ate and then finished, Elesa paying, much to the blessing of Emmet’s bank account that he was sure would be drained after this whole ordeal

The walk back was a comfortable quiet as the two of them stopped to stare at flowers or whatever caught the attentions of the both of them, Elesa stopping at some clothing shops, mentioning how she would love to model those clothes, Emmet stopping at some train stores, saying how he has to get that for Ingo when he gets back.

It was a nice day, and Emmet knew the niceness of it would be destroyed the moment they have to work with N’s mess of a hair and get ready for the dance that was happening tonight.

They got home, and Elesa opened the door for Emmet and he jokingly bowed to her before walking inside to see Volo burning something and N trying to help with whatever they were making.

“Please step away from the burning pan” Emmet said, before walking into the kitchen and set it into the skin. “That’s a later issue” He sighed before going sitting on a chair waiting to help Elesa whenever she needs it

“Okay, so N, you, brush your hair first, then me and Emmet will tag team flattening and straightening it. Also, Volo, Emmet is going as himself to distract Alder so it should be easier for the rest of us to get the map.” Elesa threw a brush at N before moving to grab outfits for N and her to wear.

“Okay, thats a good idea…I mean I would assume Alder would have already been busy but hey, an extra safey step can’t hurt” Volo mumbled before walking away as N started to brush his hair, pulling at all the knots that riddle his hair.

Emmet decided to go upstairs and change into his subway gear, deciding to be a bit more noticeable for the dance, so more people could come up to him. It would give the others much more of a chance to get in and out without being noticed which is what they all want.

He came back downstairs to Volo and Elesa trying to pick out the best outfits to blend in and not stand out, Elesa is pushing much more extravagant outfits because thats how the parties always go and Volo is saying that less extravagant outfits would make it easier to move around and steal while N is still struggling with his hair. Emmet sighed, this was going to be a while.

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Hours later, that felt like years, they left the house, Emmet in his battle subway gear, N in the worse wig known to man kind, light pink and long and yet it looked so obvious to Emmet, all he could do is pray no one would pay too much attention.

After an half hour of fighting, did Elesa finally caved and picked out less extravagant outfits, much to the delight of Volo, so N was in a simple tux, so was Volo while Elesa was in a long green dress, one of the color she refuses to be seen in because it looks ugly no matter what. Volo didn’t do much to change how he looked however Elesa was in a blue wig, a color combination she despites however, doomed as she was, she did look totally different. So did N, which was luck in their books so off they went.

The walk was long as they all wished they could drive around. Emmet never learned because he was fine using trains to get around, same with Ingo and Elesa, N never learned because he was cut off from humanity for a hot minute, and Volo..Emmet didn’t know but he said he doesn’t have a licene so..stuck walking over to the Pokemon League building.

Elesa complained about the battle subway not actually going to the Pokemon league and Emmet just grumbled a poorly thought out response to her complaining. After almost two hours of walking and Emmet wishing he had a license, they got the Pokemon League. Emmet was set in first and the rest would wait for a while before going into the building as guests before sneaking off to get the map that they all prayed was in here.

“Ah Emmet! It is so nice to see you out of the Subway station, say I heard you were taking a year off?” Alder said as Emmet walked into the party, it was loud and there were a lot of bodies just talking and holding a drink or food.

“I am Emmet. You are sort of correct, I am taking half of a year off. Ingo.. disappearance…has messed with my mind. Elesa said she wanted to take me around the world to recharge myself.” Emmet responded, holding his non bandaged hand out, he needed to re-dress it before leaving but he forgot…it wouldn’t be too bad to do it later at night Emmet supposed.

“That is quiet nice of her! So the depot agents are running the subway?” Alder asked, and Emmet just nodded as Alder took his hand and shook it. This conversation was draining Emmet and being in this popular area, he really hoped the other 3 got in and are making haste to the map.

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Elesa, Volo and N got in just by waltzing in. Volo was so sure they would have to make a plan to sneak in or convince the guards and yet Elesa knew there was no need, especially with how Emmet just walked in after waving to the guards, as long as you looked like you belonged, you were let in. Which was just what Elesa did, she walked in and waved the other two over.

Volo knew what the map would look like and yet Elesa knew the way around and N knew most of the codes to this place, thanks to him being king of team plasma and taking over the building once.

It took another minute until the two boys finally got inside, probably thanks to Volo slowing them down, Elesa felt bad for N, having to stuck with such a guy. She started walking around the building with the two of them following close behind as she made her way to the archive

“What if the map isn’t here?” Volo asked, looking up and down the wall, trying to find any mention of Arceus in the halls.

“Well…then we’ll just have to find the flute without it” Elesa shrugged as she kept walking. Volo sputtered some random nosies in annoyance however Elesa didn’t care as they finally got the library.

Opening the unlock doors, not a soul was in this room, which everyone let out a sight before the closed the doors and started their search around to find the map.

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“Oh hello Alder” Emmet said, bumping into the champion once more, after their more surface level convertastion finished they parted ways, Emmet went around talking to the other gym leaders and other people who attended the event. His Uncle, Drayen wasn’t there, he has stopped doing social stuff after Ingo disappeared, Emmet understood without a doubt he raised the two of them. Emmet was completely destroyed, it would make sense that Drayen would be too

“Oh, Emmet hello again!” Alder said with a smile, Emmet couldn’t imagine being a host for parties, having to put on a real smile and interact with everyone. It gave Emmet shudders, a nightmare for him. “Do you need anything?”

“Yes, I was wondering perhaps, if you know about this flute? It is called Arceus Flute! I have heard it can call Arceus Fand he would grant any wish in the world, I believe you understand why I would want to find this flute” Emmet said, holding onto the brim of hat unsure on what to do. This was the smartest thing to do, especially if the map was here, Alder must have an idea if he went through the library at all.

“Ah, yes I can understand why you would wish to find it, however I hate to tell you this but I have no clue where it could be. I wish you all the luck in finding it though, you are free to check the library here! Take anything, just bring it back please” Alder said and Emmet nodded, heading over the library. Clearly Alder had no care for whatever is in there, so either he trusts Emmet or the map is not in there.

Emmet was really hoping for the former then the latter. Walking through the halls he nodded and waved to people walking pass him. This was going much more smother then he would have thought this going, maybe Alder was too busy to care, or he forgot about the map. Emmet could only hope as he entered the library to see Volo and Elesa fighting, not with pokemon, no no that would be too safe, with fists and teeth. Elesa has Volo pinned out and ripping at his hair and punching the shit out of Volo as Volo is trying to bite and hit Elesa.

Emmet stood there in shock before turning to search for the map himself, Elesa can handle herself. That he was sure of. Now could Volo? Only Arceus would know at this point. Emmet searched high and low, before accidentally stumbling upon a hidden door. He stood there unsure if he should call for anyone but Volo and Elesa were busy and he had no clue where N was, so he shrugged and went into the room, it was a tiny opening he had to squeeze and crawl through.

On the other side, Emmet felt like Arceus himself blessed him with the fact there was the map, just displayed with no additional security, probably because no one was meant to find this hidden room. Emmet, without a a second thought walked over to it, grabbed it, rolled it up and shoved it into his coat, before crawling his way out of the tiny hole of a doorway.

The fact it was this easy, shocked him. Emmet sighed before he went to go find a random book about the flute to play it off like thats what he was taking to Alder. Shockingly that was taking longer then finding the map. Emmet looked up and down the whole place, running into N before they both decided to look for a book while Volo and Elesa were still fighting and arguing and bickering like two children.

It took a good hour before Emmet found a book that relates somewhat to the flute, it was more about Arceus however. Emmet sighed before walking over to the two fighting. “I got the map, I am leaving, see you at home” before walking off.

Emmet had no interest in stopping Elesa from fighting Volo, actually he really didn’t want too. Once Elesa and some random girl got into a huge physical fight and Ingo went to stop Elesa from hurting the girl too bad, well Ingo too a fist to the face and a huge bite mark on his arm.

That has persuaded Emmet to never ever stop Elesa from a fight, he was not willing to be the next victim of her outbrusts. Emmet walked the hallways with the book in hand, looking for Alder to show him the book and thank him for letting him borrow the book.

Emmet felt wrong lying to such a kind man however, Emmet needed his brother back more then he cared about his own morals so…he kind of had too. Stepping back onto the party floor, that is normally the battle ground, Emmet searched for Alder to thank him and then bid him farwell.

Emmet walked around, bumping into people, housing small conversations before luckly finding Alder at the very end of the floor, he seemed very tired, good enough for Emmet.

“Alder! Thank you verrrrry much for allowing me to borrow a book! I will return it whenever I get back to Unova. I am off, goodbye!” Emmet said, bowing quickly before moving to turn away, not forcing the already tired Alder another conversation with him.

A small ‘Bye Emmet’ came from Alder, as Emmet waved without turning back, off to go do a two hours of walking, again..Emmet almost decided he would just steal someone’s car. But again, he had no license and he also didn’t want to get charged with grand theft auto so..off he went.

It was uneventful, he didn’t hear any fighting or anyone around him. It was just Emmet alone with his thoughts, which honestly was an awful thing. His mind tormented him with old memories of him and his brother.

Tormented him with the knowledge that his brother has been gone for 4 months, 4 months of memories they could have had, will never happen. Memories of how they caught their pokemon together, memories of them battling each other and other people, memories them finally getting jobs at the subway station.

All came out from the corners of his mind as he treaded the path back to Nimbasa, maybe if he was lucky he could catch a bus, the only non Ingo thought that came into his head, a break from the constant thoughts.

Emmet sighed and rubbed his face, he was so close to getting Ingo back, all he had to do was find the flute and play it so Arceus could come down and bring his brother back from hiusi. A very easy and simple plan.

He kept walking as he finally reach one of the cities around the pokemon league building. Deciding to wait for a bus to take him back to Nimbasa or close.

After 30 minutes of waiting, he heard N and Elesa talking, Emmet turned to look and Volo was following close behind before Elesa saw Emmet, running over and hugging him

“Oh good your not dead! What are you doing out here? Waiting for us?” Elesa asked as she sat down sighing

“Nope. Not dead. Waiting for the bus, actually. Hoping one will take me to Nimbasa or close, I do not want to walk that walk again” Emmet said shaking his head. Elese nodded and laughed

“Oh yeah I get that! Smart thinking Emmet, a bus should be coming shortly…maybe..how long have you been waiting?”

“About thirty minutes”

“Oh…one should come soon then!” Elesa said stretching out and leaning against Emmet as N sat next to her, causing Volo to stand.

Volo looked awful, thanks to Elesa beating the ever loving shit out of him. Emmet actually felt a bit bad for the poor guy, his hair that was normally in a bad bun was fully down and all out of sorts, thanks to Elesa tugging and ripping at it. He really didnt want to know what the fight was about. Volo’s tux was even messed up, tie was out of place and the blazer was unbuttoned during the fight. It didn’t help that he has a black eye, Elesa did a number and he was glad he wasn’t in the middle of their issue.

“You got the map, right?” Volo asked, crossing his arms and leaning against the pole that was next to the bench

“Yup! In my coat pocket!” Emmet said, nodding. He was glad that the nightmare of not having his brother was almost over, as a bus pulled up, they walked on and asked to go to Nimbasa or the closest they could get. The driver nodded and took them to Nimbasa as they all sat quietly, them all seeming to be tired over what happened.

Getting dropped off the in the middle of Nimbasa city, the four of them walked back to Emmet and Ingo’s house, Emmet and Elesa climbing the stairs to go crash in Emmet and Ingo’s room, Emmet took Ingo’s bed while Elesa took Emmet’s bed, she removed the wig and just collapsed, falling asleep almost immediately, Emmet up the map and the book on the side table before doing the same, falling onto Ingo’s bed and just going to bed without a care that his shoes were on and that he was still in his subway gear, or that he didn’t change the bandage, that can all happen when he awakes.

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Emmet awoke around noon, thanks to getting home around 1am, his body was absolutely crushed, his legs were sore and so were his arms for fitting into such a small room that he did in the Pokemon League building to get the stupid map.

Emmet sighed as he grabbed his turtle neck, and leggings he wore when he stole the fake map and ran himself a hot bath, honestly Emmet just realized when he looked in the mirror he was still in his clothes from last night, this seems to be a repeating thing, where he forgets to change into his own pjs, maybe it would be pointless to pack to whatever region he would go too. It seemed pointless here.

Emmet stared at himself in the mirror, dreading staring at his body for too long, it reminded him he is human. An odd thing to have to remember but being called a Zoroark who is coping your brother all of your life can do odd things to your brain. Emmet found it easier to agree with what they said. It made sense as he was less emotional then Ingo, and most of his reaction and motions were called alien to others, and it hurt less if he agreed.

Emmet sighed as checked the water temperature, wanting to drop such a thought, the water was hot enough for Emmet to slip in without freezing, which honestly was good enough, normally he loved burning hot baths but he didn’t want to wait especially because he hasn’t took a bath in a couple of days at this point.

He stared at his bandaged hand and cursed himself, he forgot to change his dressing and put a health poition on the graphed skin…this was going to be awful to remember, especially during the travels. Emmet huffed ashe removed the bandages, it was odd, he couldn’t feel anything on that hand, is that how Ingo felt for a couple days after getting burned but Litwit?

Luckly that burn was not as serious as his burn, if it was Emmet would have been more freaked out then he already was. Emmet let out a sigh as he started to scrub away all of the dirt, grim and sweat that stuck to his skin. Normally he would take a bath every other day, switch days with Ingo, it was just part of their routine, but with Ingo gone, it threw Emmet into a loop, especially with Emmet crashing out in the office in the subway instead of going home some days.

So his normal routine with Ingo was changed dramatically and now, with N and Volo and Elesa all staying at his house and them trying to find the map and this flute. However now with the map, they can find the flute and then get Ingo back, his world was about to turn to normal, which Emmet was happy about, as he started to wash his hair.

A knock on the door came and broke Emmet from his thoughts, he turned to look at the door, confused on who would be knocked, normally Elesa just barged in and he doubted Volo or N would be up here.

“I am Emmet, I am in here, what do you need?” he called out, as he took a cup of water to rinse his hair out of the soap suds, he was almost done anyways so it would be fine if they waited for another minute or too.

“Hey Emmet, how much longer are you going to take? Volo is losing his mind because he can’t check himself if the map is real or a fake” N spoke through the door, Emmet hummed and nodded at such a thing. Honestly Emmet couldn’t blame Volo, Emmet did sleep until noon and then decide to take a bath, Volo is probably stressing out a lot.

“Give me 5 minutes, I’ll be down shortly” Emmet replied, making sure all the suds of soap were out of his hair before draining the tub, grabbing a towel to dry himself off. He was careful with his left hand before drying the rest of his body and hair off. Whenever he his hair was wet was the only time that his side burns weren’t sticking out straight and actually were flat with his hair.

They weren’t really side burns, as they weren’t connected to his face, however no one knew what to call the square shape of their hair so, Emmet and Ingo got used to just saying side burns, it was close enough anyways, however they do move in the wind and is more so just an odd way their hair dries and is shaped.

Back when they were teenagers Ingo did everything he could to change his hair style, washing his hair differently, tying his hair back while it dries, even cutting it, however it never worked, his hair fluffed back up to the side burns. Though it was weird whenever Ingo had his hair cut, it was unnatural and freaked Emmet out for a while. Sometimes he still has nightmares over that time.

Emmet quickly got dressed in the turtle neck and leggings, before searching for bandages and a health potion he knows they have. Finding both under the sink, Emmet started to apply the health potion, he didn’t want to use all of the potions in the house, most of them were used for the joltiks or their own pokemon, so that would mean he has to go out and buy himself some more, plus more bandages, Emmet sighed, he was going to be in the negatives at this point.

He wrapped his hand up, Luckly, he and Ingo, paid attention to the safety video, which covered wrapping hands with bandages incase a passenger got injured, every depot agent had to learn too, whenever they are hiring they make sure to pay attention to who was watching the video and who wasn’t, and if they didn’t pay attention, they didn’t get fired. It was a very just hiring method the twins decided.

Emmet hummed as he finished the wrapping, it wasn’t too tight but no dust or dirt was going to be able to irate the skin. Emmet walked out of the bathroom, throwing the towel into a basket along with his subway gear, before heading downstairs, he went to go get the map, but clearly N, or Volo or Elesa already grabbed it and took it down, so that wasn’t an issue.

Emmet walked down the stairs as Volo was busy talking to N in a hush hush manner as Elesa was glaring at Volo, pissed off and annoyed at him even doing such a thing.

“Good morning Elesa!” Emmet said as he got to the bottom of the stairs and walked towards her, deciding not to deal with whatever N and Volo had going on. It seemed pretty private if they wee whispering it from Elesa, so it was best not to get into their issues honestly.

“Emmet hey! Are you ready to find the flute?” Elesa asked, seeming excited for the mission, Emmet didn’t blame her, he was verrrry excited, he would get to see his brother once more after the whole thing ended. He really missed Ingo, more then he can say.

“Verrrry ready! If it wasn’t one in the morning, I would have opened the map when we got home!” Emmet spoke, he would have tried the map if it wasn’t one am, however he was incredability tired and Elesa was too, no way was he going to force Elesa up to watch the map.

“Morning Emmet, the map is on the table! Now the map is very weird, you have to be thinking about your wish, to get your brother back, as you open the map, so then the map can show were the flute is!” Volo said, finally parting from the side conversation with N, pointing on the table and talking with a smile on his face. A smile Emmet was sure it would be deemed creepy by others.

“Okay” Emmet huffed as he thought about wanting to get his brother back as he opened the map. It was a stupid requirment that honestly made no sense, why couldn’t the map just show where the flute was? Why all of the stupid, having a wish, thing was needed, Emmet doubted he would ever know with how secretive Volo is.

Luckly for Emmet the map stared to show modern day region placements and plus 3 marks..which confused Emmet, how could a flute be in three different placements? Maybe Emmet was reading the map wrong but he also highly doubted it. It wouldn’t make sense for the map to show anything else? Unless its showing were Arcues and Ingo is? The only real option other then poderning on what the marks meant was to ask Volo.

“Volo, why are there three marks?” Emmet asked, pointing at one of the regions with a mark, Alola.

“Oh! Glad you asked, you see the flute is split into three pieces, like how normal flutes are whenever in a case. So we have to find all three places and assemble it! Then play it in Sinnoh to call on Arceus!” Volo explained, grabbing the map off of the table and looking at it, he looked like a child on christmas who got the gift he wanted.

Emmet stared blankly. No way it was spilt into three, Volo never said that at all. They had to go to three different regions, too find a flute piece that Emmet doubted would be out in the open, and then Sinnoh, possibly fight Arcues, and then get back to Unova under 6 months. There was no possible way.

“You never said anything about the flute being spilt up in three.” Emmet pointed out as Volo kept examining the map, probably just shocked it worked, it was most definitely hidden and stuffed away in the League without anyone knowing for years so Volo never got a chance until now to look at it.

“Oh…whoops? Its spilt up into three!” Volo shrugged before finally putting the map down infront of everyone once more

“So very unluckily the flute pieces are all around the world instead of being close together..one is in Alola, one is in Galar-... and one is in Kanto.” Volo said, pointing at the map, he got interrupted by the other three when he said Galar, that region sucked.

“Are you serious? Galar? That place? Isn’t it always raining?” Elesa said, dread filling her voice as she sinks into the couch

“Didn’t they also try and take over Unova once?” N asked, a bit confused and a bit concerned, Emmet and Elesa just turned to stare at him

“Never? what are you think about?” Elesa asked and N just shrugged before leaned back into the couch.

“Okay, Galar sucks. Want to do Alola, Galar and then Kanto? Have one good region then go to a bad region and then go to another good region?” Emmet asked, looking at the map, it might be counter productive though, as from Alola you’d have to fly over Unova, and then to get from Galar to Kanto you would have to fly over Unova again..however Emmet really didn’t want to go to Galar first, or last, or at all.

“Good plan honestly, besides Alola has such a nice climate and temperature, plus the beaches and the sun! It would be great to get a tan and relax on the beach for a day or two after we get the flute piece, I mean we aren’t really on a tight schedule, having a couple days in each region to relax and enjoy local culture isn’t a bad plan!” Elesa said, she sounded really happy and pumped for Alola, which Emmet didn’t blame her, it looked like a nice region, hes never left Unova however.

“I don’t mind rest days, I need to make it seem like I am taking a break” Emmet hummed softly nodding along with Elesa’s plan

“Yeah…maybe we don’t have to stay long in Galar though…that place gives me the shivers” N hummed as Elesa and Emmet nodded

“Yeah…Galar is awful” Elesa and Emmet spoke at the same time, Elesa nodding like she was just told awful news.

“I don’t understand the Galar hate, but if thats the plan, then lets do that, you two should pack, me and N have everything we need in my bags, and I’ll buy the tickets” Volo said, standing up and clapping his hands, like he did something.

Emmet nodded however and stood up, he didn’t have any beach clothes however it would be wise to pack some extra clothes for Galar, Hoenn and Sinnoh as they weren’t coming back to Unova after they got Ingo. Emmet just supposed he would have to buy some clothes in Alola.

“I’ll get to packing, good luck Elesa” Emmet said as he walked back up to his bedroom, watching Elesa wave him off as she left his house, most likely going to pack her stuff at her house, even if she has left stuff at their house, it was not enough to go too four different regions, without stopping or buying a lot of new clothes, which Elesa didn’t want to do, especially if she had a lot of cute outfits thanks to her being a model, she would want to wear.

Emmet grabbed one of his spare subway uniforms, one of ingo’s spare uniforms, a couple different pair of pants and shirts as well and then the incredibly thin jacket he would probably wear in Alola.

It wasn’t a lot but honestly Emmet didnt need a lot of clothes, just enough to make it through a week at most, which what he packed, minus Ingo’s spare uniform, can make him through a whole week no issu, besides he needed to have some room for what hes going to get at Alola to handle the heat.

There wasn’t much to do, he has the clothes all laid out and he knew Elesa took the bag that costed him a fortune to go pack her stuff in it so he had to go dig out one of the old suitcases their Uncle lended them.

Searching the bedroom, he had no luck, the suitcases would probably be in a closet or in the guest room, so off he went, he checked the hallway closet and nothing was in there, if his smile could turn to a frown, it would have, before Emmet turned around and went towards the guest room at the end of the hall.

Opening the guest room he searched under the bed, finding nothing other then an old plastic box Elesa shoved under the bed, clearly expecting to use the room more then she does, when they first got the house, it was a three bedroom so Ingo and Emmet could have their own rooms and a model train room however night one Emmet couldn’t sleep alone in the guest room and Ingo couldn’t sleep alone in the master room, and so they stayed up all night moving Emmet’s bed into the Master’s room and decided the new vacant bedroom would be a guest room, mainly for Elesa.

However whenever she comes over she either crashes on the couch, in one of their beds along with one of the twins or on the floor. Emmet forgets about the guest room most of the with how little he ever goes in it. Seeing the suitcase not in plainsight or under the bed he opened the closet in the room and found what he was looking for a small suitcase that can carry everything he had. He smiled, finally getting somewhere, finally going to get his brother back.

He can’t help but count it down in his mind, very soon his brother will be back in his life and everything will go back to normal and he would never have to part with his brother again. A smile fell on his face he grabbed the suitcase and dragged it back to his room, Quickly and compactly folding everything into the suitcase, there was still more then enough room to get stuff for the depot agents as well after getting new clothes for Alola.

One more day, and then Alola, being so much closer to getting his brother then he was even a week ago. This was going smoothly, maybe too smoothly and yet Emmet couldn’t seem to complain.

Chapter Text

2 am. Two in the goddamn morning was when Emmet and Elesa was forced awake by Volo. Elesa came back later in the night with her bags packed and Skyla came over too to say and bye and hang out for a little bit before she went back to her home. 

Volo mentioned he got the tickets, not the time the plane was leaving. However everyone assumed Volo was a normal person and wouldn’t book a crazy early flight. Unfortunately, Emmet and Elesa were dead wrong about such a thought. A loud banging knock came before Volo swung the door open

“Get up! Flight in 2 hours! We gotta get to the airport in an hour, come on!” Volo said, insanely chripper for the fact its 2 in the morning. The two electric users just stared at each other and back at Volo like he was insane. Which he is. Emmet just decided

“Was this the only flight available?” Elesa asked confused and in a still tired voice as she pushed herself off of the bed, not expecting to be up at such an early time.

“No, but we gotta get there fast, think about poor Ingo, every second we waste, is a second he could get mauled!” Volo said cheerfully, before leaving the room, leaving Elesa standing in shock and Emmet sitting in shock. What an insane thing to even say about Ingo, no way he would ever. 

Besides Volo has never been this pushy before, about leaving to and getting the train moving. Sure he was livid the the museum map was fake but he was able to wait until the party to go and steal it. Which then he didn’t even do so it new flip in his personality threw Emmet for a loop. 

He was shocked all things considered, he never showed such a pasion for anything in the very limited time Emmet has known him. Its only really been 8 days that Emmet has known the guy, however normally Emmet has a feel for a person fully, Volo keeps surprising him. Emmet is unsure it its a good thing or not.

“Is that man fucking serious?” Elesa asked, staring at Emmet who then just shrugged in response. Elesa rolled her eyes and moved herself into the master bathroom “Ohhhh count your days Volo…count your days.” 

“Speaking of you hate for Volo. Why did you two fight during the party?” Emmet asked, finally deciding he wanted for that. It would be wise to know what happened, just incase. Plus it would be funny to tell Ingo once he gets back. 

“Oh..yeah…that, forgot most of the reason. He was being annoying and acting like i should know more then I do and that i know then I do at the same time. It annoyed the crap out of me Emmet. Mentioned something about Ingo and mentioned something about you in the same breath, I punched him and kept hitting him.” Elesa said shrugging as she brushed her out from her bed head hair. Emmet sighed, she was leaving something out, he knew it. She would never forget any insult against any of them. 

Once she kicked an old classmate out of her gym and when questioned, she told him that he called Emmet a zoroark and called Emmet and Ingo the freak twins and asked her why she hung out with those weirdos when she was so much better then them. It was nice of her to stand up for them but this felt out of character for her. Emmet wasn’t one to push buttons he sighed as he opened his suitcase, grabbing the most beachy outfit he owns, a thin button up and leggings. 

He walked over and closed the door, thanks to Volo apparently being unable to close a door when he leaves a room. “Elesa, I am changing out of my pajamas, don’t be shocked.” Emmet spoke as he took the top of his nightwear off, it wasn’t white for once, it was a yellow matching sweater and pant set he got with Ingo once for as a secret santa gift from the depot agents. Ingo’s were in purple though. His bare chest showed his scars he got from a surgery he and Ingo got when they were freshly 18, thanks to Uncle Drayen.

Emmet put on the button up, normally kept unbutton so it doesn’t take twice as long to put on. Emmet’s biggest pet peeve is how close all the buttons are. Its a nice texture of fabric but god, why would they make the buttons so close and have there be so many. Theres no reason for it at all. 

Elesa walked out of the bathroom and searched through Emmet’s closet, most of her stuff was shoved in there, for whatever reason. Probably because whenever she sleeps over, she crashed in Emmet’s bed along with him. She grabbed a tank top and shorts she kept around and walked back into the bathroom. 

Not even an hello. Emmet was debating asking her if she hated him as a joke but the bathroom door shut. Emmet just shrugged as he finished buttoning his shirt and then took his pants off before putting on his leggings. He wasn’t going to take the sweater pants combo around the world with him however. It felt like a lot especially with these last couple of days he just has been passing out in his normal clothes. 

Elesa walked out the bathroom and threw her pajamas in Emmet’s open suitcase, smiling as she opened the bedroom door and left. Emmet rolled his eyes before quickly folding her stuff and zipping the suitcase back up. He checked the pokemon he had on him. 

Durant, Galvantula, Eelektross, Archeops, Boldore and Escavalier. Okay, good, he has all of his pokemon. Ingo’s were all sitting neatly on the bedside table where Ingo left them, on the day he disappeared. Emmet sometimes took one or two of them so they don’t get rusty from not battling however it was hard to do sometimes. Thinking about how Ingo might never use them again. Emmet debated for a minute before sighing and grabbing all of Ingo pokeballs. 

Garboder, Klinklang, Excadrill, Haxrus, Gurdurr and Chandelure. Okay, everyone was there. A small sigh of relief before Emmet grabbed his suitcase and walked out of his and Ingo’s bedroom. In just 6 months, he’ll see Ingo again, the house won’t be empty, he woudln’t be dreading going to his house after work, he wouldn’t avoid going home so much he sleeps around the subway. His life is going to be normal. For once after Ingo’s disappearance. No one can stop his train now. 

Emmet shut the door before going downstairs, everyone else was busy, apparently the bags of food Emmet bought couldn’t go on the plane. So that was a waste of money. So now N was having to remake his bag because most of it was the little food baggys.

“Sorry Em” Elesa said, yawning, she was still a bit tired, Emmet didn’t blame her. He was too. 

“Its okay. We can stop at the subway station. I can leave the bags for passengers if they are hungry. I just need to find a big enough box at the station…” Emmet hummed, trying to think what he could even have in the subway that would hold that many bags

“Or..you can text your fill in to grab the bags before they go into work…mainly because I dont want to have to put them all back into bag” N sighed, finally zipping up his bag after removing every bag of food he had. 

“..Good idea, Jackie knows where the key to the house is anyways. So I’ll let them know” Emmet said, pulling his phone out before sending a quick text about the bags of food. He doubted Jackie would read it. Its two in the morning anyways.

Buzz

Emmet checked his phone and Jackie immedmity replied. Flooring Emmet for a second, what are they doing up at this hour, this is not wise for a subway boss?

Emmet

This is Emmet. There are plastic bags of food at my house. Trailmix with M&Ms. I was going to take them to Alola and other regions however the plane doesn’t allow outside food on it. So before work if you wanted to stop by with a big bag or box and take all of the tiny bags for all of the passengers that would be great. Thank you. Key is under the Litwick statue if you forgot.

Jackie - Depot Agent

Okay! I’ll head over before work, thanks for letting me know! Enjoy Alola!

Emmet

Jackie what are you doing up at this hour? This is verrrrrry unwise for Subway Bosses, even temporary ones. This is also just verrrrrry unwise for depot agents! Go to bed Jackie.

Emmet was left on read and he rolled his eyes. Emmet prayed this was a one time thing and that Jackie has been getting proper rest every night. If none, that was very concerning and something Emmet should make a safety meeting about when he gets back. Or maybe on the flight? He shook his head, no way Emmet wanted to host a impromptu meeting on a plane while hes running on three hours of sleep. 

“You got it figured out?” N asked and Emmet nodded.

“Great, lets go, we got places to be and a flute to find” Volo said, grabbing his bag he had at the start, briskly walking out of the house. Causing the other three too share looks between each other, even N seems weirded out about how uncharacteristically Volo was acting. 

A soft shrug came from N before he followed Volo out of the house, causing Emmet and Elesa too follow suit quickly after.

Volo was far ahead of any of them, making Emmet feel a bit uneasy about everything. Why was Volo acting like this. He’s seemed much more chill and this was just a past time. Emmet shook his head, lifting the litwick statue that Skyla got Ingo along time ago, and locking the door to his house. Placing the key back and putting the statue back to normal. 

Next time he came back to this house, Ingo would be right along with him. Just 6 months. That’s fine. 

-

After a long walk to the bus station because Volo skipped over the closer one on accident and didn’t want to turn around, and then a long bus ride, and then a long check in at the airport and waiting period, because they got there so incredabillity early, around an hour early, they boarded. 

Emmet sat next to Elesa and N and Volo sat next to each other, Volo booked the middle seats on the plane, the ones that were in pairs instead of in threes. Emmet honestly was confused on why the plane was even made like this. Two seats in the middle and 3 seats on the side. Emmet was so sure this was an unsafe way to run a plane.  

But Emmet couldn’t say much, he was always opposed to planes. Trains, busses and walking were much better in Emmet’s opinion. Maybe he was biased but the ground was so much better then in the air. Humans werent meant to be this high up, if they were, they would have wings and fly. Even then, Emmet would still choose trains. 

A tap on his shoulder made him look over at Elesa, who was staring at him with concerned eyes. 

“Emmet, you are death gripping your legs right now, are you alright?” Elesa asked with care and a bit of a joking tone in her voice. Emmet nodded, not much to say other then hes scared of flying  because he never flew before. Which would be embarrassing to say as a subway boss. 

“I am Emmet. I am fine.” Emmet nodded as he took a deep breath. Besides, Zoroarks don’t have feelings. A line he was too familiar with. 

“Okay, well I’m going to sleep, you should try to get some rest” Elesa said, before putting her head on his shoulder. It was probably more comfortable then the awful plane chairs he was leaning into.

His battle subway has better seats and a seating system that made more sense, and was also, on the ground. Very important to mention. The ground is much better then the air. Maybe Elesa was right, he should try to get some sleep. His unresting anger about planes could wait until hes out of one. 

Besides only having 3 hours of sleep was not treating Emmet well, so before the plane took off, Emmet just closed his eyes, laying his head on Elesa and going to sleep. 

-

Early in the morning. Emmet was surrounded by his joltiks as he was getting everything ready downstairs before him and Ingo has to go to the subway. Two eggos, one from Emmet and one for Ingo were being made and he kept trying to keep the joltiks from leaning against the hot toaster.

Grabbing them by the handfuls and tossing them on the couch, hoping they would scurried away, back to the basement or the high corners that neither Emmet and Ingo could reach to do cleaning. Most did, some hung around the couch and living room table but that wasn’t too big of an issue, as long as they were trying to touch hot surfaces, Emmet was fine. 

The basement was mostly full of joltiks, it was a place undisturbed by Emmet and Ingo most of the time, now that Emmet had Shocking, his Galvantula, with the skill he needed. But at the time he bread all the joltiks and galvantula’s, and finally had Shocking he had way to many joltiks, and galvantulas to try to release them out into the wild without causing an ecological destruction. A very bad thing. 

So now the basement is full of spider pokemon and Emmet cares very much for. A shocking thing, before he got Shocking, he got Ticket, his shinny Joltik so it took a long long time. Emmet hummed as the toaster dinged, grabbing the waffles and putting them on plates, he called out for Ingo. 

“Ingo! Breakfast is finished, hurry up, the joltiks are going to lay on yours” Emmet joked, pushing the joltiks who were trying to lay on both waffles away. The fur was awful, even worse then normal fur in your mouth, thanks to the shocking nature of the little spiders, their fur had traces so when in your mouth, you get shocked. It is an awful feeling. 

Emmet took a pause. Normally Ingo would have called down, if not came downstairs. Emmet shook his head, Ingo probably didn’t hear him. It was odd, but nothing to concerning, Ingo was probably caught up in something and tuned the world out. He did that often during paperwork. 

“Ingo? Breakfast!” Emmet tried once more, actually walking over to the steps and calling up them, instead of calling from the kitchen. Hoping to get more of a reaction from Ingo. 

Nothing. Odd. Very odd. 

Emmet sighed as he walked upstairs, he was probably very busy and was seriously tunning the world out. It was odd for Ingo to be that busy while getting ready, but maybe his hair wasn’t working with his hat today. 

Normally Ingo slicks his hair back besides the sideburns parts and slicks Emmet’s hair back for him on somedays. Emmet didn’t care if his hair was messy and could be shown from under his hat. So maybe he was focused on that.

Leaving the eggos to get covered in joltik fur, Emmet walked up the stairs, and opened the bedroom door. Emmet took a step back.

He couldn’t place why he did but he looked all over the room, and bathroom, Ingo wasn’t in there. That was wrong, Ingo had to be in this room, the door never opened after Emmet closed it, leaving for the kitchen, leaving Ingo alone in their room. The windows weren’t open and all of his pokemon sat neatly on the bedside table. 

Emmet couldn’t place his finger on it but it was so incredibly odd. His body felt heavy as his head felt light. 

Emmet turned around and left the room, maybe Emmet accidentally tuned the sound of the door opening. He’ll just check all the other rooms upstairs, its fine. 

Emmet opened the door to the hallway bathroom, no one in there.

Emmet opened the door to the model train room, no one in there.

Emmet opened the door to the guest room, no one in there. He even checked the closet in the quest room. Nothing.

Emmet walked back and opened the hallway cloest, no one. 

That’s not possible. Not at all, not in this reality, his brother couldn’t just disappear, maybe he ignored the doors opening but he would have noticed if his brother walked downstairs, which he didn’t.

In a panic, Emmet rushed downstairs, searching the living room and kitchen, as if Emmet wasn’t downstairs, The only place he could think of, where else Ingo could be, even if it was impossible for Emmet to know that he went down there. 

The basement. 

Emmet rushed over to the stairs, and opened the door to the basement, rushing down the stairs, he looked at all of the spiders in the room, no Ingo. 

No Ingo in the house.

That wasn’t right. That couldn’t be right.

“Ingo?” Emmet called in a shaky voice, waiting for a reply that he never got. Emmet rushed up the stairs and called out again in the living room and kitchen.

“Ingo? Where are you?” Emmet asked, looking around the living room, careful not to step on any of the joltiks that littered the floor. 

His mind was in a tunnel, rushing over to the stairs and almost sprinting up the stairs, he ran into the bedroom, in fear.

Emmet checked under the beds, no one, he checked the closets, no one. Emmet breaths started to speed up as his brother was gone. How? Thats not possible. 

“Ingo? Ingo come out. This isn’t funny.” Emmet cried in a last ditch effort to call out for his brother. 

His brother, who didn’t reply. 

His brother who wasn’t even in the house.

Emmet grabbed his phone, almost dropping it from how much his hands were shaking. Emmet dialed Elesa, praying Ingo told her something about this. Even if it was out of character for Ingo to even do something like this, or say hidden while Emmet was panicking.

He just hoped this was a stupid prank. 

“Hey Emmet, oh hold on, Hey guys, new day, new challegeners, lets make sure they have fun! Okay, hey Emmet, what are you calling me for?” Elesa asked, clearly she just got to ther gym.

“I…I cant find Ingo..” Emmet spoke, having to take deep breaths to try and calm himself. It didn’t have any effect. 

“What? What do you mean you can’t find Ingo?” Elesa asked, as Emmet’s legs trembled from panic as he walked the halls again, checking to see if Ingo randomly showed up.

“I can’t find him. He was in our room. He isn’t. No window is opened, I never heard the door open, he never went downstairs. It’s like he disappeared..” Emmet let out a shaking breath, walking down the stairs, holding onto the railing for dear life as he tried to stop the tears in his eyes.

“..Someone can’t just…dissapear..but its not like Ingo to even…do something like this” Elesa muttered as Emmet sat down on the final step of the stairs. His body trembling to much for him to even try to move.

“Okay..okay..I’m coming over, hold on” Elesa sighed as Emmet heard her footsteps echo from the phone. Emmet took a shaky breath and put his phone down as he held his head in his hands.

This was unlike Ingo. This was unlike anything he would have ever expected from the world.

His brother, just, disappearing? Not normal at all. Verrrry not normal. 

Emmet felt sick over such a thing, as he sat on the stairs, unable to think of anything other then Ingo.

How could his brother just…Disappear? It didn’t make any logical sense. People didnt just disappear. 

None of their pokemon could make others disappear. None of Ingo’s pokemon were gone.

There wasn’t a sound of a struggle either.

Did Ingo want to leave?

Did Emmet make Ingo want disappear?

No, no, Ingo would have brought up what Emmet did wrong then..right? 

Emmet’s breathing got quicker as the door to his house was opened, Elesa standing in the door way concern riddled her face. Emmet stared up at her as tears he didn’t realize were there, ran down his face.

“Emmet..” Elesa muttered as she closed to the door and sat next to him. Emmet latched onto her as he cried into her shoulder, unable to do anything else, parazlyed by the sadness and worry that his brother was gone.

Ingo was gone, and Emmet couldn’t do anything to change it.

-

Emmet awoke, sitting up straight in the seat on the airplane. He felt tear tracks running down his face as Elesa groggy sat up.

Right, she was leaning against him, maybe such a violent reaction wasn’t nessacry.. 

“Em? Are we landing?” Elesa asked, yawning, sitting back in her seat normally, clearly too tired to notice the tears marks, which Emmet quickly wiped away.

“I am Emmet. I am unsure. Sorry for awaking you” Emmet said, leaning back into the plastic seat that was awful to sit on. It was a bumpy plastic too. Awful awful seats.

The subway trains used to be fabric but it costed too much to keep cleaning and replacing thanks to the pokemon fights and people spilling stuff or throwing up or for other reasons so they, sadly, had to switch over to the smooth plastic chairs as they were much easier to clean and didn’t get destroyed thanks to a patrat. 

Again, why Emmet liked trains more then planes, the seats. The seats suck, they couldn’t even use fabric? Or a smooth plastic, why the worse plastic known to man kind to sit on. Awful awful designs. 

A buzz came from the overhead speaker from the captain “Hello all travelers, we are now descending into Alola’s Akala island!” 

“Oh, I guess we are landing” Emmet hummed as Elesa rubbed her eyes and nodded, she looked completely wrecked, Emmet was also sure he looked wrecked too. 

“Its going to take 30 minutes…my head is killing me, I wish we got on a later flight” Elesa complained as Emmet nodded. 

-

The plane landed and now Emmet and the rest where at the baggage pick up and Emmet couldn’t have been more happy to be on the ground, walking on solid ground and not sitting against the worse material ever, bumpy plastic. Still, Emmet’s biggest pet peeve. He will never know peace until that type of plastic is outlawed for seats. 

Elesa’s bag came first and she grabbed it, quickly fishing the mirror out and fixing her hair. While walking to the baggage pick up she complained about how she knows her hair is messy and if a fan saw her like this she would have to end her career. Emmet didn’t think it was that serious but he also didn’t want pictures of him not in his subway uniform.

N’s bag came back next and he grabbed it, it was the lightest bag as most of the stuff he thought he needed to bring, Emmet felt kind of bad, but N told him it didn’t matter and he didn’t need a lot. 

Emmet and Volo’s bag came together at the end, causing both of them to be slightly annoyed that they had to wait that long. Emmet grabbed his suitcase and Volo grabbed his travelling bag.

“Did any of us book a hotel?” N asked as they all turned to look at Volo who just smiled

“Not to my knowledge, but we won’t need a hotel until we get the flute!” Volo walked away as Elesa glared at Volo 

“We need a place for bags and for planning, don’t you know the map didn’t show us directly were the flute is? We have to make a plan.” Elesa shot back, following Volo quickly, N and Emmet stared at the other before following the two of them. 

“Lets just go to a cafe or a library, we don’t need a hotel for planning” Volo hummed as they left the airport, the Alola sun blazing hot and hurting Emmet’s eyes, he groaned as he covered his eyes. 

Emmet was pretty sure he forgot his hat and only packed the two jackets as he was planning to wear his hat on the plane…Emmet cursed himself for just remembering. 

“I don’t trust those places, this something criminal we are doing. Privacy is the best bet. Plus we need to put our bags down. I’ll pay for this hotel but we seriously need one” Elesa hissed out, muttering the word criminal as she pulled her phone out and started calling a hotel. Causing everyone to pause on a empty sidewalk.

This was going to be a long day Emmet felt it as he checked his phone that read 9:13am.