"Daddy?" Amber asked, as she peeked into his office. He sat with his back facing her, staring out of the window. His chair quickly swiveled as she called to him.

"Yes Amber?" He replied.

He was not stroking his Persian like usual. Instead, Amber recognized the Pokemon in his lap as Ash’s Pikachu. A small red dot was on its head, and it was squeaking happily, yet Amber noticed the glazed over look in his eyes…

She shook away the guilt again, remembering that she had gotten her best friend back.

"Um…hi Daddy! Do you have another assignment for me?"

Giovanni blinked, "Another assignment?"

Amber blinked back, "Yeah…you know…another Pokemon to capture?"

Giovanni shook his head and leaned over his desk, "You want to do another mission?"

Amber nodded, "Yes, please!"

His eyes were full of surprise, "But I thought you never wanted to do this! You never seemed happy about…this."

Amber gazed down at Renga, who was now resting in her arms, "I thought…that for that Pikachu I got Renga…maybe…"

Her father smiled, "Aha…I see…"

Blushing, Amber went on, "So I can have what mission?"

He bent over the desk, "Amber, I can’t guarantee a great reward everytime."

Her face fell…but he went on…

"But I’ll try…for you."

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Amber read the piece of paper her father had handed her. On it was her next mission.

"Steal the legendary Pokemon Mew from the research lab its being held in." She read to Renga, who was sitting on her shoulder.

Renga’s worried face portrayed Ambers.

"Yikes, sounds hard doesn’t it deary?" Amber stroked Renga’s head and continued to read the mission statement.

"It seems like the lab is in Pallet Town…looks like we’ll need to fly there."

At this Renga leaped off Amber’s shoulder and sailed over to a nearby trash can. She turned to smile at her owner.

"Wow…" Amber mumbled… "But I don’t think you could fly us there…we’ll need to go back to the house. Get Zapdos to take us."

Renga sailed back to her shoulder and purred in agreement, then paced across both of her shoulders. She was worried.

Amber laughed, "Don’t worry silly! We’ll be fine!" But she was feigning it.

Her Pokemon obviously could tell, as she didn’t stop pacing.

Now Amber sighed, "Well…I hope we’ll be fine…"

Renga nuzzled her lightly.

"Long as Ash didn’t snitch on us."

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Amber walked down the path to her mansion, as Renga trotted alongside her. Both were worried.

"No need to be worried, Renga," Amber tried to say, "It’s just our house!"

But she couldn’t believe it. She got a weird feeling about going to the house…something bad was going to happen.

"What? Like all my Pokemon would attack me?" She asked, "No of course not…"

She mumbled different theories of what this feeling could mean, turning each of them down, until…

"Oh my God! I was talking to myself!" She exclaims.

"What do you mean I wasn’t?"

She gasps again. "WHAT?" Her eyes gaze down towards Renga, who is staring right back at her. In her head she hears a voice, sounding exactly like hers.

"I said, you weren’t. You were talking to me."

Amber looked down, then scooped up Renga, "Don’t DO that!"

The voice laughed, Amber now knowing it belonged to Renga, "Sorry…"

She laughed too, "You should have told me you could…do that."

"What, read your mind and talk into it? I thought you knew?" Renga nuzzled her again and they reached the front door.

Amber turned the knob and pulled the door open.

"FREEZE!"

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