A loud wail echoed through the halls of the bath house, the receptionist manning the front desk just sighed, she knew where that sound came from, one of her better customers, even if she didn't pay directly.

  "What is that noise?" asked one of her regular customers who stepped through the doors.

  The receptionist sighed again. "Welcome, one of our guests are having a bad day, I think"

  "Of all the places, why here?"

  "I think it will stop soon, the time between the wails have increased quite well"

  "[What have I done!]" lamented Anya as she sat inside a heated bathtub, dipping her head inside the heated water to clear her mind. She didn't know how it happened but, somehow she was now a member of Team Rocket. Everything happened so fast, she didn't have any idea what was going on at the time, the adrenaline fueled action sequence made everything a blurry, she had a faint recollection that she had followed Giovanni and few other Executives through an extensive tunnel system below the city. Then the next thing she knew, Giovanni took over the Team Rocket along with Rocket Corporation and they were having a short debriefing later in Giovanni's office.

  It came as a surprise for Anya to be anointed as an Executive, she never imagined she could be one, being Pokémon and all that, she was given a code name too inside the organization, Icarus.

  Archer and Ariana were both sent to Johto and Petrel got an important job to establish a base in Sevii Islands, leaving Anya directly working under Giovanni.

  She had found out that the whole Rocket Corporation is actually a legitimate business even if it acts also as a front for Team Rocket, taking a step deeper and Anya could make sense how the Team Rocket got their funding, as a lot of money has been recently gained from the Indigo government that were marked for expansion and maintenance of mutual assets.

  "[You are awaited on the edge of the fore-]" a voice chirped inside the bathroom, causing Anya to jump out of the tub, alertly looking around for the origin of the voice, it did not take too long as she spotted a tiny Pidgey peeking through the tiny gap in the barely open window.

  Their eyes met and the pidgey repeated what it had said "[I'll repeat once, You are awaited on the edge of the forest when the sun crests the horizon, message received]" and it promptly left before Anya could ask any of the questions she had, for example what forest was the Pidgey talking about, Viridian was surrounded by woods, but she did have a hunch, Viridian Forest. It made sense as they would send a messenger Pokémon to inform Anya for a meetup. A shiver ran through Anya's body, she did not look towards meeting a pack of Ninetales, something about the message gave her a bad feeling.

  Her thoughts were interrupted as the lady on the counter peeked her head inside the bath, she looked around looking a bit worried before her eyes met with Anya's and a relief washed over her face.

  "Apologies for the sudden intrusion, I was just worried because the whole room has been silent for a long while" she bowed her head.

  "Dear customer, would you care for some refreshments?" she offered awkwardly "Remember to hydrate if you plan on staying for long periods in the baths, we don't want anyone to pass out from dehydration" she said before leaving.

  Something Anya caught on the lady's sentence was that she didn't think she had been idle for that long? She still decided to leave the bath and head home, there was still some time before the meeting was supposed to happen. She was honestly glad she had a whole week off from work, as she was entering her apartment she noticed that something was a miss, her front door was left open a smidge, she was sure she locked it before going downstairs to bath. She carefully reached for the knob on the door and carefully opened the door while trying to take a peek through the expanding gap to see if someone was immediately in sight.

  Before she could fully open the door, a familiar voice came from next to her, "There you are, I have been waiting for you a while already" caught off guard, Anya sprang alertly around cutters in front of her, only to come face to face with the Pokémon Professor, before Anya could even react properly she was blindsided to the ground with surprising force, a familiar Eeveelution on top of her nuzzling her face on Anya's in affection while Samuel just chuckled on the side. Anya couldn't even be mad at Faesol, she too had missed her.

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  Hanging around at Anya's apartment, Anya was sitting by the typewriter, Faesol on top of her lap and Samuel was standing near so that he could read whatever Anya would type.

  "[It is nice to have someone to talk to]" Anya said while softly moving her cutters through Faesol's fur. "[The constant communication with the typewriters is getting on everyone's nerves at work and my communication with people is getting tedious and no one really wants to invest that much time to have any meaningful conversations with me...]" her voice trailing off towards the end of the sentence that even Samuel had caught that something was wrong.

  MAYBE NOW IS NOT THE BEST TIME TO CATCH UP

  SOMETHING IMPORTANT HAPPENED AT MY WORKPLACE She wrote to Samuel, who gave Anya a pat on the shoulder.

  "I know" Samuel told Anya calmly, which caught her by surprise, 'Does he really know or is he just trying to console me' Anya thought while looking at him in the eyes, hoping Samuel would elaborate, who met her gaze.

  "The direction your new workplace is going should be an interesting to follow, even if I did not approve some of the more extreme activities that the League permitted" Samuel said

  "I think Giovanni will give you more details and I am not really allowed to give you even this much" he smirked teasingly. "But, I hope I at least lift your mood even a little bit". Anya gave Samuel a hesitant nod.

  A short silent pause later, Faesol jumped off of Anya's lap as she found the position uncomfortable and boring, She went to explore around the apartment, soon she remembered that there was a very comfortable spot in one of the rooms, she casually lifted a blanket from Anya's bed with her psychic powers and found the warm heated spot. She ignored the pile of Pokémon plushies that were laying on top of the bed and took a nap.

  Back in the living room, Anya was having a nice conversation with Samuel about how Faesol has fared at the Lab and how her psychic abilities have progressed, Anya too was telling Samuel about how she has found exercising freeing and how she has recently used an ability she was not too familiar with and no way to replicate the feeling, she described the battle she had inside the rocket hideout and how she copied her opponent's attack and dug underground. Samuel listened attentively, discovering new moves was always fascinating to him.

  "Maybe its a variation of Mirror Move?" he said while wondering. "Some times some species of Pokémon are capable to replicate their opponents attacks that they have just seen"

  IT FELT LIKE I COULD DO IT TOO

  WITHOUT TRULY REALIZING WHAT I WAS DOING

  Anya wrote to Samuel.

  IF THAT EVEN MAKES SENSE

  LIKE A WEIRD VERSION OF OF DEJA VU

  She continued

  "Deja vu what?" Samuel asked confused

  Anya thought for a moment before answering, she was surprised that the word wasn't used, but then she remembered that it was a french saying and Kalos was introduced to the Indigo just a few years ago.

  DEJA VU IS A KALOSIAN TERM FOR THE FEELING THAT

  YOU HAVE DONE THE SAME THING BEFORE

  IN THE EXACTLY SAME SITUATION

  "Ahh, its that feeling, I know how that feels, huh, so the Kalos have a word for that thing?" said Samuel knowingly.

  "Talking about Kalos, there has recently been some progress towards friendly relationship between Indigo and Kalos, There has been some talk about hosting an international Pokémon summer camp with some Kalosian kids participating too. To let us know each other better"

  This caused Anya to get a familiar feeling, she wasn't too sure, but something seemed quite familiar and important with the idea, she just couldn't exactly remember why it was important. She was quite sure it was from the Anime and had something to do with Ash...

  "[Oh, Ash and Gary, both of them attended the camp and it was the start of their rivalry, or something like that]" Anya mumbled in thought, she snapped back and typed to Samuel.

  YES, THE SUMMER CAMP SOUNDS GREAT

  YOU SHOULD HOST IT AT THE LAB

  "Me? I don't think I am qualified" said Samuel defensively

  YOU WILL DO GREAT, THE LEAGUE MOST LIKELY

  GIVES YOU THE TASK ANYWAY

  BETTER TO PREPARE FOR IT IN ADVANCE

  "Well I will think about it" he said

  They continued their conversation a bit longer until Faesol came back to the living room and sat near Samuel's feet and looked up at him.

  "[Food]" she said out loud.

  "Oh, look at the time, he said, At least she knows its is getting late" Samuel chuckled

  "Seems like one of us knows how to manage time" he said

  "We need to get going, I hope we didn't cause too much of an imbalance to your work schedule." to which Anya just shook her head, she then said her goodbyes to Faesol and Samuel.

  Now alone again, Anya was cheerfully making food for herself to eat while humming a cheery tune, she has gotten quite good at wielding her cutters at the kitchen, chopping up vegetables has never been easier and faster and she was all for it.

  The lights outside were dimming and the street lights have started being turned on, Anya was lazily dozing on her bed, having forgotten that there was still something she was supposed to do that day.