Explanations

After knowing their weekend escapades, Paul asked them regarding their face masks.

"I know you guys use Ditto as a disguise." He stated.

Apparently, his parents did not know that. They had shocked expressions attached to their faces as they looked at their only son.

"Before Ditto, what did you guys use as a disguise? Also, when and how often do you use them?" Paul asked consecutively.

After a few seconds of shock, Joseph initiated to reply, "I didn't know that we were found out by you, about that we use Ditto as a disguise. To be honest, we didn't expect that. To answer your first question, we used silicon masks before. The masks were made by Team Rocket thus it was finely created. We were able to have a few more masks every month, which was monthly given by the suppliers here in Hoenn Region. To your second question, we mostly use it every time we talk to anyone besides you, and the boss. So, we remove it every time we are at home, besides the times when your tutor comes here to teach you. Therefore, no one knows the involvement of our current identity and our past identity besides you and the boss."

"Okay… I get the necessity of why you do that. I also think that having to do that might be very bothering and troublesome." Paul paused as he saw his parents nodding. He then continued, "What do you do when people are able to see your real faces? I think there are times that silicon masks aren't an option such as the time you gave birth to me. The sweat would be too much for the mask, right? Mom?" He finished asking as he looked towards his mother.

Mary responded immediately, "Of course. When there are times that it is not an option to wear the silicon mask, I would let Alakazam or Gengar use hypnosis after the meeting with that certain person. Specifically, to blur their memory regarding the faces of both your dad and I. This was what we did to Nurse Joy of Rustboro City Pokemon Center. When she saw our disguise after bringing you there to get information, she supplied her memory with our current disguise."

"I see…" Paul nodded. 'It was a good back-up plan.' He thought. Paul further answered his doubts through questions, "Well, can you tell me where you got your current Pokemons? They don't look like you got them at Team Rocket at all. Well, except some of them that looks natural for a Pokemon in Team Rocket."

Receiving doubtful stares from his parents, Paul clarified, "You know… Not that I'm offending them or you. But Alakazam, Gengar, Tyranitar, Crobat, Honchkrow, and Gliscor does look like sketchy Pokemons when together."

At his explanation, his parents answered with an understanding nod. Mary then started to clarify where she got her pokemons. "Actually, Salamence, who was then a Bagon, was a reward for the second competition, while Alakazam, who was an Abra back then, was the prize for the second place. But your dad was really fond of flying Pokemons, while I was fond of Pokemons with convenient uses, thus we kind of exchanged. But your dad made it up to me by giving me a Larvitar a year after, which is now a Tyranitar. I was also able to meet a Squirtle and Bulbasaur from the wild, who's Blastoise and Venusaur now. Finally, I got Weavile as a Sneasel egg from Team Rocket Market."

Joseph also explained about his pokemons. "Well, you know where I got Crobat and Salamence. For Honchkrow, I was able to get a Murkrow egg from the Team Rocket Market. While for Gliscor and Charizard, I was able to meet them when they were just a Charmander and Gligar. Lastly, I met Ampharos in a Mareep Farm, who followed me back then. I purchased him, as I really needed a back-up for the weakness of flying-type. Coincidentally, electric-type moves are the most prone way of attacking flying-type pokemons, thus I bred Mareep into an Ampharos."

After his doubts were answered regarding his parents' pokemon, he asked another question; "Well, how did you establish the breeding house?" To be honest, Paul was quite curious regarding this matter.

Mary took the initiative to respond, "Actually, I was the one who proposed to start a breeding house. Your dad readily agreed as we both talked about settling down and starting a family. We really had a lot of money from the years of working on Team Rocket. To be honest, besides the feeding and giving resources to our Pokemons, we really didn't spend that much. So, we started the business with a few Pokemon Breeders that we met. The Pokemons weren't much of a problem as we knew places where we could find droves of them. It was rather hard to convince some of the herds to move, but we explained it to them that we could provide food and shelter to them, in exchange for some of their clansmen to be trained by a trainer. I think it's both a good scenario for them, thus they weren't that hard to convince after the explanation. Remind us to bring you to the breeding house for you to see the different species of Pokemon we got in there."

Paul excitedly nods. He then continued to inquire, "So… what changed when I came?"

Joseph was the one who replied to his question. "A lot of things. We settled down, specifically near the breeding house when we knew Mary was carrying you. Back then, we were travelling here and there as we periodically check upon the breeding house. We were able to talk to our boss to slowly back away in Team Rocket business as we were starting a new family. Thankfully, he was able to understand. I think that boss was also the reason we got the jobs we were comfortable with. From what I observed, he concluded that we were further useful if we liked what we did, in which we really did, and we were really successful on tasks that we performed."

"Another is our Alliance Identity. Back then we didn't care if the Alliance will discover our identity as we never relied on them, but everything changed when you came. We decided to let you grow up in the light, and not grow up in the shadows like us. Thus, we carefully prodded our way into the Alliance. Thankfully, the boss, Giovanni, was the only one to know our identity. Our breeding house further expanded because of us establishing relations with other different businesses and voila. This is our current life. And as much as possible, we wouldn't want you to be involved in our Team Rocket business. So, we would make sure that you grew up as an Alliance member, and not be dragged back by our past. Do you understand?" Mary questioned his son, after supplying her husband's statement.

Paul solemnly nods. He was again, able to feel the warm feeling on his heart, like a honey trickling down the tricky organ. Despite his parents being part of a deplorable organization such as the Team Rocket, he wasn't able to hate them. Especially knowing what they went through and what their job entails. He actually breathed with relief when he knew that they weren't involved in the poaching and stealing of Pokemons. As they said, they were only involved in finding new territories for Team Rocket to cover in the Kanto and Johto Region; training grounds to be exact.

Finally, Paul asked his final question for the day. "Well, can you now tell me about Eevee's past?" He comforted Eevee, who shivered when hearing his question, by rubbing her head while combing her fur.

"Oh… This also involves how we were able to get our Dittos. There is a certain legendary Pokemon, who is known to have the power to use all kinds of moves. It is also said, that the legendary Pokemon was able to transform into all types of Pokemons." Joseph paused as he saw Paul nodding and stating "Mew".

"Yes." Joseph agreed and then resumed, "Team Rocket was quite ambitious, thus, when they found signs of an embryo of a newborn Mew in the deep jungles of Guyana, they initiated a study in which involved a lot of experiments. They made an experiment about the creation of a new pokemon with Mew's genes, thus Ditto was created. Ditto was considered a failure of an experiment; thus, the hundreds of samples were distributed out the internal market of Team Rocket. Though, only those in the position of Officers and above are able to purchase one if interested. Luckily, we were given three of them, as we also help in conducting tests. Mary's Alakazam is quite a strong one, even within Team Rocket. Another experiment was conducted to dozens of Eevees." He then let his wife continue.

"Eevee, known as the Evolution Pokemon, has an interesting gene sequence. This trial, we did not participate on as they conduced cruel tests on live Pokemons. The Ditto trial was only creating life, but this time, they are altering life. This is a cruel experiment where most of the Eevees died, but one." Mary stopped as she saw the look of recognition on her son's face.

"Yes, it's your Eevee." She answered his questioning gaze.

Mary then continued, "They said it was amazing how an Eevee was able to hold Mew's genes and not dying, with its gene sequence being altered, most Eevees died on this part of the experiment. However, one survived." She paused to look at the Eevee on Paul's lap.

"There was an accident however, when Eevee awakened from her slumber. I guess the alteration of genes was done by that time, the laboratory where the Eevee experiments were conducted exploded. Alakazam was able to feel that Eevee was still alive thus we took her with us as we escaped. They were sad regarding the explosion, but seeing the experiment was mostly non-replicable, and only left to chances and luck, they weren't that regretful with Eevee's supposedly death. And that explosion just happened a month ago. We nurtured Eevee back into health before giving her to you, knowing that you would be responsible and helpful on finding Eevee's true nature."

She carefully looked at her son, "Now that you know what happened, I hope you will be more careful regarding Eevee, and that you should be more patient and kinder to her." Mary finished.

Paul slowly bobbed his head as he felt his thoughts expand on Eevee's scenario. 'An Eevee with Mew's gene sequence. What the hell?' He thought while looking at the shaking Eevee on his lap. 'This would be a long journey; I hope she would recover soon. In order to do that, I'll do my best.' His thoughts supplied as firm belief was imprinted on him, that day onwards.