Walking out to her rear porch, Sydney settled down with a grunt. It had been a few weeks since the… incident… with Vion and her belly was already started to have a curve to it. She rubbed her hand idly over her tummy, grumbling. She heaved a breath at the feeling of the weight tumbling over itself in her womb.

Just as before, she found herself pregnant with six pokemon eggs.

Leaning back with a groan, she stroked her tummy idly, her finger brushing down the smooth, taut skin. To think, she’d had to be sidelined again so quickly after her return to the league…

Well, it isn’t exactly your first hiatus, she thought, shaking her head. In fact, the very first one you took also ended up having something to do with breeding—though not of you…

Maybe it was just the new babies growing in her womb, but she was feeling nostalgic. Her pokemon pup Blaze scampered up to her, wagging his tail and panting as he put his paws on the gentle swell on his mother’s tummy. He nosed it curiously a few times.

A small smile touched her lips. “That’s right, Blaze,” she said, “you’re going to have some new siblings soon.” But as she said it, a certain malaise fell on her. She had meant what she said about claiming the children as her own, giving them love and raising them right, but she still couldn’t shake the small haunting feeling of discontentment that the memory of Vion and his team brought her.

…memory…