Sakura awoke to hear some scratching from outside of the door and got out of bed to see what was going on. She was still very tired and her nap did nothing to make her feel rested, in fact she might have felt even worse than before said nap. She contemplated seeing PB again as she felt maybe she was too harsh and didn’t express her true feelings about the matter, but she was still very hurt by his behavior now and before the war started and felt they may just blow up on each other again.
With a heavy sigh she opened the door to see Yin with Narancia on her back.
“Oh it’s you two.” Sakura said with a bit of surprise “What brings you guys here?”
Yin immediately rushed into the room and jumped on her bed however Narancia fell off as he didn’t expect Yin’s sudden movement and didn’t hang on.
“Raiiiiiiiiii!~” Narancia whined as he held his head and started to cry.
“Oh dear Narancia!” Sakura gasped as she scooped him up to help the dwarf Raichu calm down a bit. “Yin you have to be careful when you run and jump so suddenly with a passenger as small as Narancia, he didn’t have a good grip on you.”
“Sol…..” Absol cried with very noticeable regret.
“It’s okay Yin, I know you don’t normally give rides to other Pokemon since you’re kind of small too, but it’s something to keep in mind for next time. It would also help if you have Narancia wrap his tail around you while he’s riding.” Sakura responded with an understanding tone.
“Absol.” Yin nodded.
“Anyway what are you guys doing here?” Sakura asked again.
“Rai, Raichu, Rai Rai Chu!~” Narancia blubbered incoherently.
“I’m sorry Narancia, I’m having trouble understanding you like that.” Sakura sighed. “You need to calm down.”
Narancia continued to cry as Sakura got more confused, Narancia wouldn’t normally cry over a small thing as falling down and getting hurt like that.
“Yin did something happen?” Sakura asked. “Narancia seems very distraught.”
Yin looked visually frustrated and looked slightly away from her, as if having difficultly trying to explain what was going on.
“Absol….Sol, Ab, Absol.” Yin said with distain.
“Pyreheart….has gone missing?” Sakura questioned.
“Rai, Rai, Raichu!~” Narancia continued to cry.
“You couldn’t find him anywhere?” Sakura repeated. “…..Did you check if he was in PB’s room?”
“Sol.” Yin nodded.
Yin went on to say that they literally looked everywhere they could go and PB’s room was the first stop. However the door was closed and he didn’t open it.
“I see….maybe he was sleeping too and didn’t wake up like I did, he was always a heavier sleeper than I was.” Sakura sighed.
“Absol?” Yin asked her as she seemed concerned about Sakura’s behavior whenever she talked about PB.
“I’m okay Yin, we’ll try going there again….even if we end up yelling at each other again we’ll find where Pyre Heart went…..besides I had to talk to him sooner or later…..I guess it'll be sooner.” Sakura sighed again as she got up and headed over to her desk, she decided to bring the mementos of her father with her to better convey why she was so upset at PB’s decision to commit suicide by the angry mob that wanted to kill him.
One was a bronze amulet with the picture of her parents she never wears in fear of losing it; the other was a leather bound book. Both had a mysterious eye symbol on them but she didn’t know what in the world it meant since her father was dead.
As she picked up both items while still holding Narancia, she noticed at the corner of her eye that her computer was blinking with a message on it.
“That’s weird….did Niu send me a record of the transactions for the members of the Resistance that bought weapons?” Sakura pondered as she went to check what it was “That doesn’t make sense, Borock-bot's the accountant not…….”
Sakura stopped mid-sentence as she found that it wasn’t Niu who sent her a message but PBPB who wanted her to talk to her or Fxeni ASAP.
“What in the world….this was sent hours ago!” Sakura gasped “ADA where is Fxeni?!”
“Fxeni is currently at the ISS.” ADA stated.
“Shoot….guess I have to talk to her now.” Sakura muttered “ADA, tell PBPB that I’m on my way to talk to her.”
“Understood.” ADA stated.
“Thank you…” Sakura sighed as she wondered what PBPB wanted to tell her, but felt a bit of a pit in her stomach “It looks like we have to postpone finding Pyre Heart at the moment guys, but as soon as we’re done we’ll try looking for him again alright?”
“Sol.” Yin nodded but could sense Sakura’s uneasiness.
“Rai…” Narancia said looking down.
“Don’t worry I’m sure Pyre Heart is okay.” Sakura assured him.
“Rai Rai?” Narancia asked her.
“Of course Zeta is too.” Sakura giggled a little “You’re trainer is really strong.”
“Rai.” Narancia nodded feeling a little better as everyone started to head to the bridge.