Chapter 3: - Flightsuit
"So this 'Seto Kaiba' is the head of this 'Kaiba Corp' place, and he's one of the most powerful men in Japan?"
"That's right."
"And his company focuses on that 'Duel Monsters' thing."
Joey facefaulted and Yugi sighed, "Yes, it focuses on games, specifically Duel Monsters."
"So why does he want to talk to me?" Jamie asked, before blowing on her whistle and waiting for her Gyarados to surface.
"I bet he thinks that you have access to some sort of new game technology and demonstrated it outside Kaiba Corp to embarrass him." Tristan said, "Either that or he wants to charge you for the damage to the grounds."
"That Onix wasn't mine."
"What is an Onix?" Joey had time to ask before he was drenched by Tsunami's arrival.
"It's a Rock/Ground snake Pokemon." Jamie said, recalling her Water serpent to it's Pokeball, "If anything he should be glad it didn't use Earthquake."
"Who else do we have to gather?" Joey asked.
"Shade and Denkou, but they're back at the house." Jamie sighed, "So how do I address the guy?"
"Kaiba?" Joey asked, "I can think of a few ways."
"She didn't mean a rude way numbskull." Tristan growled.
"Why I oughta…"
"Guys, we have ten minutes to get back to the shop, save your fighting till then please." Jamie said clearly before turning on her heels, attaching Tsunami's Pokeball to her belt and racing off again.
"Bloody hell." Joey growled, "She's quick." He caught up easily though, being much taller then the young Trainer.
They slowed down enough for the rest of the gang to catch up. "So basically," Jamie gasped, "I should make sure he understands my Pokemon aren't holothingys, and I shouldn't underestimate him."
Yugi nodded, "The one thing I would recommend is that you talk to Kaiba like you would a Trainer of your own skill level, he doesn't respect underlings and doesn't see anyone as better then him."
'Except us.'
"Not helping, Jamie doesn't know about you."
'Since when was she Jamie?'
Yugi paused, not faltering in his steps as he raced to keep up with the others, "Joey started it this morning. You've been quiet since she got here."
'Watching and learning. She's still uncertain of everything.'
"Can you blame her?"
'No. I can understand what she's going through actually.'
Yugi snorted, gaining himself an odd look from the Trainer. "What?"
"I think Kaiba's going to throw a fit when he realises that the only Duel Monsters you've ever seen were the ones this morning." Yami borrowed Yugi's voice for a moment, earning himself a mental glare from the teen.
Jamie smiled, "I think I'm going to enjoy this."
They made it to the Game Shop with three minutes to spare and the limo was already waiting.
"Denkou, Shade!" Jamie shouted up the stairs, amusing the customers and annoying Solomon, until the huge black canine Pokemon was chased downstairs by a huge mouse looking thing.
"Jamelia, not in the shop!" Solomon growled.
"Sorry, someone called Kaiba wants to see me about a Pokemon Battle earlier and his limo's outside." She recalled the two Pokemon, "Besides, unless you know a way of wiping memories, it's not going to matter soon anyway."
Solomon sighed then paused. "Seto Kaiba wants to see you?"
Jamie shrugged, "I don't know what he wants, but if he tries anything I have my Pokemon."
She vanished out of the shop and Solomon's customers turned to him, "I want whatever game she's got."
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"So, any idea why he wants to see me?"
Silence.
"You guys don't talk much do you?"
More silence.
"I'm just going to call Iblis out of his Pokeball and escape now is that alright?"
"We'd prefer it if you didn't."
"Hey look, they speak." Jamie didn't know who she was talking to, she felt uneasy being in the limo so soon after arriving here and without anyone she trusted.
They pulled to a stop much sooner then she'd've thought considering how long it had taken them to get to the arena this morning, "Miss?"
Jamie nodded, and stepped out of the limo. The building they were outside wasn't the same one from earlier; it was the huge skyscraper that Yugi had pointed out this morning.
"This way please Miss." She followed one of the suited goons into the skyscraper and then into a lift. They were joined by several people in suits and Jamie looked down at herself, pulling at her top and shorts, her last clean clothes, she'd left most of them at the Pokemon Centre in Eterna City, planning to come back for them after the Palkia incident, except she'd never returned… she needed new clothes… she had no money and she wasn't going to ask Mr Muto for some.
The lift stopped several times, letting the other people out and they had to switch lifts before they finally reached the top floor, where they had to wait another five minutes to be let into Mr Kaiba's office.
Once there the two bodyguards stood at the door and the brunette teenager examined her. "So, you're the one with the holograms earlier?"
"They're not holograms." Jamie said, "If you'd let me, I'd like to introduce you to the Pokemon that was protecting our building earlier."
"Who are you?" Kaiba asked.
"Jamelia Francis of…" Jamie paused.
"Yes?" Kaiba growled.
"I am Jamelia Francis of Littleroot Town, Aspiring Champion of the Sinnoh League and Winner of this year's Sinnoh League Conference." She said firmly, just as she had introduced herself to Cynthia, even though the woman had probably already known who she was.
Kaiba looked amused, as if she was a mouse he'd just caught. "And what game is it you play that allows you to make this claim?"
"It's no game, Kaiba." Jamie frowned, "It's a point that Trainers all over the world work towards. Becoming a Pokemon Master is the dream of millions of Trainers."
Kaiba paused, "But there are no Pokemon and Trainers that I know of and I have a tab on most things going on in the world."
Jamie snorted, "You have no clue, that's why you dragged me here, you can't catch the guy that attacked because he was confused, so you dragged me here instead because I was easy to find."
Annoyance crossed Kaiba's face for a moment. "So what exactly are Pokemon?"
Jamie pulled a ball off of her belt, "May I? I swear she'll behave."
"Go ahead."
"Aisu, come on out!" The Glaceon appeared, but instead of appearing battle ready, she arrived and turned to look at her Trainer.
"Glaceon?"
"It's alright Aisu, this man is the owner of that dragon statue we froze earlier."
The Glaceon looked properly contrite, and walked over to Kaiba, head bowed and looked up at him, "Glace? Glaceon Glace."
"Does she say anything else?"
"A Pokemon's language consist of their name said with different tones and afflictions, since Aisu is a Glaceon, well…" Jamie shrugged. "She's a living animal, she requires just as much love and care as any other Pokemon."
Kaiba gazed at the Ice type and touched her head carefully as if to check she was real. The Glaceon leant into the touch and barked happily, taking it as an acceptance of her apology, before running back to her Trainer's side.
"And that man this morning, who dug up the path?" Kaiba asked.
"A member of Team Galactic, a group of despicable humans who are trying to take over the world and remake it as they wish." And are winning in the Pokemon World. "They're not above attacking people to get what they want."
"Are you with them?"
"They're the reason that I'm here." Jamie's voice took on a low growl that was matched by Aisu. "Each Pokemon has a special power, Aisu's is with ice, and they captured the Lord of Space, Palkia. Before they could do so, it attacked with Spacial Rend and…" She paused, "You don't believe me, so why am I bothering?"
Actually Kaiba was interested and was working out how he could use this to his advantage.
"So you're from some other world, linked into those strange portals that opened up during the night time and threw out Kaiba Corp scanners?"
"I guess, I didn't know about over portals, I was dumped on Yugi's doorstep and he took me in."
"But you have no money, no supplies and no way of getting more without borrowing from Muto?"
"No." Jamie looked annoyed about that.
"Do you only have Glaceon with you?" Kaiba asked, her value was less if she only had the one with her.
"No. In fact… Yugi said you like dragons, is he right?"
"Yes."
Jamie smiled, "If I may…"
Kaiba nodded.
"There's not enough room here for them but I have a Charizard and a Gyarados with me who both look like dragons."
Kaiba paused and then nodded to the two bodyguards. "We will take this discussion up to the Duelling arena so I can see exactly what you are talking about."
"I…" Jamie paused in mentioning her lack of Duelling abilities, not wanting to reveal a weakness. Instead she followed them, feeling like a sheep.
Once there Kaiba turned to her, "Do you have enough room now?"
Her answer was to call out all of her Pokemon.
Kaiba's look was one of interest as he examined them. "What species are they?"
"Aisu you've met and is a Glaceon." The small icy blue canine barked.
Kaiba paused to look at the huge blue serpent, "And this is?"
"Tsunami, he's a Gyarados, he's a Water/Flying type."
There was nothing to indicate interest or annoyance as he turned to the huge black dog.
"Shade is a Mightyena, a Dark type."
Kaiba didn't pause long, turning to the huge turtle thing.
"Gaia, my Torterra, she was my first Pokemon. She's a Grass/Ground type."
"Dual types?"
"They learn attacks of both types."
"I see." He paused as he looked at the huge winged lizard with a flame at the end of it's Kaib
"A Charizard, his name is Iblis, he's Fire/Flying."
The Charizard responded by using Flamethrower, firing straight up into the air, and earnt himself a scolding from Jamie, making it look sheepish.
Finally Kaiba turned to the mouse thing.
"Denkou is a Raichu, an Electric type Pokemon who is overlooked more then is healthy."
"Interesting." Kaiba paused. "Do you play Duel Monsters?"
"I know of it. I saw my first games this morning, Yugi played in them, one lasted two, three turns maximum and the other only one. I've never played."
"Moneywise, how will you keep your creatures fed?"
"They're not…"
"Pokemon, how will you keep you Pokemon fed?"
"Tsunami was hunting in the dock, Gaia absorbs uv rays from the sun, I'm not sure how I'll manage with the others."
"And you have no money you can spend here of your own?"
"No."
Kaiba looked the Pokemon over again and then turned to her, "You work for Kaiba Corp, promoting the arena and battling when we say. You get paid 250,000 yen a week for costs."
"I have to make sure that I can get to any Team Galactic threats, I cannot take a full time job at this moment of time, just as I cannot afford to start school here after the events of this morning."
Kaiba paused, thinking quickly, "You work for me 10 till 2, you get the rest of the day to tend to your Pokemon and the like and battle whoever you need to." Kaiba held up a hand before she could accept, "In exchange, any wild Pokemon you capture that slip though any more rifts get stored here at Kaiba Corp."
"I won't capture Pokemon for experiments."
"I wouldn't test them for anything without your co-operation. Also you start to play Duel Monsters, I won't have anyone representing my company who can't play the game."
"And what exactly would I be doing while I was working?"
"Defending my company against any more Pokemon attacks, letting children play with your Pokemon…"
"We'd be a tourist attraction." It was said distastefully and Kaiba watched her sharply. She wasn't like anyone he'd met, she had no respect or fear of him, even the mutt had some measure of respect. "I don't…"
"I must explain before you turn this down, that being affiliated with Kaiba Corp would save you problems with the Government, who would either see your monsters as a threat or as something to be experimented on or maybe both. You'd be safe as they would believe that this was all part of some game. You could go about your day to day life outside of work hours without worry or having to hide your Pokemon." Jamie thought about it, Kaiba could almost see the cogs working in her head and added a final touch. "The Mutos can't support your Pokemon forever with the amount I imagine some of your bigger ones eat."
Jamie looked at her Pokemon, remembered the emptiness of the Muto and fridge and sighed, "Deal." She agreed, offering her hand. "But I don't have any cards."
"That," Kaiba said, shaking it like a businessman closing a deal, which, Jamie reminded herself, he was, "Can be remedied."
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The gang gave it half an hour before they started walking to Kaiba Corp, it was another half an hour before they had a straight answer out of any one and another ten minutes before Seto Kaiba joined them in the lobby.
"Where is she?" Yami demanded, feeling surprisingly protect of his hikari's new friend.
"Overprotective for someone you've just met aren't you?" Kaiba snorted.
"Where is Jamie?"
"Here I am." The young woman said as she stepped out of the lift, "Kaiba, I've finished."
"Good, did you pick up the uniform?"
"There's nothing suitable for riding a Charizard."
"Uniform?"
"I'm working for Kaiba, to earn my own money." Jamie said defensively, tucking her hair behind her ear. "It's nothing personal, but I'm used to earning my way." Yami nodded in understanding. Joey looked like he'd swallowed something he didn't like and Tea and Tristan gave each other an odd look. "So what am I supposed to do about uniform? No one else has one."
"I'll call my PA down, if your friends can wait until she's done."
Jamie looked at them. Trust me to be alright on my own.
"We'll be at the Game Shop." Yami said, nodding his answer to her unspoken question earning an honest smile.
"Yuge?"
There was an unspoken conversation that passed between Joey and Yami and finally Joey shrugged.
"I'll see you later guys."
"Be careful."
There was a nod in reply.
"Let's go."
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"I don't like it, Yuge." Joey frowned, sat in the living room, "How do we know she can trust Kaiba?"
"We can't afford to feed her Pokemon." Yugi admitted at last. "I have no choice but to let her work for Kaiba."
"And if he's using her?"
"I wouldn't like to be Kaiba." Tristan grinned, remembering the look she'd given that Team Galactic member.
The doorbell rang on the back entrance.
Tea had let the Pokemon Trainer in before anyone had moved. "Hey Jamie."
There was a quiet question and Tea examined something, "Dunno, I think it's a little too light for your hair colour but…" She shrugged, "Show the boys."
A teenager in a sleeveless flightsuit came into the living room, looking a little shy.
Joey whistled as he examined her, the white flightsuit had pale blue markings, was sleeveless with pale blue edging, a pale blue Kaiba Corp logo and, he noticed with little surprise, the silver belt had a deck bag. She dropped a light blue backpack onto the table.
"Looking good." Tristan grinned, then was slapped by Joey. "What?"
"She's younger then you!"
"No, she's… how old are you?"
"Fifteen."
"She's only a year younger!"
"Ok, this is awkward enough," Jamie sighed, "Do I look ridiculous?"
"No, it suits you."
"Cool. Look Yugi…"
"I'm fine with it, you need the money and it means that you can buy what you need."
"I need to speak to Mr Muto."
"He's downstairs." Yugi sighed.
"Thanks." A brief smile, then teen, flightsuit and deck bag vanished down the steps to the shop.
"I thought she didn't play Duel Monsters."
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"Mr Muto?"
"Give me a second, Jamelia." He finished serving the customer and turned around, examining the flightsuit. "Kaiba Corp?"
"I have a job, I'm earning 250,000 a week, so you don't have to fork out for new clothes, plus I have two of these so…"
"250,000 a week?" Solomon gaped at her.
"For food for my Pokemon, and clothes and things for me."
"Jamelia… are you sure this is a good idea?"
"No." She admitted, "But I don't want to borrow money from you and you can't afford to keep us if you don't. Trainers get good prices where I'm from, here they charge you extra for bulk buying."
Solomon opened his mouth, then paused and sighed. "Just promise me that you'll be careful."
"I will." She paused, then smiled gently, "I promise Solomon."
Solomon smiled back at her. "Go get out of that, you'll get it dirty roughhousing with the boys."
"Sure Grandpa." The tone was sarcastic, but Solomon's eyes widened in shock at the name. She stalked upstairs.
"Your Granddaughter?" The next customer asked.
Solomon just smiled, "Kind of."
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"Can I ask why you're up here?"
Jamie's eyes shot open and Iblis raised his head and tail from the roof tiles, "Hi Yugi."
"Hey, couldn't sleep?" Yugi asked, looking up at her through the window in his room.
"Not inside." She shook her head, "The tiles aren't that uncomfortable. I'm used to sleeping on the hard ground. No Puzzle?"
"I do take it off at night you know."
Jamie snorted, "Wanna pull up some tile? I have another sleeping mat."
"What if it rains?"
Jamie sniffed, gazed at the sky for a moment and then grinned. "It won't, there's no rain in the air."
Yugi ducked into the room, grabbed a couple of things, put on the Millennium Puzzle and joined her. "So, you were getting there with your foxes."
"I don't know why I have to learn, it's not like I'll be playing anyone."
Yugi smiled, "I think you'll be surprised."
She smiled, "It's not that I'm not grateful for the room, it's just I've lived under the stars for so long that I'm not comfortable with a roof over my head for more then a day."
Yugi let the silence speak for itself for a while, then looked at the Trainer, she was asleep and Yugi grinned.
'She's not bad looking.'
"Yami!"
'What?' A pause, 'I forgot, you like Tea don't you?'
Yugi refused to answer, in favour of blushing.
There was laughter. 'Why don't you tell her?'
"Jamie?"
'No, Tea.' Yami was laughing again, 'Unless you actually do like Jamie.'
"No! Not like that, she's alright, but I don't know her." Yami's amused chuckle stopped Yugi's denials. "You…"
Yami was still chuckling as Yugi fell asleep on the roof.
"That's right."
"And his company focuses on that 'Duel Monsters' thing."
Joey facefaulted and Yugi sighed, "Yes, it focuses on games, specifically Duel Monsters."
"So why does he want to talk to me?" Jamie asked, before blowing on her whistle and waiting for her Gyarados to surface.
"I bet he thinks that you have access to some sort of new game technology and demonstrated it outside Kaiba Corp to embarrass him." Tristan said, "Either that or he wants to charge you for the damage to the grounds."
"That Onix wasn't mine."
"What is an Onix?" Joey had time to ask before he was drenched by Tsunami's arrival.
"It's a Rock/Ground snake Pokemon." Jamie said, recalling her Water serpent to it's Pokeball, "If anything he should be glad it didn't use Earthquake."
"Who else do we have to gather?" Joey asked.
"Shade and Denkou, but they're back at the house." Jamie sighed, "So how do I address the guy?"
"Kaiba?" Joey asked, "I can think of a few ways."
"She didn't mean a rude way numbskull." Tristan growled.
"Why I oughta…"
"Guys, we have ten minutes to get back to the shop, save your fighting till then please." Jamie said clearly before turning on her heels, attaching Tsunami's Pokeball to her belt and racing off again.
"Bloody hell." Joey growled, "She's quick." He caught up easily though, being much taller then the young Trainer.
They slowed down enough for the rest of the gang to catch up. "So basically," Jamie gasped, "I should make sure he understands my Pokemon aren't holothingys, and I shouldn't underestimate him."
Yugi nodded, "The one thing I would recommend is that you talk to Kaiba like you would a Trainer of your own skill level, he doesn't respect underlings and doesn't see anyone as better then him."
'Except us.'
"Not helping, Jamie doesn't know about you."
'Since when was she Jamie?'
Yugi paused, not faltering in his steps as he raced to keep up with the others, "Joey started it this morning. You've been quiet since she got here."
'Watching and learning. She's still uncertain of everything.'
"Can you blame her?"
'No. I can understand what she's going through actually.'
Yugi snorted, gaining himself an odd look from the Trainer. "What?"
"I think Kaiba's going to throw a fit when he realises that the only Duel Monsters you've ever seen were the ones this morning." Yami borrowed Yugi's voice for a moment, earning himself a mental glare from the teen.
Jamie smiled, "I think I'm going to enjoy this."
They made it to the Game Shop with three minutes to spare and the limo was already waiting.
"Denkou, Shade!" Jamie shouted up the stairs, amusing the customers and annoying Solomon, until the huge black canine Pokemon was chased downstairs by a huge mouse looking thing.
"Jamelia, not in the shop!" Solomon growled.
"Sorry, someone called Kaiba wants to see me about a Pokemon Battle earlier and his limo's outside." She recalled the two Pokemon, "Besides, unless you know a way of wiping memories, it's not going to matter soon anyway."
Solomon sighed then paused. "Seto Kaiba wants to see you?"
Jamie shrugged, "I don't know what he wants, but if he tries anything I have my Pokemon."
She vanished out of the shop and Solomon's customers turned to him, "I want whatever game she's got."
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"So, any idea why he wants to see me?"
Silence.
"You guys don't talk much do you?"
More silence.
"I'm just going to call Iblis out of his Pokeball and escape now is that alright?"
"We'd prefer it if you didn't."
"Hey look, they speak." Jamie didn't know who she was talking to, she felt uneasy being in the limo so soon after arriving here and without anyone she trusted.
They pulled to a stop much sooner then she'd've thought considering how long it had taken them to get to the arena this morning, "Miss?"
Jamie nodded, and stepped out of the limo. The building they were outside wasn't the same one from earlier; it was the huge skyscraper that Yugi had pointed out this morning.
"This way please Miss." She followed one of the suited goons into the skyscraper and then into a lift. They were joined by several people in suits and Jamie looked down at herself, pulling at her top and shorts, her last clean clothes, she'd left most of them at the Pokemon Centre in Eterna City, planning to come back for them after the Palkia incident, except she'd never returned… she needed new clothes… she had no money and she wasn't going to ask Mr Muto for some.
The lift stopped several times, letting the other people out and they had to switch lifts before they finally reached the top floor, where they had to wait another five minutes to be let into Mr Kaiba's office.
Once there the two bodyguards stood at the door and the brunette teenager examined her. "So, you're the one with the holograms earlier?"
"They're not holograms." Jamie said, "If you'd let me, I'd like to introduce you to the Pokemon that was protecting our building earlier."
"Who are you?" Kaiba asked.
"Jamelia Francis of…" Jamie paused.
"Yes?" Kaiba growled.
"I am Jamelia Francis of Littleroot Town, Aspiring Champion of the Sinnoh League and Winner of this year's Sinnoh League Conference." She said firmly, just as she had introduced herself to Cynthia, even though the woman had probably already known who she was.
Kaiba looked amused, as if she was a mouse he'd just caught. "And what game is it you play that allows you to make this claim?"
"It's no game, Kaiba." Jamie frowned, "It's a point that Trainers all over the world work towards. Becoming a Pokemon Master is the dream of millions of Trainers."
Kaiba paused, "But there are no Pokemon and Trainers that I know of and I have a tab on most things going on in the world."
Jamie snorted, "You have no clue, that's why you dragged me here, you can't catch the guy that attacked because he was confused, so you dragged me here instead because I was easy to find."
Annoyance crossed Kaiba's face for a moment. "So what exactly are Pokemon?"
Jamie pulled a ball off of her belt, "May I? I swear she'll behave."
"Go ahead."
"Aisu, come on out!" The Glaceon appeared, but instead of appearing battle ready, she arrived and turned to look at her Trainer.
"Glaceon?"
"It's alright Aisu, this man is the owner of that dragon statue we froze earlier."
The Glaceon looked properly contrite, and walked over to Kaiba, head bowed and looked up at him, "Glace? Glaceon Glace."
"Does she say anything else?"
"A Pokemon's language consist of their name said with different tones and afflictions, since Aisu is a Glaceon, well…" Jamie shrugged. "She's a living animal, she requires just as much love and care as any other Pokemon."
Kaiba gazed at the Ice type and touched her head carefully as if to check she was real. The Glaceon leant into the touch and barked happily, taking it as an acceptance of her apology, before running back to her Trainer's side.
"And that man this morning, who dug up the path?" Kaiba asked.
"A member of Team Galactic, a group of despicable humans who are trying to take over the world and remake it as they wish." And are winning in the Pokemon World. "They're not above attacking people to get what they want."
"Are you with them?"
"They're the reason that I'm here." Jamie's voice took on a low growl that was matched by Aisu. "Each Pokemon has a special power, Aisu's is with ice, and they captured the Lord of Space, Palkia. Before they could do so, it attacked with Spacial Rend and…" She paused, "You don't believe me, so why am I bothering?"
Actually Kaiba was interested and was working out how he could use this to his advantage.
"So you're from some other world, linked into those strange portals that opened up during the night time and threw out Kaiba Corp scanners?"
"I guess, I didn't know about over portals, I was dumped on Yugi's doorstep and he took me in."
"But you have no money, no supplies and no way of getting more without borrowing from Muto?"
"No." Jamie looked annoyed about that.
"Do you only have Glaceon with you?" Kaiba asked, her value was less if she only had the one with her.
"No. In fact… Yugi said you like dragons, is he right?"
"Yes."
Jamie smiled, "If I may…"
Kaiba nodded.
"There's not enough room here for them but I have a Charizard and a Gyarados with me who both look like dragons."
Kaiba paused and then nodded to the two bodyguards. "We will take this discussion up to the Duelling arena so I can see exactly what you are talking about."
"I…" Jamie paused in mentioning her lack of Duelling abilities, not wanting to reveal a weakness. Instead she followed them, feeling like a sheep.
Once there Kaiba turned to her, "Do you have enough room now?"
Her answer was to call out all of her Pokemon.
Kaiba's look was one of interest as he examined them. "What species are they?"
"Aisu you've met and is a Glaceon." The small icy blue canine barked.
Kaiba paused to look at the huge blue serpent, "And this is?"
"Tsunami, he's a Gyarados, he's a Water/Flying type."
There was nothing to indicate interest or annoyance as he turned to the huge black dog.
"Shade is a Mightyena, a Dark type."
Kaiba didn't pause long, turning to the huge turtle thing.
"Gaia, my Torterra, she was my first Pokemon. She's a Grass/Ground type."
"Dual types?"
"They learn attacks of both types."
"I see." He paused as he looked at the huge winged lizard with a flame at the end of it's Kaib
"A Charizard, his name is Iblis, he's Fire/Flying."
The Charizard responded by using Flamethrower, firing straight up into the air, and earnt himself a scolding from Jamie, making it look sheepish.
Finally Kaiba turned to the mouse thing.
"Denkou is a Raichu, an Electric type Pokemon who is overlooked more then is healthy."
"Interesting." Kaiba paused. "Do you play Duel Monsters?"
"I know of it. I saw my first games this morning, Yugi played in them, one lasted two, three turns maximum and the other only one. I've never played."
"Moneywise, how will you keep your creatures fed?"
"They're not…"
"Pokemon, how will you keep you Pokemon fed?"
"Tsunami was hunting in the dock, Gaia absorbs uv rays from the sun, I'm not sure how I'll manage with the others."
"And you have no money you can spend here of your own?"
"No."
Kaiba looked the Pokemon over again and then turned to her, "You work for Kaiba Corp, promoting the arena and battling when we say. You get paid 250,000 yen a week for costs."
"I have to make sure that I can get to any Team Galactic threats, I cannot take a full time job at this moment of time, just as I cannot afford to start school here after the events of this morning."
Kaiba paused, thinking quickly, "You work for me 10 till 2, you get the rest of the day to tend to your Pokemon and the like and battle whoever you need to." Kaiba held up a hand before she could accept, "In exchange, any wild Pokemon you capture that slip though any more rifts get stored here at Kaiba Corp."
"I won't capture Pokemon for experiments."
"I wouldn't test them for anything without your co-operation. Also you start to play Duel Monsters, I won't have anyone representing my company who can't play the game."
"And what exactly would I be doing while I was working?"
"Defending my company against any more Pokemon attacks, letting children play with your Pokemon…"
"We'd be a tourist attraction." It was said distastefully and Kaiba watched her sharply. She wasn't like anyone he'd met, she had no respect or fear of him, even the mutt had some measure of respect. "I don't…"
"I must explain before you turn this down, that being affiliated with Kaiba Corp would save you problems with the Government, who would either see your monsters as a threat or as something to be experimented on or maybe both. You'd be safe as they would believe that this was all part of some game. You could go about your day to day life outside of work hours without worry or having to hide your Pokemon." Jamie thought about it, Kaiba could almost see the cogs working in her head and added a final touch. "The Mutos can't support your Pokemon forever with the amount I imagine some of your bigger ones eat."
Jamie looked at her Pokemon, remembered the emptiness of the Muto and fridge and sighed, "Deal." She agreed, offering her hand. "But I don't have any cards."
"That," Kaiba said, shaking it like a businessman closing a deal, which, Jamie reminded herself, he was, "Can be remedied."
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The gang gave it half an hour before they started walking to Kaiba Corp, it was another half an hour before they had a straight answer out of any one and another ten minutes before Seto Kaiba joined them in the lobby.
"Where is she?" Yami demanded, feeling surprisingly protect of his hikari's new friend.
"Overprotective for someone you've just met aren't you?" Kaiba snorted.
"Where is Jamie?"
"Here I am." The young woman said as she stepped out of the lift, "Kaiba, I've finished."
"Good, did you pick up the uniform?"
"There's nothing suitable for riding a Charizard."
"Uniform?"
"I'm working for Kaiba, to earn my own money." Jamie said defensively, tucking her hair behind her ear. "It's nothing personal, but I'm used to earning my way." Yami nodded in understanding. Joey looked like he'd swallowed something he didn't like and Tea and Tristan gave each other an odd look. "So what am I supposed to do about uniform? No one else has one."
"I'll call my PA down, if your friends can wait until she's done."
Jamie looked at them. Trust me to be alright on my own.
"We'll be at the Game Shop." Yami said, nodding his answer to her unspoken question earning an honest smile.
"Yuge?"
There was an unspoken conversation that passed between Joey and Yami and finally Joey shrugged.
"I'll see you later guys."
"Be careful."
There was a nod in reply.
"Let's go."
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"I don't like it, Yuge." Joey frowned, sat in the living room, "How do we know she can trust Kaiba?"
"We can't afford to feed her Pokemon." Yugi admitted at last. "I have no choice but to let her work for Kaiba."
"And if he's using her?"
"I wouldn't like to be Kaiba." Tristan grinned, remembering the look she'd given that Team Galactic member.
The doorbell rang on the back entrance.
Tea had let the Pokemon Trainer in before anyone had moved. "Hey Jamie."
There was a quiet question and Tea examined something, "Dunno, I think it's a little too light for your hair colour but…" She shrugged, "Show the boys."
A teenager in a sleeveless flightsuit came into the living room, looking a little shy.
Joey whistled as he examined her, the white flightsuit had pale blue markings, was sleeveless with pale blue edging, a pale blue Kaiba Corp logo and, he noticed with little surprise, the silver belt had a deck bag. She dropped a light blue backpack onto the table.
"Looking good." Tristan grinned, then was slapped by Joey. "What?"
"She's younger then you!"
"No, she's… how old are you?"
"Fifteen."
"She's only a year younger!"
"Ok, this is awkward enough," Jamie sighed, "Do I look ridiculous?"
"No, it suits you."
"Cool. Look Yugi…"
"I'm fine with it, you need the money and it means that you can buy what you need."
"I need to speak to Mr Muto."
"He's downstairs." Yugi sighed.
"Thanks." A brief smile, then teen, flightsuit and deck bag vanished down the steps to the shop.
"I thought she didn't play Duel Monsters."
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"Mr Muto?"
"Give me a second, Jamelia." He finished serving the customer and turned around, examining the flightsuit. "Kaiba Corp?"
"I have a job, I'm earning 250,000 a week, so you don't have to fork out for new clothes, plus I have two of these so…"
"250,000 a week?" Solomon gaped at her.
"For food for my Pokemon, and clothes and things for me."
"Jamelia… are you sure this is a good idea?"
"No." She admitted, "But I don't want to borrow money from you and you can't afford to keep us if you don't. Trainers get good prices where I'm from, here they charge you extra for bulk buying."
Solomon opened his mouth, then paused and sighed. "Just promise me that you'll be careful."
"I will." She paused, then smiled gently, "I promise Solomon."
Solomon smiled back at her. "Go get out of that, you'll get it dirty roughhousing with the boys."
"Sure Grandpa." The tone was sarcastic, but Solomon's eyes widened in shock at the name. She stalked upstairs.
"Your Granddaughter?" The next customer asked.
Solomon just smiled, "Kind of."
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"Can I ask why you're up here?"
Jamie's eyes shot open and Iblis raised his head and tail from the roof tiles, "Hi Yugi."
"Hey, couldn't sleep?" Yugi asked, looking up at her through the window in his room.
"Not inside." She shook her head, "The tiles aren't that uncomfortable. I'm used to sleeping on the hard ground. No Puzzle?"
"I do take it off at night you know."
Jamie snorted, "Wanna pull up some tile? I have another sleeping mat."
"What if it rains?"
Jamie sniffed, gazed at the sky for a moment and then grinned. "It won't, there's no rain in the air."
Yugi ducked into the room, grabbed a couple of things, put on the Millennium Puzzle and joined her. "So, you were getting there with your foxes."
"I don't know why I have to learn, it's not like I'll be playing anyone."
Yugi smiled, "I think you'll be surprised."
She smiled, "It's not that I'm not grateful for the room, it's just I've lived under the stars for so long that I'm not comfortable with a roof over my head for more then a day."
Yugi let the silence speak for itself for a while, then looked at the Trainer, she was asleep and Yugi grinned.
'She's not bad looking.'
"Yami!"
'What?' A pause, 'I forgot, you like Tea don't you?'
Yugi refused to answer, in favour of blushing.
There was laughter. 'Why don't you tell her?'
"Jamie?"
'No, Tea.' Yami was laughing again, 'Unless you actually do like Jamie.'
"No! Not like that, she's alright, but I don't know her." Yami's amused chuckle stopped Yugi's denials. "You…"
Yami was still chuckling as Yugi fell asleep on the roof.