Julia stared at Nat with a blank look.
"That's all you've been told?" She asked, a bit dumbfounded.
"That's just how it started! She exclaimed, beginning to go into more detail.
"Seeing how you probably won't remember all this, I guess it won't hurt telling it all to you… Blaze on the other hand…" She gave him a quick but intense glare.
"I'll assume you'll pretend you don't know anything… Alright—so, this is what happened…
"Yeah, so you were right about one thing, a kid's Vulpix was murdered, but… Well, my father was a top Magma Officer, and he'd always been exposing me to the intensity of the business at a young age because he thought it would make it easier on me, but it just made things worse, really… I ended up running away when I was 4, but then… One of Ali's friends found me. Her name was Jenna… She was training as a junior Aqua grunt at the time, and… Well, anything that was against Team Magma seemed like bliss to me, at the time… She took me back to her training camp-and obviously, I was well known to the officers as 'that guys daughter!'" Julia laughed, and continued to go on.
"So anyways… My dad found out they had me though, and he ended up trying to take me back, but… Well… From what I heard recently, he was killed in a battle with Team Aqua, but… I still find it hard to believe… Anyhow, 4 years passed, I was 8 now… And Ali and Jenna were both 11, they actually ended up dating, kinda creepy… Jenna was very good at keeping me a secret, it kinda got me angry to some extent, but I managed to ignore it… The two of us were best friends! Another year passed, and Jenna and Ali were both found trying to capture the same pokemon from the same trainer, and… Things didn't go too well. From what Jenna told me, he was being a real jerk, and ended up having our dad's Raichu injure her Carvanha… He actually pushed her into the water with it… the capture was a total failure for both teams though. You can't expect an old Raichu to attack a Dragonite at the peak of it's life, can you? Since then, the two of them never talked… But she did end up dating my other brother Fox, soon after…" She paused now, hoping Nat understood what she meant now about Anna.
"So, I was 10 now… The Violet Academy opened up, and one of the Aqua Administrators were keen on the pokemon there. He was absolutely positive that the pokemon there would be the best trained, so he sent a certain group of the best Aquas there to capture the pokemon… But they were only able to get their hands on Pixie, a student's Vulpix… Even that ended up being killed because it was showing a good amount of resistance, though. The students there were all a bunch of impulsive rats that couldn't keep their mouths shut. They ended up leaving all at once at an attempt to find the killer, right after the owner of the Vulpix who was just as bad. Ali ended up leaving after getting a call from a Magma officer; the Magmas were most expected to be the problem, not the Aquas. It wasn't until the owner of the Vulpix had a premonition of an Aqua symbol that we were safe. Team Aqua, Magma, and everything in between ended up having a disturbing meeting about the incident. From then on, it was known as the 'International incident' stirring up as much trouble as anything else in the world. That's where I was reunited with Ali and Fox, at the meeting… They found me, and… Well, we couldn't stop… One of the teams needed to be over-ruled… There ended up being a battle between me and Jenna, and Ali, Fox, and Anna… Right in the middle of Newbark town in the pouring rain… Not the best place to draw attention… Obviously with Ali's Raichu, and the added conduction with the rain, he pulled the same thing on the 2 of us as he did a few years before on Jenna. We were pretty much defeated… Until the Aqua Administrators caught up with us. It wasn't until then that me and Jenna realized how much better off we'ed be without being on either team… It was then Jenna, Fox, Ali, Anna, and myself against 2 Aqua Administrators… Obviously we were able to win with Fox's Jolteon, and the 2 Raichus that were in Anna and Ali's possession… Since then, the 2 teams quieted down… It went from a simple mission, to a whole international dispute… We haven't talked about it since…" Julia took a glance at the people in the room, focusing more on Blaze than anyone else.
"If Ali was the same person you described him as, he would have never done any of that…" She stated in a deep tone.
"But then again… In a few days, that won't matter…"