The fourth chapter. It's actually split into two chapters. I hit the page count I was aiming for and decided, "okay let's split 'em up". I think it signals that the chapters may start to get longer though. A lot of things in this chapter are borrowed straight from the Yellow chapter. I think it's also going to start leaning into Luckyshipping as well as Viridian, but not anymore than the actual manga has, so don't expect too much to happen.
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Chapter 4 Complications part 1

Red gathered his thoughts before continuing to talk to Blue.

"Okay, so what is Ditty going to do exactly?" He asked.

Blue reached into her bag and pulled out something else, "Observe." She pulled out a device that seemed to spiral a bit. It hung around her neck and looked like a weird necklace, while the inner spiral wrapped around her neck for support, the protruding spiral held a microphone next to her mouth (the one she used in the Yellow chapter).

"What does this do?" Red asked.

"Patience, I'm not done yet." Blue said to him slightly irritatedly. Next she released Ditty discretely underneath the table, "Did you bring your Espeon like I asked?" Blue asked quietly.

"Yes." Red replied.

"Good, and you learned to do that trick that Green could do with his Golduck right?"

"Forever ago."

"You know what to do then."

"This'd better be good." Red said, "Espeon, disguise yourself so no one sees you." Red whispered to his Pokémon before he released it from its Poké Ball to join Ditto underneath the table. And it did just that, creating an illusion with its psychic powers.

"Perfect." Blue pulled out her Pokédex, "How're they doing?"

Red turned back around to peek over the wall quick, "Back to being as awkward as ever." He turned back quick to avoid detection.

"Well, I've had just about enough of that, time to speed things along."

"How exactly do you plan to do that?"

"Very well, I think you deserve an explanation." Blue said, "See this machine uses the microphone to pick up sound waves when I push a button and traps them in specialized bubbles. Then it locks on to my Pokémon, in this case Ditty and goes to give them the command, it directs the sound waves in a linear pattern as opposed to one that spreads, so only Ditty hears it."

Blue put one hand above her microphone and the other to the switch on the side of it, "Testing." She said, and a bubble appeared like she said it would. She popped it with her finger quick before she could release it.

"Aren't they going to notice a bubble floating in the air? And if you have to send multiple commands, a series of bubbles?" Red asked.

"Normally, see, I've had to tweak this device a little. The color of the bubbles has been altered from the way it originally had them. Now it more strongly accents, red, blue, and green. The primary colors of light. And I chose this restaurant for a reason; it has normal, unhindered lighting. Sometimes places like this have colored coverings or shades over the lights. But the white light renders the bubbles," She stopped and put her hands to the mic again, "testing." She said, this time she moved her hands and released the bubble, "Invisible."

Just as she said, the bubble couldn't be seen against the light and floated to Ditty unseen until it got under the shaded table, "Not bad, but why do you need me and Espeon for this?" Red asked.

"To stay hidden." Blue answered, she showed her Pokédex to Red, "See, this is where that trick comes in. The one you and Green used to get inside Saffron. Whenever I need to see where Ditty is I can just look at my Pokédex, and then I can see where he is and what decisions to make without the risk of being seen. If you'd be so kind as to give the command." She explained.

"I have to admit Blue, you've really outdone yourself." Red complimented, "How'd you come up with the invisible bubble trick?"

"Yellow told me about it. Lance used it against her so she wouldn't see the attack." Blue said, "Now if you could tell Espeon what to do we're good to go."

"Actually Blue, I'm having second thoughts. I mean what if they really end up liking each other? Then what exactly is that relationship built on? We're just kind of forcing them together. And we're doing it to help narrow the amount of time you have to spend with them?" Red said.

"It's a little more complicated than that." Blue said matter-of-factly, "With any luck, I'll have more time to spend with my parents. But that's really more of a bonus. This isn't the first time I've tried to get them to like each other either."

"It's not?" Red asked with some shock on his face.

"Well, this is the first time I've tried anything romantic like a date. But it started out humbly enough, like just spending time with them at the same time. That didn't work out well, I was more of a gate between them then, they mostly talked to me, they barely had anything to say to each other." Blue continued.

"Well we can see why." Red said, pointing behind him with his thumb.

"You see my point."

"But why does it matter if they get to like each other or not, how does it benefit anyone other than you?" Red asked.

Blue sighed, "Look Red, you wanna know?" Red nodded, "Well okay, after this, I promise to give you the complete, unabridged story. But right now we're burning daylight, and they're not gonna sit at that table forever. I think we've disclosed that they aren't really good at dating conversations. So will you just trust me on this?" She asked.

Red stayed silent for a few seconds, thinking about it. Yellow's words seemed to echo in his head, "I would never do anything like that to you. Not after you tried so hard and for so long."

"… Espeon, you heard the lady." He said, ducking under the table quick. Espeon nodded and its eyes began to glow.

"Thanks Red." Blue said as the visual came up on her Pokédex screen.

So what else is there left to talk about? Silver thought that Yellow would have more to say than this considering she was the secret admirer and would want to know more. Was she just being shy? The same girl who seemed to have no problems talking to him when they first met, the same person who never seemed to be shy. Yellow, who believed Silver had a crush on her, had to admit even if Silver was a quiet person, he was being too quiet. Shouldn't he have said or done something to move things along?

Maybe this whole thing was a mistake, or maybe he was really just that shy. Still he was her secret admirer wasn't he? Was she really supposed to be the more talkative of the two? Well one of them had to say something. It was a date, that's what you do right? You talk to each other.

"So what-" Yellow began.

"So about-" Silver said at the same time as her.

They both stopped immediately and Yellow chuckled, "You go first."

"It'd be more polite to let you go first, besides what you have to say will probably be more important." Silver responded.

"Well, I was just curious." She looked away bashfully, "I mean, I was just going to ask what you think of." She paused, "…Do you think I overdressed?" She asked rubbing her left glove with her gloved right hand, "I mean, I don't know it just seems overly fancy."

"Well." Silver began, "I'm not sure what constitutes overdressing, but if it's." He stopped himself, "If it helps at all I. I, I think it's." He tried to force it out, Yellow looked at him with her wide eyes, waiting for his answer, "I think it's alright," He said, his eyes darted away from her direction, "You look nice." He finally spat out.

"Thank you." Yellow said cheerily, she looked down quick before proceeding, "I like your hair." She said lifting her eyes up at him.

Silver looked back at her. It just seemed nice to return a compliment with another compliment. Still Yellow thought the neatly combed, seemingly layered hair with most of the back brought up in a ponytail framed his face nicely.

"What were you gonna say?" She asked.

"Oh, I…" Silver paused and looked at Yellow, she had a curious expression on her face, "I was just going to compliment the outfit." He lied.

"Oh. Well, thank you again." She said.

Silver was actually going to ask her about why she wanted to know about his father again. But he figured, since she wasn't bringing it up again he didn't need to ask. He wasn't sure what possessed him to lie as opposed to just saying "never mind" though. Then he noticed something somewhat strange. The pattern on the wall behind Yellow. He knew it was just a coincidence but the wood markings seemed to spell out "ask her about her day".
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Cliffhanger!... Sorta. The next chapter just needs some tweaking. Later on, we'll dig a bit deeper into Blue's motivations. Red's such a sucker in this chapter.