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Satoshi created (The Sever)

Satoshi add 36+ people

Six people have logged on…

Shinji:wtf is this 

who are all these people?

Satoshi:I’ve been wanting a bunch of my old friends to meet each other but i never go the chance so now i can-! I’ve also been missing you guys

Brock:thats sweet also hello all of satoshi other friends 

Shauna: hello to you too? Oh Alain here, is Marion also on here?

Iris:hello someone I’ve never meet 

Alain:She asleep rn but she is on the sever

Satoshi:btw what has everyone been up to?

Brock:same old same old, School life’s been treating me well.

Iris:Taking care of the league and clan duties, also me and Georgia are dating now :>

Satoshi:Let’s go!

Im so happy for y’all!

Trevor:Working in professor sycamore’s sweat shop 

Satoshi:WHAT 

Trevor:We work day and night with little pay,

Brock:Sycamore as in professor sycamore!?

Alain:Trevor stop being a whiny bitch, you only worked over time for like two hours you dainty Twink

Iris: Bro wtf this chat already on this shit

Shauna:Alain 👁️👄👁️

Alain:I can call him a Twink

Trevor: It takes one to know one, YOU CAN NOT EVEN TRY TO TALK

Your worst then me cause you an EMO tWiNk

Alain:Trevor im bout to wipe your ass, like I did your whole team. 

Satoshi:Why he so mad? 

Shauna:He really wanted to watch a stream on poke-vision and he missed it because work

Satoshi:oh

alright i need to do something so Trevor is going in the mute jail

Satoshi has muted Trevor for 5 minutes

Sorry but I need help,

Brock:With what? 

Satoshi:One of my new friends at the trainer school im going too

can’t touch pokemon, because of some traumatic thing that happened to her And i have an idea to help but it involves use aura and that a bit risky 

Brock:Like risky in would hurt her or risky cause it wouldn’t work?

Satoshi:Well both kinda

Alain:I’m not fully sure what you mean by aura is but I don’t think trying to help someone with that deep seated trauma is going to work they need professional help.

Satoshi:That’s true but i just want to help her be able to touch a pokemonwe did it before with Pikachu so she up to get help from friends And i don’t think her parent would give her professional help anyway…..

Iris:Her parent is that bad?

Satoshi:From what i can tell

Alain:Arceus this sounds complicated

Satoshi:I KNOW RIGHT

i should pin Riley, you guys want to help?

@Riley 

Alain:Sure, but who is he?

@Riley

Brock:@Riley

An oLD fRieNd (thats kinda weird ngl) Sato how did you even get his contract information in the first place?

Alain:K

Satoshi:My cousin gave it to me

Dawn:It’s 3 am in sinnoh rn he ain’t awake probably 

but this seem important @Riley

Satoshi:DAWN—! 

Iris:QUEEN, your here-!

Brock:Good to hear from you again

Dawn: ☺️

 Riley has logged on….

Riley:Satoshi i love you dearly but by the gods this better be important 

you woke up Rui and Wes

Satoshi:Sorry, back read

They full on living with you now?

Riley: yes

I know what your talking about for you it shouldn’t be too hard for you

but i don’t think this alone is going to fully help your friend,Though i am glad your trying to do something

Satoshi:thx?

Riley:Just tune your aura with a Lucario before 

and you should be fine

good night

Riley log off

Brock:So it’s a go?

Dawn:I guess?

Alain:He doesn’t seem that weird 

Satoshi:He’s not Brock’s just being mean

Well I guess i just have too see what happens tomorrow 

Dawn:Pls keep us in the loop, this seems like something your gonna need help with also because you woke me up for this

Satoshi:Thx guys

Alain:No need 

Brock: Sato sleep

it like 2 am in alola rn

GO TO SLEEP

your ass can’t do the magic soul shit if you on NO hours of sleep

Satoshi:ok gn

and again thx everyone  

Pikachu and Rowlet were fast asleep on top of him. He hadn’t really used his aura without the help of a pokemon in a very long time. He could do it though, if Riley was so sure. But where would he find himself a lucario? 

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The Professor having a whole pokemon team and not telling him, made Satoshi a little sad. He wasn’t really sad cause he lied, more just because he didn’t get to meet them. It also made the whole set up, for trying to find a lucario feel anticlimactic. Due to him just having to go down the stairs, and one was there.  

At least that’s what he sensed. With his very untuned aura. 

Small calm waves came off them, probably because they were asleep. Getting up off the ground, trying to be as quiet as possible. He started to make his way to the professor's study. Pikachu half-asleep got up on his shoulder, rubbing his eyes with his paw. 

With the house not being very big it took very little time to get to where he wanted to. The professor’s desk was organized chaos at its finest, but it wasn’t going to get in his way. Letting his senses lead his hand, it stops at the middle drawer. Slowly opening it up, creaking the whole two inches, Satoshi was able to open it. 

Pausing and panicking, waiting to hear if anyone had woken up. Hearing little footsteps coming over to him nearly made his heart skip a beat. Rockruff ran in, ready to alert the house to the intruder. Only to be meet with Satoshi, internally screaming and looking wide eye at him. 

“I promise this isn’t what this looks like” A nervous shake in his tone was almost deafening.  

RockRuff just looked more confused than before. Pikachu just hopped down and started explaining, to save his trainer's breath. RockRuff nodded its head, but it still had no idea what was going on.

Before anyone else woke up, he quickly grabbed the aura Pokémon’s contaminant. Walking out to the living room, he set the ball down. Letting a few waves of aura leave his hand, to wake the sleeping pokemon. A click and then a red light followed. The aura pokemon stood in front of them. 

Kit—Alola, May I ask why you have woken me?     

It looked at him serenely. To leave the two of them with their thing, Pikachu and RockRuff went into the Pallossand tent bed.  

Oh, well I need your help—to tune! And Alola to you too! 

A wave of shock came off of Lucario. 

I have yet to tune with a human but nonetheless I will try, But if I may ask does my trainer know of this? Of your ability, kit?  

Now it was Satoshi's turn to be shocked by a question. 

Well N-No..? I don’t really tell people these things—Don’t get me wrong, Kukui seems like a great person, I'm just not ready to tell anyone about it yet! 

Lucario just patted him on the head.

Yet? What are you waiting for? Though I am not saying you have to tell a soul, im just curious 

Well this ability has given me a lot of grief in the past—And to be honest im not really good at using it—Im pretty weak all things considered-i'm not like Sir Aaron, If I was stronger, then maybe I would have a reason to tell

Even more head pats were given, but this time he was scooped up in its arms as the two of them walked outside.  

Why must you be like him? You are you, he is he—If you want I could help you work to be stronger, to make the grief that has comes from it at least somewhat worth it 

Satoshi couldn’t respond, a lump had formed in his throat. Trying to swallow it down. After so many years of being compared to the True Aura Guardian, for someone to say that he didn’t have to live up to him…felt like a breath of fresh air. 

“Thank you” 

His voice sounded so small. Being so flustered, Satoshi hadn’t sent his words through aura. But it seemed Lucario had heard it all the same. 

Calming down, and letting himself breathe a bit. Lucario nodded to him, and held it’s paws out to him. 

Ready kit? 

Yeah, let's do this!

Slowly he let his aura unfold into his partners. It felt odd at first, but he slowly relaxed. Remember something Riley had told him he paused. Breathing in and then out, he began to chant.  

“Aura is with me-Aura is with us” 

The more they went into the thick of it, the more his chat became rhythmic. The world around him became clear.  

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Meanwhile…

Shinji: I feel stupid asking this

Do any of you know where Dawn is?

Or Hell any the coordinators for that manner 

Brock:She was on here yesterday, 

Is something wrong?

Shinji:We said that we would meet up at Eterna city

but she never showed up 

And she wouldn’t return any of my calls. 

Last thing I heard she was signing up for 

some Inter-region contest 

Zoey:Man he almost sounds worried 

Shinji:Shut it 

Brock:Please for the love of Arceus, do not start shit

Trevor:Wait, Terno didn’t Shauna join something like that too?

Terno: Wait, Shinji, what was the contest called?

Shinji: The SunRise tour 

Clemont: Did she join the same one? 

Terno:Yeah 

Brock:Zoey have you heard anything about this?

Or @Drew

Zoey:I tried to sign up myself, but apparently I'm not 

“What they were looking for”

My guess is because Im not straight, and I don’t hid it

Miette: They also said the same thing for my girlfriend, 

but said I could participate 

So of course I didn’t, for her sake because they were being unfair

Now I'm starting to think I might have dodged a bullet 

Trevor: Shauna, me ,and Terno don’t text everyday, so we weren’t 

worry 

Neither of us can contact her either. 

Clemont:Ok I now this looks kinda bad, and for Shinji it is really bad

BUT I think it would be best not to panic 

Let’s wait to see what we can find out about this 

and wait to see if they contact any of us back. 

Brock has given Shinji Admin permission…

Brock:If any of you find anything just put @Admin and we will see it

Shinji: I appreciate this

Zoey: You better

Alain: @Admin The tour is be Hosted by Silph Co presidents son, Dean.

It’s a private venue, for shareholders of the company. 

They are going to be on a cruise ship for two month, till they 

stop in Alola. Which they will also stay in for two weeks. 

Hope this helps. 

Iris:TWO MONTHS AT SEA

Poor Dawn

Brock: How do you find this so quickly!?

You are a godsend 

Alain: A friend filled me in.

Mairn: By Friend he is referring to Steven Stone 

if that helps with believable:3

Alain: seriously, Mairn 

Mairn: >:p

Misty: What how does Steven know about that, his the Devon Corp presidents

So aren't the two companies rivals?

Alain:Steven is not above corporate espionage.

But his illegal pass time can be helpful. 

Misty: PASS TIME?!?

Rich people are fucking scary 

Alain:The amount of power and influence they have is truly astounding 

at times.

Shinji:Do you know if they already left or are they still on land?

Alain:It’s last stop was this morning in Kanto, they stocked up at vermillion

city’s port. 

Shinji: So they are already out at sea

Alain: Unfortunately yes.

Brock:That means the only thing we can do is wait till they get to alola.

Satoshi could deal with it

Or tell the authorities about this.

Alain:The only problem with that is if it truly is a legal event. 

They wouldn’t do a thing. 

Shinji: Fucking bullshit, So grabbing someone and putting them on a boat for a two months is fine 

Miette: That’s the problem with working in the performance industry a lot of the time.

Especially if you're alone and without an agency.

Is really easy to be taken advantage of.

Zoey:That's why a lot of people flag venues that are abusive.

Also Stop yelling at the guy who told you where your 

girlfriend is you ass

Alain:It’s fine if he is upset.

I understand the stakes of this.

Truthfully, I am sorry I could have said anything sooner. 

Shinji: Do not apologize, its fine 

Alain: K 

If I find anything else out I will tell you.

Good day.

Brock:OK

Before I get off, 

I'm just going to make sure, we have all the fact straight

Right now we have Dawn and Shauna who we know joined the tour. 

Drew, May, and Serena can’t be contacted but we don’t know if they did join

Correct?

Clemont:That seems to be right.

Zoey:Brock we should call Kenny 

To see if he joined

Brock:You don’t have his contact? 

Really? 

Zoey: He spams memes when he's bored 

it was really annoying so i blocked him

Brock: oh 

Ok then i'll do it

later 

Clemont has pinned several messages..

Clemont has created thread.. 

Clemont: This so everything we know is easy to find.

Brock:Thank you

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It was wonderful to see every inch of the Island through the eyes of its pokemon. It kinda felt like he was sketching a long unused muscle. His partner was a very calm guide. If he got too caught up in another’s life they would gently get him to refocus. They may not have tuned a human before, but they probably had tuned many a Riolu.  

To say you are weak is foolish, you are just untrained Kit 

If you say so—I never really got to train myself cause I was traveling all the time!

Going a bit beyond the island, he began to focus on a pod of Wailmer.  

If you wish to continue, what we have started today—I would be more than happy to help you!  Also don’t worry about telling my trainer we can do this without his knowledge, if that would be more to your comfort

Going back to where they were sitting, Satoshi thought of what to answer. To do this more often sounded great, but after everything would it truly be safe to train anywhere else beside Iron Island?

Yes, he was using it to help Lillie. Which would be a pretty showing thing, and people would ask questions about it. However a one time thing was easier to explain away, then a bunch of weird events connected to him. Satoshi could also make it look like he wasn’t involved at all if he was lucky. 

But was he really worried about them finding out? The only person in his class who would even know what an aura sensitive person might be would be Lillie. When he was talking to lucario earlier he really should have said he didn’t tell adults about this kinda stuff. Adults could hurt him, adults are usually the ones who want to “Study a kid so rare”. 

His traveling companions found out just because he was with them all the time. All though he had never been as open as he had been with Brock or May. They still figured it out one way or another. Though he never went into detail, or fully out right said it. His classmate didn’t live with him so it wasn’t inevitable that they would find out.

Hiding it was just easier, and safer a good chunk of the time. 

But him being closed off and hiding away was good either. He wasn’t stupid to the fact his ability could help others, and help him out in his own daily life. It was also just kinda fun? Like yes the risks, but those couple months on Iron Island. Where he could use it daily without issue, was truly freeing. Riley, living there, seemed to have less to do with the gym leader's side job and to do with more to do with the freedom it allowed him. 

Sometimes it almost felt like there was fire under his skin when he pushed his own aura down. It had never been painful, but after Kalos. 

After he had been on that tower.

It began to burn. Riley had helped, working through whatever had hurt him. That took him a while to do that though. Would using his aura again, make that come back? Or maybe it would be better if he did use it more? He didn’t really know.

Going back and forth on this wouldn’t help anyone, least of all himself. Riley had seemed fine with him using it, so maybe it was a sigh. To finally just do this.   

S-Sure let's keep doing this—but can we keep it a secret? Please—!  

Of course Kit—!

 A flare of aura cycled him, and the both of them came back to their bodys. Afterwards however things still were more clear, a product of the tuning. If I keep doing this then the world would always look like this! 

With his newly sharpened sense he realized that they were not alone. Kukui had woken up and was looking for him. 

Don’t worry he didn’t see—see you Kit

With that lucario ran off. 

“Satoshi-! Where are you!?”

”Alola professor! Sorry If I worried you—Just felt like taking a walk this morning!” 

The Professor looked relieved. He didn’t have the time to get dressed it would seem. His hair was out of its bun and messily going out everywhere. 

“Please tell me before you do that! At least you didn’t go off too far…” He sighed softly. “Now please come inside, and eat—You have to go to class in 20 minutes!” 

Satoshi follows Kukui back into the house. Rowlet was asleep on the railing, waiting for the two of them to feed him.  

“Ok, Professor!” 

School is going to be very interesting later. He just hoped that what he was going to do would help as much as he thought it would. 

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The sun was shining, the ocean was just as vast as ever, and the pokemon school was welcoming him in. Satoshi hadn’t ever really liked going to school before. They were usually boring, and from past experiences not his thing. He just had a hard time sitting still, and writing and reading so much was somehow way more tiring than running around all day for him.  

However, Kukui somehow made all of that so much easier for him. When he was in his school in Kanto his whole paper would be covered in red grading ink, But here it wasn’t. He didn’t have to read in front of the class either, for some reason? Which was done after the professor had, had him read something out loud to him. It was more than a little—embarrassing, cause he kept pausing and messing up words. The professor didn’t really seem to Judge him for it. He did say that he might have to have a talk with his mom. School stuff just wasn’t his thing, and the professor understood that. 

He tolerated the school stuff so he could hang out with his classmates, and get to stay in Alola. Speaking of his classmates, they weren’t in the classroom right now. Well except Lillie, she was all alone.  

 She sat at her desk, reading one of her big books. This might be easier to do without so much stress. 

“Satoshi! Do you know where everyone is?—I got here early with Hobbs but no one has shown up” Lillie looked a bit worried. 

“I haven’t got a clue why no one showed up—Sorry” He said as scratched the back of his neck. 

His classmate had a conerned expression on her face. He didn’t need to see her face to sense that though. Thinking of the words to say, Satoshi had an idea. 

“H-Hey, Lillie, Mind coming with me for a second?” Satoshi's hand started to fidget, He was trying to Psych himself up.  

“Ok… what for?” She asked. Her aura was very easy to read, flares of fear and confusion dance around her. 

“Don’t worry—I just want to show you something!” Satoshi had begun to climb up the ladder to the roof. 

“OK, T-Then” 

The views from anywhere on Alola were breathtaking, but the school's roof opened up to the ocean like a gate to another world. Hopefully the view would calm her nerves. 

“Can you hold out your hand to me?” 

His aura began to bleed out off him, and his heart beat like a drum 

“Sure, but what am I…going to see like this?” Her voice was laced with Caution.

”To be honest I'm not really sure what you will see, but I do know one thing for sure!—You will be able to touch a pokemon! ”

”What how? I don’t really understand”

Less fear came off of her, and more curiosity. That was a good sign. 

“It’s hard to explain—my friend could explain it better than I could, but I think that this might be able to help you—So do you bite?” 

Discord fluttered in Lillie after he said that. She wasn’t really sure of this, but she wanted to trust him. Slowly putting her hand out to him. 

“If you think it might help me then, can try!” 

“Kay-! This might feel weird for a second—so don’t freak out alright” He paused and then spoke again. “Pikachu, can you come here buddy?”

Coming Sato-! Quick-!

She just nodded her head, her determination flared bright and strong. His partner scrambled up to where they were. Slowly Satoshi pulled her consciousness into his aura, and they got into the thick of it. 

Lillie slipped into it better than he thought she might. Slowly he grabbed her “hand”, in this weird kind of plane leading it to Pikachu's ever bright aura. Still even here she hesitated to touch a pokemon.

He had seen her hesitating more than once , hell he had come over to her house to help her try and touch pikachu. Because they were here now, Satoshi could see things he could normally. A mist-like thing covered his classmates' eyes.  

When he had led her over to his partner. It began to get thicker. 

Whatever this was—it might be, was affecting her. 

Satoshi tried to swat it away from her eyes, but that really didn’t do anything. Trying to think if Riley or Rui had ever said anything about this kinda stuff, but he was coming up blank. 

Being not totally sure of what to do, he let his aura go deeper. To see if there was anything he could do. However, that would seem to be a mistake. 

The plane around them disappeared suddenly. Panic jumped out of Lillie.

The mist that was around her got bigger, slowly enveloping the both of them. He could sense where she was, but she couldn’t in return. 

The mist was still heavy, obscuring something-? Pikachu jumped up into Lillie's arm to keep her from sprilling anymore than before. As he jumped, a flicker of something spiked in her, but Satoshi couldn’t read it before the plane changed again. 

Lillie looked around, this place was familiar to her. Even though Satoshi was right next to her, it didn’t seem like she could see him. 

A little girl that couldn’t have been any older than five or six walked next to them. She was crying out for her mother and brother. The air of the room changed, something new had entered the darkened lab-? Satoshi wasn’t sure if Lillie could feel the alien presence that was in there with her but he could feel it. 

Flares of curiosity flutter off of it. The memory finally showed it in the flesh. It kinda reminded Satoshi of, a transparent pale Malamar that wasn’t upside down. The kid-Oh Arceus it was Lillie looked worried, in the memory she still hadn’t gotten a good look at it. 

It seemed to sense that it too, and out of curiosity it grabbed her. Not truly wanting to hurt her by any means. Lillie didn’t know that though, she began to kick and scream. Helplessly calling out for anyone. 

A boy, who must have been her brother. Was running in to try and find her. Everything was going so fast, between Lillie cries and her brother yelling for her. Someone who Satoshi didn’t know entered the room, however he held a pokeball in his hand. Releasing whatever was inside, it felt familiar in an almost twisted way. Like a copy of an original. However its own aura was filled with the urge to protect. 

Attacking the almost Malamar it, saved Lillie’s from being taken. Catching her on its back, they walked back to its trainer. Lillie however was a shaky mess, tears streamed down her face. Her brother ran over to her, and tried to pick her off the pokemon back. The other person in the room stopped him. The older brother had said his name. Faba was it? so they did know him. 

He took Lillie into the other room, Saying that he would check for any injuries. That was soon to be found out to be a complete lie. Faba turned to his Hypno and ordered it to take away Lillie's memory. 

Before she could run or her brother could come for her. A blind light followed, and Satoshi was back in his body. 

He wasn’t where he was before. He looked up, and realized he was on the ground. Tapu KoKo was looking down at him, Pikachu was on it’s head. 

“Tapu Koko? Ah-Alola-What are you doing here?—-What am I here?”

No response came and the island god was just looking at him. Pikachu hopped down, and started nuzzling him. His buddy’s worry melted away into contentment.

You good? Sato good? 

“Yeah Im ok”

The Island God seemed to be happy with its work, and left the two of them as quick as it came. It’s aura like many legendaries was unreadable. 

“Well that is not what I thought would happen—Wait buddy where’s Lillie at?”

Up-!

The little electric mouse pointed up at the school, as he climbed up on his trainer shoulder. Looking over he realized, his bag was half hazardous thrown to the side of him. Half of it was in the water, poor Rowlet was poking his head out to try and get out.

Satoshi scrambled to grab his bag, and help his poor pokemon. As he did, the school bell rang. 

“Crap! What time is it!—Never mind, we got to go!” 

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Iris:Where is Sato anyway usually he responds faster 

Clemont:If im remembering my time zones correctly He is either asleep right now, or has just gotten to class. 

Shigeru: Class? He's going to a school in Alola willingly?

Well that a surprise  

Sato never had a good time in school, or at least that what heard 

from my grandpa since, we do go to the same place.

Iris:Was he bad about it or something.

Shigeru:Well he was never there—for starters would skip school most of the time and goes who now where

When he was there—wasn’t really better Dude couldn’t sit still for that long 

His writing and reading comprehension were in the garbage too. 

Brock:Im not fully sure that his fault though 

I know he hasn’t gotten tested. But if their was anyone that I knew that was dyslexic 

Its him.

Clemont:There is also a case to be made for him having ADHD too.

Well you all know him, so I don’t think i have to bring evidence out. 

Shigeru: The public school system in kanto is a disaster, so i wouldn’t be surprised 

if his ass was, but his teacher either weren’t trained to help him or weren’t paid 

enough to care

Alain:From what Professor Sycamore told me about kukui, he not only has his Monzoology degree but also for special needs teaching. Out of all the schools he could have gone to, this might be the best for him. 

Shigeru:You sure are knowledgeable, aren’t you?

Don’t get me wrong I'm impressed, so I can't help being a bit curious as to how you know so much?

Marin:Once Alain is given a lead on something, he will follow it to the very end-!

The first night we got on this server he found every single one of your trainer cards

Alain: Marin you don’t tell people these things.

It’s a bad habit of mine to do that, sorry if that makes anyone uncomfortable. 

Brock:It public information anyway, (but like DaMn that takes dedication) 

Alain:Also I couldn’t find the trainer card for everyone, there are still three people that I couldn’t find. Two of which don't have their actual names displayed and the other is Riley. 

Brock:I have a feeling I know who those two are but I have no idea why he considers those two is frends. 

Don’t worry, I will ask him about it later. 

Alain:K 

Shigeru:I mean their display name are “Informant1” and “Informant2” so honestly they might just be here to tell him stuff. 

Alain:Why wouldn’t he put it on a private chat then?

Shigeru: Idk 🤷 

It's Satoshi, he doesn’t make decisions based on logic. He just makes decisions.

Brock:To be fair though with Riley I'm not really surprised about that, I'm honestly pretty sure he might not be a trainer.  

Alain: Alright then. 

Marin:Conspiracy broad time-!

Alain:No 

Marin:awwwww :(

Alain:Meyer doesn’t have a whole lot of room in his house for that kinda stuff, anyway.

Clemot: Are attic would have space for that, though.

 Mairn:Really-!!!!!! 🤩

Alain:Please don’t give her ideas.

Clemont:I am just stating the facts, nothing more nothing less. 

Misty:You two live together? (Sorry if i'm being nosy)

Marin: Yup, their step brothers! 

Alain:Legal speaking we aren’t. The professor and Meyer still have gotten married yet. 

Marin:Alright then almost step siblings  >:9

Misty:When is the wedding at? 

Alain:They still haven’t decided, but mostly likely this fall.  

Misty:Fall wedding are a vibe, your dads have good taste

Iris:That's super cute-! 

Cilan: I can already think of the wonderful sugary delight that one might make at such a momentous occasion!

Also long time no see, Monsieur 👋

Clemont:Good to see you too, Cilan!

Marin:You two knew each other?

Cilan:We meet in Kalos Railway station, Satoshi of course introduced us

Oh how is that little sister of yours doing?

Clemont:Bonnies good! (She reading over my shoulder btw)

Marin: Hi Bonnie-! :3

Cilan: Good to hear~🩷

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 After running to his class, and most definitely being late. Satoshi looked around for Lillie. She sat with the rest of the class around her, Mallow half hugging her. Lillie was completely overwhelmed. 

“Lillie! Oh Arceus-Im sor—“

The rest of the class looked over at him. He felt confusion at his words. Now getting a good look at his classmates. All of them looked like they were put through the ringer. 

“What happened to you guys!?” 

“I struck us out of the sky while I was making my morning delivery! It took 30 minutes just to be able to get all the milk back on Charizard!” Spoke kiawe, mournfully.

“When I woke up I was miles from shore! Me and Poplio had to swim all the way back” Lana held up a shell to the class. “At least I found this” 

“When we were walking to get here, an electric line fell down on me—Togedemaru ended up saving me—but I still got a shock!” Sophocles muttered, as he pet his pokemon. 

Unlike the others Mallow didn’t end up right away answering, still looked at Lillie. Her own injuries ignored.

“Oh, me-? Just had a problem with the oven this morning. That's all…” Mallow was wrapped around Lillie. Who still had a cloudy look over her eyes, so much was mixing around in her. Satoshi had no idea what was going through her head. 

Pikachu right there and then realized something. And decide he was going to act on it. 

His partner jumped off and on to Lillie’s desk.

“Buddy, wait!”

She not scared anymore! Pikachu chirped at him.

His best friend did not feel like listening, and began to nuzzle her. Lillie moves but not out of fear. No, she leaded into the electric type fur.   

The whole class looked at her in shock. 

“Lillie you're touching a pokemon-!” Lana came closer, as Poplio hopped off onto the desk.  

Joy spilled out from everyone.  

“Thank you” Lillie cried. 

Most of the other pokemon in the class followed suit and crowded on to her desk. Cuddling and chirping, at her as much as they could. They were trying to calm her down the best they could. She stood up from her desk, holding her classmates pokemon. There were so many things Satoshi thought she might say but thank you was not it. 

“Thank you—Thank you—Thank you-!” Lillie screamed, as she sobbed. “I n-never knew what happened—My memory was always cloudy at best, No one would tell me what happened—Not Mother—Not Hobbs—Brother? I don’t even know where he is!”

 Everyone either stood in shock, or in dull anger. Mallow held her tighter, letting Lillie scream and cry into her shoulder.  

Two new aura came into range. Two people were coming down the hall. One that Satoshi had meet before and the other? Kukui walked in with a med kit, and another man walked in behind him. 

“Class! I'm back, and I got help! Line up—just tell me where it hurts and we will take care of the rest!” Kukui held the med kit out to them. His happy demeanor melted the second he saw his student. The person was worried but unlike Kukui he was not surprised to see his classmate in this state. 

“Miss Lillie!” He ran to her. “My little lady, are you alright?”

“What happened now?!” Kukui said bewildered.  

None of his class could answer, most of them didn’t even feel like they knew.

“Lillie remembered something..” Mallow muttered, giving her friend’s butler a wary look. 

“I see—miss, let's get you home” Hobbs paused. ”Miss Mallow, would you like to come with us?” 

“Sure Hobbs” Mallowed answered back. “Is that ok with you professor?”

“Do what you need too-But Mallow please get those burns checked out—ok?”

”Sure thing! See you guys!”

The three of them said their goodbyes and left. Satoshi just kinda stood there in a daze, everything had gone too quickly for him to really even think.  

Kukui had patched up those who needed it. He didn’t feel like class should go on, so they were let out for the day. At some point Satoshi slipped away and found his way back to the professor's house. He needed a minute to breathe, too much happened too quickly.

There would be questions from everyone, Satoshi would deal with it later. 

He pulled his phone out, and sighed. Slowly his pokemon found a place beside him.

“Why is there so many notifications?” 

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Satoshi:Oh for Arceus stake, why did all the shit have to go down now 

Clemont: How'd that whole thing go with your classmate?

Satoshi: It was so much worse than i thought it would be

Alain:How so?

Satoshi:She had her memory wiped, doesn’t knew where her brother is who was at said event where she got traumatized, and the guy who wiped her memory she also knew and i think works for her parent(from what he was wearing i'm guessing he a scientist of some sort)

oh and i think one of pokemon from her memory was artificial made, the other was just off like not from here kinda off

Kinda like what it felt like to meet Deoxys

Brock:Oh shit 

Satoshi: She can touch pokemon now, so at least there some silver lining 

Also at @Riley I need help

How did i enter someone’s memory?

Riley: What happened? 

What I thought you would be doing, would have nothing to do with memory? 

Satoshi: I THOUGHT THAT TOO

Riley:By Arceus’s plates 

What did you do?

Satoshi: Well when we went into that “zone” she had mist covering her eyes

So i tried to get rid of it because it was stopping her from touching pikachu

But i couldn’t so a tried to see if there was anything i could do

After that point though everything just went to fast i only remember bits a pieces

What’s your verdict?

Riley: When you were trying to “see” what you could do.

You “broke” into her memory, let's say.

Did anything happen after that?

Satoshi:Well 

pikachu tried to comforter Lillie and them her memory played out

Soooo something spiked in her but it was far too quick to sense. 

Riley: I see

I guessing that ,due to it being a very traumatic experience your friend buried it deep

but have her memory broken into, and then reminded of said event. 

Could have led to what happened.

Satoshi: Ok then

Riley:How was she after?

Satoshi: She was crying, and was very overwhelmed. 

I feels so bad, but she thanked me though 

Riley: Anyone would be in shock after something like that

From what it sounds like to me is that she just needs time. 

For now don't be worried, and let things play out Sato.

Ok?

Satoshi: ok

Also Shinji 

I'll see what I can do on my end

There are many place they could go on 

Mele Mele island so i'm going to need to

scout out some places

Shinji: alright then 

find the very expensive resorts

i'm sure that a those rich fucks 

would settle for anything less 

then a gold plated hotel

Satoshi: got it 

Weekends coming up so i have time 

Have a good night you guys-!

or day idk

:P  

Chapter Text

“I should have known it was far too good to be true” Dawn curled up with her Pachirisu in her arms. Both her and her pokemon looked exhausted. Not only from a lack of sleep, but also from being physically overworked. 

She wanted to just cry already, but that wouldn’t do any good. 

The two of them were backstage, they hadn’t gotten to leave this stage since last night. Right now she had a break because the audience had asked for another performer. Dawn had thanked them before then went on. She wished she knew the poor honey blonde's name. 

The SunRise tour looked like a dream come true. 

A vacation with a little work. 

She would get to see Sato and the Alola region-! Wouldn’t that be great, to get to see her brother from another mother again?

But that was a lie like everything else the poster had said. 

A week out of sea-? Sorry actually two months. Should have told your friends and family before hand, cause your not allowed to have your phone.

Your own room with a view-? No sorry you're sleeping with two other girls in a tiny bed, even though the ship has over 67 empty rooms.

Three course meals for you and your pokemon. The girls weren’t allowed to eat anything over 1000 calories, because apparently 16 year old girls don't need anything more than that.  

The guys got more than they did, but it was a light meal all the same. Drew and Kenny had tried to sneak some extra over to them, but they were quickly caught. 

Oh and how could she forget-? If you don’t listen to the tour rules your pokemon would be taken away from you. 

Every night they had to turn their pokemon in “too let them go into the ships Pokepark”, on the first day it didn't seem weird but now—? Now they fully knew why that was. 

The morning after the two guys had been caught they had when to collect their pokemon. Only to find one of them missing, for Drew his Flygon and Kenny his Floatzel. The both of them were absolutely horrified by it.

Their client was a damn creep. Mr Silph made them work non-stop, if he felt like it. He believed that because he was paying them, they were now his performers. 

When they got to shore she was going to raise hell, and she knew Shinji would help her with that.

Arceus, she missed him. 

The jerk, who somehow still could be kinda sweet in his own grumpy way. 

He was probably going to call her dumb for this, and tell her about all the red flags that she should have seen. But he would still hold her and give her kisses. Then after all of that apologize and tell her it wasn’t her fault. 

“He probably thinks I just stood him up” Dawn wiped a tear from her eye, closeted her eyes and then put on a smile. “Everything’s going to be fine-!N-No need to worry!”  

“We get through these couple months and then we go home” Her pokemon looked up at her with a weak smile. 

“We can do that at least!”

Just make it until then Dawn-!

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Serena wasn’t sure Pancham could make it any longer. Her partner was doing his best, but without being properly rested he wasn’t able to keep up. 

She had been switched in for another girl, who had performed late into the night before. Her Pachirisu and her seemed to be very bonded, because even in their tried states their movements were still insync. Serena really felt bad that she did know the poor girl's name.  

Her audience was barely paying attention. Why did Mr Silph feel the need to run them dry when none of his guests truly cared for their performances only Arceus knew.  

During one of her last shows Serena had tried to slow down and let her pokemon have a rest. However her client had caught her in the act and not only gave her a penalty. Serena didn’t even know what might happen if she got all three strikes. But also lengthened her time on stage. 

It’s not like he ever told them how long they were going to be on stage to begin with.

Most of the performers had changed their routine to be more focused on endurance. Which in a different circumstances, would be a wonderful challenge.

After what had happened to Drew and Kenny. Everyone had been walking on eggshells. No one wanted to lose their pokemon so they were on their best behavior around the guest of the ship. 

May took it the worst way though, feeling guilty because she had told her boyfriend of how little they were getting. May fully felt responsible for them losing their pokemon. She hated seeing her friend, beat herself up over, their mistreatment. 

 Even though they weren’t given the rooms they were promised, Serena didn’t really mind sleeping with other people so close. 

It kinda reminded her of her travels in her home region. 

Of traveling with Clemont, Bonnie, and Satoshi. 

Serena missed them, she missed them badly. There were so many words left unsaid between her and Sato. 

But there was no way to call them now. 

Right now she shouldn’t be worrying about that, Serena should be worrying on a way to get out of here.

The only problem with that, she didn’t have any pokemon who could fly or swim them off. So they were getting off another way. 

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It had been a couple days since— whatever had happened. Lillie sat in her room still replaying every little thing. Her confusion and shock had made it hard to think, but now. Her brain was working over time. 

Most of the people in her life had lied to her.

Her Mother.

 Faba.

He caused all of this, he stole so much of her childhood and development from her. They had known all this time what happened and never told her once. They hid this from her, mother had hid this from her own kid. 

But it would not be unlike mother to put herself above kids.  

But why had Faba done what he had?

He wasn’t always nice, but she didn’t think he was that cruel. 

Yes, Lillie had her memory back, but there were so many things she still didn’t understand. 

What was the pokemon that grabbed her? And on the flip side of that, what was the pokemon who saved her?

How did she even see her memory to begin with—?!

Oh right, Satoshi had called her up to the roof to “show her something”. To be far he hadn’t lied, and he had also said she could touch a pokemon. She did and now she could.  

But was it really him who called her up there? The next time she saw “him” he was running late to class, no one else had seen him either. Although all of their mornings had been quite intense, so everyone had been late. 

Satoshi had always been a bit weird. Not in a bad way, but a fun way. He was always full of energy and just all around cheerful. All be it freakishly good at pokemon battling, and often very perceptive of the area they were in. He had a way over the legendaries that was truly fascinating. He also had first hand experience from traveling to all kinds of regions, his skill as a trainer was impressive to say less. 

It was no wonder as to why the Tapu KoKo, and taken notice of him. 

But something had bugged her ever since Lille had first seen him battle. 

There was always a buzz in the air around Satoshi when he fought. Lillie had always boiled it down to being his fighting spirit, as their professor had called it. 

But wouldn’t she be able to feel it with other people too then?

Kiwae liked battling just as much as Satoshi, but he never gave off the same aura. 

Aura

The realization hit her like a Rhyhorn. Hadn’t she read about something like this?

 Of a group of people who could control aura like a lucario could. There was a legends of great heroes and traveling priests who used they abilities to help any being they came across. From sealing evil spirits to healing great trees of beginning, people adept in aura had been credited for all kinds of things. There was even a myth that they used flowers to hold on to vast libraries of memories.

Though unlike psychics they do not have any official status. They were just far too few of them for something like that.

But before she jumps to any conclusions. Lillie decided to read up more. She didn’t just want to start any trouble until she was sure. 

Pulling out some of her books, and rang the bell for one of her family’s workers to get some more for her. She might even have to go into town later to pick up some books the house library didn’t have.  

For the first time since this started Lillie felt excited!

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Every part of Satoshi did not feel like getting up. But he promised Shinji he would scout, and for Dawns as well as the rest of his friends who might have joined that tour's sakes he had too.

He hadn’t been able to talk to any of his classmates yet. Kukui had asked, but he accepted Satoshi's half answer. However he did tell him what happened on his end. 

The professor walked into his classroom and saw everyone except Lillie. They all were hurt from their mornings being sucky, so he had rushed down to the nurses office to get supplies for them. Walking up he saw Hobbs walking up, saying he had gotten a message from Lillie wondering if there was school that day. Due to no one being there. 

Satoshi wouldn’t lie, it felt more than suspicious that everyone was not around during the morning. Tapu KoKo being there made it even more. Why the island guardian was trying to give him a cover Satoshi did not really know, but beside the fact that it had hurt his classmates he appreciated it. 

Maybe that is why none of them have confronted him about anything yet, they didn’t think he was involved. After all, they thought he was late. 

However he still had to remember Lillie had gotten hurt, not physically. But Satoshi wasn’t fully sure that helping her remember was good for her. 

The ghost of her overwhelmed aura still lingered in his chest. Satoshi had seen someone like that before, and that was after Kalos. What made it worse is because he’s the one who caused it.

The lucario from before had come to talk to him again. They didn’t tune like last time, his aura was far too unruly for that after what happened three days before. They really only said hello and then lucario tried to calm his nerves. A headache had formed at one point that was honestly starting to turn into a migraine. They put their paw on his head and it disappeared, letting him get a little bit of sleep that night. 

There was too much to think about and far too little time. 

 “Oofff” A small mass had landed on his stomach.

Rockruff jumped up on him. Its big blue eyes staring down at him, its head tilted. The puppy pokemon was living in the professor house with him. It was really friendly, and just all around a cute little creature. Some part of him really want to catch RockRuff abut for right now, he though 

He realized quickly why he was up here. Rockruff was worried for him, and it wanted to go out and play. In protest of him being sad he started rubbing their neck rocks on Satoshi's neck to get him up.

Want play? Want to feel better?

“All right—All right, want to go on a run?”

Where? Another voice chimed in his head. Pikachu pokes his head up, from up the covers. One of his ears was caught under the blanket. 

“I'm going to look over all the resorts, thought we could ran over there and take a look—promise I will get you guys some treats if you help me”

The little red Dex floated up, from its stand. Rotom Dex was probably the oddest one he had ever had, with it being a live being that had a free will and everything. Dex was fun and it was great to be the one teaching it sang. Whether the Dex used the sang correctly was a whole other matter. 

“Why are we going to the resorts? That doesn’t seem very exciting…” On the Rotom little screen it showed an unimpressed face. 

Are you really judging me right now?

“I promise a friend I would look around for them” Satoshi pouted just a little bit as he spoke.

“Odd but alright!” The Dex seemed happy with that answer. “Wonder what we might find if we haven't gone to that area of town before!” 

Rowlet popped up, and started walking over to his trainer with his backpack. They were still a bit drowsy though. 

“Kay—Professor! Were heading out—!” Picking up his hat, Satoshi started to head out the door. “We’ll be back before dinner!” 

“Alright can you get some rice while you're out? we’re kinda low right now”  Kukui called from his office.

”Sure thing—see ya!”

With that five of them started heading over to the higher end parts of Mele Mele island. 

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Brock: I meaning to ask you this at some point, 

but like when did you and dawn start dating?

If you mind me asking

Shinji: how about you ask that question when she’s here

and not been kidnapped

Brock: Fair enough 

By the way, where are you right now?

Shinji:I'm heading to kanto 

i'll be there in a hour 

Brock: What 

why?

Shinji: If the thing is being planned by Silph Co

I just going to go and ask a couple questions 

Brock: Shinji 

I'm coming with you 

Shinji: I do not need your help

Brock:im not going there to help you

i'm going there so those poor works don’t face your 

Electivire’s fist 

Shinji: i had enough sense not to do that

Shinji has logged off…

Brock: Damn it 

Misty you free rn 

Misty: ill head over don’t worry 

Should I bring my KeyStone?

Brock: yes

Clemont i'm going to say on 

if anything on the new over here comes up 

pls pin me 

Clemont: Alright

Trevor: That went from 1 to 100 really quickly

But i can’t be mad

Terno: If he make enough of a mess, it might bring attention tour 

that could be good for Shauna and Serena  

Brock: it could be good, but it going to be bad for him

I don’t think it would be great for his ass to be in jail

Trevor: yeah…

Alain: He is strong enough to where Kantos league might 

have to intervene. 

Brock: OH if he pissed enough, Wataru might have to show up

Misty: I really do not feel like trying to explain to him why there is a 

member of Sinnoh’s elite four trying to break into Silph Co

He still mad at us cause Sato didn’t listen to him that one time

Clemont: What?

What did he do?

Misty: We went into a team rocket base, and he told use not too

cause his was worry we’d get hurt

Sato also beat one of the scientists up while we where there 

Wataru wasn’t mad about that

but that happened 

Iris: That happens a lot though 

cause he beat up two in Unova 

Team Rocket and him have a weird relationship 

And it’s not just those two 

Misty: I wasn’t there for the whole Rocket and Plasma team war

but from what i heard you guys got in a fight with the big boss guy, right?

Iris: yeah and he beat are asses 

but he was especially going after Sato 

I didn’t really get to hear what they were talking about 

but it got super heated at one point 

they kept screaming about someone named Silver

I think N heard way more than i did

Misty: he had not talked about any of this 

Iris: well that really weird 

he tells you and Brock everything 

Misty: Didn’t tells us about this 

Brock: not me either 

Iris: Damn ok then 

Riley: If I'm not wrong, I think Silver is his half brother. 

Trevor: Half brother —😳

There has to to be family drama there 

Clemont: He has a sibling?

Riley: He only mentioned him, when we were talking about 

who we were related to. 

I don’t think they were ever close

Brock: When did the two of you talk to begin with?

Did you two meet up again

Riley: He came to me earlier this year.

His cousin was also with us so we started talking, about 

who we’re related too. 

Brock: Vague but alright 

I will see what’s going on 

but ain’t texting

im at  

Saffron cities gate

Misty: I'll be there in a minute 

See you guys later

Wish us luck!

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Even with his ability, scouting hadn’t yielded much of anything. Most of the rich people's houses were owned by single families. With them also being far too small to have anymore than six people staying there. 

The resorts in the area were actually not that high end either. Like the region they were in, they were relaxed and not pricey. 

There was a new one being built though it would probably be mostly done in a couple months. It looked like it would be more high end.  

Rainbow something or another resort. Even though the place looked like it would everything and more. There was an aura coming from the place that felt so slimy and plain repulsive that Satoshi didn’t even want to walk on the same streets as it. 

His pokemon were having fun though so at least one part of the plan was going well. Rockruff had found a stick and was waving it around like a sword. The little thing was having a great time, just thwacking everything with it. 

Rowlet and Pikachu were just chilling but felt content. Rotom was talking about detective Laki, because apparently one of the episodes was filmed near here.

He didn’t have anything to report back to Shinji when he got back home, from this area at least.  

The other islands also had resorts so maybe they would be stopping at one of those?

Without knowing where they were going, looking around wasn’t really going to help. He might just have to scan all the islands around the time that they're going to get here. Which would mean he would be spending more time with Lucario. Not like he minded that fact, but he had to ask the Pokemon for more of their time. 

“Well I think we should start heading over to the Mall '' Satoshi 's voice didn’t sound super pleased, but what more could he do right now? “It’s starting to get really hot out here, so we can cold down and get what the professor wants—then head home”

”Wait can we go to one more place first? Please?” Rotom started to beg. “I believe that the library over there was used in the second episode of the first season, and it's were Laki first meet his partner and—“ 

“OK-Ok we can go!” Satoshi sighed softly. Sometimes having Dex around felt like having a little sibling when it got excited.  

Rotom started flying faster towards the library, So of course Sato followed his friend. The only times he had been in the library in recent memory was to call people when he traveled. They usually had telephones like the Pokemon centers did, and bathrooms. If he and his traveling companions couldn’t find a center, and they were near a library they’d camp out behind them. 

 He never really did read anything per say, but he remembered Clemont would read to Bonnie. If Clem did, he got to listen alongside her. Serena would bake too if they stopped…thinking about that time brought back a weird fuzzy feeling. 

Memory’s of Serena tend to make him feel like that. 

And that thing that happened at the airport. 

If she was coming here because of that tour, then maybe they could talk about it. Satoshi really just wanted to see her again, badly wanted too. 

Serena had said she wanted to be a “stronger person” when he saw her again. So he had decided to respect that. Why she felt the need to have to be strong to face him again Satoshi didn’t really understand but if that is what she wanted, then that would be the way it was. 

Even as deeply in thought as he was, something walked into his aura, suddenly someone was right in front of him. Someone not paying attention, and someone he knew by the feeling of it.

Before he knew it a reflex trigger and he moved to the side as a bunch of books fell down. His classmate was frantically trying to pick up the books that had fallen out of her arms. 

“Oh No! I am so sorry! I should have been paying more attention —-wait?” Lillie looked at him like a Deerling in head lights.  Panic spiked, that's not a good sign. 

“Lillie? Are you alright?” Not getting a reply. Satoshi started picking up some of the books. All of the books she had picked out, looked and smelled old. 

“NO, it's ok! I can do this myself!”

She does not seem to want me around at all. The second he had picked up one of the books he could almost hear Lillie's heart start racing. 

”However, thank you—Have a good rest of your day Satoshi!” Lillie was so high pitched, it was starting to crack slightly. 

She turned her heels and started speed walking out the door. 

“Lillie wait—I'm sorry-I thought what I did was going to help” He tried himself to calm down. “But it just ended up hurting you— please can we talk about this?”  

She just kept going and now was flaring guilt but also a feeling of reassurance -?!

Why did she feel bad? She didn’t do anything?

“See you then…” Satoshi stood there sadly, he messed up. And there didn’t seem to be a way to fix it. 

Chapter Text

A trainer quietly walked through the doors of the Silph Co building. He did look outstanding in any way. A baseball cap lay low on his head, and his jacket collar covered most of the bottom of his face. 

Walking up to the front desk, but didn’t say anything. 

“How can I help you, Sir?” The desk workers asked, a very sweet and polite tone to her words.

“Is Mr Silph here in this building?” 

The worker was quite shocked at the man's question . She looked him over again, with a bit of caution.

”I would like to talk to him, is there any time that I might be able to today?” The trainer's voice sounded grainy and tired. 

“I see…” She paused and nodded her head. Her hand hovered above the panic button under her desk, but still she did not press it. 

“I can ring you in for a meeting in 30 minutes , is that ok with you?”

The trainer just nodded his head, and started walking to the elevator. 

“Top floor…Sir” She explained. “There’s a waiting room up there” 

He didn’t answer, but punched in the buttons for the top floor. The second he left, the worker finally caught her breath. She put both her head in her hands and sighed,for a moment there she thought they were about to be robbed. The sudden panic of that thought still gripped her chest, and didn’t not seem like it was going to let up.  

“I just going to go home, I have 30 minutes left on shift” She cried. Picking up all her stuff, she left without a second glance back.  

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Shinji felt like he was a very calm person. His hand hovered over his belt, his Froslass ball had a dent in its side. Shinji had started running his thumb over the dent. Reiji called it a nervous tick. 

He fucking hated that he did it. The fact he lost control over his body was, is being weak. A sign that he was scared, Arceus every time he did Shinji wanted to chop his hand off. 

He had been waiting for far longer than 30 minutes, but he wasn’t going to leave. It’s not like he had anything else to do.  

A click and the doors opened into an office. And of course it was filled to the brim with all the tacky rich people things. White marble floors, even whiter walls with modern art thrown in places, and the saddest light gray “chandelier” made of blocks that hung from the ceiling. It felt gross even being, in there.  

At least If I trash this place nothing of taste is going to be broken.  

“—-Yes Yes I will be going to meet with the champion Wataru again, and give him are proposal—!” The president was on the phone. Even if he was alone, the president was being obnoxiously loud.  

”Do I think he will take the deal?” He looked up to see his visitor. He went on with his call “Why of course he will-! His G-Men would have more resources than ever before”

”I would love to kept talking, but I have a unplanned meeting— soo See you”

Putting down the phone, he pulled out what must be his reading glass. Starting to look over some paper on his desk, he called Shinji in.  

“What can I do for you today?—actually before that, how would you like to take that hat off. It's just a horrible shade of rouge—honestly sickening” He said this without a single drop of irony. 

Shinji took his hat off and balled it up in his pocket. 

“Truly so much better!”

”Oh you can talk now, don’t worry” The president had picked up more papers and kept on read. 

“Your son is running a tour is he not?” Shinji's voice sounded more tired than he wanted it to.  

To that the man did really move, or show anything on the surface. Just giving Shinji the fakest smile possible. 

“Oh yes, were you interested in joining? Sorry to said, but the cut off date is way over~!“ 

Shinji sighed, and looked the president in the eyes. From his tone that sorry didn’t feel genuine at all. 

“I have no interest in joining, someone else that I know did and there is no way to contact her” His voice was starting to show his frustration.This man was incredibly annoying. “I would like to to know where Said person is”

“Oooooohhhh, I understand” He yelled out loud and then started laughing. “Worried your lass is up to no good with another man are we? Don’t worry my son is quite the gentleman” The man winked at him. 

Shinji loudly sighed. Why did he think thats, why he was asking such a stupid question, out of no where?

“If she is on the tour, then she sighed off to complete radio silence for her duration of the trip, and a NDA for after as well” His tone changed to one more of what one would expect from a businessman. 

“So you—“ The president drove his pointer finger into Shinji’s chest. He tiled his head, like someone would when looking done at a screaming child. ”Don’t need to be here anymore! Cause your going to see your little girlfriend when she is done” 

“NOW would you please, Sir” The president waved at him to get out, with his other hand. 

Shinji stuck the president's hand down. No one was going to touch him like that, least of all this creep.  

 The breeder was right, someone is going to have Electivire restructure their jaw today. Never once in his life had he seen a smile so disgusting, it just had to be fixed.

”I'm not asking you nicely, I never was asking” Shinji let his voice turn into a growl. Two of the Pokeballs unlatched themselves and his Ursaring and Magmortar stood behind him. For once in this fucking conversation the smile the president put on dropped, now shock seeded his eyes. 

“You are going to tell me where Dawn Blitz is” He fully let himself sneer.

An alarm sounded throughout the building, the coward must have sprung the alarm. The president's own guard pokemon came to greet him with a growl. Two Arcanine that stood to either side of him, and from the looks of it, more where to come.

“Now who do you think you are for demanding me of something like that—For threatening me as you have!” 

Shinji didn’t answer. There was no need to waste his breath. He could only hope this would not be as much of a pitiful battle as he thought it might.  

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Shinji said he would be in Kanto in an hour, but something told him that after their conversation might have sped up that time. Even if he did get there before Shinji there was a good chance he would not be able to stop him from doing anything rash. 

Sato and him are very similar in that way, once they get going, stopping them is near impossible. He was worried about Dawn and May too, they were like little sisters to him. And Shinji was doing a good thing, but Brock did not want him to go to jail. If anything for his poor brother's sake. 

Misty should be here soon that should help massively. As an active gym leader her pokemon had far more practice then his did. The Silph Co building was right in front of him now. Much to his dismay a group of people had formed around the building, all looking up. A faint alarm could be heard too. 

Well that can’t be great

Brock made his way through the crowd, most of the people outside seemed like they worked at Silph Co. If they were evacuating the building, that means fighting was still going on. However there were no officers to be seen, good and bad.

“Oh Holy Mew!”Someone from the crowd shouted. 

Before he could get through to the door, a part of the top floor went flying.  

”Get away from the building-!” Brock himself screamed. Most of the group ran off.

“Shinji, What the hell man!” 

Before most of the stuff falling could reach the ground, a pillar of water stopped it. 

“Gyarados, Hydro pump! Make sure nothing reaches the ground” Misty called out orders, she looked all the part of a gym leader. “Everyone please leave this area immediately, and call Office Jenny would you!” 

“Misty! You made it!” He smiled as he spoke. “Good to see you again, wish it was in different circumstances thought”

“Oh where’s the fun in that?” Misty smiled right back at him. Whether win or lose it seemed like she was itching for a fight.  “Ready to go meet Dawn's crazy boyfriend?”  

The both of them started running through the building.

“Wait, is this your first time meeting him in person or-?” Realizing that, Brock asked. 

“Yup” She replied quickly and sweetly. “Quite the first impressions, wouldn’t you say?” 

The fight was on the top floor, or maybe on the floor below it. That still means they had to scale at least 28 stories of stairs. Wouldn’t be a Bad time to catch up with each other. 

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As he had thought the pokemon sent to guard, the president was not challenging. Some part of him even felt bad, they did not seem to be treated as if a billionaire was their trainer. After his own choices in the past, he had made sure he fully knew what abuse looked like. 

Poorly fed and attention starving doesn’t make your pokemon stronger, it just makes them look far more vicious. Many Dog-like Pokemon were treated in that way because of the idiotic idea that it made them less willing to be mercifully in a battle. 

The president sat crumbed in the corner, his nice mostlike very expensive suit was destroyed. So was the rest of his office. That was by his own doing though, With his use and miss of Hyper Beam. Now there was a giant hole in the wall. There was nothing in the way anymore. 

“Y-You will face consequences for this!” A weak yell came from the man. 

“I don’t care,” Shinji put it bluntly. He grabbed the man and dropped on to the desk. 

“Call your son”

The president looked him up and down with a look of disbelief. But he pulled out his phone nonetheless. With a shake hand he gave the phone to Shinji. 

Ring! 

Ring! Ring!

“Hello-! Hello-! Old man what’s up?” The chipper voice on the other line was already starting annoying him. 

”This is Dean Silph, Correct” 

The president scurried off to get down the stairs. He didn’t need the man's assistance anymore, his absence was more than fine. 

“Why of course it is-! Who’s this?” Him and his father talked in a similar tone. 

“My name is Shinji Kanama, I am a member of the Sinnoh elite Four” He paused. “On you tour you have performers traveling with you are—

“Shinji, where are you?” Another voice came from down the stairs. “You gotta stop this man!”

Breeder and someone else ran into the room. They looked confused, at the scene in front of them. 

“Mrs Elite Four, What were you saying?” The heirs' voice came again.

He looked over at them with a glare, he mouthed Shut up. Shinji went back to his call. 

”Is the performer Dawn Blitz on board for you at the moment?”

Brock mouth back, Put it on speaker.  

Please

Shinji changed it over begrudgingly. 

“Oh, of course I do!—I have all the big shot performers on board” Gloated his ass off Dean answered.“Lisia Mirabel, Serena Yental, May Maple, Drew Rosa-but if you wanted to com—“

Brock's eyes went wide at the conference, he pulled out his phone. Shinji didn’t care as long as he wasn’t loud. 

“Can I talk with her—Dawn?” Saiding that sounded far too pathetic then was comfortable. The other end of the line was quiet, for far too long. 

“But Why would you need to?” His tone dropped for a charming playboy prince, to something more akin to a child being told no. “I paid her for her time—If you had paid then she would be with you Msr Elite four!” 

“I don’t care if you pay her more money then Arceus, I just want to know if she is alright, Fucking hell!” Yelling into the phone, Shinji started feverishly rubbing Froslass pokeball. 

Another long pause came from the man on the other end.

“Oooohhhhh I get you-!” Like a switch flipped he was back to the tone before. “I'll give ya something in-—how bout three days—See ya!” 

“Wait no hold on!” This time Brock answered,  he rushed over to the phone. But the call had already ended. “Damn it!”

The three of them stood there in silence, looking at each other. 

“What were you thinking-! Breaking into Silph Co like this, are you crazy?” Misty finally yelled after all this time. 

“I didn’t break in” Shinji put the phone down on the table. “I was let in—Who are you anyway” 

The red head glared at him. And Brock only just said.  

“Names Misty Umihana, AND I just so happened to be the Cerulean City Gym leader” She stated, quite pissed. “I specialize in water types” 

Shinji did not answer, just nodded his head. Starting to head down the stairs, his hands had stopped moving.  

“Where do you think you are going-?!” Misty grabbed his arm, but her hand was stuck off very quickly. “If you go half the Saffron city police are going to be down there!”  Brock in turn grabbed on to Misty, pulling her away. Shinji started to fidget more, furling and unfurling his hands. 

“Sorry about that, I should have told her '' Brock apologized, and let go of his friend. “But shes right, you go down there your going to be arrested” 

“I know” Once again Shinji answered bluntly. “I'm not that stupid” 

“Well that is kinda hard to tell!” Misty yelled, she still felt bad for him but man. “What’s your plan then, walk down there and fight everyone off Or are you going to be in prison when your girlfriend gets off the tour?” 

Shinji didn’t answer, what he did was out of impulse. There had never been a plan. From what he knew no one had died, the only real damage was the hole in the wall. Which in his defense was made by the guy he had been fighting. At most he might be in there for a few weeks, or he might just pay a fine. 

“I will turn myself in '' His answer was quiet, slowly he grabbed his pokemon contaminants. Shinji hands them to Brock. “Give them to my brother…please”

”As gym leader you would have the jurisdiction to arrest me” 

To that Misty just nodded her head. Technically she did have the ability to do that. 

“Alright then, Come out Starmie!”  Misty was still very hesitant to do this, but if that's what he wants. Her pokemon stood next to both of them. She reached to grab his arm but stopped herself this time. 

Shinji grabbed his hat from his pocket, throwing it on.  He made himself look like he had when he walked into the building. 

“J-Just don’t run off, alright?”

The guy didn’t answer and just quietly followed behind her. 

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Clemont: Well crap 

@Brock

Zoey: Oh Arceus he that dumb ass might actually go to jail

His brother does not deserve the stress 

Trevor: MAN IS ACTUALLY DOING IT

Zoey: Oh course he is 

Oh course 

Brock: At least three more of are friends are on that tour 

Shinji got the guy on call and at least said he had 

May, Drew, and Serena on board 

so now the only person we can’t account for is Kenny 

but I feel like at this it's almost guaranteed he’s there

Zoey: Where is that dumbass

Brock: Misty is taking him to the police rn 

Can you please call his brother?

Or damn just flat out tell him, if you're close enough to him?

Zoey: Reiji don’t deserve this 

Brock: I know

Clemont: If anything else shows up on Chatott, I will put it here.

Brock:man your so good 

when this is done and over with i'm getting you a present

I completely understand now why Sato likes you so much

Clemont:No it's fine you don’t have to get me a thing.

I’m just as worried for the people who I know that are involved.

If anything I should be getting you something :)

You’ve been running the show pretty much this whole time.  

Brock:but doing all that you have must be time consuming

I mean as a active gym leader you're probably pretty busy

Alain: He’s not, trust me 

Clem is at his happiest when he surrounded by several computers 

And his eyes flooded with blue light, or he has an entire electronics store

in his lab. 

Clemont: your one to talk 

Cult of the Wooloo, had you in a chokehold for a month. 

I don’t think you slept the whole time. 

Alain: It’s a good game

Also I did sleep.

Clemont: yeah during the day 😒

Marin: Like an Espurr :3

Trevor: A very mean and grouchy Espurr

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Lillie felt so guilty, she hadn’t met to brush him off like that. In fairness she didn’t even fully understand why she had freaked out so much. Yeah, she hadn’t wanted him to see what she was reading but she still shouldn’t have brushed him off like that. 

Even after he had apologized for freaking her out and everything. 

Wait, didn't he confirm that he was the one who was there with her that morning? 

That was a weird feeling, did that mean she was right?

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“Why does this have to be so complicated?” Lillie looked down at her books, sadly. Some part of her wanted to scrap this project and move on to figure out the rest of what had happened during her memory. Especially after what had happened in the library, but she had already asked for so many books about this. It would feel wasteful. 

And herself just reading up on it wouldn’t be so bad. It was always good to learn new things even if they were very obscure and she was never going to probably use it again in her lifetime. 

The little egg that she shook next to her. The little thing still hadn’t hatched yet. It was so strange before that morning she would have flinched if it moved, but after it had almost never left her side. It felt so warm under her hand. It hurt to know that just a few days before she would have been horrified to even be near it. 

Satoshi had helped her so much, and she had made him feel bad about it. 

“Tomorrow I will fix that or whenever I see him again!” Lillie held her fist up as she spoke. “And maybe ask him if he’s an Aura Reader, but that's a big maybe…”

From what she had read it was kinda rude to just ask straight up. Sinnoh’s Aura adept would only tell a person if they were given a special kind of crystal called Visus lapis, or a pokemon egg. She didn’t know where she might find the first one, and she was not giving up the egg she did have. It didn’t even fully really belong to her in the first place.  

However Hoenn’s clans preferred scales for Kingdra and Flygon, or Shells from deep under the sea. Instead of pokemon eggs, the Visus Lapis was still wanted by them. So maybe she could ask the Kahuna of Akala if she knew where Lillie could find Visus Lapis or Witch’s Ward (at least that is what it was called in Kalos and Galar). 

The stone and other items would be turned into beautiful jewelry. In Hoenn they would add on the shell and scales, while in Sinnoh Gold and Iron would be the material or choice. According to some of the texts Lille had read, people without the ability of aura in the adepts of Sinnoh would take up the jobs as metal workers. Their skills were so valued that the royalties from all over would commission them for their crowns and wedding rings. 

Even now in modern day there is still quite the market for jewelry made in the Region.

While those two Regions' history for people of aura was easy to find, Kantos and Johto’s history was far more confusing. From what Lillie could tell they had A LOT of crossover with dragon clans of both regions( or the same clan because at one point the whole area was the same region and ruled over by the same people Which happened to be the dragon clan). 

The only real reference she could find was a marriage between someone from the clan and someone from the Hoenn subsect of aura adept. Their wedding had been so grand apparently that Ho-Oh had come to bless their union and drink a lot of alcohol. It made he laugh a little bit thinking of, the divine bird with a Sake bottle in its beak. 

Sadly that is all she could find of their story. But there were many stories of the clan’s members doing similar things to adept in the other two regions. So there must have been many more marriages between the two groups of people. 

Lillie didn’t fully know what subsection of adept that her classmates fell under. Maybe after she made her mistakes right she could ask him. 

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Satoshi: Cynthia is going to kill him 

Iris: I mean even if he was doing a good this technically 

She has to condemn his actions the press fallout from a champion 

letting there elite do whatever they want is not a good thing

But he probably is just going to get a slap on the wrist for the local 

league officials, 

it bad etiquette to treat other leagues members worse then your own

so they tend to be kinda lenient 

Cilian: Your starting to sound more and more like a 

Champion every time we talk :D

Iris: What that supposed to mean!

anyway dude is probably not going to get in that much 

trouble

Brock: let's hope, for his sake 

but turning himself in and not having his pokemon on 

Him will probably help

Satoshi: Wait, where are his pokemon?

Brock: There with me 

im at the Pokémon center rn

Get them heal up a little bit

not like they’re really all that hurt though

Then i think in heading to Misty’s house 

Satoshi: good :)

Brock: How are things going on your end?

Satoshi: well…not great 

I mean Mele Mele is the main island, but from all the places I looked  

Didn’t seem like they would be here

but i still haven’t gone over to the other three islands 

so during my island trial i could have a look around 

Brock:Alright 

How’s your classmate?

Satoshi: :(

I don’t think she comfortable around me anymore

the second she saw me she started panicking 

it sucks 

i have no idea how schools going to go now

Clemont: I’m so sorry Sato 

Satoshi: I think its ok, she got hurt by my mistake 

its ok if she mad at me

it might just be a bit weird from now on between us

Though that's not going to stop me from helping her 

whatever the hell happened to her did not just seem

to be a small thing  

Clemont: Please be careful 

I swear the only thing you can’t do is not make the wrong people mad. 

Oh and dancing 

that too

Satoshi: I can!

I just can’t dance like how people in Kalos do!

It’s so strict and dizzying 

Tierno: we need proof 

Satoshi: sigh 

come to Alola then

Tierno: pfffft

i don’t have the money for that 

you could always send us a video though

Satoshi: maybe one of these days

My poke vision thing is a mess so I’d 

have to fix that first

Trevor: Wait, do you have an account or?

Satoshi: idk but if i don’t 

ill set one up

Trevor: how have you been watching Serena’s performance 

if you don’t have an account?

Satoshi: TV?

Clemont: You would Be having to stay up pretty late to watch them then.

Ill help you set on up

for your sleep schedule if nothing else

Brock: you’ve been staying up late to watch one of your friend Showcases 

I don’t remember you saying you’d be doing that for either Dawn or May.

She must be something then?

Satoshi: I do try and watch theirs too

I just end up watching her a lot 

of the time 

I mean all of them are super talented and strong 

So it’s not cause i think she is better then them

just end up watching her more 

Brock:…ok then

Satoshi:anyway i have to get off

im meeting someone in a bit  

see you guys

Satoshi has logged off…

Brock: huh 

Clem can i ask you some questions 

in Private?

Clemont: yeah sure

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For being in a police station that man in the interview room him looked ungodly calm. Over the camera the two officers watched him, usually people they brought in would break face after they left the room. He still had a sharp glare and a frown, not a tick or nervous expression to be seen. 

He had told them what happened, and why he had done it. He had lost contact with the person he was dating, and realized they were on a tour. Found out who was running the thing. Tried to get in contact with the people in charge, but they wouldn’t tell them anything. So of course he got into a fight. Normally if this was the case, they’d let both people involved go with a warning and damaged property payouts.

There was only one very big problem with that, all the people involved were some of the most influential in several regions. One of the richest men in the world as well as one of the most powerful in Kanto. The other person involved, the perpetrator of the crime, an elite four member of Sinnoh. 

The worst thing was after Team Rocket attacks in the area beforehand. Made most of the people of Saffron jumpy, so even before the news had set the record straight about the attack not being rocket related, half the city was in a frenzy. 

Which meant the media storm that's this spawned, made it impossible to just send them off. And the kid’s emotional bluntness certainly didn’t help his case.

”I think we should walk the kid back to his jail cell” The officer said, as he looked over to his partner. “He’s already told us everything he would, no point in having an interrogation room filled for no reason” 

His partner nodded his head, and got up to move Shinji out of his room. 

“There is no need for that” A voice came from behind him. 

“Would you mind if I talk to him?” The champion, Wataru stood in front of them. A small smile was on his face, his canines shown prominently. Like most other members of his clan. “I promise it wouldn’t take too much time”

”Sir!?” Oh, of course the league would take notice, But the champion showing up? It didn’t seem big enough for that. 

“Oh course you can, S-sir” His partner answered. He too was in shock. 

His head tilted softly, but his smile stayed the same. 

“Thank you, two,” Wataru replied. And with that he was gone,the champion walking into the back.  

Both him and his partner just looked at each other. Neither of them could say a thing  

Chapter Text

The chat that he had made was for a dual purpose. One of which was of course being able to talk to his friends from all over, and for them to talk to each other. But also because if anything bad would happen they would all be there to help. With the whole thing going on with the tour, that couldn’t have been more of a good idea. 

Although Shinji’s actions still worried him. That what had been said in chat, led him to making the decisions he had. Fanning the flames of his panic when everyone else was talking about not being able to find their friends either. With as hard and uncaring as he could act, he was going so far for Dawn’s sake. It made him feel happy that she had found someone who cares so much about her. 

“Maybe I should ask Sophocles to help me with this,” Satoshi said softly, as he held his Kalosion pokedex in the air. “Clem is already doing so much for me, he deserves a break” 

He was really just talking to himself, the rest of his pokemon had fallen asleep. Right now he was waiting for the professor’s Lucario. They told Sato to meet him after the professor had come home, so they could talk. And probably also to tune. 

People came into the house, Kukui and someone else? 

“Satoshi! I want you to meet someone, could you come here please?” The professor's voice rang down from below. The other person’s presence felt warm. 

“Coming!”

The person down stairs had bags in their hands from the sound of it. And they had their own pokemon on their belt, it didn’t feel all that strong.

“Alola! It’s nice to finally meet you Satoshi!” The lady waved at him, the bags that she had held were set down on a chair.  “I’m Professor Burnet, Sorry for me a Munchlax stopping over unannounced”

”Oh please, it's fine! You brought us stuff anyway” Kukui quickly said, waving his hands. Satoshi did think the professor's smile could get any wider. “And you hardly ever have time off anymore-just sit back and relax!” 

“Kui~ you're just too nice” Burnet poked his cheek. His face turned a tan reddish color, was he getting a fever?

“It’s great to meet you too!—- You're a professor too!? what do you study?” Satoshi asked, her aura was relaxed but she had an air of confidence. Not over confidence but just belief in herself and her abilities. A lot like Kukui actually. 

“Oh I study Energies and the Theories of other worlds, And right now I work for Aether Paradise” She answered. Satoshi didn’t fully know what that meant but it sounded really impressive. Kukui had snuck off, putting stuff away, and setting up for dinner. “If I correct actually I work for one of your classmate’s parents”

”Oh really!” Satoshi paused and then came to a realization. 

“Is it Lillie’s mom?” 

“Oh yes! She is the president of Aether Paradise” Burnet smiled at him, but her mood shifted. “I heard about what happened, to Lillie a couple days ago, how is she now?””

“For what the family staff told me, and Mallow said after the fact she’s feeling better” This time Kukui answered for him. “Hobbs even told me she started working on a  research project”

Was that why she was at the library?

”Lillie does this kinda thing a lot” Burnet spoke softly, the two of them moved into the living room. “Especially when she was younger”

Satoshi tilted his head. “You knew her when she was little?”

“Oh, of course, She would ask me all kinds of questions about—well everything!” Burnet told him as she started to grab plates for all of them. She looked thoughtful.“Why do Inkay evolve into Malamar when you flip them upside down? Where do Fairy and Dark types get their powers? Things like that” 

Burnet spoke about Lillie like you would think a mother would. Even though her emotions reflected this, Burnet felt pride and joy for his classmate . 

“The two of you are really close” 

Satoshi hadn’t met to be so blunt with his wording but with the ability to read other emotions it just kinda comes out. Burnet looked a bit taken back at that, but not upset. It was more like she had never really noticed that herself. 

“Her mother is a very busy person, so a lot of the time Lillie would be hanging out with me—in the begin though she was always quiet, and awfully shy” 

Satoshi pulled out the pokemon food and bowls for everyone, he reached in the back to grab an extra bowl for her pokemon. He was still listening intently though.

 “Anyway, What about you? From what I’ve been told, you quite the trainer” She turned around to talk to him, while she leaned on the counter. “With you getting in a Z-ring from an Island Guardian, and all”

”Your battling prowess don’t seem like anything to laugh at either” 

He was a little taken back by the comment. “Thanks”

“Well, emm..” He was coming up blank on what to answer. It was usually hard for him to talk about himself. He just never knew what would be best to say. With as many experiences as he had you think there would be easy to say something. 

“I'm a pretty standard trainer, I mean I don’t have a type that I specialize in or anything, Nor do I have any titles” Yet, was at the tip of his tongue. His ambition stirred in his chest. That was something that was easy to talk about. 

Satoshi looked over to his pokemon, feeling someone’s amusement, Pikachu gave him a look. 

What did I say that was weird?

Bad liar, Sato — Ya Words sounded fake

He gave his partner a glare, in response. They couldn’t have a little talk right now, because Sato didn’t think he could talk to Burnet, and “talk” to Pikachu at the same time without looking weird.  

It felt weird to say too—but hush for now

“Are you two having a staring contest?” Kukui looked at both of them with amusement. He patted him on the head, and started walking him over to the table-couch. “Never mind that— dinners done!”

“Oh— Yay!” Somewhat forgetting all his troubles for a second. His brain would do that sometimes, giving him bad thoughts then forget them and move on to something else. The professor said something about it once too, when he was talking about stuff he would have to say to his mom. 

The two of them sat down. Burnet was flipping through the TV to find good background noise for dinner. The news flashed by and it was Cynthia in a press conference. He couldn’t hear her talking but the news anchor was. 

“For now there has been no word from Kanto’s league on the attack on Silph Co…”

”How ever Cynthia has neither condone nor condemned her elite four member,Shinji Kanama actions at the present moment—Her league representative is say that they want to know all the facts of the case, before they hand down punishment”

Burnet started flipping through channels again, and sighed. Some of Sato wanted to watch it, but he had no doubt in his mind that they would be talking about this for the next two weeks.

”A strange situation, for sure—It really just sounds like a small scuffle..” Kukui piped up from the kitchen. 

“I really hope he doesn’t lose his job—he’s about your age isn’t he?” Burnet looked over to him. 

“Shinji is about a year older than me—so 17 I think?” He told the professor. “I hope he doesn’t get in trouble either”

It took him a little too much time to realize how his words sounded. Using his first name made it sound like he knew him personally. But wasn’t that only a cultural thing for Kanto and the regions around it? Iris did tell him Alola was far more culturally like Unova, in the interpersonal stuff.

Burnet either didn’t notice, or just did comment on it. 

She finally settled for a channel called Johto Blues. 

 Some guy with a really long mullet and his Kricketune were on a stage having what looked like a spiritual experience. The music was pretty good though, not his taste at all but fine. It was kinda weird though, when people came over to the professor's house before he never remembered either of them being so relaxed. 

Riley had told him that his emotions would be affected by how the people around him felt. He was a little like a sponge in that way, especially after having tune. Maybe he was more relaxed because Kukui was. The professor was more calm around Burnet, and maybe vis visa? Burnet herself seemed very comfortable in a house that wasn’t her own. She had probably been here before, knowing the layout of the house and turning on the TV without asking first. 

Kukui had set everything out. “Hope the two of you like it-!”

Satoshi looked over to his pokemon, everyone was chowing down. Well besides Munchlax it had engulfed the it’s bowl, and was looking over at Rowlets. Which he could only hope wouldn’t end up in a fight. 

“This is super good—has a nice kick too!” Burnet was waving her spoon in the air like a wand, after she took a bite. 

“I’m so glad, I’m a bit low on spices so I wasn’t fully sure I could make it taste good enough” Kukui sat down himself. Burnet scoot herself a little closer, to the other professor. Looking up at him, she grinned. Satoshi felt Kukui's chest fill with a warm fluttering feeling. He didn’t know what it was but it felt familiar?  

“Oh, y-yeah Sato, how is your “assignment” going?” 

“Assignment? What ya talking about, Professor?” With everything going on, had he forgotten about something?

”I mean with your island trial, what are you planning from now on?” Kukui switched the conversation kinda. “You’ve just been kinda, looking around the island the past few day”

Burnet looked at him. “Are you looking for more pokemon to catch?” 

Ahhhhh, what does he say—?! 

“Y-yeah—I’ve only got three teammates right now, so it would be great to get another pokemon on my team before my next trial!” I was definitely not snooping around, definitely—!

”Oh yeah, that Litten! If it lets me, I would like to catch it—!” Sato exclaimed. “But it seems so sad and has a lot of anxiety about something ... I wish I could help but it doesn’t want me too…”

“You got all of that from meeting them once?” Kukui actually looked impressed. 

Truly he had met them twice, but it wasn’t hard to see that he was struggling to get food. 

“Well yeah..I guess?” He just kinda scratched his head. ”Is something wrong?” 

“No, not at all—!” The professor just smiled. He looked at him like he was a puzzle that he was trying to put together.  

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Misty: I wanted to battle him 

Clemont: Your back! Also what?

Misty: i wanted to actually fight shinji but i couldn’t cause he turned himself in

which was smart but still Me a Brock are together btw we staying over at my place

Clemont: Alright then. 

Shigeru: I swear to Arceus i leave for five minutes and this chat already on some region shaking bullshit

Misty: Well maybe you shouldn’t have left 

Shigeru: I had stuff to do 

Misty: like what?

Shigeru: oh idk tracking a mythical Pokemon?

Misty: oh 

Forget you actually do important stuff a lot of the time

Shigeru: Sigh, anyway 

How is he?

Misty: idk

Haven't heard anything he is literally in jail rn

Clemont has the news said anything?

Clemont: No, unfortunately. 

Misty: Man, who else is on right now, im bored and have far to much anxiety 

Clemont: umm

Marin: hi :>

Shigeru: Whatever you are thinking rethink it 😒

Misty: Alright your first,

CLEMOnT

Can we rename people? pLs

Marin: YES 

Pls 

Clemont:…Alright just nothing inappropriate, ok?

Misty: YES!

Marin: YAY

Clemont has changed Shigeru’s name…

MoneyDoesGrowOnTrees: Shit 

ha 

ok that’s kinda clever 

Misty: >:)

Clemont has changed 4 peoples names….

Misty: Mmmmm?

Clemont: It was a request from Marin.

CarelessMeadow: Yay—! :3 

The other three names are for people who are not here…

but that’s ok!

cause when they get back it will be a fun surprise-! 

Misty: CUTE, I feel likes its a reference 

Clemont: It is 

From this magical girl show that is really popular in Kalos right now. 

Oh Arceus, I did not want to type this out. 

Marin: Why, would it wound you so?>:0

Clemont: Cause the title sounds like i was typing and then had a stroke. 

Honey~Honey Star Princess Defense Force. I think it's made in Hoenn.  

CarelessMeadow: I really like it too—!

Its super cute, and fun and the plot can get super intense sometimes, Chespie and Bébé like it too!

Clemont: I swear it, might be the only reason you come over to my house, is to watch it. 

CarelessMeadow: Mrs Meyer’s cooking pretty good too >:b

And it's the only place I can watch it, cause me and Alain are too busy running around the whole region to sit down for long.

And the TV is the lab has the PC attached to it, T^T

So when Alain does his boring paperwork, me and Boinne can have fun <3

Misty: That’s fair 

Not really into those kinda shows but Brocks little siblings might

When I pop overI can be and an even better Cool Aunty—!   

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Why am I still here?

At this point Shinji was starting to get bored. Yes he was in jail, so his comfort was nothing to be of concern for the officers. But what was the reason for him being in an empty room, that wasn’t his cell? 

He perched up once the sound of footsteps came down the hall. Far too quiet to be the officers from before. 

“My? If only a glare could kill?” The champion Wataru stood before him. “Even your eyes look like your champions, but Cynthia wouldn’t pick someone for looks alone” 

Unlike the president's smile, Wataru’s looked more genuine. Still a feeling of predatory strength filled the champion's eyes. Like a Houndoom showing its teeth to the Cleffa it’s about to eat. 

He got closer, reaching to take his cuffs off. “Do you mind?” 

Shinji just nodded, never letting his eyes leave the man's hand. Trying to not focus on his touch, and not to move or flinch. In a battle showing weakness at any point wasn’t allowed. This felt like it should be, handled the same.  

“Now, could you tell me what your call was about?” The Champion's tone was smooth and without missing a beat. “Please, don't spare me any details” 

“I believe I’ve already said, I was asking—about where my partner is,” Shinji stated, for the what third time since he got into Arceus Forsaken police precinct.

“But Mr Silph wouldn’t tell you would he?” 

He gave the champion a look of disgust.

”No, no he wouldn’t”. Shinji remarked. Looking Wataru up and down, he saw where his pokemon were kept. Like most trainers they were on his belt, mostly obscured by his weird fucking cape. Why was he wearing that thing in a police station? 

”I have a feeling, you already know what I was talking about” He sneered, standing up to get a little farther away from Kantos champion. “Compared to what I have done, wiretapping is far more serious of a crime, even in your hopeless region”

The insult didn’t seem to affect Wataru’s pride, but it was probably something he heard all the time. Kanto and Johto had the highest crime rates out of all the regions, mostly due to team rockets. However, most of the problems that truly plagued the two were corruption in its elite. To his credit Wataru was doing his best to clean up that part of his regions. If he had placed a wired tap in that creeps office, it was most likely a part of that. 

“Making claims like this could have gotten you in a lot more trouble than you are already” His smile dropped, but his gaze didn’t waver. “Lucky for us, that camera was switched off—-For as much as Silph Co gives to my region it’s high ups can’t seem to be normal people when it comes to not getting their way” Wataru stated, a bit of bile was laced in this tone. “So for people's safety, I have too see what there up too from time to time”

He sighed and seemed to finally get to the point of this. “What happened to your partner seems to be one of the things, I have to look out for”

”So please tell me as much as you know, the more I know the easier it will be to finally nail the two to a crime—and to make sure that the maybe victims in this situation are going to be safe”

The champion didn’t seem to be like either of them. Greedy slimy people attract others like themselves. If he found them just as pathetic, and annoying then it meant something to his character. Shinji thought it over. There was no harm in no telling him anything. It could even help him find Troublesome. 

There were some things he wanted to know about himself. Shinji was also sure that the people who were also missing friends in that chat room, would probably want to know too. He did not like or know any of them, but they were all in this weird situation. So he might as well be charitable. 

”If I can ask you questions—then I will answer yours” Shinji said quietly. Wataru just nodded, looking him in the eye. 

“Alright then… who else do you know that’s involved—?”

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“Why do they aways, bring a tray of food down the hall?” May’s voice sounded tired as she spoke but her question hit all the same. For now they had all been given a break. From how it was handled, it didn’t seem to be all that planned. They had let them keep their pokemon on them, for the time being. 

Aloutelle was brushing out her Furfrou. Some of the people who were not performing, would be waiters for the guests. They were usually the less popular performers. She had been handing out drinks and food, as well as talking to the guests. The poor girl was tired as could be, and with more than a couple stories to tell of, very pushy guys. 

She was about a year her junior, and was from a pretty poor family. It was kinda funny actually she grew up, only a couple houses away from Serena’s. They probably went to primary school together, but she never knew. It made what she had told May and herself, even more infuriating. She was mad on Aloutelle’s behalf. They shouldn’t be treating a fifteen year old like that. Whether those men knew her age or not they shouldn’t be treating someone like that anyway!

“Maybe there's someone down the hall..?” Aloutelle sleepily spoke. Her Furfrou curled up behind her. “Serena? Would it be ok for me to brush out your Poochyena?”

”Oh sure,” Serena answered, quietly. She let the puppy out of its ball. Unlike a lot of its species, its ears were folded. Making them look just a bit derby, but all the more lovable.“I’m sure Poochy would love that” 

The little pokemon was a gift from May actually. Her Delcatty had gotten lost one night, and came back looking sick. A couple days later they had walked in and there were two eggs on May's bed. One of them hatched into Skitty, and the other..was little Poochy. It was quite the shock realizing Delcatty’s mate was a wild Mightyena, but Skitty and Poochy were good siblings all the same. 

May however was pissed. Promising to find the dad, and teach him a lesson for leaving his mate with the responsibility of two kids. They had yet to find the “deadbeat dad”, but Serena is sure that May was not going to let that poor Mightyena hear the end of it.  

Serena had kept Poochy because they got along with Pancham, and Drew kept Skitty because he likes its unusual coloring. All four of them travel together most of the time so the little family stayed together. When Drew had left the group, he turned in Skitty so it could stay, so it was more like a joint custody situation.  

“I’m going to go look,” May said, still looking out the door. She started to open it to look down the hall. 

“Are you sure that's a good idea? You know what happened last time someone did something out of line!” Aloutelle looked a bit scared, holding Poochy in her arms. 

“It'll be ok, it’s on the way to the bathroom anyway!” That was a sorta a lie, but Serena was half sure that May was so bored and cooped up. That she would do anything to get out of the room. “Serena, you wanna come with?” 

She thought it over for a second. “Sure, wouldn’t be bad to get us some water anyway”

Serena looked over to Aloutelle, and gave a small smile. “Don’t worry we’ll be just fine” She turned her attention to her pokemon.“Now you be good and don’t do anything bad, OK?” 

Poochy gave a few yips, to say yes. To prove that it would behave, they sat still and puffed their chest out, waiting for Aloutelle to brush them. They all laughed a little at its antics. 

“Bye for now,” Serena said quietly. Aloutelle waved at them, as they slunk out the door. Closing it slowly so that it would make less noise, the two of them walked down the hall. 

The ship was of course beautiful on the inside. Serena had never really seen art or textiles from Kanto before, So walking through what was basically an art gallery was amazing. A lot of the older pieces were on long stretches of fabric that looked to be detailing stories.  

“A shame this place is so pretty…this really could have been a fun competition” May wispy spoke. “If only are sponsor did have a screw loose—Anyway where do we go now?” 

“I wasn’t looking but it sounded like they went on for a while” Serena remarked, scanning down the hall. She was trying to find anything that might tell them where they should look. “But it can’t be too far, this hall is not long” 

“No one being here kinda makes this place feel eerie…Like we’re in a haunted mansion almost..” May looked ahead, with a creeped out look on her face. “But if a one see us—That wouldn’t be a good thing either” As if the boat was fulfilling May’s daydream, faint music could be heard. 

The sound bounced off the walls making it sound echoey.

The both of them stood there, screaming internally. Serena was so glad Delphox was with her, right now. 

Wait maybe?

“I think we should follow that sound!” Serena piped up. 

“Huh? Are you sure?” 

“I mean we don’t have anything else to go on” 

May sighed and then muttered. “Ok then…”

Following the sound, the two of them stopped in front of a door. May pressed her ear to the door, and her eyes widened. Quickly she grabbed on to Serena and rushed the two of them into an empty room.

Serena tried to say something but May covered her mouth. 

What in the world! 

The door swung open, and one of the workers walked out. They didn’t look all that happy. Huge eye bags, and really pale skin. They held an empty tray, and he looked a little like a walking corpse. They walked away without speaking, just sighing as they went off. May and Serena waited for a bit, and then came out from their hiding place.  

“Serie have we met that guy before? Or at least seen that uniform of his?” May was still holding on to her, as she spoke. 

“I don’t know, no that you mentioned it, a little bit yeah” She said softly. “Maybe we’ve seen him around the ship-?”

 For so reason she really didn’t think that was the case?

”Maybe-?” 

Before they had time, to discuss that any further. A loud bang came from out of the room, and a scream followed. 

”Oh man that can be good!” May deadpanned. Without thinking much she ran in. 

The room, if you could call it that, had a small stage. There was a table knocked over, and scorch marks everywhere. The tray of food that brought them here, was on the floor. Was there a fight? The guy had just left the room. If there was a fight, it would have to just had started. But Serena couldn’t see anyone in the room. 

“Hello? Is anyone there?” May paused, she looked at Serena dumbly.“Heelllooo!” 

“May not so loud, please!” She scream whispered. Arceus above she loved May, but sometimes it felt like her friend had a Joltick for a brain. 

”Sorry…” 

They went a bit farther into the room. It was a lot bigger than it had looked.

Turning a corner the stage became the full focus. It was completely dark in the room, beside the light coming from the over head lights up on the stage.

Near the curtains a Hypno-? Had its back turned to them. It turned to look at the both of them, and it was holding something down?

”Let me go—!” A half covered yell came from in front of them. 

A girl was underneath the Hypno, thrashing and clawing at the pokemon. It in return was trying to use its ring to hypnotize her. Even with being so far away, Serena could still see her eyes full of panic. 

Without a second thought her and May sent out their pokemon.  

“Delphox use Psychic! Get them off of her!” Her partner came out of his ball, already get their move ready. 

The Hypno was thrown off the girl. But its attack had already hit.  

“Glaceon Use Ice Shard! Make sure Hypno Can’t get up” May followed up, with her pokemon. Glaceon covered the pokemon completely in ice. Knocking the Hypno out.

Rushing over to the girl. They hadn’t got the pokemon off quick enough, she was completely knocked out. From her clothes alone she had to be a Performer, and beside her was a Heal Ball.    

“Sorry we couldn’t have gotten here sooner…” May looked her over, as the two of them went closer.  Aside from a few scratches, and being knocked out. She didn’t seem too hurt. 

“Hey, isn’t she Wallace’s niece?” Her friend whispered. “We’ve performed in Mossdeep together—! She is such a big name in the industry, why was she locked up in this room, and not performing with the rest of us?” 

”I don’t know—- But what ever the reason it can’t be great” Serena answered back. “I think we should let’s take her back to the room”   

May just nodded. Glaceon started biting at her trainer’s clothes. Trying to get her attention. 

“What’s wrong? Glaceon?” May turned around, to understand what her pokemon wanted.

And looked straight into the lens of a camera. 

Chapter Text

Lisia understood that being the top coordinator's niece gave her special treatment, but never in her career had she been this isolated for it. She had joined this tour, after one of her managers spoke to the spouners of it. Lisia herself hadn’t even gotten to see the rules, or know the names of the people she was working for. She was just kinda thrown on board. That was common with her management though, and it was even more common for the staff at venues to over explain what was needed of her, But not this time.

Ali and her performed on an empty stage, without an audience, and without someone to compete with. They were all alone in a dark room. Only one of the workers would come in for a minute, give her food and then leave. 

This was weird.

Maybe they were just having her prepare right now. It shouldn’t hurt to ask, if that was the case.  

Ali put her beak into her hand, and was singing to her trainer. In the morning sometimes at home she would sing with the other bird pokemon. The tree next to her window was like their amphitheater. 

The two of them were taking a break from the constant training, seated on the edge of the stage. Her legs hung over the side, as she pet her pokemon. Ali was really sleepy. It was cold in the room, not only because there were no windows, but there was air flowing constantly. It wasn’t too cool for her, but her pokemon was a dragon type. It wasn’t cold enough to hurt her, but it was making Ali slow. She was starting to get sleepy herself, drifting side to side.

Ali’s feathers made wonderful pillows. 

“WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!” In her half asleep state she hadn’t heard anyone come into the room. The voice was so loud, she almost covered her ears as a reflex.

The man was right in her face, screaming at her. She felt droplets of spit on her face. He had nice clothes, but his eyes looked ragged. She recoiled, and pushed herself away from him. 

“I'm sorry, I’m sorry! Who are you?” Lisia panicked, Ali had put herself in front of her trainer. 

“Do you think I'm an idiot!” The man screamed. “I paid you to perform, whenever I wanted. I have not told you to stop, have I?” 

What was he talking about? 

“I-I haven’t had anyone talk to me about anything since I got her—” Lisia tried to explain quickly. Her heart was still going fast after being startled.

He looked like a blood vessel might burst. 

“This is what is wrong with your industry—The second you are asked to DO ANYTHING real, it’s suddenly to it’s hard—Or i WaSn’T tOlD aNyThInG” This grown man was mockingly copying her voice.“Such a privileged group of people to just show your half clothed body on stage and people shower you in money, You all should learn a bit of DAMN SHAME”

“I hope my Tour will teach you all something to that extent.” At this point it just sounded like he was talking to himself. His tone was so full of hate, it felt suffocating. Even with him saying it is such a childish way. 

Her voice started out low and shaky. A feeling of panic still seeped in her throat. 

”…In a performance you are met to show off how strong your bond with your pokemon is, With what you are able to do together in your performance.” Lisia didn’t understand why she was explaining this to the person who apparently hired her. There was some truth in that a performer outfit would help them in a contest, but that was sadly more of a wealth thing. Looking your best, keeping up with fashion trends, creating an image or style for yourself. That is what your outfit as a performer did.“It has nothing to do with my body!”    

The man actually gagged, at her remark. 

“Do you think I actually believe you!? What do you think wearing an outfit like that is going to earn you? Why do you all complain and complain about guys being pushy with you or being so pathetic they follow you around from region to region? Stop acting like you don’t want it” He snarled, with his whole chest. “And that prissy weak man who lets you run wild with his money! He can’t do that here, I'm the one calling the shots, I can promise you that!”

Who was he talking about? Lisia knew there were people, usually older though her uncle was weird for the way he dressed and acted. There had been a whole converse over if the contest should be allowed to be shown to children over it. Which she didn’t understand, he was just performing but showing his sides a little bit. There were guys who had their tops off on TV all the time! Lisia hated when people bashed him for this kinda stuff, and it seemed in character for this douche to do!

“My uncle doesn’t pay me anything? I make money from my performance, I'm not even a part of one of his agencies.“ She was once again cut off. 

“You think I'm talking about that degenerate, If you don’t have a clue on who I am talking about don’t speak, shut up!” 

Maybe he was hearing things, because she had stopped speaking. Lisia didn’t want to cry because of this creature of a man, but she was so close.  

“Hoenn’s Prince, he is Showered in praise. For having what a b-beautiful face, he is not a real man. He is just a Degenerate weak priss!” His voice was condescending, as if he felt like everything he said was universally true. “He gets all these women to swoon over him, none of them know what they really want! Including you, with you being his “friend” like that's real, if he is your friend he shouldn’t. No Man should let themself be friends with a chick.“ 

“And if he is pretending to be your friend he’s just trying to sleep with you, not like someone like you would be complaining.” Somehow when he sneered he still sounded childish. 

Lisia just kinda stood there. To some extent not she could really believe he had really just said that, but with everything else that shot out his mouth she really shouldn’t have. With ever time he opened his mouth, the more and more she understood the only good outcome for her would be getting as far way from this man as she could.  

“No muscle, a damn stick of a man, I could pummel him into nothing if I wanted!” He said it as if he fantasizes the idea of doing that to Steven.  

Even if he was talking about it. Lisia had no doubts he could never even get close to him. With Meta and the rest of his pokemon wouldn’t even let him step a foot near him. Even so his words were still unsettling.

Because Steven was her friend-! 

“He is my friend, a really good friend! Who is like my big brother, he is way too old to be with me!” Lisia was nearly pleading with him at this point. “He doesn’t find girls attractive to begin with!” 

Rolling his eyes, as if she was the one saying something outlandish. Reaching into his pocket grabbing one of his pokemon.

Ali and her weren’t great at battling but she had more than a feeling he was not a great trainer. They were on his ship though, what good would be beating him here when she was trapped with him. At least she wasn’t going to be in this conversation? Beratement? It didn’t matter, she didn’t want to stay here.

For some reason his body language changed after what she had said. 

”You must be so attention starved in here you can’t just stop lying.” For the first time he smiled at her. “Act like how I know you want to, and ill make the both of us have a good time.” He sent his Hypno out, it up at her with something of a knowing and tried look. 

After being on guard the whole time, Ali was more than ready for this. 

“Ali, use Alluring Voice!” Lisia called out. “And follow it up with Will-O-Wisp!” 

The first move hit, causing the pokemon to become confused. With it in that state Will-O-Wisp hit without problem. Hypno staggered back, burnt and wobbling. 

The man screamed, and then went back into a weirdly calm state. Somehow he went from toddler to greasy playboy wannabe. 

”Once you see just how wonderful I can be with women worth my time, your not going to want to go back to Steven.”  

He grabbed another one of his pokemon, and threw it out. A Nidoking came out, poised but looking worn. Both of his pokemon looked ragged.

“Use Superpower!” 

 The move connected. Ali and Lisia were blown back, she felt her pokemon feathers cover her before she hit the wall of the back stage. Ali had used feather dance to give both of them a little more protection. Her feather still drifted in the air. Quietly thanking her pokemon. Lisia looked over to the Nidoking, it was weakened by its own attack, letting them have a second to breathe. At least that's what she thought, Hypno jumped up on the stage, still very much weakened.   

The Hypno’s coin started swinging, back and forth. Her head started to spin, her limbs felt heavy. It was still affected by its burn, making it hard for the hypnosis to work. 

“A-Ali, Can you use D-Draco meteor?” The dragon type cried, saying a strained yes. “Please hurry!” Lisia cried in a panic.

Plopped off their trainer, puffing her feathers out to collect energy, she fired it into the air. Ali pulled Lisia under her body shielding her from any stray pieces of falling energy. 

She heard screaming now, a lot of it. Mostly the man’s hypno. 

An idea started forming in her head. They had to get out of here. Ali seemed to understand that just as much as she did. 

“OK..Ali use feather dance and run!”  Lisia was slightly out of breath from being under her Pokémon’s body, but the message was clear. 

Ali floated up and pulled Lisia with her. The Altaria’s talons were far from gentle right now. Both of them quickly glided to the door. Leaving no time to look back at their attackers. 

Almost out—! They would have to find a place to hide, or maybe just hopefully they were close to land to fly away. Call Uncle Wallace, call anyone to get her home.

Lisia opened the door as quickly as her panic state would allow her. 

One of the workers stood in front of her.  

Everything was going too quickly to think. A powder was thrown at her face, she started to cough. Her lungs felt like they were swollen, her eyes stopped being able to focus. 

It was sleeping powder.

They had been so close.

Lisia lost consciousness right before she hit the ground.

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”Serena!” May screamed whispered in a panic as she shook her friend’s shoulder. “Grab her, we have to go!” 

Delphox was already picking the girl up, thankfully. Either by it’s psychic abilities or just being overly cautious. The fire fox pokemon picked her trainer up as well. Serena wanted to ask what was going on but right now didn’t feel like the time.  

However, looking over her, Serena had an idea. The whole idea of going out here to begin with was looking around, before they picked her up there. They always had the excuse of getting lost if they got caught outside their room. Now with Lisia in tow, they didn’t really have that. Reaching over to the stage, she pulled one of the curtains, ripping it and covering the unconscious performer.

They ran out the door without problem, but their panic didn’t die down.  

She covered her up, so you could really tell it was a person under it. Both girls and their partners ran down the ship's halls. Nervously looking ahead of them for anyone else. 

Thankful not a single person was in the halls right now. Counting the amount of doors they passed to make sure they didn’t go too far. They ran into their room, shutting the door. Serena and May just looked at each other with one thought in both their heads. If those cameras were on we’re screwed ?!

“Ok, what do we do?” She hissed.  “Why was there a camera?”

“Arf!” Before she could even try to answer, a little ball of fur was wrapped around Serena's leg. 

“Poochy, please don't be so loud!” She picked him up and gently put her hand on his muzzle to keep him from yapping. “Wait, Where Aloutelle?”

“I really hope she didn’t go and look for us,” May frantically said, looking around the room. 

Poochyena wiggled out of her grip and went to grab something from under the bed. They came back with a piece of paper in his tiny jaws, holding it up so his trainer could grasp it with ease. 

She left us a note? 

May looked over Serena’s shoulder to read it with her. 

They called everyone back to perform. 

I told them you were in the bathroom when they asks 

Sorry if that gets the two of you in trouble.

 If they find you out halls it’s two penalties,

So it might be best to stay in the room till they look for you.

Also I told Poochy to hide under the bed if you can’t find him.

”That can’t be good..” May looked down at the paper and grimaced. 

“No it really can’t be, Before we do anything though we have to hide her.” Serena started to form something of an idea. “We’re keeping everyone on us, I think we’re fair past the point of playing along.“ 

May nodded in agreement. “Ok, Ok. We wait for her to wake up, and then get the guys and look for a way off.”

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Informant2: Why did he add us to this?

Informant1: BRAT 

@Satoshi

@Satoshi

@Satoshi

@Satoshi

@Satoshi

@Satoshi 

@Satoshi 

Alain: Can you not

Informat2: YOUR ON HERE

Informet1: THE SCARY TWERP

Wait, does he count as a twerp?

Informet2: That’s actually a good question 🤔

Informant1: How old are ya?

Alain: Am I supposed to know who you are?

Informant2: We fought each other

Alain: I have fought a lot of people, you would have to be more specific than that.

Informant1: Well of course your a Vice Champion thingy, But there is no way we didn’t leave at least a little bit of an impression  

Alain: Why?

Informant1:I mean I would think use trying to nap the brats Pikachu would at least leave something of a memory 

Sawyer: From my memory, the only people who call Sato a”Brat”, is team rocket. Why are you two on here!

Alain: The same team rocket that attacked professor sycamore and kidnapped him? As well as trashed the lab on two different occasions?

Informant1:OH… that might have happened, who knows, right?

Informant2: Congratulations on his soon to be marriage—by the way! 

Satoshi: I knew this was going to happen at some point but man y’all sped run that 

Sawyer: Really why are they here?

Do they kinda work for you now?

Satoshi: That’s strong wording for it 

I more just call for favors

And Alain i will make sure nothing like that would happen with them again i promise

Alain: I just want you to explain why they are listening to you.

Brock: I had a feeling that they were here, I would also like to know why?

Informant2: Well is actually quite simple 

Would you try and argue with someone with the strength of an elite four member?

Who you are for constantly around for some reason?

At this point we’re half convinced he has become the stalker. 

Every new assignment he’s somehow in the region. 

Brock: you guys have grown soft since the last time I saw you.

Informant1: We haven’t grown soft, the brats just become more buzz killer, for some reason or another when it comes to us doing crimes

For your information Sycamore‘s brat after we got of the plane, from Kalos the main brat chased us, like a madman his poor beautiful mom, looked all over for him because of that 

Informant2:To be fair the first time we did the whole Kidnaping the Professor he also sat us down and made us swear we wouldn’t do It again and then we did it again SO

Informant1: we have a quota, things like that

Brock: I need you to be honest with me

Have you ever actually filled your quota once?

Informant2: rude 

Informant1: EXTREMELY 

Brock: you didn’t answer the question 

Satoshi: alright alright 

you can bully them later 

i need them for something

Brock: fine 

Informant1: mmmm?

Satoshi: ever heard of a place called Aether paradise before?

I need you to get hired there for a little bit 

please and thank you 🙏 

Informant2: well that shouldn’t be too hard 

but we kinda already have a secondary job right now.

Informant1: Bewear don’t help either BUT we shouldn’t cave to his demands immediately 

Bargain for crying out loud

Informat2: right! 

Satoshi: well?

What do you want? you know my limits for what i am willingly to give

Informant2: well

help us get a Z-Crystal, 

Informant1: And the Z-Watch thingy 

Informant2:A Z-band Jessie 

Informant1: yeah that!

Satoshi: you have to go through trials to get thoughts but i can see, what i might be able to do?

Informant1: 👍 

Informant2: Well this has been fun and mildly terrifying

Ta-Ta~ 

Two people have logged off….

Brock: well nice seeing them being themselves.

what's their day job though

Satoshi: 🤷‍♀️ 

Alain: They are not what I expected for how, Professor described them.

Satoshi:They are getting soft but they were never really that scary to begin with

Sawyer: I had no idea you went that far back?

Is it normal for strong trainers to have team members follow them?

Satoshi: Maybe?

Brock: no

the answer is no

Alain: Why ask them to do something like that? Does this have anything to do with your classmate?

I did not see you as someone to cash in favors with gang members, on what seems a regular basis.

Satoshi: Look this only applies for them, I wouldn’t mess with any other team or rocket member 

Also yeah it has to do with my classmate 

but i think that their seems that more is going on with that place,really i'm just sending them so i see what they see

Brock: ?

Satoshi: I’ll explain later

It confusing even to me, i'm just going with my gut at this point 

Alain: Are you sure sending them to an Pokemon reservation is a good thing?

Even if they are relatively harmless.

Aether paradise is quite reputable, if one of their mess up gets followed back to you. It would not be pretty.

Satoshi: they might not be good at their job but they are Loyal to a default i'm not too worried 

Alain: Fair enough, you know them better than I do.

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It was far later at night, then Sato would have wanted to do this. Burnett had gone home for the night, after dinner she and kukui, talked a lot. Mostly about their work or about stuff that was coming up. By the end Burnett had agree to go to a festival a week from now with them. Satoshi was really excited about that, the professor was fun. Just this just wasn’t the day to do it. 

Lucario had called for him to tune, with it being so late he almost declined. But he couldn’t let himself fall into pushing it back another day. On the bright side, Lucario had agreed to do it in the loft. He could sleep right after, which was nice.

Sitting on the ground, Lucario sat down with him as well. They also seemed tired.

I'm sorry Kit, I didn’t know he would bring the nice lady..perhaps I would have asked to do this another day

It’s not your fault, besides Burnett was really cool to meet!

They always do this sorta thing, when it is the least convenient… but it would seem to you it was quite helpful?

Satoshi forgot that by training with the pokemon his memories would be like an open book. Before Riley would dot over him for the smallest emotional change, Rui was now taking the brunt of their older cousin’s worries. That was probably good for her though, to have someone actually take care of her.

Yeah you could say that…

Everything about Aether paradise from what he could tell, it felt like Team Flare all over again. Outside it seemed to just be a good little organization, but peel the paint back a bit and it's a complete nightmare.

I wonder what we’ll get to see tonight? The sea out here almost reminds me of Castelia city—Nothing down there ever stops moving!

Lucario seems amused by that thought.

Now let us not delay—We can talk all we want in the morning

Satoshi nodded, reaching out smiling. Think about where he should let his mind wander. Maybe he could look over at some of the other islands. With not being able to travel to them yet it was the only way to take a look without stepping foot on them. It might be a challenge, but when had he ever shied away from something like that?

Without wait, the both of them slipped into the endless waves of aura. Watch as peoples and Pokémon’s dreams reflect on the waves they made as they slept.

If he could remember correctly while Rui and Wes were on the run, Rui taught herself how to change or alter another’s dreams. Using the experiences of before when HoHo would give her visions and the stories around things like that happening. Now that he was here, it really made him wish that he had asked her to teach him. She had always been more adept than him even when they were kids. His cousin created a whole new practice so she could make it so her boyfriend didn’t get arrested for crying out loud.

That apparently happened when Wes was being chased down for being the one who ”kidnapped” her, because the Team he was a part of had something to do with it. With Rui being so close to the Law enforcement, she could tell him how to avoid them. Till he got the chance to break her out of there.

Doing his best not to be pulling into the underwater stream of consciousness, that was the sea around Alola. Satoshi tried to focus on one person in particular, Kiawe. If he wanted any chance of not getting completely lost, it was best to hold on to the person's aura he did know. Lucario for their part wouldn’t let him get pulled, but he didn’t want to redo this.

His classmate always said his farm was small. Satoshi would say it was more medium sized than anything. Plenty of Miltank, Tauros, and another pokemon he did recognize. From what he could tell they felt like ground types. Nevertheless they all were very happy, and well taken care of.

Moving past the farm. There was someone or something else that felt familiar. Latching on to the presents, he was somewhere far in some sorta cave. Others around it, and in so much pain.

With Lillie’s memory being well a memory, the aura was really just echo. Having the ability to truly feel the creature's presence. It felt like how any legendary would, yet something was just off? Like when you bite into something and it tastes good till at the end your mouth is assaulted with chemicals.

He couldn’t really see them like this. Well that was kinda the point, he not “seeing” anything he just knows it there kinda-thing. If he wanted to see anything he would have to use something else's eyes.

Feeling around he found a little fire and poison type. First rule of connecting yourself to another being, ask permission first. It’s really rude first of all, and you could really hurt someone if you do.

Could you help me? I need to see something real quick

Ahhhhhhhh!—No—no possession, body is toxic spirit!

I'm not going to possess you! I just need to see the Trainer And their pokemon in the cave with you!

Pure confusion filled the pokemon.

That it?

Yup!

If you looking to join the human, he seem and anger one—paranoid too

That was probably the first time someone had thought he was a pokemon. But what pokemon did they think he was? He can’t think about that right now, focus Satoshi focus.

Not really thinking of doing anything like that, Just curious is all

You only peak, aright!

As if a gate opened, Satoshi was in the cave. Really low down to the ground, and the colors slightly different from what he was used to. The trainer stood trying to calm the mix match being. A restraining helmet looking thingy. The two other pokemon in the group watch with timid sadness. This didn’t seem all to be an uncommon situation.

The trainer themselves was not sad about this. More anger, but not at the pained pokemon at something else.

Can we go closer? Please? I promise I will pay you back somehow

Not a berry, l swear to Tapu KoKo’s wrath—

Not a berry, something much better than that! Like a Malsada, or a Pokepuff!

Three or no!

Sure!

The lizard did what it promised. He could far more clearly see the trainer, and their face. A Blonde guy with a real weird haircut, and torn up clothes.The thing was he could swear that he’d seen this guy before, but it was distorted. He didn’t seem all that friendly, but he was currently wrestling his team member.

Being in his head too much, the sudden alarm from the fire type jolted him. Feeling a surge of something below, the umbreon‘s energy started to build. They had taken notice of them being there.

The dark pulse connects but the damage seems to be mostly negated. Still even like this he felt the tinges of pain, quickly overshadowed by the new found heartbeat he started to feel in his own chest. The rest of his team shot up in alarm.

“Wait clam down,” The blonde hissed, putting his hand up to stop this from getting worse. “Good job umbreon, but it's just a salandit.”

The panic that spiked when umbreon attacked, the whole feeling of alarm. Some felt really wrong, he really wished he could talk like this. Just to ask how he had gotten the lab pokemon, or what was going on when Aether Paradise.

“Next time stir clear of us, we’re not the crowd you want to be around,” He stated. Diggin in his pocket, he threw an Oran berry to the ground. “Here, for the damage either way.”

Salandit didn’t eat it right away, instead it just picked it up and looked at it. Purely out of confusion. Which Satoshi understood, the guy was sending a lot of mixed signals. He kept saying stay away, but on the inside he was really worried about the salandit. It was kinda hard to take him seriously, when he glared at them.

The trainer was also getting a little flustered, it couldn’t be all that seen. Having the ability to look under the covers of people's actions, was something he should have never given up on.

”Didn’t I tell you to run off?” He once again hissed.

Whatever trance they were in broke. The pokemon he was bonded to ran off, going off into a small hole in the cave wall.

Weird mean, weird human

Yeah, he is weird

When payment?

Somehow he had forgotten all about that. When would he be allowed to take the island trail again? But he didn’t necessarily have to take a trail to get over there, it would be nice though cause he wouldn’t have to pay for the ferry ride.

Well—-in like three days?

Come one!!!!

Sorry…See you in a few days ok? I'll bring you a fourth one, for asking so much of you

If a pokemon could tisk, then the Salandit’s could fill a room with sound.

…Alright

Slowly to not hurt them, or himself while untwining his heart from it’s. He felt Lucario help him a bit, by starting to pull him away.

Have a good night!

He didn’t get to hear, or at least feel what they had to say. He was once again floating in the never stopping sea. Not having something to hold onto, he nearly started to tumble below the water. Some much was going on under the waves of life, it was like a black hole of never stopping movement. Even in the shallowest he felt so overwhelmed.

A bit desperately he reached onto Kiawe’s heart again. A lot more forceful this time so much that his poor classmate woke up in a fright.

He couldn’t hear what Kiawe was screaming but the pure fear that he just kinda sparked out of him and died down. Satoshi would have laughed if not for being the one to cause it by accident.

He felt the others in his household spring up too, and then the pokemon started pouring into the house. He watched the worst domino effect possible. As ever one went from dreaming to panic and then rushing into his room.

He just kinda watched on in guilt, awkwardly knowing he couldn’t do anything to stop this. Kiawe went from panic to, now, a very strong paranoia. The intensity of which, made him start to shutter. Lucario just kinda started nudging him to move on, showing within its aura something it found interesting. Have him latching on to something away from the farm.

He didn’t recognize anything on the island. All new and exciting. Satoshi really couldn’t wait to really see this island. The volcano was radiating warmth, the energy from it was soothing. Like sitting nexts to a campfire. 

That did not seem to be what his teacher was trying to get him to look at. It pushed him a little bit more into the cityscape. The almost safety of the woods would have to be left behind. Another city in Alola, if he could remember correctly it was called Konkani city. His classmates would talk about getting a lot of nice jewelry over there. Well everyone except Sophocles, he would say it was too girly or something like that. But as fun as his classmate was he would say that kinda thing a lot, it was kinda annoying.

Some part of him wanted to start wearing some because first it looked good on him, second cause a lot of guys in wore some it was really just a Unovain custom not to, and third he really didn’t get a chance to because of traveling so much before. And sometimes they were really not all that comfortable to wear, to him at least. The ones made of small interwoven metal chains, for him those were the worst feeling. Even if they did look good.

The ones made with stone beads however were great. His mom had some from her great, great, great something, that was made of moonstone. Which was really pretty but he didn’t get to wear it. It was way too expensive, and dear to his mom. He had to have a reason too. Like going somewhere fancy or maybe like a wedding.

He was getting super distracted. Much to the aura pokemon quiet annoyance.

Following where Lucario told him to go. A very familiar feeling pricked at his skin. That horrid aura from before. It was almost painful repulsive, cause now he was actually trying to look at it. He didn’t want to go closer, but they were coaxing him too. Holding closer the man's feelings, Satoshi peering at his dreams. They were full of gold and wealth, tall buildings that stretched into the sky, and sitting in expansive lounges with people at his every beck and call.

How is this guy's dreams even grimmer than his heart?

Why did Lucario tell him to look here?

Going past the veils of his dreams very shallowly, it was just more money and the richest. Greed is flowing for this guy, but also some of his plans for the future already woven in his memory. They were not great, taking people's land and just one of the uglys hotels he had seen in recent memory. Make living on said lands so hard they would be forced to leave and sell to him. Truly a horrid guy.

Without even really thinking about it he went farther. More horrible plans, ideas, images. Party’s that seemed to be never ending. Drinks, more drinks, and talking about stuff that completely went over his head. He was with a bunch of men around him that had the same grimy aura. One of said men made him do a double take. What was his name? Dean, the guy who took everyone. Sato began to see why the pokemon had spotted them as someone of interest.

The memory of the two meetings was awkward to say the least. The two were shaking each other's hands while talking about the crypto coin? Must be a weird rich person thing they wanted to launch and all the property they owned.

Well in truth he knew the guy who was for a while, well everyone in Kanto probably did. He hadn’t brought up the guy's history because it wasn’t really all that helpful to what everyone was trying to do. Also if he did start trashing on him Misty would join, and they would be three hours in to just talking about every horrid thing they had heard he’d done. Which would be fun but not helpful.

Silph Co was very much a household brand in his home region, after all. That wasn’t however why he could recognize that man's face within seconds. To be far Wataru had cut down on the man's political poster after the fifth year, of the guy running for civil leader of Kanto. But even when he was like 8 he still remembered walking into Viridian city when his mom went to her second job and he would hang out at the arcade. Seeing the poster on every wall imaginable

The three years he tried to run he didn’t meet the age requirement, and didn't stop the posters though. To even be a civil league official you had to be 25, he was 22 at the time. The rumor of why he wanted to do it so badly was because he was turned down by a girl and thought if he was the president she would get with him. It made no sense to Sato, why that would work but considering some of the debates the guy did he didn’t seem all that smart.

What did worry him though was he had heard all kinds of stories of him being horrible to women or anyone who wasn’t a man. The uncomfortable feeling of knowing Serena, and his other friend being around someone like that made his worry spike. He had even been banned from most of the houses of Johto’s red light district. They let most of the Team rocket admins in but not him.

Satoshi focused once again, going farther. He was more than happy to dig through this guy’s memory as slime as he was. He would finally have good news for Shinji when he got out, and now could have some idea where everyone was.
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Of course they would have the audacity to walk in the girls room while half of them were changing. What should Dawn expect them to ask first?

Some of the other performers were either lost in this ship or didn’t go back to their rooms and now the whole crew was looking for them. The girl that was in the room with them told one of the workers that they went here. Whether they did or didn’t run off, did they really have to bust the door down? Was that really too much to ask of their hosts?

Walking back to the backstage, Quilava followed behind her. Pacarchu had gotten far too tired to keep this up, so she switched them out for someone else for a bit. Her pokemon was more than a bit grumpy. They had almost nipped at one of the crew, she had been able to stop that barely. But she couldn’t stop him from hissing as the crew walked by. Weirdly it wasn’t even the guest that he was hiss at, just the crew.

“It’s showtime, please get ready in the quickest manner.” One of the crew monotonically spewed out. None of them ever really looked all that healthy, grayish skin and someone with the most bloodshot eyes she had ever seen on someone.

She tried to tone out what he was saying, mostly about the ordered everyone was going to preform in, but they all knew that wasn’t going to be followed. If any of the guests wanted someone to repeat their performance then they would have too. There was one girl who was asked to do it five times in a row, by her fifth time, she couldn’t keep up with the tempo and was given a strike for it. What made it even worse was that this was her debut. Dawn would not blame her if she didn’t ever wish to do this again.    

“One special request from Mr Silph, Dawn blitz? You're going to be his waiter tonight.”

All the other girls looked at her in shock, the one who had been waiters the night before, looked at her with fear for her resigned pity. She was one of the more popular stars, none of them had been called to do anything like this yet.

”Oh” Dawn replied in the most positive voice she could muster. This was not a good thing at all. The crew member held his hands out to take the pokemon she had on her.

Dawn heard a hiss to the side of her. All of Quilava’s back shot up with fire, cheeks pulled back to show all of its teeth.

Everyone else in the room just kinda froze.

“No, Quilava Stop!” His trainer called, on very much deaf ears. She tried to put him back in his ball. He wasn’t having any of it.

“Get your creature under control, Miss Blitz.” He still sounded like concrete, even with him being the target of her pokemon hate. He reached into his own pocket, maybe to grab a pokemon of his own. But he wasn’t given the chance too. 

Quilava pounced, biting straight into his hand.

With the bite, came a fire spin and it completely torched the guys clothes. The crew member however did not really move, instead his eyes just became even more red even starting to bulge. Like something was trapped inside. A smoke followed out his mouth quickly after. It was gross! What is wrong with him?

One of the girls with a Ivysaur, had held down the worker, as he started spazzing. Body contorting in ways it did not look like it should. Having him look more like a rag doll then a person.

”What is the world?!” The same girl screamed.

“Something is coming out of him!” Another shrieked. “Furfrou use Bite on it!”

The normal type pulled a Ghastly out of him using the dark type move. It ran off the second it puffed out of him, going into the shadows to hide. The worker started breathing quickly, and stopped thrashing everywhere. She could hear him say something, but it just sounded like he was mumbling. What must have been ectoplasm was leaking out of his mouth. The rest of the performers either ran out or were circled around him.

Quilava walked up next to her, curling around her legs. He looked her in the eye, and almost as if he was saying I was trying to tell you. She gave him a pet to say thank you. He cood in her hand, lowering the flames on its head to prevent burning its trainer.

”No way that guy was possessed! Poor dude.” Kenny ran up to where she was, the Rosa guy following after him. “Dawn you ok?”

“Yeah i'm good, that was freaking though.” She hadn’t seen him in a few days. The boys and girls being so separated made it hard to talk to him. He looked mostly ok. Although the clothes he had on did not seem to fit him all that well.

The Rosa guy walked up behind, looking already stressed. “Hey, have you seen May anywhere?”

”No, I haven’t, Sorry.” Dawn had been here the whole time, she hadn’t even seen her or her roommate in the bathroom. He looked at the ground even more worried. Really the only time they got to see each other was between the performances, but that time was so short half the time the two could only really just check up on each other.

The girl with the Furfrou walked up to them.

“Well, She and Serie went to go look around,” The girl who helped the passed out guy, with her Furfrou. “I told them to wait in our room, because of the penalties for being out… so-they might still be in there.”

”Went to look around?! For what? Why?” Drew nearly looked like he was going to pass out.

“Well they saw some guy with a tray going down the hall—“ The poor girl tried to answer. She really did look scared. “Im sorry, I should have made it so they didn’t go!”

Drew realized what he did, and sighed.

”It’s fine, May can't seem to actually have trouble stick to her. No matter how much she seems to get into it,” Drew tried his best to calm her down, and in turn himself. “So don’t worry too much alright? Don’t let her be the death of you, that already my job.”

She nodded her head, still a bit teary eyed. “..Alright.”

It was really nice see some decent on this ship

The guy from early started screaming, ruining the mood.

“Where am I?! Boss! Boss!” He started to sit up, but the girl from before that held him down was not having any of it. Dawn really needed to learn her name, she was cute. ”What do you think you're doing, Mew forbid!”

”You don’t know where you are? Is that true or are you lying?” Putting both her hands to her hips, she stared down at him with doubt.

“Why would I be lying!? I really don’t know where I am, the last place I remember being was work! And the boss called me into his office.. and started talking about me being let go. How long have I been here? Where are my pokemon?” The man looked around. It seemed as the more he remembered the more he started to go deeper into dread.

“You really don’t know where you are or how you got here at all?” The girl didn’t even have to tell her pokemon to let him go. After that her Ivysaur didn’t have the heart to hold him down anymore.

”No, that’s what I’ve been saying! Who’s in charge here? C-can I go talk to them?” He wasn't so horrified anymore, just sorta a lost Growlithe.

“Emm—well there behind the curtain, but are you sure you want to talk to him? I mean sir you were just possessed..” The girl said as she backed up to them. She also pointed behind them. Everyone else just kinda looked at her, wide eyed.

“I WAS WHAT!” The man screamed.

”Please sir, don't be so loud!” May’s roommate waved her hand in front of her.

”S-sorry, this is all just a lot.” He slowly stood up. “I really did appreciate the concern, but I do feel like I should talk to whoever is running this.”

”Thank you, helping me out—My name is Masaki Sonezaki—this has been a really weird introduction to you all, but have a good day!”

He got up, and just trudged behind the curtain.

Dawn however soon found herself full of fear. Even if that guy had no idea what happened her pokemon still attacked a member of the crew. She could get a penalty. Or Arceus forbade get Quilava taken from her. Pulling out his ball, she quickly put him away. He didn’t protest too much this time, too preoccupied with rubbing against her legs for that.

Dawn intuition must have been really pulling through today. Some of the other crew members came up on stage, they all had the same look as the other guy. We’re they also?

Not saying everything. Just looking at them unnervingly.

What were the signs of possession again? It depended on the pokemon or so said Brock it differed vastly. If she remembered correctly, the Gengar line had really bad shadows under the eyes (That was pretty common with possession though), pale skin, and like most possessions a change in personality. It wasn’t like she knew them before but most people didn’t act like drywall.

“It is time to perform, waiting any long will take more time from your ability to sleep.” One of them chimed. Oh of course it would.

Kenny gave her a pat on the back. “Good luck?”

Before she had to go up, Dawn held the pokeball behind her. Offering it to Kenny.

“Wait—you sure about—?” Kenny at least was whispering when he asked her.

She felt him hold it, and tossed it into his hand.

”Thanks. See you soon,” She said as overly sweetly as she could before, walking off to the front of the stage. “And best wishes.”

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Shinji wasn’t in his jail cell anymore, instead the champion of Johto had him locked up in an apartment. Why he was moved here when he still didn’t take a plea deal, however it wasn’t like he knew how the region's criminal law system works. Even with the improved space, he was not allowed to leave and go get his pokemon off the Breeder. It didn’t really matter he had committed a crime, whatever happened to him now was out of his control.

He didn’t trust Wataru, but he had enough faith that he would go look for Dawn. It was a part of his job, he better do it.

The homes in Kanto and his own region looked mostly the same. So it wasn’t horribly uncomfortable. This room was far more pleasant than whatever the hell was going on with the president's office. Quietly, normal colors, and felt somewhat lived in. Something like this would be, could be his house someday. Hopefully soon, he will get out of Reiji hair. His Brother was a hard worker, too hard of one. Taking care of him was just another thing for him to have to take care of. Shinji wasn’t going to allow himself to be a burden to someone else. Especially if he keeps doing stupid stuff like this. It was worth it because he wanted to just know where Dawn was but his brother still had to deal with it. Going to jail, or anything else like this was fine, it was the consequences of his actions.

He alone was fine with it. What he did have to care about was his brother, coming to pick him up, and looking sorry. Before there had been some dipshits who kept talking about how it was Renji’s fault, for Shinji being the way he was. If only he had a loving mother, he wouldn’t be so rude. If only he had a stirn father, so he wouldn’t be so blunt. No talk about how the two people who could have ”fixed” him, left the both of them with a run down house.

Renji did the best he could, but no matter what he did it was never going to fix him. There was nothing wrong with him to begin with. If everyone else wasn’t such a priss, or just told him what they wanted instead of making him read their minds.

Sitting there with nothing else to do, thinking wasn’t going to make this any better.

There was a sound from the door. Looking towards it he expected the champion or a police officer. Neither seemed to grace him today however. A blonde it would seem. The scarf that wrapped around his neck was the most palatable thing about him. With his eyes looking like he hadn’t been sober for years, it was hard to find anything appealing.

“Good morning, hope you weren’t too bored, can’t imagine it was great to be locked in here for so long.”

He paused as if he was waiting for something. But without Shinji responding he just sighed, but not with any malice, just apathy.

“You should be leaving here in a few days, still need to do one more thing for my champion and you're good to go.” Walking around, to the three cabinets and a single stove, that was the kitchen. He started some water. “Didn’t trash the place? How nice of you, the last guy was not even nearly as polite.”

Last guy implied that it was common for the champion to have people put in random houses to hide them away from the public. Cynthia would already know about this, she worked with him far too much not too. Not that her knowing didn’t make it shady. Not that Wataru ever shied away from that sorta of look either. When he first came into power he acted far more like a gang leader than the military leader of a region. 

”If you think he’s driving you up a wall, Wataru might actually end up choking him out given the chance.” He was leaning back now while talking. “Don’t think you mind all that much though.”

”Why isn’t he just calling him, himself?” Shinji snapped. He wasn’t doing any favors for the champion. He had already wasted enough time here.

“Well, cause he can’t actually open a criminal investigation on him without evidence first, since well let's be honest he doesn’t have anything else to go off of.” He said it so absent mindlessly, even with its subject matter. “The more money you have the less and less laws seem to apply to you.”

”Then all of this will be done.” Sighing softly after he spoke, Shinji looked down at the cup of tea the man handed him.

“Don’t quote me on that, but yeah.” The blonde sat down himself. “You look like you should be in a morgue, drink, would rather not have to process your body anytime soon.”

Glaring from the other side of the table, Shinji didn’t answer his ”joke”.

“I work with the dead, let me have a little fun.”

Looking down at the murky tea, out of spite Shinji didn’t want to touch it. Yet, he wouldn’t lie, the warmth would be nice.

A sound came from down the hall. The door opened and another person entered the apartment, with a short sigh and labored walking.

“Matsuba, what are you doing here?” A baneful hiss followed soon after.

Turning around lazily, Matsuba almost pouted. “This is my place too, don’t forget sweetheart.”

Another man, wearing a low baseball cap covering most of his upper face. And the longest and ratty long coat. Overworked far too much it would seem.

“I am well aware of that, just what are you doing here? I thought the elders, and you were going to discuss the new year's needs for the Susen shinden.” So this guy was the region head mortuary assistant, or priest? “..That can wait for another time, Kanama I need you for a second.” The man pulled a chair over to sit himself. Pulling out the president's phone he dropped it back on to the table.

Narrowing his eyes, Shinji looked at the electronics. Remembering the guy's voice from before, was already making his blood boil.

”He still hasn’t called back.” He stated. “Wouldn’t be surprised if he just forgot, or to didn’t see it as being serious.“

The blonde joined in. ”His father might as well be his wallet, not that daddy cares all that much, his son became a wealth symbol for just how much he spends.”

Scoffing Shinji pulled the phone to him, but he wouldn’t lie that it sounded correct. 

“Does he have enough money to think he can buy people?”

Taking off his hat, Wataru barked out a tired laugh. “He thinks he can buy a whole region, for half the price.”

Picking it up, the phone had been forcefully unlocked. By one of the champion’s G-men, a small plug was inside of it’s charging port. Their phone had probably been data minded, to hell and back. But the call history was on full display.

“The add on will let us track the call, however he hasn’t responded back like he said he was.” Wataru switched back into his more commanding voice. Earning a small look from his gym leader. “I’m going to ask you to force his hands on this.”

In a different situation, Shinji would have argued. He owed the red head nothing, and the champion was holding him unlawfully to begin with. After not talking back or looking either man in the eye. He clicked the call button