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amethyst-halo · 6 months ago

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just realized i never posted my tmd summary so here it is it's really long and technically unfinished

the troll kingdoms are different guilds with their own territories. the leaders are the guildmasters

brozone was a team of brother eevees that were a part of the pop guild that also like to sing and perform. branch is a part of it, taken care of by their grandmother who runs a daycare while they work and learning songs and dances when they’re back. they’re brothers, so of course they get into fights, but they’re close-knit and have each other’s backs through and through.

things get tense when, due to intense love for his family, bruce- then spruce- evolves into a sylveon. his brothers are ecstatic for him, of course, but john dory quickly falls into an ocd spiral about their image and the way spruce will stick out against the group of eevees. as a result, he begins pressuring himself, clay, and floyd to evolve too, claiming it’ll “look right” and keep them perfect.

clay doesn’t take well to the pressure, getting into spats with john dory regularly and causing turbulence in the team’s work. spruce is doing his best to defend his younger brothers from the eldest one, but he feels guilty for starting all of it. floyd mostly does what he can to keep the arguing away from branch.

eventually, clay gets sick of it and gets ahold of a thunder stone, evolving into a jolteon. he turns and spits at john, asking if he’s happy now. this only makes the fights worse, as the pressure john puts on himself and floyd gets worse, and clay gets even more angry about the way he treats floyd. after a little while, john manages to evolve into a leafeon through excessive training that wore him down quite a bit and started even more fighting, some of which turned into full-on battles. when floyd was the only one left to evolve, the pressure became unbearable, and floyd began avoiding his brothers other than branch whenever he could. in private, he was doing a lot of research on his evolution options and what he’d need, and eventually came back one day as an espeon.

of course, the fighting never really stopped- the rifts were too deep by that point. their first show fully evolved was also branch’s first show, and john thought the best way to present both of these things was to pull off a powerful melody, the perfect family harmony, which few could access and even fewer could pull off. he figured out that the brothers could indeed tap into the power, and the pressure returned full force.

the performance came, and it was a disaster. this caused the metaphorical pot to finally boil over, resulting in the biggest fight the brothers had; this caused the team to disband and the brothers to leave, all wanting to get away from the stress john had put everyone under. unfortunately, that meant leaving little branch behind with their grandmother; branch felt like he was the cause of everything going wrong, and would blame himself for decades.

a couple of years after the brothers’ split and before the big escape™, a group of criminals- who are a part of a much bigger syndicate that the guild has been trying to bring down, and is notoriously causing problems near the town- catch branch and his grandmother outside of town doing their chores; branch had been singing as they worked, practicing, which caught their attention. grandma rosiepuff holds them off and sends branch running for help, which he does, but it's too late by the time he gets help and gets back. grief-stricken and blaming himself, branch secludes himself from everyone.

it’s a couple of years later that the pop guild is forced to evacuate the town in the middle of the night as a mystery dungeon begins forming right on top of them, barely making it out of there before the dungeon overtakes them. guildmaster peppy loses his eldest daughter, viva, but keeps hold of his youngest, poppy, and leads the now-stranded group to a new place to settle. branch goes along, since he has nowhere else to go, unaware that clay had returned for him only to be stranded alongside viva and a group of others.

the guild rebuilds in a new place a few days’ travel away over the next two decades, recovering from the escape and getting back to normalcy. branch- who evolves into a glaceon- remains secluded, taking it upon himself to set up a safety bunker and patrol the edges of town for the criminals despite not seeing any. the townsfolk were initially trying to convince him to come back and socialize, feeling sorry for him being left alone so young, but eventually gave up and even began to make fun of his “strange habits.”

the pokemon who bothers him the most is the guildmaster’s daughter, poppy. branch has an immediate dislike of her, as he thinks she’s spoiled due to her status; she is also rarely leaving the guild, giving him the impression she can’t hold her own. despite his dislike of her being made incredibly clear, she still tries to include him in practically everything, which he constantly turns down. he keeps her invitations, though, touched by her thinking of him anyways.

on the twentieth anniversary of the escape, poppy plans a massive celebration in honor of the guild keeping everyone safe. branch thinks this is a ridiculous idea that will only call attention to them, inviting the group of criminals to target them again, but poppy brushes him off. they hadn’t had trouble near their new town in twenty years, after all. the festival is thrown, and branch watches from the edges.

he’s the first to spot the problem; a group sneaking into town from the shadows that he doesn’t recognize. he knows immediately that they’re trouble, and wades into the festivities to follow them, looking for poppy while he’s at it. he loses track of them in the crowds, but manages to find and warn poppy, who doesn’t take him seriously.

then, chaos breaks out. the group do indeed turn out to be criminals; some of the most wanted members of the syndicate, led by a violent scolipede just called the chef. they capture a group of pokemon as a warning that the guild’s days are numbered, and haul them away far too easily, despite many teams attempting to fight them off. poppy is guilty and desperate, as those captured were her closest friends, but peppy insists it’s too dangerous to go after them. poppy won’t listen, though, and seeks branch’s help since he knows the most about the criminals. branch refuses, so she sets off alone. branch is determined not to follow, but it doesn’t take him long to give in.

he catches up to her when she gets cornered in a dungeon, only to discover she’s not skilled, but far from helpless. she grins at him and tells him it’s about time he showed up, implying she knew he was coming. he grumbles about this for most of the journey.

they make their way back to the old town, setting up a camp, and branch begins planning. he figures out how to get into the criminals’ base and find poppy’s friends, having studied them endlessly over the years. they sneak in and make their way to where her friends are, finding that the chef captured them to give to the syndicate’s leader- a young quilladin named gristle, who definitely was born into the position. one of poppy’s friends, a simipour named creek, is separated from the group, and they aren’t sure if he’s even alive.

they sneak around a little, and find out the whole thing is a sort of show of power. the chef captured them to make a show of killing them to establish the leader as one to be feared and to take over the pop guild, though the reasoning as for why is left kind of vague. (turns out later that chef wants the plates that the guild is protecting)

they attempt to free poppy’s friends, only to be spotted by a granbull. she seems more panicked than angry, though, and they figure out she’s one of the lowest ranking members and not much of a threat. they strike a deal with her that branch finds ridiculous; they help her talk to her crush, gristle, and she helps them escape.

poppy goes a little overboard, since she’s poppy, but they set them up perfectly and the granbull- bridget- and gristle end up on a date with the group watching in secret. gristle reveals that the chef captured poppy’s friends to put on a show of power to not only the syndicate, but the guild as well, by basically just killing them. he seems unenthused about it though, implying he doesn’t want to do it at all. but he can’t stand up to the chef; she would easily take his place as leader without much trouble, and he was only safe so long as he listened to her. but, he says, the one they’d pulled away from the others- creek- was still alive and safe enough.

they reconvene with bridget, and poppy and branch are eager to get them out of there before something happens to them. bridget, though, doesn’t want to let them go yet, insisting they need to help her deal with the chef and keep gristle safe. poppy insists that they can only do so much as such a small group, and it isn’t safe for them. they argue, but bridget lets them go, and they run off to find creek.

despite their best efforts, they end up caught by the chef herself, and are locked up. the chef then reveals she’s kept creek close at hand. branch knows immediately that something is up, and is furious, but poppy refuses to listen to anyone but creek himself.

creek then smiles at them and shrugs, and says that branch is completely right. he had sold them out to chef in return for his life. he insists that it’s a mercy to them, that they’ll die with a clear conscience while he’ll live with his choices for the rest of his life. and then he and the chef reveal they’re going to storm the guild and capture everyone, forcing them to watch as poppy and friends are killed “just like branch’s grandmother.” branch freezes, then tries to attack them in rage, but can only do so much from behind the bars. he spits that the guild won’t listen to the chef, but creek holds up poppy’s hammer and makes a noise with it, saying they’ll listen if it’s someone they trust. poppy begs creek not to do this, after everything, but creek simply says it’s nothing personal, just business. she gets angry and yells at them as they turn and leave.

the group breaks into panic, since most of them either don’t like to fight or aren’t strong enough to do much. poppy is too in her own head to break them out of it, so branch does. he insists that he can figure out a way out of this, that they have to be able to escape, they just need to think outside the box. they all try several different ways to get out of the cage, but nothing works, and branch gets more frantic as they go.

poppy eventually stops them, saying there’s nothing they can do. she’s visibly different now; her enthusiastic optimism is gone, and she looks numb. she sits by the bars and stares at nothing, and branch sighs and settles beside her.

she starts to spiral, blaming herself for getting them caught and acting uncharacteristically pessimistic, which surprises and saddens her friends. she claims there’s no way out of there, she got them killed because she couldn’t rescue them properly like a team could, and that she’d be a bad guildmaster. it was her idea to throw the festival that got her friends caught in the first place.

branch, to her surprise, is the first one to cut her off, saying that she’d make a good leader. she’s strong and positive and maybe a little too imaginative, but it wasn’t her fault they’d gotten caught. the chef would have found another way to do the same thing, and creek was the one that sold them out. the others back him up, pointing out good qualities about poppy and encouraging her to not give up. poppy thanks them.

that’s when branch is hit with the question.

“What happened to your grandma?”

he freezes, and looks at poppy. she says she wants to know what creek meant. branch, not knowing any reason not to talk about it, gives in and explains how they’d been doing chores when they were attacked, and he couldn’t get help fast enough. this caused him to give up a lot of things he’d liked to do, like singing. she apologizes and hugs him, catching him by surprise.

then, before they can mope for long, bridget appears. she apologizes to poppy for getting her so wrapped up in everything. poppy apologizes back, saying she should have been braver and helped her stop the chef. she asks bridget to help her now, and bridget agrees, albeit timidly.

it's a few days later that creek arrives at the town with poppy’s hammer. everyone assumes the worst, and creek lies and says there was nothing he could do. then, the guild is swarmed by a massive group of the criminals, the chef leading them. peppy demands to know what’s going on, and creek just smiles and shrugs at him.

they’re dragged back to the crime syndicate’s base, where they explain they wanted the guildmaster himself to see the show. they reveal poppy and her group, who are tied up on a stage. the chef, wielding poppy’s hammer, explains their plan to kill them and take over the guild itself, under gristle’s leadership. peppy begs them to not hurt them, which the chef laughs at.

while the chef is distracted, bridget discreetly frees poppy and her group. they pretend not to be freed until the perfect moment, where an attack hits the chef and stuns her long enough for poppy to get her hammer back. of course, a fight ensues, but the guild members are emboldened by poppy fighting back and fight back. they show how the guild works more fluently as one, chasing off a lot of the criminals until they defeat the chef.

the chef is furious and threatening them, but she doesn’t have any way to fight back and has to surrender. as everyone regroups and damage is assessed, it’s revealed that creek had escaped, turning tail and running the first chance he got. peppy scoffs and says he’s smart enough not to show his face again, so it didn’t matter. the guild returns home, dragging the chef with them to turn in to the police.

things are good for about a year; poppy and branch become better friends, and branch starts reintegrating into the town. poppy has since become guildmaster, allowing her father to retire, and is doing her best to run everything. branch takes it upon himself to help, and ends up her right-hand pokemon.

a little over a year since the chef was arrested, poppy’s routine is interrupted by an unexpected letter. it’s addressed from someone called guildmaster barb, which surprises poppy; she wasn’t aware of any other guilds nearby. the letter talks about a tour, and invites her to bring her plates. confused, she tries to figure out what it means, only for peppy to snatch the letter away and frantically tell them to forget it.

it takes them a moment to calm him down, and they convince him to explain. he reluctantly tells them about there being other guilds well past their territory, all run very differently by all kinds of different pokemon. when the news causes a bit of a stir amongst the crowd, they retreat into poppy’s office. he tells them about these things called the plates; there’s one for every type of power pokemon possess, and each of the guilds has three plates that they protect, totaling in eighteen plates in all. they used to share the plates, but peppy explains that it was too dangerous to keep them all in one place. he shows them a hidden compartment with three slabs inside, each one a different color and inscribed with a symbol; electric, fairy, and normal.

he explains barb is gathering them, and if she does, she’ll have an unchallengeable level of power. branch catches on, realizing it was a warning, but poppy seems eager to go meet barb, saying she just wanted to unite everybody again. peppy agrees with branch, saying it can’t be anything good, and they need to get the plates out of there as soon as possible so barb can’t take them.

unbeknownst to them, before this occurs, the techno guild is stormed by the rock guild and its leader. barb, a zoroark, demands the plates and captures the guild members, forcing guildmaster trollex to give her what she wants. excitedly, barb moves on to the classical guild.

poppy, the night she learned about the plates, gathers up supplies and sends a letter to barb accepting her invitation. branch catches her and tries to convince her not to go, but poppy is determined. he gives in and tags along. they realize not long after that biggie is following them, who nervously says he’d feel safer with them, so they bring him along.

barb regroups after getting the techno guild’s plates, celebrating with the other rock guild members with her. she fuses the plates to a special guitar, and they become three of the frets on the neck and show that three other frets are already changed. barb checks on her dad and reminds him of her plan.

poppy branch and biggie arrive at the classical guild’s town some time later, finding the place abandoned and in ruin. horrified, they begin to look around, and find one pokemon: a kricketot named pennywhistle, who explains what happened. barb and her group storm the classical guild, taking most of the members hostage and demanding the plates fairly easily. guildmaster trollzart tries to fight back, but barb’s power is amplified by her now six plates, so it doesn’t work. poppy realizes barb is trying to destroy the other guilds. branch insists they go back home and make sure the plates are safe, and poppy says they are safe because she has them. branch is alarmed by this, and biggie starts to panic, but poppy promises things will be okay. they set out for the country guild.

as barb regroups after getting the classical guild’s plates, she receives poppy’s letter. she becomes offended, thinking poppy is making fun of her, and gets angry. she breaks some shit. then she meets with some bounty hunters, instructing them to find and bring her guildmaster poppy.

poppy branch and biggie reach the country guild, which is oddly quiet. branch thinks no one is there, but poppy insists they check. they quickly find guildmaster delta dawn, who’s working. they interrupt and try to explain why they’re there, but delta isn’t interested in listening to them. they literally just annoy her until she threatens to kick them out. poppy backs off like a sad puppy

they then meet a duo of gogoats that have been in the shade; one larger than the other who calls himself hickory, and names his companion as his brother dickory. hickory explains they’re also sort of outcasts that delta barely tolerates. he offers to show them around, which poppy excitedly accepts much to branch’s chagrin. they wander for a little bit around town, and dickory keeps messing with things as they go, which only branch notices. after a while, a ton of stuff goes haywire and delta immediately singles out hickory and dickory, catching poppy and co in the process. they’re chased out of town.

they end up at a river, and branch confronts the gogoats about what they’re up to. hickory says they simply want to help out a fellow outcast, and he overheard them talking about warning guilds about barb. poppy is happy for the help and explains they need to go to the funk guild next, to which hickory points out they can follow the river. the brothers throw a raft together (somehow…….hooves??) and branch begrudgingly goes along.

they go downstream for a while, biggie and hickory chatting mostly. branch is at the edge of the raft and watching hickory and dickory distrustfully; he catches poppy and mentions his distrust, to which she points out he doesn’t trust anyone. he argues they’re trusting strangers. poppy takes this poorly, asking him if she’s a bad guildmaster. branch, caught off guard, denies it, but poppy isn’t listening. he argues he’s being a good friend by telling her he thinks she is making a mistake.

before they can get further, a new and overpowering smell wafts over them. they try to figure out the source and spot an aromatisse floating onto their raft before they’re incapacitated. they have a weird group hallucination, and come back to themselves to realize they were tied up. the aromatisse greets them, saying he’s taking them to barb. hickory and dickory interrupt, having avoided the incapacitation, and tell him- chaz- to back off. chaz tries to get at them, but dickory kicks him into the river.

they ask who he was, and hickory explains he’s a bounty hunter. biggie gets freaked out, and poppy tries to reassure him only for him to cut her off. he says that she isn’t listening, that she promised to protect them and broke that promise, and that she won't be able to save everyone that way. they get off the raft and onto the bank, where biggie storms away to go back home, and poppy sadly watches him go.

they walk for a while, branch and hickory at the front while poppy trails behind and dickory hangs back between them. branch and hickory talk a little and hickory points out that poppy isn’t listening, so anything he tells her may not get through. branch is a little wary to listen, even if he has a point, and gets defensive when the topic broaches his feelings for her.

they cut off at rustling, immediately becoming defensive and clustering together. branch demands to know who it is. a familiar voice calls out to them, and they’re startled by cooper popping out of the brush. poppy gets excited and greets him, only for him to snort and another girafarig appear beside him, this one with cooper’s hat. poppy is confused, and cooper explains he found out he was from the funk guild originally and has a twin brother, who introduces himself as darnell, or d. they are joined by a flaaffy and furfrou, who cooper says are mostly there for protection. cooper invites them to follow him to the funk guild, and poppy eagerly agrees, mood brightening significantly.

cooper explains on the way that his egg had been snatched before he hatched, and he ended up at the pop guild instead. he details his journey, about how after they had left he left as well and traveled all that way looking for pokemon like him. he explains he was found near the funk guild and taken to the guildmasters, who turned out to be his parents. poppy is excited for him and eager to know more about darnell, who is notably more relaxed than cooper but still equally silly.

they reach the funk guild and go to meet the guildmasters, quincy and essence. poppy explains her warning and that they need to unite against barb to show that they’re all the same, but quincy shuts her down gently. they begin explaining that they had been united long before, but the pop guild’s leader had tried to take control of the plates. in response, each of the other leaders grabbed three plates each and basically ran for it with their guildmembers. poppy is stunned and a bit horrified by what the pop guild had done, saying they’d been told something else, and darnell points out that history is written by the winners. they show them their three plates, kept very well hidden.

before they can get much further with that conversation, the rock guild arrives. as they rush to face them, cooper pulls them away and pushes them through a secret escape. poppy says she wants to help, but he tells her to run and branch agrees. as they run, they're separated from hickory and dickory, who say they’ll find them again.

poppy is fighting to go back, but branch is preventing it. when she keeps trying, he snaps that she isn’t listening, that they need to go home and protect their friends. poppy snaps back that she isn’t willing to just give up like he is, which he gets ruffled by. they argue for a bit and end up deciding they’re just too different to get along. branch starts to leave, then adds that she means the world to him anyways before disappearing into the brush.

branch finds the river again and begins following it, very stuck in his own head. he sings to himself for a little bit. then, he’s interrupted by voices. they whisper and laugh at him, and then he’s suddenly grabbed and dragged away from the river. before he knows what’s happening, he’s tied up again and facing a team of five; a persian, shiny meinshao, meowstic, meowscarada, and a liepard. the meowstic asks if he’s poppy, which he denies and demands to know who they are. they introduce themselves as team kpop, and insist he’s going to take them to poppy.

before he can really answer, another team arrives, this one made up of [insert pokemon when i figure that shit out]. they insist they’re going to take branch, and team kpop laughs. they end up squaring off against each other. branch interrupts and asks why barb gets to decide who keeps their [insert thing she offered them??]. they’re intrigued by him.

cut to poppy, who’s sitting by the river and glaring at her plates. hickory and dickory find her, which she hides the plates from before they can see them, and ask where branch is. poppy says that branch left. she vents that she just wanted to be a good guildmaster, and everything went wrong because of the plates, which she reveals that she has. hickory freezes, and dickory locks onto the plates. hickory tries to tell her to run, and barely shields her from dickory charging at her.

poppy is alarmed, and dickory speaks for the first time, snapping at hickory for getting in the way in a notably different accent. he argues with hickory and then reveals that the two are a bounty hunter team tracking poppy down for barb as well. poppy starts trying to get away, but dickory prevents it and grabs her bag with the plates. as they fight, poppy is grabbed by two rock guild members, which allows dickory to get the plates.

barb appears and takes the plates, then sizes poppy up. she snorts and asks why she was so afraid of her since she’s tiny and has a squeaky hammer instead of a proper steel one. poppy demands to be left alone, but barb doesn’t take her seriously. she reveals she’s already raided pop village, which shuts poppy down completely.

cut to biggie returning to the pop guild only to find it destroyed. the rest of the snack pack greet him and explain barb had been there and taken everyone. biggie decides they need to go and help poppy, so they disguise themselves as rock guild pokemon.

poppy is brought to the rock guild, where she’s locked up while barb makes fun of her. barb then admits she understands poppy’s drive to befriend her, and that being guildmaster gets lonely since everyone around them are just yes men. barb then puts the final plates into the guitar, and it hums with power that she excitedly wields.

she starts the show, performing for the mix of rock guild members and captives from the other guilds. biggie and his group are forced to be her backup musicians, which they barely keep their cover up with.

she reveals her guitar, and then the “former” guildmasters on small podiums as well as poppy in her cage above the stage. barb then starts up her riff, only to be jarred by a gravelrock being thrown at her. she turns to find branch is there, alongside teams kpop and reggaeton. barb is undeterred and releases her guitar’s power at poppy, which branch jumps in the way of.

branch hits the ground surrounded by rock, and then the rock cracks open to reveal he’s being mind controlled and acting like a rock guild member. barb is hype that it worked, and changes the guildmasters as well. while she’s distracted, poppy breaks the lock of her cage, and as she starts to get free, barb catches her. she has branch freeze her in place and blasts her with the guitar as well, knocking her cage down.

the dust clears and poppy is also a rock zombie, which barb cheers at. she tosses the guitar at her and tells her to get going, motioning to where cooper, darnell, and peppy are standing. poppy begins her riff, but at the last second winks at them and turns on barb. she reveals she’d blocked her ears and insists she isn’t letting barb do this, that what she’s doing isn’t bringing harmony. barb’s assistant riff agrees with her. then, poppy smashes the guitar, destroying the plates.

the world goes gray and silent, and barb is distraught at the loss of the plates while poppy is running to check on a now freed branch. barb snaps that pop ruined everything again, that their powers are gone with the plates destroyed.

everyone begins to mourn the powers, until cooper puts a microphone to his chest and darnell begins making music with it. delta dawn joins in, and soon everyone is making music together. essence declares that they’re more than what the plates provided, that being a pokemon is more than elemental powers. poppy joins in and soon enough a full performance begins, which brings back everyone’s colors and their powers alongside it, proving they really don’t need to rely on these plates at all. barb is the only one not participating until poppy pulls her in too.

the two befriend each other, and branch admits his feelings to poppy which she returns. barb and her guild formally apologizes to the other guildmasters, and the rock guild is put on a sort of probation; they have to help rebuild the destroyed guilds to start, and earn their guild title back, which barb readily agrees to.

with everyone working together over the next couple of months, the guilds are well on their way to being fixed. poppy and branch spend a lot of time working with bridget and gristle on a wedding as well, which is to take place near the old pop guild. but teams keep reporting finding weird floating rifts in remote locations, and some have tried to mess with them by sticking sticks into them only for the sticks to disappear. poppy and the other guildmasters make the call for the rifts to be avoided.

meanwhile, a duo of a gardevoir, velvet, and a gallade, veneer, discuss their plans to utilize the perfect family harmony to rise in fame. they’d figured out a way to steal the power, they just need more pokemon that can perform it to steal from: brozone. they enter their base to where a dedenne is working on a machine, while an espeon- floyd- is trapped in a small barrier in the corner. both of them get tense as the twins enter, and velvet explains her plan and how it uses the machine to sap their power, and that the work the dedenne is doing will allow them to steal from more than just floyd. the dedenne- crimp- looks horrified, and floyd yells for them to leave his brothers alone. velvet rolls her eyes and tells him to shut up.

she and veneer talk about how their amplified power from floyd is already doing them wonders, especially since he’s also a psychic type. floyd hisses that this won’t work for long, that someone will catch them sooner or later. velvet knocks crimp away from the machine and uses it on him, sapping his power in a clearly painful way to shut him up.

back at the pop guild, poppy is helping bridget and gristle with a wedding ceremony near the old pop guild’s town. branch is helping as well, though he’s a bit wistful, and poppy catches him looking at some old team brozone stuff. he covers it up and distracts until they have to move on. the wedding begins and is going fine, only for someone to shout for it to stop.

they all turn in time to spot a leafeon arriving, out of breath. he starts to ask for someone, only to spot branch and get excited. he starts to tease him in an overly familiar way, which branch is clearly not happy about. poppy demands to know who he is, and he reveals that he’s branch’s brother, which shocks her. she realizes he’s john dory from brozone, and puts the pieces together. branch tells him to fuck off and refuses to listen because of how he’d been abandoned.

john dory eventually gets it out that he came because floyd is in trouble. he explains he found him locked up and having his power torn away by a machine, and that they need all of them to break the barrier. branch is horrified, and poppy insists they go with john to help. branch reluctantly agrees. the wedding finishes and they head out.

they discover quickly that tiny diamond had snuck after them, and poppy agrees to bring him along. they debate where spruce could be and john dory reveals a postcard he got for a coastal town, saying it's from him even if it’s blank. poppy knows of the town, and they head that way.

along the way, they find a rift. it’s small and not all that dangerous, but it perturbs them. they’re about to investigate when they’re interrupted by a gardevoir and gallade duo. the two close the rift and explain the rifts have been popping up in the past couple of months. they introduce themselves as velvet and veneer, and poppy introduces her group to them. they seem friendly enough and they helped so poppy is happy to chat, though branch is apprehensive. they go their separate ways.

it takes a day or so but they arrive, finding most everyone there is very relaxed and the spot is a vacation destination. they spot a purple sylveon- spruce- near the beach headed to a beachside restaurant. they follow him inside, and he seems to be running the place. they catch up to him and he finally sees them, and is not super thrilled to see john. when branch approaches and gives away that he’s branch, he gets ecstatic and happily starts taking in his changes, complimenting the choice in glaceon. branch is a little uneasy and a little annoyed, but spruce is undeterred.

poppy introduces herself and tiny, and bruce in turn introduces himself as bruce and leads them to the counter to introduce his wife, brandy, an ampharos. she greets them happily, implying that she’s heard about them. some of their kids also appear with various kid issues, which bruce is quick to handle while trying to continue their conversation.

john finally starts to explain that he’s trying to gather them together again, and bruce immediately assumes he’s trying to do the family harmony again and gets mad. john quickly explains the issue, that floyd is trapped and needs their help, which eases bruce’s anger.

bruce admits he isn’t sure how much help he’ll be, as he hasn’t done anything like that in years. john encourages him to perform with him to get back into the swing of it, and bruce hesitates until poppy eggs him on alongside his kids. she does the same to branch, and the brothers- and poppy- perform for the restaurant. bruce agrees to help when brandy agrees to watch over the restaurant and kids.

they set out to look for clay next, though john admits he has no idea where he is. they debate on how to find him for a while as they travel; bruce has taken it upon himself to watch over tiny, and poppy and john and branch debate a lot about how to look for clay.

as they travel they find a couple more rifts, and each time velvet and veneer appear and close them. when asked, they claim they can sense them and are running around closing them while trying to figure out why they keep appearing. in reality, the machine they have can detect them using psychic power from floyd.

[also throughout throw some stuff with bridget and gristle leaving to go on their honeymoon bc i cant think of what to put there yet]

they end up getting lost, getting through a dungeon only to lose the path. they eventually are stopped by someone hidden, to which they’re defensive; they’re asked who they are and what they want, and branch explains they’re looking for clay. the mystery pokemon doesn’t reveal themselves, but points them towards a place ahead, which they follow and find a small settlement.

they’re quickly surrounded, and are met by a tinkaton who’s a little wary of them. when branch and poppy say they’re from the pop guild, though, she brightens up significantly and excitedly welcomes them. she introduces herself as viva. she asks if they’re really from the pop guild, and when they confirm, she looks poppy over a little more closely. she explains slowly that she’s from the pop guild originally and asks about peppy. poppy says that he’s well and that he’s her dad, and viva gets even more excited and grabs her in a massive hug.

poppy is confused, and viva explains she’s her sister. poppy is stunned and a little overwhelmed, unable to figure out why she didn’t know about her sooner. they bounce off each other a little, and then branch interrupts to ask if they know a shiny jolteon named clay. viva confirms that they do and that he helps her run the place, though she’s unsure of where exactly he is, and it's not long after that clay himself appears. he’s happy to see bruce, greeting him warmly, but is cold and short to john. he looks branch over a little and figures out who he is as well, excitedly looking him over.

they explain why they’re there, and clay is angered at the idea of floyd being tortured. he agrees to help, but viva stops them from leaving, insisting they rest overnight since it’s late. the brothers are hesitant, as floyd needs them, but viva insists until they agree. viva and poppy spend a lot of time together, bonding since they weren’t able to before, while clay catches up with his brothers. poppy figures out that viva got separated in the escape with clay, and she doesn't intend to leave since it’s dangerous. viva then reveals she doesn’t intend to let poppy leave either.

a rift forms in the settlement, this one bigger and more dangerous than any they’ve encountered. velvet and veneer don’t show up this time, likely due to the remote location, so some of the psychic types work together to close it, but not without damage and casualties. viva is distraught, and clay says they should evacuate. the two end up arguing a bit, and viva eventually tells them to just leave. poppy tries to talk to her, but viva refuses to listen, and they end up departing without her.

they head for floyd, following john dory to wherever the place he’s being held is. they try to plan on the way, but john is slipping into old habits which angers bruce and clay. the argument escalates as the pressure to evolve is brought up, and branch ends up revealing how he’d been alone most of his life due to their grandmother’s death. branch storms away and poppy and tiny follow, assuring they’re going to stick with him.

they travel on their own for a while, trying to figure out a plan when they aren’t even sure where they’re going. when they stop for the night, branch’s brothers catch up with them. branch is not willing to listen at first, but they apologize for their treatment of him and how they’d left. poppy convinces him to at least work with them to free floyd, since they don’t know where to go and what to expect, and branch begrudgingly agrees.

back with viva, she and some of her group are cleaning up as best they can. viva’s visibly upset but doing her best to keep up with everyone else. they’re caught up enough that they’re surprised by bridget and gristle, who had gotten lost on their way to a nearby town. viva recognizes gristle as the former crime syndicate leader and is immediately on the defense. bridget does her best to explain that the syndicate is gone now, but viva won’t hear her out until bridget mentions poppy. poppy had mentioned bridget to viva before, and the pieces slowly click together. viva realizes she made a mistake, and the three of them go to help poppy and the bros.

the bros make it to a base set up in a cavern near a big, bustling town and leave tiny outside and sneak in to find floyd still there, looking significantly worse than when john had been there. branch is both relieved and distraught to see him due to his state. floyd seems to barely be aware of them initially, but when he realizes they’re there, he gets alarmed and insists they get out of there as fast as they can. they try to assure they’re going to break him out, but he begs them to go and that it’s a trap. before he can warn them further, though, there’s a click from the machine at the side of the cavern, and they’re all zapped and knocked out.

they wake up one by one in individual barriers. branch is one of the last ones to wake and finds his brothers checking in with one another, and everyone seems mostly okay save for floyd. they try to figure out what had happened, and floyd starts to explain the machine’s use. before he can tell them who activated it, they’re interrupted by the arrival of velvet and veneer. poppy is excited to see them and asks for their help, but velvet just laughs. branch immediately puts the pieces together; velvet and veneer were the ones who had captured floyd.

they explain their intention to sap their power from them, singling them out specifically because they tried the perfect family harmony. velvet remarks that floyd wasn’t going to last them much longer anyways, which angers his brothers. poppy asks them why they’re doing this, that they helped them before, and velvet simply states they want to be the strongest pokemon around and rise in fame; the rift closing is a bonus that they don’t seem to care about much.

they get zapped again before velvet and veneer leave to showcase their newfound power in the big town. floyd is visibly struggling, unable to lift himself off the ground anymore, which sparks panic in the brothers. they try to free themselves to no avail, and then ask crimp to free them, which she sadly states she can’t do before she’s called away to go with velvet and veneer. they do this for a while and get nowhere.

then, to their surprise and poppy and clay’s excitement, viva arrives with bridget and gristle. they explain tiny saw them and brought them there. they do their best to break barriers, but are getting nowhere. viva, frustrated, smashes the machine, which finally deactivates the barriers.

they help floyd up and leave the cavern, and are about to decide what to do next when another, incredibly large rift opens up in the big town. floyd insists they need to go and help, but the others argue that floyd is in no state to do anything of the sort. he explains that velvet and veneer had singled them out because the family harmony was what allowed them to close the rifts, and that with the machine broken, the twins aren’t able to close the rift now. they’re literally the only ones who can. clay points out they never succeeded in performing the harmony, but branch says it might work if they aren’t trying to be perfect since perfection doesn’t necessarily bring harmony.

though hesitant, they go to the town and find velvet and veneer are trying to close the rift to no avail. upon seeing them, velvet gets angry and shouts that they’re going to kill everyone because they broke the machine. the brothers perform the harmony together with viva and poppy, and manage to close the rift. unfortunately, this drains the last of floyd’s power.

his brothers try to figure out a way to bring him back, but there’s nothing they can do. they start to grieve, thinking he’s gone, but floyd’s color comes back and he wakes back up. they celebrate. veneer, who finally musters the courage, tells the town that he and velvet are frauds and they stole power from floyd all this time. they are quickly arrested.

that's where i stopped bc i ran out of ideas but ya!!! pokeymon

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