#he's up to silph co

[shadlay]

Request from @seagull-laugh of Rouge and Shadow playing Pokemon together. Rouge is leading the way, he's never played before.

[yaaadooon]

always headcanon'd (and i think its canon in pokespe) that gym leader/e4 are part time jobs for most people in those positions and they have like. other jobs they go to.

but they are always on call in case there is a challenger and the league usually works with their other employers to make sure they can do this other gig (and usually employers are cool with it. especially businesses/universities because hey, free advertising!)

red's offered a position as an e4 member when he comes back from alola, the fourth member right below lance

but red also works at silph co. as a systems analyst he's under a weird contract with the league and silph that's a little annoying (understatement)

the league mandates that red uses pikachu because that's what people wanna see and battle so he defaults to electric types as his specialty. this KINDA works with his tech bro image that he accidentally conjured up because he is often getting to the league in his work clothes (and hey, the tech bro fleecy vest is comfier than a suit).

its fine really. its fine. its fine.

silph also mandates that he uses porygon. but the contract doesn't say which porygon, so he uses porygon-z with electric tera type (kanto is ALWAYS on the cutting edge of battling of course they jumped on tera orbs as soon as they could.) as a part of his team.

his e4 team is pikachu, magnezone, electivire, ampharos and porygon-z (e4 can only use up to 5 pokemon.)

[zincbot]

i had a great dream that was just me proceeding in a systematic and logical fashion through a large complex in a zombie apocalypse

[punkishtoxtricity]

a comprehensive list of problems with lily orchards pokemon video

there is a point to where my criticisms just repeats so they’ll get different down the post

generation 1

-she claims that blue is a friendly rival when the whole point of him is that he’s a dumb kid. he’s a cocky 11 year old who thinks he’s better than you and grows to realize it’s not all about strong pokemon

-complains about length of dungeons such as lavender tower and silph co but for some reason likes rock tunnel??

-complains about other youtubers strategies for gyms that are usually meant for nuzlockes and challenge runs when she’s playing casual

-acts like she is so much better than everyone else for her strategy when it’s been done to a more extreme degree before

-acts like having butterfree on her team is some feat of strength

generation 2

-thinks silver is the worse character ever and all around a jerk

-complains about the ai of the game beating her when in reality her team just kinda. sucks

-complains about having bad pokemon and then doesn’t catch the good ones that the game literally hands to you

-straight up does not do kanto. has me thinking she just didn’t wanna fight red

generation 3

-this is the start of her being very weird about gardevoir. she calls ralts her child and then throughout the video has art of her being romantic with it which is. eugh. apparently she has incest accusations so i’m not that suprised

-calling magma and aqua the best teams of the series because “they don’t impede on the story”

-complains about the legendaries

-complains about the water routes and proceeds to throw out ideas that don’t make sense for an ocean

generation 4

-this is the start of her hacking in ralts as her starter. it’s very funny because it’s legitimately obtainable in every game she plays besides gen 5

-complains about parts of the game being too hard when she’s using ralts. which dies if it gets touched by a slight breeze

-whines about there being too much dialogue and then genuinely does not understand the story. common theme around all the story driven pokemon games

-she’s VERY annoying about the rivals. like they’re there for a reason

-the start of her acting like her calm mind strategy is the best thing ever. calls other youtubers stupid once again for their cynthia strategies. she can’t choose between gardevoir being the most broken pokemon and blaming ralts sucking on the game(the whole video is a big contrarian fest)

gen 5

oh boy. there’s a lot

-complains about there being too much story in the game and calls the game a peta reply. which is funny because peta is an american company and pokemon is japanese. (also the peta criticism of pokemon didn’t come around until AFTER black and white)

-compares a character who is a victim of abuse and has been indoctrinated by what is basically a cult to a podcast alpha male incel. looking at the allegations against her this also makes sense as to why she doesn’t like him

-whines more about there being too much reading. at this point i started believing she was straight up illiterate

-whines about the amount of rival fights and how it’s “impeding exploration” i don’t think she wants to play an actual video game she just want a pet sim

-misunderstands the whole moral of the game, being that not everything is black and white

generation 6

-complains about not being able to get gardevoirs megastone before the post game, so obviously she hacks it in.

-goes on a tangent about shiny pokemon and how their community is stupid, misunderstanding that people just do it FOR FUN

-also complains about something she calls “damage inflation” with the opponents being able to 1 shot ralts. this is all actually because ralts has god awful defenses, which she ignores.

-loses to what is one of the easiest gyms in the entire series. not really anything wrong with this i just honestly think she sucks at the game(skill issue)

-says x and y are the best games because there’s not much dialogue

gen 7

-once again spends the whole hour complaining about the amount of talking and then doesn’t analyze what the characters are actually saying. still believe she can’t read

-compares gladion to a hitler youth which is??? he’s hawaiian and light skinned but he’s still just an abused kid trying to find his way in lofe(doubt she actually read his dialogue)

-complains about team skill being “an unfunny joke” when the whole point of the team is that guzma was an abused kid who took in those in need and just formed a group of thugs

-still complains about “damage inflation” instead of actually changing her strategy or stepping out of her comfort zone pokemon wise because ralts sucks against the water trial

-goes on a tangent about how lillie should have been the main character while still choosing to mash through her dialogue

generation 8

-whines about dexit and calls dynamax the worst mechanic when it is in fact loved by vgc players

-calls milo a twunk (she doesn’t know what that means)

-a lot of the same problems of the previous gens, can’t read and doesn’t understand the story

-she’s also weird about gardevoir in this one. i think she just REALLY wants to fuck it

generation 9

-whines about dialogue some more

-literally all of the complaints at this point are the same. she can’t form an actual opinion of it bc she can’t FUCKING PAY ATTENTION TO WHAG THEYRE SAYING

overall

-she’s a racist creep to japanese folk outside of the video so hmmm

-has apparently assaulted someone so i see why she has no sympathy for the characters that are victims of abuse

-the weirdest about the pokemon and the characters. compares them to nazis a bunch

-is unfunny

anyway thanks for reading all the way through. the vid made me loose 200 brain cells and i will never stop hating

[mountmortar]

anyway anyone who thinks that blue is the poster boy for the "jerk rival" trope when silver is quite literally right there has clearly never paid any attention to any of blue's dialogue in the games, where there are Quite Literally Multiple Instances of blue giving red advice meant to aid him on his journey in the same way that many of the later friendly rivals and neighbors do, even if the tone of it isn't as sickeningly sweet as the later rivals are. blue literally, in the game, waited in the middle of silph co. to challenge red to a battle to make SURE he was ready to take on giovanni because he was worried about him. do some of you genuinely think that blue was so mean to red when they were eleven that red is like. still traumatized by it when they're in their twenties or something.

red and blue's whole journey is actually kind of hilarious because you have professor oak very clearly favoring red to the point where blue isn't even an afterthought and blue's clearly decided that he's sick of it and hates red now but he still shows up to give him advice and check on him to make sure he can actually handle fighting team rocket and whatnot. it's just a constant loop of "yo! red! crawl around in grassy areas to find more pokémon! go visit bill (who gives red the s.s. anne pass) and thank him for creating the P.C.! i waited here in silph co. for you because i knew you'd turn up! you collected all the badges, too? that's cool! i was looking forward to seeing you!" that he buries under another loop of eleven-year-old "I'M SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU LOOK HOW COOL AND STRONG I AM" bullshit because again. he's just up and decided he hates red now because he's clearly & understandably jealous of all the attention professor oak is giving him ("you and your rival used to play nicely together when you were little, but lately, he has become mean." -> pokémon blue manual) but that doesn't change the fact that they've been friends since they were toddlers and that never once goes away no matter WHAT happens between them. do you think blue's phone call ("I'm Blue. Man, this guy called Red brought me down in a heartbeat. I haven't seen him in a long time...I wonder where he is and what he's up to… Come to think of it, you look a little bit like Red. Yeah, you do. Just...Just a little bit. Whatever...") came from nowhere. Do you think that isn't the sound of a fourteen-year-old missing his best friend. Grabbing you all by the shoulders here. Do you think they ever stopped being friends. If you answer wrong you get tossed into a volcano

[macabrecabra]

Did art fight and saw so many pokemon OCs...and realized for how much I LOVE pokemon, never had any of my own really...so I made some. Then I wrote a story. Then I built a whole worldsetting.

So enjoy the "End of the Line" pokemon setting that is now born... starting with my favorite trio of ghost pokemon! The Silph bros are known more publicly in connection to the powerful Silph Corporation, but also operate a powerful black market mafia under the table.

More under the tab if you are interested in my character ramblings!

GEN SILPH (Gengar) He is all about image. In the public eye, he is a well liked, always smiling, corporate prodigy and the face of Silph Co. Well respected and always known for handling PR and all the social trappings of an elite status well. Behind closed doors though, he is also running an extensive mafia operation with his fingers on the pulse of Saffron-Lavender City. He may seem nice and upbeat, but when he is ticked, he can show a very cold, very calculative, and very sadistic side as he is not above getting his hands dirty if people are messing up on the perfect persona he controls. Not a pokemon to cross as he will smile and shake your hand while having a gun behind his back. There are very few whom he trusts, as he is known to let his paranoia sometimes get the best of him when it feels like the control he's carefully built into an empire seems threatened even a little bit. Every move is calculated. Every chaos a delicate pull of the strings. Just remember to always trust in Silph Co for your every need!

Design Note: All the Silph bros wear suits because they are classy, but each has a design. For Gen, I was all corporate. Sleek cut, formfitting, Dark colors, and of course, classy tie. The kind of guy without a hair out of place. Also glasses felt fitting for someone that probably has to squint at computers...also makes him look more smart. GHAST SILPH (Ghastly)

The youngest brother of the Silph brothers, Ghast is a bit goofy and doesn't really tend to take things too seriously, but also never one to disappoint his older brothers whom he adores. He really wants to live up to expectations and has since stepped up to being the main leader of the mafia, second only to Gen, but really he just does what Gen says and doesn't ask questions. He really just wants to make his brothers proud, and feels the pressure to live up to Hauts' legacy.

Ghast can come off as dismissive towards others at times, but it comes from his desire to appear just as strong as his brothers when it comes to the dealings of the world. They are super besties with their personal gang of "bad brats" as he calls them, sometimes to the point of trying to step in and keep them out of trouble.

Should be note that Ghast is transgender. What their deadname is, no one knows. They don't much care for being misgendered as there has, and always has been, three Silph brothers, and don't you forget it!

Design Note: I felt that Ghast was the flashy type with bright eyesore suits and sort of a lounge lizard, impractical sort of suit, hence no pockets to be found. The single button suit felt more like going to a party than corporate, which fit Ghast more in my head. Also had to give Ghast unruly hair to mimic the gas around Ghastly.... Ghast's wears a hat to try and control it.

HAUTS SILPH (Haunter) (Alsos one of the main characters of the story!)

There was no doubt that Hauts was how made the Nightshade Mafia a force to be reckoned with. He was smart like his older brother, but also wasn't afraid to be reckless and unrelenting when it came to his goals. He was the muscle that could get any job done, one way or another. Known as a wildcard, laid-back, unpredictable, yet suave, Hauts was a criminal prince and was an important part of keeping the Nightshade Mafia running well....most of the time. His recklessness and disregard for Gen's orders often put him at odds with his brothers.

Hauts felt it more a difference of opinion, but nothing too crazy as at the end of the day, he cared very deeply about his brothers and everything he did would never put everything in danger. Gen didn't see it that way and shot his brother with intent to murder and remove something that was starting to make him paranoid about his control of things.

By all accounts, Hauts should be dead, face blasted open and body dumped in the woods, but he was found by a local pikachu from a nearby village and managed to find his health again. He's hung up his old life though, not interested in revenge, not interested in going back into that world. His guns are hung up to live a peaceful life as a bartender in Veridian Village, at least, until life comes knocking and he might have to pick up his old life again... Design notes: He is very much looking to copy the style of a 1920's ganster, hence the older style to his suit and wears an open jacket to match his more laid-back attitude. Also was one to always make sure you knew he was armed when in company. His hat was fun as it is clear it is blown off and there history and sentiment to it. He's had that torn up hat a long time and is intent on keeping it that way.

[beestriker015]

Yandere Lusamine x male s/o

It’s fairly well known amongst employees of the Aether Foundation that the once bubbly and kind personality of their president took a sharp turn for the worst when Lusamine’s husband disappeared several years ago, even to the point of driving her own two children away, which only helped to damage her psyche even more.

Whether it be to find something/someone new to bestow her affections onto, or perhaps to cure a well hidden loneliness, Lusamine eventually began obsessing over something other than Ultra Wormholes and pokémon, that being a man named s/o.

S/o is a nice looking man in his early thirties who used to work for Silph Co. in the Kanto region during his younger years before joining the Aether Foundation due to his love of caring for pokémon.

“Hello Miss Lusamine! My name is s/o, and it’s an honor to be working for you.”

This was what s/o said upon meeting his new boss for the first time after being hired to be her assistant, thus kicking off Lusamine’s obsession.

“Yes! He’s the one! I can tell already that this man is worthy of the love so many seem to throw away! I will make him mine soon enough.”

Aether’s president thinks to herself before turning to s/o and smiling sweetly at him.

“Such good manners. I like that. I look forward to having you by my side s/o.”

She tells him in a tone that both flusters him and unnerves him slightly.

“T-thank you ma’am. I’ll do my best to live up to your expectations.”

“Glad to hear it. Now come along s/o, there’s already work that needs to be done.”

“Yes ma’am!”

Following Lusamine to her office, s/o begins his first day working at the Aether Foundation.

Working for Lusamine was rather strange to s/o.

Despite being his boss, she seemed to be doting and almost…loving to him.

Yet s/o didn’t think much of it, and in fact actually enjoyed it due to developing a crush on Lusamine.

The more time they spent together, the more Lusamine’s unhealthy attraction to s/o grew.

“I can’t hold back anymore! The longer I wait, the more I risk some other woman sinking her claws into my darling s/o! He is the only person deserving of my love, and I will not lose him!”

She tells herself before deciding to confess to s/o first thing in the morning.

“Before we go over our itinerary for the day. There’s something you need to know s/o.”

“W-what is it ma’am?”

He asks in a shaky voice, fearing he’s about to be fired.

“I’ll get straight to the point. I want you to be mine.”

She says with a blank expression, which changes to a small smile once seeing her darling’s flustered expression.

“C-can you repeat that please? I might have misheard you.”

“You heard me just fine s/o. Ever since you’ve started working for me, I’ve become romantically attracted to you. I repeat, will you be mine?”

Not wanting to pass the chance to be with his crush, s/o nods and smiles.

“I’d like that. Honestly, I kinda fell in love with you not long after I became your assistant.

Hearing this brings a great big smile to Lusamine’s face as her heart beats faster, incredibly happy that her darling loves her back.

“Oh s/o! Come here so that I may shower you with my love!”

She pulls him into a bone-crushing embrace and kisses him passionately.

“I’m yours now my love, just as you are mine, and I will never let you go.”

Lusamine whispers into s/o’s ear, thus officially making them a couple.

Unknowingly dating a yandere can be problematic at times because Lusamine very much tries to isolate s/o from his friends, family, and coworkers.

If s/o ever questions her behavior, his girlfriend manipulates him into believing whatever lie she comes up with.

“I’ve heard them say awful things behind your back my love, so it’s best that you cut them out of your life and focus on me. You know I would never treat you badly, unlike those wretched people.”

Due to being incredibly trusting, s/o believes everything Lusamine tells him, much to her glee.

Lusamine gets jealous very easily, and if she sees another woman talking or Arceus forbid flirting with s/o, bad things are about to happen.

While not a murderous kind of yandere, Lusamine has the money and connections to ruin the lives of anyone she deems a threat to her relationship with s/o.

A woman flirted with s/o?

Well, she will soon gets a call from work telling her that she’s fired, and unfortunately for her, no other reputable business or company will be hiring her thanks to Lusamine.

“Hmph! That’s what the harlot gets for messing with what’s mine.”

Lusamine thinks to herself while smiles like a lunatic after receiving the news.

One benefit from being in a relationship with the president of the Aether Foundation is that s/o is constantly showered with gifts, whether it be clothes, jewelry, trinkets, or anything else.

Nothing is too grand or expensive for Lusamine’s darling s/o.

“Honey, I appreciate everything you do for me, but you didn’t have to get me this.”

“Nonsense, you deserve it for being such a loyal and loving boyfriend.”

“But a weeklong stay at a villa in Undella Town? That’s all the way in Unova!”

“Yes, considering it a reward for all your hard work as my assistant. It’s about time you and I take a vacation together don’t you agree?”

Lusamine is also incredibly affectionate with s/o, even in front of her employees.

“Have you seen the way the President acts around her assistant?”

“Yeah, she seems so much happier than before. It’s like Miss Lusamine’s back to her old self again.”

A pair of employees whisper to each other while watching Lusamine cling to s/o with a happy smile on her face while touring the Conservation Area of Aether Paradise.

If s/o has any pokémon under his care, they automatically become Lusamine’s favorite pokémon.

After all, if these pokémon belong to her beloved darling, then they’re worthy of her love as well.

“Look at you. You’re all so beautiful! Much like your trainer, but to a lesser degree of course.”

She tells s/o’s pokémon with adoration in her voice, although they are slightly scared of her due to sensing the crazy vibes of their trainer’s girlfriend.

Because of the age difference between her and s/o, Lusamine often feels insecure about their relationship.

“My darling says he loves me, but what if he meets someone younger! I’m a previously married woman in her 40s with two ungrateful children! Not that I’d ever let him leave me, but what if s/o woke up one day and decided he no longer wants my love?!”

This thought drives Lusamine to the brink of insanity, but luckily s/o reins her in and does his best to reassure his girlfriend, unaware of her darker thoughts.

“I don’t care that you’re older than me, or that you had a family before we got together. I love you Lusamine, and I’m never gonna leave you.”

“D-do you promise?”

She asks him, letting the more innocent and child-like side of her personality shine through.

“Yes. I’d never lie or joke about something like that babe, you know that.”

S/o’s reassurance calms her down quite a bit as she hugs him tightly.

“Thank you my darling s/o. You truly are deserving of all my love and affection, even more so than the rarest pokémon in the world.”

Not long after this, Lusamine asks for her beloved’s hand in marriage one day after having a very romantic evening together, which he happily accepts.

“S/o, the light of my life, will you make me the happiest woman in the world and marry me?”

Before she can even get on one knee and pull out the ring, s/o gets up from the table and nods with a very ecstatic smile on his face, much to her delight.

“Yes! Absolutely! I love you Lusamine!”

He hugs her with happy tears in his eyes as she chuckles and smiles softly with a crazed twinkle in her eyes before speaking.

“I love you too my dear, and once we’re married, our love will be eternal.”

Despite her previous husband and children leaving her (at least in her twisted point of view), Lusamine takes solace in knowing that s/o, the lone person worthy of her immense love, will never abandon her like they did, and if someone foolishly dares try to steal the object of her obsession away, well…

The experiments Lusamine and the Aether Foundation plan on conducting involving Ultra Wormholes will require a few test subjects….whether they’re willing or not.

[pc-box-ghost]

As long as I'm contained in something, I (and everything else around me) will be good! The biggest issue I have is that without something to hang out in, I start draining everything around me in order to maintain a physical form. I can only stay manifested like that for about... up to 5-10 or so minutes at a time. It's worse the farther I am from Silph Co. Weird ghost stuff. But that's a whole story for a different day. I'll pretty much be piloting the rotom dex around like a mech suit. Actually being able to interact with objects, and go wherever, without worrying about the usual ghost problems? That'll be awesome.

As far as hanging out around Johto goes, yeah! That'd be awesome! I'm just going to have to figure out how to get this thing out of the basement of Silph Co. without any issues. Fun fact, that's actually where my "home" is. Long story. I've been haunting the place for 14 or so years, the computers there are always where I end up returning to. I can probably just have Terabyte convert it into data like every other physical object I get, transport it somewhere, and then have Terabyte do its thing again. It works for pretty much everything else, I don't see why it wouldn't for this.

PELIPPER MAIL!

(It's a strange modified rotom dex that looks like it's merged with a supercomputer without the flashy lights)

(there's a letter attached)

BEHOLD, my little test of making modified poke-tech, hope it works out for you

Astral Birth

Woah, this is cool! I've never actually seen a Rotom Dex in person, funny enough! They're damn near impossible to find, at least where I'm from originally. Props to you for being able to modify it to this degree! I've heard these specific pokédexes are notoriously difficult to modify, aside from the pre-existing upgrades that were specifically made for it. Did you build this computer yourself, too? Usually supercomputers are way bigger than this, it must have been a pain to try and find components small enough to build this thing... But then again, the smallest supercomputer made by Silph Co. was I believe close to only 70x45mm! Which, admittedly is impressive.

...Alright, time for me to stop before I begin rambling.

Either way, thank you! I'm going to befriend the Rotom. And I'll put this to good use!

[melonthesprigatito]

Random ass idea I had for a Pokémon fanfic.

Ex-Elite Four Lorelei and Gym Leader Valerie get into a vicious online rivalry over buying rare Pokémon plushies on eBay. Neither of them know who the other person actually is, they just know each other as i<3lapras and sylveonstan700.

Because of the time zone difference between Kanto and Kalos, one has to stay up until near midnight to snipe the other person at the last ten seconds in the bid. A lot of coffee is involved.

Then there's this big national Pokémon League seminar that all the Gym Leaders and Elite Four have to attend and Valerie overhears Lorelei showing off this collectors item 2015 Pokémon Center Sleeping Glaceon Kuttari Plush that she just won in an ebay bid recently, aka the bid that Valerie lost in the last five seconds that she was really sore about because she wanted to give it to her girlfriend as a birthday gift, so Valerie just goes "YOOOOU!" from across the room and instantly drops the serene, graceful persona she puts on in public and just straight up fights Lorelei then and there in front of dozens of people.

So now they both know who each other really are and things get even more intense, but suddenly a third, completely unknown bidder just starts sniping both of them and winning the bid at the last moment, stealing the plushie from them and they're both just so confused and mad about it, like "Who is this?!" because they both spend like hundreds of pokedollars on these bids so it's not like any random person can win them consistently

So then it turns out this mystery bidder is Sabrina, she's been using her psychic powers to predict exactly when they both bid so she can cut in after them. Turns out she's also a plush collector and she started doing it after witnessing the scuffle they got in during the seminar and she wants to fuck with Lorelei specifically.

Lorelei has been managing a Pokémon League PR disaster caused by Sabrina because she psychically teleported a Team Rocket Grunt to the top of the Silph Co building and dropped him because he tried to steal her Espeon and ended up kicking it, (she caught him before he hit the ground, just made his life flash before his eyes) and it's this whole social media drama arguing over whether or not she was justified in doing that so Sabrina's been pretty sour towards Lorelei because she's been constantly lectured by her not to torment people with her psychic powers even if they really deserved it.

So Sabrina's been putting away every stolen ebay bid in a cupboard and is going to reveal herself and the merch in the next Pokémon League seminar and watch as Lorelei and Valerie fight over who rightfully deserves them, just for shits and giggles.

I'm writing this because I'm also an avid Pokémon Plush collector and I have wanted to deck the other person in the face when they outbid me at the last second. I still haven't forgiven that one guy for the Serperior plush I lost in the last three seconds on a Sunday in 2022. Putting my own personal experience into this fic.

[zito-the-deino]

The cafe he agreed to meet in

Professor Augustine Sycamore needed something; a device to hold the Kalos Pokédex. He wasn't an inventor or had been able to negotiate a contract with either Silph Co or Devon Corporation.  He had reached out to Lysandre labs in hopes that maybe he could get the Pokédex on the next release.  But Lysandre labs had a reputation.

Their CEO was infamous for how he rarely made deals even if they would have made him millions he rejected them just because he didn't like them.  But he had sent a response email fair quickly.  And Sycamore felt desperate enough to send an email back.  A meeting had eventually been planned at Lysandre cafe, a property owned by Lysandre labs.  That meeting was today.

Sycamore exhaled as he buttoned down the blouse he had.  It was his nicest shirt for his last attempt for something to house the Pokédex. Something that was the basic responsibility of any Regional Professor. He had to make a good impression, his standard issue lab coat was crisp and clean for once. Not singed or stained with coffee, with over stuffed pockets of Arceus only knows what. He once even found what he suspected was a week old cookie... that was not a fun experience to clean out the washer. He had traded his normal sweat pants and loafers for black dress pants and dress shoes.

He was currently removing the curlers from his hair, even though his hair was naturally curly he couldn't afford his hair to not cooperate today. Mr. Fleur de lis was known to be oriented on his looks, he may be generous but very prideful and looks oriented. So Sycamore had to be presentable, Diantha had approved this outfit for today. So he knew he at least looked good in the dress sense... hopefully he reached Mr. Fleur de lis's standards.

A good impression could very easily make or break this meeting.

Sycamore jumped as he heard a low rumble. He shoot around to see his Garchomp standing in the doorway. Garchomp let out a sort of sigh and motioned to the clock with his head. 3:56... he was four minutes away from being late! Garchomp let out a cry of surprise as Sycamore shot out of the room and down the stairs of the lab like a motivated Sharpedo. He fought the bike lock his bike was in for a minute before giving up and just decided to run. He was absolutely hopeless with roller skates and it was an almost miracle he had enough balance to even ride a bike tripping over his own shadow quite often.

Sycamore gasped for air as he finally arrived at the very red cafe. He focused on filling his lungs with the necessary oxygen for a minute or two before walking in. It was even red on the inside... Sycamore had just thought it was red glass. Looking back outside it was indeed red glass. The whole place was packed, servers rushing to different tables taking and giving orders. His seat was apparently reserved, and there was only two empty seats in the entire cafe, Sycamore claimed the one with his name on a name tag sitting on the counter.

Mr. Fleur de lis wasn't there, maybe he was in the bathroom. The barista blinked looking at him. He was a very tall intimidating man with bright red hair and blue eyes that looked a little too intense for a barista. He was definitely very attractive and seemed well muscled under his sweater. It was almost funny compared to the bright red apron with a playing Litleo on it. He didn't have a name tag.

"It's 4:14, you're late."

Sycamore sighed his legs beginning to spasm from the unexpected work out. Guess the barista knew about the meeting.

"I know, I spent too long getting ready and had to run here. Two and a half miles in about eighteen minutes. I'd say that's decently impressive?" The barista chuckled lightly as Sycamore practically face planted onto the counter. His lungs and legs still screaming at him for the pain. He tasted blood which he hoped was nothing, he would occasionally taste it during his gym classes when he was still in school.

"Most people can do about three miles in that time." Sycamore exhaled feeling mildly pathetic after the barista pointed that out.

"Do you want something? Some tea might help after that mini marathon you look like you just ran. I recommend our Green tea with Ginger."

Sycamore looked up.

"Oh no I couldn't, I think I forgot my wallet." Sycamore checked his pockets and indeed the only things he had brought was his Garchomp's pokeball and random key stone. Sycamore showed the Luxuryball to the tall barista. The barista shrugged.

"It's on the house then, no one will notice a few pastries and some tea missing." The barista motioned around the packed cafe, it hadn't gotten any emptier in the time Sycamore sat there.

Sycamore jumped as the barista leaned down on the other side of the counter, he was definitely very tall. He wondered silently what his parents fed him for those results. Either way he was very handsome especially up close.

His hair and beard were perfectly groomed into a large style, not quite unlike a Pyroars mane. His eyes held a curious look but held a clear intelligence, Sycamore wouldn't have been surprised if he was the cafe manager and had been pulled out of his office because of the rush. His expression wasn't one of someone used to working in the front, an intense almost scary frown made its home on his face. Yet he held himself with the confidence of someone who was in complete control of the chaos around them, like this was an everyday occurrence to him. He was also decently terrifying, granted someone who is debatably seven feet tall is flat out terrifying.

"Oh no, I'm afraid I can't. I'm here for a meeting with Mr. Lysandre Fluer de lis."

The man blinked shocked. Guess he only knew about the meeting and not who it was with.

"And I instist. It's no skin off my back and what's twelve dollars tops against the twelve thousand this place makes a day." The man slid over a napkin with a delicious looking coconut brownie and a delicious looking pastry on it. Sycamore was trying to hide the fact he was salivating, he hadn't eaten yet today and those sweets looked delicious.

"Besides you look horrible, all red and sweaty. Eat up, wash up in the restroom and I'll have some tea for when you're out." The man smiled, it didn't make him look less intimidating. Besides Mr. Fluer de lis wasn't here for some reason so he minus well indulge the barista. Plus he did need to look good; so Sycamore nodded. He slowly ate the brownie and pastry trying to look mildly civilized, and not like he had forgotten to eat both today and yesterday.

Once he was done he got up and slowly walked to the bathroom. He could feel the barista's eyes following him.

Once Sycamore was out of the restroom and feeling much better he sat down. A nice cup of tea was instantly set down in front of him. Sycamore smiled looking up at the barista who was now sending out someone's order. Once that was done he turned his attention back to Sycamore.

"So tell me about your work mon ami?" Sycamore looked up. The man was adding some '2% steamed milk' to a woman's coffee. He looked at Sycamore and smiled. He didn't look scary then and he seemed to be rather friendly.

"Well I have recently discovered a phenomena I refer to as Mega Evolution. It's the same thing the Champion Diantha uses to give her Gardevoir that new form."

"The ball gown look? Quite marvelous if you ask me." The man asked.

"Yes, the ball gown. During Mega evolution the Pokémon becomes quite powerful and goes from a BST of 518 to one of 618."

"A full one hundred points higher than normal?"

"That appears to be the standard. Every time I have come across the mega evolution phenomenon they raise exactly a hundred points."

"Impressive, I wonder if there's a way to mega evolve Pyroar?" Sycamore looked up at the man. He was taking some croissants out of the case. "I am quite partial to the breed." He quickly explained.

"Ah, well once we find out what allows it to happen maybe." The man nodded smiling briefly grabbing one of his pokeballs, a well worn pokeball. It was clearly quite old and well loved. It was clearly the oldest by at least a couple years. The next oldest was the only other standard pokeball. Then a Duskball and a healball were the other two. The other two were far more recent, not a scratch.

"What do you think of your team?" The man blinked looking at Sycamore. He was quiet for a few seconds.

"They are all rather dear to me, my Pyroar is my closest companion and has been since I was a little boy."

"Oh that's so cute!" Sycamore explained imagining a tiny and cute version of the man before him. Large blue eyes, a fluff of red hair holding a Litleo. The man immediately turned red at Sycamore's statement.

"Oh- Thank you professor." Sycamore happily finished off his tea. The man smiled once his blush subsided. He looked genuinely happy and pleased.

"You're truly a genuine person mon ami huh?" Sycamore blinked. The conversation paused before it slowly continued.

Hours slowly passed as the cafe emptied. It was at first mostly about Sycamore's work, the barista seemed fascinated by it all. However that didn't stop Sycamore from learning about the man, his beloved Pokemon and their antics. His spoilt yet majestic Pyroar, his shiny Gyarados he clearly adored and his gyarados loved him right back. His stern Honchkrow which kept everyone in line and on time and his Mienshao who knew nothing but mischief and Chaos. Steadily the conversation approached the stories of everything that's happened with their Pokemon. From stories of Charmander and Finnikin teaming up against Chespin and Squirtle, Gabite coming to the defenseless Chespins' aid to stories of the man finding and helping a beached shiny magikarp which was so covered in mud, clay and sand he thought it was a normal magikarp until his mom showed him how to bathe a water type. Finally the clock caught Sycamore's eye. 7:55. He had been there for almost three hours. Mr. Fluer de lis never even showed up... he probably left before Sycamore even arrived.

"Mon ami, what's wrong?"

"Oh, he never showed up for our meeting. This was my last chance to find something to house the Pokédex." The man opened his mouth to speak but Sycamore had left before the words left his mouth.

"I am Lysandre Fleur de lis...". He blinked. He had even forgotten about the meeting about an hour into the conversation.

Lysandre exhaled. He knew he needed to rectify this. So he walked into the back removing the apron and put on his coat. He had work to do, unfortunately he couldn't just run a cafe all day. Mega corporations don't just run themselves, especially without much corruption.

The next day Sycamore slowly woke up. Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Garchomp were sleeping on top of him. Charmander was on pillow duty, Sycamore liked a warm pillow. He slowly sat up Bulbasaur falling away.

Yawning he spoke. "Mornin' everybody." Sycamore slowly got out of bed. His mouth was dry so he went to grab some water before he went to get ready. It took five minutes to get dressed, brush his teeth and what not. Once he was putting on his lab coat and his Pokémon awake he headed downstairs into the lab. Then he opened the computer and his email. It was best to check it...

An email from Lysandre labs? The subject was Prototypes. Weird. He expected the next email from them to have lateness or time management to be the next subject. So Sycamore clicked.

Dear Professor Augestine Sycamore,

Salutations. I do hope that this email finds you well. I do know that yesterday's meeting found me well despite how unprofessional I was. I never even introduced myself properly. However despite the meeting by all of my standards being a disaster by my own doing, you made it quite a delight.

I have decided that I will be agreeing to partner with you to make the Kalos Pokédex. I will be over at twelve with lunch to discuss the prototypes. It will be built into all halocasters upon the next release. However please do keep a better eye on the time before our next out of lab meeting. Apologies for any stress I may have inadvertently caused.

Sincerely,

Lysandre Fleur de lis

CEO of Lysandre labs

Sycamore read and reread the email. It was formal enough, it was signed and formatted the same. Twelve was in... four minutes. The meeting happened but wasn't like a meeting. Did Lysandre like him enough to warrant it? Who even could have been Lysandre? The hot barista?

Sycamore quickly googled Lysandre Fleur de lis. He wasn't sure why he didn't do this earlier. He was the barista!

Sycamore jumped as he heard knocking. Two minutes early. Sycamore ran over to the entrance. Sina and Dexio had already answered.

Indeed the barista was standing there. A bouquet of flowers in his right hand, a bag of take out in the other. Lysandre strutted in and presented the flowers to Sycamore before he spoke.

"Anemones and blue hyacinths, for apologies for any stress I may have caused."  Lysandre held an awkward expression and gestured as well as he could to the food.  "And some take out to talk over.  I got some food from Lumiose star restaurant and some sweets from my cafe."  What?  Sycamore and his assistants blinked.

"How did you get take out from the Lumiose star?!?"  Sina explained.

"I called last night and picked it up today." Lysandre explained as if it was just a McDonalds and not one of the most expensive high end restaurants in all of Europe. Augestine blinked before he spoke deciding to change the topic. Lysandre was likely decently out of touch with the general population.

"Well then let's go into the lab and discuss everything." Lysandre nodded a little red seemingly picking up that the Lumiose star wasn't something people just pick up.

The two of them strolled into the lab before finally reaching a somewhat acceptable meeting room.  It was a break room consisting of one couch and a coffee table.  Lysandre's Pyroar slinked under the stand that held the coffee maker and fell asleep. 

Lysandre himself sat on the other side of the couch from Sycamore mildly flustered as he remembered all he could about the reputation of the Lumiose Star.  It definitely wasn't a normal choice of restaurant. Lysandre shook his head.

"Well let's begin the meeting." Sycamore smiled as Lysandre shook the remaining mild embarrassment off. This was business, he could work in business as any good business man could.

Hours steadily passed the half eaten meal and now cold coffee long since forgotten. The space between them shrinking on the couch. Ideas carelessly being tossed around built upon, rejected tossed out or simply forgotten. The assistants when they attempted to take a break quickly retreated. During the fifth hour of what was supposed to be a one and a half hour meeting Lysandre blinked as Sycamore leaned against him looking at the quick notes Lysandre made.

"Will it have enough storage for the National dex?"  Lysandre blinked at Sycamore's question.

"I can update the storage system to a half terabyte.  It's more expensive but Lysandre labs is already a multi billion dollar industry.  It will reduce the profit margin by about eight percent at most but it's worth it."  Sycamore blinked before he asked a question.  "How is it more expensive?"  "The storage component is new and quite expensive.  Two hundred fifty Poké compared to a hundred Poké."  Lysandre explained.  Sycamore nodded.

The clock caught Lysandre's attention at that time.  He quickly got up nearly accidentally knocking Sycamore off.  He managed to luckily catch himself on the couch arm.

"Deepest apologies but I am needed in a meeting in thirty minutes on the other side of Lumiose. I'll have my lawyers draft a contract with you!"  In his panicked haste he pulled out a business card and a black pen.  He quickly scribbled a nearly invisible second number on the back of the black business card and tossed it to Sycamore before he ran out of the room as quickly as he could.  Sycamore could hear Lysandre wishing that one of his Pokémon could use teleport.  Sycamore slowly followed to the entrance and just barely caught Lysandre rush out the door.  Sina looked at the door then Sycamore.

"So you think he's hot?"

"WHAT?!?"

[a-tale-of-legends]

Okay took a shower, thought about it, here's some ideas for Red's mom ( Legendverse version)

Pallet town born and raised. Was childhood friends with Prof. Oaks son.

Grew up in a..... conservative? Family. In the sense of like. "boys will be boys" but not really expecting their daughter to do much + the kinda. Quiet part of expecting her to find a husband and become a housewife. Like they weren't. Opposed to her doing anything else ( Agatha was from pallet town from pokemas lore and thus I imagine she was an inspiration to all the young girls back then EDIT: Agatha isn't from pallet town I only checked recently. She isn't lol. I still think she was an inspiration to many, but sadly no, she wasn't from pallet town. I feel like pallet town would be a lot different if she was lol. ), but also like. Ya know. "boys will be boys, and girls will be what's expected of them". They were strict or stern in this idea, but it was just. Expected. Am I making sense?????? I dunno.

Anyway, Red's mom kinda just. Never really questioned it growing up bc she never really thought about what she wanted to do. She kinda felt like she couldn't do much? And was kinda fine just. Standing in the background I guess. She didn't get frustrated with this until she got older.

In getting frustrated with herself, she tried to branch out, do different jobs, get into different things but ...she genuinely did not know what she wanted to do. Genuinely. Nothing was bad per say, but nothing was calling to her either. She wanted to be this free bird, doing whatever, being like Miss Agatha but. Nothing.

At some point she, somehow, landed herself an office job in Siph Co. And she was good at it. Very good at it. Which was honestly a surprise to her.

And even so she felt. Stuck. Her job was good, very good, and it pays so well. She even got herself an "office boyfriend". But was she at a point where she felt free and secure in herself? Eeeeeeeeeeh.

Like her main problem was that she was never brave enough to really go All In. She would dip her toes in something before quickly going out and trying something else. Silph Co was arguably the longest she's been invested in something and it still never really made her feel accomplished. Even with her little office boyfriend!

She was honestly considering just going back to Pallet Town, find a husband and live a life that was pretty much expected from her from the jump....

Until she met a fisherman ( I really like the idea of Red's dad being a fisherman lmao)

I don't know how their love story pans out. I just know Red's dad was someone Red's mom really needed at the time ( she was too afraid and a tad bit envious to talk to Oak's son. He had his life figured out as is, and she didn't really want to bother him with her uncertainty). I think he was very gentle and patient with her, as she was to him, and would softly encourage her to go a little deeper in what she wanted to try. And that it was okay if she wasn't feeling said thing.

I think her arc is like. Acknowledging both her frustration in wanting to do more with herself but also acknowledging that there's some things that she just doesn't vibe with and shouldn't force herself to vibe with bc she wants to be this grandiose person. Like being secure and comfortable with herself is ultimately the main goal, and Red's dad really helped her with that.

And that's not to diminish her little adventures! She's very proud of herself for getting out of her comfort zone even if it wouldn't last long. She has a tattoo!! Never in her life did she think she'd get one,but she does! And she actually got into fishing :)

As for her like. Becoming a stay at home mom as of FRLG/ RBGY.....I don't think she's upset. If this happened to her younger self then yeah, she would have been so disappointed in herself, but now she sees it as her being happier and more secure than she ever was before. So I think, to her, things turned out alright. She looks back in her past with pride I think.

This is getting long but I want to touch upon one more thing: this woman knows death and grief. She knows it well. My hc is that both of Blue's parents died at some point, and chances are the same for her husband. And even before all that, I imagine her folks kicking the bucket somewhere in her early adult hood. And then, years later, her son runs away without a word and she's left to wonder if he's even alive. It's a truly scary thought. So yes, she knows grief. But she tries so hard to be optimistic. Hope for a better tomorrow. It can be very hard, but she does try.

Aaaaaand that's it. Shower thoughts are crazy man.

[zoruascanbetrainerstoo]

[A video is attached. Watch it?]

[A "human" with a Zorua tail is hiding in an alleyway, a quintet of Pokemon hiding with xem. Illanero's five Kanto Pokemon.

"Ready?" Illanero whispered to xyr team. They all answered in the affirmative, one way or another.

"Let's go!" Illanero says, rushing out of the alleyway, xyr team following behind.

As they leave the alleyway, it becomes clear that Saffron City is completely swarmed with Team Rocket members. Everywhere the camera panned, that red "R" emblem could be seen.

The Rockets quickly noticed the lone trainer. One called out, "It's the menace! Get him!"

One grunt, wielding a Max Repel, aimed to spray it directly at Illanero. "Let's see how you like this, poke-freak!"

Before he could use it, though, Voivick the Vaporeon bowled the grunt over with a Surf.

"Thanks Voivick!" Illanero said, as xey ran past. "Let's keep moving!"

The trainer and xyr Pokemon kept running through the city, attacking Rocket grunts as they went. Darnod tripped a grunt with his long tail, before shocking them with a Thunder Wave. Dirir opened up a small sinkhole around another grunt.

Soon, a gigantic building came into view. Silph Co.

A Rocket grunt was sound asleep by the front door, despite another grunt vigorously shaking them. "Come on! Wake up! Emergency! The menace is-!"

Before they could react, Illanero and xyr Pokemon rushed inside the building.

The video ends.]

[greenxprof]

Public vs. Private Knowledge

> Public (anyone can know)

Green Oak, 30 years old.

Grandson of Professor Samuel Oak (Yukinari Ohkido).

Rival to his friends Red and Leaf/Blue.

Kanto's Champion at Age 13, beaten by his childhood friend Red after 15 minutes.

Viridian's City Gym Leader for 3 years. Resigned when he was 16.

Participated in Unova's Pokémon World Tournament in the Champions Bracket when he was 19.

Studied in Kalos' University of Lumiose City for 4 years.

Worked as Prof. Rowan assistant in Sinnoh for 2 years.

Worked as Battle Legend in Alola's Battle Tree for around three months.

Got his PhD in Ecology and Evolution and has written several papers on pokémon evolution.

Appears in a very popular pop song from the 2010's Music Video as the singer's love interest.

Featured in several fashion magazines while he lived in Kalos.

Racer for the Sinnoh Lunar Festival of 2024. Won first place at the water track.

Inherited the administration of his Grandfather's Laboratory in Pallet Town at age 29.

> Semi-Public (friends and close acquaintances can know)

Transgender Man. Top Surgery.

Has an older sister named Daisy.

Born on 22th November. Sagittarius.

Vegetarian since he was 20 years old.

At Age 16, he left Kanto to work as minor assistant to Prof. Sycamore. He finished high-school there and would live with the Professor as a favor.

Studied Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Lumiose City. (Age 18 to 22)

Got his master's degree in Evolutionary Biology at Jubilife City's University. (Age 22 to 24)

Finally, acquired his PhD in Ecology and Evolution in Saffron's University. (Age 25 to 29)

He can play the drums and is an awesome dancer. He's always willing to attend a party or a rave, feeling good amongst big crowds.

He often rides his pokémon to move around, usually flying on his Pidgeot or riding his Arcanine. He's been to some regional races and is very interested on Pokémon Riding.

However, he does own a convertible car, being a huge fan of cars in general. He usually uses it to drive friends around or show off.

He's omnisexual with a slight lean towards masc-aligned.

He completed the pokédexes of Kanto, Sinnoh and Kalos, with some help of friends to register Legendary Pokémon.

Green has never been able to find a Legendary Pokémon in the wild.

Green can speak several Languages: Japanese, English and Kalosian. He is also fluent in JSL and ASL.

He knows morse code.

> Private (close friends and family can know)

Came out as a transboy at age 10. Chose his name by then, after his favorite color.

His relationship with his grandfather is strained and pretty awkward.

His father left his mother after he was born; She is bedridden since then, weakened by a autoimmune disease that affects her lungs.

His Father is Lysandre's Younger Brother. Therefore, Lysandre is his uncle.

He tried battling Giovanni in Silph Co. but was easily defeated.

His raticate partner died in the middle of his journey through Kanto. She's buried in Lavender Town.

Since 2022's halloween, Green's soul is connected to Spectrier. He has a scar on his ribs that often hurts because of that.

Extremely well-groomed, Green's very serious about his appearance. He has an everyday skin-care routine and has the most expensive hair products.

Green's freckles go down his shoulders and cover his whole back, and a tiny bit of the upper section of his thighs.

He's pretty good at mending machines and general coding.

Is planning some Battle Gear focused on riding battles, like heat resistant, electric and water proof gloves and special parachutes. It's on a very early stage, however.

Has only had girlfriends in his life, all of them while he lived in Kalos. It seems that all of these relationship ended in bad terms. The last one of these ended up deteriorating Green's image which lead to him becoming more focused on his studies and less on his social life.

He will never admit it but he was an obvious crush on both his childhood friends.

[tactician]

this random guy gave me such a cool gift for saving silph co when team rocket took their building over!!! just goes to show u that it's always important to... be kind? beat up giovanni? idk. anyway! F;LKDL;GKDG

shiny silph co lapras after a ridiculously short 514 resets! he saw how fast eevee came home and was like 'idk man... i can get there faster, i think.' this is absolutely bonkers tbh. i have no idea what's going on with my shiny luck lately but i am noooot complaining.

this hunt was another really fun one with a lot of Childlike Wonder attached to it. i was so amazed to get a LAPRAS(!!!!) during this little part of the kanto plot; i definitely had to shiny hunt for one right after getting my badge from sabrina. i'm realizing that a lot of these hunts are being taken on in the name of nostalgia but i guess that's the power of kanto. lapras' shiny is absolutely gorgeous, too!

[chounaifu]

*hiding behind a blanket* Talk about Rika :)

Ask My Muse About Their Relationships // @monterraverde

The odor of mud and peat clings to his clothing; it permeates into everything, and it was difficult to wash away. East of Saffron, the marshes were vast, and he swore there were things that lived in the wilds. This was a place that Proton usually avoided due to superstition, but when Rika had accepted a job with Silph Co., she had purchased an old fixer-upper house in the marsh lands. It was ideal for her ground types, especially Bappy.

Hanging out on the deck, overlooking the landscape, he props his chin in his hand, slouching. Below him, the Clodsire wades through the mud, those blank eyes looking upwards-- gaping, not a single thought going on in that brain. It causes Proton to snort as he drops a piece a Poké Block for the mud fish to catch.

"Chiri-chan-- I think she might be the only one even MORE stubborn than me, and that's sayin' somethin', because I'm not an easy guy to convince," Proton speaks up, "but I like that about her, keeps me in line, but doesn't limit me-- even though there's some times where I THINK she worries a lil' TOO much. I get it though. I'm the same way. She's always running off on these dangerous adventures, and-- y'know, it worries me."

Admitting that isn't the best feeling in the world. Proton had always prided himself in being ruthless, vicious, uncaring. But as he and Rika had bonded over the year or so that they had known each other, he'd found a soft spot for the Paldean spitfire.

"Not like she's weak or nothin', nah. I know she could put ANYTHING that tries to hurt her on their ass. But I guess that's what ya do when ya care about someone," he admits, exhaling through his nostrils. It's troubling. For a moment, he spaces out, thinking back to Rika's latest conflict in Area Zero; it's not as if Proton could had done anything to help her in that predicament. Fragmentation Syndrome makes it difficult for him to put himself in harm's way these days, especially when certain technologies were involved.

-- He often worries that he's useless compared to her.

Bappy makes an 'ooo'ing sound, snapping Proton out of it.

"AH-- uh," leaning up, he drops another treat off of the deck for the Clodsire to eat.

"-- I like her way more than I ever planned on. Feels dangerous. Feels risky, especially with all of the eyes on our backs. And I ain't sure where all of this is gonna lead. Not like I think about the future all that much, 'cause I don't even know how long I'm gonna live with my sickness," Proton rolls his head to the side.

"So, I try not to think about it too much. Rika helps me with that. We both live in the moment," he grins a bit, focusing in on that. "Yeah. She's wild. I like her. She runs off on another adventure without me tho', I'm throwing a fit. I'm goin' on the next one."

[pokeglitchden]

[Simon stood outside of Silph Co. staring at the sky as the air began to crackle. It was getting stronger. The energy that had flooded Kanto and Johto was burgeoning now. The sky looked like it was threatening to Crack.

Simon knew a surge when he saw one, and he wasn’t about to try to get out of the way. Soon enough there wouldn’t be a Johto OR Kanto. Soon enough something would finally cause the bubble to pop, and allow its energy to streak down and cause a region wide crash.

But not yet.

There was still time, Simon knew, but he couldn’t bring himself to do anything more. The seconds were ticking down. Out of time. He knew in times like this he’d normally be calling Zzazz to ask her what to do. Calling �aver to help ground himself. He checked his Dex Nav once more.. As he’d done so many times today, searching for a signal.

[CONNECTION TO GLITCH CITY IS LOST]

There was never much point to it, was there? Maybe Glitch City really WAS gone for good.

“Simon!! There you are!” 

Violet’s voice jars him out of his thoughts as she bounds up behind him, looking… almost cheerful. In a kind of unnerving sort of way. Somehow he could tell there was JUST a bit of pain behind her smile. But that wasn’t quite what Simon was focused on.

It was the Charizard. Or… at least what LOOKED like a Charizard at a glance. It was too big to actually be one. And at another glance you could see the flickering streaks of orange that rippled along its.. Scales? Fur? The flame on its tail did not seem to move. The structure of its bones not fitting together in exactly the right place.

It stares down at him… and somehow Simon simultaneously knows, and knows he can never exactly be certain of what he is staring at. 

The End stares back. But it does not come for him.

From behind him he can hear the faint sound of flute music, sounding almost tense and fearful. A flash of green flickers into his shadow, clinging to his shoulders nervously as it hides.  Even his own End was afraid of this one.

“So, funny story,” Violet goes on, “Sorry I had to Bloop out on you for a second there, but Jared had to show me something Important first. I think he’s ready to meet you now. I told you he’s really shy.”

She smiles, clasping her hands behind her back as she moves out of the way of the lumbering charizard like Pokemon.

Simon just gapes.

“Turns out Jared was a pokemon, who knew, right?”

“Violet-... Violet what?” Simon sputters, but the massive pokemon lifts its head.

Its eyes seem to focus on something now. Jacred turns, and snorts, its eyes suddenly fixed upon the Silph Co. building, and the great field of corruption that now loomed around it. It lifts its head, and as if taking a breath, draws in the static that has filled the air, consuming it, voiding it, and at last deleting the bad code that had wound like a haze around Silph Co.

It doesn’t take long for the second of Violet’s Pokemon to break free of it’s Pokeball. There is a great sound, a great cacophony that almost immediately fades to a dull ring as the great pokemon roars overhead.

A streak in the air is seen as Paradox, the brilliant violet serpent, breaks out of hiding. Its golden eyes shine like the sun, and the red eyes on its head focus on the man at the top the building.

This isn’t how the game should be played, this isn’t correct, he’s hurting them, he’s hurting HER.

This is what it warned him against.

When it enters, the window doesn’t even bother to break. It simply caves to the Legendary Pokemon’s whims and allows it to pass through, as if sliding through a Mist.

Grant looks up at it in horror. This Pokemon…. He knew this pokemon.

He was not ABLE to forget this pokemon. It was the one that showed him the Path, the one who first enlightened him, who filled his mind with visions of.

Them.

Of her.

 He stands near frozen, staring at the serpent that looks like a shadow with the sun backing it.

“No-�� He breathes,  “NO- I was only… acting on what you showed me!  You can’t- YOU CAN’T-”

And it comes down, tail wrapping around him, squeezing him. He closes his eyes as it moves its head close. But it is futile. He can still see it. It’s staring into him, into his soul, his tattered data.

The second one, who looks even less like a charazard, starfish-like limbs unfurling, opens its wings to fly up to the top with one thunderous flap.

In a moment,the two of them, both the end and the beginning, stare are lingering before him. Him, a line of data. An NPC with a single line of speech who should have never had more. He overstepped his boundaries. Grant’s eyes open as he gasps.

[Warning: Are you sure you want to delete your save data? This cannot be undone.]

And he cannot respond, arms pinned to his side, watching in horror as the serpent picks for him as he makes one last attempt to struggle free. He can feel himself growing colder, the energy leaking from him. [>YES]

He falls limp, as the two pokemon swiftly disappear from sight.

As does everything.

From below Simon and Violet disappear, as the sky flickers out like a lamp turning off.

Like a switch being flicked.

It is Reset.

The cataclysm  falls silent, balance is restored.

And Grant’s body is left unmoving, only a shell.

Grant isn’t there. He has one final choice, one he has the ability to make on his own.

With no one there to help him with the choice. ]