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greentrickster · 2 years ago

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@someoddmix #ya boi!!! #hello Guzma! #and at least there's neat bug conversation happening to pass the time

Yeah, he’s on the way to becoming a better part of the community and gaining acceptance for himself and his adopted family (who are definitely Not ex-members of Team Skull, because they disbanded, for real, yo! They just... had a lot of old uniform pieces lying around the old base is all. This is a completely different group of pink and blue hooligans looking to Guzma and Plumeria for a place to belong. Honest.), but it’s still nice to get acknowledged by someone important in the field.

@someoddmix #haha fuck you Lysandre! AND YOU GHESTIS #GO LILLIE! #small but full of protective rage!! #wrecked by four 12 year olds!!

(My biases are showing here, but I will not apologize because it’s my AU, so.)

@someoddmix #rrrrrgh dont like how Giovanni got what he wanted and got away in the end... #but oh well. least he's gone from HERE

Unlike Ghetsis, Giovanni knows when he’s beat, how to lose with grace, and how to retreat while making it look like he’s still in a position of power and holding all the cards. Knowledge is power, after all, and Giovanni enjoys having power.

@someoddmix #oh no! ;A; Archie and Maxie are gone!#I assume Galactic Boss Cyrus also disappeared... #if they were all sent back to their own dimensions... #giovanni really just summons new team leaders every time? #he must have a robust presentation in place to bring them up to speed quickly #=( now what?

Perhaps he summons new leaders, perhaps he doesn’t who’s to say? He’s a smart guy, I’m sure he has lots of different plans (though also, yeah, a killer enrollment speech as well).

As for what happens next... well, first off, it’s time to regroup outside, now that all that’s finished!

Next, it’s time to go bail Cyrus out of prison again! But Trainer Cyrus this time, not Galactic Boss Cyrus. Because the Aether Foundation reappearing like it did meant he was now absolutely somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be inside a secure facility and on top of that he’s almost instantly recognized as having been with the Rockets. Fortunately having Sun, Moon, Hau, and Lillie all testifying for his innocence is enough to get him released without any extra fuss. Once he’s released he also gets to (only somewhat awkwardly) comfort the kids that Archie and Maxie might not have expected to be leaving just yet, but they were planning on returning to their home dimensions to try and fix the messes they’d made. This might not have been how they wanted to leave, but it’s something they were planning on doing.

And, finally, that leaves the question of what the heck to do about Galactic Boss Cyrus. When asked, he declares, “...I will return to the world I left. Whatever is waiting for me there... I will not run from it.”

But how to get him there?

Turns out, as things began at the Aether Foundation, so will they end there. Because Giovanni might have taken himself and his people away, but he’s not actually the one who turned the RR Castle back into the Aether Foundation - Colress did that after Wicke contacted him for help with the situation. He’d been working on a machine to get all this interdimensional nonsense sorted out all day, and was considering tagging along after the kids, but the gadget he was going to use to go unnoticed did an unexpected release of magic smoke, so he focused on getting the dimensions sorted out. This is also why Galactic Boss Cyrus is still here - he wasn’t in range of the device when it sent things back to their own world. Colress was planning to enlist some help from Sun and Moon to round up any RR grunts that were outside the area of effect of his machine and send them back to their proper dimensions, so them showing up on their own like this is actually very helpful! And it will be easy enough to send GB Cyrus back to his own dimension.

But before he goes, he has a question of his own for Trainer Cyrus. “Why a sylveon?”

And Trainer Cyrus flushes and looks away, embarrassed, “I wasn’t planning- I got her as an eevee and planned to let her choose an evolutionary stone when she was ready.” he looks down at where sylveon is out of her pokeball and sitting politely leaned against his side, and smiles slightly. “I didn’t think I was capable of raising a sylveon. Friendship... isn’t something I come naturally to.”

Galactic Boss Cyrus nods. “I see.” Then he turns to Colress. “I’m ready to depart now.”

A short nod to the group over his shoulder, a warping of time and space, and he’s gone.

Sun and Moon head off with Hau and Lillie to track down any Rainbow Rocket stragglers, with promises to meet up later for some battles, Red’s managed to convince Guzma to show him around the island (and, fun fact, guess who’s the one who’s been teaching Moon sign language because a few members of his old team had hearing difficulties? That’s right, it’s ya boi!), and Cynthia, Blue, and our remaining Cyrus acquire a case of chilled drinks, then go sit on the beach and stare at the ocean a bit while pondering how much screwy stuff happens in their lives and do a little processing of their own.

(And, a little to the left of ‘here,’ there are three doors - red, blue, and grey. Where do they lead?)

Okay, been thinking about the Rainbow Rocket confrontation, and here it is!

So, Archie, Maxie, and Trainer Cyrus are in place, and Sun, Moon, Lillie, and Hau head in to face Rainbow Rocket. They fight a decent number of grunts, Lillie has a couple pokemon now (she’s been through a lot, she can have more than one, though she’s still a relatively new trainer and thus is still the one focusing on healing everyone else’s pokemon more than battling), and eventually make it to the first checkpoint. Sun goes to the left, Moon goes to the right, and they battle against Maxie and Archie at the same time while Lillie and Hau guard the main hall to make sure no one can sneak up on them.

(While this is happening, our team of foreign ex-Champions on look-out duty spot another of our favorite Alolans heading towards the Rainbow Rocket Castle with both purpose and a full roster of pokemon - it’s ya boi, heading in to help get these creeps off his island! And normally this would be great, but this plan already has a lot of moving parts, and Guzma’s not read in on any of them, so Red and Cynthia run interference and manage to get him over to their table with Blue, where they fill him in on the plan. Guzma’s not happy about having to sit this one out, but grudgingly agrees to wait on the condition that he gets to lead the charge if the kids call for help.

On the plus side, he does end up having a really interesting conversation with Professor Blue about bug pokemon (there aren’t a lot of them native to Kanto, so he doesn’t have as much experience with a wide variety of them as other types, and it’s interesting to talk to a bug-type specialist).)

Back in Rainbow Rocket, Sun and Moon move to the next room with Lillie and Hau, the latter two once again staying at the doorway to prevent any Grunts from trying to interfere, while the twins ‘confront’ Cyrus, who manages a vaguely decent speech about why he needs to stop them and recreate what he did in ‘his world’ in this world (Maxie and Archie honestly did so much better, they have so much practice and are a pair of drama llamas to boot), puts up a good fight, and then hands over the key they need once he’s beaten. A bit more exploring and the group finds Lysandre’s room, again, guards at the door, and a confrontation with the Team leader.

Fun fact: a ‘which door will you choose’ challenge is far less effective when you have two chaos twins run past you and each press one of the two buttons one at a time, turning on and turning off your doomsday machine in quick succession. The leader of Team Flare is extremely miffed and gives them a very hard match as a result, but is eventually defeated an the group moves to the final room, where they’re confronted by Ghetsis. Again, speech, battle, we win!

Except Ghetsis is Ghetsis and does not lose gracefully, instead taking Lillie prisoner and demanding Sun, Moon, and Hau throw down their pokeballs and surrender to him if they don’t want their friend to die.

This is the point where Ghetsis learns the error of tossing the timid little girl behind him then focusing all his attention on the sturdier-looking kids in the room, because Lillie summons that resolve to be stronger that she gained during the whole Aether Foundation fiasco, and also her legs under her.

You ever been full-body tackled from behind at exactly knee height by a girl with every ounce of protective rage her small body can muster? Because that’s what Lillie just did to Ghetsis. It makes an impression, both of them, because he goes down and Lillie ends up getting kind of squished as a result.

Fortunately a moment’s weakness is all the rest of the group needs to decide that violence is the answer and get to work grappling with Ghetsis to get any weapons and pokemon he may have away from him and also to get him off of Lillie. After some very thorough tussling, Ghetsis is left tied up in his own cloak with Hau and Lillie sitting on him for good measure.

He may return to his dimension where he’s in charge, but he’s going to have to spend the rest of his (hopefully short) reign with the knowledge of how thoroughly he just got owned by four twelve-year-olds.

Anyway, on to Giovanni! Again, it’s another speech, another battle, and another victory. Which Giovanni responds to with a shrug, a smirk, and the comment that he’s gotten as much as he probably needs of the Aether Foundation’s tech from this dimension anyway - there are other dimensions to see, other worlds to loot. Lights start flashing, he types a few things into a keyboard, and the castle vanishes like it had never been, leaving the Aether Foundation in its place. Victory! Celebration high-five and strike a pose, yeah!

This is when Lillie and Hau come running in after Sun and Moon, with the revelation that Ghetsis just vanished out from under them, and all there weren’t any grunts left in the hallway when they unlocked the door and checked, either. It’s back to normal, yes!

Moon’s phone buzzes a text alert.

Cyrus: I assume the building changing means you won.

Cyrus: Archie and Maxie vanished with it.

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