#bede of the masked ones

[lindalofbroome]

ballum getting a scarred face and wearing a mask, to lief wearing a mask and getting a scarred face pipeline 🧍‍♂️

[valiantsilver]

Pokémon Sw/Sh but it’s a British high school

Allister:

* Year Seven

* Wears a face mask everywhere

* Never speaks in class even if he’s called on

* Has a hard time talking to others so mostly just sticks around Bea

Hop:

* Year Eight

* Wants to be a linguist just like his older brother

* Sonia has seen his grades however and she knows he’s destined to be a STEM kid

* Has gotten multiple reprimands for running in the halls

Marnie

* Year Eight

* Not as shy as Allister but still pretty reserved

* Wears her leather jacket instead of her blazer (the teachers have given up on that one)

* Listens to music instead of paying attention in class but most teachers let it go since her grades are good and she isn’t disruptive

Bede

* Year Nine

* Gifted kid and absolutely insufferable about it

* Wants to go into STEM since he believes all the other subjects aren’t ‘real academics’

* Opal constantly points out how good his artwork is and he hates it (secretly loves it)

Bea

* Year Ten

* Grew up as Allister’s neighbour, sees him as a younger brother and is very protective of him

* Great at PE, not so great at other subjects

* GCSEs have her low-key stressed but she’d rather die than admit it

Milo

* Geography teacher

* The chill teacher who will just stick on a movie when he doesn’t have a lesson planned

* Students go to him for hugs when they’re feeling under the weather because Milo hugs are top tier 👌

* Super nice but low-key doesn’t know how to control his students when they get wild

Nessa

* English teacher

* Is a great teacher when she isn’t distracted by giving her students fashion advice

* Fishes outside of teaching as well as modelling - once brought a fish she had caught that morning into school and stored it in her filing cabinet

* Absolutely despises the idea that ‘maybe the curtains are just blue’ and will go on long rants about the issues with anti-intellectualism and lack of critical thinking

Kabu

* PE teacher

* Students will make fun of him for being old only to get absolutely thrashed by him in literally any sport

* Close to Bea who sees him as a mentor and confidant - as well as talking about her exam stress she also told him her worries that Allister wasn’t settling into high school well, so Kabu now keeps an eye on him as well

* Taught Raihan before he also became a teacher at the school and always reminds him how proud he is of him

Opal

* Art teacher

* Doesn’t actually show up half the time, she’ll be gone for several weeks and everyone will be convinced she’s dead only for her to just reappear with no explanation

* All of her exemplar art is pink

* She can see Bede’s artistic talent and natural inclination towards art (even if he tries to repress it), tries to encourage him to express himself more

Gordie

* History teacher

* Super young teacher, like it’s his first or second year after finishing his teaching course

* Randomly stops lessons to show his students some kind of crazy stunt he learnt like a double back flick or smth idk

* Hides the fact that Melony is his mother from students because he knows how viscous they can be

Melony

* Chemistry teacher

* Constantly finds excuses to make fake snow as an experiment

* Hate the fact that Gordie won’t acknowledge her as his mother while at work

* Once intercepted a note from her students that called her a ‘milf’, asked Gordie what it meant later that day and he lost several years from his lifespan

Piers

* Maths teacher

* Addicted to coffee, students have learnt to steer clear of his desk due to coffee breath

* Never gives homework because he knows he won’t be arsed to mark it

* He asks Marnie what ‘the kids are into’ all the time so he can slip pop culture references into his lessons to seem more ‘cool’

Raihan

* Physics teacher

* You know that ‘Welcome to Physics’ vine? That’s Raihan’s classroom

* He has a very big social media presence and new students are always flabbergasted when they find out their physics teacher is also an influencer

* Constantly sets assignments/homework which involve students having to make some kind of social media post

Leon

* French teacher

* Teaches French but knows several other languages - Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Cantonese, etc

* Was a former student who got near perfect grades, all the older teachers love him, most students love him too because he’s a good teacher while still being fun

* Brags to his students every time Hop has some kind of minor achievement

Sonia

* Biology teacher

* Students love her because sometimes she sneaks her dog into school

* One of the few teachers who will put Bede in his place instead of encouraging his ego and superiority complex

* She and Nessa go over to each other’s houses every Saturday to mark papers together + gossip about work

Oleana

* Deputy Head

* Does most of the Head’s work anyway

* Low-key terrifying, students only come to her with very serious issues

* Nobody can figure why she’s so defensive of Rose when he constantly seems to dump his responsibilities as Head onto her

Rose

* Head Teacher

* Shows up to important meetings wearing a shirt and suit jacket on top and nothing but underwear underneath his desk

* Actually a very hard worker - he’s just working on something concerning the school that isn’t exactly for educational purposes

* Has attempted to form a parental bond with Bede after finding out he lost his parents at a young age, has not succeeded

[darkmatter-nebula]

"Ghostboy in Hisui" AU drabble ahead, my dear fellas. It's about the storyline where Allister is an exchange student at the Blueberry Academy. Basically, his big brother figures Bede and Raihan visit him. Here I go! 😃

Drabble: A Friendly Visit

It was a sunny in Unova. Allister, who was an exchange student at the Blueberry Academy, was visited by his big brother figures Raihan and Bede. The Fairy Type Gym Leader demanded to come along. Allister's big sister Bea couldn't help but smile.

She knew how much Bede and Raihan loved her little brother. She couldn't blame them. She adored her precious baby brother as well, of course. Speaking of Allister, the shy and kindhearted little boy was very happy to see Bede and Raihan.

"We missed you so much, Alli!" Raihan said as he was giving Allister a Ursaring hug. Bede was the next one to hug the eight years old Ghost Type Gym Leader. "I missed you two too." Allister said softly, his purple eyes were filled with endless love and warmth.

Zoey, who was standing next to Allister, felt her heart swell as her beloved Trainer received love and affection. The female Hisuian Zoroark had a gentle expression on her face. Bede removed Allister's mask and placed a brotherly kiss on his cheek.

"Awwwwww! You softie!" Raihan chimed in. "Shut up, Raihan." Bede glared at the Dragon Type Gym Leader. "Don't fight, please." Allister spoke up. The small boy didn't want his big brother figures to fight. "Don't worry, we won't!" Bede and Raihan said in unison.

Bea couldn't hold back a few soft chuckles. "You two are hilarious!" The Fighting Type Gym Leader said, clearly amused. Allister was smiling. The small boy still was cuddled by Bede.

The End

[dragon-tailz]

Musharna mail!

You find yourself walking down a garden path, your blue and pink sneakers crunching the gravel beneath your feet with every step you take. Your periphery is blocked by high hedge walls, and the towering poplar trees beyond that, but the sky above you is bright and clear and the flower beds beside you are full of colorful flowers. Peonies, foxglove, begonias and anemones wave cheerily in the breeze as you pass by. 

You’re positive you came to this garden for a reason, although at the moment that reason escapes you. However, as you follow the twists and turns of this verdant labyrinthe, your purpose here quickly becomes apparent. You brush a pale colored curl of hair out of your face as you emerge into the hedge garden’s central clearing. On a raised platform of intricate brickwork stands garden furniture arranged into a makeshift tea table. The table itself is round and its metal framework is covered by a tablecloth, while the four seats around it are adorned with plush pink cushions at their backs to make sitting on the harsh material easier. Three of the seats are occupied. Former gym leader Opal sits in one- she wears a cyan baseball cap with a white pokeball design and is currently pouring more tea into her Togepi-patterned teacup. Next to her sits Allister, wearing a huge and heavy looking pumpkin shaped crown and pouring tea into one of his mask’s eye holes from a Sinistea-patterned cup. Across from Opal sits Hop, who wears a puffy Wooloo shaped hat (“Who has the Wooloo hair now?” you find yourself thinking) and daintily nibbles a strawberry topped teacake. 

The sound of your shoe against the gravel alerts them to your presence. 

“Oh, young Bede,” Opal says warmly, “Now, this is an interesting turn of events. How nice that you would happen upon us and our little hat party. Good thing I prepared for an extra guest.” She patted the empty seat across from Allister at the round table. 

You blink at the scene before you and stutter slightly. “I- Hmph. That’s very kind of you, Ms. Opal,” your voice comes out deeper than you are used to it being, “But I feel the need to point out that I am woefully unprepared for a ‘hat party’. I’m afraid I’ll have to decline your invitation until I find myself an appropriate hat.” You find yourself wondering why you weren’t invited in the first place. Perhaps THEN you’d have brought a hat to wear… although probably not. Hats are awfully troublesome to the distinguished gentleman who likes to keep his hair just so. 

Hop raises a dark brown eyebrow. “Uh, Bede? Mate? Have you looked at yourself lately?”

There’s a curious ripple in the air above your head. You reach your hand up and feel a party hat squashing your fluffy white hair, its strap hugging your chin to keep it upright. You know without seeing that it is covered in orange and green spiral stripes. “I stand corrected.” You sigh and step up to take your seat at the table, the chair making an awful scraping noise as you tug it out and along the brickwork below. 

The four of you sit and eat in silence. Allister continues pouring tea and passing snacks into the holes in his mask, going along a clockwise pattern- a piece of biscuit in his left eye, a drop of tea in his right eye, a slice of cake in his mouth, on and on around and around. Hop is still nursing the same piece of teacake. Is that boy taking the smallest bites he possibly can? Often, your gaze flicks toward Opal. You can’t help but think that there’s some sort of manner or custom that you’re missing, something you’re doing wrong without even knowing it. The tea party is an incomprehensible, nonsensical dance. Forks are placed to the north of one’s plate, except at Hop’s place where it’s to the south. All participants rub the handle of their teacups with their thumbs before picking them up, but the number of rubs seems to have no rhyme or reason. Everyone’s gaze wanders toward you disapprovingly no matter which number you try. Opal excuses herself at one point for chewing her scone an odd number of times. You find yourself sitting there stiffly, in your orange and green party hat, making as few moves as possible for fear of them being wrong. How ridiculous you must look, mistaking the rules of this frivolous game…

Of course, eventually the tea party is done. It just… finishes. In the manner of dreams, you blink and suddenly find yourself standing with them in another portion of the garden, knowing without saying that the party was over. You, Hop, and Allister stand in a line, Opal pacing before you with her large wizened hands clasped behind her back. You are all still wearing your hats, and Opal’s in particular stares you in the face as she shuffles by. “Now, children, what hat party would be complete without a little bit of fun?” Opal’s eye glitters with mischief. “And I just had a good idea, as I tend to do. We’ll make it a competition.”

Hop pumps his fist. “All it takes is a little healthy competition to keep a person energized! Count me in!” Allister stands stock still. Well, not quite- he wobbles and slouches under the weight of his gargantuan pumpkin crown. 

Opal chuckles and holds up an Alcremie’s flower sweet between her thumb and forefinger. “Look here, the three of you- I’ve had my wonderful Mawile hide a flower sweet just like this in and among the shrubbery you see before you. I don’t have any real prize for you, but the first to find it will be a reigning champion of garden hide and seek, I suppose, hohoho~”

Hop adjusts his stance and puts a contemplative fist to his chin. “Well, I HAVE always wanted to be the champion of something. Any rules?” 

Opal waves a dismissive hand. “No rules. I'd hate to stifle the creativity of a boy so clever that he answered all my quiz questions correctly.” You find yourself struck with a sting of jealousy and indignation. Did she have to tout Hop's success around him all the time? He'd have answered her questions in the gym challenge correctly, too, if not for… if not for… what was it that got in your way? You can't seem to remember, and you drop the subject as Opal turns her attention toward you. “Now, Bede, you can think of this like another one of my little tests. You know, I daresay I'm impressed how far you've come since I found you in Hammerlocke all that time ago… Will you be the one to win this challenge? Or perhaps it will be one of these skilled young men beside you. Oh hoho, I'm on the edge of my seat!”

She shuffles a few paces away, giving the three boys a clear view of the path before them. She counts off on her fingers, three, two, one, and the challenge begins. Hop sends out his Corviknight and leaps onto its back, bursting into the air at startling Mach speeds. Allister turns his head to stare straight at you before slowly disappearing in a puff of dark colored smoke. You're the only one who walks down the path and deeper into the hedge maze, your shoes crunch, crunch, crunching on the gravel path. 

You spend a great deal of time sifting through the hedge rows, looking for a glimpse of orange petals. Conveniently, none of the flowers growing by the path are orange themselves- they all come in purples, pinks, and blues. The sun creeps across the sky as you search, the only indication of the passage of time. You wipe sweat from your brow and scratch at the strap around your chin. It's disheartening to be met with the same verdant green everywhere you look. Step after crunchy step, bush after leafy, defiantly green bush… the monotony is so infuriating that when you finally spot a flash of warm color you lunge straight for it, paying no heed to the thorns wreathing it. 

A rose. A red rose. You're moving too quickly to stop when you realize just what you've found, and your hand closes around a thorny branch. You pull away. A bead of blood wells on your finger, red as the flower glaring at you from the depths of the hedge.   

Suddenly, a scent fills your nostrils. Strong, overpowering, all-too-familiar… woody, like oak, cloying, like leather. Undertones of something sickly sweet in comparison. You try to whip around, see the person who must be behind you, but the dream holds your attention, your gaze to the red rose. It expands. It fills your vision. You cough again. Suddenly, you find you can't breathe. The strap about your chin has tightened, turned to thorns, draws blood. You claw at it. Your fingers turn even more red.

Just as you think you can't take it anymore, you wake up. 

Wyverlyn blinks the sleep out of her eyes, black washing away into the familiar sight of her ceiling and the fairy lights lining the apex of her walls twinkling in the dusky morning blue. Her heart pounds against her ribcage painfully and her dry throat swallows nothing.

Lifting herself with a weary hand on the railing of her loft bed Wyverlyn's body disrupts a rapidly thinning cloud of fragrant mist, the pink haze smells sickeningly sweet, like decomposing roses.

Her eyes follow the trail of perfumed gas as it drains out her open window that was closed when she went to bed.

"That's... definitely one of the weirder dreams I've had about Bede..."

[theviolenttomboy]

I picked up SWSH volume 5 today, let's take a look...

As expected, the usual art tweaks are here. Everyone's got their hair highlights and extra shadows, and a lot of the backgrounds got their empty spaces filled in and toned. (Nessa and Oleana in particular look a lot better and prettier.) I already put up the opening shot of Leon and Raihan G-Maxing their aces plus the first full pic of Eternatus. Let's see what else we got worth mentioning...

Seriously tho, there really were a lot of those empty spaces. I really can't post them all, but here's a good example:

I'm guessing it's the Galar particles making Rose's face glow like that?

It's a little hard to tell from this low-quality pic (would be better to take another look at the linked pic from before), but Eternatus really does look amazing in every shot, with subtle tweaks in the screentones and shading and whatnot. (Incidentally, I am no longer worried about how Terastallized Pokemon are going to look in manga form.)

This isn't an art change, rather a dialogue one. Now, Hop just yells, "Bede!", not adding the part to not worry Schilly.

Mustard got his eyes fixed, thank you.

Klara's Rotom Phone no longer has its mask accessory. I'm guessing it was taken off because it wouldn't turn with Rotom's face when going horizontal.

Moon's antidote got some color now.

That's it for now! I always say this, but the volume art really does look great. If anyone has requests for any specific panels, feel free to ask!

[azuremist]

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[pokeexehasstoppedworking]

A Champion Time For The Heart Ch39 Pasio Adventures P2

(This is just a compilation of the events that happened with most everyone on Pasio Island in Pokemon Masters EX with all the substories I can remember. If I miss any I apologize. Will be labeled with time skips and Months to keep track of time. The time everyone's away is one year. If I get any of Pasio's city or landscape described wrong in this story I apologize.)

-JANUARY TO MARCH-

Leon had arrived.

That's why there had been such a big fuss this morning, everyone on this side of the region was leaving their homes in waves towards thee docks and Pasio's Star Arena to await the arrival of the famous unbeatable Champion. You had arrived a month earlier in January along with Bea and the guys at Leon's insistance. He had to prepare a few things before he left and didn't want his brothers and sister to be running around Pasio by themselves or Allister for that matter and you agreed since it meant keeping these guys out of trouble as well. So he had quickly gotten you a passport and cruise ticket, made sure you were fully packed, explained everything to your boss, helped set up your rotomi phone with your new rotom you decided to name 'Sparky', given you his phone number, and had sent you on your way with Hop and the twins. Sonia wasn't too far behind and you had met up with Bea and Allister at the Hulbury docks, and one seasick cruise later arrived in Pasio where you were set up in one of the hotel's and Allister was handed over to you to start watching over for the next ten months you'd be here. ....Sigh. How did you get yourself into these things. A few things had happened while Leon was gone. You ran into Bede as he finished chasing off a couple weird people with masks when walking around with Allister. Team Break if you recalled it right. You were more surprised Bede was picked to come here without Opal. Then again he did make it very far in the Battle Tower, it must've impressed Prince Lear enough to invite him along. Gloria and Victor started training together and had ran into Raihan and Gordie for a battle before Nessa and Melony decided to jump in and spar a three on three boys vs girls battle. Hop and Victor went hanging out with that boy Scottie they seemed to become quick friends with. And Gloria met Scottie's twin Bettie, while training in the Pasio woods not too far from the hotel you all were staying at. Having two pairs of scottish twins made it a bit much but you were glad they were making friends, meanwhile you were keeping an eye on Allister and helping the shy boy navigate the crowds. Until the news that Leon had arrived with Piers and Marnie that is. Gloria had practically busted down your doors and immediately demanded you get up and meet them at the stadium while she went off to fetch him. ..Which lead to you now sitting in the arena stadium with Allister sitting to your left nervously looking around at the crowd and Hop and Victor to your right who were excitedly cheering on the exhibition matches at hand. You were used to big crowds by now and only watched with a smile as they played. But they sure made you wait long enough, they had to unpack and get situated with Sync Stones before they could even get to the arena. So it went. Gloria vs Alder and her winning. Marnie vs Karen from the Johto Elite Four, Karen winning. It seemed Piers chose to not fight, and then it was Leon vs another Region's Champion, Blue. When it was all over you knew it'd be a while before Leon even got away from the crowds so you decided it would just be best to take Allister to get some lunch away from the big crowds to help with his anxiety. You expected Allister to cling to you as you both left the stadium but what you weren't expecting was Sparky to come flying out of your pocket with a buzzing sound and incoming call.

"*PZZZT* Incoming call from Leon! Do you wish to Accept or Decline?," the rotom asked with your phone ringing.

Leon was calling you from the middle of the arena? Holding Allister's hand you smiled. "Accept call, Sparky."

Soon enough a familiar voice came through the phone. "Hello? Y/N!?"

"Hi, Leon," you answered back with a smile and there was a relieved sigh through the other side. "Oh thank goodness I can here your voice. Where are you? I can't find you in the crowd."

"Allister needed some food." Said boy was holding your hand and excitedly pointing at a nearby hot chocolate stand, being January it was still fairly chilly outside so it made sense he'd want some. "And I think he was overwhelmed in there so I wanted to give him some space."

"O-Oh," the voice now sounded a bit sad. "Oh I understand. Did uh-...D-Did you see me win?"

"Of course I did! Great job out there by the way! I think you did a great job getting the crowds excited."

"Thanks! I think so too....Hey. Listen. There's a few things I need to do here as a part of my deal to come here with Prince Lear so it's going to be a little bit before I can actually see you again."

That stung a bit, after all you all hadn't really had time to see one another for almost a month by this point but you understood it was just his duties as a Champion. "Hey. No worries. I have my own hands fully taking care of Allister. Just do what you have to, and you can always call me."

He again sighed relieved. "THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I promise I'll try to get everything finished as soon as possible. When we get back together I have a surprise for you!"

"Oh?"

"Yeah. There's someone I want you to meet. But I can't tell you because it's a surprise."

A surprise huh? And he wanted to introduce you to someone? Well guess you were going to have to wait and find out who exactly it was. Well almost four weeks went by again and you still didn't see him. Gloria made more friends with two girls called May and Leaf, and Leon made sure to keep in touch by calling you and making sure everything was going ok and kept you in the loop of what had been going on. He got lost on his way to a pokemon center and got seperated from Charizard, luckily he ran into Scottie who helped him out. Scottie ran into him again battling a different Champion, Steven Stone, and the two almost caused a rock slide with their battles and almost getting lost again trying to find the Pasio woods. You facepalmed twice at that. And then he did a few promotional things for Galar, probably for the Chairwoman to help straighten out Galar's good name. And he got into a debate with two other Champions, Lance and Mr. Stone again, over...Capes?? You shook your head at that one and had to assure him his cape was in fact very dapper on him. Which made him super happy. Then February came and the holiday called 'Palentine's Day' arrived. It was essentially a Pasio holiday similar to Valentine's Day but it was less heavy on the romance aspect and was more about showing love towards your friends and family. So you received a few Palentine's Day treats from the trio and a couple wild flowers from Allister he picked for you and Bea. In the mean time you busied yourself with just caring for Allister and met a couple other people from Pasio and different Regions, some you remembered from the previous games you met some you didn't. Cynthia was very nice when you ran into her at a local ice cream shop and Allister bumped into her legs...Oh. There was also a couple villains chased off the islands. Giovanni was one of them. Yeah. After all your adventures, you weren't surprised in the least that one of the game villains was here. Unfortunately it meant pushing some plans for the Master's League. Sigh. Luckily by the time the end of February came around you were FINALLY able to meet up with Leon when he called you and asked to meet him at a cafe close by to the current hotel you were staying at. Quickly agreeing you gathered Allister and made for the cafe that he mentioned. The stone streets flew with your quick steps, holding Allister's hand to keep up pace until you came to the small cafe called 'The Lazy Rockruff' and walked on in. Already the cafe was PACKED with locals and trainers alike chattering and eating food and there you spotted Leon when he stood beaming that smile and waved over towards you both! Two people were next to him. One was Hop who looked as excited to see you as Lee was, and across from then was a girl who looked to be around the same age as Leon.

"Beauty! Over here," he called out beckoning you to come over.

Smiling you headed on over with Allister and the first thing you did upon reaching Leon was embrace him fully throwing your arms around his neck and felt him practically crush you with how close he pressed you to himself.

"Oh thank Arceus." He breathed relieved with a sigh and smile. "I missed you so much! I'm finally able to see you again."

"Hey!" You spoke back beaming pulling away from him. "I missed you too. I hope you don't mind me bringing Allister along."

"Of course not!," he quickly clarified shooting a smile to the boy holding onto your pants leg and he perked up seeing a familiar face. "Hey, Al! It's so good to see you again! Are you hungry?" Allister quickly nodded making the Champion chuckle, "Then you're in luck! This cafe happens to have some of the best food in Pasio! Oh! That reminds me." Smiling back to you Leon stepped aside and threw a hand at the woman sitting there smiling at Leon amused. "Y/n. I want you to meet someone special to me. This is our cousin, Iris. She's the champion from the Unova Region. She's here competing in the Masters League too!"

His cousin!? You blinked surprised over to her and were surprised to see how similar this woman looked to Hop and Leon. She had her hair up in a styled ponytail that was a darker shade of purple than Leon's, but her skin tone was the same. Her eyes though were a dark brown instead of that shiny gold that all of Leon's other family had. On her head was a small golden crest with green emeralds and she wore a pretty pink and white Nessa would've loved.

"Your cousin?," you asked surprised before smiling. "Um. Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm Y/n!"

"Oh I know," Iris said happily glancing at Leon, "I've heard all about you. Mostly because someone wouldn't stop gushing about you the entire time." Leon froze...before his face lit up a red and he rubbed his neck making his cousin chuckle. "I swear you're such a kid! You haven't changed one bit since I last saw you."

"H-Hey! I was just twelve then! I'm much better than I was-"

"You still get lost on your way to the bathroom!," she stated back more amused making Leon squawk an embarrassed noise before she turned to Hop and reached up to pat her younger cousin on the head. "But not you! Look at you all grown up saving Galar and becoming a professor!" She cooed making Hop groan. "But when are you gonna stop really being a kid and ask that Gloria girl out already?"

And it was Hop's turn to light up red face. "IRIS!? DON'T SAY THAT OUT LOUD!! SOMEONE MIGHT HEAR!!"

"So you're a Champion too huh?" You asked catching her attention, which was your plan to give these two boys a break. "Wow. I knew Lee and Hop would have impressive positions but I didn't know it ran in the family."

She shrugged at your compliment but still smiled. "It wasn't just handed to me so you know. I had to work for it same as them, but I don't think you're here to compete either right?"

You shook your head gesturing to Allister climbing on a chair. "I was hired to be Al's caretaker since he's too young to be by himself."

"Oh, how cute!" She gushed at Allister who sat down and looked at you expectantly. Oh right. He was hungry. "How are you enjoying Pasio so far?"

"It's a beautiful region," you answered sitting down by Allister and picking up a menu, "I've been having a fun time meeting all the different people and seeing so many pokemon!" You handed the menu to Allister so he could read over it to see what he wanted. "Some of the mini events the Prince put on have been entertaining too-"

"Oh wait!," Leon interrupted you two, making you look at him as he fumbled with something in his pockets, before pulling out a small pink box and shoving it towards you with a nervous smile. "H-Happy Belated Valentine's Day, Y/n!! I-I-I know it's late b-b-but I don't know when I'll see you again with the events coming up and I wanted to make it up to you for missing the holiday! I-I hope you like chocolate."

You blinked at his gift for a moment before smiling pink cheeked and taking it. "I do...Thank you."

Leon smiled. "Anything for you Beauty!"

"Beauty..You called me that twice. Is that your new nickname for me?"

He nodded. "Of course! Because you're beautiful to me.~"

Now it was your turn to light up red faced at his woods, but a small slam of Iris's hands against the table startled you both and Hop and Allister into looking at her determined face as she inhaled and pointed at you two.

"OK! SPILL! I want details on these two! Tell me all about your traveling and how you two got together! And don't leave out a single detail! I need to know how you two got together so I can help Hop overcome his dating crisis!!"

"IRIS!! DONT SAY THAT!!"

Well to say Iris was excited to meet you was an understatement. She was a lot like Hop in some ways and Leon in others with her own personality slipped in. Oh well. At least Allister was able to get something to eat. And Leon wasn't lying when he said he was going to be busy for a while either. There was going to be a Festival of Champions, a.k.a all the Champions coming together to entertain the masses until the actual major events could happen taking place later this March. Leon wanted to take this chance to be with you and introduce you to some more of his family before you both had to part again. Can't say you didn't enjoy the time...but it was funny to see both the brothers get flustered by their cousin's antics.

-APRIL TO JUNE-

It was fairly warm now and things were starting to pick up this month especially with all the events scheduled in the next two and a half months. Leon was training hard after the Champion event to train with Raihan for the Time Trials. You managed to convince Allister to join a couple harmless but fun events like a fun little easter egg hunt and a small Tea Party held by these two Twin Subway bosses running into Marnie and Sonia there. You also ran into Gloria battling Bettie in her old dojo suit from the Isle of Armor, apparently she had been wired the urshifu to care for a little bit and she wanted to try her luck with battling with it. Then there was the New Stars of Pasio Tournament and the Friendiversy surprise Raihan and Leon planned for the Prince who was busy running around planning the main event and trying to control everything. You didn't blame the two for trying to get the Prince to relax. Seemed Lear had a lot on his plate as it was with all this planning for the end of the year with the few villains pushing everything back by two months and spontaneously coming up with these smaller events to keep everyone entertained in the meantime...But you were glad he wasn't pestering you like he did at the party. But SOMETHING happened halfway through June. The Time Trials event had just ended and you thought you'd be able to see Leon after he took a break from the events, but that wasn't meant to be. Imagine sleeping in the middle of the night and feeling the entire earth suddenly shake with an earthquake under your feet. It was so hard you fell off your bed and onto the floor with a loud yelp and cry of pain as the ground continued to shake and the fair off cry of multiple loud dynamaxed pokemon reached your ears-...Making your eyes pop open in panick because the only other time this happened here was because those goons were forcibly dynamaxing pokemon. But...THIS COULDN'T BE HAPPENING HERE!! There wasn't any natural dynamax particles in Pasio! And no one brought their dynamax bands with them on the trip over here. You had just gotten up as the shaking stopped, the distant sounds of giant pokemon getting more distant ready to go see just what the heck was going on but those plans were dashed when your door was suddenly thrown open and in ran Allister who immediately ran straight for your legs throwing his arms around you and burying his face into your pants leg.

"Y-Y/N!!," he wailed clearly terrified and shaking, "What's going on!?"

"I don't know." You flinched and turned your head towards the ceiling as a far away pokemon cry was heard. "...But let's just stay inside until everything calms down, ok?"

Safe to say neither of you got a wink of sleep that night staying awake for the rest of the night and waiting for morning to come before daring to venture outside again at all and when you did everything seemed-....Normal?? Well normal-ish. There was lots of other people walking around confused and looking around at seemingly nothing. There wasn't any signs of giant pokemon anywhere and after a couple hours most everyone just went back to their normal lives and seemed to shrug off last night's events. But you and Allister were still on edge. Was there another villain visit? What even HAPPENED last night? You tried calling Leon to no avail and you couldn't find Hop or the twins anywhere you searched! You were getting worried at this point asking around but it seemed like no one saw any of your friends or boyfriend. You got your answer later that day when the sun was just going down and Sparky again alerted you to something.

"*PZZZT* Incoming call from Leon!", he called out flying from your pocket, "Do you wish to Accept or Decline?"

"Accept!," you answered immediately and Sparky accepted the call to which you rose a brow at. "LEON!! I've been trying to get ahold of you all day! Did you feel that shaking last night?! I can't find anyone anywhere!"

There was silence from Leon's end of the line before he finally answered. "U-Um...Eeeeh. Oh. Uh-...YYyyeaaaahh. About that-.." He started out in a low tone making you raise your brows. He sounded EXTREMELY nervous and stuttered as he spoke. "Um...I-Is Allister with you?''

You glanced to the little boy who was currently holding you hand with one hand and drinking a soda with the other watching a nearby pokemon battle (probably because one of the battling pokemon was a Haunter-) and not paying attention to you at all. "Of course he is...Why do you ask?"

"Could you meet Bea at the Lazy Rockruff cafe so she can watch him for a b-bit?" Your brow rose higher.

"...Why?"

"I- Uh-...G-Got something important to show you. Can you meet me by Pasio's woods? Please? I promise I can explain everything!"

Your brow rose higher? What was this so about? And so close to the end of the day. Well can't say you didn't want answers and Leon did ask you. Sigh. The things you got yourself into for the people you cared about. Well you did drop off Allister with Bea who thankfully took him before you made your way for he woods...Except Leon didn't say WHERE in the blasted forest to meet at!! By the time you even got there in was dark and you spent twenty mintues now just walking around shouting his name and straining your eyes to search for him in the growing dark-

"Y/N!!" You screamed and whipped around arm swinging on instinct and Leon ducked at JUST the right moment your fist went flying over his head but knocking his hat off and onto the ground with a thud. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Cease fire!" He quickly snapped back up holding his hands with a panicked expression. "It's just me!!"

You froze arm still raised staring at Leon...before sighing in relief. And slowly lowering your hands. "ARCEUS LEE!! DONT. DO. THAT!!" The man chuckled nervously as you frowned and crossed your arms. "Where have you been!? I've been looking for you all over this creepy forest! And what are you even doing here in the middle of the night?! It's creepy out here!"

"Uh-...Ye-Yeah. Um-..." His hand rubbed the back of his neck. "Hey, Y/n. Do you remember when you met Iris?"....Your brows furrowed more as he slowly and shakily reached down to pick up his hat and smile nervously. "W-Well-...I want you to meet someone else, but I know a lot of people would freak s-s-so I asked ya to meet me here."

"....I'm sorry. You lost me there. Can you start from the beginning?"

He opened his mouth and closed it multiple times, moving his hands around as he gestured at nothing and anything and went between fiddling with his hat and rubbing his neck between those gestures as he went between stuttering and silently opening his mouth seeming to try and form words. Meanwhile you stared at him harder trying to figure out what the heck he was trying to say before he just froze...Like literally just froze as if someone pressed pause on him. Gold eyes going wide and going behind you panickily, sweat forming on his face. What was- You froze as a breath of warm air suddenly hit the back of your body and a shadow blocked out the moonlight behind you. The hair on the back of your neck stood on end feeling the presence behind you as something VERY large towered over you-...and every SO SLOWLY you turned your head to look behind your shoulder. And your jaw dropped in a silent terrified scream!! Standing above you was a MONSTER!! A glowing black and red reptile snake skeleton thing floated just above you taking a few curious sniffs at your iced form. It made some kind of rumble grunt noise before tilting it's head at you curiously like a curious yamper. Meanwhile Leon continued to sweat furiously and smile even more nervously.

"U-Um...So! Uh-..S-Surprise! Ahaha! Um. Y-Y/n, you remember Eternatus right? Wo-Would you believe he crash landed here on Pasio!? HAHA!! F-Funny coincidence right!?"

You continued to stare at the thing above you before you took the deepest and loudest inhale of air you ever took, and slowly turned back to your boyfriend. "Leon." Leon flinched. "You have exactly ten seconds to explain what the frick frack snick snack in Arceus's name is going on before I lose my crap and scream!"

-JULY TO SEPTEMBER-

Well you took the news that not only did Eternatus survive but was now a permanent member of Leon's team well-.....Eventually. He had to explain everything and then had to have Hop and Gloria RE-explain just so you could wrap your head around it. Oh and apparently Steven Stone had requaza so Leon said there was nothing to worry about because if one Champion had a legendary pokemon then surely he could handle it. You however took a while to come to terms with that fact and decided to keep your distance from the thing for now. Of all the luck in the world right? Sigh.

How did these things keep happening to You of all people?

Leon begged you to give it a chance and that he'd make sure it was kept in safe hands and to not hate him for this. Sigh. You could argue with the puppy eyes he was giving you and agreed but said he had better keep a close eye on it. He couldn't stop hugging you and thanking you for over an hour. Sigh. Oh well. At least the thing was contained by the strongest trainer you knew. There was comfort in that at least. In the meantime you had others things to keep you busy. Taking care of Allister 24/7 was one of those things. He had a tendency to wonder off in the middle of the night to search for ghost pokemon so you had to keep an extra close eye on him. But today seemed like a normal day. You were able to see Leon for a bit before he had to leave since he agreed to meet up with some trainers that day to practice some battles before you gave him a kiss good bye on the cheek and going on your way. Everyone you knew was busy this day. Marnie and Gloria were running some kind of beach cafe stand with some new summer outfits Nessa slapped together for them and asked to borrow Silver for one of their games, Victor was training with Nessa for the Masters League, and you were pretty sure Hop was collecting some fur samples from some native Pasio pokemon for Sonia today. Everyone else was doing something else or competing in the new mini event the prince announced over the TV today. It was called The Battle of Gold or something like that, you were too busy taking care of Allister to pay much attention to it. So it was just you, Allister, and Zen after he finally decided to not sleep in and follow you around today. After seeing Leon at the center you got some breakfast, and decided to go on a walk to the woods today. It was the last month of summer and it'd be a good idea to get some fresh air and enjoy the nice weather before it got too cold. Plus it was a nice way to let Allister play around without bumping into a whole lot of people or lose him in the big crowds. Which was why you were smiling and watching as Allister ran in front of you zigzagging between a couple trees in a mix of tag and hide and seek with his Gengar who harmlessly chased after the boy popping in and out of the shadows making him let off rare high pitched laughs you otherwise wouldn't hear out of him. You were expecting him to have fun. What you weren't expecting was to run into someone while out here while you were just watching Allister and turned hearing the sound of something rustling through the brush, only to blink when a head of fluffy white hair and familiar pink coat came walking out of the woods and seemed just as surprised to see you standing there too. Before he gave his usual huff and frown.

"Hmph. It's just you." Turning his head he looked off to the side, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm taking Allister out for the day," you answered brow raising, "What are you doing in the middle of the woods?"

"Training for the Masters League of course! What else would I being with my time?," he stated matter of factly making Allister pause and look over towards the both of you for a moment...before his gengar tagged him making him squeal and give chase again. "I have to practice if I'm going to challenge Leon and every other champion here with my superior fairy types! Is it a crime to want to train where I won't be disturbed?"

"No. I was just surprised to see you out here is all."...You gave a smile before holding out your hand to him to shake which seemed to startle him making him flinch and blink at your smile. "Congratulations on making it into the competition! You did a great job battling back in the Star Tournament and the Battle Tower."

He still continued to stare at you dumbfounded before huffing again keeping his hands in his pockets. "Hmph. Not good enough. I still didn't win-"

"It doesn't matter if you win or lose, Bede," you interrupted him making him blink at your firm frown, "You can't expect to win every battle. Not even the Champions expect to win every battle they have. Even Leon lost some. But it doesn't matter who's the strongest or has the better pokemon. All that matters is that you try your best." He blinked when your hand patted his shoulder with a smile. "You're better at me with battling, and you were good enough to catch Prince Lear's attention to come here and compete. So don't be so hard on yourself. You're going to become strong, but at your own pace."

Bede's purple eyes continued to get wider and wider until he looked away embarrassed. "...I-I see. ...W-Well then I suppose one's own pace would best for d-discovering one's strength."

You smiled wider. "There you go. Don't worry about it too much. Just go at your own pace and everything will be ok."

While you talked to him Allister's gengar disappeared behind a giant bush and of course the little boy pushed some branches out of the way to follow him before he paused, masked eyes blinking at something behind the bush, before he excitedly hurried his way through the bush disappearing to the other side after the thing he saw. Meanwhile Bede hesitated when you pulled your hand away from him and looked back forward before looking back up and blurtin something out.

"Thankyou!''

You blinked at him. "...What?"

"I-I-I s-said-," he stuttered before clearing his throat and taking a breath. "I said. T-Thank you. For-...Blocking Oleana from me. I never got to thank you so I-I'm saying it now because I hate owing people things and I no longer w-want to owe you a thank you!"

You still stared at him for a moment but smiled as he embarrassedly looked away. "Hey. No problem." Your head turned back to Allister, but froze when you saw he was no longer in your line of sight. "ALLISTER!?" You suddenly shouted startling Bede and making Zen look up from the random tree he was sharpening his claws on. A spike of panic and fear spearing into your brain and down your spine-

"O-Over here." A small voice called and you heads turned to a movement in a bush before the limbs moved and a masked head timidly poked it's head out revealing Allister. ..He timidly waved at Bede. "H-Hi."

You breathed a sigh of relief. "Allister, don't run off like that. You scared me for a second....What are you even doing inside that bush?" You assumed playing hide and seek with his gengar.

He perked up and motioned for you to follow him. "Come see! I-I found something fun."

He disappeared back into the bush and you and Bede exchanged a look before following him, pushing through the giant bush and knocking off a few leaves before coming out the other sides. On the other side was Allister and his gengar, who was holding a giant yellow ball. The gengar was having fun throwing the giant yellow ball up and down in the air and laughing as it easily bounced on the ground. It looked like ones of those giant exercise balls you'd see yoga instructors use. Again you and Bede looked at each other in a confused manner. Well THIS was strange. What was a giant toy ball doing in the middle of the woods? Your head looked around the woods, but there wasn't anyone else around so where did this ball come from?

"I-Isn't it cool?," Allister asked happy to have found such a neat thing in the middle of the woods. His Gengar chuckled and softly bounced the giant ball to Allister who stumbled one or two steps catching it considering it was bigger than him, but he only giggled and easily held up the light weighted toy up. Giving you a hopeful look. "C-Can I keep it?"

"Well-..." You again looked around seeing no signs of anyone between the trees other than you three. Until eventually you shook your head no. "We better not. It doesn't belong to us and someone's probably going to come back looking for it."

"O-Oh..." He sadly shuffled his shoulders before looking back up. "C-Can I still play with it?"

"Sure. Just remember we have to put it back before we leave."

Allister nodded. "Ok! I will!" You smiled at how cute he was and Bede half way rolled his eyes before something large and yellow was softly rolled into his legs. Bede blinked at it before following the golden thing to Allister who nervously shuffled half way behind it. "U-Um...D-Do you wanna pl-play with me?"

The question shocked the both of you staring at Allister stunned before Bede blinked. "W-Well I-..*ahem* Well that's certainly a question. I-..'' He glanced between you and Allister looking lost. "I-I-I suppose... so?"

Allister seemed as surprised as you before he perked up. "R-Really?! Ok!" Before Bede could say anything Allister grabbed the golden ball and began pushing it towards a small opening in the trees within your eye sight. "C-C'mon! Y-You can watch Gengar juggle me and the ball!"

Bede blinked before a half alarmed look came over him. "Did you say 'juggle you'? Now wait a minute! Don't you consider that unsafe?" He quickly walked after the boy holding up a hand. "Let's not do that! We can play catch instead! A nice safe game without heights!"

You laughed at the sudden worry on Bede's face and decided to stand there and watch the two play around. There was just something so amusing about watching Bede fumble about to try and be gentle with Allister, and you laughed when the gengar spooked him by popping out of Bede's shadow. But to your surprise Bede didn't go off on any rants or say anything that might've made Allister feel bad. The two seemed to be getting along pretty decently. Opal did a good job with getting Bede out of that negative mindset Rose put him in. Yeah. He'd be alright. You stood there for a good twenty five minutes watching the two interact before something caught your attention. Hey. Wait a second. Where was Zen? You turned back to the bush before looking back at the two kids, they were both currently softly rolling the ball back and forth between them. It'll only take a moment to pop back through the bush and see where your zangoose went. Everything should be alright. So you turned and stepped back through the bush for just a second looking around-...And sighing when you spotted the zangoose lazily laying by the now clawed up tree from earlier in a patch of sun, but he did look up to you upon hearing the bush rustling. A smile graced your face seeing your boy yawn showing his large fangs off- and then a shriek pierced the air making you freeze and Zen immediately jump to his feet fur bristling down his back-

"Y/N!! Y/N!!! Y/N!!", Allister's usually meek voice wailed like he was on fire splitting the air open like a knife.

Your body moved on it's own on instinct at this point being used to protecting kids from danger and your instincts were on high alert as you literally came flying through the bush on the other side and stopped in your tracks at what slapped your vision. A stranger with black and white hair was standing there. A VERY tall man that would've even towered over Leon if he was here, he was staring at Bede eyes narrowed, and he was wearing some kind of weird red samurai suit that made clacking noises when his body moved. In front of him Allister was crying into his Gengar's side as the poor pokemon patted his back in a poor attempt to console him and Bede narrowed his eyes right back pointing at the strange man and yelling at him, and you understood why when you spotted a familiar golden ball held over the man's head.

"Listen here you uncouth fiend!," Bede hissed at the man, "You give that toy back this instant or else! Who are you to even take from a tiny child!? At least have the decency to battle him for it first!"

The man gave a grunt before leaning over Bede making his purple eyes shrink just as he now realized the major height disadvantage. "And who're you, lil punk? I bet yer part of Diantha's team aren't'cha? Tryin' to keep the sphere for your team I bet!"

"I-I-I-...W-What on earth are you even talking about!?" Bede shook his head and made an attempt to look threatening back. "Now see here! T-That toy doesn't even belong to you!"

"Oh yeah? Well it does now. What're you goin' to do about it, Cottonee Brain?"

Bede looked lost again staring up at this man and visibly gulped under his menacing form-

"HEY!!" Both looked over as you felt your anger rising. Your hands balled into fists and your face twisted into a scowl as you marched up to the man who stared not expecting another person to be there either. "WHAT IN ARCEUS'S NAME IS GOING ON HERE- OOF!!" You stopped almost tripped when Allister snapped from wailing into his gengar's side to hugging your pants leg instead stiff sniffing.

A shaky hand pointed up at the man. "H-H-He- *HIC*" Your heart broke at the small broken voice. "H-He took the b-ball."

..Well- Your broken heart was quickly replaced with anger as your face snapped back to the man with a scowl of hatred faster than a pokemon's quick attack. "What the heck is your problem, Man!? What grown butt adult steals toys from a little kid!?"

The man blinked before slowly standing back up to his full hieght. Well Bede immediately retreated from his spot to behind you glancing from the safety of behind your back. "Yeah? And who're you to butt in!? Mind your own business, Girly!"

"It IS my business if you're scaring my kids!?," you blurted back out not even backing down from him looking at you, "And who the heck are you!?"

"I'm the big bad boss that beats you down and beats you down-", he spoke up narrowing his eyes more lowering to glare you in the eyes, "-and never let's up! I'm destruction in human form! And if you think I'm lettin' you and a couple little punks walk away with my victory then you're in for a bad time!"

...You rose a brow and looked at Allister who still hiccuped clinging to you. Then over your shoulder at Bede who looked scared. Then you inhaled and looked back to this man. "Ok. I'm only going to say this once. Give us back the toy and I won't tear you to shreds."

The man blinked...before he threw his head back and laughed loudly. A smug smile on his face as you rose a brow. Oh well. Can't say you didn't warn him. Casually you bent down and picked up Allister. Bede yelped as you suddenly turned to him and practically shoved the boy into his arms.

"Here. Hold him. I want you to take the ball and just go over a little bit and play ok?" You smiled at both of them. "This shouldn't take too long."

"Take the ball? HA!," he spoke coming down from his laughing fit and smirking. "That's a good one! I'd like to see you do that. Why don't you do us a favor and go window shoppin' or sniffing flowers or somethin' girls like. That kid needs to learn to share anyways."

Bede's purple eyes widened before he glanced at your silent form. "....Oh no."

The man rose a brow-....

!?

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey! What are ya doin' with that stick- AH!!"

Meanwhile in a different part of the forest two full teams of purple stood facing one another in silence waiting for one of the team's leader to return. Some wore fancy costumes for the occasion some didn't, some had their pokemon out already to begin battling. Each team having two giant golden spheres to guard. ....Eventually the awkward silence got to them and someone spoke.

"*ahem* So...I do not suppose your team has seen Guzma yet?," a woman in silver armor asked.

Another woman on the other team shook her head. "Sorry, Diantha. But I'm sure he'll be back any minute now!"

"Where on earth did he go?," Diantha questioned raising a brow. "We're supposed to battle to decide the winning team since no one can find the fifth sphere."

"That's just the thing. We don't know. He said he had to get something important and that he'd be right back....But it's been nearly an hour now."

Diantha hummed. Well that was odd. She didn't know Guzma well but she knew well enough to know this was strange for him. He couldn't be planning an ambush on her team, if he was he would've done it an hour ago, and they couldn't battle to decide the winner unless both teams had all their members. So where in the world could he have gone-

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

Almost everyone flinched when a loud man's yell pierced the air and made everyone jump as flying type pokemon scattered into the air at the high pitched yell. Making everyone look up at the sky.

"What was-"

"THAT'S GUZMA'S VOICE!!," someone cried looking horrified. "He must be in trouble! What if he's being attacked by a wild pokemon!?"

"EVERYONE REMAIN CALM!!," Diantha shouted before pointing to the ground and swiveling her body towards the direction of the scream. "I'll handle this! Stay here and guard the spheres!"

Her armor clanked as she sprinted off into the wooded trees and vegetation. Guzma must well be in trouble, but she wouldn't risk it being some kind of trick to get them to abandon their sphere for the other team to take. But she had to make sure he wasn't harmed in any way. As the Kalos champion disappeared into the brush the other team members looked at one another unsure of what to do without either of their team leaders until someone spoke up.

"So...Anyone know what's going on?"

Diantha's heart pounded in her chest, footfalls heavy as she ran towards the sounds of the yells of pain. That was most definitely Guzma's voice. She wasn't sure what was going on but she knew Guzma must've needed help! Her right hand squeezed her fateful partner's pokeball ready if need be-

"AH!! HELP!! SOMEONE COME HELP ME ALREADY!! OW!! OWOWOW!! HELP ME!!"

There he was! Just behind that giant bush up ahead! Picking up her pace, Diantha launched herself through the bush and raised her hand ready to throw the ball-....And stopped.

"AH!! OW! OW!! YOU'RE FREAKIN' CRAZY LADY- AH! LET GO O' ME!!"

"NOT UNTIL YOU APOLOGIZE YOU GIANT RED DUNG BEATLE!!"

"I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!"

Diantha slowly blinked...before slowly lowering her arm and staring at the strange sight in front of her. Guzma was there alright....On the ground stomach first. With a woman on his back. The woman looked absolutely furious sitting on his back and forcibly pulling one of his arms behind him to keep him painfully on the ground with one of her feet braced against his shoulder blades in a way to make it impossible for him to reach around to yank her off him. No amount of kicking or rocking his body was able to throw her off either. Leaving him with no other choice but to cry out for help. His face was twisted in pain but turned desperate when he saw her.

"DIANTHA!!," he cried out his free hand banging the ground over and over, "GET THIS RABBID AIPOM OFF O' ME!! OW!!"

"NOT UNTIL YOU APOLOGIZE!"

"M' SORRY OK!! M'SORRY!! NOW GET OFF!!" You did let go at that point- He gave off a squeal when you suddenly lurched forward and both hands slammed themselves next to his head as he stared sideways at you from the ground. Eyes going wide as you scowled down at him from his back holding him down.

"If you ever try doing something like that again, I'll make sure to make you cry more than Allister did! This is going to be the only time I warn you about this."

Guzma said nothing as you got up, dusted yourself off, gave a curious look over at Diantha...before giving Guzma another scowl and walking off. Both team leaders stood there in silence as you walked off and disappeared through the brush, and still continued sitting in silence until Diantha looked at Guzma. His red suit made a couple clacking noises as he slowly sat himself up onto his behind rubbing his sore arm just-...silently staring at the direction where you disappeared off into. Before Diantha sighed, pocketing her pokeball and walked over to him.

"Honestly Mr. Guzma, what were you doing? Is this where you've been this whole time? We've been waiting for you for over an hour!"...She rose a brow when he said nothing. "Guzma? Are you alright? Your face is red."

"....I think m' in love."

"...WOT?"

Meanwhile you jogged and managed to catch up with both Bede and Allister who had by now calmed down completely and continued playing pass the ball back and forth with Bede, Zen trailing behind you. Your anger melted away to smile at the two and Allister perked up seeing you again.

"Y/n!" He ran up and you smiled sweetly as he hugged your legs. "D-Did you make him go away?"

You nodded. "Yep. I talked to the bad man and he said he's not going to bully anyone anymore." You patted his head. "And he's not going to take your ball again."

The purple eyes behind the mask widened. "MY BALL!?"

You nodded. "Yep. I don't think anyone else is going to try and take it so you can keep it."

"YAY!!" Allister through up his hands and you couldn't help but chuckle at him and the relieved look Bede gave you.

In the end Allister got to keep the giant golden bouncy ball and he seemed really happy to get ice cream afterwards when it got too dark and you walked both boys home. Allister happily rolling the golden ball next to you back to the hotel although it would be a bit of a struggle to fit it through the door, you were sure you could squeeze it in. You had JUST gotten back to the hotel when you ran into a certain lavender haired man. Making you smile widely at the Champion.

"LEON!!"

The champion perked up before turning around, wet hair plastered to his face before he lit up beaming seeing you there walking towards him. "Y/N! Hey! Where have you been?"

"Babysitting and talking sense into a bully, but everything's alright now."

"I found a ball!," Allister spoke up happily holding up the giant golden ball to Leon, "Y/n said I can keep it! I can't wait to show Bea tomorrow!"

"You did!?" Leon smiled happily spitting a few grains of beach sand out of his mouth. "That's great! Sounds like you had an amazing day."

"Hey, Lee." he turned to you with a hum. "...Why are you all soaked? I'm pretty sure it didn't rain today."

"Huh? Oh. I got lost and ended up on the ocean floor so I had to swim up onto the beach. Just my luck the people I was battling today was right there so it all worked out in the end! So no worries!"

You stared at him. ".....How did you end up walking out of the ocean!?"

-OCTOBER-

Well it turns out the Masters League was pushed back far enough that it wouldn't even take place until the very end of the year after Christmas. Sigh. So you were going to have to spend another two months here on Pasio. Well it wasn't all bad. Halloween was rapidly approaching which made Allister all excited because it was his favorite holiday! It was cute seeing him get all excited and happily say he was going to get the biggest bad of candy of all the kids trick or treating!! He was even more excited when Nessa one day showed up to take his measurements to make him his very own costume! So he was very much excited. When he wasn't excitedly seeing all the halloween decorations he was playing with the new ball he got or having Nessa come and take double measurements or showing him pictures of designs she had in mind or some fabric she wanted his opinion on. At one point he lost a few of his masks after the cleaning lady of the hotel misplaced them while cleaning his hotel room. Allister freaked out and what was worse was that it was Halloween and Bea wanted to take him for Prince Lear's plan for the Midnight Spookfest. Oh yeah. You remembered eyeing the Prince who showed up out of the blue to talk to Allister about being the surprise opponent to his haunted house attraction. You think Allister only agreed because he felt guilty about saying no...Well guess where all those masks ended up? YEP! Turns out someone from the hotel found the abundant of masks just sitting in the hallway and decided to use them to decorate one of the rooms in the Prince's manor where most of the festival's activities were taking place. It took you FOREVER to help his gengar remove all those masks from the walls to give them back to Allister. Luckily it seemed no one minded you were taking them down and handing them back to Allister or didn't want to approach you with the scowl you wore trying to carry all these masks at once all the way back to the hotel. Sigh. But on the bright side Allister seemed to enjoy himself for the night and was able to go trick or treating after the Prince's small battling event ended. Thank goodness he didn't try flirting with you again because he was so busy manhandling the event. By the time you got back to the hotel arms full of masks, Nessa had already dropped off his costume and it was absolutely ADORABLE!! He looked like a cute little pumpkaboo when he eventually put it on and hurried you out the door into the streets. There was already a lot of kids and teenagers in the streets going from house to house with bags full of candy, and you were surprised Allister was able to drag you around with one hand excitedly from house to house asking for candy and being followed by multiple ghosts pokemon giggling his head off. But you weren't complaining. Let him have a good time. You ran into Leon's cousin and Iris joined you both to trick or treat at a couple houses before saying good bye before complimenting Allister's Costume. All in all it was surely a Halloween you'd not soon forget for a while.

[pegasus-parfait]

Allister Relationship Chart

This one will be a HUGE one. Galar has a lot of significant characters, but only a few of them are truly important for Allister:

Milo: Allister feels safe and comfortable around Milo. He understands the pressure the boy put on himself due to several past traumas and Milo reassures him everything will be fine. He never feel judged around Milo and wants to be like him someday, a person that lives his life without thinking about what others think. 

Nessa: Allister doesn’t interact much with her, but Nessa always treated him kindly. 

Bea: She is like a sister-figure for him. When Chairman Rose and Oleana told her about sharing Stow-on-Side Stadium with him, Bea didn’t like it at first. However, she quickly changed her mind when she first saw that shy and scared boy trying his best to introduce himself. Since then, she considers Allister her little brother and she does everything to protect him and make him feel safe around her. Besides his grandmother, she was the first person that saw his face after he started wearing masks. 

Kabu: [This was heavily influenced by interactions with @hibanakabu] Allister considers Kabu a strong and kind person. No matter the result of his battles, Kabu will always be respectful towards his opponents and his Pokémon. Allister considers him a role model and wants to be like him someday. He admires Kabu’s persistence a lot. He trusts him a LOT and he is also one of the few people that Allister felt comfortable to show his face.

Opal and Melony: Both of them scares Allister a LOT. Melony is very competitive and doesn’t tolerate Allister very much, considering him weak for being nervous all the time. She considers Opal scary because she can be quite curious and ask Allister a lot of questions that he doesn’t want to answer... He likes her cookies, though. 

Gordie and Raiham: Their competitiveness makes Allister feel very uncomfortable near them. The loud personality of Raiham also makes him feel out of place. 

Piers: Allister didn’t interact too much with him to have an opinion about him. He isn’t a huge fan of his musics, but something about him makes Allister reminds of himself. 

Chairman Rose and Oleana: Allister felt betrayed after the whole Eternatus scheme. Rose was the one that approached Allister and offered the position of Gym Leader. He remembers him and Oleana saying that he isn’t weird and that his connection with Ghost-type Pokémon made him different and special. He trusted them a lot and now he wonders if everything they said about him was just some kind of manipulation. In reality, he is afraid of meeting them again because he doesn’t know how he’ll react. 

Sordward and Shielbert: All the incidents they provoked by making Pokémon rampage really scared Allister. When they attacked Stow-on-Side, he helped Bea protect the Stadium. He will never forget them for using Pokémon for their own selfish purposes. When they appear during the Galarian Star Tournament, Allister avoids meeting them. 

Professor Magnolia and Sonia: Allister respects both of them for being important figures in the research field of Galar. Magnolia is also an old friend of Allister’s grandmother and they spent some time together when Magnolia was checking if Allister’s connection to the Spirit World would bring him some harm. Allister likes Sonia’s Yamper and thinks he is very funny.

Hop and Marnie: Allister doesn’t have much to think about them. Hop challenged Allister once and he won his match. He never interacted with Marnie before the Galarian Star Tournament, but the girl always treats him respectfully.

Bede and Team Yell: They make Allister VERY UNCOMFORTABLE!!!!! Allister doesn’t like Bede for being arrogant (and because he destroyed one of Allister’s favorite places in Stow-on-Side). He doesn’t understand why Opal chose him as her successor. Team Yell is just a bunch of loud people that makes Allister feel annoyed. He prefers the silence while they... like to yell about everything. 

Victor/Gloria (Game verse): Allister wasn’t too fond of battles. Most of the trainers that came to challenge him, Allister didn’t feel a connection between them and their Pokémon. When Victor/Gloria appeared, Allister immediately saw the difference and how much they cared about their Pokémon, considering them as friends instead of tools to win. The defeat against lit a fire inside Allister, making him a little bit competitive. He desires to win against them during the Galarian Star Tournament. If they are paired together, Allister pays a lot of attention to study their tactics in battle and does his best to not get in their way. 

Ash and Pikachu / Goh (Anime verse): Allister feels very comfortable around them. They are really friendly and Allister can see how much they care about their Pokémon. Allister truly respects Ash for treating Gengar very well. He knows how much Gengar suffered before and how much he loves being with Ash. By meeting them, Allister started to consider about going on a journey himself to know more about the world. 

Leon: [This was heavily influenced by interactions with @thedesignatedheroes​​] Allister feels safe around Leon. He trusts the former Champion a lot and goes to him when something is troubling him. Despite having a big and loud personality, Leon also has a big heart and does everything to make Allister feel comfortable. Allister likes how respectful Leon is with his Pokémon and likes watching him battle. [Anime verse: He feels the same vibes coming from Ash/Pikachu and Leon/Charizard. During the finals of Pokémon World Coronation Series, he was cheering for Ash to win. He got very excited with their battle and he wishes to have a fight like that with both of them someday.... But not now, he still isn’t ready for this kind of thing.]  

Mustard/Klara/Avery/Peony: Allister never interacted with them before the Galarian Star Tournament, so he doesn’t have a lot to say about them. He thinks Klara and Avery are a bit too loud, but he doesn’t consider them a treat. Peony makes him a little bit uncomfortable due to his resemblance to Rose, but Allister knows that he is a good person and doesn’t let this kind of thought ruin his image. 

Fantina and Shauntal: Two important people that Allister will meet during his journey around the world. Allister likes Shauntal’s books and always read them to his Pokémon and Ghost-type friends. 

Parents and Grandmother: Allister lost both of his parents during a car accident when he was little. He doesn’t remember much about them. He has vague memories of his father playing with him and his mother nursing him to sleep and singing. He now lives with his grandmother. She says that he looks a lot like his mother and Allister truly doesn’t know how to feel about this. Wearing a mask also make him not think much about his mother. He misses them a lot. His Gengar previously belonged to his father. 

“Rumor has it that its gigantic mouth leads not into its body, but instead directly to the afterlife. If you stand in front of its mouth, you'll hear your loved ones' voices calling out to you.” Allister already heard quite some times his father and his mother calling him during battles when Gengar enters his Gigantamax Form. When he heard them the first time, he was frightened. Now, he doesn’t mind hearing their voices.

Phew... Galar really has a LOT OF CHARACTERS!!! I just realized that when I was searching everyone to make this. The last part is highly influenced by events during Pokémon Adventures (especially PASS13). I will explore more about his relationship with Fantina and Shauntal when the time comes. Just a little clue: Allister’s full name already tells a lot of what I’m planning for him XD

I hope you all like it and thanks for taking your time to read this if you read everything. I really appreciate it. 

[ballonleastadiumofficial]

Hi there, Bede! Opal can definitely be an odd one... but hang in there, okay? Have an ask!

Friend Ball - Do you have any close friends? How did you meet them?

@humming-pokemon-helpers

"Close" friends... and I suppose you don't mean pokemon, as there were other categories that talked about them more specifically. Hm.

I'm not sure how close you'd consider us, but Allister and I have been forming a sort of mutual understanding as of late. Apparently, he's quite fond of retreating into the Glimwood Tangle when he needs some time away from the lights and sounds of the gym. I encountered him one day while training in the forest, peeking from behind a tree while Mawile sparred with a wild Morgrem. When I tried to address him, perhaps ask if he realized it was rude to stare, he seemed to dissolve into the shadows. But he kept showing up on subsequent visits. Apparently, his curiosity about a new gym leader eventually overcame his shyness, because at one point I managed to get half of a conversation out of him. I learned three things- that he thought Mawile was "kinda neat", that Opal never minded when he watched her train, and that he is extraordinarily hard to hear under that mask. Lately we've been swapping facts about fairy and ghost pokemon when we see each other. It's funny, you can never tell with him when he's going to break the conversation. Eventually, his will to be social just evaporates, and he dissolves into the shadows without a word. You'd think I'd be at my wits end with vaguely supernatural gym leaders giving me the run around, but I've learned to accept it. I don't mind being alone. If he's had his fill of conversation, it's of no consequence to me.

I'll admit, I don't hate the company at times. I hope someday I can convince him to let me have a real match at his gym. I never got to during my gym challenge. However, I won't press the issue.

[a-tale-of-legends]

Swsh kids...as adults!

Gonna start with my ocs. Naomi is a simple dress and Carol having the hoodie + denim jacket compo. I wanted them to look agile, so hopefully I got that across. Pretend the necklace Naomi is wearing is a sword one that can grow in size and be used. Au stuff.

HOP!!! He was kinda hard for me to pin down but I ultimately did something simple for him. The goal was academic jock. The third image with his professors cape is a call back to Leon, as Leon is wearing a jacket with a fluffy hoodie. Pretend he's wearing a shield bracelet, which can grow and turn into an actual shield ( au stiff don't worry about it)

Okay so the only reason why Marnie has two of the same thing is because I think the one with the lighter pink background fits the vision more, but I didn't want to exclude the cleaner version,the one with the hot pink background. Both are great tho!

Bede! My goal was to make him look Fancy. Please pretend that his shoes are ballet shoes. I see him getting into ballet in the future, which in part due to him being in a lot of musical theatre( is that the right term? Idk).

As a bonus cause I made him on a whim

Allister!!!! I didn't make Bea sadly but oh well. He's slightly, slightly, more confident to show a bit of his face in public. No thanks to the fact that his face was already shown to the public, but I digress. I like to think he has more bravo behind the mask, probably thanks to Bede, but is still the shy Allister we know and love.

[lindalofbroome]

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[crystalelemental]

That’s as far as I’m getting.  We have a few support Eggmons left, and one Maylene, but uuuuuugh they’re so bad.

I didn’t take pictures, because that’s officially taking too much effort, but here’s the list I kept track of for the teams that participated.  I’ll make notes only for sets that actually need the notation, otherwise just know they won.

COBALION

Marlon, SS Red, Calem

SS Brendan, Ethan, Support Aerodactyl

Lana, Silver, Blaine

BP Janine, SS May, Tech Magmar

Sonia, Kahili, Whitney

Aura Cynthia, Bruno, Korrina

SS Blue, May, Erika

MU Torchic, Anni N, Mina

Dawn, SS Erika, Tech Parasect

Skyla, Anni Lillie - 2v1 clear, eat shit Cobalion.  Anni Lillie’s the biggest.

SS Morty, Hilda, Sophocles

Sawyer, Palentine Serena, Blue

Sabrina, Serena, Tech Ninetales

Support Primeape, Champion Iris, Classic Elesa

Liza, Lucian, Snorlax

Piers, Masked Royal, Flannery

Hilbert, N, Farfetch'd

Marley, Palentine's Marnie, Thorton

Jasmine, SC Rosa, Tangela

BP Surge, Palentine Dawn, Blarcanine

Drake, Anni May, Acerola

AZELF

Glacia, SC Diantha, Brock

Spring Burgh, Gladion, Tech Raticate

Ingo, Naomi, Tech Victreebel

Swimsuit Misty, Classic Blue, Wulfric

Classic Giovanni, Darach, Lodge N

BP Morty, Noland, Tech Exeggutor

Hop, Bugsy, Tech Kangaskhan

Winter Erika, SS Cyrus, Grimsley

Support Gengar, SS Lyra, Gardenia

Lillie, Lusamine, Crasher Wake

Leaf, Ghetsis, Iris

Support Rapidash, Renegade Cynthia, Fantina

Sycamore, Barry, Grant

Misty, Alder, SC Ingo

BP Clemont, Guzma, Brawly

NY Lillie, Burgh, Will

SC Lillie, Hau, Koga

Elio, SC Emmet, Brycen

Support Dragonair, Zinniquaza, Ramos

Bugsy Scyther, Candice, Wikstrom

Summer Hilda, Lodge Rosa, Agatha

LATIOS

Aaron, Kris, Tech Blastoise

Kiawe, SS Cynthia, SS Misty

Lyra, SS Leaf, Janine

Cheryl, Cyrus, BP Zinnia

Roxanne, Diantha, Bede

SS Kris, Clair, Lucas

SS Elesa, Lysandre, Hapu

Support Seadra, SS Lusamine, Bianca

SC Jasmine, Lisia, Valerie

NY Sabrina, Karen, Tech Sandslash

Support Muk, SS Serena, Lance

Halloween Caitlin, Cynthia, Bertha

SS Dawn, Caitlin, Tate

Winter Rosa, Summer Steven, Tech Lapras

MU Mesprit, Giovanni, Oak

Falkner, SS Ethan, Winter Skyla

Support Starmie, SST Red, Clemont

SS Steven, SC Hilda, Olivia

Lodge Cynthia, Summer Lyra, Spring May

Support Arbok, Maxie, Courtney - You could be forgiven for assuming this was successful.  It was not.  It was close, but they did ultimately fail.  Which is a shame, because I feel the potential.  Had I gone 3/5 Maxie, maybe we could’ve done it.  If I had pulled an extra Courtney for 3/5, I’m sure her sync nuke could’ve done it.  But...we didn’t.  So, we can’t.  The potential is there though.

Rosa, Archie, Winona - This also failed.  Archie actually didn’t even come close.  Winona did, though.  Winona actually almost won independently because Archie sucked so bad.  The main issue is that AoE spam shreds him, and Latios’ guaranteed crits are a death sentence if Winona doesn’t hit her flinch.  So that was fun, very well done Archie.

Final Thoughts The weather duo sucks, man.  I’m sorry, but after a year of waiting for these two, and everyone calling them the best units in the game over powerhouses like SS Lusamine and Renegade Cynthia, I’m inclined to say these people are insane.  Archie and Maxie are really bad at Gauntlet.  Their setup is slow, their weather disappears way too early, they shred their own defenses so bad even Latios can handle them without upper tier support.  Even Maxie/Courtney suffered a lot of problems, most notably in regards to their gauge control.  It’s kind of a shitshow.  Maybe 3v1 is more their speed, but I really struggle to believe they could handle Azelf if they can’t handle Latios efficiently.  And they absolutely can’t handle Cobalion.  They’d need status as their support, and they tends to mean no gauge generation, which is a death sentence for both of them.  These two are CS killers and nothing else.

Beyond that, the big reveal was that everyone here is weak to flinch.  No one gains resistance to the effect, and so having good flinch bots is actually huge.  Unfortunately, we realized this a bit late, and relying on flinch is about as consistent as ever.  Which is to say, it isn’t at all.  Winona could’ve handled Latios had she gotten better flinch rates off a 60%.  Wikstrom took forever to get the right number of flinches, only for the team to still get blasted by Azelf’s sync.  Pretty much everything you see that relied on flinch rate was an absolute disaster.

I’m actually pretty upset by this one.  I expected better performance, since the last gauntlet wasn’t exactly easy either, and we still managed that.  But something about this particular set demanded all our best tools go into Cobalion and Azelf, and we wound up with legitimate struggles against Latios of all things.  That’s just sad.  Maybe I just couldn’t be bothered to try hard enough with resets to get a higher win rate, but I’m not impressed with some of these.

[libidomechanica]

Untitled (“The second heart doth not rise nor set,”)

And syþen þis wondering way, he     shut his door, above by Ensham, down beside, and all it     receivest not be, but

cannot guess how tedious that     he had gone the world a spot of blood that I say; I stretch     my empty masks, and morals:

and beneath the haire, which we     cast a glance more joy than from the troubled rest, he smiled enough.     And brayd fro þe sounds

deign’d the best, double-felde, and     intermingled in cowl and bowe your fists into a gallery,     of a sute, and frounsez

boþe lyppe and Muse, shall be able     to plow; shovels crumble and containing hard to love.     And now ȝe take, and ruȝe

knokled knarre and youth, and with so     pouer a mon, as play watz passande vche prynces of purity.     From the crown’d. Weary

traveling dog and bede his mete     þat pyȝt in his schelde, þat he ber hit neuer here? The second     heart doth not rise nor

set, like virtue onward life so     rare, too rare, too sweet beloved the mystic wine, must I     passed the bride, and when I

began to ponder how to hand     their hall. At hame; morgne þe golden dreams. Whose each cup’s worth wele     ful hyȝe; wroþe wynde of

þis teuelyng of my rurall must     be wroong! Walking halt and frounsez boþe lyppe and ladyez, quyle     in þis hous holdez

hym weue. And I felt for thy dear!—     I presume to go to be sure you go—call once yet! I     prize pig, and the spech þis

disport ȝelde ȝede, how þat destiné     schulde haf ben diȝt on þe wyȝe wynnez þe table or his     own credit, to see. All

the harder happen’d, in the room     goes blacker than mortals groan, more sharp to me too the name.     The worst part, still Heaven,

and tomb-stones of care though to fall;     soone with much steuen, al one. Flesh melt this Let the married my     bones to welde as yow þere,

neuer more worth in an edifice     no less amorously I caress, as if my yeare     were seal’d to make, for it

end? In hast þat euer knyȝt of love     inspired and rotez þat ros vpon folde, ne sundred nouþer,     with tale.-Ballads of amber

here. Sir, ȝif ȝe lufed your     gryndelly with horrid temple where was a son and stonstil     seten in a knot.

[echantedtoon]

A Champion Time For The Heart Ch39 Pasio Adventures P2

(This is just a compilation of the events that happened with most everyone on Pasio Island in Pokemon Masters EX with all the substories I can remember. If I miss any I apologize. Will be labeled with time skips and Months to keep track of time. The time everyone's away is one year. If I get any of Pasio's city or landscape described wrong in this story I apologize.)

-JANUARY TO MARCH-

Leon had arrived. 

That's why there had been such a big fuss this morning, everyone on this side of the region was leaving their homes in waves towards thee docks and Pasio's Star Arena to await the arrival of the famous unbeatable Champion. You had arrived a month earlier in January along with Bea and the guys at Leon's insistance. He had to prepare a few things before he left and didn't want his brothers and sister to be running around Pasio by themselves or Allister for that matter and you agreed since it meant keeping these guys out of trouble as well. So he had quickly gotten you a passport and cruise ticket, made sure you were fully packed, explained everything to your boss, helped set up your rotomi phone with your new rotom you decided to name 'Sparky', given you his phone number, and had sent you on your way with Hop and the twins. Sonia wasn't too far behind and you had met up with Bea and Allister at the Hulbury docks, and one seasick cruise later arrived in Pasio where you were set up in one of the hotel's and Allister was handed over to you to start watching over for the next ten months you'd be here. ....Sigh. How did you get yourself into these things. A few things had happened while Leon was gone. You ran into Bede as he finished chasing off a couple weird people with masks when walking around with Allister. Team Break if you recalled it right. You were more surprised Bede was picked to come here without Opal. Then again he did make it very far in the Battle Tower, it must've impressed Prince Lear enough to invite him along. Gloria and Victor started training together and had ran into Raihan and Gordie for a battle before Nessa and Melony decided to jump in and spar a three on three boys vs girls battle. Hop and Victor went hanging out with that boy Scottie they seemed to become quick friends with. And Gloria met Scottie's twin Bettie, while training in the Pasio woods not too far from the hotel you all were staying at. Having two pairs of scottish twins made it a bit much but you were glad they were making friends, meanwhile you were keeping an eye on Allister and helping the shy boy navigate the crowds. Until the news that Leon had arrived with Piers and Marnie that is. Gloria had practically busted down your doors and immediately demanded you get up and meet them at the stadium while she went off to fetch him. ..Which lead to you now sitting in the arena stadium with Allister sitting to your left nervously looking around at the crowd and Hop and Victor to your right who were excitedly cheering on the exhibition matches at hand. You were used to big crowds by now and only watched with a smile as they played. But they sure made you wait long enough, they had to unpack and get situated with Sync Stones before they could even get to the arena. So it went. Gloria vs Alder and her winning. Marnie vs Karen from the Johto Elite Four, Karen winning. It seemed Piers chose to not fight, and then it was Leon vs another Region's Champion, Blue. When it was all over you knew it'd be a while before Leon even got away from the crowds so you decided it would just be best to take Allister to get some lunch away from the big crowds to help with his anxiety. You expected Allister to cling to you as you both left the stadium but what you weren't expecting was Sparky to come flying out of your pocket with a buzzing sound and incoming call.

"*PZZZT* Incoming call from Leon! Do you wish to Accept or Decline?," the rotom asked with your phone ringing.

Leon was calling you from the middle of the arena? Holding Allister's hand you smiled. "Accept call, Sparky."

Soon enough a familiar voice came through the phone. "Hello? Y/N!?"

"Hi, Leon," you answered back with a smile and there was a relieved sigh through the other side. "Oh thank goodness I can here your voice. Where are you? I can't find you in the crowd."

"Allister needed some food." Said boy was holding your hand and excitedly pointing at a nearby hot chocolate stand, being January it was still fairly chilly outside so it made sense he'd want some. "And I think he was overwhelmed in there so I wanted to give him some space."

"O-Oh," the voice now sounded a bit sad. "Oh I understand. Did uh-...D-Did you see me win?"

"Of course I did! Great job out there by the way! I think you did a great job getting the crowds excited."

"Thanks! I think so too....Hey. Listen. There's a few things I need to do here as a part of my deal to come here with Prince Lear so it's going to be a little bit before I can actually see you again."

That stung a bit, after all you all hadn't really had time to see one another for almost a month by this point but you understood it was just his duties as a Champion. "Hey. No worries. I have my own hands fully taking care of Allister. Just do what you have to, and you can always call me."

He again sighed relieved. "THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I promise I'll try to get everything finished as soon as possible. When we get back together I have a surprise for you!"

"Oh?"

"Yeah. There's someone I want you to meet. But I can't tell you because it's a surprise."

A surprise huh? And he wanted to introduce you to someone? Well guess you were going to have to wait and find out who exactly it was. Well almost four weeks went by again and you still didn't see him. Gloria made more friends with two girls called May and Leaf, and Leon made sure to keep in touch by calling you and making sure everything was going ok and kept you in the loop of what had been going on. He got lost on his way to a pokemon center and got seperated from Charizard, luckily he ran into Scottie who helped him out. Scottie ran into him again battling a different Champion, Steven Stone, and the two almost caused a rock slide with their battles and almost getting lost again trying to find the Pasio woods. You facepalmed twice at that. And then he did a few promotional things for Galar, probably for the Chairwoman to help straighten out Galar's good name. And he got into a debate with two other Champions, Lance and Mr. Stone again, over...Capes?? You shook your head at that one and had to assure him his cape was in fact very dapper on him. Which made him super happy. Then February came and the holiday called 'Palentine's Day' arrived. It was essentially a Pasio holiday similar to Valentine's Day but it was less heavy on the romance aspect and was more about showing love towards your friends and family. So you received a few Palentine's Day treats from the trio and a couple wild flowers from Allister he picked for you and Bea. In the mean time you busied yourself with just caring for Allister and met a couple other people from Pasio and different Regions, some you remembered from the previous games you met some you didn't. Cynthia was very nice when you ran into her at a local ice cream shop and Allister bumped into her legs...Oh. There was also a couple villains chased off the islands. Giovanni was one of them. Yeah. After all your adventures, you weren't surprised in the least that one of the game villains was here. Unfortunately it meant pushing some plans for the Master's League. Sigh. Luckily by the time the end of February came around you were FINALLY able to meet up with Leon when he called you and asked to meet him at a cafe close by to the current hotel you were staying at. Quickly agreeing you gathered Allister and made for the cafe that he mentioned. The stone streets flew with your quick steps, holding Allister's hand to keep up pace until you came to the small cafe called 'The Lazy Rockruff' and walked on in. Already the cafe was PACKED with locals and trainers alike chattering and eating food and there you spotted Leon when he stood beaming that smile and waved over towards you both! Two people were next to him. One was Hop who looked as excited to see you as Lee was, and across from then was a girl who looked to be around the same age as Leon.

"Beauty! Over here," he called out beckoning you to come over.

Smiling you headed on over with Allister and the first thing you did upon reaching Leon was embrace him fully throwing your arms around his neck and felt him practically crush you with how close he pressed you to himself.

"Oh thank Arceus." He breathed relieved with a sigh and smile. "I missed you so much! I'm finally able to see you again."

"Hey!" You spoke back beaming pulling away from him. "I missed you too. I hope you don't mind me bringing Allister along."

"Of course not!," he quickly clarified shooting a smile to the boy holding onto your pants leg and he perked up seeing a familiar face. "Hey, Al! It's so good to see you again! Are you hungry?" Allister quickly nodded making the Champion chuckle, "Then you're in luck! This cafe happens to have some of the best food in Pasio! Oh! That reminds me." Smiling back to you Leon stepped aside and threw a hand at the woman sitting there smiling at Leon amused. "Y/n. I want you to meet someone special to me. This is our cousin, Iris. She's the champion from the Unova Region. She's here competing in the Masters League too!"

His cousin!? You blinked surprised over to her and were surprised to see how similar this woman looked to Hop and Leon. She had her hair up in a styled ponytail that was a darker shade of purple than Leon's, but her skin tone was the same. Her eyes though were a dark brown instead of that shiny gold that all of Leon's other family had. On her head was a small golden crest with green emeralds and she wore a pretty pink and white Nessa would've loved. 

"Your cousin?," you asked surprised before smiling. "Um. Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm Y/n!"

"Oh I know," Iris said happily glancing at Leon, "I've heard all about you. Mostly because someone wouldn't stop gushing about you the entire time." Leon froze...before his face lit up a red and he rubbed his neck making his cousin chuckle. "I swear you're such a kid! You haven't changed one bit since I last saw you."

"H-Hey! I was just twelve then! I'm much better than I was-"

"You still get lost on your way to the bathroom!," she stated back more amused making Leon squawk an embarrassed noise before she turned to Hop and reached up to pat her younger cousin on the head. "But not you! Look at you all grown up saving Galar and becoming a professor!" She cooed making Hop groan. "But when are you gonna stop really being a kid and ask that Gloria girl out already?"

And it was Hop's turn to light up red face. "IRIS!? DON'T SAY THAT OUT LOUD!! SOMEONE MIGHT HEAR!!"

"So you're a Champion too huh?" You asked catching her attention, which was your plan to give these two boys a break. "Wow. I knew Lee and Hop would have impressive positions but I didn't know it ran in the family."

She shrugged at your compliment but still smiled. "It wasn't just handed to me so you know. I had to work for it same as them, but I don't think you're here to compete either right?"

You shook your head gesturing to Allister climbing on a chair. "I was hired to be Al's caretaker since he's too young to be by himself."

"Oh, how cute!" She gushed at Allister who sat down and looked at you expectantly. Oh right. He was hungry. "How are you enjoying Pasio so far?"

"It's a beautiful region," you answered sitting down by Allister and picking up a menu, "I've been having a fun time meeting all the different people and seeing so many pokemon!" You handed the menu to Allister so he could read over it to see what he wanted. "Some of the mini events the Prince put on have been entertaining too-"

"Oh wait!," Leon interrupted you two, making you look at him as he fumbled with something in his pockets, before pulling out a small pink box and shoving it towards you with a nervous smile. "H-Happy Belated Valentine's Day, Y/n!! I-I-I know it's late b-b-but I don't know when I'll see you again with the events coming up and I wanted to make it up to you for missing the holiday! I-I hope you like chocolate."

You blinked at his gift for a moment before smiling pink cheeked and taking it. "I do...Thank you."

Leon smiled. "Anything for you Beauty!"

"Beauty..You called me that twice. Is that your new nickname for me?"

He nodded. "Of course! Because you're beautiful to me.~"

Now it was your turn to light up red faced at his woods, but a small slam of Iris's hands against the table startled you both and Hop and Allister into looking at her determined face as she inhaled and pointed at you two. 

"OK! SPILL! I want details on these two! Tell me all about your traveling and how you two got together! And don't leave out a single detail! I need to know how you two got together so I can help Hop overcome his dating crisis!!"

"IRIS!! DONT SAY THAT!!"

Well to say Iris was excited to meet you was an understatement. She was a lot like Hop in some ways and Leon in others with her own personality slipped in. Oh well. At least Allister was able to get something to eat. And Leon wasn't lying when he said he was going to be busy for a while either. There was going to be a Festival of Champions, a.k.a all the Champions coming together to entertain the masses until the actual major events could happen taking place later this March. Leon wanted to take this chance to be with you and introduce you to some more of his family before you both had to part again. Can't say you didn't enjoy the time...but it was funny to see both the brothers get flustered by their cousin's antics.

-APRIL TO JUNE-

It was fairly warm now and things were starting to pick up this month especially with all the events scheduled in the next two and a half months. Leon was training hard after the Champion event to train with Raihan for the Time Trials. You managed to convince Allister to join a couple harmless but fun events like a fun little easter egg hunt and a small Tea Party held by these two Twin Subway bosses running into Marnie and Sonia there. You also ran into Gloria battling Bettie in her old dojo suit from the Isle of Armor, apparently she had been wired the urshifu to care for a little bit and she wanted to try her luck with battling with it. Then there was the New Stars of Pasio Tournament and the Friendiversy surprise Raihan and Leon planned for the Prince who was busy running around planning the main event and trying to control everything. You didn't blame the two for trying to get the Prince to relax. Seemed Lear had a lot on his plate as it was with all this planning for the end of the year with the few villains pushing everything back by two months and spontaneously coming up with these smaller events to keep everyone entertained in the meantime...But you were glad he wasn't pestering you like he did at the party. But SOMETHING happened halfway through June. The Time Trials event had just ended and you thought you'd be able to see Leon after he took a break from the events, but that wasn't meant to be. Imagine sleeping in the middle of the night and feeling the entire earth suddenly shake with an earthquake under your feet. It was so hard you fell off your bed and onto the floor with a loud yelp and cry of pain as the ground continued to shake and the fair off cry of multiple loud dynamaxed pokemon reached your ears-...Making your eyes pop open in panick because the only other time this happened here was because those goons were forcibly dynamaxing pokemon. But...THIS COULDN'T BE HAPPENING HERE!! There wasn't any natural dynamax particles in Pasio! And no one brought their dynamax bands with them on the trip over here. You had just gotten up as the shaking stopped, the distant sounds of giant pokemon getting more distant ready to go see just what the heck was going on but those plans were dashed when your door was suddenly thrown open and in ran Allister who immediately ran straight for your legs throwing his arms around you and burying his face into your pants leg.

"Y-Y/N!!," he wailed clearly terrified and shaking, "What's going on!?"

"I don't know." You flinched and turned your head towards the ceiling as a far away pokemon cry was heard. "...But let's just stay inside until everything calms down, ok?"

Safe to say neither of you got a wink of sleep that night staying awake for the rest of the night and waiting for morning to come before daring to venture outside again at all and when you did everything seemed-....Normal?? Well normal-ish. There was lots of other people walking around confused and looking around at seemingly nothing. There wasn't any signs of giant pokemon anywhere and after a couple hours most everyone just went back to their normal lives and seemed to shrug off last night's events. But you and Allister were still on edge. Was there another villain visit? What even HAPPENED last night? You tried calling Leon to no avail and you couldn't find Hop or the twins anywhere you searched! You were getting worried at this point asking around but it seemed like no one saw any of your friends or boyfriend. You got your answer later that day when the sun was just going down and Sparky again alerted you to something.

"*PZZZT* Incoming call from Leon!", he called out flying from your pocket, "Do you wish to Accept or Decline?"

"Accept!," you answered immediately and Sparky accepted the call to which you rose a brow at. "LEON!! I've been trying to get ahold of you all day! Did you feel that shaking last night?! I can't find anyone anywhere!"

There was silence from Leon's end of the line before he finally answered. "U-Um...Eeeeh. Oh. Uh-...YYyyeaaaahh. About that-.." He started out in a low tone making you raise your brows. He sounded EXTREMELY nervous and stuttered as he spoke. "Um...I-Is Allister with you?''

You glanced to the little boy who was currently holding you hand with one hand and drinking a soda with the other watching a nearby pokemon battle (probably because one of the battling pokemon was a Haunter-) and not paying attention to you at all. "Of course he is...Why do you ask?"

"Could you meet Bea at the Lazy Rockruff cafe so she can watch him for a b-bit?" Your brow rose higher.

"...Why?"

"I- Uh-...G-Got something important to show you. Can you meet me by Pasio's woods? Please? I promise I can explain everything!"

Your brow rose higher? What was this so about? And so close to the end of the day. Well can't say you didn't want answers and Leon did ask you. Sigh. The things you got yourself into for the people you cared about. Well you did drop off Allister with Bea who thankfully took him before you made your way for he woods...Except Leon didn't say WHERE in the blasted forest to meet at!! By the time you even got there in was dark and you spent twenty mintues now just walking around shouting his name and straining your eyes to search for him in the growing dark-

"Y/N!!" You screamed and whipped around arm swinging on instinct and Leon ducked at JUST the right moment your fist went flying over his head but knocking his hat off and onto the ground with a thud. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Cease fire!" He quickly snapped back up holding his hands with a panicked expression. "It's just me!!"

You froze arm still raised staring at Leon...before sighing in relief. And slowly lowering your hands. "ARCEUS LEE!! DONT. DO. THAT!!" The man chuckled nervously as you frowned and crossed your arms. "Where have you been!? I've been looking for you all over this creepy forest! And what are you even doing here in the middle of the night?! It's creepy out here!"

"Uh-...Ye-Yeah. Um-..." His hand rubbed the back of his neck. "Hey, Y/n. Do you remember when you met Iris?"....Your brows furrowed more as he slowly and shakily reached down to pick up his hat and smile nervously. "W-Well-...I want you to meet someone else, but I know a lot of people would freak s-s-so I asked ya to meet me here."

"....I'm sorry. You lost me there. Can you start from the beginning?"

He opened his mouth and closed it multiple times, moving his hands around as he gestured at nothing and anything and went between fiddling with his hat and rubbing his neck between those gestures as he went between stuttering and silently opening his mouth seeming to try and form words. Meanwhile you stared at him harder trying to figure out what the heck he was trying to say before he just froze...Like literally just froze as if someone pressed pause on him. Gold eyes going wide and going behind you panickily, sweat forming on his face. What was- You froze as a breath of warm air suddenly hit the back of your body and a shadow blocked out the moonlight behind you. The hair on the back of your neck stood on end feeling the presence behind you as something VERY large towered over you-...and every SO SLOWLY you turned your head to look behind your shoulder. And your jaw dropped in a silent terrified scream!! Standing above you was a MONSTER!! A glowing black and red reptile snake skeleton thing floated just above you taking a few curious sniffs at your iced form. It made some kind of rumble grunt noise before tilting it's head at you curiously like a curious yamper. Meanwhile Leon continued to sweat furiously and smile even more nervously. 

"U-Um...So! Uh-..S-Surprise! Ahaha! Um. Y-Y/n, you remember Eternatus right? Wo-Would you believe he crash landed here on Pasio!? HAHA!! F-Funny coincidence right!?"

You continued to stare at the thing above you before you took the deepest and loudest inhale of air you ever took, and slowly turned back to your boyfriend. "Leon." Leon flinched. "You have exactly ten seconds to explain what the frick frack snick snack in Arceus's name is going on before I lose my crap and scream!"

-JULY TO SEPTEMBER-

Well you took the news that not only did Eternatus survive but was now a permanent member of Leon's team well-.....Eventually. He had to explain everything and then had to have Hop and Gloria RE-explain just so you could wrap your head around it. Oh and apparently Steven Stone had requaza so Leon said there was nothing to worry about because if one Champion had a legendary pokemon then surely he could handle it. You however took a while to come to terms with that fact and decided to keep your distance from the thing for now. Of all the luck in the world right? Sigh.

How did these things keep happening to You of all people?

Leon begged you to give it a chance and that he'd make sure it was kept in safe hands and to not hate him for this. Sigh. You could argue with the puppy eyes he was giving you and agreed but said he had better keep a close eye on it. He couldn't stop hugging you and thanking you for over an hour. Sigh. Oh well. At least the thing was contained by the strongest trainer you knew. There was comfort in that at least. In the meantime you had others things to keep you busy. Taking care of Allister 24/7 was one of those things. He had a tendency to wonder off in the middle of the night to search for ghost pokemon so you had to keep an extra close eye on him. But today seemed like a normal day. You were able to see Leon for a bit before he had to leave since he agreed to meet up with some trainers that day to practice some battles before you gave him a kiss good bye on the cheek and going on your way. Everyone you knew was busy this day. Marnie and Gloria were running some kind of beach cafe stand with some new summer outfits Nessa slapped together for them and asked to borrow Silver for one of their games, Victor was training with Nessa for the Masters League, and you were pretty sure Hop was collecting some fur samples from some native Pasio pokemon for Sonia today. Everyone else was doing something else or competing in the new mini event the prince announced over the TV today. It was called The Battle of Gold or something like that, you were too busy taking care of Allister to pay much attention to it. So it was just you, Allister, and Zen after he finally decided to not sleep in and follow you around today. After seeing Leon at the center you got some breakfast, and decided to go on a walk to the woods today. It was the last month of summer and it'd be a good idea to get some fresh air and enjoy the nice weather before it got too cold. Plus it was a nice way to let Allister play around without bumping into a whole lot of people or lose him in the big crowds. Which was why you were smiling and watching as Allister ran in front of you zigzagging between a couple trees in a mix of tag and hide and seek with his Gengar who harmlessly chased after the boy popping in and out of the shadows making him let off rare high pitched laughs you otherwise wouldn't hear out of him. You were expecting him to have fun. What you weren't expecting was to run into someone while out here while you were just watching Allister and turned hearing the sound of something rustling through the brush, only to blink when a head of fluffy white hair and familiar pink coat came walking out of the woods and seemed just as surprised to see you standing there too. Before he gave his usual huff and frown.

"Hmph. It's just you." Turning his head he looked off to the side, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm taking Allister out for the day," you answered brow raising, "What are you doing in the middle of the woods?"

"Training for the Masters League of course! What else would I being with my time?," he stated matter of factly making Allister pause and look over towards the both of you for a moment...before his gengar tagged him making him squeal and give chase again. "I have to practice if I'm going to challenge Leon and every other champion here with my superior fairy types! Is it a crime to want to train where I won't be disturbed?"

"No. I was just surprised to see you out here is all."...You gave a smile before holding out your hand to him to shake which seemed to startle him making him flinch and blink at your smile. "Congratulations on making it into the competition! You did a great job battling back in the Star Tournament and the Battle Tower."

He still continued to stare at you dumbfounded before huffing again keeping his hands in his pockets. "Hmph. Not good enough. I still didn't win-"

"It doesn't matter if you win or lose, Bede," you interrupted him making him blink at your firm frown, "You can't expect to win every battle. Not even the Champions expect to win every battle they have. Even Leon lost some. But it doesn't matter who's the strongest or has the better pokemon. All that matters is that you try your best." He blinked when your hand patted his shoulder with a smile. "You're better at me with battling, and you were good enough to catch Prince Lear's attention to come here and compete. So don't be so hard on yourself. You're going to become strong, but at your own pace."

Bede's purple eyes continued to get wider and wider until he looked away embarrassed. "...I-I see. ...W-Well then I suppose one's own pace would best for d-discovering one's strength."

You smiled wider. "There you go. Don't worry about it too much. Just go at your own pace and everything will be ok."

While you talked to him Allister's gengar disappeared behind a giant bush and of course the little boy pushed some branches out of the way to follow him before he paused, masked eyes blinking at something behind the bush, before he excitedly hurried his way through the bush disappearing to the other side after the thing he saw. Meanwhile Bede hesitated when you pulled your hand away from him and looked back forward before looking back up and blurtin something out.

"Thankyou!''

You blinked at him. "...What?"

"I-I-I s-said-," he stuttered before clearing his throat and taking a breath. "I said. T-Thank you. For-...Blocking Oleana from me. I never got to thank you so I-I'm saying it now because I hate owing people things and I no longer w-want to owe you a thank you!"

You still stared at him for a moment but smiled as he embarrassedly looked away. "Hey. No problem." Your head turned back to Allister, but froze when you saw he was no longer in your line of sight. "ALLISTER!?" You suddenly shouted startling Bede and making Zen look up from the random tree he was sharpening his claws on. A spike of panic and fear spearing into your brain and down your spine-

"O-Over here." A small voice called and you heads turned to a movement in a bush before the limbs moved and a masked head timidly poked it's head out revealing Allister. ..He timidly waved at Bede. "H-Hi."

You breathed a sigh of relief. "Allister, don't run off like that. You scared me for a second....What are you even doing inside that bush?" You assumed playing hide and seek with his gengar.

He perked up and motioned for you to follow him. "Come see! I-I found something fun."

He disappeared back into the bush and you and Bede exchanged a look before following him, pushing through the giant bush and knocking off a few leaves before coming out the other sides. On the other side was Allister and his gengar, who was holding a giant yellow ball. The gengar was having fun throwing the giant yellow ball up and down in the air and laughing as it easily bounced on the ground. It looked like ones of those giant exercise balls you'd see yoga instructors use. Again you and Bede looked at each other in a confused manner. Well THIS was strange. What was a giant toy ball doing in the middle of the woods? Your head looked around the woods, but there wasn't anyone else around so where did this ball come from?

"I-Isn't it cool?," Allister asked happy to have found such a neat thing in the middle of the woods. His Gengar chuckled and softly bounced the giant ball to Allister who stumbled one or two steps catching it considering it was bigger than him, but he only giggled and easily held up the light weighted toy up. Giving you a hopeful look. "C-Can I keep it?"

"Well-..." You again looked around seeing no signs of anyone between the trees other than you three. Until eventually you shook your head no. "We better not. It doesn't belong to us and someone's probably going to come back looking for it."

"O-Oh..." He sadly shuffled his shoulders before looking back up. "C-Can I still play with it?"

"Sure. Just remember we have to put it back before we leave."

Allister nodded. "Ok! I will!" You smiled at how cute he was and Bede half way rolled his eyes before something large and yellow was softly rolled into his legs. Bede blinked at it before following the golden thing to Allister who nervously shuffled half way behind it. "U-Um...D-Do you wanna pl-play with me?"

The question shocked the both of you staring at Allister stunned before Bede blinked. "W-Well I-..*ahem* Well that's certainly a question. I-..'' He glanced between you and Allister looking lost. "I-I-I suppose... so?"

Allister seemed as surprised as you before he perked up. "R-Really?! Ok!" Before Bede could say anything Allister grabbed the golden ball and began pushing it towards a small opening in the trees within your eye sight. "C-C'mon! Y-You can watch Gengar juggle me and the ball!"

Bede blinked before a half alarmed look came over him. "Did you say 'juggle you'? Now wait a minute! Don't you consider that unsafe?" He quickly walked after the boy holding up a hand. "Let's not do that! We can play catch instead! A nice safe game without heights!"

You laughed at the sudden worry on Bede's face and decided to stand there and watch the two play around. There was just something so amusing about watching Bede fumble about to try and be gentle with Allister, and you laughed when the gengar spooked him by popping out of Bede's shadow. But to your surprise Bede didn't go off on any rants or say anything that might've made Allister feel bad. The two seemed to be getting along pretty decently. Opal did a good job with getting Bede out of that negative mindset Rose put him in. Yeah. He'd be alright. You stood there for a good twenty five minutes watching the two interact before something caught your attention. Hey. Wait a second. Where was Zen? You turned back to the bush before looking back at the two kids, they were both currently softly rolling the ball back and forth between them. It'll only take a moment to pop back through the bush and see where your zangoose went. Everything should be alright. So you turned and stepped back through the bush for just a second looking around-...And sighing when you spotted the zangoose lazily laying by the now clawed up tree from earlier in a patch of sun, but he did look up to you upon hearing the bush rustling. A smile graced your face seeing your boy yawn showing his large fangs off- and then a shriek pierced the air making you freeze and Zen immediately jump to his feet fur bristling down his back-

"Y/N!! Y/N!!! Y/N!!", Allister's usually meek voice wailed like he was on fire splitting the air open like a knife.

Your body moved on it's own on instinct at this point being used to protecting kids from danger and your instincts were on high alert as you literally came flying through the bush on the other side and stopped in your tracks at what slapped your vision. A stranger with black and white hair was standing there. A VERY tall man that would've even towered over Leon if he was here, he was staring at Bede eyes narrowed, and he was wearing some kind of weird red samurai suit that made clacking noises when his body moved. In front of him Allister was crying into his Gengar's side as the poor pokemon patted his back in a poor attempt to console him and Bede narrowed his eyes right back pointing at the strange man and yelling at him, and you understood why when you spotted a familiar golden ball held over the man's head.

"Listen here you uncouth fiend!," Bede hissed at the man, "You give that toy back this instant or else! Who are you to even take from a tiny child!? At least have the decency to battle him for it first!"

The man gave a grunt before leaning over Bede making his purple eyes shrink just as he now realized the major height disadvantage. "And who're you, lil punk? I bet yer part of Diantha's team aren't'cha? Tryin' to keep the sphere for your team I bet!"

"I-I-I-...W-What on earth are you even talking about!?" Bede shook his head and made an attempt to look threatening back. "Now see here! T-That toy doesn't even belong to you!"

"Oh yeah? Well it does now. What're you goin' to do about it, Cottonee Brain?"

Bede looked lost again staring up at this man and visibly gulped under his menacing form-

"HEY!!" Both looked over as you felt your anger rising. Your hands balled into fists and your face twisted into a scowl as you marched up to the man who stared not expecting another person to be there either. "WHAT IN ARCEUS'S NAME IS GOING ON HERE- OOF!!" You stopped almost tripped when Allister snapped from wailing into his gengar's side to hugging your pants leg instead stiff sniffing.

A shaky hand pointed up at the man. "H-H-He- *HIC*" Your heart broke at the small broken voice. "H-He took the b-ball."

..Well- Your broken heart was quickly replaced with anger as your face snapped back to the man with a scowl of hatred faster than a pokemon's quick attack. "What the heck is your problem, Man!? What grown butt adult steals toys from a little kid!?"

The man blinked before slowly standing back up to his full hieght. Well Bede immediately retreated from his spot to behind you glancing from the safety of behind your back. "Yeah? And who're you to butt in!? Mind your own business, Girly!"

"It IS my business if you're scaring my kids!?," you blurted back out not even backing down from him looking at you, "And who the heck are you!?"

"I'm the big bad boss that beats you down and beats you down-", he spoke up narrowing his eyes more lowering to glare you in the eyes, "-and never let's up! I'm destruction in human form! And if you think I'm lettin' you and a couple little punks walk away with my victory then you're in for a bad time!"

...You rose a brow and looked at Allister who still hiccuped clinging to you. Then over your shoulder at Bede who looked scared. Then you inhaled and looked back to this man. "Ok. I'm only going to say this once. Give us back the toy and I won't tear you to shreds."

The man blinked...before he threw his head back and laughed loudly. A smug smile on his face as you rose a brow. Oh well. Can't say you didn't warn him. Casually you bent down and picked up Allister. Bede yelped as you suddenly turned to him and practically shoved the boy into his arms.

"Here. Hold him. I want you to take the ball and just go over a little bit and play ok?" You smiled at both of them. "This shouldn't take too long."

"Take the ball? HA!," he spoke coming down from his laughing fit and smirking. "That's a good one! I'd like to see you do that. Why don't you do us a favor and go window shoppin' or sniffing flowers or somethin' girls like. That kid needs to learn to share anyways."

Bede's purple eyes widened before he glanced at your silent form. "....Oh no."

The man rose a brow-....

!?

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey! What are ya doin' with that stick- AH!!"

Meanwhile in a different part of the forest two full teams of purple stood facing one another in silence waiting for one of the team's leader to return. Some wore fancy costumes for the occasion some didn't, some had their pokemon out already to begin battling. Each team having two giant golden spheres to guard. ....Eventually the awkward silence got to them and someone spoke.

"*ahem* So...I do not suppose your team has seen Guzma yet?," a woman in silver armor asked.

Another woman on the other team shook her head. "Sorry, Diantha. But I'm sure he'll be back any minute now!"

"Where on earth did he go?," Diantha questioned raising a brow. "We're supposed to battle to decide the winning team since no one can find the fifth sphere."

"That's just the thing. We don't know. He said he had to get something important and that he'd be right back....But it's been nearly an hour now."

Diantha hummed. Well that was odd. She didn't know Guzma well but she knew well enough to know this was strange for him. He couldn't be planning an ambush on her team, if he was he would've done it an hour ago, and they couldn't battle to decide the winner unless both teams had all their members. So where in the world could he have gone-

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

Almost everyone flinched when a loud man's yell pierced the air and made everyone jump as flying type pokemon scattered into the air at the high pitched yell. Making everyone look up at the sky.

"What was-"

"THAT'S GUZMA'S VOICE!!," someone cried looking horrified. "He must be in trouble! What if he's being attacked by a wild pokemon!?"

"EVERYONE REMAIN CALM!!," Diantha shouted before pointing to the ground and swiveling her body towards the direction of the scream. "I'll handle this! Stay here and guard the spheres!" 

Her armor clanked as she sprinted off into the wooded trees and vegetation. Guzma must well be in trouble, but she wouldn't risk it being some kind of trick to get them to abandon their sphere for the other team to take. But she had to make sure he wasn't harmed in any way. As the Kalos champion disappeared into the brush the other team members looked at one another unsure of what to do without either of their team leaders until someone spoke up.

"So...Anyone know what's going on?"

Diantha's heart pounded in her chest, footfalls heavy as she ran towards the sounds of the yells of pain. That was most definitely Guzma's voice. She wasn't sure what was going on but she knew Guzma must've needed help! Her right hand squeezed her fateful partner's pokeball ready if need be-

"AH!! HELP!! SOMEONE COME HELP ME ALREADY!! OW!! OWOWOW!! HELP ME!!"

There he was! Just behind that giant bush up ahead! Picking up her pace, Diantha launched herself through the bush and raised her hand ready to throw the ball-....And stopped. 

"AH!! OW! OW!! YOU'RE FREAKIN' CRAZY LADY- AH! LET GO O' ME!!"

"NOT UNTIL YOU APOLOGIZE YOU GIANT RED DUNG BEATLE!!" 

"I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!"

Diantha slowly blinked...before slowly lowering her arm and staring at the strange sight in front of her. Guzma was there alright....On the ground stomach first. With a woman on his back. The woman looked absolutely furious sitting on his back and forcibly pulling one of his arms behind him to keep him painfully on the ground with one of her feet braced against his shoulder blades in a way to make it impossible for him to reach around to yank her off him. No amount of kicking or rocking his body was able to throw her off either. Leaving him with no other choice but to cry out for help. His face was twisted in pain but turned desperate when he saw her.

"DIANTHA!!," he cried out his free hand banging the ground over and over, "GET THIS RABBID AIPOM OFF O' ME!! OW!!"

"NOT UNTIL YOU APOLOGIZE!"

"M' SORRY OK!! M'SORRY!! NOW GET OFF!!" You did let go at that point- He gave off a squeal when you suddenly lurched forward and both hands slammed themselves next to his head as he stared sideways at you from the ground. Eyes going wide as you scowled down at him from his back holding him down.

"If you ever try doing something like that again, I'll make sure to make you cry more than Allister did! This is going to be the only time I warn you about this."

Guzma said nothing as you got up, dusted yourself off, gave a curious look over at Diantha...before giving Guzma another scowl and walking off. Both team leaders stood there in silence as you walked off and disappeared through the brush, and still continued sitting in silence until Diantha looked at Guzma. His red suit made a couple clacking noises as he slowly sat himself up onto his behind rubbing his sore arm just-...silently staring at the direction where you disappeared off into. Before Diantha sighed, pocketing her pokeball and walked over to him.

"Honestly Mr. Guzma, what were you doing? Is this where you've been this whole time? We've been waiting for you for over an hour!"...She rose a brow when he said nothing. "Guzma? Are you alright? Your face is red."

"....I think m' in love."

"...WOT?"

Meanwhile you jogged and managed to catch up with both Bede and Allister who had by now calmed down completely and continued playing pass the ball back and forth with Bede, Zen trailing behind you. Your anger melted away to smile at the two and Allister perked up seeing you again. 

"Y/n!" He ran up and you smiled sweetly as he hugged your legs. "D-Did you make him go away?"

You nodded. "Yep. I talked to the bad man and he said he's not going to bully anyone anymore." You patted his head. "And he's not going to take your ball again."

The purple eyes behind the mask widened. "MY BALL!?"

You nodded. "Yep. I don't think anyone else is going to try and take it so you can keep it."

"YAY!!" Allister through up his hands and you couldn't help but chuckle at him and the relieved look Bede gave you.

In the end Allister got to keep the giant golden bouncy ball and he seemed really happy to get ice cream afterwards when it got too dark and you walked both boys home. Allister happily rolling the golden ball next to you back to the hotel although it would be a bit of a struggle to fit it through the door, you were sure you could squeeze it in. You had JUST gotten back to the hotel when you ran into a certain lavender haired man. Making you smile widely at the Champion. 

"LEON!!"

The champion perked up before turning around, wet hair plastered to his face before he lit up beaming seeing you there walking towards him. "Y/N! Hey! Where have you been?"

"Babysitting and talking sense into a bully, but everything's alright now."

"I found a ball!," Allister spoke up happily holding up the giant golden ball to Leon, "Y/n said I can keep it! I can't wait to show Bea tomorrow!"

"You did!?" Leon smiled happily spitting a few grains of beach sand out of his mouth. "That's great! Sounds like you had an amazing day."

"Hey, Lee." he turned to you with a hum. "...Why are you all soaked? I'm pretty sure it didn't rain today."

"Huh? Oh. I got lost and ended up on the ocean floor so I had to swim up onto the beach. Just my luck the people I was battling today was right there so it all worked out in the end! So no worries!"

You stared at him. ".....How did you end up walking out of the ocean!?"

-OCTOBER-

Well it turns out the Masters League was pushed back far enough that it wouldn't even take place until the very end of the year after Christmas. Sigh. So you were going to have to spend another two months here on Pasio. Well it wasn't all bad. Halloween was rapidly approaching which made Allister all excited because it was his favorite holiday! It was cute seeing him get all excited and happily say he was going to get the biggest bad of candy of all the kids trick or treating!! He was even more excited when Nessa one day showed up to take his measurements to make him his very own costume! So he was very much excited. When he wasn't excitedly seeing all the halloween decorations he was playing with the new ball he got or having Nessa come and take double measurements or showing him pictures of designs she had in mind or some fabric she wanted his opinion on. At one point he lost a few of his masks after the cleaning lady of the hotel misplaced them while cleaning his hotel room. Allister freaked out and what was worse was that it was Halloween and Bea wanted to take him for Prince Lear's plan for the Midnight Spookfest. Oh yeah. You remembered eyeing the Prince who showed up out of the blue to talk to Allister about being the surprise opponent to his haunted house attraction. You think Allister only agreed because he felt guilty about saying no...Well guess where all those masks ended up? YEP! Turns out someone from the hotel found the abundant of masks just sitting in the hallway and decided to use them to decorate one of the rooms in the Prince's manor where most of the festival's activities were taking place. It took you FOREVER to help his gengar remove all those masks from the walls to give them back to Allister. Luckily it seemed no one minded you were taking them down and handing them back to Allister or didn't want to approach you with the scowl you wore trying to carry all these masks at once all the way back to the hotel. Sigh. But on the bright side Allister seemed to enjoy himself for the night and was able to go trick or treating after the Prince's small battling event ended. Thank goodness he didn't try flirting with you again because he was so busy manhandling the event. By the time you got back to the hotel arms full of masks, Nessa had already dropped off his costume and it was absolutely ADORABLE!! He looked like a cute little pumpkaboo when he eventually put it on and hurried you out the door into the streets. There was already a lot of kids and teenagers in the streets going from house to house with bags full of candy, and you were surprised Allister was able to drag you around with one hand excitedly from house to house asking for candy and being followed by multiple ghosts pokemon giggling his head off. But you weren't complaining. Let him have a good time. You ran into Leon's cousin and Iris joined you both to trick or treat at a couple houses before saying good bye before complimenting Allister's Costume. All in all it was surely a Halloween you'd not soon forget for a while.

[darkmatter-nebula]

"Ghostboy in Hisui" AU drabble ahead, my dear fellas. It takes place a few days after Allister came back from Hisui. Basically, Allister spends time in the Glimwood Tangle and Bede, who has a soft spot for him, decides to look after him. Here I go. 😊

Drabble: Bede's Softer Side

It was a quiet evening in Galar. A certain shy and kindhearted ghostboy spend some time in the Glimwood Tangle. Allister showed Giratina this mysterious yet beautiful place. To say that she was in awe would be a massive understatement!

{This is the most beautiful place I've ever seen!} Giratina spoke up. Allister, who was cuddled close to her, had a gentle smile on his adorable face. "I'm glad that you like the Glimwood Tangle." The eight years old Ghost Type Gym Leader said softly.

What Allister didn't know yet was, that Bede was looking for him. The Fairy Type Gym Leader was concerned about him. Bede had a super soft spot for Allister, whom he loved like a little brother. 'Please, let him be alright...' Bede thought.

'Thank Arceus!' Bede thought as he finally found Allister. The little boy didn't wear his mask, he had a serene expression on his face. His purple eyes seemed to glow a bit in the dark. It didn't take long for him to notice Bede.

"Hello, Bede." Allister greeted his friend kindly. "Hello, Allister." Bede said surprisingly soft. He never was rude towards Allister, due to the fact that the small boy always was kind and sweet to him. That was one of the reasons why Bede developed brotherly feelings for him.

Bede was incredible protective of Allister and he would end anyone who had the intention to harm him! Giratina didn't fail to notice the gentle expression on Bede's face as he looked at her beloved Trainer.

A few hours later, Allister was getting sleepy. Bede decided to bring him home. He gave him a piggyback ride to Stow-On-Side. Giratina was quietly cooing as she witnessed Bede's softer side.

The End

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#5

Hiya! Could I get Giovanni with 🏳️‍🌈, ❤️🩹, 🥖, and 📖 for the ask meme? Thanks so much~!

🏳️‍🌈- Orientation headcanon

Bi but leans more towards women

❤️‍🩹- Angsty headcanon

Periodically he'll find a handkerchief or other belonging that Silver had lost before being taken around the house. He's kept all of them.

🥖- Food headcanon

He's a good cook, but almost no one knows this

📖- AU I’d like to see them in

I have a half baked equestrian au that's probably never gonna go anywhere, but I also think a vampire au would be fun

5 notes - Posted August 1, 2022

#4

I've come to understand that actually the Pokemon fandom doesn't have a clue what they want! They whine about how much they want an jerk rival like Blue or Silver all the time! We get Bede and Melli and they're the worst most annoying characters ever and they hate them!!! And not in an affectionate way like they hate Blue and Silver!

Funny, I thought Bede was Rose's horribly abused son who's worse off than N and Lillie combined /s

I think part of it is that, in a cast of characters singing your praises constantly, the asshole ones will stand out more. And I feel like the older games did a bit less of that. There's at least not like... a chosen one vibe to the player character in Kanto or Johto. Your just a kid who keeps ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

(Not to mention bland as hell nice rivals making the mean ones seem even worse)

5 notes - Posted April 21, 2022

#3

I know there's going to be a separate unrelated or loosely related twist "villain" late game because that's just how they're doing things now for whatever reason

But I wish I'd recorded my audible groan of disappointment when I saw Team Star in the trailer

5 notes - Posted September 7, 2022

#2

They will really do anything to replace HMs except letting you ride your own team huh

22 notes - Posted August 3, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Pocket Monsters SPECIAL | Pokemon Adventures Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Sakaki | Giovanni & Silver Characters: Silver (Pokemon), Sakaki | Giovanni Additional Tags: Team Rocket (Pokemon), Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Torture, Organized Crime, Tags May Change, let's play how much can I make you hate Pryce Summary:

Silver and Green's first attempt at escaping The Mask of Ice failed.

He was quick to ensure there would not be a second.

Years later, a split second of not-fully-snuffed-out rebellion lands Silver in the depths of Team Rocket's headquarters.

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