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01:00 PM

For their lunch break, some of the students asked the three of us to battle them. These battles were wagered for a hundred a twenty Pokédollars each, which I actually had this time, even if it was half of what I had. I was asked specifically by two school kids if I could battle with them with the house rule that you were allowed to use one item on your Pokémon. I accepted the conditions, as I still had a couple potions that went unused.

Christine’s Bidoof and Harrison’s Starly were no trouble, it was easy to take them. They both used X-Items the first opportunity they had in battle, which raised their Pokémon’s stats, however that meant a free opportunity for Elaine to blast them with Confusion. Christine’s X-Defend had no effect since I was using Special Attacks the entire time, and while Harrison’s X-Attack made his Starly more dangerous than I would have liked, a mid-battle potion did the trick.

“While using X-Items is a viable strategy,” I explained, “you have to consider if using it is even worth it in the first place. Think to yourself, can my Pokémon take an attack from the opponent. While yes, they were both able to survive a Confusion, it was still a huge hit and it left them in a vulnerable state. I guess overall, you should consider your opponent’s strengths and weaknesses before you use X-Items.”

Lucas battled a couple kids and their Abra’s and modestly destroyed them with his Turtwig. Misty, being a Gym Leader and battling kids who were still learning the ropes, also had some easy victories as her Staryu wet the kids’ pants. No seriously, Staryu shot a Water Gun that ended up hitting the kid’s Bidoof and their pants. Harrison had even given us each a spare potion as thanks for teaching him and his peers so much about battling. We all left the school grounds with a bit more pocket change and a bit of an inflated ego. Except for Lucas who was adamant he fluked his battles.

02:30 PM

There was nothing else too interesting that we found in the city, other than a bunch of people going crazy over the release of a new smartwatch dubbed the Pokétch, there were lines into almost every electronics store and apparently stock was running out fast.

We came back to the Pokémon Centre to see Brock being dragged along the floor by his Croagunk. Probably because he tried to flirt with Nurse Joy again. Ash and Dawn were having a break from their training, so I took this opportunity to surf the web on one of the public PC’s.

“What are you doing Jack?” Lucas asked.

“Oh, I was just wondering what the heck was up with the Pokétch.” While I knew all about its capabilities from the games, I was more interested to find out if it was The Pokémon Company had anything to do with it.

“Dawn’s been excited to get one since she saw an ad on TV about it.”

“Yeah?” I chuckled, “does she realise how expensive it is?”

“She doesn’t care.”

“That sounds about right.”

“I was thinking about looking up a few things myself actually,” he said as he sat at the PC next to me.

“Like what?”

“Same type attack bonus.”

“I could just tell you about it.”

“Yeah, but I’m hoping to find… well… I don’t mean any offense.”

“You’re looking for a simpler explanation?”

“Um… Yeah.”

“You don’t have to worry about not getting what I say sometimes, it happens all the time, even back home.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, I’d be rich if I got a buck each time I’ve been likened to Sherlock or Sheldon.”

“What’s a buck?”

“Oh, slang for a dollar in Dochaku.”

“I know who Sherlock Holmes is, but who’s Sheldon?”

F*** I did it again! When did Big Bang Theory start airing? Crap, I don’t know, uh… just say it’s a bad show and go on with it. “A poor representation of someone with Autism from a crappy show.”

“Wait… Sheldon… Sheldon… I think I’ve heard of that sort of person before? Ah, nevermind.”

Oh, thank god!

So the firm that made the Pokétch is a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company. In fact, after a bit more digging, everything relating to the facilities and products used in the games had some connection to the company. This included research facilities such as Professor Rowan’s Lab and thus the Pokédex, Pokémon Fan Clubs, Pokémon Contests production of Poké Balls and Potions. If the Pokémon series wasn’t targeted towards kids, I would have been legitimately scared of the possibility of a society like George Orwell’s “1984.”

Moving away from Pokémon dystopia, I decided to look some less political things, instead choosing to look up stuff like YouTube and info on video games. YouTube wasn’t even worth it since a lot of the videos were at most 360p and none of the polished content you could find back home. The best stuff was either Angry Video Game Nerd or maybe Smosh if you were nine years old.

I did manage to find the Super Smash Bros Brawl website, not all the characters were announced yet. So I decided to post the list of the final roster anonymously to a message board just to stir things up. I gave it no context and just listed the characters. Of course, everyone thought it was fake. Ah… knowledge of the future… no one believes it so it’s mostly useless. Oddly enough, most the Pokémon representatives had nicknames. Pikachu was Sparky, Jigglypuff was named Lullaby in Melee and Pichu in Melee was Zip. Mewtwo was un nicknamed, probably due to its status as a Legendary Pokémon.

Then I did something I never did back home, I looked up the news, and it looked like any other sort of news outlet. Politician’s being selfish or incompetent or secretive or all of the above, a wildfire in Hoenn, Pokémon thievery, wait… Actual, successful stealing of someone else’s Pokémon? The article described an organised gang headed by one Hunter J. They had access to state-of-the-art and experimental technology and powerful Pokémon such as Salamence as eyewitnesses described.

S***… I’m going to have to deal with her… f***! Hunter J was a recurring antagonist of the Pokémon Anime, and she was willing to kill people, actually murder. She was as if Team Rocket weren’t idiotic and didn’t have any semblance of moral integrity, Jessie, James, and Meowth were thieves, yes, but they would never kill anyone, and the people that they respected, they genuinely cared for. Hunter J doesn’t hesitate to kill her own employees, she only cares for the wealth she gains from her work. She is that reprehensible, that the writers decided to actually kill her off in the anime. It’s never pictured exactly what she was able to achieve off screen but it was implied that she was successful. Hunter J needed to be brought to justice.

“Are you okay Jack?” Lucas asked.

“Hm? Yeah, I’m fine,” I replied, “it’s just this article about Hunter J, she’s stolen other people’s Pokémon. Not like Team Rocket, this bitch is actually good at it.”

“Woah! Swear word!”

“Yeah I know, I don’t normally swear, but this filth deserves it.”

“It’s still not nice to swear…”

“I know what you mean, Lucas. I used to have a catchphrase, ‘Don’t swear, it’s uncivilised.’ I said it a lot back at school.”

“Well… what do you think of Team Magma and Team Aqua then, they were trying to end the world, right?”

“Here’s the difference though, they thought they were doing the right thing. They wanted to do good but didn’t realise it would have been really dangerous. Hunter J is just doing it for the money.”

“You say that like you know them.”

“I don’t, but I’ve done a lot of research.”

“Well, at least something like that is unlikely to happen to us.”

But no, Ash encounters J, a few times actually. We’re going to meet her. And if you end up like the protagonist of the games, you’re probably going to have to deal with her as well, since both the anime and the games seem to be connected in this version of Pokémon.

“Jack? You sure you’re okay?”

“Lucas,” I sighed, tell the truth, but not all of it. “I promised your mum I’d take care of you two. I’m worried about what could happen if we end up against someone like J.”

“Oh…”

“Sorry to bring the mood down.”

“No, it’s alright, no need to worry.”

“Doesn’t Dawn say that a lot?”

“Say what?”

“No need to worry.”

“Oh, yeah she does. Hey, has Elaine been asleep for all this time?”

“Hm?” I looked down to Elaine sleeping in my lap. She had her back against my stomach. “I guess she has, that fighting must have tuckered her out.”

“But wasn’t she asleep this morning?”

“Yeah, she was. And then that Looker guy woke her up.”

“Heh, yeah.” Wait, Looker! That’s it! “Maybe we could talk to him about Hunter J.”

“How come, he said we should only talk to him if we knew anything about criminals, and you didn’t want to talk about Team Rocket.”

“That’s true, maybe we could ask him if he knows anything so that we can have a safe trip?”

“I… guess?”

And then I’ll actually tell him about J’s next heist, and get them to be prepared for it.

08:30 PM

The six of us shared three rooms, two to each. Misty and Dawn shared one because they were the two girls and it was the easiest pair to choose. I ended up with Brock and Ash and Lucas were together, mostly to shorten the age gap between. Each room had a set of bunks and an en-suite. I just have to say that having a shower after a week of no bathrooms is one of the best feelings ever. So I spent a bit longer than normal in there. Brock also spent a long time in the bathroom, but he did bring his bag with him so one could only guess what he was doing.

That night, Team Rocket pulled a scheme. Earlier that day, Ash, Dawn, and Brock all got free Pokétchs. First by getting fake ones from Team Rocket disguised, though they didn’t know it at the time, and then when the inventor of the Pokétch’s son showed them that it was fake, his father decided to give them a real one for free as apologies for not noticing the counterfeits in circulation.

The fake Poketches were all actually microphones in which during the night Team Rocket broadcasted a Stantler’s Hypnosis. The Hypnosis affected all the Pokémon who could hear it, which forced them all to march out of the city and into a metal box acting as a cage.

This was thwarted when Dawn’s Buneary and Piplup dodged an incoming blast and counter-attacked. They were able to do that due to a spinning technique that Dawn had taught them during training.

The six of us were walking back to the Pokémon Centre when Lucas pulled me aside.

“What is it, Lucas?” I asked.

Lucas looked at the floor and tensed his shoulders. “Can I ask you something?”

“Yeah, go ahead,” I said, nonchalantly.

“Have…” he hesitated, he seemed to struggle to find the words “Have you ever watched an episode of Big Bang Theory? The show that Sheldon’s from.”

Um… what? I mean I have, but… wait… has it not aired yet? “How come you’re asking?” I asked, attempting to keep myself from panicking.

And in the second time since I met him, I saw the depths of his conviction, Lucas replied “I… Can you… Can you just answer the question, please?”

Is he on to me? He’s f***ing on to me. Crap, what do I do. If I say yes, he might say that it’s impossible, but if I say no he might ask why I think it’s so bad.

Elaine, who was somehow awake at that point in time, turned her head up to me. Perhaps she could have sensed my anxiety. The one creature who I had told the whole truth to was lying in my arms looking up at me in concern. “Jack,” she said as she gripped my shirt.

Stuff it, when in doubt, say the truth. “I have,” I said in a deep voice.

And then, all of the doubt in his mind was gone and Lucas flooded all of his thoughts onto me. “But, you couldn’t have. There have only been trailers, there hasn’t been an episode on TV at all, I checked. How have you been called Sheldon when the character hasn’t been on TV yet? How do you know so much Jack? Why do you know about same type attack bonus? I checked online, and at the most right now it’s a theory and it hasn’t been proven. Why do you have, what was it, Mespirit in your Pokédex? Why did you know about Team Rocket? How did you know about Ash Ketchum being in the Sinnoh Region? How do you know all these things? Who are you, Jack?”

I didn’t know what to say, the first thing in my mind was the only thing that popped out of my mouth. “It’s Mesprit, not Mespirit.”

“That doesn’t matter now. Jack, you’re a nice person, you really are, but you know things that are impossible, and I don’t know what to do.”

I knew, at that moment, that I had to tell Lucas Koki Diamond, everything. “You ever heard of the phrase, the truth is stranger than fiction?”

“Yeah?”

“Well… Why don’t we talk in the Pokémon Centre.”

09:30 PM

I came back to the cafeteria from my room carrying my Colorado branded, black, leather wallet and Elaine perched on my shoulder. As I sat down opposite Lucas at the table, I explained, “When I came to Sinnoh, all I had was a pencil, a pair of headphones, the clothes I was wearing and this wallet.”

“That sounds harsh. When did you arrive in Sinnoh anyway?”

“The day I met you and Elaine. I met her,” I explained as I pat her head, “as soon as I got here. I found you battling Barry half an hour later.”

“Just outside Twinleaf Town in half an hour after coming into the region? How did you do that?”

“I’ll explain that later. There’s a lot I need to explain before that.”

“Okay?”

“First off,” I said as I opened my wallet and pulled out a card, “I want you to look at this.”

“What is it?”

“It’s my Student ID from last year, wait no, not last year, a year ago.”

“What do you mean, aren’t they the same thing…?” Lucas stared at the info on the card, “What, how?! This says it’s from 2017?! And that you were born eight years ago?! But you look just the same in your photo, then…” he looked back up at me, “Is this some complicated prank? There’s no way you’re a time traveler.”

“Well… I’m not really… I guess you could say I am, sort of? It’s more that I jumped between parallel universes, rather than travelled through time.”

“Are… are you telling the truth this time? Something like this can be fake, right?” He handed back my Student ID.

“Well, I guess it could easily be faked, that’s my biggest proof right there of my origin, I’m telling the truth.”

“So… you’re saying you’re from the future, then?”

“Like I said, sort of, but not really.”

“Then what is it then?”

“I come from a different world, a world where Pokémon don’t exist, and when I left, it was the twenty-second of May 2018.”

“Wait, what? Pokémon don’t exist? That’s a lie, right? How come you know so much about Pokémon then?”

“Where I come from, Pokémon is a video game series, and TV show, and card game, and a worldwide phenomenon, all created by Game Freak.”

“But Pokémon are real. I mean, Elaine’s sitting right there on your shoulder.”

“And you have no idea what it’s like for that to be the case for someone who’s dreamt about it since they were four.”

“So, what? You’re saying you never met a Pokémon until you met Elaine half an hour before you met me?”

“Exactly.”

“So… you know all about this stuff from playing those games and watching the show and everything?”

“Yeah, since it’s a video game, people have hacked into the code of the games to see how everything worked.”

“So… what about us? Is everyone here just a video game character to you?”

“Well… funny thing is, there’s a lot of differences between the show and the games. Ash is the main character of the show, and you’re the playable character in one of the games, and in both of them, the two of you never met each other. You and Dawn were never twins as well. Misty never came to the Sinnoh region, and I never existed.”

“So my existence is a lie to you then?!”

“No Lucas, you are a real person and nothing like the silent and self-insert protagonist I played as. In fact, you’re the most unique person out of everyone I’ve met in this world, the only one not to be defined by my world’s portrayal of you.”

“Just me? Then what about Dawn? What about Barry? My mom? Ash? Misty? Brock? Elaine? Are they not real to you then?”

“I learned a long time ago that there is no line between fiction and reality, that everything can be part of reality, and that culminated in me coming into this real world.”

“I… I’m sorry, I don’t know how I should be feeling right now.”

“Me neither, but that’s okay. Do you need a drink or anything?”

“No… I’m okay, I just have so many questions, and I don’t even know if you’re telling the truth or not.”

“Then ask away until you’re satisfied, we have plenty of time.”

“Um… if… if I’m a video game character… then that must mean you know our future’s right? Is that the reason you knew Ash was in Sinnoh?”

“Yeah, where I came from, the plot had moved on from this point in time, Ash got all eight gym badges and reached the Semi-Finals of the Lily of the Valley Conference. Don’t tell him that though, that will only stir up trouble.”

“Yeah, that makes sense. What about me and Dawn then?”

“Dawn is representative of her portrayal in the show. She, wait, I’m not going to spoil it for you, but she does make it to the Grand Festival. And you… hmmm, whatever the player does, but if you follow the plot, you end up battling Cynthia.”

“The Champion?! No way. Not me.”

“No, seriously.”

“I’d never be strong enough to do that.”

“Remember what I told you this morning?”

“… Is… Is that why you said those things? Is that why you said you believed in me?”

“Well… it was a factor, yes.”

“But what if I’m nothing like the game character? What if I’m just your average everyday kid?”

“You’re not, and there’s two, no, three reasons why I know that you have the potential to do great things. First, I saw your willpower when Dawn went missing, nothing could have stopped you then. Second, you are a lot smarter than you give yourself credit for, you notice a lot of little things, like all my inconsistencies and Team Rocket’s disguises. And lastly, the only battle you’ve ever lost is the one you threw when you battled your sister.”

“I… so… you really, truly think I’ll be able to battle the Champion one day?”

“Yes.”

“That’s… wow…”

“You find that more unbelievable than the fact that I’m technically an alien?”

“I… think it’s more that, it’s less, magical I guess? Speaking of which, how did all of this even happen?”

“Well, that’s the longest part of the story.”

“I don’t care, I don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep tonight anyway.”

“That’s not good for your health, but I know what you mean.”

“So what happened.”

“Well, I was minding my own business, I was in class at the time. I was transported to a pocket dimension by what I can only describe as a deity randomly and he offered me what he called a business proposal, and before you ask, I have no idea how he was able to do all of that.”

“What was this offer?”

“Well, he was bored with the lack of adventures happening, or so he said. He offered to give me ten years to spend in this world just for the sake of adventure.”

“And you accepted and just left everyone back at home?”

“Well no, he showed me that while I was gone, time would be stopped in my dimension until I came back, no one would have known I was gone.”

“That sounds too good to be true, especially if you dreamed about that sort of thing your whole life.”

“Oh it is, and I am grateful he chose me to do all of this. But it gets even better. You see, before I came here, the guy-”

“What was his name by the way?”

“I don’t know, he never said. I always think of him as The Elf because he looked a lot like one.”

“How so?”

“Well, he wore a white three-piece-suit, had long blonde hair and looked like every Tolkien inspired elf out there, minus the ears. Anyway, as I was saying, it gets better. The elven guy offered me a sheet to fill out. In it, I had a thousand points to spend on perks and items I’d get for coming to this world.”

“What sort of perks?”

“How about I tell you what I got for the sake of expediency?”

“Okay?”

“First off, for free I was given a complete Pokédex, a Pokégear, five Pokéballs, three Potions, my bag, and my red hat.”

“Your Pokédex is complete? Like with every Pokémon? Including Legendary Pokémon?”

“Every single one. At least as far as I know.”

“If you got all of that for free, what did you buy?”

“The first thing I could have bought was a choice of which region I went to, but I instead decided to roll the dice for free, and I ended up here. I also rolled my age.”

“Wait, roll your age? What do you mean.”

“I could have transformed into a ten-year-old kid if I ended up rolling low. I could have bought to choose but I got lucky and got something close to my actual age. This body is seventeen years old, turning 18 on the third of July, but I’m actually already eighteen and eleven months old.”

“That doesn’t seem like much of a difference.”

“It isn’t, I also could have paid a hundred points to turn into a girl if I wanted.”

“That’s… weird.”

“I actually thought about doing it for a while just to see what it’s like, but then I thought that I could spend the points better elsewhere.”

“You want to experience what it’s like to be a girl?”

“You’ve never been curious?”

“No, I have my sister for that.”

“That could be taken in a really wrong direction.”

“What do you mean?”

“Nothing I can explain without your mum’s permission.”

“Are you thinking of something dirty?”

“When you’ve been on the Internet as long as I have, anything can be dirty.”

“Gross.”

“It is. Anyway, next I could have paid to… essentially take the role of a person who already existed but was still me, if that makes sense?”

“No, it doesn’t.”

“Well, I didn’t pay for it and went for the Drop-In option, which was free. Although it was literally a Drop-In since I was dropped right into the middle of Lake Verity from about twenty metres up.”

“How long’s a meter?”

“About three feet and a bit.”

“So that’s what, sixty feet up?”

“Yep, which was why I was wet when you met me.”

“Oh yeah, that did seem a bit weird.”

“Thank you for offering to take me to your place by the way.”

“Oh… um… you’re welcome.”

“Next, I could decide what my first Pokémon was going to be.”

“Oh, what were your choices?”

“I could have chosen any Pokémon.”

“Wait, any Pokémon?!”

“Well, others were more expensive than others, but yeah, any Pokémon.”

“How much did Elaine cost?”

“Interesting story actually. The cost of a Pokémon was decided by how rare they were in the region that you went to. There are three versions of the game that takes place in the Sinnoh region. In the third one, Platinum, oh, that’s another thing I should tell you to remind me about that, Ralts has a twenty percent encounter rate in Route 209 which was the criteria for the species to be the second cheapest at fifty points. Had I not found that by checking online, I would have had to pay more.”

“How come you chose Ralts?”

“Well, Ralts is able to evolve into my second favourite Pokémon species, and it’s also really powerful. Elaine is also adorable, so there’s that.”

“What’s your first then?”

“Rattata.”

“How come?”

“Because I once played through one of the Pokémon games with only Rattata as a reference to a long-running joke in the Pokémon fandom. I never evolved him, during the run, and we got pretty far. It’s because of the playthrough we had and not the Pokémon itself if that makes sense.”

“Yeah, that makes sense.”

“Then there was the skills and abilities. These were the most expensive part of the sheet. With them, I could improve myself in certain ways. I bought four of these. Physical Fitness for a hundred points, Survival Training for another hundred, Savant for three hundred, and Champ In The Making for three k as well.”

“What did all of those so?”

“Physical Fitness made me as the title said, physically fit. Before I bought that, I was overweight, and not very healthy. It also said I would be almost as strong as Captain America.”

“From those superhero comics?”

“Yeah, though there’s going to be a movie about him in a couple years, don’t tell anyone, spoilers.”

“How strong is he?”

“He can stop a helicopter from flying up by pulling it.”

“Holy, moly!”

“Yeah, I haven’t tested how strong I am yet, so I don’t know the full extent of my strength. I need to do that sometime.”

“Survival Training is self-explanatory right?”

“Yep, exactly what it says on the tin.”

“What about Savant? What does that word mean?”

“A Savant is someone, typically someone with Autism, who has profound mental capabilities in a certain area. The perk gave me perfect memory, calculator-like mental math, better spatial awareness, and really good aim.”

“So is that the reason you’re so smart?”

“No, it just made me more efficient. Go on, ask me the hardest math question you can think of.”

“Okay… a hundred and twenty-seven, times four thousand and five, minus fifty-eight, divided by thirty-six.”

“Is this in order of operations or chronologically?”

“Um… Oh, the order of operations is BODMAS right? That one.”

“Five hundred and eight thousand, six hundred and thirty-three point three and then eight forever repeating.”

“Wow… Um, what was the last one?”

“Last one, Champ In The Making gave me a talent in working with a team, both in terms of Pokémon and people. I’m good at training Pokémon and working out disagreements. I took it in case I wanted to actually try to become a Pokémon Master.”

“You definitely can.”

“Thanks, Lucas, but I’ve got some tough competition.”

“I’m not that… sorry I did it again.”

“That’s okay.”

“Um… what did you spend the rest of your points on?”

“Some items, fifty thousand Pokédollars that I spent on clothes and camping equipment, a collapsible bicycle, and the medical kit I used to fix up your blister. They were fifty points each.”

“Huh, okay… is that everything?”

“I think so, do you have any more questions?”

“I… I still don’t know if I believe you fully, it’s just so… fantastical.”

“What sort of proof should I show you then?”

“Um… could you contact that Elf guy or something?”

“I don’t know how to.”

“Um… you said that you’re further ahead in the… plot… does that mean you know what’s going to happen soon? Tell me what happens tomorrow.”

“Oh… uh… Oh, I know. Let’s talk with Ash for a moment. I need to know if what I’m thinking has already happened or not. But I’m going to talk to him without letting on anything, so as not to indirectly cause anything different to happen.”

“Um… okay?”

So I got up and walked over to Lucas and Ash’s shared room and knocked on the door.

“Coming!” The door opened. “Oh, hey Jack! How can I help ya?”

“Lucas just wanted to check something in his bag,” I lied.

“Hm?” He looked up at me skeptically, but then caught on to what I was trying to do. “Oh, yeah I just wanted to check if uh… I might have dropped something when we went out and fought Team Rocket,” he explained as he entered.

“So what have you guys been talking about?” Ash asked as Pikachu ran up to his shoulder.

“Oh a bunch of stuff,” I explained, “my home, how I got to Sinnoh, theoretical time travel.”

“Time travel? Really?”

“Well, it’s something I’m really interested in, a lot of my favourite shows and games have time travel in it. Like Doctor Who or Steins;Gate.” I felt safe talking about a series that wasn’t out yet as it was a bit of a niche game slash anime.

“Haven’t heard of either of them,” Ash replied, as Lucas fumbled with his backpack, “guess that’s cause I don’t watch too much TV or anything like that.”

“How was training this afternoon, did anything interesting happen while we were gone?”

“Yeah, Dawn’s spinning technique was really something, huh. She perfected that just earlier today.”

“What about in your training?”

“Ours? Oh, nah, it was just the normal stuff.”

“Oh, ok. You found what you need Lucas?”

“Y-yeah, it’s still here.”

“You want to continue our conversation about parallel worlds back in the lobby then?”

“Oh, yeah.”

“Right then, night Ash.”

“G’night!” he replied.

“Pika!” his partner chirped.

Elaine chirped a “Vuha” back.

Lucas, Elaine and I took our seats at the table.

“What was that all about?” Lucas asked, “Are you trying to get him to figure out what I did as well?”

“Not at all. Unlike you, Ash isn’t very traditionally smart, I mean he’s a battling genius he knows how to train his Pokémon, but beyond that, there’s not much. I was fishing for information to see if something had happened or not.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, I know for a fact, that Aipom will want to perform in the Jubilife contest, and she’s going to convince Ash to do it. That happens during a training session, so I’m sure that if the Contest is on in two days, either tomorrow or the day after, Aipom will make her move.”

“Ash? In a contest?”

“Oh, you’ll be surprised, he’ll do pretty well. He actually tied for first in a contest not long ago. That’s something else I shouldn’t know by the way.”

“And if that happens, I’ll know that you’re telling the truth this time?”

“Yeah.”

“You said that you’re going to be here for ten years, right?”

“Yeah?”

“Aren’t you going to miss your friends and family.”

“…Yeah, but I still came here because I knew I’d hate myself for not taking the opportunity.”

“Hm… I don’t think I’m going to sleep tonight.”

“Hey, how about a battle?”

“Hm?”

“Maybe that will help tire you out? One v one, no items. That okay with you Elaine?”

“Vuha!” she nodded.

“How about it Lucas?”

“Yeah… that sounds like a good idea.”

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