*A few days have passed since Napoleon took the throne as Sinnoh League Champion. As a trainer, he has changed from being one who openly expressed his distaste with Pokemon to being one who perfectly bonds with them. This all happened during the time when he had this mysterious rare disease that has existed for many years now, a disease so far only called 'Twitch', a prototype name given by the former league champion and mythology researcher.*

*With the disease gone from Napoleon, Cynthia didn't have much reason to keep an eye on him any longer. Napoleon was then free to pursue whatever he wanted to do, as he was no longer under the subject of any research study or a mysterious disease.*

*The past days have been filled with dealing with celebrity problems for our hero. Even until now, he still has to deal with being a celebrity. This is keeping him pretty busy, and isn't allowing him to start his renewed life as a love of Pokemon.*

*Pre-occupied, Napoleon allowed his trusted 6 Pokemon to do whatever they want and be away from the 'problems' he's encountering right now, with the only condition being that they would return to his side every night when the land is in deep slumber. This schedule and curfew would go on until Napoleon can finally rest from the attention of the masses and do something else.*

"Steve." Sunbrella was up early and looked for the shadow slayer.

"Huh? Sunbrella. I know you're an eager fan of the morning, but I didn't expect you to be up this early."

"Yes, I know it's strange of me. But I haven't been able to sleep well these past few days, and I need to settle this discomfort today."

"So what did you call me for?"

"I need to know where our secret agent is hiding. I need to pay her an urgent visit."

"Oh, if you insist."

"Wait, you know?!"

"006 left a map that only us in the Court of the Sun can recognize. I think you would be able to find her with it."

Steve raised up a map. Sunbrella got it from the bell. He was right: in the time when they were travelling with Napoleon, they slowly and slowly learned a secret writing system that 006 used to communicate with the rest of the team.

"My gratitudes.

Now I must be leaving."

"Wait, this early?"

"I don't know how long I can keep myself up before my kingdom drowns in disarray because of my fatigue. I need to act upon this as soon as possible."

Without a word, Sunbrella commanded her carriage to head out to the specific coordinates of the mysterious headquarters which housed 006. It was a simple hut, but was guarded with metal doors and windows with a very high tech security.

"Open your gates, my trusted spy! Your queen is here!" she exclaimed. Without any interruption, the front door of the hut opened by itself. Sunbrella descended from her carriage and conjured the roots which parks the carriage and gives her carriers a relaxing place to hang out. Sunbrella enters the headquarters by herself. As she stepped inside, all the doors closed again.

A little step further and Sunbrella was immediately taken floors below the ground by a descending platform. She was startled with this at first since this was only the second time she has been to this place, but acknowledges the secrecy of this agency and composes herself for her meeting with their recruited agent.

She reached the main room of 006 as the elevator stopped. There, 006 was seated in a very alluring position, grooming herself.

"This is quite an unexpected visit, Queen Sunbrella. And at such an early time too." 006 remarked without looking at the Roserade. "I can tell there's an urgent reason why you're here."

"Indeed there is, agent. I haven't been able to sleep well ever since we won our Hall of Fame ribbons. And no, it's not because of taking care of our kingdom, that's easy enough."

"I think I know. You came to me specifically to ask since we're the only ones who know about this, right?"

"Yes. The time paradox..."

"Your king."

"...yes... my king."

"..."

006 stopped herself, half in disgust and half in sadness. Sadness because she sympathizes the loss of her queen. Disgust because it's going to be talk about lovers. The fact that she can't have a lasting affair with anyone due to her occupation is something that's really disturbing her.

"...agent?"

"Cut to the chase. You're still looking for a way to get him back, right?"

"Yes... that's my intent."

"I don't know if I can help you out much here... but here's a summary of what I know about the time paradox, and possible traces of how we can find it here."

The Roserade's leaves stood up at the mention of finding traces. All she could really think about was getting Roselio back. She would take any possibility of that happening.

"All these notes... how did you gather these?"

"When we were travelling in the time bubble during the rewind of time, I jotted down places where fragments of time dropped itself in our revised timeline.

If you can find these ripples in time, you might be able to find what you're looking for. But you have to be quick: the farther the timeline goes, the smaller the ripples get. It may even disappear."

"Understood. I shall act upon these quickly. I will be taking my leave now."

Sunbrella goes back to the platform that will take her back to the entrance of the headquarters.

"By the way, queen."

"Yes?"

"..."

"...?"

"Tell Solareon I said hi."

"..."

The platform started ascending, and 006's main office was no longer in sight.

With Sunbrella back in her carriage, she ventured forth into the place with the highest concentration of time ripples. Where else but at the top of Mt. Coronet itself?

She set her carriage down there and conjured up the rose paradise there.

She looked around for any traces of time ripples there. Using the disturbance-filtering powers she developed travelling the distortion world, she tried to look for the ripples in time that couldn't normally be seen.

There were numerous of these time ripples. They were like shards that could be picked up. They were scattered all over the place.

The ripples were a bit numerous, but Sunbrella knew what she only needed: time fragments of Roselio's existence. It took her a long time to find each one of these, even going so far as to having to descend and ascend the mountain just for these and seeking the aid of her carriage to help pick it all up.

After she felt that she picked up enough of these time ripples, she descended back to the top of Mt. Coronet and placed all the fragments she had at the summit.

She didn't know what she could do at this point. All she could really do was stare into the combined time ripples and pray.

"...my love... what I would do just to see you again..."

Staring long into the abyss of the time ripples, she eventually broke out into tears. Memories of Roselio flowing through her mind.

Little did she know that these memories were actually affecting what was happening to the time ripples.

After minutes of sadness and self monologue, the queen felt a strange warmth that was familiar. Way too familiar. A warmth that embraced her during the happiest time in her life.

"It... can it be...?!"

It wasn't there, but... she was convinced it was. She could see it clearly. Her lover was right there by her side. Roselio was embracing her.

"Ohh... my king...!!!"

She tried to embrace him back, but her leaves just passed through his body. He was only a shadow of existence now. He was there, and the timeline was just showing itself at this point. The Roserade's strong desire is helping the image form.

"You... you're here... you came back..."

Sunbrella couldn't hold her emotions. The outburst of her happiness was flowing throughout the summit.

However, it wasn't enough. Talking to a shadow was giving her a bit of sadness back.

"Please... please... talk to me... I want to hear your voice again..."

She burst into tears of sadness again as she began assuring herself that this is only how far she'll be having her lover again. She began conjuring up memories of him again, even if he was right there.

Eventually, she felt the warmth become warmer.

"...My queen."

"...!!!"

The Roserade was stunned. Small roses started to embrace her. She could feel it. It was her lover that was embracing her right now.

"I'm here..."

"Roselio!!!"

The Roserade hugged back tightly. She was finally reunited with her lover.

This only lasted for a few seconds though, as the Roselia had to explain something.

"My queen... no words can express my happiness right now, but I must explain why you should stop this right now."

"Stop... this...?"

"I am grateful... I am grateful that you poured out all your will and emotion to try and get me back here... you dug me out of the void of time so that we could see each other again.

But I must warn you... this action you just did has also caused distortions in time itself."

"I... I don't care! You're here right now! Let's go back to the kingdom, we shall have the throne together...!"

"Sunbrella, please listen! You have to think about the consequences of this... If you continue to keep me here and making the memories we had a reality, the Sun Kingdom will get distorted as well, and you will have no more kingdom to rule! And your friends... they will possibly also disappear."

The Roserade froze in shock with those words. Roselio might mean the world to her, but her kingdom IS her world. And her friends have made her queenship possible. This was a priority struggle that she has been dealing with since the time she met him, and is still haunting her now.

"Please... let me go. You have a kingdom to look over."

"But... Roselio...! I don't want to lose you again."

"Well..."

The Roselia thought about her words carefully.

"My time spent in the void of time has made me learn of how existence there works. Since you have conjured me back, I can now exist in this plane as much as I wish. However, the longer I stay here in this plane, the more that time gets distorted."

"..."

"But... I will look for a way. I will find a way for our timelines to merge again. If I can find that place... then we can be together without any harm. But it will take a while."

"!!!"

"For now, please my queen, let me go. Our love will last the cruelty of time. I will fight for you my queen. I have my own battles to face, and you have yours. I will fight until I can be together with you. Please do the same. Who knows... maybe we can also find our child again.

The Roserade was stunned in a huge variety of emotions. But one thing was for sure: she has to stop messing time up.

"We'll see each other again... right...?"

"Yes my queen. I will be back to rule the kingdom with you. I promise..."

Sunbrella's grip on Roselio weakened. Roselio was disappearing back into the shadows, and was dematerializing. His body slowly disappearing.

"I love you, my queen... and our kingdom will last forever."

She was with her lover even just for a while. She could finally sleep again knowing that her lover was somewhere in existence.

She descended back down the mountain, late into the evening and back to Napoelon's place.

It was getting deeper in the night. The royal carriage of the queen was just arriving. It was unusual that the queen would take this long outside of her kingdom.