"What do you mean you don't want to renew your contracts?!" asked the loud booming voice.

"Well the thing is, we're just not happy with our positions here," said the white hatted boy. "Right Wally?" he said turning to his nervous looking friend. He didn't answer right away so the friend repeated himself, "Right Wally?"

"Th- That's right. If it's okay with you sir we would like to be offered more before resigning." "Where is this coming from?" the voice echoed. "Brendan, you and Wally along with Lucas and Calem are some of our best clients. Speaking of which where are those two? They're never late for these meetings."

"Yeah sorry about that," called a familiar sounding voice; Wally and his friend turned around. "We would've been here sooner but somebody just had to make a stop to try to look for another fossil," said the boy with the red hat, black vest, and scarf.

"Hey, don't get snippy man. We can't all go underground like you and find fossils anytime we want!" replied the boy with the hat with sunglasses on top and the jean inspired outfit. "Calem, you can just get your Pokémon to smash rocks anytime for fossils!" "Lucas, Rock Smash is too weak of a move to keep in place other moves!"

"Enough!" the loud voice had enough. "You four are starting to annoy me!" Wally was about to point out that he really hadn't done anything wrong yet, but he decided that pissing off their boss wasn't the best idea. "Look, we don't want to lose you all as clients so what's it going to take to get you back on board? Money? Power? Misty? Shinys?... Misty?"

The four boys converse with each other for a moment and finally Wally spoke. "We took a little time this afternoon, going through our heads, of some changes we would like to be made…. Changes that's right: we brought you a copy of our changes," he said while reaching into his backpack for a stack of papers."

"Settle down Brock Lesnar. You'll get your changes but let's talk these through. Read them out loud, I can't see them from here." Brendan then spoke, "Well sir you could come out from the shadows so we can see your face. I mean seriously, that would make things so much easier; and maybe light some candles so we can see each other in this cave-"

"Anyways," states Lucas after quickly reading through the stack of papers in Wally's hands, "Condition number 1: We want a Pokémon game with all 6 regions to travel to."

"No," the voice said.

"A game for the WII U with no turn-based combat?"

"Nope."

"No more trading evolutions?"

"I don't think so, Lucas."

"You're so stubborn man; you're such a pain." Calem says to the voice.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" the voice screamed loud enough that the cave they were in shook. Brendan and Wally began holding each other; terrified. Lucas began remained firmly planted in the ground; he was scared, but definitely not as bad as his two friends.

Calem continued to speak aloofly and ignore the fact that the voice was yelling at him: "We've been working for you for years. No pay, no spots on T.V., not even any movie storylines. The only thing we get is our names in the games. Now you can find other people to do our jobs for us, but they can't replace us long-term now can they?"

After regaining his composure, Brendan let go of Wally and began to speak, "That's right. You asked for us in the first place, we've done everything you've asked, this is the first time we have asked for anything outside of the norm, and we deserve some spotlight."

After a few quiet moments the voice spoke, "So that's what you've really been after this whole time? You want your chance at the big time? Very well, you go it."

The four boys looked at each other in confusion and they spoke: "Seriously?"

Then the voice spoke, but this time with a sense of mischief, "Sure. You want your own anime special, you got it."

Brendan had the biggest smile on his face; "Oh my gosh thank you!"

Lucas then spoke with the same level of enthusiasm, "Yes you won't regret this sir. I prom-" "Not so fast," the voice cut Lucas off.

"Wh- What's the problem?" asked Wally.

The voice continued, "First you will all sign new contracts. Understood?"

The four boys look at each other and nod their heads, "What's next?" asked Lucas.

The voice chuckled, "You get your own special, but you have to share it. With some very special characters." Calem spoke up, "I don't like the sound of that." "Yeah who are these 'characters' of which you speak?" said Brendan.

"Dawn, Ash, and Serena." the voice explained.

The boys looked surprised and a little relieved, and then Wally spoke, "Well that's not so ba-"

The voice spoke again "And Barry."

Lucas next, "Still, we can work past that if we j-"

The voice continued, "And Bonnie, Clemont, Lyra, Shauna, Tierno, Trevor,"

"You're just trying to torture us aren't you Bossman?" replied Calem.

"And finally, May." The voice concluded. Calem remained unfazed by the situation, Lucas and Wally were talking the demands over with each other, but Brendan was shaking with anger.

"Why?" he screamed. "Why do we have to share the spotlight with a bunch of characters most people don't care about anymore? Why Barry, why Shauna, hell why May?"

The voice surprisingly had a very calm response to this:" Barry: comic relief; Shauna: development for Calem, Ash, and Serena. And May…." the voice had another evil sounding chuckle before answering; "Just you wait Brendan. She'll be special."

Brendan then smirked, "Yeah, sure she will," he replied sarcastically.

Wally cautiously spoke up, "With all due respect Mr. Scary Voice Sir, don't you think that's too many characters to work with?"

"Don't worry child; most of these characters will only be supporting. I promise you that."

"Are you sure?" Wally asks.

"Trust me Wally; even I don't want to torture you boys that much," the voice answered.

Calem sighed, "Well that's a relief. Any other requests, oh 'wise one'."

The voice then speaks, "Just a few more; this will not take place in your gameverse, but instead the animeverse. Next, I won't use my powers to help you in this special. Once you're there, you're on your own".

Brendan after many moments of silence finally speaks, "Really I doubt you could do anything to us anyway."

The voice smirked, "Oh really?" Suddenly Brendan raised his fist and then punched himself in the face. Lucas and Wally gasped; even Calem was surprised.

"Point taken; please continue," said Brendan accepting defeat.

"And lastly," the voice continued," "You'll have to live out your lives from day one up until you meet. In other words you'll have to start off as babies again and work your way up."

"Wait, what?!" Calem screamed.

Lucas then yelled, "That makes no sense!"

Brendan was next, "Yeah; explain how in the world it makes any iota of sense for us to basically start our journeys over?!"

The voice simply replied, "Character development."

All of the boys then replied with various answers at the same time: "Works for me."/"Fair enough."/"That makes sense."/ "I do enjoy a good dose of character development."

Wally finally decided to ask, "But won't this just screw up the Pokémon anime timeline and possibly cause many multiverses and alternative timelines that could be catastrophic for us and possibly the rest of the world?"

The boys look at each other and then looked back at Wally until Calem speaks up, "Do you really care?"

Wally sighs, "No. No, not really."

The voice continued, "If you truly want your spots boys, just sign the contracts." Suddenly smoke filled the cave causing the boys especially Wally to cough. When the smoke finally cleared, there were 4 podiums in front of the boys with a pen and a stack of papers on each.

The four boys walked to each of the podiums and while the rest of the boys read through their contracts (including the fine print), Brendan immediately signed his.

"You're not even gonna bother reading it are you Brendan?" asked Lucas.

"I've been waiting to damn long for this opportunity to start reading, Lucas." he responded.

"Don't worry, Lucas," Calem stepped in; and after that Wally did as well, "Yeah; Luke; I'm sure he'll get what's coming to him."

"That's right boys; just leave it to May." The voice said with even more mischief in his voice.

Brendan began to get annoyed, "What the hell are you guys talking about?"

"Nothing." The other boys and even the voice all promptly responded before finishing reading over the contracts and finally signing them. Almost immediately after the contracts were signed, they vanished.

"Okay boys; you've given me what I want; it's time for me to return the favor. Return when you are ready to start your new lives. It's what you've dreamed for; so don't screw it up. You're excused," the voice concluded.

"Right, thanks!" the boys happily responded before exiting the cave and as they exited they pondered on what their new lives and friends would be like. They knew it would be tough; but they also knew to always have each other's backs.

Next Stop:

Mioto Island