Quick info:
Each chapter has all three endings for a given film in the following order: Good, Bad, and Strange, followed by a brief scene in the lobby of the theatre. I followed scripts as closely as possible while making each ending unique, and incorporating both Nate and Rosa into each plot.
For the Brycen-Man series, Nate plays the Riolu/Lucario Kid.
Good
The beautiful evening at Nimbasa City's amusement park ended with the arrival of the Masked Man.
The ferris wheel, adorned with the lights that made the city famous, ground to a halt, and, as spectators began to wonder why, a shadow leapt from its apex. He landed with a resounding crash, sending people scrambling away from the resulting dust cloud.
Lit with a thousand spotlights, a Vullaby and Pawniard appeared from within the cloud. Directed by an unseen master, they savagely attacked the stalls and attractions of the amusement park. As children ran, the control panel of the carousel was ripped out with a slash of the Pawniard's arms, bringing the ride to a shuddering halt and casting it into darkness.
A few brave souls advanced on the settling dust, but retreated at the sight of the man within it. His tattered cloak hanging limp, Brycen-Man straightened his jagged mask and grinned coldly at those who had attempted to fight him. "Fade away, fools," he growled at them.
Before they could react, Brycen-Man's Vullaby appeared from behind and cracked every one of them upside the head. They fell like so many sacks of potatoes.
Then a young girl stepped forward, her long pigtails waving in a light breeze off of the desert. "Stop it, Brycen-Man!" she cried. She leaned down to check one of the men who had fallen.
"Foolish, idealistic girl," the Masked Man snarled. "Pawniard, use-" But he was cut off as a new voice joined in.
"Riolu, Force Palm!"
From the warren of stalls, now lit only by flickering street lamps, a blue blur streaked into the light and collided with the bladed Pokémon, dealing a mighty blow with an open palm. Brycen-Man's Pawniard flew away, to land at the feet of its master. The attacking Pokémon vanished away again before anyone could register what it was.
"The Messenger of Truths and Ideals, the Riolu Kid enters!" came a young voice as a new player dashed onto the scene. The Riolu Kid wore a dramatic red mask to hold his unruly hair back, a colourfully patterned and perfectly symmetrical costume, and a yellow cape to compliment his red gloves. "Stop right there, Brycen-Man!"
The Pawniard half-rose before collapsing, unconscious.
Brycen-Man produced a deep, throaty laugh. "A single hit to knock out my Pawniard! You are something special, aren't you, Riolu Kid? But can you combat my dark, secret arts? Vullaby!"
The vulture Pokémon swept across the battlefield, knocking the girl over as it clipped her with its wings. As she fell, Brycen-Man vanished and reappeared instantaneously behind her, dragging her to her feet by one pigtail.
"Rosa!" cried the Riolu Kid. "Let her go!"
"Muahaha!" Brycen-Man cackled. "Now you know the stakes of interfering with the Masked Man of Reality and Phantasm, 'hero'!" he spat the title as if it was distasteful to him. "Move aside if you want your precious Rosa returned in one piece."
The Riolu Kid flinched momentarily, then steeled himself. "You can't threaten me," he asserted, raising his head high. "I'll protect the ideals of peace and fun, even if I have to make sacrifices. Bring it on, Brycen-Man!"
Bystanders were gathering now, watching the interplay of hero and villain. A few wiped away tears at the Riolu Kid's speech. One young man, at the back of the crowd, couldn't see, and asked, "What is it? Is it tonight's hero skit?"
Brycen-Man's eyes locked on the innocent, insulting bystander. "Hmph. You will be dealt with in due course." He flung out his free hand towards the Riolu Kid, his purple gloves dull in the lamp light. "Vullaby, use-"
"Ice Punch!" Riolu Kid ordered his Riolu. With another burst of blinding speed, the Pokémon launched itself from the shadows at the Vullaby, freezing its fist as it made contact with the bird's outstretched wing. Crippled by the attack, the Vullaby spiralled for a moment before coming to earth, its energy exhausted. This time, the Riolu flipped in midair and landed next to the Riolu Kid.
The dumbstruck Brycen-Man dropped Rosa to the ground, where she lay, nursing her hair. "Another one hit knock-out," he breathed. "How is this possible?"
The Riolu Kid stood tall, facing his foe with Riolu by his side. "I will protect the amusement park, Brycen-Man," he declared. "When you attack the ideals of innocent people, you attack me. Don't try it again."
The hero and the villain stared each other down for several moments, neither giving an inch. Finally, Brycen-Man looked away. "Very well. The Masked Man of Reality and Phantasm shall leave, for tonight." He drew his cloak about him and stood tall. "But this is not the end. We will meet again, Riolu Kid. Then, you will face my dark, secret arts!"
There was a flash of smoke, and a rush of hot air that forced all the onlookers to avert their eyes. When they could see again, Brycen-Man and his Pokémon had vanished without a trace. Only Rosa remained where he had stood.
"Rosa!" The Riolu Kid hurried forward and knelt beside the girl, carefully lifting her slightly. "Did he hurt you?"
Eschewing the assistance, Rosa picked herself up, still rubbing her scalp where Brycen-Man had grabbed her. "Only my pride, Riolu Kid," she told him. "I don't know much about villains, but it almost seemed like he wasn't here to win." She looked pensive.
Behind his mask, the Riolu Kid's face took on a pensive expression. "I know. This could be just the beginning."
Meanwhile, the crowd had closed in on the pair. "Wow, the Riolu Kid was so great!" someone said.
"I filmed it on my Cross-Transciever!" a teen girl yelled from the back. "Check out my channel on PokéTube later, everyone!"
Riolu Kid smiled slightly. "I should leave, before they can guess my secret identity," he said quietly to Rosa. "Do you need a lift home?"
"Not tonight, thanks." Rosa dusted her skirt off with a negligent gesture. "Someone has to help all these people, and I have other stuff to do tonight. See you, Riolu!" she chirped to the small blue Pokémon, who yipped at his master.
The Riolu Kid nodded to his Pokémon. "It's time to go," he agreed. "I'll see you in school, Rosa." With a wave, the Riolu Kid raced away, faster than the eyes of the crowd could follow. He and his Riolu left the city at a breakneck pace.
"And we'll see the Riolu Kid the next time the Unova Region needs protecting from the likes of Brycen-Man," promised Rosa.
Bad
"Come on, silly, just get on the ferris wheel!"
"No! It's so big. What if it swings or falls? Remember that time a few years ago when some Team Plasma guy had a fight with someone on the ferris wheel, and it fell?"
Rosa glared at the boy, but that didn't help her anger. He could be such a coward. "Nate, it's probably the safest ride in the park. Just think! We'll be able to see the whole park, maybe even all the way to Castelia City! And with all those lights at night, it's just so romantic!" She sighed, her long tails of hair fluttering around her.
"Uh… Romantic?" Nate looked aghast, and backed away a bit. "Really? Do… Do we have to go on this ride?" He straightened his visor nervously, despite the fact that the sun had set hours ago.
Rosa's expression darkened further. "I will get you on that ferris wheel if I have to drag you." She snatched up his hand and strode towards the entryway. Nate, unresisting, followed with reluctance.
Just as the pair came directly under the great wheel, it ground to a halt. As if they had been cut off, all the lights on the attraction flickered and died. "Wah! What's happening!" cried Nate, as a shadow appeared at the highest point on the wheel.
Rosa silenced her date with a gesture. "Look there," she indicated, pointing at the nondescript scrap of darkness. "What do you suppose it is?"
Before the nervous boy could venture a guess, two shapes flew down from the shadow and barrelled past the pair. Rosa was knocked to the ground by a mass of feathers, but Nate remained standing.
"R-Rosa, I think I should deal with this," Nate stammered, then ran into the shadow of the ferris wheel's small lobby.
The shapes that had rushed down upon the two teenagers had been revealed as a pair of Pokémon, a Vullaby and Pawniard. They tore through the amusement park, ripping the stalls of souvenirs to shreds and tearing out power cords, sending the surroundings into an ever deeper gloom. A deep laugh floated down from the ferris wheel. The larger shadow made a flying leap, and landed lightly in the open space before the ferris wheel, his cape spread wide.
"Go, my Pokémon! This place of worthless, idle dreams has stood for too long!" declaimed Brycen-Man, pointing an accusing, gloved finger at the amusement park. "The dark, secret arts of the Masked Man of Reality and Phantasm shall tear this monument to consumerist fantasy to the ground."
Rosa carefully rose to her feet, keeping quiet, and backed up against the ferris wheel. "Nate, we should get out of here," she murmured into the blackness of the lobby.
Then, as Brycen-Man's Pawniard flowed past the square to find a new stall to ravage, Nate's voice issued from inside, "S-stop right there, Brycen-Man!" Unfortunately, his slight nervous stammer remained.
"Eh?" the villain asked, turning around. "Who dares to speak to me so?"
"I do!" Nate's voice, to Rosa's astonishment, gained some power. "The Riolu Kid, the Messenger of Truths and Ideals, will stop you!" And he stepped into the half-light afforded by the distant lights of Nimbasa City.
To Rosa's eye, Nate looked faintly ridiculous in the hero outfit. His mask, clearly meant to hold back his bird's nest hair, was dramatic enough, but the choice of primary colours for his outfit had clearly been the wrong decision. The worst was the bright red gloves, which looked so big they were about to fall off.
Brycen-Man's glare was contemptuous. "I hardly think a fledgling hero will be able to deal with my dark, secret arts," he huffed. Rosa privately agreed.
Nate frowned. "Riolu, attack!" he called.
From behind him, a streak of blue emerged, and moved, faster than the eye could follow, to strike Brycen-Man's Pawniard with a crushing open-handed blow. There was a brief scuffle, but Riolu had a clear advantage, and the villain's Pokémon crumpled.
"Hmm, so you do have some skill," conceded Brycen-Man. "This may just be an entertaining fight. Prepare for my dark, secret arts, Riolu Kid!" he howled.
The 'Riolu Kid' took a step back, intimidated, and produced a small squeak of protest. Brycen-Man laughed and gestured to his Vullaby, who had alighted beside him as the Pawniard fell.
Before Riolu could react, the Aerial Ace had hit. A shocking blow across the face, and Vullaby sailed away, only to strike again from behind without any reprisal from the small Pokémon. Riolu collapsed and made no attempt to rise.
"Riolu!" Riolu Kid called to his Pokémon, but there was no response.
"That's it?" Brycen-Man seemed slightly disappointed. Perhaps he had expected a better fight. "Well, that didn't even require my dark, secret arts! All the better, I suppose. Now, Riolu Kid, just wait over there like a good failed hero while I deal with the amusement park."
The Riolu Kid sank to his knees, his mouth hanging open in disbelief. Rosa, still behind him, her back to the ferris wheel, made a disgusted noise. "Useless boys," she observed, moving forward.
Brycen-Man had turned away, and was pulling out a Revive from a pocket in his cloak when Rosa struck. An elbow to the gut and, as the man bent double, a calculated strike at the pair of nerve points in the neck. Before the villain even hit the ground, Rosa had backed away and was brushing off her hands.
Nate stared in undisguised wonder. "R-Rosa, how did you…" he could only trail off in disbelief.
"Return your Riolu, 'Riolu Kid'," admonished Rosa, adjusting her buns, which had been knocked off-centre by Brycen-Man's flailing arms. "We're leaving, now."
Outside the Nimbasa Amusement Park, Nate asked again. "Seriously, what was that?"
Rosa cast a dark look at him, and he flinched. "None of your business," she snapped. "By the way, you're still wearing your 'hero' getup."
Nate gasped, apparently noticing for the first time that he still wore the gaudy outfit and mask of his superhero 'alter ego'. To the stares of passersby, he ran down the street to the nearest public washroom.
Strange
The Masked Man of Reality and Phantasm, Brycen-Man, sat in the gloom behind Nimbasa City's ferris wheel, his fingers steepled before his face. Tonight would be the crowning achievement of the crime wave he had masterminded, and would finally destroy the obsolete notions of truth and ideal in the Unova region. Tonight, garbed in his tattered cloak and dramatic mask, he would tear down the amusement park and destroy the foolish dreamings of the naïve people of the region.
His Pawniard marched up to him, steel appendages shining like oil in the shifting half-light. "Is all in readiness?" asked Brycen-Man. The Pokémon saluted and nodded.
"Very well. I am prepared. No hero shall stop our power tonight!"
A few minutes later, the ferris wheel creaked to a halt, and every light on it went out. The charges set in the control room had done their work. The clouds, reflecting the glow of the city that never sleeps, silhouetted the Masked Man as he stood astride the ferris wheel, a dramatic shadow that the people below quickly noticed and pointed to in their terror.
With a casual flick of his cloak, Brycen-Man threw himself into the air from the ferris wheel. He did a flip halfway down, and nonchalantly ploughed into a bystander to break his fall. The onlookers screamed and backed up into each other. When Pawniard and Vullaby joined the chaos, it quickly became a panicked stampede, and visitors were trampled in the press.
"And now, the amusement park… shall fall!" Brycen-Man raised his arms in the air, and sets of charges throughout the park began to explode, adding to the chaos as showers of sparks fell from the festive lights. An ever-widening area around the ferris wheel began to go dark, an area in which Pawniard and Vullaby took free rein to destroy attractions and merchandise.
Then, just as the boiling mass of people exploded onto the streets of Nimbasa City, a new voice, amplified a thousand times by the park loudspeakers, said, "Stop right there, Brycen-Man!"
Standing with a Riolu on the top of the carousel, the hero was suddenly lit by spotlights from all sides. He wore a suit, all in primary colours, and a cape that flowed behind him to alternate the colours of the top and bottom in the glare. His mask held back a cloud of brown hair. "I won't let you destroy the amusement park!"
Brycen-Man stared for a long moment, until the little hero started to look uncomfortable. "A child," he spat. "Not even a functional hero, but a worthless lump of a pampered child."
Then he pulled himself together. "You think you can stop me, little hero?" bellowed the Masked Man of Reality and Phantasm. "Before we begin, tell me your name. I enjoy knowing the titles of those I crush into the dust!" Pawniard and Vullaby returned to his side, and together they prepared for battle.
The little hero puffed his chest out. "I'm the Riolu Kid, the Hero of Truths and Ideals! You can't stop me and Riolu!"
"Let's see about that. Face me, and my dark, secret arts." Brycen-Man leapt out of the way at the same moment as Pawniard and Vullaby surged forward.
The panic exuded by the Riolu Kid was palpable. "Riolu, Force Palm!" he screeched.
The blue Pokémon lurched into battle, looking confused. It swung once, twice, and a third time at Pawniard, but the bladed Pokémon dodged every strike with ease before hitting the smaller animal with a ringing uppercut.
"Oops," breathed the Riolu Kid. "We missed…"
Brycen-Man was aghast. "Your Pokémon can't even hit right?" he wondered, incredulous. "Why are you even here? This… ugh, this is the worst of insults. Do I not rank even a proper hero to try and stop me?"
Riolu Kid hung his head as Brycen-Man continued to rave. "I went to so much trouble planning tonight, but now you've ruined it." He sounded close to tears. "All the terror will be for nothing if everyone knows that there wasn't even a real hero here to try and stop me, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
"If I'm not regularly defeating heroes, I lose my credit as a supervillain, and then I can't get into the lounge under Reversal Mountain. I won't get the support I need for events like this from the Castelia Business Guild, and then I'll have to go into legitimate business to fund my agenda.
"Well, you get on rebuilding the park, little hero," he said, finally. "I'll collect the support I need for another crime wave, and then I want a real hero sent for me to defeat, alright?" With that, Brycen-Man faded into the shadows around the ferris wheel and vanished into the night, presumably to visit the supervillain lounge and describe his excursion to the other villains there.
Riolu Kid, still shocked at his failure, left the park without another word, leaving his crew to pack up their equipment and hurry the spotlights back into storage. To the side, a young woman, a bystander during the attack, was talking on her Cross-Transciever.
"Yes, he wants a real hero sent next time," she said, and waited while a string of unintelligible yelling emerged. "Yes, I understand that there aren't many, but I don't think a novice like Sora can go after real criminals yet… Yes, I'm his manager, but you warned me about the attack on the amusement park tonight without telling me who would be attacking… No, I can't go after him now and clarify who he wants sent after him. How would that look, a hero's manager walking into the lounge like I'm out for Sunday brunch? They aren't supposed to know that we know who they are, and if I go talk to Brycen, they'll find the cameras we placed in their lounge."
Finally, the speech from the other end calmed enough that it could be heard. "Rosa, you need to train Sora so that he can deal with this quickly," a masculine voice ordered, crackling through the secure channel. "The Riolu Kid is dropping in the polls, and we need a new angle for him. Clumsy new hero isn't going to work for much longer before we have to drop him and switch you to a new assignment."
"Understood, sir," chirped Rosa. "I'll get right on creating an actual arch-nemesis for Brycen-Man. I'll need to put in a new training room for Sora, and I might need some of those competence inducers from the research division. Riolu Kid will be ready the next time Brycen-Man appears. Do you want him to take him out, or to get taken down?"
"That's your prerogative, Rosa. Do what's better for the drama. The Kanto audience loves drama."
"I understand. Thank you, sir."
"Good luck."
Rosa hung up the Cross-Transciever and stretched for a moment. She would be working non-stop until Brycen-Man's next attack. Not only did she have a hero to train, but she would have to coordinate with Brycen's manager to plan out a plot for the next clash, and produce some coherent build-up on camera, with the two separated by an entire region the whole time.
It was time, she decided, to start running the angst and revenge angle with Sora. She had been planning it for months, of course, but this defeat was perfect to set it up. Very soon, the Riolu Kid would be Kanto's favourite hero. Right after he got an angst booster in his neck tonight. Rosa held up the needle and grinned. She loved her job.
As the three stars burst out of the theatre, Rosa groaned and hung her head. "That was so awful," she moaned. "I feel dirty for having been in a film like that." She scrubbed at her arms to try and rid herself of the feeling.
Brycen, known for being inhumanly stoic while training at his former gym in Icirrus City, actually laughed. "Everyone's first film is horrible," he told her. "I think that it's a test to see who can actually make the film good while dealing with an awful premise. You were lucky to get a costar like me," he joked. He preened shamelessly in front of a group of fans, who took pictures and squealed, then continued walking towards the doors.
Nate looked a little shell-shocked from the noise of the crowd in the lobby. "Are there always so many people here?" he asked, blinking in the light of a thousand flashing cameras.
"You'll draw crowds like this eventually," Brycen assured the young trainer. He posed in front of a crowd of reporters for a picture, then continued, "All it takes with this lot is a few good movies and they'll love you forever."
"That was not a good movie," Rosa complained, still making gagging motions barely disguised behind her ponytails.
Nate shrugged. "The third short wasn't too bad," he pointed out. "Was that your idea? We never discussed it during the shoot."
Rosa grinned and chuckled evilly. "Yes, it was my idea. I rather enjoyed the stunned silence of the audience."
"I will warn you that the audience will expect the sequel to be better, and keep some of the elements you two got into this film," Brycen pointed out, looking with some relief at the exit, which they had nearly reached.
"Sequel?" Nate and Rosa asked together.
"Yes. Didn't you know?" Brycen was puzzled. "That collection was good enough to collect some fans, and now the studio is going to latch on and go big with the series, and you two. I wouldn't be surprised if you both go on to do a whole career's worth of movies in the next few months."
Nate and Rosa looked at each other, quite terrified. "I, ah, need to do some training," Nate choked, and nearly ran for the doors.
"Me too," agreed Rosa. "And we might not be back for… ever?" She was clearly worried at the idea of having fans.
Brycen seemed very amused at this. "Yes, well, here come some fans now." He gestured to an approaching crowd of people, most far younger than the two new stars.
Brycen turned around and snapped a selfie as the newly created swarm of fanatics converged on Nate and Rosa, making sure to catch the clump of screaming teens and the horrified expressions on the actors' faces.
Strange Endings are usually easiest to get with a high-level Pokemon with a moveset to complete the requirements. Unless otherwise indicated, I used a Latias to complete them. Good and Bad Endings are often easiest to get with the Rentals.
I used a guide on GameFAQs for help with getting every ending, and have the script of every film saved. Indicate whether that's of interest in a review, if you'd like.
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