Intro: Making The Choice

(Luxray)

We appeared in court the next day.

While waiting for the Judge, Ethereal and I decided to prepare a little script.

"Okay, so…"
"The bail is ten million for each of us…how much money do you have?"
"…You first."
"Fine…a billion."
"Same here."

Great. The bail meant nothing. Everyone else wouldn't be convinced. Therefore, I decided to take this myself.

"Let me speak later, okay?"
"Okay."

Judge Arceus entered, and we all rose (Arceus = Judgement :P).

"Alright, so today, we're going to run the two there on a trial."
"Your honour, that's already established. Why not run them on a Judgement?"

We all looked at Crimson.

Whoops. He apparently had just talked back to the judge. Big trouble.
Arceus charged a Judgement up…and then it realized the situation and stopped.
He burst into laugher. And those overly formal people in the crowd had their heads hung down as if Arceus wasn't a good judge.

Which he wasn't too good, actually. Then again, no one wanted a Smeargle to be the Judge. (did anyone get the joke?)

"Haha! We're glad to have you on our force, Inspector!"
"Thank you, your Honour."

Arceus turned back.

"Let's go back to real stuff. T-"
"Your Honour!"

We all looked at Crimson again.

"Is it possible to let the defense speak first?"
"Defense? What's…"

Arceus thought for a while.

"Oh! You mean the convicted! Okay! Speak, friends! Speak!"

At this point of time, half of the crowd facepalmed. I overheard someone say that "they wanted a new judge" but no one else knew Judgement…so there.
I went up to the mic.

"Your honour, may I ask you a question?"
"Yes?"
"How much is the bail for the both of us?"

The entire crowd gasped.

"Erm…lemme see…"

Arceus flipped through the documents.

"Two hundred million. Or something like that. Bah, I'm too lazy to count the zeros, you get the point!"

The crowd laughed. They thought that we couldn't pay that.

"Good, because we got a billion each."
"Oh. Interesting."

The crowd gasped.
Then I stepped down.

Plutonium's turn.
She went up, and I left the rest to her.

"Okay, so continuing from where he left off…we can pay this bail and there's no shi- oops, there's no stuff you can do about it. Yep!"

The crowd was muttery. Not too good.

"But hey, look, we've got money. We can do better stuff with the money than this. Really."

Still muttery.
I turned to Arceus.

"Hey Arceus, can I change my name right now?"
"Sure."
"Change it to Ethereal."
"As in "angelic"?"
"Something I picked up, yeah."
"Sure, no problem. Your name is now Ethereal."

The crowd facepalmed again.

"Right, so what'cha say if we take that money and go help everyone we've done stuff to?"

Sudden silence.

Arceus turned to the jury.

"This is your decision. If you object, raise your hands."

The jury was kinda made up of 6 Bronzongs and 6 Serperiors, so we would win either way. But we saw them nodding and doing all sorts of weird stuff to show consent. So Arceus decided to make the final decision here.

"Alright, it has been decided! Frenzy and Ethereal will go back and rebuild everything that they've destroyed!"

The jury couldn't clap.
Thank god the crowd could.

Plutonium, sorry, Ethereal walked down and she was smiling so broadly it kinda reminded me of Togekiss.

"Good job there!"
"WOW IT WORKED! IT WORKED!"

Ethereal pounced on me.
Crimson went crazy.

"WOOT! TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS! QUICK!"

I heard camera snaps, but I didn't care. This was the best moment ever.
Then all of a sudden I remembered.

"Your Honour, can I use the mic?"
"Sure."

Arceus moved away from his judges' podium…which was not the original intention but who cared?
I went up and took a little glance.

"Hey Blissey."

Six Blisseys looked at me.

"I'm talking to you. Yeah, you. The only one with Natural Cure."

THE Blissey looked at me.

"Hey. Good job on your trial."
"Is your daughter here? The Bold natured one?"
"No."
"Tell her I said thanks."
"What?"

I walked off the podium, and Arceus was like, "Thanks?"

The news spread like a wildfire. After a minute or so, every single Pokemon, even those in the forests, seas and all those stuffs knew about it. Even the people that didn't know us got to know about it. (By the way, in our world, we transmit messages using Psychic pokes, and that makes things ridiculously easy."

Ethereal and I walked out of the courtroom.

"So…what are we going to start with?"
"I say we should ask Crimson first…or at least treat him with something."
"Yeah, he helped us a lot."

Suddenly, we heard a soft voice from underneath.

"Heya, wanna buy some candy?"

We looked down and saw a Teddiursa. It cringed at the sight of us.

"Erm…"
"Don't worry; we're fine now."
"Oh. Do you wanna buy stuff?"

We looked at each other.

"Well, kindness begins somewhere."

Ethereal took the entire tray.

"Here, take this."

She handed over a hundred PokeDollars

"But…"
"Take it. Please."

And then we dramatically walked away.
I looked at Ethereal.

"What were you thinking?"
"I seriously don't know…wanna have a candy fest?"
"…wow."

At this point of time, we saw Crimson in the horizon, putting back on his Choice Specs.

"Hey Crimson!"

Crimson looked back.

"What? Wait…"

He rushed all the way here.

"OH MY ARCEUS ITS CANDY!"
"Erm…you want it?"
"YEA SURE!"

Crimson snatched the entire tray and left. Wow, how expected was that?

Suddenly, a Volcarona walked by.

"Hey."
"What?"
"You know that Typhlosion?"
"Yeah…he helped us get out."
"Well, he's going to face me for the rank of Chief. Wish him good luck."
"…Erm…okay…"

The Volcarona flew away.

"Wow. How sinister."
"Yeah, speaking of which; Crimson has that battle coming up right?"
"Yes…that's what the girl mentioned."
"Let's watch him own."
"How would you know that he'd own?"
"He's got the Choice Specs. That's going to help him nab a fast kill."
"Oh, right."

We walked out of the courtroom once again.