A boy was busy in a city deciding where he should train next, he locked eyes with a blue haired woman a couple years older than him.
As she approached, the boy asked. "Hello! I do believe our eyes have met! Are we to battle this day?"
Laura tossed a Smeargle with a red tie into battle and answered nervously. "Why... why yes they have met."
The boy smiled as he shouted. "Tolley! Look's like we have someone to train with!"
He tossed a dusk ball and send in a Bronzong. Laura was a little hesitate as the Smeargle began to grumble in a language understandable only to other pokemon. (What is she doing? Lets beat him and get his prize money!) The Bronzong's eyes glowed as it saw its opponent.
Smeargle grinned as he saw a defensive pokemon before him. (That is some nice defenses you got there... it be a shame if all that was cut down!)
The boy saw the determined Smeargle began to compliment it. "It seems like he is ready for this! Tolley is more than prepared for what he has to offer." Laura smiled back. "I'm sure he is."
The Smeargle shook his head in disagreement. (No he isn't. Soon as my combo is set up your hopes are going to be cut in half.)
Laura glared at the Smeargle. "Don't interrupt this."
The boy was a little nervous at what the Smeargle has as a move set and spoke. "Well. Don't be too hard on Tolley, he had only recently came to this region and has not fought a Smeargle enough to know what to expect."
Laura looked at the boy in bliss. "Don't be too hard on Smeargle either, he had only recently learned some new moves I would like to try out."
The Smeargle grinned smug. (Mind reader and guillotine buddy!)
The boy thought his strategy through. "I wonder what the Smeargle has for a move set? If she is this confident, then I am to take this nice and slowly."
Bronzong glared at the Smeargle who was ordered to calm himself down.
The boy shouted his first two orders. "Tolly, set up a trick room, then use the move light screen!"
As the Bronzong distorted the dimensions to where it would move first, it blocked the coming dark pulse with a yellow screen.
The Smeargle groaned at the move combination and complained. (Why didn't you have me use the other combo, I could end the fight right now!)
The Bronzong made a faint echo like question. (Light screen instead of Gyro ball? Unusual.)
Laura saw the move combination as it countered her Smeargle's. "You used a light screen to keep dark pulses damage low? Interesting strategy."
The boy replied back. "Of course! Without trick room your Smeargle would have had the advantage!"
Laura blushed as she realized the boy had more on his mind than just a battle. "Do I use the combination on him now? No, I want to see how far this battle would go."
Both Smeargle and Bronzong were worried about what their trainers were doing, with the Bronzong humming in concern. (Master please let me use gyro ball. I fear this Smeargle has something much worse than boosting a special attack.)
The boy ordered the Bronzong to set the trick room off. (Master... do you forget what flinching does?)
In response to the Bronzong's concern, the boy raised a finger as he spoke to Laura. "I would like to see how much a boosted dark pulse can do against a Tolley. He is mainly a defensive pokemon and I wish to see more!"
Laura looked away at the boys reason. "He is very considerate of his opponent, too much for his own good! Smeargle use dark pulse."
Smeargle shrugged as used dark pulse. (Okay now I can actually work with this. But I wish you have me use the other combo!)
The boy shouted out. "Now then, Tolley use psychic on that Smeargle if you can!"
The Bronzong's eyes glowed as it generated a psychic blast at the Smeargle, sending him back as the impact was rather strong for him to handle. Smeargle tried dark pulse again to flinch the Bronzong.
The Smeargle was half way to fainting as he barked back to the trainer, who was still unable to figure out what he was saying. (Come on let me use the combo, this Bronzong is too durable for dark pulse and we got somewhere to be!)
The boy looked at the determined Smeargle and asked. "It is a rather well cared Smeargle, where did you captured it?"
Laura remembered how she obtained the Smeargle and answered. "Smeargle was given to me when it was an egg. I raised him from birth and continued since."
The boy grinned at the response. "Wish I can say the same about Tolley, he was but a Bronzor when I found him near a place of legends!"
Laura's eyes widened. "Since he is not from this region, doesn't that mean you visited..."
The boy nodded. "Yes, Mount Cornet!"
Laura's eyes widened in curiosity. "Cornet? How much of Sinnoh do you know?"
In a smile the boy answered. "Enough that the very foundation of our reality was born on that region! I know that Smeargle is known to learn moves that are normally exclusive to those legends."
Laura blushed as she tried to regain some composure. "Enough of that. May we continue our battle? You do not have to hold back for me!"
The Smeargle hopped at what he heard. (She isn't going to throw in the battle. Finally I can use the move!)
The Bronzong glowed its eyes and emitted a dark hum. (At last! We shall end this!)
Smeargle began to read the Bronzong's mind in predicting where it would try to dodge, the boy shouted. "Tolley, set up trick room! We are finally done talking!"
As the dimensions distorted, Laura tried to warn the boy of what she was about to do. "Do you know of this combination?"
The boy frowned and nodded. "I do! Mind reader is very good if used with an inaccurate move! The most dangerous of them tend to cause a knock out no matter what I set up!"
Laura is blushing uncontrollably. "I cannot believe I am doing this to him."
She slipped her tongue and gave another warning. "I have something to tell you after this battle!"
The boy flared up red as he realized what she was about to say and responded. "I have something to tell you myself... I am not sure how you would react... Tolley, gyro ball!"
The Bronzong began to spin and use its other wise low speed to run the Smeagle over as he generated two sharp blades for a guillotine. In a blow, the Smeargle was knocked out.
Laura began to confess something as she shouted. "There is something I want to say to you!"
The boy looked down in guilt at what he was about to do and stopped her. "I know what you are about to say... but I cannot return those feelings."
Laura was startled and confused as she asked. "What? Why?!"
The boy began to explain why he said what he said. "It is not that I don't think you are pretty, nor do I think that Smeargle is not a well trained pokemon. But I am already spoken for!"
Laura cringed as she felt something in her chest break and asked struggling to keep cool. "Wha... then why did you try to prolong this battle?"
The boy smiled nervously. "I thought you wanted to make a conversation while we talked about our pokemon. I kept it going till we were done talking."
Laura took a deep breath as she tried to hold back tears of heart break. "I did enjoy our conversation..."
The boy began to apologize in an attempt to fix the damage he has caused. "We can still be friends if you want. Want to go for a casteliacone? You can even keep the prize money if I ruined your strategy."
Laura took a smile of relief. "Thank you! Next time, read the signs sooner than later!"
As the film ended, Elio was out in the theater chatting with the actress Diana.
The teenage woman asked him. "I know that part was not of the script. The heart break really is a nice twist to most of these; where did you get the idea?"
Diana saw a green eyed blond girl blushing at Elio, giving her the answer. "Okay I see how you were able to do that, see ya later!"
Elio waved the actress goodbye as Lillie gave him a look of curiosity. "Some one else? Who was that boy talking about?"
Elio answered in a shrug and a sharp frown. "No idea, he was dumb enough to not see the signs until late in battle and look what happened because of that jerk! Now, any ideas for the next Brycen man flick?"
Lillie thought of a couple. "We use our Z moves and Mega evolved pokemon to show Lucario Boy that we mean business?"
Elio joined in thought. "I have a Sharpedo of mine I been training for a while. What do you plan to bring?"
Lillie answered back. "I have Swoops and his heat wave! If we are going for a fire and water theme, we need one more pokemon of that type. Vulca needs to be raised up more before anything though."
Elio nodded in agreement. "I need to call Kukui about getting Tetra in the P.C."
Elio and Lillie left Poke Star Studios to go call home in the Virbank pokemon center. Elio called home and wanted to talk to Professor Kukui about the Qwilfish that was left with him.
As the professor appeared on the screen, he noticed Elio acting excited over something. "It hasn't even been a week, something happened?"
Elio nodded before he answered. "Yes. But it isn't anything you need to know about just yet! How is Tetra doing? I need her in the P.C for a small trip to this region!"
Kukui gave an apologetic frown as he answered. "That Qwilfish kept being startled over nearly everything that has happened. To the point where she nearly hurt the other pokemon too many times than I want to count. As a result, she is already in the P.C and at the Pelago. Why are you asking?"
Elio's grin faded as he answered. "Oh it is a surprise! Lets just say Tetra is going to be on T.V soon!"
Elio said his farewells to the professor as he let Lillie use the screen while he went to the P.C to switched his Silvally and Mimikyu for his Sharpedo and Qwilfish. "I never knew why I call you Mister Missile, but it works!"
Lillie giggled as she made her conversation with the professor brief. "We have been doing very well in this region, could you have Burnet on the phone? We may have met a few people on Unova she may have known."
Kukui smiled as he got off the chair and let his wife take over. Burnet smiled at a smiling Lillie and asked. "You met Fennel?"
Lillie nodded. "I want to ask. Since you two worked on dreams for a while, how do those connect with other dimensions?"
Burnet listened and answered. "Trainers often go into a bed like machine she invented. They bring a pokemon of their choice to explore a place called the Dream World. Unlike... that one incident Elio had. Most of the time they explore the realm to find what they find, often what they find in the Dream World tends to go into a place in Unova that link's between realities. Some times they are items, sometimes they are pokemon with hidden abilities. They use to be called Dream World abilities for a time."
Lillie took the information to heart and asked. "How does your Dream Radar involve the Kami Trio?"
Burnet remembered her research as she answered. "Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus may all look alike from last you seen them. But they have another form called Therian forms that are rumored to be what they looked like in the Dream World. They often transform when they look into a mirror. Tornadus turns into a bird like creature, Thundurus turns into a serpent like beast and Landorus turns into a type of cat. They even have different abilities from what they normally have in those forms."
Lillie found the information interesting as she asked. "Some of the pokemon Elio had met while he was in... that coma. Would it be possible for them to cross over if he meets them again?"
Burnet nodded. "They would, though some of them would be very special even among what they look like. You are going to have to ask him yourself if he wants to."
Lillie looked over at Elio who was comforting a Qwilfish in a tank and smiled back. "Elio and I have something going on in this region and I can't wait for you to eventually see it! Talk to you after you see it?" Burnet was curious to what Lillie meant and began her farewells.
As the conversation ended, Lillie asked Elio about some of the pokemon he knew from the Dream World. Elio answered back. "If it is something that involves them crossing over. I don't think it would be a good idea for some of them, some of them already exist in this world and two of them I met are you know whats!"
Lillie understood. "Are they as dangerous as the actual ones?"
Elio has no answer. "The one that meant to be something I was afraid of was more terrified of Isaac. The one that was meant to be a scapegoat... actually helped me wake up when she gave me a photo. Those jellyfish are too instinctual to really do that."
Lillie wanted to drop the subject at the mention of a Nihilego. "Was it something that already existed to you?"
Elio nodded. "One I found in Wela park acted very similar to the one in the dream... responded to the name Krell all the same. The only difference is the dream one responds much more than a simple call and orders. Again, she gave me a photo and told me to take the stairway up."
Lillie looked in confusion and came to a conclusion. "Do you ever see those pokemon again? Because this sounds like something much more than your mind dreaming them up."
Elio shook his head. "No, I have not. I don't know how it even works other than something going on in my head."
Once the two finished the conversation about dreams, Lillie began to call Aether in hope to talk to Gladion or Wicke.
To her fortune, Gladion picked up and greeted her. "It's been a bit busy here... how have you been?"
Lillie answered back by explaining the places she and Elio have been as well as the places she had yet explored. She also mentioned that she captured a Heatran.
Gladion sighed at the mention of the pokemon. "Someone posted a video about that. Elio did that?"
Lillie smiled nervously at the question. "Yes and no! Yes because I sneaked out ahead of him this time and he followed. No because Rotom dex..."
Gladion gave a sharp frown as he heard the answer. "This isn't the first time something like this happened. Could you put Elio on the phone."
Elio over heard as he called his Qwilfish back in her ball. "I knew this was about to happen."
As the duo switched places, Elio was greeted with an overprotective glare from Gladion that asked. "Enough people had seen it and they were doing nothing but praising her. This is the only reason why this isn't going to be worse. Anything else that happened?"
Elio frowned as he described a couple encounters he and Lillie had with a group called Team Plasma and the things that had happened with them.
Gladion continued his glare at the answer. "That sounded a lot different than what Haley reported about those guys a couple months ago."
Elio explained a bit more. "That group was the ones who actually believed in their cause. That actually cared about what they were preaching. The ones Lillie and I took out... was the other half. The ones that preach all that yet attempt to exploit pokemon for conquest and then they started saying things about Isaac and the other..."
Gladion raised a finger and told Elio to not bring up the Mew. "Please don't! I know talking about the Mew bothers you, what did these people tried to do?"
Elio made it very vague about what happened. "They found a former shadow pokemon Lillie and I sent back home. He fell out of a hole, tried everything possible to stay put and wait for me to pick him up. They tried to control Gapper as a means of taking over Unova. Also Lillie and I have our hands on another pokemon that we are not going to bring to anywhere Aether related."
Gladion flinched as he asked. "Why would you say that?"
Elio took out a net ball. "Think it is better if I show you. Blattron, I want to introduced you to a video phone!"
Gladions eyes widened at what looked like a purple robotic insect that glared at the screen. It crackled as it looked at Gladion. "This how you talk to one another from a distance? Some things I had hunted used something similar... but without the need for technology!"
Gladion was about to ask what is the pokemon Elio brought out, when a Silvally approached from behind his trainer for attention and distracted him.
The Genesect identified the pokemon Gladion was petting and asked Elio. "That another Kalden?"
Elio corrected the Genesect in fear of Gladion being angry about what happened with the second Silvally. "No, technically the name of that pokemon species is Silvally. Kalden is just a nickname I gave it. Like how I called you Blattron!"
Gladion calmed down about the Genesect and regained his composure. "Could you explain what that thing is?"
Elio spent five minutes explaining what he knows about the pokemon Genesect. How it was a pokemon that was revived from a fossil, turned into a cyborg and had a gun attached to his back. Silvally looked curiously at the Genesect as he listened to the brief description.
The Genesect chuckled a little as he asked. "There is more to this one and Kalden than you are telling me... right?"
Elio's went stoic as he remembered what he knew about Type:Null and why he still had a lingering grudge against Aether. He calmly soothed the Genesect as he whispered. "It doesn't matter what they call Kalden, he is a dragon forever more! Don't ever let anyone call him or you the word weapon... because you are more than that!"
As he looked back to Gladion on the screen, he gave a calm stoic face as he explained what happened to the Plasma group. "What matters on Unova is these people are no longer a threat."
Gladion listened to the news and groaned in disgust. "Some of the things you done for Kalden are not working for the Genesect, are they?"
Elio nodded as he faced downward in shame. "He can eat, I can pet him. Hey Blattron... do you feel anything when I do that?"
The Genesect looked at his trainer and answered. "Aside from feeling you pushing me a little... that what a petting is suppose to be?"
Elio smiled. "Kind of. But you are suppose to feel a little more. Anyways Gladion, he cannot even taste food. He is an Apex predator before he died from something, the only thing that does work at the moment that he likes to fight pokemon he thinks are strong. We also found out more about Heatran, turned out they are not just found in volcanos. They are also found beneath the earths crust, that is how they travel to many regions."
Gladion written some information down as he looked at the Genesect. "Still their is something you are not telling me. Anything else you and Lillie did?"
Elio's stoic look returned to a more lively smile. "Nimbasa City had a Ferris Wheel we went to!"
Gladion placed his palm on his forehead at what was happening as he asked. "He is doing that with Lillie again. Is that all?" Elio smiled as he continued. "For now, yes. Remember, if anyone ask, you don't know who Blattron is!"
In a usual glare, Gladion responded. "I was writing down about Heatran. Where did you get that information?"
Elio answered back. "Lillie and I asked Melta and Wela more about them! Little shit Dex may be, he is a good communicator!"
Gladion's frown loosened in humor. "Very well. Put Lillie back on."
Elio turned around to see Lillie trying to hug the Genesect. "Okay Lillie, you can come back to what ever you were talking about."
Lillie went back to talk to Gladion a little more, the brother asked. "What exactly happened when you confronted..."
Lillie frowned. "They tried to force Lola, Cain and Ghorchi to attack me using some device that controlled their bodies. It was Ghorchi who broke free enough to destroy it, when that didn't work they tried to use Gapper on Elio..."
Gladion's frown became sharp again at thought of another group trying to use an Ultra Beast. "What happened?"
Lillie answered. "Gapper remembered him and went in the ball willingly after Elio talked to him about something."
Wanting the subject on Team Plasma to end, Gladion asked. "Anything else you are doing. The World Tournament is still a couple months away?"
Lillie grinned mischievously. "You will find out soon enough!"
Gladion looked over Elio trying to make a conversation with the Genesect. "Try to keep Elio from showing that one off, least not until I get a closer look at it and figure out more."
Lillie understood. "All Blattron needs is to know more about the world he is in."
Gladion kept a frown. "There is more to that, what does it actually see in the world?"
Lillie answered as she felt mental pain. "Nothing at the moment. Though I wished he didn't call himself a freak, it hurts to even hear someone call someone that... least of all themselves."
Gladion took a deep breath as he spoke his mind about the Genesect. "It is a pokemon that was long dead, revived through artificial means to be a weapon; it did not ask to that and from what I seen he wants to feel something. He seems to get along with Kalden, but that is probably because of their... origins. Since you are not going tell me what you are doing, I assume it is another big one?"
Lillie nodded and kept silent. Gladion hid a faint smile as he said his good nights.
As the call ended, Lillie turned around to see Elio, Genesect and an escaped Mew trying to play together.
The Genesect didn't mind the Mew trying to talk to him, though it was not effective due to what era he came from. "Sorry kid. I don't even know what these lakes even are! Hey... boss!"
Elio smiled in unusual glee. "You finally called me boss! Anyways what you want?"
The Genesect chuckled at his trainers behavior. "You mind if I try to find one thing out before I go back in the ball?"
Elio tilted his head in question. "What?"
The Genesect looked at the Mew and asked. "I want to know if I can even have... a dream."
Elio shrugged. "If you can still sleep, you can do that. Just don't go out on hunts while Lillie and I are asleep, okay!"
The Genesect grumbled as the two trainers and Mew began to use a room for for the night. "Yeah, yeah!"
