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25 December 2011

"This was such a good idea."
The 7 good friends were sitting around in Touya's house. Ty, Super Rike's Latios, Touko's Samurott, White Bianca's Samurott, Red's Pikachu, and White Cheren's Emboar were playing outside. Touya's Serperior chose to stay indoors though. All the parents were there and just casually chatting about things.
"So why did your Cheren not come, Touko?" Someone asked.
"Oh, he said he already had plans spending Christmas with others. That's okay though, he's generally been busy with other things since I found this universe. We just kind of do our own things now."

Super Rike looked over to Ethan, he was showing somebody one of the cubes and telling them all about it.
"He's busy talking" Super Rike thought "I'm not going to bother him."
"You keep looking over to him." Touya said.
"Yeah, I'm just thinking about what he told me."
"Aren't those cubes supposed to prevent this Pokémon from causing destruction or something?"
"Well, it's apparently supposed to prevent a Pokémon called Resu being awoken… But it's what he told me a few days later that's intriguing me."
"What's that?"
"Well he told all this to the Game Freak in Celadon and they told him to give the cubes to somebody called Hilda."
"Who's that?"
"Ethan doesn't know either. Nobody knows. He figured he'd find this Hilda on his own but I can tell by his face that he's reconsidering that. This whole situation is becoming less and less of a myth and more and more of a problem, and I think it's time we treated it seriously."
"Yeah, I suppose the last thing we want is our universe ending, but even still, could it just be that the stones he has are just made from the stories and that this Hilda doesn't actually exist?"
"I think that's why it's taking so long for Ethan to talk to us about it, he just doesn't believe in it all."
He looked over to Touya.
"Touya, I need to ask you a favour."
"Sure. What's that?"
"I want you to aid his search. I want us to find this Hilda so we can ask her what's going on and give her the stones she needs to prevent the end from happening."
"I can search with you, yeah, sure."
"Thanks."
"No problem."

Touya went to see how Touko was doing. She was having a friendly conversation with White Cheren.
It occurred to him. She's getting along with him better than she's getting along with Black Cheren. It must be because of her losing Black Bianca. Touya never knew his friendship between the 3 of them depended so strongly on Bianca. Would the same happen to him if he were to lose his Bianca? But him and Cheren were such good friends. He just didn't see it happening.
Suddenly she stopped talking with Cheren. Touya didn't know why.
Then he clearly heard her say to Cheren "Please excuse me a minute."
Then she came walking over to him.
Oh god.
She sat down next to him.
"I was just talking with Cheren and I heard him mention the N from this universe..."
"Right..." Touya said.
"...and he told me that you were the only person we know that has direct contact with him."
"...Yyyyyyyyyyeah..."
"Did you tell him about my universe?"
Touya blinked. Should he lie?
No. He was going to be completely honest about this.
"...Yes. Yes I did."
Touko looked at him. He knew he was in trouble.
"I can't believe it..." She said.
"Why, did, err...?"
"Out of all the people in the entire universe, you were the only person who could actually help me."
Help... Her? Okay? I guess that's good?
"S-seriously?" He said.
Touko took his hand and held it closer to her "Thanks to you, my N was broken out of captivity. Thanks to you we finally have a chance of defeating Plasma. Seriously. I cannot thank you enough."
Touya blushed "Well, you looked like you needed the help."
He could tell by the look on Touko's face that she knew at that point exactly what motivated him to tell N about her universe.
Then, she hugged him tightly. Touya hesitated, then did the same.
"I'm not gonna tear up" she thought "I'm not gonna tear up."

"So, your N is free now, is that a big deal?" He asked.
"Oh yeah!" She said, letting go "After your N freed my N, they teamed up and now their studying how to wake an ancient legendary Pokémon trio to help fight Plasma. They even have one now!"
"Wait, really?! What's it called?"
"Well, I forget its name, but it's one of the Resu trio."
One of the...
Touya leaned back in total disbelief.
"Are you okay?" Touko asked
"Touko… Do you happen to know somebody called Hilda?"
Touko simply stared at him.
"...Nnnnnnooooooooo." She slowly said "Why do you ask?"
"Well, it's just that Ethan found these two artifacts and apparently somebody called Hilda needs them to prevent the Resu trio from awakening and destroying every known universe."
"What?!"
"That's just what Super Rike told me."
"You're seriously gonna believe everything that kid says?"
"Well everything he told us so far was true."
Touko looked at Ethan "We seriously need to speak to him then."

Touko got up and Touya did the same.
"Hey Ethan…" she called out.
Ethan didn't seem to react for a second, but then he looked over to Touko and pointed to himself.
"Yeah." She replied "Do you have a moment?"
"Yeah, sure." Ethan said, and walked over.
"Sorry, but, there's something we need to talk about."
"What's that?"
"Super Rike told us about something that I was hoping you could help us with."
"Right…"
"He says you have something related to the legends of Resu."
"Aha" Ethan thought "Yeah, I really should have brought that up sooner."
"I do, actually." He said, and reached in his pocket for the two cubes.
"Do you know what they are?" Touko asked.
"Well according to my research, these two artifacts when brought together yield the power to control the rage of the Resu trio. They say when all 3 of the Resu trio are loose, there's nothing stopping them from ending reality, except for these things."
"...And you were told to give them to somebody?"
"I asked experts on the Resu legends and they told me to give it to somebody named Hilda."
"Let me guess, you've been looking for her but you just can't find her."
"Well, yeah. Exactly that. I was gonna ask you guys but I never got around to it."
"I think you should give them to me. I'm probably the person here who is the most likely to find this Hilda."
"Why is that?"
"Not long ago, in my universe, my N was captured, until recently your N broke him out. Now the both of them are looking for a way to wake the Resu Pokémon, and in fact, we already have one."
"Oh wow."
"What I don't understand is we explicitly said that we were only going to wake two of the three to prevent the overflow of power and likely the destruction of reality."
"Maybe it has to do with Hilda." Touya suggested "Maybe she wants to try and wake the third one."
After a second Touko said "Well, that's the best theory we have so far."
"Allright." Ethan said, handing them over to her "Do what you have to do. If I'm the one to find Hilda, I'll tell you, okay?"
"Sounds good." Touko said "Listen, you guys, I have to be somewhere now, see you guys later."
"Later!" They said cheerfully, and she went back to talking with Cheren.