The reunion with Team One and Alpha team was not the joyous experience that Team Two and Beta team expected…
A heavy air of depression weighed in the cold atmosphere of the early morning.
Greetings were quiet, solemn, broken, or confused.
The newcomers had no clue to what had occurred within the Viridian City Gym until they saw Casey.
Sitting silently with her eyes closed, the baseball fanatic dutifully guarded the resting body of Ash… a red coat blanketing him.
"ASH!" Dawn ran forward.
A sharpened edge of a broken metal bat pressed against her neck. Casey pointed it towards the Coordinator with a deadly look in her eyes.
Dawn froze. "Wh-What happened to Ash?" She glared back to show an ounce of bravery.
The purple-haired girl didn't respond, only baring her teeth to frighten the girl.
Dawn looked around… no one would look towards her. No one would look towards anyone.
Off to one side, the pink-haired fighter Maylene struck against the wall continuously – her knuckles and legs bruising, cutting, and bleeding against the dents she formed against the thick-cement. Domino, whose presence alarmed and shocked many, stood quietly beside the Veilstone City Gym Leader. She seemed ashamed of her own existence at the moment, avoiding as many stares as she could.
Wailing loudly in another corner, May and Pikachu held each other close as they continued to weep out the pain in their hearts. Misty tried to approach them, only to have the two cry louder at her questions.
Todd sat on a lone crate, tossing his roll films into the nearby trees.
Anabel and Angie sat back-to-back. One had sat against the other to comfort them. Who had initiated it and who had benefited from it, remained a mystery as the two were in a catatonic state.
Solana leaned against a wall, wearing an unsure face of failure. She seemed to want to say something, but found herself unworthy of mentioning a word. Ritchie walked towards her, causing her to look up with a sad smile.
The only one willing to talk, Tracey, approached Brock and Lucy… bearing news he didn't know how to begin or continue.
Alpha Team… Gary, Duplica, and Greta sat in a circle, all trying to comfort the inconsolable Bianca. Lucy and Cilan joined them in their attempt.
And Sabrina…
…curled up. Her head buried into her knees. She rocked herself gently in silence. Without her red coat, her black bodysuit revealed just how thin she was. The thinness and posture she held gave her the appearance a lost, teenage girl.
Dawn had never seen her look so… vulnerable. It reminded her that she was human just like them.
But what happened…? She asked in fearful hesitation. Ash can't be… can he?
She turned. Casey was back to her sitting position.
Every part of her wanted to move forward again, but she knew that Casey would never allow her.
"Casey… …Is Ash?"
"He's alive." Khoury appeared beside her, with Lyra attached to his arm. "His skin isn't pale, and his chest is still moving. He's still breathing. And from the relaxation of his body, I'd say he's in stable condition."
Dawn sighed in complete relief.
"Leave it to my Khoury to use his brain to bring comfort to crazy situations, right?" Lyra giggled.
"Then why in the world is everyone so depressed?" The Coordinator asked boldly.
"Because Ash is gone…"
…
Dawn didn't recognize the voice… but it had come from Sabrina.
"What do you mean…? He's right there."
The Psychic looked up towards her. Her face marked with dried tears and pale markings of blood. "…but he's gone…" the words that came from her mouth were surprisingly higher-pitched. No serious tones or commanding authorities behind it. "…no thoughts… no emotions… no spirit… just empty. His body works, but nothing else…"
"That's impossible." Cilan stood up and walked away from his group. "As long as the body continues to function, then his brain should still react in some manner – and his body should still create chemicals that give him emotions. There can be a few things wrong, perhaps an unbalance or disconnection… created by an injury or a virus… perhaps even a traumatic event?"
Sabrina's eyes sharpened. In seconds she read his every thought and emotion.
The intrusion gave the Pokémon Connoisseur a frightening chill. "Wh-What was that?"
"Then wake him." Sabrina challenged.
"Wh-What?"
"If you believe he is fine, then wake him."
"Even if I was correct, I doubt I'd still be able to wake him. For all I know, he could be in a coma."
"You put too much trust in your science, Cilan."
H-How did she know my name?
"Science gives explanations of effects, never causes. All the causes it finds are mere effects of causes that it cannot explain." The Psychic slowly hovered off the ground as she stretched her posture to its full height. "Tell me, Connoisseur… can science explain my kind?"
Cilan stiffly backed away. "M-Mental brainwaves in-interacting w-with –"
"A physical explanation for something that has existed long before physicality. Pathetic." Sabrina shot a wave of invisible energy, knocking Cilan into the wall.
"AAHHH!"
"CILAN!" Iris and the rest of Beta team ran to his side for support.
The dark-tanned girl turned towards the Psychic with a growl.
Sabrina's eye twitched. "Iris. A weak trainer such as yourself would not stand a chance against me."
"W-WEAK?" She reached for her poké balls… only to find nothing. "Where did –!"
Her poké balls hovered around Sabrina's fingers. "An axew, excadrill, and a dodrio. The powerful dodrio borrowed from Gary Oak, the axew trained poorly in an attempt to make up for past mistakes, and an excadrill that refuses to listen to you because of those past mistakes."
Sabrina's eyes shimmered. "Your only real defense against me is a pokémon you borrowed from someone else… and even then you wouldn't be able to use it correctly. You're a weak trainer. Your strengths are in being brave and quick, but your stubbornness, carelessness, overestimation of yourself makes you weaker than the rest of your teammates. And you hide this insecurity by behaving rudely and dominantly."
"Y-Y-You don't know a darn thing about me!"
"You're afraid of me. You try to hide your thoughts because you know I'm a Psychic… but I can read your heart clearly. And it's a frail little thing with no true use."
"Sabrina! Leave her alone!" May cried out, having had enough of negativity… and fearing that she might hear her own weaknesses within her descriptions.
A cold fury swirled around Sabrina as she approached the Empathic Coordinator. "You have… You have no right to tell me what to do! YOU DIDN'T SAVE ASH! You were too busy doubting him! Too busy worrying about your own sad side of what you call a relationship with him, that you weren't there to protect him! I heard it… I heard it all!"
She glared at the members of Team One and Alpha team. "All of you… you were all too busy with your own concerns. With your own distrust…"
A burst of dark purple energy flared from her.
"HE TRUSTED YOU!" she screamed hoarsely. "HE TRUSTED ALL OF YOU! AND YOU LET HIM DIE!"
"THAT'S ENOUGH, SABRINA!" Misty roared.
Before she could say anymore, she found herself floating off the ground, an invisible hand suffocating her neck slowly. She began to choke and cough in protest.
"YOU!" Tears flowed down the Psychic's furious eyes. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! THE DARKNESS WANTED YOU, NOT ASH! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO SAVE HIM!"
"SHUT UP!"
A loud CLONG rang out.
Sabrina fell to the floor… blood trailing from the side of her head, where a broken aluminum bat had slammed against.
The Psychic glared, meeting Casey's eyes.
No fear. No doubt. No hypocrisy.
Her eyes were just as furious, just as broken.
"Shut it, Sabrina…" Casey sniffed away the tears she never wanted to cry. "Ash wanted to protect us. All of us. Especially Maya. Fighting over this is just STUPID!"
She threw the bat aside and dropped to her knees. "We're supposed to be working together… as a team. That's what he needed us to do!"
"And where was the rest of our team, Casey?" Sabrina slowly got to her feet. "You were the only one that listened to Ash. Why didn't the rest follow? If they supposedly had everything invested in him, then why did they hesitate to take his orders?"
…
"Because we were afraid." Angie stepped forward. "Because we were afraid what following his orders would mean for the rest of us…"
Sabrina turned away from her. "I trusted you, Angie… you of all people should have never doubted him."
"But I did, Sabrina. And I paid for it." She grabbed the Psychic by her shoulders and forced her to look into her eyes. "You… you think this hurts just you? You think you're the only one dying inside for failing to save Ash? I CAN'T SAVE ASH! I CAN NEVER SAVE HIM!
"You… You Psychics! You Empathics! You have everything and I don't have a single thing in me!" Angie shook her angrily. "I couldn't save Ash even if I tried! I couldn't… I couldn't…" I couldn't even be his if I wanted to be…
Sabrina pushed her off. "You could at least have been there with him. Stood by him. He needed you, Angie."
"He needed all of us!" Maylene roared as she slammed her fist into the wall again. "We kept fighting over him stupidly! Telling him that we needed him! But we never gave any attention to what he needed!"
The fighter pressed her head against the wall. "Sabrina's right. We abandoned him. He shouldn't have done it alone."
"Sato didn't do it alone."
The brown-haired Bianca approached. She was the first to use that name in this entire discussion… and it stunned all those who recognized it.
"Ash needed all of us there. But we were all too concerned with ourselves to be his teammates." she continued. Her tone seemed strange… distant. "Now we're still fighting… when there's still so much to do…"
"More?" Gary raised his brow. "…we just destroyed the machine. Now you're saying there's more?"
"Your team's done, Farron. You're part of our group now."
"How do you know that name?" his eyes narrowed.
"I know a lot more than you think." Bianca folded her arms. She turned towards Liza.
The Valley Guardian had stayed neutral and out of the way. Emotional conflicts were not her specialty. But with the Alto Mare native regarding her, she was suddenly involved.
…sigh. "Yes?"
"If you can, I'd like it if you could drop off Alpha and Beta teams to their respective homes, except for Gary."
"What? We JUST GOT HERE! Who put you in charge?" Iris growled as she retrieved her poké balls from the ground. "What if we want to help?"
"Help with what?" Bianca shrugged casually.
"…I… whatever it is that you're planning to do with Gary!"
"Team Rocket is finished. The device is destroyed. Gary's job to protect Ash is over. What more do you need to do here?"
"Why do we have to go and your teams get to stay?"
"Because you have nothing to do with what happens next."
"Who says?"
"You don't even know what I'm talking about."
"JUST TELL US!" Iris stomped her foot furiously.
Throughout this entire argument, Sabrina was trying to pry into Bianca's heart and mind. Both were locked perfectly. She assumed that the young woman had been preparing for this moment longer than any of them were even aware of it. …or perhaps she's being protected by something…
…
Bianca sighed. "Something occurred here that's beyond any of your team's understanding or knowledge. This was not meant to be an insult, but a fact. Only Gary knows, and he has hidden it from all of you."
The Researcher's partners turned towards him, each questioning him with their glances.
"I… didn't know it was real. I thought they were just strange dreams." he confessed.
"You didn't know what was real?" Cilan asked, his eyes showing suspicion.
"You cannot ask any further questions." Bianca stated. "If you do, it will change the course of things."
Sabrina's eyes widened. Change the course… She's seen the marble?
"All this secretive talk is problematic." Lucy added her opinion. "But I will trust Gary's decision."
Gary frowned. "I…"
…
Despite all the difficult decisions he had made for his team with a calm and cool mind, this choice was far too complicated and personal for him to choose simply. But now what was on the line?
With the device destroyed and Team Rocket in ruins, what weighed on his verdict? It bothered him that he had more trouble choosing for himself than choosing for others… and though his team would be affected by his choice, the fact was that Bianca was right. It didn't involve any of his team.
…but why would it involve Ash's team?
"I agree with the girl. I suggest you all go home." he concluded.
"But Gary!"
"Iris, if I need you or anyone else's help, I'll call. You know I will."
The purple-haired trainer huffed and stomped towards Liza. "Fine. But you better call! You drag us all the way out here, get us excited for a grand adventure, and just cut us loose once we're done! Whatever, I don't care! Do what you want! But you BETTER CALL!"
"I'll call you especially, Iris." Gary winked.
Her cheeks glowed red. She turned and faced the Valley Guardian. "Alright, dragon-lady, tell me which one's my charizard."
Cilan bowed politely towards Gary and ran to Iris' side – doing his best not to make any eye contact with the Psychic.
Brock stared miserably in Ash's direction…
…
"Misty… May… Dawn… Tracey. Take care."
They nodded in response.
"Tell me what happened after you're done with everything." The Pokémon Breeder walked to the charizards, his head hung low. Lucy followed, arms latched onto his in concern.
Duplica, Greta, Khoury, and Lyra silently trailed after.
Dawn caught Lyra's 'call me' gesture, though she wasn't sure if she ever would.
…Ash is…gone?
The moment and everything that happened within it just hit her completely. She looked towards his body…
Ash looked like he was sleeping. He felt like he was just sleeping.
And at any moment, he'd wake up… and surprise~! Like nothing happened at all.
He'd just wake up… just wake up… just wake up, please…
Dawn felt like breaking down. She wanted to deny everything that was occurring around her, to forever trap herself in a lie… because anything had to be better than this. Better than this.
Wake up, Ash… I was supposed to tell you everything… tell you everything I felt for you. How I enjoyed all our moments together… and we'd share every memory and compare what we thought about each other… and just keep going on our adventures together. Make more memories. Have more thoughts about each other… not this. Not this. Anything but this!
She found herself kneeling next to him, shaking his life-like body. "Wake up… Wake up please…"
May turned away from the sight, burying her tears into her hands.
Casey wanted to pull her off… but she found herself staring at someone who didn't belong there.
The blond-haired Bianca.
"I… I don't want to go." she said firmly.
"Bianca…" Gary gave her a stern stare.
"NO! I'm not going!"
Cilan moved towards the trembling woman, holding his hand out. "Bianca, please…"
She slapped his hand away and shook her head frantically. "NO! I WON'T! This is the worst adventure EVER! Adventures are supposed to have a happy ending! This isn't happy! This isn't happy at all!"
"Welcome to reality." Todd sighed.
"You!" The blond-haired Bianca pointed frustratingly towards the one who shared her name. "You know there's a happy ending to this! And – And you're keeping it from us! Just because we're not part of the main group!"
"False." the other Bianca stated. "Brock's part of this 'main group' you're talking about. And several in our team, including myself, aren't even a part of this 'main group'. I'm restricting this team's size. We were far too large before, and look where it got us…"
The Alto Mare native turned away, hiding her irritation. "Sato had spent too much time trying to please everyone, he never had time to develop his own skills or prepare himself. And when a new group got involved, it only got him more stressed…"
"You keep mentioning a Sato." Brock frowned. "Who's Sato?"
"Sato's original group only consisted of six members." Bianca ignored him completely. "We don't need all these other members. It just confuses us and stresses us. In fact, I'd toss out a lot of our own team if we didn't need their help…"
"Go." Sabrina was glaring at Liza and the ones picked to leave. "Now." Her darkened psychic aura adding to the authority in her voice.
The groups dropped their borrowed poké balls to one corner and headed towards the charizards.
Cilan attempted to pull the blond-haired Bianca. He was shoved away.
With a distressed sigh, Cilan turned and followed the others.
…
"Bianca. Go."
"No."
"GO." A psychic lash struck towards the rebellious girl.
The attack shattered in mid-air.
Sabrina's eyes widened. What was…
A strange feeling came from inside her heart.
The bond…
…
The Psychic closed her eyes and smiled. Ash…
"Very well, she can come with us." Sabrina looked away.
"Extra baggage…" the Alto Mare Bianca grumbled.
The other Bianca's green eyes sparkled. "REALLY?"
"No hugs." The Psychic immediately stated before the girl could move an inch. "Ever."
She frowned in response. "Everyone needs a hug from time to time…" she mumbled.
Sabrina waited until the cast out members were finally out of sight.
…
Turning, she faced the Alto Mare native. "So tell us, Bianca. Tell us exactly what you know."
The woman crossed her arms. "One thing I'd like to get out of the way first… There are far too many Biancas here. Call me by my original name… Leanne."
"So… Let me get this straight…" May sat against a crate, scratching her head. "You're saying… this all happened before but not exactly? Like a past life."
"Past universe." Misty corrected. She sat next to the Coordinator, just as confused and as intrigued.
"Past universe. And… Ash's name was Sato." May began to point to each of the ones that remained standing. "Your name is Leanne. Your name was Farron. Angie there was Ramie. And Casey was Quinn?"
"And Misty's name was Maya." Dawn added quietly.
"…and this universe, the one we're in right now, right at this moment, is the way it is because of a wish that Ash made when he was Sato?"
"I don't know if you'd call getting a god to do something for you, a 'wish'…" Ritchie commented.
"Whoah whoah whoah whoah!" Maylene called out. "I just realized something!"
The fighter stood and pointed at Angie. "You and I are like sisters!"
Angie flinched. "Wh-What?"
"You were a Fighter! I'm a fighter! Casey was a Psychic! Sabrina's one in this universe!" Maylene was getting excited. "And Misty was an Empathic! And that would mean Anabel's her reincarnation in this universe!"
"Or – Or I am!" May added shyly.
"So we're replacements of the real thing?" Anabel sighed.
Leanne stepped forward. "Maylene's observation is actually a very important one."
Sabrina's attention focused entirely on the former-Researcher's next words.
"Sato didn't give Arceus a single command. He gave two."
…
Now she had everyone's attention.
Latias hovered towards them. Her eyes began to glow a bright light blue.
The Gym around them began to fade.
"Wh-What's going on?" May looked around in a panic.
"Sight Sharing." Misty answered. "She can share what she saw… back at Alto Mare."
Replacing their surroundings of cement, marble, and dirt, a large room of metal took its place.
Flares of black energy swallowed up pieces of machinery and patches of flooring. Wherever the darkness touched, nothing remained. A large portion of the darkness swirled inside a large machine – contained and controlled.
Leaning over an unknown figure, a man with long brown hair balanced on one leg, his other leg striking the figure against its head. Farron.
Her fist dented into the metal wall, a red-haired woman was crying out in rage. Ramie.
Refusing to acknowledge the scene that played out, a golden-haired female covered her sorrows. Leanne.
Staring down from a ladder with a deadly glare, a red-eyed woman sneered at an event no one could foresee but herself. Quinn.
Lying motionless on the floor… Maya.
And in the center, facing a tall pokémon of majestic design who could only be Arceus, stood a man with raven black hair. Sato.
The entire world was frozen in time.
Not a single of the characters moved or spoke. Sounds that were occurring could only echo faintly in the background. And light reflecting off the objects would shift from time to time, adjusting to the stand-still memory.
"This…" the present Leanne's voice rang out. "…is the moment when Sato gave his commands to Arceus."
Time crawled forward slowly…
Sato's lips moved silently.
And in an instant, the scene vanished entirely.
…
Leanne stood in front of them, her eyes closed, and a frown fitting her face. "I've gone through that vision more than a hundred times… constantly trying to read his lips."
She opened her eyes and raised a finger. "His first command is obvious. He wanted to restart the world. Instead, the whole universe restarted… my theory is that all things in a single universe are connected somehow, if one were to change, all things would."
Maylene interrupted, "Wait. How do you know the universe changed and not just this world?"
"Because not even Arceus remembers what happened. Arceus is not of this world, he is of this universe."
"And how would you know Arceus doesn't remember?"
Leanne reached into her pocket and pulled out an object… a marble of glowing colors.
Sabrina's eyes narrowed. "You have one!"
"This… is called an Arceus Drop." The Alto Mare native held it up for all to see. "Pieces of Arceus' memory before the incident. It was left behind on this world… one found its way to Sato."
The Psychic pulled out the black marble from her pocket and revealed it.
"And one found its way to me." Leanne returned the glowing item back into her pocket. "Sato's marble only showed him that specific moment in the past universe, as well as giving him the ability to remember more of his past as long he shared a familiar memory with someone… someone directly affiliated with that universe." Her eyes darted towards Misty.
"And what does your marble do?" Misty shot back the look. Did she see us in the forest?
"Mine allows me to see connections. And I've been seeing them throughout this entire journey." She walked towards a crate and sat on it. "For instance…
"You're not the real Maya, Misty."
…
"What do you mean?"
Leanne raised two fingers. "Sato's second command. I've watched his lips several times… 'Grant their wishes.' By 'their', he meant us."
"Us?"
"Don't look so distraught. I'm not the real Leanne either. Just like how Angie's not the real Ramie, Gary's not the real Farron, and Casey's not the real Quinn."
Maylene leaned back and sighed. "So by that logic, Ash isn't the real Sato either."
"Incorrect."
The fighter blinked. "Wh-What?"
"Ash is the real Sato. There is only one Sato. There is, however, three of everyone else."
"Three?" the group shifted uncomfortably.
"You can thank me for that." Leanne smirked.
"What the heck does that mean?" Angie growled.
The young woman from Alto Mare shrugged. "Exactly what you heard. I was the one who wanted the world to have more humans. At least triple the population."
She looked up to the ceiling, exhaling an unknown stress. "Funny thing is, you can't just add new souls to this world. All souls were created for this universe before it was even started. No more and no less can exist within and without it. So… I guess we just split up."
"Why would you even wish for that?" Dawn spoke up with a hurt voice. "And why isn't Ash affected?"
"I don't know why he wasn't… perhaps it was because Arceus would only allow one?" She shrugged. "As for tripling the population?
"…believe it or not, the previous world had a much smaller number of us humans. For every human, there were at least a hundred pokémon. By tripling the population; each and every pokémon could find a home…" Leanne turned and patted Latias on her head. "What I didn't expect was that even human souls could be reborn as pokémon."
The light around Latias shifted. As the glow dissipated, she revealed herself in the form of the past Leanne, her golden hair bobbing playfully with her movements. Latias bowed shyly and sat next to her present-self.
"Then…" Solana was afraid to ask. "…does that mean each of us is a piece of someone else in this group?"
"No. You and Ritchie are fine."
The two gave a big sigh of relief.
"And the rest of us?" Domino stood, speaking out for the first time within the group. "What does that mean for the rest of us?"
"Exactly what you think it means, Quinn."
Her eyes widened in surprise. She looked towards Sabrina and Casey.
The three stared at each other uncomfortably.
"Th-then what about the other wishes?" The green-eyed Bianca raised her hand nervously. "You got your wish granted, wh-what about our wishes?"
Leanne's brow twitched at her voice. "We are our wishes."
Angie led the way through the forest.
The group of sixteen followed loosely behind her.
Within the sixteen, a seventeenth was carried.
Ash 'slept' soundly on Sabrina's back. And though the Psychic refused everyone else from being anywhere near him, she allowed Casey to follow closely beside.
A feeling fear filled everyone's hearts and minds.
Not a single one of them knew what they faced next… not even Leanne.
Leanne… Gary thought to himself. She hasn't even told us what's going on yet… As far as I'm concerned, we already completed everything we ever needed to. What else is there to do?
An opening appeared.
Gary's eyes widened. "What is this place…?"
Bianca stepped forward, completely entranced. "It's beautiful…"
Ash's Sanctuary. A haven found within the forests near Pallet Town.
Twilight had struck, and the last remaining spots of sunlight gave the treetops a magical glow of orange and violet. The view was made even more magnificent as traces of bright stars broke through the sun-faded sky… blanketing the view above with sparkling accents.
Sabrina walked ahead of the rest and laid Ash's body against one of the trees.
Casey sat beside him dutifully.
Domino found herself leaning against a tree next to her. She wanted to strike a conversation with the young woman who supposedly used to share the same body as her… but how in the world would you even begin that? 'Hey, where have you been all my life?' She sighed and looked away.
Ritchie and Solana stood quietly in one corner. The two couldn't start a discussion with the other, knowing full well that it wasn't the time or place to speak of that topic.
Maylene and Angie sat near the white stump that decorated the center. They solemnly stared at Ash's body, reminiscing when it was just the three of them on this adventure.
Misty, May, and Dawn settled themselves within the flowers, each of them preferring each other's company over the members that reminded them of the mission they had strived for. Right now, they were just friends… for May, friends that would comfort and understand the loss she was experiencing. For Misty, friends that would soon go back to their busy schedules and keep in contact even after all that had happened. And for Dawn, friends that she felt like an equal to… or at least, wanted to be an equal to.
Tracey found his own spot to sit in, where he would continue his sketches. Todd looked over his shoulder, his eyes locked on the art piece being formed. It was a scene that his cameras couldn't capture no matter how many shots he took… when the Psychic fought the darkness.
Anabel kept her distance… refusing to step into the sanctuary. She wanted to be alone. She didn't want to feel any of their emotions. Not when I can't feel Ash's anymore… At the moment, she wondered why she had even come with the group. Though if I hadn't… where would I even go? I don't know if I have the heart to be a Frontier Brain anymore…
Lastly, arrived Leanne, the one who had asked to return to Ash's Sanctuary.
Everyone's attention turned to her as she stepped forward. Latias flew over her, holding the same determined face as her human counterpart.
"Now that we're here, wherever 'here' is, would you mind telling us what this mission you have in mind for us is?" Gary crossed his arms and leaned against a tree.
"Latias, show them." She nodded towards the tire swing.
Angie reached out. "Wait! That tire swing is –!"
"Haunted. I know."
Latias flew towards the hanging tire and sat comfortably against it.
…
A bright light absorbed it as its visual form began to change.
"Tell me…" Leanne regarded the sitting and standing groups. "…if humans who cannot pass on often become a ghost pokémon over time, then why hasn't a spirit that's been here for years ever turned into one?"
The bright light dispersed, exposing a young man…
Leanne frowned. "Because the soul that resides here is one who wasn't allowed to get a second chance."
His long lime green hair revealed his identity…
Gary, Misty, Angie, and Casey instinctively got into battle stances.
"N!"