AN: Before we begin, I apologize for adding swear words in the Unfortunate Announcement, especially for a story that is supposed to be for children. For you kids out there, I do apologize that I added some swearing in that announcement. Things are crazy with the whole COVID-19, the lack of dub anime that I usually look forward to after dealing with all the crap that I usually get from people, the stuff that I enjoyed and so on. Sometimes adults do things when they lose their tempers and needed to vent their frustrations which I clearly did wrong by adding swear words which I said not to add. I'm sorry for breaking my own rules and I will try to do better.

Chapter 30

Song: Butter-Fly (English Fan Dub Ver.)

Artist: LeeandLie (Original Japanese Artist: Koji Wada)

My broken wings dream of the sky,
And they'll never be able to fly.

Only if we never try,
On my loo-o-o-ove!

If I could become just one thing,
I'd be a butterfly-free soaring.

I really miss you...
So finally I'm on my way.

Let's focus on the people we trust
And leave out all the doubt behind us.

So if you're ready...
Can we go? 'Cause there's no time to wa-aste.

I wanna kno-o-ow oh...
If the sky above is only for show.

I wanna kno-o-ow oh...
What tomorrow will bring so let's spread our wi-i-ings!

Maybe this world's an infinite dream,
And there is only hope living in me!

May it not fail me now!
We'll turn this thing around and bring back the lovin' somehow!

My broken wings dream of the sky,
and they'll never be able to fly!

Only if we never try,
On my lo-o-ove!

On my lo-o-o-ove!

Over at the hospital in the Pokemon World, Blake is looking over at the balcony with her arms crossed and looking down. Both literally and emotionally, down at the crowded streets as she process everything that has happened.

Yang shows up as she holds two cups of tea, "Hey. You alright?"

Blake looks at Yang before looking at the cups in Yang's hands. She takes a deep breath, "Somewhat." She takes one of the cups, "Thanks." Blake drinks her tea as she looks back down at the ground level.

Yang leans against the railing and drinks her tea. She is disgusted but shakes it off. Yang looks at Blake, "Are you gonna be okay?"

"To be honest, Yang, I don't know. I mean you saw all that stuff, right? When we came to this world, everything seemed great to some extent which I thought the only dark side to this world was only guys like Team Rocket. Or some other organization that wanted to take over the world and steal other people's Pokemon. But after what we just saw..."

Yang looks at her tea, "Yeah. I don't think I can ever forget something like that."

"Plus now we got some more weird stuff like Aura Guardians that can use auras and the guy that is supposed to be the greatest trainer or something has Pokemon for parents."

Yang gives a puzzling look as she looks up and thinks about that. After a few moments, "Since you mention aura, I remember the temple that brought us here. So there is a connection between the aura we use and the aura the people of this world use." She looks down at her drink again, "Hmm..."

Blake looks up at the sky, "Let's just keep quiet for a bit until my nerves are calm." Yet she looks at Yang and smiles, "Thanks for the tea."

In the hospital room, Franklin is tossing and turning in his sleep with the look of dread on his face and sweats despite having a cast on his left arm. He is having the same nightmare again, but something is different. The heart rate of the heart monitor is going wild as he has his nightmare.

In his nightmare, he is younger while running down a hallway where he is dressing in a hospital gown. On the walls, he can see silhouettes of human/Pokemon hybrids banging on the white glass, screaming for either release or their parents. Franklin looks behind and sees shadows in lab coats stretching their arms towards him. He face forward and run as fast as he can as he approaches a light at the end of the hallway. But standing at the exit, there is the same person with the Charizard wings and Scizor claw in his way as the man takes aim with his claw and fires a hyper beam.

Franklin jolted up as he gasp for air as he wakes up from his nightmare. The heart monitor spiked as he wakes up but goes back to normal.

Looker is in the room as he smiles, "Welcome back."

Franklin looks around as the hear monitor goes wild again as he realizes he is in the hospital. He tries to get out in a panic but Looker holds him down.

"Easy there! Easy!" Looker tries to calm Franklin down. "You're safe. This is a regular hospital, not a lab."

Franklin's heart monitor beeps normally as he calms down and lays back in his bed. "You know how much I hate hospitals."

Looker steps back, "I know, PTSD and all that. But this is a good hospital. You shouldn't fear anything about the people trying to help you."

"What happened to the people?"

"They're here at this hospital and being treated both mentally...and physically."

"And those four girls?"

"They're alright. They're waiting for you outside. You're parents are also here as well when they saw the news."

"Some good news at least."

A knock is heard at the door.

"Come in!" Looker says.

The door burst opens as Gardevoir, Franklin's mother, bashes in and gives Franklin a hug while crying.

"OW!" Franklin cried out, "My arm is still broken, mom!"

Gallade apologizes to Looker for Gardevoir barging in as he bows.

"No need to apologize." Looker says to Gallade.

Sylveon comes in and joins in. Gardevoir acts like a worried mother and asks Franklin a lot of questions that a mother would ask.

"I'm okay, mom." Franklin assures his mother, "Just some broken bones. I can heal pretty quickly so I'll be-" He looks at the door and sees Team RWBY with their heads peeking in with Ruby at the top followed by Weiss, Blake and Yang. "You can come on in."

"No." Blake says, "We don't wanna ruin the family moment you have."

"We'll leave you alone." Yang says.

"By the way." Franklin says to Team RWBY. "About what happened, don't let that get you down. You must never let things, no matter how horrible, get you down. Try to stay focus on the goal ahead and do what you can to achieve it." He shows his broken arm, "My arm is broken so I can't exactly participate in the Pokemon Contest. If you girls are gonna do the Contest and Showcase, do your best. Use everything you learned and practice hard. I'll be watching!" He smiles. "So break a leg!"

Ruby says, "Thanks!" She dashes up to Franklin and kisses him on the head.

Weiss, Blake and Yang have their jaws dropped along with Sylveon.

Ruby happily skips out as she turns and says to Franklin, "I, um, hope you'll watch." She is a bit embarrassed yet happily leaves the room.

Yang gets angry as she makes a fist and pouts. She angrily says, "My turn!" So she dashes to Franklin and kiss him on the other side of his head and leaves. But she says halfway through the door, "Hope you'll be watching me." in a bewitching tone, "See ya later, handsome." and leaves.

Sylveon gets extremely upset as she yells at both Ruby and Yang.

Weiss adores Sylveon with hearts for eyes, "Oohh! Sylveon is adorable, even when she's angry."

Blake snickers as she heads out right before Sylveon tosses a pillow at Weiss. And they both left.

Franklin sigh in relief. But he looks at is mother, "Mother, would you leave me and the detective alone for a bit? Just for a bit. I need to make a statement." Then looks at his father, "Sorry dad, but you too."

Gardevoir nods and takes Gallade with her and close the door.

Franklin looks at Looker, "Listen, Looker. I'm gonna head west once I'm healed up."

"To where?"

"Since these guys are more dangerous than anyone we faced, I'm gonna need some serious help."

Looker looks confused, "What do you..." He realizes what Franklin means as his eyes widen, "Not the Cave of Legends!"

Franklin has a serious look on his face, "I'm afraid so. Because I recognize that guy from before. Years and years ago. The guy responsible for my broken arm."

"You know him? Wait, does that mean your memories are back?"

"Not exactly. But I've seen him before. When I looked at his Scizor claw and that grin, I got a flashback. I don't know his name, but he is familiar."

"I see. So the ringleader has some connections to your past."

"Once I'm healed, I will head towards the Cave of Legends and catch some legendary and mythical Pokemon."

AN: The Cave of Legends. It is a special cave in the MMO game I already mentioned where you can catch legendary and mythical Pokemon in a multilevel dungeon in a desert area. There, you have to go through a lot of hoops to get three to eight legendary/mythical Pokemon in each level of the dungeon. Each level represents a region that has their own theme that corresponds per region. So it is like a super boss gauntlet that you have to capture all the Pokemon in the dungeon to advance. Yet there is a catch. If you lose to one of the Pokemon there once, you will lose all the Pokemon you have captured in the cave as a penalty. But if you managed to get all the Pokemon in level one yet lose in level two, you still get to keep those captured Pokemon yet lose the Pokemon you caught in the second level. Kinda like in the gauntlet in Zelda: Twilight Princess. If you lose, no matter how far you are, you are sent right back to the beginning of the cave. So that's that.

While I'm at it, better answer this question from Zapper Frost. I wish I could, but the Pokemon Reborn wiki is a total mess so I won't be able to get those regional variant Pokemon. But there are some items that are gonna appear in this story. Just have to wait.

And so, Team RWBY head back to the Pokemon Center to train and prepare for the upcoming Pokemon Showcase and Pokemon Contest. They learned that the Contest is gonna happen before the Showcase so they prepare for that. The Contest is within two days. Ruby is doing laps in the back with her Pokemon in order to help them with their speed in order to prepare for any hard stuff. Weiss is grooming her Pokemon in the bedroom to make sure they are in top shape. Blake is doing some acrobatics with her Pokemon and tries to help her Altarian Magikarp get stronger in order to level-up and evolve into an Altarian Gyarados. Yet it turns out that having an Altarian Magikarp evolve into its Gyarados form is a little harder to level-up than a regular Magikarp. (Believe me, the Altarian Magikarp evolves into a Altarian Magikarp by level 30 rather than 20. Well at least it knows tackle at level 6 and water gun at 15. Thank goodness for that.) Yang is doing push-ups with her Pokemon except her Vert is doing some flap exercise because she has wings.

On the next day, Ruby helps her Pokemon with some dodge movements that are meant to be graceful to woo the audience and the judges. She even does some jump rope play with them for fun and to help them with their jumps. Weiss teaches her Pokemon some ballet and dances to help them prepare for the freestyle performance. They seem to be doing very well. Slow, but they are catching on. Blake is trying to do some sort of routine that involves fan dancing. Frogadier and Aveden are imitating Blake while the other Pokemon watch with amazement. Yang is punching a tree with her Pokemon in order to increase their strength. Although Buzzwole can destroy the tree so it is punching the log to reduce it to firewood. But her Vert is trying to fly while carrying rocks.

When all is done, they head towards the dome where the Pokemon Contest is happening.

Ruby takes a deep breath, "This is it."

Weiss looks a bit worried, "I hope we've done enough to prepare."

Blake seems a bit calm, "I will cheer for you guys."

Yang smiles at Blake, "Thanks Blake. Although I feel more than ready."

Ruby takes another deep breath and try to calms her nerves, "Okay. Let's go."

The four go in and head to the front desk.

But Blake goes, "I'll go find a seat. Take care!" and she goes off.

The female receptionist asks the three, "May I help you?"

Yang says, "Us three are here to register for the Pokemon Contest."

"Of course. Please put your Megadex on the desk."

Ruby, Weiss and Yang put their Megadexes on the desk and some sort of scanner is shined down on them.

The receptionist checks her computer, "Okay. You girls are good and registered. Have a good day and good luck."

"Thank you." Ruby says as she takes her Megadex followed by Weiss and Yang.

The three are in the dressing room Ruby is in an outfit that looks just like her prom outfit from the Beacon Dance. She is sitting on a bench and looking nervous as she takes deep breaths and hand shaking.

"You okay, Ruby?" Yang approach as she wears a cowboy outfit with cowboy pants with a yellow and black cow pattern and black boots, a black vest with dangling things on the chest area although it looks a bit tight and a yellow cowboy hat with a black belt with her symbol as a buckle. "Stage fright?"

Ruby takes a deep breath, "Yeah. Just realized how every single person is gonna be watching me. Hundreds of eyes staring at me."

Weiss appears wearing a blue dress that is glittering with the sleeves being similar to her jacket, there is a white fluff thing that looks similar to the article of clothing from the Renaissance, the dress also has white rhinestones in the shape of snowflakes, a short skirt with white ruffles and is in a similar style to her old skirt, white stocking with matching high heel shoes, and dark blue gloves with her emblems on it. "This is a normal thing for me." she says. "I've done enough concerts to get used to people staring at me."

Yang and Ruby look at Weiss' dress with Yang asking, "Isn't that the same dress you are planning on using at the Showcase?"

"It is."

Ruby asks, "How do you do it, Weiss? How do you manage to go out there and face the crowd?"

"How about this approach." Weiss gives some advice, "You remember how you beat the gym leader even though you had all those students staring at you? Also remember all the combat classes we took?"

"Y-yeah."

"Just picture that in your head. Pretend it is one of those moments right here and now. But don't forget that you have to woo the crowd as well."

Ruby takes a deep, calming breath to settle her nerves. "Okay. I got it. I think I got it." Then Ruby thinks about it for a moment, "Nope. I don't got it." She then head over towards the nearest sink and looks like she is about to throw-up.

"Whoa!" says a familiar face, "You okay?"

"I think I'm fine." Ruby takes a few breaths. "At least I hope so." She turns around and sees a woman with red hair and blue eyes wearing a blue bow at the back of her head, a light blue dress with ribbons on the skirt, black dress shoes and white sleeves. "Hey. Aren't you, Ariel? The girl from the Ecuador Pokemon Showcase with the mermaid outfit?"

Ariel smiles, "Indeed I am."

"Wow. I didn't know you are into Pokemon Contests."

"I like to think of them as warm-ups for Pokemon Showcases. It is also a good way for my Pokemon to let out some battle steam when they get the chance."

"That's good."

Ariel gets a good look at Ruby, "Wait. Aren't you the girl that helped out with the bust of the Nuzzlock ring?"

Ruby feels embarrassed as she rubs the back of her head, "Guilty."

"Dang. Never thought I might someone like you that helped a lot of people. A hero even."

"I wouldn't go that far."

"Ruby!" Weiss approach, "Come on!" She grabs Ruby's shoulder, "They're gonna announce who is going first!"

Ruby says, "Catcha' later!"

"Likewise!"

And that...should be all this chapter.