Hello everyone! Welcome to this new project I'm working on, the important explanations are at the end note, for now enjoy the story.
"New recruits? Welcome! My name is Aster Ketchum, but you can call me Ash, basics first, I was born here in Fortree City, Hoenn, and I've been living here since then, I am 19 years old, despite being young, I've made myself quite a name as you can see, I am the leader of Team Delta, therefore, your superior, but it's more of a title than anything, please, don't look at me as boss, but rather a leader, back to the important topic, as you know, we're an environmental group that protects Hoenn and its citizens and Pokemon, so thank you for joining us in this crusade, we always need extra hands, I hope you all do your best, my second-in-command will introduce y'all to the whole thing later, for now, the most important thing you need to know is that we've been seeing some drastic climate changes in the region, luckily we have been able to control them, we know who's behind them, Team Aqua and Team Magma, they're two opposite factions with distinct goals, Aqua wants to expand the sea and Magma wants to expand the land, they think it sounds simple, but they have no idea of the trouble they're causing, and I'm afraid, will keep causing, their leaders Archie and Maxie act like two children playing with forces they cannot understand...if things keep going like this...uh? Please, excuse me, it seems like there's an emergency."
Meteor Falls, a few minutes later.
"Torkoal, Eruption!"
"Dragonite, Hydro Pump!"
The Dragon-Type knocked out the turtle with that move while a Swellow knocked down some Golbats from the air.
"Stay behind me, Professor Cozmo!" A young man in a green jacket and long black pants shouted while fighting a group of Team Magma grunts.
"Not like I'm planning to do something else, Aster." The professor answered taking cover.
"Admin, we're out of Pokemon!" One of the grunts called.
"Argh, retreat!" She shouted. "I don't know why Maxie wanted that stupid stone, but it can't be worth the trouble, this isn't over Ash!" She returned her Pokemon and started to run away.
"Flannery!" Ash shouted and she stopped running for a moment. "...You still have the time to turn back from all this."
"No...we both know I can't do that." She shook her head and kept running.
"Flannery!" Ash called again to no avail and watched her go. "...Are you okay, Professor?" He looked back at the man.
"I am, thank you." He answered putting a meteorite inside his backpack.
"You guys, okay?" Ash asked as Dragonite and Swellow landed next to him and both nodded.
"Thanks to you they didn't get away with this." The professor continued. "...Excuse the question, but...that admin, was she a friend of yours?"
"She still is." Ash answered firmly. "Even if she doesn't think so anymore...I won't give up on her."
"I'm sorry."
"Please, don't mind, I'll escort you back to your home, fine?"
"No, no, Aster, that's not necessary, you already did too much by answering my call and coming all the way here to save me, you and Team Delta are truly the heroes that Hoenn needed."
"We only do what we think it's right."
"And that's exactly what it is, still, I'll get home myself, thanks for everything."
"As you prefer, please be careful and call me if anything happens."
"Of course, thanks again, Aster." The professor left the place, leaving Ash alone, he then looked around, trying to spot something that Team Magma could have left, anything that could help him locate their base and somehow convince Flannery to stop this stupid quest of her.
"Flannery...you just sold your soul to the devil..." He said to himself, remembering the good times with her. "I promised you I would protect you...why don't you let me?"
"Nite?" Dragonite suddenly got his guard up.
"Something bothers you?" Ash asked and Dragonite started to fly around as if it was looking for something, Dragonite eventually noticed a Bagon that was looking at them from a corner of the cave and then landed next to him.
"It's just a little Bagon, Dragonite." Ash and Swellow approached him as well, the Bagon looked at Ash for a moment and then attacked him a sudden Dragon Pulse that came from his mouth.
"Hey!" Ash quickly protected himself and tossed an Aura Sphere from his hand to stop the attack, that's right, he was an Aura user and he was quite gifted, that and he also had a really great friend that taught him how to use it, Bagon smiled at this and then charged another Dragon Pulse.
"Aggron, protect!" Ash called upon the Rock/Steel Type who summoned a shield to cover them, but the Bagon kept attacking. "What's the big idea?" Ash asked.
"Bago!" The dragon started to run away and looked back at Ash, giving him a sign to follow him.
"Hmm..." Ash and his team followed the curious Bagon, he guided them to the waterfalls and jumped passed the water, the small dragon then put his head out of the waterfall and looked at them. "So there's a cave behind it." Ash said, he then returned Aggron and jumped onto Dragonite's back, flying past the waterfall along Swellow and ending inside a deep cave, once they were inside, the Bagon kept running deeper into the cave and they followed him, after a few minutes Bagon stopped infront of what appeared to be an statue, the statue of a girl to be more precise, it seemed like she was running and her face was filled with terror.
"What is this thing doing here..." Ash asked approaching it. "If anything, the erosion should have-" Ash touched fingers with the statue and he felt an electric energy surging through his whole body. "T-That's! ... This...this isn't a statue..." As Ash said this, both his Pokemon gave him a weird look. "I'm serious guys, I can feel aura emerging from it, it's weak but it's there...this...this a person." Ash looked at the Bagon again and received a nod. "That why you brought me here? You felt my aura?" Bagon nodded again and Ash released Aggron once more. "Summon a protect for you guys, I'm gonna try something." Ash looked back at his Pokemon and they obeyed, Bagon took cover along them as well.
"I've heard legends..." He continued. "About a Legendary Pokemon that can absorb the energy of living things and turn them into stone just like this...If I can counter the effect." Ash put his palms infront of him as he started to transfer aura to the statue, a minute passed without any effect and Ash was about to give in, but the statue suddenly started to crack as it was filled by the energy. "Come on..." Ash transfered a bigger amount of Aura and a sudden explosion of energy sent him flying back, his Pokemon then ran to him to see if he was injured. "I'm okay..." Ash sat down and looked at the place of the explosion, the statue was now gone and a human girl was standing still in its place. Ash smiled satisfied seeing his theory was right, but sighed exhausted due to the loss of aura.
The girl felt kneeling to the ground panting while she used her cape to cover herself as if she was cold, Ash stood up and tried to approach her, but she suddenly looked up to him, her deeps red eyes met with his greens, making Ash flinch for a second but he stood firm.
"Are you...okay?" He asked.
"..." The girl looked around repeatedly and abruptly stood up, starting to run deeper into the cave without saying anything.
"Hey, wait!" Ash followed her along his Pokemon and Bagon, but the girl managed to keep the advantage, despite the fact that she was running quite erratically and almost stumbled many times. "Just where is she going?" Bagon suddenly jumped with an Aerial Ace and tackled the girl on her back, causing her to fall face first on the floor of the cave.
"Are you okay?!" Ash tried to reach out to her again, but she stood up and jumped out of his way with a quick acrobatic.
"Hey, calm down..." Ash approached her again, this time more slowly. "Where do you come from?"
"Come...from?" She finally talked.
"I mean, where is your home?"
"My...my home!" The girl was about to run away, but Dragonite stood in front of her, she then backed off and ran to a corner of the cave, covering herself as she shivered.
"Listen..." Ash talked to her slowly. "Just calm down... I'm not gonna hurt you."
"Y-You won't?" She stuttered.
"Of course not!" Ash could tell she was scared, so he took a knee down in front of her trying to look less intimidating. "What's your name?"
"You're...an Aura user?" She asked, still shivering.
"I am." Ash nodded forming a small Aura Sphere on his hand to show her, but that only scared her more so he quickly stopped it. "Again, I'm not gonna hurt you.
"I-I am too." She continued, now putting a hand in front of her to try and do the same as Ash, yet nothing happened. "B-But... I can't use it right now, I'm not sure why."
"Well, your aura is frail, but it's there, that's how I could tell you weren't a statue..." Ash decided to take her hand in an effort to calm her down, despite the sudden movement, she stopped shivering and held Ash's hand tighter as well, Bagon then approached them and simply looked at the girl.
"S...Statue?" She asked.
"Do you know what happened to you? You were...turned into stone."
"I don't remember..."
"This Bagon guided me to you." Ash continued looking at the dragon.
"I...I used to have a Salamence, but...how much time...was I?"
"I'm not sure..." Ash looked around. "The fossil record of this cave is pretty old, but there's no certain way to know...if I had to guess, I'd say over a thousand years."
"A t-t-thousand?" She started to cry and held Ash's hand tighter. "Y-You mean everyone's dead?"
"Who's everyone?"
"My family, my clan, the Draconid."
"You're a Draconid..." Ash took a more detailed look to her clothes. "I've heard some stories about you, your clan disappeared centuries ago... but you're still here, so the rest may be too, do you think you can guide us to your village?"
"I'm not sure." She looked around too. "Everything looks so different."
"Let me try something." Ash searched for a Poke Ball. "Absol!" He called onto the Dark Type which smiled at him. "Good to see you, listen, you think you can track her aura to guide us with her family?" Ash pointed at the girl and Absol approached her, the Pokemon closed his eyes and his horn illuminated, he then looked back at Ash and nodded. "Take us there."
Absol nodded again and started to lead the way through the cave.
"Alright, let's follow him, uh-" Ash stood up and looked at her.
"Zinnia..." She interrupted standing in front of him.
"Zinnia? That's your name?" He asked and received a nod in response. "Nice to meet you, my name is Aster."
"Aster..."
"That's right, Aster Ketchum, but you can call me Ash if you want." After introducing themselves, the duo started to follow Absol as he guided them through the cave.
"Ash, I...you say you know about the draconid?"
"Yes, from what they told me you were the first people who inhabited Hoenn, a tribe of Dragon-Type trainers and Aura users that once summoned Rayquaza to stop the destruction caused by Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre...to think you were in the Meteor Falls all along, you might actually be a big help to me."
"How so?"
"I am the leader of Team Delta." Ash pointed at the symbol in the left side of his jacket, it was a yellow downward arrow with green details. "We are a group that tries to protect Hoenn."
"Protect it from what?"
"Team Aqua and Team Magma... they've been trying to summon Groudon and Kyogre to conquer to region."
"That cannot be allowed!"
"I know, my team has been doing their best, but Aqua and Magma keep doing progress...at this point, it could be a matter of time before they succeed."
"If they call upon Kyogre and Groudon, Rayquaza could be the only hope."
"The Legends are true? Your tribe knows how to summon Rayquaza?"
"My Grandma knows, she was the one who summoned Rayquaza back then...I hope she's okay."
"Sol!"
"Absol?" Ash looked at his Pokemon who stood in front of a chamber.
"Is this the place?" Ash asked Zinnia.
"Yes, it is." Zinnia pointed at the roof which had a Rayquaza painting on it.
"Then let's go in." Ash walked inside, but Zinnia stood in her place. "Zinnia?"
"I'm scared... what if we're too late?" Zinnia asked looking down as Ash offered his hand again.
"I wasn't late for you, was I?" He asked, Zinnia then smiled and took his hand.
"Y-Yes, I...I'm sorry, you just saved me and I didn't even thank you... who'd know how much time I would have stayed there."
"Don't worry, if anything you should thank Bagon, he was the one who brought me here." Ash looked at the small dragon who smiled.
"Yes, but...how did you do that?" Zinnia looked at Bagon as well. "... We'll have time for this later...let's go to the village."
"Let's go then." Ash guided her inside, still holding her hand, the duo and the Pokemon entered a path within the chamber, finally ending up in a huge area of the cave with a giant skylight that let the sun light fill in, there were countless houses around and just like they both feared, countless statues of people, all of them running for their lives, men, women, children, all with the same terror Zinnia had in her face.
"This is...T-This is horrible..." Zinnia said weakly.
"...Are you sure you don't remember what happened here?"
"I'm not totally sure, some memories are starting to return, but they aren't that clear... all I remember was a red light...Grandma told me to run away... that's the last thing I have... G-Grandma!" Zinnia started to run past the statues while dragging Ash with her, until they made it to the center of the village. "T-That's Grandma's house!" Zinnia ran at the place finally letting Ash go.
"Hey, wait!" Ash followed her as his Pokemon waited outside.
The two entered the house at the same time and found an old lady turned into stone, oddly enough, she was calmly sitting in a chair with a smile on her face.
"Grandma!" Zinnia ran at her and tried to transfer her aura, but she couldn't. "I-I still can do it?" Zinnia looked at her hands. "...Why doesn't it work?!"
"Zinnia calm down." Ash's stood next to her. "Considering what just happened to you it's normal that you aura is weakened."
"Please, you have to help her!" She pleaded to Ash in tears.
"I... I'll do my best." Ash stood infront of the elder and put both hands infront of her, he started to transfer aura to her and in just a few seconds she returned to her normal state and took a deep breath, but Ash almost passed out afterwards.
"What is..."
"Grandma!" Zinnia gave her a big hug as Ash sat down in the floor and tried to recover some air, getting Zinnia's attention again. "Ash! Are you okay?!"
"I'm fine, it's just..."
"Thank you!" Zinnia exclaimed giving him a hug. "Thank you, thank you."
"It's... It's nothing really..." Ash put a palm on her back trying to return the gesture, despite still feeling weak. "I almost never do transfers and doing two in a row... huff, I'm already running low, but I'll be fine, just give me a second."
"Zinnia, what happened?" Her grandmother asked her.
"You and I were turned into stone." Zinnia explained. "B-But he saved us, Ash set us free."
"Is that so?" She looked at Ash. "Well, thanks, young man."
"My pleasure." Ash answered standing up. "Do you know what happened here then?"
"I'm not sure what it was... an evil, vicious flying creature somehow found the village, we tried to defend it, but our Pokemon were easily overwhelmed by it."
"Found, uh? ...now that I think about it, this is weird, the skylight of this place is really huge, how come no people have ever found out about this?"
"This village is enchanted, young man." She answered. "From outside the skylight simply can't be seen or entered."
"So like a one-way mirror, well, that explains it." Ash said. "That creature you said...what happened then?"
"It started to suck out the Aura of the villagers..." She continued to explain. "You know what Aura is, correct?"
"If I know?" Ash answered forming a small Aura Sphere on his hand again.
"That's good." The woman smiled. "As you may know, Aura is the living energy of all creatures, without it we were all turned into carcasses, the fact that you could restore Zinnia and me is quite impressive."
"As I suspected." Ash said. "When I first found Zinnia I remembered that legend, it was a Pokemon from another region...Yveltal, that's its name."
"I don't care about its name!" Zinnia shouted. "That monster turned our whole clan into rocks!"
"Our whole clan?" Zinnia's grandmother walked outside of her house to look at the situation. "How could this happen..."
"Yeah, uh...how exactly are we gonna solve this?" Ash asked. "These are a lot of people and I could barely bring back both of you."
"It'll be fine." Zinnia assured him. "I'm sure my aura will be back after a while, I'll help you free some of the people and then they'll help us with the rest, the more people we free, the easier it'll get."
"I'm afraid that we could be totally out of aura, my dear." The elder continued.
"What? B-But..."
"The creature that attacked us stole all aura from us, deep from inside and... I don't feel it within myself anymore, I'm fearing the effect could be permanent."
"A-Ash, is that right?" Zinnia asked him.
"I... she does have a point, Yveltal's counterpart, Xerneas, is the only one that can fully cancel its powers, I managed to bring you back, but it seems like I couldn't do it along your aura...at least not fully." Ash focused on Zinnia. "The aura I felt back then when I found you, I don't feel it anymore."
"But if no one else has aura it would take you months or years to bring back the whole village!" Zinnia shouted.
"And of course, we can't just ask you to do such a thing." Her grandmother continued.
"So we can't bring anyone back?!" Zinnia shouted again. "We are... we are all that's left?!"
"I'm sorry, my dear Zinnia..."
"But..." Zinnia looked at all the statues and started to cry. "They are all our family, we can't...leave them like that."
"No, we can't..." Ash answered. "I can't do this one by one..." He started to walk past the statues as he looked around. "But if I can transfer enough aura in the surroundings... expand it like a wave so it reaches them all, I might be able of setting them all free at the same time."
"How?" Zinnia asked. "You said it yourself, it already took almost all of your aura just to bring grandma and me back, our village has more than a thousand people, it's practically impossible."
"Practically impossible ain't totally impossible, but I'll need help." Ash searched for another Poke Ball and much to the draconid's surprise, what came out of it was a human girl with fair skin and yellow eyes, she was wearing a blue maid outfit and her red hair was braided in two long ponytails, she then ran to Ash and gave him a hug as she nuzzled to him. "N-Nice to see you too, Alita."
"W-Wait! People can be caught now?!" Zinnia exclaimed.
"Uh? No, sorry, Alita, would you mind?" The maid giggled and gave a spin, revealing herself as a Latias in a flash of light.
"Wow... so you're a Pokemon..." Zinnia looked at her.
"I'm Mr. Ketchum's Dragon-Type maid, mind you." The Latias answered with telepathy, surprising Zinnia and her grandmother again.
"You and your first impressions..." Ash said as the dragoness laughed. "Now let's see..." He then walked to the center of the village, from where he had a clear view of all the statues, Ash then put both hands on the ground and took a deep breath. "Listen Alita, all these people were separated from their aura and turned into stone, I'll try to bring them back, but I need you and Absol to transfer aura to me while I do it, got it?"
Absol nodded at this order, but Alita gave a frown. "I'm not sure, Ash...that could go really wrong, it's a dangerous idea."
"I'm not going to just leave them all like that, you two have the most aura, but I can channel it the best, are you with me?"
"Sol!" Absol nodded again.
"...Til' the end of the line." Alita nodded as well.
"Let's do this!" Ash said.
Absol and Alita started to transfer aura to Ash and he sent it along the ground as a ripple that reached the whole village, dispersing on the statues. "Just like that." Ash smiled as the motion continued.
"Wow, he said he had aura, but..." Zinnia looked in amazement as the waves surrounded the whole area in light.
"Yes, but... using his own body to conduct all that energy could be dangerous." Her grandmother added as Ash continued to expand the aura around, but he quickly started to exhaust himself.
"Ash, are okay?" Alita asked him while still passing Aura.
"I-I'm fine!" He exclaimed with difficulty.
"He's not gonna make it..." Zinnia's grandmother said worried.
"Not yet!" Ash pressed his hand harder against the ground, the energy ripple then started to create small quakes and the statues finally began to crack with energy, but Ash was about to pass out.
"Sol!"
"Ash!"
"Keep going! That's an order!" He shouted to his Pokemon.
"Ash, stop!" Zinnia pleaded as she ran to him. "You're gonna kill yourself at this point, this isn't going to work, we'll find another way."
"I'm almost there!" Ash shouted.
"Why are you doing this?!" Zinnia continued. "These are all strangers to you! They are my clan, I should be the one doing this! Why are you willing to sacrifice yourself for them?!"
"I helped you too, didn't I?!" He shouted. "I didn't know who you were! But I helped you and your grandma because you needed it! I always have to help! No matter whom!"
"What do you mean with 'have'?"
"...When my best friend needed me, I wasn't there, I couldn't help her...I lost her... I created Team Delta to help everyone, anytime, anywhere, to fight for the weak, to stand up for those who have fallen, to shout for those who don't have a voice anymore..." Ash could feel his body trembling but he continued with the ripple. "I-If I can't do this then I don't deserve being called their leader... but even with with all that, since when do you need a reason to help people?"
"You..." Zinnia put her hands on Ash's cheeks and pressed their foreheads together. "I...I won't let you do this alone, it's not fair, I'm here as well... you said you realized I wasn't a statue because there was still some aura inside me, please, whatever that small amount is, use it." Zinnia then placed her hands over Ash's and tried to transfer Aura to him, the energy finally began to burst from her and it joined with Ash's, expanding around the village, the ripple grew bigger and bigger, surrounding the whole place in light, Zinnia's grandmother covered her eyes from it and once the light disappeared, all the people had been restored and the rocky floor of the cave was now covered in flowers.
"We...we did it." Ash and Zinnia said together looking at the people "Hey, don't copy me...what? You're copying me." They talked in unison again to look at each other, the two then laughed for a moment but stopped abruptly. "Hehe..." Everything suddenly turned black for both of them.
"Good morning! Good morning! The sun's up there! Get up, get up, get up, sleepyhead!"
"Classic Alita..." Ash laughed as he woke up in a bed and the first thing he saw was Alita in her human form doing some jazz hands.
"Welcome back!" She greeted him. "You almost knocked the door of death again, but I think I should stop worrying at this point, I'm honestly starting to think you'll outlive me."
"Alita, what happened?"
"You and Zinnia fused your auras in a huge burst, it was something amazing I must say, you two managed to free everyone, but both passed out afterwards, it's been two days, I've been taking care of you, Zinnia's over there." the maid pointed at another bed in the other side of the room where Zinnia was resting along Bagon. "She's alright, just sleeping." Alita assured.
"We're still in the village, right?"
"Correct, in fact, this is Zinnia's house."
"Then we should-"
"ASTER KETCHUM, YOU STUPID IDIOT!" The Gym Leader of Fortree, Winona, suddenly bursted in the door of the room. "Y-You had me so worried!" She ran at him to give him a hug. "A-Are you alright? How are you feeling?"
"I'm fine, don't worry." Ash replied. "How did you find me, uh?"
"Lucky for you, I put a small tracking device on your jacket, just in case you could get in this kind of trouble." Winona explained.
"Alright, I'm gonna ignore that serious violation to my privacy and instead appreciate your care." Ash replied with a dead stare.
"Right choice." Winona gave a smug look.
"Fine you two, we should leave for now." Alita said. "Zinnia still needs to rest."
The trio then walked out of the house, where they found all the villagers were waiting for them.
"It's him!" One of them said.
"Ash! The light giver!" Another continued.
"ALL HAIL ASH! ALL HAIL ASH! ALL HAIL ASH!" The village said together.
"Aster Ketchum, what did I tell you about saving a whole civilization without telling me again?" Winona looked at him accusingly.
"What can I say?" Ash laughed nervously.
"That's just our Ash." Alita giggled.
"We're glad to see you're safe and sound." Zinnia's grandmother approached him. "The village agreed to offer you a big celebration to thank you for saving us all."
"I do not mean to offend you, but I'm afraid I'll have to take your savior away for now." Winona said.
"Is there a problem?" Ash asked.
"Team Magma and Aqua weren't resting while you were, unfortunately." She replied.
"I see... if that's the case we have to leave." Ash said.
"Before you do, we'd like to give you something at least, a little gift for you and your friend." The elder offered Ash a small purple/red stone which he quickly recognized.
"Alita, is this?"
"A LATIASITE!" The maid shouted. "ASH, THAT'S A LATIASITE!"
"So we can Mega evolve you!" Ash exclaimed excited.
"Yes, we can!" Alita jumped to him and hugged him as they celebrated together. "Mega evolve! Mega evolve!"
"Children." Winona sighed. "I work with literal children."
"Thanks a lot." Alita said to the elder. "We've been looking in all Hoenn for one of these, but they're so scarce."
"Oh, it's nothing, it was just gathering dust here anyway, glad to see someone will put it to use, I suppose we'll save that big party of yours for when you return."
"And it'll be an honor to attend to it." Ash answered with a smile and then looked back at the house. "When Zinnia wakes up, please tell her that I wouldn't have made it without her, I hope to see her again soon."
"Of course, I'm sure she'll be counting the days as well."
"We'll take our leave then." Winona released her giant Skarmory and hoped on him, she then helped Ash do the same and Alita jumped in the air changing to her real form, the Pokemon flew up through the skylight and then looked down, noticing that, just like Zinnia's grandmother said, the skylight couldn't be seen from outside, making the area look like a flat-topped mountain. "Well, that's interesting." Winona said and then looked back at Ash. "Hang on tight, we gonna go fast."
"You just love to say that." Ash hugged Winona from behind and Skarmory and Latias then flew in direction to Fortree.
"Good luck Ash..." Zinnia said from down in the village with Bagon on her arms, the 'All hail Ash' managed to wake her up and while she heard most of the situation from the window of her room, she thought It'd be better to stay behind for the moment. "A thousand years..." She said to herself. "Things must have changed a lot...I have to talk with Grandma about what Ash told me, he'll need help, we can't let those people awake Groudon and Kyogre... this will surely be a new beginning for all of us."
And that's it! The promised Ash x Zinnia fic is here! For those that don't know what I'm talking about, in chapter 16 of my Main story "Fighting Dreamers" Ash gets a sequence of nightmares about alternate realities, this is one of those realities, so I guess this story can count as some kind of "spin-off", anyway, this story will play an important part in Fighting Dreamers later and vice versa.
This Ash is...kinda OP, I'll try to explain most things with flashbacks, we have a lot of things to cover, mainly Flannery, Alita and Winona with some other surprises.
Also, something funny, the autocorrect kept fixing Bagon into Vagina, like, not even Baton or Bacon, it went straight up for Vagina, da fuck.
Also also, this story will progress way faster than Fighting Dreamers, meaning that the main ship will probably be made by chapter 5-7.
On the same, this fic won't get updated as often, Fighting Dreamers is still my main priority, but I'll try to get two more chapters of this one done and then we'll be on a short hiatus.
Well, I'll see you next time in "Meet the crew"
Oh yes, one more thing:
RSE Shelly best girl