After about 2(00) weeks, I'm getting back to work! So, I keep forgetting the character check-up at the end of chapters. Oh, and Charmeleon! Can't forget about you! So, thanks for helping me decide on whether or not I rea-a-a-aly want to take the story in a bit of a darker direction. I kinda had no choice, because the game gets darker later on. but it still remains kid friendly. And the main inspiration for this story... was going to have a darker plot but it was canceled. That was going to be a more T rated vibe, but this is going to stay K+. Yeah, I guess my writing has improved. But, maybe go to bed...

No joke, me and Charmeleon are actually kind of friends now. Wanna make a friend? Post a review on a story!

So, after a few thousand attempts against Totem Lurantis that I skipped, Mercury won. I will not show the battle cause it was pretty much me spamming a move until my Pokemon fainted. "Thank Arceus I finished that!" Mercury said as he walked out from Lush Jungle. It was kinda like when your study for a test, then walk out of class like "Cool, now I can forget everything!" But how should I know, I'm home-schooled! "Well, I have 5 Z-crystals so far." Mercury looked through his bag "Next up is Olivia's grand trial... The Rock-Type Z-crystal."'"Well, time to go find her!" Mercury said "...Oh yeah, Kukui told me to go to some lab..." Mercury began the journey, all the way across a small field.

"Sup, buddy!" Flame jumped out of no where.

"GAH!" Mercury slapped his hand across Flame's face.

"Ow..." Flame said "So... How's it going..." Flame rubbed his hand on his cheek.

"Oh, I just finished the 3rd Akala trial." Mercury said "My opinion; if your trial is harder than a Kahuna, then you've succeeded."

"Heh, yeah!" Flame responded "I'm still trying to catch up on my trials, how are you doing?"

"Oh, I'm doing fine!" Mercury said.

The two continued to talk as they walked over to the nearest Pokemon Center, then back to town to get to the Lab Kukui was talking about. "Oh, I have a quicker way of getting to Heahea!" Mercury pulled out his Ride Pager and called Charizard.

"Holy crap!" Flame jumped up.

"Onward, Buttstalian!" Mercury shouted.

"You named your Charizard Buttstalian?" Flame asked as Charizard ascended.

"Shut the Muk up." Mercury responded.

At the lab, Mercury noticed Lillie standing in the front. He was going to speak up, but Lillie was talking to Nebby.

"Go Nebby! Use... Uh, use Splash!" she said "..."

"Pew?" Nebby was confused about what Lillie was saying.

"...Heh... I was just acting like I was Mercury." Lillie responded "You...you always seemed to end up getting hurt, Nebby. So I never really liked Pokemon Trainers or thought that I would want to be one myself."

"YOU DON'T LIKE POKEMON TRAINERS!?" Mercury asked "I THOUGHT YOU LIKED ME!"

"Huh?" Lillie looked around as Mercury hid behind the wall.

She looked back at Nebby. "But when I see Mercury and Hau (especially Mercury)... It's like they've thrown open some door that I always thought was closed... They stride straight through it into the future... It seems...so amazing somehow..."

"Pew?" Nebby looked over at Mercury and Flame.

"Oh!" Lillie turned around as Nebby walked over to the two.

Lillie walked over. "Um, oh, Mercury. Hello. I feel like it's been a while since we last met. And who's your friend?"

"Oh, his name is Flame!" Mercury pointed over to him.

"Wow, what a typical OC name... Th-there's a laboratory here that studies the dimensions, did you know?"

"Oh yeah, Kukui told me all about it!" Mercury responded "He said something like 'It's woo a woo lab woo where woo they woo study woo Ultra woo Wormholes woo woo woo!'"

"Seems accurate heh heh... Speaking of the professor, he's waiting to meet you." Lillie responded, turning over at the building.

She looked back. "How...how were your trials? It must be quite tiring to do three in a row, but the game says 'quite trying' as a mistake."

"Quite trying?" Mercury was confused "Uh, anyway... Yeah, they were no problem except Muking totem Lurantis."

"Goodness, really? It wasn't any trouble for you to tackle all three of Akala island's trials?" Lillie asked "I suppose that explains it. The reason you look so content and understood by Raider there, I mean."

Lillie turned around and walked in the building.

"Who was that?" Flame asked.

"Oh, she's a friend of mine." Mercury responded "Don't start shipping us, Hau does it enough."

Mercury walked in the building while Flame had to leave again. Mercury was confused why he could never stay for more than 20 minutes, but didn't stop him to ask. He walked to the elevator.

"So, floor 3..." he whispered to himself.

"Hey there, honey!" Kukui said as Mercury came out of an elevator.

"Did you call me honey?" Mercury asked, walking over to Kukui.

"Oh, hi!" a white-haired girl looked over at Kukui.

"oh..." Mercury thought.

Kukui looked at Mercury "This here's Professor Burnet. She runs the Dimensional Research Lab, yeah... And she's also my wife!"

"You're Mercury, right? Lillie told me about you." Burnet walked over to Mercury "She said you were the reliable sort...

Three months ago... I found Lillie lying on a beach. Cosmog in her bag, also unconscious. I called Kukui to find a place for her to live. She lives in the loft at Kukui's lab.

So, no Hau today?" she asked Kukui.

"Hau? He's out doing his own thing." Kukui answered "But he'll be the real deal someday... He could even become a Kahuna, just like old Hala before him!"

"You really think so!?" Hau ran over.

"This'll go on for a long time..." Mercury thought.

Mercury was zoning off until Burnet shouted "The ULTRA WORMHOLE!" in big. Red. Letters.

"suddenly I'm interested..." Mercury thought

Okay so another short chapter, but I just wanna get something out after so long. I have school and so I probably shouldn't be up right now, but what the Muk. Good bye for now...