When the Order arrived in Kanto's Vermilion City on November 30th, 2008, they were met with a fairly crowded port like one would expect — however, it was strangely orderly, the entire crowd was facing them, and they were all in the same uniform, save for a man and a woman, the woman holding a megaphone and speaking to them.

"This is Kanto Commander Izumi Taki of the Rocket Liberation Army. We have been informed that an attack on the region has been planned by those on this ship, and we advise you to return home now rather than die in battle."

Quonk proceeded to project his voice. "It is hereby declared that fatalities shall be inflicted rather than affected, and as that great strategist has proclaimed!"

"...Pardon?"

"Permit the Bidoof to assault!"

So the Bidoof began committing war crimes, and Hisoka had now had enough of this shit that he simply jumped off the boat along with several others and tried to walk straight past the army. "We're simply here to find Rocket and take them out, nothing to do with you–"

Some of the Kantonian agents immediately started blasting while the others were trying and failing to deal with the Bidoof assaults.

Meanwhile, Quonk immediately contradicted Hisoka. "If this army shall declare itself in opposition of ourselves, we shall declare ourselves opposed respectively to its unvaliance!"

Watching this chaos, the man with the Kantonian commander had a classic look of visible confusion.

Izumi was not amused as she muttered to herself. "They're trying to overwhelm us with strong attacks, but they're not very good at defending, and we have more people than them." She then yelled through the megaphone. "Fight like they are and disregard their own attacks!"

Quonk gained a face of regret immediately as the army began to overwhelm the Order all of a sudden.

Now Hisoka was the unamused one as he yelled to the Order. "Finish them already, what are you people doing holding back?!"

"We're trying our be-" The agent was cut off by a bullet, which led Quonk to immediately speak.

" I proclaim the issuing of retreat orders! We shall not achieve the march towards mortality so hastily!" Yoku chirped. "Nor flight..."

As the final shots took out the man near the Kantonian commander, they ran back to their boat to run from something they shouldn't have started to begin with. The boat splashed a meter in the air, sputtered in place, and shot off, leaving Kanto agents who'd failed to board it in its wake.

Immediately following that, Izumi took out her phone to make a call.

—

A hooded man shrouded in darkness stepped off a plane and into the relentless storms of the Orange Islands. He immediately walked to the door of a small building at the side of the runway.

The clerk at the desk looked up at him. "What business do you have here?"

The man looked at the clerk. "Did the others not say I was coming? I'm the Prime Minister of Sinnoh."

He reached into his pocket to pull out his ID, but a guard immediately rushed through a door and pushed him against the wall.

"You put your hands in your pockets again, it's the last thing you'll do. Understood?"

"I... have no idea what the problem here is," the moderately confused man said. "The Circle requested me here specifically."

"It was mentioned that we were now at war with Sinnoh, he didn't mention they were sending diplomats," the clerk said. "Excuse us if your sudden appearance is more than a bit suspicious."

Suddenly, the lift door opened. Out came a woman in her late 20s who was clearly in a bit of a rush. "You'll have to excuse the confusion, I forgot to make people aware of your arrival... The Ue's not going to be best pleased about this, is he?"

The guard looked at her. "Given the person you've invited is currently at war with us, you probably should have mentioned it sooner"

"I've only been here three months-"

"That doesn't change much now, does it?" The guard snapped. "You've brought an enemy of the state onto the premises who easily could have killed us all! You should know the protocol by now for situations like this, you run it past the head of security and we meet them at the plane!"

"You and I both know his first action would have been to shoot him in the head, so to my understanding that's what we call an undue escalation–"

"Like Quonk putting Gary in the hospital isn't an undue escalation of affairs, which could easily have–"

"Guys... I am not here to defend the latest actions of the crime lord occupying Canalave. I am here with a mandate from the free cities in hopes that this situation with the Order can be resolved without further unnecessary bloodshed."

The guard checked the Prime Minister for anything dangerous, then took the ID out of his pocket and carefully studied it. "...You're lucky everything checked out. Take him for what you need to."

"Oh... uh... right this way, then."

The woman leads the Prime Minister into a lift, then into a darkened room where he stood for several minutes.

"You may come forward," said an unfamiliar voice directly in front of him.

The man nervously walked forwards, and then the lights came on, revealing nine people in raised seats.

One of the people started talking, clearly at least partly aware of who he was. "Do you care to explain why you're on the Orange Islands at a time of war, young man?"

"In case you didn't notice, I don't exactly have much control over-"

"I asked him here," the same woman he spoke to earlier said. "I was talking to him regarding the situation with the Order, then he said that maybe he'd want to–"

"Ah, I see you've already met our Director of Communications. My apologies, she's a little new here. She should know better than to invite enemies of the state onto our grounds without–"

"Everyone deserves a second chance!" an old woman shouted. "If you were in charge of this place all we'd be doing to those who slighted anyone is having them rot in a cell! This man is unlikely to be directly responsible for the recent assault on Vermilion, and we should at least–"

"Have you forgotten so quickly that our agent Gary should by all accounts be dead right now, directly because of what forces from Sinnoh did in Vermilion?!" A louder woman interrupted. "There is no relevance in whether he is directly responsible, we do not accept actions like this in our Union and at minimum we should show that with his immediate–"

The man in the middle gently tapped his glass with a spoon, and the room immediately fell silent. "An appropriate amount of warning would be appreciated next time you invite a potentially hazardous guest, yes" the man said. "However, I shall remind you all that making friends within enemies is what separates us from the Unovan government that threatens our very existence, and this is why this leader of Sinnoh shall be allowed his chance."

Nobody said anything else.

"I am the Ue, current head of the Circle that maintains the interests of the Kanto Union from the shadows of the people's democracy. I apologize for the... discussion, let's call it... that should have taken place prior to your arrival."

Someone muttered in frustration. The First Minister passed the person that materialized next to them the referendum report.

"...There's only 4 cities on the report."

"As I already mentioned upstairs, Sinnoh is a divided region. Most of our cities are ruled by absolutists that would prevent any sort of vote from occurring. I should note that I personally have the direct backing from the people of the free cities of Oreburgh, Jubilife and Eterna."

"That's three."

"I can assure you the people of Canalave do not support the organization responsible for the injuries caused in Vermilion. I got their backing for this action while they were absent."

"Wait... so if you can't get a vote from the other cities because of their political factors... how would you know whether they would accept our ways?"

"After centuries of being ruled by absolutes, we have been trying to gain the freedom of others in the region, and people who have managed to escape to our cities have been like-minded. Unfortunately as you may have figured out, we do not have the resources to gain them freedom on our own terms–"

"Oh, don't worry, we know. That's why we've been preparing our weapon..."

One of them pressed a button, opening a door. Out came Dwayne Johnson's self insert.

"This is Hashira, a synthetic being that is an elite strategist and superweapon. He was created as a discriminate alternative to nuclear weaponry, and a more widespread alternative to an assassin."

"This would be the first large scale assignment the superweapon will be involved with. Hopefully it won't be the last — we've got plans for him to replace the military leader."

"How badly would four regions have to fuck up–" Hashira interrupted him by raising an eyebrow and creating a booming sound. "...Does he always do that?"

"We think it's a side effect of the enhancements, don't read too much into it–"

"I think I saw that on the Richter scale–"

"Anyway, back on topic. I take it the people responsible need to be dealt with, and I take it you know who those people are."

"Of course. Here's a list." The First Minister passed Hashira a paper, and the superweapon immediately walked back through the door he entered with.

"We've got it from here. Welcome to the Kanto Union."

—

Some time later, the Order returned to Canalave, only to witness something very... concerning when they got in the base. Namely, some giant muscular guy with dangerous looking eyebrows was busy blasting into the underground base and starting to destroy it like it personally offended him as Quonk stared in horror at the sight.

Hisoka began asking questions. "Who are you and why are you in here?"

The man just stood there and looked at him before raising an eyebrow to make a booming sound, and with that, Yoku flew to a more secluded part of the base, Kastriakh looked like he was questioning his life choices, and Quonk began being Quonk.

"In the circumstances sensory perception has declared to exist, peradventure that yourself should take your leave–" An even louder eyebrow boom. "...Or perhaps we shall declare ourselves foes?"

"He's one guy, we could probably take him–"

The man spoke. "I would recommend against this current strategy."

Of course, it appeared this person wasn't alone. Not followed by many, mind you, but still. The alarm went on pretty quickly after that, and then everyone else started attacking with literally everything they had.

"...I shall proclaim that assault shall be our sole method of endurance presently!"
With that, the Bidoof army began attacking, but it turned out they, Quonk's oratory, and the bullets were entirely useless against this man, but the man's plasma blades proved very effective against the Order's agents.

And guess what, the fervent assassination-giver wasn't exactly responding well to someone singlehandedly killing a tenth of the Order in one swoop, and then doing it again as he stared at the carnage in fucking terror, and then doing it once more, and another time, and maybe yet one more–

"I shall proclaim capitulation! I and my army surrender!"

And at last, Quonk broke down crying.

Hisoka yelled for the remaining agents to put the guns down and then walked over to the mess that was Quonk on the floor. "...Boss, this is why you don't pick fights with Kanto..."

At this point enough Union agents showed up that the superweapon walked off.

"...The premise was valiant, yet the finale was overwhelmed by the sheer unvaliance of such opponents..."

A Union agent walked in front of the Order's remaining agents. "So now that you've surrendered, you all have two choices: join the Rocket Liberation Army, or serve a prison sentence for however long they give–"

" I shall not aid such unvaliant causes–"

...

So they ended up in prison for a while. Lovely.