Honestly, he never expected that the day would come where he would have to meet them again, much less rely on them. Their relationship is… a little complicated.
"Hah, what brings you here, crybaby?"
Looker observed his surroundings with a glance. The area which he tracked down the two undefeatable duo to was at Undella Town, comfortably hiding in one of the abandoned resorts now that almost the entirety of the tourists had fled after the sudden attack Team Plasma had unleashed upon the region that resulted in three dead Gym Leaders. The entire Unova is in a panic right now. Foreigners are desperately finding ways to escape from this conflict and back to their homelands through any means necessary, and as of late more and more Unovans are starting to join them in order to flee their homeland. All of the region's well-known ports- and especially the one at Castelia City- are flooded with refugees that are heading to other regions as they speak and it is taking all of the Unova League's efforts to try and hold the entire region together. Well, what's left of the Unova League anyway.
The man didn't even seem surprised that Looker was able to track them down.
"I was of the impression that you guys were here to help, not here for some rest and relaxation," Looker deadpanned when he saw how relaxed the duo were, casually lying on the sun chairs right outside the villa they had chosen to unlawfully occupy while sipping on some cocktails to boot.
"Help? Whatever for? The other four are enough," Aaron Luzel dismissed Looker's concern with a wave of his hand and continued to lean back on his sun chair with a satisfied sigh. They have a very great view of the sea from where they were situated at the coast of Undella. "That said, planning to go back with us anytime soon?"
"You know that I cannot," Looker replied, a little displeased that Aaron brought this topic up when he knew very clearly what his answer would be.
"Sure as hell didn't keep you from trying to find the boss the entire time. Do you have any idea just how often she had to shift from place to place just to avoid you?" Aaron rolled his eyes at Looker in slight disagreement. "Look, stubbornness can be a good trait at times, but this is clearly not one of those times. You know why she avoids you."
"And so? Your point being?" Looker glared coldly at the Aura Guardian as the tension between them grew.
"It's for your own good, my boy-"
"Don't boy me, we are of about the same age, asshole."
"Actually, aren't you supposed to be helping the Unova League right now? Don't your little interpol need you to be there with them? What gives you the free time to come and look for us two?" Aaron decidedly ignored Looker's words and gestured to himself and the tea-loving man also lying on a sun chair not too far away and was not planning to join in their conversation even for a brief moment.
"The Unova League cannot overcome this crisis alone. It needs external help, and you two are the first people I thought of who could help turn this situation around," Looker was direct in his explanation and he knew the two insufferable men were listening despite not acting like it.
"Have you checked the notifications on your phone? We are already helping-"
"I also know that before this happened, she sent the two of you here for a reason, whatever that might be."
"Would you believe me if I said that she sent us both here for a vacation?"
"Right, and that is as believable as telling me that Yasu had sworn to never drink tea ever again."
"Hey, leave me out of this," the final member of the group finally spoke, a little irritated that his rest had been disturbed. "Just let me relax in peace until I have to go out to work again."
The earth around them started to tremble violently at this very moment, as if a violent earthquake had struck the entire place.
"Aw man, I just have to jinx it, don't I?" Yasuhira complained irritatedly and slowly got up to his feet, the violent tremors of the earth not disrupting his balance in the slightest. Right next to him is Aaron, who had also finally gotten off his chair to stand beside his partner while rotating his shoulders to stretch himself.
"Finally, time to get going," Aaron commented with a large grin before turning back to Looker. "Yeah, you are right, she sent us here for a reason and the both of us are here in Undella for a purpose. You will see it for yourself very soon."
Looker's own xtransceiver began to beep wildly as messages started to flood in. It's not just Undella Town, news started to come in that huge armies of Plasmas were starting to gather outside Castelia to begin a siege on it very soon. It's time for another war, and this one is very probably the deciding fight to determine Unova's fate.
Looker very quickly sifted and read through the news he received and swiftly came to a decision. The Unova League already have their hands full and they already lost three Gym Leaders but if it's his agents, they will be able to do something about the situation at the last and most important bastion that needs to be defended.
To conquer Unova one would have to look at the topography of Unova. It is a region split into halves and only connected at its topmost and bottom ends. Opelucid is a city that is naturally easy to defend but hard to siege, making it a very difficult obstacle to be taken down through standard means and it was why Team Plasma had nuked the city with a flying airship. The zealots are now effectively holding control of the northern end of the region with Opelucid now under Team Plasma's control. Opelucid's fall had swiftly turned the tide of the war into Team Plasma's favour by severing one of the most important routes for the League to travel between the east and west and also cutting off the connection between its headquarters to the mainland, another reason how and why the Plasmas had so easily sieged the Pokemon League headquarters up north. There simply wasn't a way to send reinforcements in time and there were only so many that psychics could teleport at any one time. That was how important Opelucid is as a strategic location in terms of warfare. Lose Opelucid, and you risk losing control of the northern territories.
However, if Opelucid City's value lies only in its strategic location within the region, Nimbasa has both a strategic and economic value that would effectively have its conqueror grasp the region's lifeline. It wasn't called a city of entertainment for no reason, the rate at which money exchanges hands within Nimbasa every single day is a major contributor in fuelling Unova's economy. Its strategic location and economic value is what made it one of the most valuable cities in the region by default.
Anyone who wishes to control Unova will have to control Nimbasa, but there's a catch. Nimbasa may be the heart that connects both halves of the region, but it's very difficult to besiege Nimbasa on both its east and western ends due to the topography much like how it was for Opelucid. If one were to discount unconventional means like the Plasma Frigate, the only feasible way to siege Nimbasa without incurring astronomical losses would be to first take over Castelia in order to besiege Nimbasa from its southern end.
Castelia's presence is what is protecting Nimbasa from external threats. Thus, there was also an old saying that to take over Unova one would have to first take over Castelia, because it is only through Castelia that it would ever be possible for anyone to conquer Nimbasa and subsequently the entire region from thereon. The fact that Castelia is a financial hub on a scale comparable to Nimbasa only made it a far juicier piece of meat that everyone would like to get a share of.
If Castelia falls, Nimbasa would fall and then so would Unova. Opelucid had already been lost and they cannot allow Castelia and Nimbasa to suffer that same fate if they want to stop Ghetsis.
"Akamu, get the guys to head to Castelia. I won't be there immediately, work with the worst assumption that you guys may be on your own and that no further reinforcements will be there, and get Mary to hurry with the genesects. If you see the Plasma Frigate, inform us immediately, we need to prioritise its destruction."
"Oh? Not going back to help your little group?"
"They will be fine," Looker replied as he ended his call with Akamu, standing next to the two men who had walked the earth for centuries and calmly watched the sea in front of them. The waves are getting violent, something is coming.
"Don't know how the doc found out about it, but he told us that Team Plasma was planning to use the sea route to head south from here to reach Striaton, Nacrene, Accumula, and Nuvema. Striaton and Nacrene are already in a bad enough shape that fully taking them over wouldn't be too hard for the Plasmas. If they took over those towns it's game over, Castelia will be wide open for a full assault and once that happens, it's all over for Unova," Aaron became uncharacteristically serious and filled Looker in on the things that even he was unaware of. "That's why Yasu and I are here, we weren't just slacking around. We were waiting for them to make their move, we just had no idea how they were planning to cross the sea from Undella to the places down south."
"At first we thought they might have planned to use that flying airship, but it seemed that we were wrong since we had just confirmed that it is definitely not in this area," Yasuhira added as the surface of the sea ahead burst forth in a violent splash. Schools of humongous water type pokemon capable of ferrying passengers, notably wailords, finally emerged with armies of Team Plasma forces riding on their backs.
"They had an underwater base? And a navy?" Even Looker was surprised at Team Plasma's ingenuity. Clearly, Team Plasma had done a very great job in hiding the full extent of their capabilities and military power to the point that everyone had sorely underestimated them. Team Plasma really had grown into a threat in ways that is now comparable to Team Rocket of old.
Maybe they had learnt a few valuable lessons from Team Rocket's defeat. How vexing.
"Wailords, haven't seen them being used in warfare for centuries," Yasuhira quietly spoke, knowing just how difficult it is to command wailords due to their titanic size. They don't just take orders from anybody. Their size alone made it such that they had no natural predators in the vast sea, and they would have overpopulated the sea if it wasn't for the fact that reproduction does not come easy for their species. It takes a lot to be able to injure a wailord, much less defeat them.
Come to think about it, Hoenn's Champion, Wallace, has a wailord on his team as well. That is indeed a feat worthy of a Champion.
"The Unova League wouldn't be here in time to stop them and I don't think they had enough manpower to send their forces here, so I guess it's just us now," Aaron sighed exaggeratedly and stretched his arms while turning to Looker. "So, you joining in the fun?"
"Somebody has to make sure that the two of you don't overdo it," Looker deadpanned as he released his pokemon just as the other two legendary heroes did the same. It didn't escape Looker's notice that Aaron had a new addition.
"A darmanitan?"
"Captured it while I was on a trip in the desert. Thought I might just try training a psychic for the fun of it. Why, you want one?"
"No, just thought a pokemon like that suits your brutish personality just fine," Looker snarked and his attention was brought back to the fleet of Team Plasma on the sea and admittedly, it made a very impressive naval force. It's not something that can be defended against without a very huge defence force under usual circumstances.
Unfortunately for Team Plasma, none of them here are normal people.
"So, I hope one of us here has the ability to conduct naval battles, because that's really not my forte."
"Don't look at me," Aaron raised his hands up in a gesture of surrender and pointed a finger at the last remaining person. "Ask him."
"Shouldn't have expected anything from the two of you," Yasuhira muttered under his breath as he put his flask of tea away. The castform which was hovering in the air near him caught the look its trainer was giving it, understanding what it had to do.
"Stop them."
Castform visibly glowed and an incredible surge of energy burst forth from the body of such a small pokemon. The weather changed in an instant, the skies now covered by thunderous dark clouds and the sea turned violently choppy as the winds howled and raged. Hail began to fall with each of those blocks of ice easily growing to the size of an average geodude, with some of those hail managing to pierce the wailords' skin and making them thrash about in pain with how they were falling from the skies with such high velocity.
A beautiful combination of Rain Dance and Hail. With just the application of two very basic moves Yasuhira had easily obstructed a naval fleet of wailords. This is Aoki Yasuhira, the Uncrowned Hero of Ever Grande, and also the man holding onto the title of "Strength" among the Cards of Tarot. The power to command the weather and the power to control "space", that is the power commanded by Aoki Yasuhira, the man who fought alongside and aided Shozo Oshin to become the First Hoenn Champion.
"Slaking, castform, give me ice and lightning."
The unmoving slaking standing by its trainer's side sucked in a deep breath before unleashing a massive Blizzard from its mouth. The impossible turned possible as the slaking caused the sea in front of them to freeze over in a matter of seconds, stopping the wailords in their voyage by littering the entire area with gigantic chunks of icebergs and frozen waters. Looker isn't even sure if any of the current world's Pillars who are Ice Specialists are capable of replicating this same feat.
"Ahaha! Now that's more like it!" Aaron let out a loud laugh when he realised that there's now a solid foothold for him to fight on an open sea. Arcs of ferocious lightning fell from the skies as Yasuhira's castform used Thunder, taking out a wailord and the passengers on its back in one powerful strike.
"Let's go! Lucario!"
Aaron wasn't idle either now that Yasuhira had given him the opportunity to fight on the frozen surface of the sea. He leapt forward and crossed the distance in a rapid blur, his physical capabilities greatly enhanced by the mysterious blessings of Aura. As one, Aaron and his lucario punched a wailord and while they looked like two black little unassuming dots when compared to the wailord's gigantic size, the humongous whale pokemon actually bellowed in pain and spurted out a large volume of blood from its mouth. The Defender of Coronet is considered a legendary hero by many even in modern times, with good reasons too.
"Guess we had forced them to show their hand early," Yasuhira idly remarked when Team Plasma naval fleet were forced to release more pokemon to meet them in battle at a spot where they least expected to encounter resistance. Scores of winged dragons dotted the airspace above the sea, with most of them being adult dragons. The majority of them are noiverns, some of the most feared aerial cavalry in the days of old and especially in olden Kalos in an era where war was rampant.
Aaron's togekiss had already charged ahead to meet the dragons in battle but powerful as it is, it was being outnumbered even if it would be a cold day in hell before it was defeated. Looker simply tugged on the gloves that he wore out of habit as he prepared to head in for battle. Since the two walking legendary heroes had already made their moves, it's about time he made some contribution too.
"We can leave those dragons to you, right? Dragonslayer?"
"Don't ever call me that," Looker warned when he heard Yasuhira calling him by the title that he had once earned from a time long past, but Yasuhira had a point. There's nobody in this world who knows the weaknesses of dragons like the back of his hand like Looker does. He's the best man to stop the dragons ahead.
"Sparkles, let's go."
Shadows swirled and raged as Looker's sableye brought him and his entire team to the sky, accurately dropping them down onto the backs of the hostile dragons as they started tearing their wings apart. Looker's ghosts flitted from dragon to dragon as wisps of shadows through the use of Shadow Sneak, systematically tearing out either their wings or their throats as they were trained to. Despite the fact that these ghosts do not possess the capability to fly, their mastery over Shadow Sneak more than made up for such a handicap. Even in the event that they were dropped from the dragons' backs Looker's Mr Mime could easily create temporary footholds for them with its ability to create solid barriers with its fingertips.
A powerful sonic attack obliterated a huge army of water type pokemon that were under the command of Team Plasma. Yasuhira's exploud stood at the coast of Undella Town, charging up another Boomburst before swiftly unleashing another sonic attack with enough power to level an entire city should it want to. The density of water further amplified the power of sonic attacks, immediately throwing the Team Plasma navy into a severe disadvantage.
"Hey, leave some for me!" Looker could hear Aaron crying out in indignation when he realised that Looker and Yasuhira were clearing out their enemies much faster than he expected, which would mean that things would be less fun for him because the battle might end sooner than the Aura Guardian imagined it to be. Looker simply ignored the Aura Guardian as he focused on taking down his winged enemies, unable to control his thoughts as memories from a long time ago flashed across his mind when he also had to fight like this to take down ferocious dragons that were out for his blood.
Not a very pleasant memory if he does say so himself.
Looker landed on the back of a wailord after he and Sparkles took down another noivern, immediately becoming the centre of attention of its passengers. The Team Plasma forces and their pokemon who were riding on the wailord charged at him but Sparkles easily made them back off with a Shadow Ball. He wouldn't admit it out loud, but he's thankful that Aaron and Yasuhira were here keeping an eye on Undella Town. If this naval fleet really reached the southeastern part of the Unova region without anyone the wiser, conquering them, and thereby exposing Castelia City to Team Plasma's full assault…
Couldn't let that happen now, could he?
"Toxicroak!"
Looker finally released his toxicroak, who immediately charged ahead with a powerful spring of its hind legs and brutally demolished any opposition they faced. He might be working alongside two legendary heroes but they are still three people against an entire army. Most of his ghosts are still up in the skies working on taking down the dragons and he only has Sparkles and toxicroak with him right now. The faster they cut their numbers down to size, the better it will be.
A terrifying blaze of fire suddenly lit the skies above them, the scorching temperature heating up the air to the point it felt as if all the moisture in the atmosphere had evaporated instantly. Looker squinted his eyes a little to see just who had arrived to reinforce them and spotted a huge volcarona with a passenger on its back. He couldn't help but click his tongue in annoyance when he identified the woman commanding the volcarona.
Of course it had to be Aline.
But even Looker wouldn't deny that things had gotten a lot easier with Aline assisting to take down the angry horde of flying dragons, allowing Aaron and him to fully concentrate on mowing down the Team Plasma forces on the sea while Yasuhira ensured that the wailords will not be swimming an inch forward with him around. Looker's ghosts gradually rejoined by their trainer's side after more and more dragons fell, leaving the woman on the volcarona to deal with the remainder of Team Plasma's aerial combat force.
Aaron's lucario pressed its palm against a wailord and that was all it needed to cause the wailord to cough up enough blood that painted the nearby waters a sinister red. Looker recognised that to be an application of Vacuum Wave. While it looked like the lucario did nothing, in actuality lucario had released a devastating strike that bypassed all external and physical defences that the wailord naturally possessed. The Vacuum Wave had struck directly at the wailord's inner organs which was why it had coughed up blood. Looker wouldn't be surprised if the wailord's organs had been crushed into paste from that one blow alone.
"Leave no one alive!"
Aline's voice was heard loud and clear by everyone below and while Looker really wanted to shout back at her that he really doesn't give a damn about what she wants, he knew that this was necessary if Tarot wanted to ensure the secrecy of their organisation. Make no mistake, he's not doing this for Aline, but for her, the master which these legendary heroes serve.
The person who he had been searching for hundreds of years.
"There are some trying to escape underwater!" Aaron warned as he and his darmanitan quickly punched the thick sheet of ice beneath him. His mastery over Aura showed as the entire blanket of thick ice rippled and exploded together with the seawater beneath it, and it was rather magnificent at how he actually caused a huge whirlpool to manifest with just a single punch.
Looker spotted Aline's chandelure diving into the eye of the whirlpool before the seawater in its immediate vicinity suddenly superheated itself in one massive blast. Heated steam that made the skin tingle and burn covered the area and visibility was so low that Looker could not even see ten steps in front of him. Even then, he knew that Aaron and Aline must have eradicated every single foe which had tried to escape them. Nobody could ever escape Aaron's senses and the full might of Aline's firepower.
The sound of powerful flapping wings easily dispersed the fog around them as the huge volcarona descended right next to the floating corpse of the wailord that Looker and his ghosts were standing atop on. Aaron rejoined them with a superpowered jump, drenched entirely from head to toe but the huge smile on his face indicated that he enjoyed that battle. Yasuhira caught up to them in a few seconds through some unknown means but if Looker had to make a guess, probably through some obscure application of Secret Power, a move that Yasuhira is notorious for and which made him the Uncrowned Hero of Ever Grande.
Four unordinary people finally met up under the most unexpected of circumstances, four Champion-level trainers that could individually rival an entire army when pushed to their greatest extent. In front of people like them, numbers are merely statistics, the quality and volume of power from just one pokemon which they personally trained to be on their main team could easily match or even dwarf the power wielded by the mightiest heroes or the most heinous villains.
The first to break the tense silence was the only woman among them.
"I have half a mind to drag you back, and another half a mind to just bury you where you stand," Aline told Looker as she jumped down from the back of her volcarona and onto the top of the dead wailord which they were standing on. Looker and her had never gotten along since the first day they knew each other. They just… don't mesh well.
"That's my line. Trust me, I wanted to kill you when we first met," Looker stated blandly with a dangerous gleam in his eyes, the ghosts around him coiling and shifting in equally menacing gestures. The ninetales and delphox beside the woman simply growled in hostility with their fangs bared.
Aline's eyes narrowed a fraction at his words, not at all afraid of the man which even the PWL could never fully control.
"What a coincidence, me too. If it wasn't for the fact that she liked you too, you wouldn't be alive to speak to me right now."
"Where is she?"
"You know I cannot say that. Even if I am allowed to, what makes you think that I will tell you?"
The tension between the two grew to the point that it was thick enough to be felt and only eased a little when Yasuhira interfered.
"Alright, time out, you two. If she found out about this none of us are going to have a good time," Yasuhira put himself in between the two. Aline simply turned her head to a side with a scoff and her arms crossed over her chest while Looker simply rolled his eyes and looked away as well, his hands in the pockets of his long coat.
"And people say that Yasu and I always bicker like children, apparently none of them had seen anything when the both of you are placed together," Aaron didn't waste the opportunity to make a verbal jab at the two people that he hadn't quite seen and worked with for quite a long while until today.
The only response Aaron received from that were the death glares directed at him by the two people which he just offended. It's just like the old times again, where everybody just loves to bully poor old him around.
"What a waste of time," Aline scoffed as she turned around to jump onto her volcarona's back once again, having nothing to say to the man who she had never gotten along with and who never once failed to cause her lady to fret over for hundreds of years. She could never tolerate sharing the same space and breathing the same air as him but for her lady's sake, she will endure it.
Although that doesn't mean that she had to spend time with him more than strictly necessary.
"We still have work to do, so are you guys coming along?" Aline directed her question to the legendary duo and ignored Looker's presence entirely. Yasuhira and Aaron shared a look before unanimously deciding that a free ride is a free ride and it would be stupid to refuse such an offer. So, up the back of the volcarona they go.
"Aline," Looker called out just before the woman could command her volcarona to take flight and leave. Surprisingly, she paused and looked at him to hear what he had to say.
"Kalos is where she will focus her attention next, right?"
Aline didn't answer his question, but instead continued to gaze at him with an unreadable stare.
"I could make a good guess what she's planning to do, but no matter how you look at it, it doesn't change the fact that it's stupid and reckless. It's not worth it."
"Not worth it? Hah, not worth it," Aline had to visibly control herself not to spat those words as an unexplainable rage simmered within her. "And who do you think she's doing this for, you ingrate? Do you think I hadn't tried dissuading her before?"
Looker inwardly flinched at those words but he didn't allow it to show. The fury in Aline's eyes is clear for all to see and it's already a miracle that the woman with a pyrokinetic ability hadn't tried to set him alight with mighty fireballs.
"I think that maybe, you had been separated from us for too long, to the point that you had forgotten who you truly are and where your allegiance should lie," Aline leapt back down from her volcarona again and marched up to Looker until their faces were mere centimetres apart.
"I know we don't get along, but at least I know who my life belongs to and I remember the times we spent together until things turned out the way it is. Don't forget," Aline painfully jabbed her index finger at Looker's chest where his heart lies and each jab she made hurt Looker. Not so much physically, but in the sense that each jab she made was a deep stab to his heart when she brought up their shared history together.
"That we owe our lives to her, that we all were each other's comrades and we were all each other had at one point in time, including that senile old quack who just couldn't die and still cannot tell yesterday from today. Don't forget why we are still forced to walk this planet, don't forget the lengths she had gone to for you just because you were her student, and don't forget-"
Aline's fingers plucked out a black and gold card from within Looker's coat, showing him the image of a tarot card that signified The World, the only card that can hide itself from the other Tarot cards distributed to the twenty-two cards of Tarot as it is the only card that had long stopped working in its intended function and had never been replaced due to the prolonged absence of its member from the organisation.
"-that you belong to Tarot, that you are given the title of "The World" because you also mean the world to her, more than any of us here. You can never understand how jealous I am, the things I would do to be in your shoes, and you ungrateful bastard still has the nerve to tell me to relay to her that it's too dangerous and not worth it. You think we don't know? You think she doesn't know? But who on earth is she doing this for? Who?!"
Aline shoved Looker's card back into his front pocket with vengeance.
"No wonder the young lady never wanted to see you, you don't deserve to see her," Aline venomously spat. "She deserves your title more than you do in my opinion, since you had done nothing for Tarot anyway."
Looker clenched his fists at the mention of the young lady, who he had never gotten a chance to meet despite being aware of her existence ever since hundreds of years ago. He had only heard in passing that she highly resembled her mother, his mentor, and he could only let his imagination fill in the rest because the young lady had never wanted to meet him for reasons that led to this argument.
"Blackthorn Dragonslayer, what a damn joke. If you really are worried for the lady then just leave the PWL and return to us. If you could do that I could at least acknowledge that you are man enough to admit that you are the reason for his death, that you are one reason why she had decided to do what you say is stupid and reckless, the endeavour which you felt that is not worth it. You want to try saying that again? Say it, say it right in front of me, in front of Aaron, in front of the lady and the young lady. Say it, Uehara Kyosuke, weren't you so full of yourself earlier?"
The tension in the air had now evolved to one of guilt when memories and histories of the past were finally brought up once again. This time, Looker couldn't even look at Aline eye to eye.
"Aline, let's just end this conversation," Aaron was the one who eventually spoke up after the mention of that person's death was suddenly being brought up in the argument. "He… He wouldn't want to see us fighting among ourselves like this."
Aline's attitude visibly softened after hearing Aaron's words, although it doesn't mean that her pent-up anger had subsided. Even if the lady had never blamed Kyosuke, even if Aaron and the person who they were talking about would never blame him for his death, it's also a fact that because of Kyosuke the young lady would never get to…
Aline sent another hateful glare at the Dragonslayer, but in the end chose to say nothing more as she leapt onto her volcarona's back and commanded it to take flight and leave. Enough has been said today.
As for what's left unsaid, they already understood it a long time ago.
AN: Finally hit the hundredth chapter for IJWTTTW (like wow), and I just thought this would be a fitting chapter for the 100th chapter of my very first story with how I titled this chapter as "The World" (allow me a moment to be proud of myself for that stroke of genius LOL).
Looking back I guess I really came a long way since I first started writing. Not sure if I will ever get to finish what I started, but let's just see how far we could go.
On a side note, I'm going to hit the brakes on the daily updates. I will need a while to make revisions to the upcoming chapters and write new ones as well and also to ensure that the overarching plot for all the stories goes smoothly as a whole. That will take time and I don't wish to do a hasty job, so seeking your understanding here.
As usual, hope you enjoy this chapter.
Character and pokemon list:
Velda Vera, Age: 14, Female, Pokemon Trainer, Member of the International Police
Pokemon on hand:
1) Rapidash (Flamel), male
2) Swampert (Bigblue), male
3) Banette (Dolly), female
4) Flygon (Snap), male
5) Absol (Kelsa), female
6) Charizard (Toothless), male
7) Cradily (Lily), female
8) Espeon (Rena), female
9) Pachirisu (Fuzzy), male
10) Tyranitar (Kratos), male
11) Clefairy (Joy), female
12) Nidoqueen (Ness), female
13) Pangoro (Hulk), male
14) Porygon-Z (Jarvis), genderless
15) Scizor (Archer), male
16) Lapras (Chill), female
17) Gengar (Wacky), male
Aline Serre, Age: ? , Female, "High Priestess" of Tarot
Pokemon on hand:
1) Delphox
2) Chandelure
3) Ninetales
4) Volcarona
5) ?
Name: Uehara Kyosuke, Age: ? , Male, Codename: Looker, Director of International Police, "The World" of Tarot, Blackthorn Dragonslayer
Pokemon team:
1) Sableye (Sparkles)
2) Mismagius (Missy)
3) Cofagrigus
4) Gengar
5) Golurk
6) Toxicroak
7) Chandelure
8) Mr Mime
Name: Aaron Luzel, Age: ? , Male, Defender of Coronet, The Last Aura Guardian, "Justice" of Tarot
Pokemon team:
1) Lucario
2) Togekiss
3) Darmanitan
4) ?
Name: Aoki Yasuhira, Age: ? , Male, Uncrowned Hero of Ever Grande, "Strength" of Tarot
Pokemon team:
1) Exploud
2) Castform
3) Slaking
4) ?