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Nate nodded. "I guess, sure." Well, it probably did mean something. Nothing good, by Nate's guess, but whatever. "And thanks. Little luck for all of us could go a long way." He smirked at Diyem. "Yeah. Quite a family. More than I could handle, I gotta admit." He shifted uneasily, looking out...

Time passed and people filtered in and out, saying their goodbyes. Rocky was having a fine time catching up with people he hadn't seen in ages. Often because he'd been busy sticking to Nate like glue. The marshtomp himself lurked around uncomfortably, not sure what to do with himself. They were...

"Ooh, are those cupcakes?" Rocky hared off in Petram's direction, and Nate relaxed a bit. Hopefully he could fade into the background now. He felt like he'd already said goodbye to everyone he'd meant to already, more or less, but it felt strange to just ignore them all now. He spent a bit...

"You bet!" Rocky said with a huge wink. God, he was going to be bragging about it to everyone, wasn't he? At least Nate wouldn't remember to be worried about that. And then the fucking mightyena showed up for some fucking reason? With his shadow in tow, too. And somehow, Nate... didn't...

Nate winced at Echo's question, turning a nervous look towards Diyem, Owen, and his group. He doubted it would be long until Diyem at least picked up on what was going on with Rocky, but ideally there'd be a couple universes between them before that happened. Rocky was prepared for the...

"I do!" Rocky said, drawing himself up proudly. "You like it? I'm more shadowy now, too." Nate looked ill. "Hey, Echo," Rocky went on. "What're you going to do after this. I'm gonna visit some of the other parts of Cibus with Mia! Wanna come?" Nate took a glance around the crossroads, hoping...

"Hi, Koa!" Rocky said brightly. "Wow, it's so weird saying goodbye now. It feels like you just got here." "Take care," Nate said, wearily raising a hand. "Good luck on your journey and all. You got a lot of potential." "You know, Flesh is over there," Rocky said in a stage whisper. "We could...

"Of course we'd be the first ones here," Rocky said, laughing as he bounded into the crossroads, looking eagerly over the crowd of Cibuseans who'd gathered to see them off. "You're really eager to leave, aren't you?" "Nngh," Nate said. Mostly he felt like he wanted to sleep for a week. He...

In the morning, he would leave. Of course Nate couldn't sleep. That was dodgy enough on normal nights, but now, with his thoughts always turning to tomorrow, and what would happen, and what it would be like to be thrown back into a mudkip body, oblivious, back to another impossible situation...

Nate and Rocky go to visit Chip to see what he's up to. Any new projects? Nate wonders whether he found any inspiration from all the moon nonsense or the pocket universe--anything he might be able to study further. He thanks Chip for his help in their investigations over the past few months...

Once you have the first chapter of your story ready, yes, please create a thread for it in Fanfiction--or I can move this one back, I suppose. But please only post a chapter once you have the full thing ready. Readers are going to want to read a complete chapter, not a paragraph or two. Feel...

I'm moving this one to the Fanfic Discussion board--please only post fics that you've actually written to the Fanfic section!

"What?" Nate laughed and leaned back in his seat. "Well, shit, if you'd rather pay your way, be my guest." He supposed they'd still dispense you your colosseum winnings, even if you didn't technically need them. Man. If he'd gotten some of that, he didn't even know what he would have done with...

"That's good," Rocky said cheerfully. "At least you got everything that was important. Me and Luz, we got as much time as we want here. We can do all the things!" He beamed. "Well, it don't exactly make much difference, since neither of us is paying," Nate said with a smirk. "But sure. You want...

"Nah. Ain't nothing I can do here that I couldn't do back home at least as well," Nate said. "This ain't the place for me." "You can't breathe underwater back home! You could look for sunken treasure!" Nate rolled his eyes. "Nothing I care about I couldn't do back home." He looked thoughtfully...

Nate shrugged. "No. I had other shit to do." "He hates fun," Rocky mock-whispered, eyes gleaming as though sharing a secret. Nate elbowed him, and Rocky giggled. The marshtomp didn't appear to mind the comment.

"Yeah, I'm glad to be headed back. All this hero shit"--Nate gestured vaguely at the air--"ain't for me. And yeah, I wasn't too keen on getting close to nobody I was just gonna have to say goodbye to a few months out. Much easier that way." Rocky sighed and leaned back in his seat. A quick...

"Okay!" Rocky said. "What to do, what to do..." He hopped in a little circle while he thought. "Yeah?" Nate said when Seyka said he thought he hadn't got as much out of Cibus as some people had. It was fair enough, he guessed. Felt like practically everybody on the team had had some kind of...

"Oh, that's right. There's a lot of Beans, so there could be a lot of Incineroars, too. Hmm..." Rocky smiled, lost in fantasizing about the kinds of wild things that might go down in the battle. "Yeah?" Nate started to raise a hand in response to Brisa's thanks, but then set it firmly back down...

Nate shrugged. "Fine if you don't want to. It's just an option and all." He gave the skarmory an appraising look. It was too late--much too late to deal with any of this shit. There were clearly, like, layers. Some Nate already knew he didn't want to think about too hard. He sighed and swung his...