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"Oh, leaving so soon?" Joule asked Nate, for there was no escape. "I thought you wanted to evolve! I promise, the power of a thousand suns doesn't hurt for very long, near instant, really!" "I think he's fine," Maple replied with a chuckle. "Joule... Thank you, really. I was worried, even if it...

"Hmm... Hmmmm..." Joule tapped his chin. "That is true. Some of these outings can take much more than a few weeks. Still, Maple, you will be dormant for a while during different phases of world reconstruction, won't you? Perhaps I can seek out longer trips during those times. Hmm, yes. That...

"Hmm? Something important?" Joule looked down at Maple, crouching until he was belly-down in the snow to get to her level. "Yes, Joule, I..." Maple hesitated. "As you know, I'm going to be... the Voice of Telum again. And that means I won't be able to leave." "Yes, certainly," Joule replied...

Maple blinked, thinking. "Yes. I do remember seeing... more than just the darkness of others, once he was removed from me. It's... a relief, in a way. But it's also strange, like any kind of change..." She sighed. "I'm sure I'll get used to it all over again, though. And--" Maple's thigh...

"...I don't know," Maple said. "That's what the recruitment is for. Dark Matter can... learn about the world beyond just its negatives. See that he has a place in it, even if it's not pleasant. It's not the usual way that he is accepted, but perhaps it's an alternative path. We'll be keeping an...

"Hmm." Maple sighed, thoughtful. "Well, there are a few places we considered. That I personally considered. The first would be to seal him somewhere, but... as a last resort. Another would be to keep him near my Arceus, where he could keep a watchful eye on him. But what seems to be the most...

The flames turned the dirt to ash and the remnant sands that were mixed with the soil into a fine glass. Pine was already out after the first hit, lodged in the wall like a dart, stiff. Nanab, however, withstood the first blow and gritted her jaw in preparation for the second. When the flames...

"Oh. That." Maple sighed, rubbing her forehead. "That..." It was quite a spectacle, and all for Diyem manipulating her into exposing that Dark core without her realizing it. She still wasn't quite over that. Underhanded. He could have asked directly, or been straightforward about it. "Diyem...

Pine let out a low, growling grunt as he crouched to the ground. The axes of his tail lashed into the soil, leaving deep cuts that went far more than they should have from the sheer air pressure created from each strike. "Don't worry," Pine grunted. Barely, just barely, he was still standing...

Maple hesitated. "I... I'll message him," she said. "He'll reply when he can." Awkwardly, she pulled out her badge and sent one over, hesitated on actually sending it, and then finally did. He didn't reply immediately, so she sighed and placed the badge into a... She had fur pockets. "You look...

"Mmh... You're right." Maple sighed. "I just need to work up the courage to get that all in proper order... to ask him. We've known each other for so long... This shouldn't be hard." Or perhaps that was specifically why it was so hard. "...I will. I won't put this off."

"Twice as strong hurts!" Nanab cried out, skidding back and coiling up to nurse her burns as quickly as she could. She wheezed. "I... I won't be able to last much longer, Pine! We shouldn't have taken it slow! Just--just take them out! NOW! We... we can still do this! I know it!" And as she...

Maple sighed. "I never asked him," she said flatly. "He never commented on it, either. I'm wondering if he's weighing his options as well. If he would want to keep traveling to save more worlds... which is entirely fair... or if he would really be okay with spending a world's age with me. Or...

"Joule is a traveler, world to world, realm to realm, saving the ones he happens upon. He isn't really one to... find a place he would want to consider a home for very long. And... well..." Maple hesitated. "Well, why would... I expect him to change that part of him?"

"Hey, good job," Pine commented. "You're gonna block all these, I think." And then he rushed forward anyway, slamming into Brisa with everything he had. He seemed to change up his strategy only slightly this time around--as did Nanab. "Huh. I think we could've actually hurt her if we...

"Well, they'll still have to do that in a spiritual sense," Maple said idly, turning her wrist like she was explaining the basics of water evaporating. "Think of it like emptying a bag of potatoes on the table." Maple thought about his next question. Travel... "...Yes. I did enjoy the travel...

Maple chuckled. "In a sense," she said. "I'm... working with Arceus right now. Both of them--the one of Cibus, and the one within me, which we found, dormant but awakening. We are going to search for a Null Realm to recreate Telum and resume where we had left off. Probably a neighboring...

"Cramped... isn't quite the term," Maple said. "When I assume the form of something else, my body shrinks and loses its proper shape and can fit into a false form. It does feel... limiting, though. I do feel... encased, somewhat. Not unlike a... mm. I'm not sure about an analogy. Like being...

The Smeargle was pacing around the pines, inspecting the leaves idly, lost in thought. Her hands were behind her back. It must have taken a while for her to stuff that body back into the false Smeargle form, but at least she didn't take up so much space anymore. "Hm?" Maple spotted Nate and...

"Huh. You're, like, twice as strong compared to before," Pine noted, eyes darting at something just above their heads. His claws twitched a few times, left, left, left, and then his other claw made another twitch. Press, press, back, back. He nodded. "Good luck," he replied. "Yep!" Nanab...