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Jade blinked. "Champion of Hoenn? But I thought Steven was..." Different worlds. Right. "Right, I'm still getting used to this whole different worlds thing," Jade admitted, rubbing the back of her head. "And I guess most of the people here are either champions or aiming to be champion?"...

Jade shrugged. "I guess we're doing okay. I mean, we're still here." That was probably not the best way to put it. "Anyway... I guess we got invited the same way everyone else did. We both needed a break back home, and he's not really the sort to relax unless he's dragged into it." Not...

Jade turned at the sound of a young-sounding voice and saw the human-speaking Oshawott waving to her--his name was Gen, right? Sitting next to Gen was that one trainer in the super-flashy outfit. Jade vaguely recalled he was a gym leader, but she couldn't remember his name (Rudy definitely...

Overall, the prospect of not being able to trust anyone outside of a small group wasn't too hard. Jade was used to keeping a low profile. Sometimes she forgot that that wasn't exactly normal. Some of the trainers had been confused and disturbed by the idea of being targeted by an unknown...

Ugh, this was all too conspicuous. There wasn’t any way to learn anything here without standing out. Jade couldn’t help wincing at all the people willing to demand answers right away. That was how you made yourself a target. Nine was tense, alert, ready for a fight. Jade knelt down and...

Signs of a struggle. Disappearances. Yeah, it was too much to ask that this just be a normal vacation, wasn't it. Still, it was better than dealing with Team Rocket. For now. Jade took a deep breath. "There's a lot of us here--we shouldn't have to worry about being attacked so long as we...

Jade blinked. She wasn't expecting to be thanked for anything. "Oh, uh, sure. No problem." A pause, and then: "I guess it's nice not being the only one." Investigating Team Rocket, the experiments... it all would have been a lot harder if she'd been on her own. But maybe getting to talk to...

Jade rubbed the back of her head. "And I thought I started late," she said with a weak laugh. Laura was obviously way older than her, but knowing that she couldn't have been a trainer that long helped, in a way. Still, having done all that investigating on her own, without relying someone to...

Jade blinked at the girl, taking more than a moment to absorb what she'd said. So... not Team Rocket, but still a pretty big deal. It hardly seemed real, in that particular way that her own time as a trainer hardly seemed real sometimes. Human hybrids? Nine would have had a million questions...

Man, Laura was really getting into trying to unravel what was going on here. Had she already talked to that many people? And here Jade would've been totally unaware of anything weird if the topic of Mewtwo hadn't come up on the boat. 'Takes on sinister weirdos as a hobby' okay, what on...

"The organization you're investigating?" Jade repeated, dumbstruck. Who just opened with that? That wasn't something you went around talking about. Jade had spent a year pretending it had never happened, and here this girl was willing to bring it up over a first meeting? 'Organization'...

It was a good thing that she wasn't drinking, because this time she definitely would have choked. "Wait, are you saying that you've got experience with genetic experiments? And you met other people who did?" Jade wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not that Nine wasn't here right now.

Spectating at the local gym... yeah, that wasn't really possible in Viridian, what with the gym matches being private there. Imagining if they weren't sure was a wild image though. Just casually going to watch Giovanni's battles. There was that mention of spacetime weirdness. It still didn't...

It helped a little that Laura didn't seem to know entirely what she was doing either. "I guess I'll get a milk tea then." It felt a bit silly going into a bar and ordering something that you could get from any vending machine in Kanto, but whatever, she was done feeling stupid about things...

Oh, well, if it was okay, then... "Uh, sure, why not?" Jade replied, shrugging. She should probably try to get to know more of the trainers here anyway. That way she'd feel less blatantly out of place surrounded by all the champion-level invites. There had to be other normal people at this...

Jade blinked at the shorter girl who'd just entered. "Oh, uh... no I haven't had a drink, I was just..." Leaving? That just led to the obvious question of why she'd even entered. "...Not sure if I'm allowed to be in here," she finished lamely. "Since I'm not old enough to drink." She didn't...

Jade wandered through the festival ground, still unable to get over how weird all this was. Portals and Legendaries and... other worlds. Pokemon who could speak human like nothing was more natural, and places when Team Rocket had been gone for twenty years. Most of it was a big pile of 'let's...

He was... human-what? Human-trained? Human-made? No, that was silly. Jade was just stuck on May having instantly ID'd Nine as an experiment. That didn't mean other people here had any involvement with weird stuff like that. "C'mon, can't you see you're bothering him?" she hissed to Nine...

Oh, so... maybe the Oshawott did know a bit about where he'd gotten that talent from. It just... obviously wasn't a fun story from the sound of it. "Sorry if that was a bad question," Jade replied awkwardly. Nine tilted his head. "*He's what?*" Jade let out an exaggerated sigh. Come on, he...

These two were just... born able to speak human, and it wasn't normal for their world and they'd... never found out any reason why? "Have you ever wondered why?" Jade asked, settling into a nearby beanbag chair. "I figure there's gotta be a reason why." "*I couldn't imagine not knowing why I...