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Jade nodded sympathetically. "Yeah, I... feel like I probably wouldn't like being in the spotlight." A lot of people were dying to be champion, but it wasn't for her. "I'm glad that there's good things about it, though." Jade blinked at Gen, utterly perplexed. "'Used to be human'? What...

Jade glanced at Wallace. "I... know what it's like to end up in a life that you didn't expect," she admitted, shuffling her foot in the damp earth. "Do you... like being champion?" Jade stared at the Oshawott. "That's so weird..." she muttered. "If someone had taken you away, why would they...

"'Just woke up there'?" Jade echoed blankly. "You mean like... kidnapped?" He was a Pokemon that could speak human, and that wasn't normal even in his world. Maybe some shady people had taken an interest in that. But then how would he have gotten free?

Jade relaxed slightly. "Ohh, okay." Yeah, that made sense. Flying all the way back to Johto from Hoenn sounded like a real pain. And taking a ferry that far was pretty expensive. "So I guess you... weren't Coleane's starter then, if you're from Johto?" Jade asked, puzzled. There went her...

Jade blinked at him. "Whoa, what? You, uh... you definitely don't need to battle if you don't want to, you know that right?" Was he... captured without his consent? But that would go against the pact, and... Coleane sure didn't seem like the kind of trainer who'd hold a Pokemon against their...

Jade chuckled weakly. "Well, I guess my team's pretty special. I wouldn't have gotten anywhere without them, really." Jade paused, unsure how to take that. She'd been a bit exasperated at Nine for being insensitive when they first met Gen, but if compliments also made him uncomfortable, she...

Jade tilted her head at the Oshawott. "Well, you can speak human--I think that makes you pretty special, you and Coleane both. But I guess she's aiming to be a champion, and she's a Pokémon who's a trainer, so it's not hard to see why she'd be invited here." A Pokemon with a surname was sort of...

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...