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Chapter 16: Summer of Change He applied force, but too much force, and the whole bag of marshmallows spilled messily onto the dirt-caked ground. Ciel held them up to his face in disappointment. "Uhh, sorry guys." "Don't sweat it.” Brent pointed at the remaining treats at the bottom. “I’d...

Chapter 15: You in My Mind The image of his father's face flashed in his mind. He tried to ignore the frame, only for it to be plastered inside his eyelids with every blink. The outing at the restaurant with his family and friends was supposed to clear his head. By the time a fraction of his...

Chapter 14: The Surprise Test Ariana broadcast an announcement to the entire base as soon as the executives left her office. hundreds of grunts squeezed through the hallways, many partially trampling him while others tried to bother him. The two major responses were excitement and fear. The...

Chapter 13: Two Sides of a Coin You fucked up now, man. You fucked it up so hard. As he sat on the receiving end of what looked like an intervention, Proton could only replay in his mind how hard he had fucked up. The Slowpoke Well operation had gone so smoothly up until those idiot kids...

Chapter 12: Welcome to a Bigger World Quick scribbling in his notebook between exercises was all the rest he had time for. The minute he finished, they were back at it again. This time, he'd to try something new. "Arden, follow closely. Ignite as hard as you can, and then use Defense Curl!"...

Chapter 11: The Jungle Homecoming The Goldenrod Showdown. It was the most well-recognized and televised youth battling event in the entire Johto Region. The sheer mass of Trainers from cities and from the deep rural countryside as they converged on Goldenrod could not be understated. As far as...

Chapter 10: Vendetta (CW: Descriptions of corpses, rot, and general imagery of death). Lyra dropped from the ladder into Slowpoke Well. The waterlogged footfalls behind her said that Ethan and their new "acquaintance" followed her lead. However, she wasn't really in the mood to think about them...

Chapter 9: Three's a Crowd "In other news, Professor Linden Elm, a League-sponsored Pokémon researcher from New Bark Town, is under investigation by Indigo League authorities. The Professor reportedly allowed a rare Pokémon to be stolen from his workplace by a juvenile and has been cited for...

Chapter 8: The Great Cave Offensive "Come on! Keep it moving, people. We don't have all day," Proton shouted. His voice echoed around the damp cave. The grunts he was assigned sped up their operation of extracting and transporting the tails of all the Slowpoke they could find. Wheelbarrows were...

Chapter 7: Eye of the Hurricane Today was the day. Their training had lasted for exactly fifteen days, not including a few intermittent rest days where he and his team lazed about their guest room or shopped around for distractions in downtown Violet. He was certain they were ready. Raven had...

Chapter 6: Swallowed in Darkness The artificial light flickered inside the pristine office. The wall paneling resembled any high-class office building and the atmosphere felt nearly identical, if not for the fact that they were multiple stories below ground. A posh, red-haired woman sat in a...

Chapter 5: Flight of Passage "Have you seen this man?" a mustachioed and trench-coat toting Ethan asking, pointing vigorously at the photo image of Silver Sakaki on the Trainer Card. The passerby he accosted on the street stepped warily backwards. The man's eyes looked to Lyra, who stood arms...

Chapter 4: Find True North He hadn't washed his hair in days. There were bits of twigs and leaves intermingled with his fraying strands, which, by the way, were strewn everywhere. His normally slick look couldn't match the weathering power of the elements. He had scratches all over his face...

Chapter 3: A Proper Adventure When mom hung up the phone, Ciel knew it was going to be one of those nights. He could see the defeat on his mother's face—the distant shouts from the landline made it clear too. And, as he had come to learn, the later his father came home, the worse it got. Those...

Chapter 2: Troubled First Step The interior furnishings of Professor Linden Elm’s lab made it out to be more like a reading nook than a place of research. A nice tan wallpaper, potted plants to create atmosphere, family portraits lining the walls, and a desk with an open computer. The only...

Chapter 1: Sunrise To Ciel, the village of Mahogany seemed the type to take any excuse to party. He couldn't tell if they were partying to celebrate the two new Gym Leaders or to honor Pryce in his retirement. Nobody he asked really seemed to know, and he'd bet that no one really cared...

~Anew~ You must chase your goal into a new unknown, and only then may you call yourself a Pokémon Trainer. Ciel Fauder is thrust into the life of a Trainer in an attempt to find purpose, while Ethan Hibiki and Lyra Kotone chase a delinquent connected to a criminal revival. Extended retelling of...