TWO YEARS AGO, A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION GOING BY THE NAME TEAM IMUM WRECKED CHAOS ACROSS THE LAND, DAMAGING CITIES AND KILLING THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS. While Imum itself has long since been disbanded, however, the region remains broken: entire towns have been laid to waste and the Association struggles to find homes for those who were lucky enough to survive the attempted genocide. Reconstruction trudges on as usual... but with three factions - the Association, the corporations, and the people - each wishing to take the rebuilding of an entire region down opposite paths, how long will it be before Lyeant's last leg gives out permanently?
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The Pokemon Association.
It was another group of interest, and she was surprised with how poorly they were acting in terms of keeping the other two groups suppressed. You can call them the neutral group, which wasn't very neutral. In any case, they were the ones who hoped for balance between the pokemon and the humans, unlike the alternative groups. For the time being, Blue chose to affiliate with Parallax for the sole reason of resource gathering. They had the most influence over the economy, and they were also the ones who held the most technology to potentially do quite some dangerous things. Of course, she wasn't loyal to them but you had to say the right words to get them to believe you. She didn't like it, but she wasn't in the position to complain.
For the time being, Blue was wandering down the streets of Eirenhyre City. She was almost taken aback from the sheer height of the skyscrapers overtaking the sky itself, and the streets were crowded with both people and pokemon. To say the least - it was peaceful. It was a place where she wouldn't mind living in, although the best she could do right now was to be careful when entering and leaving. I mean, she has already met Sapphire but that girl didn't seem to be too concerned. If Sapphire were here, then she wasn't going to doubt that the other Hoenn Dex Holders would be roaming around. But that was Hoenn.. She wouldn't have to deal with them too much. So long as she didn't run into them - and they were only just a few kids. She could easily blend into the crowd and deceive them should she need to.
She wouldn't enjoy it, but she didn't have much a choice. It was just until she was able to find out what exactly the Parallax were doing anyways.
It was careless of her to not be coming on by while wearing her ditto. Although she highly doubted that anyone she knew personally would be coming on around. It would be easy to get away from Red, and it would be easy to deceive Yellow. Her main concern was Green - the one guy that was actually smart in their group. But the odds of any of them being in this region was slim to none; Green had a Gym to be looking after, Red was the League Champion, and Yellow was probably staying by both their sides so she wouldn't have to worry. It's fine, there's no need to be so paranoid.
And yet here she was, goosebumps plaguing her arms and the constant need to calm herself down.
Bah, this was ridiculous. This wasn't like her, either. She came here to enjoy herself. Maybe she could go shopping, touring, and then return to Irisia before the sunset. Her tensed figure slowly eased itself back into a calmer state of mind as she made her way down the streets. "That's right, you're fine! You're perfectly fine, Blue!" She mumbled to herself with a smile on her face. Stand tall, walk right on by.
Green looked downtrodden upon his path as he walked around the streets of Eirenhyre City, it was a place much more foreign to him than the quiet streets of Pallet, or perhaps even the Viridian City gym with it being surrounded by the forest, which always allowed Green to have a quick getaway if things got to be too much for him. Sure the Gym Leader had been through enough trials and tribulations ever since he got caught up with the Pokedex Holders and the troubles that seemed to follow them. He had hoped that he would be able to finally have a breath of respite her in this Lyeant region, coming here on a vacation with his best friend Red beside him. Something had changed between the last time that his usually bubbly and energetic friend had came back from his last training session on Mt. Silver, and Green was never one to pry into his friend's troubles. He never really was the one to go up to Red and talk to him when there was something that needed to be said, Red always seemed to know when he needed to talk to Green and cheer him up.
So when Red seemingly disappeared from Green’s side he was crushed to say the least. He had hoped that some of Red’s energy could have rubbed off on himself during this trip, but there was really no hope of that happening. He had hoped to face off against the Gym Leaders of the region to hopefully see how things were done in Lyeant and see how he could improve in challenges against those who would come to see him in Viridian. Green had managed to abruptly meet with an interesting Dark Type Gym Leader, but he didn’t feel like it was the right time to challenge this “Sora”. When he arrived in Veherna and asked around for him, he found the gijinka mostly helping out with some Pokemon and children that lost the trainers and parents during the war. He seemed to be getting by with the help of his adoptive daughter and a houseguest he had. Yet Green didn’t see how the gijinka could handle Gym Leader duties and caretaker duties without running himself ragged and so came to the city of the Pokemon Association in this country. Perhaps they could lend him a couple of hands to help with his sidejob.
Upon thinking of how much the gijinka seemed like a family man he stopped to wonder how his Grandfather would be doing right now, or how Daisy would be doing with Bill. Leaning up against a wall Green stopped to take a look at his Pokemon the family that had come with him to this foreign land. Sure, it might’ve taken a few lectures from Red to actually see them that way but there was no way he could view his Pokemon as anything less after the continuous lectures from his best friend. Although he loved them he still couldn’t really talk to them like that gijinka could, so he felt a bit of separation from the world. A lack of communication in the same language led Green to feel a bit down and in fact start to daydream about seeing someone again. He couldn’t really explain the feelings he held to this girl, she always seemed to be pulling him around in one way or another and it was all that he could do to keep up with her. She had some beautiful brown hair and eyes that even the stoic Green could get lost in, and ever since they went to the Sevii Islands there was a hat that always made her stand out, even when she didn’t manage to stand out in other ways. A hat that upon recognition… upon recognition Green looked up and managed to bark out at the top of his lungs “Blue! It really has been too long.” As he walked over to his good friend who was a pleasant surprise for sore eyes.
your walls, hijack your brain, run through your veins.
It was best not to think so much into it. The odds of her running into any of the other dex holders were slim to none; they were all adults. They had their own paths, and the odds of them seeing each other again is very slim. I mean, she hadn't seen either Red or Green after the League ended. They were out of contact, and now she was in an entirely different region. How much more different is that? Yet still, part of her yearned to at least see someone - anyone - to ease this awful loneliness. Even she, of all people felt shaken up just by entering an entirely new region (as exciting as it was). With each step through the town she took, things gradually started looking like Blue was just pacing around and about through the crowds without very much a destination she should be headed to. Hrm.. Maybe she should just float back to Irisia on Jiggly, but a huge pink and white rabbit creature just casually floating on by in the sky is a bit.. What's the word.. bizarre wasn't it?
So after the paranoia, she started reminiscing.
Really.. She wondered what the trio were doing now. She hadn't seen any of them since she left to do her own research on this war-torn region, and then went through the trouble to enter and do more research on the so called 'factions' that the region had divided itself up into. She had also read up humans discriminated humans for their beliefs, appearance and likewise, and soon learned of this curious species named 'gijinkas'. She had yet to meet one, but it's highly possible that she has met quite a handful without even realizing it. Huh, wonder what Red, Green and Yellow would think of that? If she went back to Kanto and told them about it, they probably wouldn't believe a single word she was saying and label her as a babbling lunatic. Pff-- She was already being called pesky by a certain Oak. Speaking of.. How was he doing?
Whether she liked it or not, he'd pop into her mind every now and then. Not that she minded, or complained. He was one of the many people she ended up dragging around into her infamous ploys and he would always comply with little resistance. At first, he wasn't the most fond of her. After a couple of times, he probably just gave up and put that effort into staying on her train. She appreciated it, and well.. He was one of the few people who she genuinely sought out to bother. With Red, he just happened to be there and just happened to pass by. She was still unsure with how she felt with Green, but all she knew was that it was fun as hell so she went along with it. Kind of hard not to forget that somewhat spiky brown hairstyle he has, or those usually calm and serious green eyes-- Like that guy. Yeah, that guy right there. By the wall. Almost looked like a splitting image of-- ...
Shit.
It was Green. Not a doppelgänger. And hell no was she dreaming, because that would.. Well. It could just be a dream, but she has never visited this city in the first place. Hell, she pinched herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming - Ouch! Okay, yes, that hurt. She sadly wasn't dreaming. But now she wondered why the hell was he even here in the first place? Didn't he have to take care of the gym or something? Seriously, she did not see that of all things coming her way. Maybe if she hid under her hat, she'd be able to walk on by without him noticing, right? Exactly. She wasn't exactly the flashiest of all (at least she hoped to arceus that she didn't right now) so he certainly wouldn't notice her and--
He noticed her.
She was called out, she was recognized. Now how the hell was she going to get away? If she ran, he would know that she heard him. If she continued walking, then he would probably catch up to her easily. So.. What was the next course of action? Her mind was boggled up with both potential ideas and bits that had imploded on itself, until finally she reached to her belt and had Ditty (yes, the ditto) hop onto her face and well.. Same way she disguised herself as Sabrina, she ended up having that poker face of ditto despite the fact that it's goo blended in with her skin. That should have been enough to make him think that he got the wrong person.
... Maybe? I mean, she didn't even give ditto any other commands, so now she just looked like she had a ditto face.
Green was finally able to reunite with… with Ditto? Green was shocked for a second, thought of his friend and realized well, this is just like her, but I’ll go along with it. He knew that his friend must’ve been rushed because this level of trickery was simply below her level. Did she seriously belief that Green, the guy who ends up keeping the usually, well in nice words, energetic Red. Green had to keep up with a guy who at one point got all of their Pokémon mixed up during a capture attempt on a Ninetails. Green’s emotions got so mixed up; from an attempt from trying to keep himself from bursting out laughing, from the, well simply put failure of a scheme that Blue had been too rushed to actually make good, the great joy that he felt from seeing Blue again, something that made his heart beat way too fast, and well from remembering the times back when Red was still the gregarious trainer that he had gotten to know in all of his years of being friends with that guy. You probably didn’t put any make-up on today right Blue? As much as Green wanted to be cold to her for trying to trick him he just couldn’t do it.” Green was smarter than to say that though, knowing she was likely to respond with a quick smack to the face. Green finally cleared up his head enough to be able to respond in a civilized manner to Blue, “Blue, I’d know that hat anywhere, and Ditty didn’t do as good a job as he has done before” Green felt a sudden urge to break down and hug Blue, but he didn’t want to risk the fact that it could actually be another person with the same hat so he wanted to at least hear her say something that would incriminate her. Hopefully Blue wasn’t doing anything suspicious here in Lyeant, not anything traitorous. Green knew that she probably had something up her sleeve, considering she came here without a word, but he wasn’t one to pry and that wasn’t the most pressing thing on his mind at the time. He had hoped that he would be able to calm down when he finally got to talk to her but for some reason his heart just beat faster and faster as she didn’t respond, and Green became suspicious that Blue could probably find a way to get away from him if she didn’t want to be found just yet. So Green simply came up with the easiest ice breaker he could come up with “Found any of those Gijinka’s yet? Things came up and I’m kind of staying with one, in fact I came here to try and get some help for him, funny enough. It was the least I could do since he gave me a place to stay” Green was never really good at ice breakers, he was always too serious to say a simple how’s the weather, it always seemed too shallow for a conversation with a good friend.
your walls, hijack your brain, run through your veins.
The look of pure shock on his face was absolutely priceless.
Hadn't she known any better, she would have burst out laughing right there and then. She knew fully well that Ditto didn't do that well of a job, but it wasn't a total loss because she got to see that usually serious face make a nearly baffled expression before her. It was enough to make her forget about the panic that made her head implode earlier, nearly warmed her own heart in the process. It's been a while since they had seen each other, so something as light-hearted as this was actually pretty nice. Her lips curled up into a smile as he spoke to her, pretty much seeing through the failure of a disguise like a heated knife cuts through butter. Heh. Good to know that he knew her well enough to know the extent of her concealment abilities with the use of Ditty. But her cover was blown, oh well.
Blue reached her hand up to her own face and grabbed onto Ditty to tug him a bit. The pokemon got the hint, and slowly began melting off her face and stuck onto her arm instead. It slowly climbed up the limb to her shoulder, now revealing the bright blue eyes and the clear smirk on her face upon being able to clearly see Green without that failure of a mask stuck to her face. A carefree giggle escaped her, for the image of a baffled Green was enough to break that earlier composure. Seriously, you have to admit that the look on his face was hysterical. In all honesty, she was actually really happy to be seeing him. There was the temptation to begin messing with him right off the bat, nagging her like it were an addiction of sorts, but she digressed.
With a sly smile plastered on her face, the trainer tilted her white hat upwards to get a better look at the gym-leader before her-- Hold up. Hold fluffing up. Did he get taller? She could have sworn that she didn't have to tilt her head up that much last she saw him.. Or maybe he just happened to be wearing shoes that made him look taller. Whatever it was, nothing could deter her from the prideful gleam in her eyes. "I think they did a pretty good job, did you see the look on your face?" She started as her hand reached back down to grab the ditto's pokeball and recall the little purple glob of.. Whatever it was. Still, her smile didn't waver while her gaze shifted up to meet his emerald green eyes. "Never would I have thought that I would live long enough to witness a shocked Green."
She has seen a shocked Red, and she has seen a shocked Yellow. A shocked Green right in front of her was just that rare. Hah.. That was a god laugh though. That was the extent of her teasing, and honestly speaking that took a lot of tension off her shoulders. Doesn't mean that she wasn't curious as to what he was doing in this region anyways; but whatever it was, she probably shouldn't be prying in his business-- What was she saying? Seriously, probably ate something she wasn't suppose to if she's thinking things like that. It was probably because she was just so stupidly happy. She smiled, a lot, but he was probably the only person who could turn her mood from cautious to lax in a literal snap. "It's great seeing you again though." She spoke quietly, but it was more meant to be said in her head and not out loud. Whoops. Before she knew it, he actually decided to speak up first to break the ice.
Woah woah woah. Hold the phone.
Green. The serious, ice prince Green was trying to have a conversation with her? She could feel flattered, if she didn't want to tease him so badly. It probably annoyed him, but that was all the more reason to do so. Buuut it's been a while since she has seen him. Cut him some slack, and actually act civil. You're an adult for crying out loud. Not going to lie, it was actually a surprise to hear that he was staying with some gijinka. "Lets see.. I probably met some, and didn't notice. I heard that they are cute little creatures though. I'd love to meet one sometime~" She mulled it over, until she remembered that she met a Celebi gijinka just the other day! Ah.. Well. She already answered his question, and what's a girl without her fair share of secrets? "Now it's my turn to ask some questions." She grinned as her arms crossed over her stomach, and then cocked her head towards the side. "What's Viridian City's Gym leader doing in such a bustling city? You never really struck me as a city boy."
Green started off with a "kabedon," or so his sister called it. He looked into Blue's eye's and stated simply, "I've been looking for the beautiful you." Or so Daisy had told him to do when he first saw Blue again, Green didn't even know if he was capable of saying that to Blue right now, it had been so long since he had last seen her. [break] Sure Daisy had teased Green multiple times that he liked this girl but he couldn't see it, what was there to love about such a mischievous trickster, he was always doing his best for his family and trying in some capacity to help with his Grandfather's research that he just couldn't imagine actually falling for this girl. She did have her good points though, a nice brain for sure, out of the friend group Green always had the most fun talking to her about, well anything. She wasn't that terrible at raising Pokemon either, and due to that whenever that had a battle it was wonderfully fun. Green always swore that he wasn't gay for Red though and Blue was always the biggest counter argument for him, he wondered how one girl could simply be so attractive that he would take a few seconds to stare when she wouldn't look. Lost in thoughts Green almost forgot about the entire situation between him and Blue on the city's street. Green eventually caught his bearings again and took a look around, unfortunately he wasn't in the best situation when he came to his senses again. He looked at Blue, and then at the wall and then his arm before realizing what he was doing. He took a second to look at Blue to make sure she didn't have the eyes of a killer at that point in time and decided to go along the line of thinking, "when in Goldenrod, does as the Goldenrodians do." [break] "I came here to look for you, beau...Blue. Uh Professor's orders." The adrenaline had worn off and Green was just stuck there wondering what to do next. He thought about jumping on Charizard and flying away but he knew that he would have to face the music eventually. Green backed away from Blue and calmly readjusted himself. "I had to make sure I got to talk to you and not let you leave and that's what Daisy suggested, but sometimes I swear she just tries to mess with me. It's not like I missed you or anything though, don't let that thought get into your head or you'll be horribly mistaken." Green looked around for a distraction from basically everything that had just went down and saw a cafe nearby. "I have to make sure no one else hears us so are you fine stepping inside that cafe and hearing me out? I'll pay for the food if that'll make you more likely to listen."
Blue was many things, she did many things, she said many things. She was a woman who has experienced many things, she is a woman who has seen many things and she is a woman who has heard many, many things. Since her younger years, ranging from her time with that masked man and the fiasco with the birds, she thinks that there's probably nothing that can surprise or scare her now. Between being turned to stone and another time, having to make do with conning people off the streets, she's probably already seen everything. Hell, the woman actually has hit on people of her own accord; but only when she thought it was appropriate to do so (I'm looking at you, Gold). But boy, oh boy.. Nothing could have prepared her for the upcoming series of events. Just as she was tilting her head in genuine curiosity with her question, she finds herself instinctively backing up and away from the young man. Not because he found her and not because she was trying to avoid him. Not this time around.
Because reflecting off the young woman's eyes is her old friend, towering over her. His shadow looms over as she's backed into the wall. Her hat is covering the majority of his face from above, but her deep blue eyes can't help but to widen that slightest bit at his actions. And with that, the young woman's heart began to pick up in pace. Her small breaths were becoming shaky, as though the anxiety and anticipation of meeting him again was all coming up to her face once again.It caught her off guard, she wasn't emotionally ready for this. Hell just the other day, she was struggling. She was pacing around, trying to figure out what she would do if she met Green again. What would she do if she met him again and they met under their current circumstances? Though she admits that she initially didn't mean to run into him and she'll admit that she tried to avoid him the best she could. Despite the fact that part of her genuinely didn't want to push him away, she had to constantly remind herself that this was for the sake of her work. This was for the sake of figuring out the Parallax. This was for the sake of trying to find out just what exactly they were trying to pull, and what she can do to stop them, or what she can do with this intel. Between the rumours of some underground crime happening to some project that she's been hearing back and forth about, there were still many things that she felt needed to be done. There were still many things that she had left unfinished over in Irisia, and now she's perhaps thinking that coming over to Eirenhyre was a mistake. This was a mistake. Meeting Green, here, was a mistake.
Yet there's a sliver of hope that entertains the question: What if he will understand?
The young woman maintains that near stare for the time being, gaze trailing away from his arm at her side to lock on eye contact. Deep, verdant green that felt as though they were piercing through her; as usual. Usually, it'd be here where she would give him a witty response. A smirk, a grin. A cheeky little smile of victory with him getting so close. She's joked about his dashing good looks (because lets be real, here. It's true he's attractive) and hell, she hasn't even tried to hide her subtle affection towards him. But of course, brush it off as a joke. Neither could afford to have a relationship. Back then, that is. Then she had the great idea of hopping off the face of the earth. But with that thought racing in her mind, she can't even catch herself to register his actions. Her lips part to have the cluster of words scramble out because, frankly, she wants to know what the hell he's doing right about now. In fact, the only words that aren't forming a lump in her throat - the only words that aren't caught up in her own mess - were "Green what are you--" and she failed to finish her sentence. The brunette was far too flabbergasted to respond, hence the eventual red hue that threatened to surface on her cheeks. Okay. Blue. Calm down. Calm the hell down. Just because Green was doing this, it doesn't mean you should be freaking out. Calm down.
Phew.
Before she can ask him what the hell his actions were for, though, he moves on. Oh, but she catches that mess up. She nearly catches that trip up, and she could have sworn that he was going to call her beautiful. It takes a moment for her to recompose her thoughts and ease her heart, but by the time she's finished, the corner of her lips curls up into a small smirk. "Well--" She starts. Her chest raises as she takes in a deep breath. Again, calming her heart. "-- I certainly wasn't expecting that sort of greeting. When'd you get so bold, hm?" And with that, the woman shoots a playful wink towards the old friend of hers. Her earlier, near mess of a mind began to clear up as he was explaining that this was - once again - Daisy's idea. That little girl-- She swears. Much as she loves her ad finds her the most precious creature ever, it still baffles her how Green actually takes the kid's advice. Ah well.. Shows just how much the elder brother cares about his little sister. Frankly, she found it sweet. But at his latter words, in terms of not missing her? Oh, oh she knows this pattern. It matters now how many times he denies it, because she knows that he probably did miss her. It prompts her to smile all the more broadly, her figure casually adjusts to comfortably lean her back against the wall she's been more or less pinned to. "Ouch~.. Cold as ever, huh? I can feel the daggers at my heart~.. Oh woe is me~" And with that, she dramatically raises her hand to her chest, clutching her heart in an exaggerated, wounded manner. "I'm hurt~"
After that brief moment of playful musing, Blue giggles a small bit. Shortly afterwords, the woman follows his gaze over to an open cafe. Mmn.. A talk? while she doesn't think it's a very good idea to be hanging around him (obviously for the sake of their differing alignments), for the first time in a while, her own emotions nag at her and, for a split second, override her better judgement. "Sure~" She chimes, only to realize her grave mistake later on. Unfortunately, it was too late to take her words back. She knows that it's rude to suddenly bail after agree, even more so when she was standing right in front of him. The brunette narrows her eyes under the shade of her bangs, internally scolding herself for jumping at the tempting offer because I mean--
It's having lunch at a cafe with Green. He hasn't invited her out anywhere for years, and she hasn't seen him for a long while by now. You can't blame a young maiden for wanting to spend time with a dashing guy, now could you? Of course you couldn't.
And to divert the attention from her underlying, subtle criticizing, the woman lifts her hand to point over to the cafe. "Lead the way, Ice Prince~"
