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From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 58 We finished delivering the food stock to the citizens, and they thanked us for our help. The mayor told us that now that the giant ice blocking Ametrine Mountain was gone, they would resume the transport of goods with the rest of the region. As we were getting ready to leave Ametrine City, Heather asked for a moment to say her farewells to the guy with the Articuno, who had helped her smuggle food before. According to her, he had rented an apartment in the same building as Blake, but it had been days since she’d seen him last, given that she’d been trapped inside a hut. I knew she would not find said guy in his apartment, with good reason, but didn’t stop her from going there with Shelly. Cal, Pikachu and I stayed behind, shopping for medicines and organizing our belongings. “I was surprised to see Shelly taking the initiative to fight Blake by herself,” Cal commented. “She was hesitant, but she agreed to try to slow him down while I took care of some personal business,” I said as I checked the content of my medicine bottles and trashed those which were empty. “She has changed a great deal by spending time with you,” he said. “Yet, I clearly recall you refusing to help her escape her shell.” I remembered the brief talk about Shelly Cal and I had on top of Pyrous Mountain a long while ago. I stopped whatever I was doing to look at him. “Indeed. I didn’t coach her to take the reins of her life, for I’m definitely not one that could boast about having life controlled,” I shrugged. “But if she took the parts of me that aren’t a mess, and combined them to improve herself, then I am nothing but impressed and satisfied.” Cal simply nodded and smiled. Instead of continuing with the chatting, we tended to our baggage once more. As I was taking out stuff that I didn’t see a use for and depositing them into the PC, Pikachu approached me still holding Wolfie’s diary in his dark gray hands. “Oh Pikachu, you’d been holding onto that all this time? I’m glad I entrusted it to you, because it’d likely have fallen off the cliff in the avalanche otherwise.” My throat stung as I spoke. I shook my head and I pushed Aladdin out of my mind. Pikachu held the book out for me, and I carefully put the book on the back of my backpack. “I might read it sometime, but I’d rather not right now,” I told Pikachu. “I would much prefer to keep Wolfie’s privacy, for as long as I can live without reading off a page from the book.” That wasn’t really the reason, however. I only said so because I was aware that Cal was at hearing distance from us, and I didn’t wish to tell him information that was no business of him to know. If I ever read Wolfie’s diary, I wanted it to be when my senses could be focused to take in every single word that she’d written; otherwise I felt it would be disrespectful to her memory. Yet, given Aladdin’s recent mostly-suicide, I didn’t feel like I could attain that level of focus. Not much longer had Cal and I waited in silence, when Shelly and Heather returned. “We couldn’t find him,” Heather shrugged. “Maybe we could ask around to see if anyone has seen him?” Shelly suggested. “Do you know, um, his name?” “That’s the problem. He didn’t tell me his name, because he was apparently on a secret mission or something. I only know him as the Articuno guy.” “Secret mission? Are you sure he wasn’t T-Team Meteor?” Heather laughed at Shelly's alarmed face. “As if. If he’d been one of them, he wouldn’t have sabotaged Blake’s plan with me. Besides he was visibly foreign, judging from his way to match clothes. That was funny, but he knew the language of bird pokemon, so he’s cool in my book.” “That sounds really... n-nice,” Shelly said, but by then I could understand from her nervous glances my way, that she had figured out that Heather was looking for Aladdin. “Enough talk then. Let’s head out of Ametrine, since I have a Meteor Agent to unmask and a starving sociopath to fish out.” In the way, Cal decided to leave us to do his own thing, and I convinced Shelly to go to Calcenon with Heather and wait there. “I promise I will come to Calcenon as soon as I take care of the business with Terra and Titania,” I assured Shelly. “I think you have some catching up to do with your friend, given that her tongue is no longer tied.” “Hey, my tongue was never tied,” Heather complained. “But, um, will you not need, um, maybe some assistance? I know you’re strong, but what if Ciel and Samson are also, um, Team Meteor agents?” “Had they been Team Meteor, Cal would’ve outed them when he pointed fingers at Terra,” I said. “And if they turn out to be, I’ll find a way to deal with them as well.” “I could help you, um, I mean, let me help you,” she insisted. However, I was adamant on my decision. When I finally obtained the legal authorization to climb down the infamous waterfall, I didn’t want to cause Shelly unnecessary distress, in case I found Titania holding the dead body of her ex-lover. So the best option was to keep both girls away from Agate Circus and Celestine Cascade for the time being. Shelly turned out to be more insistent than I expected, but at last she agreed to follow my suggestion when she realized arguing with me was futile. So midway through Celestine cave, we parted ways. When I exited the cave onto Route 2, I saw both of them cruising the skies on Heather’s salamence, en route to Calcenon. “It’s you and me again, Pikachu,” I commented. “How long has it been since we were traveling by ourselves?” Pretty much ever since we came to Agate Circus and were prevented from returning through Agate City, there has been at least somebody, be it Shelly, Cain or the annoying elder Belrose sister. Now, though, I had to take things to my own bare hands. On the way to the Circus, I recounted my encounter with Aladdin, though Pikachu likely could not understand a word. Perhaps that is what I needed, for if I were to tell a person of that, I’d inevitably withhold much of the information that concerned my emotions, asphyxiating myself even further. “Truth be told, I know I should be satisfied. The likes of him shouldn’t be roaming these lands anymore, and him being gone means one less enemy on the loose,” I said, thinking of Jasmin who was still looking forward to bringing home my head as a trophy. “Yet, I don’t know why, I don’t feel I can congratulate myself. Just remembering him closing his eyes as he fell to his end, brings me sickness to my stomach. It’s similar to when I recall Wolfie’s death, but a different variation, perhaps.” I glanced at my shoulder, and saw that Pikachu was listening intently. His real eyes, on the bottom half of his disguise, sparked with the remaining light of the setting sun. “Maybe it’s me being melodramatic. After all, I had once thought myself to be in love with him. Or maybe it’s the lack of fulfilment, given that he pretty much killed himself before I could kill him. I think it’s more the latter, for I wouldn’t forgive myself if I mourned the death of said love one who murdered everything I cared about and almost murdered me.” I closed my eyes and took a couple of deep breaths. I allowed my shoulder muscles to relax, though I hadn’t even noticed when they’d gotten tense in the first place. Pikachu must have noticed, for he snuggled his disguise’s head onto my cheek. “At least that’s what I want to believe. I wish it were the lack of fulfilment that were bothering me. Yet, how annoying that it can’t be reality.” I started walking at a faster pace while still talking. “Even if my rational mind has resolved to hate Aladdin for his betrayal, I guess it’ll take longer for my emotional side to get over him,” I admitted. After walking quite some time, I began hearing the funky music of the Circus from afar. When I was close to the access from Route 2 to Agate Circus, I noticed that there were more people spending time having picnics or flying kites. It appeared that the Circus’ shows were no longer providing the entertainment that these people craved. When I entered the land of cotton candy and popcorn, I was appalled by how much more disorganized the place looked. I didn’t exaggerate in my choice of a nickname, for it took real effort not to step on the gooey mess from gum and cotton candy, intermingled with pieces of popcorn. The problem apparently stemmed on a dispute between the Ringmaster and the cleaners, who were unhappy with the wages they were receiving for cleaning up after a greater number of visitors. I caught glimpses of the Ringmaster trying to convince them to keep working for the time being, since resources were scarce at the moment. Yet, while the appearance of the place had changed since I last left the place, not a thing seemed to have improved with regard to the situation in Agate City. What could be the meaning of this? What could Team Meteor gain from slowly converting Agate Circus into landfill and its citizens into zombies? Such were my thoughts as I entered the large tent and went up the stairs to the staff waiting room. Samson was inside, lying on the couch reading a magazine. The cover of it had a model wearing way too suggestive clothing, or rather almost no clothing at all. He lowered the magazine just enough for his eyes to look in my direction, and realizing I was not whom he expected to see, he immediately crushed the thin book and hid it under the cushion. "Oh hey Vanilla," he said with a couple of coughs. "Sorry, it seems I've caught a cold. How's life treating you?" I didn't reply because a positive response is usually expected when that question is asked, but I couldn't offer one. Samson must've read the displeasure on my face, because he followed his question thus: "I see. Some days be like that, right? Anyway, did you find the source of the sleeping signal? Not gonna lie, this half-circus half-shelter business and trying to entertain an un-entertainable crowd all the time is getting old real quick." "Unfortunately, the source wasn't in Ametrine. We destroyed the large mountain of ice that blocked the path to Ametrine, though, so communication with them should resume soon." "What? But how come? Didn't Terra say it was definitely up there?" “Yes, and that was the problem,” I said. “But I’m onto it. I have a battle pass to battle Terra. So I can kill two birds with one stone.” “No offense to Ciel,” Samson added for me. As if on cue, Ciel entered the room right that moment. “Oh, Samson. What brutish slander are you muttering about me now?” she asked. “I was just telling Vanilla about the thong you’re apparently wearing.” Ciel was taken aback and tried to form a nonchalant smile, but she only managed to contort her face. Instead of rebuking the statement, however, she insisted we redid her entrance, and she diligently went out the room and came back to us in a minute’s time. “Hello, Vanilla and ever-cordial Samson! How are you each on this fine day?” was her new greeting. “Oh, is that a battle pass you have there?” I handed her the pass that Shelly had found for me. “It’s for battling Terra, I see,” she commented. “Unfortunately, I don’t know if you’ll be able to battle her anytime soon.” “Why is that?” “She’s been disappearing for days at a time, and we don’t know where she is right now.” “And as you might imagine, everyone in a fifty mile radius of her tends to be keenly aware of her general existence,” Samson rolled his eyes. “Of course, the question remains as to just where she’s been vanishing.” “I don’t care where she’s been vanishing to,” I said with a serious tone. “I need her here as soon as possible, because, as it turns out, the crazy girl with hacking skills is a Team Meteor agent, and has been playing us all along.” Both Samson and Ciel seemed to be in a trance of disbelief, just as I had been when Cal told me he knew Terra was part of Team Meteor. If one of them, or both, were also involved in Team Meteor, they did not betray their thoughts however. I proceeded to explain to them what had gone down in Ametrine City, and how what Terra had suggested turned out to be false. I also added the fact that she found Cain, Shelly and I wandering Agate City, without signs of getting sleepy herself, which further strengthened the evidence against the rainbow girl. “But, that’s unbelievable. Terra, Team Meteor?” Ciel exclaimed. “They would be out of their minds, if they were to accept into their group a girl like, well, that.” “Well, actually it’s not entirely unlikely, for instance-” Samson was saying, when the staff room’s door swung open and Terra came rushing in. “Hunniez, I’m home!” she shouted as she quickly propelled her face forward onto Ciel’s to lock their lips in a kiss. “T-Terra,” Ciel blushed, pushing her away. “Awwright, forgot you dun like that stuff in the publix,” she said. “Aye aye aye Captain Shieru, we’ll save it for when I land in yo port tonight.” “Don’t just make stuff like that up!” Terra winked at her and then moved closer to where Samson and I were standing. “So supperoni, bois and girls and people of nondiscriminate gender identity?” “We were just discussing the possibility of you being a member of Team Meteor,” Samson said without a gram of hesitation. “U wot mate?” Terra retorted, and then burst out laughing so loudly I wished I could leave the room immediately. “That’s the best thing I’ve heard all thirty seconds! Why, it’s unbelievable you’d be discussing that.” “So, it’s not true, right? You’re not a member of Team Meteor?” Ciel pressed for an answer. “Well duuuuhhh. Of course I am, betchez.” As we cornered Terra towards her computer monitor, she laughed at us for only considering the possibility this late, when she’d been working for Team Meteor for a long time under Samson and Ciel’s noses. “The suspense made it reeeal exciting while it lasted, YOLO,” she said. “But now we’ve found it all out, Terra, and we want an explanation right now,” Ciel said with a crimson face, and this time the coloring wasn’t from embarrassment. “Ugh, already demanding explanations and yada-yada, and we aren’t even married!” Terra replied, and turned her back on us. “Well, I may’ve been found out but das okay, cuz they’ll never find me here.” “What exactly are you doing?” Samson asked as we watched Terra pull up a window on one of her computer displays. “Awwll set. Les do this,” she said, pressing the enter key. “M3G4T3RR4 JACK OFF! EXECUTE!” In the blink of an eye, Terra disappeared into thin air. How? Don’t ask me. She’s made clear many times that she doesn’t operate by the laws of physics. “Please tell me she didn’t just escape into that big-ass computer,” Samson said after a pause. “All right. She didn’t just escape into that computer,” Ciel obliged. “Thanks.” We all looked closely at the computer screen, where the window Terra had opened was still on. In particular, Samson pointed at the center, which had an option “Player 2” blinking on top of the “Start” button. “Looks like it’s waiting input for Player 2,” he said. “Vanilla, you said you wanted to beat Terra’s ass and force her to spit out the truth about the sleeping signal, right?” “Didn’t say it in that way, but sure. I’m guessing I’ll have to go into the computer as well?” “There isn’t another choice. Terra’s probably going to stay there for as long as possible.” “The good news is that we know it’s safe to go in. Look,” Ciel pointed at the background of the game start menu, which showed Terra jumping and wrecking the place with her giant mallet. As per the two performers’ suggestion, I checked my PC and arranged a party that I presumed would be best suited for battling Terra, a ground type user. However, I then remembered that Ame might have suggestions to make, especially since I wouldn’t be fighting Terra in the usual Big Top Arena that I supposed I’d be fighting all three of the triumvirate. “Vanilla? Is that you?” Ame said. “Why, does it surprise you that it’s me?” “Well, frankly yes. It’s been a while since you contacted me, so I thought you had opted for strategizing on your own.” “That’s partially true, but I also have been in a hurry and busy most of the time.” “I’ve heard of you quite a lot in the news recently. Your efforts in fighting Team Meteor are most appreciated, I hope you know that,” she said. “But I’m sure you’re in a hurry now as well, so let me see how I can help you with your upcoming Gym match. You’re battling Terra, right? That should be on Big Top Arena field, which is the same one you battled Samson on.” “No, actually. We had a last minute change, and Terra has escaped into a virtual reality. I believe I’ll have to battle her there.” “What? That’s unheard of. Wait a minute, let me see if I can connect to her computer from here and extract the field information.” I head a lot of keyboard typing sounds and chairs screeches while Ame hacked into Terra’s computer. It took her longer than a minute, and I was becoming desperate, but I judged that this information would be critical in defeating the maniac, so I bore it in silence. “Interesting,” was the first thing she said. “Here, let me pass on the information I gathered.” I connected my Pokegear to the monitor, and extracted the file Ame sent me. “It appears that Terra created this virtual reality based on an old video game, so the rules seem to obey that game’s logic. Be careful, because type match ups might be different, and also some moves physical/special designation will become dependent on that move’s typing. Hope strategizing doesn’t turn into a pain in the neck.” “Terra is already a pain in the neck. This is just a small add-on to the sole fact I’ll have to talk with her in private.” “I feel you,” Ame said. “Good luck.” Then she disconnected, and I returned to my PC to change my team in light of this new information. The team I set on was composed of: Kame (blastoise), Bambi (sawsbuck), Queen of Hearts (tsareena), Aladdin (medicham), Prince (seismitoad), and Elsa (A-ninetales). “I’ve had to do odd things in the past, but this one takes the cake,” I sighed. “Alright. Hook me in.” And thus, I parted from the real world and underwent significant change in the core of my being to reach the other side, Terra’s glitch world. VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS Can you guess why I'm uploading today? That's right! Finals season! With great responsibility comes great procrastination oof QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

if you said Luna was 15 because I made her 15 in my story and thus misinformed you, then my apologies owo

owo welcome 133T h4ck4r to these homey forums~ one from diabeetus provider to you, new fren

Love how smoothly you introduced the Reborn Gym leaders and those pics are 10/10! Would comment of Jacques' fate, but I smell something and prefer to wait until the story unravels.

henlo~ welcome to our humble abode :3 Have a and relax and enjoy your stay!

Hey I think you should add a "I don't know German" to the voting options for the second question, cause I can't judge your translation quality. I'm guessing you want to get a feeling for how many people would be interested, though so I'd like to vote at least for the first question

This is going to get long af but I think it'll be a fun read if you like reading My story with Pokemon begins with the Pokemon anime. I don't know when or how, but when I was 5 years old, I watched the first episode of the first season (the one when Ash wakes up late and gets Pikachu) and was hooked by the world inhabited with animals but cooler. At the time, my parents both worked during the weekdays, and they'd given explicit directions to my nanny to only allow me to watch one hour of TV per day. So I watched Cardcaptor Sakura and Pokemon, right after the other, 30 minutes each in the afternoons. Then, my dad's colleague, bless him, gave me a limited edition gameboy color (golden hardware with pikachu and pichu on the display's rim), and my aunt, bless her, gave me Pokemon Pikachu Version and Silver Version, which my cousin had played already. I tried Pikachu version first, because the idea of Pikachu following you was awesome as hecc. But I was a dumb 5 or 6 year old at the time so I couldn't beat Brock with a Pikachu and Butterfree/Pidgey. So I discarded that and played Silver. I learned as I played, and every puzzle was a struggle, every gym leader a challenge. But that made it all the more satisfying when I managed to beat all the Gym leaders. I was still a dumb kid though so I didn't beat the league. Sometime around then, the first Pokemon movie was being sold as a VHS, and supposedly a mew holographic card would come with it. I won't lie, when I opened the VHS's case and didn't find the card inside... that was top 10 anime betrayals in my life xD but I was determined not to be upset by it, and watched the movie. I was a simple-minded kid, as I've already told you, so I didn't get the deep themes or anything, but it was an enjoyable movie. I watched that movie about 10 times during my childhood. That's when mew became my favorite pokemon. Since mew was my favorite pokemon, my dad bought me a mew keychain that lit up when you smacked the bottom (no lewding pls) when he traveled to Japan. I was ecstatic. I brought that keychain everywhere I went. But again, I was a dumb naive kid, so one day during my ballet presentation rehearsal (I think we were doing the Sleeping Beauty but not too sure), I showed it to one of my "friends" who proceeded to apparently throw it somewhere in the direction of the seats. I was heartbroken, and my dad and I spent about half an hour looking under every seat to find it without avail. My dad told me that my "friend" might have made a gesture of throwing but then didn't throw it and might've kept the keychain to herself. But since I had no way of proving that, I just gave up on that. My dad somehow bought me another one, but I also lost that one. I was a dumb kid (yep, hammering it home) so many of the kids at school took advantage of me and stole a lot of my stuff in the early school years lol Anyhow, one more thing. One Christmas, "Santa" got me a Pikachu plush that moved its mouth and said "pikachu! pika pika" when you pressed somewhere (I forget). I was ecstatic again! Though obviously the battery didn't last forever, it was a lovely gift. Aaaand you've finally finished reading the earliest memories of my childhood that concern pokemon after that, I got my first brand new pokemon game, Pokemon Emerald, and proceeded to buy the Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team, and Pokemon Hard Gold. That was the last pokemon game I bought, because I started not playing games as much. I don't really know what I did in my free time. Guess reading lol It was actually finding the existence of DS romhacks (at the time didn't know they were illegal because they were hacks of older games, but I guess I was a dumb grownup as well) and me playing Pokemon White that brought me back into the franchise. I'd heard bad press about Gen 5 so I gave it a shot thinking it'd be meh, but really the haters were meh because that stuff was da shit. Gen 5 is still my fave gen. Then, I found out about fangames, and the rest is history my frens. Now I'm the literal definition of a Switch Girl, cause people somehow don't expect me to play Pokemon even though I'm Japanese for whatever reason. Whatever, their loss.

henlo and welcome~ I'd give you an but I don't think you'd like that for now so I'll save it for the summer. meanwhile enjoy a

Nopsies I'm late but I invoke extra large for Corso

Nope! But how bout Starry popping in? I can give you delicious

Henlo~ glad to hear you like the game the only mistake you can make on the forums (apart from breaking rules) is to do you a heckin spoiling so watch out I guess Have a to make your stay sweet~

Shininess of parents doesn't influence shininess of offspring

You can go back to Reborn City though it'll have to be the long way (from where you came). If you do the Vanhanen Castle story, you'll get a short cut but there's a lot of story and a couple of battles you'd have to do so can't say which you'd prefer. Alternatively if you headbutt some tree, you can catch combee which may be holding honey.

what can I say, you got "lucky" on that particular try xD but that 1.15% is still higher chance than finding a shiny without the charm in Reborn, and I'm sure you have encountered shinies so think of it was a very rare but possible outcome

you might want to head to the Creative Works subforum where people sometimes post their custom sprites (including some of mine but mine ain't that good so rip) https://www.rebornevo.com/forum/index.php?/forum/50-creative-works/

henlo fren~ welcome to the cool nerdy corner of ze internet :3 have some and enjoy your stay ah, there's also a roleplay section in the forums, since you're into that you might wanna checc it out

Reborn ain't just a game you fight trainers, leaders and evil team and that's it. It has a yuge emphasis on story. it wouldn't make sense to side with Radomus and then lose to El. El won't be like "aww you tried, good effort", he's going to be like "ha! now gimme that Ruby Ring you loser". If you side with El though, it makes sense that he should be a bit more considerate even if you lose, cause at least you supported him. I think the same reasoning applies to the gauntlet too. You don't know what's happening while you've been hypnotized, but what really is happening is that three gym leaders have come rushing in to attempt to stop you. Of course they're going to use a lot of mons, in the hopes that if they battle you almost 3 vs 1, then you'll lose. It's a good plot point because it showcases the player's strength which is no longer match for the mid-tier gym leaders, but it requires much strategizing, which is also what Ame aims to make you do with the difficulty level of the game. Hope that even made sense, I'm half asleep lol

if your meowstic is a male and has the prankster ability, you can make it learn Reflect so that your team's defenses are up (iirc they use mostly physically offensive moves). Or if you want you can also make it learn Light Screen to raise special defense too. Give it light clay so it lasts longer. scrafty and pangoro would be a good counter to the three psychic mons and the two rock types, but beware of the passimian.I'd say you should get a water type and/or grass type also, which would help with the two ground types. I'd suggest a grass type like liligant which learns quiver dance and will prolly sweep Aster and Eclipse. Just beware of day-lycanroc which as fire fang but if Reflect is put up, I think lilligant shouldn't faint.

as a manly man, I totes agree with your list!

I can't believe some people out there are capable of reading at turbo speed lol and now you'll have to bear the same issue as my other readers cause I'm also a slow writer xD 57 chapters in over a year, slow. in the Reborn game file, there's this folder that holds the Graphics. For the change in sprites I just replaced one sprite for another (they'll show up as long as they have exactly the same name). But in some scenes I had to add more characters (especially Shelly and Pikachu who are pretty much always following Vanilla). So I edited the screenshots and added those sprites in. For the custom fight with Aladdin, I opened two Reborn game windows and used the online battle function. Then I edited the video to get rid of the "waiting..." text to make it a smooth battle. I think that's about all the customization I've done.

you can join the hype train which will take a long time to get to the next station but is still worth the wait, and play Pokemon Clockwork will be the next hot thing, I can smell it cookin'

look behind you I'm there you just can't see me and I'm ready to slap ya booty cause I clicked that quick link

similar to azumarill, I find that unburden slurpuff with belly drum is a destruction machine xD only downside is lack of coverage moves, so run from poison or steel types. if you want a hyper offensive starter, I think blaziken or greninja are the standard ones that smell offense, maybe charizard can work well as well if you get drilbur in the mystery egg, you'll have a broken mon on your side fren

I'm a simple smol candy and categorize pikaclones based on whether they have cheek pouch-like things on their faces. That would include mimikyu's fake pikachu face, but not the marill line.

those peepos who complain... I wish I could shove some in their mouths so they can have a sugar rush and be happy and not say nasty stuff :3