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From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 15 I didn’t really have to go back into Shelly’s room, because just as I was going up the stairs, I saw Cain and Shelly coming down. “I’ve convinced Shelly that rescuing Heather is our priority now,” Cain told me. “We just heard Heather’s scream. We gotta hurry.” Apparently Heather’s scream was so piercing that its sound waves transcended the laws of walls and physics. “I don’t particularly mind, since police and I have been at odds for many years. What about you, though? Don’t you fear the legal repercussions?” “It’s true that we might get caught and have a bad time,” Cain noted as e walked down the last stretch of stairs. “But Heather’s having one hell of a time now, so I think I’ll run the risk.” That dumb weakness of yours might get used against you, I thought but decided against saying it aloud. I’m here to get stronger, not to be everyone’s councelor. “I will help because Pikachu asked me to, but unlike you, I’ll not run any risks,” I clarified. “Don’t place too much trust on me, for in case I default.” “Don’t worry~ I’ll cover up if you bail out. Though I doubt you will~.” I sent a sharp look at Cain, but e just smiled widely. I then looked at Shelly, who was behind im and partially hiding, and she raised her shoulders and shrunk her neck. What about me is that intimidating, is something I would like to ask her sometime later. At the orphanage, we discovered that the door was locked. However, not even a minute passed before we heard a sound from the inside and the door got unlocked. “How did you know we were outside?” Cain asked when we went in and found Anna at the entrance. “Hehe, I saw Vanilla’s glowiness through the door, so I unlocked it for you,” Anna said, surprisingly cheerfully given she probably saw a rampaging 10-year-old being forced in by a few orderlies. “I’m guessing you came for the pink-haired girl?” Charlotte rose up from the sofa. “She really wasn’t taking it easy.” “W-We came to rescue her,” Shelly spoke up. “In that case, I think we can help them. What d’ya say?” Noel and Anna agreed immediately. Why do I keep running into naive children? “We can help and we will. That’s what friends are for, right?” Anna said, taking both of my hands. I let her hold them, though I would much rather she let go of me. “You should know that your chances are slim given you’re outnumbered, though,” Charlotte said. “Our pokemon were confiscated, so we can’t be much of a physical support,” Noel concurred. “But I guess if you’ll get in trouble anyways, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to try and see until where you can get.” I sighed. This will be a long day. “We can’t be a physical support, but I think I can distract some of the orderlies for you,” Charlotte grinned with vicious intent written all over her face. She left us for a moment alone, and went through one of the doors to where apparently about three orderlies were resting. We heard her asking for cigarettes. I could tell from the first time I met her, but this confirmed that Charlotte is a rebel. Perhaps she has some similarity with me, but I value my health too much to smoke. Once she was taken to God knows where, a Circuit or whatever it’s called, we were noticed by three other orderlies who casually passed by. These children’s and perhaps our exodus was just starting. “Guess that’s our cue~” Cain said, nonchalantly as always. I took the middle man on, while Cain and Shelly battled the two on both sides. The poor bloke must’ve been thinking he trained to become a caretaker, not a pokemon trainer, for it showed in his mediocre battling skills. “Make this quicker for all of us,” I told him. “Go tell the other orderlies not to stand in our way.” “Like I would. You’re the intruders, so don’t go about ordering us,” the orderly said, and went on to do exactly the opposite of what I advised. They even pulled Noel upstairs with them for no reason, too. Stupid. Jokes on them, since that experience will only toughen up my team to wreck that con-doctor Connal. “You’re really strong,” Anna said to all three of us, but looking at shy Shelly, she got closer to her. “Your name is Shelly, right? Wanna be friends?” “Friends? Um… but I-” “I know you already have many friends, but I’m sure there’s room for one more? Please?” Shelly looked confused and I saw her take one sneaky step backward from Anna. “I don’t have many friends,” she said in a low voice. “I-I only have Heather, who was taken here.” “That’s not what I see, though?” Anna batted her eyes. “I see many strings of friendship attached to you. I’ve never seen so many! So many people care deeply about you.” Guess this Anna girl is also a natural in cheering people up like Victoria. Or perhaps I’m the only one without that skill? Not that I care. “Sorry to interrupt the heartwarming discourse,” I said. “But the other orderlies are probably on the way here. Let’s get this over with before the cops are involved.” “That’s true. If we work together, there’s nothing we can’t do~ Look, I’ll block the way there,” Cain said with a melodic tone, and pointing at a doorway on the far right. That was where the three orderlies had come in from. “Vanilla and Shelly, go upstairs and free Noel and Heather if you can.” Shelly twitched a little, glanced my way but immediately lowered her gaze. Despite her obvious disinclination, though, she approached me in small steps. “Um, okay. I’ll watch y-your back,” she told me. “Let’s go.” We went up the stairs, where we found some children coloring and watching TV like nothing weird was going on. Before continuing with our mission, though, I had to clear up some stuff that was bugging my conscience for quite a while. “Shelly,” I called the purple haired girl. The sudden mention of her name made her jump a little. “W-what is it?” “What about me is scary for you? Is it because my pale everything makes me look like a ghost? The walking dead, perhaps?” Shelly widened her eyes, and for the first time looked at me without moving her gaze away. “O-oh, I’m sorry. I’m sorry it came off t-that way,” she shivered. “Um, it’s nothing personal actually. It’s j-just that you remind me of someone else.” “Another albino person?” “N-no. He doesn’t look anything l-like you. Um, I think… I think it’s your eyes.” “My eyes?” “I-I don’t know how to explain, but y-your eyes look, um, hollow? Like they’ve lost their shine,” she explained, but now she was looking toward the floor. “S-sorry, I don’t even know what I’m saying. S-sorry if I offended you. You can forget, um, what I said.” I relaxed my tense eyebrows. “You didn’t offend me. I like to maintain distance with people, so I asked for your opinion. Now I know I should accentuate my eyes.” Shelly looked up at me, but then I passed in front of her and towards the orderlies that were walking towards us. “What’s this? Some naughty kids?” “We don’t even need pokemon to take care of them,” the female orderly laughed. “Just put them in the Circuit. They’ll be next to get the treatment once Dr Connal is done with the new girl.” The male orderly grabbed Shelly by the wrist. She cried in pain because her wrist was being twisted, but did not resist the abuse. “Don’t you know it’s despicable to hurt children?” I said, tensing my face once more. “What, little girl? Don’t you see you’re a naive child too?” “Let her go, or I’ll show you I’m not a child anymore,” I raised a fist for them to know what I meant, but the two orderlies just laughed. “Seize her.” “You asked for it.” When the female orderly ran towards me, I waited until she was close enough to touch me to counter. I saw a wide opening in her, for she thought she was seconds before grabbing my arm too. Unfortunately for her, it was a trap. I pulled my arm backward, and instead raised my knee directly into her stomach. I don’t know whether from shock or the impact, but the woman fell down, practically paralyzed. “You-” the other orderly tried to slap me while still holding Shelly, but his movement was too slow. If I let him even touch me, I’d be disgracing my name and my training. I was about to revenge-punch him, when Pikachu sprang from my shoulder to tackle and bite his face. He screamed and wobbled backwards holding his cheek. At the same time, he let go of Shelly, and I gave her physical support so she wouldn’t fall to the floor. Pikachu jumped back to me once he was pleased about saving his companion. The orderly, with a jaw that would probably get inflammed in a few minutes, pressed a hidden switch on the wall, which closed a metal gate between him and us. “Try getting through this then,” he said and left upstairs. The woman who I winded, too, picked herself up with remarkable effort and scurried away. “Um, thanks,” Shelly said. “I t-think we should ask Anna for a way to, um, unlock the gate.” She started towards the stairs, but I stopped her. “Why didn’t you struggle for freedom just now?” I walked around her so that I could see her face. She had her eyebrows knit and I took note that she was still trembling. “Um, I’m weak so I wouldn’t have been able to f-free myself anyway.” “So you were going to give up just then?” Shelly glanced at me and nodded with insignificant movement. I sighed and placed a hand on my forehead. “You said you don’t have friends. You’ve repeated it enough for me to remember,” I said. “Yet, your attitude doesn’t reflect that. What would you have done if I weren’t here?” Shelly was silent, so I continued. “Your attitude tells me you’re dependent on others. If you can’t do it, you give up, because someone will come to help you out, right?” The girl was still looking down, so I pinched her lower jaw to force her eyes to meet mine. She obeyed for a moment, but then her irises fixed to my right, where Pikachu was. “Look at me. If that Heather girl is important to you, show it. There won’t always be someone to do the job for you. After all, each of us has to protect what is precious to us, and people don’t have time to protect what is precious to you in your stead.” I brusquely let go of the girl’s mandible. Shelly was still at a loss of words, but I didn’t think that was a bad thing. At least she wasn’t apologizing. Downstairs we found Anna watching Cain destroy through the orderlies’ teams. “They closed a gate on us,” I explained succinctly. “That’s no good. How do they expect us to rescue anyone if they go and do a thing like that?” Anna pointed her lips. “Well, I do know a switch that can help you open it. It’s down that hall and to the left.” “You stay here and rest,” I told Shelly. “Pikachu, you stay here with her.” I had to fight some orderlies by myself, but at least they were smarter than those upstairs, and used pokemon to attempt to stop me. I managed to reach the hidden switch with minimal difficulty, and returned to the lobby where I had left Shelly. She looked at me and if my eyes saw correctly, she relaxed her facial muscles. That’s new. “Nice work Cain,” Anna said, and I directed my attention toward im. E had managed to push the tide back, and had already liberated Charlotte by the time Shelly and I got where e was. Needless to say, e was singing all the while is pokemon KO’d the foes. “You’re singing at a time like this?” Charlotte asked, for she didn’t know this guy. “You’re a regular magical princess, aren’t you?” “Someday my prince will come and sweep me away,” Cain said, just as is nidoking attacked a persian with its horn. “Charlotte, dear, be my prince?” “Hah, as if,” the pink haired punk laughed. The orderlies, with no more pokemon left to take us on, retreated backwards. We didn’t lose the opportunity to go forward, and we eventually reached a storage room with all sorts of junk but also useful stuff. “Four sets of pokemon lined up. Charlotte, Anna, Noel… oh and Heather,” she commented as she placed the balls in a plastic bag. “Oh, and an attractive pack of cigs. Hello, sexy.” There was little more left for us to do there. We ran upstairs to the highest floor, liberating Noel on our way. There, we found a rather disturbing scene. Not even the loudest chorus of machinery could distract our eyesight. Dr Connal and a few orderlies were there in a room. Heather was lying motionless on a hard hospital bed, but we also noticed she was hooked by various cables to a large black-and-yellow monster. The monster, which the pokedex told me was an electivire, looked at us with a hopeless expression. I heard Pikachu growl at it, and I assumed it was sad to see a comrade be so lifeless. “Now doctor, we’ve come to join the party. How do you like it?” Charlotte grinned as she sent her ninetales forward. “Have you got a diagnosis for you situation? Because I have one for you: Royally fucked.” I thought Florinia was my favorite out of all these oddballs, but I think the punk is climbing up the ladder fast. “Cute. Have you had your fun, Charlotte?” Dr Connal asked with composure, but I could smell his despair. “I’ve just started. Let me have some more fun, doctor. Release the girl, or else,” Charlotte approached the doctor, and pressed the butt of her cigarette onto his hand. The doctor jerked his hand in pain. “Woah, you don’t have to burn the guy,” Cain said and I rolled my eyes. Was e blind or didn’t e see that this same man was inflicting pain through electrocution to these kids? “I just had an urge to do this for the longest time,” Charlotte smiled. “Now I can cross it out of my bucket list.” “Enough. I care little for this power struggle,” Dr Connal sighed while still pressing a hand over the burned area. “Take the girl, but keep in mind that I took the liberty to contact the authorities, and they’ll be here any second now.” Of course, now that we had what we came there for, there was no use in sticking around any longer. We took the cue and ran out of the building as a group. “Hey,” I realized that Archer’s gang’s bicycles and others which probably belonged to another gang, were still placed outside of an apartment. “All of you, take a bicycle to run away faster.” “How dare you? I’m going to get scolded,” Razzy said, almost crying. “Not my problem. Send my toxic regards to Archer.” “Is this really alright?” Cain asked me about the bikes when we were out of Lapis Ward. “The cops are after us already. Little difference it makes whether we also stole bikes from a couple of gangs.” Our destination? Apparently to the railnet, which had an access to the only place any of us could think of running to - Charlotte’s family’s lakeview home. VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

Thanks~ though whether Vanilla has a sense of justice right now is debatable (I'm writing her and yet I don't even know). She certainly seems influenced by her traveling companion, who does have a stronger sense of justice than her haha

Holy shité for a second I wasn't sure if I was reading your story or mine. Anyhow, my two cents is that I think you place too much value on friendship and 'not being alone'. Being alone isn't a curse. Friends come and go - people who happened to be at the same place at the same time become friends, but it isn't guaranteed to last forever... I left many friends, as I moved every 4-5 years ever since I was 7 years old. I made new friends, and those friends became acquaintances, but I think that's natural. Don't cry for things that are natural - think of the blessings you have, for you have mentioned them. Your two BFFs who no matter the circumstances or the distance, they think of you as much as you think of them. I'm blessed, too, to have someone like that in my life. If you want another serious relationship and that's why you're sad, though, I can't really help hehe. I only loved once and will never love again. But I have heard of people who say that fate has the tendency to surprise you in ways you didn't see coming, so perhaps you'll find love when you've given up on it I'll also be starting PhD studies this year. If you need a shoulder to cry on, I'll offer my cyber-shoulder to you~ Ganbatte, you can get through this. Value the things you have, and forget about the 'ideal', the things you don't have. Hehe, I guess I could learn from my own advice

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Hehe, I'm glad it's entertaining Yup a little step forward for Vanilla, but unfortunately I can see her taking a step back in some episodes from now... stay tuned haha

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 14 My luck was running low, for I found an eyesore at the Opal Grand Hall. Fern was talking with Ame, and from what I could hear of the conversation, I didn’t really need to come all the way here after all. I was about to change directions to go towards the exit before Fern could realize I was there, but it was too late. “Loser is too scared to fight me?” I heard him say to my back. I stopped midway and turned. “If you already told Ame about what happened with the poison guy, I don’t have a reason to stay any longer.” “I can tell you some good information, ya know,” Fern said. “About the new poison-type Gym leader. You’ll need her badge, so I’d suggest listening to the top dog.” “Hurry up and speak or slow down and I’ll leave.” Fern fixed his glasses and smirked. “You see, Reborn has a system in place for cases like this. Since Corey retired in a sense, now the back-up girl, Aya, is the leader. Apparently she’s some chick in the middle of nowhere aka the wastelands.” “Alright. I’ll go find her,” I said, ready to leave, but Fern stopped me. “How even are you going to do that?” he asked, but his intent was obvious from his ridiculing tone. “The wastelands aren’t accessible without a key, and guess what? I’ve got one.” I sent an incredulous look to him, and he waved the key in the air for me to see. “I don’t really want to go to the wastelands with you,” I said. “What an idiot. Do you think I’d let you follow me? That’d be a disgrace on my name.” I stared at him, perhaps with killing intent. Fern read my face, but placed the keys back into his shirt’s pocket. “I can tell you where to get another, if you happen to win against me in a battle.” We didn’t waste a second. Fern’s team was pretty easy to beat, except for his roserade, which I had to defeat with my two frail vulpixes. However like with Victoria, I managed to win thanks to my team outnumbering his. “Talk about cheap,” Fern sighed. “Whatever, man. You can get a key from her brother. This purple-haired guy who looks more like a girl with fishnets. Totally freaky. He wouldn’t stop singing, either. Good luck finding him. Later, loser.” Fern purposely bumped his shoulder into mine as he passed me to exit the building. Pikachu saw this, and sent a sharp and rather unpleasant squeal. “Don’t even get mad, Pikachu. He isn’t worth our time.” Finding Cain was an ordeal in itself. I looked everywhere for him. I even went into some caves in Beryl, which wasn’t all that bad because I found myself some handy items, including a fire stone for Anna, and I also found Corey’s nidorina in an especially dark cave near the Beryl cemetery. I wouldn’t add her to my team, but still, I felt somehow responsible for her loss of trainer. When I exited the dark cave, though, I heard some singing nearby. I walked over to the cemetery, from where the singing was heard. “Cain?” I called, and e stopped singing. “Hello Vanilla, how’s it going~” e said with a wide smile. “I came here because I heard what happened with the poison-type Gym leader.” “There’s nothing to do up here. He’s dead.” Cain batted his eyes, his eyelashes looking too long to be natural. “I know I can’t do anything for the poor guy, but I heard he left a 10-year-old daughter behind.” “I don’t know where you could find Heather. She flew away on a dragon.” “Even then, I want to find her. That’s a big thing, not having anyone to care for you when you’re so young.” “If that’s what you want to do,” I shrugged. “Give me the wasteland key and you’re free to go.” “Oh, you want it too?” Cain suddenly seemed low on spirits. “I wouldn’t advise you to go, but if you’re set on it, I’ll give it to you if you win me over~ Not my heart, but in a battle, of course.” In the battle, I led with Elsa against brionne, which Freeze-Dry fainted the blue seal in two turns. Seeing that Cain was sending out his nidoking, I switched into Prince. It would’ve taken two Earth Powers, but Cain healed the pokemon in one turn, so it took three turns instead. Against a-grimer, I thought I could one shot it with Earth Power, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough and Prince got revenge-killed with Knock-off. Aladdin took over, and was able to finish the colorful blob with Fake Out and High Jump Kick. Cain sent out his final pokemon, a-marowak, but the poor thing went down to a single Rock Slide from Wolfie, which attack had been powered up by the field (though I don’t know what this field is, yet). “You won over my heart~” Cain grinned and tried to hug me but I pushed im away. “Fine, I’ll give you the key.” Just as he was looking into is pockets, though, e noticed that we were being watched from above. “When did you get here?” Cain asked the pink-haired brat. “Heather, right?” “What if I am?” Heather replied. “I heard some stuff happened, and I was looking for you because I was worried.” “What, so you can place a bunch of stupid rules on me too?” The late Team Meteor agent Corey’s words regarding ‘stupid rules’ popped on my mind, but I refrained from saying them out loud. “Hey, no, I just wanted to be friends. You see, I-” “Just shut up,” Heather said with a voice that hurt my ears. “I don’t need friends. I have a friend.” “Who is it?” “Why do I have to tell you? She’s a Gym leader, okay? I’ll go see her now if only to get away from you!” Heather called her dragon, and jumped on top of it. Seriously, Corey let her have a huge dragon to her disposal? The dragon took flight and surfed the skies with incredible speed. Cain watched her direction a while after she was gone. “She’s headed to Lapis Ward,” Cain commented. “Sorry, Vanilla. I have to get going now before she gets lost again. I’ll give you the key later.” Then Cain rode away on a bicycle. I headed to the Lapis Gym upon arrival to the ward, but I made a wrong turn and ended up witnessing the Aqua gang dismounting their bikes to head into an apartment building. They left the guy I’d punched back in their base looking after the bikes. “How convenient,” I said to Pikachu, and walked over to the bikes. “Hey, you,” the guy, whose name I believe was Razzy, exclaimed as he saw me. He tried to hide the tremor in his voice; however, his body language absolutely communicated fear. “Which is Archer’s bike?” “W-why would I tell you?” “You know the answer,” I said, raising a fist. Razzy’s hand jerked immediately to his nose bridge, which had been carefully bandaged. “It's that one,” he said, looking away from me. The way he shrunk his shoulders reminded me of Shelly. In any case, free bike so I’m not going to complain. “Don’t look at me like that,” I told Pikachu, who was staring at me with knitted eyebrows. “One must get by, and I don’t care about stealing from enemies. Now hang on tight, I’ll speed through to the Gym.” Inside Shelly’s room, I found both Cain and Heather. They were arguing about rules and freedom, which apparently is Heather’s favorite conversation topic. I don’t know what Heather wants, but I’d be willing to let her be if only she’d shut up for a moment while I receive the wasteland key from Cain. “Ugh, you’re just ganging up on me,” Heather shouted. “I’m leaving! Don’t try to stop me.” Heather pushed me to the side and ran down the stairs. Cain was almost on the verge of pulling out all his purple hair in frustration. “Quickly, Shelly, Vanilla. She’s only going to keep hurting herself like this.” Cain went down the stairs, and I followed him together with Shelly, though in my mind I was confused as to what he meant by ‘hurting herself’. I don’t see her with a razor blade or anything. We ran after her, but stopped abruptly when she bumped into an old guy with a lab coat. “Dr Connal,” I muttered, recognizing his face. “Would you just get out of my way?” Heather said loudly enough to erase my comment. “That is absolutely no way to speak to your elders,” Dr Connal said as he straightened his shirt and lab coat. “I don’t care. Just shut up and move,” Heather said, trying to move past him but the doctor purposefully moved sideways to block her way. The doctor then slapped Heather on the cheek. “Haven’t your parents taught you any manners?” “Hey, woah there, geezer. Lay off the girl,” Cain interjected. “Excuse me. I’m not a geezer,” Dr Connal clarified. “I am a doctor. I’ve worked many years for that title, and in turn I expect to be addressed accordingly.” Cain looked at him and raised an eyebrow. “Fine then. Back off, Dr Geezer.” I smirked at the remark, but we all heard Heather outright let out a small burst of laughter. However, when inquired upon it, Heather denied the act. “While I do hate to interrupt your giddy humor, I’m afraid I must. Little girl, where are your parents?” I widened my eyes. Dr Connal’s intentions were clear: he wanted to take Heather into his orphanage. I remembered how that little girl Anna had reacted at the mere thought of bringing Shelly to the orphanage to have her trauma eased. She had alluded to certain ‘painful’ events, which though I didn’t know the specifics of, were obviously undesirable for anyone. “Her parents,” I spoke up without knowing why. Unfortunately I didn’t have a wit quick enough to think of a believable lie right at that moment. “Um, doctor, her parents are… Um, her parents aren’t h-here anymore,” Shelly said, and a chill went down my spine. It was too late. “Is that so?” Dr Connal commented. “In that case, I will have to escort you to my orphanage. It is a nice little place for children like you who have been orphaned.” “I don’t want anything from you! Go away,” Heather barked. However, Dr Connal would not flinch. He listed a couple of laws or something legal like that to support his actions, and then ordered his staff to seize the pink-haired girl. “Heyy, not cool. Back off, Dr Old Guy,” Cain tried to pull an orderly’s arm, but was shaken off. “I suggest you not to interfere, for there may be legal consequences if you do,” Dr Connal stated and went back with his staff and Heather. We stayed standing there for a while as we tried to recollect what had just happened. One moment, Cain was trying to deal with a headstrong brat, and the next, the brat is taken away by an infamous fascist. “Oh my god… I-I just,” Shelly said with a shivering voice. I glanced backward, and saw that her large eyes were filling up with tears. We met eyes, and she instantly broke eye contact with me to leave towards her Gym. “Shelly!” Cain called her, but she didn’t stop running. “Come, Vanilla. We have to form a plan.” He also left for the Gym. I stayed where I was for a couple more minutes. Pikachu hopped off my shoulder, ran a little bit toward the Gym and squeaked turning its head back at me. “Think for a second,” I told him. “This is not in the deal I struck with Florinia. The old folk who is also a doctor isn’t Team Meteor and hence not a threat I have to take care of. True, what Anna told me doesn’t give me the good vibes, but keep in mind that they’re the orphans. They’re obviously going to exaggerate how badly they’re treated by staff, like how Heather exaggerates her father’s mistreatment. Perhaps Dr Connal can straighten up that punk’s twisted character once and for all.” Pikachu furrowed its brows again, and ran towards me once more only to move its body around my ankles in an ‘8’ shape. His intermittent squeaks were most likely saying ‘please’ over and over. “What’s gone into you? We barely know Heather, and the parts we know about her are all against her favor.” Right then, though, I heard a scream so sharp and loud that it could be heard even through the walls. There was no mistaking that voice - it was Heather’s. Pikachu and I looked at each other for a couple of seconds. “Fine, you win. Let’s go,” I sighed and ran towards the Lapis Gym. VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS BONUS PIC Hello~ :3 On behalf of Vanilla, I'd like to thank you all for the continued support! 2,000 views and going strong! QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

Cold winter, huh? Here it's a lil cold too and thanks, I'm surprised I'm still going strong~

From Everland to Reborn ~ Artsy Art Heylo frens~ It's Candy here No, it's not a notification of a new episode today... Vanilla is working on it, though! Instead, I'm posting this relevant picture I drew of Vanilla and her pal, Pikachu~ ... But don't show it to her, or she'll get mad at my horrible art skills hehe This is why I'm a breeder, not an artist PNG form ~ original PNG form with random quote Overly over and overly over GIF Hope y'all liked them, even if they can't really be called art~

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 13 Upon entering, I gasped at the unexpected sight of a little girl. “Hello but you're not Laura,” she observed me with large round eyes. “Why are you so glowy?” “Glowy? Are you referring to my Pokemon?” I asked, since I remembered some word like that is used to describe pokemon with different coloring like mine. As far as I knew, nothing on me was glowy. My sugar crystal brooch is bright but not glowy… Right? “Anna, you're scaring the poor girl,” said a little boy and I was saved. “Oh sorry. Come, I'll introduce you to my friends,” Anna said. “That's not necessary actually. I'm only looking for a certain Dr Connal. Am I in the right place?” “You want the Doctor? Oh no no, whatever it's for, this is not the Doctor you're looking for!” “Ugh, I've got a girl who's shocked speechless and perhaps has trauma now. I don't care but they told me to bring the doctor. Where is he?” “Please understand, glowy person. The Doctor will only make your friend’s condition worse. He’ll use his therapy, and it really hurts,” Anna insisted and stretched both arms so I couldn't pass further. “Listen to Anna, stranger. She's right,” a girl with twintails and a red jacket said. “Ah, I was going to introduce you, right? I almost forgot because you say such inconceivable things,” Anna laughed. “What's your name, glowy person?” “I don't know what glowy you're referring to, but I'm Vanilla. New to Reborn. My outfit speaks for myself.” “Ok Vanilla. I've never seen such a pretty and sweet smelling dress,” Anna smiled. “Now, this is my Jirachi, Nostra. That's Noel, my brother and his Cleffa, Nomos, and this is Charlotte. You know, she's really pretty despite of her burn scars.” “Burn scars?” I asked, because I could not see any. “Ana, for the last time. I don't have burn scars,” Charlotte said with a loud voice. “Ah I forgot you don't like them mentioned. Sorry, I won't talk about them again so please forgive me?” “It's not that, I just don't have burn scars,” Charlotte crossed her arms. “Ok well, if I'm not gonna see Dr Connal, then I don't see a point in remaining. Bye,” I said, but just as I did, Anna widened her eyes. “Yuck the Doctor’s coming,” she announced and moved over to the spot next to her brother. I was about to say something, when someone in a white lab coat appeared at the door opposing me. “Good afternoon. Oh? May I inquire into who this is?” “Are you Dr Connal?” I asked instead of a self-introduction. “Indeed. I am Dr Sigmund Connal, the director of this orphanage.” “Ah, Doctor. This is Vanilla, um, she came to check the place out since we have so many Gym leaders,” Ana cut me off. “Is that so? Well. My orphans are indeed quite talented for their age. However unfortunately they're not able to battle at this point because the battle field is still under construction.” “Right, Doctor? It's great to meet you, Vanilla, but now you're going. That's too bad, but hope we can meet again someday,” Ana said while casually pushing me. When we were at the exit though, she reached my ear on tip toes and spoke to me with a quiet voice. “Your friend is alright without a doctor. Just tell her to remember who is the person that's truly hurt by that.” Then, Ana gave me one more push, effectively ejecting me out of the orphanage. I heard the door locking behind me. “That was… Weird,” I commented. “Guess I'll just return to the Gym.” So I did, and found Victoria sitting next to Shelly. “Vanilla,” Victoria called and stood up. “Did you find Dr Connal?” “Yes but no. Instead I found an odd, perhaps psychic, girl,” I said, and walked straight towards Shelly. “Shelly, she told me you should remember who the person who's really hurt by this is. Do you understand what she's saying?” I hoped she would, because I had no clue. Luckily for me, the words had a beneficial effect on the young girl. “That's true… Um, I don't have time to be like this when it’s Heather who lost her dad,” Shelly said, still with an empty look. “I have to find her.” “Shelly, you need to stay here and rest,” Victoria told her, but Shelly shook her head sideways and made a slight smile. “N-No, I’m fine now,” she said with a little more energy. “But before I go. Victoria, didn’t you come here for a battle? Sorry, we can do it now if you’d like.” “Don’t worry about it, you don’t have to apologize.” “Oh ok, sorry… Oops.” Victoria chuckled. “Really, it’s fine with me. I’d prefer to wait a bit and battle you later,” Victoria said but then glanced at me and added, “Although, Vanilla might want to do it.” I was on the verge of spacing out, when the sudden mention of my name brought me back to the conversation. “O-oh ok, I’ll be w-waiting then,” Shelly said and stood up from her sofa. She passed in front of me, I saw her take a quick glance at me and shiver as she exited the room. This wasn’t what I was expecting, but I’ll take it. Let’s get this battle done. I turned towards the stairs, when Victoria called me back. “Vanilla, I know this is weird, but do you really have to fight her?” I didn’t say anything, because I was confused. Weren’t you who suggested I fight in the first place? “Shelly… she’s just recovering from a traumatic encounter. I wouldn’t want her to stress over the battle. Please don’t make her condition worse thinking only of a plain badge.” “Crying alone won’t benefit her recovery either,” I said, perhaps with a stern look. “She needs activity to take her mind off this incident. I don’t oppose her battling me.” I stepped down a couple of stairs before Victoria called me again. “Wait. If you think so, let me try to stop you with a battle. If I win, don’t battle her, alright?” Unfortunately for Victoria, the battle was pretty much decided when I sent Aladdin in. Her pancham and her ace, torracat, went down to Psycho Cut and High Jump Kick, respectively. Kirlia and pikachu gave me a little more trouble, because I had prepared my team for Shelly’s bug team and hence had deposited my ground-type Prince in the pokemon center. However, in the end, I won thanks to outnumbering her. “Fine, do as you wish. I won’t say I’m not disappointed in your attitude, though,” Victoria said as she called her torracat back into a pokeball. “If you had high expectations for my attitude to start with,” I smirked. “That means you’ve misjudged me.” “You might act cold and apathetic, but you see, you’ve left another impression the first time we met. I saw vitality and a strong will to do good in your eyes as you fought to rescue Pikachu. I’ll never forget that.” “You too do as you wish,” I said, turning my back at her. Saying that the Gym was spacious would be an understatement. Somehow the people in this region had managed to grow a mini-forest indoors. There were trainers, or course, but I also saw some bug pokemon hiding in the grass. I approached Ame’s display, because this time I had not found a Field Effect read-out for this field. “Did you know that some leaders in Reborn choose to battle in doubles?” Ame said as I downloaded the read-out for Forest field onto my pokegear. “Shelly is one of them.” “Good to know,” I said and pulled the pokegear off. “Her strategy is based on rain in order to cover her fire-type weakness,” Ame continued. “You can either destroy her plans if you are faster than her pokemon, or ride the tide, as they say.” I smiled at the joke, but made no sound so the girl could not know I did. “I’ll be going,” I said. “Good luck.” Luckily for me, rain or speed isn’t an issue. My Anna brings in the rainbows anyway. After defeating all the trainers, and solving the puzzle, which really took me more than I would like to admit, I made it to the room where Shelly was waiting. At the sight of me, she shrunk to half her original size. “Um, hello,” she greeted. As I approached her, it seemed like she was getting smaller. “What is it,” I asked. “I-I’m fine, don’t worry about me.” Clearly she wasn’t fine. I could see the fear in her eyes. Why? Don’t ask me questions. I scratched my cheek and watched her silently for a short moment, before thinking of something to ease the atmosphere. I took Pikachu off my shoulder and lifted him up in front of her face. “Do you like squirrels?” I asked. “Your pachirisu is very cute,” Shelly said, showing Pikachu a warm smile. “C-Can I pet it?” “Sure.” Shelly slowly raised her hand and started petting Pikachu on the head. Her trembling gradually subsided, and Pikachu let out a comfortable squeak. “I-I think… I can tell you have taken care of him very well.” “He doesn’t battle, but has been with me almost immediately since I started the Reborn League.” When I judged Shelly was less nervous around me, I asked her whether she’d like to start the battle. “L-Let’s do it.” “Ah, you’re strong,” Shelly commented when we finished battling. “Your strategy wasn’t bad,” I said. I approached Shelly to take my cocoon badge and to pick up Pikachu, whom I left close to her. “Um, what is that bottle on your backpack’s side pocket?” I reached to the side pocket, and grabbed the bottle. It was the shady bottle of possibly poisonous liquid that the woman at the hair salon in Obsidia had given me. “What did she say again?” I asked myself. “I think she said that if a pokemon and I drink it when we get along well, something will happen. I bet it’s poison or just water.” “Isn’t it Sparkling Water?” Somehow checking out the bottle made Shelly cheer up more. “Water that feels like soda but tastes awful?” I asked. That’s the only sparkling water I know of. “N-No. Um. It’s a liquid that was popular a long time ago but made a brief comeback a couple of years back,” she said, returning the bottle to me. “It’s definitely not bad for you or your pokemon, t-though the effects are temporal.” I stared at the bottle, and then looked at Pikachu. The little squirrel squeaked happily as we met eyes. “Fine.” I opened the bottle, took a couple of gulps and gave the rest to Pikachu to drink. Once it was done drinking, we stared at each other. A minute passed, then minutes passed in silence. Yet nothing seemed to happen. I shrugged and was ready to go when Shelly made another ‘um’ sound. I looked back to Pikachu, whose fur’s blue designs were turning a shade of pink that pretty much matched the color of my bubblegum dress. “What’s this?” I was puzzled. “I-It’s the effects of Sparkling Water. Um, it’s ingredients change a pokemon’s appearance to its shiny form.” One must give credit to where it’s due. This transformation was pretty cool to watch. I looked at Shelly. She still seemed slightly uncomfortable to see me, but at least showed me a tiny smile. “Um. I think you should t-talk to Ame about the poison leader, who… Um, isn’t here anymore. There’s a back-up poison-type leader, but I d-don’t think they know they should get ready.” “Sure.” I lowered my upper body to let pink Pikachu climb up to my shoulder, and left the shy little girl on her own. TEAM RECAP VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

Hullo~ good to see more playthrus look forward to the next chapter!

I'd personally replace curse for waterfall since Swampert has good attack already, and protect can come in handy if you run certain teams such as toxic stall or against certain opponents (that might use recharge-needing moves), but it's up to you really There's not a tm for misty terrain, but you can teach florges with a heart scale. Np~ hope I was able to help

For Porygon-Z I'd run tri-attack instead of hyper beam because the obligatory recharge is annoying. For Swampert, I'd teach it waterfall for STAB. For Florges, I'd make use of its lovely Sp Def stat and make it a special wall instead of an active attacker. I'm assuming this is an in-game team, so Misty Terrain would actually be super handy to change field effects. On my original run, I found this move super helpful haha For Mimikyu, what about shadow sneak? It's STAB and priority so you can finish off faster opponents.

There's a weather mod by Waynolt which gives you this ability

Wow kuddos for the good work fren~

Looks good

Sexual harassment definitely is a difficult topic to defend on both sides because usually there is little evidence to prove that it happened and also little evidence to prove that it didn't happen. Additionally, harassment is also difficult to define because women may feel uncomfortable with a man's actions even if they are totally normal (for example, I don't like being touched at all but male coworkers may pat me on the shoulder. I know that it's not harassment but if you define it as a touch that was uncalled for, it could be argued so lol) Cases like the Stanford rape case are really uncommon too, since many times there aren't witnesses to aid. That said, I think the #Metoo movement has been either misinterpreted or misguided. The point of the movement should be to increase the volume of women's voices, which for centuries have been silenced, and to encourage women to see that reporting harassment isn't something to be embarrassed about (given that women also don't report harassment or rape much) It's too bad that men who truly perpetrated the acts are cowardly enough to deny them, because that means that they downplay their role in this toxic culture. It also makes way for this subsection of men to give a bad rep to all men while maintaining their selfish freedom. I can't solve the problem because it's human nature to lie and avoid punishment, and the ways of harassment easily allows this to happen. However there are things you can do, since you might be in the place to offer guidance to women as well. I think do anything but don't argue that they're lying. Usually those who actually speak up are the few who are confident enough to say it aloud. Unfortunately I don't have many more advice to give since I don't believe I've ever been harassed myself... but since society is moving toward placing a major focus into equality and feelings, the skills to remain neutral while not being offensive will come in handy in many settings from now on.

1. Am I a sweet candy, a flamin' hot dorito or just a cheeto? 2. Do you prefer Doritos or cheetos? 3. Do you have a favorite chocolate brand? 4. *thows a ball at Newt* if you were a Pokémon, what type of pokeball would you like to be enslaved into? 5. Which pokemon evil team would you join?

Hmm 1. It's come to my notice that you've read some From Everland to Reborn play through. a. Do you like the story so far? b. What would you like to see more of? 2. Favorite food? 3. Career goals if any? 4. Iirc you've been sick for sometime? You went to the doc and drank your meds? 5. What's this Catharsis IC about?

Lol my creativity didn't reach those heights xD and videos are reserved for Gym battles and PULSE battles

*sniff* *sniff* ... Did you think I was crying at the romantic happy ending? No, fren. I think I gots the allergies thanks to the pesky smell of this thread. Anyhow, congratulations and gg to everyone~ :3