Candy

Hehe, props to Personthing for making the mod. I use this to take pics with Pikachu following me, but use Waynolt's mod to navigate since that mod has stuff that greatly speeds up the playthru xD

In fact you're close. She would've been like "I have no intention of harming you, just let me thru and you'll never see me." But fight ensues bc Scrafty isn't going to trust a random trespasser. When she wins tho, he shows respect to his superior, but Vanilla says she hasn't got a plan to be their leader and leaves. (This was, at least, what I had in mind if I decided to include it in)

Welcome fren~ but you seemed to have gone through the 5 stages fairly quickly... the suffering will not get lighter from here... fren...

I felt the episode would get too long if I got into that much detail. Side quests like this one will likely be skipped, unless i feel they pose a nice opportunity for character development... So you're welcome to imagine Vanilla's reaction when she met the gang xD

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 5 I wandered around Peridot and Opal Wards looking for the next place to go. “Florinia said her Gym was after Julia’s, but I wonder how to get to Onyx,” I murmured as I turned my map a full 360 degrees. Speak of the devil, I happened by Florinia on Opal bridge. She was talking to two police officers, who were blocking the way to Obsidia. “My immediate departure is necessitated,” she was talking when I approached her. “Vanilla. Greetings.” “Greetings to you too.” She turned to face the policemen again. “Obsidia remains in a volatile condition, and hence my attendance is mandatory.” “Of course, Miss Florinia,” said one of the guards, and stepped out of her way. Florinia was about to go into Obsidia, when she apparently thought of something or processed information in her robotic brain. “Reconsidering. Vanilla, your attendance might enhance the situation at Obsidia. Does your schedule permit this action?” “I guess,” I shrugged. “I have to see Candy at the Obsidia daycare anyway.” “Confirmed,” she nodded and looked at the second officer. “This person may be able to assist the present situation in Obsidia. Is passage permissible?” “Sure thing, Miss Florinia,” the other guard said and moved out of my way as well. Florinia proceeded to brief me of the malignant plant life issue in the ward, which has apparently destroyed many properties and left casualties. She said some more, but unfortunately I was not fluent in code language. Once I entered Obsidia, though, it was easy to grasp the situation. I walked carefully, taking care not to step on the cracks that could break at any minute. The free-moving vines sometimes attacked me, but Pikachu helped me by biting off any that tried to touch me. “If I understood correctly, Florinia said the power source is located in the park,” I commented. “Let’s heal up the team and check it out.” I noticed a sign next to the Pokemon Center. “Want to breed your pokemon to obtain strong babies? Come to Sweet Dreams Pokehotel, located next to the Pokemon Center for your convenience,” I read. The handwriting on the sign was bubbly and colorful, and most importantly unequivocally Candy’s. I healed at the Center and changed around some of my party. Since I read in the manual that Florinia (no surprise) was a grass-type leader, I deposited Prince and withdrew Anna and Elsa, the white and orange foxes named after two girls that distantly share a bloodline with the Duke of Arendelle. They’re still technically part of Everland's aristocracy, but have a low status, so much so that some nobles like my family have more political power than them. Guess the Queen has her whims. Anyhow, with my team now composed of Kame, Cinderella, Wolfie, Anna (Heatwave, Hex, Extrasensory, Ember) and Elsa (Freeze-Dry, Moonblast, Encore, Powder Snow), I walked over to the small house neighboring the Pokemon Center. “Welcome~ We’re here to breed your pokemon. Would you like to use our services?” asked the lady at the front desk. She had pink hair like Candy’s and had similar facial features, but I could tell she was not Candy. “You are not Candy,” I pointed out. “Oh you are… Don’t mind us, we are closed right now actually.” I went over and confronted the young man that I had never seen before. “We’re closed, sorry for the inconvenience,” the man said. I pressed on, and each time the man told me to leave the place in a desperate but polite fashion. “You are not Candy, where has she gone?” “You are getting on my nerves. What part of leave do you not understand?” “I’m not leaving until you tell me where she is!” If there wasn't a counter between the lady and me, I would have made human salad out of her by now. “That’s it, you’ve asked for it,” the woman said, and together with the young man started chanting some poetry? I didn’t quite know what it was, but at some point, they said “Team Meteor” and I knew exactly who they were. When they were finished with their poetry, they changed out of their disguises and revealed their true identity as Team Meteor grunts. I battled them both in a double battle, and swept through their team. Team Meteor really needed to step up their recruiting regimen. “Don’t think you’ll be able to rescue the daycare couple,” the female grunt said. “They’ve been locked up and we hid the key somewhere you’ll never find it.” They said that and threw smoke balls at me, much like the red eyepatch guy had done. I stood still in the empty daycare. The place was quiet without a sign of pokemon cries. “Candy…” Pikachu purred in my ear, and I snapped back to reality. “Right, we should go looking for her.” Outside, I soon found out that the path to the park had been completely broken, and the only narrow stretch where I could’ve walked on was blocked by a pesky tree. I shook it, and realized it was rather frail - unfortunately, it wouldn’t burn because sadly it was raining today. “Guess I’ll have to look for another way through,” I sighed and turned away from the crack. I took this as an opportunity to look around the Ward, and train up Anna and Elsa to competitive levels. Eventually, I found a narrow street going south, which seemed largely unharmed. To my surprise, a familiar face was standing on that street. “Vanilla, hello,” greeted Victoria. “You are looking for a way to get to Obsidia Park too?” “Not quite, but I am trying to go through this street.” “Ah, sorry but I don’t think it’s safe for either of us to walk through,” she said with a cloudy face. “South of here is the slums of Obsidia. People are unkind and outright creepy, and there’s some weird debris moving around as well!” “Slums? If that’s the issue, you don’t have to worry about me.” I waved my hand, and tried to pass her when she stopped me. “No, I’m telling you, Vanilla. I know you're strong and all... but it’s not safe, and I don’t want you to get hurt.” “I said I will be fine,” I repeated with slight annoyance. “If you’re sure you’re strong enough, prove it to me.” The first foe, a Ralts, went down to Anna’s Hex. Next up was her starter, which had evolved into a Torracat. I switched pokemon, since I had little to damage a fire type with, and my level was 3 below it. I switched into Kame, who smoothly took it down with Muddy Water. By now I had realized that I had an unfair advantage over my rivals, since the pokemon Candy bred for me appeared to have moves not usually found on wild counterparts. It didn’t bother me too much, however, since I suspected the fights were only going to get tougher from here, and soon my advantage would become negligible. Victoria sent out her last pokemon, a pichu. I saw the little yellow mouse, which had a striking resemblance to the pikachu Candy had drawn for me, and laughed. That little thing must be pretty weak, I thought, so I sent out Elsa to train her up. My mistake for underestimating the mouse. It somehow packed a super punch on its Thunder Shocks, and managed to defeat Elsa. I allowed Cinderella to finish it with a critical-hit Razor Leaf. “Indeed, you seem prepared,” Victoria sighed. “Just be careful, alright?” “Ok.” She waved goodbye and left toward the Pokemon Center. As expected, the shady characters were passing their time in peace, until I, a stranger, stepped on their territory. “Look at that, a lil’ bitch’s coming this way,” I heard one of them say to another, in volume loud enough for me to hear. As they wanted, I walked up directly to them. “You have a problem with me coming your way?” “This ain’t a place for the likes of you, princess. Don’t sue us if you get hurt.” I pushed the man with one hand, and pressed him against a wall. “Hey, stop that,” said his friend, but I kicked his shinbone and he let out a muffled cry. “Nobody calls me ‘princess’ in that tone, y’hear me?” “Yes... princess,” the thug said, and tried to grab me by the collar, but I quickly dodged him. With the motion of moving my upper body backwards, I propelled my knee to hit his stomach full-force. The man was winded, but unlike the young blondie I had fought recently, this man recovered quicker. The other one also recovered, though he stood placing more weight on his healthy leg. “Lil’ shit, you called it!” That, where I come from, would have triggered a 2-against-1 physical fight. However, the pair of thugs instead sent out pokemon to handle the job. Pathetic. Even more pathetic it was, when I won the battle. “Now, where were we?” I asked, cracking my knuckles. “You… Whatever, let’s get outta here, bruh,” the taller guy spat on the ground, purposefully avoiding the zone in front of me, and went away with his friend. “Sorry for setting a bad example,” I told Pikachu. Then I carried on walking through the slums. Though there were trainers who challenged me to battle, no more of them tried to make a fool of me. It seemed as though the two I was about to beat up warned the others to beware. Idiots, I thought, for if they all fought me at once, I really had no chance of winning. I assumed though, knowing how the hoods worked, that they might be testing my abilities, perhaps hoping that I’d join them in an opportune time. “Unfortunately I have no incentive to join a gang based on Reborn City,” I shrugged as I made my way through the maze of obliterated and abandoned buildings. On my way, I happened upon a blue sphere, which I suspected was a pokemon egg. “I’ll give this to Candy, once I find her.” After a good number of hours solving the puzzle of the unfamiliar slums, I finally made it out to a clean street. I had the option of going north, where the Obsidia Park was, or south, which lay an access to a new area called Coral Ward. Since I wasn’t feeling like dealing with some weird assassin plant life at the present moment, I chose to check out the Coral Ward. The Ward was not infected by the plants, but was eerily quiet and misty, which put me on my defensive stance. I walked slowly through the main street, and entered an apartment to see if I could find signs of life. I felt relieved when I found a girl sitting on the lobby. “Hello, stranger,” the girl spoke to me. “I am bored now. Would you like to take my quiz and entertain me?” “What? Why would I want to do that?” “I’ll give you a prize if you win.” “That better be a good prize,” I said, but noted something strange about her. “You… you are blind?” “But of course. We haven’t met eyes, have we? If we did, I had no idea of it. Do not believe that you have an advantage over me, though, just because you are able to see. Those who see are often the most blind, as I will show you now.” The girl coughed, and asked me the first question: how many headbuttable trees there are in Peridot Ward. “How on Earth am I supposed to know this? I call bullshit.” I was about to leave the apartment, when Pikachu stepped off my shoulder and halted my movement. “What is it?” Pikachu barked with its squeaky voice and left to the exit of the apartment, but when I tried following it, it barked at me again. “It’s telling you to wait where you are, can’t you tell? Or have you no working eyesight?” I glared at the blind girl, but said nothing. Soon, Pikachu returned, holding what looked like plain rocks on its hands. When it reached where I stood, it laid out four rocks on the floor. I guessed it was worth a shot. “The answer is four headbuttable trees?” “Hmm. Correct.” I widened my eyes and curved the right corner of my lip. The next question was: how many satellite dishes were outside the Peridot Gym. Again, Pikachu left me and went out of the apartment, only to return with three more rocks. It placed them carefully together with the other four. “The answer is seven satellite dishes.” “... Correct.” The last question was: how many banners and ribbons there were inside the Peridot Gym. To this question, Pikachu and I looked at each other in hopelessness. Pikachu may have been a street squirrel before meeting me, which allowed it to know things that were outside buildings but not what was inside of them. “Sometimes, you’ve gotta test your luck,” I told Pikachu, as I slid a hand into my dress’ hidden pocket and took out a red dice. “Knowing Julia, the number is probably not a one-digit number,” I commented, and rolled the first number, which was 3. “Now for the single digit.” I rolled the dice. It fell and rolled until it hit Pikachu’s foot. 1. “The number… is it 31?” The blind girl didn’t look at me in the eye, but I could tell she was surprised. “You are the first person to get all three questions right. I must say, that’s impressive.” “Now for my reward.” “Ah, this is no fun. Here.” She gave me a little chip containing data. “That’s the Field Effect read out for Misty Terrain,” the girl explained. I was dumbstruck for a second. “This… is this what I gambled my sanity to get?” Needless to say, I felt cheated. However, it wasn’t my style to go punch a blind person in the face, because that would be cowardly. So I just gave my empty thanks, and left the apartment with Pikachu on my shoulder. I resumed my defensive exploring, when I caught a glimpse of a blue person. She wasn’t actually blue but the mist made her seem so, until I was close enough to notice that it was just a girl with long turquoise blue hair and dark blue clothes. Once I confirmed this, I was going to go to the other side of the Ward, when the girl stopped me. “Hey, could you help me a bit?” “What is it?” I said, showing deliberate disinterest. “There’s a popplio stranded there, and I’m trying to look for a way to save him. Do you think pulling him with a rope would allow me to get him over here without him getting into the water? The water here is too poisonous for the little guy.” “I am not a professional on this matter, but I don’t think that’s physically impossible.” “Did someone say physically irresistible?” I heard a voice say and I turned. To my dismay, it was Cain. “I said physically impossible, Cain,” I corrected. “Hmm is that so~? What is physically impossible?” Cain asked, but then noticed who I was with. “Wow Vanilla. Making friends in the highest places, huh~? You just met Amaria, one of the top-ranking Gym leaders in Reborn.” “Thanks for the introduction. The matter now, though, is that we’re trying to rescue the popplio over there, but we don’t seem to have a good plan.” “A bird, perhaps? Do you happen to have a flying pokemon?” I suggested to Amaria, but she shook her head saying that she was a water type trainer, and didn’t have a flying type as of now. Meanwhile, Cain started singing out of nowhere. “Why are you singing?” Amaria voiced my thoughts. However, Cain did not reply and kept going on with is song. He sent out of a pokeball what at first glance looked like a pile of mud, but that pile moved into the brownish water demonstrating it was very much alive. Cain kept singing, taking a brief pause to command Popplio to hop on the grimer’s back. Then, he sang again while they moved to our shore. “Great! Now you’re safe~,” Cain smiled at the blue sea lion. “Well, if everything is fine now, I’ll be going~” I was glad, but then the popplio hopped after im and growled. “Oh, I think it has taken a liking to you,” Amaria said. “Why don’t you take him in?” “Is that it? What do you say little guy, do you want to come with me?” The popplio cried out loud in a pleasant mood. “I know, why don’t you give him the opportunity to show his skills, Cain?” Amaria suggested. “Vanilla, right? Would you do us the favor?” I had no reason to decline. My pokemon were ready as a sharp knife to wreck his team, with popplio or no popplio. When the battle started, with me sending out Elsa first, I noticed that the field was misty. Could this be the Misty Terrain the blind girl gave me a read out for? If that was the case, I slightly regretted not checking it out prior to this battle. I wasn’t sure what typing the grimer Cain sent out was, so I used Freeze-Dry, which I knew would do well since the manual said moves of the same type (STAB) were strong. The move did about over-half damage. The grimer, however, disabled my Freeze-Dry, so I tried out Moonblast instead. The mist mixed into the wave of bright power, and knocked out the grimer. From this, I learned that at least, Moonblast was a good move to use on this field. Cubone and popplio went down to Freeze-Dry, when the disabling effect wore out. The last pokemon, the nidoran I faced the first time I fought Cain back in the Grand Hall, gave a little more trouble. It knocked out two of my pokemon, before being taken out by my rockruff, Wolfie. “Oh sorry,” Amaria said when we finished our battle, with me on the winning side. “I didn’t realize Vanilla was this strong.” “No worries, Vanilla is great in all the right places~” Cain said, but I didn’t inquire as to what he meant. “Now I’ll be going. Take care you two~” This time round he really was gone. “Well, it was nice meeting you,” said Amaria. “I also have to leave though, for I’ve made Rini wait at the Obsidia Park for way too long.” I nodded and waved goodbye, though I had a hunch that I’d probably meet her again rather soon. Precisely at Obsidia Park, too... VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS Candy: Hope you liked this episode~ Sundays are days off so wait for the next episode on Monday! Happy weekend! QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

Dislikes grass types, so bye. Sylveon is bae <3 Jolteon: 16 Vaporeon: 18 Flareon: 10 Umbreon: 19 Espeon: 21 Leafeon: 16 Glaceon: 20 Sylveon: 19

Btw all the Pokémon she uses are shiny. And I can tell you they're not hacked mons... Candy must esteem her cousin greatly...

Funny thing is, I had no idea what to name pachirisu, but leaving it without a nickname felt unnatural since everyone else had a nickname. So I asked muh frens to vote among Squirrel, Sparkle and Pachi... I got some meh reaction, and someone said "name it Fakepikachu#3" which gave me the idea of naming it Pikachu for the lols xD Edit: Also... that Squirtle (Mudkip) has such a cute face x3

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 4 It isn’t customary for Everish people to have pets. Who would we classify as a “pet” when everyone is an individual and has their own life? However, quickly I was realizing that the relationship between humans and Pokemon in this region was closer to a human-pet relationship than an individual-individual relationship. For starters, I could not understand the creatures’ language, if they even had one. So, when I was increasingly puzzled when I felt I owed a nickname to the pachirisu. I have never named anything. Should I name it Skyblue, because it has skyblue lines on its white fur? I was named after a white flower, because of my appearance, and I hated that. Should I name it by just taking part of its species name, like “Pachi” or “Risu”? I doubt I would have liked to be called “Hu” or “Man”. A stylish name would be ideal, but what options did I have? “How would you like to be called ‘Eterna’?” I asked the little squirrel, which twisted its neck as though it didn’t understand. I laughed to myself. “I don’t think my code name fits your cute outlook,” I noted. Looking at the squirrel closely, I happened to remember a little conversation I had with Candy, back when we were younger. She often told me about pokemon, for her dream was to leave Everland to become a pokemon trainer. --- “Look, look! I drew a pokemon, can you guess which it is?” Candy had asked. The drawing had a yellow rabbit-looking face with red cheeks and black, round eyes. “I don’t know any of their names,” I’d scratched my head. “You should at least know this one,” Candy inflated her cheeks. “It’s Pikachu, the most iconic pokemon! You haven’t been listening to me at all, have you?” “I have, I promise! I just am not good at memorizing names,” I explained. “Liar. But it’s fine,” she took out a purple marker, and wrote ‘Pikachu’ in a large, messy font. “Hang my drawing in your room and you’ll never forget.” She handed me the drawing and smiled brightly. --- It was a long time ago, during the blinding innocence of my childhood. “Pikachu, huh?” I looked at the white squirrel. Granted, I had only ever seen pikachu in that elementary drawing, but I easily noted the similarities in their faces. “Alright, Pikachu. Hop on my shoulder and let’s see what Julia’s Gym has in store for us. Pikachu, the pachirisu, gazed at me with its round black eyes, but made happy squeaks when I offered it my arm. At the entrance of Julia’s Gym, I found the green-capped guy with his bicycle again. “Had fun battling the bad guys?” he teased. “Shut up,” I said, and went inside the Gym. The sounds of machinery buzzing was at first disagreeable to my ears. I happened to note a flashing monitor close-by, so I approached it and tapped on the only option shown, ‘Connect’. The display opened a window, where I only saw a desk and the top of a chair. “Ah, sorry,” said a voice, which I recognized it as Ame’s. Ame proceeded to sit down on the chair. “It’s you, Vanilla. Made it to the Peridot Gym, that is, Julia’s Gym?” “Yeah, I’m here.” “Great. I should warn you though, that Gym battles in Reborn are quite a bit harder than battles in other regions. You can expect every leader to have a full set of 6 pokemon.” “I don’t have experience elsewhere, so it’s irrelevant to me.” “... Good then. Have you had a Field Notes app installed on your Pokegear by any chance?” The app’s name did ring a bell. After destroying Team Meteor’s base in Peridot Ward, Florinia, who was on her way to Obsidia together with Fern, approached me for a little moment and installed on my Pokegear an app she developed. She told me she also installed the Field Effect read out for the electric terrain, but that perhaps it would be wise to keep it secret from Julia. “Is that the same as the app Florinia made?” I asked Ame. “Indeed, that’s the one. Reborn Gym leaders also use fields that give advantage to their pokemon. The decisive factor may not be sheer force, but how well you can manage in that field. I would advise you to destroy the field if you have the option, or otherwise have a full team to tank the powerful electric moves.” “Alright.” “Good luck, and happy battling!” Ame waved her hand, and the display returned to its default screen. I then checked my Pokegear to get a gist of what this whole field effect business was about. “Guess I’ll have to form a strategy based on this,” I murmured. I exited the Gym, and went to the nearest pokemon center, to see if I could devise a plan using the pokemon I had. “Gah, Candy. You could’ve at least leveled these monsters for me,” I complained, seeing that all the pokemon were Lv1. “Whatever. I saw some people in the Gym apparently waiting to battle me, so I expect I can train up one more member in any case.” Looking at each member’s moveset and the Field Notes app back and forth, I found a pokemon that could come handy, as long as its weakness did not prevent it from taking action. That pokemon was Prince, the Tympole. It was obvious that Candy named it after the frog that went around telling the girls that he was a Prince who was converted into a frog by an evil witch, and that only a true love’s kiss would return him to his original handsome self. I always thought he was a con man looking for beautiful girls’ kisses, but since there just wasn’t definitive proof, the school could not do anything to chastise him. I appreciated Candy’s humor in including the icon of Rainforest Academy in pokemon form, even if the tadpole had yet to become a frog. “Prince, with the moves Growl, Earth Power, Mud Sport and Refresh. I’m not going to ask why you’re a water-type but have no water moves. Your Mud Sport can destroy the field from the start. My only concern is that you might not survive an electric attack due to your weakness to that type. Also, if Julia predicts me, and has moves to set up the field once again, my team will be destroyed.” Even with the risk, my strategy was worth of execution. Before logging off, though, I wondered for a moment whether I should take Ame’s advice and have a full team of pokemon. “Train up two more pokemon? Sorry, that’s not happening,” I rolled my eyes and logged out. I battled against the scientists in the Gym, and later against some other street rats. When I leveled Prince up to level 16, I stopped and headed back to the Gym. Julia cheered with a seemingly new set of pom-poms (for I believe she didn’t pick up her old ones when she ran out of the factory) right when she saw me entering her area. “You made it, Vanini~ Let’s have a boombastic battle!” Pikachu left my shoulder, and ran in circles on the floor, which had tiles of flickering yellow color. From the static sparkles gathering on it, I guessed the field really was hyper-charged. Once Pikachu was satisfied with its electric shower, it followed me from behind. I tried to ignore the weird feeling of being followed, and instead approached Julia while casually glancing at the many more banners decorating this room compared to the rest of the Gym. “Don’t think I’ll go easy on you just because you helped me earlier. I have pride to uphold, you know. OTS, we represent! We pack a punch and don’t relent!” The battle was charged at first. Julia’s minun did more than half damage on Prince, as expected, but Prince tanked it like no one’s business. He proceeded to destroy Julia’s field with Mud Sport, before fainting to a second Charge Beam. Next up was a teamwork of Cinderella, Wolfie and Kame. Kame, despite being a water type, was a reliable teammate since it could use Fake Out, essentially gaining a free turn. Wolfie almost beat the oricorio, but unfortunately it missed rock throw twice in a row, and fainted to uneffective attacks. I had thought Julia would make her electrode explode, but I guess she wasn’t going to give up on the fight just yet. Even then, Kame withstood the speedy attacks of the electrode, and finished him with a Muddy Water. “Mrrrr. Whatever. I’ll just take a powernap,” Julia said as she called back her electrode. “Just give me the badge already.” “Hm? Fiiine, take your whatchamacalit badge. The thingamajiggerbadge makes stuff happen. Aaaand it also allows you to use the thing. I need coffee…” “Then go get some, I’m out,” I shrugged and turned to face the exit. “Wait,” she touched my shoulder from behind. Much like I’d done with Cain, I grabbed the hand and twisted it. “Ow ow ouch!” “Oh excuse me, it’s just a reflex,” I explained, as I released the hand. “In any case, have this,” Julia handed me a… CD? “It doesn’t go boom, but it’s a useful move. Teach it to one of your pokemon, if you’d like!” “Ok.” “I’ll go to sleep now. Good night!” I thought she was joking, but she really went to sleep like a rock in a second. Pikachu looked at her and laughed in bursts of squeaking. “Hop on my shoulder,” I told Pikachu, and it complied. I was happy for winning my first Gym battle, but most importantly, relieved that I would probably not see Julia again in a while. VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS ... remains the same from last time QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

I used two Carbinks in the beginning to set up stealth rock and trick room. It was def a game changer

PS Hooli, you can't post twice in a day broo

Mew losing to CeleBYE and VictiNO. What is this sorcery.

Mew: 22 Celebi: 21 Jirachi: 18 Manaphy: 19 Phione : 0 Shaymin: 10 Victini: 22

Just letting you know that you're not alone in this struggle. I have the somewhat embarrassing experience of being in love with someone for 9 years. And it's someone who I didn't go out with. But you know, something I've learned in these 9 years is that love isn't a static thing. It morphs with time- the love I feel for that person now is more a nostalgia, a dream that I have allowed myself to treasure, unlike the love that I felt back then, when I felt my whole being depended on his every move. I don't know how long you have been in love, but I want you to know that time may not heal the wounds, but it does soothe them. Also, you mentioned that you know for a fact that this was your only chance at love. I will not say otherwise, for I don't know you personally and couldn't measure the potential in yourself. However, just think of it this way: nothing in life is set in stone. Unless you're God, you don't know what the future holds. Remember, dying by lightning is very unlikely, but not impossible.

(Just a late commenter pointing out that Cain is pansexual so im hitting on the girl protagonist isn't weird, even if it looks more natural in the socially constructed way than when the guy gets hit on by im) Also, may I mention how your vids are helping me design my own run xD Since I write the story after progressing through the game, sometimes I forget dialogue and events. Sometimes a plain playthru of whatever episode we're playing is the best medicine

I kept Fern's rating rather high (for my taste too fren) because that was my feeling toward him when I first played Reborn. At this point, Fern hasn't said much that upsets Vanilla, but she dislikes him just for being arrogant. Julia, on the other hand, right away showed her "explosive, loud" persona, which is why Vanilla gave her that rating I think it makes it more interesting to see what relationships shrink and which grow in the future... The gym battle team is... I'll keep it a secret So is going to be the pachirisu's purpose. I'm glad the length of the episode wasn't a turn-off for you.

Um I believe the follower mod recognizes K-vulpix and A-vulpix as the same species - they both look like K-vulpix though there is sprites for A-vulpix in the folder. Idk if other Alolan variants have the same issue, but just a heads up

From Everland to Reborn ~ Episode 3 A surprise was waiting for me outside, though I wasn’t sure whether I could call it pleasant. The white squirrel I rescued earlier today was standing near the stairs, though I almost missed it because it was hidden behind a wall. One look at me, though, and it ran away to hide in the tall grass. Since I had no intention of scaring the furry animal any further, I decided against looking for it in the grass. I crossed a short bridge, and walked North, which according to my map was the beginning of Peridot Ward. “Can you spare some change?” asked a stranger, but I said that unfortunately I was poor too. The Gym was just ahead of that street. It looked like a power plant, with parabolas surrounding it, but it was decorated with pink ribbons that didn’t quite match the aesthetic. There was no need to ask, for even though I barely knew her, Julia struck me as the type to person to do something like that. “Oh, you’re challenging Julia’s gym too?” a boy with a green cap asked me. “I was told Julia left the Gym for a bit. I’d suggest you come back in a while… Or you can wait here like me.” “I’ll go find Julia,” I said. Waiting doing nothing was not my style. “I don’t know where she is though. Peridot Ward is pretty large.” That was true. I looked around, to the long streets stretching in neat perpendicular angles. Looking for one person in this place would take too long, even if that person was wearing bright orange clothes and was a loud talker. Wasting time was not my style either. I was considering my options, when I noticed that the boy had a bicycle. I quickly ran over to him, and took his bike. “Hey, where are you going?!” the boy shouted at my back, as I rode it to the west. “I’ll return it, I promise,” I shouted back. The streets of Peridot Ward were full of thugs, alcoholics and gangsters. Many of them were also, surprisingly, pokemon trainers, and they did not hesitate to ask me to battle when they saw me passing. However, as expected, they were weak trainers, though the occasional casanova and ace trainer were comparatively competitive. I did not decline any battle, though, because I realized I had to train my pokemon in order to defeat Julia anyway. I looked for the explosive girl everywhere, even in some dark alleyways that felt somewhat nostalgic; however, my target was not in any of them. After a good hour or so, I reached the far western border of Peridot Ward, with no sign of Julia. I was almost near a stinky, forgotten factory, when I slowed my speed. “I guess I must’ve missed her,” I thought aloud, and was about to return to the Gym to see if she had already returned, when a sight of green hair caught my eye. Unfortunately for me, the person standing in front of the factory wasn’t Julia. “What’re you looking at?” asked the guy with glasses. “Don’t you know it’s rude to stare at strangers?” “Excuse me, I mistook you for another person,” I said and turned to bike away. “Do you think I’ll forgive you that easily? You don’t seem to be from around here, so I’ll let you know: the name’s Fern. I’m the cool cat and the top dog.” “Is that relevant to my life or is it something you go around telling everyone you meet?” It was an honest question on my part, but Fern looked at me with knitted eyebrows. “I’ll show you how relevant I am. Get ready to lose,” he said, and threw a pokeball into the air. Our teams were pretty on-par, level wise. However, unbeknownst to Fern, I had trained a killing machine already. My pumpkin-looking beast, nicknamed Cinderella, had the moves Astonish, Confuse Ray, Destiny Bond and Trick-or-Treat. This last move I found useful, because it converted my foes into ghost types, which allowed Cinderella to destroy them with a weak-ass move like Astonish. Realizing my tactic, however, Fern switched from the grass-type sprout into a dark-type crocodile. Since a dark-type move would hurt Cinderella, I switched into Kame, who still has the same moveset. A Fake Out and Muddy Water was all it took to faint the sandile. On the first chance I got, I switched into Wolfie, the rockruff, who knows Bite, Thunder Fang, Fire Fang and Leer, to finish the budew. Fern’s last pokemon, a rowlett, went down also to Fire Fang. “Hmph, whatever. I don’t have time to be wasting anyway,” said the loser. “Unlike you, I’ve got places to be at and people to meet with.” He made one last frown, and ran away from the factory. Pathetic, I thought. He could’ve at least dealt with his loss in a more mature way. On my way back to the Gym, I happened to pass the running guy, but I behaved as though I didn’t even know him. “Oh, my bike!” the guy with the green cap exclaimed upon my arrival. “I promised I would return it,” I said, giving it to him. “Unfortunately I didn’t find Julia.” “She came back a little while ago, but I hadn’t challenged her because I was waiting for you to return.” “Alright then. I hope you don’t mind if I challenge her first.” However, right when I was going to enter the Gym, the doors opened and Julia came out, almost bumping into me. “Ah, Vanilla. Howdy! You came to have an kaboom-boom fight with me?” she shook her pom-poms. “Unfortunately you’ll have to wait. I got some news that the guys who blew up the Grandview station are planning to blow up the powerplant, that is, my Gym! Can you believe it? No one can have fun blowing up things without me, least of all if they’re my things!” I thought my ears would go deaf from her loud screeches. “Go get ‘em, then,” I said, making way for her. “Right away!” she shouted and ran, but midway she turned and smiled at me. “I know! Why don’t you come with me? Help me beat the bad guys!” “Ugh, I’ll pass,” I said, and looked at the boy with the bicycle. “What about you go instead?” “Me? No-no. I’m pretty weak. I’ll go train some more, so see you around,” he said and flew off in his bicycle. “Guess that leaves me no choice,” I sighed, and Julia cheered on me? us? with her pom-poms. We reached a factory that wasn’t as far from the Gym as the one where I met Fern. “This is the place, but uh-oh. It seems to be closed,” noted Julia. “I wonder how to get in… I know.” “Don’t tell me-” I blurted out, but it was too late. “Kaaaaa…” In a second, the door had been destroyed. How she remained alive, was something of a mystery. “Explosion detected, Julia’s presence confirmed,” said a robotic voice approaching us. I saw that it was Fern accompanied by someone that looked much like him, probably his sister. “Who would’ve thought! Make things go boom, and gain friends~,” Julia laughed. “Vanilla, this is Florinia, the grass-type gym leader and my BFF from our years in Onyx Trainers School.” Florinia nodded instead of a greeting. “And, this is Fern. Hi Fern,” Julia said, in a monotonous tone unusual for her. “Anyways, let’s go in!” “Ah, I don’t get respect,” Fern complained. “Doesn’t matter, since Vanilla and I already met.” The troop then followed to move into the powerplant, but was flabbergasted by the smell. “This place smells terribadtastic!” With her seemingly natural but robotic speech, Florinia indicated the exact percentage of pollution. The high value was not unexpected; anyone with a pair of eyes and a functioning nose could tell that the water was contaminated big time. Florinia followed to raise a course of action for us, but she said it with too many long words for me to understand its meaning. “What do you mean?” asked Fern, and I was annoyed that I was on the same intellectual level as him. “She said we should split up, duh!” Florinia’s unofficial translator, Julia pointed out. “Let’s go! Rini and I will look around on this wing, so you two can go check out that wing. Vanini don’t let Fern’s attitude get to you~” “Vanini?” “Yes you, Vanini. Go on now!” Julia shook her pom-poms and quickly disappeared into the right wing. “Exercise great caution,” Florinia said. “Thanks sis,” Fern replied. “You were not the intended recipient of my previous statement,” Florinia corrected. “Permission for you to be life-endangeringly reckless: granted.” With that, Florinia followed the path where Julia left. Somehow, my opinion of the robotic girl was instantly enhanced. “Let’s go then,” Fern sighed. “Try not to slow me down.” He then went around and stood behind me. When I walked, he followed me too. “Can you stop following me?” I said, because having someone behind me for long gave me the creeps, even if it was someone I knew. “The way you’re going, I’m going also. Hence I’m following you.” “Why don’t you lead the way instead?” “If there’s danger, I can push you and run away. The weak can be sacrificed for the important people to survive.” “It seems you really aren’t capable of intelligent speech,” I shook my head sideways, and hesitantly led the way. The western wing was, as we expected, full of the criminals we were looking for. The grunts introduced themselves as being part of Team Meteor, though they were cautious not to mention the organization’s plans or goals. Together with Fern, we beat all of them in double battles, unlocking locks as we saw fit. Once we beat the two that were guarding the door to the north, we entered a small place where Julia and Florinia were already waiting for us. “You see, the issue is that we’ve got this big gate,” Julia explained. “And I used up my boomies to blow up the factory’s entrance!” “There will not be a necessity for explosion,” Florinia, who was looking at a display next to the door, said. “The security of this hideaway is substandard. An override of the system will prove to fulfill our purpose.” She then resumed typing on the monitor. “That’ll take too long, Rini!” Julia scowled. “I know, since these bad guys were planning to blow up my Gym, I bet they have some boomies they can let us borrow.” “Why must combustion be your solution to every problem?” “Entertainment for the whole family? Anyhow, Vanini and Fern, go look around if you can find some boom-booms!” “Whatever man. I’m not going to sit here and wait for the Flobot to try and open the damn door. Vanilla, let’s go find some explosives and end this business already.” “I don’t approve of this, but anything that’ll do the job is good I guess.” So we went into another room, beat up a bunch of Team Meteor grunts again (with pokemon, of course) and lastly found some explosives. “Wait, Fern,” I called to him, since he was picking up the explosives. “I smell a trap. A box of explosives, laid out in the open like this? They put them there for us to find them.” “What if they did? I don’t care. Let’s just explode this place and get the hell outta here.” Fern picked up the box, and walked to where Julia was waiting. “Great, these are perf!” Julia said, and placed the box in front of the gate. Just then, the door slid open. “The lock has been disengaged. Proceed inside,” Florinia said and went in. “Wait… No… But… But… The boomies!” Julia was so in shock that she dropped her pom-poms. “Rini! What about the boomies?! You can’t do that! Rini!” “Hah, leave it to my sister to ruin everyone’s fun,” commented Fern while following Julia into the room. I looked at the doorway that we’d come from, and back to the room that was now open. “I guess I must go in,” I sighed. Inside, two grunts with a little difference in uniform design and one other guy with a red eyepatch were waiting for us. It was a trap. “We overestimated your abilities,” the man with the eyepatch was saying when I entered. “We grew tired of waiting.” He looked at me as though I were a little insect that flew in through the window. “Aster. Eclipse. Take care of the small fry. I’ll deal with the Gym leaders.” “Right away, sir.” Henceforth started our double battle against the two grunts. This pair, who looked like they could be siblings but not quite, proved to be a more threatening foe than the rest. In fact, Aster took out the last of Fern’s pokemon, and I was left down to the last pokemon, my Kame. Right when I thought Eclipse’s rockruff was going to deal its final blow on Kame, something unforeseen happened. The squirrel pokemon. The squirrel pokemon that I saved back in Opal Ward, jumped right in and tackled the rockruff, sparkles of electricity emitting from its tiny body. Eclipse’s rockruff fainted as a result. “What?! Whose even is that pachirisu?” Eclipse exclaimed. “Does it even matter? You’re going to lose now anyway,” I said, and told Kame to use Muddy Water on Aster’s rockruff. “That wasn’t even a fair fight,” Aster commented as he withdrew his dog. “Do I look like I care? Now f*ck off or I’ll use my pokemon on you two.” The pair retreated backwards. Noting that his grunts had been defeated, the eyepatch guy withdrew his pokemon. “I hope not to see you again,” he said, and threw smoke balls at us. When the smoke subsided, though, none of the three were anywhere to be seen. “What a cheap escape tactic,” Fern said, wiping his glasses. “But that means we can get out now.” Julia for some reason remained silent, and walked up to the wall in front of us. “What are you doing?” “Hurry, we have to go now,” she said, scurrying our way. “What did you do now?” “Kaaaaaa…” No more information was needed. I picked the pachirisu that didn’t have a pokeball to be called into and ran. Not even from the cops did I run so fast. We made it just in time against the odds, though I almost saw my life slipping away. “Hurray! That was a superb kaboom-boom! See you later at my Gym, Vanini~” The culprit of attempted homicide ran away in the direction of her powerplant. “Onyx Gym will be after Peridot Gym. Exercise care when moving through Obsidia, for the situation is approximately chaotic,” Florinia told me, and left together with Fern. I let go of the pachirisu. It looked at me with it’s large black eyes, as though it were asking me a question. “I decided I would challenge myself to beat the Reborn League using only the pokemon Candy supplied for me,” I told it. “Unfortunately that means I cannot take you with me.” I patted the pachirisu and it made happy squeaks. “You’re welcome to tag along, though.” The pachirisu climbed up my shoulder, and I started walking in the direction of Julia’s Gym. VANILLA RATES: REBORN CHARACTERS QUICK LINK TO NEXT EPISODE

I haven't met anyone that I know of.

Really? It's pink, I love pink so any pink pokemon gains my favor automatically But that doesn't excuse Celebi from horrendous typing imo

Es ok, I also hurt le onion xD It's really a shame grass types are my least favorite type (but one of my favorite design wise) me thinks...

It would seem the world is composed of ppl who love onions and ppl who don't like 'em that much.

Lady Oscar? You're my new favorite Reborn community hooman xD For me, I give them nicknames always but I keep a "theme". Once I did manga/anime characters, another time I did names of flowers, and yet another, constellations, etc.