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Hard Enough - Chapter 302 - Ripples
🕑 Added 2025-02-18 19:00:09 +0000 UTCKruger:- Indigo’s President
Lance Blackthorn:- Indigo’s Champion and master Dragontamer
Lorelei:- Elite Four of Indigo and Ice-type specialist.
Bruno:- Elite Four of INdigo. Considered something of a meathead.
Meowth: - Team Rocket’s brains and technician.
James:- the beauty of the Team Rocket/Guardian Trio
Jessie:- the actual brains and leader of Team Rocket/Guardians
Lola:- Brock’s absentee Mother… only she’s not so absent anymore…
Cynthia:- Champion of Sinnoh and Lola’s BFF, apparently.
Rachel Raul:- the manager of Media and PR for the Pewter Gym. She has rainbow tips and is questioning her own intelligence!
Trixie: While you were reading this, she performed eight bicep curls—make that twelve. Yes, she is that fast. No, you don’t want to know how heavy she lifts.
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Kruger allowed himself the pleasure of slumping into his deluxe office chair.
He sighed, feeling everything of his fifty eight years of age. He cast a forlorn glance towards the wall of televisions, which all bar one were showing off the same black vessel that was within Fuchsia port.
They were capturing different angles but it was much the same in truth. The only difference was when the cameramen caught sight of the people on board. Thankfully Koga had taken the initiative and collected information on all of them. The ship was now bugged and more and more intelligence was being gathered with each day that passed.
The conclusion?
This was not a hoax.
This was not some fever dream that had been conjured up from his nightmares.
This was the real thing, despite how much he hoped otherwise.
It would almost be easier if the vessel disappeared like mist in the morning sun.
But no. The Sinnohans, Kalosians, and Unovians were here to stay.
Kruger watched the only television that wasn’t showing the black vessel. Battlecast was sticking to its target audience and showing nothing but the fights from the Indigo Plateau.
Kruger lamented the timing more than anything else. He’d spent months! Months! Planning the ultimate tournament that would see thousands of pokemon trainers whittled down. He’d had marketing teams creating interest in the tournament with the various personalities and even had the stadium refurbished for what promised to be the greatest event in decades.
And then it gets upstaged two days into the tournament.
Now the tournament of the decade was a footnote to people watching a ship with the emergence of the new regions.
And smack bang in the middle of it?
Was Brock’s mother.
There had to be something going on with that family. They just seemed to be a nexus point! for either chaos or disruption. Brock had triggered it last year and seen it continue into this circuit with his rise up the Ace rankings. Now, it was his mother!
What was next? Was one of the others going to find a Legendary?
Kruger leaned over and tapped twice on his wooden desk, trying to ward off such a future. “Touch wood,” he said aloud.
“Hmm?” said the other occupant of the room sitting up from the lounge with a blink. “What happened? Did we win?” muttered Lance before shaking himself awake.
“Oh Arceus I detest diplomacy,” Lance muttered.
Kruger grunted a small degree of vindication entering him as he saw the much younger man grouch. Kruger subtly rolled his shoulders and straightened up. He wasn’t going to let Lance show him up after all!
“We’ve got the relevant people talking with the Trinity Nation accord’s diplomats for now, so now we can step back and allow ourselves some breathing room,” Kruger said.
Lance slumped back onto the couch. “Good, I was getting sick of Dianthe trying to look down her nose at me for being a monotype Champion. Urgh I wish I could just fight her and put her in her place!”
“Please don’t,” Kruger said, thinking for a moment that he was going to have to beg.
Lance waved his hand dismissively. “No, I know I can’t fight them. That would be a diplomatic incident we can’t afford. An even worse one if I were to lose. And winning… as satisfying as it would be, it wouldn’t solve our issues.”
Kruger sighed in relief. Good. Lance had grown as a man and could see the bigger picture. Amazing that he could understand losing was a possibility. The Lance of last year wouldn’t have considered it possible and demanded a fight.
Still… there was some potential there to bleed tensions. “It may still be worth having some of our stronger trainers face off against them. Bruno is certainly chomping at the bit to have a shot,” Kruger suggested.
Lance rubbed his jaw. “I want to give Indigo the best chance at taking a win even if it is only symbolic.”
“So we need to use the intelligence that Koga has assembled. They have three generalist Champions, but they have also brought a Bug, Fire and Fighting specialist from their respective Elite Four along with the diplomats,” Kruger stated as he moved to collect the printed-out sheets.
He set each profile out. Marshal, Malva, and Aaron.
Lance rubbed his forehead. “Hell of a time for Brock and Sabrina to be on holiday,” he sighed.
Kruger shot the younger man an amused look. He knew Lance had many bones to pick with Brock over the recent fight against a Zapdos of all things. The fact that Brock beat the Zapdos was merely more incentive for Lance to seek him out.
Still, it would certainly help to have the ‘power couple’ on hand for this.
If they wanted to rely merely on type advantages, then their best options were to use Rock, Water, and Psychic. Two of these were unavailable, and the last of which… well, they weren’t going to use the Cerulean sisters.
“Lorelei could do it,” Kruger suggested.
Lance worked his jaw back and forth. “She could… yes. It would be risky.”
Kruger slowly bobbed his head up and down. He took a moment to consider his options before taking a mental step backwards. “Perhaps we don’t need to fight them so much as… test them?” he offered.
Lance’s head turned slowly to stare Kruger down. “Explain,” he commanded.
Kruger twitched at the tone before coughing. “We could simply have a series of Exhibition matches and ask them to reciprocate with their own trainers fighting against each other. That way we both get to display our strengths without any weakness being revealed. Or at least any weaknesses we don’t want to be released.”
Lance nodded slowly. “That has potential. It entertains the public while not making things worse on a diplomatic front, win or lose,” Lance surmised.
“We could also reach out to the other nations and get more of a read on their Elite Four members,” Kruger suggested, rather liking the idea the more he considered it. With one or two of their best showing some of their tricks, they could pick up lots of information about other nations.
Lance considered this before shaking his head. “Hold off on that for the moment. We’ll advance the other idea though. Prepare a match for Bruno and Lorelei. Until then, we have other tasks.”
Lance dragged out a stack of papers and laid them on the coffee table in front of the couch. “I had a look through their… information packet earlier, and it is dense but there are some interesting points laid out. Kalos has laid out historical claims of not being in the wrong for claiming territory with a colony to the west of Johto. Wasn’t that one of the instigating points of the war?”
Kruger grunted a nod. “It’s also something that is being very much talked about. The diplomats on their side are alluding to us having to pay compensation for the destruction of their towns.”
“Never!” snapped Lance. “I’m not paying for something that occurred over three generations ago! They should have respected the sovereignty and how much pressure they placed on Johto’s government at the time!”
Kruger nodded glumly, recalling how things had escalated when he’d been young. “It could be any number of diplomatic ploys. I doubt any of them truly wish to reignite the war, but they can still maintain their posture.”
Lance clicked his tongue. “Typical,” he said.
Kruger nodded. This was not going to be like Fiore’s addition to the world at all.
Fiore, for all that it was another region, lacked the danger of a unified trio of nations. It had also been carefully controlled due to the cultural differences.
The Trinity Nations had been released unto the world without any of the preparation or finessing of the public’s perspective. “I suppose it’s fortunate that we discovered Fiore when we did. If we hadn’t finalised negotiations with them and opened up the Battle Frontier, we’d be in a much worse position now,” Kruger suggested.
“What’s Fiore’s take on all of this?” Lance asked.
“They’re sending diplomats of their own, and I have received word that Steven Stone is also on his way,” Kruger announced.
Lance rubbed at his temples. “The man keeps me in Hoenn for negotiations for two weeks only to drop everything and fly over here? Urgh! He’s going to be as much of a headache to deal with as the others.”
“If we can get him to play along we could have him join us in negotiations, but I would suggest that we keep him to the side for now. If he wants to make his own deals, then that’s for him.”
“I’m worried that Hoenn might get ahead of us. What if they join this Trinity and make it a Four Nations?”
“Doubtful,” Kruger replied, shaking his head.
He drew out a map that had been created. As one of the first points of their meeting with the Trinity Nations representatives, a map of the world needed to be created to understand everyone’s new place within it.
Thankfully none of the Trinity Nation representatives had tried to bargain on this detail as it would have been devastating to Indigo to have their position given away while the others remained hidden.
Lola had thankfully been secured and was being debriefed on her route and other specific details that she could recall.
The new world map showed that Unova and Kalos were on the same continent, divided by some exceptionally large mountains while Sinnoh was a separate continent to the north of the other two regions.
Lance hummed and drew out an older map. He laid it out next to the new map, and both men leaned over it as they began comparing them.
“This is what the world was like before the war…” Kruger muttered.
It had been years since he’d seen a map like this. It made sense that Lance, as a member of the Blackthorn clan would possess such an item but it was still incredible to see in person.
“Sinnoh’s position has shifted drastically,” Lance murmured. “It didn’t used to be so far north, in fact, it used to be almost equatorial. Kalos and Unova didn’t have mountains around them either.” He traced the mountain ranges thoughtfully before tapping at the Silver ranges of Indigo in thought.
Kruger waved a hand dismissively. “The mountains are easily explainable. Groudon and other Legendaries were known to have shifted the world and provided more upward movements to the plates. The Silver Ranges weren’t so aggressive in the past after all. Nor was the Kingdom of Rota almost cut off.”
“Do you think the increased mountains and upward tectonic shift resulted in more mineral deposits being found in Kalos like they did for us?” Lance asked.
“Most likely. Arceus works in mysterious ways. There were previously resource shortages, but once the war stopped, abundant mines and fields were found. To the more religious folk it was a sign of his favour,” Kruger replied as he tapped on a small pendant on his wrist that matched the crest that was said to surround the God pokemon’s body.
Lance hummed. “Have you picked up any religious undertones in the negotiations?”
“Nothing like Fiore, but it hasn’t been long enough. We’ll need to make sure there aren’t any Darkrai cults or—” Before Kruger could continue, a chill swept over the room, and the lights flickered.
Kruger and Lance both shared a worried look. “Has that pokemon’s name become a taboo as well?”
Kruger’s mind raced. What did that mean? Would it become a living nightmare? Was this an indication that Darkrai had been in the other regions and thus Indigo and other nations were out of its reach?
Lance straightened his spine and narrowed his eyes. “Darkrai,” he said, making sure to enunciate the word clearly. Then the damned boy repeated it again! “Darkrai, Darkrai!” Lance said.
Kruger gaped. “What are you doing?” he hissed, glancing about for suddenly darker shadows or flickering lights.
Or worse, for red eyes to appear where there had previously been only—a knock at the door made Kruger flinch. “Eep!”
He stood, and Lance shot him with an amused look. “Enter!” said the Dragonmaster, and Kruger grumbled at the man’s presumption, but took a moment to settle his racing heart.
When the receptionist entered with a harried look, he straightened up in his chair.
“Melissa! Thank you for coming in so early, have we gotten any word from the cultural experts? We need them for the talks to continue! Sinnoh’s diplomat is asking some questions we don’t yet have answers for!” Kruger said jovially in an attempt to mask how worried he’d been.
“I have, and they’re on their way to brief with the team. I also have to inform you of a power outage due to a faulty switch. The backup board is activated, but we’ve got some electricians coming around to look into it,” said Melissa.
Lance shot Kruger a smirk. “There you have it Kruger. Just a faulty board, nothing to worry about,” he declared, moving back to ponder the map.
Kruger just shook his head and began to prepare himself a cup of tea to settle his nerves.
As much as he didn’t like to acknowledge it due to it being a foreign idea, the concept of having the Champion merely as a decorative role rather than a seat of power was rather appealing, especially if he got fewer heart attacks from brainless acts like that.
“Back ups…” Lance murmured. Kruger looked up from his tea to find Lance lost in thought, his gaze a million miles away.
The boy was getting an idea, which could be a flip of the coin with it being good or bad.
“What’s the odds that these regions are going to have criminal organisations much like Hoenn does with Team Magma and Aqua?” Lance asked.
Kruger didn’t bother pointing out that Indigo still had remnants of criminal groups along with splinter cells of Team Rocket operating but he knew that was a losing argument so instead he gave a slow nod.
What was Lance planning now?
“I’m going to extend the offer of our G-men to the other nations!” Lance declared.
Kruger twitched. Indigo and the Archipelago nations were one thing but… hmmm, if Lance could get the Trinity nations on board with a global policing force, a lot of good could occur. The question would arise as to who would run it, however.
Kruger watched Lance’s cape flap behind him as he departed. Perhaps Lance’s ambitions weren’t limited to simply being Champion of Indigo?
Kruger let the young man go and entertain his idea, instead turning his attention to other sticking points that would need to be handled, like controlling the trade routes or establishing embassies. Or the odd denouncement the Unovan representative had given out about the starting age of Trainers undergoing their Journey at ten being the youngest.
Kruger shook his head. Fifteen was far too late in Kruger’s experience. Better to shake the kids up early and then get them returning to work or school with some proper work ethic! It wasn’t like they threw them into the wilds after all!
They barely even had that many fatalities each year!
A buzz on his transceiver had him slap his wrist. “President Kruger here,” he answered.
“Uhm, yes. Hello, sir… it's Harold from the Debriefing team. We’ve lost the asset,” said a man whose voice rang with each word.
Kruger stared straight at the man. “I see,” he said. Somehow, he wasn’t surprised. It would be typical for that family to cause issues. “Did you take her pokemon from her?”
“We did,” said Harold.
From the way he said it, Kruger just knew he wasn’t going to like what came next. “Did she recover them?”
“Sir… yes, she did.”
Kruger pinched the bridge of his nose. The only way this could be worse… “Did she have a pokemon capable of Teleport?” he asked.
“They were all water-type pokemon sir so I don’t think so.”
Kruger wanted to slam his head on his desk. That wasn’t what he’d asked, once more glad that Lance was more than a figure piece as he sent a message to Lance to deal with this issue. To the security specialist he said, “Assume they can Teleport then. Send a message to the Pewter Gym that if Lola arrives, they are to hold her for… potential health concerns.”
“Sir?” asked Harold.
“She still needs to be cleared of potential diseases that she might have encountered in Sinnoh. With it being years since any interactions, different strains of diseases might have occurred. That is our argument,” Kruger stated firmly.
He then hung up and sighed explosively. Damned pokemon trainers and their inability to just do the right thing!
Kruger sighed and eyed his cooling cup of tea. He took a sip and found it to be lacking in some manner that he couldn’t quite put his finger on. Movement outside his window drew his attention.
He keyed his intercom. “Melissa, can you send an intern to fetch the staff a large box of poffins? There’s a stall near the stadium and I think a treat would go down wonderfully.”
With that good deed done, Kruger threw himself back into his work, his mood slightly lifted at the sights of such entrepreneurs hard at work.
Those were the sorts of citizens he worked hard to look after!
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“Poffins! Get your Poffins while they’re fresh!” Meowth shouted from their stall. Not that he really had to with how long the line was, but you didn’t get hundreds of customers by getting lazy.
You had to hustle as a merchant, and by golly, he was hustling!
“I’m starting to get tired Meowth!” Magikarp whined from where he was slapping a dish so that he could rotate it over a flame.
“Keep going!” Meowth growled, shaking a fist at the lazy fish. “Think of this as your waterfall or something! We sell out, and we’re ‘made men’ or pokemon for the next circuit at least!”
Magikarp glanced over at where they’d stacked up the crates of berries. They’d been able to get an amazing deal, having ordered way before the tournament’s commencement. “That’s going to take days!” wailed the fish.
“You don’t get anywhere in life without hard work!” Meowth claimed, reaching for a glass of juice he’d had James make up earlier as he reclined in his chair.
He allowed himself a few moments of peace before jumping up to the countertop and tagging out with James.
Meowth greeted the next customer with a large smile. “Hiya! What can I get for you?” he said with his best customer service smile.
“A talking pokemon?” said the person.
Meowth didn’t even bat an eye. He’d long since lost count of how many people got weirded out by his ability to talk human. So, instead of rolling his eyes and snarking back, he nodded. “Yup! The poffins here are so good that they raised my intellect!” Meowth’s smile stretched so wide it became a little off putting.
The customer sensed this and leaned back slightly only for Meowth to keep talking, “Buy some yourself, and you might get the same benefits,” he said with a pleased smile.
Alright, so he hadn’t stopped sassing the customers, but most of them didn’t even notice.
“H-hey!” said the customer, proving themselves to be in the one percent club.
“Hmm something the matter?” Meowth said innocently.
The customer wilted as they concluded they were mistaken about what they’d heard. They weren’t, but Meowth wasn’t going to tell them that. Dumb kids.
The customer got their order off, and Meowth quickly had them on their way with a smile and a wave. “Thanks for coming! Tell your friends!”
Meowth let his voice drop a bit lower in volume. “If you have any,” he muttered.
The kid must have heard something as he stiffened and glanced back for a moment, only to shake it off when Meowth appeared to be avidly collecting the next suckers’ order and payment.
Things continued much like this for the rest of the morning until they shut the stall up for an hour so they could move into the stands to watch Jessie’s match.
“So I couldn’t help but notice that you’re getting rather grumpy Meowth?” James asked as he ran a wet cloth over Magikarp’s body.
“Oooohhh, that feels nice on my aching fins,” whined Magikarp. “Tell him to keep rubbing there Meowth!” Magikarp begged.
“Keep rubbing there,” Meowth said to James before huffing. I guess I’m just more tired than usual. We’ve done stalls like this before, and it's usually with Jessie there to help out.”
Meowth took a sip from his drink, enjoying the way it tingled on his tongue. “Guess this time is just different with her still competing, is all.” Meowth shrugged. “I’ll deal with it. We’re making money hand over paw here, and that’s the most important thing.”
“Hmmm,” James said with a nod. “I still say we don’t really need to do this.”
Meowth shot his friend a disbelieving look. “Don’t need to? James buddy, do you want to have the old guards keep tracking our everything? Remember the academy days! You always, always, always keep a cash float. The bigger, the better! Digital currency can be tracked too easily. You get notes or coins, and then you can live it up without worrying about too many folks tracking you down!”
James nodded, conceding the point. “Fair enough.”
James glanced around. “You know, if we wanted to still be turning money over we could adapt to selling goods from a small carry case as well while we watched Jessie’s match.”
Meowth considered that. Then he considered how nice it was to sit down and just enjoy his drink. “Nah, maybe we’ll do so when Jessie gets pushed out of the tournament, but until then, we stick to what we have. No need to over-capitalise. What we have is working wonders for us.”
“You know she’s got at least two more days for that though right? The pool she is in means she gets to have at least two more fights before they determine if she’ll be advancing.”
Meowth clicked his tongue. “As much as I hate to say it, I think it’ll be that Cooper kid from Saffron and Roxanne in Jessie’s pool. Jessie would have to dig crazy deep to win against either of them and she ain’t advancing if she doesn’t beat at least one of them.”
“She also has to beat Misty,” James pointed out, and Meowth raised a hand to wobble it in a so-so gesture. “She can do that. We’ve seen her do it.”
James shot Mewoth a pointed look.
Meowth shrugged. “So she mostly does it when we got the drop on the twerps, so what? Still fair is fair and their record against each other favours Jessie.”
Meowth finished up his drink and handed it to James to be thrown out later. “Have to say I’m surprised that Forrest flubbed things like he did.”
James shook his head. “I’m not. He woke up to the news just like the rest of us and he has more at stake with it. He had an early match and he had a lot of attention on him. He wasn’t paying attention and lost out on advancing.”
Meowth nodded and they let a companionable silence build between them. “What’s your take on the new regions popping up like this?” Meowth asked.
James shrugged. “I don’t think about it.”
Meowth blinked. “You don’t think about it? There are entire other regions now revealed to us! With people and pokemon and money! How can you not?”
James just waved a hand. “I just don’t.”
Meowth continued to stare. “Why does that make perfect sense?” he muttered to himself as he settled back down.
On the field Jessie strode out and claimed one of the podiums. She glanced around, searching for James and Meowth. The instant she spotted them she perked up. Meowth chuckled. “She looks like a kid at a sports event,” he said, waving a paw at her silly pigtails with ribbons in them.
It was an effective disguise that made her look a lot younger than she was, which was important considering that she was going up against one of the twerps that they’d spent most of the last year harassing.
“What are we going to do next year?” Meowth asked, scratching at his chin.
“Jessie will work that out,” James suggested and Meowth nodded. That did make the most sense.
Both settled in to watch as Jessie sent out her newest evolution.
“Come on out! Milotic!”
Across from her Misty fumbled her throw causing her Kingler to appear at the back of the field rather than the front. Meowth smirked. “Heh advantage to Jessie!” he claimed as Misty floundered, staring slack jawed at Milotic.
Milotc, for its part, reared up on its tail and shimmied left and right. “That’s right! Praise me more 'cause I’m b-e-a-utiful babies!”
Jessie unknowingly did just that as she drew her hand up to her face. “Ohohoho! I knew we’d face each other, my rival! Now face my beautiful pokemon!”
Milotic giggled and shimmied, flashing the crowd with a rainbow of lights.
“Those two suit each other way too much,” Meowth declared, feeling an odd satisfaction grow within his heart as Kingler growled and snapped her claw in agitation. It was nice to watch other people get triggered from having to deal with that stupidly vain fish.
Meowth grabbed a bucket of popcorn from James and began shovelling it into his mouth. He gave Magikarp a pointed look. “Don’t yous get a big head when yous evolve, alright? Otherwise, I’ll tell James to sell you to the fish markets!”
Magikarp showed that he had gotten far too comfortable in his position as backup food supply by rolling his eyes. “You say that like you don’t enjoy having Milotic as your backdrop whenever you call your girlfriend.”
“Milotic simply makes an effective background that brings out my good side,” Meowth corrected.
Magikarp just snorted.
They watched as Misty, despite losing her cool, quickly showed her stuff by getting her Kingler in close despite Jessie and Milotic trying to play keep away.
It wasn’t enough. Misty revealed herself to be the ultimate water-type nerd. She knew how to predict Milotic’s movements from the shimmy of her scales and the twitch of her fins.
Misty was smart enough to only announce this after she’d gotten Kingler’s claw around the slippery Milotic.
Meowth and James stood as one. “NERD!” they yelled, causing Misty to twitch in annoyance.
“It’s merely an appreciation of all water types!” she roared back.
James leaned down to Meowth. “We can’t get in trouble for heckling her, can we?”
Meowth shook his head. “It’s unsportsmanlike, but nothing that Jessie has anything to do with. It’s also part of the sport. Johtoians do it all the time,” he said, waving his paw dismissively.
“You mean Johtonites don’t you?” corrected James.
Meowth gave James an annoyed look. “Shut up and heckle the twerp.”
James huffed but rose and joined in with Meowth to start heckling Misty. “Choke! Choke! Choke!” they shouted together.
Misty ignored them but Jessie seemed to appreciate their efforts even if others in the crowd tried to shut them up.
Meowth didn’t care, so what if the world was against them? All that mattered was that they had each other's backs.
Didn’t matter how big the world got. They were Team Guardian now! They’d adapted and were gonna emerge stronger than ever!
Things were looking up!
Well, until Jessie lost against Misty which was a shame. She still had a slim chance to advance but meowth wasn’t betting on her.
Not that he’d tell her as much, but the point stood.
Meowth, Magikarp and James returned to their stall, only to find a pimply-faced kid out the front waiting for them. Meowth flipped the sign of the stall around to display they were back in business before he smirked at the kid.
“So kid? What’s it gonna be?” he said, knowing that he was about to short-circuit the kid’s brain.
The kid twitched but gained an oddly resolved expression. “The President told me to buy a thousand poffins!” he said.
Meowth stared, and somewhere behind him, Magikarp floundered, and James tripped, causing clean pots and pans to crash into each other.
“A… thousand did you say?” Meowth asked, hoping against hope he’d heard the brat right.
The kid nodded. “A thousand!” he declared, bringing out the ultimate in currency guarantees.
A black pokebank credit card.
Meowth’s ears only heard the ka-ching of his register as he began to process the payment. He made sure to add a gratuity before the kid could question him and whirled upon his cooks. “Magikarp! Your waterfall just went into overtime! Show us what you got!” he called to the fish who began leaping back and forth from various pots to get the various pans spinning.
James quickly set up another burner and joined in, doubling the speed with which they were making poffins. Meowth grimaced realling he’d need to step in to make this work.
Soon all three of them were furiously spinning poffin pans and creating a small mountain of poffins.
By the time they were finished, the stall was a mess and they’d worked through their entire stock of berries.
But they’d done it. All thousand poffins were stashed away and the kid was staggering towards the League head office.
Meowth didn’t have it in him to remind the kid his bag coulda carried the poffins easier.
Meowth leaned over the stall front and flipped the sign back to closed.
“W-we did it!” James said from his position on the ground. His hair was a mess with all the batter spray that had landed in it.
Meowth grinned. “Good work you guys!” he announced, stretching himself out.
“I-I did it?” Magikarp said cluelessly.
Meowth nodded. “Yup! You sure did!” he said, enjoying the way his spine was popping as he arced his back.
“I did it!” Magikarp shouted, throwing himself into a leap only for light to explode of his form.
Meowth gaped. “Oh Come on! I was joking about the waterfall!” he shouted as Magikarp evolved into Gyarados.
James happily threw himself into hugging his newest pokemon while Meowth just shook his head.
The world had gone crazy, he thought to himself as he settled in for a well-earned afternoon nap.
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Lola collapsed onto her knees.
“No! No! You animals! You burned it all down! Nooooooo!” she wailed as she slammed her fist into the ground. She might be exaggerating a little as the building she was in front of wasn’t burned so much as derelict, but the point stood.
Everything was wrong with this picture. This wasn’t supposed to be how things were supposed to go.
She’d done it. She’d won huge acclaim and helped heal the world… she’d gotten past the stuffy government types that always wanted to wrap things up in red tape and black ink, and now she was supposed to be in her home cuddling her babies!
Only she wasn’t!
She was kneeling in front of her home… and it was abandoned.
Large sections of it had sunken into the ground, which shouldn’t have been possible.
Flint, her hubby-bubby, was great at patching walls when they were broken. He wouldn’t have let things get this bad.
Which meant…
Lola couldn’t even begin to process what it meant. Her brain shut down, and a shrill noise began to build within her.
Tears ran down her face, and an ever-present itch in her brain that she ignored began to burrow deeper into her brain.
Everything was supposed to be perfect!
Next to her, Cloyster shifted and tried to nuzzle into her.
Lola twitched. She needed to find out what had happened. She considered for a desperate moment about finding the nearest Nurse Joy and interrogating her. They always knew what was going on in the cities, after all!
Then she remembered how the League had adapted to her methods by replacing the local nurse with a much stronger trainer.
Lola dismissed that. She didn’t want a fight; she just wanted to find out what happened to her babies.
This called for desperate action!
“Cloyster! Teleport me back to the Ship!” she growled. Her pokemon quickly followed through, teleporting her onto the section of the ship that had been prepared for emergency teleports.
A sailor stationed nearby stiffened. “Miss Lola! You’re back! We had some officials talk to us about asking you to stay p—”
Lola chopped the man in the throat to silence him. He was only going to slow her down.
She needed someone to help her, not get in the way!
She marched towards a familiar door and shoved it open to find Cynthia sitting on her bed reading a book. Lola threw herself at the Sinnoh champion. “Cynthia! I can’t find my babies, so you need to help me!”
Cynthia dropped her book and caught Lola firmly so she was held slightly away from her. Outwardly, Lola slumped as if sad.
“What’s this? Your babies?” Cynthia said, her eyes darting about Lola, documenting the signs of distress. “What happened to you?”
“My babies run a gym in Pewter, and I went to find them, only to find my home and gym in ruins! I need help, will you help me? Please?”
Cynthia scrutinised her. “I will, but we shou—”
Lola didn’t wait. She turned to the still-rolling Clyster, who’d just arrived at Cynthia’s door. “Cloyster! Teleport back to the Gym!” she said as she got a good grip on Cynthia.
Cynthia’s eyes widened. “Lola no! Stop you’re—” Cynthia’s protests died on her lips as they vanished into a teleport only to appear before the ruins of the once proud Pewter Gym. “.—going to cause an incident,” Cythnia said before slumping forward.
Lola darted towards the ruins. “Here! See! That is where the gym was supposed to be!” she declared.
Cynthia pursed her lips and put her hands together. “Oh merciful Arceus, give me patience,” she muttered.
Cynthia took a deep breath and stepped forward. “Alright, let’s just breathe so we calm down and find out what happened hmmm?” she said towards Lola.
Lola nodded frantically only to stiffen at the sound of feet slapping on a footpath making her snap her head around.
“One-two keep it up! Three-four, let’s hit high scores!” chanted a voice, only for a giant blonde woman to come into view.
At her side, a smaller pink-haired girl was roller skating to keep up with her.
Lola perked up. “You there! What happened to the Pewter Gym?” she shouted as she sprinted towards the couple.
The two girls slowed, and the giant woman started to jog on the spot. “The Gym? It moved to a new location," she said, pointing to a sign that stood off to the side of the footpath.
The pink-haired girl, on the other hand, tilted her head. “Hey, don’t I know you from somewhere?”
Cynthia smiled. “Could you please lead us there? My friend is rather distressed and could use some help.”
Both of the girls nodded, and the pink-haired girl continued to stare at Lola with a scrutinising look. The taller blonde turned to Cynthia. “So I guess it’s been a while since you’ve been back here? Most people know about the relocation Brock did a couple of years back.”
“It's my first time, actually. What would you say is a must-see in Pewter?” Cynthia politely asked, only for both girls to start rattling off locations.
Lola smiled when her friend perked up at the mention of the history museum. When they reached the hill overlooking the Gym, Lola stopped and stared.
“Wow,” she said as she took in the giant building that was now the Pewter Gym.
It was slick but in a carefully structured way that made Lola think of slate rock that had been pulled from the ground.
A large space out the front of the Gym had numerous pathways with multiple obelisks rising up like a rock garden.
Off to the side, a series of battle courts stood.
Behind the Gym, there was even a volcano!
Then Lola’s eyes spotted colour, and she zeroed in on it. There, off to the side behind a tall hedge, was a garden with a washing line that featured a vast row of clothing.
It was a clothesline that was far too long for a typical family.
But a family the size of hers? It was perfect!
Lola grinned as her heart began to soar, and the itch in her mind was pushed back.
Cynthia whistled. “Your son went from that building we saw before to this in a few years? I must say I’m impressed! I wonder if I can convince him to move to Sinnoh?” she joked.
The pink-haired girl stiffened her head, snapping at Lola. “Oh my gosh! You’re Brock’s Mother?”
Lola nodded and took off, heading straight for the front doors.
Behind her, she heard someone mutter, “We’ve made a huge mistake,” but she ignored them. She only had eyes for her home.
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A.N. Thanks go to my patreons for your continued support.
Thanks also go to Twmmy for proofreading this chapter!
Comments
Anonykor
Yeah, I think Mega Stones will be the driving factor in the future conflicts in the story. On an international level, it becomes even more of an arms race.
Bird B
!!Izumi Fastball Incoming!!
HonorBound Fate
I’m mostly speculating. Obviously Pokémon like Kleavor, UrsaLuna, weirdeer, etc.. haven’t been discovered yet. They aren’t in the sinnoh games, anime, or dex so it’s likely they’ve been forgotten to time except in pictographs, journals and such.
Rhett Sellers
A funny image. But I think Sabrina would be more creative than a shovel, particularly since she will know in advance. If there is one thing the most powerful psychic (and fiancée) knows, its when there is someone making a move on her man that she feels threatened by. When creativity, motive, and determination meet, expect the unexpected. Sabrina would bitch slap Murphy's Law, rename it Sabrina's Law, and set it loose on Cynthia 🤣
Rhett Sellers
I mean, brock hasnt shared the method except with one of his gym trainers. I would imagine similar motivations for not sharing powerful item based evolutions exist elsewhere in the world too. The timelines in all the gens are slightly off from each other as well, so its very possible many evolutions we take for granted in later gens arent discovered yet.
Rhett Sellers
Imagine if the exterior has vaporeon on it, like those anime girl paint schemes in japan, and every time brock sees it at an airport later in life he gets flashbacks
Rhett Sellers
Nicely phrased @Jason
Rhett Sellers
Its a matter of perspective. To me, 7+ years is almost a decade.
Rhett Sellers
She has clearly a large amount of experience using aura. Experienced aura users have been shown to have superhuman or even supernatural abilities in this. If she is hypothetically a water aura expert, she could just turn into water and leave like suigetsu in naruto. Not that that is what happened, but its clearly feasible based on what we have seen from sabrina, koga, and agatha already. Karen might one day be able to shadow travel or something.
Rhett Sellers
I was more thinking its twice now she's kept him from exploring the hoenn desert
HonorBound Fate
There is also that the sinnoh games are years in the future.
HonorBound Fate
You’re not wrong.
Rinaldo
Not enough data
Jericho Rising
Oh my Gawd the Rotom/Porygon interactions in Brocks Gym gonna be wild
HonorBound Fate
I’m asking this pretty late so I may ask this again later, but are the other regions missing evolutions that Brock has. We’ve seen that Kingdra was a Pokémon that wasn’t revealed prior to the exhibition match between Brock and lance. For example rhyperior, team rocket had access to sinnoh - however little it may have been - Giovanni’s agents would certainly do threat assessments on the elite four and “Interestingly named” sinnoh elite four member Bertha should have a rhyperior. There’s a good chance that the knowledge to evolve rhydon is public knowledge, and if so why wasn’t Giovanni’s rhydon evolved. Also I don’t think he had mammoswine so maybe they don’t have a resurrection machine to revive ancient Pokémon with which to teach ancient power to evolve Tangela, yanma, and piloswone.
I_WANT_SOMETHING_ETERNAL
It feels like, he felt the next step was o be marriage. And while Sabrina is a good girlfriend, he's spending 90% of his time caretaking. If you are in a relationship, you do not have to marry. It just seems rushed. I long for more Pokémon development.
Donald Bagwell
Love this, add on flint trying to get them to stop only to be side eyed by the entire ranch before empress raises a single eyebrow in a “really?” Pose
Donald Bagwell
Remember the rocket attack? The onix and gravelers and golem? I fully see a more paranoid brock setting up more shit just to kick ass
Donald Bagwell
He left at 11, taught sabrina how to people from 11-13/14 as fake dating, got back together around 16, and engaged at mid 17 Sounds like a teen drama
Donald Bagwell
She made it through patrol routes with base knowledge. I take it as she is an elite spy/ intelligence agent that was similar to koga in the war personally
Donald Bagwell
Not cruel but deserved. I want suzy smack talk
Donald Bagwell
I wonder if we all give a dollar extra or something if viva would give an extra chapter?
Donald Bagwell
Enter blackthorn elders being incompetent
Big Sloppy
Gen 1 cloyster can learn teleport
Mike
An interesting ripple: the trinity nations overestimating Indigo’s strength due to their League tournament. They hi jacked the TV feeds; so only the tournament channel can help them pass time.
Brendan White
Let me guess...Lola's Cloyster used to be a Shellder that was joined with a Slowking. That's how it knows Teleport.
Jason Sampson
Lola doesn't get that her home is an abandoned building. She abandoned it.
Jason Sampson
There wouldn't happen to be a higher still unannounced tier that doesn't leave us with cliffhangers?
Jason Sampson
YES, FASTER JET! MAXIMUM THRUST!
Ch W
And thanks for the chapter
Ch W
... Before Kruger could continue, a chill swept over the room, and the lights flickered. ... I'm gonna guess a Rotom passing by, maybe a spy for the Trinity Union.
Jean Marc Kunnen
I think they meant that empress has adopted gible not cynthia.
QuazarKMax
Kirlia gonna be rocking back and forth in the shower with wide bloodshot eyes and scalding hot water after getting that vision of what went on on that plane 😂
Jean Marc Kunnen
They have not known each other for a decade. I’m fairly sure brock’s like 16-17 years old and he had his journey a year late i think because lola ran away so at best they know each other for half a decade
9Tales
ROLF, Oh god I don't need that image
Rhett Sellers
She hasnt. They just cant english properly when expressing things they want to see happen.
Rhett Sellers
How was the proposal rushed? They spent hours talking in the desert, having a heart to heart, and he asked her to marry him, and she said yes. That is the opposite of rushing a proposal. Particularly after theyve been close for almost a decade.
Rhett Sellers
You mean Mega Mewtwo X vs Darkrai when?
Rhett Sellers
I loved the chapter, Rocket Trio included. Particularly the vain Milotic!
Rhett Sellers
🤣🤣🤣
rezo42
Or Lola will set off the security growlithe, which will set off the rest of the reserve. Either way, pore Cynthia will be following Lola thinking. "please, please don't cause an international incident." Only to see an army base worth of Pokemon take battle stations.
iceknight90
The Vaporean Sex Jet cannot arrive in Indigo fast enough
Seanfrks
Yeahhh, that would be way too tame of a reaction from Brock.
The GrandMage
I just imagine Brock coming by for The Reckoning only to have Lola scream, "My baby!" And rush to hug him. "I am a grown man!" Meanwhile Cynthia and Sabrina have locked gazes.
Mario Schade
Phew... I really hope the whole scene around Lola works. What exactly do I wish for? I don't know, but I can't just accept this kind of character without consequences of the actions and so i fear there will be scenes i dont like... but i believe in Viva01! So I probably want a really hard reality check for Lola. Is it possible to have sympathy for her after the war has probably ruined things and she seems to have done it all out of a sense of family? Yes, probably a little--but life is not a solo game and every action has consequences in a partnership, friendship, family, society. And characters who simply ignore that and still get everything they want I really can't consume with a clear conscience. They just get on my nerves. Now, the world isn't fair... but within a story, I can wish that Lola will experience a total failure here and perhaps realize afterwards that she has a problem. And since there are still a lot of strong Pokemon everywhere, the whole thing probably won't end with a little argument. Brock Gym vs. Lola, Flint vs. Lola?, Brock vs. Lola! Reality has to hit hard and maybe Cynthia will help Lola realize that something is actually broken here.
Viva01
The Rocket trio scene is slice of life, but it highlights some key points in that the world has changed from what it was supposed to be doing due to Brock. Jessie is in the top 250 or so trainers in the people going for their badges. She has a Milotic thanks to Brock's teachings and James now has a Gyarados. Forrest lost his do or die match to make the same bracket as his friends due to most likly learning about his mother's return. of a chapter that is 6400 words it's a third of it with the other points being the big figures aka Kruger and Lance showing the impacts that the sudden appearance is having on them along with multiple cultural differences. Lola is back as well causing even more chaos with her inability to just sit down and wait. Her grabbing Cynthia also causes significant impacts to negotiations as well as impacting her family directly. The plane scene needs to happen as an alert went out causing planes to be grounded that were on about to depart to Indigo. again more impacts of this sudden reveal. Brock needed a different way to get
Simca
That Cliff hanger was Diabolical…
TheDudeAbides
Well the announcement came at 10pm Kanto time and then in the morning meowth and James had time to see Forrest lose his match (I assume, since their description of the match sounded like they were there). The president sees them and decides to buy the poffins but his assistant isn't there to buy them until after Jessie's match, that means that he must have seen them just before they took the break. Otherwise, the assistant would have been there before they left. Also the president gets the call about Lola escaping around this time, so presumably she hadn't been gone for long. If brock and Sabrina got on a plane reasonably soon after the announcement (like, they get in the air by midnight Kanto time) then they'd be arriving by 10am-ish. Personally it reads to me like Jessie's match was sometime around or a bit after noon. I say that because Meowth and James having a rush and then taking a break would make sense at lunch time. All of that is to say, I think Lola might be showing up to Brock and Sabrina already being home.
Eren Jaeger
I absolutely love this story and your writing, but kinda lame to add in scenes that either don’t need to happen at all (the plane 🤮) , or scenes that could have been in literally any other chapter (rocket trio who I love dearly) , just so you can drag out the cliff hanger another week. I actually found myself not enjoying the rocket trio scene because the only thing I was able to really think about was “they’re seriously gonna make us wait another week” as more and more of the chapter was going by. Almost expecting next week to be all interludes just to drag it out even longer.
TheDudeAbides
What do you mean Cynthia adopted gible?
TheDudeAbides
Rushed? They've been together for like, half their lives at this point?
Mike
My main gripe is Lola just escaping with her Pokémon from debriefing. It’s one thing with just a nurse but another at a secure facility with security personnel
QuazarKMax
Brock also owns the land, as trained Pokémon Lola’s team would know that when the owner tells you to get out you leave or potentially get arrested.
rezo42
Now I'm picturing Sabrina just hanging out in the parifery whith a shovel anytime Cynthia comes over
dragonslaver
Oh my friend. Believe me when I say, we ALL feel you. SO GIVE US MORE VIVA
QuazarKMax
Most of them remember Brock can carry 10 Pokemon on him at once and of those available slots he took several of his weaker Pokemon with him to train them on his break hoping to get them to evolve. Gible, Zubat, Cranidos and Tirtouga are just the four off the top of my head so yes there are several of his elites at the gym.
Mike
Anyone pick up on the Darkrai plot point ? Ooo boy - Mewtwo vs Darkai when ?
QuazarKMax
Yes very much!
HoldTightAndPretendItsAPlan
Idea: Lola is powerful, but she's also been out at sea and traveling for a while. Fighting wild Pokémon and stuff. Brock's Gym has many pokemon trained to amazing precision. Some are powerful like Empress, some have more fitness like [insert name of that one Geodude]. My proposal? Brock's pokemon kick Lola out. It's not a even much of a contest (partially because Lola is in shock and partially because Brock's pokemon are telling her pokemon exactly how their trainer feels about Lola which... Lola's pokemon aren't assholes. They aren't going to force the interaction)
Squeeky602
Lola is going to bust down the doors. This will set off Empress, who has lost children, human children even, to violence before. Then Cynthia will step in, which will set off the Gym alarms, sending all the pokemon into defence mode. Pewter Gym is considered a Military asset...International Incident imminent!
DigDoom
I don’t think Cynthia is unreasonable though. She would definitely be interested in the situation but she’s hardly going to abduct a Gym leader’s Pokémon while their governments are beginning negotiations. Lola doing something stupid like telling Cynthia she can have Gible in front of Brock, Sabrina or Empress… who knows
Tyler Babcock
There doesn't happen to be a pateron for advanced chapters when this pateron full of advanced chapters aren't enough during the cliff hangers? No? Can't wait for the next one.
ReadAthon45
Nice chapter. Does anyone else wanna see Cynthia and Lola’s reaction to Brock’s Aura
Astralogical
Knowing Lola being a bit loopy and selfish I can see her trying to set up Brock with Cynthia much to sabrina chagrin
Rinaldo
I think we can sus out most of who Brock WOULDNT bring. Don for volatility, none of the babies or unnamed elites, Empress as she’s taking care of her kids, probably not Hypnotoad or Shin as as he’d likely have tide as safety net in case of a plane crash. So that would leave Titan, Bertha, Jorm, Zephyr, Tide, Selene, Knight, Gawain, Link, and a toss up between Sanchez and Shrek. So you’d probably have Hypnotoad as the sole one who would likely not make a mess of things if Shrek isn’t there.
Oblivious Bookwyrm
Not really. You can surmise that pretty much every Psychic type pokemon can learn the TM, since that is more or less the case for Gen 1 Psychic-type pokemon (It’s why Lunatone and Solrock learning it doesn’t bother me). And you can assume the same for Psychic-inclined pokemon that aren’t Psychic-type themselves, but learn a lot of Psychic-type attacks or have abilities that are typically attributed to Psychic-types (I’m thinking pokemon like Dialga, Palkia, Noivern, and Lucario). As long as an Author gives a reasonable explanation, a reader’s suspension of disbelief should take care of the rest. That’s a tactic that should be used sparingly however. I never really got the point of fanfictions giving pokemon moves they shouldn’t learn. It needlessly breaks canon; Pokemon have such huge move pools typically that it shouldn’t really be necessary to write a compelling narrative.
Glitched Knights
Oh fuck. That makes so much sense that I hate it
Orbnet
Yeah but she is clearly not right in the head, she needs to heal. What would probably be the best is a lot of therapy and her being in a institution trying to... wake her up? And then slowly earning and slowly getting acces back to her family
Jean Marc Kunnen
Lance and kruger would like to disagree lol
Ben Lockwood
I think for sure empress is still their, not sure about the other elites. Empress will probably have a larger problem with Cynthia, with trying to get the gible, as she has adopted it.
PiezoVolt
Yea it's ironic that Lola leaving out and end to Brock's journey and her arriving put an end to Forrest's in a way
David P.
I know some people might have the sentiment “It’ll be a long time before Lola is welcome in the house, she’ll need to put in some real work for it” or something to that effect. Is it wrong if I instead say I hope that never happens? I desire the full rejection. The complete shut out. I want it to be biblical. I want it to be so harsh that Cynthia feels the need to step in and try to defend Lola. I want two Tyranitars and a Mega-Steelix to tell her to stay out of it. I want so many things.
nugitoBambino
oh really? i disagree, I thought this was the perfect level of setup where it was in line with all the characters personality. Like yeah, there's coincidence, but it's a story and my initial gut check of "yeah all those people would act like that to get to this point" checks out to me
I_WANT_SOMETHING_ETERNAL
I like Sabrina, but the proposal I feel is rushed. Seriously. I like romance, but I like him taking care of business. Also, his new evolutions seem to have fell by the wayside. I still love the fiction, but I want to be honest in my feedback.
Orbnet
I was right! Damn you Viva01 why couldn't I be wrong and be rid of this cliffhanger? xd
Joe The squatch
just a passing thought I had, but of brocks elite team, who does he not have on him right this moment, do they understand the situation with his mother... and how would they react to whats going on right now
carebear90
Sure, but it also massively limits who an author can reliably teach Teleport. Or, taking your example: Who could an enterprising thief who stole this strategic resource even sell the TM to? But this is one of the reasons I don't see a problem with Sabrina teaching Lunatone the move in this fic. Most Psychic types would be able to learn the TM if they had access to it, IMO. But what about the non-psychics who could potentially learn it? We have absolutely no clue. And that's a shame.
gra gra
Oh god she's reaction gif posting.
SailorOfHouseThunderBird
And im keeping my fingers crossed for it. Im just hoping that Lola gives Brock and Sabrina a good reason to jump her like Viva forgot this wasn't a JJK crossover for a chapter. 🤞 🙏
James Nagy
I don’t think it would cruel at all. If anything the vice versa would be cruel.
Jordan Lopez
I like that you've shown that Cynthia might not just be Lola's friend she might actually kind of be her therapist
Jordan Lopez
Lol Brock is so much like his mother just not so lackadaisical of ignoring what he does to other's
Bat
Oh the waiting…..
Jordan Lopez
That could mean in a story like this it's a strategic wartime advantage that cannot be traded or sold to other countries
Mike
Author one complaint: I love the drama here but I feel you are making it too contrived. Everything is lining up too conveniently for an explosion 💥
Mike
That’s true. But this new shatter point would make her ripe for the picking: *Enter Cyrus with the New World*
QuazarKMax
How does the previous chapter link up time wise to this one? Brock got that plane back asap and when it was the middle of the night in indigo - a 10 hour flight, but we don’t know when this chapters final scene is since Lola was in holding before running off so if it’s the afternoon I can see Brock and Sabrina getting back mid explosion. Really looking forward to the next chapter the drama is looking to be delicious 😁 Great job Viva 👍
Retribrutus
You know, it might seem a tad mean or downright cruel to think this, but how funny would it be that ALL of Brock's siblings would be more ecstatic to hear that he proposed to Sabrina rather than Lola popping back into their lives?
Aiden Maxwell Childs
Soooon. Soon it begins. Super mom, great and terrible
carebear90
What sanity? She's already completely nuts...
kelan parris
Thank you
Qweku_v
Royal Road has the link
carebear90
Of course, she has the Cloyster to Flint's Onix... I still find it sad that only Gen 1 pokemon get to use the Teleport TM... since it never existed in any other gen. I bet there would be so much more pokemon who could learn it if they had the TM available in later games.
Gojisoar
Of course when I decide to shill out and pay for the patreon i catch up to some of the most tense, dramatic, angsty, hyped up moment in the story. AHHHHHHHGG. (ノ｀Д´)ノ彡┻━┻
PitrPatR
I am curious to see if/how Mega Evolution comes up. Steven has put a lot of money and political capital into trying to be the guy you go to for mega stones. Kalos has the potential to upset those efforts. This could also become an issue in conjunction with disputes over territory which are already being raised. Indigo got caught flat-footed, and most of the younger generation knows so little about the issues that led to the war that outsiders coming in with these claims will likely prompt a defensive response should those claims go public. There’s a lot of ways for things to go wrong, and that brings a kind of tension to the story that the battles don’t. I’m eager to see where things go from here.
ShinLupin
Lance and his rival-mode for Brock, just endure your Hero is on the way. Poor mr. president will need a vacation soon, a health-check sooner. The Rocket Trio shows their development, Misty shows a little of why Mono-type experts can be scary. Lola jumps without watching, thankfully a sane, level-headed woman is dragged by her. I hope whoever is still in the Gym will be able to contain the chaos that is Lola... Maybe Empress can lay down the law?
kelan parris
Can anyone tell me the discord link or point me towards it?
First drunken immortal
MORE MORE MORE!!!!
Chris
Well Rachel, time to navigate your first real media scandal for the gym. Good luck.
Mike
Pitching in right now. Lola is going to have a full meltdown. Rejection from her family will shatter her sanity.
JustAFan
Daaaaammnnn. Cliffhanger Really want to see the confrontation & explosions especially with Cynthia there
G 21
Artghh
Qweku_v
Chaaaaoooossss!!!
Homeless One
Hoo boy, it's happening! Battle Stations, everyone!
Petrox
Damn, first they screwed Brock, now it's Forrest turn. Can't wait for next week.
David Green
Fucking lola, she seems to sweep everyone up in her wake
Thomas Brusilovsky
Lola is a force of nature lmao
Donald Bagwell
Deliciously evil to end on this. Never said it before, never plan on it again. Also wtf is going to happen with cynthia seeing what might be gible in a spa day with brocks sisters? Either way evil of you to end it here!
BlackRazaras
Thanks for the chapter
Minh tri
Can't wait for the confrontation!
