Sleepless nights - set after Rhyperior Superior battle

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It has been days since he’d slept. He’d passed out a few times since the attack, but that didn’t count as sleeping; he could remember the doctors explaining as much when he’d ended up back in the hospital days after release, too exhausted to even sit up. A state of unconsciousness did not actually rest the mind or body, they had said. At least now he recognized when he was getting there... not that it made the act of sleeping any easier.

Falling asleep had been hard, every time his eyes shut he heard some imagined sound that sent chills up his spine. Explosions that couldn't have been real, or a faint click that had once heralded pain in so many forms. It was after a few times of this he felt a steady weight and warmth on his chest, and glanced down to see the Furfrou with his head settled there. The comfort and warmth from that was enough to lure his eyes to closing, slipping into sleep finally.

Until he woke up mid-scream, a terrified cry in the shape of his best friend's name strangled from his throat thick with tears. He stared at the world above him, clinging to his bed as if it would fly away without the hold, tears slowly working their way down the sides of his face to soak into his messy, unstyled hair. It took all of his strength to muffle his sobs under heavy breathing. The Furfrou was beside him, giving small cries and nosing his cheek gently, trying to comfort him, and after a moment he settled it.

Slowly he rolled over and got to his feet, reaching for his jacket on habit, and heading away. Normally at this point he would go look at Okuyasu's house, the feeling of it being lived in still enough to soothe the fears running riot on his mind. But there was no old, decrepit looking mansion that held his best friend here, there was no seeing him in the morning to share a laugh and a smile with... There was no reminder that his survival wasn't just a fever dream born of pain, blood loss and desperation. 

So he walked... he didn't have a goal, he just needed to move, maybe to run from his nightmare, maybe chasing the hope that whatever date had dropped him here would do the same for his best friend. As he walked he heard the soft steps of the pokemon walking beside him, and set his hand on its fluffy head. "Hey buddy... You've stuck around a lot... You looking to be my friend?" He asks, smiling softly. "You want a nickname? Cause if you're with me, you gotta have a cool name." He points out with some soft cheer. Letting his mind drift, he walks down to the beach and after setting his socks and shoes up on a dry area, with his pants rolled up, he steps out into the water a bit, to stand and watch it, as it reflects the night around him.

After a few moments he starts to cry, soft tears that he has no strength to stop, as he stands there in the moonlight, on the beach.

Season 2, Episode 5: Phoenix Song

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The rain has stopped. Dawn has broken out across Alola.

The battle has been won and Glomgold has been caught.

But without warning, Glomgold proved to be more slippery than he was, and slid out of Sena's arms, and clicked a button. A Ultra Hole blossomed and in his hands was a feather, a pinon of the phoenix Ho-Oh. With a swearing cry of "I'll get you next time, Fallers!" he dove through the Ultra Hole into another world.

And then, without warning, in the silence of everything, the Aether Foundation shook.

A massive Ultra Hole blossomed beneath it, and the land began to sink beneath it, swallowing the massive artificial island into the waters below. Before anyone could react, waves of reality swallowed members of the Fallers, but it couldn't get everyone and everything before the Ultra Hole swallowed Aether Foundation entirely.

And in the silence, the piercing laughter of Glomgold could be heard. "I win Scrooge, I win!" before he vanished into the morning skies.


3 Days Later...

Jack Morrison stood in the middle of a crowd of reporters, with his team of Overwatch members. "We, as a community, have defended you and your people, and ask nothing but forgiveness," said Morrison to the people of the Pokemon World. "As such, we turn ourselves to the government of this world, and their decision. Overwatch is no more, and we have been exiled from our own world. What little remains of the loyalists who have been exiled from our Earth, will be following us shortly as refugees into Alola, and beyond. We can only ask for your hospitality after the wrongs our people have caused you all."

"For the loss of your Arceus Plates, and the loss of the Aether Foundation and President Lusamine, we are sorry," added Jack, head bowed. "We hope, that in time, we can pay it forward. Overwatch is hereby disbanded, and our members will spread out, under the jurisdiction of INTERPOL. I am sorry."

As Jack Morrison stepped down, he was met by a young woman who stopped him. I.Z.U. stood there, tilting her head. "Commander Morrison, your presence is requested."

"By who?" asked Jack.

"By the Ultra Riders. It's time, to Ride into another world."

Season 2, Episode 6: Far, Far Away

[etranger]

Aether Paradise is a manmade island that normally floats on the seas of Alola.

'Normally'.

It's currently neither on the seas, or in Alola. Surrounding the pristine white buildings of the Paradise are an overcast sky and a ruined landscape - this is the world of the Ultra Ruins. A small team of trainers in hazard suits is flying in on a variety of Pokemon, looking around the out-of-place Paradise.

As the leader dismounts from her Hydreigon, she allows the small Pokemon she's carrying in her arms to float freely as the other two Trainers with her return their Braviary and Mandibuzz before releasing a Sawk and a Throh.

The strange bottle clipped to the side of her suit bounces against her hip as she walks up to the front door of the Paradise and knocks.

"Hello? Is there anyone in here?"