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Video + Action in Union's commerce district!

A: Video

[And it's Rose. She's grinning brightly, leaning down and looking at the monitor. Behind her, her Blaziken has his arms crossed and is watching. While Rose beams at the camera.]

I tell you, I take one business trip to Caldera and... uh... another god shows up! This got pretty intense, huh? Is everyone all right?

I'm a little worried about you guys!

B: Action

[True to promises made, the Spearowfeathers have set up a shop. There is a storefront with a brightly painted sign of a Spearow on it, and the word "SPEAROWFEATHERS" written underneath it. Rose is standing outside the storefront. They're not open yet; instead, her people are moving things into it, carrying wooden crates and everything else.]

[Rose has her arms crossed. But she looks proud.]

[They're moving up in the world! But it's also quite a sight; it's not every day that a new storefront opens up after all. (Thank Lenna for the loan.)]

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I don't mind working hard either, but... I'm finding this whole adventuring thing to be a lot more fitting to my skills than farming. There will be plenty of time for that once I do retire from this gig.

[It may not pay the best, but hell, it's fulfilling work.]

Speaking of though... I should probably go back to Caldera in a few weeks to help my folks with the harvest. Even if I prefer the adventuring gig, it'd feel wrong not to head back and help out, especially now that I'm stronger than I used to be.

Hey, no argument from me! It kinda meshes well with being a merchant. I already traveled a lot. [...also, she killed people, but shh.] Now it's like I travel and do important stuff.

[There's a pause, then, and Rose nods.]

Yeah. Harvest is when they need the most help, right? It always looked crazy busy!

It is. Gotta get the entire crop gathered, sorted, and stored. It's pretty tough, but thankfully Taro's getting old enough to really help out even...

[Adell paused, and looked alert. Some kind of noise in the room behind him clearly got his attention.]

Who's there?

[And from a concealed corner of the room, a figure slowly moved forward, revealing itself as a Malamar. And it spoke... telepathically, to him. Though its voice could easily be heard by Rose in a stream of burbles.]

You are fortunate I no longer desire your head, fool. You pay dismal attention to your surroundings. All of your talk of Hope would be for nothing now... if I were here for that.

[Rose tilts her head; she's listening, but she notices the movement from the corner quickly. Her eyes widen, and the Malamar speaks before she can give Adell a warning.]

What the...?

[A beat.]

Adell, this a new friend of yours...?

[Adell looked less than impressed at the creature speaking, but more in the way that he wasn't amused rather than threatened. He looked back to Rose on the communicator.]

Close enough.

Friend?! Tell her I have no need for such trivial concepts. I am merely here because I want to observe your foolish efforts to change the inevitable. It might provide me... amusement.

[Adell sighed, and shrugged, looking... not irritated, but this was not what he expected to happen today.]

...Like I said, close enough. Rose, this Malamar was one of Mewtwo's soldiers. It's decided it wants to follow me around for laughs.

[Malamar angirly flailed its tentacles, quickly bombarding Adell with a telepathic lecture, while ranting in its normal voice as well. Adell rolled his eyes. Save him, Rose.]

[Rose tilts her head, eyes widening a little at the Malamar's words. He's definitely... direct. She sees why, too, as she listens to Adell's explanation.]

Uh. Wow.

[She pauses a moment, thinking about how to best pursue this matter. It's a little bit tough. It's... well. She wasn't really the diplomatic type.]

What... uh, do you think is inevitable? --Hey, do you have a name? Something I should call you?

[After it realized it was being addressed, it quickly finished its lecture of Adell, giving him a look suggesting it still had more to say, but it could wait. For now. It instead calmly composed itself, and turned to the Warp Band. The Pokemon's gaze was sharp, cold, and calculating... but short of malicious. Though not by much.]

For now, you both may call me... Nemo. As for what the inevitable is, that would be humanity's destruction. By their own hand.

[Adell's face remained passive, and calm.]

Obviously, I explained to him that Union was looking to bring peace to the land, and that while we still had work to do, we might have a shot at true, lasting peace.

A chance. But only that. I am curious how you will manage, given that your kind historically finds peace... fleeting. At best.

Uh... hey, Nemo. I'm Rose.

[She opens and then closes her mouth. Actually, she doesn't have a good argument for that. Her job -- okay, her other job -- is proof that people still resolve conflicts with violence. She considers, for a moment, and then she frowns.]

Union does a pretty good job of reaching out. But... I think there's people who always want to fight. It's always a problem.

But if we say it's inevitable that we'll fail, then we can't try to make a difference.

[Nemo looked impassive to Rose's reply. Not impressed, but not openly hostile about it either.]

Many expressed that sentiment during the Master's incursion. I am here now to see how you humans intend to make that difference. If you all fail... all I lose is time.

[Adell, however, smiled at Rose's answer.]

You're right, though, Rose. It's like we were talking about. The world's not perfect, but we get as close as we can.

We will see how long your optimism will last. I do not share it.

[The Pokemon turned and waddled away, out of the room. However, as it did so, Adell's Warp Band lit up, establishing a connection, a bond, to the cloned Pokemon. Adell couldn't help but smile wryly.]

Maybe not yet.

[Rose watches as Nemo walks off the view of the camera; she blinks, but then she looks back at Adell, and flashes him a smile.]

Yeah. Maybe he'll come around. There's nothing to do but show him how things work here, right? And do the best we can!

[It seems like the smart move to her.]

That's pretty much the size of it. I wouldn't call him a ray of sunshine by any means, but Nemo being willing to give things a chance is enough to give me an idea of what he's really like.

[Meaning, certainly not the evil, hand-wringing villain he seemed like at first.]

And believe it or not, I'm glad he showed up like this. I was wondering where he went afterward and... well, maybe I didn't need to, I wondered if he was okay.

Yeah. And someone being willing to listen and think about change... that means a lot, I think!

[She nods, before she smiles, crossing her arms.]

Yeah? Did you meet him, then he wondered off before he... uh... decided to hang out with you?

Pretty much. Once we managed to talk him down from attacking, we turned our attention toward Mewtwo, and what we would do about him. Fortunately, my group never had to confront him directly. That was someone else, and whoever managed to do it deserves a medal.

Anyway, it didn't take but a minute for Nemo to disappear. He slipped away quite quickly. Vanished like a ghost, almost. Dunno where he went or why. Maybe just wanted some time to think.

[And then he snorted a chuckle.]

Or to get away from our gaggle of sickening optimists. I dunno if that's how he'd phrase it, but I have a feeling it'd be close.

No kidding! I'm glad we didn't have to fight a god. I know I keep saying it... but that could have gone badly.

[She cracks a smile at that, then she nods.]

Yeah, that sounds like him. Maybe both are right. He's probably gonna need a little space, just while he gets used to us, huh?

Probably. And I intend to give it to him. He's one of my partners now, and I've never been one to push them into things they really don't want to do.

But I think Nemo will come around. Eventually. Even if it might take... quite a while.

[The best things in life were often worth the wait. And if it meant giving hope to the hopeless, that would be worth every second it'd take.]

Yeah, that's a good approach to take. He's probably had his whole world up-ended. So giving the guy a chance to adjust'll be good.

Don't worry, Adell. You'll get it!

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