Welcome/Welcome back, you crazy diamonds!

[spiritcrystal]

[An island! This is most certainly not where everyone was just a few moments ago. ...Alright, maybe some of you were on an island. Don't get cheeky.

At everyone's feet is a small note. It gives no description of their location or explanation, of course; it only says one simple thing.

Please choose one.

The note comes along with three Pokéballs with different "starter" Pokémon in them- the three Pokémon can be anything, from a Froakie, Charmander, and Treecko to a Rattata, Patrat, and Bidoof if you're particularly unlucky- and everything in between. If it's not a legendary Pokémon, it's fair game.

Of course, you can only pick one! Trying to go for a second will leave you thinking that you better not get too greedy. If you're one of those types that wouldn't care either way, the other two Pokéballs will simply disappear.

Now go forth, and into a world of Pokémon!]

Comments

[hotboss]

[Good question. There are a million things Giovanni could say himself, if he ever finds a place to start.

Once it looks like they're out a good distance, he stops.] Let me get a look at you.

[feistytrader]

[Oh. They're stopping. He stops playing with the Pokéball he picked up and waits for Giovanni to look him over.]

Sorry if I'm not what you expect. I might be the wrong Silver.

[hotboss]

So I've heard. How old are you?

[feistytrader]

[...Uh.] Sixteen? Seventeen? [Nineteen? Twenty?]

[hotboss]

[Oh. Confusion aside, both answers aren't what he's looking for.] I see.

[feistytrader]

[...Just keep a straight face. It doesn't matter that much, does it? He'll see his dad again eventually.]

Sorry to disappoint you.

[hotboss]

You've never disappointed me, Silver.

[feistytrader]

[That keeps him quiet and thoughtful for a moment. He doesn't know how to argue it. Does he question it? Does he thank him?

...Maybe that was intended for his Silver. That's completely different.] ...Okay.

[Maybe it's just better to accept it for what it is.]

[hotboss]

[It's something that needed to be said a long time ago.]

I better find a new place to lay low for a while.

[feistytrader]

[But not to him.

...Instead of finding a place to lay low, he could you know. Stop being the leader of Team Rocket. Start a new life.

But he knows better than to ask.]

I've never been here before. I can't help you.

[hotboss]

[Well he's - sorta in the process of that. He gave it up but he'd love to go back but he probably shouldn't but he really would like to and - you know how it goes.]

I'll manage. There must be a cave somewhere that'll work.

[feistytrader]

...If you let me search long enough, I might be able to find some shack or something. [Shacks are probably nicer than caves for him, right?...]

[hotboss]

I'm surprised you would do that for me.

[feistytrader]

I'm gonna have to find somewhere to stay anyway.

[hotboss]

[!!!] Not on the run from the law, are you?

[feistytrader]

Not a chance. [God damn you are really desperate aren't you-] I've been homeless since I was five.

[hotboss]

[): So much for potential criminal son. But maybe that's for the better.] Sounds rough.

[feistytrader]

I was never alone, so it was fine.

[He gestures to Weavile, who beams proudly; that's right, he's been there for him all this time!]

[hotboss]

[Ah, a boy and his Pokemon. How quaint.] Did you catch this one yourself?

[feistytrader]

You- [...] My world's version of you gave him to me before I was two. I don't remember being without him.

[hotboss]

[...Oh. That was nice of him, wasn't it.]

[feistytrader]

[...Handwave! Handwave.] The point is that helping you find a hideout is no problem.

[hotboss]

Good.

[feistytrader]

[Yeah. Good. Great.

This sure is going well, huh.

Yeah...]

[hotboss]

[Yeah, uh. Yeah. Nice...weather?]

You've, ah, grown quite a lot. [Well gee you wonder you last saw the kid when he was like eight.]