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!]

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[ribbonlove]

[Hello there, big man. She's seen you before - though they've never spoken, she's only been there. Watching.
Penny gives a yip, looking up into his eyes.]
And hello to you too, Sire.

[big_mistake]

[Briefly, surprise flickers across his features. A talking Pokemon. Never in all his years - his many, many years - has he met a talking Pokemon.]

[But if there is anything he has learned in his long life, it is that the world can continue to surprise him.]

It has been a very long time since anyone has called me that, little one, and a very long time since I have deserved to be called that.

You speak, as we humans do.

[ribbonlove]

I had to learn. To try and warn them, of repeating histories mistakes...
[Penny, after all, had noticed the movements of Team Flare. She made it her mission to warn at least one person, of what she'd heard. Oh, yes. She then gives him a smile, warm and kind.]
It was hard. My mouth was not made to speak the words of men.

[big_mistake]

[If AZ were prone to wincing, he would have, at that.]

A worthy cause. An noble effort. It was bitter work, I might imagine.

I regret the mistakes that led to such hardship for you.

I would offer you recompense, little one, if it is within my power.

[ribbonlove]

[A pause. Yes - if he'd never done any of that in the distant past, nothing would have happened. But...]
It would have been a different reality...
But - as long as you are learning the ways of this land, I think that will make me happy. Yes.

...Has your own friend come with you?