Summary and First Chapter.
Chapter 1: Bashing Skulls and Dressing Up!
Summary: Two months after the third shadow crisis, Lillie has prepared to take Elio on a trip to the Sinnoh region to partake in contests and a surprise trip! What will happen through out their adventure?
Rating: K+ Compared to the previous fanfic this one is very light.
Characters: Lillie, Elio (Male Player character of Sun and Moon)
The following fanfiction is a continuation of the fanfiction Though The Sands We Go. It would be wise to read that one first before going into this one!
Chapter 1 Bashing Skulls and Dressing Up!
Two months have passed since the end of the third shadow crisis. Life had went on as the pokemon that suffered were either returned to their trainers, sent back home, being in the process of being sent back home or in the case with the few still left under the care of two trainers, Elio and Lillie. For Elio this meant he has to shuffle between helping Lillie take care of them and his duty as champion. Lillie was more hands on as she had the free time. Very few of the pokemon had noticeable issues; Plusle and Minum hate being separated from each other, Seviper was not allowed near anything small and fluffy because he mistook some of them for its natural enemy the Zangoose. Tetra the Qwilfish was startled by everything and puffed up. Bob the Bibarel had a phobia of being in a battle or even the thought of being in a battle. For Armaldo, Cradily, Simisear, Simipour, Simisage and Porygon 2 they do not trust humans because their own trainers had them turned into shadow pokemon. Kukui offered to help with some of the aquatic pokemon providing they behaved.
With the pokemon being raised, Lillies Venonat, Zorua, Skiddo and Azurril had evolved. The Zoroark was naturally a prankster and often disguises himself as two of Lillies pokemon, Lola the Vaporeon and Cain the Leafeon. He often fools Elio or when he figure it out, the Zoroark always escapes and finds a new disguise. Sometimes when Elio and Lillie are busy, they often leave Pete the Banette and Makuta the Cofagrigus to help guard the house. Elio still wondered what what happened to his shrinking hidden stash of gold nuggets as he shuffled between evolving the pokemon he had caught on Orre and everything else that came from being champion. The Banette is naturally a prankster that is content with having some plush toys to keep company, while the Cofagrigus is very quick to scare off would be burglars. Some of the pokemon Elio and Lillie brought with them to Orre have been put on standby for when they need them again. Lillies Pidgeot was let out to reconnect with his parents; Tally a Pidgeotto Lillie caught in Kanto by accident and Dafgers, a Farfetch'd. The creature of legends named Lunala or called Nebby, had agreed to help socialize the Solgaleo to help him better learn his powers. Once it was done, Lillie's options were to either send Solgaleo back home or keep him with her, it would take years to undo all of the damage Cipher had done but she and Elio are patient.
At Aether, the scientists have been busy, they had discovered a method to remove the corruption on the key stones they obtained during Ciphers attack on Alola. Surrounding the key stones with mega stones and placing them into a machine to slowly remove the corruption. Other wise they have been busy with another problem that occurred ever since the ordeal with shadow Mew; the nightmarish creatures that swarmed Alola and the psychic types that were driven insane were a result of the excess power of the shadow Mew. More research is to be seen as to how long the effect will hold and how many need help. To Elio if the psychic project would keep Aether out of trouble, he would not care since they were suppose to be helping pokemon rather than exploit them. To Lillie, it was a small comfort that her mother was slowly getting better after her few episodes during the shadow crisis. As for Gladion, he was busy fulfilling what Elio and Lillie trusted him to; having the pokemon rescued in Orre guided home.
Elio had one minor issue to tend to, because he encouraged the people of Alola to challenge him, he had to deal with the fact that everyone is after his title. Many tried, few even got to him. Even fewer have knocked out members his team. The last three challengers were three former members of Team Skull who had finally gathered the courage to try and face him on his throne. After Elio saw their performance in Orre Colosseum, he sought to one day see what they had to bring as both a challenge and a threat. Elio just organized his team to take Bulmer, Jeffery and Yorks on. Wavey the Alolan Dugtrio was given a choice scarf to compensate for having less speed than its regional counterpart, Makuta the Cofagrigus was taken out of the basement for another battle, Kalden the Silvally had been equipped with a disk called the Dragon Memory ever since it broke off its helmet when it evolved from Type:Null. Mac the Hitmonchan was equipped with a life orb to take on many challengers, Terminator the Metagross was a pokemon Elio had both feared and respected for its raw power and frightening speed upon mega evolving. The latest addition to the team was the mythical pokemon Mew, what was a pokemon that had spent two months clinging to either Elio or Lillie was now comfortable with training up for battle. Elio had named this Mew, Isaac.
As Elio progressed past his Elite Four, he gave the usual order. "We have at least three more people coming for my throne! Don't hold back and this should be the last of the rush we have to deal with for a while."
The first of the three was a punk named Bulmer. "Took us long enough to reach here! Now lets see what really makes you the Champion!"
Elio stood and bellowed out. "You had many obstacles during your journey as well as many set backs. Show me why you stand before me!"
Vs Pokemon Trainer Bulmer.
Bulmer sent out a Crobat. Elio took a great ball and shouted. "WAVEY LETS START THIS BATTLE!"
Out came a long haired Dugtrio. "OPEN UP WITH ROCK SLIDE AND DO NOT STOP!"
The scarf gave the Dugtrio the speed it needed to attack the Crobat first with falling rocks. Bulmer flinched and shouted. "Use brave bird to get that Dugtrio weak enough for Jack to finish it off!" The Dugtrio was rushed by the Crobat as it was prepared to finish it off with another rock slide.
Bulmer called the Crobat back and tossed a great ball. "Alright Jack lets finish this one off! Use moon..."
The Dugtrio used another rockslide, causing the newly arrived Sylveon flinch from the rocks. After another rock slide, the Sylveon used moon blast to knock the Dugtrio out.
Elio switched to his next pokemon. "Kalden! Show this fool the raw power of a dragon!" Out came a Silvally with teal high lights. Elio shouted. "NOW! USE FLASH CANNON TO TAKE THAT SYLVEON OUT!" With a shot out of the Silvally's mouth, the Sylveon was knocked out. Bulmer growled as he sent out a Pangoro.
Elio shouted. "KALDEN USE FLAMETHROWER! SHOUT YOU THUUM!" Bulmer was about to ask what Elio was talking about when the Pangoro was burned from a flame thrower. "Hit that Silvally with a sky uppercut, see if you can't take it out!"
The Silvally was sent backward, but it still stood for Elio to shout. "NOW! DRACO METEOR! SHOW THEM ALL WHY YOU ARE A DRAGON!"
The Pangoro was quickly knocked out by pelting meteors, Bulmer sent out his next pokemon, an Alolan Exeggutor. "Nutsy... just get out there and shut them up!" Elio ordered the Silvally to use another draco meteor when Bulmer posed for the Exeggutor to use a "DEVASTATING DRAKE!" to knock the Silvally out.
Elio smiled as he called the Silvally back. "You done good. MAC LETS PUSH FOWARD!" The Hitmonchan leaped into the field as Elio began to shout his next order. "FINISH THAT EXEGGUTOR OFF WITH MACH PUNCH!"
The Alolan Exeggutor was knocked out by the mach punch, Bulmer sighed in frustration. "Froggums! Lets take him out!"
Elio shouted out. "USE THUNDERPUNCH!" The Politoed was hit for super effective damage as it bounced into the air. The Hitmonchan stood as the Politoed bounced on him, paralyzing him for a scald to finish him off. Elio glared at the Politoed as sent out a Metagross and raised his keystone, laughing loudly. "TERMINATOR! MEGA EVOLVE! HAHAHAHA!"
The Metagross glowed as it took a much more agile and much more brutal form; eight limbs, four in the front and four in the back with a spike on its chin. Elio shouted. "KNOCK IT OUT WITH ZEN HEADBUTT!"
The Metagross rammed into the Politoed and knocked him back to Bulmer. "Gaak! Skully lets mess him up!"
Elio shouted louder as he saw the Alolan Marowak. "TERMINATOR USE EARTHQUAKE TO CRUSH THAT MAROWAK!"
The Marowak still stood as Bulmer shouted back. "Use shadow club and that Metagross is down!" With a swing of a spectral bone, the Metagross reverted back and was knocked out. Elio smiled as a Mew floated from behind the throne.
Bulmer's eyes widened. "Oh come on what pokemon is it this time?"
Elio sighed. "Mew! Or Isaac!" He posed for the move, placed his fingers at the sides of his head and moved his right hand infront of him. "SHATTERED PSYCHE!" Ending the fight as the Marowak was tossed all around, breaking through a psychic barrier.
Bulmer sighed at the fact he lost as Elio kept a smile. "In comparison to most of the challengers these last couple months, you were the first to have actually been a new challenge. Feel free to try again. Now begone!"
Bulmer shook his head at how over the top the champion acted as he left to tell the other two the bad news.
Elio healed his pokemon as he prepared for the next challenger. A pale red haired gangster named Jeffery. "You think you can hold forever champ?"
Elio shrugged. "No! But I want this to last a long time. Have at you!"
Vs Pokemon Trainer Jeffery.
Jeffery sent out a Magnezone. Elio sent out his Hitmonchan. "MAC USE MACH PUNCH TO BREAK THAT STURDY!"
As fast as the punch went, Jeffery sighed. "Thunderbolt and get it ready!"
Elio shouted as the Magnezone shot at the Hitmonchan. "MAC BEAT THAT MAGNEZONE DOWN IN CLOSE COMBAT!"
The Hitmonchan rushed in and knocked out the Magnezone, Jeffery sent out a Hariyama. "Use fake out! Then get a bullet punch ready."
Elio was about to shout for a mach punch when the Hariyama faked out the Hitmonchan, as both fighting types punched each other, the Hitmonchan was knocked out.
Elio frowned. "Sorry that I am sending Terminator out sooner than usual! MEGA EVOLVE AND USE ZEN HEAD BUTT!"
The Hariyama was quickly knocked out as Jeffery cringed. "Yikes! Jumpluff we need that thing shut down now! Use stun spore!"
The Mega Metagross was paralyzed, but it rammed its head into the Jumpluff for significant damage, the Jumpluff held a red card, sending it back.
Elio sent out the Mew. "ISAAC! FLAMETHROWER THIS ONE OUT!" The Mew was paralyzed by the Jumpluff's stun spore; Mew knocked out the Jumpluff with a flamethrower.
Jeff swallowed as he switched. "Granbull! Use crunch to take that Mew down hurry before that Z move mess you up!" The Mew was crunched, it was unable to move due to paralysis.
Elio sighed as he called the Mew back "Return! Terminator lets finish this!" The Granbull crunched into the Metagross for super effective damage as Elio shouted. "METEOR MASH!"
As another was knocked out Jeffery, growled. "Thats it! Dugtrio take that Metagross down with an earthquake!"
As the Metagross was knocked out, Elio sent out his Dugtrio. "Use Earthquake yourself!" In a rumble, the opposing Dugtrio was also knocked out.
Jeffery sent out his last pokemon. "Goodra lets try and keep this fight alive, substitute and fireblast!" Another quake was felt as the Goodra set up a substitute and knocked the Dugtrio out of the field.
Elio sent out the Silvally. "NOW END THIS FIGHT IN GLORY! DRACO METEOR!" The Goodra was crushed by falling meteors, leaving Jeffery defeated.
Elio grinned more. "Another good one. If you want to try for the throne again, you are more than free to do so. Next!"
As the second punk left in disappointment and Elio healed, a dark skin gangster arrived more furious in comparison. "Okay! Now I am going to avenge the other two!"
Elio laughed. "Lets see you try!"
Vs Pokemon Trainer Yorks
Yorks sent out a Kangaskhan. Elio shouted out. "ALRIGHT WAVEY, LETS SHOW HIM WHAT YOU CAN DO!"
Yorks finished a cigarette as he shouted out. "Okay Kangaskhan use fake out to slow him down a bit!"
The Dugtrio flinched as Elio shouted. "HIT HER WITH AN EARTHQUAKE!" Yorks shouted out for the Kangaskhan to use an earthquake herself.
The Dugtrio was knocked out as Elio sent out his next pokemon. "KALDEN! FLAMETHROWER THAT KANGASKHAN OUT!"
The Silvally finished off the Kangaskhan with a flamethrower as Yorks prepared a switch. "Okay Don Feathers, lets show this kid how far you came!" Elio roared for his Silvally to use draco meteor, the Honchkrow was still up to knock it down with a brave bird. Both were knocked out from the damage and the recoil.
Elio took a deep breath as he called back the Silvally and shouted. "ISAAC LETS DO THIS!"
Yorks sent out a Talonflame and began to pose for an "INFERNO OVERDRIVE!" engulfing the Mew in a fire ball as Elio began his pose for "SHATTERED PSYCHE!" Sending the Talonflame across a psychic barrier for a knock out. York sent out an Alolan muk, the Mew twitched a nasty plot it was crunched into.
Elio shouted "Isaac if you are still up, shoot it with a flamethrower!" As the Mew spewed powerful flames, the Muk jabbed it with a poisonous fist for a knock out.
Elio called the Mew back and shouted. "TERMINATOR! MEGA EVOLVE AND USE EARTHQUAKE!" With a crash into the ground, the Muk was knocked out. Yorks saw he was losing and sent out Bewear in an attempt to keep his dignity as a trainer.
Elio shouted at the Mega Metagross. "Zen headbutt!" The Metagross rammed at the Bewear as Yorks shouted back. "Bewear hit that Metagross with an earthquake, I am not leaving until that thing is taken down!"
Elio shrugged as the Metagross took the damage. "Another one into the Bewear!" With a knock out, Yorks called the Bewear back and sent out his last pokemon, a Parasect.
Elio shouted out. "METEOR MASH!" The Parasect took the hit and shot out spores, sending the Metagross into a deep sleep, leaving it for a quick knock out from an x scissor.
Elio shouted out. "NOW MAKUTA! LETS END THIS! KEEP USING SHADOW BALL UNTIL THAT PARASECT IS DOWN!" The Parasect was pelted with a shadow ball as it shot out spores into the Cofagrigus, it attempted to drain it for health with a leech life. As the Parasect healed for minimal amount of damage, the Cofagrigus awoke and ended the fight.
Yorks slumped down in defeat as Elio cheered at him. "You done well to make it this far. If you want to try for the throne again. You are free to do so."
Yorks glared. "Don't, say anything kid! I kind of want to go tell the others the bad news."
As the last of the challengers have been bested, Elio got a call from Kahili. "Hey champ, word is from Kukui that we are not expecting any new challengers for quite a while. We been busy ever since that... incident!"
Elio frowned. "Good to hear! Unless anything comes up I will be at Melemele!" Elio left the building to fly back home, hoping to meet up with Lillie and prepared for what she had planned for two months.
At Hau'oli.
Bulmer, Jeffery and Yorks talked things over as they bought some masaldas for comfort.
Bulmer was the first to break the silence. "Took that champ kid a month to get by the trials, stop that Aether nonsense and become champ... took us two months to barely get the trials done!"
Jeffery groaned as he began to recall what went wrong for them. "First off, to hell with that old man, to hell with Cipher and to hell with that curfew! Second, anyone remember what happened that caused us to get knocked out. Because I keep remembering those voices like it was a nightmare; failure, noob, all you work for will be for nothing! Then turn out those Cipher goons tried to shoot Alola out of the map with some tauros shit weapon."
Jeffery cringed more. "That point everything went crazy and we were swarmed by some purple... things. They kept coming no mater how much Magnezone fried! Then turn out what ever was causing that mess put the Champ into a coma! Once that was done and he came back to Alola, he became so busy he wouldn't take any challengers."
Jeffery slammed his head in defeat as Yorks smoked another cigarette. "Where did that all get us in the end? How many of us besides big sis has even gotten that far? Did either of you numb skulls expected the Champ to sit back and let us win? He doesn't even hold back for his lady friend least of all people like us!"
As Elio flew to Hau'oli, he over heard the last part and shouted. "True enough!"
The Skull Trio groaned as to what the Champion still wanted with the three. Elio took a deep breath as he asked if he was allowed sit down and talk to them. Mew was playing with his tail as Elio began. "When I first saw you three, you were not even scrubs. You were a bunch of crooks that got in my way and I had to do something about it. Ever since Team Skull was disbanded, most don't have anywhere else to go for reasons I don't even want to think about!"
Elio looked at all three of them as he continued. "Be honest with me, when you restarted the trials, did you plan ahead?"
The Skull Trio looked at each other as they hesitate to answer. Elio reworded his question. "Besides that shadow pokemon incident!"
The Skull trio nodded as Elio helped them remove one of the things that they messed up in. "I saw your teams back on Orre, you did everything right in making a team with various roles. I am proud of you three to have made it this far and you should be proud as w..."
The Mew spun as he noticed a tough looking woman in a blue bandana walking right behind Elio. It was startled and meowed to let Elio know who was right behind him. "Crap, she was listening to me... was she?"
Plumeria gave Elio a nuggie as she began to ask. "What the hell were you doing to my little bros?"
Elio shouted out. "Trying to make them feel better after crushing their hopes and dreams! How much did you even hear?"
Plumeria let him go and told him. "More than enough!"
Elio pretended to be intimidated and asked. "This is my que to leave before I make it worse?"
Plumeria gave Elio a poisonous smile. "I think you done quite enough, now get out of here kid!"
Elio had the Mew come with him as Plumeria handed the Skull Trio three envelopes. "I heard something is reopening in another region. You three got better things to do than sitting around in this region. Check it out when you get the chance!"
Elio return home to find Lillie reading something with her Vaporeon, Leafeon and Kingler. Elio sent out his Silvally to go play with the Mew as he asked Lillie about her day.
Lillie tried to hide her excitement and answered. "Uneventful, how was your day?"
Elio sat on a chair and took a deep breath. "Just took care of the last batch of challengers. They were the more interesting of the new bunch. These last two months were busy but in comparison to that three months of hell, this is preferable. How were the others?"
Lillie smiled. "Nanny has been a help in carrying groceries with me, Bouy and Skitters have become very good in battle ever since they evolved! Soak, Broil, Season and Sony are starting to trust me more that I can battle with them! Elio, I have something we can go do in a couple of weeks!"
Lillie handed Elio a note about something in Sinnoh. "Pokemon... super contests?"
Lillie sighed. "Remember that wager we had two months ago?"
Elio nodded. "I remember. How long is this trip going to be?"
Lillie smiled and explained. "A month and a half at worse!"
Elio smiled back. "I think I know a couple pokemon I have that might be interested in this. Since the region I picked did not go so well, this would give me something to do!"
The next day the duo split to get an okay from everyone.
Elios mother approved as she recalled. "I remember your father being from Sinnoh. We got together when I tried one of these contests and he tried the pokemon league! I wish he called from Unova though, it has been over a year."
Elio shrugged as he went to ask Kukui if the pokemon league was okay with him going on another trip; the professor had good news for Elio in that the league is not expecting any people for at least a month.
Kukui grinned as he spoke his opinion on the contests. "I also heard that these contest are a good way to test out some moves out for visual appeal, let me know how that goes!"
Lillie had a shorter time explaining to her brother where she is going to be.
As she told Gladion the actual reason for her to take a trip to Sinnoh. "While the Contests is something I want to do, there is another reason I have to go to Sinnoh. Here!"
Lillie handed Gladion an envelope containing a pass to somewhere. "Sinnoh battle front... you know I am going to be busy until the pokemon you and Elio handed over to us are back home! I just had a group of pokemon heading to Unova."
Lillies cheeks were puffing, Gladion sighed in defeat. "No guarantee, but I will go when I get the chance!"
Lillie smiled as she prepared to tell her mother about the trip.
Lusamine saw the invitation to the Sinnoh Battle frontier and placed her hand over her face. "I know what you are about to tell me, the question is why? This is a yearly event and only a few trainers get these. So go!"
The two smiled at each other as Lillie left the Aether Paradise to go back to Melemele.
Elio was busy talking to Hau about something in Iki Town.
"They can apparently cut tree's, push boulders, smash rocks, climb walls, travel across water and climb waterfalls. The only thing Bob cannot do besides battling is fly! I heard that Molayne was busy connecting the P.C to the rest of the world. We should be able to access our storage a day or so after we get to Sinnoh!"
Lillie flew down to explain to Elio the good news. "Shouldn't you get some of the pokemon ready for the trip? I will catch up to you in a little while."
Elio left for home as Lillie talked to Hau. "Now then, I got something for you to look at. Let us know if you are interested!"
Hau read the invitation and cheered. "I got to go ask if it is okay for a short trip!"
Hau ran toward Iki town as Lillie took a deep breath. "I know he is going to love this!"
During the following week, Lillie trained some of her pokemon for there trip to Sinnoh. Swifter the Cinccino, Skitters the Venomoth, Brute the Darmanitan, Ghorchi the Hydreigon Lola the Vaporeon and Cain the Leafeon were among the most excited. Elio's mother agreed to help the duo make some material for the dress up competition's they have in Sinnoh. She gathered the material to put things together, they are the ones who attempt to make it.
Elio sighed at what his mother was doing. "You told me you went a little much when you went to this the first time, Something about Reptile looking like a ninja?"
Elio's mother smiled back. "Now you two are making some!"
The Mew wanted to piece together a costume himself and began making a Fez.
Elio and his mother found it innocent enough until the later saw him gathering paper and red paint. "Oh, no no no! If you are going to put that much detail in a cosplay, pick something else!"
The Mew sighed as it put the material away, it meowed something to Elio's mother as it gathered black cloth, sticks and string. Elio's mother looked at the material and nodded. "Okay I think I know what you are going for, mind if I help?"
As the two exit into a sewing room, Lillie asked Elio what that was about, he sighed as he realized what was happening. "Isaac wanted to pick a new character. Where did he get that idea though?
" Lillie asked Elio where is Rotom Dex. Elio answered. "He is at Kukui's being upgraded, good news is that he won't annoy us during this. The bad news he is kind of our map and translator."
Lillie finished making some purple and orange ribbons for her Venomoth and Volcarona. "What do you two think of these?"
The Venomoth and Volcarona let Lillie put them on them. The Venomoth did not mind the look, neither did the Volcarona until the orange ribbons burst into flames. Elio looked in disappointment as he picked up the ashes. The Volcarona sighed at what he done and went into his ball in shame.
Lillie looked down in more shame as Elio attempted to make her feel better. "I don't think Sunne did that on purpose, fiery wings tend to do that to anything."
Lillie frowned. "I know, Sunne does this when he burns something by accident."
The two nodded in acceptance as the Mew flew back with a strange costume.
The Mew had a black shirt, black bat wings as Elio's mother finished with the horns. "Little snap here! There we go! This what you were going for?"
The Mew growled menacingly at his reflection and smiled back. The following hours, the duo were busy making bow ties, bands, cloaks, gathered some old clothes and items laying around to see what would match. The Hydreigon being the one who would not stand still as he wiggled into a suit, had a top hat placed on his main head, a bow tie placed on the other and was about to bust out of the house to look for something.
Lillie took the outfit off of the Hydreigon and wondered. "What are you about to do Ghorchi? You know people get nervous when you fly around on your own!"
The Hydreigon smiled and nodded as he took Lillie with him on a small trip outside to find something. Leaving the Cinccino as the only one that needed something. Elio's mother thought of something fitting for a pokemon that cleans as she went back to the sewing room.
Elio looked over to the Mew with a T.M case ready. "Since Psycho boost is considered a smart move do you mind if I have you forget dazzling gleam for something else?" The Mew smiled and picked the T.M containing the move shadow ball.
Once the two ladies returned, Elio's mother had a red maid outfit as she asked. "Swifter do you think you would like this?" The Cinccino saw the outfit, sighed and grabbed a small broom. The Hydreigon opened the door acting excited over a flower he picked up, a lily. Lillie smiled and blushed as she asked about anything she missed.
Elio shrugged. "Aside from carving some fake throwing stars for Zippy and gathering stuff for a ninja hood, not much. This next month is going to be interesting to say the least." The duo finished making a fake anchor and tough looking wristbands as Elio's mother got a camera ready for a small group photo. "Alright everyone, cheers!"
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Summary: Two months after the third shadow crisis, Lillie has prepared to take Elio on a trip to the Sinnoh region to partake in contests and a surprise trip! What will happen through out their adventure?
Rating: K+ Compared to the previous fanfic this one is very light.
Characters: Lillie, Elio (Male Player character of Sun and Moon)
The following fanfiction is a continuation of the fanfiction Though The Sands We Go. It would be wise to read that one first before going into this one!
Chapter 1 Bashing Skulls and Dressing Up!
Two months have passed since the end of the third shadow crisis. Life had went on as the pokemon that suffered were either returned to their trainers, sent back home, being in the process of being sent back home or in the case with the few still left under the care of two trainers, Elio and Lillie. For Elio this meant he has to shuffle between helping Lillie take care of them and his duty as champion. Lillie was more hands on as she had the free time. Very few of the pokemon had noticeable issues; Plusle and Minum hate being separated from each other, Seviper was not allowed near anything small and fluffy because he mistook some of them for its natural enemy the Zangoose. Tetra the Qwilfish was startled by everything and puffed up. Bob the Bibarel had a phobia of being in a battle or even the thought of being in a battle. For Armaldo, Cradily, Simisear, Simipour, Simisage and Porygon 2 they do not trust humans because their own trainers had them turned into shadow pokemon. Kukui offered to help with some of the aquatic pokemon providing they behaved.
With the pokemon being raised, Lillies Venonat, Zorua, Skiddo and Azurril had evolved. The Zoroark was naturally a prankster and often disguises himself as two of Lillies pokemon, Lola the Vaporeon and Cain the Leafeon. He often fools Elio or when he figure it out, the Zoroark always escapes and finds a new disguise. Sometimes when Elio and Lillie are busy, they often leave Pete the Banette and Makuta the Cofagrigus to help guard the house. Elio still wondered what what happened to his shrinking hidden stash of gold nuggets as he shuffled between evolving the pokemon he had caught on Orre and everything else that came from being champion. The Banette is naturally a prankster that is content with having some plush toys to keep company, while the Cofagrigus is very quick to scare off would be burglars. Some of the pokemon Elio and Lillie brought with them to Orre have been put on standby for when they need them again. Lillies Pidgeot was let out to reconnect with his parents; Tally a Pidgeotto Lillie caught in Kanto by accident and Dafgers, a Farfetch'd. The creature of legends named Lunala or called Nebby, had agreed to help socialize the Solgaleo to help him better learn his powers. Once it was done, Lillie's options were to either send Solgaleo back home or keep him with her, it would take years to undo all of the damage Cipher had done but she and Elio are patient.
At Aether, the scientists have been busy, they had discovered a method to remove the corruption on the key stones they obtained during Ciphers attack on Alola. Surrounding the key stones with mega stones and placing them into a machine to slowly remove the corruption. Other wise they have been busy with another problem that occurred ever since the ordeal with shadow Mew; the nightmarish creatures that swarmed Alola and the psychic types that were driven insane were a result of the excess power of the shadow Mew. More research is to be seen as to how long the effect will hold and how many need help. To Elio if the psychic project would keep Aether out of trouble, he would not care since they were suppose to be helping pokemon rather than exploit them. To Lillie, it was a small comfort that her mother was slowly getting better after her few episodes during the shadow crisis. As for Gladion, he was busy fulfilling what Elio and Lillie trusted him to; having the pokemon rescued in Orre guided home.
Elio had one minor issue to tend to, because he encouraged the people of Alola to challenge him, he had to deal with the fact that everyone is after his title. Many tried, few even got to him. Even fewer have knocked out members his team. The last three challengers were three former members of Team Skull who had finally gathered the courage to try and face him on his throne. After Elio saw their performance in Orre Colosseum, he sought to one day see what they had to bring as both a challenge and a threat. Elio just organized his team to take Bulmer, Jeffery and Yorks on. Wavey the Alolan Dugtrio was given a choice scarf to compensate for having less speed than its regional counterpart, Makuta the Cofagrigus was taken out of the basement for another battle, Kalden the Silvally had been equipped with a disk called the Dragon Memory ever since it broke off its helmet when it evolved from Type:Null. Mac the Hitmonchan was equipped with a life orb to take on many challengers, Terminator the Metagross was a pokemon Elio had both feared and respected for its raw power and frightening speed upon mega evolving. The latest addition to the team was the mythical pokemon Mew, what was a pokemon that had spent two months clinging to either Elio or Lillie was now comfortable with training up for battle. Elio had named this Mew, Isaac.
As Elio progressed past his Elite Four, he gave the usual order. "We have at least three more people coming for my throne! Don't hold back and this should be the last of the rush we have to deal with for a while."
The first of the three was a punk named Bulmer. "Took us long enough to reach here! Now lets see what really makes you the Champion!"
Elio stood and bellowed out. "You had many obstacles during your journey as well as many set backs. Show me why you stand before me!"
Vs Pokemon Trainer Bulmer.
Bulmer sent out a Crobat. Elio took a great ball and shouted. "WAVEY LETS START THIS BATTLE!"
Out came a long haired Dugtrio. "OPEN UP WITH ROCK SLIDE AND DO NOT STOP!"
The scarf gave the Dugtrio the speed it needed to attack the Crobat first with falling rocks. Bulmer flinched and shouted. "Use brave bird to get that Dugtrio weak enough for Jack to finish it off!" The Dugtrio was rushed by the Crobat as it was prepared to finish it off with another rock slide.
Bulmer called the Crobat back and tossed a great ball. "Alright Jack lets finish this one off! Use moon..."
The Dugtrio used another rockslide, causing the newly arrived Sylveon flinch from the rocks. After another rock slide, the Sylveon used moon blast to knock the Dugtrio out.
Elio switched to his next pokemon. "Kalden! Show this fool the raw power of a dragon!" Out came a Silvally with teal high lights. Elio shouted. "NOW! USE FLASH CANNON TO TAKE THAT SYLVEON OUT!" With a shot out of the Silvally's mouth, the Sylveon was knocked out. Bulmer growled as he sent out a Pangoro.
Elio shouted. "KALDEN USE FLAMETHROWER! SHOUT YOU THUUM!" Bulmer was about to ask what Elio was talking about when the Pangoro was burned from a flame thrower. "Hit that Silvally with a sky uppercut, see if you can't take it out!"
The Silvally was sent backward, but it still stood for Elio to shout. "NOW! DRACO METEOR! SHOW THEM ALL WHY YOU ARE A DRAGON!"
The Pangoro was quickly knocked out by pelting meteors, Bulmer sent out his next pokemon, an Alolan Exeggutor. "Nutsy... just get out there and shut them up!" Elio ordered the Silvally to use another draco meteor when Bulmer posed for the Exeggutor to use a "DEVASTATING DRAKE!" to knock the Silvally out.
Elio smiled as he called the Silvally back. "You done good. MAC LETS PUSH FOWARD!" The Hitmonchan leaped into the field as Elio began to shout his next order. "FINISH THAT EXEGGUTOR OFF WITH MACH PUNCH!"
The Alolan Exeggutor was knocked out by the mach punch, Bulmer sighed in frustration. "Froggums! Lets take him out!"
Elio shouted out. "USE THUNDERPUNCH!" The Politoed was hit for super effective damage as it bounced into the air. The Hitmonchan stood as the Politoed bounced on him, paralyzing him for a scald to finish him off. Elio glared at the Politoed as sent out a Metagross and raised his keystone, laughing loudly. "TERMINATOR! MEGA EVOLVE! HAHAHAHA!"
The Metagross glowed as it took a much more agile and much more brutal form; eight limbs, four in the front and four in the back with a spike on its chin. Elio shouted. "KNOCK IT OUT WITH ZEN HEADBUTT!"
The Metagross rammed into the Politoed and knocked him back to Bulmer. "Gaak! Skully lets mess him up!"
Elio shouted louder as he saw the Alolan Marowak. "TERMINATOR USE EARTHQUAKE TO CRUSH THAT MAROWAK!"
The Marowak still stood as Bulmer shouted back. "Use shadow club and that Metagross is down!" With a swing of a spectral bone, the Metagross reverted back and was knocked out. Elio smiled as a Mew floated from behind the throne.
Bulmer's eyes widened. "Oh come on what pokemon is it this time?"
Elio sighed. "Mew! Or Isaac!" He posed for the move, placed his fingers at the sides of his head and moved his right hand infront of him. "SHATTERED PSYCHE!" Ending the fight as the Marowak was tossed all around, breaking through a psychic barrier.
Bulmer sighed at the fact he lost as Elio kept a smile. "In comparison to most of the challengers these last couple months, you were the first to have actually been a new challenge. Feel free to try again. Now begone!"
Bulmer shook his head at how over the top the champion acted as he left to tell the other two the bad news.
Elio healed his pokemon as he prepared for the next challenger. A pale red haired gangster named Jeffery. "You think you can hold forever champ?"
Elio shrugged. "No! But I want this to last a long time. Have at you!"
Vs Pokemon Trainer Jeffery.
Jeffery sent out a Magnezone. Elio sent out his Hitmonchan. "MAC USE MACH PUNCH TO BREAK THAT STURDY!"
As fast as the punch went, Jeffery sighed. "Thunderbolt and get it ready!"
Elio shouted as the Magnezone shot at the Hitmonchan. "MAC BEAT THAT MAGNEZONE DOWN IN CLOSE COMBAT!"
The Hitmonchan rushed in and knocked out the Magnezone, Jeffery sent out a Hariyama. "Use fake out! Then get a bullet punch ready."
Elio was about to shout for a mach punch when the Hariyama faked out the Hitmonchan, as both fighting types punched each other, the Hitmonchan was knocked out.
Elio frowned. "Sorry that I am sending Terminator out sooner than usual! MEGA EVOLVE AND USE ZEN HEAD BUTT!"
The Hariyama was quickly knocked out as Jeffery cringed. "Yikes! Jumpluff we need that thing shut down now! Use stun spore!"
The Mega Metagross was paralyzed, but it rammed its head into the Jumpluff for significant damage, the Jumpluff held a red card, sending it back.
Elio sent out the Mew. "ISAAC! FLAMETHROWER THIS ONE OUT!" The Mew was paralyzed by the Jumpluff's stun spore; Mew knocked out the Jumpluff with a flamethrower.
Jeff swallowed as he switched. "Granbull! Use crunch to take that Mew down hurry before that Z move mess you up!" The Mew was crunched, it was unable to move due to paralysis.
Elio sighed as he called the Mew back "Return! Terminator lets finish this!" The Granbull crunched into the Metagross for super effective damage as Elio shouted. "METEOR MASH!"
As another was knocked out Jeffery, growled. "Thats it! Dugtrio take that Metagross down with an earthquake!"
As the Metagross was knocked out, Elio sent out his Dugtrio. "Use Earthquake yourself!" In a rumble, the opposing Dugtrio was also knocked out.
Jeffery sent out his last pokemon. "Goodra lets try and keep this fight alive, substitute and fireblast!" Another quake was felt as the Goodra set up a substitute and knocked the Dugtrio out of the field.
Elio sent out the Silvally. "NOW END THIS FIGHT IN GLORY! DRACO METEOR!" The Goodra was crushed by falling meteors, leaving Jeffery defeated.
Elio grinned more. "Another good one. If you want to try for the throne again, you are more than free to do so. Next!"
As the second punk left in disappointment and Elio healed, a dark skin gangster arrived more furious in comparison. "Okay! Now I am going to avenge the other two!"
Elio laughed. "Lets see you try!"
Vs Pokemon Trainer Yorks
Yorks sent out a Kangaskhan. Elio shouted out. "ALRIGHT WAVEY, LETS SHOW HIM WHAT YOU CAN DO!"
Yorks finished a cigarette as he shouted out. "Okay Kangaskhan use fake out to slow him down a bit!"
The Dugtrio flinched as Elio shouted. "HIT HER WITH AN EARTHQUAKE!" Yorks shouted out for the Kangaskhan to use an earthquake herself.
The Dugtrio was knocked out as Elio sent out his next pokemon. "KALDEN! FLAMETHROWER THAT KANGASKHAN OUT!"
The Silvally finished off the Kangaskhan with a flamethrower as Yorks prepared a switch. "Okay Don Feathers, lets show this kid how far you came!" Elio roared for his Silvally to use draco meteor, the Honchkrow was still up to knock it down with a brave bird. Both were knocked out from the damage and the recoil.
Elio took a deep breath as he called back the Silvally and shouted. "ISAAC LETS DO THIS!"
Yorks sent out a Talonflame and began to pose for an "INFERNO OVERDRIVE!" engulfing the Mew in a fire ball as Elio began his pose for "SHATTERED PSYCHE!" Sending the Talonflame across a psychic barrier for a knock out. York sent out an Alolan muk, the Mew twitched a nasty plot it was crunched into.
Elio shouted "Isaac if you are still up, shoot it with a flamethrower!" As the Mew spewed powerful flames, the Muk jabbed it with a poisonous fist for a knock out.
Elio called the Mew back and shouted. "TERMINATOR! MEGA EVOLVE AND USE EARTHQUAKE!" With a crash into the ground, the Muk was knocked out. Yorks saw he was losing and sent out Bewear in an attempt to keep his dignity as a trainer.
Elio shouted at the Mega Metagross. "Zen headbutt!" The Metagross rammed at the Bewear as Yorks shouted back. "Bewear hit that Metagross with an earthquake, I am not leaving until that thing is taken down!"
Elio shrugged as the Metagross took the damage. "Another one into the Bewear!" With a knock out, Yorks called the Bewear back and sent out his last pokemon, a Parasect.
Elio shouted out. "METEOR MASH!" The Parasect took the hit and shot out spores, sending the Metagross into a deep sleep, leaving it for a quick knock out from an x scissor.
Elio shouted out. "NOW MAKUTA! LETS END THIS! KEEP USING SHADOW BALL UNTIL THAT PARASECT IS DOWN!" The Parasect was pelted with a shadow ball as it shot out spores into the Cofagrigus, it attempted to drain it for health with a leech life. As the Parasect healed for minimal amount of damage, the Cofagrigus awoke and ended the fight.
Yorks slumped down in defeat as Elio cheered at him. "You done well to make it this far. If you want to try for the throne again. You are free to do so."
Yorks glared. "Don't, say anything kid! I kind of want to go tell the others the bad news."
As the last of the challengers have been bested, Elio got a call from Kahili. "Hey champ, word is from Kukui that we are not expecting any new challengers for quite a while. We been busy ever since that... incident!"
Elio frowned. "Good to hear! Unless anything comes up I will be at Melemele!" Elio left the building to fly back home, hoping to meet up with Lillie and prepared for what she had planned for two months.
At Hau'oli.
Bulmer, Jeffery and Yorks talked things over as they bought some masaldas for comfort.
Bulmer was the first to break the silence. "Took that champ kid a month to get by the trials, stop that Aether nonsense and become champ... took us two months to barely get the trials done!"
Jeffery groaned as he began to recall what went wrong for them. "First off, to hell with that old man, to hell with Cipher and to hell with that curfew! Second, anyone remember what happened that caused us to get knocked out. Because I keep remembering those voices like it was a nightmare; failure, noob, all you work for will be for nothing! Then turn out those Cipher goons tried to shoot Alola out of the map with some tauros shit weapon."
Jeffery cringed more. "That point everything went crazy and we were swarmed by some purple... things. They kept coming no mater how much Magnezone fried! Then turn out what ever was causing that mess put the Champ into a coma! Once that was done and he came back to Alola, he became so busy he wouldn't take any challengers."
Jeffery slammed his head in defeat as Yorks smoked another cigarette. "Where did that all get us in the end? How many of us besides big sis has even gotten that far? Did either of you numb skulls expected the Champ to sit back and let us win? He doesn't even hold back for his lady friend least of all people like us!"
As Elio flew to Hau'oli, he over heard the last part and shouted. "True enough!"
The Skull Trio groaned as to what the Champion still wanted with the three. Elio took a deep breath as he asked if he was allowed sit down and talk to them. Mew was playing with his tail as Elio began. "When I first saw you three, you were not even scrubs. You were a bunch of crooks that got in my way and I had to do something about it. Ever since Team Skull was disbanded, most don't have anywhere else to go for reasons I don't even want to think about!"
Elio looked at all three of them as he continued. "Be honest with me, when you restarted the trials, did you plan ahead?"
The Skull Trio looked at each other as they hesitate to answer. Elio reworded his question. "Besides that shadow pokemon incident!"
The Skull trio nodded as Elio helped them remove one of the things that they messed up in. "I saw your teams back on Orre, you did everything right in making a team with various roles. I am proud of you three to have made it this far and you should be proud as w..."
The Mew spun as he noticed a tough looking woman in a blue bandana walking right behind Elio. It was startled and meowed to let Elio know who was right behind him. "Crap, she was listening to me... was she?"
Plumeria gave Elio a nuggie as she began to ask. "What the hell were you doing to my little bros?"
Elio shouted out. "Trying to make them feel better after crushing their hopes and dreams! How much did you even hear?"
Plumeria let him go and told him. "More than enough!"
Elio pretended to be intimidated and asked. "This is my que to leave before I make it worse?"
Plumeria gave Elio a poisonous smile. "I think you done quite enough, now get out of here kid!"
Elio had the Mew come with him as Plumeria handed the Skull Trio three envelopes. "I heard something is reopening in another region. You three got better things to do than sitting around in this region. Check it out when you get the chance!"
Elio return home to find Lillie reading something with her Vaporeon, Leafeon and Kingler. Elio sent out his Silvally to go play with the Mew as he asked Lillie about her day.
Lillie tried to hide her excitement and answered. "Uneventful, how was your day?"
Elio sat on a chair and took a deep breath. "Just took care of the last batch of challengers. They were the more interesting of the new bunch. These last two months were busy but in comparison to that three months of hell, this is preferable. How were the others?"
Lillie smiled. "Nanny has been a help in carrying groceries with me, Bouy and Skitters have become very good in battle ever since they evolved! Soak, Broil, Season and Sony are starting to trust me more that I can battle with them! Elio, I have something we can go do in a couple of weeks!"
Lillie handed Elio a note about something in Sinnoh. "Pokemon... super contests?"
Lillie sighed. "Remember that wager we had two months ago?"
Elio nodded. "I remember. How long is this trip going to be?"
Lillie smiled and explained. "A month and a half at worse!"
Elio smiled back. "I think I know a couple pokemon I have that might be interested in this. Since the region I picked did not go so well, this would give me something to do!"
The next day the duo split to get an okay from everyone.
Elios mother approved as she recalled. "I remember your father being from Sinnoh. We got together when I tried one of these contests and he tried the pokemon league! I wish he called from Unova though, it has been over a year."
Elio shrugged as he went to ask Kukui if the pokemon league was okay with him going on another trip; the professor had good news for Elio in that the league is not expecting any people for at least a month.
Kukui grinned as he spoke his opinion on the contests. "I also heard that these contest are a good way to test out some moves out for visual appeal, let me know how that goes!"
Lillie had a shorter time explaining to her brother where she is going to be.
As she told Gladion the actual reason for her to take a trip to Sinnoh. "While the Contests is something I want to do, there is another reason I have to go to Sinnoh. Here!"
Lillie handed Gladion an envelope containing a pass to somewhere. "Sinnoh battle front... you know I am going to be busy until the pokemon you and Elio handed over to us are back home! I just had a group of pokemon heading to Unova."
Lillies cheeks were puffing, Gladion sighed in defeat. "No guarantee, but I will go when I get the chance!"
Lillie smiled as she prepared to tell her mother about the trip.
Lusamine saw the invitation to the Sinnoh Battle frontier and placed her hand over her face. "I know what you are about to tell me, the question is why? This is a yearly event and only a few trainers get these. So go!"
The two smiled at each other as Lillie left the Aether Paradise to go back to Melemele.
Elio was busy talking to Hau about something in Iki Town.
"They can apparently cut tree's, push boulders, smash rocks, climb walls, travel across water and climb waterfalls. The only thing Bob cannot do besides battling is fly! I heard that Molayne was busy connecting the P.C to the rest of the world. We should be able to access our storage a day or so after we get to Sinnoh!"
Lillie flew down to explain to Elio the good news. "Shouldn't you get some of the pokemon ready for the trip? I will catch up to you in a little while."
Elio left for home as Lillie talked to Hau. "Now then, I got something for you to look at. Let us know if you are interested!"
Hau read the invitation and cheered. "I got to go ask if it is okay for a short trip!"
Hau ran toward Iki town as Lillie took a deep breath. "I know he is going to love this!"
During the following week, Lillie trained some of her pokemon for there trip to Sinnoh. Swifter the Cinccino, Skitters the Venomoth, Brute the Darmanitan, Ghorchi the Hydreigon Lola the Vaporeon and Cain the Leafeon were among the most excited. Elio's mother agreed to help the duo make some material for the dress up competition's they have in Sinnoh. She gathered the material to put things together, they are the ones who attempt to make it.
Elio sighed at what his mother was doing. "You told me you went a little much when you went to this the first time, Something about Reptile looking like a ninja?"
Elio's mother smiled back. "Now you two are making some!"
The Mew wanted to piece together a costume himself and began making a Fez.
Elio and his mother found it innocent enough until the later saw him gathering paper and red paint. "Oh, no no no! If you are going to put that much detail in a cosplay, pick something else!"
The Mew sighed as it put the material away, it meowed something to Elio's mother as it gathered black cloth, sticks and string. Elio's mother looked at the material and nodded. "Okay I think I know what you are going for, mind if I help?"
As the two exit into a sewing room, Lillie asked Elio what that was about, he sighed as he realized what was happening. "Isaac wanted to pick a new character. Where did he get that idea though?
" Lillie asked Elio where is Rotom Dex. Elio answered. "He is at Kukui's being upgraded, good news is that he won't annoy us during this. The bad news he is kind of our map and translator."
Lillie finished making some purple and orange ribbons for her Venomoth and Volcarona. "What do you two think of these?"
The Venomoth and Volcarona let Lillie put them on them. The Venomoth did not mind the look, neither did the Volcarona until the orange ribbons burst into flames. Elio looked in disappointment as he picked up the ashes. The Volcarona sighed at what he done and went into his ball in shame.
Lillie looked down in more shame as Elio attempted to make her feel better. "I don't think Sunne did that on purpose, fiery wings tend to do that to anything."
Lillie frowned. "I know, Sunne does this when he burns something by accident."
The two nodded in acceptance as the Mew flew back with a strange costume.
The Mew had a black shirt, black bat wings as Elio's mother finished with the horns. "Little snap here! There we go! This what you were going for?"
The Mew growled menacingly at his reflection and smiled back. The following hours, the duo were busy making bow ties, bands, cloaks, gathered some old clothes and items laying around to see what would match. The Hydreigon being the one who would not stand still as he wiggled into a suit, had a top hat placed on his main head, a bow tie placed on the other and was about to bust out of the house to look for something.
Lillie took the outfit off of the Hydreigon and wondered. "What are you about to do Ghorchi? You know people get nervous when you fly around on your own!"
The Hydreigon smiled and nodded as he took Lillie with him on a small trip outside to find something. Leaving the Cinccino as the only one that needed something. Elio's mother thought of something fitting for a pokemon that cleans as she went back to the sewing room.
Elio looked over to the Mew with a T.M case ready. "Since Psycho boost is considered a smart move do you mind if I have you forget dazzling gleam for something else?" The Mew smiled and picked the T.M containing the move shadow ball.
Once the two ladies returned, Elio's mother had a red maid outfit as she asked. "Swifter do you think you would like this?" The Cinccino saw the outfit, sighed and grabbed a small broom. The Hydreigon opened the door acting excited over a flower he picked up, a lily. Lillie smiled and blushed as she asked about anything she missed.
Elio shrugged. "Aside from carving some fake throwing stars for Zippy and gathering stuff for a ninja hood, not much. This next month is going to be interesting to say the least." The duo finished making a fake anchor and tough looking wristbands as Elio's mother got a camera ready for a small group photo. "Alright everyone, cheers!"
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