The New Normal – 11-18 – A Pre-Emptive Talk
Even though Karen’s match was for the day after tomorrow, that didn’t mean I had nothing to do when I woke up the next morning. In fact, practically as soon as I woke up, I had received a call from Daisy.
“Good morning, Daisy.” I greeted, “How can I help?”
“Oh its nothing much, but I just wanted to ask you something.” She said, “Did you tell a kid named Ash to ask my grandfather for trainer ad...
2024-09-23 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-17 – Discussions
The uproar and panic after the eruption gradually calmed down as the days passed. With most if not all of the evacuees relocated to proper housing into various Pokémon Centers and similar housing facilities around Indigo, their discontent settled as they were provided with food, shelter, and comfort. And, most importantly, were reunited with their loved ones and Pokémon.
Of course, they couldn’t reside in there forever....
2024-09-20 10:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-16 – Interlude – Karen
“You look like you just won the lottery. What’s gone into you?” She asked the old hag as the latter returned home with an unmistakable smile on her face. She looked tired, as most people did after handling the eruption, though obviously Agatha was excluded from the more physical elements of the evacuation.
“Also, rub that smile off your face. You look extra creepy when you’re smiling.” She added.
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2024-09-18 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-16 – Aftermath
I held Oak’s words to heart on the next day, and I deeply reflected on his wisdom as I slept. He was certainly right that a great leader needed to be more than just someone who could lead and be strong, but they also had to be empathetic and approachable. The people were relying on us, and it was time to meet that expectation.
With those thoughts circling around my head, I woke up the next day full of vigour a...
2024-09-16 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-15 – The Eruption
I arrived to a scene of barely controlled chaos.
The erupting lava had already reached the edge of the city, and had already swallowed up dozens of building into its fiery maw, spreading fire and destruction in its wake. There would be no salvaging those – I just hoped that everyone was able to get out in time.
In the meanwhile, ships and boats were being sent out and retrieved with the utmost haste, as they evacua...
2024-09-13 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-14 – Interlude – Blaine
“…Shelly, how am I supposed to find the time to help you with training a new Water type? You know I’m busy with my own projects.” Blaine muttered into the phone.
“Well Kabuto are partially Rock and Water, so I thought you might have some tips for me.” His friend and research partner replied, “Besides, you know how bad I am as a trainer compared to you.”
“I won’t deny that.” He said merci...
2024-09-11 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-14 – A New Cave
Koga’s unexpected challenges sent ripples throughout Indigo, as any challenge to the Elite Four always did. However, I noticed that the reactions of the public lacked the surprise that I had expected, since they likely thought that it was about time that Will received an official challenge.
Lance put it best, “Every Elite Four member will eventually receive a challenge from someone. It was only a matter of when. Therefor...
2024-09-09 11:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-13 – A New Challenger Approaches
Right after my proposal was officially passed, I received many congratulatory messages from my friends such as from Steven, Wallace, and Lucian.
Obviously Cynthia was included in that list, but she also had more words for me.
“So what are you planning on doing next, now that one of your longer term goals have been achieved?” She had asked me, “I don’t see you as someone sitting idle. Are you go...
2024-09-06 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-12 – Interlude – Steven
He sat down opposite his friend with a plate full of food. Except, it wasn’t exactly the food he was hoping to eat.
“Are you happy now?” He spat frustratedly.
Unperturbed by his anger, Bruno simply nodded, “It would be better for your long-term health if you ate healthier.”
“I’ll have you know that a dietician came up with my diet.” He bluffed, but Bruno quickly saw through...
2024-09-04 11:00:12 +0000 UTC
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A.N. Hi all, sorry for the double posting, but thanks to a comment (thanks Deathknight134) I realised that I should have included a section regarding the Farigiraf evolution. So I have now included that in, and I also cut down on the section about the Gym Leader proposal among a few other minor edits because I thought that the article ran a little too long. Hopefully you like this new version better! Big thanks to your comments!
The New Normal – 11-12 ...
2024-09-02 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-11 – Politics in Action
With all of the preparations in place, Lance and I worked together to organise and have everything in place and ready in time for the next Committee meeting. There was no need to delay things any further; better to strike while the iron was still hot.
I walked into the meeting room with a confident smile on my face, ignoring the many stares and whispers that were directed my way. None of my preparations were subtle, ...
2024-08-30 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-10 – Interlude – Koga
Pride and glory were normally concepts that he cared little for. He did not disdain or abhor them; they simply did not take up much of his own thoughts during his day-to-day life. He had taken up his duties as a Gym Leader because he saw it as his obligation to do so, not for any personal glory or sense of accomplishment.
However, he would be lying if he said that he was entirely devoid of pride or ambition.
Ko...
2024-08-28 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-10 – Collecting Gym Leaders
Despite whatever feelings we had for each other, Pryce and I kept up the façade of being friends in front of the cameras for long enough to achieve our political objectives. After my conversation and ‘photoshoot’ with Pryce, I had gone to visit Giovanni to make sure that everything was in place for the announcement of my proposal.
He told me to make sure that Blaine and Clair would be on board and informed i...
2024-08-26 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-9 – Triumphant Return
Since Indigo was closer than Hoenn, our group were first to get off the boat after about a day’s trip back. Drake would stay on for the remainder of the trip back to Hoenn.
“It’s been fun, John. I can see why you were so insistent on opening up cave explorations back in Indigo too.” He said to me as we were about to arrive in Indigo.
“You think of doing something like that in Hoenn?” I asked.
He...
2024-08-23 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – OMAKE – Ingame Snippets – Mystery Dungeon
[NEWEST POKÉMON TITLE: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon – The Legendary Delve! A companion piece to the latest mainline Pokémon game!] by Earlier Access
The Pokémon company has been on a roll recently, and they seem to be capitalising on the success of their latest Pokémon game with a new Mystery Dungeon game! Usually, Mystery Dungeon games are relegated to spinoffs from the main game, with their story...
2024-08-21 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-8 – A War of Opinion
As planned, the Sinnoh League ended up releasing their findings to the public early in the morning on the following day. They were careful to not make any wild accusations, making sure that all their claims and statements were rigorously supported by their factual findings so that we couldn’t be accused of exaggerating things.
It was Lucian who had the responsibility of making the speech.
“After many sleepless...
2024-08-19 11:00:16 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-7 – The Lake Guardians
The scientists at Celestic Town had told me that the discovery of the Icicle Plate would be a very big deal. But even then, I had still underestimated just how important these Plates were to the traditional Sinnoh people, and the amount of interest that its discovery was about to garner from the public once the announcement was made.
Now it made sense for why the entire research centre had been rushing a...
2024-08-16 11:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Patreon has recently made an announcement regarding the IOS app store. Basically, starting NOVEMBER 2024, all NEW Patreon members will be charged an additional 30% fee IF THEY SUBSCRIBE THROUGH THE APP STORE.
However, Patreon states that EXISTING SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE UNAFFECTED, but if you ever stop your patronage and would like to rejoin, please do not do it through the app store or you wil...
2024-08-14 08:01:01 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-6 – Interlude – Cynthia
As a Champion, she was expected to stay calm and composed at all times. To give off an air of authority and competence that would ensure that she was instinctively listened to. This was especially true when she was a meeting with members of the Indigo delegation, and it was her job to ensure that she remained engaged and listened to their talks, boring as they were.
It was also true that a Champion needed to be con...
2024-08-14 08:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-6 – An Icy Discovery
The battle started off with a bang as our Pokémon rained down from above, with us joining them.
“Tyrant, show no mercy! Drive them out!”
“Salamence, obliterate them! Make them FEAR you!”
“SLAKINGGG!!” He roared down as he SMASHED down on top of a surprised Glalie, crushing the Ice type beneath his weight. A Froslass immediately prepared an Ice Beam, but Tyrant’s arm lashed forwards like a lanc...
2024-08-12 10:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-5 – Big Steps
To my surprise, things were moving much faster than I had expected over the next few days with our progress in uncovering the public shield that Team Galactic were hiding behind.
Lorelei had told me that thanks to her one of her subordinates, which I later learned was actually Looker, they had a lead that they were working towards that they hoped would provide some evidence of wrongdoing.
It wasn’t anywhere close to a ...
2024-08-09 11:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-4 – Interlude – Lorelei
At first, she was a little nervous about what she was doing here – in a room filled with investigators an professional analysts. She was none of these things, and her only skillset that set her apart from the men and women here was that she was a better trainer than all of them. But that didn’t mean anything when the task was to dig through paperwork and look through the minute details.
However, that nervousnes...
2024-08-07 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-4 – A Rematch
It was already the evening when the two of us arrived in Celestic Town, so Drake made the executive decision to rest for the remainder of the day because of how tired he was. So finding myself alone, I spent the evening catching up with a few people that I remembered from my time here and asking about how they were doing.
More specifically, I was hoping to scope out how they felt for Cynthia and her new ascension as Champion, ...
2024-08-05 11:00:16 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-3 – Back to Sinnoh
My stay in Hoenn ended up being wrapped up pretty quickly. I barely had half a day to reorganise my things before Lance told me that a ship would be waiting for us at Ever Grande City to set off for Sinnoh early in the morning.
Whitney had left earlier, so I ended up saying goodbye to my parents before I made my way to Ever Grande City with Karen. She had booked a ship home that was departing around the same time as ours,...
2024-08-02 11:00:30 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-2 – Interlude – Whitney
Even though Whitney would have liked to spend more time with her parents and brother, she knew that they had their own things to do and wouldn’t have time to play around with her.
A few years ago, she would have been sad about that. But now she had her own responsibilities and duties that she had to attend to, so now she could understand why they had to do the things they did. She herself had to return to the Saf...
2024-07-31 11:00:21 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-2 – Grand Opening
“You seem to be chatting up a storm, I hope I’m not being left out.” Cynthia joked as she approached us, having finally managed to temporarily extract herself from my family’s questions.
“Not at all.” Karen replied, “I was just talking about my Elite Four run.”
“That’s good. I have—” Unfortunately whatever she was about to say was cut off as a few League officials approached Cynthia.
“...
2024-07-29 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 10-18 – Interlude – Archer
The plan was set.
Following his discussions with his boss, Archer had gotten everything ready. His team had been briefed, as far as possible while keeping the grand scheme of things still confidential, and preparations were made to strike at the Sinnoh terrorists when they next made their move.
Of course, Archer had to be very careful about it. Any kind of plan that involved intentionally drawing the attentio...
2024-07-26 09:30:01 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 11-1 – INTERLUDE – POKENET REACTIONS
[The Top 3 pairs have finally been decided! The next battle for them will be against the Champions! Who will win?! Will the Champions live up to their title?!] By Battlecast
Us battle lovers are eating good today! For anyone who missed out on the previous battles, the Top 3 pairs that have found themselves to be facing the trio of Champions are John and Roxanne, Pryce and Candance, and Drake and Daisy, re...
2024-07-24 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 10-18 – Meeting the Family
I stood up with the rest of my family as we clapped for the Champions’ victory. The rest of the crowd were doing the same as they cheered and applauded for the fantastic fight that we had just witnessed.
Wallace surprised me. I knew he was formidable, but it was interesting to see just how durable and enduring his Milotic could really be. It dragged out the inner trainer from within me, and I unconsciously started ...
2024-07-22 11:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The New Normal – 10-17 – The Dual Champions
Lance and I walked off the battle arena together, though we both stayed silent. Not out of awkwardness or because we were uncomfortable, but because we both were thinking carefully about the battle that just happened.
Or more like we were both engraving it into our minds, and had still yet to snap out of the adrenaline and rush of the fight.
Either way, we weren’t about to continue fighting in the remaining 2...
2024-07-19 10:00:16 +0000 UTC
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