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Many years later. "You sure you have to go?" Mom asked, stopping her in the kitchen. "There's no reason you have to take this assignment, kitten. You could stay here another century if that's what it takes. Or maybe get a nice job in operations or maintenance." Avery adjusted the vest on her chest, securing the buttons there one at a time. She levitated the plastic clip out of her fur, then replaced it on a thicker patch so it wouldn’t move. It didn't matter if other…-
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Quinn was the first to approach the rebel settlement. To call it a "base" was a bit generous, as it clearly had no military purpose. Instead of a featureless crater, there were dozens of structures scattered through a verdant clearing. Trails of soft grass ran between buildings with entrances large and small. This was not what kept all but one of the survivors from joining him. What terrified all of them—and Quinn too, though he wouldn't admit it—was the Pokémon living there. If the…
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"My friends escaped containment and 'treatment' in the Starfall hospital. They had already watched friends die, or suffered permanent injuries at the hands of the ones trying to 'save' them. I had to get them free. Of course, if the place they escape to gets destroyed, that isn't very helpful either." "You know this death is coming, but you're still here," said Azelf. They bobbed up and down in front of the map table, only occasionally looking back at…
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As he soon learned, tracking Avery down wouldn't be as simple as flying to a specific place, or even a direct teleport there by one of his powerful new friends. The cats kept a tight perimeter around their primary settlement, and would capture him long before he got close. Even traveling through time would do him no good if each era had similar protection.. But he didn't have to find Avery in Starfall. He had already told her where to meet him. All he had to do was leave something behind for her…
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Quinn's plan took a lot of time, but what was time to a Celebi? It wasn't as though he had to worry about missing deadlines or failing to defend his thesis. His whole civilization didn't exist yet. None of them would be born for a very, very long time. The worst part wasn't finding food, or shelter from the near-constant rain. It wasn't even occasionally dealing with the territorial wild Pokémon. Lucky for him, most Pokémon had no interest in fighting. They seemed able to sense…
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"Avery?" The mew hovered there for a second, surrounded by narrow stone on either side. Though at their size it felt several meters away, it couldn't really be more than a meter. Quinn's transformation had robbed him of any sense of scale. "Part of me wonders why they never gave me a different name," she said. "Lost kitten whose irresponsible parents left her while they did their terraforming work. Has delusions of being human. But Avery didn't annoy them much. My…
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Avery sat up on the rocky floor ahead of him, licking out a little patch of dust on her foreleg. Despite the animal activity, she never looked away from him for more than a second, her mind spinning. But it wasn't her fault he hadn't thought about what they would actually do here. She wasn't jumping forward and backward, but spent a whole second childhood growing up and mastering the abilities of her new body. How was she supposed to know that the mission wouldn't even be given to her…
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There were many paths through history. When Quinn was young, he had already known in his imagination what his route would look like. He could picture his challenging education, the eventual completion of some important academic discovery, before eventually navigating his way to lead a scientific team on one of the fancy tech firms. Maybe he would work for Silph, or end up on an orbital lab somewhere. Though he had little interest in children, he might adopt one or two for Avery's sake, so long as she…
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Their home wasn't on the platform itself, technically. Like so many others who worked in terraforming, their place of residence was somewhere in the territory they were assigned to work. Each one was temporary, built of sturdy modules on springs and jointed legs that kept them from the ground. Some Mew had huge walls and defense systems, but Quinn and Avery felt no need for that. They'd grown up with the "wild" Pokémon, and had no reason to fear them. The home was a mismatch of…
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Quinn didn't leave that night. Yet no matter how much he didn't want to leave, he could make no argument to Avery's reasoning. To stay meant undermining her efforts to foster a new, more merciful faction among the Mew of Starfall. They could never learn that the cat arguing for a forced separation and exile for the persistent variants also had a family with one! Every goodbye hurt—but one most of all. Mew lived a long time, he should see his mate and daughter again. Once he traveled…
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