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Shiloh hovered opposite the celebi, there in the backyard of some small town house. She couldn’t describe exactly what about the other Pokémon made him so interesting to her. Maybe it was being about the same size—maybe it was the pleasant mixture of natural smells and ozone from his jaunt through space and time. Maybe it was those dark eyes, that looked right into hers and seemed to know all kinds of things about her. "How do you know my name?" she repeated. "Celebi?" Aspen…-
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Hayden was in the wrong part of town. Sunyshore City had its many unspoken rules, and by crossing onto the piers, he had broken most of them. A townie just didn't belong on the pier, and the local children weren't about to yield their territory easily. He hoisted his threadbare coat high on his shoulders, covering his face as best he could. Maybe they would mistake who he was, long enough for him to cross back to the shore side. "They still following us?" Hayden might be only twelve…-
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Quinn needed a long time to study for this task. Personas were a complex science, even among the mew. Their creation was a lost art, vanished to workshops of their ancestors called "Starforges." They were so much more than simple AI assistants, churned out in any number of corporations in his own world. Preserving one would not be easy. More than difficult, creating a true "backup" of the persona was impossible by any definition he knew. But the persona's true self could be removed…-
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Quinn knew where he would end up, eventually. Not right away—but a time traveler did not need to rush. He could wait until his daughter was grown a little older, and he'd befriended enough of the local Mythicals to leave her in their care. Cedrin had already moved on, though he still visited often. The young Celebi had his own life to live. With Sinnoh brought safely to its new home, Team Infinity made rapid progress. It didn’t need someone like him to share what bits and pieces he’d gathered…
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It was a long way to the surface; a long way through twisting tunnels, confusing passages and abandoned buildings. In another life, Quinn would've made that trip up slowly, exploring every inch of the strange facility and learning whatever could be discovered about the ones who lived there. Even if he wasn't an archeologist, he still wanted to know. Basically no one understood the ancient Pokémon, or imagined they had ever lived in civilizations. Here was a relatively recent structure, with much…
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"I know what would do this," said a voice, from not far away. Quinn turned to look, staring through the broken trees and dead branches. A shadow lingered in the trees, floating at about his head level. Not alive, though not dead. Sable, eyes smoldering. "I remember the discussion, before my family and I became... what we are." Quinn floated closer, approaching the ghost. There was something fitting about the shadowy Pokémon in this place of death. Yet despite the name and nature of the…
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Years later... Avery knew she wasn't supposed to be here. There were a lot of places she wasn't supposed to go. Military sections of Starfall, with their distinctive psionic resonance. Classrooms of anyone past their first year certifications. More than 100 meters from Starfall, where the Repel field grew weak enough for wild Pokémon to get close and potentially threaten her. Her mother's office when she was hard at work. For a growing Mew, Avery was very good at learning all the rules.…
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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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