VANGARD CONSTRUCTIONS

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John Sullivan

VANGARD CONSTRUCTIONS

POSTED ON May 14, 2022 5:09:28 GMT

VANGARD CONSTRUCTIONS

Pleasure to work with you, Ms. Rita Garnet.

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The first time they spoke to one another was, strictly speaking, several weeks back, over the phone.

At the time, he had been out of the region on 'business', but had still contacted VAECOM, otherwise known as the Vanguard Firm.

Being a Gym Leader proved as useful as ever; despite his relatively young age, he was taken seriously enough to arrange for a meeting with the CEO of the firm.

Several months back, he would've been nervous as to how to handle things; as things were now? He had dealt with enough businessmen while breaking into Pro Battling to be somewhat desensitized to his own nerves.

"Ms. Rita Garnet, I presume?" The young captain said as the woman arrived, approaching her and offering his hand. "I am Captain Sullivan, Gym Leader of Mauville City, and the man ya spoke with over the phone several weeks ago. Thank ya kindly for agreeing to see me out'ere."

The coordinates he had requested for them to meet... were not at his known grounds, Camp Winstrate. They were not within the limits of the Mall City of Mauville.

Around them, old, dilapidated buildings and stores as far as the eye could see; none of the bright, shiny and modern gleam of the Mall City's hyper-commercialized architecture.

"Welcome to... Well, Old Mauville." Doug said, turning around. "Where Mauville's... less wealthy citizens have remain'd since Greater Mauville Holdins' turned the City into a mall."

A slum that didn't look a slum. A part of the city that got minimal support from its City Hall.

"Over there... is where we're be going." Doug said as he pointed off in the distance, were a structure rose over the shops, buildings and apartment complexes.

A relatively modest, if old and antiquated stadium.

"Shall we?"

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Rita Garnet

VANGARD CONSTRUCTIONS

POSTED ON May 22, 2022 23:26:27 GMT

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John Sullivan was direct, and Rita liked that.[break][break]

Age was something that she didn't pay much mind to, because metrics like that rarely illustrated actual, concrete competence. She'd met plenty enough dumb-as-rocks fifty year old men to know that a few decades slapped onto your age didn't mean a damn thing. Well, except that you'd been breathing a little longer than other folks.[break][break]

So when she met Captain Sullivan, Rita flashed a million watt smile and extended a hand. "Pleasure's all mine. You ready to give me a tour, Captain?" [break][break]

The gym leader had a pleasing accent and manner, which she appreciated immediately. Her daddy had taught her that you can tell a lot about a person by how they treat a perfect stranger, and this one had kindly called her Ms. Not Miss, and thank Arceus, not Mrs. It was small in the scheme of things, but what the hell, she liked it just the same.[break][break]

An eyebrow lifted as Rita took a quick survey of her surroundings. Oh, Old Mauville had not been where she'd expected for them to meet, not one bit. Such a shift from the norm hooked her from the jump, and the urban decay that greeted her left Rita's mind whirring with thoughts. This was the dark underbelly of places like Mauville, where a flood of wealth hid the shadows of the actual poverty that crawled beneath even the most sparkling city. [break][break]

"Sure ain't Mauville Hills," she agreed as she followed him further along, stopping before the stadium. The brunette let out a low whistle, impressed by the size and scope of the dilapidated structure -- modest though it was, it was far from humble beginnings. "Well damn, Sullivan. When you said it was a renovation, I have to say this wasn't what I had in mind."[break][break]

She didn't sound displeased at all, however. If anything, Rita sounded delighted.[break]

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John Sullivan

VANGARD CONSTRUCTIONS

POSTED ON May 23, 2022 20:53:36 GMT

VANGARD CONSTRUCTIONS

Pleasure to work with you, Ms. Rita Garnet.

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"I 'ppreciate the privilege."

The young soldier chuckled, his smile becoming a toothy grin as he looked up at the structure that would become the true hope of Mauville.

"It looks impressive, don't it?" Doug said, laughing softly as he shook his head. "When I first saw it, renovations were the furthest thing from m'mind."

The History of Mauville was written on the stadium's walls. From its humble beginnings, to its meteoric rise, to its inevitable fall into irrelevancy.

As Slateport and Rustboro continued to grow into commercial and technological hubs under the influence of Silph Co. and Devon Co. respectively, the City of Mauville desperately attempted to maintain its position of technological leadership with sound flop after sound flop.

'New Mauville' and 'Sea Mauville' were but some of their many attempts at maintaining cultural and economic relevancy- attempts that had failed spectacularly.

"But then I actually looked inside." He said, his smile slowly slipping off. "It looks impressive from the outside... but so does a historical colosseum, no?"

The implication was obvious: as good as it looked from the outside, the installations were outdated- no, outdated didn't quite convey the full magnitude of just how... inadequate this place was.

The stadium was one of the oldest Pokemon Battling structures in Hoenn. It had been renovated in the past as well, but... it had not been a priority for quite a few decades now.

"That ain't enough." He said as he walked towards the entrance, before turning around to look at her over his shoulder. "We need a stadium that needn't envy nothin' from the rest of the world."

Literally.

"One that can stand besides the likes of Galar's." The youth tipped his hat, looking up at the dilapidated stadium. "One that puts to shame to our very own Evergrande Stadium."