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It’s just a little quiet out of the way theater. A hole in the wall. A place most overlook. Slateport natives know the New Stone Cinema by reputation. It’s a rinky dink little hole in the wall, an unassuming place. It shows the classics. The films that really matter. None of these newfangled Unovan superhero movies or flavor of the week fare. It’s the real deal. Stuff you’d have to be a real cinema buff to enjoy.[break][break]
It got renovated a few years ago by a famous director. The ethos of the place is this: it plays movies he himself would want to watch. Many of them come from his own collection. It’s comfortable, too. All the movies are reasonably priced. The popcorn’s cheap. They even use real butter.[break][break]
Navy settles into his seat beside Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki , chomping on popcorn and looking up at the screen. He’s already looking like his old self. A million bucks. The man he was back during the Meteno affair – but hardened. Wiser. He understands now what must be done to defend his home. That said, he knows he has to still enjoy life. There’s things he has to treasure. These moments where he can just spend time with the girl he took in and enjoy himself make it all worthwhile.[break][break]
“Pretty good, huh?” He gives Tsubaki a brotherly smile. “Toldja this place is good. Hope you’re ready for the double feature.” His sharp detective’s eye notices the way people glance at her. They look at him with skeptical, judging expressions. There is no universe in which she could be mistaken for his sibling. The beautiful girl looks too much like some sort of trophy wife.[break][break]
What does he care? He promised he’d take care of her. He’s determined to put her life back on the right path.[break][break]
Tonight, most of his Pokemon are back home. The dragon sleeps at the daycare. He only keeps Hattori, his Greninja, on him. Hattori enjoys movies. He’s hidden up somewhere in the rafters, basking in the dark corners of the theater and enjoying the show for himself.[break][break]
“Arceus, I love cheap theaters…”

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It's a sanctuary from the troubles of the world. A place held sacred. A place where someone can escape from everything and give themselves to film completely.

He must've searched all over for a place like this.

And despite that, the way other people look at you both, it brings you out of that trance you're meant to fall into. You can't help but be taken out of it a bit every time you notice.

You know what they're thinking. You know what they're saying to one another. You're not stupid and it's a little hard to ignore.

But this guy you're sitting beside, it's not like that. You're both keenly aware of the gap in age. How he has too much of an influence on you, as your legal guardian, as your boss. How it would never work, because you'd lead him to an early death.

It goes unsaid.

You reach over and grab a handful of popcorn as he turns to you. Refusing to pay for you own, you'd prefer to steal his, only cause you know he's too much of a gentleman to make a scene of it. It doesn't help the perception any, but fuck it. It's good popcorn.

"I didn't know places like this still existed. Seems like Stone has a real passion for film. He's not in it for a quick buck."

You whisper, leaning in. But your eyes are trained straight ahead, focused on the action. It's just starting to get good. You're just starting to feel comfy again in the dark, the place you've called home for the last six years.

The gigantic serpent rests her head on your lap. She's not a fan of film, but she's almost like a huge dog sometimes. She can't get close enough when you're just sitting there relaxing. She probably thinks it's easiest there, head in your lap, to protect you if anything goes sideways. She isn't used to you being out in public without some ulterior motive, always waiting for the next ambush.

It's easy for forget just how lethal that venom can be, how quickly she can turn on a dime. How dangerous this wild beast is, when she's so kind to you. She could crush the bones of a human adult in seconds if she wanted.

Your eyes dart sideways for a second, thinking of someone else like that.

"You're a film dictionary, right? Tell me some trivia about this one."

You whisper, leaning close enough that you don't disturb anyone else.

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“Alright, so it’s a zombie flick, right?” He says with passion born of a lifetime of watching this stuff. He’s at ease, in his element. Enjoying his time off. “Well, it’s the first real zombie flick. None of this Serpent and the Rainbow crap. First time the concept ever got put to cinema. Well, as you’ll see, the leading man is Alolan.”[break][break]
He remembers how awful people can be to each other. How some people can hate others for minor details that really, truly do not matter. Awful things like the region they’re from.[break][break]
“That’s actually just a quirk. They wanted a Unovan guy, but the casting call didn’t specify race. So this guy just walks in, pretty as you please, auditions. Mr. Hearse says he’s the best for the role. Everyone calls him crazy. Adds a new layer to the ending, which you’ll see by the end of the night.” If Navy pays the way they stare any mind, he’s not letting it show. He’s comfortable, talking, having a nice conversation.[break][break]
“Surprised you let ‘em talk you into letting your girl in here with you. Usually, they’re not the biggest fan of Pokemon.” Hattori chuckles from his dark corner of the theater, out of sight and out of mind. Some people look uncomfortable at the sight of the Arbok and all the implications of such a creature.[break][break]
Sitting alone with a snake in the dark simply does not sit well with most humans.

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As Navy mentions him, the lead actor rips a tire iron free from the head of a zombie. It's a cheesy special effect compared to modern films, but you're sure it was more terrifying back then. You're keeping an open mind. After all, it's zombies? What's not to love about that?

"Wait, so this is the first zombie movie?"

You find that hard to believe. You thought they'd been around longer than that. But that was what, not even fifty years ago?

"Huh... so this is what everybody ended up ripping off. They've sure come a long way, haven't they?"

He's like a fountain. Trivia pours freely, and you're getting background on these old films you'd never even think to look up.

He seems proud of that fact, that he knows all these things off the top of his head. That he can talk for hours about them. In your lost youth, running on the streets night after night, you wish you'd picked up an interest like that. That you were educated in something to that degree, besides how to commit crime and get away with it.

But not everyone has that refuge, or that privilege.

"I don't think they could have said no to her," you respond to his comment about the snake resting on top of you.

You run a hand along Sumire's head. She doesn't move at all, perfectly content. She's been trained to respond to fear, to anger. But in this movie theater where you're totally relaxed, able to focus your mind entirely on the screen and Navy next to you, she isn't troubled in the slightest. It's almost odd, that she can be so still when you're not on edge... you haven't had that opportunity in a long time.

"Well, I mean. They did, but... how're they gonna enforce it?"

You smile down at her. She's a menace, ready to tear people apart for your sake at the drop of a hat.

That's what you love about her. She's adorable.

Michael Navidson

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“There’s always the fuzz.” Navy observes before stifling a chuckle. He hates the 5-O as much as the next guy. Frankly, he hates them more than the next guy. That he struck up a friendship with a cop, and that cop became the champion, still perplexes him to this day. He watches as the Alolan man on the screen fires a rifle into hordes of oncoming zombies.[break][break]
It’s not just humans, either. There are Pokemon in the hordes. Militanks and Tauros from the fields. Watching them gorge on flesh like they’re eating grass is an unnerving experience. The special effects are second rate at best. Navy knew some guys who worked in special effects, once upon a time. He reminisces and wants to look them up again.[break][break]
Maybe tomorrow.[break][break]
“Guess you’re right. Now pay attention to this part. There was a big upset in the pyrotechnic stunt here. It nearly burned someone for real.” And a car explodes. Two people get scorched inside. Navy shakes his head.[break][break]
“Good stuff. Really good stuff. You know, there’s a line in this movie, blink and you might miss it, about ghost Pokemon possessing people after a meteor passed over. Lots of zombie movies don’t like explaining the plague, but funnily enough, the very first one did.” He observes with his detective’s eye.

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"Fuzz, huh?"

You say it with wistful abandon, not really focusing on the words.

Your mind immediately rushes back to all the times you've dealt with them before. Ducking into alleyways, secret tunnels under the cities, drainage pipes. You've dealt with the fuzz it more times than you can count, and it's all so agonizing to think back on. Back in that city choked by smog you weren't even to catch your breath when you ran from them in the dark, and now... breathing in that fresh air, this freedom you've been given, it burns your lungs.

You'd almost gotten used to it.

"You don't gotta worry about them, we'll handle it."

You cup her chin.

Sumire has her eyes shut, but you can tell she's listening. Any sign of a disturbance in your breath, in your body language, and she'd be ready to destroy anything for you, without even a word.

She's that in tune with your emotions. She had to be, in a place like Kanto.

"... Y'know, some people say: the stars affect us all the way down here, that we're a product of the cosmos so we're beholden to them. 'As above, so below' -- someone important said that once, I think. But, well..."

You consider the prospect that all of the evil you'd encountered was just the product of a ghost's haunting. That all the sins you carry with you now were the work of some force beyond your control.

You wonder if it is that this world has been touched by an evil meteor in the sky. That's what Meteno was, wasn't it?

And the ghosts haunting you... they're the lost futures you'll never be a part of. Hopes that have died. The anguish and fear caused by that black cloud that chokes the most populated city in the world. You as you are could never exist without the intervention of the Rockets. They killed the girl you used to be.

Perhaps all of that fell upon you like a specter, guiding your hand this whole time... like a hollow corpse, piloted by a ghost.

"I think the idea is sad, right? That people can't decide for themselves, even in death."

People are guided by something larger than themselves, stuff beyond their control. That makes you pity the monsters on the screen more than it does the people fighting them. You're sad for them, most of all, because you see yourself in them.

They don't have a choice, and neither did you.

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“There’s always a choice.” His eyes are distant. He’s sixteen again. Hearing the news that his parents have passed. His grandparents refuse to take him in for little to no reason. Navy is faced with a choice: his happiness or Gabe’s future. He knows what he’s giving up. It’s what any good person would do, but he knows it is his choice.[break][break]
He can abandon his brother. No one but himself will hold that against him. Consign his brother to the foster system. Have him tossed like a tempest from home to home. But he sees the way his brother looks at him, so he chooses to suffer.[break][break]
He could choose to not get involved with all this League bullshit. He could choose the quiet life. There’s no glory, but he’ll live. The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. He will never be kyle lopez if he does that. There will be no legends written about him. He will not be able to keep his promise to his brother, or keep the region Gabe, Kyle, and Navy all love safe.[break][break]
But the choice is there. Every time he steps into hell for Hoenn and Gabe’s sake, it is his choice. Even when he is pulled into the rift, he controls how he reacts.[break][break]
“No matter how shitty life is, Baki, you always have a choice.”[break][break]
His eyes reflect the somber end of the movie. The credits are upon them as men choose to kill an innocent hero for no good reason.

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He's adamant.

But what other choice was there for you?

Illegitimate daughter of a business mogul who swept you under the rug as soon as you knew how to speak. Raised by maids, the closest thing to parents that you ever had, though they could never replace the mother you never met.

Were you supposed to just live in the comfortable, cloistered life forever? A pet, but never a human being?

Protected by a father who supported you financially but who was never there for you when it was truly necessary.

What did he expect you to do when he cut you off to punish you for acting out, left you to your own devices? Did he really expect you not to fall into that crowd who would help you make rent, to eat, without that support that could so easily be cut off from you?

That crowd he knew so very well himself, that he fell into once upon a time.

You sigh.
There's nothing you can say to this man.

He doesn't know your past, and it's best you don't fight him on that, because you don't know his.

"They kill heroes who make a choice, Navy."

A somber expression comes over you, brooding as you stare at the screen that's gone black. The lights come back up. You sit there, meditating on the lesson Hearse has taught you. And you realize after a few seconds lost in thought, that Sumire's watching you carefully.

She can sense your unease.

"It's nothing, Sumi."

You reiterate that thing you've said so many times before. You take a sip of the cola in the drink between you two, stealing the last sip of his drink as much as his popcorn.

"The next one starts in five minutes, so I'm gonna freshen up."

You stand up and grab your bag from the seat next to you. You don't know where you're going, really. Probably just to reapply some lipstick. Stretch your legs. You just can't sit there, go down that path of thinking with nothing else to focus on.

Of all the choices you made, that you felt weren't choices at all... which ones would have had you killed that that hero at the end of the movie? Which causes should you have martyred yourself upon?
Would that have been better than to be here at all?

No. You needed to live. Above all else, you needed to survive.
And you did, Tsubaki. You made it.

You slink back in after the lights are already off. You're ready to lose yourself in the screen again, ready to forget thinking about all that.
You need another distraction.

Michael Navidson

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“Your choices lead you to the place where you eventually die.” Navy speaks with simple confidence. “It’s the decisions you make every day that get you there. Every small decision. Every decision to move forward or crumple.”[break][break]
He senses her apprehension. He lets her go off. She wanders off into the bathroom. He watches the screen. Refreshes his popcorn. Eats some while he waits and thinks. Contemplates how the world has nearly crushed both of them. They’re bound by pain and their similar pasts. She’s a reflection of himself when he was her age. Him if he didn’t have Gabe.[break][break]
He resolves to put her on a better path.[break][break]
“So this movie’s really good. Probably the best Western ever made. The greatest leading man of the genre.” He seems enthusiastic again. The movie is about someone trying to escape their past, yet ultimately the end up becoming defined by that past. It’s a movie whose message is that people can never change…[break][break]
But, by not changing, by embracing their nature enough to win out in the end, they can put themselves on a better path. That, too, is a choice.

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You're still stuck on that thought by the time your return.

Desperate for something to take your mind off it, because you realize just how true it is.

The sole decision in your life that was your own, your decision to leave. That alone is the difference between a new start, turning over a new leaf... and dying in the gutter somewhere, just like her.

She couldn't get out before it was too late. But through her sacrifice, through everything that happened, she saved you. It took years, and you did so many things you hated to make it happen, but you managed it. Because you could never forget her face, saw it every night in your dreams, you managed to break free of the cage you were in.

Thanks to her and Michael Navidson, you were set on a new path.

Now you have the freedom to make your own decisions, for the first time. It's what lead you here.

You let yourself breathe. Let Sumire set her head on your lap again in an attempt to comfort you.

You need to remember that you're in a movie theater. That you're not in the dark underneath the city, smuggling who knows what. You're not hunting anyone down, or being hunted.

You're not looking for a fight in the dark anymore, you're looking for redemption.

"It's a beautiful place..."

You remark on the landscape, so different from the ugly cities you're used to.

"... I understand that happening in the city, but how can it happen in such a pretty place?"

There's crime. Disfigurement, murder. The harsh lives they lead back then in the west is painted in stark relief to the place in which they lived, so very picturesque.

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“Let me tell you one thing I’ve come to understand about human nature.” Navy reflects. “We’re only as good as the world allows us to be. Civilization lets bad people pretend that they’re good. Most people, by and large, would turn into someone like that,” he nods at the cowpoke who maims an innocent woman, “if the world didn’t let them wear a mask. That said…” His voice drifts off.[break][break]
“There’s still good people. Even back then. But they’re bound by their choices, too. People that died on the trail, they made the choice to be there – or didn’t choose to run away when their parents chose that for them. They could have moved into the pretty cage, one of the big Unova cities, but they chose to stay on the frontier.”[break][break]
But, he’s escaped his point.[break][break]
“You see what someone’s really like when the chips are down. When the bases are full. When they have all the power in the world and no reason to be restrained. And truth be told, there’s no right or wrong answer. Just ones civilization says are correct and incorrect. Small difference, but it’s there, Baki.”

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There's something so bittersweet about that.

Something you can't articulate. Can't put into words.

The fact that ugly people with ugly souls exist in the prettiest places on earth, it seems so suffocating.

There was always the lingering hope that it was the city that turned you into that twisted thing, that you acted with no restraint because of your surroundings. The malice of the city poured down and swirled into the gutters like rain, and there, collecting at its lowest point in the underworld, you drowned in it.

That it might have just been you taking to a fish like water frightens you. It makes you want to shred the skin on your arms apart, trying to get out of this body that you're stuck in.

But no matter how much you tear off, you will always be this kind of creature underneath it all. Someone capable of the worst atrocities.

That's what it means.

No matter if you go to Hoenn. If you got to Alola, or to Kalos. If you wander off into the wilderness like some hermit to stand at the peak of a mountain, escape from everything else, you will still be yourself.

"I'm not in a cage anymore, Navy."

You're free.
Free to make your own choices, free of the circumstances that brought you to inflict the worst on the people around you.

To survive, you told yourself. To make it through the end of the day, you said. To win their trust, so you could escape. But you worry that even now that you're out, you can't simply run from your past. That there will always be some part of you that enjoyed being that dangerous creature, a viper in the dark not caring what it bit, so long as whatever it was died.

"But I'm still just as afraid."

Of the past catching up with you. Of you catching up with yourself.

You could just as easily become those people if you were dropped into those circumstances again. There is no doubt that you'd do whatever it took to survive. If the chips were down, you'd choose to live over being a good person.

"Of that person I used to be, I mean. The one you saved me from becoming again."

You would have done whatever it takes to turn over this new leaf. If not for Navy's intervention, you wonder if Tohru would be serving that life sentence now, or if he might've met a worse fate by your hand.

You envy most the people who claim they're on a journey to find themselves, because you are frightened of looking in the mirror, at seeing the kind of thing you'll be if you ever do find her. That's why you wear the mask, an expressionless facade. That's why you're always searching for distractions, to stop your mind from racing away. You mute everything, and poison every part of yourself you can, so she will never show herself.

Because you're afraid.

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Amidst all that self-reflection, Navy is almost thoughtless. This isn’t about him. It’s about her. About all she’s been through. About her path forward through this dark night. Perhaps he could have told her what she wanted to hear…[break][break]
But that just reminds him of the lie he told his brother. The lie that he thinks is the cause of everything. He promises Tsubaki nothing less than absolute honesty. He does something that would be unbecoming of him, were the circumstances any different.[break][break]
He takes her hand into his, and he squeezes. Not tight. Enough to let her know he’s there, and he cares. That she’s not alone. Even if she hates herself, even if she can’t keep going. He’ll pull her forward. Like any warrior, he needs a cause to fight for. She’ll serve just fine.[break][break]
“You’re not gonna be that person again, Baki. You can be better than them. I’ve got your back.”

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+ Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki

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