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The countryside flowed by, an ever-expanding field of green and violet and brown and orange and every other color under the sun. Eternatus's poison had reached here, but that did not make the beauty of this world obsolete. It was proof that even a world on the brink of collapse could be saved, if only it had a hero. [break][break]

If Galar could be saved, then Hoenn could be too. Humanity would survive what was to come, but it was hard to have faith sometimes.[break][break]

The country continued to pass them by. It felt so... real. It was out of a fairy tale, born of myth and fancy and delusion, but that didn't make it any less real. It had transended the shackles of reality to become something that neither Navy nor Howard would ever see again. [break][break]

Who knew? Maybe there'd be an epilogue to this epilogue.[break][break]

"So many people told me about this dream. About a world that I never thought I'd get to see." Howard said, his head on his hand as he watched the countryside flow past. "Cillian. You. Jayden. They spoke of it with such... longing. Nostalgia. It frustrated me to be an outsider, looking in on something I'd never get to witness." [break][break]

A light laugh filled the train car, the Magnificent Seven reduced to only three. [break][break]

The admin turned to face Navy, his hat barely obscuring his face. The two looked older, harder, warier. Yet the two were the same, their loads lessened, their path forward clear.[break][break]

"I've seen your dream, Navy." Howard blinked slowly, the eyepatch forgone, leaving the Key Stone shining bright. "It's beautiful, but..."[break][break]

He looked on and sighed.

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“But it’s just a dream.” He wore a sad smile. “And dreams have to end.” Theirs would, soon enough. So too would the dream of civilization one day end. Nature would reclaim mankind. Old rules would reassert themselves. Things would be as they once were.[break][break]
It’s all in his fated foe’s name. Eternatus. Eternity. There are some things, like true darkness, which can never die.[break][break]
But the light need not die that day. The ideal of civilized life, of ease, of comfort, of man and Pokemon working side by side, need not die today. Not while he lived. Not while Navy drew breath. [break][break]
“I lose my daughter, once. I lost the life I built here.” His eyes turned to Zaria, with whom he made a promise. “And when this war’s over, I’ll make a new life for myself. I’ll grieve for Gabe and Kyle with Noah. We’ll move on. Life will go on, and the people I’m fighting for will be happy.”[break][break]
“I’m Navy. I’m Michael Navidson. I’m the Pale Rider. All these things are true. Galar, this place, it’s a part of me, but I’ve got to fight for Hoenn.” He pointed at Howard. “And you have to fight for Hoenn too, in your own way. We’ll fight each other until the day Eternatus shows Himself in our world. Then, we’ll beat him back. We’ll write an ending there, just like we’ll write one here.”

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"Dreams don't have to end because we wake up." [break][break]

He says it with such passion that it almost switches from an opinion to fact. To Howard Slayte, it is a fact. If dreams end because of wakefulness, then it's not one worth holding on to.[break][break]

"Experiencing this world was a desire I had, but one I let go of because I thought it impossible. But look where we are! Look what we've accomplished! All thanks to you! All thanks to Zaria!" [break][break]

Elation rang out in the archaeologist's voice. He spread his hands out excitedly. As quickly as the emotion came, it was quickly dampened.[break][break]

"Even if this world isn't real, you two saved it. You and Vortigern and Hattori and Roland and Doug and Valkyrie." So many of those names had been reduced to ash in this great journey. Even so, the memories remained. "I'm glad we got to witness it, but still..." [break][break]

"...it makes me sad." [break][break]

Sad that it was under such circumstances. Sad that it had only come about due to meddling with a god born from Arceus's loins. Sad that when it was over, their war would continue against one another until the true battle could begin. This dream had been born of Navy's desire, forced into existence by Howard's hand, and sustained by the plague of Tera Crystals that dotted the land.[break][break]

"That reminds me." When Eternatus was vanquished and Crystal was found, they'd need to return home to Dewford. To Regice. A memory clicked in the admin's head. "Regice is not alone. If my golem can rampage, others can too."[break][break]

Howard's eye flickered. [break][break]

"Another giant has been captured." The tone of voice betrayed a layer of thinly veiled regret and rage. "By the Pokémon League."

Navy [break][break]

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And, near the end, came a revelation. Zaria, oblivious to this particular giant, merely sat back with passive interest. Her eyes seemed much keener to focus on the looming stormclouds ahead. A malicious storm of dynergy brewed above Wyndon. That was her chief concern, for her fated foe awaited.[break][break]
“Wait,” said Navy, “what?” Leaning forward in his seat, he searched Howard’s face, as if hoping he could find something there that would explain the meaning of his words. “Which one? Not the stone one. Last I heard, it was still wandering around the Crater and AZ. The dragon one’s MIA.” And those were the two he knew about. There were more, Navy knew that much. What types they were, what they were, was a quest left for Howard.[break][break]
“Arceus…I’ve missed so much.” March and April, for the Rider, were defined by action – so much action that it burned him up, burned him out. May, by contrast, had been inaction. Recovery. He had been a wounded warrior, waiting for his moment to strike.[break][break]
“Which one?”

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"Regieleki. I tried to catch it. Never could. I was too slow, too weak, too overconfident." [break][break]

After fighting himself, it's easy to admit in his faults. Howard had a ton, and the laundry list was growing longer by the second. Admitting to his failings as a trainer were remarkably simple by comparison. He had been aware of those faults from the word go.[break][break]

"Regice has always suffered from power issues. When we shattered it, the Power Spot that made up its core was taken by you guys. It's been running on leftover power for the past six months. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. Still, it made fighting the other giants on equal footing impossible." [break][break]

It went from too little power to too much power. With the absence of Dynergy, Eternatus's influence had waned. Now it was beginning to wax back in the dragon's favor.[break][break]

"Someone I once knew caught it, and now she's part of this war too. Hoenn needs its giants, all five." Why had june sleigh caught it? Why had she pursued that dream of all things? Now, she would be shouldering that burden forever. "I should not have let her catch it. That was my greatest mistake." [break][break]

"...that, or loving her." [break][break]

He was surprised to say the words. It wasn't like that mattered anymore. Those emotions had turned to ash, and all that was left was vitriol and scorn. annalise henderson could keep her safe. If the Ranger Captain was lucky, even from herself.[break][break]

"If she reveals herself, keep her safe."[break][break]

Wyndon grew closer in the horizon.

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“Love’s never a mistake, man.” Simple as that answer is, misguided as some might say the words are, he believes it with all his heart. Love is the kindling that holds back the dark for one more glorious day, the light that guides the way. It was love that turned him from a savage into someone with a hero’s name.[break][break]
“I’ll keep her safe. You got my word.”[break][break]
“And mine.” Zaria agreed. Wyndon loomed closer, and she turned her attention back to the Hero and his Squire. It would soon be time for them to play their roles. That meant she had things to say to the Hero.[break][break]
“Navy, Warrior. Do you swear to always protect Hoenn and its people?” She asked the question so seriously that he was forced to respond in kind.[break][break]
“Yeah, I do. Til the day I die.”[break][break]
“No. No more dying from you. Dying’s easy. Living is harder. Live for Hoenn. Fight for it. Risk your life if you must, but do not do so recklessly, needlessly.”[break][break]
“I can do that.”[break][break]
“And you swear to act as your League’s blade? To act with conviction? To not hesitate when you are needed?”[break][break]
“Yes.”[break][break]
“Hmm.” She drew Ironsides’s feather, looking it over. “This blade truly is the equal to the one I used, once, so very long ago. I’m dreadful at naming things.”[break][break]
“Don’t you dare.” He said sharply to Howard, expecting an ‘I see you two have things in common’. Zaria cleared her throat.[break][break]
“This blade will soon face a dragon. It seems fitting that the blade be given a name. Howard, what would you suggest?”

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"My fiancée disagreed." [break][break]

Had she disagreed with the notion, or the fact that Howard had put his dream over both his happiness and hers? That mystery would remain as such. He never expected to see her again. She'd hate him for what he had become.[break][break]

"She's right, y'know. Gotta live, Navy. When Hoenn is broken, someone's gotta put it back together. I'll be rotting in prison or dead. It'll have to be you." [break][break]

At this precise moment, Navy lacked the mindset, skill, or talent to do so. It'd be a long road to reach the point that Zaria wished of him, but what was life but a long road to the next destination? The sheriff could reach higher. It might take a year, or five, or ten. There was a chance that he'd reach the ending he sought.[break][break]

Or Howard would beat him, and turn it all into ash. [break][break]

"I can't with you two!" He burst out laughing at their little charade. Half of Navy's nicknames came from the top of his head. The rest came from shows he watched, Howard himself, or remnants of his brother's legacy. Michael Navidson had a tendency for turning gold into copper with the snap of a finger. [break][break]

It'd help if he had gone to school.[break][break]

"A name for a sword, huh?" Howard closed his eye, deep in thought. "Hm."[break][break]

Navy was a paradox. An evil man who tried to be good. A dragon who strived to be a warrior. A sword that protected others, instead of one that harmed others. A legend born of a dream who had decided to wake up.[break][break]

The Pale Rider was a weapon, but he was a weapon with purpose. He did not fight for himself, but he fought for others in their defense. In another world, he would've been worthy of holding a shield, but here? [break][break]

He was something more. [break][break]

"Fight for Dewford. Fight for Hoenn. Fight for Galar. Fight to preserve the worlds you call home, Navy. Become a blade who protects others. Zaria, become his sword. I dub thee..." He touched Ironsides's feather. "...Ascalon."

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“Ascalon.” Zaria said with reverence. “Count yourself lucky, Navy. You have a fine squire.”[break][break]
“The best.” A moment later, he repeated something that needed to be said. “The bird this feather's from was named Ironsides. I met him when I was thinking about jumping off a building.” Thet had been the lowest day of his life, and only that bird saved him. “He was…” How to describe someone like that?[break][break]
Ironsides had been old from the moment he was born. Perpetually done with life, his Skarmory rose to the occasion every time like a reluctant hero. Only that first day, when the bird understood that the human before him had every intention of jumping from that ledge, did he intervene. With silent, pleading eyes, Ironsides implored the human to keep going.[break][break]
And so, he had. And so, he was here.[break][break]
“My friend. Dewford was his home, too.” And then, he was gone. Dewford mourned another adopted son. The train began to slow. Snow fell. Wyndon was close, and they would have to trek the last mile into the city on foot. Navy didn’t understand why the tracks ended here, but they did.[break][break]
“Ascalon.” Navy repeated. “Man. You’re good at naming stuff, Howard.”[break][break]
“Time grows short. Navy, here.” She held out a black orb. It glimmered with light the color of a rainbow. Eighteen strands of color dashed across its surface. “When we engage our foe in earnest, throw this at me.”[break][break]
“A tera orb?” He questioned. “How’d you get it? How do you kno-”[break][break]
“I know because I know. It is your own orb, Rider. I woke up with it in the Slumbering Weald, and every crystal we found seemed to sharpen my mind. Have faith in me, as I have faith in you.”[break][break]
“Alright.” Their last train came to a stop.[break][break]
It was time for them to go, to ride to ruin and face the end of the world. Valkyrie was waiting for them as they left the train. She looked to her rider expectantly.[break][break]
“I know you’re not coming home with me, girl.” He hugged his horse, his true steed, another piece of this dream he would have to leave behind. “And I know I’m not the one who’s meant to ride you. Still…thanks.”[break][break]
Valkyrie held her head there, against his shoulder. She never moved, not until he was ready. He mounted up, looked down at Howard and Zaria, and began their slow, plodding course towards Crystal and the dragon they had to slay.

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The last train home left them behind, and showed a Wyndon in stasis. [break][break]

The city was completely empty, a completely barren necropolis that lacked even the smallest glimmer of humanity. Every ounce of life, every glimmer of humanity, every hint of Pokémon had been purged and all that was left was a city cobbled together from stone. Nothing else remained but a reminder that Eternatus was a villain in this story. [break][break]

"The city is too big to search. It could take us years to turn Wyndon over and we could still come up missing. We should start big." He pointed at Wyndon's stadium, which in another world was used for some of the greatest Pokémon battles the world had ever seen. "There." [break][break]

Galar's pride and joy, and one of the biggest cities in the world. [break][break]

It'd have to be, in order to fit Eternatus. [break][break]

"She'll be there, waiting for us. She's gone ahead to fight Eternatus." Howard blinked at Navy, though he shared a knowing glance with Zaria. "Your daughter, until the end." [break][break]

The Pale Rider, a cowardly squire, and a knight who forgot her fate.[break][break]

It was them versus one of the strongest dragons in the history of time. The source of much wanton misery and the source of all the evil in the world.[break][break]

This world had lived under a poisoned sky for far too long.[break][break]

Dewford had lived in a perpetual blizzard for far too long. [break][break]

It was time to end it.[break][break]

"Rouse thyself, Rider. Our journey is almost over."

Navy [break][break]

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- March forward, squire.

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POSTED ON Jun 19, 2024 21:41:33 GMT

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Twisted hands clawed at them as the cabal passed through Wyndon. Idle strokes of their weapons turned them away. Half-dead Pokemon kept their wary distance, watching the three navigate a broken city. Wyndon, for a medieval city, looked decidedly modern. Automobiles looked as if they had been abandoned in a hurry. Navy thought nothing of it, right until he saw many of the cars had Hoenn license plates.[break][break]
Reality was growing strange, the way details mixed themselves up in dreams. Written words on signs twisted from proper letters into gibberish. All signs pointed to the way forward to the arena. Pressure mounted in his chest, pressure like he was diving through the Ultra Deep Sea. For the first time in their long journey, he felt the absence of his sygna suit.[break][break]
It began to hurt, and the ache grew worse and worse. It was the mounting pressure of a dive down into the black abyss, only this one was tainted by the one ruinous emotion his Squire faced: fear. Fear seemed to seize him. Fear of the unknown, fear of the return…[break][break]
Fear of the dragon.[break][break]
He remembered a time long ago, when Team Rocket first attacked. He imagined the world where he gripped his pokeball, charged into that next cart with Ironsides, and fought like hell. Perhaps it would have made no difference, had he fought the dragon called Rocket. Mayhaps he would have just been another casualty, but he would have lived.[break][break]
In a passing tera crystal, he saw that image reflected. He saw himself, standing with kyle lopez and the rest – another defender of Hoenn from the first. He saw himself holding his blade against land, air, and sea.[break][break]
He would not run again. He would fight. He would face the dragon, even should it mean his death. They arrived at the Wyndon Colosseum. It looked high above them, an arena that could seat at least a hundred thousand screaming souls. Ahead was a path forward, a path cleaved into the concrete, allowing them onto the pitch.[break][break]
Standing in the path was Crystal, starlight dancing in her hair.[break][break]
“Welcome, my father, my friends, my enemies.”

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Reality bent because it was all that Eternatus could do. [break][break]

Dialga could warp time, traveling through that flat circle with the confidence that only a creator god could have. illeana reyes and Palkia could bend space, turning reality into swiss cheese as they tampered with the material. Giratina sat in the middle, manipulating the immaterial to walk in the shadow of its two siblings' light. [break][break]

Eternatus simply... existed in between the cracks.[break][break]

Dominion over nothing. Ruler of nothing. All it held sway over was sheer, reality-bending might.[break][break]

Time did not flow. Space did not expand. The inverted world could not exist. [break][break]

It simply bent them all by its presence, incapable of holding dominion like its three siblings were promised. All Eterntus could do was bend the paradigm that had been established since the dawn of reality.[break][break]

The stairway up to the stadium flickered into flesh for but a moment. [break][break]

"Hyakkaryōran Tsubaki . Crystal Navidson." A momentary pause, as if considering what she was. He looked around and saw no Skeleton Gigantic, no Enemy of All Mankind. He glanced at Zaria, as if expecting a nod. "Eternatus." [break][break]

Shattered reality quivered at the word. It felt right to say it, and waiting for Navy to come to that conclusion was a punishment that the Pale Rider did not deserve. Instead, his squire would shoulder that burden in his place. [break][break]

That was what it meant to be a squire. [break][break]

"That's your name, isn't it?" His voice carried across the stadium. "That's the name that Galar carved into your flesh, when you razed it from Postwick to Wyndon." [break][break]

Navy [break][break]

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“Yes, squire.” She floated before them, magenta eyes turned down at the mortals. “Eternatus. That which in eternity shall never die.” She turned upon Navy, Her father, and smiled a wicked smile.[break][break]
“Your heart’s desire was to return here. Your heart’s desire was to see your daughter again. Your heart’s desire was to slay your enemy. Through the grace of these crystals, all things are possible, o Rider.”[break][break]
“I don’t want to fight you, Crystal.”[break][break]
“Oh, but you do.” She floated down, quick as a lightning bolt, their eyes inches apart. They were the windows into the soul, and every passing moment, the abyss within them deepened.[break][break]
Navy heard his own voice, then. He heard words he had repeated within the very heart chamber of the beast. Again and again and again he said the same words.[break][break]
Eternatus is my enemy.[break]
He is the enemy of all mankind.[break][break]
“I’ve enjoyed our time together. It seems a poor story, where the villain only shows up at the very end, does it not? I have never seen Galar as I beheld it within this dream, this moment that will be lost to me in the long away and very soon when I awaken.”[break][break]
“This, too, must be a miracle of the tera. It is a curious thing, how humans face the inevitable. The primordial ice which terrorizes your domain is but a fraction of my strength, yet to return there, you must face me alone, Rider. Just three humans and one Pokemon without its crownless king against me.”[break][break]
“But-”[break][break]
“Stop trying to argue.” She growled, her face morphing into something monstrous as she spoke the command. Beneath the anger was pleading – human pleading, a daughter begging her father to allow her to play her appointed role.[break][break]
“You are a knight on his quest. You sought a dragon to slay, and so you have found one. Perhaps a different man could reach an understanding, but not you.” She drifted back up, back towards the pitch, where fortunes were made and less over far lower stakes.[break][break]
“I will speak to you a prophecy of absolute truth. Those who preside over such things will call you The Warrior. Not The Peacemaker, not The Exacting or The Liberator. A Warrior must make war, or he is no warrior at all.”[break][break]
“Would you not agree, Squire? Hero?”

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What could Eternatus know of warriors? [break][break]

An eternal dragon that had existed at the beginning, and would continue onward until it was time to proclaim the end. Such a dragon could know little of the brief sparks of mortal life, and the duties that drove them onward in spite of the momentary nature of their existence. [break][break]

Eternatus could not understand that.[break][break]

Crystal Navidson could.[break][break]

"You've grown a heart, Eternatus. You're less callous than Tsubaki, that's for sure." Howard leaned on his halberd, taking a deep breath as he did so. "You talk like an orator. Who knew a dragon could speak such honeyed words?" [break][break]

He laughed, but the sound quickly died in his throat. This was no laughing matter. [break][break]

The climax of the narrative had been reached. The villain of the story had been assigned. Penelope, Elisabeth, Howard, and Jayden had all been assigned as the pillars holding up this monolithic monstrosity so that it could play in its appointed role. To see such a monster in a human guise was heart-wrenching. [break][break]

Yet that was required for the story to conclude. A final test of the party of heroes that hade made it to the end of the tale, the corpses of their allies lining the road. [break][break]

"Regice is a shadow of your power, that's true, but that's for the best. Humanity's greatest legacy should be used to bring you down, not your own hand. It would not be fair for gods to slay you. It would not be right. It would not be fitting." [break][break]

Mankind would triumph because they had decided to take the next step upon grasping for fire. They had decided to be something more than Pokemon, and it was their purpose to find out why that was the case. Whether it was due to the creation of stories, due to their ability to adapt in any scenario, or due to sheer dumb luck... [break][break]

...they would win. [break][break]

"But you're wrong again. Listen to your elders." Howard waggled a finger and nodded at Navy. "A Warrior does not make war. A Warrior..."

Navy [break][break]

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POSTED ON Jun 20, 2024 0:25:17 GMT

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“…ends war!” He held his gun out with shaky, trembling hands. The battle was upon them. Valkyrie roared, Zaria drew Ascalon and held it with both hands. It was but a shadow of what it needed to be for this battle, but it was all they had. A cheer rang about behind him. A hundred thousand voices of those who were not there, cast in the role of audience in the stand. They were the voices of Dewford, of Galar, of those long dead and those yet born who would hear this tale in the days long dead.[break][break]
“Oh, very well then!” She smiled herself, enamored by the words of the Squire howard slayte. “If that is how you feel, then so be it. End your war. Go back to your homeland. Fight your battle, and know peace. It would make this maiden happy.”[break][break]
She rose higher and higher. The storm overhead grew to a breaking point. All the world seem to break away and shatter, leaving in its place open galaxies and swirling nebulas. Stars danced around them, as if the heavens themselves turned their apathetic gaze to this clash of knight and dragon.[break][break]
“The curtain rises. The actors take their place. The Hero faces the dragon. Yet, I must speak a selfish desire. My heart yearns to be remembered, o father. I am the forgotten one, that which sleeps eternal, that which your fervent desire breathes power into with every step. Michael Navidson. Navy. Warrior. My father. My enemy. This shall be our first, and greatest battle.”[break][break]
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Crystal Navidson was gone. Where she stood was a colossal dragon. No, to call the dragon a colossus was tantamount to slander. What towered above them was a supernova, a being so big that a single claw could swallow up whole continents. That one single claw is what soared down through the clouds. It opened wide. Power gathered in the center…[break][break]
And its dynamax cannon shot down upon them like a comet upon a dying planet.

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