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"Crystal is right, Navy. There might have been a time where she was vulnerable and confused, when Rocket took her in and poisoned her, but that is gone. I'm not sure that she ever was that woman you bought flowers from." [break][break]

It was said with contempt and from a hard expression, but there was little difference between Viper and Fox. Rocket had found talent, and had cultivated it into a spectacular garden, apathetic to the plight that the seeds those plants had once been would never be seen again.[break][break]

If the Elisabeth Fiorelli that Navy believed in still existed, Howard had never met her. There had been moments of kindness, of a gentle word, of a gifted mug belonging to kyle lopez. Islands of kindness in a sea of grudges that rarely made themselves known.[break][break]

What did make itself known was the massive Orbeetle that now blotted out the sky. [break][break]

"Wait, is that an Orbeetle? Fuck!" Howard shouted and cursed. With his studies on Dynamax and Regice ramping up in anticipation for attack on Dewford, he immediately recognized the Gigantamaxed insect. Before he could shout at the Magnificent Six to spread out, the Orbeetle became a saucer. "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"[break][break]

The admin screamed as he and his bag were drawn into the Orbeetle's tractor beam and flew up towards the sky. [break][break]

"SHOOT IT!" He screamed at them, particularly Crystal with her bow. Without Hattori, their ranged attacks were remarkably limited. Vortigern was freakishly strong, but he couldn't do anything from the ground below. "WAIT DON'T SHOOT IT! I have a plan!"[break][break]

He readied his halberd as he floated higher and higher into the air, and closer to the Orbeetle's physical body. When the chance arrived, he swung.[break][break]

"Take this!"

Navy [break][break]

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Vortigern and Navy’s eyes met. Both knew what had to be done as Howard was pulled up into the tractor beam. Crystal peppered it with arrows, moving closer and closer to the forest’s edge for cover. She was his daughter. She’d be alright. Navy ran for Vortigern, abandoning Valkyrie and jumping on the dragon’s back.[break][break]
“I promise I’ll get you some good meat for this.” The Rider promised a dragon, which would not suffer to be called a steed. “Let’s get up there, and help Howard.” His Squire little needed the help. With every day they spent in this poisoned land, his skill grew. His halberd struck home, and the Orbeetle whose name they did not know screamed. It was a dagger against a tempest, and they would need to bring all they had to bear.[break][break]
Navy clung to one side of Vortigern, Roland the other. Below, Zaria shouted something Navy did not hear. He was too high up, too busy fighting giants.[break][break]
Vortigern slammed into the supermassive creature with a wild thing’s ferocity. His claws cut into flesh, fangs biting. Navy and Roland each rolled off on top of the revolving disc.[break][break]
“Let’s mess him up.” Navy huffed to Roland.[break][break]
“Affirmation: As you say.”[break][break]
Navy chopped at the beetle’s carapace like he was chopping firewood. The monster screaming, spinning faster and faster.[break][break]
“Howard! Howard, see if you can latch on!” Navy shouted as he worked his terrible task. “You’re a goner if he releases that beam!”

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Man, he missed Shirley. She would've made this fight a breeze with her flapping wings and sharp claws and serrated teeth. Rocks crushed insects mercilessly all the time, and this was no exception. Alas, they were killing a giant with sharpened sticks and black metal, so there was little time to complain.[break][break]

Less whining, more stabbing. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Howard could do both. [break][break]

"I don't have a gun, but it doesn't matter. If it bleeds, we can kill it!" Howard's halberd slashed, stabbed, and cleaved through the Orbeetle's flesh. Insects were fragile, and insects whose greatest boons consisted of mental prowess and psychic energy often folded remarkably quickly. "But this still..."[break][break]

He stabbed it again, and the tractor beam misfired as the Orbeetle began to tilt on its axis, its own power insufficient in keeping its momentous bulk afloat. Somewhere far away, Jayden was nodding in approval at the blow. Even Gwyar Wledig would've found little wrong with Howard's strikes. [break][break]

"...fucking sucks!"[break][break]

He fell, his hat flapping wildly in the air as he did so. His halberd fell towards the ground, missing Zaria by a few inches.[break][break]

"GRAB ME! GRAB ME! NAVY!"[break][break]

As Howard plummeted towards the earth, he let out a massive shriek as he missed Navy's hand.

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From where he stood atop the beetle, the Rider noticed a curious thing. Howard’s halberd pierced the ground, and Zaria picked it up. She barked something at an unseen foe, and she charged off into the woods.[break][break]
He wasn’t afforded time to process that, or think about what it could mean. Howard’s life was hanging in the balance. His Squire tumbled towards earth that would be all too happy to break his bones. Tossing his axe aside, he drew his gun. A line of chain shot out, hooking around Howard’s arm. The line held, and Navy felt old for the first time in a long while. His muscles threatened to give out as the weight of Howard tried to pull him down into a long fall.[break][break]
“Vortigern! Vortigern, I need you!” He shouted at the Beast, who turned from his tearing to see what was happening. The dragon’s gold eyes looked into Howard, then at Navy. His jets ignited, and he flew down. Howard was scooped up, brought back up top. Navy took that chance to jump onto the dragon as well. He landed with a thump, right beside Howard.[break][break]
“Vortigern, give it everything you’ve got!” He commanded. “Come on! We’re going to pull this beetle out of the sky!” Raising his gun, the rider pierced it with chain after chain after chain. All led to his gun. All that held them in place was the strength of Navy’s arm.[break][break]
“Bite on this, Vortigern.” He commanded his dragon, who did so without complaint. “And dive.”[break][break]
And dive he did. Orbeetle cried as it realized, against all odds, that it was rapidly descending towards the ground. Shrieking, it struggled against the chains, whining and crying until…[break][break]
Slam[break][break]
It was like a bomb went off. The earth flew in every direction. Vortigern crashed into the ground first, sending Navy and Howard rolling. Orbeetle struggled to right itself, return to the air…[break][break]
And Roland’s killing blade dove into its brain, ending any hope it had of returning to an open sky. The beast died.[break][break]
As it shrunk inch by inch, all was silent.[break][break]
“Holy…shit…” Navy coughed. “Howard, are you alright?”

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Giants fell and the earth quaked. Yet the tremor wasn't as grand as Howard expected. Orbeetle were light, and the Gigantamaxed insect rapidly shrunk as it struck the ground. What would've likely been felt as far as Postwick became an average rumble.[break][break]

That was the power of Eternatus. The ability to spend space and mass with minimal effort.[break][break]

"...bleh. A globule of blood and spit emerged from Howard's mouth. It sank into the ground as Howard wiped his mouth, covering it in a smear of red. The archaeologist grunted in disdain. "Bit my tongue."[break][break]

He wandered towards his halberd and pulled it from the ground. Zaria hadn't been particularly helpful during this fight, but what was she supposed to do? Knights were many things, but they lacked wings. Cyan she may be, but wings she clearly lacked. [break][break]

"Good shot, Roland. Nice save, Vortigern."[break][break]

One knight was nice, but two knights far outstripped the utility of one. Especially when both were coated in steel. What would have happened if Howard had called for other allies, instead of Hattori, Roland, and Vortigern? What if Shuwen had been here? Junior? Navy's team was capable.[break][break]

Howard had always envied the might of Navy's team. Their bonds.[break][break]

"Blasted Dynamax. Good shot, Crystal—"

Navy [break][break]

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“Har!” A voice cut through the heroes. Navy turned his head to see the source of the voice. A Perrserker sat astride a Bloodmoon Ursaluna, holding Crystal at clawpoint. Zaria stood, weapon pointed, in the middle of a standoff.[break][break]
“Ye need take no shame in losin’ to the likes o’ me, lass.” The cat purred, his voice a rasp, like nails against steel. “Better lasses than ye have tried t’take on Tormund, king of the wilds and me wife, Doug.” Doug, which hardly seemed a feminine name, roared in disapproval at being addressed as such.[break][break]
“Quiet, quiet, quiet, ye! Ye can have more of me love when we collect our reward from the queen.” Crystal, for her part, looked bored. Her eyes were glazed over like someone forced to sit through a scene in a movie she did not particularly care for, showing just enough interest to indicate she was following the plot.[break][break]
“Unhand her, rogue!” Zaria barked.[break][break]
“Now that I cannot do, lass.” Tormund shook his head. “For the Witch of Ballonlea wishes to extend an invitation to the Rider. She wishes me to acquire the girl to ensure he will come, and come quick. Somethin’ I know little about. Har!”[break][break]
“Take your hand off my daughter.” At last, Navy arrived. Raising his gun, his voice was cold as the black metal of the gun barrel. [break][break]
“Now now, none of that.” Tormund grinned. “I promise ye, she will come to no harm under our care.”

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Howard's jaw dropped. [break][break]

"DOUG!?!?" Not John Sullivan, but the bear that Howard and Yuina Higashi had decided was a delightful ally. At this point, Howard wasn't even surprised that the Ursaluna had made it into the dream. Doug had survived being smashed by Megalopolans, being blasted by the Loyal Three, and survived on Howard's utter train wreck of a budget.[break][break]

Howard didn't know what was a greater feat, honestly.[break][break]

"And that fucking cat!" There was no good blood between Howard and Tormund. The first time that the two had met, Tormund had stolen Howard's hat, started an island-wide crime ring, and had decided that his name was Harrward.[break][break]

Point being, this cat was living on borrowed time.[break][break]

"Stop barking, dog girl!" Howard snapped at Zaria, before turning to Tormund, Doug, and their captive. "He's got Crystal!"[break][break]

She wasn't particularly thrilled by that. Howard could relate. If he was in her shoes, he'd wish for it to be over as quickly as possible too. Hell, if he could forget the experience entirely, he'd call himself lucky. Alas, life wasn't fair.[break][break]

"You're working with the witch? Elisabeth?" [break][break]

Arceus above, Elisabeth Fiorelli's hired help was getting worse and worse as time went on. If this was the pinnacle of the threat that they were going to face, then the Witch of Ballonlea was thoroughly cooked, and her tower was bound to come crashing down. [break][break]

First, they had to deal with Tormund. Howard raised his hands in mocking surrender. The only benefit to this was that Howard got to see one of his Pokémon again.[break][break]

"Alright, alright! You win! Lead the way, bandit."

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“Bold of ye to assume I’m leadin’ ye anywhere, Henpecked Howard.” The bandit teased. Every word, every syllable, was spoken as if it were a ray of light from the sun. Tormund’s grin was as constant as the rise and fall of air from the lungs, as steady as a strong man’s heartbeat. He was joyous enough for three, which seemed necessary considering how little anyone else wanted to be there.[break][break]
“The witch has sent me aid – a boon companion, slain by one of the foolish men who fell into her spider’s web.”[break][break]
“You sure talk a lot, Tormund.” Said Navy, cutting in. Tormund’s smile did not falter.[break][break]
“Aha, jealous of one of your fellow flies, o Rider?”[break][break]
“I ain’t some guy she fooled.” He insisted, before trying to move past the point. “If she wants me to come, I’ll come. She don’t need Crystal. Hand her back.”[break][break]
“Are ye not?” Tormund raised an eyebrow. “Ye seem vexed enough by the witch. She might not stir yer loins the way she did this other fly, aye, but she stirs yer heart. A deadly trap either way, and I know a thing or two about that! I’ve ran afoul of plenty’o bears in my time. Their honeypots be dangerous!” He slapped Doug, who growled in annoyance. “HAR!”[break][break]
“She teach you to talk in riddles? Crystal, say somethin’![”[break][break]
“Doesn’t matter to me how I get there.” She said with an apathetic shrug. “We’re going there to kill her anyway.”[break][break]
While they spoke, a ghost slowly materialized amidst the wyrdlight. Soft red eyes glowed, looking out at one among their numbers: Roland. The ghost looked like him, so close as to be a twin. What separated them was their flesh. Roland’s was a chrome simulacrum of a human shape. The ghost’s was a mere memory of the same blueprint.[break][break]
“O L I V I E R.” Roland shouted at the ghost of a Gardevoir MATIAS SILPH murdered.[break][break]
That, if nothing else, surprised Crystal. She turned to look at Roland just as his brother’s ghost teleported them the bandits and her away, leaving the heroes alone in the woods.[break][break]
“Fuck,” Navy cursed, slamming his axe into a tree, “FUCK!” He looked to Howard. “Ballonlea’s still weeks away. Arceus damn it.”

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Howard knew more languages than anyone in the Hoenn region, likely more than anyone in this version of Galar as well. He had never been called 'henpecked' before. Somehow, it make him feel worse.[break][break]

Good on Tormund for reading a dictionary. It almost made Howard want to spare the little bastard, but he was unfortunately getting in their way. He had to go for the journey to continue. When they reached Elisabeth, they were going to have a nice, long talk about her choice in subordinate. He wondered if Tormund had to clean her bathrooms, too.[break][break]

If so, Howard felt for the little shit.[break][break]

"Oliver? That's impossible! That wasn't one of the three I picked! CRYSTAL!" As the ghost warped Crystal, Tormund, and Doug away, Howard was left with Navy and the remnants of their group. The Magnificent Seven were dwindling quickly. "Dammit!"[break][break]

Quickly, he calmed himself. He didn't have the connection to Crystal or Tsubaki that Navy did. It was his only benefit over the sheriff at this precise moment in time.[break][break]

"Navy, listen!" The tree groaned as it leaned slightly under the weight of the axe strike. Nothing quite held an edge or sliced as cleanly as the metal from Necrozma did. Getting near him was a risk, but after Motostoke, what was there to fear of the sheriff? He was conquering his demons. "Listen to me."[break][break]

He grabbed Navy and turned the older man to face him. Weary, aged faces met and a silent conversation was had. Empathy. Understanding. A promise of vengeance.[break][break]

"Crystal is right. We're heading that way anyways." [break][break]

When they got there, they'd tear down Elisabeth's ivory tower and send it all crashing down. The witch in the woods had spent far too much time in solitary. It was time for her self-imposed exile to end. [break][break]

"We're gonna get her. She'll pay for this." [break][break]

She would. [break][break]

"You calm?"

Navy [break][break]

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- March forward, squire.

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“Calm as I can be.” One more swing and his axe would have cleaved clear through the tree. The Black Knight’s metal was terrifying. Pulling it back, he put the axe away. His eyes turned to the woods. They were dark, and threatened to grow darker still.[break][break]
“Arceus, she took…” His daughter, with whom he barely seemed to speak even now. His daughter, who seemed content to watch him train and banter with the others. His daughter, who he seemed to be failing again.[break][break]
“Yeah, I’m good. We’re going to the tower anyway. We’re getting her back.” There was someone else who needed his attention. Roland stood stock still, as if trying to compute some problem a human mind couldn’t begin to understand.[break][break]
“Roland. Are you alright?”[break][break]
“Negative.” The bluntness almost made Navy laugh.[break][break]
“Better question. Are you good to keep going for today?”[break][break]
“Affirmative. We must find Olivier.”[break][break]
“His brother.” Navy told Howard as he turned. He wasn’t going to get through to the Iron Valiant right now, but he didn’t need to. All they needed to do was keep moving, for what time they had left before the sun sunk.[break][break]
“Matias killed him.”[break][break]
“Statement,” Roland began in a tone that insisted he wasn’t lying, “you all missed something in your haste.” His right arm held a glittering crystal. Butterfrees seemed to float inside. He tossed it to Zaria, whose expression was unreadable under the helmet. It disappeared, like so many had before.[break][break]
“Thanks, Ser Roland.” She said, looking to Roland as she handed Howard’s halberd back to him.[break][break]
“Now then. Let’s go.”

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They went. [break][break]

It is important to elaborate on the terrain of northwestern Galar. Ballonlea and its surrounding territories were tucked away in a thick blanket of brush and greenery that stretched for miles. The flora ranged from pretty but harmless to hideous and deadly, and the fauna were the same. Everything from an innocent Galarian Ponyta to ferocious Grimmsnarl roamed the land.[break][break]

What was an easy journey in modern Galar was a vindictive death march today. All it did was remind Howard why he had finally returned to Hoenn to put down roots. One can only wander the uncharted swaths for so long.[break][break]

"We're a few days off from Ballonlea." Howard said as he peered at his map. After resupplying in Motostoke, Howard had made a slew of notes and markings on the map he had gotten in Postwick. Another day, another one of Howard's skills being put to the task. He put the map in his back pocket as he turned to face Navy. "Ready? Just like we practiced, Roland."[break][break]

The trek to Ballonlea was long, and it gave Howard and Navy plenty of time to practice at Pokémon battles. Slowly but surely, the admin improved.[break][break]

"Under the blades!" Roland's mechanized limbs creaked as he knelt under an incoming strike from Vortigern! "Left! Right!"[break][break]

The Iron Valiant dodged appropriately, dancing with the Garchomp in a fiery dance of primal anger and mechanized efficiency. The dance of the warrior and the dragon.[break][break]

"So, Navy..." [break][break]

Clang! Roland struck Vortigern, parrying a strike. [break][break]

"You fought Matias? Groudon? That's one hell of a story." [break][break]

Roland stiffened, almost getting his head taken off by Vortigern.

Navy [break][break]

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“You’re getting better.” Said Navy as the Pokemon cooled down from their match. The training allowed him to gauge a few things he thought might one day prove important: his Pokemon, though stronger than he, were not as strong as they were in the waking world. Well-trained, but not as strong. There was a reason, he assumed, but he would not dwell on that.[break][break]
Instead, he thought over Howard’s observation. Working at his whetstone, he noticed the others looking with some interest, all save Vortigern. His black dragon’s eyes were distant, looking out into the woods poisoned by Wo-Chien. Vortigern and Hattori were the only two Pokemon, out of a full team of six, to return from the depths of Eternatus’s chamber that day.[break][break]
Is Vortigern dead up there right now? He wondered. Did Regice kill him?[break][break]
“First time I met Silph – Matias, I mean, in person, I called him down to Dewford. It was a lot of empty bitching. Me saying no one would help me out with Eternatus until it’s too late. Asked him if he thought Groudon could destroy whatever organ’s in the chamber you and I fought in.” He smiled ruefully.[break][break]
“League couldn’t leave well enough alone. Sent Silph and me down into the chamber to mine. Mine we did…til he got the idea in his head to strike the core. Fought him off. He brought out Groudon. Vortigern ended up Dynamaxing. Arceus, I’m lucky he didn’t die. Olivier, Roland’s brother, he…” Roland was busy training, still caught up in the fight.[break][break]
“…wished for Hattori to live. Only reason Hattori made it out alive. That’s why he’s black now. Groudon burned him to a crisp. Vet told me his tongue burns whenever he eats.” That this never came up before surprises him, in hindsight. “Arceus. I’m surprised you’re not more interested in the other part, what Penny said. About how I considered running off with what the League has of the blue orb.”

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"Why would I be?"[break][break]

Despite everything, Howard seemed genuinely puzzled. [break][break]

"Do you think I haven't thought about taking Regice and running to the League with my tail between my legs, begging for protection? Using Regice and a mountain of intel on Rocket would likely set me up in a far away region like Ransei or Almia or something. I'd be... free."[break][break]

"But I'd also be afraid. Afraid that I'd wake up one day with a knife in my chest, or Walsh emerging from the shadows to end my life."[break][break]

His voice was retrospective, quiet, apathetic. These weren't new revelations. These were the same justifications that Howard had used in the Ultra Deep Sea, right before this world had swallowed them up to purge it of its purple skies. Still, they had been recontextualized by the journey and by Navy's trial. [break][break]

"They're thoughts I have, every once in a while. What if I just picked up Regice and left? Then I look around, and see all the faces and claws digging into my flesh. I should have left when Remiel did, under his status and pedigree." This journey hadn't lessened the admin's thoughts on his predecessor. "I'm just what he left behind."[break][break]

Nepotism was a powerful thing.[break][break]

"These things are just thoughts. I record actions, not thoughts. Deeds echo, words remember, but thoughts? I'm no mind-reader. I just assumed that there was a day when you looked around and realized that the Pokémon League had failed you." [break][break]

Rocket had failed them both first, but one had managed to resist the allure. The other had fallen in, chasing after the dying remains of his dream. [break][break]

"For that, I'm sorry. You're not the first person a government has failed. Monroe's policy bled into Dahlia's, and Dahlia's will bleed into whoever succeeds her." [break][break]

The admin shook his head, amused. [break][break]

"I'm just shocked you beat MATIAS SILPH on the battlefield. You never stop improving."

Navy [break][break]

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“I made him retreat, and that’s not the same as victory.” Four dead Pokemon doesn’t feel like victory. None of them had graves. None of them would be mourned, save by him. The last vestiges of his brother’s team were gone, save one lone Charizard.[break][break]
“This is all I have left of Ironsides.” He gestured at the lone feather tied to Zaria’s hip. “I don’t know how Groudon didn’t burn it. The rest of him got melted.”[break][break]
“It’s a fine sword.” Said Zaria, as if that were any consolation for the loss.[break][break]
“The finest of his age. Ironsides fought for me like that ancient hero’s sword fought for them.”[break][break]
That drew Zaria’s full attention. She drew the feather, holding it up in the light. She saw her reflection on the blade’s edge, although the face looking back at her seemed older.[break][break]
“It’s seen many battles.”[break][break]
“And it’s saved lives. If it wasn’t for Ironsides, Rocket would have a few more slaves.” Which brought the subject back to Howard, and the decisions that brought him here. Regice was climbing. He would burst through, and he would destroy Dewford. His island would be a mirror of the Silent Icelands, with only the wind to sing of the souls who once lived there.[break][break]
“You could-”[break][break]
“Don’t.” Zaria spoke with conviction. “Howard will be our enemy, when this dream ends, but he chose his road. It is his to walk, and not yours to judge.”[break][break]
“You’re right.” They all had, and that’s something he had to accept. None of Rocket’s command staff were folk who would defect. They knew what they were in for. They staked their claim under Declan Walsh’s flag. They would die for their side, as he had died for his and would again if he must.

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