Not a trainer this time.

Chapter 590: Reunion

The Victini of the past disappeared, so the Victini of the future probably has no memory of their experience together, right?
Naoki didn't know it, but life went on.

It took Dream and Baby Bear a long time to accept this.

Eventually, they decided to make another trip to Aindoak in the Unova region to look for Victini.

The two Pokémon left, and life on the ranch returned to normal.

Naoki would go to the gym to work on weekdays and stay at home on weekends to spend time with his Pokémon and his wife.

But one day, it was an ordinary day, a visitor suddenly came to the ranch.

That afternoon, Naoki had just got off work and returned from Nishikawa City when he saw a familiar figure at home.

A petite body, standard "V" shaped ears, and those beautiful blue eyes.

That's... Victini?!

Naoki froze in place for a moment.

Seeing Victini, the strange tree was also attracted, only Gulden had an expression that seemed to have known about it for a long time.

"Nini~!"

Victini let out a cry of joy.

Then it flew forward until it was in front of Naoki.

"Do you still remember me?" Naoki asked tentatively.

"Nini!" Victini immediately gave an affirmative answer.

It has always been Victini! After disappearing in the past, when it woke up again, it returned to Aindoak with an extra memory in its head.

In addition to the memory of meeting the hero's expedition team and going back to the past to save the old king with the help of Naoki, there is also the memory of seeing his future self coming back to help the old king.

Victini didn't know how to express it.

Anyway...it's all really magical!

After hearing this, Naoki quickly understood.

Victini's memory was also corrected! Just like Arceus's!

It didn't disappear at that time, it just returned to the future Aindoak!
“Nini…”

Victini complained pitifully.

After it came back, it wanted to go to the ranch to find Naoki, Menghuan, and Baby Bear, but it came here on Dragonite last time and didn't know the way to the ranch at all.

As a result, it encountered many obstacles along the way and got lost for a long time. Finally, thanks to an encounter with a migrating electric petrel, it learned the location of Naoki Ranch from the petrel.

The big electric petrel had visited the Pokémon Tavern at Naoki Ranch many times.

"Great." Naoki breathed a sigh of relief and murmured. After a while, he suddenly remembered something and asked quickly, "By the way, have you seen Menghuan and the baby bear?"

"Nini?" Victini asked confused.

Naoki explained, "A few days ago, they didn't believe that you disappeared, so they decided to set out to Aindoak to look for you. They should have reached that place by now, right?"

“Nini…” Victini shook his head and quickly said that he had never seen it.

"I see." Naoki nodded.

It seems that when Mew and Baby Bear went to Aindoak, Victini also left there and headed for the ranch.

They just happened to be off.

"We need to inform Mew and Bear Baby about this." Naoki said as he took out the Rotom phone: "They will be very happy if they know!"

Soon, the call was connected, and just as Naoki expected, Dream and Baby Bear were sitting on the Sword of Earth with sad expressions on their faces.

"miu?"

"One?"

Seeing Naoki, the two Pokémon asked what happened.

Naoki smiled and said, "Guess who has come to the ranch?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Victini flew forward, got in front of the camera, and greeted the two Pokémon opposite.

"Nini!"

Menghuan and Baby Bear's eyes suddenly lit up.

"miu!"

"One!"

"Victini is fine. The reason you didn't find it in Aindoak was because it had just set out for the ranch and happened to miss you," said Naoki.

Dreamy and Baby Bear were so excited that they flew up immediately and said they would go back to the ranch right away!

"Okay, then we'll wait for you here." Naoki said.

After hanging up the phone, Naoki treated Victini to a plate of cookies at the Bud Crown's tea party.

Victini's cheeks were bulging with food, and it kept telling Naoki what happened afterwards.

It turned out that after Naoki and the others left, the two princes finally came to their senses, and they were filled with regret when they looked at the consequences they had caused.

They returned to the castle and all withdrew from the election for the throne. After deep reflection, they handed the two stones transformed from the dragon to their father, the old king, for safekeeping.

Later, the old king grew old and passed away.

Before leaving, he gave the two stones to Victini for safekeeping, hoping that Victini would be able to give them to the traveler in the future.

Because the old king believed that the man was a kind person, he was able to travel through time and space alone to stop the two dragons in order to help Victini.

The old king didn't want anyone to use the power of the two dragons to fight again.

“Nini…”

As it was talking, Victini touched its body, and then a magical scene happened. It took out two stones from somewhere.

They were two perfectly round stones, one was as dark as the night, and the other was as pure white as the day.

Victini handed them to Naoki.

Naoki was slightly stunned, then looked at the Light Stone and Dark Stone in his hand in disbelief.

The Light Stone and the Dark Stone showed no reaction, but their information emerged from Naoki's mind.

[Light Stone: This is what Reshiram's body became after it was destroyed. It is said that it is waiting for the hero to come.]

[Dark Stone: This is what Zekrom's body became after it was destroyed. It is said that it is waiting for the hero to come.]

Does the old king want to give these two stones to him for safekeeping?

This is Zekrom and Reshiram!
The thing that the evil organization Plasma Group in the United States has always dreamed of has now come into his hands so easily?
If Kui Qisi knew about this, he would be so angry that he would die...

However, the great war a thousand years ago caused Reshiram and Zekrom to consume a lot of vitality, and then they turned back into stone and fell into a long sleep, and have not awakened yet.

But it’s not right!
According to the plot of the movie, even if these two dragons are still in stone form, they should have woken up and have their own consciousness!
Thinking back to how Reshiram and Zekrom were beaten up by Gulton, Naoki couldn't help but have a guess in his mind.

Could it be that they were afraid to wake up because Gulden was nearby? But this shouldn't be the case...

After thinking for a moment, Naoki decided to fulfill his agreement with the old king and keep the two stones for him.

Therefore, that afternoon, Naoki sent the two stones to the World Tree, the next level of the Earth Town where Groudon was.

There was still a vast wilderness with a mountain standing in the center. Naoki came to the top of the mountain and placed the Light Stone and the Dark Stone into the groove of the stone on the top of the mountain.

"Okay!" Naoki breathed a sigh of relief after completing this task.

"Nini~!"

However, just as he turned around and prepared to leave with Victini, he suddenly heard two ethereal voices.

"What is your ideal?"

"What is the truth you are pursuing?"

Naoki paused and turned to look at the Light Stone and the Dark Stone.

The two stones made no more sound, as if they were waiting for his answer.

"Nini?" Victini, who hadn't heard anything, saw Naoki stop and looked back at him in confusion.

"My dream is to see Reshiram and Zekrom merge together." Naoki replied silently in his heart. He knew that the two dragons could sense the thoughts in humans' minds.

After all, Reshiram and Zekrom were originally one and the same. It was because of two people with different ideas that they were separated into the Light Stone and the Dark Stone, and the remaining shell became Kyurem.

The legendary three dragons of Tao merged into one... If possible, Naoki really wanted to see it.

Light Stone, Dark Stone: "..."

"Okay, let's go!"

Naoki turned around, took Victini away from the World Tree, and returned to the ranch.

"Is everything resolved?" Qishu asked.

Naoki nodded: "I put them on the World Tree. As long as the World Tree is not discovered, what happened in the past will not happen again."

"That's good." Upon hearing this, Qi Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

Naoki took out his Rotom phone and searched online for information about the Plasma Group in the Unova region.

As far as he knew, Team Plasma's goal was to separate Pokémon from humans, claiming that Pokémon were a misfortune in human hands and should be allowed to return to nature, and they gave speeches about this everywhere.

But in reality, they want to use this idea to make other trainers give up Pokémon so that Team Plasma can monopolize the power of Pokémon.

As for opponents, Plasma will forcibly seize their Pokémon and take them for itself.

Unfortunately, after searching for a long time, Naoki was unable to find any other information except for some news and videos of Plasma Group's speeches.

After a moment's thought, he sent a message to Adek.

[Wing King: I saw on the Internet that there is an organization called Plasma Group that is promoting the liberation of Pokémon in major cities. It feels like a cult organization. Is it okay in the Unova region? ]

Adek replied quickly.

[Adek: Even the Padia region has heard about it? This organization is really strange. They are spreading the idea of ​​freeing Pokémon from Poké Balls everywhere. Not only that, they will also forcibly snatch the Pokémon of trainers who disagree with their speech. Currently, the Unova Alliance has begun planning to investigate and deal with this matter. ]

[King Yi: I heard vaguely that the leader of the Plasma Group is a man named Quichis. You should pay more attention to him! ]

The next second, Adek's video call came in.

"How did you know?" He widened his eyes.

"Look at what the netizens said on the Internet!" Naoki answered as a matter of course: "They said they heard it from the members of the Plasma Group. They seem to admire the leader very much."

"Quiqisi..." Adek nodded and said, "Okay, I'll have someone investigate right away. I still have to deal with official business, so we can talk later when we have time!"

"Okay, then get busy!"

After hanging up the phone, he had reminded Adek of everything he needed to remind. Everything that happened next depended on the United Alliance!
The next morning, Mew and Baby Bear returned to the ranch. The three Pokémon met again and hugged each other and cried with joy.

Naoki and the other person stood aside and watched the scene with smiles on their faces.

At noon, Naoki prepared a sumptuous lunch for them to celebrate the day of reunion.

After lunch, when Victini heard that Mew and Baby Bear were going to continue their journey, he made a decision.

It wants to join the hero's expedition team and help Pokémon in need, just like Mew and Baby Bear!
In fact, I just want to play with Menghuan and Baby Bear.

Of course, Victini kept this thought in his heart and did not say it out loud.

As the head of the family, Naoki is very happy to see Victini coming out of his past loneliness.

However, Naoki felt more because Victini and the old king did not leave any regrets in this world. As the past was changed, the old king did not die suddenly, but aged normally and left the world.

The nightmare in Victini's heart also dissipated, allowing it to walk out without any regrets or sadness about the past.

Looking at the playful Victini, Naoki slowly exhaled.

In this way, including the Zapdos who helped him fight at the gym, the hero's exploration team has a total of four members!

so good!
The three Pokémon rested on the ranch for three days, and then continued their journey.

Victini and Baby Bear rode on the Toucan that had transformed into a dream and waved goodbye to Naoki.

Naoki also waved vigorously at them, and only looked away when he could no longer see the toucans.

*
Time passes quietly, and after the hot summer, the cool and refreshing autumn season comes.

The fallen leaves in the back mountain began to turn yellow. When the wind blew through the woods, they would blow down one leaf after another, just like a maple leaf snow, covering the mountains and fields with a thick layer of snow.

These fallen leaves will eventually wither and decay, turning into nutrients for the earth and giving birth to new life.

After a continuous autumn rain, many mushrooms grew in the mountains and forests. Occasionally, you can see ranchers living nearby and passing trainers picking mushrooms with their Pokémon partners.

On September 202th, 9nd year of the Alliance Calendar, at night, the town of Ziqin was brightly lit. Mayor Thomas and the townspeople were all preparing for tomorrow's harvest festival.

Naoki was also called over to help. He and Gulden mingled among the men, and together with Guili, they moved the stall to the mountain path. The women walked around the shrine, hanging up lanterns that represented a good harvest.

The fire illuminated the mountain path, guiding the tourists at night.

In six months, Qishu's belly gradually grew bigger. Naoki didn't dare let her run around for fear that she would get bumped into something, so he asked his careful sister Ai Guanshi to help take care of her.

Today, I heard that the town was preparing for a celebration, so Qishu insisted on coming over to take a look.

With no other choice, Naoki had to agree.

After helping Mayor Thomas set up the stall, Naoki brought Gulden back to Qishu. Seeing her accompanying him with a big belly, he couldn't help but say with distress:
"Are you tired? Do you want to go back and rest first?"

Qi Shu looked at the stalls with shining eyes: "Let's set up a stall tomorrow night!"

"Setting up a stall?" Naoki was stunned.

"Yeah, I want to try it too! It looks so interesting!" Qishu said excitedly.

She had heard Naoki talk about his experience of setting up a stall with Pokémon to sell local specialties from the ranch before, but they didn’t know each other at that time, so now Qishu also wanted to experience it!
Naoki had no choice but to agree: "Okay, then we'll come over and set up a stall tomorrow night."

"Great!" Qi Shu cheered.

With Naoki's love and the care of her caring brothers and sisters, she didn't seem like an adult, but instead became more and more like a child.

(End of this chapter)