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  1. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade couldn't help laughing. "Oh man? That is way more dramatic than anything I've got." Not to mention the fact that this was Galar, where major gym battles could have the kind of audience that something like a League conference would draw anywhere else. (Laura'd had a Pokemon leave her...
  2. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade imagined being in that spot, maybe not in a gym battle necessarily—the gym battles had never been so high-stakes for her, and definitely not a necessary stepping stone for her goals the way that it'd been for Laura. But a critical battle against a team of ground-types when Nine's lightning...
  3. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Those numbers didn't immediately mean anything to Jade—even if it was a metric that existed in her world, it wasn't one she knew about (maybe Rudy or Darren would've known). But it sounded cool, and she had a few badges too, which anyone could understand. "I got a couple of badges too, but...
  4. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade couldn’t help stifling a small laugh. “Oh man, you’re making me real glad I started in the summer, even if it wasn’t a normal start at all.” She’d shared plenty of stuff about the Rebellion, about the anti-Rocket training, but she spent considerably less time thinking back on the awkward...
  5. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Another sip of warm drink, another slow wave of relaxation. The instinctual flicker of hesitation that always came with talking about her age thankfully remained just a moment. Laura had never made her feel like... like she was too young to be doing what she was doing. Like she was just a kid...
  6. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Twenty?? Whoa. Okay, it wasn't that weird. Starr was almost nineteen back home, and well... I guess after a year on Forlas, she'd be twenty now, technically? That was a weird thought, that Starr had lived a year in the space between both of their respective arrivals. "Yeah, it's not a huge...
  7. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade gave a small laugh. "Oh man, I hate snow. Not looking forward to heading north, that's for sure." She raised her mug along with Laura's, then sank back into the land of warm, fruity spices to avoid thinking about how they'd all be heading to a frozen wasteland in the uncomfortably near...
  8. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place
    Threadmarks: Ch07: Cats in Winter

    Jade leaned back in her seat, glancing out the window at the darkening shades of dusk creeping over Frontier Town. And only a few hours past noon, too. Why'd it have to get dark so early? She found herself cursing it every year. At least it didn't snow in the Soja, so that was at least one good...
  9. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade couldn't help breaking into a grin. "Yeah, sounds good." She hadn't been all that hungry when they'd arrived, and had been content to poke at the snack plate for half an hour, but they'd been talking so long that it was practically dinnertime. It felt good to be able to share stuff from...
  10. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade listened to Laura's account with both ears and whiskers forward, and something about the way she told it made it click that of course Laura was the kind of person who'd be fascinated by Mewtwo. Something about it just fit. "I bet you'll find him when you get back home," Jade found herself...
  11. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade let out a long exhale. "Yeah, it really was." In ways that she hadn't fully realized at the time. The aftershocks of the Viridian incident wouldn't be felt for another year, and she'd spent that year determinedly not thinking about it everything fell apart. Stupid. She was acting like a...
  12. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    What did he do. A lot of things. Viridian. Indigo. It felt... wrong, somehow, to shatter the wide-eyed curiosity that Laura held. But the oldest parts were easiest to think about. Jade reflexively went to put her hands in her pockets, remembered for the eighty-seventh time that she didn't...
  13. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade rubbed her arm. "Yeah, I mean, I wasn't there when he woke up or anything, I just had a small talk with him while he was still asleep, and..." And she'd promised to help him, a promise she had no way of following up on, but that felt true at the time, while still on the high of making a...
  14. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade found herself laughing a bit as well; the energy was... strange, but good. "Honestly, at this point, I'd believe it." After all the parallels, it just felt right. But then, Laura asked what it was like. And how could Jade sum that up, really? There was too much weird, layered drama, too...
  15. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Right, she should've realized that it'd be possible for there to be worlds where the project just failed. Laura didn't seem to think that was the answer, though. "It... would make a lot of sense for there to be a connection, what with the secret Pokemon hybrids and all," Jade said thoughtfully...
  16. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade’s ears pricked forward. “Right, yeah, Nova was the first one to bring up the Mewtwo he knew, and that was what made me think about, like, different versions of the same person coming up in different worlds.” Same as what Gladion had said… She scratched at her whiskers. “So like, Mewtwo…...
  17. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    There it was, the disappointment. The reality that the idealized notion of fighting back against injustice was something of the past, and that all the stories that'd ever made her role in it all sound cool or important were just stories, now. Jade let out a sigh, leaning back in her seat. "If...
  18. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    She'd already told various people the bits and pieces. Might as well just say it. Jade put on a sheepish half-smile. "It's not. We lost." The moment the words were out of her mouth, she felt bad for putting it so bluntly. "I-I mean. It is what it is, you know?" she added, hurriedly holding...
  19. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade's ears pricked forward. “Yeah, yeah they’ve been with me for over a year now. Three of them. And, well… I guess I would say we’ve usually been on a team at one point or another. First the rebel team where we got trained on how to fight the Rockets. And then after that fell through, it...
  20. Chibi Pika

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade idly swirled her drink as she listened to Laura's words, and it struck her that in her own fight, back home, she'd never really been alone. First there'd been the Rebellion, and then Ajia and Starr, and Rudy and Darren, and... and for a while, her patron. "That sounds like it'd be pretty...
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