"Bwegh... Maybe we should request Cedars assistance again." This Blackwell has been consuming a ton of coffee and energy drinks. She really hasn't slept in days. But seeing Wendys state and a weird familiar feeling... She wants to crack this code. Somehow.

Thankfully the living grunts are trying to give Xiao a proper burial. Though they aren't sure if they should tell Aleister what happened or not, though... Or they should let him piece it together.

"Hah... when something like this happens, every family needs a blame.... Something to push themselves for retribution...." He is coughing up a lot of blood more as he is shaking a bit. But he may as well ask this... "...If you want my Pokemon, take care of them... That is all I ask."-

"Hah.... Prince of a certain Nashi Region that grew bored of everything. Bored of this life... Bored of the royal life. And then I killed an assassin in self defense as a kid... And of course, the same assassin group hired me in with how the kill was..." From a Prince to an assassin after-

Unfortunately not even his usual luck could stop her here. And it feels like a cruel joke that the Pokemon that he killed in front of Reina was partly dark type and then here comes her sister, aiming a dark type move right at him. Even Esmeralda should sense the irony here in this situation.-

"Hah.... Pathetic.... On both of us here. But given what you are, you don't have much to worry about death, even if it does happen. You and your family reeks of death. Death and blood sucking." He really has no respect for the children here as he is trying to get back up, coughing up-

That could explain why she wasn't so worried about that future sight. And probably why she didn't seem to care about anything this assassin would throw at her. At this point Xiao Gui is understanding what this woman even is now. If it wasn't for that unfortunate meat shield, he'd be dead-

"Now, now, Malamar... Remember what I told you? Don't scare people like that. Last time you did, Mina was-" Her eyes did freeze up onto this girl here. Huh... She never seen anything like it. But there felt to be an odd connection here. "Huh... This is a new one. Come right in here, miss."

At the rate this is going, there's going to be more than one body here as things go on! The only saving grace for him is that his Reuniclus's Trick Room is still up for a little bit longer... But for how long? He would keep a grip onto his claws, preparing to slash at her. Though he did get-

It all seemed quiet at first at the door... And then a thud... And another one... And yet another one! Until..... The door bursts open. ["MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"] That is one way to greet a would-be assistant as this Malamar would just rip the door wide open, laughing!

Thankfully this flier does have a location for her lab. A rather two-three story large Apartment building... Only owned by this woman. Repurposed into a lab. It is very easily noticeable, especially with rumors of the "Whacko scientist" who spent her fortune buying it and electronics...

"Just going to sent out applications for an assistant out here for my research... Free housing and food as long as they work together..." This strange woman has been trying to bring out a lot fliers in hopes of getting someone, anyone to get to her side... To help with her research here..

Being launched by that Buzzwole and seeing his own Pokemon being decimated, he knew this girl here was serious here... At this rate he can see himself dying here! "Heh...I didn't expect that. Especially since most people get Ultra Beasts through Beast Balls." This girl at this point is-

"Hrm. Hrm. Interesting. At the very least you seem to be like your family: Good at Pokemon battling. That's always a shared thing. Though even I feel like if that one target sister of yours was more like you, she'd get this done years ago." No morals holding her down, a set team. And doing-

bern Hear me out. To differentiate this timeline Blackwell from the main one who is dead and evil and stuff... What if I use Angelas Library of Ruina design for her faceclaim instead of her Lobotomy Corps design I usually use?

"More like it is a good incentive to get better. How do you think I get all of my good supplies, lady? Through paychecks. A good killer must know to get high quality gear to get the kills they do want." So it seems like he does enjoy killing. He just spends the money he gets onto supplies for it.-

"Hard to kill someone who wasn't there, lady. But that was one of my ideas. Though not seeing her, all I saw was that grass girl with her... who took some Tranquilizers made specifically for vampires like your kind. She did rage a bit there." He could have waited and looked for Wendy or wait-

"It really isn't about that girl. But it always felt like a case where no matter what, /someone/ was going to be villainized. Someone was going to be scrutinized. And you want me to be blunt? In the best case scenario, someone was going to remain loveless forever. Worst case, people would-

And yet there was that twisted grin right on his face on his face. While Reina was too focused to deal with her hair being pulled, this guy was having a sadistic grin on his face from it. Did he found a true equal here? "Heh.... Was it the whole world against her? Or was she merely incompatible-

"How peciular, though... That strange paper creature. Wasn't that the same one Miss Reina took during those poacher attacks with Celia? Shame about the little one, though. I could have made her a fine assassin." He seems to know /all/ events that happened before it seems..

Xiao Gui certainly doesn't know what happened /after/ his attack. But he has been keeping blood vials of the Incineroar he slaughtered in his pockets. ...Does he keep the blood of his enemies all the time?

bern Well. My Beloved gave me an interesting thing on Blackwell in this timeline stuff. That would be fun to explore on her and her backstory without breaking her death in RP.

Even if in the modern timeline she is dead, a certain scientist may cross paths with a certain 'future' pet project of hers... When? Who knows? But this past version in this time would certainly be interested... Got to love fate: Make you meet someone even if they're dead in your time.

While the other agents did scatter from the thunderbolt, Xiao Gui was staring at his actions. The Heel Pokemon that was ironically, being a hero and protecting Reina and Sayori was bleeding out. And he only responded with a kick to the Incineroars back. "Stupid feline. This is why you don't-

"Waste of tranqulizers.... Ugh... I'm gonna have to deal with that sleeping girl and get Reina myself." With frustration on Xiao Guis face, he'd hold onto that claw weapon of his. "Future Sight onto the Chespin, Reuniclus! I will deal with this bitch myself." Instead of aiming for Reina, he-

The Copperajah would charge right after the Deino with a heavy Slam, wanting to try and flatten the irritated Deino. But Xiao Gui would pull out his signature claw out, ready to even join in the Pokemons fight if need be. But he did stare at the agents. "They're distracted. You know what-

Reina would have some of her Pokeballs out as Bombay would come out of his ball, going to see what his former pack mates were running off to. And having Apollo out, the Charmander would stare at the shaking leaves. If it gets too bad, Reina would have to pull out some bigger guns here... And-

"....Did the training dummies from the simulations leak out? Again?" ...There's training dummies of every Kingchester!?!

bern Why did my mind go to "Reina and Celia in a competitive Kingchester personnel killing game"? Just see who can rack up the most kills in a limited time-

"Y-You are sounding like your own father here!" And then there's only four people left alive... And yet one of them is standing up despite working against her? "You two both think you want to create a utopia and get rid of pain and evil. And you two have lost it because if this Kaori person-

"...At least Aleister never declared himself to be a god." ...Ouch. Even they know something has gone seriously wrong the instant someone is declaring themselves as god. That is usually the first sign something has utterly and completely snapped. This goes beyond hating family members now. So-

"....Apparently this is what your father did to her before." There is some irony of how a girl locked away is essentially trying to seclude someone once more. "If you could, it'd be best to make her a pure asset. I know Blackwell would have wanted to meddle with her mind to make her how-

"So you haven't taken your Mans risk taking here." They don't sound ashamed. But they seem very curious about her right now while the survivors are more... curious? Even when their people have been brutally killed? "What are you doing to her anyways!? Forming Reina in some way!?" It would-

"...Kill her? Not form her against him or anything? Not meddle with her mind or anything? Just kill?" These guys are going to unintentionally give her more ideas for the future by the sounds of things. "Y-You simply can't go scorched Earth like this! It'll spell doom with everyone here!"-

bern Why do I have a feeling if Reina gets the Unity treatment, Celias first response would be "Kill Reina".

"W-What do you plan to do if you do take out the AI!? Bring the world back to the stone ages!?" That seems to be a worrying possibility given how interconnected Vi is to a ton of electronics. "...And of course you'd have to make a contigency in case Project Unity does happen." They may be-

"....The thing is that if that AI breaks, it means every Kingchester electronic will shut down too." The survivors aren't sure how to say this. "Cities will go dark. Ships will stop moving. Cars will stop. Satellites will fall. Hospital devices will stop saving people." So there is a lot-

....Vi can sense someone may target her. Uh oh.

bern ....If you think about it, the plan I have on Reina is kind of more gruesome than what she did to Amelia and Wendy.

...That is nightmare inducing, that's for sure. "....She wants to one-up Shadow Pokemon with her Corruption methods to try and be better than her employers! She wants to hybridize people! And... And... all we know is she said that her "biggest plan" is something she'd put her own plans in-

One has to wonder if Celia preventing Reina from going to this level of violence is either because Celia wants to be like this herself or a case of setting standards here. Because a lot of this would be what Reina could have done if she had no filter. "L-LOOK! All we know is she came from-

That guy let out a bit of a screech in pain as he felt his legs being twisted off! And the worst part is that these clients don't have many good Pokemon them to even stand a fighting chance! "L-L-LOOK! We can talk! J-Just spare the rest of us! We'll give you anything you want, too!" Yep. They're-

bern Heat FUCK off.

"Octavian...? You don't mean.... Oh...." So this girl is responsible for his death? They were curious what even happened. But of course they had to continue their business together, especially with the scientists to deliver what they know. "...You know we won't talk to someone who may-

Seems not even Alola is safe from climate change. There's supposed to be a few ice types here. To think the Kingchesters could easily fix this with their riches and instead are chasing after one girl for some messed up plan. "....Excuse me, who is this lost child?" Of course they would say-

And then there's some of those clients speaking to each other. Writer almost forgot about that. Heatwave making things difficult. Speaking of heatwave, even those clients are melting from the Alolan heat...

Good news for those soldiers? They got out of the island. Bad news? They are on a very, very tiny boat. Aleister ditched them.

"....Siiiigh. The Galar Cargo ship is being held hostage? And you expect an Assassin to fix it? Whatever. I can try." Seems some of the higher ups is giving Xiao Gui permission to go to Galar to rescue this shipment... Oh dear.

"... I don't know whether to consider that mission succeeded or failed." She did push Wendy to have her Pokemon fight. And they did put up a decent fight. And Wendy is aware of her issues but... Vi isn't sure if that was the big push needed...

"If you can't let your Pokemon stretch their wings and finally fight, how will you be able to protect Reina? You know you can't throw your body at everything and expect to protect everyone. How can you protect others if you can't protect yourself? Your Pokemon showed they can fight. And yet-