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Norse Sinnoh Interlude 2: Guinans Big Day! · The Multiverse Collective

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  The Multiverse Collective We find Gynan on the outskirts of
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  Hanover and learned how to pronounce this the other day.
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  You have just finished up your treasure hunting and Pokémon
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  training spree. If you have not, you can level
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  yourself up, but I think you already did.
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  I think I did. I'll check after the session.
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  OK, I think I'll figure it out. I guess I should pull my
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  character sheet up. Yeah, that might be helpful.
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  It might be. That might be helpful for me to
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  have too. Yeah, I definitely leveled
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  myself up. We're at 6 now.
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  OK, cool. So as you kind of finish up with
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  what you're doing, you take a look around and you notice that
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  you are by yourself. Whereas, I don't know, earlier
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  in the afternoon after you guys had beaten the Aster and started
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  combing the city, Clyde and Brutus had always been within
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  relative earshot of you. And if not, you could always hop
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  on Kevin Tropius. I believe that's.
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  That is Bradley Bradley's The Tropious.
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  So you could always hop on Bradley and get a get a bird's
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  eye view and you'd be able to see them.
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  However, as the sun starts to get a little bit lower in the
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  horizon, you notice yourself alone.
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  It's not abnormal for Gynan. She often wanders and is often
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  lost. Pretty much every time she
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  wanders actually. She's genuinely lost, but
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  there's no like sense of, there's no sense of urgency
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  here. Yeah, I mean you guys talked to
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  the guys and you know, you have the you have the really tacky
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  jewel encrusted skull that your mom asked for you.
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  So you know, you can just kind of head back whenever assume you
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  guys will meet back up at drags home.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And there's so many fun things
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  to explore and to touch and the guys know their way back.
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  I I'm not worried, to be honest. I don't really want to go back
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  right now. My mom's being fucking weird,
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  hey? You know what?
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  Yeah, I mean, she's always weird, but.
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  I mean that and you're just, you're having a, you're having a
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  great time like you're, you're in your element right now.
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  This is the best day of my fucking life.
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  Oh yeah, I mean, you caught a, you caught a new Pokémon.
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  I think that happened in the last episode.
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  It's been so long since we've recorded this.
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  Yes, yeah, I caught Bradley most recently.
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  You're chilling. I mean, you found a you found a
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  cool book that you can't read but but Brutus can.
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  So you know it's, which is. Really unsettling to be totally
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  honest, that he can just like, read this.
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  It's. Yeah.
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  It's not right. These aren't normal runes.
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  Certainly not. I think I take it out and I look
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  at it a lot, like pretty often, just like trying to figure out
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  how Brutus could read it and I couldn't because it's like a
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  little bothersome that he's smarter than I am and something
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  I'm supposed to be the smart one me.
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  You're looking at the The Book of Fairy Tales.
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  Yeah, all. Right.
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  Wait. Do I have it in my possession
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  still or did I give it to Brutus?
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  No, I I gave it to Brutus. I I did give it to him.
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  It's not in my inventory. Yeah.
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  All right. Well, I think there are enough
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  kind of like leaflets and you know, half rusted over signs
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  that that you could probably still do some examining should
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  you want to. Yeah, I'm fully trying to figure
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  out how the fuck Brutus can read this stuff and I cannot because
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  there is no rhyme or reason. And every time I try to say one
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  of these things like 'cause I heard him pronounce some of
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  those words and they don't sound like real words, like what the
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  fuck is a kindergarten? That's not real.
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  What fucking language is that? This is dumb, This is stupid and
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  it's dumb and I'm not going to try anymore.
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  Fuck this. And I think as you just kind of
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  get a little bit frustrated, you notice there's a there's a sign
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  that you're just passing. It happens to say Conkin House.
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  That's the only German word that I know the.
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  Fuck is a Kronken house and I'm going to intentionally
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  mispronounce every single German word in this game.
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  I apologize to Kyle's German lady friend who I'm in my head
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  is hot and scary, but in reality is probably not scary.
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  So as you take a look at the sign, you see these strange
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  ruins to you flash red and in an instant it's not even like you
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  are getting the feeling of you're traveling somewhere,
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  somewhere. It's just one moment you're in
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  the city and the next moment you don't even have time to blink.
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  You are just in black. It is just void all around you.
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  It is you. You've been here before, but it
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  is Nola's unsettling. Mom.
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  As you say that, you hear, you hear the echo just kind of go
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  out infinitely and there's no response.
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  Fuck, can I move? Can I feel anything?
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  You can't feel anything because there's nothing to feel, but you
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  can certainly move. OK, so am I like floating or am
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  I like on the surface? Neither.
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  You just are. OK.
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  Guynan drifts forward. She has been here before.
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  She knows what's going to happen, but she's.
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  I don't know, it's always fucking scary dealing with these
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  sorts of cosmically powerful entities, isn't it?
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  Yeah. And I think it's even more
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  terrifying because whereas the last time you met this entity,
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  it was, I guess, a little bit more understanding is the wrong
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  word, but like a little bit softer in its delivery.
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  You just feel a massive presence in front of you and behind you
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  and all around you at the same time.
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  And you see this entity materialize in front of you, and
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  you just hear these words. You hear them like outwardly and
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  you feel them just boring into the centre of your brain and
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  they are not happy. Deluded.
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  What do you think you're doing? You seem to be forgetting why
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  you have been voted on this difficult.
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  At least you have one purpose, deluded, and that is to fulfill
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  my wishes. You are a Merrill.
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  Turn the head and that is all you are.
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  Laga bread laga Bo came on a trailer.
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  You are what I have built you to me and nothing.
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  More I, I, I I've been trying to to, to earn their trust.
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  They need to trust me if I'm going to get them to do what we
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  need to do to bring it about. I, I can't do it alone, you
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  know, I can't do it alone. I am working with the resources
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  that I have and in order to get them to comply I need them to
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  trust me and they do not trust so easily.
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  You feel as if only a second but also an eternity passes before
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  you hear this voice again and it just says good answer.
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  At this point, the time is not yet right, so I cannot simply
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  raise your soul from your mother and take over.
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  But what I can do is give you a taste to show you just how love
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  it yields to completely and it will completely erase life from
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  at least us. So you can understand, let's
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  take on what is to come. Thank you.
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  You feel your right hand tingle and on it, on your ring finger
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  you notice a a golden ring with with kind of a flat top on top
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  of it and you see the picture of a what looks to be like a
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  stylized moultras. Sick.
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  And once again, you don't even get the feeling that you're
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  travelling but you are back and your Sino maps in your head.
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  Originally the destination was kind of pointing you back
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  towards. You were getting a feeling of
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  going back towards Drax home. However, you now get the feeling
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  of a new route, the opposite direction.
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  Yeah, I automatically, I start to follow.
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  I, I, I'm petrified. I mean, this is, I mean, not
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  even, it's so beyond what motherhood is to someone.
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  This is who gave me life. Who gave everyone in my family
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  life, Everything I am and everything that I want to be is
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  completely beholden to this. And there is no question.
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  I don't stop, I just walk. I just start walking.
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  I don't pull out Tropius. I don't take any shortcuts.
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  I just start walking. Yeah.
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  And I think as you, as you continue to walk, you walk for
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  maybe 45 minutes and as you feel this, this ping in your head
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  that you are where you are supposed to be.
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  You are on a, at the top of a, a hill in surrounded in forest.
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  And you see below you a clearing just looks like a small village.
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  It looks to be, you know, maybe I don't know, 75100 people there
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  at this point. The, the sun is just on the
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  horizon. So you see these people kind of
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  packing up, you know, there's a couple little farms.
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  So they're kind of packing up, unshackling their Pokémon from,
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  you know, from these, these plows and kind of getting, I
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  guess, you know, getting their dinner ready and, and getting
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  ready to be with their families and go to bed for the evening
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  evening. Fuck Matt, you sick son of a
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  bitch. I think Gynan very intentionally
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  just stares onto the sun as it's setting, you know, to the point
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  where she's like seeing spots in her eyes and she's just not
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  trying to, like, inflict real pain upon herself.
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  But she knows what is expected of her, and she is trying to
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  steel herself for this act. That is something that she knows
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  that she's not going to be able to come back from, and she knows
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  that she can't avoid because the consequences if she doesn't.
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  It's so many more lives. It's everything.
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  It's the world, It's her life, it's her mother's life, it's
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  Axel's life, it's her father's life, it's Brutus's life and
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  it's Clyde's, and it's all of her Pokémon and every other
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  human and every other creature she's encountered on the way.
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  And now it's all in her tiny little baby hands.
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  And I think as you kind of are stealing yourself, you see the
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  sun dip below the horizon in full.
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  And as Twilight very quickly approaches, you hear this voice
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  in your head, and it says. Weak.
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  I guess you need that final push, yes?
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  This is what you want, Mother, isn't it?
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  I will do what you've asked of me.
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  I don't need a push. I will do it.
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  God. And I need you.
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  Well, I guess with that, you feel this feeling welling up
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  inside you. And this feeling is it is a
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  cross between just utter contempt and apathy in the worst
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  combination. You see this village carrying on
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  without you, and you just feel this overwhelming urge to do
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  anything that you can to snuff out any even beyond like
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  snuffing out this life. You want to erase this place
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  from existence. Dynam stares at where the sun
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  disappeared over the horizon and closes her eyes and touches the
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  ring. You hear strange mechanical
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  noises and you feel yourself rising up and being enveloped,
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  and from the outside we see this white light engulf you.
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  I think because it is so present in her mind, but also because it
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  is and has always been something that's a part of Gynan's life.
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  Her mother has so many conflicting feelings about molt
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  race. She's been around a molt race.
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  She knows. Gynan knows the destruction that
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  these creatures can reek, and it's one of the few Pokémon and
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  her mother's possession that doesn't just roam free then, so
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  Gynan chooses the shape of a Gallerian Moultrie.
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  And as you envision this Pokémon in your mind again from the
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  outside we see from this white light we see 2 wings shoot out,
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  We see a a long black ribbon like tail shoot out.
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  We see these these talons come out and meet the ground.
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  And finally we see as this light fades we see this Obsidian black
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  bird like creature guy named you.
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  As you open your eyes you are in what looks to be a a cockpit and
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  there are there are buttons and flashing lights that are so
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  alien to you but yet you feel as though you know exactly what you
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  need to do to pilot this. And Gynan sits and does what she
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  needs to do to get this Phoenix to take off.
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  Yeah, you, you push a couple of buttons and again, you this is
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  in a completely alien language and there are just flashing
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  lights and noises and there are these strange, you know, like
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  what looked to be, I'm trying to describe a hologram to somebody
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  that has no concept of a hologram.
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  But these strange translucent moving pictures in front of you
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  and these different displays that that come up and assault
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  your eyes and your mind. But yet you, you feel as though
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  you are not only able to pilot this thing, but you are
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  connected with it. This is an extension of you.
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  When you, when you think of this bird lifting off, you feel these
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  wings create just a torrent of of wind as this bird takes off.
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  And I think from below, flashing out to the village square, you
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  see, you see one family who has just, has just gotten out of
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  the, their, their farm, their little family farm.
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  They're walking with their little toros buddy.
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  And they look up, fuck you. And they, they hear this, this
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  gust of wind and they look up to see this Blackbird circling
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  around them in the, the rapidly approaching night.
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  And Guynan, you hear from below, you hear commotion start to stir
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  and you you can feel this, this just raw outpouring of emotion.
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  First it's confusion, then it's concern, then it is full blown
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  panic. Kind of knows if she doesn't do
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  this now, she's not going to do it and the consequences are
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  going to be far greater. And so she burns it to the
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  ground. Yeah, in your head, you just
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  once again feel this outpouring of negative emotion and you
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  feel, you feel hatred towards these people and contempt and
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  disgust and just all sorts of negative emotions.
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  And when you think fire, there is this, this black and magenta
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  with tinges of this dark Violet, this energy, this flame that
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  comes out of the beak of this Pokémon and just sets this town
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  ablaze and got in. As you hear, you feel this
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  emotion, you feel screams, you feel, you feel the warmth of
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  this fire engulfing this town. And after only a few seconds, it
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  is completely engulfed in this, in this magenta and black flame.
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  And in your head, you hear this voice once again now.
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  You can dig in to understand from you being your purpose.
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  Imagine this kneeling but on an unimaginably prompting age on
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  its scale. The entire melted verse self
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  touted and it is just like a candle in a miracle.
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  This world is the last to be consumed, and if I'm defeating
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  Big Brother, you will condemn it for good and allow me complete
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  control. And when that happens, you will
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  finally know true fulfillment. Yes, mother.
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  You are my feral, you will usher in the end, and you will carry
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  out my purpose. Not with, not Axel, not Big
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  Brother or big sister. Remember my woe?
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  Yes, mother. And I think as as this Gallerian
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  Moultra's machine, half machine, half just construct of utter
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  hatred is flying around and watching this this fire go from
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  a a burning inferno down to smoldering ashes, nothing
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  remains. And you feel Ganan as you look
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  at this, you can't help but to smile.
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  Yeah, This is the culmination of what she was bred for.
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  She was created for this purpose.
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  It's what brought her into existence.
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  It is her sole purpose in life. She is nothing more than the
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  herald of the end. She is nothing more than
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  destruction. And she knows, even though she's
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  fought it so hard and let these people into her life and let
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  herself experience love and joy and connection and genuine human
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  emotion for the first times in her life, and she knows that
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  this is it. It can't be anything more than
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  this. There won't be anything more
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  than this. When it's all over.
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  Nothing can stop Mother.