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Tonight was a glorious event for Lusamine to have, as in front of her very large tower that she had recently built thanks to her loyal followers on LI, the new Aether Foundation has been built and tonight was the first night it was going into business, so Lusamine decided to throw a party to celebrate.

As tons of people entered the building to enjoy Lusamine's party, the CEO herself was standing in front of the large doors to her new and improved foundation, while her three pokemon were inside dealing with guests.



"Hello, yes, thank you for coming, I truly appreciate it!" Lusamine smiled at each guest that walked past her, all the guests did stand out for Lusamine so far, but there was one girl that surprised Lusamine with her appearance and that was Rosalyn Hollotus, who had decided to attend the event, wearing a large blue dress with a green cardigan. She looked mellow and uninterested with the party, even as she walked past Lusamine, not even bothering to greet her.

So Lusamine grabbed her harshly by the arm, and smiled when Rosalyn turned towards her, surprised.

"Hello sweetie, if I remember, I met you at the hospital am I right. With Oda and...Moon." Lusamine almost dropped her smile when she mentioned...Her. Rosalyn nodded.

"Yes, I came here tonight since I wanted to welcome my new neighbour, after all, you did strangely build your new building right beside my tree barn." Rosalyn pointed to the tree barn that was beside the New Aether Foundation now.

"Oh yes indeed, there was a large patch of space that I got that was next to your barn. Maybe I should come to visit sometime since you went all of this way to visit me and come to the Grand-Re opening of my foundation." Lusamine touched her fingers as Rosalyn smiled.

"That I have, say, can I ask you something about a guest tonight. I heard someone called King Ron was attending this party tonight, is that true?" Rosalyn asked Lusamine, who nodded.

"Yes sweetie, he's actually a VIP guest, the only VIP guest except for me of course, since after all, I am the CEO of the New Aether Foundation after all." She answered Rosalyn's question.

"Why thank you." Rosalyn turned and walked into the party as Lusamine watched, ready to enjoy herself at the party.

And to rescue Dillion and Russ by taken down there enemy.

Lusamine meanwhile was still standing outside the front entrance of the party, welcoming people who are attending.

Upon arriving at the party you would be met by a red carpet leading towards a set of stairs leading upwards to Lusamine and the building door.

There were also posters hanging around the sides of the building of different pokemon.

MISSION START!

[Mari]

While Lusamine was greeting guests, a surprise guest approached her! It was Rosa, better known by those she knew personally as Black. Famous movie star and World Champion. Such titles commanded extreme celebrity status in the pokemon world. Goodness knew there were probably a bunch of silly myths and legends surrounding her person, mostly invented by kids. She herself was rather short though at a mere 4'11. But what's this? Someone was closely accompanying her! An even shorter blonde at 4'9'' beamed up at Lusamine with a look in her eyes that suggested she was enamored with the other. A snivy hopped along behind them, talking close to Black's feet.

"Welcome to Li, Lady Lusamine~! It's really great to see the aether foundation here. I heard good things about the work you did over in Alola! A lot of pokemon have it rough here." Black greeted. "I really like your hair~ I hope I can grow mine out to be that luxurious one day." Valorie chimed in in an absent-mindedly approval seeking manner. She was just excited to be hanging around so many cool people. "My name's Rosa, but you can call me Black! And this is Valorie. She's a super cool upcoming trainer and not a big baby~ But she is raising a baby pokemon!" Black chirped, earning herself a flinch and an indignant pout from Valorie. Hey! You said you wouldn't embarass me!

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

It was almost a shame really, that there would always a pair of eyes lurking about unseen, unbidden in the darkness, the only reason Nobunaga went to this was because he wanted to keep his eyes on Lusamine and make 100% certain that she was sane, luckily for him the sanity check on her would be from an unlikely threat to her own.

The only thing that could brighten the warlords mood, was at least seeing some trainers. As for Lusamine's sanity check, it had come in the form of a demon far more nobel than any king other than belial could ever hope to achieve, Jedah Dohma had decided to hide in the shadows of Nobunaga and his Zekrom, the Hydreigon and Rayquaza being able to fly and out of range of detection was all but making any employee paranoid regardless of wether or not they would come down to land next to their handler.

"We meet again, hopefully you are feeling better today." Nobunaga said as he looked at Lusamine, his eyes making her look like he was examining her through an X-ray. "And if not, well that's why I'm here, and unfortunately I can actually get a bit tricky to deal with." a voice said from Nobunaga's shadow, as all of a sudden, a man much taller than Lusamine rose out of the darkness, revealing Jedah Dohma, his eyes looking upon the aether foundation president with a somber expression, that and he was not amused by lesser mortals.

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As the last of the guests entered, some of the guests decided to stay outside to look at the posters. Lusamine didn't mind, as she would broadcast her upcoming speech across the foundation for all of the guests to see. 

She then saw the arrival of the last four guests for the evening, Rosa, Valorie, Jedah and...Oh, it was that Nobunga fellow that Lusamine had met around the same time as Rosalyn.

"Good evening, it's always so nice to see that there's still Pokemon trainers even in different worlds." She smiled at the two girls. "Why yes, our work in my wonderful foundation is very groundbreaking and we have helped around tens and thousands of pokemon across the islands of Alola. I was thinking of expanding my foundation to different regions, starting with Kanto, so each region can share a piece of my love for pokemon, but alas, I was found washed ashore, injured just not too long ago." Lusamine sadly lamented, but she smiled soon after when the topic was changed about Lusamine's hair.

"Oh you'll just love it, I can tell you how to make wonderful hair such as this later after my speech sweetie." Lusamine gushed before turning towards Valorie, who she was introduced too. "Valorie, what a beautiful name, like my only child's name. You raise baby pokemon, I love it when pokemon are babies, if I could, I would make them young forever." Lusamine laughed soon after.

She then looked at Nobunga and Jedah's arrival, she shook the emperor's hand. "Yes, Nobunga-san isn't it? I am doing fine today thank you. Those Nurse Joy's at the hospital really healed me and my pokemon's wounds even if they gave me a few odd stares on the way out of the hospital. My wonderful pokemon are helping serve drinks and food inside if you want to check on them." She then looked at Jedah, not caring for his appearance.

"Tricky, hehe, I remember having tricky people in my life, although there gone now!" Lusamine clapped her hands. "Now to get a glass so I can clamp it to begin my speech. It will be broadcast outside the foundation if you don't come inside, it will start in a few minutes." And with that Lusamine turned and walked into the foundation.





The inside of the foundation was luxurious and was filled with many statues portraying Lusamine and other previous members of the foundation such as Futa and Wicke.

Some statues also had members rescuing pokemon from fire or hurricanes and some have members giving the Pokemon homes in the foundation.

At the centre was a massive statue of Lusamine bowing, the most notable thing about the statue was the statues eyes, they were emerald and appeared to be moving around the sockets if you looked close enough.

In front of the statue were Lusamine's Pokemon.



Lillian, Greta and Jane were serving meat, pokejuice and pokesandwichs to the guests of the party, there was no alcoholic drinks for some of the more serious adults as this party was rated E for everyone.

Another noticeable thing was that this was the only room where guests are allowed to be in, nobody is allowed to enter any other room in the foundation or even use the elevator, there was no bathrooms either.

Rosalyn was standing nearby, eyeing the doors and elevators, she was also looking at the corner of the room, which had black seats and was currently being occupied by a gorilla and six people sitting around him, three men, three woman.

The gorilla bragged over how he caught his two rivals earlier today, something of which made Rosalyn angry.



"Yeah, those brothers had it coming for awhile now, it just took someone competent to stop them, other then that I helped Lusamine get some rocks delivered here that used to belong to the alien race Grocks. They were pretty pesky critters back in my world, but I handled them while those two brothers were busy robbing people left and right." King Ron bragged.

It was here that Valorie, Rosa, Nobunga and Jedah had a choice as Lusamine walked further into the crowd to get ready for her speech. They can either see Rosalyn, see King Ron, see Lillian, Greta and Jane before Lusamine begins her speech or investigate the doors and elevators.

[Mari]

Valorie beamed ever so brightly, quite pleased with Lusamine's complement. "Thank you Miss Lusamine~! I'd really like that. ...If you're okay spending time with me, that is." Valorie softly replied, a tad bashful around the other. She seemed really eager to learn how to style her hair like Lusamine's, though perhaps her self-esteem was a bit lower than her well primped appearance might suggest. Eager to please, perhaps. Kinda like a certain daughter! --Before that whole rebellious phase anyway. "I'd be happy to show you my pokemon. Right now she's in her pokeball. She's a little big in spite of her age." Valorie continued on to explain, politely bowing her head to the other before stepping aside that Lusamine could greet others. "...I think you made a really good first impression, Valorie!" Black remarked once they'd moved on, helping Valorie to be a little less anxious. "You think so? --I hope so. She seems really nice!" Valorie absent-mindedly replied, finding her place amongst the room. She began quietly admiring a statue of Lusamine with a look of longing. ...She kinda wished there were statues of her, but nobody cared about her enough for that. She could swear those eyes were moving though. How odd.

Meanwhile, Black wandered off to find Rosalyn!

"Hey... Lusamine looked like she was really surprised to see you here. Do you two know each other?" Black asked, recounting the odd way Lusamine had grabbed her.

Valorie idly mustered the courage to talk to Lillian.

"Lusamine has a really nice place, doesn't she? I've never seen anything so extravagant. Not in the life sphere." Valorie mused aloud, briefly considering how odd it was to see such a wealthy establishment in a city wracked by famine. The Life Sphere's economy was terrible! The value of coins had tanked hard compared to Mario's world, with even a simple super mushroom costing twenty TIMES as much! How could anyone afford this..? It couldn't be from money. Something else had to be at play.

...Clearly Lusamine had some really cool friends! Valorie quietly hoped to be so cool someday.

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

Nobunaga and Jedah went about their business, though they were mildly interested in her Pokemon, but Nobunaga had his ears perked up at 'King' Ron's bragging. He would simply walk over to him and listen in. "It would be within interest only to brag, but there are indeed things that should never be used as toys for ones personal gain, I should know as I've been there at one point. And hopefully things work out for her, since I'm only here to find out what happened to my homeland." the Warlord spoke with a calm indifference in his voice, his steely gaze still locked on Lusamine as she was about to make her speech. Letting out w whistle that called his Dragons to his side, Zekrom letting out a calm growl that told king Ron to respect it's master else there would be more trouble than the gorilla could handle.

The other two Pokemon, who were outside playfully dive-bombing in and out of the clouds to keep the Aether foundation employees in a state of confused paranoia, on hearing the whistle literally dive-bombed out of the sky and entered the building, the big ebony Basilisk and the Kaiser Gidorah of the Pokemon world moved to where they were now next to Nobunaga, with the Hydreigon trying to master the impulse to not savagely slaughter the entire population within the building, the black Rayquaza simply coiling itself into position to block an entrance to one of the areas in a bid to ensure nobody gets in or comes out, though it would still be made to move once the speech was over.

Jedah on the other hand decided to take the initiative and hide in the shadows like he always did, his ability to see the souls and energies of others on a cosmic level pinpointed a unique signature trail and was pondering on what it could be, he didn't care otherwise and would not be made to stop if he went on the attack if it came to it, but he was patient, and would wait to explore the prospect of taking some new souls for his dreaded 'Womb Level'.

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Rosalyn continued to spy at Ron before taking out something out of her bag, it was ladybird, but it wasn't real, it was instead a little chip that Rosalyn was planning to place on Ron in order to spy on him back at the Treebarn. Once she puts the camera chip onto the gorilla, she can see his point of view and find something to black mail him with so she can free Dillion and Russ, the gorilla already looked shady.

As she looked at the chip, she turned when she noticed Rosa walking towards her. She quickly threw the chip into her brown bag and looked down at the girl, smiling. "Oh hello, yes, me and Lusamine did meet when she first came to Li, were now neighbours and I just came by to say hello. I'm not sure why she's surprised since we already met and I haven't given her one of my sunflowers yet." She turned back towards Ron and thought about something and maybe Rosa can take part in this little idea that Rosalyn had.

However, Rosalyn watched as Nobunga and his pokedragon's entered the building, with his Rayquaza blocking the entrance to prevent anyone in the building for leaving or from entering on the outside for some reason, nobody seemed to care and Ron was annoyed that Nobunga was in his area. "Excuse me, this is the VIP area, but i'm sure there's people in those sorts of clothes over there grandpa." He pointed to behind Nobunga, but instead he grew more bitter.

"Toys, those Grock's are toys, once Lusamine harnesses there power, she can transfer them into pokemon to make super soldiers, and i'll gain tons of money from her amazing research and her changing the ways of this sphere in a few years time." He put a banana in his mouth, looking like he's smoking it. Nearby, Rosalyn and Rosa would be able to hear Ron's bragging.

"Grocks?" Rosalyn was confused, but desired more answers and it seemed like Nobunga was going to unknowingly help her get them.

"Oh ho ho, Valorie, you seem like a bright child, almost like my other child." Lusamine smiled, but briefly showed her true evil face when she began to talk about one of her children. "Before she stepped out of line..." She then went back to smiling again and preparing for the speech.

Lillian soon listened to Valorie and smiled before nodding, ignoring her duties for serving food for the guests, fortunately Greta and Jane were still doing the job even if Lillian wasn't. "Clefairy!" She said her name before giving Valorie a tray full of sandwich's.



CLINK, CLINK, CLINK!

"Good evening everyone, welcome to my humble estate and new location of the New Aether Foundation!" She smiled as a few of the guests clapped. Lusamine was also holding a glass with what appeared to be wine in it, it was red like wine.

She put the spoon that she was using to tap the glass with away and continued to smile.



"I would like to thank some of my new workers who have taken jobs in my new workplace to make this building become a reality in order a few days, sure we might have taken some shortcuts and the upper floors still need to be finished, but in a few weeks time, the building will be properly ready to open for Trainers and Pokemon alike!" She began her speech as a few more guests clapped some more.

"Just stay around here for the rest of the party and you'll be fine, my workers will be guarding the doors that lead further into this building. It's just that I don't to see any guests hurt on not just my home, but for Pokemon's too, after all, the Aether Foundation is a safe heaven for all Pokemon alike!" She continued as the guests clapped once more and some even cheered, Rosalyn was not clapping throughout this entire thing.

"So please, enjoy the rest of the party, we humbly thank the Life Sphere for opening it's doors for the future of the New Aether Foundation!" Lusamine finished as everyone in the room clapped, but it was interrupted when screams were heard outside of the building.

"Oh my, what is that?" Lusamine drunk from her glass as she walked towards the door and saw the paranoid panicking of the guests outside, they were frightened by the display that Nobunga's pokemons had done outside.

"Oh dear." Lusamine turned to the workers of the New Aether Foundation that were not standing behind doors. "Workers of my wonderful estate, cease the panicking outside so this party does not descend into chaos." Lusamine cheerfully commanded as they nodded, only to be blocked by the Rayquaza guarding the door, along with a guest that needed to go to the bathroom, but since there were no toilets in the main area of the building, he has to go somewhere else.

"Please let me through, I have to go really bad!" The guest begged the Rayquaza as Lusamine rolled her eyes, Ron meanwhile had gotten word about something from another fellow worker of the Foundation that moved past Nobunga and whispered something into Ron's ear, that caused him to grin.

"Excellent, time to show them some mercy." He then realised that he still had Nobunga and his pesky pokemon to deal with. "Listen, you seem like a nice guy, how about we continue to chat somewhere more private, like somewhere further in this building." Ron turned towards a door behind him before moving past Nobunga.

"It's up to you." He finished before running over to Lusamine and whispering something to her, which also caused her to grin.

"Wonderful. Get them ready, i'll be with them soon, watching them suffer." Lusamine whispered back before turning towards Valorie. "Yoo-Hoo, Valorie darling!" She called out as Rosalyn watched from afar, King Ron standing beside Lusamine.

"I'm so sorry deary, but you might have to wait until later to show me your wonderful Pokemon, but that won't stop you for showing them to the guests, who knows, if they saw good things about your pokemon, I might be interested in starting an internship! And you can be the first person." Lusamine offered. "As for me, I must attend to some, urgent matters that have come up regarding the future of this foundation. Don't wait for me too long, i'll be back in a few!" Lusamine said her goodbyes to the trainer before looking at Ron and whispering to him again.

"Let's ditch this boring social event and prepare the experiments." She whispered as she finished drinking her glass, placed it on a nearby table and walked towards the back door with Ron, but Rosalyn, wanting to find out what was going on, followed stealthily behind them.

"Why isn't there anyone guarding this door?" She asked Ron, who shrugged.



"I think there making sure all of the other doors are guarded as well." Ron guessed, Lusamine shrugged and entered through the door, along with Rosalyn shortly after, before she did, she winked at Rosa before leaving.

The back door was still unguarded.

While some of the guests and workers tried to get past the Rayquaza, Jedah would find that shortly after going into the darkness of this room, he would find another unguarded door, that was unlockable. He could enter, or go somewhere else, either way that door and the other won't be guarded for awhile.

The two workers who were supposed to guard the door looked around at every other door of the room that was guarded. "Ok, I think that's every door here, no guests won't get in and find anything." The worker said to the other as the two sat down at a nearby green couch, exhausted.

This party was already taken a toll on everyone and it just started.

Finally, shortly after Lusamine had finished her speech, if Valorie were to turn back to where Lillian, Greta and Jane were standing, she would find that the pokemon had suddenly vanished.

Which was...Strange? 

[Mari]

Black lolled her head at Rosalyn, a tad puzzled by what she said. "...You grow flowers? That's really nice! I always miss the feeling of being around nature whenever I leave the life sphere." Rosa remarked in a seemingly absent-minded manner. She could see that Rosalyn was distracted by something. That big not-so-funky monkey, probably. But why? She lingered to find out more.

Meanwhile, Valorie beamed slightly as Lusamine called out to her. "Oh, alright! I'll just have to find some space for her." she replied, apparently enthusiastic about the idea. She wasn't so sure about this idea, but if Lusamine wanted her to show off her pokemon who was she to argue? It was her house! Turning about, she noticed that she was now alone with a tray of sandwhiches. What ... even? She couldn't help but feel that Lillian had forgotten something, but uh--Too late to worry about that now. Looking around, she couldn't find a trace of the pokemon! ...She guessed she was taking this tray of sandwhiches with her. This was her life now.

Finding a less than crowded place to set up, Valorie began flagging down those present. "Make some space, please~! Pokemon coming through~!" she urged, fighting for attention. It took a bit of work, but eventually there was a large enough clearing of people waiting to see what all of the fuss was about. Producing a pokeball, she tossed it to reveal... a dragonite! Valorie's dragonite stood at about twelve feet tall and weighed well over a thousand pounds. You'd never guess it was just a baby pokemon just by looking at it--unless of course you got a good look into those bright, unassuming eyes of hers. Dragonite stretched her arms and wings before halting as she cracked an eye open and caught sight of a sea of humans around her. Huh--What was this? Was it time to train? Nnno, there were too many humans here. You didn't attack humans. That was an important rule. She began to look around in confusion before a little tap at her thigh brought her attention back down to Valorie. She scooped the short trainer up into her arms, linking them to create a little shelf for Valorie to sit. She gently pat Dragonite's arm from her new position looking down at the crowd. She just hoped no one would mess with Dragonite's tail. ...No one wanted to freak out the giant in the room, right?

[Maverick Hunter Zero]

"Super soldiers, please. A SPARTAN could fell them in a single shot with a sniper rifle. And furthermore, most people lack the brain capacity to realize that Evil is Not a Toy. also, both you and Lusamine need the proper permission and paperwork courtesy of the Life Sphere Founders personally, which you don't, to even begin changing the rules of this dome. Unfortunately however, one of them has decided to go rogue and the other two are aiming to stop him from doing something he will regret in doing. So your plans fall to the District Mayors and they are just as tough towards the rules as the founders. Rayquaza, away from the door, to the center of the building." Nobunaga said with a far more calm air towards his dragon, the big ebony Basilisk complied and slithered to the immediate center of the building and locked it's black eyes of crazy with supernatural gold sclera on king Ron, a literal Death glare piercing the anthro-gorilla's being as a means to discern whether or not he would be good eating. The one thing it did not do however was attack, it needed orders to do so and simply glared at the ape, never taking it's eyes off of him.

Jedah meanwhile remained unseen and vanished from sight entirely, flitting between shadows and hiding in the darkness. He noticed an unlocked door in the path he was heading and it was not locked, bit rather than open the door by hand, Jedah turned into a small puddle of blood and slid through the crack between door and floor, leaving not a trace of his presence near the door and any blood that was on the floor simply vanished. After all, Jedah was a being made of blood and he could freely manipulate his blood to make it exceedingly difficult to track.

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"Hmph." Ron smirked, Nobunga really was a pest wasn't he? At least, he was to the gorilla, and pests needed to be squished, like those two brothers soon enough.

He put his banana on a very small ash tray as he stood up, about to leave to go to the door with Lusamine. "Listen bucko, what me and Lusamine are doing behind closed doors are BEHIND closed doors, I don't want some moustached freak with some weird dragons trying to butt in on what were doing, let's just say that by the end of this little project that me and Miss Lusamine are doing, everyone in this sphere will have a great future, at least the kind of future that pesky hedgehog won't want and we can all agree on something." Ron stepped behind the couch he was sitting in.

And as he left with Lusamine, he gave Nobunga a sadistic grin. "We all hate the hedgehog and if we want to be protected by people like him in the future, a few, sacrifices will have to be made in the process that will benefit us." He finished as he left through the door behind the couch with Lusamine, ignoring the glare one of his pokemon were giving him, the guests on the inside of the building stopped panicking soon after.

And became distracted by Valorie's Dragonite. They all began to be awe in wonder, like it was there first time that they saw a Dragonite up close, even the workers were interested and so was the guy who needed to go to the bathroom.

...

Well not anymore.

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Jedah would be met with a dark hall in the area he was in now. The hallway lights were turned off, although a demon like him would easily see around the halls, and he would find that there were tons of other doors across the hall, all of which, were unfortunately for him, locked, but at the end of the hall, there would be two paths that stood in his way.

One path would take him into a darker hallway, while the other hall, which had a sign near Jedah that reads: THE SUPER BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL HALLWAY OF WONDERS!

It seemed that hall would of lead into a more safer place with Jedah, he would have to choose soon, or else he won't be able to catch up to where Ron and Lusamine were, as Jedah would be able to here them talking from afar.

"Think of it this way Ron, if they die, you don't have to deal with them anymore, and I can always try again. Either way were going to get what we both want and by the time anyone notices, it will be too late."

"But someone did notice, that pesky guy in the samurai armour with the Dragons!"

"You mean Nobunga? Don't worry, if he tries to follow us then we just have to eliminate him, we can't let anyone get in the way, we have to try this experiment ASAP, so here's what were going to do if Nobunga followed us..."

Unfortunately, there voices slowly became more quieter as they kept talking, meanwhile Jedah had to make a decision on which hall to go down and fast, the light or darkness?