[Lucciola]

The people of this sphere had been nice enough to give Lillie a place to live within the residential area, which honestly surprised her, as she had expected to have to earn such a thing. But apparently it was standard practice to house everyone, which sounded quite nice to her. She had never really had her own place, having grown up in Aether. Though there was a large building within the HQ that was akin to a house, it never really felt like home to her. And she didn't feel at home, till she and her family got back together. Sadly, that hadn't lasted longer then a moment as things changed.

Thankfully, this place was much less hostile and didn't care what anyone looked like. She had seen all kinds of folks here that she'd never see back home, Lillie was fairly sure her neighbour was some kind of robot person or something. She wasn't really sure and thought it would be rude to ask but they didn't seem kind of metallic, but they were very nice so she thought little of it. Today she had felt like taking a walk, Lillie had even found a hat like she'd once used back home. Though it had been a while since she wore one, she almost felt human again.

Walking out of her place and down the road, she wasn't skipping or anything. But she seemed in high spirits, ready to see what this sphere would show her next, even in the pokemon world. There wasn't this many interesting things for her to see, as she thought about all that. Lillie blindly turned around, while not paying attention.

[Pokémon Trainer Lillie]

Lillie was stepping out of her own house in an old fashioned outfit. It was a little nostalgic in a painful way, but the hat was a nice substitute for sunscreen in a pinch, so she still found herself going back to it from time to time. She quickly hopped down the steps without a care in the world, curiously glancing toward an almost identical stylish hat passing by. ...Hey wait, who else had a hat like that? That hat was special! Her Mom got it for her! Lillie paused to stare in confusion for a moment before the other girl turned around without warning and that wide brimmed hat was abruptly being pushed into her face. A sharp yip of alarm escaped her as she all but matrix dodged backwards trying to avoid being smacked with the hat. Only, she's not Neo so she clumsily flails her arms and falls on her back instead. A moment later, her fallen body would trip the careless girl and Lillie would wind up cushioning Dark Lillie's fall, getting landed on. Both their hats no doubt went flying, settling near each other.


“H-Hey! I... ... ...? ...Who..??” Lillie began to ask in a flustered tone before an uncomfortable sense of deja vu hit her as she got a better look at Dark Lillie's face all up close like this. She makes no effort whatsoever to get Dark Lillie off of her, too distracted and distressed by something she couldn't quite put her finger on to protest being reduced to a seat cushion. Dark Lillie looked ... familiar, yet she was confident she'd never seen this girl before. So who did she remind her of? ...Why did she remind her of someone? The more Lillie stared, the more she focused on Dark Lillie's eyes. There was a haunting familiarity there, but it couldn't be... It was then that it hit her. It reminded her of looking in a mirror.

Dark Lillie could feel Lillie tense up and begin to tremble a bit underneath her. A wave of dread had just washed over Lillie. She wasn't sure what to make of this revelation, but it was enough to scare the sass out of her. She looked petrified like she'd just seen a ghost, and was whimpering audibly as her mind raced, unable to form words. Dark Lillie accidentally enabled damsel in distress mode.

Meanwhile Nebby Jr is just kind of floating nearby staring stupidly at this not having a clue what's going on.

[Lucciola]

Apparently, Lillie had been so out of focus that she'd not only ended up running into someone. But had fallen on top of her as well, though this impromptu meeting of bodies was far from the weirdest part. Staring back at her, was an almost identical version of her. Though it was more as if, she had never gone through what she had. The girl was what Lillie would look like, had she not been experimented on. Lillie could tell the doppelganger was freaking out, if not from the contact, likely from the almost mirror image on top of her person.

Lillie floated above the ground and off of the other Lillie, it would likely look even stranger to the girl. As she'd see a dark mirror image of herself, float horizontally into the air then set themselves down upright. She'd then look down and offer a hand to the other Lillie, attempting to smile but looking a little perplexed herself. With a thought, she tried to defuse the situation with an attempt at comedy. "I guess...we don't have to introduce ourselves, at least" attempted Lillie, who was still offering a hand to the girl. Though they were, essentially the same person and at present were probably even wearing the same outfit.

The standing Lillie's hair had lost almost all of its blond colouration, in what could only be assumed to be reverse highlights or the colour being taken over. As the rest of it was a greyish black colour to it, if this Lillie was present during her mother's merging with Nihilgo. Then she might put two and two together, but if not, then it would at least make for conversation. She wasn't entirely sure what else to say, though Lillie was likely calmer then the one on the ground. She wasn't any less perturbed, it was just that she'd been through a lot worse then this.

[Pokémon Trainer Lillie]

Lillie was pretty sure she had stepped into a creepypasta and was about to get jumpscared, frankly. Every moment felt like it could be the last, and so she just kind of braced herself and cowered there up until a hand was offered to her. She stared for a good moment in confusion, kind of pondering what to make of this development until she finally got tired of laying on the ground and cautiously reached up to take the hand offered to her. She pulled herself up and brushed herself off, looking for her hat for a moment. ...Wait, which one was hers? She cautiously bent over to pick one up and just kinda ... hoped for the best.

She then hugged the hat to her belly and turned back to address Dark Lillie. “What, because you're... me?” she timidly asked in concern. “I'm not sure what to say... Are you my future?” she asked, glancing Dark Lillie up and down. Her mother would be so upset with her if she dyed her hair black. ...Wait, that's not dye. That's... Her eyes narrow as she suddenly remembered her mother had once had such a hair color too! But .. Why would she..? Lillie looked away for a moment. “Something terrible happened, didn't it.” she softly offered, looking down at the ground in something resembling understanding.

[Lucciola]

It seemed to take some time for the other Lillie to finally accept her hand, she didn't get offended by the length of time. Only being calmer because her life had been much more exciting, for want of bringing up bad memories. Thankfully they were now both standing, Lillie having long since stopped floating. Picking up the remaining hat and putting it on her head, it didn't really matter which hat was which. As they were both identical anyway, though Lillie's was only a copy she found in a store. Where as the other Lillie might have an original, she nodded when asked if they were the same person.

"No I'm not your future, just a version of you. That lived a different life, I'm guessing" replied Lillie, not really knowing what kind of life the other Lillie had lead. Though it didn't take long for the other Lillie to figure out that something had occurred, she simply nodded and figured she had to explain things. "I'm not sure how things went in your world but when I was little, I found myself in one of the deeper laboratories of Aether. Faba was doing some scanning on UB samples when I came wondering past, somehow the scan acted as though I had similar energies. Over the next couple of years, with the help of Wicke, who he'd paid off. I was experimented on and eventually he merged me with Nihilego, which is why I look like I do. We're essentially one being now, and as you've seen I have some powers as well" explained Lillie as she took a breath and sighed.

Then she decided to continue "Faba couldn't control me when I merged, and I went berserk. All this was done secretly, both mother and brother knew nothing of it. But when I went crazy, they found out with Gladion almost beating Faba to death right there. I heard many pokemon escaped that day but Mother, thankfully cared more about what happened to me. Consoling me as I slowly calmed down, she stepped down for a time and we went somewhere to be a family. Even finding father again, who wasn't really lost but that's a different story. For a time, things were okay though mother didn't know of Wicke's involvement. Because I'd been to traumatized to tell her, and she got control of Aether. Though we spent some time together, Aether got worse, somehow. And pulled in Team Skull to use for even worse experiments, throwing Guzma and Plumeria away. They had become like family to me as well, often visiting and spending time with us.

On their last visit, they came to warn us about Aether coming to get us with their crazy experiments. Guzma and Plumeria tried to defend us from the attack but before they could get their pokemon out, they were killed. I was able to save their pokemon and my family were able to get away, I think, and then I found myself in this strange world. Sorry to dump that on you, it's not something I can just tell anyone" further explains Lillie. Her tone seemed sad as she remembered the deaths of Guzma and Plumeria, as well as what had been forced on the rest of Team Skull. She tried to pull her hat down a bit over her eyes, to hide the tears welling up around the edges.