[Side A: 2 months later] [Welp, this was long enough for him to conclude two things. The first is that this is in fact not a Shift after all, and the second is that he and the girl with him are alone in terms of people from Luceti. Which... he can't help but feel incredibly guilty about, but he's trying to keep upbeat enough for her sake. Mercifully, both do still have their pokemon, as if the system that sent them here realized they would need them.
...And boy do they, seeing as how they were dropped off two months ago in the middle of Hoenn, and though they found civilization some time ago, "civilization" is very relative out here.]
[Side B: 6 months later] [Settling more, probably with more of a line up, today is the day they finally worked out the money for a plane ticket (seriously, who knew transport out of the region was so expensive in Hoenn, they must assume you've got pokemon using Fly, but Masaomi long since vetoed that, because they don't know the world well enough) out of Hoenn and to Johto. It's perhaps a little sentimental on his part, but Masaomi's actually looking forward to seeing Gold and Silver's stomping grounds. And who knows, maybe he'll meet them.
...Even if he doesn't expect them to remember.
Really though, he's just been giving them goal after goal in an effort to try to keep things directed and upbeat for Ikki, who he knows by now must miss her family and friends tremendously. He knows he does too, but doesn't have "family," so.]
[Side C: 1 year later] [Confident that he's trained enough for it, it's now the night before Masaomi trying to get his forth badge in Johto. As long as they're stuck here and travelling to distance themselves from the whole "wow we're stuck here," he figured he might as well attempt. The Zephyr badge wasn't that hard, and the Hive Badge he didn't need to work too hard for. He was stuck for a month on the Plain Badge, and he honestly gave up and shelved going for Morty's Fog Badge. Instead, seeing Jasmine, he decided battling her would be more fun! And it was... both of the last two times he's lost.
But the third time's the charm, and after another month of dedicated training he does think he's got it. Maybe!]
[Side D: 3 years later] [Three years since they arrived, the whole "Luceti" thing is very distant aside from his pangs of still missing his four closest friends, and home (home is so relatively) is even more distant, for Masaomi at least. But it's also Ikki's birthday, and despite him and her training before this, this actually marks the first day that she can legally have a trainer license and participate in gym battles or anything more official. It's a huge rite of passage, and even if neither is actually native to this culture, he figures he might as well make a show of it. So, with them and whatever friends they've made until now-- party time.]
[Side E: 10 years later] [Masaomi, something of a guardian for Ikki by now, has to deal with the girl reaching maturity by anyone's standards, now. While when they were younger it was funny to joke about this, now that he's faced with the reality of her being this age, it's no longer amusing. Or well, no longer entirely amusing. Seriously, he's starting to feel old, being almost thirty, and now he has to deal with whatever significant other tomfoolery might be going on here!
At least he's settled down, by now. Or as much as anyone settles in the Pokemon world, and he has done so in Saffron, finding that it suits him to be here. It sort of sucks that he works in the food industry and not a gym or something, but such is life. He looks back fondly at the time he spent going around training and battling]
Choose Your Own Adventure, Pokemon World
[Welp, this was long enough for him to conclude two things. The first is that this is in fact not a Shift after all, and the second is that he and the girl with him are alone in terms of people from Luceti. Which... he can't help but feel incredibly guilty about, but he's trying to keep upbeat enough for her sake. Mercifully, both do still have their pokemon, as if the system that sent them here realized they would need them.
...And boy do they, seeing as how they were dropped off two months ago in the middle of Hoenn, and though they found civilization some time ago, "civilization" is very relative out here.]
[Side B: 6 months later]
[Settling more, probably with more of a line up, today is the day they finally worked out the money for a plane ticket (seriously, who knew transport out of the region was so expensive in Hoenn, they must assume you've got pokemon using Fly, but Masaomi long since vetoed that, because they don't know the world well enough) out of Hoenn and to Johto. It's perhaps a little sentimental on his part, but Masaomi's actually looking forward to seeing Gold and Silver's stomping grounds. And who knows, maybe he'll meet them.
...Even if he doesn't expect them to remember.
Really though, he's just been giving them goal after goal in an effort to try to keep things directed and upbeat for Ikki, who he knows by now must miss her family and friends tremendously. He knows he does too, but doesn't have "family," so.]
[Side C: 1 year later]
[Confident that he's trained enough for it, it's now the night before Masaomi trying to get his forth badge in Johto. As long as they're stuck here and travelling to distance themselves from the whole "wow we're stuck here," he figured he might as well attempt. The Zephyr badge wasn't that hard, and the Hive Badge he didn't need to work too hard for. He was stuck for a month on the Plain Badge, and he honestly gave up and shelved going for Morty's Fog Badge. Instead, seeing Jasmine, he decided battling her would be more fun! And it was... both of the last two times he's lost.
But the third time's the charm, and after another month of dedicated training he does think he's got it. Maybe!]
[Side D: 3 years later]
[Three years since they arrived, the whole "Luceti" thing is very distant aside from his pangs of still missing his four closest friends, and home (home is so relatively) is even more distant, for Masaomi at least. But it's also Ikki's birthday, and despite him and her training before this, this actually marks the first day that she can legally have a trainer license and participate in gym battles or anything more official. It's a huge rite of passage, and even if neither is actually native to this culture, he figures he might as well make a show of it. So, with them and whatever friends they've made until now-- party time.]
[Side E: 10 years later]
[Masaomi, something of a guardian for Ikki by now, has to deal with the girl reaching maturity by anyone's standards, now. While when they were younger it was funny to joke about this, now that he's faced with the reality of her being this age, it's no longer amusing. Or well, no longer entirely amusing. Seriously, he's starting to feel old, being almost thirty, and now he has to deal with whatever significant other tomfoolery might be going on here!
At least he's settled down, by now. Or as much as anyone settles in the Pokemon world, and he has done so in Saffron, finding that it suits him to be here. It sort of sucks that he works in the food industry and not a gym or something, but such is life. He looks back fondly at the time he spent going around training and battling]