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STOW-ON-SIDE, 1891

An abandoned cup of black tea sits on a countertop. After being left to sit for long enough, a new Sinistea is born, much to a young Allister's confusion and delight. Sinistea takes the form of a slightly chipped teacup with its handle broken off. Allister is about eight or nine years old, too young to have his own Pokemon, and drowning in what's probably a sibling's coat that's way too big for him. The ambitious little sinistea decides to have some fun with its newly-acquired life, and launches itself from the table with its phantasmic energy. Allister is less pleased to see this development. "H- Hey! That's mum's favorite teacup!" He chases fruitlessly after a teasing Sinistea, growing more anxious by the second. "Oh no, oh no, oh no oh no oh--"

The scene changes. Sinistea is hiding underneath a mushroom in the Glimwood Tangle, with Allister not far behind. The boy throws his hat to the ground, covering his face with a sigh. "No...." He has become lost in the Tangle.

Sinistea and Allister are not the only ones this deep in the Tangle, however. An eye distorted by a maliciously furrowed brow and skeletal fangs emerge behind Allister as he frets, fingers tangles in his hair. 

The scene frames Sinistea looking up with shock and horror, overlain with the silhouette of Allister impaled by Grimmsnarl's arm-like, deadly hair.

STOW-ON-SIDE, 2019

The frame melts into a modern-day gym battle in Stow-on-Side, 128 years later. The challenger has brought a Grimmsnarl, and we see the battle from their perspective. Allister looks small. He is clutching a dusk ball. "My last Pokemon..."

Zoom in on the dusk ball, held tightly in his right hand. The left braces the right, as though preparing to hurl the ball behind him and run for cover. "... How lonely."

Close up on Allister's face. Half of his expression is obscured by his mask, as normal, but the audience can see in this shot that he's on the brink of tears underneath. He has no pupils, in this moment, and heavy bags under his eyes. "How frightening..."

The final panel has Allister in his ghastly slumped-over pose, as though he were of the walking dead himself. He stands against a gradient backdrop that fades in door-like arches from light to dark. It is implied this represents Gigantamax Gengar's mouth, and the doorway to the afterlife itself. Allister's expression cannot be read. "Gengar. Gigantamax... Swallow the field in darkness."