At the House, rain pours lightly outside. An animated conversation can be heard inside the living room, behind the glass doors. The television is playing a news broadcast where the reporter is a very tired looking Watchog.

“As we all know, 15 years ago was when an eruption from the Galar region’s Wyndon City spread giant Wishing Stars and Dynamax energy across the globe.”

“This event lead into the resulting mass extinction of humans, also known as the ‘New Darkest Day.’“

“These giant Wishing Stars that fell 15 years ago are now exploding. Releasing massive amounts of Dynamax energy and causing any and all Pokemon within its blast radius to Dynamax.”

“It is currently unknown if this is happening in other regions due to limited communication....”

Three Pokemon sat in the living room, debating amongst themselves. The topic was ‘How do we get Kappa to turn around, because she’s too stubborn to do it herself?’

Nigel wanted to try to verbally convince her, Shellpos didn’t even want to try, and Mustela wasn’t sure anything would work, but wanted to at least warn Kappa of the danger she was galivanting towards.

[Nigel]

“Unova’s largest Wishing Star?”

Right next to the Giant Chasm (Kappa’s destination), was a massive Wishing Star. Bigger than the others which fell, and the largest to land in Unova. With the news reporting on the Wishing Stars suddenly and violently exploding, many of the house Pokemon became worried about Kappa and her party.

[Mustela]

“Yeah.”

[Shellpos]

“Normally, you’d think a giant explodey rock would deter Kappa, but she’s frustratingly thickheaded when it comes to this journey of self-discovery she’s on.”

[Nigel]

“Okay, I have an idea.” Nigel took a deep breath. “ We will try calling her, and if she doesn’t answer or take us seriously, then we call Marigold.”

Behold! References!!

I redrew Kappa and Nema’s refs to better represent how I draw them now. I also simplified Kappa’s scars for consistency. 

I’ve given refs to all of the background characters! Mustela, who is Morelet’s teammate (first appearance), and Shellpos and Nigel, who are two other Pokemon who live at the house. (first appearance) They will all get introductions later, except for Shellpos who already had hers.

And then, there is Jean’s friend! The guy who told Nema to go to Nimbasa in the first place. You won’t see him much. (Though I could say that about all the bg characters lol)

Fenrir’s here too! They will be “introduced” in the next post. I wonder if them being an Absol means anything...

At the front of the house, Kappa and Nema talked to two Pokemon standing at (and on) the front gate. They chatted quickly, triple checking that they had everything the needed and that they knew where they were going.

Sitting on top of the gate was Nigel. He was one of the Pokemon who took it upon themselves to guard the entrance to the house. He eyeballed Kappa and Nema as the large Pokemon next to him poised a question.

Shellpos was a Golisopod, and the other gate guardian. She really only stayed by the gate so she wouldn’t miss any of the action. She asked where the other two of the four travellers were.

Just as Shellpos asked, a buttery voice came from behind Kappa and Nema.

It was Marigold and Morelet!