#team comet

The idea is that both Nuri and Gastly keep their "inciting incidents" but their roles in the narrative are swapped. Nuri still sends the meteor flying towards the PMD world from her station in Mossdeep City, and Gastly still abandons Gardevoir to the Ninetales Curse.

Basically, Nuri and Chip's flaws are cranked up to the max. Nuri never got over her fear and decided to force her way into power to cope with it. She's an authority figure in Pokemon Square, and Chip, loyal to a fault, is her attack cat who would do anything for her. He's really more of the "Gengar" type in personality, where he likes to toy with others because of the power he has.

Team Meanies is still a more "antagonistic" team here. They still harass other explorers and stuff. But over the course of the story, they kinda keep accidentally fixing things, which kinda propels them into a redemption arc anyways. Gastly is forced to confront his issues a lot earlier by becoming a fugitive and seeking out Ninetales, and actually breaks the curse early as well.