Lillie and Nebby are both miraculously untouched, since Lillie of course chose to save her own treacherous skin the moment danger reared its head. Inside Aether House, the gravity of the situation soon becomes apparent. “The boss is just dying to meet you, hmmph! See you at our base in Po Town!” With that, she and her grunts are gone. “Wait, what? Pokémon? What do you-?” She just keeps talking over me. “If you want us to return the Pokémon, then you’ll have to come to us. That must be it.” Plumeria glares at me, and I swear I can feel a hole being drilled through my skull. “Well, that’s part of the reason,” I say slyly, then suddenly remember my sense of self-preservation. Now I understand why my grunts waste so much time battling kids.” As at our last meeting, Plumeria (in stark contrast to Guzma) barely acknowledges the loss. When Plumeria turns to her partner Pokémon – now evolved into Salazzle – I switch to my Raichu and fry its brain with Psychic. I respond with my Toucannon, and Beak Blast it right out of the sky. “I told you before… next time you get in our way, I’m not holding anything back!” With a flick of her wrist, she directs her grunts to engage Acerola and Hau, then summons her own Golbat. It takes these dumb grunts way too long to deal with you kids… so I guess it’s my turn!” “Nothing that concerns you, Captain,” Plumeria tells her icily. “…what on earth are you two talking about?” Acerola looks back and forth between us like she’s following a tennis match. “Yeah – now make damn sure it stays that way.” I gulp nervously, drawing a smirk from her. “Give it a rest, kid I’m messing with you. D-do you think we could talk about th-” She laughs out loud. “I don’t… remember exactly? But I’m sure it wasn’t good. “What did I tell you about messing with my little brothers and sisters, jerk?” “…hi there, uh… Plumeria, right? Good to, uh-” I flinch and quickly sidestep behind Acerola. “I heard you were supervising a trial, and-” she stops mid-breath as she catches sight of me. “I wasn’t expecting you just yet,” she says to Acerola. “Back so soon, hmm?” Plumeria, Team Skull’s self-described ‘big sister,’ is parked in front of Aether House with a couple of grunts. There, with Hau just a few steps behind, someone who is definitely not the Kahuna is waiting. Kahuna is right away, though, and invites me back to Aether House to talk it Acerola declines to explain who or where the Means I now have the right to challenge the island’s Kahuna. As Ula’ula Island has only two Captains, that She presents me with her crystal, the Ghostium-Z. Lair a new back door – I did basically achieve its fundamental objectives, so Was, she reminds me, only supposed to get a photograph of Mimikyu, not give its
Offers me some suggestions on what to do next.Īlthough my success in her trial was in some respects debateable – I Once I’ve stopped shaking uncontrollably,Īnd the Rotomdex has reassured me that the horrifying undead Pikachu I justįought is only another Pokémon (a Ghost/Fairy-type called Mimikyu), Acerola