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Goooood evening, residents of Johto. It's a lovely, drizzly January day, and I've got a question you folks might be able to answer for me. Consider it an informal poll.

[York looks comfortable and cozy as he lounges around his house, still wearing his ugly Christmas sweater.]

Now, I understand that this place just isn't equipped to support a Grifball League, but there's got to be more to life than just hockey and baseball. Are there Pokémon Olympics or something I should tune into? And, hey, what kind of sports did you guys have back in your worlds? Were they fun? Would you recreate 'em here if you could?

[He rubs his chin for a moment, then adds:]

If anyone around Goldenrod's interested in forming some kind of low-key community sports team--y'know, something for people, not Pokémon--let me know. I might be able to help us get something set up before baseball season starts.

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... Oh. Well.

That's good, at least. That you managed to stop a little of it...

I was better in literature and art.

Jimmy's so great! And he's so sweet! I'm so glad we have a friend in common too!

I figure Jimmy's one of those kids everybody gets to know eventually. Like a local fixture, you know?

So, like, he's everyone's friend?

I crashed a whole spaceship.

That's right, you told me you drew. I was always more of a calc and social sciences guy. Got my naps in during English.

Guy like that? I wouldn't doubt it. How could anyone not like that kid?

That's definitely true!

He reminds me of myself when I was that age. Ah, good times.

[York, no, he doesn't. You are so full of shit.]

I helped something from another world help invade my world.

I... haven't been able to fix any of it yet.

Different kinds of nerd, right?

Aliens?

Hey! Look, man, I'll have you know I was one hundred percent all-American jackass jock.

That's just the stuff I was good at. I always liked taking things apart, putting them back together again. Math's just the purest form of that.

In the sense that they aren't humans from our planet, yes. In the sense that they're from space, no. They're from another world that got invaded by something that's trying to invade ours through cracks in reality. And... I thought helping them would be the best way to do what I thought I needed to do.

I was wrong.

Just as long as you didn't give swirlies.

I guess that's true. Art's kind of like that, in a way. You have to see stuff as shapes and lines.

Oh. Yeah. That's a hard place to be in.

We all thought we were doing the right thing.

Oh, dude, no way. That got phased out of schools centuries ago. I was an asshole, not a child torturer.

You're right about art, though. The geometric aspects of it, anyway. I had a...a friend, he'd calm himself down a lot thinking about statistics and turning numbers into shapes.

Ooh, that's right, you normies age kinda quick, right?

Compared to being sixteen hundred, yeah, I guess so. I'm in my thirties.

Not in my time. That's... uh. That's how I met up with one of the people who I ended up on my... 'team', I guess you could call it. And that's how I ended up with them when it all started.

I never turned numbers into shapes, but I can kind of see where that could come from.

Everyone always does. It's only afterwards that you figure out what was staring you in the face the whole time.

The kid trying to flush you down a toilet ended up on your team?

No, he walked in on people trying to flush me and got them to leave me alone. That day, at least.

The Director of PFL was lying to us the whole time. Told us we were the good guys, that we were special ops against the Insurrectionists. Rebels against the United Earth Government, I mean. It was a bad thing, we were already fighting the Covenant - they were aliens - just to survive. We couldn't afford to have old human-human disputes picking at our edges, too.

Turns out he'd been breaking the law for years. Tortured the Project's one smart AI until it tore itself apart to produce the "fragment" personalities he needed for his experiments, used us to steal private property. Killed and hurt a lot of people just doing their jobs.

He did a lot of damage before some of us started to catch on. And even then, not everyone believed us.

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