You're quite welcome. I hope you and your friend get to spend many days together, and that you and your new pokemon see many wonderful sights together!

How about you try to find a teleporter that wants to travel? Then you both benefit, and can become friends over the journey. Many pokemon, even those who don't particularly like battling all that much, will challenge trainers in hopes of being captured for just that purpose.

Hello, I know I'm a stranger, but I'd like to help. Could you tell me what you do with a professor, and if it means you travel a lot or not?

I don't think she'll be actually saying her first words any time soon, but I think it's adorable she's mirroring tone, even if she's not got syllables down at all.

//Empty chart for those who want to fill it out for their characters.

"Do you know how long ago it was? Ah, also, I go by Grey these days, but if it was long enough ago, if we'd talked, I'd have introduced myself as Silver."

Fifteen years ago and a few months *was* about the time he'd been in the early steps of his pokemon journey...

Grey paused, looking up from the most recent model of Berry Pots. He took a good look at her and seemed thoughtful a moment. "Was it Johto?"

In the multiverse it was pretty hard to tell which instance of someone he was talking to, but she did seem familiar even then.

I'm sorry. It must all be so difficult to come to terms with. The battle is over, but so much was lost... Are you and the rest of the survivors in need of anything? I work with many charities, and if you need anything I can help get your cases seen sooner, due to the sudden nature.

I'm sorry for your loss - of your world. I hope you find another, kinder rival. One who challenges you, and drives you to improve, but who does not fill you with sorrow or disgust. After everything you and those of your timeline have been through, you all deserve to live as normally as you can.

Oh, oh I'm so sorry. That's an incredibly massive loss. A whole *timeline*... Shit...

Surrogates in most wo-

Wait. Your timeline is gone?

Oddly enough I have yet to meet one that was upset about lacking that capability... You'd think I'd have met at least one by now who has some sort of hangups over it, but so far the responses to the news have been "Take THAT Archer!" and "More excuses to yeet the organs!"

Clive. You continue to be the most worrying of us all. Do you know how high the bar is for that?

I know having biological children was never in the cards for you, but I'm still relieved to know even that isn't a worry.

You know, there's a strangely common situation where Silvers are intersex and can't reproduce.

We didn't do anything to deserve this, sometimes genetics are just awful.

Hey, remember dad's illness? They have a test for that now! You really, REALLY should take it. You and Howl both.

What a relief. Completely clear?