Arieona and Midnight had flown by Charizard in order to get to Akala Island. As they where walking Arieona looked at her phone to see Lillie had messaged her. "Well what do you know." Arieona mumbled. "What?" Midnight asked. "It appears our Gladon was found." Arieona said. "Really?!" Midnight jumped up excitedly. "Chill." Arieona said. "We can go sense we couldn't find Necrozma in the spot we thought he was. You however shouldn't get over excited because I'm still probably going to backhand him." "Arieona!" Midnight scolded. "What? I'm just saying I don't like him." Arieona shrugged. "Why not?" Midnight asked. Aireona stayed silent for a moment. "I just don't...." She finally answered. Midnight sighed and shook her head. "You have to have a reason." The dark skinned girl replied. "Do I need a reason? All you have to do is look at him to know he is one of those bad boy types." Aireona shrugged. "He's not though, he just uses that to cover up him emotions. A glass mask if you will." Midnight said.

Aireona shook her head, knowing she couldn't tell Midnight why she didn't like Gladion. Not yet anyway. She closed her eyes for a second before opening them to spot a boy walking toward them. Aireona instantly recognized the boy as Kiawe. She felt her cheeks heat up a little when he glanced over at her as he passed by them. He stopped for a second upon seeing her face, giving her a questioning look. "Are you ok?" He asked after a moment. To which he regretted a second later as the brown haired girl walked up to him and slapped him across the face. "Aireona!" Midnight scolded. Kiawe looked move dazed and confused if anything. Aireona looked extremely flustered as she stomped ahead. "Was it something I said?" Kiawe asked. "No. It's just......memories, I guess you could call it." Midnight responded. "You ok?" Kiawe nodded then continued walking. Midnight began walking again until she met up with her friend. "You ok?" Midnight asked after a moment. "Yeah I'm fine." Aireona said. "Question." Midnight said, about to attempt to lighten the mood. "Why did you slap him and not backhand him?" Midnight asked jokingly. Aireona smiled. Her young friend knew just how to cheer her up. "All my backhands are saved for Gladon." Aireona said. Midnight stayed silent for a moment. "Gladion." She finally said. "What?" Aireona asked.

"It's pronounced Gladion. Not Gladon."

"Oh. Right."

A silence was shared between the two. "Well." Aireona started. "Let's go find that boyfriend of yours." "W-what?!" Midnight jumped back in surprise, her face lightly red. "Your friend that's a boy." Aireona said. "The literal use of the word." She chuckled at Midnight's reaction. She released her Charizard and pet it's head for a second before climbing on back and helping Midnight on. The Charizard took off.

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Guzma walked into the room of the inn and closed the door behind him. He put down his hood and sighed. When he was checking into the room the woman at the counter looked terrified. He leaned against the door. It made sense that people where afraid of him, after all he did........that. He hated remembering it, he didn't know why he acted that way that day. The original plan was to have a normal battle with (Y/N) and yet he nearly killed her. That and he sent the entire region into panic. He walked over to the TV and turned it on to try and get his mind off of all of this. On the news was a report on the two Ultra Wormholes that had opened up over Aether Paradise. Apparently there was an update on the situation. At first, he didn't care. He was about to change the channel when he heard that (Y/N) and some friends of hers where earlier spotted going to the Paradise and that the place seemed to be full of hostile Pokémon and people. Apparently they had footage from a helicopter that earlier passed over the place but the helicopter was brought down quickly by the people there. "We can only hope for our Champion's safety." The news reported said. Guzma seemed frozen for a moment. He seemed almost to be contemplating something. He then let out a sigh, clearly annoyed with himself. "Why do I have to care about those kids......" he mumbled to himself. Somehow he felt responsible for all this, he felt it had something to do with what he had done oh so long ago. After all, he did basically have Ultra Beasts doing their own thing while he battled (Y/N).

Guzma stood up, trying to remember that day. His memories where still altered. He still saw that dark skinned girl in (Y/N)'s place. This time though, even Gladion seemed to act differently in the memory. Of course he was only going by his gut feeling. With most of his memories being altered he had almost no way of knowing if this was how Gladion really acted. "Those Wormholes are still messing with my head....." he mumbled. Guzma walked over to the door with his ride pager out. He stepped out and closed the door behind him, walking over to a patch of flat land where the Charizard would have an easy time landing. Just as he was about to call for the Charizard something rammed into his left side, causing him to topple over. "Hey! What's the big ide-!" He started to shout but was cut off by shock. Before him stood a man who looked exactly like him. The only difference was the eyes. Guzma noted that this man's eyes had an insane look to them, almost as if he could lash out at any second. Both of them stayed silent, staring in shock at each other. Then Guzma shook his head and stood up. "Ok. Who the heck are you?!" He shouted, as did the Guzma right across from him.