It's been months since I last seen my brother... I spend my days with the Pokémon in the playroom without the goddess sometimes. They would often find me by myself with the Pokémon everyday and always questioned me on why I never left until it was curfew. Of course they wouldn't know. I only stay in the castle because there's nothing out there for me.

Hilbert's gone and I still sob about it in the middle of the night. It's strange to say this... but the goddesses understand my pain and comfort me as much as they can. I heard they were Lord N's caretakers, and since he's usually out traveling around Unova, they put their attention on me and the Pokémon. Having them with me makes it feel like I have a mother again

Nothing changed about me since Hilbert left. Since he left, Lord Ghetsis notices me a lot more and even watches me taking care of the Pokémon. The goddesses say that it's a good thing to be noticed by him. I didn't know what to think about it really, I'm just happy I'm not lonely

Even if I have the goddesses for a mother figure and Ghetsis for a father figure in some ways, I still miss Hilbert. Why hasn't he come back..? Was I really that much of a burden..? There's no way to communicate with him... and that's when it hit me! He gave me a xtransceiver last year I never had the need to use because he would always come back the next day! How could I forget such a thing? It's still in the package for crying out loud!

"If you'll excuse me" I stood up from the floor when playing with the Pokémon and walked to the door

"Dear" Anthea stopped me. I looked back at her standing next to her Gothitelle "listen..." Concordia stood up next to her Gardevoir "I'm afraid today is a day when you're going to have to stay in your room. We don't want anything happening to you" I didn't like how serious they looked. They usually always look so calm

"There is something going on... Lord N has awakened the legendary Pokémon Zekrom" I put my hands in a fist in excitement and nodded

"Oh yes! I heard of this from the others! It's great! Now Lord N can tell the trainers of the world to release their Pokémon and they can finally be the perfect beings they were meant to be!" A Snivy, that's always sassy around the employees and even goddesses, walked up to my leg and simply stood there.

This little guy, girl actually, always showed affection towards me instead of anyone else. The Pokémon reminded me so much of the one Hilbert left with

"Yes... even if this is great news, but at times like this... someone has interfered with Team Plasma's plans. The truth..." Concordia held her heart "we do not know what's going to happen... but a battle is going to happen between Lord N and-" Anthea stopped her

"It's too soon to tell her" she looked down at me "Whitley... no, what is your real name?" This caught me surprise "do not worry, I want you to trust us enough to tell us who you really are. We've taken care of you since your brother left..."

"We have a feeling..." Concordia took a moment "this battle that will take place in the throne room and will begin soon... it will define the fate of Team Plasma... we want to let you know, whatever happens, we're going to be here for you" I have no idea what they were talking about, but they're all I have now. I'm so happy they came to my care after what happened

"Thank you..." I looked down "my name is-" the castle started shaking. I squealed and ducked down to cover my head in a panic. The goddesses held me up and held me in their arms. What's happening out there?

I learned that lately, my coworkers have been becoming more fussy than usual. They say that there's this familiar trainer keeps beating them and saying he's telling them that Pokémon and trainers can become partners and will understand each other. Those words are what I remember...

Snivy held onto my leg, stroking my ankle like it was trying to calm me down. Ever since Snivy hatched from its egg in the playroom, it doesn't want to be with anyone else but me. Pokémon and humans as partners..? Hilbert always gave his Pokémon love... how should I feel about this?

"Whitley..." Anthea spoke "no matter what happens, stay true to yourself. Whatever happens to Team Plasma, we're going to stay together, okay?" What's going to happen to Team Plasma..?

"Okay..." the castle started shaking again. The goddesses hurried to release the Pokémon into the wild, but Snivy stayed with me. It followed us to the other side of the castle for shelter. The castle just kept shaking and loud roars from large sounding Pokémon kept echoing through the building. I was terrified. I wish it was Hilbert that was here holding me and telling me it was alright

After what felt like hours, everything settled down. Concordia let go of me so I can stand on my own and look around. The walls of the building were crumbling just slightly... an intense battle must've just happened

"No!!!" I flinched when hearing the voice of my brother and made a run to find him, ignoring the goddesses calling after me. My feet carried me to the very top of the castle as the castle began shaking once again. I became exhausted, but I kept going until I reached the front entrance of the throne room. I rested against the wall for a long while, hearing mumbles and shouting coming from the throne room

"What's going on..?" I asked myself before forcing my aching legs to head to the entrance, but stopped when seeing the two strangers hold Lord Ghetsis by the arms like he was getting arrested. I gasped loud enough to make them notice me. Ghetsis looked up from his glare and frowned at me

"A grunt is here? I thought all of them were taken care of" the large red haired man with tan skin said. The young guy, who looked about Hilbert's age, stared at my shaking body

"Whitely..." Ghetsis stared at me "don't worry, just keep it safe" keep it safe... long before when Ghetsis noticed me, he selected a random person in the organization and chose me. He gave me a tiny disk that told the information of the trainers who were robbed from their Pokémon and the personal information of every employee. It's valuable information... and I was trusted to keep it safe.

As soon as the two people heard this, they looked like they wanted to tackle me. I flinched, trying to hold in my tears "What do you have, young lady?" The red-haired man calmly asked, trying not to use force, but I didn't know how to feel at the moment. They were taking Lord Ghetsis away for no reason! I... I don't believe the reason was for nothing... he always did this vibe to him that I never liked, but I never questioned it. I don't know what to think

The younger guy reached for me. I froze, letting my tears fall down my cheeks "no..." I cried "don't come near me"

"You're..." his eyes slowly widened, holding out his hand. I didn't want to take the chance and made a run for it "wait!" I pushed my legs to find a place to hide. He ran past me after a pair of vines grabbed me and snatched me to an empty room. Snivy stood there staring at me. It saved me... but why? Why is it still here..?

"Snivy..." I carried it in my arms "you could have been free... but you're still around, around someone like me..." I cuddled my cheek on hers, crying "you're still around... me... I'm pathetic and weak... and you're still around"

"Sni..." the castle was in terrible shape... it looked like it was about to collapse at any moment. Snivy pointed me to a path, which I simply followed and made my way up to Lord N's room... it's a mess, and full of toys?

"There's so many toys here..." Snivy jumped out my arms and started jumping into the toy box "This is no time to play. We have to go find Anthea and Con-" it jumped out with a small pocket journal in hand "A Journal?"

"Whitely" I flinched when taking the book and turned around to see the goddesses staring at me next to their psychic-Pokémon that probably brought them here "it's time for us to evacuate... gather all your things and let us leave" I nodded, letting them take me to my bedroom

I didn't know what to think. Lord Ghetsis was carried out like he was some criminal... I don't understand. What exactly happened while the goddesses were protecting me..? Those people holding him didn't seem like bad people

"Miss Whitely?" Concordia broke me out in my daze. She noticed my tears falling "what's the matter?"

"I-I'm just confused..." I started packing the little things I have. I only had pajamas, a few little things like accessories Hilbert got me, and my Poké doll of a Swablu, and put everything in a single bag I had in the corner. Making sure I got everything, I looked under my own bed and even Hilbert's bed to see if anything was missing. There laid a journal underneath his mattress

"Another Journal..?" When taking it in my hands, the goddesses rushed me and had their Pokémon teleport us outside the castle, where the police force rushed in with helicopters surrounding the place. They stared at them taking our home while I darted my eyes through every page in the journal Hilbert left behind.

Everything in the journal... I now understood why he decided to leave, and what the true intentions of what Team Plasma was planning. He believes that Lord N was only a puppet to Ghetsis... there's only one way to know if everything we learned from being part of Team Plasma was fake. Lord N's Journal

"Goddess..?" The two women looked down at me holding onto the journal tightly after reading it "Lord N... did he even have any control of what Team Plasma's true plans were?" They looked at each other and frowned, explaining everything they knew. So it's true...

"So that's how it is..." I looked up at the castle, holding the journals that belonged to the most important men in my life "so Pokémon and their trainers can get along and become one with each other... I still..." I looked down at Snivy standing next to me, staring at me "can't get myself of understand... lord N, your mind was in the right place. It was Ghetsis... a man who I saw as a fatherly figure. He was the evil one who didn't even care about Pokémon. He just wanted Lord N's legendary Pokémon to rule over everyone

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It took me another 2 years to fully understand how important it was to bond with Pokémon. After those years, the goddesses took me into a shelter with other Team Plasma Grunts that followed only Lord N and believe Pokémon can be their best when they're with their trainers. These are the ones that didn't bully me like the others. They became my friends after seeing me walk into the shelter that a sage created after he got out of prison. Before that time, the goddesses and I went back to the castle when knowing it was now underground and abandoned. I still would never leave the building... and now that we have this shelter, all I would do is stay in the building and take care of the Pokémon like I always do

Nothing about me has changed since what happened. I got a better understanding of what happened during the years of the battle Lord N and Hilbert had. Hilbert saw a different point of view than the king. The king sought ideals, but Hilbert sought Truth and wanted to battle to prove that Pokémon are better off in the hands of a trainer. That's what he meant... when he said he'll make the world great again. He's so admirable... he left me so he could do good and left me so I won't end up getting hurt if things didn't end up the way he wanted. Now Hilbert and Lord N hasn't been seen by anyone for the past 2 years since the team disbanded

One day, in the middle of the night, when I was supposed to be sleeping but was actually taking care of my sick Snivy that stuck to my side, I overheard the Goddesses and Rood, the sage who founded the shelter, talking. They were talking about a disk that Ghetsis had trusted a former grunt to keep safe. They taught that if they had the disk, they could somehow try to find these grunts that may need help after the event, but also help the trainers and Pokémon reunite if the trainer deserved it. The disk... it was given to me. Ghetsis trusted someone like me to hold such a disk.

I would had came out and told them it was I that had it, but I wanted to do something for myself... I wanted to help these trainers and their Pokémon. I didn't want to stay a shut-in any longer... I had to do something for myself. I spend almost half a decade cowering about what may happen to me if I would mess up on my job. I wasted my whole life of being terrified of being on my own in the world without my family.

The goddesses, Rood, the former grunts who I've spent much of my time with; my friends, are my only family now, but it's never going to change the fact that I want Hilbert back. I have to put myself out there... to help these trainers, and find my brother. Though... that decision making was only about a month ago. Of course, I'm all talk. There's just no way I could find the guts to do such a thing, and that's when this happened...

I was minding my own business while scanning the disk. I always looked through a large amount of data that made my head hurt. The most I looked into were the Pokémon I recognized to be the ones we took care of back in the castle, the ones the goddesses forced to flee during the battle. Most of these Pokémon were set free in the wild, and the information I got about the trainers who were robbed by the organization were extremely outdated that I believed they already moved on.

The other information I casually looked through and memorized were about my former co-workers I worked with. I feel in my heart that some of these people felt betrayed by lord N for leaving us, but it's more complicated than that. Unfortunately, there's no telling if these grunts ever released the Pokémon of the castle they used to help them fight against other trainers. Some Grunts who felt betrayed by Lord N and seeking revenge might be using them at the moment.

I heard that Team Plasma somewhere has found a new leader. It's something I heard that night when the adults were talking, and when I finally found the courage to confront the goddesses about it, they wouldn't tell me a thing. It's for the best. I'll be scared out of my mind if I hear anything more that may lead to another war like 2 years ago

While taking my time to look the data and possibly make a plan that may never work, Anthea and Concordia were making their way towards me. I shut the computer down and put away the disk before they could see.

"hey there, Rosa" Anthea smiled. I stood up and bowed to them out of habit "Rosa dear, how many times do we have to tell you to stop bowing to us. It's not like that anymore. Treat us like you would like we were sisters" I don't think I'd know what having a sister would be like. I guess it's the same as how I am with Hilbert. It's hard not seeing the goddesses as royalty in my book... I looked up to them like I would with Lord N... how can I going to just treat them like normal people when they did so much for me when they didn't need to. Like feed me and give me warmth and shelter

"I'm sorry, it's a habit I can't break" I pouted. They giggled at my expression "is there something I can help you with?"

"Why would we need something?" I blushed, forgetting I didn't have to act like their servant, even if all I do is bring them food and wash their clothes when they tell me not to. It's the least I can do

"I-I mean... what's up?" They nodded at the response

"We have gathered some data from the employees here. We told everyone about wanting to help the Pokémon we had taken away from their trainers. We'd ask if any one of them can help. Richard had admitted that he remembered taking a Pokémon from a young trainer in Asperia City 4 years ago. The rest could not remember exactly where they took the Pokémon or remember who it belonged to or what Pokémon it even was. We have this one data we need to look more into" something about this reminded me of what I thought of last month

"What am I suppose to do with this information?" They smiled cheekily. That can't be good...

"We're assigning you to go to Asperia City to find this trainer and investigate how well or bad he's doing without that Pokémon" I cupped my mouth, shaken in shock. They want me... to go out there?!

i was laughing when i was looking back at this story at the other chapters. i kept feeling sorry about this girl! im so sorry!