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[Given the field, and edge of a forest just within sight, it could be guessed that Turo was somewhere within Cosmo Conservatory on Eltrut; sitting there in the tall grass as a bit of fog forming could also be seen. Those who remembered his plushie announcement could likely spot both familiar creatures vaguely there and- well.

A lively nest just within the hollow of a fallen tree; the eggs no longer eggs.]

I am happy to announce that there are now several hatched Cloud Hoppers, healthy, with a proud set of parents just as lively and active-

[—and that was a bark, followed by the sound of something loping in and half knocking into Turo from behind, the strange looking dog popping up with paws over his shoulders and panting. Head tipped so one eye was on the shellphone and the light indicating the camera was on. A bright set of feathers behind those ears bobbing a little with all of the movement.]

-and I suppose my new friend wishes to introduce herself. Has anyone here happened to have see a dog like this before?

[As said dog deliberately flopped right into his lap, tail wagging; something perhaps a little odd in how one eye remained focused sharply still on the shellphone.]

A pack of them seem to have been exploring the sanctuary grounds, peacefully at least. She is the only one to have broken off from them. I must admit that some of their markings remind me of a creature from my home region.

[...was— did the dog just huff out a small curl of fire?]

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Very true, and with that those same materials and resources will vanish far sooner than they ever would have naturally. A reason many in my world try to work and live in ways to preserve when and where possible.

[Or else, to some degree.]

She might, given her close relation with fire. Even her own temperature reminds me of Fire Types in my world.

[ He thinks about the creatures made extinct on other shards for one reason or another and silently agrees. ]

Hmm... Do you classify all your creatures according to the elements?

[The fossil pokémon would one day be a fascinating conversation-]

We do. There are well over a thousand and twenty known species that exist, and 18 different known types those can be categorized into.

Only a thousand and twenty?

[ He looks surprised by the low number. ]

Do you live on a small star? Or have you simply not explored much of it?

We have not discovered them all, and there are even those we have yet to find fossils -or fossil records- of. Chances are there may even be variants of known species yet to be stumbled across as well, given it is a known phenomenon across various regions for some to change and adapt to places far from their region of origin. Environment plays keenly into it, and causes them to not just look different but even have different Typings on occasion.

Our world is ever changing, which is part of what makes researching and studying pokémon as thrilling as it is.

[... part of why he was so interested in the fauna of this world. It reminded him somewhat of... home.]

This number also includes our God-like beings, and those descended from them.

[ God-like beings? He's well and truly intrigued now, because he has to wonder what Turo's people classify as 'god-like'. If there are only a thousand or so known species, and a handful considered like unto gods, that speaks to something like...an apex creature for each region. He doesn't have an exact word for it and right now he can't remember exactly, out of all of Halmarut's lectures, what one might call the phenomenon. ]

Fascinating. There are well over a million species on my star, which is why I'm surprised to hear such a low number from you. How do you determine what is a 'god-like' being?

There may very well be that many we've not discovered- or re-discovered, given we are still learning of our past before there was any sort of written language. Our world was not always peaceful, after all, and much can be lost during wars and simply changes in the world itself.

[The past was truly fascinating, as was the possibilities of the future.]

If they created our world, or some nature of it. There are differing tales that may focus on one more than the others depending on the region of course. Most were thought of as only stories, but time and time again has forced at least some part of these beings to make their presences known to aid someone in keeping a force from unmaking things.

We have beings that created both pokémon as we know them and human kind alongside them, for instance. Along with one that is the origin of them, and thus all.

So you have tangible evidence of their presence, or close enough to it, if they actively interfere with human meddling.

[ He cocks his head, thoughtful. ]

If these gods created your pokémon then does it not follow that something created you?

We do, yes. There are a few pictures and witness accounts, along with some historical accounts that some do debate about still.

[Fascinating reads- even if some were forced into a fictional view, like the Violet Book had been.]

It is very much believed humanity was created by them right alongside pokémon, by the other half of the whole. We have a singular origin in that way, and in the past there was little to no difference between the two in some ways. Of course over time that has changed, and for a period of time humanity and pokémon were at odds with quite a bit of fear and even animosity.

That did change, as without working together humanity would not have survived. Working together both are much more capable and strong.

[ So they currently exist in their peaceful age, he thinks. ]

Then that begs the question of why you don't exhibit your own elemental traits, [ he says humorously. ] If all Pokemon are uniquely adapted to their environments, mankind ought to show some variances.

[ The same could be said of any 'human' though, really. Something about this form being commonplace across worlds probably suggests it already IS the most adaptable form. ]

In a way that has happened, just not in quite the obvious way as Pokémon. They can become their strongest self when working together with a human trainer- or you could say Pokémon and Humanity bring out the best in each other.

[... Except that one pokemon that could actually be called evil, but the less said about Malamar possibly controlling certain political movements in the shadows the better.]

There is a bond so strong that both can accomplish what is otherwise thought impossible, and I have witnessed such a bond myself.

[ Ugh. The bonds of ~friendship~, he can't help but initially think. But should he really make fun of that when it's what played a part in his downfall? (He's still a little bitter about that, if he's being honest.)

He's careful not to show those thoughts on his face, instead leaning closer to the camera and resting his chin on one hand. ]

Well, you can't say that and not elaborate, my good man. Do tell.

There is a young trainer back in Paldea, the region I am from, that I entrusted the care of a younger Miraidon. It was in a weakened state, unable to battle, and in their care it grew back to full strength and was able to help me shut down the Time Machine I helped create.

Unbeknownst to me there was a security protocol placed within the system to prevent it's shutdown, and together they were able to defeat it.

[What had the Professor been thinking?... He could surmise, honestly. The man's life work and obsession that it would be the answer to his problems, make up for so many years as an absent father.

... It was sad that he was the one that had to say goodbye to the son. To Arven.]

The young Miraidon refused to go down, and through that newfound strength a possible ecological disaster was prevented.

[ He looks torn between amusement and exasperation. A time machine? This man just casually mentions building a time machine? ]

That is well and good but how does a time machine lead to ecological disaster?

It was being used to pull pokémon in from a future timeline to the present within the laboratory at the bottom of a crater. They were appearing there naturally already, but a more controlled method in order to better study them was... insisted upon.

That is where the pokémon currently with me are from.

[One built because of someone's obsession.]

They did not listen to me when I was working through the calculations and determined that using it as they did could continue pulling stronger and stronger pokémon in to the point they would overwhelm the natural security and shield we have around the crater to break out and thus... overpower the current pokémon population, destroy the environment by overburdening it, and of course kill off the human population right along with it.

[ He frowns to himself as Turo explains, thinking. It's a fantastical sort of tale, but no less fantastical that what he just lived through. Figuratively speaking. ]

Are you saying there was already an anomaly which resulted in Pokemon from the future appearing at the bottom of this crater? And do you not have equally powerful Pokemon in the present day? Nature, if left to run its course, can usually correct itself.

[ Growth as he knows it is not synonymous with the linearity of time. Well, assuming one's world is not in the state that his is in... ]

I am, yes. They were already appearing when a book most brushed off as fiction was written, despite those of the expedition being killed by the far stronger and more aggressive pokémon that appeared within the crater. [Yet it had still been set off-limits despite that.

A small breath-]

Given the number, increased aggression and strength normal within the crater, they would easily decimate the natural pokémon population outside of it. In the long term things would adjust, but the loss of life in the immediate would be catastrophic.

[ He's oddly silent when Turo says this, eyes cast slightly down. To one as long-lived as Emet-Selch, short-term loss of life is not nearly so catastrophic as mortals think. Nature finds a way to rebound, even without human intervention.

That was how his people once viewed their star. All but one.

Would he have chosen intervention in Professor Turo's shoes? He isn't sure. It is a shame when a creature goes extinct, but isn't preserving the status quo exactly what Hydaelyn and her followers fought against, ironically? Maybe some things are meant to die.

The spiralling paradox in his head causes the line of his mouth to tighten. Eventually, he sighs quietly. ]

...If the anomaly was already there, such a disaster was inevitable with or without your hastening of it. It may be that it was meant to occur.

Then let it come at the more 'natural' pace, rather than faster as the time machine was pushing it towards. Some hope that by then things could be dealt with, and what change comes adapted to as it would have been without interference.

[Not because of his inability to turn it off himself, as a part of the security system he knew about... and failsafe he had not been told of.

... let Arven, and the others, know of the possibility in the long future and have the time to deal with it then. Not let the boy who the Professor wanted protected and safe remain so, rather than having to face that. Give them all time.]

Maybe by then others will known, and believe in, what exists within that crater; rather than brushing it aside as fantasy. It is as beautiful as it is dangerous.

[ Emet-Selch is again oddly silent. If certain memories of his, buried by time, hadn't returned when they did, he can guess exactly how he would have reacted to the professor's words here and now. It's almost embarrassing to think back and realise how predictable a man he had been even before the star's sundering. ]

...Aye, I agree. Man ought to be able to dictate the terms of his fate, not have it thrust upon him out of turn.

[ He manages a wry smile and makes a clear effort to pull himself together. ]

Well, that makes me all the more curious about your creatures, Professor. I suppose even at my age, one never ceases to learn.

[He still wanted to believe, at a more natural rate, those paradox pokémon could find as good of a life as possible; that they wouldn't always be confined to the crater and people would come to love and appreciate them as any regular pokémon.

Its what they were, just adapted over time to some future he hoped would be well for all. That the garden paradise would be realized in a grander scale, the harmony would continue.

How could he not hope the best for a future he knew he'd likely never see?]

That choice is far more important than some realize, and others only do when they find themselves at that point. The power and at times courage to take what some call fate and twist it into something more.

Every chance to find something better.

[He believed.]

No one is ever too old to learn, after all. You are welcome to meet and interact with them, and I would be more than happy to share what I can of them- I have the book of the expedition I spoke of earlier with me as well.

Aye, I think I'll do that when I visit. You've given me something to think about in the meantime.

[ His cat, sensing the conversation to be nearing the end, butts her head against his arm and then gracefully leaps off his lap and out of the screen. ]

I would like to read that book as well.

[Turo did chuckle softly at the appearance of the cat, even as he tipped his head a little in a nod.]

Of course; I will warn that it is a childhood copy, so it has a few notes written in it's pages from that time and even close to the present- along with notes from a certain young man that found it in the Lighthouse Laboratory back in Paldea in the section about Herba Mystica.

I have had time to read those here. [Arven was a clever, determined boy. Someone to be proud of.]

That is fine. Scribbles like that oft lend context to the words on the page.

[ Made it obvious that a book had been read and engaged with if not loved. He raises a hand in farewell. ]

Until then.

They do, and I must say the boy did some incredible research while he had it.

[Really, even with the reason he had taken the Violet Book what Arven had found and proven was something. His head tipped with a soft sort of smile.]

Until then.

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