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The New Normal - 13-14 - Interlude - Sinnoh
🕑 Added 2025-01-22 12:00:12 +0000 UTCThe New Normal – 13-14 – Interlude – Sinnoh
(A Civilian’s POV)
The Sinnoh news agencies had yet to publish anything official yet, but they didn’t need to. No matter where you were, in your home, at work, or even if you were simply strolling about, everyone could feel that surge of primal terror that just radiated across the region.
He knew instinctively that something big had just been summoned. What it was specifically, he had no idea. But he highly suspected that only a Legendary could radiate out this much power.
And it was definitely the only thing that could suddenly cause the sky to crack. Seeing that had nearly made him void his own bowels.
Furthermore, he was far from alone in his fears – pretty much the entirety of Sunyshore had descended into barely controlled panic, with the Jennys doing their best to keep everyone calm.
Yet with the sky looking like it was moments away from somehow cracking apart, it was hard for anyone to believe in their comforting words. It didn’t help that there were barely any Jennys around at the moment.
If Gym Leader Volkner was here, then perhaps they would have found comfort in the fact that their Gym Leader would protect them. But he wasn’t, as he was deployed to help out with the ongoing crisis. However, his absence could be keenly felt, and he could tell that many of the residents were another piece of bad news away from leaving the city entirely and trying their luck in the nearby forests just so that they could create as much distance from Mt. Coronet as possible.
Furthermore, he doubted that his city was the only city that was affected by this general panic. He hadn’t had time to call up his friends yet, but he suspected they would be in a similar state to him right now. If anything, the other cities were probably worse, considering that Sunyshore was basically as far from Mt. Coronet as it got.
He prayed for this crisis could be resolved soon. Legendaries were utterly terrifying. And truthfully, he had no idea how the League would try to even fight one. Let alone win.
But he hoped for a way forwards regardless.
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(Maylene POV)
In all honesty, she had mixed feelings about being told to stay behind, which she understood was partially because of her youth and age. A part of her resented the order, even if she knew that her duties in reassuring the public and maintaining order were equally as important. But despite the dangers of fighting against a Legendary, she wanted to be there – fighting for the future of the world like the heroes of old.
Sadly, she was one of the Gym Leaders ordered to remain in place in order to try to calm the public down and maintain a semblance of law and order despite the sky ripping itself apart. That, coupled with the primal surge of terror that exploded out from Spear Pillar, had put everyone on the verge of a panic attack – if they were not having one already.
All around the streets of Veilstone, no matter where you looked you could see people running around frantically in a chaotic mass of fear as many of them scrambled to try to get as far away from Spear Pillar. She had done her best to work with what few Jennys remained to try to restore some semblance of order and try to stop the people from forming a stampede and trampling over each other, but they found little success.
While a few people managed to retain their trust in the Sinnoh League and maintain their calm, many others could not. They were simply too ridden with fear and terror to listen to their instructions. Some of their Pokémon were no better as they ran in fear alongside their trainer. Worse, some of them could be seen leaving their trainer behind, choosing to simply run ahead without them.
And then there were those who had simply stopped moving – their eyes having lost to the primal sense of terror and were filled with nothing else but hopelessness and despair. They stared at the cracked sky aimlessly, as if they had given up on life itself and having accepted the doom that was seemingly about to fall upon them.
Those broke her heart to see. It hurt her deeply to see their lifeless eyes like that and not be able to reassure them that things would be okay.
It was like she had failed as a Gym Leader.
Therefore, she prayed for this crisis to be resolved soon. Things were already starting to get out of hand, but if the situation persisted, then things were only going to get worse from here.
But considering what they were up against, she knew they needed a miracle.
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(Cynthia POV)
“…You too.” She heard John say to her affectionately, before hanging up the phone.
She allowed herself to indulge in that moment of happiness before she shouldered the duties of a Champion once more. Needless to say, the current situation was nothing less than an unmitigated disaster.
Despite everything they had tried, including trying to venture through Mt. Coronet from the bottom up to reach Spear Pillar like Team Galactic had done, nothing worked. The spatial barrier that had been erected around Spear Pillar was completely impenetrable, as expected of a being as powerful as Palkia, which meant that Cyrus currently had free reign to do whatever he wanted.
…Though, what it was that he was actually doing, she didn’t know. While not knowing the actions of a madman was certainly unsettling, Cyrus now had minutes to enact whatever plan he wanted to. And yet, as far as she was aware, aside from that initial outburst of power from Palkia’s summoning, nothing else seemed to happen.
That could be because they had been cut off from all communication from Spear Pillar, and therefore they were blind to whatever was happening in there, but Cyrus’ goal was to remake the world. Thus, you would expect with a goal like that for something to be happening – and yet there wasn’t.
She decided to consider that a good thing. Maybe Cyrus was having problems executing his insane plans. Perhaps the Red Chain wasn’t functioning as well as he intended.
However, they still didn’t have a way of stopping him – unless John succeeded in awakening Regigigas.
When John had come to her to ask for permission for the Plates, a part of her had immediately questioned just how John knew about the connection between Regigigas and the Plates. Why did he seem so certain that the Plates would be able to awaken the Legendary Titan?
But it all came back to that mysterious connection that John had told her about. It likely explained how John had come across such knowledge, as he may have been nudged by the Legendary in the right direction.
Why John? She didn’t know, but now wasn’t the time to question their bout of good fortune. In her eyes, having John be the one ‘chosen’ to awaken Regigigas was as good as it got. If he does succeed, she trusted him to not abuse his newfound Legendary power.
And like she had told John, they could deal with the consequences later.
Therefore, she shook herself out of her thoughts as she picked up a call from her fellow Champions.
“Cynthia, any updates about the situation there?” Wallace asked, his voice completely serious and lacking in any of his usual charm, “Have you been able to get eyes on what’s happening in Spear Pillar?”
“Unfortunately not.” She replied, “But John has come up with a radical solution – he’s going to try to awaken Regigigas. We’re waiting to see if he’s successful, it might be the key we need to achieving victory.”
She heard the surprised gasp from Lance, “…Awaken Regigigas? What the… what is going on there?! And why John?”
“Questions for later.” Wallace reminded, cutting off Lance’s confusion, “Right now, having a Legendary on our side is likely what we need to fight against Palkia. We felt those shockwaves from all the way here. All that power… the fight ahead won’t be easy. How’s the situation in the rest of Sinnoh?”
She frowned, “Not good. It’s chaos everywhere, and public order has practically collapsed ever since cracks started appearing in the sky – like something is shearing through the fabric of reality. The Jennys and the few Gym Leaders left behind are trying their best, but they’ve mostly been unsuccessful. Luckily, we haven’t seen anything too drastic yet, but it’s only a matter of time before the fear and panic of the populace explodes into something nasty—"
Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by the sounds of distant rumbling. Even up in the air as she was, the resulting shockwaves caused her Togekiss to slightly stumble. Instinctively, she turned towards the sound of the rumbling, before realising that she was staring in the direction of Snowpoint City.
Just before she could fully process the implications, a voice in her radio confirmed it for her.
“Champion! John did it! Regigigas has awakened!”
Despite the situation they were in, a huge smile spread across her face. He had really done it. He had really managed to awaken the Legendary Titan. He had accomplished a miracle.
And now it was time to bring the fight to Cyrus.
A.N. I felt that the awakening and summoning of a Legendary deserved to be explored a bit more, as well as the general reaction by the public to everything that was going on. That’s why I decided to focus on different perspectives from different people and the despair and terror that they feel. Needless to say, experiencing the Pressure from a Legendary is a very good reason to be afraid. I hope this matches your expectation of what it would be like for the common people if something as powerful as a Legendary is summoned!
Comments
Sir Ulrich
The Lord of Space vs The Legendary Titan Lets F Gooooooooo
Tank45
There’s one minor issue in either this chapter or 13-13. Maylene in 13-13 is showed to be at spear pillar while here she’s at Veilstone. This whole arc feels very linear so to speak and 0-100-esk. Very straightforward and no curveballs being thrown and the power of legendaries makes it feel very 0-100. Like we could’ve explored the power of others like Zapdos back at the power plant and then when they find the Stone plate, perhaps instead they find the Fire one and Heatran. Get a progression going for the legends to sort of build up to the world altering strength that’s being thrown around now. Glad to know there’s more to explore after Galactics, I do hope it shifts away from John cause it feels like there’s not much to do. Maybe a shift in characters or regions is in the cards. Despite some of my issues with the story, I’ll admit the world that has been crafted is interesting and I’d like to see how it’s explored beyond these main 4 regions.
Vtec
Originally, you would be right. The resolution of Team Galactic was meant to be the end of this story. But, it's been nearly two years since I first drafted up my initial plans, and things have changed. I can promise you that after Team Galactic is resolved there will be more things coming. Thanks for the comment!
Tank45
It feels like we’re approaching the end as in the end of the story. Is this going to be a definitive end for TNN or will it continue on past Cyrus and eventually go on to canon and/or other regions in a time skip or a sequel following a new character or the earlier mentioned time skip keeping it John-centric? It feels definitive because this is what the entire story has mostly been building towards but there are still some unresolved plotlines to explore like the other 15 plates and their functions. How did this affect the other regions that are completely clueless? I hope there’s more than just, hooray good guys win and Regigigas goes back to napping. There’s a bit more to explore with this world that was crafted.
LandoCali96
I was dreading an interlude today but it was still good lol.
Spider_Fanboi
This is gonna be insane. I wonder what John’s relationship will be like with all the Regi’s after the battle, tho? Will Regigigas treat him with respect, which has the others respecting him? Will John be tasked to find Regieleki and Regidrago?
David Lawson
I am soooo ready for this fight.
