When people noticed Pokémon and humans began disappearing, I just smiled. Maybe it wasn't the nicest thing to do but to think that we had escaped a potentially horrible fate was something worth cheering for.

Nope, instead of dreading my Pokémin getting snatched, I was happily chilling inside the Pokémon Center, waiting for the storm also known as 'the Snatchers' to pass by.

From what Hylla had told me I gathered that they acted like nomads, never staying in one place for long and always on the move. They simply snatched some Pokémon, wild or captured ones and left the area.

They left no evidence and no witnesses.

They were a mystery because no one knew how they did it and why they did their atrocious acts.

Hylla theorized that they were gathering Pokémon for experiments, seeing how randomly the victims were chosen and I was inclined to believe her theory.

The big question was how they did it.

They were like a black hole of information. However, recent events cast a new light on their mystery and now I think I know how they did it.

When I heard the recording, red flags and alarm bells went off in my mind. With the broken and scattered pieces of information I had I tried to structure a scenario in my head. The small Taillow was the final nail in the coffin of their mysteriousness.

Looking back on it, the answer was stupidly easy and the only reason I didn't realize it sooner was the abundance of possibilities.

But I managed to narrow down the conclusion and finally figured out what happened that night.

The Snatchers, they had to have access to a move or power that functioned like a big Shaker/area of effect move. Having a wide range, probably spherical, with the caster in the middle.

Everyone inside the hypothetical dome would fall asleep and have their most recent memories erased.

And when they wake up, they will move on with their day like nothing happened. A perfect strategy, especially if applied during night time. No one will break a sweat if they notice that they slept a bit longer than normal.

It was an almost perfect crime.

There was a gap in the timeline between someone actually going missing and people starting to notice it. The beauty of it all was that once they discovered it the Snatchers would be long gone.

I was unsure if the hypothetical dome was created by a mechanical device or a Pokémon. It could be even multiple Pokémon, one boosting the other's range with a Trump-like move.

It was the only possibility that fits my reconstruction of the lost memories I have from that night and the missing Pokémon.

The biggest mystery to me had been why Pokémon went missing in that area but we remained unaffected. But now it makes sense, we weren't the targets.

We just happened to be caught in their range, either while they were traveling or because they were snatching wildlife.

It would explain why Fay could detect something weird, considering aura is life energy and sleep inducing Pokémon moves mess with a person's entire body or mind.

My theory had some assumptions and gaps but this was the best one I had so far and the only one that made some sense.

Which brought me to my next dilemma.

What to do with this information? Tattle to the police, the League? If someone had this information they could easily counter the Snatchers. Use Pokémon that are immune to sleep inducing powers or even better. Do a missile strike.

However, Looker had told me he suspected the League in Sinnoh was to some extent compromised.

If I were to share this information and it fell into the wrong hands, it would become worthless.

I considered telling Hylla but she had been taken off the Snatchers case.

In the end, I decided to do nothing and just chill. It wasn’t my problem to fix it per se, and tattling might put a target on my back. Instead I did the reasonable thing and decided to wait a week and then continue my journey. Sure, the Snatchers were only one small group but I was not going to take any chances. Nope, not at all.

Of course, I was not sitting still for a week.

While Fay and Luna were sparring with each other, I was typing away on my laptop while wearing a gleeful smile.

I had just gotten an email from a company in Unova named: The Dream Company.

Despite what their name suggested the company was not that big but more like a family business.

Perfect for what I needed.

When I came to this world I noticed that a lot of things from my old universe don't exist in this one, which made sense. It's a whole new world after all.

Naturally, I did what every sane person would do in my stead.

I sold my ideas.

Obviously, things weren't that easy, being a nameless person without any funding, background or connections made things unnecessarily complicated.

The most disappointing difference between my old world and this one was the lack of a developed entertainment industry.

Sure there were monsters in this world that were slowly tearing away at society but that wasn't too big of a difference from my old world. Only in this world Pokémon can be monsters too and the human monsters have more tools to work with.

But what's worse was the lack of things that made life worth it.

Video games, anime, books and movies. All things that made life a bit more interesting, a bit more beautiful.

Sure this world had its own attempts but they were nothing more than bad copies of what could've been. Pyramids to the Empire state building.

Someone had to step in.

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I started small by contacting some companies in other regions and offered them a few simple ideas that could bring in some money and prove my worth as an investment. By most, I couldn't even get past the spam filter.

I might have had more luck if I tried in Sinnoh and could show up for the interviews but I really want to avoid attention.

Only a small business that was producing playing cards in Unova was willing to invent my ideas.

I couldn't start too big so I gave them a few simple concepts this world had never heard of.

Simple board games like Monopoly and Risk and other simple things like Uno and Yahtzee.

Easy to explain and to produce and most importantly, very simple. So simple I had no trouble remembering all the rules.

Because it was a big risk for them they refused to pay for the ideas alone and instead we agreed on a contract that gave me a small percent of the profit they made from my ideas. From their perspective, it was a safe bet, if my ideas suck they wouldn't lose too much money.

From my perspective, it was straight-up gold.

All I had to do was to send the game descriptions, rules and basic designs and they took care of everything else.

It allowed me to stay anonymous as I could actually work with a pseudonym and no one in this world would be any wiser about my whereabouts.

Who would think that "Blank" the genius game creator in Unova was actually a 17/18 year old from Sinnoh?

As I read the mail in front of me I couldn't help but grin widely.

As it turned out, they just sold out their entire stock and the games I ‘made’ were a massive hit among families in Unova. They happily announced that they would soon be expanding my products to the other regions as well.

Some people might claim that it was tasteless of me to make money from someone else's work and ideas and normally I would wholeheartedly agree with that.

But I found a perfect loophole for my moral compass.

Seeing how I am the only person from my old universe in this world it made me automatically the ambassador of my own universe, despite no one knowing it.

And as the sole representative of my world it was my job to spread my culture and if I happen to make some money off it, so be it.

And now it was confirmed that my ideas could be very profitable. I really had to look into getting my own company.

The problem was that I didn't want to do any of the actual work that being a CEO required, especially since I still had my main quest of 'becoming the very best there ever was' still going.

And I want to stay as anonymous as possible, a bit harder than I thought it would be.

Maybe Hylla could help me take over a company or something, she seemed to be familiar with the laws in this world or at least more than I was.

I now had to find some competent game developers to recreate actual good games and it would be almost like home.

I will drag this world into a new era, one way or the other.

With a heavy sigh, I closed the laptop so I could give some attention to my Pokémon who definitely deserved some love.

Luna stood proudly upon a small rock as if she was the queen of the hill. She kept firing ranged attacks at Fay who stood on the other side of the field.

A rainbow colored beam was thrown towards Fay's face but before it could hit the small Riolu she raised two shining claws in front of herself, forming a glowing X.

The beam hit but the damage was absorbed by the claws and Fay was pushed back a little.

Fay dropped her defense and shot towards Luna with a quick silver burst.

Luna shot another Psybeam and once again Fay blocked it with Metal Claw.

Deciding that the boulder was no longer an advantageous position, Luna jumped up and retracted her fist.

Fay smiled and a weird energy field suddenly covered her body from head to toe.

Luna came down on Fay and her fist touched Fay's body, it didn’t work. Luna shimmers out of existence a second after being hit.

A soft tap on Fay's left shoulder followed.

Startled, Fay made a small jump and spun around and was met face to face with the real Luna who was grinning at her like a mad dog.

"Raaaaltss!" A scream blew Fay away and the soundwaves sent her across the field.

She landed on the ground and struggled back to her feet, sweat dripping from her head.

"That was way too hard," Fay spat.

"Ralts," Luna innocently offered.

"Very good." I clapped my hands together.

Both Pokémon snapped their heads towards me, clearly startled by the fact that I was no longer playing with the laptop.

I crossed the white boundary line of the field and approached my two Pokémon.

"Nice Counter bait," I complimented Fay, "It didn't work out but Luna's really tricky to pin down anyway."

Fay smiled smugly at Luna.

"And Luna, nice mixup of Meteor Smash and Teleport and Double team, very smart."

Luna stuck out her tongue.

I sat down between the two Pokémon and gestured to them to do the same.

"However there are some improvements that can be made," I turned to Luna.

"There's no need to aim at the face all the time, her feet were unprotected the whole time and striking there would have limited her movement a whole lot. Especially considering she relies on ground movement for most of her attacks."

I patted Luna on the head, "It's a good thing to aim for the head but also consider that everyone and their dogs will too, thus it becomes a bit predictable."

Luna nodded thoughtfully. {Noted, go for the knees too.}

"What could I have done better?" Fay quickly asked.

"Ummm," I put my hand on my chin, "You were blocking the Psybeam with your Metal Claw and that could've been done better."

"What?" Fay blinked surprised.

I drew a line in the sand with my finger and an arrow that pointed towards it.

"If you block a hit head on, all the force of the attack will be absorbed by your body."

Another arrow and line were drawn but this time the line was drawn diagonally, "If you deflect it at an angle the force won't be fully absorbed by you but instead deflected away."

"Wow," Fay muttered, 'That sounds so weird."

I scratched my head, "I am not really good at explaining stuff. I myself don't even understand all the details but-"

"No, I get it," Fay reassured me, "Blocking takes more energy."

I nodded, "Yeah, of course, dodging is also an option but you can't dodge forever."

Luna smiled brightly and hugged me from the side.

"So, how's the team attack coming along? Any progress with Zero Requiem?"

Fay scowled, "No, Luna keeps getting her timing wrong."

Luna narrowed her eyes in a glare. {You are too slow.}

"I am not!" Fay cried out undignified.

{Yes you are!}

"I am not!"

Feeling how I was getting into a fight that had the potential to become an infinite feedback loop I decided to cut it off with a quick distraction.

"Wait, is that Zapdos I see up there?" I looked up at the sun.

Both Pokémon stopped their fight and gazed up.

"Aaah, it's just the sun." I smiled, "Anyway, enough training for today don't you think."

"Actually I think I am getting very close to mastering Agility." Fay said, "I think I can keep going."

{Need to improve my aim, go for knees,} Luna insisted. {More practice.}

I raised an eyebrow. When did they get so competitive?

Time to play my ultimate ace up my sleeve.

"Welp, good luck girls, I am getting dinner." I put on the saddest expression. "Seems like I have to sit alone."

{Training can wait!} Luna leaped towards me and held me tight like she might die if she stopped.

Fay raised an eyebrow, "Seriously?"

I grinned, "Are you coming or not?"

She let out a pained sigh. "Fine, I guess I was getting hungry anyway."

The three of us went back inside the Pokémon Center.

As we walked through the white hallway a voice called out to me.

"Hey Dust!"

A black-haired boy with a Pikachu on his shoulder ran towards us.

"Sup?" I greeted him.

"Don't think I forgot," he grinned as his energetic eyes met mine, "You still owe me a battle."