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It was approximately three hours later when Kyn and Tensa next emerged. Not much was difference, except for that fact that the evidence that Kyn had been crying was still there, and a new change, one of the collars was around his neck.

Serena had taken the time to rummage through the rental stand, spoken to Vendetta who was a little annoyed, but not much at the fact that Kyn needed some personal time, and taken a nap. Not in that order, in fact, she placed a clawed limb over Vendetta's screen and scanner eye both when the two of them showed themselves to her again. "Better?" She rumbled, not daring as of yet to reopen the link between herself and Kyn.

"Yes... everything has been resolved completely." Kyn said, in his regular voice. "Is Vendetta completely settled in by now...?"

"Good...and yes, she is. Your belt is still in the same place that it was when you set it down...and she has taken it upon herself to notify me exactly every half hour that you still weren't back." She grumbled, then flicked her tongue out. "You still look good in a collar." The last bit was offhanded, and didn't fit with anything else, as if she was reminding him that he was still wearing it. Only after she made mention of it did she remove the claws from the screen to lay her claws back over the box.

"What was I supposed to do? Magically tell her that I was busy? She wasn't exactly at the top of the screen or anything." Kyn said, ignoring Serena's comment about looking good in a collar.

Vendetta might have started to say something, it was hard to tell with Serena putting her claw over the speaker. "She wouldn't have understood it anyway, Porygon have no gender, she's just a she because she LIKES to be known as a she rather than an it. This means that it's not possible for her to...understand such relationships. It just was never in her programming. So boys, want to see what's in the box, or do you just want to torch the place down?"

"I already have a good idea of what's in the box, and I hope you don't literally mean torch the place down. I told you I have a show to give you." Kyn said.

"Figurative, I assure you." She wrapped the box closed with rope, and pulled it over her shoulder and wing. "So then." She actually did brush against his mind with a question, clear that she was asking if it was OK for her to reestablish the link since she had given them their privacy.

"Serena, what else is left to do, before the final phase of this Casino's permanent shut down...?" Kyn said, thinking about the dusk stones and the specific setup of what he planned for the show.

"You don't want me to answer that the way you phrased it." She pushed Vendetta's vessel back against his chest, rather forcing him to take it. "She's overwritten the original UI and everything, kept the catalogue, filled it and essentially made it so that a bit of herself would never leave it. I suppose you could say that she reproduced in there? I don't really want to think about it." She crawled back out of the booth, gave Tensa what would probably be an unexpected lick from the jaw to the cheek, and waited for Kyn to try the phrasing again.

"Alright. I'll take out a few words. What's left before the final phase of this Casino's permanent shut down?" He didn't really think too much on what Vendetta had done to that particular Pokédex since it WAS old and outdated, though he was curious as to what it would look like now.

"Nothing, which is why I'm waiting on you." She answered, her green eye shifting to him again. "Consider it a position switch, follow the leader, as much as you probably enjoyed looking at my tail, it's time for me to follow you again."

"Then it's back to my world to visit Hearthome City, and then to gather supplies. Let me just... hand you a picture of it. I'll need about four days of preparation in this place. Actually, would you mind letting Royce out to watch the contest? I'm also rather certain that he won't have his Regenerator ability in my world either. Perhaps... you should collar Royce though. Maybe even put him on a leash." Kyn said, focusing on the other aspect of going back to his world.

"...You do remember that I told you not to give me ideas? We need to add 'especially when you're in a collar' to that statement." She forced herself to look away from him. "I get the point...but I likely wont need a collar and a leash...just the move Imprison...also I don't know, I have Moxie in your world, and both of them here...I would say that while unlikely, it MIGHT be possible for such a thing to happen, but if not, then he wouldn't be able to recover from the breaking process."

"Seriously. Those ideas better STAY ideas." Kyn said, changing his tone. "Now then... would you do me the honor of opening a door to the outskirts of Hearthome?" Kyn said, back in his regular tone.

She barely flicked an ear at the change in tone, back and forth, demanding and respectful. A sigh. "Do remember that it's not guaranteed to be right, considering you're working me on both dimension and space in the same day as my first try..." She DID create a bond between two worlds, however...it wasn't the proper world. She shook her head, and closed the portal. "Yeah, see? I'm no Palkia."

"Alright. Then I'll 'bother' Miru for it... as well as let Miru know what we? plan on doing." Kyn said, picking up the Ball.

"Better now than later on and springing something upon someone last minute." she sighed, not meeting his eyes--after saying that she picked things up quickly...well, it was a bit embarrassing, but she had warned him that she might not be able to do it...and she certainly wouldn't be able to do what he expected to do with the casino.

He let Miru out and then gave him the condensed version. "Basically... I believe this might be the most I've ever ask of you..." although he wasn't sure if this would be a case of 'TWHCDIR'.

After nodding its understanding Miru rips open a hole to the outskirts, which if Serena had been paying even closer attention had his tales that she would have recognized it as the place HE as a Trainer first encountered his future Absol, Nero.

Serena gave the respect deserved to Miru, as he had just done something that she was unable to do, and made it look easy in the process. She paid attention well enough to recognize the placing, but didn't make comment on it. Instead she just walked through the portal and waited for the others, her tail flicking back and forth a little as she tried to rearrange the things that would be done, since they weren't done with their objectives with her world, there was no reason to contact N after all.

"Serena... I really have lost track of time again. How long have I been in your world after we met Anana...?" With everything that was going on, the thing with Royce, as well as the more recent incident, he figured that someone who was on a more linear track would be able to better keep track of that, which is ironic considering his enthusiasm for all things related to time.

"You checked in with N after the Anana meeting...the first day was spent between the Kec brothers and Royce, I spent the next combination fixing your mind and sleeping, and we arrived in Gambitville the start of the third day, Tomorrow will be the fourth, and from the evening setting here I'd say that that's not too far away. Now shush and let me adjust the to do list, or I'm going to start forgetting things."

"Alright. Thank you Serena." He then adjusted his watch accordingly like he normally did, after checking things on the Xtransciever, which automatically resynchronizes the time after it comes in contact with the satellite and towers again. Because the worlds were temporarily synced, he'd have less difficulty adjusting from this current point until it was reset or changed again. "So then... do you still want to watch one of these Contests... or am I going to have to wait some more?"

She gave Kyn a slightly annoyed look, hadn't she JUST asked for a touch of silence? Not exactly the easiest to do in a city, but she made do. When she did speak, it was to Tensa first. "Which side do you prefer to walk on, Tensa? I'll take the opposite side." She paused, and then looked at Kyn. "Or have we not covered that rather..." She looked for a word, interesting? Complex? Complicated? None of them fit properly to her mind, and so she wouldn't use them.

"I am... usually on the right side, and when Heji is one of those chosen in the roulette, he walks behind me. But that last bit's just trivia at this point." Tensa said, taking his 'place' beside Kyn. Most people though noted the difference between a Pokémon walking behind their Trainer, and them walking beside their Trainer, despite how most of them would not normally pay attention to such things.

"Then as I said, I'll take the left." If Kyn hadn't breached the subject with Tensa, well....that was definitely one way to go about it. It took her a minute to loop around, and yes, she was perhaps one step back from literally being at Kyn's opposing side. "To answer you Kyn, No, I will not keep you waiting."

"Next question. Do you want to be high up, or close to the action?" Kyn asked, going over the various viewing angles in his head. He'd be more than likely be able to get a variety of them.

Serena did look at the different angles. "You're speaking to a resident Shadow dragon that can get more variety than what you'd think, and has the eyes of a sniper, without needing to use a scope. Your pick." There was trust clearly expressed in the words; with her people issues, the back probably would have been better for her, but if he preferred a better seat for himself, she would trust that he would keep her safe, just as in her world, he trusted her to do the same.

"Hm, very well then... we'll be going onto a rather private box... Serena... It's going to take a while to get used to you using so many terms that come from my world." He sighed, but not in exasperation.

She rumbled with a chuckle. "With me in your head, I have access to your vocabulary...however if you wish for me to stop I could confuse you with terms from my world." she answered.

"You should use both. After all, I'm going to be living in yours. In essence I'll be switching worlds for a bit during certain periods." Kyn said, scratching his head. "Lucky this place is so busy, that way even if we were talking in public... people wouldn't pay it as much mind. So anyway... you're in Heji's home city. Well, almost."

"Yes, this has been pointed out a few times, first by Tensa, and now by you, you don't need to keep reminding me...I'll do some exploring later, one curiosity before we think about another, if you don't mind, and this curiosity has been burning since I was a Bagon, the other was just brought up a little while ago...and if people ask, you can just be claiming to be on the phone, right?"

"Not without an earpiece in my ear. Ha! Some people probably use that when they talk to voices so that people actually think they're not talking to themselves if they're talking to the voices. So then, you see that biiiig huge building that looks like an egg? Well and with your vision you could probably see the people gathering inside. Well, that's one of the more popular areas for the Grand Festival and other events in general since a whole variety of effects can be done. I believe that if you could replicate that building in your world... Dee and Hugh would have an excellent place to perform." Kyn said, thinking back to the other objective, only for a little. "But that's not the main point. If I could show you a GRAND FESTIVAL type Contest... oh boy, that'd really be something for you."

"It's doable." She flicked out her tongue. "The former about the building, I mean...the plot of land would certainly be big enough to do so...Might take an armful of my hoard, but it would be doable." She muttered to herself. She ticked her head to the left at the latter prospect. "I'm sure it would."

"I'll find out how close we are in the cycle... so you can be informed. Perhaps you might be able to take Nero's place as a semi-wandering Pokémon. You might even be known as the Salamence of Hearthome City if you're not careful." He said with a chuckle. Nero was sort of well known, for obvious reasons.

Serena snorted. "I may now be a Salamence, but I am still a rogue Kyn, I am still able to be more covert than you might think. In other words, I AM careful, even if my decisions may be a bit rash." She nudged him. "So then...what do you need the four days for?"

"Because C4 is very complex and industrial. One cannot simply buy C4 anywhere without connections like I have. Plus there's also the wiring process as well." Kyn said, but left out further details because it would be getting down to the nitty gritty. That is, unless she WANTED the details. He doubted she'd even need it to demolish the buildings here, as she once mentioned.

"Mmm..." She flicked her tail behind her as she walked, and idly wondered how long it would really take him, since he had the habit of overestimating things. "Probably mentioning such things in public then, is not a very good idea." Of course her eyes were wandering, memorizing the area in case she ever needed to get back here quickly...No, she wasn't like Miru, she wasn't able to connect places based off of someone else's memory...but she was vaguely sure that she could NOW that she had been here. "You and Vendetta are a bit alike." The topic change was out of the blue.

"How are we alike then...?" He didn't think that there would be anything negative so he didn't take any offence or jump to conclusions about it, and just let the conversation run it's course in that regard. "Yeah but the fact that you're making sounds wouldn't exactly help the concealment..." he said, finishing the earlier thought.

"I'm not attempting to conceal myself right now, I'm walking with my trainer--quite proudly I might add, and I'm behaving so any attention that we get would be a reflection on YOUR skills, dragon tamer." She paused. " You're alike because although you can carry more threads of things at once, you still have a one track mind."

"Damn. I'm a fucking computer program. Anyway... I don't really think skill has anything to do with it. All I do is judge a situation, and make a suggestion..." Kyn said, breaking down some of the tactics of the way he battled.

"We've covered that, and the fact that you're humble, you can't both have humility and Moxie at the same time, moxie requires you to take pride in your work." she nudged him a little. "Which you're currently letting N do all of, I might add."

"Well then, perhaps it's time to knock some ME in to N, and have of your moxie transfer to me! Hold on... N taking pride in my work instead of me? Does not compute. I suppose... after such humility... I can get away with a few years of not being so humble. Hell, not once did I even mention to ANYBODY that I was Champion of THREE separate Pokémon Leagues, THREE different times. Soon to be four, if I decide to actually accept the position in Kanto." Kyn said, deciding to actually look back and really assess his Pokémon and their achievements.

"Yes, but did you do that because of humility, or because of common sense, did you want to make friends, or did you want to have admirers? These are the questions that one should ask themselves before bragging about achievements, I'm not talking what you HAVE done, but what you are working on doing, to look back in the past would be to rest on old laurels." She paused letting what she had said sink in. "I would hate for you to become that way."

"...It was bad enough having Cheren and Bianca try to imitate me when they were younger... I don't know if I could handle a whole nation worth of people. Speaking of WHICH! Didn't you have a sort of want to battle Iris' Dragons? I'd be thinking that could come after we take care of things at the Casino. As for making friends... well, I suppose that's one of the other negative effects. I'm less socially awkward than N was, but still finding it harder and harder to interact with humans." Kyn said, and then he went through the events in order. "So the order is... get the stuff here, and watch the contest, back to the Casino to take it to the other half of this world, destroy it, then to go and inform Mago of what we've done... followed by cutting all ties with her personally and only staying business... then... something else...?"

"Then going back to contact N, see what he's accomplished, ensure that the ice is completely gone, see if this friend of yours has caught the other sages...and at some point stop in at my nest so that I'm not carrying a double-ended dildo on my back the whole time. That would be a good idea...at least in my books."

From any normal human, such a phrase would more than likely have rubbed them the wrong way, however Kyn merely teasingly said, "Hold on a minute. It's double ended!?" and then finished with a chuckle.

"...You did pass up your allowance of time to be surprised when you didn't want to see it. Yes, it's double ended, much to the dismay of many would be Doms at the club." She answered, flicking out her tongue.

"What exactly defines a would be dom, Serena? Secondly... when IS Royce going to be let out?" He tried to convey to Serena that he wasn't completely surprised, just that he wasn't expecting it as much.

"This was the club we're talking about...I've already said this once, but since it seems as though you've forgotten...Anyone who wanted to be registered as a Dom had to signify as much after their first night, and spend 24 hours with a Dom having things done to them, as you might recall me saying... these...candidates, as we'll call them, were known as would-be Doms. If they left the room they were considered to have failed that room, yes, even for bodily functions." She watched some people from the corner of her eye. "In the private area I will release Royce to watch, and have him both unable to use his moves, and being unable TO move."

"...Is it bad that in this particular case I'd WANT to hear his complaints about being in the room?" He said with an eyebrow raised.

"If you want to see something of his complaining then I should release him sooner and let him find out that he's in your world." She rumbled a little, then immediately regretted it as a child nearby took it as a bad noise. "Ah...maybe I should just stay quiet after all..."

"Hm, don't worry about it this time. Besides, we can always carry on this conversation on the local wavelength. I believe... yeah... since Royce said he'd never want to know ANYTHING about THIS monster's world... the fact that he's actually in it... well, I think he'd just about shit his pants if he wore them." Kyn said with a chuckle, but suppressed a mental image of that.

She exhaled in a sigh, but she didn't respond to him other than with body language, making one thing clear--she didn't like scaring children. Her scales paled a little, even her inner warmth didn't seem quite as fiery, she would be glad when they arrived at their destination, that was for sure.