ImMrRoboto
That's MISTER Roboto to you!
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Warning: Romance Ahead!
"Exeggutor Island, we're here!" The captain yelled.
Sol looked up from his Pokédex. He whistled and gestured to his backpack. The Rotom's eyes fluttered open and and flew into the front pocket. Sol got up and brushed himself off. He and Lillie had gotten a lucky break when they managed to convince the captain to give them a ride to Exeggutor Island to get the Sun Flute, so it wouldn't be a good idea to keep him waiting.
Opening the door to his room and stepping out into the hallway, he turned right and started walking toward Lillie's room. He wasn't sure she was so eager to go with him. He wasn't complaining, of course, he enjoyed her company. But for some reason, she wouldn't let him go without her.
Arriving at her door, he gently tapped on it. "Lillie, we're here." Hearing no response, he knocked again. And again. Still nothing. "Lillie?" He probed. Still hearing nothing, he began to slowly open the door.
"Please don't be changing, Please don't be changing, Please don't be changing." He whispered to himself as he opened the door. Once the door was open, he could see that the lights were off, and Lillie was in bed. Breathing a sigh of relief, he started walking over to the bed. As he passed the desk, he noticed a picture.
It was a picture of a man, a woman, and two children. All four had blond hair and pale skin. The man was wearing a lab coat, and the woman and children were wearing pristine white outfits. They all seemed extremely happy, like a family. Sol could see some kind of gold emblem behind them, but the people were obstructing it. The weirdest part of the picture were some odd wet spots on it as though it had been in some rain or someone had been...
crying?
"Sol?" He heard weakly behind him. In surprise, Sol dropped the photograph and whirled around to see Lillie sitting up and rubbing her eyes. Sol smiled and started walking over to her.
"Good Morning, Lillie, we're here." Sol started helping her up. "You must've fallen asleep right after we left."
"Really? It sorta just feels like a few minutes." Lillie said groggily. Sol smiled and got her on her feet.
Once she finally woke up, they went up onto the island. The sky was grey and overcast, and the wind was blowing briskly. The island itself was beautiful. All of the grass was nice and green, and the island was dotted with palm trees. A small hill rose over part of the island.
"Here we are, Exeggutor Island. Try to hurry, I'll have to go back to town soon." The captain shouted as they got off before going below deck.
"Let's go" Sol said as they started toward the hill. The island was mostly level, and the hill was the only place on the island that they could get a view of the island.
"This place is beautiful, look at all of the trees over there! I'll have to see about coming back here sometime. But right now it looks like it might rain." Lillie said, looking to the sky. "We'd better hurry up and get the flute. C'mo-" she cut off abruptly and started pointing at something behind him. "Did you see that?!"
"What?" Sol turned around and started looking around. There was nothing behind him but a palm tree. A rather tall Palm tree but... but...
But it was moving. Yes, it's leaves were swaying in the wind, but more than that. The trunk of the tree was constantly shifting and wobbling. It was alive. Sol looked back to Lille, motioning her to get behind him. She did so quickly. Sol slowly began to move toward the tree, reaching a hand back into his bag, rummaging around for the Pokéball containing his Decidueye.
Suddenly, the tree appeared to leap out of the ground, revealing a pair of legs and a tail. The three yellow orbs below it's leaves that Sol had thought were fruits revealed eyes and a mouth. The tree opened it's mouths and uttered a loud cry. Surprised, Sol backed into Lillie and they both fell over onto each other.
"Guuuuutor!" The tree looked at them oddly for a moment before turning and walking over to another spot and burrowing itself back into the ground.
"Phew, it's alright Lillie, it must have just been one of the Exeggutors. I swear I'm always forgetting about these Alolan variants." Sol breathes a sigh of relief before turning back toward Lillie, and realizing that he had fallen on top of her. "Oh I'm so sorry!" Sol quickly scrambled up and offered a hand to help Lillie.
"Don't worry, I'm alright, it didn't hurt at all. I was just surprised, you know, about the Pokémon and... and..." She continued to stammer on like this for a while. As she talked, he noticed how she was constantly shifting her weight, and if Sol didn't know any better, he could've sworn she was blushing.
"Oh, good." Sol replied once she gave up on trying to form a sentence. Then they both turned and started walking toward a hill in the distance. They were halfway there when:
drip
"Gah!"
Sol whirled around and saw Lillie rubbing her nose. "What happened?" He asked, concerned
"Something just fell on my nose. I think it was water."
drip
drip
drip
It started to gently rain. Then it started getting harder, and harder. Both Sol and Lillie put their hands over their heads and ran toward the hill. Spotting a nearby cave, they both quickly ran inside.
"Phew" Lillie sighed once they were safely inside. "Luckily, it looks like I only got a few drops on my skirt."
"Great" Sol was still panting after running that hard. He sat himself down and took off is backpack. "You okay, Rotom?" A small buzz from his bag gave him his answer. "Awesome, buddy." Sol turned to Lillie "How are you holding up?"
"Great, for... for the most part" She was panting from the run too. "Just... Just a little tired." She sat down next to him and took off her pink bag as well.
Outside, the rain was only getting harder and harder. Sol and Lillie just sat in silence, watching the rain falling. It was surprisingly hypnotic, watching the rain. It seemed like ages before one of them spoke.
"Hey Lillie." Sol broke the silence "Can I ask you something?"
Lillie looked up at him "Sure, what is it?"
"I just wanted to know, why are you doing this?"
Lillie tilted her head at him "What do you mean, doing what?"
"All of this. Saving Lusamine, the woman who completely ruined your life! The woman that nearly destroyed the Alola Region! Why are you going through all of this to rescue her?"
Lillie looked back out to the rain. She didn't answer for a long time. Sol looked down, afraid he'd upset her by bringing it up.
"Because she's my mother." Sol looked back up to see her still looking out to the rain. "At least she used to be. Before Nebby, before Null, before the Ultra Beasts. Before any of this. She was my mom. A woman that I could go to for help and guidance."
More silence. After a long time, she turned to face Sol. He could see tears welling up in her eyes.
"Back when I had a family. When I was young, she was a wonderful woman, and my father... my father was a scientist in the Aether Foundation. He was nicest man on the planet, he was always there when I needed him. But then..." She looked down and a tear dropped from her eye. "He... He passed." Tears started coming out of her eyes. "He passed and left me with my mother. She was... Never the same after that. She was... different. She never seemed to have time for me or Gladion anymore. She was always working on my father's research on the Ultra Beasts. But as time went on, she became more and more obsessed with the Beasts and not on my father!" She was slowly raising her voice until she was practically shouting at Sol. "I tried to stay happy, but Gladion... He was always so angry at everyone. When he was a teenager, my caretaker Wicke came into my room and asked me if I knew where he was. I... I didn't know at the time. I didn't know until later, when Wicke told me. Ever since then, Mother... she... she didn't..." Lillie completely broke down into tears.
Sol quickly hugged her. She placed her head on him and cried into his shoulder. "Shhh, it's okay. I'm sorry, I didn't... You don't have to go on."
The rain continued to fall outside the cave. Sol was rather taken aback by her outburst. Normally, she was relatively shy and quiet, so hearing her explode like this was unsettling, to say the least.
"No, I want to keep going. I want to face it." She said, wiping her tears away.
"Are you sure? I'm not going to make you." Lillie nodded
Sol gently grabbed her shoulders and set her in front of him.
"Okay. I'm here, if you're sure, I'll listen."
"Thank you, Sol." She took a deep breath and looked at Sol and began to began gently. "After... After Gladion left with Null, my mother... I meant nothing to her anymore. I was just another employee, another asset. It was like she was just waiting for me to betray her too. But I tried to help her out, tried to be useful and silent." She sniveled "But then I saw Nebby." She looked down at her bag. "They were doing something to him, some kind of experiment. I just couldn't watch. I wanted to leave, but I couldn't. I couldn't abandon him. I couldn't just leave him to this." She turned back to Sol. "I didn't realize what I'd done until it was too late. One second, I'm watching Nebby get experimented on, and the next, he's in my bag, and I'm running. I didn't even know where was running to, The Aether Paradise was an island, I had nowhere to hide. I made it up to the Conservation floor before I was cornered, and then Nebby here saved me. After that, after that, you know the rest." She wiped her face and tried to smile up at Sol. "So I guess that's why I'm saving her, because maybe, just maybe, I can save her, make her right again. I'm saving her so that I can have a family again."
Sol reached out and hugged her again, allowing her to spill a few tears into his shoulder.
"T-thank you, Sol. After all that's happened, after going back to the Aether Paradise, and seeing what she's done. She's worse than ever. Without you, I don't know what I'd ..." Her voice trailed off as she let go of Sol and sat back down. For while, they simply watched the rain fall.
"Sol, you didn't have to help me with this, and I'm grateful for that, but I want to know. Why are you doing this? If it wasn't for Mother, and I don't suppose it was for kicks, why are doing this?" Sol thought about this for a while, and then turned to Lillie and answered.
"Because I trust you. Because you said we needed to, and I trust you. You're my friend, Lillie, and to be honest, I doubt I'd even be here right now if it weren't for you. " He pointed out the cave, to the coast of the island. "At this point, if you told me run out and dive into the ocean, I'd probably do it twice." Lillie giggled a little bit, but not much. The joy quickly disappeared from her face and she looked down somberly. "Please Lillie, I want to help, please just tell me what's wrong. Was it something I said?"
"No, it was just the pity. I'm... both used to it." Sol looked at her, confused. Pity? He had meant everything he said. As Lillie began to talk, she also began to gently weep. "I'm not used to someone pitying someone who... someone like me. As I grew up, Mother always told me exactly what I was. Every time I made a mistake, she would scold me. She would tell me that I'm ugly and useless. That I'd never amount to anything." She sobbed and covered her face with her hands before continuing. "That no matter how hard I tried, I would never be able to- "
"Stop it!" Sol had had enough. Lillie looked up at him, shocked. Sol gently grabbed her hands and looked into her eyes. "None of that is true! I can't believe anyone could say that about you! You're amazing, no matter what Lusamine said! You're smart, kind, funny, caring, pretty!" At this, Lillie's eyes widened and she began to blush. "You're an amazing person, and whatever she says, you're my friend and you're -"
Lillie didn't mean to do it. She just got caught up in the moment. She didn't really even know what was happening until it was too late.
She leaned forward and kissed him. Not for long, once she realized what was happening, she immediately pulled back, just as surprised as Sol was.
"I'm so sorry! I think I must have slipped or... or... I guess... it... I..." Lillie's face was turning redder with every failed attempt at a sentence. Eventually, she gave up and covered her face with her hands once again.
"Hey, it's okay. I understand." Sol attempted to reassure her.
Lillie took her hands off of her face. She was still blushing. "Oh, okay, good." She stuttered and faced back outside of the cave. It looked like the rain was beginning to let up. "Looks like the storm's almost over" she unconvincingly giggled, trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, good. We can keep looking for the flute." After that, they sat in silence, more awkward than tense like before. Eventually, Lillie spoke up.
"Hey Sol?" He looked up and at her. "Did you... I mean... Well, those things you said about me. Are they true? Do really think I'm... Well..."
Sol smiled. "Yes, I meant every word, Lillie. All of that and more." Lillie looked at him and smiled too.
"I'm very grateful. Other than Professor Kukui and Mo- Professor Burnet, you're the only one who's said anything nice about me."
"Anytime, Lillie, anytime." They both beamed as they looked at each other. Outside, the clouds had dispersed revealing the Sun. They both watched and laughed together as they an Exeggutor started shaking itself violently, trying to get all of the water off of it. Afterward, Sol got up and put on his backpack. As Lillie finished putting on hers, Sol offered his hand to help her up. Smiling, she took it.
Together, they started walking up the hill.
"Exeggutor Island, we're here!" The captain yelled.
Sol looked up from his Pokédex. He whistled and gestured to his backpack. The Rotom's eyes fluttered open and and flew into the front pocket. Sol got up and brushed himself off. He and Lillie had gotten a lucky break when they managed to convince the captain to give them a ride to Exeggutor Island to get the Sun Flute, so it wouldn't be a good idea to keep him waiting.
Opening the door to his room and stepping out into the hallway, he turned right and started walking toward Lillie's room. He wasn't sure she was so eager to go with him. He wasn't complaining, of course, he enjoyed her company. But for some reason, she wouldn't let him go without her.
Arriving at her door, he gently tapped on it. "Lillie, we're here." Hearing no response, he knocked again. And again. Still nothing. "Lillie?" He probed. Still hearing nothing, he began to slowly open the door.
"Please don't be changing, Please don't be changing, Please don't be changing." He whispered to himself as he opened the door. Once the door was open, he could see that the lights were off, and Lillie was in bed. Breathing a sigh of relief, he started walking over to the bed. As he passed the desk, he noticed a picture.
It was a picture of a man, a woman, and two children. All four had blond hair and pale skin. The man was wearing a lab coat, and the woman and children were wearing pristine white outfits. They all seemed extremely happy, like a family. Sol could see some kind of gold emblem behind them, but the people were obstructing it. The weirdest part of the picture were some odd wet spots on it as though it had been in some rain or someone had been...
crying?
"Sol?" He heard weakly behind him. In surprise, Sol dropped the photograph and whirled around to see Lillie sitting up and rubbing her eyes. Sol smiled and started walking over to her.
"Good Morning, Lillie, we're here." Sol started helping her up. "You must've fallen asleep right after we left."
"Really? It sorta just feels like a few minutes." Lillie said groggily. Sol smiled and got her on her feet.
Once she finally woke up, they went up onto the island. The sky was grey and overcast, and the wind was blowing briskly. The island itself was beautiful. All of the grass was nice and green, and the island was dotted with palm trees. A small hill rose over part of the island.
"Here we are, Exeggutor Island. Try to hurry, I'll have to go back to town soon." The captain shouted as they got off before going below deck.
"Let's go" Sol said as they started toward the hill. The island was mostly level, and the hill was the only place on the island that they could get a view of the island.
"This place is beautiful, look at all of the trees over there! I'll have to see about coming back here sometime. But right now it looks like it might rain." Lillie said, looking to the sky. "We'd better hurry up and get the flute. C'mo-" she cut off abruptly and started pointing at something behind him. "Did you see that?!"
"What?" Sol turned around and started looking around. There was nothing behind him but a palm tree. A rather tall Palm tree but... but...
But it was moving. Yes, it's leaves were swaying in the wind, but more than that. The trunk of the tree was constantly shifting and wobbling. It was alive. Sol looked back to Lille, motioning her to get behind him. She did so quickly. Sol slowly began to move toward the tree, reaching a hand back into his bag, rummaging around for the Pokéball containing his Decidueye.
Suddenly, the tree appeared to leap out of the ground, revealing a pair of legs and a tail. The three yellow orbs below it's leaves that Sol had thought were fruits revealed eyes and a mouth. The tree opened it's mouths and uttered a loud cry. Surprised, Sol backed into Lillie and they both fell over onto each other.
"Guuuuutor!" The tree looked at them oddly for a moment before turning and walking over to another spot and burrowing itself back into the ground.
"Phew, it's alright Lillie, it must have just been one of the Exeggutors. I swear I'm always forgetting about these Alolan variants." Sol breathes a sigh of relief before turning back toward Lillie, and realizing that he had fallen on top of her. "Oh I'm so sorry!" Sol quickly scrambled up and offered a hand to help Lillie.
"Don't worry, I'm alright, it didn't hurt at all. I was just surprised, you know, about the Pokémon and... and..." She continued to stammer on like this for a while. As she talked, he noticed how she was constantly shifting her weight, and if Sol didn't know any better, he could've sworn she was blushing.
"Oh, good." Sol replied once she gave up on trying to form a sentence. Then they both turned and started walking toward a hill in the distance. They were halfway there when:
drip
"Gah!"
Sol whirled around and saw Lillie rubbing her nose. "What happened?" He asked, concerned
"Something just fell on my nose. I think it was water."
drip
drip
drip
It started to gently rain. Then it started getting harder, and harder. Both Sol and Lillie put their hands over their heads and ran toward the hill. Spotting a nearby cave, they both quickly ran inside.
"Phew" Lillie sighed once they were safely inside. "Luckily, it looks like I only got a few drops on my skirt."
"Great" Sol was still panting after running that hard. He sat himself down and took off is backpack. "You okay, Rotom?" A small buzz from his bag gave him his answer. "Awesome, buddy." Sol turned to Lillie "How are you holding up?"
"Great, for... for the most part" She was panting from the run too. "Just... Just a little tired." She sat down next to him and took off her pink bag as well.
Outside, the rain was only getting harder and harder. Sol and Lillie just sat in silence, watching the rain falling. It was surprisingly hypnotic, watching the rain. It seemed like ages before one of them spoke.
"Hey Lillie." Sol broke the silence "Can I ask you something?"
Lillie looked up at him "Sure, what is it?"
"I just wanted to know, why are you doing this?"
Lillie tilted her head at him "What do you mean, doing what?"
"All of this. Saving Lusamine, the woman who completely ruined your life! The woman that nearly destroyed the Alola Region! Why are you going through all of this to rescue her?"
Lillie looked back out to the rain. She didn't answer for a long time. Sol looked down, afraid he'd upset her by bringing it up.
"Because she's my mother." Sol looked back up to see her still looking out to the rain. "At least she used to be. Before Nebby, before Null, before the Ultra Beasts. Before any of this. She was my mom. A woman that I could go to for help and guidance."
More silence. After a long time, she turned to face Sol. He could see tears welling up in her eyes.
"Back when I had a family. When I was young, she was a wonderful woman, and my father... my father was a scientist in the Aether Foundation. He was nicest man on the planet, he was always there when I needed him. But then..." She looked down and a tear dropped from her eye. "He... He passed." Tears started coming out of her eyes. "He passed and left me with my mother. She was... Never the same after that. She was... different. She never seemed to have time for me or Gladion anymore. She was always working on my father's research on the Ultra Beasts. But as time went on, she became more and more obsessed with the Beasts and not on my father!" She was slowly raising her voice until she was practically shouting at Sol. "I tried to stay happy, but Gladion... He was always so angry at everyone. When he was a teenager, my caretaker Wicke came into my room and asked me if I knew where he was. I... I didn't know at the time. I didn't know until later, when Wicke told me. Ever since then, Mother... she... she didn't..." Lillie completely broke down into tears.
Sol quickly hugged her. She placed her head on him and cried into his shoulder. "Shhh, it's okay. I'm sorry, I didn't... You don't have to go on."
The rain continued to fall outside the cave. Sol was rather taken aback by her outburst. Normally, she was relatively shy and quiet, so hearing her explode like this was unsettling, to say the least.
"No, I want to keep going. I want to face it." She said, wiping her tears away.
"Are you sure? I'm not going to make you." Lillie nodded
Sol gently grabbed her shoulders and set her in front of him.
"Okay. I'm here, if you're sure, I'll listen."
"Thank you, Sol." She took a deep breath and looked at Sol and began to began gently. "After... After Gladion left with Null, my mother... I meant nothing to her anymore. I was just another employee, another asset. It was like she was just waiting for me to betray her too. But I tried to help her out, tried to be useful and silent." She sniveled "But then I saw Nebby." She looked down at her bag. "They were doing something to him, some kind of experiment. I just couldn't watch. I wanted to leave, but I couldn't. I couldn't abandon him. I couldn't just leave him to this." She turned back to Sol. "I didn't realize what I'd done until it was too late. One second, I'm watching Nebby get experimented on, and the next, he's in my bag, and I'm running. I didn't even know where was running to, The Aether Paradise was an island, I had nowhere to hide. I made it up to the Conservation floor before I was cornered, and then Nebby here saved me. After that, after that, you know the rest." She wiped her face and tried to smile up at Sol. "So I guess that's why I'm saving her, because maybe, just maybe, I can save her, make her right again. I'm saving her so that I can have a family again."
Sol reached out and hugged her again, allowing her to spill a few tears into his shoulder.
"T-thank you, Sol. After all that's happened, after going back to the Aether Paradise, and seeing what she's done. She's worse than ever. Without you, I don't know what I'd ..." Her voice trailed off as she let go of Sol and sat back down. For while, they simply watched the rain fall.
"Sol, you didn't have to help me with this, and I'm grateful for that, but I want to know. Why are you doing this? If it wasn't for Mother, and I don't suppose it was for kicks, why are doing this?" Sol thought about this for a while, and then turned to Lillie and answered.
"Because I trust you. Because you said we needed to, and I trust you. You're my friend, Lillie, and to be honest, I doubt I'd even be here right now if it weren't for you. " He pointed out the cave, to the coast of the island. "At this point, if you told me run out and dive into the ocean, I'd probably do it twice." Lillie giggled a little bit, but not much. The joy quickly disappeared from her face and she looked down somberly. "Please Lillie, I want to help, please just tell me what's wrong. Was it something I said?"
"No, it was just the pity. I'm... both used to it." Sol looked at her, confused. Pity? He had meant everything he said. As Lillie began to talk, she also began to gently weep. "I'm not used to someone pitying someone who... someone like me. As I grew up, Mother always told me exactly what I was. Every time I made a mistake, she would scold me. She would tell me that I'm ugly and useless. That I'd never amount to anything." She sobbed and covered her face with her hands before continuing. "That no matter how hard I tried, I would never be able to- "
"Stop it!" Sol had had enough. Lillie looked up at him, shocked. Sol gently grabbed her hands and looked into her eyes. "None of that is true! I can't believe anyone could say that about you! You're amazing, no matter what Lusamine said! You're smart, kind, funny, caring, pretty!" At this, Lillie's eyes widened and she began to blush. "You're an amazing person, and whatever she says, you're my friend and you're -"
Lillie didn't mean to do it. She just got caught up in the moment. She didn't really even know what was happening until it was too late.
She leaned forward and kissed him. Not for long, once she realized what was happening, she immediately pulled back, just as surprised as Sol was.
"I'm so sorry! I think I must have slipped or... or... I guess... it... I..." Lillie's face was turning redder with every failed attempt at a sentence. Eventually, she gave up and covered her face with her hands once again.
"Hey, it's okay. I understand." Sol attempted to reassure her.
Lillie took her hands off of her face. She was still blushing. "Oh, okay, good." She stuttered and faced back outside of the cave. It looked like the rain was beginning to let up. "Looks like the storm's almost over" she unconvincingly giggled, trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, good. We can keep looking for the flute." After that, they sat in silence, more awkward than tense like before. Eventually, Lillie spoke up.
"Hey Sol?" He looked up and at her. "Did you... I mean... Well, those things you said about me. Are they true? Do really think I'm... Well..."
Sol smiled. "Yes, I meant every word, Lillie. All of that and more." Lillie looked at him and smiled too.
"I'm very grateful. Other than Professor Kukui and Mo- Professor Burnet, you're the only one who's said anything nice about me."
"Anytime, Lillie, anytime." They both beamed as they looked at each other. Outside, the clouds had dispersed revealing the Sun. They both watched and laughed together as they an Exeggutor started shaking itself violently, trying to get all of the water off of it. Afterward, Sol got up and put on his backpack. As Lillie finished putting on hers, Sol offered his hand to help her up. Smiling, she took it.
Together, they started walking up the hill.
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