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Hau'oli City, Poni Island, Alola
_August 14, 2020_
Today was supposed to going fine for her.
She did her morning chores, shoed away the Murkrow on the porch, made absolutely sure that Hoopa was with her before she left the house, and flew to school on Mele Mele Island.
So what had gone wrong? The fact than an Ultra Wormhole the size of half a Wailord opened in the middle of the sky, right in the direction she was headed.
It wasn't her fault, or her partner Pokemon, Jaeger's fault either. They were flying pretty fast. But nothing immediately jumped out of the wormholes when it opened. Instead, it sucked them in.
It was too strong for Jaeger to fly out, so now they were stuck in some place far from Mele Mele. Not even Tofi, the young girl who got sucked into the wormholes, knew where they were.
The only one who knew are us, but we're not there, we're here.
Detroit, Michigan, USA
August 14, 2040
Today was the day.
The day that the first call was made about strange and-every-other-synonym-you-could-think-of-monsters.
The caller was at a park, when they reported a Sarcophagus with 4 arms "drifting" around, and noted that it was following a young girl. The caller believed that it was someone dressed up as a strange thing from some television show, and thought it was trying to kidnap the girl.
The second and third call were from androids, and they both reported the same thing as before, but there was variation.
The monster was different (_A dark purple monster with scarlet eyes and an eerie smile, and a floating thing colored like a trench coat, with orbs on the ends of it's hands_), and they both noted that these too, were somewhat floating off the ground. Two things remained the same, though:
That 1.) There was a young looking girl near the monster
And 2.) That the "monsters" were following her
And after a week, there was suddenly a over 400 reports of "small grey aliens with glowing green eyes" and "Purple gremlins with gemstone eyes and sharp razor teeth".
Connor couldn't count on both hands and feet how many times people reported the Sarcophagus monster, no matter how many times people have called about the "trench-coat alien" and the "Ten-foot ghost robot".
And every single time, in every report, they all following a young girl.
The most they have on her is that she seems to be of polynesian decent, as some androids have noted by the most they could get of her facial features, and that she wore Capris, sandals, a shirt with some sort of ball on it, and a back pack with her.
As Lieutenant Andersen and Officer Chen were going over the list they made of the reports, there was a call about a pillar in the middle of Hart Plaza. Connor, along with Officers Miller and Chen, were sent off to see it.
On the way, the two officers were talking about all the reports, and which one they thought were the weirdest.
Once they arived, Connor scanned, as usual.
But something was wrong.
There were obviously people at Hart Plaza, but as he was scanning for life forms, the results said that the grey brick pillar was alive.
He tried getting close to it, and immediately, the pillar unfolded itself to reveal that it *was* alive, and it didn't want anyone near it right now.
The bricks it was made of were red, obviously indicating that it was angry
It was making noises that didn't sound like anything, natural or not.
It wasn't even carbon-based.
A Silicon based lifeform, alive and well, in the middle of Detroit, about ready to smash anything the got too close for it's comfort.
Strange, Connor thought. It was acting like a animal in the wild. Defending it's territory, or what it thinks is it's territory.
The only thing they could do was evacuate the Plaza, and try to talk to the monster. When Chen suggested they talk to it, the only thing the two men at her side could do was stare at her with great confusion.
"How would it be able to understand us", they said. "It'll crush you in seconds if you get too close", they said. "Fuck it", she said. Her head was in the grey area of "Totally worth being killed" and "I'm just trying to be civil".
The kept telling her no, so to prove that *maybe* it could understand her, she yelled at it.
"WHAT'S UP, STACK-MAN!! SOMETHING TROUBLING YOU??", she yelled. Surprisingly, it responded with a garbled laughter of sorts. It sounded like it was laughing at her. That was a start.