[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"Of course, dear, see you in a second." She doesn't ask any questions.

After ten minutes for Gallade to recover his breath, Marta appears in Gallade's arms in Cress City! Ten minutes from that, she and Gallade arrive at Oscar's, arm-in-arm. She lets go of your Pokemon to run up and hug you. You can see she's got her Pokeball belt on, which she only dons when she's going on an adventure. You can expect she has Max and some kind of farmhand Pokemon, maybe like a Herdier?

(Yeah, a Herdier would make sense, I think)

And you can bet he returns that hug.  "...thanks for coming mom.  I...just learned something.  Well, a few somethings.  I'll tell you inside.  Both you and Uncar Oscar are probably going to want to have a seat."

Once everyone's seated, Nathan drops the bombshell, a sad look on his face.

"...I found out what happened to my dad.  To Marco.  So, rather recently, my traveling companions and I...we met Celebi.  And soon after, some time travel stuff happened, and we saw a lot of really weird and sometimes scary things that I'm not sure most people would believe.  The last 3 hours have been more like 4 days for me, and I'm really looking forward to sleeping in an actual bed after being in so many different varieties of wilderness.  Right before we returned to the present time, though...we encountered the people who last saw where Marco Warren went 3 years ago.  And they came after us soon afterwards to try and keep us from looking further into their actions.  They attacked him at the Skull Ruins, and were probably attempting to drive him deeper in so the ghosts would finish the job for them.  It apparently happened on the layer above what's known as the Kadabra Chambers, a place that's said to be very strange and incredibly dangerous...I think dad had his strongest team of 6, though, so he's probably fine..."

...

"...the ones responsible for attacking him and us are all in custody, though, at least.  All the grunts we fought 3 years ago all got jailed.  We also just captured their leader, and she's going through the legal process as we speak."

Whew...that was harder for him to say than he thought it would be...