• for those who care to know: my work contract has been extended, so i live under a roof until the end of the year! (that's great!) but at the cost of my crashing the moment i get home. yea it's that tiring.
• i'll most likely be back after i decide where to take post-timeskip yuuki. most of my plans for him still hold water, but i'll be ridding my shoulders of the thread backlog. (we can work out what the ending was and consider that canon if you want! i'm down for that.)
• if any of you were chars that interacted a lot with yuuki and want a reset for relationships, let me know. my activity level isn't that great, and i understand that it's hard to keep old plots going when one party isn't holding up their end of the bargain.

             “ Uuuaaah!!!! “ She broke her self-imposed rule!! 

                        Whatever would little Hikari do now, hm? Maybe, she’d find some sort of excuse to validate her slip-up… Hikari Corong never gave up on a nickname, especially not when a friend was still calling her by one of her’s. Hearing someone besides Dad call her ‘ Hika ‘ was a little weird, but… it was a nice change from Barry and Lucas and Benjie always calling her ‘ Dawn ‘, in its own way. 

               “ Imma only say ‘ yuuki ‘ if I can add extra ‘ ooooh ‘ to it, y’know! Like…. here, just like this! YuuuUUUuuuUUUuuuuUUUUki! Otherwise, it’s Yuu, Yu, Yuuie, or maybe… Yuko! “

Hey! What do you know! The dude actually showed up!

Not that Barry ever had a moment of doubt, though. Who would ever turn down a free ticket to some of the greatest matches that will ever have happened in wrestling history!?

…Or, that’s how they advertised it, but now that he thought about it they always said the matches that were about to happen would be the greatest ever.

“Yuuki!!” He greeted, jumping up and down a tad and waving his arms to be sure his attention was grabbed. Getting through the crowd was full of bumping and ‘excuse me’s, but after a minute he’d finally made it to the stand as well.

“Glad you could make it! Hope you weren’t waiting too long. I always come an hour before everything stars in case the snack lines and bathroom lines get long. If you gotta go, I can buy your snacks for you. What’d’ya want? My treat!”

“It’s much more than just a gym, though,” there was a spark of passion in his eyes as he activated the primary computer, and several holographic screens appeared. “This system here also has access to Sunyshore’s power grid, security systems, and environmental monitoring systems, most of which I designed,” as he spoke, he brought up footage that appeared to be taken from the ocean floor, not far from Sunyshore’s coast. “The gym is designed to withstand a large scale catastrophic event, so if something were to occur, this little control room could be activated to maintain essential services within the city - though not many know about this function.”

He gestured toward the screen, “but this is the project we’ll be working on - or part of it.  The aquatic monitoring and protection system, or AMPS.” With a few keystrokes, the screen changed from real footage, to what looked like a model of a small, unassuming device. “A few years back, I worked closely with a team of seismologists to design this device, here.” Volkner went on to explain, in detail, how the device worked to detect seismic activity with greater accuracy than ever before, while at the same time monitoring ocean wildlife - and how he’d recently developed a new prototype which would detect and collect data on unorganic materials, trash and spills, and release tiny marine robots to remove or absorb the material. 

“This new upgrade will be piloted first in Snowpoint, since the system has yet to be installed there anyways, and if there’s a notable decrease in deep sea and coastal pollution, this will be the version installed across the Hoenn region. Follow so far?”