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[ A strange man appears on the PokeConnect feed, his expression a mixture of fondness and frustration. He holds his Poke'Gear at arm's length to better film himself and on one shoulder a Murkrow with a scarred beak perches and preens. ]

Well hello again, Johto. It's been a while, hasn't it?

[ He lifts a spidery hand to stroke Edgar under her chin. The Murkrow croaks happily and squeezes her eyes shut.]

When I was home, this place was hardly even a dream of a memory. Both times I've been here before. Now that I'm here again, I remember it all along with time passing in Halloween Town. It's strange...but wonderful too. And I have to wonder, is there anyone out there who remembers my name?

[ He's been reading the paper. It's been a long, long time. He's sure many of his old friends are gone, but there's a chance...]

[It takes a bit, but Emporio is settling back into the swing of things at his Gym. The courses didn't stop for the teleporter fiasco of course, but challengers were just a little more...challenged, when they got to Cherrygrove and other similar half-way stops and found their intended Pokemon missing.

Glad that's over. But anyway, Emporio- in one of his usual Pokemon-matching outfits per the standard of his challenges sounds...confused.]

Well, we're back! Technically I've been home for a few days, but this is the first I've been back to the challenger's arena on the course since those teleporter malfunctions.

(Let's not talk about those here though, okay everyone?)

This is a first though. I've never had someone ask for pictures after finishing the battle.

Especially not multiple times. They said something about posting them to their webpage, so I guess they must be a photographer, but I'm surprised they went through multiple courses to do that.

These things take more than a day after all!

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