Champion in Remnant

Good Meeting with Bad

"Giovanni."

"A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mrs. Stone." The man greets. "Please join me, we have much to discuss."

"What's there to discuss?"

"Things. Big things. Things that would probably either benefit you or me." He says in a cryptic, vague manner. She keeps her eyes narrowed on the man, waiting for a possible give away to see if he would pull a fast one on her.

"Relax," The man puts a hand up in reassurance. "My men aren't here with me. Not since I arrived, at least."

Seeing that he's telling the truth, the Sinnoh Champion walks up and pulls out a chair to sit on.

"Alright, what do you want?" She asks.

"Straight to the point, I see" Giovanni sounded amused. "Not an 'how did you get here', or a 'why am I here'?"

"You're not the Giovanni I'm familiar with in my world. You're the Giovanni of Rainbow Rocket."

"So you are aware of the research I used for Ultra Wormholes?" He sounded delighted about that. She did know about Ultra Wormholes back during the Alola Incident years ago.  

"Yes, especially how you came from one, attacked the Aether Foundation, and tried to take over the World."

"Ah yes, that was quite the ruse I stirred up, wasn't it?" Giovanni says, looking thoughtful, as if reminiscing a long forgotten memory he cherished to remember. He looks back at her. "Well you'll be happy to know that Alola is no longer my goal."

"And you know you won't reach it in this world." She shot back. "Not without a fight."

"True," he admits. "I am aware of the student's you have been training. Training quite well, might I add, despite their nocive upstart."

Cynthia looked surprised. "How-"

"My new partners discussed with me about the dust heist they tried pulling at the docks. How it ended up with the Legendary Titans sweeping them away like dust bunnies." He revealed as a waiter brought out drinks for them. "I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of ordering us refreshments. Does tea sound good to you?"

Cynthia nods and the waiter sits down two cups of tea. They both thank him, and the waiter leaves to attend other customers. She takes the offered cup in hand, taking a small sip. She savors the sweet taste and calming aroma.

"I'm here to make you an offer." Giovanni says suddenly, almost surprising Cynthia. The suddenness of it nearly made her choke on her drink, but she calms herself and swallows.

"What kind of offer?" She narrows her eyes in suspicion. 

"Such a skeptic, aren't you?" He sighs, though his expression doesn't change. Cynthia wonders what sort of offer a man like Giovanni wanted to make with her, and more importantly, what he wanted in return. She takes another drink of her tea, and that's when Giovanni speaks.

"I'm here to simply give you," He pulls out a brief from under him, and opens it up. "These." 

Cynthia does a spit take, turning to her right as a spray of tea spouts from her mouth. Her eyes grow wide in shock at the contents within the case.

"Are those-?"

"Yes," Giovanni affirms and pulls out a purple Pokéball with an M on it.

"Eight empty Master Balls." He bounces it in his hand a few times before putting it back.

The red flags and bells in Cynthia's head ring out on high alert. The most evil man in the Pokémon universe is offering her eight Master Balls, the only Pokeball to have a 100% catch rate. The very Pokeballs capable of catching Legendary Pokémon, and they were all empty.