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Meg would just have his Morpeko zap a human cop, opening up a path for him to join the others as he ran up to Crystal, feeling safer around the powerful woman. All together the group would begin to rush out of the hospital, pushing to the side anyone that tried to get in their way. They'd made it to the entrance doors but before they could even wait for the electronic doors to open a screen of light appeared in front of it, Meg accidentally bumping into it and as he stumbled backwards the stomach dropping realization of what it was set in.

"A Reflect..." He said quietly, then watched a second barrier appear in front of it, no doubt a Light Screen.

"Don't let them escape, my dears..." A seductive voice rung out in the minds of everyone in the hospital, including the Snagems, however they were not affected by it like the others were as patients, visitors, doctors, and the remaining cops, began to surround them. "It's her...it's Ukilah. We really pissed her off." Meg commented as he glanced around at the humans and hybrids surrounding them. Realizing the situation he turned to Crystal.

"You guys get out of here, we'll be okay. Just take your friend and her sister and go home. We'll be okay, it wouldn't be the first time I've been to jail." Meg said with a smile. Sure, Crystal could fight her way out of here, break the Reflect and Light Screen, but it would be a hell of a fight against plenty of hybrids of a type that she was weak to here and even with help from the others it would be a very rough fight, physically and morally, considering even innocent bystanders were being forced to attack them by a very angry Psychic.

Teleporting wasn't an option either, she could feel it, all this Poison energy in this reality made Teleporting impossible, the move probably didn't even exist in this reality. There was just one way to escape without hurting a lot of people and herself, and that was the most extreme escape method but one she has certainly used before.

Mitsuki generally stayed in the back and let Monique take charge, staying beside Crystal and letting the Zoroark hybrid get her sneak on into the hospital to find her sister. The whole prospect was just absolutely disgusting, a sisterly reunion made her sick to her stomach. She perked up upon seeing Meg finally rejoin the group and felt a bit relieved. Powerful ladies were always a plus, as she would well know being one, but Meg was a special sort of idiot! Like a well meaning older brother who let the wrong people live. Hm.

When Ukilah’s Reflect popped up, Mitsuki knew what they had to do without needing the Snagem leader to make it known. They were going to keep that crazy lady occupied while the magic cat lady took Monique and her sister back home, which lead to her feeling a bit pleased. And they only just met too! She whistled quickly to get their attention. “If you ladies are ever tired of your universe, you should visit again sometime. I promise it’ll suck WAY more than this trip.” She promised, sending out her Venusaur Pitch.

“Pitch, wanna use Sludge Bomb!” She called out as her hulking grass type spat the nastiest possible loogie at the Gothitelle hybrid. Giratina, was she grateful for having a Poison type in the presence of of Psychic type. Despite her Grass typing, Pitch was a pretty calm and protective presence in the trainer’s life.

Crystal, Monique, and Kasumi would safely escape into Ultra Space, the last they saw of the previously reality was Meg, Mitsuki, and Abigail fighting back the horde of humans and hybrids. The last discernible image from the other side was that of Ukilah, her eyes falling upon the portal they fled into, a look of contempt evident. Crystal, thanks to being on the Psychic spectrum, could sense the woman's emotions clearly in that moment, spite and revenge. She had a funny feeling this wasn't the last they'd see each other, though it was doubtful that Crystal would mind such a reunion.

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Within the 'safety' of Ultra Space the trio would drift, no destination for the moment but it certainly wouldn't take Crystal long to set course for home which was likely a good idea considering the state Kasumi was in. They could get her looked at, rest a bit, and steel themselves for a whole new reality. They could always take another trip to fetch and second and last sister.

Except that's not how it would go down.

"Steeelaaa..." Cried a massive teal creature as it rocketed straight for the trio, completely unaware of anything in its path as it smashed through a random asteroid as if it were a wet pinata. The closer it got the bigger it appeared, its size difficult to truly appreciate in the expanse of Ultra Space but one thing was sure they certainly did not want to be involved in a collision with this Goliath.

No doubt Crystal was familiar with these creatures and knew trying to parry it away was futile, the only course of action was to move and move fast. Like a train at full steam all you can do is get out of the way before it disassembles you a million times quicker than you were made.

Crystal narrowed her eyes, giving a frustrated sigh. A Celesteela. Normally, not one she had an issue with. But then again, the few she came across were simply settled in whatever forest they landed in, acting relatively similar to a tree. She saw one rocket off once, but she was pretty far away and hadn't seen how large the damage the steel bamboo rocket had left, nor how fast it had taken off. As she watched it it come forward faster and faster, she had to make a decision. "Brace yourselves!" Crouching down, she'd aim the platform downwards to avoid the Ultra Beast, now waiting for the other foot to drop. There was the Kartana slicing the boulder in half with Reno and Aden, with that incident leading to a bunch of other Snagems taking a trip of their own, then there was Aden getting drop kicked by a Pheromosa, and now this.... What was going to happen next to kick them on the shins?

Crystal's evasive maneuvers would successful get them out of the giant Ultra Beast's path, the trio safely avoiding being scattered across infinity. However, as Crystal feared, doing so caused them to drift fairly close to a wormhole. While Crystal would feel nothing Monique and Kasumi would feel some sort of gravity-like pull from the wormhole, to them the force that pulled on them felt familiar and inviting. For a second or two the pull was light and pleasant until all at once it became cruel and violent, snatching them off Crystal's construct and beckoning them into the wormhole, this reality demanding they become part of it. They both would be turned around to see Crystal fading away as they entered the portal before their vision went completely white and then in an instant black as consciousness was lost.

For Crystal she would not have time to react quick enough to save them but did see which wormhole they were pulled into and of course was more than capable of pursuing them into this reality. Why this reality deciding to take them she would not immediately know, Ultra Space was a mysterious place even for those the most educated and immersed in it, sometimes it does things for no discernible reason but Crystal knew one thing for sure; there was always a reason.

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[The Alolan Ocean, US-2640...]

Monique and Kasumi would awaken, floating deep under water, Monique coming to first and shortly after her sister would, however barely conscious due to her previous weakness and fatigue from the last reality. The first thing both would realize is that they were underwater and their initial instincts were to gasp for air and even swim to the surface, however a few seconds later they would realize they were breathing just fine, somehow.

The answer would come to them upon looking at their hands and the rest of their bodies, finding that they had taken on a new form. For Monique her skin was white all the way down to her waist were it would turn blue, her legs gone and replaced by a mermaid tail. For Kasumi her face and belly was white as well but her arms green and she too had a mermaid-like tail, also green.

It wasn't too strange to see to see her sister now a hybrid, a Lilligant hybrid, she had been hybridized once as well, but where did the mermaid tail come from? It made sense on her, she was some sort of Water type, a Primarina hybrid, but what happened to Kasumi? There would be no answers only more questions as Monique noticed another nearby life form, an unconscious Zoroark floating just in front of them, it too sporting a mermaid tail.

What was this reality? Why were they pulled here? Where was Crystal? Would she come for them? Why were they all mermaids? And why did they end up in the middle of the ocean? Was there any land nearby? She couldn't see any, were they alone? The only visible thing she would note, besides some fish Pokemon swimming away from them once they came too, was a large and spread out group of lights down on the seafloor below them, almost looked like a city of the horizon at night. They were too far to see what was creating these lights but it was her only lead on where to go from here and she still needed help with Kasumi, she was still weak and sickly, she needed medical care still.

A young-ish hybrid would see Monique, Kasumi and the Zoroark from a short distance away, swimming toward them to investigate. They had ice blue hair pulled back into a long, thick braid that passed their waist in the back and a smaller pair on either side of their face that framed their curious, lilac eyes, each sporting a long antenna where there would normally be eyebrows. Their skin was almost alabaster though the scales covering their mermaid tail were a golden hue, intersected by thick, black webbing, ending in a large fan-shaped fin divided into four segments with large patches of crimson on each one.

Swimming toward the trio, the hybrid would see them come to and begin conversing among themselves for a moment before they began to swim downward, toward the seafloor. There was only one place they could be going if they headed that direction. For the moment, the hybrid stayed at a distance and watched to see what they were going to do, trying to stay out of sight but not exactly going a good job of it.

Monique and Kasumi would eventually come upon a giant metropolis on the seafloor, a sprawling city of lights. The buildings looked nothing like what you'd find on the surface, made of steel nor wood but instead some sort of coral-like material. The lights themselves were not powered by electricity or gas but instead appeared to be refined Thunder Stones and Electric Gems, perfect for underwater lighting. The city itself appeared to be built around some sort of pit around the center, bright lights emitting from the pit but from here they would be unable to see what was at the bottom.

Entrance would be denied to them by some sort of force field around the city, a dome of hard-light with various openings dotting it marked by rings of metal built into the dome, the rings keeping the dome open at those points. The openings acted like gates to the city, two on either side of the dome on the seafloor pointing east and west, two more higher up on the sides pointing north and south, then you had one lone gate at the very top of the dome. Each gate had guards stationed at them, powerful looking four armed Starmie hybrids accompanied by several Staryu, the multi-armed hybrids sporting deadly bladed weapons.

While people were coming and going through the gates some were denied entrance, from what Monique could hear something about a lack of a royal permit. Those denied entrance had two choices, go away peacefully or be forced to and Monique would witness one forced away by a blast of Power Gem, the unfortunate fish person sent flying further away into the ocean. The guards did not play around.