32. Ash's Reborn Story

Chapter 172 Luna's Past Part 1

After a while, even Clair manages to get permission from Lance to come to the Reborn Region, and she is going to stay with Ash for a while just like the others. After discussing for a while, Ash decides to bring Clair to the next mission alone, since she is the only one that hasn't done this Anomaly mission before. When they get to the Night Club, they find the blind girl Danielle at the counter this time.

Danielle: Okay, so apparently there's a huge cult chamber underneath Jasper Ward? Subseven whatever? Did you know about this?

Ash: I know that place really well...

Danielle: Is everyone just like, totally okay and accepting of these giant underground spaces under a densely- populated area belonging to fanatical groups? ...Okay, you know what, forget it. No wonder this city was nearly taken offline twice. You all had this coming. Anyway, apparently, there's some kind of energy fluctuation there ...That's what I was told, but again, let's be real, it's probably just another Legendary that decided to stick its nose into our business. So that's your problem now. Go on.

Clair: (Turns to Ash) What is this Subseven Sanctum about?

Ash: It is a place where my family and I have to save Luna from her biological father. Speaking of her, I still don't know why she would leave her father, I mean, Elias is now a good man, but...

After that, they decide to head to Seven Street and get to the Subseven Sanctum. Clair is surprised to find the Underground Blackmarket like this, but after walking for a while, they find Luna standing in front of a portal.

Luna: Well met once more, Ash. (Hugs him)

Ash: Hello to you as well, Luna. And this is Clair, if you haven't met. But what are you doing here?

Luna: I, as well, had come to see what the matter was here. Loath as I am to admit due to long-tarnished memories, this place is one I'm yet beholden to in other ways. I should not like to see it fall to total ruin; silence is quite enough. And yet, I find this door is closed to me. Whatever wonders remain beyond it, they are not mine to access.

Clair: So you can't go inside...

Ash: Then it might be one of those new worlds that shows memories from a person...I mean I found one showing Shade's.

Luna: This is quite new to me. But here you are, an answer to a question. Unfiltering and unfaltering, may you find you fill your role as effectively as always you thus far have.

When Ash and Clair go through the gate, they are somehow surrounded by the cultists.

Cultist 1: Hello! Did you just come through Heaven's Gate?! Are you an envoy of the gods, or the agent of this chaos?!

Cultist 2: They don't look like an "envoy of the gods" to me...

Cultist 1: Then we have no choice but detain you for defiling this sacred space!

Then the two cultists try to attack them with Pokemon, and both Ash and Clair have to use their Pokemon to defeat them. Clair is also delighted that the Holy Field boosts the Dragon-Type attacks so that her Pokemon can be powered for more.

Cultist 1: Well you don't LOOK like a divine envoy. Lord Solaris will want to see you for questioning.

Ash realizes that they are back in the past, and Solaris is still alive in this era.

Cultist 2: But how can we subdue this threat?

Cultist 1: Ah, the hand-grenade!