Pokemon Red Iterations

Pokemon Red Iterations
== Story ==
"Your timeline, like so many others, was utterly annihilated and consumed by a cosmic being we call The Devourer. Everything and everyone you know is gone."
"...I know that look on your face. That mix of confusion, horror, and sorrow over what has befallen your home. But I also see in you an especially strong desire for vengeance. Well, we want to help you out with that. In order to slay The Devourer, we're going to need you to amass an army. A massive army."
The player has just emerged victorious against their rival at Indigo Plateau and is congratulated by Professor Oak for all their accomplishments. As they are about to enter themselves and their team into the Hall of Fame, violent quaking unlike anything else is felt emanating from seemingly everywhere. The player, their rival, Professor Oak and Elite Four make their way outside to see what is happening. Professor Oak expresses abject horror at what he sees before everything fades to white.
The player wakes up in an unknown location and is soon greeted by a woman they've never seen before. The woman introduces herself as Professor Burnett and welcomes the player to Restoration Point, a station drifting through interdimensional space that she and her team had created. Burnett tells the player that their timeline was the latest to be destroyed by a cosmic entity known as The Devourer. Burnett has determined that The Devourer can be defeated, but only by a force of Pokemon so numerous that it's impossible to gather them all in one timeline.
Burnett sends the player back to Pallet Town in a timeline similar to their own to catch and train as many Pokemon as possible. Eventually, the player makes it to Vermilion City, where they discover that Burnett has set up a portal that can teleport the player back to Restoration Point. Here, the player learns that they can transfer Pokemon from their PC in the current timeline to the computer at Restoration Point, where they will be stored in reserve for the eventual battle against The Devourer. Burnett also gives the player the Universal Pokedex at this time, which tracks the Pokemon that have been transferred to Restoration Point. Every Pokemon registered in the Universal Pokedex also transfers a tiny bit of energy from the Pokemon's native timeline to Restoration Point. With this additional energy, Restoration Point is able to increase its capabilities, such as sending the player to further, more divergent timelines to gather different Pokemon.
The player also discovers their counterpart originating from the current timeline at Restoration Point. This character is not too happy with their place in their timeline essentially being overwritten by that of the player, but understands given the circumstances. The counterpart will help Burnett train the Pokemon transferred to Restoration Point to increase their chances against The Devourer, but encourages the player to hurry so that they can return home.
If the player has registered at least 30 Pokemon in the Universal Pokedex, the player is contacted again by Burnett once they become Champion, saying that Restoration Point is now able to access a different timeline, one in which the Kanto region was more-heavily influenced by its neighboring region, Johto. Back at Restoration Point, the player is able to choose to restart their Pokemon adventure in this newest timeline. If they decide to do so, they begin their travels again in Pallet Town, but find that the Kanto region is much different. The Pokemon Professor, the player's rival, gym leaders, Elite Four, and Pokemon Champions have all been replaced with different counterparts. Pokemon originating from the Johto region in the player's native timeline can be found in Kanto. Certain events and places have also been altered. Strangely, Team Rocket and their leader Giovanni remain unaltered.
Once the player emerges Champion in this Johto-influenced timeline, the player gets an emergency notification from Burnett, saying that Restoration Point has been taken over by the multiversal criminal group Team Rainbow Rocket. The player returns to Restoration Point via the Vermilion portal and confronts the villainous group. The head of Rainbow Rocket, an iteration of Giovanni from an unknown timeline, tells the player that he developed a universal anchor, preventing any instance of him from being replaced by an alternative counterpart in any timeline. One day, he hopes to unite all Team Rockets from across the multiverse so that they can take over all of existence, but for now, Team Rainbow Rocket will tactically retreat. Once control of Restoration Point is returned to Burnett, she acknowledges that Rainbow Rocket is a major threat, but that they need to focus their efforts on defeating The Devourer.
At this point, Burnett allows the player to travel to still-more divergent timelines in which Kanto is influenced by Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, Galar, and Paldea, assuming the player has fulfilled certain thresholds in their Universal Pokedex. The player can also choose to confront The Devourer, although Burnett strongly encourages the player not to do so until they have gathered more Pokemon at Restoration Point first.
Once the player chooses to confront the Devourer, they and all the Pokemon gathered at Restoration Point are sent into interdimensional space to do so. The Devourer, which appears as an undulating tower of pixels, sends out fragments of itself to confront the player. These fragments can appear as powerful, corrupted Pokemon or as corrupted members of Team Rainbow Rocket, and are dealt with by the player with the Pokemon chosen to be in their party. The last fragment the player must defeat before directly facing The Devourer is a corrupted version of Giovanni. With all other obstacles cleared, the player and their army of Pokemon close in on The Devourer.
=== Bad Ending ===
The player is either defeated before reaching The Devourer, or their force of Pokemon is insufficient to best The Devourer's overwhelming might. Burnett watches on in grim resignation as the player and their Pokemon are consumed, before ordering that Restoration Point use its remaining energy to be teleported elsewhere within interdimensional space. With this relocation, Burnett hopes to have enough time to pull another powerful trainer from an intact timeline to gather more Pokemon, before The Devourer finds Restoration Point itself and destroys it as well. At this point, the player can choose to restore their game to the point before they decided to confront The Devourer. The outcome against The Devourer will not change until the player either transfers another Pokemon to Restoration Point or re-defeats the Elite Four in any timeline.
=== Good Ending ===
The player and their Pokemon are able to deal with all the fragments The Devourer launches towards them, and the player's force of Pokemon is able to defeat The Devourer. The Devourer looks ready to self-destruct when it is beaten, but Burnett pulls the player and all their Pokemon back to Restoration Point at the last moment. The player and Burnett watch from a distance as The Devourer is destroyed in a brilliant burst of colorful light, with small pieces of its body flung into the aether.
Burnett gives an immense sigh of relief and thanks the player profusely for their help. She reveals that The Devourer consumed her own timeline many years ago and that she's been dedicated to its destruction ever since. She also reveals that all evidence for The Devourer's existence points to it being assembled by Team Rainbow Rocket from pieces of debris found floating throughout interdimensional space. These pieces of debris are believed to be the remnants of timelines that have either naturally decayed and collapsed in on themselves, or expired prior to being fully formed and realized. It also looks like The Devourer managed to free itself from the control of Rainbow Rocket and had consumed them, or at least an iteration of them.
The counterparts replaced by the player in the timelines they decided to traverse are all returned to their rightful positions and sent home. Burentt tells the player that it's impossible for them to return to their timeline, seeing as it was destroyed. However, they offer to place the player in any timeline of their choosing, or remain at Restoration Point, at least for the time being. After all, pieces of The Devourer remain scattered and intact throughout multidimensional space, though they'll likely never be powerful enough to outright destroy a timeline ever again, and there are always other threats to the space-time continuum that need to be dealt with.
If the player chooses to remain at Restoration Point, Burnett formally inducts them into her crew and sets a course to another point within multidimensional space. If the player chooses to be placed within another timeline, they wake up in their bed in an alternate version of Kanto, before the screen fades to black.
=== Golden Ending ===
If the player registers all Pokemon within the Universal Pokedex and then defeats The Devourer, Burnett congratulates the player on a job well done and sends the player's counterparts back to their native timelines. When Burnett next speaks to the player, she tells them that Restoration Point was originally designed to restore destroyed timelines back into existence, but that this had never been attempted before due to a chronic shortage of resources and energy. However, thanks to the player's efforts, Restoration Station now has the ability to do so, and the first restored timeline will be the one that the player originated from. Burnett gives a farewell to the player and presses a button on her console. Everything fades the white before the player wakes up in their bed back in Pallet Town. Walking downstairs, the player speaks to their mother, who says:
"Right, all boys / girls leave home someday. Professor Oak is next door, looking for you... Why are you crying, but also smiling?"
The player gives their mother a hug, before the screen fades to black.
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