Cynthia Gaiden

**Cynthia Gaiden**is the third Gaiden sidestory in the expanded universe of *Pokémon Reset Bloodlines.*It is also the third sidestory written by Crossoverpairinglover and the third sidestory overall.

It stars future Sinnoh Champion Cynthia, as she goes through several adventures exploring ancient ruins and meeting some of her future Pokémon, until she eventually grows into a world-renowned archeologist adventurer as well as the strongest trainer of her region.

## Plot

A ten-year-old Cynthia explores the Coronet Mountain Range of Sinnoh, a place so dangerous that only the strongest and bravest dare to set foot there. Along with her Gible, she rejoices when she finds the Stark Emperor's tomb, having deciphered the Unown runes as telling that the ancient civilization hid their tombs in high locations and not just hot ones. She then proceeds to document her finding as well as take any treasure from it.

Sometime later, she continues to explore the range with Gible, this time coming across the Kricketune temple, which according to her research was a civilization that placed great value in music, and has many instruments made of valuable materials as treasures. To access them, she needs to play the right notes of a song, and she pulls out a harmonica to do so. It takes her several tries, but she eventually succeeds.

Another time, she's exploring a different type of ruins, this time a temple belonging to the ancient order known as the Brotherhood of the Medimen, a religious order of powerful warriors who emulated Meditite and Medicham. Despite her eagerness to find the treasures they left behind, she ultimately collapses from hunger, and tries to pretend (unconvincingly) she was trying to emulate the warrior monks.

Back at home, some of the local kids begin to make fun of her, for her habits of going around trying to find ancient things. She mostly ignores them, until they start getting angry at her. In response, Cynthia pulls out a granola bar and eats it in front of them. The other kids, hungry and enraged, try to gang up on her to take the bar, but she manages to beat them all and continue to eat, pondering how her parents always do their best to keep her well-fed, unlike many other parents in town.

Her next stop leads her to the Light Stone Temple ruins, where she meets a cowardly Riolu who tries to warn her against entering for her own safety, but she ignores him and goes in along with Gible. She later comes out having lost her shoes, her left eyebrow, and with a nasty cut in her arm, but happy to be carrying a treasure chest. Meanwhile, the Riolu from before walks behind them, and collapses while panting heavily.

Riolu later follows them as they explore the Tomb of the Ice King. Cynthia seems happy to see him again as Riolu continues to try (and fail) to warn her against entering that place. Inside, Cynthia tries to grab a topaz crystal that triggers a trap, sending a huge rolling boulder at them. Riolu jumps in and shatters it with a single punch, and Cynthia hugs him in gratitude for the save.

Sometime later, Cynthia, now eleven and better equipped, explores a cave where she finds an inscription that reads: *"The Resting Place of My Fairest Wife, Taken from Dirtiest of Origins, May be Entered only with That Pokemon".* As she tries to think of its meaning, Gible searches through her bag for something that can be of help, until Cynthia notices the nearby pond where Magikarp occasionally jump out of the water. As she finally deciphers it, she takes off her clothes and dives into the water, throwing out several fish Pokémon until she finds the one she's looking for: a Feebas, which is the key to open the ruins' door.

Another time, she and her partners are exploring a rock tunnel, until they come across a boulder that looks unnatural blocking their way. Cynthia has Riolu blast it apart with Screech. The room inside is full of ancient Unown runes, with a blue orb in the center. She grabs it and suddenly experiences flashes of her past and future: her own birth with her parents; an adult version of herself with a female Garchomp about to fight a boy and his Pikachu; rips in space and time opening up over Mt. Coronet; the female Garchomp defeating a Murkrow; her first encounter with Gible; a battle raging in a destroyed city, where a gray-haired youth in a blue coat with a sword, a graying woman with dark hair in red and black who had a whip in one hand and her other was filled with blue psychic energies, and a yellow and blue metallic suit marked with C.G 2099 firing lasers fought an army of Pokemon who were pale and transparent, like ghosts; the female Garchomp blocking a Frenzy Plant from a Torterra and defeating it with Brick Break; her entering this very chamber with Riolu and Gible; and lastly a teenage version of her hovering over an ice cream cart, pondering what flavor to get. After the visions leave her in a daze, and she decides to take the orb with her sack instead of her bare hands.

The trio continues their adventures in places like a Draconid funeral site, the Gracidea Sanctuary Ruins, and most recently, an ancient tomb where the 108 most deadly criminals were put to death. In this one in particular, Cynthia runs into a Spiritomb, born of the fusion of the angry souls of said criminals, that haunts the place and tries to trap them. Cynthia strikes its keystone with a hammer until she lets them go, and in doing so frees a team of archaeologists who were trapped by that evil spirit Pokémon when they had ventured in there before her.

Years later, one of the aforementioned archeologists, Professor Carolina, tells her colleagues the story about how she and Cynthia met one another after she rescued her and her team, commenting how much she's grown since then, and how she decided to become Champion to get attention to Celestic Town, succeeding with flying colors as both a trainer and adventurer archeologist, having filled two entire wings of the Celestic Museum of Natural History.

A now twenty-year old Cynthia gets a phone call from the U.T.P, refusing their offer to join them for unknown reasons. She hangs up as she ponders how the weather stabilized since the Shamouti incident, and decides to check a new ruin she's heard has lava pits.

## Continuity

* The first scene of this Gaiden sidestory takes place nine years before **"Of Starters and Spearow: The New Reality,"** while the final scene is implied to take place at an unspecified time in the future.
* First appearances of Cynthia, Professor Caroline, Wes and Sabrina. Clemont is also seen wearing his CG-2099 suit, although he's not properly identified until **"The Tag Tournament: Part 1."**
* The Adamant Orb found by Cynthia is later taken for an exhibit in Mars' hometown, setting up the events of the *Mars Gaiden* sidestory.

## Trivia

* The Tomb of the Ice King and the crown Cynthia finds in there are references to the animated series, *Adventure Time**.*
* Professor Clover is a reference to the archeologist character from the manga and anime series, *One Piece**.*
* Cynthia's phrase of "Every puzzle has an answer" is a reference to the titular main character of the videogame series, *Professor Layton**.*

## Links

1. ↑ https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Ice\_King
2. ↑ https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Ice\_King%27s\_crown
3. ↑ https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Adventure\_Time
4. ↑ https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Clover
5. ↑ https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/One\_Piece\_(Manga)
6. ↑ https://layton.fandom.com/wiki/Professor\_Layton\_series