All That Matters

Special Chapter 2 Cover

**All That Matters** is the second special chapter of the Eeveelution Squad comic series. It was originally published on July 1, 2017 and completed on October 17, 2017, but Sepcial Chapter 2.1 was completed on October 21, 2017. It was dubbed by MickeyMario64's Eeveelution Squad Comic Dub Project team on October 5, 2018.

## Plot

During the last scene of Special Chapter 1, Crystal sulks about the fact she that she doesn't have a love interest or someone interested in her, unlike her older brother Speed and younger brother Solarflare. Eevee comes to her room and asks what evolution is. Crystal reluctantly answers her question and Eevee is amazed by how everyone in their house used to look like her despite their different appearances. Crystal decides to her tell about how she evolved into *Vaporeon.*

The scene flashes 4 years back to Crystal's old house and Solarflare is seen happily tending his garden. Crystal scares him and asks here Speed is. Crystal goes to Speed to wake him up the same way she does nearly all the time: she jumps and kicks him awake. Speed yelps and warns Crystal not to anger him in his newly evolved form because he might "lose control". He scares his little sister by seeming violent and chuckles at his charade. Crystal still remains scared of Speed, so he comforts her by saying he has all control now. Crystal is now relaxed.

Later, he serves breakfast to Crystal and Solarflare. Crystal asks what it is like to work as a mailman, where Speed says it's all in delivering packages. Crystal says that's lame, so Speed tries to defend his job's importance, but he gives up. Crystal is suspicious, but she eventually accepts it. After learning that Speed has Sundays off, she asks to take them to town. Speed agree to go to Sunny Town for lunch.

On the Afternoon, Speed and his younger siblings look around the town. Crystal and Flare are both amazed by the amount of pokémon within the town and decide to go eat at a Chinese restaurant (or at least one that serves that kind of food). Trace arrives to the restaurant and meets his family, falling in love Crystal; Speed smacks him for falling for her. Trace asks if he is going to go to the Pokémon Tournament next week, but Speed doesn't want to go due other stuff he has to do. Suddenly, Speed spots Silvia outside through the window and hides. Trace almost reveals to Speed's family of his supposed girlfriend, but Speed interrupts him and Crystal doesn't push on about it. Speed lets Trace join him to dine.

Later, Trace thanks Speed for treating him and says that Dr. Robert needs him for tomorrow, but Speed says he can go in a few hours. Trace almost reveals that that Chi is still awake thanks to a wish, but he changes his mind. Crystal hears about Trace talk about the lab and talks to Speed about it, but she ends up thinking he works as lab assistant that a helpful fighter. With his secret of going to the lab revealed, he tells siblings that will be going to the lab for a couple of hours while cleaning the attic, but tells Crystal no to open the red box in the room; a domino effect happens from there on out.

Crystal opens the box and finds it full of evolution stones. She chooses a water stone and evolves to a Vaporeon. She then picks up a fire stone and meets up with Flare. She chases Flare with the stone and traps him at a corner. She says that she was only playing around, but then she trips and lands on Flare with the stone in hand, causing Flare to evolve. Flare turns berserk and burns Crystal. Crystal begs for Flare not to hurt her, but he is too furious from his normal behavior. Speed comes back home and finds Crystal at the door wanting help. Speed is mad at Crystal for opening the box, but he focuses on what is going on at the moment. He is shocked after learning that Flare is infected with the berserk virus after seeing his red eye and shields Crystal, but his chest is ripped open by Flare, shocked at Flare's high strength for a level 7 pokémon. Crystal hides from the sadistic Flare with a knocked out Speed at her side. Flare finds her and the scene turns to her screaming in fear.

The chapter abruptly goes back to the present and Crystal says to Eevee that that was the that day when she learned Acid Armor. Crystal says that it took a week for Flare to forgive her and that he eventually got used to being a *Flareon*. Crystal asks why she asked about evolution in the first. Eevee says she wants to become a *Sylveon* just like Silvia, but worries that her "dad" might not like her after due to his relationship with Siliva at that point in time. Crystal assure her Speed would still love her regardless of her choice in evolution. Crystal asks Eevee if she wants to ice cream, where Eevee agrees to have some.

The scene cut to Flare having red vision after eating a chocolate bar given to him by Leafeon due to the berserk virus within him. Leafeon asks if he is okay, but Flare says he is fine. The chapter ends with Flare pondering what exactly is going on with his body.

## Special Chapter 2.1

The story goes back to the past and Crystal is corned by Flare. She finds a jar of joy seeds and eats them all to learn Acid Armor. She turns to liquid and escapes from Flare. Crystal tries to wake up Speed for help, having his chest fully healed thanks to his healing factor. Flare finds them and sets to attack, but becomes exhausted and passes out. Later, Flare wakes up with his behavior back to normal, but sees that he is tied up. Speed wakes up and finds Flare normal again, but Flare doesn't understand what happened or what the virus is. Speed unties Flare and demands Crystal to clean up Flare's damage. Later, Crystal says what happened when Speed was out. Speed becomes confused by how Flare evolved with him wanting to become a *Flareon*, but Flare he was mad when he was trying to get Crystal off of and that everything turned red. Speed concludes that the virus choose to evolve, but Flare is still confused about what he is talking about. Speed grounds Crystal for a week.

The next day, Speed arrives early to Dr. Robert's lab and demands him to let him explore the abandoned lab where he and other researchers learned about the virus. Robert tells Speed to wait until his armor is complete for full protection. Robert questions Speed's obsession of the virus now, so Speed reveals that his younger brother is infected and that he hopes to look for a cure. Robert tells Speed to stay and reveals important data about the virus that was salvaged by a *Kadabra*.

Robert reveals that the virus infects pokémon simply by touch and will drain the host's blood out dry and take over the nervous system; pokémon like *Metagross* are instantly infected after contact. Fortunately, pokémon are only infected if they come in contact with the itself virus, which are blobs similar to *Ditto* and not through infected pokémon. Robert says that the virus is listed as "reborn virus", but prefers to call it "berserk virus". He has that it take hours for a pokémon to turn and that there are 3 categories of the infected: The category 1 infected are killed by the by the virus and the virus takes full control, leaving the host with strength 25x its previous strength; there is a 70% chance of this happening. The category 2 infected survive the virus but turn permanently insane after, just like the *Lucario* in Special Chapter 1, and they get their strength 10x its prior; there is a 25% chance of that happening. Finally, there is the category 3 infected, where the virus and the host bonds with each other and the host gets its strength 50x its current strength, but the host can control when they can the power based on emotion. The category 3 infected have only one eye red instead of two.

Speed tells Robert that Flare is a category 3 infected and Robert assures him that Flare would be fine, as long as he learns how to fully control his power. Speed if a category 3 infected would come back as a category 1 if they die, just like the category 2 infected *Lucario* did, but Robert say that they can't. Speed is relived. Meanwhile, Flare is still mad at Crystal.

A week later after the incident, Crystal tries to talk to Flare, but he ignores her. Crystal breaks down crying and frantically apologizes for what she had done. Flare speaks to Crystal about how he accepts being a *Flareon* and he accepts her apology. The two embrace each other and the chapter ends.

## Credits

* Crystal (Dub: voiced by amberdoesblank)
* Sunshine (Dub: voiced by LolloTheChoco)
* Solarflare (Dub: voiced by CrownieVA/WeissVA)
* Speed (Dub: voiced by GrandmasterOshawott)
* Trace (Dub: voiced by J0KRR)
* Dr. Robert (Dub: voiced by pokmaen)
* Leaf (Dub: voiced by irisdragon)
* Luna the *Riolu* (Dub: voiced by ThePrismOwl)
* Kit the *Zorua* (Dub: voiced by ShadowWolfSoul)
* Roman the *Lucario* (Dub: voiced by Max Cheng)
* Silvia [?] (Dub: voiced by ShinyMimikyu)
* Gai [?] (Dub: voiced by BoltLegends)

## Cameo List

**The Cameo Appearances** are numbered in yellow in the following screenshot:

1. Luna The *Riolu*
2. Roman the *Lucario*
3. Kit the *Zorua*

Luna, Roman, and Kit are found on page 11. Luna and Kit belong to the user lunather1olu while Roman belongs to IFDRSS; lunather1olu submitted Roman for IFDRSS.

Luna is seen having finished a huge meal, shocking Luna and Kit.

## Trivia

* This is the chapter where the berserker categories are revealed
* Silvia's voice actor on the dub changes.
* This is the 6th time where Silvia's name is spelled wrong in the credits, listing "Sylvia".
* Solarflare's fashion of breaking into Crystal's room is a reference to *The Shining's* infamous break in scene where Jack Torrence slashes a hole in a door and sticks his face through it.
* PKM-150 is fully aware of how much information is released in Special Chapter 2.1, stating "This feels like a science class or something".