Prologue

"If you're really trying to get stronger as you say, than what're you depending on Team Skull for?"
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That's the exact question Gladion has been asking himself--even he does not know why. Nothing has changed in the two years he's been away from the Aether Foundation. What could he possibly hope to gain anymore? Did he even know himself? After everything he'd done and been through? He couldn't even understand himself.
Then he encountered that strange police officer. Then things suddenly got a lot more complicated.
He never realized just how much his encounter with the old man would mean to him.

(Gladion meets Nanu+Gladion gets his Z-Ring+Misc. Other Scenes)