Rubbing some ash between his fingers, Naruto was able to feel the residue of power that had burned the ancient castle to the ground. Of course, the small leftover fires that pulsed with power were an indicator as well, but he liked to make sure.
All around him, people were investigating to see what caused it. Officer Jennys were looking all over the castle while a few Nurse Joys looked over the bodies to see what sorts of injuries might have caused their deaths. From a quick look, death was a result of severe burns, but you couldn't always be sure from Pokemon related deaths.
Normally Naruto himself wouldn't be here. However, since a Pokemon was most likely involved he was called in. It happened to be a coincidence that the castle was the headquarters for Team Plasma.
That was a surprise.
However, what was even more surprising was the absolutely powerful residual echo that was left. Any psychic or aura trained person would be able to feel the power of the Pokemon that was left here. It burned, to stand anywhere near the castle.
This led Naruto to figure out that it was a powerful fire type Pokemon that had caused this. Of those, he narrowed it down to those that were native to Unova. This of course led him to assume that it was more than likely Reshiram.
However, that made Naruto wonder how Team Plasma was able to get Reshiram. It also told him that they weren't able to contain it. They either pissed it off somehow, or it broke free, if it had been captured. Either way, Team Plasma wouldn't be a problem in the near future.
"I hate having to come to places like this."
Hearing a familiar voice, Naruto turned his head. Standing in his trademark trench coat, Looker looked at the remains of the Team Plasma base.
Sighing, Naruto turned back to look at the destroyed Team Plasma shield that once hung proudly at the entrance to the castle.
"I do too my old friend. It brings up far too many bad memories."
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'As of now, the Team Plasma base has been destroyed by an unknown Pokemon. Along with the autopsy reports, it has been confirmed that the majority of Team Plasma's leaders have been killed.
As a result, all Team Plasma investigations will be put on indefinite hold. Should the matter rise up once again at a later date, then the investigations will begin again.'
Scowling, Naruto glared at the report. As of now, he had no jurisdiction over the Team Plasma investigation. He was glad more than ever now that he hadn't included Genesect in his report. Upper management could be a real pain to deal with.
Leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes Naruto sighed. With Team Plasma almost completely destroyed, any remaining members were going to go into hiding and try to either rebuild, or leave the criminal life.
One way or the other, it meant that Naruto had nothing to do for the foreseeable future in Unova.
Leaning back into his seat, Naruto tried to figure out what he could do. Most regions had little Pokemon related crime, and Team Plasma had been discovered to be a big enough problem that it required a Pokemon Ranger of his abilities.
Pulling up information gathered about crimes in the regions, Naruto started looking them over. However, he quickly found out that there had been a rise in crime in Kanto. Pulling up the most recent information, he found out about the S.S. Anne.
The ship had been a ruse by Team Rocket to steal the passengers Pokemon. However, their scheme failed when the passengers launched a counterattack and from the resulting battle, the entire ship sunk into the ocean.
Looking through some more reports, he found one that was just strange. Pokemon Land, a theme park where giant mechanical Pokemon were built, had been completely destroyed. Except, the owner never launched an investigation, and it was left abandoned.
Becoming curious, Naruto began to dig deeper into Pokemon Land.
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Drumming his fingers, Naruto looked at all of the information he had been able to find on Pokemon Land.
In a single night, he had barely been able to find anything. Looking into the identity of the owner, he was led to a dead end when he found out the identity had been fake.
Making a decision, Naruto grabbed his jacket and left to conduct a more thorough investigation.
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Lifting up a hidden door, Naruto looked inside and saw a set of stairs going down. Climbing down quickly, he found an underground complex filled with cages. Looking at them, he saw that a bunch of them were old and rusted.
"These are pretty old, so I'm guessing that Pokemon Land was being used to traffic Pokemon, but once they realized how profitable it was, they tried to make it a legitimate business." Naruto said out loud, but knowing that Alakazam would hear him.
Listening to Alakazam, Naruto nodded. "I could open up a case against Team Rocket, but it'll be difficult without actual incriminating evidence."
Eyes springing open wide, Naruto looked up and ignoring the fact that there was a roof blocking his view looked directly at Alakazam. "Vacation?! You want me to take a vacation right now of all times? Why would I-"
"Oh." Naruto said with realization once Alakazam explained his plan. "That's good."
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"What do you mean you want to take a vacation?" Erma asked as she looked at Naruto through the Xtransceiver.
"Erma, I've been working nonstop for years. I think I deserve a break." Naruto said as he tried to keep his face straight. He'd never been good at lying.
"You don't take vacations." Erma stated as her eyes narrowed. "You're up to something aren't you?"
"The fact that you don't believe me really hurts my feelings." He said as he looked at her completely unconvinced face.
Sighing, Erma looked away from the Xtransceiver for a bit before she turned back to him. "I'm giving you complete authorization for whatever it is you're doing. Just don't make me regret it."
With that she ended the call, and Naruto ended up just staring at his Xtransceiver completely surprised that she had given him the authorization he hadn't asked for.
"Well, I guess that's that then."
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[Porta Vista]
"So, there have been a lot of attacks by the wild Tentacool?" Naruto asked the sailor who said he'd answer a few questions.
"Yeah, it's a real bummer. We can't get any work done as long as those Tentacool keep trashing everything." The sailor sighed as he explained his situation.
"Alright then, thank you for your time." Naruto said as he left the sailor to wallow in his own misery.
'The Tentacool are attacking for a reason. Have you found anything?' Naruto telepathically asked Alakazam, who was using his abilities to hide his presence and float above the city.
Feeling the information enter his mind, he knew what was going on, but he needed actual proof.
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'This could have gone better.' Naruto thought to himself as he watched the giant Tentacruel destroy the city.
That was something that he never would have expected. He knew that there were cases of Pokemon growing to titanic sizes, but for a normal sized Tentacool to evolve into a skyscraper sized Tentacruel and to do so by using the energy of an explosive barrel? That, he was sure, was a first.
As much as he wanted to stop the Tentacruel, his first concern had been the citizens. Thankfully Alakazam had already teleported the entire population away from the city and onto higher ground where they were safe.
At the moment he had Malware gathering information on the Tentacruel. He knew a few Pokemon Professors who would kill for this kind of data.
Grabbing one of his pokeballs at his waist, he released the Clawitzer inside. Without even needing to be told anything, Clawitzer dove underwater towards the the Tentacruel. A moment later, the giant Tentacruel was launched into the air by an Aura Sphere.
Seeing the rest of the Tentacool beginning to float as well, he knew that Alakazam had probably told Clawitzer to attack Tentacruel first. As Tentacruel began to fall, it too was grabbed in a psychic hold.
Walking forward, Naruto stepped on a psychic platform and began to make his way up towards Tentacruel. Seeing Tentacruel begin to focus on him, he waved to make it known that he meant no harm.
"Sup!" Naruto replied with a cheerful smile.
Bewildered, Tentacruel waved back with one of its legs.
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"Therefore, I'd suggest you get a warrant for Nastina's arrest as not only has she broken numerous laws, she's also knowingly destroyed a Pokemon ecosystem and as a result, most of the city was destroyed in that Surf attack." Naruto told the Officer Jenny who was in charge of the investigation.
Writing down what he was saying, Jenny looked up, "What about the Tentacool and the giant Tentacruel?"
"They've decided to leave the area. They'll head out deeper into the sea and they'll be able to find a new home with that giant Tentacruel acting as the leader." He explained as she sighed in relief.
"So then we're not in any immediate danger?" She asked just to make sure.
"Well, with the amount of damage the city has taken and the level of flooding, I think that just trying to return to the city would be dangerous. You never know when one of these buildings might-" Hearing a loud booming sound, Naruto turned around and saw one of the city skyscrapers begin to topple taking along a few of the buildings around it.
"I hate saying this, but it might just be best to leave the city as is and just try and relocate." Naruto said as he saw the water begin to slowly settle.
"That's going to be a problem. We're pretty cutoff from the mainland and we don't have many supplies. Take in the amount of people that are going to have to relocate and it's going to be a nightmare." Jenny said as she began to pinch the bridge of her nose to try and relieve the oncoming headache.
"I'll try and do everything I can, but I can't promise any miracles." Naruto said when he saw how much it was stressing her out.
"Thanks." Jenny said with a small smile that didn't quite reach her eyes as she overlooked her destroyed town.
Turning around, he left her alone. There wasn't anything he could say to help her come out of her funk, but there was a lot he could do to help her.
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Seeing all of the aid coming in from the mainland, Naruto knew that Lance had come through. Smiling, he teleported away narrowly missing the three kids who were looking for him.
"I thought Officer Jenny said he was around here?" Misty asked as she looked around.
"She did, but it's possible that he's already gone." Brock said as he saw no sign of anyone nearby.
"But I wanted to battle him!" Ash complained as he fell to the ground in disappointment.
"Pikapi." Pikachu said from atop Ash's head.
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[Saffron City]
"Ah Saffron city. We haven't been here for a long time haven't we?" Naruto asked Alakazam as they walked down the street towards the gym. However, Alakazam was keeping them from being noticed by discreetly manipulating the minds around them.
"I wonder how little Sabrina is doing? The last we saw her, she was finishing up her training and she was going to challenge the fighting dojo for the right to be the city's gym. That was what? Three, four years ago?" He asked the floating Alakazam who didn't even bother answering as he knew that Naruto was just speaking out loud reminiscing.
"You think she'll be happy to see us?"
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[Saffron City Gym]
Eyes opening wide when she sensed a certain someone, Sabrina began to walk towards the gym's entrance. Ignoring the multitude of stares from her students, she opened the doors with her psychic powers just as Naruto was about to open them himself.
"Sabrina you look great! And you've developed amazing control, not smashing the doors to bits like you used to." Naruto said completely unaware of Sabrina's thoughts.
Not letting him say another word, she teleported them elsewhere.
All of her students could only stare in complete confusion as none of them could even pierce the blonde's mind to see what he was thinking or even his motives.
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Stumbling, it took Naruto a moment to realize what had happened and when he did he smiled as wide as he could. "That's incredible! Not only can you now teleport, you were able to actually force me along with you! I never would have imagined the progress you'd have made."
Once he he was done being proud he took a moment to look around and see where he was. "Wait, isn't this your old room? Aww, you even kept the ponyta wallpaper I got you."
For a moment Sabrina blushed in embarrassment. Getting over it though, she struck. Sending Naruto up against the wall with her powers, she took a moment to be pleased with his surprised look. "Okay, I've been gone a while and you do have a right to be mad, but please don't make me have to force you to let me go."
Knowing that she was only going to have a few more moments, she did something that Naruto wasn't expecting.
Suddenly feeling a bit chilly, Naruto looked down and saw that he was now completely naked. Looking back up, he saw that Sabrina was as well.
"Ooooh." Naruto let out in sudden comprehension.
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"I was going to celebrate defeating the fighting dojo as an excuse to finally get you into bed, but someone had to go and disappear on me with only a letter that he'd be back." Sabrina said as she rested on Naruto's chest.
"There had been an attack on Unova by an organization calling itself Team Plasma and I had been called in to investigate. For the past few years I've been keeping tabs on them." Naruto said as he played with her hair.
"What changed then?"
Sighing, he shared with Sabrina the memory of power that he felt at the Unova headquarters. Gasping from the unexpected memory, Sabrina was able to quickly regain her composure.
"Yeah, they're pretty much done for. I didn't have anything else to do, so I decided to check around and see what sort of organized crime had been set up in other regions and that's when I found out about Team Rocket." He explained as he rubbed circles on her back with his fingers.
"All of the gym leaders have been getting reports of increased Rocket activity, but nothing to warrant anything besides increased vigilance." Sabrina said as she started kissing her way up his neck.
Enjoying the sensation, Naruto met her halfway. Savoring the kiss, he was unprepared for her to push him away. Seeing her straddling him more than made up for it in his opinion.
"Enough about work. I have three years of pent up sexual frustration to take out on you and you are going to be satisfying every single one of my sick and depraved fantasies." Sabrina said with a smile that spoke of absolute certainty.
While not having the gift of clairvoyance like Sabrina, Naruto somehow felt that his future didn't look as bright as it used to.
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"An entire week of nothing but sex. To the uninitiated that sounds like heaven, but for those who have suffered through it, it's hell." Naruto said as he rested in bed.
"Oh stop complaining. We took breaks." Sabrina said as she dried her hair after coming out of her shower.
"Those, breaks, as you call them were nothing more than us stopping to eat, sleep, and use the bathroom." He shot back from his position.
Rolling her eyes, she rolled up the towel and snapped it at his bare butt. Getting a yelp from him was almost as satisfying as wearing him out as she had. "I didn't hear you complaining."
"That's cause you gagged me!" Naruto said as he raised his head up to look at her.
"Oh please, you're complaining about that of all things?" She said as she crossed her arms and looked him in the eye.
"I was fine with everything else, but the moment when someone takes my ability to speak away, that's when they've crossed a line." He said sounding furious, but Sabrina just rolled her eyes and reminded herself that it was one of the qualities that she liked about him even if it did grate on her nerves from time to time.
"Oh crap!" Naruto said suddenly startling Sabrina.
"You're a gym leader! What if you got challenged and you weren't there to answer it?" The sincerity in his voice brought back a wave of happiness that had her smiling.
"I have that covered. Now hurry up and get dressed. I want you out of my house in the next ten minutes." She said as she went about putting on her clothes.
"Back in my day people wouldn't kick you out of their house after sleeping with them." Naruto grumbled as he went about gathering his clothes.
"Back in your day women were considered trophies at best and slaves at worst." She shot back as she zipped up her outfit.
Opening his mouth to retort that, he found that he couldn't and just started putting his clothes back on and ignoring the smug feeling of superiority that Sabrina was exuding.
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"Are you going to tell me now, or am I going to have to wait for you to have an actual challenger?" Naruto asked as he walked with Sabrina to the gym.
"If I tell you how I keep challengers occupied when I'm not there, will you please shut up?" She asked as he hadn't stopped asking about it.
"No, but you're going to tell me anyway." He said with a cheeky grin as he already knew that she would crack long before he did.
"Just for that I won't." She shot back with a smirk as his grin fell.
"Fine, I'll figure it out myself. It can't be impossible to figure out." Even though he whispered that last part, she still heard him.
Upon arriving at the gym, she pulled open the doors. Moving aside, she gestured for Naruto to go in, "After you."
Narrowing his eyes upon seeing and feeling how smug she was, Naruto raised his guard and looking at the floor in front of him, he took a step forward. Feeling nothing, he took another and another until he was just walking normally.
Getting confused, he turned around to ask Sabrina what was supposed to happen when he saw the shocked expression on her face.
"That's impossible. The trap should have taken hold and held even you in place." Sabrina said with disbelief.
"Trap?" He asked before it dawned on him.
"Clever! You placed a psychic trap at the entrance with some sort of predesignated exit key." Naruto said sounding impressed and he was.
Psychic traps were difficult to maintain as they began to fall apart almost immediately after they were placed and as such required constant focus. However, since Sabrina's gym also acted as a school for psychic's she could split the focus and maintenance of the trap between her students and herself.
"How did you just bypass it like it wasn't there?" Sabrina was proud of her abilities as she had trained long and hard to gain complete control over them and to just have someone, even Naruto, just walk through one of the most incredible things she had accomplished was a blow to her pride.
"I've been caught in my fair share of psychic traps. I've had to learn how to reflexively avoid them." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.
"You avoided it?" She hadn't even known that something like that was possible!
"You'll learn how to do the same with time." Hearing him wave it off like that brought back feelings that Sabrina had long forgotten about.
Awe at seeing Naruto's abilities first hand after so many years. Jealousy that someone who wasn't even born with his psychic abilities was able to so easily outclass her. The most important of all though was the motivation she had lost as her abilities had matured.
She had been so fascinated by her psychic powers when she was young that she had almost destroyed the familial ties she had with her parents. As she got older and her powers became the norm for her, she had begun to take them for granted.
Now though?
She felt like a child again, when Naruto had first appeared at her door and showed her what she could be capable of in time. It's true that back then what he had done had been much flashier as children were more easily captivated by things like that. At this moment in time though, the sheer skill needed to not only avoid a psychic trap, which by its nature was supposed to be impossible to spot, but to do it reflexively and not even notice. Well, it brought things back to perspective again.
Here she was a woman of twenty one, someone who had trained her psychic abilities for less than twenty years, imagining herself an equal to someone who had more than ten times her lifetime of experience in using his own psychic abilities.
How arrogant was she that she thought she could measure up to his abilities when she hadn't even trained seriously in more than a year. Of course, throughout their entire reunion he hadn't said a word about it.
'That's just like him. Of course, he probably thinks I deserve to be arrogant with my abilities. He always did try and turn bad things into a positive.' Sabrina thought to herself as she smiled at how Naruto was now actively trying to activate the psychic trap.
Taking pity, she pointed to where he first stepped in. Getting the hint, he exited the building and then came back in. This time the psychic trap did trigger.
"Oh, I feel heavy." Naruto complained as he began to slouch.
"The trap is designed to make the challenger feel heavier the closer they get to the battlefield. Only those with true conviction to the battle will be able to make it through those doors." Sabrina supplied as Naruto began to walk towards the battlefield.
"How do you distinguish those who want to challenge you and those who are just visiting?" He asked as he was now halfway through the hall.
"Believe it or not, but most trainers who want to challenge me just throw open the doors and yell it out. Those who don't though, have already made up their minds about challenging me and the trap picks up on the intent." She supplied as she observed him make his way through the challenge.
She had gone through the trap herself to make sure it worked properly so she knew how difficult it could be and as such she was surprised to see him go through it so easily.
"Wait, then how did I trigger the trap?" That question had made him stop his trek towards the field.
"I forcefully activated it." She said as he took his final step and he finished the challenge.
"Oh god, sweet relief." He sighed out as he sat down.
Turning his head to look at her, he spoke with absolute pride, "Sabrina, I can say without a doubt, that this is the best gym challenge that I have ever seen."
Seeing the pride in his eyes, Sabrina was forced to look away as a certain scene started playing in her head. 'I thought only men were supposed to get the naughty school girl fantasies?'
Not seeing his ex-student having a small crisis, Naruto stood up. "Umm, not to be a freeloader, but do you have any food around here?"
Raising an eyebrow, she replied, "All we have here are a few snacks and Pokemon food."
Getting a sudden realization, she hurriedly asked him, "Hey, what happened to your Pokemon during the week?"
Patting himself over, he finally realized that he in fact didn't have any of his pokeballs with him. "Hmm, either I lost my pokemon, or Alakazam teleported them to the Pokemon Center."
"You don't sound surprised." Sabrina stated as she placed a hand on her hip.
"He's done this before. He knows that I can be forgetful about things like this, so he's taken it upon himself to do them." Naruto explained as he began to walk out the gym.
Getting into quick contact with her students, she told them she'd be going out. Following after him, she reset the trap back to its normal function.
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[Saffron City Pokemon Center]
"Were any of my pokemon a bother?" Naruto asked the Nurse Joy in charge of the Saffron City Pokemon Center.
"Oh not at all. If anything they've been quite the help." Joy said as she handed him his pokeballs back.
"Blissey right?" He said with a knowing tone.
"Oh not just her. All of your Pokemon have been so helpful. Though, I do have to wonder how you are allowed to carry more than six pokemon at a time?" Joy asked as he placed his pokeballs to his belt.
An interesting thing that Joy noticed was that Naruto's belt actually clamped onto the pokeballs themselves.
"Oh, I've gotten a special license to carry more than six. It's a rare thing to have and I believe they've actually given less than ten in the last twenty years." Naruto lied for what could literally be the millionth time.
"Oh, well then congratulations. I hope you have a great day." Joy said with a smile.
Smiling back, Naruto briefly considered asking her about the previous Nurse Joy that worked there. However, that would lead to a lot of trouble he didn't need at the moment, so he held it in.
Lost in thought as he was, he didn't notice Sabrina walking up behind him and until she grabbed his arm. "We've got to go."
Without warning, she teleported them out of the Pokemon Center. Nurse Joy could only look around and wonder about what just happened.
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"Are you seriously telling me that within the last twenty minutes someone not only challenged you to a match, they also got through your challenge?" Naruto asked surprised that it actually happened.
"Yes, now do you want to watch me destroy this challenger, or do you want to wait here for victory sex?" Sabrina asked as she picked the pokemon she would use for the challenge.
"Seriously? Still?" He asked completely surprised that she still wanted more.
"You think that a single week is all it takes to satisfy me? And here I thought you were wiser than that." She said as she walked towards the battlefield.
Walking after her, Naruto narrowed his eyes. He didn't remember Sabrina being so lippy before. Then again, he had been her teacher for a number of years and it was before she had become a gym leader. It made sense that her personality would change a bit.
It did make having sex with her easier though. It allowed him to distance her young student self against this confident young woman. It also helped that he found it incredibly attractive when she took charge.
"I have to admit that I'm impressed that you've actually managed to make it through my challenge." Sabrina told her opponent.
Before he could see who was challenging Sabrina, his Xtransceiver started ringing. Looking to see who was calling, he raised an eyebrow when he didn't see any sort of ID. Contemplating ignoring it, he answered.
"Hello?" Not the most creative ways to answer a call, but it was a tried and true choice.
"Thank god you answered." The voice coming from the other end had Naruto's eyes widen.
"Aldith! You're alive? Are you safe?" He had feared she had died in the fire.
Bodies were still being identified and he couldn't really ask for a specific identification in the far off chance she was still alive. Who knows how deep Team Plasma's hands were?
"Yes to both. I was able to get out of the castle as Reshiram was torching the place. I've pretty much just ran and haven't stopped running. I only stopped to contact you as I was sure you thought I was dead." She explained without problem.
Smiling as Aldith was still the tough as nails woman he knew, he asked, "What exactly happened?"
"It was that fucking Ghetsis' stupid plan. He used a kid he adopted, named N or some bullshit, and he initiated a ceremony that would summon one of the legendary dragons of Unova. Supposedly the ceremony would bond the kid and the dragon together." She began as she sat on the bed of her room. It was a cheap room she rented, but it had what she wanted, privacy.
"It was in the middle of the damn thing that everything went to shit. Reshiram appeared like he was summoned, but he did so by caving the roof of the damn castle in. Afterwards, it started blasting the place with fire. From there everyone just ran trying to save themselves. Let me tell you, the smell of burning flesh is the most disgusting thing I have ever smelled. I'm pretty sure I'm a vegetarian now." Aldith finished as she gagged near the end as she remembered the smell vividly.
"How likely is it that Team Plasma will be able to rebuild?" That was the question he really needed an answer to.
"Most of the higher ranked members in the organization probably died in the fire. More than likely the Seven Sages are dead. However, it's possible that one of them survived. They might try to restart the organization." She explained as she looked outside the window. The sun was beginning to rise.
"Want me to pull you out?" Naruto asked seriously as he knew that she was in constant danger as a result of her work.
"Not yet. There are a few leads left for me to try out. I'll contact you using another secure line." She explained as she knew how he could get about his people.
"Alright, just try and keep it together." He warned as an explosion occurred in the battlefield behind him. Ignoring it he listened to her reply.
"Don't worry," petting her Liepard, she continued, "When the time comes, I'll unleash my rage."
This story is now officially up and running. I'm sure that many of you have forgotten about this story since, I started it two years ago, but it's now going to be updated as soon as I finish a new chapter for it.
The other stories are also going to be updated, but you'll just have to wait a bit.
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