>>56226454There's already been a major change in the fact that player-owned Pokémon follow the obedience rules, not just traded ones. In TPP Anni-Crystal, you can just keep rolling with your prologue team without skipping a beat. Here, anything over L20 is pretty much dead weight until you start collecting badges again, forcing you to start fresh with a new team.
Anyway, we reunite with our distraught mother.
"Rick? Is that really you...? All this time, I thought... No, it doesn't matter. What's important is, you're safe. Oh, Rick... I was worried sick about you! Don't you ever scare me like that again! I should have installed this the moment your PokéGear came in the mail!"
She takes the PokéGear from us and forcefully installs the Phone Card.
"Please, check in with me every once in a while. OK, honey? I never want to go through anything like that ever again..."
