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>Sword and Shield Rewritten
>Main plot is about a rigged Pokemon league. >Leon genuinely thinks he's the unbeatable champion, it's not a persona for the fans
>Drop the whole Eternatus subplot, Rose is making money by deciding which trainer wins and loses the Gym challenge
>Gym leaders are in the scheme, but reluctantly, they get to be famous in the sport they love, as long as they win or lose the battle Rose tells them to
>Piers refusing to Dynamax is foreshadow to him secretly making a resistance, Marnie wants to be the new champion to reform the system
>The reason why Galar has no guest cameos from gen 1 to 7 is because the other regions are aware or at least suspect Galar's league is dirty
>At first Rose allows you and Hop to win matches because you are endorsed by the champion, which makes a lot of audience, but slowly he sees that you two "too good" and might actually beat Leon, his Golden cow.
>As you, the player win matches that you are not supposed to, Macro Cosmos tries to take you down behind the scenes, with Oleana as admin, and Bede, under Rose's orders, tries to take you out from the challenge publicly as beating you makes you lose fans and the else fans you have, the easier it is to get rid of you.
>You and Hop join Marnie and Piers' efforts, which makes you two the "two heroes of Galar" the "Sword and Shield" against the corrupt system
>Bede manages to take out Hop and that's when Leon figures out something is wrong
>Rose in the end uses Eternatus personally to get rid of you, but it's a trap set up by the the gym leaders and the whole region watches his evil corrupt monologue
>The Final Battle of you against Leon will be the first official battle that is not rigged in years, giving Leon an actual attempt to defend his title for real
