>>50811069In fact, I am going to attempt to summarize all of Reborn from memory. You fucking read that right.
CHAPTER 1
(You) and your mother are on a boat towards the region of Aevium, an archipelago that used to be a bigger landmass but was torn up by a massive disaster called Storm-9 about 50 years ago. You overhear your mother taking orders from a girl called Crescent. Crescent calls your mother a doll, implying she's an artificial being of some kind, and orders her to give (You) a safe and loving life. Naturally, this is interrupted when the boat is attacked by Team Xen. Crescent helps get you to safety, but ultimately your mother shields you until you get rescued. You were registering as a trainer in Aevium, so you get a Pokemon from the local professor, and are introduced to your friends/rivals, a boy called Ren, the professor's daughter Melia and the local gym leader Venam. Melia is revealed to have some super special power that lets her not just attract shiny Pokemon, but even create shiny Pokemon, as she's been doing an experiment to make Garbodor from rubbish and they turned out shiny because SHE made them.
You and new friend Melia go for a trip into the woods, where despite having just met you, she pours her heart out to you and reveals she's also a super skilled battler in line to be a gym leader at a young age. Your perfect day of friendship and happy fun is broken up as Team Xen suddenly attacks with the intent of kidnapping her. Shadow Pokemon are suddenly introduced and Melia reveals that she has a snag machine to let (You) catch them. In previous versions, she was intelligent enough to build it on the spot. Where Reborn had PULSE pokemon, Rejuv has the totally different 'Rift' Pokemon, with more bizarre justification. Melia finds out that her dad was actually part of the evil team and instructed to hand her over, leading her to run off and for her friends to chase her, somehow including (You).
>>50811135It's not really bad, just poorly used.