Your writing is so good!
I really appreciate the idea of Ingo being the one that ended landing himself in Hisui by messing around with time. I'm curious about what happened, was it the multi line that was derailed? The doubles? One meant only for public transport without any battles? Were they together as it happened, or was Emmet manning the train on his own?
I would love to see more from this AU, thank you so much for your work!
Aww thank you, you're so sweet. 😭
And yeah I thought it would be an interesting twist if him ending up in Hisui was at least partially his fault. Like he messed with something and that synchronized with the rifts in Hisui. Also thinking that a certain someone took advantage of Ingo's feelings of guilt and desperation in order to manipulate him by giving him just enough knowledge to meddle, but not enough for him to succeed in what he actually wanted to do.
Only the Doubles line was running battles at the time, so Emmet was on that train while Ingo was in the control center. Emmet had just won the final battle against the challenger when the derailment happened. In a split-second decision he sent his one unfainted Pokemon to protect the challenger, leaving himself unprotected. Ingo was one of the first to arrive on the scene of the derailment after the emergency alarms went off, and once Ingo found Emmet pinned, bleeding, and unconscious inside the wreckage... It broke him. He absolutely has PTSD from that.
As for there being more, I have a lot of Thoughts about what I could do with it already. I’m working on a next segment now(reunion with Elesa and his and the twins’ Pokemon teams since hospital visiting hours won’t be open again until the next day), and will probably post that first bit as the first chapter of a fic on Ao3 after a few edits to clean up clunky prose. Honestly I’m kinda surprised that so many people liked what I wrote so far, but I’m glad it’s making people happy!