in fairness I’m pretty sure time machines already existed in generation 2 games. I remember upstairs in the pokemon centers they had some in-game “brand new time machine tech” justification for letting you trade between gen 2 and gen 1; because gen 2 also had the kanto region but in the future of gen 1, where you could battle gen 1’s player character Red as the secret boss who went into isolation after winning the pokemon league, etc. I thought that shit was so cool as a kid (battling red, the time machine was whatever)
And it’s not that farfetch’d, because there was always super high tech sci-fi aspects. Bill had the transporter and transmogrifier that Brundlefly’d his ass and then fixed him normal. and the whole “virtualization of pokemon into pokeballs and PC storage” thing itself.
Excellent principled praxis! When circumstances demanded a stand out of you, you were prepared with anti-imperialist understanding and the Marxist resolve to make, take, and hold it. Well done , comrade!