Thank you for helping, I was trying to avoid the 5 extra minutes it takes to run and fight May, then run back down and listen to the speech. If I can just start a game, get the mystery gift, then get to the pokemon center to get it from the delivery person, that'd be best.
Also wondering, all I plan to do is to transfer the volcanion with the assault vest out, reset my save data, then get the next code redeemed, and do that until I get them before transferring the volcanion back from this into my AS game. I just wanted to be sure that afterwards, there would be nothing messed up in the volcanion data.
Alternatively, if there's a way to just duplicate the assault vests I'd lose, I'd just use the normal pokemon bank and drop the items, then after I transfer them back, duplicate the last volcanion's assault vest. I don't know how to do that, though. I do have A9LH and Luma installed, though.