Chapter 1: A New Threat Arises

Grendon and The Spirit of Life were chatting under The Tree of Friendship, facing the sunrise. The tree was a memorable landmark of where he and Vivi viewed Serene Village from afar. The reason why he chose this place was to discuss with The Spirit of Life in private. The Spirit of Life spoke:

"Dark Matter does not only exist in Pokémon World; it also exists in other planets inhabited by living creatures. Dark Matter regenerates slowly; but once it has gathered enough strength, it removes The Tree of Life from the planet; letting the living succumb to their own demise. Once its job is done, Dark Matter travels around the universe; looking for other planets to destroy. I have foreseen that one of them is heading towards our world; and it is stronger than the one we faced before. We might need to summon the heroes from other universe to save our world once more."

Grendon replied solemnly, "I see. However, Hydreigon, I have lost my power to summon them. It is entirely up to your strength to do so. But, is it really applicable to summon them from their universe together? Isn't The Realm of Inbetween might be distorted while doing so?"

"I am aware of this. As long that no one is summoned here after one month, the realm will recover."

"I guess Worldcore accepted your proposal isn't it?"

"Yes. I have to discuss whatever I am doing to It after all."

He nodded, "Okay, you do it. I shall bring Vivi on this spot now."

She put her 'hands' together and made a prayer, "Alright. Here it goes!"

"Vivi! Wake up!"

Vivi barely opened her eyes to see a Mudskipper Pokémon, and yawned, "Grendon…it is our day off. Why must you wake me up so early in the morning?"

"I wanna show you something. Now let's go!"

She got up on her four stumpy legs and swung her leaf on her head, "Fine…I am up."

They made their way on top of the hill. Besides Hydreigon, she spotted three Pokémons around her. They were chatting about something. And when they mentioned they were humans, her leaf stood up. She dashed towards them and enquired of them:

"Wait…are you guys, humans?"

A female leaf tail lizard was the first to respond, "So…you are Vivi huh? You look adorable being a Chikorita! And yup! We are humans summoned by The Spirit of Life from the other worlds. My name is Maginvade the Snivy. Nice to meet you, Vivi!"

A green four-legged thin shelled tortoise with a sprout on her head said, "My name is Shuy. I have an ability to foresee the past and future. As you can see, I am a Turtwig."

"And I am Eterna the Braixen. I have a slightly different coloured fur from other Braixens. Well…you will understand later. It seems that we have to accompany you on a journey." continued the fire vixen.

"Wow, Shuy is an esper or something?" thought Vivi, and she had a question to ask, "A journey? What is that?"

Grendon replied to her with a distressing look on his face, "Well you see Vivi, we have another quest; a world saving quest. Dark Matter from another planet is approaching here, and it is more powerful than the one we defeated before. That is why Hydreigon summoned the heroes from their universe to aid you."

"Oh…and what do you meant to aid me? Aren't you coming along?"

"Unfortunately, I shall carry on our duties as Pokémon Expedition Explorers. You will have to go with them without me."

"But…I understand. As long you don't disappear from me again."

He smiled, "That was…a different circumstances. I promise I won't do this again. Oh goodness, I am not my cheerful Grendon self am I?" He used his head to nudge her and shouted out, "Vivi! Go out there and have fun with your new companions, and tell me of your adventures when you get back!"

She responded, "Okay okay! I guess we need to hire Lapras to send us to The Tree of Life then."

"Actually," said Eterna, "if you can visualise that area Vivi, I can open a portal to there."

Vivi beamed, "You can do that?"

"Yup." She turned to face Hydreigon and continued, "Spirt of Life, when will Dark Matter arrived on Earth?"

"Roughly a week if Dark Matter maintains Its speed to Its destination."

Maginvade cheered, "That is plenty of time! Why don't we explore the continents before heading there then?"

Shuy voiced her opinion, "Isn't it is better to wait at the base of The Tree of Life? We can't afford to let Dark Matter affecting the sacred tree."

"But we don't need to plan for days to defeat It isn't it?"

"I think," commented Vivi, "we should discuss what to do in that place first, then we can decide whether it is okay for us to go for a trip."

Eterna agreed, "I support her decision, and I have plans that we can go for a trip and protect the tree at the same time. Anyway, shall we warp to that place now?"

They nodded.

"Okay. I would like you to visualise the location, Vivi."

Vivi pictured the scene in her mind.

Eterna read Vivi's mental image and exclaimed a little, "Wow…that is very stunning and mysterious place! Good, I shall open a portal now."

She opened a portal. It floated vertically above the ground. Vivi was baffled to see the swirling blackness within the portal.

"This…looks like the power of Dark Matter! What exactly are you, Eterna?"

Eterna answered to her calmly, "Hmm…my power isn't exactly like that. I will explain to you later. Let's go."

Vivi was sceptical of Eterna, but decided to enter the portal since Shuy and Maginvade trusted her. She said her goodbyes to Grendon before joining the heroes into the portal. As they were warped away, Hydreigon spoke to him:

"Grendon, you should restore Vivi's memories once she returns. She has the right to know who she is."

He shook his head, "I know, but I would only do so if she wants to. Right now she is convinced that I had wiped her memories. And…"

"And?"

"She might prefer not to remember her human memories at all."