Hello, I just wanted to welcome you and inform that the main character is for the most part (almost a 100%) Self Insert, this is a war fic, and what would I do in this type of situation? Most likely die horribly or go a bit crazy, probably both, so that's what my SI will do. Also this takes place in an AU where humans are completely unheard of, not even as a folktale, somewhat similar to mystery dungeon but even more extreme and darker.
I'm not entirely sure where I'm taking this but I hope I goes well.
Also, as I taken an interest to fairy types they will appear but beware, I'm not talking about the always good pokemon, in fact, I'll be revoking the "moral license" to call it in some way that makes all pokemon good at heart and seems to prevent truly bad pokemon, I'm saying that this fic will contain "The Fair folk" I've found digging in TV tropes and other villainous pokemon of other types thought I will probably also include good members.
Warning: The following story is rated Mature because it contains adult situations such as violence, swearing and heavy lemons, and I'm actually planning to throw a rape scene or two.
Bold dialogue is for when a powerful being, like Arceus, speaks.
So, let's start.
My POV
Here I am, what am I doing you ask, I've just died.
I'm floating looking at my own corpse when suddenly I see a bright light appear behind me.
I freeze and turn around expecting a bright tunnel leading to the afterlife but I gasp when I see Arceus from the pokemon franchise.
This shouldn't be possible. I thought as I stared at Him, yet somehow I couldn't bring myself to fully deny it for one simple fact, the feeling He carried. It was power, overwhelming power mixed with the feeling I would get from looking at a holy relic and an idea, was this what being in the presence of a God was like?
If an immaterial spirit could bow, I was bowing even though I didn't like it.
He looked down on my poor soul and scowled.
I lost all my stages of attack.
"You will be coming with me" He said and then the glow intensified, it stayed white for what might have been a full minute and when it faded back I was in a white place I was convinced was the Hall of origins, but I wouldn't know since I didn't have platinum.
It was then that I suddenly realized that I could actually feel the ground, proving that I had a solid body again. Looking down I saw that I now had fur, much like my former hair it was the color of the starless new moon's night I saw sometimes back home.
I flexed my new three-digit hands and then look behind me to see butt wings and I couldn't contain a smile, I am a Victini now I thought delighted as run my brand new paws trough my new ears.
I turn to Arceus to give Him my tanks and I find Him staring at me seriously.
"Alright little creature, I'm going to explain this as simply as I possibly can; the world I'm bringing you in is a world that's being torn apart by war. A dark being that's taken my shape is trying to conquer this world, he calls himself Dark Arceus. You are here to be employed by us as a mix of a super soldier and a tactical superweapon, I have granted you the body of the legendary of Victory with all the power that implies, you're to be our ace in the hole as I found out you call it in your culture, now do you have any questions before I continue explaining, cause there is much more to explain"
I looked at Him in desperation, starting to enter a hysteria, I don't even notice how I'm now speaking poke speech "Why me? I'm perhaps the least qualified for the job, shouldn't you have picked someone from the military, any military, HELL, EVEN MY CLASSMATES ARE A BETTER PICK!"
He just cowed me with another glare.
"I think I would know what I was doing when I went to another universe JUST for you, human, there is a prophecy, one that describes YOU as the one who will deliver us victory, hence your new body."
That sounded like the plot on some adventure story, oh god, why is this happening to me? The characters in the stories, were either heroes or villains but they had the "spark" that I'm supposed to have but that I lack.
"I don't understand what I'm supposed to do, I just don't… Tell me, You seem to have been in my head or watching us or something, are there any societal differences between Pokemon and my people that I should be made aware of?" Now you might be surprised but I'm an Asperger so, among many other things, I'm really bad with social cues and I didn't want to start from scratch at all.
He sighed somehow managing to make it majestic "Well, for one thing we don't have civilization or countries in the way you would understand it, instead we are mostly organized in packs, tough some call it something else, the fae have courts as well as packs."
He pauses for a moment before continuing "I've learned that you call them fairies and I heavily recommend that you drop it now that you will live in my world, call them the fae or the "good" or "fair" folk or something like that. They can't bother ME, but they will give you a lot of trouble you don't want to deal with."
I nodded at that, a bit sad and worried that actual fairy-types resembled the old descriptions rather than the cute creatures the pokemon franchise told us about.
"Also, another difference worth noting is that we pokemon are lot more open towards mating than you humans," He looked at me at what I assume is suspicion and confusion "Why do you humans believe mating to be so shameful? We're also what you call polygamous"
I don't dare say anything, I don't even dare moving. What was I getting into?
"Okay then, what else, what else…"
"What will I eat?" I asked suddenly dreadful about the whole sustenance thing.
He blinked a bit "Whatever you hunt obviously, now you're an inhabitant of my world and as such you have the right to hunt other pokemon and enjoy your kills"
I bleached as a response, as I said before, I was an Asperger and that meant being an extremely picky eater on principle, by my very nature. Having to hunt and feed like an animal did not appease to me in the slightest, and other pokemon, seriously, I would have to eat people.
He took my silence as a cue to continue speaking "It won't be so hard, you now have very powerful and deadly psychic abilities and rather sharp fangs. Just don't go around killing for sport and you'll be golden" Yup, He was missing my point "You will have to know how packs usually work, first, there is the alpha, the absolute leader and the strongest, next you have the prime mate, who is chosen by the alpha and bears authority second only to him or her, other pokemon can make suggestion but they don't have actual authority."
At this He stopped for a breath and to change topic "Another important thing are names. I don't know about your world but here names have great power, pokemon have on a basis 4 names: The true name which is their real name and their most closely guarded secret and a great source of power, the social name which is what they socialize with, a rough equivalent would be your term of "username", the species name which should be obvious to you due those games you used to play and finally the folk name, which is a moniker or several that other people grant you. Of course, before leaving, you're first going to create a social name, since you really can't use your true one from now on."
I stayed silent and listened through all that, an alias, I could do that, I started thinking and my mind fell on two great villains: Goku Black and Bill Cipher, yeah, you know what, that kind of fit. Black for my coloring and Cipher for the encrypting algorithm, which reflected how I was keeping my identity a secret.
Black Cipher.
I really liked it.
"I already have one: Black Cipher."
"Very well, just one more thing"
The glow increased for a bit and shined on me.
"Magic is very common in this world so as a small lick of it I'm giving you a pocket dimension, now you just have to say "Inventory" and you´ll get a space where you can add or remove anything. Now it's time you know your first mission, over the course of the war several legendaries have gone missing, it's your job to save them and bring them back. Now go, go and carve the arc of victory."
The light shined bright again and I closed my eyes at the intensity, when it faded I saw that I was in a dead looking forest.
I looked around in despair and desperation for quite a bit before I decided it wouldn't do any good and decided to check myself properly.
Calming down and taking a few breaths I close my eyes and try to look for something within myself that I didn't have before, which is something that I have seen in stories and with the whole new body thing it would kinda fit.
At first the most I could do was flex my wings but much to my surprise I did feel two new things but they were very faint, suddenly I open my eyes because my new sensitive ears picked someone coming.
I am surprised to find another black Victini coming from behind a tree, followed much to my surprise by a Celebi.
I tense taking in all the details, while mostly pure black the fur of his paws and ears gray much like the one in my own paws but it looks a bit unruly and burned and paches where it's still regrowing, did he get into a fight or something?
I also notice something odd, they had genitals, legendaries in the games didn't have them. I looked down at myself and yes, I had a dick, just like the Victini before me, we're male and the Celebi a female.
"Hello. It's me, you from the future, with Celebi as our vehicle" The Victini said.
I didn't relax, for all I knew this was a trap.
"Don't worry, this isn't a trap" I heard the feminine voice in my head, but Celebi wasn't moving her mouth and was just smiling.
"We're actually here for that help you're going to need to deal with this shit since the" The Victini clapped his paws together as in prayer but what followed was a cheerful and extremely fake tone "oh-so-great Arceus left us in the middle of nowhere with zero training."
Celebi giggled and I remained still, still nervous.
The Victini closed the distance between us and put a paw on my forehead, I whimpered in fear when I felt something entering my mind and suddenly the two energies that had been so distant and faint before were now perfectly accessible and showed me their great power, my mouth opened a bit and I closed my eyes at the ecstasy of my newly-awakened powers.
"Nice, huh" My future self said, though I barely heard him "I remember it felt great, and now for the second gift"
Another pulse entered my mind and I opened my eyes in shock when I recognized it.
Undertale, more specifically RESET, my mind was being given the instructions on how to pull off videogame's resets and reloads undertale style.
The other me had a maniacal smile on his face.
"SURPRISE"
I stammered out "Where is all this knowledge coming from? Who taught you these things?"
The cherise cat grin didn't waver.
"I learned it all like ten seconds ago right here" he said poking my head "Don't you get it, we're in a stable time loop, as in TV tropes"
I gapped in confusion before it started to dawn on me.
"If that's true than the prophecy, and Celebi here, does that mean we win?"
The pair looked at each other.
"We're not from that far in the future so we can't say but know this, we legendaries have all been captured by the forces of that jerk but you trough great effort are doing a great job at saving us and fighting the dark one"
I look at my other self "Any useful suggestions?"
The smile of the other me disappeared quickly and he looked at me with a frown "Those victories, we pay for them with sweat, blood and tears, so make a SAVE file and prepare to know death again, repeatedly"
As if I hadn't had enough.
How much more trouble was I going to get into today alone.
"Celebi is in this forest, she is trapped inside a monster we gotta kill" Good to know, I thought with sarcasm.
Future me keep talking "Don't be shy of having wild sex with females, we grow to love it and it quickly turns out to be one of our extremely rare stress reliefs, there are no computers in here."
I stare at him like he's crazy, I become a shameless womanizer in the future?
"Don't hesitate to use psychic abilities on yourself to make you get over the addiction to computers, the Internet and day dreaming, you will find it much easier with self-hypnosis, you'll need full faculties for this, same with the PTSD induced nightmares."
Now that was interesting.
"And while you will only understand it when the time comes, when you escape the grasp of the winter court, don't hold back, that damn Sylveon more than deserved it, well,(sigh) that will do, establish our SAVE file as soon as we leave"
"This sounds like something out of a videogame-ouch" The other's expression had in but a moment changed into a snarl of animalistic fury and he had bitch-slapped me into the ground. I looked up to reprimand him and I found him hyperventilating.
"Listen to me, and mark my words past me, this "adventure" as you call it is a living nightmare that's going to change you into me, it's not going to be a happy fairytale, this is a war, this is hell, and by the time you catch up to my point in time, you'll be a different person., understood me, UNDERSTOOD ME!"
I nod rapidly but that's more so that I don't commit suicide more than anything else.
He takes a few more breaths before turning back to Celebi.
"We're finish darling, it's time to go back."
Celebi nodded, then she glowed and they both disappeared.
I just smiled before extending my arm and focusing my determination and willpower trough it.
A black screen appeared with the words FILE CREATED and I smiled.
Ok everyone I just wanted to say that Black will be exactly me and what it means.
He's me reacting exactly how I would react but as character development kicks in he will become more and more different.
Wow, 2613 words, what a workout in the small time I've been writing this.
