Disclaimer: I own nothing used in this fic, except for my original character Agent Lightning
Author Sage Lightning: It seems that the first fanfic that I have published in years did fairly well, better than some of my other fics in their first day even. So I have decided to make a sequel of sorts, a multi-chapter one. The Search for More Money (also inspired by the merchandising scene from Mel Brooks' Spaceballs) was my criticism of the ridiculousness of the Pokemon anime's plot. Were there a good place for it to end or transition based on plot, the Battle Frontier was it. But merchandising won out in the end, and now we have a seemingly never ending series. That might be fine for some people, but as a writer it annoys me to no end, to the point that I no longer watch the anime (the games, based on their own, different plots, are much better in my opinion).
Agent Lightning: (appears from a temporal vortex) Will you shut up already? The readers are getting annoyed with you and I wanna cause mayhem and destruction!
Author Lightning: Quit whining! The story will start when I darn well-
A pokeball drops from the author's belt, opening and revealing a Gardevoir.
Gardevoir: (telepathically while putting her hands on her hips) No, it starts when I say it does! And it starts now!
Author Lightning:...ok, fine.
Agent Lightning: Whipped.
Author Lightning opened a portal and roughly flung Agent Lightning into it, beginning the story.
Pokemon: Rebellion
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts..."
-William Shakespeare
In a courtroom at an unknown location...
Q, the powerful member of the Q continuum best known for toying with Captain Picard in the Star Trek universe, made a facepalm as he sensed his foe, Agent Lightning, arriving in the Pokemon universe.
"The Pokemon universe? What in the name of eternity is he doing there? No, wait, even I probably don't want to guess right now. Sigh..."
He stood up off his throne, preparing to go stop him, when another being made her presence known.
"There's no need this time." Nayru, the Hylian goddess of wisdom, said with a smile as she appeared in midair next to Q.
"What?!" Q shouted, enraged. "He's going to attack another universe! We have to stop him!"
Nayru calmly shook her head. She pointed towards the floor, and an image of Ash walking in an endless void appeared, followed by one of Anabel crying in her room at the top of the Battle Tower.
"In any other case I would tend to concur with you, Q. However...the Pokemon universe is a special case. It is trapped in an endless cycle. What should have been never was, resulting in needless suffering. Despite his questionable methods, Agent Lightning could well be the cure for what ails that universe. Perhaps he could even reach beyond the void we can't..."
"Preposterous, Nayru. You'd be endangering the entire multiverse by allowing this to happen!"
Nayru began to lose her composure.
"And I'm telling you that this-" She pointed at the images on the floor, "Shouldn't be! Something is interfering with the natural progression of that universe, something entirely different than Agent Lightning's brand of chaos!"
Q raised an eyebrow, his way of showing surprise. Nayru had never shown that much emotion before. And he had to admit that she had a point. Something else didn't add up. He sighed and rubbed his forehead.
"Fine. Fine! We'll try it your way, but mark my words, if he deviates from what you expect of him, I'll bring YOU before the Council of Aeternum!"
Nayru grimly nodded her assent. The Council of Aeternum was a council made up of powerful representatives from much of the multiverse, and Q was the current Council Leader.
Nayru waved her hand at the floor, changing the image to a live feed of the Pokemon universe, showing Ash traveling in a far flung corner of the seemingly never-ending Pokemon world, with yet another group of friends that he would end up leaving behind. Their gamble had begun.
