Chapter I: The Two Dragons
Hilda looked to the sky. She did not understand why Zekrom had taken her to this grove, but when a legendary being with the power to create an entire region decides to go globetrotting, you usually humor it, even if you are the one who is meant to be in charge. This was a flat grassy gap a little off the new Victory Road, accessible only to Pokémon of exceptional flying or climbing ability, or alternatively those with unmatched determination. Zekrom seemed to be waiting for something, and was quite content to wait, so Hilda resigned herself to waiting with him. She let her other Pokémon out of their pokéballs. It was a nice spot, so she didn't see why they shouldn't enjoy it along with her and Zekrom. In the distance, she heard wing beats. Something large was coming this way.
Reshiram descended on the grove. It sensed its other half, Zekrom. She knew that N desired to know the fate of the hero, and that Zekrom would show them.
"You said you would show me a surprise," said N. "Is it a good surprise?"
"If it were a bad one, would I take you towards it?" replied Reshiram.
"You wouldn't," acknowledged N. From his vantage point riding Reshiram, N could see for miles. Still unsure of the nature of this sojourn, he clung to Reshiram's back. As far as he could tell, this was near the new Victory Road. He did not understand what was wrong with the old one. There was nothing wrong with it, as far as he could tell. At least the Durants and Rufflets in the area would no longer need to put up with humans trampling all over their territory. Durants were like sand, he reflected. Whether you liked it or not, they got in everywhere. Now Reshiram was going down into this grove. Beneath them N could see some Pokémon and a human, but their identities were unknown to him. Reshiram landed and N dismounted. He recognized his company immediately.
"Hilda!" he called out.
"Oh, hi Mr Initial," replied Hilda. "I guess you're still all, save the wailords and stuff. Thing is, Zekrom was flipping out, and then I asked him to show me what was wrong, and he took me here." N raised an eyebrow. Mr Initial. Save the wailords. Flipping out. Hilda had a very different style of speech to him, but if it worked, it worked.
"Reshiram did something similar," N explained. "I think the legendary Pokémon were trying to get us to meet."
"Well, if they did, it's mission accomplished for them," replied Hilda. "I've been searching for you for a while, but then I kinda gave up for a while. Discovered a mystical land beyond the sea called France, was extra in Timegate Traveler 2, you know the drill. Just general stuff."
"Timegate Traveler 2?" asked N, his curiosity aroused. "That was the first movie I ever saw at the cinema. It was the one where Pokémon keep humans in balls and use them to fight instead of the other way round, wasn't it?" Hilda almost made a comment about N only having just seen a film at the cinema and having a deprived childhood, then remembered that the latter part of this thought was true.
"I searched for you all these years," whispered Hilda, but loud enough for N to hear. "And now that I've found you, I have nothing to say." Any further comment was interrupted by an absol that had approached. The absol called out and paced up and down, unnerved by an unseen danger. Seeing one of their number behaving in this manner, Hilda's Pokémon moved up and down the grove, attempting to seek the unknown danger.
"What's wrong with them?" asked Hilda. Absols could predict danger, so when one acted like this, it was nothing to be sneezed at. N approached the absol, and attempted to calm it down. The absol whispered something to N in the language of its own kind, and N returned his attention to Hilda.
"Absol says they're coming," he told her.
"Who are coming?" asked Hilda.
"I don't know."