Hello, and welcome to another story by yours truly, Icee The Hedgehog!
So, this is my second Pokemon fic, and a side fic at that. This is just a relaxing, humor-based (within reason) fic about some of my favorite Legendaries and the mishaps they get into until Arceus decides to fix things. Wonderful, isn't it?
As for Poketech, in case you're wondering, yes, I'm working on book 2. It will be up in a few weeks, once I'm sure my readers have caught up. This is here for you in the meantime.
Please do not yell if something ends up being inaccurate about Volcanion or Magearna. They're still new, and I'm making up some parts of their history. Also, be warned - this will eventualy be a SteamGearShipping (VolcanionxMagearna) fic, so keep that in mind as you proceed.
Anyway enough with the blabbing from me! Enjoy the fic, and please review!
(Please note that I'll try to make actual chapters longer. This is just a prologue)
*THIS CHAPTER IS EDITED - RE READ IT!*
Prolouge
It all started off as just another evening for me. I had spent the morning and most of the afternoon talking with Magearna, showing her the many Pokemon that I take care of and getting her used to the world again. Magearna's made much progress in rediscovering who she is, but she's still got a long way to go. However, I'm more than willing to be patient with her. She'd been destroyed years ago, and only recently was rebuilt again, so rebuilding her personality isn't going to be an overnight thing. I'm simply grateful she's back – it's much less lonely here when she's around. I don't know exactly why, but it just is.
Once Magearna went off to attend to her duties in the Azoth Kingdom near my home, I went back to Nebel Plateu to attend to the hundreds of abused Pokemon. I gave those that couldn't feed themselves food, made sure that they were warm – things like that. At first, I was having a great day…
Until an incident occurred while I was guiding some Litleo cubs who had wandered from their parents back home. Some inconsiderate human came plowing through in what appeared to be a golf cart, swerving left and right and nearly hitting me and the cubs. What's worse is that that human didn't even bother saying 'excuse me' or 'sorry'. No. Just why would any human do that!? He just kept honking that annoying horn and telling us to move or get hit. Eventually he did actually hit me, which made me exceptionally angry. I used Steam Eruption on him and his stinking cart before leaving with the cubs to their den.
By the time I finished with the cubs, it was late, I was exceptionally angry, and my entire side where I was hit by that god-forsaken cart was throbbing in pain. Since everyone else in the area was cared for, I planned on heading to my favorite hot spring and calling it a day. And I did start to do that...
Until this very moment…
"VOLCANION! WHEN I SUMMON YOU, YOU ARE TO BE AWAKE!"
"Please, Arceus! Hoopa will behave, promise! Please don't make Hoopa have to go to a sitter while Maray and Barza are away!"
"I wanna go home!"
I am rudely awakened to these familiar sounds, along with an uncomfortable chill as if I'm lying on a cold floor. I don't even need to open my eyes to realize what just happened. Arceus just summoned me to the Hall of Origin, in the dimension where us Legendaries and Mythicals reside – well when we want to, that is. Most of us just prefer to be in our shrines, or in my case a secluded region in our home region. However, I know that when Arceus summons anyne to the Hall of Origin, it's for no good reason. And from the sounds of it, there are some other Legendary Pokemon with him…
At that moment, I feel someone kick me, and right in my hurt side. Giving a light yelp of pain, I finally open my eyes to see Arceus glaring above me. Hoopa and Douse Drive Genesect are on either side of him. Hoopa's looking like a kid who's begging his mother to buy him a candy bar, and Genesect just looks like a crying baby that's being ignored.
I slowly stand up and see that I have indeed been summoned to the Hall of Orgin by Arceus. I've only been here one other time, and that was when Magearna and I were officially welcomed as new Mythicals. I hated that whole ceremony to be honest. Arceus blabbed for two whole hours about a load of nothing, and then I saw nothing but a bunch of Legendary and Mythical Pokemon dancing around acting like fools for the entire evening, followed by a tour of every region the next day whilst listening to more blabbing Legendaries. I stayed away from every last one of those creeps, other than to help Magearna be social and learn who she likes and dislikes. I already knew one thing – I hated most, if not all of the Legendaries, and was pleased to go back home after it all concluded. And don't get me started on the questions they asked me…
"What do you want, Arceus?" I snap, none too happy to be awakened from my slumber. The worst thing to do to me is wake me up before I'm ready, and Arceus has just done it. In a sense, he's no better than those inconsiderate humans. Only difference is that I must obey Arceus, and I cannot attack him, lest I get banished to the Reverse World for all eternity like Giratina.
"Don't use that tone!" Arceus yells almost directly in my face.
Gritting my teeth, I take a deep breath, then let it out, steam coming out of my nostrils as I do. If that ever happens, you know I'm pretty well mad. Of course, Arceus being Arceus does not care.
"Anyway, why did you summon me – when I was sleeping?!" I try my very best not to yell at him. "Don't you know what time it is?!"
"I do, and I don't care – this is more important than you sleeping!" Arceus continues to yell.
Yeah, of course it's more important to you! You don't have anything else to do other than sit here and bark at us! You can sleep whenever you like!
"Arceus! Please!" Hoopa cries at that moment, grabbing onto Arceus' leg. "Hoopa will behave! Hoopa will behave!"
"I wanna get out of here! Take me back home!" Genesect cries. Arceus glares at them both.
"SILENCE! BOTH OF YOU!" he booms so loud the whole Hall of Origin shakes, tiny rocks falling from the ceiling and hitting the crystal floors. Even I cringe at the noise, my ears starting to ring after the room's stopped shaking.
Genesect and Hoopa now both sit on their bottoms. Arceus has his silence, aside from a few sniffles from Genesect.
"I SAID, SILENCE!"
The Hall of Origin shakes again and more rocks fall. This time, I almost end up on my behind. Luckily, the sniffles stop, so hopefully this room won't be shaking again…
"Now, before I was so rudely interrupted by inconsiderate Legendaries and Mythicals…" Arceus goes on, glaring at Genesect and Hoopa, who are both still silent. "Volcanion, I have a task for you, and you must start it today."
"Oh please nooooo!"
"DO I NEED TO SAY IT AGAIN, HOOPA!? SHUT UP!" Arceus is done being polite (or was he ever polite to begin with?)
More rocks fall. A rather large rock nearly hits me, but luckily I step out of the way, a glare on my face. More steam comes from my nostrils as I try not to yell. If Arceus yells one more time or Hoopa interrupts him again, I swear...!
I'm so mad, I fail to see the new gaping hole in the ceiling.
"Welp, Genesect's crew will have to take care of that hole later." Arceus says to no one in particular. "Anyway…."
"Oh good, can I stay then?" Genesect asks.
"INTERRUPT ME AGAIN AND YOU'RE GOING TO THE REVERSE WORLD WITH GIRATINA!" Arceus yells.
Fine by me. Better yet, you go there too, Arceus…
*~ONE HOUR OF STUPID INTERRUPTIONS, HALL OF ORIGIN SHAKING, AND ME NEARLY KILLING SOME LEGENDARY BEHIND LATER ~*
"I need you to take care of these two fools for awhile!" Arceus finally tells me what he called me here for. "Maray and Barza are busy and can't take care of Hoopa, and Red Genesect's out with Mewtwo for exploring. So these two need somewhere to go. And the perfect place is your home, Volcanion! So enjoy!"
Arceus was clearly just as mad as I am right now, so I understand why he was so quick to the point. I'll take care of-
WAIT A SECOND!
"You want me to take care of them?!" I yell. "Why can't someone else do it!?"
"Because, Hoopa will get out of hand if he's not under someone's supervision 24/7, and I do not want another war breaking out because of him! You are of most convenience so you will have to do it – it's not like you have anything else to do besides laze around!"
"Hoopa will not!" Hoopa protests. "You won't even give Hoopa a chance to prove that he can behave! Hoopa learned something from arguing with Shadow!"
"Not taking my chances!" Arceus says before turning to me. "That, and Douse Drive Genesect here could use some more interaction with others. He's still quite timid."
More like a spoiled brat if you ask me…
"…And since Red Genesect is out, it would be a perfect time to get Douse Genesect exposed to more Pokemon and people so that he—"
That's it…. I can hold my tongue no more… People. That was the last straw!
"Ex-CUSE me!" I yell. "I don't hang out with people. I haven't for 500 years, and I refuse to do so just so this brat will grow up—which by the way, being exposed to people won't help, because he's just a brat!"
"You will do it, and that's that!" Arceus is clearly done. "And you will do it until I say otherwise! Goodbye!"
The next thing I know; I am back at the hot spring on the Nebel Plateu where I had originally layed down. Some time has passed, as it is now pitch black outside. All of the Pokemon have gone to sleep except for the Woobats that fly the skies every night. I lift my head from the water, seeing no Hoopa and no Genesect.
Maybe all of that was just some horrible dream… If I go back to sleep, I'll wake up to Magearna here as normal... Won't I?
Just then, there's a tap on my shoulder.
"Mr. Volcanion…I-I'm scared…"
I open my eyes to see Genesect's glowing red eyes above me. I notice he's shaking lightly, truly terrified of the new place. I look behind him to find Hoopa with his arms crossed, irritated about something or another.
Nope. It wasn't a dream. It was all real. Gah! What the heck am I gonna tell Magearna tomorrow? She took a day off so we could have some one on one time, and I'm stuck with these two!
"Mr. Volcanion?" Genesect tilts his head. "I'm sorry I woke you up….but I can't sleep…I wanna go home!"
"Well try to sleep anyway!" I'm clearly still tired and cranky. "We need to be up early tomorrow. Magearna's going to be here!"
"Excuse me? Who's Magearna?" Genesect asks.
"A friend." I leave it at that. "Please be nice to her. Do you hear that, Hoopa?!"
Hoopa looks at me. "Yeah, yeah, be nice to the robot, okay."
That irks me more than usual for some reason. I find myself up in Hoopa's face, steam coming from my nostrils.
"PHEW! You stink!" Hoopa wrinkles his nonexistent nose.
"I said be nice to Magearna!" I yell right in his face. "Don't think I don't know that you're the Mischeif Pokemon! You're bound to cause something. And Magearna's very shy. She hasn't discovered herself yet. And if you ruin her day, I'll make you regret it forever!"
More steam comes from my nostrils and into Hoopa's face.
"Okay, okay, Hoopa is not gonna do anything!" Hoopa says. "Now get your nasty breath away from Hoopa!"
I step back. "You better not. Now, goodnight."
No reply from Hoopa, which is fine with me. I lay back down in the hot spring, not caring that Genesect is snuggled near me for comfort. Even though I already don't like Genesect, I can't say no to helping comfort a frightened Pokemon. It's just my nature, I guess.
Soon enough, I fall asleep for good, hoping that there is no havoc in the morning (even though I have a strong feeling there will be).