Into the Light
Prologue "Not alone"
Route 201, near Twinleaf town, Sinnoh region
time- 21:35 (9:35pm)
"human speech"
"pokemon speech"
'pokedex speech'
'thoughts'
(reading)
It was a brisk afternoon as the sun started to dip below the horizon. A gentle summer breeze blew through the forest. Flocks of bird Pokemon flew above the lush green trees. A dirt path cut through the forest heading toward a crystal clear lake.
Walking along the trail was a lone female trainer and her starter. She was happily walking down the path to the lake, like there wasn't a worry in the world. But she didn't look like your average teenager.
She easily stood almost 5 ½ feet tall, deep blue eyes that almost where as blue as the ocean. Her natural pink hair flowed lightly in the summer breeze but came slightly past her ears. Her long slender body cast a shadow that shaded her starter from the sun's rays.
A pink shirt with light blue cuffs shielded much of her upper body from the elements. Her lower body was covered by a thigh low pink skirt with a bit of cyan mixed in. pink boots and very light blue socks. A red watch/phone device on her right wrist. She slug her pink bag over to her other shoulder so the weight doesn't hurt her. If you hadn't guessed, pink and blue were her favorite colors.
She didn't act like most girls her age. She waited till she was 16 to get her starter pokemon. She felt that getting her starter at 10 was a bit too young. She spent the 6 years learning about how to properly take care of them and how to understand her pokemon when they start playing charades to let her know about something.
She passed a sign that read "Lake Verity-1/4th of a mile".
"We're almost to Lake Verity. I hope the stories of the shiny Gyarados is true." Emily Blitz excitedly said to her starter.
Walking along side her was Grace the Snivy, her starter from over a year ago. Snivy was a bipedal, reptile pokemon, looked a bit like a snake with short legs, a leafy 3 point tail. Along with sort of short arms. About half the height of her trainer's lower half of legs, not even up to her knees. Green body over all, creamy underside like a snake, yellow stripe going down her back and ending at the base of her tail, two short yellow leafs coming off her shoulders a bit and poked over her green scarf. Amber brown eyes and a pink bow by what is believed to be her ear.
{A/N, I am not good at describing pokemon too well. If I seem to get the description wrong, please don't take offense to it. If you don't know the pokemon I am trying to describe, please google it. Creative criticism is welcome.}
"Snivy sni." Snivy replied barely paying attention.
Grace and Emily have been through a lot together in the past year. They traveled around the Unova region at the start of there journey. Her train of thought was lost in their sea of memories together. She was remembering their first battle and how she lost horribly to a pidove. She has grown in that time and not wanting to evolve at all. She wanted to stay true to herself, to be as strong as she can without evolving.
She was also wondering how her friends were doing, back at Emily's families ranch. Archeops, Reuniclus, Jolteon, Bisharp, especially Oshawott. That little joker could keep her entertained no matter what was going on. Though now that she was away from him, she couldn't help but feel like something was missing in her life. Like part of her soul was ripped apart. She was remembering the last time they were together, before she left for Sinnoh. She can't seem to forget what he told her before she left.
~flashback begins~
3 days ago
1 mile outside of Nuvema town, Unova region
~pokemon speech translator: on~
The Blitz ranch was teaming with pokemon, both wild and captured. Emily's mother was away in town getting groceries. Large wooden fence about chest high enclosed the area behind the country style house. Pitch black tiled roof, deep sea blue siding, wrap around porch. Large area of trees on the other side of the fence. Relatively small river flew through the ranch and into the woods.
Grace was sitting on a tree branch, keeping a close eye on everyone. After what team Plasma and Rocket tried many times on her journey, she learned to keep an eye on her surroundings and her friends. {A/N I am not even going to try to describe all these pokemon coming up in the next paragraph, I will later in the story through someone's eyes. I'm sure some of you who played pokemon know at least one of them.}
Jolteon was playing tag with Zoroark, a pokemon Emily's mom captured and trained on her journey. Archeops was in a tree near the fence, trying to sleep. Reuniclus was using his psychic abilities to get an apple from a tree close to the river. Bisharp was sparing with Haxorus, another pokemon Emily's mom captured on her journey, other four include Emboar, Carracoasta, Galvantula, and Bravairy. They were either sleeping in the shade or talking about their journey from Arceus knows how long ago. Only one she couldn't find was Oshawott. Worried he got himself into trouble again, she jumped down from her tree. Only to land on something small and furry
"Ouch!" A voice yelled as Grace fell on the little blue sea otter. She landed on top of him, with their faces inches away from each other. A rosy red color quickly spread over their faces.
"Sorry about that Aqua. I should of looked." She apologized as she got up off of him. Her voice was rather soft, like something you would expect from a small child.
"It's okay Grace, accidents happen." Aqua said brushing bits of dirt off him. He looked like a blue otter with a scalchop.
His voice was a little deeper than Grace's, like he was just entering puberty. "I was actually looking for you, figured you were up in a tree somewhere watching over everyone, so I searched the one by the house first."
Grace's face glowed red but didn't know why. Was it from the fact that he was looking for her? Or that he knows her so well that he knew where to find her?
"Why were you looking for me?" She asked.
"I over heard our trainer talking to her mother before they left a bit ago. Apparently she is going to a new region soon and will ask you to go with her." Aqua explained.
To say Grace was surprised was a understatement. She couldn't believe that Emily was going to travel a new region so soon. Been less then a month since their loss at the pokemon league in Unova. Lost to a kid with a garbodor.
"I don't know how long till they get back." Aqua sighed. He seemed very nervous when he and Grace are alone. "I wanted to talk with you before you had to leave." as if almost on cue. Emily came walking from the house, looking for Grace.
"Dang it" Aqua muttered under his breath. "I may not have another opportunity" he said quietly to himself.
"Opportunity to do what?" She asked curious and confused. Aqua blushed more and looked to the ground. Sighed a bit more then looked her in the eyes
"Promise this won't change anything about our friendship." He said before quickly kissed her cheek. A rosy red tint filled their faces as Aqua looked at the ground. Grace's cheeks lit up brighter than a Christmas tree.
"Just something to think about while you are away." Aqua said smiling a bit as Emily came walking up to them.
~pokemon speech translator: off~
~flashback ends~
Grace was lost in her train of thought. Trying to think about why Aqua kissed her cheek. Did he like her? Was it his way of repaying her for something? She has been pondering on this for the past three days.
She lost her train of thought when she heard a faint explosion coming from behind them. Both her and Emily looked around. Trying to find the source.
"What was that?" Emily asked.
"Sni" grace responded shrugging her shoulders. Maybe it was some trainer battling and had his pokemon use explode. A soft rumble filled the air after the explosive sound cleared along with the sound of a almost deafening victory roar from an animal.
Grace and Emily had to cover their ears/ear-holes to prevent the roar from breaking their eardrums. Emerging into sight from the clouds was a falling aircraft, but one that Emily nor Grace had ever seen.
It was sleeker and a bit bigger than most aircraft they have seen, engines on the wings and tail from what they can see, some were spitting out fire. She was no aviation expert but she was pretty sure that an aircraft is not suppose to do that. That was about everything they could make out about it. It was surrounded by flames, like it just came from orbit and falling fast toward them.
"Grace!" Emily yelled as she grabbed Grace and quickly jumped out of the way, into berry bushes before it hit them. Dirt got kicked up as the strange aircraft hit the ground nose first, skidding across the dirt like it was butter. The wings breaking trees in half and uprooting some. A cylinder of multiple gun barrels fell on the nose of the ship and landed a dozen or so feet away from where they were.
Some of the wild Pokemon were lucky enough to not be injured by the mystery aircraft and got out of the way in time. Others were not so lucky, either by getting flattened into road pancakes or splattered by the shear mass and speed of it. One very unlucky Krickerot wasn't fast enough and got sucked into one of the non-flaming engines, causing a slight explosion, then black smoke came from the end. Causing everyone's ears in a half mile radius to ring.
It skid along the path till it was out of site. The sound of a violent splash filled their still ringing ears. Wild pokemon fled away from the lake. Emily picked herself up with Grace still in her arms.
"You okay Grace?" She asked. Emily had a few twigs in her hair from jumping in the bush.
"Vy snivy" Grace replied pulling twigs out of her scarf. No noticeable damage on her.
Emily was happy neither of them were hurt, but felt bad for the poor pokemon that did get hurt. The path was now noticeably larger with the trees along the sides destroyed. She couldn't help but wonder what was the thing that crashed farther down the path. She let Grace down.
"You know we got to go after it." She said. Grace looked at her wide eyes and shook her head
"vy Snivy Sni!" Grace yelled waving her arms like that is a very bad idea.
"We need to see if the people piloting it are alive." Emily tensely said. She didn't want to go looking for it because who knows what could be in it, but there was a possibility that someone was hurt badly in the crash. She doesn't want the guilt of leaving someone to die on her head.
Grace was still shaking her head. She seen what it has done to the unlucky Pokemon in it's way. She didn't want to be next on that list.
"I know you don't like that idea, so I'll make you a deal." Emily said. Grace raised a eyebrow (A/N do snivy's have eyebrows?)
"sni" She replied curiously.
"We go check out that crash for survivors. I'll buy you as many juicy red apples as you like when we get to town." She said holding out her hand "Deal?" She really didn't have time to be making this deal. Who knows how badly hurt the survivors are, if there were any survivors. Grace extended a vine coming from under her scarf and shook her hand.
"Snivy." She said smiling. Red apples, best way to bribe a snivy to do anything you want.
Emily started running toward the crash-site and Grace followed. The path started getting wider as they got farther down. Only the trees on the left side where demolished. Bits of red hot metal littered the ground the father they ran. A wooden sigh that read (Welcome to Lake Verity) laid on the ground.
At the edge of the lake was the weird aircraft, half submerged on it side. Wires exposed all over it's body, smoke coming from the cockpit and engines, the glass in front of it was cracked and broken in a few areas.
"Can you tell me what's wrong with her?" A deep, scratchy voice said.
Emily and Grace quickly ran behind a tree.
"What was that?" Emily whispers to Grace, she shrugged her shoulders. Emily peered around the tree. Three dead Luxray bodies littered the ground. rabid black and blue lions with a star on their tail. One was flattened in the ground, another had several cuts and scraped on it, the last one's head was separated from it's body.
An armored blue giant was onshore, away from the crash-site, kneeling over a Riachu. A Large, fat electric orange rat with a white underbelly, yellow cheeks and ears, long tail with a lightning shape at the end. But this one was different, it looked hurt.
Parts of it's body were cut, burn marks all over it, multiple areas were bleeding. In the Riachu's arms was an egg. Large yellow egg with a black bottom that was a but jagged as the two colors meet.
The armored figure was very tall, his armor was deep sea blue, had a rifle looking weapon on his back, pistol on his left thigh, multiple areas off his armor had scratch and burn marks, bits of red blood was splattered around his armor. As far as Emily could tell, this man has been in a lot of fights.
"Just by guessing and looking at her. She had internal bleeding along her abdomen, several broken ribs, one of which punctured her right lung. Without an autopsy. I can't say for certain on everything what is wrong with her." A female voice said with a English accent.
She had long hair, wore a lab coat and blue pants. Weird things were that she was completely blue, able to see though her in a few areas, and so small that she stood on a tiny chip in front of the Raichu.
"Is there anything we can do for her right now?" The armored giant asked. The tone in his voice was void of emotions, like he had seen this kind of stuff before and was unaffected by it. The tiny woman looked at him like he was a idot.
"She is dying. You didn't grab a med-kit in time before jumping on the Pelican, closest settlement is over a 2 miles away. Even at your top speed, she'll die before we can find someone to help her in time." The woman said lowering her head. "There is only one option you can do."
Emily didn't like the sound on that. She couldn't help but feel bad for the poor pokemon. She was wondering how it got that badly hurt, it wasn't near the crash.
The armored figure got up and picked the chip up. He slipped it into a port at the base of his neck. The poor Pokemon opened it's eyes a bit to see the armored figure pet it's head gently. With a slight smile, Riachu tried to reach up and hand him her egg.
"Rai." It says with a very weak voice.
Grace looked wide eyed as she saw what was happening. Pokemon were normally very protective of their eggs, not letting anyone touch them. Yet right before her eyes was a Raichu giving this alien thing her egg. Either she trusted this thing she just met, or she ate a really bad berry.
"Why is she giving me that egg?" The armored one asked as he took it from her paws. She laid her paws on her side. Breathing irregularly and barely able to keep her eyes open.
"I don't know anything about the animal's natural behavior here, but she looks to be in a lot of pain." The female voice said from who knows where. "You know what has to be done. Don't let her suffer anymore then she already has."
The armored figure gently put the egg down in a pile of grass. He pet the poor pokemon a bit before he got his sidearm out and aimed at the head.
"I'm sorry" The armored man said still sounding emotionless. Riachu closed her eyes and smiled as she took her final breaths.
The man pulled the trigger, the gunshot echoed though the trees as the remain flocks of starly took to off that already hadn't. Raichu laid lifeless in the grass, a small tear escaped Emily's eye.
Grace was horrified at the site. Putting a hand on her mouth so she doesn't make a sound yet a low gasp escaped. The armored figure quickly turned around and aimed his weapon at the tree they where hiding behind.
"Who's there? Show yourself" He demanded. With both hands up. Emily and Grace walked out from behind the tree. Where his face should have been, was replaced with a golden visor that just reflected their image, small crack was along the right side of the gold visor. Arceus only knows what lays behind that armor.
Emily wondered what was the being that had his weapon pointed at them? What was the thing he put inside his armor? And why was he here in the first place?
~0~
In this hour of victory, we taste only defeat, I ask why. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom on our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun towards which all intelligence blossoms. And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered.
I stand before you, Accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to recede.
Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs as their own. The mantle of responsibility, for all things, belongs to the forerunners alone.
Think of my acts as you will, but do not doubt the reality. The reclamation has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it.
~ur-didact, epilogue speech at the end of halo 4. Unknown time and place
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That is the end of the prologue. Hope you all enjoyed this. I want to thank my beta reader/girlfriend for fixing my errors and typos. I do plan on finishing this one. Come hell or high water I'm finishing it. yes i will include random pokemon/halo quotes in every chapter. i'll try to site the source by episode/movie/game, time it was said, and where it was said. Creative criticism is welcome, but please don't say how bad it sucks. If you don't like it, don't read it. That simple.
I will be giving shout-outs and answering question in every chapter as long as it is remotely related to the story.
If you want me to write a story about Emily's adventure, let me know in the reviews or private message me. I'm considering it but not 100% sure on If I should or not.
I thank you all for reading and I plan on updating next Friday at the time of this post. See you all later.
Dgreen20 signing out.
