Lea, I'll come back for you, I promise!" a honedge cried out as it was dragged away by a pair of cottonee.
"Gil!" a flabébe called out as she watched the honedge be dragged out of the meadow.
The cottonee pushed the honedge along the path to the meadow until they arrived on Route 3, where the duo promptly threw the honedge out onto the path and went back inside the meadow.
"Lea..." Gil whimpered. It turned to look around the path, trying to see if anyone could help him.
"No one?" Gil whispered. It turned around and donned a look of horror as a person spotted it, and began to pull a Poké Ball out of his bag. "No... please. Please! Tapu Koko! Please! Help me!" the honedge begged to the sky.
Gil's prayer was answered. A lightning bolt struck down from the sky and in front of it landed Tapu Koko, the deity of Melemele Island. The trainer backed up in fear of the deity.
"Why have you called for me, little one?" the Tapu asked the honedge.
"My name is Gilgamesh. I was visiting a friend and the ribombee she is betrothed to had me thrown out of the meadow because I did not approve of him! Please, you need to help me!" Gilgamesh begged the Tapu.
"It is not my place to interfere in the relations of Pokémon." Koko told Gilgamesh. As Gilgamesh looked away in sadness, an idea began to form in the Tapu's mind. A way of knocking out two pikipek with one Rock Throw.
"But there is a human who I believe may be of assistance. I wished to seek him out but you may be able to help me and yourself at the same time." the deity told the honedge.
"Anything! I'll do anything to help you if it means I can help Lea!"
"Of course. Come with me, little one." And with that, the Tapu wrapped it's claws around Gilgamesh and flew off into the sky, leaving behind a bewildered trainer.
...
On the Mahalo Trail, in a small corner tucked out of sight of most of the people who walked the path sat a young man. His brown hair hung messily around his head. He had a black tee on with shorts and shoes. By his side rested a bag with tools hanging out of it. A screwdriver was held in his left hand, which was pale as snow as his cloudy grey eyes focussed on screwing open a panel on his right hand's wrist. His right hand was made of metal, but had many servos working as joints. The silver painting reflected the light that shone through gaps in the leaves above him. He put the screwdriver down and tested his hand, moving each of the fingers to make sure everything was still connected after getting a nettle stuck in a servo in one of his fingers.
His name was Elio Solaris, and he had just moved to Alola from Kanto.
"That's what I get for going outside..." Elio mused to himself as he closed the panel and screwed it shut again before wiping the tools down with a cloth and putting the tools back in a compartment in his bag. Pulling a glove out of the same compartment, he gently slid it over his right hand until it had reached his elbow, completely covering up his cybernetic hand and forearm.
As one of the first few people in the world to be given a cybernetic limb so far, Elio had met his fair share of curious minds. His mother, Marida Solaris, had initally told her son not to hide his hand, to be proud of how he was different. But to avoid the never ending barrage of questions about why he had been given a cybernetic replacement instead of someone else in the world, he had learnt to hide it from the people of the world. While he did not know how the people of Alola would feel about cybernetics or him being part of the first wave of people getting them, he wasn't going to take the risk of having them see it and question him about it.
Having gotten privacy on the Trail while searching for a kahuna ("He looks just like a Kahuna!" Professor Kukui, the local pokémon professor, had told him as he sent him to look for the kahuna, as if Elio knew what one looked like), Elio had removed the glove and promptly gotten the nettle stuck in a servo in his index finger while looking at the flowers and attempting to pick one to get a better look at it.
It was another lesson for the seventeen year old Kantonian to learn.
Zipping up the compartment, Elio swung the bag up onto his back and crawled out of the little corner. Emerging back onto the trail, he soon figured out where he was going and began to climb the trail again.
...
Further up the trail, a mysterious lady's bag had begun to move about, forcing her to run forward to keep hold of it. However, just before she could get on the bridge, the occupant leaped out of the bag with a happy cry.
"No! Nebby, get back here!" She hissed at the creature, but it didn't pay her any mind. It flew along happily until it landed on the other side of the bridge, where it turned to the girl and waved to her before wandering on towards the Ruins of Conflict, leaving the girl in front of the bridge.
Elio soon emerged out of the Trail and onto a small cliff and stopped moving. In front of him stood a girl with blonde hair in a white dress.
"Hello?" Elio called. This got the girl's attention, as she turned around to face him, her green eyes looking at him in confusion and worry, her face the embodiment of fear.
"Ah..." the girl whimpered.
"What's wrong?" Elio asked her.
"Please, my Pokémon flew across the other side of Plank Bridge! It has no moves to defend itself with if it gets attacked! Please, I can't cross it, I really can't..." the girl trailed off, her eyes lowering in embarassment as her legs quaked in fear. Elio shrugged and internally rolled his eyes. He had only been here a day and he was already being asked for help by the locals. Mom had drilled it into his head that people would always need help, but a random stranger on his first day in Alola, when he was just supposed to be looking for someone? Just his luck.
On the other hand, if this lady was the kahuna and he refused to help her, that would put him in a bad spot to start with.
"Fear of heights is nothing to be embarrassed about. What is it called?" Elio asked her. She looked up at him, hope sparking in her eyes.
"N-Nebby. That's my name for it." she told him. He nodded and looked at the contraption connecting the two cliffsides. It was missing a lot of wooden panels and the ropes looked worn and frayed. He hoped it was still sturdy.
"Nebby. Okay. I need you to stay here, if I don't come back, then you'll need to send someone else to come find me." Elio took a step onto the bridge. The panels creaked, but they still held his weight.
"Please be careful." the lady told Elio. He nodded and began walking over to the other side.
...
Elio could easily understand now why the girl was afraid to cross. With how old it looked and how fast the rapids down below looked, one wrong step could easily result in him plummeting and being swept away.
"Don't think about that, Elio," he chided himself, forcing him to focus on getting over it. Thankfully, he was able to cross it quickly, and walked along the path ahead.
Rounding a corner, he quickly spotted a problem.
There was a weird, cloud looking creature next to what looked like a blade that was stuck in a rock next to what looked like the entrance to a shrine. The weird thing was looking at the blade with a distressed expression on it's face. As Elio got closer, he recognised what the blade actually was.
"A honedge? What's a honedge doing here?" Elio mused to himself. He walked over to it and crouched down by them. The honedge let out a few whimpering cries that sounded like metal scraping across metal as the space cloud looking thing turned to Elio, now with a pleading look on it's face.
"I'll get it free, don't worry." Elio told it. Removing the glove and storing it in his bag, Elio firmly grasped the handle ('Or is it its head?' Elio thought) with his right hand while placing a foot on the rock, ignoring that the honedge had just wrapped it's cloth around his forearm. With a grunt, Elio pulled it free from the rock and promptly tripped over onto his backside, the honedge floating away from his hand.
"Thank you! I was stuck there for a while!" The honedge told Elio.
"Don't mention it..." Elio muttered. Then his head snapped around to the honedge. "Wait, you can talk?"
"Sort of. This is called telepathy. All of us honedge can use it, but we mainly use it as doublade use it to communicate with each other. The Tapu told me to use it to talk to whoever was able to pull me out of the stone," the honedge explained.
"Ah." Elio had read somewhere that some ghosts were able to use telepathy like the Psychic type. He just didn't know honedge could. "Oh yeah, are you Nebby?" Elio asked the honedge.
"No. My name is Gilgamesh, or Gil for short. The cosmog over there might be called Nebby." Gilgamesh explained.
"Cosmog?"
"That's what it calls itself. I've heard rumours that trainers call Pokémon by different names to what the Pokémon's actual names are."
Elio nodded. He turned to the creature Gilgamesh had mentioned.
"Is your name Nebby?" he asked it. It flapped its arms at him happily and let out a cheery cry.
"Yes, that is what this Lillie person calls him." Gil translated for Elio. Elio nodded.
"Come on, Nebby, or cosmog, or whatever you are called. That girl's worried about you," Elio told Nebby. Nebby pouted, but started floating towards the bridge.
"What about you?" Elio asked Gilgamesh as he clambered back to his feet.
"Tapu Koko told me to accompany whoever pulled me out of that stone. They said they could help me." Gil explained.
"I see. Well, I'm not sure how I can help, but you are welcome to come back to Iki Town with me, if you wish." Elio told him. Gilgamesh nodded, and the two of them walked back towards the bridge after Nebby.
...
"Do you know how much danger you could've been in? You shouldn't be wandering off like that!" the girl scolded Nebby, who at least had the decency to look guilty for making her worry.
"Hey, it did help free a Pokémon who was trapped in a rock," Elio admitted as he stepped off the bridge next to the girl and Nebby. The girl sighed and turned to face the stranger who had helped her. Before either of them could say anything, the snapping of the bridge behind them drew their attention. Both of them watched, Lillie in horror, Elio with mild interest, as the bridge broke apart and collapsed into the rapids below.
"Could've sworn it looked sturdier," Elio commented.
"Well, Hala did mention he was trying to get the bridge replaced with a newer one. Maybe now he'll get his wish," the girl replied.
"So, who are you?" Elio asked the girl. The girl looked surprised at having forgotten to introduce herself.
"M-My name is Lillie. Thank you for bringing Nebby back to me." Lillie introduced herself. The gleam of silver caught her eye, and she found herself staring at Elio's hand.
"So this is Nebby's trainer. Wait, why is she staring at your hand?" Gil asked Elio, who cursed internally and moved his hand behind his back away from Lillie's curious gaze.
"Cute name. Mine is Elio. The honedge here is called Gilgamesh." Elio introduced himself. Lillie's gaze shot up to look at his face, a faint tinge of pink on her cheeks. Elio tried to look as sincere as he felt, while also silently thanking the Gods that his attempt to deflect attention from his hand had worked.
"T-thank you." Lillie stammered out. Elio gave her a short smile as he reached into his bag to retrieve his glove. "Listen, you can't tell anyone about Nebby, okay? It's a secret." she begged him.
"I'll won't tell anyone. I promise," Elio told her as he pulled the glove over his arm. Lillie nodded and smiled at him.
"Thank you," she told him. Elio nodded and with that, he began walking down the trail.
"Wait!" Elio turned around to see Lillie walking over to him, a worried expression her face. "I-I'm sorry to be of even more trouble, but would you be able to walk me down to Iki Town? I'm worried that something will attack us." Elio nodded, earning a relieved smile off Lillie.
"Wait, where's Gilgamesh?" Elio asked. Just as he asked that, Gilgamesh came floating over to him, holding something.
"I found this stone by the bridge. It's sparkly and warm. Any idea what this is?" he asked Elio. Elio took the stone off him. It was warm and sparkly, just like Gilgamesh said.
"I have no idea what this is. Lillie?" Elio asked the blonde next to him. She shook her head.
"I guess I'll have to ask the professor when we get back." Elio tucked the stone into his bag and began walking down the path towards Iki Town alongside Gilgamesh and Lillie.
In a bush next to where they had been stood , an intense pair of eyes observed the trio as they walked away from the cliff. Someone unexpected had found Gilgamesh. But its actions showed they at least were willing to help others. Even so, it would have to keep a close eye on the situation to ensure they didn't take advantage of the honedge.
With its gift stowed away safely in the stranger's bag, the creature wondered if he would be able to stand up to the trials ahead.
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Author's Note: So here we go. Cybersun is a novelization of Sun, Moon and USUM which will follow USUM with the story using elements and events from Sun and Moon as well as changes to the story to provide a unique experience for the reader.
As you will have noticed, I have made a few major changes outright. The biggest one of all is that Elio has a cybernetic arm. My reasoning for this change is because of a theme I have running throughout the story.
Second of all is Gilgamesh. Gil is a product of an idea I've had for a while. He will play a significant role in the story alongside Elio.
I will state now, while the canon events in the story will take place, there will be some minor changes to how they take place, due to my writing style. If this is an issue, I apologise, but I'd advise people to stick around to see what they think before opting out.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon. I only own my OCs. This story is rated T due to mild swearing, violence and suggestive themes. Reader discretion is advised.