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Hey, everyone! This is AstroStarWarrior, or Astro for short, saying welcome one and all to my story! This story is based off one of the best Pokémon games, in my opinion, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky! Although, if any of you haven't played the game, I'd suggest not reading this, because there will be some spoilers, mainly in this prologue. Of course, you're welcome to read anyway, but remember that you've been warn. XD
Anyway, this story is actually based off the ending to Special Episode 5: In the Future of Darkness, where Grovyle, Dusknoir, and Celebi worked together in the end to battle the Primal Dialga of the future (Spoiler). However, the ending is much different than what we know. They were all spared from disappearing (Spoiler), but in this one, they weren't. Although, how can I be making a story about them if they're gone? Simple! I believe, now that the future has changed, they changed too. I mean, they could still be born, right? ;)
How about I just let this story explain it. With that said, let's get on with it! Here's the prologue to my version after the Pokémon of the future disappeared. Life always finds a way in my opinion. Though, before it does, let's take a look back at the final moments of the future trio. I did make some slight changes to hopefully make it a little more...memorable than it already is, in my opinion. Enjoy, everyone! :D
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: The Reborn Future
Prologue: The Sun Rises Again
Long ago, the Pokémon world changed when Temporal Tower collapsed. When it did, time began to go out of whack across the planet until it was brought to a complete stand still. Now the world had gone from a place of peace and harmony to a place devoid of light. The wind never blows... The sun never rises... Even the falling rocks, leaves, and dewdrops were left floating in the air. The planet was paralyzed, and because of time was no longer in his control, Dialga, the master of time, became corrupted and changed into Primal Dialga.
Ever since Dialga changed, he felt no emotion and only cares about keeping time the way it was now. However, there were some Pokémon that couldn't accept this. They couldn't stand living in this darkened world any longer, and thus, the plan to change history commenced, but Primal Dialga wasn't gonna let that happen so easily. He sent his henchmen, Dusknoir, to stop the one called Grovyle and his human partner from going back to the past and stopping Temporal Tower's collapse. If the future were to change, then all the Pokémon of that time, including Primal Dialga, would disappear. Dusknoir was one of those Pokémon that wouldn't allow it, refusing to disappear, but Grovyle, believing in a better future for all, was willing to give his life just for that. It wasn't just him, but others that weren't effected by the darkness of the world, like Celebi, the one that helped Grovyle and his human partner go to the past.
(Song Plays - Dialga's Fight to the Finish!)
It was a long and rough journey, but Grovyle managed to collect the Time Gears that were necessary to stop Temporal Tower's collapse. However, Dusknoir attempted to stop him before he could reach the tower. In order to stop Dusknoir, Grovyle took him and himself back to the future, leaving the fate of the world to his human partner, who mysteriously turned into a Pokémon when coming to the past. Now that Grovyle was back in the future, all he could now was battle Primal Dialga, in hopes to stall for enough time to let his partner finish the mission to change history, and with the help of Celebi, and even a changed Dusknoir, they set out to stop the corrupted master of time.
Right now, on an island known as Frozen Island, at the summit of the highest mountain, the battle between Grovyle, Dusknoir, Celebi, and Primal Dialga could be heard. The battle shook the mountain as Primal Dialga wasn't acting like his normal self. Because time was being changed and the plant's paralysis was beginning to fade, Dialga's corrupted state was effected greatly, making him reckless and out of control. In response, he headed to destroy the Passage of Time, which could leave to something catastrophic if he were to do so. However, Grovyle and the others caught up to him in time to stop him, but as they battled, they could see bright balls of lights around them and Primal Dialga, meaning that they're time was almost up. Even so, they continued the fight.
(Song Ends - Dialga's Fight to the Finish!)
It wasn't easy, battling someone as powerful as Dialga, but in the end, Grovyle and the others succeeded in damaging the out of control master of time enough to bring him down to one front leg knee, groaning in pain as he tried to get back up. However, when he did, he let out one last mighty roar that shook the mountain before feeling the pain again, falling to one knee, and then collapsed on his right side. Meanwhile, Grovyle, Dusknoir, and Celebi were barely keeping themselves up, out of breath and had sustained injuries all over their bodies, and it wasn't long until they fell to their knees, or in Dusknoir's case, the bottom half of his ghostly body.
"Ugh...!" he grunted in pain as he felt his body getting heavier. "M-My body... My body's...heavy!"
"B-But... We...did it." Celebi panted, feeling her tiny body becoming heavier too.
"Yeah... We...finally defeated...Primal Dialga..." said Grovyle, appearing to have taken slightly more damage than Dusknoir and Celebi as he turned his head towards the slowly rising sun in the distance. "Daybreak...is near... Now... Now we can...only wait... Here... For the end to come..."
Just then, the balls of lights around their bodies began to intensify and appear more and more, indicating that their time was almost up, something that Dusknoir took notice of instantly. "The end...is coming... We're...fading..."
But then, the same thing began to happen to Primal Dialga, only his was happening much faster than the others, which might be because of all the energy he recklessly excreted during the fight. In response, the corrupted master of time groaned loudly, surprising Grovyle and the others as he made one last attempt to stand up, only to fall back down and then disappeared into the light, like he never existed.
"D-Dialga...!" Grovyle shouted, feeling bad for the poor corrupted mast of time, despite that he was the enemy.
Although, his sight turned towards Dusknoir when the ghost Pokémon fell to the ground with the rest of his body. "Gah...!" he cried in pain as the lights around him grew more intense, just like with Dialga.
"Dusknoir!" Grovyle shouted to his fallen enemy turned ally.
"D-Dusknoir..." said Celebi, concerned for the ghost Pokémon as the lights around her began to intensify more, catching Grovyle's attention quickly.
"C-Celebi too...!" he exclaimed as he watched the time travel Pokémon fall to the ground with the rest of her body like Dusknoir did.
But as he felt his body growing heavier and heavier by the second, Dusknoir managed to turn his sight towards Grovyle. "Ugh... G-Grovyle..." he said weakly, surprising Grovyle as he quickly turned his gaze back at the ghost Pokémon.
(Song Begins - In the Morning Sun)
"Grovyle... Please...tell me..." the ghost Pokémon plead. "M-My life... Did it...shine...?"
At first, Grovyle was shocked to hear such a question from his once sworn enemy, but when he took a second to think about it, he smiled. "Yes. Extraordinarily. Without a doubt, Dusknoir..."
"...I'm glad..." Dusknoir replied, closing his eye, showing a small tear run out of it. "I-I am... I am, up to...the very end...wavering... Honestly... I lived...because of you, Grovyle... It's...thanks to you. Thanks to you, Grovyle... I have...no...regrets..."
"Dusknoir..." said Grovyle, feeling sorry for the poor ghost Pokémon for everything he must've put him through up to this point. "I'm..."
"It's okay... I truly...regret nothing..." Dusknoir stated as he managed to turn himself over to his back, opening his teary eye to gaze up the aurora high in the now moving sky. "Though we...had our differences...Grovyle, you... It was because of you... My life...had some meaning. Chasing you... Stopping you... And now...fighting alongside you... The thing you said to me... Before we got here... I'll never...forget..."
At that moment, Dusknoir flashed back to when he and Grovyle were in pursuit of the Sableye and the new henchmen serving Primal Dialga, though it turned out to only be a deceptive act to fool Grovyle by Dusknoir. But before that, after taking a heavy injury while fighting off a Mamoswine and some Glalie, the two hid to avoid being spotted by the Sableye and rested for a little while. During that short time, Dusknoir asked why Grovyle was fighting so hard to change the future, even though he knew he'd disappear afterwards. Dusknoir didn't want to disappear, so he couldn't understand why Grovyle was willing to accept such a thing. His response was this...
"The important thing isn't how long your life. It's what you accomplish with your life. While I live, I want to shine. I want to prove that I exist. If I could do something really important, that would definitely carry on into the future. My spirit will always live on. And so, even if I were to disappear, I think that all that I've accomplish will go on. That is, that would mean... That's living. Right?"
Remembering those words, Dusknoir closed his eye again and began to chuckle happily, which came to a surprise to Grovyle and Celebi, never seeing Dusknoir sounding so happy before. "Heh... Heheh... Heheheh... Grovyle... I...will never forget...those words..."
Dusknoir... If only...things between us...were different... thought Grovyle, almost wanting to tear up, despite how tough he was, but Celebi, she was already showing some tears for the ghost Pokémon.
Dusknoir... she thought as she looked away, not wanting to see him disappear as Dusknoir reopened his eye just when his body was becoming more transparent, surprising Grovyle.
"...It's strange though... It really is... But... For the first time...in my life...I...truly feel..." he said just as he disappeared, shocking Grovyle as he watched the last of lights that were around Dusknoir disappear, hearing his final word. "...happy."
"Dusknoir..." said Grovyle, trying to fight back his urge to cry, but then he felt pain go through him again from the fight. "Ugh...!"
Just then, the lights around him began to intensify, shocking him at first, but he quickly calmed down. "M-Me too... Me too... So slowly..." he stated as he turned his sight towards Celebi, forcing himself to crawl towards her. "C-Celebi..."
Fortunately, she wasn't far from him, and once he was near her, Grovyle picked up the small time travel Pokémon, holding her bridal style. "Celebi... Are you all right?"
"Y-Yes... I'm fine..." she answered weakly, feeling her body getting ever so heavier, despite being picked up by Grovyle.
It wasn't long after Grovyle picked up Celebi that the sun began to show more over the horizon, catching Grovyle's attention as he gazed at it, smiling. "That's... It's the morning sun... The sun is up."
To hear such a thing, Celebi managed to lift her head up enough to see the sun truly was rising, spreading out light over the once never moving ocean and revealed the true beauty of Frozen Island. To see such a thing, Celebi gave a weak smile.
"Can you see it, Celebi...? The morning sun?" Grovyle asked, which Celebi gave a small nod in reply.
"Y-Yeah..." she answered happily but weakly. "This is... This is... Is this really...the morning sun...?"
She took a second to take it all in. The brightness that the sun emitted, and the warmth she felt when the sun's rays hit her tiny body. She heard about it for so long, but never did she imagine she'd ever see such a thing in the darkened future. "I... I had no idea... A world in which the sun rises... It's beautiful..."
"I know..." Grovyle replied, remembering seeing the sun rise for the first time in front of his eyes when he went to the past. "I thought the same thing...back then... I still think it even now..."
"The sun... I had no idea...that it could be this warm..." Celebi smiled, but then she closed her eyes tight when she and Grovyle felt tremors throughout the island, or throughout the world as everything began to move from its once stuck in place spots.
Grovyle held her close and tight, making sure she doesn't fall out of his grasp as he too closed his eyes tight, while Celebi placed a hand on Grovyle's chest, a small tear coming out of her. "Grovyle... I... I lost so much... But... Being able to see the sun...before the end... And...to be able to see it with you... I'm glad...that I'm alive. I'm really glad..."
"I am too, Celebi..." replied Grovyle, though not wanting to see Celebi disappear in front of him like Dusknoir did, he kept his eyes shut, and so did Celebi.
"Good-bye, Grovyle... I... I..." Celebi tried to say, but her last words wouldn't come to her as the tears ran down her shut tight eyes, but she knew what she wanted to say. I'm so happy...
At that moment, the lights around Grovyle and Celebi became more intense and their bodies were becoming transparent, just like Dusknoir's. Their time...was up.
The tremors could be felt across Frozen Island as the wind blew harder and harder and the land shook, frightening the Sableye that were at the foot of the mountain that Grovyle and the others went up to stop Primal Dialga. Even the Snorunt, Glalie, Mamoswine, and Spiritomb were frightened by what was going on, more so when they saw lights appear around them, indicating that they were disappearing too. It wasn't just them, but every Pokémon across the planet were feeling the same tremors and seeing the same lights surround them. The future had changed, and so their time was at an end too.
Temporal Tower, that had been in ruin for the longest time, was somehow being restored to a point where it almost collapsed, still appearing to be slightly damaged from the events of the past. Meanwhile, all the rocks, leaves, and dewdrops that were floating in the air for as long as everyone can remember, began to fall to the ground. This happened all across the barren wastelands of the world. The wind blew once more... The sun shined its light over the darkness... The once paralyzed planet was finally moving again. The so called longest day in history...was over at last.
(Song Ends - In the Morning Sun)
When the tremors finally subsided, everything was silent. Though time began to move again, the world was still barren from all that had happened during the planet's paralysis. Not a soul was seen, but only balls of lights that were fading away once the Pokémon they surrounded disappeared from existence. Even at the summit of the tallest mountain on Frozen Island, Grovyle and Celebi too had disappeared. All that was left of them were the lights that surrounded them slowly fading away and the stain of tears that were left behind on the ground by Celebi.
Just like that, they, along with all the Pokémon of the darkened future...were gone.
It was finally over. The long journey to restore the plant to its once former state had ended. When the lights of the disappeared Pokémon were all gone, the planet itself began to change. Everything that was once barren and ruined mysteriously changed into the complete opposite. The green returned to the forests, the plants, and the grasses. Clouds took shape once again high in the now blue sky. The rivers, oceans, and waterfalls began to flow again. And as if they had never disappeared at all, Pokémon began to appear all over the place, going about their day and doing their own things, like the darkened future never existed to them, which, because of Grovyle and the others, it never did. The world...was at peace once more.
The proof of that was somewhere in a forest as a small Pokémon was seen running through the forest trail, laughing like a little kid without a care in the world. This Pokémon turned out to be Treecko, having a smile on its face as it stopped to catch its breath before looking back at the trail behind it. "Heheh..." the Treecko chuckled, sounding like a young boy. "Looks like I lost him. He'll never find me now."
But just when he said that, he heard rustling sounds in the nearby bushes, catching his attention. "Huh?" he turned his eyes over the bushes and slowly walked towards them, being a bit cautious though. "What...?"
Then, once he was close enough, a Duskull jumped out in front of him, getting right in Treecko's face. "BOO!"
"AAAAAHH!" Treecko screamed in response as he stammered back and fell on his behind. "Ow!" he shouted as he shut his eyes tight from the pain of the fall and rubbed where it hurt, while the Duskull couldn't help but laugh, sounding like a young boy too, but slightly older.
"Heheheheh... Gotcha again, Treecko." he stated as Treecko got back up and shot a glare at the ghost Pokémon.
"That wasn't funny, Duskull!" Treecko exclaimed in anger as Duskull's laughter subsided.
"Heheheh... If it isn't funny, then why am I laughing?" asked the ghost Pokémon, trying to prove a point, while Treecko rolled his eyes.
"Whatever." the young gecko Pokémon replied as a smile returned to his face. "Let's go again, Duskull. I'm sure you won't find me this time."
"You sure about that?" Duskull asked with a slight happy chuckle. "Heheh... Face it, Treecko... I'll always find you."
"We'll just see about that. Someday you won't." Treecko laughed with his eyes closed, making Duskull do the same as he found it funny.
"Yeah... That'll be the day." Duskull stated before he continued laughing with Treecko, both boys acting like there were no problems in the world.
But as they laughed, they were unaware that a small figure was watching them from a distance behind a tree. The figure turned out to be a small pink colored Celebi, but unlike normal Celebi's, other than its shiny style color, this one was about three quarters of the height of a normal Celebi, which're normally two feet tall. "Heheh... They're funny." said the Celebi with a smile, sounding like a young girl as she watched Treecko and Duskull laughed from her hiding spot.
Although, her eyes were mostly set on Treecko. It's hard to explain, but for some reason, just looking at the young gecko Pokémon made her smile widen. On the inside, just by looking at the young boy, she felt...happy.
(Song Plays and Ends whenever you feel it should - Life Goes on!)
They may not know it, nor will they ever, but these three, in a different life, were the ones that helped change the world into the way it was now to them. Thanks to these three brave heroes, the once dark future was no more. The light had returned to the world. New life and new beginnings awaited. The sun was again shined across the world of Pokémon, and it was all thanks to these three. Though they're gone, their spirits live on. From one life...to another. Even when some things end, new things begin. This is just the beginning...of a new adventure. A new adventure...in this reborn world.
NEXT TIME... A NEW ADVENTURE BEGINS!
Author's Thoughts and Opinions:
Celebi... For someone as small as you are, you've done some extraordinary things. It's because of you, our heroes were able to go to the past and fix the planet's paralysis. Though you may be a bit odd, or at least to Grovyle, you're one of the best Pokémon around. I gotta admit, and I'm not afraid to admit it, but you are pretty cute. Of course, I could just be saying that because you're a shiny and small. XD
Dusknoir... I hated you when I first found out the truth about you and what your intentions were the whole time. However, after playing that last Special Episode, I finally come to understand you better. To be honest, I wouldn't want to disappear either. However, even if I were, the future would be bright again, and in the end, you saw that too, I think. Though you aren't one of my favorite Pokémon, you'll always have a special place in my mind. You're a living proof that there truly is no such thing as a bad Pokémon. :)
And the best for last, Grovyle... When I first heard of you, I thought you were the bad guy, but after hearing your story and what has become of the future, I understood. You were only trying to fix everything and I tried to stop you. I apologize. But when I heard what would become of you after the future had changed, my heart sank. Still, despite knowing that, you didn't care what your fate was. You risen above it and moved on to make a better future for all. You truly showed the signs of a hero. After everything, you've become one of my favorite Pokémon, even to this day. The next time I get a Treecko, I'll keep it as a Grovyle in your memory. Good-bye, Grovyle... You'll always be, to me, the greatest hero in all of Mystery Dungeon history! :')
There you have it, everyone. Sorry that I had to make this sad moment even sadder than it was originally. I felt that it just needed a little extra to make things more dramatic and heart felt. Either way, even if they disappeared, somehow, life finds a way to bring them back. In this story, we'll find out what becomes of the newly born trio and the adventures they get themselves into. I hope you guys weren't crying as you read this. I'm the one that should be the most sad though! I was the one that had to write this after all! XD
But, the sadness shall soon turn into joy. This is only the start of new things to come. However, I just want you guys to know that I won't be updating on a regular basis. Truthfully, I don't know when I'll be updating. It could be in a little while or longer than that. I got a lot of things going on in my life, so bare with me if you really want to know what happens next, okay? Thank you. :)
That being said, I hope you all enjoyed the prologue. Please do R&R, because I'd love to hear your comments about my writing, whether sad, happy, or both. Of course, let's avoid the harsh criticism please. I'm not gonna be perfect in my writing, and if you don't like the story, than just don't read it, okay?! Although, if you happen to spot any grammar errors or mistakes, feel free to tell me so I can fix it up right away and to the best of my abilities. Also, I wanna thank Keiko Braginski for helping me out with the title and for being such a good friend to me for the past...month a half I believe. Until next time, I'll be seeing you all around! Lol! :D