Chapter 1

"Just a bit more Lucas, you almost got it!" Kumatora shouted in encouragement at Lucas, who was currently on the ground, panting from the effort of his training, while Boney was licking his face, trying to wake him up.

Lucas was being trained by Kumatora, who insisted for Lucas to keep training in order to be able to stand against any future threats after the whole incident 3 months ago with Porky and the 'Masked Man', who turned out to be none other than Claus, Lucas's long lost twin brother, previously seen lost in the mountains.

But with the help of his friends he overcame the challenge and pulled the last needle, but at the sacrifice of his brother, who died shortly before.

Lucas was, of course, devastated at this, but for the most part was at peace, knowing that his brother died being who he was, rather than as Porky's slave.

Oh yeah, speaking of Porky, he got himself trapped in some ball thing that created.

Lucas and co. ultimately decided not to question how that worked, and just were glad that the menace was gone, and Tazmily had more or less returned to how it was before the Pigmask Army invasion.

Duster had gone back with Wess, but not after "saying goodbye" to Kumatora, to which Lucas had covered his eyes and blushed considerably.

After that fiasco, they decided to dedicate their lives to helping people, no matter how peaceful the atmosphere may be.

That's how Lucas came to learn several PK moves from intense training from Kumatora, including PK Fire, PK Freeze, and PK Thunder. Those moves were actually pretty easy to learn.

Recently however, Kumatora had taken it upon herself to teach Lucas a VERY deadly and VERY powerful technique: PK Starstorm.

Let's just say that that's a LOT harder to learn than the previous moves, and Lucas tried to point out that he already knows PK Love, but Kumatora argued that you could use PK Starstorm to hit multiple enemies vs PK Love only hitting 1 target at a time.

Which leads us to the present.

After many licks from Boney, and many words of encouragement from Kumatora, Lucas finally managed to shakily stand up, his PK powers were all used up so it would be awhile before he could heal himself.

"Kumatora…" Lucas managed to say while catching his breath,"You've REALLY overdone it this time." He said gesturing around the destruction around them.

"Oh come on Luke, that was nothing." She flashed a devious smile,"I was only using Starstorm BETA."

Lucas and Boney both sweatdropped at this.

'She wasn't even using the Omega version?!' Lucas thought nervously before something grumbled nearby. Kumatora smiled at this while Lucas awkwardly smiled,"We should probably go get something to eat."

Lucas readily agreed and Boney just barked in happiness at the mention of food, and so the trio made their way towards Tazmily village.

When they got there, Lucas couldn't help but feel nostalgic and a little bit depressed. Before the Pigmasks had came and spread their influence, Tazmily was a happy and content village where everyone shared everything.

But then they came along and 'modernized' Tazmily into someplace where people got snobby and money hungry, and turned a large portion of Tazmily into a Pigmask training ground.

Fortunately, Lucas and co. were able to, for the most part, remove and destroy anything that the Pigmasks made, but Lucas still just couldn't shake off this yearning feeling, yearning for the old Tazmily, before everything happened…

Lucas's train of thought was interrupted however "Oi, earth to Lucas, we're heeeeeeeeere!" Kumatora practically shouted in his ear.

Lucas blinked twice before realizing that they were at the restaurant, Thomas Bazaar. Yeah, he knew that it's called something different now, but he felt that calling the restaurant that would help hold his memories of the past.

They walked in and ordered some steak and noodles and ate in silence, and by the time they went out, it was already getting dark. They decided to call it a day and went their separate ways.

When Lucas and Boney got home, they noticed the lamp wasn't lit. 'Dad must already be sleeping' Lucas thought while Boney went into his dog house.

Lucas walked in, and sure enough, Flint was passed out on the couch. He snored loudly when Lucas tiptoed past him and to his bed, too tired to change into his pajamas.

When he plopped himself on the bed, he couldn't help but think of how, at that moment, his mom would scold him for not changing into pajamas, how she would insist that he eat a proper dinner, how… how she would just be there for him whenever he needed it. He couldn't help but shed a tear.

He couldn't help but think of Claus. How his stubborn attitude would always get them into trouble, how they couldn't help but compete with each other at pretty much everything, how Claus vowed to avenge mom, and went out with nothing but a simple knife, never to be seen again…

Until that fateful day that he revealed himself as the Masked Man, and hugged him one final time before taking his last breath.

At this, Lucas's vision got blurry with tears, and this thoughts turned to Porky.

Porky… the man-child who caused everyone so much pain, so much suffering. Lucas grinned bitterly at the fact that Porky was trapped.

According to Dr. Andonuts, he can't break out no matter what, and since Lucas was the one who pulled the last needle, it was pretty much guaranteed that there would be peace forever. Never would anyone need to suffer, to go through what he went through.

And if anyone messed with Dad, Boney, his friends, he would beat them up… no, he would straight up END them, there was NO exception.

So, with those thoughts in mind, he slowly but surely drifted off to sleep, blissfully unaware that soon, he would have to protect so much more.

Suddenly, a portal slowly and silently opened up beside Lucas, and sucked him in.

In the Pokémon Universe, Sinnoh region

Hunter J smirked as her eyes scanned over her prize: a Phione, frozen in rock like a statue.

Originally, she was in the area looking for Manaphy rumored to have migrated to this exact location, but she figured that since she had caught a Phione(which were worth so much more)even if she failed to catch a Manaphy, she could still make a decent profit.

But then at that moment, a strange sound interrupted her train of thought. It sounded like something getting sucked in. Then, she thought she heard… a boy screaming?

She didn't really know what was going on, but her goggles were telling her that a large psychic energy was gathering where she was, and right now her Pokémon were weak from battle so she simply just got on her van that her henchmen were driving and tried to escape with her prize.

To put it bluntly, she didn't get very far before a large explosion suddenly erupted right by her, forcing her to release Phione while getting on the van.

'Damn!' She swore while making her escape.

'I can't go back to my client without it, but something about that large energy signature just doesn't feel… normal. I couldn't even get an accurate reading on it, I'll have to come back later.' And so she thought while Officer Jenny were at the scene.

Lucas's P.O.V

Everything was a blur, images were just blended together, and the pain, it was so painful that he could still feel all of what was happening, just couldn't process it.

He thought he could hear police cars and, um, dogs? Did something happen to Boney? Lucas was on the brink of unconsciousness when something, or someone, picked him up, and then everything just went black.

Lucas groaned, his body and mind felt like the time that he and the gang tried these strange mushrooms, it was so trippy, and he still felt like vomiting, which he did over the bed… but wait... not his bed?

After a few minutes, his senses started coming back to him, he saw that he was in some sort of hospital bed, with his trusty Magical Stick by his side, and there was a strange, pink round creature of some sorts currently typing something on a weird computer.

Lucas was pretty sure that there was no creature like that anywhere in

the Nowhere Islands, so was this one of the Pigmasks' experiments? No, that wasn't possible. Freeing the dragon ment eliminating all the Pigmasks, so that explanation was thrown out the window.

But even if, for some reason that there were still Pigmasks left, that still wouldn't explain why the Pigmasks would ever take Lucas under their wing and heal him. While Lucas was pondering this, the creature turned around and saw that he was awake. It gave a happy "Chansey!" and walked over to him and started "talking" to him.

"Chan, Chan Chansey!"

"Glad to see you're awake, are you feeling alright, er?" it asked in a concerned tone.

Lucas started to feel for any injuries, and felt that he was ok for the most part.

"Yeah, I'm alright, thanks for asking. By the way, I'm Lucas" Chansey beamed at herself with pride.

"Could have just healed myself, but this works too" Lucas mused.

"Also, where exactly are we right now?" Lucas asked who he assumed to be Chansey. Chansey looked confused for a moment before replying.

"Well, you're in a Pokémon center, of course. Everyone knows what those are." Now it Lucas's turn to look confused.

"A what center?"

His question was never answered, because Chansey gasped before asking,"Hold on, you can understand me?!"

"Well, of course I can." Lucas said, ignoring the obviously shocked look on the Chansey's face."It's because of my PK powers, I can look into other people's and creature's minds, it's how I understand animals."

Chansey couldn't believe it. A human who could understand her! But before either of them could say anything else, they overheard 2 people talking and coming their way

"-just a kid Officer, I don't think that he would-"

"He was at the scene of a crime, close to none other than Hunter J, so being a kid doesn't really mean anything."

Suddenly, the door swung open, revealing 2 women. One had a doctor's outfit, pink hair, and a kind, but worried face. The other women, who Lucas assumed was a police officer, had blue hair, an air of no chill around her, and right now, she had a very pissed off expression.

"All right kid" the policewoman said while glaring at Lucas,"You've been caught at the scene of a crime, with an illegally captured Phione no less, and were close to Hunter J, care to explain?"

"Officer Jenny!" Nurse Joy said in an exasperated voice,"He just woke up, give him some-"

"What's a Phione?" Lucas asked curiously asked.

"Er, Phione is a hybrid mythical Pokémon" Nurse Joy told Lucas.

Lucas had never heard of a "Pokémon"

"What's a Pokémon?" he asked. At that, everyone just stared at him like he was the dumbest person ever.

Nurse Joy was the first to recover from her shock. "You see Jenny, he hit his head so hard he has amnesia now" Officer Jenny didn't look convinced.

"That still doesn't explain the Phione-"

"Jenny, you know very well that Hunter J is the only person who turns Pokémon into stone. And besides, this boy doesn't even have any Pokémon." Nurse Joy finally snapped.

Lucas was getting really confused and annoyed, so he decided to clear some things up."Ok, first of all" he announced getting everyone's attention. "I still don't know what a Pokémon is, what a Pokémon center is, I don't have amnesia, and who's Hunter J?" He finished with one breath.

"I'm a pokémon Lucas, the place that we're in is a Pokémon center, pretty sure you do,and Hunter J is a wanted criminal." Chansey finally decided to speak up.

Lucas tilted his head, "Oh, so that's where I am, huh?"

"Well, you don't seem to be from around here Lucas, what region are you from?"

Lucas hesitated for a moment, was it really a good idea to let more outsiders know about the Nowhere Islands? Then again, these people didn't seem as bad as Pigmasks, even this 'Officer Jenny', and he could use some help to find out where he was. So Lucas finally said to Chansey, "I'm from the Nowhere Islands."

Chansey looked thoughtful for a moment before replying sadly,"I know that there's a Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Sinnoh region, which is where we are right now. But I've never heard of any 'Nowhere Islands', sorry."

By now, Lucas was panicking, where the heck was he then?! He's never heard of any of the places Chansey just mentioned!

Meanwhile, Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny were just watching the whole exchange with understandable confusion. They both looked at each other before Jenny asked,"Er, Lucas was it, what are you doing to Chansey?"

Lucas just stared at her, hasn't anyone here heard of PK? "My PK powers allow me to understand what Chansey is saying." He replied casually. Joy and Jenny both grew wide-eyed, they've heard rumors of humans being able to understand Pokémon's hearts, like N, but they never thought that one who could would just fall out of the sky!

Nurse Joy was just about to ask where Lucas was from, but Lucas beat her to it. "I'm from the Nowhere Islands." Joy and Jenny were both surprised. They were about to ask how Lucas did that before Lucas replied,"My PK powers allow me to read your minds," Lucas grinned,"it comes in pretty handy at times."

Now, Lucas usually wasn't one to brag, quite the contrary actually. It's just that long ago he's learned to suppress his modesty in order to look more intimidating to his enemies.

Not that he viewed his current company enemies or anything. Just self defense.

Chansey spoke up for Lucas."I honestly don't think Lucas is a bad guy, he hasn't tried to do anything bad at all, he's just a little confused."

'A little is an understatement' Lucas thought before agreeing with Chansey,"Yeah, what Chansey said."

"We can't understand what Chaney said" Nurse Joy deadpanned. Lucas blushed in embarrassment before Officer Jenny decided to decide Lucas's fate.

"Hmmm… well, you don't seem like someone who would work with Hunter J" Jenny reasoned, "I…" she sighed," I guess I could let you off the hook."

Everyone smiled at that, Jenny just couldn't ignore the facts. "Then again though" Jenny suddenly returning to her serious demeanor,"that still doesn't explain WHY or HOW you just seemingly came out of nowhere."

Everyone looked at Lucas expectantly. "Well, I am from the Nowhere Islands" Lucas joked. Everybody just cringed at the awful joke.

"Ok ok, cringey joke, I get it, but in all honesty," He said trying to recall what had happened,"I was in bed after training for a while, next thing I know, I'm here." Lucas said while gesturing around him.

This got mixed reactions from his audience.

Nurse Joy looked at Lucas with a mixture of sympathy and pity.

Officer Jenny, who was just starting to trust Lucas, now looked at him suspiciously.

Chansey thought that Lucas hit himself on the head a little too hard.

"Come on Lucas, I thought you were stable, but I guess not."

Lucas sweatdropped at this."Er, Chansey, you do remember that I can understand you, right?" Chansey blushed at this and made a mental note to refrain herself around Lucas. Nurse Joy however, had just thought of something that could have happened.

"Lucas, have you ever thought of the possibility that you're from, um, a different… dimension? Even though they're only rumors, I've heard of that sort of thing happening. Especially with Palkia."

At first, Lucas was about to argue,but then he realized that that idea wasn't really that far fetched as he that one of his greatest enemies was a time-traveling, space-distorting pig who's like, maybe thousands of years old. So was this some sort of final attack done by Porky? If so, how did he escape the ball?

Officer Jenny was REALLY skeptical at this."Nurse Joy, I think we should look up where Lucas lives. I think then we finally take him home and be done with this."

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea" So Nurse Joy went to look up where Lucas supposedly lived, while the rest just sat there in awkward silence. Then, after about 10 minutes of this silent torture, Nurse Joy came with some bad news.

"Bad news guys" everyone instantly became depressed, especially Lucas,"I did a quick search of any Lucas that resembles you in all regions, but there's literally no one in the world with no pupils. So I think that wherever these

'Nowhere Islands' are, they're definitely not from around here."

Lucas was beyond shocked. So many questions were bubbling inside of him. How was he supposed to get home? How worried was everyone? What would the others do in this situation? Boney would probably just eat whatever he could before he died, Duster would try to think of what tools he could use to escape, and Kumatora would… wait! That's it!

Finally feeling a glimmer of hope, he focused his PK and tried to sense Kumatora's PK, but something was wrong. It sort of felt like some outside force was magnetically pushing out his PK.

After a silent struggle, Lucas just couldn't manage to overcome it, and once again tried to find Kumatora's PK, but try as he might, he just couldn't sense her. He did however sense some unusual psychic powers, some were stronger and others were in just short bursts, it felt like a roller coaster in his mind.

"-so what do you think, Lucas?" he heard someone say.

His eyes snapped back to reality, now seeing an annoyed Chansey, Nurse Joy, and Officer Jenny. Lucas had no idea what they were talking about, but he took a wild guess.

"Er, so what's going to happen to Phione over there?" he asked pointing to the frozen in stone mythical Pokémon.

"That's what we were discussing Lucas" Chansey said,

'Wow, first time too' thought an amused Lucas, "I'm pretty sure I can heal the Phione though"

This caught Lucas's attention. "How, it looks like Phione's stuck like a statue forever?" Chansey smirked, a rare expression on the normally gentle face.

"Watch this" Chansey began to gather energy from her very being, frowning in intense concentration, and once Chansey gathered enough energy, the energy suddenly shot out in the form of a small ball towards Phione and hit it.

Lucas watched with amazement as the energy slowly but surely engulfed the Phione, and when the energy covered the entire body, it shined so bright that Lucas went blind. Rubbing his eyes, the previous Phione statue was instead replaced by a sort of water jelly creature, and as of now, it looked really dazed.

"This is usually what we do to Pokémon who've been frozen in stone, courtesy of Hunter J. We still don't know how it works, but if anything, we're grateful that there's an easy made solution at hand whenever we need it."

Lucas was beyond amazed. A technique that allows the user to heal preserved living beings… that was pretty damn useful.

"That's just… wow" Lucas said breathlessly. Chansey giggled at this, and even Officer Jenny cracked a smile. By this time, Phione had mostly recovered and now was seeing 3 humans and a Chansey in front of her, and she was more than a little wary of them.

"Don't worry Phione, we're here to help you. We even healed you from the stone-encasing thing that Hunter J shot you with" Phione glanced at Chansey, then she looked at Lucas and grew wide-eyed at his eyes.

"What's up with that boy's eyes, Chansey? They're really weird, they have no pupils." Chansey decided to let Lucas speak so as to surprise her.

Lucas grinned,"Just 'cause I don't have pupils doesn't mean I can't see, you know." Phione's eyes, if possible, grew even wider and her mouth dropped open comically.

Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny tried not to laugh at her reaction, but they just couldn't hold it in. While they were laughing their heads off, Lucas decided to enlighten Phione.

"You see Phione, I have something called PK powers, they're sort of psychic powers that allow me to see into your mind, hence how and why I can understand you and Chansey." By the time he was finished, Phione had stars in her eyes.

"That's… so… COOL! How did you get your powers? Can you do other stuff? Can you fight with them? What about teleportation? I've ALWAYS wanted to do teleport someday!"

Chansey just smiled at how energetic the little Phione was.

"One question at a time Phione, you're talking way too fast." Lucas chuckled," I'm pretty sure my powers are hereditary, as for actual combat, well…"

Before anyone could say anything else however, they all were startled when a large explosion suddenly erupted near them and blasted a giant hole through the Pokémon center.

And guess who it was.

"I believe you have to pay up now, little man" Lucas instinctively stood up and reached for his Magic Stick at the voice. It didn't sound pleasant in the slightest.

Everyone (except Lucas) gasped at who it was. :O