Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon. Despite my love for Gundam, I have had no influence over Perfect Zygarde. Or did I?...Nah, I really haven't. Also, big thanks to LackadaisicalLeopah for letting me use their picture for an image.

"Speech"

'Thought'

Three days earlier...April 28th

"Hmm, so that plan fell through, huh?"

Hoenn was home to many spectacles that could defy the expectations of the foreign. One such was a tower that was hardly ever noticed but peaked above clouds. On said tower was a teenage girl wearing a Magma grunt uniform.

Though her affiliation with that group could be called into question by the Whismur that stood beside her.

"Well, guess I won't be needing this anymore." Sighed the girl before discarding the uniform.

Her attire under the uniform consisted of khaki short shorts and a black shirt with red highlights. She walked over to the edge of the platform to don her cape and her spiral leg bracelet with a keystone attached to it. As she did, the Whismur followed her around.

The little sound pokemon showed a face of confusion and sadness.

"Yeah, I guess we'll just have to move on to plan B. But, don't worry Aster; Mommy has everything under control."

With her new outfit adorned, the girl returned to the center of the platform. And her attention was directed towards the sky above.

"It's coming. We've only got so many days now." Stated the girl. "I swear that I won't fail."

Present Time...May 1st

Everything from above the skies above was certainly easier to see. Though if you were looking for a certain something, it wouldn't be as immediately helpful. Such was the case for the blonde champion of Kalos.

'Come on Latias, can't you sense anything?' Asked Erica.

'No. I don't know why, but I can't trace anything properly.' Answered the red dragon.

"Well, come on! Are you sure that there is nothing there!?" Yelled Erica impatiently.

'Please, you need to calm down!' Retorted Latias quickly with a frustrated tone.

Erica doubled her head back after being told that, but she did calm down afterwards. It wasn't usual that the meek legendary would raise her pitch so suddenly.

'I'm sorry, its just-'

'I know. After all, nii-san is missing too.' Said Latias as she tried to sympathize with her trainer. 'Let's land down there, I need to rest for a bit.'

An accepting nod was what she received and the dragon took down to the city below. They landed in Slateport city and Latias was returned to her pokeball so as to not arouse the masses.

The blonde champion walked over to the ocean edge of the city and sat down, lamenting on the previous events that had transpired.

After being knocked out by that mysterious girl, a defeat that Erica didn't take lightly, she was found by Norman in the following hours. The obvious reflexes of the man was to ask what happened and where his son was.

Unexpectedly though, Erica told him that Brendan had left to do some personal training. She made up the lie that he was determined to beat his former teacher now, and a trip knocked her out.

"I'm so lucky that he bought into it." Whispered the girl to herself.

There were two reasons that she lied about that. If other people knew that Hoenn's champion was missing, there'd be panic. That would impede her search too much.

And she felt like she was the only one who deserved to be hurt at the moment.

"Brendan, where are you?" Her eyes trailed out to the ocean hoping for an answer.

Unknown Location...

"...Ugh...what?..."

Brendan started to come back to consciousness slowly. His senses needed a few seconds to take in everything around him. The chilling air blowing past him, the grass below him, and the close sounds of breaking ocean waves.

Finally, his sight returned and he could get an idea of where he was.

The place that he was situated on was but a small island with very few things that stood out about it, excluding the ominous fog that surrounded it.

'What is this place?' Thought the brunette before another thought ran into his mind. He quickly stood up and surveyed the area.

"Erica-chan?"

Brendan started to run around in search of his girlfriend hoping that she was somewhere close by. However, any hope of that being true was quickly dashed away when he remembered what had happened before.

Pain started to flare in his abdomen as he recalled the blows that he took the night prior. Obeying his body's impulses, he held onto the area with his hands and landed on a knee.

Now fully aware that Erica was nowhere to be seen, Brendan's attention returned to where he was.

"Oh, you're finally up."

Brendan's head perked up as he quickly turned around to see just who was talking to him. To his surprise, it was his assailant from the previous night.

"You!" He tried to get up and attack her, but his injuries held him back down.

"Woah there. Calm down a little." Taunted the girl as she waltzed over to him. "My name is Zinnia. Nice to meet you."

Her friendly introduction was quickly sent back by an angry glare. Despite the fact that the champion was trying to kill her with his eyes, she still remained calm and upbeat.

"Hey come on now, you won't figure anything out with that kind of look."

That was true. She was the only one who understood the situation, and the only person on this island other than Brendan. If he wanted answers, then this girl was the person to ask. Swallowing his pride and extinguishing his anger wasn't going to be easy though.

"Ok fine, where are we?" Asked Brendan, facing away as he did.

"Well, we're on my Mirage Island." Explained Zinnia as she hopped onto the ground in front of Brendan.

Once she was plopped onto the ground, an idea brightened up in the champion's head. As far as he could tell Zinnia had no pokemon on her.

'If I can get her to lower her guard, then maybe...'

Her physical strength was staggering, but Brendan was confident in his own level of power (despite his pain). As much as he hated this girl right now, he would have to humor her to get her to lower her guard.

"So...your hair is pretty." Lied the boy.

"Oh, you think so? Well, thank you." It appeared that Zinnia wasn't one to turn down a complement.

Although it left a guilty feeling in his stomach, aside from the pain that he already felt, Brendan decided to pile on with this. In the back of his mind, he prayed that Erica wouldn't be anywhere nearby.

"Yeah, and your cape is really cool too." He found it in himself to muster up some false fascination in his eyes.

Progress for this didn't seem to go anywhere for him as Zinnia's expression remained playful after the second compliment.

Though in fairness, complimenting a girl's cape after admiring her hair wasn't going to work that well.

There was only one more route that Brendan could go down, and it was at this moment that he really didn't want Erica to appear on the scene. Otherwise, he'd be dead.

"Anything else about me that you find attractive?" Asked the red-eyed girl.

Gray eyes were squinting as the boy struggled to come up with another answer. He couldn't produce one in fear that his girlfriend would find out about it.

"Well, I guess you can only try so much. I don't think we'd work too well together anyway."

Zinnia's explanation drove her to spin a little and close her eyes. Clearly she was dropping her guard for some pride. Exactly what Brendan was hoping for.

'Now's my chance!'

Brendan seized upon this opportunity by leaping up and ignoring any amount of pain that his body could possibly have. He tackled Zinnia into the ground, and even seemed successful doing so.

That was until Zinnia managed to flip him over and reverse the whole situation. All that resilience to pain quickly dissipated from the brunette as he impacted against the ground.

"Well now, looks like you're not that smart." Joked the red-eyed girl.

Adding insult to injury, the little Whismur from before waddled close to Brendan's head and started slapping him.

"Now now Aster, we don't want to hurt him any further. I've already got him down." Said Zinnia with an even more playful tone.

Being mocked was one thing, losing to a random girl was also bad, but losing in a competition of strength was infuriating for Brendan. All that flirtation and effort down the drain.

"Why didn't that work?" Asked the protagonist as she struggled under Zinnia.

"Come on, I know that you've got a girlfriend." Stated the dark-skinned girl.

"Fine, but what are you going to do with me? I don't have too much money if that's what you're after."

Much to Brendan's expectations, Zinnia laughed heartedly. But she surprised him by letting go of him and putting her cape back on. The little Whismur followed subtly after her.

"You seriously don't remember me?" Asked the girl, dropping her playful demeanor.

"No, I don't." Answered Brendan bluntly and impatiently.

That blunt response was followed by Zinnia sighing as if her victim was also her student. This only seemed to frustrate Brendan even more.

"We met back in the Team Magma base." Proclaimed the girl.

Brendan didn't immediately understand what she was talking about, but he soon remembered that a girl with red eyes wearing a grunt uniform knocked him out back then. It had slipped his mind due to the abrupt nature of the event.

"That was you?" She nodded happily in response.

Sweat dripped off of the brunette's face as he realized that this was the second time that she had knocked him out and relocated him.

Even though he now knew that he had met this girl prior, it didn't fully explain the assault yesterday.

"Then why did you kidnap me?" Questioned Brendan, hoping for an answer.

"Isn't it obvious? You can't fool me." That statement only succeeded in confusing her captive even further. "You're a member of Team Magma, and I'm keeping you here while your buddies are out causing trouble."

If gawking in surprise was the initial response to recalling the first meeting, then being told that caused the boy's brain to implode.

"What are you talking about? I fought against Team Magma and Team Aqua, my pokemon and I stopped Groudon from destroying everything!" Yelled the brunette in confused frustration.

Anger surged through him and Brendan tried to get back up. Obviously, his injuries hindered him from doing so.

Instead of having to stress his body any further, Brendan tried to pull himself over to his captor. She responded only by glaring back him with piercing red eyes.

"I understand if those guys sent you to deal with their problems and if they tried to repent. But Magma and Aqua are causing trouble again." Zinnia then turned her back to Brendan and started to leave. "And I'm going to stop them both."

The enigmatic girl and her pokemon then vanished into the mist, leaving their captive alone on Mirage Island.

The gears of this story were turning in a manner that was against the protagonists. Yet, in spite their already trying predicaments, Brendan and Erica had a bigger threat on the horizon.

In Mossdeep City Space Center...

Professor Cozmo frantically rushed around the observatory, displaying irritancy and frustration. His colleagues clearly expressed worry and confusion.

"Sir, the meteor has changed its trajectory. It is on a collision course with the planet!"

"What? Recheck that, update the trajectory calculations!"

Fingers flew across the keyboards, and many bits of information appeared up on the large screen upfront.

"Trajectory confirmed, its going to impact at...Mt. Pyre!"

Everyone in the room gawked in sheer horror and disbelief. That meteor was only supposed to slingshot past Earth, but now it had changed its trajectory to impact Hoenn. It was almost as if it was alive.

Professor Cozmo's gaze narrowed as he realized what this meant. 'So...it has come to this...'

Outside of Earth's orbit, a plethora of meteors were on there way, being pulled by the planet's gravity. The majority were destined to burn up in the atmosphere or outright miss.

But one was larger than others, much larger. While it immediately followed in the path of the other meteors, it began to move on its own towards the planet...

23 hours, 37 minutes, and 32 seconds until impact...

Thanks for reading his chapter; I hope you liked it. Please favorite or leave a review. I think that I'll take the time right now to say that Zinnia is my favorite Pokémon character behind N. So I've really been looking forward to writing this story.