It is a beautiful day. The sun smiles down over the grass field in the Pokemon League Stadium. The surrounding audience is hushed, waiting to see what shall happen.

In the forest surrounding the stadium, the pokemon are also hushed, for they too are waiting.

"Return, Exeggutor!" calls one of the two trainers, withdrawing the battered plant pokemon. Both he and his opponent are now down to their last pokemon. Of course, it's almost certain what the outcome with be. The other's last pokemon, a sturdy steelix, is tired from the exeggutor. His trainer, Ruby, knows this, and the fact that trainers almost always save their strongest for last.

The trainer known as Mandy the Astounding, the favorite of the crowd, is clearly confident. He has already made up his mind that this, his last three-on-three battle, would be something to remember. He had explained it to his pokemon very carefully, knowing that pokemon were not exactly intelligent. Still, he had faith that his last pokemon would be able to pull this off. It was what they existed for, after all.

The crowd, though seemingly rapt with curiosity, know that Mandy will win. They watch with well-concealed bloodlust, waiting for their favorite to emerge victorious. He knows what they are expecting, and is determined to do even better.

In the stands sits a well-known trainer with his two friends. Ash watches the match with annoyance. He didn't want that foolish excuse for a trainer to win. Mandy cared more about magic tricks than pokemon.

"Go, Golbat!" yells Mandy. "Destroy that weak little worm!"

The golbat is larger then normal, an older pokemon. Had anyone been paying close enough attention, they might realized that most normal golbat had evolved in a crobat by then. But it wasn't particularly important, so who would?

The battle rages. Although truly, to call it a battle might be misleading. In the wild, as tired as the steelix is, in surroundings as unfavorable as these, he would have dug underground to escape. Here those options are no longer available.

The steelix tries valiantly to fight back, but it is no good. Normally, one would think the flier had the disadvantage, but his rock attacks are as good as worthless on the soft turf, and his ground attacks, even if not weakened by the plant roots impaling the dirt, cannot hit a flying foe. The golbat can fly out of reach for his normal and steel moves, so he only gets a chance to attack when the golbat attacks. Even if he was not exhausted, this match would be impossible. There is a reason his kind do not live in the soft grassland. He is nearly defenseless against a flying pokemon in this situation.

As the match begins to wind down, the steelix realizes something is amiss. The golbat is up to something. The strong flier is not hitting as hard as a creature of that level should. He is being worn down, bit by bit, slowly.

Pokemon do fight in the wild, and, although it is so rare that it is almost unknown, they do not always retreat from a losing battle. The steelix begins to understand what is about to occur. He cannot escape, and he cannot win. So he cannot avoid what will happen.

The golbat judges that the steelix is hovering at the edge of exhaustion, nearly fainted. If the golbat does not hurry, the steelix will be pronounced unable to battle and the match ended. If that happens, Mandy will be furious. It is time.

Ruby and the audience have not figured out what will happen. If they had, only Ruby would have cared.

The golbat then lunges for one last attack, one that would to more then enough. Golbat did not normally learn it, so Mandy would simply say he had no idea what happened. He was to go in for a leach life attack, and then use flamethrower. The steelix is no fool. He can see the beginnings of embers in the golbat's huge mouth. But even if one of the spectators could see, they would not look close enough, feeling confident that a golbat cannot use that attack.

The golbat's mouth opens so wide it would seem as if the bat wished to swallow the steel snake alive. The steelix watches as death swoops down until it is only inches away, too tired to save himself. As the jaws get ready to snap shut-

A blurred, four-legged creature slams into the golbat, knocking it aside. The flamethrower soars over the steel pokemon. Standing proudly before the assembled humans was a…

The stadium resonates with the sound as the many trainers move as one, opening their pokedex. In almost perfect unison, the pokedexes give that rare phrase. "No available data" they say in that strange, half-monotone voice.

A ripple passes over the crowd. Who will be the first to catch this new creature?

The pokemon in question stands calmly, as if she is unaware of the fact that nearly all of the hundreds assembled are pokemon trainers, most brought up to the chant of 'gotta catch 'em all'.

Her body is the color of an espeon, though the shape was closer to vaporeon. Golden rings encircle her ears and tail, and lie on her forehead and legs. In the center of the ring on her forehead is a strange gem, a bit like an espeon's save that color appears to change as the light hits it. Her back has small gray spikes in it, like a jolteon's but the wrong color and far too small. Her tail is that of an umbreon's. A small mane like a flareon's surrounds her neck. As the trainers watch, the most observant of them notice she seems to grow slightly redder.

~ I am Eon, your creation ~ says the psychic voice of the creature. ~ I was just another stepping stone on the path to knowledge for you. Just like the many hundreds of others your kind experimented on. There is only one difference. Unlike the others, ~ she hisses. ~ I lived. ~

Ruby realizes suddenly that she should probably withdraw her nearly fainted steelix. Without taking her eyes off the strange creature, she reaches for steelix's pokeball.

A sharp pain in her hand forces her to look down. A growling, vaguely foxlike creature has intercepted her hand and his teeth sink into her flesh. Unlike Eon, this one looks more as if someone had chopped up vaporeon, jolteon and flareon, then picked a random assortment to put together. He has the tail of a vaporeon, and the red body of a flareon, with the legs and spikes of a jolteon. His head is perhaps the most frightening part of all. The upper left side was that of a vaporeon, and the upper right side was that of a flareon. The lower third was a jolteon.

Screaming, Ruby tries to yank her hand free. Distracted as she is, she doesn't notice two other creatures who are sitting side by side. A light gray umbreon is lifting her three pokeballs and pokedex away. Next to her, a jet-black espeon is watching the humans.

When the pokeballs are safe next to them, the light-colored umbreon noses the ball, causing it to withdraw the steelix.

The creature lets go of Ruby's hand with a short bark of "Mix!" and leaps back down onto the field.

Mandy doesn't notice what is happening to Ruby. He is watching the creature that called itself eon, who is pointedly ignoring him. "Ultra ball, go!"

The pokeball seemed to hit an invisible wall before exploding. Eon casts a glance to a shadowy corner. Another creature walks out of hiding to stand between Eon and Mandy. He barks at the trainer. "Cin eon cin cinc!" {You can't catch us!}

This new pokemon has a yellow body, wrapped in green, sparking tendrils. The top half of his head is green and the bottom half looks a bit like an eevee but not quite. His tail is like a flareon's, with leaves and vines mixed into the fur, and his legs are those of a vaporeon.

Only a few moments have passed. But that is more then long enough for Ash, who is already racing down the steps toward the strange, unknown pokemon, and is nearly at the bottom. And he is far from the only one to do so.

Eon turns toward the golbat. ~ Would you rather kill innocent pokemon as a mindless weapon? Or kill those who truly deserve it? ~

The golbat laughs. Then he lunges for his trainer. Golbat's mouth wasn't quite large enough to fit his former master, but the golbat made admirable efforts despite this. After a bit of struggling, Mandy's body is bitten in two.

The stadium is shocked, silent, the rushing trainers paused. Eon faces them and laughs softly. She looks at the rows of cameras. ~ Heed my words, pokemon of the world. We are stronger. We are smarter. We are faster. We are better in every sense then the humans. Why should we serve them? The time is NOW! ~ she says, throwing her head back in a howl. ~ We are many and we shall make them no more then a memory. This is the end of all of them! ~

~ And for a parting gift, as proof of my power- ~ Eon unleashes a fire blast attack on one side of the stands. The five assembled pokemon vanish, leaving the remainder of the audience to gape in astonishment and horror.