Chapter 9: Retaining the Memory

(back in the meeting room)

Everyone that decided not to jump through was still shocked by the fact that they let an imposter into the virtually impenetrable glass fortress that took 10 years to build about. Everyone was starring outside the broken glass window as Soul, Drake, and Reyn went to fight Dit.

"Okay so let me get this straight with you Dustin," started Marcus questioning Dustin, "your old partner was this imposter and your cousin is Hunter am I right."
"You got that one straight so shouldn't we go help him out?" said Dustin still a little worried for his new friend. Marcus saw the squeamishness in Dustin eyes and kinda his stomach by the way he was holding it briskly.

"Don't worry Dustin, Soul will be absolutely fine really it might take longer than expected but he'll be fine. Also, Drake who you've already met will help Soul from falling 100ft. downward and 9.8ft/s so yeah it should be fine," assured Marcus.

"Yeah dude don't worry," added on Hunter as he floated next to Dustin, "everything will be fine with Drake and Soul along with Reyn down there."

"Your right I shouldn't really worry 'bout his safety." said Dustin cheering up.

"I'm now going to get a steaming cup of coffee at the coffee place down stairs anybody with me," said Marcus.

"Sure Marcus but why are you going to get coffee it's 8 o'clock in the evening coffee is a morning thing," said Magi confused.

"Because I can tell from the look of things this is going to be a long meeting so you still in," said Marcus

"Yeah sure no problem, besides it will be fun right," said Magi. Marcus looked at Magi for a little longer then they both left. Marcus could tell that Magi liked him maybe even a little but he didn't know if was ready to date. Marcus looked into Magi's eyes outside of the room and saw the beautiful black sparkling eyes meet his black wavy eyes.

"Marcus yo, Earth to Marcus are you alright," said Magi. Marcus spaced back in to reality and was nearly burned.

"Yeah what Magi are you worried about something," said Marcus a little love struck from still looking at Magi in the eyes.

"You like me don't you Marcus I can read you like a book ever since we met," said Magi. Marcus started tapping nervously his feet and took a large puff out of his smarties and looked at Magi.

"Fine you got me do you like me just as much as I like you," confessed Marcus worriedly.

"Well..." started Magi

(back in the meeting room)

"What do you mean Texct is a virtually dry colony, you mean there is no alcohol in this entire building," said Rayx.

"Sorry the only place that you can get your common beer is at the casino about 5 miles from here Rayx and you need a license to sell or ingest alcohol," said Vex, "but I can take your photo for you and give you a license it'll only be about 10 minutes then you can leave."

"Sweet anybody gotta camera on then?" asked Rayx

"I do Rayx say cheese and smile as best as possible," said Dustin. Dustin took the picture with his digital camera and looked to see if the picture turned out fine. Everyone looked in and laughed when they saw Rayx in the picture and his eyes were closed.

"Dude don't be afraid of the camera Rayx," teased Recthz.

"It's not my fault I always blink, I should be able to take a picture without blinking if I can take a lightning bolt without flinching at all," said Rayx irritated.

"Fine let's try it again this time try not to blink okay," said Dustin. He took 5 more pictures and Rayx couldn't take the suspense and rushed over to the camera. He looked at the 4 first pictures and saw that he blinked in all of them.

"Son of a bitch, I can't get any of these pictures right," said Rayx. Recthz laughed at his friend even harder but after the 5th picture he saw that he wasn't blinking and it looked like an actual normal Raichu with his thumb up and winking on his right eye.

"That one is pretty good I guess I'll take that one," said Rayx. Rechtz could tell he wasn't disappointed anymore.

"All right I'll print you out a license, you guys make sure that no one broke anything or died down there why don't ya," said Vex. Recthz looked down to see that Soul was riding Drake with his pistol out and Reyn was also on Drake to with an axe in his right and sword on the left. Everyone was astonished to see what they just saw.

"Where the hell did Reyn get a steel axe and a silver sword at," said Marx and Ally looking a little worried that minors had weapons that could slice open anybody or flatten then like a pancake.

"Oh... yeah we have a weapon armory they might've ran into it on accident," stated Vex .

"Well let's see if our heroes can beat this spy now, Jake can you take a watch on them okay," said Recthz, "I want to make sure that they don't get hurt and I'll step in case."

"Sure no problem," said Jake and he was off faster than lightning which was his normal speed.

Hopefully now that Soul has the others he can beat this spy, and hopefully Dit wont transform into someone like me, thought Recthz.

(Soul P.O.V.)

Well now that I'm riding on Drake's back again like some sort of dragon rider. Let me start at the beginning of fight where it did all begin. It was only about 3 minute ago but you know it feels like it was been a couple of hours. So let's go back shall we.

**Flashback**

I was you know falling down due to gravity 100 ft. to my doom which is five times larger than the crevice that Reyn was going to fall down. Speaking of Reyn he was coming down with Drake as we were falling down. We would most likely fall and hit the ground in a little bit more than 10 seconds since things most things fall at 9.8ft/s. Since it's already been about 1/2 a second I can count down from ten starting about now.

10...

I looked up and saw Drake and Reyn while Reyn was riding Drake downward towards me. I saw Dit also coming closer and he nearly punched me in the face but I dodged it and now I was getting really angry and my tail flame started glowing really high up and the clouds started to grow numerous and get darker which meant a storm might be brewing. I blew fire in his face upward and it hit him halfway. The other half went towards Drake but he dodged it.

9...

After the attack I made I had 9 seconds left till a hit the ground so I had to make a plan and quickly. At the rate I'm falling there is now way Drake will be able to get to me before the splat and my body ends up all over the floor. I have to get Dit off me but it was too late for me to counteract to Dit after I hit him with the flame. He punched me downward making me falling even faster. He made his Charmander body narrower so he would also go faster. No I was going at 20ft/s at 80ft and so now I probably only have 4 seconds left instead of 8

4...

Now it was going to be hard to slow myself down... wait hold a minute I can widen my body so that I fall a tad bit slower and maybe Drake can pick me up. But I don't want Dit to fall too so I'm going to just throw him into the building and hope for the best. Luckily he came for me and a reversed him into the 3rd floor.

2..

I lifted my arms and I went a tad upward and I felt like a was slowing down and I knew the exact speed I was going at. Maybe about 5ft/s it would've been slower but I was already knocked down so 35ft to go and going 5ft/s so that is about seven seconds if Drake can't catch me

7...

Good thing that Drake was there to catch me in time that I could enter the room the I pushed Dit in and now I asked Drake something

"Drake let me off here so that me and Reyn can get rid of this guy okay," I nearly commanded.

"Sure no problem, eh" said Drake and we were let of smoothly into what seemed to be like the armory. The roof was like a dome that went upward and there were many weapons up from swords in bronze, iron, steel, silver, and many other assortments. They were ranked from E to A which must mean A is for higher ranked teams and E are the lower ranked weapons. They had the same thing for axes and bows. Then I saw a Raichu so that must be Rayx right so why is he here? No that can't be Rayx I kind of heard him while I was falling he was a Pokémon who really loved his beer when he yelled about this colony being a near dry colony. He was probably still upstairs waiting for his license to print out so he can go get drunk at the casino next door. I really don't know though but Reyn has been really good at realizing who is who and who's a spy.

"Reyn do you know if that is really Rayx or not," I said. I could see Reyn concentrating like he actually has to think to know if that is the real Rayx or not. It's like Reyn was trying to read the mystery Pokémon's mind like he was trying to...read his aura. Did Reyn get this secret power that he could read the aura of other Pokémon. This right now isn't important so as long as we get out of this fight alive.

"That can't be Rayx it's not him I can tell," finally confirmed Reyn. I now that most people would call him crazy but after the events that have happened since yesterday morning finding ourselves here in the Leader's castle to this evening fighting spies from the castle we just escaped. Reyn went over and used an icy attack on the Raichu except it wasn't the usually icy wind attack it was in a beam from and it nearly froze the imposter completely. It was kind of like an icy beam maybe ice beam or something like that. I run up to him and punch him in the face while Dit was still incapacitated.

"We know that you aren't our friend so you can drop the act Dit okay," I said then my tail flame rise and I didn't even know noticed my feelings change. All I really notice about myself is that I went from annoyed because someone locked me up in the walls of the Silver Crevice to mad because this little good for nothing is trying to take my place in the group and beat me up.

"You still haven't gotten me yet little Charmander," said Dit laughing evilly. Then he went back to his gelatinous form and slipped upward and left out the window. I thought in his original form he should be able to withstand a 40 foot fall. I motioned Reyn to come on and I tried to grab a B ranked sword for him to use but when I tried to grab it the sword produced an electric shock that was as nearly as bad as the lightning that struck me an hour ago.

"What's wrong Soul are you alright you looked shocked, literally you trying to pick up a sword for me right?" asked Reyn.

"Yeah but I guess you need a certain weapon proficiency in order to pick this weapon up, you try Reyn okay," I said hoping that maybe he would also get shocked to produce a good laugh. Dit was probably gone since he was a spy and probably wouldn't wait for us to come down and fight him. Without noticing I saw Reyn pick the sword up under rank B with ease but when he went over to the rank A he was shocked nearly out of his wits.

"You can pick up the rank B sword when I couldn't pick it up," I said. I was a little jealous that he could even pick up that silver sword even though he never even picked up a sword in his life at least I don't think he's picked up a sword and he usually tells me everything.

"Go over to the bows see if you can pick up one of those okay," I said thinking maybe he is better with some other weapons. Reyn walked over in the plain white room and went over to the C rank bows and picked one up without the electric shock. Reyn went over to the B rank bows and was shocked by the usual electric current knowing he's not ready for it. The bow was made of steel and shined in the light and glistened.

"Soul, try grabbing one of the A rank pistols over there you must be ready with those," said Reyn. I walked over to the rank reluctant to get further shocked but when I picked it up and actually it felt lighter and had a scope on it which is pretty weird for pistols. Then I saw something that really caught my eye something that was really easy to spot. Something was labeled under S rank and it was a glowing pistol with a yellow hint and golden outer shell. The trigger was black and it was under a blue force field. The name was at the top it was called "Giritaina's Pistol of Revenge" and I went over and to it like it was calling to me.

"Soul dude that looks very serious you shouldn't touch that really it looks like it will shock the living daylights out of you," said Reyn.

"Let's just say this will be a very shocking experiment Reyn, besides I feel this weapon calling to me like I know that it wants me to be with it like our souls are connecting to it," I said still looking at the pistol glaring at its brightness.

Reyn laughed then said, "the thing is a weapon it has no soul, Soul." I still walked towards the gun disregarding Reyn's last smart remark. When I finally reached the pistol in my starlit gaze I reached through the field that failed to protect the weapon and I grabbed the weapon expecting a an electric shock above what the gods could muster but when I grabbed it and took it out the pistol glow a crystalline blue color and I took it out and it felt great. It was the best weapon I've ever thought to touch let alone look at.

"Soul it works perfectly for you eh I think it's only for you man," said Reyn. I looked at it more but then realized that we've been down here for three minutes. Reyn noticed this too and we left the armory.

"Drake we're ready whenever you are," said Reyn patiently . Drake came instantly and he was pumped.

**End Flashback**

"So is he gone, eh?" asked Drake. I finally noticed his Canadian accent.

"No but he's gone so it doesn't matter so let's go back to the meeting room so the others aren't worried about anything okay," said Soul. Drake flew us up to the top floor and then Drake said, "Don't worry about the damages I'll pay for them, eh." After he said that we got to the meeting room and everyone was there except for Marcus and Magi. I saw Rayx looking impatiently while Vex prints out something next to him. Recthz, Krest, and Ventus looked worried until they saw me and Reyn walk in.

"Dude are you alright you look a little hurt?" asked Krest jumping up and down excited to hear our story. I accidentally pointed my new gun towards Ventus and he got a little worried .

"Dude point that glowing pistol away from me before it accidentally shoots me alright" said Ventus freaked out by the other worldly glow that it produced steeping back a little. I don't know what miffed him out but this glow is calming to me. When I was about to apologize to Ventus for accidentally pointing my gun towards him Vex gasped, "wait a minute that isn't the pistol that was labeled under S rank in the armory did you that means-"

"What does that mean?" I asked a little worried.

"That means that you are Giratina's son, Soul" said Vex then he came over and looked at my arm and saw the glowing symbol that was on my shoulder when I held the pistol but when I wasn't holding the pistol the symbol stopped glowing.

"I know you are wondering how that could be my dad wasn't Giratina at all?" I said still worried. Vex explained everything to the group like this. It kind of happened like how in human religion like how the Lord impregnated Mary even though she was married to Joseph. So Giratina impregnated my mom and my dad was just my caretaker since I legendary Pokémon can't just leave his duties to live with me I guess if I were Giratina I would understand. I tossed my gun aside and Reyn caught it but it nearly burnt his hand then Drake caught it and started to glow blue again and something on Drake's arm started to also glow in relation to the gun.

"Dude I think you are one of his sons too Drake that means we are kind off sort of like brothers if you know what I mean," I said happily. I walked over to see what the symbol looked like but when I saw it my head started to hurt a lot.

"Soul, are you alright you look a little hurt?" asked Reyn coming next to me. My head started to hurt like crazy so I pushed Reyn away and ran to the room next door and locked the door. It looked like a master bedroom but I had no time looking at the details because my head still hurt. What is going on and why am I remembering things? I shouldn't be remembering things I already have kept all my memories becoming a Pokémon unlike Reyn who nearly forgot everything about his past life. Then something came back to me that I must have well forgotten that I never thought was possible at all

**Memory #1***

"You know what you must do right you have to protect him," said the mysterious Pokémon, "he's very important to both halves of the timeline since he is my son. You must protect Reyn at all cost since he is starting his Pokémon journey tomorrow and you know what could happen to him on those trips right."

"Yeah no problem dude it will be perfectly fine you know that I can be safe and help him along the way leave it to me alright bro," I said assuring him. I looked into my brother Palkia's eyes and he knew that I was serious.

"Yeah I'm sure you will Giratina well I hope that you keep him safe and we'll be bringing him to the other side in about a month you know since he is starting his journey a little late because I told his mom not to let him out of the house early," said Palkia.

"One more thing I don't want to remember I'm Giratina when I go to the other side because I want to feel like his actual friend not just some protector of him okay," I said sternly and confidentially. I knew I could win him over eventually.

"I don't know if that's a good idea what if you forget to protect him if you don't remember," said Palkia.

"I'll make it so that I remember when I see my son Davious when he also crosses over," I said. Palkia looked annoyed but finally gave up since he knew his brother won't be so easy to give in to his demands and suggestions.

"Okay fine but mark my words if anything happens to my son, and by the way take this sword and the five gems that go to the Emblem of Truth so that when he does finally know the truth he can figure it out himself okay," said Palkia.

"No problem and besides, what could possibly go wrong," I said.

**End of Memory**

I was still face down on the bed that what I witnessed was me talking to the all powerful Palkia which means I really am Giratina which means I can make a portal to the Reverse world but actually there is one right here under Vex's bed that he probably didn't notice. I must tell the others the vision I saw but in a place where there are no camera's the... Reverse World!