A blue super-moon showered streets crowded with pokemon doing a busy dance of activity. Streamers were hanging from building to building all the way down. Even skyscrapers had signs that made whole sections of the roads look like they were lit different colors.
A small cloth moved through all of the lights. It was so small, that even pokemon like Mareep had to look down just a tad to see it moving about. Some minutes after the cloth had passed unnoticed by pokemon, they would sometimes shout or have a calm, questioning look on their faces at various stands for foods or crafts.
It took the cloth five minutes at most to come and leave the street and dart away unnoticed.
Eventually, the pokemon under the cloth looked around himself and relaxed as the streets grew less and less busy as he moved away from the main city. The buildings got smaller and started to look more worn as the pokemon kept moving forwards.
The pokemon looked left and right one last time before taking the uncomfortable cloth off of his white fur. The Eevee simply dropped the dirty thing to the ground and focused on cleaning himself off.
After a minute of walking slowly and brushing himself off, the Eevee's fur gained a soft white glow in the moonlight. He used his arm and wiped fur from in front of his face and aimed his eyes all around to take in the sights again.
His left eye blended into his body with a smooth white, while his right eye was where most other pokemon's eyes were drawn. Irritated by thinking about it, he mostly covered it with fur as usual and kept moving on.
The band of thieves he had to work with were currently using abandoned buildings that had been forgotten beyond being demolished. They had made their own renovations to keep the building safe enough to live in, but didn't have time for anything else.
The streetlights thinned and the streets were covered with moss as he continued to walk far out of range of all the festive noise.
He was daydreaming moving especially slow when a loud noise from up ahead snapped him back to reality. It fell back to silence and the yelling that followed fell into chatter momentarily after.
The Eevee took sneaking bounds forward to avoid noise and crept up to the scene low to the ground.
The building was an old home with holes on all sides that stood alone with an overgrown lawn and plants growing in it. Most of the house's white wood wasn't visible anymore, and there were few streetlights to make light reflect from it. Windows were broken dangerously on the top floor while they were completely missing on the bottom.
The Eevee slowly approached the building hiding easily in the grass that went way over his head until he was close enough to hear perfectly.
"That's not what we're here for," a female voice spoke, "We're here for one specific thing."
"But mom, they're thieves!" a younger girl's voice answered, "You can tell!"
"Jennifer, we'll discuss this later," the female voice answered in a hushed tone, "Now then. We need to retrieve and study that stone in your possession and we'll be on our way."
"We can't," another voice answered.
Recognizing the Heliolisk's calm voice, the Eevee felt comfortable enough to peer his head out from the grass too look inside from one of the smaller holes in the walls.
"It's our one good in this world to protect it. It's best in small hands, or it'll fall out," the Heliolisk explained. "No government can have this."
"You know what happens if we're refused by civilians and it interferes with our missions," Lucario explained. "Please cooperate."
"We all need to do our share of protecting the world," Heliolisk said. "I understand that the motto of the Nightlight Association is 'For the sake of us all'. That is exactly why you need to leave and deal with whatever comes of it."
"Then it would appear that we are in a conflict," Lucario announced. "Anyone who doesn't want to be apart of this may leave."
"A-and whoever d-does may join?" the Eevee asked.
The Lucario raised an eyebrow and tilted her head to look around the Heliolisk. The white Eevee pulled himself up from the whole in the wall onto the dirty, concrete floor in a fluid motion and stood beside him.
"Light, you should leave too," Heliolisk said. "It's a good opportunity for you."
"I know it is," Eevee nodded, "But this is more important."
The Eevee noticed a Riolu just behind the Lucario's feet shivering.
"I'm still willing to make talks with you over it," Lucario offered. "I understand how dangerous this is. We can work something out, and the N.A. doesn't need to have it. Just show it to me."
The Heliolisk nodded with his lips pressed together.
"Don't have much choice, do I?" the Heliolisk muttered. "Fine. Stay right there."
The Heliolisk lazily looked above him and grunted. A small electric charge went up his arm as he held it upwards and fired it to make small chunks of wood fall. With the same arm, he caught the completely white, round stone in his hand and held it out in front of him.
"It's durable," the Heliolisk explained, "but still dangerous."
"It has a weak aura to it, too. Definitely alive," Lucario observed. "But I have a proposition on how to handle this. We could kill it."
"What!?" the Heliolisk asked loudly, "Moron!"
"Six months ago, you determined that it was undoubtedly a Legendary pokemon. They were all meant to lose their physical forms while interacting with the world thousands of years ago," Lucario said. "It makes logical sense. You get rid of its body and the threat, and it all goes down as street folklore."
"As swell as the ending sounds, we have no idea if that's how it will go," Heliolisk said. "Neither of us know anything."
"I took this mission because I'm up to the task," Lucario explained. "I have a weapon made out of aura that should be able to pierce it for a swift, respectful end."
"Even if it was true, it's not the most moral solution I've heard."
"I'm not giving you the choice, so it's only my morals on the line," the Lucario replied. She looked around the room, getting a more gentle face. "I understand that you and this... 'Bandit prince', aren't exactly excited about how you live."
The Heliolisk's only reply was blinking and taking a deep, unnoticeable breath.
"You two are pretty peaceful, and the only ones here at the moment," she continued. "I could have you go away to live in peace, and anyone who would try to follow you because they know about the boy's talent would be ambushed here tonight. You've done our kind a great service already."
The Heliolisk silently gawked at what the Lucario was saying.
"Your saying that if I go along with this, we can just leave the city and go wherever we want clean?" Heliolisk asked. "You're a Nightlight agent for the government, and you're offering this?"
"Less danger, less crime, more peace," she said proudly. "This offer comes from high up. We believe this is how to best deal with this whole situation for everyone. But you need to understand that even though this pokemon will 'die', it's still a very much alive force. Legendary pokemon having bodies is dangerous, that's why they don't anymore."
"But if anyone in the world had a problem with this, it'd be our necks. So many things we don't know is really risky, lady."
"You're willing to take risks for him, though. Yes?"
"Risks for his benefit, not risks that could be horrible."
"Again, you lack the choice. Because of my certainty, of course," Lucario smiled. "Take the things, take your boy, and wait outside on the lawn until the deed is done, then you may leave."
The Heliolisk set the stone on the ground slowly and stood straight again keeping his eyes on the Lucario. The Heliolisk defensively walked between her and the Eevee as he walked them outside of the building.
The Heliolisk kept his eyes looking back until they were wall onto the walkway completely overtaken by weeds. They both stopped at the end of it just by the street and faced the building.
"There are probably more Nightlight agents all around us," Heliolisk whispered. "Sorry, kid."
"They c-can't kill it," the white Eevee muttered. "W-what do we d-do?"
"If something happens, we'll support the Nightlights in whatever safe way we can. That way it won't be on our heads and we can get away."
The white Eevee continued to glare at the house while squinting his eyes to try and see through the dark.
After a short moment, he blinked uncomfortably at sudden light coming from inside. He felt heat coming from it on his face seeming to make him get a headache that nearly sent him on the floor with pain.
The Heliolisk reacted and wrapped his arm around the Eevee's chest and leaped backwards repeatedly. Embers started to glow around the house making it catch fire so intensely that only the shadows of the fleeing pokemon were visible.
Although they were far into the street, the lawn catching fire made the smoke and heat intimidating for the whole street while the Heliolisk carefully set the Eevee down.
"Light, what's wrong!?" Heliolisk half-shouted. "I need you up!"
"It's like..." the Eevee huffed, "I-I can f-feel it."
The white Eevee dragged himself to his feet and was able to shake off the dizzy, pained feeling in his head to a level low enough to ignore. Although fire was sending a plume of black smoke into the sky, an unmistakable white wing with claws outstretched high into the air with a fast but stable movement.
A loud, rumbling sound accompanied the fire's growing and blasting outwards from the center. The Heliolisk reacted by stepping in front of the Eevee and using the move protect to make a green shield for both of them. Sparks of it flew off from it's sides making the Eevee stay directly behind the Heliolisk to be safe from the force of air and fire.
The force quickly stopped letting the pair see in front of them again. A looming, white figure cast a shadow with light coming from its body. It outstretched giant wings to either side of its body and stood itself on legs like trees with feet that had claws times over the size of the Eevee's body.
It's blue eyes opened and swiveled around aimlessly until they settled and sharpened looking at the Heliolisk and white Eevee.
"Whatever they did just made it crazed," Heliolisk whispered. "Don't look away. We need to back up, nice and calm."
The Heliolisk and white Eevee both only managed to take a short step to the right before another sound rang out. A small, yellow projectile was fired at the white behemoth's face from a nearby tree and made it close one eye.
The pokemon turned it's enormous face and immediately retaliated by firing a white beam of energy at the tree with double the speed that immediately caused an explosions that sent burning branches flying off of it.
It turned his head back at the Heliolisk and Eevee preparing the same attack, but its head suddenly continued to swivel and it fired the attack and made a smoking hole in the brick road to their right.
Pokemon were charging at it quickly from all directions. Smaller and larger pokemon were all helping to carry ropes across the ground and were throwing it at the large, white pokemon with different methods.
"Light, stay back," Heliolisk ordered. "Let's see what's going on."
The white pokemon waved its wings against the ground keeping pokemon from getting close to it. The white Eevee was left alone with the Heliolisk racing forward helping a falling Swadloon.
The white Eevee maintained a scared eye contact with the pokemon as it tried to trudge forward. Ropes began to drape its head and tangle around it's legs making it harder for it to walk. It flapped its wings sending ropes and wind all around the Eevee.
The white pokemon suddenly moved back at strong attacks hitting his front. The ropes behind the Eevee tripped him and tangled him just enough to stop him from standing back up.
The white Eevee grabbed two ropes to get them off his legs, but his arms got stuck together by a rope that went around them when the giant white pokemon tugged again.
Light decided to keep his hands and feet near his neck to avoid having any ropes tie around it. He progressively got dragged towards the white pokemon quickly until he found that his whole body was completely immobile and he was strapped to the white pokemon's body.
"Hey!" Light screamed. "H-hey! Someone cut this!"
The white Eevee grunted at the rumbles from the onslaught of attacks making contact. They soon stopped when the enormous white pokemon flapped it wings and made a small, sharp roar.
Although no one voice was distinguishable, Light heard shouts that the pokemon was running.
The white Eevee used his energy to power up his voice and made one last cry for help. Pokemon's eyes finally went onto the Eevee.
A Heliolisk reacted first by charging forward on his feet as fast as he could over the smoking remains of the lawn.
Light felt heat growing from his back as the white pokemon's wings began to move upward and stopped at their highest height.
The Heliolisk was too far, but jumped forwards anyways as the pokemon's wings began to crash down.
The Heliolisk was burned and sent flying back from a fierce, red flash. The next thing he remembered was looking up at the sky lying on his back. He reached out a shaky, blackened arm out towards the sky.
A smoky trail extended all the way to a meteor that was outshining the moon glowing white and red.
The Heliolisk kept reaching shakily with desperation until his arm gave out and fell to the ground beside him.
Able to see that he was attached to the pokemon's back side, the white Eevee looked back at the plume of fire that whirred to the sound of a generator. Completely unable to move, he stared down at the ground looking at the city getting smaller and moving away from him. Eventually, the scenery faded to dark as the city went out of site.
Light closed his eyes stopping trying to struggle against the ropes and grit his teeth angrily before giving up altogether. Despite the circumstances, he kept himself being sane by being purely analytical and calmly studying for a way out.
"Willing to bet most pokemon have never traveled this fast. I need to make it land on its own. It'll get tired, but I need it to land somewhere not awful."
The Eevee continued to think and try gnawing at the ropes around him for a split second before realizing it'd make him fall. The scenery right below him was changing constantly because of how fast they were moving.
Strategically, the white Eevee gnawed at a roped that was holding his head and upper body close against the white pokemon's side. He was able to turn his head and look around in more directions. He didn't time how long it took for him to gnaw at the rope, but he knew it definitely was lots of hours.
When he looked around with a new sunrise, he didn't recognize the landscape at all, but gawked when he realized that they were above the ocean completely out of sight of land.
"This is what the ocean looks like in person... But it's so many miles to the ocean. How fast are we going!?"
After Light had stared at the waves for a short moment, he looked back in the direction of the pokemon's tail and saw that the ropes down there had caught fire. The pokemon's fur was slowly turned brown and black from the flames.
"It's burning itself? That can't be normal. No choice, I need to stop it's flying now or I'll get roasted."
Light was about to gnaw at the ropes at his legs, but decided to wait for the ropes down by its tail to burn and release him instead. Feeling the grip between him and the pokemon's side weaken, he used his claws and gripped hard onto the pokemon's white fur with all of his limbs.
Once the ropes fell away, the white Eevee began to climb up to the pokemon's back always keeping three limbs attached and pulling himself up with the next.
Once Light was on the pokemon's back, he was able to see it's head and decided to make that his next destination. Fur only a couple of normal paces away from him was steaming with the only thing saving him from feeling hot was the wind's intense direction from their travel.
The white Eevee climbed the pokemon's neck with the same method. He had just noticed long tendrils coming from its head like ears had a red color on the ends of them.
Once he made it to the top, he trudged forward scared of falling off and the pokemon's reaction to seeing him. He slowly inched towards the pokemon's right eye and looked vertically down on it from just over it.
"I know I'm a small Eevee, but this pokemon's definitely a Titan class..."
He nervously waved a paw in front of the blue of its eye and evoked a loud, high-pitched scream from it. He retraced his paw immediately and held on tightly as the pokemon started to shake it's head harshly.
The Eevee stayed on its head, but soon lost the grip is legs had on it's fur and was hanging solely by his arms screaming nervously.
The fur he was holding slipped through his fingers and sent him flying off the pokemon even higher than he already was. After going through a cloud, and reaching the maximum height, he grabbed towards nothing out of instinct before he began to fall.
Without anything else to do as he fell, he braced his body for impact with anything by focusing as much energy to his body for surviving as he could.
"Ok, falling from the stratosphere. I'm smaller than a normal Eevee, so ten pounds... Two thousand or so miles per hour!? Wait, that can't be right, right?"
Although it could've been a rush of adrenaline, the Eevee felt his body ignite with new energy that felt unfamiliar. He felt his left eye seemingly tense making him close it while his right didn't and started to feel as if his instincts changed.
To try and slow his fall, he fired out strong pulses of energy from his arms that were much more intense than he had tried before. As he grew closer to the ground, the energy grew more intense making his fall take much longer. He saw a small amount of land he was rapidly approaching, and at the last couple of seconds before he landed, he crossed his arms in front of them and landed with a huge thud that sent him into sand.
Although he didn't feel any pain, he couldn't make a cohesive thought, and passed out on his side before he could open his eyes.