Chapter 16: The Legendary Meeting of Truth!

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9:30 pm

Sky

Dialga still may be pissed at Harmony, but at least he was empathic enough for us to ride on his back when we were in the air. After us getting on and placing Abby—who was still unconscious—in a safe area, Dialga jumped in the air and took off towards the nighttime skyline.

It was at this point that I realized we had to hold on for dear life.

The higher we got, the more amazing the view was. Treasure Town looked like a lighthouse in the Grass Continent, with the dungeons surrounding the town having little to no light. The view of the world was also coming into sight with more lights coming from the Air Continent. Pretty soon, it felt like a large city was expanded to the entire world, because we were getting lights from everywhere now.

I also started to realize then that our breathing capacity was almost next to nothing.

Chris and I started were doing labored breathing when Harmony realized this. "Shoot, I forgot. Put these on and give on to Abby!"

Harmony formed and then threw us three bowties. Our coloring of each one was different, as mine was fully black, while Chris and one for Abby was red on the outside and white in the middle.

Chris was putting the bowtie on Abby, while I started to put on mine. All our airways started to get clearer, and we were finally able to breath normally. Some body parts ached, but I wasn't paying attention towards that since Abby was just waking up.

She groaned loudly and started blinking quickly. "What… What happened?"

"Whatever you do. Don't look down."

Abby completely ignored my warning and looked down. Currently, we were right on top of a huge body of water. This made Abby move back to her spot and yell, "What the heck is going on?!"

Dialga turned his head and looked at the three of us. "Seems like the little one is…" He paused and looked straight at me. "Who put a human on my back?!"

Everyone looked straight at me. Chris and Abby left their jaws hanging, and Harmony facepalmed. 'Uh, oh.'

I looked down and got dumbfounded what I saw. Instead of having paws, I had regular hands with skin.

I was human again.

Judging from my clothes I was wearing right now; it seems like I was still in my pajamas from the night I left. "Harmony!" I exclaimed at her. The bowtie must have done this!

"I hate using those things, but does it look like I have a choice?! The Council needs to talk to you as your true selves, and I don't want to be reprimanded twice because I was lying about who you are!" Harmony yelled at me, breathing deeply after. I scooched back a bit to wait for Harmony to calm down. "S-Sorry. I overreacted. Listen, I already told the Legendary and Mythical Pokémon that you were human, and the user of Turbo Boost."

"Why did you do that?" I asked. "Isn't that ruining you plan?"

Harmony chuckled. "Trust me. My plans were already with ruined when they first noticed you using Turbo Boost."

If it makes you feel better, I haven't learned to control Turbo Boost yet. Abby decided to take a deep stare right at me. "Manny… You look, um..." She couldn't put it into words.

"Messy?" I answered since that would be my first reaction towards myself. Abby was about to respond with an answer, but stopped because of what was happening next.

As we entered the upper atmosphere, I was getting a little nauseous. It might have been because it's been a while since I've been in an airplane, but I tried my best to shake off this feeling.

"Guys," Chris said to all of us. "I think we're here."

Dialga landed at a ramp that lead towards what looked like a courthouse. The three of us hopped off Dialga's back and deeply took a stare at the courthouse. Not to mention that it was floating a few thousand feet in the air, there was a sign on top the ramp written in Pokémon scribes.

Hall of Legendaries

Trespassers will be Severely Prosecuted

"On the bright side, we're not going to be counted as trespassers," I joked.

"That's not funny, Manny." Chris said while going up the ramp.

"What? I was making a joke!" I followed Chris with my usual human walking stance. Abby only shook her head and followed the two of us.

When me, Chris, and Abby got nearby the top of the ramp, Dialga looked at Harmony. "Mew, why of all existence did Laevo Turbo go into that human?"

"I don't know… But if you see him in battle, you'll be very surprised what he has in his limit." Harmony floated off towards the three of us and turned her head to wink at him. "See you there."

Dialga rolled his eyes and turned invisible to get with the other Council members.

9:47 pm

Hall of Legendaries (Entrance)

Huge doors and rooms for huge Pokémon. In other words, the size of this place definitely fits a house for a Legendary Pokémon like Dialga. And I think Chris spoke for myself. "Look at the size of this place!" He exclaimed.

Harmony floated past us, leading the way. "If I were you, I wouldn't be too surprised by the size of this place."

I looked around the hallway. Some of the paintings—all of which were huge as well—were probably about legends across the three Universes. The only one I recognize was the Lock Ness Monster. But instead of the monster itself, there was a Lapras with a long neck painted instead. I turned my attention to Harmony. "What do you mean by that?"

She stopped moving and turned around to look at the three of us. "The size of this place relates to their superiority over other beings. Especially to humans—since they don't have a good history with that species."

"I'm not sure whether to take that as an insult, or to pity them for not liking humans."

Harmony turned around and started moving again. "Do both then," she stated, shrugging after.

We kept on moving along the long hallways of this place—going through seemingly large rooms that made this courthouse larger than it seems. It honestly felt we were going in circles, so I would probably need to say something before I start getting dizzy. Luckily, Abby said the same question I was going to ask.

"Harmony, what exactly is the Council?"

"Well…" Harmony puts herself into thought for a few moments. "The Council is this group made of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon that decides on interdimensional problems. It's made of the creation trio—Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina—Arseus, since he's the leader of the Council, and three random Legendary or Mythical Pokémon for tiebreaking purposes only… It wasn't always that way, though."

Harmony stopped moving once we got to a long hallway with very few paintings. In the right side, plaques were placed inside a trophy case. The plaques showed all the members of the Council, including some other members who made an appearance for decision. In the bottom rank, there was one plaque that stood out to the three of us.

Mew

Permanent Member: 3200 B.C. to 2016 A.D.

Cord Incident: 2016 A.D.

"You used to be a part of this?!"

Harmony grinned. "I was always the tiebreaker before I decided to resign from my spot. I still remember when I was rewarded the spot after saving the world…"

Harmony started floating forward just before I said something that made her stop moving immediately. "Why does your plaque say, 'Cord Incident?'"

"What the?" Harmony said confused. She turned at the trophy case and looked at her plaque. "That's new! Although, I haven't looked at this thing for the past three years..." Harmony rushed over towards the door at the end of the hallway. "Wait over here!" She opened the large door and closed it twice as hard.

"What was that for?" Abby questioned. She walked over towards the door Harmony came in and tried to pull the handle. Neither doors budged a bit.

All of us sighed. "Guess we're waiting." I sat down on the left side, while the two Eevee sat in the other side. "Anyone have a story to pass the time?"

No response came from anyone. 'Great…'

"Alright then," I responded since no one had anything. "I might as well talk about how I met Cord."

10:07 pm

Hall of Legendaries (Council Hallway)

This storytelling would have gotten better if Cord were here with us… Nevertheless, I was able to keep the story entertaining with my stupid annotation about the story. "And that's how it happened three years ago."

Slow claps went around the room. It wasn't the exact sarcastic motion I was expecting, but hey, it's better than nothing.

"…Shouldn't have Harmony opened the door by now?" Chris looked at the door, which was still closed shut. "I think we should try to open the door again."

Abby sighed. "Chris, you and I tried doing that a few minutes ago, and the doors didn't budge an inch."

Chris looked at me and smirked. "Manny hasn't done it yet."

Technically speaking, the height of the doorknob looks like what any regular doors look like in my world. Abby and Chris need to go on two feet to even get a handle on the knob and use their strength to push the door. All I have to do was to turn the door know with one hand and push the door to the next room.

"It's worth a shot…" I went to the double doors and looked down at the doorknobs. Both knobs weren't budging when Abby and Chris were trying earlier, and they probably weren't going to move , there was no keyhole for picking any lock neither… I start looking around the room. Minus the trophy case and the few painting around, there wasn't anything I can use to break down the door.

But there was big enough hallway to get some speed.

'Hmm… That could work.'

I take a few steps back from the doors and look straight at Abby and Chris.

"Um, Manny," Abby said looking confused. "What are you doing?"

I moved my hand towards the side of the hallway. "My suggestion is to get out of the way."

Abby followed my advice and placed her body on the drywall. Chris took a few moments to process what I said, but once he realized what I was doing, he rushed over to where Abby was.

After taking a few deep breaths, I started running towards the door.

Meanwhile:

10:08 pm

Council Meeting Room

Harmony started pacing at the area between two tables trying to think carefully of what she was going to say next. Right beside her, the four permanent members of the Council—Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, and Arceus—were growing impatient with every second she was floating around. "Is something in your mind, Mew?" Palkia asked.

It was still ridiculous that the four of them kept calling Harmony by her Pokémon name, but she ignored her instinct to argue against the four most powerful beings in the world. "I just can't believe you decided to name our decision based on lies."

"It was not based on lies." Dialga stated, giving a glare after. "Darkrai made the announcement that Cord was either gone or he died out of unknown reasons."

"Yeah, well Darkrai is a liar! I saw Cord alive with my own two eyes!" Harmony yelled at them. "Whether you believe it or not is your—."

Thud.

Harmony stopped speaking when she heard a soft, peculiar sound. Is sounded like it was coming from the other side of the main door… "What was that?" She mumbled to herself.

"Mew!" Arceus yelled at her. "Pay attention!"

Harmony's trance of the door noise was taken off her as she looked back at the Council seating area. "Sorry about that. Where was I…? Oh, right." She cleared her throat. "Whether you believe it or not is your judgement, but the only thing I'm going to ask for might just answer all of our problems."

No one except Giratina was intrigued. "What exactly is that?"

"A rescue/capture mission." Arceus, Dialga, and Palkia groaned while Garatina said nothing. "Oh, come on!" She shouted since she too was getting impatient. "For once, can you four actually listen to me without any interruptions happening?!"

Thud!

Everyone looked at where the noise was coming from, which was at the door again. Silence shushed everyone in the room and all they did was stood silent. A few moments later, the Council turned their attention back to Harmony.

"…Let me say this again," she said breaking the ice. "I chose the two Eevee and the human because I know if they have a plan, they'll always execute it correctly."

"Okay…" Arceus tilted his head towards Harmony to give a glare. "If I told you to tell the team to disband, would you do it?"

"Yes, I—." Harmony paused herself to glance at Arceus. She knew where this was going. "Why did you say that?" she asked anyway.

"Mew…" Dialga got off his seat and walked toward her. He didn't want to admit it, but it was either going to be him or Arceus was going to do it—probably by yelling at her. Dialga sighed of defeat. "Space and time has been getting crazy since last week and the actions you did a month ago were unknown towards us… Until you told us about Manny, I mean, the human being here in this world." Harmony floated up towards Dialga's head, who was drooping down out of grief. "I'm going to ask you politely to disband this team and put back the human to Universe—."

"Ahh!"

The noise was coming from outside the room again and this time Arceus had enough. "What the hell is going on outside—."

The huge left door broke in half and fell towards the floor, leaving a human to fly right towards Harmony's and Dialga's direction. He landed just before Dialga's feet and groaned in pain shortly after. The two Eevee looked at the broken door, peeked at the human from the other room, and hid behind the other giant door.

"What… The fuck… Was that?" The Council looked at Harmony waiting for her response.

Harmony looked at the human and sighed. "That… is the power of Laevo Turbo."

10:14 pm

Council Meeting Room

Me being unconscious for about two and a half minutes was probably payback for breaking a—I don't know—thousand-pound door in half. I honestly didn't know what I was thinking when I gradually backed up towards halfway of the large hallway and started running towards the door immediately.

And from what I can vaguely remember before hitting the door, I apparently was screaming.

Manny, wake up…

A large groan came out of me before I slowly was able to open my eyes. Harmony was staring right at me. "Am I dead?" I said panting loudly.

"Quite the contrary… Did you use Turbo Boost?"

I was able to start moving my head around and what came out of Harmony's question was a confused face and a tilted head. "I don't think I used Turbo Boost…" I moved my head to look at the huge broken door on the floor. "Did I?"

"Ahem."

I turned my head to see… 'Damn it, the Council is right in front of me.' I jumped to the air to get me back up from the floor.

"Sorry about breaking the door," I said putting my hand behind my head and grinned.

Arceus sighed. "It's fine." He said straining his voice "I was wondering when I was going to replace the old door anyway."

Arceus might go ballistic right now, so Palkia interrupted. "Harmony, is this the human you were talking about?"

Harmony looked at the Council and cleared her throat. "Yes, this was the human I was talking about… Council, allow me to introduce Manny Anderson from Universe 1." Harmony pointed right at me. The Council was conversing to themselves while staring right at me.

Harmony punched me in the back for me to follow some instruction of courtesy. I started stammering out of confusion and decided to bow slightly with my hands on one another. "Nice to meet you… Sir?"

Arceus looked at me and sighed. "Rise." As I followed his instruction, Arceus stared at Harmony. "You know that changes nothing, Mew."

"What's he talking about?" I whisper to Mew.

"He wants us to disband the team and place you back in Universe 1."

I stared at the Council and tried to contain my anger. Dialga sat down to his chair when I said the words that sparked an outrage from Arceus.

"I'm not going to let you do that."

I could hear the gasps coming from Abby and Chris outside the room when Harmony jabbed me from the back again. One more hit from her, and my rib cage might break from the pressure here. "And why not?!" Giratina yelled.

"Because three years ago, your decision of bringing Cord to this world made me felt like he was actually gone. And when I truly thought he could be dead; I see him right in front of my face. I'm going to get Cord back from the Darkness or die trying." I storm off towards the other door but just stop to talk to Harmony. "Harmony… I knew what you were going to say this morning. I kinda figured it out when Cord used telepathy on me…"

The Council looked at me confused when Harmony turned around. "You know?"

I nodded while opening the door. After getting though the door, I turned around and looked at everyone—including Chris and Abby, who were looking at me confused.

"Cord is my fucking brother."

I slam the door and sit down on the carpet floor. Chris and Abby didn't even say a word towards me, and instead payed attention towards Harmony and the Council.

"Mew, what is he talking about?"

Harmony looked straight at the door and started grinning. "Looks like Manny got it right on the money…" She turned around with the grinning still with her. "I'll be glad to explain it. When humans from anywhere become Pokémon, their DNA must change, right?" Everyone nodded. "By replacing some parts that make a human, you can make a species of Pokémon out of nowhere without any 'magic'... There is a slight occurrence that happens with this.

"When the tweaking is finished, the body gets confused with what it currently is, and does the 'real-life evolving' you know. This rarely can make the DNA rearrange itself to be identical to someone else in the same species. It's about a… One in ten million shot."

Arceus started to get annoyed with the explanation. "Can you get to the point?" he tried to ask politely.

"I was just getting there. Cord came into the world as a Pikachu three years ago, and the variation—out of ten million—was 5,780,903. Manny came into Universe 3 as a Pikachu about a week ago and the variation he has… Is 5,780,903."

Abby and Chris finally stopped looking inside the Council room to look at each other. "Oh, my Arceus," they both said out loud.

Abby turned to me with a soft smile on her face. "Did you know about that?"

I don't know how, but I started smiling too. "Everything except the variation part. I actually figured it out by telepathy."

"Manny," Chris interrupted while still looking at the Council and Harmony. "I don't know why you keep on saying 'telepathy' when you know that's not a word."

"Exactly." Chris and Abby looked at me confused. "I actually put the pieces together when Chris first got confused with what telepathy was… 'Telepathy' here is how strong your bond is with a Pokémon, or even towards a human as well. Psychic types and the Lucario line have some weird ability to amplify their and another Pokémon's or human's thoughts if their bond is relative-like. That makes 'telepathy' possible."

Apparently while I was talking about that, the Council was deciding on something based on the facts on them. "Um, guys," Chris told us. "I think they made a decision right now."

Me and Abby peeked inside the room where the four Council members were standing up from their seats, while Harmony was only Pokémon sitting down in the small chairs. "We finally made a decision…" Arceus stated. "Christopher Chambers, Abigail Chambers, and Manny Anderson will be allowed to carry out the mission you have."

"Really?!" Harmony jumped out her chair to start floating around the four Pokémon out of celebration. The three of us also started celebrating as well…

"But on one condition." All four of us stopped moving and turned back into Arceus. "When you find the place and get there, a time limit will be placed. If the limit expires, I will be forced to teleport all of you back here, and Manny will have to leave. If you do succeed, Manny can stay until the morning, but must leave back into his original spot you pulled him out of."

Harmony looked at me outside the door, and to her surprise, I nodded. In a way, I was getting homesick, but I at least needed to get Cord out of the Darkness before I wanted to go home. Harmony extended her paw out. "Deal."

*Game File Saved*

A/N: I'm going to be delaying Chapter 17 by at least a week because we are at the homestretch of this book!