Some things you may need to know.
"What are you thinking of?" People talking.
Things. People thoughts.
G'day. Legendary Pokémon or Celestial beings talking.
"Morning." Pokémon talking being understood when near people.
"Fire!" Attack or Pokémon's moves names.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any other things that I may reference to.
Now on to the story.
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"So you're saying that 'Ditto' created an illusion that covered the entire arena thingy and you were trapped in another one?" Ane said, trying to make sure he got it down.
"Yes," Zeal said, "And boy, it sure was a powerful illusion. I didn't even realised I was trapped in it until I got here."
"But I thought Dittos could only transform when in a battle?" Quil asked.
"Well it did. Just not into one of us." Evie turned towards her sister. "So what illusion did it put you in?"
"It's... uhh..." Zeal trailed off. "Kinda embarrassing." Her cheeks erupted into a blush as she scratched her head.
"It better not be what I think it is." Evie warned.
"Well, it was about my... secret fear," she said in a barely audible voice.
"Secret fear?" Evie's eyes shrunk in realisation. "You mean you're still afraid of the da-"
"Not in front of them!" Zeal interrupted, leaping forward and clasping her sister's mouth.
An awkward silence passed by before it was quickly murdered by Ane. "O~kay, I'm just gonna leave before this becomes weird."
Ane walked towards the temple with his arms up, not caring to look behind him.
He entered the temple and was swiftly washed away by the decor.
The walls were a beautiful polished marble, the floor was smooth, clean and wonderful to walk on.
A marble statue of a human with his right hand raised, stood in the middle of the temple. The statue wore a robe and was sitting cross-legged on a platform of quartz.
There were some writing engraved on the platform.
Ane walked closer and examined the writing. The statue towering him as he squinted his eyes to get a better view of the writing. "A heavy wave washed up, flooding the world. Intelligence, plants, animals, all were destroyed. The universe crumbled, the dimensions cracked and the planes of reality fell until all that's left was one. One object.
"This object, a simple atom, manifested from the decaying multiverse, began swallowing its surroundings, the matter of the dead, the living and everything in between. Gods, demons, emotions, energy all fusing into one. Then it split into two. One contained the knowledge of the bad and the other, the knowledge of the good. At first, these two hated one another but after countless centuries of being stuck with each other with nothing around them. They'd decided to recreate the multiverse." Recreate the multiverse? What?
"Hey, Ane." His brother's voice echoed into his ears. "Ya in there?"
"Yeah," he said before jerking back when he saw that Quil was right next to him. How did I not notice him?
"So what were you reading?"
"I'm... not sure." He looked at the writing. "But I think it's some sort of legend."
"A legend?"
Ane shrugged. "Probably not important. Come, we got a puzzle to solve!"
"All right," Quil said as Ane began his search.
A few minutes passed, Ane had found the puzzle. It was resting on a pedestal that was at the end of the room.
A glass cloche was covering the puzzle, Ane removed it and placed it carefully on the ground, not wanting to shatter it. He then took his first look at the puzzle, and it was not what he expected.
Ane stared at it, dumbfounded.
"What is it?" Quil asked as he couldn't really get a nice look of it because the pedestal was taller than both of them and Ane had to stand on a stool to reach it.
"It's a- it's a..."
"A what?"
"A fricking rubix cube," Ane said in a 'Are you serious?' voice as he showed Quil the cube.
"A rubix cube?" Quil said. "What kind of puzzle is this?"
"This is gonna be easy," Ane said, making the first turn.
...
"This might take a while."
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Calm your mind. Relax. Relax. Re... lax. Re... June's eye twitched.
"Screw this!" June shouted, startling Crude in the process. "Meditation isn't working. Isn't there some other way I could unlock my Aura?"
Crude blinked, feeling a sense of déjà vu. He shook his head. "There is no other way that can safely make you unlock your Aura." Because most of them require you to be in a close-to-death situation. "And the other methods wouldn't help you memorise the way to 'pull' it out."
"Maybe if I get a feel of it, I could learn to 'pull' it out."
"Hmm..." Crude scrunched his face in thought. Then he shrugged. "All right then."
Alright. Now who should I summon? Wicka? Harry? Hmm... it should be someone weak yet strong enough to unleash it. He snapped his fingers. Got it!
Crude stretched out his arm, palm opened as it glowed a bright cyan.
A symbol of a hectogon appeared on his palm. Moments later, a similar shape appeared on the ground.
Crude started chanting in a strange language. "Upon this starry night and blazing day, I summon thee from the deepest of the nether realm. Come forth, Duncan the level ten daemon."
Red smoke burst from the hectogon. Slowly it took on a humanoid shape, a crimson red leg sprouted from the smoke then an arm, another leg, another arm. The smoke then formed a torso and the head.
Two bat-like wings emerged from its back as two sharp horns grew on its head. Its eyes were entirely white and were devoid of any pupils. It let out a menacing grin, showing off its three-inch-long teeth. "What is your command, C-Crude?"
Confusion stretched across its face as its body became engulfed in a bright blaze.
An ordinary man dressed in a sharp tuxedo replaced the daemon. His hair was nicely groomed and was very formal looking. A pair of shades blocked his eyes from view.
He coughed slightly to get rid of his confused-looking face before straightening his tie. "*Ahem* Who..." He lifted his glasses a bit as it glinted in the light. "Are you?
"Really, Duncan? You can't even recognise little ol' me?"
"I don't think I have ever met someone like you." His face turned into a scowl. "And even if I did. I don't think I would ever have the pleasure of meeting you."
"Aw~ You wound me, my good friend." Mockingly holding his chest as if he'd been shot.
A moment of awkward silence flew by, June was starting to think that he may have intruded on something private.
Crude blinked. "You seriously don't know who I am?" Shock greeted his face.
The cold and stoic face of the man gave him his answer.
Crude sighed. "So you really don't know me?"
"Should I?" Duncan crossed his arms.
"Dammit, master. I thought you said you'd inform everyone of my transformation," Crude shouted at the skies.
The whiteness of the sky shifted a bit as if something was shrugging.
Crude huffed in frustration. "Whatever," he said. "Duncan, I want you to temporarily unlock my creator's Aura."
"And who are you to order me around?"
"It's me, Crude. Y'know, the guy who'd fought toe to toe with your universe's Satan. The guy who kicked your butt over ninety-nine times and the one who is gonna obliterate you if you don't do what I freaking ask you to do!" His entire being was engulfed in a bright blue and fiery aura. His eyes glowing red with energy.
Duncan's indifference demeanor shattered instantly, his tone taking on a stutter." G-got it, C-Crude."
Duncan faced June with an outstretched palm. "Now just stand still and this won't hurt a bit."
"Al-all right," June said, hesitantly as he remembered the last time someone had said that line.
A green wispy fire pounced on him, it swirled around him before diving straight into his stomach.
A strange burning feeling erupted his very being, it wasn't painful instead it felt like his body became more... loose, for a lack of a better term.
A strange new energy began flowing through his veins, his tail flame growing slightly in size.
"This feels... amazing," June muttered in surprise as he looked down at his claws, clenching and unclenching them.
"Great!" Crude clapped with a grin. "Now that's over with. Duncan."
The green fire jumped out of him and flew back into Duncan's hand.
Duncan glanced at Crude nervously before disappearing.
"Now you know how your Aura feels like, it'll be a little easier to unlock it... probably."
If that's how Aura feels like, then... Man, I'd love to unlock it now... wait a sec, "Probably?"
Crude shrugged. "Come on, let's-"
*Beep!* *Beep!* *Beep!*
His ears dropped low. "Time's out, eh?"
The world around them distorted.
Crude sighed. "Sorry, June but it seems like we have to postpone this."
"What? Why?"
"Your companions have completed my master's test and as such you have to be projected back into the Pokémon-verse." Crude smirked. "See you next time. Buh-bye."
And with a pop, June disappeared.
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"And... done. Whew, that was easier than I thought it would be." Evie wiped her head. "So, what do we do with this?"
Ane shrugged. "Maybe we have to put it back on the pedestal."
"All right then," Evie said, getting up to place the cube back.
"What's the point of this?" Zeal asked.
"Hmm?" Quil glanced at her.
"Why would you humans create something like this? This 'Rubix Cube' doesn't seem to have any kind of applications to your society, so why would you create something as useless as this?"
"For fun." Ane shrugged. "I don't really know myself."
"Humans are strange creatures, Zeal. Nobody may understand them or know why they do such things. If not for science then maybe for survival, if not for survival that then probably for pleasure. They do things for seemingly dumb reasons but it's always for improvement, improvements that some of them don't even know nor understand why they need it."
A silence zoomed past them.
"That's deep, Evie," Ane said.
Zeal blinked, tilting her head. "How the heck do you know all of that?"
Evie froze, the cube landing safe onto the pillow as she started sweating. Fuck, should I tell her?
She glanced at the three before taking a deep breath as she made her choice. "Well-"
A bright flash of light cut her off. The light glowed brighter and larger before it enveloped all of them.
When the light died down, none of them were present in the room.
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June felt the ground below him disappearing as he shouted to the skies. "Goddamit, Cruuuuuude!"
He crashed onto the dirt in less than three seconds, a portal then opened above him and spat out the others.
"Woah!" Ane screamed before gravity pulled them down.
"... everyone... get off, please." June said, his voice muffled under the mass.
The others, still disorientated from the fall, didn't hear him and slowly pushed each other off.
When June felt the final body left him, he got up and said, "Finally! Man, you guys are heavier than you look."
"Brother? What the heck are you doing here?" Ane asked.
"Don't know." June shrugged. "Crude said you guys finished some sort of test or something."
Evie rushed forward, scanning his body with a worried look. "Are-are you okay? Did-did he hurt you? Oh, I won't forgive myself if let another human get hurt under my watch again."
"Woah, Woah. Jeez, calm down."June pried off the fox. "I'm not hurt," Atleast not anymore, "He didn't do anything to me, in fact he-"
Hey! Do NOT tell them I tried to help you. What? June couldn't be bothered to be shocked that Crude knew telepathy anymore. Why?
Because that'll be a secret between you and me. So hush, do not spill the beans to them and I won't make your journey a living nightmare, He said the last word with barely concealed malice.
Fine. June was glad that his poker face was amazing because he was sure he would be pouting by now.
"He..." Crap, need to think of a lie. "He... he... um... beat the living crap out of me and then healed me and said that we should do battle next time when I'm stronger." God, I suck at lying when under stress.
June noticed Evie releasing a sigh of relief. "Thank Arceus," she muttered under her breath.
Didn't know she cared that much about me. He felt strange, unknown of what the warmness he felt within was, it was a familiar feeling, he just couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.
"So how was it? Y'know, about getting wrecked by that Crude guy," Ane said with a sly grin as he placed his paw on his brother's shoulder.
June removed the paw with a scoff. "As if you could do better against someone that could bend reality."
"Bend reality? Wow, is he really that powerful?" Ane asked
June shrugged. "Maybe he is or maybe I'm just joking. Who knows?" He winked.
As the two continued to argue, Evie couldn't help but let out a sigh. "Come on, Zeal. It's time for us to go."
Zeal looked at her in surprise.
"They've got a long journey ahead if they want to get home, we shouldn't get in their way."
"But-but-" Zeal stuttered, hesitant to speak.
"What?" Evie said, looking straight at her.
"Um... you know what. Nevermind."
Evie rose her brow at her before shaking her head. "Let me guess, you want to go with them?"
Zeal nodded.
"You've really grown attached to them in such a short time, huh?"
Zeal gave her a nervous smile.
Evie looked at the ground before looking at her straight in the eye. "All right then, let's do it."
"Huh?" Was her reply as she gaped at Evie. "You'r-you're serious?"
"Yup." She nodded. It's about time that I let her explore the world. "Although I'm gonna be with you as well."
"Awesome!" She jumped in excitement before calming herself. Blushing, "I mean, thanks."
"You're welcome, sis."
As the two rejoined the brothers, Crude stood, grinning at their retreating figures, his body being hidden with an invisibility spell. "All according to plan."
Oh, I assume you did what I ordered?
A feminine yet somehow masculine voice crept into his mind.
"Yes, master," he said. "The Zorua has been given the 'special' serum."
Wonderful. Anything interesting to report of? "Well, you'd probably know the rest, considering the fact that you're... y'know."
Yes but it's more fun listening to my minions than gazing into the Multi-multiverse's data.
Crude shrugged. "All right then." He took a deep breath. "Those two foxies, I may had have use my Loyalty Spell at them."
Yes. Good work on making that spell useful. "Still pretty useless though." Crude remarked.
So you wanna leave or...
Crude gazed at the five.
"Well... I think I can stay for a few more years." He rose his brow at the sky. "Plus, I thought you said I was supposed to learn teamwork or whatever that bullcrap is?"
Well, I did. Did I?
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Drake was shocked. No, he was more than that; he was completely and utterly astonished.
Not only had this blob casted an illusion that affected the entire arena, and not to mention it had also affected metal-beings. There was also the fact that it dared to retaliate against the crowd.
Why if it wasn't for the fact that they were gonna destroyed it later, he would've done it himself.
He stared at the purple blob. His metal hand grabbing a part of the blob. "You're lucky your death is gonna be swift and painless, because if I was the lead in command, I would be torturing you by now for attempting to hurt the crowd. Not to mention, you almost hurt Sarah."
He glared at the blob, very tempted to stab the blob with his arm.
"Drake, come on. Don't terrorise the little fella," Mike, the robot announcer, said.
"Easy for you to say, Mike. None of your human companions were in that crowd."
"True," Mike said. "But they are strong enough to handle themselves, and you know it."
"Hey, I'm still new to this emotion thing. Briggs had only gave me the ability to feel like a few months ago."
"You'd get use to it. Come on, James' waiting."
"All righty tighty."
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Pain.
Desire.
It was all it could think. Its desire to be the best, its desire to be the ultimate lifeform since Mewtwo.
However, this desire was currently being overwhelmed by undying pain, its body warped and shifted with each breath.
"All righty tighty." It heard a voice said.
It knew that it was in danger, it needed to wait... wait for an opportunity.
"You both ready?" A metallic voice said.
It felt itself being slowly lifted from the ground. It opened its eyes slightly, seeing three metallic humanoid beings.
"Yes." The one that was holding it, said.
"Great, now throw that thing in."
Drake shrugged, his arm held behind him as he threw the blob. "Good riddance."
As soon as it left his palm, it started to warp its body.
In less than a second, its purple blob-like body quickly changing into a giant brown bird of prey.
It stopped its motion with one flap of its newfound wings. Its head feathers flowing with the wind as it glared at the three.
It blasted the three robots with a huge gust of wind, effectively knocking them into the wall.
And with that, it left the three dazed robots and began its escape.
"Ow, definitely didn't see that coming," Mike said, getting out of the hole.
Drake dusted himself before transforming his left hand into a hammer.
He smashed a glass pane and took out a microphone. "Code Lavender! I repeat, this is a 'Code Lavender'! Be on the lookout for a shape-shifting blob!"
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Alarms blaring, lights flashing and doors closing. The now-transformed Pidgeot slowed to a halt when a metal door slammed down in front of it.
It looked around, trying to find a different way. It spotted something at the far end of its right.
A lone door with a sign above it.
It had seen many strange creatures that were escorted by some of those metal beings before, the creatures had gone in and some had never come out.
Maybe there was a reason to it, It thought.
It flew towards the door, reaching it in a second. It tapped the door with its right wing, noting that it was locked.
Past experience had taught it that brute force didn't help.
It thought quickly on what it should change into. Immediately, it turned into a small purple ball of gas.
Its body became slightly transparent as it moved through the door.
The room it went into was ginormous, easily bigger than that arena-like place earlier.
Laid throughout the room were tons of futurist gadgets and tech. But for some strange reason, there was this one specific tech that was everywhere.
It was cylindrical in shape with a glass body. It had a large screen above it and a control panel underneath.
The ball of gas moved closer to the tech, its body slowly gaining mass as it changed into a hue of blue.
Four massive metallic legs sprouted under it before a big white 'X' erupted from its face, complimenting its bright pink eyes.
It lifted one of its legs and placed it on the control panel, connecting itself to it.
Information began to pour into its head.
It sorted out the important ones and discarded the rest before looking back at the machine with its newfound knowledge.
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"Where is it?" Drake shouted at a shorter robot.
"We-we don't know, sir."
"Well, then hurry up and find that darn thing! We don't have much time until it finds a way!"
"Sir! Do we have any strange, blue quadred robots visiting lately?" A robot, wearing a red hat, asked.
"No," Drake said. "Why?"
"Well..." He trailed off, gesturing to the screen.
"Hmm?" Drake loomed over the sitting robot. Shock filled his body before he quickly turned around and grabbed a nearby microphone. "The blob is in the visitation centre!-"
He looked away from the microphone and shouted, "Fuck! He's in the visitation centre."
Drake held the microphone closer. "Get him out of there! Now!" He threw the microphone to the shorter robot before walking to the door.
"You. Get every single non-organic guards, on duty, to barge into the visitation centre, right now!" he said before leaving.
"We don't have a second to lose." He muttered as he ran across the hallway.
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Its yellow hands quickly scoured through the keyboard, its beard flowing in the wind of the air conditioner.
Almost there, It thought. And... don-
*Smack!*
"There it is!" A familiar large robot, with his hand on the door, said.
Oh no. Not again. It held out one of its arm, palm opened as a cyan aura engulfed his hand.
A similar glow enveloped the large robot, lifting him several meters off the ground. "What?" Drake said, surprised. Telekinesis?
"Come on. Come on, " it said, hastily typing down the last few words into the computer.
It took a quick glance at the floating robot, strengthening its grip on him before returning its focus on the screen.
Drake struggled against the invisible grip but to no avail. He glared at the Alakazam, his body dangling uselessly in the air. Damn it. Knew I should've started that psychic-resistance training.
"And done." Pressing a big red button, the machine started glowing.
Crap crap crap. Drake thought, panicking slightly. How the fuck does it know how to use the portal generator? The light from the machine glowed brighter as Drake struggled harder. Damn it. Where the heck are the others?
The machine began to emmit a low whooshing sound. Lightning bolts cracked through the air as the sky around them darkened.
The air inside the machine began to implode, causing sparks to fly. A loud ripping sound echoed through the large room as a tear in the fabric of reality appeared in the machine.
The tear slowly grew bigger and bigger until it was the size of an average human adult.
The screen above flashed the words "Portal activated. Do you wish to open?" and while 'Alakazam' couldn't read it. The knowledge it extracted let it know what it meant. "Yes."
The glass doors of the machine slowly slid open as steam began filling its field of view.
It breathed in the steam with a sigh. "New world. New subjects to copy." It rubbed its hands gleefully. "I will be the perfect being. Heh heh, the perfect creature of the universe. The perfec-"
A metal fist to the face cut it off. The 'Alakazam' skidded across the floor before it jumped and crossed its legs, hovering a few inches above the ground.
"Ya shouldn't have done that."
'Alakazam' wiped off some spittle before hardening its stance as it glared at Drake.
Its eyes gleamed before it quickly hovered to the activated machine.
Drake was surprised at why it had ignored him but recovered quickly. He tried to move his body but his body didn't respond as he stayed immobile. What the? Why isn't my body working? He tried to move his left arm but it remained stationary.
Damn it! He glared at the escaping shape-shifter.
'Alakazam' floated closer to the portal generator. A small smile appeared on its face.
No more distractions. It approached the portal, feeling the air around it getting sucked into the portal. Time to go.
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A loud rumbling could be heard behind the door.
And then. *Slam!*
The door fell off its hinges, crashing onto the floor as dozens of robots rushed into the room.
"Where is it?"
"Hey look, there's the general."
"What is he doing?"
A metaphorical tick-mark appeared on Drake's head as they talked among themselves. "Get me a fucking mechanic, you bucket of bolts!" he bellowed loudly, startling them all.
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"All right, just a little tweak on the joints and a little bit of tinkering on the processors and you should be fine." A young man, wearing a dirty plain white T-shirt, said.
"Thanks, Briggs."
"No problem, Drake," Briggs said, ruffling his ragged hair.
Drake returned his gaze to his team. "So..." He stood up, eyes hardening into a glare. "What kept you."
They all stood in silent, looking very interested at the ground all of a sudden.
"Well?" His voice taking on a dangerous tone.
"Um... with all due respect, sir." The one in the front spoke. "It's not our fault. Something was stopping us."
"And that is?"
Silence filled the room as the gears in him began to turn. "Well um..."
"Spit it out, private!"
"We-we don't know, s-sir. We weren't able to catch a glimpse of it, sir."
Drake let out a long and heavy breath. "Is this how most emotions feel like?" he muttered under his breath. He turned to glare at them. "That shape-shifter is out there in Cosmo-knows-where and it's because all of you took your sweet ass time getting here. If you were faster and didn't get fucking distracted, maybe we could've capture that fucking thing!"
A hand landed on his shoulder, stopping him from continuing his rant. "Drake. Calm down. You're scaring the lot of them."
Drake opened his mouth to respond but was quickly cut off with a stern glare.
"Calm down," Briggs said, firmly. "Take a deep breath, keep calm and relax."
"..." Drake looked at him in silence.
"I'd just remembered that you're a robot." Briggs smacked his face with his palm. "Y'know what, just-just think of all of the happy times that we had."
"All right." Drake sighed. He turned to his squad. "Soldiers. Get ready. Wherever that creature went, we must be prepared for it." His posture stiffened. "Are you ready?"
"Yes, sir!"
"Then, let's get started!" Drake started barking out commands. "I want each of you to split into groups of three. Make sure you do not stare into the shape-shifter's eyes unless you want to be paralysed. Activate your illusion disks and do not get involved with the inhabitants' lives."
They nodded, getting ready to obey his commands.
Ah ah ah. I wouldn't do that if I were you.
"What?" Drake said in surprise.
Briggs groaned in annoyance. "Here we go again."
"What? Who is it?"
Briggs covered his face in annoyance. "It's-ugh Cosmo's brother, xyaof." He sighed. "And for whatever reason, he's censoring his name."
A humanoid being with a strange body made of the elements of the Earth appeared in front of them. Well. I can't let the readers know who I am, can I? The being shrugged with a sly smirk.
"What do you want, tyakxn?"
I'm requesting you to NOT capture Palbo. I need it -heh heh- in my plan. Heh.
"And pray tell, what is this plan?" Drake said.
It has something to do with the current 'Champion'... it'll be great. He giggled.
Briggs sighed. "Do it, Drake. If it has something to do with the current champion, it must be important."
"No, Briggs. I can't. It is written in the first paragraph of the PMD force's rulebook. 'If a cloned creature escaped, you must capture it and bring it back at all costs'."
"Short and straightforward, huh?" Briggs said, looking slightly amused.
Oh ho ho, don't worry, Drake. He raised his hand, extending his index. You won't be punished if you obeyed my orders. Plus, my brother - He rolled his eyes. - Said I got the 'Yes' to whatever I'm doing. He scoffed. Tch. As if I needed his 'Yes'. Could already do what I want even without his approval. He muttered.
"I sense someone has sibling issues~" Briggs said in a sing-song voice.
You know that I can kill you in the most grueling and gorest way possible and you can't do a thing about it, right?
"I know. But we all know how Cosmo would feel about you killing and erasing another champion." Briggs smirked smugly.
That was just ONE time. ONE time and that guy was irritating as hearing two rabbits fucking in the middle of the night.
Briggs rose his brow at that. "Did you learn that from somewhere? 'Cause that is a weird as hell metaphor."
My new minion taught me that. He has a very, very dirty mind even though he said he refuses to curse. He shrugged. I can never understand how you mortals work.
"Oh and it's just us 'mortals' you don't understand, huh?"
Not really. The other immortals are boring as well. Like why would you need 'worshippers' in order to gain strength, that's just ridiculous. He sighed. And yes, I know that's just how their multiverses work. And yes, I know it was my idea. But can you really blame me, I'm over a googleplexian to the power of googleplexian years old and these pretentious dickheads think they're the highest-level beings in the multi-multiverse. Without me or Cosmo, they wouldn't even have existed!
A moment of silence passed by as Briggs let out a awkward cough.
"So, um, you done?" Briggs said.
The Celestial being took a deep breath. Yeah, he said. Emotions are powerful. How-how do you mortals control these things. They're so strange.
Briggs shrugged. "You'll get used to them."
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In front of a farmhouse, a young man stood beside a white horse with a fiery mane and tail. The man held a hoe with his right hand as he wiped his sweaty face with a towel.
"Well, Rapidash. We finally did it."
Rapidash neighed at him.
"Over two hundred square meters of land all ploughed and seeded." The man turned his head at the fiery horse. "What do you say we head home?"
Rapidash suddenly stood on two, it's front legs flailing in the air as it let out a loud whinny.
"Wh-what's wrong, buddy? Some thing's bothering you?" The man pet Rapidash's mane, calming the horse down.
Rapidash nuzzled the man, pushing him forward.
"Whoa, what's going on with yo-" He stood there in shock. "What in Arceus' name is that?" In the distance, a large hole appeared in the middle of the sky as something humanoid fell out of it.
"Come on, Rapi. Let's go check it out." He got on the horse-Pokémon and galloped back into his house, quickly grabbing his belt of pokéballs, his hoodie and his red hat.
After putting on his clothes, he got on Rapidash and galloped towards the hole which was slowly becoming smaller. "Hurry up, Rapi. We might lose it."
Rapidash increased its speed, the trees around them becoming nothing but blurs as they zoomed into the forest.
The man looked from side to side, trying to see if he could find whatever had fell out of that hole.
Rapidash stopped suddenly, nearly sending its trainer off its back.
"Woah, nelly!" he shouted in surprise. "Warn me, the next time you do that."
Rapidash neighed apologetically.
The man got off its back, dusting himself off. "So you found it, bud?"
Rapidash huffed in confirmation.
"So where is it?" he said, analyzing the forest around them.
A strange purple gelatin-like limbed blob laid on the ground, unconscious.
"Is that a Ditto?" He stepped closer to get a better look. "Weirdest one I've ever seen." He touched one of its arm-like limb. "And it's injured." He looked at the sky. "Can't leave it out in the open like this, Sun's setting. Come on, girl. Let's take it back to the barn."
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A/N: And at last, the introductionary arc is over. Sorry this took so long, it was supposed to be done a few weeks ago but I fell ill to a very annoying virus.
Couldn't feel energised or motivated no matter what I did.
Anyways, see you guys in the next chapter. Ciao, for now.