Trigger warning- animal violence, blood and gore (organs)

Isn't it remarkable, Steven? This world is full of so many possibilities. Each living thing has a unique experience. The sights they see, the sounds they hear. The lives they live are so complicated... a-and so simple.' I need you to know that every moment you love being yourself, that's me, loving you and loving being you. Because you're going to be something extraordinary. You're going to be a human being.'

Meanwhile back at Steven's house, Dark pearl makes sure that DS is okay but is just his mink bed looking terrified so she decides to check on the bathroom. Once she checked on the bathroom, she reacted in terror she spotted semi-corrupted DS submerged in the tub with diamond essence. 'Steven what, what happened?' Steven only replies in growling, his appearance looks like a pink version of stegoceratops by the growing horns and the spines. Dark pearl tries to comfort DS, 'Stay with me Steven, I know you must be in a lot of pain but you don't have to live like this.' Then help arrives- Typlosion and Feralgator from the White Fang came to check on DS since they heard it from Amethyst, they saw DS in seer horror that Feralgator was skeptical. 'How did this happen, Steven is a sweetheart in booth timelines. How did he end up corrupted based on fate.' Dark Pearl is confused,' what do you mean 'fate'. Typlosion feels too strange to talk about so the gator pokemon mast to explain it. 'Fate can't be a good thing based on seer determination but it depends on your heart. Terrible fate is consequences of instincts lies that are hoping to be a lie told by one's fear.'

Pearl, who is next Dark, 'how did you get that info.' Feralgator responded, 'The same day we forced evolved into our final forms, 100 years ago we have to punish all swamp people in act of saving their souls. They were killing alligators but the White fang has to do something because their determination is chaotic. The best way is to seal them into the very animals that they kill to avenge them. Chaotic nature in fate happen when people do evil stuff, but a pure person like Steven is a rare sight.' Pearl wonders, what are we going to do with him, is it only of the voodoo magic you mentioned.' Typlosion looks down,' yes, but we not going to seal him.' The badger pokemon gets close to DS but he looks scared, the badger made a blood offering by bitting his paw. DS looks confused until Typlosion got near to draw a stigma repel symbol- x shaped on his wrist with his blood. 'I'll give anything to help you, my friend.' DS turns back to normal but looks flea-bitten,' why he looks flea-bitten.' Faralgator responded,' Is not, that's his sweat with pink essence that looks like blood.' Pearl hugs DS even know that not her Steven,'I hope Link and my Steven is alight.' Dark Pearl is determined to go after, 'is okay I'll find them, I'll promise that they're okay no matter what. So who's with me.' DS starts to see flock sparrows and pidoves until he sees Steven with pink tears coming out, 'Stev…..en, Ste…ven you…..must…heal…yourself…..from a terrible fate.' Dark Pearl is checking on DS,'Steven us everything alright.' DS responded,' affirmative but I'm feeling aloof lately.' Pearl gets himself together,' I understand your suffering but I have to check on Steven and Link to make sure things go wrong.' Shaymin feeling unnerving about DS thousand-yard stare,'DS that look on your face gives me the creeps, Is to give me I won't get nightmares. I hope isn't going to be about things gone wrong.' Daxter, Stevens mink is too terrified to go with him so he decides to go with the Pearls for safety.

Meanwhile, in Heartland frontier, Link is sneaking into the sheikah village but it was surrounded by the Yiga clan and sees harvesting whiscash for food and torkoal for their shells. 'oh boy this is going well, guys I think the city is compromised so have to attack.' Spirit responded,' No kid, they have deadly electrical spears that hit you in one strike and your toast. If your lucky to survive it worse because they'll cut you open and send your meat into sashimi.' Link responded very nervously,' why it is so specific.' Politoad explains to Link,' trust me Link I used those weapons but never used them for humanitarian reasons, these guys don't care because they think everything's is a lighting rod. Yiga believes chaos makes them dominate compared to us the horses.' Link is puzzled,' I thought horses are sacred or something.' Steven corrects him, 'Sacred to anyone that are lower-class like farmers, gathers and harvesters but these guys are a nuts man. They overestimate the power of freedom to serve after the demons to free anyone in the caste system, and they are rogue rangers that don't believe because they are in the chivalry caste.' Gamayun swiftly enters the conversation,' So any Ideas?' Politoad is thinking of something based on what Steven said, 'Guys I have an idea.'

The Yiga are dragging the pokemon to the crates until he sees politoad dragging Spirit,' Hey guys I got this interfere got my way. I don't know what's up with those horse loving nomads but can you made him into sushi or something.' Gives a rope to the foot soldier before winking at him, Spirit kicks all them out with his bone-crushing hoofs. 'Now guys that's the cue.', Zacain uses his black blade to use a behemoth slash at the Yiga foot soldiers. Gamayun uses Steel wing to disarm the soldiers,'You guys are in trouble.' Steven mounts in Snips before becoming chirinmon, Snips uses a wind cutter sword to knock them. Then a massive blade master appears with a katana, he attempts to strike us but got deflected in time. Ace and his dinosaur came, the blade master summoned his mercenaries- more blade masters (with Phoenix tag). Ace summoned the Tauros/bison hybrid to ram them with sheer power and the electric wolf that Steven bonded him uses his lighting wise to whip them but got disarmed by the sword. Politoad knows that there is trouble so he stops them with a lizard to free them before Link delivers a spin attack.

Bane appears disappointed at the shiny pokemon,'Politoad why are you betraying us by allying with these savages.' Politoad back sassed him,' What are you even say saying, do you even what kind of hell I've been through? I banished an innocent stallion to the badlands back as a ranger, I took the blame in front of his herd to the point I quit my job and become a gate guard.' Bane responded,' Poor little ranger, you should feel proud of showing this so-called sacred beast no mercy. That's what the Master Kohnga strife for. He is wanted to scare the horses away because our resources are dwindling.' Spirit corrects him, that's because your the one that's doing it without any regulation so you could share with the others. By the way, why are you harvesting whiscash for illegal meat and illegal torkoal shells, I thought you don't like illegals and you are collecting resources. Does that feels ironic you blueberry?' Bane got offended for the horse compering him to blueberry,' How you dare insulted my origins, no wonder you deserve to be sashimi. GUYS ATTACK.' The Blade masters are ready to attack but the Pearls a DS deflect, DS rams the blade master with his shield before flinging them into the air.' Feraligator uses crunch with thyplosion use equation at the remaining Yigaclan mercenaries. The company is ready to take on Bane with determination.

Bane got frustrated by the failures, 'who needs you guys anyways, all of these resources are mine because I need to prove to everyone that I'm better than the horses. *turns into a demonic inceroar* THIS ALL OF YOUR FALT HORSES FOR STIGMATIZING THE RANGERS JUST BECAUSE OF THAT STUPID CASTE SYSTEM THAT MADE US BAD INSTEAD OF WORSHIPPING ON ME. haha haha haha.' Politoad heard enough so he kneels before pulling out a short sword pointing towards him,' Rangers are supposed to be proud warriors trained to protect territories. Not to scarred the low class just we could get what we wanted- our status, wealth, and power of the caste.' Steven knows what he's doing,' Wait, Politoad what are you…..DON'T DO IT.' Politoad has shed a tear,' I'm' sorry but I must do this to restore their honor as well to heal myself from regrets.' Politoad stab himself before gutted his belly open, Steven is rushing towards him in sheer horror. 'POLITOAD!', Steven carries him in pita style. Bane *now a demon*,' you dumb, do you have any idea what you did. You killed yourself because you cared more about these bloody savages than the honer of your brothers. At least I have some Black Ops, go driftblade, longfang, and backslash' Summoned his Ravenger minions to avenge Politoad, 'Go avenge your fallen brother that got his soul tainted by that pink potato.'

Steven holds politoads corpse while glowing pink with a thousand-yard stare,' no heartbeat, not breathing…he's gone.' The saber-tooth mech is about to pounce at Steven before Steven turns around,'You, the Yiga Clan and your chaotic nutjob killed him.' Forms a spiked bubbled around himself, Zedus attack the mech by shooting them with his prickling projections. Bane gives Steven excuses,' Hero of Gems what gives you the right of the Hero if you don't understand the true meaning of warriors honor, all you think of is befriend you, enemies, instead of killing it. You, not Hero compared to Link.' Steven gets up covered with blood,'I may not be like Link but your ideas of warriors honors are inadequate.' Bane tries to ignore his fear of Steven's tranquil fury,' No, no stupid there is no way that I'm afraid of this pug-faced hippie. Ravengers attack his comrades.' Shaymin sees what happens and starts to feel Steven's fury of what happens and becomes a pink version of Steven-Shaymin,' you've not done that.' Longfang the ice-type is about to strike with ice fang before dodging, he uses Diamond wraith powers to control him at his will. Then the electrical one named driftblade is about to use volt tackle before swiftly uses Diamond wraith powers. Last, the fire one named Backslash uses the darkest larent but it barely leaves a scratch because he's a fairy type, Shaymin uses the same move. Now all the Ravengers are in Steven's common are ready to face their master.

Bane is very annoyed about,'YOU WORTHLESS DONKEYS, HOW DARE YOU LET YOURSELF GET BEFRIEND BY THIS PIPSQUEAK. I KNEW THAT I SHOULD HARVEST YOU GUYS FOR PARTS BUT NOOOOOOOOOO THRAWN SAYS THEY HAVE BETTER PLANS TO DO.' DS sarcastically aids him,'you finished with your show?' Bane yells at the top of his lungs, THAT'S IT IF YOU WANTED TO WORSHIP HORSE YOU HAVE TO FACE ME.' Turns into his true form- a flying sphinx with horns. The saber wraths use a barrage of elemental attacks before draining their powers,' did you forget that I'm greed.' Then beget shield bashed by a pokemon-suno called Teryx- a dragon-like maned wolf. Bane taunt him,' go ahead annoy the cap out of me, I can't deal with these snowflakes.' Both of them rams at each other with occasional scratches to each other, Ace's cutlass tooth get near to politoad's corpse to attempt to heal him. Ace protested him,' Ale he's already dead.' The tusked carno replies,' I'm harnessing chi from the environment, chi is the source of all life so I have to try to revive it.' Steven looks at him while DS got in his way to heal his soul first. Steven is wondering,' DS what are you.' DS pulls out his harp that Steven responded in a gasp, 'how did you get that.' DS replies in a deep somber,' This was an item that I used to attempt to revive KO but it only works with tarnished souls, I was wondering. Why I could've just used my healing tears.' Steven pulls out his harp as well,'I goy mine too but it healed someone dear to me.' DS smiles and both play Song of Healing.'

Steven grows Palkia's wings and halo, DS appears similar to Pink State but with purple wings and horns. Chi the life energy is going to Politoad, but a symbol of cutlass tooth appears on his heart. Heartland from booth timelines merge without chaotic effect, this causes the pearls to merge into one. Her Lucario appears and starts to channel aura towards him. Both Stevens shed reviving tears that land towards the politoad's body. Then the body starts to glow pink and becomes a pink-Greninja (Steven-greninja). He is mostly pink with blue legs, blue vertical tripe running down his chest with aster at the center. Steven-Geninja wonders what happens,' What just happened.' Ace is surprised that it actually worked, DS is very glad that he revived someone that became was a martyr among the yiga. Steven tearfully hugs him,' Poli, thank goodness that you're alive. What happened back then, I just wanted to stop you from killing yourself.' Steven-greninja corrects him with an explanation.' That just an innocent soul being tarnished by Yiga clan about why some tribes can't be trusted based on the caste. Once he realized the errors of his way I must [….] do something to escape the terrible fate.'

Bane now got wings ripped and horns broken realized that Politoad had brought back to life, but how did he but he was weak because he let himself consumed by regrets.' Steven-greninja corrects him, that because I escaped from a chaotic terrible fate, I realized you wanted me to suffer a terrible fate on purpose you SCUM.' He summons a gold-colored 5-pointed star water shuriken, throws at the demon trough him. Bane checks if he got hit,' haha that was nothing.' Greninja explains abut his attack, the effects are if you got hit, all chi gets radiated from your body and distributed to other pokemon.' Bane is confused before his chi gets extracted, ends up to the pokemon that he harvested, and reviving it. The demon is in agony from the shock,' What did you do with my extractions….I need it to feel like a.' Sees an aura of cutlass tooth before delivering a draining bite that extracted a fox mask that contains Greyson's demons. Bane gets back to normal from being possessed,' what…happened.' Sees greninja,' is a long story that started with yoga poisoned me from regretful actions.' Later all the torkoals and whiscash are released. Greninja realized he got an armor of his zodiac,' Ace how did I got this.' Ace replies,' I'm no longer research ethical reason but I'll check what else I can do. Instead of being a paleontologist, I decide to be an archeologist and official of my own pokemon ranch that you like to stay.' greninja replies' affirmative my master.'

Purah thank Steven and link for saving their village from the yiga clan,' Hero of Gem and Delta I don't know how I thankful for saving my village.' Link replies,'well you know what I do, I'm very brave.' Steven responded but with draining of emotions while looking down,' Well you know me, Steven a friend of all living things that save from anyone that um…. thinks they're better than them.' Bane is taken to prison by tusker riders,' Wait, I'm innocent you know. I learn from that bean mouth that everyone gets second chances. I was bamboozled by that commander back at…' Spirit responded,' yeah, you should have bonded with an equine brother so you could be a good ranger.'

Ace is determined to look after his new greninja,'I'm going take care of this greninja and wonder was up with zodiac of his.' Pearl explains,' Allowed me to explain, my Lucario has it too, we both can share chi, so anyone has resources.'

Steven looks at the sunset as the shadows of clouds conquer the sky as twilight sets. Link noticed the broody looks at his face ever since what happened,'Is everything alight Steven.' Steven replies with a white lie,' yeah but I need a moment with Shaymin.' Link walks way but sees unfezents glaring at him and sees a maned wolf looking at Steven,' Is that wolf again, why is following us.' Steven rubs at Shaymin's quilt to comfort himself, DS looks at Steven's depressed look at his face from the hill. DS asked pearl for help,' Pearl what should I do, Steven seems unhappy about something.' Pearl seems too depressed to talk about it since she got the memories from a dark timeline but Lucario release an aura that gives DS memories about Pearl. DS feels conflict whether make Pearl feels better or Steven. DS besides to check on Pearl,'Is everything alright Pearl.' Pearl replies in a depressing somber voice,' Is just I'm having flashbacks of you nearly dying, I have been resuscitating several times. I don't what would happen If I lost you, Steven?' Steven looks down and starts to remember something 200 years ago- holding KO's corpse, facing a large beast that later covered in blood and deep cut oozing blood. Steven starts to hold his stomach like he reminders me how painful it is with a raspy voice,'I….I don't…I'm so…cold Pearl.' Before looking for a terrifying tearful look at pearl to the point of losing hope. DS attempts to comfort her but Lucario interrupts,' She needs some space, Steven.' DS decide to comfort Steven instead. His mink comes to DS,' I better go check with other me.'

Steven is still feeling numb, DS gets near to give warm hug like he's hugging a plushie. DS explains to Steven,' I understand your pain, I know how is like to see someone passes away. Steven I understand that we both have respect like is worth protecting. But why would rose made me deal with her mistakes and bear more pain than what gems do? Why I must suffer'. Hugs him more tightly before bawling while tears are staining Steven's jacket while Daxter giving a sad look at DS. Steven comforts,' Schewball, I know is like to lose someone, we fail to protect what we are needed most.' Daxter the mink wraps around DS to comfort him.

Note this chapter officially switch the emotion between Steven and DS, DS is becoming emotional since remembering how he got a terrible fate, and Steven becomes emotionally drained (dead inside) because of what happened in this chapter.

I told you DS (dark Steven) is very cute, he's trying to make Steven feel better. Especially he cuddles him like a marshmallow plushie and glaring with soulful eyes.

The what DS weeps at Steven reminds me of how Zelda did it in Both, this gives me the feels that Steven needs therapy after merging with DS.