Steven absolutely hated spacecraft. Rather ironic that a Pokemon Trainer that specialized so heavily in the Steel typing would find a shell of the stuff so distasteful but such was his truth. Something about the StarCraft felt too void, too sterile for the petrologist. He loved the dirt, how he, Aggron, and Metagross would excavate whole swaths of land to find the mysteries of Hoenn's past. The discovery of the Primal Mural was his greatest pride in his Archeology work, that very mural's discovery having played a role in saving the world.
Now he was aboard this cramped vessel headed to Shanxi to look over a newly discovered anomaly on the planet. He was rather cross as this had taken him away from his studies of Eezo, especially to a Kanto colony, but May had asked him specifically to look into it, and he could never deny his protege much. A fond smile graced the silverettes lips, May was his pride and joy, an amalgamation of her and his efforts put together into Hoenn's greatest champion and the spearhead of humanities' next leap into the beyond. To believe he had almost given the champion position to Wallace just to escape the responsibility, May had proven to be worth the headache of inter-regional politics.
"Champion Stone, we are arriving in Shanxi soon," Steven looked at Captain Williams nodding his understanding, "Quite the beautiful planet, when it's fully developed Earth might finally have some competition yeah?" Williams said, smiling at the greenish pearl in the distance. Steven couldn't help but agree, from the Holo-vids of Shanxi it was proving to be quite the bountiful world. Pokemon attuned with nature thrived here, Grass and Fairy types experienced unnatural booms in population. It took much to keep Erika from abandoning Celadon City; apparently Red had to offer her some rare grass types native to Alola.
Steven noticed a collection of Recon ships readying to activate the nearby Shanxi relay and he couldn't help but marvel just how far Human and Pokekind have come. "Ah yes the exploration fleet, they'll be leaving shortly, regrettably we won't be able to meet Mr. Lucas." Steven smiled as he thought of Lucas Berlitz, husband of Sinnoh champion Dawn Berlitz. The man was making great strides in astronomy with the help of Team Galactic's former research, his work having found Shanxi, and Alpha Centauri B with amazing speed. Steven watched as the convoy jumped through the relay wondering just what they may find.
Shanxi was even more beautiful on foot, the lush vegetation of every color one could conceive, the gargantuan trees that would make an Alolan Exeggutor jealous, even the various waterways that snaked through the untouched jungle. Yes, Shanxi was a jewel waiting to be explored. He watched as the human and Pokemon crew went about the terraforming project, grass types willing the trees into less chaotic formations, water types and ground types rerouting rivers and leveling land to found the new city, and the humans setting up the teleportation array for travel back to Earth.
"Champion Stone, it's an honor sir!" Steven looked down the path to see a young man, perhaps around 18 at best, standing with two other men wearing a long white coat usually found on research aides, "Thank you for coming on such short notice, but your input in this discovery could be pivotal in deciphering just what these are." Steven was hurriedly swept away into the
clearing that led to a massive, black fortress-like structure. His breath caught in his throat as he looked at the weathered black stone that made up the ruin, it was beautiful and unlike anything he had ever seen. "Gorgeous isn't it, it's design is foreign to anything the UTR has in its database, not Human, Poke-kind, not even Ultra Spacian."
Steven frowned as he walked to one of the massive walls, runes etched across the walls in oddly familiar script that he couldn't quite place, "If you called for me then you had to have found something that requires my expertise in specific." This statement was met with the researcher bringing forth a black rock.
"This little beauty is from the meteorite that contained Deoxys, watch how it reacts to the runes." He brought the stone closer to the wall and with a faint blue hue the runes glowed and the stone trembled as if alive, "This has a connection to Deoxyz, I'm sure you understand now right?"
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"Jump was successful, Relay Drift above normal, opening channel to Command Center." The pilot of the SSV Annabelle spoke as a holographic version of Cynthia appeared above the navigation map.
"Champion Cynthia, this is Lucas Berlitz reporting successful jump from the Shanxi Relay," Cynthia smiled at the former assistant of Professor Rowan, the young man was so formal even to those that he knew didn't want it, " We will begin a survey of the new system, have the Ultra Spacians picked up any additional readings of Ultra Wormholes?"
"No, however they are sending an Ultra Recon Fleet to help pinpoint where the Ultra Beast may be," Cynthia reported. She, much like the Alolan champion, didn't like Ultra Beast readings so close to such an underdeveloped colony as Shanxi. If the Ultra Beasts caught on to its location they could very well raze the budding colony to the ground before reinforcements could be teleported in. She saw the remains of old Ultra Spacians cities, destroyed by Pheramosas, or nearly completely consumed by Guzzlords. She wouldn't see that happen to any Human colony.
"Ultra Wormholes spotted sir!" Lucas paled as the pilot brought the convoy to a halt, looking out the window he spotted at least 10 Ultra Wormholes open each one spitting out a horde of UBs.
"Cynthia, warn the Ultra Spacian Fleet, a UB invasion is happening, I repeat a UB invasion is happening!" Lucas hurriedly, "What is that in the distance, are they fighting something?!" A swarm of UB Stingers were attacking something that was trying to battle back but seemed to be losing, "Get the UTR fleets out here, the UBs are attacking what seemed to be aliens!"
"Denied, our fleets are going to be orbiting Shanxi to see to its evacuation and defense, we can't afford to lose our fleet in this new star system." May spoke, "I will contact someone who can help you and the U.S Fleets."
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Captain Athurius hated the Relay 314 posting. It was a massive waste of Turian manpower that could be better used bringing order to the attican traverse, however the Solar Scares had the council spooked and whatever it was that caused that was somewhere beyond this relay. So the Hierarchy decided that his fleet was the best option to send to this boony of a sector, spirits even the Batarians and Qurians didn't bother to travel here and those fools were the scum of the Galaxy.
"Sir, we are picking up some strange readings from the sensors." Athurius frowned as he looked at the reading in front of him, something was happening, something unprecedented. He wasn't prepared for his Cruiser to be rocked violently as all around his fleet strange tube-like things seemingly ripped open space, "Are those...wormholes?!"
"Dammit, man the weapons, we are being attacked!" Athurius quickly rallied his men to their stations as the shields of the fleet were assaulted by creatures pouring out of the wormholes, "All ships this is Captain Athurius, open fire on alien life forms, I repeat open fire!" Almost instantly the fleet began firing on the flying creatures as they spat strange biotic attacks at the ships.
"Captain Shields are down!" Athurius turned so quickly he could feel his neck strain, "The attack they use seem to be Acid based as well as some unknown energy that is sapping away at the shields, ships are reporting holes in their hulls the acid is extremely corrosive!"
Athurius cursed, he was not prepared for this and now his fleet was about to fall. Worse yet word hadn't been sent to the Hierarchy yet and most likely wouldn't reach them till too late. "Spirits help us!" as he finished this phrase a brilliant green light flooded space as something tore through the hordes of creatures. Athurius could only watch in fascination and horror as some green lizard that made a Thresher Maw look tameable roared at the creatures pouring out the wormhole.
"Sir, an unknown fleet is in the distance!" Athurius saw a rather small sized fleet of unknown design descend on the battlefield and begin battling the creatures.
"Brzzt, Hello can you understand me?"
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Captain Temus of the Strike Squad smiled as his fleet fell on the invaders with a vengeance only the Ultra Spacians could. His people were terrorized for generations by the
Ultra Beast, there wasn't a Ultra Spacian alive that knew what life was without their aggression, and due to this they were the best combatants against them. "Ready deployment of Strike Craft and Naganadel Attackers!" A flurry of movement was his answer as he saw his ships fire on the UBs with abandon. Slug after Slug fired, completely eradicating some of the Stingers in the resulting explosions.
"Strike Craft are deployed sir, ending bombardment with the main guns." He nodded as he looked at the swarms of ships now pouring from each battle cruiser, possibly hundreds of ships and Naganadel swarming the UB invaders, "The Humans seem to have called on their own help, Mega Rayquaza is assisting but Champion Cynthia advises caution."
"Heed her words, no reason to get ourselves blown up, focus the main gun on the Wormhole, hit it with everything and throw in more!" He watched as all the cruisers turned their guns on the wormhole and began to fire, hoping the sustained damage to the beast keeping it open would force them to close it soon. He smirked when Rayquaza fired a Dragon Pulse into one and it closed near immediately after, 'Wish we had one of those things on our side of the wormhole.'
"Sir, the Humans and Aliens are retreating through the weird gate, we are all clear to fully engage." He nodded and ordered all ships to come through. He could feel his ship rock lightly as tens of wormholes erupting open around his fleet and the U.S Grand Fleet came roaring through.
"All ships, open fire!"
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Lucas watched in an almost sadistic appreciation as Mega Rayquaza laid waste to the UB invaders, it seemed the Lord of the Skies still considered May an ally. Not long after Rayquaza inserted himself in the battle, the Ultra Spacian Fleet teleported into the star system and began to attack the UBs. "Rotom can you contact the aliens, they may need assistance." Rotom happily nodded as it sent some of its plasma to hopefully 'possess' the alien ship.
"Integration complete Lucas, Codex of alien language found, cross referencing with Human language: Translation capabilities will be available in 5 milliseconds, translation available, do you wish for me to establish contact?" Lucas nodded and waited for, hopefully, a peaceful reception. Soon in the place of Rotom, a hologram of a creature whose face seemed a mix of Human and Skarmory appeared.
"I am Captain Athurius of the Turian Hierarchy, captain of the Endless Dawn Fleet, I wish to thank you for the assistance, Captain Berlitz." Lucas nodded to what he believed to be an avian creature.
"Your ships are in bad shape, they aren't made to take the corrosive attacks of UB Stinger scouts, our nearby outpost of Shanxi could be used for dry dock repairs." He looked at Rotom, "Champion Cynthia, I am asking permission to dock with Alien lifeforms on Shanxi for repairs."
"Permission granted, hurry and get yourselves out of there, Rayquaza isn't afraid to attack his 'allies'," Cynthia's voice spoke and just as she said so Rayquaza roared as he sent Dragon Pulses into the Ultra Wormholes destroying a couple. The power of Legendary pokemon was truly terrifying, and the Galaxy only got larger with these 'Turians'.
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Athurius looked around the small city in awe, while it still had much of the planet's sprawling forest on its border he could see it quickly being manipulated into a manageable form. These Asari-like aliens seemed to prioritize building with nature, only uprooting what stubbornly stood its ground; this wasn't what impressed the Turian captain, it was the creatures they worked alongside. So many different species walked, some even floating, beside the 'Humans' working together to build what Athurius could see becoming quite the hub of society.
"This is amazing, these primitives could prove to be quite the boon to the Hierarchy." one of his soldiers said as she too looked around impressed at the growing city, "These teleportation arrays they possess will change logistics management, imagine how quickly they must be able to deploy troops!" He nodded, the teleportation arrays alone could cripple pirate operations in the Terminus systems, with enough time it could possibly weaken them enough for the Citadel Alliance to finally claim the star systems.
"Then it is our top priority that we keep a good impression, once our comms are back online we can request evac and diplomats." He said to his remaining troops, an odd band of 45 Turian men and women. He noticed uniformed Humans walking towards his crew and stepped forward to address them.
Quickly a dark skinned man stood in front of him and opened a wrist device, to his surprise a hologram appeared from it and spoke in perfect Turian, "Brrzt, Hello welcome to Shanxi, I am the Rotom under service of Kanto Pokemon Ranger General Jason Haggen, I will act as the translator of the upcoming meeting between our people." He nodded worriedly at the hologram, hoping that these humans hadn't made the same mistake that the Quarians did. Quickly his group fell in step with the human group and he found a quick appreciation for them, much like the Turian they seemed to appreciate time and wanted none of it wasted. Fast and efficient, they would most definitely be a worthy addition to the Turian clientele.
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"Explain why there are Aliens on Shanxi Cynthia!" Cynthia and Dawn sighed as the holographic form of Ethan Lash appeared on the central console, his face marred with an
annoyed scowl, "As far as I remember Shanxi isn't Nova and Sinnoh has no jurisdiction over it." Dawn put on her best smile, hoping to put an end to what could become a regional incident before it could get worse.
"Hello Gold, yes these 'Turians' we're stranded fighting a UB horde, we couldn't leave them to that fate." She gave him a hard look, "Surely you would understand how bad the UB can be." His frown lessened but was still there, "General Haggen is there, he will contact you soon I'm sure." That seemed to give Gold relief, Haggen was a good soldier and he trusted him to keep Shanxi safe.
"What game are you two playing, this isn't something you would normally risk, annoying Kanto was always something you sought to avoid." He asked, looking at the two women. Cynthia this time spoke,
"This is the first actual sign of alien life we've seen besides the Protheans, we're hoping to keep relations civil, especially since the UBs are becoming agitated again," she brought up a map of all recent wormhole sightings, "They are priming for another invasion and we can't be at war when that happens."
Gold nodded but his scowl returned, "Be that as it may Shanxi is still under Kanto law, as such you will run anything dealing with it by me before you make any decisions." With that he cancelled his call bringing a scowl to Dawn's face.
"What a brute, why did Red give up the title again?" Cynthia laughed at her student, Dawn and Ethan couldn't be further from equals. Dawn was a diplomat at heart, she liked battling and excelled at it even but she loved the war of words more. Ethan much like his mentor Red enjoyed a good fight, he knew that Kanto's reputation was that of a brute by many of the regions but he wouldn't allow for his region to be swept aside either. She admired that strength really, even if it got in the way at times.
"Red wasn't much better Dawn, while he was silent he knew he was the strongest champion and he made sure we knew it too," she smiled nostalgically, "He and I butted heads many times over decisions regarding the PWT, Kanto will always be bullheaded but they are allies." She put her hand on Dawn's covered head, "Now let us make some friends, yes?"