Chapter 2: Special Appearance
It was another morning for the trio of Unova starters. Snivy was usually always the first one awake, as she is a early riser. Oshawott however has been known to sleep in. Snivy and Tepig usually let him sleep in, but Tepig was itching for a sparring partner. So he decided to nudge Oshawott to wake him.
"Hey Oshawott?" Oshawott turned over in his sleep. "Hey. Wanna train? I wanna try some new moves."
It took the otter a minute but he finally raised from his slumber. "Yeah sure, but can we get some breakfast berries. I'm actually starving!" Oshawott's stomach began growling loudly.
"Alright. Lets do it." Tepig said exiting the makeshift house.
After the gang had breakfast, Oshawott and Tepig stood a considerable distance away from each other. Snivy was the referee in a way. She didn't want Tepig or Oshawott to get hurt badly. Especially in Oshawott's case. It would pain her to see her friend get hurt badly. She never understood why she felt this way about Oshawott. But she has assumed that there is some sort of strong bond there.
She stood on top of a tall rock to spectate this match. "This fight will be between Oshawott and Tepig. The match will end when either one gets very close to fainting." The two battlers both sweatdropped towards the grass snake. "It's to prevent massive injuries. We don't really have many medical supplies on hand."
Oshawott readied his scalchop Come on Oshawott. You have the type advantage. You should be able to take this guy down.
Tepig began squinting his eyes. He won't expect my upcoming attacks.
Snivy saw both of them prepare themselves. Here goes nothing. "3. 2. 1. Fight!"
Oshawott engulfed his body in a layer of water as he swiftly moved towards Tepig. "Aqua jet!" He grazed past Tepig and prepared to properly strike him from behind.
Tepig dodged it, but barely. "That was close! But you aren't ready for this! Smokescreen!" The smoke got in Oshawott's way and he couldn't see where he was going, crashing into a tree.
Get up. Get up! He took his scalchop and activated razor shell.
"Flame burst!" Tepig shot a ray of flames that exploded the tree near Oshawott. But he dodged it with aqua jet, providing him some speed.
"Razor shell!" He aimed the shell near Tepig, yet it missed.
"Ha-ha! That was some wonky aim."
Oshawott smirked when he landed a distance away from Tepig. "Oh was it?" The razor shell bounced off of some trees, bounced off of the rock Snivy was on and it hit Tepig right on the head. "1 point goes to the water otter!" He said just before the scalchop also hit him in the head. "Ouch..."
His scalchop eventually landed near the ravine that Oshawott got cornered at the day before. "Hold on guys. Let me grab my prized possession." He really can't live without his scalchop. If he lost it, it would send him into a big depression. Not only did he enjoy the way it shined, but it was also used as a way of combat. It's one of those things he needs to function, like having food and oxygen, it's a requirement to have.
He picked up his scalchop but also looked down the really big ravine. It almost seemed like there was no ground at the bottom of it. It gave him the shivvers just thinking about it.
He turns around to continue the fight when he noticed something... Strange. The trees started to shake. Must be a very windy day. But then, the trees started to shake more and more. Okay. Something isn't right. He looked behind him and saw a floating blue orb. He would of touched it but the orb expanded. And it formed to be a larger orb. Eventually the orb formed a portal. A spiral portal that looked very mesmerizing. Soon, a figure emerged from the portal screaming.
"AAAHHH!" A creature flew out of it and tackled Oshawott.
Oshawott rubbed the pain from his head. "Ouch! Can you please look where you're going?" He turned around and saw a Pokemon. A small Pokemon that's very green, and definitely had the powers of a psychic. It was non other than a Celebi!
"Excuse me?" She said. "Do you know where I am?"
Oshawott looked very confused. "Um. You're in the Unova region."
"Oh thank goodness. Hopefully there's still time."
"Time? Time for what?"
Celebi turned to face him. "Oh sorry. I didn't get a chance to introduce myself. My name is Celebi. And i'm a time traveler who's looking for my guardian. Dialga. Ruler of time. And my powers have been less than relient recently.
Oshawott grinned at the mythical. "Oh. Well i'm Oshawott." He stuck out his paw towards the Celebi. "Nice to meet you. But I don't have time for idle chitchat. I need to find him. Quickly. Otherwise we could be in big trouble. Even Palkia has gone missing."
Oshawott had a even more confused face. "But what would two legendaries want to do in Unova." Oshawott doesn't know too well who these Pokemon are, but considering they are legendaires means that they must be busy.
"Dialga was kidnapped!" She said with much disappointment. "If someone drains his powers, then the fate of our universe could be at risk!"
"But if you're a time traveler, wouldn't you know the outcome of these events?"
"Again, my powers have been acting wonky. I haven't been able to go too far in the future or past." She once again sighed in disappointment. "Sorry to cut the conversation short. But I have to begin searching." Celebi began to float and fly away to a different part of the region. Leaving Oshawott with more questions.
Oh well. At least I got my scalchop.
He returns to Snivy and Tepig, the latter looking rather impatient. Snivy definitely had to wonder what took him so long.
"Hey Oshawott. What was the holdup?"
"Yeah man!" Tepig intervened. "I wanted to continue the fight."
Oshawott told the two about the Celebi that appeared in front of him. Tepig was not really buying it, but Snivy raised a skeptical brow. "Oshawott, are you sure this happened and you didn't imagine it."
He nodded with confidence. "Yes. I hope that Celebi finds Dialga though."
"Well i'm not buying it." Tepig said. "The chances of you running into a legendary like that is almost impossible."
"You said almost impossible. Proving that it did happen to me." Oshawott said waving a paw at the fire pig.
"Well i believe you Oshawott." Snivy said, causing Oshawott to blush a bit.
"Well... Thanks." He said having a big smile.
Snivy looked up at the sun and saw that it was midday. "Wanna go get lunch?"
Tepig definitely liked the sound of that. "Yes ma'am. Then i can finally show up Oshawott."
Oshawott polished his shell. "We'll see..."
They both took their places again and resumed the fight. Tepig decided to focus on a more offensive approach. "Take down!"
"That won't work! Tackle!" They both pushed each other back causing a small dust cloud around them. With Oshawott struggling to get up.
This is my chance! Tepig Thought. "Ember!"
With quick thinking, Oshawott held his scalchop in front of him as a shield, blocking the attack. "Water gun!" Tepig was taken back by this attack.
Meanwhile, Snivy was getting quite a kick out of this battle. I do like their battle styles. One of these days, I want to rematch Oshawott. If there's something about the sea otter she respects, it's his battling skills.
Tepig took a minute to get up. "Wow Oshawott! You sure pack quite a punch!"
Oshawott stood tall and proud loving the praise, given he doesn't receive too much praise a lot of the time anyways. "What can i say? I've been hard at it." And hopefully, Snivy is impressed. He casted a quick glance at Snivy who appeared to be quite into the battle.
Tepig readied his next attack. "But you can't prepare for this. Flame charge!" He ran quickly at the otter who had to do some quick thinking. "Aqua jet!" He was very swift with his movements and smacked into the back of Tepig, nearly knocking him out.
Snivy got off the rock to declare the winner. "Oshawott won the duel!" She looked at Tepig with narrowed eyes. "I mean, you were at a type advantage." Tepig had spirals in his eyes and all he could say was "Uuuhhhhhhhh."
"We should get him some sitrus berries." Oshawott suggested.
"Good idea. I think there was a bush around here that had loads of them." While Snivy went to grab some berries. Oshawott occupied the nearly passed out Tepig. Feeling a little sorry he destroyed his friend like that. He just hopes that Tepig isn't too mad at him for that.
Celebi tried searching all day for his "Relative." Yet no luck. She began to question whether or not Dialga was here at all. Was it all a dream? Or was she mislead. There's just so many questions for Celebi. And her search appeared to be dry. She decided to camoflauge herself in driftveil city. After all, she doesn't want a crowd of people and Pokemon around her.
Meanwhile at the cold storage basement, Zek was busy typing up some update reports for the experiment. Things are going smoothly. Our cover isn't blown and this power is the necessity for Team Vanish to thrive.
Silas walked up to his 'master' with a bit of concern, yet optimism. "Sir. We have a pleasant surprise for you. Our radar scanner has picked up on a mythical Pokemon."
This caught Zek's attention. "Oh? And which one would this be?"
"It would appear to be a Celebi sir."
"That Celebi is probably on the look for Dialga. We can't let it find our base! Quickly. Go catch it in the Resistance ball. And this one... We'll keep in a energy absorbent cage. We'll let it watch Dialga's demise! And it'll see a new timeline, created by us."
Silas grabbed his hoodie and a resistance ball. He ran out to search for said Celebi.
Celebi was floating around Twist Mountain. "I don't sense him here either. Where could he be!?" Celebi was about to camoflauge herself when a man in a black hoodie stopped her.
"So you're the one they call Celebi?"
Uh oh! Was all she thought as she tried to open another portal. But try as she might, out of the corner of her eye, she saw a red and black ball head straight for her. She tried to escape, yet was caught by the hooded individual.
He went to pick up the ball as the portal disappeared. That wasn't so hard to catch. Time to bring this specimen back. He sent out his Skarmory to utilize fly. "Skarmory, send us to driftveil city." I got quite the catch for the boss.
Oshawott was tossing and turning in his sleep. He was a Pokemon that never really let thoughts float around in his head for too long. Yet the events of today really are getting to him. He never expected to see a Celebi. A Celebi of all Pokemon appear so suddenly in front of him. He just hopes that the bad events she mentioned wouldn't become a reality. Another reason why he needed to train; to fight the fight of his life if he needed too. If some off balance of power happened in this world, he wanted to fight to the best of his abilities. He's tired of being such a let down to others. At least Snivy never thought of me like that.
Over time, the grass snake really did appreciate what the otter did. Heck, he even believed his rather farfetched story. Which doesn't sound believable and she had no reason to believe him. Yet, she did anyways. It was rather incredible really. The fact that she had so much confidence he was telling the truth... It made him want to strive harder. I have to impress her now. I feel like there's no turning back.
With those final thoughts, he fell asleep. Hoping that tomorrow would be another exciting day.
A/N: I know that Celebi doesn't have a gender. (Same with a lot of other legendaries and mythicals.) But for the sake of this story Celebi is female. And Dialga and Palkia are males.