Earth's Protectors IV: Blast to the Past

by nld200xy

Two dangerous villains, Dialga and Palkia, have gone to the past to a time when the heroes of the world would not be strong enough to oppose them with the soul intent of wiping out the entire hero population. Thus Shaymin creates a time machine and gathers the heroes of Edmonton to follow them and stop them. Can they pull it off?

1. Chapter 1

Disclaimer: To start things off, as always, I do not own the Pokemon franchise nor any of the creatures associated with it. And as the title would suggest, this is part of an on-going series of stories that I've spent years on. You don't have to read most of the others to understand this one, though it might be a good idea to read the first Earth's Protectors IV as this is a direct continuation of that one. This series is also heavily inspired by Kinnikuman with certain Pokemon designs being altered to fit the general theme.

It was hard to believe that three years had passed since young Vaporeon had graduated from Hero School and arrived on Earth at the ripe young age of fifteen. And while she won her first match with flying colours, she still needed help, and that help came in the form of three former villains, Scorbunny, Rillaboom and Drizzile. And she certainly needed their help as they wound up being much better heroes than she was.

It was not long until she had Morgrem and Rolycoly to help her as well. And on top of that, she also had her human friends, Allie, Geneva and Bailey. Needless to say, while being a hero was hard, it was a good life.

However, today was not such a good day as Vaporeon had found herself in a very similar situation to when she first met her allies. Specifically, she was in Commonwealth Stadium where she was face-to-face with a black and sky-blue dragon with a head that resembled a stealth bomber named Dragapult.

Her friends sat in the front row and cheered for her while she leapt onto the top rope and bounced off of it. She then formed a sphere of ice on the tip of her tail and flipped vertically toward the dragon, shouting, "BOUNCING ICE BALL!"

Dragapult's eyes widened when he took the sphere to his skull, Scorbunny squealing, "Way to go, Vaporeon! Let him have it!" the fox bouncing off of the part she had hit and landing behind the dragon.

"And Vaporeon shows us why she was the one Hero Planet graduate to defend Edmonton!" the announcer, Tori exclaimed, "With her Bouncing Ice Ball, she has truly put Dragapult on ice!" before sighing, "Did I really just say that?" rubbing her temple and shaking her head.

Vaporeon turned to face her opponent again only to notice that he barely seemed to feel any pain from the strike dealt to him. And it was made clear why when he turned to her, smirked and stated, "You fool. My head is the strongest part of my body. That move of yours barely did a thing to me."

Before the fox could even respond, Dragapult backed up into the ropes, stretched them back and launched himself off. He then rammed his face into her gut before she had a chance to retaliate and shouted, "STEALTH BLADE!"

Vaporeon coughed up blood as not only did this deal great pain but it also put a large gash in her midsection. Thus he pushed her up against the ropes, her eyes rolled to the back of her head and her tongue sticking out the side of her mouth.

All of her friends stared in horror while she lay limp against the ropes, Tori staring silently for half a minute while Dragapult folded his arms with a smirk. And once the time was up, the woman rang the bell and stated, "And after a long and intense match, Vaporeon has lost and Dragapult is our winner!"

"VAPOREON!" Drizzile spat before Rillaboom grunted, "Dammit! Let me in there! I'll make him pay!"

"I'm more than up to the task!" Morgrem exclaimed with a smirk, "He'll regret ever setting foot in Edmonton!" Rolycoly adding, "Yeah, I don't doubt that for a second."

Dragapult wiped a bit of sweat off of his forehead and said, "I gotta say, that was disappointing. I'd hate to take over Edmonton after such an easy win," thus he turned to the other heroes in the crowd and added, "Alright, I'll gladly take on one more of you. In fact, I think I'll challenge you!"

Everyone stared when he directed his pointing finger toward Scorbunny. After a few seconds, the rabbit smirked and remarked, "Big mistake," leaping high into the air and landing in front of the bleachers. She agreed to face Dragapult in an hour since he had just finished a match. After all, she was confident that she could defeat him even if he was able to recover to full strength.

Once the hour was up, the match began. For the next ten minutes, it was very back and forth with Scorbunny dishing out all sorts of powerful kicks while Dragapult put various cuts on her and whacked her multiple times with his long tail.

Soon enough, both were covered in bruises as the rabbit breathed heavily, Dragapult grunting, "I see your reputation precedes you," before Scorbunny huffed, "You're not so bad yourself, but just so you know, I've faced worse."

"We'll see about that," the dragon remarked before he pressed his back up against the ropes and bounced off with his face pointed toward Scorbunny. Luckily, the rabbit was more than prepared for this, thus she leapt over him, lit her feet on fire and squeaked, "SCORCHING ANVIL!"

The crowd cheered wildly when she descended quickly and planted her heels into Dragapult's back. With that, he coughed up a great deal of blood before his eyes rolled to the back of his head and he fell hard on his belly. Her friends all had the biggest grins on their faces before they cheered even louder than the rest of the crowd.

Tori waited for a while before she nodded and rang the bell, stating, "And after a very intense match, Scorbunny has saved Edmonton!" Vaporeon having regained consciousness just in time to hear this.

The rabbit rose her arms in triumph before she noticed this and smiled sweetly. Vaporeon was unsure how to respond to this for the first little while, but it did not take long for her to form a smile of her own. After all, Edmonton's citizens were safe and that was all that mattered.

And so, Dragapult was soon handcuffed and stuffed into the back of a police ship from Hero Planet while the group exited the stadium. Allie smiled and said, "Well, I think this calls for a celebration."

Drizzile nodded and sighed, "Yeah. I have to admit, I was on the edge of my seat there. But I knew you'd pull through," as he turned to face Scorbunny who grinned with pride.

Vaporeon, who was currently draped over the rabbit's shoulder, smiled but said nothing while Bailey suggested, "Hey, how about we try out that new restaurant that opened up! What was it called? Happy Garden?"

"That sounds like a plan to me," Allie replied before pulling out her wallet with a wide grin and squealing, "It feels so good to be able to use my own money for this!"

Rillaboom sighed, "Yeah, I hear that, but seriously, let us pay for our own food this time. It's been almost three whole years now. You don't need to spoil us anymore," Morgrem nodding and replying, "Seriously, we have our own money that we've earned through years of heroism."

Rolycoly poked his fingers together and uttered, "Not to mention I make a little extra from art commissions," Geneva nodding with a grin and adding, "And one day, we'll both make even more when we publish our own novel together, eh, sweetie?" She then kissed the golem on the cheek before he blushed and bit his lower lip.

He still could not believe that a year and a half ago, Geneva had asked him out on a date. He felt like the luckiest lump of coal in the world, especially since while the others had suggested that he pursue a career in art, she was the one who truly motivated him to go through with it. And while he was not exactly a professional, he had made a fairly good amount of money from taking a commission or two each month.

"Trust us," Drizzile replied, "We appreciate everything you've done for us over the years, but seriously, you don't have to do that. Besides, we're getting married in a few months. The least we can do is get used to splitting the bill, right?"

"Well, if you insist," Allie sighed, "I just figure since we're celebrating you guys, it would be wrong to make you pay," Scorbunny giggling, "That's sweet of you, but seriously, they're right. You and your family always pay when we eat out. I think it's high time we pay for our own food for a change."

Drizzile nodded and rested a hand on Allie's shoulder with a sweet smile. Thus she caved in and agreed to their terms. After all, while she did have a job now, it was as a grocery clerk, meaning she did not exactly make a fortune. On top of that, she also planned to move out of her parents' house within the next couple of years and would certainly need to save up a lot for that.

And so, the group headed off while Vaporeon had a look of shame on her face. Though she did her best to hide it, deep down, this loss had gotten to her, even more so than any she had suffered in the past. But she felt now was not the best time to bring it up.

During this time, a pair of strangers were currently wandering around on Hero Planet. Both were dressed in cloaks, but what they had planned was anyone's guess. Whatever it was, it had something to do with a large government building called the Tower of Justice.

"So this is where it is, right?" a female asked before a male simply nodded with a look of anger in his eyes.

The duo looked at the front gate and noticed two guards on duty. When she saw this, the female folded her arms and said, "It's like they're not even trying. I can take them both easily," only for the male to shake his head and pound his fist against his palm.

The female let out a sigh and said, "Fine. I guess it's only fair that you get a little bit of the spotlight," before racing toward the guards with her arms out.

Both of them gasped and got ready to fight only for the attacker to pick up the pace and ram her arms into their necks. Despite this being a rather basic move, it dealt considerable pain to both of them, allowing the male to easily leap over the female's head and plant a foot into each one's face.

This was enough to knock them both out as the female sighed, "Like I said, I could have beaten them easily on my own," before glaring up at a window and growling, "If only I could fly right now. Then we wouldn't have to waste our time on these weaklings."

Either way, she noticed the door had a combination lock, thus she frowned and sighed, "Well, this isn't quite as powerful as it should be, but I might be able to pull this off."

She lowered her sleeves to reveal light-purple hands with claws for fingers. However, they soon became a slightly darker shade of purple and a pink energy surrounded her claws before she growled, "SPACIAL REND!" swinging them downward in an X formation.

This caused ten large gashes to form on the door before the entire structure collapsed. The male glared at her and growled only for her to sigh, "Look, even in our current state, it's not like they can stop us."

Sure enough, when the alarm went off and multiple guards raced into the area, both strangers managed to fight them off fairly well. The female body checked a few before grabbing a couple by their heads and banging them together.

All the while, the male rammed his shoulders into quite a few and sent a roundhouse into another's midsection. Though after a while, he started to feel a touch overwhelmed. Thus he revealed a set of silver claws under his sleeves and proceeded to deliver multiple slashes into them. And while this wounded most of them, it managed to kill quite a few.

One guard trembled and pulled out a transponder only for the male to leap toward her and ram his elbows into her skull. The female did the same to another guard who attempted it, and soon enough, all of the ones guarding the floor had been dealt with. As such, the female took a deep breath and sighed, "Okay, I see your point. We'll try to avoid further combat."

And so, the duo carried on throughout the building before they found a set of stairs leading to the basement. The male nodded at the female who used her claws to slice open the door since it was also password protected. Both went down many flights of stairs before reaching the bottom floor, specifically basement number twenty.

"Wow, they really didn't want us to find this, did they?" the female enquired before the male nodded and advanced forward cautiously. He looked around and growled before the female sighed, "Let me guess, this room is covered in security beams, isn't it?"

The male nodded as she sighed, "Best you take this alone. I'll stand watch here just to make sure no one shows up to ruin everything," the male manoeuvring around the area expertly. As it so happened, his eyes could detect anything that was invisible, so this was no challenge for him.

Sure enough, once he was finished, he was face-to-face with a big safe. Inside was the very thing he and his partner were looking for, he could feel it. As such, he took a deep breath since he realized he could not rely on the female to claw it open like she had the doors. And he was not sure if even his own claws would be enough since he just knew this safe must have been made from the strongest metal in the galaxy.

With that in mind, he examined the buttons on the combination before he spotted fingerprints on ten in particular. Thus he tapped them in descending order. This failed to open the safe, thus he kept pressing them in a different order until he found one that worked, the safe opening up as he breathed a sigh of relief.

Inside were two objects. One was a blue orb with a silver coating and the other was what appeared to be a pair of light-purple wings. He removed both from the safe and held up the orb in front of his face. He then opened his mouth and slipped the object into it before swallowing it whole and taking in a deep breath.

"Finally, my voice is restored," he said as the female exclaimed, "That's awesome! Now hand me my wings!" the male sighing, "Impatient as always."

Thus he manoeuvred around the invisible beams again before he reached her and handed over the objects in question. He then nodded and said, "Alright, let's go. Now that we got back what's ours, we can finally initiate our plan."

But just as they had left the building, the female's eyes widened when she saw a whole group of security officers lined up outside and ready to fight. Among them was the hedgehog, Shaymin at the front who scowled and grunted, "I had a feeling something was up when I received no report regarding whether you'd been captured or not! Now, hand over what you've stolen!"

"Stolen!?" the female retorted with her teeth gritted, "Your government stole this stuff from us!" the male sighing, "Nice job. You just revealed who we are," only for the female to face him and utter, "Were we not supposed to do that?"

Shaymin's eyes widened as she pointed and spat, "Hold on! What exactly did you take!?" looking them over, "And where the hell are you hiding those things, anyway!?" only for a guard to reply, "You know they're both dressed in cloaks, right?"

The hedgehog laughed nervously only for the male to state, "Don't feel ashamed. Your question is quite valid. Yes, while we could have easily hid them under our cloaks, we simply returned them to their rightful homes. Now the voice that you extracted from me is back inside me."

The female nodded and added, "And the wings you took from me are back on my shoulders. Why don't you take a look?" removing her cloak along with her partner.

She was a light-purple dragon with darker stripes and markings around her body along with grey underarms and a matching waist. She had round plates on her shoulders with a pink pearl encrusted in the middle of each. Her hands had extended formations that looked like gauntlets with a purple band around each wrist. She had a long neck, a pointed white crest atop her head that extended to her wings, two horn-like tusks and a tail that curved upward.

The male was a dark-blue dragon with silver metallic claws that protruded out of his wrists and went far enough to double as fingers. He had a matching chest plate with a blue diamond in the centre and various light-blue stripes along his body. He had a fin-like structure on his back and a crest on his head similar to that of a pterodactyl. He had two horns atop his head that extended backward and three spines on the back of his neck.

Shaymin shook her head and uttered, "Oh my god, how can this be?" the blue dragon retorting, "Let me guess. You thought we were really dead, didn't you?"

"Do you know who these two are?" one guard whispered as Shaymin growled, "Yeah. I never met them in person, but I've heard the stories about them, Dialga and Palkia," referring to the blue dragon first and the purple one second.

This brought the dragons back to that fateful day ten years ago when they first arrived on Hero Planet, Dialga explaining, "Oh yes, that's right. We came from a future where evil had been mostly vanquished. We were the only ones left. But luckily for me, I had a special power, one passed down through the many generations of my family. My father forbade me from ever using it, not realizing that I wouldn't just blindly follow in his footsteps and be a peacekeeper. After all, mankind really isn't worth protecting."

He remembered the day he convinced Palkia to join him and unleashed his great power. What he did was release a loud roar known as the Roar of Time. This allowed him to open up a rift in the time space continuum, and he chose to use it to go back in time when he figured the heroes of the world would be too weak to stand up to him and his new ally.

Unfortunately, when he challenged Hero Planet's government, figuring them to be the greatest threat, he found himself overwhelmed when he and Palkia were challenged by Buzzwole and a jellyfish with a human body inside of her named Nihilego respectively.

Dialga put up the best fight he could but was ultimately pinned down before the mosquito jabbed his proboscis into his neck and started to consume his blood. While he did so, he managed to remove the very essence that allowed Dialga to use his Roar of Time before eventually sucking up what seemed to be all of his blood. After all, his body had become a wrinkled mess and he had passed out.

Palkia was defeated by a suplex from Nihilego, one so strong that it caused her head to crack open. Though for some reason, the collission also caused her wings to fly right off of her as if they were prosthetic.

When no heartbeat was heard from either of them, they were presumed dead. Nihilego felt a twinge a guilt since she was on the side of good now, though Buzzwole figured this might be for the best.

But things got complicated when the essence inside of Buzzwole caused him to feel weak. As such, it was quickly extracted from him and placed away for safe keeping along with Palkia's wings. After all, one could only guess what one could do with such power.

But of course, both dragons had not died. After they were buried under Hero Planet's soil, they awoke and dug themselves up. Palkia panicked when she noticed her wings were gone, Dialga patting her reassuringly on the shoulder. But when he attempted to unleash his Roar of Time and return to their time line, he noticed that he was unable to use it. And when he tried to speak, nothing came out. That was when he realized the essence that gave him his power was gone.

Back in present time, Dialga grunted, "I'll give you this. You were smart to lock my voice away. After all, it can't be destroyed. But it actually didn't take us long to realize you might have it. After all, I can sense these sorts of things. However, I figured it would be best to build up our strength before attempting to get back what you stole from us."

"We've spent the last ten years preparing for our revenge!" Palkia quipped, "And now that we have the Roar of Time back, we're gonna go back to another time, one where we know that no one will be able to oppose us!"

All went silent while Shaymin and the guards stared at her. Dialga narrowed his eyelids, glared at Palkia and growled, "Do you know how to keep your mouth shut?"

"So that's what that was?" the hedgehog uttered, a frown on her face as she growled, "Well, you're not going anywhere!"

She then lengthened her ears and slimmed down her body until she looked more like a deer. After that, she soared toward them and built up a gust of wind behind her, squeaking, "SKY CLOTHESLINE!"

Both dragons gasped when she rammed her ears into their necks, but while this caused some pain, her eyes widened when she found herself unable to fly further. As such, both dragons smirked and lifted their arms, each taking hold of an ear. They then lifted her up and held out their knees, ramming her gut into both of them.

Just from this one hit, the hedgehog coughed up blood with her eyes wide with terror. And it did not end there as Palkia tossed her into the air, exclaiming, "Come on, bro, show them your best move!"

The blue dragon smirked and replied, "With pleasure," leaping up to her level and planting his claws into her sides. He then leaned backward before falling toward the ground.

Shaymin was unable to do a thing when he slammed the back of her head into the surface. Thus she coughed up more blood while he barked, "METAL DRAGON SUPLEX!"

The hedgehog was out cold while the other guards growled and raced toward the dragons. However, Dialga simply smirked and said, "We've wasted enough time as it is. Come on, Palkia, let's get going. This time, I know for a fact that we didn't make a mistake."

As such, Palkia spread out her wings and took hold of the blue dragon before she flew up to the roof of the tower. With that, Dialga took a deep breath and released a loud roar. This caused a big hole to appear right in front of him before he and the purple dragon leapt into it. Had they done this on ground level, the guards could have potentially followed them, so this really was the best option.

Either way, panic spread through the area as one of them spat, "You heard what that whitish one said earlier, right!? They've gone back in time!" another looking around and whimpering, "Brace yourselves! Something could change at any moment!"

However, after a few seconds, the guards all stood awkwardly and realized nothing had been altered yet. Perhaps it was too early for such changes to occur. After all, Dialga and Palkia had only just gone to the past.

With that in mind, all they could do was carry Shaymin to the medical bay to have her healed. But one thing was for certain. They would definitely take action as soon as possible. Something like this could not be overlooked.