Chapter 7 - Spear Pillar - Power of the Scarves! Evolution!
Link, Zelda, and Scor were now in the Sinnoh region. It was snowing and the three members of The Try Force were cold. Scorbunny's fur kept him warm enough to carry on. Link and Zelda, however, had to suffer through the cold a bit more than he did.
"I actually kinda like how cold it is right now." said Scor. "It makes me think of Christmas. Do you guys have Christmas in your universe? We don't have it here, but I've heard rumors that it's freaking awesome."
"Can you stay focused on what's important?" asked Zelda.
"Okay, sure." Scor replied. "So, if this Ganondorf guy stole the time gears, why didn't he keep them with him so nobody could find them? And how did he even get them all to different places across the world so quickly?" he asked. Link and Zelda looked at each other. They tried to think of an answer to Scor's question, but neither of them could think of one.
The three looked around Sinnoh for several hours, trying to find the Time Gears. They often asked other Pokémon if they knew where the Time Gears were. None of them had any useful information until they came across a Riolu.
The Riolu said "My half-brother's mom's childhood friend's cousin's friend's former mentor's sister told me that her niece's husband's ex-wife said there's a rumor that her brother saw what looked like what might be two Time Gears at Spear Pillar."
Scor gasped. "Everyone knows that when you tell your ex-husband's wife about a rumor and then she tells it to her aunt's brother's former student's friend's cousin's childhood friend's daughter's half-sibling, that means the rumor is TRUE!" he babbled. "Did I say that right? I'm not convinced I did."
"I don't know." Link answered. "Let's just go to Spear Pillar."
Link, Zelda, and Scorbuny started trekking to Spear Pillar. Along the way, Scor kept trying to start conversations about irrelevant topics that Link and Zelda weren't interested in or couldn't even begin to understand. This included TV shows he liked, things he didn't understand and wanted explanations to, how he celebrated his past birthdays, what he liked to eat, and more.
Eventually, Link pulled him aside and stated that both he and Zelda were from a world that Scor would consider slightly primitive and to keep that in mind.
Scor looked back and forth between Link and Zelda.
"Oh, well you two are just kids, aren't ya? And I guess you should've told me before that the world you're from is not exactly modern…Like how modern is it?"
"Well, we have mailing systems, boats, outhouses, and printing presses to mass produce books. There's more examples, but I think I've given you plenty. Rich people have better quality things, but we make due with what we have."
"Interesting. Do you have television, video games, the internet, or anything like that?"
Link and Zelda simply stared at him in utter confusion.
"...Right...You don't know what those are...Now that I think about it, it's hard to explain things that I grew up with to people that have no idea how to live in the modern day."
The three arrived at Spear Pillar and climbed up to the top. They found two Time Gears laying on the ground. "Yay! Twins!" Scor shouted. "Their names are Phil and Luna." he said after picking them up.
"Do you always name every single thing you decide to pick up and own?"
Before Scor could answer Link, the ground began to shake. Soon, two massive Pokémon appeared - Dialga and Palkia.
Dialga was a dark blue sauropod-like Pokémon with some gray metallic portions, such as its chestplate, which had a diamond in the center. It also had various light blue stripes. It had a fin-like structure on its back and a crest on its head, resembling a dinosaur. Dialga also had two horns on top of its head, two fang-like horns around its mouth, and three spines on the back of its neck. It had three claws on each foot of the same metallic look as its chestplate. Faint cracks existed across its body.
Palkia was a light purple theropod-like Pokémon with stripes and markings of a darker shade and gray underarms and waist. It had round purple-striped plates on its shoulder area, where two pink pearls laid encrusted with a gray rim encircling them and fins in their back. Palkia's arms had extended formations resembling gauntlets and a purple band around each wrist. Palkia had a long neck, a pointed white crest on the top of its head that extended to its wings, two strong horn-like tusks on the sides of its jaw, and a powerful tail. It had faint cracks along its legs and tail.
Dialga snorted and glared down at the three Pokémon.
"WHO DARES TRESPASS ON MY DOMAIN?"
"That would be me and my friends. What's up, dude?" Scor casually said to the Legendary.
"BE GONE! ALL OF YOU! YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE!" Palkia screamed.
"We were just about to leave anyway." said Link.
Link, Zelda, and Scor turned around to leave. But then Scor turned back around. "I kinda wanna fight them."
Link stared at him.
"Are you out of your Faring mind, Scor?! They'll kill us!"
"Battling against them would just be a waste of time and energy." Zelda added.
"Oh, come on! I can take 'em. They have no style. They have no grace. Me, however, I have a funny face. That means I have an advantage over them."
"Were you dropped on your head when you were an infant?" Link asked.
"Yes. Several times. Why?"
"No reason."
The two legendaries growled and took a step towards the three, but before they could to anything, the Harmony Scarves started to glow.
They were dim at first, but then they started to increase in brightness rapidly.
"WHAT IS THIS?", roared Dialga.
No one had an answer.
Link glanced up at Zelda, confused, but Zelda merely gave him a calm look and he instantly felt that whatever was happening was meant to happen.
Then, his vision went white and he heard something roar.
Link's vision came back. He noticed that he was taller, for one thing, and that he felt huge.
He looked around, then down at the pool of water that covered the Pillar.
He was now a bulky, bipedal, crocodilian Pokémon with blue scales. He had large, powerful jaws lined with several sharp fangs. Three teeth were visible when his jaws were closed: two in his lower jaw and one in his upper. Link's eyes were still cerulean but now they had black markings around them and ridges above them and his lower jaw was yellow. There were three golden spines on his body, each with three points: one on top of his head, one between his shoulders, and one near the tip of his tail. There were also several groups of large scales on his arms, knees, tail, and waist. His back was slightly hunched with ridges behind the shoulders and hips. On his lower body was a yellow, V-shaped marking that extended up to his thighs; there was a thin line through the center of the marking. His hands had five clawed fingers and his feet three clawed toes. The Triforce of Courage was much more noticeable now, and it seemed to be on fire it was glowing so brightly.
He glanced over at Zelda and simply stared.
She was now a bipedal, humanoid Pokémon whose body resembled a flowing gown. Most of her body was white, but her arms and the underside of her gown were green. Her blonde hair curled over her face and down the sides of her head. Behind her cerulean eyes were short spikes, resembling a masquerade mask. She had long arms with three fingers on each hand and slender white legs. A red, fin-like horn extended from her chest, and a shorter, more rounded horn extended from the back. A band of green on her chest extended to the center of the front horn and connected to her sleeve-like arms. The Triforce of Wisdom was pulsing slightly.
"You guys just evolved!" Scor shouted in excitement. "Me evolving won't even be possible until some time later this year. I'm so jealous of you right now!"
"We evolved? What does that mean?" Zelda asked.
"It means…Uhh...I don't know, it feels pretty self explanatory since you guys saw what you look like now. But the point is, you're both more powerful now, so fighting Dialga and Palkia should be easier."
Link found that he couldn't stop staring at Zelda and eventually he shot Scor a 'help me' glance. Of course, he knew that he was older in every way possible, and that caused problems. Possibly common problems. Eventually, he was grateful that the two Legendaries charged them, because it was only then that he was able to move and get his gaze off of Zelda.
Link ended up near Palkia, while Zelda near Dialga. Scor seemed to have vanished.
But then he was back, dancing around the pillar like a maniac.
Link found himself being pushed backwards by Palkia and he took use of the sheer power flowing through his veins and he used Hydro Pump, which caused a huge volume of water to appear from nowhere and hit the Legendary. Palkia was sent flying across the Pillar, and ended up hitting Dialga. While both Pokémon were down, Zelda used Disarming Voice.
When the dust settled, both Dialga and Palkia were out cold. "Yay! We did it!" Scor cheered before being punched in the face by Link.
"You didn't do anything!" Link yelled. "You just sat over there and watched even though you were the one who wanted to battle these Pokémon in the first place."
"Sorry. I just…"
"We were about to leave! Everything was Nay fine! But then you, with your complete lack of any Nay common sense, decided to make us fight two massive monsters! What the Far is wrong with you?!"
Scorbunny said nothing for a few seconds. Then he began to cry. "You yelled at me! YOU YELLED AT ME!" He sat down and cried some more.
"Come on, Zelda. Let's get out of here."
"You can't tell me what to do. I'm the princess."
"You're a princess apparently." Scor said while continuing to sob.
"Now apologize to Scorbunny."
"No. I'm not gonna apologize for something he deserved. He needs to be more mature."
Link paused.
"In case you haven't noticed, we are acting more mature than him."
"That's not necessarily a problem. Scorbunny, how old are you?"
"I don't know. I think I'm 22, or maybe 8."
"See? He's still doing it!" Link shouted. "How could he possibly not know his own age and have his two guesses be so far apart from each other?"
"It's just a joke, Link." explained Scor.
"Well, there are certain times when it's not appropriate to tell dumb jokes that no one but you will understand. Now's one of those times."
"You're just being a Wrench."
"STOP IT, SCOR!", roared the Feraligatr, his eyes glaring daggers into the smaller Pokemon. He then turned around and punched the ground of the Pillar, creating cracks in it and simply knelt there on one knee, shaking from just how...angry he was.
Link began to feel like he was changing as his vision went white again. More specifically, he felt like he was shrinking. Then the feeling of feeling...normal was gone, as his body de-evolved to a Totodile.
"What the?" he said. "Why am I small again?" Gods, his voice sounded so shrill now.
"I'll bet your scarf un-evolved you because you're being such a jerkface!" hypothesized Scorbunny.
"But Scor, the scarf isn't alive."
"Then how do you explain how Zelda is still a Gardevoir? It's explained by the fact that she was being POLITE, unlike you, you stupid...stupid guy!"
Zelda cut off Scor before he could say anything else.
"Scor. That's enough. We acquired the two Time Gears we came here for, now let's leave before those two wake up. Where are we heading next?"
Scor cheered up instantly.
"Well, sources claim that there's this Pokémon that's taken over Mt. Moon and is using it as a base. Maybe, just maybe, that's the Ganondorf guy you two are looking for."
"Where is this mountain?" Zelda and Link asked simultaneously.
"It's in Kanto. Which is a long way from here."
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go to Mt. Moon and confront Ganondorf!" Link took off down the Pillar, not caring how long it took for Zelda and Scor to follow him.