Chapter 12 - Talking about Life - Zygarde Uses Magnitude! It's Super Effective!

When Link woke up, he found himself back in his bed at The Try Force. He stared up at the ceiling for a while before he noticed Scor sleeping in a chair nearby. The fire rabbit looked like he hadn't slept in days. Since it seemed that Scor wasn't going to wake up any time soon, Link got up and started to walk around the room - pace back and forth, really - he was conflicted. He knew now that Evolving and deevolving was not good at all, he had never felt right in his Totodile form, and now that he loved Zelda, that feeling was even more prominent.
Link decided, against his better judgement, to ask Scor about this matter. To his surprise, Scor wasn't evolved anymore. Link figured that this must have meant he wasn't in the future any longer.

When he woke up, of course. That was a few minutes later.

"Oh, good. You're awake." Link said as Scor turned over to him. "How the Far did I get here?"

"Well, it's been a week since the attack. Four days ago, we found you in the Time Gear clearing on Kalos after we received reports of a single golden lightning bolt hitting the area. It's been three days since then, so I reckon that adds up to a week...right?"
Link nodded.
"Yes. Scor, I…"
He paused, then started to tell Scor of what happened. He didn't mention Scor eventually Evolving, marrying Jigglypuff and having a son with her, but he mentioned everything else.
"Wait a minute, you traveled eight years into the future?! And now you're in love with that Gardevoir?"
"Apparently."

"Hhm...Interesting. I guess."
"Scor, I have been Evolving and devolving. What do you think that's doing to me? I feel normal as my final Evolution but not like this…"

Scor sat back in the chair.
"Link, just how old is the individual to whom I am speaking?"
"I don't know how old in Pokémon years but as a Hylian, I'm thirteen. Zelda's fourteen. And yes, before you ask, I have 'Come of Age' but I don't know what you call it here."
"We call it 'evolving.' I thought you knew that. Or are you talkin' about somethin' else?"
"Something else. Do I really need to explain it to you?"

"If you didn't, I wouldn't have asked you what you meant."

"It's, well...you know."

Link got wide eyed. "Just...You know!"

Scor blinked.
"Ooooohhhhhhh! I get it. Nope, you don't need to say a word to me about that. So that's why you don't feel normal now?"
"Precisely."
"Well, I don't know what to tell you. I haven't 'come of age,' as you put it yet."

"I expected that."
Wow, either I'm older than him or he's delayed for some reason.

"Say, you wouldn't know what happens to me in the future, do you?"

Link pondered it for a brief moment. Should he tell Scorbunny about the future or not? Even with his lack of seeing any time travel movies, he knew what disastrous consequences might happen if he told.
So, he simply told him that he had married someone during the eight years between now and the future and left it at that. Scor's eyes got wide and his jaw dropped. He couldn't stand the suspense of not knowing who his future wife was.

Before the conversation could go further, there were roars and screams outside. The Guild and Hanasha Town were under attack by both Dusknoir and Yveltal.
The members of The Try Force, excluding Link, rushed outside. Link waited a bit before he snuck out and was caught by Dusknoir.
Dusknoir yelled and rushed towards Link. Before he could get him, Xerneas came out of nowhere and blocked the attack.
Link was overjoyed that Xerneas was still alive, but then remembered that it was the past.

Xerneas glared up at Dusknoir.
"You fool! Do you not know that only he can stop the one you are in league with?!"

"How does that make me a fool? I obviously don't want him to stop Ganondorf."
Xerneas rolled her eyes in anger and then turned to Link.
"Zygarde and I have been tracking Yveltal. He has been corrupted by Dark Matter, it takes control of various pokemon's minds and uses them to do it's bidding. It ultimately wants to destroy our world. The two of us want to find Yveltal and help him return to normal by destroying the part of Dark Matter that is influencing him."

"How do you do that?" asked Scor.
Before Xerneas could answer, Dusknoir rushed the group, but Zygarde stepped in front of them and unleashed Magnitude. Only it wasn't the normal variation, but Magnitude 64!

The attack hit Dusknoir, there was a scream, a flash of light, and when everyone could see again, there was a small Duskull sitting there. "What?!" he shouted in frustration. "I deevolved?! TWICE?! How?!"

"It's because Zygarde's cool move was that overpowered insult I came up with earlier but I can't remember what it was!" yelled Scor.
Then a dark red cloud rose up from Duskull and flew off into the distance, towards Mt. Moon.
The small Ghost Pokémon blinked, then slowly got up and walked over to Link and Scor.
"I'm sorry for beating you up earlier. I want to help you defeat that big meanie. Can I join you?"
He's...sort of adorable….Even if he has tried to kill me multiple times.

Link and Scor said nothing for a moment. Then they started laughing.

"You are the craziest Pokémon I've ever met, which is saying a lot, if you think we're gonna believe you." said Link.

"I'm not laughing about that. I'm thinking of something funny from one of my favorite cartoons." said Scor. "Link's got a point though."

"Are those like moving Pictographs? Zelda attempted to explain them to me at some point. She understands everything a lot better than I can do to her having the Triforce of Wisdom."

"What's a Pictograph?" Scor asked, not really caring that much about getting the answer.
Duskull grinned. "I guess it's like our pictures. Yes. it's exactly like that, with sound and everything."
"...Intriguing."

The Ghost Pokémon nodded.
"I'm joining you, whether you like it or not."
Scor and Link merely glanced at each other, then shrugged.
"Why not?" Duskull asked as a Wynaut could be seen behind him.
"You talkin' to me, kid?" asked the Wynaut as he looked between the three young Pokémon.

"No, I wasn't. I didn't give you permission to talk. Be gone!"

Wynaut ran away.

"So, anyway, can I join your…?"

"NO!" Link and Scor shouted.

Xerneas stepped up to them. "He was also under the control of Dark Matter. That is why he wishes to help you now. Zygarde's attack set him free."
"In that case….Sure."
Duskull hugged Link and then Scor, then everyone else in thanks. "We are so gonna whoop that guy's butt for being so rude to me!"

"The fact he's trying to take over the world is…" Link responded before deciding it wasn't worth saying.