Previously : We found a job!

We have to go to Illuminous Ruins and get a Past Piece. We have to meet the job giver outside of Brine Cave in 7 days.

The walls here have inscriptions about my past! Why, and how did they do it?

I can read a language I have never seen before! How?

Which piece of rock is the Past Piece? If we pick the wrong one, then the entire ruins would collapse.

Chapter 3 - Universes

"Which piece should I pick? What if that one became wrong? The whole place could collapse." These were the thoughts that were in my mind at that time.

I calmed down. Starting thinking rationally. The Past Piece must be the oldest thing in the room.

It can't be our planet, as it isn't that old. Our planet is only 29.7 million years old.

It can't be the first planet, as that plant is too young! It is only 12.3 million years old.

It can't be the third planet, as this planet was not a part of our solar system before long. It was a very large meteorite. It became part of our solar system when it was flung into it from a nearby solar system. The planet had joined us only 900 thousand years ago.

That left us only with the fourth and fifth planet. Although the fifth planet is the oldest planet, older than the sun, there isn't much difference in their age. The fourth planet is 06.5 billion year old and the fifth planet is 06.7 billion years old. Our sun is a 06.65 years old.

I was nervous. However, I decided to choose the fifth planet. I reached my hand towards it. I grabbed it. The room started shaking. I thought, "Did I choose the wrong piece?"

The shaking suddenly stopped. The ruins didn't collapse. Suddenly the wall in front of us cracked and an inscription was revealed. It read, "You have taken the Past Piece. The Pase A ladder came loose from the ceiling and we climbed it to get out.

We went to Fogbound Lake the next day. We set up camp outside the ruins. It had gotten pretty dark and we were all exhausted.

We went to Fogbound Lake tomorrow first thing in the morning. We reached the place in less than an hour. Uxie was there to greet us. He said, "How are you two? You two look tired, and dirty. What have you been upto?"

Amber replied, "We have just come from a job. We went in some sort of abandoned place, and fell through a trapdoor. We finished our jobs by the way."

Rayce said, "Illuminous Ruins. That's the name of the place. Anyway, why did you call us here?"

Uxie said, "Rayce, Amber. You probably know that Dialga, Palkia and Giratina have called you at Spacial Rift, right."

I and Amber replied positive.

Uxie continued, "Well, I can't talk about it right now. I'll be there... Lets talk there. Near the gear. Not here. It's too dangerous."

Amber said, "Uxie what's wrong? Why are you being so secretive?"

"It's nothing big."

Uxie raised his hand and pointed it towards the Space Gear. A rock path came up from underwater! There are still many things I don't know about the lakes.

We went to the Space Gear. There, Uxie pulled out the Space Gear!

What! What was he doing? He handed the gear to us and said, "Take it. Palkia's gonna need it when you meet. I can't talk about it anymore. Now, you two should go home"

I asked, "Why? We can't take the Gear away. It might be dangerous."

Uxie replied, "It's safe as long as it is on this planet or near Palkia. They will need it when you meet."

Amber asked, "Why did Palkia give it you when he's just gonna take it back in a few days?"

Uxie said, "You two haven't been visiting much nowadays, eh. This Gear has been here since a year. ''

Amber replied, "You're right. We haven't been visiting much. We're sorry. We were just too busy."

Uxie said, "No problem. It's okay. I was busy as well. I was stabilising the Gear for about 2 months."

Amber and I decided to stay with Uxie for a while. We talked, played, and had fun. After about 3 hours, we decided to leave for Treasure Town.

Outside of Fogbound Lake, Amber and I decided to look at the Space Gear. It was shinier than a diamond. It was really beautiful. It looked just like a Time Gear, just Purple except Blue and much, much more shinier.

We kept the Gear in our bag. Suddenly we heard footsteps. We decided to hide, since we were having an item of great value. We could not risk to lose it. We saw someone coming towards the Lake.

We decided to follow him/her/them in the cave. However, we knew it would be a risk for the Space Gear. We buried it under a tree. The pokemon(s) was fast. We followed him/her/them to the Lake. At the Lake we got a better look. There were two of them.

They attacked Uxie! They was asking for the Space Gear! We decided to stop them. One of them was a Golurk and the other was a Greninja. Those were species not usually found in these areas.

We crept up behind them and attacked them. Flamethrower and Mega Punch. They fell to the ground and fainted. Uxie was badly hurt. We used two Escape Rope on us to tie those two up. Amber took Uxie and the Greninja and I carried the Golurk . We went to Wigglytuff's Guild. There, Amber took care of Uxie while I set up an interrogation room in mine and Amber's old room.

We called in Mesprit and Azelf to the Guild and told them what had happened. They had brought their Space Gears. It was too much of a risk to leave them alone now, considering what had happened.

I went back to get the Space Gear of Fogbound Lake while Amber stayed behind if the Golurk and Greninja tried to escape. I went to the tree where the Space Gear was buried and dug it up to get the item.

It was pretty late by now. I and Amber decided to go to bed now.

The next morning when I and Amber came back to the guild, the Golurk had regained consciousness. Amber, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf and Wigglytuff were already interrogating him. I went into the room as well. He wasn't talking. We tried everything we could. Officer Magnezone wasn't helping us either. He said that we have no proof that he attacked Uxie and that Uxie isn't hurt too much to help matters anyway. I know that Officer Magnezone is a good guy, but he is just not helping matters now.

After about half an hour, the Greninja regained consciousness too. I tried interrogating him -

"Who are you and why did you attack Uxie?"

"My name is Water and that Golurk's name is Crater . I will not tell you why I attacked Uxie."

I tried many different things. They were all in vain.

Wigglytuff decided to wait them out. They would get hungrier and desperate and would finally give us some answers in exchange for some food.

The next day was mostly in vain. All that we found out was that those two were working for someone whose name they were not willing to take. All that we found that was that there was an even bigger threat than this.

The next day we got some more information. They wanted to steal the Space Gear for someone

However they weren't telling us why or for whom were they doing this.

The next day was a day of silence. They told Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Wigglytuff, me and Amber nothing. Exploud tried to make them talk by using his loud voice as a weapon. Still nothing.

Till now, we know thise two pokemons' names, Water and Crater, they are stealing Space Gears for an unknown person.

The followirng day, we decided to go to Brine Cave and then Spacial Rift. We went at the entrance. There, in small etchings was written, "Go inside and talk to a large blue pokemon with a shell that can swim". We instantly knew that that meant Lapras.

I thought,"Did Lapras guve this job to us?" We weren't sure, but we continued. At the very end of Brine Cave, Lapras was waiting. He saw us and shouted out to call us.

We reached him, and Amber asked him, "Were you the one who gave us this job of retrieving the Past Piece?"

Lapras replied, "Yes, Palkia needs it. I am suprised that you were the ones who got this job, considering, you know, Palkia is going to give this Past Piece to you, after he finishes some work on it. However, since you took this job, it's good, as our work would be more hidden from the Creator."

That name again, "Creator". Who is he? I asked the same to Lapras. He told us that Palkia will tell us, as it is not safe at the place we're standing.

Why is everyone trying to hide the Creator's identity? I think we'll know after we talk to Palkia. Lapras told us to get ready for the trip to Spacial Rift. We were already ready. We hopped on Lapras's back and he took us to Spacial Rift.

The trip was fine. We reached Spacial Rift in about 20 minutes.

There Dialga, Palkia, Giratina and Uxie were waiting for us. Lapras handed Palkia the Past Piece. Giratina began, "Do you know how the universe was formed?"

We replied negatively.

Palkia said, "It was formed when a black hole (i.e. a small place in space where gravity is very high) exploded to reveal an egg."

"An egg..." said Amber, curiously.

Dialga replied, "Yes, an egg. From this egg, a pokemon hatched. His name was Arceus. He created the 4 universes that constituted the world up until now."

I said, "Up until now... What do you mean?"

Giratina said, "Rayce, recently a 5th universe has appeared."

A 5th universe! How? Did this Arceus make it?

Palkia replied, "That universe... was made none other than by you!" Me! How, when and why would I do that?

Giratina continued, "When you stopped the paralysis of the planet, you changed Dialga, not only of this time, but also of the future. When you stopped the paralysis, the Palkia and Dialga of the future met and they didn't want to die like you too. So, they used their combined power to break off the future and set it as a new and different dimension. That way that future never really died. It just changed a little. Little in the sense that Dialga was no longer Primal. Since you were of that universe at that time, you dissappeared. Matter from one universe can't exist in other. When I beought you back, I created a new body for you, one which had the properties of matter of this universe."

Palkia talked, "Due to all this, now there isn't a pair of universe. 2 universes are created together as a pair. That universe, the future that does not exist's universe is not in a pair. 2 universes have to come in pairs. Otherwise, they will never stabilise. The other universe of the pair stabilizes it Due to this, Arceus, the creator, has destabilized. He will die! If Arceus dies, then so will the entire world! All 5 universes. Recently, Arceus has been sending pokemon he created to take Space Gears and Time Gears. It's like he gets in trances for sometime, does something, then has no memory of it. You two have got to help him. You're the only one we think can. If we go anywhere near him, he flips out at us. He attacks us. We can't do anything."

Uxie said, " You two are very strong. You have defeated us all in battle. I told Dialga, Palkia and Giratina about the two pokemon who attacked. They sense that Arceus's death will come even faster than they expected. You have to stop them. Go to the other universes. Get the Time and Space Gears. The Palkia, Dialga and Giratina of those worlds might try to stop you, but we're sure you'll be okay."

Amber said, " Wait a minute. You all just said that matter from one universe can't exist in another. Then how will we survive there. Mostly importantly, how will we get there?"

Giratina said, "We can send you two there. You will be given 2 months in each universe. There is a portal to each universe in the Spacial Rift. They will take you to the Spacial Rift of the other universes. We would go ourselves but if we leave our universe, time and space would get distorted. We won't come unless absolutely necessary. Either I will cone or Dialga will come or Palkia shall. I can fill in for one of those two for a small time, but I haven't done that since... forever. I have very little practice. I don't remember much. I might do something wrong if I do the job for more than 2 weeks."

Dialga said, "Well, whenever you're ready, meet us here."

I said, "Hey, you didn't tell us how we'll survive in the other universe."

Giratina said, "Well... your souls will be taken apart from your body and only that will be send. That is not made of matter. In your astral form, no one can see you, hear you or feel you. You will be able to pass through obstacles like walls, etc. You won't be able to touch anything though. You will pass right through it."

Amber and I were shocked. I mean travel through space and time, fight legendary pokemons, we have done all that, but rip our astral form apart from us. That is too much. But i replied yes. The whole existence of life was at stake.

Palkia described the other 3 universes to us. The other universe of our pair is where I cane from. It has humans and pokemons living together. Apparently, I had been changing my and Grovyle's molecular structure somehow when Darkrai attacked us, causing me to become a Riolu.

The other pair has a universe in which humans live with some sort of beasts who have no powers like pokemon. Those beasts are called animals. In that universe, pokemon is a myth, a story owned by some gaming company called Nintendo. The remaining universe has almost no life. The planet Earth there is a frozen wasteland where temperature is always near freezing. Ice covers the entire planet, except for some places near the equator where the only life forms of the universe live. They are pokemons who have become extinct in our universe. Apparently our universe's Earth, the other universe of our pair's Eartg and the the other universe of the other pair's Earth were struck by a giant meteor which warmed up the planet, causing new species of plants, pokemon and animals to appear alongside humans who evolved from other life forms.

I asked, "If we can't touch anything, then how will we retrieve the Gears?"

Dialga said, " Your souls will be able to... ahem... take over bodies. Your soul when separated from your bodies will become superstrong and be able to ... make other bodies's souls fall into a trance like state from where you'll get their bodies. When you leave the bodies, they will have no memory of what happened."

What? Not only go into other universes, but force their humans, pokemons and animals into helping us. I didn't want to, but the whole world was at stake. I told them that I would tell them our final answer tomorrow.

I and Amber went home to get our heads together.

What will Amber and Rayce do? Will they say yes or no. Stayed tuned to find out.