Previously : Dialga, Palkia and Giratina - "Go into the other universes to find Time Gears and Space Gears to prevent Arceus's death. You two will go as ghosts. If your bodies will come they will disappear just like Rayce dissappeared when you two changed the future. The future that does not exist is now a parallel, fifth universe."

A Greninja named Water and a Golurk named Crater tried to attack Uxie and steal his Space Gear.

Chapter 4 - Ripping

I and Amber reached our home late at night. We were pretty exhausted, mostly from our conversation with Dialga, Palkia, Giratina and Uxie.

However I could not sleep up until late at night. I was thinking about today. So much had happened. I didn't have any idea what to say to Dialga, Palkia and Giratina. I thought about saying no. But I knew what would happen if we were to say no. No one would survive, even Arceus. If we said yes, then we would be able to see Grovyle again. I went to bed at about 1 am.

I woke up at about 9 am in the morning. Amber was already awake, eating breakfast. I joined him. I told him my opinion on whatever happened yesterday.

He said, "I think we should say yes. This is an important job and we have done things like this before. We've stopped Primal Dialga and Darkrai. Nothing can happen to us. It's just a trip to a different universe. You have done it before. Why not again? Maybe you'll be able to find out more about your past."

Yes, I could, while we were in my home universe. I told Amber, "I think we should say yes. I mean, if not us, someone has to. Many will not volunteer. If you think we should, then let's go. However, let's first say goodbye to our friends."

"Yeah, let's give our goodbyes. I mean, who know when we'll be back. Let's go say yes to those three and goodbye to the town. On the way, let us stop at the guild to check on those two pokemon, Water and Crater. Let's see if they spilled something else."

We reached the guild, and saw Mesprit interrogating the two. Dialga had told us that those two were the creation of Arceus while he was in his trance-like state. We made those two admit this fact through pressure and attacking them. After they comfirmed this fact, we gave our goobyes to everyone with an excuse that we were going on a world tour. Everyone was emotional. They were being really childish and said the cheesiest things we heard. We left in about 15 minutes. We reached Brine Cave in about half an hour. Lapras was waiting for us. He took us to Spacial Rift.

There, Dialga continued his speech, "So what's you two's decision?"

Amber replied, "We have decided to go. We have to atleast try to help Arceus."

Giratina said,"You just have to touch someone to take control. After you take control of someone, you will get all of their memories and abilities. You will still have your abilities i.e. your attacks. For example, of you became a human, you will still be able to do your own attacks. If you became a pokemon, you will be able to use their attacks as well as your. However, once you leave a body, you will lose the body's abilities. Whenever you want, you will be able to show your astral form to a person, pokemon or animal of your choice for a limited time."

Giratina, Dialga and Palkia decided to send us to The Future that does not exist Universe first.

Palkia said, "Most of the Dialgas, Giratinas and Palkias have sided with Arceus in a trance state. The Dialga, Palkia and Giratina of the Future That does not exist Universe have sided with us as they are basically us. We have decided to stop Arceus. We can only talk to you at Spacial Rift. It is the only place where Arceus can't gear our words. And he can't hear anything in the Future that Does not Exist Universe due to its unstable form. So it would be easy for you over there. We will teleport you to the Temporal Tower there and you will collect the 5 Time Gears there and and the 4 Space Gears. That will be all we'll need from that universe. The Dialga of that universe will tell you where they are located."

Giratina told us to take deep breaths. The three formed a semi circle around us with us as the diameter. They used the Past Piece we gave them. They read some words etched on it. Suddenly I felt dizzy and I'm sure that Amber felt the same. I felt that my weight that getting less and that I was floating. Suddenly I felt ike someone had pierced me. A portal came and we were sucked into it. A tunnel was in my vision. It was made of diamond walls and we were floating through it. After about half an hour of floating, the tunnel ended. I felt gravity. I and Amber landed at the summit of Temporal Tower. There, Dialga was standing to greet us. He was able to see us! Obviously he could, he's a legendary pokemon. He said, "Ah! You made it. Good. I'm sure that the other Dialga had told you most of the details. Here are the places you need to go." He showed us a file. In that, was written the name of the places we needed to go. For the Time Gears, they included the North Pole, bottom of an ocean, a museum, top of a mountain and in the middle of the Treasure Town of this world.

For Space Gear, the places were the South Pole, inside a volcano, in the atmosphere at 300 feet above Treeshroud Forest and at a lake east to Temporal Tower.

Dialga told that he would teleport us to the entrance of the place we wanted to go. He said that he would go too, but Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf of this universe haven't sided with us and could tell Arceus. He also told us that he didn't know about the places much as he was too busy just finding which one of the huga amounts of places had Space and Time Gears.

Dialga also said that he had informed Grovyle of the circumstances and if he agrees, he can with us too! We will be able to see him again! I can't wait. He said that the code word was Z19CP4.

We told Dialga that we were too tired today and would like to head to Treasure Town, get some information about the places we have to go and go there tomorrow.

When we are invisible to others, to each other, we just look like Will-O-Wisps, except red and with more light.

We asked Dialga for directions and he gave it to us. We decided to see what we looked like, and so in front of a water puddle made ourselves visible. There, Amber saw himself first. He was looking much like his body, except blue. Dialga tols us that souls always look blue. Even my soul looks blue. I went in front of the puddle and made myself visible. I couldn't believe it! I looked like a human! Why? I should've been looking like a Lucario. Amber too was suprised.

Dialga told us that since in reality I am just a human with pokemon powers and a body, my soul will still look just like my old self. I looked like an 18 year old teenager/young adult with brown hair. According to Dialga, this is what I looked like before I transformed into a Riolu.

Well, enough of looks, I just decided to get onto the path for Treasure Town. I and Amber and I said goodbye to Dialga and went on our path.

I said, " I still don't know how I changed my and Grovyle's molecular structure twice. Well, not the second time, properly. Because, you know what happened to me. But I never expected that I was a teenager. I always thought, an adult. A lot has happened today. I mean we're back at this place. But it looks better now, right. "

Amber replied, "Of course it looks better. The place isn't all gray now, the sun actually rises, wind blows, water moves, plants now grow. This IS better"

I replied, "Yeah, I guess it is. The place now actually has color now. Color except for gray. I think I can see the town. There's Sharpedo's Bluff."

Amber replied, "Yeah I can see it too. Is it useful going there? I mean, many will not recognize us. Even then what will we do? The only one who would is Grovyle and who knows what would he be doing.

I told Amber, "We'll find someone who will help us, if Grovyle would refuse. If not, we know Dialga, Palkia and Giratina's tips on what to do and how to do it."

After walking for about half an hour, we reached the outskirts of Treasure Town. We saw Wigglytuff's guild. We decided to go in and see it. Wigglytuff apparently has retired! Chatot is now the guildmaster.

The town square had changed so much! The old Dusknoir Bank was closed down and in its place was a large building named "City Bank". Kecleon's Store had become a department shop. Kangaskhan's Storage was now an underground building consisting of 1500 vaults, each specialised for different items.

We went to Sharpedo's Bluff. We saw that no one was there. We went inside our old house. It had changed so much. The entire place was cemented, plastered and painted. The place was expanded. The walls were painted. Furniture was changed. Electricity powered fans and Air-Conditioning.

Someone had been living here. The only ones who knew about this place was I, Amber and Grovyle. Maybe Grovyle was living here.

I and Amber decided to go look for him. We looked all over town. We went through the city, searched the outskrits, looked inside buildings, and at the beach. We decided to look for some clues at Sharpedo's Bluff. For the first time, we used someone's body. I took over an Infernape while Amber did the same with a Typhlosion. The Infernape uses to be a part of an exploration team until the team broke up. His name was Power. The Typholosion's name was Explosion.

It felt weird being inside someone else's body. We looked around the house. We found a letter. Grovyle DID live here. He was looking for Time and Space Gears for Dialga. He must be at one of the places Dialga told us about. Until now, he had collected 3 Time Gears and 3 Space Gears. Wow, that's most of what we need.

2 Time Gears and a Space Gear was left.

It was written that he was going to Mt. Raven. We decided to wait for him. We left the bodies we had taken, after bringing them outside the house, to where they originally were, so that they wouldn't be confused. We waited for almost a day. No one came. I became worried. Mt. Raven isn't that far that it will take more than a day. We decided to go there looking for him.

The place was a wreck as compared to our universe's Mt. Raven. The entire path was littered with boulders and rocks. It looked like a landslide. I was worried.

The place was incredibly long. Longer than our Mt. Raven. But I had read that Mt. Raven was a growing mountain. The plates that collided to form this mountain were still pushing each other to go up. Since this the future, the mountain must have pushed more than it had in the past(our universe is in the past as compared to this universe). It had 45 floors. We passed all the pokemon we saw, as they couldn't see or touch or hear us, consequently couldn't attack us. Starting from the 23rd floor, we felt earthquakes. The intensity increased every time we felt it up to the point of making a trench at the 31st floor! At the 36th floor, I lost footing and titled down. Suddenly, I saw Grovyle lying unconscious while being attacked by a shadowy figure.

At the 44th floor, the ground burst, showing lava! We hurried to the summit. We realised something was very, very wrong.

At the 45th floor, we saw Grovyle lying on the ground! We ran towards him. We couldn't find anyone else.

Suddenly the wind started blowing very fast and a pokemon appeared. Upon getting a look at him, I realised it was Mewtwo! He was saying, "I will kill anyone who shall try to touch the Time Gear." We realised that the battle going on between these two must have caused those earthquakes.

It was obvious that he could not see us. He was holding the Time Gear. I saw it. I realised that I had only one choice. To take over Mewtwo. I told that to Amber. He agreed that it was the only choice. I ran towards Mewtwo and jumped into him. He became unconscious. I was controlling the body! Mewtwo was created by a group of humans who wanted to use him to seize power. Mewtwo rebelled, and ran away. The Dialga of this world sent him to this one as a refuge. Since the pokemon wasn't nature's doinh, he wasn't affected.

I told Amber that I had succeeded. I told him that I would carry Grovyle back to the town. I used psychic to levitate Grovyle and levitated everyone back to Sharpedo's Bluff.

There I and Amber exited the house. I was unsure of what to do next. I asked Amber.

He said, "Let us wait. When Grovyle will wake up, I'll go and say the code, Z19CP4. He should then believe me. I'll tell that you are Mewtwo right now and are waiting outside. Are you comfortable with that, Rayce?"

I replied, "Yes, yeah that's okay. I'm comfortable with that." I just went up in the air, about 50 feet in the air so that no one else can see what is going on. I wasn't feeling comfortable with someone else's body. I thought about ditching the body, but it would be too much of a risk here. Mewtwo would find out that Time Gear is missing and that Grovyle is here. He could attack him even further. I would then have to go back to Mt. Raven. It would take some time. What if Grovyle woke up while I was gone? I just decided to stay where I was. I also thought about going inside to stay with Amber, but if Grovyle saw Mewtwo standing in front of him, he would straight away attack. Although my soul would not get hurt, I would still feel the pain Mewtwo's body would be feeling. I didn't want that either. So I waited until Grovyle wakes up and Amber tells him the entire story.

After about half an hour, Amber came up levitating his soul up to me. He said, "Grovyle wants to meet you."

I then asked, "Um, how is he? Is he okay?"

Amber replied, "He has woken up but is in a lot of pain. He can barely walk. He has called a doctor. In our Treasure Town, we didn't have a doctor. This Treasure Town is obviously much more better. I mean look at all the buildings. The road is well cemented. Electricity powers machines here. We don't even have machines. Our town is not a town, it is a rural, undeveloped village. Anyway, back on the topic, he is very anxious to see you. He was wary at first. He asked me a few questions. He might do the same to you. Oh, and he can see us without we needing to shpw ourselves. He said Dialga gave us this ability so that we would be able to talk in crowds without revealing ourselves to everyone. It could cause a panic."

I replied, "If I were in his place, I would be too. I mean some random person comes and claims to be your partner who you probably presumed dead. One would obviously be wary."

I went down to the house. I saw Grovyle sitting at the dining table, looking through the open wall to sea. He saw me. He said, "If you truly are Rayce, then tell me where we were staying while I was in his world?"

I replied, "Right here. At Amber's house. You, Amber and I were planning how to get the Time Gears to stop the planet's paralysis. At the first night, you said you missed me."

Grovyle's next question was, "Where did we find the first Time Gear?"

I replied, "At Treeshroud Forest. There was no one guarding that Time Gear, so it was the easiest one to get."

Grovyle then said, "I remember that. Fine then, if you are Rayce, then reveal your soul and if I will be able to see your face then I will believe you completely. It's nothing, you know, Arceus has been sending pokemon to attack the world. You could be one of them."

I replied, "I can't here. Mewtwo will wake up and attack you."

Grovyle said, "Fine, I'll restrain him. Go to the cellar in the house. He can't escape from that. The place is a bomb shelter. After Dialga was saved, tremors occurred throughout the planet for a few weeks as time was returning back to normal."

I went to the place, called Grovyle to shut the door quickly, left Mewtwo's body and came in front of Grovyle.

When Grovyle saw me, all that he said was, " You look just like before... everything happened. You remind me of the times before. I miss those times."

I didn't know what to say. I missed Grovyle too. I think I have even stronger feelings of friendship for him than Amber. I only became so close with him due to amnesia. But I became very close with him due to years of staying together... . As friends and partners.

Grovyle then took out a red and white ball about the size of an apple and said, "This is where you kept me. It's a Poke Ball. Do you remember?"

I looked closely at the thing. It contained a small button in the middle of it. According to Grovyle, when you press that button, a small red light touches a pokemon it has registered and takes the pokemon's body, transforms it to energy and keeps the pokemon in the ball. When you release the pokemon, the poke ball would recreate his body as it was before the capture.

I didn't remember. Grovyle understood. I heard banging on the cellar door. I told Grovyle that I have to go in Mewtwo's body or he could damage the place. He said, "Fine. I don't think I will be able to take him if he gets loose while in this condition."

I told Grovyle that I have to go get Amber. Grovyle said fine. He came in front of the cellar. There was complete silence from the room. Something was not right.

I went into the room to take over him again. But he was gone! There was a big hole in the wall. He must have run away. I told Grovyle and Amber this. We all decided to go look for him before he reaches the town. Grovyle was in no condition to move, I told him to stay at home, but he wouldn't listen. He still came with us . After about looking for half an hour, we found him near the city's entrance. Hopefully no one had seen him. I quickly entered his body before someone could see him and returned to Sharpedo's Bluff.

Grovyle said, "Do not leave his body now, unless we absolutely need to. When we need to get rid of Mewtwo we could to go to Mt. Raven and give Mewtwo a sleep seed and leave. He will wake up thinking all of it was a dream."

I and Amber both agreed.

Amber said, "I will still need a body guys. I will be of no use without it, unless you want me to be the criticising guy who does nothing"

I said, "We wouldn't want that. No, no. We will get you someone good."

Grovyle said that he knew a pokemon who fit the criteria completely. He suggested a Garchomp.

Garchomp is a strong pokemon. He is a pseudo-legendary. He should be good. I saw a few at Mt. Raven's 30th and 32nd floor.

I and Amber decided to go to there while letting Grovyle stay and rest. The place was even more wrecked now than before due to Mewtwo attacking Grovyle. However it was quiet this time than before. Most of the pokemon that saw me ran away. 1 or 2 that didn't, I defeated them.

At the 31st floor, I stopped a Garchomp fighting a Salamence. The Garchomp was strong, defeating the Salamence in just 1 move. I told Amber to make his move. He ran towards the pokemon, and jumped in it. He came back as the Garchomp. He said, "It feels pretty weird being in someone else's body."

I replied, "You'll get used to it. I have. You only did it once before this."

We went back to Treasure Town. From there we went to Sharpedo's Bluff. Grovyle was sitting on the grass, just looking at the sun. He saw us and said, "Oh you came back. With Garchomp. You scored. Very well. So, what do you wanna do next? We could go to the North Pole for the Time Gear."

"Yeah, we could. Lets do it.", I said.

Amber agreed.

Then Grovyle said, "Listen, hey, so from now onwards, in public, don't use your real names. Use your bodies's names. What are their names?""

I said, "Mewtwo. That's it."

Amber said, "The Garchomp's name is Focus."

Grovyle then said, "Listen, use whatever name your bodies have from now onwards. You don't want any one to get suspicious. And for god's sake, act natural."

I said, "Thanks. That's good advice. This way, we won't get caught."

Amber said, "Why can't we just switch bodies when we get caught?"

I said, "That would be too suspicious. I mean, think about it. 10s and 20s of pokemon will come to the doctor, saying that they had memory loss and ended up some place else. People would get suspicious. We can't change bodies too much. Only a few, per place. If we change our base, that is move to a different town, then we can change bodies there."

Grovyle said, "That should be the rule. Don't switch bodies too many times in each area unless absolutely necessary."

I, Amber and Grovyle decided to stay at Sharpedo's Bluff tonight as it was getting pretty late. We decided to go to the North Pole tommorow. Our city is based in a very northern area. The north pole shouldn't be very far from here. About a day or two if we walk. If I use Mewtwo's powers of psychic flight, then about 3-4 hours.

We went to bed early at night. However I could not sleep. I mean, so much had happened in such a small time. We have left our universe in a day, lost our bodies, and met Grovyle again, after such a long time and got new bodies (which are not our). I mean, it is too much in too less time. I fell asleep with these thoughts.

I woke up early due to the sound of a huge wave crashing against the rocks at the beach. When I woke up, I saw that Grovyle and Amber was already awake. They were talking. I came up and asked about today's schedule. Amber said, "Grovyle has agreed to come with us for the rest of our job in the other universes."

I said, "Wow, that's great. Thank you, Grovyle. We really need your help."

Grovyle said, "Don't mention it. No problem, really."

I then asked, "So, what's the plan? How are we going to the north pole?"

Grovyle said, "Maybe we could use Mewtwo's psychic powers to fly to there. It will be a lot faster than walking. We could be back here by nightfall. If we walk, we could take 2-3 days. I heard that an avalanche had recently blocked the path. It would take a while to get around it."

I said, "Alright. I'll use flight to take us all there."

We flew to the North Pole. It took even less time than we thought. We reached the place in 90 minutes. However, it was freezing there. Our home is surrounded by a wide range of mountains that make a circle that prevents cold winds from entering. That's why our place is warm even after being so close to the North Pole.

There was a cave near the place. The cave was called Freeze Cavern. Grovyle said that the Time Gear was inside. We entered. The place was incredibly long. It has 53 floors! Starting from the 24th floor, the ice started thinning and we saw patches of diamonds! After the 30th floor, there was zero ice and we saw that the entire cave was made of diamonds!

It was so beautiful, we couldn't imagine a place more beautiful than this. There were small lakes and ponds on some of the floors starting from the 36th floor.

We were walking through the 52nd floor, thinking, "Thank god, we don't have to walk anymore, or fight many more pokemons. It's almost the end of the cave." However, a small earthquake occured, causing three huge pieces of diamonds, trapping me and Amber! Grovyle was outside of the trapped area. I and Amber were in two different areas. Two diamond pieces made the perimeter of the wall, while the third diamond made a sort of barrier between me and Amber. I attacked the wall with all of Mewtwo's might. Amber did the same with Garchomp's body. We didn't know what to do.

Suddenly an idea struck my mind. I told Amber that we can leave these bodies and look for help. Mewtwo and Garchomp can't escape, as we have already tried to do so. He agreed. I told Grovyle of my idea. He too, was with us on this one. However Grovyle still decided to stay, just in case. I left Mewtwo's body and Amber did the same with Garchomp.

We looked around, finding a Rhydon and Delphox. I took over Rhydon while Amber took over Delphox. We were able to get better leverage from the outside. Grovyle helped us too. We were able to move Garchomp's blockage. Amber quickly changed into him before he could run away, but not before getting the Rhydon in a different room, from where he couldn't see us.

Then I, Amber and Grovyle went to Mewtwo's side. We saw that he had thinning out the wall to a just a length of half an inch. We didn't even need to do much. I just switched to him, and we all attacked the thin area. The wall broke and we were on our way to the Time Gear.

The last floor was immensely beautiful. There was a huge lake in the middle of the area. There was grass growijg all around it! The diamond reflected sunlight all the way down here. There was also a small hole from where the light directly entered! The sun ray pointed towarda the Time Gear which was on the middle of the lake on a small island, covered by an oran berry tree. It was too bad that the place's time would stop. The place was extremely beautiful. I went to the middle of the island and took the Time Gear. The entire place turned gray, the sunlight stopped, the breeze stopped flowing and the water stopped flowing. I was sad that time had to stop. We got out of that place and back on surface. From there, back to Treasure Town.

Only a Space Gear remained. It was in a dormant volcano on a remote island, south of here. About a 12 hour trip if we fly, and a week's if we walk and swim.

We came to Sharpedo's Bluff at midnight. We were too tired to talk. We straight away went to bed.

The next morning, we woke up late. It was almost noon. We decided to not do anything that day. We decided to wait at home, and rest after yesterday's events. We decided to go to the volcano the next day. We decided to go training at Fogbound Lake. We decided to clear the dungeon. I and Amber went there. We defeated many pokemons easily. We should've gone to a different dungeon. The pokemon there were too weak. We reached the end of the cave in about half an hour.

Suddenly, we saw someone spying us. He ran and came in front of us. It was Uxie! Dammit, we shouldn't have come. We didn't know how to act.

Uxie said, "Mewtwo, you haven't come for meetings lately. Why? We have to dind a way to find those other universe's spies. How did they come here? Dialga had once told me that their bodies would burn up if kept in this universe."

We realised that Mewtwo is with Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf.

"Well, tell me why weren't you coming to our meetings? And how is this, standing behind you?"

I replied, "I was busy. Someone had been trying to get the Time Gears. I stayed at the mountain, trying to stop them. And this, this is Amb... Focus. He's a friend"

Uxie said, "Fine. I'll tell this to everyone else. But don't miss the next one. It's tomorrow. Here, at the lake."

I said, "Alright. I'll meet you there."

I came back to Sharpedo's Bluff and told Grovyle what had happened. He said, "Go to this meeting. Maybe we'll be able to find out what are they planning. Who are going to be there?"

I replied, "Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Groudon, Mewtwo and Suicune."

Grovyle said, "Amber, leave this body back at where it was. You will go too. You can't as a Garchomp. You will have to take ovee one of them. I would say Suicune. Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf are the meeting leaders. Groudon is an active member of the meeting. Suicune pitches ideas, but not too much. He will be the easiest to pose as. Alright."

Amber agreed.

I went to bed after the sun went down, being kinda nervous. Amber had gone to Mt. Raven to leave Garchomp. What if I got caught? No, that couldn't happen. I have every memory and thought of Mewtwo. I know how to act like him.

When I woke up next morning, Amber and Grovyle were discussing a plan. Grovyle had already talked to Dialga. If something went wrong, he would get us outta Fogbound Lake. We were to go there, listen to the plan, act normal and come straight to the island where the Time Gear is.

I and Amber ate breakfast, I washed Mewtwo's face and left for Fogbound Lake.

What will happen at the meeting? How will it go? What dangers lie at the volcano south of the mainland? Stay tuned to find out.