Chapter 3: Unexpected Events
It has been an hour since Sabre began to transform. She was having some alone time for her pokemon was turned to stone by an ancient menace. By now she would have recovered if it wasn't her closest partner Vaporeon, who jumped in the way of the attack that was meant for her.
Although Sabre wanted to be alone, she allowed her team to keep an eye on her so they didn't mistake her for a regular eevee. Dusclops was on watch after Z, who dropped off a electric shock stick that was like a tazer in a baton form (at her current height, it was more of a sword than a baton), watched her for twenty minutes.
At this point, Sabre shrunk to about Lucario's height and an eevee maine started to appear. He knew that Sabre needed comfort, but how was he supposed to help. The most fun he was scaring the living daylights out of people.
As he was think this, he saw what appeared to be a dark portal. Sabre saw it to, A portal as dark as night? But that means- Sabre's thought was interrupted by her new natural instincts had her say "Run!" as she began to run as fast as she could
Just as she said it, Girantina flew through the portal and chased after Sabre. Even though Sabre was agile, her eevee instincts clouded her mind and made it hard to lose Girantina. Sabre was grabbed by the tail and yanked into Girantina's realm, the Distortion World.
Dusclops didn't know what to do. Either get the team and hope that Z had some way to get them to the Distortion World or jump in after Sabre. Naturally, he made the stupid decision of jumping in blindly. Gardevoir is going to give me such a lashing if I don't come back with Sabre, Dusclops thought, If I come back.
Sabre was terrified. And she knew that it wasn't just the eevee part of her that was scared. Girantina and Sabre met before but never really got along due. Of all the pokemon that could have come, why did it have to be the one banished for violence? she thought. Girantina obviously ticked off for some reason, and she knew exactly what it might be.
"You bought me here to kill me for releasing the High Priest, aren't you?" Sabre asked. "As a matter of fact, no." Girantina responded, but as he was holding Sabre by the mouth, he dropped her deeper into his world. If Girantina didn't bring me here to kill me, then why did he bring me here?
After wandering for about half an hour, Sabre noticed that her transformation stopped in full. Maybe it has something to do with this world? Sabre though to herself. She heard a noise to her left and immediately pulled out her electric shock stick (which I will refer to as the electro baton from now on) and took a battle stance. "Hey, dial down the shock stick will ya? Or else I'll just leave you here and take my chances with Gardevoir."
Sabre instantly knew who said that. "Frankly, I would take this stick and beat you with it if you did." Dusclops appeared and uttered a hearty laugh. "How did you escape Girantina?" he asked.
"Simple, I just asked him a question and he answered it. Don't need to be a mastermind to figure that out." Sabre responded
Just as she finished, Girantina came out of nowhere and said "Dusclops! You are not permitted here! Begone at once!" Then Girantina launched an attack and disappeared. "Where did he go?" Dusclops asked. "He must have used shadow force! We need to move, NOW!"
We ran as fast as we could, but when Girantina unleashed shadow force, Dusclops was hurt badly. To Sabre, that was the last straw. Out of a mix pure instinct and concern for her friend, she launched a shadow ball at Girantina.
Not expecting the attack, Girantina was stunned when he was hit and thought Dusclops launched it. Immediately, he launched an ominous wind towards Dusclops only to be stunned yet again by Sabre mixing her instincts and her battling experience, moving like a blur towards Dusclops and then using protect to defend her friend from Girantina's wrath.
"Sabre, cease this at once! I did not bring you to this place to do battle with you, but to protect you from Palkia, Dialga and Arceus."
"Wha- but I thought you hated my guts?" Sabre said in response. "No, I do not. For you had inadvertently saved me by destroying that shrine." Stunned, Sabre walked slowly towards Girantina. "Explain." She demanded.
"That shrine was dedicated to the balance of space and time. But it was also an ancient device for controling me. It was cursed so that it slowly drew power to call upon me for whatever purpose. For that, I owe you a debt that can never be repaid."
Sabre didn't know what to say, she looked at Dusclops and got the fact that he was just as shocked. "But why bring me here?" "To stop your transformation, which is acting like a beacon for legendary pokemon such as myself to find you so that they can give you a proper punishment. The amulet's power source is the Temple of Evolution, and in being here the amulet has nothing to draw power from."
"But I need to get back there and send that priest back to wherever he came from!" "This not your decision to make."
"I am not staying here to have some jerk who turn Vaporeon to stone just prance to the nearest town and enslave everyone!" Girantina was surprised yet again. "Vaporeon is now stone?" Sabre nodded slowly "... I have always respected Vaporeon, he is the reason I have not destroyed you yet. ... You are free to go, I shall seek council with Palkia and Dialga to prevent your death by them."
Girantina opened a portal out of the Distortion World. "Thank you, but I need some help to fight off this menace. I know some pokemon around the world who I have befriended but didn't take with me because they wanted to stay with their family and friends. But one in particular will not hesitate to help, for when I found him, he was lost, scared and confused as a until I found him. I need Luxray"