Chapter 2
A/N: Fortnightly update.
As they flew speedily to the peak, Ash felt his face being stretched to its limit by the frigid buffering mountain winds. He faintly heard Sena yelling something like "Keep your head down!" He quickly followed this advice and motioned for Dawn to do the same. Ash could see from the corner of his eyes that they were approaching the mountain peak.
Minutes later, they landed on a flat platform. Ash, Dawn and Brock shakily lowered themselves from their pokemon. Ash and Sena returned their pokemon to their pokeballs.
Ash turned around to see imposing figures rising from the ground. He looked up and saw cylindrical shaped towers, each about 200 meters tall, with pointed tops, enclosing in a circle around him. Ash, Dawn and Brock took in a breath of awe. They were amazed by the magnificence of the pillars that seemed to hold the weight of the sky over their top.
They heard some foot steps behind them. They turned to see a woman, wearing a ViewCam, and a white all-weather suit walking to them. Her eyes narrowed into slits and her face was visibly red from suppressing her anger. When she opened her mouth to speak, she spoke with a venomous tone unmatched by anyone else the trio had heard to. Sena seemed to shrink and cower under her aura of unimaginable anger.
"Hello there, Private Sena. What have you brought here?" Sena cringed. The commander only bothered to call him Sena when something bad is about to happen. He had no choice but to answer. His hands started wringing.
"Um…" said Sena.
"Yes?" said the commander in a falsely sweet tone spiked with venom.
"Weellll, this is Ash Ketchum and his friends…"
"Civilians?" said the commander, disrupting his speech. Sena nodded.
"Do you possibly know that this," she pointed her fingers around her, "is a highly classified mission? And that no one, except the Pokemon Ranger Archeologist Division Personnel, is allowed here?" Her voice was shaking now. Dawn slid a little closer to her boyfriend, Ash.
"Y-yes, but…" stuttered Sena.
"Don't you 'but' me." Her eyeballs are opened wide, fixed on the ranger in front of them.
"But they could help with the rune translation..."
Ash, Dawn, and Brock understood his meaning. They were here because he thought that they would be able to help them translate something old. And by the looks of here, this place was ancient. Ash quickly cut in to save Sena from the commander. Her ungloved fists were pale-white.
"Commander, we may be able to help if it's about ancient runes…" said Ash.
"Now, mister Ash, or whatever your name is, I saw you before on TV. I know that you have much experience in dealing with ancient things, places, or pokemon. But that doesn't guarantee that you can do this translation. We have dozens of experts on it, and many of them are far more experienced than you."
Then came the trump. "Did any of them managed to translate the runes?"
The commander started. "N-no," she admitted.
"Well then, let us try," persuaded Ash. His warm eyes were affixed on the commander's now beetroot-coloured face.
"Um…Ok then. Follow me." She sighed in defeat. She was beat for the day. Sena couldn't believe his good luck. Ash couldn't believe the commander gave up that easily. Dawn and Brock simply couldn't believe Ash actually managed an intellectual debate. However, they all followed the commander.
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They walked their way through the hordes of archaeologists, scanning equipment, and laptop computers to the shrine in the middle of this platform. It was open-aired and ancient-looking pillars lined up to another raised stage. They walked up the stairs quietly. The archeologists stopped their work and stared at them in amazement. They were thinking the same thing. Sena and that group of people actually managed to beat Commander Weatherbick in debating. It seems that the commander was thinking along the same lines. She stopped abruptly and yelled "Get back to work, Slowpokes!" Everyone instantly scrambled to continue their work.
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They reached a semicircular stone wall. It was about ten meters in height. Ash and co. could see that this wall was jammed with ancient letters. They smirked. These were advanced Unown letters. It was mixed with characteristics from many kinds of old languages worldwide. And they knew how to read it.
Ash and Dawn walked forward to feel the stone wall. Brock stayed at where he was then. His friends were Auraers, and they have the ability to feel through time. He put out a hand to stop the commander from yelling at them. She was obviously thinking about lecturing the pair on not touching the delicate wall. Brock nodded once. The rangers got the message immediately.
The wall felt rough under their fingers. It looked ready to crumble down at any time. They closed their eyes and let their Aura powers roam through the wall. They felt themselves floating, hovering out of bodies and into the wall.
Ash and Dawn saw nothing except a sphere floating in the middle of nowhere. They felt stale, unmoving, and yet they can breathe. Ash and Dawn were confused. Just then, lines formed on the sphere before it broke apart. Something stepped out of it. It was pure white, with a ring of gold on its back. It stretched out and a bright light enveloped the pair. They quickly shut their eyes. Suddenly, they felt that they are alive yet once again. They nodded to each other and returned to their bodies. Time and Space were born.
As the pair came back, they fell back down on their backside. Brock, Sena and commander helped them up. Ash and Dawn looked dazed.
"Well, what did you see?" asked Brock.
"The birth of Time and Space," said Ash slowly.
"I think that this wall, has been through the Moment of Creation," said Dawn. The pokemon rangers looked wide-eyed.
Ash stood up. He traced a finger along a line of letters.
"The Great One…stepped…out and…used the powers of the shards to create Time and Space. Hey! It's the same pokemon we summoned up before!" exclaimed Ash.
"Hmm, you're right! It is Him!" said Dawn. Sena and the commander looked confounded. These children, barely out of their teens, solved what ten years of expert translators could not! Sena walked in front to examine the wall.
"So, this wall is like a chronology?" asked Sena, as he smoothed his fingers over the wall.
"In a sense, yes," agreed Ash.
Suddenly, a dark portal appeared. It slowly expanded, until it carpeted the floor under Ash, Dawn, Brock and Sena. They were swallowed straight into it. This was the fourth time Commander Weatherbick was stunned once again. The last thing she heard was a girly scream.
A/N: Sorry for slow update. I could only type this when my parents are asleep, at midnight, Malaysia time.