The journey to Southtown was fraught with dangers that no Pokemon would ever know- except for one Meowth that is- the absolute drivel that can be rambled off when exceedingly bored.

"Oh man! Look at that cow! So cool- its all black and white and reminds me of a Miltank that I once knew when my trainer once went to Johto and had some fun in Olivine City. Oh Arceus, those were the days and, oh look a bird-"

It went on,

"You know that bird looks like a Honchkrow. They totally have a evil bird monopoly on Kalos. They mugged me once and took all my hard fought money. And they are bad, and that is terrible. Hey Slash. Hey Slash, Show the humans that you can talk."

On. And On.

Finally there was no more holding it back. Athena had had enough and she was going to make him be just a bit quieter. Grasping into her hidden power reserves of Hidden Power, she launched it at the Klefki and made him shut up. With violence.

Athena then rode the contact high of violence to become Sailor-

"Athena, wake up." Gentle shaking. Heavier shaking.

"Ugh. Its too early for this. I am not a Sunflora." Athena cracked open an eye and was regaled to see her prince in shining armor and weird brown haired amnesiac guy staring at her.

Chrom and amnesiac guy. I could almost care less about that guy. Its not as if he has some evil dark side or something. Pssh.

"Archanea to Athena." Chrom really knew there had to be a reason why their new female companion had to been such a pain sometimes. But she did know a magic that seemed to be nearly limitless in potential and continued to say weird animal names and such so he forgave her weirdness every once in a while. At least she treated him like a normal person every once in a while, unlike some female suitors,

The memories of a certain few mages came to mind and he felt a few shivers come up his spine.

She did have one thing that woke her up to no avail The prince of Ylisse bent down and whispered just so gently into his aether travelling companion. "Food is ready."

The green haired foreigner just smiled and walked slowly towards the smell of roast mutton and berries. One of the things you learned while being a Shepherd was that the land gave what you needed and you gave back when necessary. So learning to 'rough it' like Lissa called it was an important idea to grasp.

Each of the other Shepherds had taken to a Pokemon. Athena could barely contain her enthusiasm when Jingle and Lissa thought they were best buddies for life and Frederick and Slash hit it off like war torn lovers.

Except that one was a Pokemon and one was a human. Maybe more like surrogate trainer and liege. Athena shook her head. It was too early to muddle terms into a big slurry of explanations. There was food to be had.

Quietly sitting on to a large log that the group had searched for while making camp, she floated over a nearby pile of food and began chowing down like she hadn't learned manners. Maybe that would hurt her later on in this "Epic Awesome Quest of Arceus Gamemaster Xtreme" that Jingle kept thinking that they were on. But even with Slash's continued prodding that this adventure was more of a wicked prank by the big guy and not a Role Playing Game or something.

Athena just sat back and listened.

"Lissa, look at my super expressive face. I love it. I can do all sorts of cool things and I can finally do magic!." There goes Jingle with one of his rambling monologues about nothing in particular.

Shifting her eyes to the west, she saw Frederick and Slash sparring. For some reason Slash allowed the knight to wield half of his ghost body and duel him for fun. It actually was entertaining to watch for a few minutes while there was not much to do.

It was almost relaxing. Peaceful, nothing to do, nowhere to be, just sit and relax and be one with nature.

But Athena knew that that was just something that she had come up with during her Kirlia phase and that the world, especially this world, didn't seem to work like that.

Chrom whistled and yelled that the break time was over.

Arceus relaxed in his mind palace and watched. Even omnipotent beings that created universes could get surprised when something wasn't going according to plan. He was no Dialga or Palkia, but he could sense a deviation from the temporal script when he saw one. Especially when said linear moment in the weave was bright ultraviolet and giving a light radiance of a few solar flares.

Or that it said, "Hey Arceus, I see you, I hate you. I kill you. Future me is going to come through this portal and wreck your planet. Have fun and this was my last warning. Now we are playing with power. Or something like that. Knowing how much of an insufferable creator deity thing you are cause you are short and whatever.

Your Destroyer of Worlds, Grima.

P.S. This is a fun game we started, isn't it? HAHAHA. I WIN. IN THE END. I WIN.

Arceus, all four feet and eleven inches of pure unadulterated godliness and beauty, whitened. This was going to be a thing to attempt to live down in the pantheon of creators.

The Battle of Southtown

Athena pirouetted off a building while a horde of archers notched their arrows and released a rain of death on the Shepherds. Psychic.

A pink death wave erupted from her mind's eye and rocketed towards the archers. Their feeble minds stared back at the death wave and tremble in its mighty glory. And then like a used candle, their lives were stamped out mercilessly.

Athena turned towards the next group of dead men walking, Calling up a Future Sight, she ran off with Slash tightly gripped in her hands. That amnesiac had tried to make the animate swords a useful member of the team during practices, but the rulebook that he was taught must have not accounted for living weapons.

Slash grumbled about how terribly unfair being a living weapon in a world full of rules about weaponry truly was. Delivering a curse to Arceus, the ghost Pokemon had to work out how he fell down to this level of violence.

Yet his companion was throwing caution to the wind and blowing everything up.

"You okay?"

"Yeah."

Parry. Night Slash.

"Cause you can talk to me about it. We have nothing better to do right now anyway."

"Its nothing. I just thought that a Doublade like me would not be stuck in such a literal role as a weapon." Slash sighed heavily.

Athena laughed. "You are telling me. It is a little strange being human. I almost envy you and Jingle. At least you don't have to deal with being such a klutz.:

:Slash cocked an excuse for a ghostly eyebrow at that. "What do you mean by that?"

"Its just that- Chrom likes a different person. She's betrothed to him and its just- hard to- hard to try and deal with how I feel about that." Athena's psychic powers wavered as the emotions came back.

It had been a day since she had found out and she still had moments where she still liked him. It was difficult to deal with since he was one of the first humans who she had woken up to in a long time. Maybe it was connected to how her trainer had told her of all those stories about knights and fairy tales about how Pokemon and humans could fall in love.

But the day where the raven from the Exalt's castle came was when she had to grow up a little. Maybe she could find love here, but it might not be with him. He had this Sumia and she had nothing.

Just a dream.

Chrom parried a large bandit's axe when he felt the wind shift and he dodged a large thunderbolt that rained down from the sky. And now it was two on one. Great. Chrom never liked getting ganged up on and he definitely thought that mages had an unfair advantage.

"Elthunder!" The ground shook as a ball of lightning shot out and engulfed the mage that was going to be a rather difficult person to get near.

"Hey Chrom!" The prince turned to see that Robin was waving at him from the next street over and jumping from roof to roof with the aid of his thunder boosted speed. Chrom just thought that he should get a drink from the Spoony Bard in Ylisstol after this completely insane mission was done with.

Even though they had made the bandits run away in fear, Chrom still felt that something really bad was going to happen.

Arceus was worried. The timeline was getting more and more muddled and even now he couldn't stop some of his own world's magic into the Ylissean continent. He just had to control how the knowledge of his world would affect the other. Either way he was going to get an earful from the other gods that ran their own worlds- Rosalina was going to not let him live this down until her cosmic mother gig was up and Nayru, Din, and Farore were a rather fanciful prankster trio when it came to their own contaminated timelines.

Though it did give him an idea- and he needed every bit of help to stop his rather mad nemesis. It wasn't his fault that Grima turned into an angry dragon- Arceus blamed those crazy cultists. You could blame anything on crazy cultists.

"Okay now how should I do this?"

Little did Arceus know that Grima had already put his plan in motion and it was based around a magic dark portal in the sky. Though Arceus was quick witted, he still had trouble outsmarting a dragon that lived in a word that was rather enamored with pure strategy.

Though the Pokemon world did have type advantage.

And so Arceus passed Judgement on his plan and called it good. Though he knew that this choice that he made might be playing into Grima's hands. Even though he was sending a power boost to the entire realm. And so he didn't choose to be picky on what he just did. For he was the Creator God of his realm and so he was rather used to not being called out for his mistakes- well except for all those times he almost let the Team Rocket syndicates destroy the world. But that was not his fault that Team Rocket got a little wonky in the last few years. Giovanni had disappeared a few years back.

"Okay here goes-" With that Arceus drew on his inner power and sent a blinding light that separated into different strands of DNA that shot off in beams of light to their current destinations. And one rather large beam was centered directly on Southtown.

"Lissa? Are big scary portals the norm for this place?"

"No, Jingle. Not usually."

"And zombies?"

Lissa just shook her head as the sky was filled with the moaning of undead evil pouring out of the sky and people screaming in terror. She had to think quickly as the battle against bandits turned into a completely different thing. And she was defenseless.

Chrom and the others were also thinking of ways to stop the horde of zombies until they could seal the gate because having a portal of evil above a town that was the base of the Shepherds in this southern part of the continent would be a bad idea in the long run.

"Ok so Robin, have you any idea how we can defeat an army of zombies?"

Robin ran a hand through his brown hair and stared up at the sky and he was about to say exactly how he could deal with a zombie infestation with magic and some bows in the armory but then he noticed someone leap out of the portal.

"Uh, Chrom. I think we have something big on our side of the portal."

Chrom just sighed and shielded his eyes from the sun as the prince looked up to see the portal shimmering with waves of fire. And something large and dragon shaped opened its mouth and screamed gouts of flame as its skeletal frame exited the last gasps of the portal and it crashed down upon the pavement.

"Get down now" He gripped on Robin and ducked behind the closest building that he could as the sky opened up and rained down burning rocks the size of houses and annihilated anything in their way.

They had something much worse than just zombies. Somehow they had something that even the bravest of warriors spoke in hushed whispers about. They had a Draco Zombie on their hands.

Everything was different now. Lucina's mind raced on how she had ended up here and not in the forest that her father had been in during the first time that she had tried this. She had scryed his location before and saw that it was somewhere that was near Ylisstol but now she was confused.

Southtown was not where she was supposed to be. She gripped her falchion and ran off before her aunt and mother could see her like this. She had to clear her head.

"I don't know what happened. I should have used the Emblem correctly to connect to my father's essence but something interfered. I just hope it wasn't Grima. She just knew to keep in the shadows and try to keep her future from happening.

Then she could see all her friends and family again. She would do anything to see their faces. She quickly hid to keep away from a person that she didn't know.

"Athena, I just felt a massive surge in ghostly energy near where the others are."

"Okay Slash, I get that you're a possesed sword or something but come on how bad can it be?"

Then the roar of a large dragon split the sky in half with its rumbling.

"Me and my stupid mouth."

With that this Athena character jumped into the sky with a glowing pink aura and raced to the scene of the crime. And Lucina had two new reasons on how her past had changed so drastically. She raced to the middle of town and followed the ditzy green haired girl that seemed to be obscenely powerful,

Madness was become the town as the entire market square was overrun by hardy zombie warriors and a dragon that was currently breathing fire every few minutes. Robin was trying to hold his own against a dragon that was the size of a house and undead.

Chrom for his own sake was Chrom. He was the fearless leader and he had thought of how odd this day had become with the normal walk over being boring but uneventful and then the zombie raid on the town throwing a branch into his plans of showing the newcomers Ylisstol in all its glory.

And maybe get some much needed rest. He did enjoy roughing it, but there was nothing greater than a comfy bed after weeks on the road.

At least his sister had gotten into the mood, swinging that key thing like an improvised weapon and smacking any zombie that got too close to her with the bottom half of her stave. Chrom took a quick note to ask Frederick or Emmeryn how Lissa gained her fighting spirit because he personally had never seen her with a weapon.

Though he shrugged and guess that maybe the need to protect herself made her good with weapons for a time.

Then everything went white as the world shifted and the quiet days of rest overtook the entire party.

Athena shuddered as she felt something that reminded her of home. "I feel a Lucario nearby."

Lucina felt something entirely different. Where once two normal ears were, a pair of short blue dog ears sat proudly on her head. Lucina did the first thing that came to her- she screamed.

Arceus just groaned at what he just caused. He looked at a flashing screen that told him how exactly he changed the timeline and he shuddered as he thought how dangerous a Draco Zombie could have been without a dragonslaying weapon or a powerful Moonblast from that Gardevoir that kept cursing his name in Ylisse.

Shaking his omnipotent head he surveyed the damage and realized that he did cause something majorly different from the doomed timeline. Though he couldn't get heads or tails what 'Soul Fusion' he noticed that some new threads of fate were tying together the regions of the Pokemon world and the world of Akaneia

Omake

"Hey Jingle."

"Yes Slashy my oh so noble sword friend?"

"Does it feel like we've been going to Southtown for a really long time?"

"Maybe."

Omake 2

"I am Sailor Psychic. All your food is belong to me!"

:"Chrom, are you sure this girl didn't come from a mental hospital?"

"I don't know Frederick, I don;t know,"