Rigel found himself on the stone again, looking down on the world. "Well, if it isn't this dream." he said to himself. "How many times am I gonna do this?" Once again the dream had changed, the sun above him, which was warm and pleasant in his past dreams, was now giving off oppressive heat and blinding light making him unable to see past the large meadow at the stone's base. Ignoring this, Rigel walked down the stone, again going out into the meadow and seeing something that he did not see in the first two dreams, a burrow out in the middle of it, seemingly miles away.

After what felt like hours of walking, he drew near the burrow, and stopped as the most beautiful thing he had ever seen emerged from it, a ceature with light blue fur, and what looked like multicolored gemstones covering it's shoulders, flanks, and forehead. But what really caught Rigel's attention were it's eyes, iridescent and sparkling in the light. "Um, uh, I..." Rigel tried to speak to the creature, but was captivated by it, and could only stand and stutter. The creature did not try to talk to Rigel, it only sat and smiled at him. Then, to Rigel's surprise, three Eevees ran towards him from the burrow and laughed as they ran in circles around him. "What the heck is going on here?" he thought to himself. Suddenly the blazing sun, the Eevees, and the creature all disappeared as Rigel's mind began to fog again, and he woke up from his dream feeling a strange , almost unbearable sense of loss.

"Rigel, what's wrong?"

Rigel opened his eyes, his vision blurry with tears, and saw his mother standing above him. "N-nothing mom, I'm fine." he said after a few seconds, wiping his eyes.

"Are you sure honey?" his mother asked with worry in her voice. "You were saying things in your sleep, something about taking something away."

Rigel struggled to remember his dream, but the memories slipped from his mind before he could grasp them. "It's nothing mom. Just nothing."

"Well alright, if you say so." said his mother as she walked back to her bed. "I'm going back to sleep then. Are you really sure you're alright?

"Yeah, I'm sure." After his mother had lain back down, Rigel stood up and walked out of the burrow into the cool night air to think. He sat gazing into the sky for hours, trying to remember what he had seen in the dream, but the only thing he could recall was the face of the creature he saw. Soon the sun began to rise on the forest, causing the stars to disappear and flooding the area around his home with soft light.

"Rigel, what are you doing?" said a voice behind him.

He turned around to see his sister walking out of the burrow, still looking sleepy. "Nothing Meissa, I was just thinking."

"What were you thinking about?" Meissa asked. "How long have you been up?"

"I got up a few hours ago, and I've been having weird dreams lately." said Rigel. "I can't remember everything that happens, but what I do remember just makes me feel strange."

"Well, they are only dreams." said Meissa "You shouldn't think about them too much."

"Maybe you're right." Rigel said. "But what I remember is just so real. I guess I need something to take my mind off of them. I wonder if Tarazed is awake."

"You should go see. I'll go with you if you want."

"Why would you want to go with me?" Rigel asked. "Shouldn't you be going to see your friends?"

"I can see them later." Meissa said. "Besides, you and your friends do a lot more cool stuff than Yippy and Emily, and I want to see what you guys are going to do today."

"Well alright, you can come along." Said Rigel as he began to walk toward Tarazed's tree. "But we'll be looking for rocks."

"Rocks?" asked Meissa as she walked behind Rigel. "Why would you be looking for rocks?"

"Well, they are special rocks," Rigel replied. "And Aludra needs one to evolve."

The two walked up to Tarazed's tree, and before Rigel could call his name, Tarazed came out onto his branch. "Hey Rigel, are we going to help Aludra with that thing?"

"Yeah, and Meissa is coming with us to help." said Rigel.

"Why?"

"No real reason, she just wants to come with us."

"Well, ok then. We should get going, you know how impatient Aludra gets."

Rigel, Meissa, and Tarazed traveled through the forest towards Aludra's home, listening to the sounds of the forest, and seeing other pokemon going about their lives.

Soon they walked into the rocky clearing, where Aludra stood waiting for them. "It took you guys long enough to get here." she said, sounding annoyed. "I know a good spot to look for Aura Stones, so let's go."

"It's nice to see you too Aludra." said Tarazed. "You said they were near the mountains, is it that same place we ran into Chase and Thuban?"

"It's near there." said Aludra. "But if we meet them, I'm sure Thuban wouldn't try anything after the beating we gave him last time."

"Who are Chase and Thuban?" asked Meissa. "I've never heard of them."

"They are two pokemon we met last week." said Rigel. "Thuban was a Larvitar that tried to eat Tarazed and Chase is his brother, a Riolu that Aludra has a crush on."

"I do not have a crush on him!" yelled Aludra. "How many times do I have to tell you that?"

"Brother?" Meissa said, confused. "How could a Riolu and Larvitar be brothers?"

"I don't know." said Rigel. "He never really explained it. Anyway, let's go find one of those rocks."

After several minutes of walking, the friends came out of the trees, into the foothills of the great mountain that rose above their forest home. The hills stretched far to the east and west, covered in yellow-green grass and large rocks, with cave entrances visible here and there.

"Alright everybody," said Aludra. "Let's get looking. Tarazed, come with me. Rigel, you and Meissa go look over there."

"Whatever you say Aludra." said Rigel. "Come on Meissa."

The two pairs then began walking in opposite directions, scouring the ground for any of the deep blue stones. About an hour passed without anything being found, until Meissa saw a large pile of rocks and dirt with something sticking out of it that caught her eye. Climbing the dirt pile, she found what looked like a small yellow ball, which she tried to move with her paw, but it did not budge, as if it was stuck to something.

"What in the world?" she said to herself as she moved things from around the ball, revealing what seemed to be an antenna sticking up from a silver surface. "I don't think this is one of those rocks, but what is it?" She then began to dig more around the object, and jumped back when she uncovered what looked like a red eye. After seeing that whatever the eye belonged to wasn't moving, she reached out and touched the eye's center, which pushed in like a button. Meissa jumped back even further than last time as the eye began to glow and the object rose from the dirt. The object was silver in color, with three rotating u-shaped peices of metal attached to it and three eyes, the red one that Meissa had touched, and two smaller ones on it's sides.

It hovered in the air staring at Meissa for several seconds before speaking in a loud, monotone voice. "Startup sequence complete. Please enter name of operator."

"What?" Meissa said. "Name of the operator? What's an operator?"

"Affirmative." said the object. "This unit requires the name of the operator."

"Uh, my name is Meissa, but you still haven't told me what an operator is."

"Operator name entered as Miessa. The operator is the individual who dictates this unit's actions. Query, what is required of me?"

"So does that mean I'm your boss or something? Well, nothing is required of you. But could you tell me who you are?"

"Processing request...accepted. This unit's designation is Magna-Z1 unit number 2639, codename: Gauss."

"Well, hello Gauss, it's nice to meet you." Meissa said with a smile. "Wow I can't wait to show you to Rigel."

"Query, who is Rigel?" Gauss asked. "Name could not be found in memory."

"You'll find out soon enough, come with me."

"Command accepted."