Chapter 3: Across Time and Space

Hey-O~! mockstevenh here with yet another chapter. This is a special chapter that I made extra long for you guys/girls. I know I'm going really slow, but I'll try to go faster as my typing skills get better. Also I'm doing this for your entertainment so if you see something you don't like feel free to tell me in the reviews. But don't worry I enjoy writing this for you guys!

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Chapter 3: Across Time and Space

I walked around aimlessly through the flower covered plain looking for something. I don't know what I was looking for, but I knew that I had to find it. The sky was a devilish purple that seemed to laugh at me as I wandered. The plain of flowers stretched as far as the eye could see. The multicolored flowers were nothing but blurs as I wandered through this landscape.

As I looked across the multicolored landscape I spotted a breathing light-blue form that appeared to be sleeping. I ran over to it as I called out to it. I knew not why, but it felt so familiar to me. When I got closer to it I noticed it was not sleeping but crying. I wanted to help it, comfort it and tell it that it was alright. But something pushed me away from it as I tried to touch it. So instead I called to it.

"Why, why are you crying?" I asked in a warm and comforting voice.

"I'm crying because I miss my best friend." He said with his back turned as he continued to cry.

"What happened to him?"

"He was taken away from me. He told me that we'd see each other again and to stay strong. But I just miss h-him so m-much. Whaaaaaa!" The mention of his long lost friend seemed to make him cry harder.

I don't know what came over me then but, "Is your name L-lightning?" This stopped his crying if only temporally as he turned his body to look at me.

I finally got a look at him as he turned around on his four legs. He had a black mane on his head that seemed to make an upside down Y. His Light-blue furred face shone through his furry black mane. His mint green eyes that stood out from the rest of his species electric yellow eyes, were red and puffy from crying. His red nose on the tip of his snout had black fur running down to meet it from his mane. His ears were rounded and stuck out of his mane being rebellious to the black fur as it stayed light-blue. His two fore legs had two golden rings that went around them and their light-blue fur. He had a strip of black fur that ran down the front of his fore legs, but ended before they reached the first golden ring. His upper torso was covered in light-blue fur. The back half of his body was covered in black fur that stuck out all over the place at his hindquarters leaving only his hind paws light-blue. His tail was covered in black fur up until the tip which ended at a golden four-pointed star. He was a Luxio. [Holy mother of flying cows... That was a long description...]

"Yes, T-that's my name but who are you?" He asked seeming to fear the answer.

I couldn't begin to express my excitement at this very moment. 'It's him! It's him! It's Lightning!' My mind screamed. "It's me! It's Steven!" I shouted not able to contain my excitement.

At this his face lit up and he tried to tackle me but got pushed back by some unseen force just like me. So instead of trying to touch me he shouted. "Steven! It's You Steven!"

"Yes it's me! I've missed you so much! I've tried so hard to get to you, but something keeps me from getting to you and I don't know what!" I shouted close to tears.

"I know it's the same for me! Also is this what you look like as a human!?" He shouted back tears brimming his eyes.

"Yes! It is and I see you evolved into a Luxio!" Tears of utter joy now falling freely down my face.

"Yeah! I evolved after I took on a job a month ago. I've been trying so hard for you. It was beginning to become to much too much for me with you gone. It's been a whole year. But now that I can see you again, I feel as if the time apart never happened." He said as tears ran down his face as well.

"I know, I feel the same. But only I was sent back in time to the point were I entered the Pokémon World, so I had to wait 2 long years. But It seems like we only get to see each other and talk..." I drifted off as I thought about what had transpired today with the Mightyena. "Did a Mightyena come talk to you about me?"

"Yes, he said he was sucked into a world where Pokémon did not exist. He also said that he met you and you saved him from starvation. Also that you used telepathy to communicate with him. He finished with saying that you opened up a portal that you could not go through so you sent him in your stead to tell me that you were okay. He was malnourished so he's sleeping at the guild as he recovers... So, you can use telepathy now?"

"Yup!" I replied cheerfully now that the tears had dried up. "It's probably because my body reached the age where if I was sill a Riolu I'd have evolved with the Telepathy ability."

"It's a shame we didn't get to see each other evolve..." He said with a slightly downcast look, his tears had dried up as well.

"Yea..." I said when I remembered walking and finding him. "First before I continue do you remember waking up? Because I think we're in a dream that connected our minds."

"No, I don't remember waking up so you must be right."

"OK. Did you do anything for New Years?" I asked with a nervous voice. 'Why am so nervous?'

"No, not really. I just went to bed. Why?" He answered with a suspicious look.

"No reason, I was just curious." I said quickly. 'What the heck is wrong with me?' "I did the same thing as you, just so you know." My face started to heat up. 'Crap! Am I Blushing?'

Lightning giggled as he looked at my blushing face. "You're cute when you blush, you know that?"

'For all that is holy, stop blushing!' My face was beet red right now with Lightning pointing it out. "Aww.. I give up. I don't even know why I'm bushing.."

"That's okay! But I still think it's cute." He said still giggling.

"Lightning!"

"OK, sorry..."

"It's alright." I said my blush fading as was the dream. "I'm just glad we got to see each other before we are separated again..."

"S-separated! But I don't want to lose you again!" He yelled remembering that we were in a dream.

"Lightning just remember that we'll see each other again. Just push on until then and I will too. After all, our friendship expands across time and space after all." I said with a reassuring smile as a single tear escaped my eye. "When I get back to you, let's go meet your family."

"Yeah! Until then!" He replied with a smile as well as his tears streamed freely down his face.

The dream then dissolved with Lightning disappearing leaving me in darkness as I waited too wake up.

~Dream End~

When I awoke my pillow was soaked with my tears from my wet face. I decided to get up and take a shower before everyone else woke up. Hopefully no one saw that my pillow was wet. I turned on the shower to lukewarm so it wouldn't burn me as I got in. I stripped down and got in as I let the water cascade over me. I slowly turned the water to hot as I stood there enjoying the warmth. I focused on all the events that had taken place in the last 48 hours. Angel passed away and I buried her, a starved Mightyena had appeared as I went to go visit Angel's grave, I learned to use telepathy and opened a portal to the Pokémon world, And I got to see and talk to Lightning in a dream. Wow... A lot happened in the last 48 hours.

I turned off the shower and dried myself off with a towel. Wrapping myself with it and picking up my clothes I walked back in to my room for a change of clothes. Throwing my clothes in the laundry basket I got dressed in my usual attire (See Chapter 1: Home?) and headed over to the kitchen to make my standard egg sandwich.

"You done crying baby?" Came a snide voice from behind me. 'Ugh, not now.'

I turned to face Matt as he leaned against the kitchen doorway frame with a big cruel smile plastered across his face. "I don't now what you mean." I replied with an innocent look.

"You can't pull that. You were gone all day yesterday and I could hear crying in your room last night." He said with his smile still there.

"What does it matter to you?" I replied with an annoyed look.

"Oh nothing, just that *beep* of yours is gone and I was going to throw a party to celebrate." He said his smile getting wider.

"...Take that back that back..." I mumbled as anger flared inside me. 'He did not just go there.'

"What did you call her? Angel wasn't it? I think 'worlds biggest *beep*' would have been better." He continued, taking pleasure in my pain.

"Take that back, if you know what's good for you.." I said my voice dangerously quiet.

"It's such a shame she DIED from such an unfortunate heart attack. I mean all I did was put something special in her food." He said with a fake frown on his face.

"You did what..." I said voice barely a whisper. My anger had reached it's boiling point. "You are better have not been the reason she's dead..." My hands were balled up into fists by my sides and were shaking madly. I was looking down with my hair covering my eyes.

"You know I wonder where her body is? It would be great for some food, I mean fried *beep*does sound good right now." He finished with his sadistic smile reaching the sides of his face.

"YOU ARE GOING TO PAY *BEEP*!" I screamed as I rushed him.

He smirked as he pulled out a small box, a taser. Being to fast for him I punched him straight, braking his nose upon contact as he flew in to the hallway. Blood was splattered against my fist and the floor from his face. I screamed at the top of my lungs as I ran up to him and stomped on his hand with the taser, the sickening sound of bones breaking could be heard as several of the bones in his hand broke or shattered. I pried the taser out of his now broken hand as he screamed out in pain.

His twin sister ran into the hall in front of me, but stopped as her eyes widened in horror as she saw Matt. I turned on the taser and shocked Matt into a painful unconsciousness before I turned to Brianna. She said nothing as she looked at me fear evident on her face.

"If you know what's good for you and him, you'll take him to see a doctor and never try to torture me to satisfy your sadistic self again, got it?" I said in a threatening voice as my anger subsided.

She nodded and dragged her brother to the front door, calling 911 as she pulled out her phone.

I sighed as I went to my parents room. I slowly opened the door just in case. 'Seriously? How did they manage to sleep through that?' I thought as I saw both my dad and step-mother soundly asleep on their bed. My father had long messy hair like mine but was jet black instead. He also had brown eyes that did not match mine in anyway so I supposed that I got it from my mother. Their weren't any picture of her so I never actually knew what she looked like.

I quietly closed the door and walked back to where I beat up Matt. 'Wow.' I thought as I looked at all the blood that was on the floor. There were spots of blood littering the floor and a small pool of it at the spot where he was not to long ago. I had a painful flashback of Darkrai when I looked at the small pool of blood. I must have hit him a lot harder then I thought. I went into the kitchen and pulled out some paper towels and bleach before I came back to clean up the mess I had made.

By the time I was finished the room smelt strongly of bleach. It burned my nose and made my eyes water so I left the room quickly. It was then that I remembered my hand must still have blood on it from punching Matt so hard. I looked at it and sure enough it was covered in dried blood. I grimaced and went to the bathroom to clean it up. When I finished the phone rang so I picked it up and answered in my butler-like voice.

"Hello this is the Hills residence how may I help you?" I said as I picked it up.

"Don't give me that Steven. I just want you to know that my brother has broken all the bones in his hand and he's going to have to wear a cast for a month before he can take it off thanks to you. I hope your happy." Came Brianna's voice.

"I'm not going to say I'm happy, because I'm not. I'm far from it in fact. But I will say he got what he deserved. You guys have been torturing me my whole life, so this is just a little payback for how much you guys did to me. And I swear that if you guys do something like this again, you'll both be in a lot more worse condition then he is now." I replied with venom in my voice.

"You're not the same boy we used to bully back then. What happened to you?" She said her voice cracking.

"I grew up." I replied before hanging up.

~Time Skip~

The incident with Matt never reached my parents ears. They just made up a lie and told them that he had fallen down the stairs at his friends house. They believed it and told him they'd get him anything they wanted too ease the pain.

One month after that he had healed all is physical injuries and was back in top condition, but his mental injuries never healed. Being true to her word, she and her brother never bullied me again and left me be. The most they would do to me now, was shoot me either terrified or angry glances before stalking off together. They never separated again and stayed together so they could watch each others backs just in case.

When my birthday came up nothing happened. It was just a normal day like any other. So I became age 15 quietly and unnoticed. During the time that I had alone I went and visited Angel's grave and thought about my involvement with the Pokémon world. The days moved on like this as time went on with nothing in particular happening until one day.

~Time Skip~ 1 year

"Alright everyone we're going to Yellowstone National Park for a vacation tomorrow, so be ready to go by then, okay?" Announced my Father. "That mean's you too Steven."

My jaw hit the floor. They never took me with them on vacations. They always left me at the house to take care of things as the had the time of there lives.

"Y-you're not k-kidding, r-right?" I stuttered not believing what I had just heard.

"Of course I'm not kidding." He said with a laugh. "You are family after all."

My father had a the figure of a man who worked a lot. He was wearing a red and orange plaid button up shirt with a red tie. His shirt was tucked into some tan pants that stayed on his waist due to the black belt he wore. He finished the look with some black work shoes and socks. He was usually a crabby person that always yelled at me when I did something wrong so it caught me off guard when he laughed so... so happily.

When what he had said finally sunk in I nearly shouted for joy. 'Maybe he's finally counting me as his son!' I thought joyously. I then ran to get ready for tomorrow missing my family's' sinister smiles.

I had just become 16 two months ago so I would be able to drive now. But I didn't care, I was going on my first vacation with my family. I stuffed a bunch of clothes in a plain black bag and set it on my bed. I then ran out to the back yard and proceeded to walk to Angels grave.

When I arrived I sat down on the grass in front of it. The hill was covered in flowers since it was early spring and her grave was perfectly tranquil and undisturbed. It calmed me as I sat in front of it.

"Hey Angel. I just wanted to say goodbye to you before I leave. Where am I going? I'm going to Yellowstone National Park! It's one of the many parks in California that his undisturbed by humans. I even heard that there are geysers there! The family is letting me go with them and I think Dad is finally seeing me as his son! Anyways I wanted to tell you this because I won't be seeing you for a while. But just know that I still think you are the best mother I've ever known. By the way how are you and mother and doing?" I said as I watched her grave.

I kept talking like this for some time as I talked to the air as if she were there. Finally I got up and bid her farewell seeing that it was quickly approaching nighttime. I left her grave not knowing that the would be the last time I'd ever see it. I walked away as her grave faded away behind the bushes and trees.

~Time Skip~ Afternoon of the next day

We arrived at Yellowstone National Park at around noon and decided to go see the cliffs first. I was like a little kid again as I awed at all the new things I was seeing. My brother and sister did the same thing, but still did not talk to me. This made me a little sad but I pushed it off as nothing as we steadily hiked to the to top of the cliff. My step-mother had the hardest time because she was so out of shape but it was still fun never the less.

"My gosh Steven your like a little ball of explosives bouncing around like that." My Dad said exasperated. "What are you? A little kid?"

I giggled in response and continued bouncing around. I then thought about how I was acting and giggled again as it reminded me of guild master Wigglytuff.

Finally we reached top with everyone gasping for breath except me. I ran over to the edge of the cliff and took in the view. I smiled as I looked behind me at my family but frowned when I saw them all smiling at me weird. Their frowns grew into large sinister smiles as my father pulled out a gun and pointed it at me.

BANG!

My chest exploded in pain as my family laughed maniacally at my pain. But it wasn't the pain that got to me, it was the fact that my own father had shot me.

"Did you really think that I cared about you?" My father said darkly. "I could never care for an accident."

With that I fell over the edge of the cliff. The wind rushed passed my ears as I fell. I thought I was losing consciousness when my vision of the cliff started to rapidly disappear through a small black circle until it disappeared. But I was still conscious as I fell through darkness.

"Did you really think you could escape me Steven?" Said the voice from my dream so many years ago. "You are not done suffering. You will now suffer even more then you ever have."

I could do nothing as I fell through space, listening to that voice. I felt it's presence leave as fell, leaving me in darkness. Then an unimaginable pain ripped through my body. Every part of my body hurt with the pain, and all I could do was endure the pain.

The pain was still there after what seemed like forever. I just kept falling. Then it all came to an end as I finally lost consciousness...

Finally I finished this chapter! Ugh, my back hurts. I really need to stop hunching over. Well I hopped you guys liked the chapter! Don't forget to leave a review! Now without further ado. Nyah!