"But a spirit portal works differently, we are almost literally in the past." "Shall we continue?" "Yeah we can continue… normally when I say we are literally in the past… the first reaction I get is, 'you mean we traveled through time?!'" "Hey I'm more excited and curious than anything else." "Yep, so fast forward." Everything seemed to zip by faster and faster. "Whoa… what the?" And it stopped at a familiar scene…
"Shhh… it's okay little one… ouch my leg… I think I broke it…" "Mom… I remember this." And as expected when Astral looked over he saw the huge fireball… "Mom, watch out!" "Astral stop, it's not real!" Aaron said blocking him. "Calm down, it's okay." Astral said to himself as he watched what happened next. Just then a black blur zipped past and quickly used a protect to stop the fireball. "Aaron… you…" "No time to talk now… can you walk?"
"No, I think I broke my leg." Aaron checked it over. "It's not broken, just twisted." He set it back in place. "Better?" Stellaluna tested it out. "Yes, thank you." "Go now… take o… your son and go." "Dad why?" "And that's enough of that… fast forward a bit… here your mother leaves with you." Just then the scenery got frozen. "And what we just hit was a barrier." "So, what now?" "That's it, it's a barrier, and you must connect with it and find the reason why it's there."
"How do I do that?" "Send your aura spirit in it, you should hear or see something." Astral starts to focus hard then he hears a small voice cry out, "Dad, why… why did you say that… don't you love me?!" "What?" Astral focus harder, he hears his father's voice again. "Take o… your son and go." Astral tries to focus harder but loses focus. "What did you find out?" "I heard me ask you why you said something and why you didn't love me."
"Oh that… I didn't say our… I said your." "I remember that." "The reason why… I was only trying to protect you." "It's okay… I understand." "No you don't… the barrier is still there… your subconscious wants to know the reason what I was protecting you from." "What do you mean?" "I'll show you." Time unfroze on this side of the barrier. Past Aaron looks over towards some trees and glares madly.
Yelling, "Come out, I know your there!" A tyranitar and an aggron appeared. "So you figured it out…" "It wasn't hard; you let down your guard… that's not like you to let down your guard Boulder and Pebble." "You seemed to have a thing for that absol… any reason why?" "I don't have time for this! Fight me another time… right now I've got a volcano to seal!" "Not so fast! Nice try but you're not going anywhere!" Past Aaron made a huge aura sphere and blasted them.
"Move!" Aaron shouted as he ran towards the top of the volcano. "What a coward… I saw that absol go that way… you think she's important to him?" "Maybe, if we capture her and use her as bait, we can finally finish Aaron!" "Not another step you two." "Who are you?" "I'm Ruby… and you're going to be my test subjects for my psychic powers." "Hey, put us down!" "Geez you two are heavy… love to keep you here, but I have to say goodbye."
She then tossed them far away… panting, "I'm so tired after that." Tears flowing down Astral's face he turn to Aaron and said, "I'm sorry, for calling you a monster, and I'm sorry for everything." "It's okay, you didn't know… those two, I beat them once and they never forgave me for it." "Where are they now?" "Who knows… never saw them after that. I think they were the ones who activated the volcano in the first place."
"Weird." Thinking, I hope they don't come back. "Yes weird. They tricked me into coming out." "Who did?" "Those two… do you really think a random fireball would fall in the exact place where your mother was, and with them standing not too far from there?" "That would be quite a coincidence." "They planned it from the beginning, the volcano eruption, the fireball, everything." "But, why?" "To get to me of course… thought that would have been simple enough."
"What was it all about?" "Revenge, I bet them, and so they attacked someone hoping I would rescue them. Your mother was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The barrier is gone… let's continue." "Okay on we go." Time unfroze where the barrier was as they watched Stellaluna, still carrying baby Astral, run away she ran till they were in a familiar field… "I know here…" She put Astral down as she rested her leg.
"Sore Stellaluna? Maybe you shouldn't run so fast with a hurt leg." They looked over to see a weavile and a sneasel. "Who?" "Oh come, come… surely you remember us, Neiva and Neva?" "Who are they dad?" "Neiva, the weavile, and Neva, the sneasel. The three of them used to be good friends when Neiva was just a sneasel." "Are they going to harm mom?" "Most likely, this is where I found her… I can't bear to watch this, but I must."
Astral stars forwards clenching his teeth with tears pouring down his face. "Neiva, please… I'm in no condition to fight you…" "Then this should be a quick battle." "Please… I have a kid." "You should have thought of that before you betrayed me!" "I didn't betray you." "You left my youngest sister to drown… I'm simply paying the favor." Astral was resisting the urge to run to them and attack at the same time he stopped crying.
A magic barrier stops him from moving forward. "I told you… you can't get close to them." "It's kind of hard, sorry." "Neiva listen to me… I told Eira that the ice was melting… she didn't want to listen to me… she said that her ice powers would keep her safe… before she plunged into the water. I tried to save her… but she wouldn't let me… she kept saying she wanted to prove she could do it herself. She died of her own stubbornness."
"And nothing I said changed her mind… not even at the brink of death." "ALL LIES! You are a murder and I will kill you!" Astral starts shaking badly. Stellaluna put up an aura barrier then shouted, "Kimberly, I need you!" A medicham appeared. "Kimberly, take Astral, and get out of here..." "Of course." As Kimberly left with Astral, the aura barrier broke, and Neiva and Neva rushed forwards using fury swipes.
As Neiva and Neva got closer to Stellaluna, Astral couldn't take it anymore; he started beating on the aura barrier blocking him, "LET ME GO! GRRR!" Finally the barrier broke and he rushed forwards, "MOM, I'M COMING!" He was getting closer when Aaron tackled him down, and held him there. "Get off me, please!" Astral said breaking down crying. "I can't. You must not interfere with the past! If you do it could change the future!"
Everything around them seemed to be frozen in place, Neiva and Neva frozen above Stellaluna, as Stellaluna seemed to be screaming. "Calm down. I can't hold you and the time lock!" Astral tries to calm down and slowly stops struggling. "I will tell you again… very slowly… we had used a spirit portal… pokémon who use it sometimes can change things in the past by interfering." "Okay I got it." He finally calmed down.
"Astral, pokémon who use the spirit portal can interfere by touching any pokémon from the past… they will go from a ghost to being seen." "I will remember that… can you get off me now." "Sorry… there is one more thing you should know… once you're in the past you can't go back to the spirit portal, unless you can make a new one." "Okay, thank you for the info." "It is hard for me too you know, watching this… feeling the need to protect my mate."