Dusknoir was humming to himself as he tossed the contents of a large pan he held over the wood fueled stove. Once the berries and vegetables were done stir-frying, he tipped them onto a plate held by a smiling Sableye waiter. The Sableye scampered off out of the kitchen and placed the dish of food in front of a Hydreigon sitting at a table in the dining room.

"Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Deee-licious!" the Hydreigon cheered, and he began ravenously chowing down on his meal.

"Ka-ching, ka-ching. . ." the Sableye said softly with a quite snicker as he admired the Hydreigon's huge appetite.

Meanwhile, Gorvyle was taking a Pecha Berry pie out of the oven. The scent of the pie made Grovyle smile as he placed it on the kitchen counter and took off his oven mitts.

"Well, once our last customer out there is done, I'd say it would be just about closing time," Grovyle said.

Dusknoir placed the pan in the sink and said, "Hmmm, yes, but we will have time for a mission, I am sure."

Grovyle sighed, "Dusnkoir, do you ever tire out?"

Before the pair could go into another one of their usual playful banters, Celebi suddenly flew in through the window and zipped around their heads, shouting loudly and rapidly, making it hard for the pair to understand her.

"STOP!" Dusknoir shouted, making Celebi halt in midair. Confident that Celebi was a bit calmer, Dusknoir said in a low, level tone, "Now, what do you have to tell us?"

Celebi took a deep breath and said, "Okay, remember when I talked to you guys about my theory on alternate worlds with alternate timelines?"

Dusknoir nodded, "Yes, you did, although I still don't think it makes much sense. Sure, every choice that anyone makes effects the future, but in the end you can only ever make one choice, so there should be only one world."

"But we are all still free to make any choice we want," Grovyle said determinedly, "We aren't forced into making once choice above all others."

Dusknoir puffed himself up a bit and said pompously, "But that doesn't mean that there has to be this infinite supply of worlds where all the choices that could be possibly made exist apart from one another! What kind of nonsense is that? Why does it even matter? It doesn't effect us at all!"

"Yes it does!" Celebi shouted out suddenly, surprising the debating Pokemon, "That's what I'm trying to tell you! I've just found out from looking through the Passage of Time that not only are there alternate worlds out there, but that two of them are somehow drifting towards our world!"

"WHAT!?" Dusknoir shouted as Grovyle stared at Celebi in shock.

Celebi nodded, "Yes! Exactly! And if those worlds drift too close to our world, they'll collide, and the events in those worlds will fuse into our world! It could be simple things, like what moves we know. But it might be big things, like who's dead, who's alive, and whether or not the planet is paralyzed or not!"

Grovyle snapped out of his shocked state and shook his head, "This is terrible. We can't let that happen after the world has just been saved. We have to do something."

Celebi flew over to Grovyle and placed her hands gently on his cheeks. "Don't worry. I think I have an good idea of what we should do."

"Then stop trying to use Attract on Grovyle and tell us already!" Dusknoir said impatiently.

Celebi and Grovyle both blushed at Dusknoir comment, and quickly separated.

"Uh-uh, okay, yes, um, right!" Celebi stammered out, "I did more looking, and I discovered that there is a third alternate world with some sort of. . . entity that is exerting some influence over one of the drifting alternate worlds. It seems to be pulling the world away from us and putting it back into place."

Grovyle nodded in understanding, "Okay then, so if this entity is fixing things, why do we need to worry?"

"Becuase the entity has not done anything about the other world that is drifting towards ours," Celebi explained urgently, "And if he, she, or it isn't quick enough, it'll be too late!"

Grovyle tapped the kitchen counter thoughtfully, "I see. This is serious."

"Wait," Dusknoir said in a skeptical tone, "What are we supposed to do about it?"

"Well," Celebi said, "I talked to Dialga, and he talked to Palkia, and they've figured out a way to modify the Passage of Time to send us into the third alternate world where the entity is. I'm sure we can convince he, she, or it to hurry up and stop the other alternate world from hitting ours."

Dusknoir immediately rushed out of the kitchen and called back behind him, "Right! Come on, you two! No time to waste! Sableyes, close up for us!"

Celebi and Grovyle stood in surprise for a moment, then realized that time indeed was of the essence and quickly followed behind Dusknoir.

"Hey!?" Hydreigon called out as the three restaurant owners zoomed past his table and towards the front door, "Wha-!?"

SLAM!

Hydreigon sat in shock as he stared the door. However, it was all forgotten by him when a Sableye brought out his Pecha Berry pie.

Smiling broadly, the hungry Dragon-type dug right in.