Story: Just Take It

Canonicity: You decide!

Major spoilers: Just Take It

Author's Notes

Yeah I've been wanting to write this one for a while! Glad I've finally gotten around to it. This one'll be more of a series

Button's Bonkers Bumout 1

Button slowly rose to her paws, shaking off her spell of dizziness. She looked up at the night sky above with a quiet huff.

"Ah, man! My head feels weird!" She then releveled her vision to let her eyes fall upon Fawn.

The umbreon was breathing heavily, staring right in her direction.

Button hummed softly, tilting her head.

"Huh? What's got you all riled up?" Button probed. Fawn didn't respond, instead continuing to quiver in place. She waved a paw in front of his face. "Uh, hello? You in there, doofus?"

"Sorry, man, I don't think he's gonna respond to you," another voice interjected.

"Huh?" The sylveon turned to see some sort of strange, giant red crow. She furrowed her brows in confusion. "What do you mean? And who the hell are you?"

The other pokémon nodded respectfully.

"Look down, and you'll understand."

"Hm?" The sylveon turned her gaze downward. She was briefly surprised to find her own self laying there, beaten and unmoving. She groaned. "Awww, am I dead? That's like, so LAME!" Button whined, falling onto her rump. She glared at the umbreon who was crying over her corpse. "You know, we could've talked this out, Fawn! Sheesh! And I thought I was too emotional!"

The other pokémon present made their way over, resting a wing on the sylveon's back.

"Yeah, always sucks to find out. I'm Yveltal, by the way."

Button scoffed, pulling away.

"Ew! Don't touch me, creep! Ugh..."

"You're kind of a bitch," Yveltal acknowledged. He flicked a talon against his wing, igniting a flame on it which they used to light a blunt. He took a long, slow puff.

"Uh..." Button cringed, her muzzle wrinkling. "Can you not? I don't wanna be inhaling that shit."

"You're literally dead, you'll be fine," Yveltal waved it. off.

"So, what? Do I go to heaven, now? Or, do I just wander the earth for eternity?"

"Yeah, nah," Yveltal dismissed. "Everyone who dies moves on to exist in this separate plane of reality. If you really want, you can come back as a ghost-type, but that requires a stronger will than I think you have. You could also get reincarnated, but you'll lose all of your memories until you die again."

"Damn." The sylveon looked down at her body, then over to Fawn, who was running away quickly by this point. "Uh, well, this is kinda awkward... But I guess I kinda deserved it," the sylveon huffed, pouting. "It's not fair! I can't even be mad at him for literally ending my life! There's no justice in this."

"You can haunt him, if you want, or something," Yveltal suggested, shrugging. "For the rest of your afterlife."

Button raised an eyebrow.

"And how long would that be?"

Yveltal shrugged again.

"Until you die. Again."

"...Right." Button rolled her eyes. "How could I have ever guessed? What even happens when you die again?"

"That's a surprise!" Yveltal smirked. "I'll be there to tell you all about it when you make some ghost mad enough to beat you to death."

"Hey!" Button snarled, angrily stomping her paw. "It was only one time!"

"That's all it takes," Yveltal shrugged.

Sighing, the phantom sylveon shook her head.

"So, do you, like, come visit everyone who dies? How does that even work? Aren't there, like, thousands of deaths per hour?"

"Oh, yeah," Yveltal nodded, folding his wings behind his head. "Being an eternal death god gives me wicked multitasking skills. I actually just spoke that same sentence to twenty-nine other new deaths who asked about it at the same time as you."

"Yeesh, sounds like a lot of stress," Button cringed, shivering at the thought. "I can barely talk while I work."

"Oh, you think I have it bad? Ever since the birth rate has overtaken the death rate, Xerneas hasn't had any time to herself! Hah! I even volunteered my time to help, but I accidentally killed a couple dozen babies and she decided that probably wasn't a wise idea anymore."

"You... What?!" Button shrieked, stepping back. Her pale white face seemed to go pale, as if she'd seen a ghost. Or was one.

"Hey, hey, don't freak out!" Yveltal raised his wings defensively, shaking his head. "She brought them back like a minute later! A couple of them were a little messed up after that but they lived perfectly happy lives. And died perfectly happy deaths."

"It's true!" Exclaimed a zorua, startling Button. The little black fox walked up to sit at the edge of the cliff, staring over. "I was one of them!"

"Huh...?!" Button raised an eyebrow. "Who are you?! And when'd you even die?"

The zorua smirked as he continued to overlook the waterfall below.

"The name's Von Neiso. I died... Uh... Whew, I do believe that my one-hundred-eighteenth death day is coming up, soon, to be quite frank!" He smiled chipperly. "You are without a doubt invited to the celebration, Yvels, old chap."

"Aw, dude! That's sick!" Yveltal pumped his wing excitedly. "I'll totally be there!"

"Sweet! Well, I'll see ya' then!" The zorua waved his paw dismissively.

"Oh, right," Yveltal turned to Button. "We should probably leave him alone. He likes to reminisce here, about the good times he had with his wife. They shared their first kiss here and stuff."

"...Huh." Button blinked. "Shouldn't she be here, too?"

"Oh, of course not, young lass!" Von Neiso explained. "I fell in love with a ninetales! They tend to live a long time."

"I thought the whole 'ninetales live one-thousand years' thing was an old wive's tale," Button mused.

"It is, yet it is not!" the zorua answered. "There is a small grain of truth to every myth, you will find!"

Button sat in contemplative silence. She was sat upon a yellow couch, next to Fawn and Cherry who were idly watching television. While the umbreon wasn't looked, Button had begun delicately stroking the top of the eevee's head, eliciting a happy coo.

Fawn looked over upon hearing the noise. Button quickly retracted her paw, but Fawn saw the little eevee's fur briefly displaced.

"Hm...? Is there a draft in here?" The umbreon moved over to cuddle against his child and hopefully keep her warm. He raised a paw to feel around for any air currents, but there appeared to be none. "I think Milk's after-work nap will be done, soon. Maybe she'll wanna come over," Fawn mused.

Button's muzzle wrinkled in distaste at the mention of that glaceon.

"Man-stealing bitch," she seethed, crossing her forelegs with a huff. "If only I could get back at her somehow..."

"You could haunt her!"

"Gah!" Button shrieked, leaping up in fright.

Fawn looked around in confusion as the couch cushion next to him seemed to suddenly decompress.

Yveltal appeared before the ghost sylveon with a smile.

"What do you say? I could show you some wicked revenge tactics."

The sylveon looked at him as if he were insane.

"Are you just, like, always spying on me?"

"I keep tabs on everyone! Just to help them if needed." He nodded sagely. "Xerneas tries to do the same, but alive pokémon tend to need a lot more maintenance, so she can't get to all of them."

"Well, whatever," Button sighed, shaking her head. "I'm down, I suppose. I'd love to freak out that dumb little hussy."

"Atta girl!" Yveltal praised. "I'll have you as a haunting expert in no time!"

Button smirked, then nodded.

"Haha, yeah! I'll make that bitch pay!" She then turned to call into the kitchen. "Hey, Pearl! Wanna come learn haunting with us?"

The ghostly visage of a glameow peaked her head out. She raised one brow.

"I'd sooner die again than partake in your juvenile activities."

"Come on, you're literally dead," Button huffed. "You have nothing to be pretentious about."

"Fine, fine," Pearl sighed, shaking her head. "Whatever, I guess."

"Great!" Yveltal cheered. "Meet me next door!" He slowly slid toward one wall, then phased right through.

To be continued...