• Published 9th May 2015
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A New Dimension, A New Threat - ZeroChill



After Arceus's exodus, a pair of scientist twins and their allies find themselves stranded in an alien dimension as Pokemon. Uniting with the residents of a futuristic Equestria, they shall tackle a new threat.

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Shattered Remnants pt. 3

Rarity, Keldeo, Fei, Inge, and Iosac scoured the streets with their fleet-footed pacing. The members of the group each formed quick glances towards each other and looked down towards the street.

“We’re probably going to have to split into groups if we want to cover more of the problematic areas at a quicker pace.” Fei suggested in mid-gait.

“Good idea! I’ll zoom ahead and take the north district.” Kicking up dust with a sudden burst of acceleration, Inge shouted.

“Well, so much for uniting with Inge.” With a roll of his eyes, Keldeo commented. “Rarity and I will take the east district. Does that mean you and Iosac will-“

He looked to his right and noticed the absence of Fei and Iosac. An annoyed sigh passed by his mouth.

“Well, we really didn’t need to say anything.” Rarity remarked with a crafty smile.

Both she and Keldeo jolted their direction towards the right. Their eyes fixed straight into the center with the ability to prepare for what is yet to come.


A cream-coated horse with an actual fire for her mane sprinted away from a horde of winged daemons cloaked in a brilliant light. The golden road before her ignited with trails of orange explosions that peaked to the heights of nearby buildings. The noises that erupted from them rang in her ears. With her powerful legs, she leaped over the clouds of burning gas and sprinted further down. A stream of heavy panting flowed out of her lungs and her muscles begged her to slow down.

In mid-gallop, her left front hoof tripped over a small mound of debris from the explosions. Her black eyes widened and despair filled the depths of her heart. She fell onto the ground and rolled along it. Looking towards her back, the shining daemons appeared in her line of sight. Her mouth curved into an open frown. Seeing their bodies charge with red, she looked away and moved her right front leg over her face.

“Someone. Please, save me.” She whispered to herself.

The noise of air being slashed in half reached her ears. She looked up towards where her oppressors are and saw a bisected daemon fall to the ground and wither away into particles of light. A storm of gems arranged in the colors of the rainbow plunged themselves into the rest of the daemons. Falling towards the ground, they vanished into a mist of light.

“Are you alright?” Running by the horse’s side, Keldeo asked with concern rumbling in his voice.

The horse let out a wide smile and embraced Keldeo by his neck. Witnessing the fiery mane close to him, Keldeo ducked his head back in an effort to avoid it.

“Thank you for coming to my aid, Keldeo. I knew you would come save me.” The horse said in a relieved tone.

“Ummm… your mane is literally a tongue of fire. Plus, you make it sound like you know me.” Keldeo worded out with an anxious shiver.

The horse stepped away from Keldeo and bored a disbelieving stare into his eyes.

“That’s supposed to be a joke, right? You know that the fire of a Ponyta won’t hurt those that they like, and you are one of my closest friends.” She said.

“Oh! Now I feel like I just made things awkward between us.” With his stance faltering, Keldeo said.

“And may I ask who you are?” Rarity asked with an inquiring voice.

Ponyta glanced towards Rarity and examined her with curious eyes. She looked towards Keldeo with her shoulders raised in suspicion.

“She doesn’t look like any Pokémon I’ve ever seen.” She said aloud. “Is she an alien?”

With her mouth contorted in anxiety, Rarity glanced towards Keldeo with eyes pleading for a response. She forced a bout of nervous laughter and faked a smile.

“Ummm, yes I am. I came here from my planet upon a distress signal that your kind is being attacked!” She lied. “Unfortunately, they only had enough current resources at hand to send me and a few others down here. My name is Rarity.”

Ponyta inspected Rarity’s physical features: Rarity’s size towered over her by a foot, and her blue eyes complimented her purple mane and white coat. What took her most by surprise is the image of three diamonds on her flank.

“Wow… you look very pretty.” She mused out in awe.

“You’re just a filly, aren’t you? What are you doing by yourself here? Shouldn’t you be with your family?” Rarity asked.

Ponyta peaked into a brown satchel hung around her neck and, using her mouth, pulled out a badge designed in the shape of four lines. Three bent lines, which are colored in orange, light green and pale blue all swayed to the right. The fourth and final line stood in a proud shape to the left, colored in a deep blue. Its girth exceeded the other lines combined.

“I asked a Torkoal smithy to make this badge for my dear Keldeo. It is a symbol of the Resolute Forme that Keldeos are said to have.”

Rarity’s eyes twitched at the passing of Ponyta’s words. She exhaled a deep breath and looked onto the badge in the Ponyta’s mouth. A small smile cracked along the edges of her mouth.

“This is a nice badge, but why would you risk your life for this?”

Ponyta opened her mouth, but a golden dragon with displaced wings made from fragments of an ethereal substance stomped the ground. A halo the size of its massive body hung behind its back. Its eyes resonated with emptiness. It held its massive right arm into the sky and drove it down towards the trio below.

“Hold on! I’m coming!” A loud and booming voice shouted from out of nowhere.

The dragon creature dropped its arm with a massive force of power. A brown shadow sprinted towards the colliding arm and held it back with its dark brown horns. The shadow unraveled itself in the shape of a large bull with the physique of a rock. Attached to the flesh of his shoulders are orange bracers.

With his stunted horns, he knocked away the arm of the dragon and lifted it up in the air. With a thrust of his powerful neck, he chucked the dragon towards a building. Pounding against the crystalline wall of the building, it fell to the ground with an explosion of dust being carried away by a current of pressure. The bovine looked towards Keldeo and grinned.

“Looks like I made it just in time, Kelds. A minute later and all of you would’ve been minced meat.”

Keldeo glanced upon the bovine with eyes that strained themselves into remembering the form of the Pokémon before him. His mouth wavered with the fear of asking him a question. Within this dead set pause, Rarity walked up towards the bovine with a warm smile.

“Excuse me, but who are you?” She asked. Unbeknownst to the rest of the group, a sigh of relief passed from Keldeo’s mouth.

“Just your friendly neighborhood Sword of Justice Terrakion.” Grinning with a cocky disposition, Terrakion responded.

“Sir Terrakion!” Ponyta called out. “What are you doing here?”

Terrakion rolled his eyes towards Keldeo and cricked his neck towards him.

“Cobalion asked me to check up on the squirt here and take him away as far away from this city as possible. But, I can see that everyone here has everything handled perfectly.”

“So… are you going to take me away from the city as far as possible?” Keldeo asked.

“You’re old enough to take care of yourself, Keldeo. I don’t need to baby you, even if Cobalion says otherwise. Plus, your lady friends look tough enough to help you out.”

The debris of the building lifted into the sky and the dragon roared with a noise that pierced the very heavens. It looked down onto Terrakion with an overbearing stare. Terrakion grinned.

“Besides, I got my boots tied up with this higher-ranked daemon. If I went with you all, I’d just be bringing this fat and ugly monstrosity with us.”

Rarity glanced towards the dragon, whose eyes flashed with bloodlust. Her blood chilled to her heart and her coat paled.

“That would not be a bad idea, Sir Terrakion. You take care of that monstrosity while we go and escort Miss Ponyta out of the city.” She stated.

“Yes sir!” Raising his right front hoof to his forehead, Keldeo announced.

“Please don’t salute me. I don’t really like that type of attention.” Terrakion stated.

With his back turned, Terrakion felt the force of a thousand stampeding rhinos collide against the lower-right portion of his jaw. Feeling the dragon’s claws punch his jaw, Terrakion flew to the far right and blasted off with the force of a rocket.

“I don’t know about you, but I think that means we should get out of here.” Ponyta suggested.

Without any hesitation or pause, Keldeo and Rarity sprinted away from the battlefield. Ponyta slanted her eyes into an aggravated stare and ran after the duo of operatives.

“Don’t leave me alone with these two lunatics!”


The once lustrous buildings and golden streets shifted into shells of their former selves; debris littered entire sections of road to the point where mountains of the rubble served as blockades for the main pathways. Fei and Iosac clambered upon the mountains of rubble and leaped over their peaks.

Beyond the final peak, they eyed a lone Deerling whose body shivered with anxiety and mouth that let out a wide open frown. Before him stood a bipedal daemon whose body shimmered with a golden aura. Its white arms and legs shown themselves as lanky, but its golden torso rippled with the chest and abs of Adonis. Its head sprawled with a mess of yellow vines, but on its left arm is a shield that portrayed a gold-colored face devoid of pupils. Its body cloaked itself in an aura that spark with ethereal choirs.

“I’m sorry, but I have to say this; what in the Reverse Dimension is that?!” With a scowl of his eyes and a shift of his neck towards Fei, Iosac shouted out. “Seriously, all of the other creatures we’ve seen had ummm… some comprehensible form to them. But this… I don’t even know what to say about it! This joke writes itself!”

The face of the daemon motioned itself towards the top of the rubble mountain and grunted. The body of the daemon motioned itself towards Fei and Iosac. Fei glanced towards Iosac with a stern stare and an expressionless mouth.

“Iosac, you can be an idiot sometimes.” He said with no hesitation.

The left arm aimed the face on the shield towards Fei and Iosac. The face opened its mouth, where a ball of yellow energy sparked to life. The ball grew to be twice the size of the shield before it blasted itself towards the duo. Fei and Iosac leaped off of the mountain rubble, dodging the projectile blast that headed towards them.

Fei sprinted towards the daemon and leaped into the air with his right foot held out towards it. The daemon blocked the kick with its golden face shield. With his hip gyrating to the right, Fei leaped off of the shield and landed on his feet.

Iosac held out his stubby arms and shut his eyes. Before anyone could make a move, a powerful gust blew behind Iosac and Fei. A crafty grin crawled its way onto Iosac’s face. His light body carried itself away on the blowing of the wind, allowing him to take flight into the air. Hovering above the bipedal daemon, he raised his arms and right leg into the air.

Razor winds surrounded the daemon and lifted it into the air. Iosac glanced towards Fei and nodded with readying approval. Fei grunted and ran towards the cyclone generated by Iosac. He leaped off of the flying debris and into the eye of the cyclone where the daemon stood. He stood onto a floating chunk of debris and bent his legs into a steady arc. With his palm glowing in a hazy blue, he set his stare towards the daemon and leaped towards it once more.

He thrust his left fist towards it. The daemon parried with a thrust of its face shield. Fei smirked and vanished from his current position. He reappeared in front of the chest of the daemon and launched his glowing palm straight into the chest. The face on the shield opened its eyes and mouth in wide-eyed circles.

Fei clenched the chest and lifted the daemon overhead and threw downwards. The daemon crashed onto the ground on its back, creating a crater the size of a lakebed. With the Hurricane and Tailwind petering into a mere gust of wind, Fei held out his right front leg towards daemon and dropped with the force of a falling rock. The collision of the strike elicited an upward jolt of the daemon’s limbs into the sky.

“Hah! My turn for the relay!” Iosac called out.

Fei rolled his body out of the way. The tips of Iosac’s arms lit up with orbs of green energy. He flipped his body and threw the orbs towards the downed daemon. A storm of razor leaves shot out from Iosac’s fluff and aimed towards the daemon below.

The eyes of the face on the daemon’s shield lit up with a red light. It stood up from the ground and directed its sights onto Fei and Iosac. A horde of orbs made out of photon swarmed the being. It pointed its long and lanky beings towards the duo of Pokémon. The orbs fired off in the pointed direction. The orbs pelted away at the flesh of Fei and Iosac.

Both Pokémon crossed their upper limbs and held them in front of their chests and faces. Their eyes narrowed and shallow grunts that resonated with their pain. The storm of orbs sped up and dug into the flesh of their opponents. The photon exploded with flashing lights.

Fei and Iosac slid along the ground with their feet dragging along it. Within the blink of an eye, the daemon warped in front of the duo. It raised its shield towards them and dropped it with the strength of a hammer.

Cobalion leaped in front of the duo and blocked the shield strike with his horns. He looked back towards Fei and Iosac with gritting teeth and a stern stare.

“Lord Cobalion!” Fei called out.

“D-didn’t I tell you and your group to stay put inside of the building?!” Cobalion scolded.

Fei closed his eyes and shook his head.

“Negatory. We cannot risk leaving the building after we would be given the clear. Too many lives are at stake.”

Cobalion thrashed his head forwards and pushed back the shield of the daemon. An anguished sigh rushed from his mouth.

“You seem to like making things difficult, do you not? But, while we are here, escort this child back to his parents. He must be very scared.”

Iosac glanced towards the fawn Pokémon, who shook in pure anxiety. His knees bent themselves towards his body and his mouth quivered with teary eyes.

“I got separated from my mom! Please, help me find her!” He cried out.

Iosac flew towards the Deerling and got him up from the ground.

“It’s alright, Deerling. I’ll help you find your mom.”

A weak smile formed on the Deerling’s face. He stood up from the ground and ran towards Fei and Iosac’s side. The trio of Pokémon maneuvered above the mountain of rubble behind them, leaving Cobalion alone with the daemon. He ducked his head and flashed his fear-inducing stare towards it.

“Attacking children? You must not hold your life in high regard. Come at me!”


Swirlix, Tepig and Skitty took three steps back and gazed forward with nervous eyes; a squadron of winged daemons and canines gazed onto the trio with bloodlust resonating from their eyes. The lungs of the trios dared not to breathe out of a shallow breath, and their bodies stiffened their joints. Tepig edged himself close to Swirlix.

“Those monsters are s-s-scary!” He shouted.

“They look worse than monsters, and they’re real!” Skitty shouted.

The group of three huddled together. Their bodies shook as a collective being. Swirlix looked towards his companions.

“I think I could have said some mean things to you two, but you are some of my best friend ever.”

“I agree. You have always been a good friend.” Tepig noted in agreement.

“Thank you. I promise that I will try to be a better friend in the afterlife.” Swirlix stated.

The three Pokémon hid their faces away from the aggressive creatures. A static explosion elicited upward jolts from their ears. Looking forward, the trio witnessed a storm of balls made from electricity striking down from a diagonal angle.

Inge leaped from the rooftops of the buildings to the right. Her body flashed with a red light within the span of the moment. Approaching the horde of daemons, her tail flashed in a white light and shifted into a metallic appearance. Leaping into the air, she flipped her tail and slammed it towards the horde. Amidst the dust of the area, her body flashed with a dark purple light. She shot out a spider’s web cloaked in electricity, capturing two winged daemon in its voltic grasp.

“A critical hit!” She called out.

The winged daemons drove their bodies towards her with a white light brimming around them. Inge’s body cloaked itself in a flash of yellow light. A green barrier erected around her, deflecting all of the tackling daemons. With her body flashing in a bout of red light, she set her gaze on the group of daemons and crooked her head to her right side.

“Wow!!” Tepig called out. “She’s so cool!”

Two canine daemons leaped towards her with snarling muzzles. Inge leaped above the nearest-approaching canine. The top of her head lit up with a light-blue aura. She smashed her head into the head of the canine. With her tail encasing itself in iron once more, she swept her tail underneath the canine’s legs, removing its connected stance with the land. With her body flashing in a light blue color, an electrified orb of energy shot out of her beak and crashed into the canine.

“She’s awesome! And using a wide variety of moves!” Skitty cheered.

“Yeah! This is almost like Bisharp May Cry in real life! Or… and I thinking of Braixenyetta? Eh, don’t care. All I know is that I’m attacking a horde of demons in style!” Leaping off of each of the winged daemons and smacking them with Iron Tail, Inge stated to her own self.

Each of the daemons vanished from the area. Inge gazed down the road with her eyes closed in pride. Swirlix hopped over towards Inge with a wide grin on his face.

“You’re that weird Pokémon from before! How did you pull off such awesome moves like that?!” He asked with an astonished voice.

Inge pounded her right upper limb upon her chest, eliciting a cycle of flashes between light blue, red, purple and yellow.

“I got my movesets on disks thanks to my leader. Not only can I change up my moves in battle, but I can cancel my current moves into a new moveset and avoid any unnecessary lag. It also happens to be a pro-tip to use in fighting games or any other combo-based games.” She explained.

“So… what you are saying is that you are like a computer?” With his eyes narrowed in uncertainty, Tepig asked.

“Yep. I see everything in a virtual world aspect. I’m surprised you know what computers even are!”

“We’ve had computers for a while now. But, it never reached to the extent of actually creating Pokémon like you!” Pointing towards Inge with an excited smile, Skitty replied.

A sphere of light appeared in front of Inge and the children. Two giant claws honed from platinum and attached to grayed hands smashed its way through the light. An oblong-shaped object attached to a decaying neck jumped out of the light. Its face sported empty eye sockets that peered into its rotting mind. The rest of the body pushed out of the portal and stood on its two legs, revealing it to be two times larger than a building. Wrapped around its grayed body are bandages splattered with dark red stains. Inge narrowed her eyes, cocked her head and scratched the top of it.

“Seriously? A zombie, here? Whoever this Demiurge is must really be taking these clichéd enemy ideas from somewhere. Generic flavor I tell you.”

The trio of Pokémon behind her looked towards the monstrous beast with their faces paled with unfiltered fear permeating through their chilled blood. Virizion rushed by the side of Inge and the children. She stared at the beast of a zombie with calm and unfettered eyes.

“Well, I can definitely say that I’ve never seen this before.” She mused to herself. She gazed towards Inge and smiled. “I don’t think I have ever seen a Pokémon such as yourself here. Are you one of Keldeo’s new friends?”

“We’re more of acquaintances. ‘Friend’ would imply that I like the Pokémon in question.” Inge stated with a cold tone. A lopsided frown curled its way onto Virizion’s face.

“I… I see.”

Inge gazed onto Virizion’s face and noticed the frown hidden away from her. Her eyelids slanted into a diagonal position.

“D-don’t be like that! You’ll make me feel bad.” She replied.

“At the very least… just treat him with respect. I know that he can be a bit impulsive at times, but he’s always been awkward around others.” Virizion explained.

“Is he? Well that explains why I don’t see him around too often.” Inge murmured to herself. “Anyways, I’m going to take the children here somewhere safe. Will you be alright with taking on this zombie by yourself?”

“Of course. I trust that you will keep these children safe.” Ducking her head towards the monstrous daemon, Virizion said.

Inge backed away from Virizion and towards the main street. She waved towards the trio of Pokémon.

“If you don’t want to end up like common mooks, then I suggest you hurry up and follow me!” She stated.

Swirlix, Tepig and Skitty all ran towards Inge. Gazing towards the fleeing Inge and children, Virizion let out a silent sigh and gazed towards the zombie.

“You are seriously an ugly monstrosity of life. I will be glad to see you gone from existence.” She called out.


Fei, Iosac and the Deerling sprinted down the curl of steps outside of the city walls. A sea of colorful creatures littered the outskirts of Kurisutaru. Keldeo and Rarity stood out within the front of the crowd with their faces lighting up in joy at the sight of their partners. The duo ran towards the descending trio.

“Fei! Iosac! You two are okay!” Keldeo shouted.

Fei wiped his forehead with his right hand and closed the distance between him, Rarity and Keldeo.

“Cobalion is fighting the daemon that we fought and rescued this Deerling here.”

Shifting his sight to the left, he witnessed the Deerling wading his way towards a large doe with a chestnut-colored coat, light coffee-colored underside and two branches that sprawled with leafy bushes. The doe smiled and nuzzled the Deerling with closed eyes.

Inge zipped down from the wall with a zig-zag pattern. Tepig, Skitty and Swirlix each leaped off of Inge’s back and shook their heads.

“You moved as fast as lightning!” Swirlix shouted with glee.

“I’ll admit… I was a little bit frightened.” Edging her head away from Inge, Skitty said.

“Something like that must require expert timing.” Tepig noted with a smile on his tilted face.

A white light with a black epicenter exploded above the skies of the city, cloaking the entire area in its unhallowed glow. A figure of a purple black-coated alicorn stallion the size of an oak tree descended from the black epicenter of the light. He stood adorned in a bright traje de luces colored in yellow. He opened his eyes and mouth, revealing unending voids tinted with magenta and purple. With a leftward sleight of his left front hoof, a holographic screen the size of the city hung above in the sky, making his visage visible to everyone.

“Today, I have graced this world with my presence!” He stated with a dogmatic tone. “You should all feel blessed to witness a god perform his miracles on this unclean land that writhed with you insects.”

The entire crowd of Pokémon in the outskirts of the city looked towards the self-proclaimed deity with curious gazes affixed onto him. Rarity frowned and stared towards Keldeo, Fei, Iosac and Inge with uneasy eyes.

“This is the Demiurge? But, he almost looks as if he can pass off as an Equusian... minus the glowing lights and the suit of course.” She noted.

The Demiurge descended onto the center of the city, where a golden statue of the quilin stood displayed for all to see. Cobalion, Virizion and Terrakion all stood upwards with their backs against marble pillars and their bodies bound to it with three layers of white rope. The Demiurge walked towards the Swords of Justice with a smug grin covering his face. Cobalion squirmed and grunted within the bindings of light.

“You will not get away with attacking this city you fiend! All who threaten the lives of Pokémon shall be brought to justice!”

The Demiurge walked towards Cobalion with a swagger in his step. Lifting his right front hoof up to Cobalion’s head, the Demiurge smacked his left side of the face with the force of a thousand cosmos slamming into him at once. Hearing Cobalion yelp out a pained squeal, the masses of Pokémon took a step back and gasped at the sight.

“I did not give you permission to speak out of turn, worm!” The Demiurge shouted with an indignant tone. A dark bruise surfaced itself over Cobalion’s damaged flesh.

Cobalion’s left eye twitched from the stinging pain pulsing from his bruise. Terrakion’s hind legs kicked along the ground with unrestrained force and his torso leaned forward. His eyes slanted themselves into a fiery stare.

“Hey! No one treats one of my best friends like that and gets away with it!” He screamed.

Virizion gazed towards Terrakion with a worried frown curving over the edges of her lips. She veered her head towards his direction.

“It’s not a wise idea to say anything, Terrakion.” She whispered.

“The wench here is right, you pile of dust.” The Demiurge said. “I like to have you still and not prancing around like a mad chimera. If you aren’t, then…”

He smiled with a large curve, displaying his rows of sharp teeth. He stood on his hind legs and reared his right front hoof to his shoulder blade. He thrust it into Terrakion’s chest, digging to the point where a spatter of blood shot out from Terrakion’s mouth. Terrakion’s eyes shot open from the blow. His knees grew weak and his body slumped on the bindings of light.

Out of the wave of Pokémon outside of the city, an orange-fleshed dragonoid with wings made of dark aqua-colored membranes dropped his jaw at the sight of brutality on the screen. The fire at the end of his tail ignited into a blazing pillar. His eyes became slit with rage.

“I refuse to stand around any longer and witness such brutality against my role models!” Stomping his way towards the stairs, he stated with a pronounced voice.

From the square in the city, a small smirk made its way along the Demiurge’s lips. His horn flashed with a white and black-swirling aura. Upon leaping into the air and expanding his wings, the dragonoid sat his sights at the darkening of the sky above. A volley of purple lighting bolts fired down onto him, causing every cell in his body to writhe in shock. A shout of primordial fear echoed from his estranged throat.

“Charizard!” Extending his right front foot towards the Pokémon and frowning with an agape mouth, Tepig screamed.

The screaming weakened to a stop. Ashes that scattered itself through the wind remained of the Charizard. The Pokémon around the area stood motionless and silent at what they witnessed. Anxiety anchored onto their spines, paralyzing the Pokémon from making any sort of movement.

Rarity, Keldeo, Fei, Iosac and Inge stared at the scorched ground where the Charizard was killed. Their exteriors paled into a weak version of their natural colors. A dark chuckle emerged from the Demiurge’s voice.

“As I was saying, anyone who would even attempt to defy my will shall meet with a pitiful end, just as that worm had.” He stated.

“Why…? Why would you attack our world like this?” Straining to regain his focus, Cobalion asked. “We have strived hard to attain the peace we have today. It isn’t fair to the new generation who wish to live in this era!”

“I’m glad you asked. You see, I just happened to stumble onto your world. I saw that it was so peaceful, so beautiful! And it disgusts me.”

“Disgusts you?!” Virizion shouted with her eyelids slanting in anger. “I don’t know what kind of world you live in, but it must be horrible if you reign over it!”

The Demiurge planted his left front hoof on his forehead. A pained groan sounded out from his voice. He walked towards Virizion and brought his right front hoof to her jaw.

“I would almost pity you with how pathetic your statement was… almost. Do you not know how weak your kind truly is without conflict? I do, and I will show you how.”

He took three steps back and turned around. His horn ignited with magic, spawning three shimmering swords wreathed with a white aura behind each of the tied Swords of Justice.

“What just happened? What did you do?” Terrakion questioned with an annoyed tone.

“Simple; I’m executing the three of you.”

Out in the crowds below, Keldeo’s knees grew weak at the sound of the Demiurge’s words. With his pupils dilated and his mouth dry, his body quivered with a nervous shake.

“Execute? He’s going to execute them?!” He shouted.

Noticing his right front hoof eager to move, Rarity’s breath shocked upon itself. With a flash of her horn, an aura wrapped itself around Keldeo, stopping him in place. Keldeo squirmed in the telekinetic grip.

“R-Rarity! L-let go of me! Can’t you see he’s going to kill my family?!” He screamed.

“You are not going up those stairs, Keldeo! You saw what happened to the poor Pokémon that did, right?” Rarity reasoned.

Keldeo glanced towards the scorched area where the Charizard last stood, bringing forth a ray of realization upon him. A phantom of despair reached out from his stomach and ensnared his heart.

“B-but…” He worded out. “I don’t want to lose them again. I have to save them, even if it kills me!”

Fei stomped the ground with his right foot and turned towards Keldeo’s direction.

“What? You want to die and have your fostering family die as well?! You are just going to throw your life away for a lost cause?! Do you understand just how idiotic your words are right now?” He screamed out in anger.

Keldeo’s eyes welled up with water. His sporadic movement stopped in place. His face fell into a sorrow-filled frown. Rarity weakened her telekinetic grip, allowing Keldeo to move his right front leg towards the city.

The screen above displayed Cobalion, Virizion and Terrakion with their faces down in the realization of their fates. Virizion lifted her head and gazed out to the spacious area in front of her. She forced a soft smile on her face.

“Wherever you are Keldeo, please do not cry. I know you are upset about what is going to happen. In all honesty, I wish I could still keep living so that I may keep caring for you. But… fate just has its ways with all of us. All I hope for you is to live out your life wherever it may take you. And Rarity, even if we had just only met, I felt something special about you. You have a warm and generous spirit that brings forth justice. Please make sure that Keldeo doesn’t push himself too hard.” She said.

Rarity turned her head and eyes to Keldeo and then back towards Virizion on the screen. She nodded.

“Hey squirt!” With an eager smile adorned on his face, Terrakion shouted. “If you’re down there, make sure that you’ve taken all of the training that we gave you and put it to good use. If I found out that you are just sitting around and doing nothing, my spirit’s gonna come back from the grave and haunt you!”

“And Keldeo…” Cobalion began speaking. “I apologize if I was ever too rough on you with your training segments. I only wished for you to be better than I was. Even after I’m gone, keep pushing your limits and learn to exceed your capabilities in order to gain your Resolute Form. It is what your parents would have wanted.”

Keldeo stared towards the screen with bated breath. His vision blurred from the tears that obscured his sight. The Demiurge rolled his eyes and changed the color of his horn to a violent shade of red. The swords behind the tied-up Pokémon dived into the pillars and crashed through their spines. The tips of the swords pierced through their chests, bringing forth a river of blood that seeped from their hearts and poured onto the street.

The bodies of the trio slumped forwards and their jaws dropped to their lowest possible angle. Their sight drifted away until the blacks of their pupils clouded themselves with white. Their bodies softened into an ethereal shimmer, vanishing from the hold by the bindings of light. The Demiurge flew into the air and glanced down on the waves of Pokémon with a gnarled grin.

“See how pitiful of an end your precious ‘heroes’ met? They lived by the sword, so they died by the sword. Anyone who dares defy my will shall meet their end like those quadrupeds and that overgrown lizard.”

Upon the declaration of his words, black clouds rolled into the sky. Flashes of white and crackling thunder reverberated throughout the land.

That is enough!!! Bringing despair to my children is the last straw, demon!” An omnipotent voice shouted.

A white quilin-like creature broke through the sky with its eyes yellow with rage. It bore no mouth and possessed a black underside. Its head and tail ended with wavy wisps, and gold tipped its feet. A golden wheel and eighteen plates encircled its body. The yellow plate that orbited the creature flashed, bringing forth a wicked lightning bolt that shot from the enraged deity and struck the Demiurge. Fei looked into the sky with his jaw dropped and his eyes bolstered open.

“That Pokémon… it cannot be! Lord Arceus?!” He worded out with a stupefied tone.

“Arceus?!” Iosac, Inge and Keldeo shouted in unison.

“Ummm… who?” Rarity vocalized with an uneasy tone.

“Arceus is the god of all Pokémon. His presence here can only mean one thing; he is very, very mad.” Fei explained with an stare of unwavering shock from the event that unfolded before his eyes.

“Fei… please be a dear and remind me of the consequences of angering a god.” Rarity requested.

A light blue plate and fiery red plate both flashed around Arceus. A tornado of ice blue winds engulfed the Demiurge, tearing him apart with its razor gusts and bitter chill. An upside-down tornado of orange flames descended upon him, bringing blistering heat to the self-proclaimed deity.

The two techniques combined into a sphere. With a pure white plate flashing around Arceus, the attacks glowed with a white light. Arceus turned around and the sphere behind him ignited with a reality-breaking explosion. Witnessing the waves arriving towards them, the crowds of Pokémon broke away from each other and fled beyond the outskirts of the city.

The Demiurge flew out of the ensuing black cloud with wings tipped in a pulsating red. The pupils of his eyes revealed themselves as purple, and he bore his teeth with frustrated gusts pulsing from his mouth. His traje de luces disappeared from his body, revealing his jet black coat. Aiming his horn towards the god of Pokemon and firing a beam that swirled with ivory and light pink lights, Arceus vanished from the trajectory and appeared by the Demuirge’s side.

“You will not leave quietly it seems. I did not want to do this, but you leave me no choice; I shall gladly commit the deed of deicide if it means protecting my children from a psychopathic god like yourself!” He proclaimed.

“Deicide? Do you believe that you can kill a god of my stature? Very well; I shall invite you to try.”

A dark purple plate that hung around Arceus illuminated. A dark haze made up of spectral skulls surrounded the Demiurge, swamping him within another realm. A black gate cracked open, revealing red lines that segued into an infernal vortex. A maelstrom of gusts blew behind the Demiurge, dragging his body towards the portal.

The Demiurge’s horn flashed. Cocking his head towards the gate, a dark beam shot into the portal. The portal’s energy frizzed from the magical imbalance and frazzled out of existence. The shadows around the Demiurge, bringing him back over the skies of Kurisutaru and face to face against Arceus.

“Trying to banish my soul to hell, are you not? That was a bold move on your end there, Yaldabaoth.”

“Are you implying that I am a false god? You truly are but a mere child who is controlling power beyond what his sanity is capable of withstanding. You are so convinced of your own god-like status that you are willing to make the entirety of reality yours. You are merely an almighty idiot.” Arceus chided.

“I am not a child! I am the one true lord! You are the one who is a child!” With the veins on his head rupturing and his right front hoof pointed towards Arceus, the Demiurge shouted.

He unfolded his massive wings and flapped them, bringing forth blackened gusts that swallowed the area. Arceus lowered his head down and stared through the eye of the windy abyss. A bolt of white lightning fired down from above Arceus’s head, shocking his body. He shut his eyes and let the lightning run through his body.

The Demiurge flew through the air with his right front hoof reared into a readied thrust. Arceus’s body radiated with a yellow light, dispelling the black gusts of the area. The pitch-black plate around Arceus hummed with power. Leaning his body forward, Arceus fired a jet black beam of energy from the front of his body. The beam of energy engulfed the Demiurge, burning away his glowing flesh with its wicked energy. The beam dissipated, leaving the Demiurge with black burns deep within his coat.

“Is that truly all the power you possess? A kitten hits harder than you.”

Arceus stared at the damaged god with disbelieving eyes; what remained of the Demiurge’s left front hoof hung off of his open shoulder and portions of his torso eroded away from the blast. Arceus steeled his nerves and set his glare down towards the individual.

“I am mildly surprised that your life force did not cease after that strike. It has become apparent to me that I did not nearly put in as much power into that Eradication Beam as I should have done. I will not make that same mistake again.”

Declaring these words, he dashed through the air with a trail of illusions following him. He rammed into the Demiurge, striking at him towards all angles and vanishing within a blink off an eye. He appeared above the Demiurge, materializing a golden rune above the dark god.

“Now you will die! Feel the wrath of the heavens falling upon you!” Arceus shouted.

A storm of brimstone fell down from the rune above, pelting its holy flames against the Demiurge’s body. The Demiurge vanished from his spot and in front of Arceus. Two orbs, one white and one black, orbited around him. With his horn flashing, the two orbs fired towards the godlike Pokémon’s direction and attached to him. They exploded with a burst of light and darkness, absorbing Arceus in its power.

The haze of light and darkness disappeared. Arceus looked towards the Demiurge, whose wounds regenerated and his damaged coat became sleek and lustrous. Arceus gazed upon himself and his eyes widened with horror; entire portions of his body disintegrated away, his left front leg only hung on tiny sinews of his holy bindings and his entire body is covered in scorch marks and bruising. His body slumped down from exhaustion of energy and the flames of pain radiated through him.

“Do you like these wounds? You should, because you inflicted them to me.” The Demiurge stated.

“You… you only allowed yourself to take those blows so that you can transfer them onto me.” Arceus worded out through a fierce voice, wincing his eyes and lowering his head with an uneasy shake. “These wounds would lead even a god to death’s door. How were you not decimated?”

“Is it not apparent to you? I cannot die. No matter what you do to me, you can never neutralize me. I absorbed my mother’s power and made it my own, making me invincible to everything. I only allowed you to strike me to just to show you your utter foolishness in defying me. You bear power that is a right only for gods. You are no longer a god!” With a sinister smirk on his face, the Demiurge proclaimed.

Gazing into the battle in the sky, Inge’s heartbeat slowed to a chill. She shook her head in disbelief. She grasped her head with her upper limbs and shut her eyes with a quick speed.

“No… No! It can’t be!”

“Lord Arceus… is he losing?” Holding his breath and his eyes widened in shock, Fei asked.

The Demiurge glanced over the horizon, eyeing all the Pokémon that hid beyond its protective hills. He glanced towards the weakened Arceus, whose body regenerated itself at a slow pace. A sinister chuckle permeated from the Demiurge’s mouth.

“What… what are you laughing about?” Arceus asked.

“Oh, nothing much. I was entertaining my thoughts about pondering how I would annihilate all of those Pokémon taking refuge behind the hills. I was thinking of going out with a bang.” The Demiurge responded with an unnerving calm in his tone.

“You… you wouldn’t dare!” Arceus shouted.

The tip of the Demiurge’s horn spawned a white and black-swirling sphere. Straightening his back upwards, the sphere of energy grew to the size of the city. He turned his direction towards the hills, where an almost absolute majority of the city’s population hid behind. He reared his head and back before chucking it forwards.

Arceus warped in front of the sphere and brought his front legs to the ball of destruction, holding it back. Feeling the force of the ball pounding against him, weak grunts surfaced from him.

“I… refuse… to let the lives of my children be taken! I would rather die!” He gritted out.

The Demiurge aimed his horn towards the ball and fired a blue beam into the sphere. The energy from the Demiurge pushed the ball farther than Arceus’s reactionary force. The ball grew in size. Arceus felt portions of his body disintegrating from the sheer energy of the sphere. His fierce eyes became shallow with life and sadness overcame him.

“Is that all you have? You have been a disappointing adversary. I thought that you would have provided much more of a fight, but you let your feelings for your creation get in your way. Those feelings have made you weak and pathetic.” The Demiurge taunted.

Arceus shut his eyes. A teardrop of vivacious colors fell down from his right eyelids. His body gave into the overwhelming power of the destructive sphere, absorbing him and disintegrating the remnants of his body.


The Deerling stood by his mother’s side at the hills of refuge. Witnessing the sphere heading towards him, a large smile cracked along his face. He turned to the Sawsbuck by his side and tugged on her leg.

“Mommy! Look! A shooting star is coming so close to us!” He shouted with excitement.

Sawsbuck glanced towards the ball of swirling death that headed towards the hills. Her face paled and her mouth hung agape. She looked behind her, witnessing all of the Pokémon fleeing further behind the refuge. A pained frown formed on her face and her eyes squinted into depression.

“Deerling…” She shut her mouth and shook her eyes. Glancing towards her son’s smiling face, a stray tear fell onto the ground.

“Mommy, why are you crying? Shooting stars are beautiful, right?” Deerling asked.

Stifling her frown and urge to cry, Sawsbuck forced a smile on her face and looked towards the sphere of destruction.

“Y-yes. Shooting stars are beautiful. A star falling so close to us means that we are going to be granted one wish. Tell me, Deerling; what do you wish for?” She asked.

“I wish that we can see dad again.” Deerling responded with a mixture of melancholy and happiness in his tone. “It can grant that, right?”

Sawsbuck wrapped her right front leg around Deerling’s body and dragged him close to her. She nuzzled her son at a warm and gentle speed.

“Yes. It can even grant us that. When the star comes to us, it’s going to sting a bit. But, if you stay strong and not react, then your wish will come true. Do you promise to be a big fawn and bear the pain of the shooting star?” She asked.

“Yes mom. I promise that I won’t cry or even make a noise. I really want to see dad again.” Deerling responded.

“Then please, close your eyes and wish as hard as you can. Only then will the wish come true.”

The sphere of energy approached the hills where the Pokémon took refuge behind. The light of destruction tore the green hills of the land into charred dirt. Feeling the sawing power of the sphere’s barrier, the bodies of the Deerling and Sawsbuck vanished. Digging into the earth, the sphere exploded with a radius that expanded beyond the hills and absorbed all of the fleeing Pokémon.


Feeling the blowback from the residual energy of the explosion, the group of operatives dived towards the ground and ducked their heads. With the gusts from the explosion dissipating, Rarity looked over her left shoulder towards the site of the explosion; a blackened crater remained of the once lush hills. All the Pokémon that hid behind the hills disappeared. With her jaw held low, a stray tear ran down her left cheek.

“Extinguishing all of those lives… that monster.” She voiced out.

Iosac glanced towards Inge, who held her body up with her upper limbs. Witnessing Inge forcing herself to stifle away any and all tears and cries of sorrow, a deep frown formed along the crevices of his mouth. He walked towards Inge and patted her right shoulder.

“Why…? Why are there beings cruel enough to commit this horrible act of genocide? The Demiurge not only killed Arceus, but he also killed all those innocent Pokémon. What would he have to gain from this?!” Inge shouted in pain.

“Inge…” Iosac murmured out.

Inge stood up from the ground and glanced towards the Demiurge with resolute eyes.

“Iosac… I’m going to go into Nightmare Difficulty. I am going to kill this bastard with my own two limbs!!!” She screeched out.

Inge’s eyes flashed with an evil shade of red. She dashed towards the city steps at a breathtaking speed. Iosac leaped out in front of her and stretched out his limbs, blocking her path.

“Stop it Inge! I’m not going to let you go up there to die. You saw what happened to Arceus, did you not?! What makes you think you can do better?” He reasoned.

“But all those poor Pokémon! The Demiurge slaughtered them! I can’t let him Houdini out of this. Never!” Inge shouted.

With a shallow frown on his face, Keldeo walked towards Inge and placed his right front hoof on her left shoulder. Inge turned back, witnessing Keldeo shake his head.

“I know how you feel Inge…” With his voice devoid of all emotion, Keldeo stated. “This was my home, and he annihilated it. Don’t you think I would deserve revenge more than you do? But… even I know that it is pointless to go after the Demiurge now. With how much damage he took from Arceus, he even proved another god cannot take him down.”

“But… my feelings… that trio of children that I met.” Inge worded out. “They were among the Pokémon to flee towards the hills… they’re dead and I couldn’t do anything but watch! I hate these forced cutscenes in real life.”

Keldeo’s body shimmered with a golden light. The light grew and absorbed the entire squad of operatives in its glow.


Keldeo’s eyes opened to the dull world of the present around him. He lied on the blackened ground of the outskirts of the city. A frown of disappointment rolled along his face.

“Oh… we’re back here.”

He stood up from the ground and glanced behind him, setting his eyes on Rarity, Fei, Iosac, Inge and Ho-Oh, whose talons fixed themselves into the decayed earth. His eyes shimmered with confusion.

“Ho-Oh… what are you doing here?” He asked.

“I am glad you are awake, Keldeo. Did you enjoy your trip into the past?” Ho-Oh asked with a cheery tone.

“Define ‘enjoy’. I’ve witnessed a Blitzkreig of my home by the power of unholy holy creatures, saw my family slaughtered, witnessed the death of a god and thousands of innocent Pokémon. Tell me Ho-Oh, does that sound enjoyable to you?!” Keldeo shouted with a furious tone.

Fei frowned and walked over towards Keldeo.

“Keldeo, please; do not be angry with what you witnessed. It’s pointless.” He reasoned.

Keldeo gritted his teeth and pushed his front hooves into Fei, knocking him onto the ground. Feeling his body drag along the ground, a slight moan escaped from Fei’s mouth.

“My anger is pointless?! I was just fine until this asshole of a bird asked me with the most lighthearted expression if I enjoyed witnessing the evils of war and genocide of my home!” He screamed. “I had everything in my life taken away from me because some god wanted to be a dick and annihilate my home! That does not make an enjoyable trip!”

Ho-Oh shook his head and kept his smile. He walked over towards Keldeo and looked upon him with curious eyes.

“Do not think that I am insensitive to your anger, Keldeo. It was an awful tragedy that fell this world that day. You may not remember this, but the Demiurge smashed all of the images of Arceus from the city after he finished purging the Pokémon from it. That is why you no longer see any images of him in the city.”

“You aren’t helping, Ho-Oh…” Keldeo muttered out with a hurt tone.

“You might be pleased with this set of news; the remaining Legendaries and I have managed to rescue a handful of Pokémon from this world after the disaster struck, including a few Kurisutaru residents.” Ho-Oh explained.

Rarity’s ears perked up at the sound of his words. She trotted towards Ho-Oh with slow steps filled with assuring hope.

“Are you… certain about those details? There were some survivors of that incident?” She asked.

“Of course. You know that Keldeo is one of those survivors, after all. In fact, most of the survivors included children, who were watched over and trained by the legendaries that managed to make it out of the world alive.” Ho-Oh assured.

“But… why was I not brought with you, Ho-Oh? How did I get separated from the others?” Keldeo asked.

Ho-Oh reared his head back and forced an uneasy frown. A drop of sweat dropped from his face and traveled down his beak.

“Alas, I did not anticipate the journey between traveling through worlds to have been very rough when carrying children. You happened to fall into the dimensional stream before we could have safely arrived at our destination.” He stated.

Getting up from the ground, Fei detected a hint of depression surging from Ho-Oh’s eyes. His face softened with a frown. He walked towards Ho-Oh with sympathetic eyes.

“Thinking that you lost a Pokémon placed you into a foul funk, did it not?” He asked.

“Truth be told, it did. I was entrusted by Lord Arceus to save as many Pokémon as possible before he battled against the Demiurge. It felt like I failed in my given task when I saw Keldeo drop into the stream. I felt depressed when it occurred… until I saw you alive and well back at the Rainbow Plateau. I felt relieved about this turn of events, and my own hope reignited.” Ho-Oh stated.

Inge glanced towards the city with a longing gaze. She turned towards Ho-Oh with eyes waiting for an answer.

“Tell me, Lord Ho-Oh; did any of the arcade cabinets make it out of the massacre alive?” She asked.

Igne’s words caused Iosac to jolt back in his step and look at her with the confusion of her body shifting towards its non-shiny color.

“Don’t you think that’s a bit sudden to think about?” He questioned.

“Nonsense! Gaming is love and gaming is life! The five of us are going to have an awesome gaming session when we get back to Neo Canterlot!” Inge proclaimed with a chipper voice.

A small giggle echoed from Rarity’s shut mouth. She shook her head with closed eyes. Opening her eyes and glancing towards Inge, she walked towards her with a smile on her face.

“I would love to be a part of this gaming session, Inge. It would give me an idea of what I am missing out.”

“Count me in as well. I have been honing my skills in secret, and I was hoping on getting to unleash them.” Fei stated.

Iosac grinned with a devilish stare and placed his upper limbs on his hips.

“You know you all will lose before my crafty plays, right?”

Keldeo felt all eyes around him glance towards his direction. His nerves seized his limbs and his lungs became paralyzed with anxiety.

“Ummm… I’m not sure if I want to play a game after what I witnessed today. …Sorry.” He muttered out.

Rarity walked towards Keldeo with a seductive stride in her step. She wrapped her tail around his head and touched her forehead against his. She lowered her lips and eyes to a pout.

“You wouldn’t want to play even if your fillyfriend would ask for it?” She asked with a seductive voice.

Keldeo’s heart beat at a quick rhythm. His stoic face melted away into a red flush of his cheek. He glanced away from Rarity and moved his mouth at an incomprehensible rhythm.

“Alright, you got me.” Keldeo said.

Witnessing the display of affection and interaction between the two, Ho-Oh felt a radiating warmth pulse from his heart. Fei walked towards Ho-Oh in the midst of his distraction and lifted his hand towards Ho-Oh’s white underbelly. He stroked it, feeling the warm fluff against his hand. A smile of satisfaction appeared on his lips.

“Ummm… what are you doing?” Ho-Oh asked with a raised eyebrow and a tone filled with discomfort.

“I’ve been a fan of legendary Pokémon since I was a child. I never thought that I would be able to stroke a Ho-Oh such as yourself. You do not mind if I keep stroking you, do you?” Flashing his pleading eyes towards Ho-Oh, Fei asked.

Ho-Oh let out a displeased sigh and rolled his eyes.

“Very well. Just be careful where you stroke, however.”

Author's Note:

It's shocking how it took two weeks to write this chapter. But, with this very heavy chapter out of the way, now I can get to that late Nightmare Night chapter I promised you all.

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