Pokémon of harmony

by Firefoxino


Chapter 4 Change of plans

After the battle with the Primeape, I woke up in Trixie’s wagon, there was a wet cloth, on my head, bandages on my arms, and torso. I stood up and looked around finding Thomas asleep in a corner. I walked towards him, and fortunately, he didn’t seem injured.

“Thomas?” I called, my throat felt really hoarse, and it was kinda difficult to talk.

Thomas woke up and looked around until he found me. “Anne!” He shouted and hugged me. “Thank God you’re okay.”

“What happened, after I got knocked out?” I asked him, he passed me a glass of water and I thanked him, gulping it down.

“I battled the Primeape and won, the fucker now knows not to mess with us.” Thomas explained.

“Did you…?” I asked hinting.

“No, I didn’t kill him.” He replied, alleviating my fears.

“Good, I really didn’t want you to kill anything.” I said.

“I know, that’s why I didn’t.” He said finally breaking the hug. “Anne, I- I'm sorry, you got hurt because of me. I was too slow, and you paid for my mistake.” He said.

“Thomas, that’s bullshit!” I shouted.

“Anne?” He asked.

“What? Do you think I can’t take a hit? These are fights it’s normal for us to get hurt. Are you sorry because I got hit, don't be dammit, it’s nobody’s fault but mine. I got distracted, and I got hit for it nothing more nothing less. Do I want to repeat that, of course not! You want to change that then train with me.” I said landing him a hand forward. “Let’s become better together and we won’t be crushed by this world. How does that sound?”

He grabbed my hand firmly. “It sounds awesome, you’re right.” He said. Suddenly the door opened and Trixie entered the wagon.

“Anne! Finally, you're awake. Trixie was worried you know?” She stated, putting a hoof down. She walked to me and sat down. “Do you feel well enough to travel? Next stop is Appleoosa.” She said, I nodded and she exited the wagon after checking my temperature. She returned to the head of the wagon and started to pull it. I crossed my arms and put one hand under my chin.

“You are thinking about something?” Thomas asked me.

“Actually yes. We shouldn’t go to Appleoosa, I mean think about it. Ponies are in danger right now, they don’t know anything about pokémon and they could get hurt or killed by them because of it. We should go talk to Celestia.” I stated.

Thomas thought about it for a second before nodding. “Always thinking about the greater good uh? Fine, I’m all for it, let’s talk to Trixie.” He said and called for Trixie to stop.

“What is it?” She asked entering the wagon.

“We need to meet the princesses.” I said to her.

“We probably will, our final stop is Canterlot after all.” She explained.

“No Trixie we must meet her now!” I said firmly.

“Now, that’s not possible.” She replied.

“We must. We must tell her everything we know about pokémon, this way we can avoid accidents from happening.” I explained.

“What about Trixie’s show?” She said.

“Trixie this is bigger than your show! Ponies could get hurt because of the pokémon, we have to offer our help.” I said sternly, I didn’t like that she deemed her show more important than other ponies lives.

“But-” I interrupted her.

“Remember that we saved you, you owe us.” I didn’t want to do that but she left me no choice. She hung her head defeated and replied.

“Fine. Just because you are you.” She said and exited the wagon, changing direction to Canterlot.

After that we stayed inside the wagon until we stopped for the night, set up a camp and returned to travel the day after, Trixie said that to reach Canterlot fast we should go through Ponyville and follow the road from there. It still took a while because we had to avoid the Everfree, the journey ahead of us was breathtaking. We saw a myriad of different pokémon along the way.

From what I saw there were all types of pokémon in Equestria even the Alola forms which were fairly interesting, though many of them were traveling south to reach hotter climates. We encountered some more ponies along the way that kept us company until we had to go different ways. After five days of traveling, we reached Ponyville. Trixie was very clear on what she wanted to do and so she left her cart out of town instead of bringing it in.

From the outskirt of the town we saw many different buildings including a carousel and a gingerbread house, both equally strange. We reached the center of the plaza and saw in there six mares who were battling against a Stantler with poor results. It seemed they were all panting while the pokémon wasn’t even winded. Me and Thomas seeing the situation intervened and battled the Stantler.

“Hey! Come and face us!” I shouted at it. The Stantler saw me and charged, I avoided the attack and used confusion making it flinch in pain then Thomas used Psycho Shock and forcing it to the ground unconscious. After that, I took it in my telekinesis and put it inside the forest where he probably got out from.

“Who are you?” Asked, the light blue pegasus with a rainbow mane. “We didn't need your help to beat it.”

“Yes, yes you did, that Stantler was strong enough to defeat you.” I said as a matter of fact.

“Now listen you…” She stopped mid-sentence then stopped hen a confused look dawned on her. “What are you?”

“I’m Anne Bennet and this is Thomas Jones, we are Ralts. A pokémon.” I explained.

“What is that?” asked the lavender unicorn with a straight purple mane and tail.

“Me, Anne and that Stantler are pokémon, only me and Anne are of a different species.” Thomas replied.

“Fascinating… But why you two can talk?”  She asked curiously. Trixie then decided to make her entrance.

“That’s because they are smart. Isn’t that right?” She asked us.

“Hey Twi, shouldn’t you give the fellas our names?” The orange earth pony said.

“Oh right, sorry. I’m Twilight Sparkle.” She pointed to the orange one, wearing a hat, “She is Applejack.” Then to the cyan pegasus. “Rainbow Dash.” To the butter colored pegasus. “Fluttershy.” She pointed to the white unicorn. “Rarity.”

“And I’m Pinkie Pie!” The pink one shouted in our faces. “Nice to meet you!”

“A pleasure.” I said awkwardly.

“Don’t worry she’s harmless.” Twilight said.

“Right, now you called yourself a pokimon?” Twilight asked.

“Pokémon. That’s what they are called us included, specifically it was a Stantler, a normal type pokémon with psychic powers.” I explained. I saw stars in Twilight eyes, literally.

“Tell. Me. More!” She shouted. “I want to know everything about these Pokémon.”

“No can do.” I said and she visibly deflated.

“why not?” She pouted..

“We need to go to talk to Princess Celestia, to advise her about the Pokémon and instruct her on how to deal with them.” Thomas explained.

Twilight immediately perked up. “You're in luck then, I’m Princess Celestia personal protegè if you teach me I will send letters about it to her too.” She said happily.

“You are?” I asked.

“Of course!” She said proudly. “Come oooon teach me.” She pleaded with a pout.

“Alright alright.” I conceded.

We went back to Twilight home which was actually a Library inside a tree. Twilight brought out a blackboard and put it in the center of the room, Thomas,Trixie and I started our lesson about Pokémon.

“Alright as you may have noticed this world is now inhabited by creatures called Pokémon, they are companions, friends and teammate. Now Pokémon have different types, there are eighteen different types and a secret one. They are: Normal, Fire, Fighting, Water, Flying, Grass, Poison, Electric, Ground, Psychic, Rock, Ice, Bug, Dragon, Ghost, Dark, Steel and Fairy.” I explained writing them down, Twilight held her hoof up.

“What about the secret one?” She asked.

“The secret one is called “???” And no pokémon possess it. It is a mystery all in itself.” I answered.

“Fascinating…” She replied writing it down.

Another hoof came up, this one it was Rainbow. “Why are we here too?” She asked.

“Rainbow! This is a one in a lifetime opportunity and you want to waste it?” Twilight said in horror.

“Well, yeah? I don’t care about knowing everything about them, I just need to know how to beat them.” Dash stated
“Unfortunately you need to know.” Thomas replied to her calmly. “If you don’t know anything and rush into a battle without thinking you will get hurt or worse end up dead.”

“Pfft I’m not weak I can beat a pokémon at anything.” She said boasting.

“Fine. Then try to move.” Thomas said and nodded to me, I understood what he wanted and so I held Rainbow in my telekinesis blocking her.

“What?” She shouted sweat, coming down her body from the strain. My telekinesis only got stronger in this past days.

“Pokémon are very powerful, if you want to beat them you will need a pokémon to battle with you and gnn.”I gritted my teeth in exertion, Rainbow Dash actually managed to open her wings flapping them.

“AH! In your face.” Rainbow said after she got free.

“Fine, I admit you are pretty strong but not everyone is so while you could beat a pokémon many cannot. My point still stand.” I said. She blew me a raspberry but said nothing more. The conversation continued without them saying anything, they were probably used to those kind of thing.

“Do you mean… Oh my…” The soft voice of Fluttershy said.

“There is no other way that is not a brutish exposition of force?” Rarity said stroking her mane.

“Unfortunately not. Unless you can talk with them, then-” I was interrupted by Twilight.

“Why can you talk so well with us though? Also your lips moves out of synch with what you are saying.” She said and her horn brightened for a second. “Also I can feel a very weak type of mind magic coming from you two.” She said curious.

I kept my mouth shut and talked to Twilight in my head. “Can you hear me?”

She gasped. “Oh Celestia yes I can! This is extremely fascinating, expert telepathy truly fascinating.”

“So they can talk in your head?” Rarity said. “Quite the useful technique.”

“Cool… Hey Thomas thinks you can do the same?” I asked him.

“I don’t see why not.” He said and focused. “Is this thing working?”

“Yes I hear you loud and clear. This is so cool Thomas.” I said giggling.

“Well if you are all finished with this thing I have a nap to finish so see ya!” Rainbow said and shooted out of the window in a rainbow trail.

“She will get into trouble Ah’ll tell ya.” Applejack said.

“I-I think I’ll follow her… if it’s not a bother that is…” Fluttershy said softly.

“You can go Fluttershy, I think that the only one that truly wants to know about pokémon is Twilight here. Speaking of…” I said and looked at the librarian. “Would you like to write these all down? Like an encyclopedia.” I proposed and I struck true if her expression was of any suggestion.

“Yes!” She shouted and started to jump all around saying yes continuously.

“I think she likes the idea.” Thomas said.

“You don’t say? I think we found our Pokémon professor in this world.” I said giggling.

“Now sugarcube there is no need to get this excited.” Applejack said.

“No need? No need?!” She shouted “I will be the first pony in Equestria to write a book about a new classification and there is no need?”  

“Calm down Twilight?” Applejack said holding a hoof up.

“Alrighty if we are done I have a super duper special party to plan see ya!” Pinkie said and disappeared from the library.

“Ah’m going too, apples won’t buck themselves.” And with that exited the room. Thomas, Only Twilight, Trixie and I remained.

“Trixie already knows about the pokémon so Trixie will be out to buy groceries and prepare her show. See you later Thomas and Anne.” She said dramatically and exited.

I sighed. “Alright now, where were we?” I asked.

“Types of pokémon.” Twilight reminded me.

With that I started to explain to her the differences between types as well as their strengths and weaknesses, Twilight wrote everything I said down onto a scroll nodding the entire time. After I finished explaining it all I asked if she had any questions.“

What types are you two?” She asked.

“We are Fairy and Psychic types.” I answered. “So what works against us?” I asked her.

“Poison, Ghost and Steel are very good against you two.” She answered in a heartbeat.

“Very good Twilight.” I praised her, “ I think I’ll give you a reward, alright.” I took a deep breath.

“Ralts, entry number 280. The feelings Pokémon. Ralts senses the emotions of ponies using the horns on its head. This Pokémon rarely appears before ponies. But when it does, it draws closer if it senses that the pony has a positive disposition.” I told her.

“Fascinating… But what do you mean with entry number 280?” She inquired.

“You see Pokémon comes from a different dimension, we were transported here by a strange creature… Anyway in that world the humans, that’s what the dominant species is called, cataloged all the known species of pokémon. That was one of the many entries.” I explained to her.

“Seriously? You come from a different dimension? That’s, that’s unbelievable…” She muttered.

“It’s the truth Twilight.” Thomas said putting a hand over her shoulder. “So… did you write that down?” He asked her.

“Oh yes!” She said excited. “I can’t wait to write my report to Princess Celestia, thank you both.”

“No problem Twilight.” I said to her. “We should go now, we will continue our lessons tomorrow ok?” I asked.

“Perfectly fine, when?” She replied.

“How about 1 PM?” I asked her.

“Perfect see you then.” She smiled and waved at us when we exited the library.

“This will be fun don’t you agree? I feel like a Pokémon professor, should I change my name into a tree?” I asked thomas jokingly.

“How about Professor Bonsai?” He proposed.

We both laughed at that and walked towards Trixie’s wagon.