A Distorted Reality

by URMajin


Prologue

The once clear and peaceful skies were distributed by roars and cries of Dialga and Palkia, the beings who controlled time and space respectively. What had led to their bickering was an unfortunate event that led to their dimensions colliding, but neither were willing to explain their side as they fought against each other.

Both were under the false impression that the other attempted to invade or kill each other as the result of their dimensions colliding which led to them defending themselves against the other. 

The aggravated legendaries blasted attack after attack, trying to be the victor of the battle.

Dialga attempts to use Roar of Time, trying to keep Palkia in place however Palkia was quick to dodge, and landed a powerful blow against Dialga, causing him to fly back and collide with one of the pillars. He got back up with no struggle however he needed to recharge after that attack.

Palkia took this opportunity to land Spacial Rend, tearing both Dialga and the space around him and dealing a critical hit, knocking him down into the pillar once more until it collapsed from the weight of the legendary.

Both began charging up before Dialga fired Flash Cannon while Palkia fired Hydro Pump, both attacks colliding against one another and creating a massive explosion in the middle, covering the area with smoke as both legendaries landed on the ground.

Without hesitation, both of them ran up towards each other and attacked with Dragon Claw. However, both attacks were stopped by the others causing them to jump back to create some space between them. Palkia began creating a small orb of aura before launching it towards Dialga while releasing a cry of frustration. Dialga simply responded by knocking it back into him while using Iron Tail. 

Palkia was sent back by his own Aura Sphere and shook off the smoke forming around him before he launched himself towards Dialga, both colliding once again.

Once the two have clashed, Palkia once again created an aura sphere. With no time to react, Dialga was sent back however he dug his feet into the ground which brought him to a halt. He, too, used aura sphere; however this time, he roared, using his Roar of Time on Palkia.

Unable to move, Palkia was hit by both attacks, the Roar of Time held him in his place and froze him for a moment before he was sent back by the Aura sphere. 

Before Palkia even had the chance to get back up, Dialga came in head first and forced him back into the ground. He struggled against his grip before he used Spacial Rend to once again, once again tearing the space and Dialga himself. As Dialga struggled against the attack, Palkia decided to fire another Aura sphere back into Dialga’s throat, pushing him farther back which gave him space to stand back up. It took Dialga a second, however, he, too, got up.

The two stood far from each other, catching their breaths. They had been fighting for who knows how long, no one was the clear victor yet. This made the two more aggravated as they launched themselves into the other, hitting with Slashes and their respective tail attacks. The two went at it relentlessly before both were struck by the same move, causing them to be sent flying back again.

Dialga stood back up and roared out of frustration. "You fool! If only you had know not to invade!" He shouted as he began to charge up.

"No, you are the fool here! You know very well that we are forbidden to trespass between realms, yet here you are doing so!" He shouted back and began charging as well.

Palkia prepared his Spacial Rend once again and targeted Dialga until he was caught off guard by the ground suddenly collapsing with small pillars erupting upwards, damaging and holding Palkia in place until he burst out using Aqua tail, destroying the ground that held him captive.

Angered, he flew right into Dialga, slamming his body against him, forcing Dialga into the ground which created a small crater from the weight forced on him. He jumped back only to watch Dialga stand up and jump out of the crater.

On sync, both fired an Aura Sphere which collided and created a small explosion, releasing smoke that covered the battlefield before both flew up into the sky and released a power beam, one being flash canon and the other being hydro pump. The attack collided yet neither held back. It continued for what felt like minutes, with neither one reaching the upper hand.

Meanwhile, a shadowy figure looms inside the distortion world. It was his home and gave him a sense of comfort as he roamed around in his own world that he was supposedly "banished" to, yet, in reality, it was Arceus helping Giratina learn how to control his power, anti-matter. The distortion world helped the pokemon return to his original and unique form, his Origin forme, allowing him to fly around in his serpentine form and slither about with his six wings. 

However, he was not aware of what his brethren were up to. To his surprise, the distortion world began to shake. He tried to examine what was wrong with the reversed platforms before another tremor came about. Confused, he began to make his way over to one of the mirrors which helped him observe and travel about. He discovered his brethren, fighting against each other. He thought the two of them knew better and knew the consequences of this battle. He continued to observe until...

The mirror shatters into small pieces.

He backed away, worried. Is it really happening? Many questions began forming as he slithered towards another, hoping to continue observing the battle yet it shattered in front of his very eyes. He turned and saw as each mirror shattered into multiple pieces as well as the platforms tremble and quake.

He tried to escape his own home which was destroying itself bit by bit, everything dissolving into nothingness until...

It was all gone.

With silence filling the air and nothing seemingly indicating that he was alive, Giratina drifted in the now destroyed vacuum of the Distortion World.

How could they act out on each other without realizing the consequences of their actions, especially when they slowly destroying the World they worked together on creating?! It was infuriating. Why? What compelled them to act out like that? Could I have stopped it?

'..Did I fail my task on protecting the World that I was assigned to?'

Only silence answered his question which left the Ghostly Dragon in a very aggressive state towards anything that came towards it.. Anything, but there was nothing now, there was no feel of life nor was there supposed to be life in the Distortion World besides Giratina.

'Damn them..' Thought the serpent deity as his body drifted deeper and deeper into the Distortion World, the peace he was now welcoming soon turned to a wet feeling, as if he was underwater

In fact he was underwater from the looks of it and this surprised the serpent greatly as he didn't form a portal to leave the Distortion World.

Bringing himself out of the Water, Giratina noticed somethings oddly different about himself. As any other the serpent went on ahead to look at his reflection in the water to his surprise, he is a hexapod being with three gold half rings wrapped around his neck. His head has a gold crown-like object with two large horn-like shapes pointing sideways beside his ear and one in the middle which was his true horn. A thick black stripe runs vertically down from his neck to his body with red horizontal stripes. His six legs are thick and have gold like claws with two golden semi-circles similar to those on his neck wrapped around. Each of the shoulder have golden horns. He has two large black ghostly wings. His mane and tail is black with the tips faded to red with red orbs tied at the end, however with his tail, those red orbs have two golden spikes.

Giratina was filled with confusion, this forme, it was unlike his altered forme. His appearance combined many elements from both formes he was able to change into however the body structure was unlike it at all. Sure, both his altered forme and this shared six legs however the size was smaller in comparison to that of his altered forme.

He took a moment to look at his own reflection before noticing the muddiness of the water blur up the water. This led him to examine his surroundings. The dark and swampy trees along with the frightening vibes certainly caught his attention and caused him to wonder why he was there. He did not recall a single place similar to this and a thought came into his mind, was he in a different world?

He noticed a path paved with dirt and began to follow it to where ever it led. It had not led him to a strange place. It was a small city however there were floating islands as well as buildings flipped upside down. While this is no surprise to the being as his own world was revered and upside down, he could not help but decide to inspect this city.

He continued to follow the path which rather than grass, it was a blue or purpled checkered ground. Not only that but a strange cloud came rolling by raining chocolate rather than rain. He couldn't help but question the laws and way the world works now.

His path finally led him to the strange city, no one seemed to be about the area so he continued his inspection of the place. He suddenly felt a strange feeling, causing him to slow down and act cautious. He soon spotted a lengthy being floating about, his shadow seemed like he had multiple parts of different creatures that just don't match each other and a large labyrinth made out of hedges. He could sense that the lengthy being is a dangerous one which led him to turn around and follow the trail back into the forest.

Hours have passed and finally, with Discord now defeated, order was brought back to Ponyville. There were no more floating land, no more buildings upside down, and no more strange clouds and grounds. Ecstatic, the main six plan to meet up and celebrate their victory.

Rainbow dash came flying out of her home and down into Ponyville and began walking around as per usual, heading over to Twilight's home. On her way there, she began to hear the whispers coming from the young fillies around. She couldn't help but be curious and leaned in to listen.

"Really?! What did he look like?" One whispered.

"I dunno! I just heard he looked like a tall pony with six feet!!!"

"Six!? that's no normal pony!"

"Uhuh, I know! Someone told me that it went back to the forest-"

"The everfree forest!?"

"Yeah! Wanna go over and check?"

"No way!"

Rainbow became both curious and confused, a strange, six-legged pony? There was no way it was natural. She suddenly thought, could this be discord's influence!? Is he still causing chaos!?

She instantly zoomed over to the Golden Oak Library and bursted through the door, shouting, "TWILIGHT!"

The purple Unicorn jumped and tumbled over, resulting in a large stack of books knocking over.

"Rainbow Dash!" The rest of the main six cried out of surprise.

"Where were you?! Don't you know we were supposed to meet up half an hour ago?" Rarity asked as she helped Twilight back up to her hooves.

"I know and I'm sorry but you gotta hear this," Rainbow said as she flew over to the rest of them to get closer, lowering her voice to a whisper. "Have you guys heard, of a scary, six-legged pony!?" As she spoke, her voice got louder and louder until it was enough to frighten Fluttershy, who backed away in fear.

"Rainbow Dash, we dont got time to listen to your ghost stories or anythin'" Applejack said as she looked at the pegasus with a disappointed look.

"Okay okay, believe me or not but we gotta take this seriously!" She said, landing on her hooves. "A pony with six-legs!? It sounds unnatural! and Y'know what recently happened?"

Twilight hesitated, "Discord-"

"Exactly! So we have to go check!"

"But shouldnt... Shouldn't there be no chaos at all...?" Fluttershy questioned.

"But what if there is! That means Discord could come back any time and catch us off guard!"

"I hate to admit it but Rainbow is right," Twilight spoke. "We should be cautious and make sure there's no way he's coming back."

"Rainbow, if this is one of your pranks, I swear to Celestia, I'll-" Rarity spoke before being cut off.

"It's not! It's not!" Rainbow said as she backed away.

"Alright, come on, every pony! To the Everfree Forest!" Twilight said.

The main six made their way deep inside the Everfree forest, following one path as the rumors had said. Each of them were huddled up close to each other as Twilight holds a flashlight out using her magic.

"Rainbow, are you sure this is no prank?" Rarity asked as she cautiously looks at her every step, being wary about stepping on any goo.

"Yes, Im sure!" Rainbow replied with an annoyed tone.

"Hush with all that yappin', we got a pony to find," Apple jack said as she turned to the two of them.

"Fluttershy, did you really not see anything?" Twilight asked.

"No...No, not at all..." Fluttershy admitted. "If there was... Someone... My friends would have... would have told me."

"I bet this is just a big bug crawling around and Rainbow got scared!" Pinkie laughed.

"No way-" Suddenly, a shadow caught Rainbow's attention. From behind a groups of trees was a tall figure lurking before disappearing.

She zoomed over and peaked over the tree before screaming, "I got you!" Only to see there was nothing there.

"Ahaha, good job Rainbow," Rarity said as she rolled her eyes.

"Nuh-uh! There was really something there!"

"Right."

All of a sudden, Twilight came to a halt, causing the rest to bump behind her.

"Twilight...? What's... What's wrong...?" Fluttershy asked.

"What's... That?" Twilight asked as she looked through a strange portal into a world where everything was upside down.

"Do ya think this is where Discord lives?" Apple jack asked as she looks through it with the rest of the main six.

"Looks pretty tacky to me-"

"Shush! If he heard you he'd be real mad!" Rainbow joked before a sudden shadow came looming over them, causing the air to go tense.

The main six slowly turned around and faced a large alicorn with their wings spread out. Their menacing, red eyes stared into them. Twilight quickly looked up and down and noticed that this strange creature had six legs. They began to back away, terrified of the creature looming above them. Seconds pass until...