Chapter Eight
WEAPON Emerges
“Why is it that every time I leave something weird happens when you two are involved?” Bon-Bon asked as Emma gave her a sheepish smile.
“In my defense. I was not expecting the material to change Lyra into a human.” She said before looking over at Lyra, who was still feeling herself. “This raises a lot of possible questions that I would love to study. But that will have to wait a bit. Were you able to find the books that I need?”
“Public wise, yes.” The mare said as she reached into her saddlebag to pull out the books involving teleportation magic. “Keep in mind that we can’t keep them for long. Other unicorns need them to practice their magic.”
“It won’t take me long. I’ll just read through the important stuff.” Emma said before taking the books from Bon-Bon and beginning to read through them.
“While you’re at it, could you change Lyra back into a pony?” Bon-Bon asked as she looked over at Lyra who was now trying to stand on her two feet with the help of Burgundy and Georgia, but soon fell on top of the glaceon.
“If I did know how to turn her back to a pony, then she would be a pony by now.” The soldier answered while still looking at the book she was reading. “If anything, she should have the ability to turn herself back to normal, but it might take time given the sudden change.”
“Which I’m not going to do anytime soon!” Lyra yelled as she tried to stand up once again with Burgundy and Georgia’s help. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Why would I pass up the chance of being human?”
“Pseudo human to be accurate. Mainly because you still have the ears, tail, and horn of a unicorn.” Emma corrected as Lyra rolled her eyes.
“The point is, I’m not changing back anytime soon~,” She said as Bon-Bon deadpans at her before looking at Emma.
“I blame you for this. You know that, right?”
“You can’t blame me for not knowing something like this would happen,” Emma said as she took her attention from off her book and onto Burgundy and Georgia. “I filled out my end of the deal we have. Well at least part of it, I’m owed a little bit of information, right?” She asked as Burgundy and Georgia looked at each other for a moment before nodding.
“Seeing how you’re willing to help us. We’ll give you some things that we know about Pokemon…It’s not gonna be a lot though.” Georgia said as Emma shrugged.
“Any information is better than nothing.” She said as the two human turned pokemon looked at each other again before Georgia spoke.
“It is said in many Sinnoh legends that the universe was created by a single Pokémon, Arceus. In a void of nothingness, a single Egg came into being, which then hatched into Arceus, the first Pokémon to come into existence.” She said before noticing Emma placing the book she was reading to the side and pulling out a notebook to write down what she said. “Arceus created Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina and gave Dialga and Palkia the abilities to control time and space, respectively. Giratina vanishes into another dimension and controls antimatter. I don’t know much about the science behind it, but all you need to know is that Arceus was the one that created everything, Dialga controls time, Palkia controls space, and Giratina controls antimatter.”
“Interesting, do go on?” Emma asked as Burgundy spoke.
“With the creation of the Pokémon universe, many stars, planets, and other celestial bodies were formed. The Pokémon world was created along with many other planets. During the very early formation of the world, possibly sooner, Arceus created Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit to create willpower, knowledge, and emotion, respectively, things that are in all modern humans and Pokémon.”
“...That’s…weird….but continue.”
“World is split into several regions: Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos. Each one brimming with pokemon specific to their region. Sometimes pokemon from different regions can end up in regions that you rarely see. Which causes a lot of trainers like us to try and capture them with poke balls so we can train them.”
“People capture pokemon….so they can train them to fight each other?” Emma asked. “Don’t you like...I don’t know, prove to them that you’re worthy to be their trainer like I did with my summonings?”
“....What do you mean by that?”
“Oh…right. Guess I never did show you guys them.” Emma said as everyone looked at each other with concerned expressions on their faces. They watch the soldier lift her hand as it glowed red with circle symbols around it. Within a matter of seconds, the same circles appeared in the middle of the room they were sitting in as a puff of magic appeared from it. As the puff of magic cloud vanished a Cactuar appeared as it gave off a cute squick-like noise.
“....What on earth is that!?” Georgia asked in slight shock, though Burgundy would be a bit curious at the Cactuar who began to run around them.
“A summoning. Each materia has a specific color. Green represents magic, red represents summoning, yellow represents skills, blue represents support, and purple represents independent skills that boost your body's abilities.” She said before reaching into her bag to pull out a red materia. “Red materia allows you to summon god-like entities that will assist you in battle. But before they can lend you their strength, you will have to prove to them that you’re a partner strong enough for them.”
“....How many of them do you have?” Bon-Bon asked as she noticed the human counting her fingers.
“I have a lot, but I keep a lot of them within my body.” She said before noticing Lyra having the Cactuar dance on her head in a playful manner before looking at Emma as it squeaks. “Yeah I know it’s been a while, but if you paid attention to where I was before coming to this place, you would know why I could summon you.”
“Wait, you can understand what it’s saying?” Burgundy asked as Emma nodded.
“Keep in mind, they’re not pokemon but magical god-like beings from another plane of existence.”
“So like Arceus?”
“If you mean on a planetary level of destruction, yes. Being able to teleport all the pokemon that half of the good humans to this place, no. There are limits to what they can or can’t do.” She said before noticing Lyra having the Cactuar in her arms like a plushie. “Hence why I asked about the means of getting pokemon. And the tools you use to capture them are poke balls?”
“Yeah, we use them to capture the pokemon we defeat, or they choose to come with us and we use them to mark them as ours. That way a trainer doesn’t accidentally capture them and we can carry them around with us to places that don’t allow Pokemon to be out.”
“Understandable. And these poke balls, are the pokemon that are inside them okay inside of that craps space, or is it like my bag where they’re shrunk small and placed in a wide-open space?”
“Just like your bag in a way.” She said before noticing Emma writing down more notes.
“Very interesting. And how many Pokemon are there?”
“There are about seven hundred twenty-one species of pokemon. Each one with a specific type.” Burgundy answered as Emma raised an eyebrow at her. “For example. Georgia is a glaceon. Which is an ice type. It has an advantage over grass, ground, flying, and dragon types. Though it has a huge disadvantage over fighting, steel, fire, and rock types.”
“So pokemon have a type disadvantage towards certain elemental attacks,” Emma said as she wrote down the information. “I think that’s enough information for now.”
“Really? But we haven’t even gotten to the researchers in each region.”
“I’ll ask for more once I get you both to turn back into humans. As much as I would love to learn more, I think I’ll hold off in case I can’t fulfill my end of the deal.”
“You are a dedicated person when it comes to a deal like this,” Lyra said as Emma looked over at her with a nod.
“Shinra screwed over a lot of people, me included given what I told you and Bon-Bon day we met. Unlike them, I try my best to keep my deals with the people I make. So far, I keep my end of the deal ninety-five percent of the time.”
“And the other five percent?” Bon-Bon asked.
“I couldn’t keep the deal because they end up dying the next day.” She said which took everyone by surprise. “What? It’s the deepground? It’s survival of the fittest there.”
“Care to explain?” Georgia asked as she noticed worried expressions on the ponies' faces. “What, it’s like she’s going to say something like it’s bad?”
“....Do you want to know?” Emma asked as the dragon buster noticed a slightly serious expression on the human’s face. “Because I’m willing to tell you, but fair warning. It’s not a pleasant life that I lived.”
“It’s true,” Lyra said as shudders at the mental images in her head from hearing Emma's story. “Not something I would like to hear again. Thank Celestia you don’t have any physical images of what happened to you.”
“Um…yeah…it’s a good thing I don’t have that lying around,” Emma said before glaring at the Cactuar after making a squeaking noise. “Quiet you.”
“Something wrong?” Bon-Bon asked as the human shook her head.
“Nothing, anyway. I suppose it’s fair to inform Georgia and Burgundy about where I come from and how I got here.” Emma said before reaching into her bag to pull out a bag of freshly made buckets of popcorn and placed it in between the glaceon and deerling. “It all started when I was found near a pool of mako energy…”
[Manehattan]
Underneath the water of Manehattan, Kyogre, Latias, and Latios began their search for any place else that gave off strange energy that Arceus described to his children via telepathy. The two legendary pokemon began their search underneath the ocean surrounding Manehatten seeing how it was giving off the same aura of energy that came off from Canterlot and Ponyville as told by the alpha pokemon.
“You see anything sister?” Latios asked as Latias shook her head.
“I don’t see anything on my end. I can see the energy coming from the ocean, but the problem is I don’t know where.”
“Would be better if we had Mewtwo here. He’s much better at this kind of stuff than we are.”
“He’s busy looking for the same source in Canterlot.” Latias said as she took the lead in their search. “Not to mention, he’s keeping him on a tight leash after what happened in the forest.”
“Right…It didn’t help that it was a human turned into a pokemon.”
“And let's not forget about what he did to that mint unicorn.” She said as it caused Latios to groan.
“Father made a mistake letting Mewtwo represent pokemon. He should’ve let Mew or someone else with fewer anger issues and didn't have the social skills at a geodude…no wait, the social skills of a slowpoke might be more fitting.”
“That seems to be a bit harsh don’t you think?”
“No, I’m not. It’s bad enough that our father didn’t take the proper care to have the pokemon and humans that are good be teleported to this planet, but we’ve been putting out fires almost every day. Not that I don’t mind helping, but this is a mess that I don’t think will be solved anytime sooner than anyone can expect.”
“I can understand your frustration with what father did, but at least he’s trying to fix the mistake he made. You can’t deny that he is doing something.”
“That I won’t deny, but something like this could’ve been avoided with a bit more planning…I still believe that father has lost his mind a long time ago when the humans sealed him away.”
“Latios!?”
“What? I’m not the only one who thinks that as well. Groudon and Kyogre thought that as well and were against the idea of father’s plan. He didn’t even give the humans that were good the option of being a pokemon or human.”
“And you know why he chooses for humans to be pokemon, right?”
“A ridiculous excuse that having humans turn into pokemon to prevent evil from the humans to affect this world isn’t going to help.”
“You don’t agree with his reasoning?”
“Evil resides in everyone's sister. It’s up to the person to choose to act on those evil intentions. We Pokemon aren’t so different from humans.”
“...You don’t resent the humans, even after what happened?”
“No, I don’t. Though I don’t trust all humans, I don’t resent them either.” He said before looking over at Latios. “I mean, you don’t resent humans, seeing how you’re in a relationship with Ash and that Misty person.”
“....Wait, how did you know!?” Latias asked with a slight blush on her face.
“You do realize that your mind is like an open book…also Mew informed me. You do know she can’t keep a secret for longer than a month…right?” He said with a slight smirk on his face.
“...You don’t find it weird that I’m in a relationship like this?”
“I’ve seen weirder…plus this gives me another reason to tease you about~”
“Why am I not surprised by this?” Latios said as she heard her brother chuckle at her misery, but that soon came to a halt as they felt a sudden change in the water. A heavy pressure developed around the two dragons for a few seconds before it vanished. “Brother, did you feel that?”
“I did. What on earth was that?” he asked only for his question to be answered by Kyogre rushing over to him and Latias.
“We need to leave. Like right now!” He yelled as the two dragon pokemon looked at each other for a moment then back to Kyogre.
“What did you do?” Latios asked as they soon felt the ground of the ocean shake and rocks beginning to split apart.
“Um…okay, so I might’ve found the source of where the strange energy is coming from…and I might’ve attacked it by accident due to how it startled me with its eyes lighting up.” He said which caused Latios and Latias to stare at him in disbelief. “It scared the living daylights out of me, you can’t expect me not to do something like that!”
“Father said not to attack whatever the source causing this strange energy!” Latias yelled as Kyogre glared at her.
“Oh, I’m sorry I’m not as brave as most of our siblings that can stare unknown danger in the eyes without getting spooked!”
“Now’s not the time for you two to be arguing,” Latios said as he motions for them to leave. “We need to get to the surface. Because whatever is coming up is going to come out of the water.” He said as Latias and Kyogre glared at each other for a moment before swimming off to the surface of the ocean. Once they reach the surface, they notice large amounts of bubbles forming around them as they either quickly take to the sky or move away from the area by swimming somewhere else. As soon as they were away from the area, something began to slowly appear from out of the water. Ponies that took notice of what was going on in the water stopped and watched as whatever it was slowly ascended from out of the water. Once it was visible to see, they saw what appeared to be an emerald sea-like creature as it towered over the legendary pokemon.
“What in the name of father is that creature!?” Latios asked in both shock and awe at this thing he was looking at.
“I don’t think it’s a pokemon, at least from what I can tell.” Latias said as she carefully examined the emerald creature from a distance. “You think we can communicate with it?”
“I’ll try.” He said before using telepathy to try and communicate with the creature. The moment he did that, Latios felt the world around him vanish and soon found himself in complete darkness. The eon pokemon blinked in surprise as he looked around to see where Latias and Kyogre were, but was soon distracted by the sounds of footsteps coming from behind him. He quickly turned around to see a female human, with cherry color hair, and dark skin and was wearing odd clothing that gave off a light-blue glow.
“Is that…a human?” He asked as he watched the human walk past him. The moment he turned in the direction the human was walking in, he quickly closed his eyes upon being flashed by a bright emerald glow. Once he felt the light vanish, he noticed the creature that emerged from the sea appearing in front of the human before lowering itself down towards her. The human raised her hand towards the creature as the same energy they saw around the city of Manehatten expelled from her hand and into the creature. Within a matter of seconds, the creature gave out a roar before expelling the same energy like an explosion. Just as the explosion was about to hit Latios, the vision ended as he staggered backward down towards the water.
“Are you alright? What happened?” Kyogre asked after watching Latias quickly catch her brother from hitting the water.
“....We need to head over to Canterlot,” Latios said as she slowly pulled himself off of Latias.
“Why is that?” Latias asked.
“Because I need to get in contact with our father, and Mewtwo’s the only one with the ability to do that seeing how he’s the strongest psychic out of all of us.”
“And what about the creature?” Kyogre asked as he pointed a fin at it.
“You and Latias are going to have to keep an eye on it.” He said before floating up a bit. “Mainly because you Kyogre woke it up and for Latias because you need someone to send word if the creature moves and to make sure you don’t attack it again.”
“Of course…” Kyogre said with a tone of annoyance in his voice.
“Understood, I’ll keep watch and come to you if anything happens.” Latias said as she watched her brother zoom off in the direction of Ponyville.
