Twilight looked confused at Ash as he bowed before Arceus and whispered ”Why are you bowing Ash?” Everypony else looked at the creature with either awe or curiosity.
Ash looked shocked up at her and whispered quickly back “He is the god of my world. He is Arceus. The one that created my world and everything living in it!” Twilight’s eyes widened in shock, before she quickly moved down and bowed as well, it seemed that their friends got the hint, as each of them moved down and bowed gently to Arceus.
Celestia and Luna looked at him closely, as he suddenly let out a deep laugh and said with an omnipotent voice “Rise Ash. You have no reason to bow for me my friend.”
Ash got up slowly and looked from Celestia and Luna and said “Princesses, may I introduce you to the almighty Arceus. Creator of my world and everything living in it.”
Celestia eyes widened slightly, while Luna was surprised as well. Celestia gave a short nod to Arceus as she said “It is an honor.”
They all felt a wave of positive emotions from him as his voice sounded again “The pleasure is mine Princess. I have looked forward to this day.”
She raised an eyebrow as Luna asked confused “Looked forward to this? Does thou mean, thou knew this day would come?”
He gave a mental chuckle and said “I admit, I have watched this world for a long time, studied it and the ponies that lived here.
You see, in the world I created it takes a lot of power for me to keep the pokémon in line and hold them alive, but lately I have felt my power grow immensely and I decided it was time to have another world share the wonders of pokémon. I have looked over many worlds, but never have I seen one as this. The love and peace in this world is breath taking and I decided I needed a test subject to study this world for me and the citizens’ reactions to pokémon. Ash here became my subject, as he is the friendliest and human with the purest heart I know. For many months I have studied his progress and how his team of pokémon has adapted to this familiar, yet different world. I have long since decided that it is now the time to go further.” He took a breath and studied their reactions, most of them was very shocked, while Celestia held back a smirk and Luna looked a little uncertain.
He looked at the ponies in front of him and said with a warm voice “Each of you ponies have shown incredible value and compassion. Each of you hold respect for any living creature you come across and therefor I have decided each of you get your own team of pokémon. Each unique to your personality and talents and each of them holding a very special pokémon.”
As he said this, nine boxes was levitated out of the portal and placed in front each of them, also Celestia and Luna who couldn't hold back a smile of excitement.
“Feel free to open them.” He said with a warm tone, as he noticed their nervousness or, in Pinkie’s case, eager to reveal their pokémon.
Pinkie immediately opened her box and pulled out the five pokéballs and she opened them all at once with eager as she grinned excited and bounced up and down. A huge flash appeared and most had to shield their eyes and a second later a group of pokémon.
The first Ash noticed was a Sandile, a small light brown crocodile pokémon with dark stripes. A ground/dark type if he remembered correct from his adventures. The Sandile looked around with a bored look, knew from what the great Arceus had told him, that his new trainer was supposed to be around here and suddenly he yelped as he was brought into a tight embrace by Pinkie, who squealed loudly and cried out “A new playmate for Gummy!!” The group just laughed as the Sandile looked shocked up at the pink pony and let out a questionable growl.
Pinkie looked down at the pokémon and said with a huge grin “Hello! My name is Pinkie Pie and I’m your new best friend! Oh we are going to have so much fun and all!” She looked over at the other pokémon and her eyes fell on the fire monkey, also known as Chimchar and said “THE MONKEY IS ON FIRE!!”
Chimchar looked at her offended, while Ash laughed and said “Pinkie, it is normal. Chimchar is a fire type and later will evolve into a fire/fighting type.”
“Ohhh…” Said Pinkie, before she grinned again “Cool! A fire pokémon! I’m sure he can help me bake my cupcakes!”
“What could you need such fire power for, for some simple cupcakes?” Asked Twilight confused.
Pinkie just smiled widely to her and said “Maybe I could invite you over sometimes and give you a proper… introduction to how cupcakes are made…” Ash didn't know why he just had a shiver down his back and decided to ignore whatever just happened.
Then Pinkie felt something tug in her fur, on her leg and looked down curious and gasped at what she saw, it was a little pink pokémon that looked like it wore a black gnome hat. It looked up at her with its black and white eyes as it asked “Mime?”
Pinkie immediately gathered the pokémon into a tight embrace it returned with a happy grin and she said “You’re so tiny!” She looked over at Ash and asked “What it its name?!”
Ash shook his head and answered with a smile, happy to see Pinkie so happy and excited “Her name is Mime Jr. and she is a girl”
“She is adorable!” She said as she still hugged her and somehow in the progress manages to pull both Chimchar and Sandile into the same hug. Chimchar just laughed and returned the hug, while Sandile sighed and gave up, not able to fight her off.
Ash smiled at the sight, but knew it would take hours if they continued at this pace with introducing the pokémon teams to their new partners and quickly said “Well, from what I remember is Mime Jr. a psychic type. Chimchar is a fire, while Sandile is a Ground/Dark type. All three of them are quite powerful if trained and cared for the right way. Pinkie, let out your two last pokémon please, then I will explain.”
She did so with an eager grin, the three other pokémon also looked curious for who their new friends and partners might be. Out of the two last pokéballs sprung a little green turtle with a leaf poking out of its head. It looked curious at Pinkie and said
“Turtwig?”
The second pokémon was smaller blue pokémon with a water lily looking plant on top of its head. The blue pokémon just looked lazily up at Pinkie and said with a little bored voice “Lotad…”
Ash grinned and said “That my friends, is a Turtwig and Lotad. Both very good pokémon and I believe you have a fully evolved Lotad back at home right Brock?” He nodded with a fond smile and Ash continued “Turtwig is a grass type, but will evolve into a grass/ground type, while Lotad is a water/grass type and will stay that way through all its evolutions.” Pinkie was too busy introducing herself to her new friends, as Celestia and Twilight nodded with a smile.
Luna, who had been very excited about this, couldn’t hold back any longer as she said “Can we possibly be the next to reveal our new team?” Ash just grinned as Celestia nodded to her sister. Luna smiled gently and nodded in thanks to her sister and Ash, before she turned to Arceus and said “We thank thou for this.”
He chuckled and said “Do not thank me my dear Luna. It is a mere gift and well deserved.” She blushed a little at the ‘dear’ part, but hid it well as she turned to the pokéballs and opened them one after one with her magic.
In a matter of few seconds stood a team of five different, yet to Ash very familiar pokémon and he smiled as Luna looked amazed at her new team. Ash chuckled as he went over to the first pokémon, which was a moon looking rock levitating in midair and with dark red eyes. It let out a rattling noise as it looked at Luna and he said “Looks like you received the pokémon known as Lunatone, quite fitting for the moon princess indeed. He is a Rock/Psychic and can be a very powerful pokémon.
Luna gently moved a hoof over to the meteorite pokémon and softly ran his cold surface and she smiled. “What wonderful specie…” Celestia smiled as her sister admired the pokémon, happy to see her gain some friends and someone she can relate to with her night.
Ash in the meantime looked at the other pokémon and said quietly “Mostly night or moon related pokémon I see…” He raised his voice to normal tone as he said “The next pokémon is the Eevee evolution Umbreon.” He said this as he petted Umbreon gently, making it purr in delight “Umbreon is a dark type and can only be achieved by evolving Eevee doing the nighttime.”
Luna looked over at him with a surprised, but happy look “Thou speak the truth? Does certain pokémon species only evolve during the nighttime?”
“Indeed there is.” Answered Ash as he let Umbreon walk carefully over to the princess, before it smiled happily and nuzzled against her leg and she smiled softly to the pokémon.
She lifted Umbreon onto her back with a soft smile and said as Umbreon curled together in a ball on her back “It is truly a beautiful pokémon.” Twilight looked at Lunatone with interest as he levitated Pinkie up in the air with an amused look as Pinkie squealed in excitement and cried out.
“Look at me Ash! I’m flying!” Ash just smiled amused and gave a short laugh as he turned towards the three other pokémon who awaited him to introduce him, having figured out what was going on.
He walked up to the next pokémon in the line. It was a cat looking pokémon with a pale yellow looking skin and a purple ball on its tail, a bunch of fur around its neck of same color and a couple of purple cat like ears. Ash smiled as the pokémon looked at him with a smile and he said “And this little cutie is Delcatty, evolved form of Skitty, when it comes in contact with a moonstone. She is a normal type.”
Luna looked up as he said ‘moonstone’ while Twilight looked interested as well and Celestia just listened with a smile. The others in the group looked at the pokémon that Luna and Pinkie had received with interest “Do thou mean that humans hast received stones from the surface of the moon?”
“Indeed we have.” Answered Ash “Both because some meteorites, falling rocks from space, contains pieces of stones from outer space, but also because humans have been able to travel to the moon for many years now with advanced technology.”
Twilight looked shocked as Luna gaped lightly, never believed it would be possible to reach the moon and she said with a whisper “I can learn to love this human race… To think that any creature would travel to the moon willingly.”
Ash shrugs “What can I say? Humans are curious by nature and wish to learn everything they possibly can.” He returned to the next pokémon, a yellow and brown one that stands on two legs and had what looked like a tapir snout. Ash smiled as the pokémon looked dully at him and he said “Well Luna. It looks like you got yourself a Drowzee, the hypnosis pokémon. Psychic type and very good at putting all kinds of creatures to sleep, control their minds and even eat their dreams.” Luna and Celestia looked a little interested by this, and went to greet Drowzee, who lazily greeted his new trainer.
Ash yawned, feeling this whole thing taking its toll on him and turned to Luna’s last pokémon “And this is Musharna. Another Psychic type and also evolved by Moon Stone from Munna. This girl can be incredibly powerful.”
Luna looked at the pokémon as it floated in midair in a state that looked like sleep “Is she sleeping?”
Ash shook his head “Not sleeping. In a deep medical state. She can sense the world around her perfectly.” Luna smiled and petted the pokémon and it glowed briefly in a pink aura. Ash turned towards the other six ponies who needed to be introduced to their pokémon team and groaned as he thought “This is going to be a looong day…”
After two hours everyone was introduced to their pokémon and either chatting, studying or playing with them. Celestia admired her new team, before she frowned lightly and turned to Arceus “Mind if I ask, why we only received a team of five pokémon, when I know for fact that a full team stands out of six pokémon?”
Arceus grinned and said with a light mysterious tone “Tests will come to you all to prove if you’re worthy of your last pokémon.” Celestia looked surprised and narrowed her eyes lightly and he added quickly “Do not worry. These tests will not cause any harm, but only prove if you’re worth of their power. For now I must leave Celestia. We will see each other again sooner than you think.” She nods in understanding and with a flash was Arceus gone. Leaving the ponies with their new friends and partners.
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Team List: (I do this because it would take forever to write an introduction to each team and each pokémon and I almost fell asleep during writing this chapter alone)
Celestia’s current team: Solrock, Espeon, Volcarona, Cottonee, Bellossom.
Luna’s current team: Lunatone, Umbreon, Drowsee, Delcatty, Musharna.
Pinkie’s current team: Sandile, Lotad, Turtwig, Chimchar, Mime Jr.
Twilight’s current team: Flareon, Ponyta, Abra, Spoink, Kricketot.
Rarity’s current team: Vaporeon, Feebas, Sableye, Mareep, Swablu.
Applejack’s current team: Leafeon, Drilbur, Wooper, Gligar, Miltank.
Fluttershy’s current team: Glaceon, Ralts, Chikorita, Snubull, Alomomola.
And Rainbow’s current team: Jolteon, Tailow, Aerodactyl, Sneasel, Bagon.
Each will get a last pokémon with the test mentioned, if they pass.
Special thanks to The Boost We All Need for the ideas to each team.