I should have added this in the first chapter... But here
I DO NOT OWN POKEMON OR MY LITTLE PONY.
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In Canterlot
Lieutenant High Marks was in a rush to get to Princess Celestia. There was some very pressing news, and it was important was he got to her in time. The Canterlot Castle was a labyrinth of hallways for any tourist, but for an well trained Royal Guard, it was a foal's maze. High Marks made several sharp turns into perpendicular hallways until he reached a set of double doors: the Royal Court Room. With an extra burst of speed, he barreled through the doors to the sight of Princess Celestia having a conversation with a guard.
"Your Majesty!" High Marks called out, out of breath.
"Yes, Lieutenant?" The Solar Regent asked, she could see the urgency on his face. "What's wrong?"
"There... seems," The guard pony was still trying to catch his breath. "To be... a... a..."
"Yes?" Princess Celestia asked, patiently. "What is it?"
"A monster!" High Marks sputtered out. The white Alicorn looked confused.
"A monster?" She smirked a bit. "Of what nature?"
"It's very dangerous, your Highness!" the stallion said. "It's rampaging nearby the Everfree Forest, and it's like nothing I've ever seen!" Now the Princess was interested.
"What do you mean, Lieutenant?" Her tone was very serious.
"It's some kind of three-headed dragon." High Marks described. "But it was black and blue, and it was spewing fire, dark magic, and some kind of magical fire in all directions. We need to stop it before it reaches civilization!"
"What town is closest to it?" Celestia asked, though she felt she knew the answer already.
"Ponyville, your Majesty." He answered. The white Alicorn got up from her Court seat and walked over to the informant. Without any warning, she teleported the both of them to the Observation Tower, where there was a large telescope. However, they were not the first to be there. A dark blue alicorn stood and looked through the eyepiece of the telescope, which was pointed in the direction of the Everfree Forest. She looked up and saw Princess Celestia and High Marks exit their teleport and walked over to the telescope, visages evident with worry.
"Sister," Luna started. "What shall we do about this monster? It seems to possess great power."
"So do we, Luna." Celestia replied. "We could try to calm it down, or at the very worst, incapacitate or terminate it."
"I feared this," Luna said, then looked through the telescope once more, "What? Another new creature?" At this Celestia magically moved the telescope to her own eye and saw what Luna was seeing: a couple of weird bipedal creatures walking up to the raging three headed monster.
"We need to get down there," Celestia stated. "High Marks!" The guard finally stood at attention, waiting for her order. "Have Shining Armor and a group of guards at the ready. We will be confronting these potentially hostile creatures."
"Yes, my Princess!" High Marks saluted and ran down the tower stairs to get the Royal Guards' Captain and recently made Prince.
Stephen's POV
Nova and I had been walking around for ages. I heard the occasional rustling behind me, confirming Nova's suspicions earlier: someone or something was following us. I couldn't tell what was following us; they were being quite sneaky, and I was too focused on trying to reunite my team. Everything was quiet except the breeze against the leaves, until...
"HyDRAAAAAA!" A loud roar echoed through the trees, but was originating from somewhere still ahead of us. Nova and I looked to each other, to a deep breath, and sprinted forward together until we reached the edge of the forest, but where I first started. I put Nova in her Pokeball without warning; Reaper and Nova in a fight do not mix.
"How in the hell," I started, quite winded, "Did I not see this little bastard when I entered this place?" There, in all its destructive and rampaging glory, was a black, blue, and purple three headed dragon, popularly known as Hydreigon. I named him Reaper because he was able to obliterate any opponent in his way, Hydreigon are known for being destructive and violent; it was very difficult training Reaper, but it was worth it in the end. "Reaper!" I called out at the rampaging Dark/Dragon type Pokemon, which turned out to be a ridiculously stupid move. It's main head turned to the sound of voice and fired a Dragon Pulse right at me. I guessed it was a warning shot, as it missed me by a few feet. I took a deep breath and stepped forward.
"Now Reaper," I tried negotiating. "This can go down two ways, the easy and the hard way." I'm pretty sure I saw something move from the mountain at the corner of my eye. "So just calm down, and we can talk, okay?" His response was a Dark Pulse, again at me. I was lucky his two STAB moves missed; I was still worried about the rest of his arsenal, though. It fired a Focus Blast, but this time in another direction. It exploded by a line of trees, and exposed a group of pastel colored, what I presumed to be, horses. I tried shooing them away, but one of them shot a purple beam at Reaper, a big mistake. Once the beam passed Reaper's head, it fired a dark pulse at the weird group of horses, sending them flying into the brush. I sent out Tempest and yelled angrily at the Hydreigon.
"Hey!" I waved my arms and pointed at Tempest. "Your fight is with us! Leave them alone!" I swallowed my fear of one of my own Pokemon and then ordered. "Tempest, Waterfall!" And the great leviathan lunged at the dragon, but missed as the Dragon dodged and flew up above us. "Tempest, use Hydro Pump!" The super pressured jet of water hit Reaper dead on, but the latter managed to fire a Dragon Pulse at my Gyarados. If it weren't for Tempest's naturally high Special Defense, he'd be a goner. I noticed that the Hydreigon had lowered itself to almost ground level, but was now glowing with a strange bluish purple light. Reaper charged at Gyarados, the power of his Dragon Rush crackling about his body. "Tempest" I yelled, "Meet him with an Ice Fang!" The two collided with a small explosion, almost as strong as Volta's Discharge. When the dust settled, a very tired Gyarados could barely stay standing, and crashed to the ground, exhausted. I smiled, he was exhausted, but not fainted. I looked to his opponent, Reaper, and saw a different story. His six wing were frozen, as well as his two smaller heads. He was struggling in vain to break out; I took this opportunity to place my hand on his head and calm, him down.
"Yet another troublemaker made it onto my team, eh?" I noticed I got Reaper's attention. "After so long, you still have the raw rampaging power to match Tempest. Then again, that day we met told me that even the most fearsome of monsters could have a kind heart." I looked up to the afternoon sun as I remembered my finals days in Unova.
~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~~
"So, Stephen," a blonde haired youth looked to the senior trainer. "You think what have what it takes to beat me?" His opponent simply smiled and nodded, he'd been wandering around Victory Road, and came across a very energetic trainer, about 6 years his junior. "Well, let me tell you something, dude. My name's Barry, and I'm gonna have you running back to the Pokemon Center!"
"Oh really?" an 18 year old Stephen said. "You think you have what it takes to beat a Champion of the 4 other Pokemon regions?" He liked his challenger's spirit; this would be a good battle. And a grand battle it was, unfortunately for Barry, he saved his Unfezant for last against Stephen's Samurott, and the latter ended the battle with an Ice Beam. Barry looked at the ground in defeat as he handed to victor the prize money. "it's okay, Barry. " Stephen consoled him. "It was a great battle, and it was nice that both of us had fun." The blonde trainer regained his energy in a smile. "You're a good trainer, just keep treating your Pokemon well, and you'll do great," They shook hands, then noticed a noise near them.
"What's that?" Barry tiptoed over to the source of the noise, Stephen followed. "Whoa, is that...?" The two had stumbled upon a two on one. Two Heatmor were cornering a Deino, who was guarding a group of noticeably small Durant. One Heatmor used a Slash attack at the Deino, who took the hit and countered with a Headbutt. The attacker went down, and its brother charged at him for another Slash attack. However, it missed and the Deino managed to get a harsh Bite attack on the Heatmor's arm, causing it to back away. The two trainers watched as the Heatmor inhaled and breathed out fire in a harsh Flamethrower, but the Deino had other plans. It fired a fire of its own, but this one looked more like a very colorful aurora; this was Dragonbreath. The Flamethrower barely reached the Dragon type as the Dragonbreath cancelled the flames and hit the Heatmor right in its chest, sending it flying. It got up and ran away. The Deino looked to the Durant behind him, checking on them. They nodded their thanks and went on their way.
"Do you want to catch it?" Stephen asked Barry. "A Hydreigon is a valuable asset to any team"
"Nah," Barry responded, and the senior trainer was bewildered. "It takes to long for him to evolve into just Zweilous, and I plan to keep moving forward!" With that, before Stephen could make up his mind to slap this child, Barry walked in the direction of the entrance to Victory Road, so he could find the nearest Pokemon Center. Stephen looked back at the Deino, who seemed to now be bumping around the darkness of the cave, He approached the clumsy Pokemon.
"Hey there, Deino." Stephen greeted the Dark/Dragon type, who was now looking at him. "You seem lost. That would make two of us." Stephen chuckled by himself as the Deino then nodded him over and started walking in some direction. The trainer, curious, followed. After a short, silent hike through the expansive cavern, Stephen had found himself at the Entrance to the Unova League Elite Four Headquarters. He looked down at the Deino. "Thanks." He said, but then though of how Barry said how he didn't want to train him, how he implied that another Pokemon would just slow him down. Stephen would never say something like that.
"Say, Deino," He began before the little one could move away. "What do you say you come with me? I see that you have a kind heart, despite what the villagers say about your species. You're not all violent and destructive; you just demonstrated that today. And I know that with you on the team, neither one of us will get lost. And if we do, at least we're lost together." The Deino considered this for a second. "I'll even nickname you!" Stephen offered. He hadn't given his Pokmeon nicknames since he left Sinnoh. "How about... Darkness?" The Deino shook its head; Stephen was out of practice. "Um, how bout... Angel?" The Deino shook his head violently. There goes the ironic, humorous choice. Stephen thought. "How about, Reaper?" The black and blue Pokemon though about this, then nodded its head. "Well then, Reaper, welcome to my team!"
~~~~Real time~~~~
"And from there, we went on to take down the Elite Four, and I had just added you to my team!" I said, reminiscing about our victory. "I even remember that one time with Iris." I chuckled as a small flame met my face, but it missed. I looked down at Reaper, and I didn't even notice that his colors had turned back to normal. It's not like I could tell that his colors were darker, his coat and skin were already dark as is. "It's good to have you back to normal, buddy."
"Hyydra," Reaper happily cried,, as I applied a Super Potion. I looked now to my exhausted Gyarados, and gave him a Hyper Potion; he fought Patrician and Reaper back to back, nowhere near an easy feat. I looked over to the now recovering horses and walked over. They were smaller than normal horses, and two of them had horns, a third had wings, and the fourth had neither. Weird.
"Well, hello there. Are you alright?" What happened next blew my freaking mind.
"Yes, we're fine, now." The purple one who shot the beam replied. "Um, are you okay? I'M SORRY BUT DID THIS PONY JUST TALK? I was in a short state of shock before I realized she was trying to get my attention. "Are you okay? What's wrong?" She, at least it sounded like one, said.
"No, it's alright," I assured her. "I'm just not used to seeing little equine creature speak coherent English. Of course, there was that Slowbro and Meowth, but still."
"English? Do you mean, Equish?" The purple one asked, puzzled. Are you serious? I thought. Just where the hell am I? "I'm pretty sure that you're not from around here, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but..." I tried to play it cool with what I said next. "Was it you and your friends who were following me?" She nodded shyly and her friends followed suit. "So, all this time, when I've been calling out for help when I was lost, you were right behind me and did nothing? Talk about hospitality." I crossed my arms. I was getting a little mad; they'd been following me this whole time. Were they studying me? Would they try to take me down and experiment on me? But one question rang through my head, should I trust them?
"I'm very, very sorry about that, um..." She nodded her head in my direction, as if expecting something. I gave her my name. "Stephen. Hmm, what an interesting name. But I digress, we were supposed to follow you and figure out if you were some kind of threat to our world."
"You do know," My hand slowly met my forehead. Not exactly a slap, but the disappointment was still there. "That you could have confronted me and asked me?" The four equines now looked at the ground in guilt.
"We're mighty sorry," said the orange one. She didn't have a horn or wings like the others, but I'd guess and say that she still had an important leadership role somehow. "We've never anything like ya before. Especially with pets like that.
"They're not pets, actually. They're-" i was cut off by some a golden beam of light coming between me and the ponies, and a very, very loud voice.
"STEP AWAY FROM OUR SUBJECTS, FOUL CREATURE!" I turned to see about a dozen white coated equines, all clad in some kind of golden armor, and behind them, two equines that stood tall compared to the others. They had both horns and wings. The smaller of the two was dark blue and had a flowing mane that moved with an otherworldly wind small points in her mane made it seem like it was the night sky. The taller one, obviously the more intimidating one, was completely white, and had a mane with qualities similar to the blue one, but instead of dark blue, it was a rainbow.
"We will not let you continue to cause havoc in our country, alien." The small blue equine stomped her hoof threateningly, like a Tauros about to charge. I looked at the guards around them. Many of them also had horns, which lit up as they somehow managed to suspend spears in the same glow. Just as this happened, Nova popped out of her ball.
"Nova!" I yelled. "What are you doing?"
"Their energies, Stephen!" She was pointing out the unicorns holding their spears. "Like a Psychic type's, but not as strong. I can take them on."
"No, Nova!" I refused to get in a fight with what looked like the leaders of the land. I looked to the tall horses. "We don't want trouble, we're lost and we have no idea where we are."
"So you say you are not here on purpose to achieve hostile deeds?" The blue one interrogated. The white one stayed silent for this whole time. I stepped forward to try and get a hand/hoofshake with the blue one, a universal sign of friendship, right? WRONG.
"Watch out Princess!" one of the guards yelled and charged at me with his spear. He was knocked back by a blue force from behind me. I turned and saw my Gardevoir with her hand upraised and her usual blue Psychic aura in her eyes and palm.
"Nova, please calm down." I reached for my Pokeball, and called her into it. With that done I turned back to the blue Princess. "Now if you could just-" I was cut off once again.
The last thing I heard was, "No Princess, stop!" and "Luna, wait!" before I felt some kind of force hit the back of my head, causing me to black out.
~~~~Pony POV~~~~
"Luna," Princess Celestia was looking at the downed biped. "Why did you do that?"
"Sister, his pet attacked a guard." Luna tried to justify. "We retaliated."
"Luna," Celestia repeated. "He was coming to you to shake hooves. He wanted peace. Perhaps his pet was being protective against the guard who tried to attack him?" A certian Lieutenant stepped forward to check on the downed guard.
"My most sincerest apologies, your Majesties." High Marks implored. "He's just a recruit,I assumed he panicked."
"Nonetheless," Celestia began. "He instigated the fight, not the creature." Then she looked to the four Elements of Harmony. "Are you girls alright? Was he trying to hurt you?"
"No, not at all," Twilight said, much to Luna's surprise. "We were actually learning about his pets. He was actually a bit nice."
"Even though he made fight his pets fight," Fluttershy surprisingly added. "He had good reason."
"Which is?" Luna stood aghast at the thought of such brutality among animals, especially at the thought of this creature at the head of it. She glowered at the unconscious being.
"I feel like this is not the place for explanations and interviews," Celestia wanted to stop before Luna was given antoher reason to hurt the new creature. The Solar Regent beckoned the guards over and gestured to the unconscious human. "Bring him to the castle with us, see that he is given a bed to rest and wake up in. Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy, if you could join us and tell us what you've observed, we'd be most grateful."
"Of course, Princess," Twilight answered for the four mares, and they joined Celestia and Luna on a chariot to Canterlot, the guards and Stephen's sleeping form in tow. She hoped he wasn't too mad because of what transpired. She really had many questions to ask him. But after what had happened down there, would he trust them?