//------------------------------// // Chapter 19 // Story: A New World, a New Way // by zeusdemigod131 //------------------------------// Twilight was pacing back and forth in the mayor’s office. “This is bad, this is so, so bad.” Spike sighed, the Dragon was holding an ice pack to Professor Juniper’s head. “Calm down Twi, I’m sure it’s not that bad.” “Not that bad!” Twilight shouted. “Spike I arrested a stallion under false pretenses.” “False what now?” He asked. “It means I arrested him for something he didn’t do.” Twilight explained. Spike thought for a second. “Let’s see, angry mob, attacked someone, nope, I don’t see how you’re in the wrong.” Twilight groaned. “I arrested him for assault, but technically a... what’s May?” “Delphox.” Juniper mumbled, still rubbing her aching head. Twilight nodded. “A Delphox isn’t protected under Equestrian laws, it’d be like if I went into the Everfree and started blasting Timberwolves or Manticores for no reason, not really approved of but not technically illegal.” Spike shrugged. “Come on Twi, you’re a Princess, I’m sure no one’s gonna care about some little detail like that.” Twilight shook her head. “Spike, just because I’m a Princess doesn’t mean I’m above the law.” “But you do make them... right?” Juniper asked groggily. “Well... I suppose so, but why does that matter?” “Because,” Juniper pushed herself back into the air, groaning slightly. “You can just send a letter to Princess Celestia explaining the situation and have her pass a law that will give Pokémon some form of protection. We had them back on earth to stop cruelty towards Pokémon, among other things.” Twilight thought for a moment. “Juniper... that just might work, Spike take a letter.” Princess Celestia was... having a bad day had come and gone several times in the past three days, as had annoyed and just pissed off, at this point Celestia was intrigued to find that she was in a state of perpetually expecting the worst possible thing to happen. “It honestly hadn’t been this bad since Discord’s rule.” She admitted, Celestia had opened day court for the first time since the Pokémon’s arrival, and had almost immediately regretted it. While the Eternal Sundial had calmed the populous a considerable amount, they still had questions, and many still wanted the Pokémon gone. Fortunately the more... outspoken ponies had been curtailed in their complaints by the fact the Aegislash floated at Celestia's side and that Ninetales sat by the foot of her throne. But as soon as Celestia thought everything was beginning to look up, Twilight sent her a message, it explained the situation in Trottingham and stressed that she was had run into some legal trouble since the Pokémon weren’t technically protected under Equestrian equal rights law. Once she had received the letter the solar Princess had ended day court and rushed to find her most trusted advisors in Equestrian law, she had retrieved Luna from her room, wondering why her sister seemed more tired than usual and brought her to the meeting room, where she had found a fair number of Equestrian officials already waiting, Celestia had only called them because it was an actual law she had passed after Nightmare Moon’s banishment that she couldn’t make a decision without input from an outside party. This law had not accounted for Luna’s return, or Discord’s reformation, or even Cadence and Twilight’s ascension. This meant that as long as Luna, Twilight, Cadence or Discord were present, then Celestia could pass just about any law that wasn’t so ridiculously outlandish as to upset one of the others, and even for Discord Celestia had to try something pretty stupid for him to deny it, he might have had his grudges but the chaos lord hated politics far more than Celestia, and he loved messing with nobles. Among the assembled beings were Olive Branch, head of the judicial system, Peace Treaty, head of international affairs, Arcane Glyph, the headmistress of Princess Celestia’s School for gifted Unicorns, and a great many other ponies who had some standing in Equestria’s government. Missing was Prince Blueblood, for whatever reason Celestia chose not to look into that. In addition there was one non pony present. Lord Mewtwo, ambassador to the Pokémon nation, sat in the chair next to the Princesses, to the horror of all those assembled save for the Princesses, and was basically unnerving almost everypony in the room. “Thank you all for coming,” Celestia began. “Now I don’t have the time to beat round the bush so I’ll get straight to the point of this meeting.” Everypony leaned in closer, except for Mewtwo. Celestia sighed. “I am considering passing a law that would give Pokémon the same protection given to all other sapient beings in the land of Equestria.” The council erupted in an uproar. “Silence!” Luna shouted in the royal Canterlot voice. The council did as it was told, Celestia smiled, having Luna at her side always made these meetings easier, in more ways than one. Celestia continued. “In light of recent events, and several meetings with Lord Arceus, I have decided that it is illogical to presume the Pokémon will disappear any time soon, thus we must begin to integrate them into Equestria, and that includes the giving them some form of rights.” “But Princess,” Olive Branch began. “Legally speaking these creatures can’t be-” Mewtwo, sensing the stallion’s train of thought, spoke up. “Chose your next words very carefully.” He warned. The menacing tone stopped the stallion. “W-what I mean is, the populous might not immediately believe that all the Pokémon are sapient.” Peace Treaty looked to the stallion. “After a cosmic being announced to every creature on the planet that they were?” She asked in confusion. “I don’t think anyone is that oblivious.” “I agree with Peace Treaty,” Golden Bit, head of the treasury department chimed in. “I have to deal with the most stuck up, ignorant ponies in my line of work, and even they know that something big is happening.” Tactical Support, the new captain of the royal guard, spoke up. “But we know that some of these creatures are dangerous, what if they attack somepony?” “The law that will protect the Pokémon will be the same that protects Ponies, Griffins and other beings, if they attack someone, then the legal repercussions will be the same.” Celestia explained. “I don’t think this is the best idea your highness,” Silvermane, head of Equine services said. “These creatures are clearly not as advanced as Ponies, and we shouldn’t allow some of their more powerful members to bully us into submission.” Several of the assembled ponies mumbled in agreement, while the others rolled the eyes or scoffed, Mewtwo glared at the stallion and practiced some breathing techniques. “Really now?” Arcane Glyph spoke up. “Because a... colleague, of mine has done brain scans of several of these Pokémon, all of them are quite clearly indicative of being sapient.” Silvermane chuckled. “I suppose you’re referring to that stallion you have teaching genetics at your school... Bio Chem wasn’t it?” Arcane Glyph glared at him. “That’s right, but I don’t see why it matters who performed the scans, and he’s not the only one.” “She’s right you know.” Doctor Helping Hoof, head of the health department added. “I’ve been getting scans and test results regarding these creatures for the past three days and the brain scans always show sapience.” Luna was about to add something when Silvermane spoke up again. “Yes, but sapience does not necessarily mean advancement, look at the Dragons, or the scattered Chimera, the Pokémon are basically the same, little more than advanced anim...” The stallion suddenly stopped, noticing that no one else in the room was moving, even the Princesses had frozen, save for their ever flowing manes. “What’s going on?” He asked aloud, then Mewtwo rose from his chair. Celestia blinked as Silvermane suddenly stopped talking. “Is everything alright?” She asked, noticing the fear on his face. The stallion’s eyes widened. “Everything’s f-fine Princess, I just didn’t find it... necessary to go any farther as, umm, the evidence is stacked against me?” His eyes darted to Mewtwo for a split second, almost too fast for the Princess to see. “Yes, and I have already been disproven so... I withdraw my argument.” Celestia glanced at Mewtwo, the Pokémon wore the same stoic expression he normally had. “Alright, then I believe it is about time to end this, who will support me in passing the law to allow equal rights to Pokémon?” As was expected, Luna, Mewtwo, Peace Treaty and several other all raised their hooves, or hands. Surprisingly, Silvermane’s hoof shot up before the Princess had even finished her sentence. “Then it is settled, I will make the announcement later today once the new law is finished, you are all dismissed.” With that the ponies all made for the door, Silvermane galloping out ahead of the rest. “Mewtwo?” Celestia said. “Please stay behind, I’d like to have a word in private.” The Genetic Pokémon remained seated, as if he had known this was coming. “Sister,” Luna pulled Celestia aside. “What are you planning?” “Nothing Luna,” Celestia assured her. “I’m just going to have a word with our ambassador.” Luna examined her sister for a second, then said. “Be careful sister, we know not what he is capable of.” Before exiting the room, but remaining close by in case anything went wrong. Celestia pushed the doors shut with her magic and turned to Mewtwo. “What did you do?” She asked, sounding slightly angry. Mewtwo smirked. “I’ve done nothing wrong Princess.” He assured her. “Oh, then Silvermane, the stallion who never admits defeat, and always puts his own thoughts ahead of everyone else’s just decided that he couldn’t win? I don’t believe it.” Celestia didn't know what the Psychic-Type had done but she wasn’t going to let it slide. Mewtwo rose from his chair. “Princess Celestia... I’ve honestly done nothing wrong, surely if I had done anything to change the memories of those in the room, or temporarily shut down their mental functions, so that I could have a word with mister Silvermane, your own mental wards would have stopped me from doing the same to you?” Celestia gritted her teeth, she knew Mewtwo was powerful enough to bypass her and Luna’s mental wards but had no idea to what extent. She knew Mewtwo had done something, but she couldn’t prove it, and since whatever it was it hadn’t done any real harm she basically had her hooves tied. Celestia looked Mewtwo straight in the eyes. “I’m going to let this one go, if only because I didn’t feel like dealing with Silvermane today, but mark my words, if something like this happens again, then I will not hesitate to reveal my full power.” She smiled. “And you, while powerful, are most definitely not a God.” Mewtwo chuckled. “Very well Princess, you have my word,” He made for the door. “And Lord Arceus will probably be showing up soon, he’ll know about this law soon enough and he’ll want a hand, or hoof, in writing it.” Mewtwo mentally shoved the doors open and left, passing Luna on his way out. “Well sister? How did it go?” The lunar Princess asked. Celestia rubbed her temple with a hoof, then took it away with a smile. “Luna, alert the staff, we’re about to have a very important guest.” Arceus stepped through the door that led to Canterlot, and was surprised to find two royal guardsmen standing on either side of the door. “Greetings... I’m here to see the Princess.” “The Princess is in the meeting room... she’s expecting you.” One of them began walking down the hall in the direction of the meeting room but Arceus stopped him. “No need, I know the way.” Before either of the stallions could say anything, Arceus vanished in a flash of golden light, and reappearing in the meeting room in front of Princess Celestia. “Greeting Lord Arceus.” She greeted, not even looking up from the scroll she was writing on. “Hello Princess, you were expecting me?” “Yes,” She replied calmly. “Mewtwo warned me that you’d be coming to help with the new law.” Arceus chuckled. “Fair enough, now what have you gotten down so far?” Celestia smiled. “Oh, I haven’t done anything yet, I figured the responsible party should be present before I began.” “Oh, quite right Princess, now let me see that.” He pulled the scroll over to him, the completely blank scroll. “Right...” “How do I start this?” He thought to himself, it wasn’t that Arceus didn’t have experience in lawmaking, he had shaped time, space and nature, he had hoof wrote the laws of physics and nature with the help of his sons and daughter, but he had never interfered in mortal laws. True, his presence shaped the laws of man when they worshipped him, but after his imprisonment he had no influence on what the humans did. Arceus sighed and floated the scroll back to Celestia “... Why don’t you get it started, I wouldn’t want to interfere with your legal system too much.” Celestia smiled, it seemed she had found something in which she outranked Arceus. “Very well,” Celestia started writing out pre planned lines on the scroll. “Now I want to give the Pokémon the same protection the other races of Equus have, but the problem I’m facing is that some ponies still see them as monsters.” Despite himself, Arceus chuckled. “What about that is funny?” Celestia asked, unamused. “I just forgot how much other races put into imagery.” The truth was that Arceus knew it was going to be a lot of work getting the Pokémon accepted by the races of Equus, especially ones like Gyarados or Metagross. “For instance,” Arceus concentrated for a moment and a screen appeared in front of Celestia, one showing Rayquaza, Groudon, Reshiram, Yveltal, Entei, and Darkrai. “These are all members of the Legendary Council.” Celestia sighed. “Sometimes I feel like you’re making this harder than it has to be.” When Arceus didn’t answer she continued. “Look, the Pokémon are intelligent, but not everypony is going to believe that, isn’t there anything you can do to help the integration?” Arceus thought for a minute, then pulled a golden panel out of nowhere. “Let’s see... no, no, that’s all kinds of illegal...” Celestia put down the finished rough draft of the law and looked at Arceus. “What are you doing?” ”Looking over my options, I’d need the council for that one, or at least my daughters.” Arceus dropped the panel. “I’ll figure something out, how’s the law coming along?” Celestia glared at him. “Finished and don’t give me that, if you really are a god,” ”Do I need to prove it again?” Celestia gritted her teeth. “Then you’ll be able to come up with a simple plan.” Arceus thought for a moment. “I could turn the ponies-” “No.” “Psychic rew-” “Don’t even think about it.” Arceus glared at her. “Well what do you propose?” A sly grin crept onto Celestia’s face. “I’ll think of something, now come with me, there’s something I’d like you to see.” Arceus raised an eyebrow. ”No way am I going anywhere unless you-” Celestia lit up her horn and before Arceus could react, teleported them both. “-Tell me, what, you’re, planning.” Arceus found himself standing in the castle garden, in front of a dining table that had been set up there, the entire are looked like it was regularly used for parties, or he guessed, based on the thirty or so Ponies staring at him, including a smirking Princess Luna. “Lord Arceus,” Celestia said with a smirk. “Meet the nobles of Canterlot.” Arceus eyed the ponies at the table, other than Princess Luna he didn’t recognize any of them, but he knew the type, he had been studying Canterlot government. “What is this?” He asked, staring down at Princess Celestia. “Well I figured that if you were going to stay here you’d like to get to know the public, I took the liberty of drawing up a schedule.” Celestia unrolled a scroll that nearly reached the ground. “... What makes you think I’ll stay here? I can leave at literally any time I want.” Arceus did not like dealing with nobles of any species. Celestia smiled. “Oh, I know that, but I figured you would like to show some... appreciation, to the mare who’s standing up for your subjects rights.” Arceus turned to the Princess, but said nothing, when he finally spoke he sighed before speaking. “Good show Princess, I’ll play your little game, for now.” Arceus pulled out one of the seat at the front of the table, everypony was still staring at Arceus, mouths agape. Arceus leaned over to Luna. “Do I say something or... what?” “Just introduce yourself,” Luna said through a rehearsed smile. “Try and get on their good side, you know, be social.” Arceus sighed. “I’ve been by myself in a space of infinite emptiness for the past several thousand years, my social skills are about as well exercised as a Snorlax.” “What?” “I’m a God as old as time, I don’t often socialize with mortals.” Arceus snapped. “Well try.” Celestia shot back. The three immortals smiled at the nobles, the turned awkwardly to the food that had been set before them. “This meal looks delicious Princess.” Arceus, casually picked a fork and shot her a look. “Too bad I can’t eat anything.” Celestia and Luna turned away from the god. “Told you.” Luna whispered. While the others ate, Arceus turned his attention to the nobles, most of whom were too nervous to eat. “Wonderful city, Canterlot.” Arceus said absently. “Although I haven’t had much time to explore it,” He twiddled the fork in his telekinetic grasp. “Been helping my family settle in.” The Alpha Pokémon’s attempts at conversation were met with less than stellar responses, they mostly unnerved the gathered ponies. After another ten minutes or so the silence was still present and Arceus found himself wishing that Mewtwo were there, or anyone else. Arceus was also incredibly annoyed that the staff continued to serve him food, even though he couldn’t eat anything, as it was, Arceus was considering if he could grow a mouth when somepony finally spoke up, although they weren’t at the table. “Sorry I’m late everypony,” Prince Blueblood said as he trotted up to the table. “I was held up by these dreadful ponies in the medical wing and I couldn’t get away.” Blueblood pulled up an empty chair and smiled. “Anyhow, as I was saying...” Blueblood saw Arceus and the stallions eyes widened in fear. “M, m, m, m, m, ..., ...., ...! .......?” Arceus twirled a straw around in his glass as the nobles and both Princesses stared at Blueblood. Luna turned to Arceus. “Did you do something?” She asked, no malice behind her voice, only curiosity. “No... maybe, so I may have disabled his vocal cords, even I know how irritating he can be so I may have taken a few precautions.” “......! ........?!!” Blueblood continued to futilely try and say anything. Luna smiled. “Sister, I think I like this Blueblood, can we keep him?” Celestia tapped her chin. “Tempting, but I think- Oh would you look at the time.” Celestia looked at the sun. “Arceus, we’re late for your next appointment, I’m sorry everypony but we must be off.” “.....!! ......!” Blueblood flailed his hooves wildly. Celestia smiled and waved at the stallion. “Goodbye Blueblood, come along Arceus, Luna.” In a flash of gold the immortals disappeared, leaving the still mute stallion and the rest of the nobles alone. Two Alicorns and a god flashed into existence in front of a multistoried building, they glanced at each other for a moment, the Luna burst out laughing, followed by her sister and finally Arceus. “I cannot believe you did that!” Celestia cried, still laughing. “I can’t believe you hadn’t tried that already.” Arceus replied. “Twas most amusing indeed, now where are we?” It took Luna a moment to recognize the area, but once she did she smiled. “This is step two in my plan to introduce Arceus to the public.” Celestia replied, turning to the god with a smile. “No more nobles.” Arceus stated. “And where are we?” Celestia turned and walked towards the building. “I find the best way to get to know the public, and get on their good side, is to show them compassion.” Celestia pushed the doors to Princess Cadence Memorial Hospital and beckoned Arceus after her. The Alpha Pokémon was forced to duck under the door. And found himself to be, once again, the center of attention in the waiting room. “Hello.” He greeted them all casually. Princess Celestia ignored her subjects shocked looks and walked up to the main desk. “Greetings Nurse Lovejoy, I set up a tour for a visiting dignitary earlier today.” Nurse Lovejoy, who was use to Princess Celestia’s visits, just glanced at the god, who was shifting awkwardly under the eyes of the few dozen ponies in the room. “Always glad to have you Princess.” Celestia walked back over to Arceus and her sister. “Come on you two.” Celestia led them down a hallway and up a few flights of stairs, the later led to Arceus complaining about something called an elevator, until they reached their destination. “Luna, you know where we are, but Arceus, this is the children’s ward.” Celestia pushed the door open and revealed the floor to Arceus. As the trio stepped into the room a large majority of the ponies on the floor turned and gawked at the god. Celestia stepped forward and smiled. “Hello everypony, this is Lord Arceus.” The Alpha Pokémon bowed his head. “Charmed.” “I invited him here so he could get to know the public, please, don’t mind us.” The hospital staff bowed, the Princesses were in here often enough that they had gotten used to it, although a God was new. Celestia walked back over to Arceus. “Now that that’s taken care of, why don’t you two go mingle.” “A God does not mingle.” Arceus stated. “As long as you’re here, you do.” Celestia told him, the look on her face implied just how serious she was. “You wanted my help? Well, this is how I’m gonna do it.” Arceus quickly glanced at the time stream, just to assure himself he couldn’t get out of this, and sighed. “Fine.” Arceus stepped around the Princess, who now wore a smirk on her face, and started to explore the floor. “Tia, are you sure this is a good idea?” Luna asked. Celestia just smiled. “Don’t worry, he won’t do anything stupid, now come along, let us go brighten up some foals day.” Arceus rounded a corner, grumbling to himself. “A hospital, bah, I prefer those Pokémon centers,” The Alpha Pokémon pushed one of the doors open. “I wonder where all those Joys got to anyway, I know I brought some with me.” It was then that Arceus realized that he was being watched, watched by many sets of small, curious eyes. “Oh... hello there.” Arceus greeted the few dozen foals who were scattered around the room he had walked into. “Didn’t mean to... disturb you.” One of the little fillies, a yellow Pegasus with a green mane, walked up to him and stared at him, wide eyed. “Awe you a Pwincess?” Arceus leaned down to the little filly. “Little one, I am not a Princess, not only am I a male, I am a transdimensional deity who is responsible for the creation of an entire universe, does that sound like the work of a Princess?” The little filly tapped her chin, then smiled. “Uh huh.” Arceus chuckled and stood back up. “Greetings children, I am Lord Arceus, creator of the Pokémon realm, and the reason the Pokémon are currently residents of Equus.” That brought forth a lot of questions, most of which made Arceus smile, however after a while the Arceus excused himself and decided to do a more one on one thing. As the Alpha Pokémon entered one of the adjoining rooms he was greeted by a nurse checking up on a young Earth Pony colt. “What’s wrong with him?” Arceus asked the nurse, the colt was hooked up to several different machines, and was fast asleep. The nurse sighed. “He has a tumor in his brain, and even our best surgeons say that removing it would likely cost him his life,” The nurse looked away from the young foal. “At this point, we’re just trying to make him comfortable until...” She bit her lip. Arceus raised an eyebrow and stepped past the nurse, the staff had been alerted to the Gods presence so they wouldn’t worry unnecessarily. Once he was past the nurse he raised his vision a few levels until he was in the x-ray range and he examined the colt, sure enough he had an abnormally large growth wrapped through several portions of his brain. Arceus frowned. “No one this young deserves to suffer like this.” “I know but it’s not like we can do anything about it.” The nurse frowned. “I wish there was but...” As the nurse continued Arceus blocked her out, and began channeling his powers, the Gods eyes glowed golden and his consciousness expanded across the room, into the colt, and through time and space, then he shifted it. “I’m curious sister, just how do you lose a God?” “Shut up Luna.” The Lunar Princess smirked as her distressed sister continued to search for Arceus who, somehow or another, had managed to evade them thus far. “Maybe he left.” Luna ventured. “He can teleport.” “No Luna, he’s still here, I’m sure, Arceus may not like it all that much, but he needs our help, and he’s knows that if he-” “Princess!” Both Alicorns turned and saw a doctor running towards them, a smile on his face. “You have to come see this, it’s... I don’t even know.” The stallion led the Princesses to another section of the hospital, the intensive care unit. “Normally, I’d warn you just how gruesome what you’re about to see is,” “But?” Luna asked. The doctor smiled. “But... you’ll see.” As he pushed open the door Celestia and Luna saw something that almost shocked them, almost. “Well sister,” Luna said with a smile. “It seems we have finally found Arceus.” Sure enough Arceus was in the ICU, surrounded by several dozen ponies, patients, nurses and doctors alike. “Arceus,” Celestia stepped forward. “What are you doing?” Arceus looked up from a young mare in a wheelchair and turned to the Princesses. “Ah, hello Celestia, Luna. you’re just in time.” “In time for what exactly? And what have you been up to?” Celestia asked. Arceus smiled. “You’ll see,” The Alpha Pokémon turned back to the mare. “Now hold still young one, this will only take a moment.” Arceus’ eyes began to glow gold, and Celestia sensed a large amount of power coming from Arceus. Then flow into the mare. Once the power flow ceased and Arceus pulled away from the mare he said. “Now get up.” Slowly, and with a not a small amount of hesitation, the mare rose from her wheelchair. “I... I can walk!” Arceus chuckled. “Of course you can, if I can bend time and space to my whim, then I can easily fix a mortal's ailment.” “But her spine,” One of the doctors began. “Is now completely repaired,” Arceus answered. “Honestly don’t act so surprised, I pulled out a colt's tumor earlier,” Arceus thought for a second, then corrected himself. “Actually I shifted time and space around the... oh you get the idea.” Arceus walked through the crowd and over to the Princesses. “This is what you’ve been up to?” Luna asked in awe. “But... doing this...” Celestia deadpanned. “It would tax even us, and,” “And the main reason you can’t is because you can’t do it for everyone in the country, I on the other hoof, am attempting to find a veritable army of nurses who’ll be able to heal most ailments with their own... medication and powers, and will alert me for the cases they can’t fix.” Arceus had seen such ailments such as these on Earth and, before his banishment, the ailing would have been brought to a temple for healing, Mew was an expert in childbirth, Meloetta’s Heal Bell could cure almost anything, Mewtwo or the Lake Trio were more than capable of rewriting mental illnesses and Cresselia was well versed in curing nightmares, as well as more... emotional ailments. “But you cannot possible be there for everypony, every time.” Luna argued. Arceus shrugged. “True, but I can split myself into multiple portions of myself, similar to how you handle the dreamscape.” Celestia and Luna gawked at the God. “You... I just,” The solar Alicorn took a deep breath and calmed herself down. “I guess you’re doing the right thing here Arceus... so why does it feel like you’re taking the easy way out.” Luna examined Arceus closely. “Mayhaps because his powers allow him to perform quote, unquote, miracles.” Arceus rolled his eyes. “First off, they are miracles, secondly, and I tire of repeating myself, I created an entire universe, compared to that, even creating life is child's play, let alone fixing some minor injuries and ailments.” Celestia was about to say something about but Arceus interrupted her. “And before you say it I’d like to point out that not only are my Pokémon much more durable than your ponies, but that as a God even a wound that might kill either of you likely wouldn’t do the same to me.” Truthfully Arceus had never really considered his own death a possibility, he was born before time, and he expected to outlast it, regardless of which dimension he lived in. “Arceus... I really don’t know what to say.” Celestia in no way wanted to stop the God from doing good, especially since it had kinda been her idea, but she still felt like something was... not wrong but... off, in the way in which he went about it. “Just...” She saw the hospital staff eyeing her and Arceus. “Can you finish this up?” She whispered. “Of course Princess, just a moment.” Arceus concentrated and pulled the Mind Plate from his dimension. “Work Up,” Arceus whispered, boosting his attack. “Heal Pulse.” The Alpha Pokémon pumped a lot more power into the healing wave than any normal Pokémon could. The strengthened attack rushed throughout the hospital, seeping into every Pony in the building. “My work here is done, thank you Princess Celestia, this was... enlightening.” The Pokémon God disappeared in his signature golden flash, leaving the Princesses to deal with the Ponies. “Tia?” Luna asked, looking around at the slightly shocked and still smiling ponies. “Did Arceus actually do the right thing this time?” Celestia looked at the mare Arceus had healed, she was trotting shakily around the room, tears of joy rolling down her face. “I think so Luna,” Celestia answered, a tear of her own falling to the ground. “I really think so.”