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// Found a way home 
// Story: A Lost Princess 
// by Raichu 
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I woke up. I got up and stretched. Shining was gone and Twilight was still sleeping. I threw out Pikachu. 
“Pikachu. Pick a harmless way to wake Twilight up.” I said. It saluted me then hopped on top of her. I stepped out of the room. 
Shining was in the front. He was sitting at a table drinking something. I sat right across from him.
“So this Equestria. Is it nice?” I asked. He looked at me oddly.
“Yeah it’s nice. But we came here to find Princess Cadence.” He said looking at me. “While you do seem exactly like her, we could be wrong.”
“And what if you are right? What if I’m this lost princess with memories of your world?” I asked.
“I do know what I’ll do.” He replied looking out of the window. 
“So…” I began trying to think of a conversation starter. “You said you were married before. Does your wife know you’re gone?”
He didn’t answer. He simply drank his drink and stared outside. I looked outside too. I noticed that I could see my reflection in the window. My hair was a mess. But I noticed something outside the window in particular that caught my attention. Cheren. My rival. If Equestria was real, then Cheren would know what to do. He was coming this way even. He was more scientific than anything. I stood up and ran outside.
“Cheren!” I yelled. He stopped and looked at me.
“Oh. Hi Cate.” He said looking at the Pokémon center. “What’s up?”
“I need your help with something scientific.” I said and he hugged me.
“Oh! I have been waiting for you to say that!” He yelled. I pushed him back. 
“I’ll show you.” I said and ran back into. I saw Twilight sitting across from Shining. Her hair was all poofy. I knew Pikachu gave her the Thunderbolt but Pikachu wasn’t around, so I sat down. Cheren sat down on the other side of the table. Shining looked at him then me.
“So are you two… dating?” He spat out like that word was hard to say. Twilight patted his arm.
“No.” We both said. “Yuck.”
“No, he’s just my friend.” I said. “And he might be able to help you guys get home!”
“Really?” Twilight said. “That’s wonderful!”
“Ok, what do they need help with?” Cheren asked.
“Ok, so they said that they came from a magical world called Equestria and they need to get home. Now hypothetically if they weren’t crazy then could they get home?” I asked as Cheren put on their crazy face.
“Well, yes. Portals have been popping up all over Unova. If they wanted to get home, we’d have to find the right portal and go through it. The only portal that’s open all the time though is in the hall of fame and you need to defeat the champion to get into the hall of fame.” Cheren said. “But are you sure these people aren’t crazy?”
“Maybe. I had a dream last night. There was a magic talking white unicorn with wings. She was neighing and it was weird.” I said. Twilight looked at me.
“Did she have a sun on her butt and wavy hair?” She asked. I nodded. 
“How’d you know?” I asked. 
“She’s Princess Celestia! This proves it! You are Princess Cadence!” Twilight yelled and hugged me. “Oh! Now we just need to get your memories back!” 
“Yeah, how did she lose them? That’s my question.” Shining said. 
“We’ll restore them when we get back to Equestria. First we need to beat the champion and maybe I didn’t think this through, but I think only one of us needs to beat the champion and we can all go into the hall of fame together.” I said. “Cheren doesn’t have to come with us.”
“No I want to. I want to be there to prove that you all are completely insane!” He yelled. 
“Fine.” I said crossing my arms. 
“I’m going to take a nap.” I said to Cheren. 
***
I had a weird dream. I was a pink pony with a horn and wings. An evil and ugly pony with a horn and green eyes was laughing at me.
“Your husband is mine!” She shouted at me. I raised an eye. 
“Who?” I asked. She stopped and looked at me and raised up a very zombie looking pony. He looked familiar but I couldn’t think of who he might be.
“You don’t want your husband?” She said shaking him around.
“Wait, I’m married?” I asked. She rolled her eyes then turned into the giant white unicorn with wings and a sun on her butt from before.
“Normally, I wouldn’t say this but, duh. Of course. I know your memories are gone, but I sent Twilight and Shining Armor to find you. It’s you for sure. Twilight’s your best friend and Shining is your husband.” She said. 
“I don’t how you got in this world, but Twilight will return your memory. She’s my most faithful student.  And since your memory is gone, I’m Princess Celestia since you don’t know.” She said and she began to fade away. “What is happening?”
“I’m waking up.” I replied calmly. “But wait, I’m married?”
I woke up. The curtains were open for some reason and Pikachu was on the dresser looking out of the window. He looked at me then out of the window. I got out and combed my hair then looked outside. Shining was talking to oshawott and it was nodding like it understood. I ran of the room. Pikachu ran out right behind me. 
“Pikachu, I had a dream where this princess horse thing tells me I’m married to Shining. Doesn’t that sound stupid?” I asked it. It shrugged and rolled its eyes. 
“No. It’s not possible. I would have remembered right?” I asked. It pointed at its head then at it then at my head then outside.
“So what you’re saying is even if I don’t remember it could have happened?” I asked and it nodded.
“Well, it doesn’t matter.” I said. “I don’t have to believe it.”
“Pika.” It muttered and ran after me. I walked around the side of the Pokémon center and saw Shining. He looked up at me and so did oshawott. 
“Cheren told me he wants to talk to you.” Shining said. 
“Thanks for telling me.” I said and ran off the find him. I found him inside on his computer. I sat down across from him and he looked up at me with a frown.
“So there’s a problem. We have to challenge the champion within three days because the portal will close in four days. It’s going to close for a long time, so it’s our only chance. Which means you’ll have to challenge him because you’re the strongest. Twilight and Shining don’t have time to learn. We’ll have to leave today too. Also we need all of the gym badges to challenge him and only you have all the badges.” He said as Twilight walked up with a backpack on.
“Did cheren tell you we have to leave now? Because we have to leave NOW.” She said impatiently. 
“Ok.” I said standing up. I ran to the room and packed up all my stuff quickly. Then I ran back out and saw Shining, Twilight and Cheren out there waiting. 
“Let’s go.” I said and we all stepped out and began to walk along the trail again.
“So, Cate is the only one strong enough to take on the champion.” Cheren said to them. “So that’s what we’re going to do. Let her take him on.”
“Cate.” I heard Shining say behind me. “What do you remember when you first began your journey?” 
“I remember I was on the ground and I didn’t remember how I got there. When I got up I met this Pikachu who became friends with me and when I heard the people here were supposed to go on journeys with Pokémon, I did with Pikachu.” I said.
“What do you remember before that? Why didn’t you question where you came from?” Twilight asked. I didn’t know. Why didn’t I question it? Why did I just accept I wasn’t where I was supposed to be? 
“I don’t remember anything before that.” I replied.
“Well, I do.” Shining said. “You were a wonderful Princess and a wonderful-” He stopped talking suddenly and I looked back at him. I slowed down and let Cheren take the lead.
“A wonderful what?” I asked. “What was I good at?” I remembered the thing Celestia had told me. But he probably wasn’t going to say wife right?
“Nothing.” He said staring at the trees. 
“Yeah right nothing. I’m sure, I’ll just say a sentence and then stop in the middle because I’m scared.” I taunted doing a terrible voice impression of his. He turned toward me with a deep red face. 
“I’m not scared!” He shouted at me. “And my voice does not sound like that!”
“Whoa!” I said putting my hands up. “Okay. You don’t sound like that. But question, did we date in Equestria?” 
“Uh. Yes.” He said. 
“So you’re like my ex-boyfriend.” I said. He rubbed his neck and Twilight gave him a look. 
“Something like that.” He replied.
“No wonder you were so eager to find me.” I said walking ahead. “Cheren. How much more do we have to walk?”
“Well,” He said typing on his computer. “Turns out we’ll be there tomorrow. But it also turns out you have to fight the elite four first.” 
“Oh great.” I muttered. “So do you mean we’ll walk all night or not?” 
“Well, we’ll get there tonight if we walk all night. However, I located a Pokémon center so you should be good to go.” Cheren said and looked up. I could see bright city lights ahead. “That would be opelucid city.” Cheren said. Then we began to walk down the trail. It was night by the time we got into the city and Cheren looked around. There were bright lights everywhere. There weren’t a lot of people walking around and then I spotted the Pokémon center. 
“There it is!” I yelled pointing at the tall building. We all walked into it. I sat down at the nearest bench and they all sat around me. 
“Ok.” Cheren said. “So when we get to the hall of fame, the portal will be at the end of the hall. Just jump into it and whatever species you were originally, you’ll be sent to the world you come from or are meant to be in. Which means if I get in, I’ll be sent back here.” Cheren said.
“Yeah.” I said. “And maybe I’ll get some memories back and this will all make sense.” 
“So Shining, if we used to date then why’d we break up?” I asked him. He looked at Twilight who shook her head.
“It’s more complicated than that.” He answered. “Look, since you don’t have your memory, I’m not going to scare you.” 
“Yeah, but how bad is it?” I asked.
“Bad enough to scare you off. But once you get your memories, you should be fine.” Twilight said. 
“So, I had a Princess Celestia dream.” I began and Twilight yelped.
“Wow! That’s great! What’d she say?” She asked.
“Stuff.” I replied. Twilight frowned.
"Cool?” She asked. 
It was cool. I was glad she didn’t try to ask for more, but soon we stopped. We finally made it to the Pokémon center. I went to the back room to think about the elite four when Twilight burst in.
“We have to train!” Twilight shouted. She grabbed my arm and pulled me outside. 
“We have to train. If you don’t defeat this champion we can never go home!” She said avoiding what just happened.” Go tepig!” She yelled and threw out tepig.
“I can’t fight him.” I said pointing at it. “I do know where I could get some real training.” And with that I walked off into the nearby woods. 
12 hours of training later.
I walked out of the woods twelve hours later. It was night time so I figured I sneak in bed for some rest but when I got inside, I walked into the Pokémon center in the middle of a fight. 
“I won’t let you do this!” Shining yelled. He was holding onto the back of Twilight’s dark and light purple striped sweater. Twilight was waving her fists around and there was a semicircle of a crowd around them chanting. 
“I think I can try!” Twilight shouted wriggling around.
“NO!” Shining yelled. I walked inside and took out a pokeball. 
“Go Beartic!” I yelled throwing him out. “Break them up!”
Beartic came out and walked over calmly. He grabbed them by the back of their shirts and held them in the air. I rushed in. 
“Break it up.” I said and the crowd broke up. Soon Twilight was just swinging her fists into empty air and Shining was looking down at the floor.
“What the heck happened?” I asked looking up at them. “I leave for one moment and you guys act like kids!” 
“Just like Cadence would say.” Shining chuckled. Twilight opened her eyes and looked down at me. She stopped moving then looked at Shining.
“I’m sorry. I won’t do it.” She apologized.
“I don’t know what happened, but it’s over.” I said. “Beartic, drop them.” 
Beartic dropped them and they hit the floor. I called Beartic back after thanking him and looked at those too.
“I can’t even leave you for a moment.” I said. Shining chuckled.
“Just like the old Cadence.” He laughed. 
“Yeah, well like the old Cadence, I’m going to bed.” I said yawning. I stretched and walked off to the room. “I suggest you guys get some sleep too.”