//------------------------------// // The Mysterious Stallion // Story: A New Dimension, A New Threat // by ZeroChill //------------------------------// Twilight Sparkle sat on a stool by the entrance to the lab, looking down on her watch every five seconds. The door lifted open, revealing a yawning Mono whose eyes are half-lidded and his fur ruffled and unkempt. “You are twelve point one minutes late, Mono.” Twilight Sparkle reminded. “Must it be in the dark of morning that you had to contact me, Twilight?” Mono mumbled. “Science stops for no being, Mono. As I said earlier, I managed to decode the genome.” Twilight Sparkle walked over to a hologram of a set of colored molecules arranged into a system of metaphorical planets. “What am I looking at here?” Mono asked. “There really isn’t much of an easy way to organize the genome, so I had to arrange them into a star system of sorts to have a better look at them. Of course, the one central element I found was what I find to be known as the Normal-type, if I recalled Fluttershy’s information correctly.” Mono eyed the white sphere in the middle and saw three spheres connected to it; one was a burning red, one was a cool blue and one was a verdant green. “So if this sphere represents the Normal-type, then this sphere represents the Fire-type, this sphere represents the Water-type and this sphere represents the Grass-type?” “That’s correct. Even though I mapped out the types in the genome, our current resources will only allow us to work with these four types.” Twilight Sparkle said. “That said, I have begun doing research into magitech that would charm various equipment with some of these elements discovered by reproducing said types with my magic.” “I would love to help in that project right now, Twilight, but I have to go to sleep.” “Alright. Just take care, Mono.” With a loud yawn, Mono ambled his way towards the lab’s exit. The sun hovered above the city, shining upon a brown tower sticking out of H.O.R.S.E. with glowing yellow lines imprinted on in. Lith wandered within the tower, gazing at the levitating books and the scholars in the area. She rubbed her chin, humming. “Now where could he be? Rarity said he would be around here.” “Hey Lith.” Spike said, walking past her with three tomes held within his arms. “Oh, hey Spike. Do you know where Keldeo would happen to be?” “Ummm… he should be over by the Gravity Matrix. You do know where that is, right?” “That’s near the top level, right?” Lith asked. “Yep. You shouldn’t miss it. It’s this large well of ethereal energy that supposedly accesses a different dimension.” Spike explained. “Do you mind coming upstairs with me then, Spike?” “I wish, but I have to work on Magic Theory. Have to keep studying if I want to be a top-notch dragon mage for H.O.R.S.E.” “Even if you are only a child?” “Yes. You must understand how working early allows one to reach their maximum potential.” “Yep. Worked and studied in a lab since I was eight. Tell you what; if you come with me, I’ll help with your studies.” Spike grinned, dropping all of his books without skipping a beat. “A study buddy is always nice. I guess Twilight won’t mind if I took a bit of a break.” Lith looked over to a wide sheet of metal hovering in the center of the tower, rocketing to the top. Lith grabbed Spike’s hand, sprinting to the railing and leaping onto the metal. She looked back, seeing Spike’s body faceplanted on the metal. He stood up, brushing the dust off of his body. “You could have at least warned me, Lith.” “Sorry.” Smiling with a sheepish shrug, Lith responded. The two leaped off of the metal at the top floor. There, the duo saw a gilded well with ethereal energy flowing within it with the fluidity of water. They saw a cream-coated unicorn stallion dip his right front fetlocks colored in blue into the energy. His mane was a fire held in a blue crest and his tail was that of a rushing tidal wave. His pupils were black beads amidst the milk lakes that are his whites, and his muzzle curved into a bulb. Around his torso was a blue felt that is carpet-felt. “Ummm… are you sure he’s a pony?” Lith asked, tilting her head to her side and rubbing her chin. “Positive. He looks like every other pony, doesn’t he?” “Well… I guess, but I have to approach him to understand him better.” “You do realize that the reason he spends his time up here is partly due to the reason that no one does come up here much? He makes Fluttershy look like Pinkie Pie in comparison.” Spike said. “That’s an extreme comparison, Spike. I saw how energetic and outgoing Pinkie Pie was. I have yet to actually go on a one-on-one encounter with her.” Lith moved towards the well with quiet steps, standing by the focused Keldeo. Keldeo looked to his right, jumping half a mile with a loud yelp. “Who are you?!” He shrieked. “A fellow Pokémon whose name is Lith.” Lith responded. “Pokémon… wait, you are one of the new aliens that recently joined up with H.O.R.S.E. a few weeks back.” Keldeo responded. “Yes, and you are one like I am, Keldeo.” Keldeo’s nerves relaxed themselves and his chest burst with laughter. “That’s a good joke, Lith. Me, a pony, being called a Pokémon. How ridiculous can you get? I suggest you leave, though. I don’t really like being around others that much.” “Nah, I think I’ll stay up here with you. You don’t mind, do you?” Lith asked. Keldeo rolled his eyes, letting out an uncomfortable sigh. “Fine. Though, I do have some questions to ask you.” Lith looked into the well. She dipped her right paw into the energy, feeling its silky smoothness course through it. “So what questions do you have in mind, Keldeo?” “Well… what made you want to come to me in the first place? I’m not exactly that much of an interesting stallion.” Keldeo asked with his voice void of confidence. “Well, I had a get-together with some other girls a week or two back. Your name was brought up in Rarity’s context and, well, you kind of have the same name as a Legendary Pokémon from my world.” Lith explained. “It is such an uncanny coincidence, especially since you look exactly like him.” “Rarity brought me up, huh? Sometimes, I think she has a bit too much confidence in me at times.” Keldeo responded, swirling the energy with his hoof. “Well, how do you feel about her, Keldeo?” Keldeo stopped moving his hoof through the energy, staring up into the ceiling. “I would be lying if I said Rarity didn’t mean anything to me. On the contrary, she’s possibly the most important being for me right now. I remember when we first met as children here. She was very insistent on being my friend because she didn’t like seeing me lonely all the time. Since she insisted, I accepted her friendship. She would always make time in her schedule to see me and spend time with me, even now.” “So you two just talk?” Lith asked. “We do other activities. As children, she introduced me to some fun games and taught me a bit of magic. As we got older, she started introducing me to other activities but always spent lunch with me. It was through her that I saw just how important this city is to me. I will defend it with my life. Did I tell you everything you need?” Keldeo responded with a rushed tone dripping with impatience. “You wish. I still want to learn more about you since you have an interesting relationship with Rarity.” Lith said with a teasing voice. “Heh, I’m not sure what you mean by that.” With a red blush forming on his face and his hooves shaking, Keldeo responded. “Come now, Keldeo; a handsome stallion such as yourself on a constant interaction with a gorgeous mare like Rarity; you can’t tell me that you two haven’t done something yet.” “We honestly haven’t. We’re keeping thing platonic at the moment.” He insisted. “Sure you are. But, I won’t hound you about it any further. So what class of magic are you skilled in?” “Contact and buffing magic. I have been known to also control water, but I don’t really do it as much.” Rarity climbed up the stairs, carrying the handle of a basket with food inside of it by her mouth. Keldeo glanced back, smiling and rushing by her side. “You seem very eager to see me today, Keldeo.” Rarity commented, dropping the basket on the ground. “Thank goodness you are here, Rarity. Lith here was bothering me with some questions I felt uncomfortable with.” Rarity glanced towards Lith, smiling and waving her hoof towards her direction. “Hey Rarity.” Lith responded. “Hello Lith. I see that you came up to speak with Keldeo?” “Yep. He’s interesting, but he isn’t what I imagined him to be like. But, at least he reminds me of my brother; timid like a Minccino.” “She asked if I was a Pokémon. I’ve never heard of such a preposterous thing in my life.” Keldeo announced. “Well, I could have been less blatant about it.” “Lith, may I talk with you in private?” Rarity asked. “Ummm… okay.” Rarity took Lith’s right paw, dragging her down the stairs. Rarity clicked her tongue and shook her head. “Lith, when I told you about Keldeo, I wouldn’t think that you interrogate him. Didn’t I tell you that he was timid?” “Well, yeah you did… but I just had to investigate him further! He looks very much like the Keldeo from my world. He just keeps casually denying it.” Lith argued. “If he denies it… then maybe it is because he actually is a pony with a case of amnesia.” “You never mentioned he had amnesia.” Rarity’s eyes shot open, rubbing her left front hoof and shying her eyes away from Lith. “Did that come out of my mouth?” She said, letting out an unhampered sigh. “Okay, he has amnesia. Don’t pester him with too many questions on his childhood before he came here because you won’t get anything.” “That would have helped sooner.” Lith commented, looking away from Rarity. “Actually, there is one more thing I want to ask of you; do you mind being Keldeo’s friend?” Rarity asked. “With how I came off on him, that might be very difficult for me to do.” “Just please try. It is one favor I ask of you, Lith. He appears like he never wants friends, but he truly does desire friendship. The closest he has to friends are the allies of his squad.” Lith sighed, unveiling a soft smile. “I’ll try, Rarity.” Rarity grinned. She took Lith’s paw, dragging her up the stairs. Spike and Keldeo sat around the basket of goods, eating golden bread with a sweet aroma and ingesting a black-colored liquid. Spike’s eyes squinted, sticking out his tongue with a cry of disgust. “What is this liquid?! It tastes nasty!” Keldeo chuckled, smiling towards Spike and rubbing his head. “That is a blackberry stagnos blend that I requested that Rarity makes for me. It’s an acquired taste, but it tastes very sweet for those that have it. It is very good for maintaining physical, mental and magical energy.” Spike pulled out his tongue, rubbing the flavor off with both of his claws. “Couldn’t you have at least warned me?” Spike asked, grimacing towards him. “You never asked. You just looked at it and sipped it.” Keldeo responded. “I did. Oh, the ladies are back.” Rarity and Lith approached the two with forced smiles stretching across their faces. “So, Keldeo… I want to apologize for antagonizing you. It was wrong of me to pester you like that.” Lith said. “Can you at least try to sound genuine when saying it, Lith? It’s painful to hear forced words that don’t mean much.” Keldeo stated, tilting his head in uncertaincy. “How about I just become your friend instead? I don’t really have much to do today.” “I don’t know…” Lith approached Keldeo with her eyes half-lidded and a sly smile on her face. “Come on, please? I’ll even assist you with whatever you want.” She said, stroking the blue fur on his chest. Seeing her actions, Rarity gasped and Spike giggled. Keldeo’s face loosened into a smile. “Well, Flash and I do have to venture outside after hearing reports of some stagnoses attacking the exterior walls. If you can help, then that would be excellent.” “It would be my pleasure to assist the city in its defense.” Lith responded with a stone-hard tone. “We can leave now. Those stagnoses won’t take care of themselves.” Keldeo and Lith leaped onto the descending platform, leaving a jaw-dropped Rarity and a smirking Spike alone. “The nerve of her, hitting up on him like that!” Rarity shouted. “You want to finish up this lunch? I kind of want to try some more of that stagnos juice you made.” Spike asked. Rarity let out a sigh and directed her face to the basket. She levitated a container of the black liquid to Spike. “I thought you hated the juice.” “I do, but the aftertaste is surprisingly good. Plus, Keldeo said that it would help retain my magical energy.” An orange pegasus stallion hovered around a slender exo, looking at its joints with his blue eyes. His navy blue mane stuck up with the flashiness of a bird’s crest. He was garbed in a black latex suit that stretched down to his shaven fetlocks. He raised an eye, seeing an out of place sprocket on it. He grasped it, tossing it onto the ground. “And done. I can’t wait to see how well you do out in the field.” The stallion descended onto the ground, eyeing an observing Lith and Keldeo. “Hey Flash.” Keldeo said, waving his hoof. “Sup, Kelds?” Flash Sentry responded with a casual tone. “We got some rogue stagnoses outside trying to break into the city. Lith here will assist in our mission.” Flash Sentry grinned. He flew up towards his exo’s chest, having it open and revealing a seat surrounded by air. Sitting on the chair, the exo’s chest closed and its visor flashed with a blue light. Its limbs moved. “You know, I never actually got to see a mecha this closely without having to destroy it. I appreciate the architectural work put into it.” Lith commented, bringing a radiant smile on Flash Sentry’s face. “She’s already cool in my book, Kelds. Nice choice in picking a partner.” Keldeo sighed and shook his head. Soarin’, walking along the main path, eyed the trio. He smiled, flying his way towards the group. “Looks like you three are going out on a mission. Mind if I come along?” He asked. “The more the merrier is what I say.” Lith responded with a quick tongue. Soarin’ pulled out a large gun with a pump handle and cocked it. Lith narrowed her eyes and her nerves went cold at its sight. “What? It’s just a laser shotgun.” Soarin’ stated, shrugging his shoulders. “I didn’t think that was even a thing!” “Regardless, we have to go out into the wilderness right now.” Keldeo declared. The group of four stood outside, eyeing the falling sun in the horizon. A blunt crash from the right shook the earth underneath them. A herd of quadrupeds with plated spines thrashed their spike tails against the wall. Their silver skin contrasted against their indigo eyes. Keldeo narrowed his eyes. “It looks like those reports weren’t false after all. Those stagnoses are trying to break into the city.” Soarin’ and Flash Sentry roared in delight. “We get to take our toys out for a ride!” The both of them screeched. Flash Sentry’s exo rushed towards the group. Soarin’ flew high into the sky, divebombing towards a stagnos with his shotgun in hand. “Should we make sure they don’t hurt themselves? Those dinosaurs don’t look too friendly.” Lith asked. “Please.” Lith and Keldeo sprinted at breakneck speed, catching up with Flash Sentry’s exo. The stagnoses eyed the group heading at them and roared. Their emerald spines shot a shower of spikes into the sky. Flash Sentry shot a volley of missiles above the group, exploding on contact with the spikes. “How do you like the new weapon I installed on this?” He shouted. A stagnos rolled into a ball, spinning at a speed that melted the ground underneath it. It dashed towards Flash Sentry’s exo, striking it in the chest and knocking it onto its back on the ground. “Flash! Are you alright?” Soarin’ called out, hovering in the air. “I’m fine, Soarin’. Just a bit of a scratch on my exo’s.” Flash Sentry assured. Soarin’ aimed his shotgun towards the head of the unfolding stagnos. He pulled the trigger, releasing six lasers from the barrel that all struck the stagnos. With its body scratched in six places, the stagnos shrieked. It swung its spiked tail towards Soarin’, knocking him down and stabbing his right shoulder. Soarin’ grimaced from the strike, his wings trembling in the air. “Hanging in there, Soarin’?” Flash Sentry asked. Soarin’ smiled, holding up his left front hoof in a curve. Keldeo shattered the air around him in speed, sprinting towards the stagnos with an ice-frigid face and eyes burning with retribution. His horn flashed in a deep blue, cloaking his body in a blue aura. The aura fired away in the shape of a sphere, levitating in front of the stagnos. He struck it with his hoof, unleashing a beam that engulfed the stagnos whole. The beam dissipated, leaving a path of barren earth in its wake. Lith’s eyes jolted open at the sight. Keldeo felt his legs wobble. He crouched his knees and looked towards the rest of the stagnos glaring down on him. A stagnos lifted its massive foot, covering Keldeo in its shadow. Lith fired a Signal Beam from her right paw, striking the stagnos square in the face. The stagnos flipped over onto its back, squirming for stability. “Keldeo, how are you holding up?” She asked. Keldeo shook off his body, staving the exhaustion within. “Doing well, but I used up a lot of my magical energy on that attack.” He responded. “Why? As a soldier, you can’t make any unnecessary risks that will endanger your squad’s life.” Lith asked. Keldeo eyed Soarin’, who walked towards the duo with a limp and an eye twitching. He held his left front hoof over his ribs. “Don’t worry about me, Keldeo; it isn’t as bad as it looks.” “Are you kidding, Soarin’?! You took a critical blow onto the weak portion of your chest. Of course I have to worry.” “Keldeo, you’re worrying too much again. My suit protected me from most of the blow. It might look like I’m still wincing, but I’m still good enough to fight. Don’t waste all that magic unless if you desperately need to.” Keldeo remained silent, looking upon the ground with a quiet sigh. Lith placed her right paw on Keldeo’s shoulder. “I know how you feel. If anything were to even touch a hair on my brother, I would go as far as commit murder just for retribution. Even then, there are some physical limits that you should not betray. Just imagine how Rarity would feel if her last sight of you was in a casket.” Keldeo looked back towards Lith, a meek frown forming on his face. “Rarity…” He said. He looked to his left, seeing Flash Sentry and his mech in a readied stance. “Can your mech still fight, Flash?” Flash Sentry’s exo moved towards the center, lifting its thumb up towards him. “Like I said, it’s just a scratch. We’ll help you ward off these stagnoses.” “Then let’s show these creatures why Neo Canterlot should never be messed with.” Grinning, Keldeo responded. Flash Sentry’s exo ran towards a stagnos, thrusting its fist across its face and launching the creature beyond the horizon. Soarin’ flew into the face of a stagnos, swiping his shotgun across its face and shooting it. The stagnos fell onto the ground, squirming from the strike. A stagnos opened its beak, breathing out a golden mist striking Lith. Her sight became veiled in gold and her body stiffened. Her breathing became rapid and her heart beat with earthquakes. A chilling feeling enveloped her body. “What’s happening? Why do I feel… afraid of that?” She shouted. The stagnos charged into Lith, sending her into the air. Soarin’ soared into the sky, catching her with his front legs. Lith’s heart exploded in anxiety, all of her paws flailing in the air. “Calm down! You just got hit by some scare spore. Its neurotoxins will make you temporarily afraid of everything.” Soarin’ explained. “That already sounds frightening.” Lith noted, bringing her left paw to her chin. “When will it stop?” “It just stopped. Seems like the effects are very temporary in your case.” Soarin’ brought Lith down to the ground by Keldeo’s side. She stared at the stagnos that breathed the mist at her with an icy stare. She conjured up a Magical Leaf, sending them flying towards the stagnos and cutting its skin. The stagnos roared, galloping out of the area. Keldeo’s horn flashed, covering the next set of leaves Lith conjured around her. They disappeared from sight. Lith held her right paw forward. Several scrapes appeared on each stagos’s body. Their heads moved around, wary of what was near them. A stream of scratches appeared on their bodies once more. The remaining stagnoses hollered, sprinting out of the area and into the wilderness. “Well, it looks like it is over.” Lith said, letting out a confident huff. “Do not be sure of that, little alien.” A female voice echoed from the sky. Lith, Keldeo, Flash Sentry and Soarin’ looked into the sky, their sight focused on a green mecha with a body thick with armor and five claws made of light, stretching out to half of the forearm’s length. It descended upon the ground, kicking up a storm of dust. Lith, Keldeo and Soarin’ shielded their eyes from the particles and maintained their view of the mecha. “Who are you?” Soarin’ asked. A hologram flashed in front of the group, revealing a pale white humanoid female with green hair wrapped in dreadlocks. Her gray suit accentuated the curves on her body and brought out the dark green color of her irises. She smirked with a sinister air surrounding her. “My name is Goethia, but my name will be irrelevant to you four soon enough. Enjoy this sight while you can, for it will be the last thing you see.” The hologram of Goethia’s image vanished. Several probes launched into the air from her mecha, hovering above the group of four. A deluge of red lasers rained down upon the group, blasting away the ground. Lith, Soarin’ and Keldeo dropped to the ground, covered their heads and closed their eyes. Flash Sentry leaped above the group, his exo shielding everyone from the rain of death. “Flash!” Keldeo shouted, eyeing the erratic static appearing on the exo’s visor. “Don’t worry about me. I got you all covered from the attack. Go after Goethia!” Flash Sentry called out in a strained voice. Lith rolled out of Flash Sentry’s shadow of protection, engaging towards Goethia’s direction. With her eyes flashing, she grasped her mecha through Psychic, holding her in place. She leaped into the air, kicking the mecha in the chest. A telekinetic explosion of energy blasted Goethia across the field, her mecha’s feet tearing apart the ground. “It seems that Wilhelm was correct; the powers that you aliens possess are always expanding. But, it will take more than just creativity to take me down.” Goethia taunted. “Is this Wilhelm the leader of your people?” Lith asked. “My, it appears that I have said too much already. Oh well, it’s not like anything you know will be able to take us down. You are all too spineless to deal any sort of decisive blow anyways.” Saying these words, Goethia charged forward, tearing apart the air in front of her with her speed. She slashed Lith with her claws, rending her suit and knocking her into the air. Goethia aimed her mecha’s fists into Lith’s aerial space. A dark chuckle emerged from her mouth. “I will put an end to your short trip on this planet.” Flash Sentry dashed towards Goethia, punching her mecha across its vizor. She stood her place, throwing a rocket fist across the exo’s visor and knocking it to the ground. Keldeo leaped off of Flash Sentry’s exo and his horn charged with a pale orange light. His horn extended to the size of a longsword. He slashed Goethia’s mecha across her chest and reeled her back. Lith landed on her feet with no other damage on her. She fired a Charge Beam straight into Goethia’s visor, knocking the mecha on its back. “You say we are spineless, are we?! I’ll show you just how much spine we Equusians have!” Soarin’ shouted, splitting his shotgun in half and fitting them on his front hooves. Twin lasers extended from the gauntlets, shaping into sharp daggers and diving towards Goethia. Goethia rolled out of the way, causing Soarin’s blades to stab the ground. Goethia flew into the sky. “It seems I have extended my playtime with you beings past what I was allotted. But you all have given me some interesting new variables to give to Wilhelm.” Lith stared at Goethia, sprinting after her. She leaped off of Keldeo’s back, using Soarin’ as her vault and jumped into the sky. Purple electricity formed around the mecha, shocking Lith and causing her to plummet to the ground. Soarin’ grabbed her, bringing a veil of safety to her. “Get back here!” Lith demanded, wriggling her right paw out and firing a Signal Beam towards her direction. Goethia evaded the strike, flying beyond the horizon of the blue sky. “Lith, stop! She’s gone.” Keldeo demanded. “So close! We were so close to taking down a Van’Goth officer.” Lith responded. “I share in your zeal, but aren’t you being a bit obsessive over that?” Soarin’ asked. Lith stopped squirming. Her body relaxed to a standstill. “I know… But, I cannot help but feel so angry by witnessing a member of the Van’Goth just barge down here to try to ruin our lives and our way of living.” Keldeo glanced to his back, hiding a small frown from the group. “Well, it looks like we did it. Mission complete.” Flash Sentry stated, dusting off the armor of his exo with its arms. He flew out of the cockpit, looking at the cuts and peeling paint on it. “It looks like I’ll have to do yet another tedious repair session for my exo again.” Mono sat on his seat, scrolling through the words of a hologram and an image of a white-coated unicorn mare with a slender build, lavender eyes and a pink mane and tail combed in a thick and clean fashion. She was garbed in a linen dress that sparkled with the colors of a rainbow. “Hey, Mono.” Lith said, entering through the front door of the living quarters. “Sounds like you had an interesting day.” Mono responded, eyeing the scrapes on Lith’s uniform. “It was interesting. I got to meet an interesting citizen… and we fought against a member of the Van’Goth. Don’t worry, I’m not hurt. So what are you doing?” “I’m just looking through an article about a pony Rarity wanted me to look over. Fleur De Lis has much more depth than what I perceived her to be like.” Lith sat beside Mono and looked at the image on the hologram. Her heart stopped at her sight, restarting with rapid beats. “Why did Rarity want you to look at her?” Lith asked, her breath strained from the sight. “Apparently, she has a personal request that she asks of our group for tomorrow. I decided to look up as much information as possible on her.” Mono responded. A dull knocking reverberated on the door. Mono closed the hologram and approached the door. Turning the knob and lifting it away, he witnessed Keldeo on the other side of the door. “Oh! Did I get the wrong door? I was looking for Lith. Sorry to bother you.” Keldeo stated with an apologetic tone. “This is the right door. My name is Mono, Lith’s brother and a member of the R&D Division.” Mono introduced, bringing a grin to Keldeo’s face. “Oh! You don’t look much like your sister for being twins. Mind if I come in?” “I don’t mind at all.” Mono stood out of the doorway, allowing Keldeo inside. “Hey, Keldeo. What brings you here?” Lith asked with a cheery smile. Keldeo scratched the back of his head with a nervous frown on his face. “I wish to make amends between the two of us. We haven’t really been off to a good start.” He stated. “It was my fault for trying to push my perception on you. I assume that it left a bad impression on you.” “At first. But, when I saw how you were like in combat, something within me stirred awake. I’m not too sure, but I think I might be starting to believe some of those words you were saying about me being a Pokémon.” Lith cocked her head and her eyes glinted in confusion. “Why do you have a sudden change of heart about that theory?” “Do you remember when my horn flashed when I assaulted Goethia? I have a reasonable suspicion that move was not magic on my part, but it was something else. Truth be told, I have no idea on what my origins are. I walk, talk and act like a pony, but I don’t remember anything. I literally woke up here with no recollection of anything other than my name.” Keldeo explained. “That’s very… complicated. Pokémon shouldn’t be able to do what you are currently doing right now after all. But at the same time, you don’t look like other ponies.” “I know, and that is why I came here; I feel that I can get a better understanding about myself if I interact more with you and your friends. Maybe I can even discover fragments of my memory and unravel the mysteries about me?” Lith smiled, patting Keldeo on top of his head. “My family and I would love to help you discover who you are.” Mono’s watch lit up, his eyes widening at the sudden appearance of a hologram. He narrowed his eyes, scanning through the contents of the message. “I got a message from Rarity. She’s asking for you, Keldeo. Based on her rushed wording, she doesn’t sound too happy.” Keldeo’s eyes jolted open. “I forgot to check back with Rarity! Oh, she’s probably going to kill me for not checking back with her!” Keldeo shouted, galloping outside. “So… what’s the deal with Keldeo?” Mono asked. “At this point, I don’t know. That stallion ain’t right.” Lith responded, impersonating a Driftveilan accent.