//------------------------------// // Dimensional Tales: Monster in my Pocket Pt 1 // Story: Adventures of the Equestrian Ninja // by hussbek //------------------------------// ADVENTURES OF THE EQUESTRIAN NINJA Chapter 14: Dimensional Tales: Monster in my Pocket Pt. 1 On a peaceful night in Ponyville, as Luna’s moon casts a dull light over the slumbering residents. Naruto was fast asleep in his bed while he was within his dreamscape, where he sits on the Hokage monument and watches over the dream version of the Hidden Leaf Village in the night time. “Even when I’m in a new world, I will never forget about the village and keep my will of fire burning strong for you mom, dad, grandpa Hokage, granny Tsunade, Pervy Sage and everyone,” Naruto continued to watch with a look of nostalgia as he thought of his precious people back at his old dimension and how they were. Then he felt another presence in his dream and turned to see who it was, it turned out to be none other than Princess Luna to his surprise. “Luna? What are you doing here?” Luna giggled from the look on the blond stallion’s face. “Don’t worry yourself Naruto, this is just one of my powers. I can enter the dreams of ponies when they are asleep,” said Luna. “That’s a pretty cool magic if you ask me, so what brings you here in my dream?” Luna blushed from hearing Naruto complement her powers before speaking. “I thought that after raising the moon, I could visit you in your dream and say hello if that is okay with you,” Naruto chuckled softly at Luna being shy when asking, think that it was cute. “I’m completely okay with it, so come over sit next to me,” Luna was ecstatic at being able to spend more time with Naruto, so she sat next to him and took a look at the village he was originally from. “This place looks beautiful,” “Yeah, and it’s just as beautiful in the day time,” said Naruto with pride. “Can you tell me more about your village?” asked Luna. With that, Naruto started telling her about the lifestyle of the civilians and ninjas, the food they eat, the educational and political system. Luna giggled when Naruto started talking about and cried about never being able to eat at Ichiraku’s anymore. He also spoke of other things for quite a while as he enjoyed telling Luna about his old life. “The way you talk about your village sounds like you miss it,” said Luna, being careful not to be rude. “Yeah I do, but as long as I keep it close to my heart, I’ll never forget about it,” said Naruto with a smile which made Luna feel warm inside. All of a sudden, there was a flash of light which forced Naruto and Luna to close their eyes. When they opened their eyes, Naruto and Luna saw that they were standing in a white space much to their confusion. “What do you think is going on Luna? How did we even get here?” asked Naruto looking around for an exit. “I don’t know, it seems like someone brought us here,” said Luna. “Really? Then who?” “That would be me,” When Naruto turned to face the source of the voice, his eyes widened upon seeing a familiar figure. “K-Kami-sama?!” Luna was surprised upon hearing what Naruto called the creature. “Naruto, you mean that this is the goddess who sent you to our world?” “Indeed I am, and it is a pleasure to meet you Princess Luna, Co-ruler of Equestria,” said Kami with a smile. “It’s good to see you again, but what brings you here?” asked Naruto with curiosity. “I’m sure that you’re aware that there are more dimensions than this one and your former,” receiving a nod from the ponies, the goddess continued “No matter how different the dimensions are, there is always someone who desires to attain great power even if it destroys the balance of the worlds. However, we gods are not allowed to interfere according to the ancient laws,” “But what does this have to do with us?” asked Luna. “I was hoping that Naruto would travel to these world and stop them,” they were stunned by what the goddess had said. “W-what do you mean by that Kami-sama?” asked Naruto who was confused. “Normally the heroes would rise up to stop them, but I fear that they are not strong enough to face them. So I was hoping that you would assist them,” Naruto turned to Luna to seek her opinion. “What do you think Luna?” “Personally, I think that you should help them but the final decision lies with you,” said Luna. Naruto stood there for a few minutes while deep in thought before looking back at Kami with determination. “I’ll do it, I’ll go and help them Kami-sama,” the goddess smiled at the selflessness of the ninja. “You have my gratitude Naruto Uzumaki. When you wake up, there will be a scroll next to your bed. Follow the address and meet with a pony who goes by the name Dr. Whooves. Give him the scroll, he’ll be the one to help you cross dimensions,” Naruto nodded in affirmation. “Is there anything that Naruto should be aware of?” asked Luna. “Yes, whenever Naruto enters a dimension, sometimes the will of the world would restrict some of his powers as a precaution,” said Kami. “I got it, I’ll definitely get it done! You can count on me Kami-sama, believe it!” “I wish you good fortune on your mission,” with those words, Naruto and Luna found themselves back in his dreamscape. “I’d better get myself ready,” said Naruto. “Okay, but please be careful and come back safely,” said Luna. “I’ll be sure to come back and that’s a promise!” “I’ll inform Celestia of what happened, goodbye,” Luna faded out of Naruto’s dreamscape before he settled down to sleep. The next morning, Naruto woke up to find a white scroll next to his bed and knew that his dream was real. After breakfast, Naruto told Trixie and Scootaloo that he will be gone for a while, then summoned a shadow clone with extra chakra to help Trixie with the shop before setting out for the location written on the scroll. “I guess that this is the place,” Naruto looked up from the scroll to look at the house, He walked up to the door and started knocking until he heard a voice from inside. “Hold on, I’m coming,” the door opened to reveal an earth pony with a brown coat and black mane, his cutie mark is of an hourglass. “Excuse me, but are you Dr. Whooves?” asked Naruto. “Yes I am, how may I help you?” asked the pony. “I would like for you to read this,” Naruto give him the scroll to read, after reading through the scroll he opened the door wider for Naruto to enter. “Come in and have a seat, I have to make preparations for the travel,” said Dr. Whooves. “I take it that you know Kami-sama,” said Naruto. “Indeed I’ve met the goddess and we’re good friends, the scroll instructed me to serve as your source of transport to other dimensions,” said Dr. Whooves as he went into another room. After a bit of waiting, Dr. Whooves came out of the room. “We’re all set, come along now,” Naruto stood up and followed the pony into the room to seem and strange contraption sitting in the middle of the room. “What is that thing Doc?” asked Naruto. “This my friend is the TARDIS, with it we can travel to different dimensions with no problems at all. So are you ready?” “I’m ready for anything, believe it!” Dr. Whooves chuckled at the enthusiasm of the blond stallion as he was slowly developing a liking to him. “Alright them, let us be off,” with that the duo entered the machine and in a flash of light, it disappeared. Meanwhile in the royal palace, Luna was telling Celestia of what happened in Naruto’s dream. “I see, that’s what happened,” said Celestia. “Yes and I’m sure that by now, he has already set off, I hope that he’ll return safely,” Celestia had a mischievous look when she saw how worried Luna was for the blond stallion. “I’m pretty sure that you would cuddle his foxy tail when he gets back,” said Celestia, giggling at her sister who was stuttering. “So that’s how she wants it, well two can play at that game,” thought Luna “Maybe I will, and you won’t get to enjoy it,” Luna smirked as she looked at her sister start to stutter as well. “Uuuummm, you won’t leave your sister out would you?” said Celestia hesitantly. “I don’t know, I’ll have to think about it,” Luna walked away with Celestia following after her. Inside the TARDIS, Naruto felt a shiver crawl up his spine. “What’s the matter? You have a cold?” asked Dr. Whooves. “No, it’s just that I have a feeling that my tail is in danger when I get back,” “That is quite a queer feeling,” “I know, anyway can you tell me about this world that we’re heading to?” asked Naruto. “Well according to the scroll, in this world there are human and the creatures called pocket monsters or ‘Pokémon’ for short. It says that humans and Pokémon sometimes work together in their day to day lives, the most popular are these Pokémon battles,” said Dr. Whooves. “Wow that sounds so cool, when I get there, who should I be looking for?” “You are to seek out a boy by the name Ash Ketchum with his partner Pikachu who looks like a yellow mouse with tail shaped like a lightning bolt. He is the hero of his dimension,” Naruto nodded in affirmation of the mission, soon the TARDIS reached the end of the warp. In an alleyway between two buildings, the TARDIS appeared from the warp hole and settled on the ground. Naruto opened the door and stepped out, but when he did, he felt something cut off his connection with his magic and Kosei no Ha but left him with access to his chakra. “I guess that’s the world restricting some of my powers like Kami-sama said,” thought Naruto, he turned to Dr. Whooves “Okay Doc, I’m heading out,” “Alright, do be careful and good luck,” Naruto nodded and started jumping from roof to roof in search of his target. While surveying the area, Naruto was enjoying the scenery around him. “This place is so beautiful, different from Equestria and the Elemental Nations,” Naruto’s line of thought was broken when he heard someone shout. “Stop Team Rocket, let go off Shaymin!” Naruto looked down to see a boy and girl wearing a white uniform with red R on the chest with a bipedal cat while carrying a small Pokémon that looks like a hedgehog except that it has green grass like fur on its back with a pink flower with two leaves on each side of its head. Behind them, Naruto saw a boy with a yellow mouse riding on his shoulder with a girl carrying a Pokémon which looks like a blue penguin and a tan skinned boy with closed eyes pursuing them. “I guess that’s Ash and those must be his companions, I’d better help em out,” Naruto was about to go after them when he noticed that there some sort of ripple on the reflections of the triangle shaped statues. “What was that? I can think on that later,” Naruto dashed off to catch up with them. Meanwhile Ash and the others had finally caught up with Team Rocket, then all of a sudden a portal opened up from one of the statues and sucked Team Rocket inside. Dawn was able to grab Shaymin but she got sucked in as well. Without a second thought, Ash jumped in after them. Brock was about to follow when he heard something coming from behind at a fast pace, he turned just to see an orange blur jump into the portal right before it closed. “What was that?” thought Brock with surprise. When Naruto saw them fall into the portal and jumped in after them, he wasn’t expecting to find himself in another realm which was different from what he would have seen. As Naruto was looking around, he heard a loud screech and looked upwards only to be stunned at what he was seeing, it has a serpentine look with six black ghostly streamers on its back with red spikes on its tips, it also has spikes in the mid-section of its body and four golden spikes at the end of its tail. “Whoa, these Pokémon are really something, it scares me to even think of them ever being summons in my old world,” Naruto noticed that the draconic Pokémon was circling around a particular and headed there to investigate. When he got there, he saw Pikachu fire a bolt of lightning at the draconic Pokémon which disappeared like a shadow before suddenly appearing from behind and knocking them off the platform and to the void below. Naruto quickly swung into action by diving after them, upon getting close he used his tail to wrap around them. “Hang on!” Naruto stretched out a chakra arm to grab onto the ledge of a rock platform and pulled himself up to it. “Are you guys okay?” the two Pokémon nodded in affirmation “That’s good, then let’s get you back to your partners,” Naruto galloped with the two following until they finally met Ash and his friend near a building. “Piplup and Pikachu, we’re so glad to see that you’re okay!” said Dawn, when they set their eyes on the newcomer “And who are you supposed to be?” “We can save the introductions for later cause we’ve got company!” Naruto pointed behind them, and they turned to see the giant Pokémon approaching as it shot a blue fireball at them. “Chakura-ho!” Naruto quickly shot a large sphere at the attack which successfully cancelled the other out. Then a man with a Pokémon appeared before then “Stop! You mustn’t upset Giratina!” “Giratina?” asked Ash. “He must be talking about that Pokémon,” said Naruto. “That’s right, come on follow me!” the group followed the man and they noticed that the gravity is different from what they usually experience. “It’s okay, I don’t sense Giratina anywhere near here,” said Naruto, they had been running through the buildings for a while until finally stopping to rest while Naruto used his Ora kokei to check their surroundings. “Thanks for helping us back there,” said Ash. When they took a good look at the one who helped them, he is an equine with an orange coat and a spiky yellow mane with a tattoo of a white maelstrom on his flank, he was also wearing a black and orange hoodie jacket, a black headband on his forehead, a pair of goggles and a medallion hung around his neck. “But who are you?” asked Dawn. “My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I’m a pony ninja, believe it!” said Naruto with a good guy pose. “Well my name is Ash Ketchum and this is my partner and best friend Pikachu,” said Ash with Pikachu riding on his shoulder. “My name is Dawn and this is my partner Piplup,” said Dawn, Piplup stood next to her with its chest puffed out in pride to which Naruto snickered at. “Oh and this is Shaymin,” “Hello, what kind of Pokémon are you?” Naruto heard a voice in his head and guessed that the Pokémon was speaking through his mind. “I’m not a Pokémon, let’s just say that I’m not from around here and leave it at that,” said Naruto, Shaymin stared at him with curiosity. “Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Newton Graceland and this is my partner Shieldon. I’m in the process of researching the Reverse world,” said the man. “So that’s the name of this place? It suits it quite well,” said Naruto. That’s right, and just so you know that out of all the scientists, I am considered to be a genius,” Naruto tried not to laugh while the others looked at him skeptically and Shaymin thought him to be a weirdo. “Well, could you tell us about the Reverse world and Giratina?” asked Dawn with Naruto and Ash nodding in agreement. “Of course, I’d be more than happy to tell you about them,” With that, Newton told the group of how the Reverse world is the opposite of the real world and that even though they exist beside each other, they never intersect at all but only Giratina can cross between both worlds and that it is the only living thing in the Reverse world therefore making it the master of the place. “If you’re looking to return to the real world, then allow me to lead the way,” “Thanks, we would be most grateful,” said Dawn. “We have to hurry, I must get to the flower garden right away,” said Shaymin. “Alright then, follow me,” said Newton. As the group continued along with Newton leading the way, they suddenly stopped when they saw a purple cloud float in front of them. “What is that?” asked Naruto. “When there is an imbalance in the real world, the Reverse world then collects them to maintain the balance and they appear in the form of these cloud,” said Newton. As they passed by the cloud, Naruto noticed Piplup go close to the cloud in curiosity, Newton noticed this and quickly called out to warn it. “Get away from that cloud, it’s poisonous! One quick breath and you’re done for,” Hearing that, Naruto used his tail to grab Piplup and pull it away from the cloud. “Don’t let your curiosity get the better of you next time, okay?” said Naruto, to which Piplup nodded in affirmation. Newton then explained to them that when time and space collided which caused the imbalance of the real world, it resulted in an overflow of the poisonous clouds in the Reverse world which made Giratina very furious with Dialga and Palkia when they met and fought. Ash and Dawn knew that he was talking about the incident back at Alamos town as they were there and helped to stop it at that time. He continued to tell them that Giratina had captured Dialga before and dragged it into the Reverse world but then Shaymin got in the way when it used Seed Flare which opened a portal and allowed Dialga to escape. “I guess that must be why Giratina is so mad at you,” said Ash. “Not only that, Giratina can’t cross between worlds anyone as Dialga had done something to prevent it from doing so,” “It serves Giratina right,” said Shaymin. “I wouldn’t be saying that if I were you, since we’re still here and Giratina is around,” said Naruto with a smirk, Shaymin kept quiet after hearing that. When a bubble floated next to them, Ash and Dawn saw their friend Brock through and tried to touch it before Newton could warn them and it burst into sparkles of light. “Be careful! If something gets destroyed here, it has a big influence in the real world,” said Newton, Naruto paid close attention to what he said as he had a nagging feeling that his mission might have something to do with it. Soon a loud screech was heard, the group looked up to see that Giratina had returned. “It’s back!” said Dawn. “Let’s get out of here!” Shaymin jumped out of Dawn’s arms and onto Ash’s head, forcing him to jump onto a rock platform. “You guys get out of there! Giratina is right behind you!” shouted Naruto. Not bothering to look behind him, Ash jumped off the platform closely avoiding Giratina but Shaymin got captured in its jaws. “Oh no Shaymin!” “Don’t worry, I got this!” Naruto jumped from platform to platform in pursuit until he caught up with them “Shaymin hang on, I’ll get you out of there!” “Please hurry, I don’t want to get eaten!” said Shaymin in fear. Naruto formed a chakra tendril and used it to wrap around Shaymin and pull it away from Giratina much to its surprise. “What took you so long?” said Shaymin. “Geez, grateful much?” Naruto used his chakra tendrils to zip back to the group, using the lamp posts and other things as grapple points due to the shift in gravity. “Good job Naruto!” Naruto gave Shaymin back to Dawn as they followed Newton to the portal. “Alright, this is the only way out to the real world so hurry!” Ash and the others jumped through the portal until Naruto was left. “What about you Newton? We can’t leave you behind!” said Naruto. “Don’t worry about me, I still have things to do here. The only thing I can tell you is to watch out for mirrors,” said Newton. Naruto looked at him for a bit before finally relenting, then he proceeded to jump through the portal and managed to reach the other side and saw Ash and the others there waiting for him. “What happened to Newton?” asked Dawn. “He said that he still had things to do in the Reverse world and that we should watch out for mirrors,” said Naruto. “Reverse world? What’s that and who are you?” asked Brock. Naruto was about to answer when the reflection of the statue rippled and they saw Giratina fly by. “It’s coming this way!” said Shaymin. “I’m guessing that these mirrors serve as entry points into the Reverse world,” said Naruto. “If so, then it’s too dangerous for us to be here, let’s get going!” The group took off to a safer place with a confused Brock following them. “Will someone please tell me what is going on?” Unknown to the group, they were being watched by someone. In a dark room, a man white hair covering on of his eyes and wearing a suit with the number zero on it, was sitting and watching several monitors showing Naruto and the others on the move. “Interesting, so that is how it is. That Shaymin will be of use to me,” said the man as he got up left the room with an evil smile on his face.