//------------------------------// // Switch on // Story: Cosmic friendship // by Kamen rider yokai //------------------------------// Space. The mysterious void our world exists in. Many have wondered just how this existed or if it even did. And space has its own form of energy. Cosmic energy a power that is strange and unpredictable. Only two people have safely used this power to save the world one of them being revived in one case by the cosmic energy. And I am one of them. My name is jack saraph. I'm your ordinary 21 year old man normally seen in a blue suit with brown hair in short spikes and pale midnight blue eyes. But today I kinda looked like a astronaut. I wore a mainly white bodysuit with two orange lines on the chest and had black trim on the sides with a bit of silver to go with them. Mounted on the back was what seemed to be a thruster like jetpack. My arms were in bulky white guantlets with the right arm having a indent of a orange circle while the left had instead a black square. Similar boots covered my legs with a yellow triangle for the left leg and a blue cross for the right instead. Covering my head was a cone like helmet which had a large black visor much like a real astronaut helmet except for the small v like crest and the orange bug like eyes it had and resembled a rocket in shape. The neck area the helmet covered was silver and much like actual space suits was sealed air tight. Around my waist by a silver strap was a transparent blue belt buckle with a screen in the center and had four red switches two on each side plus a large push lever on the right side. Loaded in were the basic four Astro switches from the series rocket, launcher, drill and radar. Taking a deep breath I headed out on my working replica of fourze's motorcycle the machine Massigler. I was going to a convention and it was going to be my first one. I had actually went all out with my costume and I even had the kaban strapped to my bike holding all but the cosmic Astro switch. I heard some people had vanished from conventions but I was sure they were just rumors. Wow convention centers are big aren't they and so many shops are set up too though as I'm going alone and it's my first time I got lost very easilly. I was currently standing before a shop that was pretty out of the way being quite in a clear area. It had various random items on display and the shop keeper looked ... a lot like darkrai? Huh pretty convincing costume completely realistic. Let's see there was what looked like cloud strife's weapon from the advent children movie, a pokeball, a xros loader, a pretty good replica of the hunters garb from bloodborne, and wait is that the cosmic switch? By nocturne it is! Huh looks like it's pretty cheep too. Oh hey I can also get the pokeball as well neat! Let's see five dollars for the switch and 15 for the pokeball that's 20 dollars right there! And lucky me I saved up close to seventeen hundred dollars for doing various odd jobs for five years. Gotta pay the bills right. Oh hey I can also get the hunters garb for just 120 dollars neat. Though on hand I got about a fifth of my savings to use so I had 340 dollars on hand that leaves me 200 left. Let's see what else is here? Oh that's interesting I spotted a model kit of the powerdizer the support mech of fourze which was only 15 dollars and is that a plush animal of a wyvern? Oh it is and it looks epic for a stuffed plush toy. Black with blue membrane. It's about 3 dollars understandable as these plush toys are fairly easy to make. Well that seems to be everything so gathering them I headed to the counter for purchase. I got the feeling the darkrai merchant was amused that I was going to buy about a third of his stock. Place wasn't that big after all. Taking out my wallet from my kaban and showing him my Astro switch collection missing those on my belt and cosmic in the process. I was surprised he didn't make a fuss about my motorcycle. "Well you seem to have a good eye for detail rider. Are you sure you can afford these" asked the merchant and luckily I had a helmet as turned out 'Darkrai' was a woman so my blush was hidden. That was one good costume if it masked the gender just right. "Eh I can I did a lot of odd jobs for the past five years got to pay the bills right. Let's see if I added the price right. $158 total right?" I asked pulling out the exact amount. "Yes that's correct let me ring them up for you" said 'Darkrai' with a nod. When she did so I payed the amount and lifted the bottom of my kaban to place the outfit inside then replaced the switch storage to it and placed cosmic in its slot band placed the pokeball in between four of the switches. The plush I placed next to it and turned to the shop keeper. "Do you mind if I build the model here? To save space in my kaban you see" I asked and she nodded interested in how I would do at it and I got to work assembling the model with my model tools I placed in my kaban which was why I asked to build the model there was a bit of space left because of the tools. After five minutes of focused work the surprisingly show accurate mech was complete. I placed it in tower mode and put it and my tools away and closed it. "Impressive timing for that one usually it takes about a hour to build one of those" said 'Darkrai' "One of the odd jobs involved a load of model kits. The guy payed me to help him build a thousand of the kits in time for a show case and a museum on robotics. Building 1000 Gundam models gives you quite the experience to do this kind of thing. Compared to that this was easy" I said and i could have sworn the visible eye went wide on that mask. Wait it did! ... now that I think about it I don't hear the shop keepers feet. The floor was tile not carpet so I should have heard her footsteps. Slowly I tilted my head down to see legs that was way to thin and ended in points hovering a slight inch off the ground since the counter was more like a desk for a office building and a register in place of a computer. Rising my head eyes wide behind my visor I took a deep breath and stared at the revealed actual real pokemon legendary right in the eye. "Does palkia have anything to do with you being in my world miss darkrai?" I asked as well that particular legendary had the power over space and thus dimensions. I wouldn't be surprised if he could create portals to alternate universes. "Uh no I was just asked to handle the shop by someone while they were out. But I will admit that you figured me out quick not many can tell so fast" said Darkrai with a impressed tone. "I thought you looked a little to realistic plus you forgot to keep your feet on the ground and make them resemble human legs. Only amputees with peg legs can make their legs look like that but then there would be a slight bulge showing where the false limb is to the actual limb. Yours was to smooth to be natural. As the legendary involving nightmares and shadows I know you can alter your body like it's made of shadows" I deadpanned and by my tone she realized what my expression must be. "Good deduction I knew I was forgetting something" said darkrai with a wince as she looked down. She pulled out a dusk ball. "Here. For not freaking out about meeting me and showing a quick reaction time with logic I'm sure you can keep this safe I'm trusting you big time with this" said Darkrai seriously handing it over and I realized with a start that it must be HER duskball. Wow I was given a huge honor of holding on to the pokeball connected to a legendary. Wait then what happened to the trainer she used to have? She sensed my question and sighed. "My last trainer... left me and hadn't returned and it's been 1700 years since then but I kept my pokeball in good condition. gaining the ability to travel worlds was interesting. But I would feel better if I knew my pokeball and thus me was safe" said Darkrai. "Right well I won't let you down I don't mind if you come visit I would like to hear about what you experienced" I said with a laugh knowing that this wasn't something to pass up. To hear the adventures of a actual Pokémon was awesome! "I'll take you up on that... why is your belt and bike glowing?" Asked darkrai blinking. I looked down and felt as if something was entering me and darkrai narrowed her eye. "Odd I'm feeling dimensional energy similar to palkia's ability" said darkrai confused and I went wide eyed. "Uh oh" I gulped. "What" asked darkrai. "I heard rumors that some people vanished at conventions and haven't been found. I think whoever your minding the shop for is one of the sources of the rumors" I said and before we knew it I vanished with my bike leaving a wide eyed and shocked legendary to stare at where I just was. "Oh when that guy comes back he's getting a dream eater! Seriously pulling this stunt is one of the bounds legendary pokemon take offense to. Let's see if he will like hahing to explain to palkia why he is abusing dimensional abilities!" Said darkrai already writing a report before sending it to the spacial dragon. She heard the guy she was helping return and turned to glare at the guy who resembled a resident evil merchant. "What's with the glare" asked the merchant seeing a third of the inventory was sold. "Let's just say I heard about some interesting rumors and that you might be the cause. People vanishing without a trace perhaps?" Said darkrai and the merchant felt a chill run down his spine. Turning the merchant got a face full of sleep powder and then six dream eaters at once. The merchant learned a very important lesson. Never piss of a angry female ledendary Pokémon who can report you to a angered spacial dragon god who knows a god in a multiverse cluster as its creator. You won't like the outcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I groaned as I came to and blinked as I found myself in what seemed to be the rabbit hutch. It looked bigger almost twice as big as the version from Kamen rider fourze. There was a second floor with a loft near the west wall and the lab portion actually looked like a lab and the testing part was definitely roomy enough at least. My kaban was open with the switches scattered with the powerdizer missing and it looked like the wyvern was now alive and was a baby. My bike was leaning on a wall. Standing up I felt my eyes go wide as I saw with the exception of the basic four and about three astro switches and the ns magphone the other switches were stone. Putting them in the recharge panel for now was a good idea and I picked up the pokeball which was shrunk. It was then I realized I was dressed in the hunters garb I bought with the fourze driver on. I still had the duskball as well Also shrunk. Before I could look at the loft I felt something crash into me from above. "Ouch/gah!" I said and I heard a feminine voice say as I found myself face first on the ground. I could feel something feathery on my back and what felt like a horse tail or something on my back but something about the tail felt off. I groaned as I tapped the floor and quickly felt whoever landed on my get off. Standing up and popping my back into place again and dusting myself off ni turned to regard the person who appeared. I went wide eyed at seeing a humaniod pony in a blue dress with black fur and had both a horn and wings looking arround in shock. She also wore silver armor around her torso, legs and arms as her star like mane and tail moved without a visible sind. Her draconian emerald eyes were confused at where she found herself. It was the emblem on the hips of her dress that finally clued me in to where I was and when. I was on equestria's moon when nightmare moon was sent to it for a 1000 years. Shoot. Maybe I can do some damage control here. "Where am I and where is that damn Celestia!" Asked nightmare moon. "If I'm correct we are on the moon. And trust me your not the only one having a bad day today" I said catching her attention. "My moon! But why would the elements of harmony place me here! And what are you doing on the moon!" Asked nightmare moon in shock and curious about me I guess by the expression she made at me. "Im not here willingly either, some guy running a shop sold me enchanted items that I didn't know were enchanted. As best I can guess it was dimensional magic as I doubt I'm in my own universe. This place here seems to have been created by the magic as I was yanked across the multiverse. In a way you and I are in the same situation here. My world normally doesn't have magic at all. Unlike you I can't breath In space hence why this place exists. You arrived here a minute after I did" I said and I didn't blame darkrai for what happened it seemed she was as surprised as I was. Same with nightmare moon as it made sense as summoning does deal in dimension magic. But to diliberately send a unknowing civilian to another universe was just dispicable. And despite wanting eternal night she was still a princess who has to look after her subjects. "Oh right where are my manors my name is jack seraph" I said realizing we haven't introduced ourselves. "Nightmare moon pleasure to meet you" said the corrupted alicorn nodding to me. The wyvern landed on my shoulder and nuzzled my face. "And I guess I should name you shouldn't I how does nocturne sound" I said to the dragon on my shoulder. She (don't ask why but I felt it was a she) smiled and nodded before going to my pocket and falling asleep. "What is this place for?" Asked nightmare moon curiously as she looked over the design. "The study of cosmic energy. That's as much as I know about it. So you know how I got here but why were you sent to the moon?" I said acting like I didn't know so I can get started on damage control. With that she told me how she became nightmare moon and what led up to her getting banished to her charge. I deadpanned before face palming now recalling why damage control was needed. "Eternal night? Luna have you thought this through at all? What about the concinquinces of that. Night is cold compared to day how would you prevent the place becoming a frozen wasteland? Even if you prevented that what about crops they need sunlight to grow you would be causing starvation. Plus the fact your night only effects half the planet at all times you would burn the other side of the world to ash. Your subjects won't be able to survive that kind of disaster to even appreciate your night. Can't do anything if the world is on fire or frozen" I said clearly trying to stave off a headache and the nightmare transformed alicorn froze horror on her face showing she did not think things through. "That can happen?" Asked nightmare moon slowly and when I nodded she found her legs couldn't support her anymore as for the first time since her decent she thought through if she went through her eternal night plan. I sighed knowing I'm going to be giving her therapeutic sessions for a while to get over this realazation. Unnoticed by both of us my body gained a faint glow when I went to pick her up and pull her to her feet. The source seemed to come from my driver. And so I began the damage control and therapy which would mark my start in history even if we missed the two clocks with a digital date on the east wall. One had the date 2/18/2015 to show the date I was taken to this world, the other started from zero. (End chapter)