Chapter 21
Korrina sat on a secluded portion of Sweet Apple Acres, staring down at her paws. “I can’t freakin believe this.” She said to herself.
After they had explained where Applejack was to Miss Smith and Big Mac, Korrina had snuck away from Lucario; she needed some space to clear her head. Korrina wanted to believe that she would get her body back, that she wouldn’t have to spend her life as a Pokémon, but whenever she compare Arceus to Princess Celestia the odds seemed stacked against her.
“Maybe Princess Twilight knows a spell or something?” Korrina knew next to nothing about magic, but she was willing to try anything if it gave her some semblance of her old life back.
Korrina pushed herself up. “Stupid... why’d he have to drop us here?” The former Gym Leader was... grateful that Arceus had seen fit to bring her along, but she wished that he had given her a choice.
She looked down at her paws again, glaring at them she said. “I’m not going to live like this.” Through gritted teeth. Whirling around, she started hitting one of the apple trees.
“I’m,”
Thud!
“A,”
Thud!
“Human,”
Thud!
“Being!”
The tree shook with each blow, and on the last strike the apples fell, one of them bouncing off of Korrina’s helmet.
Korrina stood there for a moment, panting, until someone from behind her spoke up.
“You alright?”
Korrina whirled around to see Big Mac standing there, concern clear on his face. Korrina crossed her arms and turned away. “Yeah, fine.”
Big Mac sighed. “Ya know, ah may not be as honest as my sister, but ah can still tell when someone’s lyin’ ta me... and ta themselves.”
Korrina grumbled something under her breath but Big Mac ignored her and continued. “Now ah don’t know exactly what’s goin’ on with ya, but one thing ah can tell is that it’s stressin’ you out somethin’ fierce, so why don’t you talk about it?”
“You... you wouldn’t understand.” Korrina hung her head.
Big Mac shrugged. “Maybe, but it can still help if’n ya talk about it.”
Korrina looked at the stallion quizzically, then sighed. “I, I just don’t feel right anymore.” She admitted. “This isn’t me; I’m a human, not a Pokémon.”
Big Mac remained silent, the stallion was use to helping his sisters and some of his friends through their problems, emotional, social, but he had no idea how to help Korrina. “Well... is there anything you can do that you haven’t already tried?”
Korrina shrugged. “Princess Celestia said she would try to get Arceus to fix this but...”
“But?” Mac inquired.
“But Arceus is, and no offense to your ruler or anything, older and probably wiser than the Princesses, at least in some ways, and he’s definitely more powerful.”
Mac nodded. “Did you try askin’ him ta fix ya? Tell him why?”
Korrina sighed. “Twice, and he just calmly shrugged the question off, usually using Gene and Belle to counter my argument.”
“How so?”
Korrina was silent for a moment
“Korrina?”
“It’s a racial thing alright!?” She answered. “He kept using the fact that I don’t really approve of their relationship against me and if I argued then I’d look like a dick in front of the Princesses.”
Mac raised any eyebrow. “You don’t approve of their relationship? How come? They seem like a right nice pair, looked real happy together too.”
Korrina slumped against a tree trunk and slid to the ground. “Cause humans aren’t supposed to love Pokémon like that.”
Big Mac’s eyes widened as he realized he had stumbled across a social taboo of some sort. “Well, ah... but Gene ain’t really a human anymore.”
“Yeah, and that’s the problem!” Korrina shouted. “Cause he doesn’t want to be human again, and how can I freakin’ blame him! Even I have to admit that they just seem so happy now, and if I try to take that from him what kinda person am I?” Korrina remembered how, when the Officer Jennies had come to her gym looking for Gene, she had barely batted an eye as she pointed them the way he had gone.
“And it doesn’t help hearing that some of the most influential people on my world, the freakin’ Champions! Iris, Cynthia even! Knew about him and Belle and actually supported them.” That had been the last straw for the Gym leader, hearing that both the Sinnoh and Unova champions had helped Gene and Belle for years, along with Professor Juniper and she assumed several others.
Big Mac shifted nervously, and then he took a deep breath and began. “Look, I ain’t gonna throw my own opinion at ya, ain’t gonna pretend to understand, and ah ain’t gonna tell ya that everything’s gonna be alright when ah rightfully have no idea if it is or isn’t.”
“Some pep talk.” Korrina mumbled under her breath.
“But what ah am gonna say is this, ya shouldn’t let anyone else's choices influence yer own, and don’t let others use them against ya, if ya want somethin’, then ya work for it and if it really is impossible, then at least ya know ya tried yer hardest.” He smiled, and Korrina looked up at him.
“I... I don’t know what to say.” Korrina admitted. “I mean, I guess you’re right but... I don’t want to admit that there’s a chance that... that...”
“That things’ll never go back to normal?” Mac ventured. “Honestly, since it seems that y'all are gonna be stayin’ on Equus ah don’t think it will, whatever body ya stay here in though... like ah said, don’t give up and then you’ll see what happens.”
Korrina was silent for a moment. “I... thanks Mac.” She said with a small smile. “I think that maybe that did help a little bit.”
Mac smiled. “Anytime, although you might wanna consider talking ta Lucario, he’s probably just as confused as you are.” “Or more so, in some ways.”
Korrina pushed herself off the ground. “Yeah, you’re probably right,” Her somber expression turned to a grin. “And sitting here feeling sorry for myself isn’t gonna fix anything.”
Mac chuckled as Korrina ran past him back towards the farm. “Reminds me a bit of AJ, or maybe Rainbow Dash.” He chuckled again. “If’n I’m right then that boy’s got his work cut out for him.”
Mac started picking up the apples that Korrina had knocked to the ground, whistling as he did.
Rainbow Dash flew over Cloudsdale as she made her way through her old home town. Rainbow Dash had already visited her parents, and had explained what was going on to them. They had both been worried about her and her friends but after Rainbow explained further... well they were still worried but that’s how most parents are.
Dash was considering where to go next, and was leaning towards heading back to Ponyville and letting Bio Chem explain everything to the Princess. That was when she saw the smoke; actually smog would’ve been a more accurate descriptor.
Rainbow Dash landed on the edge of the smog bank and saw that all the ponies around her were coughing. Rainbow noticed a team of paramedics and quickly flew over to them. “What happened? Some kind of chemical leak?” Her father had once told her that the weather plant use to spring leaks from time to time, but it hadn’t happened since before Rainbow had been born.
One of the medics, a pegasus mare with a white coat and a white mane, shook her head. “No... not a chemical leak it’s... some kind of... creature.”
Rainbow thought for a second, then inquired. “A Pokémon?”
“Probably,” the mare answered. “But we can’t even see it clearly ‘some kind of floating blob’ that’s what the ponies we pull out keep saying.”
“Nurse Tenderhoof!” One of the doctors called. “We need you over here!”
“Sorry, I gotta go.” As the nurse fluttered off Rainbow looked back at the smog bank, she vaguely remembered Professor Juniper mentioning something about Poison-type Pokémon being a thing, not that that would help her now.
Rainbow thought for a second, then took to the air, flying just above the noxious cloud. “Hey!” She called into the toxic fog. “Whatever you are, cut it out already! You’re hurting ponies!”
No response came, save for something that sounded like wheezing, and Dash took that as a sign to move on with her brilliant, on-the-spot, plan.
Dash flew to the edge of the cloud and flared her wings, concentrating, she compacted air molecules beneath them and...
Whomp!
The airwave blasted forth and hit smog bank, dissipating it and thinning it out.
Dash smiled; at least whatever this was wasn’t magical. That would’ve made things a lot more difficult.
Dash continued her assault for a few more minutes, but as she did whatever was in making the smog continued to belch more out.
“Come on already!” Dash cried in exasperation. Throwing extra power into her next strike, she managed to clear away enough smog to get a clear view of the creature, and it almost made Rainbow sick.
The creature was a floating blob, as had been described, but it looked more like a toxic floating rock, the wide mouthed face and sunken eyes made Rainbow think of the trolls she’d seen in Twilight’s monster books, but what made Rainbow feel sick was its head, or more specifically, heads.
The second, smaller head was directly fused to the larger one, and both wore an almost vacant expression, the smog that jetted irregularly from its bulbous body and the skull and cross bones beneath its faces only made Rainbow Dash more nervous.
“What are you?” She whispered.
“We are Weezing.” The two heads rasped. “And who are you?” Their voices overlapped and the larger one sounded like it had been smoking for years, deep and gravelly, while the other one was shrill and scratchy.
“The name's Rainbow Dash, and what are you... two, doing?”
“We are-” The Weezing suddenly made a hissing sound, like air escaping a balloon, and released a large amount of toxic gas. “Pain... can’t stop...” It said in almost a whimper. “R... Rocket.”
Rainbow Dash began flapping again, attempting to drive the gas back, this time too little avail, and began thinking up other options. “Where are the Wonderbolts when you need them?” She asked herself.
Then Dash got an idea, an idea that at the time, seemed relatively reasonable, but in hindsight, was really, really stupid.
“Let’s do this.” She said, shifting her wings and launching forward, right into the toxic cloud. Dash held her breath as she searched the cloud, her eyes burning from the fumes, until she found what she was looking for. “Got yah.” She thought as she hooked her foreleg through the Weezing’s... bone... thing. And pulled it with her, to her surprise, it was nowhere near as heavy as she thought it’d be.
Dash figured that if she could get the Pokémon out of the city... at least it wouldn’t be poisoning ponies.
“Stop,” The smaller head wheezed. “Please.”
“Not until we’re out of the city!” Rainbow shouted over the wind rushing past her ears.
It only took a few minutes for the fastest flier (or at least pegasus) in Equestria to reach the outskirts of Cloudsdale, the very edge of the city was just empty fields of cloud and hills for aesthetic appeal, Rainbow made to land, but then something went wrong, behind Rainbow, there was a hissing sound, followed by a loud pop and then a burning sensation in the pegasus’ eyes and throat.
Rainbow started choking and dropped, bouncing off the clouds as the Weezing crashed a few feet behind her, poison gas leaking from a new hole in its body.
As Dash’s vision blurred she thought she saw something circling above her, something silver and red, something leaving a trail of fire behind it. Then Dash blacked out.
Keldeo, the Colt Pokémon, paced back and forth in his room, waiting. “Where is she? Where is she?” He asked himself repeatedly, until he heard a knock at the door and saw Virizion sticking her head in.
“You wanted to see me Keldeo?” The Grass-type asked, a smile on her lips.
“Yeah, thanks for getting here so quick.”
Virizion walked over to Keldeo and pulled him into a nuzzle. “Anything for you my little colt.”
Keldeo rolled his eyes but smiled none the less. Virizion, while not his actual mother, had taken a big part in raising the youngest Sword of Justice and they loved each other dearly, even if she could be a bit overprotective at times, and he could be a little bit reckless.
“So what did you want to talk about?” Virizion asked.
Keldeo shifted nervously on his hooves. “Well, you see Virizion, the other day, when those ponies came here, I wandered into the meeting hall and... well there was this really cute mare who I can’t stop thinking about and-Ahh!”
Keldeo was cut off as Virizion pulled him close to her in a semblance of a hug, saying. “Oh how sweet, my little colt’s first crush!”
Keldeo blushed fiercely and tried to escape from his teacher/mothers grasp, to no avail, until she let him go. “Go on, tell me everything about her.”
Keldeo sighed. “That’s just it, all I know is that her name’s Rarity, we didn’t actually get to talk the other day.”
Virizion though for a moment, then said. “Well we’ll just have to fix that now won’t we?” She then proceeded to usher Keldeo out of the room.
“Wait, what?” Keldeo asked in confusion. “Where are we going?”
“To visit Lord Arceus, he’s doing something with Rayquaza at the moment, and then we’re going to go pay a visit to miss Rarity.”
“You’re kidding right?” Keldeo asked. “Please tell me you’re kidding?”
“Now, now, Keldeo. I can understand that you’re nervous but you need to face this head on.” Virizion wasn’t entirely paying attention to her adopted son's arguments at this point, more she was wondering on how to coach the young legendary how to be a proper gentlemen... gentlecolt... whatever the term was.
Keldeo glumly followed Virizion, he should have known this would happen, Virizion was kind of the self-appointed den mother of the legendaries, specifically the younger ones, before Arceus’ returned she was the main reason the Legendaries kept any kind of contact with each other, well, her Cresselia, and Mew.
And she was the only reason that Hilda and N weren’t attacked the moment they caught Zekrom and Reshiram.
It only took a few minutes for the Fighting-types to find Arceus and Rayquaza, granted the later usually took up most of whatever room he was in.
“Lord Arceus, Lord Rayquaza,” Virizion said with a bow, Keldeo following her example.
“You know you don’t have to call me lord every time, we are family.” Arceus said, his powers concentrated on the sky lord.
“What are you doing anyway?” Keldeo asked, looking over the Dragon.
“Making it so Rayquaza doesn’t collapse Cloudsdale if he flies past it.” Arceus explained. “What brings you two here?”
Virizion wasted no time in explaining. “Well you see Lord Arceus,” She began. “Little Keldeo here has developed his first crush, and I wanted to take him to see her.”
If Arceus had lips, they would’ve curved upwards. “Is that so?” He asked. “And would this crush happen to be a certain unicorn who was here the other day?”
Keldeo blushed deeply. “Y-yes.”
Arceus chuckled. “Ahh, to be young... huh.” Arceus realized that the rest of the saying wouldn’t make sense coming from one who had literally been old when time began. “Anyway, Miss Rarity is...” Arceus checked the vast expanse of space and time. “On her way back to Ponyville, oh, and yes, you can leave, Terrakion and Cobalion as well.”
Virizion smiled. “Thank you my lord.”
“No problem,” Arceus said as the pair made for the exit. “Oh, and Keldeo?” The Colt Pokémon turned back to Arceus. “Good luck.”
Keldeo blushed again and groaned before leaving the room.
Arceus chuckled as the Colt left the room, then turned back to Rayquaza. “Just a few more moments and then-”
A burst of smoke flew into the room and solidified into a scroll with the Canterlot royal seal on it.
Confused, Arceus willed the letter to him and unrolled it. The Alpha Pokémon’s eyes went wide.
“Well we’re done here anyway, now I’ve got to go find Meloetta.” Arceus disappeared in his usual flash of gold, dropping and scroll and allowing it to unroll on the floor, revealing the words.
Cloudsdale general hospital.
Rainbow Dash awoke to the voice of an angel... “...Ok what?”
Dash cracked open one of her eyelids and immediately shielded it with her hoof. “Ohhh...”
“Oh good, you’re awake.” Rainbow looked up and saw... well whatever it was it looked kinda like Belle, only a lot smaller and a different color. “We were beginning to worry.”
“We?” Rainbow groaned.
“My sister and Arceus would be here if not for, well, current circumstances.” Luna said.
After the shock that Luna was in the room passed Dash turned her attention back to Meloetta. “Who are you? And what exactly happened?”
“Lady Meloetta, guardian of music, at your service.” Meloetta said with a bow.
“She’s a legendary,” Luna explained. “And she healed you, using her singing, interestingly enough.”
“As for the what,” Meloetta explained. “You took in a large amount of toxic gas from a genetically altered Weezing.” Meloetta’s voice developed a chill at the end of her sentence. “Team Rocket.” She hissed.
“What?” Dash asked.
“Some of the worst people back on Earth,” Meloetta explained. “They treat Pokémon like tools and then try to ‘improve’ them. The Weezing was a failed experiment, Mew said they tried to make it a living gas bomb by overcharging its Self-Destruct and Explosion, that caused it to actually blow holes in it’s casing, which let all the toxic gas out.”
“Self-Destruct?” Luna asked.
“Oh, uh, it’s a move some Pokémon can learn.” Meloetta answered.
“That’s kinda unsettling.” Dash added.
Luna sighed. “Anyway, Arceus’ daughter Mew was here earlier, she fixed whatever was wrong with the Pokémon and then returned to Arceus.”
“How long was I out?” Dash asked, slightly worried.
“All in all?” Luna said. “About an hour and a half.”
Rainbow’s jaw dropped slightly. “Wow, you guys work almost as fast as me.”
Meloetta giggled. “Let’s just say we’ve had some practice.” The legendaries often found themselves in dangerous situations, usually involving humans.
Dash smiled, then grew confused as she remembered her last conscious moments. “How did I get here?” Dash asked. “No one was around when I passed out, not that I could see at least.”
Luna and Meloetta looked at each other. “The doctors said you and Weezing were dropped off by a Dragon of sorts.” Meloetta began.
“But from the description given, Meloetta determined that it was, in fact a Pokémon, likely one known as a Char-lizard.”
“It’s Charizard.” Meloetta grumbled. “It’s not my fault you make bad puns of their names.”
“I think yours are the puns, but no matter.” Luna commented.
“It was probably a Charizard, although the description was... off, in some ways.” Meloetta shrugged.
“So someone basically saved my life, and then left?” Dash asked.
“Well... we’re not actually sure how Pokémon poison is going to affect Ponies, although apparently it makes you pass out, but other than that,” Meloetta shrugged. “It usually makes Pokémon faint if left without healing for long enough, same with humans, although if it gets really bad, then they can die, so,”
Dash and Luna didn’t say anything for a moment, then Dash spoke up. “Ooook, I’m just gonna take that as a yes, do we have any idea where this Dragon went?”
Luna shook her head. “The receptionist said that after it dropped you off, it flew off in the direction of the lonesome mountain.”
“Where?” Dash asked.
“The mountain where you and the others spoke with the Red Dragon who temporarily took up residence in Equestria.” Luna explained.
Dash thought on this for a moment, then shot out of the hospital bed, leaving behind the robe they had put her in. “In that case,” Dash made it to the window and opened it. “I've gotta go find this guy, and thank him.”
Meloetta watched as Dash flew out the window, in the direction of a single mountain amongst rolling hills.
The Melody Pokémon turned to Princess Luna in confusion. “You’re just going to let her leave?”
Luna shrugged. “Rainbow Dash can handle herself quite well, she’s a cadet in the Wonderbolts reserves now.”
Meloetta sighed. “Fine, I’m going to check out the city.” Meloetta floated out the open window, leaving Luna by herself in the hospital room.
The Lunar Princess smiled. “Now just for some supplies,” Luna trotted out of the room, a spring in her step. “A good teacher must always be prepared.”
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Ohh, this looks interest-
>former humans that is.
>former humans
>former
Of course, silly me, expecting, for the lack of a better term, human humans to be in such a fic.
Won't dislike, but won't read either.
Good luck with your work, I see it's going well.
MEGA GROUDON
MEGA GROUDON
MEGA GROUDON
MEGA GROUDON
also Keldeo you may wanna watch out for spike
also this story is featured for the THIRD time, you are ona roll my man
Keldeo/Rarity shipping is something I can support. {I was actually waiting to see some pokemon/pony ships in this story and I'm glad it's here.
}
Ugh, stop comparing Celestia's and Arceus's power levels. Celestia's the goddess of the sun, while Arceus is the god of creation.
Creation kind of beats everything.
And yeah, let's not be so harsh on Celestia for not liking the term 'god'. You know what other immortal, extremely powerful being hated the term? The God Emperor of Mankind. Yeah, he hated being called a god (even though he technically was one) and went out of his way so that humanity would look to science. He believed that no being should be worshipped and treated as a god, because that just keeps society from both advancing and thinking for themselves.
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I bet when Virizion comes to town everyone will fawn over her like the pokemon did in post town
A Charizard on lonesome mountain, if this is who I think it is then I'm getting hyped up! If not then I'm still getting hype!
i have a feeling that chrizard is ash or red
Aww, motherly Virizion...
HNNNGGG, Virizion is wonderful. Love me a nice motherly character.
Alson...Team Rocket, you absolute bastards!!
Good to see more of this story; keep on going!
Team rocket! Cue the theme song!
Is it a Mega Charizard? Also, is it a former human?
I'm kind of confused about the timeline... out of boredom I skimmed throught the story and tried to write it down some days ago (two hours of train everyday do that) and as far as I got it, we are at the third day (as the pokemons have passed two full nights on Equis since they got there).
That's possible, but sounds a bit stretched.
Here come the Keldeo and Rarity shipping stories. That was hilarious.
May I make a side storie pls?
Dat Keldity Ship
Of course that Charizard is Red's Mega Charizard X (and not Ash. Ash would be a Pikachu). I feel bad for the Weezing though.
There actually have been some instances of mundane animals appearing in the anime. Mostly in the earlier seasons.
Damn it Red; new world and the first thing you do, is find a mountain to stand on and look like a badass from.
438891That Charizard has to be Red, but he can't be in Mega form because he needs the stone.
Unless his sheet badass energies just lets him mega evolve....
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Soon my fellow, soon.
The remakes make it look like they are coming.
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I think he's just a loner. It might be funny: absolute badass when fighting, but crumbles like a biscuit in most social situations that do not require battling. In a way, battling could be the only way he really manages to interact with others, and that's how he became so good at it.
Just psychologic rants.
Woohoo! Finally, we get to see more about Keldeo and Meloetta esp. for Keldeo since it's been a really long time that we heard from them. Which does bring up the concern of too many subplots to keep track if adding more ex-humans in the fold, but that's just me.
I'm hoping for more Keldeo/pony interaction soon enough. And I do have other Pokemon/pony interactions (if they haven't been suggested already) in mind such as, of course, meeting with Ponytas and Rapidashes, Zecora befriending a Blitzle/Zebstrika, shape-shifting fun with Dittos, and maybe the Mane Cast meeting with their Pokemon counterparts like a Jigglypuff that acts and sounds like Pinkie Pie, a Chatot that acts and sounds like Rainbow, and a Bagon that acts and sounds like Spike, though these could work as side-stories outside the fic as well.
Incoming RED BATTLE!
Rainbow you better run, hes like level 77 or some shit.
4388663 all aboard the hype train.......motherfucker
I'm on Korrina's side here. Also, why is everyone writing Mig Mac so OOC lately?
The poor Weezing, their kind already explode on often enough without being science experiments.
Either the Charizard is found some way to go into it Mega form, or it's a human. Either way, fun times ahead.
*blushes* didn't think the fan group I made would be mentioned well I am honored
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BAH team kyogre for the win ( Alpha Sapphire FTW!)
On top of Mount Silver? Ash squad was one of the strongest in any game, Pikachu was L85?
I dunno, if Red has such high levels after beating Elite 4 and Champion, where does that put me when I have a L100 MegaCharizard Y before I even reach Victory Road? And, it withstood a Waterfall from a Gyrados, after Three Dragon Dances?
Any more Rocket corrupted pokemon around that need finding and treating?
Mt. Silver and Red?
I always liked the idea of Team Rocket doing genetic experiments on all sorts of Pokemon. The only example I can think of other than Mewtwo (the obvious example) is the Eevee that Red caught in the manga. I also enjoy entertaining the idea that Rockets would also do testing on humans, but I don't know where I got that idea.
Oh, and these:
Spelt "y'all". Oh, and it's only used as a plural, not singular.
Your finger must've slipped over the comma key here.
I knew that there were a few more mistakes, but I can't find them now. If they aren't found, I'll get to them when I return from church.
4388703 , could be their Charizard, too. Ash's Charizard didn't like being around others because they(Ash's Charizard) were small, and Red's Charizard could have preferred the isolation.
How much are you all going to bet that the charizard is a permanently mega-evolved Red?
Man I am hoping it is Red. How cool would it be if Red's whole team is out there being bad ass lol. I hope he is Shiny as well. Red has earned the right to be shiny from all the things he did in the games and comics.Cynthia is also another trainer I feel has earned the right to be shiny considering all she has done in the games,comics, and anime. I feel her and Red has earned their 'Shiny Strips' lol
"We are-” The Weezing suddenly made a hissing sound, like air escaping a balloon, and released a large amount of toxic gas. “Pain... can’t stop...” It said in almost a whimper. "R... Rocket"
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Aye, but who's known for going to the top of a certain mountain and using "..." as his dialogue?
Of course, there's five possibilities: the four we've all come up with and the fifth one that it wasn't really any unique Charizard, but that would violate Chekhov's gun...
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I feel like Archie and Maxie (Maximus? Forgot Magma dude's name Q_Q) should end up in Equestria, if just for the sake of having semi-antagonists/rivals. After all, they did realize they were jack-asses at the end of the the Sootopolis event and "fixed" everything as well as they could, so there's some "redemption" possibilities...
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How do you write a character with barely any character, out of character?
4398039 They make him talk too much
While I know how they speak is kind of a thing with Pokemon, Arceus seems to be overlooking a very imporant fact.
Of course ponies and other sapients are going to panic if they cannot understand what the Pokemon are saying. Given the powers of Arceus and the other legendaries working in unison, why haven't they made it so that the pokemon can speak in the same manner that the ponies and other sapient races of Equus do? I mean this is like a "No DUH!" moment here.
At the very least they need to make it so that all the sapients of Equus can understand what pokemon are saying if they don't make it so that Pokemon are "Bi-lingual" as it were. Friendly relations will be infinitely easier if all parties can understand what the others are saying, and it is well within the abilites of Arceus and the others to make this possible.
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Bull. Big Mac talks when he has something to say. He almost gave AJ a mouthful, but she shut him up by saying she knew what he was going to say.
Not to mention that he was involved in an argument and a singing group.
The only character Mac has is that he's quiet most of the time. It's not OoC for him have something to say occasionally. Just like its not ooc for someone to write Blueblood as a decent fellow. You just don't like the characterization some author's give Big Mac. That's fine. Say that, don't scream ooc its as annoying as Mary Sue claims.
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They definitely could, but arceus is probably giving them a choice on this. I mean if a pokemon wants to learn English nothing is stopping them.
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Nooooo. Y'all is both singular and plural. Been debated, been recognized as both. Everyone doesn't like that, but using it how he did is fine.
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Ah but you see the Pokemon ALREADY knowEnglish/Equish. How else would they be able to understand what their trainers are saying when directing them to use specific attacks and general discussions. It's made plainly clear that the Pokemon can understand what is being said to them in English/Equish, but they are unable to say anything back.
This is made all the more apparent when former humans such as Gene and Misty, while obviously knowing the language, are still unable to say anything back without either a psychic translator or translation spell.
In short, they can all understand the language just fine, but they cannot SPEAK it. It may be that their vocal structure is incapable of doing so.
We cannot assume what Meowth of Team Rocket accomplished is possible for all other pokemon because otherwise we should see more examples of Pokemon using English than we do.
So either Arceus needs to make it so that all Pokemon are Bi-lingual by altering their vocal structures to allow them to speak English/Equish. OR Arceus needs to give knowledge of the Pokemon's language into the minds of all sapient Equestrian species so that Pokemon may be understood when speaking.
Doing neither only adds pointlessly to the strife between the Pokemon and Equestrians. And doing THAT only defeats the purpose of allowing the Pokemon and Equestrians to live peacefully with each other.
..if that weezing was the one that belonged to James, he is gonna be PISSED!
not to be mean or anything, but it should be name's cause you mean name is not name(plural)
Okay that Charizard is either Red transformed into a Charizard, or It's Red's Charizard. It being different could be either Red being a slightly different Charizard or Mega Charizard. I'm hoping for Charizard Y, X gets too much show.
You should write something in the story to celebrate the announced remakes of Ruby and Sapphire!
A Brave New World
by Ausbrony is another side-story to this one
4399498 It actually is not.
The original form of "y'all" is the Scottish "ye all", which is the Scottish equivalent of the original English "ye", which is the plural for "thou".
America's Secret Slang, brah.
So, technically, it isn't supposed to have singular usage. It's just used by those who don't live in the south in that manner.
4403356 Never in my comment did I say I didn't like it.
Why did I find the authors note so hilarious? X3
Loving this story so far. Though I have to say, Arceus does seem rather like a prick. Rewarding humans who were kind to pokemon by turning them into pokemon would be nice, if it weren't for both his reasoning (eliminate the humans)
and totally uncaring attitude towards those transformed
.