Chapter 99: Knights And Princesses
When Shadow Speedster told everyone the next morning what happened (after the three Rainbow Dash and a few other pilots who drank too much got over their hangover), many of them could barely believe it.
Phoenix rubbed his face. "The Creator... So that was where They were... To think that They were the one behind all this... When the boss will learn about this..."
The ponies, meanwhile, all congratulated the pegasus filly, especially Chromatic Bolt who was very very very proud that she beat a God in a race. That was, like, the ultimate achievement for a racer. For a moment, Pinkie Pie wanted to restart the party only to be reminded that they all had to return to their respective Equestria. They still got an animated breakfast with the pilots that remained in the bar/inn, getting something close enough. They now pretty much considered Shadow Speedster one of them despite having never raced against them (unless they counted that last race of the Grand Prix in Phantom Road for the ones among them who had still been running then, but this had been more a race against Black Shadow than anything else) and couldn't wait the next Grand Prix.
Sweetie Void also confirmed that the Champion Belt was now nothing more than an accessory to show off. She could feel no power remaining in it. That force she felt really had been the Creator Themself. Well, at least, it fixed the problem of having to constantly win the belt to ensure that it wouldn't fall into wrong hands. Now, the only reason why the pilots will have to ensure that villains won't win the Grand Prix was to avoid that they win the prize money. Because money was a form of power, and with one billion, any of them could become much more dangerous than they already were.
Some wondered however what happened to the Creator. They flew away and disappeared, and no news from Them since. Will They retry Their little scheme?
"Well, at least, we now only have this... present to monitor if They decide to show Themself again," Phoenix pointed out, not without a sigh at remembering that the timeline outside of the current present was gone.
"... Right... I have to talk to DD about this," Sweetie Void said. "I can ask them now actually. I know that they know. They are always watching."
"And I will deal with this "problem" soon enough, don't worry," an androgynous brown-haired human in simple everyday clothes that hadn't been present on a chair beside Sweetie Void's two seconds ago said. Their sudden appearance made several jump out of their chair when they remarked Their presence, stopping all activities in the room. "By moving the Time Patrol HQ to a new timeline that I will recreate from the one that collapsed. However, through your influence, Time Patrol is now an anomaly too. This means that, through them, the new timeline would collapse too. So, to avoid that, I will have no choice but to erase all anomaly influence from them. In other words, they will live as if they never met you and the others. They will remember the events you just went through as if you and the others never appeared. As they will remember it, Captain Falcon will be the one who managed to win the Grand Prix with the Time Patrol's and everyone else's help. Captain Falcon will be the one who defeated Deathborn and the Creator. Not your pegasus friend. And Phoenix and the other time travellers will never be able to return here, in this present, ever again."
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"Isn't there... another way?" Sweetie Void asked.
DD shrugged. "Leaving things as they are. Or changing the timeline into one of these that branch out instead of being rewritten. But due to the Time Patrol being now an anomaly, this last solution would be a huge mess. So take your time saying your goodbyes. Oh, also, I took care of the Creator." They used a toothpick on Their teeth to show what They meant, making everyone chill as they understood. "You won't hear from them anymore. No need to thank me."
They then disappeared, leaving behind some very saddened ponies, some also relieved to hear that the Creator won't be a problem anymore.
"So that was DD? He... really ate the Creator?" Captain Falcon wondered.
Sweetie Void wordlessly nodded.
For the second time, Phoenix sighed. "If this is what it takes to bring back everything..."
QQQ nodded. "I agree. This is the best option. Everything and everyone lost will be back. That's what matters."
The ponies didn't want this. Nobody wanted this. But they reluctantly (VERY reluctantly for some) understood that it was the best solution.
With breakfast over, it was time for the ponies to leave.
"You won't have any problem transporting the Shadow Raven back to Equestria?" Shadow Speedster asked.
To answer her, Sweetie Void levitated the machine. Very easily. Before opening a rift big enough to transport it through. "Not at all."
Phantom chuckled and looked at Phantom Belle. "Look at her. She can lift vehicles weighing more than one ton like they're just a leaf and you still can barely lift a broom. Maybe I should send you into another world like what happened to her."
Phantom Belle rolled her eyes. "No thanks."
"But she's right. We should try ta become stronger. We may end up in a situation where we'll have ta defend ourselves," Phantom Bloom said.
"And for this, I can help. I can train you to use your inner soul energy to do stuff like firing energy balls," Sweetie Void proposed before she looked at Black Apple and Shadow Speedster. "How about you two show them?"
The two nodded and got themselves in position. After a few seconds, they each managed to send an energy ball about half their size.
"Now that our Equestrias are linked thanks to the portals, you two can come anytime to see me," the alicorn added.
"We will!" Phantom Belle and Phantom Bloom exclaimed happily.
"With permissions from yer families, of course," Applejack reminded.
"Uh... Yeah! Of course!" Phantom Bloom said sheepishly.
"You can come too," Sweetie Void then said to the Death quatuor. "I know that you already have your own powers, but we can still train together."
"Yeah. Sure," Scootabot agreed.
The ponies then proceeded to say goodbye to the pilots still present, with Shadow Speedster giving a hoof/fistbump to both Phoenix and Captain Falcon.
"You will forget me, but I won't forget you. Thank you for everything," she said to Phoenix.
Phoenix gave her a nod. "I regret that I won't be able to race you."
"See you soon, Captain!"
Captain Falcon gave her one of his famous salutes, not saying a word.
"I expect to see you in next year's Grand Prix!" Mr. Zero said enthusiastically.
"Don't worry. I will be there," Shadow Speedster reassured him.
Finally, the ponies walked through the rift.
Sweetie Void had a lot to do upon returning to her Equestria. So, after creating a double that she sent to school with her friends, she went to place the Shadow Raven in the outskirt of Ponyville where it was planned to build a garage for it. For this, she went to New Halcandra (making sure to leave a micro-rift open so her double in school wouldn't disappear) where she recruited a crew to build it, Magolor being currently busy still teaching how to build portals while Susie was with Twilight, E. Gadd, and one of the Tails, working on the phones. Once the construction of the garage started, she then went to inform Celestia about the new universe so she could prepare ambassadors to send there to start relationship. Sweetie Void and her friends already gained this universe's attention thanks to the F-Zero Grand Prix so they shouldn't have problems making contact. Once the team will be ready, Sweetie will then send them to the universe.
While the fillies had been in the F-Zero universe, things advanced well in Equestria and the other universes. Not only talks had started and advanced, but they also all planned a date to have a big meeting and talk together, hopefully officially giving birth to their alliance, whatever they will call it. But first, they wanted to find an universe that would serve as neutral ground where they would convene. It shouldn't be hard to find one.
Portals in all universes that didn't already have one were finished, even Past Hyrule. When Magolor had finished building the portal in Canterlot, he briefly used the Lor Starcutter to retrieve Ganduro who had also finished building the portal in Future Hyrule to leave him in Past Hyrule. The Lor was also used to send a team made of both engineers from the Galactic Federation and of some of Magolor's guys to Corneria to build the portal there.
And now, Future Hyrule, the Mushroom Kingdom's Earth, and even the Lylat System were fully receiving help to rebuild. Lylat's help was mostly coming from the Galactic Federation since they were the only ones who had the resources necessary to rebuild the damage caused on a whole solar system (or at least a good part of it). The Galactic Federation saw no problem sending resources, thinking that this would help convince the Lylat inhabitants in joining (in addition of making them beholden).
A second portal was planned to be built in the Mushroom World. Since the Mushroom Kingdom's portal was moved to the Metro Kingdom, they wanted to build a new one in the former
In the Pokémon World, things were turning more and more in favor of the League and its allies. Thanks to the snag machines, more and more Shadow Pokémon were being taken back before being purified, and the Dynamax Capsules they managed to reverse engineer allowed them to fight the Rockets in equal grounds, even if the quantity of them were still limited. However, when Sweetie Void went to purify the Shadow Pokémon she got from that raid she went to a few days ago, she learned that the Rockets also developed something very, very bad.
Shadow Master Balls.
They were exactly what the name suggested. They were Master Balls that immediately turned the Pokémon they caught into Shadow Pokémon. And not only they mass produced them, but using a technology similar to the Snag Machines that seemed to be included in the Shadow Master Balls, they also were able to use these balls to steal Pokémon from their trainers without having first to beat them up to take their Poké Balls. Some battles were now pretty much stealing contests where trainers and Rocket grunts were stealing each others' Pokémon. The problem however was that the trainers still had a limited amount of Snag Machines while the Rocket grunts were only limited by the number of Shadow Master Balls they had. Because of this, the Rockets were retaking the upper hand.
Already, Gold got his Entei stolen by a random grunt because of this, and even Red almost lost his Pikachu who barely managed to react in time to avoid the ball.
And still no good news from Elio. The Rockets' HQ still eluded him, to his growing frustration.
And they feared that the Rockets had, by now, all the Plates. Dawn was now in constant vigilance in Spear Pillar, and discussions had started about evacuating Sinnoh in case the worst was to happen. More and more League members were gathering in the region, especially around Mount Coronet, in preparation of the huge battle that could happen there to stop Giovanni from reaching Arceus.
She was then told as the purification process was finishing that her Equestria, New Halcandra, and even the Galactic Federation were sending people to help against the Rockets. All of them understood that they had to absolutely stop Giovanni from getting control over Arceus. Among the people sent, she learned that one of them was a powerful woman in orange armor.
Upon learning of this, Sweetie Void quickly took her new Pokémon once the purification process was over, a Lapras, a Lucario, and a Hypno thus joining her team. She respectively named them Nessy (female), Anubis (male), and Mesmer (male). And she then went to Sinnoh where she found Samus sitting on the stairs of Spear Pillar, which were the ruins of an ancient temple. Dawn, the blue-haired girl Champion of Sinnoh, was also present, at the opposite end of the ruin, having a meal with her Pokémon.
"So they really recruited you? They are really taking this seriously then," the filly said as she descended, gaining Samus' attention.
"Hey, furball. Long time no see. Is it really surprising? A sicko wants to take control of a supreme God and is close to succeeding. Of course they are taking that seriously. This threat is level Phazon, at the very least."
"Well, it's nice to see you here. The Rockets will have a very bad surprise."
Samus huffed. "I'm frankly questioning if I will make a difference. It's one thing to fight space dragons and dark doppelgangers, it's another to fight corrupted gods or whatever that can apparently grow to the size of buildings and change the landscape in one attack."
"Good point. Hopefully, with new universes joining, they will also send people to help. I encountered some powerful friends who would be a huge addition in the fight against the Rockets."
"I'm sure they will. It would be stupid to not help stopping this guy. The fate of their universes will depend on if we succeed or not."
"Speaking of the fate of the universe. No return of the Phazon? You know, we expect something to be gone for good, and BAM! It somehow returns due to some far-fetched reason against all logic."
"Thank god, no. Just the Space Pirates still causing problem here and there, like usual. Also an old acquaintance of mine, a guy named Sylux, who tried to kill me, but I dealt with him. But the metroids are becoming more and more a problem so I heard that the council is discussing how to deal with them for good."
Sweetie Void snorted. "After that Phazon fiasco where one of them attempted to conquer the universe, it's about time."
Samus nodded. "And now that we are establishing contact with other universes, the last thing they want is for these pests to spread outside of ours. With the pirates, who knows what could happen. Pirates with metroids are generally prone to the worse disasters so it could very well happen. Somehow. And the council absolutely wants to avoid that."
Sweetie nodded. This really had to be avoided. These life-sucking parasites would cause a carnage.
They spent some more time catching up before Sweetie Void eventually returned to her Equestria where she discreetly took her double's place not long before school ended.
"The garage for your Shadow Raven is being built, Scoot," she informed after exiting the school building.
"Cool! Thanks! So, will we go on another adventure?"
"I'm planning to go on another one later, yes. If you want to come, then okay. But you will have to convince your aunts to let you go, again."
"Right..."
"Sorry girls, but Ah won't come," Black Apple said.
"Uh? Why?" Shadow Speedster asked.
"Ah'm going ta Zecora. Don't worry, Ah'll be here for yer cute-ceañera."
"Well, if you can't today, we can go together tomorrow. It would be even better since it will be Saturday. Truthfully, today will just be a scouting day. I can't allow myself to spend too much time in another universe since there's the cute-ceañera in a few hours. Unless this will be one of these universes where time passes much faster there than here," Sweetie Void said.
"Sorry. Ah'll be at Zecora's again."
Sweetie Void looked down sadly. "Aww... Oh well. That's okay. We will get other occasions to go adventuring together."
"Yeah. And I guess that, instead of adventuring, I should take a few days to learn how to maintain my machine," Shadow Speedster reminded herself.
"That's right. You should go ask Magolor or Susie when you have the occasion. Or any other who is very good at engineering who could help you learn," Sweetie Void said. "Well then, I guess that I'll go by myself."
"Won't you invite Phantom and Apple Death?" Shadow Speedster wondered.
"Maybe tomorrow, depending of the situation in the new universe I will end up in. for now, I'm going alone."
So, once the three separated, Sweetie Void opened a rift and traversed it.
"Okay... So... I seem to be in a small town. A bit like Ponyville but more modern-looking with the presence of apartment buildings among simple houses. Surrounded by hills and forests... The ocean is just over there... The total opposite of Mute City," Sweetie Void thought aloud as she was flying over the small town she appeared in, after having verified the time difference between this universe and hers (which was five days here for three days in Equestria). "However... That pig-like UFO over there above these two houses on the hill definitively looks out of place."
Turning herself invisible, she cautiously approached the UFO as it landed beside the houses, hearing some music being played from it. A couple of beings entirely hidden inside pig uniforms then came out of it and went to knock on the smaller of the two houses' door. A few seconds later, a woman opened the door, and the two pig men gave her some kind of military salute, even oinking like real pigs, before one of them began to talk.
"Is this Ness' house?"
"Uh... Yes?" the blond woman answered, clearly wondering if she should close the door.
"We have a message for him from our glorious leader, King P."
"Can you call him......... Please?" the other asked.
Before the woman could decide of what to do, a young black-haired boy in a horizontally striped blue and yellow t-shirt and a blue shorts came, looking curiously and cautiously at the two pig men. "What is it?"
"Are you Ness?" the first pig man asked.
"Yes, I am."
The boy's identity confirmed, the pig man took out a letter and gave it to him. Not stopping looking at the pig men, Ness opened the letter before reading it. Sweetie Void quickly and silently moved behind him so she could read it too.
Hey, loser! How long has it been? For you, maybe a few months, but for me, it has been much, much, much longer. I missed you, you know? So let's play a game! And I perfectly know which one we will play: Knights and Princesses! You will be the knight in shining armor. I will be the evil black knight. And your girlfriend what-was-her-name will be the princess! You know what this means? I kidnapped your girlfriend and you must come rescue her! Ahahahahah! Spankety, spankety, spankety.
Okay, I will be fair so you don't spend months looking around randomly. It would be too boring. We are in Fourside. Guess in which building. Now, hurry up before I decide to feed her to the dragon.
Oh, and of course, my evil minions will get in your way to try to stop you or else it wouldn't be fun.
Your old friend Porky.
"Yes, he read the letter," one of the pig men said into a phone. "Yes, we can start the next phase of "Operation Knights and Princesses.""
Just as he said that, more of these pig UFOs descended from behind the clouds and began to spread around the town. The pig man then ended his call and began to take a big gun only to receive a baseball bat on the face from the boy who jumped and attacked him, sending him on his back out cold. As soon as he landed, Ness then jumped back as the other pig man was about to fire only for Sweetie Void to come and punch him on the cheek, sending him flying into the trees before the house, at the other side of the dirt path. The filly then grabbed the man that Ness knocked out in her magic and threw him away from the house.
Two more pig UFOs then landed before the house, and out of them came five more of these pig men including one wearing a blue version of the uniform, as well as a bipedal being made of clay with some antennae coming out of its head.
Sweetie Void and Ness exchanged glances while the boy's mother hid herself behind the door, joined by a younger girl.
"How about we introduce ourselves after we're done with these guys?" the filly proposed.
Ness nodded. "Okay." The boy then put two finger on his forehead and mumbled "PK Shield," before two blue shields appeared around the two of them.
"Oh! You have some powers! Nice!" Sweetie Void exclaimed before she grabbed one of her beam swords. "I guess then that you have nothing to fear from these pig guys?"
"Not at all. I fought much worse," the boy answered.
"Eh. Me too."
Hearing this, the pig men were starting to have their legs shaking, and one of them went to hide behind the clay being.
The two children then charged at the group of enemies, sword and bat ready.
Pained oinks resounded afterward.
I seriously thought of naming the Lucario Lucar for a moment. 
If I did the maths alright. They went to the F-Zero-verse Monday afternoon (the first day of school after the end of the Spring Break). Three days in the F-Zero-verse equalled about two days in Equestria. They spent six days in the F-Zero-verse (five for each Grand Prix races plus the next day with the race against Deathborn), so four Equestrian days. Plus the night they spent before returning. So they returned in Equestria Friday early morning.
Reminder that, in Earthbound, Ness isn't the main attacker. He doesn't know attacks like PSI Fire or PSI Thunder. He is more a support. Like Ninten from Mother and like Lucas from Mother 3. After, they still have good offensive abilities, especially with the baseball bat/stick.
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While Ness does have the extremely powerful PK Love, he's too important as a healer to waste resources on it.
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Yeah. Paula and Poo have PK Freeze Omega and PK Starstorm Omega to make up for it.
I know it's a long way off still, but as I was reading this the playlist I'm listening to in the background hit a One Winged Angel remix, and I was suddenly reminded that, once we get to the Final Fantasy VII arc, the Sweetie vs. Sephiroth fight (if it happens) is going to be epic.
So like,this takes place After EarthBound right?too bad,I really wanted for sweetie to React to the Sheer Wackyness Of the overall trip and her Reaction to Gygas. In a Scale from 1 to 10 how Disturbing she would find him compared to the Rest of messed up stuff she encountered already?
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Easily ten. I mean, the guy had so huge mental powers that both his body and mind broke apart until he was nothing more than, as Porky said, an almighty idiot seemingly made of pure psycho-energy. The problem was the whole time travel part for reasons already explained. She could have probably fought Giygas at equal, or even overpowered him, but as soon as she would have entered this universe, then the past with the Giygas that we fight would have disappeared, meaning that the heroes would have been forced to find and fight present Giygas. And I have NO idea of what stat this Giygas would have been. Past Giygas had seemingly barely turned into the abomination that we know. The window between Mother and Earthbound is rather small after all (Mother happening in the eighties while Earthbound is happening in the nineties, and the fight happens some time between these two games since it's before Earthbound's present and after Giegue's encounter with Ninten). But present Giygas? Full control of his powers with seemingly no weakness at all because his madness would have gone to the point that not even feelings could have hurt him. But again, I have no idea if his appearance would have been the same than past Giygas or if it would have changed since then. Maybe he didn't even have an appearance anymore actually and was... everywhere.
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Oh boy, yes!
Maybe with the help of allies, the pokemon world could create some type of belt or collar to negate the Shadow Master Balls
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Maybe. Maybe using the same technology they are searching to create these Purify Balls mentioned in Chapter 90.
I think you forgot to mention his red baseball cap. Or was he simply not wearing it?
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He isn't wearing it. He was in his home after all.
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Okay, thanks. I was asking because the only times he's seen without his cap in Earthbound are when he's in his pajamas.
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Technology able to do that is cannon in pokemon games, inside Aether Foundation is not possible catch pokemon because some kind of energy field prevent that (to protect the pokemon that are inside the building) and Ghetsis in some point use it to prevent the capture of Kyurem in BW2 .
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Oh? Thanks! I didn't know that. I didn't play these games.
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I hardly remember the past chapter, so I can't really remember what happened in chapter 90
Here’s to hoping we somehow get a reformed Giygas considering his sad backstory.
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This will be hard considering that he is dead. The story happens after the events of Earthbound.