Chapter 77: League Meeting
Gold was facing a large screen in what was known as the crisis room, a room very rarely used as, as its name showed, it was only used in times of crisis, when all the Champions of the Pokémon League needed to have a meeting to talk together of what to do to deal with the situation.
The room was large, round, and had for only furniture some chairs to sit on. Behind Gold, above the exit door of the room, the current icon of the Indigo Plateau was present.
Gold wasn't alone. Alongside him were the members of the Indigo Plateau's Elite 4 as well as Red, Blue, Professor Oak and his younger colleague from Johto Professor Elm, and Twilight Sparkle.
The screen before him was divided into small windows all showing the members of the other branches of the Pokémon League in other regions, Champions, Elite 4 members, as well as the Pokémon Professors and some ex-Champions or important individuals. In Galar's case, since there wasn't an Elite 4, there was only the Champion, Ex-Champion, and the local Professor.
News of what happened had quickly spread in the hours that followed the battles against Team Rainbow Rocket. The island was destroyed! Gone! Wiped off the map! And knowing that Team RR had now such firepower was causing a huge amount of panic all over the world which wasn't helped at the knowledge that the team could attack anywhere, anytime, without warning.
Twilight finished recounting what happened against Giovanni and by the time she was done, many looked worried, angry, or had somber expressions.
"So, let me get this straight," Leon, ex-Champion of Galar and current Chairman of the Galar League, began. "They not only were able to recreate Shadow Pokémon, but they also managed to find a way to use Dynamax outside of Galar?"
"Yes, they did," Twilight answered, making many rub their head with groans. THAT was VERY bad news.
"Isn't there something you can do to help about it with Eternatus, Victor?" Professor Elm asked.
Victor, the young boy who managed to defeat Leon and become the Champion of Galar, sighed. "Eternatus can Dynamax other Pokémon but they will need to be in its proximity, which means that I would need to be present in every battles, and I can't guarantee that. And even then, Eternatus is still very weakened. Still can't even take its Eternamax form. So the number of Pokémon it will be able to Dynamax at once will surely be very limited, and I doubt that it will be able to do it every days."
His words were followed by more groans and sighs.
"Unless..." he continued as he looked at the Champion of Alola, another boy named Elio. "Unless you go hunt for alternate versions of Eternatus with Lunala's help? You explore the Ultra Space in search of alternate worlds and see if you can't find some Eternatus in them to bring back."
Elio shook his head. "You make it sound easy. The Ultra Space is a very huge place with countless worlds. Finding alternate versions of our world is already not easy, so finding one where Eternatus is present? And if I do find even one, I would still have to find the Eternatus, awaken it if it's not already awake, and capture it probably after a difficult fight against its Eternamax form. It would take forever. And that's not counting that, while exploring the Ultra Space, I may end up having to fight Ultra Beasts, including other Solgaleo and Lunala, and maybe even other Necrozma. No, it would be easier to simply do what the Rockets did: study the Dynamax Energy and find a way to stock it and unleash it where and when needed."
"And we will work on it right away," Professor Magnolia, the aged Pokémon Professor of Galar said. "If we could get our hands on one of these capsules Team Rainbow Rocket uses to stock the Dynamax Energy, it would make it easier. You know what to do next time you encounter one of them, everyone."
Everyone nodded.
"We should also work on ensuring that Giovanni doesn't reach Arceus," Flint from Sinnoh's Elite 4 said.
"You are right," Ruby agreed. "We should send teams to search for the plates. Even just finding one will upset his plan."
"Why doesn't Arceus do something about it?" a little pink-haired girl member of the Elite 4 of the region of Caloom, a Fairy-type specialist named Viviane asked curiously. "If the Rockets are after it, then shouldn't it stop them itself?"
"It will not do anything," Cynthia, ex-Champion of Sinnoh, answered with a shake of her head. "Arceus doesn't intervene in the matters of the universe, even when it concerns itself. I guess that it will only intervene if Giovanni reaches the legendary Hall of Origin. But it is said that Arceus sometime acts through a "Chosen One" at some occasions, a bit like a guide, and given the situation, I wouldn't be surprised if such a "Chosen One" suddenly appears."
Blue frowned in thought. "I'm not sure what a "Chosen One" would be able to do more than us. Many of us already have very powerful teams, with many Legendaries included." He turned to look at Twilight. "Maybe we should call back Sweetie Belle."
Twilight agreed with a nod. "But we must wait for the portal Magolor is building to be finished. He should be done in a few hours. Or we can wait tomorrow when Sweetie Belle should return to bring Apple Bloom and Scootaloo back to Equestria for school. It would be preferable because Sweetie Belle is certainly in one of her adventures in some other universe, and finding her would be very difficult."
"It shouldn't be a problem. That's just one night away. Unless the Rockets suddenly decide to start a world-scale assault in the middle of the night or somehow manage to find the remaining plates in just these few hours, we should be okay waiting for her," Blue said.
"Well, we may not even have to wait for her," Dawn, the Champion of Sinnoh, said. Everyone had obviously been told about the ponies, especially Sweetie Belle who managed to defeat Red's strongest team as well as a Groudon. "Time for the good news! When the Rockets warped during the assault on their hideout, Palkia was able to determine where they came from.* If we could meet directly, Elio, we could work together, we could determine where in the Ultra Space they came from and you could go scout with Lunala to see if what I think is their HQ is really there and what is awaiting us. Then, we could prepare an assault and stop them."
"That's great! Then come to Alola so we can start right away!" Elio exclaimed happily.
"Nice. If everything goes well, we should be done with Team Rainbow Rocket in the following hours," Iris, ex-Champion of Unova, said. "Then we will start to prepare."
Gordon, the Champion of Ekusy, the oldest person present in this meeting, suddenly raised a hand to gain everyone's attention. The man was almost one hundred years old but he still imposed respect, especially knowing that he kept the title of Champion since he got it when he was seventeen. He only ever lost to one person: Red, but the battle had apparently been a very close one despite Red using his strongest team. "Before we end this discussion, we should remove the limit of six Pokémon we have. Team Rainbow Rocket doesn't seem to have gone around it yet, so we should use it to our advantage. If we are about to face an army of Dynamaxed Shadow Pokémon, then we will need as many Pokémon as possible. We can't think anymore about being fair, especially against these terrorists."
Everyone agreed.
"And you should also be careful, Dawn," he continued. "The Rockets will certainly go after the Azure Flute, and they could use your absence to launch an assault on the Sinnoh League to get it."
"If this happens, then we will be here to welcome them," Cynthia said with a small smirk that chilled many.
They pitied the poor fools who will dare to face her.
The meeting ended not long after that.
Sweetie Void and the others left the Training Building and returned inside the Lor so Sweetie Void could continue giving them a tour of Dream Land and beyond.
They passed over Kirby's home where they could see Kirby sleeping under the tree behind it. Sweetie Void thought that Void was probably inside the house talking with the scientists. Then they went toward the Meta Knights' HQ where Sweetie Void quickly waved hello to the guards that could see them before they flew away. Further in the lands, Sweetie Void spotted the Halberd probably doing a round, and the Lor went to fly alongside it where the alicorn could see Meta Knight standing on the deck. The knight gave them a small, silent nod that Sweetie Void returned.
The others were very impressed by the battleship, even Phantom. The pegasus saw many battleships back as Infinite and during the war between Equestria and the other nations against Past Eggman, but one look was enough to tell her that the Halberd would destroy them as if they were paper ships. Of course, the fillies already saw the Halberd back when Sweetie Void showed them the battle against Star Dream, but they hadn't been able to take in the details. The ship was absolutely huge and had more cannons than they ever saw. And there was that grappling claw that looked very dangerous to any Hunter-class ship that dared to come too close. A very ingenious idea Phantom thought.
Flying in the sky of Dream Land alongside such a ship as they soared above sceneries worthy of dreams was quite the experience for the fillies, but the Lor eventually flew away to go on its way to show more of this world.
"Impressive battleship," Phantom commented.
"It could destroy Bowser's armada like it's nothing," Apple Death added with a nod.
"Yes. The Halberd is a very great ship. To think that I managed to destroy it with Kirby very early after my arrival in this universe. I barely knew how to fire magical beams from my horn back then!"
The others stared at the alicorn, and at least half of them shouted, "How?!"
"Easy. Boarding it. Fighting through the crew. Destroying key parts until it crashed in the ocean. The hardest part had been finding out how to board it without being shot down by all the cannons. Not even the Warp Star could do it."
"How did ya board it?" Apple Bloom asked.
"A giant armored rainbow bird with bladed wings that Kirby previously helped offered us a ride."
...
"You serious?" Scootabot asked.
"Very."
...
"Welcome to the Dream Universe."
The fillies witnessed the beauty of the Rainbow Resort and the Fountain of Dreams, Sweetie Void silently chuckling thinking how the whole area had been destroyed in her fight against Kirby. They then drooled as they were shown the cookie hills of Cookie Country, Sweetie Void taking the occasion to grab a VERY big chunk to snack on with her friends (but mostly for herself). They visited the Squeak Squad's hideout, the Rainbow Islands, the Popopo Islands (some of the fillies finding the name funny), the tower of Nutty Noon, and many other places all over Pop Star.
Finally, they returned to Dream Land where the Lor flew toward the Dreamstalk and up alongside it.
"And now, I present to you my kingdom, Floralia!" Sweetie Void shouted just before they passed the first island. "This is Fine Fields!"
She presented the islands one by one and, without surprise, the fillies thought that they were dreaming when they saw the island made of sweets with towns made of giant toys and construct blocks. A real paradise for children (without counting the haunted circus). They found the third island, Old Odyssey, very beautiful with its palace and the fountains balancing on top of the mountains. Then there was Wild World that looked perfect to have adventures.
And then, their jaw dropped when they saw Sweetie Void's castle which put to shame any other castle they ever saw, both in size and in beauty. And the sight was embellished by the magnificent flower of the Dreamstalk visible in the background, without forgetting that it was a freaking crystal castle in the sky as the clouds visible around it reminded.
"When Sectonia got corrupted by the Mirror, she built an evil-looking castle right there, a castle that Sombra would have certainly been proud of. When we... defeated Sectonia and I took over as queen, we destroyed her castle and the inhabitants built this one instead for me using her own collection of crystals. It was a really big collection," Sweetie Void informed.
"Well, these guys sure went far to show their appreciation of their new queen," Sweetie Belle said in awe.
Sweetie Belle looked around with pride at her kingdom. Beside the six main islands connected together thanks to the Dreamstalk, there were other, smaller islands floating around, and the inhabitants of Floralia had begun building homes on them. Farms were built on Fine Fields. There were obviously the quarries on Old Odyssey. And there were even talks of building generators using the heat of the volcanoes of Endless Explosions to produce electricity, and they were coming up with little blimp-like vehicles to allow the inhabitants who couldn't fly to go from island to island. Sweetie Void also came up with the idea of bringing more floating islands from all over Pop Star to bring more land to Floralia later on, and also clouds to build on.
By the time Sweetie Void will truly start her duty as queen, Floralia will already be the most prosperous nation of Pop Star (which wasn't difficult...).
Taranza really was doing an excellent job. He would have been a good king. Maybe she should just let him become it? She will have to talk to him about this eventually.
"Want to have a tour of the castle?" she asked to her friends.
They agreed unanimously, so Sweetie Void made the Lor land on a platform that had been built on a smaller island not far of the entrance linked by a bridge.
Of course, they didn't tour the whole castle. It would take the whole day. So she simply led them to the more interesting places like her apartments or the gardens. They also helped the servants put some banners as they were still in the middle of doing it. And of course, they couldn't help but play a bit in the vast hallways, games going from tag to simply looking at the distorted reflections on the crystalline walls and make funny faces.
Once they left the castle and returned to the Lor, Sweetie Void showed them next the Space Resort and promised them that they will visit it once her friends were back from the Pokémon World.
At the same time, the fillies were able to see Pop Star from space, expressions of wonder appearing as they saw the star shape of the planet with its two rings.
"How does this work?" Scootabot asked.
"Dream Universe," Sweetie Void simply answered. "And again, there are planets with weirder shapes. You will see soon enough."
"Mario's universe's also very weird apparently," Apple Death said. "While planets've spherical shapes, there're many little planetoids and other space bodies that're just strange. Remember in our fight against Crakkthulx?"
The three fillies who participated in the fight all remembered how there had been buildings and what could have been considered asteroids but with very unnatural shapes, as if they had been more or less sculpted.
After a few minutes spent staring at Pop Star, the Lor Starcutter opened a portal, starting a tour of some of the planets that Sweetie Void visited through her adventures, and almost all of them received the same looks of wonder than Pop Star.
"A planet made of yarn? What?"
"Uh. This planet looks like a giant floating island with a smaller planet half buried in it."
"Woah! This planet looks like it burns! How did you explore it without being turned into ash?"
"That's not a planet! That's a bucking planet-sized space-station with a futuristic city built on it!"
"What the heck happened to this planet? Why is it in pieces?"
"Funny. This planet looks like a giant water drop around an asteroid."
"And yet, there are lands on its surface. Don't ask."
Shiver Star was probably the more normal-looking planet they saw even if its surface was entirely frozen.
"This planet was previously known as Earth and was the home of the humans in this universe, but some war caused its surface to froze and the humans escaped into space, some of them ending up on Pop Star. Now, the robots they left behind have taken their place," Sweetie Void recounted. "They are very nice, and they sometimes help when we need to work with technology, like that time they built a mecha for Dedede. Too bad the mecha disappeared in a rift and we had to destroy it later when we found it piloted by a hostile robot on Halcandra."
Phantom raised an eyebrow. "A mecha piloted by a robot? Eggman would laugh at the idea."
They briefly went to see the robots at the surface before the Lor transported them to Ripple Star.
"Okay. After the star-shaped planet, I can accept a heart-shaped planet. But how the heck can it have a face? And... giant ribbons orbiting it?" Little Ghost almost shouted.
Sweetie Void shrugged. "Two words: Dream Universe. This planet is the homeworld of fairies. Me, Kirby, Dedede, Bandanna Dee, and Adeleine saved it from the Dark Matters. This is where we had our final showdown with them and their leader, Zero. Nothing better than the planet incarnating love to defeat for good a being whose greatest weakness was love."
"Oh boy. A whole planet of Cadances?" Phantom wondered jokingly.
Again, they descended on the surface to visit the fairies. It had been some time since Sweetie Void saw Queen Ripple. And after a nice talk around tea, the fillies returned on the Lor to go to their final destination: New Halcandra.
Again, seeing the huge ring-shaped world amazed the fillies.
"This planet is entirely artificial, made by the Ancients themselves. It is actually a giant portal gate that had been linked to the home-dimension of the Ancients, but now that the dimension is gone, the portal is useless. It's broken anyway, and we probably won't be able to repair it before some time. Now, Magolor and the other descendants of the Ancients along with many other beings from all over the universe are working to make this planet their home. It was almost destroyed in our final adventure, the one where we ended up fighting Void. Magolor, corrupted by a piece of the Jamba Heart, summoned Galacta Knight and unleashed him on us. By the end of the fight, the planet was cut in two, and it could have been worse. Thankfully, Void repaired everything with his almighty powers in the aftermath. As for the large floating island in the middle, this is what remains of Halcandra, the homeworld of the Ancients after it was destroyed by Void in the second act of the Civil War."
"And I thought the wars against Eggman and Past Eggman had been bad..." Phantom muttered.
"Not the same scale. Not at all," Sweetie Void said.
They descended on the surface and the Lor landed at the usual place. From here, Sweetie Void led her friends around and presented them to everyone else like Susie or the Mage Sisters. The fillies received translators and spent some hours helping around in the rebuilding of the city (all in good fun with the lot of incidents, of course) getting to know the locals.
And with that, it was time for the girls to return to their homes for dinner (it was lucky that their three dimensions shared almost the same hour even if not the same date).
"Are you going to one of your adventures after that?" Phantom asked to Sweetie Void.
"Yes, possibly a last one before I bring my Apple Bloom and my Scootaloo back to my Equestria. I think that I still have about... two days My-Universe-Time before the time comes. It will obviously depend of the time difference between my universe and the universe I will end up in. You want to come?"
"Of course. This is why you came to us, right?"
"Great!"
"How about after dinner?" Apple Death proposed.
"Alright. You can both open rifts, right? Then I will await you in my Equestria. You should have no problem finding me."
They agreed, and Sweetie Void led everypony back to their universes before she brought the Lor back on its platform beside her Twilight's castle. She then went to have a meal in Sugarcube Corner while she waited for Phantom and Apple Death to return.
Not even an hour later and Phantom came to her, soon followed by Apple Death.
"You two ready?" Sweetie Void asked as she finished her cake.
"Eeyup."
"Yep."
At this, they left the bakery, and Sweetie Void opened a rift before they stepped through it.
The fillies barely stepped through the rift that they were welcomed by shouts ranging from simple screams of surprise or fright to "What the heck?!" and they quickly saw why.
They landed in what seemed to be the bridge of a spaceship judging by the windows showing the vacuum of space outside and the computers and other machines present around reminding of what Sweetie Void saw in the bridge of the Halberd and the Warhammer. No wheel however so it was one of these spaceships where you had to press some buttons on the computers to define the ship's course.
And the shouts came from the five anthropomorphic animals that had been sitting on the various chairs: two foxes (a male one with the usual orange/light brown and white fur and a female one with blue and white fur), a male frog, a male blue bird with red around the eyes (probably a bird of prey), and an old male rabbit. There was also a tall bipedal humanoid robot with a red visor instead of eyes.
The frog had fallen from his chair which had toppled backward in his surprise, but the others were more reactive and were all now standing up and pointing weapons at the fillies, mostly laser guns but the vixen was pointing some kind of staff that clearly had power. The robot, however, was simply staring, obviously not made to take on threats.
"Well... This starts well..." Sweetie Void mumbled.
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Caloom? Ekusi? ...Did you make up those regions?
Cookie hills.
Fine Fields.
Also, I'm really looking forward to the Star Fox arc, even though I haven't played any of the games (besides Zero, but I didn't play it for very long; it was too tough for me at the time). I've seen a few Star Fox walkthroughs, so I'm curious to see how this part of the story goes.
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Yep. To show that there are more than the regions we know.
And thanks, all corrected.
So that's Kirby, Mario, Pokémon, Zelda, Metroid, and Star Fox so far. Of the Original 12 it looks like it's just Mother and F-Zero left to cover before Smash 64!
Maybe you can look up a few videos of the game to get an idea. If not, then maybe you might be able to get an idea through some of the Star Fox stories either on this site or others.
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The problem is that the games never show much of the interior of the Great Fox, especially in Assault. We see the bridge in Adventure, but the bits we can see in Assault clearly shows that it has changed between the two games. And then, there's the animation prequel of Zero but since it's in an alternate universe then it isn't much help especially because, again, this is the upgraded Great Fox of Star Fox Assault we're talking about, not the original Great Fox of Lylat Wars and Adventure.
I will try to search Star Fox fanfics, but it will be hard to find one that gives a good description of the interior of the Great Fox.
… is … the devourer messing with them?
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DD is totally messing with them.
I don't really remember but... Can Sweetie travel trough time? Instead of being late or worried because the time difference from a dimension to another, if she could go back in time it could be like she left only for a moment, just like what happened when she visited the Pokemon universe
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Her time-related powers aren't well developed yet. At best, she can accelerate it, slow it down, or stop it for just a few seconds. She has yet to gain enough control to do it to just a small area or a target. So she can't yet time travel or influence time to the point of being able to do like Dialga did. Beside, time travel doesn't really work because of what is explained in chapter 59.
Sweetie Belle has gained a lot of power, being some kind of Avatar of the Void, but she still lacks the proper control to be able to do stuff in the more extreme scales like less powerful but more specialized beings such as Discord or Dialga can do. Or else, she would be too OP and there wouldn't be a point to all this. And she of course doesn't have the power yet to say "screw control" and do it with pretty much just a thought like most Second Category Gods can do (and even then, Second Category Gods can be limited, like Void couldn't fully manipulate time either. Time can be a very tricky power to master).
I was just wondering, could you have sweetie find dynamite headdy? Dynamite headdy is a game made by sega that, although it is REALLY, REALLY weird, I think should have gotten more popular, and I also think that you would find it interesting.
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I think that someone already asked the question I-don't-remember-where. No, I don't think that I will put this game in this story.