Chapter 88: Shadows On The Pokémon World
Once she returned to Hyrule with Link, Sweetie Belle got to meet the King himself, Liam Daharos Hyrule, an imposing and handsome middle-aged bearded man with blond hair in the process of turning to white. The man clearly saw many battles but was surprisingly laid back, so Sweetie had no problem talking to him. However, the filly quickly saw how someone like Ganondorf could easily manipulate him to the point of turning him blind to the suffering of his own allies like the Gorons and the Zoras. He had no distrust at all toward an unknown creature like her. He accepted her right away without question beside the usual ones born from curiosity like "Where do you come from?" And yet, contrary to previous times like with the Galactic Federation and the Cornerians, she had had no occasion to show him that he could trust her (beside looking harmless and Zelda being friendly to her). As a king, he should be more careful! This was how you lead a kingdom to its decline! And as a guardian of the Triforce, it was even worse!
Apparently, from what Impa told her later, it had always been a default of the King which was usually counter-balanced by Zelda's mother, the Queen. She had been a very loving woman but she had been great at judging someone's character, thus driving away people that would take advantage of his husband. Sadly, she died not long ago from sickness. It seemed that Zelda inherited this but her father rarely took her seriously. It was actually a miracle that she and Link were able to convince him of Ganondorf's true nature.
But in the current situation, this worked to Sweetie Belle's advantage. She got no problem convincing the King of the existence of the future dangers, as hard to believe as they were, and he was happy at the idea of joining the alliance. However, he will first need to talk to Darunia and King Zora De Bon XVI about it. While the King of Hyrule was the supreme ruler of the kingdom, he didn't want to cause problem with the Gorons and the Zoras. He had a good relationship with the two peoples and didn't want to put a dent in it by taking such an important decision without informing them. He was already feeling bad for not seeing what Ganondorf had done to them.
The Gerudos... were a difficult case. It had seemed that the hylians had come to a trust with them when their king, Ganondorf, had presented himself to him. However, when his treachery was revealed and he was arrested, the Gerudos immediately turned hostile again, even worse than before. There had even been some attempts from the women to free their king, all ending in blood. King Liam received words from one Nabooru, apparently the new leader of the Gerudos, that she was trying to convince the thieves to stop but she had little success so far because she had to be careful of what she said and what she did to not be overthrown. Outside of Nabooru herself, the Gerudos really were loyal to Ganondorf. It was King Liam's hope that Nabooru will eventually succeed so Hyrule would finally be united (outside of the Kokiris remaining in their little corner not bothering anyone).
But King Liam could already assure that Hyrule will join.
Sweetie Belle was very glad to count them as new allies even if, admittedly, they won't bring much to the alliance. Hyrule's army wasn't really big and the technology was very behind, even compared to Equestria. But that was okay. Even if it was a little stone, it will still help in building the wall. And beside, Hyrule was just a small part of this world. The kingdom could serve as a foothold to contact the rest of it.
But then, Sweetie Belle thought of something. What about the Gods? Especially the three Golden Gossesses? Will they allow this world to become part of a greater organisation? They seemed to have taken only a background role, only guiding and testing heroes and that kind of stuff, but for something that big... Maybe this world didn't even need protection with these three. Maybe if the army attacked here, the Goddesses would intervene to repel it. Being the omnipotent entities that they were, they shouldn't have any problem.
Unless this army had omnipotent entities among its ranks... Or a way to deal with them... Frankly, those could very well be possible. This army probably already thought of the possibility of Gods trying to stop them from attacking their world or universe and prepared something to counter them.
So yeah, just in case, safety in group. And Sweetie Belle hoped the Goddesses won't mind. Same for Arceus back in the Pokémon World.
Speaking of the Pokémon World, it was probably time for her to return to it to bring her Apple Bloom and her Scootaloo back to her Equestria. School will soon resume. So she eventually said goodbye to Link, Zelda, and the others and left Hyrule, returning to Equestria. Here, she gathered her Pokémon back into their Poké Balls before she opened a rift to the Pokémon World.
Her Pokémon trained well while she had been away. Some of them like Zephyr even evolved. She wasn't sure if they could compete with Team Rainbow Rocket's Pokémon but she was sure that she could now face the majority of the intermediary trainers and probably could get half of the badges, maybe even the fifth one. But, obviously, her Pokémon still had a long way to go to allow her to face someone like a Gym Leader using their best team. Drako could probably face one of their Pokémon one on one, especially if he had the type advantage, but victory wasn't certain.
Sweetie Belle had no idea where her friends were by now so she appeared where she last saw them the last time: in Pewter City. She appeared outside of the town and took her usual human appearance before entering it.
However, she quickly saw that something was wrong. The streets were almost deserted, and most people present were trainers, policemen, and even soldiers. All of them had somber mood, looking worried and ready to throw a Poké Ball or to fire with their weapons for the ones who were armed with actual guns.
Sweetie Belle understood that the situation with Team Rainbow Rocket must have evolved for the worse and this worried her. She didn't expect things to go bad enough for military to become involved in just a few days.
As they spotted her, many people, mainly the soldiers, looked at her with curiosity, probably wondering what she was doing here instead of being safe at her home. However, some of the trainers and the policemen recognised her and looked visibly relieved, remembering how she easily dealt with the Primal Groudon.
She approached the nearest trainer that recognised her and that she also recognised from the group who went to Mt. Moon and asked him, "How bad have things evolved?"
The trainer became very glum. "Cynthia was killed by Team Rainbow Rocket last night."
Sweetie Belle gasped. "Cynthia?! The ex-Champion of Sinnoh? Worldwide known to be one of the strongest Pokémon trainers?"
"Yes," the trainer confirmed.
"What happened?"
"While the current Champion of Sinnoh, Dawn, was away, a group of Team RR grunts led by Cyrus assaulted the Sinnoh League. Cynthia and the Sinnoh Elite 4 were present to guard it, and the grunts were pushed back. But Cynthia ended up fighting Cyrus in a duel in the Champion Room. Nobody witnessed what happened and nothing was found from her and her Pokémon, but Cyrus himself apparently confirmed to the Elite 4 that Cynthia was dead before he warped away with the legendary Azure Flute and the Legend Plate. Nobody heard from Cynthia since so we are assuming that Cyrus told the truth."
Sweetie Belle could only gawk. Yes, it was BAD.
"And to make it worse, they managed to create Shadow Pokémon and even to store Dynamax energy to use it outside of Galar. Many strong trainers assaulted an island that had a Team RR hideout hidden in it, and a Dynamaxed Shadow Mega-Mewtwo destroyed the island in one attack. Everybody escaped, thankfully. Now, as you can see, everybody is on edge knowing the same fate could happen to any city anywhere and anytime," the trainer continued.
This explained the security. This must be the same in all the other cities.
"T-thank you. Is Brock in town?"
The trainer nodded. "Yeah. He's in his Gym."
"Thanks."
Sweetie Belle left the trainer and directly teleported to the entrance of Brock's Gym, surprising everyone who didn't know about her. Entering, she immediately found Brock sitting on the stairs leading to where he usually awaited challengers at the other side of the rock garden, reading the news on his phone along with some of his apprentices. Upon hearing the doors opening, Brock raised his head and saw Sweetie Belle.
"Oh. You're back."
"I was told what happened at Sinnoh and with the hideout. Looking for any new Team RR attack?" Sweetie Belle asked as she floated over to Brock.
"Yes. But, so far, only some skirmishes, mostly at Galar to try to stop them from collecting Dynamax energy. There were also some at Alola where they attempted to get Z-Crystals. And of course, there are the now regular theft of Pokémon all over the world."
"And how close are we to find their HQ?"
"Pretty close actually. Last night, Dawn and Elio were able to determine with Palkia's help where they warped to and from. It seems their HQ is somewhere in the Ultra Space. But it seems to be a moving one because Elio hasn't found anything in the identified area so he's scouting around. No idea how long it will take him to find it. May be a few more hours, or even a day, at least."
"Darn. Waiting again. Are my friends alright? Where are they?"
"Yes, don't worry. They all went to Cerulean City excepted Twilight who decided to help Magolor finish the portal. They must be done by now so I don't know what they are up to. Your friends want to get their second badge before they return to their home."
"Whaaaat? They got their first badge?" the filly whined.
"Yes."
"I'm the only one who hasn't gotten one yet?"
"Yes."
Sweetie Belle grabbed one of her Poké Balls. "Then I challenge you right now!"
Brock chuckled. "Very well."
Two Water Guns later...
"I should have known... I should have just given you the badge right away," Brock said bemusedly as he gave Sweetie Belle the badge as the filly gave Tank a high five.
She grabbed the badge, giggling. "It wouldn't have been as fun."
Brock just sighed at this.
Sweetie Belle then left the Gym and flew toward Mt. Moon knowing that Cerulean City was at the other side. It only took her a few seconds to reach the city by flying over the mountain.
The city was much bigger than Pewter City, and even Viridian City. As a result, Sweetie Belle had to ask around the trainers on watch if they had seen a bunch of talking equines. It took a few tries but she eventually found someone who guided her to the local Pokémon Center.
Inside, she found her friends having breakfast in the Center's dining area for the trainers and their friends. They were all present, even Twilight. As Sweetie thought, she and Magolor certainly finished the portal and the alicorn must have immediately returned to her friends to give them the news. Magolor must be spreading it to the leaders of this world.
As soon as Apple Bloom and Scootaloo saw her approaching, they ran to tackle-hug her. Since Sweetie Belle was still in her human form, she took them in her arms and hugged them against her chests.
"I missed you, girls."
Rarity then reached her and hugged her too. Pinkie too but Sweetie didn't mind her.
"Welcome back, Sweetie Belle. How did your adventures go?"
"They went well. I found us many new allies and potential allies against these threats DD warned me about," Sweetie Belle answered before she released her friends and began to count on her fingers. "I first found a Galactic Federation, which is exactly what the name suggests. Beside the huge army and the very advanced technology they have, I got to meet this nice and strong bounty hunter, and when I mean strong, I mean that she could by herself probably wipe out the Royal Guard easy. She eats over-armed space pirates every days for breakfast like it is nothing. It's just a figure, she doesn't really eat them. And yes, I fought space pirates alongside her, and even an evil cyborg space dragon. The Princesses are currently talking to them to formalize the alliance and I think that they must be finished by now.
Then Discord informed me that he found two very powerful allies and I went to meet them. The first one was.. Uh... An alternate version of Scootaloo merged with an edgy evil anthropomorphic jackal who was a mercenary, and she has reality-bending powers about creating illusions and turning them real, to make it simple. And the other was an alternate version of Apple Bloom who absorbed the powers of Discord's little brother the Spirit of Death and thus became the new Spirit of Death. So she can turn into a ghost at will, create an army of zombies, kill anyone with a simple touch, bring back souls from the afterlife, and all other kinds of neat and disturbing slash scary death stuff. With their help, I met two versions of an anthro hedgehog who can out-speed Rainbow Dash - no kidding - and who regularly fights armies of robots made by a mad scientist who wants to conquer the world, and two human plumbers who can jump very high and who regularly fight armies of living mushrooms and turtles and other creatures working for a giant fire-breathing turtle who regularly kidnaps the local princess and attempts to conquer the kingdom, the world, and even the universe depending of his mood. And then there are all their friends like the two versions of a very smart two-tailed anthro fox but it would be too long to list. Also, I ended up having to fight a god-like eldritch abomination the size of a mountain and its army of ghost-like zealots in the plumbers' world with the help of the alternate Scootaloo and Apple Bloom. All these universes, the two alternate Equus, the world with the anthro animals, and the world with the two plumbers, can now be considered as potential allies but we still need to start the talks with them.
With the alternate Apple Bloom and Scootaloo joining me, I then entered an universe where I met another advanced civilization, this time made of anthro animals instead of humans and aliens like the Galactic Federation. The Cornerians however aren't as far as the Federation, having barely started to colonise other planets in their own solar system, but they still have powerful spaceships and even portal gates to journey through long distances instantaneously. Having helped them repeal an invasion of giant space cyborg bugs, they are also considering joining us.
Finally, I returned to the two versions of Hyrule where I talked to their respective ruler. They are both thinking to join but are currently internally discussing it."
Everyone stared at her for a whole minute before they just nodded and Rarity ruffled her hair saying, "I see you worked hard. I'm proud of you. I can't wait to meet all these new friends you made."
"You met alternate versions of us?" Scootaloo asked. "Will we see them?"
"Of course! We were thinking to have a get together, all three sets of CMC. They can't wait to meet you two. We still have to think of when. It must be some time when nopony has school in our three universes. But... uh... You guys are much less reactive than usual. It reminds me of my parents."
Twilight shrugged. "I guess that the shock factor of your adventures is wearing off. However..." She gave the filly one of her "There's something new and exciting to learn!" grin. "tell us more about these universes. Particularly these civilizations you met that developed advanced technologies like that Galactic Federation and these Cornerians. I'm curious about these portal gates."
"And tell us more about that hedgehog. How could a hedgehog out-speed me?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"And since when has Discord a little brother Spirit of Death?" Applejack asked.
"Nononono! Tell us about all your new friends! How are they? What do they look? What do they like? What do they dislike? What is their favorite color? What is-"
Sweetie Belle put a hand on Pinkie's mouth to stop her questions. "I would love to recount everything to you right now, but remember that time passes faster in Equestria and we don't want Apple Bloom and Scootaloo to miss school. We must make it quick if you still want to have some time before it restarts."
Scootaloo grumbled. "Right..."
Sweetie Belle looked at the mares and Spike. "What about all of you? Do you still want to return to Equestria or do you want to remain here to continue to help against Team RR? I was told that the situation is getting really bad."
Everypony looked saddened at this, being reminded of Cynthia's death. Twilight was particularly touched because she actually got to see the woman in the crisis meeting yesterday evening. A simple exchange of looks between the mares was all that was needed before the alicorn said, "We want to remain in this world. We can't leave it knowing how bad things are going. And, beside, with the portal finished, we can return to Equestria whenever we want. But take Spike with you."
"What? No way, Twilight! I want to remain here and help too!"
"This is getting too dangerous for you. With Team RR now possessing Shadow Legendary Pokémon that can be Dynamaxed and that can use Shadow Z-Moves, you could easily be killed."
"But, with Sombra-"
"Sombra was just one pony and couldn't eradicate a whole city in one attack. Team RR has dozens, maybe hundreds of creatures that can do that and even more."
"Well... Alright, maybe I can't fight, but I can help in over way! Like Fluttershy! If I need to hide, then alright, I'll hide! Or run away! Just, please, give me a chance," he pleaded.
Twilight seemed to think about it, hesitating, before everybody's attention was suddenly taken by the television interrupting the current program for a breaking news.
And what news! The portal was attacked by Team RR!
"Eh!?!" everyone shouted.
"How dare they?!!" Sweetie yelled. "I must go!" she then said before she disappeared.
A few minutes earlier.
The chosen place to build the portal was an island that belonged to no region, thus being neutral ground. It wasn't just the portal that was built there but a whole complex to regulate the future flow of people passing through it, a bit like a frontier post. A harbor was also built to allow people to leave the island or enter it. The island was pretty big and just consisted of a large flat piece of land with some vegetation so building on it was no problem. There was no doubt that, with time, a town will certainly appear around the complex.
All in all, Magolor was proud of his work. The portal working, he and the others who came with him to build it could now return to New Halcandra if they wanted, but they first decided to rest. And Magolor took the occasion to spread the good news.
Now, he was lying down on a deckchair in the shadow of a parasol on the island's beach, drinking a cocktail with a straw and a cute little umbrella when, suddenly, bolts of energy appeared at several places on the beach with loud sounds similar to explosions or thunder. Then, dozens and dozens of people in black uniform with a rainbow R warped in.
And among them was a certain green-haired man with red eyes wearing a yellow and purple cloak with eye-motifs who was grinning maliciously.
Magolor rolled his eyes and sighed before he got up from his chair, the others of his kind present doing the same.
So much for resting.
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I wonder if Sweetie have a God radar? While I doubt that Sweetie could go to the god realm, there are times when they appeared as characters in the game. Even so, it make me wonder if Sweetie could find a way to find them.
Also, they don't know that they made a overpowered demi-godess very angry just now.
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Hasbro just give up in My Little Pony 4, now their focus is the number 5, even if millions of people sign it, they are going to ignore it because for them, there is no money in that.
Also, this is not the best place, put that as a blog post, not in a story.
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She doesn't really have a God radar, but remember that she can sense energies. The more concentrated they are, the easier it is for her, at the condition that the beings let the energies out. When they are close enough, Sweetie can feel someone just by their body heat.
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I'm not so sure about "overpowered" given that being a demigoddess would already imply pretty damned high power levels. Much like Heracles, she's occasionally had to fight smarter rather than harder.
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Well, I re-read the water temple chapter... I can guess that the goddesses know about Sweetie, and follow their adventures so they know about her mission and the problem, if they wanted to meet with her, they could, so if they are not doing is maybe because they want to stay neutral or they have another reason to not tell her.
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Yeah, like with the Aparoids where just killing the Queen and blowing up their homeworld wouldn't have been enough without the self-destruct program. Or against Dark Samus where she had to trick her to ensure that she wouldn't escape. And, of course, all the times where she had to limit herself to not accidentally kill someone or destroy something.
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I don't think that the Goddesses kept watch of Sweetie Belle once she left their little corner of the Omniverse. After, they probably listened when Sweetie told Link and Zelda about the threats, and they must be thinking that these threats won't be a problem against omnipotent beings like them if they come to Hyrule.
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True, thanks for telling
Why do I get the feeling that Magolor rolled his eyes because of the stupidity that Team RR has shown?
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Because the next few seconds involve those grunts getting sucked into a black hole.
Wonder why Rainbow Rocket is trying to mess with some weird portal to them? They already have strong pokemon, ultimate power is within their reach. In dnd, they can already beat an ancient dragon. Why are they poking a tarrasque?
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New, advanced technology to get their hands on, easy access to other universes outside of the Ultra Space without the need of Palkia (the warping technology they use uses the energy of the Ultra Wormholes or something like that so I'm guessing that it doesn't work outside of the Ultra Space, which the various versions of the Pokémon World we know of is part of), stopping enemies from potentially receiving powerful reinforcements...
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Well their whole world is about to be consumed. They were only dealing with trainers and other pokemon at first. Sweetiebelle was even playing at their level. What happens when they go up against mages and sweetiebelle decides to no longer hold back? Reiterating the previous comment, Rainbow Rocket is poking a tarrasque.
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Exactly. After, Giovanni is getting quite confident with his growing army of Shadow Pokémon that can be Dynamaxed when needed, his seemingly invincible Shadow Mewtwo at their head.
So Team RR is making the same mistake every Kirby villain makes huh? This'll be fun.
Considering Dante is in the list of Mii Sword Fighter Costumes along with Bayonetta canonically being part of the devil May cry series through Enzo (who was Dante's original broker) and the iconic Skyrim armor from the box art you've got at least ten more one person armies if you include Virgil, Dante, Nero, Bayonetta, Jean, Trish, Lady, Lucia, Baulder, Rodan (Sweetie Belle could definitely give him the energy to reach his infinite one status), The Dragonborn and Loki if Sweetie Belle gives him the power to become Aseir without Loptor. Them added to her army would be awesome
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True. Who is Loki? I'm supposing that this is not the Loki from Marvel.
Dig through your Spirit collection and you'll find him in the Bayonetta section.
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Right. The kid from Bayonetta 2. I had totally forgotten about him and, admittedly, most of the game's plot. Thanks.
Fire Emblem Fates!
11229432 You know what would be awesome is if you also brought in the reboot Dante and Virgil sense that could have awesome interactions. Like how Dante is so pissed at another version of him is such a douche while Virgil just sees how misguided his other version is. If you do that be sure to focus more on the Angelic side of their power sets even giving them actual angel wings or something like that since they are a form of Nephilim. ( that part of their back story is true as a Nephilim is a half-angel half something else)
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This can also organically lead into Sweetie Belle meeting the Doomslayer as canonically he could have met Dante and Virgil in hell since that version of hell is still connected to the Doomslayer's version of hell as his hell is infinite and interconnected with all other versions and concepts of hell. ( I am talking about my previous comment I just replied to one so that i can get your attention easier)
I know Isabelle and the villager mayor aren't really good combatants but they would actually be good in the strategy area considering they're great with organization they can help out on the battlefield by being the Intel gatherers and organizers of the fight that way you can still organically bring them in especially since I believe some villagers are actually hidden one-man armies the ninja bunny for example
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That's a good point!
ok...HOW did i miss two of these chapters being put on here this past week??????
also..nicely done with the healing music...also..wonder if sweetie void could figure out a way to use a max revive to bring cyinthia back...like..enhance it with dynamax energy or something like that...ooor finding a max revive and giving it to magolor to see what he can do with it or some other shiz like that...
..also..eta on the next chapter please...this is getting good!~
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Something would need to be left of Cynthia to even attempt to use a Max Revive on her.
The next chapter is almost done. It should be finished some time today.
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Back when it came up, I also mentioned extending the way construction and furniture work in Animal Crossing to fortifications. Remember that Tom Nook can add rooms to your house so quickly that it's done by the time you leave his store and look for it. Villager's Final Smash already consists of weaponizing that...