> A New World, a New Story
>  by Votederpycausemufins
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> Ben's Story
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	“Ugh! My head! Where am I?”
Just the other day, Benjamin had been training with his pokemon. They had been out in a forest, but now he was in a city.
“Maybe Gurdur accidently hit me and I can’t remember getting here.” Ben noticed he was right near a house. “I hope someone around here will know where I am.”
Ben got to his feet. He felt a little disoriented. It wasn’t by much, but he felt a little smaller. Walking to the door, He found the nearby streets oddly empty, other than the usual pokemon.
Reaching the front door, Ben knocked and heard a reply inside. “Wha- I’ll be there in a second.”
When the door opened, instead of seeing another person, Ben was met by an oddly colored ponyta with a mane and tail that looked more like hair than fire.
“What the-?” The two of them said simultaneously. Both of them seemed to be surprised by the other. Unfortunately for Ben, the ponyta reacted first. Or rather, it overreacted.
Before Ben could get out of the way, the ponyta had wheeled itself around, and kicked him right in the ribcage. Ben flew backwards and crashed into the ground.
After catching his breath from having the wind knocked out of him, Ben shakily got to his feet. Out of instinct, his hand flew to his side to grab a pokeball. Pulling it back, he found… nothing. Ben looked to his side and noticed his lack of pokeballs. Right after that, he noticed his lack of clothes. “GAH! I’m naked!” He yelled, and he quickly looked around for something he could use to cover himself.
As he looked around, he heard a voice. “What the hay are you?”
Ben looked up, all he saw was the ponyta. “Did you just talk?” He said, pointing at it.
The ponyta backed away. “What are you pointing at me for.”
Ben looked surprised. “I- I was just asking a question.”
“Why do you keep saying the same words over and over again? They don’t make any sense other than the part that sounds like hit. And I’d really like it if you didn’t hit me.
For the first time since he had woken up, Ben got a good look at himself. Instead of five fingers on each hand, he only had three. His legs and forearms were made up of some sort of coiled, spring like muscle. On his feet were three claws instead of toes.
Ben was no longer a human. He was a hitmonlee.
When that fact finally registered in his mind, Ben did the only reasonable thing he could think of. He screamed.
He kept screaming as he looked at his arms, flipping them over at one point as if he would find they were back to normal. He kept yelling as he picked up one of his legs to look at, while he stayed balanced on his other leg. When he finally paused, and felt like he calmed down, Ben looked back up. There, he met the gaze of the colorful ponyta. That only made things worse. Ben pointed at the ponyta, and proceeded to start yelling again.
When the ponyta had had enough, it did the last thing Ben would ever expect one to do to him. It slapped him right across the face. That got Ben to finally shut up.
“Are you done?!” The ponyta asked.
All Ben could do was nod his head.
“Good! We have enough yelling ponies around here. If I wanted to hear someone screaming their head off, I’d find a dragon to bring to town. Can you tell me what in Celestia’s name is going on here?”
“All I know is that I was in a forest practicing with my pokemon yesterday, and now today, I wake up to find I’m in some strange city as a hitmonlee.”
The ponyta took a deep breath in, raising up one of her hooves, opened her mouth… and dropped it back down saying, “I understood absolutely none of that.”
Ben facepalmed. “Of course you didn’t. For some reason you’re a pokemon who can’t understand pokespeak.”
After saying that out loud, Ben paused before slowly looking up. “Unless, of course, you’re not actually a pokemon. You just look kind of like one.”
“Okay, I’m guessing you’re speaking some other kind of language. At least, I think so.” The ponyta said to him. Ben nodded in response. “Maybe we can go down you where I work and we can find a unicorn who can cast a translation spell.”
Ben didn’t know what a unicorn was, but if it could make this ponyta looking thing understand him, he didn’t really care.



On the way, Ben saw a bunch of other pokemon on the streets. All of them were confused, and none of them knew how they had gotten there. While he was walking with the ponyta, he heard another pokemon that made him turn. To his left was a mothim. To his surprise, it was also going on about how it had been a human as well.
“No, I’m not crazy!” It yelled to some other pokemon. “I was a human! I had a ledyba! I lived in Santalune city!”
Ben tapped his companion to get her attention. He pointed to the mothim before he walked over to it.
“Let me guess,” The mothim said as he saw Ben walk up. “You think I’m crazy to.”
“No, I don’t. My name’s Benjamin. I’m just as confused as you are.”
“You see!” The mothim exclaimed to the surrounding pokemon. “I’m not the only one.”
“There’s probably going to be more around here. I’m going with this odd colored ponyta to see if we can get some communication going because it seems the residents of this town can’t understand pokemon. Maybe you can try and find some others.”
“Yeah, I’ve got to try and find David. He’s my brother. By the way, my name’s Zach.”
“Nice to meet you. I’ve got to go. I hope I’ll see you again when things are… less chaotic.”
Ben returned to the ponyta, and they continued on to their original destination, finding a few more pokemon claiming to be humans on the way.



It wasn’t long before they had arrived at a police station in the town. When Ben entered after the ponyta, another one with wings jumped on top of him. “Don’t worry Copper!” It called. “I’ve got it!”
“Get off of him!” Ben’s ponyta friend started to push the new one off of him. “You might hurt him!”
When the winged ponyta was finally off him, Ben’s friend was able to explain to it that Ben was her friend. “Do you know where Wish is? I think he knows a translation spell for him.”
“Yeah,” the winged one said. “He’s dealing with some of the other creatures around here. A few of them have been attacking the locals. I thought this one might do the same to you Copper.”
Ben realised that the ponyta he had been with must be the Copper the other ponyta was referring to. “Copper’s a nice name for you.” Ben tried to tell her unsuccessfully.
“Unlike some of you, he acted like a gentlestallion when he didn’t know where he was and he politely knocked on my door. Unfortunately, he did start to freak out at one point, but it was probably about something anypony else would do the same about.”
“Who let that creature in here?”
Ben turned to find another ponyta, but this one looked more like a small rapidash because of its horn. From the look on his it’s face, this one did not like Ben being there at all.
“I let him in here Wish.” Copper told them. “I want you to cast a translation spell on him.”
“Why would you want that?”
“All the creatures that appeared today seem to have some form of intelligence. I first met this guy when he knocked at my door. From his reaction, he knows as much about us as we do about him.”
Wish seemed to consult himself before he responded. “Alright Copper, I’ll do it. But if it doesn’t work he has to leave. I also might tell Midnight about this mishap.”
Copper winced a little bit at those words, but then Wish cast the spell on Ben and they got him to speak.
“Okay, that felt kind of weird, but I’ve had worse happen to me.”
The ponyta around him looked amazed, except for Copper, who had a smug look on her face. “I told you he was intelligent.”
“Wait, so you can understand me now? It worked?” Copper nodded to Ben. “Well then, let me introduce myself. My name is Benjamin, but you can call me Ben. I don’t know how, but know I’m a hitmonlee.”
“Hitmon what?” Wish asked.
“Lee. Hitmonlee. It’s a pokemon. Pokemon are all the creatures that appeared around here recently. Unfortunately, I didn’t used to be one.”
“What do you mean?” Copper asked Ben.
“Yesterday, I was something else called a human. Have you ever heard of those?”
Two of them shook their heads, but the winged one answered. “I have a distant cousin who sometimes obsessed over them. I can’t believe she actually wasn’t as crazy as she seemed.”
“You should try and contact her Platinum. She might be able to help us with this.” Wish told the winged ponyta.
“I’ll try to sir.” And Platinum left the group.
“So,” Ben spoke up. “Seeing as how I don’t recognise any of this city or the, uh, ponyta living here, could you tell me where I am?”
“How much do you want to know?”
“I don’t know. start at the planet’s name I guess. I don’t think I’m on Earth anymore.”
“You’re planet is seriously named Earth? Eh, just as bad as Chancellor Puddinghead I guess. This planet is called Equus. We’re currently in the country Equestria and the town’s name is Hoofington.”
“What about your race? To me you just look like strange ponyta. Maybe a little bit more like the legendary Keldeo.”
“Well, you’re close. We go by ponies. You might also see some that look a lot like ponies, but have different wings, eyes, and ear fluff. Those are thestrals. There are other races you might find like griffons, hippogriffs, diamond dogs, and zebras.”
“So, you guys just go by ponies?” Ben asked.
“Actually, the pony race can be divided into three main categories, but five in all.” Wish spoke up. “I’m a unicorn. Platinum was a pegasus, and Copper is an earth pony. The other two are the Alicorn princesses, who are like a combination of all the kinds of ponies. Currently there are only four princesses.”
“Why aren’t they queens instead?”
“Well Princess Celestia and Luna are diarchs and there are other ponies in the government so having the titles of princess show that they don’t have all the power. Princess Cadence rules the Crystal Empire, and she has enacted a similar government there. Besides, then her husband would be called King Shining Armor, and the ponies there are still a little bit shaken from their last King who enslaved them.”
“Yeesh! When was he removed from the throne?”
“I think only about a year ago. Anyway, the last of the princesses only ascended a few months ago.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“She used to be a unicorn instead of an alicorn.” Copper explained.
“Yeah, she currently isn’t ruler of anything, though she is a former Element of Harmony. And before you ask, I’m not explaining what that is. It would take too long.”
“You said there was a fifth type of pony?”
“Ah yes, crystal ponies. They obviously live in the Crystal Empire. They look like living crystal versions of earth ponies, but don’t have the same kind of magic as earth ponies.”
“Magic?” Ben heard mismagius were known for using some form of magic, but a whole race of, well, ponies?
“You didn’t have magic on your world? It’s kind of like the life force here. Not exactly, but close.” Copper told him.
“Eh, we had it on Earth, but it was super rare. I can only name one pokemon off the top of my head that could use it.”
Ben’s stomach growled. “Hey, do you have anything to eat? I haven’t had anything for a while.”
“Sure!” Copper told him. “In fact, if you want, you could come stay at my place until you have somewhere permanent. The house I have has a guest room you can live in.”
“That sound nice. Should we head off then?”
Ben and Copper left, right after he thanked Wish for his help. Before arriving back at Copper’s, they stopped at a restaurant for some food.



“So I’m basically going to become a vegetarian for the next little while, aren’t I?” Ben said as they left the restaurant.
“Ponies basically only eat plants. Yeah, I mean, we can have a little meat, but too much in unhealthy. I haven’t tried any myself before, though I have heard that there are a few that have and love it.”
“I always liked roast ducklett best. Probably not gonna have it for a loooong time considering it could also be a human now.”
Copper shivered. “You eat other pokemon? That’s horrible.”
“Well, where does your meat come from?”
Copper didn’t respond, she just stayed quiet the rest of the way to her house.



“So this is the room you’ll be staying in.” Copper showed Ben a rather nice bedroom. The walls were a pistachio green, and the carpet was a sort of greyish light blue. There was a queen sized bed with sea green and periwinkle sheets. There was a dresser to one side of the room, and a bookshelf on the other. There was also a closet, though it wasn’t that big.
“I hope you like it. I don’t know what you’re accustomed to.”
“No, this is fine. It’s a little smaller than my old room, but not by much. I really like the carpet.”
The carpet was very fluffy, more like a blanket then an actual carpet.
“Yeah, they’re cloud carpets.”
“I can see why they’re called that. It’s almost like they just dyed a cloud and put it on your floor.”
“No, they’re literally cloud carpets. They are made from clouds. They’re made from a mix of pegasi and unicorn magic. I’d like it if I also had a cloud bed, but they’re super expensive.”
“I might just decide to sleep on the floor tonight. It’s better than some of the conditions I’ve had before.”
“I’ve heard weirder.” Copper commented. “Hey, if you need anything, feel free to ask me. I’ll be in the room next to this one.”
“Actually, I have one for you right now. How am I supposed to repay you for this? All my money is gone, and I don’t even think it would work as currency here.”
“Hey, it’s fine. You needed it, and I’m glad to provide.” Copper glanced at a clock that was set on the wall. “Shoot! Is that really the time? I need to get ready for work!”
“Where do you work again?” Ben asked her.
“Police station, remember? That’s how I was on first name basis with everypony there and how I was able to convince Wish to help you.”
“Might I be able to come as a volunteer? I’m guessing there’s going to be a ton of problems with all the pokemon in the city. It’d be easier if you had an easy way of communication with them instead of having to cast a translation spell on every single one of them.”
“That’s… actually one of the best ideas I’ve heard in a while. Let’s head off.”



Ben collapsed on his new bed. There were a ton of pokemon in the town. A number of them had been humans too. He had needed to stop a few ponies from panicking when a pokemon got startled and accidentally attacked. One pony had been trying to get all the pokemon out of town, even if it meant hurting them. The only thing that made it worse was that the main part of Copper’s shift was during the night. 
The good thing was that now Ben could fall asleep and rest. Maybe he’d be able to find his pokemon the next morning. A few pokemon had been lucky enough to wake up nearby their old friends or trainers (or pokemon is they were trainers themselves).
‘I wonder how they’re doing?’ Ben thought. ‘Maybe they’re in the town but I just haven’t seen them yet. I don’t think I’ve even covered half of Hoofington yet.’
As he drifted off, Ben thought about what his pokemon would be doing then.



Ben was startled awake by a voice in his head. It began:’ Greetings citizens of Equus, both old and new...’ [see the rest here]
When the speech had finished, Copper burst into Ben’s room. “Did you hear that too?”
“Yeah, I guess that explains how on Earth we all got here. Arceus is supposed to be a god, but I didn’t think he would be able to do something like this!”
“Do you know what he meant when he was talking about the laws and such?”
“Yeah, back on Earth, it was illegal for people and pokemon to be in any kind of relationship. Mainly, it was because it couldn’t be real love, or the trainer was abusing their pokemon, but a bunch of people were against the law because it disrupted any relationship, even if it were a real one.”
“Why wouldn’t it be real.” Copper asked.
“Right, it’s different here. See, on Earth, trainers could catch pokemon in pokeballs, after being captured in one, the pokemon would go along with the trainers. Because they were captured, the law thinks any love formed between the two is stockholm syndrome, and therefore not real love. Also, in some cases, more human looking pokemon would be used as, um, sex slaves.”
“That’s horrible! Why shouldn’t it be allowed her?”
“Because it wasn’t always the case. As I said, there were real ones as well, but our law enforcers never bothered to check if it was real or not, so they ended up putting a ton of people in jail just for falling in love. Now that all the humans are pokemon, there’s no reason why that should happen.”
“Now it makes more sense.” Copper said. “Why didn’t your police ever stop and think about what they were doing? Why didn’t the other people get them to stop?”
Ben sat down, knowing this might take a while. “Kids are taught at a younger age that it’s bad. The education system tries to drill it into them so that they’ll never question that it’s wrong. Is there anything that a pony would report to the police that they wouldn’t try and second guess about?”
“The only things I can think of is robberies, and changelings.” Copper responded.
“What are changelings?”
“They’re these creatures that replace ponies. They feed on the love of the replaced pony’s lover.”
“How do you know that?”
“Well a while ago there was an attack made by them on our capital. One of their rulers attacked Princess Celestia, and almost took over. Many changelings were discovered is households after that.”
“Well, what if the weren’t all bad?”
“Why would you think that?” Copper asked.
“Well, first of all, you said one of their rulers. It could have just been a corrupt ruler. Haven’t you ever had that here?”
“Princess Luna kind of was. She turned into Nightmare Moon about a thousand years ago.”
Ben was caught off guard. “Wha- A thousand years ago?! Is she a legendary or something?”
“Her and Celestia are both immortals, which is good considering they raise and lower the sun and moon.”
Ben was silent for about a minute before he spoke again. “Okay, I think my brain is functioning again. Anyway, my next point is, what if they disguise themselves as their own pony and live with other ponies because they actually love them or just for their own survival?”
“Then, I guess…” Copper trailed off.
“For all you know any of the changelings you’ve found since then are just trying to get by, but because you’re prejudice against them, you don’t try to find out.”
“Celestia, what have we done!” Copper exclaimed.
“That’s sort of what went on with us. After you think about it like that, you see it in a new light. I used to be on the other side of pokephilia. Then one day, a friend of mine pulled me aside to tell me that they were in love with one of their pokemon, and turned me around. While I’m not one who follows it myself, I do support pokephilia.” Ben explained.
“I guess it’s good that this Arceus made sure to only bring the good humans over here. If someone was brought over here, and in a relationship with a pokemon, that means it was a good one!”
“Let’s hope the rest of the former humans see it that way too.”



“Morning Copper! Or should I say afternoon?”
Ben had been staying with Copper for about five days now. He had adjusted his sleep schedule so he could work with her during the night shift at the police station. While he was still only a volunteer, Ben was liking his new job.
“Nah, morning is fine.” Copper said as she stretched. “What’s for breakfast?”
“I got a bit tired of cereal, so I hope you don’t mind that I decided to make scrambled eggs. It’s safe for you to eat, right?”
“Yeah, should be. I mean, they’re in cakes and other desserts, aren’t they?”
“True. Anyway, the eggs should be cool enough to eat. I was just waiting for you to come.”
Copper sat down and picked up a fork in her hoof. “Seriously! how do you do that?!” Ben exclaimed. “You can’t grip anything with your hoof!”
“Meh, who cares. The food’s good though.” Copper said through the bit of egg in her mouth. “I should have this every once and a while.”
When the two finished, they talked for a while before heading off to the station. Upon their arrival, Ben’s translation spell started to fade.
“I guess we need to ask Wish again. Though yesterday he said he might have something better today.”
Wish greeted the two of them as they entered. “You said you’d have something for us when we came today, right Wish?”
Wish smiled. “You’re right. I found out how to cast the translation spell on an object. It translates whoever is wearing or holding said object. While the spell does fade over time, it lasts much longer than when cast on a being. Kind of like some of the illusion spells they use for some plays.”
Wish brought out an arm band with the symbol for the Hoofington police department. He gave it to Ben, who put it on. The band fit snugly onto Ben’s arm. All that was left was to test if it worked.
“So, it seems like a nice fit and it feels comfortable. The question is if you can understand me.”
“Yep! It’s working perfectly Ben. Thanks for the help Wish!”
Before Wish could respond to Copper, the ground shook. Ben could hear someone yelling outside. “I told you that I want to be left alone you stupid ponyta! Maybe this will stop you! Rock Blast!”
The ground shook again. There were a few screams coming from outside. Ben ran outside before the others could follow him. There he found a rhyperior going down one of the streets. One pony was throwing various objects at it with the rhyperior shot rocks back at them.
“Hey! Hey! Break it up you two! What’s going on?” Ben asked the two of them.
“I woke up this morning and this ponyta was attacking me.” The rhyperior told him.
“This monster smashed part of my house! Why are we even allowing them in Equestria?”
“I’m not just some monster!” The rhyperior yelled back at the pony. “Megahorn!”
Ben ran in front of the pony and took the hit from the attack. “We were told not to attack the inhabitants of this world. While I understand you’re angry, you could hurt someone else.”
“See,” The pony said smugly. “He’s on my side.”
Ben turned to the pony. “You aren’t any better. You’re a unicorn. You could have just used a translation spell and talked it out. This guy’s huge, and it was probably an accident, you just made it worse.”
At first, it seemed Ben’s words got through to the pony. It walked over to the rhyperior to do what Ben thought was apologise. Instead, the pony once again blasted the pokemon. “That’s also for eating all of my food!”
The rhyperior looked like it was going to attack again, but it stopped. “You’re not worth it.” He said.
It was then that a stray confuse ray hit the rhyperior. What was worse was that it seemed the unicorn wanted the rhyperior to fight it. Copper came over to help Ben try and stop them. She was able to get the unicorn to stop and handed them over to Wish, but the rhyperior was still confused. Now it seemed to think Copper was the unicorn, so it went after her. Because of the buildings all around, the pokemon kept crashing into them when trying to get Copper. At one point, it hit one building with enough force that Ben thought it might come down.
Eventually, the confusion wore off, and the rhyperior stopped trying to destroy everything. He even decided to help fix the damage he had done. Ben took Copper home to rest. She was greatly shaken by the battle, and Ben noticed that she flinched at every pokemon they came across on their way home.



“Hurry up Ben! We need to get down there and figure out what’s up!”
A call had come in about a burning building. Normally it would just be the fire department going to help, but the building was supposed to be empty and had been abandoned and replaced years ago. Said building was an old animal shelter, but it had gotten too small for the owners.
“Alright, I’m coming! You start heading out! I’ll catch up.”
Ben ran out of the station after Copper. He had needed to put a few things away that he had gotten out. As they made their way to the fire, he tried to figure out what might have happened. His main guess was some sort of fire pokemon that was playing around it the old building, or it had been living in there and accidently set something on fire.
Upon arrival, Ben thought he saw something glowing run away from the fire, but he thought it must just be some of the embers or something. “HAS ANYONE GOTTEN IN THERE YET?” Ben yelled over the commotion.
“NO PONY HAS BEEN ABLE TO GET THROUGH YET!” One firepony told him. “WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH WATER TO HELP PUT IT OUT, AND NONE OF US ARE SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT THROUGH EVERYTHING!”
“THEN I’M GOING IN THERE! GET SOMEONE TO FIND SOME WATER POKEMON TO HELP YOU PUT IT OUT!”
Ben ran towards the fire. While he wasn’t resistant to it, he wasn’t weak towards fire either. Carefully making his way through the fallen parts of the building, Ben eventually got to a part that, while still standing, was almost full of fire. Ben started to leave, but he turned back when he heard a yipping sound. After going further in, Ben found there were actually animals living in here. Approaching them, Ben found the creatures were trapped in cages.
The metal making up the cages, while helping to keep the flames from the animals, was also keeping Ben from getting to them. The fire had heated the metal so he couldn’t grab it to free the animals. Ben looked around for something he could use to help him. Before he could, however, He felt something drip on him. Looking up, he could start to see water starting to make it’s way down, though some was evaporating before it could. Eventually, there was enough water that it started to stop the fire. Ben was able to splash enough of it on the cages that he could touch them and get the animals out.
When the fire was finally put out, Ben was able to lead the animals out of the building. Walking over to Copper, she found her talking with two other ponies, and what he believed was a thestral. One of the two new ponies, a unicorn mare, saw Ben walking over with the animals, and ran over to greet them.
“Quarry! Look! He saved all the dogs! None of them are missing!”
“You… put them in there?” Ben asked. “I thought the building was supposed to be empty.”
The other pony, who Ben assumed to be Quarry came over to greet him as well. “We’ve been finding a few dogs around the city that the local pound hasn’t wanted to take in. Instead, we set up a home here. Today, this black pokemon with yellow rings came, and attacked the main circuit of our power, and the place went up in flames.”
“That pokemon would be an umbreon. Why would it just attack out of the blue?”
“We don’t know.” The mare spoke up. “Though one thing I did notice was that sh- that it was wearing a belt of some sort.”
Ben thought he had heard the mare start to say something else, before changing her mind, but he dismissed it. “It must be some kind of former human. They may have thought they were just having fun, but it’s still something they were told not to do. We’ll put up posters to try and find them.”
“Thank you sir.” The mare started to walk away, and as she did, Ben thought he heard her say something else, but wasn’t sure.



It had been a few days since the fire. A few reports of the umbreon attacking other ponies and pokemon came in, but no one had caught the umbreon who caused it yet. Ben thought he had heard some of the pokemon who with with some of the reporting ponies say that it hadn’t, so Ben wasn’t really sure.Other than that, nothing much had happened in Hoofington. Copper was still a little nervous around pokemon other than Ben and sometimes she reacted to them in a bad way, but for the most part she was doing better.
Ben and Copper had been staying at the station recently. To Ben, it was a nice change of pace, but Copper didn’t like it. Unfortunately, she had overreacted in her last few encounters with the pokemon they needed to stop, so she had to deal with it until she felt better. One of the more recent ones had been an aron that had been eating some pieces of jewelry, and thought the the picture of the copper star on Copper’s flank looked like a nice treat.
They were currently in the snack room. Ben had a bar of chocolate and Copper had some popcorn. “I wonder what eveypony’s been doing lately?” Copper asked Ben.
“If this is your way to try and get me to talk to Midnight, I’m not going to do it. Unless you can show me you’re good to be around other pokemon again, you should wait until he says you can. I know you already tried to get Wish to talk to him too, and they’re best friends.”
Copper finished her snack and started to leave, and Ben followed her out the door. When Copper turned to her left, she suddenly stopped. Before Ben figured out what she was doing, Copper called out for some of the other officers. About three others that were nearby came. Ben noticed that Copper had seen an umbreon just down the hall. It happened to be the same one on the posters. While the officers Copper had called tried to catch the umbreon, it tried to defend itself. Ben ran over. Copper had gotten scratched by the umbreon, and Platinum gotten hit by it. before another guard could try and get at the eeveelution, Ben stepped in their way.
“Stop overreacting.” He told the ponies, “Seriously, ever since that one rhyperior got hit by a confuse ray and accidently almost took down a building, you’ve been acting up at every pokemon you see. I mean, Copper, when you saw that pichu the other day, you thought it was going to attack your face when it jumped on your head. Now tell this umbreon you’re sorry.”
The guards apologized, but the umbreon didn’t seem to notice. “Hey, you okay?” Ben asked.
When the umbreon didn’t respond, Ben asked her again. This time, they opened up their eyes and looked up a little bit.
“Can you keep them away? I want them to be safe.” The umbreon said to Ben.
“Who?” Ben asked her, wanting to help.
“My family. I don’t want to lose them again.” she responded, a few tears coming from her eyes.
“I can only try.” Ben told the umbreon, and carefully picked her up. “Where are you supposed to be?”
“A pony named Midnight wanted to talk to me. He said to go to the sixth room on the right… I think.”
“Alright, I’ll take you there.”
And so Ben took the umbreon to where she needed to go. After he dropped her off there, he went to the fifth room to join Wish and the umbreon’s friends.