> Renegade > by InkingWell > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 A Lonely Day in the Distortion World and a 'Happy' Picnic > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Giratina flew lazily around the Distortion world, its red eyes dull and unfocused as it easily flew around the madness of the realm, it was actually quite easy to do after living almost all of your life in the place, Giratina pretty much knew the place like... Well the Anti-Matter Dragon didn't really hands or anything really on itself to truly look at on a daily basis so it pretty much just knew the Distortion like the Distortion world really since it was only thing it looked at on its daily basis. Anyways the serpent continued to fly around lazily as that truly was one of the few things it could do in the Reverse world. The things it could do in the realm were limited to flying, looking at the real world through the many 'bubbles' that floated around the place, and clean up the place of pollution due to the legendaries little fights and squabbles. Escaping was once one but Giratina took that one off the list after its 367th attempt because getting your ass beaten or killed hurts, especially when the others decided to tag team it. And yes kill, it had died multiple times actually from the others whether it was on purpose or a mistake, or after the fight whenever internal damages happened to it and those sucked ass and hurt like a bitch because if you have a broken rib and it just keeps poking your lung until it accidentally pierces it and collapses it. Another terrible way to go was internal bleeding, there where many more to go through but that would bore you, the fact of the matter was it never truly died. Every single time no matter what it always comes back alive fully functioning and well, how it happened Giratina didn't know as she couldn't see what happened since it was dead between whatever brought it back to life, it was a cruel fate to died but never truly pass, always coming back to die once again. At least Latios got sweet release after the suffering it went through. But for Giratina it would never get that luxurious feeling of release after suffering for so long and would always come back to the cruel world that hated its guts. Now Giratina's memory was fuzzy on how exactly it was banished here however it did know it was called a renegade by the others so it must had meant it did something bad, whatever that thing was that it did Giratina couldn't remember, but hey you try to remember something you did in your toddler years as an adult, except the time of it's banishment and now were a couple of hundred millenniums it believed. Plus there weren't any clocks or timers in the Reverse world so you could never ever know the time in that place, and time was extremely odd and off to that of the real world which was also one of the reasons Diagla hated the place so much. However you could look at the time through one of the bubbles, if you could find one with a clock nearby, with that in mind Giratina began searching throughout the Reverse world for any bubble that had a clock nearby. Now Giratina could actually just make a somewhat one way mirror too on any clear reflective surface like a lake or an actual mirror most of those fleshy thing had in their homes and look at a clock there since most had it near their beds but Giratina stopped that after looking at the wrong place at the wrong, the things it saw scarred Giratina. Fleshy things were really odd and creepy in their own right. Soon after some while of time Giratina finally found one, it was a nice little open place the humans called a 'Plaza' Giratina found that out due to a sign nearby that said it, however other than that it had what Giratina was looking for, a clock. Now the clock was nice and big however it didn't have the usable strange symbols on it, instead it had Letters, from top to around they were I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, and XII. Now Giratina didn't know what those meant at all however the little hand was between the I and the II and the sun was out so using these clues Giratina guessed it was around Mid day in the real world as the fleshy things and pokémon walked around the 'plaza' basking in the warm light of the sun the real world had to offer. Seeing this Giratina became depressed, the Renegade pokémon was depressed out of all things as it looked at the bubble and all the fleshys and pokémons happiness. They all could walk around freely, fly without obstacles, or worried about pollution caused by the others fighting. They could all enjoy the wonders of life and the real world as Giratina was left to rot in the craziness and madness of its prison and somewhat 'home', Giratina didn't hate the Reverse world however once you stay somewhere for a long time you soon grow tired of it and want to explore new places, a luxury Giratina did not have the right to. "You should make them suffer, let them feel your pain as they bask in his light!" A deep and dark masculine voice said. "And where has that lead to? If anything it's only going to make them hate you more Tina." A soft nice feminine voice said afterwards. Giratina signed as it turned around to face the origin of the voices, it really did not want to deal with these two fucks at the moment. "Will you two please shut the fuck up!?" Giratina asked as it looked at the owners of the voices, both looked like Giratina except for some notable changes. The first voice owner was completely made of blackness, not shadows but completely blackness, except for its glowing hate filled red eyes and the little red spikes on the tips of its streamers. The second owner was a somewhat the opposite of Giratina with the gold on it instead being sliver, grey being a yellowish white, and the reds being a nice calming blue, even it's eyes were the same color that looked relaxed and calmed no matter what, the only red on it was the spikes on the tip of the streamers on it back. Giratina truly didn't know where the fuck the two came from but they randomly appeared after a few years into its banishment and had kept popping up every now and then randomly which Giratina hated with a passion. "Angry yes? Doesn't their freedom fill you with hate for his creations?" The black one said as Giratina rolled her eyes at him. "Look void, buddy don't you have someplace other to be besides annoying me to death with all this hate talk that you always do whenever you guys come around? Like do you just think of these whenever you're gone or what?" Giratina said as it looked at the black form of itself named 'void' with almost not emotion as he glared back angrily. "And you, can you please stop calling me Tina Silves!? It isn't my name and will never be my name so I don't know why you keep referring me as that." Giratina said to the opposite colored one named 'silves' as she just looked Giratina in the eyes. "We are know more about you Tina then you know yourself." "Indeed we do, for we are you." Giratina just rolled its eyes and shook its head at the two in front of it. "Look can you two stop with your talking and leave so I can be depressed in peace?." Giratina asked as it flew away to one of the many floating island in the realm before laying down on the cold blue dead grass that topped it. "We can leave whenever you want us too Tina, however do you want us to leave?" "Do you really want to lay down and mope about this instead of doing something?" Said the voices behind it. "JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" Giratina shouted as it looked back to where the voices were coming from only to find nothing there, it shook it head and exhaled before laying back down and closing its eyes. 'I'm definitely losing it in here, but hey at least I lasted long' Giratina thought as it snuggled the best it could on the grass before doing something quite odd. It fell asleep for the first time in all the millenniums it had been since its imprisonment to the world. Some place in Apple Orchards Dusk Shine along with Starlight Glimmer and Barb walked through the trees at a steady place as Dusk Shine held a picnic basket with her magic. "Umm Dusk you sure you we're going the right way because I swear we passed that tree at least three times." Starlight said with a slight bit concern. "Yes Starlight I'm sure, I've been to the place enough times I know it by heart and could probably walk here blind folded if I wanted." Dusk Shine said boldly with a smile as the group continued walking through the trees. "I don't know about the blindfold thing you can barely even walk straight when you're hair gets in the way." Spike said with a point to Dusk as he rolled his eyes at his assistant's comment. "Look I was off balance when that happened so your point is invalid." Dusk countered. "Still don't think you could do it blind folded though." "So... let's talk about something else, umm how much apples does the farm make?" Starlight asked changing the subject. "I don't know like a thousand I'm guessing." Barb said with a shrug. "Well it's would actually be grow instead of make, and the actual number varies every year due to multiple factors as well, from how much rain it gets, the temperature, and how old the tree is with the nutrient in the grow, so each tree is also a factor as there isn't a set amount of how many it will produce so it could be three or sixty so you have to count that in as well so.." Dusk Shine rambled on with the science of how to get an estimate on the amount of apples that would be grown due to any and all factors, much to Barb and Starlight's dismay. Five minutes later. "-and so in guessing the amount of apples grown this year would be- oh we're here." Dusk Shine said after they entered a small clearing in the middle of the orchard, both Barb and Starlight looked physically drained after the five minutes of Dusk's rambling with the math and science with apple. "Ugh I don't wanna hear the word apple ever again." Barb said as Starlight nodded, agreeing with his statement. "Oh Hey AppleJack!" Dusk said. Barb and Starlight wanted to strangle the alicorn prince so badly at the moment but resisted their temptation knowing that a simple word shouldn't make them hate him. "Hey Dusk and gang! We've been waiting for you awhile now, glad you got here in time or else I think the apple pie would start getting cold!" Applejack said as he waved to Dusk and his students and assistant from the picnic blanket they had laid on the ground with the rest of the friends on it as well, they being Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Exclusive, and Pinkie Pie. They all seemed happy at the moment of the thought of apple pie however Barb and Starlight were suffering on the inside. "Hehe, sorry lost track of time when I was making the apple fritters." Dusk said with an embarrassed smile as he with his company walked to the blanket, Barb and Starlight weren't smiling at all though as they both kept their cool, however it didn't stop them thinking of certain things they wanted to do. "It's fine, just glad you're here and brought your item as everyone else brought theirs." AppleJack said happily as he looked towards the rest of the group. "I brought apple slices." Futtershy said softly but loud enough so the group can hear her, much to Barb and Starlight's dismay. "I brought Zap Apple jam!" Said Rainbow Dash proudly as she held her up a jar that swirled with rainbows, Barb wanted a rope at the moment while Starlight was afraid a blood vessel was going to pop. "Wait was it supposed to be simple? Because I spent my all morning making Apple crisp for each of us." Elusive said dramatic as he floated his desserts up for them to see, each one looking wonderful in their own right, however Barb and Starlight both were wondering if suicide was a reasonable answer. "Oooooh! I made apple cupcakes, with apple, frosting, along with a bit of apple topping and.." Pinkie rambled on about each apple ingredient she had put in or on the small baked goods that it seemed impossible but that was Pinkie, However each time apple was said drove both Barb and Starlight to wanting the sweet embrace of death, no matter what it was. "Hey you guys okay? You seem drained." Rainbow Dash asked both Barb and Starlight to they respond dreadfully. "Dusk." "Apple." "Lecture." "For five minutes." "Nothing but science and other stuff." "Hate the word 'apple' now." "For now." The rest of the group stared at them before Rainbow Dash spoke up. "Wow Dusk didn't know you could literally bored people to death with words." She said with a chuckle as the rest except for Dusk joined in. "Haha, tell me about it! Oh and don't even get me started on how Dusk can get if you don't stop him, trust me we've all been there." Exclusive said as he wipe one of his eyes just a bit as the group except for Barb, Dusk, and Starlight Nodded. "Yeah, with all that science and numbers he can talk for days!" AppleJack said as he adjusted his hat. "Oh come on I can't be that bad can I?" Dusk asked hoping his friend's responses would change, they all just stopped and stared at him, a cough was heard but who did it was anyone's guess. "Am I really that bad?" He asked as the group nodded, much to his dismay. "But don't worry Dusk we all have our flaws, it's just what you're willing to do to make that flaw shine." Fluttershy said softly, making Dusk smile. "Umm why thank you, didn't expect to hear that from you Shy." "Well who did you expect? Rainbow Dash?" AppleJack joked with a chuckle." "Hey!" Rainbow Dash said as the group also did chuckled with AppleJack. "Hehe it's all in good fun, we all have something we're flawed in, like me being stubborn." AppleJack said happily. "Over dramatic." Exclusive said with a shy smile and eye roll. "Craziness!" Pinks said. "Being shy." Fluttershy said softly. "Okay I'll admit I'm brash at sometimes." Rainbow Dash admitted. Dusk looked around at his friend's happily as they said their flaws, soon he said his. "Alright I'll will say that I can get a little overwhelming and over explaining something." Dusk told his friends as they kinda just stared at him making him sigh and chuckled. "Okay okay, a lot." He said with a smile as his friends nodded. "Yeah, that's the correct word there Dusky." Barb said. "Well why don't you and Glimmer add in with your flaws, be nice to share don't you think?" Dusk asked as he stared at the two with a smirk. "Oh, ummmm." Barb said as her eyes widen along with Glimmer. "I'm guessing I can over think things a lot?" Glimmer said with the group nodding and agreeing, before all eyes went to Barb. Barb frowned. "Pony feathers." "Come on Spike if I can do it you can too." Starlight said nudging her. "Well I guess I'm not the brightest tool in the shed." Before the group looked at her confused. "Did I really just mess up that saying?" She asked herself before Dusk shook his head. "The fact of the matter is that nobody's perfect and we all have flaws, but we can takes steps to fix these flaws, however you shouldn't judge a pony because of a few flaws they had or you will never truly will know them." Dusk said as the group of friends agreed happily with nods and smiles. "Wow, I can't believe we found out our lesson of today that quickly, usually it takes twenty one minutes, Barb take a letter." Dusk said as he slammed his hoof softly on the side of his other hoof. "Umm don't wanna ruin your day princess but we're in the middle of an apple orchard." Barb said with a chuckle, as Dusk became red of embarrassment. "Hehe, I knew that." Dusk said as the others laughed, soon he joined in too, happy to have such good and accepting friends.