> A Permanent Vacation (We're Young, We're Dumb) > by RiotWeavile108 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Confusion (Tweaked) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earth: 10400 Years Ago Rei's POV "REI, come on we gotta go, don't wanna be late," came the cry of my elder sister, Jupiter. "Hold up, let me fit the feather in," I called out, still facing the mirror. I then finish the final touches and look at myself in the mirror. Looking back at me with sky blue eyes and 3 horizontal lines across both eyes was a girl with hair covered by a red crown-like headdress with a yellow oval hair clip in the middle, a collar of red fake feathers around the neck, a pale blue body suit with long sleeves with three plastic claws at the end of said sleeves and feet,two short feathers and finished with two tail feather clipped on the back of the suit at the bottom of the spine. My masterpiece that I have been working on for six,count them right here, SIX months has finally been perfected...Oh, I should introduce myself. Name's Rei Grey. I'm a Pokemon enthusiast along with my sister. I'm 5'1 and have shoulder-length light brown hair with a lilac purple fringe covering my left eye currently clipped. As for what me and my sister are doing, we were getting ready for Comic-Con and we were dressing up for the event. As for me, I was going as my favorite non-starter Pokemon, Weavile. I walk out of my room and into the hallway of my sister's apartment(we both live together but Jupiter pays), practically bouncing, until I bumped into my sister Jupiter and we both fell on our rumps. After we got ourselves off the floor, Jupiter proceeded to ruffle my hair along with my headdress. "Sis, Nooooo," my pleas fell on deaf ears as my sister laughed and continued ruffling. "Oh lighten up Rei, at least you're ready now," I looked up at and pouted at her. A jokster to some and an introverted tinkering engineer to others(Hell hshe made a miniature Egg Dragoon from Sonic, another series we love), I can never replace my nerdy sister. "We both spent six months on this, and I'm not gonna let you ruin it," I exclaimed. My only response was two fingers poking my forehead. "Chin up already, at least you're ready right? I know I am," I looked up to my sister to see her costume. You know that Pokemon Fusion fan game and that feature to splice certain 'Mons'? Well Jupiter took a page from that book and made her own fusion between her 2 of her favorite Pokemon. Starting from her head, Jupiter had a sort of plastic cobalt blue gladiator helmet with a grey crest that's strangely pointedly curved upwards,white face paint making short spike along the sides of her face, matching blue mechanical arm blades that were able to spread outward from the elbow that weirdly look like tonfas, 2 orange fin-like horns sticking out of her chest and back,long white gown with blue cotton on the inside, and baggy stark white pants. My sister, Jupiter, was dress as a Gardevoir and Gallade fusion but she prefers to call it Garllade. So to make a long explanation short, it honestly made her look beautiful and badass in my opinion. But lately after she finished the costume, she said it was missing something . I gave her a great idea; Do a Mewtwo and have 2 Mega Stones with both the Gardevoirite and Galladite. Unfortunately, I gave her the idea two weeks too late, a fact she is still a bit miffed about. "Ya know if you're done staring, we can leave," I'm then jolted out of my thoughts by Jupiter, causing me to blush what she was implying. "W-w-wait I wasn't stari-" "Jeez kiddo I was just jokin', we're sisters," Jupiter looked at her watch and walks towards the front door as she looked back smiling said "Come on, we're gonna be late for the con'" One hour and one song on my sister's phone later we finally arrive at the convention site and look in awe at all the sights, ignoring the sea of humans and costumes as we cruised along the aisles and stalls. We both had $800 between for this convention and we were trying to see what we can and if have enough. We signed up for a cosplay competition at the site and separated for a while look at new games,demos,etc. We both met up 2 hours later, thirty minutes before the competition and we haven't found a single souvenir that was worth our time because we have high standards, DAMMIT.... or maybe its because I'm getting tired of walking and not finding anything of interest idk. Anyway we were both resting on a bench against a wall while my sister decided to take a smoke.(DAMNNIT I TOLD YOU TO STOP) "So you find anything to buy?" I ask while leaning on a nearby wall. "No nothing yet," Jupiter said this with quite indifferent look on her face even though her voice betrayed her thoughts at that moment as she took her cigarette from her lips and left it on one of those nearby ashtrays. I straighten myself upright and try to stretch. "Well it wouldn't hurt to look around one more time before the contest. Who knows? We could have missed some really cool gear," I start grinning from ear to ear as the words left my mouth Jupiter chuckled as she propped herself off the wall while rubbing the back of her 'helmet' and said "Well there's no time like the present, let's go." We both ran by the stalls one more time to see if can find anything worthwhile for our visit until Jupiter asks "Hey Rei, do you see what I see?" I turn to look at her and notice her face a looking towards a specific stall that was selling costume pieces but that wasn't what we saw. We saw THOSE pieces. There were some pretty interesting pieces among the cluster-fuck but what we saw were the best replicas of Pokemon items we saw: Gardevoirite, Galladite, Life Orb, and Razor Claw in a necklace . We both realized how both perfect it would be for both of our costumes and made a beeline to the stall. We noticed the keeper of the stall was cosplaying as a dead on representation of the Resident Evil 4 merchant. He noticed us coming over and smiled. "Greetings Pocket Monsters, how may I- Wait who are you," the merchant paused and pointed at my sister. "I'm a Gardevoir and Gallade fusion or Garllade for short," My sister answered. The merchant nodded in understanding and replied "Ah I see. Well anyway do you have interest in my wares?" "Maybe. How much are those necklaces?", Jupiter asked pointing to the Gardevoirte and Galladite. "And how much are the life orb and claw" I join in pointing at said items "800 dollars" the merchant responded nonchalantly. "700," countered Jupiter. "750" "500" "650 plus anything else you want free." "Deal," Damn, Jupiter's a hell of a negotiator. We both pilled our money for the necklaces and put them on. The merchant's smile widened creepily as we heard the last words said by a human being; "Have a nice day...and fall." A certain sound echoed in the stall as a a sink hole appeared below us. We didn't even have time to react to his words as we fell. ... ... ... ... Then everything went black. > Telepathy(Tweaked) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equestria: Present Day Aurora's POV Have you ever wore a body suit? If answered yes, Good for you, Here's a star, Obvious sarcasm is sarcasm. Now imagine that body suit being made of stone and you are unable to move? If so, Congratulations you now know what it's like be trapped in stone for ONE THOUSAND YEARS! Not only that but one of my 'cellmates'(and I use that term loosely)is the literal embodiment of the tiniest of disagreements, arguments, rejections,et cetera, et cetera, aka Chaos, and let him be stuck in that same stone body suit? Let's see how that's going so far. "Ninety-nine bottles of cider on the wall, Ninety-nine bottles of cider. Take one down and pass it around, Ninety-eight bottles of cider on the wall!" “Sis, how many times have I heard this song?” I asked my sister. My sister, Yuki, mentally sighed. “I really don't know. I lost count after one hundred thousand,” She responded. I groaned, or would have, if I could. Stone imprisonment for one thousand years does that to you. I should have never bought those mega stones, or Razor Claw and Life Orb in my sister's case I tried to tune him, but I just couldn't take it 'Discord, please for all that's good and holy, SHUT UP!' I mentally screamed. “Well do you want to do then, play red rover?” I could practically taste the sarcasm from my mismatched friend’s voice as he voiced his annoyance as I rolled my mental eyeballs. “Jupiter, Discord, would you two stop figh- Hehe, well would you look at that…”I try to see (emphasis on ‘try’) what has got my sister’s interest but once again, being encased in stone doesn’t allow for freedom of movement as you can imagine. But once I heard the voices, I was bouncing on my mental seat as I realized we were going to be set free. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Cherilee leading her students and the CMC to our stone selves. All of you who are not aware of what is happening, It was the CMC's natural Chaotic tendencies. After the three fillies bickered about what Dissy was, which resulted in Cherilee breaking up the fight, a silvery grey filly, noticed Discord wasn't the only stature in the area. 2 statues - both bipedal; one was tall(me), at 5"3,nearly as tall as the princess. I stature was that of a proud warrior; both my blades extended in a battle stance in a horizontal angle at my sides. My body was full of lacerations that(fortunately)healed over time in stone. Most of them healed but certain ones were still visible; 2 straight cuts down my arm blades, whip lashes littered my backside, and a X-shaped scar across my eyes ending above my mouth that were left by a certain sun bitch, and the other short(Rei), scratching the surface at 3"7(about the height of a filly), with just a simple scar across her chest area. “Ms. Cherilee, what are the other two supposed to be?” Cherilee looks up at both me and Frost in and recognition flashes across her face. “Ah yes, these two statues depict Aurora Plasma” – Cherilee points to me – “And Yuki Frost.” – Cherilee then points to my sister – " These two called themselves the Azure Blade and The Mistress of Ice. They were both Discord's most trusted allies during his reign over Equestria. Both creatures used extraordinary powers that even rivaled the princesses such as travelling in shadows, firing blasts of dark energy, control the elements of nature, and many more. Legends even say that Jupiter in particular had the power to transform temporarily into an entirely different form." All I'm gonna say is that she is HALF right .But that didn't matter at the moment as the fillies oohed and awed at us. It wasn't often when both me and Frosty were even mentioned during tours since we were overshadowed by our friend. "We are quite amazing, aren't we?"boasted Frost. "Hmph, I've seen cats that look better than that short one," scoffed Diamond Tiara. And like a flip of a switch, Frost's pride quickly switched to seething rage. As Discord laughs his ass off, I try to comfort her. "Hey, just ignore her, Frost," I said, "just be thankful she hasn't seen what Purugly looks like,"Frost then tried to stifle a giggle at the thought of the brat being in the same room as one. That seemed to cheer her up as Cherilee rolled her eyes at the comment made and said, "Come on now, on to the next statues." Once the class left, cracks started to form on Discord's stone prison. they spread until a breaking point was reached and and in a brilliant flash of light, Discord was finally freed from his one thousand year sentence. The second he was freed, Discord started popping his sore bones and muscles. Not that I would blame him, I have a feeling would be doing the same thing. "Well then Jupiter, Frost, it's been an interesting one thousand years together but I must be on my way to spread my chaos and mess around with Equestria" Discord continues to stretch his body, contorting in unimaginable positions. "What, no 'ruling over Equestria' shtick we did all those years ago?" Frosty asked. "Wha- NO, of course not. I'm not going to be stuck behind a desk filling out paperwork for the rest of my immortal life. I'd rather give up chaos than be stuck at a 9 to 5 timetable everyday" Dissy then pulls said timetable out of hammerspace and writes down nothing squiggly nonsense. Both me and Frost try to stifle our giggles at this antics, but I need to ask the all-important question; "Hey, do us a favor and free us?" Discord scratched his goatee in a pregnant silence as he thought of what to do. Before long, he snap his fingers, summoned a hardhat, hammer and chisel, and hit both of us with said chisel. One second later, cracks appeared on both our bodies, spreading around just like with Discord before the cracks reached our pedestals before bursting in the same light as before. We were were finally free. First thing I did was stretch but not in the same way as Discord. I looked over to my sister, still trying to make sure everything is in its place. I checked for my phone and found it was still in my 'bag' and check the songs. For those who are wondering what is the 'bag', long story short, I brought a bag to the convention and the merchant was 'kind' enough to send it with me, along with the stones and claw. Ya know how the bag in Pokemon can just hold about just about anything, even a goddamn bike? Yea...the bag became just like that. I then tried to shuffle around my bag to find the mega stones and was relieved to find they still right where I left them. I levitated the two stones because CURSE THESE ARM BLADES! Discord coughed in his fist and got our attention, "Now that we are all here, we not just going to sit around are we?" Still looking at my prized possessions, Frost siad, "Of course not. What you got in mind Discord ol' buddy,ol' pal?" Discord suddenly started looking nervous, bullets of sweat sliding down his fur I noticed his 'i'm going to make you do something you don't like' face immediately. "Discoord," I drawled, " why do you have that face?" Discord proceeded to twiddle his fingers. " Wellll, I was thing about just pulling a prank on Celly and her Harmony brats,"-here comes the 'but'-"Buuuuuut, I might need you and Frosty to distract her and the Royal Guard." As soon as he finished that sentence, I stood stock still, turned him with a wry smile as I grasp my aura around a cigarette case of Mareboro, Prench Vanilla Flavor(Yes it's exactly what you are thinking), lit a Will-o-Wisp around the tip, and pulled a Quick Ball from my bag as I asked two simple questions, "What do we do, and when do we start?" > Calm Mind (Unedited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is said to have an IQ of approximately 5,000. Its overflowing psychokinetic powers cause headaches to anyone nearby. -Alakazam; Sun Everfree Forest: 1400 Years In The Past Rei's POV Pain... That's all I felt when I awoke and found myself..in a forest? Wasn't I in the convention hall before? More importantly why am I in a forest, specifically a clearing? But what do I know, I'm lying on Mother Nature's blessing to us mere mortals; the dirt. "Hello?" I called out into the unknown. I noticed considerable difference in my voice. I sounded like a female Lloyd Asplund if anything else now. I take my right hand to my throat and immediately noticing my fingers being sharper than usual. I mean, I sharpen my nails often but their not that sharp. Come to think of it, why do I feel fur on my neck? I finally look down at my hand and neck and come face to face with a furry grayish blue arm attached to three claws at the end and my body is covered in the same blue fur as my arm. As I tried to process this revelation, only one thought crossed in my head: I then proceed to try and calm down(and by try, I mean hyperventilate in fear because WHO WOULD'T?), close my eyes and count to three, and nope they were still here I slowly feel my head and notice some sort of headdress that wasn't there before. I trace my new appendages over my body, noticing my smooth skin has turn into blue fur and my neck now has collar feathers. and found out that my feet also have three claws. I try to pull the collar off and was met with pain and realization hit me like a brick to a window with 2 things: (1) I'm not dreaming. (2) I've maybe turned into a living, breathing Weavile. After coming to that conclusion that three things were going through my head right now; HOW the Fuck am I a Weavile, WHY the Fuck am I a Weavile, and WHERE the Fuck am I? After panicking like any person whose body has been transformed, I tried sitting up and looked around at the surrounding flora, a couple of daisies and willows as well as the oddly tall thick trees(That's what she said) and saw my razor claw and life orb on the ground about two feet away from me. I proceed to pick myself up... and realize how fucking short I was(now I know how Eddy feels)...and how fucking hard it is to walk with two lithe legs and three claws as feet. Thank Arceus for making me a biped. It took me a good thirty minutes to get used to this new body and tried to pick up my newly acquired necklaces with my new claws. I then notice a stream a little ways for the clearing and decided to see if this was real or not. I walk up to the stream and look at the surface of the water and my jaw nearly dislocated as I found myself staring at a weasel. But it wasn't an ordinary weasel. Grey fur all around the body. A red headdress adorned my head.Two short thin red ear feathers suck out from the side of my feline face, signifying I was still a female. Short red collar feathers formed around my neck. I couldn't believe my eyes. I was a Pokemon. I was the Sharp Claw Pokemon. This was my new body. I was actually a Weavile. I stared at the face in the pond for a good few minutes and tried to splash at the water to see if my eyes were still playing tricks on me...it can't be real...Right? As soon a my claw hit the surface, the area around the claw froze into ice and I instinctively pull my claw back in shock at what had occurred. As I was recovering from the shock, I heard rustling in the the nearby bushes. I shook myself out of my stupor and pointed my right claw at the bush and called out in faux bravery, "Whoever's there, come on out! I'm not afraid to attack!" A familiar female voice rang out from the bush,"Whoa there, I mean no harm. Let me just get out of here" The bush rustled a bit more until something, or in this someone, came out. I was shocked as I came face with a biped like myself...Wait a minute? Blue skin, white gown, arm blades, grey gladiator's crest? I also noticed a backpack on her as I lowered my claws as I stared in disbelief the owner of the voice. The voice definitely reminded reminded me of someone but the tone was very familiar to me. "...Jupiter?" "Kiddo?" "So...We're both stuck here, huh kiddo?" "Guess so." Its been about an hour and half since me and Jupiter found each other though not in the way I expected. She too turn into a pokemon like me, only difference that she turn into her fan made creation, Garlade. We decided to try and test the water with our powers for a while with some logs we collected earlier and see if what moves we could learn since we're both pretty pow;Jupiter trying to perfect her telekinesis and found out she can use Leaf Blade, Night Slash, Slash, Psycho Cut, Heal Pulse, Hypnosis, Disable, Shadow Sneak, Confuse Ray, Mean Look, X-Scissor, Thunder Wave, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Will-O-Wisp,Psychic, and many more. I had to train myself to control my inexplicable freezing and learned Ice Shard, Slash, Night Slash, Dark Pulse,Embargo, Nasty Plot,Revenge, Shadow Claw, Poison Jab, Brick Break, Swords Dance,and among other moves.I asked her how she did after waking up. She told she woke up in a clearing farther from mine. She then had to learn to work with her new arms and telekinesis and after wandering around for a while, she found me at the now frozen river. She also found not only her Gardevoirite and Galladeite but also the backpack for the convention and found a note in the bag that wasn't in it before. The note was from a certain someone that made my blood boil as we read the note, but at the same time leaving me with other feelings; curiosity and intrigue for the unknown: Dear Valued Customers, I hope you enjoy what you bought from my stand but you both know what this is about right? I'm sure you have many questions. "Where are we?" "Why are we Pokemon?" How do we leave? Of course, there are are many other questions in those big brains of yours. First let me start off by being blunt: You're in a different dimension, courtesy of 'moi' The chances of you getting back are slim to none but possible(if you want to that is) As for the world you are in, you'll see for yourselves sometime soon. The reason you are is that I transformed you into what you were cosplaying as you two dropped into this world. As you are in unknown territory in your case, I sent your bag with you with all the supplies needed for camping and surviving in the wilderness. I also put in 2 portable PCs for both of you as well as the tall one's iPod(Both with unlimited battery :D) You'll know what the PC's use for yourself ;). To further explain your current predicament, I may have sent you to a universe so far away from your own that there aren't many other universes in the general er... 'vicinity' shall we say making it a crap shoot whether you can return to your own world or not. Oh one more thing, I gave both of you a uh... pretty interesting power/side effect alongside the stuff I sent you. You'll figure it out yourself. Till we meet again. -Shade 'The Merchant' Benedict After reading, a pregnant pause settled in the clearing I woke up as we let the contents of letter sink in. Now I've heard of people recently disappearances at convention and the fact that was consistent with all those cases was that they were all cosplayers. Akasuki, Organization XIII, hell I think even someone dressed as Bowser was one of the victims. And to think we are now part of those disappearances. Jupiter broke the silence with a long drawn out tired sigh and said "Well we've got work to do," and started to dig out the camping supplies from the bag. She then proceeded to pull out 2 long poles from the measly bag within her telepathic grasp. "How the actual... ," Jupiter muttered at the absurdity of what was laying in front of our eyes...I just looked like a dying fish. We both blankly stare at the poles then at the bag, then back at the poles, then the bag. Both of us decided that we both valued our sanity and silently agreed to will ALL suspension of disbelief. If we became Pokemon then why can't hammerspace exist too? (ie,think of the object, said object will appear) I'm not going say how long it took for us to set up camp but let's say that 5 years of camping experience for both of us made things so much easier. After we set up, I rummaged through the bag to find the 'PCs' that creep was on about. I manage to find, to my shock, 2 Pokegears(the HGSS ones, not the piece of shit Gen 2 ones(no hate on Gen 2)(Eat your hearts out Gen 2 Pokegear)) from the bag. After both of us sat on I flipped it open and rotate it sideways to map mode as the screen flashed to life to the map screen. The moment I saw the map, my jaw nearly dislocated what the map was and a red dot indicating we were in a certain forest next to a not so ruinous castle. So not only were we sent to another by merchant creep and turned into Pokemon, we were dropped in Equestria AND in the past. ...Murphy, why u do dis? Now don't get me wrong, I love LOVE MLP as must as the next fan, but why in Arceus almighty were we dumped into Everfree Forest? Now if only I had some music to back up how I feel about this fore- Rei.exe has stopped working... ... ... ... ...Are you fucking kidding me? That conniving bastard made us living music speakers? Don't get me wrong, the music fits but really? Common sense? Yeah? Remember what I said about willing all suspension of disbelief? Yeah? Keep doing that please? I don't think I can handle all this. M'kay ... ... ... "...ei, Rei, OI REI!" Jupiter shouted pulling me out of my stupor, which in turn stopped the song "WHAT?!" I snapped. I really didn't need this now "How and why," was the question flung in my way. "I don't know, I just thought of a song it just played. I think it was that jackass merchant." "Oh what tipped you off? The cosmic salesman who dropped us in a black void or the note said salesman sent?" Jupiter remarked with a smirk. "...Good point," I point my right index claw at her. I then look back to the Pokegear and notice a semicircle contraption in the on the left side of the rotated device. I was perplexed as to what this was and tried to figure out how to open it. I then on the touch screen, there was something I haven't noticed before on this modified phone. On the selection tabs there was a 5th additional tab with the iconic Pokeball as the selection icon. I look to my left to call over Jupiter to voice my finding and to my mild surprise, she was looking back at me. "You found it too?" she asks. "Yeah. Wanna count to three?" "Why the hell not. Not like have anything better to do," Jupiter replied while straightening her self upright on the rock. "Now on the count of three,One!" "Two!" "Two!" "THREE!" "THREE!" We both shout out the countdown out loud and tap the icon and the screen faded and showed a very familiar screen menu: (Sorry about the cruddy image. This is the best I could find) At the same time, the semicircle slot opened up and slid out a flat slide. And if your definition of flat is a metal plate with a semicircle dug into the middle of said plate,the congrats. Hmmmm, can't imagine what that should hold, I think to myself as a faint smile creeps up at what we could possibly have. I then look at the screen once more and see many, and I mean MANY Pokemon sprites My smile then turns into a grin that would make Pinkie Pie proud. ... ... ...Wait. If we're Pokemon, how can we use Pokeballs? Common sense, what did I JUST say? Will all suspension of disbelief? EXACTLY I wake myself from my brief subconscious battle and look back at the screen and scan the screen. As I went through box after box along with my sister using her's, we began to recognize a pattern: It was full of EVERY SINGLE POKEMON WE CAUGHT. I recognize Barbosa the Luck Shiny Gastrodon from a recent run of Platinum before the convention while Jupiter reminisces of Enker the Empoleon from HER romp in Sinnoh Wonderland. I started seeing more familiar faces from Kevlar the Skarmory(♀), Temari the Gliscor(♀), and Topaz the Aggron(♀) from Crystal, Heartgold, and Emerald respectively, to Chainsaw the Scizor(♂), Aeolus the Staraptor and Granite the Tyranitar(♂), 2 from a previous playthrough of Platinum and one of my romps in Heartgold respectively(I love Steel types, sue me), and my 2 proudest achievements, Venom the Crobat from my recent Platinum run and (somehow) the Speed Boost Blaziken Event from XY(first Pokemon to level 100...yay)(The game card was also stolen...no yay). I snuck a look at Jupiter's screen and wasn't surprised to see to most of the teams she transfered to Pokemon Bank, those including 20th Anniversary Darkrai, Steven's Shiny Metagross event, General the Sampert(♂), Lucila the Honchkrow(♀)(along with many, MANY Murkrows) , Pierce the Bishap(♂), Scar the Blaziken(♀),and many more. We then noticed a red glowing icon on the bottom middle of both our screens screen in big letters:MATERIALIZE. "Could I and should I?" I asked aloud. "Yes and I'm not sure." "What do you mean you're not sure? We're in the middle of the fuckin' Everfree, what could possibly go wrong?" "Many things now that you've said that,"-my sister shook her head-"All I'm saying is to be careful this device." "Yadda yadda with great power comes with great responsibility, we've heard that shtick a hundred times." The offender puts her hands (er... paw ehh... blade? I dunno.) in the air. "Hey I'm just saying. Now I wonder if that slimy bastard left my cigs' alone..." she starts trail off as she puts the Gear' down rummages the bag for the objects of her desire. I was about speak up but sighed. I know she know those things are bad for her but since one second we're at the convention and the next second we're suddenly dropped in the Arceus damned Everfree,(CANNOT repeat that enough) I think she deserves this smoke break. I looked back at the screen, cursor hovering Nyx, my Gengar, contemplating whether or not I should use bring it in or not, Either way you slice it, it was a tough decision overall. Should I or should I not, the question wracking my brain like persistent new neighbor wanting to greet you. I believe there would be strength in numbers but my sis has a point that could easily go to the wrong cause. Decisions,Decisions... "Goddamnit.." I was shaken from my thoughts once more as Jupiter muttered loudly to herself. A word of advice for you: don't get between my sister and her lighter. It was damn shame too since it was a custom made one with Pokeballs covering it instead of the drab red, blue, green etc colors. "We're Pokemon now, why not use Will-o-Wisp or Fire Punch or somethin'," I sugested. "You were using Psychic earlier weren't you? Why not try and let it come naturally?" Jupiter raised an eyebrow at my response. "It wouldn't kill me to try..." she trails in thought. She flicked the unlit cigarette to her mouth with Psychic, held up the her left arm to the end of the death stick and waited. After 10 short seconds of waiting, a bluish flame envelope the end of her arm as well as light the cigarette, signaling the use of Will-O-Wisp,the fire flickering like a tongue of a snake. Before long, the smell of burning vanilla filled the air. Jupiter took a moment to breathe in the breathable death before removing the cigarette from her mouth, releasing a puff of smoke and let out a soft chuckle, not even phased by the smoke;she was no beginner, that's for sure. "Somebody call staples because that was easy," Jupiter lets out a couple more titters. "Now about these,"-she points an arm to her Pokegear-"I think we should utilize these. After all strength comes in numbers," she ended with a small smile, picking up and readying her Pokegear as I readied mine. "Ready?." she asked. "Ready as I'll ever be," I answered. We then pressed the MATERIALIZE button and the Pokegears' extra addition whirs with life as a blinding light flashes and grow. After a couple of seconds, the whirs died down and in the indent of my Pokegear was something I never thought I'd see in real life. It was the iconic Pokeball. I look over to Jupiter to see that she too has a Pokeball, a Quick Ball to be precise. So many feelings were coursing through my veins, mostly nervousness and excitement; nervousness that Nyx might not listen to me and excitement that I was actually going to see a another Pokemon other than ourselves. "I've never thought to see the day..." I quietly said to myself. I took my Pokeball and took a feel for it. It felt as cool and glassy as a frosty window and metallic, but it also felt... good; like the cold was a part of me. I looked over to Jupiter, she herself looking at her Quick Ball. She looked me in the eye and nodded. I nodded back as we both threw our Pokeballs, as a red light erupted from our balls. "Come on out Nyx!" "Let's go, Lucila!" > Fake Out (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A single cry from this nocturnal Pokémon, and more than a hundred of its Murkrow cronies will assemble. Honchkrow-Sun Equestria: Present Day Jupiter's POV Aaaaah, Canterlot; a home for VERY wealthy ponies(mostly unicorns), and the home the Princesses of the Sun and Moon. So peaceful, so so full of life. Then riddle me this. Why is it that there are more than 400 Murkrows ravaging the marketplace for food like a swarm of locusts and stealing jewelry from the mares and stallions of this fine city like petty thieves they are, with cotton candy clouds and chocolate rain jacked the wazuski? Because its part of the plan. Like in the show, Discord steals the Elements of Harmony(More like Order)to stop them from imprisoning him again. I'm just helping him along; I distract the guards with my right hand mon', Lucila the Honchkrow and her very huge flock, while Yuki and my Zoroark, Crimson as a spy and her Krookodile and Salamance, Brutus and Deathwing respectively as the brawn will work with Discord to steal the Elements. It's foolproof, unless something goes wrong. After they give the signal that the deed's been done, I'll be the one to greet the Mane 6 and the sun bitch herself, Celestia. The plan also took a surprisingly short time to come up with;about 45 minutes. A simple in n' out with a bit of distraction and taunting; my treat. I'm currently overseeing the chaos on top of a building watching on in glee as the ponies either try to take what's rightfully their's back from the dark birds and utterly fail and still keep trying or get pecked so much from trying they run into the nearest building with, quite literally, their tail between their legs...Is it wrong that I'm getting a kick from this? ... Naaaaw, there're all stuck up pricks that care only about themselves anyways, why should I care about them? Suddenly, I hear a flapping of wings nearby. I look up to see the shape of my friend and right hand mon', Lucila, circling the chaotic mess from above. "Lucila!" I shout up to her. She notices me flies a little lower for herself to hear me continue. "Anything from the train station?" I asked. The main reason I have her up in the air in the first place is so I can keep tabs on where the Mane 6; there're the only ones that can through a wrench in the gears of our, admittedly, hastily made plan. "I see the train, a good 2 miles from arriving boss," the reply comes back in a lazy female Italian Mafia accent. "Get the whole flock as well hidden as possible, we can't let our targets know we are here yet, especially the Pink One" I give her the order. "Really boss?" She raises an eyebrow and gives me an half-lidded look. "How dangerous is this mare to make her a special target boss?" she finished with a flick of the wing I turned to her with a serious look. "She can do things that would make Palkia's jaw drop," my right eye glows a dangerous red glint to drill in the fact that I wasn't joking. And the funny thing is is that I wasn't lying either. Years before my... untimely imprisonment, I showed both Dialga and Palkia an episode of MLP; specifically Pinkie Sense. All that came from the screening was my shit-eating grin at the impending reaction, Dialga's blank stare and him simply repeatedly saying"Nopenopenopenope," into a wormhole, and Palkia staring at the screen long after there credits with his metal jaw literally dropped on the floor. My response this time tho, was a pair of wide green eyes, a visible gulp and a calling CAAAAAAW. Within seconds, the Murkrow stopped what they were doing and surrounded her, at attention and were relayed my orders. After the fact, multiple sheets of black and feather separate over the many buildings in the city and close to the train station. Thank Arceus that the guards were still chasing my Double Team clone. Oh yeah forgot to mention; I left a clone for the Royal Guard to chase after while I remain I the cover of the countless amount of Murkrows terrorising Canterlot. The sheer amount of the birds and Air Cutters that can cut through their armour and the results of said cutting was enough to make them back off. *TOOOOOOT* Well would you look at that, the train's here. Time to unsettle some ponies. My body ripples as I activate Shadow Sneak and jump from shadow to shadow towards the station. The chills. The chills and fear from these ponies are such a treat, literally. And you want to know the best part? They're none the wiser,hehehe ... ... ... Oh I guess I should explain, shouldn't I? Okay, you know how most Pokemon feed off of certain things or other Pokemon? For example, the Aggron line, the Tyranitar line, and other mineral Pokemon eat, well minerals, Hypno and Musharna eat dreams and nightmares respectively, Heatmor eat Durant,etc. Well during my travels before my imprisonment, I found out that I was able to eat emotions like changelings but I do so passively so I don't have to place a hand on those ponies feed and none have to get hurt, body heat like a Gengar because the egg moves I have like Destiny and Confuse Ray, and most importantly, I don't have Four Move Syndrome,(THANK ARCEUS) meaning I can use any move in both movesets of Gardevoir and Gallade. Speaking of body heat: "*shiver* Is it me or is it dreadfully cold all of a sudden," Rarity makes her voice heard of after 5 minutes of silence from the train station. The orange pony next to her shivers as well."You've said it pardner*shiver*it ain't feel right. The weather was sunny 'while ago before this mess," Applejack replied. The oldest of the group and shyest, Fluttershy, shivered miserably trying to warm herself with her pink mane as her cream colored coat just wasn't doing its job. The rest weren't doing so well either; Pinkie Pie was bouncing without a care with a chatter of her teeth with each bounce, Twilight tried to use a warming spell but did nothing against my influence, and even Rainbow Dash landed from her usual casual flying and tried to warm herself with her wing feathers. I simply took my ride in Fluttershy's shadow all the way to the castle, leading me straight to HER as they're none wiser. Cue the intro "The chamber is protected by a powerful spell that only I can break! This doesn't make sense!” I smile in my shadow as Sunbitch was beside herself in confusion(as she should) as our swipe went without fail. I decided that was when would make myself known. I let out my ghost side to scare her and the girls in the room. "Make sense? When does anything need to make sense?" My tainted voice booms around the room in telepathy. Celestia flinches a bit at my voice as she recognizes it. "Azure... Show yourself!" I grin fiendishly at her response. "With pleasure." I leave Fluttershy's shadow like a Seviper, blacker than Luna's night. The six mares all had their own responses from my emerge (except for poor Fluttershy, who was shaking like a leaf in fall after seeing me leave her shadow): "What the hay?!" "It was with us the whole time...? "How disgusting!" "What the actual name in Tartarus is that?" "I wonder what it looks like." I slink towards the doorway to the chamber as I stop and start materializing myself. I shoot a sheathed blue Gardevoir arm,covered in a inky black goop(think Giratina's intro in Platinum) out of the shadow and grasp the floor like a Liepard hanging from a cliffside. The mares except Celestia take a step back. I grasp the floor with another inky arm. Another step back from the mares and a shiver from both Fluttershy and (surprisingly) Rainbow Dash. I flex my muscles in preparation and suddenly shoot myself from inky shadow and land on solid ground, covered in shadow in on my right side with my eye glowing a demonic shade of red helfire, my hair was swept away showing half of my scar on the left side of my face with my left eye shining a cold icy blue. Both of my eyes were staring dead at Celestia. THAT made her take a step back, as well as everyone else. I lower my gaze to the floor and spread my deceptively thin arms and unsheathe my Gallade arms making an audible *shing* as they do so. I heard EVERYONE take three steps back. Then we watched each other. It was so quiet a pin could be heard dropped. I reaffirm my gaze upon Celestia,let down my arms, held my head back and let out a bone-chilling laugh(think of an female version of this) that sent shivers down everyone's spine and it wasn't the cold. My laughter died down momemnts later as I speak in a cool bitter voice with my smile never faltering. "I told you, Celestia; I would be back." > Taunt > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It converts the energy from Mega Evolution into an intimidating aura. Fainthearted people expire from shock at the sight of it. -Mega Absol; Ultra Moon Aurora's POV *sigh* You know those scenes in movies when the good guy and the bad guy meet and just stare at each other? Yeaaaaah, put me in the latter position and the Elements and Celestia in the former and you get what was going on at the moment. We were both just staring for who knows how long, the only sounds are the pitter patter of the chocolate rain on the panes outside and the drips of my shadow. *drip*... *drip*... *drip*... My shadow continued to drip as my heterochromatic eyes drill into Celestia's magenta, my red and blue eyes glowing dangerously every few seconds. The silence continued on like morning fog and as thick as we stared at each other. I believe a guard even came around as I saw the door across the hallway creak open for a few seconds, heard a "Nope," and the door swiftly closed with a loud *BANG*. The hoofsteps afterward told me he he was going to try and bring some of his friends to get me. *pop* I broke through the murky silence as I conjured a cigarette in a familiar azure glow. I brought it up to my lips and brought one of my arms up to the tip and flared a Will-o'-Wisp to life. After a few seconds, the tip flared with a blue flame and I shook the flame off my hand. I stuck the cigarette in my mouth and drew a long breath before opening my lips to let out a cloud of smoke with a small frown, showing off my teeth to my spectators, witnessing them flinching at my sharp 'crowns'. I then let out a heavy sigh as I felt the taste of smoke fill my lungs. I leaned forward to look more closely at the six ponies behind Celestia. "You mares the elements of harmony?" I asked already knowing the answer. Rainbow Dash seemed to have gotten rid of her stupor and rushed up to me with a trail of chromatic light. "What's it to you bud?" she shouted poking me on my shadow side(which felt really weird). "Ewww...," Rainbow Dash pulled her hoof out of my side with a *sqelch*. I chuckled a little, cigarette still in my mouth, as I gave her a small smile and a half-lidded lazy gaze. "Just making sure I have the right ponies, Ms..." - I pull out a piece of paper with my shadow arm with the names of the Elements before looking back at her(Don't question hammerspace) - "Dash correct? Famed for her loyalty and the element it represents, yes?" "That's right, I'll always be loyal to the Princess!" I remember Discord's plan as a smirk forms across my face, shadow still dripping. "We'll see about that..." I then listed off the rest of the Elements one by one, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Twilight, and Pinkie Pie in that order. The second I finished listing off Pinkie, my vision simply became pink as Pinkie rushed to my face. "Hitheremynameispinkiepiewhatareyouwhatkindofcakedoyoulikewhatsyourfavoriteflavorwhatkindofgumdoyoulike-mmmph," she went suddenly silent as my Psychic glowed around her mouth. "In order: Garllade, red velvet, vanilla, and pink bubblegum," I effortlessly answered her questions without fail as I floated her over friends as said friends stared slack-jawed. "Thanks!" Pinkie waved over as I nodded over in her direction. "What exactly is a Garllade?" I hear Twilight ask with a quizzical look on her face. "Questions for another day my little bookworm," I say with a small smile. "Stop stalling, Jupi-" My smile immediately drops as I hear that voice and turned with a piercing glare as she stepped back."Let me stop you right there friend," I hold up one of my arms as I spat out 'friend' like it was poison to Celesita, "Do you really think you have the right to say that name after all this time, girl? After disagreeing with me about Discord? After exiling me and my sister after said disagreement? After all that shit you actually expect me to respect you?" Celestia actually seemed hurt by my comment, her ears splayed back on her head. She was clearly faking it as I read her emotions. I smirked in my mind. Her facade has improved but heart hides nothing from me. "Whoa whoa whoa you can't speak to the Princess like that," Rainbow objects as Applejack and Pinkie holds her back from charging at me again. "Oh I'm sorry, you weren't one of the 3 beings stuck in stone for 1000 years, your argument is invalid, Ms. Dash," I bite back through gritting teeth. "Then why were you stoned?" Applejack starts, backing up Rainbow but still holding her back from me. My frown deepened at this as I twisted my cigarette in my mouth and rotten memories started to crop up. "Protecting my kind. My family. That is all I'll say on the matter," I replied apathetically. "Your kind? You mean there's more of you?" Twilight asked with a glint of fear in her eyes. "Not more of me, different species of many shapes and sizes." I run my hand through my blade as I drawl. "But enough being sidetracked. You have some magical artifacts to find, yes?" The ponies then glared at me, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Celestia the most. "Enough stalling Aurora! Where are the Elements?" If looks could kill, I would have been having a lovely chat with Death when our eyes locked. Her's filled with anger and sadness, angry that I've sided with Discord and sadness that followed 'that' day. Mine were half-lidded and filled with boredom and disappointment, boredom of knowing the possible outcome of the situation and disappointment that she still acts this even after a thousand years, not that I can talk. This is coming from the girl that has smoked for fourteen hundred years. I let out a breath with smoke coming from my mouth and straightened out my back to my full height of 5'3, tall for them, a tad bit short for what I originally was. I curled the cigarette in my mouth as a shadowy smile made its way to my face "Alright I'll tell you girls where the elements are-" the ponies' faces lit up "-but there's a catch however. I was told to tell you where the elements are HIS way." Their faces quickly changed to confusion as I cleared my throat to deliver the message. "To retrieve your missing elements Just make sense of this change of events. Twists and turns, are our master plan Then find the elements, back where you began." Shortly after I finish the rhyme, I then began to back away and slink back into the shadows. "Oh no you don't,"Applejack Rainbow tried to punch me but passed through me as I turn back into a harmless shadow and slammed into the corner of the room. Celestia shot a pierce shot into my shadowy form but I quickly dip into the shadow on the ceiling. "Oi. Haven't you heard the saying 'don't shoot the messenger'?" My voice once again starts echoing in hall. "We would if the messenger was working with a god of Chaos," Twilight answers. "You win some you lose some my friend. Good will hunting," I call out as I slink outside to the garden and got out of my shadow and look back to Canterlot... that was currently Murkrow-infefested and chocolate raining from the sky. "This is fine," I say to myself. I start to contact Discord as I made my way to Ponyville. "Discord, Frost, Phase 2 is complete. Commence Phase 3."