1/2/2020

9:57 am

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It's been two days since I told Abby about what happened in Misty Mountain and let's just say she hasn't taken it well. When I told her the truth, she fired a Shadow Ball right at me, sending me to the depths of the sea. It was lucky that Cord would know what any human would do—swim straight into shore. Cord came to the beach to pick me up, and Abby didn't talk to me for the rest of the night.

I was at least satisfied with Chris convincing her to make small talk with me.

'Damn it, I can't sleep.'

My eyes slowly opened to see an abundance of white. "Uh, oh." The white surrounded me for miles... No doubt about it. "This is the first place I saw Cord again..."

"Hey Lucas!"

I immediately turn around—Electro Ball out—to face a Pokémon. It was Harmony.

I sigh. "You scared the heck out of me!"

"You've been having some trouble lately... I just wanted to contact you."

I close my hand with the Electro Ball and sit down. "You're contacting me through a dream?"

"You don't know about this place?" Harmony started floating above right me. "This is the Dream World!!"

Her voice echoed throughout the flat terrain of white. "Dream World?" I asked.

"This place is the meeting point of all three Universes. Space and time get pretty weird around here, which would explain why Cord saw you three years ago and you saw him about a week ago."

I guess it would... Wait. "How are you here? Wouldn't you be a part of this randomness here?"

"Not exactly. To put it simply, Legendary and Mythical Pokémon get a 'Time Placer Card' so we can pinpoint exactly when and where we can go to the Dream World." Harmony dropped to my height "Enough about me. I hear Abby's pretty angry for you kissing her," she said, giggling after.

"Angry? More like pissed. She doesn't want to talk to me... And I don't want to talk about her right now."

"Alright then." Harmony agreed. "What about Turbo Boost?"

Why did I have a feeling she was going to talk about that? "Let me guess, you saw the fight I had with Bisharp, didn't you?"

"Yes, I did. Some of the Legendries also felt that your energy was increasing exponentially and was about to start investigating. But I was able to convince them that it was their imagination a few hours after that. You're welcome."

"Thanks, I guess?" I responded. "Can you tell me anything about it?"

"Hold your arms out."

I hesitantly put my arms out and waited. 'Is Harmony tricking me or something?'

Thud!

A heavy book formed right in front of my eyes and sagged from my arms. I glanced at the book, then looked at Harmony.

"Right... You don't know about it." Harmony said grinning. "Basically, if you imagine an object, it usually can be shown here." Harmony used Psychic to lift the book to her height. "Turbo Boost—or by its technical name Laevo Turbo—is the effect when a Pokémon can reach unimaginable speeds, and possibly more. Not much is known about it, as it has only been rumored throughout the world. But you're not the only Pokémon who has been seen using Turbo Boost."

"I-I'm not?" I said confused.

She shook her head. "There was one Pokémon before you. It was a Jolteon that got that reward from a Legendary Pokémon... To be honest, the book doesn't know what happened to that Jolteon. Weird."

I sigh. "It's fine. I wasn't sure if even you would know about it... But Cord knew about it."

"What do you mean by that?"

"What I'm saying is that Cord knew about Turbo Boost before the three of us even knew about it."

"Hmm..." Harmony started thinking. "When I was looking for this book, some of the important books were missing."

I facepalmed. "And you haven't realized something was wrong with that until now?!"

"I-I don't know!" Harmony yelled. "I thought Darkrai would use it for re—..." Harmony realized something. "Shit!" She jumped from the floor and started heading south in the Dream World. I used Quick Attack to catch up from her astonishing speed. "I have one last thing to tell you."

I immediately looked at her. "Tell me already!"

"It's about Cord. He's your—."

Everything went to black right then and there.

***

10:17 am

Sharpedo Bluff

"Wake up, sleepyhead!"

A large groan came out of me when I opened my eyes. Abby, Cord, and Chris were looking down at me. "I overslept again, didn't I?" Everyone nodded. "Dang it!"

I jumped off the straw bed I was on and started running to the stairs. "Lucas!" Cord yelled. "We have the mission here!" Stopping myself, I tripped three steps up the stairs and rolled all the way down back into the group. "Abby got this letter while we were trying to wake you up."

Cord gave the letter for me to read it:

For Team Cool,

When you get this, the guild will be currently on an expedition to map the Air Continent for future missions. In the meantime, here's two missions that asked for your presence just before we left. I hope to Arceus that you can finish these missions with success.

Good luck.

From, Chatot

"Well on the bright side, Chatot didn't ridicule me." I mumbled. "Wait, two missions?"

"I'm just confused as you are." Chris said to me. "These two missions are in completely separate dungeons."

"Even weirder, they come from the same anonymous client."

To put a little background around this, Pokémon send letters to the guild about if them needing an item, helping them find someone, or asking for their rescue. At the very bottom of the letter, they can tell the guild to make the client anonymous for privacy reasons.

It's a kind of stupid feature if you ask me.

"We have to get this done by today," Cord insisted, "so I suggest we split up teams for this one."

I sighed. "So, you want to hit two birds with one stone?"

"Exactly. So—." Cord paused himself to look at me. "So let's get upstairs and choose the dungeons we're going to go on."

Abby and Chris went upstairs, while I turned a look at Cord. "Something wrong?"

"You just had to say that phrase, didn't you?"

"Okay, if you're angry about me saying that, I'm sorry... But I think today's the day."

Cord looked at me surprised. "I thought you said we were going to do it tomorrow."

I started going to the stairs. "Let's just say I have a feeling we're going to be pretty busy tomorrow."

"Then I assume you know who you're going with?"

I nodded right before I started to go upstairs... 'Today's going to be a hard day.'

It's time to tell Abby who I really was.

***

3:00 pm

Charred Chambers 2F

My assumptions were right, as me and Abby went to—ironically—the first dungeon I saw as a Pokémon. Cord and Chris were doing the other job in Idle Island, which was grabbing an Escape Orb.

Meanwhile, the two of us were doing probably the weirdest job I've ever taken.

Objective:

Find the Unknown Client!

"So how do we know who's the Pokémon we're looking for?" I asked Abby.

She shrugged. "Probably when we hear someone screaming, then we'll know."

Silence took over for the next few minutes as we roamed around the second floor—defeating some Pokémon along the way— searching for the stairs. This dungeon must be huge, because we couldn't still find it after just five minutes of searching.

"...Harmony talked to me last night."

Abby looked at me surprised. "You're joking. You are joking, right?"

After turning into the next room and seeing the stairs, I stared at Abby. "Absolutely not."

***

Meanwhile:

Idle Island

"What??!!" Chris yelled across the entire floor of Idle Island. "You and Lucas are... like me?"

"Not exactly like you." Cord said facing Chris while floating backwards. "We're from Universe 1."

Chris stopped moving to look down at himself. Cord tried to move closer, but Chris didn't let him. "I just... I can't believe someone else here is not a Pokémon in real life... Is that why Lucas said that phrase earlier?"

Cord chuckled. "Probably. Although I would understand that he's said multiple things to you that's a part of our Universe."

"Like the time when he said God instead of Arceus?"

Cord facepalmed. "Damn it, Lucas. Why did you say something about religion?" He went back to Chris. "That's something I'm going to talk about—."

Cord stopped talking as he got paralyzed in motion.

"Cord?"

What happened next completely scared the hell out of Chris:

In the blink of Cord's eyes, his eye color changed to black and started to set on fire.

"Crap."

***

3:10 pm

Charred Chambers 3F

"I'm slightly relieved that someone—even in legend—has this, but that still doesn't tell anything about Turbo Boost."

I'm finally got Abby to talk to me again.

Thank God. "At least we know the alternate naming of it," I joked. Looking at both paths, I closed my eyes to focus on the rest of the dungeon. Nothing was there—neither hostile nor regular Pokémon.

'Weird. This is the third minute that no one's here.'

"Lucas are you going to explain what you were talking about this morning?"

I glanced at Abby. Of course she would know about it. Abby followed me taking a left leading into another empty room. She went ahead of me and looked at me. "Tomorrow was going to be the day I told you this, but I decided to do it today... Me and Cord are not from around here."

Abby tilted her head in confusion. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"I'm saying I'm not from this continent... And definitely not a part of this world." Abby moved back a few steps as if she were expecting what I was going to say. "And I've been hiding this for so long that I just have to tell it to you right now." I took a deep breath. "Me and Cord... Are from Universe 1."

Abby sat down and started to look down. "I figured that someone in this team would have to be from there... But I didn't expect the person would be right in front of my face."

"Look, me and Cord lied to you and Chris a few days ago because of a stupid thing Cord has since he was once apart of the Darkness. And I just want to say I'm sorry about... Everything."

Abby glanced at me and sighed. "I would usually still be angry at you for lying about who you were... But honestly, I can't hold a grudge forever."

"Does that mean..." I said excited.

This was it!

"Yes, I forgive you. Now come on, we need—."

An Escape Orb landed right next to us creating a loud sound effect. Both of us looked at the orb, glanced at each other, and stared to what was above us. It was a black shadow with two black eyes staring right back at us.

Even worse, the eyes had those same fire effect that I hate seeing.

"Lucas."

"What?"

"...Sorry about this."

Abby looked straight at me and used Tackle to launch me out of the room. After kicking the Escape Orb right to me, she fired a Shadow Bal at the rocks to block me from ever entering the room. "What are you doing Abby?!" I yelled at her even though the rocks blocked me from seeing her.

"It came for you, Lucas. Get out of here! Get o—!"

...

Silence. Absolute silence.

I was just to call out Abby but had to stop myself with the thing probably listening to me.

'And if the thing is coming for me...'

A large set of hesitation came over me just before I smashed the Escape Orb.

***

6:00 pm

Sharpedo Bluff

...I just ran right after using the Escape Orb and didn't stop. Sure, it shaved about two hours of my arrival, but it wasn't worried about that. "Cord!! Chris!!" I yelled at the staircase. Chris jumped over the final step of the stairs to stare at me. I looked at the staircase and Cord was not there. "Where's Cord?"

Chris looked behind me, which was the regular Treasure Town without Abby. "Where's Abby?"

I hesitated. "She's... I don't know what happened to her. What happened to Cord?"

Chris bit his lips. "Cord... got possessed."

"What!?"

"I don't know how it happened, okay? One moment he was telling me about you and him being from Universe 1, the next he attacks me out of nowhere!"

"On the bright side, you know that I'm human now... I'll be right back."

I started to run into town. "Where are you going Lucas?!"

"Don't follow me!"

I went through the town and turned into the beach.

What I didn't expect was a Riolu looking at me running and followed me shortly after.

*Game File Saved*

A/N: Fun Fact: "Laevo" is a Latin synonym for "to the left". It's weird to call it Left Boost, but a small tidbit is that despite being a righty, Lucas leads with his left foot.

I'm going to be posting Chapter 14 tomorrow because I'm going to be adding something with it. Sorry for the confusion!