12/29/19

10:17 am

Idle Island B5F

I have a question for everyone looking at this. If you were in the same position I was—you're a Pikachu, three Pokémon ahead of you are your teammates, and there's a fucking Swampert right behind you that probably wants to kill you—out of these choices, which one would you do?

                Would you:

A: Jump high enough for Abby, Cord, and Chris to make a move to hit Swampert, and use Quick Attack to hit Swampert's head.

B: Turn around and use Iron Tail to force Swampert into the water.

C: Grab the Blast Seed and use it on Swampert; or.

D: Play dead.

I'll let you choose your answer for a few moments starting right now.

...

Done? Okay, I'm... I'm going to admit this was a trick question. I didn't do any of these choices—but if I had the chance to do it again, I would do option A. What I did was probably stupider than playing dead.

I screamed like a little girl, grabbed both items, and raced toward my teammates.

It might have been a good idea at the time, but when I realized the Swampert completely ignored the screaming I was doing... I felt like I was about to die.  The Swampert opened its mouth to fire Mud Shot straight at me.

I braced myself for the worse to happen. Suddenly, Chris jumped right in front of harm's way and used Protect to block almost all his shots. I said "almost" because one Mud Shot deflected from Protect and struck the wall.

That made a piece of rock completely split apart and start falling down the left side of the room- which Abby was standing right on that side. "Oh, crap. Abby!" I dropped everything ran right over there.

She looked at me, "What?"

"Sorry about this." I jumped in the air and used Iron Tail to smack Abby out of the way. After some quick thinking, I decided to chop all the rocks aiming for my body using Iron Tail. The last one was an exceptionally large rock that was about three times my size.

I immediately raised my arm and I focused all my energy to make an Electro Ball. A normal sized one formed and I shoved the Electro Ball toward the rock, which disfigured soon after.

Meanwhile, when Abby was launched from my Iron Tail, her trajectory was leading toward the Swampert in the distance. She took advantage of the situation currently and used Bite on Swampert's right side. Chris joined in the fray by launching a few Shadow Balls of his own at it, but it didn't do much. And Cord was coming over toward me.

Lucas...

Oh, great. It's the female voice from yesterday. 'Hello... Whoever you are.'

Nice to see you again, Lucas. Seems like you're in what your kind call a pickle.

"Okay, can I at least ask who you are because you somehow know who I am without me revealing anything."

Cord got here just after I made that statement. "Manny, what was that statement—." I placed one finger in front of Cord's face, shutting him up.

"Continue," I said still using the one finger on Cord.

Well, I can offer a little advice with your situation. You see that other item next to the Blast Seed?

I tilted my body to see the item she was talking about. The item looked like a ring with white coating on the outside part. "Yeah, I see it. Why?"

Well, that item is called Ring Target... Talk later.

"Wait, don't go!" I yelled. That made everyone—including the Swampert—look at me. The Swampert looked back at Abby and Chris and used Hammer Arm to hit Abby and Chris at the same time. They were fortunately both sent flying in our direction, so Cord was able to use Psychic to stop them from falling and taking more damage than they already had taken.

Cord looked at me. "What exactly happened to you?"

"That voice from yesterday... It came back. And she told me the item right next to the Blast Seed is a Ring Target."

"Ring Target?!" Cord immediately dropped Abby and Chris and went straight to the Ring Target. I tried my best to catch both, but I ended up missing both Abby and Chris as they both hit the floor.

"Cord! Really?!" Chris said, slightly groaning after.

Cord meanwhile picked up the Ring Target and started to inspect it. "Cord, why did you do that? And are you going to tell me what a Ring Target is?"

"This thing," Cord said holding it right at me. "Can be our only way of getting an advantage of this thing." Cord turned to the three of us. "I need you three to distract Swampert so I can put this on it. Once it's on, give it your greatest Electro Ball you got, Lucas."

I gave Cord a confused face. "What? Wouldn't that have no effect against it?"

Cord did a smirk, "Trust me."

With that, me, Abby, and Chris went towards Swampert and tried to leave its back on Cord and focus on the three of us. Once Chris used Sand Attack, I yelled at Cord, "Do it Cord!" Cord raced straight toward Swampert and we got out of his way. While Cord was racing at it, a bright yellow surrounded him while he started to go even faster.

'Volt Tackle.'

Cord thrusted his arm and punched Swampert in the face. He then turned behind it and placed the Ring Target in his back. "Lucas! Do it now!"

"Cord, you're in the way though!"

"Doesn't matter! Do it anyway."

I sighed. "Fine." I made an Electro Ball and threw it across the room, right at the face of Swampert. It got electrocuted and closed its eyes to take deep breaths. It was resisting my attack, but just barely. That meant my attack somehow connected. But how?

"Lucas," Abby explained, "Ring Target is an item that's extremely rare around here, so you might never have a chance to see this again. If a Pokémon is holding it—which is why Cord placed that on its back—it completely makes the user vulnerable to types it's not affected to."

Oh! That's was Cord was thinking! If he was able to place it on the Swampert, he could make more damage toward it and at least tire the thing out!

The Swampert slowly moved its arm toward Cord and grabbed his chest. "You'll pay!!" He launched Cord across to where the three of us were. The Ring Target fell to the ground and the Swampert stared at us.

"Oh, crap."

"You. Will. Pay!" The Swampert charged for us and I braced for the worst... And...

It didn't happen.

The Swampert couldn't get past the halfway point because of a pink shield protecting us to stop it from its tracks and it kept on hitting it repeatedly. But no matter what the Swampert did, the shield completely stopped it.

Well, I must admit you had great idea, Cord. But when a Ring Target is used on a possessed, there's a low chance of the move doing damage.

"What was that?!" Chris looked in multiple directions, but no one was there.

"Oh, right. I've haven't shown myself yet."

A bright light appeared in front of everyone's face as something appeared... I think its pink fur gave it away, but in case you were wondering its blue eyes were staring at all four of us.

It was a Mew!

All four of us were speechless. "None are you going to talk?" Mew approached us. "No? Okay then. Abby, Chris, Cord, and Lucas." She pointed at each Pokémon's name saying that. "I suggest we get out of here before that Swampert breaks through my Reflect."

That voice..."You're the voice I've been hearing from yesterday and today!"

"Correct, but I think we should talk about that later." She grabbed hold of all of us. "Hold on tight!"

Mew used Teleport to get out of Idle Island... I guess there's one last thing to say.

I definitely hated Ground types now.

***

11:30 am

Plains

Mew arrived at what supposedly looks like a campfire in the middle of the forest. Logs were used as benches and some Pecha and Oran berries were on top of a stump laying right next to the fire. "Whoa!" Chris said in awe, "What's this for?"

"It's something I made for the four of you, as you must be starving." Mew said letting us go. "Also, it's a way of me offering an apology to Lucas."

Confused, I moved my head towards Mew. "What do you mean by that?"

"Well... I technically followed you for the past three days."

"You mean that you followed us from Charred Chambers all the way toward here?" Cord questioned.

Mew laughed. "Yeah. I admit that was wrong of me doing that in the first place, since I knew where you were going anyway. But what I didn't expect was that you four would actually meet by accident."

"Wait..." I sat down on one of the logs and turned to Mew. "How did you know where we were going?"

"More importantly," Abby looked at Mew. "what did you mean with 'by accident?' I thought you told me and Chris the next time we would meet you was in the Golden Coast."

I don't remember exactly, but I believe 'told' was the triggering word for me and Cord to look at Abby and Mew at the same time.  "Wait, wait, wait," Cord commented "Did you say that you, Chris, and Mew were going to meet again?"

Abby sighed. "Great, we're going to have to let them in on what's going on. Sit down Cord."

Cord grabbed a seat right next to me when Mew looked straight at him. "Cord, I... I have something for you."

Everyone—even the fire in the middle of the campsite—looked at Mew. "What do you mean by that?" Mew moved closer to Cord and gave him a deep stare. Her eye color soon changed from blue to green, then to red, green again, and back to blue. Cord was in a trance during these events and standstill after Mew was done.

I waited for a few moments before approaching him. I waved my paw right in front of his face trying to get him to flinch.

He still stood there like a rock.

I snapped my fingers right next to his ear. "Cord... Cord!!"

"Ahh!!" Cord shouted, jumping back. He ended up tripping on the log and fell to the ground. "What was that for?!"

"Cord, you were standing still from Mew's staring. It felt like..." I quickly realized something and turned to Mew. "She hypnotized you."

"Lucas, for Pete's sake, she doesn't like being called that. She prefers her nickname, which is—." Cord stopped himself right there. He looked around with probably the most confused face I've ever seen him make and ended up looking at Mew. Cord stood up. "Harmony. How do I remember that?"

Mew—or I guess it's Harmony now—smirked at Cord. "Welcome back, 687."

"Um, I'm very confused right now," Abby said looking at me.

"That makes two of us."

"Three, actually." Chris looked at Mew and Cord at the same time.

Cord sighed. "Well, Lucas, I was going to talk to you about what happened to me after we got out of Idle Island. And I guess since Harmony finally gave my memories back, I can tell you the whole story... Let's start with this:

"I have good news and bad news. The good news is I know who is behind all our encounters with those weird Pokémon in the past two days. The bad news is... I know who these Pokémon are."

That sounds... confusing. "Wait, so you know what's going on, but the problem is you know what's going on?"

"Yeah... I'm going to go straight to the point. It's not the two Pokémon we've seen before, it's an entire army of them. They all make one whole name, 'The Darkness.'"

Mew interrupted. "And Cord knows about this because he used to be a part of them."

Silence took over for a few moments. I, for sure, was in pure denial. 'Was he working for the Pokémon that attacked us?' Every single thing we bonded over: our friendship, the betrayal, the trauma I've been through for the last three years... all came to a head.

"Cord..." I looked at him. It felt like I wanted to take all my anger and my sorrow for the past three years and throw it all on him. "What the hell did you do for the past three years?"

Cord took a deep breath and looked straight at me. "It's a long story, Lucas. Hope you're up for it." He turned to everyone. "Let's start at December 27, 2016.

"...This day was probably the foggiest day I've ever had as a Pokémon. I only remember one thing in the morning hours of that day, and that was Lucas wishing me well during the trip I was supposedly going to make to the Golden Coast. If you saw his adorable face as a Pichu, you would have to immediately promise him that you would return sometime again. So, I promised him I would be back in about a year.

"That never happened.

"Fast forward to sunset and I find myself laying down on Weird Woods—a mystery dungeon where Abby found us nearby—and four other Pokémon staring right at me. I was clearly scared, but the four of them assured me they weren't going to make me die—or faint at the very least. That was the least of my worries, because I lost almost all my memories when I woke up. All I could remember was my name and... who I was.

"The four of them decided to take me in their home base until I could remember anything about myself. I should have been suspicious from the start, because it took a whole day to reach their base in the sky.

"For some reason I thought it was normal." Cord started to laugh. "Anyway, we got to the base, and the first Pokémon I spoke to was the leader of the entire base, and it was the Bisharp that we saw in Weird Woods. No fire effect in his eyes though, so I don't believe it was that evil at the time. It offered his hospitality and exchanged it by joining their 'guild' as they called it. I didn't have anywhere to go so I took the deal and started training right away.

"Days past... Weeks... Months... Years. I ended up staying there for about two years and eleven months. Memories came and went, as I usually forgot everything of my old life and made new room of my new one. And I was focusing on how to fight efficiently. I don't know how, but I held my own against Bisharp, which was the best fighter in the base. I thought my life was normal.

"Up until last month. November 28th to be exact.

"The day earlier, I found out that I was being transferred to another base-which turned out to be The Darkness' headquarters. Now they had to get rid of my name and call me by my official name. My named was turned from Cord to Darkness Special Agent Division Graduate #687–or D.S.A.D. 687. It was a pretty stupid name, I admit."

"Cord, sorry to interrupt." Abby said. "You mentioned that your memories came and went. Lucas probably would have asked this, but did you get any memories about you and Lucas?"

Cord paused and thought for a moment. "Well, just before I woke up in Weird Woods, I had a weird dream about me falling to the ground and Lucas approaching me as a Pikachu. Other than that, I don't think so..." My heart dropped. Cord completely forgot about me... "I should continue.

"I got to the headquarters and I found myself doing my first job: captive duty. Pretty much, the job was we would make their rounds guarding Pokémon that were captured trespassing their area. It was my turn to guard... And Harmony was right there, behind bars."

Me, Abby, and Chris turned to Harmony, where she was giggling. "Yeah, I was there. Wrong place, wrong time, you could say. Coincidently, I was looking for Cord, and it just so happened that his energy led me to find him. And I got captured almost immediately. "

"She told me about her looking for me, but I didn't believe her. But she told me one thing that convinced me to go with her right away." Cord looked at me. "That was you Lucas."

My ears perked up, and I looked at him. "What did she say about me?"

"Harmony didn't say, she showed you wanting to see me again. It was then I realized I needed to go home. So Harmony used Teleport and we both got out of the building. It was then when I realized that something else was going on."

"I'll take it from here." Mew interrupted. "You all have been chosen to probably do one of the hardest things I can ever offer, and the Legendary and Mythical Pokémon don't even know about it, so I like to keep it that way. The job pretty much can determine the fate of our multiverse."

'Wait... What did she just say?'

"Did you just say multiverse? Multiverses are real?"

"I got this." Abby stated. "There's millions of universes in the entire multiverse, but each universe gets grouped into a tiny part of the multiverse. I don't know what our group multiverse is named, but this universe is the third of three universes here, so this is called Universe 3.

"Universe 3 consists of everything that's here, the Pokémon, trees fully around us, and towns are just relatively new here. It's often referred to as the 'True Pokémon World.' Universe 2 is referred to as the 'Pokémon World' where there's humans—I hope you know who those are—and Pokémon live in harmony.

"And Universe 1 is pretty much where only humans live in. No trace of Pokémon living anywhere, and they only got known for people playing games of them. That's kind of a sad world if you think about it.

"Anyway, so that would put me in Universe 3 and Chris is in Universe 2."

'Ok, that would mean I am in Universe 1... Wait a second...' I looked in between the two Eevees before asking, "So Chris is in Universe 2? So does that mean that he's—."

"Yes, I'm human."

...I kept silent about that.

"Harmony, before I start asking completely stupid questions to Chris, I would at least like to know what we are going to do now."

"Not me. You four need to get to the Golden Coast and keep a low profile—like doing some guild missions or something—until I can come by and try to give the next instructions..." Harmony looked up at the sky. "Crap. I need to go before Dialga sees me. See you later!" She used Teleport and disappeared.

Cord sighed. "Well, all this and we didn't get a Blast Seed."

"I wouldn't say that." Chris grabbed something behind him and showed it to everyone.

It was a Blast Seed.

"How did you—?!"

"Simple. I grabbed the item while we were running toward Swampert earlier."

I took a sigh of relief... You know what? I think Chris is going to be a great human to get to know.

*Game File Saved*