King Kirouac woke with a gasp, his pupils dilating to adjust to the bright light. He sat up and squinted.

Where am I? he thought as he started to stand up, grabbing his staff and crown as he did so.

"Kirouac?" he heard. His head swiveled to where the sound came from and saw HELsa running towards him.

"Where are we?" Kirouac asked. HELsa shrugged.

"I don't know, but we aren't in your kingdom anymore," she said. "I've seen these strange little creatures that are completely alien to me."

"Where are Biech and Sliepnir?" Kirouac asked.

"They're just over that hill," HELsa said. "Come on, follow me." HELsa and Kirouac started walking towards the hill when a little brown thing appeared, and looked at then. They stopped.

"Diglet," it said before burrowing back down.

"That's one of the things you were talking about?" Kirouac asked. HELsa nodded.

"Among others," she said. "Now come on, we need to reach the others." They continued walking, and the reached the top of the hill. There, Kirouac and HELsa saw Biech and Sliepnir. And a rhino looking humanoid thing.

"Nidoking!" it roared. As Kirouac and HELsa started running towards the rhino thing and the others, Kirouac noticed that Biech and Sliepnir didn't seemed panicked. If anything, they looked calm. It was then that Kirouac noticed that Sliepnir was holding something in his top right hand. Something spherical. Something red and white. As Kirouac and HELsa reached the bottom of the hill, Sliepnir turned toward them and raised his hand, showing them what it was that he was holding.

"Look what I found!" he said. "It released this thing."

"What if it had been dangerous?" HELsa asked.

"Because the animals didn't act like it was dangerous," Sliepnir said. "Not even when I picked it up."

"That tiny little ball released that?" Kirouac asked, the doubt clear in his voice.

"Surprisingly, yes," Sliepnir said. "Hang on, a second, let me show you." Sliepnir pressed the button on it, and it didn't do anything. He glanced at the thing yelling Nidoking and glanced at the ball. Kirouac knew that he was thinking about something. A second later, Sliepnir did the surprising thing and threw the ball at the thing, and instead of just bouncing off, it let out a red beam of light and hit the thing. The thing started turning into the same red light and entered into the ball. Kirouac's jaw had dropped, as did HELsa's.

"What is that thing?" Kirouac asked. Sliepnir shrugged.

"I don't know, but we should find a city or something," he said. They spent the next hour or so wandering the desert, until they finally found something. A tall, gleaming city with a giant lake next to it.

"Well, at least we found a place to stay for now," Biech said. "Let's meet the locals, shall we?" As they started walking into the city, they noticed the locals giving them strange looks. They had the same general skin tone, so maybe that was why. As they continued on into the center of the city, muttering started happening. Suddenly, a woman in a lab coat appeared in front of them.

"Who are you?" she asked. "Are you one of Hoopa's old playthings?"

"Who's Hoopa?" Kirouac asked hesitantly.

"So you aren't," the woman muttered. "Who Hoopa is isn't important right now, but what is important right now is what to do with you four. You can't be wandering around the city until we figure out what's been going on."

"Have you been experiencing problems recently?" Kirouac asked.

"Yes, new violent species of Pokémon, but I don't think they're Pokémon," the woman said. "Their much smarter than normal Pokémon, and besides, they don't say their name."

"That's their name that they say?" Biech asked. The woman nodded.

"Now, where are you from?" she asked. "And are you a king?" She gestured at the crown on Kirouac's head.

"I am a king. I think we were teleported," Kirouac said.

"Like, interdimensional travel?" the woman asked. Kirouac nodded.

"I believe so," he said. "I've read theories about this, but never thought that it would actually work, but here we are." The woman's eyes were widening, and she actually started to squeal.

"Ohmygod, this is amazing!" she exclaimed. "I need to show you so much stuff! You need to go get some Pokémon, a place to stay, I could help you with so much! Follow me!" she grabbed Kirouac's and Biech's hands and started running with them in tow. Sliepnir looked at HELsa, and they both shrugged as they started running after the woman.

"I should probably tell her I have Nidoking, right?" Sliepnir asked. HELsa nodded.

"We can talk about this later," she said. "Lets just focus on running." Sliepnir had decided to keep a pair of legs folded back to keep in pace with HELsa.

"Ok," Sliepnir said.

Author's Note

I hope you liked this chapter!