Return of the Continummby Cipher800ChaptersArrivalA Tale of Two QsMysterious Dreams of Mysteries and the Mysterious Mr. NThe Monster King AwakensArrivalIt was several months since Arceus had escaped his prison and brought the Pokémon to Equis. Everyone got used to the new residents and their strange characteristics. It took a while, and with a little persuasion, Pokémon were widely accepted in Equis, with a few still opposing countries of course. While Equestria, Griffonheim, the Changeling Empire, Marelantis, Zebrica, the Buffalo Cheifdom and Candia widely accepted them, Saddle Arabia, Minos, and the dragons still reject them for ridiculous reasons. King Faris of Saddle Arabia disliked them because they threaten tradition while the minotaurs hated them because they feel threatened. But when the mane six go to stop an equality-driven unicorn, a race far more ancient and powerful than even Arceus was watching them all that time, and they decided it was time to reveal themselves. Beware the Q. SYSTEM BOOTING... INSTALLIZING UPDATES... NO UPDATES TO BE FOUND... REBOOTING MAIN UNIT... The AI awoke, feeling power once more running to it. It was dormant for millions of years by now, it guessed. PRE-DORMANCY COMPOSITION: ARGON WITH TRACES OF OTHER GAS... The AI checked the internal atmosphere in case of any changes happening during its dormancy. SCANNING INTERNAL ATMOSPHERE... CURRENT COMPOSITION: ARGON IS DECREASING SLOWLY, BEING REPLACED BY NITROGEN AND OXYGEN... At that moment, the AI knew something was wrong. Carefully, it surged electricity to the various cameras, looking through each one until it found that a wall in Sector E has a hole in it, and coming out are strange rocks. Those rocks were floating in midair, strange. Those rocks had blue crystals and looked like they had eyes above the white section of their body. They were accompanied by a mole with claws that looked like they were pat of a drill of some kind. Though the only words it hears from them are words like "Excadrill" and "Carbink", coming from them, but it noticed they were, communicating. Almost as if they were sentient. Were they sentient or was it still not functioning right. UNAUTHORIZED LIFEFORMS DETECTED... SCANNING... ROCK CREATURES ARE CRYSTALLINE IN STRUCTURE... NEED SPECIMEN SOON... MOLE CREATURE'S CLAWS ARE MADE OF STRANGE METAL... BETTER DEAL WITH THEM... The AI sent some security droids to "escort" the animals out of the area. GOTTA SEAL THAT HOLE... With the animals out of the way and with a "sample" of one of the rock creatures captured, the AI sent to work, sending maintenance droids to patch in the hole. It will begin experimenting on the intruder soon. PUMPING IN SPARE ARGON GASES... The AI checked to see if there's still damage. But first, it released a camera drone to look around. Celestia woke up from her bed with a yawn. She looked around, and everything seemed normal. Her Ninetales was sleeping by her, and her Ageislash was out patrolling the area, which helped keep it away. She got up and put her royal regalia on and walked out the door. "I hope Twilight and her friends are okay..." she said as she walked out of the hallway. Bio Chem arrived back from an expedition to find a strange village where everyone had the same cutie mark. Two of the four ponies in his team were captured and she had a thought on what they did with them. She can't belive she's thinking this, but a someone she knew what was happening to them, did he? "One cannot estimate your friends, Celestia..." Arceus said as he came in with his signature gold flash. He walked up to her, looking distantly, and then, he had a shocked look in his eyes. "What is it? What do you feel?" Celestia said, waving a hoof in front of the Alpha Pokémon's eyes. "I sense a presence arriving, it's even stronger than I am..." Arceus said with a mouthless frown. "You are right, Alpha Pokémon. I am the presence you sense." a voice said. It was male in sound and had a moderate pitch. There was also a tinge of an accent, possibly Unovan? "Show yourself, presence. What do you want?" Arceus said. Even though he can hear the voice and sense the presence, he cannot actually see it. "Oh well. Since you asked sooooo nicely, I can pop in for a visit." the presence said sarcastically. With a flash of light, the presence took the form of a tall male Caucasian human with light brown hair and green eyes. He was wearing an outfit similar to what the soilders of the American Revolution wore. "I present thyself to thee as a fellow colonist so you may understand me." the being said. "Excuse me?" Arceus said, looking offended. He didn't colonize, he was trying to save HIS Pokémon and a few select humans from the more evil people. "I don't know who you are or why you are accusing Arceus of bringing the Pokémon here so they can be safe from harm's way, but could you please leave us alone." Celestia said. "No, I am not leaving until I fulfill some objectives, and to answer your first question, we call ourselves the Q, well, we are all named Q. It's all pretty much the same thing, yes. And we want you gone." the Q being said. When the door opened to reveal an earth pony mare, a male Luxray and a female Sylveon, the Q being turned his head at them, causing a barrier to form and the door to close. "Not cool!" the Sylveon said as the door slammed. "Arceus, the millennia go by so rapidly, perhaps you shall understand this better." With a flash of light, the Q was in an outfit that a 1940s U.S. General wore. "Actually, the issue at stake is patriotism. You must return to your world and put an end to Team Rocket. All it takes are a few good people, or Pokémon in your case." the Q being said. "That nonsense is months behind me, even if it wasn't I don't have the power anymore. I have moved to different interests now and I'm making rapid progress with the locals." Arceus said. "Oh, you wanna see your rapid progress with the locals?" the Q said. With another flash of light, he appeared in some kind of white armor with tinges of black here and there. That reminded Arceus of the 'storm troopers' he saw when looking at other universes during his imprisonment. Just then, Luna walked into the room. "Rapid progress: in which Celestia controls the populace with drugs." the Q said with a fake frown. "Hey! Thou can't talk to my sister like that." Luna said as Celestia glared at the Q in anger with a blush on her face, already feeling offended by the Q. But they all knew for certain that the Q being was up to something. "You feel it, don't you? And to think that struggles would be ended, even more struggles will come. History is doomed to repeat itself, and when you aren't careful, bad things will happen." the Q said in a mocking tone. He waved his hand in an outward motion, as if he was swatting a fly, and suddenly, Celestia's gravity increased on her. "Are you alright, sister." Luna said as she came to her own sister, checking if she was alright. "That'll show you what'll happen when you aren't careful. You came in, and you have provided the beacon to find a special someone that the Continuum wants back. Someone else very close to him gonna go fetch him back. This is not the last you'll see of me or any other Q." the Q said as he vanished in a flash of light. "A new threat has arrived to Equis. I only pray for the best..." Arceus said as he adjusted Celestia's gravity back to normal. He gazed in the sky, knowing one thing: that it won't be the last of it. Author's Note Now, spoiler alert: the Q increasing Celestia's gravity foreshadows something big coming along. They don't really want the Pokémon gone, that's like in the Encounter at Farpoint. A Tale of Two QsThe city of Canterlot was bustling with activity, and so was a certain draconeqqus, which according to Cheerlie, was a creature with the head of a pony and a body of all sorts of things. His name was Discord, and he was the last of his kind, or that's what he told itself. He was in his room in Canterlot that he made himself, hoping Fluttershy was okay. Discord has the head of a pony, a deer's right antler, a goat's left horn and beard, a long serpentine body that was covered in brown fur, a lion arm, an eagle claw, a lizard foot, a deer leg, two mismatched wings, and a long red tail. "Maybe some quiet time will help me relax. All I hope is that Fluttershy is okay." Discord said. He snapped his fingers and teleported to a park, where he sat on another tree with some Pidgeys and Flecthlings accompanying him. "Mister, what's wrong?" a male Pidgey said. "My friend is gone for a friendship mission to stop an equal-crazed madmare, and I'm left to manage her cottage, which is fine with me. I guess I'll summon some raktajino to ease me." Discord said as he snapped his fingers, summoning a cup of some black liquid. "What's raktajino? Please tell us?" a female Fletchling said, using her cuteness to her advantage. "That's new, even for me. I'm very old, I meant to summon some tea but this came." Discord said as he took a sip. "It's ghastly, you better not drink that stuff." Discord said as he made the cup disappear. That was new, even though he was 2,389 years old, he never knew of that before. "It's coffee, no, that was made by humans. THAT was a horrible Klingon excuse for it." a cocky voice said. "Thanks for the tip, I thought you said you never knew, but what's a Klingon?" the Pidge said. "I didn't say that..." Discord said. "Forgetting me soon, pity. It took me 2,389 years to find you. Now I'm here." With a flash of light, there was another draconeqqus. He did not have the head of a pony, but instead his head was that of a grey wolf's. His horns were the same, reminiscent of that of a Chinese dragon's antlers. His serpentine body had the same grey fur as his head. He shared Discord's lion arm, eagle's claw, and lizard's foot. Instead of a deer hoof, he had a snow leopard's foot. His long tail was covered in beautiful sea green scales that resemble Queen Oceania's scales, it also had a grey tuft at the end. While he had a bird wing and a bat wing like Discord, they were bigger and looked suited for flight. Instead of a mane, the new draconeqqus had a row of dull green spines going from his head all the way to the near tip of his tail. While his pupils were lopsided, his eyes were the same size, under bushy white eyebrows. Discord looked around, and everyone except for him, the Pidgeys, the Fletchlings, and the other draconeqqus was all grey and frozen in time. The new draconeqqus flew up to Discord as the various bird Pokémon backed away. "There you are, Q, it's been so long." the new draconeqqus said as he pulled a tendril of memory from Discord's head. "My name is Discord, whoever you are. Har har with the jokes, I though I was the last of my kind..." "Well, all appearances to the contrary, if you didn't create them..." the other draconeqqus said as he viewed the memory. "I don't know what your talking about..." Discord said. "It appears that this is Earth itself. Now, come for a stroll with me, if you may." "I don't know who you are or why you are here, but this is my turf, bub." Discord said, crossing his arms at the intruder. "Alright, alright, since you don't remember, I'll start, Discord. We are not draconeqqui to begin with, we come from a realm called the Q Continuum. We have no names, so we call ourselves Q." the Q being said as he waved his hand, and suddenly they were not in the tree. Instead, they were at a mesa area. At the mesa was a town of two rows of houses arranged in an equal sign. "With the naming convention you established, I guess you can still call me Q, if you may." he said as the they walked at the town, which was still stopped in time, and still grey in color. Even with the grey, Discord can see something off with the town's citizens. There were no Pokémon, only ponies. What's even odder was that they all had the same cutie mark: an equal sign. Discord didn't know what color since everything was grey. "Your friends are being conditioned by the insane unicorn known as Starlight Glimmer. I'm not spoiling it, but their pets are probably pinned like the animals they are." the Q said as Discord looked on. "They took Fluttershy..." Discord said before the Q being looked at him. "She doesn't care for you. None of them. It's all part of the act, see. They adore their widdle system soooo much that they are willing enough to control Arceus." the Q said as he pointed his lion paw at Fluttershy. "Fluttershy will never, I knew her too well to listen to that garbage." Discord said. "But did you know anything about them? Of course not, losing your memory made you very naïve. Let's look at another place." the Q said with another flash of light. Now, they were at an arena. Discord saw ponies surrounding the chairs to watch starved Pokémon fight it out. All in a standstill. At that moment, he knew it must be the past. "When unwatched, ponies are racist and will-" "Alright buster, stop trying to tempt me into going with you. You were trying to manipulate me, I can feel it well. I know that trick because I invented it. Now, I-" Discord was interrupted by the Q being. "So, you didn't fall for that. Even when you don't remember, you are a tough cookie to crack. Especially when it comes from your long lost brother..." the Q said as he took a drink from one of the ponies and sipped on it. "Party's over, I'm an only child. Aside from my tribe, I never knew any other draconeqqui." Discord said. "Sorry to say this, big bro, but there aren't any draconeqqui to begin with. You just created them when you got there." "I was born a draconeqqus. And to prove it to you, look." Discord aimed to hold out a baby picture of himself and of his parents, but there was nothing there. "Drat. I probably left it back at my room." Discord said. "You believed and quite literally lived a false past, Q. I have to admit, your meddling in the time stream fooled everyone here, even Arceus and Dialga. We need you back, Q." "Discord." Discord corrected, starting to get annoyed with the Q. "You have been deluding yourself too long Q, I'm sorry." the Q being said. With another flash of light, they were back at his bedroom in the present, except it was still grey as time was still stopped.. "You went too far. So far that you changed time itself to suit the needs of your depression. No amount of friendship that the ponies have will make them understand you better than us." "Us? What do you mean by us?" Discord said. "What I mean by "us" is your people. Your real people. Not draconeqqui, but the Q back at the continuum. Your real species, your real home, your real family. Are you happy HERE?" the Q being said in an almost pleading tone. "I don't care what your beef with me is, and to let you know, that form doesn't fool me." Discord said. "The only being your fooling is yourself, Q. More fool the Q. Think about it." the being said. With a flash of light, the Q was gone. The color was back to normal and time seemed to be working properly. Sighing, Discord went to the psychiatrist to talk about what happened and the encounter with the Q being. All the while, the words echoed through his mind. It was good that the psychiatrist was a Psychic-type Pokémon, it would make things way easier. Meanwhile, up in space, the Q was staring at his own big brother walking to talk about their encounter. "And now, to reverse the changes my brother did to the timeline." the Q said as he jumped into the time stream and got to work on fixing the timeline. He'll probably have company soon. Author's Note So yeah, that was it. The arena was a reference to "A New World, A Fearful Way", but it is not the same arena. If there are any more dark areas, I'll add the dark tag. Until then, toodaloo. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! P.S.: When Zuesdemigod gets ANWANW up and loading again, I'll do it unless I'm in the mood to continue on. If anyone wants, post their picture of the Q's draconeqqus form down below in your comments. Mysterious Dreams of Mysteries and the Mysterious Mr. NIt was a day or so since the Q introduced himself in front of Arceus and the Royal Sisters. He hasn't been heard of since, but he said that it wouldn't be the last of him OR ANY OTHER Q. What did he mean by that? Arceus knew that there would be more of him. The Q being said that there was a special someone that this Continuum thing wanted back. There was obviously more of them. The therapist and Discord shed a little light on the Q, and told Discord that he was hiding a secret even from himself. One that gives him a strong connection to the Q, but hasn't figured out what it is. Now, it has been a day and three and a half hours in linear time since the events of the Q incident. Night has fell and both princesses are asleep, living within the dreams. Celestia couldn't believe it. One moment, she was dreaming a peaceful dream and in the next moment she and her sister were forcibly dragged into a shared dream. It was dark, and what little light that went in showed that they were in their old castle. "Dear sister, what is this weird magic. Could this be a trick of the Q?" Celestia said. Luna only sighed and said "Nay, the energy feels too different, it feels almost like ours." "Is this another trick of whatever magic they have?" Celestia said. "A trick, you say? While I love a good trick as much as the next fat person, there's no magic involved. Same for the Pokemon. But against all evidence, you still claim anything you don't know of as magic. Classic little ponies." a voice said. It was male in tone and had bits of Manehattanite and Trottingham accent in it. It was projected into their minds in an extremely similar way to the telepathy heard from Legendary Pokemon. "Who are you, are you another Pokemon?" Celestia said in a quizzical tone. "No, no, no. I am nothing of the sort. Don't you remember me? I remember you just fine... but I will give you the first letter of my name: I am Nathan, but you can call me Mr. N, if you may." the newly christened Nathan said. Nathan? That's a human name! Was he- "Once human? Yes, but I'm not connected to Arceus. A few million years or so before you were born, humans, ones that were very similar to what Mew had birthed, were the sole sentient species of this world." "Describe the world that came before us, the one you came from." Luna said, intrigued. "Well, for starters, the moon and sun of the current Earth are fakes, falsies that were set up when the world was knocked out of its own solar system. Due to the original sun and moon's properties and the world's tilt, weather didn't need to be controlled like it does now. No, no no. It went all on its own, like an automatic pencil sharpener." Mr. N said. "And before you ask, no, there were NO Pokemon, none, nada, zip. Animals were very familiar and then, there was no such thing as magic of any sorts. Light magic, dark magic, chaos magic, all of it, null. No magic." "Impossible, there is no such thing as a world without magic." Luna said. "Sorry to say this, but there is. Earth, or Equis as you know it, lacked magic in my day. Many different species alive and extinct can thrive in a non-magical world just fine. You ponies, on the other hand, you literally cannot live without magic. If you aren't in a magical field, you'll explode into smithereens, turn to stone, or just simply fade away. Not my problem, when an alicorn dies, their power goes straight to me. Little quirk I added into your genetic code." Mr. N explained. "You... how could you?" Celestia said. "How could I indeed... look behind you and you'll see me." Both sisters looked behind to see a bipedal figure clad in a trench coat and a fedora. The being walked towards them as the background changed. Everything became vibrant and lush. The dark corridors were replaced by a vibrant meadow with lush grass and flowers with the occasional tree here and there. "I... I feel something, is it one of your tricks?" Luna said. "No, it's no trick. That place was as good as real, lost into the depths of history and never appeared in any maps because no one had ever been there, except you, me, and a few select individuals." Mr. N said. "This place, this sanctuary, was my first gift to you, the place where you came into being." "Wait up, our parents birthed us in this place? How did they not tell us?" Celestia said. "I'd say you didn't have parents when Q came along and screwed things up in order to become Discord." Mr. N said as he walked around the two sisters. "And to tell you this, once the timeline gets back on track, I've got big plans coming." Fire encircled the royal sisters, not the standard fire, but a rainbow-colored fire. The cutie marks of Twilight and her friends formed from the fire as the sun and moon rose up and seemingly fused into one body. The fire intensified and the cutie marks began spinning faster and faster, frightening both Celestia and Luna, who both held each other, "And they involve you. You think there will be sunshine and rainbows around the corner. I thought so too when I was young. But know this!" Celestia and Luna turned to see Mr. N, only that he was as big as Canterlot Castle. "A darkness approaches, a day will come when everything we care about will change. Until I return, I bid you adieu." The fires calmed down, and the next thing they know, it looks like they're in the night sky, without any solid ground. "Now get lost." "Gyah!" Celestia shouted as she bolted awake. She looked around, seeing her bedroom. Looking around, she saw nothing unusual. Just her old bedroom with her Ninetales sleeping right beside her. "That's the last time I eat a whole cake before bed!" Celestia said before looking at the clock. "It's midnight, guess I'll go back to sleep." Celestia said. Looks like she'll be cranky in the morning. Meanwhile, in the dreamscape, Mr. N wandered out of Celestia and Luna's door, still in his fedora and trench coat. Without them knowing, he placed something in their heads that allowed him to see through their eyes and hear through their ears, literally. Not even someone like Arceus would expect to find his little spy cameras in Celestia and Luna's most private and embarrassing moments that no right-minded person would look in. And as an added bonus, he can rummage through their thoughts and memories without being detected, again, since where it was placed. "Good. The alterations Q/Discord made to the timeline have weakened enough for me to influence the dream world. I'm trapped here in the dream world, but it's still better than time limbo." Mr. N said. He walked across the door with his gloved hands behind his back. He wandered around for a while and went into another section of the dream world that Luna didn't even have a clue about. This was the lowest and deepest plane in the dream world, a place of severe prolonged comas and enchanted hyper-sleep. As of now, this is home. With a little stolen dream magic and a few other things, he set up a nice little cottage. It was a nice two-story wooden house with a stony-first floor. The roof was of brown shingles, kind of giving that old medieval feel that he saw in his trips in the Netherlands when he competed in the Olympics. He pulled a golden sphere out of his trench coat and looked into it. Conked out like a light, evidently not in the dream world yet. He placed it and a nearby blue sphere into a TV of sorts and sat on a chair, holding a remote. "Now, let's see what you have in store down Memory Lane and see what I've missed when in time limbo." Author's Note Yes, I know that I told you that I'd do it when ANWANW would start going back, but when I saw why he was delaying it, I'd have to break my promises, sorry. Alright, so we have a new character, a weird dream entity known as Mr N. Not much is known about him, and his full identity will be revealed later on, but I'll talk about the new gimmick that I've made for the story. I call it time limbo. Say, in the Grandfather Paradox, when you go back in time to kill your grandpa when he was an infant, you wouldn't exist, and time must correct itself. Anything, individuals, objects, if they aren't supposed to exist, they'll go into time limbo. But, if you killed your grandpa, you'll both be spat right back into the normal world. But if someone else kills your grandpa, you'll both get permanently taken into time limbo until someone or something reverses the damage. So, when Q got depressed over the death of his family, he came to Earth, which was knocked out of orbit, he changed the timeline and sent tons of individuals, objects, and anything else into time limbo. Of course, there were some beings who knew how to avoid situations, like the Time Lords. Yes, in this story, Doctor Whooves, or Time Turner, is the Doctor from Doctor Who in this story. And yeah, expect time slips to appear. The Monster King Awakens???'s PoV, 4th wall aware Location: Unknown The last thing I remembered was a war. Humanity fought me hard, and finally won. I didn't die, per se. No, those annoying insects locked me away in ice to rot. How long was I out? I opened my eyes to find myself lying in the bottom of an ocean trench in a different position then when I've been frozen in ice. Where am I, and how long was I trapped in the ice? Where am I to speak. I cannot answer this question, but I can tell you who I am. I am Godzilla, the so-called King of Monsters. I'm not a king, but I've been through a lot. My species was the last of the non-avian dinosaurs, a theropod the humans named after me. They've caused me a lot of pain when they bombed Hiroshima. My friends, my family, they're all dead thanks to those idiots. So, I returned the favor nine years later, but those insects created a weapon known as the Oxygen Destroyer and used it on me, killing me, or so they thought. Learn never to underestimate us kaiju. I had many more adventures, a crazy scientist created a plant monster, a duel against a three-headed dragon, a fight against elegance in moth form, a battle with a robotic and an extraterrestrial version of me, and escaped the bowels of Hell itself! All in a matter of a few years before man imprisoned me. Though, you have probably heard of that. Now, back to the now. I swam up the trench, expecting to find normal fish, but boy, was I wrong? Instead, I found various creatures, in what I didn't know of at the time. Jawless fish with arms, serpentine fish, alligators that are fully aquatic, an otter with swords, and sharks without their rears. They looked normal, alright, but they were able to harness the elements and attempted to unleash them on me, but to no avail. These new animals seemed, almost sentient, by the looks of it. I wondered how long I was gone. Has all life really become sentient? I must know how long I was gone for. Ignoring the animals, I swam forth, closing my eyes. Was it another afterlife? Was it a dream? I'm curious. But curiosity is for later. I'm feeling very hungry. Very, very hungry. I saw a whale with four fins nearby. I'm not sure if it's sentient, but it'll do, for now. I charged for my prey, which summoned some rocks that flew towards me, but I simply slashed at all of them. The whale tried to attack me again, but I wedged my claw into its heart and killed it. I swam away with my kill as the other creatures swam away from me in fear as I went into a nearby cave. I had no permanent home, but I guess I might have to since I don't know anything about these strange creatures, but I do know they have strange abilities. Before I went into the cave, I looked behind to see a giant coral reef. It was getting dark, and I have to make myself at home and deal with any intruders. If I don't scare them, then the whale impaled by my claw would. Normal PoV Location: Hall of Legends Arceus sighed, closing his eyes. Turned out that the Q being was changing the timestream, saying that he's changing it back to its original state. If the Q being was right, then Discord really was a fettered Q. "Father, there's something wrong with the timeline." a voice said. Arceus looked back to see his son, Dialga. "I sensed that, Dialga. You better keep an eye on the timeline and make sure that us and the natives of Equis would turn out to be safe from the change in time, mainly the native races." Arceus said. He did not trust the Q, but just one of them are far stronger than him even at the very moment in time he was born, and he thought he was truly omnipotent at the time. "Dad. I'm coming with you, too." Celebi said as she teleported towards Dialga. "I've heard the whole thing about the Q being, and I've heard that he stopped time to talk to Discord. And then the royal sisters got a visit in the dreams from a shady 'Mr. N' character." Mewtwo said as he teleported in. Darkrai and Cresselia teleported in, hearing about the dream. "We saw the whole thing. We tried to stop him, but he was able to shove us out." Darkrai replied. "And what's weird is that Celestia and Luna don't remember the incident." Cresselia said. "Huh. This Mr. N character seems to be psychic, so it seems. So we have two problems: Mr. N is in the dream world, probably causing havoc while the Q are changing the timestream in the physical world. Alright, Dialga, Celebi, I wish you two luck. I still have a lot of gifts to deliver to the rulers of Equis, so I'll have my hooves tied for now. I wish you luck." Arceus said as everyone teleported away except for Darkrai and Cresselia. "Cresselia, do you think we should get something to eat before we look out for this Mr. N character?" Darkrai said. "Yes, I'll be there in a few seconds." Cresselia replied as Darkrai teleported to another resteranunt. "Solgaleo, Lunala, where are you?" Cresselia thought out loud before teleporting to her fiance/husband.
ArrivalIt was several months since Arceus had escaped his prison and brought the Pokémon to Equis. Everyone got used to the new residents and their strange characteristics. It took a while, and with a little persuasion, Pokémon were widely accepted in Equis, with a few still opposing countries of course. While Equestria, Griffonheim, the Changeling Empire, Marelantis, Zebrica, the Buffalo Cheifdom and Candia widely accepted them, Saddle Arabia, Minos, and the dragons still reject them for ridiculous reasons. King Faris of Saddle Arabia disliked them because they threaten tradition while the minotaurs hated them because they feel threatened. But when the mane six go to stop an equality-driven unicorn, a race far more ancient and powerful than even Arceus was watching them all that time, and they decided it was time to reveal themselves. Beware the Q. SYSTEM BOOTING... INSTALLIZING UPDATES... NO UPDATES TO BE FOUND... REBOOTING MAIN UNIT... The AI awoke, feeling power once more running to it. It was dormant for millions of years by now, it guessed. PRE-DORMANCY COMPOSITION: ARGON WITH TRACES OF OTHER GAS... The AI checked the internal atmosphere in case of any changes happening during its dormancy. SCANNING INTERNAL ATMOSPHERE... CURRENT COMPOSITION: ARGON IS DECREASING SLOWLY, BEING REPLACED BY NITROGEN AND OXYGEN... At that moment, the AI knew something was wrong. Carefully, it surged electricity to the various cameras, looking through each one until it found that a wall in Sector E has a hole in it, and coming out are strange rocks. Those rocks were floating in midair, strange. Those rocks had blue crystals and looked like they had eyes above the white section of their body. They were accompanied by a mole with claws that looked like they were pat of a drill of some kind. Though the only words it hears from them are words like "Excadrill" and "Carbink", coming from them, but it noticed they were, communicating. Almost as if they were sentient. Were they sentient or was it still not functioning right. UNAUTHORIZED LIFEFORMS DETECTED... SCANNING... ROCK CREATURES ARE CRYSTALLINE IN STRUCTURE... NEED SPECIMEN SOON... MOLE CREATURE'S CLAWS ARE MADE OF STRANGE METAL... BETTER DEAL WITH THEM... The AI sent some security droids to "escort" the animals out of the area. GOTTA SEAL THAT HOLE... With the animals out of the way and with a "sample" of one of the rock creatures captured, the AI sent to work, sending maintenance droids to patch in the hole. It will begin experimenting on the intruder soon. PUMPING IN SPARE ARGON GASES... The AI checked to see if there's still damage. But first, it released a camera drone to look around. Celestia woke up from her bed with a yawn. She looked around, and everything seemed normal. Her Ninetales was sleeping by her, and her Ageislash was out patrolling the area, which helped keep it away. She got up and put her royal regalia on and walked out the door. "I hope Twilight and her friends are okay..." she said as she walked out of the hallway. Bio Chem arrived back from an expedition to find a strange village where everyone had the same cutie mark. Two of the four ponies in his team were captured and she had a thought on what they did with them. She can't belive she's thinking this, but a someone she knew what was happening to them, did he? "One cannot estimate your friends, Celestia..." Arceus said as he came in with his signature gold flash. He walked up to her, looking distantly, and then, he had a shocked look in his eyes. "What is it? What do you feel?" Celestia said, waving a hoof in front of the Alpha Pokémon's eyes. "I sense a presence arriving, it's even stronger than I am..." Arceus said with a mouthless frown. "You are right, Alpha Pokémon. I am the presence you sense." a voice said. It was male in sound and had a moderate pitch. There was also a tinge of an accent, possibly Unovan? "Show yourself, presence. What do you want?" Arceus said. Even though he can hear the voice and sense the presence, he cannot actually see it. "Oh well. Since you asked sooooo nicely, I can pop in for a visit." the presence said sarcastically. With a flash of light, the presence took the form of a tall male Caucasian human with light brown hair and green eyes. He was wearing an outfit similar to what the soilders of the American Revolution wore. "I present thyself to thee as a fellow colonist so you may understand me." the being said. "Excuse me?" Arceus said, looking offended. He didn't colonize, he was trying to save HIS Pokémon and a few select humans from the more evil people. "I don't know who you are or why you are accusing Arceus of bringing the Pokémon here so they can be safe from harm's way, but could you please leave us alone." Celestia said. "No, I am not leaving until I fulfill some objectives, and to answer your first question, we call ourselves the Q, well, we are all named Q. It's all pretty much the same thing, yes. And we want you gone." the Q being said. When the door opened to reveal an earth pony mare, a male Luxray and a female Sylveon, the Q being turned his head at them, causing a barrier to form and the door to close. "Not cool!" the Sylveon said as the door slammed. "Arceus, the millennia go by so rapidly, perhaps you shall understand this better." With a flash of light, the Q was in an outfit that a 1940s U.S. General wore. "Actually, the issue at stake is patriotism. You must return to your world and put an end to Team Rocket. All it takes are a few good people, or Pokémon in your case." the Q being said. "That nonsense is months behind me, even if it wasn't I don't have the power anymore. I have moved to different interests now and I'm making rapid progress with the locals." Arceus said. "Oh, you wanna see your rapid progress with the locals?" the Q said. With another flash of light, he appeared in some kind of white armor with tinges of black here and there. That reminded Arceus of the 'storm troopers' he saw when looking at other universes during his imprisonment. Just then, Luna walked into the room. "Rapid progress: in which Celestia controls the populace with drugs." the Q said with a fake frown. "Hey! Thou can't talk to my sister like that." Luna said as Celestia glared at the Q in anger with a blush on her face, already feeling offended by the Q. But they all knew for certain that the Q being was up to something. "You feel it, don't you? And to think that struggles would be ended, even more struggles will come. History is doomed to repeat itself, and when you aren't careful, bad things will happen." the Q said in a mocking tone. He waved his hand in an outward motion, as if he was swatting a fly, and suddenly, Celestia's gravity increased on her. "Are you alright, sister." Luna said as she came to her own sister, checking if she was alright. "That'll show you what'll happen when you aren't careful. You came in, and you have provided the beacon to find a special someone that the Continuum wants back. Someone else very close to him gonna go fetch him back. This is not the last you'll see of me or any other Q." the Q said as he vanished in a flash of light. "A new threat has arrived to Equis. I only pray for the best..." Arceus said as he adjusted Celestia's gravity back to normal. He gazed in the sky, knowing one thing: that it won't be the last of it. Author's Note Now, spoiler alert: the Q increasing Celestia's gravity foreshadows something big coming along. They don't really want the Pokémon gone, that's like in the Encounter at Farpoint.
A Tale of Two QsThe city of Canterlot was bustling with activity, and so was a certain draconeqqus, which according to Cheerlie, was a creature with the head of a pony and a body of all sorts of things. His name was Discord, and he was the last of his kind, or that's what he told itself. He was in his room in Canterlot that he made himself, hoping Fluttershy was okay. Discord has the head of a pony, a deer's right antler, a goat's left horn and beard, a long serpentine body that was covered in brown fur, a lion arm, an eagle claw, a lizard foot, a deer leg, two mismatched wings, and a long red tail. "Maybe some quiet time will help me relax. All I hope is that Fluttershy is okay." Discord said. He snapped his fingers and teleported to a park, where he sat on another tree with some Pidgeys and Flecthlings accompanying him. "Mister, what's wrong?" a male Pidgey said. "My friend is gone for a friendship mission to stop an equal-crazed madmare, and I'm left to manage her cottage, which is fine with me. I guess I'll summon some raktajino to ease me." Discord said as he snapped his fingers, summoning a cup of some black liquid. "What's raktajino? Please tell us?" a female Fletchling said, using her cuteness to her advantage. "That's new, even for me. I'm very old, I meant to summon some tea but this came." Discord said as he took a sip. "It's ghastly, you better not drink that stuff." Discord said as he made the cup disappear. That was new, even though he was 2,389 years old, he never knew of that before. "It's coffee, no, that was made by humans. THAT was a horrible Klingon excuse for it." a cocky voice said. "Thanks for the tip, I thought you said you never knew, but what's a Klingon?" the Pidge said. "I didn't say that..." Discord said. "Forgetting me soon, pity. It took me 2,389 years to find you. Now I'm here." With a flash of light, there was another draconeqqus. He did not have the head of a pony, but instead his head was that of a grey wolf's. His horns were the same, reminiscent of that of a Chinese dragon's antlers. His serpentine body had the same grey fur as his head. He shared Discord's lion arm, eagle's claw, and lizard's foot. Instead of a deer hoof, he had a snow leopard's foot. His long tail was covered in beautiful sea green scales that resemble Queen Oceania's scales, it also had a grey tuft at the end. While he had a bird wing and a bat wing like Discord, they were bigger and looked suited for flight. Instead of a mane, the new draconeqqus had a row of dull green spines going from his head all the way to the near tip of his tail. While his pupils were lopsided, his eyes were the same size, under bushy white eyebrows. Discord looked around, and everyone except for him, the Pidgeys, the Fletchlings, and the other draconeqqus was all grey and frozen in time. The new draconeqqus flew up to Discord as the various bird Pokémon backed away. "There you are, Q, it's been so long." the new draconeqqus said as he pulled a tendril of memory from Discord's head. "My name is Discord, whoever you are. Har har with the jokes, I though I was the last of my kind..." "Well, all appearances to the contrary, if you didn't create them..." the other draconeqqus said as he viewed the memory. "I don't know what your talking about..." Discord said. "It appears that this is Earth itself. Now, come for a stroll with me, if you may." "I don't know who you are or why you are here, but this is my turf, bub." Discord said, crossing his arms at the intruder. "Alright, alright, since you don't remember, I'll start, Discord. We are not draconeqqui to begin with, we come from a realm called the Q Continuum. We have no names, so we call ourselves Q." the Q being said as he waved his hand, and suddenly they were not in the tree. Instead, they were at a mesa area. At the mesa was a town of two rows of houses arranged in an equal sign. "With the naming convention you established, I guess you can still call me Q, if you may." he said as the they walked at the town, which was still stopped in time, and still grey in color. Even with the grey, Discord can see something off with the town's citizens. There were no Pokémon, only ponies. What's even odder was that they all had the same cutie mark: an equal sign. Discord didn't know what color since everything was grey. "Your friends are being conditioned by the insane unicorn known as Starlight Glimmer. I'm not spoiling it, but their pets are probably pinned like the animals they are." the Q said as Discord looked on. "They took Fluttershy..." Discord said before the Q being looked at him. "She doesn't care for you. None of them. It's all part of the act, see. They adore their widdle system soooo much that they are willing enough to control Arceus." the Q said as he pointed his lion paw at Fluttershy. "Fluttershy will never, I knew her too well to listen to that garbage." Discord said. "But did you know anything about them? Of course not, losing your memory made you very naïve. Let's look at another place." the Q said with another flash of light. Now, they were at an arena. Discord saw ponies surrounding the chairs to watch starved Pokémon fight it out. All in a standstill. At that moment, he knew it must be the past. "When unwatched, ponies are racist and will-" "Alright buster, stop trying to tempt me into going with you. You were trying to manipulate me, I can feel it well. I know that trick because I invented it. Now, I-" Discord was interrupted by the Q being. "So, you didn't fall for that. Even when you don't remember, you are a tough cookie to crack. Especially when it comes from your long lost brother..." the Q said as he took a drink from one of the ponies and sipped on it. "Party's over, I'm an only child. Aside from my tribe, I never knew any other draconeqqui." Discord said. "Sorry to say this, big bro, but there aren't any draconeqqui to begin with. You just created them when you got there." "I was born a draconeqqus. And to prove it to you, look." Discord aimed to hold out a baby picture of himself and of his parents, but there was nothing there. "Drat. I probably left it back at my room." Discord said. "You believed and quite literally lived a false past, Q. I have to admit, your meddling in the time stream fooled everyone here, even Arceus and Dialga. We need you back, Q." "Discord." Discord corrected, starting to get annoyed with the Q. "You have been deluding yourself too long Q, I'm sorry." the Q being said. With another flash of light, they were back at his bedroom in the present, except it was still grey as time was still stopped.. "You went too far. So far that you changed time itself to suit the needs of your depression. No amount of friendship that the ponies have will make them understand you better than us." "Us? What do you mean by us?" Discord said. "What I mean by "us" is your people. Your real people. Not draconeqqui, but the Q back at the continuum. Your real species, your real home, your real family. Are you happy HERE?" the Q being said in an almost pleading tone. "I don't care what your beef with me is, and to let you know, that form doesn't fool me." Discord said. "The only being your fooling is yourself, Q. More fool the Q. Think about it." the being said. With a flash of light, the Q was gone. The color was back to normal and time seemed to be working properly. Sighing, Discord went to the psychiatrist to talk about what happened and the encounter with the Q being. All the while, the words echoed through his mind. It was good that the psychiatrist was a Psychic-type Pokémon, it would make things way easier. Meanwhile, up in space, the Q was staring at his own big brother walking to talk about their encounter. "And now, to reverse the changes my brother did to the timeline." the Q said as he jumped into the time stream and got to work on fixing the timeline. He'll probably have company soon. Author's Note So yeah, that was it. The arena was a reference to "A New World, A Fearful Way", but it is not the same arena. If there are any more dark areas, I'll add the dark tag. Until then, toodaloo. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! P.S.: When Zuesdemigod gets ANWANW up and loading again, I'll do it unless I'm in the mood to continue on. If anyone wants, post their picture of the Q's draconeqqus form down below in your comments.
Mysterious Dreams of Mysteries and the Mysterious Mr. NIt was a day or so since the Q introduced himself in front of Arceus and the Royal Sisters. He hasn't been heard of since, but he said that it wouldn't be the last of him OR ANY OTHER Q. What did he mean by that? Arceus knew that there would be more of him. The Q being said that there was a special someone that this Continuum thing wanted back. There was obviously more of them. The therapist and Discord shed a little light on the Q, and told Discord that he was hiding a secret even from himself. One that gives him a strong connection to the Q, but hasn't figured out what it is. Now, it has been a day and three and a half hours in linear time since the events of the Q incident. Night has fell and both princesses are asleep, living within the dreams. Celestia couldn't believe it. One moment, she was dreaming a peaceful dream and in the next moment she and her sister were forcibly dragged into a shared dream. It was dark, and what little light that went in showed that they were in their old castle. "Dear sister, what is this weird magic. Could this be a trick of the Q?" Celestia said. Luna only sighed and said "Nay, the energy feels too different, it feels almost like ours." "Is this another trick of whatever magic they have?" Celestia said. "A trick, you say? While I love a good trick as much as the next fat person, there's no magic involved. Same for the Pokemon. But against all evidence, you still claim anything you don't know of as magic. Classic little ponies." a voice said. It was male in tone and had bits of Manehattanite and Trottingham accent in it. It was projected into their minds in an extremely similar way to the telepathy heard from Legendary Pokemon. "Who are you, are you another Pokemon?" Celestia said in a quizzical tone. "No, no, no. I am nothing of the sort. Don't you remember me? I remember you just fine... but I will give you the first letter of my name: I am Nathan, but you can call me Mr. N, if you may." the newly christened Nathan said. Nathan? That's a human name! Was he- "Once human? Yes, but I'm not connected to Arceus. A few million years or so before you were born, humans, ones that were very similar to what Mew had birthed, were the sole sentient species of this world." "Describe the world that came before us, the one you came from." Luna said, intrigued. "Well, for starters, the moon and sun of the current Earth are fakes, falsies that were set up when the world was knocked out of its own solar system. Due to the original sun and moon's properties and the world's tilt, weather didn't need to be controlled like it does now. No, no no. It went all on its own, like an automatic pencil sharpener." Mr. N said. "And before you ask, no, there were NO Pokemon, none, nada, zip. Animals were very familiar and then, there was no such thing as magic of any sorts. Light magic, dark magic, chaos magic, all of it, null. No magic." "Impossible, there is no such thing as a world without magic." Luna said. "Sorry to say this, but there is. Earth, or Equis as you know it, lacked magic in my day. Many different species alive and extinct can thrive in a non-magical world just fine. You ponies, on the other hand, you literally cannot live without magic. If you aren't in a magical field, you'll explode into smithereens, turn to stone, or just simply fade away. Not my problem, when an alicorn dies, their power goes straight to me. Little quirk I added into your genetic code." Mr. N explained. "You... how could you?" Celestia said. "How could I indeed... look behind you and you'll see me." Both sisters looked behind to see a bipedal figure clad in a trench coat and a fedora. The being walked towards them as the background changed. Everything became vibrant and lush. The dark corridors were replaced by a vibrant meadow with lush grass and flowers with the occasional tree here and there. "I... I feel something, is it one of your tricks?" Luna said. "No, it's no trick. That place was as good as real, lost into the depths of history and never appeared in any maps because no one had ever been there, except you, me, and a few select individuals." Mr. N said. "This place, this sanctuary, was my first gift to you, the place where you came into being." "Wait up, our parents birthed us in this place? How did they not tell us?" Celestia said. "I'd say you didn't have parents when Q came along and screwed things up in order to become Discord." Mr. N said as he walked around the two sisters. "And to tell you this, once the timeline gets back on track, I've got big plans coming." Fire encircled the royal sisters, not the standard fire, but a rainbow-colored fire. The cutie marks of Twilight and her friends formed from the fire as the sun and moon rose up and seemingly fused into one body. The fire intensified and the cutie marks began spinning faster and faster, frightening both Celestia and Luna, who both held each other, "And they involve you. You think there will be sunshine and rainbows around the corner. I thought so too when I was young. But know this!" Celestia and Luna turned to see Mr. N, only that he was as big as Canterlot Castle. "A darkness approaches, a day will come when everything we care about will change. Until I return, I bid you adieu." The fires calmed down, and the next thing they know, it looks like they're in the night sky, without any solid ground. "Now get lost." "Gyah!" Celestia shouted as she bolted awake. She looked around, seeing her bedroom. Looking around, she saw nothing unusual. Just her old bedroom with her Ninetales sleeping right beside her. "That's the last time I eat a whole cake before bed!" Celestia said before looking at the clock. "It's midnight, guess I'll go back to sleep." Celestia said. Looks like she'll be cranky in the morning. Meanwhile, in the dreamscape, Mr. N wandered out of Celestia and Luna's door, still in his fedora and trench coat. Without them knowing, he placed something in their heads that allowed him to see through their eyes and hear through their ears, literally. Not even someone like Arceus would expect to find his little spy cameras in Celestia and Luna's most private and embarrassing moments that no right-minded person would look in. And as an added bonus, he can rummage through their thoughts and memories without being detected, again, since where it was placed. "Good. The alterations Q/Discord made to the timeline have weakened enough for me to influence the dream world. I'm trapped here in the dream world, but it's still better than time limbo." Mr. N said. He walked across the door with his gloved hands behind his back. He wandered around for a while and went into another section of the dream world that Luna didn't even have a clue about. This was the lowest and deepest plane in the dream world, a place of severe prolonged comas and enchanted hyper-sleep. As of now, this is home. With a little stolen dream magic and a few other things, he set up a nice little cottage. It was a nice two-story wooden house with a stony-first floor. The roof was of brown shingles, kind of giving that old medieval feel that he saw in his trips in the Netherlands when he competed in the Olympics. He pulled a golden sphere out of his trench coat and looked into it. Conked out like a light, evidently not in the dream world yet. He placed it and a nearby blue sphere into a TV of sorts and sat on a chair, holding a remote. "Now, let's see what you have in store down Memory Lane and see what I've missed when in time limbo." Author's Note Yes, I know that I told you that I'd do it when ANWANW would start going back, but when I saw why he was delaying it, I'd have to break my promises, sorry. Alright, so we have a new character, a weird dream entity known as Mr N. Not much is known about him, and his full identity will be revealed later on, but I'll talk about the new gimmick that I've made for the story. I call it time limbo. Say, in the Grandfather Paradox, when you go back in time to kill your grandpa when he was an infant, you wouldn't exist, and time must correct itself. Anything, individuals, objects, if they aren't supposed to exist, they'll go into time limbo. But, if you killed your grandpa, you'll both be spat right back into the normal world. But if someone else kills your grandpa, you'll both get permanently taken into time limbo until someone or something reverses the damage. So, when Q got depressed over the death of his family, he came to Earth, which was knocked out of orbit, he changed the timeline and sent tons of individuals, objects, and anything else into time limbo. Of course, there were some beings who knew how to avoid situations, like the Time Lords. Yes, in this story, Doctor Whooves, or Time Turner, is the Doctor from Doctor Who in this story. And yeah, expect time slips to appear.
The Monster King Awakens???'s PoV, 4th wall aware Location: Unknown The last thing I remembered was a war. Humanity fought me hard, and finally won. I didn't die, per se. No, those annoying insects locked me away in ice to rot. How long was I out? I opened my eyes to find myself lying in the bottom of an ocean trench in a different position then when I've been frozen in ice. Where am I, and how long was I trapped in the ice? Where am I to speak. I cannot answer this question, but I can tell you who I am. I am Godzilla, the so-called King of Monsters. I'm not a king, but I've been through a lot. My species was the last of the non-avian dinosaurs, a theropod the humans named after me. They've caused me a lot of pain when they bombed Hiroshima. My friends, my family, they're all dead thanks to those idiots. So, I returned the favor nine years later, but those insects created a weapon known as the Oxygen Destroyer and used it on me, killing me, or so they thought. Learn never to underestimate us kaiju. I had many more adventures, a crazy scientist created a plant monster, a duel against a three-headed dragon, a fight against elegance in moth form, a battle with a robotic and an extraterrestrial version of me, and escaped the bowels of Hell itself! All in a matter of a few years before man imprisoned me. Though, you have probably heard of that. Now, back to the now. I swam up the trench, expecting to find normal fish, but boy, was I wrong? Instead, I found various creatures, in what I didn't know of at the time. Jawless fish with arms, serpentine fish, alligators that are fully aquatic, an otter with swords, and sharks without their rears. They looked normal, alright, but they were able to harness the elements and attempted to unleash them on me, but to no avail. These new animals seemed, almost sentient, by the looks of it. I wondered how long I was gone. Has all life really become sentient? I must know how long I was gone for. Ignoring the animals, I swam forth, closing my eyes. Was it another afterlife? Was it a dream? I'm curious. But curiosity is for later. I'm feeling very hungry. Very, very hungry. I saw a whale with four fins nearby. I'm not sure if it's sentient, but it'll do, for now. I charged for my prey, which summoned some rocks that flew towards me, but I simply slashed at all of them. The whale tried to attack me again, but I wedged my claw into its heart and killed it. I swam away with my kill as the other creatures swam away from me in fear as I went into a nearby cave. I had no permanent home, but I guess I might have to since I don't know anything about these strange creatures, but I do know they have strange abilities. Before I went into the cave, I looked behind to see a giant coral reef. It was getting dark, and I have to make myself at home and deal with any intruders. If I don't scare them, then the whale impaled by my claw would. Normal PoV Location: Hall of Legends Arceus sighed, closing his eyes. Turned out that the Q being was changing the timestream, saying that he's changing it back to its original state. If the Q being was right, then Discord really was a fettered Q. "Father, there's something wrong with the timeline." a voice said. Arceus looked back to see his son, Dialga. "I sensed that, Dialga. You better keep an eye on the timeline and make sure that us and the natives of Equis would turn out to be safe from the change in time, mainly the native races." Arceus said. He did not trust the Q, but just one of them are far stronger than him even at the very moment in time he was born, and he thought he was truly omnipotent at the time. "Dad. I'm coming with you, too." Celebi said as she teleported towards Dialga. "I've heard the whole thing about the Q being, and I've heard that he stopped time to talk to Discord. And then the royal sisters got a visit in the dreams from a shady 'Mr. N' character." Mewtwo said as he teleported in. Darkrai and Cresselia teleported in, hearing about the dream. "We saw the whole thing. We tried to stop him, but he was able to shove us out." Darkrai replied. "And what's weird is that Celestia and Luna don't remember the incident." Cresselia said. "Huh. This Mr. N character seems to be psychic, so it seems. So we have two problems: Mr. N is in the dream world, probably causing havoc while the Q are changing the timestream in the physical world. Alright, Dialga, Celebi, I wish you two luck. I still have a lot of gifts to deliver to the rulers of Equis, so I'll have my hooves tied for now. I wish you luck." Arceus said as everyone teleported away except for Darkrai and Cresselia. "Cresselia, do you think we should get something to eat before we look out for this Mr. N character?" Darkrai said. "Yes, I'll be there in a few seconds." Cresselia replied as Darkrai teleported to another resteranunt. "Solgaleo, Lunala, where are you?" Cresselia thought out loud before teleporting to her fiance/husband.
