-Unknown Location in the Sinnoh Region, Earth-

The field of battle, a plain of crystalline surrounded on all sides by towering mountains and thundering skies. Within the battle zone were but two beings...

Who's raw power would put an entire army to shame...

Dialga glared daggers at his opponent, jaws broiling with building plasma in the form of an Aura Sphere, as it was called by the Pokemon-obsessed humans. As the name implied, it was a massive ball of energy, a mix between plasmatic power and devastating electricity.

His foe, the Spatial Pokemon Palkia, returned the glare with no small amount of menace short of a Tyrantrum. Readying himself to parry the devastating attack and lifting his arms to summon a humming blue shield before him, Palkia uttered a thundering boom of a roar that sounded reminiscent of a tidal wave inside of a hollowed out mountain.

To say that the resulting shockwave that ripped out when the energized shield made contact with a ball of brilliantly glowing energy was powerful was a major understatement. As soon as the Aura Sphere ripped from Dialga's jaws, hurling itself towards Palkia, said Pokemon swung a heavy arm, an explosion ringing out as the two forms of energy made contact.

Both legendary Pokemon stood in a smoldering crater of deep blue crystal, neither fazed by the explosion that crumbled the surrounding mountains.

As the debris began to settle, Dialga, the being who gave birth to time with its own, inhaled deeply, the crystalline orb in the center of his chest glowing to life and a blue-violet light collecting in his jaws.

Palkia, in response, stomped a clawed foot into the ground beneath, momentarily becoming enveloped in a deep purple energy that seemed to shimmer as energy built up inside the dragon-type Pokemon. Just as the energy seemed to diminish, it exploded from Palkia's body, making contact with an explosive beam of blue from Dialga that enveloped the entirety of a full three miles.

The sky seemed to split with a crackling violet cut resembling a horizontal bolt of lightning. Said split traveled as far as the eye could see, vacuuming clouds into the violent crack across the sky.

Both legendary Pokemon halted their actions, looking to the sky above before the realization hit them like an oncoming freight train...

-The Hoenn Region, Earth-

Rayquaza slithered across the sky, Pikachu atop her snout with a satisfied smile at the cool breeze that ruffled through his fur. The legendary serpent, having lived in the ozone layer her whole life, could sense a disruption in the air space that threatened to collide with her.

Jerking aside to avoid a jolt of violet electricity that barreled towards her, Rayquaza was quick to notice a now plummeting Pikachu.

Roaring out in worry, the serpent fell into a dive, holding her arms close to her body to become a blur of green that rocketed towards the now clearly visible earth below that rushed to meet her. A confident glare crossed the dragon-types face as she scooped the lightning mouse up in her jaws, craning back up just feet from a dirt path rarely trodden.

Letting a sigh take overtake her, Rayquaza lifted her jaws open to allow a thankfully unharmed Pikachu to climb up onto her snout and back to his position between the long twin crests that jutted out from the back of her skull.

"PIKA-!!" the Pokemon atop her head panicked, feeling himself being pulled into the air by an invisible force.

Rayquaza whipped around to see Pikachu being pulled into the violet crack in the sky, following clouds obscuring her view of his small form...

That was all that Rayquaza could remember before feeling herself being wrenched toward the same point in the sky.

-Ponyville-

Dapper Jolt sat at the picnic door that sat a few yards from the entrance to a small cafe, awaiting a toasted hay sandwich and glass of pink lemonade after hard day of working helping his father reinforce his at-home garage. The garage itself was in a good state of repair, having been built by the well known mechanic, Bolt Charge, his father. It was, however, in need of insulation for the closer than wanted Winter season.

Another moment passed when Dapper Jolt noticed the waitress approach his table with a tray of food at hoof. The mare cast him a kind smile before taking a small plate and iced glass off of said tray and placing them upon hardwood surface. "Here you are," she smiled with a nod. "Enjoy."

"Thank you," the pegasus stallion acknowledged, returning the smile and nod.

"You are very welcome," the mare obliged before turning back to her work.

Dapper Jolt stole a glance at her attractive form before lifting his sandwich from the small plate before him. The stallion was about to take a well deserved bite when a voice stopped him.

"Pika."

Shifting his view down to a new weight on his lap, Dapper Jolt stared into big black eyes belonging to what appeared to be a long-eared, yellow mouse of some kind. "Uuh... Hi?" he queried, intrigued by the brightly colored rodent.

"Pika-chu!" said rodent chirped, averting its gaze to the sandwich in his hoof.

"You hungry, little guy?" Dapper Jolt asked the odd little critter, gently tearing a piece of toast of of his sandwich and holding it in front of the rodent.

Its nose twitched as it stole a sniff of the food item, quizzically pawing at it for a moment. It was another moment before the mouse gently took the bread from his hoof, nibbling at the morsel with a growing smile.

"You're a cute little guy, arent'cha?" Dapper Jolt grinned, softly stroking its long ear as it finished off the snack.

Rubbing crumbs off of its snout, the mouse's nose twitched a moment longer before it leapt onto the table, promptly snatching the remainder of the sandwich from his hoof, quick to scramble into a hop to escape the one it had robbed.

"OYE!!" Dapper Jolt shouted, jerking up and breaking into a sprint after the animal. He didn't notice the glass of lemonade he knocked over when his knee struck the table. "That is MY sandwich!! Ya bugger, ya!" he yelled angrily, catching up to the rodent in only a couple strides.

It didn't take much to do so, as said mouse was struggling to keep the sandwich together and get away from the victim. But when the stallion lifted the mouse by the tail to reclaim his meal, Dapper was shocked to see sparks shooting off of its red spotted cheeks.

"Pikaa-CHUUUUUU!!!" the rodent erupted with a glare that defied its cute appearance as the pegasus was aquatinted with a powerful jolt of electricity that coursed through his body. Dropping the now electrically charge mouse, the stallion was frozen in place, other than the random spasms that jerked his muscles. Dapper Jolt's mane and tail comically stuck up on end, giving him a faint resemblance to Albert Einstein.

As the electric current dissipated, the stallion shot a spiteful glare at the mouse, watching angrily as it nibbled a now charred black hay sandwich. "You rotten little THIEF!!" he snorted, licking his hoof and running it through his frizzled mane and tail in an attempt to return them to a neutral, less wild look. He proceeded to advance upon the rodent, an angry underbite visible in his expression.

The mouse looked up at the pegasus stallion, eyes popping out at his expression and stomping gait.

Dapper Jolt, before the animal could get away, nabbed it by the tail.

"Pika-" the electric mouse frowned, ears flat against its head despite its current upside-down state.

Before the stallion could say anything more, a large blur of green slammed armored hooves into Dapper Jolt's chest, throwing the stallion against an oak tree with an odd sounding whinny. The sound was almost more reptilian than it was Equestrian, a growl trickling into the battle cry.

Regardless of the masses war cry, the force that struck him hurt like hell as the breath was knocked free of his lungs. An acorn bounced from a branch and off of his head. The stallion didn't notice though; he was too busy gasping to catch his breath and forcing back pained tears. Grimacing, Dapper Jolt collapsed, clutching his belly in pain before fresh air was finally allowed back into his body.

With a groan, the pegasus rose to his hooves, noticing a large bruise developing underneath fields of plush white fur. "Ow," he winced before anger began to reassert itself into his mind. Not only had his lunch been stolen by a damn lightning rat, he was also assaulted by an armor clad pony, whom he'd just now began to get a look at.

It was the oddest pony he'd ever seen short of a gryphon, which doesn't even classify. It was a kirin mare with a short red mane and dragonoid tail common in a kirin, but that wasn't terribly startling to the stallion. It was the four crest that swept off the back of her skull, combined with wing-like dorsal ridges, seemingly segmented tail, complete with bits of armor, and tribal, yellow markings that ran down the length of her body that caught him off guard. She was relatively tall for a kirin, easily on eye level with Princess Luna, if not Celestia. But she was a light build. Which surprised him considering the strength she exerted throwing him against a tree. Her cutie mark was no less baffling. It reminded him vaguely of what a dragon's arrow-headed tail would look like if seen from the side, but curved around and to a point. The arrow bit also possessed what he recognized as what he thought was supposed to be an eye. It was almost like a vectorized profile image of a Gyoas from Toho's Gamera movies.

Shaking aside his curiosity to make way for anger, the stallion spoke. "What the hell was that for?!" he shouted at the kirin mare, confusion quick to drown his anger out. He was oblivious as to why this pony had just attacked him, and wanted an answer.

"You attacked my friend," she snorted, laking any amount of sympathy or respect for the pegasus stallion.

"That.... RAT? Is your friend?!" Dapper Jolt barked, only growing more and more befuddled by the minute. "It stole my LUNCH!!"

"Yes... He is my friend. His name is Pikachu," the kirin acknowledged with a slightly irritated sigh, but allowing a hint sympathy to trickle into her tone as she swiveled her crested skull to face 'Pikachu'. "I thought we agreed that you wouldn't take from another?" she scolded the lightning mouse, tapping her shoulder.

"Pikachu," the critter acknowledged with a hint of guilt, hopping up onto her shoulder with the sandwich at paw. The mare turned to face Pikachu with the stallion. Pikachu guiltily held out the sandwich to the stallion, dipping his head.

"Uh, you know what... Keep it," Dapper Jolt grimaced, not particularly finding a dirt covered, excessively burnt, hay sandwich appetizing. "I have enough bits to buy another one." With that, the stallion lifted a hoof out to the mare, his anger now completely fizzled out and confusion satisfied for the most part. "Name's Dapper Jolt," he said.

The kirin merely looked down at his hoof, lifting a brow. "Well I'm not going to smell it, if that's what you want," she said flatly.

The stallion held back a jaw drop, now more confused than ever. "You're not supposed to smell it... You're supposed to shake it and introduce yourself," he said with an exasperated sigh, his hoof dropping slightly.

The mare obliged, taking his hoof with a polite smile. "Rayquaza."

The stallion, returning her smile, continued. "Hope you don't mind me asking, but are you new around here? I've never seen anypony, even a kirin that looked quite like you do," he said, transitioning his hoof to his chin in thought.

The realization dawned on Rayquaza a split second after the words came out, and she looked down at her form. Noticing four legs instead of two, none of which possessed the short, sharp claws that she was accustomed to, but instead, fur covered arms and hoof-like appendages covered by short fetlocks. Lifting said hoof to her mouth, Rayquaza felt soft lips instead of her usual, horny beak-like jaws.

Slight panic was visible forming across her face, eyes wide with shock. "Well," the kirin mare finally said, straining to avoid showing the panic in her voice. "If the current form I am in is any indicator, I am very far from home," Rayquaza said, looking herself over again.

-The Everfree Forest-

Yveltal was not having a good day... Outside of being pulled into a time rift and flung back down to the ground in a form completely foreign to him, noting in a river reflection that he now bore a messy mane, six limbs (four legs and a pair of feathered wings), and a short horn, his day had already been taking a U-turn south. This happening when he was halted by his nemesis, Xerneas, after attempting to become stronger off of another's life energy.

Noting a now quadruped form, the stallion took a shaky step forward, hissing in displeasure at his normally mighty form being shrunk down to a horse. Attempting to spread his broad wings, he was pissed to find that they were too weak to move, though obviously still attached. His weakened state was not only evident in his wings, but the plume of grey feathers around his neck. Normally flowing behind him in a regal state, they were currently sagging at his shoulders, almost as if wet.

Inhaling deeply in an attempt to swallow his pride, Yveltal marched on, occasionally stumbling over his own hooves as he tried to determine his location.

Author's Note

Artwork illustrated by yours truly, meh.
Yveltal conceptual to appear in this chapter soon.