My Little Pokemon: Dragon's Ascent

-Canterlot, Conference Hall-

Canterlot's conference hall had become a room of great confusion and worry as Twilight Sparkle and Princess Celestia poured their energy into transporting all unknowns to their current location. Already, three dazed stallions had arrived; a grit-covered unicorn, unicorn kirin, and Triton.

Rayquaza grimaced at the sight of whom she recognized as Groudon and Kyogre, her ears falling flat as a unicorn and Triton slowly rose to their hooves.

"Ray?" the triton stallion questioned, lifting a confused brow as the kirin mare moved between them before they saw each other, her irises glowing slightly as she readied herself to halt a battle before it started. "You're here too?" Kyogre continued. "Let me look at you." With that, he placed a hoof on Rayquaza's shoulder and turned her to face him, a soft smile crossing his face. Rayquaza's worry for a battle between Groudon and Kyogre flushed itself from her system, her cheeks flushing slightly.

Groudon rolled his eyes with a grumble as the Triton looked her over, a hoof to the kirin's chin. "Would ya stop ogling her like that?!" he barked at his nemesis, pushing Kyogre away from the Sky High Pokemon. "It's bad enough that we have to be stuck in this confounded body in the first place. You don't need to make it worse by pulling goo-goo eyes on the one who has to keep us apart!"

Kyogre shot a glare at the Continent Pokemon before snapping a retort. "Well, y'know what?! This hasn't exactly been a cakewalk for me either! I was simply taking a look at Ray!"

"That seems to be ALL you do, is look at 'er! You don't find that just a TAD weird?!"

Before the Triton could reply, Rayquaza's eyes flashed gold momentarily before she brought an energized hoof to the back of both stallion's heads. "Will you two knock it off for five minutes!! I thought that I ended this fight a thousand years ago?!" the kirin mare snapped through clenched teeth. "Groudon, why do you CARE whether or not Kyogre 'ogles' me?! Is it REALLY any of your damned business?!"

The latter cracked a sly, triumphant grin, unnoticed by Rayquaza, but far from unnoticed by Groudon.

"Why I oughta-!" With that, Groudon leaped toward the blue and red Pokemon, lunging at, and knocking Kyogre off of his hooves with an effortful grunt.

Before the serpentine kirin could leap in to halt the conflict, a booming, demanding voice intervened, instantly breaking the fight apart. "ENOUGH!" Princess Celestia shouted over the chorus of growls and shrieks of metal against metal. All in attendance looked up to see the alicorn's eyes streaming with a golden light.

The unicorn that had been a tad slow to rise, as he didn't have the nicest landing as a result of a broken leg, shifted his gaze up to Celestia with a lifted brow, her show of power using just her voice having impressed him. Dialga hobbled towards the mare, wincing as he applied even a small amount of pressure to his injured limb.

The mare glared over at the unicorn, said glare evaporating at his wounds. She watched as the stallion lifted the splintered hoof, lowered his snout, and closed his eyes in the form of a bow. "Your Majesty," Dialga acknowledged, slow to rise. "You have brought us here for one purpose or another, and I respect your power... But what reason DID you bring us here for?"

Princess Celestia nodded slowly, closing her eyes for a moment before replying. "I have brought you here with the knowledge that you are in a false body, and reside in a different world form our own. I intend to have you returned home safely as soon as all of your kind are brought to this location, and a plan to have you back to your residence has been implemented," the alicorn obliged. The stallion before her, though she did well to hide it, instilled into her a slight sense of fear. She wanted to trust him but found his silver, jagged armor and blood red eyes an altogether unsettling presence.

The mare almost found herself leaping from her skin when a scroll enveloped in a light blue aura materialized in front of her. "Goodness me!" she gasped, pink eyes wide with shock. Rolling her eyes and banishing away her frightened feelings, Princess Celestia took the parchment from the air and unrolled it, swiftly reading Princess Cadence's letter. The alicorn's brows furrowed as she scanned the text, its words instilling a new sense of worry into her mind. Letting the letter flop to her side, she whipped her head to face Twilight. "We are not finished with the teleportation," Celestia told her pupil.

"Oh!" Twilight exclaimed, turning away from the massive stallion that was Groudon. Said stallion sighed in relief.

-The Crystal Empire, the Archives-

"If things go according to plan, you should be in my aunt's kingdom in just a few moments," Princess Cadenza told Giratina as he devoured the text of a historical document.

"Alright," he acknowledged, not taking his eyes away from the text. Noticing a particular name, said name intriguing the changeling stallion, he spoke again; "Who is this... Queen Chrysalis... figure?" he asked her, lifting a clawed hoof to his chin in thought. "Does she share some relation to that King Chrysalis character that you assumed I was?"

Both Cadence and Shining Armor froze at the name, dark memories flooding into their consciousness. Before Cadence could speak, Shining Armor opened his mouth. "Yes... We know her. She's a demon, one that we'd rather have never met... Giratina, you seem nice, especially for one of her kind. The both of us would greatly appreciate it if you stay that way," the unicorn said, planting a kiss on his wife's forehead and wrapping her in his arms.

A tear touched the alicorn's cheek at the memory of that monster attempting to marry her husband just to use him for her own twisted plot.

Realizing that he hit a nerve, the ghostly changeling lifted his gaze from the ancient tome. "My apologies... I was unaware of your history with this 'Chrysalis'," Giratina said, nodding at the couple. He hadn't been in Equestria for long and was already invoking unwanted feelings in his host and hostess.

"No... No, it's fine. You asked a question, and I responded," Shining acknowledged, lifting his hoof and shaking his head slightly.

Giratina nodded, rising to his hooves and closing the pages to his read before a white light began to cover his form. "Well... I'd say my time is out. Perhaps I will work with you in the future," the Changeling told the pair, placing a hoof to his chest with a slight bow before he disappeared with a flash.

"Perhaps," Shining Armor said with a small smile, embracing Cadence in his arms.

-The Everhoof Mountains-

Glowing yellow eyes pierced through the blizzard that had formed over the mountainside, pillars of blue ice pushing their way out of the rocky surface around the being. Kyurem uttered a growl through clenched teeth, sneering at his new form. Once a biped ice dragon capable of immense power, he could feel himself on all fours, an icy helm with two back sweeping horns covering partially a yellow, alicorn horn devoid of a spiral. He wore semi-transparent greaves with sharp claws, a pair of similarly constructed wings jutting out of his shoulders.

Be it Truth or Ideals, the truth was that Kyurem, the primary rival to the Swords of Justice... was now a horse.

Inhaling deeply, Kyurem uttered a deafening roar out into the blizzard, eyes pulsing with fury before he vanished from the mountainside.

-Ponyville-

Bolt Charge chuckled lightly to himself as he placed a metal staple into the wood of the frame, holding a roll of insulation in place while fighting to find a comfortable position in the cramped work area. The loud thud as the stapler made contact with the wood indicated that he was successful in keeping the pink fiberglass up.

Just as the mechanic was about to place another staple into the frame, the crack of thunder rang in his ears. Jumping nearly a foot into the air, the stallion's forehead struck the garage's ceiling with a thud. "Ow, dammit!" he exclaimed, dropping the stapler and rubbing his scalp.

Clambering down the orange-red ladder, the stallion lifted the garage door with a grunt, looking up at the darkened sky in a mixture of confusion and irritation. He hated working in these conditions, rain sucked. It made his 48-year-old joints stiff. Grumbling under his breath, the stallion was about to return to his work when a black form enveloped in thunderclouds caught his eye.

Lifting a quizzical brow, Bolt Charge watched as a being possessing the basic body structure of an Equestrian moved among the nimbus clouds. Probably just the weather pegasi, the earth stallion thought to himself with a shrug.

His theory was standing strong until the 'Pegasus' uttered a thundering roar, bolts of lightning throwing themselves at the ground. He reeled back as a line of electricity struck a nearby piece of scrap metal. "Holy SHIT!" Bolt Charge shouted in shock before forcing the garage door back down, a bead of sweat touching his brow.

-Above Ponyville-

The pitch black alicorn shifted its gaze down at the ground beneath his thunderclouds, golden eyes flickering as his tail began to sparkle with building electricity. Zekrom's Dragonoid wings whipped up the heavy clouds around him, concealing his form in evaporated water.

The sound of crackling electricity informed Zekrom that he was done charging. With that, a jolt of electricity spewed forth from a fanged maw, striking a power line with a flash of light and a loud crack. The Pokemon-turned-alicorn shifted his gaze down at the fleeing Equestrians below him with a slight smirk. Though the Pitch Black Pokemon wasn't a malevolent being, he occasionally took joy in seeing mortals run from his electricity. It was usually his only form of entertainment.

"Whaddya think you're doing?!" Zekrom heard a feminine voice scold. Swiveling his head, the electric dragon looked over at a cyan blue pegasus mare with a rainbow palette clad across her mane. "Ya can't just go around trying to zap everypony! That's cruel!" Rainbow Dash barked at the alicorn, a glare on her face.

Zekrom rolled his eyes, hovering over to the mare with flickering eyes. "And who are you to try and stop me?" he retorted in a deep, menacing voice.

It was then that Rainbow Dash noticed the black and blue tipped horn between his brows, fear coming across her face. "Uh... Well... Heh. Rainbow... Dash?" the pegasus mare replied, forcing her gaze away from his golden irises.

What she received for an answer was not, as she expected, a violent attack... but a deep chuckle. Lifting her head back up, she noticed the alicorn stallion now laughing a deep, rolling laugh that sounded almost like thunder. "You are a brave soul, I'll give you that... Rainbow Dash, can you tell me where I am?"

"Ponyville," the Element of Loyalty acknowledged, her fear seeping away as he placed a hoof with rigid fetlocks on her shoulder.

"Thank you... My name is Zekrom, the Legendary Pokemon of Lightning, and rival to Reshiram," the deep black stallion told Rainbow Dash with a smile.

Rainbow returned the smile on full before a flash of white momentarily blinded her. When she opened her eyes, the alicorn was nowhere to be seen. "Zekrom?" she queried. "Uh... Where'd ya go, Buddy?"

-Canterlot, Conference Hall-

Princess Celesta looked on at the plethora of new faces amongst her little ponies, slight fear evident at the size of some of the ponies that had materialized before her and Twilight Sparkle. Pitch black, icy wings, blood red fur, rainbow antlers, and golden armor, had revealed themselves before her. All of the said beings shared the same look of confusion at the appearance of a new landscape. But only one seemed to be expecting the change of scenery, a massive changeling stallion in kingly armor.

The others were slow to rise, several pained groans escaping a few throats. Her attention, however, was not on the blue elk, but the other ponies in attendance. In specific, the alicorns in attendance. Three of her species were amongst them, excluding herself and Twilight, and confusion was quick to grow in the mare.

The Changeling, evidently possessing six legs, took a step towards the royal mare, stretching flowing, ghostly grey wings with short red claws at the tip of each feathery appendage. He was followed by a pitch black alicorn with a blue tipped horn and dragon-like wings, and grey alicorn with icy armor and a yellow horn lacking a spiral. Noting that changeling was easily a half head taller than she was, she pridefully lifted her chin, doing her downright best to hide any fear that she may have felt.

Rayquaza, who had been watching the newcomers materialize from the room while making a game out of whom she recognized, spotted the grey, red, and gold palette clad across a six-legged changeling and rushed up to meet Giratina before he could say anything to Celestia, a grin on her face. "Gira!" she exclaimed, leaping into his arms and practically knocking the stallion off of his hooves.

It took the changeling a moment to recognize the mare as Rayquaza before a wide smile very uncharacteristic of a changeling spread across his muzzle. "Ray!" he laughed, effortlessly lifting the green kirin off of her hooves and giving her a tight squeeze.

This earned an "aaw" from Twilight Sparkle and Spike, though the latter was primarily feeling fear at the sight of the changeling.

"It is good to see you!" Giratina said before gently setting her back down, a hoof to her shoulder. "Hey, Lemme look at you!" he said, earning an irritated snort from Groudon. Ignoring the unicorn, he circled the mare with a smile. "You look... not half bad for being a horse," he told Rayquaza.

"Neither do you," the Sky High Pokemon chuckled before she was interrupted.

"Giratina," the deep voice of Dialga called out.

Turning his armored head to face the time Pokemon, Giratina uttered a near silent grumble. Both Rayquaza and himself disliked the higher up legendary beings of their respecting regions, who underestimated the two Dragon-types without mercy. Giratina was always finding himself being called 'Garry', despite his protests against the name. He had been told by Rayquaza that Groudon and Kyogre consistently teased her for being a girl. Overall, the two 'more important' legendaries of the regions lacked much-needed respect for the third Pokemon deemed lesser than themselves. Nonetheless, Giratina was a courteous fellow who respected power and therefore, Dialga and Palkia.

"Greetings, Dialga," he said at last with a nod as he shoved aside his thoughts, closing his eyes for a moment. "I can see even the one who created time is finding himself in an unwanted situation?" the changeling said.

"Mm," Dialga grumbled with a slight sneer.

Rayquaza grimaced. Dialga thinks HE'S got it rough, the kirin thought to herself. HE'S been on four legs since he was BORN...

Before she could entertain any other thoughts on the subject, the loud voice of Princess Celestia echoed amongst the walls of the conference room. "Everypony in attendance, may I please have your attention?!"

On cue, a few senators who decided to stay for the meeting and the new ponies (and elk), turned their heads to the celestial alicorn before she cleared her throat to speak again. "As you all know, a few of us in attendance aren't exactly from Equestria," she started. "Those few, who are amongst us now, are from a place called Earth, where they were in a body entirely different from the one that they currently find themselves in." She looked down at the ponies in question, a quiet sigh escaping her throat. Her trust in these beings, though some seemed more amicable than others, was lacking.

Yveltal slowly slipped back into consciousness, his eyelids fluttering as he ushered a groan. The alicorn, apparently having regained his strength on full, was quick to jump to his hooves, wrenching himself from Xerneas's telekinetic aura as the realization dawned on him.

A smile crossed the blue elk's muzzle as Yveltal sneered at her. Rolling her eyes with a giggle, Xerneas turned her head away from the alicorn stallion and back at Celestia.

Princess Luna, who had apparently woken from a much-needed rest at the racket from Groudon and Kyogre's previous duel, entered the room with a yawn, rubbing the exhaustion out of her eyes before noticing the plethora of odd equines in the conference hall. "Uh... Sister?" she questioned as she approached the elevated platform that Celestia stood on, eyes wide at the sight of three alicorn stallions and a tall changeling.

"Luna," the celestial mare acknowledged, beckoning her over.

With a few wing beats, the lunar mare came to her sibling's side, her gaze shifted to Celestia's calm face. "Who are all of these newcomers?" Princess Luna whispered, watching as the said newcomers talked amongst themselves, seemingly without noticing the alicorn that had just flown over their heads.

"Well, the green kirin's name is Rayquaza, the dark blue unicorn's name isssss Dialga, the Triton is Kyogre, the red unicorn is Groudon, the changeling is Jeratena... Er, Gira-something-or-other, and I haven't caught the other's names yet," Princess Celestia obliged, looking amongst them as she combed through her memories of their arrivals.

"Okay... Aaaand, what are they doing here?" she asked, not catching even one of the names listed to her.

"They are not Equestrian. But I think that was obvious by the three alicorns that showed up seemingly out of the blue. If you can, Sister, keep an eye on the red and grey alicorns. They seemed particularly aggressive. The changeling has been calm so far, but I don't want to take chances with him either way," the milky white mare said, her voice barely a whisper. "The green Kirin seems to know him well, so I would rather keep them apart unless absolutely necessary. The elk and red alicorn seem to hate each other, so the same applies to them. As does it apply to Groudon and Kyogre," Celestia told Luna, nodding at the ponies in question.

"Why? Do you intend on them being in Equestria for long? If they truly are as hateful towards each other as you say, shouldn't we just get them home, now?" Luna said, lifting a confused brow.

"What if they can't get home now?" Celestia retorted. "If that's the case, we need to be prepared to put these newcomers to good use. Groudon would be good for any excavation projects, for example. He looks quite strong and more than capable of digging."

"You're just saying that because he's covered in dirt and has a messy mane," Luna snorted with a chuckle, playfully nudging her sister.

"Maybe, but what about that changeling? Cadence seemed to like him well enough. We could put him to use for one, reconstructing the fountain he destroyed, and two, to help defend against any threats that show up in the Crystal Empire," Celestia spoke, venting a small amount of stress out through her nose in the form of a sigh.

"A changeling? Are you sure that that is such a smart idea? The last time a changeling was in the Crystal Empire, she held Cadence prisoner and tricked Shining Armor into thinking she was his bride," Luna said.

"Nonetheless, if we have no method of returning them home, we should teach them to get used to their bodies. Because they won't go unnoticed in their true forms," Celestia acknowledged matter-of-factly.

"Very well... Before anything, though, the elements should be informed, and we need to learn these newcomer's names."

"Then it's settled," the celestial alicorn said, turning her view back to the Pokemon-converts. "Attention!"

The ponies looked up.

Just as Celestia opened her mouth to speak, however, a large flash blinded all in attendance, a large white and yellow shape dropping from the air in the center of the room. Green and red eyes popped out wide as gold-tipped feathers spread out in an attempt to stay airborne. The newcomer's landing was all but graceful as she fell into a heap.

Princess Celestia lifted a brow as the Pokemon around her almost instantly fell into a deep bow as the alicorn rose to golden plated hooves.

Arceus leaped to her hooves without an ounce of her typical grace, golden feathers ruffled and long mane tangled. "Well!" she quipped, looking at her new form. "That happened!" With that, the creator of the universe lifted her head, looking around at her new surroundings with obvious confusion materializing across her face.

Brushing aside a lock of black and creamy white mane, she spotted the blue and silver form of the Temporal Pokemon and the gold, black, and red form of the Renegade Pokemon, who were the first to approach their leader. Her expression softened as the changeling and unicorn approached with wide eyes.

"Ar-Arceus?!" Dialga stammered through his shock, eyes wide as he took a step towards the alicorn mare.

"Dialga," she cooed, her graceful nature redeveloping. "It is good to see you again."

The stallion unicorn fell into a bow once again, hiding a pained grimace at his broken leg.

His pain, fortunately, was not unnoticed by Arceus. Her long horn hummed slightly, a golden aura surrounding the dragon-types limb as the shattered bones slowly, and painlessly, reasserted themselves into the proper position before melding back together. "Rise, Dialga," Arceus told him, lifting her chin slightly.

Following her orders, the stallion gingerly placed his hoof on the tiled floor before a grin crossed his face. Giratina and Rayquaza exchanged surprised glances as Dialga began prancing around the room with a deep laugh and wide smile like a giddy colt in a downtown candy shop.

"Dialga," Arceus chided, lifting a hoof to calm him. The unicorn stopped dead in his tracks, looking around the room before flushing in embarrassment at the wide eyes locked onto him.

"Uuh... Heh," Dialga chuckled nervously before returning to a more orderly stance, dipping his armored head slightly. "Thank you," he told Arceus, nodding at his creator. "Your kind gesture is greatly appreciated."

The gold-winged alicorn nodded before turning to whom she presumed was the monarch, given by the metallic gauntlets, necklace, and crown. Princess Celestia stood tall and proud, though the creator of the universe before her was a full head or so taller than she was. "You must be the ruler," Arceus stated with a slight bow and polite smile.

Celestia nodded slowly, trying her best to hold back the uneasy feeling that was developing in her gut. Now, excluding herself, her sister, and Twilight, there were four alicorns in the room... and one of them was apparently the leader of their race. "Who are you?"

"My name is Arceus, the Creator of the Universe and one of four universal beings of the Sinnoh Region of Earth," she replied, sensing the unease in the celestial mare. "You have no need to fear me. I am not one of a harmful mind, and try to avoid conflict if possible."

"Thank you for the reassurance, but I hardly find your arrival, along with those of your acquaintances settling. Your breed is exceedingly rare, and for four of your type to show up out of the blue... I fear for my subjects," Celestia said, almost rolling her eyes at her own words. It's much more than just fear! she thought.

"Understood," Arceus acknowledged, interrupting the mare's thoughts. "Perhaps you have an idea to solve this problem? If we are to be here for much longer than this, perhaps you could have us separated? Would that make you feel any better?"

"That... was already the plan."

Before anything more could be said, a panicked Rainbow Dash burst into the room, throwing open the doors with a slam. "Princess! I saw an alicooooooorn?" The cyan mare kept slurring the last syllable at the sight of seven alicorns in the conference hall. Amongst them, she spotted a pitch black stallion with Dragonoid wings and a horn tipped with blue. "Oh! Nevermind. I guess you found 'im!" she exclaimed, setting herself on her hooves. "How'd ya get here?" she asked the stallion.

"I dunno. Just... showed up," Zekrom obliged with a smile as she approached.

Arceus smiled and Celestia's expression deadpanned at the sight of Rainbow Dash galloping to meet her newfound 'friend'. "I see SOMEpony has settled in well," the celestial alicorn grumbled, the sight throwing the idea that these newcomers were dangerous out the window. She disliked being wrong... but was able to admit when she was.

"Indeed. But as for the others, Yveltal (the red and black one with a horn and wings) is a bit testy. I'll admit, out of all the Pokemon I put on Earth to protect, Yveltal was the most defiant of my orders. Best keep him alone where he can't hurt anybody," Arceus explained to the mare, pointing at the grumpy alicorn.

"Okay, what of the others? Or can you let me do my job?" Celestia quipped. Now SHE was becoming the grumpy one. This 'Arceus' character was not receiving the nicest feelings from the monarch.

The white and gold alicorn shot Celestia a look of hurt. Not a sarcastic look, but an honestly offended glance. "I'm sorry?" she questioned.

"This is MY kingdom, now can you please let ME decide what to do with them?!"

"These are MY children," Arceus barked back, her eyes beginning to leak with a golden aura. "And who are you to order me around?"

At this point, the two were practically sizing each other up for a duel, Dialga, Giratina, and Luna were readying themselves to yank Arceus and Celestia apart. "Can we please not do this?!" Xerneas called over the sound of hooves against the tile floor and Arceus's growling.

"NO! No... Let them go at it. I want to see who'll win," Yveltal quipped with a mischievous grin, eyes glued to the scene unfolding before him. The blue elk could almost imagine a bowl of popcorn huddled at the stallion's hooves as he watched the battle preparation.

Just before either alicorn mares could charge an attack though, Rayquaza bravely leaped between them, a stern glare on her face. "KNOCK IT OFF!!" she shouted in a booming growl. Almost instantly, Arceus and Celestia stopped, gazing down at the kirin mare with synonymous looks of shock on their faces.

Arceus's surprise only lasted a moment before it melted into a mixture of slight amusement and pride. Rayquaza had been a well thought out Pokemon, after all.

The Sky High Pokemon ushered a relieved sigh that she hadn't been on the receiving end of retaliation before she spoke again in a softer, but still stern, voice. "We can't lose our heads, right now... Something that I assume the BOTH of you understand. Our first priority should be trying to get home. If a solution isn't found as of today... THEN we can discuss the housing of the different Pokemon. Myself included. But please, and I can't stress this enough, PLEASE do not fight right now," Rayquaza said.

Pikachu nodded smugly, eyes closed and little arms crossed.

Giratina gazed at the mare in wonder. She was always such a brave soul, in some aspects surpassing himself, and he admired this trait in his friend. Chuckling, the stallion lifted a hoof. "I concur," the changeling acknowledged. "Let us find a way home before we try killing one another, huh?"

"BOOO!" Yveltal retorted, moving away from his nonexistent bowl of popcorn.