My Little Pokemon: Dragon's Ascent

-Canterlot, Conference Hall-

Princess Celestia felt sweat bead upon her brow as Arceus took a seat beside her, apparently not remembering, or not caring, about what had unfolded just moments earlier. Rayquaza sat between Groudon and Kyogre to prevent the two Elementals from getting engaged in another duel, though they seemed to be in an amicable enough mood. Yveltal elected to sit in the back of the small crowd, arms crossed as he grumbled quietly to himself about the insolence of Xerneas, who had seated herself next to Zekrom. The alicorn stallion was paying more attention to Rainbow Dash's questions with a smile than the presentation. The two had already seemed to become good friends, sharing similar interests. They both liked to literally have their heads in the clouds and feel the wind against their fur... er... scales for Zekrom. Kyurem, on the other hoof, while he was able to, hated flying and had himself seated beside the massive changeling that was Giratina.

"As we all know, based upon the anatomy and adornments of these 'Pokemon', they are not exactly from Equestria," Twilight Sparkle started, pacing back and forth slightly and again wishing she had note cards to read off of for this presentation. "According to Arceus, Dialga, and Giratina (am I saying that right?)" She received an approving nod from the latter. "Okay, good. Anyway... according to those three, these Pokemon are from a place called Earth, but a freak accident occurred that had them flung here to Equestria."

Dialga grimaced. He knew full well why they were here. It was because of the battle between himself and Palkia, whom he was quite relieved had not managed to find himself in a similar predicament.

Unfortunately for him, Twilight Sparkle must have heard his grumble, for now, she shifted her gaze to the Temporal Pokemon with an asymmetrically cocked brow. "What seems to be the problem?" she asked with slight concern.

This time, the stallion unicorn grumbled all but inaudibly, rolling his eyes with sagging shoulders. With a sigh, he spoke. "It wasn't some freak accident that brought us here, Miss." The other Pokemon looked over at him with confusion; growing anger from the two lead Elementals, Kyurem, and Yveltal; and a chuckle from Xerneas.

"Than pray tell us what it was," Giratina asked quizzically, not at all fazed by his words. He didn't particularly mind the inhabitants of this world much, therefore not being terribly eager to get home, but perhaps a description of how they arrived would help them return to their home.

It took Dialga a moment to reply as he mulled over his options. He could tell them that the incident was the cause of a fight between himself and Palkia that was supposedly ended hundreds of years ago caused a rip in the sky that just happened to teleport the biggest legendary Pokemon to Equestria... Or he could say that he was simply the victim of a plasma mishap that opened the time rift. Unfortunately, lying was a terrible idea, as tempting as it was. Using Judgement, Arceus could easily tell if he was lying. If that didn't happen, the Pokemon he was amongst had a sharp wit and could sense a lie.

With a sigh, the stallion finally replied, fear of Arceus's wrath not eluding him. "I was fighting Palkia when I used my Roar of Time just as he used his Spacial Rend. They made contact and created that violet crack that sucked us into this place," he said with a grimace.

Arceus merely lifted a brow, much to the kirin stallion's surprise.

"Gee, what a surprise," Yveltal growled under his breath.

Giratina nodded, not at Yveltal's words, which he found unnecessary, but at Dialga's. He knew the cause for this was because of Dialga and Palkia, for he could feel their energy coming off of the portal he entered to get here.

Rayquaza's expression was that of slight anger, but she did a better job of hiding her anger than Kyurem, who promptly leaped to his hooves with a glare and stomped towards the Temporal Pokemon. "You're telling me that we're stuck in this stupid body because you two got into a freaking SISSY FIGHT?!" he shouted in Dialga's face, his yellow eyes twitching in annoyance as small shards of ice began to form at his hooves.

"Kyurem!" Arceus barked, levitating to her hooves.

The icy alicorn of Truths and Ideals blinked a few times, his icicles melting away as he tore his attention from Dialga.

Zekrom had long since moved his attention from Rainbow Dash, flickering golden eyes trained on the reckless form of Kyurem as he mentally prepared to place a mountain in front of the train that Dialga had unknowingly started... only for his preparation to be cut short as the grey and blue stallion returned to his seat with Arceus's words.

He was interrupted in his thoughts by the Element of Loyalty with a firm tap on the shoulder. "Hey, uh, Zek? Who was that guy with the yellow horn you were glaring at?" she asked, pointing a hoof at the sour dispositioned pony.

"That, Rainbow Dash, would be Kyurem, the Boundary Pokemon of the same region that I reside in. He's not the friendliest of sorts, but his heart's in the right place," the black stallion acknowledged, his eyes still locked on Kyurem.

"Why's he such a snot?"

"It's not necessarily that he's a snot... He has been waiting for the right person to fill his body with either Truths... Or Ideals... And he's been waiting a very... very long time."

"Oh... Well, I s'pose that would make ANYpony cranky," the pegasus mare chuckled as Twilight Sparkle cleared her throat.

"Ah-EHM!!" the alicorn mare coughed. In response, all but Yveltal lifted their head. "Well, since the reason for your arrival was because of a battle between Dialga and Palkia, and Palkia is, I guess, not in attendance, a reverse reaction to what happened is not an available option. And it sounds particularly dangerous, to begin with," she said, lifting a hoof to her chin in thought. "I can't think of any way to send you guys home... So..... I got nothin'! Princess?"

On cue, Celestia rose to her hooves, the plan she previously had in mind seemed to be the best plan. And she intended to make it so. "Until they are able to go home, either by a reverse reaction to how they got here or otherwise, the Pokemon will be distributed across Equestria, where they will live and work amongst us as if they WERE one of us. Under no exception are the Elementals, whom I have been informed are foes, or the incarnations of Life and Destruction to raise a HOOF to resume ANY conflict. Is this understood?!" the creamy white mare said with a firm stare.

Scattered nods and some grumbles were her replies. Rainbow Dash, in particular, seemed excited with the plan and raised a hoof. "Princess? Zekrom here seems like a really nice fellow. You don't suppose he could stay in Cloudsdale and work with the weather pegasi, do you? After all, he can control lightning. I've seen it," she informed.

Zekrom cracked a slight smile and an eye roll before nodding in agreement.

Princess Celestia's gaze remained trained on the Pitch Black Pokemon as she contemplated. With a sigh, she closed her eyes and nodded. "Very well. This Zekrom fellow seems nice enough as it is and if he can control lightening than perhaps the weather pegasi would whip themselves back into shape, considering the DROUGHT we currently find ourselves in," she exclaimed with a scoff at the word 'drought'.

Rainbow Dash cracked a wide grin that ushered forth a deep laugh from the Pokemon in question.

"What of the others, though?" Celestia added, shattering the joy. True, many of the foreigners seemed to possess great power, but most of them also seemed easy to agitate, not to mention imposing.

Giratina was one of few who had some inkling as to where he wanted to be. "Your Majesty," he started with a slight bow. "Princess Cadenza and her husband seemed like the ones I would find myself comfortable around. Perhaps I may return to the Crystal Empire?"

Rayquaza, at the words, flicked an ear to attention, lifting a quizzical brow. Kyurem seemed equally interested, as the generation of a form of ice crystals were his forte.

Celestia obviously noticed the two dragonoid's expressions. "Your request is granted, but you are to go alone and with only one other," she obliged.

The Renegade Pokemon's eyes hovered over both Rayquaza and Kyurem momentarily before a response was ushered forth. "I would like to bring Rayquaza," he stated.

Kyurem snorted as Rayquaza smiled. "Bucking figures," he growled under his breath. "Can't compete with a girl."

The last part was not so quiet, and Rayquaza shot him a glare before giving his a firm slap to the shoulder with her tail as she walked pass him. As the mare walked across Kyogre's path, the triton grinned and leaned back, entertaining thoughts that would give Groudon good reason to start another conflict.

The latter maintained a glare through it all, batting his hatred at Kyogre for a home run, only for the hatred to be caught and the play be a strike. All of his glaring, irritated snorts, and eye rolls were being straight up ignored.

It was finally Celestia who interrupted his game of fury-born baseball with his name. "Groudon, I have just received word that, with the drought, extra help will be needed in a nearby settlement. You will go there, with... Kyurem," she said, not looking up from a hovering letter in front of her face.

"Wait, what?!" he barked, reeling back slightly. "I didn't sign up for this crap!" the unicorn ranted, rising to his hooves. "You haven't even read me my rights!"

"You have no rights, here," the celestial alicorn said flatly.

"Oh, I guess that makes sense," he shrugged, noticing a glimmer materializing across her horn. "Well, if I have no rights, can you at least tell me what this place is like?" Groudon proceeded, furrowing a confused brow. "And explain to me how, in a world of magic, rainbow colored horses, there could POSSIBLY be a drought?"

"It's a rural town, lots of open land and apple trees. Considering how dirty-I MEAN strong you look, seems like a good place for you to unwind enough to not want to murder your contemporary," she said.

Groudon's expression deadpanned before he looked down at his grit covered fur. "I don't look THAT bad, do I?"

"Yes," Kyogre grinned.

"Shut up!" the Continent Pokemon snapped, flicking a few grains of dirt at the triton's eyes.

"How about you BOTH shut up, hm?" Rayquaza interjected with a sarcastic smile before making her way back to Giratina.

Kyurem didn't seem to even notice the princess's words, more worried about kinetically carving a small piece of ice into the word "truth".

"KYUREM!" Arceus barked at the stallion, breaking his attention away from the small ice shard.

In his shock, the stallion dropped the delicate crystal, the carving splintering on impact with the tile floor. Glaring down at the now melting ice, the grey alicorn shifted his view up to the creator of the universe with a sigh. "Sorry," he muttered, closing his eyes.

"Don't be, you'll find someone eventually," the mare acknowledged with a nod. "Would you care to listen to what Celestia has to say for just five more minutes?" she then asked.

"Sure, whatever," he shrugged, looking up at the creamy white mare in question.

"You will go with Groudon to help whip the Zap Apple Orchards back into shape," Princess Celestia told the Boundary Pokemon with a grateful nod to Arceus, in spite of previous conflict between the two.

Kyurem grimaced and shifted his view over to the Continent Pokemon, watching in slight disgust as the stallion unicorn scratched his rough beard. He could almost see the dirt fall from Groudon's facial hair. "Uh... Could I possibly not?" he asked.

"This is not negotiable," Celestia replied before turning to those who had yet to be assigned a location. Xerneas, Yveltal, Dialga, Kyogre, and Arceus all returned the glance, giving her a slight feeling of unease. "Xerneas, please step forward," she ordered.

On cue, the blue and grey elk approached with a bow, curling up an elegant hoof. "Your Majesty?"

"You will remain here to aid in the study of your return home. Yveltal is to remain under your watch, as you seem one of few who can keep him under order, by what I've heard," Celestia said with a nod.

"WHAT?!" the stallion in question shouted, leaping to his hooves. "Okay, NO! Count me out! I'd rather be stuck in this form for a MILLENNIA than be stuck in it for a MONTH with that walking pile of venison around!" he retorted, throwing his hooves up in despair.

"Well, I guess you'll just have to learn to get along, now won't you?" Dialga snorted in response, rolling his eyes.

"Perhaps you would care to join them, since you seem so quick to interject?" Celestia said to the unicorn kirin.

Instantly, the Temporal Pokemon kept his tongue where it belonged, face reddening slightly.

"That's better... You will, however, be positioned as a combat trainee in our celestial wing. I understand that you are more than capable of the feats necessary to protect our citizens?" the milky white mare asked.

"I can freeze time and distort space, some simple guard work is as easy to me as it is for you to brush your teeth... If your kind even does that," he acknowledged with a smug nod. He wasn't particularly fond of protecting some alien race from whatever or whoever would possibly want to harm colorful horses, but he certainly didn't want to be on the receiving end of whatever their monarch was capable of.

"Good. That being said, Kyogre, please step forth!"

On cue, the red, white, and blue triton stepped forward with a polite smile.

"What are your specialties?"

The Sea Basin Pokemon combed through his memories. He didn't fight as often as he once did, and his abilities had since started to dwindle. That wasn't to say, however, that he was weak. "I am, for all in tense and purposes, the demigod of the sea. I can control water with ease and weaponize it, creating a beam of water capable of punching through thick steel," he said at last, puffing his chest slightly with pride.

Celestia took his words into careful consideration, furrowing her brows as she entertained the thought. "Very well, you would be perfect in helping us take care of this drought. You will go to Ponyville to aid the weather pegasi from the ground. That is, if you can create rain."

"Indeed, I can."

"Then it is settled. You are to go to Ponyville. That leaves one last Pokemon."

Arceus flicked an ear to attention as the celestial mare gazed at her skeptically.

She could feel the energy that leaked out of the white and gold alicorn's body... and she didn't like it one bit. But Equestria was place of peace, not of anger, and Celestia was quick to acknowledge that fact. "You and I will work together in the future, I would like to see what you are capable of," she told the Creation Pokemon, her expression softening ever-so-slightly as she vented off some stress through her nostrils.

All Pokemon had been assigned, though with some, through aggressive means. "Court adjourned!" she exclaimed, her hoof clacking against the floor like a judge's gavel.

All but a couple rose to their hooves to leave for either the train station, or to gather around Celestia for assignment in Canterlot.

Rayquaza looked over at the face of a slightly irritated Groudon with a hint of skepticism as she followed Giratina out the door.

"Relax, Ray. Groudon will be fine," the Renegade Pokemon assured her with a smile, nudging her shoulder before putting an arm around her waist and giving her a light squeeze. "What harm could he cause with Kyogre not around?" he asked the Sky High kirin.

"He doesn't like mortals. That's why he was always so reclusive. And this Celestia just decided to put him amongst their populace. I don't want anybody to be harmed if he flips out," she explained.

"Hey... At least he's stuck as one of them. Kinda reduces his strength some, right?"

"I don't know... And I know for sure that I don't want to be around to find out."

-Canterlot Train Station-

The Pokemon, with a few armed escorts, managed to get to the train station with little to worry about. Though they had managed to turn a few heads, as the vast majority of them were seemingly dressed for war, and one or two of them being the rarest species of equine in Equestria. Giratina, on the other hoof, was a whole different story. Canterlot residents and visitors didn't need to sea royally armored changeling for the second time and start running for cover. With the reluctant help of Kyurem via shields of ice to block residential view, though, he managed to get to the train station with relative ease. Groudon was placed in a train cart with Kyurem, where Zekrom, Rainbow Dash, Giratina, and Rayquaza were placed in a separate one.

All had gone well and the Pokemon were on their way to their assigned locations.