My Little Pokemon: Dragon's Ascent

-Canterlot, Lunar Wing-

"Luna's chambers are this way," Princess Celestia explained as she was trailed by Dialga, Arceus, and Celebi, a worrisome expression clear upon her face as she trotted down the long halls. "She's normally asleep at this hour, so if you can refrain from just barging into her room, please."

The trio of legendary Pokemon nodded in understanding as they came upon an elegantly carved blue door with the lunar emblem carved into the center.

To Celestia's horror... the door was open.

The alicorn mare gasped in silent fear as her pace quickened. Stopping at the door, she gently nudged it open slightly to have a better look inside. Luna's bed covers were on the floor, the posts of the bed frame splintered and sheets torn away from the mattress.

Entering the room, the mare looked over the sight with a wave of sadness washing over her.

"Your sister will be fine, Princess," Arceus cooed, placing a hoof onto her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her. "Necrozma won't kill her. She's too valuable to be killed."

Dialga nodded in agreement. "Besides, we've dealt with worse before. Chances are good that you'll get your sister back... without some crystal alien inhabiting her body," the Temporal Pokemon told her.

"You sound so sure of yourself," an almost feminine voice hissed.

Twirling around the four ponies came face-to-face with a twisted, crystalline version of Princess Luna. Necrozma grinned demonically, horn crackling with dark energy that also raced across his wavering mane and tail.

"Necrozma, release her, NOW," Arceus ordered sternly, a fierce glare crossing her face.

Said stallion looked over his new body for a moment before acknowledging what she said. "Nah," he snickered, turning her back to her in a defiant manner.

Arceus, despite his demeanor, maintained a calm and collected attitude.

Dialga and Celestia, on the other hoof, were not having any of that.

With a roar, the unicorn Kirin lunged forward, eyes glowing bright red as he snapped his jaws down on Dawn Wing Necrozma's tail before whirling around and slamming the alicorn parasite into the wall at his side. Not even taking the time to plan matters over, he swung back around and jerked his head down, throwing Necrozma into the tile floor.

The tiles shattered under the strain as Necrozma cried out in pain, forcing his way through the agony as Celestia charged forward with golden streaming eyes.

Celebi looked up at Arceus with a questioning gaze.

Arceus didn't respond, but only leapt forward, biting down on Dialga's tail and yanking.

The Temporal Pokemon yelped in pain before the pain ceased and the Universal Pokemon pulled Celestia away from the Prism Pokemon. Looking at the scene, the stallion watched as the white and gold alicorn placed an unmoving hoof onto Necrozma's chest. "Release... her... NOW," Arceus growled in his face.

The stallion returned her glare with no large amount of respect, spitting in her face. "G-go to Hell," Necrozma coughed, gasping at the weight on his chest.

In that moment, Arceus lost her temper, a metal clad hoof rising before being slammed back down onto his breast.

The alicorn stallion growled in pain as the snap of ribs became audible. But as Arceus lifted her hoof again, Necrozma retaliated, firing several blasts of blue-violet spheres of energy at her face before kicking off of her legs and rolling to his hooves. "Now... I leave you... To your doom!" the alicorn shouted before turning to run...

And promptly receiving a hoof to the face for his actions...

Yveltal looked on as Necrozma staggered back at the strike, clutching his snout in pain. A sly grin crossed the pegasus's face as the stallion pulled his hoof away from his snout... only for shock to cross his muzzle at seeing the appendage stained with his host's blood.

"Y-you son of a-"

"Language," Yveltal smirked, wagging a hoof in his face.

"SCREW YOU!" Necrozma snarled before a sudden wave of exhaustion overtook his senses. his eyes spontaneously rolling back into his skull before he fell into a heap on the floor, snoring softly.

Xerneas came to Yveltal's side, her antlers humming as she levitated Necrozma into the air.

Arceus cast a warm smile at the equine and cervid with a nod. "I'm very proud of you two," the alicorn said as Yveltal took a step away from his momentary ally.

"Thanks... I guess," the pegasus acknowledged with a shrug, unused to receiving gratitude from anybody, let alone his creator.

"Thank you," Celestia interjected. "You have stopped whatever had my sister under his control and saved me from a large deal of grief that I could do without, right now," she said. "You have my gratitude, and the gratitude of all who you have saved." With that, the alicorn bowed.

Xerneas reached over and gave Yveltal a light squeeze, the thought of breaking her neck not escaping the stallion's mind. "You did good," she whispered with a pleasant smile.

The Destruction Pokemon rolled his eyes with a sigh before hesitantly drawing closer to the she-elk. It was in this moment that the stallion found himself not minding gratitude.

-Ponyville-

The stallion was falling. That was the only thing he knew for sure was happening as he tumbled through the air like a rag-doll. He looked down in fear as the ground rushed up to meet, clouds flying by him too quickly to pay any attention to. Gasping in shock, the unicorn tried to retain a calm attitude at the remembrance of a certain trait.

Positioning his hooves towards the ground, the stallion focused his power into forcing torrents of water from the bottom of his blue hooves. On cue, four jets of water sprayed towards the ground, slowing his decent only slightly.

It's not working! Why is it not working?! he thought in panic, straining to put more power into slowing his fall. Too late, he grimaced, striking the ground and nearly taking out another being with a plume of dust.

Kyogre stopped dead in his tracks as a tan, blue, and red shape collided with the ground before him, creating a comical deep hole in the shape of its body. The triton lifted a quizzical brow with a cough, waving dust out of his face. When the cloud of dust had cleared, he peered into the hole just in time to see a red maned, tan unicorn stallion with blue hooves climb out of the crater with a groan, dragging himself onto his back.

Through the dirt that coated the unicorn's hide, Kyogre could see that the stallion's chest and neck were covered by blue feathers, his tail and hooves a synonymous shade A small string of multicolored feathers were visible in the red mane and the horn was without a spiral.

"Keldeo?" he queried, crouching slightly to peer at the unicorn's bruised face.

The stallion groaned with a weak nod, shifting his view up at the triton. Seeing the smooth metallic blue helmet and dual dorsal fins, he suddenly leapt up as if nothing had happened. "Kyogre?!" he blurted, making no attempt to hide his surprise. A wide grin crossed his face before he stood onto his hind legs and wrapped his arms around the triton, patting his back with a laugh.

Kyogre returned the joyous chuckle, pulling away to look over the Colt Pokemon with a smile. "Keldeo, you mischievous devil!" he laughed before a mare approached the duo with a wide grin.

"WELCOOOOME!!" she giggled with an actual spring in her step. Bouncing towards the two stallions, she carried a pair of balloons tied around her tail and a pair of plates balanced upon her snout and hip. Both looked over at her like she had three heads.

Kyogre wondered what kind of logic would allow one to be bouncing down the road without hands to hold anything and a pair of perfectly balanced slices of cake.

Before his thoughts could actually get out of his mind in the form of a question, the pink pony tied a balloon to his hoof and a balloon to Keldeo's without taking the springs off of her hooves or cake off her snout and back. "You must be the help that Celestia sent... Name's Pinkie Pie! But my friends just call me Pinkie," the mare laughed, resuming her bouncing before handing a slice of cake to each stallion.

"Kyogre."

"Keldeo," the unicorn said with a slight wave, taking a bite of his dessert. "Mm, this is good," he exclaimed with a swallow.

"Thank you!" Pinkie Pie acknowledged.

Kyogre looked down at his slice and lifted a brow before hesitantly tasting the cake. It was noticeably too sweet for his tastes. He preferred to do his snacking on small fish Pokemon, not sugar. As a result of this, he dropped his remaining slice onto Keldeo's plate before handing the tableware back to Pinkie. "Never really liked sweet food," he explained.

-Canterlot-

Necrozma woke slowly, his head throbbing and chest aching. In an attempt to lift a hoof to his forehead to steady his blurred vision, he heard heavy chains rattle with his movements. Looking down as his vision refocused, the Prism Pokemon noticed heavy shackles around his wrists. Grimacing, he rose to his hooves and looked up.

He was behind bars.

Arceus, Luna, and Celestia stood at the other end, though he only sensed hostility from Luna.

"Necrozma," Arceus started, "you know the rules... Under NO circumstances are you to EVER take control of one who is not of your home... And you know that."

Said Pokemon growled under his breath, glaring up at the mare with a complete lack of respect or guilt, only anger. "You can't keep me contained," Necrozma sneered at Arceus. "I will escape... every time." His expression spoke volumes more then his words.

He didn't just intend on escaping, Arceus could tell that much. "That is what you think," the alicorn said.

"That is what I know," Necrozma replied, his voice becoming an echo.

By the time Arceus had rushed to prevent what she knew was coming, the Prism Pokemon had already disappeared, the heavy shackles dropping to the floor with a rattle that rang in her ears. "No..." she gasped before whipping around to face the princesses. "He's gone... We need to find him before he does anything else. We can NOT let him escape," she said with a sense of panic edging its way into her voice.

"Oh... Don't worry. I darn well intend on finding that thing," Luna said with a determined glare.

-Canterlot's Main Entrance-

Necrozma charged forward, pushing his way past a unicorn couple that entered the building. "Hey!" the stallion said, turning around as the Prism Pokemon rushed by.

He didn't hear, Necrozma only ran, intending on getting away from this damned place before Arceus found him.

Spreading dark, crystalline wings at the entrance, Necrozma flapped once and was airborne. With a triumphant shout, he rapidly melted into a shadow and moved on, hoping to find a suitable place to lie low.

-Zap Apple Orchards-

"Okay, this here's an apple tree," AppleJack started, leaning against the thick trunk of an old tree.

Groudon rolled his eyes, he'd seen apple trees before and didn't need a lecture as to what made an apple tree special. "I am aware," the stallion said.

"Good... Yer job is to get the apples from each tree into the buckets," the earth mare replied. Kyurem looked on with a frown, boredom having gotten the better of him. "To fill the buckets, ya just give the tree a good ol' buck," AppleJack continued, whirling around and planting her rear hooves against the bark of the tree. On cue, several apples rained into the wooden buckets. "Now you try."

Groudon lifted a brow and shrugged, but approached a tree nonetheless. Turning his back to the trunk and lifting a hind leg in preparation, he looked over at the mare skeptically. "Are you sure about this?" he asked AppleJack

"Go ahead," she said, motioning a 'get going' wave at him.

"Alright," he muttered, leaning forward and throwing his rear hooves at the trunk. The impact resulted in a loud creeeeak, but the tree held. Apples fell from the branches and fell into the buckets that had been prearranged around him. An unlucky fall clonked the Continent Pokemon's forehead before it too fell into a bucket.

Kyurem smiled as Groudon rubbed his forehead and scowled at the tree. "What's so funny?" he barked, catching the smile out of the corner of his eye.

The grey alicorn rolled his eyes as a response.

"Kyurem, why don't ya give it a shot?" AppleJack suggested, interrupting his thought process. Looking over, he saw her nod at a sturdy looking apple tree.

"Sure," the Boundary Pokemon obliged with a shrug, walking up to the thick trunk. Without hesitation, the stallion whirled around and threw his rear hooves at the bark. On cue, several apples fell into the buckets surrounding the tree. Kyurem looked to the two for approval.

AppleJack smiled with and Groudon nodded respectfully. Kyurem ushered a rarely seen smile for the second time in five minutes, a satisfied sigh leaking cold air through his nostrils with it.

"Well then. Now that ya know what ta do, get to it," the Element of Honesty laughed. "Well, Groudon, anyway. Kyurem, walk with me," she continued, beckoning the alicorn over.

Kyurem looked to the Continent Pokemon for a sign.

Groudon simply waved him away before moving to a tree whose buckets had yet to be filled.

"Kyurem, what are ya, really?" AppleJack asked as they walked down the beaten up dirt path. "And before we start, you should know that it's impossible to lie ta me."

"Okay," Kyurem shrugged. "Normally, though, I am a large dragon that walks on two legs and controls ice at will," he acknowledged. "Why do you ask, and why couldn't you do it with Groudon around, though?"

AppleJack pondered for a moment before answering his question. "Yer not like the others. They have a role to protect, or so I've heard. You, on th' other hoof... Yer different. Yer looking' fer somethin'. And I feel like I could help ya," the Element of Honesty explained to him.

Kyurem felt a bead of sweat form upon his brow for a reason that he was unable to comprehend. He should be interested in her help, but instead, he was nervous. "How could you help me?" he said, forcefully replacing his nervous demeanor with a stern expression.

"Yer lookin' for somepony ta be honest with ya, but there's more that I don't know about," she said. "I'm one of Equestria's protectors. There're six Elements of Harmony. Of those, I'm th' Element of Honesty."

Kyurem looked at her with a brief moment of contemplation, a brow raised. "Perhaps you could help me then," the icy alicorn said. "Of the Legendary Pokemon on Terra, I am known in stories as the Pokemon who waits for a hero to fill his body with Truths or Ideals. If you are the Element of Honesty, then perhaps you are the one destined to take part in making that story come true," he finished, looking down at the mare with a slightly upturned lip.

"Maybe," AppleJack said before she was interrupted by the sight of a figure cloaked in shadow appearing and then disappearing a fraction of a second later. "What the hay was that?" she queried, squinting to try and locate the figure again. Unable to find it, she looked to Kyurem for his opinion.

The blood in his face had drained to a ghostly pale, fear visible in his expression. "Where's Groudon?" he said. "We need him... NOW!!" he shouted, turning and running down the path in the direction that they had come.

-Minutes Later-

Kyurem came to a gasping halt in front of the Continent Pokemon, stooping to catch his breath.

Groudon looked down at the stallion with a look of befuddlement, brow raised. "What's your problem?" he asked in a gruff, foreboding tone.

"...Necro-Necrozma... He's here," the Boundary Pokemon panted, standing back up straight to look Groudon in the eye. "I saw him a couple minutes ago."

Groudon suddenly stood straight up, the hair along his spine sticking up on end at the words. "Where is he?! I'll Kick his ass into next week!" he growled, quick to jump into a battle stance.

Kyurem placed his hooves on the stallion's shoulders to calm him. "We don't know exactly where he is right now."

"Are you sure?" the Continent Pokemon turned unicorn asked, training his eyes behind the alicorn.

Kyurem turned to face what Groudon was looking at. Necrozma's red and blue eyes glared straight into Kyurem's soul, hatred broiling in his system. The Boundary Pokemon froze...

Groudon leapt forward, jaws wide as he threw his full weight into the Prism Pokemon before the stallion could react. Groudon was the heaviest Pokemon known by both human and his contemporaries. And he was a great deal heavier then Necrozma.

Necrozma hissed in fury as the stallion on top of him planted a firm, unmoving hoof to his chest and threw the other one at his jaw. The former Pokemon jerked his head aside, Groudon's hoof striking the dirt beneath and creating a shallow crater where his head had been. With a growl, Necrozma heaved his back hooves, slamming them into the unicorn's gut with full force.

Groudon roared in pain, clutching at his stomach as his adversary shoved him away. Necrozma cracked a sly grin as Groudon glared up at him, moving a hoof away from his belly and placing it against the ground to steady himself as he gasped for breath.

Necrozma's smile disappeared as his horn began to crackle with a deep black, a large ball of energy forming at its tip. Before Groudon could recover fully, the charge of magic reached its zenith and launched itself at the downed stallion, throwing clouds of dust and dirt into the air as it made contact with his foe and the ground under hoof.

Kyurem gazed at the scene in horror before the fear made way for anger. "Bad idea," he growled at the crystalline alicorn, eyes glowing a bright yellow before his outline became enveloped in a black light. What surged forth from the light was a completely different stallion, but at the same time not.

Black Kyurem stepped forward, sharp teeth clenched as sparks of electricity raced across now black fur. He wore only one gauntlet which completely covered his left arm and shoulder, making the appendage look as though it was made of ice. The left wing, like the arm, appeared made of ice, and the blue electricity on his back jumped from small patches near the tail and shoulders.

Necrozma's face twisted into shock before a glare crossed his muzzle, his horn charging another attack. Kyurem reacted swiftly, leaping to the side as the energy impacted the earth beside him.

With a roar, the Boundary Pokemon jumped towards the Prism Pokemon, lifting his right hoof.

A brief wave of fear washed over Necrozma as a blue aura surrounded Kyurem's hoof before striking his shoulder with a pulse of electricity that jolted through the stallion's body before throwing him into the ground. Necrozma struggled to his feet before the still lingering cloud of dust from his attack on Groudon, a hoof to his numb shoulder.

Looking up, it was then that he noticed a faint fiery glow pour out of the dust cloud, a pair of luminescent eyes glaring at the alicorn through the settling dust. When the cloud had cleared completely, it revealed the form of a stallion whose hide raced with energy that spread across tribal markings.

Primal Groudon growled, baring his sharp teeth as rage built in his system.

Necrozma felt panic as Black Kyurem and Primal Groudon approached him, feeling additionally the surrounding area heat up with surprising speed.

"I do believe that you just dug your own grave," Groudon growled before he reared onto his hooves and slammed back down. Upon impact, the ground beneath their hooves trembles before splitting apart with thundering cracks to reveal rivers of lava miles below.

Black Kyurem leapt into the air, wings beating as plates of stone collapsed around him.

Necrozma crawled away from the splitting earth before him, his breath coming in gasps of fear as Groudon leapt across a subterranean river of lava and landed by his side, putting an arm around the alicorn's neck with bulging muscles. The ground beneath began to crumble as the two legendary Pokemon fought, kicking and biting each other. Groudon had the upper hand, though. He was larger, more muscular, and Necrozma was unable to charge any attacks amidst the barrage of punches he received to the torso and head.

Primal Groudon stopped as the ground began to reassert itself at the surface, his lips curled back in a snarl. Necrozma's head flopped aside, nose bloodied and broken, chest bruised and beaten. The sounds of climbing rock died down and one last sprout of steam slithered from a closing crack in the crust.

With one last growl, he stood away from the Prism Pokemon, glaring down at the alicorn before a brief white light enveloped his form, replacing Primal Groudon with plain old Groudon.

Black Kyurem reacquainted his hooves with the ground before he too, reverted to his previous form.

AppleJack came to a stop nearby just in time to see the reversion and the heavily wounded form of a black, crystalline alicorn heaving for breath nearby. "Oh mah gosh!" she exclaimed, running to Necrozma's side to support his head.

"Don't do that," Groudon ordered abruptly, shaking his head.

"What? Why?" the Element of Honesty asked, moving away from the Prism Pokemon only slightly.

"If you want to become the host of Necrozma, by all means, go ahead. If not, step the fuck away," Groudon growled at her, taking a step towards the earth mare.

"Host?!"

"I'll explain later," the unicorn said, leaning down and grabbing Necrozma by the collar. The alicorn was almost nonchalantly hoisted over Groudon's shoulder before slipping from consciousness.

"Best not to question his methods," Kyurem whispered to the mare as they walked in the direction of the barn. "He's been doing this sort of thing for thousands of years... Trust me, he knows what he's doing."

"Uh-huh," AppleJack said with an unbridled look of fear crossing her face as they walked. Groudon was treating the rarest species of equine in Equestria like a filly might a doll.