Fluttershy hummed happily to herself as she prepared breakfast. Angel was still asleep, and so was the many other animals that she cared for around her cottage. She was more than happy to let them sleep in this morning, especially when things had been far more hectic the past few days. Pouring herself a box of cereal, the pegasus quickly floated around her kitchen, checking cabinets to make sure she didn’t need to head into town today.

“Hm, looks like I’m gonna need some more fish,” She said quietly before giggling. “Ashimari does seem to enjoy eating.”

Putting down her full bowl of cereal, she quickly grabbed a pencil and added “a dozen fresh fish” to an already bizarre list. She also remembered what she had heard Ashimari say to her yesterday and put down “a ridiculously large variety of berries” afterwards. Even after taking care of bears, goats, and many other different animals, she was sometimes surprised at some of the things that she needed to buy. She could only hope that everything was in town.

Even after the wonderful sleep she had the night before Fluttershy could feel just how drained she was. She had been home for the better part of the week putting together a project that didn’t seem to end. Everytime she thought she had it finished, something quickly proved her otherwise. Everytime she wanted to work, her animals needed her attention or her newest arrival wanted to play. She had no problem with it all, but just because her talent is taking care of animals doesn’t mean she doesn’t get tired from it.

All she wanted was to eat her cereal in the peace and quiet of another thursday morning.

Knock knock

“Fluttershy? Are you home?”

Though Fluttershy knew, being the element of kindness, in a town that many agree is a total disaster field, on the edge of the everfree, and her own timid personality keeping her away from many things made her friends uncomfortable. The last few days had been so busy for her that she barely had time to hang out with any of them. It disappointed her, but that was the life of any animal caretaker: those she looked after had to come first. Fluttershy sighed, walking away from her cereal and to the door in order to answer it.

“Bwark?”

“No Ashi, stay in the living room for the time being. I don’t want Twilight to… well I’ve told you what happens when she sees something she doesn’t understand,” She said just loud for Ashimari to hear from the other room. “Don’t worry, everything will be fine.”

That taken care of, Fluttershy turned back to the door in front of her and creaked it open. She checked to make sure it was her closest friends, though she already knew it was. Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Spike, and of course Twilight Sparkle were all waiting for her to open the door. Her worries satisfied, Fluttershy opened the door up and saw the relief on her friends face as she entered their sight. Twilight in particular was relieved to see Fluttershy was okay.

“Hey girls,” She greeted with a smile. “I think I know why you are here.”

“If ya didn’t I would think something bad had happened,” Applejack told her. “You spending a few days away from all the crazy in Ponyville is normal, but you haven’t even been in town for food for the better half of the week. We were worried you had gotten sick.”

“Oh you don’t need to worry yourself about me,” Fluttershy assured the farm pony, knowing it was best not to hide anything with Applejack around. “I’ve been rather busy the last few days because I found some new animal friends who needed somewhere to stay.”

“New animal friends?” Twilight looked at her with a sense of curiosity. “We didn’t see any new animals one the way here. You aren’t lying, are you?”

“I’m pretty sure AJ would have picked up on it if that was the case,” Pinkie said excitedly, getting a proud nod from Applejack. “Besides, my pinkie senses have been going nuts the past few days by telling me somepony new is in town. Perhaps it was these new animal friends, considering I haven’t seen anypony knew as of recently,” Suddenly, Pinkie got an absolutely terrifying idea. “Oh! I should throw them a ‘welcome-to-Fluttershy’s-place-lets-all-be-friends’ party!”

“Um, Pinkie?” Fluttershy quickly answered back with a look fear on her face. “Need I remind you of the last time you gave my animal friends a party.”

Not a single member of the elements of harmony could get forget about the mess of a party Pinkie tried to through last week. It wasn’t often that things went haywire at a party, but Pinkie had never put into mind that Fluttershy’s animal friends weren’t ponies. Everything, absolutely everything had gone wrong, and they had all agreed to never speak of it again. Heck, Pinkie even made me, the narrator, keep quiet about the events for the sake of her reputation.

“I still wake up screaming,” Rarity mumbled with a shiver.

“Okay, so maybe not a party, but I still need to meet them,” Pinkie told Fluttershy before she rushed past the pegasi and into her cottage. Before Fluttershy could say anything, it was too late.

“Ark!”

“Oh my gosh, you are adorable!” Pinkie said as she hugged the new friend Fluttershy had made.

The others quickly rushed after the pink party pony, and found themselves both stunned or, in Twilight’s case, flabbergasted at what was in her arms. In Pinkies arms, struggling to get free from the earth pony’s death grip, was a small blue seal creature. It had a large pink nose and a frill around its neck that reminded the ponies of a circus clown. Of course, the creature was the exact opposite of a clown, have large, adorable eyes and being small enough to hold by even a foal if they were strong enough.

“Bark bark bark bark!” The blue seal called out in fear as Pinkie tighten her hug.

“Um… I think you’re hurting it Pinkie,” Rainbow warned as she watched the creature struggle.

“Oh, right,” Pinkie said as she realized what she was doing it, quickly dropping the hug and watching as the small seal crawled over to Fluttershy. “You can’t blame me though. She is absolutely adorable!”

“That… what?” Everypony’s attention turned from the seal to Twilight, who was on the verge of a mental breakdown. “New… thing. New, strange thing. New… species?!”

Twilight’s eyes rolled back before fainting, the others quickly preparing a makeshift bed for her before she hit the hard wooden floor. Fluttershy and Rainbow grabbed and placed blankets, Rarity used the couch cushions as a quick mattress, Pinkie got a pillow, and Spike gave her a stuffed animal to snuggle with. The little seal had no idea how to react to this, both because of how odd it was and the fact they managed to do it in a matter of seconds. Fluttershy quickly took notice of this.

“Oh, don’t worry about it Ashimari,” She said with a smile. “I did expect her to ask question or something, but fainting isn’t that uncommon either. We’ve had lots of practice with both scenarios.”

“Bwark!” Ashimari said happily, feeling a little bit better now.

“So, Fluttershy,” Rarity said as she finished messing with the sheets. “I assume this is the new friend you mentioned?”

“Well, he’s one of them,” Fluttershy explained. “I found Ashimari at the lake a few days ago, and he seemed so scared and sad that I had to help him. Next day I went back and found another new creature I’ve never seen before.”

Fluttershy pointed to one of her window sills, but nopony saw what she was talking about. What they did see was a small, lumpy piece of cloth with a crudely drawn face on it. Applejack was starting to wonder if her friend was going a little crazy, but than she saw something move under the cloth. Rarity had already made her way over to the window, and was looking at the drawn confused. She poked it, but nothing happened.

“Fluttershy, I hate to tell you but this is not aaah!”

Rarity fell back as she saw the top part of the cloth crack horribly before falling over. She was even more surprised as, even after it’s head looked like it had been snapped, the cloth jumped off the window. It ran over to Fluttershy just like Ashimari had done, all the while making a devilish cackling sound. Everypony in the room, save for Fluttershy, found themself terrified at the living cloth.

“I hate to be rude ‘shy, but what is that?” Rainbow asked, doing her best to not run away in terror.

“Oh, this here is Mimikyu, or Mimi for short,” Fluttershy said as she picked up Mimikyu with her hooves. “The poor thing, all it ever wanted was to be loved. It told me that it wears the cloth because it’s so ugly it killed somepony just by looking at it’s real body. No one, even if they are ugly, she ever be hated because of that,” She put Mimikyu back on the floor, her friends watching as the creature looked over all of them in curiosity. “Oh, and they aren’t actually animals. Apparently they’re called Pokémon.”

“Pokémon?” Spike said as he watched Twilight. “I’ve never heard about them in any of the books Twilight read me.”

“Well, they aren’t actually from here. They’re from another world, and for some reason none of them remember how they got here in the first place,” Fluttershy explained as she patted Ashimare. “Since I don’t know how to get them home, I decided that I would try to give them a home here with all my other animals.”

“Didyousayanotherworld?!” As if she had never fallen asleep, Twilight sprang up and into Fluttershy’s face. The pegasus stumbled back at the sudden lack of personal space. “Oh my gosh. You know what this means, right? It means that I have the chance to research an entirely new set of species in Equestria! Fluttershy, please, you must let me do this. Imagine what we can learn from them, and what new kinds of magic we can learn about from their world!”

“Oh, well, as long as you don’t hurt-”

“Thank you!” Twilight didn’t wait for Fluttershy’s confirmation before teleporting away, most likely to grab everything she would need to do her research.

The room fell silent for a few seconds before Applejack spoke up again. “Flutters, I don’t mean to state the obvious, but your house doesn’t look like it will be enough space for these two, let alone all the others that Poké-whatsit that might show up.”

“Actually, that’s the real reason I’ve been away these last few days,” The caretaker explained. “You see, I’ve been trying to build a place behind my house for them to stay, but it hasn’t worked out very well. I, well, am having a lot of trouble building it.”

“Than you should have told us sooner darling. You know that we would’ve helped if you explain what was going on,” Rarity reminded her friend, putting a hoof on Fluttershy’s shoulder. “Friends help each other out, and I’m sure everyone is more than willing to help you with this little project of yours.

Fluttershy could help but smile as she heard this. She knew that they would be willing to help, but some part of her didn’t feel like it was right to get them involved in this project. That said, knowing that her friends were by her side, it made her feel more comfortable about everything happening.

“Thank you girls.”

— Meanwhile, in another dimension—

Arceus eyed Giratina, who looked at the ground slightly embarrassed at what was happening. It was rare to see the ruler of the reverse world standing in front of his father embarrassed about anything. Many of the other Legenary’s were also in the room, though they weren’t giving the death glare that Arceus was giving.

“Let me get this straight,” The Alpha Pokémon said. “You ‘accidentally’ opened up some portals to the reverse world all around the world. Pokémon of all different types ‘accidentally’ fell into these portals, and in an attempt to save face you forced them back out through a wormhole to another dimension!”

“Okay, in my defense, that last part was Lunala’s idea,” Giratina told Arceus, causing the Alpha Pokémon’s gaze to turn to that of the moon legendary, and the youngest of all the ones present. “She was visiting when all of that happened and-”

“You thought that, since you’ve been able to get those Lillie and Luno people to safety using ultra wormholes, you could do the same now?” Arceus interrupted, looking at Lunala, getting a nod in response. “You do know that, unlike ultra space, the reverse world lies on the same plane of existence as Earth does, right? You can’t open a wormhole to our dimension when you are already in our dimension.”

“Oh, um, hehehe… sorry?” Lunala, like a young naive child, tried to hide her mistake with an innocent smile. The Alpha Pokémon wasn’t buying it for a second. “Okay, I didn’t know that. I’m so sorry mister Arceus, but if it makes you feel any better I do know what dimension I sent them to. Thankfully, it wasn’t ultra space.”

Arceus knew that he couldn’t blame the Moon Pokémon for thinking the way she did. The girl had spent her entire lifetime hiding in a bag, hiding from people who she didn’t realize were trying to help save the Alola Region. That alone made her more of an outcast compared to the rest of the Legendary’s in the room, especially considering she was fine being called upon by the human girl known as Luno for battle. The others might have judged her at times for that, but Arceus knew that it wasn’t completely her fault for her lack of professionalism.

“You don’t need to tell me where you sent them, I have already figured that out myself,” Arceus said in comfort. Arceus knew that she didn’t like him treating her like the rest of his children, both because the two weren’t actually related and because she saw Lillie as her ‘mommy’. “However, you two did keep this knowledge from me for quite some time, so I do have to give some form of punishment. Also, I’ve decided that, with the time that has past, some of the inhabitants of this world you brought all of those Pokémon to have probably created a bond with each other in that time. It would be wrong to separate them, but it wouldn’t be wise to leave them without some form of insight on our kind. Lun- I mean, Nebby, as the one responsible for this I’m sending you as an ambassador of sorts.”

Lunala didn’t seem upset by this. In fact, she was actually really excited about it all. “Oh, oh, can I bring Luno and Mommy with me. Please.”

“Luno is the champion of Alola and has responsibilities that can’t be left. You know that means she can’t come,” Arceus told Nebby, who was disappointed as she heard the Alpha Pokémon say this. “However, I think Lillie would feel more than happy to accompany you on this mission. Just know that we expect her to… help you teach these ponies how Pokémon are.”

That was all Nebby needed to hear before flying out of the room with the energy of a child as she did. However, both Arceus and Giratina knew that the young Legendary didn’t catch the context of his last few words. Not that she would care, as compared to the other legendaries Nebby wanted nothing less than to play, talk, battle of she felt like it, and lighten the mood. She might have been naive, but even the most stubborn could help but bare a smile at some of her antics… save for Palkia. Palkia is the designated ‘party pooper’ and he is therefore not allowed to smile, though he never does anyway.

“Excuse me, dad,” Mew said, raising a paw into the air. “As much as I understand what you are trying to do, we both know that Lunala, even with her mommy’s help, is probably not the best option for this. Why not someone like me or Dialga?”

“As much as I would usually agree with you, I think that Lunala would be more to this worlds… taste,” Arceus said. “Besides, I think we can all agree that watching a human learn to walk on all fours would be fun.”

The two stared at each other for a while, Mew not sure whether to be proud or disappointed at what her father had just did.

“Alolan Vulpix?”

“I think the internet would agree it fits her most.”

Author's Note

This is not the kind of story I usually do on my account, but when you stress yourself out writing mystery and adventure stories all the time you need a little break. This here is a story I feel I can write without feeling increasingly streesed out about, and that’s why it’s here!

Hope all my fellow Pokefans enjoy, and have a great read!

Oh, and for those of you wondering Luno is my Ultra Moon character. Her team is comprised of Decidueye, Furfrou, Mawile, Midnight Lycanrock, Aurorus, and a red Oricorio. We will be seeing her later on.