As the day went on, Fluttershy finally saw a vast improvement in her little project. What had started off as a roughly built hut had transformed into a beautiful little house thanks to the effort of her friends and herself. Ashimare and Mimi watched from a distance along with two other Pokémon. The first was a small yellow rat-like Pokémon with red cheeks and a lightning bolt-shaped tail called Pikachu. The other was a brown fox with the fluffiest mane anypony had ever seen, making Rarity rather envious of it for some reason. It called itself Eevee.

Fluttershy took a deep breath as she took in the work she and her friends had managed to accomplish. “You know, I thought that it would’ve taken me the rest of the week to get this done, or probably even longer if things kept happening. You know, I really couldn’t have done this without the help of everyone here.”

“Ya don’t have to thank us, Flutters, it’s just was we do,” Applejack replied modestly, a smile on her face. There wasn’t a single pony, Pokémon, or animal who wasn’t smiling at that moment, save for Angel bunny. “Of course, only the inside is completely finished. We still need the outside painted and all that stuff.”

Applejack looked at the dress maker with curiosity. “Since when did you get into architecture. Seemed like it would be to dirty for a pony like you.”

“Oh nonsense,” Rarity said with a dismissive wave. She looked to Fluttershy as she finished speaking. “So, are we gonna open the doors or are your new friends gonna just sit out here and marvel at the place.”

Fluttershy knew that it was time, but some part of her just wanted to stand there and look onward for a while. She only stopped staring into space after hearing Ashimari bark at her, and her mind was brought back to reality. She turned back to the four Pokémon who waited anxiously to see what had kept their caretaker so busy that last few hours. Fluttershy smiled at them all before approaching the front door to the house.

“Well then, guess it really is time,” She said as she opened up the door, watching the ever growing excitement on the Pokémon’s faces. “Come inside everyone.”

From a distance, Rarity, Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie watched from a distance as the pokemon rushed through the doors. Shouting their names or barking cheerfully as they did. Applejack looked the most content out of all of them, as the Pokémon’s behavior reminded her of how she and Bic Mac use to play when they were young. Rainbow took notice of this and nudged her friend, a smug smile on her face.

“You know, none of us would judge you if you wanted to play with them,” She said. “Nothing from with feeling like a foal again.”

“Ah never said anything was wrong with it,” Applejack replied, still slight stuck in a daydream. “Ya know that feeling grandparents have when they look at their grandchildren? The way that Fluttershy acts to all these animals, it reminds me of how Granny Smith was before she busted her hip. Ah just hope that pony remembers her limits.”

“After the breezies, I don’t think we’ll have to worry about that,” Rarity reassured her. “Fluttershy more than knows her limits, like any caretaker should.”

“Oh, ah, what is… eek!” Everypony outside looked at Pinkie Pie, who seemed to be having the most painful Pinkie sense in her life. Her tail was the only normal thing going on, indicating that something was going to fall, but the rest of her body seemed to be cramping and twisting like she had no bones at all. “Something… big is coming!”

“Pinkie darling, are you alright?” Rarity asked in concern as the party planner’s body finally rested. “That might have been the most painful and horrific thing I’ve ever seen the Pinkie sense do to you. In fact, I don’t think any of us have seen you act in this way before.”

“That’s because the only time it happened is when we met Discord, though nopony actually saw it happen for some reason!” Pinkie explained, seeing the look of terror. “If it’s what I think it means, I believe we are about to meet some super duper mega ultra-powerful god-like being! Oh, and they are probably going to be falling from the sky in 3… 2… 1… and-”

“Hey girls!” Twilight suddenly reappeared in the middle of everypony, not accounting for their individual space in any way. “Sorry that took so long, I just needed to do some things before I came back. I made some rough sketches of Ashimari and Mimikyu contacted Princess Celestia. Turns out these Pokémon have been popping up all over Equestria, and she is… um, why is the sky convulsing?”

Looking in Twilight’s direction, everypony saw exactly what it was that had caught Twilight’s attention. In the sky, somewhere over the Everfree, a giant hole had appeared from out of nowhere. It seemed to bend reality itself, the words ‘physically impossible’ having already reached Twilight’s mouth by the time everypony saw something come out of the wormhole. It was rather far away, but they could make out what looked like an extremely large blue bat dive bombing at the Everfree. Fluttershy had noticed this inside the newly built tiny house and came outside.

“Fluttershy, ya don’t think that was-” Before Applejack could answer Fluttershy had taken off in a sprint. “Well, I guess that answers that question.”

“That Pokémon looked a lot bigger than any of the ones Fluttershy has,” Pinkie commented before letting out a long gasp. “That must have been the godly being that I my Pinkie senses were talking about! We might be meeting an actual god!”

“In that case, we need to do what Fluttershy has already done,” Twilight said, taking a few steps in front of her friends. “Get to their location and welcome them to Equestria. Hopefully they aren’t wrathful or anything like that.”

—- Meanwhile, in the Everfree Forest —-

“Owie,” Nebby said as she rubbed her head with her left wing. “Mommy, my head hurts from all those trees.”

“Y-yeah, probably shouldn’t have opened it up so close to the ground,” Lillie said in a muffled tone, trapped under the weight of the Lunala above her. “Ugh, my body feels weird.”

Nebby looked around, trying to find where Lillie had landed, not feeling the small lump trapped under her right wing. Everything looked so much different from Alola, and it even sounded very different too. Nebby knew that she had found the right dimension, but she didn’t hear the sounds of Pokémon running through the woods. No Fomantis, Sudowoodo, Houndoom, or anything of the like could be heard around her. Arceus was right about this world. Before now, no Pokémon must have lived here.

“Mommy? Where are you?” Nebby called out, feeling rather scared and forgetting how much more powerful she was than most living creatures. “Are you okay?”

“I’m under your wing Nebby, now could you give me at least a little breathing room?” Lillie requested, still finding it impossible to move. She had noticed the moment she exited the portal that something weird had happened to her body, but she knew that she was nowhere near as strong as she once was.

At the request of Lillie, Nebby got off her back and looked to her mommy. However, it was at that moment she realized exactly why Lillie had been feeling so weird in the first place. Instead of a human with a red backpack and white shirt, Nebby found a small white fox with fur as clear as the snow on Mount Lanakila. She instantly recognized as an Alolan Vulpix, the pre-evolution of Alolan Ninetail similar to the one the Luno kept on reserve in case her Aurorus, Fos, needed a rest. That didn’t keep her from realizing who the Vulpix was, though. It could only be one person.

“Mommy, why are you a…” Nebby stopped, the answer coming to her before she even finished. “Mew.”

“Why am I a what Nebby?” Lillie asked, looking up at the legendary in front of her, noticing the increased size difference. “I knew you were tall but why are… you… oh.”

Lillie had attempted to move her hand and point at the Moon Pokémon, but instead of a hand a snow white paw had appeared in her vision. Confused, she tried moving her hand, this time from side to side, and saw the paw mimic what she had attempted to do. Lillie quickly realized that the paw was suppose to be her hand, and though she didn’t want to looked down in front of her. What she saw was both what she had expected and feared: her body looked exactly like that of an Alolan Vulpix.

“What?!” She screamed, attempting to stand on her hind paws and promptly falling backwards. Her tail moved out of the way as not to be crushed, giving Lillie a good view of it. “No. This isn’t happening. This can not be happening. I… I looked like a Vulpix.”

“Oh, that must have been what Arceus meant by ‘help’,” Nebby quickly realized, watching innocently as the former human attempted to stand on her hind paws again. “Well, I don’t like the idea, but a Vulpix does seem to suit you mommy.”

“That isn’t helping Nebby?!” Lillie exclaimed, rolling back on to her stomach.

Realizing that her two-legged strategy wasn’t going to work, she decided to see how she managed in a quadruped stance. The moment she stood up, all four paws on the ground below her, she felt at ease. She attempted to walk around, and was shocked out how easy it was. In fact, she couldn’t but feel it was too easy, as if she had always been like this.

“Nebby, I don’t care what Arceus was doing, but you better tell vul to tupix me vulpix vul vul…” Lillie stopped as she felt he human voice seem to drain away, replaced by the familiar cries of the species she now found herself as. “Vulpix… v-v-vul?”

“Aw, don’t worry mommy, I still understand you,” Nebby said as she proceeded to pick up the alolan Vulpix in her wings. She patted Lillie on the head in an attempt to make her feel better. It didn’t help that much. “Don’t worry, we’ll still send Luno letters through the ultra wormhole, and if any of the other legendaries visit I’ll tell them to give you your voice back.”

“Vul,” Lillie responded, looking at her current body. “Vulpix?”

“Don’t worry, I saw a place nearby the forest as we were falling down,” Nebby told the Vulpix as she set them back on the ground. “I think that might be-”

The Lunala was cut off at the sound of a scream not far away, Lillie’s new ears shifting in the direction it came from. Without a single spoken word, Nebby picked up Lillie and placed her on the her back before gliding through the trees. Lillie barely had enough time to grab the Moon Pokémon’s wing before the wind hit her fur, quickly realizing that the cold wasn’t affecting her at all. Nebby effortlessly dodge the trees, having had plenty of time to practice flying during her and Luno’s many trips to visit Ultra Space.

“Get back ya monster!” Nebby took a sudden stop as she heard the southern accent, looking into a clearing and watching as six ponyta-like creatures did their best to battle something. She noticed one of them, a yellow pony with wings, was standing further back than the rest. “Ya leave my friend alone, you hear me?”

“Grrrr,” Nebby looked slightly to the right, recognizing the figure they were battling as Salamence.

“Vulpix vul,” Lillie whispered to Nebby, hoping that the legendary really could still understand her. “Vulpix pix vul.”

“Yeah, they won’t last long against something like that,” Nebby said as she lowered a wing to the ground, letting Lillie off her back. “Stay here. I’m don’t want you getting hurt.”

—- From the view of the Main Six —-

“Twilight, you’ve already tried blasting multiple times, it’s not gonna work!” Rainbow said as the Princess of Friendship fired another beam at it. The beast in front of them, a large dragon creature with red, bat-shaped wings and a white and blue body, shrugged it off like it had all the others she had. “Twilight! If neither Applejack or I can even move it, what makes you think wasting your magic is going to do?”

“We… gotta try… something,” Twilight reminded her, mentally and physically exhausted from trying to fend of the creature. “It tried to harm Fluttershy, and it would most likely try attacking Ponyville if we don’t do anything!”

No matter how many times she said that, or how true it obviously was, she knew Rainbow Dash was right. Fluttershy could calm this beast, Applejack and Rainbow were nowhere near strong enough to do any harm against it, and Rarity and Twilight’s attempt to use magic against all ended in naught. The Princess of Friendship knew this was one of those Pokémon creatures, but she had no idea what to react to everything that was becoming clear to her. The beast was like an immovable wall, one that was now charging straight toward her and speed seemingly impossible for something that heavy.

“Charge!”

Then, only moments from laying it’s teeth on Twilight, it was swatted away by something else. Everypony looked up to the creature that had saved her, and was left in awe at what they saw. It was a gigantic bat, body seeming to bare the cosmos within it and wings the size of it’s entire body, easily being as tall as all four princesses combined. They were adorned with a golden substance lining their ends, stars of the same material hanging from the bottom of the wings and making up the lower section of it’s main body. It’s face was like a hologram, red eyes and a white mouth seemingly floating on the starry sky that painted it’s head. It looked at them with a smile, Twilight unable to notice the built in crown that seemed to form on it’s head.

“Don’t worry, I’ll try and get the message across to mister nasty over there,” It spoke in clean equish, catching everypony off guard. “You all just sit tight.”

The giant bat seemed to levitated over the massive pile of trees that now layed on the ground, the beast they had been fighting laying in the center of it all. Twilight could feel something about the creature - the one that had just saved them - and focused on the magic surrounding her to get a better idea of what was happening. As she centered her attention around the bat, she was taken back as she realized something. She had confirmed her suspicions, that the bat creature had an absurdly massive amount of magical energy around it, but she then noticed that the beast she had fought had nearly as much as the bat did.

“Is everything okay?” Applejack asked as she looked to Twilight, noticing the shock on her friends face.

“These creatures… these Pokémon… there is no way anything in this world should be able to hold that much magical energy,” the princess stated as she turned to the farmer. “We couldn’t do anything because there magical power is on an entirely different level than anypony here has. The only reason that this bat thing could attack it is because they have nearly the same amount. It should be impossible.”

“Excuse me, mister Salamence?” They turned back to the bat and beast, which was called Salamence if the former was correct. “You must know that attacking things other than Pokémon, even if they are not human, are not something nice.”

“Mence! Sala salamence!” The Salamence barked back in an aggressive tone at it’s fellow Pokémon.

“Oh, you haven’t heard of me? I’m Lunala, guardian of the moon, and that’s all you need to know. Now what seems to be the problem?”

“Salamence sala sa mence.”

The bat, Lunala, sighed as she looked to the Salamence. “Look, I may be new to the whole legendary business, but you don’t attack something because it walked towards you.”

“Mence!”

“What?! She was trying to be sweet to you and you turned her down! Now that isn’t very nice, and absolutely unbelievable. Apologize to the yellow one right now!”

“Sal!”

“Oh, you’re going to act that way? You know, my mommy told me that-”

“Salamence sala.”

“... what did you just call me?”

It was at that moment that the Elements of Harmony decided it was best to take a few steps back. Lunala’s face was inches away from the Salamence she was talking to, and it was clear that things weren’t going very well between the two. Twilight was already preparing a shield spell in case things went south, and considering the sudden change in attitude ‘the legendary’ had had, things weren’t going to be pretty.

“Sala… mence… sala.” The Salamence said, who Rarity and Applejack was surprised to see shaking in fear.

Lunala frowned, Twilight noticing how the magic surrounding the legendary seemed to bounce around uncontrollably. “You think I’m gonna let you free after that?”

Before any response was made, Lunala smacked the Salamence with her left wing, sending it flying to the air without effort. Lunala then took off, a third eye appearing on it’s head which fired a beam of light into the sky. Salamence managed to open it’s wings, steadying itself as it did, but by that point the Moon Pokémon was too close. The beam went right past him, opening up the same kind of wormhole that the ponies saw earlier, and Lunala slammed him inside. The portal closed behind her, but seconds later another one opened, Salamence hitting the ground at mach speed.

Lunala appeared from the wormhole moments later, Twilight noticing the moon that appeared in the wormhole. “Never, ever, call me naive!”

Energy started forming from the tips of Lunala’s wings, the legendary directing the energy around her head as it did. For a good few seconds all the energy did was grow, forming a ball of light as big as Lunala’s head. Than, with an unintelligible cry, the ball of light shot down, forming into a beam so bright it blinded everypony in the immediate area. Twilight was the only one who didn’t look away, her thoughts going back to what Pinkie had said earlier. This Lunala, this Pokémon right in front of them, was the godly being that her friend has sensed. That fact only became more obvious as the beam of light faded away, a crater formed around where it had hit and going several feet deep.

Miraculously, she could still see the Salamence breathing, though it was very heavy.

“Whew, glad that's over with,” Lunala said nonchalantly as she lowered herself over the crater. “Hm, might have overdone it a little bit, but he should be fine in a few hours,” She looked over to the ponies who had watched everything play out, seeing the awe in their faces, and the terror in another. “Um… hey.”

“That. Was. The coolest thing I have ever seen!” Rainbow shouted as she flew over to the Moon Pokémon, the others following her. “How did you do that? That was more powerful than anything I’ve ever seen.”

“Oh, i-i-it was nothing, really,” Lunala responded in a humble manner, doing her best to seem formal. “In fact, even though I didn’t hold back as much as I wanted to, that was still much weaker than how the Moongeist Beam is at full.”

“My that is some power you got there, and your look definitely shows it,” Rarity complimented as she examined Lunala, taking in the majesty of the creature. “You are absolutely gorgeous! The Pokémon Fluttershy are caring for might be cute, but you look like you belong on a thrown.”

“Really?” Lunala said, her mannerism like that of a young foal seeing Celestia’s castle for the first time. “I’ve never thought of myself that way, but I should apologize for-”

“Nonsense darling,” Rarity said. “That beast deserved what it got, and you shouldn’t feel bad about it.”

Despite those words, Twilight saw that Fluttershy wasn’t interested in the Pokémon who had just saved them. In fact, she seemed more concerned about the Salamence that was barely breathing. While Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow, and Applejack all focused on Lunala, Fluttershy checked Salamence’s injuries. Twilight knew that the others saw this Lunala, guardian of the moon, as some sort of savior, but with power like that she couldn’t help but see it as the opposite.

“This god, this Pokémon, it’s not the merciful creature I was hoping for,” She thought as she looked between the legendary and Fluttershy. “Anything willing to do that over such a tiny insult is… horrible! No, not horrible, merciless.”

—- Meanwhile, in the Alola Region’s Hao’li city —-

“Hau, I told you this would happen,” A dark skinned girl with a black tank-top and a striped black and white skirt said to the boy across. “You can’t just gulf them down, you’re going to hurt yourself.”

“Oh, loosen up Luno,” Hau responded, having finished clearing his throat of the malasada that had refused to go down. “You’re one to talk miss Z-move-dance-enthusiast. You do realize how often you do it, right?”

“That… nevermind,” Luno replied with a dismissive wave. “So, you wanted to call me over because of what exactly?”

“Primarina has been feeling a little down lately, and I’m not exactly sure what’s going on,” Hau reminded her with a smile, mouth already stuffed with another malasada. “I just thought, considering you have the ability to communicate with Pokémon, that maybe you could see what’s wrong.”

Luno sighed, knowing that it was probably something along those lines that Hau had wanted to request of her. It seemed that, no matter how important her duties as champion of Alola was, everyone came to her because of that one specific gift. Every Pokémon on her team, no matter how long she’s had them, joined not just because she won a battle and caught them, but because she could communicate with them. Everyone thought that it was amazing she could do something no one else could, but she couldn’t help but feel it was the only reason some people stayed around her.

“Hau, who is Primarina’s trainer again?” Luno asked, bored out of her mind. “You are. You don’t need some Pokéwhisperer to tell you what’s wrong, because it is a trainer’s duty to be able to help their Pokémon.”

“Oh, right,” Hau said, slightly embarrassed at the fact he had been ratted out by someone younger than him, even if only be a few months. “Sorry, it’s just a habit to ask you considering your reputation with that stuff.”

“Just... please don’t make a habit out of it,” Luno told him. “Also, the Z-dance thing? That was your best comeback?”

“Hey, at least I tried,” Hau said. “Anyways, this thing that Nebby mentioned to you. Is she really taking Lillie to go help another world with Pokémon.”

“Yep,” Luno said, smiling for the first time since they had started eating. “Got a few days off later this week. Figured you and me could maybe take the Recon Squad’s Solgaleo and visit them then. What do you say?”

“What? You never told me she was dimension hopping,” Hau shouted, feeling extremely jealous of his friend. “If you think I’m gonna pass up the opportunity to ride Solgaleo, need I remind you who here is the reigning champion of taurus riding?”

“I do still owe you, so it might as well be for this,” Luno said with a shrug. “Two days from now, Altar of the Moone, got it? That’s when we leave.”

Author's Note

So the next chapter isn't next on my list of things to do. I want to get the first FTE of chapter 3 for Danganronpa V.E. done first, but that shouldn't take too terribly long. I figured I'd just give you all a heads up, but I doubt it will be very noticable.

I'm absolutely shocked at how quickly this story reached not just one hundred, but two hundred views considering my luck with this stuff in the past. Usually it takes a few chapters, but the fact you all are interested did somewhat surprise me. I was worried that, with the plot's premise, most of you would probably just chalk it up as a "New World" side story. There is definitely some influence from those stories, but this is completely separate if it wasn't already clear. So, yeah, thank you all.

Oh, also, I got into doing small contests for all you commenters to take part in, and I decided that Fluttershy's nicknames for the Pokémon she keeps should be part of it. So, I ask you this, what should she nickname Salamence? Leave a comment below if you have a choice.

Feedback would also be nice, so please do that too. I won't be too preachy, but if you point out spelling mistakes or inconsistencies between this and the Pokémon universe please tell me. I will fix it if you do.