Author's Note

Just so y'all know, I wrote this when I was barely through the beginning of Violet, so I knew like, nothing about Miraidon. Love at first sight, I guess? Or is it horny at first sight?

Anyway, maybe someday I'll write some sort of sequel now that I've finished the game, and if I do, then it can involve both- as I now know there are two- of those guys. Or perhaps one is a girl, heheheh...

Welcome to the world of Pokémon!

Saphira quietly sighed, as she sat down in a chair next to what had once been her main console. It felt like a long time, but it also felt like no time at all since she had been nothing but a living program hosted on the servers in front of her... even when they had given a mare's body a computer brain for her to control, it had been nothing but a puppet.

But now? Saphira actually resided within the body she had once only used remotely, though it now was part machine, made out of the odd flexible metal that planeponies and tankponies always seemed to be comprised of. And not just ponies- it seemed her crush was made of the same thing.

Oh, how embarassing to think of it that way... her crush. It was just attraction, nothing more, all she wanted to do was... cuddle him. Yeah. Saphira had watched, through her backdoor into Tinker's security system, as the dragonpony disappeared inside of his DS, and reappeared with an odd-looking blue water creature. Vaporeon, she'd later learned.

Then there was Suicune, who came through a portal she and Poly had built to try a new method of accessing other worlds. Not long after, Arceus, who she'd given directions to Canterlot Castle. She had quite the I-told-you-so to give Celestia when the next game came out, and happened to feature a special new "ponyta" variant...

It was quiet for a while, at least in Pokémon terms. The new 'legends' game seemed to pass under the radar at PolariSoft, but then a new set of games came out. In Equestria, Pokémon wasn't exactly a massive franchise. It was easy to overlook the bugs and framerate drops in the two newest games, and it only took Saphira an hour or so to rid all of the inefficiencies from her own copy of the game anyway.

Tinker and Poly didn't seem to care too much about these two games. Saphira though, it had become her turn to admire one of the creatures in that world. Miraidon... the goofy, sandwich-loving, handsome dragon-motorcycle-thing... something about the creature just wouldn't get out of her head. And as an AI, it was pretty damn hard to stop herself from processing intrusive thoughts once they took hold.

Was it because he had those digital eyes, much like her sister, Prop? Or was it the jet engines he sported on his hind legs? The strong, imposing chest? She was certainly curious about the motorcycle variant of the creature, that much was sure- how did that work, a living creature with wheels? Was it like the jet engines on Prop's wings?

She had questions, meeting him would bring answers, so why not pay him a visit? Her dad had finally been able to replicate Tinker's original spell for entering the enchanted DS, and he had applied it to one of her old servers. All she had to do was host her emulators on that server... and Saphira could transport herself to the world of any videogame she wanted.

So, she found herself sitting at the console, preparing code to inject herself into her emulated copy of the game. It was safer than trying to rely on a game system, like the original spell. The mare's visor flickered out as she closed her eyes, she took a deep breath, and she began to execute the code.

To the mare's surprise, she felt the magic taking hold. She had expected to temporarily leave her body and appear in the game world, but the magic wasn't going to play favorites- she got the same treatment anyone else did, and that meant one round-trip ticket to Paldea.

In Saphira's server room, her body shone white for a few moments, and with the bright flash of strong magic... she was gone. PolariSoft would be quiet for a little while, more quiet than usual, but it wouldn't cause any problems.

Saphira on the other hand, didn't expect her entry into the world to be as messy as it was. Seeing as she 'entered' the game during the intro sequence, where the camera had been flying through the landscape, well... Saphira found herself falling, as she opened her eyes.

The mare did have wings, robotic wings made of metal, they were barely suited for gliding, and when she snapped them open with a frantic yelp, they didn't do much to help her slow down.

She started to brace herself to hit the rapidly approaching grass, before... she hit, something. Her flanks met something smooth and warm, her chest smacked into something that felt similar, and her head came to land on what felt like glass, making her teeth rattle as she flinched.

A warm, synthesised voice chuckled from beneath her, saying, "My, you're quite the odd creature to be falling from the sky in the middle of the night..."

Saphira forced her eyes open, shivers going through her as she felt her body's adrenaline running its course, and she carefully, carefully sat up a little... the first thing she took in was the landscape, vast and beautiful, but the second thing she took in was the glowing shimmer of light on either side of her.

Wings, wings formed from energy, and not only that, they were the wings that belonged to him. She couldn't believe her luck, and she looked down at the dragon with wide eyes, just in time for him to look back at her with a faint grin on his snout.

"I-I..." she weakly stammered, as her cheeks began to turn a hot red. "It... long story, I uh, I'm not from this world, I..."

"You as well, then?" He said. "I suppose I expected as such, I've never seen anything like you before... but you can understand me, which is a good start".

"W-Would you believe that I came to your world in hopes of finding you...?" She admitted, feeling her cheeks burning as she let the wind hold her wings aloft to either side of her.

He didn't look back this time as he banked towards an updraft, and he softly said "Really, now? Just where are you from?"

"Someplace called Equestria... I-I'm Saphira, I was born as an AI, but with time, my dad was able to give me this body, and... to shorten things a bit, when I learned about you from my world, I just had to come visit you... y-you're like nothing I've ever seen before, is all..."

She couldn't see it, but he began to smirk a little as she continued, "I uh, I'm not the first one, there have been other Ponies visiting the world of Pokémon, and some of you guys have come to our world, notably Arceus, so there's a bit of a system for this, at least, but I never expected it to dump me in the air like that...!"

"Well, I'm very glad I was here to rescue you... it looked like you were headed for a tree at least, so I'm sure you would likely not be too badly injured, but it wouldn't do to let a creature from another world have such a terrible first impression with my home!" he said.

As Saphira held on, Miraidon gently landed on a grassy hilltop. It was circular, with steep cliffs at every side. Very private in some ways, yet very open in others. He sat down, allowing the mare to slide off of his back, and he turned around to look at her as she stood up on shaking legs.

Saphira gave Miraidon a weak smile as she sat down, her wings sagging behind her. "My, ah, sorry about my appearence... originally, this body was simply that of a pony, but with a computer in its head, which I could use to control it..." she said. Miraidon was watching her with a gaze of genuine curiosity and interest, his ears perked up, but it made her so anxious!

It didn't help that in this world, she was alone. No internet connection, no network of cameras, just... herself. She kept going, saying "But we managed to transfer my uh... my mind, I guess you could say, into this body, but it had to be upgraded with some robotic parts in the process..." she said.

Miraidon took just a little bit of a risk, allowing his gaze to drift back, between the mare's hind legs. He could spot, just barely, the tips of two plump teats resting between those thighs of hers... that meant that this creature almost certainly had the same type of reproductive systems as his fellow Pokémon, and it made him feel the faintest rush of... arousal, something he wasn't used to feeling.

As his gaze returned to her eyes, he watched as tiny lights illuminated from emitters hidden by the mare's mane, generating a visor in front of her eyes that seemed to display all sorts of information. He smiled at the sight, recognising it as a way for her to apply her computerized vision as well as the "analog" vision coming from her body's eyes.

"But I like it... me, I mean, I like my body, it's... I know it's a bit odd, but... erm... I'm sorry, I didn't come here just to tell you all about myself..." she said, looking somewhat ashamed of herself as she gently pawed at the ground with a hoof.

Miraidon laughed softly, and he reached out with a paw to gently take hold of one of her hooves. He tugged the mare close, and he nuzzled her snout for a moment as he gave her a brief hug. "Don't bother apologizing... I don't mind at all, I've never gotten to meet someone from Equestria before..." he said.

She wore a shy, blushy smile to start with, and Miraidon took great pleasure in watching that blush of hers explode as he finished his sentence; "Certainly not someone as beautiful as yourself...~"

Saphira could barely believe her ears, but her microphones agreed with them, so that meant that she wasn't hearing things wrong. H-He was flirting with her! She'd launched her code to inject herself into the world in the faint hopes that she would be able to simply meet this Pokémon, maybe talk to him a little bit, tell him how cool she thought he was, but this...

Not only did he save her life, but he thought she was... beautiful!! She couldn't stop herself from stammering for a moment before she managed a weak "Y-You really think so...?"

"I know so, you're quite the adorable... hmm... mare, I think?" he asked, as he laid down on his side, exposing his chest to her. "I know it's likely a bit cold, this high in the air, so perhaps you'd want help keeping warm..."

Saphira's cheeks were burning a hot red as she nervously stepped closer, and she said "I... I am shivering quite a lot, aern't I...?"

He softly nodded at her, and as Saphira carefully sat herself down against him, she felt the dragon's front legs wrap around her, pulling her close. She let out a little squeak as his warm chest pressed close to her back, and she let out a faint giggle as his tail wrapped around one of his hind legs. He curled around her somewhat, blocking off most of the wind... it wasn't until the wind had been blocked that she realized how chilling it had been!

His snout brushed through her fur as he nuzzled her again, then he quietly asked, "So, is everyone in your world an equid, like you are...?"

"Well..." Saphira quietly murmured, "Most of us are..." Through the magic of conversation, or perhaps even friendship, the AI found it easy to simply relax in the arms of the creature she'd come to visit, while she did her best to describe what her home looked like...

Ears perked, Miraidon listened to each and every word.