Equestria

1000 years ago

Everfree Forest

'Battle for Ponyville'

Celestia knew that this was going to be a tough battle the rocket agent she was battling was using a creature that she did not know about, which is not a good thing, she had been there when Team Rocket had caught every single one of their Pokémon, but this one, she had never seen. 'She must have gotten it when she joined Discord.'. This was not the first time she battled against a Pokémon, far from it. The only problem was  that she has no idea what type of creature this is or what it's weakness are, 'So far attacking it with brute force seems to have no affect on it, must be a ghost, could it be one of the survivor's of the phantom army?.' and shaking down a new opponent in the middle of battle was never a good thing, especially if it was a ex-member of the phantom army.

"Pumpka!" At the sound of the creature's voice, large vines erupted from the ground, wrapping them selves onto Celestia, she could feel the vines slowly draining her power.

Nearby the bushes rustled and came out a creature it's body resembled a ghostly pumpkin. The ghostly body that lives in the pumpkin is black with a pointy collar, yellowish eyes with no visible pupils, a pair of fangs, curved ears and a curled stem. Behind it came out two other creatures, a Wobbuffet and her friend-now enemy Sarah or Jessie as she liked to be called now and days. On her neck was a small necklace with a red gem. ' A chaos shard! Damn looks like this battle going to be tougher than I thought.'

"Dark pulse!" The pumpkin inhaled a lot of air before shooting a stream of black rings at Celestia. Luckily she was able to teleport out of the way.

As soon as Celestia saw that she was free from the vines, she tried to make a run for it, however her body refused to go any further she became confused and looked down. "*Gasp*" Celestia's shadow was being connected to Wobbuffet's! 'Shadow Tag!' Not many ponies know it, but Wobbuffet's magic was very similar to Dark magic. It was because of his magic being so similar to Dark magic that Celestia had been a bit hesitant about letting the creature stay with them, however as time went on she found Wobbuffet to be excellent company and a good friend. 'Looks like if I want to get out of here, I'm going to have to get rid of Wobbuffet first!'

Celestia saw the pumpkin creature right behind her preparing a attack. 'Excellent.' Quickly she ran towards Wobbuffet as he prepared 'Counter'. As soon as Celestia was in front of the Wobbuffet, she used her wings to boost her jump. Wobbuffet was confused for a while, but he quickly saw the pumpkin's Dark pulse attack heading straight towards him. As the attack made contact Wobbuffet was blown back towards Celestia, who fired a large beam of magic instantly knocking out the Wobbuffet and his disabling his Shadow Tag spell.

“Wobbuffet, huh? Interesting choice of attack, but no big threat once you figure out a strategy to beat him .” Celestia said confidently.

"Seed Bomb!" Celestia felt as if four large rocks had just been launched onto her back.

"That may be true, but can your strategy beat this." Jessie took out another pokeball and tossed it in the air, from it was what looked like a giant cobra. It had a menacing red and yellow pattern on its stomach which looked like intimidating eyes. Celestia recoiled slightly at the sight of them and her hooves became shaky. The head was outstretched, eyes blaring out of its head and sharp teeth poking out of its lips. It screeched as it jumped closer to her. "CHAAAAAARBOK!" then curved round to face Celestia and landed on the ground.  

It then slithered towards her with great increasing speed. Celestia was terrified and trotted backwards, but bumped into the rock. The snake-creature then stopped as it got in front of her and it towered above her height, looking her dead on in the eyes. The creature's eyes widened and became more menacing every second.

Suddenly, Celestia found that her bones were frozen up. She couldn't move. This Glare had completely paralyzed her. The snake then stretched backwards slowly and darted towards her, baring its huge and sharp teeth. Celestia unleashed a magical blast. The blast exploded on collision with the creature's chest and sent it flying backwards into a tree. Celestia managed to move slowly now, but occasionally her bones would stiffen up and stop moving. She made slow pace forward, seeing what had happened to the snake. It sat there staring at her again, hissing, but it didn't move. It was hurt too.

Celesia thought for a moment and remembered a spell she had learned, when some of Arbok's poison had gotten to Tomas when Arbok had been in heat. She closed her eyes and focused what of her magic she could. Her horn glowed with a faint golden aura and her hooves became less tense. Quickly enough, her paralysis was completely gone.

"Detox spell!" she giggled, "now do your worst, Arbok" Celestia taunted, scraping her hoof along the ground and channeling magical energy to her horn.

"ARRRRBOK!" the snake creature screeched, launching itself towards Celestia. The Alicorn caught it with a levitation spell and spun it around, then flung it towards the rock behind her.

"CHAR!!!"

The snake had smashed itself into her and she went flying, and crashed into a tree. Arbok towered over her again. She couldn't move since its lower tail was coiled around her back hooves and the upper tail was crushing her body. It lunged at her and she screamed as in pain as it dug its fangs into her shoulder, instantly piercing her skin and sinking deep towards the bone. Blood trickled out not only because the hole was open, but because it was now overflowing as another substance filled her body. Along with the overflowing crimson blood came a deep purple liquid. Celestia didn't see this though, she was only screaming in pain. The snake finished its attack and moved up from Celestia's shoulder, licking her blood and its own venom from its lips.

Strangely, Celestia was half pretending to be helpless in that moment, she knew the snake would take this chance to admire her work. The snake did not notice that her horn and itself had began to glow. Celestia, half grunting at the pain she had just endured, lifted the snake up with a levitation spell and wrapped its tail around a Jessie and Wobbuffet, then tied them up in a knot. The large snake could only swing back and forth to try and attack Celestia, yelling "ARBOK" over Jessie's screaming.

Celestia half-whispered, "Well it seems I won." then she flinched downwards in pain. She looked at her shoulder and saw the tricking purple liquid. She then looked up at Arbok.  "P-poison?" she gasped, "no matter. I'll just use another detox spell." Instantly she was cured.

"Pumpka!"

Celestia was tackled to the ground, she looked up and nearly sighed in annoyance, she had forgotten about the pumpkin. Celestia not wanting to deal with this, took out Jessie's pokeball and used it on the pumpkin-like creature, it was instantly sucked in.

"HEY!!! NO FAIR THATS CHEATING!!!"

"SAYS THE GIRL WHO USES MAGICAL CREATURES TO FIGHT FOR HER!!!" Celestia was about to trot away, before she saw two small claws floating to Sarah trying to untangle Arbok from then. 'Those claws...Black Fog!? Impossible he's dead I made sure of it!' Out of fear Celestia casted a light spell revealing a creature similar to Black Fog only with some minor differences, It has a round head with a pair of disembodied hands. Each hand has three pointed fingers. Its head is flanked by three large, spiked protrusions on either side, and its eyes are large and triangular with small pupils. The gases composing its head curve down to form several pointed teeth framing a pink mouth and a long tongue. Its body tapers into a jagged tail. Even though this creature wasn't Black Fog, Celestia could tell that they were the same species, the color of it's body was purple instead of black, and it was at least 5'03", unlike Black Fog who's height could be easily compared to a full-powered Tirek.

Celestia sighed in relief. "Oh... It's only a Haunter." After a few seconds Celestia's eyes widen. "A Haunter!!!" Haunters were notorious in Equestria along with any other ghost type Pokémon that came here to Equestria simply for fact that they were basically the gathers of the Phantom King's army. Everypony knew that when you see a Haunter, Lampent, Litwick, Duskull, or a Shuppet that you were basically dead. These notorious creatures go around stealing the souls of her subjects only so that they can grow stronger.

It was because of the actions of the Phantom King and his minions that Luna along with the rest of the Lunar guard had gone around trying to kill every single ghost they can find. It was thanks to Pharaoh the new Phantom King that there are still any ghost types still around, he offered to take the remaining ghost and leave Equestria and never return. Although there are still some ghost around Equestria, usually those who are still loyal to the original Phantom King, or sometimes even the friendly Ghost Trio doing pranks on poor unsuspecting ponies usually with Luna and Team Rocket.

Upon closer exception the Haunter had a red bow tie on him, revealing that he was a member of the Ghost Trio. Celestia rose an eyebrow at him. "Max?" The Haunter froze when he heard his name. "Max what are you doing." Unlike most Haunters, Max has a mischievous and happy nature, showing that he enjoys more of having fun and making people laugh than battling, though this usually involves hurting or scaring people. He is also very sensitive, ' I remember him becoming very depressed when I initially failed to get amused by its humor, not to mention he got depressed about me telling him he had to leave. '

For a second Max looked like he was having a war inside of him. "I'm very sorry your highness, but I can't let you take my friend away. HYPNOSIS!!!" A just like that Celestia blacked out.

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Equistria Present time

Canterlot Hospital

"After I woke up from Max's Hypnosis attack, Jessie was gone and Ponyville had fallen into Discord's control, I had failed my subjects once again, although this time Team Rocket wasn't one our side. After that with the help of Starswirl we had discovered the location of the Tree of Harmony, and used the Elements to defeat Discord and Team Rocket once and for all."

Celestia looked up from the hospital bed, after she had finished her story and saw a mixure of shocked, fear, anger, and sadness from her subjects faces. Fluttershy's coat had tear stains and she was still openly crying, Pinkie's hair was completely flat and had tears in her eyes.

Rainbow Dash looked up at the princess with sadness and anger in her eyes. "But why would Luna just go and do that!? Aren't James and Luna the best of friends? Why would she just go and crush him like that."

Celestia wavered a bit at the glare. "She wasn't being herself! She was under the affects of the curse!"

Twilight looked up at Celestia confused. "I thought you said curses don't exist?"

Celestia sighed. "Most curses aren't real, some curses, curses from Ghost, Dark Mages, and Voodoo Masters are real." Celestia looked down again. "*SIGH* And some times those curse can take away something you love, or change them for the worse."

"Was the curse the reason why Luna became Nightmare Moon?"

"A part of it yes...." Celestia looked up at Twilight. "Twilight this is why I must ask you to capture Team Rocket, and bring them here, and hopefully after we tell them the full story and ask for their forgiveness, we can become friends again." A tear rolled down the side of her face. "Just like old times...."

"You can count on us princess." Applejack was the first to speak up, the rest of the girls slowly agreed with her.

"Thank you, and good luck my little ponies." Next Chapter: Ch.11- Lost Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 19 Minutes