Author's Notes:

First chapter already cause...it was ready and I felt like it here you go!
co author The Emerald NightenGale
accidental space last time...whoops

I groan as I slowly wake up after passing out mid-portal. “Knocked out twice in one day” I mutter, annoyed. As I regain my sight I look down and see that I’m… different than before.
“What the fuck?!” I exclaim in shock and surprise noticing I have the body of a very… familiar legendary Pokemon.

I looked like a weird little genie thing, a golden ring around my waist and no legs or feet to speak of, just a pale yellow wispy thing that waved as I floated above the ground - a matter for later. The rest of my now much smaller body was the same colour, with a few markings in a darker shade that made it look like I was wearing some kind of robe.

My arms floated out in front of me, thick and detached from my body with large, dark yellow cuffs and hands with no fingers. When I focused, though, it separated into fingers, so at least that’s there.

Reaching up, I felt my head, noting how it was now much wider and shorter, almost like a football. Two long, curved horns sprouted from the sides with large golden rings hanging from them. I have a bit of short, dark yellow hair with a tuft at the top too.

“I’m a fucking shiny Hoopa… A SHINY HOOPA!” I shouted, throwing my arms up before smirking slightly. “...sweet.” I mutter excitedly before I finally take a look around and notice… the world’s a wasteland. All the trees are dead, the ground is cracked in some places, and the wind is howling around me.

“I… did not expect Equestria to look like this” I mutter to myself, suddenly a LOT less enthusiastic about my situation with noone around. Although… I notice a structure in the distance that seems to be still intact, despite the streams of fire coming out of the ground around it.

I head towards it as quickly as I can get myself to move - that is, surprisingly fast. About the speed of an olympic runner if I had to guess.

After about a half hour I finally reached the temple-like structure. Looking up at it, I saw it was a lot bigger than I first though, built entirely out of fiery red bricks and black stone. I moved to head through the large archway entrance, pausing as what looked like a Transport Ring from the Hoopa movie opened in the air, dropping a small badge-like object out. I grabbed the badge out of the air, inspecting the green, purple and orange rings on it’s surface with the word “CHAOTIX” written over the top in bold white letters.

“Huh,” I muttered, about to just ignore it for now and head in when a trio of voices sounded in my head at the same time.

“We are Team Chaotix, the best detectives in Equestria! Give us a call and we’ll do what we can to help you out!

...Espio, how do I turn this thing off?”

“Well Team Chaotix, I have a case for ya!” I yell as I instinctively send out the ring around my waist, opening it to allow my fellow Displaced through.

As expected, a trio of figures tumbled out of the portal, each one matching a coloured ring on the badge: A large green crocodile with red spines down his back, black headphones, a gold chain, a black leather jacket, white gloves with black cuffs, and pure black boots; a purple chameleon with a long yellow horn on his nose, white gloves, black bracers, metallic purple shoes, and a white silk scarf; and a bee in a black aviator’s hat with red goggles, an orange vest, white gloves, and orange and white sneakers. All three of them were anthropomorphic, though I guess that much was obvious.

“God dammit, get offa me!” the crocodile shouted in a low, gruff voice.

“Sorry Boss!” the bee cried, buzzing his wings and hovering off of the pile-up.

“Sorry about that Vector,” the chameleon said calmly, climbing off and helping the crocodile up. “You know how summons can be.”

“Yeah,” Vector huffed, dusting his jacket off. “And when I find who called us I’m gonna give him a piece of my mind - the fist part!”

“Excuse me” I called, causing them to look at me. “You sure about that?” I ask with a grin as I cross my arms, floating above them.

The three of them watched me for a second before smirking. “Espio, Charmy?” Vector said, reaching into his jacket.

“On it, Boss!” Charmy cried, a set of drums appearing around his neck out of nowhere. Espio just hummed, producing an ancient-looking guitar.

Panicking, I instinctively use Magic Coat sending the attack right back at them. “Uh…” I say slightly worried “You guys okay?”

“I don’t wanna go across dimensions Mommy!” Charmy shouted, spinning about in the air, his drums having disappeared. “I wanna stay home and bake Alaska!”

Espio stumbled a bit before shaking his head. “...Note to self, do not let Vector use the Team Blast against a Hoopa.”

“Fu~uck you!” Vector slurred, stumbling and falling on his back. “My idea was fine!”

“Uh… do you guys still want that case or not?” I asked, now more annoyed at them ignoring me than anything.

Espio looked up at me. “Sorry about that, sir. Our boss can be quite… hot-headed at times.” He smiled, turning to me and holding a hand out. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, and we would be honoured to take your case. What seems to be the problem?”

“It’s fine.” I say shaking his hand. “I need to help getting through the temple, I feel like there’s something I need in there.” I say pointing at the temple behind them. Espio turned and looked at the large building behind him, frowning a little.

“Hmm…” he muttered, crossing his arms. “We can do that.” Pausing, he produced a pair of kunai, throwing them at the other two members of his agency. “Get up!”

“Gah!” Vector cried, shooting to his feet before pulling the weapon from his arm. “Dammit Espio… Alright, what’s the deal with this temple then?” he asked, crossing his arms. “What am I hitting?”

“Well,” I start a bit unsure. “Think of it like a pokemon gym but instead of trainers and a gym leader I believe it’s pokemon and the legendary that best represents whatever is inside.”

“Also,” I add a bit happier. “Take this as a… down payment” I say using Hyperspace Hole opening the ring I haven’t bothered to put back on me, taking a guess and concentrating on bits in a vault causing the ring to suck up a decent bunch of them from… somewhere, falling into a pile nearby.

Vector stared at the pile for a moment before grinning like a madman, his eyes bulging out with giant golden dollar-signs.

“That’s the down payment!?” Charmy cried, buzzing around the gold excitedly. “I can’t wait for the full bill!”

“Money’s no object to me” I say grinning. “Being the sole sentient inhabitant of this world means all the money here’s now mine so just think of a price and it’s yours when this is over.”

Espio and Charmy shared a worried glance before turning to their leader, watching as Vector went stock still.

“Uh, Boss?” Charmy asked, bussing up and waving his hand in front of the croc’s face. “You good?”

Snapping out of it, Vector slammed his fist into an open palm, a determined glint in his eyes. “Right, let’s get in there!” he cried, turning on his heel and marching for the door. “Find the computer room!”

“God dammit…” Espio sighed, facepalming as he followed, Charmy bussing above them.

“Well,” I sigh, “At least this should be amusing if anything.” And follow them into the temple.

“AH! I’M ON FIRE, I’M ON FIRE!!”

“Charmy, shut up for a minute so I can help you!”

“Stupid adorable fire chicken…”

“This is hilarious!” I say giggling slightly while I use Hyperspace Hole to knock out the torchic by attacking from behind. Espio sighed, jumping and doing a flip as Charmy buzzed past him in a panic, the winds produced blowing the fire out.

“So,” the chameleon muttered, landing next to me. I had to do a double-take when all I saw was a faint outline in his shape, though. “A temple full of Fire-Type Pokemon. And they don’t seem all that smart, either.”

“I’m not arguing against there being no smart Pokemon here,” I say feeling confidant. “Just makes it easier on us, right?” I say with a smirk as his colour appeared again. The chameleon just glanced from me to the still-smoking bee.

“Yeah…” he muttered. “Easier…”

“Well,” I say, looking around and making sure that nothing sneaks up on us. “If they were smart they would’ve swarmed us instead, and THAT would be way harder.”

“Yes, I suppose.”

“Fire turtle!” Vector suddenly cried, ducking under a Flamethrower from a Torkoal before uppercutting it, sending the thing flying onto it’s back. Almost instantly, Espio jumped into the air and hit it’s underbelly with a Homing Attack.

“Whoa” I say, seeming to zone out for a second before I snap out of it. “New move!” I say with a grin, looking around for a Pokemon to use it on. I grinned as a Lampent floated in.

“Too easy!” I shout as I fire a PsyBeam directly at the Lampent.
It tried to dodge but it was still directly hit, immediately fainting because of type advantage.

After a few more battles we reached a giant door. It… was literally just a giant stone archway but we couldn’t see inside, as it was filled with pure darkness. I feel… something strong in there and I feel that I have to fight whatever it is… alone.

“Guys, this has been fun and all, but I can do the rest by myself.” I stated, turning toward them. “Our contract is complete, don’t worry your money is waiting for you on the in your verse!” I yell, opening a Hyperspace Hole to their universe and to a vault I assume was a nobles at some point, giving them all the money in there. The surprise caused by my… abrupt send off causes them to be sucked through the hole without being able to react at all.

“Well,” I sighed, putting their token into hammerspace by instinct, “Let’s do this.” Turning, I head into the room beyond the archway.

After a little bit of floating forward I reached a large room. It seemed to be a stone arena, with a moat of boiling lava around the edge. At the end of the hall, a large, brown-furred beast stood proudly, a silver, red and yellow mask covering it’s face. Entei.

“Well… if we’re going to fight, then let’s get started,” I said, getting myself ready to fight the Legendary Beast of Wildfire. For a moment we just stared each other down before it suddenly let loose a powerful Roar, that I quickly block with Magic Coat, making the Entei’s will waver. It then charged, using Bite and managing to catch me in it’s jaws, doing a fair bit of damage before I managed to slip free. While it was close, I used Confusion and Hyperspace Hole on it, managing to land both attacks.

“... Did I win?” I ask myself, watching the cloud of dust that had kicked up and waiting for something to happen. I watch as the dust cloud falls to reveal… a fainted Entei.

“I know this is the first temple and all but… that was WAY too easy.” I said, taking glances around to make sure that there was nothing else around. I then floated forward, passed the Entei to the end of the room where I see… Arceus’ Flame Plate?!

“That’s… strange.” I think to myself “Did Arceus die and that’s why there doesn’t seem to be any life anywhere outside?” Regardless, I took the Flame Plate, my eyes widening when it sank into my hand and a burning power surged through my body. I panicked a bit before stumbling… somehow, a rush of knowledge flowing through my mind, imprinting images and explanations for all the Fire-Type moves in existence, though some of them seemed… incomplete. And kinda new, actually. Maybe if I get more Plates…

“Hmm…” I muttered, focusing on the image of the Flame Plate again. After a moment I managed to bring it into my hands, blinking at the lightness of the obviously nigh-indestructible material. Another image flashed through my mind, making me drop the plate as I grabbed my head in a mixture of shock and mild pain.

When I looked up again, I blinked, kinda shocked to see a flickering image of Arceus, God-Pokemon himself, stood next an anthropomorphic, cream-white woman with long maroon hair, wearing a simple pair of jeans and a flannel shirt.

“To anyone who sees this message,” the image of Arceus said solemnly, hanging his head low. “Then you have done the impossible and survived The End.”

“The End?” I muttered to myself, slightly confused about what was going on before deciding to just listen to what Holo-Arceus has to say.

“You may be confused,” the alicorn spoke up, smiling calmly. “But we assure you, so long as you listen to our words, you will be safe.”

Arceus stepped forward before speaking again. “The End was brought about by The Dark One, my wayward child, Darkrai. Having released Tirek, the greatest villain in Equestria’s history, from his imprisonment, Darkrai was betrayed by the centaur, having the limitless power of the New Moon stolen from him.”

“Tirek then proceeded to suck the magic out of Equestria’s citizens,” Faust continued, placing her hand on Arceus’s holographic shoulder. “Leaving the world helpless, without any means to grow or gather food, Tirek sentenced Equestria to it’s very death before moving on to the surrounding nations.”

“With the power of the Shadow of the New Moon under his command,” Arceus sighed, dropping to his haunches. “As well as the collective magic of every pony in Equestria and the power of every Pokemon in that nation, Tirek stood on a level of power well above the rest of the world. He moved from nation to nation, kingdom to kingdom, dooming the world to it’s End until only he remained, eventually perishing himself.”

“That… sounds really stupid for him to have done.” I deadpan. “note to
self do not get power hungry.” I mutter under my breath.

Faust cleared her throat, looking away ashamedly. “Due to our… misplaced judgement on this most awful of circumstances, we too fell to The End, along with the rest of Arceus’s children, the Legendary Pokemon.” She paused, a sad look crossing her features as Arceus began sobbing. “And upon Arceus’s fall, his Plates of Power - the objects that held his power to alter the face of the very world - scattered across Equus, erecting Temples to protect themselves and filling them with mindless copies of Pokemon. Again, seeing this means you have managed to acquire at least one of the Plates.”

“This,” Arceus chimed in, managing to reign back his tears. “Means you have been deemed worthy to wield my power, to take the mantle of God. Should you manage to gather my Plates, you will have the power to shape the world to your will, to bring life back to this once vibrant land.”

Standing together, Arceus and the Alicorn reached out, the Alicorn taking Arceus’s hoof in her hand. “We trust this power to you, Chosen One!” they said together before the image faded, leaving me alone again.

I floated there for a bit in shock that I was entrusted with something so… important. I haven’t really been given something as crucial as this to do before. Silently, I pulled the Flame Plate back into my body, feeling a great determination filling me.

“I’ll get the plates…” I promised, placing a hand over my heart.
“Now… where are they?” I mutter to myself turning around and heading out of the temple, which began to crumble behind me. None of the ‘mindless soldier Pokemon’ were around on my way out, which I assume is because I have the Flame Plate now.

As I floated out into the open plain, I glanced around, feeling a weird tugging within in lots of directions, with one in particular being much stronger. Picking the strongest connection, I headed that way, wondering what Type I’ll encounter next.