Author's Notes:

Next chapter here it is enjoy!

As I got closer to where I felt the next plate, I notice that the general area was a lot… well, greener than the rest of this world. I looked around a moment, looking at how much better this area seemed to be than the others because of how green it is but… it’s still lifeless. There’s no sentient creatures around.

Snapping out of my daze, I realised that I’d ended up at the temple for the next Plate. It was as big as the Fire Temple, though instead of fire and brimstone this one was made of a large, roofed hedge maze, surrounded by different types of trees and berry bushes. Thinking that a few of the berries might be useful, I just wildly grab some, not really paying attention as I approached the Temple entrance.

I waited outside for a bit, just to see if another Displaced token would appear or not. After wasting enough time, though, I just shrugged and carried on, staying focused.

After a while of exploring, during which I decided to gather a few more berries from the inner trees, I came across a Grovyle. Wasting no time, and knowing that I have a type advantage with the moves I can now use thanks to the Flame Plate, I breathed a Flamethrower at it, narrowly missing as it dodged to the side at the last second. It sharpened the leaves on it’s arms into a Leaf Blade attack, launching itself towards me at almost surprising speeds. I quickly tried dodging to the side, not entirely making it as the attack grazed my left arm. I quickly used Fire Punch, hitting it in the side as it tried to head back to where it started and sending it flying into a wall, actually managing to make a dent in the temple wall due to the sheer force of the attack, also knocking the Grovyle out in the process.

“Huh…” I muttered as the Grovyle’s body dissolved into little blue, yellow and green balls. “Interesting.” I headed forward, and as I get near the orbs they fly into me and I felt myself get a little bit stronger.

“Exp orbs...neat” I say to myself as I head deeper into the temple.

After a few more battles - that were pretty easy, thanks to the Flame Plate - I made it to the giant archway leading to the Legendary Guardian of this temple, slightly excited to have an actual fight. I hope I don’t just continue to sweep it like I did the rest of the temple.

Heading through the archway, I saw that it looked like a meadow, grass everywhere with little patches of flowers surrounding the edge of the room. At the other end of the room, I saw a Shaymin, though it felt… off, I guess, because of the lack of real life surrounding me. Like something’s missing from the area.

Ignoring that for now, I grinned at the shaymin readied myself for battle, when suddenly a bright light comes from it, as it changed into its Sky Forme. Feeling a bit more wary, though still overall confident in my chances, I start the battle with a Fire Blast, managing to land a direct hit. The Shaymin charged into the attack, suffering a large amount of damage but still standing strong. I fires off a Flamethrower, but it dodged to the side, firing a Magical Leaf at me and managing to land a hit in my side as I move to dodge, not expecting that quick of a reaction. Using Hyperspace Hole and surrounding it with all three of my rings, I rain Fire Punch after Fire Punch at the Shaymin, the Gratitude Pokemon managing to dodge a few but still taking most of the hits.

Suddenly, I felt something bite down on one of my hands that wasn’t aflame at the time. I looked around at it, surprised to see a couple of Wormadam had entered the battle. I was shocked, but decided to worry about it later after the battle, instead using Fire Spin to shake it off before using Flamethrower and Fire Blast on each of the Bagworms, taking them by surprise with my quick recovery of their ambush and taking them out in one hit before turning back to the Shaymin, the Gratitude Pokemon having escaped my rings since I was distracted. I growled, annoyed at the interference, and quickly surrounded it with my rings again, firing a Flamethrower into one directly in front of me and Fire Punch on the two at my side, the triple attack draining me a bit. It was worth though, seeing as I managed to defeat the Shaymin.

“That… was tiring” I panted heavily, having almost drained myself of all my energy at the end there. Taking a minute to rest and regain my energy, I pulled out a couple of berries, recognising them as Oran Berries and nibbling on them to regain my health.

“There we go, that’s better,” I said to myself before heading to the back of the room. There, hanging delicately from the branches of a large, crystal tree, I found two of Arceus’s Plates, the Meadow and the Insect.

“These would be together,” I muttered to myself, amused. I picked both up, both Plates sinking into my body and sending a surge of information and power through me. It was just like when I got the Flame plate, but this time I was filled with a series of Bug and Grass Type moves. I waited a moment for the information to settle, before looking up and actually registering the thing before me properly.

“Whoa… is that...?” I muttered to myself in surprise, looking up at the crystal tree. It looked… a bit smaller than I thought it would, and it feels like it’s just… less than it should be. Like it’s been weakened and isn’t at full power. I was saddened at the sight of the tree, that sorrow fueling my determination, quickly joined by the rage that I felt towards Tirek and Darkrai.

“I promise,” I said to the tree, with a determined gaze. “That the ones responsible for this will pay.” The tree seems to glow a bit in response, and I felt myself growing stronger, the tree obviously bestowing its experience onto me. I felt my strength grow, making sure to I didn’t lose myself to the experience, and merely waited for it to finish. After a few more minutes, the increase of power ended, and I headed out noticing that the temple wasn’t falling apart around me as I left, likely due to whatever power that the tree has left.

Reaching the doors, I moved outside, wandering around a bit as I gathered berries to make sure that I’d be ready for any situation that I might come across. After about twenty minutes of collecting and planting berries, I closed my eyes, reaching out mentally to search for the next plate. A brief scan later and I found the closest one, turning and heading towards the next temple. I rose into the air after a while, slightly hoping that there wasn’t any more drastic realizations waiting for me there.

After a while of floating I ended up in a familiar looking area, spotting… the Cutie Map? I stood there shocked for a while, honestly not expecting it to be there.

“What the...?” I muttered to myself, surprised that it was there considering the only time that I can recall it being anywhere even close to this area is… the Season Five finale! I floated there for a moment, shocked that I was in an alternate timeline. I mean, that… that was just terrible. I mean I am the only living thing on the planet besides the Tree of Harmony!

“But… if I’m here, existing in this timeline, then does that mean that in this universe Twilight doesn’t get Starlight to become her friend instead of her enemy?” I mused, muttering to myself. “No, I can’t allow that to happen, no matter what! I have to make sure that Twilight and Starlight become friends so that the world can be saved. I don’t care if I’m erased from time itself, I will make sure the world survives!” I said with certainty in my voice.

I floated there for a while, watching the map and waiting to see if they’d appear. After a time, I felt… something, I’m not sure what, emanating from the map before the familiar-looking vortex appeared.

I watched for a second as nothing seemed to happen, just the Time Vortex sitting in the sky, before a pair of familiar - and yet still different - figures fell out, a third, smaller one following soon after.

Twilight I recognised, the anthropomorphic, lavender-furred mare grappling with a dark-pink mare who had a black and dark green mane that was new to me.

A little shocked about the new arrival, I used Confusion on the dark pink mare, floating forward to use a Fire Punch to knock her out so that I could figure out what was happening. Both mares turned to me, Twilight gasping in shock and the dark pink one smirking.

“You see that, Twilight?” she sneered, pushing herself back. “I told you, nothing can stop Lord Darkrai! Even here his influence is key!”

“No!” Twilight cried, eyes wide with shock. “No, that can’t be true! How is that possible!?”

Still floating forward, I let the flame on my fist extinguish, seeing as it wasn’t needed. “It’s not, this world has fallen to complete ruin thanks to Darkrai’s actions,” I said, watching as the second mare ran off, laughing madly.

“It… it is?” Twilight stammered, her magic firing up and keeping her aloft as the third figure - a miniature Dragonite - flew up to us. “But… how?”

“Tirek,” I stated, as though that answered everything, before continuing. “After he betrays Darkrai, he absorbs all the magic on the planet, killing all the beings that lived here. Even Arceus and Faust, which left Arceus’s Plates scattered around the planet.”

“You don’t say?” Spike chimed, eyes wide. “Uh… would that be what the weird Water Temple thing that Starlight Glimmer is running to is then?”

My eyes widened in shock as I spun in her direction, seeing that she was running towards a Temple in the middle of a massive lake. “Damn!” I shouted. “We can’t let her get any Plates, Arceus and Faust are trusting me to get them to save this world!”

“What’s so special about these Plate things?” Spike asked.

“They’re what let Arceus control the world, and each one will just make her stronger. We can not allow her to get any of them,” I stated firmly.

“Understood!” Twilight cried, turning and sprinting after Starlight with me and Spike on her heels. I looked ahead, spotting the darkened mare just as she leapt over the lake, presumably with her magic helping her.

“Twilight, why does Starlight look different?” I asked, floating beside her as we followed after Starlight.

Twilight glanced at me, frowning a little. “I don’t know who you are or how you’re here, but clearly you’re not from my world or timeline,” she said, turning to face ahead once more. “Starlight gave herself over to Darkrai, joining his Nightmare Army voluntarily.”

“That… sounds like the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard someone do,” I state flatly.

“Well, she wanted revenge on Zinnia,” Spike shrugged. “She did kinda destroy Starlight’s weird Cutie Mark vault thing when she was stealing pony’s Cutie Marks.”

“Word of advice,” Twilight said, shuddering. “If she tries to use that weird artifact she found… well, let’s just say it won’t be pleasant if she does.”

“Got it, don’t let the villain use their thing that might make them better.” I say sarcastically. I notice that Starlight has finally gotten into the temple and we quicken our pace, hoping to stop her before she gets the Splash Plate.

Spike reached the lake first, his body glowing a deep blue as he grew just big enough for Twilight to sit comfortably on his back as he dived into the water. Twilight wasted no time after, leaping out over the water just as Spike surfaced and landing on his back.

I floated at about head level with Twilight, keeping up with them before a realization hits me. “Duh!” I shout annoyed at myself for not thinking of this sooner. “I’m a Hoopa! I can just ring us to Starlight!”

“Well do it then!” Twilight cried, crying out as a Tentacool lept out the water at her. “Spike!”

“On it!” the Dragonite shouted, tossing Twilight into the air and spinning onto his back before shooting a weak-looking Thunderbolt at the Tentacool. He flipped over again as Twilight fell, the mare landing perfectly on his back again.

“Let’s go!” I shout as I took the ring from my left horn and opened it ahead of us, having another open right behind Starlight and follow her. “Ring’s open, c’mon through!” I yelled as I headed through the ring, using Flame Charge to speed ahead and through my ring.

Starlight spun as I neared, firing a beam of magic from her horn.

“No you don’t!” I yelled, using Magical Coat and deflecting her beam. I blinked when I looked up, though, when I saw Starlight completely gone. “Fucking bitch teleported!”

“She must be inside,” Twilight said as she and Spike came up on my right. “What can we expect?”

“Mostly Water Types, maybe a couple Poison if that Tentacool said anything,” I replied. “Also means there’s two Plates here instead of one.”

“Is that bad?” Spike asked.

“Probably not, I don’t think she’ll be able to handle more than one Plate’s power at a time. Ponies just aren’t made for it.” I explained. “Though we should still stop her as soon as possible. I don’t like the idea of her having any Plates at all.”

“Understood,” Twilight said simply, firing her horn up. She closed her eyes, concentrating for a second. “She seems to be in a large chamber. It’s like an arena surrounded by water. I can feel two powerful artifacts there too.”

“Well,” I started with a fake happiness. “At least with all the PokeBots she’s destroyed on the way, I’m getting a lot of free XP.” Flying through the last cloud of Experience Orbs in our way, and blasting back a few more Bots that leapt out at us, we finally reached the archway leading into the boss’ chamber.

“Well…” Twilight muttered, her horn flaring up again. “What can we expect in there then?”

“Unless Starlight destroyed it already, there’d be a Legendary Pokemon there as the Plate’s guardian. Maybe some minions, since this looks like a two-Plate Temple.” I told her.

“L-l-legendary P-pokemon?” Spike stammered, suddenly shaking like a leaf. “I-I think I’ll just wait out here. Y-yeah, I’ll make sure Starlight doesn’t escape!”

“Probably best to have someone do that. C’mon Twilight, let’s go get the Plates form Starlight.” I said, pretending to not notice how cowardly that move was as I headed into the boss room, Twilight following close behind.

We moved past the initial darkness of the archway and into the arena, the land split by streams of water with puddles of toxic-looking liquids. We watched as Starlight dodged past a Hydro Pump attack, blasting the Suicune that clearly acted as this Temple’s guardian with a stream of magic, pushing it into the water where it burt into a large cloud of Experience Orbs.

The Experience Orbs rushed toward me, and I felt myself growing stronger, by a good bit at the least. While I was distracted, Starlight grabbed the Toxic plate, laughing maniacally.

“GRAAAAAAGH!” I shout in pain as I feel the Plate be almost… forced into Starlight. Twilight saw this and frowned, charging forward and barging into Starlight bodily, knocking the Nightmared mare into the water before she could grab the Splash Plate and grabbing it herself. She held it tentatively, flinching as though she expected it to be forced into her like Starlight.

“Give… me… the… plate.” I panted out, feeling weak even though I know I didn’t really get any weaker from it. I tried to float towards Twilight, but suddenly I just… fell, like I didn't have any energy left. Twilight rushed over, catching me in her magic before I could fall into one of the toxic puddles before holding the Splash Plate out to me.

I looked up a bit, weakly holding my hand out, the Plate responding to my movement and melding into me. I felt the rush again, filling me with knowledge and energy.

Starlight chose then to burst out of the water, seething angrily, the toxins around us bubbling in response.

I turned to Starlight, furious myself. “You…” I growled, a dark energy taking form around me. “GIVE ME MY PLATE!” I yelled at her, firing off a volley of moves, taking a second to make sure the temple doesn’t allow her to teleport her way out of this.

“Die!” I screamed in anger, shooting Fire Blast, Bullet Seed, Hydro Pump, Absorb, Magical Leaf, Razor Leaf, Flamethrower, Water Gun, Bullet Seed, Pin Missile, and finally Leech Life. I panted, exhausted from using so many moves rapid fire, and waited for the dust to fall to see what kind of damage I caused.

A barrage of small, purple needles suddenly fired out of the cloud, making me back up as I covered my face before Starlight staggered out, cuts and bruises covering her.

“Did you think it was going to be that easy!?” she cried, eyes wide with madness as she raised her hands, the venomous ponds scattered across the field bubbling more viciously. “This power… this knowledge…” she muttered, falling into mad cackles soon after. “TAKE THIS!! VENOSHOCK!!”

The ponds seemed to surge forth at her words as she thrust her hands forward, the toxins flying at us from the ground in steady streams. Twilight cried out, diving under one of them just as another came right at me.

I called the ring still off of me, opening it in the air before me and allowing Starlight’s attack to be sucked in. Opening another above her, I watched as the toxins washed over her, leaving her mane stuck to her face and her clothing tainted purple as she continued to laugh.

“I felt nothing!” she cackled, twirling on her toes. “This is wonderful! Poison is mine!” With that, she span, sending a Gunk Shot at Twilight. “Die, you worm! For the glory of Darkrai!”

“Twilight, no!” I shouted, worried for her. Thinking quickly, I did something that’s probably really stupid in hindsight. “Here, Twilight!” I yelled, taking the Insect Plate out of my body, feeling the loss of knowledge it gave almost instantly. “Take this!” I shouted as I threw it directly towards her, coating it with a Magical Coat so Starlight couldn’t get her hands on it.

Twilight looked up, yelping as the Plate hit her in the chest and sank in instantly before her eyes flew open, glowing a pale green. She blinked in shock before throwing her arm out towards Starlight’s attack, a Silver Wind splitting it in half so that it flew around her.

“Now, for some backup!” I shouted, throwing my right ring out and calling the left to my side, their portals turn golden, and I summoned Entei, Suicune, and Shaymin from the right, summoning some random pokemon with only the types of the plates I have from the right.

Starlight growled, throwing her hands out. A purple vapour exploded from her body, covering the battlefield in a blinding Smog that spread out slowly.

I growled to myself in return, upset about being blinded, before realising that I could still feel the Toxic Plate. I grinned, having all of the bots I’d summoned use their strongest moves where I sensed the Plate.

Twilight stepped forward as the bots did as commanded, sweeping her arms out and using Silver Wind to clear the field before flicking her wrist, a String Shot snapping out and wrapping around Starlight’s ankle just before the Nightmare mare managed to teleport away. “Where are you going?” she asked, glaring at her.

Starlight opened her mouth to retort before the wave of attacks from my Bots hit her, making her cry out in pain. Twilight added to the attack, firing a Signal Beam from her horn.

“Did we get her?” I asked, sensing the Plate go inactive.

“Only one way to find out,” Twilight shrugged, holding her palm out towards Starlight. A series of tiny, purple-tinted bees appeared, swarming forward. “Attack Order.”

“Well if we did,” I said, crossing my arms. “I want my plate back.” Twilight just nodded, waiting until her swarm returned, a purple stone plate in their grip.

“You were saying?” she asked with a smirk, taking the plate and tossing it to me. “Um… how do I give this one back?” she continued, placing a hand on her chest.

“I can usually just tell it to come out,” I said, slightly worried that I might not be able to get the plate back from her. Twilight nodded in response, closing her eyes and focusing. After a moment, her horn began glowing a pale green in lieu of her regular magenta. The glow began to intensify after a moment before the Insect Plate appeared before her, Twilight staggering back as it clattered to the floor.

“You okay?” I asked, grabbing both plates and absorbing both at once, feeling the rush and sighing in content. Twilight just nodded, taking a moment to catch her breath.

“Well,” I started, looking towards the knocked out Unicorn. “Let’s make sure you can’t get away.” I fired a couple of String Shots at the sleeping mare, making sure that she was tied up nice and tight.

“Now let’s get out of here,” I said, carrying Starlight with me as I turn to head out. Twilight followed slowly, stumbling along until we passed through the archway, where Spike quickly grabbed her, his body glowing a sky-blue as he grew and his wings stretched. He shifted Twilight onto his back as he flew alongside me, eyeing Starlight warily.

“So…” he said slowly. “How did it go?”

“Well we won, for one,” I started, calling a ring to go ahead of us a bit and lead to the cutie map. “I’m also pretty sure that, because of that battle, if we were in a game I’d probably be around like… level 75 by now. Cause that’s when my kind usually learn Psychic, and I just did after the fight we had with Starlight.”

“That’s…” Spike muttered, seeming to think his words over for a moment. “Interesting…”

“Now…” I started, going through the ring and dropping Starlight by the Cutie Map before turning to face the two that have helped me so much since they got here. “Let’s talk rewards, one wish from both of you and I’ll do my best to grant it.”

Spike blinked as he followed me through the ring, glancing around in a bewildered state. “That… is weird,” he muttered. “But a wish? I dunno…”

“Coffee…” Twilight muttered. “Want… coffee…”

“Coffee it is!” I shouted. I used the ring they just stepped out of, bringing it to me and reaching inside before pulling out a fresh cup of coffee. “Here ya go!” I said with a grin, floating down in front of her holding the coffee out with both hands. Twilight smiled thankfully, taking the mug in her magic and sipping on the warm brown liquid within.

“Mmm…” she muttered, smiling appreciatively. She paused after a moment, her eyes widening. “Wait… dammit! I just wasted my wish, didn’t I?”

“Nope!” I said with a smirk. “You didn’t say I wish so that one was just cause I’m nice.”

“Oh,” the mare said, blinking. “Well, thank you.” She paused, hopping off of Spike’s back and sipping her coffee as she thought. “Hmm… well, I wish I could find my soul partner Pokemon back home.”

“Really, Twilight?” Spike deadpanned, crossing his arms. “I’m stood right here.”

“Well… granting that wish will take me quite a bit of power Twi, so let’s get Spike’s wish done first so that I can grant both of them,” I stated, folding my arms and hovering slightly above them.

“Well sure,” Spike shrugged. “But I’m pretty happy with my life. Don’t really want or need anything.”

“Huh, I coulda swore your wish would involve something… Rare,” I teased, chuckling when the drake blushed. “But are you sure you don’t want anything, not even… unlimited gems?” I then asked, a mischievous grin on my face.

“Nah, I’m good for gems,” Spike dismissed, coughing awkwardly to try and draw attention away from his blush. “Although… could you maybe…” He stopped, shaking his head. “No, no, that’s stupid…”

“What is it ya thought of my little dragon friend?” I asked, curious. “No wish is ‘too stupid’, the only limit on me is the amount of power I have on hand at the time,” I finished, absentmindedly eating a bunch of berries.

“Well…” the drake muttered, tapping his claws together nervously. “I… I’ve always been… well, small, so…” He sighed, taking a deep breath before blurting the rest out. “I wish I was a normal sized Dragonite!”

“There we go!” I shouted with a grin. “Now, here we go!” I finished, my eyes glowing golden as I wave my hand at Spike, his body suddenly glowing, growing in size until he was 7’8 and, as per his universe’s norm the size of a ‘Normal’ Dragonite.

“Nice!” he cried, pumping his fist in victory as he spread his wings and took flight, doing loops in the air as he whooped with joy.

“Heh,” Twilight chuckled. “Looks like you’ve made someone happy.”

“Yes I did,” I start turning to Twilight. “Now it’s your turn Twi.” I state floating up a bit more, my whole body glowing golden this time as I grunt at the exertion of power I’m using to make sure it’s alive and not a bot.

“Hoo…” I start in an unusually deep voice for what the two know me for, before I thrust my hands downward, palms up. “OOPA!” I shout as a golden beam comes down from me, hitting the ground and causing a flash to happen.

As the light goes down, a Solosis is seen, resting where my beam landed with me panting heavily above it, looking like I hadn’t slept in a thousand years.

“Wish…” I panted, slowly floating downwards. “Granted…” With that, I felt myself passing out, falling toward the ground.

When I woke up later, I found myself resting in a confortable single bed, simple lilac sheets covering me. Blinking in confusion and looking around, I noticed there was apparently an entire room around me, with a bedside table too. A note rested on top of it, and I slowly picked it up, reading it through.

Dear Golden Hoopa,

Thank you for your help in apprehending Starlight Glimmer and protecting our timeline. While I am not sure what will happen to you next, as all evidence points towards your timeline collapsing, I hope you are okay in the long run.

I apologise that we could not stay until you woke up, but we had to leave before Starlight awoke herself. However, as a thank you for everything you have done for us, Spike and I took the time to build you a small shelter to rest in, complete with a bed and storage.

Yours thankfully,
Twilight and Spike Sparkle

“Huh…” I mumbled to myself, surprised by their kindness. “Whenever I meet them again, more wishes… all the more wishes.”

I got up slowly and began getting ready to go to the next temple… happy and excited to repay them for when we meet again.