Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Escaping Paradox. Chapter 6 is finished! Arceus reveals I'mperfects identity!

This is going to be a wall of text-ish chapter too!:eek:

Chapter 5: End of Time

As soon as they stepped into the rift, they started twirling around in nothingness.
"Not again.... I think I'm going to throw up this time...."
And just, as Mayle wanted to eject her last meal, they stopped spinning.

Mayle and Zaro recognized the dimension they were in.

"Hey, do you think Palkia saved us again?"
"Don't know.... But I thought he couldn't control Time?"
"Wait, now I know why I got the feeling I was missing something when you told about the 'Deity of Space'... So that being send you to my world.. But why?"
"Well uhm....."
But before anyone could react, 2 large beings appeared from out of nowhere.

It were Palkia AND Dialga.
The first thing they did, was scoping out Mark, whom obviously got creeped out.
"D-D-Did I do something wrong???"

"THIS IS NOT HIM."
"GOOD, THEN IMPERFECT HAS NOT NOTICED THE TIME LOOP I PUT HIM IN YET."

"Imperfect????"

"YES. THAT BEING THAT ATTACKED YOU. IT REFERS TO HIMSELF AS IMPERFECT."

Mark came to his sense and overcome his fear for the 2 deities.

"I don't get it... Is it an other me? As in, what the, 'me', wrote in this letter?
Mark pulled the envelope out of is jacket.

Palkia:"......THAT IS SOMETHING YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND YET."
Dialga:"HE IS GOING TO BREAK FROM THE LOOP IN 15 MINUTES."
"....MMM, THEN WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO SEND YOU ON ANOTHER MISSION."
"WE HAVE FOUND A WAY TO STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF TIME AND SPACE, AS WELL AS THE DESTRUCTION OF MANY WORLDS.
"YOUR TASK IS TO FIND THE 3 BEINGS OF EXISTENCE. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TO FIND THEM AND THAT IS WHY WE WILL SEND YOU BACK TO JOHTO."
"THERE, YOU MUST FIND BILL, THE INVENTOR. HE CAN HELP YOU FIND THEM.

"....My head hurts...."
"So we must find an inventor named Bill...."
"Hey, wasn't he the inventor of the Deposit System?"
"But what is he doing in Johto?.."

"THERE IS NO TIME LEFT. IMPERFECT IS BREAKING FREE"
Palkia created a portal and send the group through it.

-Meanwhile, on our world-

"Nice try Dialga......"
The man's eyes lit up and the man broke through the time loop.

"It's time to pay them a visit. But first..."

He closed his eyes and his whole appearance changed.
The man now looked exactly like Mark, only between 10 to 20 years older.
He summoned a mirror in front of him.
"I'm perfect again."
He started to smile in an very evil way.
"Now where have you gone..."
And the man disappeared instantly.

-In the Between-

"IMPERFECT IS COMING. NOW"
Palkia and Dialga readied for a battle.

A distortion appeared and the older version of Mark floated out of it.

"I WILL DESTROY YOU FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, IMPERFECT!!!"
Palkia used Spacial Rend on the man. However, the man did a Double Team like move to evade the attack.
Then, Dialga used a Time Based attack that focused on the area that the man, Imperfect, at that moment was. Again, the man evaded the attack in the same fashion as before.

Imperfect: "Oh Palkia.... *Shakes head* Just because I wasn't able to kill you back then.....Does not mean I'm not able to destroy you now ..."

Imperfect laughed in an menacing way and unleashed an energy beam from out of nowhere, directed at Palkia.
The attack struck hard and damaged the second gem from Palkia's shoulders.
Palkia let out a fierce roar and showed sign of fatigue.
Imperfect readied a red colored ball of energy for the final blow for Palkia, but Dialga interrupted the attack by putting Imperfect's hand in a time loop.
Immediately, Imperfect shifted his attention to Dialga.
"Tssk, tssk, tssk... I almost forgot about you..silly me... But I'm affraid your Time has come as well...." *Imperfect laughed in an very evil way.

Imperfect broke free from the time loop and summoned a glowing sword from out of nowhere and charged at Dialga in an incredible speed.
Dialga used a time warp to dodge the attack. However, when re appearing, Imperfect managed to teleport himself in the vicinity, hacking away viciously at Dialga. Dialga dodge but Imperfect got 1 hard hit on Dialga's gem.

"You should have realized by now, that you don't exist for me. I am ABOVE TIME!" *Imperfect had an insane look on his face*

Palkia launched a Hyper Beam at Imperfect but Imperfect dodged it and used a Warp attack to switch places with Dialga, putting Dialga in the path of the Hyper Beam.....

- A few minutes earlier. Somewhere in the Pokemon World -

"Don't remind me of the big fiasco!"
A man slams his fist on the desk in an office.

"But sir! We have found some interesting footage from the Between!"
"Since when have we visual from the Between!?"
"Just now sir!"
"Hhrmm...... Okay, this had better be good...."

The secretary sighed relieved and pulled a remote out of her pocket.
She clicked on it and a huge holographic screen came down from the ceiling playing the footage.

The footage showed the 2 Deities sending something through a dimensional crack and a huge fight between the deities and a normal looking man.

"Who or what is that guy fighting Plakia and Dialga? Do you know who that is yet?"
"Uhm, no sir. But they refer to him as Imperfect."

The man thought for a while and gave orders to the secretary.
"Here are the new orders for the Team! A. Find out what Palkia and Dialga send through the crack and where to. B. Find all information about this 'Imperfect', ASAP. C. Give me a life feed to my office. I want to see what is happening live!"

The secretary went away in a hurry. The man set down behind his desk and watched the live feed from the Between. He watched shocked as the following happened in the Between.

In the Between

"ROOOAAARGH!!!"

Dialga was blown away several kilometers from the Hyper Beam. Dialga's gem was badly damaged.
Imperfect laughed menacingly.

"I told you I was above Time? Why couldn't you see it coming....your death?"

Imperfect charged at the fatally wounded Dialga. Palkia tried 1 last Spacial Rend to stop Imperfect but failed........

- Somewhere in the Pokemon World -

The man sat in his office, looking with utter horror at the holographic screen as he saw Dialga get hit by an intense energy attack from Imperfect.

The man pushed on a button on his desk.
"Saturn, bring the R.I.F.T team back online ASAP!"
"Yes sir, we will be ready in 5 minutes"
"Good, in the mean time, re-direct the Between Cam's controls to my office!"
"Understood!"

The desk flipped over to reveal an huge control panel with lots of buttons and various computer screens.

"He won't kill Palkia....."

"ROOAAAAAARGH!!!!"

Cyrus looked at the holographic screen and saw how Imperfect dealt the final blow to Dialga, whiping it's essence from existence.

Cyrus used the newly flipped over control panel to send the Between Cam in the vicinity of Imperfect to distract him.

Meanwhile in the Between, Imperfect redirected himself towards Palkia.
*Laughs*"See that things have changed since our last meeting, Palkia. Know that our last fight was just a fluke that you almost beat me. However, this is where it ALL ENDS!!!"

Imperfect charged at a terrified Palkia.
"Cease your actions at once!"
Imperfect was stopped in his tracks due to the Between Cam crossing it's path, something he clearly did not expect.
"Get-out-of-my-way!!!!"
Imperfect punched the Between Cam to smithereens. Palkia seized this opportunity to flee, badly wounded and tired.

Imperfect screamed and shouted out of utter anger in the emptiness of the Between.

End of Chapter 5
 
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Chapter 5 is almost done...Meaning Chapter 6 is on it's way!

What will happen with Dialga being dead?
Don't know myself yet but keep reading anyways.

BTW, feel free to post any comments, I feel so lonely in this thread... XD

Chapter 6: Seeking the Renegade

Saturn: "Sir, we suddenly lost connection! What happened and what should we do now?"
"....Dialga is dead..."
"WHAT!?"
"You heard me. Is the R.I.F.T team ready? It's time to pay Giratina a visit."

Cyrus stood up, pressed a button to flip back the desk and walked out of his office.

-Meanwhile, somewhere else in the Pokemon world-

The kids and Pokemon where finally through the portal but where send at such speed that they all landed on top of each other.
"Whoooaaaa!!" *Zaro smacks on the ground*
"Ouch" *Mark falls on top*
"Owowow"*Mayle falls on top of Mark*

Mayle saw Gardy coming and grabbed Gardy's Pokeball fast and summoned her back before there would be some serious pain.

"......Could you two get off of me?!"
Mark and Mayle: 'Uh...ya....okay"

They both stand up.

"And this is your world? It does not look much different, except the large amount of clean air....*Takes a deep breath* Yup, don't have that on my world!"
"So...where are we?"
"In the middle of a forest?"
"Not funny, Zaro.."
"And how about asking that person over there?"

They all see a boy with grey-ish hair and a blue coat with his hands in his pockets.

Mark:"Hello, could we ask you something?"
Boy: "Unless it's a battle, get out of my way."
"Well, no..but could you please tell us in which forest we are?"
"....*sighs* Only if you can beat me in a Pokemon Battle.."
"How, I don't have any Pokemon..!?"
"Then your wasting my time."
"Wait! I'll battle you"
"Mayle, you do know that 2 of your Pokemon are already KO'd?"
"Yeah, I know, but I did not become Champion for no reason, right?"
"Champion? Then I assume you are not from here, are you?"
"That depends on what here is. I am the Champion from the Kanto Pokemon League."
"Interesting. Then I can test what my new Pokemon are worth. And don't hold back."
"Like I will..."

Mayle and the boy where standing 6 meters from each other, while Zaro and Mark stood on the side lines.

Mayle: "And with how many Pokemon do you want to battle?"
Boy: "Three, got a problem with that?"
"Nope, I don't. But could we at least introduce ourselves before battling?"
".....Sure whatever, get it on with."
Mayle points at Mark and Zaro and told the boy who they are and introduced herself as last.
"My name is Paul"
"Okay Paul, I'll send my first Pokemon now... (You brat..)"

"Go, Chance!!"
Mayle twirled around when sending out her Chansey.
"Chan-sey!"
Paul: "A Chansey...Okay.(This is going to be easy) Time to prove your worth!"
Without any hoopla, Paul threw a Pokeball, sending out a Ursaring.

Zaro: "Let the battle begin already!"
Paul: "Shut up and watch will you!?"
Mayle: "Hey, you are not paying attention! Chance, use Doubleslap!"
"Chann- SEEEE"
-Chansey slaps the heck out of Paul's Ursaring.-
Paul: "Ursaring, throw that egg away from you and use Focus Punch!"
Ursaring pushes Chance away and launches at Chance, charging up it's attack and hits Chance hard.
Chance is launched away by the impact but manages to hold it's ground but is clearly tired.
Mayle: "Use Sofboiled!"
Chances condition improved.
Paul: "Attack quickly with Brick Break!"
And the attack hits Chances s hard that it almpost KO's Mayle's Chance.
Mayle: Time to turn the table! Use Endeavor!
Chances attacks and manages to KO Paul's Ursaring.
Paul: "hmpf, you where worthless after all."
He summoned the Ursaring back into it's ball and released him for good.

Mark: "I don't know much about your world but that's not very nice, is it?"
Zaro: "....No it isn't....WHat the....?"

It suddenly seemed like the whole world trembled. The sky temporarily blackened and huge quakes followed.
Mark and Zaro had to literally crawl from their standing places to avoid getting flattened by a falling tree.
Numerous Pokemon flew up and other searched for hiding places.

As soon as it all begun, it all stopped.
The gadget around Paul's wrist started to spark badly and Paul threw it of with a shocked face.

"What the heck was that!?"
"Don't know, but it can't be good!"
"Why do I have the feeling that we should be getting used to weird stuff happening?"
"Hey Paul, can you please tell us now where we are!?"
The boy was still in a slight state of shock. Apparently his cool and calm appearance did not hide his true character this time.
"....Shinnoh, just outside of Veilstone City......."

"Hmmm, thought so. Then we are fortunately near a Pokemon Center. Coming boys?"
"Sure"
"Yeah"

Paul stayed behind in a slight shock.

Zaro: "Man, lots of trees have fallen. I did not think it was that much of an earthquake."
Mark: "Yeah *Wheeze*, but what bothers me that the sky temporarily turned dark. *Pant*."
Mayle: "Out of breath already? We still have a few miles to go!"
"Look, in my world *Wheeze* there isn't much reason to *Pant* travel long distances."
"...We REALLY have to get to the Pokemon Center, I want to get my Pokemon healed and get more information really bad."
"I think I can manage *Wheeze* to get through those few miles"

5 minutes later, the lot arrives at Veilstone City where they immediately go to the Pokemon Center.
"Man, what a chaos!"
Everywhere they saw people running in panic. The Police force whas trying to keep the citizens from stealing things.
"Since when is it the end of your world?"
Mark dodged a Gliscor that was blown away from the force of an exploding car.
"It's not. Not that they know it. Look, there is the Pokemon Center!"
"Great, Bibi is getting a bit too heavy!"

Upon arriving at the Pokemon Center, all they saw was more chaos. It was very crowded, lots of injured Pokemon and panicking Trainers and Owners. All Chansey and Nurse Joy where very busy handling the crowd.

Zaro: "Oh crap, how are we going to get our Pokemon healed?"
Mayle: "Nurse Joy, how-"
Joy: "Not now, got an emergency!"
Mark:"I guess *wheeze*.....*moan* that you will have to wait a little longer for your Pokemon to be healed..."

Bummed, the 3 found a spot and sat on the floor. Mark was bored quick, stood up and looked around in the middle of the chaos. Then he noticed something weird with the clocks that hung in the Pokemon Center. They were all different. Not in design, but 1 of the 2 stood still at 5:27 while the other one spun around like crazy. "Time has gone haywire..." Mark thought. Just as he wanted to go back to Zaro and Mayle, some weirdos barged in the Pokemon Center through the windows and the front door.

Women with red hair and a ridiculous hairdo: "Please DO remain still as we obtain your Pokemon to aid Team Galactic, everyone!"
She had a small floating camera on her right that was scanning the Pokemon Center for good Pokemon to be snatched. It stopped when it came across Mark.

Man's voice through the headset from the red haired Team Galactic member: "Mars, get out of there. NOW."
Mars: "But Cyrus, why?"
Cyrus: "Because Dialga's murderer is among them. Look at where the Cam is. Pull out, wait for details and wait for reinforcements."
"..Okay...If you say so boss. Team! We got all the Pokemon we need! Pull Out!"

All captured Pokemon were caught and transporter in special Poke-Ball-ish devices and every Galactic Team member ran away except for Mars.
She threw a small smoke bomb to increase their escape chances.

Everybody in the Pokemon Center was still coughing a bit from the smoke when all heck broke loose. Trainers started to get physical with each other because they where frustrated, angry and sad that their injured Pokemon where stolen. Mark went to look for Mayle and Zaro, dodging hostile people on the way. The Chansey had a hard time getting the Trainers to stop fighting and get them out of the Pokemon Center. While all that happened, two Nurse Joy had suffered a burn out.

Meanwhile - Outside on a rooftop

"The special Galactic forces are ready to aid you in capturing Imperfect. Be careful and don't screw this up, Mars!"
"Yes, sir. I won't make the same mistake twice."

Mars looked over her shoulders before turning around. Then, she walk over to the edge of the building.

"Everyone ready and on their marks?"
"Affirmative, ma'am!"
"Good, on my mark!"

Mars closed her eyes and let herself fall from the building. While falling, she grabbed one of her Poke-Balls and send out Bronzor, which controlled her flight with Psychic. They both flew towards the Pokemon Center above the chaos in the streets.

-Meanwhile - In the Pokemon Center-

"Zaro! Mayle! - "Chan-SEY!"-"Whoa, sorry!" Mark dodged a cart pushed by a very annoyed Chansey while he looked for Zaro and Mayle in the Chaos of the Pokemon Center.

"Zaro, where's Mark?"
"Don't know, I'm not his babysitter..."
"Zaro!"
*Zaro recieves a slap in the face from Mayle*
"Hey!? What did I do!?"
"What do you think? We have to find him."
"That is going to be easy, I see him walk out of the Pokemon Center.."
"What!? Let's go!"

Mayle yanked Zaro with her and they slipped though the groups of arguing and fighting Trainers.

Once outside:

"Mark! Hey Mark..... "

Mark turned around and got a blow to the head from Mars that knocked him unconscious. From seemingly everywhere, heavily armed Team Galactic members who shot strange looking fishnets over Mark.

"Fry him as soon as you see him wake up. I seriously don't get what is so scary about this wimp. *Mars kicks against Mark's unconscious body* Okay, let's go!"

As soon as Team Galactic appeared, they disappeared using a flash bomb.

End of Chapter 6
 
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Sorry for the gender confusion.. I'll change that immediately.


You are confused by my story a lot, aren't you, Pikamaster? :tongue:
 
I'm writing that because no one knows what he really is. (See? I'm doing it again! O_O)

Is he a human?
Is it a thing, capable of unimaginable things?

Except for 2 others besides me...... Know the truth about I'mprefect. >_<
 
TEASER ALERT!

Cold, lost, alone, frightened. These were the thoughts of a young boy, who was curled up in a dark, rocky shallow cave, hiding from the creatures of the night. With almost no memory, the only thing he knew was his name. Sureca. What he didn’t know, however, was that his world was, in a relatively short time, about to come crashing down around him, and that he was one of the three people who could save it.

I dropped out of the project because I have a life. So this teaser does not mean anything anymore. Just so you know.
 
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Like I'm going to spoil that just yet.... >:p

Back to back posts merged. The following information has been added:

Chapter 7: Confessing Confusion

After Zaro and Mayle's eyes recovered from the bright flash, Team Galactic was gone and so was Mark. Mayle went through her knees and sat down. She wanted to scream but she knew it was due to the great chaos that let Team Galactic get away with these things.

"We can't give up, Mayle. Even with injured Pokemon, we'll find him. We where send on a mission, the three of us. Or at least, that's what I believe."
"I know your right, I just can't handle the chaos!"
"You'll get through it, I know you can..Champion.."

Mayle giggled from hearing that but stopped as she thought Zaro meant something more then he let on.

"Come on, let's go find somewhere to rest first, it's been an very unnerving time."
Zaro held his hand out to help Mayle get up. Mayle's expression changed from defeated to determined. She grabbed Zaro's hand and Zaro smiled slightly while helping her getting up.

-Meanwhile- Somewhere in the Team Galactic Hideout.-

"Something about him is a little of......"
Saturn walked towards Mark's unconscious body, that is floating in cylinder shaped cell formed by an energy barrier.
"But he does look eerily like him. What's the plan, Cyrus?"
"....Don't have one....yet. But I'd like you to look what makes him so special that he is capable of those things. Is the Transporter ready?"
"Yes, it is. Giratina's cell is still in 100% condition so it's save to visit."
"Good."
Cyrus walked onto a weird looking platform that had a strange glow and was hooked up to several machines by thick cables.
Saturn hit a big button on a control panel and the platform lit up. However, just before Cyrus was teleported, a huge energy serge short circuited the whole transporter system. Cyrus jumped of the platform just as it became enveloped by a yellow electrical current.
"What the (Censored) was THAT!?"
Nerdy TG Grunt: "Ehh, from what I can see is that there are Pikachus in the Prison Dimension. And they've started fighting with Giratina..... And one of the attacks wrecked the transporter. I'm afraid we have to do some serious repairs..."
"Do it quick or I'll make you pay, you STUPID SLOTHS"
Cyrus slammed his fist on a piece of machinery, leaving a small dent from the force of the impact.
"I'm back in 2 hours, if it's not done yet, someone will hang..."

Near Sandgem Town

"So this is the place. I see the connection with Dialga... I really DO have an effect on things.... Let's follow my ruin." Imperfect said upon arriving in the Pokemon Dimension and looking at a group of trees, growing and dying in just a few minutes.

He flew up high to overlook the place. He could see a huge mountain, a few villages, a city and a lake that caught it's interest. But before he tried anything, he sensed he was being watched by someone.
He looked around and saw a little girl, staring at him through binoculars. He teleported in front of the girl, startling her so bad that she threw her binoculars away. I'mperfect got a nasty smile on his face. In an eerily calm and serene voice "Now being a good girl and forget about me or else I'll have to make everyone forget about you...understood?" The girl, white and pale as a table cloth:"Y-Y-Y-es-s-s. I-I Unders-s-stand!" I'mperfect with his normal voice: "Good, well, bye!" And I'mperfect flew off, searching for a place to oversee this dimension.

After flying 10 minutes, I'mperfect arrived at a large mountain range with remains of a temple on the highest point of the mountain.
"Interesting.....So this is where they originate from.... This could be VERY good. And how long have been standing there!?"

A small distortion formed a few meters above the ruins behind I'mperfect, unveiling a strange white creature with a yellow frame of some sorts around it's body.
"Long enough to know your intentions, Mark."
I'mperfect sighs. "In all our encounters, you still have to call me that. You should know better by now, after having been killed several times in the other parallels."
"I may have the ability to see the other possibilities like you, but I'm not ever going to let you fulfill your power mad dream."
"Now, THAT'S just sad. Because I'm already far closer to my goal than you realize, Arceus..."

Arceus stood in a battle stance, while forming an appendage from it's yellow frame that touched the ground, cause Arceus to change color.
I'mperfect turned around sighing yet again. "This is getting tiresome y'know?"
"Every world is different, there is no reason for you to underestimate me!"
"Why underestimate if I can read you like an open book?"
"Open book? Then, did you know IO was going to do THIS!?"

Arceus's body lit up, charging a huge amount of energy, only to unleash it shortly after, causing a massive explosion in I'mperfect's face.
"I'm already immune to your attacks, so why bother attacking me!?"
I'mperfect made a hand gesture and the smoke of the explosion was blown away.
"WHAT!?" I'mperfect was surprised that Arceus disappeared and realising that it was only a distraction, it infuriated I'mperfect.
 
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