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THE DESERTO ARCHIVES
RP Land - The Overlord Arc
(March 19th, 2024 - March 20th, 2024)

( Deserto Kingdom, #deserto-town )
Metapod: *rolls over*
[ * ...hm, what would- ah, yes. Just the casual sounds of time and space ripping open- don't worry, it'll close back up but not before spitting out four strange... Pokemon. ]
Lilypad: [ * This one's wearing a bandana. ]
Cobalt: [ * this one is also wearing a bandana. ]
Grovyle: [ * this one has a *satchel* ]
Celebi: [ * and this one. is. is shiny she's shiny (yes in PMD2 this celebi is refered to as a she/her) ]
Lilypad: [ * -she is confused, for two reasons. ]
Cobalt: [ * he is processing what happened. ]
Metapod: WOAH.

FRIENDS?!?!
Cobalt: "(Mmmmm my head's spinnningggg....)"
Lilypad: "(Mine to-...)"
[ * IS THAT GROV-... hold on there's someone else she'll ask why Grovyle's here LATER (also CELEBI TOO????) ]
[ * Looking over at the Metapod and kinda doing the Mudkip skip over ]
"-...er... hey... there?"
[ * Wave(?????) ]
Metapod: HEEEEY
Y'all want badurfershmurfer koing???
Lilypad: "Hi, hi-... uh... you don't need to shout! (I'm... I'm not that far away...)"
"Wh-.. uh... what's a... "badurfe"... "berd-"... uh..."
"What's whatever you just said?"
Metapod: the whopper place you know burgurdermurdershmurderlurder koing
Lilypad: "I have no idea what a whopper place is"
Metapod: Whopper... the type of burger…
nevermind that- I haven't seen a Pokemon since... since... No... OH GOD NO….
Lilypad” "Eh?"
[ * Head tilt. ]
"Since... since uh... what..?”
Metapod: They're all dead…
Lilypad: "-they."
"Hold on."
"Come again, they're what??"
[ * Actually very confused. very very confused. ]
Cobalt: [ * Meanwhile he's finally processing that the now is *real* and-... holy hell it's Grovyle ]
Grovyle: [ * Holy hell it's-... ]
[ * .. ]
[ * ...now he may be wrong but this ain't the future ]
King MPW: *runs by* NO NO NO!!!
Lilypad: [ * WHAT IS THAT ]
Metapod: KING WHERE ARE YOU GOING
Cobalt: "huh wh-"
[ * YEAH WHAT LILYPAD'S THINKING ]
King MPW: Not now you green bean
Lilypad: "Uhhh excuse me...? Strange... uh..."
"Blue... Sandslash...?"
King MPW: I AM KING MPW THE HEDGEHOG YOU WILL SHUT YOUR MOUTH YOU BLUE SOMETHING!!
Lilypad: "Mudkip- I..."
"okay fair enough."
Metapod: how mature.
Lilypad: "No no fair enough"
King MPW:  you act like you're more mature then me but you're not
Lilypad: "...uhhh... I can come back later if now's not a good time...?"
King MPW: I must head to the Viridian Mountain for... reasons too big to explain.
*walks off*
Lilypad: "...must be important."
"Anyways- uh."
"Where are we?"
Metapod: deserto aka kingdom pf desert
Lilypad: "..."
[ * Pulls out map. ]
[ * ...ain't on her map, cool. ]
"Where's,"
"Where's uh."
"No not where- mmm..."
"Do you know a place called Treasure Town? Maybe you've heard of Wigglytuff's Guild...?"
Metapod: not on this planet... You could try Ringphoater??? No that place is literally just one house…
Lilypad: "..al- wait, planet?"
Cobalt: "(-...uh we should probably, uh, be over with Lilypad-)"
Grovyle: [ * ...mm yeah probably he'll nod and get Celebi's attention ]
Celebi: "(Hm? What is it my dear Gro-... huh? Wait-... we're *NOT* in- okay, okay... oh, why must you always be in a rush....?)"
Lilypad: "Hey??? Dude??? Is??"
"Is someone pulling a joke on us?"
[ * Looking around. ]
"I mean... planet? Another planet??"
"I'm. I'm just a Mudkip. I can't even dream about just going to another planet."
Metapod: You can take the spaceshio
Lilypad: "The. The wh-"
Grovyle: "Excuse us."
Metapod: space ship
are you blind its literally behind you people
Lilypad: "huh"
[ * turn ]
Cobalt: [ * yeah wh ]
Grovyle: [ * he'll take a look. ]
"..."
"Not so much blind as unaware of what this contraption is."
Lilypad: "-yeah Grovyle said it best"
Metapod: Just look, idiots!
Lilypad: "I am dude."
"I've just never seen anything like it."
Metapod: I knew you were looking I was saying look again because you need contacts its clearly a spaceship they're everywhere
Lilypad: "No, they really aren't. Not where we're from anyway."
Grovyle: "...can't say I'm aware of these things either."
Metapod: Where are you even from?!
Lilypad: "...it's."
"It's complicated."
"Technically the future but right now I live in Treasure Town-... uh, what continent was it..?"
Cobalt: "...y..yeah, I'm. I'm also from Treasure Town."
Grovyle: "future."
Celebi: "Perhaps you could guess-!"
Grovyle: "future. she's also from the future."
Celebi: "-and you're no fun." [ * She crosses her arms, pouting. ]
"Surely after everything, you'd finally loosen up, Grovyle...."
Grovyle: "I'd love to but we're busy right now, Celebi."
Metapod: Are you guys possibly from the future... In another universe?
Cobalt: "uh. just these three. i'm not- not at all."
"I just- I just met Lilypad on the beach, and-"
Lilypad: "-given you don't know what Treasure Town is, but apparently Pokemon are extinct,"
"I..."
"I don't think that's what this is"
"unless we're like really really far on the other wise of the world or something but that's pretty unlikely"
Grovyle: "-...yeah your line of thinking makes sense, Lilypad."
Metapod: All Pokémon are literally extinct... I've checked all over the world for a single one…
Lilypad: "uh.... suprise or... somethin' then...? ta-da???"
Metapod: But... Who else would there be???
Lilypad: "Who- what... uh.."
"I think there was a bit of confusion, i mean suprise in hi i am a pokemon and so are the other three"
Cobalt: "wait wait how'd every pokemon go extinct though"
Metapod: The Great Pokemon War…
Other species took over, and the only good one left was the king of here, MPW, who owned me.
Lilypad: "...yeah we're *really* not from here"
Cobalt: "...."
"...that... that's awful though."
Metapod: I-I lost... all of them…
Lilypad: "..."
[ * okay now she feels bad ]
"...hey. It's... it's gonna be alright."
Metapod: I'm.... Totally and definetly fine.
Lilypad: "No, no you're not."
"You don't have to pretend."
Cobalt: "...y..yeah! We're not going to be upset if you're not okay."
Grovyle: "Pretending to be okay after such horrors doesn't make things right."
Metapod: It doesn't even feel like my owner cares about me…
Lilypad: "wait owner?"
[ * -...okay this got uncomfortable ]
Grovyle: "Wait, yeah-... you said *owner*?"
Metapod: yeah…
Lilypad: "Clarifyyyyyy...?"
Metapod: You know-- The person who gives me care... My owner!
Lilypad: "Uhhhhhhhhh"
Cobalt: "...."
Grovyle: "...I am familiar with the bonds between humans and Pokemon- (or... what few humans do exist in our world-) but to describe them as owners brings me a sort of deep discomfort."
Celebi: "Mhm! It's *unthinkable*!"
[ * She puts her tiny little onion fairy hands over her tiny little onion fairy mouth. ]
Metapod: ... Does anyone feel like the multiverse is being restored right now?
Lilypad: "I uh..."
"I mean, it feels like something is patching itself up."
Grovyle: "...I do feel a sense of peace washing over me."
"But not the kind you feel upon death."
"Something... else."
Metapod: ... Let's go to the Viridian Mountain. *rolls off*
Lilypad: "Hey-... the?? The- where??? HEY--- WAIT UP."
[ * They try their little Mudkip best to chase after Metapod. ]
Cobalt: "-...WAHHH!! WAIT FOR US!"
[ * And off he goes to follow Lilypad. ]
Grovyle: “...let’s go, Celebi.”
Celebi: “Right behind you, my dear Grovyle!”
Grovyle: [ * Fast leaf gecko. ]
Celebi: [ * floaty float float ]

( Viridian Mountain, #viridian-inkamingtonites-cave )
King MPW: *looking at runes* goddammit no…
Palkia: [ * Holy SHIT it’s Palkia-... uh, they aren’t looking very okay. very enraged actually. ]
King MPW: What tbe hell-
Palkia: [ * Turn. With big stomps because… well Palkia’s rather big. ]
[ * A stare for a moment. ]
[ * Before it cried out. ]


# ***”GROOOOOHHHH!”***
[ * Sure, it *is* capable of speech. Given it’s crying out like a primitive beast though, something is very much *not* okay. ]
[ * -if the way it looked didn’t indicate beforehand. ]
King MPW: Are you okay? Did something about the Nothing Particles breaking which caused space and time to rip open bother you?
Palkia: [ * ...rumble rumble. Before crying out, lashing out at the King. ]

## *"GROOOROHHHH!"*

[ * ...talking *may* be off the table right now. ]
[ * But by all means take that as a ***yes*** ]
King MPW: Do you need a chill pill before we talk?
Palkia: [ * It seems frustrated at the lack of response you have to it *LASHING OUT* at you. So it tries again, this time with more intent. ]

[ * ...again. You likely should take this as a *YES*, for it is the opposite of "chill". ]
King MPW: I got one here *gives Palkia a chill pill*
Palkia: [ * ...stare. ]
[ * A tense moment. ]
[ * ...it almost reaches out, before slapping it away. ]
[ * (The narrator did not know it would be a literal chill pill) (but honestly the subversion of expectation was pretty funny lmao) ]
King MPW: *sighs and starts looking at the runes, when he sees a place to put a code* big guy do you know what the code is?
Palkia: [ * Frustration. ]
## *"CAN YOU TAKE A HINT YOU BUMBLING PEST?!"*

## *"SPACE ITSELF IS WARPING AND YOU WANDER IN LIKE YOU OWN THE PLACE."*

[ * ...and you speak like you KNOW the place, Palkia. ]
[ * And that is *false*. ]
## *"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! WHO YOU HAND YOUR MEASLY OFFERINGS TO-?!"*
[ * (palkia why are you being a big angry baby) ]
I PROTECT THE MULTIVERSE!! *in a more saddened tone* AND EVERYONE RELIES ON ***ME*** TO FIX THINGS…
Palkia: [ * A pause, before Palkia begins to laugh. ]

## *"GROHOHOHOH-! YOU?! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE!"*
King MPW: Because you're not from here. This is *my* home, you're invading MY property. I own Deserto, I own this cave IN Deserto…
Palkia: [ * Pause. Thinking. ]
## *"I DID NOT COME HERE. SOMETHING BROUGHT ME HERE AGAINST MY WILL."*
## *"-AND SPACE IS BROKEN. AND SPACE IS MY DOMAIN! IT ENRAGES ME, IT BOILS MY BLOOD...."*
[ * and you're still not from here palkia. ]
King MPW: And if you help me fix these... *holds up the nothing particles* I can send you back.
Palkia: ## *"AND WHY SHOULD I TRUST YOU?"*
[ * and why should they trust you, palkia- you tried striking at them. *twice* ]
King MPW: Because... I want to fix the multiverse... For someone very special.
Palkia: ## *"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN FIX AN ENTIRE MULTIVERSE?"* 

[ * Palkia is... *skeptical*. ]
King MPW: If *he* could do it, I can.
Palkia: # *"WHO IS HE???"*
King MPW: ...My brother... Former king of Deserto... He sacrificed himself for the multiverse…
Palkia: ## *"...."*
## *"...OH. I SEE."*
## *"(THINK, ARCEUS DAMNIT PALKIA- AT LEAST TRY TO GIVE SOME SORT OF WISDOM. WHAT KIND OF DIETY WOULD YOU BE, EVEN IF YOU'RE TRYING TO STRIKE DOWN THE PERSON AT FAULT FOR SPACE WARPING???)" 
[ * The parenthesis are being mumbled. just... not too good at being quiet, so palkia is unaware what he said was audible nontheless. ]
King MPW: *sighs* I just want to fix it all... For him…
Palkia: ## *"DON'T TAKE ON TASKS LARGER THAN YOU'RE CAPABLE OF. EVERYONE HAS THEIR LIMITS, EVEN I DO."*

[ * Er... good news is Palkia's coming more to their senses (without the chill pills too so??? yay??? i think??) ]
King MPW: *looks at the slot to enter a code and enters something random and it works?! it opens a slot with the exact shape of the cube the Nothing Particles are in.*
Palkia: [ * ...well, they'll stand by. ]
## *"...YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT RESTORING BALANCE, YES?"*
King MPW: Yes. *pulls a lever and the jewel known as the Viridian Ikamingtonite lights up.*
Palkia: ## *"...PERHAPS I COULD HELP YOU. IF YOU ARE LYING TO MY FACE THOUGH..."*

# *"GROOOOOHHHH!! I'LL STRIKE YOU DOWN A THOUSAND TIMES!"*
[ * ...it's unclear if Palkia is bluffing or not. ]
[ * It *is* Palkia. ]
[ * But they may be bluffing about the thousand times. (I mean, would Palkia really even be capable of that???) ]
[ * Did I say may? I mean probably. They're probably bluffing about that part. ]
King MPW: *looks at the runes and translates them* We gotta get more power to the jewel...
Palkia: ## "WHAT KIND OF POWER DO THEY SEEK?"
King MPW: I'm not the vest at translating "HDGDRDSTDSFXHJOHYFDYU" into English, but it says something along the lines of Desert Fuel...
Palkia: ## "AND *THAT* IS...?"
King MPW: Some ancient fuel source located in Deserto, aka the kingdom we're in now.
Palkia: ## "AND WHERE *IN* THE KINGDOM IS IT FOUND? WHAT SORT OF FUEL IS IT? I NEED *SOMETHING* TO WORK WITH."
King MPW: I don't know! You're puttingcpressure on me now...
Palkia: ## "...*SIGH*. MY APPOLOGIES. I SIMPLY AM GROWING MORE INCLINED TO BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAID *IS* TRUE AND THAT I AM NOT OF THIS WORLD."
King MPW: We could try looking in this mountain...
Palkia: ## "WHAT *ARE* WE LOOKING FOR THEN? A CRYSTAL? A LIQUID?"
King MPW: Seeing the runes... Crystal perhaps?
Palkia: [ * Nod. ]

## "-...ALSO ONE MOMENT."

### "*AHEM*"

"...PERHAPS I WAS ALSO BEING TOO LOUD. I TEND TO SHOUT MUCH MORE WHEN I AM **VERY ENRAGED**"
"ANYWAYS. A CRYSTAL WE SHALL LOOK FOR."
King MPW: *walks deeper in the cave*
Metapod: *arrives*
Lilypad: "(Hfff... hff... I didn't know Metapod could run this fast...)"
Metapod: You mean roll? I literally have no legs
Lilypad: "-...was I not being quie... er, nevermind. Rolling makes more sense anyway."
King MPW: Oh great... Wjat is it Metapod...
Lilypad: "...-"
[ * noticing the palkia in the room ]
Cobalt: [ * huh wha- ohhhh. ]
Lilypad: "Hey uh. metapod?"
"your... uh..."
"(do i have to call them an owner that still feels *weird*)"
Metapod: huh. cool thing. *only focusing on Palkia*
Palkia: "COOL THING?!"

## *"COOL THING?!"*
Lilypad: "---metapod that is Palkia and they quite literally *rule over space*"
Metapod: I call everything a thing
Lilypad: "okay yeah i mean, you're not *wrong* technically..."
"but it's not entirely right either y'know??? *y'know*???"
Metapod:  MPW's literally guardian of the multiverse fym
Lilypad: "they huh"
"they"

"they what"
[ * stunned ]
King MPW: *sighs*
Metapod: Yeah, guardian of the multiverse, and space-time!
Lilypad: [ * She... she don't got the words. ]
Cobalt: "...so like... Dialga *AND* Palkia...? Is... is that what you're saying?"
Palkia: *just sighs again before finding a red crystal with the same blood red as the Viridian Ikamingtonite.*
Palkia: ## "SO IS THAT YOUR 'ENERGY'?"
[ * It's sure something Palkia themself hasn't seen before. ]
King MPW: *holds it up before it starts floating towards the jewel*
Palkia: ## "...I AM ASSUMING SO. I WAS... *EXPECTING* SOME FORM OF RESPONSE THOUGH."
King MPW: I'm just... worried.
Palkia: ## "HM? WHAT FOR?"
*The jewel starts shooting a laser into the sky*
Palkia: [ * Startled. ]

## *"GROHH?!"*
King MPW: Uh... stuff like that... That's not normal according to the runes...
Palkia: ## "THEN I SHALL BE AT THE READY!"

[ * Palkia took up a stance, ready to strike at anything that may come forth from this. ]
Lilypad: "(/..so uh. Metapod, do you have any clue what's going on? 'Cuz I got nothing-)"
[ * She... made sure to keep her voice relatively *down* as she asked this. ]
*the sky turns blood red and glitches start to occur*
Metapod: [um... me neither...]
Lilypad: [ * ...she has zero reference as to what a glitch is. So all she can tell is something is *very* wrong. ]
*A glitchy version of SPW appears.*
Cobalt: "Uhhhhh-????"
[ * what the helllll- ]
King MPW: *looks* B-Brother?!
Palkia: [ * Staring down the broken version of SPW. ]
"THIS IS YOUR *BROTHER*?"
King SPW: *turns* huh? MPW?!
Grovyle: [ * ...while MPW and Palkia are... at the front, he's just going to group Lilypad, Cobalt, Celebi and Metapod close to him in case things go south. All he knows is something is *not* right. ]
King MPW: SPW... Bro... But-- You're.. supposed to be.... dead... *MPW gets tears in his eyes.*
Palkia: [ * Aw, how... bittersweet. ]

"..."
"-...I UNDERSTAND HOW EMOTIONAL THE CURRENT MOMENT SHOULD BE, THOUGH I MUST POINT OUT HOW UNSTABLE EVERYTHING AROUND US IS."
King SPW: The last thing i remember was being in The Nothing as it was about to implode, then I glitched here...
Lilypad: "(Glitched?)"
[ * All she can think of is... like. Porygon-Z. ]
Palkia: "...I AM TORN BETWEEN LETTING YOU TWO HAVE YOUR 'MOMENT' OR INQUIRING ABOUT THIS NOTHING PLACE."
"(PERHAPS FATHER ARCEUS WOULD BE THERE? ...THOUGH THAT WOULD IMPLY FATHER'S REALM HAS CRUMBLED IN ON ITSELF.)"
King MPW: It was where space and time was protected...
*pulls out The Nothing particles* Now its... This.
Palkia: "...SO AS A SORT OF 'ANTI' TO THIS WORLD. IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING?"
King MPW: I don't know much about it, but I guess.
Palkia: "...WAIT AND YOUR BROTHER SAID IT WAS ABOUT TO IMPLODE?"
"..."
"UHH."
King MPW: It imploded a month ago, now.
Palkia: "A MONTH AGO???"
"NOW"
"I AM SIMPLY 'SPITBALLING', AS THEY SAY"
"BUT PERHAPS THESE ISSUES MAY FIND THEIR ROOT IN SUCH AN EVENT?"
King SPW: The particles would need a year to stabilize, and they've been used before then. So whoever used the particles, it is their fault.
King MPW: ...Wasn't me! Ha... ha ha...
Palkia: [ * T U R N ]
"YOU SOUND VERY NERVOUS FOR SOMEONE WHO IS SUPPOSEDLY INNOCENT."
King MPW: Look, I JUST became king, I haven't had time to learn this stuff.
Palkia: "AND YOU-"

## "YOU ASSUMED MESSING WITH SOME PARTICLES, THAT- AS YOU SAY- ARE INTERTWINED WITH SPACE AND TIME- WOULD BE FINE???"
## "WHAT REASON DID YOU- COULD *YOU* HAVE EVEN HAVE HAD?!"
King MPW: I WAS USING THEM BECAUSE I HAD TO TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO STOP A MENACE FROM STEALING THEM AND USING THEM FOR NO GOOD.
Palkia: [ * A loud sigh. ]

## "SO WHAT DO WE DO *NOW*?"
King MPW: We fix this mess, no matter how we do it.
Cobalt: "(hey metapod i kinda feel we might not want to be here right now?? haha-)"
Palkia: ## "*HOW*"
Metapod: But...
Cobalt: "(...palkia sounds really really mad and uh)"
King SPW: HOW ABOUT WE STOP YELLING AT EACH OTHER and work together?
Cobalt: "(uhhh long story but)"
"(they kinda, sorta...)"
Grovyle: "(Palkia watches over all of space.)"
Palkia:  ## "I CAN'T HELP YELLING, I'M NATURALLY VERY LOUD, MORE-SO WHEN I AM *FRUSTRATED*"
## "I AM VERY MUCH FOR FIXING THIS MESS."
## "AND I FEEL THE PERSON WHO *CAUSED* THIS SHOULD VERY MUCH HELP WITH THIS."
*The Nothing Particles break out of the cube and fly up*
Palkia: "WH." 
King MPW: NO NO NO!
-- WAIT- I know how to get up there...
King SPW: *The space ship glitches by them* ...How... Convienient.
King MPW: *smirks and runs to the ship, getting in.*
Palkia: [ * -they're just going to follow alongside the ship. ]

( Space, #the-space-ship )
King MPW: *enters*
Palkia: [ * -likely from outside, Palkia would speak to them. ]
"I APPEAR UNABLE TO ENTER YOUR CONTRAPTION. I SHALL GLIDE BY YOUR SIDE."
King MPW: OKEY DOKEY
Metapod: *rolls in* I MUST DRIVE FATHER.
King MPW: ...Fine, you did good last time.
Lilypad: [ * -hesitantly, she follows, purely out of concern. ]
"Metapod- what. What is going on-"
"..."
Cobalt: "(Lilypad maybe we should wait outside, Metapod seems to know what they're doing and they seem in a rush----)"
Metapod: *rolls to the steering wheel* (don't ask about how he pilots this thing)
EVERYONE IN!!! *honks*
Lilypad: "..."
[ * Just glancing back over to Metapod. ]
"I... I mean, we did just wander in... and I sure-"
"...*EVERYONE*???"
Cobalt: "EVERYONE????"
[ * WHY IS HE BEING DRAGGED INTO THIS ]
Grovyle: [ * Who is he to deny someone help? ]
Celebi: [ * Look wherever Grovyle's going, she's going too. ]
King SPW: *walks in* my spaceship...
Lilypad: "Alright, change of action."
"We're helping this strange Metapod."
Cobalt: "Uh... r...right!"
[ * Salute. ]
*they ride up to the end of the laser where The Nothing Particles are*
*The particles float off to #rainbow-road*
King MPW: goddammit!
-A ring portal would open in the space ship. In the ring portal you can see a hedgehog in green hill. The hedgehog would walk through the ring portal and would be in the space ship. The ring portal would disappear-
Sonic: "So what do I miss?"
King MPW: Alot did you notice the blood red sky?
Sonic: "Yeah? I thought it was the Exes again so i didn't care"
King MPW: EX- nevermind...
Palkia: "THE WHAT?"
[ * The space dragon asks, from outside. Loud enough to be heard from INSIDE the ship. ]
Sonic: "The exes?"
Palkia: "-AAAALRIGHT THEN."
"I AM GOING TO PRETEND I UNDERSTAND WHAT NONSENSE YOU SPEAK OF."
Lilypad: [ * She'll just sit nearby where Metapod was. Because it's not like she understands why she's being dragged along, or what is going on *in the first place*. ]
Cobalt: [ * ...yeah he's gonna stick with Lilypad ]
Metapod: *drives to Rainbow Road and parks*
Everyone out we have reached our destination.
Lilypad: "Ooookie dokie."
[ * She'll get her group out of the spacecraft. ]
Sonic: "Already? Okay?" *Would wal out*

( Space, #rainbow-road )
Metapod: *jumps out*
Sonic: *would jump out*
Lilypad: [ * Carefully making her way out, along with her group. ]
King MPW: you gotta look for the white dots... Not the stars though.
Palkia: "AND WHAT, PRAY TELL, DO WE DO WHEN WE SEE THESE DOTS?"
King MPW: pick them up!
King SPW: *would glitch out of the spaceship*
Sonic: "Okay"
"That easy"
Palkia: "I CAN TRY. I HAVE QUITE LARGE HANDS, IF YOU HAVE NOT NOTICED."
"I CANNOT ENSURE I WILL HAVE A GRASP ON THESE TINY SPECKS."
Pirate SPW: *glitches in* ARGH- Huh???
Lilypad: [ * -another one? ]
King SPW: huh?!?!
Palkia: [ * Looking over. ]
"ANOTHER ONE..?" [ * Palkia groans. ]
King MPW: *grabs some Nothing Particles*
Sonic: "Well then. Race yall to see who can get most dots!" *Would dash to get some nothing particles*
Overlord MPW: *glitches in and takes all the particles*
Palkia: "-..."
"KING MPW? YOU SAID THAT WAS YOUR NAME, YES?"
King MPW: mmhm...
Sonic: *Would come back*
"uh I don't see the dots anymore"
Palkia: "IS THIS THE ONE YOU WERE TRYING TO PREVENT FROM TAKING THE NOTHING PARTICLES?"
[ * They point to  Overlord MPW. ]
King MPW: No... That's an alt. universe me...
Overlord MPW: *floats off and glitches away*
Palkia: "....OH. DO THEY NOT MEAN *HARM* THEN..?"
King MPW: I think... They DO...
Palkia: "THEY *DO* MEAN HARM????"
Sonic: "Faker make up your mind"
King MPW: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!
Sonic: “Nah:
King MPW: They stole the particles for a reason...
Palkia: ## "THEY JUST GOT AWAY."
Grovyle: "-pardon me for butting in, the Metapod dragged me along,"
"But Palkia is right. Your doppelganger just got away."
"Do you know *where* and *why* he took the particles?"
King MPW: No... I've never seen him before...
Sonic: "You just said that he was the alt version of you? Tell the truth"
Sonic: "That is still you"
King MPW: SO?????
Sonic: "SO!? ARE YOU LYING OR NOT!?"
King MPW: WHY WOULD I LIE IN THE FATE OF THE WORLD YOU IDIOT?!
Sonic: "I HAD SOME PEOPLE WHO LIE WHEN ITS IN THE FATE OF THE WORLD!"
King MPW: LET ME GUESS, THEY WERE BAD GUYS! AND I AM NOT A BAD GUY!
Sonic: "OH REALLY!?"
King MPW: YES YOU IDIOT!
Palkia: ## "WILL YOU TWO CUT IT OUT? OF COURSE SOMEONE WILL ASSUME THAT ANOTHER WHO LOOKED SO SIMILAR COULD BE A DOPPELGANGER."
Lilypad: "(Metapod, why did you drag us four along..?)"
Cobalt: [ * Stress ]
Metapod: [because i have no friends and I wanted to hang out with you all...]
King MPW: I WILL SCREAM.
Sonic: "THEN SCREAM!"
Lilypad: "(...I really feel bad ma-)"
[ * HMMMNGGG SHE IS ALSO GROWING STRESSED ]
King MPW: *Screams*
Grovyle: "*Please*."
"Are you two going to *keep arguing*?"
"Are you two going to keep pointing fingers at each other?" 
Sonic: "Until the Faker comes clean"
King MPW: ARE YOU STUPID?! HOW WOULD I EVEN *KNOW* SOMEONE FROM ANOTHER DAMN UNIVERSE?!
Grovyle: "And why do you feel he isn't being truthful in this given moment-"
Palkia: ## "NO THE KING MAKES SENSE, MOST PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF EVERY CONCIEVABLE VERSION OF THEMSELF."
Grovyle: "-thank you Palkia."
Palkia: ## "MHM."
"...WE CAN DO FORMALITIES LATER BY THE WAY."
"(I HAVE HEARD OF YOU.)"
Grovyle: "cool but that can really wait right now"
Sonic: "Well believe him all you want. I got my eyes on him. And if he telling the truth then I will take blame."
Grovyle: "-...that would suffice infinitely better than arguing over who's being honest about what."
Sonic: *Sonic would stare at King MPW. After that he would walk away from him* "So where we going-" *Sonic would say at King MPW, not looking at him* "King"
King MPW: We gotta search for that guy... But we have no means of doing it...
Palkia: "*AHEM*"
"IF IT IS UNIVERSES WE ARE LOOKING THROUGH... MY DOMAIN DOES LIE WITH SPACE."
"I COULD TRY LOOKING. IT... MAY TAKE A WHILE THOUGH."
"SPACE IS INFINITE."
*MPW nods.*
Palkia: "-I CAN STILL LOOK NONTHELESS."
"IT WOULD BE BETTER THAN NOTHING, EVEN IF BY ALL MEANS THE ODDS ARE AGAINST US."
Sonic: "Shoot for it. We got nothing to lose right now"
King MPW: I'm gonna head back down to Earth... Try to restabilize the Viridian Ikamingtonite that caused all... this mess...
Sonic: "Do what you need King"
King MPW: *jumps down*
King SPW: *keeps glitching in and out* Hey Sonic... Good to see you again by the way. MPW said I've been dead for a month now...
Sonic: *Would turn around and see SPW* "Dead?"
King SPW: Yeah... You weren't there.... Were you?
Sonic: "Uhhhhh" *Flash back of Sonic Frontiers*
King SPW: ... How have you been?
Sonic: “Good I guess”
King SPW: Alright... *glitches out then back in*
Sonic: "You seem glitching out...like how they glitch out..."
King SPW: I'm not supposed to be here... I got extracted from the past by the Viridian Ikamingtonite.

( Viridian Mountain, #viridian-inkamingtonites-cave )
King MPW: *arrives and sighs*
Overlord MPW: *glitches behind MPW* hello, you pathetic alternate me...
King MPW: WHA HUH?!
Overlord MPW: I have been watching over your weak universe... You had the audacity to get WHAT LITERALLY PROTECTS SPACE AND TIME, BROKEN?!?!
King MPW: WHO ARE YOU?!
Overlord MPW: IT DOESN'T MATTER!! *glitches out*
King MPW: ... wait-... *pulls out a single nothing particle and smirks, teleporting to Universe MPW*

( Space, #rainbow-road )
Overlord MPW: *glitches in*
Sonic: "Well dan-"
*Would see Overlord MPW* "Hey its you again"
Overlord MPW: Hello pathetic mortals...
Sonic: "Oh great. Its a guy who think he is God"
"What you need Mr. God"
Overlord MPW: YOU WILL LOOK UP TO ME YOU WEAK FOOLS! I HAVE ALL OF YOUR PARTICLES, AND I CAN DO WHAT EVER I WANT!!
Sonic: "Which is?"
Overlord MPW: everything will be mine... *Uses the particles to create a new universe and then teleports to it.*
Sonic: "Well dang"
King SPW: We gotta get there...
Sonic: "Leave it to me. See ya!" *Would dash off the rainbow road and would throw a ring portal and went through*
King SPW: WAIT FOR ME! *jumps through it*

( Universe MPW )
Overlord MPW: *arrives*
Sonic: *Would land on the ground from the ring portal*
King SPW: *would faceplant*
Sonic: *Would start walking* "What is this place?"
King MPW: *teleports in* That other me... *pulls out a Nothing particle* forgot one.
Sonic: "Well look at that. Good job Faker" *would playfully nudge*
King MPW: *just gives Sonic an evil look*
Sonic: "Faker?"
Overlord MPW: *arrives* Weaklings... I'm impressed.
King MPW: oh great its this fool.
Sonic: "You know this guy seem so dumb"
Overlord MPW: SHUSH!
King MPW: You're the idiot who dropped a Nothing particle.
Overlord MPW: *smites MPW*
King MPW: *screams bloody murder*
Sonic: *Would spindash at Overload MPW*
Overlord MPW: *blocks* heheh...
King SPW: *hits an attack on his back and a shield cracks a little*
Overlord MPW: *is caught off guard*
Sonic: *Would kick him in the back*
Overlord MPW: *the crack grows* AH!
King MPW: *hits him in the head*
Overlord MPW: STOP!!
*would hit Sonic in the stomach*
Sonic: *Would block and would punch back*
Overlord MPW: *would teleport using the Nothing Particles*
Mario: *glitches here* Mama mia...
Peach: *would do the same* w-what...?
Lumine: *Would be sleeping*
Palkia: [ * Pulled out of wherever they were searching. ]
Luigi: *glitches here while eating a bagel*
Metapod: *glitches in* OWIE ZOWIE 
Lilypad: [ * What th- ]
Cobalt: [ * Holding onto Lilypad for dear life ]
Grovyle: [ * just- here ]
Celebi: [ * thus so she is also here ]
Meta Knight: Ow.
Palkia: "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?"
[ * Looking ar- oh. ]
Overlord MPW: *looks around* no...
*the nothing particles get pulled out of Universe MPW*
Sonic: "Well then. I guess I should show you what I been hiding." *A blue glow forms around Sonic*
Darklead Sonic: "Well What do you think?"
Overlord MPW: *Gets angry*
Palkia: "...*YOU*."
[ * Staring down Overlord. ] 
### "IS THIS YOUR DOING?!"
King MPW: I guess its a race... Team Good Guy... vs. other me.
Sonic... Throw your ring thingy.
Palkia: ### "IF YOU CALL A BATTLE FOR THE SAKE OF REALITY ITSELF A RACE, SO BE IT."

### "I SHALL CALL IT AS IT IS THOUGH."
Sonic: "Oh uh sure" *would grab one of the rings portal. Sonic would look at it then throw it. Which open to the main universe*
*The good guys rush through it*
Overlord MPW: *teleports out*
Palkia: [ * Palkia, however, hesitate- damn it. ]
Lumine: *Would wake up* "H-Huh? Where am I"
Overlord MPW: "...I WAS REALLY WANTING TO STRIKE DOWN THAT NO GOOD CREATURE."
[ * -well, off with the others Palkia goes. ]

( Deserto Kingdom, #deserto-town )
*the heroes arrive above the town, as Overlord MPW teleports to the ground*
Palkia: [ * -oh, good. ]
[ * Well, Palkia's not going to ask first. They stomp on over, towering over the Overlord. ]
"ARE YOU TO YIELD, OR HAVE YOU FIGHT LEFT?"
King MPW: *spindashes The Overlord.*
Palkia: "-ARCEUS. DAMN IT."
Overlord MPW: *shields breaks* YOU WILL NOT GET TO MY PARTICLES!
King MPW: *bounces off overlords head and grabs The Nothing particles*
Palkia: "..."
"ABOUT THAT."
Overlord MPW: *YELLS* YOU WILL REGRET THAT YOU BASTARDS!
Palkia: ## "THE ONLY THING I REGRET IS WAITING FOR *THIS*."
[ * Palkia used Spacial Rend! (-...on Overlord.) ]
Overlord MPW: GAHH!
Palkia: ## "FEEL THE PAIN OF BEING NAUGHT, EVEN FOR THE SLIMMEST OF MOMENTS."
[ * And Palkia uses Spacial Rend *again*. ]
King SPW: *punches overlord*
Metapod: *uses stringshot and attaches overlord to the ground*
Overlord MPW: AHHHH!
Lilypad: "...should we...?"
Grovyle: "I wouldn't get too close."
King MPW: *spindashes overlord for the last hit.*
Overlord MPW: *is knocked out*
Palkia: "..."
"...WELL."
"WHERE TO TAKE THIS SCUM TO?"
[ * Looking over at Sonic and MPW. ]
*The Virodian Ikamingtonite glitches again, bringing... a Pokemon.*
Squirtle: *glitches in* ...huh?
Metapod: *looks shocked* Squirtle?!
Squirtle: Metapod??
Palkia: "HM?"
*Overlord glitches back to his home universe*
Palkia: [ * -eugh. Well. At least they don't have these highly important particles™️ ]
[ * They'll just... make space for Squirtle and Metapod. ]
Metapod: I missed you man...
Squirtle: how did I get here?...
Lilypad: "-wait. Is this... an old friend of yours..?"
[ * Her expression softens. After all, given what Metapod had said... ]
King MPW: *trying to give them space* We need to repair the particles and that ruby.
Metapod: yeah... He died in that war...
King MPW: *looks at palkia and walks to the mountain*
Palkia: [ * They look back at MPW and follow. ]

( Viridian Mountain, #viridian-inkamingtonites-cave )
*the nothing particles circle around the laser*
King MPW: *arrives and seems shocked, looks at Palkia and signals them to come here*
Palkia: [ * They come over. ]
"AND HOW MAY I AID YOU WITH THIS, EXACTLY?"
King MPW: I found the issue... That crystal that magically moved to the ruby got put in the wrong place...
King SPW: *SPW looks*
Palkia: "SUCH A SIMPLE PROBLEM WITH SUCH DRASTIC CONSEQUENCES."
"THESE THINGS CANNOT BE HANDLED WITHOUT CARE."
"-...BUT WE ARE HERE NOW, I SUPPOSE."
"ALL CAN BE RIGHT ONCE MORE."
King MPW: *picks up the crystal and sludes it in the right spot as the jewel glows and glitches for the final time, as the laser retracts and the sky turns blue again.*
King SPW: *starts to fade very slowly* I guess this is goodbye MPW.
King MPW: *starts to breakdown into tears*
Palkia: "..."
[ * ...it is not Palkia's place to interupt their goodbyes. ]
King SPW: *SPW fades away*
Palkia: "...I..."
"YOU HAVE MY APPOLOGIES. TRULY."
King MPW: I'll... Totally be fine...
Palkia: "PLEASE, YOU HAVE NO NEED TO LIE."
"THE PERSON YOU CARED FOR... SIMPLY VANISHING AWAY LIKE THAT."
"YOU ARE NOT OKAY."
"THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU'RE UNFIT FOR WHATEVER IT MAY BE."
"FEELING PAIN DOES NOT MAKE YOU UNWORTHY."

( Deserto Kingdom, #deserto-town )
Lilypad: "....ah."
"..."
[ * What does she even say in response? ]
Cobalt: "W...well... they're back. Maybe it's a miracle..?"
[ * Look he. He don't got a clue either. But this can't be a bad omen, right...? ]

[ * (The narrator has no idea if this is an omen or not) ]
Squirtle: *starts to fade*
Metapod: SQUIRTLE?!
Lilypad: "-..."
"O...oh."
[ * -....this... must be what Cobalt saw when... ]
Squirtle: *fades away*
Cobalt: ". . ."
[ * Just carefully walking over to Metapod to comfort them. ]
"...i...it's going to be okay."
"I... I understand."
Metapod: *cries*
Cobalt: [ * ...without even thinking, the Charmander just gave Metapod a hug. ]
Lilypad: "...."
[ * She'll come over too. ]
"I'm sorry this all had to be cut so short."
"Take your time."
Metapod: Thank you guys... But... you all need to head home...
Lilypad; "..."
"We can wait a bit longer if you don't want to be alone right now."
*MPW walks out and see's them and just thinks*
Palkia: [ * -Palkia is... probably following suit. (I think?) ]
King MPW: Metapod... You seem... happier with them. *smiles a bit* You should go with them. If it makes you feel better...
Metapod: *actually thinks about that for a minute*
Lilypad: "-oh. Oh, yeah! You see... where we're from, we have these things called Exploration Teams."
"Me and Cobalt have our own."
"We call it "Team Hopes"."
"We simply explore, help other Pokemon out..."
"...it's adventures every day."
Metapod: I... think... I... will...
Lilypad: "...you will?"
Cobalt: [ * Essentially starry eyes. ]
Metapod: *nods. er... tries to.*
Lilypad: [ * A nod. ]
"Welcome to the team then, Metapod."
King MPW: *creates a Nothing portal*
Cobalt: [ * Looking around their items, before getting out their team's badge. ]
Metapod: *looks at it*
Cobalt: "As a Team Member, you get one of these. It... it uh, says you're a part of our team... and lets you return from mystery dungeons!"
Grovyle: [ * ...looking off into the distance. ]
"(...we should probably say goodbye before we return to the future, huh?)"
Celebi: "(....yeahhhh. You seemed so happy to see Lilypad and Cobalt again, too. Aw- don't you frown. We at least know they're all alrighty after the stuff with Dialga!)"
Metapod: so, when do we go?
Lilypad: "Uh... well."
[ * Turning to Palkia. ]
Palkia; "I BELIEVE A FRIEND OF YOURS WOULD LIKE A WORD BEFOREHAND."
Grovyle: "...Lilypad."
Lilypad: "Ye...ohhh."
Grovyle: [ * Nod. ]
"It was nice to see you and Cobalt again. However, when we return... me and Celebi have to return to the future."
"A lot's changed... for the better, of course."
"We have something to look forward to at last."
"...but please."
"Keep moving forward for me and Celebi."
Cobalt: "...o...oh."
"...wait- but... can't Celebi time travel? You could visit us now! There's nothing in the way anymore."
Grovyle: "...."
"I mean."
"Would Dialga be-"
Palkia; "I CAN ASK BROTHER DIALGA."
Grovyle: "-wait shit, for real?"
Metapod: *confused*
Lilypad: "-...long, long story. I can... explain *after* we get to our world."
Palkia: "...YES. "FOR REAL"."
"IS LILYPAD NOT HERE BEFORE US, DESPITE EVERYTHING?"
Grovyle: "...and I guess- huh."
Celebi: "Oh! Maybe I can finally go on an adventure for once with Lilypad. You've had plenty of time for that as is, Grovyle dear."
Grovyle: "Celebi those were different circumstan-"
Celebi: "***And?***"
Grovyle: "....alright. Well... maybe this isn't going to be a long goodbye then, Lilypad and Cobalt."
Cobalt: "I... I think you'd have a lot of fun exploring with us too!"
"...yeah!"
"Palkia please pl-"
Palkia: "I UNDERSTAND. BUT FOR NOW, YOU ALL SHOULD BE RETURNING TO YOUR WORLDS."
"-THAT IS, YOU ARE ALL READY, CORRECT?"
Metapod: *nods*
Lilypad: "...yeah. I'd say so."
Cobalt: "Everyone's... *probably* worried about the fact we just... vanished. Shouldn't keep them waiting too much longer..."
Grovyle: "...we should get going too, huh Celebi?"
Celebi: "Yeah...."
"But don't worry! I'm sure we'll meet soon!"
"(Promise me we'll adventure lots when everything gets sorted out, okay?)"
Lilypad: "(...yeah, 'course.)"
Metapod: *hops through the portal*
Palkia: "THEN IT SHALL BE."
[ * ...Palkia would send the Pokemon to their worlds. Celebi and Grovyle to the future- and the others to #sharkpedo-bluff. ]
[ * Then turning to the King. ]
"IF YOU EVER NEED ME..."
"...UH. HOLD ON. LET ME- OH, YES."
[ * Materializing an odd Flute for the king. ]
"PEOPLE OF A REGION OLD WOULD USE THESE TO CALL UPON POKEMON."
"PICK A TUNE FOR I, AND WHENEVER YOU NEED ME, I SHALL BE THERE."
King MPW: *grabs it* will do.
Palkia: [ * A nod. ]
"I SHALL SEE MYSELF OFF THEN."
"..."
"PLEASE, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF."
[ * Palkia warps off to a realm unknown... ]