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Heralds of Creation - Part 2

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On the way to Enid, Oklahoma, Aden explained about the Creation Quartet to Pete, Myka, and Claudia. "Basically, Diaga is the physical embodiment of time. His Roar must've brought Steve, and by extension you," he said, looking at Claudia, "back to a point were he was still connected to the Metronome. Because the Metronome wasn't ticking due to being in pieces, your bodies began to die."

"Man, Dialga sounds nasty." Claudia said.

"Oh he is nasty-especially when he goes primal, and by that, I mean completely off the deep end. Anyway, Palkia, Dialga's counterpart, embodies space. It's Spacial Rend will tear apart space as it passes. Giratina however, is just plain flat-out creepy. He embodies anti-matter. His move is the Shadow Force, which allows him to phase into the anti-matter world in one instant, then phase back in a split-second later to strike."

"And this is what the kids are into these days?" asked Pete, a good deal of sarcasm in his voice. "So, do you have any idea what we should be looking for, or are we going to have to bag the entire town?"

"Actually, it should be pretty straight forward. Most of the Legendary Pokemon have items associated with them in the games, and these four are no different. Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina had the Orbs: Dialga had the Adamant Orb, a geometric orb of diamond; Palkia had the Lustrous Orb, a huge pink pearl; and Giratina had the Griseous Orb, a huge sphere of pure platinum."

"Well, that doesn't make a lick of sense to me," Pete responded.

"It comes from the fact that they were the version mascots of the games entitled Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, respectively," Aden clarified.

"Alright, and what about the fourth guy, this... Arfeous?" Pete asked, clearly straining to remember the name.

"Arc-ee-us," Aden enunciated, failing to keep the tone of exasperation out of his voice. "He is basically the Pokemon version of God. His items were 16 Plates, each with an engraving that represented the 16 other Types he could assume by holding them."

Arriving at Enid, it was apparent that Dialga and Palkia's artifacts had had a field day. Buildings were decayed or split neatly in half as though with a razor-sharp guillotine. Others were surrounded by a distortion. A few people appeared to have been aged or were too young for their clothes. Aden held up the ball which pointed in one direction, and then another. Oddly the town seemed to have the different effects split down the middle of the street. "I'll take Palkia's side." Aden volunteered. He calmly stepped onto the side of the road with spacial damage, setting up a Protect barrier around him, but was quickly shot at with a bolt of electricity and zipped back into the car. "Oh great, looks like the artifact effects are split neatly in half on either side of town. But I don't see Giratina's type of damage anywhere."

Pete noted a pair of tablets on the ground. One was a deep gunmetal grey, the other was a deathly-looking light gray. "What are these?"

"Those?" Aden replied as he examined them. "Those would be the Dread Plate," he said as he pointed at the darker tablet, "and the Spooky Plate," as he pointed at the lighter one. "They deal with Dark and Ghost Type Pokemon, respectively." Aden picked up the Spooky Plate and stared at it a moment before touching it to the PokeBall, which promptly pointed at the First National Bank of Enid, which was oddly untouched.

"I'm going to check that Bank out for Giratina's Orb," he said, turning back towards the others. "You guys should probably start scouting out the rest of the area for the the other two." Without waiting for a response, Aden walked slowly toward the building, setting up a Detect and a Charged Thunder Wave ready to fire. Inside, a teenage girl was huddled in a corner near the teller booths. She recognized Aden's PokeBall and T-shirt from the convention, and he remembered her from the previous year as well. They had talked and traded a few Pokemon over the course of the week. He then saw what was around her neck: a small platinum ball on a leather cord. "Hi, Mary. It's been a while."

"Aden?" said Mary, clearly shocked at seeing him standing in front of her, despite everything else that had been going on. "I didn't think I'd ever see you again after the convention. What are you doing here?" She reached out and grabbed the hand Aden had extended to help her, and as she stood up the Ball sparked and the Spooky Plated shimmered as they reacted to the energy contained in the Orb around her neck. "Oh no! Not more freaky Pokemon trinkets!"

"Oh, hey, don't worry about the Ball," Aden replied, shifting it behind his back. "It's a long story why I'm here Mary, but essentially I've come to help some government agents recover several trinkets and replicas from the convention that developed the same powers of the Pokemon they are associated with. In this case, the ones dealing with the Creation Quartet." He gestured at the Orb around her neck. "Hehe, appears the Original One and his kids are going nuts today, huh? While the Renegade is on it's best behavior."

"It looks like it, Aden." Mary replied with a slight grin, taking off the Griseous Orb and looking at it for a moment before handing it to Aden. Aden then proceeded to drop it into one of the strange foil bags, a plethora of sparks spewing forth before he sealed it. "Wow."

"I know!" The pair exchanged email addresses and tumblr URLs, and said fare well. Curious as to how the Orb was activated, Aden slipped it from the bag and over his head. His eyes briefly shifted to solid black with red irises and he gasped lightly as its power channeled through him for an instant. In Aden's eyes, the silhouette of Giratina stood before him as though debating whether or not to destroy the puny human. "Oh mighty Renegade," Aden said as though reciting a prayer. "I swear in the name of Arceus the Alpha that I will not use your power for my own material gain." The hallucination bowed its head in acceptance and returned to the Griseous Orb as the young man's eyes returned to normal. Aden then ran over to Myka, who was busy on the side with temporal damage incapacitating someone holding a Plate the color of an old brick. Aden hed up the PokeBall, muttered a quick "Foresight" and then used Shadow Force to knock the goon out by accidently landing on his head. "Well, that worked." he commented as he removed the plate from the man's hand and examined it.

"So, what's this one?" Myka asked, slumping over to catch her breath after what clearly had been an intese brawl.

"The Fist Plate, which relates to the Fighting-Type. It appears to grant the user knowledge of all martial arts, the skill to use them properly, and increased strength." Aden explained."However, it makes one heavily susecptible to mental attacks. Well, that's three, just six more to go on this... side." Aden looked down to see vines beginning to wrap around his legs. "Oh joy, the Grass-type Meadow Plate is attacking. It granted Arceus total control over plant life." Aden used the Fist Plate to tug on the largest vine, apparently wrenching the grass green tablet from its user. Slipping the Plates into bags, the vines withered from Aden and the slight muscle mass from the Fist Plate dissolved from the still unconsious goon.

After setting the bagged plates and Griseous Orb back in the car (thanking Giratina for the use of his power as he did so), Aden saw Pete attempting to dodge blasts of water. "Thunder Wave!" A weak jolt arced up the holder of the blue Plate, paralysing him instantly. "The Splash Plater: Water-Type." Aden explained briefly before using it to detect Palkia's artifact, which was on the side of Enid with time damage for an odd reason. He slipped over and spotted a muscular man sitting on what appeared to be a solidified nebula, a large pink pearl around his neck. Aden quickly ran back to Pete and Myka, explaining what he saw. "He's got Palkia's artifact, and he obviously knew exactly how to use it."

Claudia, who had apparently snagged a metallic-grey Plate, returned bearing news about Dialga's artifact as well. "What he said. The guy was wearing a diamond on a cord. And which type is this?"

"That was the Adamant Orb, Dialga's Artifact. And this I belive is the Iron Plate, which represents the Steel-type. Now all we need to do is collect the..." Aden counted on his fingers, "ten remaining Plates."

"Make that eight." Mary ran over holding a bright red plate and an icy blue one. "These are the Fire-type Flame Plate, and the Ice-type Icicle Plate."

"Thanks, Mary." Aden smiled as he bagged the former, but stared for a moment at the latter. "I have a feeling that a little ice may come in... handy." He said, noticing Pete almost lose his balance.

"Whoa, now that was a really bad Vibe," he said, pulling himself back up to a standing position.

"Vibe? What do you mean by...?" Aden began, but stopped himself and listened intently. Footsteps came tearing into the street, as the eight remaining Plate wielders ran into view. "Oh, that's what." Aden quickly removed the Plates from the bags and handed them to the others.

"Just concentrate on the symbol on the tablets and then imagine it striking your target." Mary said, explaining how she used the Flame Plate earlier after stealing it from a goon. Aden nodded and fired a blast of ice at a woman who appeared to have draconic wings, a tail, and glowing claws made of energy. She dodged the first, but fell to a Glaciate from his PokeBall.

"Ice beats Dragon." He told her as he wrenched the dull red Plate from her fingers. Claudia unleashed a blast of fire at a man surrounded by a swarm of insects, incinerating them all and snagging the bright green plate. Meanwhile, Mary used the Dread Plate to its fullest extent against her levitating opponent who was repeatedly launching pink and blue bolts of mental power at her, only for the energy to go right through Aden's friend. He remembered her tendency to use Ghosts, Darks, and Psychics in their battles, and jokingly labelled her as the first Dark-Type Gym Leader due to her mastery of the type. She calmly manipulated the woman's shadow into holding its owner perfectly still as Mary removed a bright pink tablet from her opponent's pocket.

Myka used the Fist Plate to quickly knock out a man wearing rock armor. She removed the dark brown tablet from his chest and the rock crumbled. She then brought the tablet down onto the head of a woman who appeared to have wings. When she collapsed, the feathers dissolved and a sky blue Plate slid away.

Pete however, was having trouble using the Iron Plate. He kept getting hit again and again from below despite his currently iron skin. Aden yelled out "Razor Leaf!" while holding the Meadow Plate. A stream of sharp leaves flew out at the attacker, distracting him long enough for Pete to snatch the light brown tablet. "Only two more!" Aden called out. Pete was suddenly attacked by the two remaining people, but was unaffected due to the plates he was holding. Aden fired a Mudshot at the man wielding a yellow tablet and the woman holding a deep purple one, knocking them both out.

The newly acquired plates were laid out in a row. Mary and Aden identified the remaining plates in order of acquisition as the Dragon-type Draco Plate, Bug-type Insect Plate, Psychic-type Mind Plate, Rock-type Stone Plate, Flying-type Sky Plate, Ground-type Earth plate, Electric-type Zap Plate, and Poison-type Toxic Plate. "You gotta be careful when using these, everyone." Aden explained. "no more than two at a time."

"Why is that?" asked Myka, clearly not understanding.

"Because," Mary continued, "a Pokemon can only have two types and no more. My guess is that using three or more would be incredibly dangerous. And all sixteen....only Arceus can do that since he's God. And no mere mortal can handle that level of power without going boom."

"Now we just need to get the Adamant and Lustrous Orbs." Aden finished as he picked up the Griseous Orb. Slipping it on, he took a deep breath to relax, and handed the Mind plate to Myka, Spooky Plate to Claudia, the Dread Plate to Mary, and the Icicle Plate to Pete. Aden strode confidently toward where he saw the Lustrous Orb's user.

"And who are you bunch supposed to be?" The man asked.

Aden's eyes flashed to red on black. "Just someone who's gonna kick your butt." He replied coldly. The man dissolved the nebula he was sitting on and fired it at Aden, who dodged, resulting in a pillar blowing up. The man tried to teleport away, but Myka generated a mental shield that prevented it. Shadowy wings with red tips appeared on Aden's back as he fired a Shadow Ball knocking the wannabe Space god back. "Dude, I've got anti-matter and ghost powers. You think you can even touch me?"

"My name is Damien, and yes I do!" The older man replied as he fired off another blast of raw matter. Aden calmly blew the blast apart and Shadow-Forced away to behind Damien. To provide more of an opening, Claudia and Mary then used their Plates to generate ghastly apparitions around the man, causing him to divert some of his attention away from Aden. Seizing his chance, he brought a Wood Hammer down on the man's head, knocking him to the ground. Damien made a feeble move as if to continue fighting, but Pete immediately used his plate to freeze the man in place. Aden quickly snatched the pearl off his neck. Myka dissolved the shield as Aden cupped the Orb in his hands, apologizing to Palkia about its former wielder.

Slipping it on, Aden walked over to the opposite side of the street, following Claudia's instructions. As the group passed by buildings with spacial damage, the pearl glowed slightly and restored them and the people around it.

Upon entering a room, Aden glared at a man wearing a diamond on a leather cord. "So, who are you?"

"My name's Cronus." The Greco-American replied. "A fitting name, considering my new powers."

"Oh, yeah, I'm sure your parents were in their right mind when they named you after one of the most evil figures in Greek mythology." Aden retorted, his voice dripping with sarcasm. He quickly teleported to behind Cronus, smirking. "Why don't we cut the banter and get to the fight I know you want."

"Glady." Cronus fired off a temporal blast that Aden teleported away from. The younger male continued doing so, noting how the diamond was slowly turning orange.

"C'mon, that the best you got?" Aden stuck out his tongue and dodged another blast. "My Magikarp is tougher than you... and it's level 5!" Mary winced at the insult, for being told that you were weaker than a low-level Magikarp was a severe insult to any Pokemon fan.

Cronus, enraged by the taunt, began firing off random blasts, all missing. Aden watched as the diamond turned fully orange and began to glow as Cronus' powers stopped working. He looked down and watched in horror as his body began to crystallize. Within moments, in place of a man was a solid diamond statue that quickly crumbled to dust as the Adamant Orb absorbed his energy and returned to it's inactive blue hue. Aden removed the Orb he was wearing and cupped the diamond in his hands, apologizing to Dialga like he had to Palkia. Walking back out into the street, he held the Orb up high, and released a blue wave of energy and restored the remaining damage done to Enid before slipping it into a bag.

Aden drove Mary home. As she got out, he opened his mouth to say something, but she stopped him with a finger to his lips. "I know your gonna tell me something about what just happened, but at the moment, I don't want you to. It's been a rough day. Why don't you tell me after you're done collecting the other things that were at the convention."

Aden bowed his head. "As you wish, O Mistress of the dreaded Dark-type." Mary smiled and said good-bye. She walked to the door and watched him drive off, then went inside and dialed a number. Before the phone had rung even once, it was answered on the other side.

"Yes."

"Your message was right. Aden just left here with some agents, and they took my Orb along with a number of other trinkets involving the Creation Quartet."

"Excellent. Looks as though he understood the hint I left for him. Let's just hope he does as well with the next few. In the meantime, I would like you to use the items I also sent you to track Aden's movements via the information you two exchanged. Keep me informed on whenever he and his friends go off somewhere out-of-the-way."

"Why are you so interested in him?" Mary asked, still trying to wrap her head around what was just happening.

"I have my reasons. If it puts your mind at ease, you should know that I have no intention of bringing harm to Aden or anyone else. Quite the contrary, actually."

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Back at the Warehouse, as Aden pushes a cart carrying the newly collected artifacts, he passes a shelf holding a sword, and on its display was a picture of a sword in a stone with the name Excalibur. "Grr, the sword's name is Clarent." he mutters as he tries to change the name. Unable to do so, he resigns to the unfortunate setup and walks off to store the Creation items.

As he set the items on an empty shelf, the Plates of Arceus stacked in a neat pile, the Adamant Orb fell to the floor and slid away. "Hey! Dialga, get back here!" he called as he set the other two orbs back on the cart and chased after it. The Orb paused briefly at the Dark Vault entrance, but only for a moment before zipping off again. As Aden reached the office, he heard Artie yell in pain. Aden climbed upstairs to see the Adamant Orb on Artie's head. "That was... weird." he commented as he plucked it off Artie's head.

"Yes it was. Why did that thing do that?"

"I don't know. I'll research it later."

"You do that." Artie instructed as Aden slipped the Orb into his pocket and walked back to his cart, frowning at the incorrectly-named sword as he passed. He set Giratina's Griseous Orb next to Palkia's Lustrous Orb, which sat to the right of the Plates, and Dialga's Adamant Orb on the left between the Plates and the PokeBall.

Back at the B&B, Aden pulled out his Pokedex book and turned to Dialga's page. "Dialga is said to be attracted to temporal anomalies. If said anomaly is caused by a person, it will hunt down and attack said person. Huh. Odd, that would mean Artie caused a time anomaly somehow. I'll tell him tomorrow." Setting the book down, he resumed reading the manual, and managed to finish it before setting it aside and falling asleep.
Well, the Creation Trio's done!

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