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Inheritance

"In a stunning display of heroism, a young man saved a young girl from being run over by an out of control semi. Now, Terry, we have no clue as to what happened, so can you enlighten us as to what transpired?"

"Okay Rob, I'm here at the scene where only minutes ago, a semi almost ran over six year old Tricia Long. She was chasing after a doll that she had dropped in the street when a semi, driven by thirty-three year old Jordan Hall, who had been driving trucks since high school, came rolling off the freeway towards Tricia. The truck was about to hit her when fifteen year old art sensation Comet Toradan ran out and saved her."

"Okay Terry, but what's with the wrecked semi?"

"Now, according to eyewitnesses, Comet had shielded Tricia from the semi when a green field of energy surrounded him, which to many of the eyewitnesses, looked sort of like a Protect move from a Pokémon. The semi hit the shield and almost flipped. Wait a sec...we have footage showing the incident taken by a passerby. You can see..."

Katya looked at the news report on the T.V. in the Pokémon Center lobby as she waited for news about her trainer from Nurse Joy. The Zoroark was beyond worry as she looked at the doors to the intensive care section of the hospital. Her ears twitched towards the double doors of the facility, the sounds of the mob of reporters coming in to assault her eardrums.

Katya was about to brush it off when a conversation caught her attention. "Ray, why are you trying to see him? I mean, the doctors aren't going to let a guy like you see him, not until he's okay."

"Dialga, he is in danger. With that little stunt of his, our father is going to do his best to kill him, just to get back at me. I don't know what he'll do, but I want Comet to be prepared. Besides, I owe it to him."

Katya turned towards the speakers, expecting a pair of reporters. Instead, she saw a lean, gangly man with faded jeans, a green shirt, and a mop of golden blonde hair who looked to be in his late twenties talking to a young woman in jeans and a black shirt with a picture of Dialga. The man had some of the same features that Comet had, including the eyes that once Comet was determined to do something, there was no way that he was going to be swayed from his goal.

Katya walked towards the two, a whine somehow escaping her throat. The two individuals who were talking to each other looked at her. "Hello there, are you lost?" the woman asked Katya in a tone best used on lost little Eevees. Katya recoiled in shock.

[I am not lost!!] the vixen yelped indignantly. The man looked at the woman with a look that said I can't believe you just did that. "You just had to address her like she was a newborn Eevee, didn't you," he told her, his tone matching his facial expression.

The Illusion Fox's eyebrows shot up in surprise. [You know what I just said?] she softly barked, startled by the fact that the man was able to understand what she said. The woman smirked in amusement. "Yes, little one we know what you are saying," she told Katya. The vixen's eye lid twitched.

The man looked over at the woman. "Dialga, I think you broke the vixen's brain," he told her. At this, Katya had a final burst of thought before she slumped unconscious.

Sweet Arceus, I'm in the presence of Dialga?! Then who's...

//

Comet woke gently to the annoying beeps of the heart monitor. He was about to sit up when the most mind splitting headache he had ever experienced decided to make itself known to him. He crashed back onto the bed, writhing in pain as his head, more specifically his brain, felt like it was on fire. For what felt like hours, Comet endured the searing agony, when in reality, it was only a few moments.

As the pain subsided, Comet was finally able to form a coherent thought, which went somewhere along the lines of, what the hell just happened to me and where the fuckin' hell am I? Opening his eyes, Comet saw the wonderfully dull ceiling of his room, with a variety of bumps, cracks, and all sorts of things that one notices when looking at a painted ceiling. Looking around, he noted that his room was somewhat small, with the only furniture not medically oriented was a chair and wall mounted T.V.

Suddenly, the door clicked open, causing Comet to quickly turn his head over to where the door was. Expecting a doctor, Comet was surprised to see a man and a woman come into the room, as well as Katya, who, upon seeing that her trainer was awake, nearly flew onto his bed and gave him a bone crushing hug.

[Don't ever do that again!] the teary eyed vixen half cried, half barked into the teen's ear. [I thought you wouldn't make it out alive, with the semi hitting you, and you going to intensive care...]

Comet could barely gasp out his reply in the midst of the foxes cries. "Katya, would you please let go! You're hurting me more than the semi did, and that's saying something." Katya then looked up at his face in surprise. [Not you too!], she whined, her hug loosening up a bit, but still tight enough to not let the trainer move much.

Now it was Comet's turn to be surprised. "What do you mean, Katya, I-" Comet shut up as he realized just what he was doing. "Uh, Katya," he asked tentatively, "did I just understand what you were saying to me?"

Katya took the time to look him straight in the eye and nod. Comet paled. That was when he noticed the other two occupants of the room. "Katya, who the heck is she?" he asked the now more-or-less sober vixen, his head nodding in the woman's direction. Katya had to let go of her trainer to look at the two. [You would not possibly believe who the lady is,] she told him. Comet looked at her blankly. "Try me."

Before Katya could speak, the man spoke up. "The lady next to me is the Goddess of Time, Lady of the Clock, and not to mention one of the only people to have ever defied Arceus, Dialga," he said, his voice in a mock majestic tone, his hands waving about his sides. "I am the former Lord of the Sky, and only the ninth, I think, to piss Arceus off. I am also a...friend of yours." This he said with less enthusiasm than the last statement, the man's face twisting into a look of sadness.

Comet looked at the man in shock as he looked hard at the man's features. The same hair, same facial structure, same eye color for crying out loud...the only thing Comet was missing was the yellow stripe right under the guy's eyes. "D-Dad? There's no way you can possibly be telling the truth," he stammered, his body starting to shake.Katya raised her eyes in astonishment.

The woman laughed, a pure, melodious sound that only somewhat soothed the teenager. "Of course he's telling the truth, Comet. But I can't prove it here, not with so many possible witnesses," she said, a gleam of amusement evident in her eyes, and a mischievous smile on her lips.

"Okay, but how are you..." Comet didn't quite get a chance to finish talking as the world around him just disappeared, then abruptly reformed as he unceremoniously fell to the ground, only to grunt with pain as a one hundred forty pound fox fell on top of him, Katya's weight aggravating bruises that Comet didn't know he had.

"Oh, that's great. Dialga, why did you have to bring us here?" the man asked Dialga, his face contorted with anger. Dialga gave him a stern look. "Simple. I thought that it might make things easier to explain if you told him the truth here, Ray. Plus, he needs to know," Dialga told him, her face showing that she was absolutely serious.

Ray sighed and turned towards Comet, who along with Katya, had been watching the two. "Comet, do you know where we are?" he asked, his voice now sounding tired, and his head was bowed down. Comet was about to answer no when he finally felt the somewhat strong breeze blow through his hair, and the salty scent of the sea assailing his nose hairs.

Comet lifted the Illusion Fox Pokémon off of him and walked over to what he thought was the edge to a ten foot drop. His stomach, however, leapt to his throat as Comet gazed at the stormy waves several stories below him. Looking up only slightly, he saw the dot that signified the presence of Pacifilog.

"Holy crap, I'm on the Sky Pillar," Comet muttered, his mouth open in shock. Ray chuckled humorlessly. "Yeah, this where I first met Laura," he paused for a second, a brief look of happiness on his face. He looked directly into Comet's eyes. "Your mother, Comet, was the first trainer to catch me in a Pokeball, and an ordinary Pokeball at that. With that being said, do you know who I am?" Ray asked, his head cocked to the side.

Comet gazed at Ray fearfully as if he was Darkrai himself. "Rayquaza? You're my dad?"

[Wait a sec,] Katya said, [Comet, the guardian of the sky is your dad?!] Katya looked at her trainer in disbelief, her brain in turmoil at the rather startling revelation. During the almost five years that she had known him, Katya had never heard Comet talk about his dad, much less see a photo of him.

Comet was about to talk to Ray when his face turned beet red. Katya assumed that he just realized he was still in a hospital gown that did pretty much nothing to hide some...private areas from a certain attractive woman who was still in the vicinity. Dialga grinned at the younger man's discomfort.

"Well, it certainly is a good thing I brought this then," Dialga said smirking as she tossed both Comet's old clothes and his backpack. Comet almost fell flat on his back as he caught the two items. Katya, unbeknownst to everyone else, was blushing at what she almost saw.

Comet rushed off to hide behind the nearest group of rocks to change, leaving the other three to themselves. Dialga sighed.

"Well, I have to go back to my realm before I cause any serious damage to this one. I don't want my brother to get wind of this." As she said this, her form started to blur for a moment, almost taking the shape of her natural form. But before the body solidified, Dialga gave Ray one last piece of her mind. "Ray, at least get Comet his armor. That way he won't die within the next week." With that, Dialga disappeared.

Katya choose this moment to glare fiercely at Ray. [What does she mean by getting him armor? And who wants him dead within the next week?] Katya growled savagely at the former Legendary.

Ray grimaced. I swear, she acts so much like Laura, it's disturbing. But I have to wonder, does she like who I think she likes? Ray looked at the vixen coolly. "So, how much do you like my son? Just out of curiosity," Ray inquired, his voice fairly devoid of emotion.

The look on the Zoroark's face was, to Ray, priceless. "I take that as a lot," he said, the former serpent sitting on a stone dais on the middle of the roof. Ray could now easily see the vibrant blush the fox had in her ears, the clasping of the vixen's clawed hands only adding to the image of a nervous teen on a first date...wait, when did that image come into his head?

The moment was over as Comet came into view, his normal clothes back on and the hospital gown nowhere in sight. Comet couldn't help but notice the tension between his Pokémon and his father. "So, what did I miss? And where's Dialga?" Ray shrugged. "She had to leave before she tore up reality as we know it," he answered. Comet nodded in understanding.

[Great, now that Comet's here, could you please explain to us what the hell Dialga meant by getting Comet armor? And just who wants Comet dead?] Katya barked out, her previous Death Glare™ returning full force to rest on Ray.

"Yeah! Who wants me...wait, what?!?" Comet shouted, just as something flew overhead unnoticed.

//

Latias waited patiently for the door to the Toradan residence to open. She was currently in her human disguise, which was currently a young woman of about eighteen with red hair and amber eyes wearing a pair of shorts that went slightly below the knees, a shirt that supported the Cherrygrove Electabuzz, a pair of flip-flops, and a leather bracelet that had the triangle that was on her forehead normally on it. She snapped out of her thoughts as the door opened to reveal a woman who appeared to be in her late thirties.

"Hello, can I help you," the woman asked her, her voice soft and motherly. Latias gulped.

"Yes um, I'm looking for Ray, is he here?" Latias timidly asked, her head hunched near her shoulders. The woman looked at Latias intensely. "How do you know Ray?" she asked, her voice tense. "Well, Ray's been kinda like a brother to me since Latios died and-" Latias started to say before the lady interrupted her.

"Wait, did you just say, Latios was your brother?" the lady asked, her gaze fixed firmly onto Latias. Latias' throat was dry, and instead of trying to speak, nodded. The lady swore. "Damn, what he did he do, not stop Groudon and Kyogre from killing each other?" Latias shook her head. "Then what did Ray. Oh. Oh my God, they found out, didn't they?" This the woman said softly, almost disbelievingly.

Latias nodded. "Yeah, and now Arceus wants to destroy some kid that Ray had and..." Latias never got a chance to complete her statement as Laura Toradan, former Hoenn Pokémon League finalist and full-time mother, went apeshit.