Celestia simply knelt there for some time, stunned, dismayed, and momentarily unsure of how to proceed. Her former student had had her own magic stripped from her during her interdimensional journey, but Twilight had been given the benefit of a fully-functional if irregular portal back home. She had no such advantage, and it seemed that Equestrian magic was no good in this land. She had to return home, but how? What was she to do now?
The princess was abruptly pulled from her musings by a gentle tugging on one of her ears. She looked up into James’ face.
“Come on,” he said, gesturing towards the fallen balloon. “We need to go and help our friends.”
For just a moment, Celestia considered disabling him and making a break for it. She still didn’t feel up to flying, but she knew that even without her magic her kicks were more than strong enough to shatter bone. Two legs and a handful of seconds, that was all it would take. Then she could bolt for the hills while the others helped their wounded comrade. James didn’t suspect anything and his backup was too far away to matter.
Just as quickly as she had thought of the idea, Celestia dismissed it. For one, she didn’t know the rules of this world. With her spells out of commission, a native guide willing to feed and medicate her could mean the difference between life and death. Second was the consideration that her power wasn’t gone. Equestrian spells might not function here, but there must be some other way to access her strength. Those creatures – Pokemon, she presumed – that had attacked her had been able to use some form of magic. Perhaps with this group she might learn to do the same? Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, in spite of all that had happened to her the princess remained at heart a kind, forgiving soul. The rules here were different than back home, and she wasn’t quite ready to condemn a man who had at least shown her some sympathy and kindness simply for following them. At least, not to the extent that she was willing to break his legs over it.
“Very well,” she answered, rising back to her hooves. “Lead the way.”
James smiled as she got up, even if he apparently couldn’t understand her. He walked down the hill with an apparent spring in his step, the princess trailing behind. Celestia was still trying to make sense of how the human-Pokemon language barrier worked when she suddenly found herself with a face full of something blue and pink.
“GAH!” she took a few hurried steps back, wings shielding her face, bracing for pain. Thankfully, it never arrived. After a moment, Celestia peeked out again. She quickly spied the cephalopod she had seen earlier. It had a blue lower body, including eyes and beak, and an enormous yellow-dotted pink upper head.
“Ah!” James had stopped and turned around at all the noise, and was smiling again. “This looks to be the perfect time for introductions. Celestia, meet Inkay. Inkay, this Celestia, our newest team member. I want you to make her feel welcome, alright?”
“You got it, boss!” the little Pokemon chirped in a cheerful tone.
“Very good. Now come on.”
As the three resumed their trek down towards the balloon, Inkay started to size up the alicorn princess.
“So,” it said. “You’re the newest Pokemon on master’s team, huh? Good to meet you.”
“Likewise.”
“You know,” it looked her up and down. “I’ve never seen a Celestia before. What type of Pokemon are you?”
“That’s because I’m the only one,” she explained. “And… type?”
“Yeah, you know. Grass, Fire, Water, etc.” Inkay waved one short tentacle in a circle. “I look at you, and I just don’t know. Normal? Fairy? Flying, maybe?”
Celestia decided in an instant to keep to herself what she had heard from the mechanical voice. It might prove a valuable secret. “I’m… I’m afraid I don’t know.”
“Wait, really?” Inkay’s eyes widened. “You never been in a battle your whole life or something?”
“You… might say that.”
“Geez, where are you from? Because I wanna move there!”
“Battles are common here, are they?”
“Uh, yeah!” Inkay said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
“And what exactly happens in these battles?”
“Well…” it thought for a second. “Two or more Pokemon go at each other will all the moves that they have. What type you are changes how effective your moves are, and how effective others’ moves are against you. The battle goes on until someone bails or gets knocked unconscious.”
Celestia breathed a sigh of relief. They weren’t to the death, at least. “What happens then?” she asked.
“Well, if you’ve got a master, he patches you up and makes sure you’re healthy come the next one,” Inkay looked at James, then back at Celestia. “You know, he spent a long time looking after you. Sprayed you down with potion, kept a blanket over you at night, did a lot of first aid. You looked like you were real banged up. Your first battle?”
“Yes,” she admitted.
“Mmm,” Inkay nodded with its whole body. “Well, just be glad it didn’t happen when you were still in the wild.”
“Hmmm?” Celestia raised an eyebrow. “Why is that?”
“Oh, you probably would have contracted some horrible infection,” said Inkay in a perfectly cheerful tone. “Might even have been fatal.”
“That bad?”
“All those injuries you were sporting? Good chance of it if master wasn’t here to apply medicine. The wild can be a rough place when you’ve got no one looking out for you.”
“I take it that wild Pokemon here battle frequently?”
“Over food, territory, pride, you name it,” Inkay confirmed. “Only difference is: out there there’s no Pokemon Centers, no potions, nada. You got yourself, and maybe your family if you’re lucky. Take a beating that’s bad enough, and you might never fully recover.”
So the whole of this world’s wilds were roughly analogous to the Everfree back home? That was useful information, but obviously rather troubling. It did, at least, explain the apparent nonchalance of Pokemon that were captured and used for battle. For most, it would probably be a genuine improvement.
“And these moves? Could you tell me more about them? What are they? How do you use them? Do you think I might learn some?”
“Do I look like a trainer to you?” Inkay scoffed. “Talk to master about it. And of course you know moves. Even newborn baby Pokemon know some moves.”
“They do? That’s good to hear. How do I know… what I know?”
“How should I know? It’s just instinct and training.”
The alicorn princess filed that information away for later. It was one of the first pieces of good news she had gotten yet, and she was determined to make the most of it as soon as possible. As the trio reached the hot air balloon, James sat down on the grass, picked up a rather large sewing needle from where it had been left off, and got to work mending a tear in the fabric. Celestia and Inkay looked on, the former far more interested than the latter.
“Tell me about your master,” Celestia said, studying the man. “What’s he like?”
“Oh, he’s great!” Inkay chirped. “He gives you food, shelter, care, and plenty of attention. All you have to do is battle when he says battle. I think you’ll get along just fine!” He paused, eyes darting from side to side, before floating almost directly up to Celestia’s ear and whispering. “I don’t think much of his girlfriend, though.”
“Girlfriend?”
Inkay poked a single blue tentacle in Jessie’s direction.
“You think that they’re…”
“Come on, everybody can see it!”
Celestia looked back and forth between the two humans. “I’m not so sure.”
“Ten pellets of food says they are.”
“…You’re on.”
Funny. Celestia very slowly gets along this world and it seems to take her much time. I am glad, she did not made a run for it. And I am curious, if she will turn Team Rocket into goodies. XD
I'm picturing the other Princesses as Pokemon.
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I am more trying to imagine Celestia on her Mega-Evolution
celestia is smart, eventually you get used to the battles and the new world, but how to react to the fact that she works for the bad guys? And at what level is?
This story is amazing. I've been dying to find a good Pokémon fic for awhile, there aren't enough in my opinion, and this is perfect. I can't wait to see her learn Ash is the good guy.
Yes her first 'Battle' ie: Getting seven kinds of hell knocked out of her because she didn't have any idea what was going on. Just you wait Ketchum boy and friends! The next you meet Celestia there will be a reckoning!
Anyway, am I the only one that's under the vague impression that Jessie and James are actually brother and sister, but aren't quite sure because they haven't seen the show in about 12 years and even then, never saw/remember an episode where the show addresses it?
Imagine Meowth teaching Celestia how to speak
You just lost 10 pellets, Tia.
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They are not.
I have vague recollections of an episode where they ended up in Jame's hometown. He's a runaway richboy. They visited his mansion, talked with his parents, and James whined about why he left home to seek freedom.
Both Jesse and Meowth grew up in MUCH poorer settings and weren't sheltered in the least.
So yeah, at the very least, they come from different families. If Jesse even HAS a family she could go back to, I mean.
This is a pretty cool fic! After the previous chapter though, I'm rooting for Celestia to mess up Ash and co. Mewtwo style.
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My vague recollection of the show was that they are just friends.
6088259 Bah. Humbug.
6088194 Good to know, thanks.
I haven't followed Pokemon since Johto, but I shall track this nonetheless.
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Imagine Celestia teaching Meowth how to properly run a military organization!
Neat.
It was funny... Celestia need to learn what she can do and can't do anymore but well, at last she can fly, too bad her magic is now only like a physichic type.
MOAR.
6088038 Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that stealing someone's Pikachu is wrong.
Your Trainer,
James.
Yeah...no.
6088259 Yeah. "just friends". Suuure.
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I just said, it would be funny.
I am so happy that I found this. Just *eeee*
Makes me wonder if Celestia would ever feel sympathy for James if she heard about leaving behind his Weezing and Chimeco.
I don't kow why, but these dialog is, from philosophical view, very interesting.
For some reason I had much to think much about it.
Could it be, that all Pokemon are always forced by cruel humans and nature to fight each other, but in reality they just want to live in peace?
Celestia
Typing: Fairy/Fire
The Solar Pokemon
Ability:
Thick Fat because of the CakeFlash FireWeak Against Ground, Poison, Rock, and Water
Resistant to Bug, Dark, Fairy, Fighting, Fire, Grass, Ice
Immune to Dragon
Base Stats
HP: 100
Attack: 65
Defense: 75
Special Attack: 100
Special Defense: 120
Speed: 80
Moves and Strategy
Despite being a Fairy/Fire type, Celestia has fairly few Fairy moves, It learns Dazzling Gleam and other moves via TM, but mostly relies on Fire and non-STAB moves to take advantage of its Special Attack. Fortunately, it has plenty of these. In addition to a few Physical and Status moves like Flame Charge and Sunny Day, Celestia has an arsenal of Special Fire moves, including Flamethrower, Fire Spin, Overheat, and Fire Blast. Celestia also has a number of Psychic and Flying type moves to work with, notably being one of the few non-Flying type Pokemon capable of the move Fly. Celestia's notable Psychic and Flying moves include Psychic, Agility, Calm Mind, Teleport, and Aerial Ace. Last, Celestia has a few other moves of note, including Hyper Beam, Solar Beam, Horn Drill.
Trainers that use Celestia tend to base their strategies on its Special Attack power combined with its fairly high number of Resistances and Immunities. This includes Fire's negation of the usual weakness Fairy has against Steel moves. A common strategy is to teach a Celestia Sunny Day, Solar Beam, Flamethrower or Fire Blast, and one more move. This move could be Calm Mind, which improves Celestia's already superb Special stats, or Psychic, which widens type coverage. Common held items include Charcoal, which increases the already great power of Sunny Day Flamethrower, Heat Rock, which lengthens Sunny Day's effects by three turns, Shell Bell, which turns powerful moves into extra HP, and Float Stone,
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Fly - She has wings, might as well use em.
Teleport - Probably taught Twilight this move.
Barrier - Standard unicorn defense spell.
Psybeam - Standard unicorn offense spell.
Earthquake - Earth Pony power Alicorn level.
Morning Sun - For obvious reasons.
Attract/Sweet Kiss - The power to troll.
This has an interesting premise and a good start. I'll follow this.
Though, I'm still hoping to see the next part of your MLP/W40K sequel. Also, be careful about going on writing too many fanfics at once, you might end up needing a lot of time to give an update to each of them.
Flare Blitz
Moonblast (Something to remind her of home; call it her guiding light or something)
Hyper Beam
Teleport
Whatever works, I suppose
Interesting so far
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To unite all people within our nation...
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I'd have thought Solarbeam was a gimme.
Solarbeam
Dazzling Gleam
Psychic
Flare Blitz
I noticed some people have talked about not remembering/knowing what Pokemon something was. It might benefit this story to insert links every time a Pokemon is first mentioned either just to a picture or to one of the many data sites. For example:
I recommend using the one on the actual Pokemon website because it's compact.
Just a suggestion.
6088936 Fair enough
I'd go against Sunny Day because it's not "her" sun in the sky, so she wouldn't be able to get power from it (since she's not exactly a pokemon...)
Given that Luna's tag is selected, I'm assuming she will end up captured as well, by a certain well known protagonist.
Alas, If only Brock was still with Ash, I would have died if he captured Luna, only to have her cock block him every time he tried to get with the ladies.
Ohhhhhh I like this! Can't wait for next!
Wow, I'm amazed that somebody actually came with a new spin on the whole "Pony in the Pokemon World" shtick. Keep it up I want to see where this going.
The only thing i don't like about this is that Celestia a immortal more then 1000 of years old is reduced to the mind of a simpleton rely brakes character for me it's why picking Celestia for this story doesn't work you can't put someone with that much experience and have her act like she never had a fight in her life or conflict in general and don't give me that bs that Equestria has grown soft with 1000 years of peace that is bs because when you have peace you have to keep it and maintain it and Celestia managed solo for 1000 years
This is good so far.
Awesome! I bet everyone will think Celestia is a legendary.
I consider Jessie and James, to be more of a duo (trio of you count Meowth) of annoyances, rather then actually evil. I loved the little bet between Celestia and Inkay. Cannot wait for more!
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I don't see where in the past 3 chapters that Celestia "is reduced to the mind of a simpleton." It still seems like same old show Celestia to me, albeit very surprised by the complete loss of magic and bushwacked by mean Pokemon. Consider how foolish Twilight looked when she first arrived on Earth.
Depending on how far you mine your canonicity from, Celestia's done the whole dimensional travel thing, and this story draws on the comics for that. She's done quite a bit of mirrorwalking in her time with Starswirl.
6089593 Wheal to be blunt she went from being a princes to slave and for a ruler of the biggest nation on equas don't you think her reactions are unrealistic.
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Celestia is not someone who is hung up on the artificial trappings of her power. That's why fanfic stories of Celestia sneaking out of the palace and masquerading as a normal pony are not OOC.
The forbidden boobies episode strikes back
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How is Celestia a simpleton? She was weak, in pain, and unaware of any reason anyone would want to attack her when she was blindsided. She's since been asking questions and trying to figure out how the world around her works.
And slave? She isn't bound to do anything James says, any more than Ash's Charizard was. She even considered breaking his legs with mundane kicks and running in this very chapter. She's just going along with it because she figures a native guide is better than going it alone without any idea of how to use her power. And because he was nice to her.
Ok, I REALLY didn't want to follow this, but that little conversation forced my hand. In that little bit, you put my two biggest fears to rest.
Fear #1. You avoided making James a "bad" person, like Jessie.(She's not BAD, just a massive bitch)
Fear #2. James's Inkay seems to follow the one rule that ALL of his pokemon follow....They fucking ADORE him.
EDIT: If it isn't already Obvious, I'm a major Fanboy of Jessie and James...Mainly James.
EDIT2: I JUST realized how gay that sounded.
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In the anime Fly is not a move, Pokemon with wings just fly. And Celestia is big enough to carry James on her back.
I liked this story for his handling of the information , time , not too fast or force solve overloaded follow his story , I hope it's understandable because I speak Spanish and this comment will be translated
esta historia me gusto por su manejo de la información , el tiempo , también que no fuerza solucione rápidas ni sobrecargadas seguiré su historia , espero que sea entendible puesto que hablo español y este comentario sera traducido
I wonder if there will be any 4th wall breaks in this story in the future.
6090032 Bah. James might be a crook but he treats his Pokémon really well so he should have some respect for that.
What ability might Celestia have? I think Blaze, Defiant, Early Bird, Flash Fire, Friend Guard, Huge Power, Inner Focus, Justified, Magic Bounce, Magic Guard, Mold Breaker, Narutal Cute, Pixilate (certainly gets around the fact that most fairy-type moves seem sort of... wimpy), Prankster, Pure Power, Serence Grace, Pressure, or Turboblaze would work... especially the magic ones and Pixilate.
Some issues might come around when Team Rocket start their next reprehensible crime. Princess, creator of laws, champion of good, and all that jazz.
Is Celestia like a living Sun or Dawn Stone? Could she evolve things by touching them?
Also, while I mentioned wondering about Ponyta and Rapidash last chapter... what about more sun-connected Pokemon like Solrock?
Will her moveset and ability be entirely on Pokemon canon material, or does she have some unique stuff as her own (as she is from a different dimension and is almost certainly a Legendary Pokemon, many of which get signature techniques)?