F U T U R E

A TOWER.

another location present in the landmass that had been known as kalos. dangerous for its heavy doses of mega energy, and for the rapid and neverending growing black vines, bursting with life and mega radiation. this tower was suspected to be some sort of machine, although the nature or why it is now plagued with flowers is completely unknown. 

unlike the flower, many suspect this tower was created as a means of mass destruction, with no other alternative insight for how such a horrifying thing that has only caused unstable and aggressive roots to completely consume a majority of the region to be anything more than a weapon of mass destruction.

people of the future speculate that these were made to oppose each other, perhaps the flower was designed to drain the mega energy coming off of the tower to cause nature to resume its growth in a more natural, peaceful way…although nothing has been confirmed; and due to the aggressive and dangerous nature of the entire landmass, these two landmarks, and many others nearby it are unable to be accessed, and likely will remain that way until more specialized modules can be made.

A SHRINE.

the shrine of the mythical celebi. Its name has been lost to time, but its purpose has not, at least those of the future believe. found in historical documents, the organization and the present peoples know of its existence, yet not how to find it. the region itself where it resided is unknown, and any expeditions in attempt to find the shrine have never been successful. 

the creation of a specialized module with the capacity of manipulating time, of carrying the abilities of celebi…it would be truly world changing, and yet this shrine, and all shrines similar to it seemed to have disappeared along with their mythicals and legendaries. 

A REBELLION.

despite the majority of society going along with the organization and its goals, some have still decided to rebel, to descent, to go into hiding out of the comforting and protective reach of the organization. although where these people have gone is unknown to the organization, to those that are a part of the growing rebellion–will know that the only place that they ever could be, for now, is beneath the surface.

many years prior to the present future, a few people found the messages of the organization to be too good to be true. they found the iron variants to be less about help, and more about control; and when some managed to break into one of the so called preservation facilities where real, living pokemon were taken…they found frozen pokemon, living things being turned into petri dishes for any and every experiment beneath the sun. horrified and disgusted, any attempt and revealing the truth was covered up and these rebels were forced to go into hiding. 

safety came in the form of a location thought to be dangerous, and deadly to go near. what was previously known as the great crater of paldea, actually carried multiple of the slumbering legendaries. 

rebels were guided to the sanctuary beneath the soil by a strange canine-like pokemon, later known to be a type of zygarde, into the depths of safety where yveltal and xerneas slumbered in their hibernated states, together and waiting. in addition, many terapagos, small fragments of a larger being deeper below them, also lived within the crystalline tunnels. the deeper these rebels went, the more they found, and the more they sought to protect, to keep secret until they were ready to go to the surface, and fully overtake the organization that had wanted to oppress and destroy them.

A WORLD.

what remains is a dying world, seemingly abandoned by its creators, and being left to the devices of people. those that seek to control every aspect of its revitalization, and others that wish to find and help the pokemon that had been taken in, just to be abused, experimented on, and forcefully preserved to likely never wake up.

to some, the future is grim; while to others they have finally found the hope they had been looking for to save their planet, their world, their entire lives. 

the future is a mind field, and many have died to get it to the state it is in now, and many more will likely follow to their graves. either destroying it, or finally making it something close to how it used to be…when people and pokemon lived in harmony.

A COLLECTION.

the future has made many iron variants, some that have made their way to the present through the time machine, others that remain hidden from the present, locked away in their own time.

the helper modules that have been made include: iron plush, iron serpent, iron bundle, iron fairy, iron spout, and iron hands.

the guard modules that have been made include: iron valiant, iron jugulis, iron mane, iron thorns, and iron fin.

the capture modules that have been made include: iron moth, iron sleep, iron hunger, iron whale, and iron treads.

the transportation modules that have been made include: iron treads, iron serpent, iron shell, iron stack, and iron fish.

the specialized modules that have been made include: iron leaves, iron boulder, iron crown, and iron sword.

A BRIGHTER FUTURE.

although the world was still blanketed in radiation, and its environments still degraded with time, the spreading dread of irreversibility was beginning to slow to a halt. every effort around the world was spent in an attempt at saving everything. efforts became completely dedicated to the prevention of death, of extinction, of societal collapse. for the first time in centuries, maybe even in millennia, the future was looking bright, and hope was at an all time high. 

by this time, humans and ultrahumans had fully assimilated, and hybrids were coming into being. a new form of humanity. with human biology, the children of both were no longer able to fully corrupt into ultra beasts, and those ultrahumans from the time of ultra space continued their long lives, keeping the history of ultra space, and ultra megalopolis from fading away into distant, and then deceased, memories. 

now steadily decreasing the amount of damage upon the world, society shifted completely into preserving what once was, and what they hoped to recreate.

A TECHNOLOGY.

the iron variants were not the only advancement, however. technologies made to improve society were constructed. anything to make living more viable in their desolate world. most people live with respirators, mini air purifiers and masks that allowed to breathe without risk of poisoning their lungs. at one point, these were designed with both pokemon and people in mind, although with the future initiatives to keep living pokemon in organization facilities, these became dedicated to strictly people.

the organization is generous in providing enhancements to the body, to replacements for broken limbs. people were like machines, in a way, with broken parts replaced and made better. although in some ways, these enhancements caused those that had been crippled to be in debt to the organization. with limited charge requiring them to constantly be nearby organization facilities so that they may still be able to walk, or function, to avoid the battery running out completely. 

there is even a conspiracy that the organization might purposefully get people injured to need these enhancements…although that’s never been confirmed, and the organization would likely never do something so selfish.

one of the most fruitful advancements were the nutrition chambers. chambers that one could simply enter whenever they hadn’t eaten, and they would be full. the unfortunate consequence, however, was that no matter how much the chambers were used, the feeling of being hungry, of starving, never faded. despite the feeling it left, after the invention of these chambers, nobody ever died of hunger again. consequently, many of those in the future do not eat, and have never tasted food.

A PRESERVATION.

the history of people, ultrahumans, science, art…pokemon. all of it was pushed to the forefront of society’s mind as efforts were made to collect every possible document, item, artifact, map that had ever existed across time, museums that had long since been collapsed were now being scavenged. secrets for untold time were being uncovered and brought to the limelight, then promptly taken by the organization to be preserved. 

eventually, all of it would come back to belong to the public, but it needed to be kept safe. just as pokemon needed to be kept frozen in their current state. with the number of pokemon going extinct decreasing in its severity, but nonetheless still occurring, the organization began to create search parties of trained individuals accompanied by new and improved iron variants to find, capture, and bring living pokemon back to be given somewhere safe they could live until the outside world had finally been fully healed.

this, in combination with everything else, and the sudden growth in population required more help, more innovation. with finding more and more pokemon, material to create new and different iron variants was becoming increasingly possible. thus, the categories of iron variants were established.

A HELPER.

helper modules, the quality of life modules, those that were made so often to help people’s motivations. to do as pokemon apparently used to in the past, create hope, partnerships, help around and make living more tolerable. these helpers were used in multiple circumstances, they assisted in the transportation of clean food, before that became obsolete with the advancement of technology.

they cleaned and helped around the house, they protected children and the elderly; they gave presents to orphanages and helped those who were not able to help themselves. providing something joyous to those without homes, and creating an overall more joyful daily life! with the increasing amount of body modifications, including mechanical prosthetics, and the struggle for keeping homes powered; helper modules were also given the capacity to generate clean energy, and warm during the coldest times of the year.

There were many helper pokemon made, and more continue to be made; modules were additionally bound to overlap as technology grew more diverse. 

iron plush, iron bundle, iron hands, iron fairy, iron serpent, iron thorns, and iron sprout are all considered to be helper modules.

A GUARD.

guard modules. the protectors of society, the variants that would replace the need for battling pokemon, in exchange for keeping those pokemon safe within the arms of the organization. designed and programmed with the purpose of helping people, protecting them; or defending territories and property. by contrast to the helper modules, these guards are lacking in emotional capacity, due to their function to abide by their territorial programming being deemed more important. 

they are designed to guard, to protect, to eliminate threats. they are not helper modules in the way that they will help someone fight, they will simply neutralize the threat before it can hurt anyone or anything.

unfortunately, this attitude has caused guard modules to be feared by the public, and given their absolute programming, accidents with these machines often lead to severe injuries, or even death. even so, the organization insists in their importance, and that they remain the way they are; they are protecting everyone, and will not allow a threat to flourish ever again.

iron valiant, iron jugulis, iron mane, iron thorns, and iron fin are all considered to be guard modules.

A CAGE.

capture modules. the means to catch, cage, and bring about the preservation of pokemon. although capture modules can be used to arrest people, their prime purpose is to detect, and capture within themselves living pokemon. once they are contained, within their internal cavities, they may be brought out of the harsh environment of the world, and to the nearest organization facility to be preserved until the world is ready to have them once more. 

capture modules are generally also capable of taking samples, and deeming whether or not a pokemon is deceased or not, to properly go about the collection of any remnants to be brought back to an organization facility. these modules often contain bones, and corpses, as to obtain proper dna samples.

capture modules are often accompanied by a guard module, and even a transportation module.

iron moth, iron sleep, iron hunger, and iron whale are all considered to be capture modules.

A VEHICLE.

transportation modules. designed for all types of transportation, let it be of people, large objects, supplies, pokemon, other iron variants, anything and everything. These modules are often capable of adjusting their shape, growing, and shrinking to better equip the transportation of living things and/or goods. these are also some of the largest iron variants ever built. 

these variants are often used to transport people in clean air vessels, completely replacing the need for cars, planes, or boats. with the ability to filter air inside of them, they are one of the few places one could be, without the need of a ventilation mask.

in addition, they have been known to be used to recover and move injured people and pokemon during crises.

iron treads, iron serpent, iron shell, iron stack, and iron fish are all considered to be transportation modules.

A SOLUTION.

although the multiple types of modules were good for categorizing, there were two types that either fit all, or were seemingly the catch all solution society, and the world, really needed. service modules, and specialized modules.

any iron variant can be a service module, meant to replace service pokemon; these are designated by their chrome colour, being made easily identifiable amidst a crowd of normal iron variants. due to the growing amount of physical and mental disabilities as the world drives further into chaos, even after everything; these were deemed as necessities to create. giving people a ‘pokemon’ equivalent that is programmed to be far more emotional and mimic the behavior of a real pokemon.

oftentimes, these are designed with specialized purposes, and trained to specifically know how to help and handle their assigned person. let it be to charge prosthetic limbs, support someone during an emotional breakdown, or fix equipment like ventilation equipment. they are designed with a higher capacity than the normal iron variants.

specialized modules, on the other hand, can do so much more.

when the organization caught its first mythical pokemon, there was a sudden flood of hope. these pokemon that had seemingly disappeared from the world were finally being found, and brought back to be helped, as well as to finally help society. virizion, terrakion, cobalion, and keldeo had all been retrieved, but rather than being allowed free for everyone to see; the world learned of the brand new, and the first of their kind.

specialized modules, made with collected samples of each of the mythical pokemon with their own purposes that far surpassed a normal iron variant.

iron leaves, iron crown, and iron boulder; made to completely restore dead land through terraforming, photosynthesizing, and building, leading. iron sword, not yet completed, is said to be able to create and purify any kind of water.

not only that, but these were specifically designed to track and be able to bring down other legendaries and mythical pokemon. if successful, more specialized modules can be created to further the advancement of society, and recover the world from it’s desolate state. rescuing these hidden pokemon, while also using their capabilities without stressing out the originals.

yet still, there were places still unreachable by society, by people. either through their environment being far too toxic, deadly, to even be in close proximity…or through the dangers of ultra beasts and other strange, powerful creatures making it difficult to come close…or areas that seemingly exist, but were unable to be reached for one reason or another. these have been documented, yet a solution to their existences have yet to be made. 

the organization assures that with more specialized modules, and further advancements, they will be able to go anywhere, and nothing will stand in their way to bringing about the revitalization of this degrading world.

A DEGRADING WORLD.

the world, not a few millennia from the present, is desolate. the world is on fire, the land is filled with poisons, the oceans are polluted, evaporating into an acidic atmosphere. people and pokemon struggle to survive, and efforts to make it better are difficult to accomplish between society's collapse and nature losing its ability to breathe on its own. the radiation from machines of great accomplishments grow unstable with time, and life itself fights for its survival.

legendaries and those of myth began to disappear; some believed they abandoned the world, others speculated that their eventual return would bring about the world's new beginning.

while the world's life clung to existence, the light of a distant space began to squirm and cry out for the last time.

AN ULTRA CRISIS.

ultra space's collapse was an inevitability. since even before the time machine was made, the effects of an injured god had long since grown far beyond repair. the ultra retcon squad continued to spread its reach across the entirety of ultra space, from dimension to dimension, to the dying world, to others that had completely blacked out. trying anything, everything, to fight for their survival; for the light of ultra space to finally return.

the scientific society drove to hysteria in its continued failure, and all the while the injured beast waited while its light faded further and further. chaos would come, when the fanatics of the mass euphoria of an incoming death released the enraged god into a reality that had just taken its final steps into its own grave.

A FLEETING LIGHT.

the hour the god was released carried the final minutes of natural light in ultra space. it consumed it all in an instant and became a star that then went supernova. ultra megalopolis grew chaotic as their final hour drew closer to its finale. using the ultra beasts they had access to in some desperate attempt as escape from the reality they, themselves, had broken through an injury made many, many millennia ago. long dead religions that had been suppressed by the all consuming mind finally reawakened. some ultrahumans sought to hold their loved ones close, others cried out for the life they had lost the right to have, while the rest took their leave.

those that remained in darkness would witness the death of a god, and the awakening of a slumbering entity. an entity that would soon rewrite this darkened space into colour, into memory remade. ultra necrozma's screech was heard across every reality, far expanding the reaches of ultra space, of existence as its fleeting light finally died. the pieces that had been held together by photons dimmed, and collapsed into non-existence.

the god's final scream then awoke its cleaved love.

ASSIMILATION.

the first glimmer of a new light brought hope, brought a memory of a time before the injury. those that remained in ultra space suddenly began to remember the light of beginnings. of how it used to be. although they could not yet see that the terror of existing would soon begin to cycle.

the ultrahumans that remained were given the same sudden euphoria as a dose of nihilego venom might provide. a joyous feeling. to remember when necrozma's light was bonded with another, a world of forever memory that resided in the depths of the ultra deep sea. for the star of the highest space, and the crystal of the deepest depth were the entities that kept such an archipelago of worlds in stability. when ultra megalopolis was the capital, rather than the only thing left of ultrahuman society. before the people of ultra space had to adapt to the dimming light. paradise had not yet been lost.

they remembered joy, then they remembered pain. being struck with the pain that necrozma had felt when it had been injured by the ancestors of those now clawing at the last remnants of life. it made those that remain relive it over and over. the pain of a cleave causing the entity now awoken to slumber all those millennia ago. the injury and cleave of a bond creating the nihilego from ultrahumans so close to the grand entity at the depths of the ultra deep sea.

for a moment, there was nothing. silence in the dark nothingness, as if the entity in the depths was beginning to fall back to sleep.

then overwhelming colour. the assimilation of memories into reality. lives bend to the will of an incomprehensible thing that was from before there was anything, before there was nothing at all, only the beginning breathes of those that inhaled the incomprehensible. the remaining ultrahumans' cries turned to laughter, turned to evolution being replayed from the beginning, to the end, over and over. ultra space became a cycle of birth and death, the now awoken entity used ultrahumans, ultra beasts, and all matter to recreate all it had remembered.

the ultrahumans and ultra beasts that remained in ultra space were clay for it to mold. to turn into pieces of a game it had played outside of time and space. to live, and die, yet never stay. pumped with euphoria, with a hysterical joy that this was the dream they were always meant to have. to become everything that had ever been, and will ever be.

A LEGACY.

with ultra space now the playground of an existential entity, those that left ultra space would never return. fleeing to the only place they could think to, the world of pokemon. one they had since abandoned after years of no solution provided by an alliance between ultrahuman and human. nothing that would fix their now deceased god.

yet they arrived to a familiar sight, the degrading world. instead of giving up, however, the ultrahumans offered their technology, their help. all they could to prevent this world from dying too. for once, their selfishness had ceased; and after witnessing the end of their own reality, they did not seek for another death to occur. to save the only world left for both societies, everyone left came together. a last ditch effort at survival.

with the ultrahuman technologies, far more advanced than anything on earth, and the ambitions of people and pokemon who have survived despite the worsening conditions...things began to look up. efforts to decrease the amount of pollution were working, and preservation efforts of what remained stable were advancing at a previously unseen rate.

yet the radiation that has blanketed the planet had begun to take its effect on the radiation sensitive ultrahumans.

A DANGER.

in addition to some ultra beasts that had escaped ultra space when the assimilation and awakening of the slumbering entity began, ultra beasts began to appear on earth through another, far more painful way.

corruption was an unstudied science to the ultrahumans. ultra megalopolis had enough problems in trying to fix necrozma. to the leaders of megalopolis, the suppression of the true nature of ultrahumans' possible transformations seemed more beneficial than not. yet the world of pokemon was filled with a variety of different types of radiation, both deadly and beneficial to ultrahumans. mega energy, however, had been overwhelmingly prominent.

ultrahumans that had been giving all they could to help the planet survive began to corrupt, to turn into the ultra beasts they resembled. panic erupted from as humans and yet-to-be corrupted ultrahumans began to rush for a defense, a solution, anything to survive this sudden flood of overwhelmingly strong beasts.

together, they found files of an attempt. something that had been made before, a design that could be improved amidst this fight for survival.

AN ATTEMPT.

type:null, later the unbound silvally. it was a solution produced by a foundation long obscured and mostly forgotten. yet its roots remained ingrained in the grounds of humanity. if the ultra beast hunter could be found, or remade, or its design improved, not only could it be used to protect them from ultra beasts...but maybe it could be used for more. after all, pokemon have always helped their partners, and pokemon all across the world were coming to their end.

they needed a way to bring them back, to save them, to preserve them. the now assimilated society--ultrahumans and humans--began to work together to recreate the ultra beast hunter. to make something greater.

success came at the cost of many ultrahumans corrupting. efforts to try and reverse the process began as the first recreations of the silvally hunted and captured, preserved. they began to target more than just ultra beasts, but pokemon as well. finding those that were dying, to try and bring them somewhere they could be helped--or frozen in time until they could be helped in the future.

together, a threat had been lessened to an inconvenience, but it wasn't quite enough yet. together, society decided that they could do more to prevent something like this again.

A SUCCESS.

the attempt at creating ultra beast hunters was by all means a success, but there was more to be done. taking pokemon that were considered helpful, but also unique in their existences, people began to experiment. to find ways to not only save pokemon, but also to create an equivalent that could survive these harsh environments.

using the template of the chimeric silvally, the first iron variants were created. a metallic substitute for pokemon, created through the creation of a metal that was bound by the cells and dna of a pokemon. created in their visage, but given the purpose of helping people, and the world. of the six pokemon used to create these, three were successes, while three were failures.

furfrou, rotom, and porygon. furfrou created no success, rotom had potential but ultimately was a failure. the closest to something was porygon, however it was also a failure. for now, all three were incompatible.

eevee, cyclizar, and rockruff, however, were successful and deemed able to be moved forward to create the first iron variants.

iron plush, capable of temporarily changing its form into multiple different ones for utility, based on eevee. a normal/electric type, and the framework for helper modules. iron mane, based off of lycanroc, the evolved form of rockruff. the first guard module that carried a ferocity and loyalty unmatched; rock/steel type. finally, iron serpent, based around cyclizar and the most adaptive design, one that would be iterated upon for years after; dragon/electric type, and the first transport module.