Muses of the Realms

Oh thank goodness. For a moment, she thought that she had to fight a battle IN THE MIDDLE OF A CITY. Nonetheless, Helen pulled out a Pokéball, recalled Breloom, picked Eden up, and teleported her in the Hall of Origin. 

Just in time, too, as Iris just entered the door to continue caring for  Artemis. Hopefully, she’ll be better soon.

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Now home and away from everything., Helen fed Eden a Lum Berry, but almost instantly ran in for a hug. She’s not letting this one break down like that.

“It is okay, Little One. Let it all out. I am here for you…. P–please, child. We must not focus on vengeance. Your other cores need you right now. They need for you to be strong… to do your best to ensure they are well. They shalt all return to you in due time, so, please, do your best to wait for them.”

She awakes to look around and finds herself in the Hall of Origins.. Oh, her birthplace? She must have broken and was needing repairs to her core. No... There was no connection still. It began to come back to her of her breakdown. How out of character that was for her. She was supposed to be the neutral one, the one to always do the job regardless of the circumstance.

Feeling her mother hold onto her, she gives a look to Helen and replies in her original neutral tone.

“I apologize mother. My reaction was illogical. I nearly compromised my prime directive of ecosystem defense. The other cores will undergo reboots. Temporary lock down of the planet shall be placed in effect immediately. I might need to request assistance from Darkrai for temporary worldwide hibernation until all systems are functional.”

“...............................” Manaphy lays unconscious on a beach shore, wounds looking severe, but not fatal. She never saw it coming. At one moment she was playing with Pokemon in the ocean, making new friends--when suddenly steam shot out from the underwater soil, bubbles of hot magma spilling out as a figure rose up and looked at here with absolute malice. There was nothing Manaphy could do as she was struck down by intense heat and a beam of solar energy.

“Enjoy your Sea losing its princess, Kyogre. Now we are even,” Groudon says as he steps onto the dry land, the intense sunlight shining down the area, drought suffocating even the water in the air. He was pissed. That stupid whale wasn’t going to get away with what they did. He knew that piece of shit was going to do something like this. That’s why he believed its elimination was for the best. Why Ray never understood that was beyond his comprehension.

“You damn Ogre.”

She was going to console Eden… tell her that the emotions that she feels is normal and that she should let it all out, but after that–

Oh for fuck’s sake– Getting involved in this would be the LAST thing this Creator wants. She already has to deal with Hera demanding her to say something about this, and now we have Eden in the midst of a mental breakdown. Artemis and Athena have no idea how hard it is to keep her word, do they?

Helen put up a barrier. “Child! Calm yourself! She is not DEAD!”

Actually you know what? Let’s just do this before they end up trashing Iris’s house.

Helen just… created a fucking Breloom out of the blue. She’s going to have to take her home peacefully before she does something rash.

Breloom used Spore on Eden!

“This unit requires all immediate cells. Err--Error-r-r-r. Target is Kyogre--Ah!!!” Another splitting headache as her mind battles between what is right and what she wants. The cores may not be dead, but they may never wake up either. She cant allow this to happen. The only conclusion she can come up with is doing the same to Kyogre on the chance it reverses the situation.

Cells began to form around her as she moved towards her Complete form... but it was over before she could attain that strength.

“I... I don’t... .I don’t want to end up like.... Lugia.... Mama.”

“…I have done everything that I can do without crossing the line, my child, and, even then, such was an extension of my boundaries.”

Helen looked on to the fainted Artemis. Luckily, Iris granted her blessing (after some convincing), and Artemis’s Sylveon was docile. 

Helen looked onto Eden. The pain and trauma that she suffered… she felt it too. Helen wanted to cry out… to do everything that she could to bring Artemis back…

But no matter how much she could intervene… she could not get herself to go against her word.

“I… am sorry, Little One. I… cannot bring her – or any of them – back from the brink.” She knelt, petted Artemis’ face, and ensured the blanket was snugly on. “I made a promise, and, as punishment for my overbearingness, I am to pretend that she would no longer exist, and to never intervene whenever she were to be in such a predicament.” She crossed her arms. “I… just had not expected for such to be tested so soon.”

“What can I do to get her back... to get them all back. Since you’re refusing to help, what do I have to do. Mother, I will sacrifice it all for my fellow cores. I know it goes against our protocol, but I... I want to take all my cells, turn into my Complete form and hunt down Kyogre. Why do I feel this emotion. I don’t want these emotions.”

Eden falls to the ground, tears running down her face. It is the first time she has ever experienced grief, the first time she has ever cried. The core felt incomplete, disconnected from the hive that was the entirety of Zygarde. When you are many, becoming an individual is only suffering not having a linked conscious with the rest of your kind. Her head began to spin, a headache piercing throughout her membrane.

“All these negative emotions. This terror. This unit wishes to be deactivated.”

“Leave it to Kyogre to be a petty little bitch. Knocking out Zygarde. That’s a low blow. You cant hurt my fellow ground type and get away with it. Fine, I’m going to go hunt a Manaphy.

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Meanwhile

Core staring down at Artemis as she laid unconscious, coma induced, yet still in human form. The core was suffering after such a blow. The many cells they all shared relayed the information... Kyogre did something terrible. This was going to create such an imbalance in the ecosystem. Kyogre must have known that if Zygarde was removed from the equation, they could perhaps take control of the global system. What worried her even more was that this could lead to Groudon making similar conclusions and taking out another core, perhaps to gain advantage. Nonetheless, it mattered not. To the cold, tactical core--all Eden could do was loom over her fellow core and pray to Arceus.

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“And you ruined people’s lives.”

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“What? I had to wake up Rayquaza one way or another an’ he refused ‘ta come down any other way–. ‘sides. Groudon wasn’t up for dat long ‘ta cause any major shit anyway.”

“Aw, look at all the humans celebrating darkness and shadows. Perhaps this is a good holiday. I can embrace my nature...”

“Hmmmm…” Touring around Kalos and Unova was enough to pique her curiosity. “Oh! I believe I have an idea.”

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“There we go. This is allowed, yes? I am sure that Eden would not mind~.”

@mystymuses​ from here:

“It’ll be fun~! We’ll get a wedding cake, and a bunch of white roses, and all of it!”