[Lake Acuity]
Because it was on the western side of Mt. Coronet, this place was still under the sun's light.
What was strange was that on the vast lake surface, not a single Pokémon appeared, not even one Magikarp.
Almost all the Pokémon had gathered at the little island in the middle of the lake.
A Kingler clamped the tail of the Slowpoke in front of it and glanced sideways at the Slowpoke.
["Brother, do you know what Lord Lake God summoned us here for?"]
Slowpoke blinked, "Slooow?"
["I mean... do you know what Lord Lake God summoned us here for?"]
"Slooow!"
Kingler: ["..."]
He suddenly felt like an idiot. Why did he just remember to ask a Slowpoke such a question?
Luckily, they weren't the only Pokémon around.
Hearing Kingler's words, a Marill that usually lived on the island wagged its tail, paddling it like a little boat as it came beside Kingler.
["Lake God said it seems the world's gonna be destroyed, so he called us all over to help~"]
["Oh, I thought it was something else. Turns out it's just the world being destroyed,"] Kingler smacked his lips, secretly stole a little piece of the Slowpoke's tail, and was about to put it in his mouth when his eyes suddenly widened. With a plop, Slowpoke's tail fell into the water, and his tone suddenly rose.
["What!"]
["The world's going to be destroyed?"]
This kind of scene was happening in every single place around the island.
All the Pokémon gathered here were panicking.
Never mind the whole world being destroyed. Even if only Sinnoh were destroyed, they couldn't accept it.
Maybe some Pokémon didn't care about life and death, and if they were unconvinced, they'd just fight.
But they weren't like that.
For the Pokémon world, these Pokémon living in Lake Acuity were like citizens living in a big human city.
Being able to live under the protection of the Lake God, their happiness index was extremely high.
As for the matter of the world's destruction, not a single Pokémon could accept it.
Fortunately, the situation didn't last long. From the very center of the island burst out a gentle light.
A Pokémon, blue-bodied with only its head pink, appeared above the island, accompanied by that beam of light.
All the Pokémon present instantly quieted down, gazing almost fanatically at the sky.
Their god had appeared.
From the ancient Hisui era until today's Sinnoh era.
This Legendary Pokémon, called Mesprit by humans, had always been guarding here. Silently protecting Lake Acuity, and together with the other two Legendary Pokémon, guarding the land of Sinnoh.
The light dispersed.
Mesprit floated in midair, its gaze falling upon the thousands of Pokémon it had protected.
A telepathic voice arose from it, covering every Pokémon present.
["Everyone... it pains me to tell you, the disaster that once appeared in the Hisui era is about to appear again."]
["The time and space of Dialga and Palkia have once again overlapped. The lifespan of Sinnoh has once again reached its end."]
After saying this, Mesprit paused slightly, letting its gaze slowly sweep across the Pokémon present.
As the Legendary Pokémon that controlled emotions, it could sense both the panic of these Pokémon toward the coming disaster and their reverence for itself.
They hoped Mesprit could resolve the disaster and save this world.
But...
Thinking of the terror of Dialga and Palkia, Mesprit only felt a wave of powerlessness.
In the Hisui era, the Legendary Pokémon Arceus once awakened.
During that awakening, time and space were thrown into chaos. Dialga and Palkia each thought the other was invading, and thus they fought a great battle.
In that battle... Mesprit despairingly discovered—
They, who were called the three Lake Guardians, had no power to resist at all.
If not for a hero appearing then, who, with the power of the three Lake Guardians, forged the "Red Chain" that could suppress Dialga and Palkia, Sinnoh would probably have long ceased to exist.
["Fortunately..."], Mesprit took a deep breath, its gaze dropping to what it held in its hand.
It tightly gripped a fragment of a broken chain.
This was the treasure passed down from the Hisui era to the present. On it still lingered the remnant power left from when the three Lake Guardians once helped that hero resolve the disaster.
["Everyone, I need your power, to once again select a hero for the land of Sinnoh."]
["A hero... who can once again reappear the Red Chain and save the world!"]
As it spoke, Mesprit radiated a violent beam of light. Almost endless psychic power swept out from the island, instantly covering all the Pokémon present.
Almost instinctively, all the Pokémon released their power.
Those powers gathered into the broken chain. Instantly, the space-time of the whole island fell into disorder.
A black screen of light appeared in the sky, as though space and time themselves twisted into a tangle.
Countless images appeared in the glowing screen overhead, showing scenes of Sinnoh at different times, different places.
Mesprit's gaze swept ceaselessly through the images, its psychic power pushed to the limit.
Almost instantly, its eyes locked onto several images: A woman in a coat, with a Garchomp by her side, working while her face remained gentle, speaking on the phone like a wife to someone.
"Axel, Sinnoh's been so busy lately... In the past, matters like this were always handled by Flint."
A young man with fiery red curly hair, riding a Rapidash and dashing swiftly outside the region, muttering to himself.
"Axel, huh? I, Flint, will definitely become your student!"
Holding a book, Professor Rowan blinked as he looked at the TV, pushing his glasses up his nose again and again, looking troubled.
"After being guided by that Trainer called Axel, he gained the ability to battle Raihan? Looks like our Space Team's going to be cracked by Flint."
Among these shattered images, Mesprit quickly locked onto a few.
In its mind, a single piece of highly similar information instantly stood out.
'Axel!'
Its gaze kept roaming, and soon it found another such image in the screen.
A Gyarados, ferocious beyond reason, appeared above Sinnoh's skies.
And standing on the Gyarados, was that very young man just mentioned by Cynthia and Flint, the one called Axel.
Mesprit took a deep breath, the gem on its forehead glittering.
The fragment of the Red Chain in its hand shot up, striking the image where Axel appeared.
In the next moment, Axel stretched out his hand and muttered softly, "Here, time and space both seem completely chaotic..."
As he spoke those words, even more images of time-space disorder appeared in the screen.
A girl calling herself Ojou-sama appeared beside Axel, and the two set out on a journey together.
The eight gyms, symbols of the region's will, all because of various incidents, allowed Axel to swiftly clear them.
Team Galactic, scheming to blow up the three lakes and forcibly forge a Red Chain, were crushed without resistance before Axel's Mamoswine.
After seeing these images, Mesprit instantly understood.
This was the hero chosen by the land of Sinnoh.
The only problem was that this hero's connection with Sinnoh was not very strong.
It could clearly see that Axel's only remaining tie to Sinnoh was a red thread on his body, connected to the girl named "Cynthia."
["This... isn't enough."]
Mesprit did not doubt Axel's ability, nor his determination to save Sinnoh.
But his relationship with Sinnoh was too weak.
So weak that just one Spacial Rend from Palkia could send him back to Aurient.
Suddenly, Mesprit's gaze fell upon another red thread tied to Axel.
That thread was very faint, but it truly existed.
["The inheritor of the Berlitz family... enough to represent Sinnoh."]
["If you two can form a bond, even if Axel is exiled by Spacial Rend, he will still reappear in Sinnoh, right?"]
Mesprit sensed for a long time, truly feeling the sincerity in Platinum's emotions.
Especially at the moment when the two were about to part, that emotion became even more sincere, reaching the extreme.
Mesprit suddenly took a deep breath, flying into the image where the two appeared in Sunyshore City.
["If you wait for me to return here, Sinnoh will be saved."]
["I'm going to Sunyshore City!"]
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