The title for this fic, as it stands, is Legendary. Anyone who’s seen Angel season five will probably know where the basic premise for this story came from (Illyria) but otherwise just ignore that part.
This is a story set in the PMD universe, although I’m completely ignoring the events of the games, so the only similarity really is the concept of a rescue team. However, the rescue team is only really a reason to keep together the main characters; I’m not really sure about the amount of rescuing I want. I just know that’s not my priority.
Right, the actual story: it starts out with a rescue team, as I suppose a PMD fic would. There’s Riolu (M), Flareon (M), Nidoran (F) and Baltoy (?). Riolu and Flareon are very close, they’ve known each other for most of their lives. They were the original members of the team; they wanted to form a team before they found the other two. Riolu is a very kind individual who, for all intents and purposes, is the Mary-Sue everyone loves character (more on that later). Flareon is like an older brother to Riolu, he’s very protective of him. The best way I think I’d describe Flareon would be to call him bossy and kinda closed minded. Right is right, wrong is wrong, he’s kinda a bigot. Nidoran, she’s a kind Pokemon with strong opinions, but she doesn’t (yet) have the confidence that she needs to do things on her own – she kinda relies on the rest of the rescue team. Finally there’s Baltoy, the newest member of the team. He’s an intellectual, he’s somewhat of an introvert and can be distant from the rest of the rescue team at times. But he’s got patience, and is a listener, and despite his distance, he wants to learn about other Pokemon.
But this sounds crappy, in my opinion. Which is why, by the end of the first chapter, Riolu has died a horrible, painful death that has left him hollowed out so the legendary Pokemon Dialga can take over his body. Dialga has been screwed over by Giratina, he was trapped in the Adamant Orb and sent to earth (or the PMD world, whatever). Riolu touched the Adamant Orb and, BAM, within twelve hours he’s dead. Dialga, in Riolu’s body, looks like a normal Riolu except the metal-y things on Riolu’s forearms are now made of diamond. Dialga, of course, still holds his time-manipulation powers, and a level of super strength. Dialga’s plan is to kill the three lake guardians that bind him to his current dimension and then seek bloody revenge on Giratina. Dialga’s only weakness? The Adamant Orb holds his power. Destroy it and he’s powerless. Dialga seeks out the Lake Guardains: basically he uses Riolu’s memories – which he has access to – to seek out an old Pokemon who knows the legend of the lake guardians very well and knows where they’re probably hidden . . . chase ensues, and eventually Baltoy’s Explosion destroys the Adamant Orb, leaving Dialga basically a normal Riolu, albeit a little more powerful and with much knowledge of fighting/battling/killing. Using Riolu’s memories, Dialga seeks out Baltoy to kill him (revenge is big with Dialga) but, as freak circumstances would have it, Baltoy saves Dialga’s life from someone else, who seeks to kill Dialga (I’m not sure who, but hush). Dialga is left wondering why Baltoy would save his life, and after a conversation about Dialga being a complete wastrel Baltoy agrees to help Dialga find his place (you know, as long as he’s good, and doesn’t kill anymore).
From there there’s tension-y tension because Flareon is completely opposed to Dialga joining the rescue team (as Dialga, in his eyes, murdered Riolu in cold blood). Baltoy sees Dialga's perspective and thus shall help him; Nidoran is stuck in the middle, she's a little too timid to stand to either of them (but she'll eventually fall on Dialga's side). A chapter or two later, after some missions, Flareon consults Dusknoir and Flareon finds out there may be a way to bring back Riolu from the dead – his body is still intact, right? Flareon leads Dialga into a trap, they attempt to put Riolu back into his own body with some Dusknoir-ghostly-mystic-stuff . . . but it fails. Riolu is dead, gone, not coming back. However, they managed to restore something. Dialga is in the body of a Riolu, a Pokemon known for aura reading. Whether he likes it or not, Dialga is reading the auras of everyone around him, seeing all the pain and suffering and misfortune in the world. And, over the course of the story, Dialga begins to find his place in the world: on the rescue team (duh).
Oh right, this is significant because Dialga was basically a god. He may not be the god (Arceus) but he’s definitely got the ego of a god. He thinks he can have whatever he wants; he kills without remorse; he’s selfish, he thinks he’s moved passed a state of having emotions; basically he’s a complete [insert swearword].
Oh, and of course Riolu evolve with friendship. So how do you think that’s gonna play out?
Okay just remembered: Riolu is, for all intents and purposes, a Mary-Sue (or Gary-Stu, pronouns, bleh). He's not really there to be a fleshed out character (as he dies in the first chapter) but is there to cause conflict: Dialga killed Riolu, who was Mary-Sue-ishly loved by everyone; Riolu is the best of the best of humanity, well Pokemonity, and as such Dialga sees the good he could do in the world . . . basically Riolu is less of a character and more of an object. That sounds a bit cruel . . . but then again Dialga has access to all of Riolu's memories. Maybe I could flesh out Riolu in a flashback chapter or something . . . I'll see.
