Hello to everyone who found this story and decided to read this, my name is KarmicWarlord and welcome to my first story, The Path of Desolation. After reading Trainer in Desolation & Tales of Supernova Sun & Penumbra Moon, I decided to write something like this myself. As you might have guess, this is my first story so cut me some slack. I'm open to any suggestions or ways I can improve my writing.

Now without further ado, let's begin.

It was a beautiful day in Lumiose City, the biggest city of Kalos, as everyone was going about their usual business except a certain person who was chilling at a café and his Pokémon, drinking some tea and eating a slice of chocolate cake. This was Chase Warden, a 19-year-old boy. He had green eyes and short black hair. He sported a black jacket with red stripes on the edges with a white shirt underneath, roomy blue jeans, red & black colored sneakers, a mega wristband on his left wrist with a watch on his right, and a blue backpack that was hanging on his chair.

The Pokémon sitting across him was his Gardevoir, one of his 18 Pokémon. Yes, 18 Pokémon. While some trainers had the usual six Pokémon, he decided that he wanted to catch & train 18, one from each type. While it took a while {and a lot longer for Charles Goodshow, the president of the Pokémon league, to certify him to allow him to take all 18 on him for travel} he was able to train 18 very strong Pokémon, Gardevoir being one of them and being one of his earliest members.

What really got Goodshow's approval was 3 years ago when he was traveling thru Sinnoh when he suddenly became smacked dab in the middle of a colossus battle between Arceus, the God of all Pokémon, and Dialga, Palkia, & Giratina, the gods of time, space, & antimatter. Apparently, what the fight was about was that Arceus couldn't trust humanity anymore due a man named Damos betraying Arceus and taking the Jewel of Life, which supposed was to make the land all fertile in Damo's homeland.

To stop him, Dialga send Chase back in time to where before Damos betrayed Arceus and stop him. It was massive fight that took place Chase and the others but eventually they won against Damos, who was apparently being controlled by a man named Michael and stopped Past Arceus from destroying half of Machina Town. When he got back to the present, he was able to sway Present Arceus into not destroying Machina Town and look into the past. Surely enough, the past effects were starting to appear as Machina Town was back to its former glory and the Jewel of Life was back to Arceus. He then thanked Chase for all that's he has done and all four of the legendaries when back to their home dimensions.

Chase then made haste away from the town before the news people showed up and interview him which he didn't want. The only ones who he told was Cynthia, the Sinnoh Champion {And the strongest trainer in the world in his opinion} which she gave her thanks, and Goodshow, due to his bravery, allowed him to carry all 18 with him legally.

After that, he traveled back to home country, Kalos, two years later and decided to relax and train for that much time. And now here we see Chase & Gardevoir at a café, talking about something.

"Ahhh, nice day isn't it?" Chase asked, relaxing in his chair as Gardevoir nodded.

"Yes, it certainly is." Answered Gardevoir stoically, speaking to him telepathically. Gardevoir, his psychic type, was always the quiet & reserved type of his group, acting sort of like a mother figure to them, not that he didn't mind. He just wished she didn't call him "master" all the time even though it was impossible effort to try, he eventually just got used to it. He stretched his arms and got up from his chair, picking his backpack from the handle.

"Well we should probably get going, I want to get to Alola as soon as possible." Chase said as he put his tip on the table and then Chase & Gardevoir left. Yes, after a year of inactivity, he decided that he needed to do something new and when he heard of a region called Alola, he jumped on opportunity to go there. Besides, these "island trials" would be great refresher from battling gym leaders and what not. Today, it was his last day in Kalos ash he went to a cafe to have one last bite to eat before leaving.

As they walked, well for Gardevoir floated a few inches off the ground, Chase looked at the buildings around him. "Certainly am going to miss this region" Chase said, reminiscing all the fun times he had in Kalos.

"Well, some new memories would be great for us." Gardevoir said, reassuring Chase of the new adventures he would like in Alola. He laughed.

"Yeah, I guess that's true." Chase said, his mood picking up a bit, "now let's- "He didn't get to finish as he noticed Gardevoir staring at an alleyway. "What's wrong?"

"I sense a presence." Gardevoir said, her eyes fixated at the entrance of the alley before coming to a conclusion "It's a legendary."

"A legendary? Why would a legendary be in an alleyway of all places?" He asked, now intrigued.

"I don't know, should we investigate?" She asked as Chase started to think. While he wanted to get to Alola as fast as possible, he was curious why a legendary would be close by. "Eh, I can wait a few more minutes" He thought to himself as he nodded

"Yeah, we should check it out. Lead the way." She nodded and went over to the dark alleyway. When they entered, there was only trash cans and piles of garbage bags next to them but no legendary to be seen.

"Um, Gardevoir? Where is the legendary exactly?" Chase asked, confused about why the legendary wasn't there.

"Strange. It was here just a moment ago. Now it's just gone." She explained, confused on why it wasn't there. Chase put his hand on his chin.

"Weird, how can they just disappear-"

"BOO!"

"HOLY FUCK!" Chase yelped as he jumped into Gardevoir's arms in fear, completely scaring the crap of him. She held him tightly as her eyes hardened on who scared him but then her look turn to shock at the thing before her. It was Hoopa, the Mischief Pokémon, and it was laughing profusely at scaring Chase.

"Hehehe! Got ya! Were you surprised!?" Hoopa asked as Chase settled down as Gardevoir put him back on his feet.

"Sure was, holy shit…!" Chase muttered until he widen his eyes in realization as well, "Wait, you're Hoopa, aren't ya."

"Yep, nice to meet you." Hoopa confirmed as he greeted them nicely. Chase has heard of him before. He may be silly & mischievous like his alias has said but he's extremely powerful that's, well, legendary. His thoughts were interrupted when Gardevoir spoke up.

"Excuse me Hoopa, but do you mind telling us what you are doing here?" Gardevoir asked in Hoopa's mind. He looked confused at first for a second before snapping his fingers in recollection.

"Oh, that's right, someone wanted to meet you, so they send Hoopa to come get you two." He explained as the two gave curious looks.

"Who wants to meet us?" Chase asked as Hoopa giggled.

"That's a surprise!" He then pulled out the ring that was around his right arm and expanded it enough for a human and Pokémon to walk thru as the insides of the ring became blue. "You just have to follow me thru my ring and find out." Me and Gardevoir looked at each other again.

"Is it okay to trust him, Gardevoir?" He asked Gardevoir thru his mind, keeping their conversation secret from Hoopa. Gardevoir got the message and replied.

"He doesn't seem to be lying, that much I know." Gardevoir answered, "however we don't know anything about the person Hoopa is talking about."

"…" Chase stayed silent as he started to think about what to do. While it sucks that he had to postpone his trip a little longer, the person Hoopa was talking about might be important as he said.

"We should. This might be important." Chase decided.

"Are you sure Master?" Gardevoir asked.

"Yeah, Alola can wait for a bit."

"If you say so." He nodded as they then returned their attention to Hoopa. "Alright Hoopa, lead the way."

"Alright! Follow Hoopa!" Hoopa cheered as he headed inside his ring portal. Chase & Gardevoir both approached the ring.

"You ready?" He asked as Gardevoir nodded once more. "Alright, let's do this." And then, they both went in, the portal closing behind them.

The portal then opened up and led the three of them to an open area with rocky surroundings, meaning they were on some mountain. There were also broken stone pillars all around them and a glass platform below their feet. Overall, this was a place Chase has never seen before.

"Soooo, what exactly is this place?" Chase asked, clearly confused on where they are.

"You'll see." Hoopa said as he looked upwards to the sky and called out, "They're here sir!"

"So they are, you did well Hoopa."

A powerful bellowing voice came from the sky as 4 different colors of light appeared in the sky, one blue, pink, black, and white, and out came four creatures. One was a blue sauropod-like creature with metal scales and a diamond on its chest, the other a pink & silver bipedal dragon with pink sapphires on its shoulder, the third a black sixed legged dragon with a golden headpiece and black ghastly wings on its back, and the last one a white divine horse-like creature with a giant ring around its back. These were the creation trio, Dialga, guardian of time, Palkia, the guardian of space, and Giratina, the guardian of antimatter, and Arceus, the god of all Pokémon.

"A-Arceus…" Chase muttered, shocked to see Arceus again as he hasn't seen him and the Creation Trio since the Jewel of Life incident three years ago. Gardevoir seemed to have the same expression of shock he had, and both looked in awe at the sight.

"Hello, Chase Warden." Arceus greeted, "I hope you've been doing well." Shaking himself out of his daze, he regained his composure.

"Y-Yeah, I've been fine." Chase stuttered as he looked at the Creation Trio, "It's nice to see you guys too."

"As do we, Chase Warden." Dialga said.

"We're sure that your Pokémon are also well?" Palkia asked as Gardevoir nodded.

"Yes sir. We've been fine as of late. We were just heading to Alola when Hoopa appeared" Gardevoir answered honestly as she was also getting over her shock of what's happening.

"Speaking of." Giratina crooked his neck towards Hoopa. "You are free to leave now Hoopa. This next part of this conversation is for Chase's ears only."

"Yes sir!" Hoopa exclaimed as he summoned his portal rings. "It was nice meeting you Chase-kun. I hope to see you again!" And with that, he left thru his portal, Chase slowly waving to him as he left. After Hoopa left, he turned his attention back to Arceus, wanting to find out what's go on.

"So, why do need to see me Arceus?" Chase asked, "Did something happen?"

"Yes. It is of upmost concern and will be bad if left unchecked." Arceus stated.

"What do you mean?" Chase asked, confused on what that "bad" is that they're talking about.

"Chase, do you know of the Multiverse Theory?" Palkia asked as Chase started thinking. He heard about this theory from stories about professors from long ago coming up with this theory. He then realized the answer.

"A theory based on there being alternate universes?" Chase asked as Arceus nodded.

"Correct. However, our universe is in grave danger." Arceus explained.

"By who?" Gardevoir asked

"It would be better if we showed you to give you a better understanding of what's happening." Arceus explained as he looked at Dialga. "Dialga…"

"Right away." The diamond on his chest then began to glow and shoot out a blue light towards the glass floor, projecting something from underneath the floor, showing another world entirely.

It shows a scene where the night sky and the moon were crimson red with a ruined temple area with a large hole in the middle. It showed a silver-haired man with a long broadsword and a young blonde-haired boy together. Then a girl with long raven black hair that was in a braided ponytail and brown clothing ran up to them from a distance.

"Arthur, Laphi!" She cried out, looking relived at finding them there.

"Who are they?" Chase asked.

"I will tell you in due time Chase after this is done." Arceus answered as Chase and Gardevoir continued watching.

"Velvet!" The boy cried out, revealing the girl's name to Velvet.

"You." The man said but said it with little emotion in his voice, but she didn't seem to notice as she stopped a few feet away from them.

"Oh, thank goodness… You kept Laphi safe, didn't you, Arthur?" Velvet asked as Chase got a better look at her, he noticed how beautiful the lady he was watching is.

"Wow… she's beautiful…" Chase thought as a tiny blush formed on his cheeks. This didn't go unnoticed by Gardevoir as she glared at him.

"Master, there's no time for thinking about something like that. Pay attention." Gardevoir scowled as Chase flinched.

"Yes. Sorry." Chase apologized as he continued to watch the scene before him. The man wasn't looking at her and closed his eyes, looking up at the crimson night sky.

"…One more sentiment to cut off." Arthur said coldly to himself.

"Velvet, run!" Laphi called out to her but didn't seem to listen as she ran towards them again but was suddenly fell to the ground as fire surrounded her arms and legs, keeping her on the ground as she screamed in pain.

"The hell happened?" Chase asked, clearly confused as to how fire is keeping Velvet down.

"I don't know, but perhaps we should keep watching and see what happens." Gardevoir proposed as Chase nodded.

"Here, once was the seal to the underworld broken. And tonight, here shall be born the power to save this world." Arthur said as he stabbed his sword in the ground and started to unsheathe the sword and raised up in the sky. "With Laphicet's life as a sacrifice."

"What? What are you saying?!" Velvet asked him but was ignored once again as Laphicet closed his eyes and Arthur stabbed his sword into the ground, causing a magic glyph to appear and pull Laphicet into the air right above the huge pit. Then a larger glyph surrounded Laphicet as Arthur summoned a smaller one and pulled his sword into a stabbing position.

"Arthur, no!" Velvet yelled in horror but fell on deaf ears as Arthur stabbed the glyph in turn making the large glyph surrounding Laphicet turned into a cross slash, impaling him in the process. Chase reeled back in shock as Gardevoir looked in horror at the scene before them.

"THE FUCK!" Chase yelled, feeling disgusted at what just happened.

"He… killed him." Gardevoir muttered, her eyes fixated on the scene before them. They both have seen many things in their lives and Chase has watched those detective shows where dead bodies were involved but seeing someone getting killed in front of them, a child no less, it just baffled them beyond belief. Pushing back his shock, Chase frantically look to Arceus with fear and anger.

"Why the fuck did he do that Arceus!?" Chase exclaimed, "he was just a kid! He had absolutely no reason to do that!"

"Your right, he didn't but his death played huge role in the future and for the future of Velvet." Arceus explained calmly.

"What do you mean?" Gardevoir asked.

"Watch and you'll see." Said Giratina as Chase finally calmed down and began watching the projection again. He and Gardevoir then saw Velvet finally get herself free and ran towards Laphicet who was about into the pit, but Velvet was able to grab him before he fell. However she too was also on the verge of falling. Arthur slowly walked towards the pit

"Let him go. This is an offering to the world." Arthur said as Velvet held on to the ledge and Laphicet for dear life.

"Why would you…?!" Velvet exclaimed as Arthur kept cold hard gaze at her.

"Nothing can save him now." Arthur said.

"No! No! Noo!" Velvet exclaimed in desperation, not wanting to believe what he was saying. He slowly shook his head.

"…I see you will not change." He lifted his sword up, the blade pointing at Velvet's hand she was holding on to the ledge. "Ever a slave to emotion." After that, he stabbed Velvet's arm as she let go, watching in despair as she and Laphicet dropped into the pit. Chase was gritting his teeth as he watched Arthur killed what to be his family for no reason.

"Son of a bitch…" Actually, now that Chase thinks about it, Arthur makes him remember about Lysandre, the leader of team of Team Flare, and how he wouldn't stop at nothing to create the perfect ideal world in his image, at the cost of human lives lost. Just thinking about it made his blood boil.

"This is where it all begins for Velvet, Chase. The quest for her revenge" Arceus said. Before he could question what that meant, he then saw Laphicet being devoured by some sort of dragon made of light.

"LAPHICET!" Velvet called out as she sees her brother getting devoured. When that happened, something snapped inside of her.

"How could… HOW COULD YOU!" She screamed as she was enveloped in the bright light.

"Is she…"

"Dead? No but rather reborn into something more." Giratina explained as he then saw light swirls coming out of the pit as Velvet was then spat out of it and landed a few feet from Arthur, which he held the handle tighter. When they got a better look at her, the two could see a sudden change in her. Her left arm has been enlarged into a giant crimson claw and the look on Velvet's face could show one thing. Anger.

"Master, her behavior… has changed drastically." Gardevoir stated, "You can see it, right?"

"Yeah…" Chase muttered, noticing the change in Velvet. It wasn't fear and desperation like it was before but rather has been replaced with bloodlust and its was aimed right at Arthur, who slowly walked up to her. They then saw several wolf-like creatures surrounding both Velvet & Arthur, having murderous glares of their own.

"Those aren't Pokémon… aren't they?" Chase asked as Dialga nodded.

"No. Those are called daemons, hostile creatures that roamed their world for centuries." Dialga stated as one werewolf from behind lept out at her but Velvet, not even looking, grab the thing with her gigantic claw from behind and slammed it to the ground, grasping it with immense force as the werewolf disintegrated, its matter seeping into Velvet's claw, a little blood splatter on her face in the process.

"The hell did she do?!" Chase asked, trying to figure out what just happened.

"A daemon that feeds on other daemons." Arthur muttered as he saw Velvet killing two other werewolves with the same claw.

"Arthur…" Velvet growled, her eyes locked on him.

"…A therion." Arthur said, coming to that conclusion and unknowingly answering Chase's question.

"Therion?" Gardevoir said, confused on that statement.

"As Arthur has said, it's a rare being of daemon that has the ability to devour humans, animals, and even their own kind to gain power." Giratina answered as Chase wasn't paying attention as he watched Velvet with worried eyes as he saw Velvet charging at Arthur but being stopped by two more werewolves who went to attack her.

"Raaagh!" Velvet roared as she shredded the two werewolves before her before getting attacked by more. "Why did you kill him!? His blood… on your hands… Answer me… ANSWER ME! WHY!?" She asked, yelling in anger while Arthur ignored her but rather watch the onslaught Velvet was unleashing on the daemons but moving on to the next. "He was my brother! My Laphi! What did he ever do?!" She yelled in anger as she finally kill another werewolf, she ran towards Arthur only to be blocked again by werewolves. "Get out of my way!" She roared again as she slashed them in anger, disintegrating them like before.

Chase watched all of this silent, not even coming up with words to even describe what was happening before him. Velvet's anger & the slaughtering of the creatures before her left him speechless and made him shiver in fear and anticipation. He then felt Gardevoir's hand grabbing his other hand. He looked to see Gardevoir with worried eyes.

"Master, are you alright?" Gardevoir asked worryingly, wanting to make sure her master is okay as she can feel his fear, no, more like terrified at the scene unraveling before them. She needed to make sure he was okay. She then saw Chase give a small nod and smile at her as she then felt relief coursing thru him.

"Yeah, thank you Gardevoir." Chase said, relived that he had her by his side. It was always like Gardevoir to be very protective of his feelings. While other Gardevoirs are that, he had known her when she was a Ralts, so they have a special bond between them going on, one that'll never break. And with that, they continued watching as they saw Velvet and Arthur having a stare down at each other.

"Take a look around." Arthur said as Velvet, Chase, & Gardevoir took a look around the area and, to their horror, the werewolves were all replaced by people who were all killed by Velvet's hands.

"Oh god…" Chase muttered, almost about to puke just by seeing the dead bodies everywhere around Velvet, "What… just happened…"

"There is another trait that belongs to that world called Daemonblight. Like a disease, it'll spread to any person with ill wills and it'll turn them into a daemon. Velvet noticed way too late and that's why the bodies before her." Giratina explained coldly.

"This is absolutely horrific. To think something like this is even a reality." Gardevoir stated, petrified at the sight before her.

"Daemonblight has spread throughout the village." Arthur stated, all while stabbing a daemon from behind who tried to sneak attack him "But do not fear. With my power as an exorcist…"

"Raaaagh!" Velvet roared again as she resumed her charge against the swordsman, her eyes fill vengeance and mind filled with bloodlust against him. "I, Artorius Collbrande, will end your pain."

She jumped up in the air and when she almost made contact with him, she got shot back by a giant fireball, sending her into the ground, dropping a hair comb in the process in front of a woman. She had red hair with silver streaks on the ends, a white butterfly dress, showing her ample cleavage, black thigh high socks, and heels but the more noticeable feature she had was the butterfly mask covering her eyes.

"…Seres?" Velvet said as she looked at the woman before her as a giant glyph appeared in the sky. Seres picked up the comb in front of her feet while Arthur, or rather Artorius, walked towards her.

"Why is it that birds fly? Behold my answer Velvet." Artorius said, holding his blade up high above Velvet.

"Ar…thur…" Velvet muttered.

"I ask no forgiveness. This sin is mine to bear."

"ARTORIUS!" That was all Velvet could scream out before being knocked out cold. After that, the projection ended, leaving Chase & Gardevoir speechless.

"That's it!" Chase yelled, not satisfied with the ending of that projection "That can't be it! What the hell happened to her!? Is she-"

"Dead? No. She's been sent to Titania prison where 3 years later, Seres, the woman in the projection, helped her escape." Arceus explained. While she's not dead to Chase's relief, he was still getting over the shock of what happened in that projection.

"Right but not trying to be rude sir, but was the reason of showing me that?" Chase asked, honestly wondering why Arceus felt the need to show him something so traumatizing.

"It is because for both of you to understand the gravity of the situation of the mission we need you to accomplish." Palkia explained as Gardevoir tilted her head in confusion.

"Mission?" Gardevoir asked confused.

"You see Chase Warden, our universe is in process of being in danger of being of the world we showed you called Innominat." Arceus explained "He has one goal: to turn his world into his image, by repressing everyone's emotions, including ours." Chase nodded, shuddering over Innominat's name and his goal.

"So, you want us to stop him." Chase stated which got a nod from the Alpha Pokémon. "With all due respect sir, how do you exactly think I can be able to stop him. I mean, yeah, I got good combat experience and have 18 other Pokémon with me, but this is a GOD we're talking about here. Even with all that, I don't think I can do it."

"Do you honestly think we didn't know that." Dialga said, lowering his neck towards Chase & Gardevoir "You won't be the only going to defeat Innominat."

"Huh?" Chase said confused.

"Correct. Velvet will also want to defeat Innominat as much as we do." Arceus stated, "Your job is help her do that." Chase stayed silent as he began to think about what he should do.

"So then, will you help us in our dire time or need?" Arceus asked, hoping for Chase to say yes. Chase rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, if you put like that, and the fact if we refuse then we'll all die, then yes, I accept." Chase stated.

"As will I." Gardevoir added, both of them giving them their answers. Arceus and the others bowed their heads.

"We're forever grateful of your services Chase Warden. Now…" He gestured towards Palkia in which he summoned a pink portal in front of them. "This portal will lead you to the new world in which you'll go to. You may leave whenever you're ready." Chase looked at the portal in anticipation as he looked towards Gardevoir.

"You ready?" Chase asked.

"Yes. I'm ready." Gardevoir answered as Chase smirked.

"Alright, look out world, here comes Chase Warden!" Chase yelled in excitement and with that they both left thru the portal, sending them to the new world.

"Good luck, Chase Warden." Arceus said to himself as Palkia's portal disappeared, "We wish you the best of luck. And with that, Chase's journey to save both worlds has begun.

And with that, the first step of Chase's journey has begun. The next chapter, he'll meet Eleanor and eventually Velvet & co. Also you may have seen, Chase doesn't have the plates on him. I decided to try something instead of having the 18 plates to use, he has 18 Pokémon from each type to help him to fight instead just to keep things fresh. I'll eventually add Chase, Gardevoir, and the eventual 17 Pokémon on my profile. As for how Chase himself will fight, I'll show you all next chapter.

Anyways, don't forget to review and I'll see you all next chapter.