Warning: If you have not played ORAS all the way to the Delta Episode, I suggest you either do or, if you can't, watch a playthrough. Some of the stuff mentioned will not make sense otherwise.

Chapter One: Awake

15 Years Ago, Mossdeep Space Center

Steven Stone stood in the main control room, sighing in relief as he saw Mega Rayquaza shooting through the meteor and shattering it into pieces on the monitor. The former Hoenn Champion was glad everything had turned out alright in the end, even though he had been utterly devastated when Zinnia had foiled his plan of sending the meteor to another dimension at the time. Still, he didn't really blame her, considering her reasons for trying to stop it, and it worked out in the end. Although, he was going to have to track her down and make sure the authorities would deliver the proper punishment for her less than legal actions. Before that though, Steven would have to arrange many things with some people. This experience really showed the champion he didn't know as much as he thought...

"Hold on, everybody!" one of the scientists called out as he looked at his monitor, interrupting Steven's train of thoughts. "A strange energy source has just been detected from one of the meteor shards! Zooming in on it now!"

Looking up at the monitor again, Steven saw a strange triangular piece of the meteor show up on screen. Looking at it, Steven Stone's eyes widened in surprise as he saw several tentacles stretch out from either side of the stone before the rock shattered into pieces. Out of the meteor came Deoxys, a Pokemon Steven had only heard rumors, myths, and legends about. Clearly, the meteor was it's home, and judging by how it moved towards Rayquaza, it was pissed off.

When Rayquaza noticed the DNA Pokemon, it let loose a roar at it before launching itself in a Dragon Ascent at it. The powerful Flying type move crashed into Deoxys, yet it didn't seem to do much damage, catching the legendary dragon by surprise. Deoxys took advantage of this and fired a Psycho Boost at the Sky High Pokemon. The multicolored orb of psychic energy seemed to do far more damage than Dragon Ascent, but Rayquaza shook it off and roared as it turned around for another attack at Deoxys. Before it could reach the alien-like Pokemon, Deoxys fired a devastating Hyper Beam attack directly at Mega Rayquaza.

"Oh no..." Steven mumbled to himself in horror as he helplessly watched the Legendary Mega Pokemon disintegrate from the beam of pure energy, along with the person that rode on it..."No, no, no no no nonono..."

Once, Rayquaza and it's trainer had disappeared, Deoxys' face began to crack. The cracks spread along it's body, covering almost every inch of it. When the DNA Pokemon was almost unrecognizable from all the fissures, it broke apart, scattering into the void of space.

Stumbling over to a seat, Steven Stone slumped down into it, practically falling over into the swivel chair. The former champion's eyes were filled with nothing but despair, and he looked to be on the verge of a breakdown. Before he could however, Steven's gaze suddenly hardened as he pushed himself up into the chair. Now was not the time to grieve quite yet. There were things that needed to be straightened out.

Steven looked over at a robust man with brown hair and a beard wearing a lab coat, a green sweater, and khakis. He too was looking at the screen in horror at what had just happened. "Professor Birch," Steven Stone called out to the man, who turned to the former champion. "What is the status of Brendan's Pokemon?"

"I..uh..." Professor Birch stuttered before clearing his throat. "Well, he sent his Pokemon back into the PC through the Champion Watch just before he went into space with Rayquaza. I suppose he thought it would be safer going in without them."

Steven nodded, already guessing this was what Brendan did. He was well known for putting his Pokemon's safety above his own. "Contact Lanette and have her transfer ownership of Brendan's Pokemon to Norman. Speaking of which could you also contact him and Mrs. Ruby? I know you don't want to be the bearer of bad news, so if you don't want to..."

Professor Birch looked absolutely terrified at the prospect of telling Norman about his son's death, but he took a deep breath and shook his head. "No, I have to be the one to tell him. It is kind of my fault that this happened."

"No, Birch," Steven said, his gaze softening. "You were simply the one who gave Brendan his starter. What he did after that was choice and his choice alone. And in the eyes of Hoenn, he will forever be a hero for it."

"I suppose," the Pokemon Professor said with an unconvinced look before walking over to the stairs of the space center. Once he was gone, Steven pulled out a phone and dialed a number. The phone rang a few times before stopping, and an indistinguishable voice could be heard from it.

"Hello Wallace," Steven replied to the voice. "I need to see you at the Hall of Fame. When can you be there?" Steven listened as Wallace replied before saying, "Alright, I'll see you then."

As soon as Wallace hung up, Steven leaned back in his chair and thought about all that had happened over the past month. It was certainly a lot to take in, what with Team Magma and Aqua, the incident with Groudon and Kyogre, his defeat at the hands of Brendan, the meteor, Zinnia's plan to stop it and to ruin his own idea(which still agitated him to no end), Brendan catching Rayquaza, and finally...what just happened. With all of this in mind, the former, now the current, champion of Hoenn laid his head into his heads and let the tears run over his face.

Not even ten feet away, a brown-haired female scientist stood looking at the screen. She, like all the other scientists, wore a pristine white lab coat, along with a green shirt, a yellow skirt, and sky-blue tinted glasses. Her eyes, a unique shade of violet, showed no horror, sadness, or surprise as she replayed in her mind what had just happened. Rather, the intent light of curiosity shined in her eyes as she muttered the word "Deoxys..." before, turning towards the stairs and walking down them...

Present Day, Hoenn Route 101

In Route 101 of Hoenn, a red haired boy that looked to be about fifteen was slumped up against a tree with his eyes closed. The teenager was dressed in a red, short-sleeved shirt with black vertical lines across the front, blue jeans, red and white sneakers, a black cap, and a silver necklace. Beside him was a backpack with a red and blue Pokeball design on the front. As the boy lay there, his eyes suddenly snapped open to reveal green irises which looked around in surprise. Getting up, the boy rubbed his head before looking around.

"Where am I?" the red-haired teenager said out loud before realizing something else. "Wait, who am I?"

Dennis, a voice suddenly whispered in his mind.

"What?" the boy said in shock. "Dennis? Where did that come from? Is that my name?"

This time, no mysterious voice answered him. "Great, it's going to be one of those "self-discovery" things," he thought with a sigh. "Well, I guess it's good that I got my name at least. And hey, one of my traits is being optimistic. Probably going to get annoying, but it's something."

Suddenly, Dennis heard some rustling in the grass before a Poochyena leaped out and tackled him to the ground and growled at him.

Poochyena, the Bite Pokemon. It savagely threatens foes with bared fangs. It chases after fleeing targets tenaciously. It turns tail and runs, however, if the foe strikes back.

"What does that even mean!?" Dennis thought as the voice spoke in his head again.

It means shut up and slap it, you idiot.

Heeding the voices advice despite it's attitude, Dennis slapped the Poochyena across the muzzle, sending it flying across the grass. However, instead of running away like the voice said, the Poochyena got up and continued to growl at Dennis as it's fangs suddenly glowed an icy-blue and emitted a cold mist.

"Um voice guy, why isn't it running away like you said it would?"

Analyzing. Ability to use Ice Fang attack. Brave and courageous behavior. Abnormally enhanced intelligence. Conclusion: subject has Stoutland ancestry.

"English please!"

RUN!

Dennis didn't need to be told that twice. He bolted in the opposite direction, which the voice told Dennis was south. He expected that the Poochyena would pursue, although he didn't dare look back. If he had, he might have noticed that the Poochyena wasn't chasing him. As the voice said, she had advanced intelligence(although she couldn't have known what the voice had said), and she knew better than to go into Littleroot Town. In fact, her intelligence wasn't even needed to know that. Anybody with a brain and a will to live avoided Littleroot Town. Though, it wasn't called that anymore. Rather, it was appropriately renamed the Monster's Village...

A/N

Hey everybody! Glad you could read my story! This was created while I was trying (and failing) to finish a story for my friend, DayDreamingDragon220, so I'm hoping this makes up for that, especially since it's written in her honor. Make sure to look her up on deviantart and give her a good comment. She is a very talented artist that I think a lot of you will like, especially if you also like Skylanders, though she's done more than that. Anyway, this is actually the very first Pokemon fanfic that I have ever written. I'm really hoping that this will turn out good, and any favorites, follows, reviews, or advice that you guys could give me would be very much appreciated. I just want to say one thing though; no ship wars. I know how people can be about that, and there will be some ships that some people like and some people dislike, and all I ask is that everybody try to keep an open mind and consider reading this not for the ships, but rather the story, because that's what this mainly focuses on. Just respect my ships, I'll respect yours, and we can all just get along in this great fandom we call Pokemon!

This will be updated at least once a week. If not every two or three, so until then, stay magical(yes I have my own sign off lol)!