In the Earth's Stratosphere

A serpentine, green dragon with two arms and red-and-yellow markings, was flying thousands of feet above the ground. This was Rayquaza, the Sky-High Legendary Dragon, and also the self-proclaimed protector of this planet from extraterrestrial threats, as one of the few Legendaries who was both awake and capable of traveling so high up.

So when he saw a meteor hurtling towards the Earth, he acted in his capacity as the guardian, and hunted it down.

Rayquaza fired a quickly-charged Hyper Beam, successfully splitting the rock in half. Another Hyper Beam was launched, but only skimmed one of the halves, sending it spiralling uncontrollably toward the planet's surface. Rayquaza, arrogant as he was, assumed that the spray of rock and dust from the collision meant the comet was destroyed. He turned his attention to the other half, which had gained a bit of distance during his previous engagement,

With a roar of challenge, the Legendary Dragon gave chase, a hunt which would eventually lead him to the freezing North Pole and an epic battle. The dragon ignored the mostly unscathed- and now unchecked- half of the asteroid.

Said meteor was now speeding toward the land- specifically, a continent known as the Kanto region.

Life changed when the meteor struck Pallet Town.

Professor Samuel Oak was intrigued; it had been many years since a meteor came down to Earth, and certainly never in this small, out-of-the-way town.

Young Gary Oak thought it was the coolest thing ever. He had heard of many comets touching down in Veilstone City, but that was all the way in the Sinnoh region, a place he wouldn't be able to go to until he was older. He figured it was fate's way of making it up to him.

Delia Ketchum's world was rocked- literally since the rock landed only a quarter-mile from her house. The soot and dust from the explosion traveled all the way to her modest house, painting the side of the building gray.

Eight-year-old Ash Ketchum lay dying. He had been in the woods, bare yards away from the asteroid when it came crashing down from the heavens. He had heard the whistling as it fell, saw that it was coming directly at him, and tried to run. Unfortunately, his young body simply was not fast enough, and the concussive force overtook him. The boy was smashed through two fully grown trees, breaking just about every bone in his body, and a branch was sticking out from his chest.

The pain was so great the young Ash could no longer even feel it, his nerves all burned out from the instantaneous stimulation. Instead, he lay there, watching as a… thing, with a glowing green chest, emerged from the meteor, fear creeping into him as this unknown creature turned its head to face him.

Little did he know, that this strange life form would give Ash a second chance.

Deoxys was confused, to say the least. One moment, him and his sister had been sleeping in their space-rock, lazily drifting through the void, and the next, they were being blasted by a flying green tentacle, and the two were separated. Unfortunately, Deoxys could not form a solid body while in the meteor, surrounded as it was by dense rock, so had to wait until the impact blew the meteor up. And boy, what an impact.

The alien life form had seen the young human who was likely killed by it, and wondered why the small creature was out here all alone, with no other signs of life within the immediate vicinity. Was it also a solitary existence, like himself and his sister? Shunned by his race?

Deoxys felt a pang of pity in his core. He knew the pain of being cast out- it was why him and his sister were in that asteroid in the first place. They had been overpowered by several other members of their race, their physical bodies being disintegrated, and their cores shoved into a rock that was launched to who-knows-where. All because they happened to be a bit stronger than average, and those other Deoxys were jealous.

Curious, and also a tad guilty- because death was not better than solitude- Deoxys hovered over to where the boy had landed. He was surprised to see the youngling still alive; he had thought that by their pink fleshy skin, they were much more vulnerable. Yet, here the boy was, alive… Though not particularly well.

Deoxys may not have known much about this species, but he could tell that things were not supposed to stick through someone's chest, regardless of race.

The extraterrestrial knelt down, examining the young creature in what may be its final moments. The boy's half-lidded eyes connected with his own unblinking ones, and Deoxys knew he had to at least try to help. It was not right for this small native to suffer from his own actions, regardless of the fact that they were out of his control.

The biggest problem Deoxys saw at the moment was the large stick piercing Ash's sternum. He had no clue that there was internal damage, due to lack of prior knowledge on this species' anatomy. So, the alien turned his red and blue tentacles into a hand, grabbed hold of the branch, and yanked it out in one smooth motion.

Deoxys knew something was wrong when the boy cried out in pain, and a crimson liquid began spilling out from the hole at an alarming rate. Ash groped at his chest for a few moments, before falling still, causing the extraterrestrial to panic. Was this young one unable to regenerate? Could this species even regenerate like the Deoxys?

Understanding that he had to at least plug up that gaping hole, Deoxys stuck a tentacle into Ash's chest, attempting to form his hand into a shape which would completely block the flow of red.

It worked. A bit too well.

The tentacle took the jagged, abnormal shape of the opening, and was promptly absorbed by the human. Unfortunately, since the limb was still connected to Deoxys, that meant he, too, was also sucked into the young native after a few moments of shocked inaction.

In a roundabout way, the combining of boy and alien did work, as the hole in Ash's chest was quickly sealed up by fast-growing muscle and flesh.

A few minutes later, young Ash Ketchum woke up. He climbed to his feet unsteadily, taking in his surroundings. His near-death hadn't been a dream. Ash saw his ripped, bloody shirt, the blood-stained piece of lumber, and the area of the forest which had been completely leveled by that space rock.

What he did not see- a fact which worried him- was the thing that came out the meteor.

Did it leave? What if it was just hiding, watching and waiting to kill him? Or what if it followed him home and killed the other townspeople, too? A shiver ran down the boy's spine at the thought. Let it be noted that the young boy had watched quite a few horror movies when staying over at friends' house.

"I am here, young one."

"AH!" Ash leapt a foot into the air, and began spinning around like a Hitmontop, scanning the perimeter for the source of the voice.

"You cannot see me, young one, for I am not out there."

Ash stopped swiveling, but did not calm in the slightest. If he couldn't see it, was it invisible? He had heard of Pokemon vanishing when they used Feint attack.

"No, I am not using… 'Feint'. I am in you, young one."

The boy's brain slowed down a bit, taking some time to process that.

"IN ME!?" He shouted, voice full of fear and confusion.

"Do relax, young one. I am not here to hurt you- in fact, I was the one that saved your life."

Ash took a moment to remember how he had been flung through two fairly thick trees, and the length of wood which had pierced his chest before he passed out. Now that he wasn't in any immediate danger- or, at least, didn't seem to be- Ash was able to process just how close to death he probably had been. There was no possible way he could have survived that, not without the outside help the strange creature claimed to have provided.

"...Oh. Well, thanks, I guess…" He mumbled, then remembered a very important thing. "Wait! How did you end up in me!?"

"...That was a mistake. I had merely meant to fill the hole in your chest, but was instead completely absorbed. On the bright side, you will survive."

"Yeah, but there's a… an alien in me! Do you know how these kinds of things end!? With that alien bursting out through my chest, so I'll die anyways!"

Deoxys took a moment to sift through Ash's memories, a result of their newly-conjoined status and his own Psychic powers, and was quite astonished.

"Oh my. What kind of… 'movies' does your species create?"

"Good ones. And why did you stop like that when you said movies?"

"In case you have already forgotten, I am a so-called alien to your kind, so it is obvious that we do not have quite the same technology."

"Oh… right. So, you aren't gonna burst out of my chest like a freak?"

"I will do my best to prevent it." Deoxys replied dryly.

"Alright. By the way, what's your name? I'm Ash Ketchum, and I live in Pallet Town, which is right over there." Ash pointed towards the area, which was no doubt filled with panicking citizens- not that the boy knew of that right now.

"A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town. I cannot reply in kind, since the members of my species do not have individual names, nor does my home planet have one. It was determined by my ancestors that such things were too sentimental, and therefore unnecessary."

"Doesn't that get confusing, though?" Ash interrupted.

"It does, but the elder members of my species were too stuck in their ways to change."

"...That doesn't sound too nice. Everyone needs a name! How else will their friends address them without saying 'Hey, you!' or something rude like that? At the very least, what's the name of your species?"

"We are called the Deoxys. You can address me as such, since the likelihood of running into another of my kind, except my sister, is very slim."

"No! That's like you calling me 'Human', even though my name's Ash. I'll just come up with a name for you, then- but first, I gotta get back home and tell my mom I'm fine… I think. I'll think of something along the way, so just hang tight, bud!"

Deoxys felt an inexplicable tingle of warmth in his core, which should have been impossible since the Deoxys didn't exactly have nerves. He chalked it up to weirdness from being combined with a… human, as Ash called it.

After a few minutes of bumbling through the forest, Ash finally caught sight of his house. It looked alright, except for the fact that the side was entirely covered in dust- but that would wash off the next time it rained.

The young human boy had just stepped onto his front porch, when he shot a fist into the air, a triumphant grin on his face.

"I've got it! I'll call you… Diorook- Dio for short!"

A pokemon fanfic, because why not? I've accepted the fact that I'll never properly finish a story, but I can at least come up with some crazy original ideas to hopefully inspire a new breed of like-minded writers. I may even be willing to allow some people to adopt my stories, if I think they have the skills for it. Don't think this means I'm automatically abandoning all my stories, though. I'll still update if I feel like it, I'll just probably be working on something new most of the time. K Bai.