The New Normal - 16-18 - Interlude - Blaine

The New Normal – 16-18 – Interlude – Blaine

When he was first assigned to the mysterious ‘evolution stone’ project, not only was he honoured to be working alongside such brilliant talents, but he also thought that because of said talent that the project would be a breeze. He thought that the mysteries of these stones would be revealed to them within the course of a month or so.

And while they were making progress, it was far from what he had initially expected. Perhaps he had been too hasty with his initial assumptions about how fast they could power through this.

Still, he couldn’t deny that he was greatly enjoying what he was doing. Despite all being from different regions, all of the Professors gathered here were able to work collaboratively and effectively.

Even Colress, who was technically the ‘lowest rank’ member here as he wasn’t yet a Professor, was able to keep up with them. In fact, despite his initial feelings about the man, Colress had greatly impressed them with his intellect, methodical thinking, and his meticulous eye for detail.

It was no wonder that Professor Juniper brought him over as an assistant. The man was easily capable of being a Professor himself.

He did actually ask why Colress wasn’t already made a Professor, given his talents, and the man simply replied that he wasn’t bothered to suck up to the right people to earn the position.

“Being a Professor means taking on political responsibilities.” Colress had said, “I have no interest in distracting myself with such frivolities. Nor do I care about being acknowledged and praised for my achievements. The advancement of science is a reward enough for me.”

…Well, they all had their oddities.

Thoughts on his colleagues aside, they had made several important discoveries regarding these mysterious stones – which they were now unofficially calling a ‘Mega Stone’ in their internal documents.

Through careful study, they all but confirmed that these Mega Stones required some sort of activator to unlock their true potential. Due to that, they tried to reverse engineer the energies that the Mega Stones passively gave off to try and figure out what these Mega Stones needed to activate.

They had already figured that these stones were originally supposed to be evolution stones, but they had just been irradiated and warped by some unknown energy to become what they were now. Therefore, their next step was to work out what this unknown energy was and where it came from. Yet that was when things turned interesting.

Their extensive testing had allowed them to discover that these energies were related to ‘life’ and ‘death’. Somehow, these two energies had intermixed with each other in some unnatural combination, which was what created these Mega Stones in the first place.

Colress was the first to say what they were all thinking, “I believe that this points to the fact that a Legendary, or perhaps multiple, were involved in the creation of these Mega Stones. I hypothesize that it was the lingering energies from these Legendaries that led to this.”

Samuel responded first, “…Yes, it does look to be that way. Especially since, considering that these Mega Stones are supposed to be able to grant Pokémon the power to evolve beyond their usual limitations, it does seem like something that would require a Legendary’s power in order to activate.”

“But which Legendary would it be?” Elm asked, “As far as I’m aware – we don’t have any Legendaries that are involved with ‘life’ and ‘death’ explicitly.”

“Arceus itself?” Rowan suggested with a shrug, “It could probably fulfil the requirements.”

“Maybe. But my gut is telling me otherwise.” Sam said, before turning to Juniper and Colress, “Would there be any Legendaries in Unova that you know of that could fulfil these requirements?”

“…No, I really don’t think so.” Juniper replied after a moment to think, “Our legends speak of the divided Legendary Dragons. They were supposed to be a single Dragon that had been split into two – one that represents Truth, the other Ideals. And as destructive and as powerful as the legends claim that they can be, I doubt that this is related to that. I just don’t see the correlation.”

“Actually, we should do some new readings around Spear Pillar, since there are probably still lingering energies from the Legendary battle that took place there.” Blaine suggested, “Maybe it’ll give us a clue. It probably won’t, but we should do our due diligence anyways.”

That got a round of agreements, and then Colress had a radical suggestion, “Why don’t we try to replicate these energies for ourselves?”

Birch’s eyes widened, “You don’t mean for us to try and replicate a Legendary’s power for ourselves! That’s… that’s just not done!”

Colress shrugged, unbothered by the accusation, “And why not? We’ve clearly agreed that whatever Legendary, or Legendaries, were responsible for the creation of these Mega Stones, they aren’t part of the legends that we know of right now. So we either give up on the project now, something that I am completely unwilling to do, or we do our best to solve this mystery and advance our scientific understanding even further by replicating such energies for ourselves.”

Rowan shook his head, “Attempting to play Arceus is a dangerous thing, Colress. Legendaries are beyond the realm of us humans for a reason.”

Colress frowned, “I understand the need to be cautious, but are we not some of the best scientific minds in the known world? If there were any that could be working on a project, I do not believe it would be arrogant of me to say that we would be the best choice by far.”

“…He’s not wrong.” Juniper allowed, “Yes, messing around in the realm of Legendaries is dangerous, I’m not denying that. But we aren’t some reckless, power-hungry, fools blinded to the dangers by power. Like Colress said, we know what we’re doing. And if not us, then who?”

Logically, Blaine could understand where their peers from Unova were coming from. Everyone here understood the importance of safety, and he trusted them to not let things spiral out of control. However, especially after the events of the Day of Calamity, the dangers that messing around with Legendaries could bring to the wider world was very difficult to just ‘shrug off’.

And, while there was no logical basis for this, there was always the slight chance that attempting to mimic these unknown Legendaries power could, in fact, summon these Legendaries to the world by accident.

Who knows what kind of damage they could do if that happened?

However, it was where he then had a realisation, “Hey, why don’t we ask John what he thinks of this? And by John, I mean we have him talk to Regigigas and ask if it’s safe to proceed.”

“Why would he… oh, yes, I can’t believe I overlooked that.” Sam said, “Hmm… that could be an idea.”

“Are you sure that Regigigas would even respond to him?” Elm asked, “Hasn’t it gone back to its slumber?”

Blaine shrugged, “I’ve no clue. But if there’s anyone that would, it’d be John. Might as well ask him and see what he thinks about it.”

“I believe there should be no harm in floating the question to it.” Rowan nodded, “Although, please check with John first – I don’t want to accidentally get on a Legendary’s bad side. No thank you.”

The others agreed, and so that was what he did. He rang up John and told him about their conclusions and what they wanted him to do. Fortunately, they had caught him just before he left Sinnoh.

“…This is not what I thought I would be doing a few hours before my ship leaves for Indigo, but sure, I’ll speak to Regigigas.” He said, “Uh, no guarantees if it responds though.”

“If you think the Legendary Titan will be offended at all about our question, PLEASE do not ask it.” He hurriedly added.

John chuckled, “No, no, it’ll be fine. I won’t say I have a complete understanding of Regigigas, but I think I know it well enough to say that it wouldn’t be bothered. Just leave it to me. I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.”

The phone call ended there. And yet, the surrealness of them just casually asking a question to a Legendary finally hit him, and he had to sit down in his chair for a moment as he internally processed this.

…Well, at the end of the day, he was sure glad that John was somehow ‘friends’ with a Legendary.

A.N. More development on the Mega Stone! And yes, while I know that the Mega Stones are thought to be created from the energies of Xerneas and Yveltal, but I didn’t want that limitation to hinder the development of the Key Stone.

Normally, messing around with the powers of a Legendary (or multiple) are only done by the ‘evil teams’ due to their fanaticism/insanity. But I wanted to show that they aren’t the only ones who will give it a shot. And hey, if there was anyone that could replicate the power of a Legendary, and do so ‘safely’, it would be these Professors. But before they do so, they gotta ask papa Regigigas for permission first. Hope you enjoyed!