Pokemon The Last Stand

**Pokemon The Last Stand** is a Story Arc of the the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in the Pokemon Realm, in the continent of **Fyodora**, and follows the perspective of wanderer Aine Belten. It is a sequel to Pokemon Dreams and Pokemon Phoenix Dawn, and is the last installment in the Four Beast series.

## Main Arc

### A Desolate Beginning

Aine and her brother Aeden von Scylla live in a refuge in the midst of Fyodora, a devastated continent. Once, a sinister king, the Ineffable, attempted to destroy the world, but was stopped by the endeavors of a Goddess, leaving Fyodora the only surviving region in a post-apocalyptic world. Still, Fyodora is populated by fierce Pokemon, driven crazy by the Ineffable's influence, and that attack and devour humans.

A massive, powerful and strange Pokemon leading a lesser horde devastates Aine and Aeden's hometown, and Aine awakens a strange power, calming one of the attacking Pokemon and recruiting it. Aeden resolves to join the Fyodoran anti-Pokemon milice, led by Professor Yew and the young but impulsive Grants, but Aine chooses instead to leave with her befriended pokemon, seeking to understand her own power.

### Pray for the Sovereign

In the north of the continent, she finds a seemingly abandoned chapel where a young, paraplegic and blind girl, Petras, claims to have waited for her, calling her **Sovereign**. Petras asks of Aine to bring her flowers, and Aine, finding herself protective of the young girl, does so, allowing Petras to awaken strange powers, allowing Aine to turn into a Pokemon, **Auroraina**.

Petras explains that there are ten people in Fyodora who possess the ability to manifest a Pokemon-like appearance, and possess a unique power - Aine being able to purify Pokemon of the Ineffable's influence. Aine then starts journeying through Fyodora, searching for flowers, Pokemon, and Shrines - mysterious places that welcome her, test her strength and cunning, and reward her by allowing her to grow in power.

### Facing the Colossus

On her way, Aine encounters Grants, captain of the continent's military, and Professor Cerez, an apprentice to Yew who chose to follow a different path from his after doubting Yew's unethical experiments. She also learns that there are four Pokemon - the Calamities - like the one that devastated her hometown, and, believing them to be transformed humans much like ther, resolves to find and hunt them.

Aine, whose hypothesis is quickly proven correct, is successful in finding Apatros, a deserter from the military, who acknowledges his role as an Admin of **Team Crusade**, whose aim is to slaughter what remains of humanity by destroying Fyodora. He and Aine almost clash to the death, but Aine ultimately refuses to kill him and brings him to Petras's cathedral so that he can recover from his brutal wounds.

### The World's Secrets

Aine continues her journey, encountering the enigmatic Ramiel who guides her while at the same time acknowledging his allegience to Team Crusade. She briefly discusses with Lyra and Kerren, two of the remaining Calamities, but refuses to fight them, waiting for her strength to increase. She negotiates with Yew and gains intel on the Calamities' whereabouts in exchange for some of her blood.

She also learns from him that Petras's father **Sullyvan** is responsible for her condition, by draining her of her blood, as Petras was one of the ten people born with the ability to transform into a Pokemon. Upon learning that, Aine faces against Sullyvan, surprisingly helped by the fourth Calamity, Eremine, and stops kills as he transforms into a monster, taking back Petras's blood and healing her.

Aine resumes her exploration, seeking to learn more about the ten chosen ones - Arceus's Commandments. She uncovers an abandoned church where the Abyssal Serpents trick her into releasing Elaine, a powerful dark presence and another Commandment. Ignoring Elaine's sinister reputation and actions, Aine chooses to embrace her and welcome her by her side despite her initial reluctance, and Elaine, in turn, warns Aine that the world is imprisoned in a wicked cycle.

### The Scientist

With Elaine's guidance, Aine manages to open the gates leading to powerful Legendary Pokemon, including Helheiros, a dark queen whom Aine manages to subjugate. Soon after however, she gathers news that Aeden has been captured and experimented on by Yew, whom she discovers to be a Commandment as well. Aine defeats Yew, although he already injected some of Aine's blood in Aeden, seemingly disorienting him.

Aeden quickly leaves afterwards, leading Aine to interrogate Yew, learning from him that he sought to create the perfect weapon to kill the Calamities and Ramiel - their leader, and a Commandment as well. According to Yew, there still exists humanity beyond Fyodora, and Team Crusade comes from beyond the sea to slaughter all Fyodorans. After interrogating Yew, Aine takes his Blood and transfers it to Helheiros to grant her a human form.

### The Calamities' Secrets

Elaine then leads Aine to a secret garden, where mystical flowers bloom, allowing Aine to access shards of the world's memories. From there, she glimpses Apatros's past in another continent, where he was abused and used as a weapon by its authority. Aine then faces off against Eremine, Lyra and Kerren one after another, defeating them and uncovering fragments of their past by using her blood to nourish the Forget-me-nots.

From their past, Aine understands that Fyodorans are in fact not entirely humans, and that their genetic makeup is closer to Pokemon. Due to this, their sinister tie with the Ineffable, and their ability to order Pokemon to kill other humans - something other Trainers can't do - they are feared and discriminated upon in other continents. As a result, other continents such has Orre have cut Fyodora away from the rest of the world, hoping to destroy it one day.

Ramiel, Kerren, Lyra, Apatros and Eremine are in fact Fyodorans whose family immigrated in Orre a long time ago and seen as nothing more than cattle; however, since they unlocked the power of a Commandment, they were instead used as tools in order to destroy Fyodora. Aine resolves to offer them a better life and goes on to face off against Ramiel in the midst of his headquarters, the Semper Caelum, a massive technological infrastructure.

### The Ineffable's Return

Upon encountering Ramiel, Aine learns that he disapproves of his continent's violence, and seeks instead to bring peace to Fyodorans - by using his Commandment combined with Aine's to force all Fyodorans into a permanent Pokemon state, depriving them of humanity while at the same time making them harmless to Orre and other humans, allowing for peaceful coexistence. Aine dismisses this cruel ideal, but Ramiel attempts to force it nevertheless.

However, as Ramiel is about to use Aine's blood to amplify his powers, he is suddenly struck down by Aeden, who seems to have deeply changed. Immediately after, Aeden reveals himself to be the current incarnation of the Ineffable, using his powers to influence the world's Pokemon into killing their owners, hoping to slaughter humanity in order to save Fyodora from their hatred, and hoping to "break free free from the circle of causality".

### Break the Cyclc

With Aeden's awakening, the world's "wicked circle" becomes obvious. Fyodora's past and present are connected: a hundred years ago, Aeden and Aine faced off against one another, almost destroying the world. The two were sealed away for a hundred years, with Aeden's actions traumatizing the world, causing Fyodorans to be discriminated and their extinction to be planified. This in turn forced Aeden to awaken to prevent this extinction, only to be stopped by Aine again - repeating the loop forever.

With Elaine's abilities, a novelty from this world's cycle, and the presence of new flowers that have blossomed in the Garden due to her presence, Aine leaves the world's fate in Petras's hands before confronting Aeden. Much like in other loops, Aine and Aeden end up in a draw, thus reseting the world - but this time, Aine, guided by the flowers she found and Petras's magic, manages to exist as a guardian spirit.

Through time, Aine watches over Petras and protects her, prevents Aeden's furious pokemon from committing genocide, stops Fyodoran immigration and watches over the Calamities, attempting to create a perfect Timeline and break the loop once and for all. In doing so, she is confronted by the loop's creator, Tragetrias of the Four Beasts, who attempts to consume her. Ultimately, with Elaine and Aeden's help, Aine defeats Tragetrias, shatters the loop, and paves a path to a better future for the world.

## Characters

* Aine Belten
* Grants
* Aeden von Scylla
* Petras
* Professor Cerez
* Professor Yew
* Elaine
* Ramiel
* Kerren
* Lyra
* Apatros
* Eremine
* Helheiros
* Other Pokemon Realm Characters.

## Trivia

* This Storyline is an experiment on a possible open-world Pokemon universe.
* Although he does not explicitely appear in the narration, Josue is the one who controlled Tragetrias and manipulated events as to corrupt Aeden, making him the saga's overarching antagonist.