DiScavenger was a program I had written on the laptop I bought in Jubilife City.

It had taken some time to build my own web scraper but once I had figured out how this world's internet worked, it became easy.

The program would search for major news websites and message boards for certain keywords.

After finding anything useful the code would cross-reference it with other sites to determine its relevance.

It was fairly simple at first but then the entire list had to be filtered by Oracle who was advanced enough to determine what was garbage.

The Pokédex was programmed to send trainers important information in case of an emergency, it was fairly easy to change the source Oracle pulled all the messages from into a list generated by the code I had written.

Originally, Oracle would just notify me if something important was happening nearby, for example, a dangerous Pokémon. Now, she filtered websites from all over the world, looking for something that might be interesting for me.

I didn't even need to learn the entirety of Oracle's code, instead, I changed some variables and that did the job.

Sadly, she couldn't access classified information from the League databases, which could've helped me know more than was available to the public. This meant that rumors were also taken into the equation.

The list of keywords for searching news articles was quite long and depressing.

It contained the names of persons, Legendary Pokémon, and places.

Keeping track of the plotlines in this world was a nightmare, especially because there was no definite plot I could follow and keep track of.

Nope, potential futures and past threats from the game, the anime and whatever piece of media Pokémon had produced had to be considered as something that could ruin my day.

And those were only the things I knew about, this world also had its own problems I knew nothing about; Celebi's Forest, Snatchers, meteors going through dimensional rifts and people stuck in the bodies of Pokémon; this world had enough bullshit of its own.

And I'm not even getting paid for protecting the world from devastation.

Although I was not really protecting anything, I was more keeping track so I know which places I should definitely avoid.

For example, this morning there was a certain activist group in Unova holding a building hostage and demanding people to free their Pokémon even though Team Plasma shouldn't be around.

So here I was, like some kind of superhero keeping track of all the threats in this world.

Although I had no real idea how to actually deal with them if they were to become a real problem, I would probably find a way to give someone more capable than I am the information and flee as soon as possible.

Still, the fact that the DiScavenger program had found something Oracle deemed important enough to notify me was concerning.

"Are you sure you want to watch?" I asked both my companions.

{Yes} Luna said, leaning against me as if we were about to watch a movie.

"I'm not easy to scare." Fay said like I was challenging her.

It was getting a bit crowded inside the tent and I promised myself to buy a bigger tent once I reached Jubilife City.

Sitting outside was out of the question because the sun would make the screen glare.

I tapped the space bar on the keyboard and the live video began to play.

It was from the Johto Today website and they were live at the scene in Seawave City. The sound of the helicopter blades blared through the speakers and I turned down the volume.

The video was shot from a helicopter and a woman was trying to give commentary but she was barely audible.

Seawave City was a big city with big skyscrapers sprouting from the street with white beaches and fancy looking palm trees.

Or I assumed that Seawave City would like that because right now it was a battlefield.

I don't know what you call a group of Gyarados, a swarm? A school? Another appropriate name would be a bloodbath.

I couldn't see how many Gyarados there were but from the helicopter, it looked like a can of worms had been released into the city and it was unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life.

The entire shore of the city was flooded with murky, brown and slightly reddish water which allowed the Gyarados to literally swim through the streets, the water flooded at least a good mile into the city, drowning everything in its path.

Most skyscrapers that were too close to the sea had collapsed, either by the waves that continuously slammed into them or by the Hyper Beams the Gyarados were firing.

Entire city blocks were leveled, other parts were visibly brought to the ground by seismic attacks.

Gyarados was a very scary Pokémon on its own but with an entire swarm of them, they were a nightmare.

Whirlpools and tsunamis rose from the sea and crashed into the parts of the city that were not destroyed yet.

Among the destruction, there were small islands created by toppled skyscrapers and buildings that hadn't collapsed yet.

The Gyarados were rampaging through the city but not without any resistance.

People and Pokémon were fighting back, or at least they tried to.

Pokémon trainers had gathered on the small islands and were firing ranged attacks at the hostile Gyarados with their Pokémon.

Lances of light, lasers and psychic waves met the Gyarados and caused a lot of them to go under.

People flying on bird Pokémonm circled around them and tried to draw the Gyarados away from the vulnerable parts of the city, all the while they had to dodge the Hyper Beams that were thrown at them from all directions.

Bigger water Pokémon moved people and other Pokémon around to safer areas, evacuating those in need of help.

One would say it was amazing to see Pokémon and humans working together, but that would be a lie.

Because the people and Pokémon who tried to stop the rampage were losing.

There was no knight in shining armor who magically wished the monsters away or a protagonist who changed the tide with heroism.

The camera angle didn't provide me with a lot of details but the overall picture was grim.

For every violent Gyarados the resisting forces managed to take down, two more rose from the waters to take its place like a Hydra.

Strategy wise the Gyarados should've been at a disadvantage because they were attacking from the sea.

But the people and Pokémon defending the city were clearly no match, they were scattered everywhere and the constant barrage of waves allowed the Gyarados to swim through the city and slither through the streets.

There seemed to be no coherent plan on either side, the Gyarados were bent on causing havoc and the defenders were trying to take down as many Gyarados as they could.

If I were in charge I would collapse a few skyscrapers to block off the streets that weren't flooded yet and create a kill zone. But I devised this plan from the safety of my tent, down there, I don’t know what I could have done.

The situation in Seawave City was definitely no joke or a children's show.

The people and Pokémon who tried to fight back were actually dying, and not in a heroic way either.

Tidal waves tore through the hasty defense lines people had managed to set up. The water was not clean seawater but instead, it was filled with glass, cars and big pieces of concrete that had been torn off the buildings and turned the seawater into a meat grinder for whoever got swallowed by it.

Mangled bodies, both Pokémon and human, floated on the water, coloring it red.

Some Pokémon survived the initial wave but that didn't mean they were safe yet. There were water Pokémon like Tentacruel and Slowpoke who tried to rescue the ones that had fallen into the water.

Being in the water was risky, even for water Pokémon, the tidal waves constantly tried to slam them into other objects and buildings, turning them into a red splash on the wall.

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People and Pokémon in the sky weren't safe either.

Friendly fire was off and people who tried to get close to the Gyarados in the water risked being hit by their own allies.

Buildings and huge skyscrapers collapsed around them and buried anyone who was unfortunate to be underneath it, and whenever a Pokémon or trainer fell into the water, they were consumed by it. Rain and thunder made flying a hell and the weather could change any second.

The helicopter allowed me to see multiple city blocks that had different weather systems, one was entirely frozen in ice with a blizzard in the sky while not even a block away there was a sandstorm razing through the streets.

"Where is this?" Fay asked, her eyes practically glued to the screen.

"Johto," I answered.

Luna held my right arm tight but she too kept watching.

This was the first B level threat since I arrived in this world, excluding the ones that already existed and hadn't been dealt with.

I had heard and read about them, city-level threats that were rare and only happened periodically.

You had of course smaller B level threats like the Snatchers had been but they were barely rated a B because they tended to create bigger problems that on their own could develop into a B level threat.

Hunter J, for example, was only an A level threat because she pisses off Legendaries on a regular basis, not because of her firepower.

But the situation in Seawave City was the first direct B level threat I had seen, yet I kept watching. I am a human after all and I could not look away from a train wreck.

I considered briefly if I should let my Pokémon see this.

Luna was mostly unfazed by it, she watched the video with more morbid curiosity but she didn't seem to be afraid. Yeah she kept hugging my arm but I suspected that the video was an excuse and not the reason.

Fay herself was horrified by the situation in Johto, her eyes were wide and she was holding onto a pillow.

But maybe this could be something Fay needed, she wanted to kill Hunter J, maybe seeing the chaos a B level threat caused might put some perspective into that.

Still, there was one thing missing.

Oracle had marked this event as important because there was a giant Pokémon.

No matter how bad the situation in Seawave City seemed to be, situations like these were nothing out of the ordinary in the world of Pokémon.

As if the cameraman had heard my thoughts he changed the angle of the camera and panned out.

This time it showed the battle closer to the seashore.

"It's still unknown who or what caused the Gyarados to become this angry," the reporter cried out, "There has been no official response from the Johto League yet, besides raising the threat level and-"

The helicopter swayed and the woman screamed, underneath the helicopter a huge tidal wave had formed and headed towards the city and in the process almost swept the helicopter out of the air.

The helicopter stabilized and the woman tried to continue as if nothing had happened, "But it's clear that the situation is grim."

Talking about grim, the camera angle changed again and this time it focused on a much bigger Gyarados.

It had the size of a small skyscraper and it swam through the shoreline as if it was a big earthworm, slithering around torn down buildings or at times, it even swam straight through them, seemingly unhurt by the falling debris.

The Gyarados in question was 4 times bigger than a normal one and was glowing faintly red.

The giant Gyarados was angry, that much was clear. It lashed out with its entire body, sending tidal waves everywhere and tearing through everything on its path.

The Gyarados itself also had a weird weather effect surrounding him, a red sky was visible above him and made it look like the creature came from the depths of Tartarus.

"Impossible," I muttered, "What a joke."

The Gyarados opened its mouth and a huge laser tore through the skyline and it would have blown apart a pocket of survivors, if it hadn’t been blocked by a light barrier that appeared in its path and shot the laser back.

This angered Gyarados even more.

A constant barrage of attacks surrounded the giant creature and it was clear that the most firepower available to the defenders had been put into stopping the big Gyarados.

People sitting on the backs of flying Pokémon swarmed around the creature, dragons and birds alike. Even a few Ghost Pokémon floated in the air and tried to attack the Gyarados.

The fact that it was huge made it easier to hit but on the flip side, it was surrounded by water which the giant used to block attacks and move around quickly.

Gyarados was hit by the reflected Hyper Beam and went under and for a brief moment, it looked like it was down for good.

Then it flew straight up, like a Venus flytrap it snapped close upon an unfortunate Pokémon trainer on a Skarmory. The giant swallowed both of them.

The people flying around it began attacking again.

The camera swayed and panned in on a certain individual. It was a blue-haired woman riding on top of a Dragonite, her hair bound in a ponytail and swaying in the wind.

She and the Dragonite flew around the Gyarados and targeted the eyes with long-ranged attacks.

The Gyarados seemed to hate her more than the others because it lunged for the pair, its entire body flying out of the water as if it was made of paper instead of flesh and bones.

She didn't hesitate and dropped straight down with her Dragonite, narrowly avoiding the huge jaw, before pulling up and continuing their attack.

"News update," the female reporter shrieked from behind the camera.

She was cut off by a loud bang.

And when I say loud I mean ear-shattering.

The camera panned out and again focused on the city as a whole.

All the previous weather effects had disappeared and now all the clouds above the city were turning black. Suddenly the city was covered in a thick, black blanket that blocked most of the sunlight.

Lightning arced through the sky everywhere and the black clouds in the city began to swirl around each other in a tornado-like fashion. All the clouds and lightning seem to connect above the giant serpent.

Lightning coiled around it in the air and over the water, skipping over the surface but strangely not getting absorbed by it.

I thought that it was Gyarados' doing but the giant itself was also surprised by this new development.

The swirling tornado in the sky began to form into a wind funnel and all the water in the city began to swirl too, as if the entire city had become the center of a huge tornado.

The clouds in the middle of the vortex parted and the light shone through, forming an almost angelic beam from the sky.

In the middle of the beam, a large creature was revealed, it descended down from above the clouds and slowly hovered down to fly above the giant Pokémon.

It was white and big, definitely big. The creature didn't look like anything I've ever seen on my earth, the closest thing would be a dinosaur.

It folded its two big white wings outward, like an angel displaying her wings and managed to keep hovering in the air.

Lightning kept flashing through the air and rain disturbed the sight yet it was pretty clear who had arrived.

I couldn't make out the expression but the body language revealed one thing; it was pissed.

The electricity that had gathered from all over the city started to make its way towards the flying dragon and gathered around the white wings.

"What is that?" Fay asked.

"Lugia," I answered, my own eyes practically glued to the screen.

Gyarados didn't like the newcomer and opened its mouth, a multicolored beam the size of a skyscraper shot out of its mouth towards the flying Legendary.

Lugia slammed its wings forward and all the electricity around it shot towards Gyarados.

The electricity transformed into something comparable to a spear as it left Lugia's wings and headed towards the giant serpent.

The Hyper Beam didn't even delay the attack, the spear ripped through it like it was made of paper, Gyarados didn't even have the chance to look surprised.

The spear hit it in the head and flew straight through it with a loud crackling sound.

It exploded into a red mist that could've been blood but I suspected it was something entirely different.

The giant stopped moving and dropped dead in the water.

A silence followed like the figurative calm before the storm. The hostile, smaller Gyarados had stopped their rampage and stared at the sky. People and Pokémon alike were captivated by the looming Legendary that hovered above the city.

Lugia surveyed the flooded city underneath it without moving from the spot.

Now that the fighting had stopped, the damage was visible. The skin of the city was ripped open and the wounds were finally able to be seen. Parts of the city had frozen and were covered while other parts were on fire. The roads that weren't flooded had cracks in them, visibly displaying parts of the city that had sunken into the ground due to seismic attacks. The areas that had been flooded looked like they were part of the sea with islands sticking out made of buildings and piled up rubbish.

Lugia raised its head upwards towards the sky and let out a howl that roared over the city like a tidal wave of sound.

The water in the city began to stir, though it wasn't the Gyarados' doing this time. Everywhere water began to retreat to the original shoreline, taking cars, street lamps and mangled bodies with it.

The Gyarados who had been fighting were dragged into the water with whirlpools that began to form around them. They tried to flee the retreating tidal wave but failed.

The tidal wave reached the height of Lugia and swept over the city and took everything with it, revealing the dry ruins of the city underneath it.

Some buildings had come out unscratched, a gas station seemed to be totally intact. Other buildings, like a city mall, were completely torn apart.

The tidal waves were harmful to the Gyarados but left the humans and Pokémon unharmed, creating gaps wherever needed to keep them out of harm's way.

The sea finally returned to the original shoreline and Lugia let out a second cry.

The water in the sea began to twist and formed a whirlpool the size of a football field. Lugia dove forward and flew towards the whirlpool; ignoring the city underneath it. And then it was gone.

The woman behind the camera managed to find her voice after a full 10 seconds of silence.

"A-and it seems that Lugia has left the scene," She finally spoke.

I stopped the video and closed the laptop, deciding that I had seen everything I needed.

A more detailed report would be released later probably with more information, though I was already glad I had seen Lugia in action.

"What is Lugia?" Fay asked incredulously when she realized the video ended.

{Who?} Luna asked.

"A Legendary Pokémon," I answered with awe, "Guardian of the seas, if I'm correct."

Lugia was the first Legendary I had seen in action and my mind was still processing what I had just witnessed.

I began to understand why some people in this world thought of them as gods.

They weren't like the lvl 50 ones in the game that a 10 year old could catch.

True, my sample size was small but from what I've gathered Legendary Pokémon were truly godlike power-wise.

It shouldn't have amazed me like that but it did and Lugia was only the tip of the Legendary iceberg. Lugia hadn't even battled, only swatted aside the annoying fly that was Gyarados.

And that was only Lugia, what about the other Legendaries?

I read that Victini had destroyed an entire country long ago, I had disregarded it as a myth; I had seen the anime after all.

But it might have been true.

Legendaries in this world were nothing like the ones in the games or anime.

And one of them had brought me here in this world.

It was concerning if Legendary Pokémon were this strong then what could be the reason they needed me? An unpowered human from earth?

What was Fate's gameplan?