Hybrid Ascension: Ghosts of Lylat (Pokemon/StarFox Crossover RP #2)

[Otebon Albrecht]

"Are you suggesting that our fates are already sealed? That we are set along a path with no deviations. We have no free will?" Althea cradled Will in her arms and rocked him back and forth, just like her mother used to do to her when she was that small. "Then I would have to say no. I believe I forge my own path."

Althea smiled and looked down at Will as he started to drift off into sleep. "Are you saying that this might be a fate we choose for ourselves? That this is 'in the cards' for you and I? Then... perhaps." She shut her mouth and eyes tightly as she laughed a Recon laugh. Her body rocked in laughter, but she made no sound so that she didn't bother little Will. "I'd like to go on a few more dates first though!"

[BusterBuizel]

"Of course, but for now enjoy the dream. Look at the sky," Ghost smiled, ear to ear then relaxed as the sky turned a vivid orange from the sunset, "This is beautiful. I've never seen the sky turn this shade of orange. Then again, this is a dream."


Behind Althea was a young Eevee about Will and Alyssa's age. Ghost took notice to Tanya standing by a tree.


"Whoa, are we sharing dreams again Tanya?"


"Uh? Wait, this is a dream? Ghost, Althea? Quincy! Come over here puppy!" Tanya patted her thighs and her son came running towards her, "This is a weird dream. how'd I know your name puppy?"


Suddenly Mikey came out of the forest with a Buizel wrapped in his arms, "Hmm... Let me guess? David left the psyonic damper on reverse didn't he?" Mikey looked down at the Buizel and moved his head back in slight surprise, "I think this is my son..."


"Well, I guess since we're having a shared experience I guess this is the time to reflect and apologize for everything that happened yesterday. Sorry Althea. Hey, Quincy! Will you stop licking me!" said Tanya.


"Wait, where's Zak?" Mikey looked about. He was sitting by the edge of a pond fishing with a graphite rod.


"Here..." Zak acknowledged but didn't look away.


"...Oh... Yeah, you're a hybrid organism. I feel really bad for you man," Tanya came up to Zak and patted his shoulder.


"Doesn't matter, I've done a great service to the Federation. If nothing else I'm proud of that. It still doesn't fill the void," he sighed, "Thanks anyway Tanya... I'll see you guys in the morning, just leave me be."

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea saw Tanya and Mikey and stood there, dumb-founded as they simply moved through the dreamscape. It took all her almost-subconscious dreaming to not exert her will on the world around her to make her fall into the earth beneath her feet and out of the dream. In a shared dream like this one, those with training and the original dreamer held power. Tanya, Mikey, and Zak were at the mercy of Althea in this world, but she could only function as Ghost allowed...

She snapped to attention with Will in her arms. Sadly, the motion woke him up. "Captain Mikey, Captain Tanya. I must suggest that you all leave immediately. This is not a neutral dreamspace, but Ghost's subconscious. If you wish, I can draw us into a neutral zone, but we must leave post haste. His body in it's current condition cannot handle the strain."

[BusterBuizel]

David appears from the top of a tall oak tree and hops down near the crowd.


"Actually," he paused, "Since I was concerned for Ghost, I turned the psyonic damper to vector all our dreams into a neutral space. Althea just happened to get here first. You're in stable condition Ghost, we'll have a new lung into you. And Althea, go ahead and ease up your psyonic powers, you're all good."


"Cool, thanks man," Ghost smiled.


"Daddy? What is the strange yellow porcupine thingy doing here?" Alyssa prodded her father.


"He's a friend. Hey Dave, can you explain to us why our possible future kids are here?"


"Couldn't tell you. The damper jumped off your dream. By the way, Tohaku and Ryan should be here soon."


Mikey looked towards Althea and smiled, "Meh, at ease Vo- I mean, Miss Lee. I didn't mean to snap. I could try to shake your paw again, but this little Buizel is asleep. Still friends?"


The Eevee in Tanya's arms jumped off and sniffed at Alyssa. The young kit and the pup started to play and roll.

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea broke eye contact with Mikey and looked down to her "son". She needed the time to think. After clutching Will to her chest she bowed to Mikey and stayed bent. "I apologize for my behavior earlier. It was unnecessary and rash. When the lives of comrades are on the line, it was taught to me that speed is of the essence and you hesitated Captain." She rose and met his eyes with a slight smile. "But we are still friends if you can have me under your command."

Now that that's out of the way... Althea turned to David.

"Although I appreciate the effort of allowing us all to 'visit' Ghost in this fashion and allowing me to rest while still able to apologize to the Captains, this is bordering on the inexcusable. I don't know about the rest of us, but I certainly didn't give my acquiescence to allow you into my mind," Her voice dropped to an infuriated whisper "especially after what you mentioned to me!"

[BusterBuizel]

"Relax, relax. I'm just dozing off and needed to tell you guys why you're all here. Besides, I don't sleep until I'm done with a project. Have fun with your kids!" David faded from the dreamspace and awoke on his table, unknowingly drooling on the sensitive components of the rifle.
 
"Damnit! This is why I don't sleep during there jobs!"
 
Meanwhile in the dreamspace Tanya's pup was as curious as it was cute. He pawed at Althea and Alyssa, playfully teasing them. Mikey whispered to Althea.
 
"Sorry, I shouldn't have snapped like that. As the Squad Leader I should have acted accordingly. Something about the unexpected threw me off," Mikey glanced down at his own son who was waking slowly and peacefully, "Go play with the others little guy."
 
They all sat down to view the sunset.

[tangletail]

Olaris was mean while asleep in a chair next to Tohaku. One leg crossed over the other, and both arms folded across his chest.

[Blackfang1002]

Tohaku gasped loudly, sitting up quickly as if he awoke from a nightmare. He looked around panicked and focused his dizzied eyes on his young love. "I.......I........I.....saw the creator.......I......died." he coughed heavily as he tried to catch his breath. "Olaris.....tell me I'm alive." he said with tears welling up in his eyes. "Is everyone ok? Did we......did we get the spy?" his eyes were no longer the ruby red they usually are but instead gold.

[Otebon Albrecht]

Letting little William out of her arms to play with Tanya's child, Althea smiled as her little boy laughed. With a simple thought she changed the dreamspace and created a small play ground for the pups. She sidled up near to Ghost and watched the vision of the sun begin to set behind the horizon.

"Tell me a bit about your home Ghost," Althea said, ignoring the previous conversation. She had always been taught that once a disagreement as brought to a successful completion, you move on. There is no need to scratch and dig at a wound that needed to heal. "Tell me of your childhood. Why you are who you are."

[tangletail]

Olaris woke up after hearing a familiar voice, and looked down to Tohaku. He studdied him for a moment, blinking away the sleepiness from his eyes before giving the fox a warm smile. Naturally... the fox wanted to play a prank on the other one as he leaned down to place a loving kiss on his lips. “No hun... we're dead. But everyone is peachy... I am glad to have you to myself though... we have each other,” he rasped as he wrapped an arm around him after hunching over his body.

[Blackfang1002]

He smiled lightly as he snuggled closely to his companion. "I love you. I missed you so much." he began to weep lightly. "I'm so sorry I left." he held Olaris close, trying to ignore his previous comment of their death. "Am......am I really alive?"

[BusterBuizel]

Ghost leaned over and smiled, "After I was brought home from the Ishimura I lived with my father in the United States of Treasure Nation. I grew up in the state of Arisona and often spent my time playing in the desert sun. When I was about nine years old my dad had to be stationed near the UPF Capitol, Emerald City. We moved into a nice one story house with a helipad in the back for his tiltrotor. We actually lived a hundred miles from the Emerald City so we needed a family aircraft to go from place to place. Everyone had a personal aircraft so traveling from country to country wasn't difficult or expensive. Thank goodness we live in this day and age right? As I was saying, My dad and I actually lived in Pearl City, which was were the Royal Family lived. I met Mikey and he became my first friend after I moved. I never really had friends back in the desert. My father would homeschool me and we lived far away from the cities on an old ranch house. Every summer we'd always go back and hunt in the desert. He might have sheltered me from others, but never from nature. He never fully recovered from my mom's death. Something about that old desert always captivated him. I forgot to mention how cold I felt after I moved to Pearl City. I honestly thought that when it was snowing there was a sandstorm of extremely cold, clumped white sand. What about you dear?"


Zak came back into the dream, still sitting by the lake and playing an acoustic guitar singing to himself.
 
"They keep playing sad songs on the radio
And I feel like I'm so alone
On this 15 hour drive
And all the while I tell myself to just believe
Cause nobody can give so much
And never get anything
Everyone I used to know
says they don't know what I've become
But I'm still the same
Not much has changed
I still know where I came from
I fell asleep with the lights on
And I can see that you're the first one in a long time
That had some faith in me"

[tangletail]

The fox smiled, making sure not to place to much wait on Tohaku's chest, or anything that would cause him issues to breath before sighing softly, "You're ok hun. You're peachy for now." The fox's hands patted his side as he remained in the other's embrace, "You shouldn't have left..."

[Otebon Albrecht]

Althea looked down at her hands folded in her lap. As she had always been taught, she was kneeling comfortably on her heels, her tails wrapped tightly around her legs. Searching for a moment to think and order her thoughts, she glanced over at Zak and listened to his song for a few seconds.

"My childhood was... interesting," Althea said softly to Ghost. "My father was a wonderful, strong man. I always imagined that he'd wanted male pups, but that didn't stop him from doting on my sister and I. We lived in the Luna Isles far away from anyone else. We were isolated and lived in a home that had been built in a very old style. When I was young and my sister had just been born, my parents spent every effort to teach me art and poetry, but I excelled in the realm of weapons. By the age of 12 I was able to hit a bird out of a tree with a bow 9 times out of 10. My father pushed me to join the military after that and went with me to choose my first rifle."

Althea looked up to the sunset. "My sister, Kimiko Voss, was almost the exact opposite. She picked up the modes of poetry and literature quicker than I had learned how to field strip a rifle. Her realm had always been the mind. She's a skilled telepath and has been published many times over." Althea's hand casually brushed against the small notebook in her pocket, something so tied to her personality that it manifested here in the Realm of Dreams without a conscious thought. "I love my dear little sister more than anything and take every opportunity and shore leave to visit her."

[BusterBuizel]

"I think this is a good opportunity for all of us to discover ourselves. Zak, get over here. You're not alone man, I'm here for you," Mikey got up and rallied everyone around, even the pups as they nestled near their fathers and mothers. He walked up to Zak and helped him up.


"Mind if we all share Althea?"