Prologue, part 2: The First Notes of Disonance

Meanwhile, in an unknown location somewhere in Kanto...

A white haired boy in black and blue armor reclined on a couch inside a cavernous room that served as a study. The blue parts of the boy's armor glowed, giving the large cave, the boy's face and majestic dragon-like wings an ethereal blue sheen.

He studied a small computer screen for a moment, then pressed a button on a communicator. "Toran, Tendua, report."

A yellow and a blue light formed in the room. The yellow light materialized into a black haired young man wearing a white and yellow costume that evoked a desert land, complete with a hood that evoked a Raikou's head and flowing purple and gold cape. "You called, Chief?"

The blue light formed into a purple haired girl in a short cyan, white and blue kimono-like outfit with an elegant crystal crown on her head. "I await your command, Lord Bedlam."

"How good of you both to arrive so promptly." Bedlam smiled before inviting the Raikou-man and the Suicune-lady to look at the laptop screen. "This is the world I want to target next, particularly because of one particular Pokemon that lives there." he explained as an image of the world blipped on the screen.

"So, what Pokemon d'ya want destroyed, Chief?" Toran asked, bemused at the scenes of cities and landscapes that blipped by on the screen

Bedlam conjured an image of a small sprite Pokemon with flowing music staff like hair. "This is the one."

"Aw, it's cute!" Tendua smiled, hearts in her eyes. "I'd want to keep it as a pet, not destroy it!"

"The reason why we must destroy it has to do with this world's defenses." Bedlam explained as he changed his image to display Ash and several other people receiving ID bracelets in preparation for a battery of medical, physical, and mental testing. "The humans have recently developed a supersuit that draws on the very songs that created the world itself--the Awakening Songs." His image changed again to display Dawn's transformation. "Without these special songs, the supersuits cannot awaken, and the world is defenseless against our attack. The only way to get rid of the Awakening Songs is to destroy the music sprite."

"I see..." Toran noted.

"If it pleases you, we want to scout out this world and try to find where the sprite may be before we move in." Tendua suggested. "Who am I to think that tiny sprite is more powerful than it appears?"

"A wise decision, Tendua." Bedlam smiled. "Before you summon any monsters, you should always know your opponent."

"Aw, why can't we just pound it and take over the world?" Toran protested.

"Raw power is not always the best strategy." Bedlam reminded the handsome Raikou-man. "Sometimes, the best offense is a good defense."

Tendua turned to depart. "Come on, let's go plan a strategy."

"Right behind ya!" With that, Toran and Tendua formed into lights again, and departed Bedlam's chamber.

After winding around many of the cave's twisting and turning corridors, the two beastpeople found themselves back in the suite the two of them shared. Toran's room had various weaponry magazines and blueprints scattered around the floor, as well as manufacturer posters, spaceship and weapon pinups, and drawings on the walls. More drawings and blueprints covered the bookshelves, in addition to the books themselves.

Tendua winced at her brother's messy room. "You could stand to clean this place..."

"But I know where everything is!" Toran protested as he shoved aside some blueprints to retrieve a Pokedex.

"But it looks like a mess to me!" Tendua retorted as she waded through the pieces of models and wadded up blueprints to sit down at a table.

"Yeah, but it's an organized mess!" Toran smiled. Tendua just rolled her eyes as Toran punched a few buttons on the Pokedex, then invited Tendua to see the image of the sprite Pokemon. "Meloetta, the melody Pokemon. Many famous songs have been inspired by the melodies that she plays."

"Cute and powerful..." "Tendua noted. We need to bring it back here alive before we destroy it."

Torn was unimpressed. "But if any of the defense forces show up, I'll bring along the mysterian swordsman Zodoma to take it on."

"But what if the girl has sword skill to equal Zodoma in that super suit?" Tendua cautioned.

"Okay, then how about we try calling forth something the humans know to be fantasy in their world?" Toran suggested, conjuring a scene from the final battle from New Super Mario Bros. U

"But then everyone knows how to defeat it--not just the defensive forces!" Tendua sighed.

She got up from the table. "You can try to pound them with raw power if you like, but don't come crying to me when the defensive forces defeat you!"

Toran also got up from the table as his sister departed for her room. "Hm..." he mused as he watched the image of Dawn transforming again and again. "What if I focus not on the one that has a super suit, but one of the recruits?" he wondered.

A smiled formed on his face. "That's it! Maybe if I took out the recruits first, then they can't spawn more after I defeat the first one!"

He assumed the form of a yellow light again and raced from the room, giddily chuckling all the while...