"Catstar!" Pikachu cried. She turned to face him groggily, still slightly uneasy on her feet after all that had happened, "Catstar! I think Gengar saved us..." he looked distant for a moment, before becoming his cheery self again. "But anyways, we saved the world! Hooray!"

"I'll shoot my Water Gun to kickstart this party!" her friend, Blastoise, announced.

"Not near me!" another local, Lombre, cried out. Everyone laughed. Octillery sneaked behind him, holding him in a tight grip.

"Get him, Blastoise! I've got him so he can't move!" Everyone laughed, but Catstar remained distant. She remembered what she'd been told would happen... She closed her eyes, to think.

"The time has come, Catstar..." a voice suddenly said. She opened her eyes to see the see-through image of Gardevoir before her, "Your role in thie world has ended. If there was a way to let you stay here, I'd do everything to help you.

"But I'm afraid there isn't. You'd best be saying your goodbyes..." Tears filled her eyes as the psycic type faded away. Pikachu spun to face his partner.

"C-Catstar! What's happening to you?! Why are you surrounded in light?!" she looked down; sure enough, she could see small beads of light drifting up near her, then fading away as they streaked higher through the air, new bubbles of light forming near the ground. They were surrounding her tightly, with a small gravitational pull coming from each, trying to ease her gently into the air. However, each was too small and in quantities nowhere near enough to manage the feat. She closed her eyes, facing her best friend.

"Pikachu... I'm sorry I never told you. You know how Gardevoir has been coming to me in dreams? Well, she told me last night that this was my role. To save the world. Now my role's ended, I guess I have to return to the human world..."

"N-no!" Pikachu cried, tearing up.

"I can't stop this from happeneing, Pikachu." she gave a shaky laugh, "Believe me, if I could, I would. But don't keep your victory short-lived. I'll be out there somewhere... Wishing I still had you." She shielded her eyes. "(Oof, the light's getting brighter now... I'll never forget you... Farewell, friend.)" She soon felt the light finally gaining enough energy to lift her, feeling her paws raise from the ground slightly...

"You can't leave!" Pikachu wailed, "What ha- Aren't we friends?"

"Yes. You'll always be my friend, Pikachu. I'll never forget you..."

"D-don't go..." PIkachu begged.

"I'm so sorry, Pikachu. I'm blessed to have met you..."

"B-but... What am I going to do, now?!"

"I'm so sorry... This is goodbye..."

"Catstar!" Charizard yelled.

"No! Catstar!" the youngest pokémon present, Caterpie, wailed.

"Catstar!" Jumpluff added, along with all the others. However, Pikachu never sais anything, filled with too much anguish to manage. The Eevee saw as a huge bubble of light surrounded her, making it impossible to see but somehow not hurting her eyes. Her paws fully lifted off the ground as she began floating through the air. She felt wightless as she ploughed through the sky, soon leaving past the sunset, seeing the stars around her as she drifted...

"I don't wanna go..." she whined. However, as if on cue, her memories of her human life flooded back to her. Becoming a pokemon trainer, her favorite pokemon who was ironically a Pikachu, whose name was Sparx, meeting Gradevoir one day, who had begged her to save the pokémon world. After a lot of protest, she'd finally agreed, asking for her to have her memory erased upon getting there ands returned upon leaving if she succeeded, just to prove she could be of value. Gardevoir had reluctantly accepted, sending her there, which was when she woke up in Tiny Woods, found by Pikachu...

"I don't wanna leave..." she moaned again, "I want to stay longer... With my invaluable... Irreplaceable friend..." A voice suddenly filled her head.

"If this is really what you want... If you really feel this way...

Perhaps one day, you'll meet again."
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Somewhere in the same time, in a dimension far away, a Riolu sighed. He had no idea... He had no idea what was going to happen to her, soon.

They had just set off down a rocky path, leading away from a place known as Temporal Tower. For some reason, the tower had been collapsing, and the planet would have been paralised if they hadn't have stepped in, collecting the five Time Gears, discovering the mysterious Hiden Land and fighting Dialga. The only problem was, she was from the furure, and she had changed time, from the past. Meaning her timeline no longer existed. She knew she was going to dissappear from existence, soon.

But she just couldn't tell him.

No, it would hurt too much. He'd never let her go... He paused, realising she wasn't following close by.

"Hey, what's up?" he asked. She was slient for a moment, before finally answering.

"...Nothing, Shinx. Coming." The hurried onward, following her companion away. However, she soon involentarily slowed down, her feet dragging. "(Why do I feel so heavy?)" she asked herself. "(Maybe... Maybe now that we've stopped the planet's paralisis, my own dissappearence is drawing near...)"

"Come on!" Shinx said, "Let's g- Wait... Catstar, what's happening to you?!" She suddenly saw light before her vision, in delicate little bubbles, before closing her eyes. It was time.

"I'm so sorry I never told you before, Shinx. But when you were checking the Rainbow Stoneship... Dusknoir told me, and Grovyle confirmed it. Since we saved time, I'm from a future that no longer exists... Meaning I'm destined to dissappear. Forever."

"H-huh?!" Shinx looked shocked and hurt. "What do you mean?! Wh- aren't we friends?"

"Of course, Shinx. You'll always be my friend. Forever. Even when I don't exist, our friendship will be eternal. And remember, friends will come and friends will go, but keep them close to your heart and they never left your from the start... Take care. I... I..." she finally brought herself to say it. It was the end; she had to tell him, or she'd have no reason to care. "I l-" She didn't get chance to say anything as the light around her brightened. She would vanish soon. "(It's getting brighter...)" she said to herself, "(I won't get time to say anything, soon...) Just... Take care. You have to live! Tell everyone about this; don't let history repeat itself. Tell everyone you know and everyone you don't. I'll miss you... For all eternity..."

Shinx's eyes filled with tears. "I'll never forget you, Catstar! Even if the laws of reality state I will, I won't! That I swear! I'll live my life as you said to... Goodbye..." He broke down in tears as soon as she vanished. She wasn't coming back to him. Ever.
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"(Huh?!)" she thought to herself, "(I thought I dissappeared... Why am I consious?)" She soon realised, when her memories came back with a jolt. She'd get to remmeber what her human life was like before she would think no more...

She rememebered everything now. The memories seemed distant and unreal, but they were there. She'd lived in the Kanto Region, until the town was under attack, so they'd moved to Sinnoh. The family was hard to support, especially since she couldn't even remember her father. She lost so much... She'd rescued a Shinx from an abandoned lab and named him Sparx, and she'd cared for him. But the family still suffered.. Until the day she found the dimensional hole. It took her to another world, alone, where she befriended a Treeko and another human, who had also ended up in this world. Sadly, in both worlds, the planet was paralised. But together, they'd managed to find a way to save time from the past... At the cost of their existence. However, in desperation to turn the world away from the misery it was bow facing, they all agreed, on the search for the time gear locations. Treeko evolved to Grovyle, and the team headed out to the Passage Of Time, helped by Celebi. However, something happened on the way, some mysterious foe trying to attack Grovyle, so she'd shielded him. Which was when...

So. She had her memories back. Right before the end. But it was her time.

In mere moments, her life had suddenly never happened.