NuzRea Oneshots

(angst/fluff) Future!Carter AU

The rain poured down on the lone Pokemon and his trainer. Carter kept shaking the rain off of his fur, but the storm kept soaking him again in seconds, so he quickly gave up. He held himself against his trainer, who sat in the mud, wiping tears from under her glasses. Her sobs rode on the air, twisting in the breeze stirred by the rain. Carter laid his paw against her shaking hand, and kept staring forwards at the five shoddily dug graves.

Team Flare had hit fast and hard, wiping their team in what seemed like mere seconds by the giant blue beast they had summoned, it's wrath seeped through the ground and killed anything in it's path. Sharpay had fallen first, protecting her lover and adopted child. Fleur and Hibiscus weren't long after, dying by the large beast's hooves. Laura had thrown herself in it's horns, protecting their trainer with her life- and Froaklin left them last, fighting the beast until his- and it's- last breath.

Carter wiped his eyes, and clenched his paws into fists. That damn beast, and that DAMNED Team Flare... they filled him with the utmost rage. The psychic cat bared his teeth and let the tears poured from his eyes. He wished he could start everything over, to save them, to save them all...

He closed his eyes and lent into Rea's soaked jacket. There had to be a way... there had to be a way.

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When Carter opened his eyes again, he was laying in the grass, alone. He shot up, shock ripping through his features. Rea was gone, and the five shotty graves were gone, too. His fur spiked as he jumped to his feet. The Meowstic immediately started looking around for his trainer. Long grass surrounded him- and he realised where he was.

Why was he home? Him and Clara hadn't been here in a while, last time he was.. was before he joined Rea's team. His eyes widened in shock, and the grass nearby rustled. The blue-furred cat puffed his pelt out and watched intently. Two Espurr stumbled from the large plants, laughing up a storm- and he recognised them immediately.

That was himself and Clara.

His paws shot up to his mouth and a gasp escaped his lips. No, what? He was here, not there. He was a Meowstic now, not an Espurr. This was right before...

Almost as if on cue, Rea, her friend and her team popped out of nowhere and tossed the two Poke-Balls they had directly at him. His younger self's purple fur puffed as he was bopped with the ball, along with his sister in the other ball.

Carter was in shock as he watched, from a different perspective, his trainer picked him from his sister. (and her friend, picking up his sister's Poke-Ball.)

He... could save everyone. A grunt and a nod, he watched his trainer and her friend walk away, and slowly followed them. "I can. I will."

"For them."

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He knew what would happen today. Carter had been following Rea and her team of Pokemon- what he was once part of- for a while now, anticipating this day. Team Flare would be trying to summon Xerneas- no, that BEAST, today. He had done small things to warn Rea of things- from tripping, to this... event.

He hated not being able to tell them, but that would cause either himself or his... younger self to disappear forever. Instead, he left little 'omens', little gifts or doodles in the dirt to explain things to stop what he had seen... And Rea seemed to have picked up on these, doing things differently that he had seen.

She and her team of Pokemon went to stop Team Flare this time, Carter's hints had lead to Lysandre's betrayal. The first time, Carter's time, Lysandre wasn't outed. They had been in Anistar City when the beast was released the first time.

Carter had snuck through the Team Flare HQ alongside his trainer- albeit unknown. Lysandre went off on a tangent about the large beast in the big tree hidden in the base. Carter, from the shadows, watched his trainer and his friends.

The tree began to shine, glowing brightly. Rea's arms shot up to guard her vision. The shadows he was hiding in evaporated, but no one noticed him due to the light's glare as the tree fell apart and that foul beast came out again. Carter felt his fur bristle and his tail smack the ground in anger. He hated this thing.

Rea and Lysandre started yelling at both eachother and the beast, who roared and began to stomp around. Carter could barely keep himself still, his anger flared.

Froaklin and Laura immediately took a defensive position around Rea, while Sharpay and Hibiscus surrounded the shaking Fleur and.. Himself. Carter wished that he was able to be there.

The beast took a step and roared, baring it's horns at his trainer before rushing. Carter felt his legs move, and he rushed the beast from the side with a roar. The shock hung in the room as the bandana wearing Meowstic clawed it's way to the beast. He slammed into it's side and roared at his fellow Pokemon to get their trainer out of there, to which they scrambled to do as he clawed at the giant beast.

He would save them. He promised, after all. He felt himself start to dissapear as he clawed, fought the beast tooth and nail.

He just hoped this would be enough.