Riley woke up. He was in a dark room. "Where am I?!", he exclaimed as he looked around. "Welcome.", a voice said. "Who's there?", Riley asked. "It's not who, it's what.", the voice said. Then masks started to appear around the dark room. Then Riley started to see visions of the world being taking over by darkness. People and Pokemon alike fighting against it.
All of a sudden Riley was in a destroyed city in flames with other people and Pokemon fighting against one shadow figure, but with a mask. All the survivors yelled commands to their Pokemon attacking the shadow. A huge explosion occurred and as the smoke cleared, the shadow has disintegrated. But as his vision moved closer, Riley could see the mask floating in the air. The sky went dark and a black wave of death came right at the survivors and their Pokemon. As the wave hit, Riley watched in horror as the bodies were disintegrated in front of with insane laughter coming from the mask.
The next thing Riley knew, he was back in the dark room, kneeling to someone. As he looked up, a man with the mask was staring at him. "We live and work in the shadows to achieve our purpose. To prevent a future death and desire. Your purpose is our purpose.", the man in the mask stated. "I'm nothing like you murderers!", Riley exclaimed as he tried to escape his kneeling position but to no avail. "Or are you?", the man with the mask stated as he removed his mask to reveal none other than Riley himself.
"I know you feel it, the desire to burn everything down. Revenge is part of OUR past. And you will soon achieve it!", the evil Riley said as he started to laugh uncontrollably. His body started to dissolve into a dark cloud which started to consume everything around him as the area had changed back to the destroyed city. Riley tried to run as the darkness chased him through the city. As he ran, he looked up at the highest building. A group of people with masks looked down on him causing Riley to freeze. He started to lose air as the darkness consumed him.
When Riley opened his eyes once again, he was in complete darkness. His body walked on it's own. When his body stopped, Riley was staring at a mask. "To escape the darkness, you must take it.", a voice said as he reached for the mask. Riley paused before he touched the mask. "Take it.", the voice ordered. Riley took the mask and held it in his hands as looked at it. "To stop the evil consuming this plagued world, to protect the life of this world, and to use the power for a even greater goal, you must surrender yourself.", the voice said. Visions of his mother being murdered in front of him, his father leaving him, his second family also being murdered, him standing on a pool of blood holding a bloody axe over one of the dead murderers, and more started to resurface in Riley's mind. "Yes, to stop this, you must.", the voice said. Things started to go blurry, but the last Riley saw was himself putting on the mask.
Riley woke up and sat up breathing heavily and sweating. "What was that?!", he said as he looked at his hands. He looked out the window in his hotel to see the sun rising. "It-it was just a nightmare. There must've been a Darkrai around or something.", he thought as he sat on the side of his bed. As he went to the bathroom to get ready for the day, the window opened and closed, and a mask exactly the same from the dream was there on the table on the other side of the bed.
