Pokémon: Beginning Prelude

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Annual meeting of Gods

High in the sky above Sinnoh, above Mt. Coronet, lay the meeting hall of the legendaries. Of course at the head of it all was Arceus. His most powerful creations, the Dimensional Rulers: Dailga, Palkai, and Giritina. Arceus made them his most powerful tools. They kept him informed and helped him hold the universe together.

Arceus put the Planet shapers together: Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquasa, Heatran, Regigigas, and Shaymin in the next seats of power. The land shapers were responsible for creating and now maintaining certainty aspects of the planet they now all lived on. If only they didn't argue so much…

Next was Arceus's personal favorite, the Land janitors. They only maintained, never held fits about what should go where. They were Ho-oh, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Entei, Raikou, Suicune, Celebi, Uxie, Mespirit, Azelf, Manaphy, Phione, Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus. These legends were responsible for the upkeep of the lands and domain. He often put them under the power of the higher legendaries, the shapers, to keep the planet beautiful and able to sustain life.

Then came the agents. He used these legendaries to hold together the peace among Pokémon and humans. They were sent around under his orders or the orders of the Dimensional rulers to keep the peace and order. They were: Mew, Mewtwo, Luigia, Latias, Latios, Deoxys, Cresselia, Darkrai, Victini, Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion, and Moloetta. (He hardly ever got Meloetta to work though; she preferred to hang out at concerts, opera houses, and… anywhere connected to music.)

Then came those Arceus didn't know what to do with. Mewtwo often fell into this column. Mewtwo, being human made, didn't have a purpose. (He kept sending agents to bring Mewtwo forth, but none ever found him. If they did, he often refused to come; Sometimes violently.) Finally Arceus had had enough of the rogue and had ordered Mew and Rayquasa to hunt him down and bring Mewtwo to spear pillar, even if he had to be unconscious. That had been a funny battle to watch. Arceus could've sworn he'd made Rayquasa more powerful than Mew. Finally presented with Mewtwo, he had recruited him into the Legends. Mewtwo was assigned to work with Deoxys, who really hit it off with the other legendary.

Nowadays he was left unsure as to what to do with Genesect, a resurrected ancient Pokémon. Genesect was a legendary from the past, whom offended too many other legendaries. He was hunted down and imprisoned underground. The humans let him out and forcibly improved him. Upgrade…The humans had upgraded Genesect. He was now cybernetic, Amnesiac, and clinically insane. For now Arceus decided to put Genesect to work as an agent, working alongside Mewtwo and Deoxys. (This leaves the golem trio to their master, Regigigas, who orders them to alternate maintaining and guarding the tree of life.)

The recently released Toa trio was something concerning. All the other legendaries had agreed to lock them up, for an undisclosed amount of time. It had taken all 43 other legends (Genesect held prisoner still) to capture and imprison Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem. When the humans had released the trio from imprisonment they came straight to Arcues to ask for a third chance, which he gave to them on the grounds they would have to stop fighting everything they met. He then put them in the Agents group, so as to keep a close eye on them. If they had not come to the meeting then he would have called the others to help hunt the trio down. For now they were loyal still.

Arceus had called ALL 47 legendaries away from their duties to assemble at Spear pillar, where He and the Space/Time twins lived. This is the annual meeting of Gods. They gathered here every year, to talk about how things had been developing, what they should do about it, and if they needed to intervene. Pokémon Politics, 101.

"Alright then", Began Arceus, "As Leader of the Dimensional Support of the Universe and the divine God Pokémon, I have declared the Annual meet of the Legendaries to order. I have no new news to report to any of you. The universe is maintained, no new disturbances. The dimensions continue to stay stable, and we have no need to fear sudden and unexpected erasing of existence."

"I now call Regigigas, leader of the Planet Shapers to speak." Regigigas took the stand. "All is well with the planet. We have no new shifting masses or tectonic plates. All is stable geologically at the moment. However, if necessary we are primed to destroy the planet if need be." Ah, Arceus mused, good 'ol Regigigas. It was a thing Arceus told them the minute they were created. "You are a legendary, one of my prime creations. You live to keep my will alive and executed. Should we have need to scrap this planet and start anew; I will take ALL my legendaries with me." It was true, if Arceus had to, he would destroy this world , without a seconds notice. Only the legendaries would be spared. He would then proceed to wipe the planet's remains from existence, and start over elsewhere.

"I now call Ho-oh, leader of the Land Janitors to speak." (Ho-oh was the most powerful and made good decisions, even if not all were happy about the results,) "We continue our constant battle against the humans, rowdy Pokémon, and over destructive forces of nature. It is to my deep regret to announce we are losing the fight. The numbers of humans just keep expanding. Sacred places are being wiped out by the never ending waves of humans. We hold what we can, but we recognize that without change the humans will win the war against nature." It was deeply troubling to Arceus, hearing such dire news from Ho-oh, who was loud brash, and unwilling to admit his mistakes. Things had to be going downhill fast for Ho-oh to have to admit it. Arceus made up his mind to find out the opinions of the other land maintainers.

"Ho-oh, please elaborate, and then let the others give short statements." Arceus asks. Ho-oh starts, "As the sun and rainbow Pokémon, I personally do not have much work to do normally. I just fly around the planet endlessly and watch, which is why you put me in charge of monitoring the planet. I can see new cities and towns crop up over the years, steadily getting larger. Forests shrink, oceans are poisoned, and the sky becomes smudged and unclean. Things are not going as they should, and we can trace them all back to humans!" Ho-oh declared to the group, steadily growing angrier as he talked.

"Do you all agree on this?" Arceus asked the other maintainers. "Well…" Spoke Zapdos; leader of the bird trio, "What Ho-oh says is true, everything is going downhill. We struggle to keep up, and the other two birds and I can't clean enough air fast enough to make a difference." Both Articuno and Moltres nodded sadly. Celebi spoke up for himself and the trio lake guardians, "We're posted in select places, so we can see t all happening. We upkeep our posts, but humans creep into our domains and take it over, slowly but surely. So much litter, you just wouldn't believe it! And-" Celebi sopped herself before she went onto a rant, so Manaphy took over, "Everywhere humans go there is trash and litter. The beaches and oceans are full of it, and it has become so common that some Pokémon have adapted to it! Remember when everything was so clean?" Manaphy spoke. Landorus spoke for the genies, "The humans reap what they have not sown, pillaging the ancient world. Such is disgraceful!" He told them all in his deep gravelly voice. Finally Entei spoke up, "The fields shrink as humans convert them into cities. There's less room for the remaining Pokémon. But sometimes they do good things, I know that they often try to become more environmentally friendly all the time, but they'll not very good at it. Perhaps they deserve as second chance." Entei said slowly. By the time he was done talking every other legendary Janitor agent (Besides Ho-oh, who had to stay silent) was yelling at the trio dogs.

"SILENCE!" roared Giritina. (Giritina's in charge of meeting order) Every Legendary shut up instantly. No-one crosses Giritina, EVER. There are myths that there once was lesser importance normal type trio of legendaries that offended Giritina, which is why there are 47 legendaries instead of 50. Only Arceus knows if this is true, and if it is, what ever happened was so horrible even GOD won't talk about it.

Once order was restored Arceus mulled over what he had just heard. He knew that the humans were a conflicting race, without a set nature, or habits. When he'd created them he had designed them as easy food sources for large predatory Pokémon, but to give them a sporting chance, he had made them intelligent. This grew into a problem as they outsmarted and evaded those predators, which then began shifting food sources. Eventually, the humans branched away from declared Pokémon, and begun conquering them. Arceus found them odd, and he had never made them quite like other Pokémon, so when they declared themselves a new life form, it had not taken him by surprise. But when they began to become a major power? That shocked Arceus. He knew for a fact they possessed little strength, poor bodies, were all normal type, and had very little endurance. They were supposed to be little better than Magikarps! Arceus didn't let them bother him though, choosing not to regard them as failures, but rather curiosities. For a long time they remained the same, so he had looked away and attended other matters. And now? Now it was impossible to destroy all of them without massive extinction of all the other Pokémon, even if he put every legendary up to it.

Finally Arceus came back to the meeting at hand. All the other Legends were behaving, waiting for him to return to them. Giritina made sure they didn't leave or try to summon his mind back to the there and now. "Alright…" Arceus declared after much deliberation. "We will seek out and recruit humans from this world and other dimensions who we sense will do well, and bring them here, to this Earth. Once here, they will act as Agents, working alongside the Legendary agents, to keep the world in balance and reduce humans actions against the environment. I recognize what comes next as disturbing and dangerous, but we must find a way to reduce the sheer amount of humans without killing all of them or harming the environment. This means no all out war with humans, and no massive genocides. Use stealthy means to…*Ahem*….cull their numbers. We mustn't let them know of our efforts."

This shocked the legendaries. For years they had been pushing to drop the human population and declare some human champions. And suddenly they had it. They set their minds as to what they could do with grisly determination.

And so it continued. Arceus speaks, "I now call Luigia, leader of the Agents to speak."(Where Ho-oh was quick to act and a good design maker for immediate solutions, Luigi thought in long term and more permanent solutions. Arceus wondered if he ought to switch the two around sometimes, given that Luigia would know how to best handle the natural world and Ho-oh was more a action-thinker) Luigia flew to the middle of the assembly hall to speak, "As the battle for nature's well-being continues, we have been given less and less things to do, so the agents have gone ahead and raised several champions who would be ideal for manipulation and ordering. (There was much cheering at this) Since we now have orders and ideas, we are ready to get back into action. All the legendary Agents are prepared to do whatever they might be ordered to do. Should we contact the wild Pokémon guilds and get them involved in this effort, or keep it strictly legendary material?" Luigia asked Arceus. The Guilds were groups of Pokémon of every type who took orders directly from the agents. However, none of them were full legendary (some pseudo legendaries and dragon types run it) so their power and impact were minimal.

Arceus pondered this. "What should we do? He asked the group aloud, waiting for opinions." Uxie looked up and spoke, "If we involve them, they can become more active and be our general army in our effort to keep the wild, wild. Grass types for forest upkeep, water for the oceans. We don't have to dump full responsibility on the legendaries. If we make them help us, it gives the more powerful legendaries time to put our plan into action." Uxie sat down and was quite.

Mewtwo stood up and spoke, "Uxie's idea is a good one. If we Legendaries have more time to eliminate the humans then we can have a larger impact." Mewtwo sat down; eyes alight with the prospect of carnage. Jirachi awoke (He can listen while asleep, just like every other legendary) and floated into plain view. "Maybe we should ask the wild Pokémon to band together to evade capture. We don't want to ham them after all", spoke Jirachi in his childish voice. The other legendaries all nodded and quietly agreed. Cresselia floated to the center and took the stand. "Maybe we should take a different route than just killing the humans. I know none of us really like that part, even if it has to be done." Several legendaries stared, particularly Darkrai, Mewtwo, Giritina, and Genesect. A little hurriedly Cresselia floated back to the sidelines where Meloetta prevented her from breaking down into tears with some soft music. Victini sneezed in the silence that followed and alarmed several other legendaries.

Arceus considered what Cresselia had said. Despite their dangers, he felt horrible about actively hunting down humans. Perhaps he could contain them? No, impossible. They would be too clever for that. As Arceus sat back and though, several other Legendaries spoke. Luigia wanted peace, but was willing to fight if he had to. Heatran wanted all out war. Groudon offered to cause several earthquakes but Celebi shot him down, explaining all the collateral damage that would cause. Giritina offered to go on and create a plague with the help of Darkrai and Azelf, but Mespirit and Uxie told them that that would be too dangerous, what if the plague spread to Pokémon? What then? No one had any ideas left. Killing the humans was something few of the legends wanted to do, but most were willing.

"What if," Began Dailga", What if we didn't kill them, instead just…pushed them I… dunno, into a void or something…?" Dialga began hopefully, looking over his twin Palkia." "Wouldn't work. Humans need oxygen and food and stuff. Void would just be genocide. But moving them is a good idea… We just need them to survive…" Palkai explained. Raikou got up and roared, drawing attention to himself. "What if we put them into another dimension? I mean, somewhere we aren't, but so they don't die? Are there other dimensions with life?"

"Thousands." Arceus told them. "Sometimes in our struggle to uphold dimensional order we'll meet forces from other dimensions that help us close rips from the other side. Once or twice they've tried to invade, and this one time, Palkia got some kind of brain fungus that made him go wacko for a few months, before we sealed the tear. But shoving something living like humans is hard. I told you we could search for other champions in other dimensions, that's easier. But to do something like remove a large portion of humans into an uninhabited dimension? You suggest the extreme. We would have to set up a functioning planet for them to live on. We don't have the time for something like that!" Arceus realized something as he spoke those words and then looked at Dialga. "It's possible….but very difficult…I would have to move all the time we're elapsing into the new dimension, thus speeding theirs up….If we slowed it down here and removed humans, shoved them into a new dimension and then sped up any time regulation I set up… we would be ageing them dozens of years in what appears to be a couple of seconds to us. Dangerous and tricky." Dailga explained.

"I don't care about them once they're not in my dimension anymore, we can leave them to their own devises, and they'll be fine alone on an uninhabited planet. By themselves, just look at how well they've done with natural predators! Sure I can try out a few ideas for non power type Pokémon while I'm there, give 'em some creatures. We'll be making another world in a different dimension, but then we don't have to have upkeep! We can just give them the basics and leave them there!" Arceus spoke his thoughts aloud and it was agreed by all that this is what they would do.

A dozen years passed by in a few minutes due to the powers of time and help from the other legendaries. The planet they decided to call earth, just like theirs. And so the dimension we're from came to be, time passing us by regularly and the Pokémon gods moving people onto different part of the world and leaving them there. You can see a few examples of Pokémon on hieroglyphs and such, horribly distorted depictions of several different Legendaries. And now, here our planet and dimension exists, closely connected to theirs. They completed our world in seven days, and we grew more advance than their own humans in six days and half. And now for the second part of Arceus's plan to solve his problems….New Agents, New Human Agents.

Champions

(No legendaries are allowed to leave the meeting until Arceus declares it over. Because of this, and Arceus's tendency to stop paying attention and Giratina's love of enforcing this particular rule and want to humble the other legendaries, there had once occurred a year round meeting, ending only after Dialga contracted Celebi to go back in time and inform them before-hand. Then Dailga sped the meeting up so everything took only one day and not a full blown year and a day. Arceus was of course, aware of this by being God. No one was punished and catastrophe was accidently averted.)

(Regigigas was unbelievably patient and fair. It was best to put him in charge of the Planet shapers; he would always come up with the greatest compromise for his team.)