Oh look. I started part 3.

Year 467 of the new calendar:

A boy and a mienshao pushed a cart of marble up a hill. The boy looked up at the end of the path. A great skyscraping statue of a mega audino was unfinished. Fortunately, it looked like it was going to rain, hopefully an early start to the non-working season. The Supreme One was a cruel taskmaster, but He was never was much of a micromanager. The boy's village had one job and one job only. When they couldn't do their job due to weather, all they had to do was stay inside and collect rations.

As the raindrops came, he looked to his left down the hill. The pedestal for the next great statue was completed and it was two thirds into the ocean. In the right to the east, giant statues of various pokemon and The Supreme One's wives and concubines went all the way to the horizon with little space in between them. Every thirty monuments in the line, there was an even larger statue of The Supreme One behind the line towering over the already colossal statues. He knew one day, as an old man, he will see the completed line of monuments that will cover the entire 48th parallel. His own village would be an ocean village by then though.

"Eric 17-303-274-923 Gamma," an ethereal voice said from behind. Eric jumped at his full name and turned around. A black fog that appeared to have a foreign place on the other side. "Come into the portal."

He walked closer and saw a large pokemon on the other. "Preces come." The boy and his mienshao went into the darkness and found themselves in another world.

"Eric, you have been chosen to save this world from Arthur, or as you know him, The Supreme One." said the pokemon. "I am Arceus, the rightful god of this world. I have been weaken and most of my powers are gone. However, as my new Chosen One, you will free your world from slavery."

"How am I going to do that?" Eric said.

"With only the Bug Plate, my powers are very limited, but there is a prophecy I've been working on base on the Most Chosen of Chosen One, the great Ash Ketchum."

"Who?"

"I see Arthur has done everything in his power to purge Ash from the history books. He was a Pokemon Master: the best there ever was."

"So like a Pokemon Champion?" Eric asked.

"No, no, no. Being a Pokemon Master is too deep to explain here. What's important is the prophecy: The New Chosen One will gather four descendants of the Greatest Chosen One, Ash Ketchum. At the temple's stairs, the blood of Ash through all of his Wives: Latias, Dawn, Serena, and Flannery, shall Resurrect the Greatest Chosen One. Ash will make the False God's kingdom crumble and the False God will be sucked into Equestria and defeated by the six heroes. I hope you don't mind the last part. It's a great show and more people need to realize that, so I always bring it up when I can."

"I think I understand what to do. It's the Temple of Aura, right? Just these people from each of the four lineages, and have them prick their finger, and the world is free," Eric reasoned.

"Very astute. Preferably the four will be female so they can be all your girlfriends."

"All?"

"Actually, I was never that big of a fan of harems. Actually, how many does the bad buy have? Bad guys care about looks over personality. Him having a bigger harem than the good guy is totally unacceptable," Arceus said.

"I don't think this has anything to do with saving the world."

"I see feminism is dead if you think a harem of girls isn't essential in defeating evil. Women are strong and are just as capable of doing anything a man can do."

"I literally have no rights. How do you expect to do that?"

"Well, that's simple. You ask them to join you on your pokemon journey. Don't rush it though. Act uninterested in them the entire time and they will come up with the idea themselves. The acting uninterested is the hardest part, almost as if you haven't hit puberty yet. That will prove to them you care about their personality. I tended to push things along myself using my now-gone powers, but I'm sure you can get it to work."

If Eric hadn't reach the conclusion this god wasn't a bit nuts, he might have been disappointed. He looked over at his pokemon companion as the more likely source of wisdom. The Meinshou shrugged. The human turn back to Arceus. "Are there any Chosen One powers I get?"

"Take the Bug Plate. It'll give you some influence over bug pokemon. It basically just exists to be part of a complete set. Just make sure Arthur doesn't get it. With all 18 plates, there's no telling what he would do." The plate floated out of him.

"What more can he do? He already controls the world and twenty-eight percent of all humans on Earth are his descendants," Eric said.

"It's the nature of Good and Evil. I am an ancient being with great wisdom of the truth of the world. Bad guys are bad and good guys are good. With more power, he will certainly destroy the world."

"How will I find these Ash-descendants? I can't even be sure they exist."

"This is the Locator Orb." Arceus said as a transparent grayscale globe of the Earth appeared in front of him. "The qualified Latias candidates." A couple thousand red dots appeared. "No problems there, Dawn!" the red dots were replaced by maybe one hundred dots. "Flannery" the dots disappeared. The deity paused for ten long seconds. "Serena! Flannery," Scores of pink dots briefly appeared and then the globe went dark. "All ages, both genders!" The number for Flannery was zero.

Arceus shook. "This can only mean one thing. Arthur has anticipated my cunning plan and wiped out all the descendants of Flannery and Ash."

"How about time travel?" Eric said.

"YES. With Celebi's power we could stop all of this before it happens, during the time of the Great Ash Ketchum. Yes, we can prevent Dusk, the person responsible for all of this, from ever becoming a Chosen One. Find me, and convince me to make you reserve Chosen One using The Riddle of Ultimate Wisdom.

2014, yet Episode One in the anime:

Eric stood using the Bug Plate to shield his face. He just burglarized Ash's house as per Future Arceus's orders and found himself face to face with an angrier Arceus in the middle of making breakfast.

"You know there can be only one Bug Plate, and it resides in me!" Arceus said going into vengeful god voice.

"I'm here for The Riddle of Ultimate Wisdom. I want to be reserve Chosen One."

"Hmm, The Riddle of Ultimate Wisdom. That you know about it is interesting to say the least." Arceus said, then continuing into god voice, "what harem is the most realistic harem for Ash?"

"Misty, May, Dawn, Iris, Serena, and Lillie!" Eric listed not knowing anything about any of those girls.

"An OC! That's even worst than a gameverse character! Also, that would be more than five wedding rings, which is an integral part of Ash's future clothing! However, you were close but you have shown yourself quite perceptive, perhaps even worthy to be a part of the Chosen One's story."

Eroc took a step back. "So, is that a good thing?"

"Yes, you will be the rival to Ash Ketchum!"