The New Normal – Non-Canon Side Story – The Masterball

I woke up the next day with a surprising call from Giovanni. Apparently, he and his future scientists had discovered something incredible, and he wanted to give one to me for a field test. Not knowing what it was, I decided to indulge my curiosity and made my way all the way back to Viridian to meet up with him.

I made my way into the Gym and into his office, once again being escorted by Petrel. He greeted me politely but didn't say much else, and I was happy enough just staying silent.

Once we entered Giovanni's office, Petrel left the two of us alone. Giovanni and I spent some time catching up and going through the pleasantries before we got down to the reason why he called me here.

He gestured for me to look at the TV screen that he had setup in his office.

"This is a recording of the new Pokéball that we created. My scientists are all confident that this new Pokéball, what we are going to be calling the Masterball, can catch any Pokémon in the world." He told me as we watched the recording. And sure enough, the recordings showed that the Masterball was indeed capable of catching the many Pokémon used in the tests.

Of course, I knew about the Masterball already from my meta-knowledge, so this wasn't that surprising. However, I wasn't sure if the Masterball from the games matched with the Masterball that Giovanni's team had just created. Thus, I asked about it.

"This is fascinating stuff." I admitted with my eyes sparkling with wonder. "Is it able to catch any Pokémon?" I tried to maintain my calm and push down my excitement. If it really was able to catch anything, then oh Arceus I had ideas.

"Yes, that's what my scientist have said." Giovanni responded, not recognizing my growing excitement at the potential opportunities. "They say that the inner mechanism of the ball allows it to capture any Pokémon that you use it on. Including powerful ones like Dragonite."

At this point I was barely listening to Giovanni's explanation. I just wanted to take the Masterball that he had displayed on his desk and run away with it. I knew just the perfect Pokémon to catch with it.

Thus, I just listened distractedly and nodded my head at appropriate times as he spoke to me about what he wanted me to do with the Masterball. He said something about it being very difficult to mass produce, but he still wanted to show it off to the world as something that he had achieved and brought to the world.

"Why don't you go catch a Normal type Pokémon or something with it, John." Giovanni told me. "I'm sure you can add a new Normal type Pokémon to your team at this point, and what better way than to use a ball that can catch anything?"

Giovanni handed me the ball, which I took and gave him a wicked smile, which I think took him aback. Still, it didn't rouse his suspicions enough for him to take the Masterball back from me, so I suspect that he thought that it was just a smile of excitement.

He asked if I had anything else to talk about, and I told him that I didn't. He then wished me the best of luck and hoped that I could catch something powerful to 'match the grandeur of the Masterball'. I promised him that I would and set off immediately to catch the Pokémon I wanted.

Oh, if only Giovanni knew what he had just done.

With the Masterball properly secured and stored safely on my belt, I quickly took off on Port and made my way to my destination. Technically, finding Sinnoh was a bit of guesswork, but I had a general idea of where it was going to be and I knew that Drake had already explored it before, which meant that it shouldn't be too far away.

Regardless of how long it took to find Sinnoh, the end result would be worth it.

I ended up flying around for almost half a day, with most of that time spent flying above the empty sea. But eventually, we found a familiar mountain that I eventually recognized as Mount Coronet. And I nearly leapt out of Port in excitement as I spotted it; we were so close to my goal.

I got Port to fly towards the top of Mount Coronet and we landed on the summit. No one was there, which was perfect because I didn't want any witnesses to see what I was about to do. I looked up to the sky and saw that there was a strange floating platform above the summit of Mount Coronet that looked like it defied gravity.

I didn't have the Azure Flute to summon the stairs, but I had something even better. Something the developers thought that humans would never possess.

The ability to just fly wherever you want and ignore map boundaries.

With barely restrained glee, I tasked Port with flying the both of us up there. As the two of us circled around the strange floating platform, I saw our objective just standing there idly and non-responsively.

Arceus was here, just like in the games.

With Arceus just remaining there and not moving, I reached for my Masterball and I nearly dropped it in my excited fumbling. With sweaty hands, I held the Masterball nervously in my hand and I approached Arceus.

Once I was in touching range, I lightly tapped Arceus with the Masterball in my hand. Immediately, a bright light engulfed Arceus and it was absorbed into the Masterball.

I watched anxiously as the ball wobbled once.

Then twice.

Then thrice.

Then it clicked shut and I screamed in joy as I caught my newest Normal type. What a perfect addition to round off my Normal type team.

I have acquired God. The power of God is now in my hands.

A.N Happy April Fools! I totally forgot about April Fools so I had to quickly write up this chapter. I don't actually know if I'm going anywhere with this, but hope you enjoyed it nonetheless. And thanks once again for sticking with my story thus far despite my recent errors.

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