Chapter 13: Planning and Questioning

Because the whole family hadn't been together for years, Lada and Typhon were woken up and a secondary party ensued. Rena got to know all of the siblings' pokemon and the siblings themselves, but alas, all good things must come to an end.

As Rena and Ors were planning on leaving the next morning, they turned in first. As both stood atop a serene hill a few hours later, Ors went over all his memories here. His companion sat patiently on his head, meditating in an attempt to grow closer to here energy.

Finally, Ors tore his eyes away from his home and sprinted to the bus, ignoring his grandfather's house completely. But it didn't ignore him. The Sneasel emerged and greeted him with a glass of iced... ice.

Hercule walked out the door, his hair and beard having grown far longer in the past few days. "Ahem, Dust, I have something for you."

"The name's Ors, but alright. Thank you? What is it?" He answered casually, a bit perturbed.

The man's eyes widened. "Ah yes, Ors. Anyways, it's dynamite. Here you go."

A stick of dynamite made its way into Ors hands. "Huh? The hell? Why would you give me a huge explosive?"

"No reason. I just thought it could come in handy. Say you come up against a Steelix at some point in time. If you throw dynamite down its throat, it will be at least somewhat hard pressed to survive.

Ors cocked his head, "What's a Steelix?"

"Oops. I'll tell you when you're older." And with that, he left, Sneasel freezing his knee just enough that he couldn't bend it.

'Little fucker... I wonder if the old man knows the method for its evolution... Well, he knows about Steelix, so there's more to him than just senile old guy, that's for sure.' He shattered the ice by flexing with steel energy and carried on his merry way, a tadpole atop his head.

"Alright, so we still need to buy a couple of things from town and register at a couple places before we leave for good, but I want to talk about the plan. Do you want to do the Great Eight circuit, from the Fuchsia Gym to the one in Celadon, or do you want to just go to whatever gyms are on the way to the destinations I've planned for our training?"

Having had many years of planning, Ors had memorized the entire map of Kanto and chose certain locations that would be the best for training. The question was whether to focus on the gyms or the locations that would help the most for training.

"I'm unsure as of yet. However, I would like to return after two gyms to save my people. Give me a day to decide and head to Neon Town in the meantime. That's pretty close, right?"

"Well, technically Fuchsia is closest in a straight line. It's directly north of here by about 80 miles, while Neon Town is Northeast about 110 miles. But Neon Town will have more things to do for me to make money. They also have a gym there, but it's such a large city that usually the roster is full for weeks."

"Hmm. Could you use your connection with those two individuals who gave you the phone? They're quite rich, right?" Rena made a great point there. Rich people had status usually, and status could result in even more power. Not to mention, Neon Town usually did 1st-3rd badges because they could show those to the public, boosting sales. Later matches were done in private to hide the existence of fully evolved pokemon.

So he shot a quick message to Vatira.

—Hey, could you set me up with a Neon Town gym battle? I'm heading that way and need to get ahead in line so I'm not stuck there for too long.

—Np, just lemme send a couple messages.

—Actually...

—Could you do something for me too?

—Sure.

—Nice, so there's this cool item in a shop today that I need for my Dracactus first.

—It's called a Pointer Seed. Just ask the clerk and he'll give it to you. It stabilizes grass type "abominations" as the public calls them.

—I'll do it as soon as I get to town, omw there now.

—Oh btw don't let anyone in the shop hear you ask. It's like a secretish item.

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Ors was going to keep texting, but noticed that Rena seemed to be shifting in discomfortable thought. "What's the problem? I can tell you aren't normal right now."

"Well, I'm just curious how it is that you're able to learn other pokemon's moves before interacting with them whatsoever. Like with that goddamned Abomination. Somehow you were able to make a strategy for fighting it without ever seeing it before. And I can sense through our blood bond that you focus quite a bit of your energy into your eye. I just don't understand why you're hiding your abilities from me now that we're really a team."

Eventually, this day was bound to come. Someone would ask questions. Ors was naïve to imagine that day would be far in the future.

"Ugh, let's take this conversation into our minds, where nobody can hear us."

'Understood.'

'So, it's basically just a secret power I was born with. My brain contains the power of Arceus' Sage Mind.' At this point, Ors and Rena were in it for the long haul, so he did mind revealing his second most well kept secret. He would never reveal that he was a transmigrator though.

He continued. 'Arceus' power can basically be split into eight powers. First, his mind, which I am in possession of. It's what he used to devise this world and its main inhabitants: Pokemon. I'm not in possession of the whole thing, mind you. Each power is split into multiple parts. The part I got is one half of the Database.'

'Intriguing. God would split up his powers to give to the humans?'

'Basically, with just a glance, I can see a bit of information about a pokemon. Arceus himself still has the main thing, mine is a weaker copy. Like a backup. I learn the species, potential, and moves of a pokemon. However, that's not the end of the story. That's all I was meant to get in the beginning, but because of a special quality of my birth, I gained the ability to use my energy to 'hack' the Database to learn more than I originally could by using my energy.'

'What all does that include, might I ask?'

'As an exhaustive list, I can learn the type, sex, gender, evolution pathways, parentage, abilities, stats, moves that could replace a pokemon's egg moves when its talent increases, current mood, bonds, move mastery, greatest aptitudes for hobbies, moves, or careers, and finally level of a pokemon. It's something Arceus devised to track a pokemon's strength, like the better version of humanity's stage method. I can also see a lot of information about items and humans, and will receive more when I turn eighteen.'

And all of that was still only half true. Because Ors had a golden finger called the hacking system, not some inborn kekkei genkai or something. It let him pick a new ability every evolution except the last one. It would probably show up soon.

Basically, every time he evolved, the lucky bastard could choose one of the pieces of information mentioned above to add to his original power, making it his own. Thus far, he had chosen Type, Abilities, Level, and Move Mastery. (He began as Infant, then Human 0, then Human I, then Human II, then III meaning four new powers, awaiting one for Human IV.) He could also see some weird stuff he didn't mention, like fetishes, affection rate, and IVs/EVs.

'That explains quite a bit. What are the other Arceus powers?'

'I'm not quite certain about the subpowers, but the other seven parts that make up Arceus' godhood are his Body, his Energy, his Will, his Words, his Connection, his Plates, and his Egg. The last one is unknown to all of the other Arceus Bearers but me. But hope we never meet someone who has any of these powers. If they mean mal-intent, those abilities could blow us straight to hell.'

'Worry not. I know of our Lord's power. Do you know any of the other "Arceus Bearers" as you call them?'

'Only a couple. His body is held by someone in Alola named Bruno and his egg is held by an insanely overpowered guy from Galar named Leon. As for his Will? I could harbor a guess...'

The question was easy to answer to someone with future knowledge. Red/Ash. Obviously.

'I see. We have no plans to go to either of those regions. Hopefully we don't come in contact with them.'

Breaking off the connection, Ors nodded. To himself, he thought, 'Ah, Rena. You don't know the future, but I aim to represent Kanto to the world championships. To beat the Elite 4, we'll be fighting Bruno, and in the championships, we'll fight Leon. Not to mention my nature as Arceus' mind...'

Ors knew all of these things because of certain clues from the anime mixed with hints from the Database itself. Each power had a personality flaw that came with it, told to him by the database, as the mind was meant to control the other parts.

For Body, it was cowardice but superstrength, just like Bruno, already the world's strongest man in this world.

For Egg, it was overconfidence and battlelust, but the ability to power up mid-fight to an insane degree.

Lastly, for Mind, it was dying at the age of thirty.

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