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The Omega Omnisphere's Mightiest Pokemon Master	By : Omniarch-1024 Category: Pokemon > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 7533 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: Do I even need to tell you all that I own none of these ideas except the ones that are my own, nor do I make any profits from this whatsoever. Anyways, this chapter is rated M for more lemons, violence, gore, mass infinite destruction, and quite possibly other potentially extinction level events, my God did I really just rate a chapter for all that?! Consider yourselves warned peeps; this is not a chapter for the light of heart.

Chapter Three: Fathomless Forces, Terrible Truths, and Joyous Reunions: Part 1 (Author's Notes; Sorry guys, turns out this one won't feature the joyous reunion part. Honestly this chapter has just totally gotten away from me it is ridiculous, but I love how it turned out and I'm confident you will to)

Previously:

They quickly ran to the source of the commotion, not caring what was going on and hoping beyond hope it wasn't what Bonnie feared it was, but sure enough as they got inside and ran to investigate, her fears came to pass as once again she found herself face to face with the three grunts of Team Flare, and Ash nowhere in sight to protect them this time. The one in the middle pointed at Garchomp and Sycamore as he gave off a black aura of death similar to the one Ash himself was giving off, only this one was... far more evil and turned Bonnie's blood to ice. When he spoke, his voice had an echo to it, like there were two entities speaking through him instead of one, and the second one felt unspeakably old, powerful, and so evil it turned the air around them frigid, and there was a dark force more terrifying than any mortal man could be, pulsing in the air around them. "Greetings and salutations Sycamore, Bonnie, Clemont, Froakie, Garchomp, and Sophie... I am Omninoir, and I'm here to liberate all of your Pokemon here from you... you pathetic mortals, now hand them over to me willingly and your deaths won't be nearly as painful!"

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The absolute bone chilling darkness she felt this thing radiate was the most terrifying experience Bonnie had ever been forced to endure, which was saying a lot because she had watched a sick, twisted psycho rape her mother before killing her, with her being powerless to do anything about it because she had been so small and so young. Her world of childhood and innocence had been forever shattered that day, but this was infinitely worse, this being was not only reminding her of her own worst experiences but everyone Else's on top of it.

She could sense almost immediately that it was the epitome of darkness and the essence of all negative emotions and thoughts throughout the entire universe, maybe even beyond the universe as well. She could also sense she wasn't the only one who felt this way, for all of them, Clement, Sycamore, Sophie, and the two Pokemon here with them, including Froakie who had just woken up a few seconds ago feeling worse for wear, had seen this thing for what it was, and yet she couldn't bring herself to believe that such an evil creature could possibly exist.

She supposed that cruel humans were one thing, and were oftentimes more terrifying than any supernatural monsters could be, and somehow knowing what they were dealing with right now could do things no mere mortal could made it seem more clean, made it seem less... real. Yet at the same time, she could feel the ungodly, otherworldly powers this thing literally radiated just with its mere presence, and felt more afraid of it than she had ever been of any man ever before. This thing was a wraith, a literal phantasm in the minds of its opponents, a supernatural terror, and for some reason that scared her far worse than Team Flare alone could ever do. They couldn't even see this thing to fight it and without Ash here to help them, they had no supernatural means of their own to combat this thing.

Sycamore stepped forward, bravely standing between them and the three demonized humans; who were merely helpless puppets of this greater power, and Bonnie felt petrified by her fear for the man as he addressed this Omninoir, his voice barely above a whisper as all-consuming terror temporarily lessened his capability to speak. "Who or what the hell do you think you are to just waltz in here like you own the place and just expect us to comply? I don't care how powerful you think you are, or if you're a Pokemon or not, if you think we're just going to keel over and let you do whatever the hell you wish to our precious partners, then you've got another thing coming," he managed courageously, and Bonnie had to admit she was thoroughly impressed by the young professor's bravado as a deep, mirthless chortle emanated from the entity who spoke through the three possessed mediators between light and shadow, between tiny specks of light and an endless sea of shadows.

'It's cute how you think you actually have a choice in the matter human; I wasn't merely making a demand... You see I have plans for the Pokemon of this world. As to your first statement, I am evil in its purest, most omnipotent form, the deepest essence of ultimate darkness and the one true check against the otherwise unparalleled powers of the Pokemon universe's most omnipotent gods. I'm the antithesis of Arceus himself if you will, but more to the point, I am the faceless figure behind every mask of legend and the stuff of you and every other living being's worst nightmare. I am entropy on a grand scale, I am infinite death, destruction, and conquest, I am Omninoir, and I am the Anti-God of the Pokemon world,' the voice boosted in a voice that permeated every sector and dark secluded corner of their minds, their hearts, and resonated through their neural pathways, the words he spoke carrying so much weight and so much power that none of them could even breathe, let alone resist whatever abilities he had that could force them to do as he willed. Bonnie could feel her knees beginning to buckle, sensing that this Omninoir could crush them all in an instant with just a simple thought if he wished, but he wanted to have fun with them first.

'God I really wish Ash was here, we're dealing with some kind of Ultra God of darkness, something no trainer on earth has ever been trained or prepared for. But if there is anyone on this earth who can fight this thing it's Ash,' Bonnie inwardly prayed, a small flicker of hope fanning out nicely inside her chest but squashed just as quickly when her internal hurricane of thoughts caused Omninoir to chuckle. 'Don't you fret about that my child, Ash Ketchum will be here soon; in fact I'm counting on it!' he telepathed to her and her alone, the small bit of hope dying out almost immediately as Bonnie found herself willing Ash to come find them, unable to believe how inconveniently timed Lexie's asking him out on a date was right now and desperately pleading with whatever gods might be listening that whatever Omninoir was planning to do it didn't involve them ending up dead. She honestly had no inkling as to what she was going to do and felt completely powerless to do anything as this Anti-God being merely swam around them in a mass of shadows, the entirety of planet earth going dark as they all gave out a unified cry for a miracle, all of them, Sycamore, Bonnie, Clement, Sophie, Garchomp, and Froakie, absolutely paralyzed by fear and Omninoir laughing at their misfortune as the massive swirls of darkness enveloped all of them, and Garchomp's yellow eyes suddenly turned pure red, a shadowy aura enveloping it as everyone stood shell shocked at what was taking place.

The mach Pokemon was changing size and shape, undergoing a shadowy version of mega evolution that rewrote her entire being on a molecular level. Bonnie and the others watched with horrified fascination as a Garchomp like none they'd ever seen towered over them at past ten feet, her fins elongated and sharp, her form resembling a cross between a shark and a praying mantis, bigger than any Garchomp they'd ever seen, mega evolved or otherwise.

'Ah, that's better, Garchomp's transformation into a god with Primal Palkia's powers is now complete, and I am in possession now of a form worthy of me. So come at me Ash Ketchum, come at me with everything you have because when this day is through, you'll lie dead at my feet and I'll reign supreme over the entire Omega Omnisphere, as its Omniarch and King, its Lord Almighty! My conquest of this world will be marked by your defeat and your head will be on a pike in my throne room. Mark my words Chosen Champion, prophecy or not, I will not allow you to join forces with the other two, and after I've killed Serena back in Aquacorde town with her friends, our fight will take place with Lumiose city as the field of combat. I am so eagerly anticipating seeing your fall from grace Arceus, and I will respect your rules of engagement by limiting my power over totality, not like I have a choice, but even still, I have more than enough control over the Omega Omnisphere to purge every aspect of your precious Chosen One's existence from it,' Omninoir proclaimed with complete confidence.

He carefully planned ten more moves ahead in his ongoing game of chess with the Alpha Pokemon, not believing for a second that Ash could have learned something he didn't already know nor had some moves up his arsenal he couldn't predict within a year, but still not taking any chances or messing around. Even if he failed this day to kill so much as one of the Chosen Champions, today's failure was tomorrow's success, and he would not be damned to an eternity of fighting other omnipotent beings. No, he had a contingency in place; and one way or another this war would end with his absolute rule...

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The familiar pressure building inside of him and the constant thrum of the void all around them beating with his near limitless heart rate, and the relentless pleasure bombarding his omni senses, caused Ash to moan out Lexie's name in absolute ecstasy as orgasmic ripples and convulsions rocked his body mightily and he gave one final thrust inside of her womanhood. He shot his seed once again into her womb as both of them came in almost perfect unification for what seemed the millionth time. Neither one of them was spent so far though Ash could tell Lexie was tiring while he still had at least a few hundred more rounds in him, no thanks to his superhuman sex drive, stamina, and all the other crazy epic shit he had to limit to finite levels just to be able to maintain his free will when giving himself pleasure. Or in this case, allowing someone else to pleasure him, a scenario he would take over masturbation any day, because sex with this gorgeous girl was infinitely better than by himself.

His strange aura of golden light continued to bathe the two of them in an azure glow and radiant heat, and the Pallet town trainer could feel the original powers pumping through his veins and empowering him and Lexie alike as both rode out the waves of their orgasm time and again. They never tired at first though now he could sense he was winning their ongoing battle of wills. He smirked as he pulled out of her once more, his cock highly sensitive from the motion and still fully erect despite all the times they had done it. Raichu had long since decided that it didn't want to see any of this and had returned itself to its own Pokeball before they started having sex; now Ash and Amber were able to have their fun in private and Ash's penis was twitching in anticipation even as he finished pulling out of her.

"My Lord... you... released that much and... you're still... rock hard," Lexie panted, her shortage of breath and her fatigue becoming more evident as she caught Ash smirking at her and pouted cutely. "What's the matter, don't tell me you've run out of steam already, I'm just getting started," he chuckled with an air of what almost seemed to be smugness, causing Lexie-Amber to grin at him as well. She saw his statement as a challenge and somehow gained a second wind as she got off of him, having wrapped her legs around him and leaned on him for support while riding his humongous cock. Constant phantom orgasms pleasured her continuously even now as her body seemed to be in a constant state of sexual activity, arousal, and an everlasting climax. It had become so intense between them, and yet she could sense that he wasn't even winded by their recent romps; something she was doing everything in her power to rectify but it seemed Ash's special advantages give him more than just a slight edge, it gave him a sex drive that completely outclassed her own and allowed him to climax continuously almost immediately after each one in turn. This was a feat she had never encountered before in a man, who usually had to wait a little while before their manhood hardened again and they were ready for another bout.

Hearing him groan in protest as she got up off of him caused Amber's smirk to broaden. Even if he wasn't tiring she was pleased to know he was enjoying it as much as she was, though she kind of wished they were on a more even playing field and wanted so badly to be able to keep up with his enormous, godlike stamina. Who knew though, maybe when her transformation into a Champion of Arceus was complete she would be able to do everything he could do, assuming certain prior commitments on her part didn't get in the way, such as her devotion to Lysandre and Team Flare. Even if she didn't technically agree with their shadow Pokemon army plans, she didn't really have it in her to argue since Lysandre was a constant reminder of what she had lost, and what she had gained when he saved her life from the fire that claimed her parents' lives. The fire had come with no warning and with unknown causes as the authorities claimed; and yet she had seen something that night. She had seen what almost appeared to be a Black Mew fully interlaced in the purple flames, yet another situation that made her realize her parents' deaths was no accident.

As she got down from Ash, her mind raced with memories and her body was bombarded with ceaseless pleasure as the ghostly impressions of her everlasting orgasmic convulsions caused her to climax for real; just by standing in the presence of his impossibly beautiful golden light and aura, the light now the single warmest and most tender feeling she had ever experienced. She was constantly encased in the most blissful sensations; warmth, tenderness, affection, strength, and love. She knew that the scenery he set for her first time going all the way with someone couldn't have been more alien; given the fact that they were fucking at one sixth normal earth gravity here on the moon, yet despite the rather unique choice Ash had selected she couldn't bring herself to hate it or him. It was perfect up here; silent, remote, private, and if one could look past the fact that in space they shouldn't have been able to breathe and just discard logic altogether then it was truly an amazing setting for her first time engaging in actual penetrative intercourse.

Ash's light and power seemed to shield her from the very darkness itself as she started pushing him back against the cliff side of an enormous crater in the meteor impacted hole they stood in almost weightlessly. She fully intended to suck him off until one of two things occurred, either her throat went raw or his penis finally somehow went limp. Plus there was something else she wanted to try while she had the chance, her soft mounds and her nipples hardening into peaks at the very thought of it.

Ash grinned at the devilish look in Lexie's eyes as she backed him up against the mountainous wall of moon rock and got back down on her knees; sensing that whatever was about to happen would drive him out of his mind. Well okay, more out of his mind than he typically was on a good day, Jeez even his own infinite mindscape was criticizing him for that train of thought. Said train of thought crashed into the station and leveled a shit ton of buildings causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of collateral damage as soon as he felt something soft enveloping his manhood once again, only this time it wasn't really wet except for with Lexie's exertion and a bit of sweat.

Looking down at her, Ash let go of a breath he didn't even know he'd been holding as Lexie's huge soft breasts moved up and down on his shaft; his moans of rapture echoing soundlessly across the emptiness of outer space and his heartbeat encompassing all of totality as the girl once again brought him to new heights of ecstasy. Fuck, that felt so amazingly good, and he barely managed to keep from blowing his load all over her the moment her breasts moved up his manhood for the first time; his penis and sense of touch far more sensitive than any ordinary man's and making his pleasure receptors immeasurably easier to stimulate. A rather inconvenient thing about being omnipotence embodied was that everything about him was boundlessly augmented. His sex drive, sense of touch, sexual pleasure, and sensory acuity needed to be toned down to finite yet still superhuman levels; lest he allow any girl to enslave him completely when in a situation such as this one. And while he trusted Lexie not to take advantage of him in such a state; where his absolute powers, abilities, and human attributes became his weakness instead of his strength, he didn't want to take any chances with allowing her free reign of his manhood without any precautions in place.

"Oh my God," Ash shouted in pleasure, and Amber grinned up at him like a cheeky Meowth. "You like it?" she asked sweetly, and Ash only managed a moan in response as her melons moved up and down his super humanly sensitive dick in a rhythmic motion, using the underside of her tongue and brushing it over the head of his cock every time her breasts went back down to the base of his shaft. Once again the pressure built inside of him and his balls tightened with the level of pressure one would expect from someone with his limitless physical traits; clenching so hard it actually momentarily pained him as he warned Lexie once more of his impending climax, knowing it was just polite to do so at this point and that she was well aware of when he was going to blow and how quick. Given the fact that she had made him do so literally 20 times now, that was kind of a given; and this situation was easily the longest, most drawn out sexual experience either one of them ever had until this point.

His rock hard, totally indestructible penis twitched and violently convulsed inside her mounds, and Ash cried out in pure joy as tears fell from his eyes; his toes curling so tightly that they were digging into the solid moon rock. Another blast of his endless seed spurted over Lexie's breasts and inside her mouth as she held it open in eager anticipation; his orgasm not even fully finished when she went right back down on him, sucking him off as hard and as fast as she could muster while he was still shooting sperm in her mouth, an almost predatory glint in her eyes as Ash began losing control. She deep-throat-ed him again and again with all the speed and technique she could muster. She somehow managed to stuff all ten inches of his rod down her throat and hummed another of her sweet little tunes just as he finished his first climax, only for another one to immediately follow, and for yet even more of his cum to shoot into her mouth. She continued this relentless, super fast process without stopping until Ash had climaxed well over 5 times consecutively without any breaks in between; each orgasm immediately following the previous one in a seemingly never-ending cycle, and Ash had to admit this assault of his penis had winded even him a bit. He wondered briefly to himself where in the 7th plain of hell Lexie had gotten so fucking good at giving head, let alone bringing him to climax several times in under a minute.

Finally deciding she needed to come up for air, Ash's penis exited Lexie-Amber's mouth with a rather loud pop, and she took this opportunity to suck him off while slowly pulling him out; hoping to coax him into one last orgasm before finally doing so and pleased when her mouth was flooded with the reward of Ash's tenth orgasm in under five minutes. This was a new personal record for either of them and one Lexie-Amber didn't even know was humanly feasible. All of Ash's infinitely strong muscles were in constant twitches and spasms as unyielding orgasmic convulsions shot through every nerve and nerve ending in his body; his knees nearly buckled and he was panting uncontrollably, yet despite his obvious out of breath state, his energy and stamina levels were still as high as ever as Lexie-Amber stared up at him in disbelief, cum and semen coating every inch of her beautiful, naked body as she noticed his penis was somehow... still fucking hard.

"My God I give up Ash, you win," she gasped breathlessly, still recovering from that herself and deciding to accept defeat as Ash merely chuckled. She didn't know if he could hear her in this airless space but she was surprised when he responded, and even more surprised when she heard him. "Don't worry about it, once your transformation into a champion of Arceus is complete you'll be able to go at it with me again and again for an infinite amount of time, not that you didn't do a really good job today; trust me Lexie I am perfectly satisfied and content with stopping it here if you want to get yourself cleaned up," Ash reassured her as Amber couldn't help being touched by his natural kindness and consideration. Truth was, she felt absolutely spent and was totally exhausted on top of that; unsure of how she even managed to muster up the stamina to do this as many times as she did but glad she was able to at least make Ash lose his mind if only for a little bit.

"Why do I get the feeling you never use the words infinity, forever, always, never, and other absolutes in a practical sense?" Amber chuckled as she watched Ash instantly recover from their romp and wanting so badly to do the same. Her throat was practically raw at this point and every part of her body was both achy and constantly convulsing with phantom orgasms at the same time; yet despite the pleasure she was inundated with even now, she knew she was spent for the time being. "Because I don't Lex, honestly I have never even used that word to describe me or any situation of my life aside from my Pokemon battling mastery before and have only ever used it in a literal context. So for future reference whenever I use that word in any sentence or context I usually mean it literally," Ash smiled kindly, his voice somehow echoing in a place where sound itself was completely nonexistent and due to it being the only source of sound in the universe his voice echoed throughout the expanse of space on a virtually Omniversal scale.

"Anyways, we should probably get cleaned up Lex, here let me take care of it," Ash smirked with a wave of his hand, and to Amber's astonishment a strange, cleansing, sweet smelling wind blew through the cratered, unearthly landmass they stood upon. Amber almost moaned in rapture once again as a strange cleaning sensation warmed her entire body to the core, the dried on semen dissolving, her raw throat healing itself perfectly, the strange combination of fatigue and constant sexual arousal fading into the ether, and a sweet cologne bombarding her senses as though she had just taken a super cleansing bath without even having to get wet. Her depleted energies now restored and her dirtiness taken care of, Amber was surprised when she stood up and her clothes reappeared over top of her, smelling perfectly fresh and the scent of highly expensive perfumes and fabric refreshers somehow making it to her nose even through the blackness of her currently alien surroundings. Looking in front of her at Ash and down at herself, one would never be able to tell they had ever even done the deed; her hair was neatened once again and Ash's attire had reappeared over him as well with the same priceless smelling sweet scents coming off of them and disregarding the astrophysics of outer space completely to somehow allow them to smell them.

"There, that's somewhat better don't you think?" Ash grinned somewhat cockily, knowing exactly what Lexie's response to that would be and finding himself enjoying her reaction. "Somewhat?! I have never felt this clean before in my life Ash Ketchum, honestly I'm glad we did this and I wish we could make it an everyday occurrence," Lexie replied as she looked around and noticed the two of them were standing back down on earth in Lumiose city at the top of Prism Tower, overlooking the entire city with the same sort of worldview as an Angelic or Celestial Being of limitless Godlike powers. Amber herself felt akin to the transcendent angels she heard dwelt in the metaphysical realm of Heaven that Arceus created, and just as she considered asking Ash to explain to her how the afterlife system worked in this universe he interrupted her musings to respond to her previous statement.

"Why can't we? As far as I'm concerned Lexie you have made me feel like the luckiest man alive; and I would be absolutely honored if you agreed to come with me on my journey towards world championship. Who knows, maybe I can even take you on a behind the scenes tour of eternity; just you and me against the entire Omega Omnisphere of omnipotent beings and Pokemon Masters, what do you say Lex?" Ash offered, and Amber had to admit it was an extremely tantalizing promise of redemption for her. She knew now that she couldn't just brush all this off like it never happened and just return to Team Flare. Ash had made a permanent impression upon her and if the two of them had been Pokemon she had no doubt she'd bear his mating mark at this point; but could she really defect from Team Flare after all Lysandre had done for her, and could she even convince Ash that what Team Flare stood for now was not the same as what they used to inspire.

"I say it's much too good to be true, and more than I deserve," Lexie admitted shamefully, causing Ash's frown to deepen slightly as he wondered what could have been bothering her so much. Immediately his overprotective instincts kicked in, and he felt compelled to comfort her by any means necessary. "Hey, I already promised you that I wouldn't look at you any differently than I do now remember? No matter what I may find out about you in the future, no matter what kind of stuff you may have done or may go on to do; you're still a good person Lexie, and I got to say this defeatist attitude of yours does not suit you at all," Ash insisted as Lexie barely even acknowledged him, lost in her own internal debate as she weighed her options.

She could go with Ash; this Godly being made flesh whom had in a single evening, given her more pleasure and offered her more friendship and kindness than any member of Team Flare, Lysandre included, offered her in her lifetime. She could defect from Team Flare, run away with Ash on his journey and never look back; maybe even take on a new name and identity so as to better hide herself or even fight against Team Flare by Ash's side if need be. Her other option was to betray Ash and everything he stood for by revealing her loyalty to Team Flare and being forced to fight against him on their behalf. No doubt Ash would declare himself an enemy of Team Flare in that situation and quite frankly she wasn't super inclined to believe he wouldn't be angry with her if he found out the truth the hard way. She was completely torn on what to do and Ash could sense her tension as he took her hands in his own in a gentle grasp, the both of them standing at the top of the city's highest point without a care in the world; somehow conveying to her a silent and comforting message that whatever it was, he was okay with it and okay with her. With that message as her companion and Ash's warm hands gently enclosing upon her own in spite of all the godlike strength he possessed, Amber's mind was made up and she opened her mouth to speak.

"Ash there's... something I have to tell you," Amber started, but before she could even prepare herself to start opening up to him about the full, unabridged version of the truth, the temperature all around them dropped to sheer cold and an unbelievably powerful and evil vibe penetrated the air all around them and punched a hole right through the fabric of reality itself. Instantly the sky above them went darker than obsidian and the sun and the moon, the sources of infinite light and solar/lunar energy even in the hours of the night were completely blocked out. "Something foul is afoot here Lexie, and my friends are in danger," Ash whispered so quietly she almost didn't hear him, yet the level of immeasurable fear underlying his words caused her to break out in Goosebumps all down her exposed arms and stomach, definitely not the pleasant kind as her grip on his hands tightened. "We'll pick this up later, right now I need to get to Sycamore's lab in a flash," Ash whispered as Amber tightened her grip on him even further, refusing to let him go face this thing on his own and he simply nodded in perfect understanding. A silent agreement broke out between them as Ash wrapped her up in his muscular arms, pulled her close, and vanished with her into the inky darkness. The omniverse itself was displaced as both champion trainers vanished in a flash of unlimited colors and motion; both of them unaware of the masked figure seeing them vanish and watching over the rest of the city from a nearby skyscraper; a Mega evolved Blaziken by his side and at the ready to go to war with whatever perpetual evil was insinuating itself into every aspect of their world.

The figure watched the two vanish with interest, and was only slightly surprised by the telepathic voice of his long lost friend, the World Champion and current Pokemon Master Red, echoing throughout the landscape of his mind. 'Keep an eye on them Meyer, my son will need all the help he can get, and the time has come for me to get in touch with all of the old gang,' the voice instructed the Blaziken Mask and Meyer nodded behind it. His face was partially concealed by a mask fashioned after his old partner's face, a level infinity Blaziken he had received help from Red and Richard Yvonne in training. He owed the Ketchum and Yvonne families a debt of gratitude, and it seemed that keeping his kids as well as their friends safe would become a rather bad habit of his. No matter what happened though one thing was for sure; he had already lost his wife and the love of his life, he wasn't so keen on the idea of losing anymore family, extended or otherwise. And as far as he was concerned, the Ketchum's and Yvonne's were all part of his extended family as well. Given the Ketchum boy's penchant for both trouble and heroics, he knew even something as simple as giving the boy some much needed backup against the forces of oppression would be a full time occupation. He grinned at the prospect of such a monumental task, having always been one for taking on the biggest challenges; and with the ominous, overbearing presence looming over them all, he and Blaziken vanished in a series of leaps and disappeared over the side of the skyscraper.

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'What's happening to me,' Serena repeated emphatically in her mind over and over again as her body continued vibrating at hyper-sonic speeds; her body flashing in a burst of violet colored light which her brain told her was her main energy signature, reflecting the color of love in the Omniversal emotional spectrum. 'What the fuck, where is all this shit coming from, and why is my brain coming up with all of these insanely good and intelligent words and ideas?!' she demanded mentally, on the verge of a panic attack and hyperventilating as she noticed Shauna and even Calem had caught up to and were watching her distorted features with the same immeasurable fear that she was feeling.

"Serena!" Calem cried out, moving forward to try and help her but Serena shook her head frantically. "Guys stay back, I'm okay for the moment but I don't think it is safe for you to get near me," she shouted with intense urgency, as Shauna gaped at her current form in horror. "You are NOT okay Serena, Calem, dial the emergency number; Serena needs help and she needs it right now, HURRY!" Shauna exclaimed with overwhelming concern, unable to believe what she was witnessing as Calem hurriedly complied and Serena's body just suddenly stopped vibrating on the spot, causing both of them to pause in their actions and stare at her with a sense of suspenseful dread, wondering if whatever was ailing her would start acting up again but feeling somewhat relieved when Serena stared at herself in perplexity and confusion, not to mention no small amount of fear.

Before she could stop herself, Serena collapsed on the spot as a strange wave of nausea and fatigue hit her with such sudden impact that she nearly passed out; Calem was by her side and checking her over in a split second, Shauna right behind him as she waved off their questions of whether or not she was okay, managing to climb unsteadily into a comfortable sitting position in the dirt. She paused a moment to draw a few steady breaths, surprised by how quickly the nausea and weakness were passing and feeling stronger than she ever had before; some weird manic energy saturating her on an immeasurable level. "Serena... What the hell was that?!" Calem demanded rather harshly once he and Shauna seemed to realize that their friend wasn't hurt and looked even stronger somehow than she did prior to this weird turn of events.

"I don't know alright Calem?! I don't know any more than you guys do... but everything's felt completely different since I woke up this morning and I'm not sure it is something the emergency response people can even help me with, so just drop it okay?!" Serena half pleaded, half insisted, hoping they could just drop it and that they could look past whatever new weirdness their friend was exuding. She knew they were only worried about her, and she appreciated that, but the weird part was she somehow got the feeling their concern was unnecessary and that whatever was happening to her may turn out to be an eventual blessing in disguise. If for any reason she were to believe there were negative aspects to these freak of nature changes she was undergoing, she would immediately go get help; assuming there was a cure-all potion or something that could somehow fix whatever was wrong or whatever was changing so drastically inside of her.

'It's strange, but I don't feel like this is simply a drastic change to the metaphysical aspects of my existence, but also my DNA, subatomic particles, and every fiber of my entire being. Everything that is ME is seemingly being rewritten on an infinite level, and despite my IQ skyrocketing and my understanding of this phenomena increasing, I'm still at a loss to give even so much as an estimated guess on what the end result of these changes will be. Hell, I'm still worried and I'm still freaking out myself a little; but my gut is telling me to just roll with the punches here and to have courage for the tough road ahead. Ash once told me that living my life in fear is not really living at all, and the biggest risk in life is never taking any. Regardless of what happens though; these changes may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, who knows maybe my initial prognosis is correct, maybe I am being rewritten on an absolute level and scale. But I'll never know beyond the shadow of a doubt unless I... for the time being; allow these changes to take place.

It's weird, I am afraid and yet at the same time, I'm super excited. I know Calem and Shauna are worried out of their minds by now, but I'm sure whatever is happening is not something I could stop even if I wanted to anyways; besides that I know I can handle it,' Serena's mind continued to think on a level of intellectual savvy that was increasing infinitely. It was weird, she had never felt like any sort of genius before and now she finally understood how Ash felt; her respect for him rising even more than it already was previously at upon realizing how difficult it must have been for him to live among a species that... by his standards, were absolute dimwits in comparison.

Without a doubt Ash was the smartest person she'd ever known, not even a contest. And given the fact that he had scored an IQ infinitely higher than any other human throughout all of history, receiving an infinity symbol for an IQ instead of an actual number which the IQ testers said only exceptional psychic type Pokemon have ever done before, Serena could finally understand on some level how he must have felt to have been named the most brilliant man in all of time and still have to live among the multitudes of unremarkable, unintelligent, and unimaginative people he surrounded himself with every day. Hell, he even managed to befriend some of those people, Serena herself among them; truly that was a testament of his capacity for faith in humanity and his hope for a better future.

She rose up to her feet slowly, not wanting to overdo it in case any residual fatigue was still in her system; yet her energy levels were far higher than they normally were at this time of the day and she couldn't remember the last time she felt this good. Nevertheless, Calem and Shauna helped her up and supported her weight as she picked herself up off the ground; having not said anything after Serena basically told them off for being worried sick about her and making her feel like she should apologize. "I'm sorry I snapped at you guys, you were just worried about me and I appreciate that; but seriously I feel just fine now," Serena reassured them with a sweet, dazzling smile as Calem nodded with a grin and Shauna gave a shaky, watery chuckle. Just as Serena was acknowledging the fact that Shauna had been crying, Serena's internal radar started blaring out of control as an impending sense of doom settled over the entirety of Route 1 and the two adjacent towns on either side of it; the whole sky going as dark as an endless void above them and the mid-afternoon sun being swallowed by an overbearing presence so evil and so cold Serena felt the temperature suddenly drop to absolute zero all around them; the entire vicinity flash freezing and the ground breaking out in crystalline structures as everything around them froze on a subatomic level and yet somehow failed to affect Serena or her friends.

'Oh you are more than fine Serena Yvonne, your nigh omnipotent Apotheosis has already begun. It's a damn good thing I decided to accelerate my plans or you might have become too powerful for me to destroy as easily as I can now. Eternity may have been originally predetermined to stretch ahead of you my dear, but Omniversal Time and your destiny to influence the totality of existence on an infinite scale... is about to get a massive rewrite,' a disembodied voice proclaimed out of nowhere, its mere presence enticing a level of fear into Serena, Shauna, and Calem that they had never known before as shit hit the fan completely out of the blue. Despite the -273 degree drop in temperature, neither Serena or her friends were the least bit bothered by the sheer cold, and had any of them been paying attention to her they would have noticed Serena's body subtly glowing with a faint golden light and extending a divine protection to her friends. The energy this entity gave off was far beyond anything even Serena with all her new intelligence could ever conceive, penetrating the very realm of complete absurdity like the omnipotent being she knew it was. Don't ask Serena how she knew this or sensed it; she just did, and quite frankly it was beginning to seriously freak her out.

"Who are you... what the hell do you want?!" Calem demanded once he remembered how to speak, he and Shauna hugging either side of Serena almost subconsciously as the bodiless entity laughed; a horrible, gleeful, and sadistic chortle that sent more chills through Serena's entire body than any amount of physical cold ever could. 'Calem 1 Million, it is an honor to meet one of the future champions of the 1 millionth Pokemon universe. You have a destiny all on your own, one intertwined with the three Chosen Champions and yet standing on its own at the same time. But I kind of like having you three at a disadvantage, I know your names and yet you pathetic children know nothing about me. I can use this lack of awareness on your end to my advantage; now prepare to be cast into the eternal abyss from whence came all the darkness, malevolence, and evil in totality. Prepare yourself Serena, for when I am through with you; every aspect of your nigh omnipotent and eternal existence will be purged from the entirety of the Omega Omnisphere. You will die and nobody will mourn; nobody except your beloved Ash since he too has been and will be immune to Omni-Chrono paradoxes and distortions, not that those abilities will stop me from erasing him from totality. They'll just delay the inevitable as I break him in both body and spirit; and Arceus only knows how he'll feel when he becomes aware of the fact that I've snuffed out the life of his beloved soul mate!' the supreme Entity hissed with impossible, inhuman levels of sadism and infinite evil.

Serena's eyes widened in pure terror and panic as her brain managed to process the implications and enormity of this otherworldly being's statement; the realization that this thing, this monster was here to not only kill them but erase them from the totality of existence dawning on her with a sense of absolute finality. "NO, you can't do this!" Shauna screamed as insidious laughter echoed all around them, pervading every sector of their souls, every corridor of their mind, and reverberating through their entire neural pathways until it penetrated their very cores, making them all want to crawl into a fetal position and cry with absolute and hopeless despair. 'My dear sweet child, I am an otherworldly being that is the very essence of destructive omnipotence; I can do whatever the hell I please, omniversal laws and constants be damned!" he explained to her inanimately; speaking down to Shauna as if he were talking to an omninescient, infinitely oblivious Wailord of a girl, or some other Pokemon with selective omninescience due to their infinitely enhanced Oblivious ability, rendering them infinitely unaware, unknowing, and ignorant of all things in existence, including the laws of physics and other surprisingly epic shit.

Deciding that her seemingly infinite mindscape and drastic increase in intelligence and pretentious vocabulary usage was cause for later concern, Serena was ill prepared for when the nameless evil began attacking them; the entire vicinity darkening all around them and a solid mass of suffocating shadows engulfing them in an attempt to swallow them. Serena wanted to scream as she and her friends became absolutely frantic in their panic-induced and futile efforts to escape; the sensation akin to drowning except that the sheer weight of the darkness pressing down on her and squeezing the air from her lungs made it feel like she was drowning in the seemingly bottomless depths of the Marianas trench. The infinite pressure and weight bearing down on them should have crushed them into absolute nonexistence the instant it struck them, and yet Serena and both her closest friends were somehow still alive as she tried desperately to fight back any way she could. She somehow knew she was literally bearing the weight of infinite worlds on her shoulders right now, and knew she and her friends were going to die in this suffocating darkness of infinite, all-consuming density and power.

She couldn't see anything and was only acutely aware of both Shauna and Calem being forcibly separated from her; she tried to fight against it with all her strength, but the solid tomb of infinite darkness stretched to accommodate her every effort, like a satanic womb from the seventh plain of hell. Hopelessness and despair finally consumed her as she realized this was it; she was a goner, Calem and Shauna were already swallowed up, returning to the darkness that predates the whole of creation itself, just as all things in the universe did in time. It was hopeless, no matter what new abilities she had accumulated literally overnight; there was no way she was proficient enough at using them to get herself out of this impossible situation, against an omnipotent being who was literally unbeatable by his fundamental nature. She had so much left to live for, but it was over, just like that; she could spend all eternity in this eerily comfortable darkness and absolute oblivion cursing the unfairness of it all, or she could just give into it and let it end this pointless, fruitless, and futile struggle to cling to her feeble sun, her hopes, her dreams, her entire life, all of which would die in the end anyways. Only the primordial void, the original omnipotent darkness would remain in the end of days; with that in mind Serena closed her eyes and welcomed death with open arms, knowing that when she fell asleep in this thing's embrace she would know the true meaning of eternal slumber.

Her heart was beginning to slow to a crawl; the last bits of air were nearly gone from her lungs now, and her line of vision was carrying her into infinity, allowing her to see into the afterlife that almost beckoned her now. She was able to see a faint light glowing in the distance of an endless junction of long, dark tunnels; the metaphysical realm of heaven and Arceus's famed Hall of Origin calling out to her in a hauntingly beautiful choir of transcendent, all-powerful angels. Somehow she knew she would be sent to the seventh plain of Heaven and made into an angelic being of limitless godlike powers; her afterlife would be an eternity of bliss and omnipotent powers, a totality of existence to call her own and the ultimate high of being the capital-G Goddess of her own universe, multi-verse, Omniverse, or whatever else she wanted her creation to be. She may have been young, but apparently Arceus felt her heart and soul were pure enough to earn her a spot in the seventh level of heaven, where all-powerful angels presided over their own realm of infinite desires, where their every wish was granted and where infinite possibilities abounded. She knew she would be safe and happy here and was willing to die for the first time in living memory; hoping beyond hope that all the people who may or may not die in her world at this nameless evil's hands would end up in her own paradise with her.

Her last and only regret in the physical world, in her fleeting existence of 18 years in the light, was that she never got to see Ash again. Knowing that she would never again get a chance to say it; she spoke the words she never had the courage to before, projecting her true emotions towards Ash and Ash alone, knowing he'd never hear them from her but feeling like she had to say them nonetheless. 'I love you Ash, I know it is too late for me to do anything about it now but please; find a way out of this and live a good long life, do it for me okay. It's too late for me to get out of this mess but perhaps you can live to tell about it, and always remember that I'm your straw hat girl, now and forever, no matter whom you may end up with. You were the one, you were always the right guy for me; and you always would have been. I'm so sorry, I would give anything to have been able to tell you this somehow; but it looks like this is the end. Goodbye my champion... goodbye my Pokemon Master,' feeling somewhat better that she had said all that, even if only in her mind and heart; Serena was able to make peace with this all-encompassing darkness, but was quite unprepared for what happened next as her life's most precious moments flashed before her tear-stained eyes.

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Flashbacks

Professor Oak's infamous summer camp sessions were known to aspiring Pokemon trainers and children worldwide, and the Kalos region was no exception to the rule. Given that in his youth professor Oak had not only been one of the world's foremost authorities on Pokemonology but had also been Red's predecessor as the Pokemon League Champion of the entire world; the Oak family name was one known all over the world. It was said that Oak himself had passed on his old champion level team to his eldest grandson Blue when the time was right for him to officially retire; he was also the first ever Pokemon trainer to train his Pokemon to a level of infinity, so the absolutely immortal behemoths that made up his former team needed a new trainer as the aged professor himself had gotten a bit too old for competitive battling.

It was well known that the eccentric professor was past his prime when it came to Pokemon battling but he was still as sharp as ever when it came to researching Pokemon from across the world, even if he was a little absentminded he made up for it with seemingly unparalleled genius and imagination for the bizarre and unexplained aspects of the world of Pokemon. Now he spent his days like this, directing his camp which took place out in the forests of Route 1 between Pallet town and Viridian city, or constantly updating and playing around with his Pokedex data and tweaking information as new stuff was discovered.

The camp didn't have too many kids, given Pallet town's lack of them; but there were still a fair number of kids present including one lonely girl from very far out of town. She was 6 years old with shoulder length, honey colored hair and deep cerulean colored eyes. The boys at camp would say she was pretty from time to time, but she barely even spoke a word, too shy to bother trying to make any new friends and missing the one true friend she had back in Vaniville town in Kalos. She wore a straw hat atop her head, with a silky smooth pink ribbon wrapped around it in a sort of bow tie, and a pink sundress that came to just above her knees. She was one of three girls present here, the other two she remembered as being named Leaf and Marina.

Leaf's real name was something Serena never bothered to ask her about, because like her mother Greta who was rechristened Green, Leaf stuck to the nickname her friends and fellow children of Pallet town gave her. She was also the only girl at camp who Serena felt moderately comfortable around and whom she could properly talk to, and Leaf was always so encouraging, always trying to help her get over her initial shyness and defeatist attitude.

Leaf was a cute little brunette of seven years with startlingly green eyes and lightly tanned skin. She wore a plain blue top and a red plait skirt; was friendly and outgoing with a bubbly personality and very positive outlook on life, and was in essence a friend to absolutely everyone at camp, including Serena herself. She was the first to welcome and greet Serena to the annual Pokemon professor's summer camp, and the first to be greeted in typical Kalosian fashion by Serena who proceeded to kiss both of her cheeks just like her mom had taught her when meeting a new acquaintance. Leaf and the others had looked surprised at seeing this, but the girl immediately recovered and grinned broadly at the newcomer; making her feel as at home as she could have possibly been.

It had been about a week or so since Serena had made friends with Leaf and eventually started talking to Marina as well; since the three of them shared the girl's cabin that was kind of a given. And now Serena was thinking about all this as she, Leaf, and Marina got ready to hit the hay after another long day of camp filled events like nature hiking, observing Pokemon in their native environment, swapping ghost stories around the camp fire and roasting marshmallows and making s'mores. Serena was terrified of ghosts and ghost type Pokemon so she had quickly retreated back to her cabin before more could be told, with Leaf following to check up on her and Marina bringing up the rear. Now they were getting ready for bed and doing their nightly rituals, when Serena first heard the name of the boy who would change everything, her beliefs, her worldview, and her preconceived notions on what it meant to be human... everything.

"Ugh Ash is unbelievable, no wonder nobody in Pallet town likes him. Gots to be better than the rest of us all the time, beating Gary and Jimmy at everything. Ugh, I wish he would just leave us alone and let us enjoy camp with Oak leading it like he's supposed to, the stupid old geezer," Marina groaned frustratingly as Leaf immediately jumped to Ash's defense while Serena was totally confused.

"Be nice to Ash Marina, the poor guy is getting teased all the time by Gary, he doesn't need you or anyone else being nasty to!" Leaf angrily defended the mystery boy as Serena remained totally confused as to who they were referring to, remembering all the boys at camp including Gary Oak, who's attitude was absolutely horrible. She even knew about Jimmy who was the nicer of the two boys, but she didn't know anybody by the name of Ash and had never even met the assistant camp director/game manager.

"Um excuse me, but who is Ash?" Serena tentatively wondered as Leaf was the first to respond, clearly realizing that the honey blonde foreigner had no idea whom they were talking about. "Oh sorry Serena, forgot you were there for a sec. Ash is the most athletic, mature, intelligent, and cute boy at camp and in all of Pallet, all the girls like him, even Daisy Oak likes him. He's also really nice, though he is a little bit strange," Leaf replied as Serena furrowed her eyebrows in curiosity.

"What do you mean 'strange'?" Serena couldn't help but wonder, feeling more intrigued by this strange boy the more her new friends talked about him. She wondered if she would like to meet him and if they could be friends. Instead of Leaf answering her though, Marina overshot her and answered instead. "She means he's like super duper smart, like ultra smart. And he's really good at everything, and beats Gary at everything they do, which is why Gary hates him. The weird thing about it is Ash is super nice, and doesn't rub Gary's nose in anything. My mom used to tell me not to trust any boys who seem too perfect to be true, I guess this is what she meant," Marina ranted fervently, flushing red in her frustration as Serena nodded uncertainly. Truth be told this Ash didn't sound all that bad in her opinion, but she was afraid to say that aloud lest Marina start ranting at her instead.

Leaf took it from there as Serena contemplated this boy, "he's a bit of a weirdo, but he's kind, thoughtful, and his mom rocks. She always throws the best Christmas and Easter parties and invites the whole freaking town. Besides, how could anyone as special as Ash not be awesome with a mom that cool," Leaf concluded fondly, and with that she climbed into bed and turned out the lights; since she was the leader of the girl's cabin she was in charge of their schedule. Serena meanwhile, lay awake all night listening to Marina and Leaf's silent breathing while they slept, ever curious about this boy named Ash and unable to shake the desire to meet him...

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It had been three days since the discussion about Ash and Serena had still had no luck in meeting him. For a guy who was supposed to be in charge of all the camp's events, he sure kept himself absent and busy. She wondered what he did with his time and knew it was silly that she kept pining after him in some desperate search for somebody unique who could become a lifelong friend. She saw professor Oak everyday at least and could always ask him about Ash if it came to that, and she knew it was silly to be searching for a boy she didn't even know, but ever since that night three days ago she couldn't stop thinking about him and the thought of meeting him, having imagined all kinds of scenarios for their first encounter.

After three days of attending all the camp's events without any luck whatsoever, she had pretty much given up. Hell she'd even sneaked into the boy's cabin one night to see if he was sleeping in his designated bed, and still her search came up empty. She didn't even know why she wanted to meet him so bad or why she seemed so fascinated by the kind of boy that Leaf described him as, but she was getting desperate and almost obsessive about this one single endeavor. Now the time had come to find him no matter what it took, and she was interested on getting some answers as to his whereabouts, deciding to approach the boys first when Oak had gathered them all for one of his famous lectures on Pokemon.

She was just working up the courage to talk to Jimmy, whom Leaf and Marina both informed her was the nicer of the two boys present, when Oak himself called for quiet and asked everybody to sit down in their designated seats. "Hmm, excuse me children for interrupting your discussions, as many of you know I am professor Samuel Oak and I'm a Pokemon researcher and professor. Now as we all know, this world is widely inhabited by creatures called Pokemon, some grace our skies, others swim our oceans, and others still roam our lands. You can find Pokemon in every environment across our entire planet earth, some scientists even dispute the possibility that Pokemon like Clefairy, Clefable, and others came from the moon. In the Hoenn region there is also a Pokemon called Deoxys, which is where it was first discovered. Now before we continue can anybody tell me why legendary Pokemon like Deoxys are not recommended for beginning or newbie trainers," Oak quizzed with a lighthearted chuckle, silently conveying to the kids that it was alright if they didn't know the answer to this question. He was quite unprepared however when a small girl with a straw hat and honey blonde hair slowly raised her hand.

"Um, I think that legendary Pokemon are like, super tough and unma...ma...manageable, any trainer who catches them has to have lots of practice with training Pokemon who are extre...extremely strong," Serena stuttered uncertainly, tripping over some of the harder words she had picked up while trying to read the various encyclopedia books on Pokemon and Pokemon legends, her best friend Amber Valentino having read them from cover to cover and recommending them to her like the super genius she was.

Oak nodded and smiled approvingly, "correct miss... ugh, I'm sorry, what did you say your name was young lady?" he wondered absentmindedly as Serena blushed upon noticing that all eyes were on her. "Um, Serena Yvonne mister Oak," she stammered shyly, unable to believe she had given a suitable answer to a really difficult question. Everyone began murmuring all around her upon hearing her name as Oak cleared his throat once more, calling for silence and smiling as everyone fell silent to a T.

"Ah yes, the daughter of Grace, the famous Rhyhorn racer, I heard you were coming," Oak suddenly remembered as another voice broke out from behind him on the stage. "Yes that answer was definitely acceptable, Deoxys is also known to possess seemingly infinite cellular energy and the power to regenerate from all forms of harm no matter how severe, including having its entire body burned to ashes. Some say that Deoxys has regenerative powers rivaling that of level infinity Pokemon even before becoming fully trained himself. Anyways, you sent for me professor?" the calm, serene, and highly intelligent sounding voice of a young boy said as someone new stepped onto the stage.

Upon first glimpsing the boy Serena's breath caught in her throat for reasons she couldn't fathom. He was around her age, though significantly taller, with wild, raven colored hair and amber-golden eyes, eyes that shone with such intelligence and brilliance that they didn't even seem real. He wore a yellow and red tea shirt which formed a red and yellow Pokeball symbol along his right side, and blue jeans with the sleeves rolled up into makeshift denim shorts. His skin was tanned and he was the most athletic looking six year old she'd ever laid eyes on, and his eyes seemed to bore into her very soul as he caught sight of her almost immediately, evidently placing her as the one in the crowd to answer professor Oak's question.

"Did I, oh yes I remember now. Ash my boy, how is camp life treating you? Hey listen, do you think you could do me a favor and keep your friends in the crowd there entertained and educated for me? Something just came up at the lab and I gotta run for the time being, but I'm sure I can leave all of you in my assistant camp director's more than capable hands," Oak said, announcing the last part of his statement to the campers at large while the adult supervisors still present seemed to respect that this was no ordinary boy.

Ash's eyes widened a bit at the prospect of being handed the reins as the director of the camp. Normally Oak wouldn't have just given this kind of authority to a kid he never even met but Ash has proven time and again that he was more than capable of shouldering this kind of responsibility, and as one of Oak's own personal students at the lab, he knew the boy as well as anyone and could expect great things from him in the future.

A lot of the other kids were shocked that Ash was essentially in charge of the entire camp now, but Serena could only grin like an idiot for some reason. She didn't know what Ash had planned for them but somehow she got the feeling that it was going to be fun, and besides he was without a doubt the cutest boy here at camp. She looked forward to being able to get to know him a little better now that he was technically here to stay.

It took Ash precisely three seconds to recover from his shock, but when he did he gave a maddening feral grin at the prospect of being the designated leader. "I'll do my absolute best professor, you can count on me. I know this campsite and its many events like the back of my hands," Ash proclaimed as Oak nodded in approval and checked back with the other adult supervisors to make sure they were okay with that, grinning like a madman when they all just nodded in accord.

"See that you make this fun for everybody alright? It's okay for things to be educational but you got to balance between educational and entertaining, do you understand my boy," Oak said to the young man who had become like another one of his grandchildren to him. Ash nodded somewhat meekly and Oak's grin widened before he stepped off the stage and Ash stacked a pile of books he had on hand and had been reading underneath the podium so that he could reach the microphone. Once Oak had left Ash began talking, looking as though he did this sort of thing every day as Serena found herself drawn in by his... everything, his voice, his words, his smooth velvety, sing-song tone, his mad passion and enthusiasm for all things Pokemon, everything.

"Okay, so um, as I'm sure you all know by now I'm your temporary replacement for professor Oak while our esteemed professor attends to other matters. Anyways, I haven't really prepared an actual speech as I'm sure you all can tell," Ash chuckled somewhat nervously, earning a collective chortle from the crowd of kids, even the obnoxious Gary cracked a smile as he yelled out at Ash. "Come on Ashy boy, you're boring us already, gramps said to make this fun," he mocked as Serena noticed the first traces of a frown crossing Ash's handsome face.

"Anyways, as I was saying, Pokemon are vastly misunderstood creatures; in fact there is whole lot more of what we don't know than what we do know. Same principles apply to the field of Pokemonology as say the universe; there are an infinite number of possibilities and discoveries we could make just by studying Pokemon, and as Oak might have mentioned, we can find them anywhere, even somewhere as exotic as the vast ocean of stars above us. Deoxys is just one example of an extra-terrestrial Pokemon; there are godlike beings in Pokemon form whom legend has it exist in dimensions many, many times removed from our own, can anybody tell me which legendary beings I am referring to. If not that's okay, nobody expects you to just arbitrarily know everything overnight," Ash continued in a poetic manner, effectively losing everyone in the crowd as the adults supervising sweat dropped at this delivery and Gary shouted a loud 'boo' from his place in the crowd. All the while however Ash maintained a perfectly stoic demeanor and waited for someone, anyone to answer his little quiz. Realizing that nobody else was going to do it, Serena decide to do something she'd never considered doing before, she stepped up and raised her hand boldly into the air.

Ash grinned like a madman upon seeing her hand go up, his almost insane approval enough to make Serena feel good about herself as she proceeded to answer him. Gary was gaping at her like a Goldeen, mouthing something like 'no freaking way'. Marina rolled her eyes melodramatically whereas Leaf smiled at Serena in a reassuring manner, silently conveying to her to continue with her answer. "Alright, to the girl in a straw hat, let's hear it, I want to hear for myself that you know the answer to this," Ash reassured her as Serena nodded, trying to remember how to pronounce the complicated names of the legendary Pokemon her mother used to read stories to her about.

Quickly recovering from her embarrassment, Serena spoke the answer to his question to the best of her ability. "My mommy used to read me a bedtime story about the land of Sinnoh. Long ago there was nothing except a... churching, no a churning t-t-t-turmoil of chaos, gah this is really hard. These super Pokemon you talked about were from Sinnoh, Di-Di-Dialga, Palkia, and Gi-ratina, and the Original One whom many believe is a Pokemon called Arceus," Serena struggled to pronounce the words but thanks to her photographic memory and essentially total recall she was able to sound out the names of the Pokemon her mother recited to her even as her six year old mind struggled with the words themselves.

Everybody was amazed by the fact that Serena had been able to say the names of the Pokemon at all, let alone tie them to the extra-dimensional entities Ash had spoken so highly of in his lecture. Ash himself was beaming at her in what almost seemed to be admiration. Seeing this look on his face forced Serena to repress a blush.

"Awesome job straw hat girl, I hereby award the girls cabin another badge for you not only answering my question correctly, but also having the courage to come forth and share your brilliance with the rest of the campers," Ash proclaimed as Leaf and even Marina cheered, while Ash got down from the stage and handed Serena a badge that said 'academic achievement' with a kind smile.

Hopping back up to his podium on the state, Ash carried on where he left off with his lecture, going onto explain the legends surrounding Sinnoh. "As my fellow camper so correctly stated, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, and Arceus are in fact from dimensions many times removed from our own. Such is their rarity even compared to other legendary Pokemon that people wonder if they even exist. Now how about we talk about what each and every one of you believes in? What do you believe to be real or fiction in our infinite universe? Also remember that here at this camp that nobody will judge you harshly no matter how ridiculous or absurd 'some people' may find your beliefs to be," Ash replied with a sage's wisdom, going around and answering questions about anything and everything the kids in the crowd directed towards him, casting a wry glance at Gary the moment he said 'some people'. Serena knew she wouldn't be sleeping that night again, given the fact that Ash was even more amazing in person than she expected him to be. He even praised her for her intelligence and ingenuity, something nobody had ever done before. That night was the night that Serena Yvonne became positively star-struck for the first time in all her young life...

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Ash had been steering the camp for the last week or so, and Serena was having fun for the first time since coming here; the only thing she was disappointed about was that Ash was too busy to focus his attention on her for more than a few minutes. She had tried getting him alone to talk to him but he was constantly bombarded by questions from the other campers or teased by Gary, all of them wanted to know what he would be doing next and Ash himself was also partaking in all the events as well as being in charge of them. Serena found herself wondering more and more if the cute camper boy ever slept, and would often catch him up late at night, camping under the stars with nothing but a sleeping bag and a dying campfire hearth beside him.

She actually had several opportunities to talk to him during those times at night, but had never gotten the courage to do so and would always stumble, falter, doubt. She wondered if he had even been impressed by her answering his questions time and time again or if he was trying to be nice to her and make her feel more at home here. She questioned whether they could actually be friends when Ash was a constant busy-body and didn't even fully relax when he was supposed to be sleeping. Instead he would lay down in the dirt with a pillow and sleeping bag underneath the endless diamond skies, situated strategically in front of both the girl and boy cabins, so that he could catch anybody trying to stay out after curfew; although he caught her outside watching him several times in the past week, he never bothered saying anything to her about it for some weird reason, and proceeded to lay back down.

After about three nights of just standing there and watching him fall asleep however, Serena had become fed up with her nervousness and was determined to talk to him no matter what it took. She hadn't had any problems talking with her best friend Amber back in Vaniville town though they had known each other since they were in diapers; they played together, toddled for their first time together, and just all around became best friends. Amber was undoubtedly the best and only friend she had for the first six years of her life, and ever since her father abandoned her and her mom she just didn't have the strength to open up and let someone in like she should have, all of this stemming from a fear she had of anyone else she befriended leaving her as well.

Now though, her mom had sent her to this Arceus-forsaken camp and worst of all she was separated from Amber, and at first she had hated it; now though it wasn't so bad, and with Ash around she felt like she could finally have a proper friend around here to show her the ropes. So here she stood during the third night of being out past curfew, watching Ash camp out under the stars with admiration. He would sometimes talk aloud to himself and just prattle on about nothing, but she would become hooked on hearing his soft, smooth, intoxicating voice as he pondered life and death, or talked about Pokemon and his goals, discussing some of the most broad range of topics in the most deeply philosophical ways she'd ever heard from anyone, especially a 6 year old boy. She often wondered if he knew she was there, given how he would sometimes glance over in her direction as he talked and talked and talked, and she felt comfort from the fact that he was waiting patiently for her to make the first move.

Now however, she was determined to see him and talk as well; if nothing else then at least she could get some of her frustration with her mother off her chest. She just needed somebody to listen, and right now Ash was the only authority figure present whom she felt she could fully trust. He seemed to give off a trustworthy vibe and his presence welcomed her in, and Serena had always been unnaturally good at reading people for reasons she didn't understand; though it made her a great judge of character.

Finally on the third night, she found herself walking out to meet him at the barren campfire site, unable to take her shyness anymore and wanting so badly to just talk to the figure who continued to fascinate her for nights on end. It was all fine and good that she was shy and cautious when approaching a new environment with new people, but when it impeded her ability to make new friends then that was when it became a problem. Finally after what felt like a small eternity she was sitting right beside his sleeping bag in the dirt, not even really caring that she was essentially sitting in the earth and only able to think about how proud she was of herself for finally having the courage to do this. Ash meanwhile was sitting on his side with his head held up by his right hand and elbow, gazing expectantly at her like he had been anticipating this for a lifetime; his golden eyes boring into her and seeming to peer into her very soul.

"Um, hi," Serena stammered nervously, and said boy smiled kindly at her, neither laughing nor even chuckling at her somewhat lame introductory statement. "Hey there Serena, glad you finally got the courage to come out here and say hi to me at least. I know you're shy and all but I promise I won't bite," Ash whispered comfortingly as Serena giggled slightly, drawing her knees and her legs upwards and wrapping her arms around them as a cold draft blew through the campsite, making her wish she had worn better clothes. She was quite shocked however, when something very warm and comfortable immediately found itself wrapped around her; Ash, being ever the gentleman, had gotten up in the time it took Serena to realize it was cold, unwrapped his blanket from around him, sat up beside her, and wrapped them both up in it instead so that they were both huddling together within it's comfortable embrace.

"There, that's better isn't it? Believe me my mom always buys this stuff so many sizes too big for me because she says that I grow like a weed, frankly I'm glad she did though because A, I grow too fast for my own good, and B, at least in this situation there's enough room for both of us under here and I was able to help you out a little," Ash whispered kindly as Serena felt all warm and fuzzy inside from the random act of pure kindness Ash was doing for someone he didn't even know.

"How come you're so nice to me, you don't even know me?" Serena finally wondered, having been meaning to ask him that question for days given his penchant for always trying to inspire her to do more and do better, he constantly pushed her to be her best when he was leading the various camp activities and was always after her to do what she could. He was always so kind and so inspirational towards her, telling her not to give up or give in to despair, always insisting that she could outperform everyone else at camp for reasons she couldn't put a finger on.

"I don't know to be honest," Ash admitted after several drawn out moments. "I mean, you seem like a really sweet girl and you're really smart. I see a bit of myself in you at times and I just can't help thinking your defeatist attitude is the only thing stopping you from achieving every goal that you set for yourself. I'm usually really good at reading people and sensing the kinds of things they will go on to do, and I just feel like you of all the children here at this camp will go on to accomplish wonders and achieve unlimited miracles. Out of all the kids I've known here you seem to be the one with the most potential to change the world, but maybe I'm reading too much into it. No matter what though Serena, you need to keep on keeping on, if you keep working at it and refuse to let anything stop you, you might just take the entire world by storm some day. I guess that's why I feel so compelled to help you, maybe I'm just being silly," Ash admitted sheepishly, though he was quite unprepared for when Serena pecked him on the cheek, causing both of them to break out in a mad blush.

Rubbing the spot on his cheek where Serena had kissed him, Ash couldn't stop smiling for some reason, "what was that for?" he wondered, his unnaturally mature six year old mind genuinely curious as to what he did to deserve that. Serena giggled shyly as she formulated a response, "for being so nice to me, nobody has ever believed in me before and I just, thank you Ash," Serena smiled adoringly while gazing into the eyes that were pure gold as they sat somewhat cuddling together underneath the midnight sky, the blankets and the warmth of their small bodies shared by them and seeming to connect them on another level. Serena couldn't have been more happy than she was now; the fact that somebody believed in her so strongly was enough to nearly reduce her to tears of happiness, and she was quite shocked by what Ash said next, even if she only understand less than half of what he said.

"You know it's weird, but the moment I laid my eyes on you I knew you would be special, and that you would go on to accomplish things few other mortals can possibly conceive. Now, my father may be the all-powerful champion of the world, but people like you and me, we'll inherit the earth, at least that's my opinion," Ash smiled kindly, once again making Serena feel like a princess or a goddess or some equally absurdly powerful little girl, a feeling she never wanted to let go of. And thus began the first of many nights that the two of them would talk for all hours into it, of course with each night they talked Serena became increasingly aware of her limited time here with her new friend, and the knowledge that no matter how much she could have learned about him in these nights they sat together, it would never be enough. Such was her connection to this mysterious boy, this enigma that was Ash Ketchum that she almost forgot about missing her best friend Amber back home, almost...

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Six years old, Serena was six years old and already she was love-struck, and by a boy she hardly knew at a camp she had initially hated; but came to enjoy as Ash continued to discretely help her while directing the rest of the camp and participating in the events as well. For a six year old boy, he really was the ultimate taskmaster, and he was smarter than any boy she'd ever met, like freakishly, unnaturally so. From what he had told her during their nightly conversations, he had always been this unnaturally smart and he even confided in her why he refused to dumb himself down for the sake of fitting in as the rest of Pallet town phrased it. He explained that what he had was a gift, and he wasn't about to pretend to be something he wasn't for the sake of the majority of short sighted, narrow minded, misinformed, unimaginative, and omninescient dimwits who couldn't tolerate anyone like him.

He was nice enough about it and didn't try to rub his intelligence or his unnatural talent in all fields in people's faces, nor was he an egotist; he was just being himself and was glad to respect everybody's right to be themselves in turn, so long as they respected him for his decision to use his brain. Not to mention he was sweet, sensitive, caring, intuitive, and so much more than just a little cute. Serena was definitely smitten with the boy, and for good reason, because he had a lot going for him that would attract a lot of great girls in the not so distant future.

Despite his encouragement however, Serena still struggled in any event that involved physical activity, and aside from her encyclopedic knowledge of all things Pokemon, there was only so many times Ash could award the girl's cabin a badge for the same thing without it looking like favoritism. She was determined however, to win a badge for her cabin this time, even if it was the one event she hated most of all... scavenger hunt. She cringed as she looked at the list Ash had excitedly handed each person from the two cabins, before going off with one of his own to beat out his rival Gary once again. Despite his reluctance to rub his superiority in people's faces he made a special exception in Gary's case because the seven year old arrogant brat needed a serious attitude check. Plus Ash admitted it was good for him to, keeping his rival on his toes in and sharp in order to boost his own morale and motivation to improve.

Some of the things on the list were items commonly found in a forest, berries, certain types of leaves, and other stuff, but there was also a couple of Pokemon species on her list, indigenous species around the surrounding wooded area that would require the campers to go a little ways into the forest. Only problem with this was, Serena was hopeless with directions, and now it seemed she had finally gotten herself lost while searching for a Pokemon called Poliwag.

The sunlight was blocked from view by the density of the forest all around her, and it was eerily silent, only the occasional chirp of a bird Pokemon grabbing her attention every now and again.

She tried not to give into her ever-growing feeling of fear, not wanting to panic outright and hoping she could find her way back to camp when all was said and done. She was cutting through some more bushes, cringing as her exposed feet in her sandals were being stung by nettles, all the gnarled roots of the trees and even all the trees themselves now looking the exact same to her as her panic built to a crescendo.

"Where is everybody? Hello, please somebody, I think I'm lost," Serena called out somewhat meekly, fear evident in her tone as she found herself in a small clearing; hoping beyond measure that somebody would come and find her by this point and trying not to cry as she felt her eyes begin to water. She knew she was hopelessly lost now, and she was beginning to wonder if she'd ever be found, her irrational six year old mind imagining all kinds of scenarios where she'd die in the middle of a vast forest long before anyone ever found her.

With that thought as her only company, Serena was quite unprepared for when the bushes behind her began rustling noisily, startling her out of her reverie as she immediately jerked forward in a sudden, involuntary movement and tripped over one of the tree roots sticking out of the ground all around her; hitting the ground hard and scraping her knee roughly against the bark of the tree roots, taking a chunk right out of the skin on top of her knee cap and causing a sharp, stinging pain to shoot through her entire body from that point of impact.

Tears of both sadness and pain started pouring down her face like a river at this point, the damn breaking as Serena realized she'd probably die alone in this forest with nobody to care for her. "I knew I shouldn't have come to this stupid camp, I just knew it... mommy!" Serena cried out desperately, hoping that against all odds her mom would somehow hear her and take all the pain away. All the sadness, frustration, and hopelessness from this camp's events along with all the others caught up to her, and all of her uncertainty came to the forefront of her mind as she realized she'd never even won a single badge for her cabin outside of answering Ash's simple, Pokemon related questions during his many lectures. Her life hadn't exactly been a constant tragedy but it hadn't been perfect either, her father abandoned her when she was really little and her mother, in all her supreme selfishness had sent Serena to this Arceus-forsaken camp, completely disregarding her daughter's feelings on the matter even though it meant Serena would have to spend the entire summer without the company of her best friend Amber Valentino.

Her train of thought screeched to a tumultuous halt as the bushes behind her began rustling much more, only this time much louder and much more violently. Serena immediately feared the worst, getting it into her head that a much bigger and meaner Pokemon than the Poligwag she had been searching for was about to come out of that bush and eat her. She closed her eyes as the tears continued to stream down her face, but was quite unprepared for when an all too familiar voice called out.

"Poliwag, where'd ya go little buddy?" the gentle, soothing voice of none other than Ash Ketchum echoed from in front of her as she opened her eyes and the well of tires in them almost immediately started to dry up. In the infinitesimal amount of time it took for him to notice her, she saw him first and had never thought that anyone looked as handsome as he did in these moments. In one glorious moment of relief, all of her previous worries and concerns melted away and this nightmare suddenly got infinitely brighter. Ash's eyes widened the instant he saw her lying there in the forest floor, and quicker than she would have thought possible he was by her side.

"Oh my Arceus Serena, are you okay?" he asked with a tone of urgency, the scavenger hunt completely forgotten as he noticed her red and puffy eyes. "My leg really hurts," Serena sniffed a little dramatically, the pain from her knee already beginning to subside yet a part of her liked that Ash was fussing over her more in one moment in time than her mother had done in her whole life. "Are you okay? Can you walk? Here, let me try something. Pain, pain, go away," Ash chanted somewhat childishly, waving his arms in a theatrical fashion as Serena realized he was implementing some kind of psychological treatment, and strangely enough it was working. Getting down on his knees in front of her, Ash tied a simple blue ribbon around her stinging knee just as Serena heard him say it was a good luck charm.

She tried standing up but let herself fall back down, surprised by the fact that her knee wasn't hurting so badly anymore but wanting to keep this little act of hers going a little while longer. Warmth, tenderness, and strength surged through her at the thought of Ash expressing so much concern for her over a simple little scrape on her knee. Arceus knows she had sustained worst injuries from her time training on her mother's Rhyhorn and the majority of her crying came from sadness and frustration, not from physical pain, and somehow seeing Ash out here trying to humor her and fussing over her like any good friend would had the desired effect of removing her emotional pains.

"I can't walk Ash, my leg hurts too badly," Serena meekly insisted, knowing it wasn't true and sensing that Ash was aware of this little fact. His eyes shone knowingly and with such radiance and intelligence she felt her heart skip a beat, and to her surprise he said the words that would one day inspire her to no end. "Never give up until the end straw hat girl, here, take my hand," he instructed with a knowing smirk plastered on his face, holding out the aforementioned hand for her to clasp with her own. He'd been calling her straw hat girl for the last few weeks now and she loved it for reasons she didn't understand; so she took his hand, and was surprised by how strong and yet gentle his grip was when he hoisted her straight to her feet, the two of them landing into an unintentional hug, or maybe intentional, it was hard to tell with Ash. She was quite surprised when he didn't immediately let go, and instead whispered into her ear.

"I know what this is really about, you have a defeatist attitude and just quit when things don't go exactly the way you hope. Same deal with the scavenger hunt I think, you seemed to have learned that quitting while you're ahead is easier than sticking through until the end. There's an old saying though Serena, quitters never win and winners never quit. You may not always succeed, you may not always win, but you should never give up; keep trying and something good will always come out of it in the end," Ash whispered soothingly while rubbing her back and hugging her as she had never been hugged before. Serena's eyes widened upon processing this statement; his wisdom was inhuman for a boy his age, what the hell was he?

Ash's smile widened almost as if he read her mind, and taking her hand as she managed to stay standing, he started leading her back to the camp. "Come on, camp's this way, and look at you staying standing up. Now let's go straw hat girl, you don't mind if I call you that do you, I called you that once the first time by accident and it just kind of stuck," Ash rambled on as Serena felt a surge of warmth through her body where her and her knight in shining armor's hand were intertwined. "What about the scavenger hunt?" Serena said, finally finding her voice as she realized Ash was essentially giving up his chance to beat Gary in order to help her find her way back.

Ash shrugged, "what about it? Gary may not think so but I for one feel that helping a person in need is way more important than winning some stupid competition. Why, would you rather me leave you here in this neck of the woods?" he asked somewhat jokingly to clear the air between them as Serena chuckled and shook her head no. "I think I've had enough bad stuff happen to me in forests to last forever," Serena admitted with a shudder. She had honestly thought she was going to die alone in that forest, that she was much too lost for anybody to find her, but apparently Ash knew where she was, and since they had a bit of time while walking through this forest, she figured she would ask him a question about that.

"How did you find me?" Serena wondered curiously, still refusing to let go of his hand as she felt it tighten slightly around hers. "To be honest Serena, I got lucky; I was just following Poliwag through that neck in the woods when it led me right to you. I'm actually wondering whether it led me to you on purpose. I know these woods pretty well so you probably wouldn't have stayed lost for long; though you want to know something really spooky, I almost died in these woods once," Ash confided with a guilty undertone, and she could somehow sense what he was thinking about. He was worried about what might have happened had he not miraculously managed to stumble right on top of her.

She stopped cold as the last part of his statement caught up to her, and she stared at him dumbfounded. "You almost died out here?! How?! When?!" she very nearly demanded, worry and concern for the boy who had rescued her from her own demise surging through her with astounding vigor. Ash sighed as he seemed to realize that may have been the wrong thing to say, but it was too late to take it back now and Serena wasn't going anywhere until she got an explanation out of him.

He sighed in obvious exasperation, but carried on regardless. "When I was five, I was doing my usual daily exercises, you know, staying in shape, learning martial arts and stuff. Well anyways, I found myself in these woods and... Nobody believed me about what happened afterwards," Ash suddenly cringed as Serena took his other hand in her own, offering as much comfort as she could muster as she realized this was hard for him to admit.

"I may not understand everything you say, and I may not totally believe you when you tell me your story, but I promise to do my best to understand and believe you," Serena stated with more passion than she had ever had for anything before, amazed by the level of adoration she was harboring towards this dashing young hero. Ash seemed visibly taken aback by her admission, and she blushed upon hearing her own words come out of her mouth, because while they had been hard to find they had been sincere.

"I was five years old; in these woods something happened out here that I just... can't explain. The sky went completely black, everything went cold, like all the happiness, love, and positive energy had gone from the world. I was attacked, by something or someone that could not be seen, a faceless malice, some supreme form of darkness. My training kicked in from years of sparring with fighting type Pokemon at professor Oak's ranch, but it still wasn't enough, whoever or whatever this thing was moved much too quickly to be human. I thought it might have been a Pokemon, but no Pokemon has ever attacked me for no apparent reason before, and I'd been through these woods a hundred times beforehand without any problems.

I tried to fight back, tried everything I could, but it still wasn't good enough. Then some really dark thoughts started forming in my head, thoughts that were quite unconnected with my own. I was immediately made aware of the futility of my struggle; that this thing could crush me completely with only the briefest of thoughts, and it would be easier to just give up. I didn't though; guess I was too stubborn, and that made it angry. It started hitting me harder, harder than any blunt force impact any human should have been able to survive, yet I barely felt a thing all the while being completely aware of just how much force this thing was exerting while striking me repeatedly at the speed of light.

Finally it hit me harder than ever before, and let me tell you something Serena, I have never felt pain like that in my entire life, in fact I've hardly ever felt pain period. My body tore a giant swath through the forest floor, ripping through solid oak trees that even gale force storms couldn't break down, only to stop about ten miles away from the original point of impact. I was in absolute, all-consuming agony, every bone in my body was shattered, but I was alive, and I was healing even faster than this thing could damage me, and I wasn't fighting it alone." Ash paused as Serena suddenly interrupted. "What do you mean by that?" she asked, horrifyingly fascinated and grimly enraptured by Ash's tale of the impossible.

Ash stared at her with wide-eyed amazement, as if he couldn't quite believe what he was hearing. "You mean you actually believe me?!" he questioned in an obvious daze as Serena immediately nodded vigorously in affirmation. "Of course I do, you're my friend Ash, why would I think you were telling me a make belief story," Serena exclaimed emphatically, as the boy couldn't help but gaze adoringly at her upon realizing she believed in him much the same way he did her.

He cleared his throat before answering her question from before, "there was a Pokemon helping me fend this thing off; an oddly colored Pokemon I'd only ever seen in books before then. You're not going to believe this Serena, but I saw Mew; and not just any Mew, a shiny blue one. When this darkness became aware of the Mew's presence it immediately retreated and the light and happiness returned to the world. I felt a strange manic energy surging through me as the pain from my injuries finally won out, and I fell unconscious in the middle of the forest." Ash continued as Serena listened with rapt attention, wanting to know how Ash got out of this situation alive and completely forgetting about her own troubles and the camp for the moment. She couldn't imagine how scared Ash must have been out here, how much that situation must have traumatized him; yet amazingly enough he was still brave enough to risk coming out here and leading the camp as well as playing in the forest. In all honesty, if it had been her who went through this she'd probably never leave the safety of her bedroom back in Vaniville town again.

"You're so lucky you didn't die," Serena commented as Ash nodded in agreement before finishing his story. "Anyways when I woke up the pain was gone, and the darkness had somehow lifted; floating above me was the same blue Mew who I could sense was worried about me. After confirming that I was okay Mew smiled at me and simply left. I never saw her again," Ash concluded as Serena smiled in relief that the story had a happy ending.

"It's too bad really, I would have given almost anything to befriend a Mew; still though it was lucky she was there, and somehow I knew that I was even more bizarre compared to others than I realized. My super powers were gone after that, and I suppose they only manifest when my life is in danger or something, but whatever the reason I did some research and came across something rather startling," Ash continued as Serena still clung to his hand like it was her lifeline. "Which is," Serena prompted as Ash continued his tale of wonders, wanting so badly to believe that what Ash was telling her was true and realizing she was talking to someone who could've passed for a legitimate super hero, even if his powers were situational he had abilities.

"I found out that my father's side of the family were powerful users of aura, whereas my mom's side has psychics and stuff. I guess psycho-kinesis would explain my infinite intelligence but what about my increased strength and stuff, maybe my psychic powers are strong enough for me to will my physical limitations into nonexistence or something, which if that's true than maybe I'm more powerful than Sabrina herself from Saffron city is rumored to be. Honestly Serena it's quite scary to even think about," Ash explained as Serena gasped, having heard stories about aura guardians and psychic humans before but having believed them to be a myth until now.

"That's... amazing, you're a real super hero Ash," Serena whispered adoringly, causing Ash to immediately blush at her praise. "No I'm not," he spluttered in shock, unable to form coherent sentences at this point as Serena merely stood on her toes and planted a kiss on his cheek. This caused his entire body to turn beet red as he stared at her in obvious surprise, and Serena giggled cutely at his adorable expression. "Thank you for saving me Ash, you may not think you're a super hero, but you're my champion, mister Pokemon master" she cooed in total adoration, completely smitten with her boy rescuer as Ash was now paralyzed with embarrassment at her recent actions.

"Anyways... let's get you back to the campsite," Ash stammered once he remembered how to speak, or breathe, or even who the hell he was, having enjoyed that little peck on the cheek a lot more than he was letting on as he led her the rest of the way out of the forest. Serena knew, without knowing how she knew, that she had just made a friend for life, and that her friendship with this boy would one day be the stuff of legends. Hearing his tale of the impossible made her acutely aware that death came for everyone in the end and that all of them, even Ash, could only evade it for so long. Yet despite knowing this Ash's tale had also made her realize that death could sometimes be cheated, maybe even outright defied. Or maybe Ash didn't cheat death so much as he just refused to become an instrument of it? Who knew for certain, the only thing she did know however; was that this life she led with Ash Ketchum, the future Pokemon master of the universe, was one worth fighting for until the bitter end. No matter what was happening to her right now in the embrace of absolute darkness snuffing out her life, she knew she could never give up until the end, and this battle with the ultimate darkness was not OVER!

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Back in the Present Day

In all his 18 years, Calem had never been so certain of his own death nor had he been so frightened of it before. People always took life for granted, because they thought themselves immortal. But if they could have been in his position, suffocating to death in this entombment of infinite blackness; they might not have wasted a single moment ever again if they somehow managed to escape. Because if this situation had taught him anything after the darkness took his Shauna from him, it was that life was precious, and he'd be damned if he let this monster take that away from him before he could really even begin to start living and start doing his very best to master the art of Pokemon battling on an infinite level.

But what could he do, he and Shauna had been forcibly separated by this thing, and he couldn't see her or Serena anywhere. To make matters worse he wasn't able to breathe, and could only hold his breath for so long before he ran out of air. It had only been about thirty seconds, and it was a damn good thing Calem had done breathing exercises whilst learning how to swim back at the Aquacorde town public swimming pool. If he hadn't he may have already had the life snuffed out of him.

He had no Pokemon to protect him from this thing, and he himself was only human, against a being who claimed to be omnipotent. At this point, all he could do was pray for a miracle; if he had to die his only real regrets were that he didn't master Pokemon battling and that he didn't tell Shauna how he felt about her. It had been hard dating Serena knowing she didn't really feel the same way about him, but Calem had learned to live with it, especially with Shauna acting as a sort of mediator between him and Serena following their breakup. In all honesty, had it not been for Shauna trying to mend things between them Calem wasn't certain he and his ex-girlfriend would have been able to stay friends. As it was though, the three of them were still perfectly tight, and Calem would have given anything to be able to protect them. In the last year or so following his breakup with Serena, Calem had realized one thing, and that was the fact that he truly loved Shauna.

He and the brunette went way back, they had been best friends since before they could walk and talk and both of them had been born in Johto before coming here to Vaniville town and meeting Serena for the first time at the age of eight. It was obvious right from the get go that Serena had been having a rough time adjusting to life back in Kalos without her best friend, and with the mysterious death of her other best friend from Kalos during her time in Kanto, Serena was left totally bereft of friends until Calem and Shauna themselves were able to fill that role.

Now though, unless they thought of something Calem and his best friend and his hopefully future girlfriend were going to die all alone and completely separated in this womb of pure evil and malice. He couldn't see anything, not even his own hand in front of his face, and so he was quite unprepared for when a blinding, searing white light began forming in the vast ocean of shadows. The light had started out as little more than a tiny glimmer, but quickly grew into a dome of boundless brilliance, expanding out to combat the blackness and somehow managing to swallow it up... causing a massive explosion of power and light to rock the world like it was off the Richter scale and for Calem to be ejected from this nightmare at the speed of light. The force of the explosion almost knocked him out, and he clung to consciousness only just as the darkness somehow lifted and the world as he knew it re-emerged into being all around him, making him feel as a baby would when it left its mother's womb for the first time. He hit the dirt covering the path on Route One, and felt a thud beside him and a body hugging tightly to him as he realized he and Shauna were now home free, back outside in the real world and gasping uncontrollably as a fresh, cool burst of air entered their lungs for the first time in what felt like forever.

"Holy shit, I thought we were going to die," Shauna murmured breathlessly beside him once they remembered how to speak, her voice sounding raspy and completely dried out, but it was undeniably her own. Calem felt his eyes tear up in relief as he and Shauna embraced each other, not knowing or caring what was happening around them as both seemed to realize they were alive; they were going to be okay. Shauna pulled away only slightly to stare into her oldest friend's tear filled eyes, his face and his lips somewhat blue from the total lack of heat, light, and oxygen but that wasn't going to stop her from doing what she was about to do.

Grabbing his face in her own hands clumsily, which were shaking and lightly tinged blue due to almost suffocating, Shauna planted a searing hot kiss firmly on Calem's lips and immediately their entire bodies reddened and heated back up again. Calem wasn't aware of what brought this on but he sure as hell wasn't going to complain as he realized Shauna was kissing him, completely, totally kissing him like he had dreamed about for countless months. They separated as the need to breathe became too great too soon, but Calem could feel a very pleasurable warmth surging through his body now as Shauna stared at him almost lustfully; in these moments the both of them knew that they would never again take anything for granted. Something or someone had just done the impossible and stopped an omnipotent being from extinguishing their lives, and both of them knew more than ever now that their lives were a precious gift, and that those lives were meant to be shared.

Calem had never been more sure of anything in his life, this whole almost dying thing had given him a totally new perspective; from now on he wasn't going to waste time with something like confessing his feelings for Shauna when he wanted more than simple friendship with her. He was going to live life to its fullest; take chances, make mistakes, and maybe even get hurt along the way, but at least he would be alive and truly living. He wasn't going to pussyfoot around anymore and he could tell Shauna felt the same way as he did.

"Wait a minute... Serena! Where the hell is she," Shauna suddenly remembered as both she and Calem spun around frantically in search of her friend, and within seconds they spotted her, both of their jaws hitting the floor as they glimpsed their mutual friend in all her glory. Said honey blonde girl was bathed in an almighty glow of golden light; a halo of absolute, almighty celestial powers that set the entire world around them throbbing. They could feel her presence bathing the whole of Vaniville town in a dome of sheer power, and standing across from her was what appeared to be an equally powerful black cat-like Pokemon.

It was terrifying to behold, easily the size of a moving van, floating above the ground in a slightly humanoid posture with an incredibly long, skinny tail, short stubby arms, rabbit-like feet, and red eyes with vertical pupils. Its maw was open and it's banana sized teeth were bared at this new version of Serena, evidently extremely pissed off that she managed to set them all free, which Calem and Shuana both somehow knew she did. The world around them was brighter and more vibrant than ever, the dome of power protecting the rest of the world from the battle that was about to ensue, yet even the residents of Vaniville town were experiencing the most blissful sensations in the wake of Serena's new, godlike presence; warmth, tenderness, love, strength, and others. This feeling of absolute euphoria seemed to last forever, yet both Shauna and Calem knew it wasn't over, for intermingling with the dome of light and sapping its power, was the black Mew's equally powerful dark presence.

Shauna and Calem couldn't believe what they were seeing, or how much power their dearest friend possessed. What the hell was she?! Where did she suddenly acquire such a powerful force?! More importantly, where could Calem get some of what she had?! Neither of them understood what was going on, but instinct told them to give Serena and this nightmarish entity a wide berth, even as they ignored said instinct and approached, only for Serena to halt them with a wave of her hand.

"Stay back you to, leave this to me," she commanded authoritatively. Calem frowned, Serena had done more than just gain some kind of godlike power and presence; she had completely changed her entire demeanor. Her voice was brimming with absolute confidence, a trait the Serena they knew had never once possessed. None of this made any sort of sense, but Calem and Shauna did as she told, and awaited the inevitable as the strange black Mew-like creature, which Calem only knew about due to pictures in his Pokemon books; addressed Serena's sudden and impossible change in everything.

"You have done considerably well to make it this far into our struggle child, you even managed to manifest your innermost self and enter a sort of God mode; but it will not stop me. Boundless inner world or not, I am the Anti-God Pokemon, and I will see to your absolute destruction!" the monster insisted as Calem and Shauna watched the scene unfold in horrified fascination. Serena growled in a most un-Serena-ish way and vanished, seemingly teleporting towards her enemy as the black Mew swatted at her with that tail of his, a tail so strong it tore a hole through the fabric of reality just by slicing through the air itself; leaving a mini black hole in his wake that almost immediately collapsed on itself but managed to pull Shauna and Calem along for a split second ride, along with some of the infinite light and energy from Serena's dome.

Serena meanwhile, had ducked underneath the tail whip attack and phased back to her original starting point, firing a strange ball of neon colored plasma at her opponent, and forcing him to conjure a full powered protect attack to shield against it. Calem and Shauna's jaws dropped upon watching their friend do the impossible yet again, recognizing the blob of energy she shot at the Black mew as some strange mixture of Electro Ball and flamethrower.

Both combatants suddenly disappeared, and gale force winds blew through the entirety of Vaniville city, knocking Calem and Shauna off their feet as Serena and the entity collided with each other again and again faster than the human eye could follow, leaving sonic booms in their wake that leveled much of the small town causing entire houses to collapse, with their occupants still inside. Pandemonium immediately ensued as people realized this wasn't some Pokemon battle and that people were going to die if they stuck around. The entire town became filled with panic, and Calem groaned as he stood back up, Shauna walking up to him and linking their arms as both realized that the town was in danger.

Calem could see Grace, Rhyhorn, and Fletchling from the corner of his eye trying to fight their way through the screaming mob of terrified people and Pokemon alike, the deafening booms like thunder as Serena and her enemy continued to gain speed and strength the more they smashed into each other. Calem tried shouting to Serena to be careful, but it fell on deaf ears as he and Shauna were the only ones not trying to leave town. Alarms blared throughout Vaniville as the local authorities showed up and Officer Jenny came to usher people to safety, not that it would have done any good at this point.

Calem and Shauna both couldn't believe that they were witnessing as the only indication of the battle ensuing was the constant shifting motions in the air all around them, and the massive shock waves that immediately followed each distortion. Ripples of distorted reality began rending the world apart all around them, houses disintegrated, people started dying; and Calem and Shauna could only watch this happen with such shock and stupor that they didn't even register what was happening. Calem's brain was completely numb and not functioning properly as the dome of power surrounding the outskirts of their hometown somehow allowed some of the people to leave, but it didn't matter because there was no minimum safe distance. Calem somehow figured out that it didn't matter how far the townspeople ran; hell they could run to the ends of the universe itself and it still wouldn't make a difference. For the first time in his life, Calem knew that the impossible was real and that the gods of the Pokemon universe themselves were at war. The high speed collisions between Serena and this behemoth were distorting the very fabric of reality itself and showing no signs of stopping.

Suddenly something inside of him snapped, and he couldn't take it anymore as he broke free of Shauna's grasp, the girl holding onto his arm like it was the most important thing in the world, and ran straight towards the madness happening all around them. "Serena, you've got to stop this right now... STOP," Calem screamed in mad desperation and as loud as he could, but for all his desperation to avert this infinite crisis, it was all for absolute naught as the two warring gods collided one final time; this time at the speed of light. The entire world was ripped apart and the infinite mass of their collision created a massive hole in the sky, which immediately began to expand infinitely beyond earth and swallow up everything in its path with insatiable hunger. To his absolute dubiousness and horrified disbelief, Calem immediately recognized the massive swirling maelstrom in the sky above them as a black hole; realizing he and everyone else on earth had no time to prepare, no time to set their affairs in order before this thing brought about an extinction level event. This was the end of all life on earth, and nothing could stop it...

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Nigh omnipotence surged through her body as another, far more experienced personality within her infinite mindscape now had control of her vessel and was battling her opponent on her behalf; yet Serena could still sense herself and was aware of what was happening outside of the boundless inner world she now found herself trapped in, while her other self, this inner God battled for her. This realm she was now in was literally its own totality, completely separate from the outside universe and expanding into infinity in all directions. Countless different layers of reality were superimposed into each other in this place; one of the main layers was an endless maze expanding in omni-directions, with infinite doors leading to an equally absurd number of different dimensions and other bizarre phenomena. Countless different levels to the maze made it as endlessly high and as bottomless as it was infinitely vast on the level she was currently on, and the doors were as ever-reaching upwards as they were downwards and in all other directions. There were levels upon levels, doors upon doors, and each door led to a million more, each level descended or ascended to the next via an uncountable number of staircases; the laws of physics, gravity, and even rationality were completely wrenched apart and heavily distorted.

The sheer absurdity of this place and the endless labyrinth she found herself in was enough to make her head spin and for her brain to short circuit and stop working; it was all she could do to stare around her in stunned silence, never mind pay attention to what was going on outside this inner world. She could feel her now infinitely strong body being used by this other personality inside of her, one that was actually experienced at using the powers she just suddenly acquired literally overnight.

"I need to see what is going on outside of this place," Serena said once she regained the power of coherent speech, and surprisingly enough this world of infinite possibilities and unlimited power inside of her immediately obliged. A massive pool of semi-translucent liquid energy appeared above her like molten glass, superimposing with the endlessly high levels of the maze above her and allowing her to see a faded out version of the outside world while still seeing the maze above it to. It was like looking into a pair of glasses that reflected the images behind her while still being able to see what was in front of her, and she saw the maze in all its glory as well as the outside world while watching her vessel be used in a fight against what appeared to be a gigantic black Mew.

She gasped as she realized their last collision had been at the speed of light and had tore a super-massive black hole into the fabric of the world, one with an energy level infinitely exceeding anything producible by nature alone and one that was drawing the entire omniverse itself into it. Don't ask Serena how she knew this, she just did, and she watched in awed, horrified fascination as her body and its current user along with the entity of absolute darkness somehow floated around the accretion disk and the ergosphere of the black hole without falling in, much to the chagrin of all possible laws of physics. The black hole's event horizon had almost immediately accelerated to the point of attaining infinite motion and was now all-encompassing, drawing everything in the Omega Omnisphere into it like the truly irresistible force it was. She knew she should have been horrified beyond all measure, yet she knew that some way, somehow, this nightmare would be brought to an end.

She cringed as the black Mew knocked her body around while the world around her fell into the black hole at impossible speeds, yet took forever to do so at the same time due to the infinite gravitons effectively stopping the flow of time around Vaniville town forever more. The event horizon was now easily expanding past the confines of the Omniverse itself and stretching into the realm of complete absurdity, putting every other super-massive black hole in existence to complete and utter shame and threatening to swallow everything in creation like it was an all-you-can-eat-buffet. This was insane, how could anything survive that?! Serena couldn't even bring herself to believe what she was witnessing, yet nothing she had ever dreamed about could ever indicate that she could have the imagination to dream this shit up. She knew somehow that this nightmare was all too real, and that the gods of the Pokemon universe were somehow involved. Next to all that, she was completely outclassed, or at least she should have been, yet somehow she was fighting back, her body had become a perfect vessel for some kind of infinite power and was now doing all it could to avert this insane, omni-dimensional crisis.

"Come on my body snatching entity, you can do this," Serena prayed, silently pleading with the infinite pantheon of omnipotent gods across the Omega Omnisphere, which she knew about now, to bail them out of this impossible situation. She heard the black Mew chortle sadistically while addressing her invincible little helper. "See, this is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Behold the supreme force of nature that will destroy everything you, your beloved Ash, and Arceus himself cares about. If you can't stop it, this black hole will consume everything in totality, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this all plays out while you and I battle alongside this singularity without falling in. No matter what you chosen champions of Arceus do you cannot and will not stop me! There is only one way this whole war can end, with my absolute rule of the Omega Omnisphere. I will become the Omniarch of totality, or I will simply destroy it and remake it in my own image, either way I win. Now you fools can avert my plans, be there at every point in totality to try and stop me, but it will only delay the inevitable; so why don't you save yourselves an eternity of pain and just offer your eternal subordination to me right now?! For once in your pathetic lives, actually take the easy way out, why drag it out my dear, sweet child?!" the obsidian Mew spoke smoothly, evidently attempting to convey to Serena the futility of challenging him at all.

Serena listened as her body snatching inner goddess replied using her own mouth, and despite the fact that she should have felt violated by this invasive intelligence, the truth was she was just relieved that she didn't have to somehow find a way to beat this thing by herself, without any actual experience on how to use her newfound powers. Her abilities had long since expanded to encompass the realm of infinite possibilities as well as the realm of logical impossibilities themselves. She couldn't wrap her head around how much power and potential had been lying untapped inside of her this whole time, maybe even her whole life, but right now she was just glad she had this power because it may be able to save a whole helluva lot of lives.

"I wouldn't expect someone like you to understand Omninoir," her inner self replied haughtily, her voice ringing out even above the deafening gusts of impossibly fast winds and the black hole itself. Her voice was the most impossibly beautiful sound Serena had ever heard, like a chorus of angelic goddesses, and she found herself wondering if she had been this strong all along. Surely that couldn't be possible could it, for as long as she could remember Serena had never felt like anything special, even with Ash always telling her that she'd go on to accomplish wonders beyond imagining. Yet now she knew that Ash had been right about her, he'd always been right about her, about everything really. Having him believe in her so strongly had inspired her to never give up, and she'd almost forgotten about that important life lesson when she had been consumed by that orb of blackness; but now she was reminded once again of just how much potential she and every person had in general. She swore then and there that if she got out of this she'd live the life she had always dreamed of living, and would do everything in her power to protect and preserve this world of infinite possibilities she now found herself in, for such a world was one worth truly fighting for, worth living in for all of time if she could.

Her musing within her own eternal mind was interrupted by her body snatcher's impossibly beautiful and attractive voice carrying on from her original statement. "You represent all that is wrong with the Omega Omnisphere, all of its evil, hopelessness, and despair; so don't stand there now and try to tell me this whole struggle is pointless, because you and I both know that is not true. You may be evil in its purest most supreme form, but I represent the lighter side of the omnipotence nexus, of the perpetual conflict between all good and evil everywhere. So long as there is life, so long as I draw breath in this body, the body of the remarkable young girl whom my existence has been and always will be tied to, then there will forever be hope," her inner God proclaimed valiantly, virtuously, in that hypnotic, insanely sweet angelic voice that could have every man on the planet falling to their knees in complete subservience towards her.

Omninoir merely chortled sadistically at his opponent's moving speech, the black Mew looking around him cockily as if to address the situation they found themselves in; everyone else in Vaniville town was forever frozen in time, the black hole slowly but surely drawing them all in and leaving them powerless to defend themselves. Relative to the people frozen in time, it would all happen instantly but to anyone lucky enough to escape the black hole, these people would fall through space for eternity, never able to escape the swirling maelstrom of pure gravitational force all around them. Only Serena's supremely deified body and the creature known as Omninoir remained perfectly mobile; so you can imagine how surprised Serena was when she saw two new players joining the game, and Omninoir growled in an annoyed tone as he came face to face with what he knew to be the Jewel of Life Arceus and the Primal Dialga that Ash Ketchum One Million had captured.

Now it seemed he was outnumbered three to one and Primal Dialga roared defiantly, sending a massive surge of power streaming towards the core of the black hole that distorted the Omega Omnisphere itself while Arceus and Serena became poised for battle. The concentrated, condensed blast from Dialga's almighty roar sent a massive, never-ending barrage of infinite anti-gravity particles spiraling towards the singularity with every intention of completely negating it, carrying with them a presence of eternal weightlessness that could completely circumvent the laws of gravity itself. Serena was tossed around inside her mindscape as her body snatching friend and Arceus kept Omninoir otherwise occupied and the Omega Omnisphere shook in response to their titanic clashes.

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The all-encompassing event horizon had long since enveloped every region of space and every sub-space frequency, and the infinite concentration of gravitons were drawing entire universes towards it as any truly irresistible force would. The flow of time was slowed to an eternal, everlasting crawl where the core was due to the infinite gravitational force warping the entire world's clock, creating a relativistic conundrum of ultimate proportions. Entire multiverses would stream through and spaghettifi upon reaching the core of the black hole as easily and effortlessly as a planet or a star's light. Yet despite this absurdity some universes were infinitely removed from the black hole's core and would thus take an eternity to fall through the omnipresent event horizon, allowing said universes to most likely live throughout their entire existence before ever falling into the black hole and being crushed into oblivion. That said, eventually all of totality would be consumed and if the Chosen Champions of Arceus couldn't find a way to stop this, it was game over, literally game over for the Omega Omnisphere in its entirety.

In her own dimension, Arceus herself could feel the pull of the black hole, though her realm was safe due to it being out of sync with everything in existence, including but not limited to; time, space, duality, causation, and even the fabric of nothingness and the omniverse themselves. The same could not be said for everywhere else in creation, and omni-locking the entire Omega Omnisphere outside of itself would create a paradox more dangerous than any black hole ever could be.

Arceus had long since had her jewel of life returned to her and before opting the join the ever-growing roster of Ash Ketchum, her father the original Arceus of the one millionth parallel universe had endowed her with the full powers of their species and given her all of the life plates needed to create her own omni plate. This in turn would allow her to access her ascension form if need be, a form that was totally invincible and absolutely unbeatable by its fundamental nature; unless the omnipotence paradox was involved of course, a technicality that could completely invalidate her own supremacy if she wasn't careful. Now though it seemed like the challenge she was about to face would be equal to what she was capable of even in this ultimate form of hers. She knew she needed to hurry, for the Chosen Champions her father had selected were scattered across the earth and were being kept separated and preoccupied by an omnimalevolent presence that had haunted her nightmares ever since she was a hatchling.

Growing up, she had known that the Omninoir species were designed by the Ultra-Verse's Creator to act as the antithesis to her own, acting as the direct opposite of the supreme beings that all Arceus in the Ultra-Verse became upon reaching a level of infinity. Now it seemed he was willing to destroy the Omega Omnisphere in order to ensure his absolute rule, but surely he must have understood the folly of being a king without a kingdom, or was there more to this whole situation than she was sensing? She supposed the only way to find out was to travel to earth and help avert this infinite crisis herself.

With that goal in mind, Arceus created a stable wormhole connecting to infinite times, universes, and realities throughout the Omniverse and floated right through it, concentrating on the one millionth universe's version of earth, on the humans and Pokemon that thrived on the planet and that were depending on someone like her to help save them, on the ultra-massive singularity that was threatening to engulf it. With her destination set firmly inside of her mind, Arceus vanished within the gateway into omniversal space-time itself and felt it disappear behind her with a loud pop...

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The instant Ash and Amber-Lexie reappeared outside of Sycamore's Pokemon lab and felt Omninoir's presence up close and personal, the Pallet town prodigy immediately knew something was up. Lexie's grip on his hand tightened as both of them realized that the entire world had gone almost completely dark; the planet's gravity levels had become absolute and the highest concentration of gravitons wasn't far from here, and it was drawing all the lights in the city towards it as Ash's all-seeing peepers allowed him to see the light from street lights and various buildings all around them being stretched like elastic away from their energy sources and disappearing into a swirling maelstrom of total darkness and absolute gravitational force.

Ash could feel the entire planet shifting outside of its scheduled orbit in response to the black hole and immediately created an almighty anti-gravity field around himself and Lexie, concentrating an infinite number of anti-gravity particles around the city and getting to work on expanding it out towards the core of the black hole itself; which was centered above none other than Vaniville town, much to his horror upon realizing that Serena was there right now.

"Ash what's going on?!" Lexie whispered fearfully, her usual bravado and playfulness completely gone in the wake of this startling addition to their growing list of problems. Omninoir was waiting for them inside of Sycamore's lab, and Ash could sense the Anti-God's gleeful arrogance from out here as Ash realized his Arceus's ancient nemesis had a hand in this. "I don't know, somehow an impossibly large and powerful singularity has torn a hole in the sky above Vaniville town. And I don't want to scare you Lexie, but this thing is giving off some serious juice, I'm talking enough energy and electron volts to put all the other super-massive black holes in the Omniverse to complete and utter shame. If we don't find a way to stop it, then Omninoir will be the least of our problems; all of totality will be consumed like it's a five course meal," Ash explained in a horrified whisper, cursing Omninoir for all he was worth upon realizing the aspiring Omniarch was willing to destroy the omniverse itself in order to realize his goals. Something was off about this whole situation though, because as evil as he was Omninoir was not omnicidal, and would surely understand the folly of being a king or an omniarch without a kingdom. If Ash didn't know any better he'd say there was an even greater evil power at work here; but Omninoir was meant to be the pinnacle of all that was or ever could be evil, wasn't he?!

"This is insane," Lexie said simply, and Ash figured that about summed it all up. Taking her hands in his own and making her face him, Ash assumed the most determined expression he could muster. "I promise you I'll find a way to stop this thing and Omninoir Lexie. You may not know this but I've saved the world dozens of times, I can do it again," Ash promised her, more to reassure her than inflate his own ego somehow. Truth is he wasn't sure he could stop both Omninoir and the black hole on his own, not when Omninoir alone would demand all of his power and attention if he was going to have the slightest hope of driving this monstrosity away from his planet.

Arceus's telepathic voice sounded from inside its master ball, startling Ash out of his reverie as both Lexie and Ash heard him. 'Maybe you don't have to, send one of your strongest Pokemon to help deal with the singularity, while you, Lexie, myself, and your other Pokemon deal with Omninoir,' it recommended while Ash practically face palmed at this obvious tidbit of information. "Thanks for that, surely there was no way I in all my infinite brilliance, would have worked that out on my own! Question is which one of you guys do I send to deal with this, and how do you plan to deal with it?!" Ash demanded rather harshly as Lexie jumped with a start upon hearing the Alpha Pokemon's voice in her head.

'Send me Ash," Dialga's metallic, rasping voice suddenly volunteered as Ash thought it over, it's telepathic voice like the scraping of metal on metal as it got ready to assume it's primal form while within the confines of its master ball. Amber meanwhile, was at a complete loss to think much of anything aside from the fact that a black hole was eating away at her old hometown. She had meant to leave that life in her past forever, but the fact remained that Vaniville town was her home, if it ended up being consumed than the last ties she had to her parents aside from her starter Pokemon Sylveon herself would be gone forever.

"Alright, Dialga I choose you," Ash suddenly called out, ignoring the startled screams from passers by trying to find shelter from the world breaking storm as the temporal Pokemon emerged in a blinding sphere of white light, floating above the streets of the metropolis and blending in with the cover of unnatural darkness that the black hole was causing. The instant it fully manifested Dialga became encapsulated in an entombment of raw primal reversion energy, a massive golden shell forming a cocoon around it while a blinding white infinity symbol embroidered itself around the middle of the oval shaped egg.

The egg grew to about twice Dialga's natural size and cracked little by little revealing Primal Dialga in all of its eternal glory. Primal Dialga was easily twice as large as it's normal form, almost forty feet tall, with golden veins of unlimited cosmic energy running across its body in complicated patterns instead of the usual blue, searing, molten gold eyes that shone brighter than even the most brilliant quasars and which no mortal being could ever look into unless they wished to be instantly broken down into total nonexistence, and the power to control the Omega Omnisphere and nearly everything in it omnipotently rolling off it unabated in cascading waves. The wild, untamed, and uncontrollable nature of its omnipotence would be enough to terrify any person who didn't know it as well as Ash did to death; yet Ash knew that was just how primal reversion worked sometimes. Dialga himself was more instinct prone and beast-like in this form, yet it retained far more intelligence and self awareness than its aura of absolute, unrefined powers would tend to suggest.

'SO WHAT'S THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION FOR STOPPING THE UNSTOPPABLE,' Dialga roared in pure defiance, its personality reflecting its wild and untamed nature as Ash decided to take it from there while Lexie-Amber stared up at the colossal behemoth before them. The entire city was staying indoors and people all around them screamed about the end of the world; a statement that could become eerily accurate if Ash and his plethora of invincible super Pokemon didn't find a way to stop a black hole capable of destroying the totality of existence.

"If you can create an unlimited number of anti-gravitons using your omnificence and fire them point blank at the core of the black hole, you may be able to neutralize it completely, or at least slow it down," Ash explained after the briefest of moments spent pondering the problem. 'AND IF THAT ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH,' Dialga continued in its absurdly loud and powerful telepathic shouts. Ash answered almost immediately, sensing his Pokemon was eager to help avert this crisis and knowing that time was of the essence. "Then you'll have to try and disrupt its motion," Ash answered back with a level of calmness that belied his racing heart. Lexie-Amber stared at Ash in utter befuddlement upon hearing this, "how in the hell is he going to do that Ash, I thought you said that thing's energy was essentially limitless," she inquired desperately, as Primal Dialga voiced his agreement and Ash formulated a response to that as well almost instantly; knowing that they didn't have time to go over the details of everything and needing them to hurry. "Then you'll have to achieve an infinite motion in order to disrupt its own, use your absolute speed to add to its angular momentum; basically you need to manipulate your infinite motion into cutting off its legs by moving around it in the opposite direction an infinite number of times! You'd have to achieve infinite or very near infinite velocities in order to move within the eye of the storm countless times in the same exact instant! Dialga, I need to know that you can do this!" Ash stated emphatically.

Amber could only watch in total amazement as Primal Dialga, a being she didn't even know about the existence of until now, stared at Ash as if he were insulted that his trainer would ever question his abilities; before vanishing inside some kind of portal that just opened up on command. With Dialga gone and dealing with the problem in Vanville town, Amber and Ash were left to deal with the problem here in Lumiose city as Ash boldly strolled inside the hostile building without so much as a second's hesitation. Amber didn't even bother asking him to wait up and followed him inside, pondering the universe's most unanswerable question to herself as her heartbeat sped up uncontrollably and the temperature dropped to almost unbearable levels. How did one stop the unstoppable; was it even possible for two invincible beings to destroy each other, and for that matter, was the simple fact that there was more than one of them enough to invalidate their supposed supremacy? She hoped that it was, but right now the last thing in this world she wanted to do was get her hopes up. With the whole of creation at stake, she knew she would have to be willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in order to save the omniverse; yet just the mere thought of having to sacrifice anymore than she already has was enough to give her cold feet...

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Bonnie felt the world quaking all around them as she and the others waited on baited breath for the inevitable arrival of Ash; the creature called Omninoir was busy admiring his new and improved Garchomp vessel all the while fully aware of their reinforcements. Bonnie had tried willing Ash away from this place and had planned to tell him to run as far away from here as possible, but even if she could have moved a single muscle in her body after Omninoir rendered them all prisoners in time or something, she somehow knew that Ash, her hope for a better future, would never take the coward's way out.

She may have only just met him, and she may not have known him very well, but she was good enough at reading people to know Ash would sooner risk dying himself than leave the rest of the planet to its fate. She had no doubt he was powerful enough to leave earth if he wanted to, but she also knew he would never prioritize his own safety above the safety of the world, and despite her fearing for his sake, she wouldn't have her new friend any other way. Besides if anybody could stop Omninoir it was the extraordinary young man who possessed limitless psychic and spiritual abilities. Given that and the power of his Pokemon, she found herself wondering if Ash was a man of unlimited means, or if he was truly as limited in the full scope of his abilities as he claimed to be when he was explaining their mechanics to her and her brother.

Froakie, Brock, Clement, and the others were all likewise prisoners in their own bodies as well, Omninoir had invoked some kind of time freeze spell or something on them and Bonnie would have called him all sorts of childish insults had her mouth not been frozen with the rest of her body. One would wonder where Bonnie picked up her inexplicable talents and maturity for her age; but frankly it was just her being a by-product of her environment, nothing more nothing less. She certainly wasn't some superhuman deity like Ash himself seemed to be.

Just mere seconds ago she had felt an absurdly strong presence of raw, untamed power rolling over all of them and across the entire city; having never felt such an enormous rush of strength in all her life, yet despite her currently manic energy levels she was powerless to break free of the spell she found herself trapped in. In fact that rush of power had only seemed to strengthen the spell itself the same way, almost as if the presence behind it couldn't even control who or what he or she empowered to no end. As it was however, she and the others were stuck waiting for Ash and his new girlfriend to arrive on the scene, and Omninoir was busy being an asshole of colossal proportions, not to mention those three heartless Team Flare grunts who had threatened them and Ash's Raichu barely six hours ago, the lightning mouse having disappeared with the duo at some point.

Bonnie's train of thought was derailed by Ash and Lexie's abrupt appearance on the scene within the entrance hall to Sycamore's lab, having come in through the front entrance behind the gigantic supped up version of Garchomp. Bonnie was so happy and relieved that she wanted to cry, especially when Ash spoke up, grabbing everyone's attention in the dramatic fashion that only someone like him could.

"Sorry I'm late; you wouldn't believe the storm out there. A super massive black hole standing just a few hundred feet above us, how crazy is that huh?" Ash quipped as Lexie's eyes widened at the ultra powerful Garchomp towering over them. All of them could feel Omninoir's tremendous presence literally radiating palpable glee as the giant dragon he was using as a vessel spun around on the spot, the ground shaking from its footfalls as he leered down at the newcomers with absolute, omnimalevolent euphoria.

"Ash Ketchum 1 Million, we meet at last," Omninoir conversed as though discussing this serious matter with the boy over drinks. Said boy's mask of indifference faded to a look of pure rage as he addressed his ancient nemesis, "What do you want with Garchomp and the other Pokemon?!" Bonnie heard him demand, a dangerous edge to his voice, like an omniverse sized volcano about to erupt; though given the massive black hole feasting on entire multiverses a volcano seemed positively mild in comparison.

Omninoir's vessel grinned mirthlessly, his mouth filled with razor sharp teeth and big enough to swallow both Ash and Lexie whole; yet somehow Ash wasn't exhibiting any signs of fear even as Lexie quivered beside him, unable to come to terms with just how much malice this thing was giving off. "My goals are beyond your understanding boy," Omninoir proclaimed arrogantly, his draconian form stomping menacingly towards them at over ten feet tall, yet Ash was not deterred as he grinned up at the behemoth like a total madman, his golden eyes filled with such raw power and intelligence that Bonnie had the feeling he understood what Omninoir's goals were perfectly.

"Oh I don't know... I'm a pretty smart guy; infinite mindscape, psycho-omnipotence, and all that stuff. Comes in pretty handy if you ask me, especially in situations such as this," Ash rambled on as Lexie stared at him in utter disbelief, as if she couldn't quite understand how Ash could stand there as bold as brass, conversing so nonchalantly with an obviously hostile and supreme force. Omninoir chuckled mirthlessly and with perfect coolness much the same as his nemesis, as if he had all the time in the world and given his alleged godhood, he probably did.

"You're stalling while trying to find a way to beat me, all the while attempting to give your Primal Dialga enough time to stop the singularity two towns away from the city. I do commend you on your ability to never shut up however," Omninoir bantered with casual indifference, everyone waiting on baited breath as the tension between the two warring beings continued to build to a crescendo, the inevitable battle only moments away as Ash almost immediately quipped back with equal wit to his opponent. "Yeah well, if there's one thing I can do its talk; I've got an infinite number of languages at my disposal with the exception of the Source Dialect, which defies any and all means of translation. You are at least somewhat right about the stalling part, though that's not the only reason I am having this lively chat," Ash commented airily. Before Omninoir could ask him to elaborate Ash's subtle but almighty anti-time freezing spells took effect and Bonnie and the others suddenly found that they could move again.

Omninoir was distracted from Ash for a split-second upon noticing the others moving, and that's when Ash struck. Mimicking the powers of a level infinity fighting type Pokemon, Ash's fist became bathed in a boundlessly brilliant white light as he launched a full powered focus punch with an infinite amount of energy within the orb of light; the concentration of power and energy so immense it ripped yet another hole in the fabric of reality and sent Omninoir-Garchomp tearing through the roof of the laboratory itself and careening outside thousands of feet up into the sky before anyone could so much as react.

Deciding that he needed to take this opportunity to buy some more time and speak with his friends; Ash froze the entirety of the Omniverse itself aside from him, Lexie, Clement, Bonnie, Froakie, Sycamore, Brock, and Raichu in an all-powerful, all-encompassing time freeze spell, the lightning mouse having reappeared from his Pokeball during the excitement and ready for the fight of his life. Bonnie and the others stared at where Ash had sent Omninoir-Garchomp pummeling through the roof and then at the falling debris from the hole in the lab itself, which had become forever suspended in space, or at least until Ash's spell wore off, and he knew it never wear off on its own but also knew it was not impossible to forcefully overpower it. The expressions on their faces would have been funny if the situation hadn't been so dire, and Ash was surprised when Bonnie recovered and found her voice first, addressing Ash's recent display of inhuman abilities and watching the whole world stop turning all around her in pure, unbridled astonishment, looking pale and like she was going to pass out from the shock value alone.

"What did you do?!" she simply asked, though very loudly and in a very high pitched tone. Ash knew he didn't have much time and could feel Omninoir fighting against his most powerful time freeze spell even now, so he answered as quickly as he could. "I froze the whole of creation in a very powerful time freezing spell using my Mana, but it won't hold Omninoir forever, so we need to make this quick and decide what to do right the hell NOW!" Ash shouted imploringly as Clement nodded in understanding first.

"I'd say you're amazing for doing all this but I don't think that would quite cover it, so what happened to Garchomp," Sycamore queried worriedly as Ash found himself hesitating to answer, knowing he had to reassure the man somehow. "Professor I swear I will do everything in my power to secure Garchomp's freedom from the influence of Omninoir, but I can't guarantee I'll be able to," Ash promised, not wanting to get the esteemed Pokemon professor's hopes up and almost managing a smile when Sycamore nodded in perfect understanding before grinning.

"Well if you're going to do everything in your power then I reckon this whole crazy situation will be properly dealt with within the hour," Sycamore said, praising Ash's abilities as a trainer and as a person in general as Raichu remained firmly fastened on his shoulder and Brock cleared his throat to get his old friend's attention. "Well Ash, I can honestly say that this isn't too unlike some of the other end of the world scenarios we've faced. You've saved the world dozens of times and I have no doubt you can do it again this time," Brock said with complete confidence in his oldest friend's abilities. Froakie looked at Ash with shock upon hearing this and realized he may have finally found the trainer he'd been searching for all this time. So Ash was more than just an absurdly powerful trainer he had used his powers to help save the planet in times long since passed. If that was true then Ash may have been more than Froakie could have ever hoped for.

For once Ash wasn't sure Brock was right and didn't hesitate to explain the reality of the situation. "It's not just our world that's in danger though Brock, the whole of creation is at stake this time and I just don't know if I can stop what's about to happen," he admitted with genuine uncertainty and fear as Lexie clasped his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. "Look I may not have known you very long Ash but we can help you; you don't have to face this threat alone," she whispered gently and comfortingly. Ash immediately shook his head at her suggestion, "absolutely not Lex, I appreciate the offer for you guys to come with me but this is my fight. This whole city is ground zero and I want you all out of here," he stated authoritatively. Unfortunately for him they all immediately shot his warning down.

"If you're not leaving and abandoning Lumiose city than neither are we. Heck it's my home and Clement's, isn't that right dear brother?!" Bonnie shouted stubbornly as Clement put a hand on her shoulder. "Bonnie now may not be the best time for us to get involved," Clemont whispered imploringly as Bonnie gave him a look that indicated betrayal. Ash meanwhile was left without too many viable options and no time to argue with the stubbornly reckless and willful little girl. Nevertheless, this wasn't just his fight he supposed, and with the whole of creation at stake he was going to need everybody he could throw at this thing and then some. He wasn't sure how much use Clement or Bonnie could be on the actual battlefield, and despite being hesitant to admit it Ash knew his Raichu would have easily curb stomped Clement's Bunnelby had those Team Flare grunts not interrupted. He also knew he didn't have a moment to spare in order to argue, and simply opted to keep the two of them safe while contemplating a thousand different ways to stop Omninoir.

"Alright then, Clement, Bonnie, you two are with me, stay close and leave the fighting to me and my strongest Pokemon. Froakie, I want you to stick to Raichu like glue and observe me and my Pokemon in the heat of battle; with a bit of luck you'll get an idea of what you'll be capable of with my help assuming you accept it. Brock, I want you on damage control and to head the evacuations; if officer Jenny questions you about what's going on tell her the leader of the Pokemon G-men instructed you to assist with the evacuation. Lexie, I want you to stay here and help the professor fend off those three grunts being controlled by Omninoir; they left when we got here but I can sense that they're on their way back to fight us with Pokemon of the Anti-God's own design. Raichu, you're with me to alright buddy?" Ash instructed his new team as everyone nodded or shouted in affirmation and acquiescence to his commands. Froakie's eyes were shining with adoration upon hearing Ash's instructions, hoping that his hopefully would-be trainer wasn't dangling maybes and actually planned to befriend him. Ash had saved his life after all, but it wasn't just because Froakie owed him that the frog-like Pokemon was considering joining Ash after so many years of rejecting weak willed trainers, Froakie also believed Ash may have been the only trainer on earth who could have made him the strongest Froakie and eventually Greninja, even the strongest level infinity Greninja, that the world had ever or would ever see.

Raichu maintained a death grip on his trainer's shoulder, squeaking with sheer determination to help out his most trusted partner while Brock immediately shot out the door; leaving Ash and the others ready to go and true to Ash's word the three puppets of Omninoir reappeared at the foot of the stairs leading to the higher floors of the laboratory, their auras ones of pure malice and power. The grunt in the middle was clutching onto what looked like the same type of dark ball the Iron Masked Marauder from years ago was famous for; the shadow Pokemon within an extension of Omninoir's own infinite will and thus impossible to capture. Bonnie and Clement didn't even question Ash's crazily enhanced senses at this point; quite frankly this whole situation was insane and the fact that someone was able to deal with this insanity was comforting enough even if some of the stuff that had happened thus far was mind boggling to contemplate.

Ash's time freeze spell wore off just as Lexie stood by for battle with the three possessed mind slaves and Omninoir flew off into the city using Garchomp as his main vessel of ultimate power. As they were running by his side out into the wider areas throughout the city, Bonnie and Clement filled Ash in on what had happened while he'd been gone, Clement huffing and puffing and unable to keep up as Bonnie carried on talking and running. The Pallet town trainer managed to multi-task reasonably well, but was focusing most of his attention on Garchomp's retreating form, horror overtaking him as it fired a massive series of Omega Omnisphere distorting disks and blades of energy all over the city, a move he recognized as Primal Palkia's Totality Wrecker; an all-powerful dragon type move that negated fairy type immunities and was super effective against all existing Pokemon types. It was one of the most powerful dragon type moves in existence, and its power was enough to cleave through entire skyscrapers and topple them at the base, which forced Ash to intervene as he sensed the life force of thousands of people within each and every building destroyed, Omninoir cackling like an infinitely psychotic version of the Hobgoblin or the Joker.

Taking off at the speed of light and leaving Bonnie and Clement forever immobile in space-time among the absolute darkness of the event horizon in the sky above them, Ash knew they were safe for now and quickly enveloped the entire city in his own personal anti-gravity field, as discretely as he could muster in the hopes that Omninoir wouldn't notice it and destroy it. Breaking the light barrier by about eight times, Ash ran straight through the buildings while their toppling forms stood in suspended animation high above him. Ash's entire body began vibrating at the natural frequency of air and allowed him to phase through solid objects while he literally ran on air as though it were solid ground for his feet. His motion became impossible to disrupt by any means and allowed him to super speed across anything, any surface, including friction-less surfaces, across water, on air, and even across the vast cosmos of the Omniverse itself.

Omninoir was the only thing besides Ash still moving from the Pallet town champion's perspective and the ultra powerful Garchomp flew straight for the top of Prism tower in the very heart of the city, the heart of Kalos itself. Ash made haste to evacuate the people from the building, maintaining his current light barrier breaking speed, he meta-teleported everyone within every toppled building all at once; knowing he needed to find some kind of safe haven to transport them all to all at once that could hold them comfortably without seriously freaking them out or something.

Quickly tapping into his infinite mindscape to find a place big enough to hold them all, Ash instantly became aware of the fact that the Lumiose Pokemon Coliseum which hosted many of Diantha's exhibition matches was big enough to hold all of the people and quickly sent them all there in an instant. With all of the people saved and the massive blades of Omega Omnisphere distorting energy dispatched by a wave of his hand, Ash undid the damage to the buildings by tapping into his omni-countering abilities, using his ability to counter and be the direct opposite of everything and anything in totality in order to embody infinite creation, meta regeneration, and omniversal preservation as opposed to Omninoir's infinite destruction. Immediately, the damage to the massive skyscrapers happened in reverse, like someone had pushed the rewind button on the entire vicinity. Watching it all happen in reverse before resuming play without the Totality Wrecker attack being there to level them once again was rather comical, and if he had the time Ash might have commended his own quick thinking while dealing with the situation, but alas he wasn't in this for the glory or because he had a chip on his shoulder. If he had wanted people to appreciate what he did or... Arceus forbid, put him on a pedestal and worship him; he wouldn't have gone to so much trouble to hide the full range of his powers.

He furrowed his eyebrows upon realizing that Omninoir was merely toying with him. Ash knew full well just how weak that Totality Wrecker had been in comparison to the fully powered version of Primal Palkia's attack. Omninoir hadn't been looking to destroy the city or the world, or as its name suggested, the entire Omega Omnisphere itself; he wanted to prove to Ash that nothing, not even tapping into Primal Palkia's vast godlike powers, was beyond his reach. But in the immortal words of the New Island Mew he captured and all of her infinite wisdom, one didn't prove anything by showing off a lot of special powers; a Pokemon's true strength came from the heart.

Speaking of Pokemon, Raichu was clinging to his shoulder ever so tightly and the rest of his remaining Pokemon were all itching to fight Omninoir from within their Pokeballs. Even Froakie was shaking with excitement, anticipation, and hope that after all was said and done he would have found the one trainer who could help him master his true potential and become a level infinity member of his species. Ash could sense his first Mewtwo's heart swelling with warmth, tenderness, and love upon sensing his trainer thinking about his mate, the very Mew who had faced off against him back on New Island. Funny how their relationship had changed so drastically from what it was at first; they had gone from enemies on the battle field, to grudging allies upon joining Ash's ever growing roster, to frenemies, to friendly rivals, to flirtatious would-be mates, and finally to full blown mates, each one bearing the others signature mating mark and bonded for life via an unbreakable marriage contract AKA soul bond. This phenomenon was far more common in the world of Pokemon than amongst the humans, but human soul bonds were not unheard of either.

'Ash, focus on the task at hand, and for God's sake, let one of us fight that bastard," Groudon roared in a challenging tone, and Ash telepathically communed with and scanned all of his current Pokemon at once, trying to sense which one of them wanted to help him fight the most, and that's when he felt a little pinging in his head when his all-powerful mind linked with Primal Palkia's, the very Pokemon who's signature move Omninoir was making a mockery of in his futile efforts to try and intimidate Ash.

At that moment, time resumed its normal pace as Bonnie and Clement both seemed to realize that Ash was now super far ahead of them; meanwhile Ash himself knew just how much help he truly had in this fight now, maybe it wasn't so hopeless after all. Plucking Palkia's master ball from his team belt, Ash released the bipedal dinosaur-like deity in a flash of multicolored light; just in time for Bonnie and Clement to see their new friend's legendary Pokemon the moment they caught up. Clement's jaw dropped rather comically while Bonnie's eyes shone with absolute awe and wonderment, like a kid who had seen the Santa Delibird delivering presents with their own eyes. Palkia meanwhile, immediately began the transformation into his primal form, an identical golden cocoon with an infinity symbol encapsulating him as what had encased Dialga no more than ten minutes ago. A blinding flash of light illuminated the perpetual darkness of the event horizon as Palkia's Lustrous orb unlocked and awakened his true power, the Omega Omnisphere forever his bitch as the same wild, untameable, uncontrollable variant of the supreme power cascaded over the city itself and rolled over all of them totally unabated, not beholden to anything or anyone and completely free.

Bonnie's sharp intake of breath was matched only by her brother's collapsing from sheer shock beside her, the two of them barely able to remain conscious in the wake of the enormity of this situation. Ash had captured one of the most powerful Pokemon in the universe, a legendary being who was worshiped as one of the gods of the Pokemon world, a being who could control all regions of space throughout the whole of creation on an infinite level, and who apparently had many other... hidden powers and qualities as well that nobody save the trainer before them knew about. As she made sure her brother was okay, Palkia finally emerged from the cocoon like structure that had formed around it, and not only did it look different, it was at least twice as big now as it had been before Ash surprised them in such a manner.

It's entire color scheming had changed, the lighter pinkish white parts of its plated, scaly body remained much the same; but the darker pink lines along its arms, legs, and other parts of its body, along with its pearls, had turned to a beautiful, metallic, almost molten gold. On top of that its eyes shone brighter than any earthly light could ever hope to be, and she immediately averted her eyes as instinct told her to avoid looking directly into them at all costs.

Knowing that every minute was crucial, Ash decided to help Bonnie and Clement deal with their obvious shock later, taking to the skies via psycho-omnipotent telekinesis alongside Palkia who simply took advantage of the anti-gravity field neutralizing the vast concentration of gravitons forming the black hole and defied gravity outright. Luckily for them the entire city hadn't become some kind of zero gravity metropolis like some of the futuristic cities Ash had seen in all his infinite perception; in fact it was all the all-powerful anti-gravity field could do to keep all of Lumiose from falling into the singularity or its all-encompassing event horizon.

"You guys we need to keep moving, I know there's probably a lot for us to discuss after the fact but literally everything in totality is at stake right now so you don't have time to be standing there gawking at my roster of living legends," Ash explained as rationally as he could muster as Bonnie and Clement almost immediately recovered from the stupor they were in. "Right, priorities," Clement stammered, summing up their thoughts perfectly as Palkia shrieked impatiently and with a tone of utmost urgency. Froakie was amazed that the trainer who saved his life had managed to befriend a being whom was as widely revered by Pokemon as he was by the human populace, if not even more so. To Pokemon like Froakie, Palkia represented all that Pokemon had once been and all they had the potential to be; but unlike regular run of the mill Pokemon legends like Palkia were able to attune to and realize their infinite potential with a ridiculous level of ease.

Quickly floating up on Palkia's back and fastening himself on its seven foot neck as securely as possible, Ash ushered the blonde haired siblings to follow suit as both barely so much as batted an eye before Bonnie climbed on herself and Ash helped Clement up telekinetically. Froakie simply hopped up between Palkia's small wing-like shoulder blades in a single, smooth motion. With the three of them along with Froakie's chameleon feet allowing it to cling to Palkia like a gecko, Ash kicked his legs up against either side of Palkia's neck like an African rider might do with an elephant or a Rhyhorn racer like Grace Yvonne herself.

With a mighty roar that shook the entire city at its very foundations and caused the very air itself to vibrate uncontrollably, Palkia kicked off into the air above the city and gained altitude at impossible speeds. Clement held onto the legend's neck for dear life while Bonnie maintained her grip around Ash's waist. Only the seriousness of the situation kept the nine year old girl from whooping in pure, absolute joy, ecstasy, and euphoria. This was by far one of the best experiences of her young life, and she would have to ask Ash for another ride on Palkia with him on a more peaceful day. She only hoped he would oblige.

'SHOULD I ACTIVATE MY INFINITY DOME ASH,' Primal Palkia's extremely loud, overbearing, and boisterous telepathic voice echoed noisily in Ash's mind as well as Clement and Bonnie; the latter of whom attempted to plug her ears before realizing the voice was coming from inside her head. Ash shook his head while putting a hand over Bonnie's own, her arms not long enough to fit all the way around his waist as he held her hand reassuringly. "No, not just yet Pal, wait until we catch up to old smoke and choke," Ash gritted, the wind and the g-force generated by Palkia acceleration whipping at his indestructible face as said legendary Pokemon picked up the pace.

Quickly expanding his g-force adaptation powers to Bonnie and Clement, Ash began absorbing the negative effects of the g-force that would have instantly killed any ordinary mortal being. Ash could sense that the two of them were barely maintaining their grip on reality and wished for a moment that he could take this fight to Omninoir by himself. In all truthfulness, Ash was fully accustomed to being knee deep in situations that humans just... didn't understand, but Clement and Bonnie, being in such a situation where literally everything was at stake was probably too much for them to safely handle without damaging their mental stability and health.

'You guys I promise I'll get us out of this in one piece,' Ash promised them telepathically, hearing Bonnie immediately project her thoughts on the matter and maintaining his telepathic connection to her and her brother. 'Do you seriously deal with stuff like this every day?! I don't think I could handle it if this is what every day is like for you,' Bonnie admitted mentally, knowing Ash would somehow hear her as Clement sighed and Ash struggled to formulate a response.

'Not every day, believe it or not this is actually one of the worst types of days I've ever had. Things can and will settle down Bonn-Bonn, I promise,' Ash reassured her, using her little nickname rather fondly as Bonnie hugged him tighter, evidently conveying her absolute refusal to leave him to fight this thing alone. Ash was already having second thoughts about bringing the two of them into a full blown war, especially when the Omega Omnisphere as a whole was at stake and the ultimate prize for the winner was becoming the Omniarch of totality. 'Arceus, I just don't know what I should do; Bonnie and Clement have no experience with this kind of thing and they're little more than cannon fodder in the actual fighting. Yet Bonnie refuses to let me do this alone, and truth be told I don't want to spend eternity fighting Omninoir by myself; having allies in the war effort isn't a crime is it?' Ash whispered uncertainly, projecting his voice to the Alpha Pokemon alone.

'No Ash it isn't a crime, and having powerful allies like Lance and the Pokemon G-men involved will be extremely beneficial to the war efforts from our side of this conflict. But like you said, these children, while being predestined to get involved in the war during its later years, are no better than cannon fodder at this point. You can train them how to fight and how to use their gifts to the fullest extent after the fact, but for this particular fight, it would be ill advisable for you to split your focus between protecting them and fighting Omninoir, and I believe the rest of our teammates agree with me Palkia included,' Arceus explained, only voicing his opinion when Ash asked for it. Said Pallet town champion was fuming at this response, and he let his anger be known in no uncertain terms. 'If that's how you all felt about the situation, then why didn't you mention it until now,' Ash demanded crossly, expecting Arceus to already have an answer waiting but Raichu beat him to it.

Said level infinity mighty mouse was currently floating alongside Palkia via a psychic bubble of Ash's own design. Ash didn't trust his clothes to be capable of providing enough support to Raichu for it not to blow him off clear into the city below, and Palkia was just too damn big for the diminutive mouse-like Pokemon to cling to it with any kind of stability. No matter how absolute his starter's physical conditioning was, he wasn't big enough to securely fasten himself to Ash or especially Palkia in midair, so he floated along in Ash's pink bubble of pure psychic energy, the unlimited power of the orb of pink light making it totally physically impenetrable. If not for the fact that Raichu could survive off his own infinite energy alone, he would have suffocated within the sphere because even oxygen molecules couldn't penetrate it.

'Because Ash, you seemed pretty easily convinced about bringing them along for the ride; plus none of us really doubt your ability to keep them safe even in the heat of glorious battle. We didn't voice our concerns about this arrangement simply because you seemed confident in your own abilities; besides whatever your decision was you know we would support you. Now though you need to consider whether or not your two new companions are really any sort of help on the battle field with Omninoir; I get that they insist on coming with you and you don't like imposing your infinite will on others when they've made up their mind about something, but Bonnie and Clement are barely clinging to any semblance of rationality right now, they don't truly understand what's at stake here and it was FOOLISH of the girl to insist on tagging along when they are no real means to us achieving our ends. I'm sorry but it has to be said, if you want my honest opinion then I think you need to lock these two in an omni-locking force field to keep Bonnie from stubbornly trying to follow you, because either she's overestimating their abilities or underestimating the severity of the situation,' Raichu explained with flawless logic and a sage's wisdom, and in these moments Ash realized his Pokemon were right. He needed to be a little more forceful in his decision to go it alone for the time being, and if Bonnie and Clement refused to let him take the fight to Omninoir when he was the only one among them who could be of any use in an actual fight, then he needed not to waste time arguing with them and simply keep them from following him using his powers.

He could sense that Bonnie was connecting her fear of losing her new friend to the fear she felt as a child when she lost her mother; Clement on the other hand was currently trying to think of ways to thwart Omninoir in a rational sense, either by inventions or by coming up with possible applications for Ash's powers and those of his Pokemon, some of which were actually quite clever if he was being honest. He could sense from both of them however, a mutual fear of further bloodshed and a desire to protect the ones they cared about and to show true courage even when faced with an impossible situation. Plus as the gym leader of Lumiose city Ash could sense that Clement felt a sort of obligation to protect the people of his hometown and in all truth it was actually an unspoken rule among gym leaders to protect the towns they lived in as well as their own. Nevertheless, this was a situation neither one of them had ever trained for or was prepared for, and as much as he hated doing this, Ash knew he needed to find something else, something productive for them to do without putting them directly in the line of fire.

He didn't like reading their minds so deeply, but had wanted to better understand why they, particularly Bonnie, were so adamant about accompanying him and what kind of people they were. Thinking over the possible bases he may not have covered already, Ash knew that Dialga was effectively dealing with the almighty singularity back in Vaniville town and even had some unexpected help in the form of the Jewel of Life Arceus. He was worried about the possible implications regarding Omninoir's sudden transition into a potentially omnicidal psychopath, but decided to worry on that more later. Ash could sense the Arceus he met over a year ago was now a level infinity member of her species and had even acquired her omni plate, meaning she would be enormously helpful in the efforts to destroy that black hole before the damage it caused became irreversible. It was slightly worrisome that he could also sense Omninoir's presence in Serena's hometown and another godlike force he'd never sensed before and yet felt a certain familiarity with nonetheless. The answer became obvious however, when he could sense his own infinite spiritual energy resonating with this mysterious being's own, and immediately knew that Serena herself was facing Omninoir. Most worrisome of all however, was that the singularity itself was literally a rip in the fabric of the Omega Omnisphere itself; God only knew what kind of omni-shit that was stirring up and what may or may not have been on the other side of that thing, past the singularity's inner event horizon. He only hoped Serena was up to the challenge and knew that even with her ascension to nigh omnipotence it would not be easy; still he was amazed by what he was sensing from her. Turns out he had been more truthful than even he realized when he believed she could walk on air and that she would go on to do the impossible way back when they were kids. He had said she'd achieve seemingly unlimited miracles beside her Pokemon, but this was so far above and beyond what his six year old self had anticipated.

'Interesting, her powers must have self manifested when her life and her town were threatened, but I can also sense that her consciousness is being suppressed by some kind of inner entity whose existence is tied to her, like an omnipotent little helper inside of her... Ha, oh my God, Arceus created a boundless inner world within her, simple but brilliant. She could lead a perfectly normal life while possessing the power of God within her, power that lies latent within her until her need of it is truly great,' Ash mentally commented on the situation, trying to come up with something useful Clement and Bonnie could do besides needlessly risking their lives, but unfortunately for him they were out of time for Palkia had reached Prism tower on the lower level and levitated Bonnie and Clement down off of them. His trusty legendary Pokemon immediately sensed where Ash's train of thought was headed as both blonde haired siblings stared at Ash in obvious confusion.

"Um Ash, what are you doing? Garchomp is at the top of the tower on the platform way above us," Bonnie pointed out, whereas Clement almost immediately caught on to Ash's intentions. "You're leaving us here aren't you," he said, not really sounding surprised nor was he looking like he was about to argue as Ash nodded in confirmation; him, Palkia, and Raichu floating well out of their reach by now and slowly ascending. "I'm sorry you guys but this is where you get off. I appreciate the offer to help but truth is you guys have no experience with this, not to be rude or anything but you're both little more than cannon fodder to me at this point in time. I thought it over and realized there was very little you could do to help. I also understand why you're both willing to risk your lives for me, and while I'm touched you two are a liability to me right now," Ash explained, trying to make them understand.

Bonnie looked like she was going to argue, but Clement sighed in acceptance. "He's right Bonnie; we can't help him... this time." Clement stated matter-of-factually as Bonnie seemed to acknowledge that they weren't budging on this and huffed indignantly. "Fine... but Ash, I want you to promise me that when this is over, you'll devote some of your time helping us be able to help you in any future fights with this guy. I want to fight, I want to become super strong, the strongest, fastest, smartest, and most powerful in Pokemon battling and all other kinds of fights I can possibly be," Bonnie said quickly without drawing a breath, knowing that time was of the utmost importance. Ash managed a smile despite the overwhelmingly perilous nature of the situation. "Thanks for understanding Bonn-Bonn, and I promise to do exactly that. I don't think you can even begin to imagine how much I can help you, though believe me when I say it's going to be brutal, time consuming, and demanding," he promised her. She grudgingly nodded her acquiescence while Clement smiled up at him. Froakie remained on Palkia behind Ash, refusing to abandon the trainer who saved his life and wanting to see how Pokemon trained by Ash fought when they had reached their full and limitless potential. Luckily for Froakie, Ash didn't seem to be opposed to his accompanying him.

Clement knew he had some inventions in his backpack that could potentially help Ash, but from what he could gather the trainer had already picked through their brains to see why there helping him, and would have accepted Clement's help had there been anything he had that could provide legitimate help to Ash's cause. He felt somewhat violated by this realization and intended to have a conversation with Ash about it later, but recognized the seriousness of this situation despite how crazily mind numbing it was. He couldn't help admiring Ash's bravery and his ability to somehow retain his sanity despite this maddening scenario; he wished he could have the kind of courage he could feel literally coming off of Ash, along with that determination of his and his refusal to never give up. Bonnie was right in a way, they hadn't known each other for very long, but Ash already felt like kin and Clemont knew he and Bonnie could become infinitely stronger than they were now by traveling alongside Ash and learning from him.

Ash didn't say anything more as he and his Pokemon ascended further, disappearing in a whirl of pure speed and motion. Omninoir's telepathic voice cackled in pure, hellish delight. "That's right boy, fight me on your lonesome with only your precious Pokemon by your side. It's a shame that good help is in such short supply these days isn't it, but that's the way the world works. Humans and mortal beings as a collective whole will never be of any use to us except to understand that our very existence diminishes them all, renders them and everything they can or ever will do totally obsolete; next to our awesome might, their abilities are nothing but a joke. All they're truly good for is satisfying our physical urges, worshiping us and our supremacy, forever recognizing their inferiority in comparison, and putting us on a pedestal of grandeur, immensity, and transcendence. If they are lucky, we might consider having our way with them, but only with the best looking females of their kind; of course some of the more prideful members of their kind attempt to tamper with omnipotent forces infinitely beyond their can and so forth, and must be dealt with accordingly. This is the irrefutable truth about God and his existence Ash Ketchum, recognize it now so you don't delude yourself into thinking them as good for anything else than what I explained to you earlier on,' Omninoir preached, his Satanic ministrations making Ash want to wretch, feeling sick to his stomach in response to that disgusting monologue.

'You underestimate their value Omninoir, but you're obviously never going to see that! Palkia, activate your Infinity Dome NOW!" Ash ordered strategically. Omninoir continued to cackle with over-saturated insanity, 'you wish to seal us in that omni-locked battle field so as to minimize the damage to this precious city of lights. Very commendable boy that you prioritize the safety of these lesser beings so highly, but while you'll be holding back your full potential out of some misplaced sense of right and wrong, of protecting the people; I will not be beholden to any such weakness or constraint. That is the difference between us Ash, you actually care for these people who are little more than insects. You live amongst the multitudes of omninescient, primitive, unimaginative, and intolerant people down there, but you are not one of them boy, so stop pretending that you are. Embrace your Godhood as I have, forget about these fecal fingered macaques, the Omni-Creator knows that a female goddess of omnipotent powers could open up a world of pleasure and passion for you that no female human on this earth could even imagine. You could have any female you want, but you insist on consistently loving Serena Yvonne, who hasn't even grown into her godhood yet,' Omninoir continued to speak, but Ash wasn't even listening as a massive, omni-colored dome of boundless brilliance expanded out from him, Primal Palkia, and Raichu; engulfing the Garchomp vessel as well and carrying all four of them out past the very tip top of Prism tower itself and into the sky. The dome continually increased in size and superimposed with the even bigger field of infinite anti-gravitons that sat invisible all above and around the entire city.

"I REFUSE TO LET YOU PUT THIS CITY IN ANYMORE DANGER, PALKIA TAKE THIS FIGHT TO THE SKIES!" Ash exclaimed at the top of his lungs, in the Supreme Voice of the Monotheistic Deity, omnipotence radiating off of him in gentle waves that rolled over every living thing in Lumiose city and across the world, never revealing the identity of its speaker but carrying with it the promise of eternal salvation and delivery from even this supreme form of evil. Everyone on earth heard it and were equally engulfed in the most blissful of sensations; warmth, tenderness, strength, and love. The feeling of absolute euphoria lasted for only the briefest of moments, but it allowed Ash to effectively put the world population at ease even with the massive singularity slowly swallowing the omniverse; or worst case scenario bestow them with the ability to make peace with death should Ash be unable to stop Omninoir in the end.

The stage was set for the ultimate clash of titans as Ash jumped off the back of Palkia's neck before he even landed on the unearthly terrain of their newly created battle field, the massive ultra Garchomp already waiting for them on the other side of their battle field and baring his teeth at Palkia who responded in kind by snarling mightily. Ash could see the city thousands of feet below him from within the translucent, kaleidoscopic floor of his legend's signature ability when in its primal form; an ability only it, Primal Dialga, and Mega Giratina possessed the power to instantly form on command when in the heat of battle.

'So this is the infamous battling terrain the supped up Creation Trio is famous for. Color me impressed boy, I'm assuming this is how you've managed to train all your hundreds of Pokemon to level infinity without blowing up the planet. This dome is a fascinating construct, ingenious in its flawless, omnipotent design; I'm guessing it is not only out of sync with everything in the Omega Omnisphere but it also renders everything within it flawlessly indestructible and cancels out all other abilities that affect the battle field between two warring trainers, am I right?' Omninoir commented idly, his telepathic voice sweeping over them and controlling Sycamore's precious Pokemon partner as though she were a helpless puppet.

Ash shrugged nonchalantly in response as Palkia and Raichu remained poised for the inevitable battle; all three of them sensing the building tension between the two sides of this conflict as Ash knew this was it. He'd been waiting to battle with an opponent of this caliber for over a year now, he had been hearing from Arceus how dangerous, competent, and supremely invincible Omninoir was since before his journey in Sinnoh was even really done, before he even attained his gym badge in Sunnyshore gym over a year ago. Now the time had finally come to see if Omninoir was all he had been cracked up to be, or if Arceus was too benevolent and kind to really do whatever it took to win this eternal struggle, something he and Ash probably had in common.

"My primal Palkia is full of surprises, isn't that right buddy?! He's not the only one though, all of my Pokemon are primed and ready for action; we all work together like a family, something I wouldn't even expect you to truly understand," Ash responded tersely, Froakie croaking angrily from beside him and Raichu, both his starter and the blue frog staying the sidelines for the time being since both of them recognized that this was a fight between gods and should be treated as such. Even Raichu whom one could argue was the strongest of his species in the entire 1 millionth Pokemon universe, recognized that Omninoir was out of his weight class and completely out of his league.

As much as Raichu hated to admit it he had fought with and sparred with some of Ash's fully trained legends while helping Ash capture them or simply training alongside them to keep himself sharp, and those battles always ended in Raichu's loss or a victory so narrow it was almost a tie. And that was against legendary Pokemon like Ash's Latias or Latios from Altomare, not the absurdly godlike ones like Mewtwo, Mew, the Weather Trio in their upgraded forms, or the Creation Trio in any of their forms, all of whom possessed at least one omnipotent super power or one over the top nigh omnipotent ability. Hell even the eons were dragon gods and psycho-omnipotent minds, and that made them potentially nigh omnipotent as well.

Omninoir's infinitely sadistic gurgling and cackling remained allegedly ceaseless upon recognizing that he was effectively trapped in an inescapable dome of absolute power with the one person he wanted dead above all others; except perhaps Arceus himself. The difference was Omninoir knew he could have a lot of fun with this brat child, unlike Arceus who was too well trained and too wise to all of Omninoir's infinite repertoire of tricks and mind games to be anything but... boring. All and all, Ash Ketchum 1 Million had proven to be the most fun the Anti-God himself had had in countless eons, and it would be a shame to kill him now. Hell what would Omninoir do without him at this point? Nevertheless, the boy needed to learn some humility and to understand that just because he was a man of unlimited means didn't mean he knew how to use that limitless strength to its fullest versatility. There was a difference between having powers and having precision, accuracy, versatility, and unorthodox unpredictability that could surprise even the most dangerously competent opponents. If Ash wanted to be of any actual use in a fight against a being of Omninoir's supreme caliber, then he'd have to step up and make every one of his moves count. Absolute, unlimited excitement and euphoria surged through Omninoir's infinite being and existence at the mere thought, the briefest of moments spent thinking about what was about to happen.

Ash didn't understand, he naively believed that the true feeling of life was through the shared collective experiences of all those mortal, lesser beings; of the rush of adrenaline that came from daringly risking one's life just for that hormonal high, of the height of passion that many mistakenly believed could only be reached by making love to the one person in all the world who filled your heart with joy. But they were fools, the whole stinking lot of them, Ash included, who still saw himself as one of them. Omninoir had seen all of these infinite experiences through the eyes of these creatures Ash Ketchum adored so much, and he could honestly say that they were all sorely mistaken. The true feeling of life was in the intimate knowledge that one could do anything, be anything. To be able to command everything and anything in the Omega Omnisphere to be your bitch for all eternity, to rule the infinite pantheon of gods, angels, demons, and the Omega Omnisphere's entire collection of suitable females and/or sex slaves as their ultimate Omniarch; that was the ultimate experience, the supreme form of ecstasy, the ultimate high.

The sooner Ash Ketchum recognized this, the sooner he'd become swallowed in the eternal bliss only an omnipotent being like Omninoir himself could ever truly experience. He was totally happy and content with everything he was and all he had the capacity to be; fully intent on sharing this absolute euphoria with the rest of the Omega Omnisphere when he ruled over all of it as a benevolent God. Of course there were those who saw his journey to be an almighty, divine ruler as a poor attempt to impose his infinite will on others, and Omninoir knew he'd have to go to war in order to ensure his ultimate goals remained virtually unopposed when all was said and done. He wasn't a monster, he was just like any other tyrant who was hungry for true omnipotence and absolute rule; once he was at the top, the one and only wielder of omnipotence throughout its entirety, he'd rebuild everything that was destroyed during the inevitable struggle between himself and those who saw his rule as one tainted with pure malice and with poor intentions for the people he planned to rule. Once he was the Omniarch, he saw no reason to destroy more lives since he'd finally have everything he'd ever or could ever want; too bad his enemies didn't understand that and opposed him on sheer principle, refusing to even entertain the idea that he could actually make one awesome almighty divine ruler. The difference between him and Ash was that his nemesis didn't know, in his heart what he was fighting for, what he was willing to do in order to achieve his ends and ultimate goals and Omninoir did. He would sacrifice anyone; do anything to see to his induction as the one almighty ruler.

He may have been an Anti-God by his initial design but that was just one of the things he planned on changing. He wasn't content with representing the Omega Omnisphere's ultimate destroyer when the totality of existence had so much potential as his own personal kingdom, where his most perverted fantasies became reality and his darkest desires were all possible with but the briefest of thoughts. Not that they weren't already but all Omninoir wished for was for the rest of totality to get with that program and accept him as its ruler; was that really so wrong?! He knew he was acting quite out of character when he not only allowed the singularity to form but felt compelled beyond reason to preserve it, an inexplicable influx of omnicidal hatred towards all life saturating his entire being, connected and yet unconnected with his own emotions at the same time. Something was seriously amiss here, but Omninoir wasn't at all concerned and simply chalked it up to him getting a little carried away in his display of power.

'These people exist for the sole purpose of lifting beings like us up onto their shoulders boy. It's the unspoken truth about humanity and all mortal beings as a whole; that they crave subjugation. They were made to be ruled, and in the end they will always kneel, always bow to their superiors. Pride and vanity be damned Ash Ketchum, you and I are meant to be leaders, almighty rulers of the infinite teeming masses,' Omninoir proclaimed with supreme arrogance. Ash glared with the utmost contempt and hatred, unable to believe what he was hearing from this omnimalevolent piece of shit and understanding for the first time why Arceus was so terrified by the thought of what Omninoir would were he 'sworn into office' as the saying goes.

"Leaders," Ash repeated, before adding hastily and with growing unease as he sensed the impending fight between them growing ever closer. "You're a tyrant who only believes in himself, you don't know the first thing about what being a true leader is all about!" Ash shouted with such ferocity the interior of primal Palkia's infinity dome vibrated with planet busting force. Omninoir chuckled humorlessly at Ash's outburst, 'who else should I put my faith in?! We both know that trusting others is a calculated risk; one supreme beings with any knowledge of humanity are unwilling to take. We can fool those closest to us can't we, but we can lean on no one boy. These humans will be forever inferior to our kind and their petty actions will always reflect their inferiority complex in the end. Face it Ash, befriending or working alongside someone with the powers of a god is so demoralizing; these people are not nor will they ever be worthy of our genuine love, because none of them ever truly love gods themselves. They may admire us to an extent from afar, especially during such moments where we are particularly inspiring; but it's fleeting, conditional, and doesn't deepen in a way that truly matters,' Omninoir carried on with seemingly genuine concern for Ash's well being, a demeanor that surprised the Pallet town trainer enough to temporarily abate his anger. Ash took a moment to really regard his nemesis, only just seeming to realize that the only reason for their enmity was because of Arceus pitting Ash against him.

In all fairness a lot of what Omninoir said seemed to have a grain truth to it, and in all honesty Ash had no real way of truly knowing what the Omega Omnisphere would be like under Omninoir's absolute rule, only going by the alleged scenarios that Arceus explained to him as any form of basis on what to expect. Arceus's telepathic voice immediately interrupted Ash's thoughtful musing. 'Ash, don't believe his lies, Omninoir is a master of half truths and manipulations; you can't trust him nor can you afford to believe what he says. Trust me when I say nothing good will come of Omninoir's absolute rule,' Arceus said in a desperate undertone, as if begging Ash to understand the severity of this situation.

Omninoir glared at Ash and Primal Palkia through the eyes of his current vessel. 'My dear God boy, think for yourself; Arceus may say I'm manipulating you and he might be right, but can you really say for certain that he's any better, that he's not manipulating you in turn? Truth is Ash Ketchum; I haven't any quarrel with you like I do Arceus. You can go on living your eternal life the way you see fit, with the one you love as your soul mate or whatever you want to call her. I won't try to stop you, hell you can even create your own totality to either rule as its Omniarch or do things the hard way as some kind of hero and divine protector or some shit. I honestly couldn't care less about any of it; it was Arceus who felt so compelled to oppose me and my ambitions, to pit the three humans he marked as his own Chosen Champions against me and to impede my quest forever more. All I ask is that you give me the benefit of the doubt and allow me to work in order to achieve my own ends by any means I see fit. Don't get me wrong I enjoy having the opportunity to fight for my own ultimate goal and to prove myself right when I claim to be one of the best candidates for the one and only Omniarch of totality, but you need to decide if you really want to be part of a war against me in an effort to impede my quest to the top, a war that you will lose... one way or another,' Omninoir immediately countered to Arceus's claims, a counter-argument that Ash had to admit sounded pretty compelling, even as he formed his own opinion on the matter while ignoring Arceus's silent pleading with him to not walk out on this war with the ultimate evil as Arceus claimed he was.

"So what you're saying to me is that in this grand scheme of Gods and Anti-Gods; Lexie, Serena, and myself are little more than victims. We're nothing but pawns for the two of you to use in your endless ongoing chess game. In the last year I've seen a lot of the Omega Omnisphere just due to the simple fact that I have all-seeing eyes; I've seen gods, demigods, angelic gods, demonic gods, would-be gods, false gods, omnipotent gods, anti-gods, omni-dimensional entities, and countless others. And out of that whole infinite pantheon, if there is one thing in all the whole stinking Omega Omnisphere that I believe in it's them; it has always been and always will be Serena Yvonne and Lexie Mei! I'll be honest Omninoir, your argument is probably not entirely invalid, but if Serena and Lexie had a say in this they'd never be okay with me whisking them away to our own private paradise while innocent people die in the line of fire between you and Arceus's ongoing battle for totality. Also, I may not always agree with Arceus's methods but it is clear he needs me right now, and as his own personal asset I know it would be a very poor idea strategically for Arceus to do anything shifty or deceptive that could result in my turning on him!" Ash finally concluded after giving the matter a great deal of thought, thoughts that made even his head spin a little as he realized he may have just signed away his only opportunity to get himself and his loved ones out of the line of fire.

Froakie was astounded upon hearing his would-be trainer's heartfelt speech; all that power and all of those different gods and he chose to believe in the women he loved first and foremost despite all that, despite everything he was. That in itself was the single greatest line he had ever heard from any human; the speech of the century, yet nobody would be around to hear it save Froakie and the other Pokemon present. It should have been a crime that Lexie and this Serena Ash mentioned hadn't been able to hear him say that, but alas a lot of the best lines or the best villain or hero speeches tended to be the ones that were never said or never heard by a vast audience of people praising the one who spoke. Raichu meanwhile could sense the danger his trainer's words might have put him in and realized Ash had just pissed away what might have been his only chance to escape this life of fighting with the most dangerous creature the omniverse had ever seen.

While Ash's starter was a sucker for cheesy, heart-melting lines and speeches like the one his trainer delivered, he knew now was not the time to be impressed by the champion level trainer's statement and that he needed to prepare himself for a possible confrontation with a literal Anti-God should his trainer and Palkia fail to stop him. He now had absolute focus, the total commitment to protect the new and inexperienced Froakie, knowing that it needed to see what was about to happen if it seriously expected to realistically be a part of Ash's team and the kind of work it would have to put in to reach that level.

He and Ash both knew Froakie was considering joining them, which was why Ash had been so adamant about having the blue frog along even while he second guessed his decision to let those two blonde haired companions of his tag along as well. As powerful as he was, Ash couldn't be everywhere at once while also playing babysitter and battling Omninoir as well as protecting the Omega Omnisphere from any stray attacks they exchanged that could have breached the impenetrable walls of Palkia's dome. To do all that and still be able to beat Omninoir by some unlimited miracle would require a level of expertise on omni-powers and at using them that Ash simply didn't possess at this early stage of his journey.

He could sense rather than see the all too obvious anger of Omninoir coming off in waves of supreme malice, revealing his true colors for the entire Pokemon world to see as the massive, supped up version of mega Garchomp began stamping its feet on the otherworldly see through floor of Primal Palkia's infinity dome. 'Very well boy, I gave you a golden opportunity to walk away from all this, all the pain and misery I would have caused you had you stupidly decided to get involved in matters that need not concern you. Instead you spat in my face and chose to defy me, and that is the last mistake you will ever make Ashton Fredrick Ketchum; this I promise you. So prepare to join your beloved Serena and Amber in eternal oblivion and unending, perpetual agony,' Omninoir gurgled with inhuman levels of sick-minded sadism, the entire world losing its luster, positive energy, light, and love in response to his absolute rage.

Ash furrowed his eyebrows upon hearing Omninoir refer to his friend with benefits Lexie as Amber, refusing to waste his time letting Omninoir get inside his head anymore and chalking that up to one of the things Lexie, or Amber he supposed, had meant to tell him before Omninoir ruined the moment for them, leading to where he was right here and now. He refused to let anything the Anti-God said about his newest friend come between him and her, because if his nigh omniscience and infinite mindscape were anything he could trust then a future with Lexie AKA Amber would be a good one, hell it would be phenomenal from what he could see, especially once the two of them were on more equal footing.

"Enough talk, let's finish this," Ash loudly stated as he and Palkia got into a fighting stance while Raichu hung back with Froakie, prepared to protect it to the death on Ash's behalf should his trainer and his legendary teammate fail to stop the Anti-God. The distorted region of space around them made the infinity dome infinitely larger on the inside than on the outside, but even on the outside it and its occupants were visible from everywhere in Lumiose, to everyone including Bonnie and Clement below them on Prism Tower, the both of them watching what was about to happen in absolute horror and in the devastating knowledge that they were powerless to do anything to stop it. With a roar of defiance that shook the entirety of the Omniverse, Primal Palkia and Ash charged the greatest threat to their universe with every intention of ending this NOW! The two warring sides met in the center of the massive dome, and all hell broke loose!

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'Face it child, nothing can stop this singularity so long as I remain here to sustain it!' Omninoir pronounced to the vessel of one Serena Yvonne, a vessel under the control of an inner goddess whose existence was somehow tied to the Serena her friends knew and loved. Serena meanwhile, was watching all of this transpire from within the landscape of her own mind, an endless labyrinth expanding infinitely in all directions and yet taking up almost no space in the outside world. Now though, intermingling with the upper levels of the endlessly high maze-like junction of Serena's boundless inner world was a pool of energy currently projecting an image of what was going on outside the real world through Serena's own eyes; eyes that were currently all-seeing and projected a faded, transparent image of what was going on out there.

It was at times like this where Serena wished she could just close her eyes and pretend that things weren't as bad as they were. Unfortunately for her, life didn't work like that, even when one had unlimited power to alter reality one was always guaranteed to face challenges that were equal to what they were capable of. It wasn't fair how this seemed to be some kind of universal, unbreakable law, but then again life itself was very rarely if ever fair. The worst part was that Serena wasn't even in control of her own body or the powers it somehow possessed now; she didn't like this out of control feeling and the fact that she was safe here in this inner world while the world she loved and grew up in was being threatened.

Vaniville town and its entire population had long since been pulled into the all-powerful singularity, Calem and Shauna included. Serena knew she could get them back thanks to the nigh omniscience this world bestowed her with, so she wasn't too cut up about the loss of her friends or her mother; unfortunately this salvation could only come to pass in the wake of Omninoir's defeat, which seemed like an impossible feat even with her infinitely more competent, beautiful, experienced, and powerful inner self battling him on her behalf. Most disconcerting of all however, was the fact that Serena had possessed this potential within her all along; without even knowing about it. Her inner self seemed so infinitely calm and confident, her refusal to give in absolute and she herself was the literal embodiment of everything Serena herself wished she could be.

Was this potential to become everything she ever wanted to be in life always so easily within her grasp? Were her deepest desires and most absurd notions, fantasies, and ideas possible with but the briefest of thoughts, because if they were then she couldn't imagine how she had lived this long without these abilities of hers? The world was her oyster and the whole of creation was her realm of infinite possibilities and desires. She wasn't one to simply be content with doing things the easy way every time she came across something new she wanted to try out, but knowing that she had the power to live in and travel throughout a world where literally nothing was impossible no matter how ridiculous or absurd the notion or idea, was the kind of life she had always wanted and the kind she felt was truly worth fighting for, even against the most obscenely naturally powerful adversaries.

She kept telling herself that if she got out of this in one piece she'd live her life to the fullest and make the most out of her Pokemon journey; whether or not her powers ever became hers alone to control she'd make damn sure to always take chances and live her life without any regrets. Hell if she had her way she'd find Ash and join him on his journey like she always secretly planned; and at least now she could be of some use to him on his journey, even despite the fact that he'd doubtlessly mastered the art of Pokemon battling on an infinite level as he always said he would. She was slowly starting to realize that if Ash could achieve every goal that he set for himself no matter how seemingly unattainable she may have once believed some of those goals to be, then why couldn't she? Now she understood what he had been telling her all those years ago; he always seemed to believe in her completely, especially when she couldn't believe in herself. He made it seem like she could walk on air given the way he talked about her. Never had she felt so loved, so impossibly, immeasurably cherished as she had when she could practically feel the love seven year old Ash harbored for her rolling off of him in gentle, soothing, euphoria inducing waves. It had taken her years to realize it, but Ash had pretty well spoiled her for any other man or member of the opposite sex, because she knew she'd never love anyone as much as she did the young boy who had left her positively love stricken the moment she laid eyes on him.

She watched in total amazement as her inner self ducked under a planet busting tail whip attack from Omninoir's black Mew form in midair and landed a full powered focus punch attack with enough muscle packed power and energy to give a level infinity Conkeldur a run for his or her money. She watched as her inner self punched a hole in the fabric of totality with just the force, the ferocity of that hit from her fist making contact with her current opponent, just in time for the Arceus that had arbitrarily appeared to comment on it while landing an attack of her own. A massive orb of Kugelblitz creating light and pure energy gathered above Arceus's lowered head, the equine being firing countless shots of infinitely bright light and boundless energy in the same exact instant, like a series of lasers cutting down an enemy spy as Omninoir attempted to dodge, only to be struck literally a billion times in a single Planck time. Serena ought to know how impossibly fast that judgement attack had been, she had counted the number of times it struck the enemy while trying to keep the Dialga that also appeared within her line of sight, watching as it sent an endless barrage of anti-gravitons streaming towards the core of the black hole indefinitely.

"Nice one," her inner goddess commented to Arceus as Omninoir was sent tearing through the air so fast his body spontaneously combusted with an almighty blaze from the impossible levels of friction he was generating, cratering the barren remain of Serena's hometown below them with the same level of force as in the series of big bangs and explosions that lead to the Omniverse's creation and the big bang theory becoming an omni-dimensional constant. Once again Serena was astounded by just how much she suddenly seemed to know about things she just shouldn't have been able to know anything about.

Arceus nodded while saying something along the lines of 'likewise' telepathically, but Serena wasn't really paying attention as both her body snatcher and Arceus were forced to separate as an infinitely condensed ball of absolute darkness, dark matter, and anti-matter was shot at them from Omninoir down in the ground below. Said Anti-God Pokemon had become completely invisible and refracted every color and every kind of light, totally invisible to every existing frequency, to the entire visible spectrum of colors and lights. So far as Serena knew, the only other legendary Pokemon who could become completely invisible and undetectable by any means, even to all-seeing eyes themselves, was Giratina herself, in any of her three forms, or via the use of her two signature moves Shadow Force and her signature move in her very poorly known mega evolved form, Omni Force. Serena was at this point no longer terribly surprised by the amount of knowledge she seemed to possess out of nowhere, but she wondered if there was a way to shut that part of her off because the day she knew everything was the day she lost that thrill of discovery, that sense of self and individuality she loved having for so long.

Serena's eyes widened as Arceus smirked at Omninoir's attempt to ambush them before becoming totally invisible herself; the honey blonde would-be trainer aware of the fact that the legendary godlike Pokemon was now using mega Giratina's signature move as well, intending to take advantage of Omninoir's lack of patience and do him in with her own Omni Force attack. It was merely a question of patience and who revealed themselves first Serena realized, and she had the feeling Arceus herself would win that contest hands down. Omni Force was exclusive to the Ultra-Verse and could have been considered a fan-made move, but the level of power it possessed and the seemingly unbeatable strength of its additional battle effects made it the be all, end all of unstoppable Pokemon attacks, and one that could potentially level the entire omniverse.

Not only did it negate protect and all other manners of protection and types of shields, it could be used to grant Mega Giratina unlimited powers of access and enable her to breach even omni-locked defenses, on top of that it was absolute in its destructive force and the level of damage it could do to opposing Pokemon. Not only that but it was super effective against any and all Pokemon types and could hurt or even kill anything short of omnipotent beings themselves, and even absolute immortals could be crippled beyond repair. It was all around the perfect Pokemon attack, and could breach any defenses while at the same time rendering Giratina herself completely untouchable, invisible, and out of sync with everything in totality.

True to Serena's prediction, Omninoir grew tired of simply waiting for Arceus to reveal herself and had recognized that talking to her or trying to otherwise force her to reveal herself would give away his current position and allow her to attack him. Knowing he had no choice, Omninoir immediately started firing more bolts of infinitely concentrated anti-matter at anything that moved, any and all shifts or invisible movements in the air; the black hole drawing them in before they could even make contact and allowing Arceus to slam into him with the full force of Mega Giratina's most powerful attack, dealing an infinite amount of super effective damage that had Omninoir roaring in pure agony and fury, the force of his screams like that of a hypernova explosion and sending both Arceus and Serena's vessel tearing through the skies and landing in the dirt in a slightly crumpled heap, unharmed but somewhat humiliated as Omninoir once more took the skies with an air of absolute fury about him. Serena gasped upon coming to the startling realization that her body snatcher and Arceus had done the impossible; they had managed to hurt him, they hurt Omninoir, a being that was supposedly almighty and absolutely unbeatable just by his fundamental nature.

Suddenly Serena's inner goddess whirled around to shout something to Dialga as the temporal Pokemon continued its efforts to avert the black hole by any means necessary. "Dialga it's useless, Omninoir is using his powers to ensure the black hole is completely sustained and defended against any attack. You need to limit his control over the black hole before you can hope to dissipate it," her inner self explained with unwavering confidence as Dialga roared and grunted back unintelligibly at first.

'How do you propose I do that?!' he demanded urgently, just as Arceus turned invisible again and managed to land another Omni Force attack on the obsidian colored cat-like Pokemon, sending it tearing across the skies at near-infinite velocities as the Alpha Pokemon chased after his ever-shrinking form on the horizon, the sheer absurdity of their respective speeds enough to traverse even infinite distances in an instant, defying the concept of quantum entanglement by instantly transporting themselves across endlessly vast regions of space and time, encompassing almost every locality in the same exact Planck time while not having to manipulate interconnected particles over an infinite distance. Instead they covered that distance via sheer speed alone.

"I recommend using your infinity dome and encasing the black hole and yourself inside of it. Not only would it omni-lock the singularity outside of totality itself it would allow you to operate within its sacred, impenetrable boundaries unimpeded while limiting Omninoir's sphere of control since he is outside of your dome," inner Serena explained with flawless logic; dragging Dialga out of his reverie while the temporal Pokemon kept one eye on the infinitely fast paced fight happening all around him. Serena had to admit that her other self was displaying a level of intellect and creativity that Serena didn't even realize she had possessed. She wondered if she was finally good enough to be on an equal footing with Ash in the brains department, but tried not to dwell on it for fear of it becoming too important to her. She would have commended her inner goddess for her unparalleled genius had it not been for the simple fact that she would have been essentially complimenting and flattering herself, and Serena just couldn't condone self aggrandizement of any kind; she wasn't that kind of person and luckily for her Ash wasn't really either.

'Got it, thanks Serena, getting rid of this stupid thing will be my genuine pleasure,' Dialga grinned mentally, an almost savage instinct to foil Omninoir's plot taking it over as the infinity dome instantly manifested around it and the singularity, which found that it could no longer suck like it used to. Laughing like a maniac as the jewel of life Arceus suddenly shot by his dome, Dialga planned to relish his involvement in Omninoir's failure even as the daughter of his creator was involuntarily tossed asunder by the Anti-God Pokemon. 'Ugh, Ash better appreciate this or I'm gonna have to kill him,' Dialga growled dangerously, focusing all of his Omega Omnisphere manipulating powers on finally ending the now significantly less impressive and less potent singularity that had seemed so formidable only mere moments ago. The eye of this thing was immense; easily covering the expanse of the Omniverse itself meaning one would have to move at near infinite velocities just to be able to disrupt its absolute motion. Luckily for Dialga there was another way to end this, and so he continued to blast the damning force of nature with an endless barrage of anti-gravitons.

Serena meanwhile, was amazed when all of a sudden her body snatcher had got in the middle of Omninoir's airborne titanic grapple with Arceus and conjured a golden blade she somehow knew was made of cursed gold enhanced to absolute levels. "Excuse me, mind if I cut in," her inner self boldly announced while slashing expertly at Omninoir with an almighty example of the famous god-slaying blade from the Campione universe. Somehow inner Serena had taken it and made it an omni-slaying blade, capable of slaying anything, including immortals and nigh omnipotent gods, the only thing it couldn't slay being absolute immortals and omnipotent beings, though the former of the two could still be crippled beyond any and all repair.

"Nice work body snatcher, the stage is set perfectly," Serena shouted out, her voice echoing across the endless chambers of her own boundless inner world. As the sound of her voice faded in the endlessness of her own mindscape and her inner self continued to battle alongside Arceus out there in the real world; Serena couldn't help feeling both excited and terrified. If this was the kind of insanity she could expect on her journey on a regular basis then one might wonder if she was crazy for even entertaining the idea. Serena knew it would be fraught with dangers to her own existence as well as her friends' lives. Calem and Shauna as well as her mom whom she'd only just made peace with, had all been swallowed up by the singularity and crushed into eternal oblivion, and only by defeating Omninoir in this battle could they hope to reverse every bad thing that had happened to her hometown since he showed up.

She was terrified, and the traumatic experience of losing her friends to death, even if it was only temporary, would surely catch up to her in due time; but right now she was too mad and too inexplicably eager to send this son of a mutant bitch packing. The only thing she hated about this situation was that she couldn't be a part of the action; no she was stuck inside here, in this empty endless space where all things were possible no matter how absurd the notion or idea, yet she hated being stuck here more than she thought she ever could. She was literally stuck inside of her own entirely separate version of the Omega Omnisphere, where she and she alone was the almighty ruler, the Omniarch if you will; yet all she could think about right now was playing some kind of part in kicking this new enemy's ass. All she wanted was to feel at least somewhat useful to the battle efforts, was that really so wrong?!

As though waiting for her to ask this question, a telepathic voice sounded off the walls of the endless labyrinth, echoing throughout her mindscape in a voice that she immediately recognized as... her own. This version of her voice however, was riddled with completely confidence, and had an almost impossibly beautiful melody to it, like a choir of angelic goddesses. "You are being useful just sitting there Serena. Fact of the matter is my existence is tied to you and when the time is right you and I will truly become one," the voice of her inner self spoke, so clear and so clean that it sounded like she was speaking directly in front of her.

Serena took a moment to ponder this as her inner self multi-tasked between speaking to her and parrying Omninoir's own conjured blade of infinite blackness, a blade comprised entirely of infinitely condensed dark matter, x-elements, anti-matter, and other infinitely destructive forms of matter Serena couldn't identify. She hadn't noticed this before and cursed her inability to multitask even as her inner self used her body to perform a flurry of sword-fighting maneuvers, parries, dodges, and stabs that Serena didn't even know were humanly possible, the golden gleam of the cursed, omni-slaying blade setting her teeth on edge upon realizing that weapon could kill her as easily as it could any and all of her enemies. "So you're saying that without me you wouldn't exist?" she finally got around to questioning, not wanting to distract her inner self or wind up with her body getting injured or worse but glad when her inner self managed to answer her. She was answering her while watching Arceus fire an endless barrage of infinitely powerful light and energy balls, the boundless brilliance of them engulfing the entire crater that was once Vaniville town as the energy from the Alpha Pokemon's judgement attack worked to a similar effect as the eclipse canon from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe only far more controlled, precise, and condensed.

"I represent the limitless potential within you, I embody all that you are and all that you have the capacity to be; with enough patience and training of course. Serena, you were chosen by the gods of Pokemon themselves to wield this great power; to become a beacon of hope that will shine upon the world and across the stars. You will face many challenges during your journey, you will be knee deep in situations that pardon the expression, but humans, just don't understand. As such, you will be a woman of unlimited means with the power to deal with these kinds of situations when most of humankind would have failed in your position. I'm not saying it will be easy, and the challenges you will face will be equal to what even you are capable of; but you will also have within you the power to achieve all of your goals, to experience the ultimate feeling of life no mere mortal can ever hope to achieve.

You will live forever in the intimate knowledge that you can do anything, that you can be anything. You must be careful however because with such unlimited power, you can be very easily corrupted, you can become drunk on the power, so yes Serena, without you I would not exist. In time, when you are ready to handle the tremendous powers within you and the responsibilities that go with them, you and I will sort of... merge I guess you could say. Don't worry, you'll still be the one behind the wheel so to speak, just think of me as your own personal GPS of the Omega Omnisphere and as a backseat driver like your closest friend, or a second mom or something. As a matter of fact, I'll be just about anything you want me to be, or at least need me to be," inner Serena explained with such adoration and sincerity that Serena found it very hard not to believe her, watching in pure, unbridled awe as Arceus's full powered attack seemingly ended the battle right before her eyes.

The resultant blast was enough to bore a hole through the fabric of reality using Omninoir's body as the tunneling agent; the hole itself opening miles below the earth as the massive concentration of light and energy reached critical mass with Omninoir still at its epicenter. Serena waited on baited breath as the Kugelblitz, a word she didn't even know about until now, swallowed Omninoir's body whole just before it immediately collapsed on itself; evidently it had bitten off more than it could chew by swallowing an embodiment of limitless energy and power and had essentially choked on Omninoir, collapsing on itself before it managed to swallow him.

Serena's inner self evidently sensed her curiosity all of them, Dialga included awaited the inevitable, and were almost relieved when Omninoir's telepathic voice shouted to them all. "Well fought Chosen One, I must admit this has turned out to be more entertaining than I thought it would be, but this form of mine you destroyed is just one of thousands of avatars and mind slaves I've created and assembled across the Ultra-Verse. Who knows though, maybe after an eternity of this there might actually emerge a victor. Until that infinitely distant time comes however, keep on fighting me with all you have Serena Yvonne, Arceus, and all the others who may end up opposing me. I relish the chance to prove to you all the futility in challenging me. Also just so you're aware, I will NOT have my supremacy be invalidated by a technicality such as the omnipotence paradox so don't even try that on me unless you wish to be very sorry! See you around lovely Serena, you really are beautiful girl, Ash was right to hold you in such high esteem, but I wonder how he's faring compared to you. If you want to find that out, I suggest you undo the damage to this town and its people and tune into the Kalos news channel,' Omninoir cackled insanely as both Serena and inner Serena furrowed their eyebrows at his statement, the infinite presence of the enemy retreating before they could interrogate him just as Primal Dialga's endless stream of anti-gravitons finally brought about an end to the all-powerful singularity.

Watching an infinitely super-massive black hole collapse on itself and spit out a massive spiraling pool of absolute cosmic energy, stardust, and other such particles was the most beautiful and terrifying thing Serena had ever seen, and had primal Dialga's infinity dome not been around to absorb the blast she was sure that detonation would have simply created another, equally strong singularity and started the process all over again. As it was, the massive gaping hole in the omniverse simply closed up like a gaping wound that had been stitched or allowed to coagulate. Almost imperceptibly, an obsidian blur raced past Primal Dialga from the massive core of the singularity, a hole in the fabric of the Omega Omnisphere itself, which may have just spit something out from whatever realm of absurdity existed on the other side of it. Serena looked around for any sign, any indication that anybody else, her inner self included, had noticed this bizarre phenomena but unfortunately none of them did. Deciding that she would worry about it later, she was relieved when nothing else bad happened and returned to the situation at hand.

All and all, this scenario was horrible, and despite knowing that they pretty much saved the entire omniverse, Serena collapsed within her own infinite mindscape and broke down into sobs that caused her entire body to wrench uncontrollably. Never in all her life had she imagined anything such as this being even remotely possible before; this was completely insane and the craziness of the situation finally caught up with her, bearing down on her with the weight of the sky itself and causing her to sob in a strange mixture of pure agony that she had lost her friends and family as well as her entire hometown, and pure relief that it was finally over for the time being, and pure sorrow and devastation that Omninoir's reign of absolute terror had only just begun. If this was the price one paid for having absolute, unlimited powers than she wasn't sure she wanted it at all in the first place; but then again she had been able to save a lot of lives, no an infinite number of lives. Realizing she'd have to start thinking of infinity in a literal context, Serena was fully aware of the fact that her life was forever changed, and if she had it her way she'd ensure that only she out of everyone in Vaniville town remembered what had transpired today.

"That can be arranged Serena. Actually I was thinking about it a lot. Like I said we're knee deep in situations that people like Calem and Shauna and your mom just won't understand. If you want me to arrange for them to remember nothing then it shall be so. One more thing I need to tell you before I do this," inner Serena briskly replied in response to Serena's thoughts, somehow knowing what she was thinking as her body snatcher and Arceus landed in the center of the crater, the massive hole that had been punched into the planet by Arceus's last attack. Dialga had given Serena and Arceus a brief nod of approval and a smile before reverting back to its normal form and vanishing through a wormhole connecting to infinite times, universes, dimensions, and realities, the portal closing behind him with a loud popping sound, seemingly oblivious to the impossibly black streak that had raced by him almost instantly.

"What's that," Serena asked nervously, not liking where this was going for some reason as her inner self seemed to sense this. She also realized that Serena needed to know about the ramifications of literally resurrecting the dead as she felt Serena's presence omni-locked deep inside of her, the body which she had borrowed in order to combat Omninoir's threatening presence still coursing with the absolute powers of her inner world. "Well, there is a balance for everything in nature, including the balance between life and death," inner Serena started somewhat nervously as she felt rather than heard her other personality's anger and shock threatening to envelop them both. "Wait, you mean to tell me that despite all of our powers, you can't stop this resurrection from killing a ton of other people? And for what, so you can NOT upset some kind of cosmic balance of power?! That's NOT FAIR, THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY!" she heard and felt Serena screaming in true despair as her inner self struggled to somehow lesson the severity of the situation.

"Well they probably most likely won't even be people you know, but honestly Serena the higher-ups, AKA the Omega Omnisphere's Supreme Death God and Entities of fate and stuff don't like having their omni-dimensional spheres of control effectively usurped and manipulated to achieve another person's ends. And yes, that is essentially what we are Serena, usurpers of the Omni-Creator. The mere fact there are so many omnipotent and nigh omnipotent beings throughout the whole of creation is somewhat paradoxical, and a recipe for ultimate disaster. Most of the time we can get by without attracting too much fuss and attention, but for beings across the Ultra-Verse there can be struggles for ultimate power and lordship, and either the omnipotence paradox invalidates the supremacy of otherwise omnipotent beings or the entire Omega Omnisphere enters an endless state of destruction and rebirth. It's unwise of us to simply resurrect the dead whenever we want and not have consequences for our actions ensue, to resurrect the dead or oneself without limits is considered unauthorized altercation of the laws of reality and is considered one of the highest offenses to the fundamental laws of the Omega Omnisphere itself," inner Serena explained, begging her avatar, her charge, the girl she was supposed to protect and help understand all of this, to understand what she was saying.

Serena sniffed a little inside the recesses of her own unconscious mind, wiping her hand along her nose and her eyes in a way that would have her mother telling her to go wash up immediately; trying to understand the complexities of her inner self's statement and only really registering one thing, it was a crime against some form of universal law. That alone was enough to tell her that resurrecting the dead for any reason was a serious offense. Then again Omninoir was playing by a whole new set of rules, and didn't care about the fact that he had essentially disrupted fate by causing the deaths of Shauna and Calem, whom he claimed had destinies all on their own, destinies he had just taken from them the opportunity to fulfill. If what he said was true then could Serena justify bringing them back for any reason, even if it meant surrendering the lives of others, people she didn't know?

"Gah, I just don't know WHAT TO DO!" Serena screamed at the top of her lungs in total frustration as her inner self sighed. "Serena, there is only one thing we can do. We have to bring them back, for while their fates are not as heavily tied to your own as say your best friend Ash, they still have a function to fulfill in your own destiny, which is far greater than any one human life, even hundreds or perhaps thousands. You're gonna make enemies on this journey, people will get hurt or worse, but the good you do will far outweigh the bad, so what do you say? Are you ready to see your friends again?

Just remember that they won't remember what has passed and will have their memories modified to accommodate for the amount of time that has elapsed without thinking there are gaps in their memories," inner Serena stated sagely. Serena nodded somewhat hesitantly within her own mind, "alright, do it," she said in a broken voice, hoping beyond all measure that the universe would forgive her for essentially sacrificing the lives of an untold number of strangers just so she, in a supreme act of selfishness, could be allowed to see her friends again. She understood the reasoning behind it and cried tears of joy as her town was brought back to what it was before all this insanity started. Buildings and houses that were destroyed were reformed out of the dirt, as if they and their occupants had never been destroyed. She had her mother and her friends back now; she had even gotten to see an Arceus in the flesh and battled alongside it to save the Omniverse, so why did she still hate herself for it?!
Author's Notes: In case you guys haven't noticed this is an Amourshipping/semi harem story and is not some porn without plot lol. It will feature some pretty graphic content later on and maybe even in the next couple of updates from now but that's not all there is to it.
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