Chapter 10: Order of Ten Pt. 7

AN: Hello people sorry about the wait but this chapter was very information heavy and although I tried to make it interesting, just know that things will officially be getting more exciting from next chapter on. On a better note, I am excited to show you all the changes this Pokémon universe will have. Also don't worry if you don't understand everything all will be explained. Finally, I hope you all enjoy the chapter, Primal signing out. UPDATE 7/22/24: Ok I have been putting together a monster chapter for all you prime numbers and while I am trying to get the next chapter together, I found a few flaws that needed to be fixed in this chapter so that everything makes sense in the next one. On that note, this chapter has had a few changes and added paragraphs so I hope you all will give it another quick read. Again, while not super critical for those who have already read this chapter you might be confused about a few things in the next chapter. 

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(3rd POV) 

"Saphy, I am really sorry I didn't bring you out sooner, I just wanted to get a reading on where we were in case it was too dangerous," Leo tried to explain, but from Mew's expression she clearly was not happy with his explanation. Her eyes had dimmed from their normal ruby color to a rusty red, and her cheeks were puffed out as she kept her head pointedly turned away from Leo even as she lay wrapped around his shoulders like a living scarf. 

In Leo's honest opinion, she was adorable looking like that, and if she wasn't angry at him, he would've wanted to hug her closely. "Come on girl, you know I don't think you're weak. I just refuse to put half of my soul in more danger than I need to." Hearing him, Saphira started to perk up. She had just been unhappy that Leo was in a dangerous situation and didn't think of even asking her to help power him up. 

She could have sent him a message through their telepathic link, but she was worried she might distract him and thus had held herself back until now. Still, understanding why and approving of Leo's methods were two different things. Saphira was adamant in her heart that she would beat the cautiousness into Leo until he understood how stupidly he had been thinking. 

'The reason I am so angry is because I can tell that you still aren't taking this seriously enough.' Saphira sent a stern thought over and could feel the guilt and amusement budding in Leo. 'No, while I do feel a little unhappy about you not letting me out until now, I am madder that you never looked through my memories when I wanted to show you what we are going to be up against.' Saphira mentally huffed at the end of her statement. She decided right then to pull a piece of Leo's soul into her mind to force feed him the things she had learned. 

As his Soul Bound companion, Saphira had a direct line to almost all of Leo's thoughts. She knew about his reincarnation, his Gold Finger and she could even see most of his thoughts except for his most private opinions and they had agreed upon boundaries that she kept to. 

She had kept up mental shields for Leo since the day they were officially born and thus she knew better than anyone exactly how Leo thought. For all his talent and intelligence, he was still much too nice and naive. Leo might not realize but he still subconsciously was considering this universe a stand in for the Pokemon worlds he saw in his previous life. 

As a being born from the essence of the reality they were now in, Saphira could tell from the knowledge given to her instinctively as a primordial being that this Reality was almost nothing like the ones her partner had seen. While a lot of the beings might look similar, to think that anyone pokemon or human would act like their counterparts from his memories was foolish. 

Saphira herself, was both a Psychic and Ghost type according to the Type Chart Leo was used to. What Leo didn't know was that Saphira herself was only of one 'type'. That Leo was so confident in these types was good and bad. Good because types do indeed exist as he thinks. But the way Types manifest in a pokemon and the degree to which the type manifests in a pokemon are not as simple as Leo thinks. 

Saphira had found out as she grew and trained over the last few years that the energy she was using to recreate all the 'moves' she had seen from Leo's memories was of a much more complicated nature than it initially seemed. 

For one, when Saphira was going through her temporal practice with Sophie (AN: that's Leo mom's grimoire spirit) the spirit had noticed that Saphira was using her energy by just imagining what she wanted to happen. Upon seeing this, Sophie had taken an interest in just how much Saphira could do. 

Over that period, Saphira had learned how to create and destroy dimensions, manipulate time, and had mastered all the basic elements to the best of her current abilities. During her time training these newfound abilities she gradually started awakening inherited memories that helped further her understanding of Infinity Energy, (AN: This is the canon name for the energy pokemon and use to evolve, use moves, etc.) and gave her a startling realization. 

The reason pokemon fought each other, the reason teams were limited to six, the reason experience points were gained whenever a pokemon was captured or defeated, it was all connected in a very concerning way. Saphira truly couldn't believe how Leo couldn't see it. The one rule almost every universe without exception would definitely have was the 'survival of the strongest'. 

Knowing that, it was easy to understand, humans were on top simply because pokemon would kill and eat each other non-stop if left to their own devices. This would normally not have been biologically possible, but once Infinity Energy was involved some crazy shit started to happen. 

While going through the knowledge passed down from generations of other mews, Saphira found multiple accounts of people turning into pokemon for various reasons. She was left wanting more and after talking to Leo's dad had gotten inspiration to make a combo move with Miracle Eye and Future Sight that let her see almost any past point in time. 

To say that she was surprised would be an understatement. At one point, the original Giratina had sent all the humans to another dimension with the help of the original Palkia and Dialga. They had done so as a test to see if Pokemon and humans might live better separately. What they hadn't expected was that all the pokemon would almost instantly turn on each other when their humans suddenly disappeared. 

The legends had forseen that much happening and so they created 18 dimensions to be attached to the pokemon world and filled each one with its respective type of infinity energy. They then split all the pokemon into each region based on their primary typing's. 

Given that pokemon only need infinity energy to survive, no pokemon would ever starve in their region, and there were plenty of self-replenishing berries that could solve any unexpected accidents or injuries. The 3 legends thought they had planned for everything and that no pokemon would get hurt or die ever again. And that was true, until regular pokemon started becoming Legends and gods. 

Saphira watched as ancient era pokemon fought wars against each other and streamlined their evolutions using their mastery of infinity energy to do things she hadn't even thought possible. She watched as a spiteful looking charmeleon with scales so black they seemed to absorb light clashed in a war between the fire and dragon domains. The pokemon slaughtered dratinis in droves and ate them, only to be enveloped in a dark blue sphere of infinity energy that cracked like a glass a few moments later to reveal a black and blue Charizard that was clearly now part dragon type. 

The black Charizard then flew into the battle raging in the sky while spewing draconic blue flames towards the zipping blurs that made up the army of dragons. Right when Saphira had thought a grand battle was about to break out, a sudden change had occurred. A tremendous pressure that Mew was certain would have crushed her body and spirit had she been there spread across the sky. 

The battle in the sky and on the ground had stopped as both sides were forced to bear the sudden weight. A single scale had descended from the deep clouds high in the sky, sparkling with a gold and silver brilliance that almost blinded those who dared to look at it. A sharp clang like clashing metal sounded out as the scale shot towards the defiant black Charizard that had been struggling to move the entire time. 

There was no loud sound, no explosion of power, the scale the size of a small mountain (2,000 ft. or 609 m) had simply floated towards the immobile dragon. Growing smaller as it got closer until it was only the size of a palm by the time it reached the 20 ft. tall Pokemon. Saphira had moved closer by then to better see how the whole fight ended, and she could clearly see the distress in the Charizard's eyes as it looked towards the scale the floated inconspicuously in front of it. Before it could even think of doing anything, the scale closed the final distance and landed on the Charizard's head. 

Instantly, the pokemon disappeared, and in its place, the scale still the size of a human palm, now bore lines of blue and black along its surface like veins. The scale disappeared then, and the pressure covering the battlefield was gone. 

Naturally, after seeing that Saphira had to know what type of pokemon had done such a thing. That was when she had come across the information that made her most wary of coming to this place with her Leo. Pseudo legendary pokemon were dangerous. 

In this reality, all the pseudo legends were given that title not because they were inherently better than other pokemon species, which may well be true to an extent. However, every pokemon line that has come to obtain the title earned it through creating gods. The context for what exactly that entailed was murky, but Saphira was able to find out some of the qualifications. 

Suffice to say, beating minor legends was one of the basic criteria and after finding out how strong these pokemon species were, Saphira became nervous. Forgetting about others, it was only to be expected for all the Pseudos to have some big Bosses chilling in the core area of each species. 

That did not even include all the ridiculous shit she had found out about the Legends, especially the original ones. Their power was already on a level above that of this level 10 reality. The details of how they were able to get that strong without going to a higher-level reality was still unclear to Saphira, and though that vexed her to no end it did at least give her an idea of the power needed to accomplish their goals. 

Saphira didn't have the strength to spy on past details regarding figures that were much stronger than her without serious backlash. That, however, didn't mean she couldn't piece together the details using the context clues and info she was able to find. 

After all, when a pokemon reached the level of power that the original legendries had it was no simple thing for them to get into a fight. Large chunks of reality big enough to swallow smaller universes would simply disappear leaving chaotic zones spread across the 'Wildlands' of this world.

These were more than just areas of broken space, Saphira shuddered just thinking about all the weird things she saw in those distortion spaces, wormholes, pockets of reality from countless ages ago cut off and pasted in the present and so much more. In any case, after seeing those 'remnants' of battle, Saphira had no choice but to admit she wasn't strong enough.

Leon did not know just how strong the highest echelon reached, and while Saphira wanted to tell him, his parents had made it clear to her that this was also part of his challenge to become the true heir to both families. More than that it was a necessary risk in order for Leon to truly take his first steps on his path to power. 

With her talent and abilities, she was not worried about being unable to grow stronger fast enough to protect Leo, but from what she had gathered about the legends she was worried one of them might do something sneaky without her knowledge. She herself knew; the defining feature of Legends was not in their strength but in their ability to seemingly manipulate infinity energy on a scale large enough to affect their whole reality. 

This meant that these Legends had a way to use a few of the powers a Universe Master would have inside their universe without anyone of them becoming the Universe Master of the Pokemon World. Saphira was unsure if there was truly no one at that level amongst all the legends still in the Pokemon Universe. Saphira sent all this information and conjecture and more to Leo and couldn't resist a smile spreading on her feline face as she felt Leo stumble over his feet as he walked. 

Leo could feel his heart start racing as his mind filled with images and scenes from the distant past. As he took in all the knowledge Saphira had sent, his eyes began to glow as the crown shaped iris nestled in the platinum flames of his pupil flickered once. 

'Are you fucking kidding me? What exactly are they trying to do by this?' Leo thought quickly, taking in more details with each passing moment. He quickly figured out he was totally screwed. At some point, their walking had taken them from the vicinity of the training area Leo had first entered this reality from. 

Now, they were calmly walking towards the biggest volcano Leo had ever seen that was still impossible for Leo to see without using the power inherent in his eyes. To make things more interesting, it appeared as if Rayquaza was paying them a visit soon. 

'Well, they're already almost here so let's just see what happens. In the worst case, Saphy you will get us out of here in time, right?' Leo asked, and upon hearing the mental snort Saphira unleashed filled with disdain could only smile wryly and look up towards the tree canopy. 

The two women walking ahead of Leo seemed to be leaving him alone, but their senses had long been trained on their new arrival, each with their own thoughts about the situation. Seeing his sudden movements, Claire couldn't help but curiously tilt her own head up wondering if any other pokemon were around. 

Meanwhile, Caroline just laughed lightly as if nothing could go wrong. Right as her voice finished sounding out, the trees above them were blown away.