With Cratos evolution and the return of all of my pokemon that had clearly not been idle I was easily the most powerful trainer known. Not even Oak could claim to have reached such heights and that wasn't even to talk about my personal power either. While I would have loved to hold a vast feast to celebrate this moment I was in the awkward position were all but my long preserved foodstuffs were rotten and depleted. Several of my potions had also expired in this time so I was almost totally broke on resources.-
My pokemon didn't mind delaying the celebration for later once I explained the problem to them. Such was the situation we found ourselves in so accepting it was no problem at all. That said there WAS a few problems that had to be fixed before we could leave Sinnoh. The first was that Gaia's old nest needed to be cleared out or poachers would be getting their hands on some really powerful variant Larvitar. Gaia wasn't exactly the most hands on of parents and if anything left most of the work to her baby daddy who happened to be another problem we had to settle.-
Gaia roughly explained that the Garchomp was aware that she would be going with me once I returned but had simply decided he was going too. At this point I didn't give two shits about the leagues six pokemon limitation as they couldn't exactly enforce it on me. Wouldn't that be silly? A literal god getting sent to jail by mere mortals for breaking a law meant to maintain order in the world. That said I was a little reluctant to just bring every random pokemon that wanted to come with me.-
I wasn't running a damn charity over here and if I did that I'd have a bunch of freeloaders to take care of at once. Like it'd be fine if I was a professor and thus studying them but I was a trainer and had no real intention of swapping professions. If anything I was MORE attached to the profession as with godhood comes boredom and loneliness and as a trainer I could try and raise my pokemon to godhood as well. I wasn't sure if the only other mortal ascended on the planet had ever tried to do the same but I suppose I was going to find out eventually.-
How could I not when the bird was very likely to seek me out on it's own as a kindred spirit. We may not be the same species or even vaguely related but we would be the only two mortals to ever ascend in all of history and that was a connection stronger than any of that, the most important connection some may even say. Beyond Gaia's side of things there was also Yani's grove that she was reluctant to leave behind. The solution there was simple though, she'd not be coming with us.-
While she was absolutely the best healer we could ask for Cratos had picked up quite a few of her moves after these two years together including her healing ones both new and old. I also had the healing ability and poke medic skill so her role as the group healer was covered even without her being with us. I wasn't bitter about her decision to stay behind with the place she had carved out for herself as it was always the plan for my pokemon to one day make their own way in this world.-
Still we wouldn't be parting until it came time for us to leave Sinnoh which wouldn't be for another month at least. I had to stock up on stuff again, work on my reality domain, find a boat to Kanto or Johto, say my farewells to the few people in Sinnoh I had connection to, all of this took time. The second in particular was the most time consuming of all as messing with a domain was slow methodical work. Right now I had barely started setting the reality domain in place but I had a lot of work left before it fully formed and I could ascend fully.-
Not that I minded really as with team rocket being the last major threat to the world currently in existence the world wasn't in grave danger. Team rockets goals were never about vast amounts of destruction but plain and simple world domination through the exploitation of pokemon. While definitely a dangerous thing it wasn't immediately a danger to all of humanity. For now the league was barely keeping the group at bay in Johto and Kanto so the group wasn't beyond destruction quite yet.-
Anyway I balled up my pokemon except Hades that was thrilled to finally be back in my pocket like it was used to two years ago. Space folded in front of me as I took a step and my surroundings changed to that of Canalave city. Being able to move across the whole region near instantly was extremely useful I had to admit though the downside that I had to have been to the location first was a little annoying. I also couldn't move across regions mostly since I didn't have locations within my admittedly vast range to do so. Canalave was my destination this time mostly because as the most important port of the region it was where I could go to find a ship.-
It also helped that thanks to the sheer amount of imports and exports here in this city I could likely quite easily stock back up on food stuff for our grand celebration. My sudden appearance didn't go unnoticed either as people on the street froze as their brains fried trying to understand how I appeared from thin air. There was no sound or movement of the air that usually accompanied teleportation used by psychics, just one second nothing and the next me.-
I ignored this and headed down the street towards the general store to make a purchase so grand they were going to have to close temporarily due to stocking problems. The few people whose memory was sharp enough and recognized me started posting pictures and videos about it online. At first the response was small but soon people started to remember who I was and why I was a big deal. My "followers" were the one most excited about the news as they had a "leader" again.