Chapter 109: Excuse Me, That's My Kyogre
"Kyogre..."
Caitlin turned the thought over. She'd done some reading on Hoenn's historical mythology, and Mammon had told her about the Meteor Falls Clan's history — those two civilizational catastrophes, both brought about by Kyogre and Groudon.
Armored Mewtwo lifted the entire group on a sustained psychic platform, and they set off toward the coordinates Domino had given. As they moved, Mammon filled everyone in.
"Kyogre is one of the super-ancient legendaries. In Hoenn's mythology, it's the embodiment of the ocean itself — a Pokémon said to expand the seas by flooding the land with torrential rain and surging tides."
He let that settle for a moment.
"And it has Primal Reversion. In its Primal form, Kyogre externalizes all the energy contained in its body. The legends say that a single circuit of the ocean and the water coverage of the world increases significantly."
"The Primal Kyogre that has survived since the ancient era — it's essentially the deep-sea sovereign of all the world's oceans."
That was why Team Aqua had been pursuing it so obsessively. The legends, taken at face value, described exactly what Archie wanted — a Pokémon that could expand the seas.
The problem was that Archie had fitted his own imagined interpretation over what the legends actually said.
What he envisioned: Kyogre expanding the ocean gracefully, filling in the world to create his ideal aquatic paradise.
What would actually happen: the in-game Primal Kyogre's Primordial Sea called down torrential, unending rain — not expansion, but submergence. The world wouldn't gain more ocean. It would lose all the land to water.
Anyone who genuinely understood the super-ancient history knew what Kyogre and Groudon actually were. Two primordial forces, each seeking to maximize their natural domain, locked in a struggle that gave no consideration to Hoenn's survival. Without Rayquaza intervening, Hoenn would have ceased to exist over two thousand years ago.
Trusting Kyogre or Groudon to fulfill your dreams. The idea was almost comedic.
Both legendaries were closer to Chaotic Neutral than any alignment that suggested cooperation with human ambitions. Like Kagura herself — the Lorekeeper understood exactly what she was triggering when she set the ancient cycle in motion again. She simply didn't care about the collateral. The awakening was a means to the end of summoning Rayquaza, and the rest was someone else's problem.
"You know an unusual amount about these ancient Pokémon." Kagura gave Mammon a measured look.
"I read a lot as a child. Regional mythology was a hobby." Mammon kept his tone humble.
"The deep-sea sovereign—" Gladion considered this. "How does it compare to Alola's legendaries, Lord Mammon?"
He was curious how his home region stacked up.
"In raw power? Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon are out of Lunala and Solgaleo's weight class."
Mammon said it matter-of-factly.
The giant bat and the great lion were genuinely strong, but asking them to match Primal Reversions of two supremely ancient forces was a significant ask.
"Among the legendaries across all regions, the Primal Reversions rank at the higher end."
He paused.
"Though there's a particular hidden one that's a different conversation entirely."
He meant Necrozma, obviously. Sun and Moon were honestly on the weaker side of the legendary spectrum — but Necrozma was categorically different.
Gladion reflected on this. Kagura and Courtney exchanged a look of quiet, satisfied pride — their own legendaries held up well, apparently.
"What about Sinnoh?" Caitlin asked, genuinely curious. Cynthia's love of mythological research had rubbed off.
From what she remembered, Sinnoh's mythology centered on Dialga and Palkia — the dragons of Time and Space.
"That one doesn't really compare." Mammon shook his head. "Sinnoh is operating in a different category. Time, Space, Antimatter — the conceptual ceiling is genuinely on another level."
Armored Mewtwo generated a dense psychic barrier around the group, sealed it, and plunged into the ocean. The barrier held the water out as they descended, Mewtwo navigating through the dark water at speed with Domino's directions. Twenty minutes of winding through the cavern's complex tunnel system later, they emerged into a vast underground chamber.
The space opened up dramatically — high ceilings, dark stone, and at its center, a shallow underground pool glowing with a pale blue luminescence.
In the pool, half-emerged from the water, a massive blue Pokémon slept with total stillness. Its body resembled a whale's in overall shape — enormous pectoral fins spread like wings, its tail splitting into four ribbon-like structures. The blue light that filled the chamber radiated from it.
"There it is." Mammon's eyes were intent. "Kyogre."
He stared at the sleeping ancient with undisguised interest.
The three super-ancient legendaries — Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza. Any one of them would be an extraordinary addition. The excitement was genuine.
Caitlin and the others studied the creature with wide-eyed curiosity.
"It's sleeping very deeply." Kagura had walked to the edge of the pool and was looking down. The blue light shimmered faintly through the water. "We walked all the way here and it hasn't stirred at all."
She crouched slightly. The light was actually seeping from Kyogre's body — which meant this water was technically Kyogre's...
I wonder if there are dedicated enough fans who'd drink this as sacred water.
"It won't wake without significant external force. The Blue Orb would do it, but Archie doesn't have it yet."
Mammon was thinking about something practical: could he capture Kyogre in its current sleeping state?
Almost certainly not in any meaningful way. A Pokémon at this level — the constraints of a Poké Ball would be negligible to it. When it woke up, it would simply leave. Real-world Poké Balls didn't have the game's reliable containment mechanics.
Footsteps. From the passage behind them — sparse, then quickening.
"Slower than I expected," Mammon said.
The footsteps became urgent. Whoever was in that passage had seen the chamber's light.
A large man in a tight blue outfit burst out of the tunnel at speed, spotted the pool, and stopped dead.
His expression underwent an immediate and total transformation — the look of someone who had just found, in the most unexpected place, exactly the thing they'd been dreaming about for years.
"FOUND YOU!! AHAHAHAHA — I finally found you, KYOGRE!!"
Archie's laughter filled the chamber. He pumped his fist with the energy of a man whose life's ambition had just become tangibly real.
"It was always going to be this way — destined — you're mine, Kyogre!!"
He stared at the sleeping legendary with an intensity that bordered on reverent.
"Ah — sorry to interrupt, but that's my Kyogre. Please don't get ahead of yourself."
The young, unhurried voice reached Archie from somewhere to his side.
He turned.
There was an entire group of people standing there that he had somehow completely failed to register in his excitement.
"Who are you?"
Archie was genuinely baffled. This cavern — how had other people gotten here first? He hadn't seen another submarine.
More blue-uniformed Team Aqua members filed out of the passage behind him, falling into position. Leading them was a tall, dark-haired woman with the bearing of someone who knew exactly what she was doing.
Team Aqua Admin Shelly.
The grunts arranged themselves and watched Mammon's group with wary attention.
"Courtney?"
Shelly had recognized her immediately. They'd crossed paths enough times to know each other well. Rivals in the same territory for years, neither of them ever gaining a clean advantage.
What she couldn't account for was why Courtney wasn't wearing her Magma uniform.
"My, my~ Shelly! Long time no see!"
Courtney switched registers immediately — the flat affect dissolved and a sweet smile appeared, her head tilting as she gave a cheerful little wave. The two of them had butted heads across various operations for years, but today—
Today is going to be different.
Today I am going to tie this aggravatingly well-built woman up with a great deal of rope.
Courtney felt this prospect to be quite appealing.
Gladion and Kagura both glanced at her sideways.
Caitlin's expression went carefully blank, though something flickered at the back of her eyes.
That little— I see you, Courtney.
Standing there acting sweet and demure, saying things like 'I'll give the rest of my life to Lord Mammon' in front of everyone—
Absolutely not. I am watching her. She is not getting anywhere near his room.
"I see — so it's Magma tracking us," Shelly said, her expression cooling.
"Ha~ Magma's useless little friends." Archie's grin turned predatory as he cracked his neck and fixed his glare on Mammon's group. "If you're smart, you'll drag yourself back to that skinny rat Maxie and tell him I'm going to personally dismantle him."
He'd wanted a piece of Maxie for a very long time. Maxie kept evading every direct confrontation, which was infuriating.
"I'd happily pass the message along, but I'm afraid I can't find Lord Maxie myself." Mammon spread his hands.
"Hm? You're not Magma?" Archie squinted.
"Not at all. Allow me — I'm Mammon, Team Rocket."
"Team Rocket? What's that?"
Archie looked blank. A new organization? Since when was there a new organization in Hoenn?
Shelly, by contrast, had gone very still. She leaned toward Archie and said something low and quiet, her eyes moving back to Courtney.
Courtney, working alongside Team Rocket. That was extremely unusual information.
"Oh well~ No choice, I'm afraid." Courtney caught Shelly's gaze and adopted her most guileless expression — wide eyes, one hand against her cheek, her pale face with a suspicious flush. "Lord Mammon's prisoner now. I can only apologize to Lord Maxie. I've decided to devote the rest of my life to Lord Mammon's service."
She delivered this in the sweetest, most delicate voice she had.
Gladion and Kagura both looked away.
Caitlin's eyes went to a particular shade of blue that people who knew her recognized as a warning sign.
That scheming little—
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