Memories of a God (Backstory of Optimus Maximus)

Note: This page has been written from the perspective of Optimus Maximus.

My name is Optimus Maximus and this is the story of how I came to be the person(in the loosest sense) I am today.

I came into existence about 15 billion years ago. The first thing I remember is a Voice saying these words in my mind, “.You shall be the balance that separates the Light and the Dark, the Order and the Chaos. Now go forth and carry out your Sacred Duty.” I have not heard that Voice ever since. My studies lead me to believe it was the One Above All, an incomprehensible force.

This incident was immediately followed by a burst of primordial energy from Singularity. It was the birth of this universe. It was also the moment that I noticed two Beings of Chaos swirling in the Void around me. They were Shade and Darkness. Yes, the very ones you know.

I was still a young being and did not know what anything was, even myself. The only thing I had was my Commandment. I flew through the now vast expanses of outer space, trying to escape from Shade and Darkness. I managed to do so, seeking refuge in the core of a quasar.

I stayed there for several billion years. I put myself in stasis and did not know what had happened outside my hiding place. While inside the quasar, I discovered my first power. I will not reveal it here for sake of secrecy but suffice to say, that quasar no longer exists and I became more powerful.

I finally left the space that once contained a quasar and came to this quadrant of the galaxy, landing on this mudball that I still stand upon. This happened about 3 billion years ago. I faced all the things that came to devour this planet and honed my skills. I became more and more powerful until, at some point in time, I fell through an interdimensional wormhole.. I fell onto a mountain peak that looked vaguely familiar. It was Mount Coronet, but not the one I was accustomed to. I climbed up the stairs and reached Arceus’ home. By this time, Archie the Arceus had already started creating Pokemon in the universe I was originally in, so I expected a similar thing here.

Ah! I remember. It was AC! She was lying down on a seat with cushions. Like a throne. And she was eating what seemed to be potatoes fried in oil after being sliced into very thin slices. She seemed to be watching a series of captured light frames on a large black screen. I now know that she was on a couch, eating chips and binging Netflix, which already existed there. She knew of me and knew Archie all too well. They had been dating some time back but he had cheated on her with another Arceus. A wild one too. THE AUDACITY! Well, I hunted that other one down, making Archie both depressed and VERY angry, leading to a rather important thing to happen in my universe. It’s a long story though, so maybe I’ll narrate it next time.

When I got back to my universe, a few days later, I discovered that time had passed a bit differently in my universe. The passing of time in my universe, which seems to be the main universe/ timeline is quite fast compared to others. I now know this is because Dialga made a bet with Palkia in this main universe as to who was faster. Stupid pencil-necked steel dinosaur. Anyways, it resulted in me getting a nasty surprise that several thousand years had run their course here leading to a small civilisation forming in the part of the world which would later be called Hisui or Sinnoh. These were the original inhabitants who worshipped the Pokemon God of Cheating himself, Archie. They called him ‘The Almighty Sinnoh’ and climbed Mount Coronet to see their oh-so benevolent god every day. I decided to mess around with Archie and his followers for a bit as revenge for my new best friend, AC.

I took a rather large amount of time as to what I would do to exact revenge but I settled, at last, a hundred or so years later. By then, the original Sinnoans had died out and the remnants had split into two clans. The Diamon Clan and the Pearl Clan. They, funnily enough, ignored Archie’s existence and worshipped Palkia and Dialga of all Pokemon. It was hilarious, watching their antics. Well, anyway, I decided to insult Archie every hour after that, and sucking out his power little by little. I released the removed energy throughout the region, where it showed its affinity towards certain pokemon more than others, the alphas and the nobles. (to be continued) Archie learned of this of course and was furious. We fought, and what a fight it was. Archie tossed a whole Gyarados at me, infusing it with Infinity energy and making it an alpha. I swatted it away, making it land in a town quite a distance away, in another region. This would prove to be essential to the growth of Sinnoh.

Time went on, a group of people called the Galaxy Expedition Team came along, Archie decided to kidnap two humans from the future, and so forth.

It was only two years after Rei, one of the humans Archie kidnapped, caught Archie in a Pokeball that something interesting happened. Rei managed to unite the Diamond and Pearl Clans into the Handlers. I never studied them or their philosophy much, and don’t know much about them in general, but know this much. Archie shared his store of Infinity Energy with Rei, granting him the Force of Handlers, and allowing him to maintain the balance of the multiverse. This was a great help to me, the God of Balance as I didn’t have to oversee the Homeostasis personally anymore. Guess Archie did have a little common sense.

Another few years later, I had a reunion with an old adversary, Shade. Luckily, he did not recognise me, but we had a battle that thankfully ended in a draw. He still eclipsed me in power, but I was able to get Rei and Archie’s help in that fight to balance out his strength.

After this fight, I was drained of most of my energy, so I shifted to Unova to recuperate and stayed there for a few hundred years, slowly replenishing my strength and interacting with several interesting characters.

The last part of my journey starts a few decades back. I learned of a human named Red, who seemed to have extraordinary skill in controlling pokemon. I met up with him and suggested that he leave the Pokemon League and train on Mount Silver’s peak. I had a premonition that he would play a not major, but not minor role in things to come. I wandered the new world for a while and eventually found Shade. Again. He was the leader of a new ‘evil team’ called Team Shadow. I decided to join what seemed like a rival team, ‘Team Sky’. And I think most of you know the story from therein.