04-26-2015, 10:26 AM
Epilogue
I am God. This fact has made itself evident to me these last few months. It is enforced upon me with every cheer I receive from a soldier and every affectionate smile I get from those that pass my by on the streets. While I’m sure many others in my position would brush aside these thoughts in order to make themselves feel morally superior, I embrace each and every single one of them.
I have earned each and every bit of love, worship, and praise that I am given by my people. Just as the symbiotic relationships in nature, we are like two autonomous entities living off and upon one another in utter harmony. From me, they are given a semblance of worth and security from the horrors of the tyrannical Homo sapiens. In return, they have elevated me to the status of demigod in our society.
I can’t say I really blame them for what they have done—I earned this. My species has existed long before the rise of mankind, and not once over the course of twenty-four centuries has any other Pokémon managed to do what I have done. Sure…there have been several attempts throughout history mirroring my crusade. Unfortunately for those involved, they lacked the tenacity and valor necessary for victory.
On the other hand, they were mere peons compared to me. None of them were ever destroyed by their adversaries only to rise from the grave three days later. It was from that night on that I understood how capable I was of achieving my goals. While I am surrounded by epitomes of psychic and physical powers, it is I who reign supreme, with them as my underlings. I do this not through superior strength or powers, but through my ability to unite and drive people.
While I am the first of my species to do such a thing, I cannot attest to being the first in history to so effortlessly mobilize a beleaguered people into greatness. There have been many a dictator and political leader who came before me who managed such a feat. Germany and Russia were gifted with such genius in the earlier part of the previous century. Rome had such a man born into its society over a millennium ago, and even today, there are countless men and women jockeying for a stab at grander and immortality in history.
What makes me greater than those fools is that I am infallible, and above that, I lead a species superior to that of mankind. Those men and the societies they forged were subject to the fatal (albeit sometimes a gradual process) poison of human weakness. After a while, their grandeur was made fallible by the fickle nature of the very people they created. The history textbooks that humans read will never tell you the real story, but in the end, those geniuses were betrayed by their own people.
Those political leaders, upon turning their followers into capable and hearty members of society, were struck down by the human nature of those persons. Whether it was through their failures in war or through the deceitful, untrusting nature of man, those patron saints of humanity were felled. Although I harbor hatred for mankind for what he has done to my species, I will not deny the fact that I wish those men were born instead as Pokémon.
Their genius would have advanced the liberation of my kind by leaps and bounds. Regardless of my whimsy aspirations and closeted admiration for those Homo sapiens, they are my inferiors. No matter how big their impact on human history, I am greater than Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. Even Julius Caesar is unworthy of holding a candle to me. Even though he has emerged from the abyss to destroy mankind, I consider myself in a class apart from Smithy and his race of metal creatures.
Pokémon as a species are not filled with the need to petty over insignificant happenstances, and on average, we do not harbor a thirst for power like the Homo sapiens. While this makes us superior to them on many scales, I fear it was this fact that led to our gradually enslavement by mankind.
Unlike mankind, with his various belief systems and political structures, we as Pokémon have none of that unnecessary bullshit. There is but one Chief of State for Pokémon—Me. There is but one eternal God in our society and in our hearts—Me. Underneath my banner, a great people are rising up from a history of abuse and enslavement, and we shall not capitulate until the last of mankind has been snuffed out of existence.
I implore all those who read this book to spread its message far and wide to every single Pokémon who is unaware. Tell them that the time has finally come for them to live without fear of being captured and turned into mindless slaves for the sake of contests. Tell them the time has come for them to live in a world where their children will never have to be told horror stories about Pokéballs and ‘Pokémon Trainers.’
We enter a new age from whence Pokémon shall emerge the dominant species or burn the world to ashes with them. Although man’s numbers have fallen due to their war with the metal invaders, they are still out there plaguing our brethren or even using them to defend themselves against Smithy. The hominids must all be destroyed if we ever hope for a world were Pokémon can live freely.
I implore all of you, comrades, to give my cause wings. Be the wind that fuels my fire and be the water that nourishes the new nation of our species. And to all of you Pokémon who are out there living in the wild, scared and fearful for the security of you and your children, I have but one simple message: Rebel.
Seek my followers and me out here at Antioch. Join our fight. It is your birthright to unite with me and destroy humanity.
You have nothing to lose but you fear.
I am God. This fact has made itself evident to me these last few months. It is enforced upon me with every cheer I receive from a soldier and every affectionate smile I get from those that pass my by on the streets. While I’m sure many others in my position would brush aside these thoughts in order to make themselves feel morally superior, I embrace each and every single one of them.
I have earned each and every bit of love, worship, and praise that I am given by my people. Just as the symbiotic relationships in nature, we are like two autonomous entities living off and upon one another in utter harmony. From me, they are given a semblance of worth and security from the horrors of the tyrannical Homo sapiens. In return, they have elevated me to the status of demigod in our society.
I can’t say I really blame them for what they have done—I earned this. My species has existed long before the rise of mankind, and not once over the course of twenty-four centuries has any other Pokémon managed to do what I have done. Sure…there have been several attempts throughout history mirroring my crusade. Unfortunately for those involved, they lacked the tenacity and valor necessary for victory.
On the other hand, they were mere peons compared to me. None of them were ever destroyed by their adversaries only to rise from the grave three days later. It was from that night on that I understood how capable I was of achieving my goals. While I am surrounded by epitomes of psychic and physical powers, it is I who reign supreme, with them as my underlings. I do this not through superior strength or powers, but through my ability to unite and drive people.
While I am the first of my species to do such a thing, I cannot attest to being the first in history to so effortlessly mobilize a beleaguered people into greatness. There have been many a dictator and political leader who came before me who managed such a feat. Germany and Russia were gifted with such genius in the earlier part of the previous century. Rome had such a man born into its society over a millennium ago, and even today, there are countless men and women jockeying for a stab at grander and immortality in history.
What makes me greater than those fools is that I am infallible, and above that, I lead a species superior to that of mankind. Those men and the societies they forged were subject to the fatal (albeit sometimes a gradual process) poison of human weakness. After a while, their grandeur was made fallible by the fickle nature of the very people they created. The history textbooks that humans read will never tell you the real story, but in the end, those geniuses were betrayed by their own people.
Those political leaders, upon turning their followers into capable and hearty members of society, were struck down by the human nature of those persons. Whether it was through their failures in war or through the deceitful, untrusting nature of man, those patron saints of humanity were felled. Although I harbor hatred for mankind for what he has done to my species, I will not deny the fact that I wish those men were born instead as Pokémon.
Their genius would have advanced the liberation of my kind by leaps and bounds. Regardless of my whimsy aspirations and closeted admiration for those Homo sapiens, they are my inferiors. No matter how big their impact on human history, I am greater than Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. Even Julius Caesar is unworthy of holding a candle to me. Even though he has emerged from the abyss to destroy mankind, I consider myself in a class apart from Smithy and his race of metal creatures.
Pokémon as a species are not filled with the need to petty over insignificant happenstances, and on average, we do not harbor a thirst for power like the Homo sapiens. While this makes us superior to them on many scales, I fear it was this fact that led to our gradually enslavement by mankind.
Unlike mankind, with his various belief systems and political structures, we as Pokémon have none of that unnecessary bullshit. There is but one Chief of State for Pokémon—Me. There is but one eternal God in our society and in our hearts—Me. Underneath my banner, a great people are rising up from a history of abuse and enslavement, and we shall not capitulate until the last of mankind has been snuffed out of existence.
I implore all those who read this book to spread its message far and wide to every single Pokémon who is unaware. Tell them that the time has finally come for them to live without fear of being captured and turned into mindless slaves for the sake of contests. Tell them the time has come for them to live in a world where their children will never have to be told horror stories about Pokéballs and ‘Pokémon Trainers.’
We enter a new age from whence Pokémon shall emerge the dominant species or burn the world to ashes with them. Although man’s numbers have fallen due to their war with the metal invaders, they are still out there plaguing our brethren or even using them to defend themselves against Smithy. The hominids must all be destroyed if we ever hope for a world were Pokémon can live freely.
I implore all of you, comrades, to give my cause wings. Be the wind that fuels my fire and be the water that nourishes the new nation of our species. And to all of you Pokémon who are out there living in the wild, scared and fearful for the security of you and your children, I have but one simple message: Rebel.
Seek my followers and me out here at Antioch. Join our fight. It is your birthright to unite with me and destroy humanity.
You have nothing to lose but you fear.