"SO… Why are we doing this again?"
"I can't stand seeing this boy fail over and over!" The dark entity growled at the pink ball of sunshine "Will you help me, Mew?"
"Oh! I will! But why are we doing this?"
Darkrai growled in barely repressed anger "Because the Mustard won't be winning any league soon!"
"Ow! But you have to trust the writers! Someday they will make him win one league! He even won the Orange-!"
"The Orange League doesn't count! It was filler!"
"What about the Battle Frontier?"
"A severely weakened Battle Frontier! Where was Spencer's Suicune!? What about Tucker's Latias and Anabelle's Entei!?"
"Well…"
"Thought so!"
"So what are we doing?"
"I was thinking about sending his strongest self to the point where he had the best chance at winning"
"Huh?"
"I'll send Kalos Ash to the Indigo League"
"Yay! Seems fun!" Mew looked at Darkrai and something clicked in her mind… hey she's smart! "How can you do that? You don't control time…"
"That's what you're here for" Darkrai admits solemnly
"Okay… but I can't control time…"
"But Celebi can"
"I know Celebi! He's one of my besties! My BFF"
"That's why I need you. Tell her to do it!" Darkrai tells her, exasperated by how difficult this was turning out to be "Hoopa and Meloetta will cover for you if Arceus asks"
"Yay! I'll do it!" With a pink flash, Mew was gone and Darkrai had to wonder 'Did I make a mistake…?'
Switch Up! A Tale of a Multi-Verse Ash Ketchum!
Chapter 01: Reunion of Mustards
"Hey you're me!"
Two human beings stare at each other in transfixion. To avoid unnecessary descriptions, we will call these Trainers Original Series Ash (OS-Ash) and Kalos-Ash.
"That's right! You look like when I started my journey!" Kalos-Ash exclaims as well. He seems to be taller than his younger counterpart which to fans might be strange as he's supposed to be ten, according to BW at least…
"I was in Johto! I just battled Gary in the league!" OS-Ash tells his older counterpart "I won!"
"Yeah I know!" Another voice calls out to them. It was another Ash, though this one looked to be in the middle in the height issue.
This is Sinnoh-Ash.
"Hey! You must be my Sinnoh counterpart!" Kalos-Ash says out loud.
"That's right! I'm surprised I'm taking all this as if it was no biggie!" Sinnoh-Ash mutters as he joins his counterparts "So what's up?"
"So I was going to fight in the finals when I appeared here" Kalos-Ash explains to his younger selves whom get starry eyed at him.
"You're in the finals!?" Three voices shout in surprise and awe. Taking account of the third voice interrupting their duet, both Sinnoh-Ash and OS-Ash turn to see Unova-Ash who seemed a bit more childish than Sinnoh-Ash.
"Oh you're from Unova!" Kalos-Ash says while a somber look overtook his face.
Unova-Ash sweat drops at that "That bad I did?"
"Wow! So many of me!" A youthful voice calls at them. They turn to see an Ash wearing a t-shirt and shorts, Alola-Ash "So good to see me!"
Sinnoh and Kalos Ash face palm themselves while OS-Ash struck his chin thoughtfully "It makes sense"
"So what's up!?" Alola-Ash asks himself "An Ash Ketchum reunion!?"
"From where are you from?" Sinnoh-Ash asks the more… moronic version of himself.
"Well after travelling through Kalos, My mother and I won a trip to Alola! I'm living there now! I'm going to Pokemon School!"
Even OS-Ash had his jaw slack open at hearing his very future self admitting to going to school. What is he supposed to be by then? Seventeen? Eighteen!?
That's when Hoenn-Ash joined then "What are you five!? Why would I go to school!?"
"Oi! School is great! I learn many things! I learned how to do Z-Moves and about Alolan forms! Bet you don't know that! I'm you so I know!"
Kalos-Ash smiles ruefully "Can't argue with that logic"
"So why are we here?" Hoenn-Ash asks the one million question.
"Because this idiot couldn't do what she was asked!"
All six Ash's turned to see Darkrai appearing from the ground. Besides him, stood Mew and Celebi.
"Welcome all of you" Darkrai starts but is interrupted by OS, Hoenn, Unova and Alola Ash who swoon over him, pointing their respective Pokedex at him.
Both Sinnoh and Kalos Ash had to sigh at the apparent idiocy of their past/future selves.
Mew steps up and mews at them.
The same happened once again, except Hoenn Ash who seems to know Mew at least. When Celebi steps up, only Unova and Alola Ash are left there.
It seems that OS and Hoenn burst of idiocy was merely ignorance.
"So why are we here?" Kalos-Ash, the most mature of the lot, asks in name of all of them "Why bring us here?"
"The answer is simple. I only wanted you" Darkrai confesses to Kalos-Ash "I wanted to pick you up from your timeline with the Pokemon you have and place you back in the Indigo League as to assure that you would have an absolute chance of winning the league"
"But… I'm in the finals! I can win" Kalos-Ash until he realizes what Darkrai implies "So Alain beat me?"
"That's right"
"Why not the rest of us!?" Unova-Ash asks the dark Pokemon "I bet that I would win against Cameron and win the league!"
Darkrai turns to look at him with a deadpan "You lose against that rookie who not only defeats a veteran trainer like you, but also does it with five Pokemon as he thinks a full battle is that, Five Vs Five"
Unova-Ash was frozen in shock at that and in shame he hangs his head "I'm such a failure…"
"That's bad! Considering you ended up in the semifinals in Sinnoh, your previous journey!" Both Hoenn and Sinnoh Ash stare in shock at Unova-Ash. That when Alola-Ash freezes in shock as well "Wait! He's me!?" Ash turns into a stone that slowly erodes into dust.
OS-Ash looks at this with an impassive expression "I'm not sure I wanna grow up"
Kalos-Ash nods along with him "I'm with you, buddy"
"So why are all of us here?" Sinnoh-Ash asks as he glares sideways to his older counterpart (Unova-Ash).
"Because Mew thought that, and I quote, 'If one Ash is good, six are better!'" All of this was said with Darkrai expressionless face which added to the weird atmosphere.
"So what now?" Alola-Ash asks as he reforms into his humanity.
"I was discussing this with Celebi here and he suggested and interesting idea, if not for our amusement" Darkrai tells the Six Mustards "The Legendries are tired of your losing over and over so we will send all of you to different timelines to compete against a challenge fit to your abilities"
"Huh?"
"What did he say?"
"Is he questioning my abilities?"
"Does he want a Pokemon battle?"
Darkrai sighs in exasperation before pushing OS-Ash back. OS-Ash fell through a portal and disappeared from the void they were in.
"Oi what's the deal!?"
"He was sent to participate in a league that he would do well" Darkrai tells the others as a screen appears for them to see "OS-Ash was sent to Unova where he will be battling Cameron. From all the leagues that you participated, that's the one he's better prepared. And if he loses, it would be somewhat justified"
All the Ash nod at that and turn to look at what the screen would show.
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Okay it might appear that it's not serious, but as you can imagine it is not. The battles will be serious, but otherwise it'll be crack.
I tried to maintain the personality of every Ash that we have been graced with.
As you may see, not many of them are serious.
Anyway this is a side project for my own amusement, so don't expect me to update as much as the other stories, which is not much.
This is something to take my mind away from every frustration I have. Also when I'm blocked about writing. I can't for the love of anything write anything about my current stories. I'm halfway through one of the epilogues of Eureka Seven Re Evolution. I have nada in the Silent Hill department and I'm trying to write something for the Digimon Savers Tu series.