Hey people, this is my third fic. I got the inspiration for this story, from the many "Ash dying and returning and parallels" stories found all over Fanfiction. But, here comes the twist, how about if Ash really died, and there was no hiding, no secrets, no aliases and no false identities etc (you know what I mean) .

So in this story, Ash is not gonna have a secret identity, which he is using to take down a criminal organization, but his friends, old, new and some unheard of, will be avenging him, sort of.

I don't own pokemon.

Serena with Pikachu over her shoulder and Noivern at her side, looked over to the wreckage of the headquarters in front of her. They had stopped Team Flare from using their ultimate weapons, Xerneas and Yveltal. She was ought to be happy, they had just saved the Kalos region, possibly the whole world.

"But at what cost?" Serena thought to herself.

Her happiness of saving the world had been completely overwhelmed by the loss of her friend's life. "Why did it have to be this way?" she cried out as she fell down on her knees, sobbing.

Flashback

"Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!" Ash commanded.

Pikachu let out the bolt of electricity at its opponent, the behemoth of a Gyarados, currently in its mega evolved form.

The final of pokemon of Lysandre, oddly a Water/Flying type, fell marking the end of Ash's battle with Team Flare's Boss, with Ash triumphing over Lysandre.

Lysandre recalled Gyarados back to its pokeball and Ash picked up Pikachu who too had collapsed on the battlefield due to exhaustion. Ash gave Pikachu to Serena, and then turned to face the leader of Team Flare.

"It's not over Ash. You may have won the battle, but you lost the war!" Lysandre declared.

Ash grit his teeth hearing this and yell back to him, "What do you mean?!"

Lysandre smirked and gave a sadistic grin to Ash, "The ultimate weapon is fully primed, it is going to use the complete power of the two legends of Kalos and fire inevitably!"

Ash's mouth opened slightly, his expression faltering.

"And I am not going to stop here! This facility has been set to self-destruct as soon as the weapon fires. So, choose farewell forever." Lysandre laughed sadistically as he teleported out using his technology.

Soon, alarms blared with red lights flashing all over Team Flare's headquarters, signalling the activation of the self-destruct protocol.

Ash was scared, but he couldn't let his expression falter. He turned back to face Serena, who was frightened than him. He said to her, "You need to get out of here. I need to save Xerneas and Yveltal."

Serena looked in his eyes with a pained expression, realizing that he wasn't going to come with her, no matter how much she pleaded him. It was inevitable, still she tried. "Ash come with me."

Ash exhaled and replied, "I can't. If I don't stop that machine, the world will cease to exist. I have to stop it."

He knew that Serena won't go without him so he called out one of his pokemon. "Noivern!" it said as Ash's faithful Flying/Dragon pokemon materialized before him.

"I am sorry Serena." Ash spoke to her, covered his ears and commanded Noivern reluctantly, "Use Screech!"

The Sound Wave pokemon executed the command hesitantly and let out a blood -curdling screech.

Serena collapsed from the intense noise and Noivern stopped. Ash shook his head to get himself out of his daze and picked up Serena.

"Noivern, I want you get Serena out of here. As far as you can and don't return at any cost."

"Vern!" Noivern said as it nodded. Ash put Serena over Noivern and made sure she wouldn't fall off.

"Go now!" Ash told his pokemon, who flew off as fast as it could to escape the impending doom.

"Weapon firing in T- minus 2 minutes" a robotic voice said.

"Now to stop that machine." Ash said as he proceeded towards the ultimate weapon. He approached the machine and began scouring for a way to stop it.

The machine had been modelled like a flower. Ironically this flower, was going to be the cause of destruction. At one side of it lay Xerneas, with a disc below its feet, preventing it from escaping. Yveltal had a similar contraption but Yveltal was on the other side of the machine.

Ash found the device sapping the life force of Xerneas and Yveltal. He couldn't find a civil way to stop it, so he brought out his Greninja and commanded his to attack it, "Hydro Pump."

Greninja let out a torrent of water and destroyed the device freeing Xerneas and Yveltal.

The device powered down as it was stripped of its sustenance, but Ash wasn't out of the woods yet.

Xerneas stood up and Yveltal hovered as the both of them looked at their saviour, and appeared to thank him.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6." the same robotic voice from before said.

Ash's smile disappeared as he realized that the self destruct wasn't linked to the weapon, the headquarters were going to blow up anyway.

Ash closed his eyes waiting from the incoming blast as he went through the memories of his life up until now.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1." the robotic voice said as it too, said its final words, "Self Destruct Initiated."

Serena and Pikachu had woken up and she was currently trying to convince Noivern to take her back to the facility, but the pokemon stayed adamant and was determined to follow the command that his master had given to him.

Suddenly the headquarters of Team Flare lit up in a blinding light and exploded with a deafening sound.

Serena looked on as she realized it was too late. "Pikapi." Pikachu also said softly, not noticing his master around him, realizing the situation.

Serena fell down on her knees and began sobbing in her hands.

Well how was it? How was it? I know its short, but it's like a pseudo-prologue. Ask any questions you have in the reviews and feel free to send a PM to me.

Anonymous Trainer,

Over and Out.