Friends, Traitors, and a New League
Chapter 1 – The Return
After a hard time in the Unova League, Ash Ketchum, a raven haired teenager (18) and his closest friend and partner Pikachu set foot in Vermillon City after getting off the ferry from Unova. "It's good to be back in Kanto, right buddy?" Ash asked the yellow mouse Pokémon who as always way on Ash's shoulder.
"Pi, Pikachu," was the answer Ash received from Pikachu who was smiling, clearly happy to be home. As Ash and Pikachu made their way into the City it started to get dark so they decided to rent a room in the Pokémon Centre for the night.
The next morning Ash and Pikachu woke up and went to collect the Pokémon Ash had dropped off to be healed overnight, but Nurse Joy also gave Ash something else.
"Ash, a parcel arrived by Peliper mail for you half an hour ago." Nurse Joy said as she gave Ash his Pokémon and the parcel.
"Thanks Nurse Joy." Ash said as he walked away.
"We hope to see you again." She said whilst waving.
Outside of the Pokémon Centre Ash opened the parcel to find that it contained a PokeNav and a note, the note said "Ash, as soon as you read this, call this number 07451 681234 (A/N this is not my number) it is urgent, if I call you Serena when I pick up, then be quiet when I speak until I say otherwise. Brock"
"So buddy, why do you think Brock sent us this?" Ash asked Pikachu.
"Pika?" Pikachu said with a shrug clearly showing that he was as confused as Ash was.
Pallet Town
"Where is he?" A boy in his early teens (13) whined.
"Max stop whining, he'll be here soon." Max's older sister May (16) said.
"Yeah, then we can tell him to grow up and do something with his life," Misty (18) said, "He needs to give up on his dream, that's the 5th league that he has lost."
Brock looked around the room, all of those who have travelled with Ash at some point were there, rivals too, the only people that were missing from the crowd in the Ketchum living room were Gary Oak, Professor Oak, Tracey Sketchit and Paul Shinji, Ash's friends from Unova were there as well, Iris Draig (A/N Draig is Dragon in Welsh) and Cilan Dent, Trip Jarouda (A/N his surname is Serperior in Japanese), this may look like a friendly welcome home party to passer byes, but they were all here to tell Ash to give up on his dream.
"Bring, Bring." Brocks PokeNav was going off he looked at the caller I.D. and saw that it was Ash "Hey Serena, what's up?" Brock answered using the name that he told Ash that meant be quiet till I say.
"Who's Serena?" Misty asked Brock, everyone had suddenly become interested in Brocks conversation.
"My girlfriend," Brock replied and everyone was shocked that Brock was actually able to get a girlfriend, Brock almost felt bad for lying to them, almost, "I'm going up stairs for some privacy whilst I make this call." After saying that he went up to Ash's room. Once he had closed the door, the real conversation between Ash and Brock began, "Right, Ash, first, welcome home, secondly I have bad news."
"Bad news?" Ash asked, "What do you mean bad news, Pikachu was concerned about Ash at this point.
"All of our friends are here at your house apart from Gary Prof Oak, Tracey and Paul, I think your friends and rival from Unova are here as well."
"What's so bad about that?" Ash asked, not expecting Brocks answer.
"Ash this is not going to be easy for you to take," Brock begun, Ash felt his blood chill at that point, "But they all want you to … to give up on your dream." These words were like daggers piercing the skin to Ash, they hurt him so much, Pikachu was starting to let off electricity "Let me at them, I'll thunderbolt them all so hard that even Team Rocket would be impressed." Ash was too shell shocked to realise that he could understand Pikachu, Ash was getting angrier and angrier, releasing two unknown energies from inside of him, two powerful Pokémon noticed this sudden energy surge, one noticed the Psychic energy, the other noticed the aura energy, both Pokémon realised where the energy had come from and they both started to make their way to Ash.
It was at this point that Ash snapped out of his trance like state, and he asked Brock to do something for him, "Brock, pack up my clothes in a bag and anything else important from my room, then drop it off outside Professor Oak's Lab, I will take it and all my Pokémon and go."
"Ash two things, one I am not letting you go on your own," Ash smiled at Brocks words saying that he was not alone, "Two, where are we going and what are we going to do?"
"We are going to train, we are going to train in Mt Silver and we will make a new Pokémon League inside of Mt Silver, and we will be unstoppable," Ash told Brock, "Go home, grab what you need and meet me at the base of Mt Silver." After saying that to Brock he hanged up. On Ash's shoulder Pikachu was going livid, sparks were going everywhere, but it did not phase Ash one bit.
"I'm gonna tear them all apart, limb from limb, then I'm gonna thunderbolt each limb, then I'm gonna feed the remains to a group of pissed off Gyarados." Ash didn't care about the fact that he could understand Pikachu, or the fact that he was having some extreme fantasy's about what he was going to do to their 'friends'.
Ash didn't realise that there was a sudden flash of light and that Mewtwo and Lucario appeared in front of Ash. "Ash, what happened," Mewtwo asked telepathically, "I felt a strong surge of Psychic energy come from you."
"I also felt a strong surge of Aura energy coming from you Ash," the Lucario said, "Don't you recognise me? It's the Riolu you saved from Hunter J." If Ash heared the Genetic and the Aura Pokemon then he didn't show it, this lead to Mewtwo and Lucario using their respective powers to find out what was wrong with Ash. They felt his rage, they felt his betrayal, they felt his sadness, but most of all, they felt his desire and determination to prove them all wrong.
"Ash," Mewtwo spoke once again, "You need to let us join you." Finally Ash looked up at the two Pokemon, Pikachu was still having his rage quit on Ash's shoulder.
"These events have corrupted your mind with the new powers," Lucario continued from Mewtwo, "We can help you control them and help you get stronger in the process."
"Are you sure that you want to come with me," Ash asked, finally starting to calm down, "Mt Sliver is not the safest place."
"We will follow you anywhere." The two Pokemon replied.
"Then we need to go to Pallet to get the rest of my Pokemon."
From this moment in time, Ash along with Mewtwo and Lucario in his team, travelled to Pallet town, grabbed the bag Brock had left for Ash, explained the situation to Prof Oak, Gary and Tracey, as Gary and Tracey got all of Ash's Pokemon for him Prof Oak gave Ash a new device, "This is a PokeBand, it goes around your arm and only you can use it, it acts as a watch, Pokemon storage device, a Pokedex, a phone, it allows you to carry as many Pokemon as you want and …. You can listen to music on it."
Once Ash was given all of his Pokemon, he said good bye to the 3 researchers, left Pallet Town behind and waited for Brock at the base of Mt Silver.
The new adventure
Had just begun.