This is the sequel to my last story, The Love of a Mad Father

Prologue

I decided to go back into town that morning and take a flight into the Hoenn Region. I would live there since my girlfriend was from that area and planned to return soon. May was going to come to my school after she finished up her journey in the Sinnoh region. The flight was terrible. First, I met Gary who was being a complete jerk and saying how he was so rich and didn't need to journey out like I did anymore to be famous. Then, it turned out we were on the same flight to Hoenn and he had first class while I was stuck in coach. He was in the back first class row and I was in the first row of coach. He kept calling out to me the whole time how great first class was. He said how happy he was that he wasn't stuck between a couple fat, snoring people and had all of those other perks of first class. Even worse, he came back while the stewardess was gone and purposely made the small kid behind me cry and start kicking my chair. I gave him one of those stink eyes and he just laughed like a madman holding his chest. He walked back just before a stewardess came out and served them food. I got stuck with peanuts and water that I couldn't even open until we were landing in Hoenn.

When I got off at Rustboro city, I decided to just walk over to Petalburg city like the good old times. As I started through the woods, it seemed that a lot of the Pokémon actually remembered me and started to talk with Pikachu and I. Some of the Treecko even thanked me for trying to help save the tree and for saving them all. It nearly took me the rest of the day, 6 hours, to reach Petalburg and take refuge in the Pokémon center from the storm rain that started rolling in. I decided to sleep there for the night and would head over to the gym in the morning.

OOOOO

The next morning, I got up and waked towards the gym and the Maple's residence. I knocked on the door, waiting for her father to answer the door. He halfway looked in shock. I guess May still hadn't told him that I planned to bed there. I started the conversation with, "Excuse me Mr. Maple, but your daughter May informed me that I could stay with you guys while I attended the nearby school."

"Oh yeah, I was just expecting you to have come by later. I had almost forgotten and thought you were some kid wanting to challenge me to a gym battle."

"No, those days are pretty much over for now. I plan to attend the school that was a few blocks away from your house."

"I would love to have you stay here. You will just have to sleep in Max's room though."

"I'm just fine with that." Like that, he showed me to Max's old room. It was full of little models of Pokémon and had tons of posters and research papers. The walls were a deep green and the color scheme was no different. His father came and cleaned out his dresser and made room for my accommodations. I fixed up the room a little and got settled in the room. I started to just stare at the ceiling for a while. I got up a few minutes later and walked back outside and went to the school a few blocks away. School didn't start for a week, but I wanted to be sure that I was ready. The schoolmaster was standing outside. He was notorious for allowing anyone who could beat him in a battle, or in a bet, to join the school. I didn't have very much cash but put up a wager. My job was to find three students that were already enrolled and beat them in a 1vs. 1 battle.

I went to the park, and found one kid. He had green hair and was claiming that he was a master cook and Pokémon food expert I guess. He said something annoying and fancy. His name was Cilan or something like that. I just challenged him and saw he had a water type monkey Pokémon. I used Pikachu and simply used thunderbolt when he used water gun and zapped the shit out of his monkey. It fainted and I walked away $20 bucks richer and one challenge down.

The next was a black girl with a lot of purple hair. She was so ugly; a Muk wouldn't have even thought her pretty. I saw her coming out from a clothes shop with another girl that I correctly guessed was also a student at the school. Her name was well… I can't remember her name. She called out something called an Axew that appeared to be dragon type. It looked like a green turtle without the shell, a horn on its head, and tusks like an elephant. She started with simple dragon type moves like dragon claw and dragon breath. Her Pokémon was inexperienced and a complete noob. I destroyed it by dodging the claw and zapping it from above and when it looked up with dragon breath, I used iron tail and hit its face so hard that I probably broke its nose. She gave me $35 and proof that I beat her.

The last challenge was against this odd blue haired girl. She wore a short black and pink skirt, and pink boots. She looked so stupid looking like that, that I almost laughed out loud. She said that her name was Dawn. She called out a brown and yellow rabbit called Buneary. It froze up Pikachu's tail with ice beam so that I couldn't use iron tail. Then, it started using dizzy punch when Pikachu twirled its tail around and Buneary punched his tail. That broke the ice and he instantly used thunderbolt and knocked Buneary to the floor. She gave me $50 and proof that I beat her.

I took that back to the schoolmaster, who paid me another $105 dollars, my schedule, a list of supplies, and a proof of attendance. I asked for a second, but he said, "Only if you can beat me, or you can take an even more difficult bet." I didn't have time for him and decided to take care of that tomorrow. I went to the local store and spent $30 on school supplies and got my schedule ready. I returned home for a delicious meal of ramen noodles and toasted sandwiches. I ate enough to make up for the missing Max and May.

"Mr. Maple, when will May and Max return?"

"They called this afternoon and said that they would be back tomorrow."

"Thanks," I said as I walked off upstairs and went to sleep. As I was sleeping, I had a dream.

It wasn't anything like the last one, but it was still a little shocking. May, Aya, Max, and I were all standing around this glowing rock. We were in a cave like system of tunnels. A skylight was above the rock and would have let light in, except it was nighttime. It glowed bright colors to reveal the shadow of something that reminded me of a Pokémon that I had once seen. It was frozen in a fetal position like it was cold. We stood around it, frozen both in fear and also in anticipation. A shiver crawled down my spine because the apparition called out to me, "You… The boy of many fates… who has brought great fortune upon the land with your ability to fit in and fulfill prophecies… shall meet… your final fate. Your final fate is one of great fortune for me, but of great despair for you and all people of all nations. Your fate that has brought you so far… will also be the destruction of you and your world. Ash Ketchum! You… are the boy… that shall bring about not an apocalypse… but a Poképocalypse!"

"Why would I do something like that for you?" I asked.

"It is not your option foolish child, fate has chosen you, just like it has several times before, I did it once again. This is out of your or my power, boy."

"No, I can stop this!"

"Fate isn't a choice, no matter what you do to change the future, you will just be doing as fate planned and the end result will be the same. I will show you the future in store for you." A bright flash of light shone in my eyes and then dimmed away. When my eyes adjusted, I saw a giant temple in a shape like the famous temples in Mexico that the Mayans or Aztecs constructed. It had a ring that formed a circle and a second half ring going down from the main ring. It appeared to have once held something like the rock that I just saw. It rested in place of Petalburg City. The city was crushed and most of the forest was leveled. For miles around, smoke rose into the red sky. The bodies of the dead, both human and very few Pokémon, surrounded the temple in a flank like position, like they had tried to fight whatever killed them all. The few surviving humans and Pokémon were all on their knees on the temple grounds. He saw all of his friends, even the blue-haired girl, bowing to the five Pokémon standing on the top that now ruled the world. That was when he realized that the one standing above the rest at the top of the temple wasn't a Pokémon… It was… I. I was devastated seeing that I could and would single handedly destroyed the entire human race and would one day rule it.

"No, no, no, no, no, no… No!" I screamed out as I woke up with the sunlight shining in my eyes. Morning already? It felt like I had only slept for thirty minutes. I stumbled out of bed and put clothes on. I went downstairs to be met with four smiling faces. Max and May were back. I was so excited that I ran up and kissed her on the lips. "Hey guys, where's Aya?"

"She's outside, with a gift for you." Max said.

I went out there only to be met with Aya who had a box in her hands. She gave it to me and told me to open it. I did and found a beautiful dream catcher that had red strings with a deep red ruby hanging from it. The redness of the jewel and strings, it was the same color as the sky from my dream! I took it out reluctantly and hung it up in the room I was in. It looked absolutely gorgeous. I then told May that high school was less than a week away and we should get her enrolled. We walked for several blocks talking about the events from less than a week ago. The hell that consumed our lives and had actually ended Team Rockets was a cold, chilly reminder of how short life is and how you have to enjoy the small things.

"I wonder if we will ever hear or see any more of Team Rocket." May asked as we went down the street.

"I don't know but I had a really creepy dream."

"You already told me about the dream where-"

"No! This one was different. It was one of those premonition dream, you know like the ones that tell you the future?"

"Yeah,"

"Well that dream catcher Aya gave me, the strings and jewels were the same shade as the burning sky that came from the apocalypse. It told me it was a Pokepocalypse and I was the cause of it. That dream catcher could be the beginning."

"Think about it Ash, several things are that shade of red. Even the red that makes up McDonalds is that shade." That never occurred to me. I was probably just over reacting. We came up to the school and took another bet. He saw how good I was and the new bet was for me to beat the same three that I did except using Pokémon that were weak to their choice. I found them all coming out from a movie and we did something like a triple battle with two from me and one from her. We destroyed them quickly enough by choosing what was weak to one, but strong on the others. We went back and got her list, schedule, etc. Then we got supplies and got our books for our classes. Then I looked in the World History book that I picked up and looked up the ancient civilizations from the ancient Johto region.