This story has pearl shipping…well I guess its pearl shipping since they have a future together but whatever. Anyway Hareta from Diamond and pearl adventures and Lucas from the Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum will be their future kids.

Chapter 1

Delayed Pokémon adventure or the beginning of a better journey?

Flames engulfed the guild like area. Smoke and blazing heat covered the building and no light from the outside was visible. Ash looked around to see nothing but the charred bodies of innocent Pokémon and piles of damaged machinery that blocked the way where he came in "Hareta! Hareta where are you?!" He shouted through the smoke, he collapsed to the ground and started to choke on the smoke as the air was eaten away by the fire. A rope swung down and started to dangle in front of his face "Ash! We've gotta get out of here!"

Ash grabbed hold of the rope and climbed to the top of a tall structure that kept them safe from the smoke and fire "where's Dawn and Brock?" He asked

"They've already made it out of here, C'mon we've gotta go!" Hareta said as he pulled Ash up and urged him to go on

Ash gave a nod and they both began to make their way out of the unknown base. The structure they were on became consumed by flames and they were surrounded "crap, what now?" Ash asked

"Ughh! If only I had a Pokémon with me!" Hareta said

It seemed like the end for the two of them. A large piece of machinery collapsed and fell towards the two "look out!" Ash said as he pushed Hareta out of the way, the large machine crashed on top of Ash's body making him cough out a large amount of blood

Hareta stared wide eyed as Ash began to bleed out. He fell to his knees and shook Ash violently "Ash! Ash! Please don't die! We're almost there! Everything can go back to normal!" Hareta got no response from Ash as more blood covered the floor and his clothing. Hareta stared wide eyed at his hands as they began to crystallize and turn to sparkling dust "No!...No!" He shouted as his body started to crystallize into transparent quarts-like crystals "I-I guess this really is the end..." He started to tear up as his upper body began to crystallize "Mama...Papa...Brother...if you're out there...I love you and I'm sorry I lost...I was never fit to hold the pokedex and travel in my father and big brother's footsteps..." His face started to crystallize "I wasn't meant to be a Ketch-" he was cut off as he completely turned to crystal and burst into glittering dust.

"Whhaaaa!" He shouted as he shot up from his bed

"Hareta, wake your brother up and come down for breakfast" a voice shouted from downstairs

He let out a sigh "Just a second mom!" He shouted back. He dashed out of his room and headed for the bathroom, in less than 10 minutes he had his teeth brushed, body washed and fully dressed. He dashed down the stairs being careful not to trip and made a graceful landing down and to the kitchen "dontchya remember mom? Today's the day I start my Pokémon journey!"

An older Dawn in her 30s greeted him with a warm smile "Sorry deer but that's not for another couple of days" she bent down and gave him a kiss on the cheek "Anyway go back upstairs and wake your brother, I've made breakfast for the both of you"

"Fine" he said as he walked slowly upstairs to get his brother. He opened the door to see a 15 year old Lucas sprawled out on his bed fast asleep. He threw a pen from the floor at him "Yo Lucas, Mom prepared breakfast for us. Get up"

Hareta couldn't help but stare with amazement at the many badges framed in glass that decorated the shelves and walls of his older brother's bedroom "Are you in one of your zones again?"

Hareta was jolted out of his daze and focused back on Lucas "In 5 days I'll get my first Pokémon and Dad is gonna take a break from his job to see everyone again" he said still halfway in his daze again

Lucas sat up from his bed and took something from a top shelf. He dusted it off and tossed it to Hareta "Here, you can have it"

He stared with wonder at the hat "Y-your giving me your hat? But mom gave it to you when you started your journey...I can't take it from you"

Lucas finished dressing and exited his room "I'm too old for that hat now, you can have it to keep"

Time skip

"Mom, I'm going out for a while!" Hareta shouted

"Ok sweetie! Stay safe" Dawn shouted back

He closed to door behind him, locked it and headed towards the local forest a couple of blocks from his hometown. Since his friends all had school work to finish up from while he did his a week before he decided to go alone for a change and just hang out with the wild Pokémon.

As soon as he stepped into the bright, vibrant forest he was at peace. The sun shined through the tall trees and filled the forest with sunlight. The occasional bug or grass type Pokémon scurried across the forest floor and made him think about how great and exciting his adventure would be and how many new Pokémon he'd see.

The crunching of the twigs against his shoes were the only things that broke the peaceful silence of the forest but that silence soon became strange as no Pokémon could be seen, not even the wind blew...it was just silent. Hareta looked around the quiet landscape and felt a strong urge to leave but couldn't find the path back. He felt betrayed by the fact that he'd been in the forest so many times just to end up being tricked like a fly caught by a spider, like the forest was just luring him in it.

An eerie humming was heard throughout the forest, breaking the silence of the forest. It became louder and louder, out from the dense shrubbery came two people 1 male and 1 female with green and black uniforms riding on strange UFO like objects that were known to everyone at that point in time as Z.Z Flyers.

"Let's get that brat quickly!" The female said

Hareta dashed from tree to tree, his footsteps against the ground were loud and attracted attention. He had no time to be careful since his attackers were dead on his trail. Bright, flashing, red beams of light were shot at him from a metal device covering their hand and wrist area. Whenever the beams touched something the object was ensnared, Hareta made a mental note to definitely not get caught.

"Don't let him get away! If he uses Connect the boss will have our heads!" The male said as they fired more beams at him

More adrenaline pumped through his body as he passed through the wildlife like an untamed deer "What's this Connect they're talking about?!" As soon as he said Connect his body turned a bright blue, his body began to lift of the ground like a jet and his body began to fade away "Wh-what the hell is happening to me?!" He questioned

A large sphere appeared in front of him, it started to flatten into a disk shaped portal, he stared into the portal "What is that?" It acted like a vacuum as it began to suck him inside. He flailed his body around trying not to get eaten by the mysterious object.

"Crap!" He said as he was almost completely eaten by the portal, he took his last breath as his head was being sucked in and he was gone in almost an instant and so was the portal

The sun was just beginning to rise, Pokémon and people alike started to awake but the three people and their Pokémon are still sleeping in other than Brock who was bright and early as always.

Brock stretched out his arms and started to prepare breakfast "Ash, Dawn wake up" he said as he took out some ingredients
Ash groaned as he stepped out of his tent with his Pikachu on his shoulder "Dawn get up" Ash said

"Don't you dare come in here, Ash! I'm doing my hair"

"Does it really matter? We don't care how your hair looks" he was cut off

"You're a boy and you wouldn't understand!" Dawn shouted

Brock scratched his head in irritation "How about you and Pikachu go find some pecha berries, I saw a tree full of them on the way here"

"Okay, let's go Pikachu" Pikachu complied and hopped on Ash's shoulder. Ash looked left and right as he walked out of the forest clearing they slept in and headed out for Pecha berries

Time skip

Ash climbed the large tree while Pikachu stayed on the ground "Ah finally! I'm so stoked to try Brock's pecha berry pancakes again!"

A strong wind picked up making Ash grip the tree and almost blowing Pikachu away. a bright blue ball of light shined and levitated around the forest floor. Ash steadily climbed down the tree and approached the sphere with caution. He poked the object "What is it?" He asked himself

He soon found out as the sphere materialized into Hareta. He fell on the hard ground "H-help me" he said before blacking out

Review please, I wanna know what I need to work on.

Bye!