"And trainer ashketchumfrompallettown loses again," the announcer loudly said. "The winner proceeding to the 128's is Micheal Peterson! But did the other trainer even try? I mean, Micheal beat his entire team with one pokemon. And hasn't he been doing this for literal decades? And how is he still ten? Anyways, any words, Micheal?"
"Subscrib 2 mi utub chanl plz it nam micheal_p ecks dee," Micheal said. "I pley a lot f inaproprit gamz on robbolx n I repport them ecks dee!"
Micheal may have been victorious and ecstatic (I think), but Ash was purely devastated. This was his 7th time losing the tournament on his quest to become a master. How could his groundbreaking setup of two rattatas, a magikarp, his unevolved pikachu, and all three unevolved starters from that region fail? He even had seven pokemon because he loved all of them, and could slip past security because his pikachu didn't have a pokeball and could disguise as a human. All of those team rocket encounters must have been teaching them something.
"How about you, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town?" the announcer asked. "Any concluding words about your defeat?"
"Oh well," he said. "You win some, you lose some," and just like that, all feelings of devastation and sadness have vanished. Having his dreams being crushed in front of his eyes seven times was just not the type of thing that could affect Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, along with aging. And stupid disguises.
Ash, blissfully ignorant about everything, proceeded to exit the stadium, pikachu on his shoulder, all the way home. He didn't care that Kanto was away, overseas, from the island of DavidbowieIcouldn'thinkofanameDavidbowie. He didn't get on a boat or plane because he couldn't afford it. He got pocket change from getting 256th place in the tournament, so he decided to do it the old fashioned way.
He quickly noticed a beach; the perfect place to use surf to get all the way to Pallet. He knew that he didn't have to think about anything because anime logic would keep him alive and out of danger.
He quickly took a gander at the beach first, and realized he knew everyone there. Throughout his decades of just travelling, he recognized all of those people. Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town might not be the sharpest tool in the shed or the best slave master, but his memory was pretty good thanks to dumb anime logic.
In fact, Ash Ketchum knew everyone on the planet, including the infants being born every second. He'd been travelling for that long. He thought it just easier to just ignore all the people he knew, which is why he never talks about anyone in his past travels.
He approached the shore, and threw a pokeball in the air. A blinding light took place, and a magikarp was now flopping on the ground, the same one that died to a dragonite in the tournament.
"Okay, magikarp, use surf," He said commandingly, and waited a few seconds. Absolutely nothing happened, unsurprisingly. As said before, he wasn't the sharpest calculator in the bucket.
"Do you not know anything about pokemon?" a random child asked Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town. "Magikarp can only learn a few moves, surf not included. And almost no pokemon learn surf by level up, not even gyarados. And even if magikarp knew surf, you wouldn't get very far because it's weaker than a lemon dipped in cocaine."
"NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!" Ash yelled, unable to take criticism from a younger point of view. "MAGIKARP KILL HIM AND SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW."
As said, magikarp used the move that many people don't know that magikarp can learn, the almighty, incredibly dangerous, elusive move known as plot convenience. This move is a lot like metronome in a way, but some unknown force chooses the best move to use in the situation, even if it is not a move and the pokemon using plot convenience cannot use it.
The move that plot convenience landed on was judgment for some reason. This unknown force must hate the child for some reason. Magikarp stuttered and said its name, following by a giant ball crashing down from the heavens and forming a head on collision with the random child.
The blinding attack emitted a light that blinded everything in a five mile radius of it. It slowly shrunk, eventually subsiding, revealing the effects of what happened to its victim. The boy that criticized Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town was now a pile of ash, and Ash Ketchum From Pallet Town's magikarp flopped happily about.
"If I'm so bad, how's it like being me?" Ash asked, a ridiculously stupid pun. "Anyone get it, eh?"
Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town was laughing uncontrollably and seemingly interminable, until Ash was crying from laughing. However, the people around him were far from laughing, but some were crying just like Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, but not for the same reason.
"You killed my son!" A large man said while barreling towards Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town and tackled him, following by putting his hands around his neck.
Unfortunately, Ash himself knows the pokemon move plot convenience, so the man barely stood a chance.
"Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town!" he yelled, saying his own name like a pokemon. What followed was him using hyper fire death on the man, a new move, which is a mixture of hell type moves and death type moves (wait this isn't wizard101). It dealt 10000000 damage to the man, severing his head clean off and sending him to hell, along with a few people standing behind him.
Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town dropped out of the man's arms and realized what he had to do. Even a pure dolt like him could figure out that he had to run far, far away.
"MAGIKARP USE SURF QUICKLY!" He hollered, before grabbing magikarp, placing him down in the water, and riding him like a surfboard. He didn't know what using surf meant.
Everyone on the beach could see Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town riding away using his new magikarp surfboard. Away he rode to...he really didn't know, Pallet Town, probably, and he used the microchip implanted in his brain that had all the information about all locations to ever exist.
tiem travl!1!
Ash Ketchum was now walking towards his hometown, after another loss at the league. However, he wasn't prepared for what was about to happen next, even though it happened a million times before in other incarnations of this same, bland, unoriginal plot.
He found his house's address, 8341, and knocked on the door. The moment he knocked, he heard at least thirty people gasp and frantic footsteps followed. He waited a moment for at least one of those people to let him in, and he waited a moment. And another. And he waited some more. Then his impatient preteen attitude kicked in and he let himself in. He pulled a football helmet from seemingly nowhere and jumped through the window, surprisingly startling no one.
He immediately looked to the door, which was riddled with dangerous traps. An axe was swinging, tripwires were poised, a gun was ready to shoot him, and thirty people he knew were each holding weapons at the door.
Utterly confused, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town decided to make his presence be known, since he was still incognito and no one noticed him yet, but before that, he took a closer look at those faces.
Those belonged to all of his previous travelling companions, every single one of them, including his mom, Gary, and the professor, and they seemed really angry at something.
Not wanting to miss out, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town searched for a weapon of his own, and the first thing he found was a fully loaded machine gun. How nice! They saved the best for him. They really did care about him. He grabbed it, and it was surprisingly light. He slowly stood behind the line of people at the door, and they finally decided to open the door.
"Alright, when I open the door, everyone fires their weapons and we hope we kill that failure," Ash's mom said. "He lost seven times in a row, and got 256th place in the tournament he was in last! How is that even possible?"
'Gee, that guy seems like a total failure who shouldn't live,' Ash thought. 'No wonder they're killing him. I'm glad I'm not that guy.'
A hand went up in the crowd, and it wasn't Ash.
"Why are we doing this again?" the hand owner said, which belonged to a female by the voice. "I just need to be reminded to make sure this is okay and justified."
"He has a dream, being a pokemon master, and has barely achieved it in the slightest," Ash's mom said. "His highest place in the league was second, and he barely cared that he failed to achieve his goal, even at the climax of his life. He just doesn't care. He doesn't even remember the people he travelled with. And to top it all of, he committed murder. He killed not one, but two people for no reason. By killing Max and Norman, he has made May depressed and commit suicide, and her mother had a stroke and is disabled currently. That person is the worst person ever, and I am ashamed to call Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town my son and offspring."
That's when Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town the dunce finally realized that described him. He then realized all the people who wanted to kill him were right in front of him, and he had a minigun ready to mow them all down. If you looked up convenient in a dictionary, it would describe this scene to you.
'But what about that person who hesitated to do that to me?' Ash thought, before shrugging. 'Oh well, you win some, you lose some.'
Ash felt both betrayed and livid, and he furiously pulled the trigger on the minigun and mowed down specifically all the people who were in unova, and since all people from unova have low iqs, they didn't figure out like the rest of the people to jump away and get cover.
Everyone was shocked by the suddenness of Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town's arrival, and were shocked once again by Pikachu's thunder. However, the daze they had didn't last very long. They soon regained consciousness and fired back at Ash. It was unfortunate and inconvenient that he ran out of all his ammo on the unova people.
Ash heard a chainsaw start up and footsteps charging at him. The dude from orange islands I forgot his name was the user of the chainsaw. He cut all around Ash, missing him because of dumb anime logic. Then he got the good idea to kick Ash in the balls. By kicking Ash's pokeballs off of his belt, Ash scrambled to grab them, and the dude had him pinned with a chainsaw at his face.
Ash threw his pokedex at him, distracting him for a little bit, and then Pikachu threw himself at the dude, using volt tackle. Countering that, the dude cut up Pikachu into quarters and then tackled Ash back to the ground again.
However, a bullet found its way in his head as Jessie, James, and Meowth from Team Rocket stood behind the fallen corpse of what's his face.
"We thought you might need help," Jessie said. "It's a law of Team Rocket to help out fellow criminals, and you obviously killed a lot of people just now and before this, at the beach."
"No it isn't, Jessie," James said. "We just wanted to help because we felt bad, remember? And when do we care about rules?"
"It. is. a. rule," Jessie said threateningly and James automatically shut up. "Anyways, Ash, need a ride?Because we've got you covered!"
'This is really convenient," Ash thought. 'It's almost as if I was never in danger in the first place.'
Team Rocket shot off a few distraction bullets at the attackers' side as they fled into the air balloon, leaving at a shockingly fast pace to who knows where.
"Where are we going now, or is this all just some plan to kidnap pikachu?" Ash asked.
"We're going to because I read somewhere that some guy went to for a decade, trained a lot, then came back to defeat the people who betrayed him in a world tournament," James said. "It was such a good read!"
"James is right," Jessie said. "There even is a world tournament coming up in a decade from now. What a coincidence!"
"Sounds like a plan, but I lost all my pokeballs containing all my pokemon, along with my pokedex during the attack against what's his face," Ash said, as even he couldn't be bothered to remember his name. "And Pikachu is now dead, so how will that happen?"
"I'll go with ya!" Meowth said. "I'd love to be your pokemon, because to be honest, being a criminal is kind of boring. The police don't even care about catching us either because we're so incompetent. And I would love to improve as a fighter, anyway."
"Sounds great!" Ash said. "What about you guys?"
"We haven't thought of not being a criminal before, but now that we've done something good for someone, we feel like we should ditch the lifestyle of petty theft and start becoming trainers ourselves," James said. "Jessie, however, wants to own a fashion company, which is perfectly fine."
tiem travl!1! (again)
They arrived at after a few hours, and Ash and Meowth got ready to depart for the dangerous mountain. They waved goodbye to Jessie and James as they went to fulfill their incomplete dreams which they never got to accomplish.
"Let's begin," Ash said in a determined voice. "During this decade long training session, we will learn how to learn moves which don't exist and which you wouldn't be able to learn normally. And a good start is not wearing anything and bearing through the frost of this mountain without any gear, which is pretty much impossible and we should die, but it's worth a shot, am I right?"
"Yeah!" Meowth yelled as they departed and started training for the World Championships in a decade. They didn't care that only a select few could enter. They would prove their worth and threaten to get in if they had to. Together, recruiting more pokemon along the way, they would be the champions of the world.
tiem travl!1! (okay i swear this is the last one)
A decade into the future, it was now world championship time. Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town stood dramatically on a cliff with Meowth on his shoulder.
"How long have we been standing dramatically?" Ash asked. "I'm starting to think they didn't invite me."
"That's because they couldn't find you, and if they did, they still wouldn't invite you because you're a criminal," Meowth said. "But they'd call the government and get you arrested and put me down at the pound. And we've been waiting for a whole day now."
"Fair enough," Ash said. He looked up at the sky for the first time in 24 hours. One could obviously tell he'd been through rough battles throughout the decade of training. A long, deep scar was cut across his face, probably from a dangerous beast. On his cheek, carved in with a knife, was an image of a pikachu drawn surprisingly well, in memory of Ash's pikachu who bravely died to save Ash's life.
"I guess we'll just have to get in the tournament by force," he said. "Do you want to kill someone and steal their identity, or make a new identity and break into the league's office and prove to them that we are worthy?"
"The latter," Meowth said. "We've done enough murdering for a lifetime, and there would generally be a lot of complications with that. The people of the Tiuni tribe know you pretty well, no one's ever heard of them, and you kinda look like them. They're also beasts at battling, but not as good as you. I say our backstory is from the tribe, and we grew up in that environment. As for the meowth part, there are a lot of meowths in this area, but mainly because I'm a ladies' man, if you catch what I mean."
"Let's go then," Ash said. "But first, let's make an identity."
Ash whipped out his Latin translator that he carries everywhere he goes. He punched in the letters A, s, and h, and "cinis" pulled up. But that was too conspicuous. He had to be a little more sneaky. He changed its spelling to Synnus, to give it more of an edge. But that was going to be his surname.
"I think it's only fair that you get to decide the first name for our new identity," Ash said to Meowth. "The last name is Synnus, by the way."
Just like Ash's Latin translator that he carries everywhere, Meowth had a dictionary of all edgy words in existence to name things on the spur of the moment. He flipped through a little bit, and found a word in no time. However, it wasn't a standard name, but an adjective.
"How's Apex sound?" Meowth asked. "It's got an edge to it, and I think Apex Synnus sounds pretty cool to me, and no one will suspect anything about you, and you don't even have to wear a hood because no one will recognize your changed face!"
"But wearing cloaks is cool," Ash said. "But I guess I will stand out like a sore thumb in a crowd of normal people. And I think we should go about now before it is too late."
Meanwhile…
"It is the tenth anniversary of the Massacre of Pallet Town. About twenty people died in the massacre, not including the pokemon who had died as well, by a gunman wielding a minigun, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, age ten at the time, who has still not been found to this day. Some say he vanished off to become a hermit, while others say he committed suicide after committing such a heinous act, since he was described as such an innocent boy. Some more evidence to support this is that his pikachu was mauled by a chainsaw by one of the gunman's victims in self defense before him dying.
It is also the same day gym leader Norman and his son were murdered, followed by his daughter committing suicide, and Norman's wife left depressed for the rest of her life. Like the Massacre of Pallet Town, this was also caused by the gunman Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, though witnesses say his magikarp incinerated Norman's son while Ash burnt his father's head off.
Allow us to have a moment of silence for the thirty people and pokemon who died on that fateful day, and let us hope we find Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town if he is still alive to this day. Be on the lookout for anyone suspicious wearing cloaks and or having really edgy names. This concludes channel 67 news. Stay tuned for tomorrow's news."
Serena shut off the television. It had been a decade, plenty of time for someone to recover, but she still regrets fully taking part in that day. She had loved Ash, and how did she let those people get to her and convince her that it was okay?
She was now the champion of Kalos, but it didn't really feel as good as it should right now. Maybe she could find him at the world tournament that was happening in Lumiose CIty, since it's almost a guarantee. She would be on the lookout for anyone with really edgy names and who were wearing cloaks.
She hated how the people who attempted to murder Ash, herself included, got away scot free and were successful. Everyone lived out their dream, and she wondered why fate hated her so.
Serena already had the idea of Ash going for the world tournament, and lazily pulled out her pokedex and checked who was on the event; the tournament was so important that everyone who owned a pokedex could see all the information, and could even watch it on their pokedex, free of charge.
The usual names were there, and there were usually sixty-three of them, and the league was waiting for the last person. It seems that the last person finally entered, and she wondered who it was. The usual names were there, the previous world champion, the regional champions, some select trainers, but among the select trainers, three caught her attention: Axel Black, Lorenzo Douglass, James Moriarty, and Apex Synnus. Every name was already there before the last name, though.
Axel Black sounded way too edgy, so that had a high possibility of being Ash. Lorenzo Douglass just sounds like a name someone made up on the spot, and sounds like someone who generally is very stupid. She remembered James Moriarty was a criminal mastermind from Sherlock Holmes, so that wasn't Ash either. Apex Synnus had the same chance of being Ash as Axel Black, but Serena was leaning more towards Axel Black, since his picture was wearing a cloak, and Apex Synnus was just wearing a shirt and pants.
Apex and Meowth had proved to the league officials that they were good for the tournament. In fact, they had blown them away once they saw that Apex could also do well in a pokemon battle by him being the pokemon.
They were now heading to the 64's matches. Each trainer had two chances to lose in the tournament before he or she was kicked out, but Apex and Meowth figured they didn't need it. The stadium was colossal in comparison to the regional stadiums which Ash had lost in so many times. But he wasn't Ash; he was Apex, the betrayed edgy god at animal cockfighting.
He stepped to the platform and instantly felt nostalgia sweep over him. He remembered fighting in the colosseum against Paul, and winning against him, showing that ev trainers are stupid as crap. But he still had respect for Paul, and he had seen his name on the list. He also wasn't one of the people who tried to kill him a decade ago.
He looked across the stadium and saw his opponent, who he couldn't identify because of the distance. The stadium was that big and far away. Meowth looked far and deduced who it was.
"Hey, it's that champion of the DavidbowieIcouldn'tthinkofanameDavidbowie cup tournament, Micheal P!" Meowth said. "Didn't he beat you in the 256's? If he did, I will beat him more than usual for ya."
"No need for that, Meowth," Apex said. "Show as little effort as possible to make him really mad. He's a large reason my life fell apart. Well, it's not really falling apart because I'm probably the best trainer in the world, and if it was any other trainer, those people would have the same reaction. Just fight normally. He doesn't deserve it."
Micheal started by sending out a dragonite, the same one that swept his entire team back when he was in his last regional tournament. Apex was going to have fun.
"GOOO DRAGINIT!" Micheal screeched. "Unc hiz pokmon iz awt uSE ISE BEEM!"
"Let's go, Meowth!" Apex said, just loud enough for the crowd to hear.
Dragonite started by using ice beam, just as Micheal said. The beam shot out, by Meowth effortlessly stepped away.
"Pfffft ny1 can dew tat UZ AL UR MOVS AT UNC UNTIL U HIT HIM," Micheal yelled really loudly for some reason.
Dragonite flew in the air and launched dragon rage, twister, ice beam, flamethrower, thunderbolt, thunder, hydro pump, dragon rush, aqua tail, and close combat all at once. This time, Meowth just teleported behind dragonite and froze it using ice beam.
The frozen dragonite now dropped to the ground hard, unable to get up. Micheal noticed this and automatically was raging.
"EUHHHH DRIGINIT WAEK UP!" Micheal yelled. "US FLAEMDROWR 2 MELT TE ISE!"
"FIght fire with fire and use Yellowstone!" Apex yelled. Pompeii was a very special move that Apex created himself along with Meowth. A homemade move, which can only mean power.
Meowth stuck his hand into the ground for about ten seconds, before pulling out and creating a giant hole about the size of 20 dragonites. But, like Yellowstone is a supervolcano which can probably end the United States in general, a volcano eruption basically happened in the arena.
The ground shook uncontrollably as magma pumped out of the hole, arcing directly on Micheal's dragonite. A few giant chunks of rocks also came out of the hole, also hitting dragonite. The stream of seemingly interminable scorching pain ended after a few minutes and dragonite was definitely fainted, but not dead. Meowth had controlled it so that just fainted dragonite.
"Now mend!" Apex said. This wasn't necessarily a healing move, but it closed up the giant hole like magic.
Meowth looked smug as he did a victory pose. He knew he had won, but the round was far from over. It's always a 6v6, except when it's doubles with other people.
"Meowth, take a step back!" Apex said. "Let's go, Weavile!"
Apex threw a pokeball and out came a weavile wearing a fedora for some reason. Apex looked to the crowd and shrugged, saying he didn't really know either.
"EHKHGHKHHHHHHHHHHHH ok den i jus hav 2 do mi stonmgest pkemon mewtoo!" Micheal P said. "If tis fail i kwit tornument 4ever hehehehehehehhehe."
Micheal threw a pokeball and out came a purple and white kangaroo which looked incredibly unhappy.
"MOOTOO MEGA EVOLV!" Micheal yelled. THe pokemon transformed into a smaller version of itself, but looked stupid this time.
"Weavile, use fury storm!" Apex yelled, but Weavile didn't move, as if it were waiting for something. Apex then sighed. "Xx_williamnoscope360pro2009_xX, use fury storm!"
Everyone in the crowd seemed really confused, but the weavile finally decided to do the move. It grabbed the rim of its hat and threw it at its target. The mewtwo effortlessly dodged the hat the first time, , but then Xx_williamnoscope360pro2009_xX got a smirk and made some strange hand movements. The hat went back and forth, left and right, in all new directions at high velocities and mewtwo had a difficult time dodging them all.
Weavile was now running at mewtwo as the hat was flying everywhere, and launched a few mock blows to make mewtwo dodge even more. Then mewtwo tried teleporting away, but the hat followed him in no time and was furiously forming a storm around him. Then Weavile simply stopped; he already new he won this round. Mewtwo looked confused, but then realized he was floating in the air, and the move was called fury storm. All of a sudden, the erratic hat movement formed a tornado around Mewtwo, leading it to be trapped.
Weavile knew he had mewtwo ready for fainting, so he retracted his hat from the storm, and then shot out an ice beam at the twister. For some reason, this ice beam had the ability to freeze wind itself and only froze the tornado. Weavile then jumped hugh in the air and brought down his foot on the frozen twister, hitting mewtwo pretty hard in the progress.
"And mewtwo is out of the game and fainted!" the announcer yelled. "This doesn't look good for Micheal so far!"
Micheal then screeched at 200 decibels, following by sending out..nothing. The crowd looked really confused, but then remembered that Micheal said he'll quit if his mewtwo lost the battle.
"U no wat i lev fite FRIQ TIS TORNUMENT!1!" Micheal screamed. "I go fin d mor inapiprit plase on robobolx."
Micheal then stormed off the arena, not caring about the second chances each trainer was given. He didn't like real pokemon battling anyway, he preferred roblox pokemon battles.
Apex was now victorious, and he had to not be edgy as everyone asked him for questions.
"What do you think about winning for the first time in an official league environment, Apex?" the announcer asked. "For those of you who do not know, Apex Synnus is a debut trainer who comes from the Tiuni tribe all the way in Mt. Silver. Prior to this day, we didn't even know that a tribe in existed."
"I guess it just feels like winning back in my hometown," Apex said. "I do know what else to say because winning always came kinda naturally to me."
"Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the second match of the 64's, and there is already a forfeit! There's an uneven number of people, so I guess we'll just have to get rid of the two lives system. This means that regional champion Lance is now out of the tournament, since he lost the last round."
Everyone looked to the Johto champion in the crowd, and he rightfully looked incredibly upset.
"How did I lose to a 10 year old with one gym badge, anyway…" he mumbled under his breath.
"The next matches will take place at 2:00 for the matches of Axel Black vs Unova Champion Alder, Lorenzo Douglass vs Irene Adler, Elite Four Bruno vs Dustin Stevens, and Gym Leader Misty vs James Moriarty. We have four regular trainers in the mix who are not a part of the league, so it may be of interest to catch those matches."
Apex Synnus' match with Micheal Peterson just took place, and Serena would have to say that he was in fact not Ash. Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town simply wasn't smart enough to not be edgy and take inspiration from all of those fics with the same, dumb, unoriginal plot. There was still a chance, though, because she noticed a small, detailed tattoo of sorts on his face that she couldn't tell what it was of. But still, he didn't look that happy beating up Micheal as Ash should have. Micheal was the guy that sent his life on a downward spiral by beating him in the 256's match. And it would be impossible for Ash to forget, because he knows everyone on the planet.
It was 2:45 now, and it was nearing time for Misty's match. She didn't really like the short-tempered gym leader because she was one of the people who suggested killing Ash in the first place. But she decided to go because there was always a chance of seeing Misty's face get pummeled into the ground, and James Moriarty was on the suspect list for Ash, and she figured she would see the Axel Black match through her pokedex in the arena in Misty's match.
She was now walking to the big arena, noticing a lot of things happening. Some kid was chasing around a pokemon that kept changing shape, perhaps a ditto, and it drew a lot of people to that scene. She guessed they didn't want to see the match that much. Some kids also went up to her for autographs, which she happily did.
In no time, she was already in the champions' box. Not that many people have defeated the champions in the past decade, so there were the same people in the box as before. The champions also got the best seats in the entire arena.
Misty looked pretty much the same as a decade ago and looked pretty confident about the match.
Moriarty looked oddly serious, and had purple hair; definitely not Ash He also had a suit and tie on- Ash would never do that either. She quickly scratched him off her list. But then she thought for a second. About a thirty year old man, lavender hair, wore a suit and tie..It was James from Team Rocket! The first names matched, and the criminal aspect of the name James took from Sherlock Holmes made sense. Now she wondered if Jessie also had a Sherlock Holmes style name. She was probably that Irene Adler lady.
Serena decided to not say anything, because James probably would change to be participating in a tournament, and he looked in it to win it this time.
"Go, Starmie!" Misty said. "Ice beam around the entire arena!"
"Arcanine come on out!" James said as he sent out the first pokemon on his belt, the basic pokeball and the pokeballs went fancier across his belt. Serena could guess that the fancier the pokeballs went, the stronger the pokemon was. Arcanine was probably his weakest.
'But why would he send out a fire type against a water type?' Serena thought. 'I thought he wanted to win, not lose horribly!'
"Starmie, use spinning hydro pump!" Misty yelled, and her pokemon did as she said. Her plan was to make the other pokemon slip on the ice beam, not being able to dodge the usually inaccurate hydro pump. It was a pretty good strategy if it were not for what was about to happen next.
"Hell's Fire!" James said. Like Apex, he also made up his own moves. It was probably powerful and would instantly faint Starmie as well.
James' arcanine shot a fire blast at the ground, and the flame beams ricocheted off in almost every direction. Starmie laid to the ground and dodged the flames, and Misty was confused on what James was doing.
"Is that really the cool, edgy sounding attack that you created yourself?" Misty taunted. "It was probably the easiest move to dodge in my entire career."
But that was not the move, and was merely a distraction for Arcanine to have enough time to pull off the move. It was still shooting fire at the ground, but soon stopped as it realized Misty's starmie was on the ice.
She then realized that her starmie was now vulnerable to whatever attack Arcanine would do, so she decided to do something about it.
"Starmie use scald and prevent Arcanine from attacking!" Misty said, causing James to smile. She wouldn't expect this next move.
All of a sudden, below Starmie, the ground started to rumble. Flames from underground erupted and caught Starmie in a giant fire geyser that extended of for miles in the sky. Now everyone understood where the name "Hell's Fire" came from.
After a few seconds of that, Misty's starmie was now roasted, fainted, and out of the game.
"Starmie is out!" the announcer yelled. "Misty, choose your next pokemon!"
Meanwhile in the champions' box, Serena saw this and decided to see Axel Black's match to see if he was Ash. The champions saw this and didn't really care. Many of them did the same thing a lot, and didn't really watch the matches unless a really strong pokemon was there, like Apex's.
In the pokedex, Serena could see Alder with his strange hair, with his volcarona out against Axel's darkrai. Legendary pokemon isn't that much of a surprise at league matches as they were a decade ago. Most legendary pokemon were caught by trainers at this point, so it really didn't shock anyone.
Serena watched as Axel's darkrai was surprisingly struggling against Alder's volcarona. The volcarona used bug buzz on darkrai, and it fainted. She could see Alder yawning very conspicuously on the arena.
"You know that legendary pokemon still have to be trained, same as other pokemon, right?" Alder asked, a rhetorical question. "Most of them aren't automatically good at battling."
Axel then looked extremely defeated, and Serena thought that it wasn't Ash at this point. For one, Ash wouldn't get defeated that easily after training for a decade at Mt. Silver, because that's not how those stories worked. For two, Ash didn't care about being defeated, and never did.
"Darkrai is out, and that is surprisingly Axel's one and only pokemon!" the announcer yelled. "I don't know either, ladies and gentlemen, why someone would bring only one pokemon to a world championship."
She closed her pokedex very quickly and unhesitantly. Ash always caught a lot of ordinary pokemon, and never legendaries. She scratched Axel Black off her list and went to the last two names. She still hasn't crossed off Apex Synnus, and Lorenzo Douglass was on there purely because it sounds like a name someone made up on the spot. She also noticed he also had a match right now, so she tuned into that one to see what he looked like.
On one end was a woman wearing a black bonnet and a black dress, with magenta hair, and on the other end was a boy about ten years old. He had black hair, just like Ash's, and he was also wearing a jacket and jeans like he normally would. The only thing missing was the hat that he really didn't have.
Serena was about to scratch the name off her list and declare Apex to be Ash, but then she realized Ash really didn't age, but that was only when there wasn't any plot convenience involved.
To further him being Ash, he also had a pikachu out up against Irene's aggron. Now that she thought of it, James from team rocket being James Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes, and the fact that Irene Adler was also from Sherlock Holmes, and she had magenta hair, just like Jessie. They still weren't very good at disguises, even after 10 years.
"Bob, use Super Typhoon Tip!" Lorenzo yelled.
"What does that mean?" the pikachu surprisingly asked back. "Oh, I mean Pikac Pika Chu?" The crowd didn't notice him speaking English.
"It means do the strongest electric type move you can do!" Lorenzo yelled back.
The pikachu sighed and discharged about 1,000,000 gigawatts of electricity into the sky, and a series of bolts of lightning struck down on the aggron, knocking down the giant from the match.
"Aggron is unable to fight!" the announcer declared. "Irene, send out your last pokemon!"
"Come on out Landorus!" Jessie yelled. "Use precipice blades and earthquake combination!"
Lorenzo chuckled, "Bob, shift into Articuno and use Sub-zero!"
The pikachu turned into an articuno, not surprising the crowd in the slightest for some reason, and the articuno now froze landorus, before crashing into it with extreme speed, effectively fainting it.
"And Landorus is out, making Irene Adler lose to Lorenzo Douglass, so the latter will be progressing to the 32's rounds!"
Serena closed her pokedex- she was genuinely confused. That pokemon was probably a ditto, or mew, or even Arceus. Those were the only pokemon who could shapeshift, and Ash definitely wouldn't have any of those pokemon. And Bob was probably the only pokemon Lorenzo had, so she scratched his name off the list, leaving only Apex Synnus to be Ash.
She finally figured out who Ash was. Now she would enjoy the match happening in front of her, if it's still going on.
"And Misty's Mega Gyarados is out!" the announcer said. "James Moriarty and his mega rayquaza win the battle! Any words, James?"
"No," James said, and the entire crowd looked at him strangely, as if he was supposed to say some words about his victory.
He then took the luxury ball off of his belt and got rayquaza back in its pokeball. What was astounding was that he still didn't use the master ball, which was still on his belt.
Team Rocket something something Team Rocket. They wanted to steal Apex's pokemon once they say how powerful they were.
Once they got to Apex's hotel room, they politely knocked on the door, and heard someone say that he's coming.
He started to open the door, just just a crack. Through that crack, he flipped off the team rocket goons and closed the door faster than you can say hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
"You guys can just go die, because I know you want to kill me," he said. "But how did you figure out who I was already? I thought I was pretty inconspicuous."
The team rocket goons were confused. He had them confused with someone else, so they decided to roll along with it.
"Yeah, it was incredibly obvious," one of them said. "How could it not be you?" Their language and the way they talked was very careful, because they couldn't mess this part up. They treaded very lightly in the waters.
"Why?" he asked. "I was gone for a decade and I'm only coming back now, and what are you gonna do now, tell the police about me and get me arrested for my crimes?"
For the team rocket goons, this was working out excellently. One was recording it all, another one was looking up people who meet that requirement, and the last one was the talker. The one who was finding information quietly mouthed "Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town" to the talker.
"I've got you figured out, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town!" the talker said. "And we won't arrest you. We wanted to say we were sorry for what we did." They didn't know what the people did, and if Ash was really in the wrong or right. They didn't care. Once the police would arrest him, they would slip by them and steal his pokemon, who were very powerful.
Ash sighed in relief. At least they realized what they did wrong and regret what they did. Now he could live happily.
The team rocket goons chuckled and snickered as they walked to the police station and showed them the recording and that he was Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, the wanted man with a 1,000,000,000 pokedollar on his head.
"Thanks for your effort, young men," the officer said. "Here's your billion dollars. Spend it wisely."
Those goons split the money, made their own businesses, and became the richest men in the world very soon in a matter of seconds.
Meanwhile, the cops busted into Apex's room. There were five cops in there, none of them officer jennys for some reason.
"PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE HAIR ASH KETCHUM FROM PALLET TOWN!" they yelled. "WE FOUND OUT YOUR TRUE IDENTITY, 'APEX SYNNUS'."
Apex cursed under his breath and tried to play it out with them.
"My name is Apex Synnus, and it always has been, gentlemen," he said. "Who even is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town anyways?" He tried to look confused, but the cops weren't buying it.
"We have recorded evidence, and you are under arrest," they said. "You are going to be thrown in jail for life, and if you resist arrest, you will be executed."
Apex reached for a pokeball, but the cops tased all his pokeballs and him.
"This here is a new taser that disables pokemon moves on whoever it hits and it also disables pokeballs from being sent out," one of them said. "And you don't stand a chance."
The cops started to approach him, and Apex was powerless, but all of a sudden, all of the fat cops fell to the ground, most likely dead. Standing behind them all was Meowth, just like a decade ago.
"No wonder they became police officers," Meowth said. "They all have the iq of a peanut. Did they seriously forget about the pokemon who is always on your shoulder? Didn't something go off in their heads saying that something was off?"
"Good work meowth, and the taser should wear off in an hour I think, so you should be able to see all of your buddies in that time," Apex said. "But they'll be sending more police officers, so I say we camp out in mother nature until this whole thing blows over."
Meowth used his telekinetic abilities and they teleported to a nearby forest. They brought a radio and turned it on to hear about whether they made it onto the news or not.
"Today, mass murderer Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town has been found and is now on the run. The police received an anonymous report about his whereabouts and he has actually been disguised as pokemon trainers Apex Synnus and participated in the world tournament. Once five police officers came to confront him in his hotel room, he killed all of them and fled to somewhere unknown. He has been disqualified from the tournament for resisting arrest, mass murder, and identity fraud. Please help us track down and execute this man before he kills any more people."
She knew it. Apex Synnus is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town. But who found that out before her? Then she figured it out: the traitors! But they only would've been able to prove it if they brought recorded evidence. So that means that Ash wouldn't be able to trust her.
So the only possibility to apologize to him is to prove that Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town and Apex Synnus are two different people. But how would she do it? In court, duh.
to the courtroom
"Order in the court!" the judge, who was Gabe Newell. "Mr. Wright, do you swear to say the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"
"Yes, I swear to say the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," Phoenix Wright said.
"Do you swear to say the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, Mr. Edgesworth?" Gaben asked the prosecutor.
"Yes, I do swear to say the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, your honor," Miles Edgeworth said.
"Mr. Wright, please present your case," Gaben said.
"So, as many of you know, a tragic incident happened a decade ago where Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town committed mass murder, killing thirty people," Phoenix Wright said. "On this day, the police claim that they have found Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town on this day under the guise of Apex Synnus, and this is not true. Apex Synnus and Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town are two different people entirely."
"Thank you, Mr. Wright," Gaben said. "Now that your case is presented, let's hear from Mr. Edgeworth."
"Thank you, your honor," Miles Edgeworth said. "Apex Synnus IS Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town! An anonymous whistleblower recorded themselves finding out the truth about Apex Synnus admitting to being Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town."
"OBJECTION!" Phoenix Wright yelled.
"What is your objection, Mr. Wright?" Gaben asked.
"May we review the tape, your honor?" Phoenix Wright said.
"Normally, we don't do this, but this is a fictional court case, so I don't really care," Gaben declared. "Roll the tape, Joe!"
Everyone saw the people recording themselves talking to Apex Synnus. He was talking about how they found out who he was already, and committing crimes a decade prior.
"All of the evidence is here, Phoenix Wright," Miles Edgeworth declared. "Apex Synnus is Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, down to even talking about crimes he committed a decade ago."
"OBJECTION!" Phoenix Wright yelled. "Not once does Synnus admit that he is Mr. Pallet Town, and those crimes could be almost anything, and might even be metaphorical crimes, or wrongdoings he did to those anonymous tippers. And those voices didn't belong to anyone related to the killings done by Mr. Pallet Town or anyone he knew in his life. Using this evidence, Apex Synnus is in fact not Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town!"
"Any objections, Mr. Edgeworth?" Gaben asked,
"Yes," he said. "What about the five police officers who died when confronting Synnus?"
"OBJECTION!" Phoenix Wright yelled. "That was self defense, which is legal, and they also did not die. They slipped into a coma, which was diagnosed about an hour ago."
"Any objections, Mr. Edgeworth?" Gaben asked once more.
"No, your honor," he said.
"Very well," Gaben said. "The jury shall now make their votes."
After 9 hours, the jury finally came out of the discussion room.
"What is the consensus?" Gaben asked them.
"Apex Synnus is not Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town," a man read off the paper.
"Now I shall rule Ash Ketchum from Pallet town is," Gaben paused to be dramatic. "Not Apex Synnus!"
Apex was at the arena again. He was cleared of the charges for some reason. He'd have to thank Phoenix Wright later, for there was a match starting now.
He looked across and saw his opponent in the 32's: Gary Oak. Apex was going to enjoy this.
Gary started by sending out a Ampharos and mega evolving it. Apex wanted to make this as fast as possible.
"Meowth finish the Ampharos with supernova!" Apex yelled. He wanted to see the look on Gary's face after he crushed his face into the pavement.
Meowth put his hands above his head and got a giant ball of energy, and then threw it at Ampharos. He did it so fast that it didn't have enough time to dodge and got caught in the devastating attack.
Light shone extremely bright, but then went away in an instant. Ampharos was definitely fainted.
"Ampharos is out," the announcer said. "Gary, send out your next pokemon."
"Come on out, Florges!" Gary yelled. He had a plan with Florges that Apex would surely not predict.
"Gary, I know you don't stand a chance, so I will make a deal with you," Apex said. "You can use all of your pokemon against my newest one, meaning it is the least trained."
Gary, being the dirty cheating murderer he is, agreed and sent out his Umbreon, Blastoise, Arcanine, and Rhyperior.
"Meowth come back," Apex said. "Come on out, One!"
Apex threw the normal pokeball out and out came a magikarp, possibly the weakest pokemon of all time.
"MAGIKARP USE CATEGORY SIX!" Apex yelled.
One flopped around a lot and caused extremely high velocity winds, as well as a 30 feet high tidal wave coming at an equal speed. Gary's pokemon had no time to react as they were enveloped by the wave, and the impact was so hard that he fainted the moment they touched the water.
"All of Gary's pokemon fainted!" the announcer declared.
Apex finished the match and walked home, but then he saw some figure was following him and it was suddenly midnight.
"Hi, Ash," it said.