Introduction

After his capture of the seemingly unstoppable Juggernaut Pokémon Omegamoah, Ash Ketchum, the regional Pokémon League Champion of Kanto organized a tournament where he competed against trainers from around the world to raise money to rebuild Cerulean City and the Oak Pokémon Research Lab, which had both been destroyed by Omegamoah while under the control of Team Rocket.

Before being taken into custody by the Pokémon G-Men, Team Rocket's leader Giovanni had lost to Ash in a Pokémon battle. With his crime empire in shambles and having been beaten by a teenage boy, Giovanni hired the one man who could publicly humiliate Ash in a Pokémon battle and retrieve Omegamoah, the Man with the Black Charizard, a mysterious mercenary known for putting his Pokémon through potentially fatal experiments to make them more powerful than what is thought possible.

After facing a gauntlet of his disciples, Ash came face to face with the Man with the Black Charizard himself. Despite his best efforts, five of Ash's Pokémon were defeated effortlessly by an augmented Kabutops, the weakest of the mercenary's Pokémon. When all seemed lost Ash called on Omegamoah for the first time, and fortunately was able to control the beast, who then beat the augmented Kabutops with one blow, and then managed to fight and emerge victorious over the remaining five Pokémon, with a little help from Pikachu. Nevertheless the whole world began to think differently about Ash when the Man with the Black Charizard revealed that he was Ash' long lost father.

Shortly afterward, Ash returned to Pallet Town and unable to wait for a DNA test proceeded to dig up his father's undisturbed grave, but found it empty. Upon his return home Ash was comforted by his longtime friend Misty, and they shared their first kiss.

Months have passed… Some of Ash's fans remain loyal, but just as many have turned on him. Despite this Ash has found depth and strength in his friends, but mostly Misty. And he'll need all the help he can get because the Man with the Black Charizard is still at large, Giovanni has escaped from prison and plans to rebuild Team Rocket, but above all something is about to happen that will add a whole new dimension to Ash's troubles.

It is said that the Pokémon Celebi only appears in times of peace. That theory was proven wrong a few weeks ago, but this was likely because the legendary Pokémon knew its powers were needed.

"He's coming, there isn't any time left." said Cynthia "Adena, you know what you need to do."

Adena was one of the few people to ever have the privilege of training with someone like Cynthia, but unlike her mentor she was the only person in the world to possess not one, but two legendary Pokémon during her lifetime.

"I go back in time, find Ash Ketchum, and stop the world from going to hell."

"Do you understand the risks, even if you succeed?"

"What's my life against the millions I can save? These Pokémon came to me; I intend to prove myself worthy of having them."

Cynthia smiled.

"Your mother would be so proud of you, as am I. Remember, the timeline is going to change no matter what you do, but you need to try and keep the distortion to a minimum. I doubt things can get any worse than they are right now, but we'd better not risk it. Now go."

"Alright. I choose you, Celebi!"

"Bi!"

Most people go their whole lives without ever seeing a Pokémon like Celebi, but not only did Adena have one in her possession, it was also a different color.

"Celebi, I need you to take me back before any of this happened, a few days before Team Rocket's last stand. Can you do that?"

Celebi nodded.

"Okay, do it."

"Bi!"

Celebi and Adena vanished in a bright flash of light just as an army of flying Pokémon blacked out the sky.