A Champion Discovery

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Pokémon . The names of characters and songs belong to Satoshi Tajiri and Nintendo

What if Ash was hiding a secret that not even his mother knew. What if that secret was so big that when it was revealed, would change the landscape of the Pokémon League forever. What will his friends think. Ash's world is about to change for good.

Chapter 1: A surprising rendezvous

Iccarus city, the place of aspiring Pokémon master Ash Ketchum's latest gym triumph. The place where he took one more step on the journey that he started nearly eight years ago, a journey that in Ash's mind never got boring, the journey of becoming a Pokémon master. However Ash wasn't as bad a trainer that eight years of not winning a major Pokémon League competition suggests, sure he had not won a League yet, but what his friends didn't know was that Ash had a few secrets, that he was sure would come out sooner or later. He just hoped that he was ready for the backlash when they did.

However, Ash was at this moment more concerned with revelling in his latest victory over a very tough opponent. A gym leader who almost embarrassed Ash badly with his Beartic. But now that was in the past and Ash was now looking forward to the next town his little group was about to go to, a town that would allow him to get his eighth badge and qualification into the Unova League. A league that he would win, he would make sure of that.

So with that thought marching through his head, Ash, Pikachu, Cilian and Iris set out east towards the final few gyms on the Pokémon League trail. A trail the group knew would be full of exciting Pokémon, a few of which Ash intended to catch and add to his ever growing collection. So in order for him to achieve that goal, Ash flipped up his Pokédex and began to search for any interesting and new Pokémon for him to catch. What he found were two that he thought would make his team more powerful, a Pawniard and Rufflet which had strong final evolved forms.

The group trekked on for days and the only thing that made Ash unhappy was Iris moaning every half an hour about everything ranging from the weather to how bad a trainer Ash was. Eventually Cilian got fed up with the constant moaning and told Iris to shut up. That made the group feel better and it once again allowed Ash to focus on how he was going to catch the required Pokémon to make his team as good as it needed to be to allow him to reign over the Unova League as along as he wanted to.

Eventually after nearly two weeks travelling, the group arrived at a small town that seemed to have a huge forest just before it's entrance. Ash knew that his best bet for the Pokémon he wanted would be in that forest, so he asked his two travelling companions to go on ahead into the town and get them a room at the local Pokémon centre for the next few days.

After the duo left, Ash and Pikachu made their way into the forest and were immediately ambushed by a small blue blur. That small blue blur eventually allowed Ash to get up and shocked Ash when he saw him.

"Riolu, is that you?"

Said Pokémon nodded it's head and left Ash puzzled as to why the little fellow was in Unova when he last saw him moving to his new home in Sinnoh not a year and a half ago. However that thought was soon abandoned when Riolu found one of Ash's empty Pokéballs and pushed the button allowing himself to be sucked inside of it.

That however wasn't the last of Ash's shocks, the next one that came nearly caused him to have a heart attack. Just as he was getting his whit's together after that big shock he was tackled to the ground by a six foot blond dressed in a light blue dress and a white jacket. He knew immediately who it was, it was one of his biggest secrets, a secret that he hoped wouldn't come out for a few years. Laying on top of him was his secret wife. Said wife's name slipped slowly out of Ash's mouth as he caught his breath and caused his wife and Pikachu to giggle silently.

"Cynthia, what are you doing here?"