A game of Ashes
Legalities: This story will be an Ash X Harem story. It will take Ash from the future to the past. That said Ash will be older and wiser, and will have had some life experience. However like a few stories, Ash will be older than he is in canon when he starts his journey. There will be original characters but only one or two. Red will appear, but not in the way you expect. That said on to the story I guess.
Chapter 1: Do you want to start a new game?
Ash floated in darkness, he'd just won the Pokémon masters tournament, yet he felt as if he'd not done anything. A voice suddenly said "So you've finally awakened." Ash blinked and started to ask who are you, only to realize he had no voice. The voice chuckled realizing this and said "My mistake young master Ketchum, I forgot for a moment that you're only a spirit. Let me fix it so you can at least reply to my questions and what not. As for your question of who am I, why I am the one who created the multiverse before handing the reins to Arceus. She's a much more patient task mistress than I am a master; however I have to step in from time to time."
Ash blinked and asked "What does this have to do with me?" The voice seemed to smile despite not having a face and waited for him to run out of questions knowing he had more. Ash asked "What happened, why did you drag me away just as I won the Pokémon master's tournament? Why would you take me away from my dream? What could you possibly want with me? Why isn't Arceus the one talking with me if she controls the multiverse?"
The voice seemed to smirk as it replied "To answer your questions in order, what does this have to do with you, everything. What happened? You finally died. I didn't drag you away your soul gave up on its body after fulfilling its dream in your mind. I want you to hit reset so to speak. Arceus isn't talking to you because she agreed it would be best if I handled this since I'm better at transferring material."
Ash blinked and asked "Transferring material? What's that got to do with anything?"
The voice replied "It's got everything to do with everything. It's the only way to send you to a new world, if you want to start a new game that is. Or I can send you to the afterlife and look for someone else. Up to you really, but honestly the afterlife can be pretty boring for an action oriented person, it's why I don't pay much attention to it." Ash just sighed thinking then the voice finally asked "Well the reason I'm here Ash, is, would you like to start a new game?"
Ash blinked and said "Can't I just continue?" The voice made a sound that could only be taken as a negative. Ash sighed and said "So my only options are to die or start over?" The voiced made a sound in the affirmative. Ash muttered to himself a bit then said "Fine, I'll start a new game."
The voice laughed at that and said "You've chosen to start a new game, now for the rest of this. Are you a boy or girl?" The voice waited then Ash growled out 'boy'. The voice hmmed and said "Alright you're a boy. A simple warning, you'll be having your memories from this life, as well as the memories of the one you're replacing who just died. You'll be filling in for them, since your world's vanishing and all. So be careful and constantly check your memories."
Ash nodded and said "Got it." The voice laughed then a hole opened up under Ash and he fell through time and space to a world he'd never been to before. His new game had begun, and he was in for a lot of changes. As Ash vanished Arceus and the owner of the voice appeared. The voice's owner was a young man with dirty blonde hair, grey eyes, stood a little less than six feet tall, and was wearing a shirt and jeans that blended into the darkness.
He pulled on a pair of sunglasses and said "So it begins. Watch out for him, will you?" Arceus nodded her head and he continued "Think I should have told him about the morphs and ratio of females to males?"
Arceus chuckled and said softly "Maybe, but you were in a bit of a hurry to send him off without any trouble. I don't know why you didn't take more time to talk to him, after all there's no proof he's the Ash you're looking for other than your intuition. He might be a monster in human clothing that abuses his Pokémon and sees them as nothing more than tools."
The owner of the voice shook his head and said "Nah not this one, I made sure of that much at least. He respects Pokémon and sees them as his equals. Only real problem he has is a fixation on his mother. I think he has an Oedipus complex, ah well not like it'll be the first hero with mommy issues." Arceus snorted not saying anything more than that and he sighed then said "You think I'm playing god."
Arceus snored and said "No what I do is playing God, what you're doing is playing with free will which even the gods agreed not to do, though you have your reasons, so this should be interesting. Why didn't you pick Cynthia or Lance though?" The man scratched the back of his neck not meeting Arceus's eyes until she turned into a humanoid figure and grabbed his chin forcing him to look into her eyes. She said "Well Wolf?"
The man now recognized as Wolf said "Because they wouldn't have been able to change things if I sent them back." Arceus raised an eyebrow and he continued "They would have either been children when they needed to be champions, or would have been held locked tight by the rigidity of being the champion and leader of the G men respectively. Plus they wouldn't have been able to handle the change in worlds as well as Ash can because he's saved the world before they really haven't."
Arceus sighed and said "They just didn't agree to go back, right?" Wolf sweat dropped and looked away refusing to meet the alpha Pokémon's eyes. She laughed and said "They also didn't like being told that there fate was in your hands, did they?" Wolf shook his head still looking away and kneeled down drawing a circle in the darkness with his finger. It was a rather wonky circle that looked more like to squiggles put together further depressing him. Arceus said "Which is why you chose not to tell Ash you'll be altering his reality as you see fit."
Wolf jumped up and said "Now wait one second, I never said I'd be changing things continuously or anything. I'll just give him nudges here and there, probably guide him a long a little bit, etc. I will not take away his and others free will." Arceus giggled at the man's reaction and he sighed then said "Anyway I think it's time we checked up on our hero, he should be waking up, No?" Arceus nodded and the two turned to a part of the darkness that was slowly turning static like a TV being turned on. Eventually it revealed the image of a young man buried in his blankets.
Well there you go, chapter one of yet another story, don't know what I'm going to do with it. I just had to get it out of my head to work on the stories I've got already started. I may update this, but I really think I'm going to put things on Hiatus for a while. Back in time, The master of death, and most of my other stories are going on the back burner till I get ideas for them. This may just be at the front but it will be worked on alongside my personal stoies that I'm trying to get published that aren't fanfiction. That said, see you next time.
Sincerely J Wolf.
