Pokemon ARC-V: Bonds of Unity
AN: Hello everyone! FFCM15 here and ready to write! I apologize for the lack of updates, it wasn't because of cold feet or anything, it was just because my charger broke so I could not work on my laptop. Anyways to those of you who faved followed and reviewed my first story I just want to thank you all so much for doing so. But now I'm making a brand new story, this is my first Crossover story: Pokemon ARC V: Bonds of Unity! This is a Pokemon and YGO ARC-V crossover, but quite different from others that you all have read. So, without further adieu I give you Pokemon ARC-V: Bonds of Unity!
Disclaimer- I do not own Pokemon or Yu Gi Oh ARC-V!
Human speech- "Hey"
Human thought- 'Hey'
Spirit speech- "Hey"
Spirit thought- 'Hey'
"Telepathy"
Chapter 1
In an endless, vast, white space, we see a young boy of 15 years of age, lying on his back, unconscious. His face was befitting for a boy his age, he also had little zigzag marks on both his cheeks. His spiky raven black hair was covered by a red cap, with a semi circle and tip of it being white. The rest of his attire consists of a black undershirt with a blue collared shirt with white lines worn over it. On his hands, he wears black fingerless gloves with a collar. He wears simple dark blue pants with a clip attached to his belt. This clip holds six miniature red, white and black balls, known as pokeballs. His feet attire consists of normal socks and shoes, with the shoes colors mainly red and black with a little white. This boy's name is Ash Ketchum and currently, he was not in his world.
Ash started to stir back into consciousness, opening bleary auburn eyes. He pushed himself up into a sitting position with one hand, while the other was rubbing the sleep out of his face. "What just happened?" Ash groaned out. He stands up slowly. "The last thing I remember was the real Zygarde blasting that fake stone one with a green beam, then there was a flash of green and then… nothing." He starts looking around once he got his bearings back. "Oh man, did we lose? Did Lysandre manage to destroy everything!?" Ash says, fearing the worst. "Bonnie, Clemont, Serena, Greninja, Pikachu!? Are you here!? Can you hear me!?" Ash yells out, hoping to get an answer. He got one, just one that he wasn't expecting.
"It has been awhile, young Ash." He heard a mature male voice in his head before he was blinded by a flash of light. Once it dimmed, Ash saw a Pokemon he hasn't seen for awhile. It is a white equine resembling a qilin or centaur with a gray, vertically-striated underside. The striated pattern has similar recurrences on the underside of its mane, tail, and face. Its four pointed feet are tipped with gold hooves. Its long mane juts away from its head, and its face is gray, with green eyes and red pupils, and a green circular pattern below its eyes. It also has a streak of gold coloration on its head, and ears that point upward. Its neck is fairly long, with two pairs of extrusions to the sides, and a flap-like feature on the neck's underside that is colored white like much of the body. It also has a golden cross-like wheel attached to its body by its round abdomen. The wheel also has four jewels attached to it. The pattern of striated gray of it's underbelly resumes past it's waist. Its limbs have gray undersides and extrusions at the tops of the legs. it's tail is fairly like its mane in shape and coloration. This was Arceus, the Alpha Pokemon.
Ash gaped like a fish for a few seconds before he smiled. "Arceus, it's great to see you again." He says, happy he was with someone he considered a good ally.
"And I you, my young friend." If Arceus could, he would've smiled back at the teen.
"So where are we anyway? And is everyone ok?" Ash eventually asked, worried more about his friends then himself.
"Your friends are just fine Ash, they are simply back in Luminose city, regaining their strength after the battle you had fought against that madman and the Megalith Zygarde." Arceus assured the worried Pokemon trainer.
This caused Ash to sigh in relief. "Oh thank goodness, I was starting to get worried. So can I go back now, I need to show them I'm ok." Ash says, wanting to get back to his friends.
"That… is not possible at the moment, I'm afraid." Arceus hesitantly admits.
"What do you mean?" Ash asks, fear, confusion and worry laced his voice.
"What I mean: is that the destruction of the Megalith caused the negative energy stored inside it to rip a hole in the space time continuum, you and your Pokemon were in the area where it happened." Arceus explains, with a sad look in his eyes.
"What does that mean?" Ash asked, fearing the answer.
"It means… that you and the Pokemon you have with you are now in another world." Arceus told him.
This caused Ash to start panicking, he was in another world where he can't contact his friends or family, what was he going to do? Were the current thoughts circling in his head. That soon came to an abrupt stop by a warm feeling covering his entire body, relaxing him greatly.
"Do not fret young one, as we speak Palkia and Dialga are working on a way to bring you home." Arceus, who was providing the comforting feeling to Ash, assured the young trainer. When it felt like he has calmed down enough, Arceus started explaining the new world. "The world you are now in does not know or heard of Pokemon; Pokemon don't even exist in this world. Instead it is run by a popular card game known as Duel Monsters. The game will be explained later. It is split into four different dimensions, the one you're in is known as Standard. What many does not know is that dark forces are lurking about." Arceus began explaining.
"What kind of dark forces?" Ash asked.
"These three shall explain." Arceus states, just as a light shone behind Ash. This caused him to turn around and cover his eyes. When it died down, Ash saw three transparent figures in front of him. One of them looked to be a year or two older than him, his attire consisted of a black undershirt with a red jacket with a white collar and simple black jeans. His eyes and hair were both brown but his hair was a much more lighter shade of brown, it's styled looking rather flat with a few spikes jutting out. He also had an average lean looking physique and peach skin. The next figure was also older than Ash but this one maybe by three or four years. This one had tan skin, an average looking physique, black hair with gold highlights, and royal blue eyes. The upper layer of his hair juts upward while the lower layer arches down. He wears a long-sleeved blue jacket with a high collar and amber gems, over a sleeveless black shirt with a red symbol, and wears gloves below his elbows with an amber gem on them. His lower body consists of black jeans with amber knee pads, and calf high motorcycle boots. He also has a jagged mark under his left eye. The final figure looked younger than Ash. He has tan skin, red eyes, and black and red spiked hair that points out and upward. He wears a red vest with a white hood and a purple sleeveless shirt with a green "D" symbol. He also wears white pants with designs of three orange moon crescents attached to one another with yellow outlines at the bottom, a white brown-stripe belt, and black with blue streaks shoes with white straps. Other accessories includes a brown fingerless glove on his left hand, a black protective pad on his right elbow and a thick, dark blue bracelet with light blue gems and red outlines on his right wrist. What caught Ash's attention the most of this figure was the pendant around his neck.
"Hey there kid, my name's Jaden Yuki." The first guy introduced himself with a carefree smile.
"My name is Yusei Fudo." The second guy followed the first's lead, but did so with a small smile.
"And I'm Yuma, Yuma Tsukumo!" The youngest of the three followed suit, more cheerfully than the other two and with a wide grin.
"It's nice to meet you guys, my name's Ash." Ash says with a smile, always willing to make possible new friends.
"We know who you are, Arceus told us all about you and your world." Yusei says, adding the last part when he saw Ash's confused expression.
"Oh, ok. So why are you guys here?" Ash asked, growing more confused when the trio's faces became deadly serious, Ash even swore he saw Jaden's eyes become red and green for a brief second.
"The Duel Monsters world is under threat, by a place known as… Duel Acadamy, in the Fusion dimension." Jaden starts off, looking a little pained to say that.
"Their goal is to unite the dimensions and rule them with an iron fist, destroying everyone and everything that doesn't join them." Yusei follows up, fists clenched.
"Just like they did with the Xyz dimension." Yuma says with a sad look on his face. The entire area around changes to a ruined city. The three duelists and Arceus looked sad while Ash is shocked.
"Is this…?" Ash asks trailing off, but Yuma nods.
"This is Heartland, of the Xyz dimension, or at least, what's left of it." He says. Ash notices some people dressed in the same uniform surrounding men, women and children of various ages. The next thing Ash knew, a bright purple light surrounded the people and when it died down, there were only cards remaining, showing the horrified and scared looks of the people. Ash looked at the scene with a horrified expression, Yuma and Jaden looked away, Yusei had a sad look on his face, and Arceus just looked in silence.
"How… How could they do that… to those innocent people?" Ash asks shakily, his fists clenched and trembling. He then looked at the duelists and Arceus, his eyes lit up with the fire of determination and will to help others. "What do you need me to do?" He asks, even his tone was laced with resolution.
"You are willing to help people that are not even from your world." Yusei states. "Why?" He asked.
"It doesn't matter if I'm from a different world or not. What matters is that innocent people are getting hurt, and only a few can fight them. If this keeps up then the future for all of the dimensions will be doomed. And I can't stand by watching it happened when I know there's a way for me to help those in need." Ash speaks, his voice not faltering for a second.
The 3 duelists and Arceus are silent for a few moments. Then, Jaden smiled and looked to Arceus. "You were right, he is the most selfless person there is." He then turned towards Ash, with a grin. "I can tell that you meant every word that you said, because they can only be heard when you truly want to protect or help someone with all you got in your heart, and that is how a true duelist fights. You got my help, I just hope your ready to get your game on." Jaden declares, pumping his fist up, getting Ash to grin.
Next, Yusei follows up, saying, "You are willing to put other people's safety before your own, and you're willing to make sure that they get a bright future, no matter the cost. That is a future I would like to see. I'll help too, so together, let's rev it up." Ash gives a smile to Yusei, grateful for the encouraging words.
Finally, Yuma. "You are someone who believes that hope will always get you through dark times, it is this hope that gives you the strength and willpower to keep moving forward and keep fighting on. I'm more than happy to help you, and together as long as we keep feeling the flow, nothing will stop us from high fiving the sky." With their allegiances made, backed by their ironclad determination, the duelists and trainer turned to look at Arceus.
"I must ask if you are all entirely sure? Because if you are, then there's no turning back." Without any hesitation, all four of them nodded. There was silence. Then Arceus nodded. "Very well, step forward." They complied, stepping closer. When they got closer, two gold orbs appeared, which floated down to Ash. They then went to his belt, changing shape. The glows dispersed, revealing to items. One of the items looked like a red, blue, black and white rectangular box that looks like it can hold a deck of cards. The other looked some sort of blue tablet like device. " These are your deck box and duel disk, these will allow you to duel in this world, and in your deck box, I made a personal deck that would suit your style. And now, for my final gift, I shall merge Jaden's, Yusei's and Yuma's spirits to your's, Ash. Are you ready?" All 4 of them nodded. Arceus nodded back and closed his eyes, concentrating. Then Jaden, Yusei and Yuma glowed red, white and black respectively. The glow blinded Ash, and when it died down Ash looked and saw three floating spheres of the same colors as the flashes. The spheres then shot into his body, surprising him. Then he saw an aura of the three colors surround the outline of his body before it died down. "It is done." Ash turned to Arceus at the sound of his voice, but was surprised seeing the Alpha Pokemon disappearing. "Our time is up, be careful my young friend, for there is enemies and friends everywhere in this world, and you must figure out who is which." Arceus said his final words to Ash, disappearing completely, followed by a blight light clouding Ash's vision, then darkness.
Welcome to Standard, Ash Ketchum
To be continued…
AN: And here it is ladies and gentleman! The first chapter of Pokemon ARC-V: Bonds of Unity! To be honest I'm not really sure if I did a good job with the speeches, with it being my first time and all, and I'm pretty sure I made them cliche central. Anyways, I've also decided to do something completely different then what other Pokemon/YGO ARC-V writers in the past, so I hope it does well. Like last time, I would like it if the only criticism I get is constructive. Please show your support by Favoriting, Following, Reviewing or all 3. That's pretty much it, so I'll see you all next time, so until then, this is FFCM15, signing out!