{Author Warning: This has some Pokémon Sun and Moon Spoilers. So be careful if you don't want to be spoiled too much.}
W-Where am I?
W-What is this place?
I don't know who I am, I don't know where I'm from…
But why am I crying? Why does it feel like I've lost everything important to me?
[Prologue: Eight Years Ago.]
Pallet Town is where we shall begin the story of the three adventurers, starting with the first of them, the one who brought the other two together.
In Pallet Town there was a blue themed man carrying a bag pack slung over his shoulder. He was a rather tall man wearing a strange but stylishly big hat with black hair and kind but fierce blue eyes. He wore a deep blue coat with a black turtleneck underneath with a lovely gold design right below his neck. Beside him was jackal-like bipedal Pokémon that the man had styled himself after due to the fact the Pokémon also was naturally black and blue. The two had stepped into the lovely country-side village, taking in the amazingly refreshing air.
"This place is much more relaxing than Iron Island, isn't it my friend?" He turned to his partner.
'I'm more surprised Master Phoenix and Master Crescent have not yet blown anything up here. If we didn't know them, we would have never believed they would have settled down here and not burn it into the ground on accident.' His Pokémon replied to him.
The man laughed nervously at the character of his former teacher. "Well the wonders of marriage then. If anyone could keep those two in line it would have been Delia."
'In order words, they're whipped.'
The two of them laughed. "Just be sure to not say that in front of them." Riley managed to say after their laughter died down.
"BOO!"
The two of them suddenly felt a powerful surge of life force behind them and they both quickly turned around, battle ready—then quickly dropped their stances when they realized who snuck on them.
"A-Ash?!" The man cried out in surprise before the five year old came to hug him. Nervously and still in shock, Riley wondered where he had come from, but a little later he also hugged back.
"Great to see you, Uncle Riley!" Ash happily spoke before releasing his hold on the man and running up to Lucario to give him a hug as well. "Lucario! You're both back!"
'I-It's also great to see you young master…' Lucario answered before both he and Riley shared a look.
"Ash? How did you know we were here? And… why didn't we sense you?" Riley questioned. He was an Aura Guardian, an ancient order of consisting of practically metahuman Pokémon and Humans who have stood as the vanguard and protected the innocent with their abilities of Aura.
One of the most signature abilities of Aura Guardians was the ability to sense other living beings, and with Riley and Lucario both being Aura Guardians, they wondered how a small child got past their honed senses and come so close to them.
Ash smiled as he let go of Lucario. "Dad's been teaching me how to mask my Aura! We were training until we sensed you two!"
'Wait… we?' Lucario nervously repeated the young boy's innocent words to which the young child simply nodded in response.
"Why Lucario, you almost sound like you don't want to meet us." A rather professionally restrained voice emphasized.
Riley and Lucario gulped before slowly turning their head behind them again.
'It's sad really. Phoenix, I think our students don't want to hang out with 'whipped' old folks such as us anymore.' A Shiny Lucario added in with a hint of sadistic anger in his voice that flew over the head of the oblivious five year old.
"Ahh! I've got an idea, why don't we 'whip' them into shape?" The tall, spiky-raven haired man in his early thirties with vivid green eyes said with a dark smile.
'N-no, Sir Crescent! It's was merely a jape!' Lucario nervously defended himself.
Riley nervously agreed with him. "Yes, Master Phoenix! Just a joke!" He panicked, as Ash tilted his head on the side obliviously.
"What's whipped?" Ash asked innocently.
Despite starting his training as an Aura Guardian, the young boy did not detect the increase of bloodlust coming from the two older men nor did he think to sense the rising fear among the younger generation.
"Oh, why don't you tell him, Uncle Riley?" Phoenix Ketchum smiled, but a vein appeared on his head and he cracked his knuckles in a nonchalant manner.
Ash excitedly looked to the man wearing a fancy looking hat, but the man under the spot light was now sweating bullets.
"Ash!? Phoenix!? Where are you two?" A female voice approached them.
"Oh thank Arceus!" Riley quickly said. "Delia, it's good to see you!"
A lovely and kind woman looked over to where the voice came from. "Ahh! Riley, it's so good to see you. How is Sinnoh? Are you tired from the journey? Would you like something to eat or drink? I have some lemonade prepared."
"Oh-oh thank you Mrs. Ketchum, but Lucario and I are fine." Riley dismissed, but was glad to distract the ire of his former teacher.
Delia smiled warmly, before her eyes turned vicious towards her husband and his partner.
"Honey." She said that endearment with bloodlust even worse than her husband put out only moments ago.
"Y-yes sweetie?" Now it was both of the other two's turn to become fearful.
Ash was the only one in this group that did not notice the vein popping above her usual smile.
Delia gently walked up to her son and held him close while standing. She petted her son's head gently but then she *smiled* at her husband. "I thought we agreed you wouldn't train our son very dangerous aura techniques on weekends?"
In case one missed it, Delia was very horrified with the thought of her bundle of joy gaining powers to lift cars with one arm and sensing everything around him within a mile radius. She recalled how she met her husband in him accidentally destroying her first car, and the bike she used to replace it afterwards, with his practicing of aura! And he still hasn't (Completely) paid for it yet!
"Mom!" Ash excitedly said. "It's not dangerous! Aura is so cool! And Dad and Crescent say you worry too much!"
The young boy did not notice the looks of panic coming from the Shiny Lucario and his partner/father. Nor did he see both of them making cutting neck motions to signal the boy to stop talking.
The mother laughed and sweetly petted her son's head again.
"Oh right! Ash, Serena is over at our house and she's waiting for you to bring her to Red's house."
The young boy's eyes grew even wider and shined with excitement. "Rena's here!?" He said her nickname before bolting quickly towards home.
Delia placed a hand over her mouth and laughed sweetly and honestly. "Daww, I think he has a crush on her! And what's so cute is that I think Serena likes him too!"
"Ha! Isn't that adorable!?" Phoenix laughed and placed a hand on his wife's shoulder.
Delia nodded and held the hand on her shoulder.
Then she gripped tightly on it, making loud bone crunching sounds for the rest of them to hear.
"Dear," Delia mentioned before letting go and causing the man to shake his hand. "We will talk about this later," Her husband gulped and started to sweat bullets.
She turned to the younger man and Lucario. "… How long will you be staying here Riley? Would you like me to prepare the guestroom? I can't give you the couch since someone else will be sleeping there tonight."
"O-Oh, its fine. I couldn't impose." Now the young man was afraid along with his partner. They were starting to see why this place was so peaceful. "A-Actually, one of the reasons why I'm here is to give Ash his partner." Riley said as he removed the backpack from his shoulder. He quickly rummaged through it and brought out a container with a Pokémon Egg placed inside.
Delia blinked as she saw the nicely patterned egg in the container. She looked worryingly to her husband. "I still don't know about this Nix, Ash isn't even ten and he's already getting a Pokémon?" She sighed sadly.
"Ten is for official trainers, dear," Her husband smiled and tried to relax her. "An Aura Adept has a bond with a partner when they are six or even younger due to their ability to speak to other Pokémon. But right now, we'll talk about it later. Let our son have fun with his girlfriend! Ahaha!"
[Elsewhere]
On another nearby house, Ash was standing next to a cute girl around his age with honey blond hair, a straw hat, and wearing white shorts under a long pink sun dress.
"Red isn't here?"
"I'm sorry Ash, Red left a little while ago." The mother of the mentioned trainer responded.
Serena felt a little disappointed. She had heard from Ash that Poliwags, evolve into Poliwhirls and that he had a friend in town that had a Poliwhirl. She was kind of hesitant at first since a Poliwag first scared her when she was lost in Professor Oak's summer camp, but then after it left she got to meet Ash who was a really kind and cool.
"Do you know where he went Mrs. Crea?" Ash had said her first name than her last name since he didn't know her last name.
"Oh Ash, you're such a sweet boy. I really hope you don't become as arrogant as my son. Oh that child… he means well but…" She sighed. "My son should be around the forest edges, but you two are not allowed to stray so far, so go back home please. Alright?"
"Alright Mrs. Crea." The young raven haired boy smiled, making Crea wondered where she went wrong with her son.
"Ash?" The brown eyed boy turned to the pink dressed girl beside him who was holding her arm shyly, playing with her foot and looking down into ground. "I'm sorry for bothering you."
"There's no need to be sorry!" Ash happily exclaimed. "Papa keeps telling me that I should always be nice to a lady no matter what!"
Meanwhile, Delia felt this excessive need to punish her husband more, but she didn't know why.
… It didn't stop her from doing it anyway.
"You're dad sounds weird…" Serena commented, unsure how to respond to that.
"He's pretty cool to me!" Ash smiled, beaming proudly about his dad.
Serna looked down to her feet, not because she was shy, but because she was kind of jealous of Ash having a father.
The young Ketchum was not deterred by the lack of his 'Big brother' figure, but he also didn't notice the pang of sorrow from the young girl beside him. But it was actually a good thing in this case, because with renewed energy and a new idea, the black haired boy looked over to girl with blue eyes.
"Come on! There's someone else I want you to meet!" The young boy excitedly called out to the girl before he started making his way towards the edge of town.
"Where are we going?" Serena asked.
"To the forest! I met a cool friend there!" Ash explained before moving ahead excitedly.
[?]
Pitter patter. Pitter patter. Step. Step. Step.
That was what they were doing, as the sun slowly set, no one noticed the group of cloaked figures walking closer and closer towards the outskirts of the small town.
They walked together in uncanny synchronization; one step was 30 or more different steps. One breath was more than a dozen.
They were many, but they were one.
So they sang…
"Ooohhhoooohhohh! Sometimes it causes us to tremble!~ Tremble!~ Tremble!~ Where you there when they sealed away our lord?~"
It sounded like a choir, a choir of deep unknown figures.
And they were heading towards the forest nearby a small and humble town of Pallet.
[…]
Phoenix, Riley, Lucario, and Crescent stopped what they were doing and quickly stood up from their seats and looked towards a direction.
"What on earth?" Riley asked.
'There's a sudden and large amount of people around the corners of the town.' Lucario admitted before focusing his palm out. 'S-Something's not right. Their aura… it's so…'
"Twisted in such a way we've never seen in another being before." Phoenix noted before looking sensing something in the distance. His eyes widened and he started heading towards the door. "And they're on their way to where Ash's Aura is!"
At what he said, all of them, including Delia ran out the door without bothering to close it on their way out.
So it was very peculiar that at this moment, the egg Ash was to receive was starting to glow.
[Meanwhile…]
"Ash, it looks like it's getting late." Serena spoke up as she looked at the sky.
The young boy agreed and apologized to his friend. He had seen this strange but cool, glowing Pokémon around the forest one time and he wanted to show Serena. However, try as he might with his basic aura abilities, Ash couldn't spot the creature he befriended.
As the two made their way back, Ash stopped and looked back towards the forest. There was this weird energy that he had never felt before that was coming from deep within.
And he found himself being… called towards this strange energy. He was so engrossed with the strange feeling that he didn't notice Serena calling his name and looking worried about him.
+…elp…e…+
As Ash kept walking, he felt the Aura around the area turn stiff and bone chilling.
And was there… a voice calling out to him?
The young boy didn't know he was walking towards a small clearing.
Serena was scared about all of this, but she wanted to see if Ash was alright, so she stayed with him even as he was walking towards the clearing.
+heeellpp…meee…+
The young Aura slowly put his hand into the air, as if there was something compelling him to reach his hand out.
"Ash!"
Only Serena turned back when she saw Ash's father, mother, and a strange man come running towards them with two jackal like Pokémon.
'Phoenix! I can't sense that large group anymore!' The yellow Lucario telepathically screamed as he looked around.
'He's right! The air here is all wrong!' Riley's Lucario concurred to his old teacher.
Riley and Phoenix took fighting stances as they turned to the area they last felt the large presence. "Delia, get the kids!" Phoenix cried out as the mother quickly ran towards Serena and looked towards Ash.
When Delia reached for her son, something happened.
The air that Ash was reaching for dramatically tore open into some kind of strange portal. A powerful shock wave came over the group and made the two children, Ash and Serena, collapse to the ground unconscious.
"Ash!" Delia cried out as the sudden tear started sucking in the closest person into it, which was her son.
In a desperate move, she grabbed her son and threw him away from the portal, but in doing so, the tear started pulling her in.
"Delia!" Phoenix desperately screamed out as he and Riley started to run towards the mother as the tear was slowly swallowing her whole.
Sprouts grew between the aura users and Delia then rapidly grew into large vines that separated them from each other. Phoenix wasted no time and he used his aura to form two golden blades to cut the vines in half.
"Delia!" Phoenix cried out as he saw the portal… and his wife was gone the one second he lost sight of her.
"Teacher!" Riley screamed out and they turned towards all of the robed figures who seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
"Where is she!?" Phoenix roared with anger as he shot an Aura Sphere right at the group without rationally thinking.
The large group of robed beings side stepped and from behind the first row, a really, really small cloaked figure started walking towards the blast. The stranger lifted a tiny arm and the condensed Aura attack vanished into thin air.
Phoenix was about to attack again blindly, until Crescent stopped him from doing anything rash.
The robed figure was smaller than even Serena and Ash. Strangely, it reached for its hood, revealing that it didn't have even human hands and to everyone's surprise, it looked like a small Pokémon composed of leaves. But the strangest thing about this Pokémon was the drawn, purple-marked third eye on the forehead of the creature.
"How curious, your son opened the portal…" The creature spoke out in a human voice, not telepathy. The voice was calm, monotone, but had an eerie softness to it. It then made a motion towards itself and bowed. "I am known as Creed, or formerly known to you fragments as Celebi. To whom do we meet?"
Riley's eyes widened as he recognized the name. "Wait, Celebi, as in the time traveling Pokémon?! I thought your species were supposed to be guardians of the forest?!"
"Such a mundane existence before I was bless by the True One." The Celebi started floating then pointed to the fallen Ash. "However, as much as I would like this conversation to continue, we must take that boy with us. He has done something of peculiar interest."
Phoenix's eyes narrowed dangerously. "You took my wife! I am not letting you take my son!" He yelled as he pushed his partner away and fired another Aura Sphere at them.
Celebi waved its arm, creating a small see-able arc. Once again the sphere vanished and then all four remaining people went into a fighting stance.
"Oh how you ignorant Fragments are so prone to violence…" The marked Celebi shook its head disappointingly. "If only you knew the Truth we bring."
No one knew what the strange Celebi was blathering on about, but no one cared as it looked like all of them decided to attack the small Pokémon.
In one instant, Creed was gone and already picking up Ash with his psychic Powers.
"No, Ash!" His father cried out desperately.
Creed snapped its fingers once more and froze everyone but it in a time freeze. The twisted Legendary turned to the young boy it had captured. "Somehow, you knew the portal was here even though we were told of its existence only recently. How curious."
Creed started walking towards the air where the Portal vanished. However, something strange happened. The portal re opened and something came out and fired a blast right at the grass and psychic Pokémon. The blast caught the strange Legendary by surprise and it was sent flying back towards its followers. The cloaked figures all looked towards their leader and quickly sheltered the small legendary.
"Get back here!" Phoenix yelled before all of them threw a flash bomb into the ground. The dazzling light blinded all the four Aura users and just as quickly as they appeared, they vanished.
"Where are they?!" The father yelled as he looked around for any sign of the group of people, the Pokémon that attacked them, his wife…
But they were all gone.
Just like that he had lost every—
"Ash." Phoenix looked over towards the children and ran to his son. He scooped him into his arms and tried to call him to wake up.
"Ash! Wake up! Wake up! Please wake up!"
Eventually the young boy did open his eyes again. However, something was different. The father sensed that something was wrong with his son's Aura, it was different from before in ways he couldn't describe.
As for the second strange fact: Ash was born with two brown eyes, but now his right eye was now a deep purple color that mismatched his original left eye.
With tears finally coming out of his father's eyes, Phoenix hugged his son and cried. He sobbed under the clear night sky where he had lost almost everything.
Despite the tragedy of what occurred there was a question going through everyone's mind:
What on Earth just happened?
Unfortunately for them that question did not have a fast answer.
[Bizarre Misadventures: Ultra Tendency]
[Chapter 1: Welcome To Pallet Town]
Eight years later, a young girl and her mother were entering into the humble town of Pallet from their long, long voyage.
"We finally made it to Kanto, mother!" A beautiful, vibrant girl with blonde hair tied into a pony tail with sparkling emerald eyes smiled happily as she pushed the wheel chair her mother was sitting on.
"It looks very quaint, Lillie." Her mother who was just as beautiful as her daughter, but looked somewhat paler softly spoke up. She still had a small smile as she and her daughter started moving. "I've spent so long in Alola that I've forgotten what the main land regions feel like."
"Well first we have to visit Professor Oak. Ms. Wicke was kind enough to tell him of our circumstance, so he's letting you stay there while I head to Cerulean City." Lillie told her mother as she saw a small wooden sign that pointed towards Professor Oak's lab.
Unfortunately for the two of them, Professor Oak had placed his lab on the highest Hill of the town and Lillie looked like she was going to have to push her mother all the way up there.
…
"Excuse me. Do you need help in going up there?"
The two of them looked over to see a young boy around Lillie's age who was wearing a black shirt under an open blue hoodie while wearing jeans. He had black hair and he was wearing a red cap with a white front with a green symbol in the center. The boy was also wearing a black scarf and carried a black bag pack with a Great Ball symbol on it.
There were several things that stood out about him besides his attire. He was carrying a bouquet of lovely Dahlia flowers in his arms, while there was a Red Riolu hanging on his shoulder. However, what was most interesting about him was the fact he had one purple colored eye and one brown colored eye.
Lillie was the first to speak up. "O-Oh no, I'm fine! I couldn't impose."
"It's alright," The boy spoke up. "I'm in no hurry, and my dad always said to help out a lady in need."
"How gentlemanly of you, thank you." Lillie's mother gave another soft smile.
"Oh right, here. You can hold these to make you feel better." The boy spoke up as he placed the bouquet of flowers on the Mother's lap and carefully took over the wheelchair from Lillie.
"Thank you for that." Lillie spoke up.
"Oh it's no problem. So how long have you two been in Pallet Town?" The boy asked.
"We just arrived today actually." Lillie responded simply. "We we're going to meet with Professor Oak about some business."
"Wow really? You guys just arrived today? So did I! But actually I used to live here before I moved to Sinnoh. It's been eight years since I last came to this place and it's almost like nothing has changed except everything looks a lot smaller." The boy spoke up as he brought Lillie's mom towards the entrance of Oak's lab on top of the hill.
"Is that so? You lived here before?" Lillie asked with interest.
"Yeah! Oh wait, I never introduced myself. My name's Ash and this rascal right here is Rojo." Ash spoke up as he then motioned towards the Riolu on the ground sticking out his tongue at him.
"I'm Lillie and this is my mom, Lusamine." The blonde girl answered back politely. "We came from Alola."
"Whoa! Alola? I've heard that's really far from Kanto." Ash spoke up.
Lillie turned her head towards the horizon behind them, as if even no matter how far she traveled, she knew where Alola was by heart. "It is far, but it's really close to my heart."
Lusamine was inhaling the purple flowers. "So Ash, why do you have a bouquet? Is there some special lady that you are going to give this to?" She teased lightly.
"Oh yeah! I was going to give it to her later today!" Ash excitedly spoke up.
"Who is the lucky lady?" Lusamine asked.
"My mom."
Lusamine kept her smile as she looked at the flowers. "That is a very sweet thing for you to do for your mother. I wish my children gave me flowers." There was a slight joking and sarcastic tone that came from the weakened woman as she said that last sentence.
Lillie somewhat narrowed her eyes at her mom, only she and her knew the weight of why that wasn't possible for a while.
"You can have one, I'm sure my mom doesn't mind sharing." Ash spoke up as they reached the front steps of Oak's lab.
"You're such a kind child, Ash. I swear all children these days are somehow becoming more beautiful without me even noticing…" Lusamine trailed off.
Lillie pressed the doorbell and after a while, a kind old man appeared in front of the three of them.
"Ahh! You must be Lillie and Lusamine! Ms. Wicke told me about your circum…stan… Ash?" The professor trailed off as he spotted the young boy. "Oh where are my manners? Come in! Come in! All of you must be tired from your travels."
The professor opened his doors wide for the three of them to enter. As they did Lillie turned to Ash, "You know the professor?"
"Well sorta. I don't recall him that well, but he was a friend of my dad and mom." Ash explained as he helped Lusamine in.
"Thank you very much, Ash." Lusamine spoke after they entered and returned the bouquet to him. Ash took it back, but kept his word and gave a single purple flower back to Lusamine who appreciated the thought.
Professor Oak closed the door behind them and spoke up. "Ash, I'm surprised you came here so early. I wasn't expecting you for another few days."
"Uncle Riley sent me sooner than I expected. I thought he called you ahead of time."
"No he didn't, must have slipped his mind. Ms. Lusamine, here let me show you to your room while I call your workers here to bring the luggage of you and your daughter." Professor Oak spoke up as he started moving Lusamine towards a different area.
Rojo, Ash's Riolu, jabbed his elbow onto Ash's leg and pointed. Realizing what his Pokémon meant, Ash looked towards Lillie. "Oh hey, I gotta visit my mom now."
"Oh, let me come with you. It's the least I can do as thanks." Lillie spoke up.
"Are you sure? Aren't you going to help your mom?" Ash looked deeper towards the Lab.
"It's fine. She's already being settled in. We'll just tell them we're visiting your mom and be right back." Lillie assured him.
It was then she shouted out loud as the two started to leave. "Professor Oak! Mother! We're going to visit Ash's mother and we'll be right back!" She then left after Ash.
"That girl, she's become so much more vibrant than I recall." Lusamine heard her daughter but then looked at Professor Oak in confusion. "Is something wrong?"
The kind old man seemed nervous. "Oh it's just… that explains why Ash had a bouquet with him…" He spoke out somberly as he looked out the door the two children left from.
[...]
Lillie was surprised that Ash wasn't going anywhere near the small houses that were in the country town.
In fact, Ash was actually walking towards the outskirts of town.
While this confused her to why his mom would be located towards the outskirts, she looked over to Ash' Riolu. "So why is Rojo colored red instead of blue? I've heard that even Shiny Riolu are yellow."
Ash stopped and looked towards his friend. The small fighting type just shrugged. "No one really knows. It's just that when his egg hatched, he was like that. Though, it will be a lot easier to distinguish him from my father and Uncle's Lucario incase this guy ever evolves."
Rojo opened his mouth, but then closed out as if he wanted to say something, but chose not to.
As they continued to walk out towards town, Lillie figured they weren't going towards any of the houses and this was slightly worrying her.
"Umm Ash? Why is it that we have to visit your mom all the way out here?"
Ash looked back in surprise. "Oh because my mom is here. She's always been here according to my uncle."
The heterochromia boy said that so simply, it started flaring warning signs on Lillie's subconscious. She was worrying if by some chance this boy was actually crazy—
"Ahh! We're almost there!" Ash spoke up, surprising and almost scaring the blonde girl. With a heart full of dread, she looked on ahead… and spotted a gravestone?
Ash walked up towards the stone and placed the flowers in front of it. He and his Riolu went down on one knee as they looked at the grave stone marked, "Delia Ketchum: loving wife and mother."
"Hey mom, I'm back. I'm sorry I never got to visit you, I was in Sinnoh." Ash spoke to the stone as if somehow, his mom could hear him from beyond.
The bad feeling Lillie was stomaching instantly faded and now she felt a little guilty for doubting Ash in the first place.
"I am so sorry." She blurted out quickly.
The raven haired boy turned back surprise. "Sorry? Why are you sorry… oh whoops! I never said that we'd be visiting my mom's gravestone! That's totally my bad! I guess I should be apologizing!" Ash laughed sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head as Rojo rolled his eyes at his trainer's action.
"No, no. I just… didn't know your mom passed away." Lillie felt like she could empathize with Ash a bit. She lost her father when she was young and the loss of her father drove her mother insane for a while until recently when she snapped her out of her it. (Though it took a LOT before that happened)
"She passed away when I was four. I don't recall how she died, but my Uncle told me it was an accident." For the first time, Ash dropped his smile. "I haven't seen my dad ever since the accident."
"I'm… sorry to hear that." Lillie could deeply empathize with Ash on losing one parent and then another.
Ash nodded at that before looked back to the gravestone. "I'm just here to pay my respect."
"May I do so as well? Your mother must have been a wonderful woman." Lillie spoke up.
Ash didn't stop her as they both stayed quiet to pay their respect. Both of them kneeled in front of the grave and closed their eyes.
None of them realized that there was a spark of electricity dancing over the grave.
Rojo snapped open his eyes and looked above Delia's gravestone. He swore his sharper senses heard something just now.
The two were eventually done afterward and Ash looked at his mom's gravestone one more time.
"Well, I've got to go now mom," He placed his hand on top of her gravestone. "See ya—"
*FASHOOM!*
The three of them were blown away as a sudden giant wormhole appeared over the gravestone.
Lillie was the first to see it and her eyes widened in shock. "An Ultra Wormhole here!?"
Rojo and Ash turned to Lillie. "Wait what!?"
It was the blonde girl's turn to stare at the two of them since she heard two voices that time. "D-Did your Riolu just talk!?"
Unfortunately for them all, a loud screeching noise came out of the wormhole as four small, paper looking creatures flew out of the portal and started flying around in the wind.
The three of them looked in shock as the wormhole closed. Somehow, with the loss of the strange tear, the four creatures that came out looked even more frantic and started screaming unearthly noises at a much louder rate.
"U-Ultra Beasts!" Lillie shouted out horrified.
'What the heck are Ultra Beasts!?' This voice was definitely not Ash's and it sounded like it was communicating through her head. Lillie looked over to Ash' Riolu as if he was the one that just asked that.
"Hey, look out!" Ash suddenly jumped and tackled Lillie out of the way as the ground he and Lillie were on so shortly was cut up like pieces of soft paper. (ironically enough)
The four paper-like creatures screeched out loud again, but this time they all seemed focused on Lillie and Ash.
"What's the big idea!? Who are you guys!?" Ash screamed out as he and Rojo stepped up to protect Lillie.
The blonde girl got back up and grabbed Ash's shoulder. "Ash! Those are Ultra Beasts! W-We need to leave! They're all powerful creatures!" Lillie had witnessed the power of Ultra Beasts beforehand. Even her strongest friend had trouble fighting only one of these creatures, but now there were four of them right here with only Ash and a Riolu to defend themselves?!
"K-Kartana!" They shouted as they all rushed for the three.
Lillie closed her eyes, fearing the worst. However, a few seconds passed and nothing seemed to be happening, as she opened her eyes, she saw one of the strangest things she never expected to see!
Ash and Rojo were creating a Red and Purple force field around the three of them that was slowly breaking at the attacks of the strange… Kartana creatures.
"W-What is this!? H-How are you doing…" Lillie was distracted when another large crack appeared on the dome surrounding them and Ash and Rojo visibly winced.
'Ash, these things are breaking the force field! Now would be a great time for one of your plans!' Rojo telepathically linked urgently.
"I'm thinking! I'm thinking!" Ash yelled back before he noticed all four of them retreating and raising one of their limbs high like swords— "Drop the field and run!"
In fast instant, the two Aura adepts dropped the force field and separated but not before Ash scooped up Lillie in one motion and got out of the way of all four Ultra Beasts slashing the ground and leaving a large, clean cut on the ground they were in.
"H-How did you do that!?" Lillie asked in utter shock. Was Ash able to use powers?!
"It's called Aura and long story short: I basically have powers similar to a Lucario!" Ash spoke up as he saw the Ultra Beasts all go after him and Lillie.
"They're after us!" The blonde girl screamed and pointed as she held on to Ash.
"Rojo, now! Their backs are turned to you!" Ash screamed out.
The small Riolu quickly charged energy in his palms, revealing he was using a Focus Blast and threw it towards all four of the chasing Ultra Beasts. However, the same four creatures seemed to be avoiding the attack like how a person tries to punch a falling leaf, only for it to sometimes ride the wind of the attack and avoid it.
Ash had to jink hard to the left in order to avoid his Pokémon's attack.
"They avoided that!?" Lillie shouted in horror as the Ultra Beasts still continued to pursue them. She really, really, really wished her old friends were her right now.
However, something was off. While Lillie was looking in horror, she noticed Ash… he was smiling!?
"That was it! Rojo, keep it up a few more times and follow us!" Ash spoke up as he started running.
"Ash, what are you doing!?" The blonde girl asked she held on tight for dear life.
The boy started running as fast as he possibly could with the four Ultra Beasts gliding after him and Lillie clinging on to him. "I have an idea to stop them! I just hope it actually works!"
That last sentence was not comforting.
One of the Ultra Beasts shot a slash of air towards the pair. However, Ash barely avoided this one and his scarf ended up being cut by its tail.
They finally got back into Pallet Town and Ash quickly ran faster. Lillie noticed that they were running away from Professor Oak's lab. "Ash, what are you doing!?"
He seemed to catch on to where she was looking. "I can't bring these guys near the Lab! Professor Oak and your mother are there!"
Lillie paled at the thought of these things coming even close to her mother and the nice old man she had met today then quickly shook her head. "Then where are we going!?"
"To something that may or may not be still be here from eight years ago!" Ash spoke up as another deadly screech reached their ears. One of the Ultra beasts was gliding faster towards Ash, but then Riolu stomped on the creature from the air and jumped in front of Ash.
Rojo charged another Focus Blast and fired right at the chasers. However, the explosion only seemed to push the four creatures away rather than harm them. It also didn't seem to slow them down, so the red Riolu started following Ash and Lillie.
'This plan better not put us both in a full body, six month cast again!' Rojo shouted out to his friend.
"I'm sorry, what!?" The blonde girl looked to the heterochromia boy in shock. His plans have put him in full body casts!?
"Hey, this plan is totally not like those other three plans! There aren't any random Digglets anymore!" Ash screamed back before they all avoided another slash from one of the Ultra Beasts.
The raven haired aura user looked up ahead.
"Yes, it's there!" Ash exclaimed as he ran as fast as he could towards a small lake at the center of the town.
The three got to the area and Ash quickly, but gently placed Lillie on her feet as they all stopped in front of the lake.
"W-What are we doing here!?" Lillie asked as she saw the Ultra beasts closing in on them.
"My plan. Okay, Rojo, follow my lead and we'll attack!" Ash placed his palm out and purple energy quickly started to form around his hand into a sphere. Rojo did the same and his Focus Blast was forming as well.
While the feat of a human performing something like a Pokémon move was amazing, Lillie still saw that the Ultra Beasts were coming straight for them.
Ash's smile remained undaunted as he threw his Aura Sphere…
Right into the lake!
Lillie's emerald eyes widened as she saw Rojo do the same exact thing after his trainer. "Why did you throw them in to the la—"
*BOOM!*
A large burst of water shot out of the lake, covering Lillie, Ash, Rojo, and even the Ultra Beasts in a torrent of water.
As the wave washed over all of them, Lillie was found gasping for breath and coughing out water. Ash popped up and did the same. Both of them were drenched to the skin.
Lillie felt the need to slap the back of Ash's head. "Why did—*Cough*— you do that!?" She asked with her face beet red.
"Their bodies… were… made of some… paper like substance…" Ash gasped for breath and stood back up on his feet. "The way they moved was exactly… like paper, so I thought: doesn't paper get weaker when it's soaked? And luckily for us, the lake I used to visit as a kid was still here." He started laughing before he noticed a Magikarp beside him splashing around.
'Why do most of your plans involving water end up with explosions?' Rojo walked over to the both of them but he looked relatively dry. He then threw the Magikarp right back into the lake.
"You know most of the Pokémon in Iron Island have some disdain towards water, Rojo. I seem to recall you being the first to do this when you accidentally woke up that group of Onix." Ash leered at his friend.
"Iron Island?" Lillie repeated out before looking at the area where the Ultra Beasts were. "Hey, look!"
To where she pointed, all four creatures were now soaking wet like the two humans. They were struggling to get back into the air to glide because they actually had more volume now that they couldn't carry themselves up by the wind.
Still, the four of them started to react as if being wet was some kind of horrible experience because they started wailing and screaming and then picked themselves up in the air before fleeing towards the forest groggily.
"Well, I was going to attack them after that, but… it looked like they were just scared and confused…" Ash spoke up before he noticed Rojo really was dry. "How come you're not wet?"
Rojo countered his friend's question with one of his own. 'Why didn't you place a barrier over you and Lillie after we threw our attacks in the water?'
"… Whoops." Ash spoke up before looking towards Lillie. "Uh hey sorry—"
"What is going on!? How did those Ultra Beasts appear!? And how could you use Aura!? And why is that Riolu able to talk!?" Lillie shouted out in confusion before sneezing cutely.
Ash rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"By the way, I know you asked me a bunch of questions, but how did you know what to call those things that attacked us? And did you know that strange portal that appeared over my mom's grave?" Ash asked.
Lillie realized that Ash also had questions himself that she didn't explain to him.
"That… is a long story."
"Well… so is mine." Ash offered up a silly smile before he was hit in the face with another Magikarp.
'Just so you know: there are other Magikarps that we kind of are killing right now, so we better start throwing them back into the lake!' Rojo, who picked up another flopping red fish nearby him, threw the Pokémon unceremoniously back into the water.
"Sorry about that, miss." Ash ended up saying to the Magikarp that was thrown at him before tossing her back into the water.
"You," Lillie pointed to Ash, trying to find the words after everything just now: the sudden reappearance of Ultra Beasts, the powers a human boy her age was capable of doing, the talking Riolu, and somehow ending up tossing Magikarp back into a lake!? What could she say to all of that in just one afternoon? "… are one strange boy, you know that right?"
Apparently, only the simple words came out of her mouth.
Ash only had one response to that. "Well to be fair, Lillie, everyone else is just strange to me."
[Elsewhere]
Deep within an empty cathedral, there was a man in deep mediation and song as his voice echoed through the large stone building.
~Where you there when they sealed away our lord~ Where you there when they sealed away our lord?~ Ooohhhh! Sometimes, it causes us to Tremble~ Tremble~ Tremble!
~But where you there when the Reverend came to us?~ Where you there when he graced us with his form?~ Ooohhh! Sometimes, it causes us to shout in Glory~ Glory~ Glory!
He prostrated himself down on the ground and cried.
Oh, my lord and Savior, The True one! Forgive me, a sinner, for you have abandoned me in this nightmarish realm for years! I see the lesson you are trying to show me, my lord and I shall overcome this drought to spread your love to all those worthy of it!
My exile shall soon be lifted, and I shall gather the trespassers into the new world.
As he finished his finished his prayer, lightning flashed and thunder boomed. The flash of light revealed the cathedral wasn't empty, but filled with corpses…
Oh True One, give me the strength to free myself of these unworthy demons! Amen!
{Author Notes}
Hi! PG-13 here. I've always liked Ash Ketchum and even though many people like to crap on him, he's still my favorite Pokémon Character of all time. So, I've always liked the idea of him being able to use Aura, but I've always noticed that the stories that give him Aura usually make him very powerful. I mean, I have no idea what Aura actually is in the Pokémon universe, but I still enjoyed the Aura Ash stories.
However, I wanted to make my own spin on this usual story. Ash here has Aura, but unlike most he's not going to be that strong. I wanted to give Ash powers, to make his adventures more interesting and fun—Example: how would Aura Ash handle against the threat of Ultra Beasts from Sun and Moon?
The purpose of giving Ash powers here is not for him to curb stomp everything, but to actually make exciting battles. If you notice the title, I've heavily referenced the Anime, "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency"
Without going into too much detail and spoilers, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure has some amazingly clever fights that makes different powers go up against each other in memorable ways. I fell in love with that style of outwitting your opponent and that's what I hope to bring in this story.
Ash Ketchum in this story is going to be somewhat like young Joseph Joestar in his where through this bizarre adventure, he's going to be relying more on tricks and creativity rather than brute force and Chosen power. (Also, because I have no shame, expect him to predict his enemy lines before they say it.)
Next, we have everyone's newest favorite game companion, Lillie! I'm sure many people liked her, and this story really started to form when I found out that (Even more Spoilers if you somehow read this far and still don't know this!) she was going to Kanto of all places.
If you didn't know (Still Spoilers!) there was a part of the game when you were capturing Ultra Beasts, Looker and his 'Old Co-worker' called people who have been through the Ultra Worm Hole, A Faller, or something like that. Fallers were people who Ultra Beasts instinctively attack in order to get back home, and I, when playing that, was worried about Lillie since she didn't have any Pokémon as of that time. What if she was attacked by an Ultra Beast? Who would protect her? (Ash!)
I'm excited for this story. I tried to make it unpredictable and it ties in with my other story, Bizarre Misadventures! I hope you guys will still enjoy this one though.
So anyway, thanks for taking your time to read this and see ya soon.