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Alright, so this is the Rayshipping story I had promised you guys. Please enjoy.

Ash was heading back from the Unova league. He thought about how he did and hoped that the others wouldn't mind that he had lost. There was only one person in his mind:

May.

Ever since the ordeal with Manaphy, he wanted to get together with her. However, he was leading a secret life of being Arceus's saboteur to ruin Team Rocket's world domination plots. When he retired, he found May with Drew together. He was heartbroken, which was why he was more than willing to leave to Sinnoh. He had learned recently that they had broken up, and had received Drew's hope that Ash could be with May, so that at least one of them could take care of her.

When Ash reached May's house, he was shocked to see her with Brock. May talked about how the two got together by talking about how useless Ash was in the leagues. She even went as far as to thank Ash for losing so much.

Ash rushed out tearfully. Damn it! If I had won at least one league, maybe I could have been together with her.

He rushed back home, only to find a corpse of Delia on the floor with a note next to her:

Dear Ash,

If you are reading this, YOU SUCK BALLS. But I thank you. If it wasn't for you, I would never have been together with Brock and his wonderful member. As a parting gift, I give you...your stupid mother's corpse/

-from,

May

P.S. If you see Drew, tell him that he can choke on his puny little wiener.

Ash trembled with fury. He hadn't particularly liked Drew, but the two had become close friends after Drew and May broke up. What was worse, his mother mattered more than anything else to him. He wept and left to see Oak.

His pokemon were furious at what happened. Suddenly, a beat up Blaziken, Glaceon, Skitty, Kabutops, Omastar, and Onix came and said they left the two after what happened. Ash readily accepted their offer but knew that he would have a hole in his heart for as long as he would live.

Suddenly, Arceus appeared. She convinced Oak to allow Ash to carry all his pokemon with him so that anyone that might betray him wouldn't try to steal his pokemon. She then explained to Ash that several pokemon wanted to join Ash. She teleported in Manaphy, Ho-oh, Lugia, Dialga, Giratina, Palkia, Heatran. Zekrom, Mewtwo, Deoxys, Keldeo and Meloetta. All had heard what had happened and felt sorry for him. Ash was shocked by the sheer number of legendaries that wanted to join him, but he accepted them.

Arceus explained that she was incubating an Arceus child and that once it hatched, she would be given to Ash. Ash was shocked but thanked Arceus profusely.

As for Professor Oak, he knew that he was going to research a hell lot of legendaries. He also decided to give Ash the option of carrying all his pokeballs with him, otherwise one could steal his pokemon when he was not using them. Ash took up the offer and thanked him.

Ash pondered his next move. He figured that he might as well redo the leagues to prove that he was just as good as any other person, maybe even better. He figured that he would go to Sinnoh because he had to meet up with a friend of his.

Ash rode on Zekrom to the Sinnoh region. Of course they attracted a lot of attention, but he was the Hero of Ideals, after all. He rushed to his friend's house.

Paul's.

Ash grimaced as he remembered that Paul had warned him just before he went to the Unova region that May was unreliable and would break his heart.

He knocked on the door.

Paul answered, surprised to see his friend. "Hey Ash, what are you doing here?"

Ash looked on the floor. "May murdered my mom."

Paul flinched before regaining his cold composure from before his reformation. If Ash didn't know better, he would have thought that Paul had never changed.

"Come in, Ash, and don't you fucking DARE to leave anything out."

Ash went inside and recapped everything that had happened. Ash understood why Paul was so pissed, though. Paul had met his mom while Ash was in Unova, and Delia had practically adopted Paul as a second son, in everything but blood and paperwork.

Paul cursed, "Fuck, I KNEW that that bitch wasn't good. How you ever saw anything in her, I will never know." Ash then told him about what had happened with Manaphy.

Paul grunted. "Serves her right, Manaphy is too good of a legendary to let a common whore like May see him again."

Ash then hesitated. "Paul, can I trust you?"

"Anything, Ketchum."

Ash took a deep breath and released all his legendaries. Paul's eyes widened so much that they threatened to come out of his sockets. "Damn, Ketchum, I swear you must have more legendaries than fucking Tobias! His Darkrai has nothing against your team. I mean, if what I've heard about Keldeo is true, you could destroy his Darkrai in one attack!"

Ash smiled. Paul had never truly lost his fascination for legendaries, no matter how hard he tried to hide it. "Hey Paul, is it okay if I stay at your house for a while before I head over to defeat Roark again?"

Paul grinned. "No problem, but don't get too cocky. We wouldn't want to have his Geodude beat your whole team, would we?" The two looked at each other and laughed.

As Ash settled in to his new room, Paul silently moved towards his pokegear and called Cynthia. Ash would be in for a special surprise in a few days.

-time skip the next day-

Ash was getting ready to leave. "Hey Paul, I'm leaving now."

Paul was surprised. "A-Already, b-b-but don't you want to do some training first or whatever the hell you do these days?"

Ash scratched his head. "Now that you mention it, I could get some training done. But why are you so desperate for me to stay? You lonely or something?"

Paul stuttered nervously as he realized he let something out. "N-No, just there is someone coming over to see you. Someone who has been wanting to see you ever since about a year ago." Paul then finished with a wink, confusing Ash.

Ash went to a nearby forest and started training his pokemon. He realized that Deoxys could simply change forms, so he had Deoxys stand guard were anyone happening to pass by.

First there was speed training. Surprisingly, everyone managed to improve, though Snorlax had to be bribed with more food. Then there was attack training. Ash realized that Charizard, Infernape, and Sceptile were already experts he had them mentor the others. Soon, even those like Manaphy and Meloetta could rival some of his more seasoned pokemon, like Pignite and Heracross.

Finally there was defense training. Snorlax loved this part, as all it had to do was lay back while enduring super-effective attacks on it, which rarely bothered it in the first place. By the end of training, the pokemon had managed to lessen the pain from recoil damage as well as reduce damage taken by super-effective attacks.

As Ash wiped the sweat from his brow after training, he couldn't help but admire his pokemon's progress:

Bulbasaur evolved into Ivysaur.

Pignite evolved into an Emboar.

Snivy and Oshawott evolved into Serperior and Dewott respectively.

Quilava became a Typhlosion, while Totodile and Bayleaf became Croconaw and Meganium respectively.

Gible evolved into a Gabite.

He had also gotten some previous pokemon he either had or met before. They were Pidgeot, Squirtle, Hippopotas, Larvitar, Haunter, Venipede and Primeape. He got them all back after training.

Ash was getting ready to go back to Paul's after resting and returning all his pokemon from the pokemon center. Hell, at this rate his pokemon might be able to take down the whole damn league. He then shook his head. He would not get overconfident again. Suddenly he heard a voice.

"I challenge you to a battle, Ash Ketchum!"

He turned around and saw a girl about his age run up to him with a Rampardos next to her. This was going to be interesting.

"Sure, but first how do you know who I am?"

She shrugged. "I remember you from your past league battles. You were pretty good, and I intend to prove that I am better than you. Rampardos, let's go!"

Ash smiled. This could go two ways: really interesting or just plain boring. "Pikachu, you're up."

The girl was annoyed by the choice. "Are you mocking me?!"

Ash shrugged. "You said you wanted to face me. I am using my oldest pokemon, my first starter who had managed to take down Tobias's Latios, and you are questioning his strength?"

The girl mentally smacked herself for such a stupid move. Sure she had the type advantage, but Ash's Pikachu had been with Ketchum ever since he began his journey about 5 years ago in the Kanto. This was not going to be easy.

"Rampardos, use Earthquake!"

"Iron Tail on the ground."

Pikachu escaped the devastating ground attack by simply sticking his glowing tail into the earth.

"Our turn, Extreme Speed up to Rampardos and then use Iron Tail!"

"Rampardos block it away with-"

The girl was cut off as Pikachu had already slammed the devastating attack on Rampardos. Pikachu's sheer power had knocked the Rampardos out in one hit.

The girl was shocked. How powerful was this little thing? It wasn't even fully evolved yet, where its attacks could practically devastate ANYTHING.

"Damn Ketchum, I knew you were good, but were you seriously that good?"

Ash began to get a tick mark on his forehead. "You implying something?"

The girl cheekily grinned. "No, I just didn't imagine that a non- fully evolved pokemon could take down my Rampardos. Anyways, Rampardos was my strongest pokemon, as he was also my starter. Seeing that your Pikachu took it down in one hit, there is no other pokemon in my team that can beat you.'

Ash shrugged. "Meh, I've been training."

"I'll say. How long have you been training?"

"I started this morning."

"Wow, you must be a serious trainer. Anyways, I'm going off to the Lily of the Valley League as well. I hope that I see you there." She then began to leave.

"Wait," called out Ash. "what's your name?"

The girl grinned. "Kathryn Varkus. The girl that is preparing to kick your ass at the Conference."

Ash chuckled at the statement. "You can try, but you won't succeed."

Ash then prepared to leave for Paul's house. Suddenly, Manaphy came out of her pokeball.

Papa, when will I get a new Mama?

Ash smiled sadly. He then looked at the sunset. "I don't know, Manaphy. I just don't know."

He then returned Manaphy to his pokeball, despite his minor protests. He felt that he was Manaphy's only parent now, and needed to make sure that nobody could take Manaphy away from him.

Ash then FINALLY went back to Paul's house.

Meanwhile, Paul was treating a special guest to some hot chocolate after flying all the way here from the League.

Cynthia.

Cynthia normally wouldn't leave the League area except to visit her family in Celestic Town or to vacation in Undella Town. However, she had found a new excuse:

Visiting Ash Ketchum.

She was sad when he lost the Lily of the Valley Conference, but he was facing off against an entire team of legendaries. It was a miracle that he even managed to take down TWO legendaries.

Then in Unova, he lost again, but had scored fairly high.

It was then that he disappeared for about 2 days.

Cynthia was devastated when she heard that he was gone, but brightened up almost immediately when she heard that he was at Paul's house.

Suddenly, she was snapped from her thoughts as someone went inside Paul's house.

"Hey Paul, I'm done training and I-" Ash cut himself off as he saw Cynthia.

"Ash!" cried out Cynthia, while her eyes were filled with tears.

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