Previously

Ash Ketchum, the Regional Pokémon League Champion of Kanto, discovered that the infamous international criminal known as The Man with the Black Charizard was in fact his long lost father. In his grief he impregnated his longtime friend Misty. A crumbling Team Rocket sought to use this knowledge to blackmail Ash into returning Omegamoah, a Pokémon they had created with enough power to destroy an entire city and adapt to whatever it fought. When the plan failed, Team Rocket risked their few remaining members in a daring raid to reclaim the Juggernaut Pokémon. With the help of the Pokemon G-Men, Ash was able to put an end to Team Rocket once and for all.

Ash and Misty are now happily married with two children, and have built a new life together. But the Man with the Black Charizard is still at large, and now events are being set in motion which may spell certain doom for the entire Pokémon world.

David Ketchum, the Man with the Black Charizard, sat staring at the mask he wore whenever he went out in the field. For as long as he could remember, his dream was to be the best Pokémon trainer that the world had ever known. It didn't take him long to realize how hard it was to reach that goal. He could still remember the long years he spent training his Pokémon like everyone else, only to have them fall short. Eventually he got sick and tired of losing and set off to find a way to make his Pokémon more powerful than any in existence. He even faked his own death so there wouldn't be any distractions; his dream was far more important than the family he left behind.

He started wearing a mask the same time he began participating in underground Pokémon battles, illegal matches where people make bets on the outcomes. He needed to find a way to push his Pokémon far beyond their limits, and eventually he made enough money in the underground matches and various other illicit activities to fund his experiments. In time he was able to find ways not only to dramatically increase the strength, speed, and durability of his Pokémon, but also teach them moves that it would normally be impossible for them to learn. Only a handful of his Pokémon were able to survive his experiments, but he always told himself that there was no place on his team for weakness. The strongest of the Pokémon that survived Ketchum's inhumane experiments was his now infamous black Charizard.

A few years ago, David's son Ash had become the Regional Pokémon League Champion of Kanto. This had occurred shortly before Team Rocket to set their secret weapon, the Pokémon Omegamoah, loose upon the world. Ash helped foil Team Rocket's plans for world domination and captured the Juggernaut Pokémon. David was hired by Giovanni to get Omegamoah back for Team Rocket, and fought against his son in a fierce Pokémon battle. Five of Ash's Pokemon were effortlessly defeated by just one of David's augmented specimens, forcing Ash to call on Omegamoah for the first time. Somehow Ash was able to control the beast, and it took on a whole gauntlet of David's augmented Pokémon. It was during this battle that David revealed to Ash that he was in fact his father, whom he had previously thought to have been dead for years. The match was interrupted before it could come to a satisfactory conclusion.

David was present at Team Rocket's final stand. He stopped one of the Rocket grunts from shooting the woman who was carrying his unborn grandchild. Since then he had been preparing his augmented Pokémon for the inevitable rematch with his son.

"I guess it's now or never…"

He had spent the last several days setting things in order, now all he had to do was select which of his Pokémon he would accompany him. When he had made his decision, he released them from their Poké Balls.

"All I've ever wanted was to be the very best, like no one ever was… and I've done horrible things to each and every one of you in attempt to realize that dream. I realize that I have no right to ask this… but will you fight for me… one last time?"

David's black Charizard stepped forward and roared. It had been with him since this dark journey began, and now it would help him see it's ending through. All the other Pokémon followed suit.

"PERIMETER ALARM! THIRTY-FIVE ARMED HOSTILES DETECTED!"

David looked at the monitors and saw that the armed gunmen making their way toward his hideout were agents of Team Chaos, the terrorist group that had filled the void left by Team Rocket. Unlike their predecessors, Team Chaos had no interest in world domination, in fact they didn't seem to have any goal other than to spread fear and pain across the Pokémon world.

"I'll be sure to leave them a parting gift."

David recalled his Pokémon, put on his mask, punched in a command on the computer, and made his way to the secret exit.

BOOM!
"What the hell was that?!"

"The was a bomb you dumb shit. Obviously he knew we were coming."

Eris, the leader of Team Chaos, was doing her best to hide her smile. The explosion had just killed three of her subordinates, but it was little surprises like this that made life interesting.

"Don't bother searching the debris. The Man with the Black Charizard isn't stupid enough to leave anything worthwhile behind, much less what we came here for."

"What did we come here for exactly?"

"Something that'll help us bring the rest of the Pokémon world to its knees… Or maybe I just thought David Ketchum's mask would make a nice decoration for my bedroom wall, I'm not really sure." she giggled.

"Lady Eris, we just lost three of our men!"

"Well, at least we know what's for dinner."

"Is she serious?" whispered one of the others.

"That's it! One of those guys was my friend, and you think this is some kind of joke?!"

Before anyone could move, Eris pulled out her gun.

"Would you like to join him and make it an even four? Where do you want it, the brain or the crotch?"

"Uh…"

"Too slow."

Click!

"Don't forget who signs your paycheck sweetie. Next time the gun might not be empty."

This was only a minor setback. David Ketchum was bound to make a mistake sooner or later, and then Team Chaos would find him. In the meantime, there was at least one other piece of the puzzle that needed to be acquired.

"All these idiots care about is money. I can't wait to see the look on their faces when they learn the truth…I imagine it'll look something like livestock that's just realized they'd been led to the slaughter."

In the privacy of her quarters, Eris opened a secret compartment inside of the wall, the contents of which were worth more than any legendary Pokémon her idiotic underlings could name. The items bathed the dark room in an eerie aura. Anyone else would have been trembling in fear at the sight of this collection, but it filled Eris with a wicked thrill of anticipation. She had been longing for this ever since she was a little girl, and now she was so close she could taste it.

"Soon… Cycotan will rise…"

(To be continued)