A/N: Hi Guys(and Gals)! This story is a kind of which I have always read and always loved. So, let's get right in!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own pokemon.

Or do i?

But seriously, I don't.

PROLOGUE

"Greninja, use water shuriken!"

"Charizard, blast burn!"

Both were hit, but victory was only given to one.

"And the victory goes to… Alain!"

Ash rushed out to check Greninja. "Greninja, are you okay?"

Greninja nodded the affirmative. Ash let out a sigh of relief, drew out his pokeball while sying "you did amazing, Greninja," and sent him back into the ball.

Ash turned to Alain. "Damn Alain, I can never beat you."

Alain just smiled and said "Good battle, Ash."

"You too, Alain."

But as ash left, he felt burdened with the weight of knowing he had lost 6 battles n the leagues without winning any single one. Even worse was the fact that this time, he had come the closest yet to winning the league, only to be crushed by that Charizard.

"Pikachu," his starter said.

"Yeah buddy, I am too."

"Pika pika! Chu Pikachu!"

"Yeah, we'll definitely win the next one!" The spark came back to his eyes as he exited the Kalos league for the last time.

FAST FORWARD TO ASH RETURNING HOME

"We're here, Pikachu!"

"Chu!"

Ash and co came inside his house. There, they were greeted by what they thought was a pleasant surprise.

"Hi everybody!" All of his friends were there, from all the regions.

"Ash, this is a convention. You need to stop entering the leagues!"

He tilted his head, confused. "But why?"

Misty then spoke up. "Because you're weak, Ash. You have entered 6 leagues, but you haven't won any of them, not a single one. What do you think that says about you? For heaven's sake, no one loses that many leagues! No one! But you have. That just shows you're a wannabe pokemon master who tries to be good but doesn't have the power to. I mean, you've never even fully evolved you're pokemon until this year! What kind of so-called "pokemon master" does that? Stop trying ash. Start going to school and maybe then you'll finally get smarter."

Iris then spoke up: "That's true ash. I challenged the league one time, and now i'm the champion. I always said this when I was exasperated, but now I mean this: you're such a little kid."

Clemont then said "Ash, you have to admit that you failed pretty badly. You finally got a decent team, and you still couldn't win the league. What do you think that says about you?"

May spoke up "It says you can't achieve what you want, Ash. You have to accept that you're never going to become a pokemon master. You have to realize that you can't make this dream of yours come true."

Ash did not react the way they thought he would, raging and screaming like a little kid. Instead he looked around and said, in a flat, dead voice, "Who agrees with this?"

All of his friends raised their hands.

He then shook his head, chuckling.

This made Brock angry. "Ash, are you laughing at your own patheticness?" he mocked.

Everybody laughed. However, Ash just turned around and looked at Delia.

"Do you agree with them, Mom?"

"Ash, honey…don't you think they're right? I feel like with all this pokemon master business, you haven't been able to spend time with you lately. Also, you have to admit, you really haven't gone the correct way training your pokemon. I mean, never even making them evolve in their full forms until this year? Even I have to agree that that's stupid, Ash. Won't you please quit? We could spend more time as a family!" She raised her hands toward Ash as if expecting him to embrace her.

He was quiet for a moment, and they started to think that they had convinced him.

Then, a deadly aura started spreading to the room, filling them with fear.

"…So, that's how all of you feel, huh?"

This only made them very scared, as when Ash said it, it wasn't in his voice. It was much deeper and sounded like several voices at once, almost…demonic.

"…You haven't answered me."

None of them dared speak.

"If you expect me to stop, then you're right. I am going to stop. Right here, right now."

Misty dared to smirk.

Then, a burning smell was heard, along with fire behind Ash.

Misty's smell quickly melted off her face. She grabbed her mallet and smashed through the wall of the house, which everybody fled through.

"…Cowards…"

He then used his aura to teleport himself to his pokemon.

"Which ones choose to leave with me?"

None said anything.

"Then I'm leaving."

He then sent out all of his Kalos pokemon. "Whichever ones wish to come with me, ten stay in your place. All others take a step back."

All of them stepped back, even Greninja.

"…what about you, Pikachu?"

Pikachu looked at him for a long moment, and then hopped of his shoulder and went to stand with the rest of his pokemon.

"…All of you, I have nothing to say. Have a nice life."

With that, he flew away, off to where he could not be found - Mirage island.

He looked at his reflection, and then took off his hat and threw it in the water. He then through his backpack and his pokedex in the water as well.

He turned and found all the Wynauts and Wobbufets staring at him with an angry expression, as if mad at him for disturbing the peace of the island. However, as soon as he turned to them, they all became frightened and ran away.

He then started laughing – and eerie sound that sounded as if he had gone mad.

"So, you think I'm weak, eh?"

He then cut his hair close cropped with a blade of aura.

"Well, sooner or later, you'll think differently."

He used aura to change his clothes and his eyes to a blood-red color.

"You all abandoned me. Well, just you wait. What you saw at the house really wasn't an illusion. Ash is dead. The ash you knew is dead. But now I am here, and soon, I will make you pay for what you did to me."

He teleported himself to an island that hadn't been discovered yet, and island that was only inhabited by pokemon.

Then he said, one last time, "Ash Ketchum…is dead."

END OF PROLOGUE

A/N: 0_o Ash chill. Well, that wasn't dark! What did you think? Please R&R!