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Edit chapter a bit for new info spoiler to those not upkept to Japanese airings
Change in Perspective
Ash Ketchum – 14
Paul – 15
Brock Harrison – 18
Dawn – 11
If you can think of any character needed please tell
a/n: Characters added when mentioned
Talking - "Ash, Ash, he's are man"
King talking - 'All hail the King'
Thinking – 'What's the right choice'
King Thinking – 'My reign will begin again'
Awakening Arc
"Return Gliscor," a voice said.
"And another one of the green trainer's Pokémon have fallen," came an exited voice that rang through the stadium.
The Semi-finals of the Sinnoh League have been set for the roaring crowd. The final match for the day was coming to a close as everybody watched in awe.
"The green trainer has only one Pokémon left, will it be able to make a comeback or will the red trainer put down his last Pokémon?" the MC announced to the crowded stadium.
The green trainer took a glance at the scoreboard only to wince at what was displayed. On the red screen of the scoreboard, a purple haired youth with piercing black eyes wearing blue jacket with black sleeves and a purple undershirt was shown. Below his picture was a list of Pokémon with three of them gray, two lighted up, and one void of a picture. On the green screen, it showed a boy with spike haired, brown eyes, and a red and blue baseball cap wearing a dark blue and yellow vest; the same person who looking at the screen. Underneath his screen, all the Pokémon were grey except for one which was lighted.
'Just like last time,' he thought to himself as he looked at his last pokéball.
The battlefield showed that the other people on the screen standing across from the green trainer. The person in the baseball cap gritted his teeth before launching his last pokéball onto the field. "Go Monferno," he annouced to his opponent. Said Pokémon emerged from the ball, hands on knees panting. The Pokémon appeared to look like a monkey with orange fur and white fur around his neck. It also has red and blue markings on its face, gold arm bands, and a long tail ending in a red flame.
The other trainer only had a calm look as his Pokémon stood calmly waiting for its next command. The Pokémon itself look like a green Ankylosaurs with two spikes jutting from its head and a large shell with a small tree and white spikes on top.
"And it looks like this is it for Ash Ketchum, folks. Even though his Monferno has the type advantage over Paul's powerhouse, Monferno has been in three battles already to Torterra's two. Seems like it's it for the Pallet Town trainer," spoke the MC to the whole crowd.
"Match between red trainer's Torterra and green trainer's Monferno begin," announced the referee while raising his flags.
Purple-haired trainer shook his head before saying, "I knew this was the best you could do. Torterra, Giga Drain."
"Tor!" the giant Pokémon roared as the spikes on its back turned green before launching tentacle objects from the spikes directly at the tried Pokémon. The green tentacles began to suck the energy from Monferno before throwing it away like trash. The toss Monferno landed right in front of its trainer. The monkey like Pokémon struggled to stand to a vertical base.
The roar of the crowd echoed as Paul began to launch his final move. "Torterra finish off that excuse of a Pokémon with Frenzy Plant," he ordered. The Continent Pokémon moved its weight on its hind legs before rocking back down on the fronts.
"Tor-," the blue clad trainer's starter began as vines began to appear from the ground.
The black-haired trainer only could see the attack come in slow motions as his hopes of winning diminished. 'I can't believe that it's happening again. I know that there's someone out there that better than you, but why him. Why can't I ever beat him? I thought my ways will prevail in the end, but maybe...just maybe he was right,' he finished with his head dropped at the conclusion that was made.
'You're right,' a voice answered Ash.
Ash's eyes widen as he lifted his head to found himself in a new area. Ash's body floated in midair in as he looked at his surroundings. Hues of red, violet, black mixed together with specks of light making seem he was in outer space. "Who...where am I!?" he yelled to the heavens trying to find an answer as he spun his body in every which way direction.
As he continued to look for anybody, the voice spoke up again. 'Nobody else is here. Not your annoying friends nor that pesky Pikachu, just you and me, one on one.'
Ash turned to where he thought he heard a voice to only shriek in fright. Before him an image began to take form. After a few seconds, a mirror image of Ash stood before with the only difference being the look of malice in his ebony eyes and his hair spiked up instead of down with his body surround by a dark indigo aura.
Ash hesitantly raised his finger at his reflection and asked, "A-are you me?"
His clone only gave off a dark chuckle before answering. 'No...What's a joke to think somebody like me would ever be considered a lowly class peasant.'
The original was taken back at the clone's distaste in himself. "If...if you're not me than why you look like me, why are you talking to me, and where am I!" he finally shouted. Ash took a few deep breath after his rant.
The other Ash only shook his head as his raised his hand with three fingers up. 'Starting with your last question, we are in your mind. Next, YOU are talking to me because I've called you here. Finally, the reason why I look like you is your fault peasant,' he spoke out while closing each finger. Ash could only give a confused look back at his counterpart. 'Idiot, remember the incident that happen a year back,' he asked.
Ash began to think back to what he was doing a year back. Memories flooded him of his journey in Kanto, facing down each of the Frontier Brains.
Flashback
Ash Ketchum ran down the hallways of the underground chamber. Fresh in his mind was the story told to him by the Pyramid King Brandon.
"There was once a great empire that tried to concur the world by utilizing a legendary Pokémon called Ho-oh...Pokélantis...Pokélantis was completely destroyed after it occur the Ho-oh's wrath, but the King of Pokélantis supposedly escape and vowed revenge on the Ho-oh by sealing it in a stone orb and placing it underground to be left there for all entirety..."
Ash began to reach the end while thinking, 'I'll be able to catch that Ho-oh with my Pokémon.'
Reaching the end, Ash placed his hands on it trying to found a way in. Suddenly, Ash yelped as both him and Pikachu were launched inside.
Ash opened his eye only to see darkness as he groggily stood back up. Once he was up right, lights flickered on as each torch magically lit. A humongous statue of a man sitting on a throne, but Ash's attention was what was underneath. Ash walked up to the stone orb with a purple gem in the middle.
"Is that the stone orb?" he asked himself
"Pika," his best friend answered.
"I wonder if there is a Ho-oh in here?" he said staring at the orb. "Let's find out," he said with a grin a he lifted the orb above his head with both hands. "Ho-oh come out here!"
"Stop!" yelled Brandon as he found entry into the chamber with May, Max, and Brock not far behind. "You don't know what you're doing."
As Brandon said that, the stone orb began to rattle in Ash's hands.
'Light..come forth from the darkness,'
Ash's last memory was a shining purple light from the orb.
End Flashback
Then his brain clicked, remembering his first challenge against Brandon, Regirock vs Sceptile, being called a coward, the same empty space as before because of one mistake. "The King of Pokélantis," he muttered to himself.
The other Ash began to slowly clap his hands. 'Seems like you managed to figure it out. Yes, the King has returned to make his debut at Sinnoh,' he said before he began to fade away only for a blue aura to surround his body and force him back in.
The King was in shock at how his body was being held back. He looked over towards Ash's face to only see an equally confused face. 'How did he do that?' he thought to himself. Trying to look back at all of his host's memories one in particular came to mind. His face turned to a wide grin at realizing what power laid dormant in this boy's body. 'Maybe he isn't as low on the food chain as I thought,' he mused to himself.
Ash, still confused but hopeful, voiced his question. "What are you still doing here? I thought you were released back into the stone after I told Pikachu to shock us."
The King only looked Ash in the face before saying, 'Peasant, you wish. I left an imprint of myself before my powers left. Finally they manifest into this conscious being you see before you. I may not be at full power, but we can use this situation to our advantage.' Ash's face only showed more confusion. 'Your talents with Pokémon are good, boy, but you lack something...something that the purple-haired peasant has been telling you,' he tried to explain.
Ash, still not sure about what his other half was talking about, tried to recall everything Paul has said to him over the his journey in Sinnoh. As each memory flooded his head, a recurring theme was present...his kindness.
'Correct,' the King said breaking Ash from his thoughts. 'You, boy, are too kind to your opponents, Pokémon or human, and your own Pokémon. That part is holding back your true potential. That's why you've never won against him, that is why you're losing right now, THAT IS WHY YOU WILL NEVER BE A MASTER!' he finally shouted once he ended his list.
Ash's mind was racing trying to prove the King wrong. "What are you talking about? I was able to win the Battle Frontier and Orange Island league through my ways," Ash argued.
This merely made the King chuckle. 'Yes I'll admit that your win against Drake was your greatest achievement. As a rookie nobody had more potential then you.' Ash gave the King a weird look as the King continue to praise his skills as a trainer. 'But then you ruin it by handicapping yourself,' the King said.
"Handicap!?" Ash exclaimed. "I've always given it all! Never once have I not given it my all in a battle! My Pokémon and I have never back down from any challenge!"
'Don't make me laugh,' the King interrupted surprising Ash. 'You don't handicap yourself. For the past years you start anew with Pokémon you just caught against experienced trainers. Making sure you hold back the power on your Pikachu. Training young co-ordinators because they look helpless. Those are the dictionary terms of handicap. You might try to lie to yourself but not me,' Ash's double ganger said.
Ash began to splutter out a response as he tried to deny everything this person was trying to tell him. 'I haven't hold back...I haven't let other in between my goals...I haven't...I haven't,' was Ash's thought process before it was disturbed.
'And let us not forget of the ruthless trainer your fighting. The person you never beat in Pokémon battle, even gotten humiliated a few times. You need me,' the King finished his speech.
As Ash listen he kept repeating the words in his mind. 'I haven't...my friends were there to pick me up...they were the ones who made me fall...they taught me from the beginning...always holding me back with their methods...I have...' Ash finally thought as his mind went blank. "What...what do I need to do to change?" he whispered to the King of Pokélantis.
The other Ash's grin grew wider at finding his escape, his way to his throne with even more power than before. 'You join minds with me. With my ruthlessness and power, with your experience and aura, we will be unstoppable. Two sides of coin, if you will. This is our chance to correct our mistakes. My Kingdom will rise, and you'll have every strong Pokémon you want. Nothing will be out of our reach. Pokémon, Money, Power, the world will be ours. All you have to do is take my hand,' he finished with his left arm outstretched.
With no hesitation, the broken Ash took his hand as their world went white.
a/n: Another updated version hoped to make more. Find mistakes please tell. All reviews are welcome. Peace!