Hope your ready for the second chapter. To everyone that toughed through the first chapter, you guys are my new favorite people in the world! No really, I love you guys.
Disclaimer: Like before, I still have not captured Pokemon
"Hey mom, you here?"
"Honey! Your back early!" Delia said as she ran out to give her son a big hug.
"Delia, who's at the door?" A male voice said
Ash was slightly shocked, but he would let his mother explain.
"Ash, your back!" A man he knew too well came into view
"Professor Oak!" Ash cried in surprise. He was not who expected to see the elderly professor, "I was about to run down to the lab to see my old Pokémon and give my current one's some air."
The Pokémon professor nodded, "That sounds good, Delia, would you like to come as well?"
The women shook her head, "No thanks Sam, you know I've never liked that sort of thing."
The researcher smiled and turned and walked out the door after Ash shouting, "Wait up! I'm not as young as I used to be!"
Ash laughed, but still slowed down,
"Professor, have there been any problems at the lab?"
The professor gave him a quizzical look, "Why would you think something like that would happen?"
"I don't know" Ash shrugged, "But it could happen, you cant be too careful."
Professor Oak smiled; Ash was growing up, "Your growing up Ash, that's good. But for Delia's sake, don't grow up too fast."
"Alright Professor." Ash chuckled at Oak's sappiness.
Then Ash stopped and gulped. Before him lay the endless set of stairs that led to the professor's lab. After a quick 'really?' glance at Oak, he trudged up the stairs.
"You know" pant "You should" pant "Really" pant "Really get an" pant "elevator" Crash.
Ash had finally reached the top, and all but collapsed in a not so dignified, not so glorified heap.
Oak just gave him a glance, walked by him and opened the door to the lab. As soon as the click was heard he shot up and walked inside behind the professor.
Ash gave the Pokémon Professor a quick glance, how he managed to survive those stairs without dying of cardiac arrest shocked him.
Oak grinned, "Well Ash, let's see your new team."
Ash nodded and threw out his team from Hoenn minus Darkrai. Ash respected Oak, but he had no intention of showing Darkrai to his own mother, so Oak would have to wait.
Oak raised an eyebrow, "Impressive young man, all of your Pokémon are in their fully evolved stages, even your Crawdaunt. Corphish are notorious for being impossible to evolve."
Ash grinned under the praise. He had every right to be proud. Even with the limiter in place he had managed to push his Pokémon to their limits, which was a feat for most trainers in general.
"Thank you Professor, that means a lot coming from you." Ash bowed
Oak nodded, then asked if he could see them in action. Ash was confused by the request, but soon understood that he meant mock battles between them.
"Sure Professor, give me a moment." Ash said, then he walked off to prepare and assign his Pokémon.
After the promised moment the Pokémon were lined up on their chosen battleground. The matches were as follows
Torkoal vs Quilava (Yeah, I'm gonna have him be evolved pre Sinnoh)
Crawdaunt vs Totodile
Glalie vs Taurous
Swellow vs Noctowl
Sceptile vs Bayleef
Oak watched as the Pokémon fought. It truly was something to behold, even though Floatzel was evolved Totodile was still managing to hold his own. Quilava had to keep his attacks extremely powerful to make a dent in the tortoise tank, but was holding relatively well even being at a disadvantage (Not type, just in general). Though Swellow dwarfed the smaller Noctowl, the Johto Pokémon was able to se its Psychic abilities to gain the advantage. Glalie and Taurous clashed repeatedly in a battle to see who held the greater power. Although Bayleef was strong in her own right, she just could not keep up with Sceptile, and the battle was a little one sided.
Watching the battles gave the Professor a thrill, but it also gave him something to think about,
'Dang, I forgot to tell Ash about Liza and Charizard.' Oak mentally pounded himself
"So Professor, what do you think?" Ash had stopped the battles to prevent any injuries, some were happier (Bayleef) about it than others (Tauros and Glalie)
"I was impressed, but It's getting late, and I don't think your mother would want you late for dinner." Oak advised
Ash nodded, "Alright, you wouldn't mind if I left my Pokémon here for the night would you?"
"Not a problem young man." Oak said with a dismissive wave
Ash nodded and began to leave, but just before the trainer was out of an earshot Oak remembered the important topic he had to discuss with Ash.
"Oh and Ash?"
"Yeah?"
"Liza called a few days ago, she asked if it would be all right if he joined up with your team?" Oak asked
Ash grinned, he would like to see how the limiter affected a Pokémon that is currently over the level set by the limiter, but then again, it could be a problem
"I dunno Professor, is it alright with you? You'll have to take care of him most of the time." Ash asked, trying to weasel out of re-obtaining the fire dragon.
Oak's response was cut of by a knock at the front door.
"Wonder who that could be?" Oak asked, "Ash, could you get it?"
Ash nodded, "Sure Professor"
Ash opened the door expecting a research colleague, not a smirking orange dragon
Ash gulped, "…Hi?"
Charizard let out a mighty flamethrower to demonstrate its power. Sadly he needed a test subject. And we all know who that ended up being.
"AAHHH! Hot! Hot! Put it out!"
Ash ran shouting back into the house, earning a sweat drop from Oak, Pikachu and the Pokémon that knew Charizard.
"Well Ash, looks like you don't have mush of a choice." Oak chuckled
Ash just grumbled something that sounded like 'Smart ass' and walked away to find his water Pokémon. Oak just laughed and so did all of the Pokémon. Ash was in for it when he got back.
Scene change
"So Ash, did you like Hoenn?" Asked Delia
Ash nodded, "Yeah, it was fun and the weather was also great"
"That's good to hear, I was thinking about taking a vacation while you're in Sinnoh." Ash's mom smiled.
Ash grinned sheepishly, "So you knew, huh?"
"Yep!" The woman chirped, "I got a call from Mister Maple, he wanted to thank you for putting up with May and Max. He said that it meant a lot to him that May had good company on her first journey."
Ash stood up suddenly, "If you don't mind, could I call Mr. Maple? Just to chat."
Delia shrugged, "Sure honey, you know where the phone is."
Ash strode over to the house's videophone and dialed the memorized number of the Maple's house. Ash heard the phone ring in the back ground until a click signified his call's success
"Hello?" asked a male voice on the other end of the line.
"It's Ash Ketchum, sir. My mom told me but I wanted to talk personally." Ash said.
"Oh, Ash!" The man's tone brightened, "Sure, give me a moment"
Ash complied, and soon the screen turned on showing a picture of Norman in the Maple household.
"Alright, now we can talk properly." The man said.
"I wanted to tell you that it wasn't a big deal, May and Max were great." Ash said sincerely
Norman raised an eyebrow, "Really?"
"Well… for the most part." Ash chuckled as he remembered the common arguments between the siblings.
"If you say so, but I still wish to express my gratitude. May and Max was really quite sad when they got home. I guess leaving friends is tough." Norman reminisced
Ash nodded, "It's not the best part of the journey, but if you, Max or May need something then I can give you my cell number."
Norman's mood brightened and he got a sly grin on his face, "Ash, is this some indirect attempt at getting my daughter your phone number?"
"Sir?" Ash turned red.
Norman laughed at the embarrassed boy, "I was only joking. Thank you Ash, I'm sure May and Max will be calling you every day."
Ash nodded, "Thank you for your time, as well as allowing me and you children to travel with me."
"It was no problem, you're like a second family now there is no need to be so formal." Norman smiled.
"Alright… Norman, I'll see you on the flip side." Ash was about to disconnect when he heard the man say something,
"By the way Ash,"
"Yeah?"
"I would be perfectly okay with you dating my daughter."
Ash groaned and ended the call once he heard Norman laughing. That man was odd, one minute he was an over protective gym leader, and then he's that humorly challenged friend.
Ash walked back into the dining room, seeing all the plates gone. He looked towards the kitchen and saw his mom washing the dishes, humming quietly to herself. Deciding not to disturb her the trainer quietly made his way up to his bedroom. The room had been refurnished after his journey through the orange islands. Now it was more adult, sporting a larger bed, a simple desk and some photos taken and sketched by Tracy that were hung up on the walls. His orange league badges were in a case on his dresser right beside his Hoenn and Indigo badges. He admired them for a second. The first two indicated his triumph and victory; the last case (Hoenn) contrasted the first two greatly. It was the first journey where he actually felt limited by the placed limiter.
He noticed that it was getting late, so he decided that he should sleep. For some reason unknown to him, his mom always cooked dinner late, and his call with Norman added to the time. It was now 10 o'clock, and even though it wasn't that late, jetlag was slowly taking hold of the young trainer. So he climbed into his bed, but realized he couldn't fall asleep. So he grabbed the remote off the bedside table, and decided he would watch TV for 30 minutes then he would sleep. So the trainer sat through a re run of this Sinnoh region documentary before finally dozing off.
Dream
Ash's eyes searched the white horizon, he had been here before, and he wasn't about to allow this precious opportunity to escape his grasp again. He suddenly began flying forward, and all of the blue specks that surrounded him shot past him at un imaginable speeds. Then the trainer slowed down as he neared what appeared to be a giant pyramid. Though black in color it bared a strong resemblance to the pyramids built by the ancient Egyptians. Although as he neard the pyramid it became apparent that the structure was not flat, but was filled with a seemingly endless maze. In truth, that was what it is, one giant maze. There was an orange energy that flowed in a circle around the middle of the pyramid, then the energy branched of into two separate lines that went on infinitely.
"The Seal of Arceus" Ash muttered in hate.
Ash shot forward again, this time when he stopped he was in a dark room , with the only light coming from the orange lines of energy the flowed up and down the walls. In the middle of the room sat a sphere that glowed orange. The sphere was a part of Arceus; it was the fire, ground and dragon plates that made up the seal. Back in Machina town a younger Arceus said that the jewel of life could not break, he said nothing about the jewel of restrict.
Suddenly, a red aura began to form around Ash, soon it began circulating around him much like that of a stone edge, but there were only three circles. Soon the circles began forming and orb directly in front of Ash. The sphere grew in size and the circles diminished in size. As soon as the final red circled disappeared into the orb Ash unleashed the most powerful aura attack in his possession. The attack would have hollowed out a small mountain, but it appeared to do nothing to the sphere. Ash let out a surprised shout.
"How is this possible?" He cried in disbelief
Suddenly a laughing sound could be heard and Ash knew that he had to leave. The drained user pulsed what was left of his aura into his leg muscles and jumped towards the opening he had created. He shot through the opening just before it sealed itself. Ash sighed and he turned to gaze upon the pyramid, but it was gone.
Ash cried in frustration, then he felt something shaking him. He knew it was time to wake up.
End dream
"…Ash! Wake up!" A female voice called
'Funny,' Ash thought, 'that sounds an awful lot like May.'
Ash dismissed it and grumbled a 'Fine'. He heard footsteps signaling the person's leave. Ash rubbed his sleepy eyes, trying to get his vision back. Once he did he realized the crushed TV remote in his right hand.
"Whoops." He mumbled and put the pieces on his bedside table. He eyed his clock that read 10:00 AM
"Sweet, that almost 12 hours! No wonder whoever walked in here sounded angry." Ash mused.
The trainer then gathered his clothes and walked into the bathroom to shower. After his admittedly long shower he walked back into his room because he forgot his shirt. He was surprised to see a young boy with dark green hair and glassed.
"Max?"
The boy jumped in surprise, then smiled and ran over to hug the trainer. Ash felt the boy's arms around him and awkwardly hugged back.
"What are you doing here?" Ash asked
"Oh, thanks to my dad being a gym leader we were awarded plane tickets to any region for a week while a temporary leader took over." Max explained with a happy grin.
"So your on vacation?" Asked Ash
"Yep" Answered the chipper boy
"So, why here?" Ash asked again. He felt slightly sorry for interviewing the boy, but he was surprised and wanted some answers.
"Isn't it obvious." The boy giggled
"Um… no?" Ash felt like he was missing something that would make him look like a huge idiot
Max opened his mouth to answer, but the voice wasn't his own. It was older, and more feminine
"Because you're here!"
Ash looked surprised, "May too?"
True to his word, the girl he had traveled with through Hoenn stood in the front door, eyeing Ash.
"The whole families here." May said, then she blushed and turned around
Ash became slightly worried, "What's the matter?"
"You… You have no shirt on." May stammered out.
Realization hit Ash, he had totally forgotten.
"Oh, right sorry. I just got sorta side tracked." Ash said looking at Max, who shrugged.
"Whatever, just get a shirt on and come down for breakfast." May then called to Max and then left without waiting for a response.
"Good morning to you too." Ash grumbled as he picked out a shirt.
With Max and May
Max walked with May towards the dining room, he hadn't been expecting Ash to come in like that and he felt kinda bad for snooping. But the trainer hadn't seemed to mind. In fact, neither had his sister. He looked up at her and noticed the faint blush still lingering on her face. Max grinned with this new bit of information he had against May. This was going to be a fun two weeks.
The duo arrived in the dining room to find Caroline and Delia happily chatting about Ash's journey through Kanto, and May's through Hoenn.
"Ash was telling me how he, Brock and Misty got attacked by Team Rocket almost on a daily basis!" an annoyed Delia said
Caroline adopted a shocked expression, "In Kanto too!"
"Yeah, why" Asked Delia, confused about the other woman's comment
"May would rave about these three useless Team Rocket members who stalked them all throughout Hoenn." Caroline explained.
"Seriously!" Delia nearly shouted
"But at least with Ash there those incompetent fools didn't pose a large threat." Caroline praised
Delia giggled, "That's my Ash!"
May and Max had stayed out of the conversation, for Ash had already explained to them about his previous adventures. Norman was sitting on the couch; flipping through channels on the TV when he noticed the two standing they're looking lost.
The man patted the seats next to him, indicating that he wanted them to sit by him.
"Wonder what's taking Ash so long?" May wondered
"Yeah," Max agreed, "I mean, it was only a shirt."
There questions were soon answered by a shout followed by consecutive crashes. Everyone ran over to see a charred Ash at the bottom of the stairs with a grinning Pikachu standing on his chest.
"Pi, Pikachu" The mouse said victoriously
Ash puffed out some smoke and said, "Alright, I'm sorry I stepped on you."
The mouse nodded and then noticed May and Max. He hopped into the latter's arms and began cuddling the boy. All the people's attention was now directed at Max and Pikachu while Ash slowly made his way to his feet.
"Oh sure," Ash grumbled, "He's cute now but wait until you step on him when he's sitting under your carpet."
The group chuckled at Ash who groaned again, but went back into his room to change clothes. Max continued to play with Pikachu, May and Norman continued to surf channels to find something interesting. Then Max walked over to his backpack and pulled out the tape of Ash's Silver Conference battles and the tape of his battle against Drake of the Orange league. He showed them to Pikachu who nodded happily. Max walked over to the DVD player and inserted the Silver conference disk. The loading screen for the DVD interrupted the battle between two no name trainers.
"Hey!" May and Norman shouted.
Max ignored them and selected Ash's battle against Gary. Norman realized what his son was doing and smiled, he had seen the battle once and was impressed. It was worth watching again. May on the other hand was surprised as she saw Ash on one side of a battlefield and a brown haired boy on the other. She then realized that no matter how many times her brother bugged her about the battles Ash won in the Silver conference she had never actually seen the tape, and was shocked when she Ash's massive Charizard take down Gary's intimidating Blastoise.
"Incredible." May breathed.
Ash then walked down the stairs and was shocked to see Norman, May and Max engrossed in his victory over Gary.
Max then turned to May and pointed a finger, "See May! I told you it was a good battle."
"That is an impressive Charizard, too bad we'll probably never meet it. I would like to have a crack against it." Norman sulked
Ash then got an idea. His house had high enough ceilings, probably. He walked away to make a call to Professor Oak.
Max had decided to put in the tape for Ash's battle against Drake. This kept them occupied long enough for Ash to get what he needed from Professor Oak. Then Ash walked behind the couch containing the three Maples and released Charizard. The Pokémon was about to roar when he saw Ash put a finger to his lips in the unified 'shush!' symbol. Ash then explained the situation to him and saw the dragon smirk, and Ash paled. This was going to be loud.
Once the battle had ended Max walked over to the DVD player and removed his treasured possession. When he turned around he went white, but saw Ash's 'shush' symbol, and he understood. He collected himself and then went to put the disc away.
Norman had asked what was wrong, but his concern was brushed off with Max saying that he just felt dizzy for a second.
Then he noticed a smirking Ash sitting beside him in the place of Max. He stared at Ash for a moment then turned to look at May. Only what was sitting next to him was hardly his little girl.
"Roar?" The large orange dragon called meekly.
"AHH!" Norman screamed and began to cling to Ash for dear life.
Norman heard Ash began to chuckle and May and Max fall to the ground in laughter.
Delia and Caroline ran in to see what was wrong and saw the strangest sight. Norman was whiter than a sheet, Ash was trying to stifle his chuckles and May and Max were supporting each other as they laughed their hearts out. But the oddest thing, was the smirking dragon sitting on one end of the couch holding the remote.
Delia then went into OCD mother mode,
"Charizard if you don't get off the couch this instant then no Pokéblock for a we…"
Delia's rant was broken off by a loud crash. It took everyone a moment to realize what had happened. The section of couch that Charizard was sitting on broke, sending Charizard's end down and Ash's and Norman's end up. Ash and Norman were consequently launched into the ceiling because of the Pokémon's massive weight.
As Ash and Norman crashed to the ground Charizard got a sheepish grin on his face
"CHARIZARD!" Delia raged as she started stomping towards the fire type.
The Dragon let out a scared shout and hid behind Ash. Ash was so woozy from the fall he probably didn't even notice. And Delia at the moment could not be stopped. The woman picked up Ash by the collar of his shirt and then flung him at the couch, breaking the entire backrest off. She then approached the large dragon who meekly shrugged his shoulders.
"No more pokeblock for a month!" Delia seethed.
Charizard's jaw hit the floor and he got onto his knees and gave the woman a hug as if to say he was sorry.
Delia wasn't buying it.
"Don't you suck up to me!" She said in a motherly tone.
Charizard sulked and trudged over to where his trainer lay incoherently babbling and picked him up. He carried his traumatized trainer out the door fireman style and shut the door behind him.
As Delia walked away to call Professor Oak the Maple family was still shocked by what had to be the oddest display in the entire history of the world. Norman then broke the silence.
"I think Ash trained that Charizard well."
AN:
Not my best chapter, so by deduction, my worst! NOOOO! Oh well, hope you guys were able to stand it.
