Hey it's me! Good news, once again my school has installed a new filter HOWEVER I can now write at school again! Although it may not be as often as it used to be, my classes this semester are hard! The one that is the most is my french class but I'm going to drop it, not because I don't want to do the work but it is just way to much for me to handle! In other news...fuck you Japan. That date episode was just a major troll! And don't even get me started on her new character design! If I knew how to make a text troll face I would but let's keep this short! I'm very happy that people are enjoying this story, I mean I only have published one chapter (well two once this one is up) and people are loving it! Remember the best part? The chapters are longer! R&R guys! Btw no more disclaimers, now I do quotes!

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Flashback Kalos League Awards Ceramony

"This way Pikachu" Ash said sadly as the yellow mouse hopped onto his head and began to snake his way through a crowd of people inside of the arena. It had been two hours since Ash had found out about Serena's predicament and those two hours had felt like years to the raven haired boy. A requirement of the Kalos League was that the top three trainers were to be awarded for their strenuous efforts they had gone though to reach where they were now. As Ash pushed his way through the crowd he saw his destination, a short distance from the roaring fans was Charles Goodshow and the two trainers that had placed in the top three like he had. He took his place between the two and waiting for Charles to hush the crowd and begin his speech. He felt something nudge his side and saw the trainer that had placed first, the one boy he did not want to see. Calem.

"Why did you do that?" Ash asked.

"I just wanted to say that we had a great battle and that I hope to have another one soon" Calem said with a smile. Ash managed to force a fake smile and agree with him.

"Yeah...it was fun" Ash murmured. He saw Calem offer him a handshake which he accepted. The two trainers held each others hand and shook the other. When Calem turned away Ash sadly whispered "No wonder why Serena likes you"

"Did you say something Ash?" Calem asked but before Ash could answer he was interrupted by Charles who began his speech.

"Fellow trainers" Charles began. "We gather here today to congratulate these three trainers for how far they have come to reach this prestige. A Pokemon League is a way of filtering out the strongest trainers and allow them to show themselves off to the world along with their pokemon. Though most of you didn't place, for did not make it past the first round, for those who may find their efforts to be fruitless; I would like to thank you. I see the potential that each trainer infront of me has and maybe one day you too will be among these three" He said as he pointed towards the trio. "We are here to congratulate these three"

Ash just seemed to blankly stare at Goodshow, not hearing a word he said. He could feel his world slowly crumbling around him and Pikachu noticed this as well. He poked his master's cheek with a concerning gaze to which Ash assured that he was fine. He watched as the trainer that stood next to him walked fowards and shook Charles' hand before being handed a bronze ribbon. He heard his name being called and made his way over to Goodshow

"Ash Ketchum you have done a stupendous job by placing number two this year in the Kalos League" Charles said as he shook Ash's hand.

"Thank you" Ash said emotionlessly as he accepted the handshake. Afterwords he pulled the visor of his hat down so it covered his eyes.

"For placing second, I award you with this silver medallion" Charles said as he handed Ash a silver medallion, engraved in the medallion was a Pokeball. The top of the ball said "Kalos" while the bottom half said "League" Attached to the silver medal was a ribbon so that he could wear the medallion and show it off to the world. Ash draped the award over his head and wore it as if it was a necklace. He then turned around and began to walk back to where he previously stood as an unnoticeable tear slid down his cheek. He watched as Calem approached Charles and received a large golden trophy. The two males laughed and began to converse with each other and with the crowd as Ash watched mindlessly. Realizing that everyone was distracted he used this chance to sneak his way out of the arena. He found his way to the exit and as the arena began to fade into the distance he could hear the cheers of fans and the popping of fireworks. He sadly shook his head before turning around and continuing his way off into the distance.

Time skip: 15 minutes

"Guess this is it" Ash said as he walked out of the hotel he had been staying at. He turned one last time towards the arena and saw the fireworks still lighting up the sky. He turned towards his partner with a saddened look and was about to say something until he felt something wrap their small arms around his leg. He looked down and was surprised to find the Ralts he had met earlier.

"Ralts? What are you doing here?" Ash asked the small pokemon. "Ralts?" Ash asked when Ralts had not replied but was immediately shocked when Ralts did.

"I...I want to go with you" A voice said in Ash's head.

"Telepathy" Ash whispered as his eyes widened after understanding what had just happened. He looked towards Ralts and asked "Why do you want to come with us?"

"I...I have no where else to go, no one else to be with. I need a friend, and it looks like you do too" Ralts said.

"I see" Ash mumbled. "Why are you-"

"I don't want to talk about it" Ralts said interrupting the Kanto Native.

"Ok then" Ash said as he scratched his head. He pulled out a pokeball and held it in front of Ralts. He watched as the pokemon stared at the circular device nervously and sighed. "Are you sure you want to do this?" Ash asked. After a moment of silence Ralts nodded his head and slowly reached its arm towards the button on the pokeball. As Ralts' arm lightly brushed the button he was absorbed by a bright red light and now resided in the pokeball. It turned furiously in Ash's hand but the raven haired trainer did not let go of the device until the turning ceased before placing the ball onto his belt. He turned towards Pikachu and nodded his head signaling the yellow mouse to scamper onto his shoulder as the duo ventured off onto the darkness to places unknown.

Present time

"Come on Pikachu! I see Pallet Town up ahead!" Ash yelled enthusiastically as he ran down the dirt path that lead to his childhood home. Ash could tell that his partner was excited as well due to the fact the yellow mouse ran faster than him and left him behind.

"Pikachu wait up!" Ash yelled as he began to run faster. As the duo ran down the path a figure watched them through the shadows created by the trees that surrounded it.

"He's back" the figure whispered. The figure appeared to be wearing a brown hooded robe, the robe had two dark brown straps crossing over the figures shoulders and chest, with five metal studs lining either strap. "It's finally time, I have been waiting for this moment for a very long time" The figure said loudly and laughed loudly but in a child like sort of fashion. The figure reached inside of the robe and pulled out a necklace with a pokeball attached to it. "You ready Pi? Cause this battle is going to be fun"

"Gosh Pikachu, would it have killed you to slow down a bit?" Ash sarcastically asked the yellow mouse.

"Pika!" Pikachu teased as he stuck his tounge out at the raven haired trainer.

"Hey!" Ash exclaimed angrily causing Pikachu to break out into laughter. Ash simply sighed and looked at the destination they had went to. "We back buddy, we're home" ash whispered Pikachu scampered up onto his shoulder. The duo stared at a cute little white house that sat in front of them. As Ash walked through the gate he noticed that the garden had grown larger in size compared to when he had seen it last. He walked up to the door and took a deep breath. He turned to Pikachu with a worried look then back at the door. He then knocked on the door loudly and moments later was met by a pokemon that he had not seen in years, in front of him stood a psychic type pokemon that closely resembled that of a clown or a jester, had a pink head with red cheeks and blue, frizzy hair, a round, white body with a red spot in the middle, light-pink arms and legs that were connected to its body by red spheres, along with white, five-fingered hands, and blue feet that curl upward at the tips. In the mime-like pokemon's hands was a wooden broom which it had tightened its grip on since opening the door.

"Mime?!" The pokemon exclaimed.

"It's nice to see you too Mr. Mime" Ash said as he nervously scratched the back of his head. Mr Mime then began to mentally freak out, from tightly gripping Ash's hand and firing him into a very cheerful handshake to giving Pikachu a bone crunching hug. Mr Mime continued to loudly hollow cheerfully until a sing-song voice from inside called "Is everything ok Mr Mime?"

"Mime! Mime mime Mr mime!" Mr Mime exclaimed and began to frantically flail his arms. A shuffling was heard from inside and footsteps could be heard approaching the door. Next to Mr Mime appeared a middle aged woman who did not notice Ash and Pikachu at all, she had long brown that ran past her shoulders that was tied into a pony tail, she was taller than Ash by at the most five to six inches, she appeared to be wearing a pink t-short and a pair of shorts that were both covered by a long smock that was covered in what appeared to be dough. Pikachu suddenly leapt off of Ash's shoulder and ran towards the woman and jumped into her arms briefly alarming here.

"Pikachu?" The woman said curiously before her face paled. "If you're here then that means!" She exclaimed before whirling towards the open doorway and saw who stood in the doorway. "A-A-Ash" The woman stuttered happily as a quivering smile appeared on her face. A lone tear escaped from her eyes and slowly glided down her cheek. "I-Is that really you?" The woman asked as if the man in front of her was simply an illusion.

"I...I'm back mom" Ash said with a nervous smile before being engulfed in a spine crushing hug from his mother who sobbed on her sons shoulder. She held her son there for a good two minutes of continuous sobbing before finally releasing the boy and wiped her eyes dry.

"I can't believe that you're finally back sweetie!" Delia exclaimed. She quickly stood a side before saying "Please, please come in!"

"Thanks mom" Ash said gratefully before walking into the other room and plopping down onto the L-shaped couch. He gave a big yawn and stretched his arms. He chuckled as he watched the yellow mouse do the same as well. His mother entered the room with Mr. Mime who carried a plate of freshly baked cookies. The mime pokemon placed the plate on the coffee table that rested in front of Ash before walking over to Delia who sat on the short side of the couch. Ash took a cookie and devoured it in a single bite causing his mother to giggle.

"Some things never change" Delia giggled.

"Do they ever?" Ash replied humorously before the room fell into an awkward silence.

"So...where have you been?" Delila asked after deciding to break the awkward silence between herself and her son.

"Everywhere" Ash said casually.

"What does everywhere mean?" His mother asked.

"As in I have literally been everywhere!" Ash said before reaching for another cookie only for his mother to slap his hand away from them.

"You can have more AFTER you answer my questions" Delia said sternly causing her son to groan.

"Fine" Ash grumbled. "What do you want to known?"

"Where my son has been for the past four years" Delia said.

"I just told you I've been every-"

"Don't you play this game with me Ash" Delia said as her lip began to quiver. Ash sighed before saying "By everywhere I mean the regions that I have travel to in the past"

"What did you do?" Delia asked curiously.

"I...I wanted to become stronger so I sought out the strongest trainers I could find, I wanted to hone my skills as a pokemon trainer before returning home. Kalos was my year mom, it was my year and I blew it!" Ash exclaimed slightly frightening his mother. "Losing that battle...really made me rethink my life" Ash said emotionlessly. "So many things occurred that day that aided in my departure. The first place I went to was Pallet Town, I wanted to get here before anybody noticed my absence. I went over to Professor Oak's lab and gathered all of my pokemon, every single one; I grabbed all the TM's that I earned from Gym Leaders also took are large sum of cash I won in the leagues to help me pay my way through these past for years and I now have not a penny to my name. After this I went to Saffron City and took a one way trip to Goldenrod City in the Johto Region on the magnet train. In Johto I trained with many people including Lance, he was a big help" Ash said before taking a deep breath.

"About six months after arriving in Johto I took a ship to Unova, there I embarked on a "quest" given to me by Former Champion Alder. The quest required me to a desert and locate a white spherical stone and bring it back to Alder, when I returned a Alder then had me go to Nacrene Town bring the stone go Lenora, the towns gym leader, for inspection. A day after arriving in Nacrene Town, Lenora told me that she knew absolutely nothing about the stone and told me to go one of my friends home town, the Village of Dragons. I brought the stone to the elder of the village and she was wise, wise enough to tell me that the stone had a powerful aura and it had chosen me as its bearer. She told me to bring the stone to the highest tier in Dragon Spiral Tower and awaken the stone, and when I did it I awoke the legendary Dragon Pokemon Reshiram, the dragon of truth and ideals" Ash said before pulling out a mega ring from his bag as well as a small white stone. He held the stone near his eye and said "This is a shard of what remained from the stone that had imprisoned Reshiram and went to the Kalos Region once more. I brought this to Shalour City and had Korrina's grandfather, who is a mega evolution guru, shape the stone so it would fit in my mega bracelet and now with this stone I can call Reshiram whenever I see fit"

After noticing how engrossed his mother was with his story he decided continue. "While I was in Kalos I decided to train a little and I began to collect mega stones so that my pokemon could mega evolve. I currently have 6. Afterwords I took a plane to the Hoenn Region and for one full year I stayed at the Tree of Beginning, one full year without any interaction with current civilization. During this time none of my Pokemon stayed in a pokeball, they were all allowed to roam freely in between training sessions. All of my Pokemon reached a new level of potential that would never have been possible before. Finally I came back to Kanto and traveled the region alone until I felt that I was ready to return home"

"Wow! Sounds like quite the adventure!" Delia exclaimed.

"Yeah...it was" Ash said sadly which did not go unnoticed by his mother.

"Ash are you ok?" She asked. When he did not respond she sighed and said "Come on sweetie, what's on your mind?"

"How are they?" Ash asked in a hushed tone.

"O-Oh" Delia stammered, believing that her son would go and ask his friends themselves. "Well..." Delia hesitated causing her son to grow worried. "Brock finally got his degree in Pokemon Medicine and now co-runs the Pokemon Center in Pewter City with Nurse Joy. Misty is still the Cerulean City Gym Leader but entered and won her first Pokemon League Tournament" Delia said causing her son to raise an eyebrow, clearly he did not think Misty would try collect the Kanto Gym Badges and win her first Pokemon league tournament.

Delia noticed her sons expression and chuckled briefly before continuing. "May ended up winning the Sinnoh Grand Festival last year and Max placed top 16 in the Hoenn League two years ago and is currently in Kanto trying to complete the Battle Frontier. Dawn ended up winning the Johto Grand Festival two months ago and one year ago she also ended up winning the Hoenn Grand Festival as well!"

"Wow..." Ash whispered feeling astounded that his teaching helped two of his companions rise up to where they stood in the world today.

"Cilan managed to finally become an S-Class connoisseur and is still working in Striaton City while Iris is currently under the tutorage of Drake the dragon master in Hoenn. Clemmont is still making his silly inventions and Bonnie is currently working with him as an aid" Delia said with a smile.

"What about her? About Serena?" Ash asked monotonously making his mother shiver slightly.

"What about her?" She asked.

"How is she?" Ash asked.

"She...well...you see...about that" Delia stammered nervously.

"Mom what's wrong?" Ash asked nervously. "Is something wrong with Serena? Is she ok? Did something happen to her? Mom where is she!"

"You see..." His mother began. "Serena became the Kalos Queen but...she isn't happy Ash"

"She isn't happy? I thought that her dream was to become-"

"She isn't happy because of you Ash" Delia said emotionlessly.

"Because of...me?" Ash whispered before feeling his heart break again since his departure.

"Ash...She was heartbroken when she found out you had disappeared, she thought that she had done something wrong. She went out to find you, she searched everywhere for weeks but couldn't find you. She gave up, she believed that you...died. She didn't think that Ash Ketchum would leave without saying goodbye. I remember the day after you disappeared she had locked herself in her hotel room, refusing to let anybody inside...but then there was that boy..."

"What boy?" Ash asked nervously.

"The boy who beat you in the Kalos Leauge" Delia said simply. "He wouldn't leave her alone, he followed her everywhere she went. Now she is just in the Kalos Region being followed by the press every which direction she goes along with that boy trying to get her to be his"

"She...she never told him" Ash whispered as his eyes widened and he dawned a thought. He stood up and said "Mom I need to go find her" when his mother nodded her head and gave him a knowing glance he smiled and ran towards the door. He opened it only to find a a hooded figure in a brown robe stoning at the doorway with his hand raised as if they were about to knock on the door.

"Can I...help you?" Ash asked.

"Are you Ash Ketchum?" The figure asked.

"Yes..why?" Ash asked when he heard the figure laugh and threw off the cloak. In from of him stood a boy who looked to be the same age as him, he wore a red jacket and a pair of blue jeans, his belt containing pokeballs sagged towards the ground. He had jet black hair and wore a red cap similar to Ash's on his head but it was facing backwards and a stubble of his hair poked through the parting of the hat. A Pikachu then scampered up onto his shoulder and the boy proudly yelled "My name is Red and I challenge you to a battle!"

How was that for a second chapter guys? Few things to briefly touch up on though: This Red will be portrayed as the Red from the "Pokemon Adventures Manga" and will be an important character in this fic, I would also like to clear up confusion from the last chapter. A reader said that Serena lied and I would like to correct that statement, when Ash says "It wasn't a complete lie...was it?" It refers to him telling her that he was going to train which he did but just not in the way that would usually be implied. I got to go though guys! R&R!