Here is Chapter 2 of Pokemon: Myths & Legends. I know Chapter 1 wasn't reviewed that much, but that is okay, because most of it is just a flashback. Now, raise your hands in the air like you just don't care if you are ready for Ash's battle in the Pokemon World Tournament!
"Yes, many rounds have lead up to this moment, as we approach the end of this year's Pokemon World Tournament" the announcer said, as the name of the contest got a cheer from the crowd.
Ash couldn't care less about the commentary, because he knew the longer it went on, the longer he would be stuck in his little hall waiting for his turn to compete in his quarterfinal match.
"As you know, it is a tradition that each year, we keep the hidden prize of the tournament a secret until the final round. But that doesn't mean that we can't give away tidbits" the announcer said with a smile. "This year, the contents of these three boxes here will go to the finalist who wins the entire shebang" he continued, gesturing to three small boxes lying on the stand.
Ash frowned when he saw this. Each box was rather small, maybe big enough to hold a pair of Apple's. However, he knew that size didn't necessarily determine the value of the contents. Maybe they were Pokemon League passes, or rare Pokemon. As he began thinking about the possibilities of the contents, he got excited to find out what was inside. He was so curious that he almost missed it when his gate began to open.
"And in this corner, fresh from a close loss in the Kalos League, a frequent competitor in Pokemon League Challenges throughout the 6 main region's, I present, ASH KETCHUM!"
In Pallet Town
"Hurry up, Samuel, Tracey, Misty, Brock! Ash's match is about to begin!"
Delia Ketchum stood in her living room waiting for all the others to come join her. When she heard that her little Ash was participating in a world-class tournament, and had made it to the quarterfinals, she decided to throw a party at her place for all of his Kanto friends to come watch.
"Coming Delia!" the voice of Professor Oak came from the kitchen. He and the rest of the guests came running into the living room cradling popcorn and drinks in their arms.
Misty stood up and wiped her forehead. "We haven't missed the beginning?" she asked.
Ash's mother shook her head. "Nope, they were just letting him come out. Hurry and sit , though, or we will miss it!"
Misty, Brock, Tracey, Oak, and Delia all got themselves situated just as Ash came running out.
At Blackthorn City
"Come on, come on, what channel is it on?"
A young brunette girl sat on the couch of the local Pokemon Center, channel surfing furiously.
"Geez May, calm down. You press the buttons much faster and they're going to spontaneously combust. How will you find his match then?" a young green-haired coordinator asked.
May ignored that. "You don't understand, his match is supposed to start any moment now, and I don't want to miss a second of it!"
Drew rolled his eyes at this. "You sure that this is just about seeing his battle? You act as if you don't see it, you'll die."
"It's not that, it's just that he called to congratulate me on making Top 4 in the Grand Festival, so the least in could do to repay him for keeping up with my Festival, is to at least watch his tournament" May explained, her cheeks slightly pink.
"Hey, it doesn't seem like that's all that's going on he-" Drew tried to say teasingly, before he was stopped by having to dodge a remote that had been flung at his face.
May breathed easy. "Found it..."
In Azalea Town
"You sure you found the right one, Cilan?"
"Yes Iris, I'm sure. This is the tournament Ash told us he would be compared eating n. I looked up the time slots, and his battle should be getting under way any second here" the Pokemon Connoisseur replied.
Iris and Cilan had also met up in Johto, in little Azalea Town, just about the time Ash entered the PWT.
"Alright, let's see if that little kid has grown up enough to win this tournament!" Iris cheered.
Cilan chuckled. "I thought you stopped calling him that after we got to Kanto, Iris."
Iris closed her eyes and shrugged. "It's not my fault he acted like a kid when he traveled with us" she replied nonchalantly.
"Well," Cilan said, pulling some box lunches out of a bag, "no sense cheering on an empty stomach. Let's eat while we watch him fight."
"Sounds great" was Iris's response as the tucked into their meal.
In Lilycove City
"MAKE WAY!"
A young bluenette coordinator came charging through the lobby of the local Pokemon Center. Her Piplup was holding onto her shoulder for dear life as she ran at speeds that would make a Jolteon jealous.
She ran over to the T.V. and snatched the remote. She turned around and faced the T.V. and hit the power button.
But nothing happened.
"AH, oh no, the remote's batteries are dead!" Dawn shouted. She ran over to the Nurse Joy of the Center.
"Miss, please help. You've got to have some spare batteries for this thing" she said, waving the remote around.
"Yes, calm down please, I have some right here" Nurse Joy said.
"Thanks, bye!" Dawn said, snatching the batteries and running back over. She plugged the new batteries in and pointed it at the T.V. again, this time turning it on. She switched to the channel that was streaming the Pokemon World Tournament.
Dawn sighed and sat down. She turned to her partner Piplup and smiled. "See Piplup, no need to worry."
Piplup, who had not recovered from the cross town sprint and who still had motion sickness, glared at Dawn and spat Bubblebeam in her face.
Dawn stood up and shrieked when her Piplup did this. "Piplup, what was that for?" she demanded.
"Lup, Pip Piplup Pip!" Piplup squealed back at her trainer.
"Because Piplup, I-" Dawn began to say, but was distracted with a picture of the stadium coming on screen. She gasped and sat back down. "Sorry, Piplup, let's finish this later" she said to the starter Pokemon.
"Pip..." the Pokemon sighed, then sat with her trainer to watch the match.
At the Pokemon World Tournament Stadium
Ash sprinted out onto the field with his trusty buddy Pikachu on his shoulder and stopped at the edge of the marked battle zone. He could here cheering all around him as the crown screamed at the top of their lungs.
"Here is our first competitor. Now, in the other corner, we have a Hoenn native trainer who has not only come first in the Hoenn League Competition, but has been suspected of being the mysterious trainer who rode in on the Legendary Pokemon Rayquaza to stop to Sootapolis incident between Kyogre and Groudon. I give you, BRENDAN BIRCH!"
The crowd screamed again as a trainer in an orange vest and wearing a green and white hat sprinted o the field. He stopped too at the edge of the field and looked around at the crowd.
A referee walked out onto the field. "This will be a 3-on-3 match between Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town and Brendan Birch of Littleroot Town with no substitutions. A trainer will win when all three of his opponent's Pokemon are unable to battle" he announced. He walked off the field and raised two flags. "Battle, BEGIN!" he shouted, swinging each flag down.
"Alright, let's do this, go, Blaziken!" Brendan yelled, tossing a Pokeball into the air, which unleashed the fire-fighting Fire-Fighting Type Pokemon onto the field. "Blazi!" it yelled ferociously.
"Wow, a Blaziken. Haven't seen one of those in a while" Ash thought. He thought for a short moment, then decided which Pokemon he would use.
"Pignite, I choose you!" Ash shouted, summoning his trusty fire pig Pokemon to the field.
"So, a battle of Fire-Types, huh? Well, let's go" Brendan called to Ash.
"Sure thing" Ash said. "Pignite, open with Rock Smash!"
"Pig!" Pignite shouted. He slept at Blaziken with a fist clenched and glowing orange.
"Blaziken, counter with Double Kick" Brendan called out to his Pokemon.
Blaziken lept forward feet first. It kicked Pignite's arm out of the way, then spun and kicked it up into the air.
"Alright Blaziken, follow it up with your Sky Uppercut!"
Blaziken ran them wards where Pignite was falling, with its fist close to the ground. As it neared the falling Pokemon, it flew upwards with a fist cloaked in blue energy.
"Alright Pignite, counter with a Brick Break" Ash yelled.
Pignite twisted around in midair with a fist of white energy to meet the Blaziken's Sky Uppercut. There was a short clash, and then Blaziken jumped backwards, floating down through the air.
A drop of rain fell in the center of the arena.
No one noticed this but Brendan, who looked up to notice clouds that had filled the sky on what had been a cloudless evening not ten minutes ago.
An inkling of a worry began to grow in his mind, but he snapped back to the battle when he heard his Blaziken gasp in pain.
He looked to the field and saw his Pokemon surrounded by high pillars of fire, and realized that Ash's Pignite must have used Fire Pledge on his Blaziken. Frustrated, he cried out "Blaziken, use your Hi-Jump Kick!"
"Blaze!" it shouted before propelling itself into the air, then shooting down towards Pignite with its leg out forward.
Ash saw this coming, and commanded his Pignite to use Flamethrower to boost out of there. Pignite rocketed out of the way, and Blaziken crashed to the ground, taking severe damage.
Rain began to fall to the field more heavily.
Brendan was now torn between the battle, and a suspicion that began to grow in his mind as the storm intensified rapidly.
Not being the only one to notice the rain anymore, Ash too looked up into the sky as it stormed. He scratched his head and said "wasn't it clear just a bit ago?"
"So it wasn't just in my head!" Brendan thought. He called over to his opponent "so, you notice it too."
Ash nodded. "Yeah, this is weird. I remember being hyped because tonight was supposed to be perfect battling conditions. But now it's raining, weird. I wonder if someone outside the stadium is training to use Rain Dance."
Then it clicked in Brendan's mind. Rain Dance, heavy storm, but he was interrupted again as in an instant, the clouds and rain disappeared and the arena grew warm.
Across the field, Ash smiled. "This is better. Let's get back to that match, eh Brendan?"
However, battling Ash was now the the furthest thing from Brendan's mind. A panic gripped him as he shouted to the referee, "call off the match!"
Both Ash and the referee looked at him cunningly, but he wasn't joking. He held out a Pokeball and returned Blaziken.
He then yelled to Ash. "Quick, return Pignite and call out your most powerful Pokemon!"
Ash frowned. "Brendan, what's going-" he began to say, but was cut short when the ground began to shake. Then, a loud roar boomed throughout the entire stadium.
"ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAR!
Ash heard the roar and began to feel the same fear as Brendan had, as he had begun to connect the dots, and he too had heard that roar before.
Several people screamed while Ash shouted "Pignite, return." The Pokemon was whisked back to its Pokeball, and Ash had been reaching for another when the Earthquake intensified.
Then, the center of the field began to split open. Steam flew out of the hole as of it led to the center of the earth. Then a red-spiked crown pushed out of the hole.
Everyone within sight began to run as a massive Groudon appeared in the center of the battlefield, abruptly dwarfing Ash, Brendan, and Blaziken. People begun to sprint for the exit before another loud noise boomed across the field, like something between a hiss and a roar.
People retreated as ice began to fill in and black every possible exit to the stadium. Soon the hissing roar was heard again as a White Kyurem fell out of the sky, aligning with Groudon.
Then a whirring mechanical noise was heard above and the field was blanketed in shadows. Ash looked up to see a giant ice coated flying pirate ship in the sky descend near the stadium.
"What the heck is that?" Ash yelled, pointing at the flying ship. Behind him, he heard a body drop to the ground onto the field. He turned around and saw a boy around his age, with spiky brown hair and blue and white Unova attire.
The boy stared up at the ship, then looked to Ash and answered him. "That, my friend, is the Plasma Frigate."
"Wait, Plasma Frigate, as in Team Plasma?" Ash asked.
The boy looked surprised. " You know them?" he asked. He walked over and offered his hand to shake. "My name is White" he said.
Ash shook White's hand. Then he glared back at the ship. "But why would they control Groudon? Groudon is a Hoenn based Legendary Pokemon."
"Team Plasma doesn't. We do!" a voice boomed from the frigate.
A man clad in green robes came down on a floating platform to meet the three trainers. He looked at each of them with a cold glare.
Ash glared right back. He shouted "who are you, and what do you want?"
The man clad in green gave off a booming laugh, then looked down at the group. "It's nice to see one with such fire in his eyes. I shall be happy to extinguish it."
"Now, to answer your questions. You may call me Omega, and I am the leader of Team Delta, ones who where made from the ruins of Team Aqua and Team Magma. And as for why I am here," he paused. He then pointed at Brendan and said "I am here for that kid's Rayquaza."
Cliffhanger, sorry if you hate me for it. So Ash's match is cut short by an attack by villainous teams and Legendary Pokemon, and Brendan is at least thought to own Rayquaza. But does he? Also, I plan to treat this story a bit like Joined Worlds, where I will frequently publish chapters in the beginning to give the story substance, but slow down later on. But onto other matters. Some of you may have noticed a small hint towards Advanceshipping in this chapter. I don't know how many of my other readers support advanceshipping, or even enjoy -shipping stories at all, but don't worry, the story doesn't have to go that way. I was planning on incorporating it as more of a background feature, so if it does happen, it won't be the main focus, just a spice up. But I will set up a poll on my account to see who wants it and who doesn't. If no one votes, or at least I don't have substantial voters, then advanceshipping it is. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and will see you next time.