Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon nor will I ever own Pokémon.

Chapter 1

Ash's P.O.V.

The moment that I had arrived back in the Mother-Plane, I instantly decided that I would head into Lumiose City, having felt a familiar, yet distant aura in the city itself.

The aura signature of one Gary Oak.

Speeding up, I hurried into the city, determined to find my childhood friend. That's when I saw them. A grown up Gary with an Umbreon at his side, an eighteen-year-old male blonde with a Bunnelby at his side, and a nine-year-old little blonde girl, most likely the blonde guy's little sister. They were all facing a quartet of gangsters. Two humans (one male one female), a talking Meowth and a Wobbuffet. A lone Froakie was fighting them, and not doing so well. None of them were doing very good so I decided to help them along a little bit. I released Gengar so that he could pull the Pokémon into a 'living death' trance. He did as I had asked. A half a minute later Gengar lost his hold on the two Pokémon and they re-appeared.

I stepped out into the open and let my powers run wild. I could feel my working eye blaze psychic blue. I nodded to Gengar and he mega evolved. I also released Greninja and he converted into his other form, the form that Lady Mew decided to call his 'Ash-Greninja' form as it makes him look like a Greninja version of me. From there, I engaged in a double battle with the infamous Rocket grunts that Father-Arceus has been keeping an eye on for years.

"Leave this place immediately, Rocket Grunts, or you will face punishment from the Lord and Father. As His son, I will not allow you to tarnish my Father's creation. Leave this place, or you will face the punishment for your crimes," I stated coldly. The grunts shivered at my tone, but they did not back down.

Sighing under my breath, I signalled my Pokémon to attack. Gengar and Pikachu had no trouble teaming up against the Meowth, while Greninja was having a little amount of trouble due to the Wobbuffet's Mirror Coat and Counter. When Greninja was hit with his Water Shuriken in his torso and shoulder, I felt it very clearly as if it were my own pain. I stumbled a little bit under the pain before I took a deep breath and figured out a way around Wobbuffet's pesky move set.

"Greninja, stop using your move pool. Remember your training. Use your ninja skills for this battle," I advised my brother. He nodded and dissolved himself into water molecules. Closing my eyes, I could trace Greninja's aura and saw the damage he was inflicting on the Wobbuffet. When I opened them again, it was when Greninja had assumed a physical form again and had been hit with an attack. From where, I didn't know, but the pain was only just bearable for both of us. The battle was soon over and the Rocket grunts had to retreat, Greninja reverted back to his normal form and we both collapsed with the pain.

Gary just stared at me and I remembered about my good eye. As the glow faded, a look of faint recognition washed over him.

"Ash? Is, is that really you?" he asked uncertainly. I nodded.

"Yes, Gary, it really is me. I'll explain later, when I'm not in a hoard of pain. Just grab Greninja and Gengar for me so that I can keep myself upright. Grab that Froakie too, can't let that little guy not get the help he deserves" I told him. The blonde haired guy just looked around.

"The closest Pokémon centre is too far away…" he said but the girl just perked up.

"But we could go to the Sycamore Pokémon Labs!" she suggested happily. I nodded and gestured for her to lead the way. She picked up the injured Froakie and started running while I followed with Pikachu on one of my shoulders, and Greninja leaning on my other shoulder for support. Gary helped Gengar up carefully and followed as well. The other boy just grabbed their stuff before attempting to run after us. The girl stopped for a moment to wait for her brother.

"Clemont, go faster!" she told him impatiently.

"I'm running as fast as I can. Don't wait for me, Gary, keep going, I'll catch up with you!" he panted. The girl sighed before continuing on.

"I can't believe how slow my brother is. Come on, it's this way!" she told us.

We eventually got there and once Clemont had caught up to us, we all sat down as Froakie, Gengar and Greninja were getting healed, and I decided to introduce myself to those who didn't know me.

"My name is Ash Ketchum. I'm a Kanto native, but I've been elsewhere for the past ten years," I told them. Gary snorted before shaking his head.

"Ash, everyone thinks that you're dead. Where have you been for the past ten years, anyway? Your mum hasn't gotten over loosing you, neither has gramps. Also, you have an adoptive sister now," he protested.

"Gary, I already know that. I guess that I really should explain. But first, you are going to need some background information. Do you know about the dimensional shift theory?" I replied. He nodded, as did everyone except for the girl, who had yet to introduce herself.

"Well, the Dimensional Shift is actually really important to how the world develops and how it reacts to certain events. Most humans and Pokémon live on what's called the Mother-Plane. On the underside of the Mother-Plane, is the Distortion-Plane. These two planes support each other. Without the Distortion-Plane, the Mother-Plane would implode. Whereas with the Distortion-Plane, it is the opposite way round. Without the Mother-Plane, the Distortion-Plane would explode. The Time-Plane and the Space-Plane circle the Mother-Plane and the Distortion-Plane, always completely opposite each other, otherwise, disaster occurs. Then, there is the Father-Plane, more commonly known as the Hall of Origins. The Hall of Origins surrounds all of the other Planes, without it, there would be no life at all. It is also what keeps the Time and Space Planes separate from each other.

"These past ten years, I have travelled through the different Planes, some for longer than others. I only visited the Mother-Plane a few though, to visit Lady Mew in the Tree of Beginnings, which I was unauthorised to leave until my lessons with her Ladyship were done before going to learn from another being on another Plane of existence, and a few times to do protection duty alongside some of the other legendries. I'm sorry that I let everyone believe that I was dead…" I explained. Gary nodded and the siblings introduced themselves.

"I'm Bonnie! And this is my big brother!" the girl told me.

Her brother rolled his eyes slightly before introducing himself. "My name is Clemont, it is a pleasure to meet you." I nodded in reply. And he continued on.

"Your Gengar and Greninja went through a transformation on the battle field and changed back after wards. What was that?" Clemont asked. The professor lit up at that and asked if it was Mega Evolution.

"Yes, partially. My Gengar is able to mega evolve, but the transformation that Greninja went through was not Mega Evolution. It wasn't even a type of evolution to begin with. I have three other Pokémon that can mega evolve. A Charizard, a Lucario, and a Sceptile.

"What Greninja does is completely different. What Greninja does is a transformation that only occurs when the aura, soul, and spirit between trainer and Pokémon truly becomes one. It is the step above mega evolution and extremely hard to achieve. The last person achieve this bond was a ninja and his Greninja eight hundred years ago," I explained to them. Professor Sycamore was looking extremely happy at this and I put it down to him having studying mega evolution for years.

"May I see your Pokémon mega evolve?" he asked me. I nodded.

"Sure, but not in here. Aura waves get quite strong after Lucario mega evolves so I think it would be best if we went outside," I told him. We moved outside and just as I was about to have Lucario Mega Evolve, a blast came from inside and I recalled my Pokémon immediately. We ran inside to find the Professor's Garchomp with a collar around its neck and the quartet from earlier trying to control it. I closed my good eye to fully activate my aura sight, and what I 'saw' disgusted me.

The collar was one that was supposed to force Garchomp to do whatever the Rocket grunts wanted him to do. My eye snapped open though when Gary pushed me over. I glared at him for a moment before turning my attention to the Rocket grunts. I charged up an aura sphere and launched it straight at them, sending them flying into the sky.

I turned back to Garchomp just in time to see him start his rampage. Within seconds, he had flung himself out the window and stared destroying everything in his path. I stared after him and had to hold Gary back from running after the rampaging Pokémon.

"Gary, stop. You can't help him. Everything will be alright though. You have to trust me," I told him. He whirled on me and started shouting in my face. Once he started to slow down I started to make out the words.

"—and you had the nerve to close your one good eye as if waiting for death! If I hadn't pushed you out of the way, you would have become Miltank feed!" I slapped him hard so that he would shut up.

"That is enough, Gary! For once in your life, just listen to me! Garchomp will be fine. I will personally make sure of that. I only closed my eye to get a better view on the situation, you pushing me made me loose concentration which actually gave me backlash that is going to give me migraines until tomorrow morning. Like I said, you can't do anything for Garchomp right now. You are no use to him in the state you're in, both physically and mentally. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go save Garchomp," I told him in a commanding way. I turned tail into one of the back rooms and used one of my ninja skills 'Ninja Leaf Shroud' to teleport to a back alley near Garchomp's position. Closing my eye again, I fully activated my aura sight to lock onto Garchomp's exact position.

After pinpointing it, I started to run towards Prism Tower, snuck inside the building and got onto a ledge on the exterior of the building. Thankfully, my instincts were right about Garchomp being on the ledge. After gaining his attention, I slowly walked towards him, so not to threaten him.

"Garchomp, it is okay to admit that you are in pain right now. If you couldn't feel the pain I would be worried for you. But, you have to trust me. The only thing here that is hurting you is that collar. Just let me help you, and you will be alright. There is no need to go on this rampaging path that you have chosen. Just let me help you," I told the distressed Pokémon. I could sense helicopters flying around the building, most likely trying to pick up on what I was saying to Garchomp. I glanced out at the crowd and saw Gary with Froakie at his side, Clemont and Bonnie down below, and the moment I looked back to Garchomp, he was flying upwards towards the top of the tower. Looking around, I saw a ladder melded into the side of the tower and started climbing it without hesitation. Once I had reached the top, I got Pikachu to focus on getting an opening to use Iron Tail on the collar. We would have one chance, especially since Garchomp's Hyper Beams were making the area unstable.

"Garchomp, you need to listen to me. I won't let anything happen to you, everything will be fine. You just have to trust me," I told Garchomp desperately trying to get him to calm down enough. Once Garchomp had a lapse in control from the collar, I latched onto him, keeping his limbs out of the way so Pikachu could destroy the collar. Thankfully, Pikachu hit the mark and Garchomp sunk to his knees, suffering from the aftermath of the collar's control. Pikachu cried out happily and began to come over to where I was with Garchomp, but, the floor underneath Pikachu gave out and Pikachu began his falling descent.

Panicking, I jumped of the building after Pikachu, hoping to save my brother, even if it meant sacrificing my own life, I didn't think I would have the strength to go on without him, the brother that has been by my side from the beginning. Nor did I think I would ever be able to stop mourning. On the way down, I heard multiple screams and gasps, but my mind cleared and calmed itself enough to allow me to remember my psychic abilities.

Allowing myself to tap into my psychic power reserves, I began to slow down my descent, stopping it completely within a few seconds. No doubt that many people were surprise by this. Then, I let myself float downwards and landed gently on my feet. Gary rushed up to me and tackled me, but, thanks to my own power still lingering in my body, which in turn strengthened me, I was able to stay upright.

"Ash Ketchum! What were you thinking!? Jumping off a tower like that!" he yelled at me after detangling himself from me, but I chuckled in reply.

"Well, Gary, I was thinking that it would better to be me dying than my brother, Pikachu. I was thinking that at least I would die nobly. I was thinking that it would be a good idea, after all, I jumped off structures ten times that height for training warm ups, and for actual training I jumped off structures a thousand times that height. Is that not okay?" I replied innocently. Gary just chuckled in reply and shook his head.

"No, it is NOT okay to do such things. It scared me half to death! Imagine what your mum would do to me if I told her that I found you after all these years only to let you jump off a building and fall to your death. She would KILL me!" he screeched in my ears. I chuckled and replied with a snarky response.

"But, I didn't fall to my death, I fell to my safety. So she can't exactly kill you. Besides, I'm the one who found YOU not the other way around," I snorted at the end of it as well. We blinked at each other, before bursting out laughing. Spectators just looked on in amusement and confusion. Reporters tried to get an interview with me, but, Gary used his junior Professor status to tell the media to back off, that combined with Professor Sycamore's status, the media was thoroughly intimidated with all the prosecution threats.

When we got back to the lab, we all just crashed asleep, except for Gary and I who were talking to each other in the moonlight.

"Ash, I'm sorry for how badly I used to treat you when we were kids. When we started our journeys, I was arrogant because I had been privileged enough to have Gramps as the regional professor. When I got to the Indigo league, I lost in the second preliminary round, so I moved onto Johto, but I still lost in the first official round. It had taken me two years to get to that point, and I hadn't thought about you for a very long time so when I returned to Pallet Town to say sorry to you, I couldn't find you. Then I went over Gramps Lab and found your mum crying hysterically and Gramps comforting her. When your mum had gone home, I asked Gramps where you were and what was wrong with your mum. That's when I found out about you being dead. Your mum is stuck in a mental minefield. Anytime she is reminded of you by something random, she breaks down into a sobbing mess. I decided that I wanted to be a professor for two reasons. The first was because I wanted to study Pokémon, but the second was because I wanted to help Gramps with your mum. We all miss you, sure, some have forgotten what happened to you, but that doesn't matter because they remember that it's because of you being gone that your mum is the way she is," Gary explained. I sighed before opening up.

"Gary, I don't know what to say. I forgive you for what you did, but I can't forget it. You had every right to be proud about having Professor Oak as our Gramps, but I was just jealous of that and a bit put out because you seemed so much better than me. Thank you for helping my mum when she needed help, and I'm sorry that you had to do that.

"I missed you all too, I didn't have much human contact at all during the past ten years. I mainly interacted with a researcher who found a way to get into the Distortion-Plane, and the ghost of Sir Aaron.

"The guy in the Distortion-Plane is a bit wacko and is difficult to hold a conversation with for long without him going loco over something he remembered about the Distortion-Plane. The Ghost of Sir Aaron is alright, but he fades in the middle of a conversion sometimes, and he was really only around to help me control my aura, besides, most of the time we just talked about different methods of using aura, but I learned a bit about his past, but whenever I talked about my life, he got confused easily. All in all, I got lonely because I couldn't really talk to anyone around me. My Pokémon brothers helped of course, but I still longed for a human friend whom would understand the things I would talk about without them going loco. Can you forgive me for not letting you guys know that I was still alive?"

I knew that I had rambled, but Gary didn't seem to mind. He nodded wordlessly and we stared at the moon for a while.

"You know what? This reminds me of the time I helped Cresselia and Darkrai settle their differences," I told Gary. His eyes widened at hearing me say that I had met them outright. I chuckled before continuing. "Yeah, I've met them. Darkrai had just stopped a fight between Palkia and Dialga, Cresselia was just flying through the skies, doing her job of giving the Mother-Plane moonlight, and they crossed paths with each other. My teacher had asked me to help Cresselia keep watch that night and we found Darkrai in a street, almost dead. Cresselia and Darkrai talked almost the entire time about their infancy with each other, but got separated because Darkrai started spreading bad dreams without meaning to which Cresselia claimed was bad for her reputation. It is because I spotted Darkrai, that those two re friends again, despite their differences." Gary nodded before speaking up.

"So, in a way, the way that we were reunited with each other and the events following remind you of how they reconciled with each other?" I nodded in reply. I turned away from the window and told Gary that I was going to bed. Gary nodded and yawned.

"Maybe you should too," I told him with a chuckle. He nodded and we went to bed.

~Meanwhile, in Vaniville Town, 3rd person P.O.V.~

"Whew. That's a relief," a girl named Serena stated after seeing the Garchomp crisis on TV.

"Isn't it just? That man is very lucky that someone had a psychic Pokémon on site to stop his fall," her mother replied. The image on the screen changed to a close up of two men. One being the one that fell from the building. What was more, Serena recognised both of them.

"No, it's not possible," she breathed.

Ash Ketchum and Gary Oak. The boy who saved her at summer camp, and the rising Pokémon Professor.

~Back to Ash and the others, Ash's P.O.V.~

When we woke up the next morning, we left easily, Gary having decided to travel with me, as had Clemont and Bonnie. We told the professor that Gary and I were planning on taking on the gym challenge and going to the Santalune city gym. The Froakie from the day before had decided to travel with Gary, as such, I could tell it was spirited to say the least.

We had to first talk to Professor Oak about me being alive before going anywhere. The plan was that Gary would open the call and ask his Gramps to get my mum to come to the phone, from there, it would just be a matter of me walking over and revealing my survival. So far, Gary was on the phone to his Gramps and I could tell that he was slightly nervous. Watching from a distance, I saw my mum walk into vision and she didn't look good. Time for the next step of the plan.

"Gary! Would you mind getting your Umbreon to stop attacking Charizard!?" I called out to him.

"What are you talking about?" he called back. I walked over to him, slowly.

"Your Umbreon is attacking my Charizard. Charizard hates getting the creepy dark type chills and will most likely go and burn down the Pokémon Centre soon if you don't go and call off your Umbreon. So for the sake of the surrounding civilians, please go and restrain your Pokémon," I stated to him. Mum was staring at me carefully, as if she was trying to figure out who I was.

"Fine, Ketchum, but that monster of yours needs to be taught a lesson," Gary told me icily.

"Ah, but 'that monster' as you called my brother Charizard, was trained by legendary class Pokémon. You would have some trouble teaching him anything," I told him.

"Oh, shut up, Ash," Gary retorted before walking off to 'recall' Umbreon. Chuckling at his receding form, I turned to face the two people on the line.

"Hey there Professor Oak! How's the lab been doing for the past ten years?" I asked the Kanto professor.

"Ash? You, you're alive? How?" he tried to get out.

"Oh, how am I alive? Same way as anyone else I guess, I was born and have yet to die. The question is, why I am I back," I answered in a round-a-bout way.

"Ash! My baby boy is alive!" mum cried out.

"Yes, mum, I am alive. Have been for twenty years. Sorry for not letting you know about me being alive, I just got caught up with stuff," I told them both.

"Ash, where have you been?" Professor Oak asked me.

"Well, after I got attacked by the Spearow flock, I got struck by lightning, but it wasn't normal lightning as I later found out. Through that, I was taken to safety alongside Pikachu. When I woke up, I was in the Father-Plane. For the next ten years up until now, I have been training in aura and psychic powers alongside my Pokémon brothers. We travelled throughout all the different Planes, only stopping in the Mother-Plane once for tutelage from Lady Mew, during which I was forbidden to have any contact with the outside world. Now, I was told to return to the Mother-Plane to help protect it from any and all threats," I explained.

"You, you, have information on the dimensional shift theory! Ash! You have to tell me all about it!" Professor tried to continue on but Gary had come back.

"Ash! Umbreon was doing nothing wrong. He was hiding in a hole covered by a rock while that monster of yours was using a sustained flamethrower on my partner!" Gary accused me.

"Actually, that isn't true and you know it. You liar. Trying to get me into more trouble than I am already in," I defended myself. He sighed and gave up.

"Why do I even bother to argue with you? It is not like I would gain anything. Also, I thought you said you were living in the Reverse-Plane? Which is it?" I chuckled.

"Ah! I woke up in the Father-Plane, true, I spent much of my training time between the Reverse-Plane and the Father Plane. So I practically had a home in both. Then again… no, I don't think I will divulge that information. Hmm, alright, Professor Oak, let me tell you something important about dimensional shift 'theory' as you call it. The Mother-Plane and Reverse-Plane keep each other in balance, when the Time-Plane and the Space-Plane don't stay opposite each other disasters occur, and the Father-Plane surrounds and keeps the other Planes in proportion with each other, but the Planes are alive. Everything is changing, shifting, moving, always continuing forward. Nothing is constant. In another time-line, perhaps I would have died that night, perhaps I would have gotten a different starter and avoided the situation completely. You have to watch your back when traveling through the different Planes though as it can be dangerous," I told them. Professor Oak was furiously writing down everything I was saying, while mum was just crying with happiness.

"Sorry to cut this short, but if we want to get to the next town before dark, we need to get going," Clemont told us from where he was trying to get Bonnie to calm down. Quickly saying goodbye to my mum and Professor Oak, during which I promised to call them and explain things a lot clearer, Gary and I made our way over to Clemont and Bonnie.

"So, we are all going to travel together? This is going to be interesting," I stated once we got on the road.

"What do you mean Ashy-boy?" Gary asked me.

"Well, one Pokémon researcher, one inventor/electric type trainer, one midget dreaming of becoming a trainer, and one guy believed to be dead in charge of protecting the world, are traveling together. Knowing my luck, we'll be in the middle of some sort of conflict before we reach the first gym. Father was always saying that I'm a magnet for trouble, a magnet that not even Zekrom can demagnetize. Sir Aaron actually agreed with Father, saying I got in more trouble than he did. Which is kind of saying a lot because Sir Aaron stopped a war by sacrificing his life," I told them. Gary got confused at me saying 'Father' and started spluttering.

"Your dad? You actually met your dad? No one knows who your dad even is including your mum!" Gary started saying.

"Gary! Stop making a fool of yourself. Lord Arceus is a father figure to my Pokémon brothers and I. as such, I call him 'Father' and he calls me 'son' or in political meetings, I call him 'Lord' and he calls me 'Chosen One'. But yes, I do know who my biological father is. Unfortunately, I have no desire to form any sort of bond with him. He is exactly the sort of person I do not want to become. I am glad my aura comes from mum, and my psychic talents come from Father Arceus' blessing. There is no way I want to acknowledge being related to that despicable excuse for a human being," I told them, chuckling slightly at the start, before turning down a dark train of thoughts as I remembered figuring out who my biological father was.

"You figured out who your dad is?" Gary asked.

"Yes. He is a criminal. In fact, he is the head of one of the biggest illegal organizations in the world, the one I made a personal mission to bring to its knees at the age of twelve. Team Rocket," I answered trying to rein in my anger.

"A criminal? Well that certainly explains how not even your mum knows who your dad is," Gary told me.

"Yeah. When I get my hands on him and turn him in to the police, I'm going to make sure they know exactly what sort of damage he has done to the world. He is a rapist, crime lord, Pokémon thief, he mistreated gym leader duties, murdered, plus a lot of other disgusting things," I revealed. Gary was shocked by what I had revealed, Clemont looked at me with loathing for saying that around Bonnie while still shocked that someone like that would exist, and Bonnie was just confused.

"Ash! Don't say things like that around Bonnie!" Clemont criticized me.

"Just telling the truth. Besides, I don't think that she even knows what that means," I defended.

"What does rape mean, Clemont?" Bonnie asked. Chuckling, I squatted down onto my haunches.

"Bonnie, rape is a very bad thing that a person does to another. What it means is something that is not appropriate for someone your age to know. I didn't learn what it really meant until I was twelve, and that was still far too young for me to understand. Rape is something that I consider to be the lowest of the low, far worse than killing someone, far worse than stealing a Pokémon, far worse than a lot of other things. I want you to promise me that you will never rape anyone," I told her very seriously.

"Sure. If it is the worst thing on the planet, I have no problem not doing it. I promise that I won't do that stuff," Bonnie promised.

"Thank you, Bonnie, that means a lot to me," I told Bonnie.

"Nice save, Ash," Gary muttered.

"Shut it, Gary. I may be brutally honest with those who are legally adults, but I know that a kid Bonnie's age doesn't need to understand the true horrors of the world, only enough to put the name of the crime with being a bad thing to do," I snapped back, too low for Bonnie to hear.

We continued on our way until night fall and stopped in a Pokémon centre for the night.

~Meanwhile, in Lumiose City, 3rd person P.O.V.~

"Hello, anyone here?" Serena called out as she walked into the lab.

"I'm up here!" Professor Sycamore called out from the top of the stairs.

"I saw this news report about how this man saved a Garchomp," Serena started.

"Oh, you mean Ash? He and his friends left earlier today after he gave me some more subjects and theories that relate to my field of research. He said that he and his friend, Gary, were going to challenge the Santalune City gym," the professor told her.

"Santalune Gym," Serena whispered. "Professor, can I get a Pokémon please?" she asked.

"Sure. Sophie, bring out the starters please," he replied. A Froakie, a Fennekin and a Chespin all bounded out through an open door.

"Here is your Kalos Region Pokedex," the professor told her while giving her the red machine. Serena tested it out on all three starters before standing up.

"So, have you made up your mind?" the professor asked her.

"You see, I already knew who I wanted before I left the house," Serena told him while walking forward a few steps, "Fennekin, I choose you. Hi, I'm Serena!" Fennekin looked at her warily before jumping into her arms.

"Well, Serena, you might as well stay the night. It'll be dark soon and there's no point in going out now," the Kalos Professor told her. Nodding, Serena entered a guest room and settled down for the night.

The next morning, Serena raced off as fast as she could with Fennekin racing alongside her. It didn't take her all that long to get to Santalune City.

~back to Ash and the others, Ash's P.O.V.~

"Well, we are finally here," Gary announced as we walked into the city.

"Yeah. If my senses are correct, we should head down to the right to get to the gym," I added.

"Ash, let's just explore a little bit first. Bonnie needs to get to know Dedenne better. We can go to the gym a bit latter," Gary protested.

"Hmm. I have the perfect compromise. We head to the gym, one of us has a gym battle, before having lunch and bonding time with all our Pokémon, before the other has their battle after lunch. That way, we all get what we want," I suggested. Everyone grinned at my suggestion and I knew that it had been accepted.

"Seriously, when did you get so mature again? I remember you as an immature overexcitable kid dead set on being a Pokémon Master. You aren't supposed to be so, so, mature. It doesn't make sense to me," Gary told me.

"One must be mature to keep sane in the Halls of Origin. The legends often fight over trivial matters and it takes much patience to put up with them. After ten years of dealing with them, I have had to be mature for too long, but I was also the least mature before we parted ways," I replied vaguely, not really wanting to state the reason why I had gone from an over-excitable kid, to a mature and chilling adult metaphorically overnight. Not being surrounded by so many people had changed me quite a bit.

Gary introduced Clemont, Bonnie and I to Alexa, a Pokémon journalist when we met up in front of the gym. We went inside and Gary went first. He had three Pokémon to choose from. Umbreon, Froakie, and Fletchling.

"Well, this is going to be a two on two battle. We let each other know what Pokémon we will be using beforehand. I will be using a Surskit and a Vivion," Viola explained to Gary as they lined up on the field.

"Sure, I'll be using Fletchling and Umbreon," Gary responded.

It was halfway through the battle that a girl I faintly recognised walked in. Bonnie called her over and she ended up watching the rest of the battle with us after introducing herself as Serena.

"That was incredible. I can't even begin to think of how much training must have done to pull of some of those manoeuvres!" Serena gushed.

"You have no idea. My battle is after lunch. Speaking of my battle, Viola, my Pokémon were trained by actual legendary Pokémon such as the Eon Duo, would it be all right if I had a full six on six battle with no handicaps?" I replied while getting rules set up with Viola.

"I suppose so, but I want to get photos after," Viola conceded.

Once I cleared that up, we all went out to the battle field and I decided to introduce myself properly to Serena.

"Well, I really should introduce myself properly. My name is Ash Ketchum. I'm a trainer that is aiming to get criminals locked away for good. The getting badges thing is just for something to do between jobs," I told her before calling out my brothers, "And these are my brothers, Charizard, Sceptile, Lucario, Greninja, Gengar, and Pikachu." All six of them looked at each other suggestively before turning their gaze on me.

"Fine. Charizard vs Lucario, Pikachu vs Gengar, Sceptile vs Greninja vs me," I told them while getting into a fighting stance. Serena stepped back and I mentally counted down from three, we all launched ourselves at each other, and we fought each other. Greninja and Sceptile were ganging up on me, but I didn't care, I could manage both of them. I had snapped a branch off a nearby tree to use as a crude staff to block physical and special attacks that I wouldn't be able to dodge or deflect with Psychic or Aura. I attacked with my makeshift staff, Aura spheres, and psychic strategies.

I heard the others whispering as they watched on.

"Does he always go this hard?" Serena asked Gary.

"No idea. I've only been traveling with him for two days now, for ten years before that, everyone thought he was dead," Gary replied.

"Ash is awesome," Bonnie whispered to Clemont.

"Yeah, he sure is, I just wish I had that sort of strength though," Clemont replied.

It took me an hour before I managed to end the fight, which was reasonable as my other brothers decided to join in the fight as well.

"I win, brothers," I stated calmly.

They nodded in agreement and we all sat down to eat. Charizard was feasting on a ten kilogram cut of meat and drinking liquid fire. Lucario was eating Aura berries and drinking dew from the branches of the Tree of Beginnings. Sceptile was eating a range of berries and drinking purified water from the lake that was home to Azelf, Uxie, and Mesprit. Gengar was eating Soul berries and drinking liquid shadows. Greninja was eating berries and two Remoraid while drinking water purified by Kyogre. Pikachu was eating a mixture of Cheri berries and Electra berries and drinking the weirdest drink of all, a whole bottle of ketchup.

I on the other hand, ate a balanced lunch of salads, a lean steak, and fresh water.

"Wow, I don't think I've ever seen anything eat that much meat in one go before," Clemont commented.

"That's nothing. Hey, Charizard! Do you think you could fit a fifty?" I replied. Charizard nodded and I walked over to my backpack where there was a fifty-kilogram block of meat. After positioning it on my shoulder, I placed it in front of Charizard and he dug in, eating it in only five bites.

"That's… impossible. Your Pokémon are impossible," Clemont stated once the meat had all disappeared down Charizard's gullet.

"No, they are simply well trained with very fast metabolisms. They are not at their peak though. I reckon that will come in around another ten to twenty years of training. They are strong, yes, but that is because each one of them, bar Pikachu, was pushed to the limits of their primary evolution while holding an everstone until they could defeat a pseudo legendary before evolving, then they trained even harder to be able to defeat a middle class legendary such as Cresselia or Mesprit before evolving. Then, they had to work even harder to defeat a major legendary, such as Giratina, before we started with mega evolution. Pikachu on the other hand has been training ever since we started this kind of life to defeat major and higher level legendries," I explained while digging out another twenty-kilogram slab of meat which Charizard chomped up in two bites before rocking backwards and burping out a flamethrower.

After lunch, we had returned to the battlefield and Viola seemed raring to go, bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"Let's get this going," she sang out.

"Let's," I replied.

"Masquerain, let's do this!" she called out.

I smirked. It would be just too easy.

"Gengar, through shadows and darkness, let's make this a spectral fight!" I chanted in a monotone that sounded creepy and made everyone shiver. Gengar appeared in a flash of light before melting into the shadows.

"Battle begin!" the referee announced.

"Gengar, Dark Void!" I ordered.

"Masquerain, dodge!" was Viola's response, but it came too late for them. Dark Void had already taken hold and Masquerain was stuck in a fitful nightmare filled dream.

"Take hold with Dream Eater!" was my command. Just like that, Viola had lost the first round.

"Masquerain is unable to battle! Gengar wins! Gym leader Viola, send out your next Pokémon!"

"Ugh! Masquerain, return! You're strong, Ash, but my gym leader pride is on the line. You won't be getting any further. Ledian, you're up!" Viola told me while releasing a Ledian.

"In that case, Gengar, return. You did awesome. Sceptile, for the forest and the fields, protect the green grass pride!" I announced while recalling Gengar and releasing Sceptile onto the field.

"Ledian, use Bug Bite!" Viola commanded. I smirked.

"Jump," was my simple command. The Bug Bite completely missed Sceptile. When Sceptile landed I didn't miss a beat.

"Sprint," I stated and Sceptile took off in a flash of speed.

"Ledian, use Sky Drop!" Viola commanded.

"Not happening. Dragon Breath!" I countered.

"Dodge it, Ledian!" Viola screeched, but, like with Masquerain, she was too late. Dragon Breath had hit and taken out another one of her Pokémon.

"Ledian is unable to battle, Sceptile wins! Gym Leader Viola, please send out your next Pokémon!" the referee announced.

The battle passed quickly. Viola's Butterfree fell to Lucario. Her Beautifly was defeated by Charizard. Her Vivollion was thrashed by Greninja. And her Mega Bedrill was humiliated by Pikachu.

"Mega Bedrill is unable to battle, Pikachu wins! So, the match goes to Ash, the challenger," the ref announced.

"Take a good rest, Bedrill. You did great," Viola murmured.

"You know, it's not your fault that you lost, Viola. The trainer that prepares for the Caterpie will be brought down by the Fearow. You just weren't expecting to be caught off guard like that so you didn't plan accordingly," I commented.

"Thanks for the advice, Ash, I'll remember that. Here is the Bug Badge," she replied.

"Thanks. I appreciate it," I thanked her.

After my brothers had their photos taken by Viola (as per our agreement), and we finished having dinner and resting up over night at the Pokémon centre, we (Gary, Clemont, Bonnie, Serena and I) walked outside and I turned to face Serena.

"So, Serena, what's your plans moving forward?" I asked her.

"Um…" she trailed off. Nudging her mind slightly, I found the reason. She and I had met as children and she had developed a crush on me, thus wanting to travel around with me. Interesting. What was more interesting though, was that she had a great potential to be a psychic.

"Because you could travel with us if you wanted to? Traveling in groups is safer, and a lot less boring. Besides, if you travel with people who have experience, you learn new things faster. Like having a teacher teaching you instead of trying to figure it out on your own is faster," I offered.

"Thank you, Ash. I think that I'll take you up on that," she sighed. Smiling at her warmly, I turned to get onto the road, but Serena stopped me.

"Do you even know where you're going next though?" she asked.

"No, not really. I was planning on heading for the next gym, but there are quite a few gyms so I could go practically anywhere for a gym battle," I replied.

"Why don't you go to the Cyllage City? They're known for their race tracks and rock climbing walls right on the beach front," Serena offered. I pondered that for a moment and nodded.

"That sounds like a plan. If my memory serves me correctly, that would mean we would have to backtrack to Lumiose City, pass through Camphrier Town and Ambrette town before heading up the coast to Cyllage City. I reckon that journey could be done within a week depending on how many delays are put in place," I offered and she nodded.

"Yeah, that's right," Serena nodded.

Bonnie jumped up between us, "Well, let's get going!"

"Yes! There's this really cute boutique that I've been wanting to go to in Lumiose City for years now, come on, come on, there is no time to waste!" Serena urged.

~Arceus's P.O.V. Hall of Origins~

Well, my son, you have gained some truly amazing friends. Serena will be a wonderful partner for you, but you must teach her how to unlock her true power, it is essential. Bonnie would be a wonderful young ninja with your tutelage, I hope you see that soon. Clemont will be of great help throughout your journey, he is not one you should write off as 'weak' because he has little aptitude for the three powers. Gary Oak would be a great Aura Guardian if you showed him the path.

Their fate lies in your hands, my son, my chosen one…

A/N: Okay, so that was Chapter 1. Ash returns to the Mother-Plane, meets up with Gary, Bonnie, Clemont and Serena. Yes, I know that he is quite overpowered at the moment but that's just what his training made happen. The gym battles will get harder eventually. Also, I still need OCs, I only have twelve including my own so I still need a whole lot more. I've decided to also broaden where OCs are going to be used, so some may be used in the 'tournament' which isn't the Kalos League, some may be used in the actual Kalos League, some will show up at some point during the story, and so forth. If I have a stroke of inspiration, some OCs will have special scenes or interactions with the crew.

Now, for the OCs that have already been chosen, here they are. If you recognise your character, congratulations, yours has been chosen. Just because it isn't here though, doesn't mean that it won't be used at all. Yes, I am aware that I listen ten not twelve, one is my own that hasn't been finished and the other still needs a last name so if you didn't give your character a last name, please submit it.

Lucki Middling, Kirby Hoshi, Lucy Meyer, Melody Reae, Rico Bastian, Coral Rodda, Auriella 'Aurora' Funke, Nickolas 'Nick' Funke, Elizabeth 'Lizzy' d'Lacey, Chrysanthemum 'Crystal' Paolini.

The last five are mine, and I'll give cookies to those who can guess where their last names come from. And yes, Aurora and Nick are siblings. I had fun making those two… great, now I'm rambling while writing. I didn't know that was even possible.

Give suggestions on what Pokémon Bonnie will get as the journey progresses, I already have three locked in (not including Dedenne) so there are two left, heh *rubs head*.

Also, last thing, I am getting a lot of *checks OCs* pseudo legendries, Ralts family line, and Charizards, please be as original as possible, and I need varying strengths too. Don't be afraid to make performers, researchers, and all sorts of people, I need those types so that the whole group can have rivals and their rivals have rivals, such as Tierno having a dance rival (in the midst of creating her). So, until next time readers, I hope you had fun reading this just as much as I did writing it.

Update: I just realised that I mucked up how I portrayed mega evolution throughout the story, and am now going through and fixing it. Hopefully it won't take long and will update soon.