I twisted the knob, and opened the door.

It was strange. It was a giant room with nothing in it.

I called to see if there was someone in it.

"Hello! Anybody here?"

I came through the door, and into the room. The door slammed right behind me. I didn't know it then, but someone was coming right behind me. She then spoke.

"Hello." it scared the dickens off of me. It was a girl about my age and she was with a Gothitelle.

"Who are you!" I asked her.

"Now, now Ash." she told me. "I've been showing trainers like you the path they should take for years, I think I know what I'm doing." "Gothitelle."

It was so weird that she knew my name.

"How did you…" I tried to ask her but she just keep changing the subject. She just wants me to follow her. "Come with me."

"Why?" I asked. "And where are we going?"

"Wherever it is you were running to." she answered in a strange way. But I told her that I wasn't running away, and she said that I was running from someone, and I asked who, and she says…

"You're running from Ash." I was very confused. I told her I was Ash.

"Not the Ash you should be." she says. "Tonight, Gothitelle and I will be taking you through three different rooms." " Gothi."

"What rooms?" I asked. "What is this?" I had no idea what was going on.

"For every regrettable, there's a hypothetical." she told me. I didn't know what she was talking about. "Behind this door is the first room. Where you're going to see what your future will be like, if you never give up on your dreams." I was surprise of what she says. As she opened the door I could see a blinding light, actually, couldn't see anything.

Next thing I knew, I was in a middle of a stadium. Crowds were cheering.

"Where am I?" I looked to my right and a Nidoking was charging right at me. I ducked and cover to be sure I didn't get hit. I then heard a voice booming from the other side.

"Sceptile, use Leaf Storm!" The Sceptile then releases a barrage of leaves on the Nidoking. I then ran out of the battlefield and into the sidelines. "What's going on here?" I then heard the announcer about the battle. "What a hit! Pokemon Master Ash Ketchum has made an amazing comeback!" I couldn't believe what he was saying. I then looked to see Sceptile's trainer a full grown version of me. He even had a Pikachu with him. "Now Sceptile, use Leaf Blade!" he said. The leaves on Sceptile's wrists glowed and Sceptile came running for the Nidoking.

"Nidoking, Thrash Attack!" the trainer commanded his pokemon. Nidoking's arms glowed and it came charging Sceptile. The two pokemon attacked at the same time. After a paused moment, Nidoking falls into the ground. The judge announced that Nidoking was unable to battle. "Amazing!" the announcer says. "Another win by Ash Ketchum the Temple Knight!" This is his 18th win this week!"

I was impressed. Very impressed.

"What did I miss?" The girl and her Gothitelle came out of nowhere.

"Stop sneaking up on me like that!" I told her.

"We weren't sneaking." she told me. "I just had to lock the door."

I asked her what's going on. "Why am I over here, and over there?"

"I told you." she said. "This is the first room were in. You get to know what your future will be like if you never give up on your dreams." "Gothi."

I was still surprised, and amazed. "So that's really me?"

"It's certainly what you could be." she said. "The Temple Knight."

I was confused after what she said. "Temple Knight?"

She told me everything. "After completing the Battle Frontier, you turned down your Frontier Brain candidacy offer, right?" and I agreed to that. " And Scott told you that should you change your mind, the offer will always be open to you, right?" I agreed to that as well. "Well, after becoming Pokemon Master, you decided to become the 8th Frontier Brain and earn the title of Temple Knight." "Gothitelle."

I was surprised. I mean, a Pokemon Master and Frontier Brain? How awesome is that?

Next thing I knew, we were all in a different building full of people in fancy clothes.

"This is really strange." I said.

"Being invisible has it's downside." the girl told me.

Then I started to recognize them. "Hey wait a minute, these are some of the trainers I met during my journey!" I saw everyone of them, Bianca, Trevor, Zoey, Kenny, Morrison, Ritchie, even Gary, Paul and Trip.

"See anything familiar about this group?" She asked me pointing to a group of trainers.

I answered, "Yeah, they're the trainers I traveled with on my journey. And they've all fulfilled their dreams. There's Misty, Brock, Tracey, May, Max, Dawn, Iris, Cilan, Clemont, Bonnie, and…"

"Your wife." She said. "Serena, the Kalos Queen."

I was surprised. "My wife?"

"Yes." she said. "And over there, that's your daughter. Yume." She told me that we named her after our dreams.

"Whats wrong?" She asked me. "You do love her, don't you?"

I kind of blushed in front of her. "Well I uh…"

Then the me from the future came up and gives everybody a speech. "Greetings everybody. May I remind you that this is the 20th anniversary of my dream coming true. When I started out, people thought that I couldn't even catch one pokemon. But times changed. When I was little, I couldn't even wait to see pokemon outside my bedroom window. And When I finally became a Pokemon Master, I fulfilled that dream with my Pokemon."

He, or I then released his, or my Charizard, Sceptile, Infernape, Greninja, and Snorlax. I saw the pokemon that are also mine.

All of a sudden I saw some of the workers looked like Team Rocket.

"Oh no, it's Team Rocket!"

"Don't worry yourself." The girl said.

I tried to tell her that they're evil, but she told me that they're good.

"They were crooks before you came into their lives, until you graciously gave them jobs, and they've been working for you ever since."

"How would you know?" I asked her. "Who are you?"

"My name is Dora." she said introducing herself. "And this is my Gothitelle." "Gothitelle."

"Is this some kind of trick?" I asked her.

She told me that this was no trick, so I thought that it was some kind of dream. She told me that it wasn't.

"Thanks a bunch, dream girl. Be seeing you in my naps." I opened a closet door by accident, and it really hurts, so I guessed that it wasn't a dream after all.

A little while after we were outside. "So this is real?" I asked. "I really became a Pokemon Master? And I'm really strong, and famous?"

"Only if you don't give up on your dreams." She told me. "Lately you've been wondering if you should quit while you're ahead, ever since you lost against Morty."

"But what if he's right?" I asked. "What if I'm better off not being a Pokemon Trainer."

"I think you'll understand better after our next stop." she said. After I asked her what the second stop is, Dora ordered Gothitelle to make us go to the next room. "Gothi!" Using her psychic powers, Dora's Gothitelle created a bunch of doors.

"The first room was what your future will be if you never give up on your dreams." she said. "The second room is what life would be like if you never had a dream."

"Why are there so many doors, if we need to go to one room?" I asked

"Time is a river," she said. "Where even the tiniest changes can lead to a cascade of effects downstream."

I wished I knew what that meant. She told me I can pick any door I want. So I chose the red door.