A/N: Hey guys, Elementalstrike137 here. Forgot to mention last chapter, I'll try and get some more of an outline as to what Ash did in those 5 years on his own. Also, I wanted to say thank you for reading and reviewing this fanfic. I didn't expect my first fanfic to start out like this! The constructive criticism helped me out as well; I'll do my conversations like that from now on. Now chapter 2!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, if I did it'd be different.

The group of traitors walked over to Cynthia and Ash. Ash took out a Pokéball and kept it in his hand should they try and do something.

Max walked up to Ash. "I want a rematch! You just got lucky in that last battle is all!"

"It's late, people are sleeping and I am tired. We'll do this tomorrow."

"Fine, but only because everyone will get to see you be humiliated." The traitors walked off, leaving Ash and Cynthia to continue walking.

When they reached Cynthia's hotel, Cynthia surprised Ash by hugging him and saying goodbye. Ash walked back to his hotel room, where he decided to wash up seeing he was filthy. He shaved his beard and took a long, hot shower. Ash felt completely clean for the first time in a long time. As he climbed into bed he thought about Cynthia hugging him. Deep down he realized he still had feelings for her. Pikachu curled up next to Ash. "Goodnight Pikachu." And with that Ash drifted off to sleep.

- Next Day –

"Boy, I need to get some new clothes." Ash looked at himself in the bathroom mirror. Underneath his cloak he wore in public were tattered and filthy pants, a shirt, and shoes with a lot of holes in them. Guess I'll get some new clothes today, and check on the others. I think we'll train on enduring attacks they are weak to, along with making their attacks last as long as possible. Ash got ready for the day and threw on his cloak and backpack. "Pikachu, if you stay in this backpack there's a bottle of ketchup or two you can have!"

"Pikapi!" Pikachu more than happily jumped in Ash's backpack and zipped it up almost all the way except for a small hole for him to breathe and hear Ash. As Ash left the hotel, he saw the traitors at an ice cream stand across the street along with Cynthia. Ash tried to walk off but Max saw him.

"HEY YOU! GET BACK HERE." Max was already taking out a Pokéball and Ash sighed to himself as he stood across from him.

"Let's get this over with, I have errands to do." Ash thought for a moment and picked out a Pokéball from his belt.

Brock stepped forward to referee. "This is a battle between Max of-"

"Like I said, I have errands to do so let's get this over with."

"Go Gallade!" Gallade appeared on the field shouting his name.

"Hehe, this will scare them to death." Ash murmured to himself. "Go Garchomp!" Garchomp appeared with an earsplitting roar that made everyone's spine get chills. Cynthia, on the other hand, had not noticed what was going on until she heard Ash's Garchomp roar.

"Oh, a battle. My bet's on Red." She announced as she walked over to the sidelines to watch.

"Oh he's going get beat just watch!" Dawn shouted.

"I seriously doubt that. Garchomp let's start off with an Earthquake." Garchomp jumped up a couple feet before coming down and setting off a Magnitude 2 Earthquake so as not to cause catastrophic damage to the island like he could at full power.

Gallade and the traitors, on the other hand were unable to stand and fell. Gallade was knocked out, and was recalled. "Thank you for trying, Gallade."

"Well that's that." Ash began to walk away. The traitors all looked at each other while Cynthia went back to talk to the other Champions and Elite Four about what'd just happened. Ash, in the meantime was hunting for a place to get some travelling clothes.

- 2 hours later –

Ash had found some clothes after an hour of walking around. He now wore red high tops, black jeans, a storm cloud grey shirt, over that he a dark red jacket with secret pockets to store things in, and lastly he had black fingerless gloves. At his hotel, Ash compared himself to what he looked like hours earlier. Not bad, at least I don't look homeless anymore. It was getting sundown, so Ash decided to go to his secret spot in the woods and check on his others. He could hear snoring as he approached. Ash looked at them. Seeing that they were fine he whispered "See you tomorrow my friends" and walked back to the hotel to sleep.

- Opening Ceremony –

Ash was glad that they could finally start battling. Over the last week and a half, he'd been training at the max with his Pokémon to get them prepared for when they got to the 3 on 3 rounds. Now, he waited to see who he had to battle.

"Welcome everyone to the Timeless Island tournament!" Everyone started clapping and cheering. Ash just stood in the back, watching it all.

"Alright, let's get some things straight about the battling. All the battles will be one versus one until one-hundred-twenty-eight people remain where we will go to three on three battles. And finally, in the top thirty-two we will have six versus six battles. So without further ado, let the tournament begin!" As Charles said this fireworks came up all around as the crowd cheered.

"One last thing! You can find you battle times and opponent for that battle in the Pokémon Center!"

Ash walked to the Pokémon Center to see who he was battling first. He saw he was facing Brock. Ash felt a grin creep up on his face as he chose what Pokémon to use against him. People only knew he had Garchomp and a Lucario, and he wanted to keep it like that as long as possible. With that decided, he walked out of the Pokémon Center to prepare for his battle

This chapter seemed boring and kind of like a filler , I'm sorry ): Next chapter and the rest after that will be fun because we finally get to see Ash battle. Next chapter should be up within the next day or two, it depends on if I'm busy and such. Take care!