When I woke up our pokeballs and pokemon were gone and we were in a cage.
"Well this is bad" I sighed, looking at the cage, Iris was already awake.
"Now what?" She sighed and I thought about before coming up with an idea.
"Hey Iris to you have a hair clip?" I asked her and she nodded handing it to me.
"Why would you need though?" She asked.
"Watch" I said, picking the lock perfectly with the hair clip.
"How are you so good at that?" she asked, her curiosity rising.
"I use to do it for a hobby, picking locks that is" I replied.
"Oh" she said, not really knowing how to strike up anymore conversation. We kept walking until we came upon a room with our pokemon and pokeballs, I picked the lock on their cages and grabbed my pokeballs.
"Come on let's get out of here before that guard wakes right piplup?" I asked the penguin pokemon which he responded with a resounding, "Piplup!"
"Axew ax axew" axew said pointing to the door to another room probably thinking it was the exit.
"Ash I sense the snag machine, a machine that can capture other trainers pokemon it will come in handy to get the shadow pokemon from the trainers because only trainers with pure hearts can purify them" Ho-oh said telepathy.
"Okay Iris let's get behind that door and get the snag machine" I told her, assuming her legendary told her about it.
"Alright let's" Iris nodded as I picked the lock and opened the door grabbing the snag machine and escaping through the front door.
-Switch point of views to Michel's point of view-
"Michel wake up, Jovi wants to play" my sister said shaking me awake.
"Hey sis" I told her with a smile.
"Jovi wants to play and Michel will play with Jovi" She stated.
"Sorry sis I can't I promised the battle sims coach I'd work with him today" I told her kindly.
"Jovi wants to play though and Jovi wants play!" She pouted.
"Hey I know why don't you play with Adon?" I asked her.
"Jovi thinks that's a great idea in fact Jovi will go play with him now" She said running off and I went to talk to battle sims coach.
"Hey Michel I think you should do the test battles now" The coach said and I nodded, getting into the simulator.
-Switch back to Ash's point of view-
"What's that, a lab?" Iris asked.
"I don't care what it is as long as they have water" I sighed, we had been trekking through the desert, while I had agreed to wear the snag machine on my arm and now we are extremely thirsty and were hoping this wasn't just another illusion. Yes, I said another because we ran into one earlier when thought we saw a swimming pool let's just say dirt tastes like dry, burnt brownies with no flavoring in them what-so-ever. We walked up to the lab and walked in just as we saw on some sort of simulator a boy using a salamence beat a metagross by having salamence use earthquake on it.
"Amazing Michel you sure you don't want another pokemon from the lab?" a person asked.
"Yeah I'd rather catch my own" the person in question replied.
"Um, I'd hate to interrupt but we're kind of lost and need water as well" I said to them.
"You got lost?" Michel asked.
"Yeah and I need to use your phone to call professor oak and my mom" I added.
"I need to call professor Juniper" Iris said to add to my point.
"Alright I'll lead you to professor krane he'll let you use the phone and get you some water" Michel said, "Oh and my name is Michel as you probably heard"
"Yeah" I nodded, rubbing the back of my neck sheepishly.
_RAWR IT'S A LINE BREAK_
"Hey Michel, who do you have here?" A blonde woman asked him.
"Mom this is, I never got your names did I?" Michel said, embarrassed.
"Oh yeah sorry, I'm Ash and this is Iris" I said and Iris did a curtsey with an imaginary skirt.
"Pleasure to meet you" she smiled, I stifled a laugh of her little display, earning me a glare than we both burst out laughing.
"Sorry I always wanted to do that" she apologized after things had settled down.
"Nah, it's oaky" Michel said with a wave of his hand.
"I'm Lily" Michel's mother said introducing herself now.
"And I'm professor Krane" the man in the lab coat said right by her.
"Okay now that the introductions are out of the way what can I do for you?" Krane asked.
"Well we need to call professor Oak and Juniper, but first we really need water" I answered.
"Okay I'll go get water for you" Lily said leaving us to get some.
"I'll show you to the phones once Lily comes back with water" Krane added and we nodded.
Soon enough Lily was back and gave us and our pokemon water which we all happily gulped down. Then the professor directed us to the phones where I called the professor and he answered.
"Ash, where are you and are you okay?" Professor Oak asked me worriedly.
"I'm in the Lab of the professor Krane and I'll tell you everything that happened" I told him and he nodded as I explained everything down to every last detail even the part about me getting Ho-oh as my starter instead of the pikachu that betrayed me.
"Well I'm glad everything worked out, so you'll be helping the world by saving it from shadow pokemon huh?" the professor asked and I responded with a nod.
"I still can't believe you caught the legendary Ho-oh" the professor said with stars in his eyes.
"I'm glad he decided to come with me" I said.
"He? So Ho-oh is male" the professor asked.
"Yeah, why?" I asked him.
"This is an amazing discovery I have to tell the others, see you soon Ash" the professor said as he hung up.