The Ketchum Brothers

Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon

By GhostRanger17

I woke up from my sleep to sounds of Ash and Pikachu snoring even though they were both snoring loudly I preferred to hear that sound rather than screaming and crying from the nightmares that haunted Ash. I got in the shower changing into my clothes only to find Ash awake already. I took out a spare black balaclava I kept on me before handing it to Ash "wear this the last thing we want is for people to find out who we are and frankly it will also keep any of your old friends away as well alright?" I said Ash simply nodded before getting in the shower and getting dressed. When I got outside an hour later I could see Ash standing on the empty battle arena behind the pokemon center with Infernape, Torterra, Noctowl, Greninja, Lucario, and of course on his shoulder Pikachu. I walked over to him seeing him smiling before asking "Didn't you say you released your Greninja when Zygarde needed his help?" Ash nodded before replying "yeah but Greninja returned and it's a good thing too otherwise I would have been down a pokemon now take out your pokemon so they can train against mine" Ash said with a smirk. I took out five pokeballs and in a flash of light a Rotom, Bouffalant, Chandelure, Kabutops and Sawk came out along with Darkrai standing floating next to me. "Did you bring your two legendary pokemon as well?" I said smiling Ash simply grinned before taking out two master balls and then putting them back "What about you?" Ash replied I laughed before taking out two master balls and replying "Never leave home with them." Ash grinned before turning to my pokemon and saying pair up we have a tag team battle ahead of us so we need you guys to get familiar with each other. Me and Ash went inside leaving Darkrai and Pikachu along with the rest of the pokemon alone to bond and spar against each other while we got lunch for us and our pokemon

An hour later we came back with our lunch and the pokemon's lunch to find Lucario, Infernape, and Sawk sitting under a tree seeming to be meditating, Rotom was sparring against Noctowl, Greninja and Kabutops dueling with water type moves, Torterra and Bouffalant charging at each other, Chandelure practicing flamethrower and of course Pikachu Darkrai duking it out in the middle of this all. Me and Ash grinned from ear to ear under our balaclavas before we began setting up lunch for our pokemon and us. After setting up lunch outside the pokemon began to happily eat while Ash and watched. "The tournament is in three days so we need to get ready" Ash said with a whiskey in his hand " I took a big swig of my bottle of Mt. Dew before replying "Alright for now we see how they behave with each other then tomorrow we set up register our teams. You see Ash had only registered himself and I and we need to register our pokemon and create a team name since these were two v two battles. Luckily Rotom had been able to use false Identities for me and Ash in the absence of our trainer cards. As day shifted to night we decided on our team name being Team Oblivion and registered our pokemon for the tournament. As Ash made his way back to the room with Pikachu I was on my way to get some more Mt. Dew when something caught my eye entering the pokemon center was a tall tan man with spiky hair, a purple haired trainer with a death glare, a blue haired trainer with a piplup, a honey blonde haired lady with a Delphox, a brunette with a blue haired boy that appeared to be younger than the rest with a Gardevoir. I gave them a quick glance before leaving to to the pok art down the street where I bought some more Mt. Dew I quickly returned as the group was climbing the stairs Ash came out with a pikachu on his shoulder in a flash of blue light a Buneary appeared and began to charge towards Pikachu only be stopped when covered in a blue aura. I simply walked over and handed Ash the pack of Mt. Dew before explaining his old friends were here since he hadn't noticed them. He quickly shut the door before Darkrai rose from behind me his eye aglow blue. "Thanks for saving Pikachu" I said Darkrai simply nodded before disintegrating back into my shadow by now Buneary was free and was trying to get into our room with no luck until the blue haired trainer came over saying "Buneary what's gotten into you?" She quickly returned Buneary before saying "Sorry for bothering you my name's Dawn what about you?" I didn't reply I simply knocked on the door being let in before slamming the door in her face. I stayed near the door quietly listening before I heard Dawn say "Well that was rude" before she walked away.

Ash was sitting on his bed with the balaclava still on his face before taking it off. "How the hell can you breath with that thing on your face all the time?" he said before breathing rapidly. "I am used to covering my face I mean come on it's become a part of me I mean sleep with the balaclava on my face for crying out loud" I replied grinning "well we are gonna have to get something else to cover my face because this is not gonna work out" he said I thought to myself before taking out two sunglasses and a black bandana. "here " I said before handing him one of the sunglasses and the black bandana. Ash carefully put them on before replying "Much better now you wanna get a tour of the city?" I put on my own sunglasses before replying "lead the way little brother" Ash playfully punched me in the shoulder before we both exited the room with a pikachu on his shoulder. As we exited the room I locked it behind us leaving my black backpack behind carrying only an M9, three clips of ammo, my pokeballs and of course my two master balls.

We wandered the city on foot hands in our pockets we caught a few stares from some people because of our black trench coats but other than that we were left alone. "You know I am glad we are doing this I missed battling a lot" Ash said looking down even though the bandana was covering his face I could tell he was frowning. "Its them isn't Ash?" he looked up and simply nodded before we both sat down on a bench with a pikachu in his lap he began to scratch him behind the ears making him relax before dozing off in his lap. We sat there and simply stared at the tower standing still in the distance. "It really is a beautiful city you know" Ash said solemnly. "yeah " I replied before taking out Darkrai's pokeball and tossing it between my two hands bored. We stayed there for a while just enjoying the sounds and sights they were right about one thing this truly was the city of lights. After a while it had turned from evening to dusk as made our way to the pokemon center we heard the sounds of a battle before turning the corner to see a purple haired trainer with a Torterra standing in front of some other kid who had only a fainted Monferno in front of him. I heard the purple haired trainer yell out the kid "you call that a pokemon battle? Come on I have seen kindergarteners with better pokemon" the kid simply looked up before walking away with Monferno in his hands I looked to my left to see Ash glaring angrily at this guy before forming a tight fist he said one word before going inside the pokemon center "Paul." Ash had told me how much he had hated Paul for his treatment of pokemon in fact Infernape was once one Paul's Pokemon but had been released since he was too weak. As Ash went inside the pokemon center I took out a masterball before yelling out to the purple haired trainer just as he was leaving "hey tough guy wanna see what true power looks like I bet I can take down all of your pokemon with just one pokemon" he simply smirked before tossing out a pokeball saying "Torterra stand by for battle" I took out a purple masterball and pressing the button enlarging it before tossing it out onto the battlefield.

In a flash of blue light a red pokemon with blue and red arms appeared with a face of blue. "Torterra use frenzy plant" Paul yelled out Torterra send dozens of vines glowing green into the ground before they rose out again. "Dodge it Deoxys" I said and in flash Deoxys changed into his speed forme and easily dodged the frenzy plants and now hovered in the sky "razor leaf" Paul yelled out and in a flash sharp green leaves flew towards Deoxys "Iron defense" I replied to which Deoxys changed into his defense forme and turned silver before taking the hit head on. When the smoke cleared there wasn't any sign of damage on Deoxys "my turn Deoxys use Flash cannon" I yelled Deoxys quickly changed formes again before shooting a silver beam of light straight on at Torterra. When the smoke cleared Torterra laid upside down and knocked out. Paul looked visibly shocked before returning Torterra and taking out another pokeball yelling "Magmortar stand by for battle" I knew from then on that this was gonna be a long night.

Two long hours of battling later…

"Electivire use Discharge" yelled an angry Paul Electivire used Discharge only for Deoxys to dodge it quickly "all right then wrap it up Deoxys use flash cannon" I yelled back to which Deoxys obeyed before shooting a silver line of light hitting Electivire head on. When the smoke cleared a tired Electivire stood up only to fall down and faint and with that I had single handed defeated Paul's entire team "Pathetic and I had hoped you would have proven to be a challenge" I said as I Deoxys returned to his pokeball. I could hear more footsteps behind me obviously Ash's old friends had gone to Paul asking what had happened. As I entered the pokemon center I quickly walked to the room quickly entering it before shutting the door behind me stripping down and getting in the shower. When I got out of the shower I quickly heard snoring and realized that Ash was sound asleep with pikachu sound asleep in Ash's arms. I smiled before falling asleep myself. When I woke up I saw Ash and Pikachu were both still asleep. I quickly put on my clothes and just as I was about exit I saw Pikachu had awoken he looked at me before I quickly put him on my shoulder saying I was gonna let Ash sleep in Pikachu simply nodded before we left to get breakfast. I had gone down to the cafeteria quickly getting in line with a pikachu still on my shoulder. I had picked out some bacon, eggs, hash browns, a cup of orange juice, a cup of water and a bottle of ketchup for Pikachu. After paying for breakfast I found an empty table and quickly sat down. I handed Pikachus his bottle of ketchup to which he began to chug it down like Ash would with his whiskey. I began slowly eating my own breakfast until I heard something struggling only to find a floating buneary mere inches from the back of my head. At that point Darkrai had appeared I simply nodded before he used Hypnosis on the buneary. "Thanks again for saving pikachu" I said before handing Darkrai the cup of orange juice the cup simply floated towards Darkrai before he drank happily before disintegrating back into my shadow. The buneary had simply fallen to the floor asleep before it began twitching in pain obviously Darkrai was giving it nightmares. I went back to eating breakfast before Dawn came over yelling "buneary buneary where are you?" I simply pointed to the floor behind me where Dawn looked in horror before picking up Buneary in her arms and running back the way she came. After a few minutes me and Pikachu both finished our breakfasts we were about to leave when Ash sat down. "I see you already gave Pikachu his breakfast?" I simply nodded before replying "that buneary came again but darkrai took care of it permanently" Ash swallowed his pancakes before replying "No even though they aren't my friends anymore we can't have Darkrai putting buneary in a perpetual torment." I nodded in response before Darkrai appeared again he simply nodded before disappearing again.

Dawn came over and boy was she angry she was about to smack me until she was frozen in place like buneary. "You know I am glad I taught you psychic it comes in handy you know Darkrai" I said before Darkrai reappeared making Dawn look in horror. "Alright you have two options one you can keep that buneary of yours under control or option two I can let my partner Darkrai put your buneary in a perpetual sleep tormenting it until it becomes a vegetable. Dawn simply nodded before saying "option one sounds nice" I simply nodded before Darkrai released her from his psychic grip she quickly walked away before Ash and I both simply laughed. As Ash and I had walked over to the trashcan we were putting out throwing away our trash when a honey haired blonde with a delphox came walking up to us red with anger. "What gives you the right to just lock someone in psychic" she was yelling at this point I was beyond annoyed and so was Darkrai who had slowly begun to appear. "Well I am waiting for an answer" the honey blond haired woman said with her arms crossed against her chest. By now Darkrai was behind and before anyone could move a muscle Ash had taken out his M1911 and was now pointing it at the honey blond haired woman who could only look on in horror at Ash. "lady I have had enough of your shenanigans and frankly could care less about how you or your friends feel now you can either leave us alone or I can put a hole right between your eyes" Ash said with venom the honey blonde haired woman simply backed up before walking away and then fully turning around with her delphox and walking away. Ash by now still had the gun raised before I lowered his arm aiming the gun at the ground before calmly saying "I am assuming that was the girl you liked Serena right?" Ash simply laughed before putting the gun away in his trench coat saying "don't assume stuff it makes an ass out of you and me but yeah you're right she's the one." I simply shrugged my shoulders before we both finally exited the cafeteria.

It wasn't even lunch and already we had started the day off on the wrong foot. We spent the rest of the day training hard and by nightfall had made more progress. Tomorrow the tournament would officially have the opening ceremony at night but the actual battles would start the next day to be honest whoever was hosting this tournament was an idiot if that was the plan. But either way that how it was set up.

Author's Notes

Not much except Read, Review and Follow until then peace out

-Ghostranger17