Here's the OC template. I will only look at OCs sent to my PM, not the reviews. As a side note, the OC will need to have basic aura capabilities. Remember, antagonists only- unless you are given a special request by yours truly.

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
Personality:
Sexuality:
Signature Pokémon (Optional):
Pokémon Team (Optional, no major legendaries, and if you decide to use a minor legend that has multiple of its species, like Articuno, make sure there is a good reason for having it):
Strengths:
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Relationships:

Reason for joining the dark side (so to speak- required-):

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Now, the reviews.

Guest: Yeah, I do realize that Cynthia is quickly approaching the overused category, but she's not quite there yet imo. So, therefore, if people want her in, then she will be in. Also, bonus points. I love bonus points.

Side note: I'm quite satisfied that Aria and Latias are winning the poll. (Shameless bias that won't cross over into the story no matter how much I want it to)

Guest: Sorry about the shortness. I'm trying to make the chapters longer, specifically 5k per chapter is my goal. A difficult goal, but a goal nonetheless.

Guest: Okay, yeah. Probably could have explained that better. That was a memory of the last time Ash saw Mew- I think I'll just go back and put the entire scene in italics to clarify for future reference. As for Pikachu's harem, I will cover that in the next chapter AN.

PyroSolracIII: I'm actually quite alright with non-bipedal Pokémon in the harem. I've just been adding to the poll as I remember more girls. As for mythicals, I'm fine with that too- as long as it's not too outrageous, like a major legendary.

St Elmo's Fire: *Sigh.* Again? Careful, I just might block you this time. By the way, the cat on your profile pic is cute.

Here's the thing, guys. I reread all my posted chapters, no matter what, and make notes to fix inconsistencies and plot holes. If something doesn't make sense to me, I dogo back and fix it. It might be right away, it might be months later, but I do eventually fix things. Keep that in mind before you waste your time. I'm looking at you, Elmo. This is the second time.

Okay. Time to read.

Exile: I'm Sorry


— 4 Months Ago —

Ash couldn't get away fast enough.

He also couldn't keep his stomach in his stomach.

After asking Noivern to land in a grassy clearing, Ash found himself hunched over a pile of his own stomach acid.

Once he was finally done retching, Ash stood. Pikachu watched wordlessly from the sidelines while Noivern had taken to the sky in order to survey the area. Ash looked up at the sky; dark gray clouds were already rolling in.

"Crap," Ash sighed. "We should find shelter."

Pikachu climbed to Ash's shoulder, urging his trainer forward. Noivern screeched overhead, and Ash looked up at the sky once more. He was blown away by what he saw; literally.

As Ash recovered from the blast of wind to his face, his eyes tracked the battle going on between his Noivern and a wild pidgeot.

The large bird Pokémon looked familiar, and he couldn't shake the feeling of deja vu, as if he had been there before. Just to make sure, he glanced around the area. Noivern screeched again, and retaliated against the pidgeot's attack with a powerful Dragon Pulse. The other flying type gracefully dodged by twisting to the side mid-dive bomb, and Ash was momentarily impressed with the pidgeot's maneuverability. Then, as the pidgeot stopped and flared its wings out wide, creating scorching hot wind currents that covered the entire area, Ash was struck with recognition.

Noivern was preparing to use a move- Boomburst, Ash realized. "Noivern!" He yelled. "Stand down!" That move could kill any Pokémon weaker than Noivern's own power level.

But it was too late. Powerful, destructive sound waves burst from Noiverns large ears, completely unavoidable thanks to the wide area they covered. Ash made sure to cover Pikachu with his arms, for once glad that he had been exposed to Noivern's Boomburst daily back in Kalos. He was practically resistant at this point.

As soon as the sound receded to a bearable level, Ash released Pikachu and stood up. He could only hope that the pidgeot survived a blast so powerful.

Blinking the flashing lights out of his eyes, Ash nearly sagged with relief when he saw the pidgeot, completely unaffected, flapping his wings in the center of a decimated landscape. A shimmering Protect barrier, once surrounding the bird, was slowly fading away.

Ash wasted no time. "Pidgeot!"

Pidgeot spared a single glance, and then a second one, as if he had been shocked. As if seeing the Pikachu standing next to Ash was a confirmation, without missing a beat, the large bird Pokémon swooped down.

Noivern watched in confusion as the Pokémon that had attacked him in the sky suddenly made a beeline for his trainer. But since Ash wasn't panicking, Noivern kept his distance.

As soon as Pidgeot landed a few feet in front of him, Ash lunged forward, catching the flying type around the neck with his arms in a tight hug.

Ash opened his mouth, meaning to ask questions, to spout off excuses, but what came out instead was something different it not entirely unwelcome.

"I'm so sorry, Pidgeot."


— Present Time —

"Pika."

Ash groaned and rolled onto his other side.

Pikachu growled. His ears perked in thought, before he finally came to a solution.

Since he couldn't shock his electricity resistant trainer, he would just use his recently learned move.

With a focused look on his face, Pikachu's body began glowing a soft blue. He held his paws together as a darker blue orb formed between them. When the orb was large enough, the electric mouse flung it skywards.

A small gray cloud appeared directly over Ash's sleeping form and promptly began raining. Hard.

"Gah!" Ash yelped, shooting up into a sitting position as he was thoroughly soaked through. He rolled out from under the cloud as Pikachu cackled evilly from under the dry sun.

Ash pretended to be angry, but his facade cracked and he laughed with his Pokémon. The rain cloud dissipated.

Ash, sensing he had successfully recharged his aura, switched on his sound filter. "I see you still can't hold that for more than a minute."

"I see you still can't hold that filter of yours for more than an hour," Pikachu retaliated, slightly stung. He hated it when the problems he had with his moves were pointed out.

Ash took his hat off and twisted the water out of it. "Where on earth are Charizard and Pidgeot?"

Pikachu held up a pair of pokéballs. "They decided to leave the waking you up part to me. We're in Kalos, partner." His tone turned casual. "Dream anything interesting?"

Ash froze momentarily, and then sighed. "Dang it."

"You should really stop talking in your sleep," Pikachu teased gently. Then he sobered up. "You still blame yourself?"

"For what?" Ash asked, resigned.

"I dunno. Anything. Everything. Pidgeot… the betra-"

"I don't know," Ash interrupted. He looked around, quickly recognizing their location as Route 11, right outside Geosenge Town.

"Ash," Pikachu stated. "You can't keep ignoring this."

"There's nothing to ignore," Ash responded hotly. "I'm over it. Let's go."

Pikachu didn't believe that for a second, but he decided to let it go for the moment. "Where to, partner?"

Ash was clearly tense. "Shalour City. We need to get to the Tower of Mastery. On the way, we can mine for mega stones, since we know what they look like."

"How will we manage to do that?"

Before Ash could respond, there was a sharp clanking noise as an aron hobbled out into the middle of the road, glaring at the two fiercely. Pikachu sweat dropped. "I mean… it works."

Ash slowly approached the pissed off steel type, palm out, trying to calm it down. Keeping Mew's teachings in mind, Ash slowly kneeled in front of the wild Pokémon and places a glowing blue hand on its head.

In that moment, Ash suddenly knew that the aron was female, and that she was feeling desperate and scared, rather than territorial and angry.

Ash couldn't keep up the immediate aura connection and dropped his hand. "It's alright," he tried talking to her. "I just want your help."

"Help?" The aron tilted her head. Her fear went down slightly. That was good.

Encouraged, Ash continued. "Yeah, that's right. You see, me and my partner here have a problem-"

"You can hear me?"

Ash nodded. "Yes."

"Then…" Aron hesitated. "Can you help me?" Her emotions experienced a spike of hope.

Ash answered without hesitation. "Of course. What's the problem?"

"Well…" Aron shuffled a foot in the dirt. "You might know that we aron survive off of metals and minerals. Well, my brother and I can't get to the ones we sense in the cave."

"Reflecting Cave?" Ash looked up in the direction of the cave, whose entrance was just out of sight. "What's happened?"

"Come see for yourself," Aron invited, starting to hobble down the path. Ash tentatively picked her up, surprised at how light she was for her species.

Malnourishment? Ash wondered, trying to remember Mew's lessons on Pokémon health. Or maybe her ability is Light Metal, he pondered. That isn't likely at all.

Eventually, Ash, Pikachu (who was walking silently at Ash's side), and Aron made it to the entrance of Reflecting Cave.

But something was wrong.

The entrance was completely filled to the very top with large boulders. Ash walked up to one and attempted to push it.

It didn't even budge.

Not that he expected it to.

Ash stepped back. Then he sighed. "Well, I guess if we want to find those mega stones then we'll have to find out what happened here. You up for it, Pikachu?"

"Of course." Then Pikachu turned to Aron. "Hey, Aron, do you have any idea what happened?"

"No," Aron sighed. "I come here every day at dawn, collect everything I can in that-" She nodded to the cloth bag lying by the blocked entrance. "-and then I bring it back to my brother."

"Do you mind telling me about your brother?" Pikachu asked.

Aron shifted suspiciously. "I-I don't know. Why?"

"Come one," Pikachu soothed. "You can trust me."

As his starter made conversation with the young steel type, Ash surveyed the rocks. The whole situation was weird, as there was very little that could have caused such a wreckage. The only Pokémon that could do this that lived in a cave/mountain setting were tyranitar and aggron- Groudon, too, but that was laughable unlikely.

Left with no other choice, Ash looked left and right. Satisfied that there were no immediate threats, he switched on what he liked to call his 'aura retracer,' causing his eyes to go completely blue. He reached out and touched the rock, bracing himself.

Suddenly, it was like he was watching a movie.

It was around sunset. A hooded figure was standing in the entrance of Reflection Cave, inspecting a glittering stone held in his hand. Then there was a kind of cracking sound. Ash watched in shock as the hooded figures entire forearm was surrounded with red aura and the glittering stone- a mega stone, perhaps- lost all of its glitter.

The hooded person, seeming unsatisfied, suddenly started climbing up the side of the cave entrance. The person then proceeded to place their hand on the rocky surface, and using that strange red aura, caused the rock walls to start shaking.

Their job apparently done, the hooded figure slid back down to the ground, looked around once, and then disappeared into the cave just as the rocks started to fall over the entrance.

And just like that, Ash had seen enough.

Emerging from his 'retracer haze,' Ash leaned his back against the rocks and sat down, breathing hard. He hated doing that- it barely left him with enough energy to sense nearby auras.

"Pika?" Ah, crap, looks like his sound filter ran out. Ash signaled with a hand to let the concerned Pikachu know about this fact.

"A person did this," Ash finally explained once he was done panting. At Pikachu's incredulous look, Ash quickly added, "an aura user. I'd recognize that energy anywhere. It was red, though, not blue." Ash gave a heavy sigh, forcing himself to his feet, gripping the rocks for balance. "I think they're still here."

Pikachu pointed to Ash's belt of pokéballs.

"No, I didn't see any Pokémon," Ash answered. "They were definitely alone."

Pikachu gave a frustrated huff. Then he tapped his wrist.

"Yeah, I know we don't have time for this, but what if it becomes something even worse in the future?" Ash challenged. When Pikachu said nothing, Ash smiled. "You know how the butterfree effect works, don't you?"

Even though the words brought back painful memories of his first captured Pokémon, Ash held strong. "And you know what could happen if we let these red-aura guys run amok. Aura guardians have the collective power to bring the apocalypse, you know."

Even though Pikachu was visibly reluctant to deviate from their planned path, Ash knew he had won his friend over. With a sense of victory, Ash turned to Aron.

"Don't worry, we'll find out who did this."


In Hoenn, atop Mt Pyre, four hooded figures walked in perfect v formation up the length of stairs.

The one on the front right bounded up the last few steps, hand on his belt. As soon as he reached the top, he released a mismagius from a plain red and white pokéball.

Without either Pokémon or human saying a word, the ghost type phased into the ground.

The hooded person approached the elderly couple guarding his prize.

"Who are you?" The old lady immediately demanded, suspicious.

"I'm nobody," the hooded man said, and that was the last the elders would remember for a while.

After the mismagius had successfully appeared in front of the couple and used Hypnosis, the man watched as the two collapsed to the ground.

"You're lucky this lovely lady here doesn't let me kill," the man muttered. "Tria, return, please." The mystic Pokémon was recalled without a fight. He motioned with a hand to the others still on the stairs.

The first man stepped over the unconscious bodies of the elder guardians, eyes trained on the prize.

The other three stood watch, waiting not-so-patiently for their leader to get what they came for.

The man reached out towards the Blue Orb. He could practically feelit's immense power, confined to the tight space of that little orb. His hand and eyes glowed with red aura right before he grabbed the Blue Orb.

He felt the Primal life energy drain from the orb and into his bloodstream, and for just a moment, he felt like a god. But the moment passed, and he was once more just a mortal man.

Before he could grab the Red Orb, a large shadow fell over the small quad.

The man looked up to see malevolent red eyes glinting in the darkness, just beyond the pedestal the orbs rested on. He heard a shout of his name just before he threw up a powerful shield that blocked the forceful blast of draconic energy that was clearly aimed for him.

There was a chilling screech; one that let the man know that that attack was just a warning shot, and that he should escape with his life while he still could.

"We need to leave!" Called the hooded man.

"But the mission-" another tried to say, but was cut off by the hooded woman grabbing his arm. She motioned for the others to grab some part of her as well. As soon as everyone was in contact, the quad disappeared in a flash of blood red aura.