I am so sorry it took so long to get another chapter out. Between school work, exams and lack of confidence in my story I had stopped writing, but thanks to all the people asking me to continue this story I have started again.
Summerspyder: Ash is only going to be paired with Pokémon. No human pairings for Ash.
Cutesaralisa: sorry for the mistake. I do not have anyone beta reading this and I am prone to having mistakes in my writing. Pointing them out does help me improve my writing, so thank you. Also I do not plan on anyone dieing just yet. Ash will confront his former friends and most likely battle a few of them, but no one is dieing.
So on to the disclaimer. I do not own anything all characters are property of the Pokémon Company.
"Speaking"
'Thinking'
"Poké speech"
"Telepathy"
Ash's Pokémon: Charizard, Sceptile, Donphane, Infernape, Gible, Greninja, Noivern, Scraggy, Snivy, Pigiot, Lapras, Latias, Latios, and Azelf.
Dawn's Pokémon: Piplup, Quilava, Mamoswine, Mesprit, Buneary, and Pachirisu
Max's Pokémon: Marshstomp, Absol, Kirlia, Swablu, Jirachi, and Uxie
A Problem of Legendary Proportions
Ch. 4 A meeting of an old friend and new enemies
Once Ash and company arrived back in Newbark town they boarded a ship to the hoenn region. Max needed to tell his parents that he will be out of the hoenn region for some time, so they will not worry. When they landed in Slateport city they stopped and sat down at a small table near a shop to plan out how to get to Max's hometown.
"From here we should head up route 110 to route 103. Then we should head to Oldale town then from there across route 102 to Petalburg City." Ash said as they were planning how to get to Petalburg city quickest without attracting any unneeded attention.
"Then let's go. We are just wasting time sitting here." Dawn said as she got up, stretching.
Once they got out of Slateport city Ash let Azelf out, who immediately went and sat on Ash's shoulder.
They had been traveling for a few hours when they bumped into a old friend of Ash and Max. The hoenn region champion Steven Stone.
"Hey, Steven. It's been a long time since we have seen each other." Ash exclaimed, happy to see another old friend.
"Ash, what are you doing in the hoenn region? The league does not start for almost a year." Steven said back to Ash.
"Ash, who is this?" Dawn was confused as to who this man was and how Ash knew him.
"This is Steven Stone and he is the hoenn region champion. We meet on my journey through hoenn." Ash explained. "And to answer your question Seven it is a bit of a long story that, but we are headed toward Petalburg to visit Max's parents."
"Well I am headed in that direction for a bit so let travel together." Steven replied. " So what have you been doing since we last meet Ash?"
"I have competed in the Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos leagues." Ash replied.
They talked about what has happened since they last meet as they continued on their way toward Petalburg. Occasionally stopping to rest.
"See we kept running into this Pokémon hunter who called herself Pokémon Hunter J. We helped stop her on multiple occasions during our journey through Sinnoh." Ash explained.
Suddenly out from the bushes lining the route flew a Pokémon. It was a small green fairy like Pokémon with green antennae and a flower bud-like head. It flew right into Ash, knocking him over.
"Woah!" Ash could not believe what he was seeing. This was the legendary pokémon Celebi.
Before anyone could say anything a small group of people in strange uniforms came running out following Celebi. Leading them was an even more strangely dressed man. He had short cyan hair and a fancier outfit then the others in his group. On all of their uniforms was an blue emblem with a green N crossed through a red G. Below the letters was a four pointed gold star.
"I don't know who you are but if know what's good for you then you will hand that Pokémon over to me." He threatened. "Come on out Houndoom. Show them what happens when you cross me."
The man sent out a large black Doberman like Pokémon with a red muzzle and underbelly, large curled horns on its head, and bone like marking on its body. Its tail was thin and had an arrow like point on the end.
"Now use flamethrower and show them why no one messes with Archer." Archer told his Pokémon.
Our heros dodged out of the way of the flamethrower just before it reached them.
"Hmm, Donphane come on out. Alright use rollout!" Ash called out his Donphane to fend off the man's Houndoom. Donphane curled up into a ball and charged at Houndoom. He hit and immediately turned around to hit Houndoom again. Donphane did this once more before Houndoom jumped out of the way.
"Grr, before he can strike again use Dark Pulse." The man yelled, obviously frustrated with how his Pokémon was doing. The Houndoom charged up the blast of Dark type energy before letting it go at Ash's Donphane. It hit Donphane, but did not seem to do much damage.
"Now finish it off with Earthquake!" Donphane slammed it feet as hard as it could to create a massive earthquake that not only fainted the Houndoom, but also knocked the man and his whole group off their feet.
"Houndoom return. Go golbat. Hey knuckleheads send out your Pokémon too." The man yelled.
"Go zubat." The group yelled as one.
The Golbat and Zubat immediately began firing leech life and super sonic attacks at Ash's Pokémon. This caused Donphane to faint.
"You did well Donphane take a rest. Hmm, come on out Charizard and use fire blast." Ash then sent out Charizard to finish off the Zubat and Golbat. Charizard immediately fired off a large fire blast that took out all the Zubat and injured the Golbat.
"Golbat use poison fang then swoop around and hit it with a wing attack." Archer yelled. The Golbat opened its mouth, its fangs glowing purple, and dove toward Charizard, but Charizard dodged and hit Golbat with his tail sending Golbat spiraling toward the ground.
"Now Charizard flamethrower!" Charizard aimed the flamethrower straight down at Golbat before it could get up. When Charizard let up the Golbat was lying there out cold.
"Retreat, you might have won this battle, but you just made an enemy of team Neo Genesis." Archer yelled at Ash before turning tail and running after the rest of the grunts.
"Those were the guys that were after Jirachi Ash. I recognize the uniforms." Max said once the Neo Genesis members were gone.
"Wait Jirachi, that it a legendary Pokémon and so is Celebi. You three know them." Steven said, completely shocked by what just happened.
"Yeah, Max and I met Jirachi while at a fair during the time the commit that happened a few years ago was out and all three of us met Celebi at sometime during our journeys together, this is actually the fourth time I have met up with Celebi." Ash explained to the bewildered Steven.
"Wait four times Ash, we met Celebi in that forest and based on what you just said you and Dawn also met Celebi somewhere in Sinnoh, so where else did you met Celebi." Max asked.
"It was the first I met Celebi, she was being chased by a Pokémon hunter hired by team rocket. He almost destroyed the entire forest before we could stop him and Celebi almost died." Ash explained.
"So when we met Celebi it was your third time meeting her." Dawn asked.
"Yep." Ash replied.
"That explains why Celebi was so quick to trust you. She remembered you from when you met her before." Dawn said, understanding why Celebi is so calm at the moment and why she flew straight to Ash.
"Wait so you're telling me that you met both Celebi and Jirachi, two legendary that no one has seen for years and this is the fourth time meeting Celebi!" Steven said, not Believing how lucky Ash was.
While our heros and company were discussing how many legendary Pokémon Ash has seen Celebi had been sitting in Ash's arms and was quite content to stay there.
"Wait Max you said that team NG had gone after Jirachi right?" Steven asked, remembering what Max said just after team NG ran away.
"Yeah, what about that?" Mas said, confused as to what Steven was thinking.
"Then I should notify the other champions and gym leaders to keep an eye out for them. They seem to be targeting the legendary Pokémon and mostly likely will keep targeting them." Steven said. "But how are we going to keep them from going after Celebi again. They already knew where Celebi was, what's keeping them from finding her again."
At this Celebi flew up and tapped her hand against the button on an empty Pokeball on Ash's waist. It shock once then dinged signifying a successful capture. Everyone stared at what Celebi just did. Numbly, Ash unclipped the pokeball from his waist and let out Celebi. She just chirped and flew up to sit on Ash's head.
"I guess that works." Steven said, not believing all that had happened since he met up again with Ash. "It seems that legendary Pokémon really trust you Ash. Considering that you have seen so many of them."
"And Celebi was not the only one with that idea." Dawn said.
"What do you mean Dawn." Steven asked, curious to what other legendary Pokémon Ash may have met.
Ash, Dawn and Max went on to explain what happened at Lake Valor, Lake Acuity and Altomare to Steven. By the end he was even more shocked than before.
"So what you're telling me is that each of you have one of the legendary Lake trio Pokémon, Max has Jirachi and Ash also has a Latias and Latios as well as Celebi now."
"Yeah, when you put it that way it does sound unbelievable." Ash said.
Meanwhile in some undisclosed location six men were arguing over Archer and the grunts failure to catch Celebi.
"It was your underling thus it was your fault." One said.
"Don't pin this on me, you are the one who lost the wish granting Pokémon." Another said.
"If we keep fighting we will never succeed. So both of you shut your mouths." The man at the head of the table said.
"Hmm, whatever." The one who scolded the second said.
A man suddenly burst into the room "Sir we have found information on the trainer that stopped Archer from catching his target. The man hand a folder of papers to the men at the table.
"This is the trainer that stopped me from controlling the natural disaster trio." The second man said.
"He also stopped me from controlling Reshiram." A third said.
"And he stopped my boss from creating a new world." A fourth said.
"He stopped our plans as well." The fifth and sixth men added.
"It seems that we all have a common enemy in this boy." The Second said. "We need to keep an eye on him and I know the perfect duo to do so."
Back with our heros.
"Well we should be on our way now. Good to see you again." Ash said as the group went their separate ways.
"Same, and take care. I will inform the other champions and gym leaders of this new threat. Goodbye." Steven said. As he was walking away our heros turned and continued on their way toward Petalburg and Max's parents.
In the docks in pallet town
"Where is he. We have been waiting for days." Jessie said. She was very impatient. Herself, James and meowth had been waiting there hiding so they could try and catch pikachu again.
"Can't we go and get something to eat. I am starving." James whined.
"Yeah, why do we have to wait here. Maybe the twerp isn't even coming." Meowth added.
Suddenly their communication device started beeping. It was their boss calling.
"He has never called us before." James said, surprised.
"Well lets see what he wants." Meowth said as he pressed a button on the device.
"Jessie, James, Meowth. I have an important mission for you. You are to follow this trainer and make sure I know where he is going. He cannot interfere with anymore of our operations." There boss said. "Do you understand?"
"Crystal clear sir." Jessie replied.
"Good. Make sure he does not interfere." Their boss said just before he cut the call.
"Wonder why da boss wants us to keep an eye on the twerp." Meowth said.
"It doesn't matter. What matters is that we do as the boss says. If we do well enough we might just get a promotion." Jessie yelled. "Well what are we waiting for let's go."
"Yes ma'am." Meowth and James replied.
So sorry once again for the long wait, especially because this is a shorter chapter. If anyone could explain how the beta reader system on fanfiction works it would be great. I have chapters five and six planned out so it should not be too long until the next update. As always constructive criticism is always appreciated to help me improve my writing and if anyone has any ideas for the story post in the comments and I might include it in my story.