Hello everybody! Sorry about the long hiatus without new chapters :( Things kept popping up and I couldn't wait to get back to the keyboard! To apologize I decided to write a chapter that takes place before Chapter 1, and will help you understand the story further. I would move this to chapter 1 and move everything else up one, but this way I can save a lot of time and explaining. Enjoy the chapter!

In the Unova region, home of Team Plasma, grunt Sebastian was tasked with finding a rare and powerful Pok mon in order to help his team accomplish their goals. He had a whole list of possible Pok mon. He kept scrolling down the list, reading off the names. He looked through all sorts of resources for any clue as to where the Pok mon might be located.
"Let's see...Latias," he said to himself. He had recalled something involving Team Rocket and the Eon Pok mon, but had no real memory of the event. After an hour of searching, he found an old news article.
"Oh!" he thought. "Altomare. A boy named Ash Ketchum, a Latias, and a little town known as Altomare. Perfect! Just what I need!" He packed up some Pok Balls and bought a boat ticket to a little island in Hoenn.
Team Flare, based in the Kalos region, was tasked with capturing a rare Pok mon. They didn't know what Lysandre wanted, but they knew how he had described it - "red and white, with golden eyes." While the other grunts were searching through books and newspapers and the like, Derek had already identified and located the Pok mon - a Latias.
"A Latias in Hoenn," he thought to himself. "And a small rural town known as Altomare." He bought a boat ticket, and packed plenty of Pok Balls and other items. Derek snuck out of Team Flare HQ and left for the boat.
"Hey Ash!" Clemont called for the boy, who had came over to look at the flyer Clemont had in his hands. "There's a battle competition going on in a half-hour on this boat!"
"A battle competition, huh?" Ash said. "Sounds great! Right Pikachu?"
"Pika-pika!" the little mouse enthusiastically replied.
"Alright! Come on, Pikachu!" The boy grabbed his Pok Balls and darted away. Clemont sighed. "That should give him something to do, now as for me..." he paused. He found some unfinished thing he was working on and continued to tinker with it.
While Ash was at the battle competition, Sebastian went over to the boat caf and bought himself some lunch. He sat down at a table with some guy in a suit with a strange red tie, with what seemed like a logo on it.
"Mind if I sit here?" he asked the man. Derek, who had recognized him as a Team Plasma member by the blue "P" on the stranger's bracelet, enthusiastically replied "No, not at all!"
"What's your name?" Sebastian asked the guy in the suit.
"Derek, yours?"
"Sebastian."
"I see you're a Team Plasma member?" Derek seemed to catch Sebastian off-guard.
"Huh? What? Oh, yeah. You a member of Team Flame or whatever that team in Kalos is?" Derek seemed to take slight offense to Sebastian's lack of knowledge, but he just shrugged it off after a bit.
"Team Flare, yes. What are you doing here?"
"Oh, we're looking for a rare Pok mon named Latias," Sebastian replied quietly as to not reveal his plans.
"Same, we're looking for it too."
"Oh really? Well then, I think I might have an idea." Sebastian was great with coming up with ideas on the spot. He seemed a little too excited about it. "We could team up and capture it together! Whatdya say?"
"Y'know, that's not too bad of an idea!" Derek replied. "What Pok mon do you have on you?"
"A Talonflame, and an Espeon," he replied.
"Okay. I've got a Raichu and a Gyarados. We should share Pok mon." Derek told the Plasma member. "That way, we can easily create the optimal team for each of us."
"Fine, that works. Hey, wanna go watch the battle competition while we wait?"
"I guess, I've got nothing to do for a while." Derek and his new companion threw away their trash and arrived at the competition right near the end. Ash was battling a trainer with a Sceptile with his Pikachu. Soon, the Sceptile was down, knocked out.
"Sceptile is unable to battle!" the referee. "That means that Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town and his Pikachu are the winner!"
"Great job, Pikachu!" Ash praised his little buddy. "You did awesome out there!"
"Pika pika!"
"Ash Ketchum?" Derek and Sebastian exclaimed in unison. "We better watch out for him, then."
The referee, who had gone to check the winner of the competition, had returned. "And the winner of the battle competiton is..." All of the trainers, Ash included, were excited. One of them was about to be the winner, and each participant knew it would be themselves.
"...Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town!" Sebastian and Derek became worried instantly. The boy who had stopped Annie and Oakley, top members of Team Rocket, and who had just won an entire battle competition, was heading to Altomare too! And if he were to find out about their plans, they would be over for sure.
In Altomare, Latias was sitting alone somewhere, and anyone who saw her would have easily known that she was lonely. Very lonely. Lucky for her, a Latios, who was also feeling lonely, flew above. The Latios and Latias saw each other, and Latias showed it around. The Latios decided to stay.
Later that night, Ash and his friends were getting ready for bed. Ash jumped into bed, and dozed off. Pikachu was looking around for any spare ketchup packets, but couldn't find any. It fell asleep next to it's trainer, dreaming of the day it started raining ketchup.
"Alright, Espeon, come on out!" Sebastian whispered. He was planning on erasing Ash's memory altogether by using Hypnosis. He had thought of it himself and Derek was easily impressed. Espeon snuck in to Ash's room. "Use Hypnosis!" The little cat started Hypnosis, but after five minutes, the grunt heard a guard coming by. He was instantly nervous. "Espeon, return!" he ordered. He sneakily ran away from the guard. But, because Hypnosis had failed, Ash only forgot the past seven or so hours. And so, the adventure begins!