Chapter 8 Future, Present and the Past

We left our hero in weird warp pole

"How much longer we'll be here and where this leads?!" Ash yelled

Then after a minute of nothing he felt strange aura which was talking to him

"Ash is you want to come back to your time just find me in future"

"Future? My time? What could that mean?" he asked himself but after that he was ejected from the pole and then fell on the ground

"OH! My back! That really wasn't nice"

"Are you okay Pikachu?" he asked

"Pikachu pika chu pika pi" (Yeah I hope so)

"Okay where are we?" he asked "Better take my hood back" he added

"Pika pikachu pika pi" (We should find pokemon center)

"You're right Pikachu let's go" he said and then they walked to the closest city

"Good day Nurse Joy could you tell me where am I?" Ash asked still hidden by his cape

"Good day traveler you're in Viridian City"

"What?!" he thought "Okay thanks for the information Nurse Joy have a nice day" he said and walked back outside

"This is Viridian City?" "This is impossible it's so different I don't recognize it" then he collide with someone

"Oh I'm very sorry mister" person said

"Ouch no problem I guess" Ash replied and stood up and then he saw woman in late twenties

"It has to be her!" "It has to be May!" he thought with surprise

"Are you okay lady?" he said and offered hand to May

"Thank you mister" May smiled but then she changed to sad expression

"What's going on…?"

"I'm May"

"Nice to meet you" "So what's the matter May?"

"Um nothing…"

"Oh no… I can't say my name to her" he thought

"Um… my name is Jack" he lied

"Nice to meet you too" May replied

"So May I know we just met but you can speak with me"

"Okay then let me explain it. 10 years ago I had a boyfriend"

"And what's so bad about it?" Ash asked

"I was in love with someone else… and because he met me with my boyfriend I couldn't say my feelings to him"

"Why you didn't tell it to him later?"

"Because he left us and went away" she said sadly

"But you had boyfriend right?"

"No he broke up with me 2 years and he left"

"Oh that's bad…" "Is this really true? She's talking about me!" he thought "But he has returned no?"

"Yeah he did…"

"Why so sadly?" Ash asked

"Because he returned with girlfriend"

"Oh that's very bad… I feel sorry for you"

"Its okay thanks for the talk"

"No problem at all" "By the way could you tell me name of the guy you love?"

"Ash Ketchum"

"Unbelievable!!!" "I was right she really loves me" "Where can I find him I'd like to meet him"

"He's pretty famous you'll recognize him quickly"

"Okay thanks see you later"

"Bye"

In future time May just arrived to Johto

"Okay here it is hope you're here" she prayed and ran to hotel where Drew should be she knocked on the doors but there was no reply so she tried to open the doors and it worked

"Are you here Drew?" May asked

"Yeah May I'm in living room" he replied

"Hi Drew!" she smiled but then she suddenly stopped "Soledad what are you doing here?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Drew said arrogantly

"Y-You can't b-be serious"

"I'm serious" "I never loved you I just wanted to be more popular" he said and flicked his hair "I always loved only Soledad" he said and kissed her

"Drew!!!" "How could you?!" May yelled in tears

"Be happy you're free to be with Ketchum"

"I'll be!!" she yelled and ran away from the hotel

"Oh no how foolish I was?!" "Ash I'm so sorry!!" "Please forgive me and return to me!" she yelled and ran to harbor to catch a boat back to Kanto

"Why?" "Why?" "Why I was so dumb in the past I could live with my love and now he's gone and I'm here all alone"

Meanwhile back in future Ash ran to the square where he saw a poster of him and Angie

"What?! Angie is my girlfriend?!" "I have to talk with my future myself" then he saw that future Ash is in the city and in the gym

"That's cool better get going" he decided and walked directly there

After 10 minutes of walking he reached the gym and knocked on the doors

"Anybody's here?"

"Come here challenger" said voice and Ash decided to enter and there he saw his older self

"Hi there are you here to battle?" future Ash asked

"Not at all I'm here to talk with you" answered Ash

"Okay then. May I know your name cape man?"

"I think you'll discover it by yourself" said Ash and removed his hood

"What?! This is impossible!" "You… you… you are me!"

"That's right future me I'm you"

"How is it possible?"

"I was absorbed by a time warp pole and I ended up here"

"So that's that. And what did you want to talk about?"

"I want to know why you aren't with my love May"

"Oh that… after I finished Hevah League she admitted that she loves me and since I didn't have a clue how it's going with May so I decided to accept her feelings and after some time we were going out with each other and after I returned to Pallet Town May saw that and she thought that she doesn't have a chance so I didn't know that she really loves me as well…" said future Ash

"How do you know about love?"

"You told me" future Ash smiled

"What do you mean by that?"

"I can read your mind when you're here"

"Wow awesome!"

"Ash"

"Yeah?"

"I have big favor to ask"

"Which one do you want?"

"Change the future" future Ash said

"What?!" Ash yelled

"We both know that May is the right girl for us"

"Yeah I agree"

"So that's why you have to go back to your time and fix it with May" "Since you know she loves you the only thing you have to do is to tell her your feelings"

"That's great idea but how can I go back to my present?"

"Since you came here by warp pole it has to be created by pokemon right?"

"Yeah it was Dialga but…"

"What's on your mind?"

"I felt some weird aura in warp pole but it wasn't Dialga's aura"

"I'm sorry to say but I don't know what that aura was but you might find it where Dialga is"

"Okay and where is Dialga?" Ash laughed

"At the top of Mt. Coronet"

"You're joking right?!" Ash yelled

"Unfortunately no… you have to go to Sinnoh but you have Ho-Oh right? So it's not problem at all don't you think?" future Ash smiled

"Yeah I guess you're right" Ash replied and then began to walked away but he was stopped by future Ash's last comment

"And don't forget this" "You can change the future if you change the present"

"Thanks for it" Ash said and walked out of gym and then on Ho-Oh's back flew to Sinnoh

In Gym

"Great it's working. Great job Ash" mysterious aura said

"I should be thanking you for your help" "By the way it was you who that Ash felt right?"

"Yeah right it was me"

"I knew it"

"So Ash I'm leaving to Mt. Coronet bye for now maybe we'll meet again someday"

"Goodbye and you can tell Ash that we've met" future Ash smiled

"Okay I'm on the way" mysterious aura said farewell

"Bye my friend. Ash I hope you'll change future for the good of both of us"

End of Chapter 8

Ash arrived in future and met his future self. Who is that mysterious aura? And will Ash return and will he succeed with fixing problem with May? Next chapter will reveal the details