Chapter 10: Victory's Thorns
Alright the last chapter was definitely packed with a fair bit of drama and left a few people perplexed, but now in this chapter I will have Ash discover to a certain extent why Leaf did what she did. The thing is I really want to go all out in this story, oh and I lied about one important Lemon, there is around three of them and one of them has already happened.
Cheren: 20
Bianca: 19
Skyla: 21
Disclaimer: I don't own the pokemon franchise.
(Normal POV)
"The plane will land very soon, please remain in your seats and wait for the plane to come to a complete stop," a voice instructed over the PA system of the plane, the craft began its decent towards the airport in Mistralton City. Ash looked out the window taking the time to think while watching the plane approach the landing strip, on another bit of tarmac a much smaller plane was making its approach. "Please wait for the doors to open before getting out of your seats," the captain instructed as we landed at the airport.
Ash waited for Hilda and Hilbert to walk off the plane before making his exit, 'I don't know what you're thinking Leaf, I will find out so please stay alive,' Ash thought while keeping his emotions in check.
While Ash was walking out of the plane he was pushed out of the way by a mysterious man with short blue hair, "Hey get back here!" Ash yelled out as he gave chase to the man, he didn't get far as the crowd of people got in his way, "who was that guy?" Ash asked in anger, he looked around while being approached by Hilda and Hilbert.
"Ash we need to take a quick rest," Hilda told Ash calmly as they walked towards the exit of the air terminal.
"Alright," Ash said coldly, he followed his friends not saying another word.
James was following close behind making sure he wasn't spotted while heading to an old Team Rocket base, James pulled out his brief case and pressed a button, "Pierce, seems like Sandy is going to declare war on the regions," James promptly pointed out in anger.
"That's another report of a declaration, we better move quickly, make sure the evolver in your area is safe," Pierce told James before disconnecting the call, James walked out of the old building and looked around the corner.
"This mission will be tougher than I thought," James said calmly while watching Trinity walked passed him, James received a call and picked it up, "Jessie how are things going where you are?" James asked his partner.
"Our mission has just gotten a lot tougher, Sandy hasn't spared any expense in their elimination, also I found out Sandy is getting funds from somewhere," Jessie pointed out quietly before switching off her end of the call.
'So, Sandy you have got money, I doubt it would have been from the original Team Rocket,' James thought to himself while keeping a close eye on Ash, Hilda and Hilbert.
Ash, Hilda and Hilbert walked to a Pokemon Center to get the rest they needed for the next part of the mission. Ash remained silent and withdrawn from the other two as he ate his meal in silence, thinking about Leaf, 'why Leaf? I could help you become stronger,' Ash thought to himself while picking up the plate before throwing it against the wall in anger. He stormed out of the center as people watched him seething in anger.
"Hilbert, keep an eye on our pokemon, I need to talk to Ash," Hilda Told her friend with concern.
Hilda walked out of the Pokemon Center and ran after Ash. "Ash! Wait up we need to talk now!" Hilda yelled out in anger, she finally caught up to Ash and grabbed his hand, "Ash, please you need to talk to your friends, we will be here for you and Leaf," Hilda told Ash trying to calm the seething evolver.
"What was Leaf thinking? we had everything set!" Ash yelled out feeling the frustration set in.
"Ash, Leaf had been living a nightmare since she caught Darkrai," Hilda told Ash with concern.
"A nightmare?" Ash questioned in concern while looking away.
"That's right Ash, not one made by Darkrai, but one that has affected her over the last few months, a recurring nightmare," Hilda stated with a frown. "Let me ask you something Ash, how many possible futures can one person have?"
"I don't know, you tell me," Ash requested as he began to calm down.
"Leaf wants to protect two futures and prevent another from occurring," Hilda replied calmly, "one of the futures she wants to protect is you and her, the other is you both of them she saves her friends," Hilda pointed out quickly.
"What's the one she wants to prevent?" Ash asked in frustration.
"She is trying to prevent Team Rocket killing you both and taking over the world failing to save your friends," Hilda professed while crying. "But the more I think about it, the more I realize she is looking for a fourth possibility,"
"A fourth? What could that be?" Ash asked perplexed, Hilda shrugged almost as confused as Ash was.
"Leaf was hoping that she would become stronger, not only to protect her friends, but you Ash and everyone else in the world," Hilda stated as the sun began to set over the city horizon. Ash turned around to look at the sunset.
"I will try to understand Leaf more while I am here," Ash declared while Hilda walked up to him, "Hilda, I will need your help for that," Ash told the young brunette.
"I promised Leaf that I would help you anyway I can," Hilda declared with a smile, "I also agree with you, understanding Leaf has always been an impossible task," Hilda laughed while trying to resist the urge to hold Ash's hand.
"I will find my answer while I am here, so maybe giving Leaf the space she needs to figure out what she needs to do would be for the best," Ash said fully calm from his blind anger.
"That's more like the Ash I grew up loving," Hilda said before kissing Ash on the cheek and walking away from a perplexed Ash
Ash placed his hand on the spot of where he was kissed while standing his ground, 'Leaf, I will wait for you,' Ash thought quietly. While Ash was thinking his X-transceiver started to ring, 'Leaf,' Ash thought before pressing the button.
An angry young woman with short blonde hair and a pair of glasses with red frames appeared on the screen, "Hilbert, I have been waiting to talk you about Cheren!" Yelled in anger as I moved back in shock.
"Um, I am not Hilbert, my name is Ash," Ash replied nervously.
"Then why do you have Hilbert's X-transceiver?" she asked in anger.
Ash walked back to the Pokemon Center to find Hilbert, "Hey Hilbert one of your friends is calling," Ash called out to his friend.
Hilbert walked up to Ash as quickly as possible, "does she have blonde hair and sounds hyperactive?" Hilbert asked with a smile as I nodded with a nervous smile, "if so then that is Bianca," Hilbert pointed out with laughter. Ash placed the X-transceiver in front of Hilbert so he could chat with his friend, "are you and Cheren arguing again?" Hilbert asked in disappointment.
"He started it, he told me to slow down, you know very well that I do things at my own pace," Bianca pointed out with a pout. "And who is that person that answered you X-transceiver?" Bianca asked in irritation.
Hilbert looked towards his friend and smiled, "Him, my best buddy in the world, Ash Ketchum," Hilbert replied with a confident smile.
Ash watched as Bianca and Hilbert were chatting while his arm was starting to get tired, "Hey what about Cheren and me?" Bianca asked angrily.
"Can you two hurry it up, I feel like my arm is going to drop off any moment," Ash requested while holding his arm in place.
Hilbert and Bianca continued to chat on the X-transceiver, this time Ash thought ahead and sat on the table with Hilbert and Hilda allowing them to talk to Bianca, "Come on Ash, say hi," Hilda requested with a smile before pushing the X-transceiver in front of the evolver.
Bianca looked at Ash for a moment smiling at the evolver, "So you're Ash, sorry about earlier, I was wondering why I got this strange woman on Hilda's X-transceiver," Bianca smiled before a male voice called out to Bianca, "hey Cheren, come say hello to Hilbert's and Hilda's friend," Bianca called out to the male.
"Bianca did you call the wrong X-transceiver again?" Cheren asked coldly as he walked up to the screen of. But before Cheren could say hello Bianca closed off the call so we couldn't see the next part of the argument between them.
Hilda and Hilbert looked at each other and laughed from what they heard, "So you two what do you think is happening," Ash asked nervously.
Hilda and Hilbert turned their gaze back to Ash and let out a laugh, "Bianca is probably kicking and scratching Cheren," Hilbert replied, "a few years back Cheren and me were competing for Bianca, he ended up winning her over only because he was smart," Hilbert said with a laugh, "in the end I am sort of glad that Cheren won, I would've no idea how to deal with Bianca's hyperactive nature."
"So you left poor Cheren to deal, that airhead," Hilda said in anger as she clenched her fist.
"Yep," Hilbert professed proudly before being wacked across the back of the head making Ash laugh.
Hilda and Hilbert looked back at Ash to see him laughing at Hilbert's misfortune, "Hilda, hit Hilbert again," Ash requested with a broad smile.
While the friends were having a great moment with Hilbert's misfortune another person walked in wth her pokeballs she had short magenta hair, wearing blue midriff jumper, shorts and knee high boots. "Nurse Joy, please help my pokemon,"she requested in tears.
Ash and co walked up to the young woman in concern, "excuse me what happened?" Hilda asked her as the friends guided her to a seat.
"I was ambushed by a woman by the name of Trinity, she said she was looking for something called an evolver," the woman said feeling very shaken up, "she had some very powerful pokemon I've never seen before."
"Was it a very large purple colored pokemon?" Ash asked in anger, "that would be a Drapion, a pokemon native to the Sinnoh region," Ash pointed out quietly, the woman nodded in approval.
"She also had another pokemon, a large yellow bird she calls Zapdos," she declared as the fear of the name caused her to look out the window of the Pokemon Center in fear.
"What, when did Team Rocket get the legendary birds?" Ash asked before running towards the exit of the center, "Hilbert you take care of her, Hilda I will need your help," Ash told his friends.
Hilda followed Ash to search for Trinity, after exiting they ran around the city to find that some of the buildings had been hit by powerful attacks, the people were inside the buildings taking shelter from what seemed like an intense battle, "Ash, this is odd, we were in the Pokemon Center and we didn't hear a damn thing," Hilda said while they continued to look around for clues to what had happened to the city.
"I agree Hilda, but it seems like they are trying to lure me out for a battle," Ash said calmly before a stray bolt of Lightning slammed into the ground in front of Ash and Hilda, with quick reflexes Ash pulled Hilda out of the way, "Hilda, you alright?" Ash asked in concern.
"Again with saving the girl, you need to stop making a habit of that," Hilda proclaimed with a smile.
"Pikachu, can you go and look around for me?" Ash asked his partner pokemon, "Axew, I want you to be ready for the battle," Ash told the small dragon type pokemon, Axew stood next to Ash and waited for the next attack to arrive.
"Ash, I don't think that a battle here would be a good idea we need to get them out into the open," Hilda instructed calmly.
"No, if we do that Trinity will have the advantage and she knows it, we need to lure her into a closed area, I will go and lure her near Chargestone Cave, You get ready to battle," Ash told Hilda calmly before running away to the city limits in his search for Trinity, Ash continued to look up to the sky and looked back to make sure Hilda was safe, Ash continued to look around until he was outside the city, 'She has to be around,' Ash thought as he looked around the craters from an earlier battle. "strange if the battle was inside the city why are their battle scars in the land?" Ash asked himself before hearing the cries of a powerful pokemon, "sounds like Zapdos," Ash hissed while looking around until spotted the large yellow pokemon crackling with sparks of lightning.
"Seems like we meet again evolver," a woman said with a laugh, "take it you already know my handy work when I made light work of the pitiful gym leader from Mistralton," Trinity said while laughing at her misfortune, "don't worry that was a warm up, I had been waiting for you to come out hiding."
Meanwhile in the gym Hilbert was attending to the woman, "sorry I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Skyla, the gym leader of this city," Skyla introduced herself to Hilbert.
"Well Skyla, my name is Hilbert, I had to stop my journey in Nimbasa to save a couple of friends," Hilbert said with a smile finishing the introduction.
"So who are the other two?" Skyla enquired happily.
"They are my good friends, the other man with black hair is Ash, and the woman that followed him is Hilda," Hilbert introduced his friends, Hilbert walked towards the exit of the pokemon center only to be stopped by Skyla, "Skyla, I need to make sure that Hilda and Ash are okay," Hilbert declared with shock.
"Please stay here, I am scared of being alone at the moment," Skyla cried preventing Hilbert from leaving, "and the people need to be protected as well," Skyla stated making Hilbert look around to find that some of them were afraid, Hilbert looked around again and then back at Skyla before nodding causing the gym leader to bounce back up and cling to his arm.
"Alright, but you have to help as well," Hilbert pointed out calmly, Skyla didn't let go of Hilbert's arm as she walked next to him, 'what's with this girl?' Hilbert thought to himself while walking around the Pokemon Center, they walked to the front counter to pick up Skyla's pokemon before continuing the patrol.
"Excuse me, sir," a little child called out to Hilbert. The trainer looked down towards the little girl, "do you know what's happening outside?" the little girl asked Hilbert naïve of the events that might be occurring.
Not wanting to scare the little girl Hilbert had to think of something that would keep her from panicking, "I don't know myself I just got here," Hilbert lied much to the little girl's disappointment.
"Hilbert, was it right to lie to that little girl," Skyla asked with a frown.
Hilbert looked towards Skyla for a moment and shook his head, "it would have been better for me to lie than to scare the little girl," Hilbert pointed out wisely, "plus if she told everyone what was happening, a lot of people would go into panic causing an even bigger problem, a problem that I can't allow my friends to deal with while they are dealing with Team Rocket," Hilbert told Skyla quickly.
Skyla looked at Hilbert with grave concern; she looked around the center with the people holding on to family and friends, "So what if it gets worse?"
The two looked at each other for a moment before Hilbert sighed, "then I will need your help to evacuate the people," Hilbert said calmly before a loud noise was heard from the outside causing Skyla and Hilbert to look outside the in shock, "dammit the battle has just started, Skyla time to get the people out of here now," Hilbert pointed towards the people then the exit of the Pokemon Center.
(Ash's POV)
I was standing near the entrance of the city after a powerful attack had passed me and hit the back of the Pokemon Center, "damn you Trinity, hitting a civilian building!" I yelled out in anger as I got ready to battle the rocket member.
Trinity looked down at me and burst out into laughter while I was getting one of my pokeballs ready for the battle, "Well the building got in the way of my mission to destroy you."
I looked back in shock while hearing the screams of the panicking masses, the explosions of technology that kept the pokemon healthy and the crumbling of parts of the building collapsing. "What? What about the innocent people? The little kids?" I asked as my anger started to reach boiling point, "Charizard! I choose you!" I yelled out calling my pokemon to battle the rocket member.
At that moment I realized why Leaf had to do what she did, not only the nightmares, but it seems that while I was in bad shape she saw something similar to this, I had to make it my mission to save the people, 'so we could never be together with Team Rocket running rampant,' I thought with sorrow, I closed my eyes and clenched my fists now realizing what Leaf was thinking about, 'so be it Leaf, after we defeat Team Rocket, we will have that life we desire,' I thought as a picture of Leaf flashed through my mind.
"What are you waiting for? Are you going to fight?" Trinity arrogantly asked while laughing. I opened my eyes and glared at the legendary bird, I looked up and glared at Trinity, "oh, it seems like I hit a nerve, good, I want to destroy you while you're at your best," Trinity smiled as she prepared for the battle.
I closed my eyes and thought to myself calmly, I cleared my mind to try and call for an ally that wanted to help me in the battle against Team Rocket, 'Mewtwo I need your help.' I opened my eyes and in a sudden blink a humanoid pokemon appeared ready for battle.
'You need my help?' the pokemon asked telepathically, I nodded with a smile and recalled my Charizard, 'so Team Rocket is making their big move.' Mewtwo said in a knowing tone.
"Seems like it friend," I told the powerful pokemon, "they have attacked innocent people, and destroyed parts of the city behind me," I pointed towards the city.
"Ash, I have some news about the situation at the Pokemon Center," Hilda declared while panting and running towards me, "Hilbert and the woman are evacuating the people out of the city," Hilda told me with a relieved smile.
"Two of you, well now I won't need to hold back," Trinity said with a smile, she lifted her hand and signaled for another person to show up, "Team Rocket's search for you is over and soon the other evolver will fall."
Hilda looked towards me with concern before getting one of her pokeballs ready for battle; she stood next to me and smiled at me "Ash, I will help you out in this battle."
I looked over to Hilda and nodded in approval, "Mewtwo are you sure you want me to give you commands for this battle?" I asked the powerful pokemon's approval.
Mewtwo looked back towards me and smiled at me, 'Yes, I will follow your commands if that leads to Team Rocket's ultimate defeat,' Mewtwo told me telepathically.
I looked at the Trinity and the person she was teaming up with, I turned my gaze back to Hilda who was determined to battle alongside me, "Hilda, I will be teaming up with Mewtwo to take care of Trinity, whatever the other opponent has it will be up to you to defeat it," I instructed Hilda while looking at the set battle field.
"Venusaur, time to show these pitiful trainers what you're capable of," the rocket soldier called out a powerful pokemon mostly coloured blue with a large flower on its back.
Hilda looked at the opposing pokemon calmly and glared at the opponent determined to win this battle, "for the people that you hurt, I will make you pay, for my friends you've capture I will send you straight to the depths of hell, go Mandibuzz!" Hilda called out a flying type pokemon with a pink head, talons and neck with brown fur around its neck and gray and black feathers. She readied for the attack as our opponents did, "Mandibuzz, start this battle off with Air Slash."
"Mewtwo, use psychic on Zapdos," I commanded the powerful pokemon.
"Zapdos, counter with Thunderbolt," Trinity called out for her attack. Zapdos charged up for a powerful burst of electricity.
"Venusaur, use Leech Seed," the rocket soldier called out for the next attack, Venusaur sent out a burst of leech Seeds towards Mandibuzz. The attacks collided causing a powerful explosion pushing Hilda and I back from the force of the attack, Hilda's pokemon had a single seed land on it causing a group of vines to wrap around the flying type.
Mewtwo landed a powerful attack on Zapdos knocking it back slightly but it was still willing to fight on, "Hilda, do you have another pokemon to use?" I asked in concern, Hilda nodded before recalling her pokemon from the battle, "good we can't allow for Venusaur to stay in this battle for too much longer with that powerful Leech Seed," I looked on while telling Hilda the situation.
Hilda pulled out another pokeball for the battle, "Chandalure time to battle," Hilda called out for a fire/ghost type pokemon, "time for round two," Hilda declared with ferocity.
I looked back towards the battle ready to send out another powerful attack, "Mewtwo, let's give them full power this time," I told the powerful pokemon with a confident smirk, "enough holding back."
Mewtwo looked at me with a smile and nodded knowing that the battle was about to reach another level, 'I was hoping you would say that.' Mewtwo charged towards Zapdos as the large yellow pokemon did the same.
"Mewtwo, Mega Punch," I commanded confidently.
"Zapdos, Drill Peck," Trinity called out for her attack as her legendary bird pokemon charged at Mewtwo, the two pokemon continued to fly towards each other with great speed until they made contact causing a large shockwave to follow soon after the attack landed. The two powerful foes flew backwards from the ferocity of the attacks before charging at each other again.
Hilda watched in fear frozen as the battle between legendary pokemon intensified, "Intense, Chandalure, time to use Flamethrower," Hilda called out, her pokemon sent out a flurry of flames at the grass type pokemon.
"Venusaur, use Solar Beam," the soldier called confidently, Venusaur gathered solar energy before firing it in a powerful beam, the two attacks collided, Venusaur gained the quick advantage but Chandalure was up to the task pushing the attack back slightly, eventually the two attacks dissipated with none of the two pokemon gaining a significant advantage.
"Chandalure, use Shadow Ball," Hilda commanded quickly, the ghost type charged up three balls of ghostly energy and fired it at the grass type pokemon.
"Venusaur, knock them away with Vine Whip," the rocket commanded, Venusaur sent out two vines vines to knock away the Shadow Balls until from out of nowhere another shadow ball hit the grass type head on. "What happened?" The rocket asked in shock as his pokemon got pushed back from the powerful attack.
I watched Hilda gain the advantage in battle as she looked at her opponent with a smile, "I quickly ordered for another Shadow Ball while you were busy with those other Shadow Balls."
I turned my gaze back to the intensifying battle between Mewtwo and Zapdos, "clever move Hilda," I remarked with a smile. "Mewtwo, give Zapdos a taste of Ice Beam," I commanded the legendary pokemon.
"Zapdos, counter with Charge Beam !" Trinity commanded with haste, the two pokemon charged up their powerful attacks before firing them at one another before colliding again for another powerful shockwave, this time the power of the shockwave pushed everyone back.
We hit the ground with great force but luckily none of us were hurt, I picked myself up and looked over towards Hilda who was bleeding a little from her arm, "Hilda are you alright?" I asked calmly.
Hilda looked at me and smiled while cleaning up some of the blood, "It's nothing Ash, just a little cut," she remarked.
I looked back towards the battle with concern, the two rockets were standing there with smiles on their faces, "Hilda I want you to help out with Hilbert in making sure the people are okay, I will finish this battle off," I told the young woman.
I smiled at Hilda while Mewtwo stood next to me preparing for another round in this battle, "No Ash, you can't fight these people on your own, I will help you out to make sure Team Rocket doesn't hurt anymore people," Hilda relied to my request. Hilda walked up towards the battle and got ready for the next attack.
'Friend, she is proving to be a worthy ally, I agree with her you will need all the help you can get, it would be better if she did stay for the battle since it means protecting the people,' Mewtwo told me wisely.
I looked towards the ground and smiled realizing even more what was going on, 'I think I understand what you were thinking Leaf,' I thought as I looked back up towards the battle.
"Zapdos, use Drill Peck again," Sandy called out for the attack, Zapdos charged at Chandalure with its beak spinning around.
"Mewtwo, use Mega Punch again!" I commanded with confidence, Mewtwo charged towards the defense of Chandalure with a glowing fist, Mewtwo's attack landed knocking Zapdos back away from the ghost type pokemon, while off guard a storm of leaves started to head towards the mighty psychic type pokemon.
Hilda looked at to me thankfully with a smile on her face, "Chandalure use Flamethrower," Hilda commanded, Hilda's pokemon sent out a storm of flames at the incoming leaves preventing them from hitting our ally.
"Thanks for the save Hilda," I told my friend calmly, we looked at the pokemon as they started to grow tired from the battle, "Hilda, we need to find a way finishing this battle quickly."
Hilda looked back and nodded calmly and approved that we had to go all or nothing in this last part of the battle, "Right, Chandalure, full power Flamethrower." The ghost type pokemon sent out a huge storm of flames burning parts of the land as the move made its way towards the foes.
"Mewtwo, use Psychic," I commanded quickly.
The two attacks charged at the opposing pokemon until two attacks originated from Zapdos and Venusaur, the four attacks collided but our attacks gained the advantage eventually pushing it back towards our foes causing the enemies pokemon to fall onto the rockets from the force of the attack. I looked towards Hilda who was still holding her arm from the small cut she got.
We walked up to our foes calmly while we were expecting an attack we knew we had gained a small victory until we heard a laugh from Trinity, she was severely hurt from the force of the attacks and wasn't looking so good, "You two…. Think this is over," Trinity panted with a smile, "far from it, there are three others out there two of them have command of the other legendary birds, while the one that commands us has Lugia."
"Friend do you want me to finish her off?' Mewtwo asked me coldly, I disapproved of Mewtwo request and picked up a couple of pokeballs, I recalled the pokemon that were used against us before walking away.
I looked towards Mewtwo with an appreciative look on my face, "Mewtwo, I know that you were made to be a fighting machine, but I value you more than that, I see you as a friend and I would never consider murdering someone, because you want me to," I pointed out calmly as I looked back towards Trinity who had died from her injuries, I picked up the pokeballs and walked back to the Pokemon Center with Hilda walking back slowly.
"Mewtwo, you can go and rest now and thanks for the help friend," I told the legendary pokemon as it flew away from the battle.
'I have a lot to learn, and I feel like I can learn it from you and your friends,' mewtwo told me telepathically as it flew away.
We made it back to the Pokemon Center to find a surprising scene in front of us, "Ash, have a look at Hilbert," Hilda told me with a smile, I turned my gaze for a second to see Hilbert and the woman holding hands and walking towards us, "so Hilbert, you finally found my replacement," Hilda joked as we all began to laugh.
"Ash and Hilda I want you to meet the new Gym Leader of this city, Skyla" Hilbert introduced us to the person who was panicking from her injured pokemon.
I looked at the young woman that was accompanying him and let out a smile, "Wow Hilbert you're one lucky bastard." Making Hilbert and Skyla blush from my comment while Hilda and me laughed at the new love birds, "come on Hilbert, we all know you took a liking to her, the moment you saw Skyla," I laughed at my friend.
"Skyla, we need your help in a situation that seems to be deteriorating every day," Hilda told the young woman with a frown, "but first you need to know something about Ash," Hilda told the gym leader.
"I am the one that Team Rocket are chasing, I am an evolver just one of two remaining evolvers, the other one is in a different region," I professed calmly as a small pokemon flew towards us with an injured wing, "seems like this poor guy got caught in out battle," I said with regret, "maybe a sample of what an evolver can do," I told Skyla as my right hand started to glow while I was focusing a small amount of energy into it.
I tapped the pokemon on the head and it grew larger before revealing an entirely different pokemon, "Wow, so you helped the pokemon recover from an injured wing by making it evolve," Skyla enquired with an excited smile on her face.
"Team Rocket want us dead because of this ability, there were twenty of us but sadly I am one of two remaining," I stated with sadness as I looked towards my friends.
"Skyla, Team Rocket has declared war against every region, and we need the help of gym leaders, elite four and champions to combat against Team Rocket," Hilda instructed the young gym leader, Skyla nodded and walked away from the battle.
"Hey, Skyla before you go, how about you exchange X-transceiver numbers with me so you can contact Hilbert whenever you want," I told the gym leader with a smile, after a few minutes of exchanging the numbers we went back to the Pokemon Center to heal the pokemon and to discuss our next move in quiet.
"So, Ash what are you going to do about Zapdos?" Hilda asked me nervously.
I looked at her for a moment and smiled, "I am going to release it, most legendary pokemon need their freedom and Zapdos can't be confined in pokeballs," I replied calmly as I picked up the pokeballs from the front desk, "I will send the rest to Professor Juniper, so the pokemon can find a trainer that could take proper care of them," I finished quickly before releasing Zapdos, "do what you want Zapdos," I told the pokemon as I looked over my shoulder to find my friends standing there, Pikachu was sitting on my shoulder and Axew was getting ready to travel yet again.
(Normal POV)
James was standing on a hill watching the friends talking and getting ready to travel through Chargestone Cave, "he is a lot stronger than I thought, but this is just the beginning," James said with a smile before leaving the scene to report his finding to the rest of his team.
On the other side of the city N was looking at what had transpired with Zekrom standing next to him, "you know old friend, he might be the one to reawaken Reshiram," N told the large black pokemon with a proud smile on his face.
Alright the first round goes to Ash and his friends. The next chapter will follow part of Leaf's mission to find her answer as well as her first battle alongside Darkrai and her other friends.
Next time in the Evolvers chapter 11: The Trials of Leaf.
Later in the story Ash is going to make a couple of mistakes. They aren't fatal ones but it will be the ones that will change the landscape of the story. How about having a guess what it will be, I want to know who predict it correctly should be a shocking moment (which is what I am hoping for.)
If you can predict correctly I will give the reader who predicted correctly priority in choosing the next female to pair with Ash, it can't be previous traveling companions and they have to be in his age bracket as well, they can be from Anime, Manga and Games (even the new female character is allowed.) that story will not start until next year.