Chapter Twenty-three: Crimson Ash

While attempting to escape from the Neo Galactic base in Mt. Battle, Ash and co. bump into Galactic grunts and Magma grunts.

Galactic grunt: Halt. You shall not pass.

The Galactic grunt sends out Murkrow, which fell easy to Sudowoodo's Double-Edge, and accidently running over the grunts. Later, they see Miror B. But he's also seem to be finding an exit.

Miror B.: Hey, hey, hey! Have you seen an exit?
Dawn: Who are you? And no, we haven't.
Miror B.: Oh, sorry. I'm Miror B., former Admin of Cipher, now a disco dancing-Pokemon Trainer Miror B. does a disco jig
Ash: Oh...kay... I'm Ash. This is Dawn and there's Brock.
Dawn and Brock: Hi.
Miror B.: You know, Ash, you look like the Neo Galactic X leader.
Ash: I do?
Miror B.: I'm serious. Except that he wears red and that's his name!
Dawn: Red? That's his name?
Miror B.: Red. That's his name.
Brock: Who'd name their son "Red"?
Ash: Who cares? We need to get out of here!

The four of them bumped into, again, the Rocket trio. The three were pretty sad about something.

Ash: What's wrong?
James: What's wrong? We tried and tried again to steal your Pikachu, but you're always in our way.
Ash: By the way, why is it again that you guys want Pikachu?
Jessie: Pikachu is an ali...gets scratched in the face by Meowth
Meowth: to Jessie in secret You're not supposed to tell him, remember?
Jessie: to Meowth in secret Oh, yeah. Dawn is in her suspician face. to Ash Pikachu is unlike any other Pikachu. This very Pikachu is abnormally powerful. Our boss wants that Pikachu for his power. Yeah...
Meowth: But our new boss has no use for us, since he knows a way to create more powerful Pokemon.
Miror B.: Create...? You three don't mean Shadow Pokemon?

Meanwhile, somewhere else, the evil bosses show up in some sort of conference room. They were talking to each other on how to rule the world. However, the talking was stopped by some guy. He was walking to the podium. This guy looks like Ash, but still completely different. This guy is Red, and he seems to be followed by something invisible. Whatever that is, the team bosses are curious, since there is something odd about Red's shadow...

Miror B.: And that's what Shadow Pokemon are.
Dawn: How cruel of these Cipher guys to misuse Pokemon like that.
Miror B.: I knew this several years back and had a Shadow Sudowoodo along with my posse of Ludicolo. Brock is shocked But that Wes guy and his girlfriend took it away and purified Sudowoodo's heart.
Brock: Wait. Ludicolo?
Miror B.: Don't you like Luidicolo?
Brock: I like Ludicolo. I have one back home.
Miror B.: Groovy. Anyway, after I quit, I managed to steal 3 more of these Shadow Pokemon, one of them a Dragonite. Then, some kid named Michael purified them. Kid thought I was cool.

As they were continuing their journey out of the hideout, they see a dead end with only some sort of exit upward, but it is way to high. Behind them, there's Red and the team leaders in a V formation. The team is shocked, especially the Rocket trio. Giovanni saw them with the enemy and decided to fire them. Quite literal enough that Maxie uses his Houndoom to Flamethrower the entire party except for Miror B., since he's quite tall! Miror B. was free to go, but instead uses two of his Ludicolo to Rain Dance-Hydro Pump the opposing party. The team leaders were soaked away, but not Red for some reason.

Red's shadow suddenly attacked Miror B. and the Ludicolo. it revealed itself as a dark incarnation of a Deoxys.

Miror B.: pant Is that a Shadow Deoxys?
Red: No. This Deoxys' heart isn't artificially closed. It chose its own heart to close itself! It has become Dark Deoxys.

Dark Deoxys let out a peculiar sound and made Miror B. (the Ludicolo are by that time returned to their Pokeballs) unconscience.

Ash woke up and saw himself in another jail cell. But this time, he's alone, with no Pokemon, in a cell with only a barred window, guarded fully by grunts. Ash looks around him and ponders...(end of chapter)

(Here are the lineups for some of the other people who aren't mentioned earlier)

Darren:
-Xatu (male)
-Xypher the Gallade
-Xynia the Gardevoir (female, duh)
-OWN N PWN the Magikarp (male)
-Duskull (male)
-Absol (female) (may be changed if Darren says so)

Zario: (all of his Pokemon are male, except for Phozon, who is genderless)
Gained in Chapter 20
-Gaskin the Dusknoir
-Gilga the Rampardos
-Flare the Infernape
-Baizen the Tyranitar
-Munesoon the Honchkrow
-Phozon the Bronzong

May:
-Blaziken (male)
-Munchlax (male)
-Glaceon (female)
-Wartortle (male)
Gained in Chapter 20
-Furret (female)
-Bayleef (female)

Max:
-Gallade
-Shuppet (male) (this is a different Shuppet from the one he befriended)
-Mightyena (male)
Gained in Chapter 20
-Delcatty (female) (OTMay)
-Vigoroth (male) (OTNorman)
-Valiant the Pidgey (male)

Manuel:(all of his Pokemon are male)
-Kasai the Blaziken
-Sparkz the Jolteon
-Genesis the Medicham (I still like that name)
-Genghis-Kon the Gengar
-Rocky the Rhyperior (name may change)
-Neoz the Umbreon (Shiny)

Lance: (all of his Pokemon are male)
-Dragonite
-Aerodactyl
-Gyarados (Shiny)
-Shelgon
Gained in Chapter 20
-Gabite
-Charizard

Buzz:
-Mothim
-Vespiquen
-Heracross (Male)
-Parasect (female)
Gained in Chapter 20
-Omastar (male)
-Scizor (male)