Pokemon: Return of a Hero
It's the fiftieth chapter! I've come so far since that day in August when I started writing my story, I've nearly spent four and a half months on writing this story which is pretty crazy. This chapter will for real mark the end of the battle against Dark Ash so I hope you are excited, this chapter will have lots of things happen, some cool, some… not so cool. Besides that, I've almost reached one hundred followers I will give a shout out to each and every single person who was willing to stick with me throughout the entire duration of me writing this story. Also, I would like you people to give me your opinion on Charninja and fusion evolution in general. Not only did I fuse two Synchro evolution pokemon, an evolution that only Ash could use, but I fused Ash with his pokemon as well. Funny thing: I originally wasn't going to fuse Ash with them but decided to do it at the last minute because I thought it's be cool. Any who let's get on with the fic….
Chapter XXXXX
(Charninja's POV)
"Take him down!" I shouted. With that command my pokemon and I charged at Dark Ash, Sceptile and Krookodile were side by side in the front followed by Heracross and Infernape who were also side by side, with me in the back row, my wings were folded up so that I could run without them getting in the way. "STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Shrieked the black aura user. As he screamed he summoned an incredibly powerful Frenzy plant and launched it at us. "Don't let it hit you!" I ordered.
Without deterring their course my pokemon jumped and ducked around the vines in order not to get hit. Suddenly one of the vine hit me in the ankle knocking me off balance causing me to fall forward. "Crud." I thought, but before I could hit the ground I felt something grab onto each of my wrists. I looked up to see Infernape and Heracross each grabbing onto one of my arms, they both had encouraging smiles on their faces. Using all their remaining strength the slung me forward.
I was flying, and I was flying fast. As I was nearing Sceptile and Krookodile the two looked at me and then they exchanged glances, getting an idea. Just as I was about to pass them both of them stopped, Sceptile lifted his right leg while Krookodile lifted his left. Using their feet as spring boards, Sceptile smashed the bottom of his foot into the bottom of my left foot, while Krookodile smashed the bottom of his foot into the bottom of my right foot.
Their kicks gave me the ultimate boost of speed needed. I was rocketing towards Dark Ash now. "EVEN IF YOU MANAGE TO DEFEAT ME, YOU'LL NEVER DEFEAT GIOVANNI, NOT EVEN FUSION EVOLUTION WIL GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH YOU NEED!" Roared Dark Ash angrilly. My eyes narrowed as I got closer to him. Using my remaining strength, I prepared for one final attack. "I DON'T CARE!" I shouted. Just as I reached Dark Ash I called my final attack. "FLAME WATER SHURIKEN!"
(Author's POV)
Serena stared. Cilan stared. Miette stared. Heck even I stared and I'm the author who's writing this and can't even technically see what is happening right now. Just before reaching Dark Ash, Charninja created a massive five-pointed star made of flaming water and smashed into Dark Ash's midsection. The scene in front of them seemed to move in slow motion. Dark Ash was falling backwards while Charninja continued moving. He hit the ground and rolled to his feet and turned around looking at Dark Ash.
The barrier the evil clone had created disappeared and everything appeared normal, besides Charninja. Speaking of which the four typed pokemon began to glow a brilliant golden light. When the light dissipated Charizard and Greninja were sitting on the ground and while Ash was still standing he was clearly fatigued. He walked over to where Dark Ash lay on the ground. Ash peered down at him. "You've lost Dark Ash." Said the legendary warrior. Dark Ash just stared at him in response.
Ash turned towards where his friends were. "Let's get out of he-Urk!" Choked Ash. It felt like his midsection was on fire. He looked down to see a blade of darkness was extruding from the center-right section of his torso. He shakily turned his head to see Dark Ash standing behind him, with a crazed look on his face. "Giga drain." Wheezed the now grass type clone as he started absorbing Ash. Ash could feel his strength leaving him, then he noticed that there was something else wrong.
Ash couldn't feel his hands. He looked back down to see that the reason behind that was because he had no hands left to feel. Dark Ash's Giga drain wasn't just stealing his strength, he was absorbing his body as well. "ASH!" Screamed Dawn worriedly. "Wh-what are you doing?" Groaned Ash. Dark Ash's grin somehow managed to become even wider. "If I absorb you into my body, I'll gain your strength, then I will be unstoppable!" Cackled the evil clone.
Ash groaned as more of him began to disappear. Serena put a hand to her mouth. "No." She whimpered. Ash looked at his friends. "Don't worry guys. I won't let him hurt you." Said the Kanto native weakly. Ash groaned as the last of him disappeared and was absorbed by Dark Ash, except his hat which blew away in the wind and flew to where Ash's friends were. Ash's friends couldn't believe it. "Ash… lost?" Asked Max uncertainly. Dark Ash chuckled maniacally.
"Now to destroy all of you!" Shouted the evil clone as he charged at Ash's friends with his Dragon claws extended and ready to rip them to shreds. Ash's friends recoiled in fear of the charging duplicate of Ash. But then he just abruptly stopped. Ash's friends stared. Dark Ash was just frozen in place, no wait it seemed like his body parts were moving but it seemed that all they could do was just kind of shake as if all of Dark Ash's tensed up at the same time. "What's… happening." Grunted Dark Ash. "Me." Came a voice. Dark Ash's eyes widened.
(Inside Dark Ash's mind)
Dark Ash couldn't believe it. He was staring at Ash. But the Ketchum boy should've been dead. He stabbed Ash and then absorbed him. "How are you still alive?" Demanded Dark Ash. "Truthfully I have no idea." Said Ash. "But here is what I find real interesting. You are a being of darkness, I am one of light. And just what does the light do to darkness?" Suddenly Ash began to grow brightly. Dark Ash used his arms to shield his eyes. Dark Ash felt himself fading. "No. No! NO! NO!" Screamed Dark Ash as he began to fade away.
(Back in the real world)
Everyone was staring expectantly at Dark Ash. They walked close trying to see what was up with him. Suddenly a large Crack! Was heard making everyone jump. They looked around to see where it had come from. Then their attention went back to Dark Ash realize that a crack had appeared in the middle of his forehead starting at his hairline. The crack began traveling down his face moving down and then to the left of his face going around his mouth then continuing down. More cracks were appearing then suddenly they began to glow.
Then all of a sudden Dark Ash exploded knocking everyone backwards and creating a large cloud of smoke. Everyone got up and waited for the smoke to clear. Once it was gone they couldn't help but be surprised by what they saw. It was Ash. They could tell because instead of having the blood red demonic eyes that Dark Ash had, Ash had his chocolate brown eyes. Ash grinned weakly. "Told you I wouldn't let him hurt you, didn't I?" Wheezed Ash. All of Ash's mates ran up to Ash and embraced the boy in a loving hug.
"You idiot, that was totally reckless." Muttered Misty. "Such a kid." Said Iris weakly. "How… what happened?" Asked Gary confused. Ash looked at him. "Dark Ash was a being of darkness, I'm a being of light, once I was inside of him-" Started Ash. "Please never say that again." Interrupted Anabel quickly. "My light destroyed his darkness along with most of his body and soul." Continued Ash. "Most of it?" Asked Brock. Ash sighed then he clenched the area of his shirt where his heart was.
"Part of his soul still exists inside of me, no matter how bright my light is, his shadow will remain a part of me from here on out." Explained Ash. His friends couldn't help but look at him with pity in their eyes. Dark Ash was created specifically to destroy Ash, and now he and Ash were the same person? That was weird and creepy in so many ways what we don't have the time to stop and talk about it. Ash got up and walked over to where his hat had blown away to.
He picked it up and placed it on his head. He looked towards his friends and pokemon. He ginned widely at them all. "C'mon gang, let's go stop Giovanni." Said Ash his grin never faltering. All of his allies nodded their heads. They stood up, the pokemon needing help from some of Ash's friends in order to stand up. Seeing how exhausted his pokemon were Ash decided to take care of them. He reached into his aura dimensions and grabbed some medicine. "Guys catch." Said Ash.
The pokemon looked up and caught the items that he threw at them. One of the items was a white bottle with a green liquid in it and the other was a yellow bottle but you couldn't see the liquid inside of it. "Bottoms up gang." Said Ash as he cracked open his open white bottle of green liquid and downed it all with one big chug. He cringed oh so slightly at the awful taste of the medicine. With a slight sigh the rest of his pokemon took their own medicine as well. They were all much more open on their opinions of the medicines taste.
All of his pokemon looked sick and wanted to spit out their medicine but they forced it down. Once they swallowed the medicine completely some of them went into coughing fits while others simply shuddered at the after taste of the medicine. After that they moved onto the yellow bottle of liquid. They were all hesitant to drink this drink. Ash sighed. "Come on you guys I know it tastes disgusting but you're all just going to have to grin and bear it." Said the trainer to his pokemon.
With that he took the top off of the yellow bottle and poured it down his throat while doing his best to avoid tasting as much of it as possible. Then his pokemon followed suit. Was they finished drinking their medicine all of the pokemon were groaning unhappily at the stomach wrenching taste of the medicine. "Ugh, I think I'm going to be sick." Groaned Heracross unhappily. "Agreed." Muttered Infernape. "Oh 'mon' up you big pansies." Snapped Charizard unhappily. "It tastes like crud but you don't hear me complaining."
"What was that stuff?" Asked Misty in confusion. "The green stuff is a full restore, and the stuff in the yellow bottle is a max elixir. The prior restores our health and any status conditions that may have been given to us during all of our fighting, while the max elixir restore the number of times we can use our attacks to normal." Explained Ash. His friends nodded their heads in understanding. With that Ash and his pokemon got to their feet and turned to where the building at the end of the cliff was.
"Let's get moving." Said Ash. With that the group began proceeding to the compound that the evil leaders of… Rainbow Rocket… (Arceus I can't write that name without cringing). They walked for a while given that here was still quite a large distance to the edge of the cliff. "Who builds a compound on the edge of a cliff? Wouldn't that be kind of dangerous?" Wondered Iris aloud. "Yeah it is a recipe for disaster." Agreed Cilan. Ash couldn't help but chuckle to himself.
Arceus how he missed times like this… not the thwarting the plans of evil maniacs' thing, the just walking and talking with his friends. In the year he had spent in the aura dimension he had really grown to miss the time he had spent traveling with his friends, and even though he was now a Legendary Warrior and was tasked with guarding legendary pokemon (granted that part wasn't too much of a change of pace, given that protecting legendary pokemon was something he did a lot on his journey).
Not to mention the fact that his body and soul have now merged with that of an evil clone of himself who was created specifically to kill him. It was nice that he still could just have moments to hang out with his friends, even if they were few and far between these days. "Ash." Came a voice. Ash stopped and looked around to see where the voice had come from. Ash looked at his friends. "Did one of you say something to me?" Ash asked his friends. His friends looked at him in confusion.
"…Uuum… no?" Replied Dawn. "You feeling alright Ash?" Asked Angie. "Weird it sounded like someone had just said my name." Explained Ash. All of his friends looked at him with faces that were a combination of surprise, concern, and confusion. Ash shook his head. "Let's move on, it isn't important right now." Said the Pallet native. Ash looked behind him back at the direction of the compound. "Besides, were almost there." With that Ash and his friends proceeded to the entrance of the compound.
Ash looked up seeing that their way in was blocked by a big door. Ash turned to look at his pokemon. "Oh, gee it'd be rude to enter without knocking, Charizard, Infernape, would you be so kind as to knock for us?" Ash asked of his pokemon. Charizard and Infernape smirked widely at what Ash was implying. Charizard lit his clawed hands on fire, while Infernape's furry fists began to glow a bright white. On the inside there were two Rainbow Rocket grunts standing guard.
"Hey?" Asked one. "Yeah?" Said the other. "You ever wonder why we're here?" Asked the first one. "One of life's greatest mysteries isn't it? I mean why are we here?" Started the second one. "Stop." Interrupted the first one. "Please don't start with that, I wasn't asking for some deep philosophical question, I was just wondering why everyone else was either assigned to help the leaders, or protect the other compound, while we're here guarding a giant metal door."
"Oh… yeah. Maybe they thought we should be ready just in case someone tries to bust in." Answered the second one. "OK. A: There are only two of us, even if someone were to break in, I doubt we'd be able to hold them off. Bringing to my B: Who is going to be able to bust in? That door is massive, no person would be able to break through that thing and there aren't many pokemon who could break that door either." Retorted the first one. "Truuuue… But who knows?" Said the second one.
"I know! I know that this is a waste of time! No one is going to try to break-!" Started the first one but was cut off by a loud BANG! Coming from the front door. They both paused and slowly turned their heads to the direction of the door. Then another BANG! Was heard, and another, and another, and while these BANG!s were being made, large dents were appearing in the door. The final BANG! Was the loudest of all and created a dent in the center of the door.
Then the door fell over creating a large CRASH! Sound. The two Rainbow Rocket grunts stared at the now fallen door, then at the source of what made the door fall over. Standing in the now open doorway was a Charizard and an Infernape, each holding up a fist showing that both of them must have been using attacks on the door. Behind them there was a Greninja, a Krookodile, a Sceptile, a Heracross, a Pikachu, and over a dozen humans. The two Rainbow Rocket grunts stared uncertainly.
"Soooo… can one of you be oh so kind as to tell me where I can find your sorry and insane excuses for leaders, or do we have to beat it out of you." Asked the one wearing a red and gold hat. In a "polite" manner but in a tone, that scared the grunts senseless. With shaking fingers, the pair pointed down a hallway. Ash looked down the hallway, then back at the grunts. He gave the two a wide grin to the two Rainbow Rocket grunt. "Hey, thanks." Said Ash, then he and his friends began walking down the hallway.
You know I probably used the scenes of at least four different shows when creating this chapter. This was awesome! I mean seriously, I couldn't have chosen a better way for this chapter to have gone, and in the next chapter things are going to take a turn for the worse, Giovanni and the other leaders still have one trump card left… or well six trump cards all rolled into one, but that is beside the point. What I look forward to is when, when all hope seems lost, Ash will have to turn to a most unexpected source for help, and if he can't convince said source to help him, he'll be doomed. But if he can convince the source to help him he will achieve a new power that makes all of his other strengths and feats positively pale in comparison. Tell y'all what, if any of you can guess what said source is I'll give a shout out to you. That's all I need to talk about so I'm going to go now. So until next time fic fans. Nemon0416 is outta here!
