AnonJolteon: I kinda feel bad for leaving y'all readers behind…

Demon: Well, you needed to do work, and you wanted to do different things.

Nerd: Procrastination, and you wanting to play video games.

Demon: What? A regular teen should have their time of video games!

AnonJolteon: Another person replied to the forum, and (s)he said that I should try doing more pokemon tfs and try and do crossovers. For the first part, if I were to take a machine gun with pokemon tfs and spray it all over my computer, one it would cause a disaster to my hardware. Second, the story would go haywire if I didn't actually launch a machine gun IRL…

Nerd: And the second part?

AnonJolteon: Crossovers… I don't really have a large span of ideals, mainly video games from Demon…

Demon: Hey, I like them!

AnonJolteon: ...ideas on youtube from Derp…

Derp: ~w~

AnonJolteon: ...books from Nerd… which have expired long, long ago…

Nerd: Wow, thanks.

AnonJolteon: ...and especially other stories. But I would need to contact the author and tell them I am doing a crossover so they don't flag me to the workers of fanfiction and get my account banned for copyright. So crossovers aren't necessarily going to be a thing unless I reserve far more time for this.

Lolnyah: ...Are you going to stop talking or not?

*AnonJolteon snaps out of sad expression*

AnonJolteon: Yeah.

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Chapter 44: To Enter the Unknown

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Gabe lifted the sheet, and a silver eevee was rubbing its nose after sneezing.

"I wanted to stay with you."

"You shouldn't of went away without Ash's permission." Gabe replied.

"I know… but I wanted to stay with you." Alice repeated with doll eyes.

"...It's fine. I don't think he would mind."

"Yay!"

Alice squealed as she started prancing around the room, investigating everything.

For someone who had just come out from an experiment, she's very energetic.

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The clock struck midnight, as all the souls in the area were sound asleep.

Except for one.

Ash walked opened then closed the door behind him, seeming more energetic than he should be.

"Ah, it's nice out here." He announced in a particularly different way the moment he stepped out into the night sky.

"It was about time I would get to this point, but looks like I'll have to wait." Ash wandered around in the lobby, where the automatic door was completely locked.

"Of course, why would I decide to do something like that? That would be too painful." He looked at the night sky. "At least I'm comfortable."

He sat down at the bench next to the window and gazed outside.

"It's almost time… for my freedom."

He went back upstairs, unlocked the door, and went back into bed.

The purple tint in his eyes had disappeared the moment before they were closed.

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"Honestly, it's going to be a completely terrible idea to wait, of all things, for another person to come along and fulfill the prophecy. You and your 'OG' buddies got yours fulfilled by the Chosen One, so why not ours?" Solgaleo asked.

"First of all, I wish to thank you for not. Yelling. Out. Loud." Arceus retorted. "Second, there's a great evil, a single enemy that has enough power to break the borders between Earth and the Hall of Origins. Even more than that."

"That's impossible. I don't believe one word of it." Solgaleo raised his eyebrow.

"It is very much so, Dialga foresaw it. I too have seen the catastrophe that shall come."

"Haha, you're joking right?"

"This is serious." Lunala replied to Solgaleo's joking comment.

"I still don't believe one word of it. Besides, the future should be able to be changed, right?"

"It can, but it will not be the pathway of your choice." Arceus replied.

"Heck, I don't even think he'll be able to faze me. I'll face this so called "almighty enemy" himself. Or her." Solgaleo paced away.

"No. He can kill you."

"Ha, killing a legendary. How funny. That's basically impossible, as it is so hard to actually kill a normal pokemon."

"An arrow can pierce through your heart, and shatter it, immobilizing every part of your body. Then, he can come in and take multiple cuts off of your limbs, then finally your head."

"And how the heck do you think he'll be able to reach me?"

"Aura."

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"Wow, this city is so huge!" Ash glanced around the buildings, towering high into the sky.

The gang were in the capital of Alola, sightseeing all the places.

So many stores… I wonder how developed the human society is. I've only seen part of it. Latias thought.

"There's the grand mall, some food stores, and more! It's going to be so much fun to explore all of it!" Serena squealed in delight.

"You're expecting all of us to follow your footsteps to whatever you wish for? I don't think so." Gabe retorted in her hoodie, hiding all the visible pokemon limbs.

"Well, do you all have phones?" Brock asked.

Everyone started digging through their bags, where Latias didn't, as she didn't have a phone.

Gabe dug past the article of clothing she should not name, and found her cellphone.

"In 1 hour, everybody meet back here. Got that?" Brock announced.

"Alright!"

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Serena was walking down the fashion styles area, seeing all types of styles to improve her performances. *A/N: Even though I haven't mentioned, and I probably won't, they do take out their pokemon and feed them. Just sayin'.*

There were plenty of others in the area, but no one she had recognized.

"Wow!" Serena noticed a hat out of her eye. "This would look pretty great on Braixen!"

She kept on walking on, window shopping for items that she wouldn't buy but still would want to see.

Until she came to the ribbon section.

There were plenty of fancy ribbons, laced ones, checkered ones, holiday-themed ones, but there was one that stood out.

An eye-catching blue ribbon was showcased somewhere to the side of the most popular item, and Serena recognized it immediately.

She looked down, and held the ribbon in her hand.

Maybe I should get something like this, for Ash. Serena thought.

The cost was quite expensive, as it is said to be extremely durable, and can last through anything. Serena walked into the store and looked at the brand.

Then, she went to the cash register.

"Excuse me ma'am, but are there any other ribbons with the brand of 'Ribbon Makers?'" Serena asked.

"Yes, and I can see that you already have one." The woman at the counter replied. "They should be in that back corner, since their plain yet eye-catching style had died out a while ago."

"Thanks!" Serena walked over to that section, where men and women alike were looking around the store.

There was the blue ribbon Ash had given to her, and there were several colors that were available.

He got me the blue one, which stood out from my red outfit… Since Ash is dressed in blue, and it is basically the opposite of my own outfit, I could get him a red one… Serena thought.

She held the red box in her hand, thinking.

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"Honestly, I think Ash is good off on his own…" Brock said to himself as he walked through a supermarket to get more supplies.

Will be needing this… and that…

Brock kept on going through the aisles, occasionally peering to the side to take a better look at a glimpse at a "beautiful" lady before snapping out of their "powerful" trance and continuing to get supplies.

After going through his list of items he needs to restock on, he started heading back to where they were going to meet.

This plaza sure is crowded. The large area that was on his route was open to the sky, and was filled with busy parents with their children, some pokemon trainers, with some having their partners sitting on their shoulders eating bought berries. It was pretty diverse, but of course:

There's always something bad in the pile.

"Yo! Hey kid, you see this candy bar? It's mine!" An all too familiar man with a skull cap waved it in front of a child's face.

"But that's mine!" He replied.

"Well, sucks to be you!" He walked off, laughing his head off.

It's these guys again. "Hey! Weirdo with the skull head!"

The plaza was a loud place, but they still heard part of it.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?" The apparent leader shouted leaning closer.

"I want to talk to you weirdo!" Brock shouts louder.

"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!" The guy with the blue hair, the said leader, tried running across to Brock to punch him in the face.

Of course, there were people walking across, and he happened to trip in between.

Both Brock and his two friends sweatdropped at the sound of footsteps pounding against human flesh.

All scrambled up, he dragged himself across the tiled floor with his hands, then slowly stood up, as if in pain.

"What… did… you… just… say?!" Each pause he lifted his head closer to Brock's eye level, still a bit low because of the pain he's experiencing.

"I said you are a weirdo. And you shouldn't run through crowds." Brock crossed his arms. "Along with that, I believe that candy bar belongs to the kid over there."

"Nope, this is mine now!" He pointed to the candy bar.

Brock plucked it out of his weak hands, which somehow wasn't broken into several pieces.

The man's eyes following him, Brock walked through the crowd with ease, to deliver the candy bar back to the little one.

"Here. I believe this is yours." Brock smiled.

"Wow, thank you mister!" The child accepted it with a large smile, bowed down, and ran away.

Behind him, he could hear grunts of pain after a series of running footsteps.

"Haha…" The leader had more foot marks on his body.

"You should watch where you're going, you know." Brock sighed.

"Fine, but you can't treat me like that! I ain't garbage, ya know? You are!" He stood up and pointed right at Brock's face with a sneer, yet still his body was heavily damaged.

"Just don't treat everyone how you think of everyone else. Also, forget the way how you treat everyone else."

"I'm not some little peasant who'll bow down to you, garbage!" He laughed back. His two mates were whispering to each other with happy faces.

"Leave people alone, and keep your bad attitude somewhere else." Brock stared back with an assertive matter.

It is quite difficult to make Brock angry (unless you do something terrible/incorrectly doing something to pokemon), but when he does, he surely does explode.

"Ya think I'll listen to a scum like you?" The man then switched to a mocking tone. "'Oh, there should be world peace! Everyone should get along!' Blah bla..."

The air was knocked out of his chest, as Brock's fist was embedded into his belly.

"For the last time, DON'T TRY HURTING ANYONE!" Brock shouted directly in his face.

He simply stared with wide eyes, before stepping away and running towards his gang. He kept on running, tailed by his mates, before the trio had disappeared.

Man, these guys are quite annoying. Childish too.

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Latias couldn't really find anything better to do then spy on Ash.

Of course, invisible and all, the place where they were going to meet back at had an open roof, and Ash had decided to stay there because there wasn't much he wanted to do.

To conserve psychic energy, she was resting on the ceiling, staring while smiling at him.

Ash was talking with his Pikachu, before he looked up and around.

Then, he stared straight at Latias, smiled, and waved.

Wha… how'd he see me?

Latias, with an unsure expression, lifted her claw and slowly waved back.

Ash smiled, then went back to talking with Pikachu.

...What.

Latias continued looking down the large hole until she felt something.

… Latias looked around her, where there was no one nearby. She was even invisible.

...is there someone looking at me? Apparently, the "sixth sense" of all anime characters has been activated.

Latias put down her invisibility, revealing her position to all who saw, which was no one. Maybe.

Using my psychic energy, I can turn off invisibility. Latias concentrated her psychic power, then embedded it into the concrete roof.

A pulse of psychic energy moved away from her, and after traveling a couple of meters an outline flashed.

Hmmm… Latias approached where the outline had flashed, then poked a claw at it.

"Ow." A voice came out of nowhere.

"Go ahead and reveal yourself." Latias gave a disappointed glare.

"You can speak human?" A familiar green latios had a surprised expression.

"Don't care about that question, just why are you here?" Latias asked.

"...Uhhh, just wanted to make sure you were safe!" Kyle nervously replied.

"Yeah, sure."

"Well, uh, who was that human who waved to you?" Kyle pointed to Ash.

Going off topic, I see. "That's my trainer."

"...Ummm… sorry?"

"What?"

"Don't really understand human that well, my grandfather told me not to meddle in their problems." Kyle sweatdropped.

"Alright. That is my trainer." Latias rolled her eyes.

"...Sorry?" Kyle said.

"Huh?"

"What's a… trainer?"

"That means he takes care of me."

"Wait a minute…" Kyle stopped. "You said before that you lived with your brother…"

"Notice it is 'lived,' not 'live.'"

"I don't know the difference. Anyway, you seem like you're with our kind! You said you had a traveling partner, but him?"

"Don't ask."

"Besides, what is the difference between 'lived' and 'live?'" Kyle asked.

"Since I had lived with people for majority of my life, I know most definitions." Latias smiled proudly. "Back to the original topic, why were you following me?"

"It's because I thought you would have a hard time going back to your… trainer." Kyle replied.

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"GRAAAAAAAGH!" Giovanni roared, clutching his hands to his forehead. "My two best women are in prison, a gift from Everest to be experimented with gone, and now RED IS BACK?!"

"Sir, there's some other news that you might enjoy." His trusty manager Matori had announced. *A/N: That woman who Jesse always despises in Sun and Moon.*

"What is it?!" Giovanni slammed his palms against the dark oak desk.

"Even though those idiots haven't been replying to my calls, their radars still work. We've picked up traces of psychic energy, coming in small but strong waves."

"...When have you last seen these types of energy waves?"

"Annie's and Oakley's attempted assault of the DMA."

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"..." Gabe simply walked around for the silver eevee that was looking around ecstatically from the inside of her hood.

"Wow! There's so many people here!" Alice shouted.

"I don't really like it."

"Why?"

"I don't want to be seen like how I am right now."

"But you're fine!"

"If you haven't been told about, I was never like this in the first place."

"Huh?" Alice looked down to her frown.

"I used to be a boy, someone who was happy with what they had. Now, I'm thrown into this wild adventure that I never wished to be in." Because of that guy…

"Oh. Then, don't you have to be turned back?"

"Yes, but I do not have the original thing that turned me into this, so I can't ask to make an antido…"

"You should!"

"...What?"

"From what I know, Ash would never let down a friend! No matter what it takes, he will do everything for his friends! That includes you!" Alice shouted.

"...You're pretty young, and you already know this."

"I don't know what that came from, honestly." Alice sweatdropped.

"How funny."

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'If you haven't noticed, someone is looking at you.'

What?

Ash looked around, coming off from a talk with Pikachu about Cosmog. It had been sleeping for quite a while now.

"...and it seems to not be anywhere near a normal pokemon… I believe it might be another… HEY!" Pikachu shouted.

"Wait a second." Ash replied without looking back.

'Try feeling for aura. Basically what I've trained you to do, then release it calmly.'

Ash did so, and his vision turned from regular to something like infrared.

Wow, this looks totally different. Up on the roof, there was figure like a lati. The color of the smoke resembling it was yellow.

'You see all these colors around you? That's the life energy of everyone. Wherever people with life touch something, they usually leave the color of their soul. The less there is, the earlier they had passed through. If the actual living thing has a small amount of color, then they are on the verge of dying.' DUDE explained.

What's the color of souls? Ash thought.

'Usually your eye color.' He replied. 'For example, as you have brown eyes you have a brown soul. Sometimes it corresponds to a pokemon's type.'

So there's something up there?

'Yep.'

Ash waved his hand to absolutely nothing above the open ceiling.

A couple of seconds later, the aura "hand" waved back.

"What the…" Pikachu murmured.

Ash smiled and looked back. "Some aura-vision thing."

"Interesting…"

Then, the aura had mostly disappeared.

'Hmmm… maybe she left.'

"Alright."

A couple of minutes later of talking and resting, Ash needed to go to the bathroom.

"Be right back, alright?"

"Sure."

Ash mildly jogged to the nearest bathroom, when he got elbowed by some random guy.

"Sorry." Ash said, looking back. Apparently, he didn't answer. But he did look distinctly familiar…

He found the restrooms, and quickly dashed into a stall.

After letting out all the stuff, Ash let out a sigh of relief.

As soon as he was about to leave the stall, something lit up in his pocket.

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"Did you all go around and looked?" Brock asked.

"Yes." Almost everyone replied back.

"Serena, Gabe, Alice, Pikachu, Latias?" Brock asked.

"Here." A voice echoed in his head.

"Alright, she just talked to me via telepathy. We should be good."

"...Where's Ash?" Serena asked, holding a box in her hand.

"...Where is he?"

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Mission success… finally. Now, the good stuff is about to happen.

"Heheh… Haha… AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!" Maniacal laughter echoed from inside the metal building.

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Derp: Spoopy.

AnonJolteon: As I said before, sorry about the entire months without a single chapter. Good thing Christmas break is coming soon, so I'll be able to work on this more.

Demon: And I can watch more youtu…

*Punch*

Nerd: No. You'll just abandon all these viewers.

Demon: Ow…

AnonJolteon: Well, we'll see you all in the next chapter.

Demon: In a couple of weeks.

*SMACK*