It's been 7 years since anyone has heard the name Ash Ketchum. After his loss in the Unova league everyone including his friends and family assumed that he ran off and gave up. Only Ash and Professor Oak know the truth, that he has been traveling on his own getting stronger so that he can become a champion: Discontinued—read my new story, Essence, under the username, vincentgrey21.

Darkness fills the heart of the betrayed. So darkness would love nothing more than a hero left for dead by the ones he loved. But can light prevail in a heart so full of darkness? Mewtwo thinks so. With a new tournament on the horizon and a new alias in the wings, Ash sets out to prove that he truly is the best, like no one ever was.