Chapter 5:
Mew's speech will be in bold.
Mewtwo's speech will be in italic.
"So what is this Obstacle?" Bonnie asked after a minute.
"Chosen One."
Ash, Misty, Tracey and Brock took in a sharp breath.
"What is this chosen One?" Sawyer asked.
"Chosen One is the person who is chosen by us legendaries to keep balance in the world." Mewtwo said while making eye contact with Ash.
Ash thought that he was telling him, so he said.
"I know."
Mewtwo nodded and turned his head towards the others.
The others except Misty, Tracey and Brock looked at the 2 in confusion.
"What do you mean you know?" Alain asked.
"Who the chosen one is." He replied while getting up from the ground. Pikachu climbed up at his shoulders after he did and rubbed his cheek with his.
"So who is it?" Mairin asked.
"Do you all remember me telling you about the incident in shamauti Island?" He asked while adressing May, Max and Dawn after patting pikachu.
"Or don't you find it odd that Zekrom came to see me the moment I stepped on Unova and chose me as his hero of Ideal later?" He asked the Unovans along with Dawn.
"And the fact that only I am able to do the bond evolution?" He next asked Alain, Serena, Clemont, Bonnie, Sawyer and the rest of the Kalosians.
"And then there is Tapu Koko. Why did he gave me of all people the Z-ring and that even right after I came to Alola?" he asked the Alolans.
The adressed people nodded.
"And did you ever encountered any legendary pokemon after you stopped journeying with me? Or before I came along?" He asked his travelling companions and classmates.
They shook their head but then stopped themselves from saying anything as realization dawned on them on what Ash was getting to.
"Wait! You mean that….?" Cilan asked the question that everyone was thinking.
Ash nodded.
"That thing… It came to kill the chosen one…. That means….." Verity trailed off as she looked towards Ash in horror.
The others realized of what was going on and soon everyone's expression changed into fear and horror.
Delia and Leaf grabbed Ash's hand and tightened their hold on it.
Pikachu nuzzled his cheek with his own.
The moment Gary realized that some kind of beast wants to kill his childhood friend all the colour drained from his face.
An uneasy silence settled down as the air became tense.
After a good few minutes, Mewtwo spoke.
"We are here to keep him safe."
"Can't you stop them?" Misty asked.
"If we could, we would have done that a long time ago."
"Wait! Wait, wait, wait! How can you be so sure that Ash is the chosen one?" Paul asked after he finally snapped out of his thoughts.
"Yeah!" Dawn asked hoping that Ash wasn't the chosen one and they were mistaken.
Then Ash spoke up.
"I had never told you the complete incident that happened in shamouti." He told her.
"What!? Why?"
"Sorry. But I didn't want you guys to know that because I thought that you may not stay with me if you learned about it."
"We would never leave your side Ash." May told him softly.
"Yeah. So don't ever think about it ever again." Max said and Dawn along with May agreed.
He smiled at them.
"Pi pik chu!" pikachu told his trainer. Ash chuckled and said, "Yeah, yeah. Sorry I didn't hear you before."
"So what's with the Shamouti island incident? We don't know." Toya said.
"When we were at the Shamouti Island in the Orange Archipelago, someone tried to capture the legendary birds who lived in the three (fire, ice, lightening) island near it. We were able to free them but then they started to fight each other which caused an imbalance leading to the continuous change in weather world wide. This caused Lugia to turn up and he told us that only Ash can stop it because he is the chosen one." Misty explained.
"After that Ash took the 3 island treasures and placed it on the island's shrine which caused the birds to stop fighting and then they calmed down after hearing Lugia's song which was being played by Melody, a shamouti citizen and went back at their islands." Tracey continued and completed the short version of the incident.
"And then there is the prophecy." Brock reminded.
"Prophecy?" Shauna asked.
Misty nodded. "I don't remember the full prophecy but it said something like that to happen and the chosen one stopping it."
"Hold on! I think I had written it down somewhere." Tracey said and fumbled through his pockets. Seconds later he took out a small pocket diary and started flipping through it's pages.
"Aha! Here it is!" He exclaimed and read the prophecy.
...
"Disturb not the harmony of Fire, Ice, or Lightning
Lest these Titans wreak destruction
Upon the world in which they clash
Though the Water's Great Guardian shall arise to quell the fighting
Alone its song will fail
Thus the earth shall turn to ash
O Chosen One
Into thine hands bring together all three
Their treasures combined tame the Beast of The Sea
From the trio of islands, ancient spheres shall you take
For between life and death, all the difference you'll make
Climb to the shrine to right what is wrong
And the world shall be healed by the Guardian's song..."
There was silence after Tracey finished reading the prophecy as everyone processed it.
After a moment, Ash spoke up softly. It was just a whisper but due to the silence that had settled, everyone heard him.
"'Thus the Earth shall turn to ash.' This one line keeps echoing in my head every time I cross paths with a legendary…I think you should have given me another name mom."
Pikachu looked at him sadly understanding what he meant.
Delia said something to him quietly which caused him to grumble and roll his eyes.
Then he shook his head and turned towards Mew and Mewtwo.
"Now that the threat is over I presume you'll be leaving?"
The legendaries looked at each other and then back at Ash.
"We want to tell you something."
Mewtwo said and Ash could swear he just saw him take a deep breath but instead of pondering over it he nodded. Telling them to go on.
"Have you ever thought that why you of all people is the chosen?"
"I thought about it? Yeah. But that question soon left my mind after I encountered Arceus and saved his life in Michina town."
Except Brock and Dawn, everyone's mouth fell down and nearly touched the ground in shock.
Pikachu rolled his eye at the reaction.
Gladion was the first one to snap out of the new revelation.
"Y-you met a God….and saved his life?" He asked with his mouth agape.
"Yeah." Ash shrugged.
"You are acting as if it is not a big deal." Leaf said, still baffled by the news.
Ash shrugged again. "Travel with me for an year and you will get the distinct idea of why I think so."
Pikachu chuckled, "pikachu pi!"
Ash glared at him.
Pikachu looked at him innocently. He frowned and rolled his eyes.
"Anyways." He turned back towards the Legendary. "Since I had traveled back in time and saved him millions of years ago, I think it was good enough of a reason for him to choose me."
"Yes and no. Yes, it is a good enough of a reason to choose you but that wasn't the reason why you were choosen….or maybe it was? We don't know. Time will tell. And no, Arceus nor any legendary chose you."
Everyone looked at Mew with confusion.
"pik chupi pika?" pikachu asked
"As I said before, all the legendaries chooses a person they think is worthy for the title. Before you, many people were given the title in the past. In a single era, atleast 5 people were titeled. But not a single person is given that title for three thousand years. You may have heard about the last chosen one who died. His name was sir Aron."
Ash and pikachu nodded as they remembered about their time in Rota.
"I knew he was an Aura Gaurdian but I didn't knew about the chosen one part."
"Other than Lucario, no one did. However, this is a topic to discuss about later."
"Yes. And as I said, there haven't been a choosen one for 3 thousand years. But there is now. Only a single one and that is you."
"Why wasn't there any chosen one for three thousand years? " May asked.
"Because of fear."
"pi?". "what?"
"The previous chosen one died. They all died early. Very early. How? Some died in accidents, some died due to diseases or so we thought. We learned the truth behind there death after the last standing chosen one, Sir Aron sacrificed himself. He died right after telling me the truth behind the deaths of our chosens. The shadow beasts. They were behind it all. It was a fine plan. And it had almost worked. If Sir Aron had not told me, we would not have been standing here and having this conversation.
Right after I learned about those beast killing our chosens, I wasted no second and went straight to Arceus. Told him everything. The next thing he did surprised us.
He assembled every legendary. We went to their realm or rather forced ourselves in. And that we did, just exactly in time, since they were making an army ready to go down and destroy everything.
Legendaries coming for a fight was not something they anticipated, and that led to their downfall.
We fought. And once every single one of them was tired, Arceus snatched their powers and locked the beasts inside their own realm."
"If those bastards are that big of a pain in the ass, then why didn't he destroy them?" Gary asked.
"Language!" Delia scolded.
Gary winced at the harsh tone and quickly apologized. Pikachu snickered.
"I wish it was that easy."
"After Arceus created the world and everything was running smoothely, he was attacked by the shadow beast. The legendaries entered in the nick of time and stopped them. They were after his powers. Once everything had calmed down, Arceus divided his powers. He has 18 elemental plates. He divided their powers . Half stayed with him while half was given to the Legendries to guard, in the form of spheres, called orbs. Arceus feared, if they ever were able to lay their hands on his powers, the world will be doomed. So, to be more careful, he laid extra protection over them.
Back then, we legendaries had a direct contact with the humans unlike now. The beasts took advantage of this and took the humans under their control and made conflicts between us with the help of the humans under their control. Because of this, Arceus protected it in a way that even we could not touch it . Neither could Arceus himself touch it by his own will.
Arceus decided to choose some humans who could touch them. Those humans who had the purest of heart and kindest of souls were chosen. He gave them that part of his powers completely which would have enabled him to touch the orbs.
We had made sure that the beasts won't learn about it but some how the information leaked. Then they went after our chosen. After we learned about the truth. Arceus decided that their won't be any chosen ones. He didn't wanted any one else to die. He sealed the powers of the choosen and hid them where no one could find him. He didn't told us either.
Those beast tried to find that power for 3 thousand years but couldn't find it.
Then it happened. Out of nowhere. 16 years ago. A bright light filled the space and before we knew it, Arceus powers was going towards the Earth, leaving the place it was sealed in. On it's way the beast tried to get a hold of it, but the moment any one came near them, they turned into ashes. It was moving just like a small Iron piece being attracted towards a powerful magnet. As soon as it entered the Earth's atmosphere, it disappeared as if nothing ever happened.
We searched for it for 1 month and then we found it inside a pregnant women who was a week away from giving birth."
He said the last part while looking at Delia.
"You mean…" Professor Oak trailed off.
Mew and Mewtwo nodded.
"This has never happened before. The humans we chose were Choosen after their birth by us legendaries. Those powers never chose someone. To say we were surprised would be an understatement. We were beyond shocked.
It should not have even been possible for it to shift a little due to the seal let alone move."
"Y-you…you mean…that… Arceus power is inside Ash?" Gary asked.
The legendaries nodded.
"And those powers chose him. Not us. We had long given up on choosing someone. He is the first person who is not choosen by the legendries, who was given that power when he wasn't even born and he was given his complete power."
"Complete power?" Lillie asked. "pika?"
Mew nodded.
"As Mewtwo said before, there were a number of chosens back then so that single power was divided equally to them and when one died, it hid itself somewhere. When the next human was chosen, it went inside his/her body automatically after the Legendries gave the chosen their blessings."
"So…. I am the only chosen who wasn't given Legendries blessings…..?" Ash said in more like a statement than a question
"Wrong. You are the only person who was chosen by the powers first and then was given our blessings."
"Is that a bad thing?"
"Not at all."
Everyone went quite as yet again as they processed the new information while Mew floated around Ash and pikachu and then stopped right infront of Ash's face.
"Now if I think about it, I shouldn't have been this surprised after learning that you were choosen by the powers itself." She giggled to herself.
Mewtwo sighed. "There we go again." He mumbled to himself.
Everyone looked at Mew in confusion. "What do you mean?" Ash asked.
Mew giggled and made herself comfortable over Ash's head. She patted his head with her small paws, casted a quick glance towards Delia which no one noticed but only Delia and said,
"You will learn in time."
But that was what they thought. Pikachu had noticed this little action and eyed both of them suspiciosly.
Mewtwo looked back at others and asked.
"Any questions?"
"Why do they want to kill the chosen one?" Trevor asked.
" Because it has been their plan for a long time.
Their plan is simple. Oblitrate the choosen and then defeat Arceus. With Arceus in half of his power, is weak against them. Well not exactly weak, he can still defeat them but only he can fight them head on. We legendries can't, so…..well you get the point. He won't stand a chance among that many."
"What does Ash has to do with this? And how can he stop this all. I mean if only Arceus can defeat them so how will Ash do it?" Professor Burnet asked
"Ash will not defeat them because he can't. And yet, Ash, being the chosen one, is the only one who can help Arceus. How? That is something for Arceus to tell."
"We do have a rough idea of what he might tell you to do but we can't tell you. Orders are orders."
"How is he going to talk to him?" Kukui asked.
"Time will tell."
Everyone nodded despite of the fact that the question was still bugging them.
"Er Ash, I wanted to ask you something. This is a little off topic so can I?" May asked.
He nodded.
"Was it aura you used back then?"
He nodded.
"But that's not possible!" Max said in disbelief.
"You haven't had any aura training…have you?"
Ash shook his head. "I haven't trained in it-"
"WHAT!? You haven't trained your aura and yet you were able to use it!? That's impossible!"
Pikachu shook his head but at the same time was surprised at the Legendry's outburst.
"Umm… but I have used it before. Don't you remember? I used it back in the tree of beginning."
"I thought that Lucario taught you the basics!"
"He didn't-"
"Wait! Wait wait wait! What is aura? You mentioned something about it before too." Drew asked.
"Aura is the essence of life. Every living creature has its own aura." Brock told.
"And those who can use their aura are called aura gaurdians. As Ash said before, Sir Aron was an aura gaurdian." May explained.
"Very few people can use aura. The last known aura gaurdian was sir Aron." Max told them.
"So Ash is an aura Gaurdian?" Ritchie asked.
"Not quiet. I have not undergone any training and I've only used it a time or two unconsciously. The only time I actually used it in full senses was at the tree of beginning. So I won't exactly call myself an aura gaurdian. Besides its not that big of a deal considering -" Ash told them.
"Not big of a deal!? Are you crazy!? It's the biggest deal in the world! I've been living in this world since the very beginning. I am the oldest Legendary after Arceus. And in my whole life, I've not once seen a person who can use aura without training! Even sir Aron couldn't make a single aura sphere in his first try let alone transferring it. It took him days to see properly with it. And he was called a prodigy!"
Everyonestared at the legendary and then at Ash.
" Wow! I knew you were special Ash, but this special?" Sawyer said in awe while the others agreed.
"I am not that special-"
"Not that special!? You have gotta be kidding me! Arceus! Look at him! He is special from every angle and yet he denies it. You are too generous for your own good Ash."
At this everyone nodded their head.
"We can completely agree on this. He is far too genuine." Touka said. "pi pika pikachu." Pikachu nodded along.
"Uh…" Ash said and scratched the back of his head with a blush on his face.
He stopped himself from saying anything further as his focus shifted towards Mewtwo who hummed to himself, deep in thought and mumbled something which Ash heard and made him frown.
"How did this happened though?"
"What happened?" he asked him.
Mewtwo jumped a step back in shock but then sighed in relief after realizing that it was just Ash.
"Don't scare me like that." He told him annoyingly.
"Sorry." He smiled sheepishly. " But what were you wondering about?"
"Nothing you need to worry about."
Mew, having heard their conversation, chimed in.
"Actually Ash, we were wondering that how was he able to enter Pallet."
Mewtwo gave her an irritating look which she ignored.
"What do you mean?" Gary asked, who by now was standing next to Ash. "pika?"
"After we learned about Ash being the chosen one, we feared that the beasts will come after him too so we casted a protective shield all over pallet because of which those beast should not have been able to enter the town.
That beast was able to enter Pallet, that means it must have been weakening. But how and why…?"
"Why didn't you casted a shield over Ash. No offense but I think it would have saved a lot of strength." Leaf asked.
"We tried. But because of the seal on the power that is in you, we couldn't do it."
Ash nodded and started to ask him something but stopped himself when he noticed that he was deep in thought with a frown on his face.
'Could this have happened because…..no that's impossible!…..why would someone-'
"Earth to Mewtwo!"
Mewtwo snapped out of his thoughts and saw a hand waving infront of him.
He blinked.
When the hand was removed he was met with blue curious and yet amused eyes of Mew.
She grinned.
"Wow! Never thought that I would see you day dreaming."
He snorted.
"You haven't cos' I wasn't day dreaming." He retorted with a monotone voice.
Ash and pikachu sniggered.
"I can't help but agree with her."
Pikachu agreed.
Mewtwo huffed in annoyance and looked away. "Think whatever you want to." He mumbled.
Mew, Ash and Pikachu chuckled.
He then turned towards Gary and the others who were staring at him with disbelieving look on their faces accept his travelling companions, classmates, Gladion, professor Oak and his mother.
"What!?"
"You do realize that you were talking to a legendary who can wipe you off of the face of the Earth in a blink of an eye?" Gary asked.
"So?" he asked in confusion. Pikachu chuckled lightly after understanding that what they were implying.
Everyone gave him a baffled look.
"And yet you teased him. The pokemon who can kill you this instant!?" Drew said disbelievingly.
Ash shrugged.
"Honestly he is just another pokemon from the wild. The only difference is that he is super strong and that's it. Nothing more and nothing less. He is like any another pokemon and a friend of mine. I am not treating him in any different way than I treat you all." He replied nonchalantly and then turned to Mewtwo who was trying to keep a stoic expression on his face but was failing miserably as a smile tried to form on his face after hearing Ash's words. Ash smiled warmly at him. Then he began to say something but was cut off when a phone started to ring.
The group started to look around to see from where the voice was coming and soon enough they noticed Clemont fumbling through his pocket and soon took out a rotom phone and picked the call. It was a video call.
His father's face was on the other side who greeted him with a tired smile.
"Oh hey dad!
At the mention of her father Bonnie perked up and ran towards his brother to greet their father.
"It's great to see that you both are enjoying yourselves and while I don't want to ruin the moment I will have to. Do you mind handling the phone to Ash?"
This caused confused looks on everyone's faces.
"Umm sure." He replied, walked over to Ash and handed him the phone.
"Hello Mr. Mayor. A pleasure to talk to you. So what may I help you with?"
"A pleasure is mine indeed. And before I forget, congrats for the win Ash." He stopped as Ash thanked him and continued. "Now then Ash, I think I should jump on the matter in hand and show it to you before explaining." He said and moved aside from the screen. This made everyone even more confused. But then what came into their view afterwards surprised the Kalosians and Ash.
"Greninja!" Ash exclaimed happily. "How have you been buddy!?" he asked the Kalos starter joyfully.
"Pi pikachu! Pika ka chu chupi!" pikachu greeted as well.
Greninja greeted back but before he could say anything, 2 little green pokemon came into sight.
"Squishy! Z-2! You are there too! It's so good to see you both!" Bonnie exclaimed as she snatched the phone from Ash's hand after her eyes laid upon the 2 pokemon.
Squishy jumped happily in response.
"What kind of pokemon is that? I have never seen one like that before." Sorrel asked in awe and continued "And neither have I seen a Greninja like that one."
"Yeah. He looks so much like….. Ash?" Leaf added.
Hearing this, Misty and Mallow came forward to get a better look of the said water pokemon and gasped. They looked at Ash who was grinning from ear to ear.
"Pretty impressive. Eh?" he asked with a smug look.
Iris rolled her eyes and replied, "You are such a kid."
Ash snorted.
But before he could retort Max said while adjusting his glasses. "Clearly by the looks on your faces, none of you saw his Kalos matches."
"Well we have been busy on our own journeys and were busy accomplishing our goals unlike you who have been just lazing around the house." May retorted.
"I haven't been lazing around the house May! And besides last year, when Ash first went to Kalos, the region has been in the news all over the globe with Ash being in most of them so I obviously thought that atleast someone among you would have seen the finals." Max said with annoyance.
Paul raised his hand.
"That is exactly why I didn't listened to the news that year."
There were few nods of agreement from his rivals part.
Ash fell anime style. There were some chuckle from his friends.
Ash grumbled to himself while standing up.
"Anyyywaaays that Greninja is a special one and yet he is not beca- wait! How is he looking like that?" Max asked the last part with confusion.
"You don't know either and you were trying to explain it to us? Seriously?" Iris retorted.
"No. That's not what I meant. But tell me one thing. Can mega evolution happen when a pokemon and his trainer are miles apart from each other?" he asked.
"What's with the change with topic Ma-" Touka began but was cut off when Sawyer spoke up.
"Actually we were thinking the same question." He said while gesturing towards Alain, Tierno, Trevor and Shauna.
Bonnie, Serena, Clemont, pikachu and Ash smirked.
"Congrats Max! You are the first one to realize this.-" Bonnie began but was cut off by Leaf.
"Realize what?"
"That this is a kind of mega evolution." She replied with a smug look.
"Mega evolution!? But Greninjas don't have a mega stone! And for that matter Ash is not even wearing a key stone! This is not possible!" Gary shouted in disbelief with his professor instincts rising to the surface.
Ash chuckled.
"Surprised you there. Didn't I Oak?" he asked with a smirk.
"Just get it over with Ketchum. We all are too curious to know. Don't test my patience." Trip said with an irritated look on his face.
"Fine! Fine!" Ash said with a roll of his eyes but the smirk never leaving his face. Pikachu had a similar reaction and expression on his face as that of his trainer.
"As Bonnie said before. It's a kind of mega evolution but its not exactly a mega evolution." He explained.
This caused a few blank stares from everyone minus the Kalosians who sweat dropped. Pikachu sighed.
"Did someone ever told you that you suck in explanations?" Ritchie asked the raven haired boy.
Ash rubbed the back of his head as he thought how to explain.
"Actually guys, that is bond evolution or rather bond phenomenon." Serena said after chuckling.
"Bond evolution? Never heard of that." Toya said.
"Didn't Ash said something about it a few minutes ago too?" Solitad asked.
Clemont nodded.
"Bond evolution is pretty much just like mega evolution since in both evolutions the trainer and pokemon should have a close bond with each other. The only difference is that in mega evolution you need the mega and key stones to complete the evolution but that's not the case with bond evolution." Clemont explained.
"So how does this bond evolution happen?" Gary and Sorrel asked with a notebook and pen in hand.
"Where did those came from?" Ash asked them while pointing towards the objects in their hand.
They shrugged. "I always keep one with me. "Gary said. "Same." Sorrel agreed. Then they looked back at Clemont and Serena and said, "Anyways, tell us more about this bond evolution."
Leaf looked at Gary oddly while others sweat dropped.
"So the bond evolution happens due to Greninja's ability of bond phenomenon. According to what professor Sycamore said, it happens when the bond between the pokemon and trainer is very strong. When their mind synchronize with each other, the evolution takes place." Serena explained.
"This makes the pokemon strong enough to take a mega evolved Pokemon head on. The pokemon or atleast Greninja's speed increases a lot too. And since their minds synchronize with each other, Greninja looks somewhat like Ash." She further explained.
"And this especial evolution is called Ash-Greninja! Pretty nice name right!? I came up with it!" Bonnie exclaimed as she puffed out her chest in proud while dedenne climbed onto her head.
The others nodded after a moment.
"Wow! I never knew something like this was possible." Mallow exclaimed in awe.
"That might be because this has happened after 3 thousand years ago. That's right! The last person who did this died 3 thousand years ago. Not many can do this." Serena told them.
"Wow! Just wow !" Lana said with admiration.
The others nodded numbly.
"But it has got it's defects." Serena said.
"Defects? Like what?" Bianca asked.
"Any physical or mental pain that Greninja feels, Ash feels. Same with Greninja. Whatever Ash feels, Greninja feels."
"Does that mean that whenever Greninja is hurt during a battle, Ash will get hurt too?" Touka asked.
"During the bond evolution? Yes." Clemont stated.
"But you know what the best thing about it is!?" Bonnie asked excitedly.
"Ofcourse we don't." Paul replied.
Bonnie ignored him and continued, "When they are in that evolution, Ash can see through Greninja's eyes and know what is happening around him and same with Greninja!"
As soon as Bonnie completed talking everyone went quiet and something clicked in Ash.
"Ofcourse! I totally ignored it!" he exclaimed and turned towards Greninja.
"I got so caught up in the conversation with Mewtwo that I forgot you were watching and hearing us this whole time." He rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.
Bonnie, Clemont, Pikachu and Serena fell anime style.
Greninja shook his head in disbelief and squishy sighed while Z-2 stared at him. The others sweat dropped.
"Now that reminds me, how is he still in his evolution form? He is on the other end of the planet while Ash is in another." Alain asked.
Ash shrugged.
"Don't know. We never breaked the bond evolution when we parted ways. I guess it has to be broken by will and long distances doesn't matter."
"Surprisingly, that makes sense. Especially after knowing that Ash came to this conclusion." Dawn said while Ash nodded along but stopped when he realized what she said. "Hey!" He shouted at her in annoyance. Everyone snickered.
Ash huffed.
"Actually that's wrong. When the trainer and pokemon are a certain distance away from each other, the bond gets broken automatically as a result the pokemon will revert back to its original power and looks. Long distance evolution has only happened once and that was millions of years ago. Even before you met Damos" Mew explained and told the last part to Ash, pikachu, Brock and Dawn.
"So who did this evolution?" Lillie asked.
"It was the founder of aura"
"Founder of aura?" Touyz asked
"Yes. His name was Satoshi. He is the first person who learnt how to use it. Infact he is the first person who used aura without training."
"But you said that Ash is the only person who has used aura without training." Miette said.
Mew rubbed the back of her head sheepishly. "Well yeah. That is because I wasn't counting Satoshi. I mean, it wouldn't have been fair. Afterall he is the one who found how to use aura right?"
Their were few murmurs of agreement.
"But still, how does it happen?" brock asked.
"His aura is strong. Stronger than normal. He has been using it unconsciously this whole time to keep the bond evolution. That was what Satoshi did too. Or atleast so I've been told."
Everyone nodded in understanding.
"Soo not that I mind but why are you calling? Shouldn't you have been in the cave with those two?" Ash asked the kalos starter after turning his attention back to him.
The pokemon glared at him and then pointed at his right hand and then at Ash's right hand.
"Grenin ninja greja greninja!" Ash blinked and then realized.
"Oh! Yeah that! Don't worry I am fine now. Mewtwo healed it." He said and then showed him his right hand. "See? All fine and good."
Greninja folded his hands and glared at him with narrowed eyes.
"Okay! Okay! I am sorry. I shouldn't have ignored your presence but I got too caught up! Sorry for worrying you. K?"
Greninja hummed in satisfaction.
"But there is more to why you came all the way to Luminose and called. Right?" Ash said
Greninja nodded and then pointed at squishy and Z-2.
Ash and Bonnie looked at them in confusion.
"Why would they want to call Ash?" Bonnie asked.
"Hold up! What kind of pokemon are they anyway?" Cilan interjected.
"Oh yeah! That's sqishy and Z-2!" Bonnie answered and turned towards the said pokemon.
"Squishy, Z-2, say hi to them. They are my friends." She told them while turning the screen towards them.
The said pokemon smiled at the others and greeted. "Zy!"
"Umm… okay. But what kind of pokemon are they?" Sorrel asked.
"Sorrel! You should have greeted back!" Verity scolded.
Before he could retort Serena spoke up. "It's fine. I am sure everyone is curious."
Sorrel casted a grateful smile towards her at which she smiled back.
"Yeah. These are the legendary pokemon of Kalos. Zygarde is the name." Clemont informed.
"Wait! A legendary pokemon!?" everyone but the Kalosians and Ash's travelling companions shouted in disbelief.
Dawn, May and Iris started to laugh.
"You guys have got a lot to learn or rather experience." Misty said.
"What!? You mean this is common for you guys!?" Leaf asked.
"Yup! Didn't you heard it when Ash asked us before if we met any legendary after parting ways with him? Boy! While travelling with him, I had gotten so used to all those adventures! Now life feels almost boring really!" Max sighed.
The other companions of Ash agreed while ash rubbed the back of his head half sheepishly and half in embarrassment.
Pikachu yawned. 'This feels like a daily basis thing for me now.' He thought to himself.
Their was a pin drop silence.
"Sooo…. Let's say I get it from where you guys are bringing that from." Gary said and then pointed towards Greninja on the screen " But what's Ash's Greninja doing with the legendries and why are they calling us through Clemont's Dad?"
"Well for starters, do anyone of you know what happened in the Kalos crisis?" Clemont asked.
Gary noticed Ash shift a little in nervousness.
He frowned. 'Why is he being nervous?' he thought to himself.
Max raised his hand.
"I do. There was someone trying to control Zygarde to destroy the world. It was in the news. Live."
Before he could continue further, Iris interjected, "I take it he was involved and stopped the whole 'Destroy the world' mess once again? No surprise there."
Max casted her an irritated look.
"Yeah. Well It wasn't exactly told that he was involved or for that matter anyone of you guys were there but I did had a glimpse of you in some of the footages."
"Whatever Max. Weather you saw them or you didn't doesn't mean we wouldn't have known that Ash stopped the whole mess. Afterall he is always in the middle of it." May interjected him.
"Yup! Where ever the world is being destroyed, you will find Ash Ketchum there. No doubt. He is practically a walking disaster magnet." Dawn said and everyone agreed to her save for them who doesn't know about Ash Ketchum's-world-saving-adventures. ( And you know who they are. )
"Ugh…. Don't cut me off! Anyway, let me finish now. The news reporter said that the gym leaders, one of the elite four of Kalos and the champion of the Kalos region along with Steven Stone- former Hoenn champion stopped it. Covered the actual truth like every other time."
"Well yeah. You have got it right. Some what atleast. Anyhow, there were still signs of disturbance and danger around the cave where they lived and since Greninja was able to detect the veins popping out from the ground, the Legendries asked him to stay with them for some time." Clemont explained
"Oookay. But what do you mean by 'veins popping out of the ground' and danger?" Gladion asked.
"The people who started this all was the organization called team Flare. Everyone was caught or so we thought. After the crisis, when we were returning back to luminose we ran into team flare's top scientist who was on the run. We were able to capture him and hand him to the police. But we didn't know that how many more grunts might be out there so we left Greninja with them also as a safety precaution. And as for the veins-" Serena began but was cut off by Max.
"That will take too much time! I will show them the clips later but for now Answer this: why are they calling through Bonnie's dad?"
Everyone casted Max an irritated look and Gary was going to retort but Ash interrupted.
"We don't know either why they are calling."
Then he turned towards the 2 Legendries at the other side of the screen who turned towards Mew and Mewtwo and glared at them.
"What?" Mewtwo asked.
Before the Legendries could reply Mew exclaimed.
"Oh! That's right! When the Shadow beast entered the shield, all the Legendries sensed it and since me and Mewtwo were the closest, we came to the rescue. But we forgot to inform everyone that the danger was over so I guess they are all panicking right now. Hehe. Sorry Zygarde brothers." she apologized.
"Oh yeah. I am sorry too." Mewtwo apologized s well.
Zygarde brother hummed in acceptance.
"Now I think we should tell the others because I don't want an angry Entie standing here." He said and floated off and sat down under the shade of a nearby tree and then closed his eyes.
"So can every legendary contact each other?" Misty asked
"Yup! But we rarely use it because we don't need it. Usually its Arceus who contact us and that is always for a meeting."
"So Ash honey" Delia began and Ash turned around to face her. " Exactly how many of these life-taking-adventures you have been in? I only know which I saw. And that counts two. You never told me about the others"
"Er… well you see mum… It was um…." He said as sweat trickled down his face.
"It was?"
"Ummm… well… too many… I lost count…. I think it was more than twenty.. maybe…" he said nervously as another sweat dripped down from his face.
Delia gasped in surprise and then she glared down at him.
As for Ash…. He suddenly felt that his shoes is the most amazing thing he has ever worn in his life since he stared down at them while another sweat trickled down his face.
After a few tense second between mother and son, Delia sighed.
"What am I going to do with you?" she asked herself and rubbed her forehead.
Ash blinked.
He looked up at her and saw that she wasn't angry at all.
"You… aren't going to scold me? Or lock me inside the house?"
"Ofcourse not. That way I will only be keeping you away from your dreams and that's not fair. And beside if you are anything like your father which you are, not even Arceus would be able to keep you at one place for more than a week in maximum so it's hopeless to even try."
Professor Oak laughed from behind her. "True. So very true."
"Sooo… you are not even going to scold me or punish me in any different way?"
"Will that stop you?"
"Uhh…."
"Pik chu!" pikachu exclaimed while crossing his hands into an X.
Ash glared at him which he ignored.
"See? So there's no use to do all that. Just make sure to be safe and always tell me about what happened. Okay?"
Ash nodded and was soon wrapped into a warm hug.
"And don't die. Your father would not like it if he saw you so soon. I am pretty sure he is hoping to see an old and wrinkled Ash and not a teenager one." She whispered to him.
Ash hugged back and squeezed her a little while nodding and then hided his head at the crook of her neck.
After a few seconds they let go of each other.
Right after that Mewtwo came back and boy he was pissed.
"Next time, you are going to contact everyone if anything happened again." He told Mew.
"I don't even want to know what happened." Mew toldhim from atop Leaf's head on which she had sat down while Ash was talking to his mother.
"Ofcourse you wouldn't. You already know. And you knew this would happen. Didn't you?"
Mew laughed nervously.
"Maybe or maybe not. I don't know what you are talking about though."
Mewtwo glared at her and began to say but was cut off by Mew.
"Soo… I think I should go now. I was in the middle of my breakfast when I had to come here. I will go and finish it up. See ya!" And then she teleported.
Mewtwo sighed.
"I will take my leave too." And before Ash could ask him something he vanished.
"Ughh…. I couldn't even ask them the one question that was nagging me for so long." He complained.
"And what is that?" Solitad asked.
"What will I do if those beast showed up again."
A beat.
"That, is a serious problem. Hm..." Alain said.
"I think you guys should calm down and do something else for now. What happened today is a lot to take in so let it all sink in and by that time have some fun. I am sure Ash is safe now because if he wasn't they wouldn't have left. Besides I am sure they would be back if anything happened." Professor Burnet reassured everyone.
After a moment or so everyone hesitantly nodded.
Then Bonnie turned towards the 2 Legendries and the kalos starter.
"Is there anything else you want to tell us?"
They shook their heads.
"So looks like it's good bye for now?" Ash said.
They nodded and waved. Everyone waved back and just before Bonnie was going to cut the phone a voice stopped her.
"Wait!"
Soon her father came infront of the screen.
"Would you give the phone to Clemont? I want to talk to him."
"Okay. Here you go." She said while handling the phone to her brother.
"Yes. What is it dad?"
"I want you to be back here in the gym by tomorrow."
"What? But why? I just came here!"
"I know. I don't like it either. But this is important. The pokemon league will be inspecting all the league related facilities before the pokemon masters tournament. So you have to be here for that. I just received the message. I am sure you got one too. They will be here a day after tomorrow. I will make sure that the gym is at it's tip-top shape. All you have to do is to be here by tomorrow."
Clemont sighed.
"Guess it can't be helped then. I will be there by tomorrow. Bye dad."
"take care of yourself and your sister. Bye son." And with that said the phone hung up.
"Sorry Ash. Looks like I will have to go."
"It's fine Clemont. I understand. Don't worry."
"Bonnie I think you should go and pack your stuff. We will be leaving by this evening."
"Nope! I am not gonna go with you. The gym leader is needed for the inspection. Not his sister. I am not needed there. I will stay here with Ash and everyone else."
"But Bonnie-"
"No! No no no no no no no! I am staying here and that's it!"
She ran and holded Ash's hand.
"If you are my big brother then so is he! I know he will keep me safe if that's what you are worried about. Besides after that I don't even know when I will see him again and as for you? You will see him in the pokemon master's tournament. So I wanna stay here for some more time!"
Clemont started to protest but Delia stopped him.
"It's fine Clemont. Let her stay. I will make sure that she is fine."
Clemont sighed in defeat. "Fine."
"Yaay!" Bonnie exclaimed.
"Just make sure you behave and don't do anything ambarassing like you usually do."
"Don't worry. You won't be around so I doubt I will do it."
Ash and Serena chuckled. Clemont turned red.
"What does that mean?" May asked.
"You will find out soon enough." Serena chuckled.
"Hey Ash! I will have to go too! I need to be at the gym so I will have to go." Korrina said.
"Same here Ash. All the three brothers are needed to be present." Cilan said.
"I will have to go too. Remember I am the Oplecuid city's gym leader now?" Iris told him.
"I will be going to Cerulean too. I will leave today to make sure that the gym is in it's top shape for the inspection. Those sisters of mine can't do anything without me. Sorry."
"I will be going to Pewter too. Gotta take care of things in the gym there."
"That's fine everyone. Don't worry. Besides we will be seeing each other in a week anyway.
But I don't get one thing why you Brock? I mean wasn't Forrest taking care of the gym?"
"Oh you see! Mom and Dad are not home and Forrest is not well so I will be taking care of the gym for the meantime."
"Oh"
"I will be leaving too Ash." Serena said.
"Huh? But why?"
"Don't worry. It's only for a day or two. There is this contest in Cerulean city and I want to enter. If I won, I will get all the five ribbons for the Kanto Grand festival. And since Misty is going I thought I will go with her. If that's fine with you." She said the last part to Misty.
"It's always good to have company."
"Oh! In that case, best of luck."
"Thanks."
"We will be leaving as well." Alain sais while pointing towards the Kalos crew.
"Okay?"
"Since all the facilities run by the pokemon League is being inspected, professor Sycamore wanted us to help him in the lab."
"Oh! Alright so then."
"We will be leaving too" Bianca said while pointing towards Touka and Toya.
"Professor Junipher called. Said she wanted help in the lab."
"We will also leave Ketchum. Will do some training in Sinnoh for the tournament." Paul said while pointing towards Barry Trip and Ritchie.
"In that case, you wouldn't mind if I tagged along would you? I want to go to Sinnoh too. Mom wanted me to do some last minute training with her." Verity asked.
"Join the party." Barry said.
"Thanks!"
"Can I come too? Candice wanted help in the gym back in snow point so I was planning to go." Zoey asked.
"Welcome aboard." Ritchie replied.
"We will go to Jhoto too. Professor Elm wanted help in the lab." Lyra said while pointing towards Sorrel.
"I will be going to Kalos as well. Mom called. She wanted help with something so I will have to go." Miette said.
"I will be leaving too. This time around my whole family is at one place. It won't be good if I wasn't there." Casey said.
"Its been some time since I met my family so I will be going to Pewter as well. You wouldn't mind if I tagged along. Would you Brock?" Solitad said.
"Ofcourse not." He replied.
"Oh well. I guess it can't be helped then. Looks like we will see each other in a week then." Ash replied.
He then looked up at the sky and sighed.
"You okay Ash?" Mallow asked.
Ash looked at her and smiled.
"Yeah I am fine. It's just….. you guys came yesterday and we didn't even had fun and now you all are leaving without any nice memories….. its kinda sad. I feel like I wasted your time. Sorry."
"You don't have to be sorry about anything. We all had fun. Besides with this get-together I got to meet so many people. Meeting them all was certainly worth my time. I am sure everyone feels the same." Casey reassured.
Everyone agreed.
Leaf clasped her hands and exclaimed. "I know! All of you will be leaving by this evening right!? So let's make the most of this time. After you guys are all packed up lets go to the beach. It will be fun! What do you say!?"
The others happily agreed and went to pack up their things. While those who weren't leaving went to pick up snacks and things for the beach save for a few.
Ash stood there deep in thought.
Bonnie noticed this and shook him a little. When he turned to look at her she asked. " What's wrong Ash?"
"It's just…. Tell me Bonnie, did you felt like squishy and Greninja were hiding something?"
"Hmm…. Now that you mention it, I do think that they weren't telling us something."
Ash nodded. "But what could it be?..." He wondered aloud.
"You look deep in thought Gary, what's wrong?" Leaf asked.
"It's…. No it's nothing. Must be my imagination."
Leaf looked at him oddly.
"Anyway… in how many leagues have you competed in?"
"Two."
"What! Why?"
"I am not a trainer anymore Leaf. I am a researcher now."
A beat.
"Looks like we have a lot to catch up on."
In the central prison of Kalos the siren rang indicating the escape of a prisoner.
The police started running hither and thither.
A women dressed in white on her bike came to a hault infront of the main gates of the prison.
She called out to a police man who was running by.
"What happened here?"
"Champion! It's er…. A prisoner escaped."
"Who?"
"Lysandre"
Diantha quickly took off her sun glasses revealing blue eyes wide in rage and shock with a slight terror in it.
"Shitty Taurus!"
The End
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