The day Ash died:
At Wyndon Stadium, Misty watched as Ash accept the trophy for being the world champion. She was ready to confess to him her feelings right now, ready to know how Ash feels. The arrangements were made for her to be here, as she was accepted for time off from her gym duties. She saw Ash come on the podium with his huge goofy smile as he saw the crowd to see his highlighting moment. But suddenly, there was a bunch of golbats, mightyenas, skuntanks, and liepards came and started to attack and cause panic. People where running, screaming, and pushing. "Where are the officers! We need officers!" Misty shouted. Little did she know that the attackers took care of the officers around the arena. Misty sent out her pokemon to take out the pokemon that where casing trouble with others encouraged to the same.

"Ahhh! Get off!" Ash shouted.

Misty turned around and saw Ash pinned down by mightyenas with a persian right in front of him and his partner and Pikachu was tied up with a bunch of pokemon attacking him. The persian was then seen clawing Ash's face. "No! Gyarados, we need to save Ash!" But Gyarados was tied up in a fight by the troublemaking pokemon in the crowd, and her other pokemon had the same problem. Misty rushed up to Ash as fast as she could, with people still running from the attackers pokemon in panic, being pushed around, and dealing with pokemon attacking her. When she arrived to where Ash was, she fell to her knees and tears fell from her face. It was too late. The pokemon killed Ash, and it looks as though they took everything but the clothes on his back. "Whoever has done this is going to get it!" Misty harshly looked around to see who could've done this. While chaos was still going on, she saw a bunch of people in black coats with long collars that hides their face, hats to hide their head, and sunglasses to hide their eyes slowly returned the pokemon that attacked and rushed off. Misty rushed off after a group of them and when they were far enough away, they stopped and pulled out a phone. Misty stayed behind a tree and listened.

"… I can't believe it. We actually did it. We got rid of him and are free to have a world for our ruling!"

Misty gave an angry look. "That's why they killed Ash?"

"... Alright, we are ready to go." A van pulled up, and the group hopped in.

Misty sent out Gyarados and commanded it to use Hydro Pump and sent the van flying.

Once the van hit the ground, the people inside crawled out, but then got hit by a Hyper Beam which destroyed the van.

Misty angrily walked over to them. "You're going to pay for killing Ash!"

Suddenly, a smoke ball went off.

It got Misty to cough, but she was able to get rid of the smoke by calling for Gyarados to use Hurricane. But when the smoke cleared, all she saw was nothing but the broken pieces of the van. Not too long after, she heard an engine of another van and laughter of the group echo throughout the forest. Misty starred down at the ground with clenched fist, unsure of what to do now as sounds of reinforcements of officers finally arrived.

Eight days later, Cesar's group:
Ash and May starred out the plane together that was heading to Cerulean, excitingly talking in the scenery.

Pikachu was fast asleep on Ash's lap.

May looked back to see that his brother is distracted on a game with his laptop. She then smiled, believing this is the perfect time to do this and turned to Ash. "So… you didn't care about the kiss from Serena?"

"Not really…" Ash responded.

May slid a hand on Ash's hand, which made Ash stare at that, then at May as his heart skipped a beat. "So… how about a kiss from me?"

Ash blushed with a surprised look. "You want to… to k-kiss me?"

May shyly nodded. "Being with you again, has made me realize…" May starred deeply into Ash's eyes. "I want you…"

Ash smiled with tears in his eyes. "I fell hard for you, May. Long ago…" Ash grabbed her hands and looked in deeply May's eyes. "… but I never thought I'd hear you tell me that you want me…"

May blushed. "Please don't say anything about May in your world and kiss me if you're going to."

"Alright…"

They closed their eyes and inched closer to their faces but when their lips hit something, it felt cold and scaley. Ash screamed suddenly getting crushed at the window as May got pushed on the ground.

Pikachu suddenly awoken and getting crushed, used Thunderbolt.

Ash screamed, being the only one being affected by it.

May looked back to see what happened and saw a swampert.

The swampert gave an uncomfortable look. "Perrt?"

Max returned the swampert.

Pikachu looked at Ash with an apologetic look.

"Did you really have to do that!?" May screamed at Max with an angry look.

Max narrowed his eyes with an unamused look. "Duh. We need to stay focused so we can take down the bad guys."

"We are on a plane! And you were playing a video game! What is there to focus on?"

"Not what is in Cesar's pants, that's for sure."

May flared up, red with anger. "How dare you! I am not anything like that!"

"Whatever…"

May got up and yanked Max ear and started pulling him somewhere.

"Oooowww! Let me go!" Max complained.

"Uhhh, May? Where are you taking him?" Ash asked.

"Just to have a talk…"

"Help me, Cesar!" Max pleaded.

Ash starred at him with a concerned look, wondering why Max seemed so afraid to talk with her sister.

May dragged him away.

After a while May came back. "Now, where were we?"

Ash looked around. "Where's Max?"

May gave a worried look. "Oh, he had to… go to the restroom."

"Oh, okay. Then let's get back to where we left off."

Pikachu went to Max's seat to give them some privacy.

Ash caressed her cheek and inched closer.

May blushed and closed her eyes.

Ash came closer, and their lips finally met, and they both wrapped their arms around each other and continued to kiss each other.

Back at Pallet Town, in Prof. Oak's Lab:
Misty been with Brock, Tracey, Gary, and Prof. Oak and they've been working on finding out who killed Ash more than a week ago. Misty reported the van and what it looked like, but they all abandoned the vans later on and the police looked at them and didn't find out anything.

"If only we had any leads…" Gary said.

Misty clutched her fists. She wished she could've done more to take them down.

Brock put a hand on Misty's shoulder. "Misty… we all know you did everything in your power to save Ash and stop his murders. Don't be so hard on yourself…"

Misty narrowed her eyes. "It… just wasn't enough." She looked at the group with an upset look. "I failed Ash… now he's dead, and his killers got away!"

"Misty, even the police have failed to stop these criminals and bring them to justice so far, and they were trained to do that! It's not your fault Ash died…" Prof. Oak said.

Misty narrowed her eyes. "Are you saying… nothing could've been done, then?"

Everyone starred at her with a discouraged look.

"Is there nothing that can be done now? Should we just give up all hope, and let those villains take over the world?"

"No…" Prof. Oak replied.

"Well good! Because even if it is all hopeless and we never find a thing, I'm not giving up till we can find out who killed Ash and make them pay!" Misty then stormed out. She ran and ran until she came to the river where she first fished Ash up long ago and sat down with tears falling from her face as she remembered his first meeting of him. At first, she thought Ash was a reckless and selfish kid. But travelling him made her see the true Ash that she never forgotten, even after years of being apart from him. "Why… why did this happen?"

"Mis…ty?" A weak voice called out.

Misty gasped and quickly got up and looked behind herself, not believing what she was hearing. But it was him that came from bushes, holding onto his injured pikachu. But he as well seemed hurt. "Ash?!" Misty ran to him and caught him just in time before he hit the ground.

Ash slowly looked up at her with a worried look. "Please… you need to be quiet. They're after me."

"What… what are talking about? How are you alive?"

"Team rainbow… I'm not going to be alive for long…"

"Don't say that!"

"Please… Get out of here! I don't want to die again because of me…"

Misty gave a confused look. "Die again? What are you…?"

"There he is!" a guy shouted.

Misty looked up and saw people who were dressed the same as those who were responsible for Ash's death.

"They're here!" Ash handed Misty Pikachu. "Take him and run! I'm happy… just seeing you one last time."

Misty blushed, but quickly placed Pikachu in her bag, and pulled Ash on her back. "I don't know how you're here or what you've gotten yourself into, but if you think I'm going to drop you here and let you get killed again, you're crazy!"

"Misty, no!"

Misty ran as fast as she could but didn't get far before she was surrounded by liepards and mightyenas.

The growling pokemon came closer, then dashed at them after hearing the command, "kill them!"

Misty did the only thing she could think of and jumped into the river, making the mightyenas and liepards ram into each other. She then sent out Starmie and it pulled them to the surface and to land. However, Pikachu and everything else fell out of her bag as Starmie helped them. Misty sighed in relief. "We are safe…"

"Yeah…" Ash looked over to Misty's bag. "Oh no! Where's Pikachu?"

Misty gasped and looked at her bag, and noticed it was empty. "Oh no! What happened?" She turned to Starmie. "Do you think you could look for Pikachu and my things?"

Starmie replied with a "HIYA!" and went back into the river.

Misty looked down with a frown. "I'm sorry Ash. I should've kept Pikachu safer…"

"Don't be so hard on yourself… You already done so much for us then I ever expected…"

Misty smiled a bit. "Still… I hope Pikachu is okay."

Ash gave a worried look and tried to get up. "I… got to find him."

Misty ran over and put his arm around her neck to help Ash move and smiled. "I understand… Let's go help Starmie. We can follow the current of the river, and hope it was able to get to land somewhere."

Ash smiled. "Thanks Misty…"

Somewhere by the river:
Misty's pokemon has sensed the danger outside of its pokeball. But when they came out of their pokeballs, they couldn't find Ash or their trainer. Politoed saw two pokemon that needed help and did so. One was an extremely injured friend, and another was a water type teammate who never learned to swim. However, in doing so it got seperated from Misty's other pokemon.

Psyduck sighed, then thanked Politoed.

Politoed told him it was glad to help.

They then looked over to Pikachu with a worried look. It seemed to be breathing, but in extreme pain.

Suddenly, Psyduck saw a familiar face with someone else, and called out to them.

Politoed looked up to see who Psyduck was calling out to and saw why and did the same.

The two looked over that way and ran over to see what was going on.

"What? Pikachu? What happened?" the boy said. He had blonde hair, and thick rim glasses.

His pikachu hopped down and asked what happened.

Pikachu responded that team rainbow attacked them and how he ended up in this condition.

The pikachu gave a worried look and looked back to his trainer with his ears down and a frown.

Psyduck held his head with a confused look, seeing that the two pikachus not only look exactly alike, but sound the same as well.

The female trainer Psyduck recognized frowned. "Where's the Ash we are looking for? He could be in danger as well…"

The blonde man frowned. "This isn't good… this pikachu needs to get to a pokecenter. But if we leave… another me could die!"

Now Politoed was highly confused.