v0rt3x: working on this cause my normal setup is being fixed.

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"Human Speaking"

"Pokémon Speaking"

'Telepathy'

'Thoughts'

{Time Skips/Scene Changes}

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Chapter 2

An Electric Start to a New Day

It was the next day after the whole info dump from Ash about legendaries.

Everyone decided to go to Kukui's house to check up on what Ash has been doing after the whole Hoopa thing happened.


They each met in the school and walked down the path to the professor's house.


When they arrived they were surprised to know that a lot of Pokémon were crowding the beach. Playing, battling, racing, and the like.

Then group saw Ash with a Bulbasaur passing around food to each and every Pokémon individually.

Ash then noticed his classmates. "Oh hey guys, mind helping me. I have a lot of Pokémon to feed."

"Ash are all these Pokémon yours?" Mallow said, saying what's on everyone's mind.

Ash looked proud for a moment then answered. "Yep. Met them all during my travels, they're like family. I wouldn't trade them for the world."

Kiawe's jaw dropped when his eyes fell onto Ash's charizard. It just seemed to radiate power and experience that was reinforced by the showing of it's powerful and precise flamethrower.

Kiawe's eyes darted towards Ash and charizard, not knowing how to process Ash being able to train such a powerful Pokémon.

Lana looked over to the sea and saw many of Ash's water type competing to see who was the fastest swimmer without using moves. The winner seemed to a Lapras, how did Ash catch one of those they normally travel in pods and are protective of one another, surely someone with Ash's age wouldn't even be able to get close to one let alone catch one.

Ash then brought them back to reality.

The two type specialists blinked and looked at Ash still holding the bags of food and realized what they were supposed to doing. The two quickly grabbed a bag and went over to feed Ash's Pokémon.

The rest of the group, with the exception of Lilie already went over and started feeding the Pokémon. Sophocles went over to some of the smaller ones and Mallow went for snorlax and some of the larger Pokémon.


After the Pokémon had they're breakfast. Ash and Co. went over to the front porch of the house and Ash's classmates started asking questions about his Pokémon.

"How many Pokémon do you have?" Lillie asked.

"Well, not counting the Taurus I guess around... forty-seven. I'm not to sure though."

47, that number had to sink in for everyone. How did Ash a trainer that showed up to school with t-shirt backwards have 47 Pokémon it just doesn't add up.

By the time the group recovered from finding out how many Pokémon Ash actually caught/released but returned another ring opened in front of the porch.

Out of the ring came a Greninja and a small green blob with one eye. Ash blinked his jaw dropping slightly.

'Well Ash, count this as my gift, as well as Hoopa's. Greninja has completely removed the corrupted vines from the Earth. We also asked for some help from Xerneas to get it done faster. He is welcome to rejoin you in your travels.' With that done the ring closed, leaving Ash and Greninja there. They suddenly embraced, even though it wasn't that long since the Kaloka League they still missed each other very deeply.

"Ash who was that?" Lana asked, getting a slow nod from everyone else.

Ash and Greninja separated from their embrace and Ash asked Greninja to go introduce himself to the rest of his Pokémon. Greninja nodded and went to go find the charizard Pikachu always talked about.

Ash then went over to the group to answer their question.

"Well, how do I say this. That was a core of the legendary Pokémon Zygarde. We nicknamed them Squishy, Bonnie came up with it." The group were less surprised but were still very surprised to see another legendary Ash met at some point. The conversation then continued, with Ash talking about Kalos.


{Meanwhile with Ash's Pokémon} ~translator_on

"Well look who it is. Welcome back Greninja." Pikachu greeted his Kalos teammate, with the others from Kalos also sharing their own greeting.

"Good to be back, Pikachu." Greninja replied with a smile, that was hidden behind his tongue-scarf.

"Mind introducing us, Pikachu? You haven't really said a lot about him, except that he has a special ability that he could do." Infernape said, mirroring the thoughts of many of Ash's other mons.

"Well guys, I'd like you to meet, Greninja. Our strongest team member during Ash's Kalos journey." Pikachu did a sort of presenting motion while he said this.

Charizard looked fairly interested and looked over Greninja again. He chuckled, or the equivalent of one for his species, and went to go train.

"Yeah he's like that. The ever battle obsessed fire lizard, Charizard." Pikachu said with a slight chuckle.


{Back to the humans} ~translator_off

"Wow, second place in one of the hardest leagues in Kalos to date. That's amazing!" Exclaimed Sophocles.

"Yeah, it was my best league performance to date. I made lots of strong rivals there. Still need to find my own set of Mega Stones for some of my Pokémon, but that's for another time."

"Bulba!" Ash and the group heard Bulbasaur call.

"What is it Bulbasaur?" Ash asked and Bulbasaur pointed a vine to Ash's right. Ash looked in the direction of the vine and saw, Bianca? What was she doing in Alola?

"Hey! Bianca! Over here." Ash called Bianca over, he hasn't seen her since he visited Altomare way in his first years as a trainer. Still she could have called, Ash was sure he gave his number to her, but then again he is sometimes forgetful.

Bianca ran over and looked Ash over observing from head to toe without even saying a word. Ash thought this was weird, but didn't protest.

Bianca then gestured Ash to follow her, Ash complied and followed Bianca to the back of the house.

"Bianca what's up with you? Why were you silent? Did something happen? Did you lose your voice or someth-" Ash questions stopped when Bianca put a finger on his lips and Bianca shimmered before revealing it was Latias all along.

"Latias!" Ash was shushed immediately after saying her name by said Pokémon.

'Ash don't do that so loudly, the others could hear you.' Ash nodded and calmed himself down.

"So first off, nice you can speak telepathically now that's a useful skill to have." Ash complimented, Latias blushed and rubbed her slender neck for a moment.

It was then Pikachu came over to check what Ash was screaming about, something about Latias? He wasn't to sure.

He gasped, it was Latias. What was she doing all the way out here?

'Oh heya Pikachu, nice to see you again.' Pikachu's jaw dropped, she learned how to speak telepathically now. This was great, They don't need to do charades and sign language to communicate with their trainer, but how temporary was this opportunity he had to check


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"Hey Latias, could I asked a question?" Pikachu asked and Latias nodded.

"How long are you gonna be staying here. A day, two?" Pikachu asked, Latias fidgeted with her claws, not sure how to tell Pikachu the news.

'Well you see... I'm staying permanently...' Latias said, still using telepathy. Ash and Pikachu's jaws dropped, she was staying? If she is who's was going to protect the soul dew?

"Latias, if you're staying then... who's going to be protecting the soul dew." Ash asked, mirroring Pikachu's thoughts.

'Another pair of Lati siblings arrived after your Kalos Journey, they are now Altomare's Guardian.'

"Hmm. Okay, that makes sense." Ash shrugged, again mirroring Pikachu's thoughts.

'Okay, so how does this work? The Poké Ball I mean.'

Ash was caught off-guard, Latias wanted Ash to catch her?

"But why, Latias?" Ash asked, recovering from the shock.

'I want to travel with you and I want to repay you for saving me and my hometown, even though Latios didn't survive it would have been a lot worse if you weren't there. So think of it as my gift.'

"Okay... then what ball do you want?"

'There are options?' Ash nodded and presented all the Poké Ball variants he had with him.

A Great Ball, a Heavy Ball, a Fast Ball, a Timer Ball, a Cherish Ball, and a Luxury Ball.

'Think I'll go with that one.' She pointed at the Luxury Ball. Ash nodded and held it up to Latias and tapped in on her head. She was promptly sucked the ball and it shook three times before clicking.

"Yeah! I caught Latias!" Pikachu laughed and shook his head, it was tradition.

Ash released Latias from the ball, she shook her head. 'Wow that felt weird at first. I'm not sure why you don't like it thought Pikachu?'

"I like the outside more, plus I have the advantage of being able to keep Ash safe in case of an emergency." Latias nodded seeing the logic.


~translator_off

Ash went back to talk with his classmates, Latias following him while invisible. Pikachu went back to whatever he was doing before and the went by as normal... well normal before Tapu Koko showed up again to test Ash.

"Wait a sec, gotta see if anyone besides Pikachu wants a battle. Is that okay?" Ash got a nod from Melemele's Guardian.

Ash ran over to his Pokémon and asked around.

After a minute he had a team ready.

"Alright, i'm ready." Tapu Koko went to the other side of the beach and got in a fight stance.

"Alright, Gible. I choose, you!" Ash sent out his Gible, who was fired up and ready to fight another legendary.

"Gible, let's start this off with Dig." Gible dug and was gone in less than a second. Tapu Koko's ability activated as it prepared to use Nature's Madness.

Both attacks hit each other full force with both cancelling each other out.

"Gible! Use Dragon Pulse, make smoke, then use Iron Head." Gible fired a purplish beam that was vaguely shaped like a dragon. It hit the beach causing some to billow out of the impact site, and shards of glass to fall onto Tapu Koko.

With the smoke covering his tracks, Gible used Iron Head on the Electric-Fairy Type, causing it be driven back by the force of the move.

Tapu Koko winced from the super effective move, he wasn't used to Ash being this proficient in reactive battling, but a challenge was always nice.

Tapu Koko prepared a Thunderbolt and struck the ground making dust to conceal his feint and his actual next attack.

He launched a globe of electrical energy, then prepared Nature's Madness.

Gible got hit by the Electro Ball it had no effect but it still caused more smoke to cloud his view.

After the attack charged, Tapu Koko went into the smoke and launched the Nature's Madness straight into the small land shark.

Gible shrieked in pain and skipped twice through the soft sand until stopping at a rock, where he laid there unconscious.

Ash recalled him and thanked Gible for trying his best. Tapu Koko then left, satisfied with the battle.


After the battle some of Ash's Pokémon helped fix the beach.

"Oh Ash I forgot to ask but where is Rotom Dex. They've been missing all morning." Sophocles said to Ash during cleanup.

"Yeah... about that. They kinda wanted to document everyone individually, so..." Ash did not need to say more.

Sometime during cleanup Kukui returns with a lot of Poké Food. Each for various types and personal preferences.

"Ash I don't know how Oak affords to feed your Pokémon. 'Cause this much is already a fortune."

"I mostly pay for it. It wasn't always like this mind you, like in Kanto and Johto, that was all Oak and Tracey, but once Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos came around I was the one paying for the food. Ever since I found out how much money high ranking league participants can get." Ash answered.

"How much?" Kiawe's asked, curios to see what you could win if you participate in a League.

"I think when I got sixteenth place in the indigo conference it was thirty-thousand Poké. And you just add 10,000 Poké from there to second place.

The Battle Frontier is where I got most of it though, about a million Poké per frontier brain I think." Kiawe's jaw dropped, as he started counting how much Ash had in the bank.

Ash had about six million Poké in the bank. That was insane for a teenager to have, Kiawe didn't even know what to do with that kind of money.

The others were surprised too, as Sophocles pulled out a calculator and typed out some numbers and gasped before showing everyone the exact amount.

Kukui was caught off guard by the amount, Lillie looked at Ash then at the calculator then at Ash, Mallow was silent, same with Lana.

The shocked gasps and weird looks over the group of friends decided to have lunch.

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v0rt3x: Chapter 2 done and Greninja has returned via Xerneas helping with the cleanup, that was not her gift though, that comes later. Also I'm working on my first story, don't worry it's not dead, it's just I have been busy and my setup is kinda not there, so I guess bye.