Pokemon Of Light and Darkness: Scenario 2 - Revival

This is a alternate universe to my orginal fanfic "Pokemon: Of Light and Darkness". I decided to start over on this fanfic instead of just

continuing on the existing one for the following reasons...

+ Plot seemed rather rushed at times.

+ I feel that various events I wanted to include were missing.

+ Other minor details.(i.e. Where the hell is Meowth?)

This is a remake of a fanfic I wrote long ago in my PFFA days as Smiley13.

If you want the (inferior and also incomplete) version, go to http://kev.mtrap.org/olad.

Anyways, on with the show!

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"Tell me. Does everyone hold tight to the anguish, deeper than Darkness?"



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He was alone.

He wasn't always alone however.

He stood alone for four long years, four long wearisome years.

Before that, he had friendship, that which he longs for now so dearly.



He found himself walking along a dark road, he walked on and on with

apparently no end in sight. However, he noticed that the further he went

down the road, it got brighter and easier to see. He walked along the road until he saw a small house, this was his house, he slowly walked up the steps into the darkness that was inside.

The house. Empty, barren, except for one small thing, a cake, white frosting with sixteen candles lined along the rim, he saw no joy within it, he knew that he should be experiencing joy, yet he did not. He saw only a cake, errily lighting the room. He bent over to blow out the candles. The little flame on the candles became larger. He blew on them again, it kept growing as he kept blowing on them. The fire latched on to his shirt, he simply closed his eyes, feeling the extreme heat of the flames...



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S c e n a r i o

Chapter 1 - Control

R e v i v a l

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6:45am.



He awoke, upon awakening, his mind quietly whispering his name to re- establish his sense of identity.

'Ash Ketchum, Ash Ketchum..'

Ash saw himself in the mirror. He had changed somewhat over the past few years, his hair was basically the same, but he was much taller, his face had become rougher and more mature looking, his eyes showed a sort of sorrow in them. The world had become harsh on Ash, he had not expected what would happen, what would happen after the Pokemon League. The pain he had experienced.

He succeeded, yes, he won, yes, but that just brought the loss of something greater, the friends that had accompanied him on his journey. They parted afterwards, journey done, no reason to continue on exploring. Ash met up with his friends frequently at first after the journey, but as time went on..there was less and less contact, they didn't even come to his birthday when he turned 16, due to Gym battles. Ash had other friends, but those two, Misty Waterflower and Brock Shale, were the only ones that truely meant anything to him.

* * *

7:00am

"Damnit. Kill it now!" A captain of the Indigo National Guard ordered to the soldier via a walkie talkie.

"Yes sir." The ING officer took out his weapon and aimed the firearm at a strange, child-like creature..it was dressed in a kimono-type garb, it's eyes rather large and it had an aura of light around it. The soldier fired his MP5 combat rifle at the child. The bullets simply stopped short of the creature's forehead as it started to sing a sweet song. The soldier dropped his weapon.

"I said neutralize the target!" The walkie-talkie barked it's order.

"The song...so soft..peaceful..." The officer simply said as he felt his legs becoming weak as his stance became uneasy and he started swaying, the song still playing softly.

The captain simply sighed as he saw everything from above inside his helicopter. The bullets flew back to the to the ING officer below, killing him quickly with two shots to the head. The officer fell hard against the floor, meeting eternity.

"Headquarters come in. This is Captain Lunarus reporting."

"Yes, we copy."

"We have another man down." The Captain said sadly.

* * *

8:00am

Ash was in the living room, his mother making him breakfast. The TV in the living room had the news on.

"Just an hour ago, the wreckage of various Indigo National Guard vehicles was found." The news-woman began "All official reports stated that they were tracking down a raging charizard on a nearby island that the police couldn't handle. The reports further state that while the ING was able to bring down and neutralize the charizard, most of the people sent out were killed in the process. The pokemon has been taken to ING's laboratories for further study." Ash turned off the TV and stood up to go eat his breakfast.

* * *

8:15am

Light.

Seeing the Light.

Always seeing the Light.

Standing silently.

Walking softly.

* * *

8:18am

Her eyes opened.

They introduced the new morning that is now and the new afternoon that was yet to come. She stood up, the new morning used to be a thing of beauty to her. It still was, but it wasn't as splenderous and beautiful as before. She let her mind ignore the thought as she put on her clothes and stepped downstairs.

* * *

8:18am

His eyes opened.

They introduced the new morning that is now and the new afternoon that was yet to come. He stood up, the new morning used to be a thing of beauty to him. It still was, but it wasn't as splenderous and beautiful as before. He let his mind ignore the thought as he put on his clothes and stepped downstairs.

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8:35am

Upon finishing his breakfast, Ash went to his room and picked up the video phone. He quickly dialed a number.

*ring*

*ring*

"Hello?" A face quickly appeared on screen, it was a young man of about 18, his skin was a dark tan and his hair was black and spikey, he was wearing some causal clothing: green shirt, and blue jeans.

"Yes...Brock?" Ash could recognize his face, even after all the time that had passed.

"Yes, I'm him, who's speaking?" Brock said in a tired tone, his eyes were actually open..but they had a very tired look to them.

Ash stood at the screen stunned. Didn't Brock recognize him? Was it really that long since they've seen each other?

"I'm Ash...Ash Ketchum." Ash said his full name just in case Brock couldn't remember him by just his first name.

Brock stifled a yawn "...Oh! Yea, Ash Ketchum..", he let the name out as if he had never spoken it in all of his life. "Why did you call?", he asked.

Ash suddenly realized he didn't know why he called. He had simply picked up the phone. It was like for the few moments it took for him to pick up the phone and dial the number, as if he wasn't even in his body, but rather, just looking at his own body controlled by some other force.

"Erm..well...." Ash decided to say something spontaneous "Think you can meet me in Viridian Forest?" There a sudden silence as Brock stood thinking on- screen.

"Sure! I'll even bring Misty along!" Brock said cheerfully.

Ash smiled slightly. "Alright."

"Bye."

"Bye."

* * *

Not too long after, Ash left his house (After being told being hugged and kissed and "I love you"ed by his mother, it was a little ritual that happened anytime Ash left the house.), taking Pikachu out of his pokeball for the first time in a long while. The little rodent stifled a yawn and went wild upon seeing his owner again. Ash smiled at his long-time friend, but he was confused, he didn't even know what to say to his other long-time friends, after three long years of seperation...

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Ash stood in the forest, Pikachu ran about, trying to find ways to occupy her attention while waiting for the others. Ash sat down upon a rock while waiting. He smiled at the memories of the far past..carefree days, times where one is young and lives only in the moment, but alas, those days gone, in their place where times of lonliness, sorrow, and yearning to return to that day which has passed.

"Ano hi ni kaeritai." Ash repeated something he heard on TV once..it was some film, obviously in Japanese, which he saw when he was a young child. He didn't know what it meant then, he didn't know what it meant now, yet those words meant something to him, something important.

"Ano hi ni kaeritai, Ano hi ni kaeritai, Ano hi ni kaeritai, Ano hi ni kaeritai..." He repeated softly, Pikachu looked on at her master, slowly bobbing her head to the near rhythmic patterns of her owner's words.

"Hey Ash!" Two familar-sounding voices spoke behind Ash. Ash turned his head around to see two tall, young teens looking at him.

One was a young man of about 18. He had quite a good tan apparently, he was wearing a green shirt with a brown vest, as well as some long blue jeans.

'Brock Shale....' Ash's mind informed him on who this person was.

The other one was a young woman of 17 or so. She was wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt that had a very mild V-neck to it (certainly not deep enough to reveal any cleavage), it went quite nicely with her black shorts, reaching down to just above her knee, her hair was very long, tied up to a ponytail reaching her waist.

'Misty Waterflower' Ash's mind whispered.

"Hello guys." Ash said quietly through a somewhat forced smile. "Long time, no see!" Ash said in a more genuine voice.

'Long time no see indeed..it may take years before one sees a total stranger' Ash's mind added in a cold tone.

"Well come, let's go to my house!" Ash smiled again, and started to run towards Pallet.

'I was always kind-hearted to strangers' Ash's mind snapped in it's cold tone once again.

"Yeah!" Brock and Misty laughed and ran after the young 16 year old.

'Strangers reunited." Ash's heart said in a warmer tone as the group ran to the gates of Pallet, which would now become much more..they would become a gate to a new era for the World...

But what kind of era is unknown...

..To be continued.