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I closed my eyes, so that I wouldn't see them; Delia crying on grandpa's shoulder, Misty on Brock's and countless others morning for a person whom was now dead.

My gaze was drawn like metal to lodestone towards Ash's coffin, which was currently being lowered into the ground. It was pretty pointless to bury the coffin because Ash had requested to be cremated not buried. His ashes were currently resting on Delia's fireplace inside an obsidian urn that Lance had provided her with as well as a small portion residing inside of a special made pendent made up of a glass bubble on a basic silver backing.

My gaze shifted to the mentioned dragon master who was currently staring blankly at the rectangular hole being filled with dirt. His dragonite was nuzzling his hair in an unsuccessful attempt to break him out of his self-imposed depression.

I closed my eyes again to block out the sight of the sea weeping people all of them dressed in black and wished I could block out the sounds as well, Ash had touched a lot of people's lives over the years and now they mourned the loss of him, the dragon master included. Ash, my mind cried out in despair, why did you have to leave me? Why did you have to die?

My mind brought the memories of his death still painfully clear to my mind.

I had been traveling with Ash from Lavender town to Sliver City where we would meet with Lance to go on a small trip into the dragon holy land.

When we were about a day out of Silver, Jessie and James decided to make one of their seemingly annual attempts to take Pikachu from Ash.

Jessie, James and Meowth had all quit team rocket about a year before and had started up a fast food franchise that quickly gained in popularity leaving that trio richer than Giovanni.

After the initial exchange of insults Arboc and Wheezing were tossed into a battle to take out Pikachu.

During the battle Arboc had shot a poison sting at Pikachu who dodged it, allowing the attack to hit Ash instead. Ash stood still for a few seconds as if in shock as a hundred poison darts connected with his skin, paralyzing all of the nerves as the first wave of poison hit his system, spreading throughout his body.

The next moments were a blur, I think I rushed over to where Ash was and in desperation grabbed one of the pokéballs at Ash's belt. The pokéball turned out to have Charizard resting inside of it.

Charizard had decided to return to Ash a while ago after deciding that he had had enough training with the other Charizards.

Charizard took one look at Ash's prone body and turned a fury that only a fire type pokémon could have on first the pokémon Arboc and Wheezing, then on Meowth, Jessie and James. Leaving nothing behind but blackened ground from his fire's heat, he had then grabbed his trainer in his powerful forearms and shot off at an impossible speed that was fueled more by desperation than Rage.

The next thing I was aware of was sitting on top of Arcanine with Pikachu hanging onto me by biting her sharp fangs into my arm as the fire pokémon followed the path to Silver city.

When I reached Silver city I found out where Ash was by talking to a local, asking if he had seen a Charzard, he told me that last night what seemed to be a crazed Charizard carrying a dead human had appeared at the entrance to the local hospital. I thanked the man and rushed off to the hospital.

At the hospital I was greeted by the sight of Lance having an argument with a doctor, he had an anxious look on his face that could only mean something bad. I found out it was, Ash was apparently not recovering but was at least conscious for the moment I got Lance to stop his depressed hovering and leave so that I could talk to Ash in private, or as private as it could get with a Pikachu crying at the foot of the bed.

Ash had looked at me sadly but with a hint of amusement, "I guess this means I won't be getting top tonight."

I remember that I had given him an incredulous look, wondering why he was trying to lighten the mood. "Ash, you're going to die, and you're making jokes about it?"

"Well why not?" He looked at me with his brown eyes still filled with his fiery spirit, "we all die sometime, so why not accept it joyfully?" He then sighed and lowered his hypnotizing eyes away from mine, "Gary, please, when I die burn my body and raise my pokémon for me, that's all I want. Alright?" His eyes pleaded with mine asking me to accept the inevitable and move on.

I closed my eyes and swallowed past the lump that had lodged itself in my throat and nodded.

"Good," he sounded relieved and a little devious, "though it would be nice to have sex with you just one last time."

My eyes shot open to glare at Ash, "In a hospital? As you're dieing? With the security camera in here? With the chance of anyone from the doctor to your mom walking in?"

Ash grinned and rolled his eyes, "I wasn't being serious Gary you just needed to lighten up a bit."

Ash had died the next day in pain that nothing could block out. As per his requests, his body had been burned and his pokémon handed to me.

I fingered the pendant around my neck and thought, Ash, my love, I'll never forget you but I won't cry for you because then I would have to let you go and I won't.

[Ash's POV]

The pain had stopped.

I feel...I feel...Well I feel nothing now, I guess that means that I'm dead. Well- that sucks.

I looked around wildly, there was nothing to be seen except for continues darkness. Or maybe it's not continues, it just feels that way but really there are walls right in front of my face.

I start groping around in the darkness, trying to find something, anything.

I sigh and sit on more non-existent space, I guess I'm not as accepting of my death as I portrayed to Gary...Gary, I wonder if he's ok. Hopefully he's not too saddened by my death, he was pretty sad when I last saw him. How long ago was that? How long had I been looking around aimlessly?

Waitaminuet! When you die aren't you suppose to see a light at the end of the tunnel? Or at lest see the world as a ghost? Is there something wrong with my death? Am I even dead?

I look frantically around myself again, hoping to see something again, even if it's just my body. I say an iridescent thick cord of light. Attached to my heart? I tugged on it a little.

It felt like everyone I had ever known was surrounding me, but I still couldn't see them! I started walking it the direction the cord disappeared to.

[Gary's POV]

I stood up abruptly, I couldn't stand to be in the same place as the rest of the mourners. I had heard that there was going to be a reception at Delia's house, even now people were walking in that direction. I had no desire to go to a party, most likely they would be talking about how much they missed Ask as they ate and listened to soft music.

They sickened me, claiming to have actually cared for him as they celebrated the fact that he was no longer living.

Pikachu darted up to me weaving about the various bodies shifting around us and hopped up onto my shoulder. I shook my head to clear it of thoughts and walked over to my convertible remembering all the times Ash had teased me about needing to drive around instead of walking.

I got in the car and drove off, not caring where I went.

[Ash's POV]

For the past um, for the past period of time I had been seeing some sort of light other than my cord. The cord itself seemed to be leading off into the light.

Abruptly I was in the light. I realized suddenly that I hadn't been breathing or blinking inside of the darkness. Now, now I was somewhere strange, for one thing I knew I was trapped inside of something, as to what I didn't know but I wanted out, now. I started moving around pressing up against the sides of my confines and was gratified to find that the substance that made up my cage was cracking. I began to tap against the stuff with my body.

After about five minuets, I felt a rush of cold air as I tumbled out of my confinement head over tail?! I swung my head around weakly and then flopped it onto the ground, I felt to weak to do anything else but lay there.

Then I felt a presence right above me and tried to look up but failing. Giving the being above me the chance to do whatever it wanted. I felt a presence within my mind, it moved around a bit reading my memories as if reading papers and felt it do something with my memories then, suddenly I felt the presence send me to sleep.

I came abruptly back to consciousness for some reason but didn't move I still had no idea of where I was or what was going on. -So Ash, you're awake now.- I opened an eye to see none other than Mewtwo [BA: When Mewtwo was messing with Ash's mind he unlocked his memories of what happened in the first pokémon movie.] resting on the air beside me.

I tried to say something to him but all I could do was make a faint warble. Just try to send me what you want to convey by focusing them at me with your mind.

I complied and managed to get out, What's going on?

Mewtwo sighed and floated down to where I was laying, Ash, you know you died. He paused as if to find the right words. When a creature dies they are given an option of taking a break from life and wandering around as ghosts. Or they can be reincarnated immediately as either a human or a pokémon.

On some rare occasions a creature dies and has so many connections to their past that they aren't given an option and have to go back to life immediately without the choice of a body. In some rarer cases the person actually retains some memories of their past life, as it seems you do.

It took me a bit to digest that, I'm probably a pokémon now considering the fact I'm not in a hospital, all that was left to discover was what kind of pokémon I am. I lifted my long head up and looked him in the eye, so I'm now a pokémon? What one am I?

Mewtwo looked for some reason embarrass, I was experimenting with pokémon DNA and kind of, created you.

Ash I told myself, calm down, you can't find anything out if you try and kill Mewtwo, so what did you do to me?

Mewtwo thought for a bit before replying leaving me to contemplate my empty stomach. I created I new kind of dragon entirely, instead of the regular two kinds of specialties I made it so you didn't have any, creating the possibility for any kind of attack.

I ignored this and looked at him with impatience, so what kind of creature am I?

I don't know.

I chose at that moment to explode at him, YOU DON"T KNOW? YOU DON'T KNOW!? My screaming must have hurt Mewtwo's head because he got an unfocused look in his eyes. So I asked him in a quieter voice How can you not know?

My stomach chose at that moment to rumble loud enough for both of us to hear it. Mewtwo gave me a knowing look before drifting over to someplace and turned back with a bowl of grayish meat chopped into small bits. Eat this the bowl wafted over to a spot right in front of my nose that I basically pounced on, I thought you might need the meat, your body was designed to grow up faster than the average pokémon, you'll have reached your adult height and strength in about two weeks.

Your body needed to compensate for the growth it is currently experiencing; it did so be requiring large amounts of energy. If you didn't get the energy you most likely will have stunted your growth.

I snorted, well that's cheerful to know about. What is this?

Magikarp from the pond next to this cave.

I finished eating and looked around, where are the pokémon you took with you?

Mewtwo gave the impression of a shrug, Mew left with them to someplace or another leaving me here by myself.

That sucks, I felt suddenly weak again and curled up into a ball.

Mewtwo leaned over and examined me with concern, you shouldn't be so weak just after eating although there is an already noticeable increase in your size. Unfortunately at this rate you will be forced to continually eat until you have reached your full growth for your current stage of evolution.

Oh shit I groaned to myself, how the hell can I eat that much? Waitaminuet, I looked up again to see Mewtwo waiting for me to say something. You said I'm a electric type right?

Not precisely but you have the potential to be one.

I nodded, so if you have electricity in this cave then you could just hook me up and it'll power me.

The purple pokémon seemed to be considering the suggestion for a bit then he nodded to himself and extended a three-fingered hand in the opposite direction and gestured in mine. A wire crackled and glowed a violent mauve, Mewtwo gestured at me with his hand and the wire responded by touching my spine, energy surged throughout my body as it was suddenly absorbed.

I looked around suddenly and saw to my amazement that the stone shelf I was laying on seemed to have grown smaller, I looked over to where Mewtwo was standing and saw that he was smaller as well, Well it seems that the boost of electricity managed to dramatically increase your growth.

I bobbed my head numbly and asked, can I see a mirror? I kind of want to see what I look like.

Mewtwo nodded and created a physic mirror in front of me. [BA: am I just confused in thinking that there is a move called Mirror Wall?]

I peered into the mirror to see two greenish-blue eyes stare back at me, then to my astonishment they turned a light purple. Why were my eyes changing color? I shook my wedge shaped head and stood on all fours to see the rest of me. I was covered in a purplish blue fur with longer black fur on my spine. My body itself resembled a Gyarados or an ekans in body shape [Ra'athe meaning he looks kind of like a snake] only with some powerful hind legs and strong fore ones each ending in a sharp looking talon. I bared my teeth in satisfaction, my new body was cool looking.

I looked up from the ground to where Mewtwo was hovering above my head, Damn, you still beat me.

Mewtwo smiled, only by a little, you have gotten really strong, I'd say about level 31 by now.

I stood on my hind legs and peered off into the horizon where the mainland was, I wanted to go but I didn't want to leave Mewtwo by himself again. Ash, you should probably go, you retained your memories for a reason. I reluctantly looked back to him and saw how much his eyes belied the fact he didn't want to be forced to be a hermit again.

My own eyes didn't stay the same color because they reflected my emotions into colors, truly windows to the soul I thought sarcastically to myself even now they must be telling Mewtwo about my concerns. Mewtwo I really don't know if I should.

Mewtwo rolled his eyes, in case you've forgotten Ash, I'm a physic, if you're really that worried then I can create a mindlink between us, alright?

I nodded in surprise. I thought my mental shielding was better than that, oh well nothing can be perfect. How do you make a link?

like this, I felt Mewtwo inside my mind again only this time he grabbed onto something inside of me and pulled it back to his body.

That's it? I tilted my head to the side curious to find out what the link did.

Yes, now we can communicate as well as see through each other's eyes even if on the opposite sides of the world.

All I could think of t say was one word, cool.

We probably should come up with a new name for you now that you're in a new life.

Ok, but what?

Mewtwo shrugged, it's your name you come up with it.

I glared at him, that's not fair, could you at least help me a little?

He sighed mentally, What's the first name that comes to your mind?

Ash.

He gave me an exasperated look, try again.

umm. I suddenly thought up a good name that carried an ironic twist with it, one that I had used before, Satoshi.

Alright Satoshi why don't you go to your funeral? Your coffin's being buried right now.

I nodded and crouched to leap into the air, See you later! I sprang up into the air and flapped a few times to reach a good flying altitude.