Last time on Pokeball Z

Ash unknowingly survived the explosion and ended on Mewtwo's island. About a year past and he recuperated from the fight. He returned to civilization just in time for Ashley's birthday. He gave her a Pichu egg as a birthday present. However, when he found Misty, she was being engaged to Gary. Ash couldn't take it anymore and left. What will he find out today?

Find out

Chapter 13

A few months past by. Ashley's egg hatched into a Pichu. Gary and Misty planned their marriage to take place at Professor Oak's lab with all the pokemon in Pallet town. They invited everyone close friend, Brock and May included of course. However, Ashley didn't like them getting married, even though she knew Gary was her real father, she never liked him. On the day of the matrimony, Ashley didn't want to stay around and decided to look around Pallet town followed by her Pichu. She never been here before, but then she came across a certain house. It was small, only two stories and had a white coat of paint on it. It also had a small garden growing along side it. Ashley couldn't explain it, but she felt drawn to this house. She decided to go a take a look inside. The door was unlocked and she let herself in with Pichu.

"This place is so dark." Ashley looked around in the dark living room. The furniture still had price tags on it. She went into the kitchen and found a sandwich, but decided not to eat it. However, Pichu decided to take a bite.

"I wonder what's upstairs." Ashley and Pichu went up the dark stairs and found a hallway with several doors. She went into the first door and turned on the light switch. She found a pink bed in the middle with a small counter by the side

"Who's this?" She found a picture on the counter.

It had a young woman with brown hair holding a young baby with messy black hair. She left the room to explore more of the strange house. Ashley stumbled across another room and opened the door, but the light was on already. She went inside and looked at the bed. I had many pokemon designs on it and the shelves had models of pokemon on it as well. Ashley then found another picture. This time, it had the same kid, but a lot older with a Pikachu on his shoulder. She and Pichu stared at the picture more closely, but the door closed on her, with a hooded-caped man standing in front of the shut door.

"What are you doing here Ashley? How did you find this place?" The man questioned her in a deep angry tone.

"Who are you?" Ashley asked the man holding the picture closer. The man pulled the hood over and Ash revealed himself.

"Daddy!" Ashley ran up and hugged his leg, with Pichu curiously looking at the familiar man. "Why have you been here for so long and not with me and mommy?"

"Pichu!" Pichu added.

"For the last time, I'm not your father!" Ash shouted at her and made Ashley start crying. "You have to learn that. This is my home, and your home is with your mother and fucking bastard Gary!"

"Stop saying that! I don't want them!" Ashley continued to sob.

"You don't want them?" Ash solemnly asked her. "Fine, what do you want me to do?"

"Come with me and Pichu to the wedding!"

"What wedding?" Ash ignorantly asked her.

"Mommy's and Uncle Brock's wedding. Didn't you know its today?"

"No, they are both getting married today? With whom?"

"Yeah, please come with me. Mommy is marrying Gary and Uncle Brock is marrying Aunt Susie. I don't want to be alone when I'll be stuck with Gary for the rest of my life." Ashley crossed her arms when she mentioned him.

Ash reluctantly accepted, but he didn't want to see Misty again. The put on formal clothing and his hooded-cape and left with Ashley and Pichu, traveling along an old familiar road to Professor Oak's. However, along the way, they met some an old friend, Fearow. The Fearow saw her as easy prey and swooped down to grab her, but Pichu jumped in the way and shocked it with a Thundershock. It stunned Fearow for a bit, but Pichu became exhausted from the recoil. The Fearow recovered and flew straight at her again. However Ash shot an energy bolt at it and stunned it again. The Fearow called out for backup and a swarm of Fearow and Spearow popped up and attacked them. Ash threw his cape away, revealing the bare muscular upper body and transformed into his light form with his spiked-up golden hair and fur. He charged up electricity and shocked all of them, launching a full beam of electricity into the sky, but wasn't gone unnoticed.

"Hey what's going on?" The twenty-five year old Brock looked out in front of the lab seeing a burst of electricity wearing his tux.

"I don't know." The twenty year old May replied wearing her white dress. They both went to find out and find Ashley when they realized she was missing.

"That's the last of them." Ash said kicking the unmoving shocked bodies.

"Hey Ashley!" Ash turned around seeing May and Brock coming for Ashley and decided to hide.

"What happened here?" Brock asked Ashley looking at all the Fearow and Spearow bodies surrounding them.

"These Fearow and Spearow attacked Pichu, me, and…"

"And who?" May asked her.

"Just Pichu and me! No one else." Ashley shouted at them.

"Ok, we believe you. I think we should get back, Misty is probably worried about you." Brock said.

Ashley nodded and May and Brock turned around heading back to the lab. Ashley stayed behind a little to look for Ash. May turned back seeing Ashley and Pichu with a man in a cape. His face looked very familiar. Ashley and Pichu left to catch up with Brock, but May decided to find out who was he and what stopped the Fearow and Spearow. She followed him, hiding in the bushes, and found him coming up to a house. The house looked a lot like Ash's old house, but it was destroyed. Who rebuilt it? May thought while hiding in the bushes. Ash sensed some type of life around him and turned around. Looking around he sees nothing, but he knows something is there. He pinpointed an area and shot some blasts at it, revealing May.

"What? May?" Ash saw May in the middle of the blasts and stopped.

"Ash…" May fell unconscious from the attack. Ash brought her into his house and healed her wounds.

"Where am I?" May woke up on a couch in the living room familiar household. "This looks like Ash's old house, but how is it possible? It was destroyed several years ago."

"I rebuilt it from scratch." May heard a familiar voice from the shadows and Ash walked out into the light.

"Ash, is that really you? You're normal! " May ran up and hugged her old friend, but saw something wiggling behind him.

"Ash, what's that?" May let go and saw the strange anomaly wiggling.

"This, it's my tail. I cannot transform fully normal." Ash tied his tail around his waist and put on his cape.

"How are you back? Didn't you kill yourself?" May asked him.

"I was supposed to be dead, but I survived somehow." Ash looked at himself once more.

"Come with me!" May gestured him. "I bet everyone, especially Misty, would like to see you again!"

"NO! I'm not going!" Tears fell from his eyes. He pulled his hood up and ran upstairs. May followed him to his room and saw him looking at a picture album.

"Why does everything horrible happens to me May?" Ash solemnly asked May as she looked over his shoulder. It was a picture of Ash with Pikachu, his mother, and all his other pokemon that were once alive.

"I know how you feel Ash. I feel the same about Max. I miss him everyday, like I missed you." May placed her hand on his shoulder, but he swept it off.

"Why am I telling you about my emotions? You're gone from my life! Like everyone else…Get out of my house!" Ash ordered her, but May held onto his cape.

"Come on Ash. I'm not gone from your life! I'm right here. Just come with me." May stared at him with earnest eyes. Ash looked into her eyes, seeing that she is sincere.

"All right, I will come. Wait outside."

May listened, and waited a few moments outside his room door. Ash changed back into his formal wear and his cape over him. May didn't like his outfit and removed the cape. Ash didn't want people to know who he was, so he put on a cap that resembled the one he wore while in the Hoenn region. May gave up trying to convince him that it didn't look appropriate and led him to Professor Oak's.

"Pichu?" Pichu sniffed the air, smelling something familiar and ran up to greet Ash and May.

"Hey May!" Brock ran up to greet May and her "new" friend. Ashley soon followed, but Ash went in a different direction towards Oak's pokemon reserve.

"Where's Daddy going?" Ashley asked.

"Daddy?" Brock questioned her statement. "That's not your father, unless…"

Ash looked at all the pokemon running about. He then noticed some grass and water pokemon disputing again over the watering hole. Where's Bulbasaur? Ash thought, but he recalled he was gone. However, another Bulbasaur came out and called them down.

"Whose Bulbasaur is that?" Ash looked at the pokemon calming the other fighting pokemon down.

"That's my Bulbasaur." Ash turned around and saw May behind him. "She took over your Bulbasaur's duties after…well…you know…"

"Yes, that also explains why those Fearow and Spearow are free to attack anyone." Ash looked towards the sky, remembering the last time he rode on Pigeot's back.

"I know you probably, don't want to see this, but a least attend the wedding for Brock." May offered and Ash followed her to the wedding area held outside in the reserve.

Ash took a seat in the back. May took a seat next to him. Ash didn't know what he was feeling about her as he looked at May seating next to him. His thoughts were interrupted when the music started. Brock and Gary were waiting at the altar for their brides. Ashley and Pichu walked down in their little dresses, throwing flowers out at the audience. Soon after, the brides came out. Misty and Susie in their white wedding dresses. While Misty was walking down the isle, she eyed a familiar man in a cap, but decided to shake it off and continued up the isle.

"I pronounce you husbands and wives. You may kiss the brides." Professor Oak finished and Brock and Gary kissed their brides. Everyone clapped except for Ash; he couldn't take the site anymore and left. No one noticed and couldn't find him later until night fell.

"Hello Ash." Ash turned around as Brock approached him on the lab roof.

"How did you know it was me?" Ash lowered onto the roof.

"Well, you're the only person who can fly and your tail is sticking out." Ash turned around and saw his tail was loose and wiggling around. He tied his tail around his waist again.

"What do you want? No one is supposed to know I'm still around."

"Well, Ashley and May do." Brock remarked.

"What! How do you know that?"

"I saw you talking to them earlier."

"So what. Leave me alone. That's how I like it."

"Ash, stop sulking!" Brock commanded him. "Why don't you go down and let Misty see you."

"NO!" Ash shouted at him.

"Fine, but, I have a small favor; can you still shoot those energy things?" Brock asked Ash and he demonstrated with some electrical blasts emitted into the sky. Brock told him his plan and went back down to the party downstairs.

"Look! Fireworks!" Misty, Ashley, and everyone else ran out and saw fireworks bursting in the sky, making many different designs.

"I hope you are truly happy Misty." Ash sobbed again, finishing his light show. However, May knew what Ash was doing. Soon, everyone left back to the party, but May climbed to the roof.

"That was pretty dazzling." May commented as Ash continued to stare into the moon.

"Thanks…I'm done here, I'm leaving now." Ash started to fly off, but May grabbed his ankle.

"Stay, one last time please." May pleaded with sincere eyes again, and Ash complied. He followed her back inside, but everyone was leaving for a dance off being held outside. May dragged Ash outside and took off his cap. Ash covered his face with his hands, but May giggled and took his hand and placed it by her waist and held out his other hand.

"Ash…"

"Yes May?"

"I'm glad you're back." May leaned into his chest.

"I'm glad too." Ash wrapped around May.

They stayed that way for the longest time, dancing around. Soon, they didn't even realize that they were the last pair standing, even beating Brock and Susie at dancing. They looked around, seeing they were the last ones. Misty couldn't explain this man with May. He seemed so familiar. Then she took a look at his "belt". It appeared to be protruding from his behind and his buckle was the shape of a lightning bolt. She wanted to butt in, but remembering she was married, she stayed with Gary. May lead Ash to a water pond with Chinchous and Lanturns blinking their antennas in the water. Ash blinked some electrical sparks of his own, communicating with the pokemon. They went into a formation under the water, making another dazzling design, marveling May. May stared at the glittering lights in the water and leaned into Ash's shoulder. Ash put his arm around her, and noticed her shivering. He charged his aura around him, making it visible and warming May up in the cold night.

"Thank you Ash." May snuggled in closer. Ash felt something warm coming from inside him. He couldn't tell what he was feeling. The charged aura started to spark May's life aura and hers started to glow white close to his. May looked up to his face, seeing Ash actually smiling. His cold hard face started to break free, revealing his happy, former self.

"Ash, I haven't seen you this happy in such a long time." May said.

"I haven't felt this happy in a long time too. I don't know why."

May leaned up to his face and kissed him on the cheek, making him blush.

"What was that for?" Ash touched his cheek.

"That was for keeping me warm and that light show." May giggled a little.

"Thanks." He smiled again. "I should be leaving now. Too many people know I'm alive." Ash started to walk away, but May pulled Ash back by his tail and brought her lips to his.

"I missed you so much." May moved out from him. "I know we had our disagreements, but can we put them aside just for tonight?"

"Why do you still like me?" Ash crossed his arms, turning his face sour.

"Don't act like that now." May ran up to him. "Do you remember the Millennium comet?"

"Yes, that was when we met Jirachi." Ash answered.

"And do you remember the seven nights?"

"Yeah, you had that wishing wheel thing."

"Do you want to know what I was wishing for?"

"What was it?"

"I was wishing to be with you, but it was a dumb wish."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Misty was always there! I lost hope in getting you."

"May…" Ash wrapped around her. "You shouldn't lose hope. I lost hope and look what happened to me. You don't want end up like me."

"You should listen to your own words."

"I know, and I'm sorry for hurting you this whole time. I was blinded by Misty for far too long."

"Oh Ash…" May drew into him and kissed him again. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped around her waist.

Next time on Pokeball Z

Ash leaves May because of the act he did. Ashley runs away from her family, but gets into a little trouble along the way. Who can save her?

Find out next time

Chapter 13 is complete. Thanks for reviewing, but read and review more. I'm sorry for about this chapter to people who like AshxMisty, but Ash leaves May, but who says he will be with Misty?