Ash Ketchum Z-Warrior Unleashed Full Plot
Hey there everyone. It's been a while I know, and will most likely not change.
I went back and forth often on whether or not I wanted to do this, but I recently decided that it was probably better if you guys had some semblance of closure for this story. I had an opportunity to put this together, and I decided to do it. What's the worst that could happen?
Honestly, thank you for all the support you've shown this story, and I hope that you forgive me for dropping it completely. I had this idea for years, and if this is the only way to get it out, so be it...
So, without any further interruptions, please enjoy this final plot summary of AKZWU.
Chapter 17
Well, going on from the ending of the last chapter of the original AKZWU since from where I left the rewrite, nothing really changes, Ash's unconscious form is confronted by a mysterious stranger. Under the guise of a cloak, he reaches forth and is seemingly ready to do something to Ash.
At that moment, both Goku and Vegeta and Pikachu show up, via Instant Transmission prepared to repel the mysterious invader. However, before they're able to do so, said stranger manages to grab a hold of them, and put them in some kind of trance.
He then awakens Ash who is clearly confused as to what is going on. Ash is messed up after taking his first life, and has return to the states when he killed those two men in the forest back in his own dimension.
Through no profit of his own, seemingly, this person not only hears Ash's woes, but comforts him instead and tells him that despite him taking a life, he saved billions more.
The two talk amicably, until the stranger mentions that Ash will face many more hardships throughout his life, and shows him visions of what his future holds.
A sword of dark and light stuck into the ground together, forming an X...
A black butterfly...
A red emblem...
A spiral carving atop a piece of steel.
(This scene was supposed to tease future crossovers for the story, dealing with Sword Art Online, Bleach, Fairy Tail and Naruto respectively. That was a lot of baggage already, and the list of what I wanted to include kept growing.)
The stranger leaves Ash with two gifts, despite the latter not knowing entirely what it is, but before he can ask, he's put back to sleep.
The stranger leaves, but not before looking back at Goku and Vegeta. He says that he misses them, for some reason and departs. Once he leaves, Goku and Vegeta are free from the trance, and remember nothing about what transpired.
Ash soon awakens with new vigour and will much to the relief of everyone else.
The chapter ends with everyone watching as Shenron is summoned and revives everyone who died.
It's at that moment, the Eevee egg begins to hatch...
Chapter 18
The next chapter is a timeskip. A lot of it would probably be exposition for last few years. It's revealed that the two gifts that the stranger left Ash was intelligence that correlated with his power, meaning that the stronger he gets, the smarter he gets also. As of now, he'd have an IQ as powerful as an Alakazam's, which would be over 5,000. After being scanned by Bulma, they also discover, much to their surprise, that Ash somehow got a zenkai boost implanted into him, the same thing that allows Saiyans to come back stronger every time they fight.
Eevee, now an adorable Sylveon, has been welcomed into Ash's team with open arms, and everyone is stronger than they were before.
Bulma has made a cloak for Ash, when he mentioned that he missed wearing it. For one of his birthdays, she uses Capsule Corps. resources to create a memory cloth cloak that can take blows hard enough to shatter diamonds 100x over.
Everyone has gotten used to Ash, and vice versa.
Out of nowhere, however, Arceus' voice resonates with in all their heads. The godlike Pokemon begs for their Chosen to return, as the Pokemon world has been completely desolated.
Cities have been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, and even the legendary Pokemon aren't safe.
Ash needs to return to save his world...and to do that, he must leave his current world behind.
There was no guarantee that Ash would ever be able to come back here, so he has to say goodbye to all of the comrades he met along the way.
He is surprised however, when not only Goku, but Vegeta, Gohan, and Piccolo offer to go with him. Ash insists that it's his fight, but is eventually one over when they tell him that no one needs a reason to help out a friend. Planning to use the Dragon Balls as an Emergency Exit in case they were unable to return to their own dimension, everyone is ready to fight for Ash's world.
The chapter ends as they're pulled to to Pokemon world, ready to fight this threat.
Chapter 19
When they arrive, Ash is horrified to see that the world that he had saved many times before, was looking like an apocalypse or two had rolled through. They suddenly realise that SOMEHOW, Goten and Trunks found a way to come along on this dimension hopping adventure, much to the horror of their fathers.
The group sense fighting and quickly arrive to see a clearly outmatched Mewtwo trying to repel Sanachi and clearly failing.
The genetic Pokemon is mercilessly beaten down, but before Sanachi could deal the final blow, Ash arrives, much to the former's surprise and Solar Flares him right in the face.
There's not enough time to defeat him and save the dying Mewtwo, so Ash chooses the latter.
Everyone gets away by Instant Transmission to the largest cluster of life forces that they could find.
This cluster, happens to be an underground shelter from Sanachi's wrath. Everyone is here, including Ash's old friends.
Mewtwo is brought to the infirmary, filled with all different kinds of Pokemon, including legendaries, and Ash, despite it sounding ridiculous, considering that there's not one place in the world that hasn't been affected in any way, but he asks what happened. The leader of the shelter, the Pokemon Champions, explain that Sanachi showed up one day and just started looking around for Ash.
I should mention, at this point, Ash has his cloak on, so no one actually knows that it's him.
Disgusted with himself for not being able to protect the world, Piccolo rationalises with him calmer saying that even if he was here, he wouldn't be able to stand up to Sanachi's might. At least now, he stood a chance...maybe...
Ash decides that it's time to put Sanachi down, and relocates to a position where they can fight without casualties or collateral.
He then raises his power level as a beacon. Sanachi takes the bait and meets him.
A bit surprised that there's someone like him in this world. Sanachi theorises that Ash & Co. have come from his own dimension. Not incorrect, but it proves that Sanachi is not of this world.
Ash is not in the mood for talking, and quickly engages the foe. He finds out after only a few moments of locking fists with him that Sanachi is far stronger than any of them thought he'd be. Sanachi is also shocked that someone can match him, even if it's just barely.
At the same time, the two cloaked figures rush each other.
They end up grabbing the hoods of the other and throw them back, exposing both their identities.
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"Ketchum..."
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"...Paul...?"
Chapter 20
Completely stunned at the revelation, the two boys are trying to come to terms as to how this was possible.
Paul doesn't know how Ash got this strong. He had always assumed that he'd be hiding, not training in a different dimension.
Ash is confused as well. How could Paul fall to levels so low, yet reach peaks so high?
Paul then goes on to explain that he actually isn't Paul, but merely someone who is using his body. When Paul was hit by that blast of light in the first chapter of the rewrite, he didn't die, but was actually "overwritten". The Paul that Ash knew had died in that second, and Sanachi was born.
Both fighters about on equal ground. Ash has trained with the likes of both Goku and Vegeta oftentimes experiencing multiple hundreds of times of normal earth gravity for the past three years, but he is hard-pressed to keep up with someone who has the accumulated power of all the residents of HFIL and has trained to use it.
As the battle goes on, Sanachi's mysterious origins are explained further.
The full story goes like this:
Sanachi was actually an ordinary Saiyan on Planet Vegeta. He ate and killed whenever he wanted. In a drunken stupor, he ended up...getting a Yardratian prisoner pregnant, due to him being in guarding duty of prisoners.
For soiling the Saiyan race upon an inferior species, King Vegeta ordered his son to kill him, triggering Vegeta's change.
With the final vestiges of his soul, Sanachi found that the Yardratian was using a strange technique to send his bastard son away. Somehow managing to grip onto the freshly born infant's soul, Sanachi rode over into the other dimension with him.
The baby was reborn into the Pokemon world, switching places with the baby that was originally going to be born, and eventually grew up to become Paul. Due to him not being fully Saiyan blood, but instead a mix of Yardrat blood in there too, he grew up to be a seemingly normal human; he didn't even develop his tail!
With his spirit somehow still intact Sanachi wandered the Pokemon world, looking for his bastard son. His own blood was the only kind he could possess, and to Sanachi, was the only redeeming factor about him.
He searched for over a decade, but finally tracked the boy down to the Lily of the Valley Isle, and finally took his own child's life, leaving his body behind.
From there, he infiltrated HFIL, stole everyone's powers, trained them for six months, tried to kill Ash atop Mt. Silver, and was fouled by the legendary Pokemon.
You know the rest.
And why did he harbour such a hatred for Ash? Because the last instance of Paul's subconscious thoughts were that he owed Ash a debt for reinstating his league victory. His Saiyan pride did not stand for owing an inferior creature. He wants to wipe out Ash because he's the last thing to take care of to be free of his bastard son's legacy. He will not be damned to an eternal subordination because of Ash's pity.
It's a gruesome story, and Ash chooses not to believe it. How could Paul possibly be a Saiyan from another dimension?
Sanachi takes that challenge and proves it by turning Super Saiyan, a form that cleanly knocks Ash on his ass, as well as Goku, Vegeta, Mystic Gohan, Gotenks and Piccolo.
Even SSJ3 doesn't help, so Vegeta and Goku try to fuse, and Gogeta actually manages to put up a good fight, but in doing so, they burn up their energy too quickly, and quickly separate.
Thankfully, Ash had something planned for this.
Using a combination of his gravity training to reach a stage of Kaiokenx100 and Pikachu's Thunder attack, Ash manages to combine the two and creates a Thunder Kaioken armour.
This form evens the playing field once more, and Ash is almost able to finish Sanachi off with a Final Shine, an upgraded version of Vegeta's Final Flash.
However, Sanachi proves that he's more resilient than that, and manages to zip around to Ash's back and blast a hole in his chest before he can react.
"Not a bad move, but you become completely vulnerable after it..."
It looks hopeless and Ash can't fight any longer, and Sanachi is about to deal the final blow. However, with the very last of his reserves, Goku activates Kaiokenx70 on top of Super Saiyan 2, barely holding his body together and manages to Sanachi long enough for Pikachu to feed Ash a Senzu Bean hidden in his wristband.
With Ash fully healed, he manages to create a Spirit bomb and compresses the whole thing into his fist.
Sanachi is about to end Goku, but Ash zooms in and finally ends the battle with a Spirit Dragon Fist. Essentially a Spirit Bomb infused Dragon Fist
From there, the story begins to wrap up. The Dragon Balls are used to restore the world back to its original state and revive everyone who died.
Ash says goodbye to his friends and resolves to see them one again, no matter what.
They use the final wish to return the Dragon Balls and them to their own dimension.
It will take time for Ash to fully recover from these last few years, and adjusting to a world not used to powers that he now possessed was going to be weird. But he would always walk on. As a future Pokemon Master, and a Z-Warrior.
Epilouge
Epilogue:
Gohan was down, Vegeta and Goku were down. Everyone was down.
Goku looks ahead to see his surrogate son, Ash.
He had a wicked smile on his face and was emitting an evil red aura.
He advances towards them, pulsing sais in each hand.
"My god, Ash...what happened to you...?
END
So, that's everything. That was the full story of AKZWU, but not the end of Ash's adventures. Not by a long shot.
What sucks is that I really had great ideas for it. AKZWU was only the beginning of something that was much greater, and those suppressed scenarios will stay with me for most of my life.
I was so excited about what I had to offer, but now, I can only look back and wish for that passion I once had.
I suppose it was selfish for me to not leave you guys any closure, though. I myself, know how much that sucks.
Still, I know that I've left some questions unanswered, so just PM me if you want them answered.
Anyway, I hope that you found some semblance of closure here. Thank you so much for all the love that you've given my work.
And just maybe, someday, I just might come back...
Time will tell...