Coming out of the other side of the tree's, Ash and his pokemon, who had all dumped their rocks/boulders and followed their trainer, gasped upon what they saw.

In front of them laid Sceptile and Servine, both knocked out with electricity crackling of their bodies, "No! What happened?!" Ash gasped out as he ran to his two fallen pokemon, kneeling besides them, "Shit..." Ash cursed for the third time that day, placing a hand on each pokemon, not caring that the electricity was making his hair stand up slightly.

Looking around at his other pokemon, Ash's eyes hardened as he nodded in an attempt to keep himself calm, "We need to get these two back - Levanny, carry Servine, Infernape you carry Sceptile - Pikachu your with me - everyone else, i want you to go back home and care for these two until i get back," The rest of his pokemon, looked at each other in concern but nodded. Leavanny and Infernape lifted the two fallen pokemon and began making their way back to the cave they called home, the rest of the pokemon following behind them - occasionally they would look back towards Ash and Pikachu, concern etched across their faces.

Watching as his pokemon dissapeared into the forest, Ash turned back towards where his two grass pokemon had been lying before looking around the small clearing, trying to gaje what had gone down.

Less then a foot in front of where his pokemon had laid were two small piles of Oran Berries, but they were burnt, scorched black and crackling with electricity similar to how his pokemon had been, "Whatever attack Sceptile and Servine must have been able to wield electricity - you think you can follow the electricity Pikachu?" Pikachu nodded as he ran forward and sniffed the berries, raising his ears and tail into the air as he sniffed the air, "Pi-Pikachu!" He exclaimed, his cheeks sparking slightly as a sudden surge of electricity appeared form nowhere and struck the electric rodent.

"Pikachu!" Ash called out, shielding his eyes from the brightness of the attack - luckily Pikachu had sensed the incoming attack and had reacted quickly, plunging his tail into the ground and sending the electricity into the ground.

"Where did that come from?! Come on out and quit hiding!" Ash demanded once he noticed that Pikachu was alright, turning and twisting around in an attempt to find the source of the attack.

"I am not hiding" A voice suddenly spoke up - the voice itself was strange: Ash couldn't determine whether it was a male or female voice, but he could tell that it wasn't human, "Not hiding?!" Ash demanded, stopping when he noticed a twinkle in the sky, catching his attention as the twinkle seemed to get closer and closer.

"I told you - I'm not hiding, I'm being cautious" The voice continued as the twinkle in the sky got larger and closer, close enough that Ash could make it out.

It was nothing that Ash had ever seen before - whatever it was was tall, almost as tall as Ash, with a large orange protrusion shaped like a giant spie atop its head. Its body was a mix of orange, yellow, black and white, with two large, oval shaped protrusions on each of it's arms.

"Who are you?! Why did you attack us?!" Ash demanded as the, what he persummed was a pokemon, descended from the sky to float a few feet away from him and Pikachu.

"My name...is Tapu Koko - as to why I attacked, I need to test your pokemon's strength" Ash frowned softly at the pokemon's response, his hands tightening into fists as he glared at the pokemon, "If you wanted to test our strength, why didn't you just challenge me?! Instead of striking down tow of my pokemon without warning and nearly hurting Pikachu?!"

"That is simple - a normal challenge wouldn't have tested your pokemon's ability to think quick on their feet. Your Pikachu however thought quickly and diverted my attack into the ground, impressive" Ash's eye twitched as he growled softly, followed by Pikachu growling alongside him, "What kind of reason is that?! You could have killed them!"

The pokemon raised one of it's black eyebrows, letting out a laugh, which just infuriated Ash more, "I would never do something as careless as uto kill a fellow pokemon - only my full power is capable of doing that - as i said i was merely testing your pokemon's ability to think fast on their feet, i wanted to see if you were worthy or not"

"Worthy?" Ash echoed in confusion, his fists uncurling as confusion settled in and he tilted his head, showing his confusion. Tapu Koko nodded swiftly, moving tis arms to its sides as it looked at Ash with critical eyes, "As i recall, you are the chosen one - according to lord Arceus, the world is once again in great danger, and needs the chosen one once more" The hairs on the back of Ash's neck stood up at the pokemon's words until the boy began laughing, earning a confused look from Tapu koko.

"I am no chosen one" Ash stated once his laughing has did down, looking at the orange and yellow pokemon with a serious look, "Ask anyone - they will tell you only negative things about me. Sure, at one point i may have been, but no longer. I don't save the world anymore. I just look after my pokemon and myself. Thats all there is" Ash stated blandly, a look of defeat in his eyes.

Tapu Koko raised a brow once more as it shifted its arms around softly, "Regardless of how you feel towards being labeled the chosen one - it is your destiny to save the world once more. Come"

"No" Ash stated straightforwardly, a blank look on his face, making Tapu Koko's eye brows shoot up in surprise at the flat out denial, "I will not come with you - You have injured two of my pokemon, and they need my help, so i will be leaving. Goodbye." Ash continued, turning and walking away from the scene and disappearing back into the forest, Pikachu following quickly behind him.