ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 39 - I'm not Pikachu, I'm me.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
The return to where Acerola's trial is located was not too far away from Mina's. It is located in a place called the Thrifty Megamart.
"So… What is an old shopping centre a location for a Trial? A ghost one to be exact." Ash questioned.
Hau shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, from what I read. It is said that the Megamart was built on sacred land to the Island guardian, Tapu Bulu, roughly 23 years ago. Once it was completely, only mere months later, Tapu Bulu went on a rampage in anger due to the mart being built on the land. The place has been abandoned and Bulu accepted it as a home for Ghost type Pokemon." Lillie explained, reading off a phone she had as it also displayed the sighting of the angry guardian destroying the mart with what appeared to be power whip.
It had been two days since they completely the easiest trial out of them all so far but it was made harder thanks to battle they had with Grimsley.
Whenever the group had a break to stop and let out all their Pokemon, Incineroar isolated himself to train on nearby tree's or rocks. Whenever a Pokemon tried to reason with him, the Heel Pokemon would give aggressive signs to back off before he attacked. So, he his use of using dark moves against whatever was no use.
Kirlia being psychic didn't help either and same with Bewear as most of his moves were either normal or fighting.
That really left him down to just Decidueye who himself was weak against ghosts and Salandit.
And after hearing Acerola was the strongest of the 7 trial captains, he was going to have to give everything one hundred percent to win today.
About an hour and a bit later, the trio stood outside a large building with children playing outside in a playground. They walked inside to find the trial captain standing by two kids who appeared to be siblings and both no older than 5.
"No, she started it!" the male kid yelled.
"NO! He started it!" the female kid yelled back.
Acerola got down to their level and looked at them both.
"So you are telling me Jordan took your juice box?" Acerola questioned.
The girl nodded as the boy known as Jordan was about to say something.
"Is this true Jordan?"
"NO!"
"Please tell me the truth Jordan. I want to help and I can only do that if you help me." Acerola told the young child.
Jordan looked to the ground.
"… Yes, I took it because I split mine…" he confessed.
Acerola smiled.
"Thank you for your honesty. Perhaps apologise to your sister?" Acerola suggested as the boy said sorry. "Good. Take these and go run off and play." Acerola told them as she handed them both a lollipop.
She turned around to find the trio watching.
"Oh Ash and Lillie! How long have you been there for?" Acerola said surprised, not recognising Hau.
"Just saw that little incident, that's all." Ash explained.
"I don't believe we have met each other yet? Acerola." She said to Hau.
"Names Hau."
"So… You've either come to say hello or… I assume you've completed both Sophocles and Mina's trials and are here from mine?" the purple haired girl said with a smirk. "In which, I'm taking a wild guess and say it's the latter?"
The boys nodded.
"Perfect! Unfortunately, we must wait for night time though, otherwise it will be no fun! So, you can just hang around or help me out here." Acerola explained.
Lillie stepped forwards.
"I can lead a hand or two." She offered.
"I might pass and just have a wander around." Hau confessed.
Ash shrugged his shoulders.
"Anywhere I can take a quick nap?" Ash asked.
"Ah! Want to be fully alert for tonight? Just go down the hallway and take a left. There should be a spare room." Acerola directed as she and Lillie walked off into the kitchen, Ash went into the direction of the room to have a nap.
Lillie and Acerola were chopping some fruit as an afternoon snake for all the little ones.
"So… How is your status with Ash?" Acerola asked curiously.
Lillie groaned.
"I know it's his birthday coming up so I got Mina to paint a portrait of all of us and our Pokemon, but it's already out of date because of his dumb Torracat evolving into a Incineroar." Lillie explained.
"It's still sweet!" Acerola chirped as she noticed the gloom look on Lillie's face. "What's the matter?"
"It's just… What if he doesn't like it?" Lillie said expressing her concern to the issue.
Acerola placed her hands on her hips.
"He'll love it. He might not show it on the outside, but he truly cares for you. From what I heard, he was miserable when you left after your little argument." Acerola told her as Lillie burnt up in embarrassment because of the little spat they had.
"Okay…" Lillie said nervously as she nodded.
When the girls took the fruit out to the table to serve, Lillie noticed the large amount of Ghost type Pokemon around, ranging from Gastly to Drifloon to Litwick.
"Hey. I know you specialise in ghost types but what is with all the ghosts around in an orphanage?" Lillie questioned.
"Oh. These are the orphanage ghosts that are too young to look after themselves in the wild. They are harmless." Acerola insured.
Hau was walking around with his Pokemon out as he noticed a lot of the kids staring at him, mumbling things in the process.
At first, he ignored it till he heard a key word being in trial.
It was getting to him slightly so he looked around to find an 11-year-old boy with some of the other kids.
"Hey there?" Hau said to him.
"Oh. You the trial goer?" he muttered.
Hau gulped as he got weird vibes from the boy.
"Yeah…"
"I'd leave and give up so you don't end up like the others…" he told him.
"O-others?"
"Oh, how cute. Acerola hasn't told you about the monster that lives in the thrifty Megamart…" the boy announced as plenty of the kids laughed.
Hau got about nervous now as he couldn't tell if they were joking or not.
"Care to explain more?"
"21 years ago, a trial goer was found DEAD inside the old mart. Nobody knows how he died but some people think it was a monster… More trial goers would be running out scared and paranoid than with the proof to pass the trial, claiming to have seen a monster. Many would go on to form PTSD and even worse as suicide because of what they saw in there!" the boy explained.
Hau gulped.
"Ha-Ha, we aren't afraid of no monster, right?" Hau said shakily as he turned around to see his Pokemon hiding behind his oblivious Turtwig who just sat there.
"Hehe. Good luck. I suggest bringing an extra pair of pants!" the kid said before wandering inside.
(Meanwhile on Akala island)
Lurantis charged up the solar blade as it fired it at Gladions Golbat.
"Dodge it and use air cutter!" Gladion commanded as Golbat swiftly moved passed the grass move and sliced right pass Lurantis with the grass totem falling to the ground.
Golbat began to glow as he evolved into Crobat.
Crobat flew over to Gladion as he got patted on the head.
"Vee!" Gladions newest member of his team chirped next to his leg.
After his demolition job of Ash's old friends, he found a female Eevee in which he caught to give him a vast range of typing options.
Mallow was to the side as she watched the blondes swift job of destroying her trial. She walked over and had a green crystal.
"You know, I'd never have suspected you to take on the Island challenge." Mallow confessed.
"Why is that?" Gladion muttered as he returned Crobat and Eevee.
Mallow just shrugged her shoulders.
"You don't seem like the person to care." Mallow told him as she dropped the green crystal into his hand.
"Got half of that right." Gladion told her as he began to walk away.
Mallow pondered on the question.
"Hey! Wait up!" Mallow shouted as she ran to his side.
"What." He said bluntly.
"Can I ask you something?" Mallow pleaded.
Gladion sighed.
"I assume you won't leave me along till I say yes. What is it?" Gladion said.
"It's about… Lillie." Mallow said as the blonde stopped walking.
"I don't know who that is." Gladion lied.
Mallow sighed.
"I know she is your younger sister." Mallow told him.
Gladion clenched his fist.
"You don't know anything." He said with aggression as he grew tired of the conversation.
"Why did you abandon her?" Mallow asked.
"I DIDN'T!" Gladion snapped as Mallow took a step back. Gladion realised he had shouted and recomposed himself. "I don't know what you know about my past with her but I never wanted to leave her behind!"
Mallow nodded.
"You know she really wants to see you." Mallow told Gladion as he ran his fingers through his hair. "She also has her own Pokemon now!"
"How pleasant." Gladion muttered through his teeth.
"An Alolan Vulpix and this weird cloud like Pokemon." Mallow announced as Gladion span around.
"What…" Gladion muttered as his face went pale.
"She calls it Nebby. Never seen anything like it before. Space like colours and everything." Mallow told him as Gladion grabbed on to her shoulders.
"Where. Are. They. Now." Gladion said slowly.
"Um. Well, I heard they got over themselves and are now on Ula'Ula Island. I don't like the tone or the look you have."
Gladion grabbed his hair and pulled at it as he kicked things around him.
"Cosmog." Gladion said to himself.
"Coswhat?"
"That is 'Nebby's' species." Gladion shouted. "What is the fastest way to Ula'Ula?"
"Um, by boat. What about your Island challenge?" Mallow questioned.
"Mallow. Cosmog is quite possibly the key to the doom of not only Alola but the world." Gladion shouted as Mallow began to feel the fear emulating off him.
"Is there any way I can help?" Mallow asked.
"Yes. Stay out of my way." Gladion said as he rushed off leaving Mallow behind.
She watched him run off as she had conflicted thoughts but came to a decision as she went the other way.
It was a few hours later and Hau was sitting with Lillie, explaining what the kids told him.
"So… You believe what they said?" Lillie asked as Hau nodded furiously. "Probably nothing."
Acerola over heard this.
"Oh? Is this about the death 21 years ago?" Acerola asked as Hau paled and hid behind Lillie who sighed. "I mean nothing has happened since then par one or two little incidents."
At this time, Ash had woken up and walked in with his Pokemon minus Incineroar.
"Hey. You're up. I saved you this." Lillie said to Ash as she gave him a piece of cake that she managed to hide from the waves of Kids.
"Thanks." Ash said as he sat down.
"Now! With you both here, shall I explain the task on hand?"
The boys nodded.
"Sounds simple enough. Get me three photos of the ghosts that live inside! Deliver them to me and I'll allow you into the shop where the totem lives." Acerola explained.
She got up and headed towards the door.
"I'll let the Pokemon know and I'll be there when you arrive. See you in 2 hours." Acerola told them as she left.
"I think I'll stay here while you guys go do it." Lillie told them.
Hau wanted to ask if he could as well but this was the last trial.
It was two hours later and roughly around 10:00PM as the two boys walked towards the abandoned shopping mall.
They soon reached the entrance to find Acerola sitting on the curve of Dhelmise's anchor.
"So, you here! Hehee." She laughed as she threw them each a camera. "Like I said before, three pics, bring to me, battle totem, done!"
"Acerola. What is this monster the kids were spooking up about?" Hau asked.
"Monster?" Ash said confused.
"Oh, that old legend. Don't worry about it. If you press the red button on the side under the glass part, that will release a siren but ultimately forfeit you out of the challenge! Good luck!" Acerola said as the days opened with the two-walking in.
Upon stepping inside the doors shut instantly.
Cobwebs were everywhere and all the tiles on the ground were cracked apart. Glass was smashed and content from shops were spread everywhere.
The cameras also thankfully had a light on it.
"Alright. I am going this way." Ash said.
"Wait!? We are splitting up! NO! No! From all the horror films I've seen, that is the number one no-no!" Hau panicked.
"That's all fake. Besides, they are Pokemon, not murderers." Ash told the Melemele native as he swallowed his fear and went the other way.
Under a wore out bench was a small Pokemon with black eyes as it watched the pair break apart and decided to follow Ash.
Hau had Brionne out next to him and Umbreon just behind as he flashed the flashlight everywhere.
"Jeez, this is freaky…" Hau muttered.
"Breon."
"Bri!"
Hau suddenly felt a presence behind him as he turned around to find nothing.
"Huh…" Hau said as he turned back to find a Gastly right in his face.
"GAST!" the ghost shouted as Hau freaked, falling backwards.
Acerola heard the scream outside.
"Well, one of them ran into Gastly…" Acerola said.
"Dhel…"
The Gastly was laughing as Hau took the chance to take a picture.
The flash was on as Gastly realized what he did and didn't like the idea.
"Shoot. Brionne, aqua jet! Umbreon, shadow ball!" Hau said as his Pokemon went into battle.
Ash was on the other side of the mall as he explored the abandoned place. He noticed a lot of signs on the wall saying things like 'turn back' and 'dead man walking.' It was written in a red substance but you could tell it was just paint.
Next to him was Decidueye who was looking around at the ghostly lair. However, in the corner of his eye, he turned to see a Pikachu looking right at them.
"Duey!" Decidueye chirped as he pointed at the direction of the Pikachu. Ash turned and saw half of the Pokémon's tail as he sprinted over to find nothing.
"Was that… No." Ash muttered as he felt a sick and twisted feeling inside of his stomach.
"Decu!" Decidueye shouted as he saw a Shuppet floating away as ash sneakily took the picture with the Hoenn ghost noticing.
"Pika… Pika… Pi!" the cry echoed in the room as Ash felt true fear in a long time.
"I don't like this… I don't like this one bit… Stay on your guard." Ash told Decidueye who nodded.
Ash knew it was leading to trouble as he followed the sound of the cry without Decidueye noticing he wandered off.
"Pika…"
Ash walked around a corner and got a quick glance of 'Pikachu' before feeling extremely tired and falling to the ground before he could call for help. He could feel himself be carried away by multiple figures as he fell to sleep.
Decidueye was checking out the area but turned to report to his trainer but soon came to realize he was nowhere in sight. The grass ghost type began to panic as he called out but to no response.
"Deu…" Decidueye freaked as he looked around more.
Banette fell on to its back as Hau got the picture. The ghost faded away as Brionne and Umbreon celebrated.
"Whew… That's two so far. I wonder how Ash is doing?" Hau questioned as he pondered on the thought. He shrugged his shoulders and sucked up his bravery to continue on.
As he walked around the corner, Decidueye flew to where they just were, continuing his panicked search for his lost trainer before going to opposite way to Hau.
Ash had a killer headache as he groggily woke up from a tormented sleep. He could tell he wasn't asleep for long as he had that feeling of when you wake up from a short nap. Though, he some how ended up on a soft surface.
He rolled on to his back and slowly got up to realise Decidueye was no longer with him.
In fact… He had no clue where he was.
That's when the sense of fear truly kicked in…
He looked down to find the soft surface was a few cushions…
With Pikachu's face on them…
And they were covered by a blanket with a yellow silhouette of his former partner.
Ash then saw the walls, covered in magazine articles with Pikachu's on them to poorly drawn pictures of Pikachu.
He stood up slowly and saw one of the articles which made his blood chill.
It was a picture of him and Pikachu after the Ever Grande Conference in Hoenn.
Old and new plushies of the electric type were everywhere, even bottles with wrapping with some connection to the mouse.
From children books to shirts to print out colouring pages to even stationary. This room was some sick shrine to the Kanto Pokemon.
Ash reached for his pocket and grabbed out Salandit's pokeball and was about to fling her out but was stopping by the sound of a glass bottle falling and shattering.
"Kyu…"
"Pika…"
The shadows illuminated thanks to moonlight from the windows as there were three shadows that oddly looked like Pikachu.
Ash released Salandit as the fire poison type looked confused.
"Salandit! I need a light!" Ash said as Salandit lit her tail on her as the room was now glowing orange.
And Ash then saw them.
Three small Pokemon poked their heads around the corner, all the same species. What was disturbing about them was that they all had Pikachu like costumes on. You could barely call it a costume in fact as it looked like some rags that had a face poorly drawn on to it. Below the 'Pikachu head' was the small body with two black eyes piercing out as the bottom was ripped up slightly with a wooden plank that was shaped like a Pikachu tail around the back.
"Kyu?" one of the little Pokemon chirped.
"DIT!" Salandit hissed as two of the imposter like Pokemon hid behind the other one as they all gave a scared look.
"Wait Salandit… Chill. Rotom, what are they?" Ash asked as Rotom appeared.
"Oh boy… This one is going to be fun!"
"Mimikyu, the disguise Pokemon. It is said that if anyone looks at what Mimikyu really looks like, they will die to an unknown illness. Due to this, Mimikyu is extremely lonely so it dresses like Pikachu to hopefully find popularity. If the costume it made is damaged, it spends the entire night fixing it. This is the first discovered ghost fairy type."
Ash realised that this wasn't some sick cult praising Pikachu…
It was just some Pokemon that wanted some love and attention.
Ash got down on one knee as the Mimikyu's backed away slightly scared.
"Hey, hey, hey… I'm not going to hurt you… Here!" Ash told them as he gave them each a pokebean. They looked at it at first back eventually jumped over it and Ash could hear them each eating.
The trio began to jump in happiness.
If these were the 'monster' that lived in the thrifty Megamart, he had so many questions because these little fella's didn't seem like they could hurt a Caterpie.
"You guys really like Pikachu huh…" Ash asked as much as it pained him to say it.
The trio jumped up again.
"Kyu!" one cried as the other two went over to a stereo and turned it on.
A tune began to play a rather slow beat.
Yo, yo, Listen to my song! It's Mimikyu rap, sing along!
Pikachu is not I, Mimikyu is me!
But because of how I look, I'm rather lonely
Oh no, and Mr. Sun, he just scares me a bit
I think I prefer the dark yes, I happily admit
I just want to be friends with you
And that's why I look like Pikachu!
My costume looks rather realistic
I made it on my own, I'm quite artistic!
You want to take it off? No, that's the worse!
If you saw underneath, you might get cursed!
Pikachu is not I, Mimikyu is me!
My name is Mimikyu, I'm not that spoo-
The song was going on but everyone in the room heard a deep growl approach the room as the three Mimikyu's began to run in fear as they hid behind Ash.
A grey Mimikyu with an aggressive look appeared as it glared at Ash and the three of the same species as it.
"Woah… A shiny Mimikyu?" Ash muttered.
"Mimi…" it growled.
Salandit began to make a concerned growl as Rotom also gave a concerned look.
"Kyu!"
All the Pokemon began to freak as Ash could see the fear on all of them.
"Wh-Why! Why would you say that!?" Rotom panicked as the shiny Mimikyu revealed it's dark claw and slashed the posters and articles on the wall then moved on to the plushies, shredding them one by one.
Ash looked shocked.
"Salandit! Stop it!" Ash commanded as Salandit stepped forward only for the shiny Mimikyu to look at her and just stared at her.
"Miki…"
"D-Dit?"
"KYU!"
Salandit jumped and ran behind Ash as Rotom covered its face as the shiny Pokemon returned to destroying everything as he stopped the stereo from playing by simply destroying it with a shadow ball.
The shiny Mimikyu left after it's rampage as the other three looked at the result of their room.
"Is that monster gone?" Rotom stuttered.
Ash then came up with an idea.
"Is that Mimikyu a bully?" Ash asked the other three as they looked at each other and nodded. "What if I was to go sort it out?"
Salandit and Rotom both gave shocked looks as they didn't want to have anything to do with that Mimikyu as Ash began to walk off. They eventually followed their trainer as the Mimikyu decided to get some rest before they returned.
Hau exited the building as he chucked the camera to Acerola.
"Woah nice job! You even finished before Ash!" Acerola congratulated Hau.
"I did?"
"Yeh. I haven't heard actually anything about how he is doing to be honest…" Acerola confessed. "Oh well, I'm sure he is fine! Head to the gift shop and the totem should be there!"
Hau nodded as he entered the building with Brionne and Umbreon next to him as usual.
He slowly entered the wreaked gift shop with contents everywhere as he felt an evil presence in the room.
There was a rustle in the room next to the building as Hau turned to it and swallowed his fear as the doors seemed like they were being punched at.
"Ge-get re-ready guys!" Hau stuttered.
Brionne showed a little bit of fear but Umbreon stood strong as the doors flung open with Decidueye stumbling out.
"Wait? Decidueye?"
The bird looked around frantically as he turned and saw Hau.
"DECI!"
"Brion?
"Umb!"
"What's up?" Hau asked but heard the doors slam behind him as shadows from within in the room began to form in one spot as a powerful looking Gengar appeared, smirking and laughing.
"Stay tight Decidueye! This won't be long!" Hau told the bird.
Ash followed the path of destruction left by the shiny Mimikyu as he looked around a corner to see it.
It was next to an old ragged bed with a mouldy blanket over it. Around it was rotting left over food that was eaten to the last eatable bite. Pined around the walls was pictures as crayons were on the ground. The shiny Pokemon was looking at the giant moon as it stood on the ledge.
Ash hesitated at first and slowly approached Mimikyu.
"Hey." Was all Ash said as Mimikyu twisted around, revealing it's sharp claw. Both Salandit and Rotom hid behind Ash.
"Woah. I came to talk! Nothing else!" Ash confessed. Ash returned Salandit to prove he was no threat.
Mimikyu returned it's claw to under its cloth.
"Well, I think I'll get going now!" Rotom said.
"Not so fast. You are going to translate." Ash told the rotom as he gave a shocked look.
Ash sat next to Mimikyu and noticed the pictures. They were of stick figure like humans with a black blob between them, all holding hands.
"You like to draw don't you?" Ash asked.
"Ky." Mimikyu hissed.
"S-She said sort of…"
"Just give direct translation." Ash told Rotom.
"Kyu. Mi." Mimikyu blurted.
"Why are you here?"
"I came to know why you did all those things to the other Mimikyu's." Ash asked.
Mimikyu didn't respond for a while.
"Kyu."
Rotom stopped giving a scared look and gave a small look of shock.
"Because… Because I hate Pikachu…"
Ash raised an eyebrow.
"I hate my life because I am forced to be something I am not. It is to protect others while making myself miserable with the thought I can't be me. All other Mimikyu's love the thought of being a 'Pikachu', but I hate everything about this disguise. The thought, sight or even mention of Pikachu makes me so angry…" Rotom translated.
Ash made a sudden realization.
Mimikyu continued to look up at the sky.
"Mimik"
"I want to make friends but everyone fears me. Humans run away because they either think we are some ghost of a Pikachu or some monster. Even other Pokemon run away scared, leaving me to be so lonely… But I'm just Mimikyu! Only Acerola has ever treated me well. I'd rather not exist than live this horrible life…"
Ash looked at Rotom as they both exchanged sympathetic looks.
She just wanted some love and attention.
"I guess we are sort of the same then…" Ash told the shiny.
Mimikyu turned to Ash.
"You see… I once had a Pikachu. He was my best friend and first ever Pokemon I owned." Ash confessed as he saw the anger in Mimikyu's eyes. "But he betrayed me."
Mimikyu stopped and then looked at Ash.
"Kyu?"
"I don't know why but he left me for another. I'd never been so hurt ever in my life. The one I thought I could trust the most." Ash told the ghost as she returned to looking at the sky.
"You can't live like this. Here."
Ash took the blanket she had and replaced it with a spare jacket he had in his bag. He even gave her the rest of the pokebean's he had. Mimikyu saw this and began to munch away at the food as she hadn't in a while.
She looked Ash again.
"Mimik?"
"She is asking why?"
Ash place his hand on top of the fake head.
"Because we are kind of similar in a way. Just try to be nicer to the other Mimikyu's" Ash told her as she returned to eating the food before heading back to the trio of the ghost fairy typing.
The shiny watched Ash walk off and continued to eat. He was the second person to ever treat her like a normal Pokemon and not some freak.
Umbreon stumbled backwards as he was suffering from a burn thanks to will-o-wisp that the Gengar landed on him. He grunted at the Kanto Pokemon who had his pre-evolution of a Haunter behind him as the two laughed.
Brionne was firing bubblebeams and disarming voices at the two but they blocked each attack.
Gengar glowed purple and spewed up a sludge bomb and fired it at Hau's mons. Umbreon grunted harder as Brionne coated herself in water to remove the excess poison.
"Crap…" Hau muttered as the totem was winning. "Brionne, protect Umbreon! Umbreon, recover!"
Brionne stood in front of the dark type Pokemon who attempted to use recover but the burn was taking toll.
Gengar fired a powerful shadow ball at Brionne and the crippled Umbreon. Brionne tried to stop the powerful ghost move with hyper voice but the force of the move was breaking through the sound wave move.
"Brionne! Keep going!" Hau supported.
Brionne raised her voice more, forcing it back slightly but Gengar added another on as the shadow ball was now all but 10CM away.
The pop star Pokemon was struggling.
"Umb-Umbr!" Umbreon moaned as he tried to get up to help but collapsed.
The two ghosts were laughing, not taking Brionne serious as the water type raised her voice again. The sound waves became more visible as she raised it again, this time causing concern to the ghosts. They knew the hyper voice could not technically hurt them but they sensed a power surge in the attack.
Brionne glared at the two as she raised her voice as loud as she could, loud enough to shattered glass. The shadow was fired back, thanks to the pressure of the hyper voice and slammed right into Haunter.
Brionne glowed as she grew bigger. Once the evolution stopped, Brionne had reached her final evolution. She was now fully white with a fish like tail. Around her chest to neck area was light blue frills. Her face as a lot more mature and slim as she had bright sparkly eyes with a snout that led to a pink ball. On her head was a tiara like structure with a pink star attached to it. Behind the tiara was long aqua blue like hair, tied in a ponytail with pearls.
"Rina!" she sang.
Hau had heard of Popplio and Brionne's final evolution, Primarina.
Her hair went loose as she formed a ball of water in the air and fired it at Gengar. The ball exploded as it created sparkles that covered the room. When the sparkles landed on Umbreon, he felt the burning sensation fade away as he looked in shock.
"Prima!" Primarina smiled as Umbreon got up and nodded Primarina before turning to his normal aggressive fighting look.
"Shadow claw Umbreon! That move again Primarina!"
Umbreon rushed as Gengar and slashed at the totem was a vicious shadow claw before getting hit by the water move Primarina had. Gengar grinned back as he charged at the duo.
Ash returned to the three Mimikyu's as they all jumped up happily as he returned.
"I think I have sorted everything out with the other Mimikyu. She is going to be nicer!" Ash told them.
The three continued to jump.
Ash was happy to help but then realised something.
He had completely forgot about Decidueye.
"Shit. Decidueye!" Ash cursed also realising he had nothing on the trial other than getting a Shuppet.
"Kyu?" One of the Mimikyu's said in confusion.
Ash came up with an idea to assist him. He took out the trial camera and took a photo of the three.
"Right… Only need one more and then the totem." Ash said as he began to walk away from the Mimikyu.
"Mimi?" Mimikyu cried.
"I've got to go now. My friend is waiting for me and my pokemon is probably running around looking for me. It's been fun to meet you and all but it's time for me to go." Ash told them as
He walked towards the doors but the suddenly shut closed with the lock turning,
"Okay… That is not normally meant to happen…" Ash muttered as he turned to find the formerly cute Mimikyu's to now aggressive angry looking ones.
Ash just gulped.
"Kyu."
Rotom began to panic as he turned to Ash.
"Th-They do-don't wan-want us to leave!" Rotom explained.
"Right… I think I see why they are lonely…" Ash said. "Rather possessive as well…"
Ash cursed in his mind as the three ghosts growled.
"They want you to say for forever and ever!"
"Not helping the situation." Ash hissed through his teeth.
Slowly but carefully, his hand reached for the lock on the door behind his back.
"Run when I say…" Ash muttered.
He twisted the lock and smashed his shoulder between the doors with them flinging open as they made a dash for it. The Mimikyu's eyes glowed yellow as the three chased after him.
Hau walked out of the mart to find Acerola sitting down next to a tree.
"Oh! You're back!" Acerola said as she was handed the camera.
"Congratulations! That is the totem Pokemon! And with that, I present to you the Ghostium-Z" Acerola said as she dropped a deep purple crystal into Hau's hand but the boy had something else on his mind.
"Has Ash come out yet?" Hau asked.
Acerola raised an eyebrow.
"No. Why?"
Decidueye flew out of the mart with a concerned look.
"Isn't that Ash's Decidueye?" Acerola asked.
Hau nodded.
"I found him just before the Totem fight and we both have no idea where he is!" Hau explained as Acerola pondered on what was happening. "Do you think it was the monster that lives inside?"
"I don't know…" Acerola muttered as she looked at the old building.
The Mimikyu's did not take Ash leaving lightly as they were chasing him with the intent to make him stay for forever.
"Shit!" Ash cursed as he ran away. He didn't have Decidueye on him, Incineroar won't listen, Kirlia isn't strong enough to take all three of them one, same as Salandit and Bewear was weak to them and barely had moves to attack them with.
One of the Mimikyu's jumped up and unleashed it's claw which was glowing a black and purple aura as it aimed at Ash.
Ash turned but the claw was hit by a Shadow ball.
Appearing around the corner was the Shiny Mimikyu.
"KYU!" she growled as the three-growled back.
"She wants to help us!" Rotom translated.
Ash let Salandit again who jumped in shock as she saw Mimikyu next to her.
Rotom brought up Mimikyu's moves as Ash nodded.
"Mimikyu, shadow claw! Salandit, smog!" Ash commanded.
The shiny Mimikyu revealed its claw which was glowing black and purple and swiped at the three while Salandit fired the smog at them, breaking the disguises as the head tilted over.
The three angry Mimikyu's fired a shadow ball each but Ash soon saw why they were afraid of the shiny version of them as she sliced through the attacks and fired one herself, blasting and knocking one of them out.
Salandit used fire burst as it hit one of the Mimikyu's, burning a hole in the side of the neck area.
"KYU!" The shiny cried as the enemy Mimikyu growled lowly as purple gas began to flow out of the hole.
"Shit!" Ash swore as the gas approached him. He looked around and saw a possible distraction.
"Mimikyu! Use shadow ball on that curtain to cover gases!" Ash commanded.
The shiny nodded and fired a shadow ball with the railing being snapped in half and the curtain falling on the Mimikyu with the hole as it cried in confusion. Ash, Rotom, Salandit and the Shiny Mimikyu began to run with the latter jumping on to Ash's shoulder.
The last of the enemy Mimikyu's followed them on a hot pursuit.
"Shadow ball!"
A shadow ball was fired at their chaser but it just fired one back, cancelling out the two.
Ash wasn't paying attention to where he was running and tripped over a box as a pokeball fell and revealed to release Incineroar.
"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK!"
"ROOOOOARRR!" Incineroar roared as he saw the wild Mimikyu as it stopped when it saw Incineroars sharp, white teeth.
"Incineroar NO!" Ash yelled as he couldn't see his pokeball as he needed to return him before anything to bad happened.
The wild and aggressive Mimikyu tried to fight but Incineroar was too strong as he used throat chop on the poor thing as he punched over and over again.
Ash had to acted fast with Salandit and the shiny Mimikyu just watching.
"SHIT! Bewear, stop Incineroar!"
Bewear popped out and tackled Incineroar to the ground.
The fire dark type punched Bewear but received a punch back as Bewear threw him through the wall of the building.
Incineroar growled as he fired a flamethrower as Bewear. The shiny Mimikyu jumped and took the hit but didn't take damaged thanks to disguise.
Bewear threw stuff at Incineroar with the cat doing the same.
Acerola, Hau and Decidueye looked at the thrifty Megamart as they could hear some kind of commotion going on inside.
"What's going on in there…" Hau questioned.
"No clu-"Acerola started only to be cut out by Incineroar and Bewear smashing through a wall and rolling down the hill, fighting one another. Ash, Salandit and Mimikyu appeared through the door.
Incineroar punched Bewear in the face and fired a flamethrower right into his chest as he cried in pain. The cat proceeded to kick and punch the bear as everyone watched in shock.
"Deci!" Decidueye cried happily to see his trainer.
"Decidueye, do something!" Ash shouted as the bird fired an arrow but the cat just punched it away.
Incineroar snarled as he got off the beat up Bewear and rushed into the forest.
"INCINEROAR! NO!" Ash yelled as both Hau and Acerola held him back.
"ASH! WAIT!" Hau yelled as Ash stopped resisting.
"What happened?" Acerola asked.
"I got kidnapped by some Mimikyu's and when we were fighting them, I fell and accidently released Incineroar." Ash explained as Acerola finally noticed the shiny Mimikyu on Ash's shoulder.
"Oh! The totem!" Acerola said as Ash looked at the ghost fairy. "Hmm, she doesn't even let me touch her these days… So, I don't know what've done but she seems to have taken a liking to you."
"But she is a totem?" Ash questioned while still looking at the way Incineroar fled too.
"She can be replaced. Here!" Acerola said as she gave Ash a love ball.
Ash placed Mimikyu on the ground and looked at her.
"Kyu?"
"You really want to be with me?" Ash questioned as Mimikyu jumped into his arms as he tapped her head with the love ball.
"We should go to the orphanage for now and then make a plan of action." Acerola suggested. "Take this though."
She gave him the Z-crystal for the trial.
"But I didn't beat it?"
"You did better. You managed to capture the totem."
They got back to the orphanage and explained everything to Lillie as they came up with a plan to find Incineroar.
"So! Lillie, I need you to look after the kids while I'm gone and Hau you are to stay here in case of anything!" Acerola explained. "I'm normally the person to go to if a battle is required. Me and Ash will go to the forest and look for Incineroar."
Everyone nodded as they knew their roles.
Ash and Acerola went to get prepared as Hau showed his Z-crystal to the kid that told him about the 'monster'.
"So, my friend managed to beat those 'monsters' you hyped up!" Hau told them.
"He fought the monster?" the kid questioned.
"Yep! Those Mimikyu's were no match for him!" Hau bragged.
The kid snickered.
"What's so funny?" Hau asked.
"The Mimikyu's aren't the monster…" the Kid told Hau.
"…They aren't?" he stuttered.
"Nope. I heard that someone heard it wandering in the forest." The kid told Hau.
"Oh no."
Authors note: AND MY BABY IS IN THE STORY NOW!
When I first started thinking of teams for the story back in November, Mimikyu was the first mon on Ash's team, before I had decided to even give him both Rowlet and Litten.
My favorite pokemon of all time which is on my profile, so that was the major hint :D
And what better way than to make my child shiny.
While writing this, literally just listened to different versions of Mimikyu's song.
I tried to have a mix of between the lore of the lonely Mimikyu and the anime murder all Pikachu's one.
All right, so Incineroar is now rogue with Ash and Acerola needing to find him before the "Monster" does (wonder who that might be) ;)
And Gladion is on his way as well.
I will say now, Next chapter will be shorter than usual for good reasons.
Last author's note was very messy, so I'll talk about some things here:
I was actually on 4chan when that dark poster was posted on there (Before even on Serebi). I don't even know anymore... All I might say is this looks like it could be darker than usual (Probs not Mystery dungeon dark tho).
Played the shit out of Silver. Got a shiny Lugia at around 4500 soft resets (kill me)
Cosmog in the anime and Lusamine looks chilled and not bat shit insane (Wishlist leak...)
Apparently, in the next day or so, we are getting live game play of USUM at the Milan game week. New mons? New Z-moves? New Alolan forms? Who knows. Imagine, they just casual throw out an Alolan-Hoothoot and like, "Oh yeah, that exists btw lol."
QUESTIONS:
So has all of Ash's Pokémon betrayed their own trainer (other than his Kalos ones) or are there others who haven't been included such as Charizard who trains in the Charicific Valley or Pidgeot in Viridian Forrest?
Only the ones at the lab betrayed so... (cough) (cough).
With Ash's friends betrayal, do you think some of Ash's old Pokémon might try and redeem themselves or even his ex-friend's Pokémon?
Unlikely, but anything is possible.
With USUM coming out soon, do you plan on including Necrozma to this story?
Yes. Necrozma will have a massive part in the second half of the story and will be a main figure.
I ended up reading all 39 (38 if you don't include the false 25 chapter) in one sitting. I hope you're happy about yourself. It's now 1:34 AM as I'm writing this and I'm going to sleep. -_-
I know not a question but thought it would be funny to answer. Trust me, I know the struggle, I upload these at like 3 in the morning my time.
So as always, Review, suggest or PM me! Spectre.