Ten years later, Ash, the reigning Otron Regional Champion for 8 years (A.N.: The first two years of them all moving to the Otron Region had John as the Champion, but he lost to Ash in the third and decided to become an Elite Four Member. Also, Talarc, if I want to put Author's notes in the middle of a story, I can do that. That is the one thing I will NOT change.), was enjoying a lovely afternoon at his house by the Sea with his wife May. The Otron Region was a lovely place, great Beaches to go to in the Spring and Summer, and during the Fall and Winter, it was always the right temperature. Ash and May had a house for the Summer and a house for the Winter. As the years went by, May gave birth to a girl they named Aubrey a year into them arriving in the Otron Region, about 9 months after Ash and May got married.
"Not having to deal with Dawn about her hair, and Cilan rants, even Clemont's inventions constantly blowing up has been a blessing in disguise for me." Said Ash in his mind. Without any distractions, besides his friends and family, Ash could focus more on increasing his own Strength. With from John, he unlocked more uses for his Aura, like to heal injured Pokémon, and use Aura Sphere. John also helped Bonnie reach her full potential of being an Aura User and she unlocked an ability long thought to be forgotten. Using her Aura, Bonnie can make herself and others around her fly to a location she is thinking of. However, doing that drains a lot of Aura from her and she gets tired. Several Pokémon Ash released returned to him over the years, like Pidgeot, Lapras, and Butterfree, after they all heard that most of Ash's friends betrayed him. Ash even caught Lugia, Moltres, Zapdos, Articuno, Mewtwo, and Entei. But instead of keeping them in their Pokéballs, Ash let them stay in their natural homes and called on them if he needed any of them. Ash's Pokémon all got to the strongest level they could be, in turn, caused Bulbasaur, Snivy, Scraggy, Totodile, and Pignite to their final evolutions, Braixen finally evolved into Delphox and Chespin fully evolved into Chesnaught. Ash also found Heracrossite for his Heracross.
All of Ash's friends were doing well as well. Ash helped Paul treat his Pokémon more than just tools to win a battle, and within the first two months, Paul treated his Pokémon like friends, like his family. Sawyer found another Sceptileite for Ash's Sceptile and he had his Sceptile teach Ash's on how to control the Power of Mega evolution. Sawyer also found a Mega Stone for his Salamance. Gary found a Mega Stone for his Blastoise and his Scizor. Trip caught himself a Pinsir and found Pinsirite. Alain didn't catch many Pokémon since getting to the Otron Region other than a Shiny Gengar that for some unknown reason, could Mega Evolve without Gengarite. Paul, John, Trip, and Alain were the Elite four for Ash and they arranged themselves with Paul first, Trip second, John third, and Alain last, but nobody ever got past Paul. Squishy eventually returned to Bonnie and is now her strongest Pokémon, besides Dedenne. Bonnie also caught a Pancham, her own Eevee who evolved into a Jolteon. May's Skitty evolved into Delcatty and she caught a Chansey to help her deal with Aubrey.
Ash traded some of his Tauros (A.N.: Ash has THIRTY FREAKING TAUROS, so naturally he trades a few.) for a Pansage, a Tentacruel, a Medicham with Medichamite, his own Steelix, a Vannilish, A Mawile, a Glaceon, and a Druddigon. As for Charizard, while Ash and Alain were training, they found a special Charizardite that had half Charizardite X and Charizardite Y. When Ash's Charizard first Mega-evolved with the Charizardite, he looked like Charizard Y but had the color scheme of Charizard X. "Impressive, a Mega Stone like this has never been seen, I think we should call it Charizardite XY." Said Alain. Ash was on board with the idea. Charizard was also on board. Charizard was now the only one of his kind with Charizardite XY and he started a little rivalry with Infernape to claim the title of Ash's strongest Fire-type Pokémon. Pikachu was still Pikachu because he felt that he was more useful to Ash as a Pikachu rather than a Raichu. When she was old enough, Emma caught herself a Pidgey who fully evolved, A Larvitar, a Lampet who evolved, and her starter Pokémon was her brother's Totodile who evolved into Feraligatr. Since the legal age to become a trainer in Otron is Eight, Aubrey got her first Pokémon as a shiny female Fennekin, who was the adopted child of Greninja and Delphox. The Fennekin was a very special case cause a female Fennekin is extremely rare, especially if it's a shiny Pokémon.
But life wasn't always relaxing for the full ten years, within the first year of being in the Otron Region, a spy for Ash and John reported that Professor Oak was found dead in his Laboratory and Tracy was to be his successor and placed a warrant out for his arrest, the cause for the warrant was the murder of Professor and stealing Pokémon. There was also a reward for Ash at a heaping price of ten-thousand Poké-Dollars. John held a press conference for everyone in Otron to hear and said that the Ash Ketchum did not kill anyone, nor did he steal Pokémon. Now that he is the regional Champion, Ash could not be touched. As the years went by, however, people trying to claim the reward searched high and low for Ash but could never find him, but Ash paid them no attention.
"What do you think Ash?" Asked May as she showed him a one-piece swimsuit. It had a solid Blue color with Red and white Stars all over the side. Ash smiled and said, "I think it looks great on you May. But then again, anything would look great on you May."
"Aww, thank you, Ashy-poo." Replied May, blushing and smiling.
"Suck up." Said Greninja who was standing behind Ash next to John and Delphox, causing him to jump. Ash adjusted his cap and said, "Greninja, I thought I told you not to sneak up on me."
"Well, we told you to make sure to check your surroundings." Replied John. Ash rolled his eyes and said, "Anyway, Greninja, get Charizard, Infernape, Torterra, Pikachu, and Blastoise together and start training."
"You got it, Ash." Said Greninja before he left to get the Pokémon Ash listed to begin Training. Just then, Paul and Shauna walked up to them.
"Hey Baby," John told Shauna got close enough to him that he could pull her into a kiss. When they parted, Shauna said, "Hey handsome."
"get a room you two." Paul told the married couple. John looked at Paul and said, "Put a sock in it, Paul." Causing Paul to roll his eyes.
"By the way, Ash, have you thought of our way to get revenge against the traitors?" asked Paul. Ash nodded his head and said, "I have, I'll explain it to everyone at Dinner." Suddenly, they heard a voice shout, "DADDY!" when they all looked where the voice came from, they all saw Aubrey running towards them with Bonnie and Emma walking behind her. Ash knelt to catch his daughter and when she ran into her arms, he picked her up and said, "Hey Aubrey, how was the Sundae Bar?"
"It was Goodra." Replied Aubrey, causing John to snicker and Ash looked at him and said, "Remind me never to have you spend time with Aubrey for a good while."
"Aw come on Ash, I can't help it if she picks things up when she spends weekends with me." Replied John. Aubrey looked at her dad with big eyes and said, "Daddy, please don't be mad."
"I'm not mad…oh alright, I take back what I said." Said Ash, which made Aubrey cheer in Ash's arms.
After he walked up to Ash and Aubrey, John said, "Okay Aubrey, since tomorrow is your ninth birthday, and your parents are here already, I've decided to give you your present right now." Ash placed Aubrey down before he said, "John, what did you get her?" John gave Ash a smirk before pulling out a Pokéball. John then knelt to look Aubrey in the eye and said, "This Pokéball has your present inside it." Aubrey took the Pokéball and threw it while she said, "I choose you."
When the Pokéball opened and the Pokémon popped out, it looked like a Vulpix, but it was white. John then said, "This Pokémon is a Vulpix from Alola, it's an Ice Type." Aubrey's eyes began to water up with joy. Then she walked over to the Vulpix and the Vulpix said, "Hello (A.N.: Being the daughter of Ash Ketchum, Aubrey is an Aura User, just that all aura users understand Pokémon once their powers are unlocked.)." Aubrey shrieked with Joy and gave Vulpix a great big hug. Just then, one of the security guards for Ash came running up to him and said, "Sir, we need to show you and the elite four members something."
"Of course, Sasha, lead the way." Replied Ash. Sasha then led Ash, John, and Paul to what she wanted to them. When the four of them arrived at the location, another of Ash's Security Guards was standing there, along with Alain and trip and Sawyer already there, it also looked like a crater. When Ash got to them, he asked, "What is the thing that needed to be shown to me?"
"This." Said the other security guard as he and Alain moved to the sides so Ash could see what was so important. In the crater was, to his surprise, a Pokémon lying on its side. When he got to the edge of the crater and saw the Pokémon, John was the first to drop into the crater and picked the Pokémon and said, "This Pokémon needs immediate attention."
"Right, let's get it to a Pokémon Center." Said, Ash, as he and John ran to the Local Pokémon Center. Meanwhile, back in Kanto, Misty was finishing up a battle with a trainer she defeated. Misty then said, "Now that you lost, I get to pick the Pokémon I want."
"This isn't fair, why do gym leaders have to be so cruel?" asked the trainer, to which Misty just laughed and said, "It's a new rule kid, winning trainers get the loser strongest Pokémon." The young trainer then handed Misty a Pokéball and ran out of the Gym, tears in his eyes.
"I love my job." Thought Misty. As she walked back to her side of the Cerulean Gym, Ash's Spy crept out of the shadows and exited the gym. The Spy then called out a Pidgeot, note a note down, tied the note to the Pidgeot's leg and said, "Get this message to Ash Ketchum, quickly." The Pidgeot nodded its head and flapped its wings and began the long Journey to the Otron Region. Back with John and Ash, they just arrived at the Pokémon Center and Nurse Joy took the Pokémon to the back to try and help it. As Ash and John waited, the Pidgeot that the spy sent over and Ash saw the note, took it off Pidgeot and read the note aloud. The note read, "The traitors got a new law passed when someone loses a Pokémon Battle, they have to give the winner one of their Pokémon, I will report again soon, Espyeon." Ash then quickly crumpled up the note and said, "They're still jerks."
"Now will you tell me who this spy of yours is?" Asked John, to which Ash shook his head and said, "Unfortunately I can't, who knows who is with the traitors." Just then, the light for the Center's Backroom went off and Nurse Joy walked out with Blissey pushing a cart with the Pokémon on it, fast asleep. John and Ash walked over to Nurse Joy and Ash asked, "How is the Pokémon Nurse Joy?"
"The Pokémon is doing fine, and I expect that it should make a full recovery quickly." Replied Nurse Joy. John smiled while Ash knelt to look at the injured Pokémon. Ash then pulled out his Pokédex and had it scan the Pokémon to identify it. The Pokédex then found the entry and it read, "Stufful, the Flailing Pokémon. Despite its adorable appearance, when it gets angry and flails about, its arms and legs could knock a pro wrestler sprawling. This Pokémon's Native Region is the Alola Region."
"What's a Pokémon from the Alola Region doing here in the Otron Region?" Asked John. Ash looked at his friend and said, "I don't know John, I just don't know." Ash asked the Stufful, "What happened to you, Stufful?" Stufful looked at Ash and John and weakly said, "I got hit by an attack on and sent flying through the sky until I landed in the crater I can assume you found me in."
"Where did you get hit by the attack?" Asked John as he knelt as well. Stufful said that he was on a walk on his home island of Akala Island. John and Ash were surprised, and Nurse Joy was confused by their faces, and asked them, "What did it say?" John stood up and said, "Stufful, the Pokémon, was attacked by a Pokémon move and that sent it flying from Akala Island in the Alola Region all the way here." Nurse Joy then had a surprised look on her face. Then Ash stood up and said, "We'll take it back to my place, so it can finish healing." Nurse Joy smiled and said, "I think that would be splendid." Ash then picked up Stufful and said, "Come Stufful, let's help you get your strength back." Stufful smiled and said, "Okay…thank you." That made Ash and John smile and they took Stufful to Ash's house. After they exited the Pokémon Center, John said that he forgot something in the Pokémon Center and he went back to get it. When he returned, he and Ash continued on the way back to Ash's house.
A little while later, Ash and John arrived at Ash's house. May, Aubrey, and Shauna were waiting outside for them, along with Paul, Sawyer, Alain, and Trip.
"How's the Pokémon?" Asked Trip. John looked at him and said, "Well, why don't you look for yourself." John then took a step to the side to show Ash holding Stufful in his arms. Aubrey ran what to Ash and said, "Aww, is it alright?"
"He's fine Aubrey, he just needs a few days rest here." Replied Ash, that made Aubrey smile. Then John said, "Come on everyone, let's get inside, looks like a storm is." Everyone then went inside before the rain started. When they got inside, John's stomach grumbled because it was almost dinner time.
"So, Ash, what is your plan to get revenge on the traitors?" Asked Paul while everyone ate their dinner and the Pokémon ate their Poké-Food. Ash swallowed the food in his mouth before he said, "My plan is to host a Tournament, we'll host it in three months, so make sure your Pokémon are ready for the battles."
"Alright, but have you thought of the format for the rounds?" Asked John. Ash placed his hand over his chin to cup it and was in deep thought until he said, "The first two rounds will be the Preliminary rounds with 1v1 with three Pokémon on both sides, eliminating all but sixty-four trainers, then until the final round, it will be a Pokémon tag-battle with each trainer using 4 Pokémon but with two Pokémon on the field for each trainer, a Double tag-battle, and at the end in the final round, the final Two trainers will face each other in a full six on six Battle and the winner gets to face me in a one v one Battle."
"That sounds like a good idea, it gives the trainers a chance to learn how to work best with a Partner trainer and their Partner's Pokémon, not just their own Pokémon." Said Alain. Everyone agreed with Alain. Ash then said, "Well, looks like we're all in agreement."
"Hey Daddy, can I enter the tournament?" Ask Aubrey. Ash was concern that she could get hurt, but John said, "If she does enter, you can have her Partner up with me, I'll keep her safe." Ash smiled and said, "Very well, you may enter the Tournament."
"YIPPE!" shouted the young girl. May looked at Ash and said, "Are you sure she's ready?"
"You need to relax May, Aubrey's going to be fine." Said John, as he cut into some Steak. Ash then said, "Besides May, we have been encouraging her to begin her journey, why not have her start it with the tournament." May remembered that and said, "Very well, Aubrey, you can enter the tournament."
"YAY, daddy, can I use Hawlucha and Goodra in the beginning tournament, I'm going to use my Vulpix as well." Asked Aubrey, to which Ash replied, "I don't see why not, and after the Preliminary rounds are over, you can use any of Mom's and my Pokémon." Aubrey nodded her had and said, "Okay." Ash then got up and said, "Well, I'm going to write the letters for the tournament, I'll see you in a couple of hours." Ash then went to his bedroom and sat down at the table in it and started to write the invites for the tournament. He decided to write the Traitors first, starting with his 'traitorous' Brother-in-Law.
12/22/2027
Dear Max Kirtman,
I am pleased to invite you to the first ever annual Otron Region Battle Tournament. It will begin with two rounds of 3v3 Pokémon Battles as preliminary rounds, after which the sixty-four Trainers remaining will be paired up and will compete in a Double Tag-Battle, a battle where two trainers can use up to four Pokémon and have two Pokémon on the Battlefield. The tournament with take place three months from the date on this invite, so be sure you arrive on time. Your Double Tag-Battle Partner will change during every round of the tournament until the end of the tournament where the final team will face off in a full six on six Pokémon Battle. The winner of the Tournament will have a chance to beat me in a full six on six Pokémon battle and become the Champion. You may also bring one person with you as a guest because on after the Preliminary rounds there will be a feast to congratulate the one-hundred trainers Remaining. I have provided a map with directions to get to the Otron Region. The region is very secluded from the seven core Regions. I hope you accept this invitation and will battle with all your power.
Sincerely,
Red Satoshi, Champion of the Otron Region.
Ash signed with an Alias so that way none of the traitors would recognize him until he made his reveal at the beginning of the tournament. Ash wrote hundreds of letters to trainers from Kanto to Alola, even the traitors. Ash then placed all the letters in a box and called out his Pidgeot and tied the box around her leg and said, "You know what to do Pidgeot."
"Don't worry Ash, I'll get these invitations delivered." Said Pidgeot before Ash opened a window wide enough for Pidgeot could spread her wings and fly away to deliver the invitations. As Ash watched his Pidgeot fly away, Pikachu hopped onto the Windowsill and said, "Now we wait."
"You bet Pikachu, soon our revenge will commence, and we will be ready." Said Ash, petting Pikachu on his head.
"How could you not tell me?" Said a voice from behind Ash. When Ash turned around and Saw John standing in the door. Ash then asked John. "What are you talking about?"
"How could you not tell me that MAX KIRTMAN WAS YOUR SPY?!" John said with anger in his voice as he said the end of the sentence.
"I have no idea what you're talking about John. Max is not Espyeon." Said Ash in his defense. John reached into his Pocket to pull out a piece of paper. Ash recognize the piece of Paper, it was the note from his Spy
"When I told you that I had to go back into the Pokémon Center to get something, I grabbed the note you rumpled up. After I got done dinner, I read the note, and saw that the hand writing looked familiar to me, when I looked through the letters I got from the traitors before they betrayed you, I found that the hand writing on a letter from Max and the handwriting from the note were the same, that was when I came here to confront you. So, I will ask again Ash Ketchum. WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU NOT TELL ME THAT MAX KIRTMAN WAS YOUR SPY?!" (This would have been a GOODRA place to end the chapter.) Ash knew that the jig was up, so he explained everything to John.
"Max has been gathering Intel for me about the traitors for months since he first contacted me. The first note was for me and May to meet him in Petalburg and to wear disguises that he knew it was us."
"That's why you told me that you and May were going to be gone for a few months." Said John. Ash nodded his head and continued, "Yes, we went to Petalburg City and waited, until Max came along in front of us and stopped. He then told the two of us to follow him, he said our names, so he knew who we were, and when we got out of sight of anyone else, I grabbed him and pinned him down."
Flashback to Petalburg City, many months ago,
"Can you get off me Ash, your kind of hurting my arm." Max said to me. Then I said, "Why should I let a traitor like you go?" Max then said, "Because I'm not a traitor, I'm on your side." That statement caused me and May to get confused. I unpinned him, but I kept a strong grip on his shirt. I then asked him, "What do you mean, everyone who's on my side are in the Region I had to flee to." Max replied, "I know, but I pretended to be a traitor, so I can give you information about the Traitors and what they do.". May then asked her brother, "Why didn't you tell us the day we left?" Max told me and May that if he was seen with us by any of the true traitors, that he would have been kidnapped and questioned for where we were going." John interrupted him by saying, "So he pretended to join the traitors just to get information."
Back to the present
"Yes, so far he's provided some good information. He's the one who told me about the 'murder' of Professor Oak and the warrant for my arrest." Replied Ash.
"Huh, who else knows about Max?" asked John. Ash told John, "Right now, only you, May, Aubrey, and Myself. Yes, we told Aubrey about Max because she needed to know who her uncle was."
"I see, no one else knows." Said John. Ash shook his head and said, "No one else." John then said, "Alright, now I feel bad for yelling at you."
"It's alright John, besides, it's my fault for not telling you. I should have told you." Replied Ash. John then said, "well, I better get some sleep, we're going to be doing a lot of training to prepare for the coming tournament."
"We all do, good luck John." Replied Ash. John smiled and said before he left, "Good luck to you as well Ash."
After John left, Ash looked out the window and thought to himself, "Our revenge will be sweet. They will feel the full force of our wrath." Just then, May walked in and said, "Ash, you okay." Ash looked at his wife and said, "Yeah, I'm fine." They were both silent for a couple of Minutes
"John knows about Max, doesn't he?" asked May, which caught Ash off guard. But ash nodded his head and said, "I guess he got tired of being in the dark." May nodded her head as well and agreed with Ash. The two of them then got changed into their bed attire and went to bed.
Meanwhile, John was walking down the hallway of Ash's house when he heard a noise coming from a storage room he passed, he called out his Alakazam and had him use flash inside the storage room, blinding who ever was in there so they could be easily taken down. John opened the door and said, "NOW ALAKAZAM!" Alakazam obeyed his trainer and used flash. When John heard someone say, "Aah, my eyes." John then ran in and tackled the person in the room, the commotion attracted Ash, May, Gary, and Paul. When Ash turned on the light, they saw John and he was pinning someone down. They then heard John say, "How did you find this place?"