Read the ending AN. There is a question there that will decide where this story goes :)
"Arceus damn it all"
Team Rocket was here? 'How on earth did they manage to get here?!' he thought, 'I thought this was a different dimension!' He whipped his head frantically back and forth trying to find Jessie, James and Meowth, who had been stalking him ever since Pikachu blasted them off back in Viridian City on like his second day of being a trainer. Needless to say, he was sick and tired of blasting the fools off. Sure, they had gotten a bit of an IQ raise in Unova, but they still never managed to snatch his Pikachu. He was broken out of his thoughts when a smoke grenade fell from the sky. Coughing, Ash mentally noted that bringing a flying-type to every island would be essential now, but for now he just had to make do.
"Metagross! Come on out!" He called, throwing the steel-type's pokeball into the air. Metagross appeared in a flash of scarlet light, roaring her arrival. Quickly diagnosing her situation, Metagross telepathically lifted Ash onto her back and shot up into the air. Once they were high enough, Ash and Metagross waited out the smoke grenade. Once the smoke cleared, Ash's jaw dropped. Metagross, not getting the joke, simply said, confused,
'I thought that shiny Weezing were teal. This one's a sky blue,' She telepathed. "And come to think of it, I know shiny Arbok aren't red. Whats going on here?" Ash merely shook his head. "They aren't," he said, "Hoopa and Arceus are just making fun of me." He groaned. He suspected Hoopa had a very large hand in this. Arceus seemed more... mellow... than the genie. Nevertheless, Ash figured that those two would make great additions to his team. He had a list of Pokemon he wanted to capture when he was here, and those two were on it. The Rocketeers used them for most of the first and second years of his journey, so he got to experience firsthand how powerful they could be. Shaking his head to clear it, he asked Metagross to float back down so he could battle the duo.
Once he was back down on the ground, Ash gripped another Pokeball. He had decided to use Torterra and Metagross in this battle, so that Torterra could get some experience without having to worry about keeping another grass type covered. Plus the ground turtle had some great ground-type moves to combat Arbok. Weezing, on the other hand, would be managed by Metagross. The psychic-type would keep Weezing at bay using Psychic while constantly wearing it down using Psybeam. All in all, Ash suspected that this battle would be relatively easy.
As soon as he released Torterra, Arbok and Weezing sprung into action. The two worked perfectly as a team, which Ash suspected had to do with the fact that they were modeled off of Jessie and James. Focusing back on the battle, Ash quickly yelled at Torterra, "Use Earthquake to shake up Arbok, and then when it's trying to regain footing, use Earth Power!" Metagross already knew her part of the plan from reading Ash's mind, so he didn't have to worry about her. Torterra grunted in understanding and suddenly jumped up. When he landed, Ash had to quickly scramble around to regain his footing. The ground quaked and rumbled for a full ten seconds, knocking Arbok off balance but doing nothing to Metagross or Weezing. While this was happening, Metagross psychically grabbed Weezing and slammed him into Arbok. He lowered both to the ground and gestured to Torterra with one of her arms. Torterra nodded and jumped up again. This time Ash could not hope to keep his footing and went crashing down to the ground. Quickly getting back to his feet, he saw Torterra using Earth Power and Mud Bomb with no mercy on the Pesudo-Rocket duo. Finally, after the eighth Mud Bomb, Arbok and Weezing moaned once more, finally unconsious. Ash, reacting quickly, grabbed two Pokeballs from his pack and hurtled them at the duo. Ash watched as the balls shook and trembled violently, showing the will of the two poison-types. But, the Pokemon proved too weak to break free of the Pokeball's hold, and the Pokeballs dinged, signifying Ash's captures. Ash grinned.
"Alright! I caught... An Arbok and a Weezing!" Suddenly a small portal opened.
"Pika!" The portal closed.
XXTIMESKIPXX
A few hours later, Ash was sitting down under a tree, looking at the sixteen Pokeballs at his feet. He smiled, thinking of the battles he had gone through to get those Pokemon. Six in particular stuck out to him. Drapion, Crobat, Dragalge, Tentacruel, Nidoking, and Nidoqueen. Drapion put up the hardest fight he had faced to date, knocking out more than half of his team before finally relenting to Donphan's Earthquake. Crobat he had to track for two hours, with the dual-type always just out of his reach, before a lucky Flamethrower from Metagross had forced him to descend. Dragalge he had found basking in one of the toxic ponds, and when he had challenged her, she turned it into a Horde Battle, with five other Dragalge joining her to battle him. Nidoking and Nidoqueen he had to battle the same way he did Arbok and Weezing- in the double style. The two Nido's had put up an excellent fight, utilizing many combo attacks and techniques that Ash had never seen before. He smiled again, thinking about his teams various triumphs on the island. The hardest capture by far, however, had been the two Gengar he captured. After hiding in his shadow for hours, the two ghost-types actually possessed his Donphan and Empoleon, making Ash fight his own teammates in order to capture them. Still though, once he released them again they proved that they were nice enough. The possessing ability would certainly come in handy later. He hadn't even known the Gengar could do that!
He thought about the rest of the Pokemon he captured today. Besides Arbok, Weezing, Drapion, Crobat, Dragalge, Tentacruel, Nidoking, Nidoqueen, and the two Gengar, Ash had captured a Swalot, Seviper, Crobat, Toxicroak, Beedrill, Vileplume, Tentacruel, and a Scolipede. Ash laughed. It looked like he'd taken the whole 'Safari Zone' theme a bit too far. 'Ah well,' he decided, 'I'd do it the same way if I had to do it again.'
He realized something else. Normal Island would be the same way!.. Unless... Oh no... He wouldn't have to battle Arceus there, would he..? He certainly hoped not. If not, he definently wanted to capture some Blissey. Those things were overpowered. Shaking his head, Ash was about to call for Hoopa, but decided against it. He wanted to try and find the pool of water that would lead back to his house.
Six grueling hours later, Ash found himself back at the Safari Zone Enterance. He looked down the hallway, and noticed a door at the other end leading to where Fuschia City would be. Shrugging, he decided to walk through and see if Arceus had built a replica Fuschia City. Not expecting to find anything, he opened the door and instantly walked back into... The Jhoto Safari Zone? Huh. He would explore that later. For now though, he had one last hunch as to where the elusive pool could be. He was about to start walking until it hit him that he had a Pokemon that could fly. He mentally kicked himself for not realizing it earlier, but he sighed anyway and called out Metagross. The Steel-type roared upon her arrival, but quieted down as Ash explained what he needed. Dipping her lower legs in her version of a nod, Ash smiled in thanks and climbed up on her head. Suddenly, the two shot up into the air, like they had done earlier.
A couple brief minutes in the air later and Ash found himself staring up at the final Rest House, where a man was supposed to be inside handing out the HM for Surf. He figured that the man wouldn't be in there here, but he did suspect that the pool of water would. Stepping inside, he saw the exact same interior as the 'regular' Rest House. Looking around, he confirmed that there was indeed no man handing out HMs. Looking around even more, he saw what he had been looking for for the past six and a half hours later. The pool of water was sitting in the exact same place where the man should've been. Walking over and releasing Empoleon, Ash prepared to plunge into the depths. Looking into the vertical stretch of the tunnel he noticed that there were strips of dark purple adorning the walls. He hadn't noticed this for any of the other tunnels, but he figured that it was a nice asthetic touch. Digging out his scuba gear and putting it on, Ash was about to leap into the water when he was stopped by something poking its head out of the water. Startled, Ash leapt back, calling for Empoleon to be ready in case it was hostile. When Empoleon didn't move, however, Ash took a closer look at the intruder. Needless to say, he was pretty shocked to see-
"Manaphy?"
"Papa!"
The Pokemon said, causing Empoleon to quizzically look over at Ash, causing Ash to send back a look that said, 'I'll tell you later'. Regardless, Ash was happy to see Manaphy, but wondered what she was doing here. His mind flickered back to Dialga's parting words. He could almost see the Temporal Pokemon smirking somewhere under Steel Island. Shaking himself out of his thoughts, he leaned down and grabbed Manaphy, hugging her to his chest, not minding in the least that the water-type was soaked. The gesture was returned for a minute before Manaphy broke free of his grasp and hopped back over to the side of the water. Concentrating, Manaphy suddenly lifted an egg out of the water. Ash recoiled in suprise. Emploeon, however, knealt down and lowered his head to the egg. Suddenly, Manaphy took the egg into her short hands and hopped back over to Ash. With a final, higher hop, Manaphy jumped into Ash's arms and deposited the egg. Before anyone could say anything, however, Manaphy suddenly leapt back out of the trainer's arms and back into the water, a final 'Papa' escaping her mouth.
About three minutes passed before Empoleon and Ash snapped out of their stupor. Looking at each other and shrugging, Ash sighed. He placed the egg into his backpack and said, "Well, there goes swimming back. Hoopa! Can you send a portal for us?"
His only response was to be suddenly dropped through time and space.
A couple days after Ash got back from his excursion at Toxic Island, Ash started feeling restless. The egg did not seem like it was going to hatch anytime soon, and he wanted to leave for the next island- sort of... he was somewhat dreading the thought of where he was going next- but he wanted to be there when the baby Manaphy- or Phione- hatched. He also didn't want to take the egg to an island, fearing that it might shatter and kill the baby Pokemon, so he was completely trapped at his own home. So he decided to use this time productively and went on yet another training binge with his Pokemon.
Two days later, when Ash went inside for dinner, his thoughts flickered back to everyone back on Earth. His mom was probably worried out of her mind, even with the warning Serena was supposed to give her. Professor Oak was probably scrambling around, trying to figure out where all of Ash's Pokemon disappeared to. His thoughts drifted to a similar subject: What would he do when this was over? He didn't know of anywhere else he wanted to travel to- Orre being to dangerous for his likings and the other regions being no-catch zones, and, if he was truly honest with himself, he was done travelling for a while. Unless he found out about a new region, he would just sit at home with- hopefully- a shit-ton of legendaries and powerful Pokemon. Maybe he'd go back and conquer a league he'd already tried? Wait... Leagues... An idea suddenly sprung into existence into the back of his mind. An idea so crazy, so awesome that he knew he would just have to try and pull it off. What if he found eighteen Pokemon Masters, one for each type, and set up a league of his own? Trainers would flock from all over at the prospect at such a league. He knew he would. Brock, Misty, Iris, Cilan- heck, he'd even heard that Max was particularly fond of the Psychic Type- were all names that he would definently include on this idea.
He'd include May, Dawn, and Serena in on this, but they didn't have a specific type. Maybe he'd ask Arceus to create a massive contest hall on a seperate island? Serena could always just go back to Kalos whenever she had a new Pokevision video. He smiled, thinking about all the possibilities. Maybe each trainer had a single legendary Pokemon, bred from his own, as the cornerstone of their team? That'd make the challenge a lot harder. He thought back to the islands he'd been to so far. Each of them had an arena- Toxic Isles being in the middle of the field (he'd found that one while flying)- so they were already prime for battling. There was only one problem, albeit a huge one. How in the hell would he get ninteen, maybe twenty, massive islands back to Earth? He figured Arceus could do it, but he didn't want the Alpha Pokemon to have to exert that much power just for him. Hoopa, on the other hand... He thought back to her Pokedex entry, which he had looked up while training with Dialga just out of curiosity.
Hoopa, the Mischief Pokemon. It gathers things it likes and pushes them through its loop to teleport them to a secret place. (X) In its true form, it possesses a huge amount of power. Legends of its avarice tell how it once carried off an entire castle to gain the treasure hidden within. (OR) It is said that Hoopa is able to seize anything it desires with its six rings and six huge arms. With its power sealed, however, it transformed into a much smaller form.
Arceus had told him once that Hoopa once carried Mount Chimney in Hoenn miles into the athmosphere so that she could make a home for herself, and then deposited Mount Chimney back into its original place. If she could do that in her confined forme, he had no doubt that she could transport the islands back to Earth. Heck, just to be funny, maybe he'd have her drop the islands right around New Island to toy with Mewtwo...
Either way, he now couldn't wait until he was back on Earth. He had little doubt that any of his Pokemon could crush Lance's, Wallace's, or even Cynthia's teams as it was, but Ash wanted to train even harder. Yes, he would make the League something to be feared. Finishing up his dinner, Ash walked back onto the training field, new determination shining in his eyes.
...That determination didn't last long, though.
"Do we have to do Fairy Island?" Ash whined. "Pika," came his response. "Yeah yeah, I know that Fairy Types are strong over pretty much everything, but do we have to go to that island? I mean, its not like we're challenging Xerneas any time soon..." "Pika. Chu-pika pikachu." "You know why I don't like those things. Remember Valerie?" Pikachu shuddered at the mention of that name. Ash smirked. "I thought so. But I guess Sylveon didn't scare you enough... It's too bad... Ah well! I'll just have to catch one for myself, right, buddy?" By this point, Pikachu was shaking so hard that Ash was quaking a bit himself. He pretended not to notice and continued. "And who knows! Maybe we'll catch a Swirlix or two as well!" Even Ash shuddered at that one. He didn't want to relive Sylvia and her Slurpuff.
After a couple more seconds, Ash decided that Pikachu had had enough and said, "Pikachu, I was just kidding. We are going to try to capture a Sylveon, but it won't be like Valerie's. I do have a couple others in mind, though we're going to avoid Swirlix and Slurpuff at all costs" Pikachu visibly relaxed at that, "Who knows? Maybe we'll be able to capture a Togepi this time without worrying about it getting stolen?" Both of them snickered at that one. As much as the two loved Misty, they still both agreed on the fact that Togepi should've been Ash's. At least he got Totodile. 'You know,' he thought, 'maybe I'll catch one of those for Misty.'
A couple minutes later, Ash had rounded up his selected Pokemon... Or rather his small army. If they didn't have a weakness to Fairy Types, they were here. So the only ones missing were his Dark, Fighting, and Dragon Types. Which was actually a small list. He shrugged it off, chalking it up to the fact that he hadn't been to the right islands yet.
Shaking his head, he turned to face his Pokemon with a serious look on his counterance. The Pokemon that were with his in Kalos mirrored his expression, while the others just looked confused. Ash decided to fix that.
"Now, I know some of you are wondering why I called you here. You think that you won't be needed for this island. You think that this'll be as easy as the other islands we've been on. Well you're fucking wrong. This will be, without any doubt, the hardest island we will face on this quest." He looked around, "Now, I see those looks of yours. You think I'm over-reacting. Well do you want to know something?! THREE GODDAMN FAIRY-TYPES TOOK DOWN A MOTHERFUCKING MEGA RAYQUAZA IN LESS THAN HALF AN HOUR." He took a breath. "Don't believe me? I caught it on my Pokedex cam." Calling out for Hoopa to send a projector, he pulled out his Pokedex and got it ready. When a sleek, black projector dropped from the sky, Ash put his Pokedex into the slot and hit play.
Half and hour later, Ash hit stop on his Pokedex. Turning to face his Pokemon, he saw over fifty jaws dropped. He spoke, his quiet voice reaching the ears of all present, "That was three fairy-types. We're about to capture ten of them. He let that sink in as he recalled all of them. He frowned. Recalling sixty-plus Pokemon took a while to do.
Suddenly an idea sprang into existence in the crazy part of his mind. He slowly grinned like a maniac, causing Pikachu to hop off his shoulder and slowly back away from him, ears drooped. Hoopa would love this idea.
XXTIMESKIPXX
"Pikachu, I don't care if I look like a Ghost-Buster. This is smart." We find our heroes on Pixie Island, with Pikachu laughing his tail off on Ash's shoulder. Because on Ash's back was a massive tank filled with all of his Pokeballs, and that was connected to two hoses that Ash was gripping. As Pikachu would gladly tell you, it looked like something Team Rocket would put together. In the tank on Ash's back was over one thousand miniture, shrunken Pokeballs. The tank itself was divided internally into two sections- one for Ash's empty Pokeballs (Which was about 910), and another for Ash's Pokeballs that contained his Pokemon. The cannons hooked to his arms each were designed to shoot the Pokeballs at a high speed, like a machine gun. Both the tanks and the cannons were designed to look like a Mega Blastoise minus the center cannon. Heck, Hoopa and Ash even painted the 'shell' and cannons to look like that of a Mega Blastoise. And it was for that reason that the water-type was out of his Pokeball and walking next to him. Suddenly, he perked up.
"Shit guys, is that an Audino? " Ducking behind a bush, the trio poked their heads above the shrubbage to see that Ash was indeed correct. An unsuspecting Audino was laying in the middle of a clearing, eating berries. Ash smirked. Cocking his left arm like a rifle, Ash poked his arm through the bush. He stayed in that position for about a minute before he clenched his fist- the trigger for the cannon. Suddenly, seventy Pokeballs shot from the cannon like the bullets of a SMG, spraying the Audino in the red-and-white spheres and releasing the inhabitants of the Pokeballs. The poor Audino must've been scared shitless, but Ash didn't let it rest at all and yelled for all of his Pokemon to attack. And oh, attack they did.
Seventy attacks were shot at the Audino, fainting the poor creature and creating a massive dust cloud. Ash wasted no time and cocked his right arm and squeezed his fist, spraying empty Pokeballs into the fray. When he saw a burst of red light, he stopped firing.
Twelve minutes later, the dust cleared and Ash slowly grinned. For sitting in the middle of a twenty-foot crater was a lone Pokeball.
"Well shit guys! I think we just caught an Audino!"
"Piiikkkaaaa...?"
Activating the return function on his Blastoise Armor, he recalled all of his Pokemon and strolled out of the crater with a lopsided grin on his face.
...Only to run smack into a slack-jawed Diancie. Suprised, Ash stumbled a few steps backwards only to hear Diancie speak, "Well, I was going to fight you but now I think I'll just let you capture me..." Ash simply smirked and shot one single Pokeball right into Diancie's body.
"OUCH!"
Sorry guys, for two things. One: Not updating in a while. I finished my first year and I wanted a chance to relish the first bit of summer. Also, sports kicked into high gear and completely fucked up my schedule. Finally, my internet SUCKS BALLS. I hate to say it, but my updating pattern will be random until school starts back up in the fall and I can just bypass the firewall to upload more chapters. Until then, however, the chapters are going to come at random. So yeah. Secondly, this chapter is shorter than my first. Not much to say for this one, except that I didn't really need to go anywhere with this chapter. Ash just caught a bunch of poison types, then headed to Pixie Island. Oh, and hey, TheGamingPyro, go ahead and review with the name of any non-legendary Pokemon you want Ash to have. Shaymin is indeed summoned with Oak's Letter, on Route 227, which leads to Seabreak Path. :)
By the way, I modeled Ash's attitude towards Faires towards my own. If I see that someone has a Fariy-Type on their team you can be sure as hell that I'll be coming at them with a full team of poison and steel-type Arceuses. I thought the Blastoise Armour was kinda funny...
IMPORTANT QUESTION AHEAD:
I am SO FUCKING EXCITED for when the islands arc ends! The islands arc is really just a set-up for the main story. Ash is going to battle some legendary trainers, both figuratively and literally. Red, Blue, Gold, Yellow, and even MORE colors will be making an epic appearance in this story. Buuuuttt, thats after this arc. So that leads me to the most important question I will (probably) ever ask in this fanfic: Should I skip the islands arc? If I do, the next chapter or so will be highlighting the epic battles of the arc. Mega Rayquaza, Darkrai, Dialga, Arceus, Hoopa, and some others would be included in the next couple chapters. I'd also do the bit on Hoopa teleporting the islands back to Earth, scaring the shit out of a certain professor. So yeah!
Oh! One more thing. Legendaries can breed in this fic, okay? Okay. Thats all I've got. See you next time! ~TheOGPokemonMaster