Guys, this is it.
One. Island. Left.
Ash cursed as he ran into another wall.
Spooky Island turned out be be primarily composed of a giant, foggy, haunted mansion - that suprisingly wasn't Morty's house - and a giant, (wait for it), foggy forest.
Rather steroytypical if you asked him.
Regardless, though, he was here to finish his last island, something that he could hardly believe was happening. It seemed like just yesterday that he landed puking in the Hall of Origins, but he wasn't too sad - after all, it wasn't like he was leaving.
Still, it was weird for the raven-haired trainer and his Pikachu.
Ash was snapped out of his thoughts, though, when he ran into yet another wall.
And then the wall moved, and a Gorgiest promptly screeched in his face.
Ash grinned despite the noise that was trying to etch itself into his eardrums and pulled a Pokeball off of his belt.
"Talonflame, I choose you!" Ash called, lobbing the ball into the air.
Ash thought for a few moments on his plan of attack, when it dawned on him.
"...Talonflame, use Defog."
Now that Ash could see, he clipped the Pokeballs containing the Super-Sized Gorgiest (which he barely refrained from dubbing 'Big Mac') and Talonflame onto his belt before looking around.
Suprisingly, the mansion that he found himself in was well-kept, as evidenced by the lack of Spinarak webs and dust. Unsuprsingly, though, Ash noticed quite a few ghost-types staring straight at him looking for a challenge.
Ash just pulled off another Pokeball from his belt and released his Hydreigon.
Three minutes later saw Ash holding that many Pokeballs - a Banette, a Dusknoir, and a Mismagius were all now safe in his backpack.
Oh, and he was staring down a Giratina, but that was a minor detail.
And then the minor detail roared and Ash flew back a few yards.
Ash turned his hat backwards.
Two could play at that game
"Alright!" Ash yelled, "Dia-"
"Ash," Giratina growled, "I swear to ARCEUS that if you release Dialga of Palkia I will PERSONALLY drag your sould to the Distortion World. Do you understand me?"
Ash lowered the Master Ball.
Hoopa zipped out through another portal, slamming into Yevtal and knocking him back a few feet.
"Oblivion Wing!" Ash shouted, pointing at Hoopa.
In a flash, Yvetal's wing became dark red and he swatted Hoopa away like a fly before following up with a Giga Impact at Ash's command.
Suprisingly, Hoopa remained consious and relatively uninjured before she smirked and smashed a bottle.
And in that moment, Ash almost shit himself.
Because when Hoopa smashed that bottle, the cute, small, mischevious Hoopa Ash knew and -mostly - loved wasn't there anymore.
No, in her place was a literal demon.
And then the monstrosity summoned hundreds of portals, all of which spawned hands that flew forwards and slammed into Yvetal, smashing him into the ground and knocking him out.
Ash recalled Yvetal and took a few moments to think after giving the parakeet of destruction a word of thanks and clipping the master ball back onto his necklace. After a moment, Ash suddenly nodded and grabbed the master ball across from Yvetals, throwing it into the air with a burst of scarlet light. With a strangely melodic roar, Xerneas emerged, and preformed a Geomancy before Hoopa could react.
That didn't stop Hoopa though, and she rushed forwards again, more portals opening behind her by the second.
Xerneas wasn't fazed though, and she released a Moonblast point-blank into Hoopa's face.
She wasn't done yet though, and unleashed a Hyper Beam straight into Hoopa.
Ash pumped his fist, exuberant at his victory, when Hoopa came flying out of the smoke at Xerneas, who was still recovering from the use of the powerful move. Then, Hoopa flew way up into the sky and summoned a massive portal right above Xerneas.
Ash bit his lip, nervous, when it struck him and he smirked.
"GRAVITY!"
Xerneas slammed his legs down, disrupting Hoopa's concentration and intensified gravity to such a degree that Hoopa was slammed five feet into the dirt, where she didn't rise again.
Ash wasn't sure though, and watied until she reverted back to her normal form to run over and congratulate Xerneas before lobbing a Master Ball at Hoopa. She didn't fight it, and it dinged and clicked right after the first wiggle.
Ash looked down, staring at the pokeball before a large grin broke his disbeliving demenor and he grabbed Pikachu, spinning his strater around in joy.
"Pikachu, we did it!"
"Pika Pika!"
"We caught..." Ash started.
"A HOOPA!"
Four hours later, Ash stood in the Hall of Origins with Arceus.
"Ash," the creation Pokemon started, "Lets face it. There is no way that you could beat me."
Ash opened his mouth indignantly but Arceus cut him off with a glare.
"No. You can't. It's not. Possible. I am literally unbeatable! I created everything!"
"But I had a plan!"
Arceus softened a bit.
"Yes, Ash, and it was a good one. One that would undoubably work on any lesser Pokemon, but not on me. You are aware that Simple Beam doens't have any effect on a Pokemon with the Multitype ability, right?"
Well shit. That had been a central part of Ash's plan.
"And Ash, I hate to disappoint you, but you will not be capturing me." Arcues told him. "...Well," he ammended, "At least not in the traditional sense. No, you will still be able to call upon me if you wish to do so," Arcues informed him, levitating over a chrome white Pokeball with a horizontal gold stripe down the middle, "But I will not reside in this Pokeball. Nay, I will remain here, in the Hall of Origins, where I will keep watch, but should you want to call upon me, that Pokeball will function normally, with the exception that it will teleport me to you at that time. Try it," Arceus offered.
Ash did, snapping open the Master Ball by sliding his thumb over the green central button and sure enough, Arceus disappeared from where he was standing and reappeared in the flash of scarlet light that followed Ash's opening of the Master Ball.
"Huh, cool!" Ash decided, clipping the now-shrunken Master Ball onto the bottom of his necklace.
"So, what's next?"
"Next?" Arceus repeated.
"Yeah," Ash confirmed.
"Next, you kick some ass."
Guys, that's it.
You know, for a while I was debating on whether or not to just end the story here. I still might; it's a good stopping point. But I think that I'll leave that one up to you.
So my question is:
Do you want me to continue this story?
OR
Do you want a sequel?
Literally, they'd both probably end up being the same thing. The only difference is that if you guys want a sequel, I'd get to slap a nice little completed sign onto this story and go post under a new title, probably something like 'The Ultimate League'
Either way, I'm probably going to be focusing on a new idea I have, one that I'm not sure if anyone has done before yet, because thats just what I do: Create new ideas.
So here's a little snippet! Feel free to skip this if you want to.
A Mudkip groggily stood up, shaking his head to clear it before turning to look at the only other occupant of the room - a large seaside cavern - and asking, "Are they gone?"
His companion - a Pikachu - nodded and picked up the Mudkip's Treasure before handing it to his suddenly-awake companion.
"You got it back?!" Mudkip exclaimed, "Thank you so much! I thought I was going to lose it..."
The Pikachu waved a paw at him. "It was no problem!" He replied.
Mudkip nodded, clearly in thought, before he started talking again.
"You know... Before the thieves showed up, you said that you were a human, even though you're clearly a Pikachu." Mudkip held up a paw to forestall any protests before continuing.
"Don't worry, I believe you. I don't think you could've had that serious of a reaction and be lying," Mudkip said, referring to how the Pikachu had fainted after seeing his reflection. "I just think that there had to have been a reason for you suddenly appearing, you know? The last time this happened..." Mudkip trailed off, lost in thought, before his eyes snapped open wider than they'd been before.
"A meteor almost destroyed the world."
So yeah! In case you couldn't tell, it's a Mystery Dungeon story, combining both the events of Red/Blue Rescue Team and Explorers of Time/Darkness! I've always loved those games, and I've had this snippet - along with almost two full chapters just sitting on my flash drive for quite some time now. So that brings me to question two:
Would that be something that you guys would be interested in?
Or not?
Well, anyway, I'm sure you know how to tell me by now. (Review!)
Now, speaking of reviews:
butterflypuss: As always, thanks for both of your kind words! :D
TheGamingPyro: Hope Spooky Island was up to par :) #2spooky4me
MewLover27: Yup! I refrained from doing too much with Magearna because frankly, I know next to nothing about it. And thanks! Also, sorta. He sorta catches Arceus.
Stallion6 of Deviantart: Did it? I can't say that I've ever seen that show! It sounds cool though - one of my childhood dreams was to build the craziest tree house ever. Sadly, that never really happened.
The Creator: I live to amuse :)
1) HELL YES IT WOULD BE!
2) Yeah, I never really liked that bugger either. He kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
Apparently I'm not alone on this either, seeing as how he's usually the mastermind in all of the 'Ash gets betrayed by his friends' fanfics.
3) Well no shit it was a good pun. I wrote it. :)
4) Haha, naw, I wouldn't quite do that to you guys. I just found Shadow Mewtwo way too cool to not include. And my theory about Greninja not making it is that since he is already in Smash Bros 4 (he's actually my main), they didn't want to overuse him.
5) Oh, okay! I'm glad to hear that, because I really like Hoenn. Still though, I wish that Team Aqua and Team Magma could've done something cool with Manaphy and Heatran, leading up to a mission to capture Volcanion, but hey, no biggie Nintendo. *cries*
6) All of Ash's Pokemon in this fic? Or his canon Pokemon? Because in this fic, Ash's Pokemon would win. By quite a lot.
7) I actually had written a battle scene last chapter for it, but I could not make it even remotely believable without Ash just sweeping the floor with Max, which he wouldn't do, so I scrapped it.
8) Speaking of scrapped ideas, that seemingly random tidbit about Ash's Simple Beam plan came from this long-ass scene I had written for the Arceus battle, and yeah, there was going to be one. I'd been working on the scene for literally the entire story as a side-project, and the scene alone tripled the length of this chapter. And a major part of it was Ash using Genesect to lock Arceus into his Dragon Type with Simple Beam and them unloading on Arceus with Mega Rayquaza, Diancie, Xerneas, and Registeel.
AND THEN I FUCKING READ THE WIKI PAGE ON SIMPLE BEAM AND FOUND OUT THAT IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK AGAINST ARCEUS AND HIS GOD-DAMN MULTITYPE ABILITY.
So I cried and scrapped the whole damn thing.
Well, that's it.
So for now, this is me signing off.
Peace!
~TheOGPokemonMaster.
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