"Finally, today's the day." The three walked towards the Stadium beginning day seeing trainer after trainer going towards it.

"Ash? You've seemed upset these past few days, are you okay?" Leaf asked seeing a serious look on her oldest friend's face making him chuckle.

"It's nothing, maybe some battles will help me out."

"Ashy-boy look up there." Gary interrupted the two pointing at the Jumbotron that was currently showing the match-ups for the first day. Sadly for Leaf and Gary, they weren't up there, but Ash was and seeing who his opponent was made him smile.

"Now that's a challenge."

"Who is it Ash?"

"Drayden. The Opelucid City Gym Leader." Ash smiled seeing the older man's photo next to his and that he was the third fight of the day.

"Have you fought him before?"

"Yeah, in my second time here. He was my eighth and final badge but he was no pushover and neither were his dragon-types. In the end, Charizard beat his Haxorus and I got the Legend badge. But that fight was a long time ago and I know he is way stronger now."

"Gar, what were the rules for today?" Leaf asked making Ash look at him wondering the same while Gary chuckled at them.

"Wow you two must really look this stuff up. First few rounds in 3-on-3 but when Semi-finals arrive: it's a full battle."

"Alright then!"

"Ash is that you?" Ash's celebration was cut short by Brock running up to him making Ash chuckle.

"Of course it is! But what are you doing here? You have a job remember?" Ash held his hand out making Brock shake it but the two laughed and hugged after not seeing each other for a while.

"I know, but I've saved up enough vacation days so I could come here. And Nurse Joy promised me she would take over my shifts until I got back."

"You came with Max, Misty, and Forrest right? Where are they?"

"Inside getting some seats for us, our matches aren't until tomorrow."

"Alright man, I'm going to head to the Locker Rooms to get ready. You guys gonna cheer me on?" Ash began to walk away but looked at his friend who smiled back at him giving a thumbs up.

"Of course."

"Why wouldn't we?"

"Good luck Ash." Ash teared up a little seeing who his true friends were and left giving them a thumbs up leaving the three but Leaf was smiling and blushing at him.


"WELCOME TO THE POKEMON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!" The inside of the stadium was dark as a voice echoed throughout as the tournament began and a light began to shine in the middle as the Pokemon League President Charles Goodshow appeared scratching his chin. "Here to start us off is the League President, Charles Goodshow!"

"Hello trainers! I can see you all are very excited for this tournament because I personally am as well. This tournament was made for all trainers to show what they got no matter the title, from Rookie to Ace, Gym Leader to Elite Four member, or Champion to Master. The winner of this tournament shall not only be named the greatest Pokemon Trainer of all time and entered into the eternal Hall of Fame. But they will also receive a set of six Master Balls each with a very special Pokemon inside. Now get ready because it's time to begin!" Mr. Goodshow made his speech making the entire stadium roar in excitement. "Now to start us off is the battle between Brycen, the Icirrius City Gym Leader against Volker, the Sunnyshore Gym Leader from Sinnoh!"


"Come on Volkner." Ash was putting on his gloves and cracking the bones in his body watching the battle currently going on between Brycen's Beartic and Volkner's Luxray. Ash smiled seeing Luxray use Iron Tail on Beartic's stomach knocking the Ice-type out and being Brycen's third pokemon, the victory went to Volkner.

"NEXT UP IS BRUNO OF THE KANTO ELITE FOUR VERSUS BRAWLY, THE DEWFORD TOWN GYM LEADER!"

"Good luck you two." Ash smiled seeing the two fighting-type specialists walk up and send out their Machamps who immediately began to pound on one another.

"Ash Ketchum. I never imagined you as my opponent." Ash was distracted from the battle as Drayden walked up to him making the Master smile.

"Neither did I. I won't go as easy as I did in our battle all those years ago."

"You say it like I wasn't, but prepare yourself. You may have bested me before but this time I will be the victor."

"Bring it Grandpa." The two heard the signal for them to go to the battlefield as Bruno's Hitmonlee defeated Brawly's Scrafty with a Hi-Jump Kick earning him the victory.


"Finally, what may be the highlight of the day: Drayden, The Opelucid City Gym Leader will have a rematch against everyone's favorite champion of every region and underdog: ASH KETCHUM!" The crowd roared seeing Drayden but cheered even louder seeing Ash. "Ready? BEGIN!"

"GO DRUDDIGON!"

"SCEPTILE I CHOOSE YOU!" Ash's Sceptile appeared opposite of Drayden's Druddigon who charged immediately at him.

"USE FLASH CANNON!" Druddigon grabbed and held onto Sceptile and hit him with a silver beam sending the Grass-type flying from the damaging attack. "NOW USE FLAMETHROWER!" Druddigon unleashed the super effective attack on Sceptile making Ash smile.

"CUT THROUGH IT WITH DRAGON CLAW!" The crowd gasped seeing the inventive strategy as Sceptile tore through the attack and slashed Druddigon sending him sliding back hit after hit. "NOW USE LEAF BLADE!"

"USE DRAGON CLAW TO COUNTER!" Sceptile tried to attack Druddigon with his glowing green blades but Druddigon countered with his Dragon Claw sending the grass-type sliding backwards. "FLAMETHROWER!"

"DODGE IT AND USE DRAGON CLAW THEN LEAF BLADE!" Sceptile jumped up over Flamethrower and hit Druddigon with Dragon Claw and then followed it up with Leaf Blade making Druddigon roar in pain again.

"DRAGON TAIL!" Druddigon hit Sceptile with Dragon Tail sending him flying at Ash sent him into his Pokeball.

"Oh man, CHARIZARD I CHOOSE YOU!" Charizard appeared and roared at Druddigon making the Dragon-type roar back. "DRAGON RAGE!" Charizard unleashed Dragon Rage on Druddigon making him fall over unconscious.

"DRUDDIGON IS UNABLE TO BATTLE! CHARIZARD WINS!" Drayden returned Druddigon as Ash returned Charizard and brought Sceptile back out.

"Amazing job Druddigon but my next Pokemon is even more powerful: GO HYDREIGON!" Drayden sent out his Hydreigon making Ash smile and send Sceptile attacking at him.

"USE X-SCISSOR!"

"FIRE BLAST!" Before Sceptile could hit him, Hydreigon fired the super effective fire-type move at Sceptile at point-blank range sending him flying into the wall unconscious.

"SCEPTILE!"

"SCEPTILE IS UNABLE TO BATTLE! HYDREIGON WINS!"

"Return buddy. CHARIZARD I CHOOSE YOU!" Charizard returned to the field and flew at Hydreigon flying around the field fighting him. "DRAGON RAGE!"

"FIRE BLAST!" The two fired the attacks making them collide in midair making the wind send Ash on his butt.

"I guess I need to. CHARIZARD MEGA EVOLVE!" Ash looked at his right glove towards him and pushed down on the Key Stone making Charizard roar and Mega Evolve into Mega Charizard X. "DRAGON CLAW!"

"DRAGON RUSH!" The two flew at each other hitting one another with the super effective attacks until they were on the floor breathing heavily. "DRACO METEOR!"

"Oh man...CHARIZARD INFERNO!" Charizard and Ash watched as Hydreigon fired Draco Meteor into the air and as the attack began to fall down towards them, the Fire/Dragon-type unleashed the enormous explosion of fire at Hydreigon defeating him. But sadly the attack didn't stop Draco Meteor and the Mega was defeated by the attack.

"CHARIZARD/HYDREIGON!" The two trainers gasped seeing how their pokemon were just defeated as they reached for their last pokemon.

"Charizard and Hydreigon are unable to battle! The battle is a draw."

"HAXORUS FINISH THIS!"

"GRENINJA LET'S GO!" Greninja and Haxorus appeared glaring at one another as Ash was debating in his head whether to use Ash-Greninja or not. "USE AERIAL ACE!"

"ROCK SMASH TO COUNTER!" Haxorus's blades on his jaw glowed white as Greninja tried to use Aerial Ace on him hitting him in the stomach.

"GRENINJA!"

"FOCUS BLAST!" Haxorus charged up Focus Blast in his hands and fired it at Greninja who tried to hold it back getting damaged every second Ash was hesitating.

'Oh man, what should I do?' Ash closed his eyes and began to think until he heard Greninja call for him and looked to see Greninja nodding at him. He looked into the stadium seeing Leaf and Gary shocked that Greninja looked like he was about lose and looked higher to see May sitting with Max and Brock. Clenching his fist, Ash began to tremble and yelled raising his arms as Greninja did the same sending Focus Blast high into the ceiling. "Greninja let's show how strong we truly are!"

"NINJA!" Greninja was covered in the veil of water that immediately disappeared becoming two blades in his hands while also becoming the Water Shuriken on his back.

"CUT!"

"Odd form, is it a type of Mega Evolution? ROCK SMASH!" Drayden looked at Ash-Greninja with confusion before ordering Haxorus to attack again using Rock Smash but Ash-Greninja simply jumped over him and slashed Haxorus on the back.

"USE ICE BEAM!" Ash and Ash-Greninja held out their hands and pointed them at Haxorus making a blue beam fire from Ash-Greninja's freezing Haxorus's back. "AERIAL ACE!"

"OUTRAGE!" Haxorus's eyes began to glow red and he started swinging everything at Ash-Greninja who was using Aerial Ace to dodge them all until he kneed him in the stomach making Haxorus stagger backwards. "NOW BEFORE HE LANDS!" Haxorus charged at Ash-Greninja and headbutted him hard in the stomach making Ash fall to his knees feeling the pain.

"Not...until we prove we become the strongest! WATER SHURIKEN!" The two stood up and Ash-Greninja grabbed his Water Shuriken and threw the weapon so quick and so hard, it disappeared from everyone's sight until an explosion hitting Haxorus making him fall over. "END IT WITH AERIAL ACE!" Haxorus stood up but was sent high into the sky by Ash-Greninja hitting him in the jaw with his glowing knee before drop kicking him with the same move. When the dust settled after Haxorus crashed into the floor, the crowd cheered seeing he was defeated and that the victor was Ash.

"HAXORUS IS UNABLE TO BATTLE! GRENINJA WINS AND THAT MEANS THE VICTOR IS ASH KETCHUM!" Greninja returned to normal and Ash smiled at him giving him a thumbs up until the two collapsed on the floor due the strain the form had on their bodies.