Shiro Tsubasa here saying you guys are awesome! I honestly did not expect such a reception to the first chapter. I love reviews so those of you who reviewed thank you and to everyone else thank you as well for the follows and favorites! Since it seemed to be a fairly popular thing in the reviews I will finally confirm who the legendary is. Ash's legendary Pokémon is none other than…..the DNA Pokémon, Deoxys! You might be wondering, why Deoxys? It first started out as me simply needing him to have a psychic type and, while Gallade was my first choice, I eventually decided that Deoxys is all kinds of badass and the versatility it has just screams Ash to me. Now, unfortunately, Deoxys won't see battle until the fight against Cynthia but I think I made it suitably powerful to be the big boss of Ash's team (yes, Raichu is not the strongest, that definitely belongs to Deoxys.) On another note, I plan to go by the game rules for Elite Four/Champion. Ash won't have to marathon them but he will have to use the same team for the entire challenge as being able to switch teams between Elite Four, like I've seen in a lot of fics, just seems cheap to me. Be sure to read the A/N at the end of the chapter and leaves lots of reviews!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon, if I did Ash would have had Misty arrested for stealing Togepi's egg (don't care how you look at it, she stole it from him.)
Legend:
"Speech"
"Translated speech"
'Thoughts'
*Saffron City, Sabrina's Office*
Sabrina sighed as she sat doing yet more paperwork. As she tucked a strand of hair behind her ear she couldn't help but wonder why the hell Ash had to save her from herself. While she loved Haunter dearly and was happy to be sane again, she could no longer force her subordinates to do her paperwork in fear of being turned into dolls and thus she was stuck doing it herself. As she was once again mentally cursing Ash, paperwork, and the League for requiring leaders to report on how each individual battle went she felt a familiar presence teleport right outside her door and smiled. With a response of "Come in" to the knock she smiled as Ash opened the door and walked in. Ash looked down at Sabrina to see her doing paperwork and gulped before Sabrina used her abilities to slam Ash's foot in the door.
"Do you have to do that every time you have paperwork?" Ash asked as he finally regained the ability to put weight on his foot. "Of course, it's your fault I lost my one bit of leverage that prevented me from having to do this stupid task. The least you can do is feel a bit of my pain." She replied with a smirk before standing up and walking to Ash. She sat on his lap gracefully and planted a quick kiss on his lips. "So what brings you here? Last time we spoke you said it might be awhile before you could visit again." "Oh? I didn't realize you didn't want my presence, I guess I'll just go visit An-OW!" "Don't you dare finish that sentence or so help me a slap to the head is going to be the least of your worries! Of course I want you here; I was just surprised to see you so soon."
Ash sighed, "My so-called friends turned on me after they overheard me mention wanting to challenge Cynthia for her title. I wiped the floor with this guy we met in Sinnoh, Paul, who was the strongest among them with just Gaia. They tried to apologize but, even with my minor abilities I could tell they were just trying to get in good with me and didn't mean it so I high tailed it out of there and came to see you." By the end of his speech Sabrina was quietly fuming, while she didn't particularly care for the friends of his she had met it still pissed her off. After taking a minute to calm down she smiled again, "So I take it you're finally going for the title? Also, I'm assuming you need a place to stay? Also, where's Pikachu?" Ash smiled at his girlfriend, glad that she wasn't mad enough to go after his ex-friends herself, he wouldn't wish Sabrina's wrath on anyone. "Yes to both, and Pikachu is now Raichu and went to go pester your Alakazam."
Sabrina sighed and sent out a mental warning to everyone in the building to avoid the battlefield for the next couple of hours. "Must he always fight Alakazam? I spend more on repairs from one of their fights than three months' worth of trainer challenges. Well, it's no use trying to get them to change so come on, you're going to help me with paperwork and then we'll spend some time together." Ash silently vowed to sic Raichu on Mr. Goodshow as he was dragged to the looming pile of papers.
*Next morning*
Ash smiled as he slipped out of his girlfriend's arms, careful not to wake her. He slipped into the show and after getting dressed headed to Sabrina's personal practice room. Most of the trainees in the gym didn't know she even had a private practice room so Ash wouldn't have to worry about being disturbed as he practiced his abilities. After meeting Anabel in the Battle Frontier, Ash was happy to discover he did have some minor psychic power though it was mostly limited to being able to communicate with his Pokémon. After contacting Sabrina during the downtime before he went to Sinnoh he discovered that the reason he failed to be able to learn it under Anabel was that she was just really bad at teaching. In the following months he would teleport to Sabrina to be trained. He mastered communication rather quickly and had started working on attempting telekinesis.
Sometime during his training he had fallen for Sabrina and, after embarrassing himself by kissing her in celebration when he first communicated with Pikachu, asked her out. After training for a few hours and making the rock he was trying to lift wobble he decided to go find Sabrina. Upon looking around he found her at the battle field decimating her first opponent of the day with her Mr. Mime. Ash scoffed as the kid whined about her only winning because she cheated then ran away crying. "How do you deal with that kind of thing on a regular basis?" He asked as she walked over to him. "Most of the time I just ignore it. The only trainers who ever challenge me anymore are either a good challenge or whiny brats who think they're so much better than they are. Thankfully it's more often the former." She replied with a sigh. Ash just smiled and gave her a kiss before they went to lunch.
After their lunch Sabrina posed a question that had been bothering her since Ash announced he was going for the title. "How are you going to challenge the Elite Four anyway? I thought you had to beat the regional league to be allowed to fight the Elites." Ash smiled, "That's normally the case but there is a little known rule that allows for Champions of other Leagues to challenge any Elite Four on the condition that they surrender their previous title should they choose to take a spot. I'm lucky that I won the Orange League as, despite it being a splinter league, is still considered under the rule. I am still the current champion as Drake is only champion by-proxy, meaning I don't have to do each championship match but if he loses then I still lose my title. Obviously he still hasn't lost so it's no issue. I've already talked to Mr. Goodshow and the challenge has been set up for a month and a half from now to give everything time to get ready. I was hoping you'd let me stay here for it so I can do some last minute training and spend time with you." Sabrina smiled, she had a month and a half with her boyfriend and then she'd get to watch him take down Cynthia.
And there it is! Chapter 2! It came out a bit faster than I expected but I'm actually quite happy. I know it was mostly information and a couple of OOC Sabrina moments but it cleared up some things I didn't mention in the first chapter and I introduced the pairing that I spent many hours agonizing over. I hope you enjoyed it and now I need assistance. I'm having trouble deciding upon the final 3 Pokémon for Ash's battle team. Confirmed in the team are Rhyperior, Raichu, and Deoxys (in fact I already have the fight between Garchomp and Deoxys written.) I am considering adding Swampert but any and all suggestions are welcome. My only request is no Unova Pokémon as I don't see how he could logically get them without going to Unova and I plan to do flashbacks of how he got his team.