Well, I was hoping for a 5000 word chapter, but I couldn't think of any good Easter eggs, send me suggestions! Please? ;-; I forgot to put Zenkrith's look, so just google up "Planeswalker Jace"

Mount coronet made a great place to relax, if you ignored the occasional rockslides, it was a pretty peaceful place, and a great place for setting out your thoughts. Zenkrith sat against a tree he created, pondering events that happened earlier that day

"When did my world become so defiled?" He asked himself as he took off his cap and turning it around, revealing a scroll which was Arceus's license to keeping a dimension, approved by him.

"Why can't everything be peaceful?" He continued asking himself as he returned the scroll

"Why are people corrupted with greed and desire?"

"Why does evil exist?"

"What is causing depression?"

"Why are people willing to kill each other?"

Finally, "Why can't any of these questions be answered?" he asked, frustrated

"I suppose it's my own fault, I should've known that this would happen" he said as a tear dropped from his eye and fell on the ground, and a sprout appeared where the tear had landed

"I overlooked some problems" He admitted as he watered the sprout "Maybe I should've helped them"

"I guess I can only hope for the best in the future…" He sighed "It would be best if I left, I suppose…"

Entering a portal, he said "I'll be back"

Four Years Later…

Ash Ketchum, a boy who is now 15 years old, ran through the past, with his friends attempting to catch up behind him. "Hurry up, Dawn, Brock!" he called behind him, and his friends finally stopped beside him, panting and breathing heavily

"Why…Are…You So…Excited…Anyway…?" Dawn asked, panting heavily

The squinty-eyed gym leader smiled and said "There's a new tournament there, and you know how Ash is about tournaments" then he frowned and looked around "Where is Ash anyway?"

"Hey guys, hurry up!" they looked to see Ash in the far distance and sweatdropped "Over here!" Brock chuckled and said "At least we know he's normal" before running and attempting to catch up. Dawn just sighed and began running in the same direction the other two boys were

"Ash, are we lost?" Dawn groaned as she looked around the forest path leading up to the dark mountain ahead

"Uh… no we aren't!" Ash said as he pointed to another path "This one leads to the Sunnyshore city, I'm sure of it!" And just before he could run ahead, he was pulled back by Dawn and Brock

"Ash, I think we better check the map" Brock said, and when he saw Ash's expression, he added "Just to see if you're right"

"According to this map…" Dawn began "Sunnyshore city is only about… The complete opposite way we've been going this whole time…" they all toppled over onto the ground

"Thanks a lot ash!"

"Hey! It's not my fault that you forgot to check the map earlier!"

"You never gave me a chance!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

Brock started to take out his cooking supplies; those two were going to be hungry once they stopped fighting. In fact, they were so caught up in whatever they were doing that they did not notice a flash on top of a mountain, and a humanoid figure walk out of a portal

"Haven't been back for awhile" the humanoid said, "I see you're much bigger than a sprout now" he chuckled as he leaned against the tree "It's great to be back" he said as he stared into the distance "It's great to be back."

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did to – Dinner's ready!" Brock interrupted as he stirred the stew in a pot above the fire

"Me first!" Ash said as he jumped onto the table "You're always first, Ash." Dawn shook her head as she walked towards the table "What's this called, Brock?"

The chef proudly said "Brock's no-chew lazy-boy stew!" Dawn sweatdropped at the chef's pride and took a sip of the stew "Hey, it's pretty good!"

"So, what kind of Pokémon are you going to use for this tournament, Ash?" Brock questioned as he watched the raven-haired boy finish his bowl and sweatdropped at what he said next "Can I have seconds?"

After looking in the pot he noticed it was empty "Hey, what happened to all the stew?" "You've already had fourths, Ash…"

"Pika!" A yellow mouse suddenly emerged from the forest "What did you find, Pikachu? You missed lunch" Hearing the word "Lunch" the mouse dropped whatever he was holding and ran straight to his bowl, eating at the same speed his owner did.

Walking over to the item, Ash picked it up "A pokeball? Pikachu, where did you get this?" "Pika!" the mouse pointed to the edge of the mountain "The Mountain?" Ash asked while putting the pokeball into his backpack

Dawn noticed this and said "Hey! It's illegal to take another trainer's Pokémon!" Ash shrugged and said "I know, but we have to bring it back to Sunnyshore to find out who it belongs to!" before taking off again

"Hey! Get back here!" Dawn called after him and ran towards his direction "I said it's illegal!"

Brock just shook his head and started walking in their direction, muttering something about "Hyperactive"

"Finally, we're here!" Ash yelled in relief as he neared the entrance to the city and fell down. Dawn was panting as she fell down next to him "Next…Time…Don't…Run so…Fast!" Ash blinked and replied "It was only about 5 miles" "5 MILES?!"

Ash looked around "Hey, where's Brock?" a car pulled over "I'm right here!" Brock said as he unboarded the motorcycle. "I got a ride with Officer Jenny!"

"So you didn't try to hit on her this tim-" "Officer Jenny will you-Ow!" Ash looked to see Brock being dragged by Dawn and Corgaunk "Sorry for this, Officer Jenny, we're in a rush" Dawn slapped Brock "Let's get to the mall!"

"I don't wanna go to the mall!" Ash whined as he and Brock were being dragged by Dawn – She was much stronger than she looked "I don't wanna go to the ma-" he paused when he saw familiar brown hair in one of the stores "Actually, I change my mind." He blurted out

Brock put on a betrayed look "What?! Are you insane? You're willing to go into the mall with Dawn of all people!" Ash shrugged and started dragging Brock too "Well, it can't be that bad"

Once they entered the automatic doors of the mall, Ash immediately said "I'm heading to that clothes store!" immediately pointing to where the brunette was last. Dawn frowned "You never shop for clothes! Who will help me carry my bags?!"

Ash rubbed the back of his head sheepishly "Well, you have your own two good hands…" he said slowly before noticing Dawn's deathly glare "Or… Brock can hold your bags for you?" "What?!" Brock yelled

Dawn started dragging Brock towards the nearest shop "Brock, this will be coming out of your wallet~!" Brock screamed in anguish, earning a few confused looks from shoppers "Ash Ketchum, you'll pay for this!" He was cut off as Dawn threw him a bag of clothes and crushed him

Ash shrugged and walked into the store he saw the brunette in "Clothes, Clothes, and more clothes…" he muttered as he walked from aisle to aisle looking for her. "Ow!" Ash rubbed his head as he looked up to see a brute, "Uh, sorry sir…" Ash quickly said, intimidated by the look of the guy "Don't worry about it, kid, happens all the time" he replied, offering a handshake "What, not a talker? Well, Cya around!"

Ash shook his head from the collision and continued searching for the girl. Finally spotting her checking out some clothes "Hey!" he called out "Over her-Ow!" he ripped over someone's foot as he ran "Sorry dude." He looked up to see the same brute he bumped into earlier "Let me help you up" he held out his hand, but Ash was staring too intently outside, looking for the brunette "Still not a talker, eh?" the guy said "Well, hope we don't hit each other again, heh?" while he left the store

Ash groaned as he stood up, and rubbed the back of his head and winced that fall really hurt his head. He groaned even louder when he realized that the brunette had already left the store. When he exited the store, he saw Brock holding a wobbling stack of bags leading up to the ceiling "Hey Ash!" Dawn called out "Can you carry some of my other bags?" Ash sweatdropped when he saw a pile of bags behind her "Uh… I have to find someone, bye!" he said as he ran to the far end of the mall "Brock! Don't you dare drop those bags!"

Ash practically kissed the bench he found in the food court, he knew that Dawn wouldn't go there, since she always complained about needing to go on a diet, but the person he was looking for would definitely have been there, probably gorging down food like always. He scanned the area, noticing it was much emptier than normal, and, except for the employees having their lunch break, there was only one man wearing an unusual fedora, the thing unusual about it was the darkness of the hat, the color was basically void, and looked like empty space

Ignoring the man in the corner, of the food court, Ash continued his search through the mall, looking into random stores, and keeping an eye out for anything moving, before seeing a map of the mall, seeing the map, Ash fainted. According to the map, the mall had four floors, all of them selling only clothes. Clothes of all things they could sell. "Hey Ash! We're over here!" he heard Dawn yell turning around, he sweatdropped at the sight Dawn had Brock holding twice as much as he had before and "May, Max!" he ran up and hugged them "May! Where have you been? I looked all over the mall for you!"

May shrugged "I left after buying some clothes at one store. I'm not a big shopper" "Ash!" Max said excitedly "Guess what? I finally got my trainer's license!" "Awesome!" Ash replied "What's your starter?" "Ralts, of course!" Max boasted with pride "Nothing can beat my Ralts!"

Dawn and May tuned them out as they talked about gossip and rumors "I bet that Drew likes you" Dawn told May slyly. May blushed a deep cherry red "N-No he doesn't" Dawn smirked at the brunette's stuttering

"He so does! Why do you think he gives you roes every time he seems you?" May hesitated "Uh…" "Come one girls, we're heading to the Pokémon center!" The other called impatiently "Hurry up!"

May and Dawn shook their heads and simultaneously said "Boys…" before running in the same direction the boys were going

"Nurse Joy, may this be the first chapter of our – I. Think. This. Story. Is. Canceled" Brock said as he was dragged by the all-too familiar blue frog croagunk. Dawn sweatdropped" Uh… We would like 4 rooms, please, Nurse Joy" Nurse Joy frowned as she checked the box of keys "I'm afraid we're out of rooms"

A whine was heard from behind the group "Aw man! Ow!" May hit her little brother from behind her head "It's alright, we can go camping, there's a forest nearby anyways" A whine was heard again, this time from Dawn "But it's going to ruin my hair!"

"You can have Piplup correct it for you, like you always do every morning" May reasoned, "Alright, who's with me?" she asked as she raised her hand, sweatdropping as she was the only one who raised her hand

"Well, it's not like you guys have a choice" she said with a huff, dragging Max out the door with her by the ear "Ow! May quit it!"

Zenkrith was watching the group from the corner of the Pokémon Center "That group is rather… Interesting… "

"Ow! I said quit it!" May frowned as she looked at her little brother "You're going camping with me, I don't care what you say.""Just let go of my ear!" Max complained "Fine." "Wait up!" a voice was heard behind them "We're coming!" Dawn, Brock, Ash, and the rest of the group emerged from the nearby bushes

"Where are we going to camp?" Brock asked

"I don't know" May replied. Max said "You took us out on a camping trip, and you don't even know where we're going to camp? What the fu-Quit it!" Max complained while rubbing his sore neck May simply replied "Language, Max." while shaking her finger in the "Naughty" gesture

Brock cut into the siblings' quarreling "You know, Max is right, where are we going to camp?" May pondered for a second before noticing a glow in the forest "Let's go to that camp!" she said and was just about to take off before she was held back by Brock "So you're saying you're going to go camp with some complete stranger? He could be a rapist for all we know!"

"You think I'm a rapist? How nice."

Zenkrith sighed, since he couldn't get a room since he had lost his Pichu's pokeball back at the mountain, so he had to resort to camping.

Setting up a campfire wasn't that hard, in fact, it was pretty easy, well, at least for him. All it took was a log and a small spark of magic to get it working. He set up a tent but didn't intend to use it; it was only there to prevent suspicion

"Where are we going to camp?" Zenkrith immediately recognized this as the group he had seen earlier

"I don't know" a female voice said "You took us out on a camping trip, and you don't even know where we're going to camp? What the fu-Quit it!" "Language, Max" the female was heard again Zenkrith almost laughed and gave away his position; the boy's immaturity was quite amusing

He was trying so hard to stifle a laughter that he missed the last few lines "So you're saying you're going to go camp with some complete stranger? He could be a rapist for all we know!" He frowned. "A rapist?" really? It was at this point he decided to make his presence become known

"You think I'm a rapist? How nice." He said calmly, as if he were a ghost "Um, who are you?" Max asked receiving another blow to the head from his sister "What did I do this time?" "Don't talk to strangers!"

Zenkrith chuckled at this "No need to be so overprotective, May, your brother Max here is not doing anything wrong." May fumed "You could've killed him!"

Zenkrith stared in amusement "Trust me, if I wanted to kill him, he would've been dead the day he was born. But no need to worry, I'm not that demonic." Dawn Frowned at her catchphrase being used "Hey! Listen here mister, I'm the only one that is allowed to say-" "No need to worry? Yes, I know that, but the freedom of speech is much more powerful than that rule you just created, am I right, Deedee?"

Dawn Gasped "How do you know that?" the only ones who knew her embarrassing incident were Kenny and some of her classmates back at the kindergarten. Her train of thought was cut off as Zenkrith answered "Your mind is much more vulnerable than you might think."

Brock frowned "So you're a Psychic?" "No." "Aura guardian?" "Not quite" Brock gave up. "What in the world are you?!" "I cannot tell you that."

The group frowned "I can however tell you this. Do you really think a Psychic or even Aura Guardian would be able to do this?" Releasing a bolt of blue magic into the air, the bolt pierced the atmosphere and it suddenly started raining. "I suggest you come to my camp, unless you want to stay in the rain." With that, Zenkrith left, knowing they would follow

When they reached the camp, it was surprisingly not touched by rain, or water for that matter, storm clouds still dominated the sky above, but the ground was still dry and bright, rain only fell around a circle boundary of the clearing

"Well, this clearing is yours, but first, he walked up to Ash, may I have my pokeball back?" Ash stared at him for a moment before he continued "The same one you found near Mount Coronet, I know you have it" Zenkrith insisted

Reluctantly, Ash took the pokeball and gave it to the stranger "Much appreciated, best of luck in the tournament, I won't be going easy."

Zenkrith actually hadn't considered the tournament, but now that he had, he was intent on participating, and with that, he disappeared in a flash of blue light, into the dark of the night.

Did I trick anyone at the mall? No? Aww