ch. 14 Two Degrees of Death and Separation

Got the name idea from the Pokemon episode Two Degrees of Separation.

Ash and Max had trained two whole years to prepare for the meteor attack. Besides training, Max evolving, and talking to their friends, things were very uneventful. Then one day after the two years, the meteor was flying high in the sky. "We better wait til it's closer." Ash said. Suddenly the Pikachu that betrayed them, the two kids that adopted him, and Rex appeared. This surprised the Pokemon and Mermaid. But mostly Ash and Max. "How did you serve?" Max asked. "These two took me away from the village after you lost your little Chop." Pikachu said. This made Max angry. "Rex knew something bad was about to happen so he left after they praised him." Pikachu said. Ash was getting angry too.

May stand in front of them. "Don't worry about them I'll deal with them. You deal with the meteor." May said. Then looked up. Rayquaza tried to blast it but it was too big. But the meteor was still too high up. They looked a May. "We can't let you do that." Ash said. Suddenly an arrow hit Misty. This shocked everyone but the humans. The twins looked at Rex. "You killed another one of our friends." Max said. Then he used flamethrower and aimed it at Rex. It was way stronger than the normal one. Pikachu jumped in it's way and got carded to death. Rex got supper angry. He soon shot May. Ash was devastated by this. 'That human..' Ash thought.

He got closer to May. "Just so you know I'd always kind of like you." She said. Then she died. Ash was scary angry. He used eruption and it hit the two kids that adopted Pikachu. "Ash we're suppose to hit Rex, not those innateness kids." Max said. "Who cares? All humans have to pay for what they did." Ash said. Max slapped him. "It's not you talking. It's that Dark. Don't let him control you." Max said. Ash snapped out of it. "Thanks." Ash said. "Look out." Ash stepped in front of Max and was hit in the chest. This shocked Max. He saw Rex was untouched by what he done. But Ash wasn't done yet. He got up.

This surprised Rex, he quickly shot like a mad man. The fire type wouldn't go down. Once the murder was out of arrows Ash fell to the ground in pain. He was loosing blood fast, he couldn't breath probably. Max walked up to his brother. Sadness was all over the young one's face. "Just remember, we will all be revived in the next life. And take him down for me." Ash said as he was dieing. Max was crying. "No. We'll stop the meteor and still live. Just you wait." Max said. But Ash was not moving. Max listened for a beat. There wasn't any. Max was crying. "Ash, Ash wake up. You can't leave me all alone. Ash. Ash. ASH!" Max said. Ash was still not moving.

Max was soon full of rage. He looked at Rex. "You! You did this! You're the one that took everything dear from me. I'll make you pay." Max said. The emotionless boy was quiet. Max was got even angrier. "I should never had let kindness blind me." Max said. Soon he ran up to Rex and grabbed him. The boy used his bow to beat himself free. Max ignored the pain and looked at the meteor. "If Ash dies then you and I die too." Max said. "You're crazy." Rex said his first words in the series. "I maybe but you'll be paying it." Max said.

Soon Max grabbed the meteor with one arm. It was very heavy. "Must save everyone else." Max mumbled. Soon his body and Rex's body began to burn horribly. 'Must not let go.' Max thought. He was consciousness fast. Rex was dead already. In the final moments of Max's life he saw his buddy Chop as a ghost. This inspired Max and pushed the meteor into another dimension that was crossing theirs. Soon the meteor killed the dinosaurs in Dinosaur King's world. Max soon died as he fell to earth. He was able to see the sun set one last time.

...

Soon Max and Rex woke up to see they were in the deepest parts of space. Max looked at each other. They were ghosts, and Max was in the human form he was in when he first had the dreams. "What's going on? Where's Ash?" Max asked. Soon a 22 year old Dawn with huge beasts appeared. She was wearing a very long white robe with two flabby unattached long sleeves. Holding the sleeves were two jewels, one left pink and one right blue. The pink was the space orb that was in the shape of a pearl. The blue one was the time demimonde. Other than that it was a pretty plain dress.

"Who are you?" Max asked. "I am I am." She said. Max was confused. "That makes no seance." Max said. "I am the mother of all creatures or gods that make creatures." She said. Rex and Max nodded. "Okay now where are we?" Rex asked. "We are at the edge of this universe." She said. "Wait I thought the universe was continuous." Rex said. "Oh. That's just a human preposition. There are many universes that lie in the ultra universe. This world is not of any form just a gate way from universe to universe. But nobody can reach the it unless your me. Or Paradox and Kingdom Hearts." I am said. "What's that?" Max asked. "Oh nothing you'll have to deal with." The woman said. "That's nice. But where's Ash? Why isn't he here and why are we here?" Max asked.

"Ash is back in the Hall of Origin. The main legendary hideout in this universe. He isn't here because he has a job to do there. And you're here because you two don't really belong in this world." She said. Max was sad. "Oh, here's your correct place." She said. Then the dinosaur King world arrived. "But I don't want to go. I want to be with Ash." Max's spirit said. "I'm sorry. But you have to go. You're friend has got the message." She said. Max looked at the other universe. Rex was floating inside it to that Earth.

"No." Max said as he release some major energy. 'This isn't good. If Max has this kind of power. Ash is in major trouble.' She thought as she dodged. "I'm sorry. But you have to go." I am said. Then she pushed Max into that other world before it separated from the Pokemon world. Max saw his life passed by. He was in so much pain and agony. Soon these memories were sealed away for a long time. And Max got reincarnated.

(Back at the Hall of Origins.)

Ash had arrived at the steps of the hall. His body soon became the flesh it originally was. But Ash was sad for the lost of this other brother. Once he noted he was real and not in a dream or a ghost, he went over to see how Arceus was doing.

He fond his original brother talking to Giratina. They soon noticed him. "Daddy." Giratina said. Then she hugged him. "Hi." Ash said sadly. "What happened?" Arceus asked. "I won the bet. But I lost these friends." Ash said looking away. "You had to leave them to return to your original family right?" Arceus asked. "No. They... They died in the hands of humans." Ash yelled. This sadden the two and anyone that was in the gym. "I didn't know. I heard from Rayquaza that a meteor was coming to Earth. But something pushed into away and into a hole that lead to another universe." Giratina said. 'Max must have done it.' Ash thought.

"Dad is there something else wrong?" Giratina asked. "I had another brother while I was a charizard. We were twins like your uncle and I. But he was more like me. He took a guy that killed my friends and went off to defeat the meteor." Ash said. "That's so sad. What happened to him?" Giratina said. "I don't know I died before I could see." Ash said. Soon I am appeared. "I know what happened to the boy and your other haft." She said. The legendaries looked at her.

"It was tragic. Your brother was able to fend off the meteor. But at the cost of his and Rex's lives. I had to send their spirits to another universe." She said. Ash soon pushed her to a wall. "Why'd you do it?" Ash cried. "Because, they didn't belong in this world. Didn't Max always talk about Dinosaurs?" She asked. "Yes. But he came from my soul." Ash said. "No he came from yours and Dark's souls." She said. This shocked Ash and confused the others. "Wait isn't Dark apart of me." Ash said. "No. He is the ever living substance of darkness. He was never born and can't die. He has all of my powers yet we are not related. But the thing that truly makes him evil is that he coups many angels to become devils. In the worlds I created before, I would make good gods that lived in peace. But Dark would croup at least one. Hades, Lucifer, and many other gods and angles. But these gods were very weak. Dark hated that part." She said.

"But what's this got to do with Ash." Articuno came into the picture. "Well, Ash is a much powerful god than the ones Dark corrupted. And based on what I got from Max, he is very dark. But not evil. Max will become a new devil for the world I sent him. And I believe, Ash, that you're the devil for this world. Those other voices that were hunting Ash were the other devils trying to make Ash one of them." She said. "No. It can't be true." Ash said. "Heatran's suppose to be the devil, not me. No not me." Ash was getting scarier by the minute. "Heatran is insane and holds the power to the underworld. But he isn't the devil." I am said. This made Heatran few.

"No. No. You're lying. You're lying." Ash said. I am slapped him. "Just look at your self. You're the exact replica of him." She said. Then she brought up a mirror. It had Ash's human form in it. Ash was crying. His heart was withering inside. "No. No. No!" He screamed. Then he ran away. Well he actually flew away. Arcues looked at his mother. "Mom, why did you say that?" He asked. "Because he need to learn the truth before he was taken away from the darkness." She said.

I am looked at Arceus. "To tell the truth. You were suppose to be the only one to born at the time you were. But Dark made Ash in your shell for a body and power to use. I wish I could save your brother. But Dark has a strong hold, and I believe once he's done Ash won't let him go." I am said. "How do you know that?" Articuno asked. "Because I saw Ash's future and I have to leave now and never come back to be in it." She said. Then she teleported. "Mom. Mom. Don't go. Mother. Mother. Mother!" Arceus cried. In the background Ash heard what I am said.

'It's true. She nevered loved me. She'll never love me because of what I am.' Ash thought. Then he went off to get some wine. Arceus was still sad that his brother was in harbor of such evil and his mother was not coming back. Giratina hugged him to releave the pain. Articuno was more worried about Ash. 'Ash. I wish I knew what to do?' She thought.

A bit on how Kingdom Hearts works and what's happening to Ash. But will this new knowledge make things worse. You bet. But is there someone that can help him? Can Articuno be that one? Or is things going to get worse?

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