Author: Like I said in the previous chapter, several cameos and "Special" appearances. I'll explain all the cameos and where they came from at the end. This chapter is going to be very quick and very messy. Trying to type out all these battles is going to be a big pain, so I'll just skip them all except for one. It was either that or 5 chapters straight of nothing but battles.
Heaven or Hell! Let's Rock!
"Our next numbers are... 4 and 12!"
"I wonder who it is this time," Ash gets excited.
"Hey, is that... May?" Anabel wonders.
"It can't be," Ash ponders. "May's right there with Marley, and that person is wearing blue."
"Do you think it's just a coincidence?"
"It's not just May," Ash looks around. "There's someone that looks like Dawn too. And that guy is wearing a red version of my old clothes."
"Hey hey Lucas!" Brendan points to the field. "Doesn't that guy look just like me?"
"Yeah he does," Lucas agrees. "But at least he isn't as hyperactive as you."
"You're- heeeeeey, I'll get you for that!" Brendan grabs Lucas' head. "Hey look! There's a guy that looks just like you too! And he looks like a glutton!"
"Brendaaaan, that hurts!"
"I wonder if these clothes are in style?" May looks over herself.
"I wonder where she got that scarf," Dawn looks over at her look alike.
"This match is between Ruby and Sapphire against Kyosuke Nanbu and Aisaka Sayo!"
Cynthia and Lance watch from above as the battle begins. Ruby and Sapphire call out a Delcatty and Aggron, their opponents call Rhyperior and Misdreavous.
"What are you thinking about?" Lance asks as the Rhyperior and Aggron wrestle.
"That boy," Cynthia stared and Lance followed her eyes.
"Ash?"
"You've met him?" Cynthia turned to Lance as Ruby and Sapphire won the fight.
"You've heard of both the Lake of Rage and the Hoenn incidents right?"
"The ones you were involved in?" Cynthia turns to him as Brock's Croagunk and Conway's Heracross battled Fuuka Yamagishi's Kirlia and Phoenix Wright's Chatot.
"He was there too," Lance turns to her as Kirlia is KO'd.
"I heard that Ash was at the time and space distortion at Alamos town," Cynthia wondered as Chatot lost the fight. "As well as the Giratina incident."
"He was also involved in the Lugia crises, the Unown mystery, the Alto Mare near disaster and the Manaphy mission." Lance explains as Jessilina and Jamesilina's Seviper and Carnivine battle Orihime and Naruto's Mr. Mime and Ninetails.
"Ash was in all of those incidents?" Cynthia asks. The battlefield was covered in smog, but Mr. Mime and Ninetails were soon knocked out of it, unable to battle.
"I investigated them all personally," Lance tells her while Barry and Wally Ace's Empoleon and Milotic battle Kenshiro and Nausicaa's Machamp and Togekiss. "But considering how big this world is, Ash may have been involved in a lot more than we know."
"Perhaps," Cynthia looks down again. Barry and Wally Ace had just won their battle. Wally Ace looks up to them and smirks.
"He knows we're watching," Lance observes while Diamond and Platinum take the stage against Neon and Amber.
"We need to make sure nothing terrible happens here, before he gets involved." Cynthia starts as a Bastiodon, Rapidash, Luxray and Staraptor battle it out. "It's the very least we can do for him."
"How do you know Ash anyway?"
"He and his friends were a part of the Mt. Coronet situation." Cynthia answers as Diamond and Platinum win their match.
"Somehow that doesn't surprise me," Lance smiles. "He seems to make friends everywhere he goes, people and Pokemon. Even legendary ones."
"There really is something special about him," Cynthia thinks. Flint and Volkner's Jolteon and Flareon appear on the field, their opponents Date and Fate call their Garchomp and Sandslash.
"That boy has great potential," Lance mentions as Jolteon's Double Kick knocks back Sandslash and Flareon's Giga Impact rams Garchomp. The two Eeveelutions then hammer them with Quick Attack, finishing the match.
"I can sense it too," Cynthia replies as Brendan and Lucas take the field against Kula Diamond and Tim Rhymeless.
"Ooooh!" Ash shivers. "When is it going to be our turn to battle? This is taking too long!"
"They really did put a lot of teams in this," Anabel observes Brendan's Swampert and Lucas' Infernape battle Kula and Tim's Froslass and Ampharos.
"Piiika," Pikachu smiles at is trainer. He knows how anxious Ash can get. Brendan and Lucas just won their battle.
"It can't be that much longer now..." Ash grumbles lightly as Zoey and Candice's Leafeon and Sneasel take to the field against Tilia and Xion's Espeon and Dusknoir.
"Haha," Anabel smiles. However, she senses a strange emotion nearby.
Pikachu's ears perked up, as if sensing it too.
What is this? It's... happy and... playful?
"Pika!"
Anabel knows what Pikachu is talking about, she quickly grabs Ash's hat just as a 'wind' blows by.
"Uhh, Anabel? What was that?"
"I felt something in the air, I didn't know what it was. I think... it's gone now."
"Well, can I have my hat back please?"
"Oh! So sorry about that."
Zoey and Candice finish their battle with a spectacular combination, as expected of a Coordinator.
Lati sits back down next to Bianca and Melody.
"We can go talk to him after the battles are done today, you'll be able to play with him then," Bianca tells her mirror.
"Who are you talking about?" Melody asks them.
"N-nobody," Bianca gets defensive.
"Now let's spin those numbers once more!" the announcer roars.
"Please me us, please be us," Ash prays, Pikachu sighs.
"It's numbers 24 and 7!"
"7?" Ash jerks up. "That's us! Finally!" The boy runs up to the battlefield. Anabel only laughs as she follows him. "Now who's our opponents?"
"That's us Ash," a boy with a net answers.
"Bugsy!" Ash cries. "And Winona!"
"You may have beaten us before Ash," Winona starts. "But you won't win so easily this time!"
The announcer raises his hand, ready to drop it. "This match will be Ash, a Pokemon Trainer from Pallet Town in Kanto and Anabel, a young girl that's already a powerful Frontier Brain, vs the Johto Bug Gym Leader Bugsy, and the Hoenn Flying Gym Leader Winona."
"Wait up!" Barry yells. "Did he just say Frontier Brain?"
"That's what it sounded like," Wally Ace answers him.
"Hmph," Barry sat back down. "Well, even if she is a Frontier Brain, she'd be no match for my dad."
"Let the battle begin!"
"Alright Staraptor," Ash pulls out a Pokeball. "Let's show them how strong you are!"
"Go my friend!" Anabel throws her ball.
"Swellow, let's fly circles around them!"
"Come on out Scizor!"
Staraptor, Froslass, Swellow and Scizor appear on the field.
"Froslass?" Ash turns to Anabel. "Are you sure it's ready?"
"She wants to test out her new powers just as much as I do," she smiles back. "I can't make a psychic link yet, but we can still battle our best!"
"She evolved her Snorunt already?" Bugsy questioned. "I thought she'd use one of her Psychic types."
"There's no use complaining about it now," Winona tells him.
"Alright! Staraptor, let's start this off with Quick Attack!"
"Swellow, use Quick attack too!"
The two birds enter a high speed battle, each one trying to hit the other.
"So this is a Sinnoh Flying type," Winona admires. "Swellow! Aerial Ace!"
"Staraptor! Use Aerial Ace too!"
"What?" Winona watches as both their birds fly even faster than ever. "To use Aerial Ace like that, Ash has really gotten better since the last time we battled."
"Scizor! Hit it with Superpower!"
Scizor flies right through Froslass.
"What the?"
"I'm sorry Bugsy," Anabel tells her cousin. "Froslass might look like an Ice type but its part Ghost too. That means Fighting type moves can't hurt it. Froslass, use Psychic!"
Scizor is psychically tossed back to where it came from.
"If Fighting and Normal moves won't work," Bugsy grips his net and stands it right next to him. "We'll have to use other moves. Scizor, Bullet Punch!"
Scizor flies in fast and punches Froslass in the face.
"Froslass!"
"Anabel!" Ash looks over.
"Keep your focus on your opponent Ash!" Winona reminds him. "Steel Wing!"
Swellow's wings glow and slams them into Ash's Staraptor.
"Staraptor!" Ash calls as his bird recovers from the attack.
"Okay Swellow! Maximum speed! Use Agility and combine it with Aerial Ace!"
Swellow climbs up, high into the sky at an alarming speed, flying out of sight. Ash and Staraptor search the clouds.
"There it is Staraptor!" Ash points at a rapidly diving Swellow. "Stop it with Brave Bird!"
Staraptor engulfs itself with energy and flies straight towards the charging Swellow.
"So that's Brave Bird," Winona watches.
A large explosion fills the sky as the ground is being hit by Icy Wind. Scizor moves much too fast for Froslass to hit while Scizor can still Bullet Punch Froslass from all sides with its speed.
"Y-y-y-ou c-c-can't h-h-h-it S-s-s-ciz-z-zor li-k-k-ke th-h-hat," Bugsy shivered from the cold.
Froslass can't take much more of this...
"Staraptor!" Ash cries, his Pikachu follows suit, as his Flying Pokemon falls from the air. "Get up!"
"I see," Winona thinks. "So Brave Bird is a very powerful but risky attack that also damages the user. Thank you for letting me see it Ash, however... Swellow! Finish it with Aerial Ace!"
"Bullet Punch again!" Bugsy calls. His Scizor uppercuts the Froslass, sending to land in front of Anabel.
"Froslass!" Anabel calls, watching her Pokemon get up. That's a relief, but we're no match for Bugsy's Scizor like this. Froslass' Ice type attacks should work great against Winona but I can't let my guard down around Bugsy.
"Staraptor!" Ash watches as his bird recovers but continues diving while it's being chased by the Swellow. Winona has gotten a lot stronger than I remember. And I know that she won't fall for the same trick twice, there's got to be a way to take her by surprise somehow.
Ash's and Anabel's eyes connected, they can see both concern and hope in each other. Ash smiles and Anabel nods happily.
"Staraptor!" "Froslass!"
"Close Combat!" "Ice Beam!"
Staraptor increases its speed and dives faster as Froslass begins to charge up icy blue energy. Scizor closes in rapidly as Froslass turns and aims for the sky. Staraptor dodges the Ice Beam, which hits the Swellow chasing it, while the bird tackles the Steel Bug and proceeds to punch and kick it. Swellow crashes on the ground as Staraptor headbutts Scizor. Froslass and Staraptor nod and smile at each other.
"Scizor and Swellow are unable to battle! The winners are Ash and Anabel!"
"Yeah! We did it!" Ash jumps around joyously and instinctively hugs Anabel.
Anabel's face turned beet red, "A-Ash! P-please let me go!"
"Oh," Ash calmed down a little and released Anabel. "So sorry about that, I guess I got a little too excited."
"Y-yeah," Anabel twiddled with her fingers.
As Lucian watched smiling, he used one of his fingers to close Dawn's mouth shut.
"Lyra?" Ritchie waved his hand in front of Lyra, no response.
"Hm? What's wrong Zo-zo? You're face is all red."
"A-a-a-ah, it's nothing Miss Senior!" Zoey laughs lightly.
May and Marlene just stared.
"Wow," Melody smiles. "I didn't know he was so bold."
"Huh?" Bianca and Lati turned to look at her.
"It was a different girl back then but you should've seen his girlfriend when I gave him a 'traditional welcome'," Melody recalls happily. "You can tell that she was jealous. Hehe."
Bianca and Lati blushed, "You... know Ash?"
"I met him a while back at the Orange Islands, waaaiiit a minute..." Melody leans over to Bianca and Lati. "Don't tell me you two know him too..."
"W-well..." Bianca got all defensive. "We do, one of his friends won the Water Chariot Festival in Alto Mare. I offered to paint a picture of them, but I could never find it after I finished it." Bianca thinks as Lati shies away.
"Yeah, yeah," A Gym Leader sighed as he slowly walked towards the ringing phone. "Can't a guy enjoy his holes in peace?" He picks up the phone half-heartedly. "Hello?"
"Dad!"
"Ah! Roark!" Byron sounded enthusiastic. "What's happening?"
"Have you heard of the tournament that Elite Four Flint was hosting?"
"Yeah? What about it?"
"I'm sure I saw Jasmine there!"
"What? Jasmine?" Byron looks all over the room while the room looking for something. "Where's my remote? WHERE'S MY REMOTE?"
"Why don't you just turn it on by hand? Hmm...? Looks like some guys called Leo and Gaia won their match against Yulie Ahtreideand Len Kagamine."
"I can't use my hands because I put my TV too high!"
"Why'd you put it so high in the first place?"
"Because I had a remote!"
"Daaad!" Roark let out a sigh. "Then, why don't you just use your shovel?"
Byron stops panicking. "Now why didn't I think of that?" The Steel Gym Leader pulls out his shovel and uses it to turn on the TV. He sees Gold and Silver's Sudowoodo and Weavile win against Reiji and Xiaomu's Houndoom and Jolteon.
"Mom, dad, I'm back!" Angie calls her parents, she finds them watching TV.
"Angie! How are the Pokemon doing?" her mother asks.
"They're doing great! What's happening?"
"There's a tournament at Tili Bay," the father explains. "You just missed Ash's battle."
"Really?" Angie jumps onto the couch to join them as Ritchie and Lyra's Butterfree and Girafarig battle Naoto Shirogane and Hideyoshi Kinoshita's Ledian and Gardevoir.
"Yes," her mom tells her. "He was partnered with another girl."
"What?"
"Oh, they seemed so happy together when they won their battle." Angie's mother giggles.
"Erg-gk-gk..."
"Is something wrong Angie?"
"N-nope! Nothing! Ahaha!" Angie laughs as Ritchie and Lyra win their battle.
"...an... ...ear me... ?"
"Hang on Gary!" Tracey twiddles with the antenna's a little. "There we go!"
"Now it's fixed!" Oak tells his grandson. "What's this about?"
"Nothing important," Gary tells him. "I just thought I'd feed you an interesting tournament that's happening right now in Sinnoh. We've got trainers all over the world here."
"Oh really?" Oak crosses his hands. "Is our favourite trainer taking part in it too?"
"Of course!" Gary smiles. "It wouldn't be like Ash to skip out on something like this. Here we go!"
Oak and Tracey watch as their screen changes to a battle between Red and Yellow and Zero and Iris.
"Is that Ash?"
"No," Gary answers off screen. "It's just a look alike, Ash already had his battle earlier today. But it took you guys so long to fix your connection that you missed it. I think the announcer said both of them were from Tellap Town."
"Oh! Tellap Town!" Oak smiles.
"Yup, surprised me too."
"Tellap Town?" Tracey asks.
"It's a small town on the opposite side of Kanto, a friend of mine, Professor Kao, lives there."
"Tellap Town and Professor Kao?"
"Yes Tracey," Oak starts. "I realize that Tellap and Kao are backwards of Pallet and Oak."
"They might be here for to help Professor Kao. Anyway, that's not important."
"How long is this tournament going to be?" Oak questions.
"A few days," Gary answers.
"That's good to hear," Tracey tells him. "I'll tell Misty about this."
"And I'll go inform Delia," Oak walks over to a phone as Red and Yellow with their battle.
"Hey, Roark," Bryon sounded grumpy as Marley and May's Arcanine and Munchlax battle Tai and Sora's Charizard and Pidgeot. "Are you sure Jasmine hasn't battled yet?"
"I'm sure dad," Roark answers. "There's only one battle left so she'll have to fight now."
"Achoo!" Jasmine sneezed.
"Bless you," Janine tells her.
"Thank you," Jasmine thanks her as May and Marley win their battle.
Jasmine and Janine walk up to the field for the last battle of the day against Marona and Momo.
"Aaalllrrriiiggghhhttt!" Bryon poses, flexing his arms. "Come on Jasmine! Show them that you loooooooveeeee defence!"
"Daaad..." Roark sighed out as Jasmine and Janine release their Steelix and Weezing.
"I looooveeee Steeellliiiix!" Byron poses as the ground behind him explodes. "And I love Jasmine too!" He poses again with another explosion.
"Dad? You're creeping me out."
"Oh, sorry about that. It's just, Jasmine looks so much like her mother now... I'm sure she'll be proud. I know I am."
"Achoo!" Jasmine sneezes again.
"Are you sure you're alright?" Janine asks.
"I'll be fine, what do you say we finish this?"
"Steelix!" "Weezing!"
"Iron Tail!" "Sludge Bomb!"
The opponent's Leafeon and Blissey are knocked out in the double attack. Jasmine and Janine win their match.
"That's funny," Tracey hangs up the phone. "It's not like Misty to leave the Gym. Where could she be?"
"Tracey!" Oak called. "Have you called her yet? Ash's mother will be here tomorrow to watch the next round!"
"I can't seem to reach her, I even tried the Pokemon Center in Cerulean. She might've gone somewhere else."
"How very odd... why don't you try again later tonight or tomorrow then?"
"Good idea."
"Okay folks let's give it up for this round's winners!"
The crowd cheers loudly as the contestants wave to them.
"We'll continue this tournament tomorrow, until then everyone!"
"So, what do you think?"
"Was there ever any doubt? All the trainers here are top notch."
"Then, we'll proceed according to plan?"
"Of course. This is the biggest jackpot we've ever had."
"Riley," Cynthia walks over to the thinking gentleman.
"Cynthia, Lance."
"What do you think?" Lance goes straight to the subject.
"There's too many people to keep an eye on, it could still be any one of them."
"However," Cynthia explains. "There's too many innocents that could get involved, we need to solve this fast."
"This ring is a tricky one," Lance comments. "They're even in Johto and Kanto. All we ever capture are low level grunts. With any luck there'll be someone with a rank we can arrest."
"Shouldn't we tell Ash about all this?" Riley suggests.
"No," Lance answers bluntly. "Knowing him, he'll want to help in any way he can, regardless of the risk to his own self. He should be kept out of it for as long as possible."
"He has a habit of getting involved anyway," Cynthia stares at the battlefield, remembering Ash's battle there as well as her own encounters with him.
"Even so," Lance looks at the now empty field too. "We have to avoid that at all costs. Unlike most people, they won't hesitate to order an attack on another person. Their grunts alone give local police forces trouble. If he ends up being dragged into this, try not to drag him even deeper into it. It will be a devastating day in the world if a trainer like him-"
"I don't even want to think about it," Cynthia interrupts. "We should split up now in case they may be watching."
"Agreed," Lance tells them. "Riley, why don't you stay at the Pokemon Center? We'll need a pair of eyes in there. I'll scout out the harbour." Lacne releases his Dragonite and takes off.
"Then I'll head to the police station to see if they found anything." Cynthia calls out Garchomp and flies away.
A big group of trainers make their way from the coliseum to the Pokemon Center. They were all talking about what had happened in the first round.
"Hey Ash," Bugsy runs over to him. "When you and Anabel switched targets, what made you two decide to do that at the last minute?"
"I don't know," Ash tells him truthfully. "We saw our Pokemon in trouble and I guess we were both thinking the same thing. We knew we had each other's backs, I guess our Pokemon sensed what we wanted to do too, either that or Anabel managed to get through to them with her power."
"I don't think that's the case," Lucian walks over. "Both you and Anabel have very strong bonds with your Pokemon. Not only that, your friendship together is also quite powerful. Pokemon are more in tune with nature than we are, that includes emotions. Your Pokemon simply felt your thoughts and acted upon it." Lucian looks back to see all the girls chatting behind them, and the smiling Anabel.
"Huh?" Brock suddenly stops. "Hey, Ash. Look!"
"Huh?" Ash stops to stare ahead of himself, everyone does the same. They all see a girl in yellow with orange hair waving at them. "Misty!"
"Misty?" Lucian questions.
"A friend of ours from way back," Brock answers. "It's strange though, she's wearing her old clothes."
"I see," Lucian adjusts his glasses. "This just gets curiouser and curiouser."
Even Misty has arrived in Sinnoh! Everyone has completed and won their first round of battle, now to take a rest and prepare for the next. What's going to happen during their rest? And, the mysterious organization that even the Champions are worried about. They're after the Pokemon, can they be stopped here?
Author: Well now, that's one more surprise appearance. And MAN did I ever rush this chapter. Sorry if I went by too quick on the battles, kinda had to since there's so much. Anyway, what's Anabel going to do now with all these girls around Ash?
As promised, a list of all the battles and where the characters came from:
Lucian/Dawn vs Cell/Frieza: Dragonball Z
Ruby/Sapphire vs Kyosuke/Sayo: Super Robot Wars/Mahou Sensei Negima
Brock/Conway vs Fuuka/Phoenix: Persona 3/Phoenix Wright
Jessilina/Jamesilina vs Orihime/Naruto: Bleach/Naruto
Barry/Wally Ace vs Kenshiro/Nausicaa: Fist of the North Star/Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Diamond/Platinum vs Neon/Amber: Old names I used
Flint/Volkner vs Date/Fate: Sengoku Basara/Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha StrikerS
Brendan/Lucas vs Kula/Tim: King of Fighters/Wild ARMs 2
Zoey/Candice vs Tilia/Xion: Ar Tonelico 3/Kingdom Hearts 356/2 days
Ash/Anabel vs Bugsy/Winona
Leo/Gaia vs Yulie/Len: Old names I used, Wild ARMs 4/Vocaloid
Gold/Silver vs Reiji/Xiaomu: Namco X Capcom
Ritchie/Lyra vs Naoto/Hideyoshi: Persona 4/Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
Yellow/Red vs Zero/Iris: Megaman X4
Marley/May vs Tai/Sora: Digimon
Jasmine/Janine vs Marona/Momo: Phantom Brave/Xenosaga
So the next round will be
Lucian/Dawn vs Ruby/Sapphire
Brock/Conway vs Jessilina/Jamesilina
Barry/Wally Ace vs Diamond/Platinum
Flint/Volkner vs Brendan/Lucas
Zoey/Candice vs Ash/Anabel
Leo/Gaia vs Gold/Silver
Ritchie/Lyra vs Yellow/Red
Marley/May vs Jasmine/Janine
That's still quite a lot of battles... well at least they'll be more detailed than the ones in this chapter.
