I DON'T OWN POKEMON
A HERO'S RETURN
CHAPTER 4
The day was pretty dull for Ash's group and Cynthia. Cynthia decided to hang out with them for a while until Mr. Goodshow needed her. Eventually she left then Sarah decided to go home too, so that left Ash, Paul and the Rockets. Then they heard an explosion.
Paul looked at Ash who nodded and they ran, the rockets following. They came to the end of the trees and saw, once again the traitors with shadows.
"Piplup use bubble beam!" Dawn commanded and then the penguin shot bubbles at a shadow Sunflora, but it didn't bother it and it send a razor leaf at Piplup, but the leaves were black and knocked Piplup out cold. Similar scenes happened with the rest. Then Ash and Paul intervened. Ash sent out his grass snake while Paul turned on his watch.
"Serperior, leaf blade to knock em all away!" Serperior's tail glowed green and banged into a shadow Sandslash that fell onto a shadow Sunflora and so on.
After leaf blade got about 4 on the ground Ash called a different attack,
"Great job, switch it up with Leaf storm!" Then in an instant Serperior created leaves and shot them at the remaining 3 shadows. Now that they were all on the floor Ash decided to go for it.
"Purifying Solar Beam!" Serperior charged sunlight and shot a whiter-than-usual beam towards the shadows. When the smoke cleared most of the shadows were purified again, except a shadow Piloswine. Ash knew Serperior was tiring so he used someone else,
"Serperior, return great job. Aipom go, use Focus Punch!" As Serperior was sucked back into its ball Aipom leapt into action with the fist on its tail glowing white.
Before anybody could react Aipom slammed into Piloswine and the dark aura came out. Ash realized Aipom used purifying focus punch instead. As Aipom made her way back to Ash's shoulder he turned to Paul,
"Did you get that? We'll need proof that shadows are coming back." This shocked Ash's traitors that be said back.
"Its all right here, every word, from now on every have your video-log ready we need all the proof we can get." Paul said to Ash, who nodded and was about to speak again until being interrupted,
"What? How did he record it I don't see a camera? What do you mean back?" asked a brunette girl
"I recorded it on my watch, its called a Nano-Dex, more advanced that a regular pocket Pokedex. It has quicker access, works more efficient, has a video-log, can call, display holograms, send messages, and let you carry unlimited pokemon on you and more." Paul informed them while showing off a little.
Ash was going to stop him from telling them, as he knew they'd ask for one, but figured there's no harm in Paul having a little fun.
Max and his supporters were wide eyed, they couldn't believe that little watch could do all that. Of course Misty was the skeptical one.
"I don't believe you, that watch isn't that fancy! How do you expect us to believe its true?" Asked an angry Misty
Ash and Paul sighed and Paul activated his Nano-Dex. Out of the watch came a hologram, that was then blown up to the size of a TV screen and played back a holographic version of the fight that just happened, full audio and all. After it was done, the picture was pulled back into the watch like it was never there.
That shut Misty up as she just said thanks and left. The rest of her group followed until they were all gone. Paul called after them,
"Red battles in a half hour main field!" Ash looked at Paul with a questioning look, witch Paul saw and said,
"That way they'll see how good you are before they reveal your Ash. You know that you can't be announced as Red in any of your battles right?" Paul ended with a question
"Yea I know, so before my battle starts, ill be Ash Ketchum again." Ash replied.
The next half hour went by pretty quick as before they knew it they were on the field of Ash's battle.
On the field were Ash, his opponent and his cheer squad, the ref, Sarah and the Rockets.
"This is a 1 on 1 battle on the Rock Field between Brock Stone from Sinnoh and Ash Ketchum from Kanto!" the ref announced, earning gasps and murmurs from the crowd, especially a specific group.
"He's back?" Asked Gary and Drew
"What ever I bent he wont even pass the preliminaries'." Said Misty with Iris nodding.
"Yea a loser like him cant competes here." Said the nerdy kid Max with May and Dawn agreeing.
"Send out your Pokemon!"
"Im going to crush you like the weakling you are! Go Golem!" called Brock as his rock monster appeared.
"Shut up and battle, Blastoise, lend me your aura!" Ash said as he called forth his water turtle with cannons in his shell.
The 2 Pokemon glared at each other, knowing what happened between their trainers.
"Loser has first move Brock." Taunted Ash as Brock growled and commanded,
"Golem, Rollout!" Then Golem took off rolling like a ball, the crowd gasped at the speed, Brock's group smirked and Ash looked bored.
"Blastoise, Rapid Spin." Even faster than Golem, Blastoise retreated to his shell, spun around and headed towards Golem.
The two collided in the middle of the field even for a minute, before Blastoise plowed through Golem sending in back into a rock. The crowd gasped, Brock growled and Ash Pikachu and Aipom smirked.
"Golem, mega punch!" Golems fist became surrounded in white light. Ash was quick to counted again though.
"Blastoise, double Ice Punch." Then both Blastoise's hands were surrounded in an icy blue light.
Golems white fish collided with one of Blastoise's. They were even, because Blastoise wanted to be. It was the next step of Ash's plan.
"Looks like you cant over power Golem anymore. Knew you sucked Ketchum!" Exclaimed a cocky Brock. Ash just smirked and said to his turtle,
"Other hand." Without a second thought Blastoise's other hand also an icy blue was brought up and into Golems underside, sending in flying threw the air, witch isn't easy.
The stands were shocked, Golem was so heavy and was sent flying so easily, especially a certain group.
"That's Ash's strategy, not attacking directly but countering and overpowering his opponents, it works almost every time. In fact he's just stalling now, he could have ended this battle 10 minutes ago." Paul informed them as he walked over to them.
"You're wrong, Brock's Golem is the best Golem ever, it wont lose!" Max yelled as he stuck up for his friend.
"Are any others of you in the tournament?" Asked Paul as Misty, Iris, and Max nodded.
Paul smirked and gave them a piece of advice,
"Watch out, if he doesn't knock you out, I will." With that he left to go sit with The Rockets on the field.
Although slightly afraid they merely turned their attention back to the battle.
"Golem don't give up yet, use rock slide!" Brock encouraged his dual type pokemon, as said pokemon created rocks from this air over Blastoise.
"Whirlpool above you." Ash countered calmly. Blastoise created a whirlpool of water over his head not to destroy the rocks but to send them back at its attacker.
The rocks fell into the swirling water, but instead of breaking, they were spun around and shot out in Golem's direction.
After managing to avoid most of the rocks, Golem awaited Brock's next attack.
"Golem, Take Down full power!" Golem charged towards Blastoise, obviously tired, with a white streak following it.
"Blastoise, lets end this, Skull Bash." Ash ordered with a sigh and a bored tone.
Blastoise put his head in its shell, jumped up and took off like a bullet towards the speeding Golem while surrounded in white.
After the smoke, caused from the collision of attacks, cleared the results were obvious.
"Golem is un-able to battle, Blastoise and Ash and the winners!" the ref announced as Brock recalled his swirly eyed Golem with words of thanks.
"Blastoise you were wonderful, take a well deserved rest." Ash praised his Kanto water starter while sucking him back into his Pokeball.
Ignoring the reporters asking him questions, He asked Aipom and Pikachu,
"You guys wanna go back to the hotel, or go look for Shadows?"
"Hotel Please." They answered together. Ask chucked and went to his room with Sarah, The Rockets, Paul and Cynthia too.
At the room Sarah was in her room watching TV, Lucario and Gardevoir were on the deck in case the traitors came, Pikachu and Aipom made themselves comfortable on Ash and Cynthia's laps. And the Trio? Take a wild guess.
"I don't know why we still play Go-Fish, Jessie cheats every time!" James yelled.
"Like I just said, how do you know Meowth doesn't have any 6's? Why do you think I have it and not telling you?" Jessie angrily shouted.
"Because you're you!" James and Meowth told her.
"Wobba!" Yelled Wobbuffet as he came out of nowhere
"Nobody asked you!" Jessie yelled at the blue pokemon.
"Woba, Wobbuffet!" Cried the psychic type as it hid behind James and Meowth.
"Jess, Wobbuffet's sayin dat you're sittin on a set of Jack, Queen, King, Ace, because you was gonna ask to play 500 rummy. Dat true?" Meowth translated causing everyone other than Jessie to burst out laughing.
"Why cant you just play cards like the rest of us?" Jessie muttered as Wobbuffet just stood next to her watching the rest of the game play out.
After a while of Ash and Cynthia watching TV Cynthia asked Ash what he had been doing, so Ash, instead of telling her, activated his Nano-Dex and went down to the first video-log called "Betrayal". By now Sarah, The Trio, Lucario, Gardevoir, Aipom and Paul were also watching as another hologram come out of the watch.
This one was different because Ash was completely alone.
Before it started Ash said to everyone,
"This is what happened right after I left professor oak's lab with my new Nano-Dex. They just ran me out of town and Pikachu and I were on our own." With that he started the video.
"Start a Video-Log" They heard Ash tell his watch.
"Video-Log Recording Sir." The watch responded back.
"Im in the woods outside of Pallet, My friends or ex-friends rather just turned of me and Pikachu. Now im gonna prove them wrong. I just got this new Nano-Dex from the Professor, this should help big time." Ash said to nobody.
"Pikapi, Pikachu Pikapika Pi" Pikachu said hopping onto Ash's shoulder.
"Your right buddy, we'll make new friends, on our own adventure. Hey, maybe we can get Squirtle back. Primeape too!"
"Pikapika! Pikachu!"
"Knew you'd like that idea, buddy. If I remember right, Pidgeot should be here too."
Not a second too soon a loud screech came down and knocked the duo to the floor.
When he got up he saw none other than,
"Pidgeot!" "Pikapika!" The pair shouted to their old friend.
As Ash and Pikachu told him everything that happened, the bird was furious.
"So Pidgeot you wanna come with my again?" Ash asked full of hope.
Unfortunately the bird declined, as the forest still needed him more, but promised Ash and Pikachu that those traitors set foot in his forest again.
With that Ash and Pikachu left the forest in search of another friend, Squirtle.
"And that's what we did right after we left pallet. Right buddy?" Ash said as h turned to his starter.
"You bet, too bad Pidgeot didn't come, I really miss him." Pikachu replied.
"Yea me too maybe we could-" Ash's Nano-Dex ringing cut him off.
"Hey Domino, what's up?" Ash asked as a Domino hologram appeared again.
"Bad News. Shadows attacked me on our island. I drove them away but the place was ransacks." Domino explained sadly.
"Oh, wow. I didn't think they'd get there. I think it'd be best if you came here with us, we wouldn't want you to be attacked again." Ash told her.
"Right ill leave now. See you soon." Domino told Ash as her hologram was sucked back into the watch.
"Well looks like Domino's coming back." Ash told everybody.
"Domino, you mean the team rocket elite agent?" Cynthia asked
"No Domino the ex-team rocket agent and one of my best friends." Ash said, sticking up for her.
"Wait, if Cynthia knows her, wont other people too?" Paul asked
"Yea that's true, she's not masters of disguise like these 3." Ash said pointing to the trio, who puffed out their chests in pride.
"Maybe we could help her with them?" Jessie suggested, receiving nods from everyone.
Later that day the group went to check who their opponents where. Ash and Paul were happy.
"I got Agatha, Kanto elite 4. Who'd you get?" Paul said to Ash.
"I got the so called 'dragon master iris' this is gonna be good." Ash replied
"Hey boss, be careful though, I heard she just won the Unova league." James warned him.
"Thanks for the warning, I know exactly who im battling with, and against."
"What do you mean?" Asked the Trio and Cynthia in unison.
"I mean she saw me battle already. No doubt she'll use her strongest pokemon. That's Haxorus. I have the perfect Pokemon to deal with it." Ash explained while fingering a pokeball on his belt.
They all nodded and went back to the lake in the woods, like before, but this time accompanied by the Sinnoh Champion.
They made themselves comfortable.
Jessie and James lied against a rock, with Meowth and Wobbuffet on top of it.
Paul sat down on a tree-stump and let Torterra out for protection.
Sarah sat on a tree branch up in a tree with her Staraptor sitting next to her.
Ash sat leaning against a tree, with Pikachu and Aipom going to play on Torterra.
Cynthia lied against Ash and let her Garchomp out, who leaned against Torterra waiting to fight.
They stayed like that for a while, talking, relaxing, story telling. Most of the time they were watching Ash and Paul's adventures on their Nano-Dexes.
None of them saw a certain group hiding in the bushes eavesdropping. Until,
"Those Nano-Dexes are so cool I want one!" Max shouted, running out bushes giving them away.
There from the bushes came Max, May, Brock, Misty, Drew, Dawn, Gary, Iris, Cilan and Trip.
Ash's group just glared at them; just as Gary and Drew were going to initiate a battle a loud roar pierced the skies.
"She's here." Said Ash and the Trio at the same time.
"Who?" Max's group asked also in sync.
"Me." Said Domino as she dismounted her Skarmory.
"Domino!" Max's group shouted and prepared pokeballs until Ash stopped them.
"She's not team rocket anymore. She's ok now." Everyone nodded and while Max's group seems skeptical the put their pokeballs away.
"Now that that's settled, leave." Ash said in a cold voice.
His ex-friends were surprised at hearing Ash speak rudely to them. Misty wouldn't have it,
"Whom do you think you are talking to us like that!" she yelled and then Dawn jumped in,
"Yea, we're your friends aren't we?" Her group nodded while Ash's group laughed.
"You think you're friends? After what you did to him? You're lucky I didn't do anything before he did!" Paul told them.
"Yes, what happened to 'you suck as a trainer' 'you rely on luck' 'we aren't letting you go that easy' did they disappear when you saw how I was?" Ash questioned them.
They looked down in shame before Max looked at him and said,
"You're right we're sorry, so we're good now, can I have one of those Nano watch things?" Max's group nodded.
Ash's group glared harder.
"Lets get a few things straight. First, we are not good and we wont ever be. Second, its Nano-Dex and no you cant have it. They aren't even public yet, these are just prototypes. And lastly if you don't leave now our pokemon will escort you." Ash said even colder.
"Ha! You're still pathetic as ever! Your pokemon couldn't hold a candle to ours!" Trip sneered, defending his friends.
"Tell you what, how about you guys do a handicap match. That way he fights all of you and you has an advantage." Suggested Sarah, jumping from her tree.
"Deal!" The traitors group yelled with Ash sighing.
"Fine lets find a field." Ash said, giving in.
"This is a handicap match between Brock and Misty vs. Ash! Begin!" James yelled.
"Swampert go!" "I need you Gyrados!" Brock and Misty called on their beasts.
"Sceptile, lend me your aura!" Ash said as his mighty grass lizard once again emerged, ready to fight.
"You have first move." Ash told them. They smirked.
"Bad move, Swampert, earthquake!" "Gyrados, flamethrower!" then the ground started to shake and the water/flying type shot flames towards the Hoenn starter.
"You've gotta do better than that. Sceptile agility to dodge them both and follow up with a bullet seed."
Disappearing once again at light speed, Sceptile leapt into the air, not taking damage from the shaking ground, and sailing over the flames. Before Swampert and Gyrados got orders, they were hit with seeds coming from the lizard in mid-air.
"Swampert, hammer arm!" "Gyrados, aqua tail!" Their trainers ordered counter attacks.
Swampert's arm's glowed white as he to launched himself into the air at Sceptile. Gyrados to took of towards the grass type, but with its tail surrounded in water.
"Sceptile double leaf blade!" Ash calmly countered.
The leaves on both Sceptile's arms grew and glowed green. One blade stopped the hammer arm and the other stopped the aqua tail.
Brock and Misty gasped with their supporters but Ash and his just smirked again.
Ash was debating weather to let Sceptile slam them both into the ground, or plan B?
Plan B won.
"Sceptile, let up on the leaf blade, when your high enough let me know." Ash ordered and surprised his ex-friends.
Sceptile, knowing exactly what Ash was doing, followed his orders to a T. He stopped both leaf blades, and allowed the hammer arm and qua tail to send him high up into the air.
"Ok, Ash. I think I can do it now. After I come out of the leaves, should I do a pound or dragon pulse?" Sceptile questioned his master as he used leaf storm to surround himself.
Ash thought for a moment before replying, "The second one." Everyone else just looked on in confusion.
All they saw next was Sceptile come down surrounded in leaves plow into both Swampert and Gyrados sending them both to the ground. Their trainers panicked and hastily yelled,
"Swampert Hydro Pump!" "Gyrados, you too!" Both the mentioned pokemon sent a torrent of water at Sceptile but the water couldn't reach him as a dragon pulse was blocking him. That's when Ash had enough.
"Sceptile, end it now, Frenzy Plant."
Once again before anybody could re-act Sceptile glowed green and summoned brown vines that were also glowing green from the ground. The vines hit the water/ground and water/flying types and couldn't get up again.
"Swampert and Gyrados are un-able to battle. Sceptile and Ash are the winners." James stated obvious.
Ash returned Sceptile with words of praise, before listening to the words of praise from Cynthia and Sarah.
Brock and Misty returned their swirly-eyed pokemon and glared at Ash, before going to the sidelines, letting May and Drew have their battle.
"This handicapped battle is May and Drew vs. Ash! Begin!" Jessie said taking James' place.
"Blaziken, take the stage!" "Ampharos, go!" Yelled May and Drew and the called Blaziken and Ampharos respectively.
"Give me a challenge at least. Lucario, lend me your aura!" Ash taunted and called his Lucario once again.
"Ready to fight master." Lucario told Ash.
"Well im not sure if it will be much of a fight. And don't call me master." Ash said as he taunted his opponents again and corrected Lucario.
"Yes, Master. And I see im against 2 pokemon. Maybe this will be fun." Lucario said.
"Yes, maybe." Ash said as he chuckled and sighed.
"Ok, you can attack first." Ash told May and Drew.
"Blaziken, sky uppercut!" "Ampharos, thunder punch!"
Blaziken ran towards the jackal with its fish glowing blue and Ampharos did the same with his electricity charged arm.
"Lucario, ice punch and fire punch!" Ash countered.
Lucario, at a much faster speed that Blaziken and Ampharos combined, ran towards his opponents with an icy blue hand and a blazing red one.
The ice punch collided with the sky uppercut and easily sent Blaziken back. While the fire and thunder fists collided, again Lucario over powered Ampharos with only a little more difficulty than Blaziken.
"That wont happens again. Blaziken, blaze kick!" "Ampharos iron tail!" Their trainers once again gave orders to attack.
Blaziken jumped into the air, coming down with a fiery foot of death. Ampharos, however, charged again this time with a glowing tail instead of fist.
"Lucario, knock them both away with a bone rush." Ash countered, not really that afraid.
Lucario formed a blue bone with his aura at Ash's command. The aura pokemon swiped his bone up into the air, deflecting the blazing foot, before, not hitting Ampharos's tail, but its feet successfully knocking him down and stopping the iron tail.
Everyone on the traitor's side was amazed that Ash got so good. Now they were really afraid of him and knew their mistake. All except Trip, who was still convinced he could beat him.
Everyone on Ash's side was smiling that he got a chance to put them in their place. Paul was wishing he could help, Domino was excited she decided to come, Sarah was ecstatic to see Ash battle someone that wasn't Paul, The Rockets were grateful they weren't on the receiving end of those attacks anymore. Cynthia?
Cynthia was admiring how good Ash was now. He could no doubt give her a run for her money and couldn't wait to face him in the tournament. Not only was she admiring his pokemon she was admiring how handsome he became with a hint of pink on her cheeks. When she saw the same thing on Misty, May, Dawn and Iris' faces' she almost lost it.
"Okay Lucario, make 2 aura spears and hold them." Ash commanded.
Without any hesitation Lucario created 2 blue circles and held one in each hand. Already knowing where he was going he aimed one at Blaziken, and the other at Ampharos.
"Now shoot them, but power it up. Force Palm." Ash said, confirming Lucario's suspicions.
Lucario's palms glowed before the blue spears practically rocketed away and towards their target.
Both Blaziken and Ampharos were hit, and again the results were obvious.
"Blaziken and Ampharos are un-able to battle. Lucario and Ash are the winners." This time it was Jessie stating the obvious.
Ash called Lucario back and told him how excellent he was.
May and Drew recalled their fallen pokemon and sat down, letting Dawn and Gary have a go.
Dawn was sure they'd win as Gary had beaten Ash many times before but Gary wasn't sure, seeing how good Ash was.
Jessie and James sat down letting everybody's favorite Scratch Cat pokemon have a turn as judge.
"Dis handicapped battle is Dawn and Gary vs. Ash. Begin!" Said Meowth sitting on Wobbuffet's head.
"Mamoswine, spotlight!" "Electivire, I choose you!" Then in flashes of light, Mamoswine and Electivire appeared in front of Dawn and Gary respectively.
Ash just faked a yawn before summoning his next friend.
"Feraligatr, lend me your aura." Ash said, calling out his once happy & dancing Totodile.
"Oooh I get to fight the traitors. This day is awesome." Feraligatr said as he looked over his once friends.
"Once again, you may attack first." Ash said again, this time to Dawn and Gary.
"Mamoswine, take down!" "Electivire, wait until Mamoswine is close, then thunder!"
Mamoswine rushed towards the lumbering alligator, while Electivire charges up electricity preparing itself.
"Feraligatr, stop it and shield yourself." Ash ordered, calm as every.
Feraligatr braced himself for the impact. He grabbed Mamoswine's tusks, wincing a little, but then pulled the ice/ground type in front of it as a shield. His plan worked as the yellow electricity from Electivire hit Mamoswine and did little to nothing.
"Now, Feraligatr, return to sender." Ash said confusing Dawn and Gary, but Feraligatr merely nodded.
He took Mamoswine's tusks, swung it around and sent in crashing into Electivire. They were both hurt but got up anyway, awaiting orders.
"Mamoswine, swallow ice shard!" "Electivire, swallow zap cannon!"
Mamoswine ate a ball of ice, getting ice to appear on its back.
Electivire ate a ball of electricity, getting surrounded in a yellow outline, showing a power boost.
"That old trick again, I invented that but fine if you wanna play that, Feraligatr, swallow water pulse."
Feraligatr formed a ball of water in from of it, but instead of shooting it, it drank the water.
The read spikes on its back and head then turned blue and started glowing from the power boost.
"Mamoswine, ice fang!" "Electivire, thunder punch!"
Mamoswine's tusks glowed an icy blue as he charged Feraligatr, while his partner charger with a lightening powered punch.
"Feraligatr, whirlpool to deflect and finish with Hydro Cannon."
Feraligatr did just that, creating pool of swirling water that threw Mamoswine and Electivire to the ground, and followed up by shooting an immensely powerful jet of water.
"Mamoswine and Electivire are un-able to battle, Feraligatr and Ash are da winners." Meowth announced the obvious like his friends.
They were about to continue until a familiar flash of white light appeared.
"Ash, once again I come with a message, Arceus requests to see you and Paul immeadilty. Don't worry though you will each make it back in time for your matches."
They both nodded and before either of them could talk, Mewtwo took himself, Ash, Paul and Pikachu to the Hall of Origins.
Everybody except the Rockets and Sarah were confused. The traitors just breathed a sigh that they didn't have to fight him and left.
Aipom, The Rockets, Sarah and Cynthia went back to the lake in the forest, waiting patiently for Arceus' messenger to return their friends.
I STILL DON'T OWN POKEMON
MAKE SURE TO REVIEW, I STILL WELCOME CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE BATTLES? THEY WERNT THERE BECAUSE THE SONG SHOWED THEM THAT WAS FOR ME TO PRACTICE WRITING THEM OUT.
ALSO ABOUT THE SONG, ITS MUSIC SIMILAR TO THE ADVANCE THEME, NOT THE EXACT THING. RIGHT WHERE IT SAYS 'WE ARE STRONGER' IT GETS FASTER AND FASTER AFTER IT SAYS 'WE ARE BETTER THAN YOU' IT GOES BACK TO NORMAL
ANY HELP WITH THE MUSIC WILL HELP. I DON'T PLAN ON ANOTHER ONE IN THIS STORY BUT MOST OF MY STORIES WILL HAVE A THEME