A HERO'S RETURN
CHAPTER 12; ALTERNATE ENDING
Ash and his friends were just lazing around in the forest by the lake, when Sarah said,
"You guys know that the winner gets prize money don't you?" They nodded and Paul said,
"Hey, if you win you can get a huge house for your friends and you instead of going back to the little island."
Ash thought about it. If he won he'd buy a house for him, Sarah, The Trio and Domino.
"Maybe I will Paul. First lets get through the battle. Let the better man win." Ash said sticking out his hand. Paul shook it and nodded.
They both walked away from each other, to go and train.
"Torterra, Electivire, Magmortar, Hydreigon, Absol and Aggron, Stand by!"
As his monsters appeared he spoke.
"Listen up guys, today we fight Ash in the finals, it won't easy like the other battles in the tournament, but if we put everything we got into it, we can win!"
They all roared in agreement.
"Ok, lets train." He said as they nodded and got to work.
"Charizard, Sceptile, Feraligatr, Lucario, Pikachu and… Hey Garchomp are you ok?" Ash asked his purple dragon.
"Yea, just really tired. That Latios was stronger than it looked." Garchomp responded tiredly.
"Can you still fight?" Ash asked,
"Yea I think so but-" Garchomp started before falling down into a tree, exhausted.
"Guess not, you'll have to sit this one out pal. Now who should replace him?" Ash asked himself.
Ash looked around for his 6th fighter, until one caught his eye.
"What about you Tyranitar? Will you fight?" Ash asked his rock monster, who nodded in confirmation.
"Ok then, Charizard, Sceptile, Feraligatr, Tyranitar, Lucario and Pikachu, today we fight Paul, our strongest opponent yet. We can do it though. So lets train!"
All his Pokemon roared and got to work while Aipom sat on Ash's lap, watching her friends prepare.
After and hour of training, the match was going to star, so everybody made their way to the arena.
"This is a full battle between Paul from Sinnoh and Ash from Kanto. Begin!" Yelled the ref.
"Absol, stand by for battle!" Paul said, calling upon his dark type.
"Lucario, lend me your aura!" Ash said, calling on his fighting type.
"Water Pulse!" Paul yelled,
"Dragon Pulse!" Ash called,
The orbs of water and dragon collided and exploded, through the smoke Paul called,
"Razor Wind!"
White crescent moons struck Lucario repeatedly and after the onslaught, Ash ordered,
"Extreme Speed and Bone Rush!"
In a blur, Lucario was right in front of Absol, who was hit multiple times with the aura bone.
"Dark Pulse!"
"Aura Sphere!"
After another collision, through the smoke, another aura sphere hit Absol.
"Aerial Ace!" Paul commanded.
"Extreme Speed!" Ash countered.
Again they met in the middle, even until,
"Razor Wind!" Paul called.
The Razor Wind attack knocked Lucario back, allowing it to be struck with the aerial ace.
"Giga Impact!" They both yelled.
As the purple rockets collided, they both flew apart, both pokemon landing with a back flip in front of their trainers.
"Iron Tail!" Paul called,
"Copycat!" Ash ordered,
Both pokemon met in the middle with glowing tails, even until they both fell onto the ground, unmoving.
"Both pokemon are unable to battle! Send out your next pokemon!" the ref announced.
"Absol/Lucario return. Thank you." They both said.
"Electivire, stand by for battle!" Paul said calling out his electric type.
"Feraligatr, lend me your aura!"
The huge pokemon glared at each other, ready to help their trainers win.
"Thunder Punch!" Paul said,
"Ice Punch!" Ash told his pokemon.
The elemental punches collided, both pokemon wincing a little bit, but otherwise they were ok.
"Thunder!" Paul said before they broke contact.
Electivire hit Feraligatr with a powerful lightening bolt, than sent the alligator back, but not out.
"Aqua Tail and Hydro Pump!" Ash said.
Before Electivire could react, he was hit into a wall by a tail of water, and hit again with a huge torrent of powerful water.
"Brick Break!" Paul ordered.
"Fire Punch!" Ash countered.
The white fist and the blazing fists didn't collide, instead they hit the others chest, and send them both flying backwards.
"Zap Cannon!" Paul called.
"Water Pulse!" Ash yelled.
The yellow and blue circles collided, and their trainers didn't even wait for the smoke to clear.
"Giga Impact!" Paul called.
"Aqua Jet!"
The purple and blue bullets collided again, and after a power struggle, they still wouldn't budge so their trainers added another attack.
"Thunder!"
"Hydro Cannon!"
A blast of yellow and blue came from the 2 bullets and created smoke again. After the smoke was gone, both pokemon were again, unmoving.
"Both pokemon are unable to battle! Send out your next pokemon!" The ref called to everyone.
"Electivire/Feraligatr return." They said.
"Hydreigon, stand by for battle!" Paul said as his dark/dragon type appeared.
"Charizard, lend me your aura!" Ash said as his fire/flying type materialized.
"Hyper Beam!" Paul ordered.
"Flamethrower!" Ash commanded.
The orange beam and the white flames collided and were even, and then they changed attacks.
"Dragon Pulse!" Paul said.
"Dragon Rage!" Ash countered.
Instead of colliding the pokemon made it so they passed over and under each other.
Charizard and Hydreigon were flung back into the stadium walls, but still flew out, ready to attack.
"Hydreigon, dragon rush!"
"Charizard, fire bullet!"
The pokemon charged, surrounded in blue and red auras respectfully. Somehow Charizard's attack overpowered Hydreigon's and sent the dark pokemon spiraling down.
Ash saw this as his chance.
"Seismic Toss!"
Charizard grabbed Hydreigon and flew it toward the ground, but Paul countered.
"Tri attack, but make them all electric!"
Electricity flew out of all Hydreigon's heads as they plummeted to the earth.
After the dust cleared, both pokemon were flying around in circles in the sky shooting flames and electricity at on another but they all missed.
"Hydreigon dragon pulse!"
"Charizard, dragon rage!"
Both dragon attacks hit the other dragon, sending them both falling to the ground. This time only Charizard got up.
"Hydreigon is unable to battle! Charizard wins! Send out your next pokemon!" The ref called.
"Hydreigon return. Thanks." Paul said.
"Magmortar stand by for battle!" Paul said calling his fire type out.
"Flamethrower!" They both called.
Their fire attacks collided and were even again.
"Fire punch!" Paul ordered.
"You too!" Ash countered.
As their fists met, Ash got an idea,
"Dragon Tail!"
Charizard's tail swung and sent Magmortar flying into the stadium wall.
"Charizard, return. Ill needs you later. Sceptile, lend me your aura!" Ash said sending his grass warrior.
"Magmortar, fire punch!"
"Sceptile, leaf blade!"
The blazing fist and glowing blade met and collided, they were even until,
"Dragon Claw!" Ash said.
With his free hand, Sceptile hit Magmortar in the chin, sending him upwards.
"Fire Blast!"
"Spin and use bullet seed!"
The spinning bullet seed managed to hold off the deadly fire attack until Paul changed attacks,
"Giga Impact!"
"Whirl around with Leaf Blade!"
The purple bullet went towards Sceptile, who jumped with glowing leaves and did a barrel roll and he looked like a green rocket because of the glowing blades around him.
The attack met in the middle but Sceptile was pushed back. After both pokemon landed, Paul ordered again,
"Flamethrower!"
"Solar Beam!"
The attacks collided again, but through the smoke Ash yelled,
"Frenzy Plant!"
Nobody could see what happened until the smoke cleared.
"Magmortar is unable to battle, Sceptile wins! Send out your next pokemon!"
"Magmortar return. Thank You. Torterra stand by for battle!" Paul said as he released his turtle.
"Sceptile, return. You were great. Pikachu, lend me your aura!" Ash said while Pikachu jumped onto the field.
"Torterra, leaf storm!"
"Volttackle through!"
Pikachu surrounded himself in a golden aura again, and charged right through the leaves and was about to make contact with Torterra when,
"Switch to iron tail!" Ash called,
Pikachu's golden aura vanished and was replaced with a glowing tail swinging right at the giant turtle pokemon.
"Crunch!"
Torterra's glowing teeth clamped down on Pikachu's glowing tail.
"Now leaf storm!"
"ThunderBolt, knock them away!"
Leaves created from nowhere were shot at the mouse. The ThunderBolt managed to knock some of the leaves away, but it still took a good bit of damage.
"Throw Pikachu and use stone edge!"
Torterra threw Pikachu into the air and shot sharp stones at the mouse, before they hit Ash called,
"Block yourself with Iron Tail!"
With its glowing tail, Pikachu knocked away as many rocks as it could, but couldn't defend against them all.
"Hyper Beam!"
"Thunder!"
The orange beam and yellow electricity met in the middle and caused an explosion.
"Razor Leaf!"
"Light Screen!"
The leaves bounced harmlessly off the yellow box as Ash changed orders,
"ThunderBolt!"
The yellow box was sucked into Pikachu's cheeks as a power-up, before shooting a bolt of
Crackling electricity at Torterra.
Paul just sat there, expecting Torterra to take it and be immune to the electricity. He was half right.
While everybody was looking at the ThunderBolt, Pikachu rushed in and hit Torterra with an Iron Tail, and at the same time took the electricity back.
"That won't happen again. Stone Edge to bring it down then uses Earthquake!"
Stones appeared above Pikachu and slammed him into the ground witch started shaking violently. After the shaking stopped the ref called,
"Pikachu is unable to battle, Torterra wins! Send out your next pokemon!"
"Pikachu you were great thanks buddy. Sceptile, lend me your aura again!" Ash said, setting Pikachu by his feet and letting Sceptile out.
"Torterra, stone edge!"
"Bullet Seed!"
The stones met the seeds and they cancelled each other out, except for a few that managed to hit the other pokemon.
"Torterra, earthquake!"
"Sceptile, bullet seed on the ground!"
The violent shaking started but before Sceptile could be damaged he was launched upwards by his bullet seed attack hitting the ground.
"Stone Edge!"
"Hit them away with Leaf Blade!"
The blades easily knocked away the rocks and proceeded to slam them into Torterra.
"Crunch!"
"Dragon Pulse!"
Torterra bit down on Sceptile's blades but was slammed on the head with a dragon attack. Both Ash and Paul had the same think in mind,
"Frenzy Plant!"
After the glowing vines disappeared, not many people were shocked.
"Both pokemon are unable to battle, send out your next pokemon!" the ref called.
"Aggron, stand by for battle!"
"Tyranitar, lend me your aura!"
Both pokemon saw one another and glared, eager to over come the other.
"Iron Head!"
"Bulldoze!"
Aggron surrounded itself in a white aura and charged.
Tyranitar stomped the ground a few times and ran at Aggron.
They met in the middle, both taking damage but neither showing it, neither wanting to let them be overpowered.
"Metal Claw!"
"Rock Smash!"
Like the last time, their fists didn't make contact with each other, but the others face. Once again both Pokemon fell down from the sheer force of the attacks.
"Aggron, dragon pulse!"
"Tyranitar, dark pulse!"
The orbs collided with each other and eventually cancelled each other out.
"Iron Tail!"
"Dragon Tail!"
Before their tail collided, they moved, one up and one down, the smacked the other Pokemon in the chest, and sent them both sailing into the wall.
"Aggron, different approach, Metal Sound!"
"2 can play that game, Tyranitar, screech!"
2 very high-pitched noises filled the arena, when they ended; Aggron and Tyranitar were as fierce as ever.
"Flamethrower!" Paul told Aggron.
"Ice Beam!" Ash told Tyranitar.
The ice attack hit Aggron's chest but it launched its fire attack anyway and hit Tyranitar Square in the chest too.
Both attacks were pouring on the other Pokemon, putting pressure on their chests until,
"Double Edge!" Paul ordered,
"Take Down!" Ash countered.
They both charged each other, ready to collide until,
"Hyper Beam!" They both yelled.
After 5 minutes the smoke finally cleared and everybody knew what the results were.
"Both Pokemon are unable to battle, this round is a draw! Since Ash has 1 pokemon left the victor and winner of the Tournament of Champions is Ash Ketchum from Kanto!" The ref yelled as the crowd burst into cheers.
Ash and Paul walked to, Tyranitar and Aggron. Both pokemon stood up, glaring at first but then they shook hands.
Ash and Paul looked at each other, and shook hands too, like their Pokemon did behind them.
Ash and Paul returned their rock and steel monsters and left the arena together.
As they got out, they were met with their friends who gave them all handshakes and a victory kiss from Cynthia to Ash.
About 4 hours later, after dark, they held a ceremony for Ash. After giving him the trophy and prize money, they went to take a picture of him and Pikachu with the trophy but Ash stopped him,
"Can my friends be here too?" Seeing the ex-friends get up he quickly changed it "My REAL friends?" Ash's group chuckled and got up, while Trip's glared and sat down.
In the picture was,
Ash with Pikachu and Aipom on his shoulders, the trophy in one hand and Cynthia's hand in the other, Paul on the other side of Ash with his hand on Ash's back.
By Ash's side was Sarah with Eevee on her shoulder, hugging Ash's waist.
Behind Ash was Jessie and James' head on either side of Ash, with Meowth on James' shoulder and Wobbuffet by Jessie's side.
Joey was standing behind Paul with his hand on Paul's shoulder and Domino was behind Cynthia with her arm around her.
And to top it off, Charizard was flying around in the background shooting flamethrowers into the sky.
-TIME SKIP 5 YEARS LATER-
Ash ran through the forest with Raichu and Aipom on his shoulders. They were all tired out but couldn't stop yet. They were in too deep already. As they came to a clearing they saw just what ran away from them, but that was fine. They were getting paid back anyway.
In the clearing were an Articuno and a Genesect, but not any Articuno and Genesect. They were dark Pokemon. Like shadows, but instead of becoming all black and purple, they just had pitch black eyes and were essentially more violent. Not as powerful, but definitely more violent.
There were also 2 other Pokemon in the clearing, but they weren't dark. They were his Pokemon. His Sceptile and Charizard stood their ground, glaring and growling at the possessed legends, not backing down. These 2 Pokemon could go toe-to-toe with any Pokemon in the world and could only be brought down be each other, Raichu or maybe Feraligatr.
That wasn't all that was in the clearing. On the other side stood a man. He was wearing a cloak covering his entire body. This was the infamous Legend Tracker. He got his name by tracking, overpowering, poaching and selling Legendary Pokemon. The police had been after him for 6 months with no luck, so they had to call him in to bring him down.
"Techno Blast and Blizzard!" Ordered the Legend Tracker.
Genesect shot a colorful orb of energy at Sceptile out of the cannon on its back while Articuno flapped its wings and shot a blast of freezing wind at Charizard.
"Sceptile, Leaf Blade and Charizard Flamethrower!" Ash countered.
At the drop of a dime, Sceptile shot towards the glowing orb and sliced it with its now enlarged and glowing leaves before slamming them into the Legend itself, effectively stopping their long fight.
Charizard shot a torrent of flames that were white hot out of its mouth. The flames easily cut through the ice attack and sent Articuno falling to the floor, falling onto Genesect.
The duo of Legends slowly stood, but this time their eyes were normal and full of emotion, rather than pitch black. As they both looked around they saw they weren't at their homes and took off, leaving Ash, his Pokemon and a very terrified Poacher behind.
Before Ash could do anything or before the Tracker could run, a spotlight from about shined on the evil man, who was too terrified to move. The spotlight was coming from a police helicopter than Ash called for an hour ago, but at least they're here now.
Ash turned to Charizard and Sceptile, praising them both heavily before returning Sceptile back to its Pokeball and getting onto Charizard's back. He looked back to the cops who were escorting the Tracker onto the helicopter in handcuffs while waving to Ash, showing their gratitude. Ash merely nodded before looking down at Charizard.
"Charizard, Lightening Island." Ash said, telling Charizard to fly to his new home. Charizard just grunted in approval before taking off like a bullet to the east of the forest they were just in.
Ash smiled down at Raichu and Aipom. These were 2 of his most loyal Pokemon. Raichu had been so loyal, he pushed his hatred for evolution away just so he could help Ash in a life-or-death situation when the duo were facing a dark Arceus who was under the Trackers control. He felt bad that all their work making Pikachu be the best he could be without evolving was for nothing, but Raichu told him he liked it a lot better anyway.
According to him, his electrical power had increased over 100-fold. His power fit better, he felt stronger and his speed, instead of slowing, he was faster than ever. Raichu said that he didn't hate Raichu's, just the idea of not being able to please Ash how he was. Now since evolving Raichu hadn't lose any battle. Even in a 3-on-1 with Aipom, Houndoom and Lucario. Although more powerful, his personality stayed the same, he still loved battles, new friends and still played with Aipom and his new baby Pokemon too.
Ash looked up when he heard Charizard's mighty roar that could probably cause an earthquake if he was close enough to a fault-line. He saw their home, a 3-story house on an Island about halfway between Sinnoh and Unova. It wasn't small but it wasn't the biggest island out there.
It had a huge ranch out back where everyone's Pokemon were kept and a lawn out front for just hanging out. There were lots of trees with fruit and there was a mountain next to the ranch's end and a pond at the foot of the mountain.
Charizard landed out back in the ranch for Ash to get off. Ash hopped off with Raichu and Aipom and unclipped 3 Pokeballs from his belt.
"Sceptile, Feraligatr and Lucario go rest up." Ash said as his 3 Pokemon appeared, nodded to Ash and walked towards the pond by the mountain with Charizard.
Ash walked into the back door of his home with his 2 Pokemon at his feet. He saw his beautiful wife Cynthia in the living room, watching T.V. with Domino on the couch. Paul was eating a sandwich in the kitchen as Sarah sat on the top of the stairs, calling her Flareon, that came from the Eevee Ash gave her, trying to get her over her fear of heights.
He could hear the familiar voices of Jessie, James, Meowth and Wobbuffet coming from the basement and they sounded like they were watching game shows again. After playing card games it was probably their favorite past time.
He over and saw his Houndoom, who had become a pet (more-or-less) to the 'family', already playing with Aipom and Raichu.
Ash smiled. His best friends and his Pokemon were always there for him. After he won the Tournament of Champions, he bought this island for him and his family to live on. His and Cynthia had a master bedroom on the 3rd floor and the best view of the mountain and ocean behind it. Sarah had a room on the 3rd floor too, just not as big as Ash's. Domino and Paul's rooms were each on the 2nd floor of the house. The Trio had chosen for their rooms to be down the basement.
Ash looked out the window in the kitchen and saw Charizard, Sceptile, Feraligatr and Lucario relaxing in the pond with the rest of his Pokemon on the ranch training or just relaxing. He still had all the Pokemon he had back at the tournament, plus new ones like Gengar, Espeon, Umbreon, Flygon and a baby Vulpix.
Ash smiled as the clock struck 6. 6 were when everyone in the family would go to the top of the mountain to check on the family of Altaria at the top. Everyone was in the living room in a heartbeat. They were all ready to leave the house when the house-phone rang.
"Hello?" Cynthia said as she picked it up. She listened for a second before pressing her hand over the speaker and looking at Ash.
"It's the chief of Police in Johto. What do they want?" Cynthia asked handing the phone to Ash.
"Maybe congratulating me on catching the Tracker guy earlier. But why not call my Nano-Dex?" Ash wondered aloud as he pressed his ear to the phone. He listened for a while in silence, thinking deeply. It was obvious to everyone else it wasn't a congratulating phone call.
"Thanks for the good news Brian." Ash said sarcastically hanging up quickly. Ash turned to everyone and saw everybody looking intently except Raichu, Houndoom and Aipom, who heard.
Cynthia stood with Sarah leaning against her and Paul was leaning on the door. Domino was sitting on a stool in the kitchen as the Trio sat on the sofa. Ash sighed.
"They got the Trackers identity. It was Trip. So it turns out the Tournament wasn't the last of them. Apparently then wanted revenge to me embarrassing them all so they came up with a plan. They all have cloaks and they were all taking control of Legends. That means we're only down 1 criminal. Now I have to find the rest of them. All of them!" Ash yelled angrily.
They all gave him sympathetic looks but stayed quiet. They knew his ex-friends was a touchy subject for him but they knew how much the betrayal hurt. Now he had to imprison them all. Sometimes they wondered why he took the job of being an Enforcer.
An Enforcer is someone the cops call to find a criminal they couldn't find for over a year and Ash was one of the best. Nonetheless it was still going to be hard finding 7 highly trained people who were a threat to the Legends.
"Let's worry about this after we check on the Altaria. I'm fine." Ash said as he ushered everyone outside the door until only he, Raichu, Aipom and Houndoom remained.
"Okay, I'll be fine." Ash corrected himself but only the Pokemon heard.
They decided that Ash would be okay and that they would do all they could to make it that way. Aipom jumped off Ash's shoulder and bounded over to Flareon who was waling at Sarah's heels.
"Eventually." Ash continued. Houndoom ran out the open door and stopped at his mistresses' side. Now only Ash and Raichu remained in the house.
"I hope." Ash finished. Raichu rubbed his cheek on Ash's for comfort, letting him know that no matter what happened, he and the others wouldn't leave. Not even if he wanted them to. Raichu smiled when he heard Ash chuckled a little before he started walking after the others. Everything would be okay and friends or not, the law is the law and controlling Legends is definitely against it.
Ash and Raichu lagged behind the others, thinking about what the plan Brian mentioned was. No matter what it was Ash and Raichu knew one thing for certain.
It wouldn't work. They wouldn't allow it and there real family would help. Now all they had to do was figure out where they would strike next. Sarah laughing hard and everyone else snickering at Houndoom, Aipom and Flareon's race to the top of the mountain broke his thoughts. He and Raichu shared a smile.
'Maybe finding them can wait for now.' Was the duo's shared thought as they ran and caught up to the family, enjoying every minute they were together.
JUST AN IDEA SOMEONE ASKED FOR AND FIGURED 'WHY NOT?' SO HERE IT IS RANDOM GUEST USER!
NOT REALLY THAT ALTERNATE BECAUSE I ONLY CHANGED THE FURUTE VIEW, BUT I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF CHAPTER 3 FOR 'A CHAMPION'S RISE' SO COULDN'T MAKE UP A WHOLE NOTHER ENDING. SORRY IF IT'S NOT A GOOD ENOUGH ALTERNATIVE. HEY, I TRIED.
HOPEFULLY ITS OKAY AND NOT AS BAD AS I THINK IT IS. JUST BECAUSE ITS NOT A REGULAR CHAPTER DON'T THINK YOU CAN JUST NOT REVIEW.
ALSO CHECK OUT MY OTHER STORIES 'A CHAMPION'S RISE' AND 'UNOVA: THE NEXT STOP' IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.
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