Ash's Fate
Brock, Max, Melody and Lugia had remembered about Lugia's master still underwater, but they were too late to get to him. When they found he was gone there was an earthquake,when they saw the horror in the sky they gasped.
"Articuno!" Max pointed in the sky. They saw a beat-up Articuno flying around the beast and dodging its attacks, but it was just too quick. He hit Articuno in the chest sending it crashing to the island. Also on the ground, were Zapdos and Moltres, with bruises and their eyes closed.
"You three risked your lives to save the world?" Lugia flew over to the three birds.
"(Of course, it's our world, too.)" Zapdos said weakly in its screeching language.
"(We would sacrifice ourselves for your sake anytime.)" Moltres added weakly.
"You guys... thanks." Lugia smiled.
"(No problem, now stop him!)" Articuno rested its head on the ground. Lugia looked back up in the sky to see his former master charging a hyper beam, aiming for fire island. Lugia flew over towards the island and protected himself infront of it, causing him to receive the power of the attack, sending Lugia into the water.
"Quick! The song!" Max tugged on Melody's arm. Melody took the instrument out of her pack and played Lugia's song. The creature in the sky looked down at them and turned towards them, half way through the song he floated down to them and smiled, them fired a hyper beam at their feet, causing the ground to erupt from beneath them.
"What happened? It's supposed to calm down!" Melody shouted, crashing into the ground.
"You didn't finish it!" Max shouted, dusting himself off.
"But how can I when it will attack us halfway through?" Melody questioned.
"Just play it, at least enough to revive Lugia!" Brock told her. Melody began playing again as the creature flew back up to the air, then he faced them and glowed a bright orange.
"It's using Draco Meteor! Hurry!" Max pointed in the sky and shouted. The creature then formed the orange energy into a sphere at its head, it shot into the air and it exploded into a barrage of small orange beams coming towards the earth. As it was about to impact with the kids, a green sphere appeared infront of them taking the impact. As the smoke cleared up, it was revealed as Lugia.
"Nice job, Lugia!" Brock commented the pokemon.
"It was my pleasure to help the world." Lugia smiled at them. Melody finished the song and fell to her knees, as the creature froze and fell down to the ground. Everyone ran over to its side and saw its eyes. They were no longer an anger red, they were a calm blue, as it smiled at the kids.
"Thank you, brave kids. You stood up to save me, even when I threatened to destroy you and your world." the creature said in telepathy, standing on its tentacles.
"Of course. You belong here with people and pokemon alike. They treat each other like friends."" melody stated.
"Master... welcome back!" Lugia hugged the creature.
"Ah, my apprentice and child. Lil' Lugia." the creature communicated, slipping a tentacle around Lugia's back.
"Lugia, what's your master's name?" Max asked it.
"Aquimko." Lugia responded.
"Aquimko, nice to meet you, I'm Max." Max said to it.
"Nice to meet you, Max. And you...are Melody. And you...Brock." the creature said, making the humans gasp.
"How did you know our names?" Brock and Melody asked in unison.
"You see, I learned my psychic powers as a child when he was still with me back then, so I decided to repay him by teaching him psychic powers, for raising me." Lugia told them.
"That's right, I must thank you for teaching me." Aquimko told Lugia. Then there was a roar, Lugia somehow felt like he knew that sound from somewhere. He looked around and saw a volcano on fire island... it was erupting. And on the peak... Lugia could make out figure... of Reshiram.
"Oh, no! Reshiram has awoken!" Lugia told them.
"We have to do something!" Brock waved his arms in the air.
"No! We can't interfere with it! If Zekrom has gotten stronger the last 2,500 years, no doubt Reshiram has, too!" Lugia told the man.
"We must find Zekrom! I have to apologize for our last encounter!" Aquimko pointed out. Lugia flew off and Aquimko flew beside him, while the kids in the sub swam below. They were headed for the island they first encountered Zekrom, where they had lost Ash. When they landed, Everyone hurried to the statue from which Ash was posessed. Lugia examined it closely, and found some text engraved on the back if it.
For when the being is posessed,
He must be freed by the rest.
The others must stand in the protective middle,
While a being must attack this stone.
And the only hope for saving the life,
Will be summoned
"Everyone, get in that middle circle." Lugia told them, pointing to a circle on the ground. Everyone ran to the middle of the area and watched as Lugia shot a hyper beam at the statue, at first it started to crumble, then it glowed a bright blue. A blue wall surrounded the others in the middle as the statue fired the hyper beam at them, it bounced off it and into the sky. Everyone waited for results, but nothing happened. Then a blue flash appeared above the statue, like a portal. Then the portal flashed white, blinding everyone. They didn't see it, but a figure appeared out of it. When the light cleared, they all looked and saw the person. Aquimko looked horrified as he saw the person.
"No! Not you again!" Aquimko pointed a tentacle at the figure.
"Who is that? And how do you know?" Melody questioned the creature.
"That was the evil being who tried to capture me, all those years ago! She didn't succeed, but then she captured Reshiram!" Aquimko told them.
"How could she have captured Reshiram?" Max asked, recognizing the person immediately.
"Max, she must have released it before death, but maybe promised to come back for it." Lugia told the boy.
Lugia, what Max means is we know her! She's Max's sister!" Brock shouted, pointing at the standing-still May.
"Wait... this is the one... who sits in the tree?" Lugia asked him.
"Yes, but look at her eyes! We could never see her eyes before, she must be posessed like Ash!" Max shouted in realization. Everyone stared at May's glowing white eyes, that seemed to be burning with fire. Lugia looked over towards Reshiram's volcano, and saw a small island behind it.
"Let's go. I think I know what happened to her!" Lugia told the group. Everyone sped off to the island, with May in the boat. They stopped at the island Lugia saw and ran into the forest, chasing Lugia. When they broke through the trees, they saw the same thing as the other island.
"Just as I thought. Identical islands, for the posessed." Lugia told himself.
"Wait, are you saying Ash was posessed over there and May was posessed here?" Melody asked.
"Correct. We saw Ash change, but we never got anything from May, so sometime, she was alone and was brought here without anyone realizing." Lugia stated.
"It must have been when she went for a walk on the beach!" Max told them.
"That makes sense! Something must have dragged her in the water and brought her here, then left her alone to explore but were really watching from the bushes. May must have curiously touched the statue and got posessed, then they returned her back home and acted like nothing happened, but May was acting different from when she left." Lugia explained.
"That has to be it!" Brock agreed.
"Reshiram sensed its old trainer's body and sent a minion to fetch her. It knew its trainer's spirit was locked inside the statue, May's body was the same so he had her receive the spirit, making it look like her old self again!" Aquimko added.
"History... spirits... this is confusing, even for me!" Max said, rubbing his head. Lugia sensed something coming.
"Everyone, to the forest!" Lugia pushed them with its wings. Aquimko stayed, then smiled at Lugia and Lugia understood he wanted to help. Then there was a rumbling, a weak quake. When it stopped, nothing happened. Then a roar was heard overhead, an ear-peircing roar causing the kids to cover their ears.
"Agh! It's Zekrom!" Max screamed.
"No! Zekrom was different, but whatever it is, it's as big as Zekrom!" Brock shouted back, not moving his hand from his ears. Then Lugia squinted and saw a shape hiding in the sun. He charged up towards it and attempted to slam it with his tail. But the figure pointed its tail at him and charged backwards, causing an explosion from the tail collisions. Then something shot down out of the smoke, slamming into the ground. It stood up as Lugia. Then the other creature floated down and landed. Aquimko recognized it.
"Reshiram, so we meet again!" Aquimko told the large white monster.
"GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN! I'M SO SORRY ABOUT YOU GETTING BANISHED, HEARTLESS POKEMON!" Reshiram said telepathically.
"They were not hearless! They just misunderstood him!" Lugia defended his old friend.
"OH YES, NOW I REMEMBER! YOU NEARLY KILLED ZEKROM, AM I RIGHT? YOU AMAZED ME WITH THAT MUCH POWER, BUT THEN AGAIN, HE IS WEAK!" Reshiram laughed.
"He was not weak! I was outraged and out of control! I couldn't help beating him up!" Aquimko shouted back.
"OH, BUT YOU COULD HAVE! I SAW WHAT YOU'RE LITTLE SON DID TO HIM AFTER YOUR BANISHMENT. I NEVER KNEW A CHILD COULD ACT THAT WAY! BUT BEFORE YOU LEFT, I DID SAVE YOU." Reshiram said.
"I just want you to straighten things out with Zekrom!" Aquimko shouted, not hearing the last sentence.
"NOW WHY WOULD I DO THAT? AFTER ALL HE DID START THIS! AFTER OUR LITTLE QUARREL, BEFORE ZEKROM'S, I DID SEE POTENTIAL IN YOUR CHILD!" Reshiram told them.
"Of course I have potential! Why else would I have did those things between us?" Lugia communicated.
"OH, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE BECAUSE YOU WERE SCARED OF LOSING YOUR FRIEND. WHEN I FIRED THAT OVERHEAT, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A GONER! BUT YOU SHIELDED HIM, AND YOU SURVIVED! I WAS DEEP IN THOUGHT EVER SINCE THEN, AND THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T FIGHT BACK, AFTER YOU TOLD ME TO 'BRING IT ON' SO MANY TIMES! THEN I WALKED AWAY AND YOU SAID I WAS A COWARD! I WASN'T QUITTING, I WAS SPARING YOUR LIVES!" Reshiram defended himself.
"Reshiram... you s-spared us?" Lugia said, his voice getting softer.
"OF COURSE! I WOULDN'T HAVE WANTED THAT KID TO LOSE HIS MENTOR! IF ANYTHING, I WANTED ZEKROM GONE! HE STARTED THIS WAR AND HE WANTS TO FINISH IT, IT ENDED IN A DRAW BACK THEN, BUT THAT ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM! HE WANTS TO HAVE VICTORY, BUT I JUST WANT PEACE!" Reshiram told them telepathically.
"You... y-you d-d-do?" Aquimko said, voice getting softer and now out of battle position.
"YES! FIGHTING OVER WHO IS STRONGER, ELECTRIC OR FIRE? WASTE OF TIME! WE COULD BE TRAINING WITH A TRAINER OR JUST LIVING OUR NORMAL LIVES INSTEAD OF KILLING!" Reshiram told them.
"I never thought of it that way... that must be what the water pokemon were thinking... banish me for my violent behaviour... and there would be peace!" Aquimko said.
"NOW, ZEKROM WANTS A FIGHT AND NONE OF US DO. WHAT SHOULD WE DO?" Reshiram said, walking closer to the two.
"This isn't an idea, but Reshiram, did you have a trainer that looked like this?" Max shouted to the large creature, pulling his sister beside him.
"NO, SHE WAS JUST A CLOSE FRIEND. SHE WAS SO NICE AND GENTLE TO ME, TRAEATING ME AS A FRIEND AND NOT A WEAPON. THAT IS, UNTIL ZEKROM CAME ALONG." Reshiram mumbled the last part angrily.
"What happened?" Max questioned it.
"WELL, IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO, BUT I CAN TELL. SHE WAS WALKING AROUND THE ISLAND ONE DAY AND DECIDED TO HIKE UP THE VOLCANO, I WAS WATCHING HER FROM THE TOP, BUT SHE DIDN'T NOTICE ME. THEN SHE GRABBED AN UNSTABLE ROCK AND FELL, SO I RUSHED DOWN TO SAVE HER FROM FALLING ANY FURTHER. SHE WAS AMAZED TO SEE ME IN REAL LIFE, BUT ONCE SHE WOKE UP FROM FAINTING, WE BECAME GOOD FRIENDS FROM THEN ON. SHE LIVED ON THE ISLAND THAT DAY ON, BUT THEN ONE MORNING, SHE WASN'T AROUND. I LOOKED ALL OVER AND SAW A FLASH FROM A DISTANT ISLAND. I FLEW OVER AND I SAW ZEKROM LAUGHING AT A STATUE, HE WAS SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT 'TRAPPED FOREVER' AND 'RESHIRAM CAN'T SAVE YOU NOW' AS HE FLEW OFF. I WAS DEVASTATED HE WOULD DO SUCH A THING, BUT I KNEW HE HAD A CLOSE FRIEND TOO. I DID THE SAME THING AS HE DID WITHOUT REALIZING IT, BUT I FELT NERVOUS AS IT WAS CLOSER TO ZEKROM, AND FARTHER FROM ME." Reshiram told them.
"You acted just like him as revenge. You trapped his best friend as he did to yours." Brock said in realization.
"And Zekrom's best friend looked like Ash. So he took Ash's body and put the soul in like your friend, May." Lugia whispered to the kids.
"That helps a little." Max said.
"Reshiram, will you help us prevent history from repeating itself?" Aquimko asked the vast white pokemon.
"OF COURSE! I JUST WANT PEACE. NO WAR, KILLING, RIVALRY ANYTHING! I'LL HELP YOU." Reshiram lowered his head to the group of kids and smiled.
"I have a plan." Lugia said. Lugia whispered his plan to everyone. At first they were confused, but then they looked pleased and impressed.
"Nice thought, Lugia." Brock commented.
"But, will it hurt them?" Max asked worriedly.
"I'm afraid so." Lugia responded sadly.
"IT'S A RISK WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE. I'M SORRY KID, IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO CURE THEM." Reshiram added.
"If it's the only way..." Max said.
Then Reshiram flew off towards Zekrom's lair (it was an abandoned power plant near Ash's posession place). Aquimko flew towards Ash's posession place, Lugia flew to the islands (ice, fire, lightning), and the kids stayed on May's possesion island with May. Everyone was aware of the plan, except for Zekrom, he wanted to finish what he started, and didn't know about the plan.
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