Viridian City, Kanto Region

After getting their Pokémon rotated and ready for battle, our heroes went into the Team Rocket HQ. With Duplica's costumes and Jessie, James, and Meowth's help, the heroes got into the inner sanctuary of the HQ. Erika had a hard time hiding the snag machine since the costume was so tight on her, showing off her midriff. The other girls were like that as well, feeling a bit insecure. Ash held Misty close to him, making her blush more. Ash blushed too, remembering the last time she wore this costume. But he had to admit that the dress she wore when she was helping Melvin with his magic show made her look so beautiful.

'Now that was a memory,' Ash thought, red with a blush. Finally, they saw Giovanni and Silver with Dr. Zeger. Giovanni looked at Jessie, James, and Meowth - looking quite annoyed.

"What are you three still doing here," Giovanni hissed.

"Just reporting in with the new recruits, sir," James replied.

"We have recruits," Silver asked his father, rather suspicious.

Ash spoke coldly as he could, "Yeah, we came to help and make sure no twerps interfered with the shadow plan."

Misty caught on to Ash's idea and added, coldly, "Yes but before we do, we would like to know what the current situation is."

Zeger explained, "Well, with the shadow projector on top of Mt. Coronet in Sinnoh, it covers the entire world. It can't be shut off until it completes the mission of turning every wild Pokémon in the world. Then we're going to have some operatives head into the field and capture any Pokémon worth our wild like the legendary Pokémon."

Dawn asked, the best she could, "So what if those twerps figure all of that out and go up to Mt. Coronet."

Silver hissed, "I don't think we should tell you that!"

Jessie responded, hissing herself, "Listen, these trainers are willing to help us. Either you tell them what they want to know or they walk away."

Meowth added, "Then they tell dose twerps what your plan is. And you don't want that, do you?"

Giovanni commented, "They have a point, Silver. All our operatives must know our plans."

However, bad luck was on our heroes side as Psyduck decided to pop out of its poke ball, causing immediate suspicion. Things got even worse when Cassidy identified the Pokémon, remembering it from their day care scam years ago.

Bianca stated, "I think we're in trouble..."

Barry hissed, "You think?!"

Paul commented, "Guess we got no choice now."

Ranee added, "Yeah, we have to fight!"

Ritchie turned to Ash and the others and said, "Ash, you go to Mt. Coronet and stop that machine! We'll handle things here!"

Ash nodded, much as he wanted to protest, and took a small group with him. That small group included: Misty, Brock, Holly, Gary, Erika, Jessie, James, and Meowth. The rest stayed back and begun to battle the Team Rocket operatives.


Outside of TR Headquarters

Meowth managed to get the Meowth balloon and as Aria started to fly in, since Erika called her and informed her of the situation, a Flamethrower caused her to fly back up again. The group turned and saw Butch and Cassidy standing there.

Cassidy hissed, "Where do you think you are going?"

Jessie hissed, throwing her Pokémon into battle, "Away from you!"

James also hissed, throwing his Pokémon into battle, "And saving the world!"

Meowth added, "Meowth, that's right!"

Butch hissed, "Oh shut up!"

Ash looked on and said sadly, "Team Rocket..."

Misty yelled, getting in the Meowth balloon, "Ash, get in!"

Ash quickly got into the basket, feeling guilty about leaving his friends and Team Rocket behind. As the balloon started to take off, Raticate tried to take a Razor Fang to it. But Aria's balloon quickly blocked it. It was going to be a battle and race to the finish.


Mt. Coronet, Sinnoh Region

Brock manged to land the balloon on top of the mountain and the group got out. Much to their dismay, a Lugia was guarding the machine. Erika's skin turned pale as Gary perked up. He looked between the Lugia and her.

He asked, "That's the Lugia, isn't it?"

A voice answered, "It sure is and it will stop you all forever."

The group took a look and saw that during the confusion, Giovanni and Silver managed to sneak away.

Ash stated, "I'll deal with you myself, Giovanni."

Misty started to say, "Whoa but Ash..."

Ash interrupted, "I have to, Mist. He killed my father! This is for my father!"

All of the sudden, Ash was surrounded by a blue light - the sign of his aura. Holly was amazed at this.

Holly asked, "What's happening?"

Gary stammered, "I-I don't know!"

Erika added, "We've never seen this before and neither has our old friend, Serena."

Misty decided to ask about Serena for another time and asked Brock, "Brock, do you know what's happening?"

Brock nodded and explained, "You see, Ash has aura that was inherited from Sir Aaron. Apparently, his father had it too. Look at Raichu, he isn't surprised at all!"

What the Pokémon breeder said was true. At Ash's feet were Pikachu and Raichu. Pikachu looked beyond worried while Raichu looked very calm. Silver was also surprised by this, since he was the other trainer originally in the group.

Silver questioned, "Dad, what's happening?"

Giovanni snarled, "His aura is reacting to his feelings. Since he is mad, his aura is too."

Erika perked up at this chance and got the snag machine ready.

She added, "And it keeps you boys distracted!"

With a swing of her arm and the others running over to the machine, a poke ball with yellow aura was thrown at Lugia. For those moments, everything seemed to go in slow motion. The ball hit Lugia on top of its head, enveloping the beast. Misty, Brock, Gary, and Holly got to the machine and looked all over it - trying to find something to destroy it.

One shake.

When the four of them saw nothing to destroy the machine, not even a self-destruction switch, Giovanni quickly realized what was happening and threw out Nidoking. Ash reacted, telling Pikachu to use Volt Tackle. Pikachu was just about to do that but Raichu jumped in front of Pikachu and started to charge at Nidoking with speed and electricty cackling around its bigger body.

Two shakes.

Ash realized what Raichu was doing and before he could react, Raichu had stopped Nidoking's Earth Power - slightly. The rest of the Earth Power actually destroyed the machine, causing the signal to stop going into the skies above. Shortly after, the purple rain let up and the purple storm clouds went away. However, Raichu was down on the ground, badly hurt.

Three shakes. Caught.

Erika jumped up in glee as Silver groaned in frustration. Giovanni then realized that not only was Raichu down and out but so was Nidoking. Our heroes ran over to Raichu, who too badly damaged for anyone to do anything and passed on - to join its real trainer and friend in the heavens above. Silver and Giovanni fled, leaving the heroes behind on a chilly mountain top...


A Few Years Later, Kalos Region

"Wow, I can't believe that Erika finally caught Shadow Lugia!"

Ash smiled at his old friend, Serena. They had sat in Lumoise City at this café, just catching up on old times. Serena had moved away from Pallet Town when she was 8 and spent most of her time here in the Kalos Region with her mom, Grace.

He stated, "It was rather unbelievable."

Ash still had his messy black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing his latest gear of a blue jacket, blue jeans, black shoes, a red baseball cap over his black messy hair, with a white poke ball symbol on the hat, and a blue and black backpack. Pikachu was still perched on his right shoulder.

"Pika pika," said the electric type.

"So what happened to Misty and the others," Serena asked.

Ash answered, "Well, everyone decided to pursue their dreams. Even Jessie and James after they went to jail to serve their time."

Serena pouted, "But what about Misty?"

"There you guys are," a voice exclaimed.

Ash stated, "There she is!"

Serena spun around and saw a girl their age standing there. She had shoulder length beautiful orange hair, cerulean eyes, wearing a turquoise dress that went down to her knees. Around her waist was a white pouch and on her hand was a diamond ring.

Misty said, "Sorry I'm late, sweetheart."

"It's fine, you didn't miss much," Ash stated, getting up.

Ash went over to Misty and kissed her gently, his fiancé. Serena went wide eyed as she realized what was going on. She smiled, happy for her oldest friend. 'All's well that ends well,' she thought, looking on with Pikachu.


AK1028: Thus ends this story! Sorry it took so long, college and internship have been slowing me down. Anyways guys, please read and review! And always think outside of the box!