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Riolu looked once at Zorua. Zorua gazed at him. Riolu blinked. Zorua blinked as well.
"So... uh, what's your name?" Riolu asked sheepishly.
"I never had a name." Zorua whispered with a feminine voice.
"Do you want one?"
"I'm fine with Zorua."
"Do you want more Lum Berries? I've got plenty from that tree over there," Riolu pointed at a large berry tree.
"... Can I have more?"
Riolu started to sweatdrop as Zorua's mouth became a black hole sucking all of the delectable Lum Berries. And here he thought that Zorua was only going to have one!
"Hey, slow down. You might choke on the seeds." Riolu gave a word of caution. Said caution was thrown out the window, landed painfully on the earth, and sucked into Zorua's mouth, never to be seen again.
A massive boom echoed in the distance. Before he knew it, Riolu had cold sweat running down his fur. What is Ash doing? He wondered fearfully while gazing at the night sky.
Arceus, please make sure Ash is safe. Riolu prayed.
Meanwhile...
"Lugia! Zapdos! Molttressss! Enntteeii! HALP MEEEEE!"Ho-oh cried in vain.
"But nobody came!" Mew cheerfully responded, "How fun!" Mew continued to probe the turkey's mind, while forcing Ho-oh to watch... BARNEY. (Please note: I have nothing against the TV show, but Ho-oh doesn't like it.)
"Noooooo!" Ho-oh's screams landed on deaf ears as Mew invaded every single detail of his life. And when Mew probed your mind, most of it was definitely going to be used as blackmail.
"Mew! What have I told you about torturing!" Arceus hollered from her chamber.
"To not to..." Mew droned. It was no surprise to anyone that Mew had this conversation with Arceus quite frequently.
"I see that you now remember! Now act upon it and release Ho-oh!"
"I'm freeeeeeeee!" Ho-oh screamed as he was released from the clutches from the vile Mew. Arceus facepalmed in her chamber.
"Now, tell me what Ho-oh has been hiding all along with Delia..." Arceus asked the evil, pink puffball.
"So what you're saying is that the rainbow turkey got together with Delia and..."
"He doesn't even remember what his son looked like!" Mew happily shouted. Arceus let out a sigh. This was going to be harder than she thought.
"Schedule a meeting tomorrow, and you may leave," Arceus sighed as she flopped on her comfy bed.
"Done!" Mew squealed after she used her psychic powers to scribble 'Important Meeting' on Arceus's calendar. Mew ricocheted off the walls of Arceus's chamber, eventually bouncing in all directions in the main meeting hall.
Meanwhile, Ho-oh was sneaking away from the main meeting hall, in hopes of escaping the paws of the pink psychopath. Now remember, kids! If you're a rainbow bird with feathers that constantly change colors, only a dense idiot would not notice you. Turns out, Mew was not a dense idiot.
"Oh, Ho-oh! There you are!" Mew whispered into Ho-oh's ear. Ho-oh gulped nervously. Oh please, whatever deity is out there, save me! Ho-oh thought as he was dragged off to Mew's room.
Riolu glanced at Zorua who was sound asleep under the pale moonlight. A gentle breeze tickled his nose. Riolu sighed.
"What am I doing here while Ash is fighting all alone?" Riolu murmured to himself, "Why couldn't I have fought alongside him?"
Because you're weak, and he's strong. Riolu thought. I'm weak, weak as a caterpie compared to Ash. I'm supposed to protect my trainer, not the other way around, no matter how strong or weak I am. I want to become strong, to protect my trainer, and to make my parents proud…
"Come on, Riolu. We haven't even started training yet. Besides, I'm fine, so what's the big deal?" Ash popped out of nowhere in his human form, carrying the pokemon that he was fighting earlier.
"A-ash? How did you get here so fast?" Riolu exclaimed in shock.
"I can teleport, if you haven't noticed." Ash boasted.
"No you didn't. You teleported us all the way to Unova and I teleported all of us back after I was healed." A weak, yet deep voice retorted telepathically from the pokemon. Riolu laughed so hard that he almost knocked himself out by rolling on the ground. In order to save some face, Ash put one hand in an attempt to muffle the pokemon's voice. Which accomplished the compete opposite, as Riolu started laughing harder.
"You do realize that I talk telepathically, right?" The pokemon said with an annoyed tone, "Now put me down, I can walk on my own."
"Fine, fine." Ash relented and released the pokemon, allowing it to stand. After Riolu's commotion died down, the pokemon spoke.
"Hello, little Riolu. I am Mewtwo, the ultimate life-, I mean, Pokemon." Riolu paled at the giant figure that was Mewtwo.
"Don't worry, Riolu. He's just a big softy on the inside. Anyway, Mewtwo's actually younger than you, so…I guess you're an older brother now?" Ash developed an amused look as Mewtwo's face scrunched up in disbelief. Riolu giggled, much to the Genetic pokemon's annoyance.
"Ash, I swear, I will teleport you under the ocean if you mention our age difference again. I refuse to be inferior to this puny creature-"
"Mewtwo, we are all teammates now. And he is your teammate, and the first one to join the team. It doesn't matter how strong or weak you are. We are all united as a team, and if you can't suck that up like the 'ultimate pokemon' you are, I have no choice but to leave you to your own demise." Ash said as the gravity seemed to increase exponentially around them. Mewtwo felt cold sweat running down his back due to Ash's unusually threatening presence, while still upholding his cool exterior. Then he nodded.
"Very well. I apologize, Riolu."
"Good! Now we can be friends again!" Ash cheerfully shouted as he used his arms to headlock Mewtwo and Riolu, despite their height difference. "Now get a good night's sleep, we'll start training tomorrow." Ash's eyes gleamed with mischievousness. Mewtwo and Riolu looked at Ash, then to each other.
"He's crazy." Mewtwo telepathically whispered to Riolu.
"Hey, I heard that!" Ash shouted while he started to set up the tent again. He held up Zorua with psychic and laid her down inside… somewhere. Strangely, the tent's interior was a black hole of nothingness. Riolu assumed that it was an Ash thing.
"Anyway, get in the tent, you guys need your sleep." Ash beckoned the two to get in the tent. Riolu lightly shoved Mewtwo in front of him.
"You first," Riolu whimpered. Mewtwo let out a sigh. Then, he calmly strolled over into the interdimensional portal. As he approached the tent's entrance, his body seemed to disappear into nothingness in Riolu's eyes.
"Well, I guess I have no choice but to go in and trust Ash on this one." Riolu muttered to himself as he braced himself, closing his eyes as his muscles became tense. Riolu took a step back, and then dashed into the tent-portal.
In the Hall of Origin…
"Hello, fellow legends." Arceus boomed in her mighty throne above all of the other legendaries. Her eyes sweeped through the masses, before landing on Ho-oh's, who pretended not to notice her glare.
"This better be good or I'm going to leave right here, right now. I need my sleep." Jirachi moaned to the displeasure of Arceus.
"Ahem. It has recently occurred to me that Ho-oh has 'got together' with Delia during his vacation in Kanto." Ho-oh shrank before the gaze of others as Arceus continued her announcement.
"He has so far, abandoned Delia to fend for herself in Kanto somewhere, neglected his then unborn child, never even bothered to see Delia after all those years when we all thought that Delia was just taking a break, and in the end, was a huge liar." Ho-oh shrank even more as the eyes glaring at him turned into disdain. Especially Lugia's, as he experienced the personal loss of his son to the evil team in Orre, and never saw him since.
I'm so screwed, Ho-oh thought as Arceus cleared her throat.
"If anyone has a viable punishment for him to endure, please speak up now."
"Ooohh! Me! Me!" Mew squealed as she spun around in the air while manifesting another psychic bubble to boost her small stature up.
"Anyone EXCEPT for Mew." Arceus clarified in an amused and panicked tone, "We don't want Ho-oh to become a vegetable."
"So far, the best course of action is to reunite this turkey to his son." Zekrom stated in a baritone voice.
"I agree, it is truly unfortunate for the boy to not have met his father. And for his father to be the careless tramp he is." Reshiram added in, "We should give the decision of his father's fate to his son, as he was the one who was wronged."
"Very well then. Anyone have any objection to this?" The Hall went silent in approval.
"We shall give Ho-oh to the mercy of his son. Meeting adjourned." Arceus summoned a gavel and banged on her podium. Everybody except for Ho-oh quickly teleported, flew, or ran out of the meeting room.
"Erm… Should I go now?" Ho-oh meekly asked.
"Yes, Ho-oh. Get your flaming peacock feathers out of here." Arceus tiredly replied. Ho-oh squeaked and set out for Kanto.
"I really need a break from this drama." Arceus moaned as she teleported herself to her own bedroom.
Back with Ash & Co.
Riolu tripped… somehow while entering the portal. Thankfully, Riolu did not get his molecules dissolved, since that would be a very painful way to die. Unfortunately, Riolu was now suffering from a sore nose.
"Oww… That hurt." Riolu pouted as his paw massaged his nose in an attempt to relieve the pain.
"Then maybe you shouldn't have tripped in the first place." Mewtwo chided mockingly.
"Anyway, where are we?" Riolu's face turned from an expression of pain into the face of a kid looking at pokemon battles for the first time. The inside of the tent looked like a literal mansion. To make sure he wasn't dreaming, Riolu put his head back out. The forest was still the same, and the tent still looked as plain as ever. Yet the inside had fancy pillars on the corners, with a large area with complex machinery in the center, and doors leading to multiple rooms on each wall. And there was some type of invisible gravitational elevator on the far end of the room which seemingly led to more floors.
"Welcome to my pocket dimension!" Ash shouted right next to Mewtwo and Riolu's ears. The duo jumped up in surprise as Ash seemingly appeared right out of nowhere.
"Please refrain from bursting my eardrums." Mewtwo calmly stated after composing himself.
"Never do that again!" Riolu shouted at ash as his face scrunched up in mock anger.
"Aw come on! You should have looked at the look of your faces!" Ash burst out in laughter, "Anyway, this is my pocket dimension. I just made a portal in front of the tent so that we could rest and train here."
"Fascinating. And you say that you created this pocket dimension?" Mewtwo's baritone voice questioned.
"The short answer is yes. The long answer is that my mother and I found a few holes surrounding our current dimension and made that hole bigger to make a "new" space with our psychic powers. Don't get me started on how hard it was to push that barrier separating the dimensions and alternate realities were! There's a reason why no pokemon has ever come close to going into a different reality." Ash responded in a playful tone as if they were discussing about child's play rather than complex space-time laws and physics.
"Woah…" Riolu gushed, taking in his new surroundings.
"Woah indeed. Come on, you guys need some rest and I have some rooms for you two." Ash zoomed into a door while psychically holding both pokemon. The door automatically opened for the hyperspeed Latios revealing a hallway with about ten doors.
"Come on, choose a room. It'll automatically adjust to your preferences, depending on which pokemon type you are. I'll be in my room which is on the far right side of the hallway!" Ash zipped to his room as he left Mewtwo and Riolu in the dust.
"Don't forget! Your training from Hell begins tomorrow!" Ash cheerfully telepathed from inside his room.
After constant "rescheduling" of the posting dates (*cough* procrastination *cough*), the author has finally uploaded this seemingly lost chapter. To be honest, I'm reaaallly not in the mood to be writing these types of stories now, since I read too much "HGW – The New Champion" to write more anime. If you are 18+, you guys should read it. I know I shouldn't be reading it but it's too good. I currently have a poll on my profile to make a "Lost Chapters" which contains all of the ideas that I scrapped. Currently, I have 3 chapters of a never posted story, and if I feel bored, I might add other stuff in there too. If you want me to continue stories inside the lost chapters, review or PM me. See you.