Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon at all

Perhaps it was just fate for Ash when he gathered his possessions from the Pokemon Centre, only to be greeted by Josh and Cindy at the door. Throughout all of his journeys he had been accompanied by some form of travelling partners, and he gave a laugh at the irony of life providing with the chance to have some more for his new "journey".

"You…You're not a new trainer are you?" Cindy said to break the silence as they followed Ash out of the door as he made his way towards Mt Moon, intent on reaching Cerulean City before the end of the week.

"No, I'm not a new trainer. Far from it in fact. I've been a longer trainer probably from the combined years you two have been training." Ash said as he marched on forward, hoping that they would get the message to leave him alone.

"Then why did you come back to Pewter then? We saw all of the Kanto badges you have, so why would you want to come back to get the badge again?" Cindy asked, not giving up at all.

"In my past life, some things… happened in which my life was turned over. There are things for me to do before I lose the chance. Coming to Pewter and battling Forest was one of them." Ash said with a sigh, tempted just to get out of here as quick as possible.

Throughout the walk, Josh had been staring down at the floor, not saying a single word at all, until he asked the question that had been burning in his mind since the gym.

"What did you mean yesterday that I lost from my lack of skill?" He asked, causing Ash to stop in his tracks. Even though he couldn't see Josh's face, he couldn't help but let out a smile. "You know, when I saw you battling, you reminded me of what I used to be when I was younger. Rash in battling, going out with full power without taking a step back and looking at the situation. I'm not denying you're not a strong battler, but if I was in your situation with your Togekiss, there would have been different things that I would have chosen."

"And what would of those been?"

"Use a status booting move, before going in with a move. Togekiss's are known for the amazing special attack powers, as well as being graced with the special ability Serene Grace, which I hopefully don't need to tell you about." He said with a raised eyebrow, with Josh giving a slow nod as he remembered the ability. "Good. I would have used a move such as Light Screen or Reflect to lower the damage of the rock moves, before moving in with a move such as Water Pulse or Magical Leaf, which I presume your Togekiss doesn't know?"

"…No."

"Then I would advise you go out and teach your pokemon those moves, especially Water Pulse which would be useful with the Serene Grace ability." Ash said as he continued walking, leaving Josh and Cindy looking at each other before they began running to catch up with him.

"Hey! You have no right to tell my brother what to do at all! He can do what he wants, and he can teach his pokemon whatever the hell he wants. If you're so confident in the aspect of using some status moves, then I challenge you to a 1v1 battle, my strongest against any of your pokemon." Cindy shouted as he rushed past Ash and stood in front of him, holding out a pokeball.

Ash merely raised an eyebrow before smiling. A test perhaps? Maybe it would be good to have some partners with him, but they would have to prove themselves, so why not through a battle? "Sure, why not? Let's do this."

(Time skip 10 minutes, open grass field, on the edge on Mt Moon)

"This will b challenge with the challenger Cindy against Red. Trainers send out your pokemon." Josh said from the middle of the pitch, acting as the referee even though he was itching to see his Big Sister finally use him in a battle.

"Tank go, smash this person for insulting Josh!" Cindy said as he flung out a dusk ball, revealing a large dinosaur pokemon which was covered in green battle armour.

"Well, this is a surprise. Let's see how you like this then." Ash said as he flung out a normal red pokeball to the field, him too sending out the same dinosaur pokemon in the green armour, before giving out an all mighty roar, powerful enough to make Cindy take a couple of steps backwards from the power.

"Ummm…this battle will therefore be between Tyranitar and Tyranitar…Go!" Josh said, whimpering slightly from the sight of the two giants before leaping behind a bush until only his head was visible, not wanting to get close to them at all. Ash just gave a small smile as he waved his hand in the air, indicating that she could have the first move.

"Fine, but you're going to regret that! Tank, lets whip up the sand, and proceed with a flamethrower." Cindy shouted, with a slight smirk on her face. Tank nodded before shifting back onto his right leg, just as his tail started whipping back and forth. Ash just merely stood where he was as the sand from the ground was tossed up, before it mysteriously began spiralling in tornado fashion. In no time at all, it was impossible to see at all.

"Now, let loose the fire!" Cindy shouted with a whoop. Tank gave a roar before it released the blast of fire from its mouth towards the other Tyranitar.

"Nice idea with using the combination of the sandstorm and the flamethrower; as well as getting the fire, you're making parts of glass coming towards me as well. A good mixture, but unfortunately not good enough. Block it." Ash said with a grin, just as the flamethrower as the tiny, razor sharp mixture of glass was coming in their direction. His Tyranitar just yawned as it slammed a foot into the ground, sending up multiple rocks that formed together to make a shield, effectively blocking the fire from reaching him at all.

"What the…? Never mind. Tank, follow up with screech, then go in with Brick Break." Cindy said, wanting to take the other pokemon by surprise. Tank gritted its mouth before releasing an ear piercing noise from its mouth; even for however long they had trained in their various places, there was nothing they could do to stop the noise of the screech.

"Crap…Ty polish up quickly." Ash snarled once the ringing had gone; Ty nodded as it acted quickly by rubbing its arms all over its body, somewhat begging to make its body shinier and more flexible. However even with the newfound speed, Tank had managed to gain up on it, launching the devastating chop onto its side, forcing it backwards.

"Hell yeah! Now that's how you use a strategy!" Cindy laughed as she clapped her hands together. "Well done Tank, you can have a nice long-"

"Not so fast actually. If you think one hit is going to knock my Tyranitar out, then you are mistaken. Rock Slide." Cindy just looked on with a dazed expression as she tried to look through the sandstorm, when suddenly it slowly was turning much thicker than it was a couple of seconds ago. Tank too was looking around slowly, trying to comprehend what was happening, when it was struck in the face by multiple chucks of rock. It was taken by surprise so much that he fell over onto the ground, before giving off a roar in ager.

"It was a good idea to use screech to boost the damage of the Brick Break, but as you can see," Ash said as the storm died down, only to be replaced with the sun glowing brightly above, only to reveal his Tyranitar standing tall. "It hardly did anything at all."

"So? Yours must be close to fainting any second now? So what if it's standing now, it won't be in a second. Tank, Focus Blast it out of here." Cindy snarled; she wasn't going to let him show her up, especially in front of her brother.

"Fine by that. Ty, prepare for retribution."

Both of the Tyranitar's nodded as they began doing their own thing; Tank began charging up a bright orange ball in its hands, just as Ty shifted onto his left foot and began breathing in slowly. Tank gave a roar as it launched the sphere at its foe, which just stood firm as it occasionally rubbed its body here and there as the attack hurtled towards it.
The resulting collision formed a small shockwave as smoke trailed everywhere, but once it cleared it revealed Tank to be the one on the floor with Ty standing up above it with a dark outline around its body, before it diminished quickly.

"But…But how? I saw the attack hit your pokemon; it should be the one that's on the floor, not mine!"

"That's true, but you forget that Tyranitar's excel in Attack, so a special move like Focus blast wouldn't do as much damage. As for why my pokemon is still standing, all be it is panting heavily, I had it use Curse and Rock Polish continuously so that it would be ready for what would happen."

"And what's that?"

"A nice simple move really. Focus Blast is a very powerful move, so by using Payback, a move that retaliates with double the power of the move used against it, with the addition of Curse boosting up Ty's attack it was going to be over in no time at all. Especially with Rock Polish allowing mine to get to yours in no time at all." Ash said as he walked over to his pokemon and patted it on the back, before returning him back to his ball.

"Now that battle is over, if you want to, you can-" Ash started to say, until he turned around and spotted the lone pokemon that was lying underneath the tree he was standing by a couple of minutes ago. "Oh for Arceus' sake Pikachu, you really need to lay off the Ketchup. Look at yourself, its everywhere!" Ash groaned he shook his head in disbelief at his starter; Pikachu would go on to say later on that it was Ash's fault for leaving the bottle in there anyway, and he couldn't resist it at all.

"Never mind. As I was saying, if you want to, you can join me on my journey for a while, but if you want to come, you better decide quickly." Ash said as he picked up the electric type in his arms before heading off towards Mt Moon. Even though he hadn't heard a single thing as of yet, he knew what was going to happen in the next 10 or so seconds.

Josh and Cindy didn't even need to say anything as they looked at each other before scrambling for their bags as they ran towards Ash, well Red for them, for who knows what would await them.

It was just a door with a sign saying "This room is under refurbishment. Do not enter." Most people in the building just walked past it without a second thought at all; with them either being too busy with the task's they had been given or that they just ignored it. Perhaps this was a good thing really, for appearances tend to deceive most people.
Behind the wooden door was an eerie long corridor with bare light bulbs hanging from the ceiling, until after the walk you came towards a metal door, with only a simple lock key preventing you from getting to the over side. But what was over there though?

If you were lucky enough to actually get behind here, you would have seen what seemed to be an abandoned laboratory, with dust gathering over multiple test tube's being connected to the wall. However, there was a source of light snaking its way through the cracks, where it led to the centre of the room, where there was a hunched over person looking at two pokemon lying on a medical table. Multiple tubes and wires were connected to the pokemon, as the person suddenly stood up tall from his hunched position and turned on the spot as he slowly made his way to a computer via the aide of a walking stick.

With a slight smile, he pressed a button on the keyboard which revealed a small hole appearing in the computer. He produced a syringe which he had been carrying in his left hand and removed the vial containing a small black liquid, before placing it in the hole. With a sound of air being rapidly being sucked in, the vial disappeared instantly, before the screen lit up with lines of writing going past rapidly, before finally a small text box appeared on the screen.

With a nod, the enter key was pressed, and then it began moving and changing colour.

The Eevee struggled from where it was strapped to a table; tubes protruding from its body, clear at first until the black liquid from earlier on began flowing through the tubes into its body. A howl was emitted from its mouth as its eyes widened form the shock, before it stopped moving.

All was silent, with the figure watching intently at the Eevee, waiting for the moment he had dreamt of for months.

Suddenly, the straps snapped from the Eevee as it opened as eye, but instead of the normal oak brown eye, this time it was a deep purple colour. Leaping from the table, it slowly stepped towards the figure as black-purple fames began lapping around its body, before it was covered in the glow.

"Finally….it is done." He uttered, smiling from behind the glass as he looked at his creation, before pressing his finger on a buzzer. "Petrel, come down here please. It is time for things to become interesting."

Author Note: So here is the new chapter! I love the end part in my opinion, as this is something I've wanted to get in for a long long time, so I hope you all wil enjoy this mysterious new subject that will crop up, as well as another surprise to it/

Ka-tay's mind: Nice to know that you've decided to come back as well, so I hope you're not disapointed. As regards to Ash's hat, Brock was given it by the "friends" after he was searching for Ash. I'll probably do a flashback of this in more eetail in a later chapter to clear things up a bit. Also with the Professor Oak bit, I thought that saying what happened all over again would be a bit boring, so I cut to the chase and got to the main part.

Anyway's I hope you are all enjoying the story, and I'll see you lot next time for the next installment.