Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. If I did Ash would keep his skill from each region when he began a new one.
A/N: Wow I am on a roll with this story. Three chapters in the space of three days. Hope you enjoy it, and let's try reach 500 reviews before the next chapter.
On way Back to Pallet Town
Ash stood at the stern of the ferry, just allowing the cool sea air to blow through his hair. He couldn't believe he was finally on his way home. Ash had decided that he would keep the capture of Darkrai secret for now. Ash chuckled to himself as he imagined the Professor's face when he saw his latest capture. Ash then looked to his hands which were now holding Sabrina's. He couldn't believe he had a girlfriend all ready. Ash hadn't wanted to get romantically involved with anyone until he had completed his goal. He also thought a relationship would be a huge distraction. How wrong he was. Sabrina had been there every step of the way since they had first met at the Pokemon centre. In fact he now couldn't Imagine his life without her. He looked from their hands to her beautiful face. Her Hair was gently blowing in the sea air, and those purple eyes. They were brighter than ever. Ash was wondering how his mother would react to him bring home a girl so quickly. No doubt she would make a complete fuss of her like she did him. Ash looked to Horizon, his mind suddenly switched to Cynthia and Lucario who was now in Sinnoh. It had only been one day and already Ash was missing his adopted son. However he knew that he was safe, and that hopefully he was enjoying being reunited with his mum. Ash hadn't told Sabrina but he had recently been thinking about Cynthia a lot. Her long blonde hair, those sapphire blue eyes. Not to mention her cute laugh and smile. Ash couldn't wait to meet her face to face again. Ash wondered how she would react to the bond situation. After all Sabrina was already bonded to him, but Cynthia had no clue about the situation. Ash noticed that Brock and Misty had join the two of them by stern of the ship.
"Well Ash you excited to be going home?" Ash turned to Brock. The older teen had been like a big brother to him, since they had left Pewter. In fact he had taken charge. Made sure they had eaten correctly, washed their clothes. Even stitched up a pair of his trousers that he had ripped, climbing a fence. Ash was wondering If Brock was willing to come with him on all his adventures. After all Ash only knew the basic of how to cook, and clean. Not to mention he only had a basic understanding of first aid. Brock had told them all they he was use to doing everything as before his father returned home, he was the mum and the dad for all his siblings.
"Yeah, I think I'm ready. Be nice to relax for a few days at home, before heading to Viridian City. Anyway what are you going to do? Will you go back to Pewter City, until the league starts. After all we still have a month and a bit to go."
Brock scratched under his chin. Brock wanted to say no, that he was prepared to stay with Ash until the tournament, however he knew the boy needed to have some independence. After all Brock wouldn't be there all the time for him while he was on the road. Brock had different goal in mind. He wanted to be a Pokemon Breeder, and that meant going to university. Brock had already applied before he had joined Ash on his quest. He started in two years.
"I was thinking about returning home. Don't worry though. Before I leave I will teach you everything you need to know. That included sewing." Brock laughed as he watched Ash pull his hat over his head. That moment was still embarrassing for the young trainer."
Ash lifted his cap a frown on his face. "I thought we agreed not to talk about that any more. Anyway, what are you planning to do Misty?
Misty looked at Ash and stayed quiet. She was actually thinking of leaving the group. She had only joined because she had been attracted to Ash, but now he had Sabrina, then Misty felt like a third wheel. Of course she would cheer for him at the Indigo League competition.
"Actually Ash. I think I will return back home if that is okay with you. " Misty could see the disappointment on his face. Surely he understood why she had made this decision.
Ash knew deep down why Misty had decided to leave the group. She was feeling left out. Ash also had not been oblivious to her actions. Misty had a crush on him, and now Sabrina was with him, then she didn't want to suffer heartache any more. Still Ash would miss is hot-tempered friend. Like Brock she had kept Ash in line. Of course Ash did think she could have gone about it a different way, instead attacking him every five minutes, but then that wouldn't be Misty.
"I understand Misty. Thank you for helping me on my Journey. Although I still have a long way to go. I can understand your reasoning. Sabrina and I have already discussed what we were going to do after I got my eighth badge. After I have registered for the league then we were going to travel to the Kanto side of Mount Silver. I know there are some really tough Pokemon there and it would be good place to do some serious training."
Brock was impressed. After Ash won his eighth badge he would have thought that Ash would take it easy and relax a little. However it seems he wanted to make sure he was ready for this competition. Brock admired that in him. Just then Brock heard Ash Pokegear ring.
Ash pulled his Pokegear out of his pocket and pressed the button. He noticed it was Professor Oak looking at him as if he had got a mighty shock. He let his friend gather around him. Obviously the Professor had discovered his new capture.
"Ah there you are my boy. You have a lot of explaining to do Mr. I checked your latest capture this morning and got the fright of my life. At first had no clue what it was and had to scan the data base. Care to explain how you came to capture a Darkrai."
Ash looked around at the face of all his friends and girlfriend. They all had a confused expression on their faces. Obviously they had never heard of the legendary. Ash scratched the back of his head nervously.
"Well you see Professor, I forgot that I already had six balls on me, when I caught it. I am sorry if I scared you Professor, but I caught it rather late last night and didn't want to wake you."
Professor Oak shook his head on the screen. "Its not the fact you didn't tell me beforehand, but the fact you actually have it. Trainers capturing a legendary Pokemon is unheard of. Of course there certain situations where a capturing a legend is necessary. Example Pokemon Rangers, but to actually have one on your team, well Its just unheard of."
Ash turned and noticed the looks his friends were now giving him. Ash sighed, he didn't want them finding out like this.
"Professor we are on our way back to Pallet Town now. In fact we should be with you in a few hours. I will explain everything then. Also I have another surprise to show you."
Professor Oak raised an eyebrow in suspicion. "Really well, as long as it not big, Black and scary then I don't mind. I am surprised you are travelling back home so quickly. I take you have already won your seventh badge and are coming from Cinnabar Island."
Ash nodded his head towards the screen. "Yes, I defeated Blaine and got my seventh badge. You were also right about Squirtle, he evolved during the battle. So that only leaves Bulbasaur left to evolve before I have all three starters at the middle evolution stage. By the way how are Espeon and Umbreon doing?"
Ash noticed the old Professor chuckle. "Those two are handful, but they are doing just fine. I have sectioned them off from the others now. Especially when you told me you wanted to breed the two of them. I must say the assortment of Pokemon you have already captured is impressive Ash. In fact you're only six behind Gary. Of course that is down to his 20 odd Tauros. Don't ask me why he caught that many, I haven't a clue."
Ash smirked. He was wondering himself why Gary would want so many Tauros. Maybe Gary would trade him one for a baby Eevee egg. After all Tauros was a normal type meaning they could learn all sorts of attacks.
"Okay Professor, well, we will see you soon. Bye." Ash ended the call and noticed all his friends were looking at him, waiting to explain. Ash groaned. He had hoped the Professor wouldn't have called him, now he had to explain everything.
"Okay, last night before I went to bed. I saw something on the beach outside our bedroom window. At first I wasn't sure what it was. However when I noticed its glowing red eye looking to my direction, then I knew it was some type of Pokemon. I decided to investigate, so only taking Mew, I left the Pokemon centre and then walked down to the beach. I discovered the Pokemon was called Darkrai and that someone had sent it to find me. I won't say who as I am not sure if I am allowed to tell you, but it told me that If I could beat it in a battle then it would join my team." Ash removed his Pokedex and then scanned through his captures. He then showed his friends the picture of Darkrai. He noticed the fear on all there faces. "It turned out that Darkrai was a legendary from the region of Sinnoh. So I battled it would Mew. Finally after a long hard battle where it fought its way out of a poke ball twice. I finally caught it. I would have kept in on me, but forgot that I had six balls already, meaning it would have to be transferred to Professor Oak lab."
Unknown to Ash three individuals had also heard the conversation. Jessie, James and Meowth had been instructed by their boss to follow Ash and his friends. It seems their boss wanted to find out everything he could about the young trainers. Jessie However hated recon missions. She would much prefer to be stealing Pokemon. So hearing about this Pokemon called Darkrai was causing her mind to think up a way of how to catch it. If they were lucky then maybe they would get Mew too. Jessie gestured for the three of them to move further down the boat. Once they were out of the eyesight of the twerps Jessie began to explain her plan.
"Listen here you two. I think we should try capture that Darkrai for the boss. After all I am certain that he would appreciate such a rare Pokemon. Especially a legendary to boot."
James Looked at his partner worried. They have been given orders to spy not to engage. James was also worried about the kids Scizor. He they had been blasted off enough times by the hyper beam, and every time they had landed he had ended with something broken.
"Jessie, I don't think that is a good idea. After all were not exactly popular with the boss at the minute. He has already docked us two weeks pay. If we disobey another direct order, then he might end up getting rid of us."
Jessie shook her head. Ever since they had been defeated by that kid. James had never been the same. It was if he was scared of the brat. The Kid was only thirteen years old for crying out loud. They were both in their late twenties.
"James Pull yourself together. Stop acting like a baby. We are going to steal that Darkrai and any other Pokemon that kid has. That will teach the little twerp for messing with Team Rocket."
Team Rocket Secret Lab
Giovanni stood in front of the containment unit that housed Mewtwo. He had been told it was finally ready. Giovanni watched as his scientist drained the chemical from the container. Once it was all gone the scientist then lifted the container off Mewtwo. Giovanni nodded to four scientist who had various pieces of armour in their arms. Giovanni watched them attach the various armour. Once they were all finished, Giovanni stood back and admired his creation.
"Welcome to the real world Mewtwo"
Mewtwo P O V
The Pokemon slowly opened it's eyes. It didn't know where it was or who it was. It noticed some sort of visor screen in front of its eyes. It was making weird noises and showing weird diagrams. The Pokemon looked around his surroundings. He noticed he was in some sort of lab and that there was a man, with short black air dressed on in an orange and black striped suit looking at him. Just as The Pokemon locked eyes with the man, all his details began to show up on the visor screen in front of its eyes. According to the date, he was his creator and he was to obey his every command. Just then the Pokemon felt a pain in his head, as he saw a small feline pink type Pokemon flying around. The Pokemon wasn't sure what this memory was, but he knew the creature was very important to him. As if they had a connection with each other. The Pokemon then looked down at his arms and saw the strange gloves that now covered them. The Pokemon could also feel he was being restrained and noticed that hundreds of wires were connected to him. Suddenly the Pokemon locked eyes with the man once more as he spoke.
"Welcome to the real world Mewtwo."
Mewtwo was that his name? Mewtwo wasn't sure if he remembered having a name. He had hundreds of memories flashing through his mind that he had no clue what was going on. Suddenly everything was getting too much for him. And his real eyes began to glow blue. Mewtwo felt power ran through him and before he knew what had happened, he had created explosions all over the lab.
Giovanni had watched Mewtwo demonstrate his power. He was going to be unstoppable. No one in the entire world could stand up to him now. He was going to rule everything.
Pallet Town
Ash and his friends stepped off the ferry. He closed his eyes and breathed in the familiar air of his home town. He couldn't wait to get home and see his mum. He had really missed her. Once they were at the bottom of the gang plank, the group made their way off the dock and started to walk toward the centre of town. After about ten minutes walking Ash could see his house in the distance. He spotted a lone figure tending to the garden. Ash eyes lit up and he began to run towards his home with his Pikachu and friends hot on his heels.
Delia Ketchum carried on weeding the garden. She wiped the sweat from her brow. She missed her little boy. However she knew that he was a Pokemon trainer now, and like his father then he would be travelling all over the different regions. She looked up and then her eyes widened as she saw her little Boy running up the road toward her. Delia smiled and then stood up and waited at the gate to welcome him home. Suddenly she felt Ash crash into her and hugged her. Delia wrapped one arm around her son and then brushed her other hand over his head.
"Welcome back honey. I have really missed you." Delia noticed Ash looked at her and smiled. He then hugged her once more before breaking the hug. By this time Delia had noticed the small group behind her son. There was a boy with really spiky black hair, Delia would have said he looked to be around 16, maybe 17. Then there was two girls. One had orange hair and green eyes, and the other girl looked around her son age, and had dark purple straight hair and purple eyes. "Well honey are you not going to introduce me to your lovely friends?"
Ash was so happy to see his mother again, that he had forgotten his friends were behind him. "Oh yeah. Sorry about that. Mum this is Brock, Misty and Sabrina. All three are gym leaders, and Sabrina is also my girlfriend."
Delia eyes widened. She couldn't believe her little boy already had a girlfriend. Then again his father was always the charmer. Father like son I guess. "Well it is nice to meet all of you. Especially you Sabrina. Please come in. and I will get you something to eat." Delia lead everyone inside then showed them into the lounge. She then vanished into the kitchen to prepare something for them to eat.
Ash sat down in the lounge with his friends. It was then he noticed Misty pick up a photo of his dad, dressed in his Ranger gear. Ash hadn't told his friends that his dad was actually a Pokemon Ranger and spent most of his time away at the Pokemon Rangers HQ for Kanto. He was the head ranger there and it was his job to protect all the Pokemon in the region. He was only allowed so much leave a year, and Ash was upset that he hardly ever saw him.
"Hey Ash, who is this man in the photo?" Ash sighed then took the photo off Misty. He then held it and looked at it. A small smile graced his face as he remembered when the photo had been taken. It was when his dad had been promoted to head Ranger a few years ago.
"That's my dad. He is a Pokemon Ranger. I don't get to see him very often. His work takes up most of his time. You see because he is on call 24/7 then he spends his time at the Rangers HQ. He only gets a certain amount of leave a year. However now that I am a Pokemon trainer then I hardly will get to see him."
Sabrina noticed the sad expression on her boyfriends face. She moved into the chair with him, and then allowed him to rest his head on hers. Sabrina was the only one who Ash had told about his dad. She knew it was a touchy subject with him. Still Misty didn't know so she couldn't blame the Orange haired gym leader.
Delia had heard everything, she two missed her husband. She quietly closed the door and then grabbed the phone. She was going to ring the The Rangers HQ and ask if her husband could have a few days leave, so that he could see Ash before he left to continue on his journey. She dialled the number and waited while the call connected. Just then the video on her phone switched on and she smiled as she looked into the face of her husband, who seemed surprised to see her.
"Delia, what on earth are you calling for? Is everything Okay? Nothing happened to Ash has it." Delia smiled at her husband. He looked just like Ash, wavy black hair and chocolate brown eyes.
"Nothing happened Richard. It's just Ash is home for a few days, and I was wondering if you could come home for a couple of days. He really misses you Richard. Plus it would nice for you to see just how well he is doing. He already has seven badges and Samuel as already told me he has caught lots of Pokemon."
Richard stayed quiet for a little while. He then looked at Delia. "Okay. I will be there by tonight. I am owed some extra leave anyway. Plus things have been really quiet of late. I am sure Matthew won't mind standing in for me. See You tonight honey. Love you." Delia smiled as she watched the screen go black. She was happy that Richard was coming home, and decided she would cook a big meal for everyone. She picked up the tray of cookies and jugs of juices before walking through the door into the lounge. She looked to one of the armchairs to see Ash was sharing it with Sabrina. The two looked so happy together. She placed the tray on the table. She then turned to her son.
"Ash why don't you go put your things away. I will go set up the spare room. I am sure you and Brock down mind sharing why Sabrina and Misty can have the spare room." before anyone could protest Delia had already started walking upstairs. Ash looked at Sabrina and saw her sad face. He titled her head up.
"Cheer up babes, it only for a few days. Then we can start sleeping together again." Sabrina sighed then nodded her head. Ash was right, it was only a few days, and maybe the absent of each other will just make them more hornier when they did next sleep with each other. Sabrina then noticed Ash stood up.
"Well I don't know about you three, but I fancy going for walk down to Professor Oak lab. As I have a ton of Pokemon who no doubt have missed me and wanting to see me. Plus I can show you Darkrai."
Ash noticed the nervousness on all their faces of meeting Darkrai. However in the end they all agreed. Ash walked to the bottom of the stairs and shouted up.
"Mum, me and the guys are going to go see professor Oak. We promise to be home by tea time!" Ash waited until his mum reply.
"That's fine honey. You know where the spare key is. I will see you at tea time."
Ash titled his head to the front door. Before leaving he took the spare key out of the drawer and then led the group out of the house and towards Professor Oak lab. It only took them five minutes. Ash looked into the many fields the lab had. He could see his own little group of Pokemon, running around and playing. He could also see a small pond, where a few of his water Pokemon were happy splashing around, including Dragonair. Ash finally led them up the stone steps and pushed open the door at the top.
"Professor, It's only me Ash. Were back." Ash looked around the lab, and noticed much hadn't changed since he was last here. Just then he spotted the professor poking his head around one of the corners.
"Oh it's you my lad. Good, come through we have a lot to talk about. Also I have some good news for you." Professor Oak led his guest into his main lab. There in two incubators were two eggs. "Your two Eevee's have been very busy. Espeon has already laid two eggs."
Ash and Sabrina raced towards the incubators. They could believe their two Pokemon had breed so quickly. Ash turned to the Professor.
"Professor where is Darkrai, has I promised to show him to Brock, Misty and Sabrina. Also you know that surprise I told you about. Well you might want to sit down for this." Watched as Professor Oak took a seat in one of his lab chairs. Ash then pulled a pink and white ball from his belt. "Princess, time to rise and shine!"
Professor Oak watched the ball open up. He was thankful, that Ash had suggested he sat down. There twirling around in mid air was the legendary Mew. Samuel rubbed his eyes several times, to make sure he wasn't seeing things. He turned to Ash, his mouth a gasp. "How?"
Ash grinned at the Professor reaction and then allowed Mew to float into his arms. "Well I was fishing in a small pond just outside of Pewter City. I noticed I had a bite on the end of my line. When I pulled it up Mew was hanging of the end."
Samuel noticed that Ash wasn't telling him everything. Still he was sure he would eventually. Now though he was amazed that not only one but two legends had accepted Ash has their trainer. Just then Samuel felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand in end. Ghosting out of the lab floor was Darkrai.
"Well Ash you wanted to know where he was. I hope that has answered your question."
Ash watched Darkrai float towards him. His one singular red eye. Locked on him. "Master, someone is approaching the lab. They are in a large machine and I think they are coming here to try steal your Pokemon."
Ash growled, just as Darkrai had spoken to him. They all heard a loud noise coming from the fields. Pikachu was already pushed up against the patio doors using is little paw to point.
It's those three again boss. You know the loser and their Meowth. They have huge cages attached to that balloon of theirs, and are using them to scoop up all the Pokemon.
Ash wasted no time in pushing open the Patio doors and racing onto the field. He was just in time to see a huge vacuum tube was now sucking all the Pokemon out of the small pond. Including his Dragonair Ash was wondering just how they were managing to stay in the air with all that gear coming off the balloon.
"Darkrai, Mew. I need both of you." Ash watched Darkrai and Mew float towards him. They then both floated in front of him waiting for his orders.
Meanwhile up in the Balloon. Jessie had spotted the twerp. And he had both Mew and Darkrai with him. Jessie spoke through a mega phone. "Hand over Darkrai and Mew Twerp and you can have the rest of your Pokemon back."
Ash looked up amused. Had this old bag not learnt a single thing since their last encounter. "Mew use Hyper beam and blow a hole in that balloon! Darkrai send them three into an endless nightmare. Dark void!"
Mew formed an orange sphere between her paws. It slowly started to grow. Finally when it was the size of a football, she unleashed it. The orange beam shot like an arrow and blew a hole through the balloon. While Mew was completing her task. Darkrai had ghosted up through the basket of the ship he then formed three black orbs before hitting each of his targets with one. He then floated down to the ground and watched as balloon fell out of the sky.
Ash seeing the all the cages on the ground once more. Set to work. "Darkrai use Focus Blast to blast the doors off those cages. Princess you help too."
Again Mew and Darkrai stood side by side and did what their trainer had ordered. Soon all the cages were open and all the his Pokemon were free. They all ran towards him. By this time Jessie, James and Meowth had woken up. Their eyes widened as the spotted a all to familiar sight in front of them. There charging up hyper beam was Scizor grinning.
James looked to Jessie. "I told you this was a bad idea. Now were going to be blasted off by that Scizor and its hyper beam. Not mention no doubt skinned alive for disobeying a direct order.
Jessie growled. "Will you shut it James. The twerp caught us off guard that was all. Arbok go.." However Jessie had no time to summon her Pokemon, because just then she and the rest were engulfed by a orange beam and blasted right to the heavens.
Ash watched satisfied as the three crooks shot off into the direction of the sea. Maybe they would land in it and be unable to make it back to shore. Ash was getting just a little tired of their antics. Ash then turned his attention back to all his Pokemon, who suddenly tackled him and were trying lick, and cuddle him all at once. Mew and Darkrai looked on. Darkrai turned to Mew.
His Pokemon love him very much don't they. Maybe Lord Arceus is right and this boy will be the greatest of them all.
Yep! Daddy is something else. All his Pokemon care for him deeply, because he returns their feelings. It is no wonder Lord Arceus chose him.
Ash of course had heard everything the two legends had said. He blushed and was happy that all his Pokemon loved him, because he loved all of them. Ash noticed the happy face of all his friends and Professor Oak. However it was the man at the patio doors that had drawn his real attention. Ash eyes widened as he looked at his father, dressed still in his ranger uniform smiling. Ash got off the ground and ran to towards the lab. They other wondered what had happened, when he ran past them, causing their heads to turn and observe the man standing by the door. Ash ran right into him, nearly knocking him over. He hugged him for dear life.
"Dad you're home. I can't believe it. You're actually home."
A/N: There you are a nice ending to the chapter. Hope you enjoyed it.