"Woah.." Ash said, gawking at the ruins in front of them, a big, mossy archway that was built in to the hill full of Unown symbols
"Holy Hoppips..." Bolt said, flabergasted by the structure
"Come on you two, snap dout of it!" Meowth said pointing the flashlight the other two Rockets gave him "We've got to check this place out!" the two pikachu nodded and started walking inside
"This place gives me the creeps" Bolt said, looking around at the pictures of the Unown on the walls "It's like their eyes are following us" Ash looked at the paintings on the walls and shivered, remembering what Molly caused when the Unown granted her wishes
"Don't worry, we won't do that" a voice said
"AAH!" Ash screamed
"What's wrong?" Bolt asked
"I heard a voice" Ash wimpered, trembeling and looking around "Who said that?"
"Calm down, will ya?" Meowth said "It's probably just a ghost pokemon playing a prank on us"
"Yeah, your right Meowth" Ash said, taking a deep breath "Come on we have to check out the rest of this place" his two companions nodded and went on
"Look at these pictures" Bolt said, pointing at the wall. Ash stopped and looked at the pictures on the wall
"What the...?" he said, the carving showed a strange tornado like thing, in front of it was a pleacefull forest and behind it there was fire and smoke, strange snake like tentacles were coming from the strange twister and each thing they touched were apparently being lit on fire, below were strange symbols "What is this?"
"A warning" the voice said again
"There it is again..." Ash said quietly
"Okay" Meowth said angrily "Whoever is talking show yourself!" the three pokemon stood and looked around
"Alright" the voice said, as soon as that sentence was finshed, an Unown flashed in front of Ash
"GAAAAH!" he screamed in terror
"Sorry" the Unown said "I didn't mean to scare you. My name's Alpha"
"Alpha?" Ash asked
"Yeah" Alpha said "Beacause I'm A form"
"Guess that makes sense" Bolt said
"You said this was a warning,but about what?" Ash asked, pointing at the wall carvings
"About a great evil" Alpha said "You see, before the universe was born, there were four beings: the lord of death, the missteress of life, the lord of order and the lord of chaos. Chaos ruled in those days, it's lord knew and controled everything. The other three, however, created an egg, the lord of chaos hunted them down, attempting to eliminate this threat to it's rule, the others fought it off long enough for the egg to hatch into Arcues"
"Wait, Arcues isin't the first pokemon?" Bolt asked, Alpha shook his head
"No, he was the fifth. After Arcues hatched, he helped them seal the lord of chaos away in another dimension and build our universe, but about one thousand years agom it managed to escape the alternate dimension and began to tear this world apart, but one human and one pokemon managed to weaken it enough for the lord of order to seal it away again" Alpha said
"Who were they?" Ash asked
"The human's name was Aaron and his Riolu" Alpha said
"Riolu?" Ash asked
"The pre-evolved form of Lucario" Bolt said "So Aaron stopped this monster?"
"Yes, Aaron Ketchum did indeed stop it"
"Ketchum?!" Meowth, Bolt and Ash yelled
"Aaron was my ancestor?" Ash said
"Hahaha, good one, your a pokemon. Not a human" Alpha said laughing
"Actually, I was human. I got transformed into a pokemon" Ash said
"Wait, your human and you got turned into a pokemon?" Alpha asked "How is that even possible?"
"We don't know" the three of them said. A few minutes later the three were waving goodbye to their new friend
"Well, he was nice, wasn't he?" Ash asked
"Yeah, but I'm a little scared about that monster he told us about. Didn't Anabel say that what possed us was a being of pure chaos?" Bolt asked
"Yeah" Ash said "You don't think it was that, do you?" Bolt nodded
"Well, we better head back to Pallet Town, everybody is really worried about you" Bolt said
The five pokemon made their way back to Pallet Town, after saying goodbye to Bolt's family
"Man, I can't wait to see mom again" Ash said
"And you have no idea how happy she'll be" Ashchu said, figeting with the flute around his neck
"Hey Ashchu" Gary said "How about you try playing that flute?" Ashchu nodded and placed the small wooden instrument on his lips and started playing. The music that came out was beautiful, almost hypotising, Ash couldn't help but close his eyes and listen to his twin brother play, until he crashed into a tree
"Yeeowch" Ash said, rubbing his nose
"You okay Ash?" Ashchu and Bolt asked
"Yeah, I'm okay" Ash said, grinning, Bolt looked at him worried
"Ash, can I talk to you for a minute?" Bolt asked
"Sure" Ash said, following Bolt
"Ash, you remmeber what you asked me a few days ago?" Bolt asked
"Yeah and I'm serious. I do enjoy being a pokemon more than I do being a human" Ash said in response
"But, what about all that you wanted to do?" Bolt asked "Beating the Battle Frontier? You wanted to go to Sinnoh afterwards, right?"
"Yes, but. Things change, Bolt" Ash said "I mean, I got a brother now and I don't wanna drag him along everywhere"
"But he could stay with your mom and" Ash cut Bolt of mid-sentece
"No. And how would you feel if one day a person very close to you turned into another species, and he can't understand a word you say to him?" Ash said, Bolt looked at him
"But, you were human when I met you!" Bolt said
"And now were closer than back when I was just your trainer" Ash said "And you really want me not to understand you?" Bolt stared at Ash, not realasing how much his friend was enjoying the change, he kept thinking about before he turned into a pikachu
"So, you want to stay like this?" Bolt asked his best friend, Ash nodded. Meanwhile, nearby a figure was following them
"Truly heartwarming" Lewis said sarcastcley, observing the pokemon walk back to town
*BEEP BEEP*
"Hello" Lewis said into his holocaster
"Lewis, the cheif has a new assemient for you" the operatot said
"Well my instructions come from the master himself" Lewis said
"So do these." the operator said "We found the tome of chaos. It's inside Pokemon Tower, your orders are to retrieve the tome at once"
"Roger that" Lewis said, haging up "Come out, Flygon!" he said, tossing a pokeball "We're going to Lavender Town" Flygon nodded and took of to the graveyard town.
"YOUR BACK!" Bayleef yelled in hapiness when Ash and the others returned from the woods, she ran up and landed right on him
"Bayleeef..." Ash said
"I missed you too" Bayleef cried, completly oblivious to what Ash was saying
"Get... off...me" Ash wheezed out
"Bayleef, your crushing him!" Ashchu yelled
"Oops, sorry Ash" she said, blushing
"It's...okay" Ash said, catching his breath "Just give me a second to wash my face" Ash climed uo on one of the rocks near the pond
"Be careful Ash!" Bolt said "Pikachu can't-" Bolt was unnable to finish his sentece as Ash slipped and fell head first into the pond with a splash
"HHELP-GRURRGLE- GUYS!" Ash yelled, swatting his arms incredebly fast attempting to keep himself afloat
"Ash! Hang on!" Bayleef yelled, extending her vines to grab the drowning pikachu and pull him out of the water
"Ash, are you okay?" Ashchu asked his shivereging older brother
"Yeah, I'm okay" Ash said, giving a thumbs-up "But, why coulnd't I swim?"
"Because pikachu can't swim. Why did you think I always use a floaty? Because it's cute?" Bolt said
"AAAACHOOOOOO!" Ash sneezed violently "Sorry"
"Come on, we need to get him dry" Bolt said
"Let's go inside, Gramps can help" Gary said, the others nodded and ran to the door of the lab and knocked
"Hey guys" Tracy said, opening the door "Let me guess, Ash fell in the pond, right?" the four of them nodded
"I'm gonna go back to get Jessie and James" Meowth said, walking off
"Ash! Your okay!" Oak said grabbing the soaking wet pikachu
"Pika chu kapi" Ash greeted Oak
"Tracy, please get me a towel" Oak asked, Tracy nodded and brought him one "Okay, stand still Ash"
"Aw man, I'm hungry" Ashchu said, rubbing his belly
"Well, they both have a botomless stomach" Gary said, chuckling
"Your hungry, right?" Tracy asked, Ashchu nodded "I'll go get the poke-chow"
"Pikachu pi" Ashchu said
"That means thanks, right?" Tracy asked, Ashchu nodded
"Done!" Oak said, taking off the towel from Ash's head
"Pikachu pi kachu" Ash thanked the professor as Tracy came back with bowls and a bag of poke-chow
"Okay, here you go guys" Tracy said, pourring the food onto the bowls and giving each pokemon some food. As they were eating, Oak went to the living room and turned on the news, witch all four pokemon could hear due to their large ears
"BREAKING NEWS!" they heard the news anchor say "THERE IS A BREAK IN TO THE POKEMON TOWER IN LAVENDER TOWN!"
"Pokemon Tower?" Ash said "Why would anyone want to break into a graveyard?"
"THE PERPETRATORS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THE TERRORIST GROUP CIPHER" Ash nearly choked with that word
"Cipher!?" Ash said