Previously on Ash's Journey Through Dimensions: After defeating the Big 5, Our heroes rushed off to join Kaiba. Annie and Oakley stopped them and Challenged Ash and Lillie to a double battle: Their Espeon and Ariados vs Greninja and Snowy. During the fight, the two Rocket agents revealed they were there to help regain control of Kaiba Corp, and they helped Gozaburo commit war crimes. They admitted that Lillie was just a bargaining chip to them and that Ash was the actual target. They tried to target Ash-Greninja, knowing about the effects of the transformation and thinking Lillie would be easy to handle once they defeated Ash. Still, Ash held firm, and Lillie revealed she had done special training while searching for her dad. Snowy had learned Blizzard. With this, Ash and Lillie were able to win the fight, causing Annie and Oakley to vanish due to their defeat. Ash and Lillie ran to rejoin the group only to find to their horror, that Kaiba, Mokuba, Duke, Tristan, and Serenity had been turned to stone. What will happen to our heroes? Find out now:

Chapter 16: Noah's Big Mistake: Ash's True Power Awakens

Ash and Lillie were looking around to find where the rest of the group was and saw those who had not been turned to stone. Ash and Lillie, and their Pokemon ran over to them as Ash was already starting to get angry from seeing this, which Lucario could sense. On the other hand, Lillie ran over to Serenity's stone statue and was about to go into tears, only for Gladion to hold her back from almost breaking it.

"Let me go, Gladion, and what happened? We were gone for only 10-15 minutes, and that shouldn't be enough for all of this to happen," Lillie said to the group as Ash and his Pokemon were with the group. Ash was starting to get angry cause of this as Lucario spoke up.

"Ash, calm down. I know how you feel, but this anger isn't helping us right now," Lucario said to Ash, who sighed and nodded as Joey turned to the group.

"Kaiba and Noah were dueling when we arrived not long after we departed from you," Joey said to Ash, who was listening. "Things were going Kaiba's way until he used a brainwashed Mokuba to force Kaiba to halt his last attack on him and used one of many ridiculous deck master abilities to gain the life point lead," Joey said, explaining the events that happened before Yugi took over the duel.

"Man, that's low; I've faced some scumbag trainers in the past, but using family to get what they want is even worse, now what is going on now? Why is everyone else statues," Ash asked Joey as Noah noticed the new arrivals and was getting annoyed that Ash managed to beat Annie and Oakley.

"Well, Yugi managed to get Noah's deck master, Shinato, up there, off the field with Cyber Jar, which should've won the duel, only for him to pull some bs stunt that saved his butt from losing, and then he decided to mess with Yugi by forcing yugi to win or each turn that he couldn't one of us is turned to stone, and well you can see how many turns have been taken," Joey said as Ash growled that Lucario noticed again similar to his. "His spirit monsters are making things worse for Yugi. That's all we can say," Joey said.

This was starting to tick off Ash and Lillie and their Pokemon as Noah was laughing at the group and how pathetic they were positioned, and now that they were together, they would be turned to stone just like the rest, and there was nothing they could do about it.

"What's so funny you think messing with people's lives is a game? You think you're some god and should pick and choose who is worthy of your time?" Lillie said to Noah, who was getting even more angry. "You're mother should be ashamed of you. Until now, didn't she tell you that messing with people is wrong?"

"SILENCE," Noah screamed. "Who are you going to tell me what to do? I don't need your pity or love; I get what I want; it's my virtual world. I get what I want; your pathetic friends and faith are as useless as Ash's love life and goals," Noah said.

"I have someone who loves me, and I am glad that I don't have anyone as spoiled as you are, Noah. Seriously you're blowing some hot air," Ash told Noah, who was taken aback.

"What did you say, you brats? How dare you?" Noah said to Ash and Lillie, who weren't phased by this.

"It seems like someone needs a time out and a diaper after Yugi is done with him; some god you are. You're having more tantrums than a baby Pokemon who just hatched. Heck, they act more mature than you, a spoiled brat who thinks everyone should bow down to him," Lillie said to Noah. Ash was now worried about what Noah would say after hearing that, as were Joey and the others. Gladion especially was worried because this wasn't the right moment to turn Luscamine on Noah.

"I had enough of you, young lady. How dare you question me and my methods. I could've disqualified you when Ash saved you from Crump, and this is how you repay me. You don't know who you are messing with. Now, you'll face the consequences. Shinato shut her up," Noah said as his deck master pointed his finger at Lillie and fired the attack turning her into stone.

"NO!" Ash said, as well as Gladion and everyone else. Snowy ran over to her mother, now upset, but no one was more upset than Ash and Gladion were. Noah laughed so loud that he was mocking her and using her voice which was making Ash growl and get angrier, and this time, not even Lucario's voice could calm Ash down.

Lucario noticed that Ash's Aura was spiking with anger during all of this. Lucario could sense that the others were still alive in those stone prisons, but they needed to be saved quickly before it was too late but before he could reach out to Ash, Ash's hair was starting to glow, and he was getting so angry that the ground was shaking around not just the group, but the entire world and dimension was shaking due to Ash's anger.

Meanwhile, in Ash's dimension, the world was also starting to shake, and everyone could feel it, namely Ash's friends.

"What's happening?" Dawn said as Piplup was running around with many Pokemon out of their balls.

"It's the end of the world?" Piplup said out loud to the other Pokemon, as they never experienced what was happening.

"I have no idea, Dawn. Never has an earthquake happened this badly, not once, and it's not something science could figure out either," Clemont said to Dawn, who wanted to slap him for thinking it was natural.

"Ash, what is going on? Is this happening where you are as well?" Serena thought to herself hoping that nothing would happen wherever they were dimension-wise, given that he hadn't responded to them since after the Nesbitt Duel.

Meanwhile, Goh and Gary had just arrived at their destination: The Split-Decision Ruins, in the Galar region, for their final qualification mission to become chasers for Project Mew. As they arrived at the ruins, they felt the earthquake which made many of the Pokemon in the area run away or fly off in fear.

"What the heck is going on?" Gary asked stunned as this wasn't an area known for having earthquakes or was in their report, as Goh remembered something back when he was in that other dimension.

'No, it couldn't be Ash,' Goh thought and turned back to the ruins. "Whatever it is, I hope it won't affect the mission?" Goh said. Gary nodded but he was suspicious as they entered the ruins. Goh looked into the sky. 'Ash, please be alright. And once this mission ends, I'm returning to help you with whatever is happening,' Goh thought and prepared to start the mission.

On the other hand, Gary knew that Ash was in another dimension from his briefing from Goh and knew that this wasn't from this dimension. What is happening to you Ash, he thought.

Meanwhile, in the Dragon Ball Z dimension:

Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, Android 18, and Videl were heading to the drawing of the matchups for the 25th World Martial Arts Tournament and had sensed what was happening from where they were. Videl didn't sense what was going on, due to her lack of experience in sensing power levels, on the other hand, the others were all experts.

"Woah, what was that?" Krillin said to the group, wondering what was going on.

"What was that? Where is that power coming from? I didn't sense it before leaving?" 18 said to her husband, who was as clueless as she was.

"What is going on?" Videl to Gohan, who sighed, knowing that she wasn't able to sense powers as they could.

"There's a huge power spike, but where?" Gohan said to Videl, who was curious about what he meant by that. "It's hard to explain, but it's an ability of ours to sense something that can either be friendly or dangerous," Gohan explained.

Meanwhile, in the stands, Master Roshi and the others were waiting for the tournament to start. "Hmmm, what's this feeling?" Roshi said as Yamcha was about to say something, only for Roshi to stop him before he did something stupid like stopping the competition or causing a scene by shaking his head.

Meanwhile with Goku's group:

"What the hell, that's Super Saiyan energy? How? Kakarot, myself, and our sons are the only Saiyans left? WHAT IS GOING ON? No, I must focus on beating Kakarot and then worry about this unknown Saiyan. I won't let this opportunity slip through my fingers," Vegeta thought, but he knew something was up.

"Goku, that energy that's?" Piccolo said telepathically to Goku, who nodded.

"Yeah, Ash has awoken, and now of all times," Goku thought to Piccolo, who was concerned about this.

"Well, this is unexpected," Piccolo said to Goku, who sighed.

"It was bound to happen one day, and we knew that this would happen since that day, and you know it, Piccolo," Goku said to Piccolo, who sighed in agreement.

"Should we abandon the tournament? To go check it?" Piccolo asked Goku, who shook his head.

"I would love to, but sadly from the sound of it, he's not anywhere close to where we are and we can't leave the tournament either, especially with what is going on. Plus Vegeta would never allow me to go," Goku said to Piccolo, who nodded.

Piccolo was wondering how much stronger Ash had grown since the last time he saw Ash, but he knew the rules of what happened back then and shouldn't interfere with him and knew that he would come back to the group.

Back with Ash, who finished transforming into what was known as a Super Saiyan, everyone was stunned as this stopped Noah's laughing to nervous laughing as he looked like he peed himself.

"What the?" Joey said to the group, who was still wondering what was happening.

"Ash?" Tea said to Ash, who nodded.

"What happened to him?" Gladion said.

Lucario was so shocked by this and he sensed Ash's Aura which was making his head spin so much that it was too much for him to keep up and he nearly passed out from this and landed on Snowy.

Ash jumped at Noah and Shinato and was planning on beating the stuffing out of either him or Shinato, who was protecting Noah from this, only for Ash to punch the living tar out of the false god of the Yugioh monsters to the point that it's healing powers couldn't even catch up and looks like he had gone a few rounds with a Machamp and lost.

"Well, that's a sight you don't see every day, someone who can beat a duel monster to the point it couldn't recover," Yugi said, almost laughing at the sight of all of this as Yami was nodding to this.

"I was right about this young man. There was something special about him and was the key to ending all of this, but this is something that I wasn't expecting," Yami said to Yugi, who nodded.

"You scare me sometimes, Pharoh. Can you really predict stuff, or it's just your intuition?" Yugi said to Yami, who chuckled.

Ash was about to turn his attention to Noah only for the spirit of Lillie to show up in Ash's mind calming him down, and showing that she was still alive, Ash sighed with relief.

"Yugi is going to win this and is ready to do so, don't worry. We are all safe, but the longer you halt this match, the worse the situation will be, making it harder for us to get back to normal. Ash, you can trust him," Lillie said to Ash, who nodded, landed beside the others, and returned to normal.

"What just happened?" Noah said as he was too scared to do anything. It was Yugi's turn, and he was down to no cards in his hand, and only a certain number of cards could win this match.

"Noah, your reign of terror is about to end, and you will pay for what you've done to everyone here in your virtual world," Yami said to Noah, wanted to say something but was still shocked by what happened with Ash's transformation. "First, I activate the Spell Card Card of Santity. This card allows us to draw until we have six cards in our hands," Yugi said as he drew six cards. Since Noah had six cards, so he couldn't draw anything.

"Next, I activate the Spell Card Monster Reborn to reborn the Blue Eyes White Dragon that your Deck Master destroyed during the Last Turn event," Yami said. As the monster was revived, Noah knew that even if he destroyed his Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi he would be able to counter on the next turn, only for Yugi to interrupt.

"Next, I activate the Spell card Polymerization and fuse my two other Blue Eyes with the one on the field to make Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, and then activate the Spell card Quick Attack, which allows my fusion monster to attack the turn that it was summoned," Yami said as this took Noah aback. "Now my dragon destroys his monster," Yami ordered his dragon to destroy Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi. The fusion dragon fired its attack at the spirit monster, destroying it.

(N-8300)

(Y-100)

Noah was about to say something. "Now I Activate my final card De-Fusion." Blue Eyes Ultamite Dragon defused into the 3 Blue Eyes White Dragons. (3000/2500)x3.

Noah was scared and looked at his hand. "No, Wait. There has to be something I can do."

"You're a scared little boy who would do anything to win, even cheat, and you have nothing left; even your cards have abandoned you," Yami said as Noah was horrified. "For Kaiba and Mokuba and all of my other friends... Blue Eyes White Dragons end this duel with triple White Lightning," Yami said as the three dragons fired the attacks at Noah winning the match for Yami.

(N:0)

(Y:100)

"This madness is finally over, Noah," Yami declared.

To Be Continued

Done and done. For those who were reading this story, I'm sorry just been busy with my other stories, and this was planned by my Collab writer DraconicFireLord for the scenario that happens near the halfway mark of the chapter as for what is going on. You'll see when that comes around in the second to last arc story. Speaking of, I want to let the readers know that we are only three more chapters left before we move into another story that is part of this story's sequels. I wish we would get more reviews. I'm okay with the guest reviews, but this won't get more until we get into the other arcs. For those who watched the anime, you know what duel is next between a certain someone and a certain rich boy. That said, see you next time.