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Previously:
Ash opens his eyes and finds himself on an abandoned island.
"Pikachu, where are you?" he calls out as he frantically searches for his loyal companion. It dawns on Ash that his Pokémon are back at Professor Oak's lab.
"Wait, where am I?" he asks, taking in the vast landscape that stretches for miles, a strange dome in the sky crackling with electricity.
"Let's check in the pokedex" says Ash but to his surprise electronic device don't work anymore.
"Now what should I do " asks Ash as he can't find his pokemon
"We finally have a large group of trainers from all existing regions. We have managed to gather a total of fifty thousand trainers," says the pitch-black Pokémon.
"Fifty thousand trainers, that's a significant number. Let's see what we can do here. By the way, how are the Pokémon that we took from these so-called trainers?" asks a humanoid Pokémon.
"They've lost their memories; now, they are under our control. We must determine if trainers genuinely care about their Pokémon, and then we will restore their memories," says the pitch-black Pokémon.
"Interesting, let's begin round one," says the humanoid Pokémon as his eyes glow blue.
As Ash, who is finally resting on a large rock due to exhaustion, prepares to relax, he suddenly teleports away.
Ash suddenly finds himself in a vast, open field, surrounded by thousands of other trainers.
"What in the world is going on?" asks Ash.
"Can you stay quiet? I'm trying to analyze the situation," says a trainer.
"Who are you?" asks Ash.
"Not your concern. What I care about is getting out of this place," says the trainer.
"You could ask politely," says Ash.
"Who are you?" asks another voice as he sees a new face.
"Are you asking me?" asks Ash as the guy nods.
"My name is Ash, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town in Kanto," says Ash.
"A trainer from the boonies, I wonder who your starter is. A Rattata?" asks the male while another trainer stays silent.
"Attention, trainers," says a humanoid figure floating in the air.
"What's that?" asks Ash.
"You should ask, who is that," says the male, correcting Ash.
"I know you all are wondering why you're here. I was observing you, your actions, and the way you treat the Pokémon. You always use them for your own fun, putting them in danger in your games. Now, you all must pay," says the humanoid figure.
"What do you mean?" asks another trainer.
"You will participate in my little game. There will be multiple rounds, and once you clear each round, you will get your key to exit this place. If you win, you will leave this place, and if you fail to clear the round, you will die," says the humanoid figure.
"You must be wondering where your Pokémon are. Don't worry, the first round is all about getting back your Pokémon. But, there are no wild Pokémon; all of your Pokémon will be spawned randomly, and it's up to you to identify them. If you think another trainer is trying to take your Pokémon, you have to battle other trainers. For that, you all will get one of your Pokémon, and they are here," says the humanoid Pokémon as a Pokéball appeared in front of trainers.
"Wait, your Pokémon don't remember anything; it's up to you to form a bond, and once it happens, they will recollect their old memory, goodbye" says the humanoid Pokémon as trainers disappeared once again.
"I wonder where is Ash and, are they here" asks the girl as she opened the pokeball from which came out Poliwag
"Poliwag, nice to see you" says the girl as she tried to approach the pokemon who got scared and launched the bubble beam
"Poliwag, it's me, Misty. Don't you remember me" asks Misty as Poliwag starts to ran away from her. Misty had to run behind him to get it back.
Brock is sitting under the tree as he looks at his pokeball. He opened it and then came out Geodude. Geodude saw Brock and immediately attacked him
"Is he my Geodude, " asks Brock as he questioned the pokemon in front of him.
"I need to try, I can't loose my precious pokemon" says Brock as he says
"Geodude listen buddy, this is me, Brock " says Brock as Geodude uses focus punch that sends Brock flying back.
"Ash, where are you. Hope you are okay" says Brock as he charged at Geodude and try to grab him.
On other side Misty is trying to make Poliwag realize that she is her friend.
"Do you know what's funny" asks humanoid pokemon
"What" asks pitch-black pokémon.
"These trainers used pokemon for their selfish purpose are now struggling to remind their pokemon about their past relationship " says humanoid pokemon
"Too bad, things will go worse when they realizes that they have no chance to gain their so called pokemon back" says pitch-black pokemon.
Ash tossed his pokeball from which came out Garchomp. Those who are passing from the area Ash is in, they are in pure shock.
"Dude, how you have a twenty two feet tall Garchomp " asks the male
"I befriended him long time ago" says Ash
"Garchomp, don't you remember me. It's me Ash, " says Ash as Garchomp already fired the hyper beam towards Ash. Ash quickly dodged hyperbeam which caused explosion near Ash.
"If you don't mind can you give that Garchomp to me" asks a new face. A six feet tall man in attire of a knight.
"No, I am not interested in giving the first pokemon friend I made. " says Ash as he focused on Garchomp.
"Garchomp, please. Look at me. Don't you see a familiar face." says Ash as Garchomp looked at the Ash before it launched flamethrower that Ash dodged once again.
"Look, a Garchomp and that's too big. Why don't you give that to us you rookie" says a group of bad boys who are in their thirties and looking like a thugs.
"Never, " says Ash as he walked towards Garchomp.
"Garchomp, can you let me touch you. No matter what the circumstances are, you won't forget the bond we shared earlier. " says Ash
as he carefully approached the terrifying land shark pokemon.
"It seems we have to take that pokemon by force" says the bad boys who were watching Ash as they sends their Tyranitar, Aggron and Rhyperior.
"Everyone attack that Garchomp, we want it at any cost" says the bad boys as their pokemon sends their own attack at Garchomp. Without any delay, Ash stepped in front of the attack
Garchomp who saw everything ponders why this kid steps in front of the attack. The attacks collided with Ash causing a massive explosion and Ash seems to be heavily injured.
"Not sure why this human put his life in danger. But those humans are not good. They want me for some reason." thought Garchomp as he narrows his eyes and then took a deep breath and releases the fireblast that is too much for the bad guys and their pokemon felt sheer power. They are too scared to move and got knocked out immediately.
Garchomp signalled them to leave immediately.
"We won't step back, go" says the guys as they sends Blastoise, Gyarados and Wailord
"Stop, " says Ash as he stood back, though he is injured, but he can easily protect his pokemon.
"You can still move, back off kid" says the guys
"You think you can take away the first pokemon friend I befriend years ago. I promised my pokemon friends that I made years ago. I promised that I will protect my pokemon at any cost. " says Ash as he looked at Garchomp who is shocked
"I am right Garchomp, I know you don't remember me but you and I along with Zoroark are the best friends. I promised all of you that I will always protect you." says Ash as he extends his arm.
"If you believe that I am saying the truth, Just touch my hand" says Ash as he is smiling even though he is injured. Ash flinched due to injuries and then knealed down.
"Please, trust me. We have to save our pokemon friends, we somehow stranded on this island with you having no memories of the past." says Ash
Garchomp is not sure, but he is getting a familiar vibe from Ash. Considering his words Garchomp touched his claw with Ash's hand. What happened next made everyone shocked, Ash is surrounded in blue aura that passes over to Garchomp and then Garchomp also glowed blue. Back in Garchomp's mind, many images of past events starts to flow that made him recall everything.
Once light faded, Garchomp is shocked and says " What happened, and where are we"
"We will tell you later on but we need to deal with them first. They want to capture you because they think they are superior."
"Is that so" asks Garchomp as Ash nodded and then it takes a sudden change in mood as Garchomp got angry. Garchomp took a deep breath and launched the powerful twister to blasts them away. Garchomp looked back at Ash and lowered his head and Ash then pets his first friend.
"Now let's search for out friends" says Ash as he explained everything to Garchomp.
"Garchomp, we don't know where our friends are but I need you to find them. So can you give me a ride, I know we can easily find them " says Ash as Garchomp nodded and then he jumped on Garchomp's back and they took off in the air.
Humanoid looking pokemon and a pitch black pokemon saw everything.
"What you say, that was unexpected and there are some other kids who are struggling to talk to their first pokemon. That kid did a fantastic job by reconnecting to his old one. Now we can use this to turn his other pokemon against him" says the humanoid pokemon.
Brock is still with Geodude as he is trying to making him recall his past memories.
"Geo" says Geodude as he uses focus punch once again which Brock blocked it. Brock realizes that he had a photograph in his pocket.
"Geodude, listen up buddy. See this " says Brock as he showed him the photograph that he took with his other siblings.
"Geo" says the pokemon as he looked at the photograph.
"You remember this, this is me and my other siblings. I don't know if you remember it correctly or not but you met me during a rainy night, you were injured and I met you. That was the best day of my life." says Brock as Geodude closed his eyes and he is getting blur details of his first encounter with Brock.
On other side Misty is working with Poliwag
"Yes, we met in the hidden village. Aren't you able to recall anything" asks Misty as Poliwag is still not sure.
"I have an idea. I know you must be hungry, why don't you take this" says Misty as she gave poliwag a can of pokemon food.
"This is safe to eat and " says Misty as Poliwag sniffed it and took a bite before finishing whole can.
"I know you must be confused but what I told you is true. Can you and me become friends for few time until you recall everything. " says Misty
"I don't know why, but for some reason, she looks familiar. I think I will join her. Who knows ,she is telling truth" says Poliwag as he starts to hop.
Meanwhile an electric net captured the Poliwag.
"Who are you" asks Misty as she saw two people, a male and female along with the talking Meowth looking at the Misty
"We are the hunter duo. We run our own team known as DoubleTroubleHunters. We are Jessie, James and Meowth. " says the trio
"You were former members of team rocket " says Misty
"You got it right, we escaped the prison and formed a new team. We work as freelancers and now we are here. Somehow it gave us an opportunity to steal pokemon " says the Meowth
"I won't let you take my precious Poliwag away from you. Now, return my pokemon or else you will have to face my wrath" says Misty as ran towards the Poliwag but the trio releases releases the another net and captured Misty.
"Garchomp, did you saw Misty and Brock. I don't know if we can see Gary or Ritchie over here" says Ash as all of sudden as he heard a loud scream.
"Did you hear that" asks Ash as Garchomp nodded
"Land there, " says Ash as Garchomp descends towards the source of scream
"Now what you will do now. Your Poliwag is mine" says James as he is about to electrocute the Misty and Poliwag as a massive shadow covered the trio and when they saw they found a twenty two feet tall Garchomp. Garchomp's golden eyes fill terror in their eyes. With a swift motion of dragon claw attack, nets are destroyed making Misty and Poliwag free.
"Hey Misty, are you alright" asks Ash as he lands on ground
"Ash, " says Misty as she hugged Ash
"No need to worry, we are here. Garchomp, let's show them what we got" says Ash as Garchomp faced and they are scared. Ash quickly blasted off the trio of pokemon thieves.
Misty rushed towards Poliwag as she took him in deep hug. This causes Poliwag to evolve into Poliwhirl. All of sudden, past memories flooded into Poliwag's brain.
"Wait a minute, did I lost my memory" asks Poliwhirl
"Kind of, but good news is that we are in some kind of game. As soon as we are together we are fine. " says Ash
"Misty, let's find Brock and Gary " says Ash as Misty nodded
Soon Ash and Misty finds Gary and Brock. Not only Brock and Gary but they found Lance, Cynthia and Ritchie as well
"She is your aunt" asks Ritchie
"Yup, " says Ash
"Man, you are amazing. Your Garchomp literally freaked me out " says Ritchie
"Everyone will freak out when they will see a twenty two feet gaint Garchomp" says Gary
"Ash, how you got him" asks Ritchie
"You see that was a very funny incident. When I tried to save Celebi from hunter, she took me to past when Sinnoh was Hisui, since me and Celebi were unconcious, an alpha Zoroark which is ghost and normal type saved us and we bevime best friend and then Garchomp attacked us. Zoroark battled and I accidently threw pokeball on him. That caught Garchomp and from that time we are best friends " says Ash
"That was amazing" says Ritchie
"So you caught other pokemon" asks Ritchie
"Yes, I have total of one hundred and thirty six pokemon, out of which thirty are alpha pokemon like Garchomp, not everyone are of twenty two feet but they are big. The forty six other pokemon are those which I caught in Hisui. And remaining are those which I caught after getting my license " says Ash
"So you were already a trainer before you got your license" says Ritchie as he is amazed at Ash's achievement.
"Guys any idea how we can contact help" asks Ash
"No idea, we can send our pokemon " says Brock
"No, we can't as we have only one pokemon" says Ash
"I say, why don't you listen to me" says a voice that caught Ash's attention
"What's going on" asks Ash
"Let's see" says Ash and group as tehy ran towards the source
"I said that I am your trainer and you are ignoring me" asks a boy
"Chim" says a small monkey pokemon
"Look, if you are not going to cooperate, then you have no place in my team" says the boy
"Hey, what are you doing " asks Ash as he came running towards the pokemon and stood in front of him.
"And who are you to stop me. He is my pokemon and if he is not trying ti listen to me then he have to face consequences. " says the boy
"Paul, what are you doing to innocent Chimchar" asks Cynthia
"Aunt Cynthia, you know him" asks Ash
"Yeah, he is Paul, Reggie's brother. Reggie is a breeder from Veilstone city. You remember Veilstone city right " asks Cynthia
"Not really, things are changed in Sinnoh, and old locations will really mess up my brain if I try to compare it " says Ash
"Understandable, " says Cynthia as she turned towards Paul
"Now, care to explain why you are hurting the little pokemon" asks Cynthia
"I am just making him recall that's it" says Paul
"Look, it's okay to release him in wild if you don't want to keep him. " says Brock
"I know how strong he can become but it seems I was wrong, he is as pathetic as Ratata." says Paul as he did unexpected. He released him in the wild.
"You are free to go, now don't bother me" says Paul as he starts to walk away
"And you think you did a brave job by releasing him in the wild. Instead of working with Chimchar you abandoned him. " says Ash
"Not your concern, I believe that you failed to make your pokemon recall its memories " says Paul
"I already did and I am concern about Chimchar. " says Ash
"Then take him, I don't care if he survive or not." says Paul
"Paul" says Ash as Paul stopped and looked at Ash
"The motive of this round is to work with your pokemon and make them recall or else you know what that person told us" says Ash
"I don't care, as if he can kill me" says Paul
"That's a delightful scene, that Ketchum kid is different. Fighting for a pokemon who doesn't even belong to him " says pitch black pokemon
"Right, but that Paul kid is too stubborn" says humanoid pokemon
"It seems others also able to make their pokemon recall about their bond. I am amazed that only ten trainers failed to do so" says pitch-black pokemon.
"Well, it's time to end this round" says humanoid pokemon
Ash and his friends are planning what to do next as all of them disappeared. They once again found themselves on same spot when first round started.
"Who are you, show up yourself" says a trainer. That trainer all of sudden levitates and then closed distance between the humanoid figure and himself
"Aren't you too eager to die. " says the figure as it spoke "Also you are the one who failed to make your pokemon remember anything about the time you spent together. I looked inside your pokemon's memory. Aren't you the one who killed it's parents and kidnapped it. ". This shocked Ash and his friends.
"How you" asks the male as the humanoid figure says " I am the strongest, now without any delay, let's finish what you started. You will face the same fate "
Soon the body of the trainer starts to glow blue and his brain and body exploded sending the destroyed brain and body parts all over the place.
"Who should go next" asks the humanoid figure as it made Paul levitates towards him.
"You can't kill me" says Paul
"You are too stubborn, I won't kill you. Infact, I have a small plan. " says the figure as it glowed blue and then so Paul is. After a while, Paul turned into a doll.
"What, he turned that him into a doll " says Ash in pure disbelief.
"I can't believe it" says Misty
"For those who failed to clear first round, will be turned into a doll for my human exclusive doll collection" says the figure as he collected all dolls and kept it in a wierd trunk.
"You all must be afraid of me. " asks the figure as no one said anything.
"Good, now for second round. I changed a small rule. You all will get your pokemon back but you all will battle me in a one vs infinite battle where you will use all of your pokemon and those who failed to defeat me will have to die. " says the figure
"You can't do this, who you think you are " asks a trainer as he sends his Corviknight.
"Corviknight, use brave bird" says the trainer as Corviknight charged at the human figure but it got defeated easily.
"You think you can defeat me.If yes then face me.I will reveal my identity once you defeat me. From tomorrow onwards you will face me in a one on all pokemon battle, win or die" says the figure.
"I forgot to say one thing, if you all loose, I will destroy this whole world. " says the humanoid figure that shocked them
To be continued...
(A/N: Hey readers, hope you are doing well. So Ash is on the island with his friends taking part in a game. Will he win this, will he be able.to safely get back to his home. To know more, stay tune
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