Imagine yourself as a thirteen year old surrounded by otherworldly but damaged technology and an alien race desperate to save their leader. Now imagine you, the 13-year old, participating in a war council in order to pull off a violent revolution/coup leading previously said desperate alien race on like the end of your first week of being a trainer.

Ash Ketchum was starting to think he might be breaking records he didn't know existed.

After the rather chaotic skirmish with Ursaring's remaining forces and rounding them up and locking them in a special room, it took just a little longer to meet up with Jigglypuff and Riolu and how they were doing with their plan. However, despite being free, the Clefairy were indeed more worried than relived at overthrowing their warden. They would soon explain why such a reaction was present when they were supposed to be happy.

Apparently the outsiders had learned more about the situation. It seemed like the Clefairy had a leader, a Clefable that was trapped under Nidoking's thumb. Previously, as long as the Clefairy helped armed Nidoking's men, their leader would be spared. They took a risk in allowing Ash and co to free them and now they were on a time table to save their leader before news reached the tyrant's ears.

"Have you guys found where Sabrina's partners are yet?" Ash looked towards Riolu and Spearow.

'Clefairy said he knew where he placed them, he went to get them I think?' The fighting type answered.

'Time is of the essence!' Spearow cried out. 'We must move quickly before the chieftain of these people suffer!'

Ash looked towards Nidoran. "What do you think of our chances on a frontal assault?"

'Horrible. You all have fought well, but my uncle has trained some of the best warriors of my kingdom, The 27 Star-Sun-Saints-Of-War-Armeggeddeon-Generals!' Ash was half expecting Prince Nidoran to be joking, but after seeing his face actually sacred and horrified when he said that horribly over the top name of Nidoking's elite fighting force made Ash and everyone else realize that he was dead serious on the name. "It's how they overthrew my father so easily. And now they are powered up by more gears given to them by the Clefairy before we intervened here.'

While the boy was still thinking that there was no way that name was taken seriously, Riolu then spoke up. 'Ash! You can come up with an idea!'

Instantly his mind filled with all his 'ideas' and how they always caused problems for him and those around him. "I-I uhh, can't." He felt all eyes on him and he felt the need to leave. "E-Excuse me for a second."

Without even a response, the teen left the room and just started walking at a brisk pace away.

Ash felt really bad. It was his fault Sabrina was in this mess and now potentially the leader of the Clefairy was now endangered all because he didn't properly think things through. He thought he was trying to be less reckless, but it seemed like he was going in the opposite direction and causing more problems.

'Ash?' The teen turned to see Riolu, Spearow, Jigglypuff, and Prince Nidoran all behind him. 'What's wrong? Usually you have some really cool ideas.' Riolu began.

"I-I… I'm just not feeling it." Ash didn't really know how to express how he just didn't feel like he should be the ones to make a plan.

'Is this about that thing back with Sabrina and Gary a while back? About your drive being not good enough?' When the fighting type asked that, Ash turned back to his first partner in surprise. 'You haven't been completely yourself ever since then.'

"It's—" What could he say about it? That he was feeling so bad about himself that it was affecting him now that people actually needed him? Oh great, not only was he reckless, now he was down right causing more problems. However, seeing as Riolu could sense his emotions, what point could he do in trying to hide them? "You guys should be trying to figure out how to save everyone else without me. I can't really help you guys as I am."

'Do you really believe that?' Ash followed the deep voice towards Spearow who was staring hard at him. 'I have trained with the best of fliers my clan had to offer, each of them proud warriors in their own right. But there comes a time in all our training, even mine, where we have doubts of not making the ranks of honor among our tribe. You have a similar look to mine when I was very small and my father expected much of me. You have doubt written across your fleshy, weirdly-marked face.' The human curiously put a hand on his face and wondered if it was really that weird to Pokémon. And marks? Did she mean those visible dimples marks on his cheeks he thought looked like famous book character, Harold Pottings' scar?

However, Spearow went on. 'But my father taught me that doubt is a sign of not weakness, but of empathy.' Everyone looked to the usually hardened daughter of a warrior group that seemed to say something rather profound. 'We always question our abilities—our actions, and wonder if we could do better after mistakes have been made. We all do it, doubts are not signs that we are incompetent, they are signs that we want to be better.' Spearow had an unusually gentle, but still proud look on her face as she declared. 'So it is alright to doubt, but simply be better than before—for there is much to do.'

"… Wow Spearow that was really… well said." Everyone along with Ash agreed with what Spearow said. Nidoran seemed just a little confused but then Ash shook his head. "You're right! Now's not the time for mopping around when our friends are in danger! We still need a way to get back to the top of the mountain right?"

'More than likely my Uncle might be preparing his soldiers after not hearing from Ursaring. This group was small, but the amount of military power my uncle currently has is more than a quarter of the population of Pokémon all living in the mountain.' Niodran flatly stated, making everyone realize their odds of actually winning. 'I told you that a frontal assault was abysmal on our end.'

Ash knew things looked bad, but that was if—and only if they actually did decide to do a direct fight. "Nidoran, if we defeat your Uncle, and just your Uncle, would it be possible for you to take back the throne?"

The poison type blinked before nodding once. 'I know my people dislike greatly my uncle's rule. And more than likely, the main army only listens to the King. If we were able to usurp my uncle without fighting, not even my uncle's loyal forces would dare fight against the full might of Mt. Moon's army. But my uncle is a powerful fighter by himself—the best in the kingdom even before he stole the Sphere of the Moon and increased it's powers to what it is now!'

It seemed like the Life Orb was referred to a different name to Nidoran's people. But Ash realized that there was more problems than the powerful Nidoking and enhanced Life Orb, even though beating him even with all they had seemed like a challenge in itself.

"Your Majesty, where exactly would your Uncle be around now?"

'He would be at the very top of the mountain, there is a cave area that my father and my ancestors ruled officially from, the Spring of Luna. He would be there, basking in the false grab of power he did to take it.' Prince Nidoran explained further, he explained that near the very peak of the mountain, there was an opening that looked up to the sky above the clouds where the moon shined brightly over an area where there were trees and a mountain spring. He also explained it would be heavily defended the floors beneath it are designed to found off people attacking from the bottom. Even if they could get pass all the soldiers under the uncle, they would all be too tired form the trek back up and leave them weak for Nidoking to finish them off.

It was a literal uphill battle, both physically and metaphorically. Even with Sabrina's Pokémon, Ash doubted their chances of winning were high.

It was strange though, all of those things should have deterred Ash's group from even trying or risk horrible failure, but the young teen's heart was starting to race like it did in a Pokémon battle.

Unsurmountable odds? Ash Ketchum would admit that he absolutely loved the idea of challenging the strong trainers, but there were none here. So why was his heart beating excitedly? Maybe, there was just a part of him that just liked defying the odds, after all, his life was all about crazy things.

Regardless of how he felt, Ash found himself coming up with a plan that made him slowly form a smile that could make even the most stoic of poker players panic and lose their cool.

"You know, all those things sound bad… if we were going to climb the mountain."

The four Pokémon looked at the young teen in confusion, even more so when said human raced back towards the Clefairy and practically asked them to start building again.

Headaches and Psychics go more hand in hand than one would imagine, especially when it comes to awakening their powers for the first time. Sabrina hadn't felt a headache like the one she was feeling right now since… some nights earlier this week when she met Ash. Huh, underwhelming. She was sure that she was going somewhere with that train of thought. Oh wait, her headaches were non-existent after the first period of unlocking her powers until they came back when she met with Ash.

Ash.

That boy was going to get it as soon as she… wait. Where was she? And why couldn't she feel her powers?

And why couldn't she feel her limbs?

Soon, Sabrina found herself trapped in a personal Rock Tomb attack that nearly swallowed everything beneath her shoulders. To her surprise, there was Clefable that was similarly trapped next to her. It was then she heard growling and looked down to see a Mightyena and a Sableye snarling angrily at her.

"Dark types?" It took another second to realize that there were dark crystals forming some kind of pseudo crown on her head. It looked like the dark type attack, Embargo, but placed on her crown as if to disrupt her powers… which was clever now that she though of it.

'I see you are awake now.'

Sabrina tilted her head towards the left and found herself looking in surprise. There was a giant wall filled with paw prints of varying different colors and sizes of Nidokings. At the bottom of the wall, where the paw prints started to look older and more faded, there was this formation of stalagmites and rocks that made it look like there was some kind of throne.

And sitting on said stone throne, was the massive Nidoking with his right arm supporting his bored and annoyed look on his face. Seeing that the woman was awake, the poison and ground type wearing the golden Life Orb tied around his neck started to move.

Instantly after seeing the either natural or made stone throne, Sabrina realized that this must be the throne room of the kingdom the Nidoking stole. Or rather, as close to a room as possible considering this cave was somewhat shallow and there was a large, gapping hole on the opposite side of the throne where it looked out to a beautiful moonlit spring in the middle of a forrest.

Sabrina tried to use her powers. However, the Embargo around her head prevented her powers from activating properly. As much as she disliked this, she could respect that the Nidoking walking up to her seemed to have his bases covered.

'Where did you send the other flesh bag with the prince?' The purple creature asked.

Ash. Right. The fool intervened and saved the small creature, making them a part of this mess in the first place.

"I'd be sure to track him down if you remove this crown I have on." She told him a half truth really. She was going to track that boy down and punish him severely for getting them into this mess, but it was definitely not going to be under this creature's demands.

The scarred Nidoking huffed and folded his arms. 'And what's preventing you from using your powers to escape instead?'

Sabrina didn't even blink as she calmly said, "Do you know where he is then?"

The usurper growled at the question. 'I am going to take that as you saying you will attempt to escape once your powers return. Perhaps should just crush you here and now and do things the hard way.'

Damn, the brute was smarter than he let on. It was starting to look like her only option would be to agree to use her powers to find Ash alone. However, Sabrina was not one to be subservient to anyone.

'Please, don't hurt that old lady!' While the voice sounded concerned and caring, Sabrina almost snapped her neck towards the Clefable beside her for calling her old. She was in her early twenties dammit! 'She has nothing to do with this!'

Nidoking growled and motioned his hands. The rocks around the pink creature tightened and Sabrina fought the urge to thank the usurper right then and there.

'You be silent. As long as you're here, your people will do as I say.' However, the frown on the large Pokémon's face soon turned into a smile that could give goosebumps at first glance. 'Or at least, as long as your people think you're here, they'll do what I say...'

He raised his fist as electricity started to gather.

Yet, despite his dark attempts, everyone in the area was distracted when a large shadow was cast to block the moonlight.

'Wait, that's too solid for a cloud—' As Nidoking looked up, he gapped in awe at what he was seeing:

A flying, broken UFO, hovering just above the top of Mt. Moon.

Sabrina narrowed her eyes. She liked to think if she was a gambling person, Ash would be somewhere there.

"Alright!" Ash pumped his fist as they all saw the screen of Nidoking and his men looking in shock at them. "Now! Quickly land and we can swarm these guys before reinforcement comes!"

'Wait what?!' One of the Clefairy monitoring the controls of the ship cried out. 'You want us to land?'

Ash turned, along with the other non-Clefairy Pokémon including Sabrina's, towards the Clefairy in charge. "Uh yeah? Just land it quickly before they try to shoot us down!"

'But we didn't fix our landing gear! You only told us to fix our inside atmosphere flight capabilities!'

Ah. That was a problem.

'Not to worry, new allies! I have a solution to this problem!' The Clefairy that stole all of his gear in the first place, proudly stood up. 'Landing is simply another word for 'not flying'!'

Everyone else with a higher level of common sense instantly realized his wording and tried to stop him.

Emphasis on tried.

'For the QUEEN!' That specific Clefairy cried out and slammed his hand on a console, causing all power in the room to die out…

Aaaannndddd suddenly make everyone in the ship susceptible to that most inconvenient of universal elements, gravity.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!?" Both inside the ship and down below, everyone was screaming as the partly destroyed, alien craft descended down and crashed into the lake of the mountain, and caused a massive shockwave that enveloped the entire area.

And so with everyone dying by UFO crash, the story ends here—what? What do you mean there's more to this fanfiction?

Bloody hell, they all lived through that? You're joshing me aren't you? Ahh wait, the lake? Oh right they did land in it.

Now this is just awkward.

Alright then, I'll have another go at this. Erhm!

Water was everywhere, flooding the entire plateau/secret lake on top of Mt. Moon. Among the water, there was a glowing orb that surfaced up by the rules of buoyancy. It was a Protect barrier that was casted by Nidoran, who carried Ash, Riolu, Spearow, and Jigglypuff.

'I didn't know you knew Protect.' Riolu looked towards the poison type.

'My mother knew this move, so I eventually knew how to do it too. I unfortunately wasn't able to get the others near us. I do hope they're alright.' Prince Nidoran said as they all floated near a rock and quickly all jumped on it.

No sooner than they did, the water around them froze solid and from out of the ice, a large fist punched out and grabbed into the solid ground. Nidoking came climbing out, gasping for breath, and not too long after, his eyes fell on to a certain group not caught in the water.

As of that moment, the attack force meant to overwhelm the super powered Nidoking was now reduced to Ash and four other small creatures. Some epic assault this was turning out to be.

'Dear Nephew.' No one liked how he smiled as he said this and started walking towards them. 'So good of you to drop in.'

'Boo! Low hanging fruit!' Jigglypuff said before being elbowed by Riolu.

Prince Nidoran sharpened into a fighting stance. 'Uncle! You will pay for all the crimes you have committed! Kidnapping innocent outsiders, taking over the kingdom through a hostile take over, and desecrating the Holy Lake of Luna!'

Riolu innocently whispered to those near him. 'Wasn't that last one Ash's fault?'

"Hey, I wasn't the one who froze it!" The young teen quickly tried to defend himself though there was really no need.

'Ha! That spring is nothing but a reminder of the weakness of our line!' Nidoking cried out as he threw out his arm. Ash felt a little bad that he was thankful for the greedy usurper derailing all blame from him. ' And with you here, I can get rid of the last trace of weakness in our Kingdom!'

Nidoking's first move… was to jump really, really high.

"Scatter!" Ash cried out as him and the other four did indeed run away from being crushed by the Nidoking. As soon as the evolved Pokémon landed, the ice around them cracked all around as rock spikes started shooting out of the frozen water, along with random Clefairy that were still trapped in ice chunks with some of Nidoking's men, who Ash and his friends just assumed they were the 27… people… things—their name was hard to remember alright?

Oh, perhaps it wasn't a good idea to reflect on other things considering the Nidoking was actually very powerful and very dangerous.

"Guys! Hit him from different angles!" The boy cried out.

Riolu was first to act as he fired his double fist Vacuum Wave right for Nidoking and Spearow copied the same move with her Mirror Move technique. The two fists raced towards Nidoking, but all he did was simply stomp the ground, and it instantly launched him up to the air. He brought his hands up together and slammed them hard through the air. No sooner than he did this, a large blast of electricity came form above and tried to strike Spreaow if she didn't hightail it out of there with Agility.

In that same move, Nidoking's maw started twitch open and glow with an orange light, he let loose a powerful Fire Blast that Riolu could only avoid by using Quick Attack and jumping on the rocks instead of running on the frictionless ice. The result was a large chunk of the ice there had suddenly evaporated, it didn't even seemingly have time to turn into water for long!

Ash gritted his teeth. Nidoking was Fast, powerful, andwheredidthatchunkoficecomefrom?!

A rather large, truck sized chunk of ice with some Clefairy in it was thrown at Nidoking with amazing speed. The tyrant was actually knocked into the air by the thrown iceberg before a second later, it shattered into pieces because Nidoking had somehow enflamed his fist and punched through it with one blow.

Ash acted quickly and concentrated, grabbing the Clefairy now falling among the debris and pulling them all towards where he was. He then looked over to his right to see where the ice chunk had come from.

"Jigglypuff!?" The small, round puffball was carrying a humongous chunk of ice and rock that was easily fifty times it's own weight over it's head!

'Yoom... TAH!' The pink puffball then threw the ice rock towards the Nidoking once more, who only dove to avoid the cold boulder being thrown off the mountain.

Riolu, who wasn't that far from Ash and currently perched on top of a slanted rock spike, shouted out loud, 'How is he doing that!? I have more muscles in my finger than he does in his whole body!'

"I think that's the move Strength! I didn't know Jigglypuff knew that!" Ash's scream was cut short when Nidoking slammed onto the ground, causing whatever remainder of the ice to crack into even smaller pieces, and making the ground beneath everyone shake uncontrollably.

Jigglypuff and Spearow avoided the Earthquake attack by being airborne, but at the same time, that made them both the new targets of Nidoking as he raised his palms and electricity started blasting towards the two.

Meanwhile, Ash was rubbing his head and looked towards the six or more Clefairy he saved. "You guys alright?"

Much to the teen's relief, they all responded in some way, either actually saying words or pained groans. He'll take what he could get. The young boy found himself fallen into the ground where he was surrounded by frozen, cracked water. Focusing, he was able to exert pressure on the ice and free the Clefairy around him. "You all try to find anyone on our side. We'll handle Nidoking." The teen elected to omit the word somehow from that last sentence. How exactly could he and four other non-evolved Pokémon stand a chance against a fully evolved and powered up…

Wait a second.

Ash couldn't find Riolu, but instead he tried something as the Clefairy left. He could link with Riolu, maybe… with his new powers, he could do the same with the others? Well, he never tried anything beyond telekinesis, but how hard could the mental aspect of psychic powers be from the physical ones? Sabrina would argue that he was no way near ready, but Sabrina wasn't there so no one would. Luckily, he did have some experience with Riolu otherwise he might have accidentally blown up their brains or something—that is probably a thought he shouldn't start thinking about when using this power.

(Guys? Can you hear me?)

(What?!) Spearow's voice he heard even though the sounds of electrical blasts seemed to be aimed in the opposite direction.

(Ash!) That one was the only familiar one so of course that was Riolu.

(Wow, friend, how'd you do that!?) Jigglypuff seemed pretty upbeat and not weirdly bothered by having another voice in his head.

(I-What is going on?! Why can I hear you all!?) That was Prince Nidoran.

Ash, seeing as how he had fallen into the ground, spotted an area he could climb and stick his head out safely above the lengthened, frozen water level. (Oh good it worked! Okay, so I'm trying a mental link of sorts since I doubt I can give proper commands over large distances fast enough. Spearow, Jigglypuff, how's it going?)

(Horribly!) Ash felt the ground rumble while Spearow linked up. (We're just moving targets to this foul madman! I wish to engage in close combat and rip his horn off his head and shove it into his eyes!)

And he imagined that way too vividly. Shaking his head from the imagery that might have been shared to everyone, the teen continued. (Keep your distance, Spearow, I think he's doing his best not to make you get close. Anyway, guys. Getting us all together was plan one! If we want any chance to beat this guy, we need to take away his power boost! Get that Life Orb away from him!)

The four small creatures looked back towards the Nidoking, more specifically the golden orb that was tied around his neck and giving him access to these strong powers. Ash was right, take that away and it would decrease the power he wielded!

The teen was quick on the command. Riolu and Nidoran got back up and fired their own long range attacks. Riolu with a rush of Vacuum Waves and Nidoran with a stream of Poison Sting. Even though these made contact on their target, it showed that they weren't doing enough damage to do nothing more than annoy the ground and poison type.

After briefly telling himself to work on stronger moves in the future, Ash ordered Spearow to swoop in and aim for the necklace around Nidoking's neck. Her speed was fast enough to move in and grab the string around his—

Everyone noticed how when Spearow tried to yank it, the string like object suddenly turned silver and the daughter of the chieftain found her self pulled back and grabbed by Nidoking's palm. The purple creature then threw her into the air and blasted the flying type with a concentrated Ice Beam from his hand. The result was Spearow being forzen in a block of ice and falling into the ground.

"Spearow!" Ash and his Pokémon didn't understand what had happened to the necklace! It should have been easy to remove!

'Ahhh!' Ash flinched in surprise and almost fell back to the ground when he saw a Clefairy somehow got close to him without notice. Where the heck did that one come from? His question went unanswered when that Clefairy pointed towards the necklace of Nidoking. 'That's our tech! That necklace can obviously increase it's structural rigidity and arrange it's molecules to become closely knit enough to prevent nearly negligible molecular motion!'

"… Right!" Ash said after a second of trying to soak that all in.

The pink alien eyed the human cautiously before saying, 'The necklace hardens when you try to rip it off?'

"Oh that makes much more sense!" Ash relayed that to the others. (Guy's were going with plan B!)

Riolu and the two other remaining heard the plan. The fighting type raced off first, moving fast towards Nidoking and catching his attention by firing a bunch of Vacuum Waves at the powerful Nidoking. This caught the attention of Nidoking as he then cause more spiked rocks to fly out form underneath the frozen water. Riolu expertly dodged by jumping, running, and soon even learned to ski on the ice to move fast all the while firing his attacks, inching a little closer each time, and avoiding Nidoking's blasts.

All the while, Jigglypuff landed and started rolling and rolling until he then moved in a Roll Out attack and slammed right into the back of the knees of Nidoking. Riolu saw his chance and jumped, charging a large amount of his power and unleashing a powerful aura boosted Vacuum Wave right into Nidoking's jaw.

The blow down below and on top caused the mighty poison and ground type to actually fly some what and skip on the broken ice like a smooth stone on a lake surface. Yet at like the fourth skip, Nidoking shifted his weight and landed with a slide.

He lifted his head back up and growled angrily while giving off a death stare capable of killing someone fifteen times over. He slammed both of his fists on the ground and suddenly rocks shot out and trapped both Jigglypuff and Riolu together into a, sturdy Rock Tomb attack that clamped the two together.

Nidoking didn't hesitate and unleashed a powerful Fire Blast on the two. Despite both Jigglypuff and Riolu being more of the heavy hitter of their group, they were breaking through the Rock Tomb too slowly.

However, help came in as something came in with a glowing white horn and jumped fast right into the Rock Tomb, aiming at one of it's biggest cracks. Both Riolu and Jigglypuff were freed by Prince Nidoran and wasted no time getting out of there by jumping behind the thicker parts of the Rock Tomb attack.

The area exploded and Ash had to shield himself and the Clefairy he was next to to prevent debris from hitting them.

As the shaking stopped and the smoke died down, some of the scorched debris started moving. A rock was raised and thrown by Jigglypuff, revealing him, Riolu, and Prince Nidoran were fine—singed and panting/coughing for air, but they all were alright.

'Hahaha!' Nidoking bellowed a laughter that could potentially be heard from the base of the mountain. 'Was this the best your little rebellion could do, nephew?!'

"Come on guys…!" Ash could only sit and watch as the three remaining fighters slowly got back up.

'After this, my rule shall be complete, and I...' The Nidoking shouted to the skies, 'I will finally be King!'

'You will never be king!' A defiant voice pierced through the skies as everyone looked towards Prince Nidoran and he was… glowing?

It wasn't evolution. Ash picked up his Pokédex to scan Prince Nidoran, the machine had showed that Prince Nidoran knew some basic moves, but among them was the move: Focus Energy, which increased the critical chance of all moves.

Nidoking didn't seem bothered and stepped forward with energy coursing around him. 'And who says I can't be king? You?'

There was an orange light wrapped around Nidoran after the attack was channeled. And with that finished Nidroan stared at his uncle with equal amounts of intensity despite being far weaker. 'Grandfather didn't choose you to be king...'

Those seven words were all it took to make the massive Pokémon to flinch, but Prince Nidoran continued. 'The Coronation Ceremony didn't choose you!' The little poison type stepped forward, making the scarred Nidoking step back form mental pressure. 'And most of all,' He narrowed his eyes. 'Mother didn't choose you.'

Even though they barely knew about Nidoran and his family, every stranger could feel how broken Nidoking was from that last fact. And if they somehow didn't, the scream that came form him, along with the insane burst of power that was enough to lift small rocks would clue everyone not unconscious in. 'AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!'

Nidoran looked to both Riolu and Jigglypuff. 'I need a boost, can you both throw me?!'

The pink and blue Pokémon looked at each other and then nodded back at Prince Nidoran. The prince hopped up light in the air. At that moment, Jigglypuff and Riolu both pushed their limbs into the hind legs of Nidoran. The instant they connected, Riolu poured all his aura into a Vacuum Wave to push Nidoran forward while Jigglypuff mustered the power of his abnormal Strength move to launch him towards his Uncle.

Both Jigglypuff and Riolu grunted with great effort as they shot Nidoran like a pseudo bullet. Nidoking fired a powerful Fire Blast that was so potent, the flames were deep blue instead of red. Instead of being deterred, Nidoran powered up his Horn Attack that was powered up by the Focus Energy.

Nidoran made contact with the massive, blue Fire Blast—and pierced right through it before it's explosion could get him. With that same momentum from both Riolu and Jigglypuff, Nidoran got ready to ram his Horn Attack right to Nidoking!

"Come on!"

'Get him!'

Ash gripped his fist while the Clefairy beside him cheered.

SLASH!

…

…

Nidoking… dodged at the last second by side stepping Nidoran's Horn Attack, and he ended up sliding some space away and tumbling to a stop near Ash and Clefairy.

'Aww man!' Riolu gasped as both he and Jigglypuff felt tired from putting a lot into those attacks.

Nidoking couldn't help but laugh. 'Was that it!? Was that all you could do!?' After all that, the child's final attack missed, how could he not laugh?

Yet prince Nidoran still stood back up, or rather struggled to stand again. Ash and Clefairy ran to him, but for some odd reason they froze for a second after looking at the injured prince.

'It appears you're not as weak as I thought you were, Nephew, but even you should know the folly of going against impossible...' Nidoking trailed off as Prince Nidoran turned around.

In his mouth was the necklace that held the Golden Life Orb.

Nidoking quickly looked towards his neck, but lo and behold, the Life Orb was indeed gone! Instantly, his mind replayed those final seconds of the attack, while Nidoking was moving to avoid the strike, Nidoran tilted his attack in a different area. Did that mean that Nidoran was gunning for that when he knew the attack would miss!?

"Here, let me your Highness." Ash kneeled down and ended up tying the necklace around Prince Nidoran.

When it was done, Prince Nidoran stood with the Life Orb ready.

Nidoking let loose another roar of anger. 'This changes nothing! This is the day you die!'

'Wrong, this is the day I prove to the kingdom what a true King is.' And with that, Nidoran's hind legs started to glow. Ash recalled seeing similar move once in television, Double Kick, a fighting type move.

But the Life Orb around Nidoran started to glow and the small Pokémon winced. It was actually draining his energy yet his Uncle didn't seem to have that problem, but that was not what was at stake here. Powering through the pain, the small creature disappeared in a burst of speed.

On the remnants of ice and stone, Nidoran foot prints appeared followed by cracks on the ground where they were implanted and a gust of wind. Nidoran was using Double Kick on his Hind legs for extra kick of his runs, giving him more speed and more momentum against his uncle.

Nidoking set his hand ablaze, and while it was obvious the power behind it had lessen dramatically, it was by no means powerful and deadly with how it was set aflame to the point where it was double the size of Nidoking himself.

When close enough, Nidoran activated Horn Attack and this time, it glowed a unique purple light than from before.

The two creatures from the same evolutionary line screamed as their attacks, Horn Attack and Fire Punch met and collided, creating a massive explosion!

After a few seconds, something shot out of the smoke and slid on the ground to a stop.

As if the heavens themselves were watching, a speck of moonlight pierced through the vanishing smoke and gave a spotlight on the one who had been shot out.

The light shown down on… Prince Nidoran, battered, looking worse for wear, and horribly exhausted, but still standing tall!

In the epicenter where the two original attack clashed, Nidoking was seen out cold, defeated by his nephew.

Prince Nidoran had won.

"WHOOO!" Ash, Clefairy, Riolu, Jigglypuff, and everyone left still conscious cheered at the winner of the fight.

Prince Nidoran relaxed as he heard the cheers. He looked up to the night sky, where the moon looked as beautiful as it always did then closed his eyes.

The cheering stopped when they all saw a bright light envelope Prince Nidoran. As it died down, Prince Nidoran had Evolved into Prince Nidorino!

With that last action, the newly evolved Prince fell down, completely without energy.

And with that, The Battle For Mt. Moon was over.

… And Ash soon learned his misery had only just begun.

"Uhhhhhhhh..." Ash tried his best, but it felt like his mind was put in a blender and then used as concrete just so a jackhammer could be used on it. If you didn't get that analogy, it simply meant that Ash was having a really bad headache from the psychic practices Sabrina forced him to do early that morning on top of the now busy Mt. Moon.

"You have seventeen more Rubix Cubes to restart, no breaks." The Psyhic mistress coldly began as twenty rubix cubes flew near her. She folded her arms and looked down on the teen whose brain was hurting so much, he couldn't even stand properly already.

"The pain!" Ash gasped and weakly tried to reach for the exit which was a good… three hundred feet away from him. And then he gasped and collapsed where he was crawling.

Sabrina looked to her Pokémon who actually seemed to pity the kid. Seeing this, the more experienced Psychic user sighed. "Alright, I'll let you go for now. You have ten minutes for a break."

"W-What about Breakfast?"

"Not until you can do twenty five Rubix Cubes at once without breaking a single one." Ash didn't even have the strength to ask why that number kept growing and just groaned into the comforting dirt and dust while Sabrina left.

As Ash laid there on the ground, Riolu, Spreaow, and Jigglypuff walked up to the boy.

'You know, with how hard you're being trained, do you think you can take on the next gym battle yourself?' The fighting type sounded very innocent in his suggestion that would have made anyone else sound sarcastic.

"Mugah..." Oh great, now he couldn't form words. Fantastic.

'You know, friendly friends? I thought everything was super fun with you!' Jigglypuff was lightly dancing with an apple being juggled on his head as he said this. 'I want to join your Exploration Team!'

'Exploration Team?' Riolu and Spearow tilted their heads to the side when repeating that title.

'Yeah! My master used to tell me a group of Pokémon and some humans are called an Exploration Team that go out on adventures to dangerous places and find valuable treasure!'

Riolu put a hand on his chin. 'Well that does describe us except for the trea—wait no. We have a feather from a Legendary so you might be spot on with that.' The fighting type looked to Ash and pointed at the smiling and dancing Jigglypuff. 'Hey Ash, Jigglypuff wants to join our Exploration Team!'

Ash responded with only a weak groan… then lifted a hand with a thumbs up on it.

'Yay!~" Jigglypuff cheered ina sing song tune. 'I get to be with Team Luckless!'

'WHOOO!' Instead of questioning where that name came from like normal people, Riolu and Spearow did their own cheering while Ash could only make a confused groan in response.

'I too wish to join Team Luckless.' Everyone turned the voice while Ash futilely tried to argue against that name.

'Prince Nidorino?' Riolu asked the newly evolved ruler. 'Or is it King Nidorino now?'

'Still Prince I'm afraid. While I am next in line and current ruler, I'm not officially king without a Moon Lake Ceremony.' He looked towards the center of the secret lake which was now empty and filled with a crashed UFO. 'It's a shame that ceremony actually needs a lake.'

He turned around to the look on everyone's—but Ash—face that was like catching children going to the cookie jar before dinner. 'It's alright, peasants, you have done a great service to this future king and for that, you shall not be executed this day.'

"Braaugh?"

'Please, save your adulations,' The proud royal assumed Ash's confused groan as a compliment. There is a possibility that when he evolved he became a teeny-tiny bit egotistic. 'But I as future king, have learned something. I learned more with you four than I ever did trapped in this mountain. If I hope to become even half of the king my father and his father were, I need to know more than just what was in this mountain. It is why… I have decided to join your group to help further my pursuit of being a noble king. You should be grateful.'

Ash made another confused groan noise.

'Splendid! We shall leave at noon! For now, come my new friends, it is time for a victory Banquet!'

'Really!? Do you guys have cheese?'

'I wonder how your meals compare to that of the Spearow Tribe!'

'I get More Perfect Apples, yay!~'

The four Pokémon then left Ash laying on the floor still.

Good news? He no longer was groaning. The bad news? Now he was just sobbing.

A week after the events of Mt. Moon, over all the way at Pallet Town, Professor Oak heard a knock on the door.

Professor Oak wasn't expecting visitors, so the old man opened the door to see who it was.

He wasn't expecting a large group of Clefairy standing right in front of him. In the very front of him, between him and the group of Clefairy was a leading Clefable and a actual flying UFO floating above his house/lab.

'Hi!' The Clefable spoke to him in perfect English. 'Are you Professor Oak?'

His mind was so flabbergasted by these series of events that came so quickly out of nowhere, his subconscious just acted on manners and the old man simply nodded his head.

'Excellent! We will be staying here and setting up base until our spaceship is fully functional! Thank you, Professor Oak of Pallet Town!'

Out of all the things she just said, one in particular finally made the stunned professor move and speak again. "What!? What do you mean, staying here and setting base?!"

The Clefable tilted her head… or body… or whatever! You get the idea! 'Oh? Did Supreme War General Ash Ketchum not tell you about us?'

Supreme War General… "Ash!?" Professor cried out at the same time his mind did. Now that he thought back, the boy did make a call and say he was sending some Pokemon over in a while, but this was not what he had in mind! "W-W-Well—he did—"

'Sensational! Now, if you find yourself pressed to the ground or floating aimlessly in the air in any later days, that would be us seeing how we can weaponize the gravity of this planet. Thank you for letting us stay here!' And with that, all the pink creatures were beamed up into the ship and the flying saucer flew over his lab and into his research center, as it did, the utterly baffled old man could hear the alerted cries of the other Pokémon in his lab start to panic.

Professor Oak could only put a hand on his head. "What just… Ash! I need to call Ash!"

Running faster than he ever did in his prime, Professor Oak raced for the phone.

+Author Notes+

Congratulations, Ash Ketchum, you have not only become part of a second Team called Team Luckless, but you have impressed the alien Clefairy and their queen and have been appointed their Supreme War General! Truly, your future is as bright as a nuke going off!

For those that still didn't catch it, Jigglypuff is heavily based off The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of The Sky/Time/Darkness Wigglytuff. If you haven't played that Pokémon spin off you are missing out more than humanly possible. He's an interesting character and the thought of giving a Mystery Dungeon character to Ash sounded like a new and fresh idea.

I really do hope your all enjoying the story. As you all can tell, this is pretty different from most Trainer Stories in general since there's less focus on training to be the best and strongest in the league, and more of exploring how weird and amazing this world of Pokémon can be! Seriously, it's fun to write!

Any way, I do hope you support this story by favorites, reviews, and follows. I hope this story finds you well!

And look out for the next chapter! We head to Cerulean City and meet someone you remember but is a little different in this story. (The Easy answer would be Misty, wouldn't it? But I'll keep you all guessing if it's her or someone else completely.)

Bye!