A/N: Sorry this took so long, I just… yeah. I don't really have an excuse.

"Dad!?" Mary stood up and pointed towards an athletically muscular looking man with dark brown hair and wearing glasses over brown eyes. He along with the other man, who had hair similarly styled like Entei's mane, were both wearing safari adventure clothes.

"Sweetie!" You could tell he was a father by the smile on his face, and with how he scooped the girl up and gave her a Ursaring hug, much to the squeamish girl's dilemma.

Ash on the other hand, turned towards the other man with a fair amount of surprise, "Mr. Hale? You're here too?"

The man with hair similarly styled to that of an Entei gave a hearty laugh. "Ash, please, you can call me Spencer. I'm surprised to see nearly all of you here as well."

"Who are these guys?" Verity asked with obvious confusion as both Ash and Mary were talking towards the two men.

Emily looked towards the reaming three and explained. "As Mary just said, the one with glasses is her father, Professor Drando Sundance and his partner and best friend, Mr. Spencer Hale, the two are archeologists who travel around the world and Molly over there is Mr. Hale's kid."

"I feel like there's more to that summary." Sorrel noted with a raised brow.

"The things I know are better explained by those two than me."

As Emily said this, Mr. Sundance turned over and waved at the others, signaling them all to not be shy and come and meet with them. "Emily, how are you doing? You've grown a lot since I last saw you all. I see Gary is missing from your group."

"He's doing his own thing here and there." Emily stood up from her seat before everyone got reacquainted with each other.

"Wow," Molly, the little blonde girl, cooed when she saw Ash's Riolu. "You have a Pokemon now Ash?"

"Yep, this is Riolu, a great friend of mine." At the teen's introduction, his fighting type looked back to Ash.

'I like her Aura, it's fuzzy.' The fighting type was then hugged by Molly, who squealed in delight touching the soft and small creature.

Verity, Sorrel, and Sola moved closer towards the two archeologists. Verity asked, "So, you're Mary's dad?"

"Yep! And you must be her traveling companions! I'm so glad she was able to find some!" Despite his burly appearance, the man seemed to be tearing up at the thought. "She's grown so much from the little girl who practically held on to the house door like a life line when we were trying to bring her to pre-school!"

"DAD!" Mary shrieked at the top of her lungs. Obviously she didn't want any part of her past revealed to her friends through her father.

"Aww," Verity cooed before smirking and elbowing Sorrel, her more stoic friend understanding this was more ammo for teasing Mary later. "So if you two are archeologists, what are you two doing on a cruise ship?"

Spencer Hale was the first to talk about it. "The cruise will stop by the Isle of Masiko and that's where Drando and I are to visit. They say they stumbled on to a new undiscovered ruins of an unknown old culture."

"That sounds interesting." For the first time in a while, the group of teens looked to Sorrel who actually expressed a genuine emotion towards that new fact.

Mary's father seemed to brighten up at the words of the stoic teen. "Hey! Why don't you kids come along? We're going to be with an excavation team and you guys can keep anything you find as long as you show us! We're even told there might be some fossils you guys can find and revitalize!"

That seemed to catch everyone's attention before they all started rapidly firing questions as to if they could really do such a thing, or if they are allowed to, or even ask more details about the event.

Spencer looked over to the smiling man and folded his arms. "You do realize that you're going to have to do all the paper work required to have everyone come along with us, right?"

The taller man seemed to wince, like being hit by a super effective hit and turned back to the man with Entei styled hair. "Uhh, right, forgot about that. Sooo… mind helping out with that?"

Spencer Hale shook his head slowly.

"Huh," Drando looked at the excited look on all the teens faces, along with Molly. Instead of seeing children, he saw piles of paper work in their place. "Man, what I could give to curse right about now."

"So when the boat stops at Masiko Isle, I'm gonna go excavating with my friend's dad. You wanna come?"

Sabrina supposed she could say no, but what else could she do? Be away from Ash and later find out how much he screwed up again while she was gone? Though the last time she did the opposite, she couldn't even get herself out of the trouble the boy had caused.

Damned if she did and damned if she didn't. Still, she supposed she could use an excuse to see more exotic areas before it exploded or something.

Sabrina gave a small nod before continuing to read a book she had found.

"Cool!" Ash then turned around towards the TV of the room they were given. "Now, let's watch some cool movies!"

As he put it on for his Pokemon, the television opened up.

"~Vocal percussion on a whole nother level coming from my mind!~"

"Oooh!" Ash and all of his Pokemon seemed greatly hooked as the first thing they saw was a very colorful image of strange men dancing.

Sabrina inwardly lurched. She would rather be in a life or death situation than where she was currently.

The Isle of Masiko was located towards the northeastern lands of Kanto. In that isle, traces of civilizations long lost to time are marked by ancient ruins and buildings from a bygone era.

"Wow that's a lot of old rocks!" So leave it to Ash Ketchum, 13 teen year old, and soon-to-be-Pokemon Master to make it sound more mundane than it actually is.

"Yep!" One of the two adult archeologists began before walking ahead to the camp not to far. "And we get paid to go look at them!" He looked back at the others trailing behind them. "Come on, kids!"

Many of the young teens and Sabrina followed the archeologists up an island mesa, where they were greeted with the sight of an old, stone city that has stood the test of time despite the faded colors and cracked and broken walls with many mold and shrubbery growing atop and around all of them.

It was quite the place, and everyone was quick to explore the area as long as they weren't alone or unsupervised.

Ash, wanting a chance to see fossilized Pokemon, followed Spencer and Molly Hale down towards a specific area past what looked to be the main temple of the ruins with Sabrina and Riolu not too far behind.

"So what is this place?" Ash asked while he looked at the stone structures that seemed so old, you could almost mistake how it was still all kept together by magic.

"A fascinating thing really, it's believed to be a ruin dated back to the time of Pokelantis."

Sabrina couldn't help but get distracted by the name of the ancient kingdom. Considering the last time she was anywhere near something related to Pokelantis, she was also attacked by a mysterious group of ancient warriors. So it stood to reason that she was now on guard with the possibility of being attacked once more.

"There's a room I want to show you, Ash and Molly. Come this way." The archeologist with Entei styled hair lead the group deeper into the old ruins.

The room was large but dark, as Mr. Hale put on some special equipment nearby, the room lit up with a large, somewhat faded mural.

It was majestic to say the least, to see art preserved for years before even the time ancestors were capable of math.

"There are old writings on these walls besides the pictures." Spencer Hale began as he pointed to some odd symbols near the depictions. "I was sent a rough translation of what's been decoded so far, and it's an interesting tale."

He lead the group over towards a picture of what seemed to look like a Tentacruel. Thing was though, this Tentacruel was depicted to be even larger than the island itself and in the mural, it showed him knocking down buildings and storms surrounding it's large frame.

"Long ago, there was a fearsome giant that threatened the peace of this isle." Hale began before pointing towards the next mural. "Many had tried but couldn't stop the savage giant's path. But a maiden wielding mystical powers barred the titan's total trashing of the time-lost town."

"Daddy," Molly huffed by puffing her cheeks. "Don't do that, it's silly!"

The older man laughed and petted the head of his daughter. "Well, if you insist." Everyone followed the mural to the next part where there was a faded picture of a bright woman clad in holy looking colors. "Now as I was saying, no one knew where the maiden hailed from, all they knew was that she was wielding amazing power. With that power, she sealed away the gigantic Tentacruel and saved the isle. This ruins is a temple created in dedication of this mysterious priestess."

They all saw the final mural depicting the priestess doing so, seemingly trapping the Tentacruel in some kind of artifact.

"And that was why I and my friend were invited over to this site. They needed an extra pair of eyes helping out with excavation and other studies of the area." Spencer Hale finished before looking to the two kids. "And with that, my mini tour is over, you can follow your friends over towards where you can dig up Pokemon Fossils."

"Ooh! Ash, show me your other Pokemon!" Molly was quick to as she grabbed on to the teen's hands and practically dragged him out of the room.

Sabrina saw this and decided to follow her student this time. She didn't trust ruins and supposedly ancient powers.

Ash allowed Molly to lead him back out the temple and into the open court yard. However, before they could begin, Ash noticed someone waiting for them, sitting atop a fallen debris that was under the shadow of a stone totem pole.

Maria Indra Sundance—or Mary as Ash called her for short was gasping for breath and wiping the sweat off her forehead.

"Hey Mary," Ash went to his friend first. "Are you alright?"

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. I guess my allergies are acting up or something, I just feel a little off." She said as she gasped for air. "I also wanted to wait for you while the others went ahead to see if they could excavate some fossils."

"Thanks, Mary," The raven haired trainer began before Sabrina walked out of the temple and eyed the girl who she 'met'.

The old childhood friend, after finding out the stranger she revealed her secret to was in fact a companion of her best friend, started to laugh nervously—just as she was doing right now.

"Huh, what's so funny?" Ash looked over to his friend, who just seemed to laugh even worse than before.

Sabrina only shook her head. (You poor girl, what do you even see in him?)

As the silver-white haired girl tried to calm herself down, Ash's attention was pulled much like his sleeve as Molly seemed to pout at him. "Can I please see your other Pokemon?"

"Sure thing, Molly!" Riolu jumped off as Ash brought out the rest of his party, revealing Spearow, Jigglypuff, and Prince Nidorino.

The little girl squealed before she made a move to scoop up Jigglypuff and squeeze the puff ball in a vice grip that a little girl shouldn't have been able to pull off. "Aww! This one is sooooo cuuuttteee and round!"

'Yay! A new friend!' While his body was slowly being crushed, Jigglypuff still remained rather optimistic even as his pupils started to roll upward.

"I didn't know you had a Jigglypuff, Ash." Mary stood up from her seat and walked closer towards the group..

"Yeah, he's one of my newest members, pretty strong too despite how he looks." Not very conventional, but Ash was wondering what kind of specialty the pink puff could focus on later.

However, there was one slight problem in that Prince Nidorino was rather aghast that all the attention was not on him.

'Hold! Why is the round one gaining the attention of a crowd and not me!?'

'Apparently,' Spearow pointed with her wing. 'The fleshies seem to have some kind of reaction towards specific objects, calling them this… 'cute' thing. Or so I gather.'

Nidorino's response was to calm down and learn to accept the weirdness of his peers and others. 'I say nay! The cutest in all the land, shall be I, Prince Nidorino! Beholden my cuteness!'

Okay, he didn't actually calm down at all, gathering energy in his Life Orb was actually the exact opposite of what he was supposed to be doing.

Ash noticed this and reacted too late. "Hey, Nidorino!"

Despite his valiant attempt, a second later, the Life Orb light vanished and the poison type fell face first into the floor.

Now just for reminder's sake, Prince Nidorino's Life Orb works a little differently than most of it's kind. Instead of taking a set amount of energy to increase a move a certain amount, Nidorino's Life Orb has no cap. So, if he used up his entire stamina, the attack he was about to use was going to be exemplified by the output poured into it.

Nidorino had just used up all his stamina for a single move.

The raven haired trainer didn't know what was about to happen, but he knew one thing: it wasn't going to be good. "Uh oh."

His reaction was validated as a second later, large Rock Tomb attacks erected in the shape of Nidorino statues.

There were so many of them that they ended up forcing Molly, Ash's Pokemon, and Mary closer to Ash—then the floor gave way beneath them, forcing all of them to fall through the floor.

"Oh come on!?" Sabrina of all people cried out when she saw the kids fall through the hole before another statue of a Nidorino shot out in front of her.

Falling.

To his potential death.

Again.

Ash Ketchum had heard of the phrase of flirting with danger, but who knew danger could get clingy like this?

"Jigglypuff, help Moly! Spearow, catch Nidorino! Riolu, I need some light, shoot down A Focus Blast below us!"

His Pokemon moved at their trainer's command. Jigglypuff escaped Molly's gasp and puffed up, slowing her descent and saving the girl as Spearow picked up Nidorino by the horn and flew him up. Riolu summoned a Focus Blast and threw it hard downward, which exploded and revealed that they were all falling down fast towards tilted and fallen pillars of some deeper floor.

At that moment, Ash started to gather his psychic energy to slow him and Mary—

"Lycaenidae, Gust!" The silver haired trainer threw down the sphere which opened up to reveal a bug and flying type Pokemon, Butterfree.

The bug type moved fast, already summoning a powerful gust of wind that slowed their descent—but years of being trained in their bodies as well made the two teens veered off and land on two separate pillars long lost to time.

Mary landed on a slanted one and started to slide down. Ash landed on a standing one with a roll, before he ran out of room and forced himself to jump forward and wall kick off another pillar before landing with another roll on solid, old ground.

"Thank you, Lycaenidae," The female trained smiled kindly to the flying type.

'It is no issue, Lady Sundance.' Ash raised his brow at how the Butterfree sounded like a butler, but started to walk over to everyone else as they all landed.

"Is every one alright?" The raven haired boy looked around, seeing everyone accounted for, before looking up. "We sure fell a long way down." As everyone else looked up, the hole they had fallen through was now a small hole up in the darkness.

"W-Where are we?" Molly seemed to still be hugging Jigglypuff, now tightly more than ever, not that the pink Pokemon seemed to mind.

It was rather dark though, even with Riolu lighting up the place with his aura. At then Mary held another Poke Ball and threw it out, "Come on out, Wyvern!"

As the light shot out of her sphere, a Charmeleon appeared. The light of his tail lit up the area much better along side Riolu's aura and everyone was able to see they were in some forgotten pathway.

"I think we're in a deeper floor of the temple my father hasn't found out yet." Mary walked up to the pillar she slid down from. Wyvern the Charmeleon's fire lit up what she was looking at to reveal new markings that they weren't paying attention to before.

She placed a hand on the markings of the pillar. "These seem to match the artwork and style of the work above, but even though it's all faded, the colors here seem more alarming, almost as if they were made for warnings."

At that moment, Mary suddenly seemed distracted by something and put a hand on her head. Ash noticed this and was worried for his best friend.

"You alright?"

"Sorry, I-I thought I heard—it's probably just the sudden drop and rise of blood into my head made me have a little headache. It should go away soon."

Ash made sure to hold on to one of Molly's hands before walking up to Mary. "Well okay, but you sure know your stuff with everything and all like stuff about blood and the ruins."

The silver haired girl scoffed as she turned and was able to give a small smile. "You'd know these things pretty well if you actually paid attention as well as you do in Pokemon Battles."

"Hey, I can pay attention whenever I want to!" The raven haired boy tried to defend himself.

A smile could be seen on Mary's face even in the dark. "Anyway, I think we should move. Usually, I'd suggest we stay in place, but there's a chance there might be traps down here that were activated when we fell. We should have our Pokemon out if we don't already." While saying that, the young teen took out a third Poke Ball and threw it into the air.

A Pikachu was the one to come out of this next Pokemon Ball.

"Oh wow, a Pikachu!" Molly momentarily forgot about the scariness around her to go up towards the adorable electrical mouse Pokemon.

"Ah Molly!" The teen trainer tried to tell the little girl something, but the smaller child was able to hug the electric mouse before she could finish.

'Ack! Hey, let go of me girly!' The Pikachu cried out before electricity sparked out of it's cheek pouches.

Both Mary and Ash started to worry as they knew what the electric type was about to do. However, their actions weren't necessary as something stopped the Pikachu.

'Don't.' An oppressive aura came from Jigglypuff that stopped the gathering energy akin to a axe chopping a wood piece clean in one strike.

The Pikachu swallowed and allowed Mary to continue cuddling without trouble.

"Uh, Ash? What did your Jigglypuff do to stop Proton?" Mary didn't understand Pokemon speech, but even in the dark, she could spot the Jigglypuff do something to stop her electric type.

The boy shrugged his shoulders as he noticed Jigglypuff back to being his usual happy self. And then saw the pink one's eyes widen before happily hopping forward beyond the light source between them.

Everyone followed the pink puff ball and eventually found the path to an elaborate but house size gates that seemed as thick as one.

"Wow," Mary looked up at the door with faded art work. However, Ash noticed his Jigglypuff moving closer to the gap between the two gate stones. "I wonder what's behind such a thing—"

Jigglypuff used Strength. 'Yoom-tah!'

The two gate doors were pushed aside and opened up a path for everyone. As the doors opened, they could feel trapped, time-lost air escape from the gapping space Jigglypuff pushed open.

"You're pretty strong, Jigglypuff." Ash complimented his Pokemon then walked after the excited Pokemon.

'Come on, Team Luckless! We've got to explore this mystery dungeon for treasure!' Ash's Jigglypuff skipped with glee.

"Wait, Jigglypuffs can't do that even with… can they?" After Mary asked that, she took a step forward—only to suddenly feel another head ache spike. It seemed to get much worse than before, but she shook her head and look forward and walked after rest of them.

The group entered through the doors and it was as if they traveled through time. It wasn't just the air that felt older, the room behind those stone gates was preserved. The gold around the colors of the room were as bright and vivid as the day they were painted, the art and symbols looked the same as well. In the back of the room was a staircase that led to a sphere the size of car with odd symbols marked all across with major colors of light blue and two orbs of red sticking out to each side.

There were many jaws and eyes wide open at the sight. Except for Prince Nidorino, he was still out cold.

"Ash—Ash! Look!" Molly pointed over to one side of the wall and the older teen followed her towards a new art work similar to the one that her father showed them earlier.

It showed a new depiction: about the mysterious maiden wielding a half dozen floating objects around her. One of them looked similar to the large orb in the center.

But that's not what caught the young man's attention.

Since this painting was in near perfect condition and gigantic, he noticed that the ancients painted the maiden in a very strange way: she had long, silver-ish white hair and familiar colored ruby eyes.

Ash Ketchum raised his brow. "Hey, Mary, the magic maiden kinda looks like you." A second passed before the young man noticed the distinct lack of response from his book smart friend.

It wasn't just him, everyone else looked away from the painting, except Prince Nidorino, and noticed the other teenage girl was nowhere to be seen.

'Ah! Over there!' Riolu pointed over towards the large marked orb where Mary was walking towards it with a vacant look on her face.

"Mary! Hey, Mary!?" Ash cried out before he bolted after his best friend.

Even though he did so, everyone else noticed the twelve feet long orb starting to glow and hum with a musical, but ominous tone as Mary walked closer towards it with a hand stretched out.

Ash ran as fast as he could, but by the time he caught up, Mary had already touched the orb with the tip of her fingers.

Then the light enveloped the room.

"We have to go and get them!" Mr. Sundance was understandably upset to find out his daughter was gone.

"Drando, I understand, my daughter is there too. But we both know those four kids can handle trouble that comes their way no matter how often it comes, isn't that right, Ms. Adel?" Mr. Hale asked the punk-themed, red haired girl.

Emily sighed. "You are right: half parts Ash, half parts my uncle—falling from that height wouldn't hurt us especially when we all now have Pokemon with us."

"See?" The calmer archaeologist was quick to reason with his friend.

"Though with Ash, things might dramatically get worse like that one time where Gareth accidentally tripped over a Swinub and we ended up startling a hive of Beedrill who chased us to a field of Electrode and Voltor—"

"WE NEED TO GET DOWN THERE YESTERDAY!"

Mr. Hale slapped his forehead at his friend's understandable but annoying reaction.

"It shouldn't be hard to find them." Sabrina began as she took out a Pokemon ball. "All we need to do is—"

Sabrina stopped talking when an earthquake started to occur. Instead of panicking or getting worried, Sabrina seemingly glared into thin air, as if being very disappointed in someon—it's Ash. She's disappointed in Ash because this has his MO all over it.

At that moment, the temple, and some of Nidorino's statues, collapsed and fell down the edge of the hill and out came a Tentacruel that was twice the size of a skyscraper.

"Is that the Ancient Titan Tentacruel that threatened this isle years ago!? He was real?! And he's been unleashed from his seal from the ancient maiden?! How!?"

Yep, this has the Ketchum Boy's name written all over it. Odd, why could he feel his presence more?

"AT LAST!" A booming voice came from the colossal cephalopod-like creature. His volume made everyone clamp their ears as it was akin to hearing a Screech move. "I AM FREE FROM MY PRISON!"

"H-He can talk!?" Sabrina heard the Emily girl cry out. It took her a second to realize the reason why it seemed like even non-metas could hear the giant Pokemon was because there was a familiar sight of a raven haired boy atop the head of the towering water and poison type.

"Mary, are you alright?!" Ash cried out as in the sudden burst of light, he felt the room shift once more. His body moved on it's own and now he was atop of some giant Pokemon while carrying his best friend princess style.

"H-Huh? How did—ASH!?" Shock, confusion, and then to a completely embarrassed form of shock all went through the female teens face within a second as she tried to gather what had happened.

'Ash!' The teen turned back his head to see his and Mary's Pokemon running towards them along with Molly.

"HEY?" The Tentacruel started to lift up some of it's many tentacles above it's head. "IS THERE SOMETHING ON ME?"

Two of the tentacles moved faster than most expected and grabbed the two groups atop its head.

Emily turned to everyone. "Whoever has Pokemon, bring them out now!"

The Tentacruel unfurled his first tentacle, revealing the Pokemon with Molly. When he unfurled the second one, he saw Ash and—

The gigantic giga Tentacruel's eyes widened when his pupils reflected that of Mary.

"IT'S YOOOOOUUUUU!" His voice caused a strong gust of wind that caused many to once more shield their ears and ground themselves so they wouldn't get blown away.

At that instant, Sabrina appeared with her Alakazam while the Kadabra and Mr. Mime appeared on the other tentacle with Molly and the rest. The experienced psychic used a teleport to get everyone out of the grasp of the giant and back to the other trainers on land.

Emily screamed out to those standing there still. "Guys, get ready with your Pokemon! That Giant Tenacruel looks ticked off! Everyone else get to safer ground!"

"Wait. we're going to fight that thing?!" Sola screamed out in panic.

The Tenacruel, who lost sight of everyone, saw them back down in what was left of the temple. When his eyes looked back to Mary, he screamed while raising many of his tentacles high into the sky.

That was the cue for everyone to get ready for an incoming attack. This beast was hyped up as a destroyer of legend by the paintings of old and was only stopped by a being of old ancient magic now long lost to time. Who knows what kind of untold—

"AAAHHH DON'T HURT ME!"

… The over sized Tentacruel… raised his tentacles… only for him to crouch down towards the beach and cover his head while large tears could be seen where his eyes should be.

"PLEASE DON'T HURT ME AGAIN, SCARY LADY! I DIDN'T MEAN IT!"

…

Everyone was at a loss for words. Well… everyone except Ash's Riolu and Molly who walked closer towards the edge while everyone else was too stunned at the weird action.

"Hey, Giant Mister! Are you alright!?" Molly cried out from over the edge.

"Molly, no!" Spencer Hale made a move forward only to stop with fear as the giant Pokemon rose back up with a sniffle.

"N-NO!" The giant water and Poison type leaned in to both the two tiny bipeds and pointed over towards Mary's direction. "THAT LADY OVER THERE IS SCARY!"

"She's not scary, she's super cool and nice!" Molly spoke out with much enthusiasm.

'Yeah!' Riolu raised a paw then pointed over to Ash. 'She's friends with my best friend, so she's not scary.'

"… REALLY?" The Tentacruel made a motion to 'stand' at his full height and eyed over the girl in question. Everyone else was still stunned and wary of whatever move the giant could make, and they were also still baffled as to what exactly was going on at that moment. "HEY, SHE IS KINDA DIFFERENT. I REMEMBER HER BEING TALLER."

The large Tentacruel relaxed, which made everyone else also drop their guard, but still looked utterly confused as to what was happening. They were all briefed that a Giant Tentacruel threatened the isle, but was this really the same one?

"So what happened to you? Were you trapped in that big sphere?" Molly asked the giant without a shred of worry. Perhaps it was a good thing her innocence prevented her from realizing she could be easily crushed by the thing more than a hundred times her size.

"YES! IT WAS HORRIBLE! YOU SEE," The Giant Tentacruel then told an amazingly surreal story.

It was a regular Tentacruel back in ancient times, but it figured out how to go into the isle for short periods of time and ate special berries that grew on this isle that no longer exist in present time. The Tentacruel always came here to eat it's favorite berries… because it was alone and none of the other water Pokemon made fun of him, so he ate a lot of those old berries as stress eating. The weird thing was that one time, Tentacruel went into a deep sleep or hibernation—which was probably due to the berries he ate—and when he woke up, he was massive!

Even though the other water Pokemon made fun of him, when they saw him, they all ran away from the Tentacruel, which made him feel lonelier. When he went back up to his favorite isle, he tried to look for his favorite berries, but instead, there were all these 'TINY PEOPLE AND THIER ROCKS', which meant that while he was sleeping, a colony or tribe were setting up over the Tentacruel's food.

The Tentacruel tried to look for his favorite berries, even climbing up on the island to find them. Everyone just gave confused looks of realization when the Tentacruel explained that while he was looking for berries, he 'accidentally' toppled over some of the rocks of the tiny people while trying to avoid them. He was really trying but there were just so many of them. IT made them all realize the 'destruction' the ancients described, was him just being kinda clumsy.

It was then he saw a bright and shinning light and he saw this scary looking woman before all he saw was darkness.

"IT WAS SO HORRIBLE!" The Tentacruel was dropping tears the size of small pools. "I WAS AWAKE BUT NOT! I MISS MY BERRIES!"

Molly was tender enough to put a hand on a near, resting tentacle and try to rub it affectionately. "Aww it's okay! My dad says we can have food later, you wanna come?"

Spencer Hale's response was to gawk at the thought of treating giant Pokemon to lunch.

"I-I AM HUNGRY!" The sniffling giant managed to say. "BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE: HAS ANYONE SEEN MY SOUND MAKER?"

Everyone looked around each other with confusion.

'What's a sound maker?' Riolu asked.

"OH IT'S NO USE, I LEFT IT AROUND HERE BEFORE I WENT TO MY DEEP SLEEP. IT REALLY MADE FUN SOUNDS WHEN COMBINED WITH MUSIC I MAKE."

Molly gasped, her already huge eyes grew even larger at that moment as she clasped her hands together. "You can play music?!"

There was a change in the Giant as he seemed to actually seem happy. "A LUVDISC TAUGHT ME HOW TO DO IT! IT'S SUPER FUN!"

"Show us! Show us!" Riolu and Molly jumped up at down and chanted at the same time.

"W-WELL… OKAY! I-I THOUGHT OF THIS ONE MYSELF! I HOPE YOU ALL LIKE IT!"

To the further surprise of many, The Tentacruel seemed to pull on his own tentacles with verying degrees of stress. Then four of them started to… strum the giant tentacles… which made a giant, elastic, but guitar like sound.

And soon…

What color's the sea?

¡Ay mi amor, ay mi amor!

You tell me that it's red

¡Ay mi amor, ay mi amor!

Where should I put my tentacles?

¡Ay mi amor, ay mi amor!

You say, "put them on your head!"

¡Ay mi amor, ay mi amor!

You make me un poco loco

Un poquititito loco

The way you keep me guessing

I'm nodding and i'm yesing

At that point Sabrina finally gave up and threw her hands in the air. She started to walk away as the Titanic Tentacruel was now playing some rather good music.

"So," Ash began while everyone now seemed to be enjoying the makeshift convert from the ancient beast. "He's not actually some threatening super Pokemon?"

"No, it's obvious he isn't." Mary beside him watched as all the Pokemon started to gather and dance around near Molly and Riolu. They obviously had a much easier time accepting the fun of all this than the humans.

"Well then!" Drando placed a hand on his daughter' shoulder and a looked towards everyone else as he had their attention. "Let this be a lesson: history is written by the victors. That means at times it can be written wrong, but that never means we should stop learning them. Sometimes, the truth does get unearth and it's worth it more when that does get discovered."

"… Dad," Mary began. "Stop trying to sound cool. You're not. And you're not making any sense."

"Hahaha!" Her father burst into laughter. "I'm just glad your alright, princess. We should call your mom later today, tell her how we're doing. Until then—come on guys! Don't let the Pokemon have all the fun!"

You wouldn't expect Archaeologists to be great party animals, but Ash and his friends found out they could party pretty hard to an ancient music maker.

Professor Oak let loose a sigh. The Clefairy bunch had tried to dissect his windmill generator with a laser cannon.

After stopping that disaster, he heard the sound of his doorbell ringing.

Professor Oak opened the door and was met with a large black thing.

Professor Oak looked up.

"ARE YOU THE ONE THEY CALL PROFESSOR OAK!?" A booming voice came from the skyscraper-sized Tentacruel staring him down.

Professor Oak didn't realize he was swallowing his own spit till it was dropping fast down his own throat.

"U-Uh uh uh, Yes?!" He shouted out back nervously.

"EXCELLENT! THE ONE NAMED ASH HAS HELPED ME! NOW I SHALL GO TO YOUR NEARBY BEACH AND LEARN OF THIS NEW ERA'S MUSIC—STARTING WITH DUBSTEP!"

The old trainer could only gape as a Giant Tentacruel crossed over Pallet Town towards their nearby coast area, all the while singing, "~VOCAL PERCUSSION ON A WHOLE NOTHER LEVEL~COMING FROM MY MIND!~"

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"He said Ash, didn't he?" Professor Oak was going to need to lay down. In all of his years of research, he just didn't know how the boy kept sending him all these impossible Pokemon.

Delia Ketchum watched with a raised brow as a giant Pokemon walked across the vast empty land of Pallet Town while singing a modern song. Most of Pallet Town was curious, but obviously they were all calm at the bizarre sight in front of them due to a certain someone's son.

She shrugged her shoulders and put the tea set on the table. "I heard you recently had a call from both your husband and daughter, Mrs. Sundance, how were they?"

The woman across the table laughed. "Why do you keep calling me, Mrs. Sudance, Delia? What, should I just call you Mrs. Ketchum?"

"But I do love your name," Delia handed her a cup of tea, "Grace is on the other hand kinda a common name."

"Hey!" The brown, kinda fluffy haired, blue eyed woman gasped with fake amounts of being hurt. "I'll have you know my dear old mom thought it was a good name!"

Delia gave a friendly laugh. "It's good, but you have to admit it's also common. I mean, if it wasn't for the fact you used to be a great Rhyhorn Racer from Kalos, I would have assumed you to have an average life."

Grace leaned in and raised her brow. "Are you calling me average?"

Delia sipped her tip for a second and put down her cup. "Girl, I'm calling your cooking skills less than basic."

The two friends laughed at each other after that teasing exchange.

"Why do you have to rub my cooking skills in, Mrs. Restaurant owner?"

"Because I remember the day I had you and Maria over and she cried at how food didn't always have to be burned."

"Ugh, such a traitorous daughter she is. I bet the hospital switched children at birth." Grace joked before she took a sip of her tea.

"I honestly was a bit surprised the girl had white hair and red eyes. You have brown and blue eyes while Drando has dark brown hair and brown colored eyes."

Gracie threw up a hand. "I don't know what's the deal with that! My husband and I just assumed it was some recessive trait from one of our ancestors. Oh, before I forget, this talk of names reminded me of another name I wanted to call Maria before she was born."

Delia blinked. "Really? You had another name for her before she was born?"

Grace gave a soft sigh. "Yeah, Drandy and I decided on two names, one for a boy and girl. But two days before I could give birth, my mother-in-law passed away." She was a little silent as Delia respected her enough to let her continue in her own pace. "I always liked her, she loved me like daughter even before I married the huge nerd. Drandy was especially sad that Maria and his mom never met when they were so close to meeting each other. When we found out our new born baby was a girl, I let Drando name our daughter after his mother, Maria."

It was a bitter sweet story, but… "What was your planned name for Maria?"

Grace looked back at her friend. "I've always loved the name, Serena."

A/N: So yeah. Once again, I'm sorry for taking so long. I hope you guys still like this story.

Anyway, I return with another weird chapter. The crew visits an isle on the way to Ash's third badge. And there, they all meet a musical giant Tentacruel who can sing and play his own body like an instrument. It's from the Disney movie Coco, a slight twist to the one guitar song so that it could fit with the Tentacruel.

This chapter was supposed to build up some of the upcoming plot points in this story.

I've seen some stories where Ash or some other main character has some kinda of ancient birth right and that's cool for whoever wants to enjoy it, but I wanted to try something just a little different with that approach. I won't say it right now, but if you guys can figure it out, kudos! I'm trying to be a little subtle with some hints, I hope it's not too bad.

Another interesting fact is my inclusion of Spencer and Molly Hale from the Third Pokemon Movie. I thought they have an interesting potential in this made up world of mine and I've also put some details that suggest something as to why Ash here seems to know them more. Can you guys guess what it is?

For those putting the pieces together after reading, you must have found out that 'Maria' isn't actually an OC (Original Character), she's technically an OOC (out of character) Serena. (So she isn't a clone, like I said previously in an old note, she is Serena!)

I've actually combined OC and Cannon characters. Another example besides Maria/Serena is a girl you're all aware of: Sola/Salvia—the Dawn Doppelganger.

Oh wait, If I've brought up Serena, you're all probably wondering what's the pairing, if there is one, in this story?

... It's a secret!

Anyway, I have an idea I want to try out with these 'fused characters' and I hope you all enjoy what I'm going to do with them in the future. And I hope I can make them all entertaining enough.

Have a swell day guys and gals. Just like Professor Oak, lay down and take a nap when it gets a little too crazy.

(Here's a fun little game: take a drink every time I put an alliteration in this chapter. They were super fun to write.)