Hey there guys! It's been a nearly half a year or so from the last time I've updated….anything, so here I am. Sorry I took so long to come up with something, but I couldn't get back into writing for some reason. Now then, there are multiple reasons why I'm rewriting this now before continuing, one of them is that I said that his powers would grow, but I made him way to strong in the beginning. Another is that it wasn't really going anywhere the way I was writing it. But…..yeah. Made him to powerful, had Mew join him a little too early, and introduced Cynthia to early as well. I rushed because I thought that I had a deadline, and it burned me out. So I apologize for my leave of absence, and also the fact that I'm still a little burned out. I know I don't have any good reasons for being gone, so, I'll try to keep a deadline for at least one and a half weeks for writing a new chapter for you guys. There may be early updates, some may be late, but overall, I want it to be pretty average. Oh, and I sent Mew on vacation so that she doesn't make this serious AN funny. Well, enjoy.
"Speech/Pokespeech"
'Thought'
"Telepathy"
Pokemon attacks
"Mew! We cannot just change his fate! It's wrong! He deserves a normal life!"
"Oh what would you know about having a 'normal' life Celebi? Ho-oh?"
"Well, I suppose that it would allow him to ready himself much faster than he would otherwise…"
"But then we would hurt him!"
"Since when did you care about humans Raikou?"
"I-I don't...but we need to at least tell Arceus about this. Otherwise we'll all be in trouble."
"Relax~ I have it all planned out~!"
"Okay. Who are you and what have you done to Mew?"
"Hey! I can be serious when I want to be Ray Ray!"
"I keep telling you that it's Lord Rayquaza!"
Mew floated up to the emerald dragon and booped him on the nose. "That's no way to talk to your friend Ray Ray."
A pure white dragon cleared their throat. "So have you told anyone else yet Mew?"
"I was planning on telling Lugia because of that whole thing that happens in a few years after his journey starts Reshy."
"Oh yeah… what was that again?"
"No spoilers." Celebi playfully scolded the emerald dragon. "She only knows because she wouldn't stop bugging me about it…"
"...But she isn't a bug type…" Manaphy tilted her head in confusion. "And what will happen to me?"
Ho-oh wrapped Manaphy in her wings. Kinda like a hug, but with birds. "Don't worry little one… you'll simply revert back into your egg form. I wouldn't agree to this if it killed a child such as you."
Manaphy pouted slightly. "...I'm 193…"
"Compared to us you are still a child."
"Which is why you should have come to me first children!" Arceus appeared in a flash of golden light with an angered expression on her face. "Not ONE of you thought that it would have been prudent to inform me of this?! I expected more out of all of you!"
"But mommy-"
"No buts Manaphy!"
"Lady Arceus, if I may, we were only come to you if all of the other legendaries agreed to this beforehand so that your time wouldn't be wasted gathering everyone and holding a meeting that could last for more that 1000 years. We couldn't risk that." Reshiram stepped forward, doing what she did best besides sparring with Zekrom. And that was stating the obvious.
"...While I would have appreciated being notified...you do have a point Reshy."
"Oh come on. Not you too…"
Arceus then turned to Mew. "Was this your idea Mew?"
"Yep! I asked Celebi to show me what would happen! He's so… helpless. He almost dies saving each one of us. So… I thought that maybe if we could...give him a little...headstart, it might make things go a liiiiiitle more smoothly and less… apocalyptic."
"She plans to jumpstart his abilities by using Manaphy's life force as a source of energy."
"Mew...you aren't helping your case."
"To be fair, Mana wanted to do this! I was going to do it myself before she offered. And pretty much forced me to do it."
Arceus's eyes narrowed. "How…?"
"She…..threatened not to play with me anymore." Mew chuckled mareep-ishly.
"...This has to be the most reckless, and most dangerous thing that you have ever thought of Mew! But… it might work… have you spoken to Dialga and Palkia yet?"
Raikou scoffed. "You mean Prick and Asshole? We were saving them for last so that we wouldn't have to deal with them constantly changing their minds just to disagree with the other. We were planning to tell the bird trio and Lugia next."
Arceus nodded to herself thoughtfully. "... No. I'm bringing them all here. And keeping them silent until Mew fully explains and Celebi shows them all. Dialga should agree because he can see through time as well. Palkia… well, we can force him if we must." Arceus sighed and shook her head. 'This is going to give me a headache that will last decades….' "Everyone gather in the Hall of Legends. I don't know why we named it that, but just go. I shall summon the others." Arceus disappeared in a flash of golden light, leaving a portal behind.
The seven legendaries looked at each other and then walked or floated towards the portal. As they went through, they appeared in their respective thrones in the Hall of Legends. It took a few hours of waiting until all of the legendaries gathered, even the new legendaries Solgaleo and Lunala.
"Welcome home my children. Before we begin this meeting, I would like to introduce you all to your new siblings. Meet Solgaleo and Lunala. They control the existence of the Sun and the Moon, as well as the lunar cycles."
Groudon chuckled. "So, you're telling us that you're getting lazy mom?"
Kyogre slapped Groudon on the back of his head. "Do not disrespect our mother!"
"Ow! Hey…." Groudon rubbed the back of his head.
Rayquaza laughed at the two, until he got hit with a fin as well. "Why me?!"
Arceus cleared her throat to gain the attention of the legendaries. "Back to the main reason why I have called you all here. Mew has this idea that she said might make our lives easier in a few hundred years or so. She plans to find my Chosen of that era and awaken his power prematurely, to give him more time to prepare. Both Celebi and Dialga know who I am referring to."
Dialga nodded. "While I know who you are speaking of, though he may be a clutz...and happens to be dim witted….and lazy…and prideful… and-...you know what? Go for it! It'd be a sin not to do this."
Celebi simply nodded.
"Wait, I disagree!" Palkia shouted out as everyone groaned. "How do you know that this child will be like this?!"
Celebi floated over to Palkia. "Just….see for yourself." She created a portal showing Palkia what would happen if they didn't intervene.
"...Yeah. We need to do this."
Everyone sweatdropped at his reaction, but Virizion jumped across the thrones to see. "Please allow m-...well...at least he has courage going for him...that's about it though….spiritually that is. However he is decently endowed for a human…"
Celebi instantly closed the portal and quickly floated back over to her own throne with a slight blush on her face. "W-Why would you even say that Virizion…."
"What? He is. Was that not necessary?
"NO!" Everyone but Arceus shouted at her as she went back to her own throne.
Arceus shook her head and then sighed. "Mew would like to explain her plan before you all say anything else so if you speak before it is over, there will be consequences."
Everyone instantly shut up as Mew flew towards the center. She cleared her throat dramatically and then donned a serious face, which seemed to frighten the other legendaries even more than their mothers' threat. "Now that I have your attention...as you all know, once in a millennia, our mother chooses a being to enact her will on the material plane. But her next one, while courageous, is….he's a dense idiot. And that's because he's a human who was chosen by our mother. He can't grow unless his powers are unlocked. Plus there's the fact that he always almost dies when trying to save each and every one of us, actually dies once, so a little idea popped into my head. What would happen if I gave his powers a little jump start early on? So I had Celebi show me that as well, and….it was MUCH better. Then again, I died, but that wasn't the point. So I shared my idea with a few other legendaries. Ho-oh first to see if I could prevent my death, Ray Ray so that my egg form doesn't fall out of the sky, Reshy to make sure that the boy always seeks the truth, Mana because she walked in on my conversation with me and Raikou. Honestly, I was looking for you Suicune, but Rai was already there. So, because Mana heard the plan, she offered to...use that power herself. And I had Celebi show me what would happen if Manaphy was turned back into egg form and we got this. Show them Celebi!" Mew floated back as Celebi flew towards the middle and opened a rift through time to show them only a glimpse of what would happen if their plan was enacted. It was shockingly much better. Celebi closed the rift and began to fall before Mew and Lugia caught her. They both placed her back onto her throne and saw that she was asleep.
Since Dialga saw the timeline, he could now focus his gaze on it to see deeper into it. "You do realize that if you do this, then he will not only be more dangerous if he's mentally unstable, but he will also be put into much worse danger than if we simply let his powers grow as they should right?"
Mew nodded. "Yep! But the difference is that he'll have the power to fight back against those threats this time!"
The Hall of Legends quickly became silent in thought. After an hour of silence, Mew got bored and started to read the minds of all of the legends, except for Darkrai and Yveltal. She muttered something about Dark types and then found that all of them were leaning towards helping the boy. Most very heavily. Some not so much because of their rivalry. But the one who supported it the most was shockingly Arceus herself. Arceus then broke the silence that seemed to have lasted for decades. "I assume that you have all made your decision." She switched into her Psychic form and read the minds of all of her children, even Darkrai and Yveltal. "Good. So we have all agreed. We will assist my next chosen. For whatever reason, I have not given myself the ability to see through the passage of time, so Dialga, what is this boys' name?"
Dialga nodded and looked up at seemingly nothing for a few moments. "His name is Satoshi Ashura Ketchup. Er…..Ketchum."
Centuries passes as the legendaries simply performed their duties, all anticipating the day when their mothers' chosen would be born. Mew played around in the Tree of Life, flew around the world, decided to be the occasional thorn in the side for all of the other legendaries. In between all of that, she dealt with the compounding stress of being the mother to all Pokemon in a…. 'healthy' way.
"RUN BITCH! RUN!"
"MEW I DON'T LIKE THIS GAME ANYMORE!"
"WELL TOO BAD! IT'S MY GAME AND I SAY RUN! OR ELSE THE RABID HOUNDOOM WILL GET YOU!" Mew threw her stubby arm forward and a Houndoom with red eyes and foam coming from it's mouth jumped from the bushes behind the frightened Dedenne that was pretty much bouncing through the forest. "FASTER!"
"PLEASE STOP!"
"Aaaaaaaaaand time's up! You win!" Mew snapped and the Houndoom disappeared.
"W-What?" The Dedenne collapsed in exhaustion and looked up at Mew. "I...won? Hah...Haha..!"
"So, do you want your prize~?"
"Y-Yes….?"
"I'm going to grant you a move that can't be used by you guys without a trainer or a tutor! Ready?"
The Dedenne hesitated and then shakily nodded.
"Okay! Here you go!" Mew glowed pink and the same glow surrounded the Antenna Pokemon. "Ta-da! Now you can use Electro-Web, as the humans call it!"
"B-But I'll get sticky!"
"So will anyone you use it on~ And that's why until you perfect it, practice near a river~ Or in it. It won't hurt as much because you're electric~ But if you want another, we could play again~"
"NO! I'm okay. Thank you though Mew. I really love this. Just please. No more games."
"Okay….so why don't you test it out?"
"O-Okay…" The mouse took a deep breath, and a web made from pure electricity appeared in front of it and shot at a tree, wrapping around it causing sparks. "Oh my...THAT'S AMAZING! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!" The Dedenne turned to where Mew was and saw that she had disappeared. They felt a bit sad, but then got excited again. She had to go back to her den and show her family what she could do!
Mew waited behind a tree for the mouse to run off. And as soon as they did, she flew out from behind the tree with a sigh. 'It's almost time...I need to prepare. Ugh….I hate thinking like a grown up….' Mew waved her paw and opened a portal to the Hall of Legends. She flew in and found Arceus in there alone. "Hey Arcy! What are you doing here? And I mean here in the meeting room and not in the big place."
"Oh. Hello Mew. I was just...thinking about what will happen in a month or so…..the birth of my chosen...It's a shame how the last one died. Executed for doing what's right...We can only hope that they get it right…"
"He died because he couldn't defend himself. It isn't our fault that Silver died. It's theirs. But we can fix that. Okay? We can get it right this time. We are going to try this. And it should work. Sure he may be...hospitalized for a few days...maybe weeks, but it should be better in the long run. He'll win. He has too. Groudon and Kyogre have been sealed away in stone casts of themselves...Xerneas and Yveltal are in their cocoons, Zygarde is scattered, all four of the Regi's are locked away, Latios and Latias are dead...their children have to take over….They'll be joining Satoshi right?"
"They should. And Dialga and Celebi call him 'Ash' so we should as well Mew."
"Okay….His name literally means 'Ashes of the God of Punishment' Why?"
Arceus had to think for a moment before she could understand the meaning of it. "Perhaps..it is like Ho-oh. When she dies, she is reborn from her ashes, so, it is quite possible that he could be the ashes of some mythical god that could exist, to become reborn into something new?"
"...Nah! I think it's because it sounds cool!"
Arceus deadpanned. "Yes Mew. It could be that as well...Let's hope it's just that." Arceus looked up at the Universal clock she has. "It's time."
Mew fell onto her face. "WHAT?! ALREADY?! We've been here for a month talking about nothing?!"
"I thought that you knew that time is different here. I can reverse it, make it so that a day over there is a month in here."
"Arcy….why haven't you done that already? It would be great for training!"
Arceus chuckled mareep-ishly and shuffled in place. She then glowed and the clock rapidly slowed to the point of it barely moving. "To tell you the truth...I was getting bored, so I sped up time up here."
"...Why didn't you invite me up here…?" Mew whined to Arceus, and in response, Arceus simply chuckled.
"Because I needed you down on the physical plane in case something came up Mew. You are, somehow, the most powerful of the legendaries."
"Hehe~!"
Arceus sighed and then looked down onto the physical plane through the Pool of Reflection. "Would you like to watch the process Mew?"
"Ugh…..no thanks. It's one thing when someone is screaming in agony when I'm the cause. If it's something else, I stay faaar away from it." Mew looked at her paws and then shook her head. "Fine….." She floated on top of Arceus and watched the birth. For some reason there was a slight….complication that Arceus fixed, while Mew watched while eating popcorn.
A male voice resounded from the pool. "It's a boy Ms. Ketchum."
Delia's voice wavered in pain and relief. "My baby boy…..Satoshi...Ash. You look so much like your father…..if only he were here with us….gah!" A loud rapid beeping sound came from the pool.
Mew stared into the pool. "Arcy….what's happening…?"
Arceus began to grow slightly worried. "I-I don't know Mew. This has never happened before." Her eyes widened in shock at the beeping getting faster and faster.
Mew flew in front of Arceus and slapped her. "ARCEUS! SNAP OUT OF IT!"
"I-I…..I…."
A steady tone of death came from the pool. Another voice came through before the pool faded back into a pool. "I'm sorry...we lost her. Time of death..?"
The two legendaries stared at the pool for much longer than is normal before Mew but her paws on her head and then shook her head in frustration. "This is bad...This is really really REALLY bad!" Mew then threw her head up. "THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!"
Dialga appeared on his throne with a somber expression. "Actually, it was. There was nothing either of you could have done to save her."
Mew stared at Dialga. "But we saw that he grew up with a mother. Who did w-...no...you aren't telling me..."
"Sadly, yes. One of us has to go raise him in our human forms."
Mew's tail whipped around violently. "And which one of us does it?!"
Dialga smirked. "That should be obvious, as you're the only one here with any real experience being a mother."
Mew froze in place before slowly floating over to Dialga. "Oh, no no no no no no no HELL NO! YOU WANT ME TO GIVE UP MY GAMES SO THAT I CAN RAISE A HUMAN?! I DON'T CARE IF HE'S THE CHOSEN OR WHATEVER! I'M NOT DOING IT!"
Arceus became a dark type and then hit Mew with Judgement. "MEW! THAT IS ENOUGH! You WILL go down to their plane, you WILL go to Pallet Town, and you WILL TAKE CARE OF MY CHOSEN! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?!"
Mew glared at Arceus for a minute, then had a look of realization on her face. "Wait….if I raise him...he'll like my games….Okay! I'll do it for you Arcy~!" Mew then disappeared to go to the physical plane, leaving the two legendaries to realize what they just did to the poor boy.
They both had the same expression on their face. "Oh dear Arceus/Me...what have we done…?"
Mew made herself invisible and then decided to take a flight around Pallet Town, considering that this is where she would be living for the next 10 or 11 years. 'Small. Quiet. I like it! She happened to pass over the Pokemon Ranch and saw grass, grass, and...more grass. Not a single Pokemon in sight. Mew sighed then looked up at the sun. "I guess that it would be too early for whoever takes care of the Pokemon here to let them out...so boring…" Mew then flew over to the orphanage and noted that it was really small. Not many incidents happen in small towns(usually) but they're required to have at least one. 'Ash has to be there. He was born yesterday.' She floated in front of the building and transformed into a human. She usually is a child, but right now her human form is a 30 year old woman with long pink hair and a gold colored dress for some reason with gold colored heels. She walked into the building with a smile. "Hello! My name is Myuu, I was a close friend of Delia's and I was wondering if I could see her little baby boy?"
The man at the counter gawked at the woman for a second before coming out of his dazed expression and donned a questioning one. "How do you know about him? He was just admitted here yesterday."
'Myuu' waved it off. "Oh you know, Dragonite Mail is really fast, especially if the one who told me was Professor Oak. Now can I see him?" Her smile slightly shifted into a sickly sweet one and she gave off this aura that said 'Do as I say or I will make your life a living hell'. The man nodded and pulled out a file that had Satoshi's information on it. "Satoshi hmm? Little Ash. I wonder what compelled Delia to name her child after ashes… oh well! What room did you say he was in..?" The man pointed down the hall and then said that his door was the second on the left. Myuu nodded and walked down the hallway while reading that man's thoughts. 'Ugh….Apparently all males can think about is mating with a beautiful female.' She entered the door to see a light blue room with stuffed animals placed around the room. She somehow looked over the crib by the window. She walked over to it to see the sleeping form of Ash. 'He's...adorable.' Myuu smiled and gently picked up the baby, then decided to open the window. Just as she opened said window, a baby Pidgey flew into the room and landed on Myuu's other arm, and seemingly bowed at either her or the baby or both before flying off again. "Hmm...I suppose that...I could endure this for a decade or so…" She smiled softly as she used Psychic to wrap up Ash in the blanket from his crib. She was about to walk out of the room when Ash reached for a Pikachu plush. Myuu chuckled and floated it over to Ash so that he could hold it. She then walked back to the front desk holding Ash. "I think that I'll look after him now. Thank you." Before the man could respond, her eyes flashed pink and the man was out cold, as she reworked his memories to show him that she looked much different than what she looked like right now, and that she actually payed. She walked out of the orphanage slowly, being careful not to stumble while using her heels. She then teleported herself and Ash to a spot right outside of town, where a house was already being built by something.
"Who could be….Eh, I'll just assume Arcy is doing this with her whole 'matter manipulation' thingy." She blinked and the house was completely built, apparently with furniture as well. It is a two story house, on the outside, it's almost a carbon fiber copy of Delia's house, but on the inside, even though it happens to be small, still looked very nice, with white carpets, white walls, white….furniture…"Oh come on Arcy...a little overboard on the white here...like...WAY too much white for a small space like this." She snapped and a ton of paint brushes started painting the walls a better color, like a tan-ish color, the carpets were replaced with hardwood floors, and the ceiling was untouched. She then appeared all of Ash's files that she forgot at that place. "Can't forget these. Humans and paper, geez. Maybe I should make a paper based Pokemon….nah. Already got all of the tree grass types."
She decided to hold Ash with her powers and then stumbled up the stairs. "If I ever get my hands on the person who made these shoes...I will make their lives a living hell!" She looked through the doorways, that were still white, and one of them was a Master bedroom that was covered in various shades of pink, and a lot of fluffy stuff in there. She held in a squeal and looked into the other rooms. Bathroom floors getting replaced with tile instead of marble, she kept the marble countertops though. She liked those. After two other rooms, she held onto Ash with her own arms again and walked into the last room. It was all freaking yellow with splashes of red in it, well, the walls were. The floor was covered in a fluffy carpet that kept changing colors because Mew couldn't decide on a single one, a fancy crib that was sent back to Arceus and was replaced with a normal wooden crib that wasn't floating or made out of aura, the mobile in there was based on the legendaries that could fly, like Mew herself, Celebi, Azelf, Mespirit and Uxie, with all of them circling under a glass figure of Arceus. "...I don't like the message that this implies….I like everything else though." She then appeared a few things that would spark his interest in becoming a Pokemon trainer like a fake pokeball, his father's gloves and trainer belt, and a hat from the Pokemon League that would fit him when he was 10 years old. The gloves were fingerless, green, and had metal plates on the back of them. The hat was Ash's first hat in the anime. "Hey!" H-Huh? "I thought that we agreed not to mention any other timeline." Oh...right. Sorry, I forgot. Anyways, Mew looked around the room and with a single thought, the walls changed from yellow and red to a darker blue. "Okay. That's much better." She set Ash down into the crib gently with a soft smile. "Sleep well Ashy. Because in about...5 years? Yeah. 5 years, your life will be even more exciting than it already is with me being around." She then appeared on her bed in her natural form and started bouncing on it. "It's so fluffy and bouncy!" She started laughing loudly until she landed on a pillow. "It's so fuzzy~~!" Yes, these next ten years are going to be fun for Mew.
Five years later…
"Ashy! Get up! You're going to be late for school!" Mew hovered over Ash's sleeping form for ten minute just saying "Aaaaashyyyy! Get uuuup!" She then slumped down after said ten minutes and sighed. "Honestly...no matter how much I beat the concept of waking up early into his skull, he can't seem to grasp it at all...Oh well. That should change today." Mew thought for a moment before hitting Ash with a Splash attack. 'I guess that it's useful for something after all.'
Ash immediately woke up from the water hitting him so suddenly, causing him to fall out of his bed with a yelp. "Mom! Why did you do that?! I was getting up!"
Mew pretended to clean her paws while she slowly floated upside-down. "No you weren't Ashy. Just be glad I didn't shock you." She then smiled mischievously. "I have an idea~ Let's play a game~"
Ash suddenly paled. "M-Mom, you don't have to do that! I'll get ready now!" The last time Mew played a game with him, he was stranded in the forest to learn a sense of direction. It was only for a few hours, but he was still chased by an angry flock of Spearow.
Mew started chuckling darkly. "But this isn't about that~ You have ten minutes to get ready for school, and if you aren't ready by then, I'll get Electivire to shock you again! And he'll keep shocking you every 10 minutes until you leave the house. Ready~?"
Ash shook his head violently. "N-No I'm not!"
"Too bad! GO!" Mew appeared a stopwatch and started timing Ash.
Ash scrambled off of the floor and pulled out random clothes from his drawers and ran into the bathroom to take his cold shower, as he couldn't afford to wait for the water to heat up.
"Five minutes Ashy~!" Mew appeared Electivire, who sighed loudly.
"You know that I hate shocking kids right…?"
Mew nodded happily. "Yep! But I also don't care! He has to be fast enough to leave places in almost an instant. And also, your shocks aren't as bad as that Pikachu's shocks will be."
"A Pikachu..?"
Mew waved him off. "Oh don't worry about it Vi! He's going to be a normal Pikachu starting out!"
Electivire groaned at the nickname. "Stop calling me that please. And the Pikachu gets the bonus of being trained by the Chosen. I know. It's still unfair though."
Ash quickly dried himself off and put on his clothes before running out of the bathroom and down the stairs, slipping into his shoes at the bottom. The one thing that he learned was that his shoes took up the most time, so he left them at the bottom of the stairs so that he could save three minutes of time. He saw that breakfast was already done, but he resisted the table of food and grabbed a slice of toast before running out of the house to see that it was barely sunrise.
"Time!" Mew hit the stopwatch and it was BARELY under 10 minutes. "Great job Ashy! But you forgot your bag at the door. You got out, but you need to remember these things." Mew appeared Ash's bag next to him, leaning up against his leg. "Also, I packed your lunch in there, as well as a lot of extra food for the pokemon. I know that you like going to Professor Oak's lab to feed them all. Have a good day sweetie!"
Ash sighed in relief and he picked up the bag before waving goodbye to Mew and running off to the school.
"Ash...I'm so sorry...but today is for your own good." Mew looked down at her hind-paws before appearing at the table and eating all that she could, which was most of the prepared food for two reasons. The first reason is that Ash went to school and she didn't want to waste the food. The second reason is that she's just a glutton. Electivire took some slices of fruit before Mew could touch them and then just walked into the backyard to eat under a tree.
A few hours after school: Professor Oak's Ranch
Ash sighed in sadness again. Like usual, the bullies took his lunch and the pokemon food that his Mom packed. And sure, he knew that his mom was a Pokemon, but he didn't care. She had also told him who his birth mother was, but even though he had the same eyes, and apparently the same attitude as her when she was young, he didn't see the resemblance. Mew is his mother, and that was tha- 'Hey….what's that Pokemon in the lake...kind looks like it's in pain…' "HEY! ARE YOU OKAY?!" Ash barely got those words out before the Pokemon launched a white and blue orb at him. Ash was frozen in place and when the orb hit him, he didn't feel anything. "...Huh?" He was about to speak again before his entire body glowed blue, then gold, and then red. Then purple for some reason before he collapsed onto the ground screaming in agony. The last thing he barely saw before he passed out was a white and gold pokemon, a man with long Sliver hair, and another man wearing a blue and black trenchcoat with a fedora.
-With Manaphy-
Manaphy took a deep breath and started gathering all of her power. All of it.
Ho-oh called out to her from the skies. "Are you sure you want to do this Manaphy?!"
Manaphy nodded. "Of course I am! Besides, I'm the youngest out of all of us, so my regeneration is much faster! That's why it'll be easier to let me do this! Because when you have me revert to my egg state, it'll only take 6 or 7 years for me to hatch again, instead of a century like everyone else." Manaphy winced n the growing pain as she was now drawing on parts of her soul for power. "This is going to hurt him a lot isn't it?!"
Ho-oh nodded, but then realized that Manaphy couldn't see her. "It will be excruciating for both of you. Good luck Phi."
"I TOLD YOU TO CALL ME MANA!" Manaphy screamed out the words because the pain was growing to be much worse than excruciating. She then focussed all of it into a ball between her outstretched fins. 'S-Sorry about this Ash…'I hope that I don't mess up and...well...kill you.' She launched the ball at Ash and with the last of her power, she teleported up onto Ho-oh's back. "Done….with that….can we go….? I'm feeling a little sleepy….."
-With Professor Oak-
Samuel Oak was sitting around in his lab, and was supposed to be doing an experiment on why Eevee had so many branching pathways of evolution. But he stopped to take a break because he wasn't getting anywhere. At all. Not a single shred of evidence to help explain why it happens. The only thing that he did get was that Eevee's fur is very smooth and fuzzy on the neck...fur...collar...thing. He didn't know what that was for either. He hit his head against the desk in front of him and then groaned. It was like Arceus itself was keeping him from making any headway on this project. "Arceus….I need a drink...or a reason to get out of the lab for a few days or so…" It was then that he heard a very loud and pained cry coming from his Ranch. "Thank you Arceus, but I didn't mean anything like that!" He lept out of his chair, pushing off of his desk, causing all of his work to scatter around the lab. He immediately saw a crowd of Pokemon by the lake and rushed towards it. If the person in pain was who he thought it was, then those Pokemon had nothing to do with the cry of pain. He gently pushed past the crowd of Pokemon to see Ash laying there unconscious. "Ash! What happened to you?!" He kneeled down next to Ash and placed his index and middle finger on Ash's wrist. "Oh good. He has a pulse." He picked Ash up and then looked at the crowd and saw Dragonite there. "Dragonite! I need you to fly Ash to the hospital right now. I'm not fast enough and Gary somehow convinced Daisy to teach him how to drive using my car. Please!"
Dragonite nodded and held Ash close to himself. He didn't bother talking right now, as it was a waste of time. He took off at his speed that he used to use in battle. He wasn't as fast as he was before Sam retired, but he was still faster than most Dragonites, only outclassed by Lance's. So all it took was a few minutes to get to the hospital. He landed on the ground and ran into the front door. It was revolving so it didn't break, but they might have to get a new motor for the automatic spinning part. "Bliss! Where are you?!"
A Chansey rushed out of the back room to see Dragonite holding Ash. "Drago! What happened?!" She then turned around to face the back room again. "Get one of those wheely beds out here RIGHT NOW!"
"I don't know! One minute he was fine, and the next he's screaming in pain!"
Two other Chansy's ran out with the hospital bed. Dragonite set Ash down onto the bed gently and watched as the two Chansy's were quickly joined by doctors as they rushed Ash into the ER.
Drago sighed. "He'll be alright...Right Bliss?"
Bliss nodded. "If he isn't dying of some incurable disease, then yeah. He'll be just fine. Now then." Bliss forced Drago into the ground with a well placed Focus Punch. "I know that you didn't say everything, so start talking."
Drago nodded. "It happened just like I said...but...I think I saw some form of energy surround him…"
"Like a Psychic attack?"
"No...not like that. It seemed like it came from inside of him. Or went inside of him and attacked him from there. You would have to ask Lucy to see if there's something wrong with his Aura."
"You two still on good terms?"
"Barely. She hardly talks to me unless she needs something. Look. I have to get back to Sam, you have a job to do. And make sure to break the new to Ash's mother as calmly and gently as you ca-"
A pink and red blur broke through the revolving door somehow. Myuu was panting slightly out of anger and her clothes were slightly smoking from how fast she moved. "WHERE'S MY BABY?!" She actually somehow shouted in a demonic voice in her human form.
Drago slowly pushed Myuu out of the hospital. Then out of Pallet town. Then tied her up to a tree. "Ms. Ketchum. I'm going to have to a- Oh who am I kidding. You can't understand me."
"I can understand you just fine Drago. Now where is he…?"
Drago fell backwards because his legs refused to work for a moment. 'Questions for later…' "Well, Ms. Ketchum. Satoshi-"
"Ash. He thinks that his full name is too long."
"Right….well, Ash had a little incident at the lab. He was standing there, like he was trying to back away from something, and then he just screamed in pain and collapsed."
Myuu broke through the ropes with ease and started walking towards Professor Oak's lab.
"Umm...If you want, I can fly you to the lab."
Myuu had a smile on her face that basically said 'If you say one more word I don't want to hear, you die.' "No thank you Drago. I'll be fine." She then teleported to the lab in a pink flash, leaving behind a stunned Dragonite, and appearing in front of Professor Oak. She slammed her hand down onto the metal desk that he had his head on, causing it to crack. "Hello Samuel. We need to talk about Ash."
Professor Oak jolted to attention, a little too quickly though, as he fell backwards. "H-Hello! Have we met before?"
Myuu shook her head. "No, but my son visits your lab every day, and now he's in the hospital! So, I would like to know WHAT HE'S BEEN DOING HERE!" 'Keep up the at Mew. Keep up the act.'
Professor Oak waved his hands in front of his face frantically. "He doesn't do anything dangerous! I make sure of it! All he does is sit at the lake thinking and playing with the pokemon!"
Myuu was about to yell at Oak again, then what he said hit her. "...You mean he hasn't been feeding them as well….?"
Professor Oak shook his head. "No, not at all. Unless it's some berries that the children can't reach, he doesn't bring any food here ever."
"...That might explain why he's always so hungry when he comes home from school…."
Oak slowly got back up to a standing point. "What do you mean?"
Myuu sighed dejectedly. "Well, every day I always pack him a lunch and a ton of food for the Pokemon on the ranch here. He did it one time and he fell in love with Pokemon. But he always comes home looking sad, and when I ask how his day was, he just waves it off and says 'It was great mom' every time….I'm pulling Ash from school."
Oak fell backwards again. "Why would you do that?"
Mew faked a thoughtful expression. She had already planned this a while ago. And while she is nearly blindingly livid at the fact that her baby boy could be getting bullied, it helps her reason for taking him out of school. "Well, for one thing, he was just in an accident and needs time to recover, secondly, I don't want my Ashy in a school where he isn't safe until he can defend himself. I'm sure you can understand Samel. Now, I have to go and spend time with Ash, hoping that he wakes up today." Myuu walked towards the door and right before opening it, she paused. "Oh. One more thing Sammy. Make sure that grandson of yours doesn't get a big ego from being your grandson. Beat it into him if you have to." She then walked out the door, slammed it behind her, and teleported to Ash's room.
Oak sighed as his legs turned to jelly and he collapsed onto the floor. "I'm getting too old for this…." He barely pulled himself up using the table, which he thought was fine, but then he saw the crack Myuu made in it. His 'professor' face quickly made it's way onto his head as he examined the crack. "What...are you….?"
Ash's Mindscape
Ash slowly opened his eyes and he sat up with a groan. "Ugh…..where….am I…?" He took a look around and all he could see was darkness, despite the light shining down on him. He slowly stood up and he looked at the ground, as soon as he did that, birds made of darkness flew up and nearly hit him in the face. This seemed to start a chain reaction as the birds kept flying upwards into nothing, revealing a completely white ground under him, which seemed to be a column. He walked forward and the the column started to crumble from behind him. He yelped and started running forward and when he got to the edge of the column, he simply jumped, not even waiting to look if anything was under him. Black flying creatures kept coming at him from all sides as he fell, and he somehow kept dodging out of the way of the flying things. He didn't even know what he was doing, he was just trusting his gut.
He actually ended up hitting one as it was to big to dodge. Again, he didn't know what was happening, but he thought that he was in danger. His eyes flashed blue and it was like his body went into auto pilot. The next creature that rushed him was caught by what felt like a beak, which Ash threw at another one of those things. His body flipped backwards and landed on the back of one of those things, then hit it hard enough on it's neck to make a cracking sound. His body then jumped off of it, causing it to plummet into the darkness below. Ash spun around and hit another one of those things with a vicious kick, making another loud snapping sound and causing that one to fall as well. The big one dived at him again and Ash caught it by the wing, then used it's own speed against it to break it's wing. It let out a demonic cry as it fell.
Ash used it's body to boost himself into the air again, when he noticed another white platform directly under him. His body twisted out of the way of another one of those things and he then dived towards the platform. He looked back and saw the creatures following him closely. When one of them got close enough, he flipped around and hit it hard enough to make it flip around a bit. He then kicked off the bird-thing hard enough to make up for lost time, diving at the platform even faster. His body flipped around when he was about to hit the platform and rolled to soften the fall, which he landed in a crouch. The bird creatures stopped their descent and flapped at the air to stop themselves.
Ash's eyes flashed blue again and he collapsed onto the platform panting. "Wh….What was that…? That was awesome!" He slowly stood up again before having to roll out of the way of a black claw that appeared out of nowhere. He looked at the figure and saw that it was a black...dog...thing. Maybe a cat? He didn't know, but it was trying to hurt him, so he dodged out of the way of another claw swipe. "What is going on here?!" He yelped again when his attacker sent a stream of black flames at him. He dodged out of the way again.
"Why can't I just do what I did when I was falling?!" He vaulted over another stream of flames, when he got his second wind. He stopped stumbling around and actually circled the creature while running. "Why can't I do anything? I can't get close enough to hit it..wait...that's it!" Ash stopped running and faced the creature. It saw this and lunged at Ash who grabbed it's paw and pulled it to the ground. The creature seemed to scream when its side hit the white floors when the black faded away and revealed a pure white creature, which sank into the column.
Another one crawled up from the side of the column and dashed towards Ash. He barely had enough time to jump out of the way to dodge a punch from it. He blocked another punch from it and felt his arm go numb. He quickly ran away from it and panted, holding his arm. The thing ran at him and then flipped off of the ground, trying to hit him with a flying kick. Ash rolled out of the way of in, causing the thing to fall of the edge. Ash ran to the center of the column to catch his breath, and to see if he could get feeling back into his arm. He turned around and saw that thing crawl back up onto the platform.
Ash groaned as it cane rushing at him. He braced himself for a hit, as he knew he wouldn't be able to dodge it, when his eyes flashed blue again. He flipped over the attack and jumped backwards. The creature rushed at him again and Ash met the punch with one of his own, before he twisted his wrist to grab the creature's and he threw it across the platform with impossible strength for someone who lost feeling in an arm. He rushed at the creature and drop-kicked it while it was still dazed. He used the force of the kick to push off of it and flip around to get some distance.
He pushed off of the ground and spun in the air. He then lashed out at one of the birds that was about to attack him with another spinning kick, but he appeared in the path of where it would be flying and kicked it upwards. He then used another bird's head to boost himself up to where the other bird was. When he was directly under it, he flipped around to where he was upside-down and looking at the creature on the platform when he used the force of himself moving to kick the bird thing at the creature with enough force that when it hit the platform, smoke somehow came from where it impacted. He landed in another crouch when his eyes flashed blue again. He saw both of the creatures which he assumed were made of darkness fade into white and sink into the ground. He collapsed onto his back, panting heavily. "Please….no...more….things to fight."
"Very well."
Ash's vision flashed a blinding light. He covered his eyes and when he opened them, he was in a room with tons of thrones, and he was sitting in the one in the center of the room.
"Up here, young one."
Ash looked up and saw Arceus looking down at him with a smile on her face. "Welcome the Hall of Legends, my Chosen."
Ash stood up and walked towards the throne Arceus was on. "Y-You're Arceus...I'm meeting Arceus in person! This is so cool!" Ash jumped for joy...well, he jumped once before his legs collapsed.
Arceus shook her head and appeared Ash back into the throne in the center or the room. "Ash. How do you feel right now?"
"Like I just ran across all of Kanto without stopping. Why? Is that not supposed to happen..?"
"Well, not usually, but because you are only five years of age, and have next to no physical training, it is supposed to occur. I assume that you have questions for me about how you got here?"
Ash just nodded.
"Well, what you fought were not creatures of darkness like you think they are. They were merely poor souls who were so clouded by their ideals, that they acted like creatures of darkness. When you encounter those, they will still be like that, but they'll have a smoky purple aura around them. You have a purple aura as well, but that is only due to your positive and negative Aura's mixing inside of your body. Anyways, what you did to them was simply open their eyes to their faults and what they did in their blind search for their ideals. That is why they screamed. Because they were forced to see what they had done all at once."
Ash just looked confused. And exhausted. "So...what I think you're saying is Truth is better than Ideals?"
Arceus shook her head again. "No. That is a common misconception. While many are blinded by their ideals, they can be blinded by truth just as easily. Had Zekrom come to me first, I would have had you fighting creatures blinded by truth. And, while there are less beings that are like that, they are horrifically more dangerous than those blinded by ideals. Simply because of the fact that they will never stop until they get the truth. What most beings need to do is find a balance between the two. Have enough desire for the truth to keep your ideals from taking over, and have enough desire to reach your ideals that you are not seeing false truth."
Ash scratched his cheek nervously. "...I don't really get it. I mean, if Truth and Ideals are supposed to balance each other out, then shouldn't they be regulated by a single legendary?"
Arceus chuckled at his question. Not many of her Chosen ask about that. "Well, at least this time your confusion makes sense. To answer that, I have to tell you a story….actually, I'll just tell you the story when you can understand the lesson behind it. What happened was two brothers were blinded so much by those two aspects that the legendary split itself into three pieces. Zekrom, The Dragon of Ideals, Reshiram, the Dragon of Truth, and Kyurem, the Dragon of Balance. The two brothers fought over which one was better and ended up killing each other over their beliefs."
Ash nodded in thought. "So….what you're saying is, my Truth and Ideals are constantly fighting to control me, and I have to be the one to balance it out so that neither of them can blind me to the other...Right?"
Arceus paused and then started laughing. "Oh, you are much more intelligent than Tekkarion gives you credit for young one! However, even though you are right, sometimes the struggle is to great and you need someone else to help balance them."
"...I don't get it."
"You will in time. For now, you should go back to Mew. If I know her, she's probably worried sick about you." Arceus raised her head and Ash was blinded again.
Okay. That was the first chapter of the remake. I think I pieced it together better than the original one. This is technically just a prologue, but I think that it should just be the first chapter of this. So, I'll try to keep this brief, but if you have any questions, just either ask in the reviews or PM me. I'll answer them as best I can. Have a wonderful day, all of you.