A week had passed since the court incident: with Professor Oak's help, the rest of the trators were trialed and jailed for their crimes - Ash was returned his pokemon, and to his surprise, all of the traitors pokemon - the court had decided that Ash was the best one to explain to them what had happened and to release them into the appropriate condition. Ash however was unsure about the pokemon that were given to him - he didn't know if he could trust them, plus he knew that the likes of Gigalith, Torterror and Staraptor didn't want to be with him.

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The sun could barley be seen over the horizon as Ash stared at a grouchy looking Mewtwo, "Must we do this at such a ridicules time of day?" Mewtwo asked in aggravation, rubbing his eyes tiredly whilst flipping his hood up as Ash had instructed: Ash nodded, flipping his own hood up to conceal his face as Pikachu sat on his shoulder, waiting for his trainer to start, "It has to be now...This needs to be done as soon as possible, so come on, to the first place"

Mewtwo grumbled but nodded, teleporting the three to the outskirts of Eterna Forest: Ash nodded in thanks whilst looking down at the selection of poke'balls he held in his hand, throwing them and watching as the pokemon all appeared in front of him in a flash of blue light: before him Stood Brock's Sudowoodo, Blissey and Fortress, Tracy's Venonat and Scyther (Who had been taken from Tracy upon arrest then later given to Ash at the trial), May's Beautifly, Skitty and newly evolved Venusaur, Dawn's Pachirisu and Buneary, Iris's Emolga and Cilan's Pansage: Alongside his own Unfezant, Heracross, Snorlax, Snivy,Torterror and Noctowl.

Ash looked over the group of pokemon with a straight face, "Everyone listen up! I have been tasked the job or returning you to a habitable place so you can be free once more since your own trainers have been deemed unworthy of looking after pokemon anymore" Ash explained, surprised when the group stayed silent, save fro the small growling he could here from a few of them, "Since a lot of you lived and thrived in the forest, I bought you here - However, I also wish to extend a hand out to any of you who wish to come with me - I won't hold it what your trainers did against you, it will be a fresh start, so anyone who want to come with me" Ash started, pulling out 16 empty poke'balls and placing them on the floor, "Step forwards and capture yourselves"

The pokemon all stared silently at the poke'balls in front of them, the silence breaking when Blissey stepped forwards, a smile on her face as she tapped the poke'ball in front of her and aloud herself to be caught - putting up no fight against the poke'ball which flashed red once before staying still. Ash smiled and watched as a few more pokemon, now with more confidence stepped forward allowing themselves to be caught as well: In the end Blissey, Sudowoodo, Scyther, Beautifly, Buneary, Pachirisu, Snivy, Heracross and Noctowl sided with Ash, allowing themselves to be caught or returning to their old poke'balls.

With a smile on his face, Ash nodded and scooped up the poke'balls, placing the caught and returned pokemon into his bag whilst slipping the other's into his pocket. Looking at the remaining pokemon, Ash shook his head and turned away from them whilst looking at Mewtwo, "Lets go, they made their choice and we have other pokemon to get to"

As Ash and Mewtwo disappeared, Pikachu turned to shoot the remaining pokemon a glare - whilst they all just stared after them, wondering if they had made the right decision.

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Ash opened his eyes as he teleported to the fire path near Mount Chimney, wiping the sweat that had already began to gather on his forehead from the heat of the area, Ash quickly released May's Blazikin and Dawns Quilava, repeating to the two the same speech he had before - holding the two poke'balls in front of him this time because of the heat from the floor. To Ash's surprise, both of the pokemon re-captured themselves, making Ash shrug with a smile as he placed them inside his bag - looking to Mewtwo and nodding, teleporting away once again.

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Ash repeated this process, teleporting to the rocky and snowy mountains, the ocean, swamp and the plain lands, releasing the appropriate pokemon into the area's repeating his speech and offering them a place with him: After everything was all said and don, Ash ended up with Brock's Golem, Crobat, Blissey, Sudowoodo and Croagunk, - Steelix chose to remain with Oak at his lab - Misty's Psyduck and Corsola, Tracy's Scyther, May's Blazikin, Beautifly and Glaceon - Munchalx chose to go with Max, to no-one's surprise - Dawn's Buneary, Pachirisu and Quilarva and Iris's Dragonight.

As for Ash's own pokemon, the likes of Snivy, Heracross, Noctowl, Gible and Gliscor chose to return to him - the rest staying and wondering to themselves, "Did I make the right decion?"

AND THAT IS A WRAP!

This was a lot of fun to write - if you guys want to see some sort of sequel where THIS Ash does different things - let me know!