Hello to those of you who bother reading authors notes. I got the idea from the concept that Ash, as the chosen one, is technically part of the world's system acting as a defence mechanism. Once you take that into account, it is not unreasonable that Arceus, as an entity not bound by human morals, may take measures to ensure Ash continues to act as the chosen one. Things like becoming the champion (thus completing his goal of becoming a pokémon master) or falling in love are very likely to anchor him to a single region and prevent travel to the places that need it.

Then I take into account that the last time Ash saw Mewtwo, (The first one as I consider the one in the Genesect movie to be a separate entity due to different origin, personality and apparently a female voice actor) he was leaving on a journey to explore the world and find his purpose in life etcetera, etcetera. What better purpose for a psychic type with globe spanning powers then to monitor the chosen one and ensure that no one gets too close. It also ties in nicely with the fact that none of the girls stick around for more then a league (bar Misty).

Lastly, about the OC in this story. They are just a plot device to get the ball rolling. I'm being cheeky and calling them J but the main characters are still Ash and his friends. The OC is essentially an end game protagonist from Sun etc. who decided to use his Solgaleo to take a look around the multiverse as demonstrated in Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon. I'm not going to describe what he looks like beyond him being tall, skinny and wearing long sleaves and jeans. His appearance is not important, as his role is fairly minor, as in he plans on ditching the cast once he realises he's in trouble with the local Arceus minor. Multiverse travellers as a general rule try not to get involved in local affairs.

Now on to the story!

I do not own pokémon as it belongs to The Pokémon Company, Game Freak and Nintendo. Long may they reign!

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Chapter 1: When coincidence counters destiny

The day started out like any other in Alola. The sun was shining, pokémon were playing and Ash was at school. That promptly came to an end as a thunderous boom happened just outside the classroom that sounded similar to a tonne of steel ploughing headfirst into the ground. Obviously everyone in Ash's class went outside to investigate, assuming that it was probably Team Rocket yet again.

What they did not expect to see was the legendary Solgaleo sitting in a small crater rubbing its' nose with a paw while a trainer lay sprawled out on the ground next to it. Directly above them was a closing ultra wormhole that had been pointing directly at the earth.

"OOOOWWWWW," groaned the trainer, "Sun, next time make sure the portal is perpendicular to the ground before jumping though it."

The creature of legend gave a snort of agreement while continuing to rub its' nose. Everyone else just stared dumbstruck as the trainer slowly staggered to his feet, dusted himself off and then turned around.

"Crap, we got spotted," he said cynically as if his day was about to get a whole lot worse, "Could you guys please tell me that this kind of thing is an everyday occurrence. It would make my life so much easier."

As if a switch had been flicked, everyone bar Ash promptly mobbed the legendary pokémon shouting and chattering about everything from how it's fur felt to how impressive it was. Ash, as the only person who had not spent a decade hearing about Solgaleo and having met and remained calm in the presence of legendary pokémon before, walked over to the mystery trainer that had been knocked aside by the crowd and offered him a hand.

"Is that solgaleo really yours?" he asked as he pulled the boy to his feet. The guy looked about two years older than Ash so he guessed that the trainer was about 19 and was fully equipped with a backpack, mega ring and z-ring. Ash noted the unusual trait that the right side of his belt had multiple strips of leather attached hanging from it, to which multiple sets of poké balls were attached. But since all but six were locked he decided no harm, no foul but hoped the trainer remembered to feed all his pokémon regularly.

"Thanks and yes that solgaleo belongs to me. Judging by everyone's reaction I'd say that such things aren't common around here. My names J by the way. Give me a second I just need to check something," replied J as he pulled out a handheld device from his jacket pocket.

"My names Ash. Could you tell me how you did that? I mean how you caught Solgaleo, I've only met a handful of people who could catch a legendary and they've always been tight lipped about how they did it," said Ash, his question tumbling out in a rush, "Wait a second, your not related to that poacher pokémon hunter J are you?"

"Who?" asked the trainer with disinterest as he tapped his handheld device, which brought up a holo display and began beeping, "And to answer your first question, fifty ultra balls usually does the trick although you should use dusk balls if you can manage it."

"Er, uh, thanks and don't worry about name thing. It's obviously a coincidence and no one else here knows who she is anyway," chirped Ash in his usual optimistic tone.

The device in J's hands finished scrolling through its bullet list and gave a loud ping before turning off. J put it away and turned to fully face Ash, "No problem, now if you could do me a favour and extract your rabid fan girling friends before Sun gets nervous and bites one of them."

"What? Oh right. Hey everybody, give Solgaleo some space. You should all know that pokémon don't like being crowded like that. Come and say high to J. He did manage to catch the thing after all," yelled Ash, trying to get his friends attention.

Realising the dangers of upsetting a giant cloud leaping predator, everyone promptly took two steps back and took a moment to process the second part of Ash's statement. Chaos promptly resumed as they mobbed J asking questions at a hundred miles an hour.

"Settle down everyone. I'm sure J will explain if you just give him a moment," cried Ash over the din.

After a few minutes, in which no one learned anything, Ash finally managed to calm everyone down so that a civil conversation could be held and J finally got a chance to speak.

"First question. Since this is Alola, do you know about ultra wormholes," asked J.

"Why yes. They-" replied Prof. Oak but he was cut off.

"Excellent! That makes things easy. You see Sun here can safely open and close ultra wormholes to locally attached pocket dimensions were ultra beasts live as well as parallel universes. After discovering such a wonderful ability, I decided to kick my journey up a notch and start visiting other parallel universes in the neighbourhood," J explained with enthusiasm.

"Such . . . ground breaking information. I MUST PUBLISH the results IMMEDIATELY. Samson Oak, winner of the next Nobel prize for confirming the existence of the multiverse, here I come," shouted Prof. Oak as he ran off, presumably to his laboratory.

"That is both an unbelievable, awesome and completely realistic explanation all at the same time," Sophocles responded in awe.

"That went completely over my head but it doesn't matter because we're going to have a battle. How's three on three sound," exclaimed Ash

"Yeah, wait what? I never agreed to a battle," J quipped back.

"Come one, just one, I'm totally psyched to battle someone with a solgaleo," said Ash.

"Ok first up, I don't use Sun for normal battles, second, I don't want to curb stomp a beginner whose clearly still going an academy," retorted J.

"I'm not a beginner. I've won the orange league, competed in six regional leagues and beat the whole battle frontier," Ash answered smugly, "You don't have to use Solgaleo but I really want a battle."

"Wait, the frontier. That's actually pretty impressive, not to mention something I haven't managed to do yet. Alright one three on three battle but I'll judging your skill first with my most recent starter before I go all out," J agreed before selecting a poké ball and releasing a rowlet.

"If your using a grass starter then I'll start with a fire starter," cried Ash as he released Litten.

Everyone got back to a safe watching distance and J recalled Solgaleo. The battle was intense, light hearted and everything else a good casual match should be. Litten defeated Rowlet only to get knocked out by a strong pelipper that had the local Alolan drizzle ability. Ash sent out his Lycanroc next and they duked it out for about a minute before it took a hydro pump to the face. Pikachu then pulled through by one shotting the bird.

"Great move Ash, but I'm afraid that pikachu you have is on another level. I'm going to pull out all the stops to beat it," called J, "Go Alakazam!"

Ash recognized the Chest plate containing the mega stone a moment before J tapped his mega ring.

"Ok Pikachu, lets use Gigavolt Havoc," ordered Ash as tapped the crystal and began the motions.

"Piiikaaaaaa!"

"Out pace him and finish this with psychic," shouted J. Unfortunately for him Alakazam hesitated before Ash and Pikachu's power and lost the window of opportunity.

ZAP!
BOOOOOOM!

"Alakazam is unable to battle. The winner is Ash," called Kiawe who had been acting as referee for the match.

J stared in stunned shock while Ash and Pikachu celebrated. Then after a long pause he burst out laughing and congratulated Ash on the win. After checking his pokémon in at the pokémon centre, J spent the day with Ash and his friends while avoiding all questions related to Solgaleo other than arguing with Kiawe about how naming it Sun was a stupid idea while J argued that 'Sun', 'Owl' and 'Pelican' were perfectly good names.

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As the sun began to set Ash waved goodbye to his friends and got ready to go home with Prof. Kukui.

"Professor, a moment please. Ash, you should go on ahead," called J, "before I turn in for the night at the pokémon centre there is something I need to discuss with you in private Professor."

Kukui nodded to Ash to go on ahead before ushering J into his office, "So what's up cousin?"

"Ok then, right, uh, this is harder than it looks. Prof. Kukui do you remember during battle, right before Pikachu's attack, my mega alakazam appeared to hesitate," J queried.

"Now your not going to be a sore loser about that, are you? I really expected better from you J," said Prof. Kukui.

"No, no, not all, it was a really fun battle and it's our fault that Alakazam and I lost. My point is that Alakazam is an elite four level pokémon. When you get to that level your pokémon don't get intimidated by a pikachu using a generic z-move. Alakazam was distracted and now that I've had a chance to talk to it I feel obligated to tell you why," J implored.

"Then shoot," Prof. Kukui said with a clap of his hands.

"You see, during my travels with Sun, some of the worlds I've come across have been rather . . . well dangerous. As such my psychic types have developed a habit of always scanning their surroundings whenever they are sent out of their poké balls. Apparently," J swallowed before proceeding in a rush, "Apparently Alakazam in his mega state noticed that another psychic type has been tampering with Ash's memories. She pulled back immediately but in my experience pokémon who are willing to tamper with someone's memories to the extent she saw seldom have benevolent intentions."

"That's a pretty hefty accusation there," Prof. Kukui murmured, all cheer having left his voice, "You certainly know how to drop a bombshell. Are you absolutely certain about this?"

"Yes I am. Please just look into it, get him checked by a doctor or something. It could be nothing but Ash is such a nice person and it would be tragic if a malevolent pokémon decided to turn him into a vegetable," beseeched J.

"I'll get him checked by the local doctor but I'll have to contact his mother before he can have a psychic medical scan. If you're pulling my leg then you will be having a nice little chat to officer Jenny in the morning, ok," Prof. Kukui replied.

"Yes, of course, thankyou. I'll, uh, be going then," said J as he waved goodbye and left for the pokémon centre.

Kukui sighed and went to look up the local doctor's number. He'd have to ring the after hours clinic and then if the doctor found something and only if the doctor found something with the cursory handheld scanner, would he contact Delia to ask for permission for the invasive and expensive procedure of having ones memories and personality checked and restored by a team of medically trained psychic pokémon at the hospital. Even then it wouldn't even be possible to get Ash into hospital until the next morning due to the small peaceful nature of Melemele Island. Dear Arceus, he hoped this was a false alarm. Delia would yell his ears off if she found out that he had allowed her son to experience psychic tampering even if the event had occurred before Ash stepped foot in Alola.

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Later that night Professor Kukui sat in the dark at his desk, typing up a report of the day's events. On the desk lay his somewhat muted mobile, which was currently mid call to Delia Ketchum. She was now going into her second hour of yelling at him. It was demoralising and she had every right to be upset but it wasn't his fault. While the doctor couldn't tell what changes had been made, his superficial scan with the psychic reading wand had told them that the tampering had gone back five years. Five YEARS. Ash would have been twelve at the time this started. The poor kid had gone straight to bed after the appointment, skipping his dinner in clear depression.

Out of ten the doctor had rated the severity at a four. Zero being nothing and ten being a vegetable. Ash had initially been relieved at the low number until the man had explained that five was a distinct personality change and four sat right below that with enough memory change to potentially erase entire people from his memory. People that his sub conscious had classified as very important. For Ash the afternoon had been nothing but downs one after another but for Kukui there was a small silver lining: Kanto was currently experiencing a hurricane that had grounded all air traffic and prevented Delia from yelling at him in person.