Darkness.

That was all Ash could see at the moment, everywhere he looked, there was a deep dark void.

The voices, however, were a completely different story.

The constant screams of his friends as they were beaten, singed, shocked, and broken nearly drove him insane, and the darkness didn't help at all, since he couldn't find the source.

The sounds were near deafening now, and he was nearing his breaking point as well, until the voices, the screams that tormented him, abruptly stopped entirely…

And were replaced with the sounds of crying…

Finally detecting a second person within the dark space, Ash turned to the new figure, curious as to why they were here, and why they were crying.

As he turned, he was now face to face with a woman, dressed in all white and gold, a necklace of many colored jewels adorned around her neck, and her face riddled with tears as her expression consisted that of guilt and despair.

"H-hey, miss? What's wrong?" Ash stuttered trying, and slightly failing, to reach the woman, "why are you crying?"

"..."

"Miss?"

"...you're… awake?"

Surprised at the unexpected answer, Ash slowly nodded, causing the woman to suddenly latch onto him for dear life.

"...I'm Sorry…"

"Huh!?" Ash yelped, startled by the sudden contact.

"I'm sorry… I'm so sorry…" she whispered, weeping into his shoulder. "We weren't able to make it in time…"

"What do you mean…"

"You've done so much for us in the past… helped us in our time of need, and we weren't able to help you in yours…"

"Miss? What are you talking about?"

"Please… forgive us.. Chosen one."

This last sentence froze Ash. he hasn't heard that in a long time, and the only time he was called that was by…

"... you're a Legendary?"

Chuckling at the slight awe of the chosen one, the woman nodded. "Correct, though, you may know me by my original form better." she chuckled, glowing a golden light before her shape changed, revealing a familiar sight to the boy.

eyes widened at the sudden transformation. "A-Arceus!?"

"Indeed I am."

"B-but how!?"

"Not important. What is important is that we must beg for your forgiveness." Arceus said solemnly.

"What? about… the betrayal?" Ash choked on the last word as it left his lips.

"Yes…"

"Look, we barely even knew anything about it. It was sudden and everyone was caught off guard. Mom tried to stop it, but she got hurt too. Then there's Pikachu, my friends, and-"

"You needn't worry about them, Chosen one, they're safe." Arceus reassured. "Once you reawaken, I will pay you a visit in this form, there's someone I'd like you to meet."

"Re...awaken- AM I ASLEEP!?"

"Close; you're in a coma."

"Oh.."

"Sleep well, Chosen one, I'll meet you soon." with that, Arceus slowly faded away, leaving the male once more in the void…..

…

… before a bright light shone and revealed another figure.

A few minutes prior…

Kuroshiro looked on at the events transpired as the legendaries…..

"WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK JUST HAPPENED!?"

...proceeded to lose their shit.

"This is unforgivable!" Xerneas screamed.

"I'm gonna murder every last one of them!" Terrakion roared, several others backing him up on this.

"To think we even called these monsters friends!" Celebi, mew and other mythicals yelled in an uproar.

Whilst many of the legendaries were in constant disarray at the transpired events, Kuroshiro, Diancie, Volt and Keldeo were huddled at the viewing crystal as they watched the paramedics take in the wounded party.

"What're we gonna do…" Keldeo asked. "What's going to happen to Ash?"

"I-I don't know…" Diancie mumbled.

"Guys…" Kuroshiro whispered, looking around the place of chaos. Looking to his partner Volt, he formed a mental connection private to them.

~Volt, what're we gonna do?~ Ks thought.

~hmm… don't know.~ Volt replied.

~what do you mean you don't know!?~

~this never happened to us before, hell we've never really left this place at all!~

~well everyone's flipping out about this guy.~

~I got that part. Still though, that's so sad.~

~yeah, we've heard nothing but good things about him, but now he… he~

~hey Ks, don't worry about it. Mom's gonna take care of the chosen one.~

~...~

~Ks?~

~...~

~dude you're scaring me…~

~this will probably scare everyone else too.~

~Ks what the f-~

Cutting the yellow mouse off, Kuroshiro walked towards his room, the pikachu followed soon after

Seconds later…

"Pikapikachupi!?" Volt yelled out, muffled by the closed door of their room.

"Yes, this is crazy, but this is the only thing I can think of!" the muffled voice of Ks argued back.

"PIKA!"

"We don't have much time." Kuroshiro argued.

"Pika-pipipichuka! PICHUKA!"

"No, this is happening!" opening the door, Kuroshiro moved out, with a book and a small bag in hand, with Volt silently pleading with him to stop.

"KUROSHIRO!" Diancie and Keldeo shouted as they came up to the group.

"What? What happened!?"

"It… it's…" Keldeo stuttered, tears on the brink of falling.

"The chosen one… doesn't have much time…" Diancie finished, causing the two to break down sobbing. Both KS and Volt froze up at this.

"What!? How!?"

"The doctors… said that his wounds were too fatal.."

"How is that possible, he was beaten with a bat and was hit with a fire punch, THAT'S IT!"

"That's just it; the fire punch broke one of his ribs, puncturing one of his lungs, and the bat crushed the bone and caused internal bleeding." Diancie continued.

"... crap.."

"I know… we're… gonna tell the others, you coming?" Keldeo sighed.

Both shook their heads at the two mythicals. "Nah, I have something I need to do first."

"...okay." both mythicals nodded as they joined the chaos. Ks, looked back to Volt as they looked at each other.

"Now will you reconsider?"

"...pika."

"Good-"

"Chu! Pikapichuchupi."

"Take you with me?"

"Pika. pipichuka."

"True… alright then." taking out a picture with him, the other legendaries and the professor family, he nods at the photo before placing it back. "Good bye for now.. everyone."

And with that, both Ks and Volt disappeared in a bright light.

Back to Ash…

"W-who are you!?" said chosen one yelped, taking a good look at the newcomer. The figure appeared to be a male with light brown skin, wearing a black stared shirt under a red coat, violet pants, and glasses. The more odd features were the long ankle length tail behind him and the eyes that seemed to change color.

~hello.~ the male greeted.

"um… hi, what are you doing here?"

~look we don't have much time. Soon you'll die.~

"WHAT!?"

~but I'm here to fix it.~

"B-But I was told that I was going to awaken by… did Arceus lie to me!?" Ash shouts, full on panicking at the notion of his death.

~No, Mom didn't lie to you.~

"Mom?"

~we've just found out that your body won't make it. You have broken ribs, a punctured lung, several cuts, bruises and scars, a gaping chest wound, and internal bleeding.~

"That sounds bad."

~thankfully, I have a solution for it.~

Looking around the void, then back to the male in front of him. Ash clung onto this sliver of hope that presented itself.

"I'm listening…"

"Ms. Ketchum… I'm afraid… that…" the doctor tried to say, the disheartened mother catching on to what the doctor was saying and started tearing up.

"No… no, Doctor please, tell me that it's not true…" Delia whispered hoarsely.

"I'm sor-"

*BOOM!*

A loud explosion encompassed a few rooms down from the doctor, with nurses and the like rushing to the room.

"WHAT's going…. on…" the Doctor yelled, stopping when he rushed into the damaged room. The group of nurses and the Doctor stared in awe at the current sight. Ash, who was presumed to die a few minutes prior, standing on his own two feet, looking relatively unharmed and in perfect health… but with a few minor changes. His hair had certain streaks that turned silver, his eyes were now an intoxicating azure instead of obsidian, and the biggest change was the ankle length tail swishing behind him.

"...um, hi?" Ash said weakly.

"... um.. Boss?" the lavender haired male asked, breaking a presumed silence from the six inhabitants of the room. "Is there something you need us for?"

"...Tell me, Jessie, James… Meowth." the sinister suited man started, silencing the trio from any more comments. "Why do I continue to give you three chances?"
"Um… I'm afraid we don't understand what you mean, sir." Jessie replied, flinching as the portly man slammed his hands on the desk.

"I ask you of one thing; to do your jobs, and what do I find, you spend all your time on a 10 year old with a yellow rat!"

"W-well, to be fair sir, the boy's about 15-16 now, and his pokemon are exceptionally stro-"

"I don't want to hear it! I've had it with you three failures!" snapping his fingers, a set of goons came in with a cart with a bag full of pokeballs.

"B-but boss!"

"BUT NOTHING!" Giovanni shouts, silencing the three. "Take your worthless excuses of pokemon and get out of my sight! You're fired!"

"But-"

"OUT!" frightened by the sudden rage of their now former boss, Jessie grabbed the bag of balls as the three scrambled out the door.

Looking at the fleeing trio, the woman beside him shook her head as she sighed. "Is it really wise to let those three loose sir?" she asked.

"Don't worry, if they can't beat a goddamn child, then what hope would they have against me? Besides, it'd be a waste of resources to off those worthless mankeys." was his answer.

"True…"

A good distance away from the Team rocket base, Jessie, James, Meowth and Wobbuffet (he got out again) sulked in defeat at their current dilemma.

"Well that's it… game over for us."James moaned in despair.

"Where are we gonna go? What are we gonna do?" Meowth whined.

"Maybe James's family could take us in?"

"No, no… then we'll have to suffer with Jessibelle, she's practically stationed at my estate like a thirsty Mandibuzz."

"Maybe da twerp'll help us?" Meowth suggested. "I feel like we have ta apologize to him anyways."

"That's not a bad idea, Meowth." James said. "Hmm… maybe we can become trainers… or gym leaders… Oh this might open up more doors than we originally had as criminals."

"True, but we're known as team rocket members to most people!"

"WOBBA Wobbafett!" the blue punching bag pokemon shouts startling the two humans.

"Ooh." meowth nodded thoughtfully, understanding the blob.

"what? what he say?"

"I think, Wobba's got the right idea." Meowth said, huddling the group together.

The events afterwards spread around the news as the Three infamous team rocket members announced dead. Nobody mentioned the former criminals running off towards pallet town in secrecy though.

That should do it for now. God i hate writers block.

TBC.