A HERO'S RETURN

CHAPTER 1

On an isolated island, not part of the Orange Islands, Decolora Islands or the Whirl islands, stood a man about 6'3" looking out at the ocean with 3 very impressive Pokémon stood with him. On one shoulder was a yellow electric mouse. It had bright yellow fur, long ears with black tips, red cheeks that release electricity and a tail shaped like a lightening bolt. This was the man's ever faithful and loyal Pikachu. They were almost never apart.

On the other shoulder was a purple monkey a little bigger than his electric mouse. The purple monkey had a big head mostly purple fur and a cream face and big purple ears. It had stubs for its arms and short legs and cream feet. It had a long purple tail with a hand at the end the same color as its face. This was the man's Pokémon known as Aipom. While cute and little it was almost as good as the Pikachu.

Standing next to him was a jackal/dog like Pokémon. It was mostly blue all over but had black paws, ears and around its eyes. It had a vague yellow chest with a spike in the middle of its chest that was bigger than the spikes on its hands. This was a Pokémon called Lucario.

They were all silent, watching the ocean while the waves crashed into land. They stayed like that for a while. All was quiet and peaceful. The Pikachu on the man's shoulder decides to break the silence and ask a question. He asks

"Hey Ash, what are you thinkin' about?" Ash could understand off his pokemon perfectly through his aura. 6 eyes went to Pikachu, and then 4 went to Ash, obviously waiting for an answer.

"Nothing really. Just about our life before and how this is much better way of living." The man answered with a sigh.

The Aipom and Lucario looks relieved that he was happy here, with them. While the Pikachu looked angry at the mention of before. Even though only Pikachu was with Ash when that happened all of his Pokémon knew about it and were just as, if not more, angry.

Ash sighed and looked up at the sky, try as he might he wont ever forget that faithful day in Pallet Town.

FLASHBACK

A 14-year-old Ash was walking along a dirt road with Pikachu on his shoulder. He was on his way back to Pallet Town after losing in the Vetress Conference in the Unova League. He made it into the finals where he lost to his rival in Unova, Trip. It all came down to Pikachu vs. Trip's Serperior but Pikachu was already winded from taking down Unfezant and Conkledurr. Pikachu just didn't have enough energy to take down another pokemon but still by the end it was a close battle.

Now he was on his own as his friends in Unova, Iris and Cilan, went to Opuleucid City and Striaton City respectively. Leaving him and Pikachu to go to Kanto by themselves. Now they were both looking forward to going home and eating Delia Ketchum's cooking. They were both sure they could already taste it. By the time they got to the hill of Pallet, Ash turned to his partner and said

"Hey buddy, last one home doesn't get seconds!" and with that he took off speeding home.

"Pikapi pikapika Pikachu" Then Pikachu too dashed off using quick attack to catch up to his friend.

Eventually the duo arrived at Ash's house with Pikachu back on his usual perch. Ash opened the door and called to his mother, Delia.

"Mom I'm back from the league!" "Pi Pika Pikachu" said Pikachu as he made it clear he was with Ash too.

Ash and Pikachu walked into the kitchen to be pulled into a HUGE hug by none other than his mom. After letting of Ash, Delia looked at him and told him,

"I made dinner for you both, there's plenty so eat up." Ash and Pikachu's eyes widened and mouths drooled over her cooking. Only then did the pair see Ash's friends standing behind the table glaring at them. Standing there was Brock, Misty, May, Max, Dawn, Gary, Drew, Iris, Cilan and surprisingly Trip. Only two really confused Ash.

"Guys why are you here, and Iris and Cilan weren't you going home?" Ash asked obviously confused.

"Pika?" Pikachu asked, showing he was just as confused as his master.

None of them answered for a while, they just glared at the duo until Brock spoke up, apparently for everyone.

"I think I speak for everyone here when I say, you have to give up on your dreams Ash." Brock stated plainly.

Ash looked around the room expecting someone to argue with Brock's statement but nobody did. They just nodded their heads in agreement. To Ash & Pikachu this was a stab in the back

Ash, now regaining his voice, asked, "How come I have to give up? I didn't to anything to you?" With Pikachu nodding in agreement. This time it was Gary who spoke up.

"Its because you suck Ash! You've been a trainer for god knows how long now and you still haven't won anything important. Be more like me and do something practical now that I'm a researcher, I'm happier than I ever was." Gary finished happily.

Ash looked around expecting someone to come to his support maybe one of the girls? He wasn't that dense he knew full well that Misty, May, Dawn and even Iris had crushes on him. But when he saw them in the arms of Brock, Drew, Gary and Cilan respectively he knew him and Pikachu were on their own.

Now Ash wasn't mad he was feeling betrayed. All of the sudden Ash and Pikachu were surrounded in white both their eyes became white and they spoke in sink. What they said send chills down every person's spine

"You have all made a grave mistake, you will all be sorry to have abandoned my Chosen, know that now you will all get what's coming to you! Each and everyone of you!" They finished by pointing at the group. After they returned to normal they looked at each other and Ash spoke, he voice returned to normal.

"Fine, I'll just prove you wrong. Pikachu, we're leaving." Pikachu, resisting the urge to ThunderBolt everyone in the room, hopped to Ash's shoulder glaring at the traitors. They calmly walked out the door, only to be met with the traitor's pokemon. There stood Marshtomp, Roserade, Blastoise, Pansage, Staryu, Blaziken, Piplup, Dragonite & Serperior.

That's when the traitors emerged from the doorway. Trip then stepped forward and spoke.

"We aren't letting you go that easy. Now you're surrounded by powerful pokemon and all you have is that pathetic rodent." Trip sneered at Ash while Ash struggled to keep calm. That's when everybody's favorite redhead took her chance to get a shot in.

"That's right, you're so pathetic. I mean you're hard headed, you don't listen and you rely on sheer luck to get by!" Misty finished and then May picked up.

"Seriously you don't even try luck doesn't work all the time!" Ash, sensing the rant was done decided to enlighten them with the truth. Pikachu sensed this and got a huge smirk on his face, it was time for him to REALLY battle.

"You guys are all to stupid for your own good." Sensing an interruption, he quickly continued. "I've never gotten lucky I lose on purpose. Arceus told me to never use my true power as Chosen One and Legendary Guardian. I could have swept the floor with anybody I've ever battled but didn't out of respect for Arceus. I can't tell you how frustrating to was to pretend to be an incompetent, dense and immature kid starting out, now ill show you how to really battle." Ash finished strongly. His friends however weren't scared they just ordered their pokemon to attack. Marshtomp shot mudshot, Roserade launched petal dance, Blastoise threw a hydro cannon, Pansage hit with bullet seed, Staryu spit a water gun, Blaziken attacked with overheat, Piplup used bubble beam, Dragonite had added in an ice beam and Serperior topped it off with Leaf storm. Ash's traitors all had smug looks on their faces, but not Ash and Pikachu. Ash calmly told Pikachu,

"Dodge them all with quick attack and follow up with your best Thunder!"

Pikachu took off at lightening speed (no pun intended) before zipping past the mudshot and petal dance, over a hydro cannon and overheat, spinning through a bullet seed, jumping above a water gun & bubble beam, gracefully sliding under an ice beam and finally plowing through the leaf storm before shooting an enormous bolt of lightening that could easily rival a Zapdos, Thunderous & Zekrom. The thunder attack from the little mouse knocked out every last of the traitor's pokemon.

"That's enough Pikachu, lets go." Ash spoke firmly. Pikachu gave the ex-friends one last glare before he hopped onto his best friends shoulder. After that Ash and Pikachu ran towards Prof. Oak to get the rest of their pokemon. As they arrived Ash told the professor everything. He was seriously surprised Gary and everyone else would do that. After Ash gathered all his pokemon from Bulbasaur all the way to Gible plus his Unova bunch, Ash was ready to set off again, until the professor stopped him.

"Ash, listen to me, I know that you can become a champion if you choose, just promise me you'll never give up." When he saw Ash nod he continued "Now take this. It's a prototype but will work never the less. It looks like a plain old watch but it's a high-tech device that has almost unlimited purposes. It's called a Nano-Dex. You can call people, send messages, it gives a hologram of the pokemon scanned, a video-log, it lets you carry an unlimited supply of pokemon and so much more that you'll have to figure out yourself. The last thing you need to know is that after you put it on its keyed into your DNA, so that only you can put it on and activate it. Now remember that this is the first one ever made to take good care of it."

Ash was speechless. His partner wasn't much better. He finally managed to choke out a generous thank you before the professor finished his speech. Oak finished up with,

"Ok, now good luck out there and be safe, never know what might happen." Ash nodded and shook hands with Oak. As Ash put his new Nano-Dex on he and Pikachu took off down route one and towards the forests, almost never to be seen again. The professor stared at the road for a while before muttering to himself,

"Ash my boy, be safe and know that weather they give up on you or not, you'll always be my favorite trainer and many others agree." before finally walking back into his lab. Meanwhile Ash and Pikachu went around Kanto gathering old friends. Pidgeot, Squirtle and Primeape before leaving the region they hail from behind and setting off again, this time to become the very best.

FLASHBACK END

Ash finished telling his story with tears in his eyes. He looked up to seen not only Pikachu, Aipom and Lucario giving him sympathetic looks but the rest of his pokemon stopped their training session to comfort their master and friend. Ash looked around at his pokemon and felt a sense of pride. All of his pokemon worked as hard as they could, not against their wills, but so they could be strong enough to protect their master from any harm just as he did them when they were little. Part of their training was to make Ash proud and gain his respect, but they all knew he respected them anyway.

Ash's pokemon from before are Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, (who Ash took with him after he left Kanto for Johto) Pidgeot, Primeape, Tauros, Muk, Snorlax, Kingler, Meganium, Typloshion, Feraligatr, Noctowl, Donphan, Sceptile, Crawdaunt, Glalie, Torkoal, Swellow, Torterra, Infernape, Garchomp, Staraptor, Floatzel, Gliscor, Samurott, Emboar, Serperior, Scrafty, Krookodile, Seismetoad, Gigilith, Leavanny, Unfezant and the ever present Pikachu.

Weather they admit it or not, Ash's new pokemon were just as good. His new ones include Lucario, Aipom, Tyranitar, Houndoom, Salamance and Gardevoir. All of Ash's pokemon evolved to their final forms, excluding Pikachu and Aipom, to help Ash become the best. Pikachu still doesn't want to evolve and Aipom's the same way as Ash rescued him from 2 Ambipom for not evolving. After he found Ash Aipom followed him on his journey so he too could be the best he could be.

Ash turned back to his poke-pals and announced,

"It's okay guys, just bad memories, I think you've worked enough for today go take a rest. Lets go home." Ash then leads everyone to a cabin in the woods. Ash's pokemon all make them selves comfortable around the house, except Charizard, Sceptile, Feraligatr and Garchomp they trained, While Ash went inside with Pikachu, Aipom, Lucario and Gardevoir. After entering Ash heard familiar voices coming from his kitchen.

"Hey no fair I know you have at least 1 3 in your deck Jessie!" yelled a blue haired man.

"Are you calling me a cheater, maybe Meowth has it?" The women called Jessie replied.

"Leave Meowth outta this, James is right you do cheat a lot!" The talking Meowth answered. By this point Ash just sighed. That's when James spoke again.

"See I have back up!" James yelled to Jessie. Then a blue blob appeared and startled the trio.

"Woooooobafet!" The blob like pokemon called Wobbuffet yelled. Jessie got a smug look and called to James again.

"There's my back up, I don't cheat right Wobbuffet?" Jessie asked our favorite blob. Meowth decided to set things straight.

"Wobbuffet ain't voutchin' for you Jess, he's saying and I quote 'She's got two 3 in her deck and don't be surprised when an ace falls out of her hair'. So he basically ratted ya out." Meowth translated for his friends. James and Meowth laughed while Jessie chased her pokemon around angrily.

Ash sighed again before speaking to Pikachu and the others. "Some things never change, huh buddy?" Aipom, Lucario and Gardevoir nodded in agreement while Pikachu answered.

"You can say that again. But even I could tell Jess was cheating and I just got here." Ash and his Pokemon laughed witch got them noticed by the trio and Wobbuffet.

"Hey boss." They said in unison. "Wobba" Wobbuffet added in.

"Hey guys, go fish again?" They nodded. "You'd think you'd get sick of it eventually, or at least stop cheating." Ash said to them.

See after about 2 months of Ash's self-imposed exile…

FLASHBACK

Ash and Pikachu were woken from their sleep by familiar voices screaming. Ash turned to Pikachu and asked

"That was Team Rocket right?" Pikachu nodded and Ash spoke more. "They why are they yelling and not after us?" Pikachu shrugged and they heard an explosion. Ash being the good guy went to check it out. When he and Pikachu arrived they were surprised at what they saw.

There stood Jessie and James hugging each other with Meowth and Wobbuffet in the middle. They all looked like they just saw Giritina. When Ash looked where they were looking he got his answer. He saw a man in an orange suit that he recognized as Giovanni, with his Persian by his side. However there was more than just Giovanni and Persian there was about 20 rocket grunts there and in front of them all were 3 people he's seen before. They were Cassidy, Biff and Domino. Domino then spoke to her boss about our favorite trio. And Wobbuffet.

"Come on boss isn't execution a little harsh? I mean the kid they attack isn't exactly weak. He's even foiled me." Ash assumed they were talking about him and immediately knew he had to intervene to help Jessie and James. He just knew he had to wait for his chance. Then Giovanni answered Domino, and his answer was even more un-expected than what he thought.

"Your right Domino." The trio and Domino sighed while Cassidy and Botch gasped before he continued. "You shall join them." He finished before his Persian pushed Domino over to Jessie. Now the grunts were just waiting for Giovanni's word. Right before he spoke, Ash dashed out in front of Jessie's group and announced,

"Pikachu, thunderbolt!" With that his mouse hopped into the air and gave a cry of

"Piiiika Chuuuuu" while releasing a great yellow bolt towards Giovanni and Persian.

This blast was strong enough to make all the grunts run away except Giovanni, Cassidy and Hutch. Jessie, James and Meowth opened their eyes and saw their savior in front of them. After they recovered from shock they yelled.

"The Twerp!" They exclaimed in unison once again. Ash looked back sarcastically said

"Good to see you too." The rockets about to be killed all stood behind Ash waiting for him to do something. They didn't have to wait too long because Ash called out his awesome Sceptile.

"Sceptile, leaf blade!" The very second the grass lizard emerged from the light he took off like a bullet train at Giovanni effectively knocking him out cold. Sceptile didn't even have to wait for a next order and unleashed a barrage of bullet seed onto Persian, who couldn't take it for long and passed out like its master.

At that Point Cassidy and Potch were scared to even make a break for it. Before breaking from shock, Cassidy yelled,

"Don't just stand their Chuck send out your pokemon!" Cassidy yelled at her partner while releasing her Houndour. Chuck sent out his Hitmontop not before yelling,

"Its not Chuck its Butch! Why do I even bother with an intro?" Asked the man apparently named Butch not Biff. Ash taking advantage of their arguing sent a message to Officer Jenny that Giovanni was down. As he looked up he saw a hyper beam and flamethrower going towards his Sceptile but reacted quick enough with a counter.

"Sceptile, agility to get away and don't hold back with your pound attack!" At a speed that rivals light, the Sceptile jumped over the hyper beam and slid under the flames before slamming his bushy tail into the rolling kick pokemon that fell into the duel dark and fire type, knocking them both out.

By this point officer Jenny was putting the cuffs on Giovanni, Cassidy and Patch. Jenny was about to arrest Jessie, James, Meowth and Domino but Ash vouched that they wouldn't do anything else. As the Jenny got into the car and drove a away but not before kissing Ash's cheek in thanks and muttering,

"That's for doing what the police couldn't." Before anything could be said she ran back to her car and took off. Leaving a blushing Ash, laughing Pikachu and confused ex-rockets. Jessie asked the question that was on hers' James' and Dominos' minds'.

"Hey twerp, not that we aren't grateful for that but why'd you do it?" Jessie asked with James, Domino, Meowth and Wobbuffet nodding in agreement. Ash chuckled and answered.

"Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do." with Pikachu nodding. Although they were still confused they dropped it until Domino asked a question.

"Um, Ash is it? Where are those kids that were with you before? You know the redhead and squinty eyed guy?" With that Ash and Pikachu's faces darkened and looked down with Sceptile jumping between Ash and the ex-rockets ready to attack until Ash told him to stand down. Sceptile nodded and stood next to Ash while he finally decided to answer before James cut in.

"Come to think of it I don't see the Hoenn twerpette and her brother the nerdy twerp." Jessie picked up where James left off.

"Or the contest twerp from Sinnoh?" and finally Meowth finished off with

"And dos two from Unova, the big haired twerp and chef twerp?" And they all nodded.

Ash finally decided to let them know what happened back in pallet town. After the story was over Jessie James and Meowth were surprised and Domino was comforting him. Then Ash, Pikachu, Jessie, James, Meowth, Wobbuffet and Domino made a truce and became friends. They traveled around the world getting stronger, smarter and shutting down Team's Aqua, Magma, Galactic and Plasma. After they found their island they reside on now, they live there almost like a big family.

FLASHBACK END

Jessie speaking up to defend herself broke ash from memory lane.

"Hey I can't help it, ex-rocket or not it's still my nature. I'd rather cheat at go fish then steal pokemon." The guys sighed and laughed in unison before James spoke to Ash.

"Hey boss you seen Domino recently, she left about a half hour ago looking for you." with Meowth nodding to confirm.

"No I haven't seen her since-" the door opening and Domino coming in cut him off. Domino saw Ash came up to him and gave him a letter. The letter read,

Dear Ash,

I hope you get this letter and I know your perfectly happy with your life but how would you like a chance to show those who wronged you real power? There's a tournament coming up in a week's time. Its called the Tournament of Champions and you qualify. If you choose to go you can show all those who wronged you how good you are, because I know your good. Its held at Lily of the Valley Island to register within the week. Hope to see you there.

The Best Guy Ever,

Scott

P.S. Max Maple also qualified so you'll see all them there. Don't give into your anger.

Ash looked up at his 'family' and pokemon and spoke. "Its Time." They all nodded