UNOVA EXPLORER

A/N: Hey Emperor Snorlax here with unfortunate news...I accidentally deleted the original chapters 1 and 3, and rookie mistake I don't have a back up. So here I managed to make a revise of those two lost Chapters. I was trying to update them because, I read them again and noticed my mistakes and since I already had 5 chapters I thought. "Hey! why not update them, get rid of some mistakes here and there" now I'm about this close to just jumping off a roof of how stupid I was for not checking what I was replacing... Sigh anyways here's Neo Chapter 1.

Hope you enjoy the chapter happy reading!

And again so very sorry.

"Pikachu!" - Normal talking (written in BOLD if it's shouting.)

Thoughts'- written in BOLD if it's shouting.

"Thunder Bolt!" - Pokemon moves (verbally said.)

"(Ash!)"- poke-speech will be written in human language of course but the characters will only here what a normal Pokemon says

*"I will be the Pokemon Master"*- Dreams/Daydreams.

_"I'm Ash, from Pallet town."_ - Memories/Flashback.

Disclaimer:I don't own pokemon. And if i did, i'd be the happiest teenager alive.

Chapter 1: Conflict within

*The Dust settles around the stadium, revealing a Latios and beside it a Pikachu, both injured and fainted.*

*"Pikachu and Latios are both unable to battle! all six of Ash's Pokemon have been eliminated. so moving on to the finals is, Tobias! The Victor!"*

*"The Victor!"*

*"The Victor!"*

*"The Victor!"*

*"The Vict-!

Chocolate brown orbs snap wide open as Ash, jolts awake. Sweating profusely, his ragged breathing echoes around him, as he ran his fingers through his raven locks in an attempt to calm himself.

His eyes that were usually so full of determination was now lacking its luster, turning dull. It wasn't the eyes that Ash ketchum was known for, these eyes, show sadness, frustration, defeat.

Ash squinted his bleary eyes within the darkness of his surroundings. His conscience fully awakens as he looks around him, finding not a battlefield, but a room. His room to be precise. His eyes widen again, this time though, in remembrance

'That's right..I'm home...' It had been a week now after he came from Sinnoh, and ever since then the young trainer had been getting dreams of his latest league battle specifically his battle against Tobias. That's right the Lily of the valley tournament, his fourth Official regional league.

"I lost...to Tobias." he murmured the name of his opponent. He hid it well from everyone, but his battle with Tobias left Ash with a bitter sense of unease. With out another word, Ash rose from the covers of his bed and headed out the room, down towards the kitchen for a drink to quench the sudden parchedness of his throat.

Ash, however, was unaware of the pair of eyes that awoke to him leaving the room.

"(Ash? where are you going.)" The yellow mouse yawned out. He rubbed the sand off his eyes, a bit annoyed at being waken up at this ungodly hour. '(What time is it anyways?)' He would've went back to sleep, but the yellow mouse couldn't help the feeling of concern that rushed in his system, preventing him access to the land of sleep.

Groggily standing up, Pikachu went out and followed his trainer down stairs, still half-asleep though mind you, he lagged far behind his trainer, who was already down the stairs and in the living room.

Finally in the kitchen, Ash quickly opened up the fridge and took the pitcher of water inside. He took the cap off and he instead drank from the pitcher itself, greedily gulping down the cold liquid, albeit in a shaky manner, causing streams of the water slide past his lips.

He drank about a third of the whole pitcher when he finished with his drink , though he still felt hot, irritating him to no end, as he set the pitcher down on the table. Ash moved towards the kitchen counter, specifically for the window. Opening it, he was greeted by the cold breeze of midnight. Placing both hands on each side of the window's ledge, He closed his eyes as he hunched over the sink, he took deep breathes, in and out in a steady rhythm, letting his body cool down from the outdoor air.

This wasn't the first time he dreamt of that moment. But this was the first time he felt so...so...Defeated by such dreams, no...nightmares...that's right

That's what it was.

A nightmare.

But it wasn't just that, no one, not even Paul or Gary had made him feel so vulnerable.

"Damn it!" Ash cursed, slamming both hands on the counter of the sink. 'Every time! Why!?' He couldn't seem to catch a break with the League Battles. Every time he was so close to victory, a new variable to the equation comes in and messes everything up, No one could have expected a trainer like Tobias to be there. But it was that missing information, that lack of preparation lead to Ash's defeat. Ash had strong Pokemon sure, some had even taken on against Legendaries and won. But Tobias and his Pokemon were on a level above them. A level he hadn't reached yet. Even from the start, it was obvious, he would lose.

Again.

'Failure...'

'W-what?'

A cold, dark voice whispers mockingly into his ears.

'YoU aRe A fAiLuRe As A pOkEmOn tRaInEr~ ThInK aBoUt It~ FiVe YeArS oF lOsInG aNd tHe BeSt YoU hAvE tO sHoW fOr Is A tOp 4 sPoT?~ HA! PATHETIC!'

Ash tried to tuned the voice out, but the seeds of doubt had been planted. It made sense to Ash, here he was 5 years later, sure he may have accomplished a lot for someone as young as him. But when it came to league battles, why is it that he kept losing!?

'(Five years...)' Five years of travelling, of battling, winning gyms, meeting new friends, learning new things about Pokemon getting stronger after each region, But he still LOSES!

Ash knew that there was no problem with losing, it was never a foreign feeling to the young trainer, whether it was about his father, who left him at age 4 or being one upped by Gary during their childhood. Every loss was a new lesson learned, but a repeat after the last 3 leagues was just stupid!

"What am I doing wrong?!" he furiously yells, never mind that someone might wake up. But then a memory comes up to the forefront of his mind, like a slap to the face.

*"Use Horn attack"*

*"Darkrai use Dark void."*

'What the..?!' where that came from Ash didn't know. But it wasn't the end of it.

*"Now, use Dark Pulse!"*

*BOOM!**CRASH!*

*"Torkoal, no!"*

*"Gible, Draco meteor!"*

*"Dodge it! now Dark Pulse"*

Fists clenched hard on the sink's sides, as more memories of that battle surfaces again.

*"Darkrai Dream eater!"*

*"Wake up! Sceptile!"*

*"Swellow, use aerial ace!"*

"*Quick, Latios LusterPurge!"*

'Stop it...' his teeth grinds against one another. sadly it still wouldn't stop.

*"Latios, use LusterPurge!"*

*"NOW! use Iron tail!"*

*BOOM!*

By then he just wanted it to end...

The front door of the Ketchum residence, slams wide open, as Ash bolted outside. The young trainer couldn't take it, he just wanted to be away from this. But alas his mind is on life's side, tormenting him even more.

_A Charizard lies asleep in front of a stadium full of people, his opponent a Pikachu, who looks at the orange dragon in confusion, why wasn't it fighting? The people started to boo at the Dragon-like Mon, not that he cared, while on the other side, was a 10 year-old Ash begging his Pokemon to fight. He didn't_

'PiTiFuL!'

_Buizel squirms and wriggles as Drapion's pincer-tail squeeze the orange weasel, the Ogre Pokemon took sadistic delight in seeing the Sea weasel Pokemon struggle to escape his grip._

'BeT tHaT hUrT!'

_A tiny Gligar, stood frozen as her former flock leader, Gliscor rushes at her with a deadly guillotine attack. hearing Ash call, she tried to counter with Steel wing, only to get her neck caught in between Gliscor's claws, And was sent barreling back to the Ground._

'wEaKlInG!'

His teeth gnashed harder, while his nails broke through his skin, making his palms bleed from how hard he clenched his fists. His pace quickened, he kept running, nevermind that he didn't know where he was going, he just kept running. he just ran hoping to get away.

Away from this torture...

_Ash tries to get through to Chimchar. only for the sinnoh fire-type to rampage in his Blaze form, it's flame runs rampant starting a forest fire. He catches the berserk chimp in tight embrace, begging him to stop, only to get bit in the shoulder so hard he almost bled._

'BrOkEn ToY hAhAhAhA!~'

_Staraptor writhes on the ground in pain, Paul's Gastrodon uses it's Body Slam attack in attempt to squish the avian. his bones were slowly getting broken by the sheer weight making the Predator Pokemon squawk in pain._

'SuCh A bUrDeN~'

_Grotle climbs up the make shift-mountain, his claws lengthened and sharpened with white aura, Indicating the use of Rock climb. his speed was above average for his species as he tries to meet his rival Honchkrow halfway. He fell to the ground unconscious while Honchkrow circles his fallen form, mockingly._

'fAiLuRe!'

Ash's tears fall to the ground as the winds carry them down, as most of the salty waterworks slid down the young trainer's face. It leaves a trail behind the boy, who was so fast right now, he had already reached the forest outside of Pallet town's outskirts.

Running such a long way, exhaustion finally caught up to Ash, who dropped to the ground on all fours. In his turmoil he didn't notice that he had stopped just near the lake where he and Gary had fished that Pokeball when they were kids. The place where his spirit to be a Pokemon trainer blazed.

But now it's but an ember as sobs racked through his being, memory upon memory of seeing his Pokemon hurt, killed him even. If he had trained them better, they didn't have to get hurt so much, if he had been better he could have actually given their pain and sacrifice greater meaning.

"I can't...I can't really call myself a trainer...can I?" his fists now clenching the ground beneath him, his hands, caked in dirt and his blood, his tears hitting the back of his hands. To the young man the title of trainer was something he couldn't uphold if he kept failing like this.

"What am I anymore!?" He screamed to the heavens above, but no answer came. His eyes were red from the tears, his breathing even more ragged than earlier as more sobs force its way out of him.

'WhAt yOu'Ve AlWaYs bEeN...A fAiLuRe!'

"AAAAAAARRRGGHH!" he screamed out his frustration, so much mental and emotional frustration Ash fell sideways, landing on his back unconscious. His psyche not able to take more negativity that was slowly poisoning the young trainer's will, mind, and spirit.

Just as he fainted, a sweating and huffing Pikachu finally comes to the scene. The yellow mouse had been following his Pikapi when he suddenly bolted outside the house, he had just reached the bottom of the stairs, when he saw Ash blur near him, before slamming the door open.

The action made Pikachu snap fully awake and aware as his concern for Ash rose and made itself known. But while his instincts and conscious were fully awake, his body was still half-asleep what with his extreme race with Sceptile yesterday, leaving his small body sore and slow.

His Pikapi was also unusually fast, it was like Lady Giratina herself was chasing the young trainer with killer intent. The tear trail he found was something that both relieved and worried him as well. Relief that he had a trail to follow his unusually fast trainer, worry because of why his trainer had been crying, but whatever it was the yellow mouse needed to find out, and fast.

"(What's going on Ash? what's happening to you?)" he asked it more to himself, trying to figure out the why.

'(Could it be that?... but I don't even know if I really heard him say that...)' The yellow mouse wished that what he heard back at the house was just a figment of his imagination. He was still on the stairs when he heard it but he was still a bit groggy so he thought it was nothing.

But the voice he heard was unmistakably was Ash. Groggy or no he had good hearing. There were also his last words before fainting that got Pikachu's attention.

"(What do you mean by that?)" He asked, but it was a little pointless. Ash was still unconscious.

Sighing the yellow mouse perched himself on top of his Pikapi's chest, he observes his trainer's face seeing the noticeable lines of a frown, of furrowing of eyebrows. even in his unconscious state, Ash was still troubled.

"(Don't worry Ash, we'll get through this...Just like we've always done.)" he nuzzled Ash, his own way of assuring his trainer, his brother.

"(It's gonna be alright Ash. you're not alone...)"

Whatever this was he wouldn't let it consume his Trainer, his friend, his Brother. he and the others would rather suffer in the Distortion world than let anything happen to Family.

A/N: Sup! again did ya like it? I really hate myself for messing up the Chapters 1 and 3 but I can't do anything about that now. Also chapter 6 will be hopefully posted on February. Sigh really sorry here guys.

but anyways

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EmperorSnorlax *Uses self-destruct* bye-bye! *BOOOOOM*

(Chapter Updated: November 20, 2018)