Red was walking to the pokemon center with his cloak blowing behind him to see who was battling, meanwhile Max going the same way, and being the overconfident trainer he was, challenged Red to a battle. At that same time, Max's friends or Ash's friends walked in but stopped when the saw Max challenging red to a battle but also glanced at the pikachu on Red's shoulder.

Ash thought "Oh man I really hope that they don't figure out that it's me"

But then he said "hey what are you guys staring at." Brock replied by saying "excuse us for staring but the pikachu on your shoulder looks familiar.

"Damnit thought" Ash but he decided to play it cool and replied "whose might it look like?" Suddenly the mood got really depressed when Brock said " our old friend Ash Ketchum's." Max then said "Hey Red can we have that battle now." Red then turned around and said "sure kid I have not had a good battle in years." "Go Gallade" Max shouted... "Charizard battle time!" Red announced. The whole group looked in awe at the shiny 14 foot tall beast. Charizard was very excited to be batteling since he just got back on the team. Max then asked Brock if he could referee the match. Brock said sure and took is position and said

This is a one on one match between Max Maple and Red Satoshi begin!

Sceptile, Rock throw", "Charizard dodge and use dragon claw." Sceptile slammed its tail on the ground sending tons of rocks towards the black lizard. Then just as they were about to hit the shiny lizard took to the sky successfully dodging them and then went in for the dragon claw attack with its claws glowing a bright blue and with such speed it slammed into the grass pokemon knocking it out. Brock, Gary, May, Dawn, Clian, Iris, and Misty were shocked at how fast the match went. Gaining his composure Brock announced...

"Secptile is unable to battle therefore the winners of this match are Red and Charizard."

Ash thanked Max for the good battle and then left leaving six people with question for him and one with stars in his eyes and he looked at a new Idol.

Misty said " hey don't you guys think that something about that guy seems familiar?" everyone's head nodded. "One things for sure, whoever he was he's going to make this tournament a lot harder" said Brock. Yeah! everyone said and then went off to get their rooms in the pokemon center.

But one on the other hand was thinking something different... "He reminds me so much of Ash. (sigh) I hope he comes back, I miss him" thought May

AN:/Hey sorry for the confusion if you have any after this chapter my friend suggested the plot to be changed so that he was never betrayed and he just disappeared after his mom died it was a pretty good Idea since writing this was bringing my mood down I hope you all understand. So after this I will be going back and reediting chapter