The world of Pokemon is filled with thousands of beings capable of wielding various power ranging from forces of nature to intangible powers.
They are called Pokemon by the inhabitants of this world and treated not as monsters or animals but partner and companions by them.
Well. By most of them at least.
Over the course of who knows how many years, Humans and pokemon have together stayed in a mutual cooperation with eachother.
However, as all things shall came to an end, Greed and desires corrupted the humans.
Wars were waged, lands and habitats invaded as Human slew their way through everything to fill their endless hunger for greed.
Soon, what started as a invasion from the humans, turned into a full blown war across the world as war consumed everything in it's path Until they arrived.
The First generation of trainers and their leader, the Guardian. A joint force of survivors of the war who came together to end the endless conflict once and for all.
The new force was named 'Legion', a small army which started as a wave that eventually grew into a tsunami as over hundreds of years of battles, New methods were created with the partnership between both pokemon and Humans that led to creation of many techniques and arts.
Eventually the Legion grew stronger in strength compared to both the warring humans and the territorial rulers among pokemon, defeating both sides and called out a ceasefire where the world will be divided in three territories.
The Human only territory called the Sanctuary, The Pokemon only territory called the Paradise, both of which composed of 10% of the planet each.
The last 80% portion was declared the Woodlands were both the humans and pokemon had full freedom to move around as they pleased.
The war was finally over, the law of the jungle was no more but it wasn't without its consequences as without war, the humans forgot their techniques due to peace, the Pokemon lost their potential due to under utilisation and the world entered a peaceful era where nobody had extreme power over the other.
But as they say, 'The darkness can never be killed but only defeated', so the greed slowly begins coming back, the lust for power and ambition again corrupting humans and pokemons alike.
But atleast they had people willing to stop it now.
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-Present day-
"How is the preparations coming along? Any results?"
A person asks a man in white coat with glasses beside him as they together look at a lines upon lines of screens in front of them.
Each screen had a face, Some small some big, Some pale some chubby, but there was one thing that was same across all screens, They were all in some sort of pod and within a lot of liquid.
Each face and a mask attached to their faces, not the decoration ones but the ones in hospital as they many weren't even able to breath themselves.
But there was one, a single person without a mask, a young toddler in his early 10s with black hair and two Z shaped strips of black on his cheeks.
His eyes were open but not his mind as he has been stuck here all his life or to be more precise, all his current life.
He has been stuck here for well over 7 years, all that time spent just floating in this pod with nothing to do except count or occasionally get a few disk put into his pod's mechanism.
"Who am I? Why am I here?" Was all her could think as he had long forgotten his real name and for years he had been forcefully getting fed memories of Ash Ketchum.
The reason? All because of a single man's obsession to bring out the maximum potential of pokemon for his own self satisfaction.
'Somebody is here? I hope they do more than just insert memories this time, it's getting boring over here.'
The boy thought to himself silently from the confines of his cage as he looked at the familiar face that has been torturing him for years.
The person had blonde hair, blue glasses and a halo accessory in his head, wore a white coat and always carried a tablet with him. It was Colress.
The Boy didn't knew how and where this psychopath got Ash's memories and DNA but he had no way of knowing so he could only sit there as watched the scientist come closer and closer.
"How have you been Ash?.. You do know that resistance is futile right?"
The mad scientist Colress said calmly as he looked at the furious eyes looking down at him with a expression of pure hatred, there was no mistaking it.
' I don't care if am Ash or not. But I won't help you and stupid dreams, even if it costs me my life.'
The boy didn't budge a inch, refusing any chance at negotiations with Colress as he determined himself again and looked down at the mad scientist with contempt filled eyes.
For a moment there was silence, complete silence to the point you could hear a pin fall, until the scientist pressed a button and shoved another disk into the pod computer.
A shocking pain erupted in the boy's head, data and information being drilled deeper into his brain as Colress begin taking notes again while the boy screamed inwardly from pain.
"You should have taken the deal. Well not like it will change anything."
Colress scoffed, Blaming the boy for his stupidity instead of realising his own cruelty and left the room while making notes.
The pain lasted several hours, each passing second more painful from the previous, it was excruciating and despairing but Ash had gotten used to it at this point.
Now he has nothing to do again as he opened his eyes again and kept floating in the liquid as he laughs the cruel fate of his.
He was a not a normal person, he was no normal human, he was nothing but just a clone made by Colress, a clone made with only one idea in mind.
To research Bond evolution, to find the reason for the absurd difference in Ash's herculean strength and a normal person.
This was his reality, the reality of a lab rat, a lab rat that will forever be stuck in this lab until either he relents to the Mad scientist's wishes or dies.
Honestly speaking he didn't mind the pain because it was one of the two things that had kept him sane in this hell hole, the other being his near endless obsession to live among the pokemon.
However, there is one thing that has always been his side, helping him survive and saving himself from dying multiple times.
His system which he had no name but only one feature, to grant him a perfect overview of himself and his pokemon if he had any, like the game panel in the Pokemon games he used to play once.
The earth shook, the steel walls rattled and a loud sound reverberated throughout the area as Ash felt himself getting hit by a shockwave.
It was unexpected and sudden, Giving Ash had no time to react as the glass pod was shattered, causing him to fall face first onto the floor.
"What is happening?" Ash said to himself, crawled closer to a wall and pushed himself up as he leaned against it with weak body, " Maybe. Just maybe. I will finally be fr-"
His thoughts were interrupted as the lights went out, leaving him and his hopes in the dark as he was left in the room completely trapped and butt naked.
He walked slowly, using the wall for support as he dragged himself across the room and waved his hands around as if looking for something.
" Thank Go-. Arceus, Atleast I won't have to go around naked."
Ash grabbed a scientist's coat, wrapped it around his naked body, feeling much warmer instantly as he looked to the corner of the room where was a vent.
Years in the same room has ingrained the Room's layout in his brain but a bigger problem arose for Ash. He had nothing to open the vent.
He tried punching it, kicking it and even bitting it but nothing helped as body which has never saw workout was very weak even after being made from the original Ash's herculean self.
He had a chance, a hope to escape but not a way to grasp onto it, it was despairing and agonising but he kept looking and looking.
Meanwhile as he looks around like crazy, occasionally he would hear something like the sound of a explosion or something like screaming but not anything similar to the first one.
Eventually, he felt exhausted, his body Already at its end as he sat in a corner after accepting that he has no way out of there.
Zhring
A sound reached his ear, sound of something spinning that felt familiar to him but he couldn't figure out from where, so he decided to focus on his memories, trying to figure it out and he didn't have to wait alot.
"No Way! Palki-"
His words were split, just like the room he was in as the floor and the walls were cut into two halves as the ground made way and a giant chasm was formed right through the middle.
The next moment, for the first team in years, Ash felt warmth as the sunlight shone on him, removing the darkness both in his heart and his surroundings as a ember begins burning in him.
He did waste a sec as he jumped from piles of rubble here and there until he eventually reached the top, but what he was greeted by was not a some peaceful place but a war zone with Plasma grunts attacking the legendary Pokemon Palkia.
Ash braces himself for what is to come as what he expected, Palkia used Spacial Rend on the grunts, erasing them from the space itself alongside all their pokemonr before turning to its for in front of him.
Roar
"I ain't dreaming right? Didn't the conflict end back then?", Ash turned, his gaze moving towards the sound as he saw him, the other legendary that controls time itself, Dialga.
Ash panics, he was right between both Dialga and Palkia and had no idea of what was going on but there was one thing clear, He was screwed.
It didn't take long for his premonition to come true both the legendaries let out a roar that shook everything around them as they charge it each other, their attacks already motion.
The attacks clashed right above Ash, Unstable space and time fighting eachother as the surroundings begin collapsing in a effect he has seen many times ago.
The space collapsed, the time vanished as Ash found himself being engulfed within the attack, for a moment he felt at peace, the next he was full of regrets as he accepted his death.
"Ebiii"
Ash heard a soft and melodious sound as he opened his eyes to find himself stuck in the middle nowhere with only one being beside him, A Celebi.
He looked around to find himself trapped in a bubble, completely unscratched by the attack clash which greatly confused him, so he turned to the Celebi who was looking at him with a happy face.
"Did you save me?" He asked, raising his weak arms to pet Celebi as he talked.
" Ebi."
Much to Ash's surprise, The Celebi was laughing as it nudged his palm and grabbed onto it.
He felt overwhelmed by its cuteness, almost wanting to hug it but he knew better than to distract it and then be ripped to shreds by the vaccum of void.
However his fortune seems extremely unlucky today as the moment didn't even last a min as the bubble shook violently and suddenly everything around him changed.
" THIS IS UNFAIR." Ash screamed as he fell, not from some cliff or roof but from a full on cloud as he felt the wind gushing past him, trying to slow him down but to no avail.
He looked down, but there was nothing below except mountains that seemed to strech on forever and a single small lake far away from him.
" My time has come," he said to himself, "atleast I petted that Celebi."
Ash felt himself becoming lighter but his peace was instantly interrupted from a screech.
Least to say he wasn't amused because he had felt this happen many times so he just gave up on trying to resist.
He closed his eyes, preparing to go to the afterlife in peace but it seemed like someone else had other plans for him as something smacked into his back, making him recoil in pain.
He spun mid-air from the hit as he looked at the attacker, it wasn't a pokemon or rather not the ones he knew of.
It was a bird like pokemon with blue wings, a crown made of feathers on its head, a bunch of sharp rock like claws( two legs, 5 claws each) and a somewhat inclined body that made it look similar to jet place.
-To be Continued-