Chapter eighteen (AKPKMN)

**Announcement: Due too the shortness of this chapter, 1579 words, I will be uploading chapter 18 and 19 today; August 15th, 2019. I may regret this due too there only being twenty-one chapters, but I believe in making it worth my readers wait however short it may be.**

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**John50:** Ash will probably just kill them and Ash's alter-ego doesn't use Pokemon to kill evil doers. Yes, Ash is going to another country, but the Orange Islands are like Puerto Rico, part of the same country like Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh, and Hoenn, but unincorporated and the others have minimal influence and interest there.

Ash had finally arrived in Unova, having decided to travel there with his mother and Professor Oak.

"We're here, Pikachu!" Ash said excitedly.

They began to walk away, but Pikachu seemed distracted.

Ash was the first to notice. "Professor, please take Pikachu inside with you. It senses a dangerous level of electricity that could negatively effect it and I have a theory about the source..."

"I can do that Ash, but be careful when you investigate."

Once Oak and Delia were inside, Ash trapped them both inside for safety. Ash sent out his Charizard and then he levitated into the air, flying toward what he suspected to be Zekrom. Ash ordered Charizard to use Hyper Beam upon the figure in the clouds, clearing up the storm and also getting the legends complete attention. Charizard got serious and hit Zekrom with Dragon Pulse and when that wasn't enough, he used Draco Meteor and blasted Zekrom real good, inflicting massive damage to it. It was followed up with Dragon Claw, Dragon Pulse, and then another Draco Meteor... finally defeating Zekrom.

Ash threw an Ultra Ball, catching Zekrom, and then waited for it to take... the capture was successful.

Ash returned Charizard and then went to rejoin his mother and Professor Oak.

"Are you alright?" Delia and Oak asked.

"Yeah, but I'm not sure why that Pokemon was acting like that... maybe it's territorial like Rayquaza and thought that it sensed something here. Still it could have been a threat and it caused a lot of damage."

They were interrupted by a very beautiful Professor, Professor Juniper, if Ash guessed right.

"Any idea why a Pokemon would want to destroy this place with a thunderstorm?" Ash asked once they were near Juniper's car.

"No. Do you know which Pokemon that it was?"

"No, I suspected that it was Zekrom and even thought I was fighting it, but it was defeated far too easily by my Charizard. Once it's healed, I'd like you to examine it." Juniper nodded okay.

When they arrived, no time was wasted and Ash let out his newly captured Pokemon.

"You said it was defeated easily?" Juniper asked while Zekrom was healed.

"Yeah. My Charizard is at a very high level, but if it was Zekrom then it would have been able to put up a good fight."

"Well, congratulations are in order. Your Charizard is powerful enough to easily defeat the Legendary Pokemon Zekrom. Your Charizard is at level 168..." Juniper said in surprise, shocking Professor Oak and Delia.

"Shouldn't Zekrom be at least level 100 and have an advantage due to its legendary status?" Ash asked. Spoiler alert, Ash was fishing for compliments out of boredom.

"This Zekrom is level 85, but no it was beaten pretty soundly it seems." Juniper replied.

"It's waking up!"

Ash sent out his Charizard as a precaution and summoned Mew to him. "I need you to translate for all of us." Mew nodded in understanding.

"Why did you try attacking the airport?" Ash asked.

*"He says that he didn't. He was merely viewing the area and that you misread his intentions and attacked him."* Mew replied for Zekrom.

"He was raining down lightning and that lightning could have caused explosions or disabled or sabotaged planes..." Ash replied, angry at Zekrom's carelessness.

"He didn't intend too," Mew replied for it.

"I'll set him free, but he's learning Draco Meteor and some control first. Since I caught him, he's currently my responsibility." Zekrom looked displeased, but the human raised a good point. He could have caused a lot of damage and humans were strangely attached to their contraptions.

Zekrom agreed and was returned to his Poke Ball.

After receiving the Unova Pokedex and badge case, Ash departed Nuvema Town and was ready to conquer himself yet another Pokemon League.

Ash loved that there were very few people in Unova who knew who he was... trainers were accepting his challenges and losing their money. Ash loved that! He wasn't as easily recognized in another nation and he could lure countless idiots into a large wager. It gained him quite a lot of money and great experience for his Pokemon... So much so that all of his Pokemon were soon at level 35 or higher.

Between all those battles and weak Gym Leaders, Ash was breezing through Unova without complaint or regret. The battles were all pathetically easy, but Ash was still learning from it and he was dissecting his opponents strategies and in some cases countering them before they could occur... a talent that he always had, but he was actively focused on improving it.

Ash was still disgusted by the weak Gym Leaders... not one of them had a Pokemon over level 50. Ash was glad that he had no desire to defeat this leagues Elite Four and Champion... this region was barely worth his time. Ash had managed to raise his Pokemon up to level 85 before even facing Drayden and that was largely due to having so many ignorant opponents.

His Axew was now a Haxorus, his Deino was now a Hydreigon, and his Litwick was now a Chandelure.

Ash had also been training his Hoenn and Sinnoh Pokemon.

As for Zekrom, he had made great progress. He was now level 90 and had learned Rain Dance, Roost, Light Screen, Protect, Giga Impact, Draco Meteor, and Dragon Pulse.

With six months left until the Unova League, Ash began training.

The first thing Ash did was train all of his Unova Pokemon up to level 120, which took him two months.

Unfortunately, Team Plasma had learned of him catching Zekrom and had located him.

"Repeat what you just said," Ash said coldly.

"Give us all of your Pokemon!" Ghetsis demanded once more, unconcerned about any attempts by Ash to attack them. Ash was outnumbered and he was facing an army of Pokemon. Not even the Zekrom he had caught could save him!

Ash restrained the Plasma Grunts and other leaders, stripped them of their Poke Balls and returned their Pokemon, and then burned them all alive. Ash was indifferent about their suffering, but he would have to bring back their shades and then dismantle the entire Team Plasma organization with their knowledge.

**Two days later...**

Thankfully slaughtering the evil pricks who wanted to disarm the people of Unova and then conquer them didn't didn't take very long. Truthfully, it would been way more fun if it had taken longer, but Ghetsis had most of the information that Ash needed to wipe out the organization. It was actually kind of boring though... easily brutally murdering people gets repetitive. Oh I'm gonna blast this person apart! And then this one! Oh, I'll burn this one! And these other five too! See? Boring!

Ash now had plenty of additional Pokemon to give away, but he would be keeping quite a few for himself. With Ghetsis having a level 66 Hydreigon, Cofragrigus, Bisharp, and a Bouffalant needing a new trainer, Ash began looking... After having no luck, Ash contacted Lance...

"Hello, Ash," Lance said.

"Hey, Lance. I recently captured an abandoned level 66 Hydreigon and I was wondering if you would see if Clair wanted it. I also have a level 65 one that was attacking Pokemon and knocked out power in Undella Town during a fight with a Dragonite.

"If you send the level 66 Hydreigon to me then I will pass it onto Clair. She's been looking to build up her collection of Dragons." Lance replied.

"I'll do that," Ash replied. "There are also two Deino, level 45... if you think that she would be interested in them. They're a breeding pair."

"Sure. Send them too. If not, then they can always live in the Dragon Holy Land." Lance replied.

After saying their goodbyes, the call was ended and Ash quickly sent the three Dragon-type Pokemon to Lance.

With Team Plasma, a threat to Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem neutralized, Ash decided to free the now better trained Zekrom... though Ash would greatly miss him, Ash gave Zekrom his word to release him and he intended to keep his promise.

As a reward, Death gave Ash alternate universe versions of Reshiram, Zekrom, and Kyurem.

One more notable thing had happened though... Ash decided to challenge the Unova Elite Four and Alder, the Champion, if he won the Vertress Conference... He would obviously abdicate if he won, but he needed the challenge, experience, money, and the Unova Region wasn't a part of his plans. If he managed then he would win three million Poke dollars for beating the Unova Elite Four and Champion and possibly even a few advertisements and book offers. Battles were getting boring and the best way to spice things up was by battling the five best trainers in Unova. Ash was also doing this because of Alder's mockery in pretending to not remember his name and due to Trip's xenophobic idiocy.

Ash was going to humiliate Alder; Trip's hero and take Alder's title, and if possible Ash would also deal Trip a humiliating defeat too. The title would be thrown away like trash afterwards though. Unova had some of the worst trainers Ash that had ever seen and he refused to sully himself by binding himself to Unova long-term.

The Vertress Conference began in a mere week. It was with a sigh, with Ash mourning that his time in Unova wasn't more interesting, that he left for Vertress City.