35. That's cool

As they rose up into the air, they noticed another building behind the mini mansion and floated through the air towards it. They quickly found out that it was a large pokémon battling arena that doubled as a training stadium.

Ash commented on how it would help them when they start their training, since they could set up many different regiments for the pokémon.

After exploring the rest of the island, they found out some things; there were more fruit trees scattered throughout the island, a small mountainous region was to the north and that the island was high up from the sea floor with the only shore the one to the south, which was the very same one that they arrived at when they first came to the island.

Because of Mewtwo using his psychic powers to have everyone fly over the island while they explored it, it didn't take too long for them to see what was there and soon went back home.

They landed back in the back yard and they stepped back into the living room and dropped onto the couches again.

While resting, many thoughts began racing around in Ash's head. How am I going to tell everyone? How am I going to just leave them and not see them for so long?

Should I meet them in person individually and tell them? Or should I see them in a group like last time? Wait, I know, I'll mail them a letter!

No, that won't work. I'll email them! No, they'll definitely kill me for that. Damn it, what am I going to do…

It took a little bit of time until he finally got an idea.

"I got it!" yelled Ash and he shot up from the couch suddenly, making Pikachu, Riolu and Mewtwo glance at the teenager from their relaxed positions.

"Listen up guys, I got it! I know how to let everyone know and what to tell them. But first, we visit my Mom back home in Pallet Town to have some breakfast and grab some supplies. After that we'll go to Professor Oak's lab to get my pokémon who are there and I'll make a group phone call to my friends. Then we'll go visit the pokémon I left for them to train on their own or to take care of other business and then we'll come back here to plan out the rest."

"Pika pi chu pika pi pi," said Pikachu, his eyes shining as drool slipped out from the corner of his mouth.

Riolu glanced at Pikachu, a little confused at what the electric mouse just said while Mewtwo had a look of disgust on his face.

Ash laughed at what his starter pokémon just said and how he's acting.

"If you stop drooling and behave yourself, then maybe I'll tell Mom to give you some ketchup." Pikachu snapped out of his dazed look and jumped onto Ash's shoulder and nuzzled his cheek against Ash's in happiness while Riolu chuckled.

Mewtwo's look of disgust faded away and was replaced with one of annoyance. "Alright, we have a plan. Let's get going. I don't want to risk staying so long here that it causes Pikachu to start seeing ketchup everywhere," chastised the legendary pokémon.

"Pika…" Pikachu's ears dropped and his normally red cheeks flushed pink a little in embarrassment.

"Hey, c'mon Mewtwo, be nice," said Ash while he chuckled slightly in amusement. The psychic feline scoffed as he got up.

"Okay, let's hit the road. Mewtwo, you know where Pallet Town is right?" Mewtwo quirked his left eyebrow as if to say 'really?', making Ash chuckle again.

"Okay okay. Are we all ready to go?" Riolu and Pikachu stood next to Ash and the young man gestured to Mewtwo.

"Whenever you're ready buddy."

As soon as he finished talking, the psychic pokémon's eyes glowed blue and they teleported away to the young guardian's hometown.