The Past

'Argh, my head hurts.' Kyurem thought upon regaining conciousness he scanned his surroundings and saw seven pokemons meditating while different colors of aura surrounding them.

'Right, I followed that human and was defeated by his pokemons who ganged up to him. why did that god damn Mew brought me here.' Kyurem was on the verge of tears he was a well respected Legendary pokemon but the ones around him right now didn't even gave him a speck of respect.

"Looks like you already woken up." Ash upon sensing Kyurem regaining consciousness approached him.

Kyurem glared at Ash then turned his head around with a snort he then transformed into a bracelet and attached himself on Ash's right arm.

'Don't disturb me while I am resting human, we can just empower each other without the need of communication so this will be the last time I will be talking to you unless I decided to seek you out first.' Kyurem said through telepathy and started his "slumber"

Ash smiled wearily seeing how Kyurem acted and could only accept his condition.

He then approached Bayleef and said, "Bayleef, wanna go to the city with me?"

Bayleef looked excited hearing Ash's proposal and nodded, "Yes! let's go to the city Master and leave this trouble makers here."

Aah laughed and nodded in agreement he then instructed his other pokemon to continue on their aura training and then left with Bayleef who had spoon necklace on her neck.

The spoon was from Alakazam and is used for translation making Ash understand Bayleef through telepathy.

Making their way towards Sunyshore City Ash could feel that Bayleef was worrying about something so he asked.

"Is one of my friends in the city?"

Bayleef flinch then looked at her Master and sighed, "Yes, after you left the park yesterday Dawn and Piplup saw us. Piplup immediately recognized Infernape and approached us asking where you went."

Ash nodded his head and said, "It is not yet time to reunite with them."

Bayleef kept quiet and thought 'Master knows that if he starts hanging out with his old friends then he will surely meet with pikachu again.'

Flashback 5 years ago

"Come on Pikachu! we should be the first to reach the top of the mountain and be a role model to the rest of the group." Ash said with a smile on his face as he and pikachu struggled to climb the steep mountain.

"Pika-pi!" Pikachu nodded his head and gritted his teeth doing his very best to not disappoint his partner.

With sheer will power and determination the two of them finally reached the top, Ash grinned and turned towards his partner Pikachu.

"We did it Pikachu, we conquered our very first goal in coming into the mountains."

Pikachu took a few deep breaths and smiled towards Ash.

A few minutes later the first batch of pokemon arrived being Charizard, Infernape and Sceptile. the rest of the pokemon only reached the top after an hour.

Ash scanned his 35 pokemons who were currently resting and said, "Good job everyone, this is our very first step to becoming the strongest team in the world!"

All of Ash's pokemon cheered and all of the were eager to also become the best.

A few months later the group were currently training inside a volcano on Hoenn region. they just finished their daily training Pikachu with a bunch of other pokemon were huddled in a corner.

"Pikachu, can you tell Master to lessen the training?"

"Yeah Pikachu, If we keep on training like this then my body won't be able to take it."

The other pokemon all nodded in agreement telling Pikachu about how hard the training was and they can't keep up any much longer.

Pikachu started to worry and told the group to rest up while he approached Ash who was sparring with Infernape.

"Pika-pi!" Pikachu called out.

Ash and Infernape stopped then turned their attention towards Pikachu who approached them.

"What is it Pikachu? if you are done resting then tell the others to pair up and start with their mock battles." Ash said while wiping the sweat on his forehead.

Pikachu looked at Ash with worry in his eyes and explained what the other told him earlier.

Ash's bond with Pikachu was deep and he could easily tell what Pikachu was talking about, he massaged his glabella trying not to frown, and said to Infernape, "Call the others and tell them to meet up here as soon as possible."

Infernape nodded his head clearly worried what was about to happen.

A few moments later all 35 pokemons were gathered in front of Ash some were clueless like Charizard and Sceptile while the others were clearly nervous.

Ash scanned each of his pokemon and said, "I got informed that some of you guys cannot keep up with our training anymore. I understand where you are coming from and I will not force you guys to keep on training because it will be useless so for those who wanted to give up please step forward."

Silence complete and total silence, the pokemons looked at each other clearly waiting for someone to step up first and a while later a fat pokemon stepped up, it was not other than Snorlax.

Ash nodded his head and waited for the others to step forward, and as expected after Snorlax stepped up the other pokemon followed. Tauros, Muk, Kingler, Noctowl, Totodile, Donphan, Quilava, Corpish, Torkoal, Swellow, Snivy, Scraggy, Palpitoad, Unfezant, Boldore, and Pignite.

Seeing that no one was stepping up anymore Ash looked at his pokemon who had their heads down and smiled, "Don't be sad guys, I know that you did your very best to keep up your training and I'm sorry for pushing you to the limits but I am determined to see this training through and can't lower the training."

He then turned around and took out a bunch of pokeballs and said, "You are free now and I hope that someday when we meet again that you will be a lot stronger."

Everyone was shocked seeing Ash releasing his pokemons and walked back to his temporary shelter, Pikachu looked at the freed pokemon who were staring at Ash's back with reddened eyes they then bowed simultaneously and left.

Pikachu didn't know what to do and went inside Ash's cave, upon entering the cave Pikachu saw Ash sitting crossed legged meditating not even caring that he just released a bunch of his pokemon.

"Pika! Pikachu!" Pikachu shouted asking Ash why he freed the pokemons but Ash continued meditating not even giving Pikachu and explanation.

Pikachu seeing Ash completely ignoring went out of the cave and saw the remaining pokemon clearly confused and waiting for some update from Pikachu.

Charizard, Bulbasaur, Bayleef, Heracross, Sceptile, Glalie, Staraptor, Infernape, Torterra, Buizel, Gliscor, Gible, Oshawott, Leavanny, Noivern, Hawlucha, Talonflame were the ones left all of them were shooked they all didn't expect for their Master to just release the pokemon that quit and were worried about what is going to happen next.