I made my way towards the office. I passed Professor Oak and took a seat in front of his desk.

'Great, more sitting and now to be scolded' I thought to myself with a sigh

I took a glance behind my back and noticed the professor give his assistant a wave along with a smile. He then turned his head towards my direction, and his expression immediately changed as he closed the door.

I gulped, and started the conversation "Let me guess I'm here because I was reckless and shouldn't of rushed off by myself, and here you are about to..." Before I could finish I was cut off by the professor "Good job on the mission Ash"

I was taken aback by the complement, all I did was rush in without thinking and end up failing at capturing Giovanni, unless...

"What do you mean?" I questioned the professor. "Don't you remember? I guess the damage could have done something to your memory... But, good news! Team Rocket is disbanded and Giovanni is most likely gone along with them!" He added positively.

"Giovanni is gone along with them?" I was getting more and more confused by the minute. "Yes, Giovanni was not located within the premises of the building, and his helicopter was there, luckily the police apprehended the pilots before they could escape." My mind was running 50 kilometers an hour. 'But I'm certain I saw him leave' My thoughts now taking over.

I glanced at Pikachu, he had a similar reaction. That's when I knew that he indeed, did escape. Although covered it up as though he had gone from this world, along with the rest of his evil organization.

"It was fortunate we found you when we did, you were critically injured and needed immediate medical care. That and we were about to blow the building up" The professor commented. I realized that now, the rest of HQ didn't even know Giovanni escaped, they just came to the conclusion that he went with the explosion.

'Should I tell them? If he is still alive he needs to be stopped' I tried to come to a conclusion and decide on a choice. 'What's the point... As if they are going to be able to find him' I disagreed with myself. 'But then again, this is valuable information for the case, and could fill in some missing gaps...' I was in deep thought, each choice was contradicting the other.

'No' I made up my mind. 'This has gone beyond the reach of the Kanto Protection Association' By not telling them this, it could come back to hurt me later. 'This is now personal, I don't care what consequences lie ahead' Now confident in my decision.

"Ash, Hello are you there?" Professor tried to contact me, but failed.

"Ash I'm gonna need a response to what I have just said" He tried again.

I looked up at him, and apologized for not paying attention. I asked if he could repeat what he had just said to me.

"You've really been out of it today" He started. "Anyway, from the news, it is quite obvious that you are unfit to go back into line of duty. You are endangered to a personal attack from ex-Team Rocket members." I listened, although started caring less and less.

I was out of it completely, I nearly lost my attention again until I heard a specific phrase "You are being moved to another region for your own protection" I stared at the professor with excitement in my eyes.

"So will it be like a journey, like those I use to go on before?" I asked, trying to remain calm. 

"Well not necessarily, with your current power, you would become quite popular with your reputation with pokemon battles, which is the exact opposite of what we want" The professor explained. I was really hoping it would just be me and Pikachu again, back on the road.

"If I'm not allowed to go freely during my stay on the journey, what will I be doing If I may ask?" 

The professor then motioned me to go onto his side of the desk. I stood up from my chair, struggling a bit from my injuries. I took a look at the monitor connected to his desktop computer, and saw the homepage of a high school.

"Lumiose High School, really? You are sending me to some children's playground?" I asked the professor annoyed. "It wouldn't hurt for you to get some education while you are in hiding" he stated.

"Well, not like I have much of a choice really" I sighed. Going to school will be boring, especially since its a pokemon school, dedicated to education based on general studies of pokemon. 'At least all the classes will be a piece of cake' Thinking optimistically. "And what region is this said high school located?" I questioned.

"Well it's none other than the Kalos region my boy!" He stated a bit over excited. 'The Kalos region ey, the region of love, or so they say' I said to myself in my head. "Pika, Pikachu" Pikachu spoke up the first time in a while. "Finally awake I see" I stated to my buddy. 

He was motioning to one of my pokeballs attached to my belt. Professor Oak caught onto what Pikachu was trying to say. "Wow Pikachu I'm surprised you even know such a thing" He said in awe. "Know what?" I looked at him confused. The professor chuckled a bit "That Greninja of yours, isn't it originally from the Kalos region".

That's when it hit me. Professor Oak was right, I completely forgot. My Greninja that used to be a Froakie, was from Kalos. He got imported here by some pokemon hunters, I smiled thinking back on those days, back when we first met. "Yeah, it sure is" I simply said. 

"You know, you still haven't mentioned how you two met" The professor looked at me ready to hear me out. "That's one long story professor, definitely for another time" was my short response. I really did not want to go over the story.

There was a moment of silence before Professor Oak broke it "Well I guess since you don't want to share it, there's no need for me to bug you about it." I then saw him glance at the clock and frown. "We won't see each other for a while, I hope you have a wonderful time in Kalos" he added.

I was confused, firstly that he said that as he looked at the time and secondly that we wouldn't see each other in a while. "Why? Isn't there any communication devices in Kalos?" I wondered.

"No, for your own safety you shouldn't be contacting any of us here in Kanto. Once you go to Kalos you will meet up with their Protection Association and they will be in charge, meaning you will be needing to talk more to them than us" He explained in a short paragraph. 

'Of course... for my own safety' I doubted that completely. 'How does me working with the Kalos Protection Association keep me safe exactly.'

"Sorry to end this so quickly, and on a short note, but your flight is already scheduled for today. Make sure you pack up everything you will need on your journey" The professor delivered with a frown.

With that he escorted me out of the office. We gave each other a hand shake and with that, my new journey had just begun.