The gray nebulous smoke filled the stadium without a moment to spare. Darkness began to engulf my surroundings, this reminded me of something. Something that was not a pleasant memory, it was one of my nightmares. Where I got surrounded by darkness and couldn't escape it. My body began shaking vigorously, my eyes frozen staring at the ground. Fear made its way into me, slowly taking control of my emotions.

I remember this feeling, the same feeling as that fateful day. The memories of my mom's last moments going through my mind. I shook my head in order to reclaim my consciousness and yelled out "NO NOT THIS TIME!" I grabbed a pokeball on my belt and without a single moment of thought, I released the beast of its cage. 

The blue light disappeared and revealed a dragon looking pokemon. The color of this beast was primarily orange with a cream underside from the chest to the tips of its tail, which burned with a insurmountable scorching hot flame. Two large wings with blue-green undersides sprout from its back.

"Charizard, use wing attack to clear up the smoke!" The draconic pokemon let out a deafening roar as it flew up into the air and with a single flap of its wings caused all the smoke to immediately clear up, the power of the blow was extremely high, and caused some students to hold on in order to not get blasted away with the smoke. 

I was standing in the middle of the open field, my partner landed next to me. I thanked him, while others looked at awe at my powerful pokemon, my attention was towards the origin of the explosion. Without a moment to lose, the stadium began filling with people wearing orange suits and wore orange hair styles.

I watched in shock as they began throwing nets and capsules that contained all the pokemon in their cages. Seeing the risk, I told Pikachu to get into the bag "Pikachu, hide in the bag, and stay in it. You are still recharging from the battle with Garchomp" The mouse pokemon hesitated, but got into it "Pika, Pikachu!" He showed me a fist demonstrating his determination and belief in me.

"Ahh!" I looked onto the end of the battlefield, my eyes were disturbed to find Cynthia to have a ring shaped object around her waste, this trapped her hands as well. The mysterious figures then proceeded to cage Garchomp "GAAR!" The dragon-ground type yelled as it slammed against the cage doors.

A member of the attack walked into the open, it seemed to be a she. The female had purple hair, and opposed to the other villains, the clothes were more high ranking. I could tell that she was the leader behind this attack. I then noticed a machine in her hand, it was to enhance her voice. The announcement went as such "We have come to claim your pokemon, to release them into the chosen world! Humans have been stained by greed and lost their way. You all call each other friends, but the way we see it, you are all only abusing these pokemons power for your own selfish needs!" 

I've had enough of this, I made my way towards her, only to be stopped by four of the members. "Where do you think your going?" One of them asked "This is no time to play hero, kid" Another added in "Hand over your pokemon, no one needs to get hurt" I snapped my fingers, Charizard came flying in as he used flamethrower to get them away.

I charged towards the high ranking member only to be stopped by a large, purple, scorpion-like pokemon, it was Drapion. I side stepped, and went backwards "Well aren't you being the hypocrite!" I shouted at her direction "Telling us that we abuse pokemon, yet you are using pokemon for evil doings!" This caught her attention, she laughed. The type of laugh Giovanni does, sounding like a maniac.

"This Drapion has been chosen as one of the members who is fit for the new world! Get in our way, and we will demolish you!" This wasn't going anywhere, these pokemon are suffering and need to be free. Reason won't suffice in this situation. "Charizard, flamethrower!" The orange beast exploded the scorching blazes hiding within its core. The member dodged and walked towards Drapion "Don't make us do anything you will regret!" I snapped back "Same, goes here. You are harming innocent pokemon. I'll never stand by and let you do that. I don't know who you may be, or what you're real intentions are with these pokemon, but I will put a stop to you!" 

"If it's a battle you want, a battle you will get! Drapion use venoshock!" The aggresive pokemon fired two sets of poison at Charizards direction "Dodge it and use seismic toss!" I commanded. Charizard blasted off the ground with haste, dodging the weak attack and grabbing Drapion. "Drapion, use poison fang to stop it in its tracks!" Drapion followed the trainers order and hit Charizard, causing the fire type to become poisoned. I could see pain in Charizards eyes.

'Charizard, I know you can do this. You've gone through way worse, don't let mere poison defeat you. I trust in you. I believe in you!' As if Charizard had heard my thoughts, he picked up the speed and moved in a circular motion in the sky before darting towards the ground in an unimaginable velocity. Right before reaching the ground, Charizard threw Drapion with all of its strength into the ground, ending the battle.

"B,But... how! You are a school kid, and you beat my Drapion!" She looked around, and her gaze was behind me, I rotated my head a bit, only to be surprised to notice Serena running up to me, for Arceus knows what reason. "Ash, be careful!" She shouted towards my direction. "Serena, what are you doing! This isn't safe-" I was cut off by a command "Manectric Discharge, and aim it for the girl!" 

Everything seemed to freeze, I had conflicting emotions regarding the situation. My mothers body flashed before my eyes, she was laying on a hospital bed, it felt as if I was reliving the horrifying experience. She then turned into Serena. 'No, not another person that lost their life because of me' It was a split second decision but I decided to take the hit for her. I jumped in the path of the electric type move and absorbed all of the energy, it wasn't as painful as Pikachu's thunderbolt, yet still painful enough to feel it. "Ash, No!" I heard Serena scream from behind. I fell to my knee, while I heard the female team flare member laughing in the distance 

"I see that no matter how strong your pokemon are, there is still something that can weaken you" 

My expression changed, and anger took control of my mind and body. I wanted to end this, but could barely move. The discharge must have paralyzed me. I winced, but what shocked me the most, is when Pikachu jumped out of the backpack, full of energy. My buddy bounced off of my shoulder and began charging his inner electricity "pika, pika, pika, PIKA-CHUUUU!" and released a massive bolt of electricity towards team flare.

"You will pay for this one day! Team flare lets get out of here. We got the pokemon we needed!" The female commanded the rest of the grunts as they began dragging all the pokemon away. Charizard may be poisoned but that doesn't mean he will give in easily. "I don't think so, Charizard blast burn full power!" Charizard's eyes widened as if a sudden urge of energy had engulfed it, the draconic flying type smashed its hand into the ground, causing an earthquake and a massive explosion.

I turned around to see many faces worried about their pokemon, but given the thought that none of them could break through the cage from the inside, I was hoping that they would be fine from the blast burn. The smoke cleared up to show team flare members all on the floor, completely wiped out. Although most of the pokemon were fine, there were some who had been slightly injured. I walked up to each and everyone of those pokemon, giving them my sincerest apologies while making sure to heal their wounds.

I felt the pain of the electricity go through my body, still being affected by it from the after math. A hand made a connection with my shoulder, I turned around and threw my fist towards the figure as a result of my reflexes, only for it to be blocked. "Ash, it's over. The evil crime organization is gone, marvelous work!" Sycamore appreciated my actions taken against team flare. Cynthia partook in the discussion as well "Ash, I can't thank you enough. Without you I don't know where Garchomp would have been dragged off to, and for what reasons" 

"Do either of you know who they were?" I asked with seriousness in my voice, as well in my eyes "Team Flare is the biggest organization in the Kalos region, think of them as the Team Rocket of Kalos. But remember Ash, same as the marvelous job you did in Kanto, you will disband them all the same!" That's when I remembered when I was laying half-conscious on top of Team Rocket headquarters. I did never tell anyone, so they all still must assume that Giovannie disappeared, along with the crime institution.

The professor picked up again "Ash, I- Actually, the school and the champion of Sinnoh cannot express our gratitude enough to your heroic acts today. We give a massive thank you for stopping team Flare." I shoved Sycamore's hand off of my shoulder, I gave him a cold expression, and Cynthia noticed. She still doesn't know what happened to me. I walked off towards the exit and put sternly to the professor

"I didn't do it for you"