At the moment I exited the room, the door behind me slammed shut. 'Guess I won't be seeing this old place for a while then' I thought to myself. It made me kind of sad, sure I'll get to see the place again someday in the future, but everyone who is closest to me is in this region. And yet I'm being forced to go into some other region that I barely even know of. Except for the pokemon of course. I could name any one of them and give a detailed description.

I sighed and looked at Pikachu, now standing on my left side. "Pika, Pikachu!" he said with a determined face and a fist. I knew my buddy was ready for another adventure. Although it isn't exactly what he had hoped for, it's better than nothing.

With that we made our way back to our room and started packing. I stopped for a moment and looked at all the amazing things I had from my past journey's.  'Man, I have gotten so much stuff, yet I do nothing with any of them' I said in my mind as I walked around the room, looking at the shelves filled with items and photos filled with happiness.

I stopped at a very specific object. "Haven't seen you in years, I would love for us to battle again, either with each other or by my side" I said to the object as I grabbed it but before I could do anything else with it, I felt it shake in my hand. I smiled 'I see you would like that too' I thought as I storing it into my pocket.

I checked around the room one final time. The curtains were open, with a nice look onto nature, everything was clean and in place. I grabbed my suitcase and with that, I opened the door and left. 

Fortunately for me, the professor had already organized an escort. 'Thank Arceus I didn't need to take public transport' I sighed and yet again the object in my pocket shook. "Soon my friend, soon I promise" I said to no one in particular. The driver looked at the front view mirror and asked "Did you say something sir?" I smiled at the mans curiosity, if only he knew how much there was in this world for us to discover. "No, no I did not" I replied politely.

The rest of the car ride was silent. Pikachu and I just stared outside as we saw familiar areas go past us one by one, then finally my eyes landed on one specific place in the distance. It was my old house, the one in Pallet Town. Memories started flooding into my brain, all the times I had left home to start on a journey, and all the times I had arrived back home. 'Home..' I pondered upon to myself 'Where is that now?' My expression changed to a frown, Pikachu noticed as well. 

We eventually arrived at the airport. I took my suit case and thanked the driver. I didn't need to pay anything as he was working for the Kanto Protection Association. While I was on my way to the gate of my flight, I bumped into someone. Someone who carried a familiar face. 

"Sorry about that, I wasn't looking where I was going" I apologized with haste. "No problem, I guess we are both in a rush" He chuckled.

I lifted up my head and my eyes made contact with his face. I immediately recognized him. It was Richie, an old Rival of mine who ended up beating me in the Indigo League. Back then when I was but a rookie, it wasn't because he beat me through battle. I was disqualified from the competition because I could not get a grip on Charizard.

However, all that has changed. Charizard has changed and so have I. We have gotten stronger together. He is the most loyal pokemon and I can always count on him, no matter what, in any situation Charizard will always help.

Meeting up with Richie again was great, I didn't have to wait in complete boredom. We discussed our past experiences, and what has happened since the league. Richie has gone to become quite the popular one. He had nearly won the entire Silver League conference the year after I was there. He became the runner up.

'Wow, he has had a great time on his journey' I sighed as I looked back onto mine, and these past few years.

"So where you headed of to next" I asked with curiosity. He looked as if he has been waiting for me to say this since we started the conversation "I'm going forward and going for the champions throne in Sinnoh" He stated with confidence over the roof.

I chuckled a bit at his outburst "What's so funny" He asked. "Oh nothing Richie, just good luck with Cynthia, she's one of the, if not the most powerful champion of them all" I explained.

"How can she be that powerful?" He wondered. "Well..." I began "You see, when I was at Sinnoh, I had made it to the semi finals of the league. The only thing in my way was this guy named Tobias. Tobias wasn't any ordinary trainer, he had a Darkrai and a Latios, two legendary pokemon" Richie was taken over by fear.

"Now here's where it gets interesting, you see, Tobias had won the league, and went on to battle the Elite Four. But he never became the champion, when I travelled in Unova, Cynthia was still champion. Meaning that Cynthia defeated those pokemon and what ever else he had in stock" I was starting to question Cynthia's power myself.

Silence fell onto our conversation. Neither of us spoke. I was about to pick up our conversation again, but got interrupted by the PA system. "Flight Lapras 037  is now boarding, please proceed to the gate"

"That's my flight" I yelled as I sprinted off towards its direction. I gave a wave to Richie while Pikachu and I were sprinting past the dozens of people.

I reached my gate, handed the person as the desk my ticket and made my way towards the plane. I took my seat and waited patiently for the plane to take off. 

A flight attendant came up to me "Sir, all pokemon have to be put in your pokeball" He stated. 

"Sorry but that's not happening, this guy right here won't go into his pokeball. Even if he is at the brink of death.  Besides I have two tickets, so he can just sit next to me" I said as I pulled out my tickets.

The attendant then proceeded to leave me and my buddy alone. A while later the plane had finally taken off. It felt peaceful to say the least.

I tried getting some sleep while we were flying, since it will be a long trip. But this one phrase came back to haunt me yet again. "Your emotions get the better of you, exploiting your weakness was easy" It kept on repeating in my head.

'Exploiting my weakness' I was starting to wrap my head around it 'My weakness, is my emotions. Meaning my emotions are of no use to me' I stated in my head. Even though emotions were nice to have, Giovanni exploited them and thus lead to his escape. If I throw them away, I have no more weaknesses for him to exploit.'

Pikachu has gotten extremely strong, it wasn't him that was the problem in the battle. We are both physically strong, but I'm not strong mentally. Which lead to us losing the battle. 'Stupid, stupid, stupid me! I yelled at myself in anger within my thoughts.

Luckily Pikachu was a sleep and couldn't see my facial expressions. "It's settled then, emotions are my weakness, if there are none, there is no weakness. When I get to Kalos, the world is going to meet a brand new Ash" I said in a whisper, my voice slowly turning colder by the moment. 

With that I went to sleep on the plane, finally deciding upon my future. 

I woke up to us landing. As I stepped outside I looked around at my surroundings, the place I landed at seemed to be the outskirts of a giant city. I could see the city from a distance. 'I'm guessing that's Lumiose City' I took a guess.

I collected my luggage from the airport and made my way to the nearest pokemon center. I asked Nurse Joy if it was fine for me to stay for a while, notifying her of my current condition. She agreed. I got a room and decided to start unpacking. I flopped on my bed, and went straight to sleep. Pikachu jumped up on the bed and curled itself up next to me.

"Good night buddy" I yawned

"Pika" He replied before entering his slumber.

I woke up to sunlight hitting my eyes. I stretched as I got out of bed and into the bathroom. In the bathroom, I looked at the mirror, at myself 'How much has changed?' I gave it a thought. I took a quick shower and then changed into my new clothes, to be less recognizable.

When I went out of the bathroom I was met with Pikachu waiting patiently on me. We then went on to eat breakfast, we took our time and became stuffed. Before Pikachu and I left for our meeting with professor Sycamore I thanked Nurse Joy.

The walk to the school was around fifteen minutes, not that bad all things considered. As I arrived I already noticed some students at the school, they all took a glance at my way while I was making my way to the front entrance. 'Great getting attention already' I sighed as I opened the door.

I made my way to the office and joined professor Sycamore. 

"You are Ash, is that correct?" He asked in a polite manner

"I am, I was transferred here from Kanto on the orders of professor Oak" I replied

He typed in something on his computer and then picked up the conversation again "I see that you were a part of an elite squad within the Kanto Protection Association, marvelous!" He looked my way, I simply nodded at his direction.

"If it isn't too much of a problem, we would like for you too continue what you do best, but instead of protecting Kanto, you'll be protecting Kalos" He explained.

I looked at the professor in shock 'I'm supposed to be here for my own safety, and stay low, yet here I am being asked to join their Elite Squad' I thought to myself.

"Aren't I supposed to lay low here and not attract attention to myself, you know for my own safety?" I asked confused.

The professor chuckled "Don't worry, this type of Elite Squad does not go into the public known, they are meant to keep their identity a secret. So far none of our contenders have yet to become exposed" He proved.

'Doesn't mean that it will stay like that forever' Doubting his decision.

"Well as long as it beats going to a school, I'm in" I stated. The professor however didn't look like he had anything good to say. "Actually you are still obligated to go to this school" He started "Professor Oak has convinced me to accept you as a student, and so you must be present within lessons. This is for your own benefit" The professor finished.

I sighed, yet again. "Do you have a place to stay?" He questioned "We have dorms that the students use to stay here while they are getting their education, those are pretty marvelous if I do say so myself" Sycamore pointed out. 

I looked at him and said "No that's fine, I already have a place to stay, and I'd like to stay there for at least a little longer." I replied "If you need to find me or contact me just call Nurse Joy at the pokemon center." 

The professor looked like he had nothing else to share so with that I was about to open the door. When he stopped me by grabbing my shoulder. "You can't really go anywhere unless you have a time table" He chuckled.

"Thanks, I guess" I said reluctantly as I grabbed the piece of paper and left the room.

'Well' I breathed out 'Let's see what my first day at school brings'