A MONTH AND A HALF LATER

"Stir crazy he says... gone for only a little bit he says" Professor Oak muttered as he shuffled through some papers. He hadn't seen Ash at all for over a month after he had left with Mew on his Dragonair. Ash had sent back a quick message on a normal phone saying he wouldn't be back for at least a month as he got a new lead on a catch and followed up on it.

Professor Oak, in the meantime, had spent about three weeks of the month studying up on Ash's Pokemon. Ash had taken his Dragonair, Bagon and shiny Metang and Growlithe with him along with Mew to follow up on this lead leaving behind his Legendary pokémon. He had tried a couple of times to approach the Three Legendary Birds, but they were very reclusive and stared threateningly at him if he came too close so he left them alone. He would have to wait until Ash was back to look them over properly.

Lugia and Ho - Oh were friendlier as Lugia happily let the wise professor look him over and study him while Ho - Oh was patient and calm because this was a human Ash had trusted and if Ash trusted him then Ho - Oh would as well.

Just a few days ago he had called the Professor's from the other regions and told them of the discovery and had them swear to secrecy. They had all promised to stay silent on the matter and each of them booked the nearest flight to Kanto as quickly as they could.

Professor Oak was just examining Ho - Oh once more when a loud coo got his attention. Looking up his eyes practically bugged out of his skull. Flying towards him was Ash on top of a new Pokemon. This Pokemon was blue and white in color with pointed ears, red eyes, a white tear drop on its head and wings shaped almost like airplane wings.

Coming in for a landing the Pokemon hovered a few feet off the ground with another coo while Ash hopped off "Hey Professor Oak, I'm back." Professor Oak couldn't form proper words and could only point and gape with an open mouth making strangled noises. Ash finally caught on "Oh yeah" he said sheepishly. "This is my new Pokemon Latios."

Finally Professor Oak managed to speak "Ash, what in the name of Arceus have you been doing?"

"Training out in the field for a bit and capturing some new Pokemon as well" Ash responded easily. "Oh yeah, speaking of which, the others will want to meet everyone too." Ash pulled out five more pokeballs and Professor Oak noticed all of them were customized as well.

One of them was a blue in color on the bottom, the top half was a purple color, and on the top portion was a small that looked like a purple pointed 0 (<=> but rotated 90 degrees and smoother) design around the top of the pokéball. The next Pokeball was a reddish-brown on the bottom and red on the top with a Yellow Flame design in the top of it.  The third pokéball was striped Yellow and Black like a bumblebee with six lines on the top and six on the bottom.  Around the center of the pokéball was a blue lightning bolt.  The fourth pokéball was completely light green with 2 blue spheres right above the center of the pokéball.  The fifth pokéball and sixth pokéball were each very similar.  The fifth one was like a normal pokéball, but had purple triangular designs on the top, while the other one was the same but had a blue top instead of red.

"Come on out everyone" he called tossing his pokeballs into the air. Out of the pokeballs appeared five Pokemon, they were Raikou, Entai, Suicune, Celebi, and Latias.

(A/N: Props to those who figure it out without looking ahead.)

Professor Oak seriously couldn't believe what he was seeing. First when Ash returns home he has six Legendary Pokemon and now only a month later he returned with another full team of Legendary Pokemon. Professor Oak didn't realize he was off balance form shock until "Whoa there" Ash called steadying the Professor when he saw him about to fall. "Maybe we should sit down for a bit" he said nervously leading him inside. "Guys, why don't you all go meet the others" he called over his shoulder.

Once Ash led Professor Oak inside of the building did the old Professor finally snap from his shock. "Ash, how... just how" was all he could ask.

Ash just laughed a little sheepishly "Mew's psychic ability is pretty high; so high in fact she can sense when other Legendary Pokemon are around. While out on our run she sensed a few of them and we set out. Latios and Latias were the first one we found."

FLASHBACK

Ash, Dragonair and Mew were flying over the oceans near the Jhoto Region before spotting land. They flew towards the land only for something to fly past them so fast that Ash almost fell off of Dragonair. "What was that" he shouted in shock.

Turning around Ash saw a blue and white Pokemon zip through the air at incredible speeds followed by a red and white Pokémon before stopping near them. The Pokemons released a loud cry before arching its body as though ready to attack again. Ash gasped when he recognized the Pokemon "It's Latios and Latias" he quickly pulled his Pokedex out.

"Latios, the Eon Pokemon. Latios is highly intelligent and can fly faster than a jet by tucking in its wings" his Pokedex told him.

"Latias, the Eon Pokemon.  Latias is highly intelligent and capable of understanding human speech. It is covered with a glass-like down. The Pokémon enfolds its body with its down and refracts light to alter its appearance." the Pokédex also said

From his book Ash read that Latios and Latias were usually very docile Pokemon and liked to avoid confrontation, but these ones looked a little bit territorial. It would explain why these ones shot at him so suddenly when normally Latios and Latias would try to avoid them.

As he wondered that Latios and Latias' eyes glowed with psychic power as did its body. Ash gulped; that was some serious power. There was no place for Ash to land safely to use Dragonair so Ash had to rely on Mew and fight airborne on Dragonair.

"Mew, prepare for battle" Ash called. Mew nodded and arched her own body glowing with pink psychic energy, enough to match Latios' energy output. Finally Latios roared and launched a large ray of pink energy directly at Mew. 'It's Latios signature move; Luster Purge' Ash recognized with awe. "Quick Mew, dodge it."

Mew dodged the attack, but was immediately hit afterwards by a Steel Wing attack form Latios. 'So fast' Ash thought. "Mew keep dodging." Mew flew around as fast as she could while Latios kept chasing after her. Ash thought quickly 'Okay Latios is fast, but it's weak to bug, ghost, ice, dragon, dark and fairy type moves.'

Quickly going over Mew's arsenal of attacks in his head Ash thought of a plan, but he would need to act fast. "Mew Teleport" Ash shouted.

Mew teleported just in time to avoid another Luster Purge and reappeared above Latios "Now use Dark Pulse" he shouted. Mew built up a swirling ball of dark energy in her hands before launching it. The attack struck Latios head on making the Eon Pokemon gave a cry as it plummeted through the air towards the ground.

Latios recovered quickly and flipped over before launching a dark ball of energy that struck Mew. "Shadow Ball" Ash gasped. The attack did quite a bit of damage to Mew since it was one of her weaknesses "Don't give in Mew. Don't forget Latios has many more weaknesses then you do; let's hit it again with an ice beam attack."

While Mew built up an ice beam Latios built up an attack of his own. It was hyper beam and the two attacks hit in midair before exploding. When the smoke cleared both of them were unharmed; the attacks ended in draws. Latios then glowed blue before charging at Mew.

'Dragon Rush' Ash realized. "Mew Ice beam once more." Mew launched another ice beam attack; the attack hit and both Mew and Latios held the standoff for almost thirty seconds before Latios broke through the ice beam and hit Mew sending the New Species Pokemon flying back with a cry. Latios panted after ending the attack; Ash noticed a part of its chest was frozen from Mew's ice beam.

'So Mew's ice beam did have an effect after all' Ash thought. 'If Mew can land just one good solid blow it should be enough.' Looking at Mew he saw she was looking a little tired as well 'I better do it quickly.' "Alright Mew, let's get ready to finish this in one final attack."

"Mew' Mew nodded in agreement.

Latios let loose a loud call before its body glowed a very bright orange color. Ash recognized the attack before it was launched. 'Draco Meteor' he thought before Latios launched the attack. "Mew use teleport to avoid the attack."

Mew began flashing around the area teleporting rapidly to avoid the Draco Meteor attack before teleporting in front of Latios. "Great Mew; Dark Pulse now" he shouted. Mew roared before launching the attack at Latios point blank range. The attack hit and Latios gave a cry of pain as the attack hit right in the spot where Mew's previous ice beam attack hit.

Latios fell from the sky heading towards the water and wasn't flying back up. "Dragonair" Ash called. Dragonair cooed and flew down until they were level with the falling Latios. Ash pulled a pokeball out and tossed it at Latios. It hit and Latios was sucked inside. Dragonair flew under the pokeball and Ash caught it in his hand as they soared back up to Mew.

"Alright, we caught Latios" Ash cheered.

END FLASHBACK

"After that, Latias joined us on her own free will so it could stay with its brother Latios.  After that, we healed up and continued through Photo.  It seemed like when we finally healed up, Mew sensed another three" Ash explained. "Each one took us farther away from home; after Latios I found myself deeper into Johto battling Suicune, Raicou, and Entai. Dragonair did the fighting for all three; she did great and we managed to catch all three of them and got everyone healed at the Pokemon center."

Ash breathed in again and leaned back "After that our quest led us to our final pokémon in the Ilek Forrest where I met Celebi. Celebi was perhaps the friendliest of all of my captures; Celebi was playful and when I met it all Celebi wanted to do was play. Mew and Celebi must have played for three hours; we didn't even need to battle. Celebi came with us on its own free will."

"I... I see" Professor Oak said rubbing his forehead slightly trying to absorb all of the information that he was just given. "Well then... the other Professors will be arriving within a couple hours so... you should take time to rest."

"That sounds nice" Ash said getting up and heading out back leaving Professor Oak alone to recover. He was still in a state of shock; Ash, only eleven years old, was capturing Pokemon that many Pokemon trainers and experts have wasted their lives away trying to catch. It was almost completely inconceivable that Ash, a boy who had been on a journey for only a little over a year, 13 months, had captured not one, nor two, but twelve Legendary Pokemon, and had three Pseudo-Legendary Pokemon, two of which were shiny, and a rare Shiny Growlithe.

Soon the five Professor's showed up to Oak Ranch; they consisted of Professor Elm of Johto, Professor Birch of Hoenn, Professor Rowan of Sinnoh, Professor Juniper of Unova, Professor Sycamore of Kalos, and Professor Kukui from Alola. All of them were very excited to see the Legendary Pokemon that Professor Oak talked about. When they got out to the back of the ranch and saw the Legendary Pokemon they all stared in awe.

"My Goodness Samuel" Rowan said looking at all the Legendary Pokemon in shock and awe. "How is this possible?"

"I've asked myself the same question for a while Professor Rowan" Professor Oak responded in return. "Even when Ash explained it to me I still have trouble believing it."

"Ash? Is HE the trainer who caught them all" Professor Birch asked.

Professor Oak nodded "Yes; he's right over there." Ash was currently running across the field with his Metang and Bagon running/floating beside him. Then he ordered something; Shiny Bagon charged forward with incredible speed and plowed through a rock before stomping atop the rubble with victory. Ash nodded approvingly before ordering his Shiny Metang to do something. Metang then launched a large flash canon at Bagon. Bagon roared and charged the flash canon with its head-butt attack. Bagon's head seemed to absorb the attack before breaking it.

"As you can see he's a little busy training the others so let's move on" Professor Oak said. "Ash has given us permission to study his Pokemon, but the conditions are no invasive procedures and we must swear to never tell anyone of his Pokemon."

"Of course" all of them replied. With that the studying begun; all of the professors were practically gushing over the Legendary Pokemon; each split into groups so Oak, Rowan, and Sycamore looked at Kanto; Elm, Juniper, and Kukui looked at Jhoto; and Birch looked at Hoenn. And  Professor Birch was having the time of his life as he got to look at his regions Legendary Pokemon alone.

Professor Juniper was being gentle with Suicune because she didn't want to anger it by accident while Celebi was happily flying around her head making her smile at the adorableness of the small Pokemon.

Professor Rowan kept a safe distance as he studying Moltres while the Legendary Flame Pokemon merely sat there enjoying the warm sun; Articuno was more friendly and actually lied near the aged Professor so it could be studied easier.

Professor Elm was very quiet as he marked down his notes while watching the magnificent Entai and Raikou stand tall and proud with the wind blowing it's mane around.

Professor Oak was merely studying Mew as best as he could, but the New Species Pokemon was having too much fun flying around Professor Oak for him to properly study it.

Professor Kukui had literally lied down next to Ho - Oh and Lugia and had fallen asleep. #typical

Finally Professor Sycamore kept a safe distance as he properly studied Zapdos as Zapdos was just like a Deerling in real life, friendly, but easy to startle. However he became a little bolder when Zapdos ventured closer to him.

Three hours later and they were still studying; Ash had stopped his training an hour later and was content to watch the Professor's act like excited children in a candy store. He chuckled as Growlithe laid in his lap while watching the Professors. Dragonair had coiled around them comfortingly while Metang merely floated around absentmindedly. Bagon was still ramming his head against all the rocks and trees he could get his hands on.

Oh well Ash decided to just let them have their fun; right now Ash had other things to focus on. The Indigo Conference at Indigo Stadium would begin in a little less than two weeks and Ash was confident he would win and show the world the strength of himself and of his Pokemon.

He had no idea that the title of 'Pokemon Master' wasn't very far out of his reach.