Ash Ketchum, a 14 year old boy who achieved many ranks in the Pokémon league, with one goal, becoming a Pokémon Master. He's running down the path that leads to Pallet Town, his hometown. The atmosphere around him is gloomy, sky's dark and it looked like it could rain at any given time. But it doesn't stop him and his buddy, Pikachu, from dashing towards home.

"Hey, Pikachu! Race ya home!" The electric rodent agreed and quickly sprinted off with a Quick Attack.

After 5 nonstop minutes of running after Pikachu, he finally reached home, greeted by a certain electric rodent, sitting on a beach chair under an umbrella. "Pikachu, that was cheating! Anyway," Ash continued, getting all hyped up all of a sudden,

"Let's go inside. Wonder what Mom's gonna do." Ash was about to open the door, and that's when he heard shouting from multiple familiar voices.

"Misty, what in the name of Arceus are you talking about?!"

"Can't you hear, Ash as far too weak! He never won a single league!"

"You guys have NERVE to betray him! He's done way more that you ever would!"

"Yeah, Gary's right."

"Max, get over here right now! I am your sister, and Ash is just a little.."

"Shut up! You people don't even know what you are doing! Hmph, pathetic."

"Shut it, Paul. Ash is weak and we all know that!"

"If you are talking about Ash, he is Anything but weak!"

(Ash POV)
It suddenly came to me. My head starts connecting the dots. The weather today was terrible. I thought I had a glimpse of an Absol, the disaster Pokémon. The plane ride home was very unfortunate, having a bunch of Pokémon abusers on it. It all makes sense now.

I walk into the door, pretending that I didn't hear anything. My mother forced on a fake smile. "Hey honey, come on in! Your friends are hear to talk to you!" I found this odd, as she usually wraps me into a bone-crushing hug. But I agreed anyway, I wanted to see what the commotion was about. I walked into the room, and saw all of my past rivals and companions standing there. Some of them had genuine smiles on their faces, while the latter on the other hand, looked pissed off at me. I started talking,"Hey guys! Didn't expect you guys here!" To my surprise, my first companion, Misty, spoke up. "Cut to the crap, Ash!" Woah. Didn't expect that tone in a million years. Misty continued, along with the rest of the people with pissed faces. "Ash, give up your dream!" I stood there dumbfounded. Why would Misty, May, Drew, Dawn, Iris, Cilan, Trip, Clemont, Serena, and even my 'Mother' do this? What happened next was heartbreaking. My pokeballs, the ones that belonged to all my Pokémon, were thrown to the ground and shattered. My eyes couldn't believe what they were seeing! "Hah! That means your Pokémon don't want to come with you, loser!" Iris exclaimed.

I quickly ran to Professor Oak's place and pounded on the door. "Ah, my boy, hows it going? I never knew you were coming home." I quickly spared all the details and made it quick. "So some of my past traveling companions and rivals turned their backs on me. The also shattered all of my Pokeballs." Professor Oak quickly responded, "What? No wonder why your pokeballs disappeared. I thought it was Team Rocket! Arrggghh, when I get my hands on them... anyway your Pokémon are longing to see you!" I mentally sighed. At least my Pokémon won't abandon me.

I was walking to the corral, when I heard an explosion. It came from the corral! He ran quickly to the corral, only to see all of his Pokémon and the rivals and companions on his side, battling the betrayers. I quickly sprinted into the heat of battle and yelled a simple but effective word, "STOP!" And with that, everything and everyone froze and turned their heads to look at Ash. "I know that you think that I'm weak. And you may be right." He said, while the betrayers were smirking."And I know that the few of you still support me. But," everyone was leaning forward, to hear what Ash had to say.

3 words that he thought he would never say,

...

"I give up."

Ok, who thought that he was going to say that?
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