Of Death and Ponies

It was the pokemon league championships and Ash was down to one pokemon. It was the first pokemon Ash had gotten and was rightfully the owner of his utmost trust and love. This pokemon was called Pikachu.

"Pikachu your my last hope, go and get em'!" Ash yelled.

"Pika!" Pikachu said as he jumped off of Ash's shoulder and onto the battlefield.

"That's all you have? That pathetic yellow rat is seriously your last hope? HA, this is gonna be to easy!" The offending trainer yelled to Ash.

Pikachu winced at being called a "yellow rat", Ash saw this and yelled out words of encouragement to him.

"Come on out Space!" The offender yelled as he threw a pokeball out towards the battlefield.

The pokeball hit the ground with a 'tang' and popped open. A thin red light emerged from the metal ball and it steadily got wider. The beam turned white for a second and before long the white dimmed down until the offenders pokemon of choice could be seen.

"A DEOXYS?!?" Ash gasped.

"Space use bind!" The offender yelled to his pokemon.

"Pikachu get out of there!"

Pikachu tried to move, but was to slow and got trapped in the bind attack.

"Space use hyper beam!"

Deoxys complied and shot a bright beam out of it's chest.

"Pika!" Pikachu yelled in pain, couldn't move do to the bind attack.

"Attack again!"

"Pikaaa!"

"Again!"

"Pikaaaaa!" Pikachu was now screaming in pain, but he wouldn't give up.

"Space use Meteor Mash!"

"That will kill him!" Somebody from the crowd yelled, "Just look at how weak he is right now!"

Deoxys just looked at it's trainer as if it was agreeing with the anonymous bystanders voice.

"Just do it!"

Deoxys turned it's head back around towards Pikachu and started to attack.

Pikachu just stared down it's opponent, he couldnt move because of the searing pain all over his body.

"PIKACHU NO!" Ash screamed.

Ash left the side of the battlefield and ran directly to Pikachu. He crouched down over Pikachu as if to try and save his life. The meteor rammed down hard on Ash and Pikachu. A loud 'CRUNCH' echoed across the stadium. All was quiet.

Ash woke up in a daze with Pikachu next to him.

"Whoa, what a dream." Ash said as he yawned.

"Ah, I see that you have finally awoken." Spoke a deep voice.

Ash looked up and saw something he thought he would never see again.

"Arceus what are you doing here? Where am I? Why do I feel so light?" Ash asked.

"Ash, that wasn't a dream." Arceus spoke.

"Of corse that was a dream! If it wasn't then I would be dead!"

Arceus only stood in silence.

"I-I'm not d-dead am I?" Ash asked in a pleading tone.

"Yes you are."

Ash stood there and looked at Arceus dumbly.

"That can't be true, I-I had so much I had yet to do."

"Look, I know you wanted to be the very best and catch them all, but-" Arceus started.

"SCREW POKEMON TRAINING!" Ash yelled at Arceus.

"W-What?" Arceus took a step back. This was not going the way he had thought it would.

"I wanted to start a family with Misty and- oh god Misty..." Ash fell to the floor and sobbed.

Arceus stood over Ash and regained his composure.

"Seeing as though you died in a very unfair manner I will let you go to one of two different places."

Two portals appeared in front of Ash. The one on the left showed a picture of a blue hedgehog fighting robots and the one on the right showed a picture of six cartoonish looking ponies.

"The one on the left looks really dangerous, so I choose the right portal." Ash exclaimed after much thought.

"Very well Ash, I wish you luck in your afterlife."

"Yeah, thanks Arceus."

Ash stepped through the portal and looked around.

"Well, so much for being a pokemon master." Ash mused.

Ash looked around, he saw that he had ended up in a forest type of place.

"I hope that this place isn't like that forest with all of those Hoothoot in it." Ash commented while he looked around.

Ash reached down to his belt that usually held his pokeballs on it.

"Oh yeah, I forgot that I left them behind."

Ash sat on the ground, he felt alone and cold. He heard a muffled sound from his bag.

"What is that?"

Ash took his pack off and opened it. Sitting in the bag was a sleeping Pikachu, 4 pokeballs atop him, and a note on top of the pokeballs.

Ash picked up the note and read it to himself.

"Dear Ash,

I thought you might want these.

From,

Arceus."

Ash picked up the pokeballs, threw them at the ground, and woke Pikachu up.

A charmander, bulbasaur, squirtle, and Pigeot appeared from the pokeballs.

They all looked around in confusion, then directed their attention to Ash.

"Alright Pikachu, explain to them what happened." Ash commanded. He would rather not speak about it, yet.

After Pikachu finished explaining what had happened, they all turned towards Ash and walked over to him.

They all looked down at their trainer with saddness in their eyes.

"It's not fair, it's just not fair." Ash muttered.

Ash sat down and so did his pokemon.

"I promised mom that I would stay safe, I guess I never could keep a promise that well."

Ash looked up at his precious partners.

"I miss Misty guys." Ash put his head in his hands and started sobbing.

The pokemon all looked at each other and nodded. They all formed a circle around their trainer and hugged him.

Suddenly there was a rustling sound coming from a nearby bush.

"Who's there?" Ash yelled.