Everyone turned back to see whose voice it was. And for a pleasant surprise, there he was Red.

"Hey Red", Gary says. Red was about to reply when he noticed that, everyone else just kept looking at him, especially, Pikachu, Misty, and Serena. Red sweat drops at this.

"Come on you three, don't creep him out like that", Brock says. Red is still creeped out with the look on the face of Bonnie. Gary just grabs him to a corner.

"Phew, I got scared when those people were staring at me like that", Red tells Gary and starts to drink some water.

"They doubt you're Ash", Gary replies. Red spills out all the water in shock.

"What?", he yells, but the others couldn't hear it.

"Your, eating habits, and your sense of dressing, anyone can understand", Gary tells Red.

"So, what do you say?", Red asks Gary.

"Stay away from them, especially Misty", Gary replies.

"Okay, but what do I do, when I need to call you?", Red questions Gary.

"With all those people around me, I can only meet you once every day, same place every evening sharp at 7.00", Gary replies.

"Okay", Red replies walking away.

Red was walking alone through the city, he recognizes small parts of the city. He walks into a cafeteria and takes his place. A waiter approaches him.

"Good Afternoon Sir, your order please?", the waiter asks Red.

"Two Large Chocolate Milkshakes Please", Red replies. The waiter notes his orders and walks away.

"Strange, one guy who can drink two Large Chocolate Milkshakes", the waiter speaks to himself. He then picks up Red's order and walks towards him. In front of Red, there sat a Lucario. "Looks like I misunderstood a good trainer", he thinks, he then places the order, on Red's table.

"Thank you", Red replies smiling at the waiter.

"At your service", the waiter replies.

"What are you waiting for Lucario?", Red says having his drink. Lucario smiles at its master, at starts having his drink, it likes the flavor of it. Lucario's face now has a bright wide smile.

Gary and Brock split up from the others and were walking from in front of the cafeteria. Gary looks at Red and smiles, "Still the kind-hearted trainer the world knew", he thinks. They continue walking.

Meanwhile, Red and Lucario, complete their drinks.

"Anything else sir?", the waiter questions.

"That's enough, ", Red replies.

"That'll be 32 dollars", the waiter tells Red.

"Here", Red says handing him a 50 dollar note.

"A minute sir", the waiter says accepting the money, the waiter goes to bring the change, but Red and his Lucario were nowhere to be found. Red and Lucario walked out of the Café.

"Master, why have you let him keep so much money?", Lucario questions Red through Aura.

"Lucario, I've always told you, I've never had a happy life, I was either a loser, who always lost it, whenever I won people made me a winner because of my kindness, that's what my mom taught me. It seemed like that man had a kid, I saw a kid sitting in one corner of the Café, hungry, so I left a note for him", Red replies through Aura. Lucario could do nothing but smile at Red's kindness.

Meanwhile, in the Café, the waiter was cleaning the table, and he finds a note. On the note with bad handwriting was written, I've seen your son, he looks hungry, kindly accept this money and feed him some delicious outside food – a trainer who lost his life. The waiter sobs after reading this, he was so occupied in his work, he didn't see his hungry son. He then buys him something to eat.

Meanwhile private flight lands in the Unova Airport, a few familiar faces walk out of it, the Alola Champion Gladion, his elite and a few others. And so, do, many of Ash's other traveling companions.

Three days later, many people gathered in the stadium, some crying, some angry, some confused, all we know is people are in trouble. "Evacuate the city!", could be heard everywhere.

Meanwhile, at a distance away from the stadium, five people were running away from the stadium.

"Red, to your left!", a woman shouts. Red looks towards his left, two fangs were about to hit him, but he quickly dodged it. They continue running.

"N, any ideas on how to stop them?", Red questions still running.

"Yeah, battle them", N replies. Gary, Gladion, and Cynthia were running along with Red and N. Suddenly an explosion occurs, and everyone blast to different directions. Red falls away and collapses.

After a few moments Red wakes up, bright light could be seen everywhere around him. No one was around him, it all felt like empty space, he checks for his pokéballs, but realized Lucario has been lost, but at a distance, he could see something shining, something was fighting a monstrous dragon. He runs towards it. He realizes something, "That dream!", he thinks to himself and increases his running pace. He then sees someone behind the dragon.

"Lysandre?", he whispers still running. Gary caught up with Red.

"How come Greninja is fighting, and no one is commanding it?", Red questions Gary.

"Think again Ashy Boy, you are commanding it", Gary tells. Red thinks again, without his knowing, he was actually controlling Greninja. They finally reach the site of the fight. Lysandre, Ash's old foe, was standing there, smiling.

"How TF are you even alive?", Red questions Lysandre.

"Ash Ketchum, I see you survived the explosion", Lysandre says with a smirk. Ash was astounded by this, even Gary.

"How?", Ash/Red questions Lysandre.

"Old foes easily recognize each other", Lysandre replies. While this discussion is going on Cynthia reaches the site.

"Old foes?", Gary questions a bit confused.

"You will not understand what I mean", Lysandre says in a dual tone. Ash was quick to understand the dual tone.

"Gary, it's time", Ash says. Gary hands him a bag full of Pokéballs.

"Charizard went to Charicific valley for training", Gary informs Ash.

Well, at least it did, but while Gary was saying this, Ash's Charizard was back in style, it even brought Mewtwo with it, or should I say, Mewtwo bought Charizard with her. Ash then quickly releases his Sceptile. Greninja, Charizard and Sceptile were now defending his trainer.

Meanwhile, in the stadium, everyone was looking up at the sky in fear. Serena couldn't stand it anymore, she runs out of the stadium, along with Pikachu. Serena looks to her side and finds Gladion. Gladion was on the ground fainted. Serena wakes up Gladion. The two run to find Red and Gary. On their way, they catch up to N.

"Any idea where the others are at?", Gladion questions N.

"No, but if we keep running, we can find them", N replies.

"I don't think we have to run anymore", Serena says pointing at the dragon which was up in the sky, they see the dragon, but they also see a Charizard.

"Charizard?", Gladion says.

"And it looks so familiar", Serena adds.

"That's because it is", a man interrupts.

"Oak! Where are Red and Cynthia?", Gladion questions.

"I was with them until this wall fell and divided us", Gary tells them. While they were talking all this, something shoots itself from the other side of the wall and the wall collapses.

"Red!", Gladion says looking at an injured Red.

"I'm fine", Red says getting up. He runs back into the battle. Serena and the others follow him.

"Lysandre!", Serena says in shock. Pikachu was shocked as well.

"You'll never win. Lucario, Aura Sphere", Ash says commanding Lucario.

"I killed your father, I killed the person whose name made your Alias, I even killed you once", Lysandre says to Red. Gary thinks for some time, he then realizes. According to Ash, before his so-called death, Ash tells Gary that Giovanni was the one who killed their fathers and Red, and Gary knows Ash's alias is Red.

"Red! No, I don't believe it, you killed Ash's father, you killed Red, you killed Ash", Gary says his blood boiling with anger, he understood that it was none other than Giovanni, but why does he look like this. Well, Serena and the others had no clue of what Lysandre is talking about.

"Young man, you killed me to let my soul float around the world without a body, and you left this man half dead under rocks and debris, we both agreed on sharing the body, and that is just to get revenge on you", Lysandre speaks in Giovanni's voice. Serena is now understanding what's happening.

"Ash!", she whispers looking at Red/Ash. Gladion hears this.

"Ketchum! I knew it, that time when I battled you back in Alola, I knew it was you", Gladion says. Pikachu didn't know what to, it was giving angry looks to Greninja. Cynthia was out of words.

Meanwhile, above Ash and the others, a News copter was doing a live broadcast, of the fight between a Mega Charizard X and Dragon Tao.

"Guys, this is no time for confusions or reunions, everyone, we have to stop Dragon Tao, or we'll have to forget the world", Ash says in a serious tone. He feels his contact lenses of no use now, he just takes them off and throws them away.

"The Hero is back", Gladion says releasing his Pokémon. Everyone smiles at this statement, even Ash.