The Grace Of Amour In Galar (slow editing)

Chapter 26

A few days later, Ash had beaten Iris and now he was in the finals against none other than Calem. Both trainers were standing on opposite sides of the field, staring each other down.

"Trainers, please release your Pokemon!" The ref said.

"Chesnaught, destroy them!" Calem commanded as he released his starter.

'May as well battle using my newest catch.' Ash thought as he unclipped a Pokeball from his belt.

"Latias, I CHOOSE YOU!"

"La!" Latias called out, spinning around happily.

The crowd roared in excitement as they saw Latias flying around gracefully. Latias then noticed Ash and tackled him to the ground in happiness, but in the process, she knocked off his hood and mask. Ash was unaware at the time because he was laughing and playing with Latias, just like he had done when he was eleven. As the crowd saw Ash's face they gasped, but a group of voices shouting... "ASH?!" cut him out of his thoughts. He felt around his face and realized his mask was gone, and so was his hood. He looked at Latias who seemed to have a very guilty face. He walked up to her and hugged her.

"La-Ti-As." Latias apologized.

Ash gave her some pats on the head and turned to face Calem.

"Bonjour, Monsieur Calem." He teased.

The crowd started booing and shouting at Ash, and he knew he deserved it. He thought that to save everybody, he would have to save them by himself. But by doing that, he lost the things that were most important to him...

"Pika!" Pikachu shouted as he ran through the stands to reach Ash.

Ash looked at Pikachu and saw that he was stressed out. As Pikachu leapt into the air, a large metal hand came out of no where and snatched him. And at that moment Ash knew who had done this.

"TEAM ROCKET!" He shouted in anger.

"Prepare for trouble, yes its us!"

"And make it double, I got hit by a bus!"

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all people's within our nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above!"

"Jessie!"

"And its James!"

"Meowth's my name!"

"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now or or prepare for a fight!"

"Meowth, that's right!"

"Wobba-Wobba!"

"Give me back Pikachu now!" Ash roared.

"Hmmm, how about no." Jessie smirked.

"We have gotten better over our three years absence!" James shouted.

"Not even a Twoip like you can stop us now!" Meowth taunted.

"Latias, use Hyper Beam!"

"Ya, just like Meowth said! Wait what?!"

The Hyper Beam hit Team Rocket and sent them flying through the roof and dropping Pikachu.

"Already?!" Jessie asked.

"WERE BLASTING OFF PREMATURELY!" They all shouted.

Pikachu was plummeting towards the ground, but before he could hit, a red light surrounded him and he stopped. Pikachu was slowly lowered to the ground and many looked on in shock.