Wait I should take you seriously

Chapter-1

"Pokémon talk"

"Normal speech"

'thoughts'

"Pokémon moves"

When Ash Ketchum returned home from the Kalos league, the last thing he expected was to find most of his friends and rivals waiting for him in his living room. He had never received visitors after any of his other journeys, and couldn't think as to why they suddenly wanted to meet up with him now. Besides, didn't they have their own journeys to worry about? It was all extremely confusing, and it was made even more so by the fact that all of them were wearing expressions ranging from anger to boredom, to discomfort.

'Did I just walk into the middle of some big fight or something?' Ash wondered to himself. Then, out loud, he said, "Hey, guys. What are you all doing here?"

Misty, as usual, was the first to speak. "Guys, let me handle this. I can give it to him good," she said, narrowing her eyes at the raven-haired boy.

"Why does that sound like an innuendo?" Ash heard May whisper to Dawn.

"What's an innuendo?" Ash asked curiously.

May just shook her head. "Not now, Ash. Misty has something she wants to say to you."

Misty nodded in thanks to the brown-haired girl before turning to face Ash again. "Right. So, Ash, we've been talking and we decided that it's time for you to give up on your dream of becoming a Pokémon master," she ranted. "You've been at it for, what, six years now? Yeah, six years, and you still haven't won a single league! I mean, I get that winning a league isn't a walk in the park, but shouldn't you have won something by now? And no, the Orange Islands league doesn't count because you only had one league fight there. You don't even evolve most of your Pokémon, and every good trainer knows that's something you're supposed to do. If you can't even follow the basics, you have no chance of ever becoming a Pokémon master."

"Yeah, and you've been holding us all back," May added. "I could have become a top coordinator if it wasn't for you." Ash then shot her a look of confusion, but secretly had a look of being pissed behind it.

"And that's not even counting all the danger you've dragged us into," Cilan spoke up. "We could have all died thanks to you."

Throughout their tirade, Ash found himself growing hungry and wandered off into the kitchen to get something to eat. After searching for a few moments, he finally settled on a banana and went back to the living room. When he returned, he found Misty fuming silently, while the rest of them stared at him with expressions of shock, annoyance, and, in some cases, amusement, Dawn most of all.

"Sorry, I wasn't listening to anything you said. Do you mind repeating it?" Ash asked casually, tearing off a small piece of banana and giving it to Pikachu.

Misty clenched her fists. "Ash, you are such a–a–oh, forget it!" she raged. Still fuming, she turned to face the rest of his friends. "Anyone who agrees with what I just said, come with me."

She turned and stormed out of the house, followed closely by May, Max, Morrison, Cilan, Trip, Cameron, and Trevor. Ash stared after them in confusion, wondering what it was that Misty had planned on calling him.

"I'm such a what? You didn't finish!" he yelled after her. Shrugging, and after flipping Misty and the others that walked out with her in his head, Ash turned back to the rest of the group. Ash then said, "So, what brings you all here? Not that I'm not glad to see you, of course. I just didn't really expect any visitors."

The rest of his friends stared at him. "Um...Ash? Are you feeling okay?" Dawn asked finally.

Ash rose his eyebrows. "Yeah, I'm feeling great. Why wouldn't I be?" he asked in confusion.