Rick glanced upwards and spotted Ho-oh in the distance, pushing itself up and spreading it's wings, getting ready to take flight again. He took a deep breath and sighed heavily. "Ho-oh's up again."

Misty narrowed her heads, but kept her head down, looking at the ground. "And getting ready to attack Ash again..." She said, with what sounded like anger in her voice.

Rick glanced over at her then back at Ho-oh. "Ho-oh and Ash are as close as friends can be, arn't they?"

"I suppose they were." Misty said, not changing her voice.

Rick stood up and brushed himself off. "Well, if both Pikachu and Ho-oh believe Ash would prefer to be attacked then to go crazy and blow up half the world, then I'm with them."

"What?!" Misty yelled, jumping up. "Your going to help them attack Ash?! What kind of a father are you?!"

"The kind that will do what he thinks best," Rick said walked back to Charizard. He petted the Pokémon as it stood up and looked back at Misty. "You've been with him longer then I have, you should know that Ash would want it this way."

Misty lowered her gase to the floor. "I know, but...I just...can't do it" She said in a shaky voice, trying to hold back the tears.

"You don't have to," Rick said, trying to calm her as he mounted his Pokémon. He took out a Pokéball and tossed it to her. "But I'm sure Ash would want you to come..." He said as his Pokémon took off, leaving Misty to stare at the Pokéball in her hand, which no doubtedly held Rick's Pidgeot.

"Ash please, we don't want to hurt you anymore," Rick said as his Pokémon, Charizard, Raichu, Scizor, Umbreon, Kingdra and Venasaur, stood beside him.

Pikachu and Ho-oh stood beside Rick's Pokémon, watching as Ash struggled to keep himself in the air until he gave in and fell to his knees. [Ho-oh, I can't take this anymore, there's gotta be a why to get rid of that evil part of him] Pikachu said in a desparate voice.

Ho-oh frowned and closed it's eyes. Suddenly, a thought struck it and it looked over at Rick. "You know what Pikachu, there is" It muttered and concentrated so he could speak through mind to Rick. "I know a way to help Ash"

Rick jumped in surprise at first them looked over at Ho-oh. "What? How?"

Ho-oh smiled and shook his head. "Ash isn't the only human with powers you know"

"Really? Who?" Rick asked in confusion.

"You! You ninny" Ho-oh said shaking it's head. "Dark Ho-oh is the legandary symbol of evil, while I am the symbol of balance. But you have the powers of White Ho-oh, the legandary symbol of good. If you can just focus your powers, you can find a way to release your powers and destroy the evil of dark Ho-oh inside Ash" Ho-oh explained and smiled when it saw Rick closing his eyes in concentration.

Ash pushed himself up and raised his fist in frount of him. "You think you have me beat?!" He called out. "Well you couldn't be more wrong!" He said as a black aura surrounded him. But before he couldrelease it attack, a strange white light erupted from no were, and a white phoenix shot forward towards him. It's left wing seemed to go right through him and he yelled in pain, as White Ho-oh pulled a dark figure out of him as it flew passed. When it flew upwards and tossed the figure forward, it was reveiled as an energy form of Dark Ho-oh. The white and black phoenix's charged forward and collided.

A white light covered the sky and dark Ho-oh dissapeared from view. White Ho-oh glowed until it was a blank glowing figure and turned into a beam of light, traveling back to Rick and dissapearing into his hands. He looked at his hands in confusion then looked up at Ho-oh. "Did I do that?"

Ho-oh nodded and sighed. "Good job..." It said, almost forcefully. He didn't know why he never wanted to complement Rick in any way, and visa versa, it was the weirdest friendship he could think of.

[Come on! Let's get Ash somewere so he can heal up!] Raichu yelled turning and ran towards Ash. "And somewere I can fill up" he thought to himself with a small grin.

"Ash your ok!"

Ash looked up as Misty practicly knocked him over again with a hug. Rather then question her, he put one arm around her adn hugged her back, still confused. When she pulled away he shuffled uncomfortbly. "How'd I get her? And why do I have this funny feelingin my back?" He said as he looked back and his eyes widened. "Oh my god what the heck are they doing there?!" He yelled jumping up with a sudden burst of energy and grabbing the wings on his back, trying to pull them off, until he relised they were connected to him.

"Ash, take it easy" Came Ho-oh's voice. Spotting it at the other side of the room, Ash relised they were in Prof. Oaks Lab. "It's just a Team Rocket experiment gone wrong, but don't worry, having wings like that arn't so bad, they only appeared when you want them to" Ho-oh explained.

Ash looked back and thought about it. He just thought of the wings as not there, and slowly they faded to nothing. They faded back when he imagained them again and his eyes widened. "Freaky..."

[They'll take some getting use to, but you'll be fine, just don't go making them appear in public unless you really need to] Ho-oh warned.

The door opened and Raichu trotted in. In his arms he held a large amount of sweets and chocolate bars, and chocolate was smeared all over his face. [I thought you guys'd be hungry. I didn't eat any on the way, really I didn't!] He said.

Misty had decided to take her chance and tell Ash how she felt, and to her surprise (A/N: Not ours ^^;;) he felt the same way for her.

Ho-oh spent less time at phoenix mountain and more time flying above the clouds, sometimes accompinied by Ash and Rick. Rick had finally learned to master his own powers, feeling a bit stupid because Ash had mastered his and not had them as long as Rick had.

All in all, things seemed alright. But Ash and Ho-oh knew that things could and would happen, no matter what they did. It was in their destiny to protect the world, until Ash decided on a new person to take on the powers, but that wouldn't happen for a long, long time.