History Fanfic / MasterPokemon

** The author's explanation for Zoru!Ash's occasional feats of inhuman strength. Ash doesn't know how strong humans are supposed to be, so he semi-arbitrarily decided they're as strong as Machamp after watching some television, and adjusted his human form to match. HilarityEnsues.

** Team Rocket realizes a fairly large hole in their plans of "Capturing and exploiting powerful Pokemon:" namely, once they ''steal'' these powerful Pokemon ''from their rightful owners'', said powerful Pokemon will likely just turn on them the instant they get the chance. They offer the example of them capturing a Dragonite, but then as soon as they attempt to use it, it immediately flash-fries the Boss.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Ash in the main timeline having an extremely similar aura signature to Sir Aaron in canon was somewhat interesting, and a little bit of this trope. It gets somewhat blatant that Sir Aaron's Lucario says that Ash ''still'' has a similar signature, given that ''he's not even human.''

* OnlySaneMan: Misty is this for Ash, thus far.

** There's a reason that Ash's mother chose to [[spoiler: pretend to be a human]] for over a decade, and raised Ash [[spoiler: to live in human form.]] [[NoodleIncident It involves]] [[spoiler: [[UnfortunateImplications Hunter J.]]]]

As of Oct 19th, 2015, it also contains snippits of Ash as a Mew, although that is considered a separate, Mark II work when reading them on Fanfiction.net.

* OpenSecret: Almost every one of Zoru!Ash's companions find out his secret. Some in relatively short order. And it's usually Ash's fault. It also seems to be coming out faster and faster with each region - while Ash was able to keep it from his friends and ''most'' of his Pokémon for most of his journey through Kanto, he voluntarily told Dawn quite early in his Sinnoh journey, and it was exposed to Serena within about two minutes of meeting her in Kalos. During a live tv interview before the Kalos League finals, he decides to just drop the secret and reveal publicly his true nature. Meanwhile, Mew-Ash's secret also seems to be like this, although admittedly, he is getting better at hiding.

* BattleCouple: Ash and Laura (or rather [[spoiler:Latias]]). Also Tamamo and Gaheris ([[spoiler:Delia]] and [[spoiler:Cynthia's Lucario]], respectively), back in the days.

** To [[ItMakesSenseInContext elaborate further]], after Ash and the Gang met Koga, the ninja master [[SherlockScan privately pointed out]] to his younger daughter how Ash's clothes (except his hat) while they had travel grass stains didn't have any particularly faded or promenent stains, how his eyebrows "regrew" after taking one of Charmeleon's Flamethrowers to the face (Though he also noted that [[MadeOfIron such a feat]] in and of it self didn't mean much since Ash could have been an [[KiManipulation Aura Adept]] [[note]] Which is technically ''also'' correct as his father is a Lucario[[/note]]), and his utter ''lack'' of stealth skills to recognize that Ash wasn't human. He narrowed it down to Ditto, Zoroark, and Zorua; leaning more heavily to the Dark type family, though he was interested in how Ash's illusion didn't pop if that was the case.
* {{Omake}}: According to Saphroneth, the snippet about [[spoiler:Arceus declaring that Ash will be made the guardian (basically adoptive father) of all the legendaries, bar Latias, because he's basically been ''in loco parentis'' to most of them for quite some time]], is this.

** Mew-Ash isn't at the Viridian City Pokemon Centre that Team Rocket attacked during their first canon encounter, so they don't meet (and as yet still haven't). While the Pokemon being cared for there were transported to Pewter City, they were able easily capture the Pikachu that powered the emergency power (due to them being wild Pokemon) and brought them to Giovanni.

* OpenSecret: Almost every one of Zoru!Ash's companions find out his secret. Some in relatively short order. And it's usually Ash's fault. It also seems to be coming out faster and faster with each region - while Ash was able to keep it from his friends and ''most'' of his Pokémon for most of his journey through Kanto, he voluntarily told Dawn quite early in his Sinnoh journey, and it was exposed to Serena within about two minutes of meeting her in Kalos. Meanwhile, Mew-Ash's secret also seems to be like this, although admittedly, he is getting better at hiding.

** {{Inverted}} in the case of Giovanni in Mk2, who knows better than to actively use the Pikachu the Team Rocket Trio managed to capture, instead planning to use them as part of their customised starter line.

** Seriously endanger Ash? Delia's going to kill you.

** In ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', during the "Ash gets turned into a Pokemon" incident, Misty says that she's glad that no one else was turned into a Pokemon, as she'd hate to be turned into a Psyduck. In this story, the magic doesn't work on Ash, so it turns her into a Psyduck.

** A third one has been written, with multiple alternate-universe Ashes meeting up and comparing adventures- a Canon one, one from Master, Pokemon?, one where he is a Mew, one where he saved the Lucario from the Tree of Beginning, and one from Ashes of the Past.

!!The original series, based on Zoura/Zoroark!Ash, also includes examples of:

* OpenSecret: Almost every one of Zoru!Ash's companions find out his secret. Some in relatively short order. And it's usually Ash's fault. It also seems to be coming out faster and faster with each region - while Ash was able to keep it from his friends and ''most'' of his Pokemon for most of his journey through Kanto, it was exposed to Serena within two minutes of meeting her in Kalos. Meanwhile, Mew-Ash's secret also seems to be like this, although admittedly, he is getting better at hiding.

* OpenSecret: Almost every one of Zoru!Ash's companions find out his secret. Some in relatively short order. And it's usually Ash's fault. Meanwhile, Mew-Ash's secret also seems to be like this, although admittedly, he is getting better at hiding.

* MythologyGag: Ash and Gary used to play hide and seek all the time, but Ash could smell where Gary was. This leads to Gary using Blue's infamous CatchPhrase from ''Videogame/PokemonRedAndBlue''.
** In [[Fanfic/AshesOfThePast Ashes Of The Past,]] during the "Ash gets turned into a Pokemon" incident, Misty says that she's glad that no one else was turned into a Pokemon, as she'd hate to be turned into a Psyduck. In this story, the magic doesn't work on Ash, so it turns her into a Psyduck.

* ScissorsCutsRock: Pikachu's Zappy ability. Like in FanFic/AshesOfThePast, it allows him to shock Ground-Types.

* KickTheDog: Mew-Ash doesn't do anything to defend the Pikachu which Team Rocket were trying to capture during their first canon encounter, thereby allowing them to easily capture the Pikachu.

* OpenSecret: Almost every one of Zoru!Ash's companions find out his secret. Some in relatively short order. And it's usually Ash's fault. Meanwhile, Mew-Ash's secret also seems to be like this, although admittedly, he is getting better at hiding.
* OlympusMons: Latias for Zoru!Ash. Ash himself for Mew-Ash.
** [[spoiler: It goes further for Mew-Ash. Arceus gave Mew-Ash the ability to use [[MoreDakka every attack]] from every Pokémon in addition to being able to transform into them. Including Signature Moves.]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill When Arceus wants a damn nap]], [[PunctuatedForEmphasis HE. GETS. HIS. DAMN. NAP!]]

* OpenSecret: Almost every one of Ash's companions find out his secret. Some in relatively short order. And it's usually Ash's fault.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ash can transform into a variety of Pokemon, although ZoruAsh can only do so without his Ring Target.

** [[spoiler: It goes further for Mew-Ash. Arceus gave Mew-Ash the ability to use [[MoreDakka every attack]] from every Pokémon in addition to being able to transform into them. Including Signature Moves.]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill When Arceus wants a damn nap]], [[PunctuatedForEmphasis HE. GETS. HIS. DAMN. NAP!]]

!!This work includes examples of:
* AdultFear:
** There's a reason that Ash's mother chose to [[spoiler: pretend to be a human]] for over a decade, and raised Ash [[spoiler: to live in human form.]] [[NoodleIncident It involves]] [[spoiler: [[UnfortunateImplications Hunter J.]]]]
** During their first meeting [[spoiler: Ash's father]] tries to impress him with a story about how he and [[spoiler: Ash's mother]] once helped stop a group of criminals. Upon seeing Ash's rather [[SeenItAll underwhelmed]] expression, he's given the abridged version of [[NoodleIncident some of]] [[WeirdnessMagnet Ash's]] [[TheChosenOne adventures]]. [[SoProudOfYou Pride]] and [[OhCrap Worry]] came in equal measure.

** The author's explanation for Ash's occasional feats of inhuman strength. Ash doesn't know how strong humans are supposed to be, so he semi-arbitrarily decided they're as strong as Machamp after watching some television, and adjusted his human form to match. HilarityEnsues.

* AttentionDeficitOhShiny: Mew-Ash has difficulty staying in one form and not using psychic powers.

* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Team Rocket realizes a fairly large hole in their plans of "Capturing and exploiting powerful Pokemon:" namely, once they ''steal'' these powerful Pokemon ''from their rightful owners'', said powerful Pokemon will likely just turn on them the instant they get the chance. They offer the example of them capturing a Dragonite, but then as soon as they attempt to use it, it immediately flash-fries the Boss.
** Also Reshiram, even though he clearly did think about it some, when he decided to [[spoiler:send himself to N in a [=PokeBall=]]]. Though to be fair, he did get the idea from Zekrom's own insanity.

* OlympusMons: Latias for ZoruAsh. Ash himself for Mew-Ash.
** [[spoiler: It goes further for Mew-Ash. Arceus gave Mew-Ash the ability to use [[MoreDakka every attack]] from every Pokémon in addition to being able to transform into them. Including SignatureMoves.]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill When Arceus wants a damn nap]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis HE. GETS. HIS. DAMN. NAP!]]

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Whilst not wearing his Ring Target, Ash can transform into a variety of Pokemon.

** Also lampshaded by Ash when his [[spoiler:father]] tries to impress him with some of his exploits when he was younger... leading to Ash pointing out that he's met multiple legendaries and gone on adventures to literally save the world ''multiple times.''

As of Oct 19th,2015 it also contains snippits of Ash as a Mew.

** And a third one, in which [[spoiler: Hoopa summons four alternate Ashes for an impromptu chat.]]
*** These [[spoiler: other Ashes? The canon one, the AshesOfThePast one, one who managed to save Lucario at the end of the eighth movie (based on a one-shot by Saphroneth), and one ''who is a Mew'' (based on a reviewer's comment)]]

*** These [[spoiler: other Ashes? [[Anime/Pokemon The canon one]], the AshesOfThePast one, one who managed to save Lucario at the end of the eighth movie (based on a one-shot by Saphroneth), and one ''who is a Mew'' (based on a reviewer's comment)]]

** Also Reshiram, even though he clearly did think about it some, when he decided to [[spoiler:send himself to N in a PokeBall]]. Though to be fair, he did get the idea from Zekrom's own insanity.