After thinking about Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You for the nth time, I have come to a brilliant idea:
Malleus kills ash during the diasomnia chapter. Ash dies protecting Pikachu.
Suddenly, Ho-Oh bursts in through a Reverse World portal Giratina was forced to make (do not anger the phoenix) and does the rainbow revival thing. Because in I choose you canon, Ho-Oh was the one who revived Ash when he died. Hence the rainbow lights and colours and
Subsequently, Pikachu jumps into the rainbow lights, and into Ash's arms once more
I cannot stop thinking about the bit where Pikachu clutches Ash's hat and thunderbolts the sky so hard the storm clears. And then screams his name into the void because
I always cry at that part
(casually rises from the dead)
I ALWAYS CRY TOO (like, ash dies all the time but we got to see Pikachu and the other pokemon mourning UGH 😫)
like, i’m just thinking abt it now
Ash is so death prone and the gods both pity the poor girl, and can’t do anything at all to stop her
all of those were her decision, her decision to protect, her decision to help, despite all the danger, so all the gods can do is revive her to express their gratitude
it happens too much for Giratina’s liking, if it were human, it would have grey hairs everywhere due to the stress she gives it
and is Ho-Oh is pissed? ohhhhh boy you don’t wanna mess with them
they won’t do anything, they’ll just hold a grudge that’ll last for ages
as for Pikachu’s very valid crashout, everyone was already freaking out about the very dead Ash in the dorm (malleus is freaking out the most he killed hisonlyfriendohsevens)
it’s a lot of emotions all around man :/