Ash's Awakening, Sins Of A Father
Disclaimer:
Pokemon is owned by Satoshi Tajiri, Nintendo and TV Tokyo
Hello, and welcome to my first Pokemon fanfic for the year 2017. Its been two decades since the game first appeared and an anime followed, and I must say Pokemon is very popular to the fans, kids and adults alike. I admit I was hooked on the anime back in the early 2000, mainly due to the original series, but a lot of factors caused me to miss many episodes and in the years that passed, I sporadically watched the subsequent episodes and seasons, where Ash Ketchum switched companions, from Misty to May to Dawn to Iris and then to Serena.
Having recently watched Pokemon XY & Z, I learned that Ash has a friend who shared his childhood which turn out to be Serena, and and after reading a Pokemon wiki site where Serena finally kissed Ash off-screen, it intrigued me and after doing some search, I decided to make a fanfic featuring the two, but I also decided to incorporate some drama so as to make this fic unique and original.
While elements of XY & Z will be featured, this fic will have a mix of AU, as the story will be quite different and may include elements from other sources, such as the games. Of course Team Rocket will be there, but this will also feature a villain who will use a method to steal a Pokemon that has eluded him and this would mean using deception.
Well, can't spoil things here, so read on and see where this would go.
Lastly, bring an M-rated fic, love scenes between Ash and Serena will be shown, but in later chapters as I will put more focus on the plot, though the scenes may appear random within the chapters, but expect the romance to take a slow turn given the events and soon Ash will be exposed to those feelings once tjr main plot comes in.
Well, enjoy!
Thirteen years ago...
The scene showed that it is night time, the time now is 20:00, and you can see a woman is at a park where she is waiting for someone, and she appeared worried, apprehensive, uncertain, in which you can see her hand constantly holding her stomach, where a slight bump is visible, and she is wishing that the person she is waiting would arrive, as she seemed desperate to see the person for a certain reason, and you can see that the sky is covered with clouds that looked dark and red, implying that a downpour is about to take place yet she patiently stood there and waited, until someone arrived at the park.
The person who arrived appeared to be a middle-aged man who wears a businessman suit, and the woman appeared relieved to see the person and approached him, in which she embraced him yet the man appeared devoid of emotion as he just stood there as if he is ignoring the woman and yet he asks her why he called him and why arranged a meeting at a park, and there the woman finally spoke and tells him the reason why, her face filled with tears and is hoping forna good sign from him the moment she tells him why she called him here.
"What was that...?"
"I...I'm pregnant..."
"That's all...?"
"Yes..."
"..."
"Please...what should we do...?"
"You summoned and called me out here just for that...?"
"B-but..."
The woman is identified as Delia Ketchum, and she tells the man, identified only as Giovanni, that she is five months pregnant, and said that he is the father of her child, in which it is slightly revealed that Giovanni befriended and seduced Delia into having sex with him, and during the brief affair he acted like a cassanova, flattering her with romantic words which Delia fell for, due to him being a successful businessman, but unknown to her Giovanni is secretly a leader of a criminal organization that specializes in stealing rare but powerful Pokemon, and after hearing what Delia told him, he sighed in annoyance and told her he wants nothing to do with her or her child, so he turns away which Delia stared wide-eyed in shock and tries to get him to take responsibility.
However, Giovanni coldly and cruelly told her to have an abortion to solve the problem and said he made a mistake of SCREWING with her without using PROTECTION and said that he was simply using her just to ease his boredorm and told her that he does not want to see her again and Delia cried as she begged him to at least give financial support for their child, which Giovanni sadistically rebuke her, saying that he rather have the child inside her aborted than letting him born, so he told her to leave at once or else he will send his men to have the fetus inside her forcefully aborted, even hinting that he has CONNECTIONS and said that if she tries to squeal him to the police he will make his threat a reality.
"...and I mean it."
"You...you can't be serious...!"
"I am."
"Giovanni...!"
"If you want that bastard to live...stop pestering me...or I will send someone to shut you up...especially if you try to squeal me to the social welfare department..."
"No...please...at least give me a name for our child..."
"Get lost...I don't want to see you again...and I hope you get a miscarriage."
"..."
As Giovanni left, Delia knelt to the ground in shock, and minutes later rain falls down and she was drenched, and she started to sob upon realizing that she was made into a sex toy for Giovanni and that he has no intention of at least acknowledging their child, and even threatening to have the child aborted if she tries to tell the police and/or the social welfare about his abandonment of her and their child, and she cried bitterly until a neighbor of hers passed by and saw Delia crying in the rain, and helped her up and went to their neighborhood home to help her dry up.
An hour later, Delia's neighbor was quite shocked and incensed upon hearing what Giovanni told her, and she advises Delia to tell the police about what he said, though Delia is worried that what Giovanni said may be true but the neighbor assured that Giovanni is just scaring her and said that the threat is a crime and that Giovanni should answer for that, and told Delia that she cannot just let a man like Giovanni use their unborn child as leverage and get away with it.
"You heard me, Delia...don't let that guy intimidate you!"
"But...what if..."
"He made a mistake of abandoning you...so now you must strike back, especially after giving you a grave threat!"
"But..."
"You must fight back, Delia! Fight for your honor! Protect your child!"
"You...you are right."
"That's the spirit, Delia...now pick up the phone and call the police!"
"Okay..."
The neighbor's words seemed to get through Delia, and she seemed to take heart on the words and is about to reach the telephone when an unspecified Pokemon, about the size of a normal-sized bulldog, smashed through the window and spits out a huge fireball and hits the neighbor, and she screamed as she is incinerated within the minute, reducing her to burnt bones, and Delia was shocked by this as the unidentified Pokemon had her pinned against the sofa and the telephone rang, which she nervously answered it and her eyes widened as the caller spoke to Delia in a very cruel and sadistic tone, instilling fear within her.
"Hello, my dear..."
"Y-you...!"
"Like my my little greeting...?"
"Giovanni...what are you...?"
"I told you, didn't I...? If you try to squeal me...I will make my threat into a reality...just like what happened to your friend in front of you..."
"N-no...!"
"I could have you killed right away...but being a GENTLEMAN and the one who took your virginity away...I'll let you off with just a warning...but if you try that again...you can see your unborn child in a toaster...so I would advise that you leave town...and live your damn life away from me...I don't care where you go...just as long as you stop pestering me. Good riddance."
"..."
The caller turns out to be Giovanni, and he told Delia that he meant what he said, and told her that her neighbor is just an example and said that with his command he will command the Pokemon in front of her to kill her if she attempts to squeal him out, and told her to move to another town and forget everything she knows about him, and told her that as long as she do as she is told, she can live quietly, though he made it clear that he has no connection to the child she is carrying and told her to stop pestering him or else she would GET IT.
Giovanni even said that he is WATCHING HER and warned her that the moment she opens her mouth about him she will meet an instant death.
After the call ended, the Pokemon left, and Delia was in a state of shock, and it took 10 minutes before a neighbor noticed smoke coming from the smashed windows and checked it, where she shrieked upon seeing the burnt corpse and this alerted the rest of the neighbors. Several minutes later police arrived, and upon questioning Delia, she only told them about the Pokemon suddenly attacking and left, as she is fearful that Giovanni might command it to kill her, and the police had no other leads and deemed it an isolated attack, and had Pokemon hunters find it.
Within the week Delia hurriedly left her place due to fear of Giovanni threatening her and she left the town she is staying and eventually settled at Pallet Town. She spend the next four months living quietly until she gave birth to her first and only child, a boy which she named him Ash. As the doctor and nurses told Delia that her son is healthy and normal, they were a it bothered as the father of Ash is not around, and Delia went silent as she vowed never to tell her new-born child about Giovanni out of fear for his safety.
PRESENT TIME
The scene shifts at Pallet Town, where Delia is washing the clothes and is living a happy, yet quiet life, as she is thankful that during the 13 years she and her son Ash were living peacefully and that no one came and threaten them, and so far she is quite content with the way she and her son are living, yet the past seemed to sporadically haunt her, especially when she saw her neighbors cooking barbecue outside their houses where the children are with their parents, and one neighbor came to her and greeted, asking how her son Ash is doing.
"So...how is your son doing?"
"Oh, Ash is doing okay."
"Its been a while since I last so him...maybe about several months ago..."
"Yeah...time flies, eh?"
"Last time I saw him is about six months ago before leaving Pallet Town again...so how old is he now?"
"Ash is about 13...he would turn 14 within this month..."
"Has he called you recently?"
"Yes...hr did."
The female neighbor is told that Ash gave her a call and said that he is currently at Kalos Region, traveling with a new group of friends while training to become a Pokemon trainer, and the neighbor told Delia that she is fortunate to have a good son, though she noted to Delia that Ash does not seem to notice that he grew up without a father, which Delia went silent for a while as she was forced to recall her past, and is constantly reminded of the threat that Giovanni made, but she smiled again saying that Ash will be fine and does not need a father-figure, and the neighbor blinked her eyes in confusion at what Delia said.
-x-
Meanwhile, the scene shifts at the secret headquarters of Team Rocket, where you can see Giovanni sitting inside a chair located within his office, and just now he has received report that Butch and Cassidy have succeeded in eliminating Team Sand, an up and coming crime gang who wished to compete against the likes of Team Rocket, and just now Butch and Cassidy entered Giovanni's office, and with them is the Pokemon that threatened Delia 13 years ago, and Butch and Cassidy told Giovanni that the Pokemon has been strengthened and played a vital role in eradicating Team Sand, all of the weak Pokemons are killed and so is the Team Sand leader, having been burned and reduced to ashes.
"The operation is a success, boss."
"Team Sand has been erased."
"The Pokemon you loaned to us has been powered up. He played a vital role in eliminating Team Sand."
"Its leader is dead...reduced to ashes thus we won't have to worry about them."
"However...their Pokemon were too weak, about a starter level, and they have no value, so we had them eliminated as well."
"We did scan the Pokemon of Team Sand...they are common-types...no rare ones and not worth your time and investment...so we killed them."
"Our apologies if we wasted them without consulting you..."
"It is fine, Butch...Cassidy...you did a splendid job...good work."
Giovanni smirked at the good news as he has just solved a nuisance candidate, and while hearing that the Pokemons owned by Team Sand were killed, he is not dismayed after finding out through hacking that the Pokemons of Team Sand were of low levels and have no worth to Team Rocket, so he is fine with it and when told by Butch that Team Sand's base has been destroyed, Giovanni nodded as he is pleased with it, do that the police won't be able to find evidences that would lead them to Team Rocket. As the unidentified Pokemon went to Giovanni, he fed the Pokemon with food as reward, which somewhat earned the jealous ire of Persian, and Giovanni petted Persian as he assured to him that he is irreplaceable, and the feline Pokemon is appeased.
By then Butch glanced at the unidentified Pokemon and asks Giovanni if he did the right thing in scaring Delia to leave 14 years ago, reasoning that she might SPILL THE BEANS about him leaving her, but Giovanni smirked and told Butch not to worry, as he succeeded in intimidating Delia into forgetting him, and in the span of 14 years, Delia has not said anything and it is enough to assure Butch that Delia will never rat him to the police.
"...as you can see, that woman never ratted me out...so I am safe."
"Are you sure, boss? It would have been better if you killed her back then...its a risk if she took the courage to stand up to you."
"Fear not. That woman does not know where I am...and if she tries to sell me out, I will don a disguise to fool the police...not to mention I have contacts with some of the police...I can use them if needed."
"I see."
"That woman knows what would happen if she crosses the line...I can have her killed off anytime. She knows it and that's why she hasn't ratted me out till now."
"Hmm...you have a point, boss."
"So now you should nit worry about it. Understand?"
"Yes, boss."
Butch nodded as he felt assured that there would be no problems, until the intercom speaker blared, where Giovanni pressed the button and spoke to the speaker, a very familiar voice is heard, and Giovanni sighed as he recognized the voices that came out from the speaker.
"H-hello, boss..."
"W-we are here..."
"Reporting...for...duty...ow..."
"We...failed to catch a Pikachu..."
"But we...did manage to...catch a rare...Pokemon..."
"Its...quite big...but we managed to sedate it...though bringing it here was a problem though..."
"At least we made up for it for our...failures..."
"Would you...like to...see it, boss...?"
The voices that came from the intercom were from Jesse and James, and judging from the tone of their voices, Giovanni can tell that Jesse and James had just bungled another assignment, yet when told that they managed to at least capture a RARE Pokemon, he is willing to see this Pokemon and judge for himself if it has its worth or not, and told them to report to his office at once.
To Be Continued...
Hope you liked the opening chapter, and while there is no action here yet, it did show an original story on how Delia gave birth to Ash, as in the anime Ash's father was never seen or mentioned, thus it leaves it open to imagine if he is a good person or not. Another inspiration for this is that in the game, Giovanni has a son named Silver, but this is also not mentioned or explored in the anime, so that gave me an idea on how to make a story where Ash would meet his biological father, though the confrontation would take several chapters later.
While Ash himself is not shown, he is mentioned, and eventually he will appear along with his friends.
Preview:
The next chapter comes in, where Giovanni makes a discovery and decides to use it to his advantage, while Ash and company are shown to be traveling around Kalos Region where they are in the midst of training their Pokemons in an effort to challenge a gym leader.
