Here's the new chapter :D btw Tomboy15103 I love you. Marry me? XD And to Lightningblade49, he's meting one of them...next chapter ;P Along with one of my favorite Pokemon trainers in the anime X3
Disclaimer: Not some guy named Satoshi, so yea. Warning Delia may appear to be OOC
Ash was in his room, wearing his gloves that he wore in the Unova region, he grew quite fond of them, a white T-sheet, blue jeans, and black and white sneakers. He put his hand through one of arm holes in the jacket that was once his fathers, then did the same with the other arm. He grabbed his original hat, that he's had since he first started his journey, and slipped it on his head.
Ash turned to his number one partner, Pikachu, "How do I look buddy?"
"Pika-pi!" Pikachu smiled then ran up Ash's shoulder and rubbed his cheek against Ash's, causing Ash to giggle.
"S-stop it Pikachu!" Ash said between his laughter. "It tickles!" Pikachu only rubbed harder. Making Ash laugh even more. "Okay, okay. Stop it, buddy," Ash manage to breathe out. "We got to show everyone my new outfit."
Ash ran down the stairs to his kitchen seeing Leaf cooking. "Hey aunt Leaf." Ash sat down at the table. "What are you cooking?"
Leaf turned and gave Ash a wink. "That's a secret."
Ash leaned back against his chair put his hand behind his head and looked up at the ceiling, "Sometimes I wonder how you and mom are related. You two are complete opposites."
Leaf tensed up and swallowed a lump in her throat, "Me too..." Leaf gave Ash his plate of oran berry pancakes. "So when are you going to Mt. Silver?"
Ash grabbed three pancakes and shoved them in his mouth. "Pwobble boight."
Leaf slightly lifted Ash's hat, catching his attention. "I can't understand you with your mouth full."
Ash swallowed his pancakes and let out a satisfying breath. "I said: probably tonight. I'm thinking of bringing Pidgeot, Lapras, Haunter, Butterfree, Primape, and Gible." Ash looked to the electric mouse. "Are you okay with that buddy? You'll be in charge of everyone here."
"Pika-pi." Pikachu nodded, sucking in, lifting chest trying to show how manly he was. It was working until Ash kept poking Pikachu in it's stomach and released it's breath due to the pain.
Ash looked back at his aunt and asked, "Mom told me you competed in the Master League. How was it back in the old days?"
Leaf laughed irritatedly. "It wasn't that long ago, it was just twenty years." Leaf went to the sink and started to wash some of the dishes. "Blastoise and I were nearly unstoppable; we creamed all the other trainers, well that was until I faced your uncle who beat me. I got top four in the league, the only girl to get that far in six leagues, but that changed in the league ten years ago when Cynthia, the sinnoh champion, won."
Ash listened to her story waiting for her to bring up him. But she didn't so Ash finally spoke up, "Who won the league that year?"
"A boy." Leaf said deadpanned. "Teenager; around my age at the time."
Ash rolled his eyes. "You know that wasn't what I meant. Who was he? Did you know him?"
Leaf sighed knowin that Ash wouldn't stop asking until he got his answers. "Yes, I did know him. He was one of my closest friends growing up here in Pallet. Him and Blue were the best of rivals; it reminds me of how you and Gary act toward each other."
Ash smiled at the thought. Then his eyes popped with wonder, "How come I've never heard of him before?"
Leaf shrugged in response, "There was no reason to."
"Can you tell me more?" Ash clapped his hands together and closed his eyes. "Please?"
Leaf at first gave Ash a stern look, implying that she wouldn't, but his puppy dog eyes had eventually wore her down. She sighed in defeat, "Fine." Leaf could see Ash smile in rejoice. "Well, Fire,wasn't the most talkative person ever. He had a hard time opening up to people. Pokemon, on the other hand, everything came naturally to him. He was a prodigy. No one could beat him." Then Leaf sighed again, "actually there was one person. His name was Gold. After that defeat, Fire lost his spark and he disappeared."
"Was that the last time you saw him?" Ash asked, interested in the topic.
"No..." She answered. "We saw each other later at the Master League, but any time we tried to talk to him, he ran off. He was hiding something, and he refused to tell any of us."
"Oh..." Ash trailed off. His energy suddenly came out in a burst as he said, "I swear I'll be a better trainer! No secrets, I'm gonna make Pallet Town proud. No one hurts my mom and gets away with it!"
Pikachu joined Ash's promise as he yelled, "Pika-pi!"
Leaf stared at her nephew and the electric mouse for a couple moments until she let out a soft chuckle, "I know you will, Ash." When Ash and Pikachu were talking to each other as Leaf thought to herself, Just like his father. I wonder what Ash would have been like if Silver was still alive...Leaf stood up and put her hand on Ash's shoulder, "Let's go show everyone how dashing you look."
Ash nodded as they preceded to Oak's laboratory.
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Ash arrived the lab to see all his friends waiting for him. "Well look who looks all fancy in his dad's clothes." Ash's friend, Misty, said.
Blue – who was basically an older version of Gary but with darker hair – said, "You do look a lot like him." Blue walked next to Ash and started to give him a nuggie. "Well, besides your black hair."
"Dad leave him alone." Gary Oak came walking up to the two of them and releasing Ash from his dad. Gary then looked at his old rival and cousin, "You know when we were little, I always thought it would be me competing the Master League, not you. But look where we are now."
"Yea, we've come a long way." Ash reminisced on memories of the rivalry, from their half broken pokeball to their stable friendship.
Professor Oak walked up to Ash next, "To think that the boy who came late, in his pajamas, to get his first pokemon is now competing in the Master League." Oak could see Ash's face flush red. "I'm proud of you, Ash."
Ash nodded at the professor, "Thanks Professor."
The conversation was cut short when the pokemon started crying. When Ash and the others looked up, they saw all of Ash's pokemon – and some of his friends – pokemon in a giant cell dangling from the sky attached to a familiar meowth shaped balloon. "Team Rocket!" they all said.
"Hello their twerps." Jessie greeted. "Congratulations on getting into the Master League. I'm sure we can sell these pokemon for great profit."
"Give me back my pokemon!" Ash growled.
"Hmm," James stroked his imaginary beard, "how about no?"
Meowth popped up from the basket carrying a container. "And to make sure you don't stop us," Meowth clicked a button on the machine and a giant rubber came out of it and grabbed Pikachu, putting it inside the container, "we'll hold on to Pikachu."
"Don't think you'll get away with this you're wrong!" Blue shouted as he and Leaf each grabbed a pokeball from their belts.
Jessie started laughing, "Sorry, but we came prepared this time." The same machine that grabbed Pikachu launched two more arms and before Leaf and Blue could react, the arms grabbed the pokeballs from their hands.
"Blastiose/Charizard!" The adults yelled.
Ash gritted his teeth then started charging over at Team Rocket's balloon. "Give us our pokemon back!" Ash felt his lungs start to get heavier and he watch Team Rocket slowly fly away. "Pikachu!" Ash yelled.
Delia came walking out with Mimey to see what all the noise was. She gasped as she saw her son run toward Team Rocket's balloon – which due to all the pokemon's weight hasn't elevated that much. She heard Team Rocket laugh at her sons attempt to get his pokemon back. Has Team Rocket always been this way? I was like that, she thought, until he came.
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Delia was standing in the middle of abandon warehouse, which she had made her home. Even though she's only fourteen years old, she's very independent. Well, she did have Team Rocket to thank for this, and her paycheck.
Her Misdreavus, and her Ninetales, her first pokemon, were next to her. "Mis..."
"I know Misdreavus, I'm tired of waiting too. But we got a new guy coming and I have to show him the ropes." She ended with a sigh.
The silence was cut short when two people walked in the building. One she recognized, the commander, Archer. The other was a boy had shiny brown hair, and a blank expression. He had to be a few years older than Delia, but that didn't change anything. She's the boss of him.
"This him?" She sneered. He didn't look very impressive. He even looked down at the ground after her assumption of him.
"Yes." Archer retorted. "Name's Giovanni. He scored high C on the entrance exam."
"Really? From this guy?" The Team Rocket ranking goes from E to A, Delia herself was a B. Most newbies don't get high C, usually E or the occasional D.
Delia walked over to Giovanni, he looked familiar, she swore that she had met him before. Avoiding to make eye contact with her only made her more suspicious of him.
"Hey." Delia said in a stern voice which cause Giovanni to look directly at her. "I don't care what ranking you got; I don't care who you are; and I don't care what happens you. All you need to know is that I'm in charge, and what I say goes. Understand?"
Giovanni could only nod. He's faced my powerful enemies and pokemon, but he's never been so afraid in his life.
Delia smiled and said in a cheerful voice, "Good~ We're gonna have some fun. Just make sure you can keep up with me."
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Delia's train of thought was cut off when she heard Ash scream in pain and saw him collapsed on the ground. She looked up to see that Team Rocket had released a small missile at Ash. It didn't have enough power to kill him, but Ash did suffer damage from the missile. Delia felt her heart skip a beat. No one hurts her son. "Mimey, keep the lab safe."
Mimey could only nod as Delia walked over to the battlefield with a serious look on her face.
Ash stumbled back on his knees and yelled, "I'm getting them back if its the last-" Ash stopped talking when he saw two pokeballs fly above him releasing a Mismagius and a Ninetales. Ash turned to see the pokeballs returning his mom. Since when did mom have pokemon of her own?! Ash thought.
Leaf looked at her sister concernedly. That look on Delia's face was like from before the accident. Heck, Leaf never saw Delia use her pokemon until now! Please be okay Delia, she thought.
"Mismagius, Ninetales, double will-o-wisp!" Delia commanded.
Mismaguis and Ninetales surrounded themselves with mystic blue flames then launched the ghostly flames around Team Rocket. The flames circled around the three causing them to be engulfed in flames and caused their clothes to be burnt.
Jessie growled in frustration, "Do you know how long it takes to do my hair? You're gonna pay!" Jessie then grabbed a pokeball and threw it into the air. "Woobat make them pay!"
James also threw a pokeball into the air, "You too, Yamask!"
The bat pokemon and the ghost pokemon hovered above Ninetales and Mismagius. All the pokemon growled at each other.
"Woobat, air cutter!"
"Yamask, shadow ball!"
The wind cutting slash and the eerie ball of energy quickly impaled Mismagius and Ninetales. Jessie and James grinned, their attacks were direct hits. They did not notice Delia's smirk as the attacks hit her pokemon.
Team Rocket gasped as the smoke cleared and Mismagius and Ninetales were unharmed, not even a scratch anywhere on their bodies.
"My turn," Delia said. "Mismagius, psybeam! Ninetales, firespin!"
Mismagius' eyes glowed a bright red and a colorful beam released from it's orb on it's chest. Ninetales put it's foot paws forward, raised it's tails and summoned a cyclone of fire from it's mouth. The two attacks started coming closer together until they became one. The fire was now a ray of colors and even bigger in size as it attacked Yamask and Woobat.
Not even a breath after the attack hit, Yamask and Woobat came plummeting to the ground, unconscious of course.
"Mom..." Ash slowly breathed out.
Jessie and James returned their pokemon to their pokeballs, grunting. Delia did the same, returning her two pokemon. She turned around walking over to Ash to see if he was okay, but not before James summoned his Amoonguss. "Amoonguss, stun spore!"
Ash reached his hand to his mom hoping to save her but was to weak to stand up, "Mom look out!"
Delia didn't turn around, for a Vaporeon had appeared behind her. "Vaporeon, water pulse." Delia said without missing a beat.
Vaporeon gathered the water vapor from the area make shaped it into a sphere of water and threw at the paralyzing spore, both attack negating each other.
"Finish it with ice beam."
Vaporeon launched a freezing beam of ice particles at Amoonguss causing it's whole body to be covered in a thick layer of ice and making Amoonguss fall to the ground.
Delia turned around and pointed at the cage holding the hostage pokemon, "Now use iron tail!"
Vaporeon leaped into the air until it was at the same elevation as the cage. It covered it's tail in a iron sheet and flung it at the pole holding the pokemon. "Vaporeon!" it cried.
The pole broke and the cage fell to the ground as Ash's friends ran over to it, claiming their pokemon. The shock of the iron tail caused Pikachu's container to fall to ground and Leaf, Blue, and Ash ran and grabbed their pokemon.
"Tch," Team Rocket said while on their jetpacks, "you twerps were just lucky mommy was here to save you." Team Rocket then retreated into the sky until they were out of sight.
Delia grabbed Vaporeon's pokeball and returned back to the ball. She turned to see Ash's shocked expression. This was a bad idea...Delia thought sadly.
"Mom," Ash walked over to his mom, his expression still the same. "that was...amazing!"
"Huh?" Delia questioned.
"I didn't know you were a pokemon trainer! A great one too! The psybeam and firespin combo was...was amazing! I thought I got my trainer skills from dad after what Aunt Leaf told me, but I must have got them from you! Can you show me a few tricks before I go?" Ash asked eagerly.
Delia smiled at her son, "Of course honey."
As Delia started showing her son a couple battle techniques Leaf smiled at her younger sister. You may have nothing to worry about after all. Ash is so proud to have you as his mom.
Omg Ash Ketchum I love you x3 I really love when get defensive of his mom (Pokemon The Movie 3 *Q*) it reminds me so much of Haru Glory from Rave Master (I recommend it, it's by Hiro Mashima, the creator of Fairy Tail) with his sister, who is his only family, like Ash and his mom. My favorite canon relationship in Pokemon ;)
From the couple reviews I got, you people seem to enjoy the flashbacks of Giovanni and Delia's past. Don't worry there will be more. But how many of you would like a separate story of their adventures? I already got Max's Journey to do, but the more the merrier XD I put the summary up on my profile if you people want to see what it'll be about.
Other news, generation 6. They look so cute *w* I already pre-ordered my Y(my sister is getting X), but I probably won't include them (maybe I'll give Misty a Froakie) since I planned out this story long before gen 6 was announced.