The Eighth Brain

by Egg Emperor

A story centered around a 15 year old Max Maple and his challenge of the battle frontier. Little did he know the frontier had changed since the times of Ash. After defeating Brandon the Pyramid King he finds he still has one last challenge to face, can he brave the Battle Dimension and dethrone it's elusive Prince, who now lords over the whole frontier?"

4. From the Cutting Room Floor : Delia S

This was my second attempt to salvage the idea (at least in this story) that Delia Ketchum is Giovanni Sakaki's daughter. Unlike the first I tried to be more subtle this time thought it in the end was cut none the less. I've seen him as her lover or former boyfriend or as her estranged husband, even as her brother once. Considering we do not know just how old Giovanni is I thought that the idea of making him Ash's Grandfather was an interesting one. The first attempt can be found in the other From the Cutting Room Floor chapter. I removed this because it seemed to be like the first removal, unnecessary and just took up room that made the chapter feel bloated.

FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR,

DELIA KETCHUM NEÉ SAKAKI

THE EIGHTH BRAIN

REMOVED BECAUSE IT JUST WAS NOT NECESSARY

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"Other prominent family?" Max asked confused. 'I'm beginning to wonder if the Professor and his wife always speak in riddles' Max pondered.

"Delia's family, her parents and grandparents; if memory serves they're originally from Unova. People don't really talk about them because of …. Because of well… you see Delia's Grandmother was a very powerful and well respected Anthropologist and Pokémon Mythologist, as was her husband Francesco. They traveled all over the world seeking artifacts, deciphering legends and clues; looking for traces of the ancient civilizations that dotted this land and their relationship with legendary Pokémon ." Oak began.

"However; Francesco went missing in the jungles of South Isshu in the early 1960's, during an expedition to try and locate a rumored colony of Mew living deep in the jungle. It wasn't just him though; in fact the whole expedition party just simply vanished. Lucrezia was never the same after that, she just sort of lost touch with reality." Oak trailed off.

"More like she went flying Zubat crazy." Agatha offered

"Yes, ahem, well" …. The professor struggled to find the words he needed and adjust the ice pack on his leg at the same time. "She ended up nearly bankrupting the family financing all sorts of searches and schemes to find him, the only thing that saved the family from complete insolvency was that her son, Delia's father finally had her committed. She died not too long after that, cursing Mew as the reason for her unhappiness, believing it was responsible for Francesco's disappearance."

"Back to what I was talking about" Agatha said trying to move the conversation back on track

and break the awkward silence that had descended on the room.