Hey readers! I hope you expected this chapter to be short, cause I think it's a bit shorter than my other chapters. Well, I think THIS chapter is the 3rd to last. It's almost time to start the new story! I'm really happy about almost being done. I'm also really excited because I am approaching the 50,000-word mark in this fanfiction! Anyway, I know you guys don't want to read this, and I've got nothing left to say for updates or anything so…
Enjoy the chapter!
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Chapter 10: Reveal
The crowd was dead silent. Suddenly, somebody yelled.
"THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME!"
The crowd got back in the game, and roared in agreement.
"Oh, finally using me I see? Bout time." Mewtwo snorted.
Ash chuckled, and saw the traitors, who were directly above Iris in the stands, gaping at him in disbelief.
Ash then noticed Iris, and the two had begun to glare at each other.
The referee could see each of them wanted to get the battle underway, so he started it.
"BATTLE BEGIN!"
"Kyurem, start with Ice shard!" Iris called.
Kyurem shot a giant yet not very powerful ice shard, barreling straight towards Mewtwo.
"Psychic to send it back." Ash commanded calmly.
The attack was sent back, but at twice the speed it originally came at. Kyurem took the attack and didn't even have a scratch on it. Ash realized that Kyurem was even slower than he first thought.
"Get above it and use Pystrike!" He called.
Before Iris could even call out a command, Mewtwo appeared above Kyurem and got blasted by many pellets of Psychic power. Iris was gritting her teeth when she saw Kyurem with pain inflicted.
"Blizzard all over the field!" She yelled.
"Dodge the teleporting!"
Even though the teleportation was SUPPOSED to dodge, Mewtwo accidentally appeared during the blizzard and took some damage.
"Fire blast!" Ash commanded.
Mewtwo obeyed, and Iris looked confused. "Uh…Blizzard into an ice beam?" She called. She hadn't expected Ash to attack head on like that.
The two attacks fired off by Kyurem stopped the fire blast, but as Iris somewhat expected, there was another reason he did that.
"NOW! Another Pystrike!" Ash called.
Mewtwo had teleported right behind Kyurem and used another Pystrike, giving more pain! Iris called out another attack. "Glaciate!"
Ash's eyes widened. The attack collided and caused a massive explosion to occur, and Iris cheered inside herself. There was almost no way Mewtwo could have POSSIBLY avoided all that damage. But as if on cue…
"Infernape, Use Fire combat!" Ash commanded.
HUH?! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!? Iris thought. But it was true, as Infernape appeared out of the explosion and rammed Kyurem in it's head over and over again with Fire combat (Close Combat + Fire Punch.) Iris' eyes widened, and quickly called out.
"Ice beam!"
"Back off and use flamethrower!" Ash countered.
Another explosion covered the field, smaller than the previous one, yet still large in radius. The explosion nearly hit Ash, but he was unharmed. Iris was surprised yet again by his next move.
"Mewtwo, Fire blast!"
Her eyes widened in complete surprise when a fire blast came out through the smoke, ramming Kyurem again on the head. Iris looked horrified beyond belief.
"W-what!? H-how is this p-possible!?" She sputtered.
"How is what possible?" Ash questioned innocently.
"How are you r-returning Pokémon without saying a word…" Iris continued lamely.
"Oh, recall how I give my Pokémon items, do you?" Ash asked her.
She nodded. Even though they were a long ways apart, Ash knew either way she wanted to know the truth on how he was doing this.
"Quite simple really. I gave my Mewtwo an item called the Eject Button. It swapped out for Infernape, who dealt bonus and quick damage. Notice I didn't use Infernape yet this battle until now. It's item as well, was an Eject Button. It simply swapped back to Mewtwo, while both of them used the smoke and dust as cover." Ash said simply with a shrug of his shoulders.
Iris groaned inside herself. Again, another legitimate strategy. She had to finish it, but she had to wait for the perfect moment. If Mewtwo was to be eliminated, at least she would be able to say she beat a legendary Pokémon. Ash called another move, snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Get in close to use your move!" Ash called.
Iris' eyes widened, knowing it was what she had been waiting for. Just as Mewtwo appeared a few measly feet away from Kyurem's head, she made her move.
"NOW! Sheer Cold!" Iris yelled. (I don't know if it can use that move)
Iris glanced at Ash smirking, believing she finally had him trapped. But if she wanted that reaction, she didn't get it. Ash stood there calmly, and told Mewtwo, who could somehow hear him.
"You know what to do."
Kyurem wasted no more time. It fired off the sheer cold, (In this story, it's a giant ball of ice) straight at Mewtwo, but just as it was about to collide, it stopped. The audience blinked in confusion. The Sheer cold slowly flew away from Mewtwo, and very slowly towards Kyurem.
Both it and Iris looked stunned. But they still wanted to see what actually was going to happen. The sheer cold slowly went above Kyurem's head, but it was still moving. Kyurem glanced at it wonderingly. Then abruptly, it stopped moving. It dangled there, hovering above Kyurem for maybe ten more seconds.
Then, it fell dead on Kyurem's head, knocking it out instantly. The audience blinked. Nobody had seen a one hit move used against itself before, which was pretty funny. The referee, however, seemed or at least acted unfazed by the event that just occurred.
"Kyurem is unable to battle, the winner is Mewtwo! And the victor of this Semifinal matchup is Red Satoshi!" He announced.
The crowd was silent. Nobody clapped, and it also sounded like nobody was breathing.
"THIS…is what you call a standing ovation?!" Mewtwo asked incredulously.
Then, as if on cue, the whole stadium exploded into cheers of praise. Many beneficial comments were being roared across the battlefield, all praising Mewtwo and it's power.
"Hmm…That's better." Mewtwo nodded, taking the praise modestly.
"See, I knew you'd like the praise at the end." Ash said cheerfully.
Then he realized his fatal-like mistake.
"AW CRAP! THE REPORTERS!" Ash cried telepathically to Mewtwo. As fast as he could, he called out Charizard, just as the reporters swarmed him. He recalled Mewtwo, but before he could escape their clutches, he was grasped three or four times by the reporters, one of them digging her fingernails into his leg.
Ash flew off, still clutching his leg. Iris stared off at him, flying on his Charizard. To be honest, he looked familiar before but just couldn't seem to know for sure. She too was then swarmed by the reporters, and because her Dragonite had fainted, she had no choice but to take the hoard.
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Ash's room Pokémon center…
As soon as Ash arrived in the room, he was swarmed by Paul and Gary, who somehow got in, but that topic wasn't the interest.
"Ya did it!" Gary said slapping Ash on the back.
"Yeah Ketchum, only one battle left!" Paul added.
Ash then thought of something. But before he took the current action, he glanced at the clock. He had a date at 9:30, and had to be there at 9:15. The clock showed 8:23.
"Ok, who am I facing?" Ash questioned.
"Let's find out then shall we?" Paul said.
They flicked on the television, and the two battles were shown side by side. Ash, Gary, and Paul each then saw a major headline appear.
RED SATOSHI OWNS IRIS IN SEMIFINALS
Red Satoshi had another close to flawless victory against Iris, the so-called dragon master. Well, if she did come from the village of dragons, she let them down pathetically, not being able to eliminate ANY of Red's Pokémon, yet in past battles she was able to defeat others easily. Red moves to the finals, yet to lose a single Pokémon.
In other news, the one facing off against him is the following trainer, who lost two Pokémon the whole tournament, and looks only four and a half feet tall.
Ash saw the name and walked away from the television, while Gary sat down on the couch with a sigh and Paul turned off the television. The last thing the two saw on the TV was:
MAX MAPLE TO FACE RED SATOSHI TOMORROW, SERENA TRIAL DELAYED
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9:15…
Knock. Knock. Knock.
Ash calmly knocked on the door leading to May's room. She opened the door wearing the same exact clothes she wore while in Hoenn, with the same green bandana on her head. Ash looked the same he always did as well, a darker version of his Sinnoh outfit, only this time, his hood had vanished, and his hair was combed instead of spiked.
May smiled. "Shall we go?"
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Lake Valor's Finest…on the roof…
"You're serious!? Why would Max do that?!" Ash asked laughing.
"He said he saw a legendary Pokémon and didn't realize where he was running." May said giggling as well.
The two had just gotten their drinks, and May was telling a story when Max had seen a so called, "Legendary Pokémon" and attempted to catch it when it ran away. When he chased the Pokémon, it fled into a forest, and when he thought he finally caught it, it actually was a Pidgeotto and he ended up falling right into a waterfall, fortunately for him, landing in a lake. The couple laughed until their sides hurt.
The waitress then came over, and noticed Ash. He must have appeared good-looking to her, because she shot May a dirty look, before giving Ash a seductive glance and asking him. "What would you like to eat, handsome?"
She looked to be in her early twenties, slightly older than Ash. Ash glanced at May, and though he couldn't directly see it, he could see her about to rip the other girls head off.
He quickly said. "I'll just have the Filet, medium cooked please."
She then said in a rude tone. "And for you?"
"The same." She said calmly.
The waitress walked away, and Ash heard her grumble something on the lines of.
"Lucky Bitch…"
May covered her hands to her mouth, and when the waitress was out of earshot they both burst out laughing.
"That was priceless!" She said laughing.
"I know right! I'm even more happy because the Serena trial got postponed!" Ash said cheerfully. It looked to be a bright future.
"May, I haven't said this to you for a while, but…I l…." Ash started. But he never finished.
As if on cue, thunder was heard in the distance. Ash had looked over May's shoulder on the neighboring building, which thankfully was illuminated by the lights on its roof, and saw a familiar face. Max Maple was spying on them from the other building with the betrayers. Ash instantly reacted by asking if he could ask May something alone.
Once they were alone, Ash quickly said to May. "Your idiot brother and the others are on the other building spying on us."
May's eyes widened, then her face turned angered. "They're gonna pay for this!"
Ash grinned evilly. "I got an idea for just that. I also think it's time I showed them who I really am."
May turned. "A-are you sure? You've gone all this way without it, are you still going to reveal yourself?" She asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, I know it doesn't make a ton of sense. Going all this way just to reveal who I really am. But I want to show them who I am because I want to show them I've gotten to be the best, and of course, to see their dumbfounded reactions." Ash said grinning.
May smiled back. "Okay, what's the plan?"
Ash smiled, walked back to the table, leaving a twenty there, and said to May upon his return. "Follow me."
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Other tower…
"Dang it, they're gone!" Max said with a groan.
"Probably went to the bathroom or something." Brock said with a shrug.
"Agreed." Misty said.
Iris just sighed. She wanted to help Max beat Red, so at least she got some satisfaction.
They waited on top of the building for another fifteen minutes, but Ash and May did not return back to the table.
Cilan said. "I'll go over and see their magnificent, unique and flavorful restaurant to see if they are still there if you all would like me to."
"I'm afraid that won't be necessary." A voice said from the door that led to the rooftop. All the traitors looked over, horrified to see Red and May standing there with angry looks on their faces. Red had put his hood back on, and May was still wearing the same outfit from their dinner.
"So, what were you all doing up here? You wouldn't happen to be…I don't know…SPYING on us?" Ash said accusingly.
"W-what? No, we were admiring the sunset!" Misty said. Everyone around her face palmed. The sun had set long over an hour ago.
"So…what were you doing up here?" Ash pressed.
Then, Brock and Cilan rushed him. Ash saw it coming and used his aura-infused power to enhance his power and mobility. He dodged Brock's fist that was intended for his head. He ducked, and drilled his fist straight into his gut. Brock practically flew across the roof, and landing on his stomach in a corner of the rooftop.
Cilan attempted to tackle Red, but only got a foot to the face and hurtled into Iris, who wasn't paying attention to Red, but was to May. May, who felt stronger for some reason, slapped Dawn across the face so harshly she was knocked out. May didn't even think it was that possible.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw and she also sensed an attack heading her way. She jumped back, and saw it was Misty and her mallet that she had attempted to hit May with. Instead, it connected with the top of the roof, and rebounding straight into her face.
Max looked horrified. "Well, I came up here to only ask one question. Do you remember Ash Ketchum?" Ash asked, standing only a few feet from Max.
Max looked confused and he laughed mockingly. "Yeah, that idiot? He's probably a ghost." He was then knocked off his feet onto his rear by Red, who punched him so hard his nose was bleeding.
Max dazedly glanced up and saw Ash staring over him. Ash smirked.
"You do know I said I was his cousin, right?" He asked.
Max mumbled something that sounded like a, "Yeah, so?"
Ash continued. "I lied."
Max looked confused, and managed to get out. "What? You're not his cousin? Why would you lie to us like that, what good would you get from it?" He asked slowly. The whole sentence had taken him about a minute to get out.
Ash answered his sentence by removing his hood, and Max stared blankly at his next opponent blankly in utter disbelief.
The raven-haired boy with dark auburn eyes, the same he had betrayed about five years ago, stared back at him, smirking evilly.
Max sputtered something softly over and over again, but it wasn't something Ash could interpret.
"What's the matter, you look like you've seen a ghost." Ash said.
Max's head started to spin, and he lost consciousness.
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The next day, battle about to begin…
Ash was silently pleading to get a great reaction. He was planning to reveal who he really was just as the battle started. He wasn't sure how the audience would react to his appearance after vanishing for five years.
Paul, Gary, and May had just wished him good luck. He was allowed to give three guests VIP seats in the stadium, and of course he gave them to those three people. Ash was licking his lips when the announcer called.
"FINALISTS! PLEASE REPORT TO THE BATTLEFIELD!"
Ash walked onto the field, and was nearly deafened by the roar of the crowd. One hundred thousand fans, just in the stadium, were going to spectate the battle of the century.
He saw Max across the field, and strangely, he didn't look like his old, cocky self. He seemed a bit of that sort, but mainly, he looked scared out of his wits. Ash nearby saw his friends with similar expressions. The announcer didn't take a notice to that, clearly, and called out.
"Welcome Finalists! You have proven to be the top two trainers in this tournament. The referee isn't going to be opening this match, I will be. I want you all, to say something about yourself, send out your opening Pokémon." He started.
He pointed to Max's side, and said. "You go first, trainer."
Max looked awkward, and then said nervously. "U-uhhh…I'm the son of Norman Maple, the Petalburg Gym leader. I…Um... have cool friends…" He started. He then froze, knowing he probably shouldn't have said that. He spared a glance at Red, who snorted at his last sentence.
He continued awkwardly. "I'm not even sixteen yet…(I don't know how old he is…) and my Pokémon is right here!" He finished.
He threw up a Pokéball to reveal a Mightyena, and finished with.
"My name is…Max Maple…and I'm going to win this tournament!" He finished semi confidently.
Ash sighed inwardly. This was it.
"My life started amazing, everything went according to plan. But then something terrible happened. My friends, the ones I trusted with ANYTHING, betrayed me. I was thirsty for payback and revenge, to show them all what I had become." Ash started.
The whole crowd was now listening stunned. The whole crowd had gone completely silent with disbelief.
"I have gained my revenge on all but one of them now, in this tournament, and out of it. I have just one more thing to say."
Ash pulled down his hood, and the crowd gasped. He threw a Pokéball up in the air, and the Legendary Pokémon Jirachi appeared in front of him. Max blinked in horror.
"My name is not Red Satoshi. My Name is Ash Ketchum, and I am here to defeat those who betrayed me, and to win this tournament."
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Well, I said this was gonna be my shortest chapter. And it was, I think. Two chapters left, any recommendations 4 Max's Pokémon? I have two down and that's it.
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