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Here's chapter 10 I hope you enjoy.

In conversations:

'- Translation of Poké Speech – No human unless otherwise stated can understand it. Ash can understand it due to his Aura.

"- Human speech

"- Telepathy

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon.

When Ash got back to the clearing he saw his other Pokémon who all approached him wondering how the battle against Max went. Ash let out the ones who had fought today. To say Charizard was pissed would be an understatement.

'What the hell Ash? That treacherous rat only suffered for a few minutes. How is that justice?' Charizard yelled.

"We humiliated them and that was the main thing. Besides we both know that Alex will never let a Pokémon be left in that kind of state. I gotta say you really did a good job on Pikachu."

Charizard smirked 'Thanks.'

Charizard then saw Ivysaur talking with the others. The dragon was shocked that he had evolved after saying how much he hated the idea of evolving. He walked over to Ivysaur and the conversation Ivysaur was having with the others ended.

'So you evolved.'

'Yeah I had to. I was losing so evolving was the only way I could beat Sceptile.'

Charizard could see now that he was indeed true to his word. If he was prepared to evolve to defeat one of the treacherous Pokémon it showed that he was loyal to Ash. Charizard extended his hand and Ivysaur flinched assuming that the dragon was going to attack him. Charizard wasn't surprised at Ivysaur's reaction.

'I'm not going to attack you Ivysaur.'

Ivysaur looked dubious for a moment. But he could tell by the look in the dragon's eyes that he was telling the truth. Ivysaur gingerly extended a vine and Charizard grasped it and shook it.

'So are we good now?' Ivysaur asked.

'Yeah we are. I see that you are truly loyal to Ash if you were willing to evolve to beat one of the traitors.'

'To be honest I'm actually enjoying being an Ivysaur. My speed and agility is about the same as it was before and I've gained a lot of power.'

Ash watched as all of his Pokémon now went to Ivysaur and welcomed him to the family. Ash looked on happy that they had all forgiven and befriended Ivysaur now. Ivysaur was overjoyed that everyone had now accepted him. Even Infernape, Donphan and Meowth had come over to offer their support. The only one who hadn't approached him yet was Meganium. He looked over to her and he was bemused to see that she had a guilty look on her face. Ivysaur walked over to Meganium and sat down next to her.

'Hey what's wrong?' Ivysaur asked.

'I-I'm sorry.' she blurted out.

'Sorry? What for?' he replied confusedly.

'The day that the traitors turned against Ash I said some horrid things to you.' Meganium looked away as tears formed in her eyes.

'Hey don't be sorry. I deserved everything you said.' Ivysaur wiped away her tears with one of his vines. 'I just want us to be friends again. That is if you want to be.'

'That sounds good to me.' she said with a smile. 'I still feel like I should do something to apologise.'

'Well I believe that before that day you promised me a battle.'

'Yes I did.'

'Well when I've fully recovered from my battle with Sceptile how about we have that battle?'

'Sure. I'm gonna go battle with Aurorus for a while. So I'll see you later.' she stood up and started walking.

'Ok see ya. Oh by the way.' Meganium looked back at Ivysaur. 'You became a very beautiful Meganium.'

Meganium blushed and quickly headed over to Aurorus.

Ash had heard the whole conversation between Ivysaur and Meganium. What Ivysaur said at the end confused Ash. He wasn't sure if Ivysaur was being nice or whether he had feelings for Meganium. Considering what happened with May's Bulbasaur, Ash had assumed that he would be a lot like Charizard and Butterfree who had both been betrayed by their former mates. But here he was possibly flirting with Meganium. He was pulled out of his thought by his Pokénav ringing. He took it out of his pocket and saw it was Alex calling.

"Finished healing the rat." Ash said harshly.

"Yes. I'm sorry Ash but I can't help it." Alex said apologetically.

Ash sighed "You don't need to apologise. I know it is in your nature to heal any hurt Pokémon and I'm not mad at you. Charizard is but I'm not. So do you wanna meet at the Pokémon centre?"

"Okay I'll see you there."

They hung up and Ash made his was towards the Pokémon centre. As Ash left the clearing Meowth climbed on Ash's shoulder as he hadn't seen Alex for years and wanted to see how she was.

Ash picked up the pace when the Pokémon centre was in sight. However before he could get to the entrance he was intercepted by a pissed off Pokémon watcher.

"You've embarrassed the others and even sent two of them to prison. I'm gonna make you pay for that." Tracey snarled.

Ash and Meowth started laughing hysterically.

"What's so fucking funny Ketchum?"

"Tracey you're even more pathetic than the other's. But if you really wanna look like a complete fool let's go to one of the training fields."

Tracey followed Ash to the training area behind the Pokémon centre. There were several trainers were battling but when they saw Ash they immediately stopped and followed him and Tracey to watch their match.

"Tell you what Tracey I'll give you a chance. I'll let you use all six of your pathetic Pokémon against one of mine."

Tracey was so infuriated that he shook with rage and growled angrily. He sent out all six of the Pokémon he had revealing a Scizor, a Venomoth, a Noctowl, a Glalie, a Heracross and an Azumarill. Ash hadn't really known how to humiliate Tracey. But he had made it easy by foolishly challenging him to a battle. Ash smirked as he would get a chance to really trounce Tracey in front of the trainers here. It may not be a full stadium of people but it would have to do. Ash was glad that Meowth had joined him as otherwise he'd have missed out on a golden opportunity. The cat jumped off Ash's shoulder and stood before Tracey's Pokémon.

"Ha you only have one Pokémon and it's the failure from Team Rocket. This'll be easy." Tracey taunted.

Ash and Meowth grinned at his idiocy. Had he really forgotten how badly Meowth had embarrassed Garchomp?

"Yeah it will be, for us." Ash replied.

"Scizor use Metal Claw. Venomoth Signal Beam. Noctowl Air Cutter. Glalie Ice Beam. Heracross Megahorn and Azumarill use Aqua Jet."

"Use Water Pulse on the ground to launch yourself in the air. Then use Hidden Barrage"

Scizor's claws turned metallic and he shot at Meowth. Venomoth formed a white orb and then fired a rainbow coloured beam from the orb at Meowth. Noctowl flapped her wings incredibly quickly which fired blades of wind at Meowth. Glalie formed a light blue orb in front of himself and fired several frozen beams from the orb. Heracross' horn glowed white and he flew straight at Meowth and Azumarill became surrounded in water and shot off towards Meowth. Meowth grinned as he saw the attacks headed his way. He quickly formed an orb of water and threw it at the ground which launched him into the air dodging all of the attacks. Due to their target dodging the attacks hit each other causing an explosion that sent Scizor, Heracross and Azumarill crashing back into Venomoth, Noctowl and Glalie.

Ash smirked as he watched Tracey's Pokémon get back up. The Pokémon all glared at Ash who simply looked up in response. The Pokémon followed his line of sight and saw that six red orbs had now appeared around Meowth. The cat fired the orbs straight at Tracey's Pokémon he followed up by firing a horde of stars and finished it off with firing a several rays of light that could be mistaken for gem stones. The impact of the attacks shrouded the battlefield in dust. When the dust cleared Tracey's Pokémon were seen struggling to stay upright while Meowth gracefully landed on the ground in front of Ash.

"I can't believe they are still standing. I guess they aren't quite as worthless as I thought or maybe Meowth is just holding back even more than I thought he would." Ash said mockingly.

The cat turned and Ash saw by the look in his eyes that the latter of the two statements was correct.

"Scizor and Noctowl Aerial Ace. Heracross Megahorn. Venomoth Signal Beam. Glalie Headbutt and Azumarill use Double-Edge."

"Use Thunder Night Slash on Scizor and Noctowl. Then jump and use Iron Tail on Heracross. Follow up with a Thunder Pulse on Venomoth and then charge at Glalie and Azumarill with Giga Impact."

Scizor and Noctowl became engulfed in streaks of white and charged at Meowth. Heracross' horn glowed again and he flew at Meowth. Venomoth fired another rainbow coloured beam at Meowth and Glalie and Azumarill both ran at Meowth. Meowth watched the approaching Pokémon and charged some electricity but instead of discharging it he channelled it into his now pitch black claws. He ran at Scizor and Noctowl and ducked under their strikes. He then slashed at them both which caused them to cry out in anguish as the electricity shocked them and the pain was so great that they fainted seconds later. The cat then turned his attention to the beetle flying at him. When Heracross was mere inches away Meowth jumped over the beetle and slammed his now metallic tail on to the back of the bugs head. The strength of the attack smashed him in to the ground which knocked him out instantly. Meowth then formed a ball of water that crackled with electricity. He then fired the orb at the rainbow coloured beam easily pushing it back and slamming into Venomoth which knocked him out. Meowth then looked at his last two victims. He charged at them and when he rammed into them collision caused an explosion which sent Azumarill and Glalie crashing into the Pokémon Centre wall. They both then slumped to the ground unconscious.

Tracey was momentarily stunned but then returned his Pokémon and quickly made his escape. Ash looked at his beaten opponent running off and felt like a massive weight have been lifted from him. He'd finally beat them all. His treacherous former friends had all been crushed and humiliated. Meowth climbed back on to Ash's shoulder. Ash gave the cat a quick thanks and then looked to the spectators. He saw his mother, Richie, Alex and Ariana who had been watching the whole time. He walked up to them a smile on his face.

"It's over. I finally got back at all of them." Ash said.

"Papa won." Manaphy said happily.

"Yeah I did. Wait why are you with my mother and Ariana?" Ash asked.

"Wanted to be with grandma and auntie." Manaphy replied.

"Okay. Well shall we wait inside for Anabel and Paul?"

They replied with a nod and followed Ash into the Pokémon centre. Ash, Richie and Alex were talking about their battles. They stopped when they heard the doors open and looked to see Paul who walked in looking incredibly smug. Ash knew that look very well.

"So you won then." Ash stated.

"Yeah the only challenge was his Hydreigon. It was a little disappointing. I guess Unova isn't that much of a challenge really."

"Hey I'm from Unova." Alex said angrily.

"Your point being?"

Before Alex had a chance to responded Keldeo drenched Paul. Everyone started laughing at the now furious Paul. When the laughing died down and Magmortar had dried Paul the Sinnoh native looked at Ash.

"So did you crush the rat?" Paul asked.

"Yeah Charizard beat him down badly." Ash said with a smirk.

"So how long is he gonna be in intensive care?"

Ash looked at Alex who looked down guiltily.

"Well Paul the things is." Ash trailed off.

Paul saw the guilty look on Alex's face and knew what must have happened.

"You let her heal him. Why?" Paul yelled.

Ash sighed. "Because that's what she does. She heals injured Pokémon and you know there is no way to stop her. Although Charizard wanted to."

Anabel and Dawn then walked into Pokémon centre. Anabel saw Ash talking with Paul and some other woman she had never met. She thought Paul looked annoyed but then when doesn't he? Anabel walked up to the trio while Dawn went over to Delia and Ariana. Anabel wrapped her arms around Ash and he returned the embrace

"Hi Ash. Who's this?" Anabel asked

"Hi Anabel. This is Alessandra Cesarini."

"It's good to finally meet you Anabel. Ash told me a lot about you." Alex said.

"Well it's good to meet you too Alessandra."

"Please call me Alex."

"So Ash how did you meet Alex?"

"Well..."

Flashback (three Years ago)

Alessandra is with her Infernape, her Leafeon and her Keldeo were walking around Mt. Coronet. Alessandra had come to Mt Coronet to train her Servine, her Tranquill and her Chansey hoping that would evolve. She came upon an area suitable for camp and decided to stop and camp for the night. Alessandra opened her bag and took out her home made Pokémon food. She put out the Pokémon food for them but as she placed the last bowl the she noticed someone missing.

"Hey, where's Keldeo?" Alessandra asked confused. She looked around hoping to see where the Colt Pokémon was. Unfortunately she couldn't see him anywhere. She let out a sigh.

"Oh come on...Not again!" she said frustratedly.

She then looked to Penelope.

"Penelope, can you help me?"the Tranquill nodded and took flight.

Alessandra returned her Chansey and Servine after promising them that she would let them eat as soon as they found the Colt Pokémon. She looked to her Infernape, Blaze, and her Leafeon, Leaf.

"Come on, let's make Penelope's work a little easier." she said to them.

They nodded and they started the search.

Meanwhile Ash was watching his Pokémon training. He was about to tell then to stop for the day when he heard a sound. He turned to where the sound was coming from and before he knew it, he was tackled by something. Ash looked at the Pokémon that was now lying on him.

"Who are you?" Ash asked

'My name is Keldeo.' the Pokémon replied.

Ash then remembered reading something about him when he did some research into Pokémon from the Unova region. But Ash was puzzled as to why a legendary Pokémon from Unova would be on Mt Coronet.

"What are you doing here?"

'I was with my trainer, Alessandra.'

"And where is she?"

All of a sudden everyone heard a female voice.

"Keldeo? Keldeo?!" she was calling. "Are you here?"

Keldeo got up from where he was and ran to the girl that had just reached Ash's camp site. Everyone watched her kneel down to be at Keldeo's level and tickle his chin.

"Keldeo I know you're still young. But you shouldn't get away from us. You could get hurt or captured." she said.

Then she noticed the hooded man and his Pokémon watching them. She saw that the man was brushing snow off his coat indicating to her that Keldeo had probably just tackled him. She walked over to the stranger.

"I'm sorry. Did my Keldeo bother you?" she said.

"Not at all. Trust me I've taken far worse than just a tackle." Ash replied.

"Sorry about that." she said apologetically. "Keldeo has been with me for a year and he's still young so sometimes he tends to run off and tackle people." she looked around and noticed it was getting dark and she was a long way away from her camp site. "Excuse me sir but is it ok if I let the rest of my team out and we stay here tonight?"

Ash nodded and she let out her team who began eating the food she'd prepared and they began talking with Ash's Pokémon. Ash looked at the Pokémon smiling. He was happy that his Pokémon were able to trust other's so easily. He wished he could do the same thing. There was probably only five people he trusted completely which saddened him. He was brought out of his thoughts when he heard the girl talking.

"I'm Alessandra Cesarini. But my friends call me Alex." she said. "And you are?"

Ash was silent for a moment. He considered telling her his real name but instead chose the name he had gone by for the past three years."My name is Takeo Hayashi."

Flashback over

"She found out a few day later that I was actually Ash Ketchum thanks to a certain cat."

He looked to the Meowth on his shoulder.

"I thought dat she was back at camp." Meowth said defensively.

The group spent the rest of the day together. Ash promised to help Richie with Thomas and Ursula tomorrow. As it got late Ariana yawned and the group decided to head back to their hotels to get some rest. As they got some rest a few miles away six traitors are in a bar moping. They had all faced Ash and had been humiliated. He had even sent Misty and Brock to prison. they all had one thing on their mind.

"We've got to get back at Ash. He has embarrassed all of us, he sent Misty and Brock to prison and he corrupted poor little Manaphy." May said.

"Yeah but he's too powerful." Gary replied completely dejected.

"I have an idea." A voice said from behind them.

The traitors looked to see the person who had spoken. The man's face was shrouded by the hood he was wearing the only thing visible was the evil grin on his face.

"Who the hell are you?" Max yelled.

The man smirked which made him look even more evil which disturbed the traitors.

"Who I am matters not. What matters is that I want revenge on Ash Ketchum."

"Why should we help you?" Gary asked.

"For three reasons. One you'll get revenge on him after he humiliated all of you. Two you will get Manaphy back and three I can help break your friends out of jail."

The traitors looked at each other and nodded.

"We're in." Rudy said.

The hooded man grin grew even more sinister. "You made a good decision.'"

"So what's the plan?" Max asked.

"It is simple. The best way to get at Ketchum is to use the people he loves to lure him into our trap."

Pikachu wasn't that comfortable with this. He had no desire to bring to harm to Delia or anyone else Ash holds dear to him.

'I don't know about this. We're talking about hurting innocent people.' Pikachu said.

"Come on Pikachu this is our chance to get back at Ash. So let's do what this guys says." Max said.

Pikachu looked down and nodded along. He really had no choice, he had to stick by Max and the others.. He made his choice seven years ago and now it was proving to be the wrong choice. The traitors got up and followed the hooded man.

Next morning Ash met up with everyone except for Thomas, Ursula and Paul. The former two were waiting for Ash and Richie and the latter said he was busy training,.

"Hey Alex how about you drop your Pokémon off at the clearing. The can meet Dawn, Ariana and Anabel's Pokémon and I'm sure mine would love a reunion." Ash said.

"That's a great idea Ash." She replied.

"So what is everyone's plans for today?" Ash asked.

"Well me and Ariana have some errands to run." Delia said.

"Okay I'll see you later." Ash said.

Ariana gave Ash a quick hug and then followed Delia as she walked away.

"What about you three?" Ash asked looking at Alex, Anabel and Dawn.

Dawn looked at Anabel and Alex. They both saw the look and smiled back. They then looked at Ash and grinned.

"We were planning on going shopping." Dawn said.

Ash paled at the word shopping. He still had nightmares of shopping trips with Dawn. Ash stood there and couldn't think of anything to say in response. Luckily for Ash Richie was there to save him.

"We'd love to come ladies but Ash promised to help me out today." Richie said.

Ash breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yeah we better go." Ash quickly said.

Before Anabel, Alex or Dawn had a chance to say anything Ash and Richie were long gone.

"I think my shopping sprees in Sinnoh broke Ash." Dawn said jokingly.

"Mama why papa run?" Manaphy asked.

"He has to help Richie with something ." Anabel replied.

Manaphy nodded and snuggled into Anabel's embrace.

"Well I guess it's a girls day out." Dawn said.

Anabel, Alex and Dawn walked back to the clearing to drop off Alex's Pokémon and then the trio headed towards the high street while Manaphy slept in Anabel's arms.

Meanwhile Ash and Richie were stood outside the main stadium.

"So Richie what's the plan? How are we gonna get those two together? I mean from what you've told me Thomas is just as stubborn as Ursula is." Ash said.

"Well we have two options either we try to convince them to tell each other." Richie replied.

"Yeah like that's gonna happen. What's option two?" Ash asked

Richie smirked. "We pull the tape recorder trick."

Ash looked at him sceptically. "You really think it'll work?"

"Trust me."

"I hate it when you say that." Ash groaned.

Richie looked at Ash and laughed.

"Come on this will turn out much better than my last plan." Richie said trying to lighten the mood.

"It couldn't go much bloody worse could it? Your last plan blew a massive hole in Mt Coronet. I had to get out of there quick before the G-Men got there." Ash yelled.

"How was I supposed to know that cavern was filled with Geodude, Graveller and Golem's that would use Explosion?"

"The Geodude evolutionary line live in pretty much every known mountain in every region. And if you shoot a massive Fire Blast into their cavern it's a pretty safe bet that they'll explode in response." Ash sighed. "Just give me the damn recorder"

"Here." Ash took the offered recorder. "Now go back to the Pokémon centre and Thomas should be there. Meet me and Ursula at the town's central square in an hour."

"Fine."

Ash and Richie went their separate ways to try to get Thomas and Ursula together.

On the other side of the Indigo Plateau Delia had just finished her errands. She looked at Ariana who was happily walking alongside her.

"So Ariana what do you want to do now?" Delia asked.

"Can we go to the arcade please mum?" Ariana replied.

"Okay let's go."

They headed towards the arcade. Little did they know they were being followed. From a Max and May were watching their targets. They were keeping to the shadows and had manage to avoid detection thus far. When Delia and Ariana were were getting close Max looked to his Gallade.

"You know what to do." he said.

Gallade jumped in front of the Delia and Ariana. They jumped back in shock and then Gallade sent a Hypnosis at them and they dropped to the floor unconscious. May and Max came out from the shadows and picked Delia and Ariana up.

"Well done Gallade. Let's get out of here."

Gallade nodded and they teleported away.

On the high street Alex, Anabel and Dawn had just left a general store. Alex had gotten some newly released medicinal supplies for Pokémon, Dawn had gotten a new dress for her contests and Anabel had found a book on Aura and the Aura Guardians in the shop and was now reading it.

They looked around several shops completely unaware that the hooded man was trailing them. His swift movements between the back alleys had made it easy for him to remain hidden. He got to an alleyway a little bit ahead of them and watched the women approach.

He nodded at his Pokémon and they quickly revealed themselves. One fired an attack at Alex, Anabel and Dawn causing them to fall asleep. The other Pokémon quickly teleported them away.

Anabel was the first to wake up. She groaned and looked around seeing the traitors and a hooded man in front of her. She tried to move but found that she was chained to the chair she was sat in. Alex, Ariana, Dawn and Delia woke up not long after and found that they were also chained to their chairs. Anabel looked up as she could hear the sounds of crying. She looked to where the sobbing was coming from and saw Manaphy in May's arms trying to escape. Sadly for Manaphy May's hold was too tight. Manaphy saw that her mama was now awake and struggled in May's grip. However May just tightened her grip on Manaphy to the point that it started to hurt Manaphy.

"Mama." Manaphy whimpered as tears streamed from her eyes.

"Manaphy!" Anabel started to struggle against the chains that bound her while she glared at May. "Leave Manaphy alone you scum." but May seemed to just ignore the Salon Maiden.

"Now Manaphy we've gone over this. Ash corrupted your innocent mind and turned you against me. I'm your real mama." May said firmly.

"You no mama. You no mama." Manaphy said over and over again as she tried to break free.

May struggled to keep a strong grip on Manaphy however she managed to free her arms and reached out desperately for Anabel. May growled angrily and regained her hold on Manaphy. She now wrapped her arms around Manaphy far to tightly which caused Manaphy to cry at the pain. Anabel felt useless as she watched Manaphy continue to cry.

"Please stop it May. You're hurting her." Anabel pleaded.

"Shut up. I'm Manaphy's mama. I know what is best for her."

Before Anabel could respond the hooded man walked in front of Anabel which blocked her view of Manaphy. Anabel now glared at the man stood in front of her. The man merely smirked in response.

"I guess you're all wondering why you're here. Well we've taken you to lure Ash here. He's gonna pay for what he did to me." the man snarled.

The hooded man then looked at several of the traitors Pokémon

"All of you scout around outside and tell us when he is coming." he commanded.

They headed outside and split up. Quilava and Gliscor broke away and headed to the high street, hoping they'd find Ash.

Ash and Richie were walking back down the high street happy that they'd helped get Ursula and Thomas together. Ash was looking around the stores hoping to surprise Anabel and the other's.

"I still can't believe that worked." Ash said in disbelief.

"Hey I do have the occasional good idea you know."

"I think rare idea would be more accurate." Ash quipped.

Richie had a fake hurt look on his face.

"Hey I resent that."

They both started laughing. When they calmed down Richie went back to his hotel room to relax and Ash continued down on the high street looking for his loved ones. He was startled when a Braviary landed in front of him. The flying type handed him a note and then it flew off. Ash looked confusedly at the note.

Hello Ketchum,

I've captured your mother, Ariana, Alessandra, Dawn and your precious Anabel. I have been planning how to get back at you for years and now I've finally found the perfect way to get revenge. But first lets play a little game. You have half an hour from the time my Braviary returns to find us before they get hurt and trust me what I plan to do will be painful. If you inform either the police or the G-Men then their torture will be far worse than you could possibly imagine. Well the clock is ticking you'd better get searching.

Ash screwed up the paper and his Aura flared from rage and fear.

"Damn it. I should have made at least Keldeo go with them." he yelled

Ash quickly ran towards the clearing to get all the Pokémon. As he ran past the Pokémon Centre he spotted Gliscor and Quilava. He charged over at them more than ready to beat the location of his loved ones out of them. He stopped in front of them and as Aura Sphere formed in his right hand. Gliscor and Quilava took a step back in fear.

"W-w-wait Ash we know where they took Anabel and the other's. We want to help you." Quilava said nervously.

Ash looked at them sceptically as anger still raged in him.

"We're telling the truth Ash." Gliscor added.

Ash looked into their eyes and saw there were no lies in their eyes. He dissolved the Aura Sphere and glared at them.

"This doesn't change anything." Ash said harshly.

"We know that Ash." they replied.

"Alright let's just get all the Pokémon first." Ash said.

Gliscor and Quilava nodded and followed Ash who started sprinting to the clearing. When they got there all the Pokémon saw him and were worried at the enraged look on his face. They then spotted the two treacherous Pokémon behind him and many of them began charging attacks to blast them. Although Ash would have been more than happy for his Pokémon to attack them he knew that they need Gliscor and Quilava's help.

"Wait don't attack them." the Pokémon all looked at Ash wondering why they shouldn't. "Listen for now they are our allies. Someone has kidnapped Anabel, Ariana, Alex, Dawn and my mother. These two have assured me that they will lead us to them."

The Pokémon looked angry to be working with Gliscor and Quilava but understood the need to work with them. Ash returned all of the Pokémon except for Meowth and Keldeo. They followed Quilava and Gliscor who shot off to the south.

Quilava and Gliscor cam to a stop in front of an old abandoned building. Ash pushed the door open and saw 'them' standing in front of him. The traitors looked at Ash than at Quilava and Gliscor.

"So he was right you two betrayed us." Gary said.

Gliscor and Quilava growled at them in response. The hooded man stepped forward out of the shadows.

"So your finally here Ketchum. It's time for my revenge."

"Who are you? What's your problem with me?" Ash yelled.

The cackled evilly and then lowered his hood revealing a face that Ash thought he'd seen for the last time 2 and a half years ago. Ash and Meowth's eyes widened.

"It can't be."

Notes

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If you have any questions PM them to me. I am more than happy to answer them.

So who is the hooded man?

What did Ash do to him that has made him go to such extreme lengths to get revenge?

Combo Moves

Hidden Barrage - Hidden Power + Swift + Power Gem

Thunder Night Slash - Thunderbolt + Night Slash

Thunder Pulse - Water Pulse + Thunderbolt