Welcome everybody to chapter 13 of The Betrayed Champion. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, especially the repeat reviews. And I'm 11 reviews away from 200 so lets make it a goal to get to it this chapter.
I know that I don't update as soon as I should and I'm really trying my best to have a new chapter up as soon as possible. But the reason it takes so long sometimes is because of school but it's mostly due to the fact that I usually don't get home until 7pm because of the sport I do. But my sport is coming to the end so I'm really gonna try my best to update once a week. But enough about my personal life lets get on with the story.
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Alpha's eyes widened as he realized what Paul was about to say. 'I can't let my identity be known by those idiots, especially not Dawn,' he thought as he stepped out of the shadows and towards Paul and Dawn.
Paul not seeing as Alpha started to speak, "Alpha, the person you've come to know, is really..." he was saying before he was interrupted.
"Hey Paul, Dawn, what's up?" Alpha loudly said as he tried to keep his composure.
Both Paul and Dawn both turned to Alpha at the sound of his voice. "Figures you'd show up at a time like this," Paul said in a serious tone.
A puzzled look appeared on Dawn's face, "What's happening here? I feel like there's something about you two that I don't know."
Alpha let out a small chuckle as he looked to the sky, "Oh you don't have to worry about anything Dawn. But you see...I have to talk with Paul for a little bit so would you kindly leave?"
"What? There's no way I'm leaving after I found Paul attacking those trainers," she yelled as she glared at Paul. "And now he was about to reveal something about you Alpha. So now that your here, what is your secret? I'd certainly like a few answers!"
Paul decided to step in, "Look Dawn, I told you that..."
"No, it's okay Paul. You can tell her my secret," Alpha said as he looked at them.
"Really?" Paul asked.
Alpha shrugged his shoulders, "Sure why not." Alpha said as he put his hand on Paul's shoulder. "You can tell her that I'm actually a Pokemon Ranger on an undercover mission."
Paul looked at Alpha with a puzzled look until he understood what he meant, "Yeah, and Alpha hired me to help him catch suspicious trainers like the one you caught me attacking. He was looking at me funny."
Dawn stood there, shocked at what she heard, "So all this time, I was getting angry at you over a nothing?"
"Yes Dawn," Paul replied with a smile. "Alpha told me not to tell anyone and it killed me inside not able to tell you."
"So you see Dawn, there's nothing to worry about," Alpha added.
Dawn wiped the tears off her face and a beaming smile overtook her frown, "I can't believe I would ever think that you would do something as evil as attack random trainers for no reason. I'm sorry Paul and I hope you can forgive me."
Paul looked at her with a smile, but inside he wanted to tell her the truth, "It's okay Dawn. But I really do need to talk to Alpha alone so can you give us some privacy?"
"No problem," she said as she gave him a peck on the lips. She started to walk away but stop when she heard Alpha calling her.
"One more thing Dawn," Alpha yelled, "don't tell anyone about me being a Pokemon Ranger, alright?"
"No need to worry, your secret is safe with me," she said as she walked away.
Paul stood there with tears starting to roll down his face, "I love her, but after what I just did, how am I gonna ever be with her again?"
Alpha shrugged his shoulders, "So what, if she ever does find out the truth then you can at least tell her it was to try to fail to bring me back to those idiots you call friends."
Paul just looked into the distance, "Guess your right, but now I have killed a man and lied to the girl I love. I don't know how much longer I'm gonna last?"
Alpha let out a loud groan, "You're still going on about that guy you supposedly killed?"
Paul turned to Alpha, "What do you mean by supposedly?"
"Oh yeah, I never did tell you that the guy you think you killed, wasn't really a person, but a pokemon," Alpha replied.
"I don't understand?" Paul said as he looked at Alpha.
Alpha started to dig his hand into his pocket, taking out a pokeball. "Let me show you the power of something from Unova." Alpha released the pokemon from the pokeball and a zorua appeared.
"Now Zorua, transform into the guy that Paul supposedly killed," Alpha ordered.
Zorua smirked as a white light surrounded it and it transformed into a man. Paul's jaw dropped as he recognized the face of the man he thought he had killed.
Alpha noticed Paul's expression and just shook his head, "You see now Paul, the man you thought you killed was actually this zorua."
Paul stood there, barely able to keep himself from falling down, "But how?"
"Well..." Alpha was saying until he was interrupted.
"Let me explain," the zorua in the shape of man announced.
"Wait," Paul said as he looked at Zorua "You can talk?"
"You'd be surprised what Team Rocket can do, they can even have a Clash of the Heavens," the zorua explained. "But what happened was that your 'good friend' Alpha here wanted to see if you were really committed to the whole joining Team Rocket thing."
Alpha nodded his head in agreement and Zorua kept talking, "So he hatched up a plan to have me hanging from a cliff in this human form and, well you know the rest."
Paul stared at Alpha and Zorua who were acting like it was nothing, but to Paul it was important. "So you decided to play a sick little game on me to...test me?"
"Yes, and it's safe to say that you passed," Alpha replied with a grin.
Paul stood there quietly until he started shaking with anger, "You just play with people's emotions like it's nothing, but have you ever once thought to think that maybe it's not all about you!"
Alpha noticed the way Paul was acting and started to act serious, "My number one priority is my life and my pokemon. Anything else is just an accessory and that's what you are Paul, an accessory."
"So all this time you pretty much have been using me, would you even cared if I died or not?" Paul asked.
Alpha shrugged his shoulders, "Obviously I would care, you're the only person I don't hate from my past."
Paul rubbed the back of his head as he thought about that, "So much has gone on since I found you that I wish I would have never even accepted that stupid invitation from Mr. Goodshow. But I can't change what's happened and at least I feel better knowing I didn't actually kill anyone."
"See Paul, don't look at the negative, think of the positive," Alpha replied with a smile.
"Yeah, that's probably for the best," Paul said as he started to walk away.
Alpha noticed Paul leaving and spoke, "Where are you going?"
"It's almost daytime," Paul replied as he pointed to the sun in the horizon, "if I don't hurry back I might miss my match." Paul walked away leaving Zorua and Alpha alone.
"I don't trust him," Zorua said as he stood next to Alpha.
"I was just thinking the same thing, I'll make sure to keep a special eye on him just in case he does decide to tell Dawn." Alpha responded as he turned his head to look at zorua's human form.
"But Paul was right," Alpha said as he examined Zorua's human form, "You do have a creepy face and body. You even have a pedostache."
"Hey it was the first identity I could think of," Zorua responded angrily.
Alpha let out a deep sigh, "Just try and go for something more casual next time."
"Please, you wouldn't know what casual is even if you looked it up," Zorua responded back.
"Yeah but at least I don't have to live in a pokeball," Alpha said as he returned Zorua back into it's pokeball.
After that Alpha walked back to the pokemon center where he safely returned Lucario so that he could recover. After doing all his he looked at the clock and realized something.
"Damn, it's already 10 o' clock, I'm really not in the mood for a battle right now," he was walking very sluglishly towards a nearby and convenient vending machine. "But I guess it's better to just get it over with," Alpha thought as he started to walk towards the stadium with a bag of ketchup flavored chips in his hand.
With Pikachu on his shoulder trying to steal some of his ketchup flavored chips and something to keep his appetite at bay, he thought as to what pokemon he should choose, "I already used all my flashy pokemon, but Infernape would kill me if he didn't get to battle in this match so I'm using him for sure. Buizel gets irritated every time I don't use him so I'm using him. And why not just use Snorlax cause he gets too lazy if I don't use him every so often." Alpha said to Pikachu.
"Pika," Pikachu happily agreed.
Alpha grabbed three pokeballs and put them in his pocket, ready to use them for the battle as he walked to the stadium.
Alpha was still walking and could barely see the stadium in the horizon. He was so caught up in his own thoughts that he didn't even notice when a random girl started to walk next to him. Her voice was the only thing that brought him out of his trance like state.
He turned to the side to see a 15 year old girl standing next to him with her hand held out. She had black way hair and she stood around 5'4 feet. Her olive green eyes was the first thing that Alpha noticed and they shined in the sunlight. She had yellow a skin tone that was due to the tan she had and she wore gray shirt that hugged her body with skinny blue jeans and brown boots.
"Umm hello, earth to Alpha, is anyone there?" The girl asked in a playful tone.
Alpha raised an eyebrow at her, "How do you know my name?"
She let out a small giggle as she replied, "Did you not realize that you're the most famous person here! I've watched all your battles so far and I can't wait to test my strength against yours."
"From what you just said, I'm guessing that you're my next victim?"
"You might call me your next victim but you'll soon be calling me champion of this tournament," she proudly said.
Alpha laughed at how naive she was, "Please you don't stand a chance against me...What's your name?"
She cleared her throat and got some type of stance,"My name is Natasha Opal and don't forget it!"
Brock, Gary, Misty, Max, May and Ritchie all groggily walked away from the pokemon center with dark black circles under their eyes. They had just finished returning all of the stolen pokemon back to the pokemon center and they were exhausted. They had planned to take N and Ghetsis to the police but after turning their backs for a second, the Team Plasma duo had disappeared.
To make the time go by faster they all started talking to each other but it ended up Brock talking to Gary, Misty talking to May, and Ritchie talking to Max.
Brock and Gary were in the front of the pack while they spoke, "So, when are you gonna tell her?"
"Shut up," Gary whispered as he looked back at Misty. "I haven't gotten the right opportunity yet and I don't want to rush things."
Brock let out a small chuckle, "You know I always thought it was gonna be Ash who fell in love Misty, but it only makes sense that his old rival would take his spot in that."
"I guess after spending so much time with her and arguing with her so much, I guess I fell in love with her," Gary responded.
"That's good to know Gary, and if you don't know what to say I got some lines ready if you need them," Brock said as he held out note cards filled with bad pickup lines.
"Yeah I don't I'm gonna need those," Gary replied as he pushed the note cards away, "I'm just gonna speak from the heart, and if that doesn't work then I'm screwed."
Brock started laughing, "Don't worry man, she did reject Tracey a couple months back because of someone else, and I'm sure that someone else was you."
"I hope so Brock," Gary said as he looked at Misty, "I hope so."
In the back of the group was Max and Ritchie talking to each other about battling.
"I still can't believe that new technique that you thought of Ritchie," Max said with a smile.
"Well it was mostly Sparky here who came up with the idea," Ritchie replied as he petted his Raichu.
"But don't think that I'll go easy on you when we reach the finals," Max proudly said.
Ritchie let out a small grin at Max's comment, "I'm just happy to have been given an opportunity to even compete in this tournament. Especially you Max, you've only been a trainer for a couple years and you're way better than I was at your age."
"Well I was taught by the best," Max replied as sadness started to take over him, "I just wish he was here to see me now."
Ritchie noticed Max's drop in morale and put his hand on his shoulder, "Don't worry Max, he'd be proud to see how much you've grown as a trainer and would root for you no matter what."
Max's head went up as he looked at Ritchie, "You always know exactly what to say to cheer me up don't you Ritchie."
Ritchie gave Max a big smile as he responded, "I guess that's just how I was raised Max."
In the middle of the pack were May and Misty talking about things of more importance.
"You know Dawn's been gone a long time," May commented.
Misty nodded her head in agreement, "Yeah I know, she ran off in such a hurry that we couldn't even find her."
"I think I heard her say something about Paul and then she ran off," May replied.
"That's weird, but that's young love for you." Misty joked.
"I'm just happy that they're finally together. It took years for them to confess their feelings to each other but now that they have I can finally sit back and watch all the ikarishipping right before my eyes," May said with a smile across her face.
"Ikarishipping?" Misty asked confused.
"Oh yeah I forgot to tell you that that's what I call the relationship between Dawn and Paul," May proudly said.
"Where did you come up with ikarishipping?" Misty asked.
May let out a deep sigh, "It's a long explanation that involves an anime called Neon Genesis Evangelion and I really don't want to get into it right now."
"Umm...okay," Misty replied still confused. "Onto another topic, what's up with that guy Alpha? He's like a mysterious stranger or something."
"I know what you mean," May said very determined. "But think about it, he can use aura, he's had crazy adventures, and I heard him tell his pikachu that if he enjoyed his reunion with Glaceon which means that he night have met us before. He's hiding something under that dark persona and I think that we should find out what it is."
"But we have to make sure to tell Dawn about this cause the more help we get, the better chance we have at finding what Alpha's hiding." Misty replied just as determined as May.
May smiled as she saw a chance at figuring out what Alpha is hiding, "Yeah, lets do it!"
Well that was chapter 13 everybody, I hope you liked it. I saw Pichu do this so I thought I'd out this out there. I plan to do a Q and A chapter so send in questions about the story, about me as an author, hell you can even send in questions to the characters in the story. But just know that they'll be in character so go ahead and ask.
I put the name of two fics in this chapter because one isn't as well know but I'll give you a hint, think pokemon crossover. But go ahead and search for them. And send in ideas for the story and I might just use them.
What's gonna happen in the battle between Alpha and Natasha? What plan does May and Misty have in mind? Nobody knows...except me.