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Chapter 12: The Final Fight!
The next month had arrived and the gang was waiting patiently for when Ash would go into labor.
When the next month started, Brock was giving the raven-haired teen an ultrasound everyday to make sure that there wasn't anything wrong with either one of them.
But they were surprised at what happened next.
(A Couple Of Days Later)
They were on the edge of the next town when Ash was starting to complain of some pain in his stomach.
The others were worried about this and they had more to worry about when the teen dropped to his hands and knees in pain with an arm holding his big stomach.
"Are you ok, Ash?" asked Brock, kneeling beside his friend.
"I'm fi-" replied Ash, starting to say he's fine until he felt something wet come from between his legs.
He looked down in between his legs as best as he could to find a big wet spot on the crotch of his pants and his eyes widened when he realized what was happening.
"G-get me t-to a h-hospital q-quickly!" said Ash with his eyes widened as he looked at the others.
"Why, Ash?" asked Iris, starting to wonder what was going on with her friend.
"Because this is why!" replied Ash pushing his upper body off the ground and they all gasped when they saw the growing wet spot on his crotch.
"Cilan, get on one side of Ash and I'll get on the other. We'll help him walk into town and find a hospital." said Brock, giving orders as Ash clutched his pregnant belly in pain.
Brock grabbed Ash's left arm and draped it over his shoulder while Cilan got Ash's right side.
Between the two of them, they helped lift Ash onto his feet, causing the teen to gasp in pain from the sudden lift to his feet.
As they walked into town, Iris and Pikachu exchanged looks of worry for the teen as they followed the guys closely to find the hospital.
They were lucky that no one was out in town because they would be watching the group with wonder and amazement.
Since they didn't want to get lost with Ash in labor, Cilan sent Iris into the Pokemon Center to ask where the hospital was.
She came out and told them to follow her and with that, they found the hospital in a few minutes from the Pokemon Center
The gang walked into the hospital and Brock left Ash with Cilan as he talked with the receptionist.
"Excuse me, miss, but do you have a big room that's soundproof towards the Maternity Ward?" asked Brock.
"I do. In fact, all of the rooms in this hospital are soundproof unless the door is left opened to the room. I do have one big room, but are you a doctor?" asked the receptionist, questioning Brock if he was a doctor or not.
"I am. I've been taken care of my patient for a good number of months." replied Brock, answering her question flawlessly.
"Ok. If you go down the hall to your right and make a left at the end of the hall, the room is straight back that hall. Can I also have your name and the patient's name so that we can put it on the door?" asked the receptionist, grabbing a pen and paper.
"My name is Dr. Brock and my patient's name is Ash Ketchum. Please if anyone asks about him, don't give out any information. We don't want anyone to know." replied Brock as she wrote down Ash's name with a surprised look at Brock before looking back at Ash.
"Alright. I will do that. Have a nice day, Dr. Brock." said the receptionist, giving Brock the piece of paper before he went back to help Cilan take Ash back to the room.
They followed the receptionist's directions and before long, they were in the room and Ash quickly changed into a hospital gown and crawled into bed.
"Ok, Ash. You can scream as loud as you want since the walls are soundproof. If you don't mind, I would like to check you out to see how you're doing." said Brock, bringing out a bigger ultrasound machine.
Ash just nodded since he was feeling a contraction come and go in a couple of minutes.
Brock did an ultrasound to see where the King was and soon found that the King was already in the position to come out, but he had to wait before Ash was dilated to 10 centimeters.
Once Brock was done with the ultrasound, he told Ash to spread his legs so that he could check how far dilated he was.
Ash did what Brock told him and Brock told him that he was one centimeter dilated, causing Ash to feel depressed because he just wanted the King out of his body after everything that he's been through.
"Ash, I know that you want the King out of you, but you can't rush labor. It could be an hour or more until you're fully dilated to deliver him." said Brock, trying to comfort his friend.
Iris and Cilan pulled Brock over to the other side of the room since they had a question that they've been wondering ever since Ash became pregnant with the King.
"Brock, how is it possible that Ash came deliver the King by natural birth?" asked Iris, since Cilan couldn't pull himself together to ask that.
"I don't know, but all I know is that Ash has everything that a girl has when she's pregnant." replied Brock, puzzled by the same thing.
"Maybe the King wanted Ash to suffer while he was giving birth and figured that a C-Section was too easy so he made everything for Ash to suffer during the birth." said Cilan, thinking of an idea that was probably true.
"That's true, Cilan, but we need to keep an eye on Ash to make sure that he's as comfortable as he can be during the labor process." said Brock as they turned back to the raven-haired teen, grimacing in pain from a nasty labor pain.
(Nine Hours Later)
Ash and Iris was left alone in the room while Brock and Cilan were getting something to eat since they've been up for a long time taking care of Ash.
"Ash, can I tell you something?" asked Iris, stepping next to the bed.
"Sure, Iris." said Ash, after letting a breath of air out after having a contraction hit him hard.
"Ash, I like you. I really like you enough to say that I love you." said Iris with a big blush on her face.
"Iris, I like you too. I really like you enough to say that I love you too." said Ash, through the pain.
"Really?" asked Iris.
"Yeah." replied Ash with a blush on his face as well.
Before long, their faces started to get closer to one another and just when their lips were about to meet, Ash's eyes widened and he let out a huge scream of pain, causing Iris to step back a couple of steps.
"Ash!" yelled Iris, not knowing what was going on.
"Iris! Get Brock and Cilan! The King's on his way now!" screamed Ash, gripping onto the sheets as he felt the pain triple-fold from before.
"Right!" said Iris, leaving the room to find Brock and Cilan with Pikachu staying with Ash.
"Pikapi…" said Pikachu, crawling onto the bed and sitting next to its trainer.
"It's…gonna be…alright, Pikachu. I'm gonna…be ok once…the King is…delivered." said Ash in between gasps of pain shooting through him.
Pikachu knew that the teen was just reassuring it, but it had to believe that so that its trainer could survive this.
Iris came rushing back into the room with Brock and Cilan and they all gasped as they saw the teen sweating heavily and moaning through the pain.
Brock told each of them what to do while he checked Ash for full dilation.
While Iris took a hold of Ash's hand for him to squeeze it while he was pushing, Cilan got a couple of towels ready for when the King would be out.
Brock checked Ash and saw that he was filly dilated and was ready to push the King out of him after nine months of grueling pain.
"Ok, Ash. You're ready to push him out." said Brock, giving Ash a smile before going back into a serious face as he told the teen what to do as well as Iris.
Once everyone knew what they were doing, Brock got into his position to help the King out.
"Ready? Push!" said Brock, once everyone agreed.
Ash pushed for what felt like forever until he reached ten, but he noticed something off when he pushed.
Brock gave the signal again and Ash pushed hard while feeling something crawling along inside him as he pushed.
"Hold…on…" said Ash, breathless from the pushing after doing the last push.
"What's wrong?" asked Cilan, confused on why Ash stopped.
"Every time I…push, I feel…something crawling…inside me…" said Ash, gasping for breath from the pushing and pain.
"The King must be helping you out since he's excited about coming into the world." said Brock, figuring out what was happening.
"That's a very interesting scent about the King." said Cilan, thinking about what Brock just said.
"That's for sure." said Iris, looking into Ash's chocolate eyes to find that they were losing the light that always shown in them.
Iris made a little gesture to Brock tell him to hurry up so that Ash can get the King out of him and Brock quickly got the meaning of the gesture as he got back into delivering mode.
He told the raven-haired teen to push, which the teen did while feeling the King move a little more to coming out.
Ash pushed again after a little rest and felt the King starting to crown.
The teen pushed a couple of more times before the King crawled out of his body and landed into Brock's hands.
Brock gave the King to Cilan to start cleaning him up while Brock took care of cleaning Ash up and checking on him.
While Brock was checking on Ash, he noticed that all of the light was gone from the teen's eyes and he looked like he was about to die any minute if they didn't do anything.
Since Brock and Iris were preoccupied with Ash, Cilan was cleaning up the King until he felt the baby grab ahold of his finger and shook it a little.
That was the start of everything going terribly wrong for our heroes.
From shaking Cilan's finger to throwing him across the room and hitting the wall, the others just looked at Cilan before looking over at the King to find something disturbing happening.
The King was growing at an unnatural rate to become the same height as poor Ash along with the same age.
"I just want to say thank you for taking such good care of me despite you telling them and invading my space inside you, but that's water under the bridge now. Now, Ash, I have a proposition for you. If you join me, I will let you live, but if you don't, then you'll die. What will it be?" asked the King, walking over to Ash's things and grabbing the pair of clothes that Ash was wearing during the last couple of months and getting a new pair of pants instead of the ones that Ash ruined.
Ash lifted his head before getting onto his elbows shakily in order to reply.
"King, I don't agree to any of the terms that you've given me. Fight me. Hand-to-hand. Now." replied Ash, causing the others to gasp at his decision.
"But, Ash…" said Iris, but was interrupted by the King.
"I agree to those terms, but I think that you need a little help. You look like you're about to keel over any minute." said the King, walking over to Ash's bed as the teen collapsed onto the bed from using all of his energy.
The King casted a spell on Ash that caused his energy to go back to normal and that made his eyes light up like before.
The gang noticed that Ash went back to normal with a spell from the King after the energy spell, making Ash rub his stomach and feel that it was like before.
"I've fixed you up and took out everything that I needed to be made with from you. Be happy that I did that." said the King, turning his back on Ash while he crawled out of bed and put on his original outfit from when the King first implanted himself inside the teen.
Before long, the two opponents found a way out a side door while Brock, Iris, and Cilan quickly grabbed their stuff and explained to the receptionist that Ash felt much better and went out another door so that he wouldn't get any attention.
(With Ash And The King)
As they walked into an open field for them to start the battle between them, the others came running to watch everything go down between the two of them.
"We'll have a hand-to-hand battle, but anything goes for fighting. Fair enough?" asked the King, looking at Ash.
"Fair enough." replied Ash, looking into the King's eyes and seeing a pure black coloring in his eyes.
"Then let's go!" said the King and Ash in unison.
They charged at each other with fists ready, but when Ash went to punch the King, the King dodged and hit Ash square in the stomach hard, causing him to fly back a couple of feet, gasping for breath.
The King didn't even give Ash a chance to recover as he came right back with another punch, but Ash was able to roll out of the way before the punch landed on him.
The raven-haired teen got back up quickly and kicked at the King, but the black-eyed teen deflected the kick and caused Ash to spin on his side in midair and land hard on his back.
Ash got up slowly due to the lack of air in his lungs, but he came right back and attempted to punch and kick the King, but all of his moves were deflected without a problem.
As Ash was running towards the King, the black-eyed teen just kicked the raven-haired teen square in the chest, causing him to fly back and land with a hard thud on the ground.
Before he could recover, the King casted a spell and threw it towards Ash, but he was able to dodge it by rolling out of the way again.
"I thought we agreed on a hand-to-hand battle! Not a battle with spells!" yelled Ash from across the field.
"I told you that anything goes and that includes spells!" said the King, powering up another spell.
Ash got out of the way of the spell and thought that he was screwed with winning until he remembered one thing that he could do, causing him to smile with the idea in mind.
"What are you smiling at, you pathetic brat?!" yelled the King, not happy to see the smile on the other teen's face.
"I'm smiling because I have an idea! Got a problem with that?!" yelled Ash back, trying not to give too much information away.
"In fact, I do!" yelled the King, running towards Ash at full speed.
Before Ash realized it, the King disappeared for a couple of seconds and came up behind him and took to a full-on assault on Ash.
The raven-haired teen fell to the ground with a sickening thud and stayed there for a few minutes.
"Ash…" said Iris, watching everything play out and she hoped that he was alright.
Brock and Cilan just watched in horror as their friend took so many of the attacks and laid there motionless.
Ash started to get up slowly, but was only able to sit up do to all of the hits that he took from the recent onslaught from the King.
The black-eyed teen didn't like seeing Ash getting back up and he soon ran toward the other teen with a spell in his fist.
As he got closer, Ash saw his chance and put his hands together and concentrated hard on something.
Just before the King landed the attack on Ash, he was blasted back by a blue light of some kind.
"What the heck was that?!" yelled the King, looking over at Ash, who had a giant smile on his face.
"An Aura Sphere. Didn't expect that, did you?" said Ash, looking at the King before attempting to get up.
"You…pathetic…BRAT! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" screamed the King, losing his temper towards the chocolate-eyed teen.
"Oh, I know I will." said Ash, keeping the smile on his face as he stood, but he noticed that his left knee was aching worse than before, causing him to fall onto his right knee while he clutched his left knee.
The black-eyed teen casted a spell that kept increasing in size until it reached the size of an overinflated yoga ball.
He soon launched it at the raven-haired teen, thinking that he finally was able to get rid of his host.
Ash tried to dodge, but his knee caused him to be unable to dodge and the spell crashed into the teen hard, causing him to scream out in pain.
The others watched in horror as they thought that this was the end of their friend.
When the spell finally dispersed from being around the teen, he dropped to the ground with another sickening thud, causing him not to move for a couple of minutes.
"I need to finish this before he finishes me off. I have only one shot at this." thought Ash, lying there on the ground before sitting up.
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE ALREADY?! NO MATTER! I WILL DESTROY YOU WITH ONE LAST SPELL!" screamed the King, showing that he was past furious and onto becoming a maniac.
"Why don't you just come at me and finish me off yourself with a spell in hand?" asked Ash, trying to make him fall for a trap.
"FINE! I WANTED TO DESTROY YOU MYSELF!" screamed the King, falling for Ash's trap.
The black-eyed teen, gathered up another powerful spell and had it fused with his fist, causing him to run toward Ash.
As the King came closer and was on top of Ash, the raven-haired teen put his plan into action and stopped the King entirely with his hands on the King's stomach.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" screamed the King, looking down at Ash.
"THIS!" screamed Ash, concentrating hard on something.
When he did this, the King's eyes widened when he felt something start to grow inside him and he looked down to see what it was.
The others were surprised by this too when they started to see a blue glow start to resonate from within the King's stomach.
Time seemed to freeze around the two in the field as Ash worked hard on making the thing grow bigger until he pushed the King away, finishing the attack.
The black-eyed teen went flying back and landed hard on his back and was shocked that the raven-haired teen could do that to him.
Ash got up shakily from the ground and walked over to the King and was surprised at what he found along with the others, who walked over since they saw that he wasn't moving anymore.
When they got to the King, they saw that he had a giant hole where his stomach used to be and they started to see that he was degenerating slowly from the hole.
"Wh-what was that attack?" asked the King, looking at Ash with wide eyes.
"That was an Aura Sphere." replied Ash simply.
"H-how?" asked the King in shock.
"I'm a descendant of Sir Aaron so I can use aura." replied Ash.
"No…" said the King, thinking about something.
"What?" asked Ash, thinking that the King was crazier than he already was.
"I was beaten by a descendant of Sir Aaron!" yelled the King, trying to get up, but realized that it was useless.
"Why's that so important?" asked Cilan, trying to figure out why along with the others.
"Because Sir Aaron's descendants have the power to destroy my people." replied the King, looking at Ash.
The gang didn't know how to respond to that and they just looked at each other before looking back at the degenerating King.
Just before the degeneration sped up, his appearance changed to look like Ash and Ash noticed that his black eyes changed to the same chocolate brown that the raven-haired teen had.
"Despite everything that I've done to you, you have been the same person through and through. I, on the other hand, am a different story. I have changed so much from hatred to reassurance that I can finally rest in peace and outside of the Stone Pokeball. I know that you're surprised that I look just like you, Ash, but this is really me. I looked just like you when I was living before, except that I didn't have the brown eyes. You gave me the brown eyes when I was inside you and I just want to say thank you for everything that you've done with taking care of me and I'm sorry for putting you through this. I should've known that I wasn't going to rule the world, but revenge blinded me. I'm sorry again. Goodbye…everyone…" said the King, disappearing completely after apologizing for everything that happened.
Ash was frozen when he heard about giving the King brown eyes and thought about one of his dreams and he couldn't believe that it came true.
"Ash, are you ok?" asked Iris, looking at the scared look on her friend's face.
"I will be. It's just hard to think that I was looking at a carbon copy of me…and that it could've been me that died." said Ash after a few minutes.
"It's ok, Ash. It's all over now." said Brock, reassuring the teen.
"Yeah. It's all over now." said Ash, agreeing with his friend.
"Are you ok after the fight?" asked Cilan.
"Yeah. I just lost lots of energy from that last attack." replied Ash, looking over at the connoisseur before falling unconscious.
(A Couple Of Days Later)
Ash found himself waking up in a hospital room with his friends around him.
"What happened?" asked Ash, looking around at his friends.
"You fell unconscious from using all of your energy from your fight with the King. I also checked you out and found that you received a couple of bad injuries, but they will heal without a problem." replied Brock, explaining to Ash what happened.
"What were the bad injuries?" asked the teen.
"A couple of tears to the muscle wall in your stomach, a couple pulled muscles and a bad sprain in your left knee, and little tears in all of your muscles. He really did a number to you." replied Brock, naming all of the stuff that the King was able to make Ash suffer.
"I kind of figured. How long have I been out? It feels like a couple of hours." said Ash, not wanting to get up for fear of hurting himself anymore.
"A couple of days, but that's understandable after what you put up with during the fight." replied Cilan.
"And I think that you scared Iris as well when you collapsed. We'll leave you two alone." said Brock, looking over at Iris before the two guys walked out of the room.
"Iris…" said Ash, looking up at her.
"Ash…you scared me during the fight. I was wondering if you were going to make it out alive or not." said Iris, looking at Ash and also looking like she was getting ready to cry.
Ash leaned up from the bed when Iris closed her eyes and kissed her lightly on the lips.
"I'm not going anywhere. I promise." said Ash, reassuring Iris.
"Oh Ash!" said Iris, hugging him lightly before they kissed again.
When they let go of the kiss, they heard yells of excitement come from outside the door.
Iris went over to the door and opened it to find Brock and Cilan cheering about something.
"What's wrong with you two?" asked Iris, thinking that her two friends were crazy.
"Oh! Nothing!" replied the two in unison, causing Ash to laugh, but he didn't laugh too long because it hurt to laugh.
"They were spying on us, weren't you two?" asked Ash, looking between the two.
"Yeah. Sorry." replied the two.
Ash and Iris just looked at each other and laughed a little about their friends before he stopped.
"So does that mean that you two are finally a couple?" asked Brock.
The two shook their heads in agreement and the others were happy to hear that.
After a couple of weeks in the hospital to let everything heal, the gang continued on their way to Striaton, where Cilan said goodbye to the others and that he wouldn't ever forget this journey for as long as he lived.
Ash, Brock, and Iris continued on their way to the port by Nuvema Town and soon all three of them traveled back to Kanto, where Brock went back to the school to continue studying to become a Pokemon Doctor.
Ash and Iris went back to Pallet Town and both his mother and Professor Oak were happy to find out that he and Iris were a couple finally.
Everything went back to normal finally.
Hope you enjoyed Chapter 12! I just want to say a HUGE thank you to all of you for making the last 10 years great and for all of your support! All of you are awesome and I'm excited for the next 10 years! Thank you all for making my 10th anniversary on here great and I look forward to giving you all more great fics! See ya later!
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