Aftershock of an Attempted Murder. Part 5.
Disclaimer: (Nik Nak comes in with a gun pointed to her back and talks robotically) I do not own any of the characters mentioned, the concept or the worlds. Just the plot and anyone I made up.
A/N: Final showdown time and this is the last part of this fic, but there will be more. Oh yes, I've got bigger plans for a certain couple. Oh no I've said too much!! To the Nik-Nak mobile, away!!!
Alley had thought hard about her decision, not long because she didn't have that kind of time. Although this might kill her, it would give her friends a chance to live and to win this fight fairly. She could just imagine Vegeta's reaction if she defeated the 'baddie' and saved the day. She powered up to give the final attack despite the cries behind her telling her not too. The aura around her grew larger and larger. At the last second, an idea sprung into Ash's head. He concentrated hard and gave some of his energy to her.
"ULTIMATE PSYBEAM ATTACK!!!!"
She screamed as a huge ray of multicoloured energy hit El Peligro (whip cracks) knocking the senses out of him, literally, falling to the ground barely conscious. Alley took her hands away from her head, breathing heavily. She couldn't keep up her energy anymore and fell to the ground. The Z senshi, Ash and Misty found themselves free from the invisible cell that held them, but all of them were still very exhausted and badly beaten up. Ash hoppled to Alley's side and tried to wake her up. But no luck. This had happened to him once before and he felt as if he were gonna explode with anger. Misty looked on with her eyes brimming with tears. She may not have gotten on well with Alley but she liked her all the same. Pan could feel tears running down her cheeks as she looked at Ash trying to wake up Alley. Apart from Bra, Alley was Pan's best friend. She was like a big sister to her. Goku, Krillin and Piccolo bowed their heads to show respect because they really didn't know Alley well enough. Trunks just looked horrified and stood in awe. Gohan was in shock; she had ended her life just to save them and he didn't even know the reason why. No one had noticed that Goten was fuming with rage. He had fallen in love with her and just when he realised it she died. There was just something about her that he couldn't put his finger on… El Peligro (whip cracks) slowly rose to his feet not knowing what was in store for him. Unfortunately for him, he groaned when he got up and everyone turned to look at him. Ash slowly put Alley down and walked towards El Peligro (whip cracks), looked him in the eye and punched him so hard it sent him flying.
"You malicious, despicable, merciless son of a bitch!" Ash seethed through his teeth. El Peligro (whip cracks) should have played dead, but like the idiot he is he got up again. This time Misty went against him. El Peligro (whip cracks) laughed.
"You're just a stupid little girl, I'm not afraid of you!" El Peligro (whip cracks) smiled, showing that all of his teeth were missing because of the punch Ash gave him. Misty growled and her face lit up.
"That's it!!" She exclaimed whipping out her 'trusty mallet' from who knows where and knocked him down. She laughed softly. "Game, set and match. That's for Alley ya bastard!" El Peligro (whip cracks) again staggered to get up, but got up none the less. Goten was getting more pissed off by the minute. He was about to go and pummel El Peligro's (whip cracks) face in but a hand grabbed him from behind. It was Pan.
"Uncle, you need to calm down!" Pan pleaded. Goten brushed her off but knew she was right. An idea formed in Son Pan's head.
"Hey! I have an idea!"
"Well, that would be a first!" Trunks snorted. Pan ignored him and walked over to her grandfather. She knew that everyone was rather weak but a group attack just might work. She motioned the idea to her grandfather and Goku nodded showing his approval, but he said that he wanted to do something first. He turned to face El Peligro (whip cracks).
"If you promise to leave this planet and never return then no harm will come to you! Just leave and never return!" Goku said. Everyone face faulted.
"ARE YOU CRAZY KAKARROT?!!! HAVE YOU LOST WHAT LITTLE MIND YOU HAVE?!!" Vegeta shouted, clearly gob smacked at what Goku had just said.
"Dad, not again!" Gohan said, shaking his head.
"What?" Goku said defensively "It's standard procedure!! I always have to do this!" Everyone face faulted again. Everyone got into their fighting stances and powered up the energy that they had left.
"FINAL FLASH!!" Vegeta, Ash and Misty shouted out.
"KA…ME…HA…ME…HA!!!" Goku, Goten and Krillin shouted out.
"MASENKO!!" Gohan, Trunks and Pan shouted out.
"SPECIAL BEAM CANNON FIRE!!" Piccolo shouted out. El Peligro (whip cracks) screamed as the attacks engulfed him. He was defeated they had won. Everyone waited a while just to make sure that he didn't get up again, they were sure that he was dead. Ash and Misty embraced each other with a kiss, while everyone else looked rather pleased with themselves. A faint clapping was heard in the distance. The group turned around to see Alley propped up against a large rock applauding them.
"(Posh British accent) Bravo! Bravo! An extraordinary performance!" She said.
"NANI?!" They all shouted. (Urge to kill; rising, rising…)
"Yes, I'm alive. You know Ash, you should have checked my pulse I was just unconscious. Just another reason to add to the list of 'Why Ash will never be a doctor'." Ash didn't know whether to kill her or to hug her. Thankfully for her he chose the latter. He engulfed her in a bear hug.
"Ash, Hon, I still ache all over!" She replied croakily. "Thanks." She whispered. He sheepishly rubbed his head behind his head. "Sorry!" He helped her up, but no sooner had her buttocks left the ground she was ambushed by all of the part Saiya-Jins kids. Shouts of "I'm so glad you're okay!", "Don't ever scare me like that again!" and "Egads!" stood out from the scene. Goku looked on and laughed at the whole thing.
Back at Bulma's, two days later…
"Bulma, I'm fine!" Alley protested.
"No, you're not! Believe me, I've seen enough injuries to know." Bulma protested putting Alley's arm in a sling.
"But it's nothing serious!"
"Ha! Alley, you have two broken ribs, a fractured arm and that wound on your stomach hadn't fully recovered so now it's worse! I'd give you a senzu but Korrin is fresh out!" Alley stuck out her lower lip and snorted. "Okay, I'll take it easy!" She walked out of the lab and went into the main house.
"I swear, that girl is just like her mother." Bulma sighed. Alley walked into the room and saw Trunks and Pan watching TV. She smiled.
"Aw, isn't that cute?" Alley said making Pan blush and Trunks gave her a weird look.
"What are you talking about?" Trunks asked suspiciously but she said nothing and walked off laughing. He then heard her mutter that 'Gohan's gonna kill you!'.
"What do you mean by that?" He shouted which only made her laugh more. He shook his head and went back to watching TV. Alley walked back to the house that she was staying in. All of her stuff was packed and ready to go. She smiled as she felt a pair of strong arms grab her waist from behind and kiss her on the cheek.
"Hey gorgeous." He purred into her ear.
"Hey sweetie." Goten spun her around so that she was facing him. He looked into her eyes pleadingly and stuck out his lip.
"Do you have to go?" He asked.
"Yes, I wish I could stay but I have to go to my grandparent's funeral. You know that." She said mock punching him in the arm. He pretended to die and fall on the couch.
"I wish it didn't have to end like this, y'know." She said as she went and sat next to him laying on his chest.
"It doesn't have to." He said as he stroked her hair.
"We both know long distance relationships don't work. Remember last time we tried…" He got up off the couch and grabbed her hand.
"Then stay here with me! Please Alley!"
"I'd love to but what would I do! I've haven't finished high school and the only thing I'd have on my resume would be 'Pokémon trainer'!"
"You're being too negative about this!" Goten said as he got up.
"Well one of us has to look at things with perspective!" She countered.
"Are you calling me stupid?"
"Oh, for the love of…I never said that!"
"That's what you were implying!"
"I was not!"
"You were too!"
"This is becoming tedious!"
"There you go again. Using big words thinking I don't understand! Well I do!"
"Well bully for you!" She grabbed her bags and walked out to where Ash and Misty were waiting in the car. Everyone was waiting ready to say goodbye to Alley.
"I'll miss you Alley!" Pan said as she hugged her.
"I'll miss you too, Pan-chan!" She said. She went into the car and waved goodbye.
"Goten, what's up?" Trunks asked him.
"Nothing. Not anymore." He replied sadly as he watched her go. Alley didn't look back, because she knew that she would jump out of the car and run back to him if she did. Misty gave her a squeeze on the hand.
"Are you gonna be okay?" Misty asked.
"If I can survive getting shot twice, a coma and El Peligro (whip cracks) then I think I can survive this." She replied with a smile.
At the funeral…
Alley had just finished giving her eulogy about her grandparents. It was so moving that everyone had tears in their eyes except Alley. All of his life that he knew her Ash had never seen Alley cry. When her mother died he never saw her cry, of course she was upset but she didn't cry. She sat next to him waiting for the caskets to be buried. He looked over at her and noticed she wasn't wearing her sunglasses.
"How come you're not wearing your sunglasses?" He asked her.
"Special request." She replied.
A couple of weeks later…
Alley was asked by Ash's mom to stay with them until she was old enough to get her own place. There were so many things that were depressing her lately. Her break up with Goten, which she still didn't understand, her grandparents' death. She was glad that Ash was going to set out on his Pokémon journey today and she was going with him. Misty and Brock were also coming along. She went downstairs and saw that Ash was gulping down his breakfast while his mother was giving him some last minute advice. Alley picked up the post that had fell through the door, she read a letter that was addressed to both her and Ash. She skimmed through it and her face became pale…
"NANI?!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. (Oy, not again!) Ash came skidding in from the kitchen.
"What? what's the matter?"
"Read!!" He read through the letter and thought he was going to have a cardiac arrest.
"I don't believe it!"
"What's wrong?" Ash's mom asked.
"The letter…it says that we haaaa(swallows)…we haaaave to go to school!" Ash exclaimed.
"Really?!"
"Yes! Apparently someone complained that Pokémon training was just a hobby and not a career and that a selected few that are between 16 and 18 has to go to the University of Cerulean City and get a high school diploma! Oh I think I'm gonna heave!" Ash cried.
"NO! NO! NO!! I DON'T WANNA GO BACK TO THAT HELL HOLE!!" Alley cried getting stares from Ash and his mom. Misty and Brock came in the door with Misty in hysterics.
"I can't go to high school! I never even went to junior high!!" She exclaimed.
"HA! This one of those times when I'm glad to be old!" Brock exclaimed.
"SHUT UP BROCK!" The three young ones exclaimed but Brock just laughed. Of course it wasn't only them who had been told to go to this college, it was most of the kids that Ash met up with. Gary, Ritchie, Snap, Tracey, Giselle, Joe, Duplica, AJ just to mention a few. They were all told to gather there the next day.
At the University of Cerulean City…
The kids were seated in the auditorium waiting for someone to show up and tell them what was up. Most of the teens were unhappy that they had to come to school.
"I can't believe we have to go to school!" Ash shouted enraged.
"This sucks!" Misty exclaimed.
"I'm starting to wish that I had died!" Alley said sadly.
"Well it can't get any worse than this." Snap stated. As if on cue, Gary Oak walked up to Ash and co.
"Well, if it isn't Ash and his motley crew!" Gary exclaimed.
"This is getting really old! Don't you have a life?" Alley asked.
"Well same to you but more of it!" He replied.
"Oh please!" Misty huffed. Gary stalked off as everyone laughed at him. Their attention was turned to a middle aged man who was standing at the podium, he hushed for them to be quiet.
"Hello! I have assembled you here today for reasons you already know of. You will be starting school on Monday. Now before you start moaning and whining, this will not be a formal college. More like a high school for big kids. You will have courses that I set for you in the first year and then you will be free to choose what courses you want. Now, any questions?" Alley put her hand up.
"Did a guy by the name of Trunks have anything to do with this?"
"No." He replied.
"Damn. How 'bout Piccolo?"
"No…"
"Ah well!" She replied.
Monday morning…
Everyone was given the same homeroom numbers cause there was only a few people in the class, locker combinations and schedules. Everyone had the same subjects. For first period: Gym.
"Oh no!" Giselle whined.
"Alright!" Ash and Alley said as they high-fived each other.
Meanwhile, at Orange Star High…
"Cheer up man! You'll be fine!" Trunks assured his friend.
"Yeah right! I have to go through senior year without my best friend." Goten said.
"No you won't! I'm repeating this year because I failed home ec."
"You took home ec?"
"It was a bet. That I lost by the way."
"Cool."
"Listen, I know that you're sad about Alley but there are plenty of fish in the sea!"
"But I don't want fish." Trunks face faulted.
"It was a metaphor. I'm surprised you don't have to repeat a grade."
"If I did I think my mom would have a heart attack!" Goten joked. They walked into homeroom and waited for the teacher to arrive. Goten sat down and noticed that a beautiful girl was staring at him, she then blushed and turned away. Goten smiled as Trunks patted him on the back.
"See I told ya!" Trunks exclaimed.
"Trunks, I'm gonna go get me a fish!" Trunks face faulted.
University of Cerulean City…
"Ready to lose, spitwad!" Alley was standing face to face with Gary.
"More ready than you'll ever be!" He countered and she sweat dropped. The gym teacher blew his whistle and threw the basketball up in the air. Alley jumped up with great ease and caught the ball, she dribbled down the court and then passed it to Misty. Misty caught the ball and started dribbling. She saw that Snap and Duplica were blocking her only way of getting the shot so she ran until she was face to face with them and then jumped, or should I say flew, only to have the shot blocked by Ash. Ash ran as fast as his legs could carry him, of course being the way that he is he didn't pass it to anybody and tried to make the shot himself. He was by the three-point line when Alley zanzokened in front of him, took the ball, stood long enough to grin at him and then sped off in the other direction. She went to the two-point line and scored a basket.
"Yes!" She shouted punching the air.
"Alright Alley!" Misty said as she high-fived her.
"With the skills I got, I should be arrested!" She said but her face saddened.
"What's up?"
"Goten always used to say that."
"C'mon, you need to cheer up! Maybe even grab yourself another guy!" Misty said trying to make her feel better.
"I suppose."
"Hey, are you two ladies gonna yak or are ya gonna play?" The gym teacher asked furiously.
"He reminds me of my 7th grade Math teacher!" Alley whispered which made Misty laugh.
"Oh! Those two think they're all that! Well, I'll fix them good!" Giselle said rubbing her hands menacingly.
"I dunno Gis. Alley and Mist are okay. You just have to give them a chance a…is Alley flirting with Snap?" Duplica asked sceptically. Alley was talking to Snap and he was laughing at a joke she just told him. "Grrr."
"Sheesh!! Alley's not getting a good rep with the girls, is she Trace?" Ritchie asked.
"Nope. From my observations I'd say that they hate her a lot." Tracey replied.
"It's always been like that. Girls never like Alley because they're jealous. She's a lot less uptight than most girls and she doesn't PMS as much either." Ash replied. The two boys gave him weird looks. "WHAT? She's my sister!(Gets more strange looks) Adoptive!!" The two guys just laughed.
Orange Star High…
Goten walked up to the girl who had been staring at him in homeroom. It had taken him all day to work up the nerve to ask her out on a date. He had to make sure that he wasn't doing this to spite Alley or if he was on rebound. He shook those thoughts out of his head and tapped her on the shoulder.
"Um, hi!" He said flashing the Son smile.
"Oh, hello!"
"My name's Son Goten." He said offering his hand.
"My name is Paris." (Heh, I'm evil!)
"Wow, that's a beautiful name!" He said quickly regretting it and blushed. Paris laughed at that. He rubbed his hand behind his head sheepishly.
"I was wondering. Would you like to go out some time? Y'know, on a date?"
"I'd love to Son Goten!" She said as she walked out of the school gates with Goten not far behind. **Hook, line and sinker** He thought to himself.
Cerulean…
"It is the first day in school and you've already been sent to my office!! You two need to grow up and set your differences aside!" The Principal shouted. Ash and Gary were in the office because they had got into a fight. Ash didn't have a scratch on him but Gary had a busted lip and a black eye. "If I see you two in here again there'll be heck to pay!! Now go!!" The two boys exited. Next in line to enter the office was Giselle, Misty, Duplica and Alley. All four girls were covered in black smudges. The principal looked at them and cleared his throat.
"I'm afraid to ask this but what happened?"
"Well these two losers didn't know what they were doing in chemistry class!" Giselle said indicating Misty and Alley.
"We didn't know!! We saw you sabotage our experiment!" Misty cried.
"We did not!! You are such a liar!" Duplica cried.
"Take that back ya bitch!" Alley said.
"Oh so you want to be startin' something?" Duplica countered.
"Bring it on, copy cat!" Alley said.
"GIRLS!!!!" The principal shouted. "A weeks detention for all of you!" he shouted and they left the office. "Oh I don't know what I've gotten myself into!!
THE END.
NN: That's the end of the story! Yes I know there are a few things that have been left unsettled and I know that the way Alley and Goten broke up was stupid but…as Gohan said I have absolutely no way of finishing that sentence. Opinions people? Flames telling me I shouldn't have broke them up? Or good comments telling me it was a good idea to break them up? Fill in the form below.
Veg: That was a shameless plug.
NN: So?
Veg: How come I wasn't a main character in this fic?
NN: Don't worry, I have plans for you! MMMWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!! To the Nik-Nak mobile, away!
Veg: What a strange human! She's almost as stupid as Kakarrot!