Crimson Tears

Chapter Three: A Different Side

"Ash! Stop!" Delilah shouted as her six year old child launched himself at her. His eyes were glowing red. All she had said was that she wanted to know where he put the Crimson stone. He was going nuts. Mrs. Ketchum leapt on top of the coffee table while Ash tumbled across the floor after missing her.

"Ash! I demand you stop this nonsense right now!" Mrs. Ketchum cried.

Ash stood up not even dazed. He glared at her his eyes still that crimson red.

"You're not Ash, are you?" Delilah gulped.

He smiled and turned. He did a couple of impressive back flips into the air landing up right on the coffee table.

"No. I am not." Ash smirked.

"How did you…What…" Delilah fainted…


Pikachu looked at the boy in the driver's seat. It had been a long day. Ash had been a fool. He wanted to see Misty. He hadn't seen her for a long time. He was to be kept hidden in till the coast was clear again. He already ran into his mom last year. That gave her quite a fright. And then Cassidy and Butch knew he was alive. Now Ash did it again. Last time it was to go catch some pokemon…This time it was to see Misty… Gary was his usual self telling him it wouldn't be safe. So early in the morning, Ash and Pikachu got up and stole Gary's car.

Pikachu usual wouldn't allow Ash to leave but this time… Pikachu had to agree. Ash had missed his friends so much. Gary kept in touch with Lily so they could find out more about the rocket head quarters near there. But… Lily also kept a daily up to date on how misty was doing for Ash's sake. He knew she had disappeared last night and he knew where she would go.

Ash was alive. Ash shivered at the thought at what happened three years ago. He had just hung up on Brock….


There was a huge explosion like a rocket going off. I remember the smell of smoke. Our fire alarm system went off. Mom rushed in with Pikachu. She told me to run. I didn't understand. Gun shots…

"Run Ash!" Delilah cried, "They'll kill you!"

I obeyed. I took off with Pikachu at me heel. He knew where to take me. I didn't. I spoke to pikachu…

"Pikachu, what's going on?"

'Team Rocket is here. They are gonna kill you, Ash. They want you and the Crimson Teardrop.'

I remember being startled and then not feeling anything at all. Everything was a blur. People were dieing… Screaming for help… I wanted to help them…I couldn't feel anything I just was there watching. Pikachu was screaming for me to come back but… I wouldn't listen… or did I not hear him?

I was walking…with my head towards the ground…not really going anywhere…Like in a trace…a…a man came up to me and told me to drop before he shot me…I looked up at him…He recognized me…I…I remember him talking into his walkie-talkie,

"We found him. Radio Giovanni! We got him. He don't look that dangerous."

I lifted my hand…something made me do it… I shot a volley of lighting force at his walkie-talkie making it turn to dust…

I spoke to him… I can't remember what I was doing…

"Ato modori wa dekinai yo ima kara ja. Makeru wake ni wa ikanai yo! Kaeru koto no dekinai unmei daki shime chaou yo." I whispered to him. My eyes burned…I knew what was wrong…It was the stone again. It was controlling me… It did this only when it felt it was in danger…only then I didn't have powers…

That stone was not good for anyone to have…Even with me…But Team Rocket didn't know what it did…But this one would soon find out..

"You're using the stone…" He gulped.

"No…The stone is using him." The words just popped out. I couldn't stop them. How could I stop this?!

I pointed at him this time…He ran… I was gonna kill him…It happened so suddenly… How could I stop?!…I had to think… I had to gain control…Someone say my name!… May. She screamed. I dropped to my knees. I could move again…

I ran towards the scream. I had to stop this. It was my fault. They wanted the Crimson Teardrop. I felt it in my pocket to make sure it was okay…

"No more using me." I hissed to it. That stone was alive…It could hear…

I ran over… Gary's mom was lying lifeless on the ground…No…She can't be… Then May… They pointed the gun at her… I jumped in the way… I remember terrible pain and then blackness…


Ash shuttered. He woke up at least two days later with Gary at his side. It was then that Gary told Ash he could never go anywhere. He couldn't see his mom or anyone again. Gary told him that he and May were found in front of the old Grocery store by Jessie and James. They had saved there lives. They were supposed to search for survivors and kill them and if any was Ash they were to tell Giovanni. But Jessie, James, and Meowth were too kind hearted. They saved him and May that night. May had only fainted but Ash had a severe wound on his side from the gun shot. Gary didn't know if Ash would make it. But he did. As for Gary. He was at his Gym that day and was supposed to get to Ash's party late. As soon as he heard of the raid he immediately worried for his mother, May, and Ash. He couldn't get into Pallet but he got a unusual phone call that informed him that Ash and May were fine and being treated at a small clinic in New Bark. Professor Elm was told to keep Ash's secret, secret. But it wasn't really a problem. He didn't really pay any attention to them at all.

Jessie and James had a Nurse Joy who was also swore to secrecy and she helped doctor May and Ash back to heath. Gary smuggled Ash back into Viridian were he had stayed ever since. Pikachu had arrived a couple days later at Gary's Gym hearing that Ash was here. Pikachu was so surprised to see him alive. And Ash thought equal for Pikachu. He thought Pikachu had been killed. It was a touching reunion. Ash and Pikachu stayed in hiding together. Watching and waiting for a sign Team Rocket had been disbanded. Sometimes sneaking out to deflect some of their plans anyway.

That's how Cassidy and Butch knew he was alive. He had been seen by them. They never told Giovanni. Only few of the Team Rocket members knew. But this made Gary's job so much harder. He had to make a special hiding place beneath the floor boards with a stash of food, blankets, clothing, supplies, and Ash's back pack still full of stuff he had on his pokemon journey. This included his pokemon.

There was a secret escape there, that was in case any found his hideaway. That's how he got out tonight. He opened the grate that lead outside and slipped through without Gary's detection. Ash did this a lot

Ash let out a deep groan after looking into his rear view mirror.

"She's tailing us, Pikachu."

Pikachu looked worried.

'You have to change direction. She can't know where you are going.'

"Too late. This is a one way road… Strait through Saffron, Celadon and then to Viridian. Man. Aren't main roads so convent. Proves right were you're headed."

'You stop in Saffron and turn to Cerulean.' Pikachu offered.

"No. I'm not gonna drive right past Team Rocket head quarters!" Ash snapped.

'Well, first put you're hood up. So she won't recognize you.'

"Yeah, like she would recognize me after three years."

' Maybe not on first glance, but she'll catch on.'

Ash muttered under his breath on how stupid and pointless it was before lifting his hood up.

"How bout I make her stop following us?"

'How will ya do that?' Pikachu asked.

"Pull over and tell her to bug off. Simple as that."

'Why do I feel that isn't going to work?'

"Maybe. Cause I already did it once?" Ash suggested wearily.

'Yeah. That's it.'

"What is it with her and following people?"

'Maybe it's a girl thing.'

They both shrugged.


To Be Continued…

Please r + r!

Oh. And that thing up there. The flash back. When he said all that stuff in Japanese. What he really said was…

I can't turn back, not now not ever. I can not accept defeat! It can't be changed, I must accept my destiny.

Some eerie set of words if I must say so myself