Last time on Pokeball Z

Ash runs into trouble with Maxie and Archie, the leaders of Team Magma and Aqua. They performed an experiment on him that accidentally fused him with Raichu, becoming a whole new powerful being. However, his pokemon and family pays the price. Now what will he do?

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Chapter 6

Several more months had passed since that night. Ash, Delia, Pikachu, and all his "missing" pokemon have been pronounced dead. Misty is in her fifth month of pregnancy, Brock still in his gym taking care of his brothers and sisters and the gym. May is had returned home from the incident in the forest, but Max isn't going too well.

"We are gathered here today to honor the lives of Ash Ketchum and Delia Ketchum, and the pokemon that belonged to them."

The priest prayed and ordered the caskets to be lowered into their resting places. All the attendants, Brock, May, Misty, and other old friends, wept with tears flowing on the cheeks. The funeral ended and everyone left to even to their lives without the Ketchums, except for one mysterious man observing the tombstones.

"Excuse me sir? The funeral is over." Misty asked the unknown man in a big, dark brown detective coat and hat covering his face, but his hair was too large to be hidden.

"Okay Misty…" The man said and left out of the cemetery. Misty pondered about how the man knew her name, but noticed a lightning bolt popping out at the back of the coat. Misty asked the coated man about the bolt, but made the man run off faster.

"Hello mother of my child." Gary interrupted her.

"What do you what!" Misty yelled at him and faced away.

"Don't act like that. Stress isn't good for our baby." Gary tried to rub her stomach.

"Don't touch me!" Misty slapped his hand but he grabbed her wrists.

"Come on. Our baby will need a good, mature pair of parents." Gary tried to pull her in for a kiss.

"Get off of me!" Misty shouted and struggled to break free, but then someone spin kicked Gary off of her.

"What do you want! I'll report you to the cops!" Gary threatened as he got up and stomped off, cleaning the blood from his face.

"Thank you sir." Misty thanked the mysterious man, but he just walked away. "Who is he?"

Four months later

Misty's baby is due for any day now. Her sisters have completely moved out to be with their husbands, who they married a few months ago. The gym was set up for the new baby. Brock is still in his gym, but found someone to be with. May has left for a pokemon contest journey because she can't be with Max in the hospital, being too sad and depressing. Ash has begun his training for more control over his new-found powers.

"Dam it! I wished I learned how to drive." Misty muttered as she got into the taxi with supplies for the hospital. The taxi drove on, but ended up in a different location.

"Mr. Driver, this isn't the hospital." Misty sensed something wrong and hastily ran out, but was halted by a street gang.

"What's wrong little miss? What's in the purse?" One dark-clothed gang member stripped her purse, but only had twenty dollars and a few accessories in it.

"This isn't enough now you'll pay the price." Another one pulled a pocket knife and stabbed Misty in the gut.

Above

"Tonight is pretty peaceful." Ash thought as he flew over brightly lit Cerulean City in his disguise detective attire.

"AHHH!" Ash heard a woman cry in a dark alley and swooped down to take a look at the street gang and the woman in distress.

"Get away from her!" Ash fired some black energy shots and incinerated the street gang, revealing a badly beaten Misty.

"Misty…no…" Ash worried and hurried down to her, knelt down, and placed his hand over her head. Then, some healing electrical surges flowed from him into Misty, but after the transfer was complete, he fell backwards in exhaustion.

"Hah!" Misty gasped as she woke up completely healed, but found the mysterious man from the funeral in front of her.

"Sir it's you again." Misty tried to help him up, but found she had contractions.

Ash noticed something was wrong and lifted her up. She told him that she was in labor, and Ash quickly teleported her to the emergency room in the hospital. Misty went into the Emergency room and left Ash in the waiting room, pondering about his actions tonight.

"Why do I still care for her?" Ash thought to himself while sitting down on a hospital couch. "She did nothing for me. She hurt me in the worst way possible, and I still help her." Ash gripped his head in confusion.

"Excuse me sir?" A nurse came to him. "Ms. Waterflower desires your presence in the room."

Ash followed the nurse into the room where Misty still in labor.

"Please help her." The doctor begged. "The baby might not survive. We're having serious complications, but she told us you could do something."

Ash nodded, and walked up to her, placing his hand on her head again, sending more healing energy into Misty and her child, and helped finish her delivery.

"Congratulations. It's a girl." The doctor cut the umbilical cord, cleaned her off, wrapped the new baby in pink towels and gave her to Misty.

"She's so beautiful." Misty cried happily and hugged her newborn baby even more, and then Ash decided to leave to continue his quest.

"Please stay mister." Misty pleaded the man as he was leaving the room. "I have a favor. Could you call up my friends?" The man nodded and left, but Misty realized that she hadn't given the numbers.

When the man returned, he reported that Brock was on his way, but no one at May and Max's residence answered. She asked the man if he wanted to hold the baby, and he hesitantly nodded. Misty held out her baby and the man cradled her. Misty noticed tears rolling down his check, and that the baby snuggled into his warmth. She had orange red hair like her mother, but a little darker. The man handed the baby back to Misty.

"I can't thank you enough for everything mister…" Misty realized she hasn't learned his name this whole time.

"I'm no one." The man answered.

"What do you mean? You're someone special, very special. How do you do those things?" Misty questioned.

"None of your business Ms. Waterflower."

"You remind me someone, but I can't place it." Misty thought out loud.

"I have to leave now to help my only friend I have left. I sense something is wrong." The man told her. "By the way, if you truly want to know, you can call me Mr. Satoshi if we ever meet again." He walked out the door.

"Mr. Satoshi…ASH!" Misty thought and looked out to see if he was still there. "I know what to name my little girl, Ashley Ketchum Waterflower, in honor of the man always there for me."

"Darn it, I blew my secret." Ash contemplated and darted away for the Petalburg hospital, but a little too late.

Caroline and Norman sat next to the hospital bed, grieving over their belated son. After they left, Ash arrived by teleportation, but he cannot revive the dead. Ash bent over onto the bed, shut his eyes and cried. Ash now lost everything, his home, mother, pokemon, and now his only friend. In mental anguish, turmoil, and confusion, he completely lost it all; his dark side finally took over.

"Finally I'm free from those human emotional restraints. HA HA HA!" His eyes opened, glowing and eerie red. Ash's shadow side boasted and blew the roof of the hospital off and his coat and hat revealing himself, but someone busted in on him.

"Hey who are you!" May questioned the intruder.

"Your worst nightmare and the world's worst nightmare! HA HA HA!" The shadow side told her blasted off in a blinding flash.

Next time on Pokeball Z

Five years passes by, but Ash returns a completely changed being, desiring to destroy the human race, but for what reason?

Find out next time

Chapter 6 is complete. Ash becomes the bad guy of the story. Who or what should he destroy first?