Last time on Pokeball Z
The legendaries began to fight back against Ash to protect the humans. The first to fall was the guardian of the sea, Lugia, and the three Titans. The Orange Islands were devastated by the powerful HUMAN-EXTINCTION ATTACK, destroying all the human life. Next to fall were Ho-oh, Celebi, and the three legendary beasts. Finally, the new pokemon Rukario day viewed and, accompanied by Mewtwo, Mew, Rayquaza, Kyogre, and Groudon, struggled to stop Ash from destroying the humans, but all failed as well. Meanwhile at the Pokemon League Commission, the gym leaders witnessed the events unfolding, realizing that they were the last line, but what will they learn about the truth?
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Chapter 9
The gym leaders arrived by helicopter onto the newly formed Mirage Island, confronting the disguised menace.
"You're terror ends now!" Gary jumped out and pointed at him.
"My terror, I'm the one ending the terror! It's you that's causing it." Ash retorted back at Gary.
"What are you talking about?" Brock jumped out of the landing helicopter.
"It's you humans causing the terror! You enslave all the pokemon you capture to battle for your amusement. I won't let that happen any longer!" Ash fired shockwaves and disrupted the helicopter, but it landed safely and everyone got off.
"We work with Pokemon making them stronger!" Brock argued back at the darkness.
"Really, pokemon don't need humans to become stronger. Look at me. I'm a pokemon with incredible power and I don't have a human trainer. The legendary pokemon as well don't have trainers either." Ash pointed at the collapsed legendaries lying behind him. "However, they still help you, even though they could easily do my job."
"Why do you hate us so much? Mr. Satoshi?" Misty questioned the man she remembered from the night five years ago.
"You know this monster?" Gary and everyone else asked Misty.
"Of course I know him. He saved me before and my child. You were nowhere close to me when I had Ashley!" Misty shouted at Gary.
"You never told us that." Brock told her.
"Of course she wouldn't!" The mysterious man interrupted their conversation. "She is scared like all you should be!" Ash fired some energy bolts and selected gym leaders, taking them out. "Don't expect to survive." Everyone braced themselves with their pokeballs.
Ash only laughed at their attempts to stop him. Ash fired some small electrical blasts at several of their pokeballs, disrupting the systems, and the leaders couldn't release several of their pokemon. The lingering leaders called out their remaining pokemon and attacked him with their most powerful attacks, but had no effect on his enormous power level.
"RAIGENGEKI!" Ash teleported into the air and crouched into the blasting position. He launched his black beam blast at the gym leaders and pokemon, causing a giant explosion to blast into space.
"We're alive." Misty looked around only seeing Gary and Brock alive as well in an enormous crater, but the blast killed all their pokemon and fellow gym leaders.
"Ha ha ha! I kept you alive to amuse myself. Killing you humans so easily takes away all the fun. Ha ha ha!" Ash laughed at them and hovered down.
"Why us?" Gary questioned him and stood in front of Misty.
"I have my reasons." Ash teleported straight to him and grabbed Gary by the neck.
"Let go of him!" Brock ran up and punched his face, knocking the hat off of him, revealing his true self.
"Now you know why I despise you all so greatly." Ash kicked Brock into a nearby mountain, causing it to topple over.
"Mr. Satoshi. Is this truly who you are?" Misty stumbled backwards seeing the monster's face and blood red eyes.
"Yes, but no human living shall see me in my true form again!" Ash stabbed his arm straight into Gary's chest and pulled his heart out, then threw the carcass and dead heart away.
"Now be gone!" Ash kicked Misty into the same collapsed mountain to where Brock was.
He finally removed everything in his path. Now nothing stood in his way, except he sensed something familiar in the debris and dug into helicopter, finding Ashley knocked out. Ash did not know, but he felt connected to this little girl he couldn't explain. He woke her up with some healing energy.
"Who are you?" Ashley was startled seeing a weird looking man with inhuman ears and spiky hair, and noticed his red coated arm.
"Nothing of your concern. Now go." Ash directed her, resisting the temptation to kill her for some reason.
"Wait. I don't know where my mommy is." The little orange-hair girl started to cry. Ash felt something from deep inside him erupting that he never felt for a long time. He consoled her and gave her berries and fresh water he produced from the ground.
"Now who is your mother, little girl?"
"I'm not a little girl. I'm Ashley Ketchum Waterflower, the daughter of Misty Waterflower of the Cerulean Gym."
"Ketchum…Misty…" Ash thought for a moment and carried her to the mountain area.
"Mommy!"
Ashley dug through the dirt and found her unconscious mother. She begged him to help her mother like he did for her. Ash reluctantly healed Ashley's mother. Next, Ashley requested to help Uncle Brock in the debris next to her, and again, he healed his injuries. May, just on time, landed on the island in a helicopter and joined Misty, Brock, and Ashley.
"Ashley! Get away from him!" Misty drew her daughter away from the monster standing a few feet away.
"Why mommy? He helped you." Ashley pointed out the healed wounds on Misty and Brock.
"Why did you do that?" Brock asked the puzzling man.
"Because this little girl told me to."
"Why are you listening to her?" May asked him.
"Um…well…" Ash couldn't even answer himself if he asked himself.
"Mr. Satoshi. You're the strangest man I ever met. First you hurt every human you encounter, then heal, kill some more, and heal again. What and who are you?" Misty asked the strangely familiar man.
"I thought my name would be enough proof for you Misty, but I see that the years have diminished your keenness." Ash chuckled.
"Ash! Ash is that you?" Misty asked her old friend. "What happened to you?"
"This happened!" Ash removed his coat, revealing his black fur body, tan sweatpants, shoes, and tail. "I became this monster all because of you three! I should kill you now." Ash held out an energy bolt at them.
"Daddy? Daddy!" Ashley ran up to him and wrapped around his leg, and Ash calmed down, but confused of why this little girl called him father. "Daddy, where have you been?"
"Ashley, what are you saying? I'm not your father."
"Of course you are!" Ashley started to cry for happiness. "Mommy told me you've been on a pokemon journey this whole time."
"What? Hmmm…" Ash began to think of the situation. "Ha ha ha! I see now. I never knew Misty was a liar. Your very own mother lied to you about who is your real father for your whole life. She still lives in her little fantasy world!" This made Ashley cry more and hug his leg even harder.
"Daddy? Why are you saying these mean things? I want you to be my daddy." Ash was so moved by this, he was not alone in the world.
"All right. I'll be your father." Ash bent down and hugged the little girl. "I have someone for me, after all these years, I'm not alone." He began to cry too.
Next time on Pokeball Z
Ash finally sees the light within himself, but something from his past returns to clash with him once more. Who could it be?"
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