Chapter 3
Ash and Arceus don't give much time for Alice to train her Pokemon for two reasons: Stopping Team Rocket before they rise to their glory, and having Alice get back to her home as soon as possible. Right now Ash and Alice ride on their Articuno to the Team Rocket's Hideout on the cliff, and then they get off to hide behind the building due to security cameras.
Alice asks, "What should we do now, Red?"
Ash says, "Alice, you have a Froslass, right?" Alice nods and Ash continues, "Tell her to use Phantom Force on the cameras, that way they won't be able to find out who intrudes the building while destroying evidences."
Alice nods and then she asks her Froslass to do the work, once the cameras are destroyed, they decide to attack Team Rocket Grunts. Alice is surprised to see Ash taking out an Electric Saw and slashes at the two of them, causing them to get paralyzed.
"What just happened? That saw just slashes through them and why didn't they get hurt?" Alice asks with shock.
"The saw is made with electric aura. You see, I have no Pokemon and Legendary Pokemon are not counted as mine, this is the only way I could battle." Ash says.
"I have never heard of a human using Pokemon moves to attack..." Alice mutters, but they don't talk that much as they have a mission to do: inflitrating the base.
Giovanni is still watching how the Control Clouds go until a video call on the computer interrupts him, "Boss! It is an emergency!"
Giovanni rubs the fur of Persian and he asks, "Calm down grunt. Tell me what's going on."
"We are under attacked!" But before he can say anything, an Ice Beam freezes the camera, and then it is destroyed. Giovanni just blinks for a second until he smirks, "So you already know the whole thing, Ash Ketchum? Interesting."
Ash and Alice continue to raid at the bases until they find prison cells with a lot of Pokemon inside. "Those must be Pokemon that were stolen from others."
"Just why do they try to steal those Pokemon?" Alice asks as she looks at the poor Pokemon.
"Team Rocket scientists are doing some experiments on those Pokemon, in order to control the world or do something else. I have been stalked by this group for years and it will be funny for me not to know their plans."
Ash opens the prison cells and takes out the ring, it uses Heal Pulse to recover all of the Pokemon there. But all the Pokemon are growling at the two of them as Alice asks, "Why are they mad at us? Can you do something?"
"Don't worry." Ash sighs, "Everyone, listen to me, right now we have freed you all, I only ask one thing in return. Help me fight against those who have caught you and separate you from the other trainers. Today is the end of Team Rocket."
The Pokemon all roar in agreement as they start to attack the grunts nearby, making the base a mess with explosions occurring everywhere. Alice can only look at the scene with awe, she says, "That was some great leading skills, Red. Are you a leader or some sort of thing?"
"Well, I just do what I think is right." Ash says. "Now we should let those Pokemon do their work. We should go find Giovanni, who is the mastermind of all this."
Alice nods as they rush to the main office, where Giovanni is waiting for them. Once they open the door, the leader is still on his seat, stroking Persian's fur, and says in a calm tone. "I was just wondering who could have made this mess, it seems the culprits have come to me."
"Giovanni, right now you are isolated from any help, surrender now." Ash says. "You are going to pay for everything you have done for this world."
"I will like to see you try." Giovanni stands up from his seat with the Persian growling at them. "You don't think I wouldn't know who you are, right? Ash Ketchum?"
"Ash Ketchum?!" Alice gasps as she recognizes the name, everyone is booing this boy and even his Pokemon leaves him because he is weak. Alice can't believe that her idol and her hero is now standing by her side. She asks, "Your real name is Ash Ketchum? Red?"
Ash sighs as he takes off his mask, and Alice can't believe that it is the real deal. "There is no point of hiding now, Alice. But I am Ash Ketchum, and I am the son of Red Ketchum, the person you murdered 15 years ago. Team Rocket will fall today, and I shall get my revenge done by killing you!"
"I liked your guts, but too bad that you are my nemesis." Then he sends out Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Rhyperior, Beedrill, and Sandslash. Ash grits his teeth and says, "Of course, you still have your own Pokemon..."
"You're not alone, Ash. I am here to fight as well." Ash gasps as Alice also sends out her Pokemon: Froslass, Alolan Ninetales, Abomasnow, Avalugg, Cryogonal, and Walrein.
"An Ice Type Team huh?" Giovanni says, "Judging by your aura, you must be from the Mache family. So you have decided to help your enemy as well?"
"Don't listen to him, Alice. Our bad blood ends when our parents decide to work together." Ash says. "The only bad blood between us two families is your family! The Sakaki Family!"
Giovanni then takes out the Steel Gun and says, "So you also know I'm an Aura user, then please humor me with this fight."
Giovanni fires the Flash Cannon attack, and Ash immediately takes out the Normal Sword and blocks it with the move Protect.
"Alice, you handle the Pokemon, I am going to aura fight with Giovanni himself." Ash says.
"Just be careful, Ash." Alice says, she is happy to know that Ash is asking her for help. From what she knows, she is just a nobody who is hated by the whole class. She idols Ash a lot, but a lot of people think that a girl like her won't be able to interact with such a famous person. Alice knows she can't mess up, which is why she starts to command her Pokemon to fight back.
Giovanni and Ash have been exchanging attacks, with Giovanni trying to use the Power Whip, but Ash just dodges it by jumping into the air and using Hurricane. Giovanni uses the Power Gem to knock the Hurricane down and then uses Phantom Force, causing Ash to get hit and kneel down. But Ash gets back up and then uses the Wand, waving to create Moonblast and it blasts Giovanni to the wall.
On the other side, Alice's Pokemon is doing very well with the Type Advantage against the Ground Type. All that is left is the Persian, who is still struggling against the Froslass' Snow Cloak ability.
"Finish that Persian with the Blizzard." Alice says as the Froslass traps Persian into the ice. Alice sighs and she recalls all her Pokemon, "I finally finish my part of the battle."
Seeing how his Pokemon are fallen, Giovanni is distracted as Ash manages to Focus Punch him in the face as he falls down. Ash points his Ghost Knife on his neck and says, "You have lost this battle, Giovanni."
Giovanni gives an evil laugh even though Ash has put him in a corner, he says, "Do you seriously think you have won? You are such a fool, Ash Ketchum and Alice Mache."
"What are you talking about?" Ash demands, "Your Pokemon are fallen, and you lost the Aura battle. The victory is on our side!"
Giovanni just takes out a remote control and presses it, opening the curtains and they see a machine behind it. "What is that?" Alice asks in surprise at the sight of the machine.
"This is the Control Cloud Making machine, it is a forbidden dark aura technique enhanced by technology. Your Pokemon abandoned you, your friends betrayed you, and even everyone treat you as the public enemy No.1. You're probably wondering how it happened so suddenly, right?"
Ash gasps as he realizes what happened before he was forced to jump into the ocean, "That means...You controlled them with this machine and forced me to be humiliated and broken by everyone? How dare you do such a thing? You monster!"
Giovanni smirks and says, "I did not control them to hate you, all I do is enhance their dark thoughts about you in their minds. I know that Aura users aren't affected by it, which is why you have a helper with you in this battle."
"What do you mean by that?" Ash asks as he presses the knife harder, touching Giovanni's neck but not further.
"Let's say that some people are 99% sure that you win the matches fair and square, but there is still that 1% that thinks you cheated or using drugs to win. All I do is make that 1% into 100%." Giovanni says, not changing his expression.
Ash widens his eyes and drops the Ghost Knife to the ground, and the memories start to flood into him. "You are a disgrace of the Ketchum family, If Red and I knew that we would have a weak son who has to resort to cheating to win the Championships, we would have aborted you." Does that mean his mother really wanted to abort him? Even though it is just 1 percent?
"Your Pokemon also lose faith in you as well." Ash also sees how his Pokemon turned against him, do they really think he is weak?
"I can't believe after all these years, I am loving a loser who can't win a league without cheating. Maybe you are the reason I can't beat Aria after all! My life has been ruined thanks to you." Does that mean Serena really thinks so?
"I can't believe that I was in the same class with you, and even let you stay at my home for a while." Even Lillie is thinking the same thing, and that is bringing Ash a hard blow after those memories are flooding like crazy in his head.
"Make it stop! Stop this!" Ash starts to cry as he holds his head in pain.
Giovanni sees how Ash is broken, he slowly gets back up without him noticing and opens the drawer of his office desk, he takes out an actual gun and aims at Ash.
"Words are weapons, and they are useful. Now prepare to perish from this world." Alice snaps back from the shock and realizes what Giovanni is doing. Her hero is about to die from the enemy, and she can't let that happen. "Ash! Watch out!"
But Giovanni has pulled the trigger, and Ash is unable to move from his spot because of the headache. As the bullet gets closer and closer, Alice's steps get faster and faster.
"NOOOOO!" Alice screams in horror as she stops in front of the kneeling Ash. Her hands are outward as they start to form a pink glow, and then the Psychic Ring appears in front of both of them.
"Psychic Ring?!" Giovanni gasps as the bullet goes through the ring, and the ring appears behind him and the bullet is still going. It then shoots through Giovanni's chest as he widens his eyes in horror before falling limp.
With Giovanni being dead, the machine that contains the dark aura also stops moving. Without the dark aura, the control cloud starts to disperse as everyone in the world is starting to return back to normal.
Ash is still having a headache because of those memories, Alice quickly rushes towards him and then gives him a kiss, causing him to widen his eyes. But he didn't stop the kiss as they stay in the same position for a while.
After they break apart, Alice looks at Ash with concern and she asks, "Are you feeling better?"
Ash nods a little and says, "Thank you, Alice. I really needed that. But where is Giovanni?"
"Um..." As they look around, they notice Giovanni lying on the ground. They widen their eyes as they can't feel any breath from the man, meaning that he is dead.
"I...I killed him..." Alice looks at her hands and she is about to cry, she can't believe that she did something so terrible. Ash notices that Alice's aura is fully awakened, and the fact that Giovanni is killed by the shot means that she must have used the move Teleport to teleport the bullet.
Ash hugs Alice and she cries on his shoulder, Ash says, "Alice, calm down, if you didn't do that, I will be the one that gets killed. Don't be sad, just think about it, you just stopped the leader of Team Rocket. You saved everyone from Team Rocket's Control Cloud!"
Alice says, "But...I still killed him...How did I do it? What will my parents think if they know about it?"
Ash knows that the fact that she killed Giovanni is going to be carved into her heart, all he can do is just cheer her up. He says, "Alice, you couldn't stop it from happening. If killing one person means saving millions of people, then you shouldn't be worried about this."
Alice knows how Ash is trying to comfort her, and she can only sniff and nod a little. Ash knows that Alice might be shaken from what has happened, and he decides to pick her up just like he did back in the Pokemon Village. Articuno is in the same place as both humans ride her before they are spotted by anyone else.
Back in the Pallet House, Delia is cooking dinner until she returns back to normal. "Huh? What was I doing?" She looks at the time and says, "Huh? Is the clock broken? I thought today is the day when Ash comes back home...How come a week has passed?"
Just then, she hears Pikachu rushing into the kitchen. The mouse is looking around with a worried face, and Delia quickly walks towards the mouse. "Pikachu? Welcome back. Where is Ash?"
Pikachu shakes his head, signaling that he doesn't know where he is. Delia is confused, "You don't know where he is?"
Pikachu nods and Delia frowns, she goes to the living room and opens the Television, wanting to know what is going on with everything.
This is the third chapter, and both Ash and Alice manage to kill Giovanni and disband Team Rocket in the end. I hope you like this chapter and we will be getting into the aftermath in the next chapter.
