Then the crowd proceeded to the cemetery. Although, there was nothing to bury a tombstone was placed in Red's honor. To add to the depressing scene a shower of rain poured outside as does it always seem to do on funerals everyone's black velvet clothes dripped black dye. The funeral came to a conclusion; everyone offered their condolences one final time and left Delia and Ash alone with Red for a moment. Ash fell to his knees and buried his face in his hands, muddying his nice clothes as his hat fell off his head and Ash began excessively weeping as the rain whished down as he cried in front of his father's grave.
"If I hadn't shown up that day, if I hadn't of told that man from Team Snagem this never would've happen it's my fault Dad and 2000 other people are dead!" Ash cried accusatively at himself as Pikachu frowned on his shoulder.
"Ash Ketchum! Don't you dare blame yourself for this! It is no one's fault except Team Snagem and maybe Team Rocket!" Delia yelled not wanting Ash to feel responsible for this spontaneous tragedy.
"No, no, no!" Ash screamed as the pain of death hit him and he pounded his fist against the wet, muddy, graveyard ground. Ash could not believe his father was actually gone even though he only knew him until he was five he always knew he was out there somewhere if he needed someone but now all that was left was an emptiness in his heart a desire for a father figure in his life, something he'd hardly known. He longed to know his father, there was so much they had to talk about from battling to their common dream and love of Pokemon to just some quality father-son time together. Ash's heat ached as tears relentlessly spilled off his face intertwining with the rain.
"What gives them the right to take my daddy away from me?" Ash shouted he was after all just a little boy who longed for his daddy. Delia didn't know what to say she knew that when he called Red daddy it was really hurting him and he did really love his father she had a mixed pain for her husband and her son. She couldn't heal Ash's wound she didn't even know how to help herself she couldn't bring her husband back no matter how much she wanted to, she couldn't take away Ash's heartache she hated seeing him cry like that, she'd never seen her child this upset before in his life and it just hurt, so badly.
"God, I miss him so, so much… Oh God." Delia cried with Ash. "Red. Why, why, why?" Delia cried, this time Ash went to his mother to hug her. "Ash, I-I-I want to tell him how sorry I am so bad but, I can't I never will be able to, he's gone, I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life… He's really, really gone, isn't he?" Delia cried as she was stricken with a reality check the loss still hadn't fully sunk in. She felt the stinging pain of being severed by death from her husband. Pikachu sad beside Ash's foot as the three of them sobbed in the cold rain praying for a miracle. They were all each other had now and they held onto that, they both knew it the bond between them grew stronger than it even was before. The cried as the rain mixed in with their tears and the light became dark and they slowly made that dismal bitter and lonesome walk home feeling so together yet so alone.