Authors note
I am so sorry for not updating when I said I would, I have been so hard pressed for time that I have not had a chance to do any of the work that I normally would do, but I know have a new Laptop that does connect to the internet so I will able to upload more often, hopefully *Fingers Crossed* Anyway, I'll talk more later, here is the next instalment of the story.
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Chapter 8 – The Truth is Out… For Some.
Ash, Pikachu, Lucario and Mewtwo appeared at the bottom of the big tree in the centre of the PokéPark, Ash and Lucario climbed up the tree to wait whilst Pikachu sat on Ash's shoulder as he climbed and Mewtwo just floated up to the branch. When they were high enough to be hidden by the leafs of the tree, they all stopped and did their own thing, Lucario sat down and meditated, Mewtwo calmed his mind and reached out to Mew just to keep entertained by playing a couple of mind games and Ash sat down on a big branch with his back to the trunk with Pikachu on his lap.
Looking up at Ash, Pikachu asked, "Are you sure that you want to reveal your identity to your Mother and Cynthia now?"
Ash looked at his partner in crime, smiled and said, "Yes, I am sure, if I can't trust them then I can't trust anyone," Pikachu smiled at this, the electric mouse was about to ask another question, but Ash answered it before the words had left his mouth, "I am going to reveal myself to everyone, and I know when I am going to reveal myself, Mr Goodshow and Scott promised me that he would make it to the 6 on 6 rounds and then I will use only one Pokémon to battle him." As Ash said this he held a Pokéball in his hand. He could feel the hatred coming out of this Pokéball, whilst Ash had numerous Pokémon that had been abandoned by this particular trainer, none of their hatred matched the hatred of this Pokémon.
For about 15 minutes the group just sat and relaxed, Ash, Lucario and Mewtwo noticed the two approaching people before they were seen, "Its time Pikachu." Ash said which led to Pikachu climbing into Ash's hood once again. The trainer and the two Pokémon stood up and waited for Cynthia and Delia to arrive under the tree. Soon, Ash could see and hear the two female's as they approached.
"So I'm guessing that this is the big tree that Red Satoshi was on about then?" Delia asked rhetorically.
"I wonder where he is then, and what did Ash leave him to give to us?" Cynthia asked.
"Well, yes this is the tree I was on about, I am standing on a branch above you and you will find out what Ash left me for you as soon as we make it to the housing of the Mt. Silver Elite Four." Ash said, causing the girls to jump and look up at Ash, Lucario and Mewtwo. He smirked before disappearing and re-appearing behind them, "So are you ready to go?" Ash said making Delia and Cynthia jump at his sudden teleportation.
Once the girls had regained their wits they nodded and took hold of Ash's offered hands, soon they found themselves in front of the three story building that Ash and his friends called home, letting go of Delia's and Cynthia's hands he opened the front door for them and showed they to the living room, the two girls sat down on the sofa whilst Ash said that he would be back in a second.
"What do you think that Ash left for us?" Cynthia asked.
"I don't know but hopefully it will be easy for us to share." Delia replied, when the two of them thought about it there was probably no need to share because Cynthia was either at the Sinnoh Pokémon League Headquarters, at Pallet Town with Delia or searching for Ash across the regions.
At that point Ash came back in holding something in his hand, Lucario and Mewtwo had disappeared at this moment, once Ash was in front of the two girls he set the object on the coffee table in front of them, it was.
"A… bottle… of… Ketchup." Delia said.
"This is what Ash left us." Cynthia said with anger in her voice, she was now thinking that Red was playing with them now.
Letting out a laugh Ash replied, "No the ketchup is only the means to summon the gift he had left you."
"Ash you are crewel." Pikachu whispered in his ear.
"Well if you don't want it then I can always bin it." Ash said aloud, the two girls looked at him like he was crazy when Pikachu jumped out of Ash's hood and grabbed the bottle holding it close to him as though Ash was serious. Realising what Ash had done Pikachu muttered, "This means double the dosage of your morning alarm."
Meanwhile Cynthia and Delia were staring at the yellow mouse Pokémon like it was an alien, "A Pikachu," Delia said with shock plastered over her face, "Ash left us a Pikachu."
"And this Pikachu loves Ketchup," Cynthia said with the same look of shock on her face, "And there is only one Pikachu that loves Ketchup that much." Together the girls looked up at the Champion of Mt. Silver to see him with his hood down, his raven hair was as messy as always, his brown eyes seemed to glow with a blue aura, the ever present 'z' marks standing out and the cheeky grin of 'I've been caught' that he was known for, standing before them was Ash Ketchum
Ash started to say some sort of greeting when his mother and his crush jumped up and held him in a bear hug, the two of them asking him questions, "Where have you been?" "Do you know how worried I have been?" "Don't leave me again?" "Did you remember to change your underwear?" It was at that point that Ash decided to take control.
"Calm down and I'll answer your questions," Ash said, when the two girls did calm down, but they still did not let go, he continued, "Right, I have either been here or in Kalos, I knew how worried you were and it took all my Pokémon to stop me from visiting you both every now and then, I won't leave again and yes mother, I did remember to change my underwear."
Delia let go and sighed, "At least I now know where you are and that I know that you are safe."
Ash smiled at his mother and said, "This time I won't be going anywhere without telling you."
Cynthia was still hugging Ash when something dawned on her, she let go of him, started to blush and asked him, "Ash, do you remember what I told you in the Champion's breakfast?" Cynthia got her answer, but not how she had expected it, Ash lifted her chin so they were eye level and then kissed her, he pulled her close and wrapped his arms around her lower back whilst Cynthia, after recovering from her shock, wrapped her arms around his neck. The two Champions parted for a few seconds whilst still holding on two each other, they were about to start again when there was a sudden flash and a click noise, Ash and Cynthia turned to Delia too see her holding her camera in front of her face, once she lowered it she said, "That is another photo to go on my wall of your achievements."
Both Ash and Cynthia blushed at this before Ash said in an embarrassed voice, "Did you really have to say that in front of Cynthia?" Cynthia let out a giggle at Ash's embarrassment and told him, "Well, considering the fact that Delia and I have been visiting each other a lot the past few years, I have seen the famous 'Wall of Ash Ketchum's Achievements' numerous times and have helped put up photos from before you left," she then put on a, mischievous grin and said, "I really pushed for the 'Baby Ash' section to be increased, but I had to give way to the other photos."
Ash went red in the face at this which caused Cynthia and Delia to start laughing, Ash then pulled Cynthia into a hug and whispered into her ear, "Well, I must remember to stop by in Celestic Town to visit your Grandmother." This then caused Cynthia to go red in the face, she looked at Ash and said, "You wouldn't dare." Ash only laughed before looking at Pikachu and saying, "Can you go and get her please."
Pikachu nodded and ran off, the bottle of Ketchum was half empty and currently resting in a harness on Pikachu's back that he got from nowhere, the three people left in the room looked at him with wonder etched on their face, the two females turned to the male and he said, "Don't look at me, I don't know where he keeps it."
"So who is he going to get?" Delia asked. Ash replied saying "You'll see", the three of them made small talk for a bit until Pikachu came back in with Manaphy and an empty bottle of Ketchup still in its harness.
"Papa, what is this about?" Manaphy asked, he was rubbing his eyes after being woken up, once his eyes were open and he saw Cynthia and Delia he asked, "Papa, who are these?"
Ash smiled and said, "Manaphy, this is my mother Delia Ketchum, she is going to be your Grand Mama," Ash said indicating to his mother, Manaphy let out a joyful sound before jumping into Delia's arms and saying, "Grand Mama," hugging her, when Manaphy looked at Ash who then continued, "And his is Cynthia, if she wishes to be she can be your Mama." Cynthia looked surprised at this, but before she could say anything, she was being hugged by Manaphy who was now saying "Mama."
Cynthia just smiled and said, "Yes Manaphy I will be your Mama," whilst hugging her back, Ash smiled and hugged the two of them. Delia just stood there and smiled, whilst she was happy to have her baby boy back, she decided to let Cynthia have him for tonight.
"Ash, it is best if I leave you now," Delia said causing Ash to start to protest before he was stopped, "No, I will see you tomorrow where we will talk some more ok."
"Fine Mom, I will see you tomorrow, but first," Ash said as he took out a Pokéball, he released the Pokémon to reveal a Cat like Pokémon that had a purple collar, "This is Delcatty, I rescued her from some poachers and she just wants a simple life away from fighting after that incident, I would like you to have her."
"Ash do you mean that," Delia asked, Delcatty was now rubbing her body against Delia's leg.
"Yes, I do mean it, she wants to be loved and will defend her owner with her life if it must come down to it, she is one tough cookie." Ash replied with a smile, at this point Delcatty let out a purr as Delia picked her up and stroked her.
"I'll take her, thank you Ash."
"No problem Mom, now Mewtwo will take you to your hotel so you may turn in for the night." Ash said as Mewtwo appeared out of nowhere next to him, this caused Cynthia and Delia to jump.
"Sorry for making you jump," Mewtwo said in his calm baritone voice, "Please, hold on to my arm as I will teleport us to your room, just think of the Hotel and room number and we will be there shortly."
"Thank you Mewtwo," Delia said, she turned to Ash, who handed over Delcatty's Pokéball and hugged his mother, after saying goodbye, Delia recalled Delcatty and held on to Mewtwo's arm and then they disappeared, Ash heard Mewtwo say in his head that she was in her room safe and then the Genetic Pokémon left his mind.
"You can stay here with me tonight if you want Cynthia," Ash told the blonde Champion who was still cuddling Manaphy, she looked at Ash and smiled before she said, "I will do that as long as you do me a favour tomorrow." Ash asked what the favour was and Cynthia replied saying, "Take me out for dinner tomorrow and become my boyfriend." Once she finished the two Champions had blushes on their face, Ash just laughed and kissed Cynthia, no words were spoken after that, Ash AND Cynthia just sat down on the sofa hugging and kissing with Manaphy fast asleep in between them, Ash knew that everything was going to be OK.
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Dawn and Barry were walking up the stairs to the VIP section of the Stadium, after getting past the security guard telling him the Jessilinda had sent them, they soon made it to the main lobby of the VIP section and saw Jessie, James and Meowth sitting on the sofas to the side of the lobby.
The two Sinnoh natives headed over to the trio and sat down opposite them and waited in silence, it was five minutes of silence until Barry decided to break it, and what better way to break it than with a fine. "Right, if you don't start talking in the next five seconds I'm finning you, five, four, three." But he was cut off, Meowth had put a check in Barry's hand, it was a check for 1million Pokébucks. "What's this?" Barry asked.
"It's the fine you wanted us to pay." James answered, "We were only going to talk once we had seen how you were going to react."
"Oh, my bad," Barry said as he rubbed the back of his head like Ash used to, before saying, "Here have it back."
"There, is no need, James' parents are rich beyond most people's wildest dreams and both Mr Goodshow and Scott are backing this league, there is no need for the extra money, consider it a sorry for making you wait." Meowth said.
Jessie then decided to get on to the reason why they were all here, "Right, now then, we will tell you about how we became Team Trainer, just know that this information must not become public knowledge," when Dawn and Barry both nodded Jessie continued, "As Ken said, we quit Team Rocket many years ago and are now the 1st position of the Mt. Silver Elite Four, what you don't know is that we were almost dead when Red found us and helped us."
"He recognised us from his journey and could clearly see that we were not in any condition to do anything so he helped us," James said taking over from Jessie, "He took us with him to here, when it was much more barren than it is now, and helped us regain our strength, when we were fit enough to carry on our own, we asked if we could stay and help him achieve his dream as a way to thank him, to do so, we had to find and apologise to Ash Ketchum first," Dawn and Barry gasped at this, "We did find Ash after searching for him, we won't tell you where or how because he and Brock wanted to keep themselves hidden until they were hidden."
At this point a voice called out from the entrance to the VIP, "Are you sure you trust them?"
"Yes I am sure." Jessie called back out, it was then that two figures walked out of the dark entrance way, it was Rocky and surprisingly the Pike Queen Lucy, the two figures were holding hand signifying their relationship.
"Well if you're sure," Rocky said, he then proceeded to take off the helmet that covered his face, once it was off, Dawn and Barry let out a gasp at seeing Brock, "Hello Dawn, hello Barry." Brock said.
"Brock, why did you do this, you just disappeared off the face of the Earth, what happened, not that I am glad to see you, BUT YOU BETTER TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN UP TOO OR I AM FINNING YOU!" Barry once again shouted, and once again he found another check in his hand, Barry muttered a 'Oh thanks' before starting to shout at Meowth for giving him more money.
Dawn did not notice any of this, she just stood up and walked slowly over to Brock and Lucy before running at the tall squinting man and crushing him in a hug, "Brock, I've missed you so much," Dawn said into his shirt, to everyone else it sounded muffled but Brock understood it, "Where have you been? What have you been doing? Is Ash with you?"
Brock just chuckled at Dawn's antics, "Some things never change do they Dawn," Brock said, this caused Dawn to blush in embarrassment as she stepped away from him, "To answer your questions in order, I have been here, I have been helping create the Mt. Silver Elite Four and I'm sure you can figure out the answer to the last question."
Dawn thought for a moment before saying, "Ash is the Champion isn't he."
Brock, Lucy, Jessie, James and Meowth just smiled in confirmation, Dawn sank to her knee's because it was a lot to take in, whilst Barry ran around the room screaming "Why was I not told about this? ASH I'M FINNING YOU!" When Barry came to a stop Meowth gave him another check to keep him happy, which then caused Barry to go into another yelling spree, this time without finning anybody.
Dawn stood up suddenly, she had just remembered something that the Traitors had said and probably started to plan, "Brock, Team Trainer, the Traitors are probably planning to steal your Legendries due to them thinking that you do not deserve them and that you poached them."
Brock's face turned into a bit of a scowl at Dawn's words, "If they want to try then they can try," Dawn was about to say something, but Brock beat her to the punch, "But that does not mean that they will succeed." Brock finished, Dawn smiled at these words, Lucy smiled at the exchange before throwing something at Dawn.
Dawn caught it and discovered that it was keys to two rooms in the Premium Hotel, the Hotel that was reserved for the Elite Four and Champions of each region as well as the Frontier Brains and other famous people like Charles Goodshow, Scott and James's parents. "Why are you giving me keys to rooms in the best hotel here?" Dawn asked.
"Because you and Barry are not going to be anywhere around the Traitors," Lucy said, at this point Barry had stopped running around and was standing next to Dawn and listening to everything Lucy was saying, "You are not to tell them that you have rooms in the Premium Hotel, you will go back to where you are currently staying before I will have one of my Pokémon teleport you out of there and into the reception of the Premium Hotel where I will meet you and show you where you're rooms are."
"Ok, but when will we know that you are going to teleport us and our stuff?" Barry asked.
"Do you have one bag each?" Lucy asked, when they both nodded Lucy continued, "You will feel a Psychic presence in your head, this means that you will grab your bag and say you're going to get changed in the bathroom of your rooms and once you are inside say 'I am ready' in your head and my Pokémon will get you out of there."
"Right, we best be going then so the Traitors don't start to worry about us or get suspicious," Barry said, "We will see you later Lucy and see the rest of you tomorrow."
Barry and Dawn were now walking off when Dawn turned around and ran at Brock before hugging him and saying, "I'll see you tomorrow." She then let go and walked over to Barry and waved at the group of people left in the VIP Lounge.
Once they were gone, the rest of the group just said good bye before going their separate ways into the night, wondering what tomorrow wat going to hold.
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Author's Note
Once again, I am sorry for not updating, but I promise that I will try harder, I have some ideas lined up ready for the next chapter which will probably be up around the New Year mark on the calendar.
I can't thank you guys enough for the continued support your giving me, 175 Favourite's and 231 Follows, that is a massive increase since the last chapter so thank you so much.
To the Guest if you are still reading this then no, the rest of the Elite Four's and Champions do not know about Ash being betrayed, eventually yes but for now, no.
I am always open to criticism and ideas, just let it be known, I will not be writing that the Traitors are suddenly reformed and are all chummy with Ash because who does that, I don't and I was always the bullied as I grew up so I know more about that than most.
So anyway, thanks for reading, please fav, follow and review, hope you had fun reading this instalment. So until next time, Zeffairan is outta here.