A/N I am sorry that I took so long to update. I have a lot on at the moment. Unfortunately that is likely to continue for the near future. I apologise but you will just have to bare with me.

Chapter 5

Ash's POV

I was in a waiting room doing what you tend to do in waiting rooms, wait. I was waiting for my match to start. I was in the final of the indigo Plateau Kanto league. I entered it for two reasons, firstly my father said I would have a big assignment in the near future and would therefore have about a month off. The other reason was to train my Pokémon. My new Pokémon had never been in a tournament before so I wanted to show them what it was like. I had therefore entered the tournament only using five Pokémon. I had used my Crobat, Raticate, Hypno, Marowak and Gengar. They had gotten me this far with relative ease. They had after all been training with the rest of my Pokémon who were considerably stronger. This battle was the final however. I decided to use a different team.

Soon after joining team rocket I had split my Pokémon into different groups. The elites consisted of Pokémon such as Charizard and Sceptile. (The others are Snorlax, Infernape and Lucario.) They were my strongest and only trained with each other. The next step down was the intermediate team. This team was made up of Blastoise, Garchomp, Scrafty, Gliscor, Pigeot and then later Dragonite. The final group were my newer Pokémon and Gengar as he had not done much training with Sabrina.

I looked down to the pokéball around my neck. I did of course have this Pokémon as well. Soon after my mission involving Lance and receiving the Dratini in an egg, I had to do a mission which involved stealing from team Plazma.

Flashback.

I crept round the corner. I was in the ruins of N's mansion. Ghetsis was here. I had to be careful as he had incredibly strong Pokémon. My hand kept brushing down to the pokéballs on my belt. I had deemed it a mission difficult enough to bring the elites. I smirked at that. Being in a criminal team had its perks. It meant that there was no one to tell me how many Pokémon I could bring with me. I therefore had brought all of my Pokémon.

There was a room up ahead. That was where I was headed.

I brought out five Pokémon. These were my elite group. I spoke to Lucario via Aura, "You take Infernape and Snorlax, take down any grunts you see." I turned to Charizard and Sceptile. They were my two strongest Pokémon. "I want you two to check the prison cells." They looked hesitant to leave me alone. "All of you go. I will be fine." They all nodded and ran off to do what I had told them. I reached down to grab my next two strongest Pokémon. I slowly crept towards the room. I tried to force open the room. The door was predictably locked.

I silently groaned in annoyance. Could I not just have an easy break in for once? I summoned a small aura sphere. I had become far more proficient at using aura after training with Lucario. There was a small explosion and I winced. I stood still for about a minute and then after no noise, I sighed in relief. I pushed open the door. I looked inside and almost fell over in shock.

There strapped to the wall was Mewtwo. After getting over my shock I heard an alarm go off. Immediately I released Garchomp and Blastoise. They were quickly joined by Pigeot and Dragonaire. "Guard the door let no one in." I rushed over to Mewtwo. He was completely out. He was alive but was fainted. I brought out Scrafty to help me. We went to work on the manacles. Just as I broke one a door next to me opened I turned round to see Ghetsis walk in. There were grunts streaming in through the door that just opened. I realised it was a trap, and withdrew my Pokémon into the safety of their pokéballs. I was hit on the head and the last thing I could think of was that I was glad I had added a pokéball locking mechanism.

When I awoke I was chained up in the same way mewtwo had been. I looked around the room and realise that said Pokémon was right next to me chained up as before. The main door that I came through opened and Ghetsis walked in looking very pleased with himself. He had Lucario, Infernape and Snorlax tied up.

"I must say mister Ketchum. You have very powerful Pokémon. Unfortunately for you I have acquired the services of two legendries and have many grunts. If it was just me and the legendries, I might not have been able to do it but, numbers do sometimes count." He walked over to me and said, "Your boss is very easy to predict. I set up a way to capture a legendary from me and he sends his best in. I was slightly disappointed by the lack of fight you had yourself."

I smirked realising something. I saw Lucario wake up and he was smirking too.

He stalked over to me and said, "You find this funny." He brought out a knife. It was about nine inches and very sharp. "I find this funny." He brought the knife and ran it down my chest. It only made a small cut and I just stared right at him still smirking. He growled in anger at the lack of reaction he was getting out of me. He then slowly pushed in knife forward. The pain was excruciating. I tried to keep a straight face. When he pulled out the knife there was a long cut running down my chest from my hip to my sternum. He was surprised at the lack of reaction from me. I could hear the drip of my blood on the floor. He tried a different tactic.

"How did you expect to take out all of my grunts with just three Pokémon?" he said incredulously. "I have thousands of them."

I finally said something, "I did not expect to do it with three."

"So then why…." That was when he realised.

He turned to one of his grunts to see his entourage had been taken down by Sceptile. He called out his Hydreigon. It was hit by a huge dragon rush and he looked up to see Charizard. He looked down to see his injured Pokémon be hit by a leaf blade. He was then slammed into a wall by Charizard.

Sceptile easily cut both mewtwo and me down. I then brought out Hypno and he used recover to heal my Pokémon and mewtwo. He then turned to me and tried as well as he could to heal my cut. When the skin finally knitted back together he almost fell to the floor. I returned all of my Pokémon bar Charizard to their pokéballs. I grabbed mewtwo who was still passed out and Charizard and I carried him out.

End of flashback

When I returned to team rocket my father was so excited that I had brought back mewtwo. He proclaimed me as the saviour of team rocket. When he heard of the way I was treated he was furious. Within a week I led team rocket into the base. There was a huge battle in which Ghetsis died as he fell from his Hydreigon. When I returned my father was having problems as mewtwo had woken up. He calmed down when he saw me. I managed to get mewtwo to agree to conditions. He would join team rocket but he refused to be my father's Pokémon. In the end my father said that he should become my Pokémon as I rescued him. Mewtwo surprisingly agreed and has been on my team since. He trains with the elites when he wants to. I never make him do anything and he spends most of his time meditating either in his pokéball or in wherever I am staying.

I was brought back to reality by James walking in through the door. After the team Plazma fiasco my father assigned the best that team rocket had to be my bodyguards. He took them from his own personal guard. I refused and said I wanted someone I knew. I decided to take Jessie, James and Meowth as without me to follow they had achieved nothing in the two years I had been with team rocket. Since then they have been training with me taking their jobs to heart. They were now incredibly good at their job.

"Red they are calling you to the battle." I smirked, crunch time. I had used the name of Red Satoshi to disguise myself so I could compete.

I arrived in the red corner of the field and waited for my opponent. When he arrived a massive cheer came up from the crowd. I was facing Ethan. He was a trainer from Johto and had taken a great enjoyment in working the crowd through the tournament.

We walked to the middle and shook hands. "This is a battle between Red Satoshi of Viridian city and Ethan Hunt from New Bark town. This will be a full six on six battle with substitutions. The red corner will call out his Pokémon first.

"Go Scrafty." Ethan looked surprised as this was a new Pokémon I was using.

"Go Fearow." I smirked. "Use Drill peck."

"Focus blast." The blue ball shot forward and nailed the bird in the head. It crashed to the ground down already.

"Well that was a surprise; it seems that Red has unleashed a Pokémon of a completely different power level."

Scrafty continued to destroy his Gyarados, Espeon, Donphan, and Hitomontop. He called out his last Pokémon desperately. "Go Typhlosion." I looked at the Pokémon and then at my tired Scrafty. Although he had beaten the five Pokémon he was still tired. I knew that he would struggle. Ethan was about to call a move when I said, "Come back Scrafty." Ethan looked shocked. "There was no point in forcing him to battle further. You would have won anyway." I now had a choice. I would win the battle. However the question was, should I end it with Blastoise or Garchomp or should I use someone else. I smirked, realising that I had never used this Pokémon to fight a trainer not in team rocket. "Go Dragonite."

I could see Ethan gulp as the huge, green Dragon appeared. "Wow folks, it appears that Red has a shiny Dragonite." The commentator said.

The crowd had been long since silenced by Scrafty's demolishing of Ethan's team. There was now an excited chatter coming from the stands.

"Typhlosion use blast burn and end it quickly." Ethan said.

"Use Draco meteor." I said. Ethan's eyes widened in shock. The golden ball rose into the sky and then split. The explosions from the meteors hitting shook the stadium. When the dust faded Typhlosion was down. I had won my first tournament.

A/N I hope you enjoyed the chapter. It was longer than I had expected it to be and I enjoyed writing it. I do realise that Hypno cannot learn recover and there is a possibility that it cannot be used to heal other Pokémon. It is however a fanfiction.

If anyone spotted the two references that I put in the chapter put them in the comments.

Thanks for reading.