(A/N: Apologies you had to wait for such a long time for this chapter! But at least I'm not quitting! So here it is, the second to last part - that's right! - Chapter 12!)

Chapter 12 - Let The Battle Begin: Ash Ketchum...

"Now, that's done...here goes the hard part..."

Pitch black met the groups eyes. Silence was only heard. A metallic taste paned at the back of everyone's throats. The air was eerily cool and clear...

Out from the only source of light, came Giovanni in his black, logged suit.

"Delia..."

"Giovanni..."

A cold smirk in the spotlight.

"We meet again..."

Silence.

"What have you done with Ash you cold-hearted monster!" Misty shouted making her short temper known.

Giovanni didn't even make eye contact with her.

"I took care of him." Giovanni replied simply.

A sudden gasp filled everyone's throat.

"Gio...you...you didn't..." Delia asked with tear-filled eyes. Giovanni looked up to her.

"If you recall the day I came for the brat I told you that I will not have any hesitation to kill..."

"PLEASE DON'T DO THIS GIOVANNI! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG! DON'T DO THIS PLEASE!"

He stopped walking, nearly outside the door now, and turned back to Delia. "You dare take this to the authorities and I WILL kill her. You understand! And then I'll come back for the other one..."

Domino lunged to Giovanni, Brock held her back.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THEM? You pig!" She shouted. He merely looked at her unimpressed.

"Why Domino so nice of you to come back to us, and here I thought the guards beat you enough after you tried to let the Child escape..."

Hesitation appeared in Delia's eyes then. Could it be?..Did Giovanni mean...the girl?

Her girl?

Domino caught in on this and was about to speak but words couldn't leave her mouth. As soon as she saw Delia's worry in her eyes her confidence left her and she retreated her eyes down to the floor with a sigh. Delia looked back from Domino to Giovanni.

"Gio...Where are they?" Delia asked with slight hesitation. Giovanni looked at her with cold, blank eyes.

"I've told you. I've dealt with them." He replied once again with no emotion. This made Delia snap.

"Cut the nonsense Gio! Where are they!" It wasn't a question. It was an order. But for once, Giovanni took it from someone lower in status.

"WHAT DOES IT EVEN MATTER TO YOU?" He snapped, Delia flinched.

"Because..." She started. "BECAUSE THEIR MINE!" She shouted.

"NO, THEIR MINE, I CONTROL THEM NOW, I-"

"I'm sorry you missed out on them growing up Gio, but this isn't right!" Delia took a step forward but had to stop when Misty grabbed her waist, speechlessly from behind.

"No...your not sorry Delia." Giovanni spat her name. "I'm just getting my payback, after all wasn't it you who said that everything changes the day you left?"

Brock, Gary and the rest of the teens (minus Misty) started muttering whilst the elder Oak motioned for everyone to quiet down.

The day I left? I remembered that day...

Delia's Pov:

I need to get out of here. Now.

After last night Gio was more than set to get what he wants. He's determined. His gone power crazy and it scares even me to see the madness in his eyes. He hasn't been sleeping much lately - the proof being the bags under his eyes. His hair a mess. He also smells of alcohol. When did he even start drinking?

The pressure was just getting to much to me, so much so that I had even thrown up a couple of times!

...At least...that's what I thought...Pressure.

A close friend of Giovanni, her name? Cassidy or whatever...I wasn't as close as I should have been with her but she was very kind with me as she took me away to a private corner.

"Miss Hanako?..Is everything." She paused. "...Alright?"

I was stunned.

"Uhh...I-"

"I was just asking as I realised you look...different lately..."

There was something in her eyes then. What was it? She must be speaking about the faint sweat on my fringe.

"Oh...I've been quite ill lately and-"

I couldn't finish my sentence as I felt it coming up again. Vomit. The vomit.

I faintly remember Cassidy running in after me to the bathroom. She handed me something but my eyes were still tightly clutched in slight pain and disgust from being sick.

"I went through something similar to this...a few years ago."

I shiver went through me as I clenched the sink to prepare my self again. The object she gave grasped in my hands. Cassidy held me and rubbed my back gently. A few minutes had past.

"Where you very smart as a child Delia?" I looked up at her surprisingly.

"W-well..."

"Did you ever fail an exam at school?" She looked at me with stern eyes.

"S-some...Of course I did, no-one's that perfect! I did study hard enough though...I guess..."

"So young..." She whispered barely enough for me to hear it.

Cassidy looked at me again with stubborn eyes. She then raised a hand to my shoulder, making me face her fully.

"Make sure you don't exactly hope to pass this test."

And with that she left.

I didn't understand what she meant...at first...but then, then I saw it.

A pregnancy test in my left hand.

I met up with Gio later that day when he decided to come home. He wasn't drunk, surprisingly.

I tried getting him to talk to me. Little conversation starters at first.'How was your day' etc., etc. But he wasn't even looking at me. Then finally...

"Gio do you even love me any-more!" I snapped. This however got his attention. He lowered his hand away from his forehead and took a deep breath before looking at me.

A harsh slap was heard.

Tears sprang to both of our eyes.

"D-D...Delia!" He made a move towards me but I stepped back.

"N-n-no." I started slowly. His eyes were still wide but not with madness this time...now they were filled with...concern?

"De...it was an accident..." I stepped back again and turned around.

"Delia." He said my name like it was an order. I felt two arms wrap around my waist, I put my hands on top to move them but he was having none of it. "Delia...I do love you dammit!"

That's when I felt his unshaven beard brush painfully across my cheeks...and...

The alcohol. I could smell it on him again. Faint, but still there. I rolled my hands into fists and began to pound feebly on him.

"No! No Gio no!" He made me turn my body around and brushed his lips onto mine. I resisted and he did not like that. He pushed me into the wall with me pinned against him. My resistance was mumbled.

"Nm-No-Gw-GIO!" I finally got the strength to push him away but with him being drunk he fell straight to the floor.

I couldn't face him right now so I ran to the room we shared.

I left a piece of me with him that day.

The letter said:

"Gio,

Thing's have just been to much for me to handle right now, it's all to soon, to fast. I have to leave. Please understand.

Your scaring me. I love...I loved you, and you can't even stand to look at me anymore. And your drinking habit...you never used to do this!

Why Gio! Why?

Please don't try to find me. I'm not sure where I'm going to go, but I have to be somewhere else away from you right now. Everything changes Gio. And we've just drifted to far apart...

-Delia.

Delia's Pov:

"Yes." I faintly heard the people around me whisper and mutter. "I did say that everything changes..." I looked up to Giovanni's face which still showed no emotion.

Then...his eyebrows slowly raised, his eyes got wider and his smirk went even more ereey. He chuckled. Once. Then twice.

"I knew it...I knew it!" Everyone backed away but I stood my ground. Misty didn't move from me but loosened her grip. "I knew you'd admit it Delia! I just knew it! Everything changes, ha!"

"Where's Ash/ Trixie!" Domino and Misty shouted at the same time. I looked at them then back at him.

"I took care of them. Like I said."

"YOU MONSTER! YOU PIG! YOU BASTA-" Domino started before Brock cover her mouth with his hand.

"Would you like to see them Delia?" He asked sincerely slowly. I looked at him with wide eyes as he motioned behind him and snapped his fingers in the air without turning around.

What we saw next stunned us. It couldn't be...

A figure with midnight black clothing appeared. He had short sleeves on with a few bloody tears (perhaps in a previous fight?) He had a toned muscular structure and wild black hair that stocked out in odd places. His skin was slightly scuffed and bruised, and...and...

This boy was not Ash.

...He has a gentle look on his face.

Think the Reverse-Bear Trap from Saw franchise, without the jaw bit!)

Ash had a thick spiked collar locked onto his neck. His eyes seemed drugged with madness.

A breath came rising up my throat. I tried to voice his name but it wouldn't come out, it just became a chocked gasp when I saw a hand appear on his shoulder.

Another figure, wearing the exact same shade of clothes as Ash. She had shoulder length black hair but looked pulled by someone or something and had been torn upwards in places. Her clothes however were more menacing as they were torn as if been in some struggle before-hand; she had long sleeves which were shredded at the end. Her clothes were also more poofy as his were more baggy.

She also had the same collar as him, her eyes were hidden by her fringe. She still had her hand on his arm but moved another on top of his shoulder.

Giovanni snapped his fingers again as the girl let go of Ash and moved to the side of Giovanni. Ash slowly walked to the other side of him. Giovanni put his hands on their shoulders.

"Well haven't you got anything to say to them Delia?...How ungrateful..."

I finally understood what he meant.

If the boy was my Ash then the girl must be...

"Wait...when did this even happen? I've been here all this time and didn't know about this!" Domino stated. Giovanni looked at her.

"It was straight after Suzanne told me you went missing." He explained.

Team Rocket's Pov:

Suzanne gave us the keys to Cell #0458 and we were making our way there.

(A/N: Double Trouble - Reprise. YouTube it!)

"Team Rocket's rockin,

talking trouble, walking trouble,

double trouble, BIG trouble's gonna follow you,

Team Rocket's rockin,

talking trouble, walking trouble,

double trouble, BIG trouble's gonna follow you."

We looked inside and saw a scruffed up Ash next to the wall. He flinched suddenly and moved away as we got closer.

"Were gonna capture Ashy too..."

"Let them go Mr. Ketchum!" Misty shouted whilst still next to Delia. He didn't say anything but put a hand on top of the girls head, you still couldn't see her face.

"I don't think they want to go..."

"That's stupid!" Domino started. "Here Kid, c'mon! Let's get outta here!"

The girl stepped forward when something from the collar made Delia drop to her knees.

A sharp pointed object erected from the collar and sent a crackling electric shock throughout her body. Ash and Giovanni stood simply with no emotion upon their face.

"You see..." Giovanni started. "If they start to disobey me...they get a shocking surprise..." He chuckled humourlessly and knelt down to drag her up by the hair.

"That's inhumane!" Misty yelled.

"Nonsense...my Pokémon don't mind..."

"Have you no heart!" Brock shouted.

"It's not my fault! It's hers! It's all hers!All of it!"

"GIO CALM DOWN!" Delia yelled.

Giovanni took a deep breath. Then looked back up.

(A/N: This song is Everything Changes Reprise 1, when I heard it first I thought it was Pegasus from Yu-Gi-Oh! =D Try listening to it on YouTube!)

"Everything changes...changes

Changing all the time...

Playing with your mind.

Modified or rearranged." He started to chuckle then.

"Everything has got to..."

He looked directly at Delia. Then in a deep, husky voice.

"Change!"

He grabbed the girl in front of him who had by now gotten up.

"Attack the traitor Child. Show her that no-one escapes Team Rocket."

Misty's eyes widened in realisation. "Mrs. Ketchum!"

Misty looked at Giovanni's eyes but realised he wasn't looking at Delia...

...He was after Domino.

"Wait why are you after Domino?" Gary shouted. Giovanni responded calmly.

"My apologizes, where are my manners? I shouldn't really be leaving you out..." He raised a hand to the shoulder of the next teen. "Ash...why don't you show Delia what you learnt?.."

"No Ash don't!" Misty yelled.

The two twins turned around to face Giovanni.

"Yes Master." The droned in a synced dull voice. They both jumped away from him and made their way to their orders. Domino stepped back until she hit the wall.

"Sweetie..." Delia gasped out. Misty turned around to see Ash right in front of his mother.

Ash just replied by staring at her with his dull eyes before unfolding his fist and raising his palm in-front of him. A bright blue circular light rose from his hand.

Ash raised his hand when the blue haze appeared, I could faintly comprehend the girl behind me somewhere attacking Domino the same way.

I couldn't take it anymore.

"Ash what's wrong with you?"

"Misty stop!" Delia screamed.

"ASH! NO!"

I stepped in front of Delia at the last minute when the power was released.

"MISTYYYY!"

To Be Continued...

+Facing angry readers.+

Okay, okay I know you waited so long for this chapter and I have to end it on a cliffhanger with Misty getting attacked!

But hey at least Trixie isn't dead!

...She's just being controlled and brainwashed by Giovanni along with Ash...

Isn't that happy news!

Who called Misty's name at the end? Could it be Ash?

What 'power' did Ash unlock?

Has Giovanni lost it?

On another note, you may remember that the Author's Note at the beginning said that this is the second to last chapter! That was right! The next chapter will be the last one!..But I wouldn't be expecting a happy ending!

You can tell this is the end since the titles from this book and it's prequel had the same title {The name is split}

Also I hope you guys enjoyed the extra-long chapter for the long wait! I hope you guys review this chapter! I worked hard on it! )