Hello there everyone how's it going today?

OK I know it's been a while since I have updated this story.

But it's time for a new one.

Now as I said in the last chapter, this one is going to be a little more dark toned.

Because let's just say, Ash and Dante are going to get very, very pissed off.

And remember, when I said I got my feet in dark toned territory waters, well now it's up at the lower half of my legs now.

Also the results of the poll will be announced at the end of the chapter.

Also there will be a few announcements as well.

So sit back and enjoy the story.

I don't own any of this

Chapter 30: an encounter with a poacher part 2

The air grew tense as dark clouds slowly gathers around Ash and the others, something was coming.

"Get ready guys." Said Dante.

"What's happening?" asked May.

"It's the Dark Arbok and they're coming." Dante said Ominously.

In the distance was the sound of motorcycles coming on the roads and there was an aura of evil intent.

Pikachu can sense something is wrong and felt a bit scared.

So did Dante and Ash.

Dante placed his hand over the eye patch on his left eye as the flow of that memory came back to him.

'Garu today is the day that this ends.' He thought with a growl.

"Get your Pokémon ready, this fight is going to be a bit rough." Said Dante.

Just then on the horizon there was the sounds of motorcycles coming closer and closer.

Ash and the others took their stances and got ready.

'here they come.' Dante thought.

And he would be right.

Cause then the sound of 8 motorcycles jumped in the air and then landed on the ground and sped towards Ash and the others.

Garu recognized Dante and ordered his men to encircle them and they did.

They drove in circles, whopping and holler at them and making very rude and crude noises until Garu order them to stop.

They did and line up back with him.

They then turn their rides off and got off.

Garu then walked up to them and stopped half way and his eyes were glued onto Dante.

He then let out a small chuckle.

"It's been a long time Dante." He said.

"Too long Garu." Dante retorted.

"Who's that Dante?" Ash asked.

"This." Dante began. "Is the son of a bitch, who I dealt with years ago and I thought his operation was shut down after I defeated him, this is Garu leader of the Dark Arbok, a Pokémon smuggling and hunting group that even kills."

"What?" Ash said as his anger slowly rises.

May and Brock's anger also slow rise as well.

"That's right I did those things." Garu said feeling a bit smug admitting it.

"So how's your eye doing?" he mocked.

Dante let out a growl in response.

"He gave you that scar Dante?" Brock asked.

"Yes he did but not before I gave him a couple on his right shoulder and arm as payback." Dante answered.

"I still should've killed you when I had the chance." Said Garu.

"Likewise, after all the shit you and your gang has done, I should've went after you to finish the job, but the injury prevented me to do so." Growled Dante.

Then Dante sniffed the air and a snarl formed on his face.

"I smell the scent of spilled blood and you have blood on your hands." He growled.

"Oh please I've been killing for a long time." Said Garu.

"True but I have smelled new blood on you and judging by the looks in the Teddiursa' eyes, you killed its mother." Dante growled.

Then Garu smirked very smugly and said "I did but not before it left me this."

He pulled up his shirt to reveal the scars he got from Scyther and from the Ursaring on his abdomen May, Ash and Brock and had to swallow the bile in their throats as they saw the scars and they glared at Garu.

"You monster." May said with anger in her voice.

"You are pure scum." Brock hissed in anger.

"You are the worst kind of people." Growled Ash.

"Sticks and stones." Scoffed Garu.

"Well it fits you, since you cause all that pain and terror you bastard." Said Dante with venom laced in his voice.

"Well that's rich coming from you Dante, since you had a lot of my men arrested." Garu said.

"Well they had it coming and so do you, it's time to end this sick business of yours permanently." Said Dante.

"You can try, but you're outnumbered." Garu said smugly.

"Yeah and once you're done we'll go regain our collection and take your Pokémon as well." Said Tony.

"Yeah and the coordinator's Pokémon do fetch a high price on the market." added Fox.

"Try that and you die Fox." Growled Dante.

"Well time to end this boys take them out." Garu ordered.

"With pleasure Boss." Said Fox, Bob, Tony and the others.

Ash and Dante felt something in awakening again and this time it was rage something within them was waking up and it felt like the need to rip some enemies apart and that meant another of Dante's personality was waking up and unlike Castle, this one is a bit more ruthless.

Dante is struggling to keep the other personalities in line but his anger is slowly rising.

Fox, Bob and Tony and the other goons send out their Pokémon which is composed of a group of Houndoom, Tauros, Golbat and Machoke.

The pokemon of the Dark Arbok stood behind their trainers and had vicious looks on their faces.

Brock had a serious look on his face and he wasn't going to back down, neither was Ash, May and Dante.

Brock went first and sent out Marshtomp, Forretress and Hitmonchan, then May send out Pidgey, Hitmonlee, Combusken and Munchlax, then Ash had Pikachu joined in and send out Grovyle, Corphish, Swellow and Aron and finally Dante brought out Crobat, Houndoom, Haunter, Sceptile and Poliwrath.

"Interesting set of Pokémon you got, especially that Pikachu would fetch a high price, now time to face your doom, Rhydon, Fearow, Golduck, Scizor, Donphan and Ariados come out!" Garu shouted.

Out comes Garu's Pokémon and they had vicious looks on their faces.

Ash and the others had their serious looks on their faces even though they were outnumbered, they were not going to back down.

Sceptile looked at Garu's Rhydon and glared at him angrily and clenched its fist and then let out a bellowing war cry.

"SCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

"Looks my Sceptile is ready to fight Garu and I am giving you another choice, surrender and you may live or stay and face your destiny." Said Dante. "What's it going to be?"

"Oh yes, I remember you giving me this ultimatum in our last encounter." Garu said.

"Yes and because your damn stubborn pride it cost you big including the life of your girlfriend Annabelle." Dante said.

Garu had a wicked angry look on his face. "Never bring her up like that again!" he snarled.

"Well it was your damn fault that she died!" Dante snarled back.

"All because she got corrupted by your damn goodness." Shouted Garu.

"She wanted you to stop and end this cruel business but you wouldn't." said Dante.

"Who's Annabelle?" asked Brock.

"Annabelle was Garu's girlfriend when I infiltrate the Dark Arbok a long time ago." Said Dante as he recalled the events of the past.

'Flashback about 3 years ago'

Dante was on a mission to bring down the Dark Arbok, apparently he had a reputation for bringing down Pokémon smuggling groups and hunter groups, so to infiltrate, he wore a disguise and was able to join them and secretly disband their plans and leaking their plans to the police and slowly members of the dark Arbok were getting arrested and Garu was getting pissed. But there was one member of the group that saw through Dante's disguise and that Garu's girlfriend Annabelle (imagine a red hair version of May with longer locks and at about 19 years old) she confronted Dante one day after another plan was foiled. She spoke to Dante in private and she knew what he was doing, and asked him why he was sabotaging the Dark Arbok and he explained that what they were doing was wrong and he made it a mission to stop all Pokémon hunters, smugglers and other evil groups from using Pokémon for evil and other things.

That touched Annabelle's heart and she told Dante that she wanted Garu to stop all of this, but his pride and lust for money made him have a short temper and such and well he didn't hit her but he did yelled at her many times and that made her scared.

Dante felt sorry for Annabelle and he told her, that she helps him, maybe he can help her get away from Garu and to be free, she accepts so she helped Dante secretly foiled more operations of the Dark Arbok and Garu was losing his patience and temper and begin to suspect that someone was leaking their plans to the cops. This kept happening for about 5 months until Bob told Garu that Annabelle has been acting suspicious as of late and so was Dante and their plans getting foiled was connected to those two, Garu thought it over for a couple of days until he slowly put 2 and 2 together and realized that Dante was the traitor and one day just he was about to order his men to take him out, they got attacked by the cops raiding their base and it escalated quickly, it quickly turned into a war zone of sorts and it was complete chaos, many of Garu's members held off the cops, but slowly but surely they were getting captured, but Fox and a few others have managed to escape, but Garu was able to corner Dante and Annabelle and he was red with anger and rage, Garu accused Dante of selling them out and 'corrupting' Annabelle to his side, Dante then said to Garu that he didn't corrupt Annabelle, he told her the truth and she wanted to help to stop his cruel plans and make him see sense, Garu was so wrecked with betrayal he attacked Dante and the two fought hard and in the scuffle Garu gave Dante the scar on his left eye and Dante gave a couple on Garu as payback and then they send out Rhydon and Grovyle and they fought hard as well and Grovyle defeated Garu's Rhydon with one powerful Leaf Blade attack and Garu was so pissed he was going to kill Grovyle, since he was worn out, but Dante moved to intercept but the gun fired, there was a loud scream and Dante and Garu realized that Annabelle was shot, she moved in the way to protect Dante and Grovyle, both Dante and Garu were in shock, Garu was about to fire again, when the ceiling collapsed and separated them and Garu still injured recalled his Rhydon and escaped, Dante brought out his Onix and he had him dug a hole to escape and took him, Grovyle and Annabelle out of the burning base and they were founded by some cops who took them to hospitals but unfortunately by the time they got there, Annabelle had already succumbed to her injuries and passed away, Dante heard what happened when he recovered 5 days later, after he was released from the hospital, Dante then buried Annabelle under some trees in a forest and made a promise that he will find Garu and stop him and his group once and for all and so did his Pokémon and in that moment Dante's Grovyle evolved into Sceptile and they all set off to honor that promise even if it took a long time.

'Flashback ends, back to present time.'

"And here we are and now I am going to make good word on my promise and stop you Garu, even if it means I have to kill you." Growled Dante.

"We'll see about that." Said Garu.

"Ash you're with me, May, Brock handle Garu's goons and don't hold back on these bastards they had it coming for a long time." Dante said.

May and Brock nodded and faced Garu's goons and their Pokémon and Ash and Dante faced Garu and his.

But what neither knows that in the bushes and trees that lead into some woods were other Pokémon and they were watching the whole thing and heard every word and wonders which side should they help and one of the more curious ones was a Machop who was unusually focused on Ash.

Meanwhile…

Max arrived at the Pokémon center with Diablo and he had May's egg with him and after he got Diablo freed and he ran inside told Nurse Joy to called the police and that Ash and the others are dealing with Pokémon hunters and they need help and Nurse Joy wasted no time doing so and called.

'I hope they'll be ok.' Max thought.

Then he heard the bellowing of Diablo as he ran back towards where Ash was with great speed.

Max can only look on as the dark clouds above were forming a big storm.

(Let's hope they'll be ok Max, but looks likes our heroes have confronted the Dark Arbok and there's bad blood between Dante and Garu as dark clouds looms over them. Something in Ash and Dante are stirring again and this time things will be a bit more chaotic and what will happen when the fighting starts? Find out next time in Chapter 31: storms and raging spirts of fury.)

(to be continued)

Ok that ends this overdue chapter.

Sorry for the wait, a lot of craziness happened and there were some personal things I had to help take care of.

Now then things are getting a bit more intense and also a bit of a look into Dante's past.

Now then things are getting a bit pushed back so the chapters for lavender town and the battle dome will be coming out a bit more later.

I'm sorry but I have other chapters to deal with.

Now then it's time for the announcements, after some voting and by a score of 2:1 Ash will take May to a movie and then a café and that might come around chapter 33.

Also the chapters with the Black Fog will coming soon.

Also another of Dante's personality will be coming out next chapter.

Also the harem list for Ash will be updated in ch34.

Now then the next 2 chapters I am working on are Cody's harem the final story part 3 and my alien academia.

So I do have a poll for which 3 aliens should Izuku unlock next in ch22, so if you want to pick which ones, now's your chance to do it the poll closes on 10/9.

Now then this will be the last chapter I will work on this story as I need to take care of my other stories first and I will come back to this around late October or mid-November.

So I ask do not ask me when the next chapter is coming as I am very busy, so please be patient.

Now then I believe that's it for now I am off to get some rest.

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See you in October.