Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Consequences ❯ Revelations ( Chapter 3 )

Consequences

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Part 3: Revelations…

Misty stared at the medicine bottle before slipping it into her purse and heading out again. She looked at Pikachu who was now fast asleep. It had been a busy day for the electric mouse and Misty was really reluctant to leave the poor Pokemon alone. She hadn't done much of to be more precise, nothing that had helped it and in fact was the cause of destroying the dreams of a lot of people. Brock to be Pokemon Breeder, herself to be a Water Pokemon Master and… Ash. She bit her lip as she locked the door behind her the bolt firmly in her hand. Driving in her car as the rest of the world seem to pass her by whilst she was heading for the mission unknowing of what were the consequences were going to be.

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Ash sat idly in his car outside the finance office, a fist upon his face as he stared blankly onwards as the silence prevailed to most of the night. Time flew past him like a dream, much like his life. How ironic how a young boy who had thwarted so many attempts of crime in his years of being a Pokemon Trainer and now here he was about to commit possibly one of the biggest thefts in history. He glanced at a small photo of when he and his `friends' were still kids. Happier days… days of when he was a boy with a smile as bright as the morning sun. A boy who had everything he ever wanted, it was a perfect life but he had long left that universe. Time had elapsed as he had drifted on to a more sinister persona where you'd have to be in a cruel unjust world. To a man who has nothing to lose. A flash of car lights finally caught his attention as he sat up smiling.

"Show time…" he whispered as the young red head marched towards the entrance.

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Misty reached the table as the security sat at the front.

"I've come to search this place again… I'm a police officer," Misty said. The security guard wasn't really impressed.

"I'll need a warrant ma'am…"

"Look I don't have any time for this…" Misty rasped, her infamous temper flaring to life once more.

The security was not having any of it. "Lady… no warrant… no search… now go… I need to close up…" Misty growled under breath as she was escorted out. The phone rang and the security guard hurried back to his desk. "You know the way out…" he cried as he answered the phone… "Yeah… hello…?" he checked as the door had swung close but found that the caller had hung up. "Dang kids…" he hissed angrily.

Misty had hurried down the hallway, putting her mobile back in her purse as she explored the dark floors of the finance building. Meandering past the hallways and into the main office building analysing every inch of the floors and crevices for some sort of clue. Zilch. She sighed in frustration that the mystery man had led her off to a wild goose chase. She tilted her head backwards, her face now facing the ceiling. Opening her eyes she frowned. There on the ceiling was a small hole. She switched on her small torch examining the tile and the whole. She took out the bolt analysing it before she switched back to the tile. Pretty soon the tile was placed aside as she climbed up into the vent. She noticed there was a trail where the dust was disturbed as if someone had crawled through quite recently. Taking this as her lead she crawled following it until eventually she reached the end of another vent. She looked through the gap noticing a couple of guards were busy upon a huge safe. She frowned as she watched for a bit.

"Well have you got it?" one of the guards asked to a man holding a briefcase. It must have been really valuable for he was literally handcuffed to it.

"Yep" he replied showing the contents to his partner. He nodded in confirmation.

"Ok let's lock this baby up and wait for the boss"

Misty then noticed that there was a small camera that had been installed there. She smiled realizing what the mystery man was really up to at the finance building. `Heh… not this time buster' she thought to herself as she pulled the small hidden camera from its position.

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Ash chuckled at the grinning Misty at the moment eying through the camera. She mouthed `gotcha' to the camera but Ash merely shook his head.

"Not by a long shot Miss Waterflower" he replied.

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That was when the camera started to fizzle into a small explosion of smoke alerting the men.

"What the?" the men cried out in alarm. "CALL THE BOSS!!!! SOMEONE'S TRYING TO STEAL IT!!!!" Misty knowing her hidden cover was blown crawled back to where she came from and dashed as fast as she could towards the nearest exit. Many guards were now wide and alert searching, whilst holding their guns by their sides ready. Misty couldn't take them on. All she had was her cell phone, which had inconveniently started ringing. She hurried to shut it off as the guards heard this they yelled running towards the sound. Misty dashed away finally successfully hanging up. She ran down the stairs, the guards closely behind her. She just had enough time to open the door on the lower wide before she dashed down the stairs again. The guards seeing the door swing assumed the intruder had ran through and went after him whilst Misty had rushed to the end of the staircase. She was however still on the 5th floor and needed to get out fast. Her cell rung again as she answered it this time.

"It's a bit rude to hang up on me like that," a voice said on the other line. Misty suppressed a growl upon who the caller was.

"Well excuse me but I was busy washing my hair," she replied, her voice dripping with sarcasm. She could tell mystery guy just smiling humorously at her on the other line of the phone.

"Hmm… at least you still have a sense of humour," Misty growled down the phone at the comment before she made her way to the lift. "I wouldn't do that. Three guards are coming up your way…" Misty blinked not sure if it was another trick. She grabbed a office bin ready just in case. "The three guys are armed with a 9mm each and what have you got? An ashtray? I suggest you take the stairs… There's an emergency exit right at the bottom" Ash quoted on his cell. Misty blinked before she looked around seeing the small hidden camera staring at her. She frowned before she hung up and followed his advice running down the stairs again. Halfway down her cell rung again. She growled as she answered.

"What now!?!?" she yelled down the phone. Ash tilted away from the loud voice on his side.

"Just wondering how many flights of stairs you can run down in a minute…"

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh nothing… it's just I forgot to tell you that the emergency doors have a curfew time before they automatically lock at midnight exactly. You have 50… correction 45 seconds left," Misty's eyes shot open wide before she leapt down the stairs in a flurry. She was making it to the last flight of stairs as Ash was counting down. "10… 9… 8…7… 6…" he droned as she reached the door. She paused but lunged pushing at the doors. It was locked but an alarm bell trilled throughout the entire building. She pushed at the doors again then looked around seeing the camera staring at her. She went back to her phone.

"YOU… YOU TRICKED ME!!!!" she screamed realising that there was no curfew and attempting to open the door meant triggering the alarm. Ash merely smiled.

"Just get yourself out of there… I'm sure your smart enough to do that…" he replied before he hung up and drove towards the parking lot.

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Rudy answered his cell and listened.

"Sir there's been an attempt on stealing the necklace… our men are searching for the intruder right now. What are your orders?" Rudy's eyes narrowed before he answered

"Is it still in your possession?"

"Yes sir…"

"Good… your not totally incompetent. Bring out the necklace and wait for my car to come in. I'll pick it up myself" he hung up and ordered the man to drive.

After receiving his orders the guard with the briefcase still attached to his hand with cuffs raced down the stairs and out into the parking lot. There were a few minutes of waiting when the silver Porsche that he knew to be his employer appeared. He ran over to the car expecting Rudy to appear but in fact in his place was a young man with black hair and handsome brown eyes with black slashing eyebrows framing them. "Wh-" the man began before Ash knocked him out skilfully opened the briefcase and taking the beautiful blue diamond necklace inside. The delicate glittering Spinarak web chain attached embracing the huge cerulean jewel that was as bright as Misty's eyes. Ash smiled. `Rudy won't be pleased that his millions of dollars was swiped right under his nose…' he thought to himself before he slipped it into his pocket and left the Porsche uncovering another more simple car and drove off smiling as he watched the real Rudy had appeared and drove past him.

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Misty had managed to pick the lock of the emergency door before she ran out towards her car and immediately drove. She noticed the car coming past and immediately went after it. Ash looked at his rear view mirror as Misty glared straight ahead at him. Ash cocked an eyebrow as a round of gunfire followed them from the guards. Misty was now by his side as the two cars were charging towards the barrage up ahead. A bullet had flew past and ricocheted causing fuel in her car to leak, a flame had lit up behind her car and a trail of flame was following her. Ash obviously noticed it as the two slowed down and he tossed a gun through her open window. Misty opened her door keeping the accelerator on with an umbrella and crawled into the back of Ash's backseat returning fire for cover. Ash stepped more on the gas, his car charged towards the guards before veering away to the road leaving Misty's car trailing behind, the flick of flame hurrying after it. The guards noticed.

"It's going to explode!!!!" one of them screamed and they all ducked not noticing the puddle of water the car had passed over. The umbrella was dislodged and the car came to a halt. The men had covered their heads for flying debris but they never came. They turned to see that the trail of flame was stopped dead.

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Ash blinked as he drove on into the distance whilst Misty breathed in a sigh of relief of getting out of there alive. She grinned.

"You know it's weird… it appears we've switched roles. This time you're the one driving the car and…'I'm' the one holding the gun" Ash blinked acknowledging her. Misty through the excitement had not got a chance to see his face properly. Ash glanced towards her as she leaned over to look upon the man that had caused her so much trouble. Her eyes shot wide open with shock. "Andy?" she whispered. Ash smiled as he pushed on the accelerator hard towards a blockade ahead. Misty noticed this too. Instincts told her to shrink back into the back and at the bottom of the seat to not risk crashing through the window. There was a huge bang as steam emitted from the car, the air bag had snapped open to protect Ash's head whilst Misty who was at the back of the passengers seat was knocked against the back. A moment of silence between the two passed with nothing but the hissing of escaping steam from the car's engine that night. Ash gasped as he slipped out of his seatbelt and the car door. He bowed over taking deep breaths steadying his feet and patiently waiting for the double vision to clear up and refocus. Ash then wrenched opened the door of the passenger seat seeing that Misty was now unconscious with, a nasty cut upon her otherwise perfect porcelain face. He sighed, as he was about to walk away. Someone would come and pick her up soon but then he stopped staring at the unconscious red head. He tilted his head backwards closing his eyes before he returned slipping her limp body over his arms and stumbled his way towards the hospital only a few blocks down the road.

Misty felt the warm arms wrap around her body. She tried to speak as she felt herself lifted into the cold air, she tried to focus and stay conscious. The warmth of the body carrying her though was unbelievably numbing her and she felt herself drift back into the darkness.

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She started to see a red glow; her eyes squinted shut away from the light before she forced herself to wake. The smell of anaesthetic was in the air as she blinked, the focus seeing she under crisp white sheets. She held her head where her nametag was wrapped around her slender figure.

"You're awake!!!" someone beside cried joyfully.

"Pikachu pi?" She turned blinking a couple of times to see the two figures watching over her. Brock was looking worriedly, Pikachu sat beside her, its cute eyes blinking with concern.

"Wh-… what happened?" she managed to rasp.

"You were in a car accident and someone brought you in to the hospital… the doctors said you were lucky… you only had a minor concussion. In fact they said you would be ready to leave already" Brock replied. Misty sighed as she remembered the events before. Andy was mystery man. `Why do I always have to fall for the bad guys?' she thought to herself. She snapped out of her thoughts when Jenny had appeared in the room.

"We've got a lead…" Misty's immediately sat up, as her interests were piqued.

"What is it? Is it about mystery man?" she asked eagerly. Jenny's smile broadened.

"Even better, it's a possible connection with Team Rocket leader Rudy Troveta" Misty blinked suddenly finding herself place another piece of the puzzling mystery that she had on her hands.

"Apparently there's been another robbery from the finance office, only bigger… same guy though from what the guards said" Misty felt a sinking feeling knowing that she was inadvertently a part of the robbery. Jenny then laid out the research. There was a photo as Misty suspected of the man she had met at the ferry. Andy. Beside him was an old man with a proud yet neat bush moustache and balding head. "The old man here is Peter Andrew Karmara, he used to be a partner with Rudy Troveta however Rudy had pulled the rug under the old man and he lost his entire fortune in the Japanese black market. The wily old fox though had made a safe investment in Britain where he started over and planned to gain revenge on Rudy. The major theft of a diamond necklace called the Blue Eye of the Ocean crafted from Pierre Toulouse was the target that would pull Rudy under financially so no matter what Rudy has to get that necklace back"

"So mystery guys working for Peter huh?" Misty stated rather than questioned.

"Um… yes… and no…" Jenny replied. Misty stared at her before blinking to ask her to go on. "Peter died a year ago… at age 92, he however passed responsibility for his revenge to the guy on the right. He's supposed to be Peter's godson. Apparently he's got a worse grudge than the old man. Peter had become firm friends with his father about 18 years ago. A man named Jonathan Ketchum" Misty gasped as did Brock and Pikachu. "The guy was an honest man and married a woman called Delia Riley then had a son called-"

"Ash Ketchum…" Misty finished looking at the photo of Peter and Andy or whom she now knew was her old friend Ash Ketchum. Jenny blinked a couple of times of her immense surprise that Misty knew the guy.

"Err… yeah… anyway Jonathan Ketchum had died in a plane crash when Ash was around eight and he lived with his mother and only family until he was 10 to become a registered Pokemon Trainer. 6 years into the profession and this coincides with Rudy becoming the new Team Rocket leader at the time. He was framed for murder and he's license stripped. New evidence had been sent in on the 5th October 2003 clearing his name however Delia Ketchum was involved in a hit and run and died in Pallet Hope hospital shortly after his release from custody. The Pokemon League had attempted to reinstate his status as a Pokemon trainer but within three months Ketchum had sold his house in Pallet Town and thereafter disappeared. Gee that's the first case I've seen of the system failing a person. I can see why he turned to a life of crime…" Misty sighed as she placed her face in hands, brushing back the curls of red stressfully. She felt the tears well up in her eyes but she blinked them away." You ok?" Jenny asked concerned. Misty sighed and nodded before she stared at the photo of Ash and his godfather.

"Yeah…" she whispered as she kept her eyes on the photo. Jenny looked at Misty strangely then glanced at Brock.

"I think you should take a look at the victim of the murder," he said. Jenny blinked before she checked the file.

"The murder victim… Daisy… Waterflower" she said then looked at Misty. "Oh Misty…" she said sadly. Misty sniffed before she took a deep breath. Brock got a tissue from her purse for Misty to dry her eyes when he noticed a piece of paper with the number 29 written on it. Pikachu's ears twitched as it leant to sniff at the paper.

"Pi? Pikachu!!!" it cried. Misty's attention drew towards the slip of paper. She looked at it and as if something clicked in her mind. She left the hospital with Pikachu trailing behind her. She knew where to go and she had reached the café. It wasn't very busy and just as she guessed, there he was. Ash was sitting alone at the bar drinking a cup of coffee. He was wearing a black turtleneck and pants as if he was dressed for a funeral.

"Ash…" Misty whispered. He smiled as she approached him. His black hair that used to be a mess from a cap was now settled down to sleek and neat mass hovering just above his eyes. His brown eyes stared contently at the red head whilst the jet-black slashing eyebrows framed them, defining the intensity of his gaze.

"How's your head…?" he asked politely upon the bandage over the cut of her temple. Misty stared at him with searching and guilty eyes.

"Better…" she replied.

"Pika pi?"

Ash glanced towards the furry electric mouse but ignored it and continued drinking his coffee. Misty sat down beside him, as he seemed to go off into his little world. Misty swallowed at the awkward silence between them and decided to speak up.

"So… how have you been these 8 years?" she asked mentally kicking herself. `Of course he must have been through hell and back what did you expect?' she scowled at herself.

"Not too bad…" Ash replied. "It's been good years for me financially," he looked at her and smiled before draining the last of his coffee and went out through the door holding the door for her. Misty and Pikachu followed. Out in front of them was a limousine and he opened the door for them. They went in and they were once again through the journey in the awkward silence again before finally stopping at their destination. Misty got out of the car to be faced with a giant mansion. One that could rival even James mansion from the former Team Rocket and that was saying something.

"Wow…" was all she could say as he led her and Pikachu inside. Ash smiled as they entered the huge building and sat down in one of the big rooms. Silence between them again where Ash just sat staring his arms crossed at Misty who was fidgeting of those handsome analytical eyes he had seemed to develop over the years.

"It's a nice today isn't it?" Ash began casually.

"Look… I should get to the point… I understand what your doing Ash… the entire fiasco at the finance office… Revenge on Rudy…" A smirk quirked on the man's face as she began… "But… it's the wrong way of going about this…" Ash cocked his head as if in confusion. "I'm sorry Misty but I don't quite apprehend the entire concept of what you say is the `wrong way of going about things'" Misty frowned at the business like tone in Ash's voice.

"Gee, when did you start talking like a dictionary?" she asked mentally kicking herself again about her rudeness.

"Times get hard so you need to learn to be a quick study to keep up," was the reply. Misty swallowed painfully at the constriction around her throat. The extremities that Ash was going through right now were merely a consequence of her own actions long ago. In truth Misty really didn't have a right to talk to him about right and wrong but she couldn't let him get himself deeper into being a criminal than he already did.

"It needn't be this way Ash" she tried again as she picked out from her purse something bright and red. Pikachu's ears twitched staring at Misty and his former trainer. She slipped the Pokedex into Ash's hand. "The Pokemon League realised that you were innocent and went to reinstate you and now it's high time that you got back to your dream of being a Pokemon Master… I'll deal with Rudy I promise that… Take it" Ash looked at the metal box of, which would have contained so many Pokemon that he had seen in his journey. He opened the lid staring at the screen, playing with the buttons that seemed untouched for so long. A smile spread upon his face, one that Misty had recognised and she thought finally things were going to turn out right for her friend for once. Ash touched the smooth surface of the red cover.

"Eight years… I'd have given anything to be able to roam around the world again with my friends and Pokemon" he whispered the wonderful warm smile that Misty loved to see so much. Then suddenly it disappeared and she was met with a cold stare upon the young man's face. "But that `was' eight years ago… and this? Means nothing to me anymore" the statement stabbed at Misty's heart as he slid it back across the coffee table in front of them towards Misty. "If you recall on the roof I said we were going to play a 72 hour game, we have 36 hours to go and counting" There were unshed tears in her eyes as she stood and glared up at him.

"That's right… I have to get you to the police station in that time… Right now I'm off duty but I'll be on my shift in a 5 minutes. We have sufficient evidence for your arrest so give me a good reason why I shouldn't just drag you into custody from here" There were guards coming in just as she spoke whilst Ash's back was turned to her. "What you think you're so well protected because you have these men at your disposal… well listen up buster I also have my own bodyguards. The Pewter City police force who are currently surrounding this area" The bodyguards looked at each other as if trying to figure out what to do. Ash just stared at Misty smiling at her.

"Alright I'll tell you some reasons for you not take me into custody." He announced.

"You have one minute…"

"After being friends for so long one would have expected you to be a little bit more lenient with me here. Especially of our… circumstances" Misty swallowed.

"45 seconds" she rasped.

"Think of it this way… we both aim to get Rudy as well and it's not like I'm not allowing myself to be caught by you later you'd just be killing two birds with one stone by this one act of… negligence…" Misty glared before she announced another 20 seconds off the clock. Ash smiled.

"You know it doesn't matter to me whether you take me in to the police office now or later really… but you act just like a Growlithe, just without the ears and tail"

"10 seconds" Misty said.

"You're like a Growlithe because no matter wherever I go you always follow me…" Ash said as Misty paused looking away from her watch as she sank. Ash had one of his men escort her and Pikachu away.

"Pikachu!!!" Pikachu cried towards its former trainer who just stared emotionlessly at it. Tears formed in its eyes. "Chu…" he whispered, the tears rolled down its red cheeks. Ash had gone back into the mansion as one of his butlers approached him.

"Sir a phone call" Ash thanked the butler before he sat down placing the electric voice simulator on his throat.

"Peter… what kind of dangerous game you concocting in that old brain of yours?"

"It's for me to know and you to find out lad," Ash whispered through his electric voice simulator before he placed the phone. Shortly the phone rang and Ash picked it up.

"What do you want?" Rudy growled.

"30 million dollars" Ash replied. The electric buzzing was tickling his throat.

"30 million dollars? Isn't that a bit much for an o-" he was cut off by Ash replacing the phone. The phone rang as Ash patiently answered it again.

"What if I refuse?"

"Then we don't have anything to talk about… Bye, bye" Ash answered. The phone rang again.

"Fine…" Rudy hissed. "Let's meet at the Alcove Restaurant… midnight tonight…"

"It's been good doing business with you… Mr Troveta…" Ash said as he replaced the phone one last time. He coughed a bit as he tried to drink the water by his table. He hacked as the blood had mingled with his drinking water like a red cloud before colouring the water in a deep shade of pink.

"Sir?" his maid asked worriedly before replacing his contaminated water with a clean glass.

"Thank you Cynthia" Ash whispered as he popped another pill gulping down the water and felt the world became a blur. He was helped out of his seat and onto his bed. Cynthia looked on over the young master sadly. Both Mr Karmara and Mr Ketchum were the kindest masters she had ever had to work for and it pained her that they would not need her services anymore. Of course Mr Ketchum had left her and all her co-workers with a substantial sum to move on with their lives but it was the fact throughout their employment they had all developed a bond with each other. The maid looked down sadly at the sleeping young master. He was so young and would have had so much promise if it weren't for the illness. She closed her eyes painfully as she left the room with the bloodstained glass of pink water on her tray.

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Sam: Well I'm finally getting this over and done with. It's nearly been a year since I last updated so to readers I'M SO SORRRRRYYYY!!!!! All my other fics were occupying me and I never got around to writing for this but I promise this story is nearing the end pretty soon… Keep reading and I'd love it if you review… Flames are welcome… I deserve it for being so cruel and leaving it like that!!!! AGAIN GOMEN NASI!!!!!!!