2 Years Later

Ash's POV:

2 years.....2 years of nonstop training, battling and getting hurt, one part of me wanted to just forget about the past and move on with my life...to achieve my childhood dream, but the thirst of revenge was the only thing keeping me going. This part took preference this time.

I figured out that if I wanted to get anywhere near the bosses, I had to train myself nearly as good as my Pokemon. So I began to train with my Pokemon, especially Greninja and Lucario. With Lucario's Aura and Greninja's Bond Phenomenon, I was partially able to gather their thoughts. Mine and Greninja's Bond had become far stronger now, such that I could understand him partially. However, it was only in broken English.

I had also gathered a few new friends, in this forest. The Viridian Forest was the hot zone for Pokemon smugglers as the dense forest with the mist and fog could easily mask their movements.

About a year ago, I caught them stealing a weird Pokemon which was apparently from the Alola region. I didn't know it then, but they were rather powerful.

Now, I also had an Incineroar, a Decidueye, a Dusk Lycanroc, a Nidoking , a Gallade and a Mightyena.

I still remember the day I went to Lieutenant Surge to give him mum's Pokemon and to tell him about all the stuff that happened.

Flashback

I finally reached Vermilion City after 6 days of riding on Charizard's and Garchomp's back, and I immediately went to Surge to tell him about the stuff that happened.

"Arceus, that's hard!! Delia...I...well..she was my best friend, kid, almost like the sister I never had. It still hasn't sunken in", he told me , his eyes growing misty. Suddenly he smote his fist on the desk.

"HOW did they do this? Our flight was totally bulletproof and blast protected.", he asked me gritting his teeth. Then I left to spend some time with mum's Pokemon. I first called out Mimey and told him about what happened, and I might say that I've never seen Mimey cry that hard or radiate his powers so ferociously. Mum's remaining Pokemon came and they too began to go haywire in rage.

"I've asked Surge to take care of you, okay?", I told Mimey who nodded his head clutching his fists.

"Hey, kid! If you ever need some help, call me. Anytime, anywhere I will help you. Just think of me as the father you've never had. I promise you Ash, that I'll do EVERYTHING at my disposal to snap the necks of those bunch of pricks and I'll give them a dose of pain that would make them feel that the Distortion Zone would seem like Lumiose City", he told me through pursed lips suppressing his rage. I simply acknowledged his kind gesture, and Mimey gave me a firm nod signalling me to visit him every now and then. After that, I told Surge about my plans and he was willing to give me the required equipments and food supply. After that, I left his headquarters to train.

A few hours later, I found a spot in the forest that would be perfect for my training as it was uninhabited by Pokemon, and there were no potholes or uneven surface. Little did I know, that the region was the hot zone of Pokemon smuggling, which would eventually result me in me receiving additional strength to my already powerful team.

End of flashback

Living alone in the wilderness taught me many things, especially that the best teacher a person can ever have is himself.

I could run faster, be rather stealthy, I could think quicker in difficult situations and these kinda stuff. However, the entire credit goes to the herd of Ursarings which always followed me and kept hoarding me.

I wore a trenchcoat and matching pants with combat boots, l made from pure Serperior leather. Apparently, there was a good use of her frequent shedding. It was extremely sturdy, but at the same time, it was very light which was beneficial to my movements. To conceal myself, I managed to dye it black by gathering the colour from spoilt berries. I was also able to make a few bombs, especially that of poison and smoke. I was able to store them in weak leaves which I hardened so that they could hold the contents, but could bring them out on heavy impact.  Apparently Nidoking's toxicity is high enough to knock out a person for a solid 20 hours while a concentrated dose may be fatal. I prepared the smoke bombs from Torkoal's, Typhlosion's and Emboar's smoke. It was a rather excruciating task, but it was worth it.

From the remaining shedded skin, I managed to make a gas mask which I tied around my neck and I could bring it up to conceal my jaw, upto my nose whenever required. So when a random person sees me, he could only see my eyes and my forehead with minor potions of my cheeks. I also layered the mask with a minor dose of activated Enigma Berries which took away the poison in the gases I breathe. That could be useful if I accidentally throw a bomb close to my person. Hiding my lightning bolt marks was the trickiest part though. The biggest achievement that I had achieved was stuffing Raichu into his Pokeball. He was finally comfortable getting in it after I pulled some strings with random people to get Professor Oak to modify the Pokeball. The best craft that I was able to do, was to shape a piece of hard wood like a shotgun in such a way that it could hold all of my Pokeballs and I could choose any Pokemon by the various compartments in it. Those 4 months of craziness was worth it after all.

After I decided that I had trained myself and my Pokemon well enough, I decided to begin my journey of vengeance. My first target, ARCHER!

By my calculations, Team Rocket had the worst ever communication system as they took around a week to send information from one HQ to the other. I had to make full utilization of the weakness, but I never knew that I'd be receiving help from a group I never expected to see again.

From the 3 points of entrances, the weakest was the side entrance and I tried to approach Archie by that way. Out of the blue, I heard a large scream and I went towards the source of the scream and I saw Jessie and James hugging each other, their teeth tattering, while Meowth was biting his nails. From my right, 5 Rocket grunts came with silenced 9 mms and pointed them towards the trio who began to shudder even harder. Butch and Cassidy were among the 5 grunts. I did require an inside man, didn't I? So I decided to help them.

"You 3 have caused enough trouble for us. It's time you got kicked out, and by getting kicked out from Team Rocket is getting kicked out from the world, so buh-bye", Cassidy chimed pointing her pistol towards them.

"WOBBUFFET!!", the Pokemon came out of its Pokeball totally unaware of the situation and all of their Pokemon followed suit.

"Fine, then!! Let's play it your way", Cassidy said reaching for her Pokeballs. This was the perfect moment.

"GRENINJA, I choose YOU!!", I yelled throwing his Pokeball. This also compromised my position.

"Who is that guy, now? Anyway, get him first and then we'll finish these idiots off", Butch told the remaining grunts who nodded their heads.

"Use Grand Slam to knock them out cold and if required, use Bullet Storm!!", I told him and he simply smirked in return.

"WHAT? We haven't even brought our Pokemon out yet!! Are you gonna attack US?", Cassidy yelled.

"That's the general idea", I told her and she paled. Greninja used the moment to create a Baseball bat made of ice and used his speed to knock out the first 2 grunts but the third apparently had a thick skull as the ice bat shattered upon impact. This didn't harm our ambush, as Greninja pictured a rain of ice bullets which emerged from behind him and hit Butch and Cassidy repeatedly until they were knocked out cold.

"THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BUT YOU'VE SAVE OUR LIVES!!", Jessie yelled mock-tearfully whirl James did the same.

"I doubt that", I told them and pulled down my gas mask and their expression was a picture perfect one.

"TWOIP!!?", Meowth yelled in surprise while I just smirked at the trio in return.

"In the flesh", I told them smirking, and they immediately began to search for Raichu.

"Hey twerp, where's your Pikachu?", Jessie asked me and I brought out Raichu from his Pokeball.

"HE EVOLVED?", they screamed in joy and began to see him as if he was the strongest Pokemon to exist.

"He's so different!! How is he in his Pokeball now? What happened to you  and where are the remaining twerpettes?", James asked me and I told them the whole story.

"Harsh!! I..I mean, we steal Pokemon alright, but abusing people, or murdering them, I....I wouldn't...",James trailed off shuddering and so did Jessie while Meowth was talking to Raichu from whom he got the info.

"To bring down Team Rocket, I'll need your help. I hope you'd do it, I mean, I just..", I trailed before I was interrupted by Jessie.

"Just tell us what to do, twerp! We gave them our lives, and they try to KILL us? We'll show them who we are! James, Meowth, are you with me?", she asked them rage glaring in her eyes and they nodded aggressively.

"You see, Team Rocket has the WORST
EVER communication system, so Archer still doesn't know that you guys have been fired and marked for death. We'll use that to our advantage! Take Raichu with you, and tell them that you have captured him and he is quite exquisite. Since they'll see you with my Raichu, they'll let down their guards for a while in shock and Meowth, use the time to disable all shutdown protocols. 3 minutes are all I need to finish him off. Meowth, take Lyncanroc with you. He's been dying for some action, plus he has really good sensory and hearing powers. Jessie, James, when the two of you give the "fainted" Raichu he'll execute a weak attack on you. It won't hurt at all, just act as if you collapse and Raichu will do the rest. After the job is done, meet me here, alright?", I told them and they nodded their heads.

"Man, I thought we could dig a hole. We're experts in that, you know?", James told me playing with his bottle caps while Jessie and Meowth nodded their heads enthusiastically.

"I'll keep that in mind if at all the same situation repeats", I told them and went to the left entrance where the guard was dozing off joyfully.

I took my shotgun from its hold and spray fired 4 Pokeballs. Then, Gigalith, Seismitoad, Torkoal and Hawlucha came out. I then told them about the plan.

"Guard this way, and if at all I need your help, I'll signal you guys, alright?", I told them and they nodded their heads and went into their respective hiding places.

I slowly made my way into the headquarters and then towards Giovanni's spare office. I hoped Archer would be here, but I didn't expect such a message.

There was a small invitation, which I presume was stolen by these thugs.

Dear Scott,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to our wedding, and help create moments to cherish on the best day of our lives.

Date : 28th November

Place : Event Hall, 2nd Floor, Sinnoh Royale

Time : 3 PM

We sincerely hope that you would come and enlighten the event as you always do so.

Yours lovingly,

Cynthia and Lance

So Cynthia and Lance were getting married, huh? I recall that Professor Oak used to tell Gary and me stories about how Cynthia and Lance were the closest of friends ever since they were six. Rumours of them dating also kept resurfacing every now and then.

The one thing which struck me was that near the invitation, there were circles marks on a taped picture of Cynthia and Lance. This probably my meant that they were marked, and my suspicions were confirmed when I saw an emblem with a G engraved on a large R - Giovanni's symbol.

I them smirked and kissed the lone Pokeball in my satchel.

"Don't worry my friend, you'll have your dose of vengeance too. Just be patient", I told the Pokemon inside the Pokeball and it rumbled in rage.

To be continued.....

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