Ash Ketchum, Pokemon Master By ZaneT69

Chapter 7

It was finally the day that Ash would earn his eighth badge and he was looking forward to a great battle.

Ash entered the Viridian City Gym. "Giovanni! I've come to challenge you!" He called out.

"I've been expecting you, kid," Giovanni said, sitting on a raised platform in the shadows. "This will be a five-on-five battle, with substitutions allowed. Go Golem!"

"Go Blastoise!" Ash said.

Giovanni started the battle off by having Golem use Rock Slide, which was countered by Water Pulse and followed up with Hydro Pump; blasting Golem into a wall, unconscious. Giovanni returned Golem and sent out his Nidoqueen, which Ash knew could learn Thunder.

"Thunder!" Giovanni said, going right for the kill.

"Dodge and use Ice Beam!" Giovanni had Nidoqueen dodge it, but she was forced on the defensive and was eventually hit by an Ice Beam and rendered unable to battle, angering Giovanni, who needed to defeat Ash's powerful Blastoise.

"Go Nidoking, use Thrash!"

Ash had Blastoise dodge and use Water Pulse, which was dodged, but now Ash's Pokemon was forced on the defensive, but, unlike Giovanni's Pokemon it was in a fighting retreat and was still weakening Nidoking quite badly. A simple Rain Dance to exploit Blastoise' hidden ability Rain Dish to recover and then another Water Pulse and Giovanni had his third defeated Pokemon.

"Impressive," Giovanni admitted grudgingly.

Giovanni returned his defeated Nidoking and sent out his Dugtrio and had it use Dig. Ash replied by having Blastoise soak the ground in water to make it move easier and give hints as to where Dugtrio was... After figuring out where Dugtrio was going to attack, Ash had Blastoise use Protect, and once Dugtrio surfaced, used Hydro Cannon. Dugtrio was easily defeated and Giovanni returned it and sent out his Rhydon, which was quickly defeated by yet another Hydro Cannon...

"Well, you win," Giovanni said, very irritated. Giovanni tossed Ash the Earth Badge. "8000 Poke dollars will be transferred into your account within the hour."

"Thanks, I'm off to train." Ash said before leaving.

After informing his mother of his victory, Ash left for his private island to train.

With his eighth badge won, Ash also decided to finally complete his purge of Team Rocket.

It actually didn't take him longer than a month.

Annie and Oakley, and Ash was starting to think there was a gag there, were both easily killed. Ash put them both to sleep and then killed them instantly... because that made murder so much better. Yes, that was sarcasm.

The Admins of Team Rocket were all hunted down and mercilessly killed.

All remaining Team Rocket grunts associated with the admins and teams were killed, and some who were still involved in crime but had left Team Rocket were murdered too. Ash was being very thorough in his purge and had already stolen billions in wealth from Team Rocket.

Ash just needed to kill Giovanni and the last surviving members of Team Rocket that had joined together for safety in numbers.

Viridian City Gym, the place where Team Rocket would finally die... When Ash arrived, he quickly killed the two men guarding the door and entered.