A Hero's Blood

Chapter 7

Nina was training with Gus yet again, with her Altaria battle his new Dusclops.

"Altaria, Flamethrower," Nina commanded.

Altaria breathed in deeply and fired a powerful stream of fire straight at Dusclops.

Gus countered, "Disappear, Dusclops!" Dusclops obeyed and disappeared out of the line of the fire stream. Nina snarled in between her teeth. Gus then commanded, "Dusclops, Shadow Punch!"

All of the sudden, a ghost punch came behind Altaria, hitting it in its blind spot. Altaria was shaken but it didn't go down.

"That's the way," Nina encouraged.

Gus observed her battling style carefully, still wondering about what he saw in the report. 'If Nina did cheat in the battle against Crash, a Pokémon battle will prove it,' Gus thought.

Nina ordered, "Altaria, use Aerial Ace!"

Altaria swooped around and struck Dusclops with a fast strong blow.

Gus hissed through his teeth and commanded, "Dusclops, Ice Beam!"

Dusclops shot a blue light towards Altaria and knocked it out.

Nina mumbled, "Darn it should've gone with Steel Wing..."

That's when Gus put two and two together. Nina was a good battler but she would never cheat. Gus recalled Dusclops after Nina recalled Altaria.

Gus then went over to Nina and stated, "You are a decent battler, Nin."

"Thanks," Nina replied, "You are too."

Gus smiled and then decided, "Nin, there's something I've gotta tell you."

"What is it," Nina asked, blushing that Gus had taken her metal hand into his.

Gus sighed, as he was unsure how Nina would react. He started this thing and he was going to finish it, that's what he promised himself.

He finally answered, "It's the reason Arachina died so early. Nin... He might've been drugged."

Back on the islands; John and Pete were training with Crunch, since he brought out some of his fighting types.

"You guys are doing a nice job," Crunch stated.

"Thanks," John and Pete said, out of breath.

Crunch responded, "As long as you keep that up, you can defeat that mysterious guy again."

"Sure like to know who he was," John commented.

Pete replied, "Same here."

Crunch stated, "Maybe you should now train with Conkeldurr."

Conkeldurr was the Muscular Pokémon and had two cement blocks in both of its hands.

"Whoa," John stated, "That's the first time I've seen a Conkeldurr."

"Me too, sure wish we could go to Unova but I love our home here," Pete stated.

John smiled as he replied, "Yeah me too so bring it on, Crunch!"

Crunch smiled and replied, "Oh, it will be brought!"

"Drugged," Nina repeated, a bit surprised.

Gus nodded and answered, "I got a little suspicious that your victory with Crash was just that easy so I did some snooping. Turns out that Arachina had triple as much nitrogen in its system compared to Ee-Lectric."

"That's not possible," Nina stated, a bit shocked, "Arachina was healthy as a mutant spider should've been. Sure, she was a little jumpy during the battle but I just thought she was excited about the battle!"

Gus shook his head and handed her the report as he responded, "If you don't believe me, this report will show you the truth."

Nina took it, a bit hesitant and read the report. She was sick to her stomach almost instantly.

She shook her head, tears rolling down her face, "No, no! I didn't want to win by drugs! I wanted to win fair and square!"

She dropped the report and started to really cry. Gus was by her side instantly, hugging and holding her, believing that the girl did want a fair fight.

Unknown to anyone in the regular dimension, there was a disturbance in the tenth dimension. For some odd reason, Evil Crash was feeling very sick and forced to come over was the good Nina Cortex, since Evil Coco had killed her uncle. The good Nina looked very different compared to her evil first dimension counterpart. She had no "N" on top of her forehead; her black shoulder length hair was instead very long brown hair. Her ice cold blue eyes were in reality warm chocolate ones. Her school uniform was in reality short sleeved pink dress, white caprice, pink and white slippers. Finally, her skin was a light yellow instead of blue and her hands were normal.

"Tell me why again you asked me here after your sister killed my uncle," the tenth dimension Nina demanded to the tenth dimension Evil Crash.

Evil Crash answered, growling a bit, "Coco did not kill your uncle, Aku-Aku did."

Nina perked up at this and asked, "He did...?"

Evil Crash nodded as he wiped away any tears that were evident and answered, "Yes. He was done with your uncle always trying to stop me so he killed your uncle in our fight by drugging Ee-Lectric. He believed that with your uncle out of the way, Coco could be the great evil leader of our dimension."

Nina pointed out, "Which she is but I just don't understand why you are in this condition."

Evil Crash chuckled and stated, "I would be by her side if she wasn't so dumb and if I wasn't so sick."

Nina had taken Evil Crash's temp as they were talking and saw that he was burning up.

"I don't like this," Nina stated, "You're burning up. What did you eat recently?"

Evil Crash answered, "Nothing, actually. I haven't eaten in an entire year."

"And yet you're still alive," Nina asked, a bit surprised.

Evil Crash nodded as he answered, "Yeah and the last thing I had were two roasted chickens that walked right into my house."

"Roasted chickens walked right into your house," Nina questioned, not liking the sound of this.

Just then, Evil Crash's started to glow a green color and blood started to ooze out. Evil Crash hissed in much pain, freaking Nina out a little but she tried to keep a cool head for the sake of her uncle's best friend/enemy. She knew that's what her uncle would want.

Nina started to ask, "What in the...?"

But that was the last thing she said after the blood and the green liquid consumed her and Evil Crash...

AK1028: Okay, that's the end of chapter 7! Wow, sorry about the delay in the chapters but I've been super busy with college and my caregiving to my mom. Things just have been nuts. At least I get to go to Comic Con tomorrow. That ought to be fun! Anyways, please read and review! And always think outside of the box!