The Return of Betrayal One

Chapter XIV

As the sun rose we find our newly redeemed blunette unable to fall asleep, the visions from earlier that night still haunting her.

"I can't believe Drew did that to Ash" Dawn said to herself in a hushed tone. "I'm so lucky he forgave me, I know I don't deserve it but he actually did. Drew will pay for what he has done."

"Oh wait I almost forgot!" She exclaimed as she pulled out a pokeball and sent out a small blue penguin.

"Piplup!" The little penguin cried as it stretched and let out a yawn.

"Piplup guess what!" Dawn said in an excited manor causing the tiny penguin to speculate as to why his trainer was so happy.

"Ash is back!" She whispered as she let out a fan girl squeal. "I apologized to him Piplup and he forgave me!"

Piplup's eyes opened wide in shock, the raven haired boy that gave her trainer so much joy has finally returned.

"Pip Piplup!" It cried in joy as it leaped into Dawns arms.

"Piplup..." Dawn whispered as the world around her began to fade away as she let herself succumb to sleep.

Time skip: 5 hours time: 9:37

"Pikachu do you think I did the right thing forgiving Dawn?" Ash asked his faithful companion. Ash had his hood pulled over his face as he began to doubt his choice about forgiving Dawn.

"Pika? Pika pika, pi pi chu!" Pikachu said as it rubbed his friends cheek with his own.

Thanks Pikachu" Ash said with a smile hidden from view. "I think I did the right thing, besides now I have a way to get close to them". Ash's mind began to wander and re-visit the past, his hands grew tense and he began to ball them into fists until a the familiar voice of a little girl interrupted his thoughts.

"Hey Ash, where are you going? Serena and Clemmont are looking for you?" Asked Bonnie, she wore a yellow t-shirt accompanied by black shorts. She had her traditional satchel over her shoulder and her best friend poked his little head out of it.

"De de?" Dedenne asked hoping to help out his trainer.

"Sorry Bonnie, I have something I need to take care of. I...need to find something I lost a long time ago." Ash said as his voice began to grow cold.

"Can I come with you? Clemmont said I had to come back when I found you but he said when I did that I had to help him test another one of his inventions!" Bonnie pleaded as she put on a pair of puppy dog eyes hoping the Kanto native wouldn't send her back.

Ash chuckled at the thought of his friends dysfunctional experiments, they always broke one way or another and Bonnie was always the first one to sass the blonde haired inventor.

"Ok Bonnie but first tell me something" Ash said as he continued his statement. "What did Clemmont do this time?l

"He made something he called the magnetrizer 3.2.0" Bonnie said. "It will supposedly absorb the electromagnetic pulses given off by the sun and provide electricity to his other inventions and it will 'guarantee' success".

"I can see why you wanted to get out of there" Ash said as he laughed. "Clemmont always did have fantastic luck with..." Ash started but couldn't keep a straight face and laughed at the thought of something Clemmont made working.

"Ok Ash I get it my either can't make anything that doesn't end up becoming crap" Bonnie pouted.

"Bonnie remember what we talked about, you shouldn't talk like that. Remember every time you a puppy dies." Ash said in a serious yet playful tone.

"Whatever Ash" she replied rolling her eyes.

"Ok Bonnie let's get going, if I'm going to find...that thing then I have to get there before it gets away"

"It's a person isn't it Ash"

"..."

"Don't worry it will be our secret since you saved me from becoming Clemmont's test dummy"

"Thanks lets go."

As Ash and Bonnie arrived at their destination Bonnie began to grow interested in who Ash was looking for.

"Hey Ash why are we at the stadium, what is so important that's here?" Bonnie asked hoping for an answer.

"Someone I need to talk to" Ash said as his face had a look of determination on it. "Why do you ask?"

"Well I mean who are you looking for?" asked Bonnie as she began to grow agitated at Ash dodging the question.

"The winner of the battle." Ash said.

"Ash in case you haven't noticed the battle just started, there is no way of knowing who will win" Bonnie said as she began to grow agitated to a further extent.

"Trust me Bonnie, I know that this guy will win. There is no way he will be eliminated this early, and especially not until we have a battle." Ash said as he began to walk into the entrance.

Ash why didn't we go to the stadium?" Asked Bonnie as she grew confused once again.

"Because we aren't here to watch the battle, we are going to the lockers" Ash answered as he walked into the locker room.

"Why are things never simple with you?" Bonnie asked with a playful hint if sarcasm in her voice.

"Bonnie why don't you just keep your thoughts to yourself" Ash scolded the young girl. "Really one of these days you mouth will get you in a lot of troub-" he said before the television hanging from the ceiling interrupted him.

"Harold's Golurk is unable to battle the winner is Paul Slaid from Veilstone City!"