*Author's Note- This is my second fanfiction and it's a sequel to my first fanfiction, The Very Best Like No One Ever Was, this takes place sometime during Black & White not sure when, there's not a specific time like in the prequel. I am currently fourteen now but I was thirteen when I wrote the prequel to this story. So, I hope if you enjoyed the first story that you'll like this just as much or better and I hope my writing has improved at least a little bit from the time I wrote the other story so PLEASE review I 3 feedback so thanks to all who take the time to give any feedback whatever you have to say is much appreciated ^_^ Also, as well as in the prequel this story contains some references from Pokémon Coliseum and XD Gale of Darkness I didn't make the Orre locations up the only made up location is Kentswood Town. SO this won't make any sense (well maybe a little) but it is highly recommended that you read the prequel (and review it please!) So thanks so much and please enjoy!

Prologue

It was four years before Ash Ketchum was born and about two years before Delia met Red Ketchum. Delia was a student for Professor Oak at his lab with another young man named Spencer Hale who was a sum older than she. It was a warm, slightly humid and sticky summer evening in the quiet cheerful town of Pallet the sun was just setting and set gorgeous scenery for the quaint little town. Delia's work day had just finished up as she walked home down the unpaved rural road of Pallet Town to her home a boy scurried past her and without watching where he was going slammed into her and knocked her off her feet.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, are you alright? Let me help you up." he said extending his hand to assist Delia up.

"That's okay, I'm fine, don't worry about it everyone has a bad day." She said with a smile.

"Where are my manners, I'm Giovanni, what's your name?" Giovanni said introducing himself.

"Hello, Giovanni, I'm Delia." she replied.

"Why don't I walk you home?" Giovanni said.

"Okay, I'd appreciate it." Delia agreed. They walked awhile making a casual conversation.

"So are you a Pokémon trainer?" Delia asked.

"Sort of... but my Mom says it's a waste of time I don't travel but I do have some Pokémon." Giovanni explained.

"I'm studying to become a researcher with Professor Oak I wanted to be a trainer but, back when my Mom was alive she insisted I take over her restaurant but when she passed on and the restaurant went into foreclosure I wanted more than to just train Pokémon, I wanted to learn about them so here I am." She explained. "So what about you're parents?" Delia asked as Giovanni winced.

"Um...my Dad passed away a long time ago and my mom...well she, ugh, likes um, being in charge of things you could say. She's actually the reason why I was running." Giovanni responded.

"Why, what she do? Well, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to I was just curious." Delia pestered.

"I'd rather not, I'm sorry." he replied with a sigh.

"That's okay I was being nosey, I hardly know you, I'm sorry." Delia said as they reached her home.

"Nah, I'm sorry for running into you." Giovanni smiled.

"Here's my place, see you around, I hope!" Delia said as she walked toward her house.

"Yeah, maybe I'll stop by Oak's tomorrow!" Giovanni called.

"Okay, I'd like that, bye!" She said as they parted and Delia walked into her house and leaned up against the door and giggled to herself. Giovanni however didn't get off as easily. His stomach was in turmoil as his heart raced he knew his mother was looking for him and when she found him he'd be lucky to make it out alive. A tall woman with broad shoulders was staggering across Pallet grabbing people by the collars screaming in their face asking of her son. Giovanni saw her and fled but it was too late.

"There you are, you worthless little piece of garbage get your butt over here." She screamed as Giovanni slowly approached his mother, he was a good head taller than her but that didn't matter he still was extremely demoralized by her, along with the rest of the region.

Giovanni gulped before hazarding out a response. "Hey, Mom..."

"I told you to never ever run off like that, didn't I? Well answer me you little nothing, DIDN'T I?" she screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Yes, yes a hundred times, I'm sorry, please don't kill me!" Giovanni shouted in fear.

"Kill you? I do need an heir, you, moron, Christ; you're just like your father, an idiot."

"Dad wasn't an idiot, you are." Giovanni vigilantly stood up to his mother for the first time.

"How dare you! You know why I'm angry, you little brat."

"Yes, and I also know why Dad disappeared." Giovanni dared to say what he's known for years.

"What're you talking about?" she said in a phony oblivious voice.

"I know you killed him because he refused to help you with Team Rocket, I've known it since I was ten. You acted upset to avoid the suspicion of the government. You are an exceptional, adept liar and I know it but, you can't fool me I've learned to discern your stupid lies" Giovanni said accusatively.

"Shut up, about Team Rocket, you whiney little know-it-all! People could be listening you imbecile. You will run Team Rocket one day and you will help me, I am your mother I know all of your weaknesses, I know you have an obsession with money, it'll come back to bite you, my son, you'll see." she said sinisterly.

"No, never! I'll never be as sick and twisted as you are, go home I'm never gonna live with you ever again I'm sixteen I can fend for myself I'm sick of you abusing me! I wish dad was still here..." Giovanni shouted.

"Fine good riddance one less mouth to feed adios y-" she said before being interrupted.

"One less mouth to feed? You never fed me EVER look at me, I'm skin and bones!" Giovanni shouted.

"Whatever, I don't need you until I die then you'll take over the business as planned, and you'll want to, I know it. I don't care if you have the worst life in the history of mankind so long as you don't die, and don't expect me to visit or check up on you, you ungrateful piece of crap, I'm done!" Giovanni's mother screamed as she marched off with her head held high back to Team Rocket Headquarters. Giovanni felt a sting of neglect but a joy of relief all at once as he now wondered where on earth he'd go for the night when he had suddenly remembered what Delia had told him about Professor Oak, so he tried for his laboratory.

He knocked on the door as Oak came to get it. "Hi, how do you do?" Giovanni said, smiling broadly.

"Hello, can I help you?" Oak replied, puzzled.

"I've got no money and no where to go but, a friend of mine said you let people board here on the house." Giovanni said.

"Well, I guess..." Oak agreed awkwardly.

"Gee, thanks mister, I owe you one!" Giovanni said, plopping himself down on the couch in the main lobby. Meanwhile, Giovanni's mother had entered her HQ as all the TR grunts saluted her.

"Madame Boss, we have just stolen all of the Pokémon in Saffron City." a grunt reported.

"Excellent, proceed as planed." Madame Boss said, while grinning atrociously. A month or so passed and Team Rocket became more widespread and wealthier as Giovanni caught up with Delia and they began dating. It was one quiet night, Giovanni had taken Delia to the Cerulean Cape for their "monthiversary". She leaned her head on his shoulder and wrapped her arms in his.

"I'm really glad you bumped into me that day, y'know." Delia said with a bright smile.

"Me too, you're the best thing that ever happened to me before you I had no life, no one cared." Giovanni said.

"Giovanni... what's with... never mind, forget it." Delia began.

"No, what is it?" he insisted.

"No, no, I answered my own question, really it's nothing." she lied, she was desperate to know what was going on his life that left him so miserable and pessimistic about everything but, she was terrified to ask, to lose him.

"Delia?"

"Yeah."

"I love you." Giovanni got out, holding his breath hoping Delia would reply the same.

"I love you too, Gio." She said as their romantic evening continued into the night until he walked her home. After dropping his girlfriend off a Team Rocket grunt came dashing up to Giovanni with a dabble of fear gleaming in his eyes.

"Giovanni, I hate to be the one to notify you of this but, it's your mother, she's been shot, in Saffron you have to come quickly." the grunt said nervously but Giovanni just looked up with a satisfied look on his face.

"Alright, I'll go." Giovanni said indifferently as he followed the grunt on to a private jet with the Team Rocket initials on it and they flew off to Saffron to say their final farewells to Madame Boss. They reached the hospital and went into the room where Madame Boss was dying slowly, not a single soul who cared, not even her son.

"Mother?" Giovanni said in a tone of greeting.

"Giovanni, my pride and joy!" she said with a fake affection to show to the other grunts so when she passed on they'd help convince Giovanni into it.

"Oh, I'm sure... So what happened to you someone finally snap at you, I'm just surprised it wasn't me." Giovanni said apathetically.

"Oh, sweetie stop hiding your hurt, come and give your old, dying, mommy a hug goodbye." She said wickedly.

"Ew, No, you'll probably stick a knife in my back and say gotcha! Or something twisted like that, you've stabbed me enough that I caught on to the whole "Mommy's sorry give me a hug" act." Giovanni refused as the nurses and doctors looked at him like he was a gyrados on a rampage.

"Giovanni, dear, come sit by your old mother, now... QUICKLY, I'M FADING!" She said through her clenched teeth in frustration, she didn't even seem to upset that she was about to die, it was the strangest thing. Giovanni reluctantly sat on her death bed and his mother held his hand and slipped a piece of paper in his hand.

"Don't read this until I'm dead don't worry, it won't take long." she commanded as Giovanni exited the room and flew back to Pallet and when he got back to Oak's he read the slip of paper, disobediently. It read:

Look, Giovanni,

I know you hate me, and I couldn't care less about you, we both know that no point in denying it or lying about it but, I still want Team Rocket under the family's control, to thrive in prosperity. I thought you'd like to know that the company is worth 2.6 billion dollars as of this year and it's all yours to expand on, think about the possibilities. ~Sincerely, Your Mother, goodbye my son.

Giovanni read it over and over again but couldn't fathom the amount of money which would soon belong to him he couldn't help it, he was taking up the offer. The next morning arrived and Giovanni awoke from a soundless sleep and saw Professor Oak on the phone with a face of dismay.

"Giovanni, I'm sorry to tell you but I'm afraid that overnight-" Oak began.

"Mom's gone, right." Giovanni said.

"I'm terribly sorry." Oak said sadly but Giovanni just shrugged lethargically and left the lab leaving Oak stunned at his wretched reaction. Giovanni then went to Saffron to sign off on the will and all the rights documents and took leading Team Rocket head-on and became addicted. After, his mother's funeral, which only he, Delia and a couple of Team Rocket Grunts attended he caught up with Delia and started to talk.

"Gio, are you alright?" Delia asked, foggy eyed.

"Yeah, I'm good." He said apathetically.

"Well, I thought if you need someone to help you through this I'll always be at your side." She said sadly, holding Giovanni's hand.

"Thanks, Delia. Well, I gotta be going now I have stuff to catch up on, bye." Giovanni said as he kissed Delia's cheek and dashed off back to TR HQ to obsessively reign over the organization. Giovanni spent two weeks relentlessly running the organization spending day-after-day recruiting grunts to each town and city throughout the region to steal all Pokémon and sell them at the market or enhance their power at HQ. And since he hadn't seen Delia at all and she was blissfully unaware of her boyfriend's new avocation.

"Sir, telephone for you." The grunt told his 16-year-old boss.

"Who is it don't they know I'm busy!" He shouted, uncharacteristically.

"She says her name is Delia and she wants to talk now."

"Oh, send the phone right in." Giovanni completely forgot about his girlfriend and was now feeling guilty, he had to break the news to her but, when?

"Giovanni, I haven't heard from you in weeks, what is going on!" Delia demanded.

"Delia, I can explain everything meet me at Pewter City museum tonight at seven okay, I'll tell you everything that's happened okay? And don't get worried or anything, it's good news, I'm not breaking up with you or anything I've just gotten preoccupied." Giovanni said.

"Oh, okay, see you then." she said hanging up the phone. Giovanni flew his private jet out to Pewter for his date and then entered the museum to find Delia already there in a stunning white dress.

"Hello, there, don't you look pretty tonight? I am one lucky man." Giovanni complimented.

"Oh, thank you, Gio, and you sure are!" Delia exclaimed as Giovanni bought them two museum passes so they could browse the galleria and discuss matters freely.

"Delia, I have superb news for us." Giovanni said as his face lit up with a smile.

"What is it!" Delia exclaimed elatedly in anticipation.

"You know Team Rocket, right?" Giovanni said excitedly.

"Ew, yes, they're awful what did you shut them down." Delia rebutted.

"No... Why would you want something like that?" Giovanni remarked.

"Because they're all jerks and thieves?" Delia said becoming angry. "Where is this going!"

"It's my company I own it, it was mine after mother died. I'm a billionaire, Delia and I want to share it with you." Giovanni explained.

"Forget it! I can't believe you my own boyfriend runs that rotten Team Rocket! You get rid of that Team Rocket nonsense or you'll lose me." Delia shouted.

"No way, I won't give up all that money!" Giovanni said stubbornly.

"It's TR or me."

"Then I guess this is goodbye."

"Giovanni? How could you!"

"Get out, I never want to see you again, you've betrayed me you're just like my mother..."

"Good, I don't want to get up in the likes of a crook like you anyway I'll replace you in a second with an honest man who cares more about me than money you selfish jerk, you're the one who's like your mom, not me. You are so selfish, Giovanni! I love you and all you care about is money!"

"Delia, that isn't true, please don't leave me!" Giovanni begged.

"I already told you, it's Team Rocket or me, I don't want to have anything to do with something as ruthless as Team Rocket." Delia said demandingly.

"Delia, I can't give up all that money, that would be foolish and you know it, think of the life we could have together, Delia, someday I'd like to marry you and we could run it together! Think of it!" Giovanni exclaimed.

"What, so you're asking me to be your partner in crime?" Delia said, appalled at the suggestion. "Forget it, we're done, you can't even give up Team Rocket, for me that show's how much you love me. It's over." Delia declared.

"No, Delia...please." Giovanni muttered, heartbroken.

"And you better stay away from me or else." Delia stressed leaving a threat as she stormed off and they never contacted since, Delia married Red and that was the end of them they hadn't seen each other in nearly a decade in a half that is until now...