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Renegade: The Story of Shin

Chapter One: Recognition

"Just where do you think you're going?"

"Wherever the hell I please, why? Are you planning on trying to stop me?"

"If I have to, you know I will."

"… I dare you…"

That was the last exchange between the head scientist of the fusion department, James Hilton and one of his latest subjects, a Raichu. Ever since the escape of a Vulpix, a Growlithe, a Charizard, a Igglybuff, a Jigglypuff, a Smoochum, a Roselia, a Pikachu, a Skitty, a baby Kangaskhan and three unhatched eggs, the Team Rocket headquarters had been stirred up by both everyone wondering where they went and also how they got out. Now, there was another problem on hand for the Rockets. One of Hilton's pet projects had developed self-awareness while out on a mission to track down the escaped group of pokemon.

After finding the group of escapees and battling them along with the other pokemon and their trainers with the Gold Unit, a Ninetails showed up out of nowhere and wiped the team out. One Rocket sacrificed over half of the team just to save his life. As far as the Raichu knew, he was the only surviving pokemon from the Rocket's squad as far as he could remember. During the battle, he noticed how wickedly the Ninetails took out the rest of the pokemon. First the Fearow, then the Kecleon and so on until he was left alone. In his mind, even though he knew he was probably the strongest of the Gold Unit pokemon, deep down he knew that he was way out of his league. If only he wasn't newly transferred for usage for this unit, he might've been let out to join the battle from the get-go… but would things have gone differently?

A few minutes into the fight, he had started to come to terms with just how futile this was. After a few more strikes, the Ninetails nailed him with an intense Flamethrower, sending him into a large rock near the fallen Houndoom.

Everything afterwards was blank to him…

When he awoke, the sense of belonging to Team Rocket had vanished from his mind, anger towards the group of escapees and towards the Rockets is what replaced it, and a desire to cause pain to all who crossed him.

…He would start with the scientist that was responsible for his tests… and he knew just where to find him… His small outpost near a mountain range in Western Ichis.

"You knew what I was walking into, didn't you? You knew that we didn't stand a chance against that type of power, didn't you?" the Raichu asks the professor calmly yet with a hint of anger in his voice.

"…Yes… Yes I knew, I was one of the head scientists in the labs when it and the others were going through the experiments." Hilton responds.

"Then why didn't you tell anyone what that thing could do?! It took all my abilities just to stay alive when that damn Ninetails appeared!"

"I technically don't have to tell anyone anything, unless of course Giovanni says to." Hilton tells him, a smirk spreading across his face which is followed by him releasing a green Drapion, it's eyes were a dark shade of gold, a tell-tale sign that it had been experimented on. "I don't think I need to mention that this one has been …'tampered' with, do I?"

"When I get through with him, you better not be standing the same spot you're in right now…" the Raichu tells Hilton before lunging toward the large scorpion pokemon.

As he flew through the air, the Drapion slid to the right slightly and hit the Raichu with it's left claw, sending him barreling into a few crates in the corner.

"I better not be standing here anymore? How about you worry about Drapion before worrying about me, eh?" Hilton chimes in before laughing mockingly towards him. "Drapion, finish him off quickly so we can toss him out with the rest of the failed garbage…"

"Finish me off?" the Raichu responds while rising back to it's feet, the brown colors on it's fur turning black and it's tail turning a shade of red while the tip of it extends slightly to resemble a blade. After noticing the change in his appearance, he smirks grimly "You need to worry more about how you're going to survive this ordeal."

After a few seconds, the Drapion charges him. The Raichu leaps into the air, nimbly and uses his tail to strike the scorpion pokemon in the back of the head, leaving a long scar up the back of it's head, causing blood to seep down it's back and it to screech in pain before spinning around and swiping at the Raichu unsuccessfully. Finally the Raichu stabs the Drapion in the back with it's tail and Discharges, frying the pokemon inside and out and watches it crumple to the ground afterwards, smoke billowing from the stab wound the tail had left.

"Now… you were say- Ahh!" he starts but is interrupted when Hilton strikes him across the face with a blade before running out of the room frantically.

"You'll see me again, Project Shin! And you won't fair so well when that happens" Hilton calls out from down the hallway of the small facility.

"Grrr… Bastard!" the Raichu yells out while wiping the blood out of his eye and looking around, his vision blurred and tinted red. After a few minutes the bleeding slowed almost to a stop and his vision returned to normal, the strike leaving a vertical scar across his left eye.

"I'll find you… and when I do, you'll wish I would've killed you here and now…"

After leaving the room where he battled the Drapion, the Raichu walks back through the hallway he came through originally on his way to find Hilton. On his way in, he killed everyone and everything that got in his way from scientists to pokemon, it didn't matter. Now on his way out, he looks around to survey his handiwork. Glass broken, bodies all around, papers either burnt up or shredded and computers shorted out. Safe to say that this facility is now shut down.

Before leaving, he stops in front of a mirror to survey the change in his appearance. The brown tips of his hand, the brown strips on his back and the brown tips of his feet had all become black. And lightning bolt-like tip of his tail had become red with the end of it extending roughly 3 inches farther out and with a sharp end to it, as was evident by the damage he did with just his tail on the Drapion.

"So… this is what they did to me, I have to say… I like it…" he whispers to nobody in particular before smashing the mirror with his tail and leaving the small facility.

Upon exiting, he surveys his surroundings to find out if anyone from inside had been able to find their way outside somehow. Luckily for him, there was a person in a lab coat stumbling slowly towards the trees off to the east.

"Well, well, well… What do we have here? A straggler? Trying to get away, I presume?" he mockingly taunts the badly injured scientist who falls to the ground after seeing the Raichu standing a couple feet from him.

"W-what do you want?" the scientist asks, obviously shaken.

After thinking over his options, he decides on a question, "Tell me what you know about this Ninetails…"

"I don't know anything, I was just an assistant!" he responds while slowly pulling himself away from him.

"Don't you lie to me…"

"I swear I'm not, Hilton kept all of the assistants in the dark when it came to the big projects. All I know is that the Ninetails… It's power… It's devastating. When I saw the Vulpix, I had no clue it would turn into that… monst-"

"A Vulpix?" Shin interrupts and thinks back to the fight that he had against the Ninetails. He recalled seeing a Vulpix there beforehand, but paid no heed. Now though, it was making sense… "That one little Vulpix… became the Ninetails mid-battle? How'd I miss something like that?"

While he was thinking in his head about what had happened and the obviousness of the winged Vulpix, the scared scientist was trying to sneak away, hoping that the Raichu wouldn't notice him while being deep in thought. He was roughly about ten feet away when…

"Where the hell are you going…?"

"Gah… I-I'm just an assistant, please don't hurt me!"

"Oh I won't hurt you…" the Raichu replies before turning towards him. "I'm going to kill you."

"N-no! Nooo!" the assistant yells out just before the Raichu lunges towards him and stabs him in the stomach with the tip of his tail.

"Gah….grh…."

"I want to let you in on something, 'Assistant'… I'm not just some nameless Raichu that you find in the bushes…" he starts before beginning to slowly rotate the blade of his tail inside the man's stomach, blood seeping out and around the wound, oozing out around him slowly as the color fades from his face and his eyes begin to slowly close, death creeping up on him.

"From now on, you… and all the other bastards that chose to spend their lives toying with the DNA of pokemon and changing them to… whatever the hell they want… from now on, you'll know me… as Shin." he tells him before sending an electric shock through his tail and zapping the man, killing him instantly.

After a few seconds of looking the assistant over, he pulls his tail out and whips it once to sling the blood off of the tip.

Not really knowing where to head next, he decides to stay put at the facility to plot his next destination… whether to head out after that Vulpix, or find another small facility and dismantle it and hope to find out some clues as to where Hilton would be heading.

"If I decide to go after Hilton, I'll more than likely lose any hopes of finding that Vulpix for the time being. And if I go for the Vulpix, then the same goes for Hilton." he thinks to himself before settling down to sit on a dead body that was laying in the doorway of a room inside the facility. He knew that one way or the other, he'd lose track of one of his targets when he went for the other. He just had to decided which one he wanted to take care of first. After roughly 10 minutes, he nods to himself on a decision.

"Alright…" he starts before rising to his feet. "You're first on my list…"