Author Notes: Alright hey guys! So Jpr123 here and I'd just like to say welcome to another small little fanfiction I'm working on. Now this is a fic based on a strange idea I had, so please don't be too hard on it. This is just a fair warning this story is very dark! It is rated T for a reason read at your own expense. This isn't in the summary but this fic is a AU fic.
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"Sigh... just another fucking day in this damn fucking store," Ash quietly whispered to himself. There he stood in the connivence store that his mind was literally rotting in. There wasn't much to see other than just a few dumb teenagers trying way too hard to act cool.
Now Ash Ketchum wasn't special or anything. He was just a 21 year old young adult. He lived on his own along with his partner pikachu. He had his own house and he had a job that he grudgingly hated. Ash Ketchum was the definition of an average citizen.
Standing next to him was his coworker Brock Boulder. Now these two had originally met in college. The two of them were quite close friends. They could usually rely on one another for help. Brock was the only good thing in Ash's current life, but that didn't matter right now as a mysterious man walked through the front door.
"YOU PUT YOU'RE DAMN HANDS IN THE AIR!" The man yelled. He was wearing a thick leather jacket and a ski mask. Ash could only see his blood shot eyes through the eyes holes that were poked through the mask.
The man pushed a gun up to Ash's forehead. Ash could feel the cold steel press up against his skin. He let out a loud sigh and looked the man in the eyes.
"So what do you want? Money? Women? A blowjob? Anal? Sorry, but we only have money here for you to steal. But Brock over there might be willing to give you a blowjob," Ash calmly said.
"Oh, fuck you man! Yeah sorry but we only have money here," Brock said.
"You know what. I'd be willing to have a threesome, what you say big guy, up for one? Right I understand, you want an orgy, hold on I'll need to call up my mates," Ash casually said.
The man grabbed Ash by the collar of his shirt. "Look here pal! I don't know what your game is, but you see this duffle bag, I WANT ALL THE MONEY IN IT NOW!"
"Yeah sure whatever, here," Ash said. He turned the cash register around and pushed the button to open it up. "Look I'm too lazy to put the money in the bag for you, you can do it yourself right?," Ash looked over to Brock. "Hey buddy I'm going on break cover for me alright,".
"Hey you can count on me!" Brock gladly said. He looked over at the man. He walked around the counter and picked up the duffle back and placed it on the counter. "Look if you're going to be placing large amounts of money into a bag, you don't want to work too hard bending over. Trust me I've learned how to do this while smuggling drugs over the border I'm well experienced in this,".
"Uh... ok," the man said. He was clearly confused.
Meanwhile Ash was out in the parking lot. He walked over to the man's car and opened up the hood. He took a look at the car battery and removed every cord connecting it to the engine. He then closed the hood and pulled out his phone.
"This is 911 please state your emergency," the receptionist said.
"Oh hey, yeah look Pik Wik connivence store is being robbed and the assailant is holding us at gun point, needless to say we can't get out of the building. He doesn't have a car, but he came on a dark blue bicycle if that helps," Ash said.
Ash walked right back into the store, only to find the man leaving with a duffle bag filled to the brim with money. A few minutes later Ash and Brock could hear sirens in the distance. The man came rushing through the door.
"Hey pals my car won't fucking start! Do any of you have a car I can use?" The man quickly said.
"Oh sorry Brock and I don't have cars, but you can use my dark blue bicycle. It's around the back, and don't worry it doesn't have a bike lock or anything like that," Ash said.
The man ran around the back of the building. He found Ash's bike and quickly started going down the road, only to be met with a wall of policemen, needless to say he was quickly apprehended.
Ash headed back to his house, yup that was just another normal day at work. Get there, work for a bit, put up with annoying customers. Get robbed, fool the robbers, and go home, yup just another normal day at work. He opened his front door and instantly got tackled by his pikachu.
"Hey buddy don't worry I know you're hungry. You can just go grab some chips from the table. I don't really care, I'll get your coffee ready," Ash said.
Once Ash finished making his coffee, he poured it down the drain. And he poured the other mug right into pikachu's water bowl. He was just about to go and finish making his dinner of microwavable foods until he heard someone ring his doorbell. This intrigued him, no one has ever rung his doorbell, well not since his mother left him.
Ash walked over to the door and opened it up. There on his front porch he found a yellow envelope. It had a red ribbon messily tied around it, so much so that the envelope had a thick crease.
Ash crouched down and picked up the envelope, he brought it over to his counter top. He took out a pair of scissors. He cut open the envelope and shook out what ever was in it. A red playing card fell out, specifically the Ace of Diamonds. On the card there were three different times and addresses on it.
41 Riley Street 10:00pm - 5:00am
4231 Cold Street 4:30pm - 6:00pm
24 Grifta Street 8:00am - 3:00pm
"Pfftt! Ha this has to be some kind of practical joke, I mean this writing is barely legible. I can hardly read it! And I why only times and streets. Shouldn't there be a date or something?" Ash laughed.
Only one of those times and addresses Ash recognized. 24 Grifta Street was his old high school's address, and the time was how long the school days were. Although the card did peak his curiosity, he left the card on his counter top, and simply went to bed.
The next following days were boring to say the least, but Ash did begin to notice a few things. It was all of a sudden not gradually, but Ash did notice there was someone following him all the way home. This had happened for a few days in a row, the past few days Ash definitely confirmed it. Ash was now normally taking different convoluted routes to his home, but no matter which way he went, the person following Ash would not let up.
It was a Saturday night, and Ash was getting sick and tired of being followed. Just before he was about to go into his house, he turned around to confront the person following him. This was the first time Ash got to get a good look of them. They were wearing a large hat, and a long trench coat hiding any form of obvious gender. Even when they spoke their voice never leaned towards being masculine or feminine.
"Hey look would you quit following me! You're not exactly inconspicuous when you follow me around every corner! Look if you're looking for some free sex you can count me out, I'm not into that shit," Ash said.
"I'm not here for anything, I'm just wondering if you've considered playing cards. Have you Ash? I've heard you're our Ace of Diamonds, have you done you're job yet? You best visit the locations at the right times or else there will be consequences,".
"Ha this has to be a prank, a joke right!? Why the hell would I go to a place I don't even know. Plus these places are simply written on a playing card you can count me out!" Ash yelled.
Ash quickly stormed into his home, he quickly got ready for bed and decided to tuck in for the night. Thoughts ran through his mind, such as.
"Who the fuck does that person think they are! This has to be some elaborate joke from Brock, it just has too be," Ash thought, but without thinking he pulled out his phone and called Brock. The phone rang for a bit, but Brock eventually picked up.
"Hello? Ash is that you?" Brock asked.
"Yeah it's me! You know I can deal with your pranks, but this one is just creepy," Ash said.
"Wait what prank? I haven't done one on you since last September," Brock said.
"You fucking liar! Don't you play the innocent card on me! Look you're the person who put an Ace of Diamonds in my mailbox, and you're the one who's set someone up to follow me home all the time! You know what you can stop this joke now, I fucking hate it!" Ash yelled.
"Ash, are you drunk?" Brock asked.
"What no! You better stop this prank or else!" Ash yelled.
"Look I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, plus I don't even own a deck of playing cards, also my pranks are just simple tricks like a whoopee cushion, anyway goodnight you crazy piece of shit," Brock said.
"That fucker hung up! But he's right Brock doesn't have the mental capacity to make something elaborate." Ash yelled.
Ash looked at his alarm clock and saw that it was 11:00pm. This time curiosity took over, and Ash decided that he would head to 41 Riley Street. He put on his sweater, his jeans. He grabbed his car keys and headed out the door. That's right Ash actually has a car, he just doesn't drive it to work.
He looked up where Riley Street was, and it just so happened to be a few blocks down the road. He headed to the street and slowly pulled up to the house that had a 41 on it. 41 Riley Street was simply a 2 floor house. Ash could see through the kitchen window out of his car window.
"This is a joke, why am I even here? It's not like anything significant will happen," Ash thought. That's when he saw a hand quickly slap against the kitchen window. A girl was shoved into view, and a big ugly man was behind her.
The girl herself had big curly pigtails, she had peach coloured hair and cherry coloured eyes. But Ash didn't expect to see her completely naked, behind her the big ugly man was also naked. The girl's eyes were burning with tears as Ash watch through the safety of his own car, a teenage girl getting raped. The funny thing is he also recognized that girl as one of his regular bitchy customers that came into his store all the time.
Ash quickly covered his mouth as he watched in terror as this girl he only knew by experience was brought down to her knees by one man. He wanted to rush in there and save her, but he didn't know how, his body wouldn't move and there was a massive lump in his throat.
"This can't be happening... this can't be happening... I refuse to believe that this is happening," Ash thought. He watched as the hours passed by until it reached 5:00am, by that point the girl was covered in bodily fluids and completely in tears. She made eye contact with Ash somehow, her lips were moving, but Ash couldn't hear her words. But her lips read "Help me,".
Ash headed back home and quickly walked up to his counter top. He looked at the card and all of its different locations. He quickly jotted them down into his phone, and began to think what his next step was.
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Author Notes: Well what did you think? I'd love to know. Depending on how this first chapter does I might upload the second it's already finished I just want to see how well this first chapter goes.