Welcome to Into the Shadows. This is a bit of a DtB and Pokemon mixed together. I want to see how this goes...well, I'll go away now. I don't own DtB or Pokemon.
-Jubilife City, Sinnoh. 2:01 AM-
A man runs on top of the building, leaping to the next, barely stopping to evade the police pursuing him across the city. He throws a cable up into the air to fly up to the building in front of him. The cable wraps itself around a pole, and the man hits a button on his belt to retract the cable. He flies up and away just as an officer kicks down the door behind him.
"Stop right there! Put your hands in the air and face me now!" the man shouts while aiming his 9mm pistol at the soaring man.
The man continues on without a word, determined to make it to his safe house 3 blocks away. Suddenly a helicopter ascends in front of him, spotlight focused on him. The man pauses for a split second, then throws his cable to the building across the street.
'The helicopter's loudspeaker screeches "Give it up Reaper! You're surrounded. The S.W.A.T team is on the roof of the the buildings around you."
Damn, so they thought they could trap me. Well, thanks for revealing their location rookie. Guess I'll have to bash a head or two together to get away.
As the man landed on the roof three S.W.A.T guys jumped up, guns at the ready to kill the Reaper if he made a move at them.
"Make another move and we will cut you down! On the ground! Now!" The "Reaper" stood still, knowing if he got on the ground it would be very difficult to get away without using his power. If he used his power, the police could track him down more easily and he would have to run for even longer...Plan B then. The "Reaper" put his knees on the ground, hands at his side but placed in clear sight to show they were empty.
The three officers approached cautiously. The Reaper was an expert in melee andmartial arts, and they knew it would be nearly impossible to beat him in a one-on-one. He had been doing this for 10 years, Intel spooks claimed. Sadly for them, the Reaper had already made a plan for this scenario. He tensed, knowing this may go wrong. He couldn't read minds after all.
As one of the officers kneeled down and reached out to put his hands behind his back, the Reaper suddenly reached into his coat and pulled out a double-bladed knife, and smashed the man in the face with the ultra-hard steel handle of it.
"Shit! Adams, back up and kill him!" Both men jumped back and brought their machine-guns up, knowing they had him boxed in. However, their bullets didn't slow him at all. Little did they know that the Reaper wore a bulletproof trenchcoat. Reaper looked at one of them, and suddenly jumped to the side out of their aim, and jabbed Adams in the solar plexus. He followed this up with an elbow strike to Adam's knee to keep him down. Adams passed out from the pain.
"Damn!" The last officer decided to try and run for the stairwell where he could have a slight advantage, or hope he showed mercy like he had to other officers. The man chose the latter.
"Please! I have a wife and two kids, I wanna see my daughters grow up and go to college. I want to see them live a life I never could." The Reaper stared at his eyes, looking for any sign of deceit. All he saw was panic and despair. He made his choice.
"I will not kill you, I don't kill police officers. I should tell you that your man Adams will need crutches for a week or two though." The Reaper walked to the roof and looked back at the man.
"I'm not supposed to let you go though. Could you make it look like you knocked me out?" The man took up a fighting stance, even though he knew what was coming would hurt like the devil.
"I suppose so. Your superiors would question why you let me go. Very well, this will hurt a bit but it will be temporary." Reaper pulled out his knife. "I'll hit you as weakly as I can with this in the head. Try and make it look like it hurt."
"Anything better than a broken limb."
"Alrighty then." He lunged at the officer, and pretended to pull his arm back midair to make it look like he was gonna give him a concussion. The knife's handle then hit the man in the side of the head causing him to emit a very slight grunt. The man fell down, pretending to be knocked out.
Reaper then fled the scene, right as backup arrived.
-Later that morning-
"Last night a bomb went off at the Kanto Embassy at 1:55 AM. No one was injured in the blast, and officials said the terrorist was last spotted fighting three police officers on the roof of a hospital. The suspect was wearing a black trench coat, and a white mask with a purple lightning bolt and thin red smile. The Chief of Police said they were close to apprehending him in a press conference this morning."
"Jeez, who would bomb an embassy? Someone trying to start a war?"
"Possibly Gary, but it may also be someone who was angry at the Kanto government. After all, they caused a mess in Sinnoh when the Gate appeared."
"True. Jeez, it's been 10 years since the Gate appeared Gramps...what do Palkia and Dialga have to do with it anyways?"
"Nobody really knows Gary, but I'm sure there is some information that hasn't been released to the public yet."
"And it's been 10 years since anyone last saw Ash..." Both Oaks could remember what happened that day.
-10 Years ago- Pallet Town. Ash has just come home.
"Good to be home isn't it Pikachu?"
"Pika"
"Well, here we are. I hope mom is home, we told her we should be here around now."
As the duo approaches the door, there is an explosion in the backyard.
"What the-Come on Pikachu! Mom could be hurt!" The pair jump the fence and run around to the back, to see a bloody Delia lying on the grass next to a dead old man in a brown trenchcoat.
"Mom! What's going on?"
Whoosh! The second floor of the house catches fire.
"Ash...I have little time left. T-t-the Syndicate did this...they though you would be home. Y-you need to run away...before they kill you too. They want...kill all Aura...users.
"Syndicate? Mom...mom! What the fuck is happening! Aura? Pikachu, go get help!" Pikachu dashes away to the police station down the street, while Ash drags Delia away from the house.
"Flee Ash...go now...and make this...world...a better one...I love you very much son. You'll need to..train...to stay alive..." Her eyes close. Ash feels for a pulse, and finds nothing. Suddenly he starts sobbing, realizing the last of his family is now gone...
"Pikapi!" Pikachu returns. Ash hears sirens getting closer. He must run. He grabs Pikachu, and runs for the woods around Route 1. Whoever did this...will see justice.
And so the adventure begins.
Well...hopefully that ending wasn't too generic. For those who haven't realized, I'm adding a good bit of Darker than Black into this. I didn't feel like putting this in the crossover section for personal reasons. I think it will make the story more interesting...and if it fails then I'll just go back to writing something else.
Now a whole lot of information this chapter, but expect it in the next few...and anybody that's seen DtB knows where this might be headed.
Till next time.