I slowly opened my eyes as I felt rain droplets falling on my head. Great another rainy day at Seattle Washington, one of the best places in the world to me.
I got off of my old bed that I got from a donation center a year or two ago, stretching my tired muscles. Getting dressed in my clothes I walked up to a broken mirror. I had on black and white shoes with blue jeans, a blue shirt with stitch surfing on a wave, two coats, one was red while the other was blue and water resistant. I was five foot eleven and had black and brown spiky short hair. I looked like I have been working out for a little bit. But what really stood out the most was my eyes, they were green with specks of red in some parts with a diamond pattern all around the pupil.
I nodded, accepting my look and walked up to my planning table.
'Good morning Rebecca, you ready to hear my plan?' I mentally said to my best friend Rebecca that is not a person but is actually a crow. Rebecca started hopping back and forth across the table eager to hear the plan I made.
'We are going to steal one special diamond, just one so we can power up this stupid machine that I have been working on for almost 2 years,' "hoping it works." I muttered the last part out loud.
During my life I found that you can use diamonds as a valuable power source and use it to power mostly anything you want. It was pretty amazing when I found this out.
Rebecca walked over to me, jumped onto my shoulder, and bit down on my ear to get my attention. "OW!" I said. It did the trick and I now had a red, painful ear.
'It will work. you worked so hard on it and you promised you parents that you will do it for them.' my parents, died when I was only 12 from a bank robbery. I watched as one of the men shot them both because they weren't doing what he said. Their last words were to live my dream, no matter the cost, and I intend to keep that promise.
"Thanks, Rebecca. No more messing around, we got a diamond to steal." I grabbed my gauntlet I made for this as I walked out of the old warehouse that I used as my home with Rebecca still on my shoulder. We walked for what seemed like hours, each step taking longer than the last. By the time we made it to town, I was already tired from the walk.
"Well here we are, one last time." I said as I walked through the streets of Seattle. I did not stop for anything, I was on a mission.
Since it would look suspicious to everyone, Rebecca flew off my shoulder and followed me to the store with a few of her buddies tagging along.
I entered the store that sold very expensive jewelry that I've always wondered why it is, and walked up to the worker.
"Hello, welcome the Jewelry Corridors how can I help you?" the women asked me, looking bored out of her mind.
"I would like to see your red diamonds please." I calmly told her.
"Right this way." she said in a bored tone. We walked past a few counters with all kinds of expensive items, from rings to necklaces. We eventually arrived to where I wanted to be and she brought out some red diamonds the size of a dime to smaller than a baseball. "Are any of these the ones that you want?" she asked me.
"I would like that one." I pointed to the one smaller than a baseball. she nodded and grabbed a cloth to grab the diamond and put away the others. We walked back to the front of the store and she asked, "That will be 2000 dollars sir."
I grinned and said, "I will be taking that for free ma'am." She was totally confused, and as I said that crows came crashing through the window and flying everywhere in the store. The girl started screaming so loud I thought my ears would bleed.
I grabbed the diamond and bolted out of the store, with Rebecca close behind. "Nice timing." I told her.
'You're welcome' she told me in a proud tone through my mind. The cops should have gotten a call by now and are after me right now.
There was one problem though, we were in the middle of town and it's a long walk from here to the warehouse. So I did the only thing that popped into my head, I broke into a car and started hot-wiring the thing.
I've done this a few times before, making the parts and wiring of the machine, so this isn't that much different.
I suddenly got a small jolt from different wires connecting. "This is totally different than the machine, it wasn't powered!" I shouted to no one.
It was starting to get a little frustrating, I was running out of time and all I got working was the windshield wipers.
I could hear the sirens of the police getting closer and started to panic, connecting a red wire to a blue wire. The roar of the engine started as I gave out a sigh of relief.
The sound of sirens from a cop car speeding towards my location was coming from my right. I got out and turned towards the car and started running at it. The man in the car started to panic, afraid that he would run me over, but what he didn't know was that I had a weapon for this situation. Powering up my gauntlet with a tiny diamond that came from my mother's ring, I pulled my fist back ready to swing. Time seemed to slow down for me, but I didn't question it. The car was one foot away from me, ready to see my doom. I was ready, and I swung my arm into the car.
For a second it seemed like nothing happened, then a shock-wave exploded outward, forcing the car to go spinning in one direction, and me a good three yards. "Ow, that hurt." I groaned as I got up and limped to the car that I started.
Getting comfortable, I shifted the gear of the car to drive and slammed my foot on the peddle. The car sped through the streets and I turned a corner. I looked back to see that three police cars were right behind me.
"Lets see how fast this vehicle can go." I slammed the acceleration as hard as I could, making the car going faster than the cops. I started driving down a hill, and when I couldn't see them I turned right on the exit of town.
"Well, that was easy." I said to no one in particular. I looked at the rear view mirror and saw to my astonishment, a lone police cruiser still chasing me.
"Come on!" I screamed. Then an idea came to my mind. "Alright, you still want to follow? Then I hope you're ready to be a witness." I pretended to acted like I didn't know he/she was there and kept on driving to the old warehouse. I parked the car and jogged into the place, knowing that the officer will follow. I started making preparations to start up the machine. I was about to start it when I heard, "FREEZE! Hands where I can see them!"
I slowly turned around and raised my hands and what I saw made me a little angry inside. The officer that stands before me was six foot four, had a light tan, well trimmed beard, and looked like he is too old for the job he is doing. His name that I know was officer Reece, the man that found me after the robbery and told me that they will find the people that killed my parents. They didn't even get close to find them.
"J-Jake Matthews?" Reece said, utterly shocked.
"What do you want Reece?" I growled angrily, already impatient. Thankfully Rebecca came and landed on my shoulder to try and help me stay calm and relax.
"Where have you been and why did you steal a diamond?" He asked.
"The first question, I have been here. Collecting spare parts to make this machine. Second, I borrowed the diamond to power my machine that will make my dreams become reality. I made a promise to my parents that I will do that. Have you found my parents murderers yet?" I said in a mocking tone.
"Jake, using this machine will not make your parents come back, and no. I did not find them. I have been searching for them for these past few years." He explained with a serious and sad tone in his voice.
I chuckle at the first part. "You think I'm trying to bring my parents back to life? Wrong! I am using this machine to take me to the pokemon world." I explained to him.
Reece's face gave me the look that's saying I'm insane or something like that. "You can't go to the pokemon world, that's impossible."
"Well I am making it possible and will be the only one to go, never to be seen here on this earth again." I stated proudly. "But you have to let me go. Say it is re-paying me for not finding the men that killed my parents." I told him calmly.
Reece gave it some thought, looking at me, to the machine, then back at me. He gave me a slow nod and said, "Alright Jake, I will let you go. But you have to promise me that you will make good decisions throughout your life in that world?" I was actually surprised that he was letting me go just like that.
"I promise." I said to Reece with a serious expression, letting him know that I was meaning it.
He nodded and put the gun back in his holster, showing me that he really meant letting me go. I turned towards the machine when I noticed that I made the machine with a switch on both sides of it. I looked back at Reece sheepishly. "Can you help me out with this?" I asked.
He started laughing at my predicament and walked to one of the switches, me to the other. We both looked at each other and I nodded to signal him to pull the switch. Immediately after they were pulled, the sound of a purr of a engine could be heard throughout the room. Electricity started sparking all around the room. We took cover behind a pile of spare parts and waited there.
After a few minutes of listening to electricity crackling, it immediately stopped and in replace of it, a void like sucking sound was heard. I look around the pile and saw that in front of the machine was a circular red portal, floating a few inches off the ground.
I looked back at Reece and his face showed pure shock and disbelief that there was actually a portal 3 yards away from him. Grabbing his shoulder, I snapped Reece out of his trance. He blinked and looked back at me. "I-it really worked?!" he shakily said. I nodded.
I stood up and held my hand out towards him. He looked at my hand then at my face and back at my hand. Reece grasped my hand firmly and I pulled him up. "Want to help me pack up for this journey I am about to go through?" I asked as I pointed to a table filled with survival gear and stuff from this world that I know will not be in the world I'm going to.
"Y-yeah, sure I'll help you" Reece said as we walked to the table. I grabbed a duffel bag and a camping backpack that I have been saving for this occasion. We were about half way when Reece looked in one of the boxes, "Pokemon cards, really?" Reece looked at me confused.
"One of every Pokemon, just for fun. You can have the others in the box over there if you want." I explained to him as I pointed to the other side of the room with a few boxes. He shrugged his shoulders and placed the box in the duffel bag.
'Took you forever to get a few of them' Rebecca complained as she pecked one of them.
"Sh-shut up!" I didn't mean to say it out loud and so loud. Because of my mistake, Reece is now looking at me like I'm insane.
"Why are you shouting? I didn't say anything." Reece said with authority.
I looked at him like I just remembered something, "oh right I didn't tell you. Well ever since I was born I had this chromosome mutation in the head that made me be able to talk to others telepathically." I said like it was no big deal.
"What? Are you serious? That sounds like it is impossible." He said with disbelief.
'Here is proof' I mentally said to him.
Reece started looking all around him like he was going crazy then looked back at me.
"Incredible." he said in amazement.
"The reason why I didn't tell you or anyone else in the past was that I was afraid that scientists would do experiments on me." I said with a small bit of fear in my voice.
"Oh. So where do you expect to be when you go through the portal, and what do you want to do with the machine?" Reece asked.
I shrugged my shoulders. "Hopefully in the Kalos region, I think that place is the best out of all of them. What to do with the machine? It should be torn apart, never to be used after this" I answered. I actually have no idea if this is going to work or not.
We finally got the last items in the bags, ready to go. "Hey what's that?" Reece asked. I looked down at the table and saw in the middle of the table a little wedding ring with three diamonds placed in a row on top of it, with the middle diamond missing.
"That's my mom's ring." I said sadly.
"Why is one of the diamonds missing?" Reece asked.
Rebecca flew off my shoulder and grabbed the ring with her beak and dropped it into my waiting hand.
"Because that diamond is right here." I said as I pulled off my metallic gauntlet and showed the back of the glove had a small gleaming diamond placed in a power extractor that is in the middle of the wrist part of the gauntlet.
Reece looked at me, surprised clear on his face. "You made that?" He asked. I nodded. "What does it do?"
"It emits a shock-wave strong enough to move a car a few yards, once fully powered with the diamond that's on it." I explained. I looked down at the glove then back at Reece. Taking the diamond off of the gauntlet, I gave the gauntlet to Reece and place the diamond back on the ring. "You're going to need evidence of the criminal that stole the red diamond." I told him.
Reece gave me a look that said to me, seriously? That is no help. "Well what do you want me to do with it?" I asked.
"Keep it, you never know when you're going to need it." Reece said with arms folded across his chest.
"Alright, fine. I'll keep it" I said with slight sass in my tone as I put my glove in my coat pocket. He looked back at me with a smirk. Walking up to me, he put his right hand on my head and started messing my hair up.
"In a way, you are still a kid." I looked at him with a frown. "In a good way." he calmly said as he raised his hands in defense. The way he raised them made me start laughing, him following suit.
"Does the portal have a time limit or is it able to stay like this for hours?" Reece said as he eyed the portal carefully.
"I believe we have 4 and a half more minutes till it starts becoming a black hole." I calmly stated.
The face he gave me was priceless as he started freaking out through panic. "A - a black hole?! You better hurry or the world is going to end! No, not just the world, the entire solar system!" while he was ranting I started to giggle, then I just burst out laughing lying on the ground. "What is so funny? We are going to die soon and your laughing your butt off!" he growled at me.
When I was able to calm down a little, I got up and said, "I w- was just k- kidding about the black hole." Reece gave me a deadpan look.
"REALLY!?" he shouted.
I nodded with a grin on my face, happy that I did a joke after so long.
"Well." he sighed, "you really had me there."
"YES!" I fist-pumped the air. I then started to sweat-drop. "Guess I am still a kid mentally." I said as I rubbed the back of my head.
"Yup." was all Reece said as I put on my backpack and picked up my duffel bag.
I walked up to the opening of the portal but stopped and looked back at Reece. He looked at me with an encouraging face, letting me know that I can do this.
"Wish me luck and farewell Officer Reece" I said with sadness evident in my tone, waving him goodbye.
He waved back and said,"goodbye Jake. When I catch those criminals I will tell them that the child's parents that they killed is now living the life he has always wanted."
I nodded and turned towards the portal.
'Ready Rebecca?' I mentally said to her.
'Ready when you are.' She said with encouragement on my shoulder.
I grinned and looked back at the portal. "Here we go!" I yelled as I went through the portal.