The Adventures of Ace Trainer Sal: The Johto Chronicles
Prologue
"Monster! Get away from me! Get away!" A glass sitting on the table was hurled through empty space, and a terrified scream tore through the small house nestled among the green hills of Littleroot Town in response. The glass shattered against the doorframe, sending splinters of crystal into the air. A Pokémon cried out, and the glass froze in midair before dropping to the hardwood floor.
"Daddy?" A little girl - barely seven years old- inched her way out from behind the doorframe, her violet eyes wide. An Attack Forme Deoxys stepped in front of the white haired child, the teal and gold tentacles on its right side forming an arm and a hand that it placed in front of the girl, holding her back. "Asterisk, what is it? What's wrong?"
"You!" The blonde haired man who had thrown the glass said, staggering slightly. His breath smelled of alcohol and there was some of it on the teal shirt and gold leather jacket that he wore. He was blind to the girl's presence; he had eyes only for the strangely hued Deoxys in front of him. "This is all you fault! I should have left you for the scientists in Mossdeep when I had the chance! It's your fault she's like this!" The man roared, and the Deoxys opened its vertical mouth and hissed, revealing a bladelike violet tongue and razor sharp teeth.
"No? What do you mean, no?" the child asked the Pokémon. "Why is Daddy angry with you, Asterisk?"
"You've infected her!" the man continued, angrily, and the Deoxys shook its head violently.
"I don't understand but… he says he can't Daddy, that the virus doesn't do things like that." the girl said, moving past the Pokémon, who cried out again in alarm. A blue light surrounded her, stopping her movement. "It's okay Asterisk, its just Daddy. He wouldn't hurt me." Asterisk released his hold on her and the child made her way to her father.
The man stumbled back from the girl, and made his way to a locked cabinet, fumbling with the lock before reaching inside, never taking his terrified eyes off the girl. "I'm sorry I have to do this Sal, but it has to be like this, it's the only way to stop what he's done, it has to stop with you."
"What are you talking about Daddy?" the child asked him.
"Stay right there," the man said as the girl made to come to him. "You're really sick sweetie, Asterisk has made you real sick, and there's only one way to make you better."
The girl looked back at the Pokémon. "Don't be silly Asterisk, Daddy wouldn't lie to me." She looked to her father. "I'm not sick Daddy, I feel fine. But we can wait for Mommy to get back from the store-"
"No, I have to help you now - we can't wait for anybody, otherwise other people would get sick too." The man's voice was slurred and his hands were behind his back, out of the child's view. There was a loud click. The screen door creaked as it opened, and there was the sound of someone fumbling at the lock.
"Cyto? A little help here, please?" A platinum blonde haired woman came into the house, her back to the scene before her as she fumbled with the door and the grocery bags in her arm. The man moved suddenly, and the Deoxys cried out, causing the woman to turn around.
The child's mother screamed, groceries falling to the floor as Cyto aimed a handgun at the child, firing a single shot - in a flash of white light, Asterisk had moved into the bullet's path using Extremespeed. "Cyto!" The woman rushed at him - the man continued to fire at the Deoxys, until the Pokémon fell to the ground, the violet sphere in his chest glowingly dimly. The gun clattered to the floor as Cyto turned and ran. Dark purple blood pooled onto the hardwood, and some had splattered onto the white wall.
"Asterisk! " the child screamed, and threw her tiny arms around one of the Pokémon's now limp tentacles, the dark blood staining her clean white sundress. She shoved against the Deoxys' side, but the Pokémon failed to move. Her mother scooped her up into her arms and carried her daughter away from the terrible scene. In moments, she was on the phone with law enforcement, and was so engrossed with her conversation that she failed to notice the Deoxys rise up and come behind her.
As she hung up the phone, it tapped her on the shoulder with a teal tendril. The woman gasped as the blood-covered but otherwise unhurt Pokémon stood before her for a moment before drifting out the door. "Asterisk! " Sal shouted, and the child ran after the Pokémon. "Asterisk! " The girl cried out as the Deoxys rocketed into the air, and her mother came, throwing her arms around her child as Sal's eyes glowed bright blue. "Don't go!" the child cried, but the Pokémon was gone.