A/N Who turned off the lights?

Yeah, the narrative's fucked on this chapter. Couldn't really think of a better way to think about it. In this chapter, Italics define another character's perspective. Guess who... But, coincidentally, Italics also reflect sounds and thoughts, but I hope it will be clear which means which. Please note that this chapter contains a brief depiction of rape. Please do not view this chapter if you view this as offensive.This was sort of an experiment in narrative and building tension and suspense. Please review and tell me if this is a good tension-builder! Thanks for reading!

Another day, Another dawn. Alex gently woke up, and tried to roll off his bed. but he didn't realize he was sleeping on the top layer and almost fell off. He went over the edge but ended up recovering himself by grabbing onto the top bar and climbing down. The Lucario was evidently awake and was quietly snickering to himself. When he saw Alex looking at him, he shrivelled and gave him a apologetic look.

Where is it? My pet?

Landing on the ground with pretty much no noise, Alex said, "You don't need to be afraid, lucario. I'm not going to hurt you. I don't know where you came from, or what they did to you, whoever or whatever they are, but you're safe here. An equal, of sorts." the Lucario smiled somewhat.

Those tracks..Boots? A human?

Lucario now gets up off of the bed, standing next to Alex. "Do you feel well enough to help?" Alex said. the Lucario eagerly nodded. "Well, that floor won't scrub itself!" Alex joked, laughing to himself. the Lucario jumped at this and started looking for a mop. "That was a joke, Lucario.. One of your ribs is probably fractured from that massive bruise on your chest. You could come along with me on the patrol, I guess. There's nothing here of any danger now." the Lucario nodded.

TWO slaves ... That'd be nice, very nice, just one just gets a bit... tired.. after a while..

"Do you want some coffee?" Alex asked. The Lucario didn't seem to know what coffee was. "It's nice," Alex says, and got two black mugs out. "There's no more of the... 'proper' coffee left anymore, so we'll have to make do with Instant.." Alex thinks to himself. A rather loud kettle whistle later which seemed to hurt the Lucario's sensitive easrs, which Alex apologised for pretty quickly. The result of this was two delicious, steaming mugs of coffee. He gave one mug to the Lucario who downed it pretty quickly. He seemed to like it. "I guess you like it, huh?" Alex said, quietly sipping away at his.

Feeding it coffee? Almost as if he sees the mongrel as.. human?

I'll enjoy breaking him in..

A while later, Alex had finished. "There are a lot of things that I have to do, and most of them I didn't really have time to do because I found you.." the Lucario's ears dropped and he looked a bit embarrassed. "Don't worry, I'll be fine. With two people, it'll be faster, right?" Alex said. The Lucario looked outside. He looked quite... at unease, but he seemed to shrug it off.

The Lucario followed Alex outside on his patrol. Alex was just going up to the Vantage point to see if there was anyone nearby, and the Lucario followed him. Alex heard another twig snap right behind him and before he knew it, he felt a sharp pain in his back and his world went black.

At hearing this noise, the Lucario jumped. And then he saw him. His captor. And worse..

This shocked the Lucario into silence and he just stood there, scared to death. The kidnapper just looked on, smiling to the Lucario. "I'm very dissapointed in you, slave, running away like that." the desperation started to build in the Lucario, leading the Lucario's subconcious to shout, "Alex! Help!" over Aura. Aura is much like talking. When not refined, everyone in a certain area can hear it, but when it is trained, you can talk one-to-one.

The kidnapper smiled evilly. "You can talk? good, good." He started to walk towards the scared canine and tried to grab his arm. the Lucario tried to resist with a Force palm but the kidnapper kneed the lucario in the crotch before the attack was fully charged. the Lucario doubled over and fell over in pain, but the kidnapper tried to wrench him back up to his feet through his elbow.

Alex! Help!

The words echoed through Alex's unconcious mind, which disturbed him enough to awaken him. He was quite dazed still but he could see what was going on. Alex moved his hand down to his jacket to see if he had had the good sense to put his knife there.

Turns out, he did. He got a hold of the handle of the knife. He held it in his hand. It felt weighty, the equivalent of a army-issue knife. It had a hook on the edge of the handle, which must be for mounting it to something. Despite the searing pain in his back he slowly moved towards the kidnapper. He had moved his trousers down and looked like he was forcing the Lucario's head into his crotch.

Alex was disgusted at this and started to move forward. He was just behind the kidnapper when he seemed to notice him. He moved his head around but then Alex made a split second descision and sunk the knife directly into the spinal column, removing the connection of the head to the spine, killing him instantly. The Lucario hadn't realized what happened apart from his arms suddenly went limp and his body started falling toward him. He made a whimper and tried to push the now dead weight off of him. Alex helped move the body, despite being in such pain.

The Lucario was somewhat calmed by sight of Alex, but then he saw the body. With the knife sticking out of the back, completely hilted. The Lucario gasped and crawled away in panic. Alex tried to reassure the Lucario, but the lucario simply shouted over Aura, "Get away!"

It was then that Alex realized something.

Lucario could..speak?

"It's okay, Lucario.. Please don't panic. He's dead. You don't have to worry anymore." Alex said, giving the Lucario his hand to help him up. The Lucario took his hand, and Alex helped him up.

"...Thanks.." the Lucario said, looking away, almost as if in shame. Alex placed a hand on his shoulder. "You don't need to be ashamed. It's okay." Alex says. The Lucario then does something unexpected and then hugs Alex. Alex could feel the Lucario's warm fur and his tearstained muzzle pressing onto his shoulder. "Thank you..." he says in a weak voice. It was then, that Alex realized that Alex didn't have a chest spike. Or any other spikes, for that matter. Alex didn't broach the subject as he guessed that the spikes were pretty important in Lucario culture.

"We should go home.. we'll be alright there. The rest of my- our, jobs can wait." Alex says, leading the Lucario home by holding his hand. When they got home, the Lucario sat down on the sofa and looked pretty..disturbed, to say the least. His face was buried in his hands.

Alex said, "I'll make some coffee, hm?" The Lucario nodded and smiled somewhat.

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Hoenn News. The lastest info, all the time.

"Today, we are interviewing a professional geologist to explain why there have been no signals from Kanto in over two weeks."

"So, Jason, Why do you think that there have been no signals, ships, or planes from Kanto?"

"Well, Sarah, there are many things that could influence this. There are natural occurences from the sun that can cause a E.M.P, or ElectroMagnetic Pulse, that could fry circuitry. This has only happened once, however, in Orre. In fact, Orre still has not fully recovered from that disaster."

"But.. admittedly, the greatest possibility is in fact that Team Rocket has finally succeeded in taking over the Region."

Sarah is taken aback.

"That certainly does seem like the most likely... Is it true that the Hoenn National Defence Alliance, or HNDA for short, has been scanning Kanto for any motion detected?"

"Yes, this is true. The way that we do it is that the satellite will detect any motion and then refer it over to a human to judge if it's worth investigating."

"Have you found any leads?"

"I'm authorized to say that unfortunately we have not."

"Are the searches complete?"

"Far from it. We've only completed a few cities, towns, or routes. But from what we see now, the entirety of Kanto has just...dissapeared. the Buildings are there. The cars are there. Everything's there. But no people, or Pokemon. It's eerie."

"Do you have a estimated time of completion for the search?"

"A few weeks or so. We are currently in progress of organizing evacuation helicopters for those who may have survived."

"That's all the time we have, Jason. This was Hoenn News. The lastest info, All the time."

A/N: Well, well. Hope ye all enjoyed it. Next chapter is next month, but earlier if there's enough demand.