A mother Espeon and her three young Espeon and a young, strange pokémon run through the forest at night trying to escape from something, the rain falls down hard on them, one of the young gives out a slight cry as it trips and slides on the wet grass covered ground. The mother stops and picks her young up by the neck softly with her mouth and rests it on the ground, the young looks up at it's mother with a sense of satisfaction, but also with some sadness in its crimson eyes, as if it didn't want her to help it. The mother continues to run, the young follow close behind, the three young Espeon glare at the other pokémon disdainfully as they run beside it. After about a half hour of running, the mother and her young stop in a clearing, the mother looks around, sensing that something is nearby. The mother rears back her head, as do the young Espeon and lets out a soothing cry, something like a song, the pokémon tries to do what the Espeon are doing, but only lets out a tortureous cry that causes the four Espeon to stop and stare at it, shocked. The strange pokémon lowers its head, and moans. Tears form in its eyes, it whimpers.
Suddenly, the clearing illuminates with a dozen lights. The Espeon shreik and run away, leaving the strange pokémon paralyzed in fear. Voices of men fill its ears, "What's that thing?" one of the men says. "I dunno Lar, I've never seen a pokémon like that before." another says, "Looks kind of... freakish, huh?". The pokémon stands about one foot tall, its head about the size of a football, black crests around its eyes, its tail measured about the same size of its body with two black blades growing out of it, its mouth beak-like, claws growing from out of of its three fingers, its feet like that that of the cat pokémon Mewtwo, its dark grey skin reflecting the light of the spotlights pointed at it. "Hey Albert, get the restraining tools." says another man.
"Why?"
"This pokémon has never been seen before. Besides, maybe we can actually get money from THIS find!"
"Okay..."
The pokémon looks around, noticing that five men are approaching it slowly, obviously not trying to startle it, it cries out, trying to call the mother back. The men hold their ears, giving it a chance to flee. It dashes off, into the forest. Lar chases after it with a gun, it looks back at him and cries out again in fear, running faster. It hears the slight sound of gunfire and feels something poke into its arm with some fluid spilling into its veins. It instanly feels sluggish, as if its body had turned to stone, also starting to feel tired. It drops to the ground face first. "All right!" says one of the men.
"You got it, Lar?" asks another man.
"Yeah, faster little bugger, though."
"At least you got it, right?"
"Yeah..." He fastens a small chain around its neck, with an odd symbol-like thing at the end. And places it gently in containment capsule. Bringing it to a truck. "All right! Pack the equipment up! We're going back to Saffron!" he orders the other men and steps into the truck, resting the capsule beside him on the passanger's seat and drives away. The Espeon watch it drive away, a tear forms in the eye of the mother Espeon.
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The truck stops in the front of a huge building in Saffron City, a sign in front of it reads 'Silph Co.'. The man gets out of the car, taking the capsule off of the seat and walks into the building. "Hi Lar!" a cute receptionist says to him from behind the reception desk. "Oh, hey Ryoko."
"Whatcha got there?"
"Just a pokémon I found on another search."
"Can I see? I bet it's cute!"
"Sure, I can't see what harm it can do." He opens the capsule, showing the pokémon he caught.
A look of disgust fills the girl's face, "You caught that thing? It's.... ugly!"
"C'mon Ryoko, it's a pokémon never seen before."
"I don't care, Lar... it's just.... wrong looking!" she smacks it away, the capsule falls to the ground, Lar catches it.
"Ryoko... this is a rare specimen... be careful...."
"Okay..."
Lar walks away from Ryoko and
to the elevator. He takes the elevator to the research floor, stepping
off. "Ah, Lar!" says a young man of about twenty-nine years old,
"You have come back. Did you bring a specimen?". "Yeah,"
Lar
answers, "I got one..."
"Well? What is it?"
"This..." he shows the young man the capsule and opens it.
An expression of shock overcomes his face, "What the...? What is that?"
"I don't know."
"Hm..... I will need to examine this..."
"Okay, here." He hands the capsule to the young man, "Take good care of it, okay?"
"Don't worry, I will." He takes the capsule from him, and walks into his research lab...
