Hello my faithful readers. I know that this EXTREMLY overdue and I want to apologize for making you wait so long for chapter 2 but I promise never to keep you waiting this long ever again. From now on the longest I will update a story at the max is a month. What had happen was a major writers block that I tried to tackle but after a few weeks without an Idea I gave up for I while and in time I eventually forgot about my story and then a few days ago I had the key to finishing chapter 2. Now this chapter may not be as long as the last one but I will be updating this story more frequently and this is my first story I have ever published so please forgive me. Anyway, I have dragged this on long enough so let's get on with "to be the last chapter 2: a glimpse of the past"
Belle pauses the TV as Bo slowly slumps back down into the couch and puts his face in his hands. Belle sits beside him and places her hand on his shoulder
"look I know you don't like being stuck in here all the time and you want to go out into the world again but there is no way we could afford the Ninten-Bot so you'll just have stay here ok?"
Belle embraces Bo in a loving hug to ease his sadness; he returns the hug and for the moment his sadness fades but it still clings in his heart he feigns a smile
"Ok Belle I'll stay here where it's safe…"
He gets up and begins to head to the kitchen and stops in the doorway
"… I think I'll start on dinner now if that's alright. If you need anything just shout"
As he turns to enter the kitchen Belle gets up from the couch
"Bo…are you going to be ok?"
He looks back and replies with a false smile
"Of course Belle, I'm alright."
He closes the door behind him as he enters the kitchen. Belle sighs and sinks into the couch and begins to think
"Poor Bo, even though he says he is ok I can feel that he is really heartbroken. Of course I don't blame him, he has gone through a lot in short amount of time. He watched his family as they painfully transformed into Pokémon and then they tried to attack him. I haven't seen this hopeless since the day he found what happened to the rest of the world…"
We flash back 4 months ago Bo is running through a dense forest with Belle (a kirlia at this point in time) on his back, sleeping from having to battle several Pokémon on the way. They have escaped the Pokémon but are exhausted from the long and perilous journey. They are in search of a safe place that won't be found by anyone, a place that was revealed to him by a good friend who sacrificed his humanity for their safety. He was a former scientist named Jacob crow. He was one of the scientists on the Pokémon research team before the outbreak but we will get to him later. After escaping the horde of Pokémon Bo pulled out the map given to him by Jacob and began to pinpoint their exact location to find the entrance to the secret laboratory. This lab was used to research the Pokérus virus but there just enough time to fully understand it and develop a cure. However this information was unknown to Bo or Belle. All they knew was that the lab was used to research Pokémon and it was a safe secluded place to live. After losing the horde of Pokemon, Bo stops to take a breather and check on belle. "Good she still asleep..." he puts belle down by a tree and pulls out a map of the forest that Jacob gave them and begins to search for the secret entrance to their new home.
"...Alright, according to the map the entrance is in this vicinity. Now, where is that odd tree he told me to look out for? He begins to search and inspect each and every tree for the sign of a Pokeball insignia anywhere but after an hour of searching he grows weary and slumps down next to belle tired and exhausted. Belle begins to stir as she feels the new warmth that is near her she instinctively clings to the new found heat not realizing its Bo. As she snuggles up to Bo with a warm smile on her face Bo to smiles and puts his arm around her and holds her close. Bo then looks up to the canopy of trees, as he gazes at the light that pours through the roof of the forest he begins to think to himself.
"Man, I have been searching high and low for that stupid insignia and still haven't found it yet. If I can't find the tree, we won't last for more than a few days. Our supplies are nearly exhausted and we will either be caught by the Pokemon horde or we will die of starvation..."
He looks to Belle still cuddling him in her sleep
"... if I can't find the tree then I will have no choice but to cut myself with her horn. I don't care how painful it is, nothing is more painful than seeing her suffer. She is my best friend and I would do anything for her, even if that means I have to sacrifice myself."
She begins to whimper as she starts to have a nightmare Bo sees this and strokes her head to comfort her. She begins to relax as the nightmare turns back into a sweet dream. Bo smiles knowing that her nightmare is gone and has been replaced with a sweet dream. Out of impulse he kisses her head and accidentally ends up waking her up. As she continues to hold on to Bo's waist her eyes begin to open and she starts to realize that she has been snuggling Bo the entire time she has been asleep. Her face gleams with joy knowing he is still here, still alive, still human. Her nightmare was an intense vision of a possible future where Bo underwent the transformation process and died. It was a thing that frightened her the most after she witnessed a few cases where humans killed themselves during mid transformation to stop the pain leaving a horribly mutated corpse and 2 people who died after fully transforming. It's the reason Belle made Bo promise that he wouldn't purposely infect himself with the pokerus virus. She quickly banishes that horrible nightmare to the back of her mind and enjoys being in Bo's embrace. Bo smiles warmly knowing Belle is ok.
"Good morning sleepy head. You have a good nap?" she smiles back and tightens her grip
"Yup! Did you find our new home?"
He sighs.
"No not yet, I've looked everywhere for the tree that leads to the entrance but I have looked at all the trees and none of them have the Pokeball insignia"
Belle gets up and begins to look around the tree
"Hey Bo what's an insignia?"
"It's an emblem or a symbol"
"You mean this thing?"
Bo gets up and goes to where Belle is pointing and he couldn't believe it. Its was the Pokeball insignia that he spent nearly an hour trying to find and it was literally the first tree he went to but he didn't even check it for insignia.
Bo slaps his forehead and sighs
"I am such a fucking idiot."
Belle giggles as Bo turns the Pokeball insignia to the side. The insignia opens up to reveal a keyhole. Bo uses the key he got from Jacob to open the secret passage. Then the tree opened up to reveal a hidden elevator Bo and Belle enter the elevator and the doors close and the tree goes back to original form. Inside the elevator Bo scrolls down the floors
"Lets see...tech lab, security room, computer room, medical room, supply room, laboratory, living facility...so many floors."
He scrolls down and sees two unlit buttons labeled 'Room 79B' and 'Room 97G' "huh I wonder what these buttons lead to."
He pushes the button labeled 'Room 79B' but nothing happens
"TO ACESS ROOM 79B PLEASE INSERT THE MASTER KEY" Bo inserts the key but it's the wrong key
"ERROR WRONG KEY PLEASE INSERT THE CORRECT KEY OR PICK A DIFFERENT FLOOR "
"Well we can't access these two rooms so let's go to..."
Before Bo can finish his sentence Belle's stomach rumbles very loudly. Bo looks down at Belle as she looks down blushing in embarrassment. Bo smiles and picks up Belle in his arms
"... The supply room for some food"
He pushes the button and is transported to the supply room. Inside they see a meat locker and shelves upon shelves dry food, canned food, water, etc...
"Wow this place is packed with so much food."
He puts Belle on the ground and asks.
"Alright Belle what would you like to eat?"
"Hmm...Can I have some spaghetti?"
"Sure, but I will need some help getting the ingredients"
So Bo and Belle grab some tomato sauce, noodles, various spices, and some freshly ground beef from the meat locker. They load all the ingredients into a tote and head to the elevator.
"Alright then I imagine there will be a kitchen in the living facility"
After a quick ride in the elevator they arrive at the living facility. In the center a large living room with a semi circle red couch with a large plasma screen TV in front. To the left are two bedrooms, the left would be Bo's and the right would be Belle's, and to the right a large kitchen. Kirlia looks around and jumps on the couch
"Wow this place is Awesome!"
"Your right Belle this place is great I think this will be a great new home."
Bo takes the tote and heads to the kitchen
"I'm gonna start on dinner, holler if you need anything"
As Bo cooks up some spaghetti Belle goes around to check the place out. She goes over to the bedrooms to pick which one will be hers. She goes in the first room on the left. It's a small quaint room with a bathroom, no closet and a decent sized bed.
"It's a little small even for me."
She rummages thru the shelves in the nightstand and finds a key with a masterball insignia on the handle and a note.
"Huh what's this?"
She opens the note and begins to read it
"Dear sir or Madam,
If you have found this note then I have trusted this place to you and I am most likely either dead or have succumb to the pokerus virus. What you hold in your hands is the master key it will open both Room 79B and Room 97G in the elevator. In Room79B we kept all the documentation of this facility. In Room 97G is a training field we used to test the development of Pokemon before the outbreak. This facility was initially used to create Pokemon and develop a line of Pokeballs but after the outbreak we began studying the pokerus virus and tried to develop a cure but one day while we were coming back from a supply run a horde of Pokemon attacked us. I was the only survivor who didn't get turned or killed. I hid inside this facility for 2 months before I started to run low on supplies and now I must go out again to find more supplies. I have chosen you for a reason for you are humanities last hope.
Jacob Crow"
"Holy crap I gotta tell Bo about this!"
As she rushes to tell Bo she stops herself
"Hold on, I can't tell Bo about this not after what happened to poor Jacob. He just got over the guilt of what happened to him and this letter might bring back that pain. Even though it wasn't his fault he still blamed himself for a whole month. If I wasn't for me to help him I don't think he would have ever gotten over it. So for now I think I will just keep this a secret."
Belle then returns to the living room and sits back on the couch
"Belle dinner is ready!"
Bo enters the living with two steaming plates of spaghetti.
"Sweet I'm starving"
As they dig in to their dinner Bo notices the remote and grabs it.
"Hey Belle does the TV work?"
She slurps up her pasta and replies with her mouth partially full
"I don't know... I haven't tested yet"
"Well then lets find out I wanna find out if this place gets 'TRU TV' I wanna watch Smoking Gun worlds dumbest cause after a day like today I wanna kick back, relax, and laugh at stupid criminals get their ass kicked."
Bo turns on the TV to try and find the channel he is looking for when he stops at the science channel and begins to watch "Monster Bug Wars"
"Aw sweet 'Monster Bug Wars' I freaking LOVE this show! They show Bugs, arachnids and anything with an exoskeleton fighting to the death. The winner gets a meal and the loser..."
On the TV it shows a centipede eating a katydid from the inside
"NO! NO! NO! CHANGE IT! I AM NOT WATCHING BUGS KILLING EACH OTHER!"
Belle grabs the remote and changes the channel.
"Aw you're no fun... It's just Mother Nature
"Well mother nature is a creepy ass bitch!"
"Alright, alright change it if it bothers you that much. I forgot how much you hate bugs yet you have no problem fighting bug type Pokemon"
Belle continues to channel surf while eating her food. Bo finished 5 minutes ago goes to the kitchen to clean his plate and puts away the leftovers in the fridge. As Bo returns to the couch Belle is still channel surfing
"Boring...Boring...Boring... there is nothing good on"
"Did you find TRU TV yet?"
"Yea but "kart life" was on and that show is boring. if I wanna watch kart racing I'll just play some Mario Kart"
"Yea, I see your point."
Bo sits down on the couch.
"So how about FOX.The Simpsonsare usually on at this time,"
"Alright then."
Belle changes the channel to FOX but instead of The Simpsons the news is on. A jellicent is seen to be the anchorwoman
"Good afternoon America I'm Katie current keeping it current. Our top story today all humans have either been transformed into Pokemon or have killed. There are rumors that one human still remains. 17 year old Bo Holt from Lynchburg has seemed to have vanished into thin air. Authorities are still on the lookout for him and there is a $700,000 reward for his capture. He is considered a dangerous human and will stop at nothing to stay human. If you see him please contact your local authorities. And now we go to..."
Bo turns off the TV and slumps down into the couch. He is devastated; tears begin to roll down his cheeks
"I...I can't believe it... all my friends my family...they're all gone...I'm the last human left..."
Bo continues to sob as Belle tries to find the right words to say to comfort him. She goes to him and hugs him to comfort him. Bo hugs Belle and wails in sorrow. Belle strokes his back as he cries on her shoulder. After a good 15 minutes he finally stops crying and falls asleep. Belle takes her leftover spaghetti and puts it in the fridge then goes back to Bo. She sits down beside him and strokes his head while humming a lullaby to help him have a sweet dream.
We now return to the present as Belle (now Gardevoir) has finished the flashback.
"It took me three weeks of love and healing to get him back to his former self before all this craziness started. I've got to find a way to cheer him up but how?"
She slumps into the couch and accidentally hits the play button on the remote and the program continues where it stopped Z starts talking again.
"Ouch that's going to leave a dent in someone's bank account but there is still a chance that one of our viewers could still own their very own Ninten-bot."
Buzz replies
"Are you being for real Z? How can someone get one of these Ninten-Bots for free?"
The Ninten-Bot then chimes in
"Simple Buzz By winning the first annual Pokemon battle tournament."
Z replies
"That's right! The first annual Pokemon tournament who ever wins will earn themselves a brand new Ninten-Bot for free!"
Buzz then replies
"Wow a free Ninten-bot talk about a great prize but where and when is this tournament going to be held and where can I sign up?"
N-Bot continues where he left off
"The tournament will be held in 7 weeks and where it will be is the same place you need to go to sign up at Pokenapolis stadium!"
Z then chimes in
"Well you heard it here folks if you want that Ninten-bot then start hitting the gym because you gotta fight for your right to own one of these awesome Ninten-bots. This has been Z and Buzz bringing you your daily video feed so good fight, good night."
The program ends and Belle gets an idea
"If I entered that tournament I could win Bo that Ninten-bot for his birthday. Then he would be happy and we could finally go out together but if I wanna win I'm going to need some serious training, but where can I get some training done without Bo finding out?"
She begins to ponder and then she gets an idea.
"Room 97G!"
She runs to her room to begin to put her plan into action.
Well that's it for this chapter I hope you enjoyed it and again I'm sorry a made your guy's and gal's what nearly half a year for the next chapter. I promise to the next chapter done before Easter. To make it up to you I've got a game for you. One of my characters named Jacob crow is named after a famous villain. If you can guess where he is from you get to name the main villain in this story. Coming up in the next chapter 'Chapter 3: The sacrifice of the crow'. And remember PLEASE commit and give constructive criticism. I will see you next time.