Chapter 2: Flashback, 5 Years Ago


Glaceon, and I were incredibly close, ever since the day we met.

I wandered through the streets of Moonlight City, alone, cold, hungry, when suddenly I came about a dark alley. I heard a whimpering noise and then a scream. The air fell silent. I ran into the alley and saw a man, with a Team Stellar uniform. Next to him, on the ground was a girl who had obviously just been stabbed by the Team Stellar Grunt. She was dead. Next to her was an Eevee. The girl had a Pokéball in her hand and was trying to catch the Eevee. She had a dead Tympole lying in her arms. The Eevee squealed and ran to me as the Grunt lunged for it. The Eevee jumped into my arms and buried its head in my chest.

I gently put down the Eevee. "Stay here." I said, firmly but gently.

I ran, quick as a Crobat, and snatched the knife from the Grunt's hands. "Hey!" He shouted. "You little brat!" I flung the knife at him and it hit him squarely in the chest. "Code 17!" He shouted into a communication radio. "Code 17!" He fell over and started to cough up blood. Rage boiled within me and I leaned over him and said, "That's what you all get for murdering my parents." He laughed. "Your parents ain't dead, Melody."

"How do you know me?" I gasped.

"I was there." He coughed.

Silence.

I went back to the Eevee and asked, "Would you like to travel with me?"

"E-Eevee." Eevee said, quietly.

A helicopter flew overhead. Team Stellar Grunts were sliding down on ropes to the ground. I now knew what 'Code 17' was. A needle was shot at my arm. Another in my back. Another in my leg. I blacked out.


I awoke in a prison cell, my arms bound to my sides and Eevee with a muzzle around her mouth.
"Don't struggle, Eevee." I said. "I don't want you to get hurt." Eevee nodded.

I took a look at my surroundings for the first time and gasped, horrified. There were girls and boys and men and women, beat up, with their Pokémon. Some Pokémon had muzzles, others were chained to the wall, and others were unconscious. The people all wore defiant expressions on their face, so I knew that this prison was for people who resisted their rule.

Ever since the war, people have been under the control of Team Stellar. We lost the war with the death of our best fighters, Ash Ketchum, his wife Misty, and their six year old son Aaron. This was when my parents were murdered, a few days later, when they tried to fight off the Team Stellar Grunts marching into our town.

They told the people that it was for the better, to be united under a single government, but no one actually thinks that. Except for the lady who is the mother of the leader of Team Stellar, the one who fought with me and Eevee.

A Grunt came in and the children in the room cowered in fear. She unlocked the door to our cell and picked up Eevee. The Grunt threw Eevee against the wall in the back of the cell and Eevee slid to the floor, unconscious. "Eevee!" I cried. I was half carried half dragged out of the cell and pushed to the ground.

"What information did you find out?" The Grunt whispered into my ear. "About what?" I asked, confused. "About Team Stellar?"

I was thrown across the hallway dividing the prison cells and I hit the floor, the breath knocked out of me. I lay there gasping for a heartbeat and was picked up again. A knife slowly slid across my throat, leaving a small cut in it. I drew in a sharp breath and said, "Nothing."

"Don't play dumb." she hissed. "You attacked one of our men and killed him to find out something. What did you learn?" "Nothing! I have a grudge against Team Stellar because you supposedly killed my parents!"

"What is your name, brat?" "Melody" I replied. "Oh, so it's you... You parents were a special case. We tortured the for four years and then left them to die. But they didn't. They are in our torture cells. Once every week they are tortured now. Haha! It is so much fun to watch rebels suffer." "You're sick!" I yelled.

I screamed as a whip lashed across my back, slicing open my skin. Another, and another and another. The pain was so terrible I screamed so loud, I thought the whole world could hear my in agony. Another Grunt came in and said, "That's enough, we ain't getting any more out of her today."

"Alright." The Grunt above me said, as I lay there on the cement floor, whimpering. "But tomorrow will be different." She chained Eevee's front legs together and left me in the locked cell, bleeding, maybe to my death.


Hope you liked this installment of One Goal! And a special thanks the DragonBlade152 for inspiring me to write this chapter.