There was a sound. Long one. Then some medal sounds and a movement. He understood that whatever he was, was moving. He knew that someone was pushing him, maybe also screaming his name but still, he couldn't move or understand where he was. Suddenly, a bright light was on his vision and he was out cold.
-ooo-
"People these days don't respect anything natural or normal. " The pokemon said looking at the abyss down from where it stood.
"They want to change what is here, making it more efficient and yet at the same time dangerous for them. So much knowledge and yet not enough understanding of what is suppose to be." The pokemon turned and suddenly it changed into a human.
"But not everyone is what you think they are!" The other person screamed at the pokemon.
That made the transformed pokemon smirked and with a quick movement hit the wall behind the human trapping them on the wall. His other hand was behind it and with red eyes, looked at the eyes of the human.
It smirked again showing its teeth.
"And how you know that?" It asked lightly while it maintained its eye contant with the human.
The human opened their mouth and immeditiely without a hesitation answered.
"Humans are creatures desinged like all like the other creatures. They fight for their life, control their ground and attack when they feel unsafe. But unlike some creatures they move on, making new ways to protect themselves and all others. They use their power to understand and use knowledge rather than fight and destroy. They enhance their life."
The pokemon smiled. "All people...all... don't seem to care about pokemon nor other humans. No good is in this world and take my words for it."
"That's not true!"
"It IS!" The pokemon shouted.
"Not all humans. Some lost their tracks believing that they are making the right choice but nothing stop them for making what they think is right. But noone taught them if it is the right thing! They are lost and they need guidance! But people neglected them, leaving them behind. That's when all their hope changes and becomes desperation. And for them to move on they created evil." The human shouted back ready to tear up for their words.
The pokemon stopped for a moment. That human believed what where they saying. They were passionate and believed in this dystopian world. It sighed "happily" and looked once again at the human.
"Do you really believe that people that have lost their way can still find it?" It asked.
The human yet again without hesitation said.
"Yes."
The pokemon smirked.
"Even without hesitation, you answered at my question. But the problem is that you don't even believe in that answer!"
The human opened their mouth ready to deny the words of the pokemon but it slapped them so hard that turned the human's head on the right and blood came out of their mouth.
"You believe in humans! You would give your life for them! You would save them! You would literally kill yourself for them! You care for them and not for yourself! You give priority on another human rather your soul! And still, believe in them that they can find their way after they have lost it!" The pokemon touched the human's still turned face and lightly took some blood with its fingers.
"You believed in that answer! But what made you hesitate was that if that person that lost their way was...actually you!" The pokemon shouted and the human turned their head shocked.
"How!? How do you know that?" The human demanded and the pokemon touch its head with its bloody hand.
It laughed manically and slowly that voice was getting familiar. And gave the human goosebumps because they knew that something was wromg.
"Because Red...I am you!"
The pokemon said and took its hand off its face. Its blank face from before was now transformed with Red's blood. The lines that the pokemon had made with its bloody hand showed facial features. And only with the blood were shown. On the parts that didn't have blood, there was only shadows. It was a face. Red's face! Its eyes were cloudy and showed evil and his smirk was dark. The pokemon started laughing and that laugh echoed in Red's ears making him sick.
Because that laugh was his!
-ooo-
"Finally the sleeping beauty is awake! And I thought I fucked up with the training." A manly voice shouted and Red suddenly felt himself fall down.
He opened his eyes and the bright light made him close them again. When he reopened them he looked around him. Behind him, there was a vehicle and from inside it, Team Rocket was getting out. So that was what was moving him. He was inside that vehicle. He stood up and looked behind him. Surge was smirking as usual.
"We arrived!" He said and turned around.
Red followed his eye sight and he saw a city from above. They were in a mountain and down there was a small city inside the forest. Red swore that he knew that city but his mind was blank. They must have decided to start their mission and prepare in some place quietly. He started suddenly feeling nervous. What were they going to do in that small city?
Surge must have seen his face because he answered in his question.
"Oh no! We are not after your precious city today! We are after that river in that city."
'My precious city?' He thought and Surge once again understood his thoughts.
"Wow. I must have overdone it with the powder but who cares. That city down is Celadon City. Where you catch our eevee!"
Red then remembered! Erika! Oh no! But wait...they are after the river, not the city. But why not the city? And why the river?
"Oh well grunt, you will understand shortly. Just follow behind and don't do anything or else..." Surge showed the magnemite that was near him.
'Electrocution.' Red thought and he followed.
-ooo-
Going inside the city was not a problem since they all have changed their clothes and they didn't wear their normal attire. Also, he and Surge got inside the city while all the other Rockets were moving around the city. What was so important that they had come here as a mission? Surge had told him that Erika wasn't here.
That in some way made him relax because he wouldn't be spotted by someone that knew him and at the same time, he was unhappy because he could have managed to send something to her and help him out of this situation. But that thought stopped him. His condition was still up and also his pokemon were not with him.
Until now he hadn't seen his pokemon and also haven't gotten any new ones. Red hoped that his pokemon were ok. Surge suddenly entered a bulding and walked inside. Red followed and after some walking Surge walked out of a door again. Red walked out of it and there it was. The river.
He hadn't seen that river when he did his journey. That river was actually well hiden behind the bulding and some trees but at the same time, it was inside the town. But the river was well known here. Because that river if you followed its waters with a water pokemon you would go to the old version of Celadon. The original town.
It was habitable as he learned from Surge but there were only some houses there and a pokecenter and that town were full of flowers that only blossom there. So every once a year when thoses flowers blossom there was held a festival. The Celidion Festival.
Red had heard of that festival but never understood its location until now. Surge was looking up in the sky and then he whistled. Then his magnemite used thunder and it hit the water. Suddenly a water pokemon appeared. A Lapras appeared and growled at Surge. It was complaining about the thunder. Red also saw a scratch. It was an R meaning that that pokemon was owned by Rockets. Sick bastards. They had hurt the pokemon just cause they wanted to show that it was theirs. Red looked angrily at Surge for the scratch and the attack that had caused in that pokemon. But Surge didn't say anything but motioned Red to jump into Lapras' back. Red did so and then the Lapras moved and with steady speed the party arrived in the old Celadon.
It was a small town as Surge said. There were only 4 houses as Red counted and in the far end of it there was a pokecenter. It was surrounded by trees so the only place that let you leave from here and come was the river or by having a flying pokemon. When Red touched the ground he noticed small red flowers in his feet and when he looked up he saw yet again more red flowers.
Those must be the Celidion flower Surge was talking about, Red thought and looked at the buildings. They were two in one row and two behind them. They should have been habitable because their condition looked ok. Red turned to look again at the river but the pokemon was no longer there.
"Those little flowers seem to be red but when their time comes to blossom they become like a rainbow. That's why the Celadon badge is a rainbow." Surge commented and touched a little flower.
He then said something and some people that Red understood where Rockets even though they were dressed differently started collecting the flowers. Surge grabbed Red's arm and guided him through the city. Well, by guiding was walking towards the pokecenter.
Surge stopped in front of it and then turned and walked by its side. There he let Red hand and smirked.
"Well, grunt, it is time for our mission. It is simple as talking. I am your father and you are my child. We live some meters away from Celadon city and you had a pineco. But that suddenly died but it gave you an egg. That egg though was stolen from you. So your mission today is to get that egg from there. And here." Surge moved and gave a pokeball to Red
Red's heart was ready to explode. One of his pokemon's! But when he looked inside the pokeball he saw a magneton. The same one that Surge was carrying all time.
Surge laughed at Red's disappointed face. "You thought we would give you your pokemon so soon? Well, boy only when Boss starts to trust you as a true grunt he will give you your pokemon back. So, considerate and let's go!"
Surge took Red's arm again and moved inside the pokecenter. It was quiet but when the doors closed, behind the desk some pink hair appeared and then the Nurse.
"Oh, hello! Welcome to our center! How can I help you?" The Nurse said happily and Surge moved Red gently towards her.
"Well, son? Don't you have something to tell miss Joy over there?" Surge voice was deeper making him slightly some years older.
So, it starts, Red thought and he smiled kindly and looked down on his feet making him look like a child. He couldn't back down now.
"Hello! I am looking for something that I lost!"
-xxx-
Annoying. Annoying. Annoying. Every trainer here was annoying. It seemed that the longer she got inside the more annoying they were getting. Well, at least she was leveling up her pokemon and also get a good amount of money. Blue looked around. Even though she got far in the Indigo Plateau she hadn't found Red nor Green. Maybe they were ahead. She hoped she would see them there. In the battles. But for someone to participate, they needed to have a full party. Meaning six pokemon. And she had five.
She sighed. Finally, she had arrived in the middle of Indigo Plateau. In the middle of the road, there was a hotel that trainers rested and continued the second day of the road to arrive into the battles. Around her were so many people that she didn't recognize. Noone. Where were those idiots? She closed her eyes and with Jiggly, she moved into the hotel to check in.
-ooo-
After some battles to practice her new moves, she decided to take a break and finally caught a new pokemon. She had abra but that one wouldn't do. She needed a new one. Horsea was out of the question. She wouldn't use Sliver's pokemon on her battle of the title but only her own. She walked and left the crowded place and finally found a tree to rest under it. She let Jiggly play with the wind.
One day road and then she would battle. To become a champion? No, but actually show that she also deserved the title of Pokedex holder like the boys. Why did he give them the Pokedex and to her nothing? She will show that old man what she deserved and what she was capable of. That's why she had stolen the Squirtle. That's why she became strong. To finally escape from her past! To see the future.
"Are you going to the battles?" Someone asked and Blue opened her eyes.
She knew that voice! She turned around. She didn't know how fast she moved but she knew that in one moment she was sitting near the tree and then she was hugging Sliver. Sliver was surprised but was smiling at her.
"You damn right know that I will!" She answered happily at him.
Blue looked at Sliver he had grown up. She smiled.
"Good. I thought you would. And I know you will show everyone what you are capable of!" Sliver said to her and showed her a pokeball.
She looked at it. Her Snubbull. Sliver was giving her back her pokemon. To battle. To participate! She hugged once again Sliver crying. It was so generous of him. She didn't know what to say to him. And Sliver understood it. So he hugged her back.
-xxx-
Red was sitting in the chairs that the pokecenter had in. After he had asked about the egg, Nurse Joy asked specific questions In the end, he had managed to make her trust him. Now he had gone inside the room where she kept it. It was a white egg with green spots but really large. He thought that that pokemon inside must be something that himself must not know. He hadn't seen an egg before and also a pokemon getting out of its shell.
Surge told him to take it but Nurse Joy insisted that the egg must stay here even though it was Red's. Her excuse was that the pokemon that would get out would have a great environment to grow up for the first days. She was sure that that pokemon had something and that it had some kind of disease so she wanted it here. She was also sure that that egg would hatch today so that's why Red and Surge were staying here. They waited for the pokemon. And Surge didn't like that.
Red wished that Surge hadn't looked at Nurse Joy with that look because after that Red knew she must have started to get cautious because now everything she did, she looked back at them weirdly. He hoped that Surge would let go and Nurse Joy to stop because he knew and felt that the afterward would be not good.
Surge was sitting next to him and probably texted his partners on what to do next. Nurse Joy was at her station behind the desk and was still giving them glances now and then. Red's anxiety for the future grew and grew. He would scream. He should do something. Well, Surge wasn't that bad but his yesterday's training gave him another light on the situation. But he didn't know what Surge could do.
Red needed to do something but what? He was couldn't think of something. But a sound stopped him and he looked at the door of the pokecenter. Two people walked inside.
Red looked at the people walking. They didn't look like Rockets and with a quick look at Surge, they were indeed not.
"I think it is the right place for him. Close to the pokecenter for whatever he needs and nor far from the river."
"You think so?"
"Of course. He doesn't need to be around so many people. With just a few and all that clear air of nature, it will help him become better. His health will improve believe me."
"Hello and welcome on our pokecenter!" Nurse Joy greeted.
"Hello." Both trainers greeted and gave their pokemon.
Nurse Joy then started talking with them and Red lost his concentration and looked towards the door. He looked outside it. He wondered how his friends were doing. How everyone was doing. Have they noticed that he was missing? Probably not...yet. When they were in the battles and saw that he was not there they must look for him. Right?
"...really don't you find it weird? Those smiles? They look like that organization..." One of the trainers said and that caught Red's attention.
"How you know that?" Nurse Joy asked.
"Well they move in teams and I saw one wearing their attire. I heard one of the leaders being here too!"
"Oh who?" Nurse Joy asked again.
"The electric guy."
"Surge?" The other trainer said.
"Yes! Lt Surge!..here I have a picture with his face in the newspaper."
Red started to get anxious. Sure they were wearing disguises and Surge's face and hair were not shown. But all and all Nurse Joy was looking at them the whole time. And not with a friendly look. She started looking towards them and Red's nerves finally exploded. Oh no!
Red looked at Surge but Surge didn't stop looking at the trainers and Nurse Joy making Red more and more worried. Suddenly he closed his phone and put his hands in his pockets. A sound was heard and the source of it was inside the pokecenter. The egg? Did Surge put something on it? Did he tell his pokemon to electrocute the system? Because the lights flickered and closed. A blackout. Even though Red couldn't clearly see Surge's face, he knew he was smiling.
"Right now it is stage two. Go out and walk towards the closest house on the pokecenter. And don't think of doing anything because the magneton you have will toast you up." Surge suddenly whispered.
So the magneton was given to him to only secure that he wouldn't leave. No, for him to have a proper pokemon to battle. It was like his guard.
Finally, he heard Nurse Joy saying that it was probably the generator and she needed to see what happened to it. The trainers agreed so they said goodbye and thanks yous towards the Nurse which she accepted. But Surge stood up and walked towards the Nurse.
"Let me help, Nurse Joy. I can help you fix it." He said and Nurse Joy moved her head.
"Oh...no need. I can fix it on my own." Her tone was really quiet and Red wanted to run.
But Surge didn't flinch from it. Instead, he took the light the nurse was holding and said.
"Oh, it will be my pleasure to help you. Here let's go. I also want to see if my son's pokemon is ok. So where we go?"
Suddenly Nurse Joy turned her head and looked at Red. Like she remembered he was here. She smiled at him and Red smiled back or he thought he did. The nurse nodded and finally her tone changed.
"In that corridor and the left door. Let's go."
And they started walking. Maybe her guard was down again because she saw that Surge was accompanied by a child and not a team like a usual Rocket. But Surge face was there. She couldn't be that stupid, right? He hoped and prayed that everything will be alright with her and Red stood up and walked quietly to the door.
But before Red could see what happened, someone grabbed him. A Rocket. He looked at Red and then moved him towards the house Surge told him to go. The Rocket threw him inside and closed the door. Red looked inside. Three grunts were looking at him. The room inside was a mess meaning that the grunts were looking for something. But one of them slapped Red. Red was caught off guard and fell down.
"Well...well...well. Look who is here! The savior." The grunt that slapped him shouted and another grunt kicked Red.
Red screamed but moved up before he was hit again and tried to protect himself from them. But Red had forgotten the other grunt. While Red was looking at the two grunts, the other one hit his legs making Red fall down screaming but at the last second, he was lifted up. By a hand in his neck. Chocking him. It lifted him up and then he was hit on the wall making Red lose his breath for a while.
"Don't you remember us? The ones you defeated with the other kids? Or are you preoccupied with yourself!" The grunts started laughing and Red tried to breath.
But before Red understood what happened the hand had moved him and hit him once again in the desk. One of the grunts hold Red's arms and the other still held his neck. Red started to breath while one if the grunts slapped him again.
"Well, you will know us now. You know what I don't care what Boss said. I will kill him!"
"Woah, Steve! Calm down! He doesn't deserve that!"
"Oh, really Bill? What you think he deserves? A cup of tea? He destroyed us in there making fun of us and made us just grunts. We lost our titles while that brat was playing with his pokemon!" Steve said and squeezed Red's neck again.
"I agree with Bill. Look where we are again! At the bottom where we started and lost our titles. We only receive orders and don't give anymore." The other grunt that was holding Red's arms agreed.
"I know! That's not what I meant! I meant that he needs a long torture before he is faced with death. A really long torture!" Bill said and then all of the grunts laughed.
Red tried to move but the grunts were holding him in place and the hand in his neck was not helping. Those grunts would hit him to death. Torture him. He wanted to shout but before he could shout something was put on his mouth. A scarf of one of the grunts. He was still holding it? Why? They were in disguise. Did they plan this torture all along? Red then remembered his feet. With as much strength he had he kicked the grunt it was holding his neck and sent him flying to the wall.
While the others recovered from his attack, Red moved fast and yanked his arms from the unnamed grunt and rolled off the desk. He then ran towards the door away from this. But something hit him. And he fell down. A thunder? The magnimite?
He must have lost consciousness for a while because when he opened his eyes again, he was once again in the desk and in front of him, there were the grunts and a little pokemon. Pichu. That was what had hit him.
"Did you like the lighting, asshole? You can't run now." Steve said and all of them laughed.
Red tried to move his hands but he found he couldn't. He turned to see what was holding him down and it was a pokemon. A nidoran second evolution. He once again tried to kick them but Pichu hit him again with thunder making him scream into the scarf and fell exhausted into the desk.
"Finally he stopped. So what do you think, shall we start our torture?" One of the grunts said and all agreed.
Red was waiting for the hit, kick, whatever it will be but he didn't receive anything. He looked up. One of the grunts moved and touched his belt.
Oh no!
-xxx-
"You saw him!" Blue asked Sliver.
Meanwhile, Sneasel played with Jigglypuff and the two siblings were sitting under the tree Blue was sitting before. Sliver was telling her everything that happened after they changed roads. He was doing ok and had found a new professor that had starters pokemon and he was going to do what Blue did also. Steal one. She was proud.
But Sliver also told her about a boy with a skateboard he had seen and told her that that boy would be a trouble later on. To him or to her was unknown. What caught Blue attention thought was that Sliver had seen someone while he was coming here that strike Sliver as odd. He was always looking at a map, checking everything and always looking around after doing so. Like the map was telling lies to him.
What made Blue get interested in that story is that that boy had a porygon and also spiky hair. That person was Green! So Green would participate in the battles. Now she needed to train harder so she could reach Green's level and also Red's. Red level well... was a category of its own.
"Yes. He was, as I told you, looking crazy. Like what he saw was not on the map."
"Maybe something happened with him and now he is double making sure that everything is ok. I know Green. Something must happen to have made him so cautious about something." Blue assured Sliver but mostly herself.
She hoped whatever made Green so mysterious was nothing and he was just acting weird.
"Did you see a boy with a red hat?" She suddenly asked surprising herself and Sliver.
"...no. I haven't seen that boy you told me. And no one as I heard has seen him or else he would have made an appearance, wouldn't him?"
"Yes." Blue agreed. "So...were is he? A girl told me that he was coming here. Maybe he is far ahead and those people around us haven't battled with him?"
"Perhaps." Sliver said.
Blue hoped he was ok. And hoped that she could battle him. At least showed him what she is capable of.
"Did you hear that?" Sliver then asked.
Blue was drawn back and at the same time, didn't hear anything. Then the earth shook and Blue and Sliver yelped. Both of them stood up and jumped towards Jigglypuff while sneasel climbed on Sliver's back. After they were on Jigglypuff they started looking for the source of the earthquake. Nothing.
So, both of them after they relaxed, started to climb off Blue's pokemon when something was shot into them. Blue managed to move Jiggly away from what appeared to be poison darts and followed the source of the attacker. She carefully entered the trees from which she thought the darts were thrown and tried to find what had caused so much trouble.
She and Sliver found out that what had thrown the poison darts was a skorupi. What made Blue stopped from moving was that that skorupi was not normal. It was not purple but red! How was that impossible! Blue's thoughts were interrupted when she heard Sliver shout. She looked at him and saw that blood was coming out of his arm! Someone had hit him! And then it hit Blue.
She started falling from Jiggly when Sliver tried to catch her. His mistake was that he tried to catch her with his hurt arm. So he started falling too. The impact wasn't so painful. But Blue after she recovered she looked at Sliver. He was ok but still, blood was coming out of his arm. They had managed to cut through the jacket and hit him. Blue then ripped a fabric from her dress and put it in Sliver scar to stop the blood. Sliver hold it there while Blue was looking through her stuff for something to help the scar heal or close it.
But something hit what she had found from her bag and threw it in the tree. It was yet again a dart. She looked at the strange skorupi and found out that it wasn't looking at her but behind her. She turned her head and went near Sliver. Her eyesight caught a silhouette in the forest...two!
"Oh my! I didn't know I had an audience today." The silhouette said sarcastically.
'A woman', Blue thought. Her voice was matured enough but also had the giggly affection into it.
"What do you want?" Blue shouted making herself taller. She needed to protect Sliver and she wouldn't stop doing it until she died.
"Is it obvious? Not an audience. But when you entered the play, you will not leave it alive. So I am sorry my girl, or not but I need you dead. No one sees what we do and tell it." The woman's tone changed and then from the shadows the other silhouette that Blue saw that was with her, moved.
Then with a quick motion that not even Blue's mind register, Blue pushed Sliver away from where they stood and she prayed that she was moving away from that pokemon. And thank god she did. She quickly recovered and looked where they were before and found a huge hole into it. It had used dig. So the pokemon would come out from everywhere. She needed to think fast. What stopped dig?
Fly!
"Jiggly!" She yelled and while holding Sliver with one of her arms, she jumped and hold her hand up. She then grabbed Jiggly and Jiggly steedy but as fast she could manage to, she moved them up. At the last second, a pokemon appeared under Blue's foot and closed its fangs knowing that the attacked had failed. An Arbok. The darts! Sliver!
Sliver had been bitten by an Arbok. She needed to take him as fast as she could to the pokecenter. Arbok's poison was deadly! She needed to move! But Jiggly screamed and yet again the siblings started falling down. She took Sliver and put him above her to protect him. Jiggly returned inside her pokeball leaving Blue without a fly transportation to the pokecenter. Sliver was ok but was breathing heavily and was sweating.
"Sliver! I am here and I won't let anything happen to you!" She half said, half scream to him and Sliver smiled.
Reassuring her. But what made Blue strong was that he had grabbed her hand. Like when they were together. Alone. No! She wouldn't let anything happen to him. Never!
She held her ground and looked at the woman. She had finally shown herself. She had red hair and red eyes. Her clothes were white and she was wearing a skirt with high white boots. What little thing that made her dangerous was the small thing in her chest. A rocket badge.
"Oh, look at that! I have stumbled upon a clever trainer but with a really dangerous altitude. I wonder. If I had the chance to recruit you, I would but right now your eyes and altitude will be catastrophic for us..."
"You bastards! Being in that team means death and you know it! Nothing you do deserve recognition and nothing more! You are nothing!" Blue screamed making the woman stop talking.
"Oh. Angry? Because of that bite? That your friend is dying...slowly? Hahaha.." She started laughing and smirked. "As I know your only hope to save him is to go to the pokecenter. But how will you do it without your transportation?" She asked.
Blue was ready to attack her but Sliver's hand stopped her. She would not stop hoping that Sliver would be ok. But before she said anything the skorupi yelled. All of them turned behind and saw that the skorupi was standing under a light and near a rock covered with moss over it. It was covered with moss and it had its mouth opened and was shouting. Then suddenly it started emitting light and its sound turned deeper. It was evolving!
But that was what Blue was looking for. An opportunity to hit and run. So she threw out snubbull and commanded it to attack. The Rocket didn't notice but her pokemon. Arbok attacked Bulu but Bulu jumped and avoided the attack while she used stomp to the pokemon. Then...the arbok fainted. Blue looked surprised but acted quickly. She motioned Sliver and they moved.
But an earthquake again stopped them and made them lose their footsteps. They looked back and saw that the skorupi was now a drapion. It was yet again another color, a light red and it was yelling. On it was that woman and was laughing maniacally.
"Look! This is the last thing you will see before you die. The shiny pokemon will rule the world now that the way to evolve them has been discovered!" She yelled
"So drapion!" She said and then drapion shouted in agony.
'It was hurting it' Blue thought. A device? She didn't see any pokemon near drapion that hit it and didn't see that woman holding anything. But the drapion was screaming. Then she saw it. A device in its tail. That's why it throwing dart at that woman. It was trying to get rid of the device. Blue motioned snubbull while Sliver motioned something else and it understood. It moved towards it and when drapion attacked it, snubbull avoided it. But the woman smirked and the drapion yelled and with angry eyes, it moved its tail down hitting snubbull and throwing it in a tree.
While Blue screamed to her pokemon, that woman found a window of opportunity and shouted.
"Kill them!"
Drapion's tail hit its target.
-xxx-
Red tried to hit the grunt but Pichu hit him again. He let a scream out but the scarf transformed it into small sounds. His head hit the desk and he heard the grunts laughing while he felt a hand oh his trousers. He was getting sick. He was exhausted. He wanted to act but he couldn't move. He didn't have the energy. The only thing he could do was to cry. So he did.
He wanted to run. He wanted a lot of things but none could stop what the grunts had in mind. Red still felt the hand on his trousers but it didn't move. Plus the laughs had died out. What?
He opened his eyes and saw a silhouette in front of him. It was looking down and its back was turned towards Red. Red looked down too and saw the grunts had fallen down. Fainted. Behind him, no one held him anymore. So he moved his hands. They hurt but he was free. He was ok. But the silhouette?
Red felt calm even if that silhouette was near him. Suddenly it turned and it was a man. He had blue eyes and blue hair. He was looking at him calmly and with a hint of annoyance. That annoyance must have been for the grunts because that man untied the scarf that Red had in his mouth and looked at it angrily.
"Stupid! Assholes!" He simply said and moved Red slowly up while he spread something at him.
A potion. A Paralyse. The thing that cured paralyzed on pokemon. Did it help humans too? The man must have understood Red thought because he nodded.
"It will help you. All of the potions help. They are not only for pokemon but us too. What did they try to do?" He asked.
Red after he relaxed his muscles and tested them that he could speak, said.
"They hit me and tried to..."
"Of course." The man answered because he felt Red's feelings over it.
Red was so close to being raped. And yet that man saved him. Why? He looked at him. He was wearing a lieutenant suit and had still the hat. But unlike the others, he was calm and nice.
The man looked at him and then gave him his hand. Red accepted it and he climbed off the desk. He stood up and looked at the grunts. They had fainted. He was thankful. He didn't want to see what would happen if that man wasn't here. The man whistled and Red looked up. He was by the door. He was telling him to follow. So Red did it.
"What is your name kid?" He asked.
"...Red."
The man stopped walking.
"You are the new lieutenant that Giovanni is telling us?" He asked surprised.
"...yes." Red acknowledged it.
The man looked him up and down then he started walking again.
"You are too young. But Giovanni knows and I will follow any order. I am Proton. Executive. And those guys will not see the light again for what they thought they could do. I may be in Rocket but some things are disgusting. And Rockets don't do that."
His tone when he said that they wouldn't see the light ever again scared Red but he didn't answer. He was really over that thing and he never wanted to think it again. He followed Proton and after a while, he met up with other Rockets and Surge again. He was holding the egg.
"Finally! Oh? Proton? What are you doing in Kanto I thought you were in Johto." Surge asked looking generally surprised about Proton being here.
"Someone from us is a traitor, Surge. Destroys our reputation and our work. Not the scientist guy but a grunt. And I found them...here."
"Here? One of my team?"
"Unfornutaly. But I have taken care of them."
"Them!? You said one!" Surge hissed.
"Hmm. Well, that one tried something else too with a team so don't worry. You don't need to know what will happen to them. But the kid is injured by them." Proton showed Red.
Surge looked at Red like he saw him for the first time and he was shocked. He looked up and down and shouted.
"WHAT DID THEY DO?"
"What they thought they would do is the right question, Surge. They didn't manage to. I will take the kid to the pokecenter. And I have new orders. Give me the egg." Proton said and walked towards Surge.
Surge backed off.
"Who you think you are? That mission is mine and no one gives me orders."
"Not even an executive?"
Surge stopped.
"...when?"
"A few days ago. But stop with the talking the egg and let us be."
Surge was lost. He didn't give the egg immediately and stared at Proton for a lot of time but in the end he gave in and gave it to him. Proton took it and gave it to Red to hold while he pushed him towards the pokecenter. What Red saw the last time was Surge taking out his phone before he turned his back at him.
-ooo-
Proton walked first inside the pokecenter. Red after he entered he looked around. The Nurse was nowhere to be found. Red started to get anxious. Were was Nurse Joy? Was she ok? As he remembered Nurse Joy was with Surge and the two other trainers that wanted to heal their pokemon. So where is she? He hoped she was ok. He wanted to believe she was ok but his instincts tell him otherwise.
His thought were interrupted when Proton jumped over the desk and started looking for something on its drawers. When he found what he wanted he motioned for Red to come closer. Red did so and in a fast motion, Proton injected something in Red. Red didn't feel anything at first but felt nauseous after a while. After he was caught surprised by Proton's fast motion, he had moved back. He must have also taken the egg because he didn't feel anything in his hands. Red then lightly fell down on his knees.
His hurt was throbbing. Was that a medicine? Because it hurt him more than the actual lighting. He was really nauseous and felt the room moving around. Then nothing.
-ooo-
He heard noises. An argument. He slowly opened his eyes. Red was looking at the ceiling. A white ceiling. He was laying down on a bed. But where was he? The pokecenter? He must be because when he sat on that bed he saw that they were other medical beds around him. He stood up and tried to focus. He was still feeling nauseous after the thing that Proton injected to him. But not anymore. He was actually feeling a little alert. He heard noises again.
Manly voices. After a while, when his hearing got better, he understood that the source of that voices was Surge and Proton. They were arguing about something. He walked towards the door that he thought that the argument was happening. When he opened the door he was at a corridor. He remembered that corridor. It was that corridor that Nurse Joy lead them towards a red door where inside it he found the egg. In the middle of it they were two doors. So one of it led into medical beds or where the patients relaxed. The other was on the other side but it didn't catch his attention. He focused on the voices.
He followed them and at the end of it, he peeked from the wall and saw indeed Surge and Proton argued. But he couldn't pinpoint what they were saying. That medicine must have been strong because his feelings didn't respond when Red wanted. He didn't feel touch or smell. His eyesight now that he thought about it had red dots on it. But he could see where Surge and Proton were.
"...that fast?" Surge half screamed at Proton while he looked at him with disgust.
"..that fast. But what concerns me is that he is here. So young. And yet he is here."
"Don't care. Boss gave us orders and I follow them. But that thing you did was fast. At least after a year when the potion is secure. Now it is a prototype."
Proton moved his shoulders.
"Don't care. As you said I follow also orders. And they are accurate. I saw you call him. So...what else did he tell you?"
Surge stopped for a moment. He looked down and then away from Proton. Angry.
"He...he said to destroy the evidence. Everything."
Proton laughed.
"Ohoho...I thought the Great Surge was not sensitive. You are too soft for being a lieutenant and yet you are here. Sure you fought in the war but still, I thought you could handle that part!" Proton poked Surge angrily while Surge growled.
"That's A DIFFERENT THING! I fought for what I believed and still do. And yet what we will do here...is...not what we suppose to do. He said to destroy it not DO WHAT YOU WANT!"
"Oh please! You are soft Surge! Not even a man! Look what you did to the trainers or the Nurse. Just tied them? Haha, pathetic! Rockets are dangerous!"
That moment Surge grabbed Proton's shirt and brought him closer at his eye level.
"WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
But Proton just laughed. Surge let him down with a horrific face. Then Red felt it. His instruct. His feelings. They turned him around towards the door that was at the other side from the door he got out. He approached and opened it.
Red moved away. He hadn't noticed but he had screamed. A red liquid was coming out of the door. Someone touched him but he moved the hand away. It was Proton and he was laughing maniacally. Surge looked at the door too and shouted something at Proton. Red couldn't control himself. He closed his ears. They hurt and the smell only got better and bigger. He was crying he noticed. It was blood! Blood! Proton had killed them!
Red screamed again but this time moved. He moved away from the corridor away, from Proton. He ran he noticed after a while. But screams were heard around him. He didn't stop. He wanted to leave. But he stopped suddenly. He touched the ground and put his hands down to halt his speed.
Some meters ahead of him a lighting hit, starting a fire. He looked behind him. Proton had used a magneton. Red touched his belt. The magneton he had wasn't there anymore. Proton had it. He stood up and hold his ground.
"Where are you going? The party just started!" Proton yelled at him and put his arms in the air.
Red finally noticed it. The town was on fire. The evidence Surge told about. No!
He noticed he was still crying!
"BASTARD!" He yelled not thinking it but he knew that he meant it.
"Oh what? Really? Is that what you got? Now I see why Surge is useless! He couldn't even tame a child!"
"At least Surge wouldn't do...do..." He couldn't finish his sentence. But he believed what he said. Surge had a kind heart. He could hurt someone but not kill.
"Kill? Oh, Red. I just finished his job. That is what your job will contain! You follow what they say to you! If they say kill, you kill! You are a Rocket now! You are us! You are me!"
Red moved his head.
"No! NO! I am not YOU! I AM NOT A MONSTER!" He screamed and moved. He let his instincts guide him.
Proton said something to magneton and magneton moved towards Red. Red understood the attack: thunderwave. He stopped himself and when the pokemon came close to touch him he ducked and away from the attack. Then magneton stopped.
"Impressive. But I had high hopes for someone like you. Ii thought you would hit it... Nah. But now I have you in my hands. As you see I put magneton behind you because I wanted to stop you from leaving. I believe you noticed the river?"
Red started to consider in his surroundings. His eyesight was still covered in red dots. Behind magneton there was the river from where he came. The one leading to Celadon city. He turned towards Proton.
"And on the other hand it's me. Where are you going to go? Nowhere!"
Then Surge came to his sight next to Proton by several feet away from him. Holding the egg.
"Proton enough! You have caused already enough."
But Proton barked back.
"No! He is just a child! And he will be a lieutenant. A higher level from me! And after what I have accomplished! A child will move up and I will stay at the bottom. I should have left you with the gang team and let them raped you! But I have also limits. And I stopped them!"
Surge looked dumfounded.
"What?"
"Oh yes. Your members are sick."
"Like you! That's enough Proton or I will make you stop!"
Proton turned at him.
"Oh really! Let me see you try!" He screamed and mangeton shoot a beam of lighting towards Surge.
Surge ducked as well as Red but the beam hit something. A scream was heard and something fell down. Red closed his eyes and tried to let every sound stop. But that scream was more of a shock one. He moved his hands on his ears. Let that be a nightmare. Let everything be a dream. He wanted to leave. Just leave.
But what he could do? The egg! Surge was still holding the egg and Nurse had said that it could hatch any moment now. But he wanted a push to hatch it...magneton. Suddenly Red legs moved and Red opened his eyes. He was moving towards the pokemon. The pokemon shocked by his actions started to recharge to hit him.
But Red didn't stop. He continued his way there and didn't stop. That exact thing is what he did in training. He moved towards that pokemon. So now he would see why. When he felt that the pokemon was ready to unleash his attack he stopped his running and ducked once more but let the speed moved him towards it.
After the pokemon unleashed its attack, Red stood up and continued his way towards when he extended his arm. He then grabbed a screw and got it out. Then the magneton screamed and the three magnimite that were together got separated. Red jumped away from them because now he knew what it would happen. When the magnimites touched each other a huge spark was made.
He heard screams and something to break. When he looked back, he saw that the magnimite had fainted as well as Surge and Proton. The thing that had broken was the egg. Or better haunted. A (purple) pineco had got out. It looked unhurt and at the same time alert. It must have also attacked because spikes were covering the trees and Surge. The spark must have been a little too much for it but it did its job. He knew that the spark wouldn't do anything to Surge since he trained with electric type but what the egg contained should have done something that could help him.
Red sighed and smiled at pineco while it looked at him with alert eyes but friendly stance. It started to jump away from them and that is what Red would also do, leave, but closed its eyes and turned into a pine cone. Pineco's turned into that when they sensed people nearby. But Red looking around he didn't see anyone near him. But pineco must have sensed it.
Pineco then shooted a spike towards a building that it was on fire. Red closed his eyes and tried to listen if there indeed someone there. But he couldn't hear anything but only burning sounds. So he stood up and started moving toward the river.
But his eyesight got white and he stopped. Everything was intense. Everything hurt! His eyes, his ears, body. A ringing sound started to occur in his ears and a scream. Red opened his eyes and the red dots were gone.
Red hadn't screamed! Suddenly he remembered! The scream from earlier! There was a person in that house! So without a moment of hesitation Red ran towards.
-xxx-
Drapion moved its tail up while the woman in its back laughed hysterically. That kids were not a match with her Drapion. Drapion moved its tail up and her laughs stopped. Where...where were the kids? Their bodies? Then something hit her and she fell down. She quickly moved up to see what had hit her and saw something moved away from her sight. The kids?
The woman walked towards the drapion when something cut her leg. She touched it and looked around her. What was there? She took out her vileplume and told it to use aroma to get that pokemon, that she thought it was, to her. Then before she could comprehend what had happened, something flew towards her. Or better had tried to hit her. That trainers snubbull. She told vileplume to use leaf razor and stopped the attack when it tried again to hit her. But the attack never came.
What made her worried was that the kids were nowhere to be found and yet again the snubbull was here attacking her. Also, that boy was not in the position to fight since her arbok had poisoned him. So where were they? Then a bright light made her hold her ground and tried to pinpoint what was the source of the light.
But what she saw, had disappeared again. Leaving her alone. Vileplume moved and the woman's attention focused on what the vileplume was doing. Then with a quick motion, it used razor leaf and hit the snubbull. She smiled. The pokemon had fainted so it would go to its pokeball. So she followed the light and she saw the girl was among some trees. She was ok and her smile was confident meaning that what the woman had tried to do hadn't work.
"I am impressed on how you escaped my drapion's attack but I am more worried on why the fuck you are smiling. You are in a tight situation young lady as I remember. Your friend had been poisoned by my arbok. And your only way to it was your jigglypuff. And yet you smile." The woman said and Blue put her finger in front of her mouth.
"Me? Smile? I don't smile, I smirk. Indeed I WAS in a tight situation but I found my way around it. Unlike you, I know poisons and how to deal with them." Blue said and moved towards her while she had in her hand another pokeball.
"Oh? So sure. And yet I don't see anything that shows the opposite. I see you and two defeated pokemon while your friend is no one near here. Meaning only that drapion has squeezed him."
"Like you? Squeezing that ass to get a promotion?"
"Oh aren't you a motherfucking kid!" She shouted and hit a button.
But drapion didn't do anything. She tried it again. Nothing. She turned around and saw drapion looking at her while in its head there was a silhouette. The boy. He was looking at her with a sinister smile.
"What?" The woman asked and Blue smirked at her.
"As I told you, I know my way around poisons and the only way to heal arbok's poisons without medical help was..."
"Drapions poison."
"Exactly! They cancel each other. But I first needed drapion's poison or..."
"Skorupi's."
"Oh, you got it! Exactly! The drats it shoot us earlier actually saves us."
The woman had lost her words. But the fight wasn't over. She tapped her foot and vileplume moved and tried to hit Blue. But something moved so fast that the woman nearly saw it and it threw vileplume several feet away. Fainted.
But the woman was looking at Blue. Blue smirked and looked at Sliver. The woman turned her head and saw him too. In Slivers shoulder there was a pokemon. Sneasel.
"How?" The woman finally asked and Blue answered.
"When drapion attacked us I said snubbull to move as close to drapion as possible. Meanwhile, behind it there was sneasel and Sliver had said to it to hit drapion's tail. Where you kept your bug that controlled it. On the other hand, I had used my other pokemon, ditty to transform and protect us. It became a sheld holding drapion's attack. But that was your mistake. Drapion's tail was accessible and sneasel's attack destroyed your bug freeing drapion. While you laughed it was easy for me to get a dart and save Sliver."
The woman smiled and started laughing.
"...if it wasn't for your altitude I would consider getting you inside Rocket. But you must remember I have also aces in my sleeves." The woman said and then an abra appeared behind her grabbing her.
"You must also remember that you win today but you will lose tomorrow. And I mean not in a fight!"
She said then she disappeared leaving Blue and Sliver alone.
Sliver jumped from drapion's head and Blue hugged him. It was so close. She was so close to losing Sliver. Thank Arceus she didn't and she had managed to clear her head and remember what was the altitude for arbok's poison. Drapion roared causing Sliver and Blue to stop hugging and looking at it.
It looked thankful and it bowed its head. Sliver and Blue did too. Then it turned and left.
Blue smiled.
-ooo-
"So what is shiny?" Sliver said after he was tested by the Nurse.
After drapion left, Blue asked Ditty to changed to a flying pokemon and moved them to the pokecenter. Now they were sitting in the waiting lounge after Sliver's tests were complete and they have shown that he was ok.
"I think it means it is the color of the pokemon. That drapion was not normal. Also, its cry and attack was more powerful and it recovered quickly from the attacks."
"Also its healing was fast...so Rocket had found a group of pokemon that are powerful...or..."
Blue understood were Sliver was going.
"Not find but rather as you said...made. Experiment. But why they didn't had it the pokeball and it was wild. Also why it evolved like that. I thought that drapion's evolved from experience?"
"No. You are right. I do remember it too."
Blue and Sliver then stopped. Their day was already exhausting. There was so much in it and yet the day wasn't over. Blue sat back at her chair and looked at the ceiling. She was lucky that she had booked a room because more and more people came inside the pokecenter. So many people to fight. But Blue only wanted to fight Green and Red.
Well, if she was lucky she could meet them tomorrow on the second day of exploring and road until she arrived on the battles. She asked Sliver if he would join her in her room and when he agreed she gave him her hand which he gladly accepted. So they started moving.
But Blue's mind was still on that woman and her last words.
"You must also remember that you win today but you will lose tomorrow. And I mean not in a fight!"
Lose but not in battle.
What could that mean?
-xxx-
Red kicked the burning door and moved inside the room. He had taken his hat and used as a mask so he could breath through the ashes. He looked around and tried hearing any sound that indicated that there was a person here... Nothing.
But Red wouldn't stop looking. He had heard them and that pineco felt them. That gave him high hopes. He would leave that person here. Red wasn't like them. He wasn't like those Rockets. He wouldn't let a person in need alone. Suddenly woods started falling from the ceiling and gasps of pain were heard. Upstairs!
Red found after a while the chairs and climbed them as fast as possible. He looked around as much as he could with his watering eyes and found a door. He kicked it and tried to find that person he was trying to save.
For his good luck, that person was at the bed holding his legs towards his chest. They had green hair and by their size, they must be younger than Red. Red got close to them and touch them lightly so he didn't freak them out. The child backed up a little but they looked up. He was a boy and his eyes told Red that he was crying knowing that something bad would happen. He had a mask on his face and Red was glad because that boy would have fainted and he would never have found him.
"Are you..." The boy started talking but some coughs escaped his mouth making him lose control.
Red touched his shoulders and reassured him that he would be ok. The boy stopped and looked at him. Red thank Arceus because he was wearing not the uniform but normal clothes or else the kid would have lost it. Red shook the kid lightly and asked him.
"Are you ok? Are you hurt?"
The kid shook his head and Red relaxed for a moment when he heard the kid had started goofing and the fire was still going. They should move before the floor collapse or the fire burned them alive.
"Kid, we need to move. Can you walk?" He asked but the child while coughing shook negative his head.
Red cursed but didn't stop his course of thinking. He turned and told the child to get closer to him so he could hold him in his back. The kid got closer and Red stood up holding him. Surprisingly the kid was not heavy but light. Nevermind that, Red needed to move.
So Red after he cleared his head he moved. He got to the chairs and moved towards the door. But the ceiling had collapsed there blocking his way out. Red heard the kid coughed but also sightly cry for their misfortune but Red wouldn't let anything else happen to him. He looked around and tried to see where he needed to go. He remembered that there was a window so he tried to find and hoped that the way out from it was accessible.
Red found it but it was closed. He tried to find the level to open it but it was burning. Thank Arceus he was wearing gloves or else he would have damaged his hand. He needed to break it but how? He tried to go back and find something but the ceiling collapsed making Red lose his balance and fall down. He heard the kid gasping and scream with pain.
He quickly got up making him nauseous but went to the child. His mask was gone making venerable towards the ashes. Red immediately took his hat from his mouth and put it in the kid's mouth. Red looked at the child and he cursed because he saw that the fall must have hurt the boy. Or better damaged his leg.
He needed to get out of here because the ashes got on him and the kid would die without help. He looked around once more for something, anything that could help...the mask! It looked heavy enough. He took it and threw with as much strength he had on the window. He heard something break and immediately he took the child in his arms and moved towards the window.
The next thing he remembered was that he fell somewhere while holding the child and clear wind finally hit his head. Red opened his eyes and he saw green around him. He had managed to get out of the house with the child. He thanked once more Arceus and after he relaxed for a while and breathed the clear air asked the child.
"Are you...ok?"
"...I...no." The child said and coughed once more.
"My medicine doesn't...work and there is fire...and my leg..." He said between coughs.
So the coughs were not for the ashes but was an illness but it had gone worse. Red smiled at him trying to relax the child and at least show him that now he was not alone. It must have worked because the child after a while smiled back and had relaxed. He was not coughing that much now so Red asked him again.
"Are you alone?"
"No. My parents are here. They were training here. And we just moved in here so the clear air helped me with my illness."
Red's spines got chills. No. He had heard the phrase clear air and remember two trainers walked inside the pokecenter. No. Those bastards. He looked away from the child. What should he tell him? What should he do? He had come here for a better life and in a matter of seconds, he lost it all.
The kid must have felt something in the air because he asked.
"You...have seen them?"
Red couldn't answer. He was sick. So he tried to smile at him. The best smile he could give him. And slowly stood up. He needed to leave before anything else would happen.
"Oh, we are going to the pokecenter for...my leg?"
"NO!" Red screamed but stopped.
He had spooked the child with his scream so he tried to make an excuse. The best he could offer.
"I...saw your parents...they told me that the pokecenter here is not...working...anymore. So I will take you to the pokecenter of Celadon city where it works. They told me that they will be gone for a while. Maybe they try to catch the guys who started... The fire!" He said and the kid smiled.
"My parents are amazing!" He said making Red sick.
He couldn't do anything. He couldn't say it. He needed to leave for here and try to find help. So he walked towards the river. He didn't see Surge or...Proton there making Red nervous. Where would they have gone? He nearly tripped on something but he walked forward wanting to leave this city.
And he stopped. Oh no! There was the river and there was no boat and he couldn't ask the Lapras to come and take them to Celadon city. He could swim but he didn't know how dangerous the water was or the distance between this and the other Celdaon. What could he do?
"We need help?" The kid asked having understood the situation.
"...yes." Red agreed truly making every second that passed precious because Surge or Proton could come.
"Maybe that thing can help? It moved."
"What thing?" Red asked and turned behind him to see what had caught the kid's attention.
"That!" And show a pine cone.
...pineco! Red let the kid slowly down and approached the pineco. It still didn't show its true form so Red smiled at it making it at least a good impression.
"Hello, little one. Well, remember me for before? I must thank you because you help me save that child over there. If it wasn't for you...who knows what would happen today. I know that you are not trained but I would like your help."
But pineco didn't come out. Red sighed. He could make it help him by force but he wouldn't do it.
"...I...wanted to say that am not mad at you. It is your choice and I will try to find another way for my problems. It still doesn't change the fact that I seriously thank you for your help earlier and I am sorry if I have bothered you. I want only for you to take care." Red said and moved towards the child.
Red took it in his arms and walked yet again towards the river thinking of a new plan. But a sound was heard making Red shelter the child. When he looked what had happened, he saw Lapras had come out and near the river was the pineco. Lapras looked at it and then at them. It then turned and showed them their shell. Red understood that and climbed it and put the child on it.
"Thank you!" He said at the pineco which it looked at him and it started to hop away from the city. Lapras started moving and Red saw that the once green city with nature was now reduced into a damaged and destroyed city.
-ooo-
Red had given the child to the nurse and after another one had checked his scratches, Red was sitting in the waiting area. He couldn't go outside and risk someone that knew him to see him. After he left from Lapras and thanked it, he ran immediately towards the pokecenter. He hoped that no one had noticed him but the grey smokes that were in the sky.
He looked at the ceiling exhausted. He was sick! He wanted to kill himself. What had happened today and which he didn't want to remember, made him sick. He wanted the earth to swallow him whole. He didn't know that team Rocket had that face too.
Red only knew that they were stealing, experimenting not...kill...rape. But it should have been obvious. It is an evil organization. He still had hope though that those people where only twisted not all of them. As he saw and experienced the people that got inside had specific qualifications. And yet why those were like...that? Sick?
And now? What he should do? He could go to the police but the police were unable to mess up with a huge organization. Who?
He looked at the floor. He was helpless! He was sick! He was nothing! But someone called him causing those thoughts to disappear and listen on who was asking him.
"...oh sorry. Were you asleep?"
Red shook his head while he was still looking at the ground.
"Oh good. I was telling you that the kid you brought here had woken up and he is ok. Well bringing asthma aside he is ok. He is asking you to see him." The nurse said and waited for him to follow her.
At least the child was ok...for now. He stood up and followed the nurse while still looking away so the nurse couldn't see his face. Not now. Maybe she knew him. After he entered the room where the kid was in the bed, he looked up. The nurse closed the door leaving them in privacy. But before she did, Red put a letter in her pocket. A letter that said what happened to the kid's parents. And so she could find the rest of his family and be with them. For the child to continue its life even though the days that will come will not be pleasant.
"...hello Mister. Sorry for the mask but that helps me a lot." The kid said and showed the mask that was in his face.
But Red smiled at him. He was in good spirits and that was good. He hoped for a long time.
"I wanted to say thank you for earlier. I didn't have the chance to do it but thank you!" He said with a gentle smile and a happy tone.
Red shook his head.
"It was nothing really. And you are welcome. I am glad you are ok!"
"Say, Mister. My parents will take a long time to come? Did the tell you? They must be really worried about me." The kid asked and Red's emotions collapsed.
He looked down and tried not to cry but also try to give an answer to the kid.
"...yes. They will be gone for a while but... I know that they think of you...and that gives them courage. They love you and care for you!" He had shouted the last part but didn't care.
"I should get going." Red said and started leaving when the kid said.
"You know even though my parents are awesome I don't want to be like them." He said and Red stopped.
"...what...do you mean?" Re asked curiously.
"They are strong and nice but...sometimes they go overboard. They take care of me and love me as you said but... I don't want to be like them when I grow up. I want to be able to help people no matter the cause. I want to help people understand their limits and know when and how to overcome them and when not. I want to be around when someone needs help. I want to be kind and patient and even when I am denied I would still be understandable and listen to them. But not only to people but also to pokemon. Like you just did with that pineco and lapras."
"I want to fight for what I believe and want I know or feel is right. A person that may people not want but need! I...want to be like you! A hero!" The kid shouted and smiled at Red.
Red felt himself finally cry. He kindly smiled at the kid but turned his back at him and shouted.
"I wish you can accomplish your dream. But I wish you also not to turn like me!"
Red ran from the room.
-ooo-
Red ran away from the pokecenter and into route seven. Away from the city. Away from what happened. Away from the child. Away from anything. He finally collapsed and tried to caught his breath. The day was nearly over he saw when he looked at the sky. It was getting dark. Now? What should he do?
He should move. Find the professor? What? But his mind didn't register the sound that got closer or the light. When he turned his head he saw Surge laughing at him.
"Well, look at that. What Giovanni said that you would do indeed happen. But the part with the rape and killing wasn't in the mission. Or actually, Proton and his grunts when I found out. He wanted to approach you and kill you personally. Don't worry they will take what the deserve. As for you, you still care for people and pokemon but also found a way for our eggs to hatch earlier. Impressive." He smirked and clapped.
Red growled at him but his leg hurt and he was too tired. Too tired to do anything to him.
"So I must say that my training is over. So for now on I won't be the one charge for you but..."
Something hit Red on the neck and stayed at it. Red tried to escape from the hand but it was actually relaxing him. Making him sleepy also. He started to fall down on the ground but managed to saw who would be in charge of him now on.
Koga.
Well Hello guys again! I finally did it and rewrite the original fic when I had it before my computer crashed it! Well now I will have multiples so nothing like this happens again. But anyway here is Red! Koga now will train him but how? And who is that Rocket that tried to kill Blue and Sliver? (an you guess?)
For sure now we will see more Red than others! So until then have fun!
