(Hey everyone! Sorry for the wait, I just couldn't seem to put the story into words... Oh well! The wait is over and Grey will be surprised this chapter, for sure)
"Speech"
'Thought'
*Poké Speech*
Chapter 4
"Come with us kid or you're gonna regret it."
"Hey! Who are you guys?!"
"Don't make me repeat myself kid. Make the right choice and come with us."
Grey was starting to sweat, decisions, right and wrong, were swirling around his head and Cheri was now glaring at the men. Grey tried to think how to get out of this until the only thing in his head was to run. So he did.
"Hey! Engage! Don't let him escape!" 1 of the 4 men yelled before everything spiralled straight to chaos.
As soon as Grey ran past the men and through the bushes, he returned Cheri to her Poké Ball and stumbled right into a clearing full of Pokémon. All Pokémon present stared at Grey while all he managed was a "Uhh..."
"Spear!"
"Rattat!"
"Pidge!"
"Get back here kid! You can't run forever!" which finally knocked Grey out of his stupor and apparently signalled the Pokémon to start going crazy!
The men released their Pokémon and fought the wild ones while Grey was trying to get away without hurting the smaller Pokémon scampering around his shoes. One of the men noticed and ordered his Pokémon to keep fighting before dashing right at Grey!
"Oof!"
Grey groaned as he was pinned to the ground by the man. He then spotted him reaching for cuffs and that's when he started to try to shake the man off of him. He succeeded and started to sprint away, only for the man to trail him quite closely.
"Let me go! I didn't do anything!"
"Yeah? Well, boss's orders. So you better get back here right now!" the man yelled before jumping at Grey again.
'I can't keep running at this rate! They'll catch me eventually and then what happens!? Well if they want me, I can at least save Cheri!' and so as Grey resigned to his fate, he threw Cheri's Poké Ball and yelled with all the air in his lungs "RUN CHERI! I CAN'T OUTRUN THEM BUT YOU CAN! SO JUST GET AWAY FROM HERE!"
Four things happened in the next few moments. Cheri popped out of her Poké Ball, Grey got shoved to the ground once again, Cheri stared at her trainer, who sacrificed himself to let her get free and then she ran. She ran deeper into the forest, and farther away from Grey and the men. Tears started to stream down her eyes as the greenery zipped past her blurred vision.
*Grey... Why did you... Our adventure just started, you can't-*
Cheri stopped by a tree and started to weep. Panting from exhaustion on both physical and mental beat downs, she cried herself to sleep.
*Grey... I'll find you, somehow...*
Meanwhile...
"Why are you doing this!?" "Be quiet back there. Or should I hit you again?"
Grey was cuffed and was being driven to wherever the men were taking him. They were in a black, armoured van and Grey was seated in the back with 2 of the guys guarding him. After Cheri ran, the man held Grey down and told the others to wrap up business before aiding him in restraining Grey. After he was restrained, they led him to the vehicle they were currently residing in.
Grey decided to keep his mouth shut for the rest of the ride and just looked at his shoes. Over the course of the next 15 minutes or so was uneventful, only the road's bumps making the van bounce was pretty much the only thing happening, when finally, the motion stopped and the guards opened the doors. Sun hit his face as he was pulled along by the two, who met up with the other men that aided in his capture. They were in a open area with only a large building as their destination. One of the men started to talk into a radio.
"Hey boss, we got your guinea pig, now what?"
"Muffled speech."
"Okay, got it. Come on, we're going to test chamber 3." the guy said as he put the radio away.
'What, guinea pig!? Test chamber!? Just what are they going to do to me!?'
Grey's thoughts were now flying around his mind at such an erratic pace, he was getting a headache. He now thought that these men and whoever else is working with them are officially crazy! Grey was so distracted by his thoughts that before he knew it, they had already arrived at an elevator inside the building. He started shaking as they entered and the number of the floor they were on started to decrease towards B2.
Once they were at their stop, Grey's heart almost stopped at the sight of a tall man in a black suit with two, what seemed to be scientists, by his side. He grinned when he saw Grey.
"Hello there child. Are you comfortable?" he said, grinning the whole time.
"What are you gonna do to me?" Grey said, fear striking his heart.
"Do not worry, we are just testing new technology, nothing dangerous. For us anyway."
Grey's eyes widened and looked at the man before trying to run, but was immediately grabbed by the men who captured him. 'This isn't right! Who are they!?'
"I would like to thank you for "volunteering" to test this technology, we needed someone expendable."
"You guys are crazy!"
"You won't understand our goals, nor do you need to. Team Rocket will rise to the top of this world and you'll help us. You should be honoured." the man said before leaving the scientists with Grey and the other men.
"Hey! No! Don't do this!" Grey screeched while trying to yank away from the man holding him. 'Why is this happening to me!?'
"Come. We shall start testing immediately." one of the scientists said before walking with the other scientist towards presumably the test chamber.
Grey was once again trying to control all of his thoughts while they were walking down the halls. All Grey could think about was what this technology is, who the man was, and why him? They could have picked off any other new trainer and he could be merrily strolling towards his next destina-
'No! If they took a different new trainer than me, then they would be experimenting with 10 year olds!' Grey thought as they went through a door.
'Well at least they did take me. A poor kid would probably be dead from fear.' Grey didn't want a kid to take his place when they have so much of their life ahead of them. If they took a kid, then these people were more crazy than he thought.
He was knocked out of his stupor when he saw a table in front of him, bindings where if a person were on it, they would tie that person's legs and arms to the table. Grey was then being lead towards it and he tried one more time to escape but he just wasn't as strong as the guy holding him.
'Well, looks like I waited all this time for nothing. Bye Adventure! Hello Fate. You really hate me for some reason, don't you?'
(And that's the end! Hope you guys enjoyed and until we meet again, You're left with this cliffhanger. Wahhaha!)
