David walked into the arena however for once he was not in the centre but the audience, he had been hoping to watch this fighter for some time now but Gardevoir's injury had prevented him from leaving for fear of finding his room had imploded in his absence. Fortunately Sabrina had agreed to stand watch with her Alakazam, David chuckled under his breath. He knew Sabrina thought she had got the better end of the deal with the chance to study a Gardevoir.
The fighter walked into the arena, all entrants had been allowed to compete alongside their pokemon if they wished but only ten others had taken up the offer, of those ten David was watching the only one still in the tournament.
She fought with an acrobatic style, a series of leap and flying kicks. Which sent her opponent reeling, finally her opponent – a Raticate – tried to fight back with Hyper Fang, the fighter somersaulted the rat effortlessly before landing a spinning kick on it's back then she leapt into the air Raticate turned round not looking up, the fighter landed on top of it and brought a fist right between it's eyes. The pokemon crumpled and David - although not understanding how the pokemon had been knocked unconscious by such a minor blow – applauded.
Slowly David got up from his seat in the stands unnoticed within the crowd and even though he knew she would never see a single gesture within this crowd he saluted her before walking back into the tunnels.
David was sitting once more in the armchair by the side of his injured pokemon but this time he was just relaxing rather than trying to heal the grievous wounds. At the moment his presence was all that was needed to prevent any more psychic bursts from Gardevoir's pained mind. And then they came, the door was knocked of it's hinges as police officers with pokemon barged in, there were many psychics and fighting pokemon presumably chosen specifically to combat the trainer's abilities.
David got up calmly.
"Evenin' officers. May I know what this is all about?" He inquired, confused but polite.
"I apologise sir but we need to ask you some questions down at the station." said an Officer Jenny, miraculously the only Jenny in the room, a rare occurrence when there are multiple officers at the scene.
"A station already? I thought it would be months till a community was established."
Jenny cleared her throat. "It will be sir, by the station I meant the cave we are currently holed up in."
"My apologies officer, I did not mean to offend, and I am afraid I must decline your generous offer. My pokemon need me." He said indicating his comatose Gardevoir.
"Be that as it may and as touching as your devotion to your pokemon's welfare is your presence here is doing nothing to actually help. Now I must insist you come with us."
"You misunderstand me officer, I am actually needed here, it is only my presence here which is stopping Gardevoir from psychically lashing out." He said calmly, still acting the gracious host. "Why do you think I haven't left except for my own fights and to watch a single fight I viewed as interesting enough to risk the danger of leaving her in the hands of another psychic." He lied smoothly and easily.
"We will need the name of this other psychic to corroborate your story."
"Of course officer, her name is Sabrina, hopefully you've heard of her." David said sarcastically his annoyance starting to show.
"The matter is quite urgent sir, we may need to press charges."
"What sort of charges?"
"The murder of Marcus Fara."
"The bastard's dead is he? Well it's no skin off my nose. Have you autopsied the body yet?"
"I refuse to answer that question."
"Then please leave, this is getting nowhere and you're distracting me. I will submit myself to you for questioning when it is viable. Fair enough?"
"That will be all for now."
"Good and can you please put the door back on your way out." He collapsed back into his seat.
Eventually once he was sure the police had gone he got up and put the door back on it's hinges. No sooner had he got back to his chair when someone knocked on the door which fell with a dull thud revealing the two men in suits from earlier. They were looking more than slightly surprised.
"Come in." said David struggling to hide his amusement.
"Thank you, sir."
"If you're here to repeat your offer then don't waste your time. My answer is still the same."
"Giovanni says that he understands your loyalty to your pokemon and has requested we bring this." He held out a laptop and placed it on the table before flipping open the lid, David leaned forwards to see the screen properly and there was the most infamous gym leader on the planet staring back at him.
"Giovanni." David's voice was suddenly flat, completely devoid of emotion and inflection.
"Ah, David. I must apologise for the inconvenience but there are matters I believe need to be discussed."
"Yes there most certainly are." David replied again keeping emotion out of his voice.
"Marco, Marcus. Please leave." The two suits left silently. "I believe you may require my help."
"And why would you believe that?" David inquired, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh drop the act. I will give you one bit of advice, leave the competition and never return to the League again."
"And if I do not?"
"Then the League and I shall not be held responsible for the consequences, this is your final warning."
"I do not respond well to threats Giovanni. And if you really expect me to back down now then you are a fool. There is no threat you can come up with that will make me forsake my goal!" David shouted, emotion finally clouding his voice.
"How about this one? Leave now or she dies." He gestured imperiously towards Gardevoir beyond the screen.
At that last threat David lost it and the computer exploded shrapnel flying everywhere and all that kept David and his Gardevoir being torn apart by the debris was the psychic shield he had erected. In Giovanni's office the result was not quite so spectacular, the computer fizzled as electricity arced uncontrolled upon it's surface as it's hardware caught fire. Giovanni smiled maliciously.
"So be it. 009 I have an assignment for you." Out of the shadows someone moved.
Author's Note: The content of the two chapters shall be decided by you the reviewer. That is, you will decide if Gardevoir lives or dies! What I can guarantee is an appearance by Flannery, Lt. Surge, and even a brief appearance by Jessie, James and Meowth along with the other human left in the competition and even 009 – Domino.
In other news there is a chance that Memoirs of a Fool may be rewritten so that it includes an actual plot rather than just a first attempt at writing longer chapters which was it's essential purpose, note that this is a repost of the old chapter with a few of the errors ironed out, same with chapters 5 and 6
