Now, the story was going much to slowly for my taste, and there needs to be more action. So instead of having our heroes sit around a police station for a few days, having lots of boring dialog i decided to skip forward in time a bit, and as this is chapter is a bit slow, it will help to set up a lot more gun fights. I DO NOT OWN POKEMON! Now i have been told that sex scenes are now allowed onto the website, whereas i consider this good news, i have not checked into the mater myself as until i started writing this little note, i had forgotten about needing to.
Jack: So its been about three months, and turns out im a total badass...
Mayleen: Yah he kinda is, and he has save my ass more times than i can count.
Mortuus Sanguine: Yah, im sure you guys had fun, but lets get this shit rolling...
It's been three months since that day in the police station garage. Just the next day, Temerity hacked every television station on the planet, they had the respective leader of each region hostage, the entire world was on its knees, and helpless. Countless civilians were hostage, millions died within days in attempted rebellion efforts against the criminal organization. They spoke of rebuilding the planet, for a better purpose. They posted pictures of Mayleen and me everywhere. We have been on the move constantly; Jenny was kind enough to supply me with enough guns and ammo for a small army. After I explained how I was able to eliminate the goons in the garage, she had me checked out by Nurse Joy; my DNA has been altered since I received my mark from Mayleen.
The alterations seemed to have changed me to majorly pokemon, but not that of the Ralts line, rather I have become a mutt of all pokemon, and human. I have killed more people than I can count, my powers seem endless, and Mayleen has been by my side the entire time. I discovered that there are several resistance cells throughout the world, and I appeared in the region of Hoenn. Mayleen and I are currently trying to find one of these resistance cells amongst the chaos that has sprung from Temerity's uprising…
It was night time, around 10:30 if I was correct, we only move at night using our psychic abilities to help us move faster so we can cover much more ground.
"Jack, I'm scared, what if the prophecy is true, and these events will decide whether or not the world continues?" Mayleen's mental projection had pulled me from my own thoughts as I ran through the forest at speeds I would have considered impossible just months before.
'Then the prophecy is true, and you and I will either make or break the planet. Either way we need to find help, as much I would like to try, even we cannot take on Temerity by ourselves, do you remember anything about that in what your parents told you?' I was quickly getting bored at the pace we were moving and decided to push myself further.
"I don't really remember, it seems so long ago…" Her mind trailed off and I could feel a lot of doubt and despair through our bond.
'I know, seems like just yesterday I was sitting on my couch playing guitar, waiting for my dad to start bitching at me for some reason or another, now this, on the run, I'm a super human freak of nature, and all the killing. Only good thing that has come out of this so far is being with you.' I trailed into back into my own mind for a moment letting my body go into auto pilot as I ran with Mayleen just beside me.
"I know babe, I just want all this to be over so we can settle down and just live normal lives." My mind snapped into focus as I felt something other than a wild pokemon nearby, it was roughly a mile away.
"Stop, I sense something…" I whispered as I came to a stop in front of Mayleen.
"It still bugs me that I'm full pokemon and yet your abilities are more powerful than mine…" She whispered back, I felt she was slightly agitated.
I scanned the minds, several pokemon, and about 30 humans, all close together, I decided to delve into the mind that seemed to have the most authority about it. I closed my eyes and let myself experience what this person was.
I was in a female body, surrounded by several dirty people male and female, several just kids, inside what seemed to be a cave. Weapons and bunks along the walls, a few fires scattered about, and what looked like several stacks of non-perishable goods. I felt myself about to speak so I concentrated.
"Fucking lock and load, there's a psy prying into my mind, be ready for those Temerity fucks to be here." Everybody around me picked up guns, mostly pump shotguns and hunting rifles, with a few that looked like an offshoot of an ak-47. I let go of the body and sighed in relief that it wasn't a patrol of Temerity.
"I don't know if its resistance but they are not Temerity, I'm going to send them a message mentally." Mayleen nodded, and I couldn't help but notice how beautiful she was with her blue eyes shining, and her hair waving in the moonlight even though she looked tired, and a little rough on the edges due to the months of travel.
"Hey babe, you just gonna stare at me or you going to send that mental message. And by the way, I know I look like hell, so quit thinking about it." She was blushing as she ran her fingers through her hair and I began to blush. I quickly regained my senses and concentrated once more on the mind I had previously invaded.
"You have no reason to believe me, but I am not from Temerity, I am Jack Marcson the man they have been hunting. I was just checking to see if you were a patrol or not, I did not intend to frighten you. Just think your response I will be able to hear it." I felt a great deal of surprise and confusion coming from the woman.
'How can I trust you?' I wasn't surprise by the question.
"How about a deal, I will teleport myself unarmed into your cave, and if you decide you can trust me, I will contact my partner here and she will bring my items." I felt her talking with the group and pondering whether or not to risk it.
'And if we refuse?' I thought about it.
"Well if I wanted to, I could put all of you to sleep right now, take a few meals worth of food, and be gone before you woke up, but I would much rather just be there on invitation." I felt fear and anger come from the woman.
'Fine come unarmed…' I smiled.
"Alright May take my bags for a moment, and my harness. I told them I was coming unarm…" I was interrupted.
"I know what you told them jackass, I could hear your projections; I'm psychic to remember?" I mentally face palmed myself as I handed her my two duffle bags both of which were filled with guns and ammo, while May carried a much lighter bag filled with military grade rations and a med kit. Once I was relieved of all my gear I stepped away.
"Alright I'm on my way, make a little bit of room, I don't normally try to teleport this far, or through ground for that matter." I waited till I sensed a good amount room between the energies of the people and pokemon.
I teleported and was greeted by a woman of about 23 with a twelve gauge pointing at my face and several more in a circle around me all with their weapons pointed at me. I had my hands up and twirled around to show that I had no weapons on my back.
"Now I have one question, if you are who you say you are, why is Temerity so hell bent on getting their hands on you?" I smiled at the question.
"It is pretty simple really, because I can do this." I snapped my fingers for effect, and teleported all of their guns to rest against the wall closest to me. Everyone let out a mixture of gasps and curses, and I felt a great deal of terror and anger.
"Now how do I know that you are not just having a pokemon do that for you, in the pictures you had a shiny Gardevoir with you, and they are pretty powerful psychics?" Once again I smiled.
"I guess you will just have to trust me on that, but I assure you I have no intentions of harming you, and the food thing was just a bluff, I have plenty of provisions, I simply want a place to crash for the night." The look on the woman's face became one much sterner, and I sensed somebody behind me reaching for a knife, I ignored it until the last second when I could sense the man's intentions as the blade left his hand. Like every combat situation since the mark I felt time slow down I could feel the blade turning in the air as it closed the six foot gap between me and the man, but just before the blade struck the back of my skull, I grabbed it with my mental powers.
"Now just what the fuck were you hoping to accomplish with that?" I said as I turned around to face the man who threw the blade. His eyes were wide as saucers and pure terror radiated from his mind, the blade still floating in the air surrounded by my psychic energy which seems to shift colors depending on my mood, currently it was just metallic black, as it was most of the time. I let the blade drop into my now open palm, the hilt of the knife towards the man I held it out to him.
"Try it again, and you may get the other end pointed at you, and if I might suggest, if you are going to throw a blade, don't use one like this, it's too heavy in the hilt, causes it to spin too erratically…" Most of the group surrounding me had likewise stunned looks, and slightly gaping jaws. I turned back to the woman.
"Now as you see even with reason to, I have not caused harm upon you, so if I may call for my partner?" She simply nodded. Instead of sending a message, I decided to just teleport back to Mayleen.
"Alright we're probably going to crash here for a few days, let me grab the stuff and we can go back." I felt relief from Mayleen.
"That scared the living hell out of me Jack, that was beyond my range of sensing, I couldn't tell what was happening." She came up and hugged me, kissing my cheek as I threw the two duffle bags crossing over my back and threw my harness back on, I hugged her back and teleported back to the cave.
Upon arriving I was again approached by the leader woman.
"Now what exactly do you want from us?" I could feel the suspicion coming from her.
"Maybe a bunk for a day or so, and help taking down temerity if you aren't just bunkered down here to hold out, and are some sort of resistance fighters." I reached out my hand and she took it.
"Alright, fair enough. The name is Flame, we don't use real names too much anymore. I'm the leader of the thirty first cell of Hoenn, this is mostly just a medical base, but we never go too long without having fighters come by, you could wait until they show up." I smiled at the woman.
"Now is there anything that you need me to do? I'm a 'Jack of all trades' and will help any way I can." Mayleen giggled at my little pun.
"Do you know anything about electricity? We've got a generator, but it went to shit on us about a week ago, and we haven't been able to find out why." I was glad to have something to do.
"I'll see what I can do, but can I get a bunk fist so I have a place to put this shit?" She nodded and pointed to a bunk behind me, feeling lazy I just teleported the gear onto the bunk, including Mayleen's backpack which made her jump.
"Asshole! You scared the shit out of me!" She thunder punched me on the shoulder, I simply laughed at it even though it hurt like hell.
"Um, how did you just take a thunder punch and just laugh at it?" Flame's mind was releasing an insane amount of confusion and curiosity.
"For the same reason I can teleport and use telepathy. But that's for another time, your generator?" She nodded and I felt her picture the part of the cave she knew it was in so I teleported the three of us there along with a log from one of the fires for light.
"OK FUCKING WARN ME NEXT TIME!" Flame said as she grabbed at her chest in an attempt to slow her heart.
"My apologies, not used to being around people who can't read my mind." I chuckled a little bit as she shot me an evil glare and took the burning log I was using as a torch and lit an oil lantern on the wall, and set the log in a metal barrel, lighting the inside of it on fire.
"Now there are tools over there, but none of us know how to fix it, so good luck." I nodded and she left the room, leaving me and Mayleen in the fire light.
After several hours of tinkering, I managed to jerry rig the whole thing to run on hand crank. I teleported back to the main room to find most everybody was sleeping, including May who had moved our gear to the top bunk as she had grown tired and wanted rest a while earlier. I walked over to her sleeping form pushing the hair away from her eyes I kissed her on the forehead.
"Why do you kiss her human?" I turned around to see a female Lucario tilting he head at me.
"We… Are close…" The Lucario tilted her head further as she approached me.
"You… You can understand me? I could tell your aura was not like other humans, but this is just strange…" I chucked a bit as I sat down with my back against the wall, rubbing various greases from my hands with a rag I found. I motioned for the Lucario to sit next to me.
"It's a long story… And it's a little crazy, but do you have a name?" The Lucario sat next to me but made sure not to sit to close as I could sense she was still skeptic of me.
"Before my trainer died, I was called Lumina de Terra, but she called me Lumy." She looked down at her crossed legs, I could feel pain and sadness radiating from her.
"Lumina de Terra? That is roughly Light of the Earth right?" She chuckled as she looked at me with surprise.
"That is a lost language from what I know, how do you know this?" I shrugged.
"Latin always seemed interesting; I can't speak it fluently but know bits and pieces." I pulled the guitar pick from the safety pin on my necklace and placed it between my lips as I began to levitate and sprawl out as if I were on a bed.
"You have control of psychic abilities, yet I sense powerful aura in you as well, what exactly are you human?" I checked around with my mind to see how many were awake, just a few by what I figured was the entrance to the cave. I teleported my shirt and harness to the top bunk but left the pistol just within reach of me. Teleporting the mattress from the top bunk underneath me I let myself stop levitating and lower onto it.
"This here," I pointed to my mark "is the mark Mayleen gave me, the day after we became mates. It seems to have made me part pokemon, so I am not just human, but I look like it." I watched her eyes widen as I said the word mate.
"So that is why you kissed her? Now it makes much more sense…" She curled up and lay near just a few feet away.
"So you say I have powerful aura? Do you think you could teach me to harness some of that? All I can really do right now, is use psychic based powers, and bulk up and agility if I'm angry but I don't really know how to use those consciously." She looked at me.
"I would be glad to teach you, but may I ask why you do not sleep with your mate?" She pointed to the bed next to me that held the sleeping form of my beloved.
"I don't want to wake her up, first time she has had a bed to sleep in for a long time." I smiled as I placed my hands behind my head and let myself drift into relaxation.
"That is very kind of you, many of the people here would not expect you to be so kind." She giggled a bit.
"And why would you say that?" I turned to her and propped myself up on my elbow to look at her.
"While you were working on the generator several myths about you started, like how you got that scare above you eye for example…" she pointed to my right eye.
"And what do they say?" I was laughing as I fall back to laying down.
"That you got it when you were belched from the bowels of a mad scientist lab, which shrapnel from the explosion when you destroyed it cut you…" she trailed off yawning. I laughed and yawned myself.
"Well not quite, about three days ago we ran into a patrol, they were using psychic inhibitors so I couldn't teleport out. Me and Mayleen were taking cover in a drainage ditch. A grenade landed beside us. I grabbed Mayleen and threw her out of the blast radius and tried to get away, but a fragment tore open the skin, just a little lower and I wouldn't have this eye at all…" She lifted her head and tilted it again.
"You healed that quickly?" I shrugged and yawned again.
"Yah, since I got this from May, I heal much faster than I used to…" She seemed to take that as an acceptable answer and lay her head back down on her forearm.
"That seems like it could be very useful." I nodded.
"Now if I may ask you something. Why do you stay with these people if your trainer is… Gone." I felt her sadness return and I wish I had not asked.
"Because, there is not much other choice in these dark days, and I can help with my aura to heal the wounded fighters that struggle for our freedom. Now it is late, I will return to my place with the other pokemon, you should sleep if you are to learn anything tomorrow." I nodded as she got off the floor.
"But wait, I never told you my name, or do you already know it?" She nodded as she walked away.
"I know your name Jack, the entire world does…" she trailed off as she walked away, I rest my head down, closing my eyes and letting sleeps dark embrace take me.
Be expecting much more regular updates again, as i have made myself start putting time aside to write.
Jack: So is this Lumy chick gonna be hanging around for long? i dont want May to get jealous or anything...
Mayleen: *light breathing, mumbles something incoherent
Mortuus Sanguine: Honestly i dont know yet, guess we will find out later, and please remember to review, even if you already have, i would appreciate you doing so again.