Gonna try some 1st person POV because I suck with detail in 3rd person XD. Any ways CARRY ON!
Chapter 13 Ash POV
Changed forever 2 change harder.
Ash:14 Dawn:13 May:14 Brock: 17
I woke up to panicked voices both male and female, there was a blinding whitelight set infront of my face, I could here a rapid yet steady beeping sound somewhere close to me, when I tried to move my arms they were restrained and I had no feeling in my right arm, and I felt a tube or dick deep down my throat, what kind of nightmarish shithole was I in?
"Mister Ketchum you're in the hospital I'm doctor Sandesky, do you want the tube out?" A man in a white lab coat said turning off the blinding light. I nodded and they removed the tube rather slowly though I had to stop myself from throwing up.
"Uugghh *cough* *cough*" I coughed.
"Where the hell am I?" I said forgetting what the doctor had said in the 1st place.
"You're in the hospital you were out for three days while we operated on you." He said.
"Operated what?" I said then I remembered my fight with Ceasar oh shit I remembered that though immediately took effect of my profile. I looked over to my restrained right arm. I was now freakin Luke Skywalker except he may have lost his left arm….
"I'm sorry but we couldn't save your arm most of our focus was on your left shoulder." A nurse said. I gave a sigh and leaned back on my bed. We were silent for a while there was a lot of awkwardness and tension.
"How am I in the hospital I though the city was under attack?" I asked breaking the silence.
"The regional guards did a lot of work in three days we're still recovering and they're investigating what had happened." The doctor said. I looked over my right arm it was still a shock to me.
"Wha-what did you do with my arm?" I asked quietly.
"It could not be refitted…you lost to much blood so we had to focus on keeping you alive." The doctor said.
"Then why do I have robo arm here?" I asked.
"It is a prototype technology the marines are working on for wounded veterans. It costs a fortune so you have friends in high places." The doctor said. I cringed a little before saying.
"How much?"
"600 million poke' as I said it's a prototype and you seemed to be the perfect patient to test it on." The doctor said. The intercomn went on calling the doctors name I didn't really pay attention to what the lady had said.
"I'm sorry but I have other patients to attend to if you need any help just ask the nurses." The doctor said walking out. I felt like ripping the eyes out of something, the few hours I spent sulking in my own self-pity it was difficult because I couldn't really move my arms. A knock came on the door I didn't know how long I was laying their wallowing.
"You have visitors." A nurse told me I didn't answer.
"You have 15 minutes and then off with you understood?" She told my visitors.
"Ok." About two voices told her, and Brock, May, and Dawn came in the nurse followed them to un-restrain me.
"Hey Ash we heard you were awake so we can as soon as we can." May said she had a white bag in her hand I wasn't that hungry but I can't turn down fast food compared to the hospital food. So being me I grabbed the bag not being like me I didn't ravenously chow down on it and I took my sweet time eating it and getting my arm chopped off suddenly taught me manners.
"Oh no it's worst than I thought." Dawn said covering her mouth. I remained silent eating my food.
"Well Dawn he just got his arm cut off, considering that I think he is doing pretty well." Brock said as the three sat down.
"So what really happened four days ago May?" I asked May she took out her holopad and the hologram map of the city popped up.
"Tactical airstrikes off the coast of Unova they hit…they hit the most populated areas of the city apartment complex, and the gym." May said in a sad tone I continued listening.
"The missiles hit all major cities in Sinnoh and Kanto even more proof they were from Unova." May said voice growing sadder Dawn leaned her head on my left shoulder.
"Death toll by the millions." She ended. We sat there in silence for a couple of minutes.
"Well than Ash how is your… robo arm?" Brock broke the silence.
"Well I have no feeling in it and it acts like a normal arm, May any things you want to tell me about robo arm?" I asked.
"What makes you think I know anything about it?"
"Because you seem to know about every single prototype thing in the world." I retorted.
"Yea that's true…" She said looking down and hovering her holopad over my arm. The arm looked like any other human arm in shape and size, but it was covered in metallic plating which I knew for sure wiring and gears were under it. Whenever I moved it, it made a metallic whining sound.
"This actually is my brain child, a year or two back I came up with the idea and Uk'crac pushed it through, it's made with titanium and steel plating with the most complex wiring on this planet the nodes on the machine should bond with the nerves of the amputated arm so you can move it like your regular arm." May explained.
"It multiplies the speed and power of a regular human hand to superhuman level speed and power which is pretty easy to do when you have no feeling in it. Oh and you can put a nanobot coating over it to simulate skin texture, color, and feeling for the user." This time Brock explained as May moved a slider on my forearm in the blackness of millions of moving nanobots covered my right arm after a few seconds a fresh coat of skin was on my arm. It felt and looked like my old arm except for the faint lines of the metal plating. I looked it over it even simulated my muscle growth based on my other arm. We talked for the rest of the time we had about family stuff what we were gonna do now I remained silent most of the time I was at a low point. Eventually the 15 minutes were up and the nurse came in to shoo my friends off.
"The Order will push your paper through you'll be out by tonight, after that we have work to do, enjoy the pudding." May told me walking off and I gave Dawn a good bye kiss it had been a hard three days for her and her mood showed it, I'll make it up to her later.
May was right I got out of the hospital that night, in hindsight that probably wasn't a good idea. Dawn met me as I got out and we walked to the hotel room Brock rented. It was a silent walk I didn't feel like freerunning at the moment. That dinner time wasn't much better usually I would be the chatter box so there was this void in the conversation. Soon we all went to sleep.
The next Day (around noon)
"Hey Ash we're gonna go shopping…come with?" Dawn asked me I could detect a hint of pleading in her voice. I had taken to just sitting on the balcony for hours at a time ever since I got back to the hospital. Which again consolidate that, my early discharge was a bad idea.
"No sweetheart I think I'll stay maybe catch up on some of my sleep." I somewhat lied quietly. I gave her a kiss on the head before she along with Brock, and May left. May lingered a little longer giving me a that was mean of you look. I just walked over to the balcony opened the door, stepped out and closed the door behind me.
I had a soda table set up and moved a chair from the living room of the hotel room. Off course my narrative doesn't reflect my mood because this is a 1st person post commentary so…yea. Afterwards I resumed my state of sulking in my own self-pity.
"Why did I live when all those people died…." Thoughts like that came to my head.
"Why me…why me…why me…" Terrible thoughts came to my head as I looked over my curse of a robotic arm. I should have died why would how do I of all people deserve anything like this? Upon hearing my nasty thoughts along with some other thoughts that shall not be mentioned Siearra appeared and tried to talk me out of the bottomless pit I was in.
"Master-" Siearra said worry in her voice.
"What!" I snapped back it was mean of me but I wasn't in the best mood at the time.
I just wanted to be alone at the time I didn't really care about anything at that point. Which made it a great surprise to suddenly find my .45 pointed at my head finger on the trigger, how did that get there? No wonder she was worried. I gave an audible sigh putting the pistol on the table Siearra calmed down a little.
"I'm sorry I wasn't thinking straight." I said weakly. She looked away and sat down on the table.
"You know I've had a wide range of masters…but none of them were suicidal." Siearra stated.
"Well have any of them been through what I've been through!? Any of them lose their parent at the age of 8 or be at ground zero to one of the largest coordinated genocide in the history of this planet!?"
"No master." Siearra said looking at me now defeated.
I was about to say something until she cut me off. "Master… you are in a lot of pain I know, we've all been there…" She said this time I looked away.
"What would ending your life prove? That you Ash Ketchum whom lost his father at childhood, lost three pokemon leagues in a row and even than you never gave up, gave up!? You end your life than you will let us all down. Mistress Dawn what would she think? May, Brock, Misty, Gary, Max what about them!?" Siearra argued.
"And worst of all you will let your father down, all of his work his legacy he entrusted to you, all wasted hours of anger, grief, lost, all because you decided to quit!" Obviously the lucario was very pissed off now. That gone done it and before we both knew it I had her in a choke hold with my robo-arm, with me staring daggers into her red eyes.
"Life is not determined by how you react to defeat… it is how you rise above it and conquer your demons. There is no fairness in this world we all have to overcome it our own way or otherwise the streets would be riddled with the people that made your choice and pulled the Arceus damn trigger." The lucario said fearlessly. By then I had released my choke hold from her.
"And why do you give a dam about my life? Why would you dam yourself to the servitude of this so called family!" We were both shouting now which was weird to any people passing by because I was arguing with a mix of grunts and barks which translated for me was English.
"Why!? Why!? Because a thousand years ago a mother and father damned their own daughter to, eternal servitude to your so called family." Siearra that actually surprised me.
"Their own daughter! They didn't force her they gave me that a choice! I chose that life because I believed in people like your multiple greats, grandparents! I believed that I owed them that much, they faced deportation, blackmail, murder, hate, bankruptcy, everything bad that could ever happen to them they faced it all!" Siearra shouted at me tears welling up in her eyes.
"And they endured that torment for 20 years! All the time they try to escape the clutches of a world that tried to exterminate my kind. The last lucarios in Sinnoh we had no help from anybody, and I mean nobody pokemon and humans alike! A handful of kind hearted people could barely muster up the will to help us. In the end It was only your ancestor that he ever came to our help without a second though of shooting us in the head!" A single tear dripping down her eyes.
"Your great great great many more great grandfather was a kind man… he fought for us from bringing the Assassins to Sinnoh to protecting my parents and I from the people that hunted us down like raticates." Siearra stated calming down now.
"I looked up to him master, because of him my kind survived I owe him much more than this. I chose this life because I believed that the most trustworthy people are the one who have lost everything, stare in the face of death and poverty and just say no, and still find it within them to all those in need, he never gave up he rose above all of it the death, and hate he found a way even in the most impossible of situations. You mock his memory by even thinking of quitting master, I have watched over generations of generations of your family all face challenges in life all have never quit." Siearra stated tears running down her face.
" You have a proud yet dark, cold, painful, past Ash we all had to work to achieve the dream of what is all the five regions you know of today. Don't destroy all we have worked for Ash." Siearra almost pleaded with me.
There was a moment of deathly silence between us as she looked into my eyes. She leaned her head in I was a bit shocked both from the history lesson of my grandfather and her emotional outburst. She jumped into my arms hugging me tightly, she probably wasn't as shocked as me but I couldn't really push her away at that point. So I cradled her as she sobbed into my shoulder she let out a lot I could give her that much.
Before I knew it three hours have passed and the Lucario had fallen asleep. How I stood up like that for three hours and how she fell asleep eludes me. I ignored it for the moment, I holstered her up carrying her bridal style opening the door and waking into the living room. I set her down gently on the couch and snatched a blanket from the floor and carefully draped it over the blanket moved with her soft rhythmic breathing. I walked over to my spot on the balcony again closing the door behind me.
A gave a large sigh, running my fingers through my hair. Well what the hell was I to do now? My first semiconscious plan didn't work to well actually it worked very well the best a plan can ever go. But even Siearra's speech can't relieve the void in my soul.
"Alkira!" I yelled the A.I's name after some 15 minutes of silence. The hologram of Dawn appeared on the railing next to me, I didn't have my bracers on so I didn't really know how she got there. Oh well if they figured out teleportation then they mastered holograms.
"Yes Mister Ketchum?" The hologram asked.
"Need you to run a search for me, compile a list of Native Unovian tribes that survived to this present day, all sectors." I ordered.
"Yes Mister Ketchum, any particular reason for this unique search?" The A.I smirked.
"I don't know Alkira, I don't want to grow to be old and bitter… maybe they can help me more than any doctor can." I said quietly.
"And how would you know about how much a doctor can help you? Considering you skipped three months of physical therapy." The A.I remarked I gave a light chuckle before she disappeared.
I assumed my spot on the balcony for the next three hours personally my ass really heart by 20 minutes. By 6:00 clock Dawn and the other got back I helped them with the bags now back to my depressive state, I had always been a good actor. We had a silent dinner watched some T.V Dawn trying to make me feel better the whole time although it was an act now I didn't tell her. Would that make me cruel? I don't know. Soon came bed time as everybody got in their sleeping arrangements no one really cared why Siearra was passed out on the couch but she eventually woke and returned to her pokeball.
I walked into our room closing the door behind me and jumping in bed. Dawn had gotten out of the bathroom and got in as well cuddling up to my chest. I draped an arm around her as she got comfortable. After a couple of minutes the warmth of sleep overtook us.
"Ash can I talk to you…please." Dawn broke the silence I was half asleep so I heard her opening my eyes. She got into sitting position looking over me my hand still wrapped around her waist.
"When we got the call that you were alive it was the happiest moment in my life…" She said stroking my hair as I looked at her.
"I mean you got your arm chopped off… legs broken, fractured skull, not to mention that sword in your shoulder." She carried on about the many injuries I've sustained and off course the tactical strike on all regions.
"All I'm saying is you've been through so much in such a short amount of time. I don't want to lose you Ash, I know your mental health is… less than stellar." She smiled earning a chuckle from me.
"I think you should consider going back to therapy… I don't know what the hell May was thinking when she got Uk'crac to push your paper through." She carried on the rest of the speech went less than stellar with her contradicting herself and stumbling on her own words. All of it ended when I placed a finger on her on her lips effectively stopping her.
"Dawn… I got my arm cut off, it would be ignorant for any of us to think I'll ever be the same again. You need more faith in me I'm not that far down the whole, But I'am working on it sweetheart." I assured her giving her a wink. Right after, I planted a kiss on her lips to clear all doubts. She wrestled me onto my back we broke gasping for breath with my blue haired mistress on top of me. She had the most peculiar of evil grins. Oh boy I'm gonna get it tonight ;)
May be sticking in 1st person I love writing in it. Unto next time mates