Silver chapter 21 "No name ,can't think of one" (blackjack anyone?)
"where am I…" I squinted my eyes open and saw a female Ninetails standing over me but I couldn't tell how far
"You're awake Ta-" she said stopping herself and I moved a paw up to my face covering my eyes when I noticed that I couldn't see well on one side then I opened both eyes but I saw the same as before and felt something covering the side of my head
"You were hurt badly" she said looking down at me sadly "what's your name
"Shiro" I said
"Like your eyes?" she asked
before I realized what she had said "Wait what?" I asked she brought a small round mirror and handed it to me. I looked into it and a pale gold vulpix with a bandaged face stared back at me with white eyes
"I never noticed that" I said "I actually meant Shiro as in 4"
"that's bad luck you know" she replied "but anyways what happened to you?"
"I lost" I answered simply "but why is my eye covered?" I asked reaching up to it again
"I was going to wait to tell you this but… your eye was damaged beyond help" she said waiting for me to break down in tears
I laughed "Hah I guess it's karma then" I said
"what?"
"you know an eye for an eye" I said before I broke out laughing again
"what do you mean what did you do?" she asked
"well I…" I thought about how to phrase it "there was someone I was supposed to capture but someone else got in the way and…"
"what happened?"
"I shot him" I stated bluntly bracing myself
"are they okay?" she asked
"I don't know ,I didn't see… I hope so though" I said the words escaping my mouth before I realized what I was saying
"what was his name?" she asked
I tried to remember "I think he called him Ta… Takehi...ko? was it?"
"was he a vulpix?" she asked
"yes" I said
"how old was he?" She asked starting to cry a bit
"About the same as you" I answered
"Is he alive?!" she asked
"..." I turned away from her
"Is he alive?!" she repeated
"I don't know I already told you" I answered and she burst into tears. I thought about it ,I couldn't go back to them after what had happened but I needed to find out if he was alive
"I-I'll... try to...check" I said sitting up with some effort before mustering whatever energy I had left and sending out a "ping" I waited for a while ignoring the ones from nearby pokemon and others going about their daily lives and the I felt the bounce back from his presence
"what's wrong?" she asked
"He's... that way... still... alive… I … think" I said pointing before a I passed out again
I woke up again sat up with a bit less effort this time
"Please lay back down you have to rest" a chansey said running up to me
"My things where are they?" I asked
"over here I'll bring them to you" she said leaving the room and returning with my black backpack "you've been out since yesterday"
"I have to go" I said putting it on before starting to take the bandages off my head
"If you're going to go then at least take this" she said handing me an eyepatch
"what's this fo-" I said remembering what the ninetails had about my eye "thank you" I said putting it on the words sounding foreign to me I stepped outside the small clinic and send out another "ping" easily finding my former "home" before running towards it as fast as I could and getting there in a little less than 10 minutes and I walked over to the main entrance which was dug into the side of a cliff and I ran towards it being stopped by a soldier
"hey kid you can't play around here" he said sincerely judging from his thoughts
"how come?" I asked playing along
"because this area is of limits to anyone who isn't allowed" he said frustration radiating from his head I discretely took the gun from my bag with telekinesis and moved it around him until it was behind him
"but I'm from here" I said moving it closer to his head
"I mean you have to be a soldier" he said his frustration growing
"then I'm halfway there" I said cocking the hammer
"how come?" he asked a bit amused
"our jobs" I said
"what?"
"we both have to kill people" I said pressing it against his head
"wh-" he froze as he realized what it meant
"now open the door" I said he turned around and complied sliding open a wire mesh fence and letting me in. I walked in and noticed he was reaching for his gun and without hesitating I shot him before doing the same to the others guards who had turned at the sound and smiling to myself before walking in
Satoru's POV
I looked over at the couch and saw that Shiro was still moping so I walked over and decided to cheer him up
"Hi Ken'ichi" I said sitting down
"Hi Satoru" the Vulpix replied
"are you still looking at…" I couldn't remember the name
"Shiro's knife" he said
"we're going to go attack the base right now" I said and he seemed to perk up a bit "are you coming?"
"okay but can I ask you one thing?" he said
"sure" I answered
"when we find whoever-" he stopped for a moment looking shocked before continuing "flipped the switch on Shiro" he made a stabbing motion with the sheathed knife
"I'll make sure of it" I told him "come on we're about to leave" I said walking out and catching up with everyone else other than Katsurou ,Takehiko , Sato ,Nikolai ,and Kenji who stayed behind. We trekked through the forest for about an hour before arriving and finding that surprisingly all the guards were dead we entered the base finding that the same had happened inside as well
"let's split up" Akito suggested as we got to an intersection
"where's the kid?" Raiden asked and I looked around noticing he was gone
"Ugh Satoru you're with me we'll double back and look for Ken, Raiden ,Azami and Setsuko you guys look for whoever got here before us" he said and I followed him back the way we came and heard someone in a room Akito looked inside before pulling his head back as a shot went past him he ran inside and put up a barrier deflecting the shots of a soldier who was on the ground before dropping it and lunging for his throat
"come on he must be ahead" he said leading me down a hall and I stopped for a moment looking inside a room and seeing a vulpix I called him
"Found him" I said ducking just in time as the vulpix leaped at me and overshooting me let out a flamethrower singing some of my fur I jumped to avoid an ember and before I knew it he had jumped on top of me and was trying to bite my throat while I held his head back with one paw noticing he had the same white eyes as Ken'ichi but was older he shoved his head forward again almost connecting with my neck ,I panicked and flailed out with my paw cutting his neck a bit and making him try to bite me with more vigor than before forcing me to use both paws to hold him back before he moved back a bit making my paw slip then he lunged forward again accidentally moving into the path of my claws and he fell off of me gasping for breath
"Satoru are you alright?" Akito asked me helping me up
"yeah but" I looked at the dead vulpix on the floor
"Is that-"
"no he looks a bit older" I said then noticing he had a collar on I checked it "SV-235-F" it said then backing away I noticed it was female
"It's not him the number looks different and it's a girl" I said
"Then let's keep looking we kept checking the rooms having about 5 more similar encounters with vulpix's but they were all 23- instead of 249 and we're also all female having an "F" or an "E" at the end of the serial number we kept checking rooms though and eventually to a dimly lit one with fluid filled container in rows I walked up to one and looked at it's content there was a vulpix with 3 tails instead of 6 I looked around and noticed that almost all of them had vulpix's in them and they were all missing tails and we're all younger than either Ken'ichi or Shiro
"what is this?" I asked
"I don't know let's leave" Akito said we left and ran down another hall and saw that the door to an office was slightly open we went inside and saw Ken'ichi sitting inside as well as there being a dead Alakazam
"Ken'ichi are you okay?" I asked him but he just stared at me blankly as if he was thinking of something
"are you okay?" I asked again shaking him
"Yeah I'm fine" He said before looking down at the knife he had
"Did you kill him" Akito asked but he just kept staring off into space. Akito walked over to the corpse and examined it for a moment before turning back around and leaving the room
"come on we need to catch up with Raiden and Setsuko" he said waiting for a moment before running down the hall we followed after him with Ken'ichi pulling ahead using almost no effort we ran into them as they were walking back
"Hey we have something we need to show you" Raiden said turning back around and leading us into a room filled with boxes upon boxes of files Akito walked up to one and picked up one of the files before reading it then dropping it I looked at what it said
"SV-238-E" I looked inside of it and saw a picture of one of the vulpix's that had attacked us "Summary: Gender- Female
Age- 12 years
Rating-E
Group-23
Number - 8
Status-Obedience Training
Field Designation- N/A
Notes: Subject is extremely aggressive and refuses to follow orders to the point attacking anyone who tries to talk with it, for this reason it has been assigned an E ranking as it would be ineffective as any type of troop" I looked at the box and saw that there were 9 other files in it I picked up the one labeled 232 before reading it
"Gender- Female
Age- 12 years
Rating-E
Group-23
Number - 2
Status-Deceased
Field Designation-N/A
Notes: subject failed to live past gestation and has been moved to storage pending further analysis it is the only of this batch to die" and over the whole paper there was a huge red mark saying "FAILED" I looked up and saw that Ken'ichi was also looking at a file and could swear I saw a faint smile on his lips but before I could ask he took the file and put it into his bag before going to another box labeled 24 and pulling out another file from there before putting it into his bag as well
"hey what're you doing?" I asked him making him jump
"I was just looking at something" he said
"why did you take those files?" I asked
"well you see those were…" he paused for a moment "mine" he said
"but you took two?" he looked a bit nervous before saying
"The other I took as a favor" he looked away "to protect our privacy" I realized what he meant by that and decided to let him since it was basically his entire life summed up
"hey we saw something that might be related to this" I said
"what is it?" Azami asked
"Well there was this room, I don't know how to describe it but you need to see it" I said before leading them to the room we we're in before
"I think I recognize this" Ken said "yeah I was in a room near here" he said staring around before he went to the back of the room and stopped in front of a door he tried to open it but it was locked electronically
"I'll open it" Akito said charging a shadow ball
"hold up" Raiden said "I think they would have built it so you can't just do that" he said cracking his knuckles before examining the lock
"Sometimes you need a little" he charged up electricity in his paw "Finesse!" he said using Thundershock on the lock making it short circuit unlocking the door
"That's not even…" Azami said
"Well it was better than your idea" he said walking in. I followed behind Setsuko and was shocked when I entered it was filled with the same kind of tubes as the last room but these were filled with a different fluid and had monitors next to them displaying vital signs I walked up to one and saw a completely white Vulpix with one tail floating inside breathing through a V shaped mask around his muzzle
"Is there a phone in here?" Raiden asked looking around
"there was one in the office I'll take you there" I said leading him to the office we had found Ken'ichi in. He dialed before waiting for it to connect
"Kajiya I need you to get down here ASAP get someone to teleport you" he said I could faintly hear her complaining
"It's important the coordinates are-... don't screw up" he said before hanging up
Ken'ichi's POV
I had felt someone's presence and started to investigate it leaving the group for a moment I kept walking through the halls trying to track it down when I heard gunshots up ahead I unsheathed my knife and ran into a room
"Shiro?" I asked looking at the gold vulpix standing over a dead alakazam
"You lived I was hoping you would" he said turning towards me "You shouldn't have tried to help me you could've died you idiot" he said looking a bit mad
"But-" I said in shock
"Still I guess I owe you thanks" he said "you can keep the knife by the way I have the other" he said holding his up
"What happened to you?" I asked noticing his bandaged body and the fact that he had an eyepatch
"Oh this" he said "It was damaged beyond help in the explosion" he said before smiling again "I never believed in karma until now though guess it works after all"
I heard someone coming down the hall
"I have to go now I can't let your friends see me" he said standing up
"But wait-" I said grabbing him
"I want you to do me 2 favors" he said
"okay but wait" I answered
"Get rid of my file" I nodded
"I'll burn it to ash"
"And when you leave like the ninetails told me" he said with a huge grin "call me cause I'm coming with" and with that he vanished just as Satoru and Akito burst in
/a while later/
we we're waiting outside for Kajiya to show up when she teleported in
"Wait for me here" she told the Abra
"So what so important?" she asked
"You'll have to see it" I said
"huh? who are you?" she asked
"I'm ken'ichi" I said
"It's a long story follow me" Akito said leading her to the room
"what happened here?" she asked looking around
"It was like this when we got here" he answered
"wait till you see what's next" I said opening the door. she stepped inside
"W-What is this?!" she asked taking a step back
"It's in the next room" Akito said walking towards the back. she followed looking at the containers nervously before entering the next
"are they…"
"Yes they're all alive" I answered
"But why?..."
"We think they might've been trying to train them as assassins or soldiers" Akito said "At least based on what the files say"
"where are the files?" she asked
"I'll show you" We led her into the room with the files and she looked at the boxes before going to one in the very back and taking a file out of it and reading from it
"... we believe this project will make an invincible military force despite all doubts and to answer a few questions the reason we chose to clone vulpix instead of another stronger pokemon is that they do not attract as much attention and as such will be well suited to spying as well as that their evolution, Ninetails has an extremely long lifespan so once they mature they will outlast even the best soldier and with enhancements made to them they will be able to interrogate prisoners without even needing to talk or convince them as well as the fact that our previous attempts to clone other pokemon such as Machoke have failed however in the Initial tests Growlithe's also proved a suitable species and would be prefered as ground troops due to their greater muscle mass and instinctual sense of loyalty"
"so they're making an army…" she looked at the paper again "No this paper's dated from about a decade ago they could already have one" she looked at another file in the box "this says SV-1-S" she said
"wait what were you?" Akito asked me
"you mean he's?!"
"SV-249-E" I said
"But that means if this is is the first then they already have about 250" she said
"248" I corrected
"You mean-" I interrupted her
"Me and Shiro"
"who's Shiro?" she asked
"He tried to capture him but let him go instead but after that they" he drew a digit across his throat
Takehiko's POV
"What are you doing here Areal?" I asked after opening the door
"I-I…" she said "Thought you'd died!" she said throwing herself onto me
"GAH what do you mean died?" I asked
she got up before walking inside "I work at a clinic nearby you see" she said "and the other day we found this kid badly injured" she continued
"what about it?" I asked
"well he lost one of his eyes but when I told him…"
"Did he throw a fit or something?" I asked
"No that's the weird part he just broke out laughing and said something about karma"
I realized what that meant and asked "Was he a shiny vulpix?"
"yeah and when I asked him about what he said he told me that he had shot you then stood still for a moment and pointed this way before passing out again" she answered
"you mean he lived?!"
"He did but by all right's he should be dead what happened to him?" she asked
"Well the other day we met a kid a bit older than him ,but the day after that he showed up and started fighting us" I said
"what why?!" she exclaimed
"He said they had sent him to bring the other kid back then they started fighting but we all got knocked out for a bit so I missed most of the fight, then after I woke up I jumped in front of Ken'ichi to block his attack and that's how I got shot after that Ken'ichi went with him to stop him from hurting us then came back a bit later" I said "After that I passed out and when I woke up I had evolved"
"but how was he injured?" Areal asked
"when I talked to Ken'ichi he said that after he let him go a light on his collar turned red"
"he wasn't wearing a collar when we found him"she said
"that's because he tried to pry it off of him but after he did that the shiny kid pushed him back before it exploded" I finished "now where did you say he was?"
"at the clinic I work at" she answered
"Can you take me there I want to talk to him" I said
"okay but if either of you even look at each other the wrong way I'm going to drag your ass out of there" she said smirking
"you really haven't changed" I said thinking back "Katsurou I'm going out for a bit I'll be back later" I shouted
"you never mentioned he was here too"
"what did you think that I'd leave him behind you should know better" I said a bit angry she'd even think of that
"you two are the closest people I've ever seen" she mused
"you haven't seen Akito and Satoru they were like brother even before they remembered" I said
"remembered?" she asked
"well you see when they were little the FNK attacked their hometown and they got separated Akito ended up getting captured and experimented on and Satoru was adopted by a couple in a nearby town but he lost his memories" I said trying to remember
"but then how did they meet?"
"from what I've gathered one day Satoru got lost in the forest and somehow wandered into the lab Akito was at through an air duct then they met but neither knew they were still brother after that they escaped and went to 's house but the FNK caught up to them and killed his adoptive parents" I said as we walked
"after that they both wanted revenge so they attacked a convoy that was passing nearby and that where they met Akito's childhood friend Azami"
"I can tell where this is going" she said cheekily
"well between you and me they did double up on a room a couple times" I said "don't tell them that she'd rip me apart" I said quickly afterwards
"don't worry I won't… Or would I?..." she joked
"please don't I choose life" I begged "anyways then they went to Hearthome and met Raiden and Setsuko two more of their friends and they helped the SLA attack an FNK base nearby"
"so how do you and Katsu fit in?" she asked
"I was getting there" I huffed annoyed "well after that the FNK sent me to find out about Akito and I managed to get his trust after a while" I said
"so you're tricking him right now?" she asked
"No after that they made me lure him into a trap but a bit after that they found out where he was, he escaped he spent a few days lying low we got into a fight ended up running back to Floaroma fought in that battle recently went back to Veilstone for like a two weeks before we all ended up here again and now I'm jobless and wanted by the government…" I said as my current situation dawned on me "yay me" I added
"I never thought I'd say this but" she said "You're worse off than when we first met"
"like I said, yay me"
"anyways we're here" she said as we got to a small building with grated windows we walked in and she led me to a room but when we looked in it was empty
"Hey Gracie, where's the kid we found yesterday?" she asked a chasey who was walking past with some rolls of bandages
"He took his stuff and left this morning" she said
"how could he? he should be down for at least a week?" she said angrily
"I don't know because he was sprinting away like you when they ask for overtime" the chansey said walking away
"what is that he MADE OF!" she exclaimed as we walked back "first he survives an explosion then he's SPRINTING after a day of rest"
"Well he can't have gone far" I said trying to calm her down
"are you kidding that backpack was probably full of food and supplies he could make it to Twinleaf with that!" she yelled seething
"he didn't have any food" I said
"how would you know?!"
"because that backpack was full of weapons"
"that still doesn't tell us where he is" she told me apparently having burned through all her rage
"There's only one place he could be" I answered
"where's that?"
"think about it. He was almost killed someone and he has a bag full of weapons with no food"
"you mean that whoever sent him has to be close or else he'd have supplies" she realized
"And the day before he showed up we found an FNK base" I said "which the others are attacking right now!" I broke into a sprint not stopping for anything and after a while we had only arrived at the house (den) we were staying at before she stopped me panting
"relax *pant* he's not *pant* after you guys" Areal said before dropping to the ground beside me as we both tried to catch our breath
"what's up with you" Katsurou asked walking out "hey it's Arael" said happily walking over to her
"how the leg?" she asked
"better Take won't let me do anything though" he pouted
"relax it should be back to normal by now it's been what 5? 6? years since then" she said starting to groom her tails and noticing that mine we're in a horrible state it started to do the same ,carefully getting rid of every knot and smoothing out my fur… My soft ,lusciou- NO! I'm not going to turn into one of those stereotypical narcissistic Ninetails. I forced myself to stop and moved my tails behind me noticing Katsurou looking at me with his "I know what you were thinking right now brother™" face
"what?" I asked
he sighed "nothing" he answered still giving me the same look
"I think he's jealous" Areal whispered
"am not!" he shouted
"are too" she said as he tried to tackle her but was stopped by my light screen/barrier
'ah the perks of being a psychic" I mused smugly as he kept trying to push through it while arguing
"am not ,am not ,am not ,am not ,am not!" he said before turning to the source of his problem and hitting me with a payback as I continued musing
"Good one Katsurou" Areal said laughing at me as I picked myself up off the ground and started grooming my tails free of the effects of his attack
"thanks" he said not noticing my own revenge as I used my new Telekinesis to lift him of the ground and flipped him upside down before dropping him
"AHhhhhhI hate youuu "he said having the wind knocked out of him before standing back up and preparing his own counterattack
"hey look they're back" I said after I stopped laughing as Akito and the others walked back along with Kajiya? "Hey what happened I asked noticing that she was carrying several boxes
"We found out what they were doing inside there" Satoru said darkly
"who's she?" Ken'ichi asked looking less affected than the rest by whatever they had found
"I'm Areal a close friend of Takehiko's" she said introducing herself before turning to me and whispering
"es el que…(is he the one that…)"
I noticed what she was trying to do and answered "si es el(yeah it's him)" he looked at as strangely for moment before saying
"ustedes dos si saben que yo hablo espanol(you two do realize I know spanish)"
"q-que pedo?! (w-what the fuck?!)" she said shocked
"I was going to tell you but that was priceless" I said laughing before remembering how depressed he was after Shiro had…
"oh Ken'ichi great news" I stopped deciding to tell only him "Shiro no murio(shiro didn't die)" I said noticing the lack of shock
"ya lo sabia (I knew that)" he said smiling
"how-" I asked "we'll talk later" I told him before returning to the group
"what's with the file boxes?" I asked
"pass him one" Akito said and Kajiya opened one of the boxes before passing me a file
"RT-537-S" I read what is this I opened it and saw a picture of an Arcanine
"Gender- Male
Age- 20 years
Rating-S
Group-5
Number - 37
Status-Successfully Integrated
Field Designation- Assault Forces
Notes: as expected the process of training the cloned forces has lead to almost perfect soldiers such as this subject, follows orders to the letter and excels at everything other than making conversation but that is of little consequence"
"wait RT?" Ken'ichi asked "not SV?"
"it's what it says" I said showing them
"that's not a vulpix" Satoru said
"wait remember what the report said" Kajiya replied "they started cloning Growlithe's too"
"but then… if that says group five... and they're of a hundred each..." Raiden said
"then they already have a battalion" I finished grimly
Cliffhanger mwa ha hah but no I'm going star wars and making some order 66 stuff It's going somewhere that you wouldn't expect but it'll explain Fuyumi and all of them and the reason why almost every character introduced in west sinnoh was an eeveelution and why there are more dark types there than in the east (if you hadn't noticed the only dark type in east sinnoh was Kenji and knight [the zoroark] but he was in Hearthome first) also yes they've been speaking spanish I was originally thinking of russian but I know already know (latin-american not castilian) spanish fluently so what the hell also if I ever get to it Sinnoh and Kanto are mostly English speaking while Hoenn ,Kanto and that little island where the frontier is in sinnoh are Spanish speaking if I ever add Kalos it'll be french (duh) and Unova will be english but don't expect a lot if from them if they make it in bonus points if you find the Evangelion reference in this and a previous chapter hint: they're both angels (shito not tenshi) if you know the difference