A/N: Another pre-written chapter! I'm starting to like pre-writing stuff. I don't know if you guys noticed, but I've been updating every other day for the past five chapters or so. So that's going to be my normal updating time. Anyways, thank you to srgeman, Shinningkit, Natasha Mikkle, Sailor Nibaru, Auralucario, Lightning-Alchemist-Rini, and Kendra Mckleen. It's people like you that make writing worthwhile. Here's the chapter, Enjoy!
Chapter 25: Under New Management
The moon soon hung delicately over me. It cast a soft glow on my orange coat. After running all this time, I started to feel weak, but I wasn't going to stop, no chance of that. The moon was all the light I had now, but it was enough. As long as I got away from that beach and all those reminders of my past life, I would be fine. In a way that is. I didn't think I could ever return to being the person (pokemon?) I once was. Things like this tended to have a lasting affect on a person.
A huge, gray building appeared in the distance. It looked like an abandoned factory of some kind. The whole setup of it gave me chills, but I felt myself being drawn towards it. As much as I was repelled, I was intrigued. I completely stopped myself from going to the place and fell over in the process.
I pulled myself up and shook off the excess dirt from the ground. I was about to turn away from building, which I could now see was quite elaborate, when I felt something sting me in the side. I turned to investigate and saw a dart hanging out. As soon as I found it, I pulled it out with my teeth, but it was already taking affect.
"Sev!" A huge black snake crawled out of the trees around me. It stared at me like I was an entertaining show. It didn't even move, probably not feeling the need to. The sedative spread through my body, causing me to fall. I landed on the ground softly and everything went black.
"It's the one we've been looking for. The human turned Pokemon." I heard a voice say. It sounded amazed, like the event was unbelievable. Then I heard a snicker.
"We'll have no trouble now, will we?" I heard the other voice say.
"Shhh. She's waking up." The first voice said, hurriedly.
My eyes fluttered open. The light was dull, so I cold see everything easily. Two men stood over me. One had a brown and light brown body with purple ears and a forked, purple tail. He must have been the Alakazam/Espeon combio Marius was talking about that day so long ago. But that meant…I was face to face with the leader of Team Blasters. I gasped.
"What?" The man asked. "Are you surprised to have finally met the leader of Team Blasters?" He laughed, "well don't be, because now you work for me. You will refer to me as 'Master' from here on." I was about to say something when I noticed the roll of tape strapped tightly over my muzzle. My paws were held to the floor by strong chains, immobilizing me.
The other man laughed once he saw my vain attempt to move. He held an odd controller with two buttons on it, one green and one red. He pressed the green one and a huge shock ran through my body that seemed to emanate from everywhere. I couldn't scream so my eyes bulged and I held my breath. I felt fried on every part of my body, and since I couldn't move my paws, the pain continued for longer than it should have.
I finally collapsed as my head banged onto the floor. I tried to smooth out my ragged breathing, but to no avail. The combio spoke up again.
"As you can see. We will not tolerate anything wrong out of you. We have implanted shocking droids all over your body, and if you dare to disobey, whoever is in charge of you at the time will not refrain from pressing the 'Shock' button. Of course, if you dare to double-cross us, ever, then I, myself, will be forced to press the 'Overkill' button." He said, pointing to the red button on his accomplice's controller. "If I press it, you will wish you were dead, but you won't die. It's the worst torture imaginable. Understand?"
I had no choice but to agree. I couldn't move my body after all. He stared into my eyes and smirked. "I hope you do…" he mumbled so it was barely audible. He got to his feet and stood above me threateningly. "Training will begin immediately. We will be using the crash course method." He said after clearing his voice by making a throaty sound. "We will now let you out of your restraints. Don't make any wrong moves." With that he stepped back, as did the grunt accompanying him.
Once he was far enough away, he shouted, "Unlock the chains!" I heard a mechanical click as the gray links slid off of my arms. The tape was even snipped from my mouth. Without thinking, I jumped up and shot huge fireballs at the two of them. They vanished into the air just as the first one was about to hit them. They reappeared after the attack was done off to my right.
"Did you forget? I'm a full Psychic combiomorph." The man said gruffly. "Sam?" He said simply. Sam must have been the grunt who was with him.
"With pleasure." The shock ran through me just as before, but it still felt fresh. I fell to the ground, writhing in pain.
"STOP!" I screamed, my voice cracking. Of course, since I was an Arcanine, it sounded more like a low howl. Soon, the pain subsided. I used my paws to calm the places that still hurt. The two of them snickered as I picked myself up from the ground.
"Come on, Celli." My eyes suddenly flashed up to his in surprise. "Yes, I know your name, too. That I found out from Marius. Well, before he betrayed me, that is." He explained while looking off in space, then he focused back to me. "Your assignment will be to defeat him and those who travel with him. But not yet, first you must be trained to let out your full ability."
I looked down and whimpered. I didn't want to have anything to do with this, but it seemed I wouldn't have choice. If I could only get rid of those shocking droids, then everything could be better, right?
"Oh, and I thought you should know, if you go anywhere near water, then those droids will kill you easily." I nodded as he turned his back and began walking for the door. I'm a big, Pokemon, I could easily ram my way through the wall. So guess what I did? I threw myself straight into the wall.
I was right, a huge hole was left in the wall I just got through. Now I was in a hallway, but not just any hallway, I was in what must have been the grunt's bunking area because grunt after grunt filed out of the doors on either side. Not only them, but their Pokemon as well. Looks like I'll be having to fight my way out of this one.
Suddenly, I heard the man's voice behind me. "I guess I'll have to use the hard way then." He called and another shock began.
A/N: So we meet the leader of Team Blasters. Isn't he just great? Celli's going to be fried if he has anything to do with it! His name will be revealed in the next chapter, so check it out then. So we only need 3 more reviews to have 150! Review now, please!
The leader of Team Blasters is a combiomorph! As for the combiomorph story writing challenge, I'm sorry to say that there have been no more replies. But Sailor Nibaru's story, Jupiter's Gift now has a chapter 2! I encourage you all to read it.
Pika!