Heat's POV
I walked along with the rattata. That bastard Neon managed to escape somehow but the rattata's eyes haven't changed yet. He said he was leading me to the base. I wondered what the rat was planning to do but it didn't matter anyway. We reached a building which made me growl as I recognized it as the Rocket Base I was from.
"What's the meaning of this?" I snapped at the rattata who was flicking his tail dismissively. His black eyes gleamed brighter as he approached the building. The door opened automatically as he approached it. Most rockets were dead and the inside was completely destroyed. A marowak stood in the corridor, with his bone over his shoulder.
"So this is the so-called newcomer." It said in a dismissive way in a male tone which I returned with an indifferent stare.
"Where am I? What's going on?" the rattata said, staring at the dead bodies in horror. His eyes were normal again and the emotionless look on his face had disappeared. He then stared at the marowak in horror who returned with a sinister grin.
"Don't worry. You won't know anything about this." He said then dashed towards the rattata with a very high speed. He passed through the rattata with a slashing sound and then stopped. The bone he was holding was now covered in blood and to my surprise, a very deep cut appeared horizontally across the rattata's side. Blood gushed out and the rattata fell down to the side, with lifeless eyes, unmistakably dead. I was rather terrified by this. The rockets were meant to be killed but the rattata was still innocent, compared with the rockets' torture on me.
"He's just a trash and trashes like him should be discarded." The marowak said harshly, while I remained shocked from the incident.
"Excuse me, vulpix. Let me introduce myself. My name's Smasher." He continued coldly. I gulped, starting to be frightened of him. He was not a normal marowak. I could tell that from his cold heartless brown eyes, giving me a creepy stare.
"That's not very nice to treat our new comrade, Smasher." A banette appeared in front of me and I jerked as the sudden appearance of him.
"Sorry for my rudeness. My name's Terror, nice to meet you." It said in a male tone. Terror seemed to be nicer than Smasher, but he was still a weirdo to me.
"The boss's calling a meeting." A cold female voice said, and then I saw a mismagius.
"Miss Pain, it is rare for you to meet a new member." Smasher said in a dismissive way which the female ghost returned with a growl.
"Anyway, the boss's waiting. Let's go." She said coldly and showed me a sign to follow her. The others disappeared in a blink of light which caused Pain to growl.
"You are coming with me, vulpix." She demanded and I nodded like a coward. Maybe she was unfriendly with her comrades. She led me the way through the corridor which I followed her indifferently, not knowing whether to trust her or not.
"Terror, he thinks he is ahead of me just because he knows teleport. That ungraceful mutt!" she muttered angrily which made me flinch. I didn't know that she had emotions. Was that all an act?
"By the way, newcomer, I will tell you about the members. Our leader, Legion, is a very mysterious guy. You should beware of him. That banette, Terror, maybe nice on the outside, but on the inside he is tricky. Smasher is a cold hearted warrior so he won't give a damn about compassion or something like that." She explained as we walked. Why was she doing this at this moment? Was she giving me a warning?
"And Yo-yo Boy is extremely childish. So you better understand him. Fear is someone who works secretively. We've never seen him before." She explained more. We stopped at the broken red door and I immediately recognized this room. This was the lab that Neon broke in. He used my existence so that he could sneak out of the lab easily. I grunted, annoyed by this memory. But Pain gave me a warning look to calm down. She seemed as though she had read my mind but I knew that ghost pokemons really couldn't read minds. Only psychic could do that.
"Here we are. We decided to make this room as our meeting room." She said, giving me a smile. This ghost was really creepy. She acted emotionless and cold in front of those two but she was now acting warm and kind.
"You are late, Pain." The creepy voice said in a male tone. There was a mime jr. with one yo-yo in each paw, Terror, Smasher and a mysterious looking gengar with a wide grin on its face.
"Sorry, Legion." Pain said emotionlessly with a bow. I was surprised to see her, emotionless again.
"Anyway, do you succeed in telling your friend, umbreon to join our team?" Legion asked Pain who shook her head.
"Well then, I will just have to kill her then." Smasher said. Pain gave him a serious look.
"Lay a finger on the umbreon and you are dead." She said seriously which Smasher replied with a grunt. He really seemed to be a heartless killer, judging from how he killed rattata.
"Anyhow, welcome to our humble group, vulpix." Legion said, his eyes were locked on me and I started to tremble in fear. What was this look? His eyes were full of anger and hate.
"What's your name?" the mime jr. said cheerfully in a cute name.
"Heat." I replied indifferently, causing the clown to laugh whatever his reason was.
"That name's so funny." He laughed and I growled.
"Nobody laughs at my name!" I snarled, baring my teeth.
"Anyhow, I will tell you your first mission. This is important, so everyone should listen!" Legion said seriously, with a sinister smile. What was this abnormal group? Did I join the wrong group after all?