Chapter 26: Truths
I looked around. I was in a dark room, and I couldn't make out a thing. Then light entered the room like a knife. Slowly the light spread as I made out Cell in the light.
"Hey are you awake?" asked Cell.
"Yeah. Sorry. I must've fallen asleep. Where are we?" I asked, looking around.
"We're in the light house. Are you okay? You were crying and so was Latios." said Cell, sitting beside my bed.
"Yeah. He made me revisit the memories." I said softly. But I felt something different about it. It felt easier to deal with the fear.
He sat there and looked at his lap, "You make a good hero, saving a Pokemon even against your trauma. Just want to say you would make a good ranger. Someday I want to be just like you."
I smiled and said, "You'd rather not. If I could be one of the people, just an ordinary person. I think I'd rather be that person."
He sighed and said, "Well I think it's courageous."
"Thank you," I said and sat up. I stretched my neck and arms. "Okay, time to get serious. Where am I?
"You're in the lighthouse. This is a different room, the Gym leader's room." said Cell.
"I need you to go talk to Nurse Joy."
"Why not you?" asked Cell.
"Last time I was here, the Wizards attacked me in the hotel. Something tells me it might be connected to Nurse Joy." I said softly. "Last time a different nurse joy contacted my mother. I did that when I wasn't aware of my mother's leadership role in the Wizards."
"That makes sense." Cell Said. "Well it might be a better idea to go out without the ranger clothing. Simply ask for a cure."
"Hopefully that won't be blocked off. Who knows? They may have bribed the nurse into not telling people." I said stretching.
Cell stood up and said, "Tomorrow I'll go get the cure. It's already too late tonight."
"Okay," I said softly, and laid back down in the bed. "Cell."
"Yeah?" asked Cell.
"You're as much a hero as I am. You've given yourself to the rangers to help everyone. And from your aura I've seen that you're in it for the people and not the money. Mostly everyone else is in it for money. You're just as involved as I am."
He thought about it for a second. Then he smiled in the light of the door and said, "There's something that I want to ask you."
"What?"
"What did they do to you? I've heard it from the reports when they checked your body. But. I want to know it from your words."
I lost the smile and thought about it? What's with everyone today, getting into my head.
"It's okay if you're not ready. You just freaked out. But." said Cell quietly.
"I'll tell you." I said quietly. With the flashbacks still fresh in my head, recalling the scenes were easy. I told him, without freaking out. The scars felt less painful. And I felt like it wasn't so bad. I knew what it was like, but I was okay with it.
At the end of it, Cell stared at me wide eyed. He clenched his fist and looked away. "How? How could they do this to you?"
I remained silent, as he angrily shouted, "You haven't done anything. Absolutely nothing! And yet they took your sight and they!" He stuttered and his voice raised another octave.
"Stabbed you and!"
"Cell!" I shouted, and he suddenly stopped. "It's okay. It happened and there's nothing we can do about it, except take them down."
He angrily screamed, "I swear I'll bring you justice!" His aura glowed red and slowly cooled over. "It's just." He paused gathering his words. He breathed in, holding the air, staring at his fists. "It's just not fair. Why did you have to be put through all this?"
"There's always upsides to a situation." I peacefully let out.
"What upside?" asked Cell.
"I met you, Latias, Latios. Because my mother trained me, I'm also a doctor. I've met eevee and Scizor." As I mentioned this, I had forgotten to think of a nickname for the next time I let him out. "I can talk to Pokemon."
"Are you okay with this?" asked Cell.
"No." I blurted. "I sure would like to be able to see again. That's true. But I've gotten some new things as well. If I just sat in my depression and did absolutely nothing but sulk. I'll never get revenge. Besides, I think I'd go crazy just sitting there forever, crying and complaining."
"So you're saying is that if you don't find peace without, things will just suck more?" asked Cell.
I thought about it and said with a chuckle. "Yeah. Basically."
"You're crazy, but you're strong. You looked so fragile when I first saw you. Like a single touch would make you freak out. But you've recovered. I'll take what you said to heart," he said, and finally, "Goodnight."
"Thanks. Goodnight." I said to myself. Am I hero? Am I strong? I smiled at the warm thought that I was this tough hero. I guess I was kind of a hero. I heard him close the door, and suddenly I wasn't so scared. I laid down in the warm bed, and realized how much things changed. If Latias had never crashed where I was, I wonder what kind of world dominating I would be doing? I wonder how she was? I clenched the soft blanket till I couldn't clench any harder. Without you, where would I be? What are they doing to you? what kind of experiments?
"Roukou." said my mother's voice. "You can do this! Speak to them. You can do it." said my mother. It might've been spring. dark green, soft, and thick blades of grass stuck out from between my toes. I looked through a splintering tan, wooden fence. And past the fence: A soft eyed miltank moo'd at me. I stood there and wondered what my mother meant. 'Speak to them.'
I looked around, as if I was missing something. But as far as my eyes could see, I saw grass and more miltanks on the other side of the fence.
I stared into the soft black eyes of a Miltank. She moo'd and I looked back up at my mom.
"I don't get what I'm supposed to do." I called up to her. I could see the muscles in her jaw clench with irritation. I could see it in her black eyes.
Anger, like a storm. Or maybe it wasn't anger. Maybe it was despair. Like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum, that if they couldn't get what they wanted, the world would end.
It came like a whip.
Slap!
My head turned and I was on my bum, rubbing my face. And then I felt my cheek burn.
I stared up at her, slowly turning my face in fear, teary eyed. Her hand was still in the air after she slapped me, as if she would slap me again.
"That is all." she said, and put down her hand. "Go." She pointed off towards the vast green plains. I stepped away from her and ran. Tears running down my face.
Then suddenly I stood in a dark room. In a barn. Stacks of hay piled up above me, stuck together with a red wire. I sat in the corner, my knees, wet with tears, up to my face.
I sulked in the corner, breaths coming and going in huffs and puffs. Till suddenly from the hay, an Eevee appeared. She was small and young, still barely a child. Her main wasn't even fully grown yet. We stared at each other for a few seconds.
"Sorry." I said and stood up and started to leave.
"Eev." Eevee said in confusion. She tilted her head. She stood by my side and as when I stopped, her soft fur rubbed against my leg. I knelt down and said, "Is this your home?"
"Eev!" she said affirmatively.
I scooped her up and stared down at her. I quietly said to her, "I want to go home."
"Eev." Eevee said with a sadder tone.
She jumped out of my hands and between the hay stacks.
"Eev," she called, with happiness.
I followed her, pushing my body between the large stacks of hay. I was scared that I would get stuck, but I wanted to just follow her. And then finally I found her by a pile of hay, unbound on the floor. Eevee jumped up and down, and stopped when she saw me.
"Eev!" she called out and started to jump and jump, fall and fly, down and up.
I stepped on the hay and jumped with her. And for a while that's all we did.
"Yoshi!" shouted Cell. I sat up in surprise, I looked around the dark room. Man why did this room have to be so dark? As I pulled myself out of the bed and my feet touched the floor, I could hear my footstep echo and form a picture of the room. Beside me, to my left was a lamp. I felt around for a second and flipped the light. I stretched and yawned before Cell called again. "Yoshi!"
"I'm awake!" I shouted back. I sat up and looked down at myself. I slept in the clothed I was wearing again. Great. I felt grease, dirt, and sweat, piled up like a layer of thick paint on my face. Yuck.
Nothing I could do, but leave. I walked over to the door and looked around for a second. The room was normal and nothing special. There was a drawer in the darkest corner, and that was honestly the only thing I could make out. I stepped outside, closing the door behind me. And Cell stood to my left. We stood in a bright fluorescent hall, the type that makes your eyes burn.
"I'm going to call my commander, you need to help me there. You need to help explain the situation to him."
" Okay, where's Latios?" I remembered.
"He's in his room, I guess he's sleeping." said Cell.
"Okay, let's deal with this." I said and he stepped into my room saying, "I'll call him on my cellphone."
"Okay." I said and we stepped into the dark room.
Cell closed the door behind us and I heard him make a rustling sound for one second. Suddenly a light illuminated the room. A Square shaped light cut out the darkness, and I made out the color of the ceiling, a night blue.
The phone rang for a second, before our call was answered.
"This is the commander speaking." said the Commander.
"Hello Commander. This is ranger Cell, we have a request that may intrigue you and if it goes as planned, we may be able to remove the headquarters of Wizard in this town." said Cell.
"What did you say? Well let's hear it!" said the Commander.
"Commander this is Yoshi, speaking. Here is the plan. We get a cure for an illness in this town, and I believe we should be able to do it. We cure the people and pokemon that have been afflicted and blame the Wizards for it. Next we get the people that were effected by this affliction to revolt. Thus giving us an army. Finally we would need some of your rangers to get into the building and attack. I can be bait if you need an excuse to raid them. I will be frolicking the streets, and Cell will have footage of me being kidnapped by the Wizards. Once they kidnap me you guys have to come in as fast as possible, and take out everyone and get to me. I'm depending on the sudden attack to be really powerful fast. I'm depending on you guys to get to me before they can harm me. I'll stall if I can however, I doubt I will."
"And what can they do if we don't get to you fast enough?" asked the commander. The room turned cold as I said, "I don't know. I'll beg you guys to get to me that's all."
"So you want some of my rangers to go in there as well as the people?" asked the commander.
"We also plan on asking the gym leader to shut off any power sources." I added.
"Alright ask the gym leader. Then tell me what happens. Then I'll send you the rangers."
"Understood."
"Also I have something that may be of interest to you, Yoshi." said the commander.
"What is it?" I asked, with a frown.
"A birth location. There's a couple areas that might be possible. We've taken one of your hairs as a dna sample. We've tracked down where you are from, and who your parents are."
The room was sucked out of the air, and I stared, my lip in my teeth.
"Your parents are also auramancers. In fact they're descendants from legendary auramancers during the war on this island. They were on the winning side. I've found information that they have been at the temple for some time. Your father died in an accident. Your mother, died as well. You were kidnapped and so the stress from everyone being kidnapped and their death, caused her to stress out and die of disease as well. You also have a biological older brother according to the records from the temple."
Cell stared at me from the corner of his eye. I breathed out and took in a deep breath.
"Well nothing much I can do about it." I said.
"Do you know about your brother?" asked the commander.
"Possibly, we met a man that called me his younger brother, and knew my name as well. He's working for the Wizards and wanted me to join."
"I'm sorry to hear that." I heard the commander's voice whisper from the speaker. "That's all we can find."
"Thank you, commander." I said quietly.
"Sorry I had nothing good to tell you." said the commander. "You guys may call me back once you get the results, meanwhile I'll try to get as many rangers here, and I'll send in my best operative to scout and possibly sabotage the factory."
"Okay, thanks for everything commander." said Cell and turned off the phone.
My whole family is either dead or against me. So I was alone. I was truly alone. It felt like the weight on my shoulders weighed heavier. I could feel my heart beat hard, harder, harder. The words wrapped around my body and I could almost feel it's weight everywhere. I gnashed my teeth together angrily. Saddly.
After all of 'this' where do I go? What was home? What was after this? Maybe my brother was right, if I took over the world… No, where do I go from there? If every inch of earth was mine, I still had no parents, no home, no place where I can act like a child, and go to school and get yelled at by parents.
Alone.
"Hey." said Cell. I jumped like he was reading my thoughts. He put a hand on my shoulder and said, "It'll be alright."
I didn't answer but for some reason, deep inside I had a feeling that it wasn't true. Whatever. What I want to do, is save Latias.
"Yeah." I said a second too late.
Cell looked at me strangely, and he stood there, eying me. "I'm sorry. I'm just."
The ball of words caught in my mouth, jammed, unsure which word to say. "Messed up."
He nodded and said, "Yeah. It is."
"I." I sighed and shook my head. I rubbed my hand against my face, feeling the grease come off. "Okay! Alright. First thing is first. Let's get those stupid Wizards and get them for revenge, for Latias, for me, For Latios and for every other person they've harmed."
(Writer's note: When you feel like doing hard plot twists… But you don't know if your fans will like it. I feel like I need it. Because like the way it's going now, getting to the sixth pokemon will require time to shove in. I'm so unsure of it. Like the plot twist, is debatably too much, but yet, I feel like it adds to the story. I dunno I think I'm not going to do it. Later on, once I get over the part, I'm probably gonna explain it.)