Me: THIS IS MAD! THE 4th CHAPTER OF THIS! WAAAH!
Legendary Fairy: We almost got him!
Me: YOU SAID THAT HOURS AGO! NOTHING HAS CHANGED! HE'S STILL CHASING ME AND I HAVE NO ENERGY LEFT!
Alex: We seriously do, even if it had to involve Pidgeot attacking a couple of times! Plus, he's tiring too!
Me: IF HE IS NOT STOPPED BY THE END OF THIS CHAPTER I AM GONNA DIIIIIE! LITERALLY! HELLLLLPPP!
Legendary Fairy: *sweatdrop*
Me: AND BY THE WAY! THIS CHAPTER HAS A LOT OF FLASHBACKS AND INFO IN IT!
Episode 28- No limitations, no boundaries
Jennifer shook her hair loose, ignoring the looks she got from the male grunts and focusing on the job in hand. Find this Ruby Ketchum and take her back to the boss, no limitations, and no boundaries as to what she could do to get this woman to come with them.
And Jennifer Veteran wasn't the kind to give in easily.
She'd been at this job for years now, since she was only Ten years old, and she is now eighteen. Eight years of hard work, practice, promotions and finally reaching third rank. She was sure this mission would bump her up to the next rank as well. Team Universal Aura made a good choice with this girl, she had always been one of those girls who got her own way, who was never stood up to, and had a very dark heart, and aura.
Lucy wasn't the only one with unusual aura, sometimes life would through the odd one or two out of the blue, strange coloured or patterned aura. Different colours meant different things, Black was the least common and the one that Jenni had. Black meant the person had a very dark heart, a shadowed judgement and showed how evil that particular person was depending on how solid the aura looked.
Purple, on the other hand, showed that Lucy was a kind girl. It showed she cared greatly about her friends and family and also found it hard to accept anything bad at all. TUA weren't so smart with her kidnapping, but Lucy is also particularly protective and only continued to work for them so long because they threatened her little brother Jake and her mother.
As I said, no limitations and no boundaries as to what they could do to get them to come.
Theme: Third Generation of Pokémon,
Comin' at you we're number one!
We're better than ever and we're never givin' up,
Gonna keep on fightin' 'til we reach the top!
Cos' we still gotta catch 'em all,
Never gonna let you fall!
Third generation of Pokémon,
Comin' at you we're number one!
"Commander Jenni, we have some news. We know her exact location." One male grunt said. Jenni turned around to face him.
"Where?" She demanded.
"Pallet Town, Kanto. We have Psychic types on hand, we can teleport as soon as you give the word." Another said, pushing his way past the previous one. Jenni sighed, clicking her fingers and making them both run off. She couldn't believe she was being made to work with these low ranked idiots, and also couldn't believe she used to be like them. An idiot who messed around with her powers, using them to play pranks on the other grunts. Dark hearted as she was, she had still been a teen.
She remembered how resistant she had been when she was caught.
"Back off, creeps!" A younger Jennifer yelled, firing one of her black aura spheres off at the pair of men in black and purple, a woman waited in a van nearby from what she could see with her aura. The two took a step nearer her. "I said, back off!" Jenni repeated, pushing two more spheres out at them and forming an aura barrier the next instant. But the men weren't giving up, one of them grabbed Jenni's little sister, covering her mouth and nose. Now, no matter how dark Jenni was at heart she loved her sister a lot. "Leave Asia alone, now!"
"Come with us, then." One man said. Jenni gritted her teeth as she watched her young sibling start to stop struggling as air couldn't reach her lungs and brain.
"N-No!" She said, resolve wavering. Asia slowly stopped moving altogether, and as she did that her chest was rising and falling less and less. Jennifer's teeth gritted harder, and her resolve dropped. "ALRIGHT!"
Jenni mentally slapped herself, knowing very well emotion was not needed for her line of work. Asia had died anyway, and to be truthful she never forgave herself for that. But she held it in, never told a soul about how she felt about the young girl who had had her life cruelly taken away from her. She knew she would be thought of as weak from all her fellow commanders, except maybe that Hotaru girl. She always did seem too... humane, for the job. Every time the boss wanted a job like a kid done then he would call anyone but Hotaru. Hotaru was not like the other commanders, all the other commanders had hardened with time. Become cold, dark, unbounded by emotions. Not Hotaru. Hotaru was different.
And, as far as Jenni and the rest of the organization knew, Hotaru was dead.
~X~X~X~
Hotaru sighed, still in bed as the rest of them were in lessons, Hotaru had made Lucy go so she didn't get a detention along with Kite. She was alone, she had time to think.
Jenni, she was one of the strongest commanders yet to be promoted to rank 2. Hotaru knew that Ruby didn't stand a chance. She knew how TUA had no limitations and no boundaries. She had been there, she had never let herself be limited or bounded by rules, and she regretted it every day. She regretted how she had taken people to the leaders, Ricky and Maya Target, and she also regretted allowing herself to be captured. (Attention! This bit is not in my Pokoh story, because I didn't want to put spoilers! She was taken differently here than in the other (that I haven't put up yet ^^;))
"MOM!" A younger, probably ten year old, Hotaru yelled. The two men in black threw the now dead body to the ground, the woman had done nothing. "You... you... Bastards!"
"Whatever, kiddo. Now, you come with us or you little bro suffers the same fate!" One man said, a woman in the same clothes then walked out of a room holding a young child in her arms. The boy was wailing, crying loudly, seeing his mother only made this louder.
"Leave Aoi alone! He has nothing to do with this!" Hotaru hissed, two spheres appearing in her palms. The woman holding Aoi formed a dagger out of aura, pointing it at the toddler. "No! No!"
"Come with us then, and we may consider letting him live!" One man said. Hotaru snarled, but the spheres in her palms dissolved and she slumped slightly. "Good girl."
Aoi had been killed the next day.
Hotaru felt tears prick her eyes, so blinked quickly. Her brown eyes seemed to dull as more tears tried to push themselves out, down her cheeks. But Hotaru wasn't going to give into the tears, she wasn't going to let Lucy worry again, she'd given her enough stress the previous night.
Damn UA, damn their insistence of keeping members against their will! Hotaru thought, fists clenching. She took deep breaths, trying to calm the natural anger and hate she had felt since she 'joined' TUA. Damn Ricky and Maya! Damn everything! UGH!
"Hotaru?" Miles said, poking his head around the door. Hotaru turned, seeing the boy and trying to put on her best fake smile. "You aren't happy, I can read your aura." Hotaru sighed.
"I know... memories. Not a good thing to think about in my case..." Hotaru replied. Miles sat on one of the other beds, looking to the ex-commander.
"They won't be after you for a while now, not until you actually try and stop this Jenni person. They'll think you're dead." Miles said. "You're safe."
"I don't care about me... I care about Lucy, if they find out she's helped me then she's in even deeper trouble than she must be already... grunt or not she is still running, and they don't like that. At all." Hotaru said.
"I know, I may have never been involved with them but as my hunch about my parents came I started to research about them, finding retired/kicked out members and things like that. And the fact they went after me twice sealed it, I knew it was them, but I still don't wanna believe it." Miles said. Hotaru nodded. "What did they do to get you to join? You don't seem the type to give in easily." At this Hotaru winced. "That bad?"
"They killed my mother and threatened my three year old brother and then killed him the day after I 'joined'." Hotaru said, gritting her teeth roughly. "They don't have boundaries... if they want someone, then they'll get them by any means possible... even if it involves taking away memories, a sense, anything. They won't give up until they get them, and if all else fails... they will kill them. It's like they think that if they can't have them then they can't live... it makes me sick."
"They want a pure Auracian Race, a world of only Auracian people. No muddied auras, no weak auras... only descendants of pure blood Auracians. How they'll kill everyone else I don't even want to think about..." Miles said.
"You really did do your research, Miles." Hotaru said. "Yes, you're right. They will only allow pure blooded Auracians... normally. But the world throws rare exceptions, people who aren't related in any way to Auracian blood lines get strong Aura, I'm one of those people. Lucy's mother was killed because of her resistance... many others suffered the same fate... it's not right. Not at all."
"I know it isn't... I've heard about many evil organizations, from petty thieves like Team Rocket to Team Galactic creating a new world... but nothing compares to what these people do."
"You know... I'm surprised the Ketchum's weren't a target from an earlier stage... Ash Ketchum is a descendant of Sir Aaron! He's got possibly one of the strongest auras of all time! Sir Aaron, before the Sacrifice that killed him had a child... and so on and so on, always pure blooded, but not forced love. Back then Auracians were drawn to each other naturally. And as time went on, more and more generations past, the bloodline stayed fresh, its only recently the Ketchums have started to reproduce with non-Auracians, starting with Delia Ketchum, but Ash's aura stayed strong... the normal muddying point is four generations... the Ketchums will take longer than that." Hotaru explained. Miles nodded again, laying back. "I'm worried for them... Scarlet, though strong already, is no match for any commander, or even some high rank grunts! And she is the only one in this group who can do this, the only one who can use it."
"She knows others, two others at least." The blonde boy said. "Though one can't use it. And there is her family."
"Who we can't afford to endanger."
"Right." Miles nodded. "...Hotaru?"
"Yes?"
"What sort of things did you have to do?" Hotaru flinched, looking down.
"Kid, get in the damn car, now!" Hotaru yelled at a ten year old boy, he was defending himself with aura spheres, trying to fend off the commander.
"No! I'll never come with you! Ever!" He yelled.
"You don't have a choice, look Kiddo, I don't want to have to hurt you! But I will if I have to! Now get in the damn car and I will make sure my bosses don't kill your damn friend here!" Hotaru said, gesturing to a girl that was currently knocked out behind him. "Kid, please! I don't like this any more than you!"
"Then why?"
"I don't want to die, kid! Now get in!" Hotaru shouted. "I'll force you if I have to!"
"No! No! I am not going to go with you! I am not going to join that damn... thing!" the boy replied. "No!"
"Kid, if you don't come without me forcing you I can't guarantee they won't kill the girl! She is nothing to them! Nothing! I don't like to think they'll kill an innocent! Please, for her sake and your own!"
"...What will they do to Chrissie?" The boy asked, spheres dissolving slowly.
"They... will kill her... murder her... I would know, they killed my family!" Hotaru said. The boy's hands dropped to his sides, and he collapsed to his knees. Hotaru sighed in half relief, half regret. She pulled the boy to his feet and pushed him into the car, a grunt was driving but hadn't heard the exchange. Hotaru then turned to the girl, eyes glowing blue and creating a special and invisible seal to hide her from TUA. "She's safe, don't worry."
She didn't say this aloud, the memory was of her last capture before she ran. Before she damned herself to that damn 'cursed mark'.
"Things... regrettable things. Things I wish I had never done." Hotaru said sharply. Miles waved his hands defensively.
"No need to snap at me, I only asked." He said. Hotaru just closed her eyes and took deep breaths.
~X~X~X~
"We're ready, I understand?" Jenni said, walking over to the grunts. They all nodded. "Good, we depart in ten minutes. Be prepared, the Ketchums are the ultimate Auracians."
"Yes Commander Veteran!" One grunt said.
"We will be prepared, Jennifer!" Another said. Jennifer nodded and walked back to sit against a tree, her bangs casting a dark shadow over her eyes. The ten minutes went quickly, each grunt scurrying around doing last minute preparations. When the time was up Jenni stood, walking over again and putting her hand on the shoulder of an Alakazam as all the grunts gathered around several other psychic types, all ready to teleport them to the right location.
Jenni had to admit, she was surprised those idiots Quincey and Rin had managed to get Ash Ketchum. They were grunts, high ranked sure, but grunts. And total imbeciles to boot, she never understood how they managed with so little problems. Of course, she knew she wouldn't be having issues, she never failed. She had yet to even slip up once. Jennifer was confident, maybe a bit too confident. But she had one thing that kept her on track, thinking the same thing over and over.
No limitations, no boundaries.
~X~X~X~
Me: WAH! WAH! HELP!
Legendary Fairy: Almost... Aerial Ace again, Pidgeot!
Alex: We got him!
Blaze: *stops running, tired after dodging many attacks and just from running*
Alex: Return! *points Poké ball and returns him*
Legendary Fairy: At last!
Me: Now I can speak! Thanks you two. Not as many flashbacks as I thought... but a lot of information. A lot of it is thanks to EternalHero01! He told me a lot of the information in this chapter, and I made a couple of things up myself... I think. I can't even remember! I don't know, but almost all the credit goes to EternalHero01! He's been a great help throughout this story. :) I'm glad to have loyal readers like him, Legendary Fairy, pokemon2471 and others. Thanks everyone! I wouldn't have made it this far without you!
