BANG
Another nail pierced Noah's flesh as he cried out in pain. Looking at his torturers he saw them move over to Frank and prep the next nail and raise the hammer to strike. Frank wasn't moving.
"W-wait!"
"Oh?"
"Do me again! Just please! He can't take anymore!"
"...You are just a pathetic little thing aren't you? (Sigh) Shame that you won't live to see daylight again. You look kinda cute when you beg. Grab grandpa. I got a plan."
The men began carting Frank out of the room before the leader slapped one of the nails in Noah's back.
"Don't you pass out on us now. You still have to see the grand finale."
Noah groaned as the leader began carting him outside where Frank was held near a few frozen objects
"Fucking look at him freak."
Noah's head was held up as they pushed the unconscious Frank closer to the frozen zone
"NO! FRANK! YOU BASTERDS!"
They kicked the stretcher into the zone and Noah was forced to witness his only friend age rapidly until only a skeleton remained. Noah screamed as loud as he could and clawed at his restraints madly before sobbing violently.
"You couldn't have just given up the goods huh you little shit. Now I'll have to find another friend of yours since we broke this one."
Noah's world went red as the leader raised the hammer aiming for another nail on Noah's back.
"Welcome to Detroit pussy."
BANG
Noah opened his teary eyes with a start now very confused as to how he escaped his restraints. Believing he was still in danger he scrambled to dodge another strike of the hammer. Only for the leader to end up not even being present.
(The fuck?! Where am I?! Where's that basterd. I'll fucking kill him! I'll-)
"Sorry Noah! Little miss flower hands dropped my pot." Hoke said apologetically as he interrupted Noah's thoughts
Noah looked at the strange creatures with pure unbridled panic and reached for his hammer only to find nothing. The missing hammer rang a bell and slowly he remembered where he was.
(...oh right. Noah you fucking idiot.) Noah thought chastising himself
Roserade grunted as she tried to force some sort of cloth into her bag. Walking up Noah took the cloth and began folding it only to discover it was a small dress.
"What's this?" Noah asked as he placed the folded clothes into the bag
"Oh that's one of my dresses!" Roserade said
"Huh. Neat. I um like the colours." Noah trying to complement the mishmash of colours
"Thank you. I make all of these beauties myself. Would you like to see me put it on?" Roserade asked mischievously
(I'd rather smoke a cigar out of a turtle's ass)
"O-ok sure." Noah said not liking where the situation was going
"Hey Noah could you do me a favour?" Hoke asked as he finished putting the pot away
"Absolutely Hoke!" Noah said grateful to escape the conversation
"Alright I need you to scout out that forest up ahead. We need to find out how far their influence goes." Hoke explained
"Sounds good. I'm going right away though cause the longer we wait the sooner we're caught." Noah said as he sprinted into the woods
"Wait! What about my dress?!"
"Later!" Noah shouted as he disappeared into the woods
A few moments later
Noah had reached a calm slow moving stream going through the middle of the forest and was looking around for anything out of the ordinary. Seeing something shiny inside the river Noah plunged his hand inside and after rooting around he grabbed a lost coin
(Jackpot! I love it when I find stuff like...)
Noah was knocked out of his thoughts when he spotted a large horrific image across the water. His reflection. Looking into the visage he couldn't help but flinch at his dramatic transformation.
(Jesus fuck I look like a fucking wendigo.)
Unsettled by the reflection, Noah took off his shirt to reveal his mostly grey torso and was alarmed
(Oh god I can see my ribs. That's not good at all!)
Looking into his reflection he started searching for anything else wrong.
"...Oh fuck the nails froze. The nails- THE FUCKING NAILS FROZE AND NOW ILL NEVER GET THEM OUT! GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!" Noah shouted out in his grief
Disturbed by his very image, Noah's mind turned traitorous and began hurling insult after insult at himself.
(Fucking freak. You deserve this you know. After all these years you finally had your true form revealed. You are fucking sub-human trash inside and out.)
(--h-. C-l--ser)
Noah began clutching his head as he sank to his knees and began weeping. The emotional side of him had broken free and chained him to the ground as the weight of the world he knew became too much to bear.
(Wh- is thi--icult?)
And then as Noah felt like his head was going to burst from the pressure everything went white
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
That is what Noah felt as he walked inside the chicken coop to his target. Everything was surreal as Noah Grabbed the featureless shape and dragged the squirming form over to the water trough.
(HEL- --GOT--E!)
As he held the thing under the water bits of red appeared on his finger and reality itself splintered as Noah's hand began registering pain
It had bit him
Slamming the shape into the side of the trough Noah began slowly processing its form as feathers dropped from the shape. Something hit Noah in the back
(ST-P! -pl-a-e)
Noah looked on at the rooster as feeling returned to his body and he slowly took in his surroundings. The chickens and roosters were bunched up in the back of the coop cowering in fear. A white rabbit Noah didn't recognize lunged at him.
Throwing the rooster to the side Noah caught the rabbit and held it over the water before dunking its head
"I'm sorry! I'm so so so sorry" Noah said fanatically as the world itself seemed to melt around him.
Noah regained control as he looked into the water below. In his hands he was holding something wet and struggling under the water.
"Shit"
Noah lifted the poor pokémon's head out of the water and it gasped for air desperate to breathe. Looking around quickly he saw an unconscious yellow Pokémon with a gash across its head.
"*COUGH* p-please no more." A voice weakly said
Looking to what he had in his hand Noah found it was a small white rabbit in what seemed to be a sweater. Moving to release the rabbit Noah felt a sharp pain in his back. Using his reflection to spot the irregularity he spotted his pocket knife stuck in a patch of grey flesh. Looking over to where he set his bag down he saw it was open with a few of his things sprawled on the ground.
"...you tried to kill me" Noah stated coldly
The rabbit coughed repeatedly, unable to respond due to the water in its lungs. Reaching behind Noah yanked the knife out of the grey patch feeling minimal pain as a result of the frozen nerves. The rabbit saw this display and took it as intimidating.
"Oh Arceus. please spare me! I-I promise I won't ever do it again!"
Noah looked over the rabbit as he thought of a plan
(Ok so we have a strange yellow armadillo thing...I think? And this thing. I think it's just a teenager. Fuck!)
The yellow Pokémon started groaning and clutching its head before starting to float upwards
"Oh...shit" Noah said putting the bloody knife up to the rabbits neck
The Pokémon was now floating at eye level with Noah.
(Release him) Noah heard inside his head
"Oh that's freaky. Ok let's talk. I have something you want and you...stabbed me in the back. What is stopping me from just ending his life right here?"
(He is but a child.)
"A child who stabbed me. You think I wouldn't body a toddler if he rushed me?"
(Sir please.)
"Oh we are SO past please. We are VERY FUCKING PAST PLEASE."
(...what do you want?)
"Answers. Why did you attack me?"
*POP*
(We were blackmailed. I had no choice.)
The Pokémon floated closer to Noah
(Do you even know what it's like to have someone stolen from you?)
"Yes" Nosh deadpanned
(...I see.)
"Do you?"
(It was very tragic what happened to your friend.)
"The fuck?"
(Your mind is very erratic Noah. Topics jumping left and right, secrets hidden in plain sight and yet whenever I try to grasp something I get interrupted.)
"Cool cool how the fuck is that even remotely related to what I asked?"
(The point is that I'm in your head and I know you won't do it.)
"Kill him? I don't have to kill him to make you talk."
(I'm sorry?)
*POP*
"Can't we agree that running would be more difficult with a prosthetic?" Noah said while moving the knife
"NO! NO PLEASE!" The rabbit said while trying to kick out of Noah's grip
*POP*
(Well the ball is in your court. What are you going to do?)
"...what's the name of the guy who blackmailed you?"
(He is a Shiftry that has no name.)
"...funny. For someone looking through my head you sure didn't look well"
(What?)
"Me and my associate have been sent here to recover stolen property from who you speak of."
Noah gently set the rabbit down to both creaturesconfusion.
"Gentlemen let's have a friendly conversation without any of this...?"
A loud snappingsound came from Noah's back bringing him to his knees.
(Roy was that you?)
"Roy i was trying to use flamethrower that whole time. Nothing was working!"
Steam started flowing out of Noah's back
"A-AGH! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!"
(Wait none of your moves worked?")
"GUYS THIS IS REALLY FUCKING WEIRD!"
"Uh the things on his back are glowing"
"ECH FUCKING-SCUSE ME?!"
(Noah the nails on your back are glowing red. Are they supposed to do that?)
"THEY ARE NOT!"
(Oh.)
"Wait look at the way his back is glowing. It looks kinda like aura!"
"WHAT THE FUCK IS AURA AND WHY IS MY BACK TRYING TO EXPLODE?!"
"Clench the muscles in your back! It might do something!"
"Oh-ok I'll try" Noah said trying to calm down
As soon as Noah tensed up a burst of flame blasted out of the nails on his back
"Holy shit"
"WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST DO?!"
"You used flamethrower."
"I DONT THINK I CAN DO THAT BUD!"
(It appears you just did)
"Uh kor?"
"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO ME?!"
(Yes?)
"Can flamethrower levitate things?"
Sure enough there were branches weakly floating around Noah
(...it cannot. Although I think i have an idea of what's going on.)
"What's going on with him?"
(I have reason to believe that he absorbed our auras somehow.)
"What?! That's impossible!"
"OH I DONT KNOW. I THINK ITS ENTIRELY oh hey it stopped."
"Are you alright?"
"No. My back turned into a fucking ball of fire and I somehow moved shit with my fucking mind."
"NOAH ARE YOU OK?! WE SAW SMOKE!" Hoke yelled in the distance
(Who was that?)
"That my friends was Hoke. He's my associate."
"IF YOU CAN HEAR ME YOU STILL HAVE TO SEE ME PUT ON THAT DRESS! ITS GORGEOUS!" Roserade shouted
"(Sigh) and that is my client."
"Huh"
(How odd.)
"Hey quick question"
(Yes Noah?)
"Do you guys think you could kill me before she gets here? I can lend you my pocket knife."
(No.)
"(Groan) Fine. Alright I'll explain who you two are and we can discuss plans."
"Plans? For what?"
"Why the plans for infiltrating the Fort of course!"
"We are doing what now?"
"I'll explain on the way over to Hoke-"
*POP*
"FUCK HERE WE GO AGAIN I GUESS!" Noah shouted as smoke poured out of his back again