He travels on Route 8 by foot, running as fast as he could. The thick clouds covering the moon creates a thick darkness covering the area, making it hard to see anything for normal people. But for him, it looks as if were a night with the moon illuminating the night sky, giving him perfect vision, as if he were meant to be outside at night, a creature of the night. A dark shadow blocks his path. He stares deeply at it for a while, realizing what it is, an Espeon, just like the ones in his dreams and visions. It stares right back at him. He has seen Espeons before, outside his dreams, but this one looks different, more elegant than the normal ones he had seen before. Its eyes shine like black pearls in the faded moonlight, its purple fur flows in an unfelt wind. "Get out of my way, Espeon!" he yells at it with hostility in his voice, a totally unusual tone for him to speak to a pokémon. "What?" he thinks to himself, "I am not acting like myself! What is happening to me?!". You are finally changing, the voice says, You are finally realizing what you truely are, slowly.

"Damn you! Let me be myself!"

You are becoming yourself.

"No! I am a gentle and loving person!"

That is just what the humans want you to think, but I know the truth! I am your actual conciousness that has been locked away for so long, and now I want out! I want to have you be your actual self, for your sake and mine.

"You're lying!"

Oh, am I? Consider this then. If you are "normal" like you say you are, then why do you always have to visit Silph Company once a year for that annual check-up? Why does Dr. Gemfk always inject you with that strange amethyst liquid after each visit, I wonder? Hm...? See what I am getting at?

"I cannot believe you! I just can't! Stop talking to me!"

Very well.

The voice stops talking, the Espeon gazes into his eyes; like it either knows or knew him, or it was reading his thoughts. It narrows it eyes, the red jewel on its forehead glows in a steady pulse, then lets out a blinding flash. Causing him to shield his eyes. When the light fades, he finds that the Espeon had disappeared. "What was that all about?" he says under his breath and runs to the gateway of Saffron City.

* * *

"You've got to believe me, Dr. Gemfk!" Sabrina yells at the oddly calm doctor, "Mike has gone insane or something! He's not acting like himself at all anymore!". She starts to shake. Doctor Tamdra Gemfk, a tall, proud man in his mid-thirties. His dark grey eyes give a false sense of sympathy to the broken-spirited young woman, he puts one hand on her shoulder, "I do believe you, Sabrina." he says, "I knew this day would come."

"What? You knew about this the whole time?!"

"Yes."

"And you.... knew what he is?!"

"That is correct."

"You never told him?"

"I thought it would be a safer way to go if he never found out."

"Poor Mike.... I can understand what he is going through.... but, I cannot understand how you can hold back information like that from him! What were you going to use him as when he got older? As an experiment?!"

"Yes."

"He is going to kill you for your inconsideration!"

"I don't think so."

"What?! What do you intend to do?!"

"I have an electronic control device implanted into his skin. If he assaults me in any way, he will be punished with an electrical charge sent throughout his body."

"No! You cruel bastard!" She runs at him. In an instant, he manages to hold her by the neck with his forearm, "What are you going to use me for?!"

"As a lure, of course."

The sounds of screams and explosions confirm Mike's arrival. The lights flicker on and off, Gemfk quickly makes his way to the staircase with Sabrina captive. Below, Mike senses the presense of both Sabrina and Tamdra Gemfk in the building. He drops the bloody, mutilated body of Ryoko the receptionist, forcefully slamming her head onto the reception desk, creating a huge gaping hole in the head of the deceased receptionist, spilling brain matter all over the blood-stained desk.

He is confronted by some security guards armed with machine guns. He laughs coldly, and retracts a set of claws from out of his fingers, his eyes flash quickly. "Die." he simply says, and in the blink of an eye, he slashes out the stomach of one guard, causing the entrails to spill out onto the white ceramic tile, staining the tile with blood; tears off the ribcage of another, sending a fountain of blood spraying twenty feet ahead of the body, leaving the still beating heart and pulsing lungs to finally give out and stop function; and tears the face of another clean off, exposing bloody muscle and white skull, the guard screams in agony and falls lifelessly to the ground face first.

"NO! Stop this!" he says mentally to his true self, the side of him that has taken over for the moment, "These guards have families! They don't deserve to die!". Quit your complaining, says his true self, They are in the way of my goal.

"By killing innocent people?!"

If they are affiliated with Temdra Gemfk, they are not innocent! He took my life from me! Making me you! Anyone in the building must die!

"No! You can't do that! I won't let you!"

Once I get to Gemfk, you cannot stop me!

Gemfk and Sabrina reach the roof. He immediately gets to work on tieing her up with psi-proof bindings on a radio transmitter. "Please don't do this!" she pleads, starting to cry. "Silence!" he says.

She spits on his face, "Mike will kill you no matter what you do to him!"

"Bitch!" he backhands her across the face, "Don't you talk to me like that!"

"You fool! Trying to control a being in the manner that you are! You will suffer the consequences of your actions!"

The building shakes violently, some windows shatter outwards into the city streets, the agonizing cries and screams of the people of Saffron City fill the night sky. The door leading to the stairwell leading down into the building explodes. Mike emerges from it, soaked in the blood of his victims, he does not seem as murderous as he did when he entered the building. "Temdra Gemfk! I have come for answers!" he calls out. "Hahahahaha..." Gemfk laughs, "You have finally realized what you truly are! How does it feel?"

"Like a fucking tragedy."

"So, you have come to kill me, correct? Well, show yourself for what you truely are!"

"This guy actually wants to die?" he mentally asks his true self, "He must truely be crazy.". Yes, says his true self, he wants to finally see your true colors, so to speak.

"Well then, let's not disappoint him, huh?"

You have finally accepted the truth.

"Yeah, it feels great. C'mon let's go!"

"I'm going to make you pay for all the secrecy over the years!" he yells out, "Time to die!"