Alucard's Familiar: "Hello, another chappie up!"
parinoidfreak: "Hello."
Alucard's Familiar: "How the hell did you get here?"
parinoidfreak: "Hello, my name is Gay!"
Alucard's Familiar: "Oh no..."
parinoidfreak: "I'm a pretty little fairy!"
Alucard's Familiar: "Oh God...on with the fic, I'll deal with the bug problem." *Drags him off*
Chapter 5
The ferry docked a few hours later. Integra had stayed out on deck the whole time, sleep eluding her. She was exhausted to the extent to where she would have fallen asleep standing if it weren't for the sun that was rising in front of her.
"It should take us about 3 hours to Professor Oak's if we walk," Ash said as they headed down the road.
"We don't have to walk," Integra yawned as she released her Tropius.
"Whoa," Ash said as Tropius lowered its neck for them to get on.
"He doesn't bite," Integra said as she climbed on.
Ash and his friends climbed on after her and held on as Tropius flapped its giant leaf-like wings and rose into the air.
It took less than half an hour to get there that way. Ash looked longingly down at his mother's home as they passed it and Integra had Tropius turn around and drop them there.
"Let's visit your mom Ash," Integra said as they landed.
"All right!" Ash leapt off the giant pokemon and ran up to the front door. "Mom! I'm home!"
Misty and Brock followed quickly behind Ash, but Integra stayed outside. She didn't have any business with them, so she stayed behind and dozed against one of Tropius's massive legs. The large dinosaur type pokemon lowered its head and nuzzled her a little before letting her drift off a little.
"Hey Integra, come on in!" Ash shouted from the door.
"He's making me get up," Integra grumbled under her breath and she felt a chuckle from Tropius as she called him back to his ball and walked up onto the porch.
"Come on in," Ash said.
Integra peered inside the house. She hadn't been in one for a long time, and was almost shy as she walked in. Plusle and Minun popped out of their pokeballs to give some personal comfort and rode on her shoulders.
"So you're Integra," said the woman who must have been Ash's mom. Integra didn't say anything, only nodded.
Integra showed no emotion on her face, which was hard since she hadn't needed to use that skill for years. Her pokemon on the other hand, expressed the nervous and unfamiliar feelings very well. They leapt down into Integra's arms and huddled close to her.
What's the matter with me? Integra asked herself.
Misty noticed the look on the pokemon's faces and linked it to Integra. She thought quickly, "Hey Integra, I think I left something outside, come with me please."
"Um, sure," Integra said as she felt relief wash over her. She followed Misty outside and they walked down and sat on the fence.
"I noticed you looked nervous," Misty said.
"Thanks," Integra said as she sat on the grass and let Plusle and Minun crawl all over her. "I had forgotten how very nonsocial I was."
"You seem to get along all right with us," Misty pointed out.
"I'm picky," Integra confessed and Misty chuckled.
"I see your point," Misty smiled. "Ash's mother is a bit..."
"Too cheery for my liking," Integra finished her sentence.
"Uh right, it took me a while to get used to her too," Misty said.
"If it's all right with you, I'm going head up to Professor Oak's," Integra said as she stood up.
"Hang on a sec, I'll get Ash and Brock," Misty said and she darted back into the house.
"Damn, what's the matter with me, I haven't thought like this in ages," Integra muttered to herself as she leaned on the fence. "It's when I started thinking about HIM again. Damn damn damn damn damn." She berated herself until the three kids returned and she had to shut up.
"It's only about a fifteen minute walk from here," Ash said as they started down the road.
Integra nodded as her Sceptile released itself from its ball and walked beside her.
Rattata scurried over the dirt road as they went and Integra watched them out of curiosity. She had never seen the Kanto region's pokemon, so this was new to her. She noticed a small pony type pokemon in the bushes and she debated whether to go after it or not. Trainer instinct finally kicked in and she whispered to Sceptile.
He immediately went after it, unleashing a Razor Leaf attack at it, catching it off guard. It fell over, too young to truly battle and Integra threw a pokeball at it. She caught the pokeball as it returned to her, then it vanished into her storage system.
"What did you catch?" Ash asked, he had missed it.
"Small little pony thing," Integra said as she pulled out her pokedex, "This."
"Ah a Ponyta," Ash said. "I've ridden one of those, if they don't trust you, they burn you."
"Sounds familiar to my Plusle and Minun problem I had," Integra said as they continued walking. "When I first caught them, both at the same time, they hated me, and did everything they could to be able to shock me, scratch me, and bite me as many times as they could in one day. I think I have more scars from them than any other pokemon I've caught and Bonded with."
"Whoa," Ash said, "The only problems I've had were with a Charmeleon that wouldn't listen to me, and its evolution Charizard had the same problem, but we're friends now."
Integra smiled, but did nothing more. For some reason, she wasn't very talkative. Maybe it was her growing fatigue. Whatever it was, it was making her dull, and Sceptile didn't like it.
He mischievously unlatched the necklace around her neck and ran off a few feet in front of her, dangling the necklace teasingly.
"Sceptile," Integra warned. Her pokemon smirked and put the necklace around his own neck and grinned wider. "Oh God dŽjˆ vu at its max," Integra said as she held her head. "Sceptile give that back." The pokemon noticed the stress in her voice and gave the necklace back to her.
"What's wrong?" Ash asked.
"Nothing," Integra said quickly. "Nothing important."
"Hey look, there's Professor Oak's!" Ash said and dared ahead.
Brock and Misty started after him and it took Integra and Sceptile a minute to follow suit. Sceptile could feel Integra's exhaustion and looked back at her as he easily took the lead from her.
He stopped and held back, stopped her, and had her walk the rest of the way. They walked through a gate and up a dirt walkway to find Ash, Misty, Brock, and an old man she took for Professor Oak standing by the door waiting for her.
"Sorry," Integra apologized when she reached them.
"No need for apologies," Oak said. "Ash told me what you did. Quite remarkable indeed. Come in."
"Thanks," Integra said as she followed the rest inside, looking around in curiosity. Birch's lab had always been a clutter of paper and books, but this one was well organized, save a few things scattered around on random tables.
"I hear you're a Life Bond trainer," Oak said as they all settled at a table in the garden of Oak's lab. They had let their pokemon run loose there, and now all of Integra's pokemon were mingling with Oak's, but Sceptile stayed by her side. Standing over her a few feet away.
"I am," Integra nodded.
"Now there are a few things I want to know," Oak said. "You can refuse to answer an of these questions mind you. Since this is life bond stuff we are talking about, I know this stuff can get very personal."
"It's all right," Integra said.
"All right then," Oak said. "When did you first start training?"
"Four years ago," Integra answered.
"When was the first time you realized you had this type of bond with your pokemon?" Oak asked.
"Good question," Integra pondered it for a minute, "I don't know really. I think I just realized it over time and accepted it. There wasn't really a defined time when I said, 'hey, I'm a life bond trainer.'"
"I understand," Oak replied. "Now tell me this. When your pokemon gets injured, you feel it correct?"
"Yes."
"Is it the same in return?"
"Yes."
The sky was growing darker as they talked, and before they realized it, it was late into the night and Oak berated himself for keeping them out there so long.
"I am sorry, sometimes I get a little too caught up in what I'm doing," Oak apologized as they stood from table.
"It's all right," Integra mumbled. Her conversations with the old man had brought be yet even more memories. She was drowning in them, and she didn't know how long she would last if she kept them bottled up inside.
"What's that?" Ash asked.
"Not sure," Oak said as he looked up at the sky.
"Pokemon," Integra said without really paying attention, her thoughts were other places.
"They're coming this way," Ash said. "Wait a minute, I recognize one of them. It's Mewtwo!"
"Where?" Misty and Brock asked at the same time and Integra looked up curiously.
The larger of the pokemon landed on the ground and with grace while the smaller one stayed floating in the air.
"That smaller one must be Mew," Ash said as he looked closely.
-It's nice to see you again Ash-, Mewtwo said in telepathy. Ash gave him a thumbs up and Mewtwo continued. -I am surprised to find you with her. Especially since she isn't of this world.-
"What are you talking about?" Ash asked.
-It is my fault, and Mew's-, Mewtwo started. -Mew and I were working on dimension jumping when we accidentally opened a portal we couldn't find. The only way it could have closed was if someone had gone through it, or the creators came and closed it themselves. As you can see, the previous of those options happened.-
"And it took you this long to find her?" Oak asked.
-Unfortunately, this person enjoys traveling all over the pokemon world, and knew how to move quickly,-Mewtwo shot a glance at Integra. -Every time we would pinpoint her location, she would move again. It was rather frustrating.-
Mew spoke, but since it didn't use telepathy, they had to wait for Mewtwo to translate.
-Mew is right, this human has been able to adapt and survive in our world-, Mewtwo translated. -But she is not meant to be here, and must decide whether she wants to go back home, or stay here.-
The thought had never struck Integra, whether it was her choice to go back home or not. Her first answer would have been yes, if she could have spoken. Her throat had tightened at the last minute, refraining her from speaking. Now she had a chance to think.
She would leave all of the people she had met and had made friendly bonds with behind. She would have to leave her hard trained pokemon as well. They were her friends too, and they were the ones who had changed her hard personality, to the caring and kind person she was today. Would she have to go back to where she had to be cold and hard? She didn't think she could bear going back to that life style, no matter how hard she tried to change.
"I'm not sure I can," Integra finally said. "I don't think I could bear going back there."
"Wait a second!" Ash said. "You're saying she's not from this world right?" Mewtwo nodded and Ash turned to Integra. "Why didn't you every tell us?"
"What was it like back there? You've never told us," Misty piped up.
Integra's gaze turned inward, to the dark life she had left behind. It was always dark, and there was always so much killing. She had few friends, most had been business comrades and truce partners. She could only recall three true friends. Two of which were prohibited, in the eyes of her organization. She missed them of course, and wondered if one was actually still alive.
"You don't want to know about my world," Integra said. "It was a dark and cruel one, with a love that I was forbidden to have. For who he was, and for what my life was about, was like asking for someone to drop a bomb on a nuclear power center."
No one said anything, for fear of turning the silent situation into a bomb attack themselves.
-Why don't we ask one of the people from your world, for their opinion,- Mewtwo said as he created a portal. It showed and empty office with three people standing in it. One looked to be an old butler, near and around the age of 75. Another was of a girl dressed in a police uniform, but they could tell she was more than a girl.
The third and final person in the room was a tall figure dressed in red and black. He wore a hat and a pair of amber colored sunglasses. All three of the people wore frowns on their faces, as if grieving for someone.
-For a moment this is only a window-, Mewtwo said as they all glanced at the view. -When I finish, the portal will connect to that world and one person may come through it. Are you ready Integra?-
She didn't have to think, "Yes."
The portal connected and the tall man in red instantly turned toward it. As Integra went to show herself at the entrance of the portal, the tall man drew a gun and started firing rapidly.
Integra was able to glance into the portal before she had to pull away and dodge the onslaught of bullets. "Everyone get down!" She shouted and everyone around her hit the deck. A second later a blur of red came through the portal, which closed in a flash, and came to a stop about three meters away from the group.
Integra leapt in front of the group and stood there as if to shield them if the tall figure was to attack again. There was a long moment of silence before the figure cladded in red spoke.
"Master?" He asked.
***
Alucard's Familiar: "I decided I hadn't done enough cliff hangers, guess I'll do it to this one. Oh yeah, there's Alucard for all of those who have been asking for him."
parinoidfreak: "Fairies!"
Alucard's Familiar: "Not you again! Oh well, please review, I need some bug spray."
parinoidfreak: "Hello."
Alucard's Familiar: "How the hell did you get here?"
parinoidfreak: "Hello, my name is Gay!"
Alucard's Familiar: "Oh no..."
parinoidfreak: "I'm a pretty little fairy!"
Alucard's Familiar: "Oh God...on with the fic, I'll deal with the bug problem." *Drags him off*
Chapter 5
The ferry docked a few hours later. Integra had stayed out on deck the whole time, sleep eluding her. She was exhausted to the extent to where she would have fallen asleep standing if it weren't for the sun that was rising in front of her.
"It should take us about 3 hours to Professor Oak's if we walk," Ash said as they headed down the road.
"We don't have to walk," Integra yawned as she released her Tropius.
"Whoa," Ash said as Tropius lowered its neck for them to get on.
"He doesn't bite," Integra said as she climbed on.
Ash and his friends climbed on after her and held on as Tropius flapped its giant leaf-like wings and rose into the air.
It took less than half an hour to get there that way. Ash looked longingly down at his mother's home as they passed it and Integra had Tropius turn around and drop them there.
"Let's visit your mom Ash," Integra said as they landed.
"All right!" Ash leapt off the giant pokemon and ran up to the front door. "Mom! I'm home!"
Misty and Brock followed quickly behind Ash, but Integra stayed outside. She didn't have any business with them, so she stayed behind and dozed against one of Tropius's massive legs. The large dinosaur type pokemon lowered its head and nuzzled her a little before letting her drift off a little.
"Hey Integra, come on in!" Ash shouted from the door.
"He's making me get up," Integra grumbled under her breath and she felt a chuckle from Tropius as she called him back to his ball and walked up onto the porch.
"Come on in," Ash said.
Integra peered inside the house. She hadn't been in one for a long time, and was almost shy as she walked in. Plusle and Minun popped out of their pokeballs to give some personal comfort and rode on her shoulders.
"So you're Integra," said the woman who must have been Ash's mom. Integra didn't say anything, only nodded.
Integra showed no emotion on her face, which was hard since she hadn't needed to use that skill for years. Her pokemon on the other hand, expressed the nervous and unfamiliar feelings very well. They leapt down into Integra's arms and huddled close to her.
What's the matter with me? Integra asked herself.
Misty noticed the look on the pokemon's faces and linked it to Integra. She thought quickly, "Hey Integra, I think I left something outside, come with me please."
"Um, sure," Integra said as she felt relief wash over her. She followed Misty outside and they walked down and sat on the fence.
"I noticed you looked nervous," Misty said.
"Thanks," Integra said as she sat on the grass and let Plusle and Minun crawl all over her. "I had forgotten how very nonsocial I was."
"You seem to get along all right with us," Misty pointed out.
"I'm picky," Integra confessed and Misty chuckled.
"I see your point," Misty smiled. "Ash's mother is a bit..."
"Too cheery for my liking," Integra finished her sentence.
"Uh right, it took me a while to get used to her too," Misty said.
"If it's all right with you, I'm going head up to Professor Oak's," Integra said as she stood up.
"Hang on a sec, I'll get Ash and Brock," Misty said and she darted back into the house.
"Damn, what's the matter with me, I haven't thought like this in ages," Integra muttered to herself as she leaned on the fence. "It's when I started thinking about HIM again. Damn damn damn damn damn." She berated herself until the three kids returned and she had to shut up.
"It's only about a fifteen minute walk from here," Ash said as they started down the road.
Integra nodded as her Sceptile released itself from its ball and walked beside her.
Rattata scurried over the dirt road as they went and Integra watched them out of curiosity. She had never seen the Kanto region's pokemon, so this was new to her. She noticed a small pony type pokemon in the bushes and she debated whether to go after it or not. Trainer instinct finally kicked in and she whispered to Sceptile.
He immediately went after it, unleashing a Razor Leaf attack at it, catching it off guard. It fell over, too young to truly battle and Integra threw a pokeball at it. She caught the pokeball as it returned to her, then it vanished into her storage system.
"What did you catch?" Ash asked, he had missed it.
"Small little pony thing," Integra said as she pulled out her pokedex, "This."
"Ah a Ponyta," Ash said. "I've ridden one of those, if they don't trust you, they burn you."
"Sounds familiar to my Plusle and Minun problem I had," Integra said as they continued walking. "When I first caught them, both at the same time, they hated me, and did everything they could to be able to shock me, scratch me, and bite me as many times as they could in one day. I think I have more scars from them than any other pokemon I've caught and Bonded with."
"Whoa," Ash said, "The only problems I've had were with a Charmeleon that wouldn't listen to me, and its evolution Charizard had the same problem, but we're friends now."
Integra smiled, but did nothing more. For some reason, she wasn't very talkative. Maybe it was her growing fatigue. Whatever it was, it was making her dull, and Sceptile didn't like it.
He mischievously unlatched the necklace around her neck and ran off a few feet in front of her, dangling the necklace teasingly.
"Sceptile," Integra warned. Her pokemon smirked and put the necklace around his own neck and grinned wider. "Oh God dŽjˆ vu at its max," Integra said as she held her head. "Sceptile give that back." The pokemon noticed the stress in her voice and gave the necklace back to her.
"What's wrong?" Ash asked.
"Nothing," Integra said quickly. "Nothing important."
"Hey look, there's Professor Oak's!" Ash said and dared ahead.
Brock and Misty started after him and it took Integra and Sceptile a minute to follow suit. Sceptile could feel Integra's exhaustion and looked back at her as he easily took the lead from her.
He stopped and held back, stopped her, and had her walk the rest of the way. They walked through a gate and up a dirt walkway to find Ash, Misty, Brock, and an old man she took for Professor Oak standing by the door waiting for her.
"Sorry," Integra apologized when she reached them.
"No need for apologies," Oak said. "Ash told me what you did. Quite remarkable indeed. Come in."
"Thanks," Integra said as she followed the rest inside, looking around in curiosity. Birch's lab had always been a clutter of paper and books, but this one was well organized, save a few things scattered around on random tables.
"I hear you're a Life Bond trainer," Oak said as they all settled at a table in the garden of Oak's lab. They had let their pokemon run loose there, and now all of Integra's pokemon were mingling with Oak's, but Sceptile stayed by her side. Standing over her a few feet away.
"I am," Integra nodded.
"Now there are a few things I want to know," Oak said. "You can refuse to answer an of these questions mind you. Since this is life bond stuff we are talking about, I know this stuff can get very personal."
"It's all right," Integra said.
"All right then," Oak said. "When did you first start training?"
"Four years ago," Integra answered.
"When was the first time you realized you had this type of bond with your pokemon?" Oak asked.
"Good question," Integra pondered it for a minute, "I don't know really. I think I just realized it over time and accepted it. There wasn't really a defined time when I said, 'hey, I'm a life bond trainer.'"
"I understand," Oak replied. "Now tell me this. When your pokemon gets injured, you feel it correct?"
"Yes."
"Is it the same in return?"
"Yes."
The sky was growing darker as they talked, and before they realized it, it was late into the night and Oak berated himself for keeping them out there so long.
"I am sorry, sometimes I get a little too caught up in what I'm doing," Oak apologized as they stood from table.
"It's all right," Integra mumbled. Her conversations with the old man had brought be yet even more memories. She was drowning in them, and she didn't know how long she would last if she kept them bottled up inside.
"What's that?" Ash asked.
"Not sure," Oak said as he looked up at the sky.
"Pokemon," Integra said without really paying attention, her thoughts were other places.
"They're coming this way," Ash said. "Wait a minute, I recognize one of them. It's Mewtwo!"
"Where?" Misty and Brock asked at the same time and Integra looked up curiously.
The larger of the pokemon landed on the ground and with grace while the smaller one stayed floating in the air.
"That smaller one must be Mew," Ash said as he looked closely.
-It's nice to see you again Ash-, Mewtwo said in telepathy. Ash gave him a thumbs up and Mewtwo continued. -I am surprised to find you with her. Especially since she isn't of this world.-
"What are you talking about?" Ash asked.
-It is my fault, and Mew's-, Mewtwo started. -Mew and I were working on dimension jumping when we accidentally opened a portal we couldn't find. The only way it could have closed was if someone had gone through it, or the creators came and closed it themselves. As you can see, the previous of those options happened.-
"And it took you this long to find her?" Oak asked.
-Unfortunately, this person enjoys traveling all over the pokemon world, and knew how to move quickly,-Mewtwo shot a glance at Integra. -Every time we would pinpoint her location, she would move again. It was rather frustrating.-
Mew spoke, but since it didn't use telepathy, they had to wait for Mewtwo to translate.
-Mew is right, this human has been able to adapt and survive in our world-, Mewtwo translated. -But she is not meant to be here, and must decide whether she wants to go back home, or stay here.-
The thought had never struck Integra, whether it was her choice to go back home or not. Her first answer would have been yes, if she could have spoken. Her throat had tightened at the last minute, refraining her from speaking. Now she had a chance to think.
She would leave all of the people she had met and had made friendly bonds with behind. She would have to leave her hard trained pokemon as well. They were her friends too, and they were the ones who had changed her hard personality, to the caring and kind person she was today. Would she have to go back to where she had to be cold and hard? She didn't think she could bear going back to that life style, no matter how hard she tried to change.
"I'm not sure I can," Integra finally said. "I don't think I could bear going back there."
"Wait a second!" Ash said. "You're saying she's not from this world right?" Mewtwo nodded and Ash turned to Integra. "Why didn't you every tell us?"
"What was it like back there? You've never told us," Misty piped up.
Integra's gaze turned inward, to the dark life she had left behind. It was always dark, and there was always so much killing. She had few friends, most had been business comrades and truce partners. She could only recall three true friends. Two of which were prohibited, in the eyes of her organization. She missed them of course, and wondered if one was actually still alive.
"You don't want to know about my world," Integra said. "It was a dark and cruel one, with a love that I was forbidden to have. For who he was, and for what my life was about, was like asking for someone to drop a bomb on a nuclear power center."
No one said anything, for fear of turning the silent situation into a bomb attack themselves.
-Why don't we ask one of the people from your world, for their opinion,- Mewtwo said as he created a portal. It showed and empty office with three people standing in it. One looked to be an old butler, near and around the age of 75. Another was of a girl dressed in a police uniform, but they could tell she was more than a girl.
The third and final person in the room was a tall figure dressed in red and black. He wore a hat and a pair of amber colored sunglasses. All three of the people wore frowns on their faces, as if grieving for someone.
-For a moment this is only a window-, Mewtwo said as they all glanced at the view. -When I finish, the portal will connect to that world and one person may come through it. Are you ready Integra?-
She didn't have to think, "Yes."
The portal connected and the tall man in red instantly turned toward it. As Integra went to show herself at the entrance of the portal, the tall man drew a gun and started firing rapidly.
Integra was able to glance into the portal before she had to pull away and dodge the onslaught of bullets. "Everyone get down!" She shouted and everyone around her hit the deck. A second later a blur of red came through the portal, which closed in a flash, and came to a stop about three meters away from the group.
Integra leapt in front of the group and stood there as if to shield them if the tall figure was to attack again. There was a long moment of silence before the figure cladded in red spoke.
"Master?" He asked.
***
Alucard's Familiar: "I decided I hadn't done enough cliff hangers, guess I'll do it to this one. Oh yeah, there's Alucard for all of those who have been asking for him."
parinoidfreak: "Fairies!"
Alucard's Familiar: "Not you again! Oh well, please review, I need some bug spray."