This chapter is entirely a dream, and features my weird opinion of how Lance gained his views on the world, 'k? As I said at the end of last chapter, if you've seen 'The uncut story of Mewtwo's origin' you'll recognize this. Manga Lance is like Anime Mewtwo. Let's say Lance is...12.
(thinks about Championshipping) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...;P
Aerocky: (eats bubble wrap)
DE: (puts head in hands) Not again...
Aerocky: (eats more bubble wrap) YAY! Dream!
(DREAM)
Yellow opened her eyes to a flash of lightning. A Dragonair leered over the stormy lake as the rain crashed down...
"Dratini...come on, what's wrong with you? Wake up!" a weak voice croaked.
Yellow whipped around to see a child version of Lance holding on to a weakened Dratini as they were buffeted by the storm. He looked like he was just about to lose consciousness and blood flushed over the jet black of the lake's surface. Suddenly his amber eyes closed and his head sank beneath the water.
"NO!" Yellow cried and reached out to grab him before he became completely submerged. But she only saw a ghostly silver arm floating in front of her face: she was merely a spirit watching a terrible memory.
Yellow watched helplessly as Lance sank deeper and deeper into the abyss, then she felt a rush of cold wind through enveloping darkness and there was a jolt as she landed on her feet, wobbling slightly before she became focused. She was in a pokémon center.
"Doctor, the results are back...but, they're negative. This pokémon is too weak to survive."
A man standing beside a table with the Dratini from before laid on it bowed his head.
"Poor thing. Well, that's life."
"I believe the lake was polluted." the assistant said. "If things go on this way...well, it's not natural."
"It's still he world as it is." the man said softly as they looked down at the dying Dratini.
Yellow tried to take in all that was going on but before she could contemplate it, the wind whipped around her again and she wasdropped onto the floor of another room.
She was standing in what seemed to be a hospital ward. There was only one occupied bed, and there was a young woman sitting beside it. She had quite long shocking tangerine-coloured hair tied in a pony tail and soft amber eyes that were filled with tears. Her face was extremely pale through trauma. Yellow guessed that this was Lance's mother.
Yellow tried to walk towards the bed, but instead glided serenely. She stood right next to her, and noticed that she was holding a battered encyclopedia of Dragon pokémon in her trembling hands. Suddenly, Yellow broke through to theher thoughts.
"I was so worried when you didn't come back...then the storm began when you were still out...then the ambulance pulled up outside...
"Your life has been a strange thing so far. You live a life of a person who deeply cares for pokémon over any other being in the world. Sometimes I wonder whether you love that Dratini over your human family. Should I be worried about you? No...I know you're happy the way you are. But is it good for you? Which way could it lead? When you wake up, and we tell you that the lake was polluted, you will learn a valuable thing about this world. Unfortunately, for some people, pokémon safety isn't the top priority...
"However much time you spend away, with pokémon instead of people, I still love you for who you are. What do I care, love pokémon more than humans. What harm can it do?"
Yellowstarted tothink how naïve that woman was, before she broke away from the voice to another jolt of movement and she landed in a chasm of darkness. Suddenly a voice spoke out.
"Hello?"
Lance's silhouetted figure stepped out from nowhere.
"What happened? Am I dead? Where am I?" he called to no-one in particular.
Yellow wanted to answer his question, but then remembered that she was only witnessing the dream. She jumped as another bodiless voice called out.
"Well, I don't think you're dead, you seem to be moving and dead things can't talk."
Lance seemed to be just as shocked and swung wildly around as several other voices laughed. The echoes slowly bounced away and another figure moved out of the shadow.
"Hi!" it sang like a bell.
"Dratini?" Lance observed as the little dragon floated towards him, "Why are you here? What is this place?"
"I don't know. I think it's like a place pokémon go when they're not dead or alive, and they just can't decide what they are." It giggled in its jangling voice and nothing else made a sound until the beautiful note had faded.
"But I'm not a pokémon..." Lance said, confused.
"I know. You're a human." another voice sounded coldly, revealing its owner to be a suspicious looking Dragonair. It was the one that had caused the storm earlier, the one that had been angered.
"I'm not like other humans though! I don't fit the reputation most people make for themselves..." Lance said quietly as more Dragon types circled around him, morphing out of the dark shadows.
"So what sort of human are you then?" another Dragonair asked.
"You don't understand! I'm not like other people, I don't want to hurt you!"
"You're lying!" an Aerodactyl cawed, "Humans destroyed my family and our nesting grounds by quarrying rocks near Mount Moon! And you say that you don't want to hurt us..."
"Yeh! They cut down my forest to build houses!"
"You humans killed my mother and father! Claimed that they were dangerous!"
"My home used to be near the Rock Tunnel, but there's a power-plant there now and they don't even use it!"
"You all throw your rubbish into the sea, and hope it will go away, not caring what other life is being affected by it!"
"It's true, I'm not lying! I don't want to hurt you..." Lance said, "I want to help you, however I can..."
The rest of the Dragons were silent as they looked at him in disbelief, but suddenly Dratini nudged him with her nose.
"Let me show you where my family live! I still want to visit it, come on!"
"Oh, ok..." Lance said, blinking.
Yellow jumped as she realized that she, Lance, Dratini and all the pokémon were hovering in midair. Then a forest had appeared like a vision and was zooming by below them. Dratini spoke in its bell-like voice again –
"I was born here, in the Viridian forest. A lot of pokémon made their home here, and so did my family!"
"I was born in the Viridian forest..."
"Wow, really? I didn't know any humans lived in the forest..." a Dragonair said as it bobbed along beside him.
"Well I don't, I was just born here." Lance said.
"Look, this is where I live!" Dratini cried, and did a cartwheel in midair before diving into the trees.
Yellow fought to keep up with the flying pokémon as they descended into a beautiful clearing. The waters of the lake shimmered calmly and the trees shrugged slightly in the cool breeze. Everyone hovered close to the ground, and Dratini spoke again.
"This is where I was born, and it's such a pretty place. Nothing could ever harm pokémon here, nothing! It's such a beautiful world, really, and I'm glad you want to take care of it, Lance!"
Lance smiled as he watched Dratini splash into the crystal clear water and swim around a few times. Yellow still hovered nearby, but she was frowning. That was the lake where the storm had been, the lake that had been polluted...
Suddenly her attention was drawn towards the rest of the pokémon as they let out distressed cries and began to fade away. Dratini and Lance looked at where they had stood, horrified.
"What's happening? Where did they go?" Lance looked around as if expecting them to appear behind him.
"I don't know." Dratini said. The bell-like voice sounded in a minor tone. It had a sad look on its face as it looked down to the ground.
Both Yellow and Lance looked down as well, and what they saw made them gasp. The beautiful lake darkened until Dratini's reflection couldn't be seen in the murky water. Some of the trees disappeared and the rest of them withered into brown skeletons. The pokémon paradise that had been nothing short of perfect a few minutes ago was destroyed...
"Lance, what's going on?" Dratini asked, as her body began to turn translucent as well.
"No, Dratini! You can't die! They can't do this to you! I'll save you...quick, get out of the water, it's hurting you!"
"I have to leave now. I don't know why. Perhaps I know what I want to be."
"No...no, Dratini, I told you, you can't die! I have to save you! It's not fair! They can't do this, I won't let them!" Lance cried, holding out his arms with his last inch of hope for the pokémon that was disappearing before his eyes.
"Just do what you can for the pokemon. Please?"
Then Dratini was gone. The vision of the Viridian forest disappeared. Lance fell to his knees, and stayed there, contemplating...
Yellow wiped the tears away from her cheeks. Suddenly, another wind gripped her ghostly body and dragged her away. She landed smack on her back in another dark area and someone grabbed her wrist.
Yellow suddenly found her voice.
"AAARRGH!"
She felt herself being pushed away and a pair of extremely angry amber eyes approached her.
"GET OUT OF HERE, NOW!" Lance kicked her away again.
"I'm sorry...I didn't realize..." Yellow cried, desperately.
"I DON'T CARE!" Lance screamed at her, his eyes throwing sparks. "This is the ONE thing I didn't want you to see! GET OUT!"
Yellow tried to speak but a force collided with her back and she fell over.
"I want you to leave Blackthorn City and NEVER return! I DON'T CARE if you need Clair's gym badge! I want you to leave! I don't want to see you, or know about you, or hear your thoughts EVER, EVER AGAIN!"
Lance delivered one last kick and Yellow blacked out of the dream.The Dragon Master sat on the ground and put his head in his hands.
"I hope you're happy...now you know why..."
OK...tell me if it sounds too much like Lance only decided to destroy humanity because he promised his Dratini that he would do something to save the pokémon. Nnnn...
Basically it's a dream about something that really happened in a subconscious world, andLance communicates with Dratini using guess what...the VIRIDIAN POWER!
Aerocky: (stops eating bubble wrap) So, Lance DOES hurt Yellow.
DE: He was angry! Wouldn't you be that angry if someone invaded your memory and discovered all the reasons that you've done everything in life?
Aerocky: (panics)You mean, this is likewhen you found out that I'd dedicated my life to educating Magikarps when you found that notebook with their IQs written in it! (eats sellotape)
DE: Really? O.O