Authors Note:
I AM SORRY! I am so sorry for the latest episode, which indeed was the worst so far... I was looking for a nice way to end the episode, and it ended with three pages meaningless sh*t and Carrie got shot, and Amber kidnapped... Gee, how am I going to solve this out? That's the problem with being a writer who improvises... Anyway, I WANT YOU TO BE BRUTALLY HONEST when you review, please? This is probably my favourite episode so far, even though it hasn't any action at all! This is probably the first chapter without a battle or an unexpected event that turns everything upside down...
I love you all, thanks for reading!
Reviewers response:
Dark Flame Vulpix: I don't like to make people sad, but it's a good way to write stories... If it's okay, I make up some things about Amber's background? If it's not, tell me, and I'll change it... And YOU BETTER update on The TI, or I'll go berserk! -insert evil laughter- And you are the one who have reviewed my story the most, so special thanks to you!
Hyperwill: Thanks for the review, Will... Glad that I could make you happy... Hmm, now where did I get Reno from (cough cough ff7 cough cough)
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She felt as she was flying, a soft, pleasant feeling that she enjoyed.
Where was she?
A vague picture of a boy formed in her head. His oceanblue eyes, his blonde hair and his beautiful face made her feel warm inside.
Who was he?
Her mind was like a faded line. She couldn't think, as soon as she tried, it hurted.
The only thing she could remember, was a high sound... A gunshot... Yes, a gunshot...
Did it hit her?
She didn't feel any pain, and her whole body was senseless and weak.
She felt like a puppet-doll with cut-off threads.
"Carrie." Someone said. "Carrie, how are you?
Who was that?
The voice sounded familiar...
"Carrie, it's me Jason. How are you feeling?" The voice said again.
"It's hopeless" Another, female voice stated. "They have given her drugs to take away the pain. She probably doesn't even hear us."
I hear you! She thought, but she was too weak to even say it. She tried to lift her arm, but it didn't respond to her command.
"Is she....Going to die, doctor?" The boy, who's name apparently was Jason, asked.
"No, she's passed the worst. She will survive." A dark, male basetone said. "It's a miracle she survived. One shot in the head, another straight through the stomach. We have no idea in what condition she will be when she wakes up. I'm not even sure if she remembers anything."
"Carrie, listen to me" The boy, Jason, said gently. "Rin and I will stay here until you're better. Don't worry, Carrie, your Pokémon are safe, and we are here for you... It's going to be allright Carrie, just hang in there."
Carrie? The girl thought to herself, listening to the soft words.
Who was Carrie?
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Amber slowly opened her eyes.
Her head felt like it was going to blow into pieces any second.
Where was she?
She looked around, but her eyes wasn't adjusted to the weak light that danced with the shadows in her prison.
She blinked a few times to make the dizzyness go away.
She was inside a glass capsule or container of some kind. Several needles was pierced into her body, and long hoses was connected with them.
They were draining something from her, making her feel weak and powerless.
What happened?
She had taken a walk in the forest, waiting for Jason and Carrie to come back and... those men arrived...
So they finally got me... She thought to herself. It was only a matter of time before they would.
Her eyes slowly adjusted to the weak light, and she could see her surroundings. Through the glass of the small capsule, she could see numerous other capsules, all containing different Pokémon.
They seemed to be sleeping. Where was her own Pokémon?
She tried to morph herself. No use. She was far too weak to change into a Vulpix.
"Good morning, my precious." Someone suddenly said, and a professor dressed in a long white coat entered the large room, which seemed to be a laboratory of some kind. "How are we feeling today?"
Amber opened her mouth to speak, but she was too weak to get any words out of her throat.
"I'm sorry for the needles and the hoses, but it's just a precaution. Don't want you to escape as you did last time, my precious hybrid." The professor said, and placed himself in front of her capsule, touching the glass lightly with his skeleton-like, white skinned hand.
"Please...remove...the hoses." Amber said, weakly, forcing out every word. "They are... making me weak."
"Well, that's point... what was it... Amber, yes, Amber it was." The professor smiled, and his eyes were sparkling with madness, insane evil pouring from the very depths of his soul. "Now, we have you all. You're the very last one, remaining."
"Why are you...hunting me? What have I done wrong?"
"You're biggest fault is that you exist!" the professor exclaimed. "We don't want our failed experiments to live amongst other people! We have succesfully hunted them all down, except you and soon, when you no longer exist, no one will be left alive to tell the rest of the world about our experiments by combining humans and Pokémon into one race."
"Is that everything I am to you?" Amber asked. "A failed experiment."
"Yes, you are." The professor said. "You are a failed experiment. Nothing else."
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"We've called officer Jenny" The doctor said. "She will be here in ten minutes to ask you questions about what happened."
"Ok... Thanks." Jason said, holding Teddyursa in his arms. He let out a sigh and collapsed on one of the couches in the empty waiting room.
Rin sang quietly to herself, gently stroking Vixen's golden fur. The beautiful Ninetails laid beside her in the couch, and it was sleeping.
"Wild swan... Follow the river...Don't fly to dangerous skies...." Rin sang, with low, but yet a beautiful, gentle voice. "On the wings of heaven... We travel into the night..."
"What a beautiful song, Rin." Jason said, staring into the wall. Teddyursa pulled his jacket with its paws, the bandage had been removed by nurse Joy at the small Pokécenter that laid inside the giant hospital.
"You want honey?" Jason asked. "I'm not sure if we have any left. I'll go buy you some tomorrow."
Teddyursa sank down in his lap again. Jason grabbed his Pokéballs, and released his other Pokémon.
"You can sleep outside your Pokéballs tonight" he said, sounding like he where somewhere else. "There doesn't seem to be anyone else here tonight"
Ivysaur, Arcanine, Butterfree and Marshtomp laid down on the floor and at Jasons feets. They all looked tired after the rough day, and seemed happy to get a rest.
Rin let out her three other Pokémon, Yin-Yang the Absol, Pyro the Blaziken and Kayna the Mightyena, still singing her song.
They materialized on the floor, and the white light lit up the corridor. Yin-Yang laid down on the other couch together with Pyro. Kayna laid down under the table, falling asleep almost immidiately.
"Why did this happen?" Jason mumbled. "How are we going to continue now, when Amber is gone... And Carrie is shot?"
"Hey, Jason, light up a bit. Carrie will survive, you heard the doctor." Rin said, trying to smile. "And we'll find Amber, as soon as Carrie is recovered, we'll go and look for her."
"What if Amber's dead by then? You saw what she could do, that's probably why Reno and Grasp were after her. She could be dead already."
"No, I don't think so. Look, both you, Carrie, myself and Amber are survivors. Amber can take care of herself, I'm absolutely sure on that. And the police will find the kidnappers, as soon as officer Jenny can spread the signalement."
"It will be hard." Jason stated. "They were working for some kind of organization, two ordinary kidnappers doesn't come in a black helicopter. They probably have their headquarters underground."
"It may sound cruel, but first priority is to make sure that Carrie gets better." Rin said. "I saw Ambers ears at the arena before. She had Vulpix ears. Probably, she's a hybrid of some kind. You saw how she morphed before. She's probably already thinking of a way to escape. And Jason, there's nothing we can do to help her. The police will take care of it."
Jason didn't answer. Teddyursa had fell asleep in his arms, and he felt his eyelids becoming heavy.
As soon as he closed his eyes, the nightmare came again. Pictures from his funeral, the weak visions of capsules of some sort containing Pokémon inside a dark laboratory and vague illusions of terrible events played before his eyes.
Suddenly, a gap opened in front of him, a giant mouth full with sharp teeths waiting to take a bite of him.
Out of the mouth, a head shaped, an old, wrinkled face with tired, grey eyes. It was an old man, smiling gently against him.
"There's nowhere to run, Jason. We will come for you too."
Jason screamed, and woke up abrubtly. Rin was sleeping, and so was all the Pokémon.
The words echoed in his head, and he was sweating. He laid back, but couldn't fall asleep again. The old man once again showed before his eyes, smiling with evil.
"We will come for you too, Jason."
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Amber opened her eyes. The professor must have injected something through the hoses making her fall asleep.
She looked around. There was several capsules like her own, but they were all empty. She tried to move her hands, but even if she could, she was too weak to even lift them.
Her Pokémon was gone. The Pokéballs that used to be clipsed onto her belt was removed.
She was all alone. Tears fell down her cheeks, but yet she realized that she had been alone for all her life.
She had never been loved. The experiments that had been done on her when he was a little child had made their tracks in her very mind.
They had not only given her the ability to transform into a Vulpix any time she liked, they had also removed a piece of her true self.
She didn't remembered why she was taken to the laboratory those years ago, why they did those horrible things to her. There was a lot of things that she didn't remember.
Her memories began the day she escaped, she practically had no memories of her time before that.
She like a piece of her very soul was missing, leaving a large hole inside her.
At the beginning, she liked to transform whenever she liked, enjoying the feeling to be a Vulpix, to feel the freedom.
But soon, the organisation that had made the experiments on her, began hunting her, and she realized that it was dangerous to overuse her power.
She had been on the run since, and now, they finally caught her.
Amber sighed, and in the same time the large steel door at the far end of the room was opened. The professor entered, accompanied by the two men that had kidnapped her earlier.
"Hello, my dear." The professor said and walked over to her capsule, without even lighting any lamps. "How are you? A bit tired maybe... You're injected with a special venom that are poisoning your brain and stunning your cells. You can't morph in this condition, and you are not even strong enough to move your hands. It's my own invention."
"What do you want?" Amber asked, trying not to sound like she was forcing herself. She was. "Can't you just let me go?"
"No, we can't" Reno said. "You're dangerous."
"That's right, precious. You will be kept here for the rest of your life. Which is going to end in a few days."
"What are you going to do?" Amber whispered, feeling her energy being drained.
"We are draining your powers, we are draining out your very conscious out of your body." The professor said, smiling as usual. But his smiles were never happy, they just held pure evil. "You will go crazy, lose control over yourself, and eventually, you will die a long, hard death."
"Why? What have I done wrong?"
"The list of your mistakes is to long to tell" The professor said, with a voice cold as ice. "By the way, my name is Seth. I think you know me since before"
As she saw him in the light from her capsule, Amber felt something strange inside her, like something just coming out of the shadows revealing a memory that had been sealed for a long time.
Suddenly she realized, and she felt how she just wanted to die.
"Why.... Why?" She said, with tears falling down her cheeks. "Why? Why are you doing this to me?"
Professor Seth smiled, and Amber felt how she collapsed inside.
The man that were holding her as a prisoner, the man that slowly was killing her, the man who hated her so deeply was her very own father.
"Father... why?" she asked.
Professor Seth smiled and pushed a button on a small control panel.
And then Amber returned into the world of unconsciousness.
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Authors Note II: Like it? I like this episode, even though it was probably the darkest so far... But, things will go even worse in the remaining episodes.... Stay tuned for episode 35!
I AM SORRY! I am so sorry for the latest episode, which indeed was the worst so far... I was looking for a nice way to end the episode, and it ended with three pages meaningless sh*t and Carrie got shot, and Amber kidnapped... Gee, how am I going to solve this out? That's the problem with being a writer who improvises... Anyway, I WANT YOU TO BE BRUTALLY HONEST when you review, please? This is probably my favourite episode so far, even though it hasn't any action at all! This is probably the first chapter without a battle or an unexpected event that turns everything upside down...
I love you all, thanks for reading!
Reviewers response:
Dark Flame Vulpix: I don't like to make people sad, but it's a good way to write stories... If it's okay, I make up some things about Amber's background? If it's not, tell me, and I'll change it... And YOU BETTER update on The TI, or I'll go berserk! -insert evil laughter- And you are the one who have reviewed my story the most, so special thanks to you!
Hyperwill: Thanks for the review, Will... Glad that I could make you happy... Hmm, now where did I get Reno from (cough cough ff7 cough cough)
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She felt as she was flying, a soft, pleasant feeling that she enjoyed.
Where was she?
A vague picture of a boy formed in her head. His oceanblue eyes, his blonde hair and his beautiful face made her feel warm inside.
Who was he?
Her mind was like a faded line. She couldn't think, as soon as she tried, it hurted.
The only thing she could remember, was a high sound... A gunshot... Yes, a gunshot...
Did it hit her?
She didn't feel any pain, and her whole body was senseless and weak.
She felt like a puppet-doll with cut-off threads.
"Carrie." Someone said. "Carrie, how are you?
Who was that?
The voice sounded familiar...
"Carrie, it's me Jason. How are you feeling?" The voice said again.
"It's hopeless" Another, female voice stated. "They have given her drugs to take away the pain. She probably doesn't even hear us."
I hear you! She thought, but she was too weak to even say it. She tried to lift her arm, but it didn't respond to her command.
"Is she....Going to die, doctor?" The boy, who's name apparently was Jason, asked.
"No, she's passed the worst. She will survive." A dark, male basetone said. "It's a miracle she survived. One shot in the head, another straight through the stomach. We have no idea in what condition she will be when she wakes up. I'm not even sure if she remembers anything."
"Carrie, listen to me" The boy, Jason, said gently. "Rin and I will stay here until you're better. Don't worry, Carrie, your Pokémon are safe, and we are here for you... It's going to be allright Carrie, just hang in there."
Carrie? The girl thought to herself, listening to the soft words.
Who was Carrie?
.......................................
Amber slowly opened her eyes.
Her head felt like it was going to blow into pieces any second.
Where was she?
She looked around, but her eyes wasn't adjusted to the weak light that danced with the shadows in her prison.
She blinked a few times to make the dizzyness go away.
She was inside a glass capsule or container of some kind. Several needles was pierced into her body, and long hoses was connected with them.
They were draining something from her, making her feel weak and powerless.
What happened?
She had taken a walk in the forest, waiting for Jason and Carrie to come back and... those men arrived...
So they finally got me... She thought to herself. It was only a matter of time before they would.
Her eyes slowly adjusted to the weak light, and she could see her surroundings. Through the glass of the small capsule, she could see numerous other capsules, all containing different Pokémon.
They seemed to be sleeping. Where was her own Pokémon?
She tried to morph herself. No use. She was far too weak to change into a Vulpix.
"Good morning, my precious." Someone suddenly said, and a professor dressed in a long white coat entered the large room, which seemed to be a laboratory of some kind. "How are we feeling today?"
Amber opened her mouth to speak, but she was too weak to get any words out of her throat.
"I'm sorry for the needles and the hoses, but it's just a precaution. Don't want you to escape as you did last time, my precious hybrid." The professor said, and placed himself in front of her capsule, touching the glass lightly with his skeleton-like, white skinned hand.
"Please...remove...the hoses." Amber said, weakly, forcing out every word. "They are... making me weak."
"Well, that's point... what was it... Amber, yes, Amber it was." The professor smiled, and his eyes were sparkling with madness, insane evil pouring from the very depths of his soul. "Now, we have you all. You're the very last one, remaining."
"Why are you...hunting me? What have I done wrong?"
"You're biggest fault is that you exist!" the professor exclaimed. "We don't want our failed experiments to live amongst other people! We have succesfully hunted them all down, except you and soon, when you no longer exist, no one will be left alive to tell the rest of the world about our experiments by combining humans and Pokémon into one race."
"Is that everything I am to you?" Amber asked. "A failed experiment."
"Yes, you are." The professor said. "You are a failed experiment. Nothing else."
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"We've called officer Jenny" The doctor said. "She will be here in ten minutes to ask you questions about what happened."
"Ok... Thanks." Jason said, holding Teddyursa in his arms. He let out a sigh and collapsed on one of the couches in the empty waiting room.
Rin sang quietly to herself, gently stroking Vixen's golden fur. The beautiful Ninetails laid beside her in the couch, and it was sleeping.
"Wild swan... Follow the river...Don't fly to dangerous skies...." Rin sang, with low, but yet a beautiful, gentle voice. "On the wings of heaven... We travel into the night..."
"What a beautiful song, Rin." Jason said, staring into the wall. Teddyursa pulled his jacket with its paws, the bandage had been removed by nurse Joy at the small Pokécenter that laid inside the giant hospital.
"You want honey?" Jason asked. "I'm not sure if we have any left. I'll go buy you some tomorrow."
Teddyursa sank down in his lap again. Jason grabbed his Pokéballs, and released his other Pokémon.
"You can sleep outside your Pokéballs tonight" he said, sounding like he where somewhere else. "There doesn't seem to be anyone else here tonight"
Ivysaur, Arcanine, Butterfree and Marshtomp laid down on the floor and at Jasons feets. They all looked tired after the rough day, and seemed happy to get a rest.
Rin let out her three other Pokémon, Yin-Yang the Absol, Pyro the Blaziken and Kayna the Mightyena, still singing her song.
They materialized on the floor, and the white light lit up the corridor. Yin-Yang laid down on the other couch together with Pyro. Kayna laid down under the table, falling asleep almost immidiately.
"Why did this happen?" Jason mumbled. "How are we going to continue now, when Amber is gone... And Carrie is shot?"
"Hey, Jason, light up a bit. Carrie will survive, you heard the doctor." Rin said, trying to smile. "And we'll find Amber, as soon as Carrie is recovered, we'll go and look for her."
"What if Amber's dead by then? You saw what she could do, that's probably why Reno and Grasp were after her. She could be dead already."
"No, I don't think so. Look, both you, Carrie, myself and Amber are survivors. Amber can take care of herself, I'm absolutely sure on that. And the police will find the kidnappers, as soon as officer Jenny can spread the signalement."
"It will be hard." Jason stated. "They were working for some kind of organization, two ordinary kidnappers doesn't come in a black helicopter. They probably have their headquarters underground."
"It may sound cruel, but first priority is to make sure that Carrie gets better." Rin said. "I saw Ambers ears at the arena before. She had Vulpix ears. Probably, she's a hybrid of some kind. You saw how she morphed before. She's probably already thinking of a way to escape. And Jason, there's nothing we can do to help her. The police will take care of it."
Jason didn't answer. Teddyursa had fell asleep in his arms, and he felt his eyelids becoming heavy.
As soon as he closed his eyes, the nightmare came again. Pictures from his funeral, the weak visions of capsules of some sort containing Pokémon inside a dark laboratory and vague illusions of terrible events played before his eyes.
Suddenly, a gap opened in front of him, a giant mouth full with sharp teeths waiting to take a bite of him.
Out of the mouth, a head shaped, an old, wrinkled face with tired, grey eyes. It was an old man, smiling gently against him.
"There's nowhere to run, Jason. We will come for you too."
Jason screamed, and woke up abrubtly. Rin was sleeping, and so was all the Pokémon.
The words echoed in his head, and he was sweating. He laid back, but couldn't fall asleep again. The old man once again showed before his eyes, smiling with evil.
"We will come for you too, Jason."
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Amber opened her eyes. The professor must have injected something through the hoses making her fall asleep.
She looked around. There was several capsules like her own, but they were all empty. She tried to move her hands, but even if she could, she was too weak to even lift them.
Her Pokémon was gone. The Pokéballs that used to be clipsed onto her belt was removed.
She was all alone. Tears fell down her cheeks, but yet she realized that she had been alone for all her life.
She had never been loved. The experiments that had been done on her when he was a little child had made their tracks in her very mind.
They had not only given her the ability to transform into a Vulpix any time she liked, they had also removed a piece of her true self.
She didn't remembered why she was taken to the laboratory those years ago, why they did those horrible things to her. There was a lot of things that she didn't remember.
Her memories began the day she escaped, she practically had no memories of her time before that.
She like a piece of her very soul was missing, leaving a large hole inside her.
At the beginning, she liked to transform whenever she liked, enjoying the feeling to be a Vulpix, to feel the freedom.
But soon, the organisation that had made the experiments on her, began hunting her, and she realized that it was dangerous to overuse her power.
She had been on the run since, and now, they finally caught her.
Amber sighed, and in the same time the large steel door at the far end of the room was opened. The professor entered, accompanied by the two men that had kidnapped her earlier.
"Hello, my dear." The professor said and walked over to her capsule, without even lighting any lamps. "How are you? A bit tired maybe... You're injected with a special venom that are poisoning your brain and stunning your cells. You can't morph in this condition, and you are not even strong enough to move your hands. It's my own invention."
"What do you want?" Amber asked, trying not to sound like she was forcing herself. She was. "Can't you just let me go?"
"No, we can't" Reno said. "You're dangerous."
"That's right, precious. You will be kept here for the rest of your life. Which is going to end in a few days."
"What are you going to do?" Amber whispered, feeling her energy being drained.
"We are draining your powers, we are draining out your very conscious out of your body." The professor said, smiling as usual. But his smiles were never happy, they just held pure evil. "You will go crazy, lose control over yourself, and eventually, you will die a long, hard death."
"Why? What have I done wrong?"
"The list of your mistakes is to long to tell" The professor said, with a voice cold as ice. "By the way, my name is Seth. I think you know me since before"
As she saw him in the light from her capsule, Amber felt something strange inside her, like something just coming out of the shadows revealing a memory that had been sealed for a long time.
Suddenly she realized, and she felt how she just wanted to die.
"Why.... Why?" She said, with tears falling down her cheeks. "Why? Why are you doing this to me?"
Professor Seth smiled, and Amber felt how she collapsed inside.
The man that were holding her as a prisoner, the man that slowly was killing her, the man who hated her so deeply was her very own father.
"Father... why?" she asked.
Professor Seth smiled and pushed a button on a small control panel.
And then Amber returned into the world of unconsciousness.
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Authors Note II: Like it? I like this episode, even though it was probably the darkest so far... But, things will go even worse in the remaining episodes.... Stay tuned for episode 35!