C26: And again another journey into the sick and twisted realm that is my imagination. I was thinking about having the re-appearance of Birch in another murder of a Gym leader. I was thinking a sort of version of that knife throwing they usually have at the circus (guess where I was forced to go by an impatient 5 year old yesterday!) what If he cuts a fucking hole through someone, Ohh! Safe special effects won't exist there, so here you can't blatantly see the wire holding the knife up. Those knife throwing things are sooo fake.

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Chapter 14: Reactor

Koga

My eyes flickered open when I suddenly realised I was in the real world again. I was looking at the ceiling whilst occasionally feeling the drip of a leak in the roof. A fly circled a nearby light bulb hanging from a wire.

Sitting up, I observed my surroundings, the room I was in seemed dead, completely bare, there wasn't even a door leading to the outside in the corner of the room (if there was an outside). The area was damp and sticky so I leapt up wanting to spend as little time here as possible. I checked myself over, nothing had been done to me physically but all my equipment had been taken. Brilliant, alone in a room without an exit and no way of finding out where I was.

"Amazing isn't it?" a voice rang out from what I thought could be an outside. It was strange, surreal, and from what I could only tell was Gary mocking me.

"What is this?" I yelled knowing I wouldn't get a straight answer.

"We kept you in stasis for a few hours but you weren't yielding any results, so there isn't much point in prolonging your worthless life" I recognised that second voice, we'd met once at a research and development station in western Kanto just a few months back. Well known professor Birch.

"What do you want from me?" I asked but from the previous statement I could only guess they didn't want anything from me, which is why they were probably going to kill me. And I was confirmed when a noose appeared hanging from the ceiling all of a sudden. I must have been hallucinating, I held my hand out to touch it and felt it was real.

I stepped back in fear at what happened next, now I knew I was hallucinating, a lifeless carbon copy of me had appeared swinging from the noose. I fell to my knees in horror, the neck was obviously broken and the body was covered in millions of tiny cuts, blood dripped to the floor gradually splattering the damp ground.

And as I thought, it then vanished into air as if it were never there at all. I felt the air in front of me, no evidence, no reason; just the blood stains on the floor…

"Birch here should know that isolation is a very enduring experience" Gary went on as I continued to examine the noose "by tomorrow you'll be raving mad and willing to hang yourself…."

Lance

As the lift reached the reactor I could feel the compartment heating to the extent I couldn't bear it much longer. I could feel the heat through every centimetre closer we got towards the centre of Beta section.

The lift shuddered to a stop and the lift doors opened. We stepped out into the reactor and stopped dead in our tracks.

"You Wanna say how fucked we are or should I?" I asked sarcastically as we looked around at the area filled with pokemonsters. In the centre was a huge enclosed cage connected to a network of electricity cables sending power to the whole Silph building containing inside it a small microchip shaped creature so well known to us that we could tell what it was.

I had no idea why but the Pokemon in the area must have all been under its control. Thousands of them were surrounding us, but moving out of our way as we made our way towards the cage containing M.

"This is fucking creepy" Loreli whispered to me uneasily.

"Too right" I replied in the same tone of voice.

But before Loreli could reply a voice sounded out in both our heads telepathically and we turned towards M's cage.

I suspect you have come to shut me down.

"If that will reverse the effects of the virus" I said solemnly.

Well I cannot allow this; seize them my loyal Pokemon…

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C26: there, you have a chapter