Chapter 11: Awakening
Author's Note: Hey. After this, I should be finishing I Can't Fix You sometime soon so that way I can move on. And pretty soon, I'll finish Job 1 of The Thieves Guild. For all you Skyrim players you know what I'm talking about.
Always be sure to check out KnightsKings and Hellborn Rayquaza's stuff. Anyways, I won't stop you any further from reading.
Souls P.O.V
Water was scarce, my throat was dry like a desert. My eyes opened slowly, for all I could see was a blur of white and black bars.
"Where am I?" I managed to spit out, but not without a little blood from the parchment. Once my eyesight was back to normal, I could see I was in a cage, and men with white coats were all surrounding the cage. One of the men was covered in head to toe with a black trench science coat, and had slicked back red hair with a white tie. As most of the others looked the same, this one was probably important to the operation. I made a mental note to keep an eye on him.
"Specimen 2-4-2-3ZH is now awake sir." Speaking into his device, a feint but barely audible voice was heard over all the sounds from the lab.
"Good. Now put Specimen 3-70-1GY in there. We're gonna make a lot of money off of those two." A click was heard after the voice hung up, leaving the men to open up my cage.
"Hey little guy….. now we're not going to bite, are we?" Growling through my gritted teeth, he slowly backed his hand out of the cage with an concerned and intrigued look on his face. I could feel it that he was hoping I would do this to him.
"So we're gonna have to do this the hard way…" pulling a little gun out of his pocket, he put a little bullet of some sort in, and fired the capsule directly towards my shoulder muscles. All strength left me. I had lost my balance and lost all of my built up energy. The world was one big blur as my two eyes slowly shut, and I was instantly KO'd.
Normal P.O.V
"Specimen 2-4-2-3ZH is now out of the equations, waiting till further instructions." He said, grabbing the Pokémon off of the table.
"Hey! Let go of me!" She screamed out. But of course, humans can't understand Pokémon speech, so they continued on with their business.
"The orders have been carried out. So what now sir?" Fixing his glasses, he turned the radio back on.
"Go check on that Espeon. Brian's probably going to need help." A gritty voice sounded over the radio.
"Copy that, I'm on my way over." Sliding his card, he opened the vast white door and shut it.
"Great…..now there goes my only chance of escape. Then again I'm in a kennel…" Spinning around to find Soul on tranquilizer, she laid down by the cold steel bars, rubbing up against them, causing massive amounts of static electricity between the bars and her fur.
"Man… he must have a really high dosage. He's out cold for an Umbreon."
Pondering to herself, she left him for her thoughts as the time passed by.
(Three Hours Later)
Groaning filled up the cage as Soul slowly rose to his feet.
"I'd take caution and lay down for the next hour. You were on a high dosage there." She said with a bitter tone, and a hint of despair on her face.
"Where am I? Do you have any idea what this place is?" Soul asked nervously, afraid he would trigger the Jolteon.
"How long have you been without water? Here, you can have some of mine."
Soul didn't know what it was about her, but she seemed friendly enough. She had long curvaceous legs that glistened in the shadows, and sapphire blue eyes. Nervous and timid around her, he went to sit down in a corner to drink the water.
"And earlier you asked where we were? You're at the Rocket headquarters. All of Team Rocket's motives and plans are set into motion here."
"How long have you been here?" Her head limped down as she slowly turned her face away from Soul.
"I've been here two years. They caught me when I was an eevee and forced me to evolve. Sorry if I come across cruel to you, but being in here for two years does something to you."
"Hey, you don't seem cruel, but do you know anyway to get out of this place?"
"No. I'm sorry about that. They have this place locked up tight. Why? Did you come here with someone?"
"Yeah, I came in here with an Espeon named Spirit. Have you heard anything about her?"
"I'm sorry, I haven't heard anything about an Espeon. I'll keep an ear out though."
Soul swished his paw through the water, the noise causing Jolteon to turn around to Soul.
"So, do you have a name?" She asked with timidity in her voice.
"Soul. What's yours?"
"Oh, my name is Angel, but people usually call me Angi."
"Oh, nice to meet you Angi. Do you have any idea when we will be set free?"
She chuckled at this, for Soul did not understand the seriousness of the situation at hand.
"There is no release here. You stay as long as you make money for them. For us, they have a breeding program because we're rare Pokémon. Some they use for the grunts as attack pokemon, and some just gunie pigs. But once you have used up the last off your usefulness, they kill you." Angie suddenly became dead serious. No trace of a smile was on her face, just silence filled the room. Soul began to get a very sick feeling to his stomach. He dropped to the floor and froze.
"Oh my god. Spirit. Hang in there for as long as you can. I will get us both out of here. I will not let you die." Soul thought to himself.
"Soul? You all right?"
"Yeah, I'm all right. We need to find a way out of here though. If you help me, I can pay you back Angi, I just need to get some help so I can get us and Spirit out of here."
"Who exactly is this "Spirit"?"
"A while ago, I live in the viridian pokeforest village. I one day found her in a pool of her own blood by the top of a mountain. I took her in and fed her, and we grew close thogther. So I feel like I just need to save her, so please Angi. I will help you if you help me."
Angi thought about his offer for a moment, and thought about all the benifeits it could get her. If she helped him, she would be free, and able to go and travel the region. On the plus, he'd be in his gradditude, so she could ask for a favor. All in all, the ball was in her corner at this point in time.
"Alright, what exactly do you need?"
"I don't know at this point in time. I'm going to examine the perimeter, learn the layout of the place, and try to pinpoint its weakness and exploit that. That way we can not only free ourselves, we can save the other Pokémon too. Do you know anything about this schedule? Because they seem to be working on a clock."
"Well…. most of the scientists don't have a schedule, but they do have a very definable path of movement. For example, I was in here when they were dosing you with tranquilizer also know as "A.K.O.S", which stands for Automatic Knock Out Shot. It's a more powerful version of the original Pokémon taming tranquilizer, and is a modified version of it that two or three shots will take out a legendary. For huge normal Pokémon it takes half of one. And for Pokémon our size, just a quarter is even fatal to us. This combination of chemicals accesses the muscle and shuts evreything down, drains all the adrenaline from your body, therefore, no energy. Can leave paralysis status, and automatically a Pokémon. But there is an upside to it. Having it gives you a powerful boost, and gives you more of a resistance to it. But the downside of it is, the more it's used on you, the weaker you get as you wake up. It even pierces through the defense and armor of Pokémon. Meaning abilitys like sturdy, and moves like protect, endurance, detect will be broken by this. So, now that you know about that, you can learn about the inventor and producer of A.K.O.S, the man that injected it into you. Dr. Wilks is a top scientist here, so if you get him out of the picture, you can escape freely. He first started out here a year before I got here. He was know for being crazy, therefore Giovanni hired him. Having massive intellectual smarts in chemistry, he began to work as a scintest here. He's up at 5am every morning, and goes to bed at 12am at night. He usually sleeps in here, hence the bed, because he is curentlly studying eevee's, which he wants us to make. If we can get out while he's sleeping, then we can evacuate everyone and destroy the facility."
"And how do we do that?"
"That, my friend is why we need to find your friend. You said she was an Espeon, am I wrong?"
"No. your right."
"Then we need to get her so we can get the keys, but first, we need to figure out where she is Soul."
Soul examined the room, looking at every possible escape option, but could only find perfectly tightened vents and doors with air locks. It looked as though escape would be harder than Soul originally planned it to be. A man came into the room and walked over to the kennel, opening the hatch to it.
"Taking Specimen 2-4-2-3ZH to the testing room. Once there, get all tests ready." Soul had started to fidget in the mans arms, but escape was futile beacause of his insanely tight grip.
"Now do me a favor and be a good Umbreon for me today. We're just running tests."
The halls all had mirrors stretched out as the ceiling with lights shining from the floor up to the reflections, causing a suns glare in the room. It was a very lengthy hall, but seemed a short walk. eventually Soul and the man made it.
"Have you brought 2-4-2-3ZH?"
"Here is that sepecimen you required Dr. Wilks. What now sir?"
"You have done good, now take your leave."
Exiting out the door behind him, I was standing on the counter with an endless array of tools set out on it. chained to the table and with the side of paralysis are residing in me from the shot he just injected in me. I fell down with great speed, unable to do anything in my power to stop him.
"Now…..let's see….." an image of my anatomy appeared on the glass window in front of me.
"It sees the paralysis is working quickly through your system than I thought. You have a resistance to it. Anyway back to work…."
Turning back to the table I tried as best I could to wiggle free from these chains, but I was too weak from malnourishment, parchment, and the paralysis wasn't happening to help me at all. Besides the chains were charged with a pink glow to them, which I'm guessing is fairy energy, and if I try to escape, it'll release my weakness and put me in more pain than I already am.
"At this rate, they're going to kill me before I even have a chance to…..URK!"
A giant needle was stabbed into my back, putting me to sleep as the man I saw in front of me became a blur.
"Don't worry as I said we're running some tests, and to do that we need to…" either I blacked out from exhaustion, or the medicine he gave me. Either way I didn't care. As long as I got to think of a way out of here.
