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CHAPTER 29:
In Luminose City, in the night of the morning, the streets are illuminated with grace, the stores, the malls, and the cafés are lively, and even some of the gyms are open for friendly duels only. As the bustling city was moving, a black limo passed on through. The passengers in the limo were the reporters Flamarion, Jakob and Botan, a female Mienshao, who was the recording specialist. They were going to an undisclosed place to interview a surprisingly alive Prof. Sycamore.
Jakob asked in a nervous tense, "Flami, are you sure about this?
Flamarion assured his friend, "J, don't worry. There's nothing that can end wrong, ok?
Jakob wasn't calmed, "If they… if they kill us? Like in that mafia…"
Botan gave a serious look to him, "We are not going to get killed Jakob, and stop saying that crazy theory of yours. You're a professional, and a professional DOESN'T jump straight into conclusions!
Jakob tried to retaliate, "But…"
Flamarion assured once more, "Jakob, calm down. Remember that Sycamore is still in a delicate state and the authorities chose to put him in a secret place for his protection. And because of the whole secrecy of this, it's logical form them to put us in this limo. Along with it having blackened windows so we can't see the outside. It's normal Jakob."
Even though he started to get a little nervous himself, Jakob actually started to relax, "Ok, now… I'm relaxed a little, man. But I'm still worried ok?"
Botan was still irritated, "Ugh, why did you take him along Flamarion?!"
Flamarion rolled his eyes, "Because he's our best cameraman. Do I have to repeat that every time Botan?"
"Hmph!"
There fight finally ended just as the driver said through the intercom, "We are approaching the destination. Because monsieur Sycamore is now in protection by the state, you must go in blindfolded for the usual security reasons."
Flamarion was surprised and asked, "Excuse me, we gonna enter with our eyes covered?
Driver responded, "Positive. And for the camera, you can use it but it is mandatory for the footage to be examined before you use it."
Jakob said to the two, "I told you."
Botan thought on this, 'This is gonna be a long night.'
About eight minutes later, they arrived to their destination which appeared as a normal building and nothing else. The limo drove down underground and parked there, and before exiting, the main driver and a guard blindfolded them. They walked out of the garage, down a hall and while they didn't know where they were, the guard led them to three more guards who began to inspect the blindfolded passengers. One also inspected the camera for any bugs or trackers. After this, one of the guards gives clear coast, "Everything is in order. We'll be guiding you to Sycamore's room."
The guard led the group to the room where Sycamore was. After five minutes, they arrived there and the guard opened the door, along with ordering them to uncover their eyes. The group saw the bandaged Sycamore in a bed, with several beeping machines alongside and small tubes attached to him.
Flamarion looked over as he gasped, "Oh My Arceus…"
Jakob had the same expression, "Yeah. This is so…"
The main guard finished, "Disturbing? Probably, but a least he survived, and should live sort of peacefully. I'll be waiting outside.
Flamarion nodded, "Ok then."
The guard closed the door, and Flamarion and his team began approach Sycamore's bed slowly as they didn't know how to begin with their report. Flamarion took the initiative and began, "Prof. Sycamore… my name is Flamarion… and these are my partners Jakob and Botan. We are from the Unovan Times…"
Sycamore looked over and smiled, "Oh, the journalist they were talking about… Thank you for coming here Mr. Flamarion."
He put out his hand, slightly straining, and Flamarion shook it slowly, seeing the pain, "It's an honor to meet a person like you, Professor. Sorry for your loss though."
"Thank you for your consideration. I never knew it'd happen that fast."
Flamarion pulled his hand off gently and asked, "So, can we begin with the interview?"
"Sure, but before you publish it, if at all, can you send it to Zeraora first?"
Zeraroa? It seemed an odd choice, but Flamarion agreed, "Umm… yeah, why not?"
Jakob asked his friend, "Flamarion, why…"
Botan shut him up, "Jakob."
Jakob then burst out, "Fine, fine! Can we commence?"
Flamarion nodded, "Calm down Jakob, we will begin. Botan prepare the recorder; Jakob the camera. Sycamore, are you comfortable lying in bed?"
Sycamore nodded, "Yep, there are no problems."
"Very well."
After 6 minutes of testing the camera and the recorder, the interview began after Flamarion introduced himself. Flamarion began, "Prof. Sycamore, thank you for receiving us."
Sycamore nodded, "It Is a pleasure, despite the circumstances."
"So Professor, a couple weeks, there has been constant news about multiple murders of important people in Kalos, including yourself and your family. Can you explain, in your case, what happened that night?
Sycamore tried to remember what happened, "Well, It's not a hard story to remember because there was very little that did happen… but so much. I was hiding in the closet, getting help from someone else to get my family out of the house because I knew they were coming, but… I was too late and the criminals just entered by force."
"What happened next? Did they say something to you or rob you?"
Sycamore shook his head, "No, I was the last one. The group went to my wife; I can still hear the cries of my Diantha when she was struggling. Then, the men and their Pokémon just… k-killed them. I was in the closet when they shot me. Not robbing, no talking; only came to kill us. I-I barely saw h-her…"
Flamarion calmed him, "It's ok Professor, if you want to stop the…"
Sycamore then jumped, "No, I want to continue!
Flamarion shirked back, "Ok then, proceed, but if you want to stop, let me know."
Sycamore nodded, "As I saying, my wife died three days ago after struggling with her life.
"Sorry about that Professor. It… must be difficult to a person like you losing a loved one in that manner."
"It is."
"What happened to Alain? Did he have the same fate?"
Sycamore nodded, "Alain was visiting from Anistar city for a couple, days and he was with his mother… and h-he was killed as well."
"This is just horrible…"
"And I still mourn their deaths. They were my only family left… but now… I'm alone. So alone…"
Botan and Jakob were trying their hardest not to cry as Flamarion was barely making it, "Do you have any idea of who might be responsible? Some rival or… a Team you know?"
Sycamore tried to think, "I can recognize a Team and their modus operandi… maybe even a minor gang. But, that night, was different. They acted like professional assassins because they only went there to just kill us. As for whose responsible, I don't know- it's very bizarre to me."
"Ok, with that incident, do you think that will affect the Global Tournament?"
Sycamore then said, "I did send a letter a day before that night to Francesco Italy, saying that the GT must be cancelled. He responded to me with a simple "no"."
Flamarion asked, "Just no?"
Sycamore nodded. Flamarion added, "Anything else you want to add to this interview. An opinion or something?
Sycamore denied, "No. I'm tired, but thank you."
Flamarion ended the whole interview, "Thank you for the interview Prof. Sycamore. We hope that you will have a successful and speedy recovery."
Sycamore smiled, "It was a pleasure to speak with you. And thanks you for the gesture."
After the interview, the three Pokémon left the room, blindfolded, checked, and led back by the guards. Now in the limousine, Flamarion was speaking with his partners about the interview and the next one… being with Zeraora. Jakob began to ask, "Why did you accept the request about Zeraora, Flamarion?"
Botan asked the same, "Yes Flamarion, why?"
Flamarion just answered, "I don't know. I think it's very important to him that we send the video to Zeraora *sees the video tape* and that is the key."
"Flamarion is right. We'll just have to wait patiently."
And thus, they continued talking until they would arrive to their Hotel HQ.
(At Yugo's camp)
Aside from the interview, morning was now rising up as the sun shined on down to the outside woods of the path. The path, of course, had Yugo's tent on it where the guy was waking up. He stretched out, yawning, and opened his eyes to see a huge wait… oh wait, it's Ghezirha again. He greeted, "Morning Ghezirha."
She happily smiled, "Morning Yugo."
And kissed him. Yugo was shocked by her surprise and pushed her back before it went any further. Ghezirha gave him a strange look and asked, "Didn't you like it?"
Yugo told her, "Well, no, it's just that… why did you…"
"Well… isn't that what humans do?"
"Yeah, but only if they love each… oth… er… oh… oooh."
Ghezirha smiled again as he got where she was going, but Yugo quickly denied, "Ghezirha, Reeka nearly killed you over this, and while I do still blame Eriktar for making it worse, I think she's the one who wants me… it's too risky to do this with the mindset she got."
All she did was blink twice, making Yugo slap himself, "God, this is like explaining sex to a five year old."
Ghezirha asked, "Sex?"
"Wait, you don't know what sex is?"
"No. Ooh, could you should me?"
Yugo gave no amusement, "And have her kill both of us very brutally, no thanks."
Ghezirha frowned, "Yugo, you need to stop worrying about her so much. She's just a bully who doesn't even show you any affection; what makes her better than me?"
"Look, no offense, but she's my first Pokémon. Granted she's a bitch, and still is, but leaving her out of this is like letting her trample over you, a bad idea. I just need to help her, that's all."
"Only if you get rid of that piece of Absol shit."
Absol snarled over Yugo as it was Reeka behind him, looking adrenaline kicked. She further insulted her, "If you think I'm going to be all nicety-nice around her as she kisses you and sleeps with you, then you *points to Rebecca* might as well be fucking her brains out."
Yugo now got pissed and asserted his little last-straw, "Ok, Reeka, I had enough of this piss attitude you've been giving me. I'm putting both of you back in your balls until you both decided to behave around each other, and no sling insulting shit on each other's mind. And to make it more so, you'll both remain in it until you decided."
Ghezirha grabbed his back, "Don't put me in there, don't put me…"
Yugo, without any remorse, just put her back into her ball. Reeka changed her expression instantly, from smug anger to fear, as she quickly pleaded, "W-wait, I can be nice, I can be nice, I-I'll…"
She got put away as well. Afterwards, he fell on his back in the empty tent, sighing out in distress at his actions. The bright side, he just grew up and finally did something right. After that, he got up and went out of the tent, and breathed in the fresh, cold morning air. He walked around a bit and attempted to find any new Pokémon to catch, but before his luck even got out of bed, Judas and Rebecca came along to the camp. Yugo started up the morning, "Well, I see neither of you have killed each other this morning."
Judas corrected, "Oh no, da whor' started a fight back the hotel."
Rebecca yelled, "I'm a virgin asshole!"
"It's the same word for bitch, bitch!"
And thus they concluded the fight by going head to head as they screamed out slander, insults, and the typical BS. Yugo snickered, "And you called me a five year old."
He screamed in pain as Rebecca blowtorched him again. "Point taken."
After the second morning fight, Yugo got everyone to peacefully take a trip to the Pokémon center. Since it was on the same path back to Luminose, which the Judas and Rebecca were not entirely willing to do again, it made a decent enough argument to get them on board.
Skipping the walk, they made it to the center and as soon as they stepped on in, the nurse at the desk put her hands to her hips, "Rebecca, who are your 'friends' this time?"
Rebecca whined in embarrassment, "Ms. Elma, not every boy I'm with is my boyfriend, especially this dick over here *points to Yugo*."
Yugo yelled, "HEY!"
Judas asked, "And who's the nurse?"
Rebecca answered, "It's my mother's friend Ms. Elma. Anyway, it's just a visit."
Yugo threw in, "Also I need my Pokémon looked over… and one to be scanned in depth."
"Oh, and maybe give everyone a checkup."
The boys asked, "Huh?"
"Might as well do it. Besides, since everybody here is basically half-Pokémon, it makes it easier for her to do the checkup."
The nurse asked, "Oh, your friends are hybrids too?"
Yugo corrected, "I'm 75%."
"Oh, then I guess I can; alright, this way please."
She led them from the lobby to the office in the back where she had them sit down and go one by one. She asked, "Alright, so who's going first?"
Yugo shrugged, "Guess I am."
He stood up and followed behind the nurse, who led to the base room where a large MRI looking device. When they entered the room, Yugo asked, "So, I gotta go on the table?"
The nurse nodded, "Yep. Since you claim to be three quarters Pokémon, might as well do it the way Pokémon go through."
"Alright."
Yugo took off his backpack and other gear that wasn't his clothes, and laid on the bed as the table went into the machine. After a few minutes, the table came back out with Yugo hopping off and putting his shit back together. He asked, "So, anything I should consider?"
The nurse smartassed, "A kick to the testicles from Rebecca…"
Then got serious, "And a restraint vest."
Yugo crossed his arms, "Fine, why would I need a restraint vest?"
"Well, according to the scans, you have a gene inside of you that can lead into a berserker mode similar to that of the Lopunny's ability."
"Oh, well, that already happened like… three times but… thanks, I got the hulk gene except I don't turn green and huge, got it."
"Um… yeah, anyway, the gene we call the 'crazy gene', and the source usually comes down from any decent of Blaziken with the Kalos region… oddly."
Yugo was taken aback from the response as he always thought it was the Zoroarks… but wait… if it was a Blaziken…uh-oh.
He asked, "Um, how long does the gene usually stay for?"
The nurse answered, "Well, most times it disappears once you hit full maturity, and even then the gene morphs into something else. Why?"
"Because I have a grandfather who happens to be a Blaziken and I've heard the story of where he went berserk a few times during the time he was with his first trainer."
"Oh, I see."
"Yeah, uh, also is it possible to see my Lucario's genetics as well? Just because she's been acting pretty strange."
"How strange?"
"Aggressive, sort of moody, acting like she has a polar disorder?"
The nurse nodded, "I'll take a look, but I should say that it could just be an overprotective problem it'll just viewed as normal."
Yugo was not impressed, "She almost killed by Absol in a sadistic fashion."
"SHE DID WHAT?!"
Yugo nodded as the nurse quickly put Reeka's ball through the scanner. The end result was…
"She doesn't seem to have a problem… except for this -1 in the terms of happiness towards you."
Yugo said, "Um…"
"Before you ask, it's just the usual bug. I'd say by looking at the numbers, she probably be… maybe between 270 and 300."
"Isn't that a good thing?"
"Well, the main point is that it's still safe. Once you hit anything higher than 400… I would massively consider you to have her head fixed."
"Why?"
The nurse answered, with trace amounts of fear lurking, "You have heard of those obsessive characters."
"Yandere?"
"Yeah, those… in the current records, there were three cases were Pokémon went like that and kidnapped their own trainers, even going as far as killing people. The first two were confirmed and I know one was a Midnight Lycanroc, the other I don't know, and then the third was supposedly a Greninja, but nobody confirmed… except for a dead body."
Yugo now was worried, "So… Reeka's…"
"Your Lucario? She's fine, just a little attaching."
He sighed in relief, knowing that he wasn't going to die. Then a new idea appeared, "Um, nurse?"
"Yes?"
"Unless there are any rules against getting a Pokémon, can I get another one?"
She asked in a suspicious tone, "Why?"
"I need a sixth Pokémon."
"Oh, hopefully nothing fancy or outrageous."
"No, no, I thought I could just grab a troublemaker."
The nurse was perplexed, "We spent about ten minutes discussing troublemakers and crazies, and you want one?!"
"I'm just asking!"
The nurse calmed down and thought, "Alright, I got one I can give you, but she's… not a good idea."
"Neither was my birth, but eh, I'll see her anyway."
"Um, ok."
She led him out of the room and into the main play area, and from there the nurse led him to the left corner of the room. At the corner, there was a Snivy sitting there. Yugo looked and said, "Aw, it's a little Sni… why the fuck does it have two knives?"
The nurse nervously stated, "Well, uh, this is Emma…"
"Hi Emma… now why does she…"
"Those are from her previous trainers."
"Uh… two?"
"Yeah… she has… slight psychopathic issues."
Yugo got worried, "Like?"
"She… um… k-killed both of them."
Yugo would've backed off, but he asked, "Why?"
"Well… it was thought the first one was watching some slasher film…"
"Oh, well no fucking wonder, enough Jason and Freddy will make any cute little turn vicious. Alright, I'll take her."
"Uh…"
"No buts, just give her to me."
The nurse shrugged, "Fine, but it's your death."
"I'll sign a waiver."
As they walked out, Yugo asked, "Oh, anything I should actually know on her… like genetics?"
The nurse nodded, "Oh yes, she's a hybrid..."
"Grandpa, right?"
"Who?"
"Prof. Italy?"
"Wait, your grandfather is…"
"Yes, yes, I'm taking it that grandpa must've fucked up the genes."
"Well, if he was able to make her naturally psychopathic…"
"Yep, he is."
And they continued. After an hour of paper work, checkups, and giving Emma to Yugo, they all left the Pokémon center with Rebecca looking embarrassed as all hell all because Ms. Elma was constantly questioning what was going on in her head in front of everyone. Besides that, they made it to Luminose city by the end of the afternoon.
After they set up camp and began the training, Yugo pulled out Reeka's ball, "I think she had enough time to think to herself."
He let her out, only to see Reeka curled up on the ground. He asked her, "Reeka, are you ok?"
Instead of a verbal response, the shell-shocked Lucario jumped up and hugged him. The hugging transferred the memories of her last owner, which were almost as bad as Eriktar's treatment, if not worse. He moved her off slowly and asked, "Not a good past with being inside a Pokéball?"
She shook her head as Yugo told her, "Alright, I won't put you in another ball again, but I do want a promise from you."
Reeka looked at him, "I want you to promise to me to never hurt Ghezirha like that again. I know you don't want me over to her, but I also know that what you did nearly killed her. And to show I'm upholding my promise to this…"
He took a deep breath and kissed her. It sent a new surge of feeling into her, making her almost go numb from it. She kissed much harder, throwing her onto Yugo and knowing them onto the floor. Yugo quickly broke it before it got any further than that. Afterwards, he asked, "Now, do I have your promise?"
Reeka nodded, "Yes, you have my promise."
"For as long as Ghezirha's here?"
"Yes."
He smiled, "Good, now let's introduce the newest member of the team."
Reeka asked, "Who is she?"
"She's a little Snivy, there's no need to get on that, or else I'll make you promise for that as well."
Reeka rolled her eyes as they both got up and left the tent. Outside, Yugo announced, "Everyone, I'd like to introduce… Emma, the Snivy!"
The rest of everyone looked over to see Yugo's new…
Judas asked, "Why the fuck does the Snivy have two…"
Yugo just muttered, "Go with it you Irish prick."
And thus for the rest of the day, it was just training. By the end of the day, Yugo enjoyed the improvement of what happened within the group. He got his sixth Pokémon, he's got Reeka and Ghezirha sort of under control to where they don't have much grudge… but they still had some lingering issues which wasn't anything bad.
What Yugo did find strange was that Reeka avoided Emma, not because she hated her, but more like she didn't like what vibe the Snivy was giving off. And for Reeka to get spooked, that must be something… pretty bad.
'Oh, it's bad alright, and I'd love to honestly fuck that little green btch when she's mhmhmmmm.'
And Kiyask interrupted the story, the fucking asshole he is.
SKIPPING THE GUY'S LEWD THOUGHTS, the night set on in as the tent got stuffed and went to sleep, ready for tomorrow's adventure of… whatever happens.
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