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CHAPTER 53:
It was morning in Kalos, brisk cold and dead wind, and at the camp was group, stuffed in their tent. Yugo, first up as usual, went out and pulled out his 'dex. He pulled out a map on where to go next, and his only option was heading off from the city… meaning further on. Oh well, it didn't matter at the moment, the area was getting stale so might as well head on.
After half an hour of waiting, slowly everyone began to exit the tent, and once the main group was out, Yugo elaborated his plan. He explained, "We're going to move further *point away from the city* that way, 'cause I think this area is getting a little… too normal."
Judas commented, "You finally had the balls to think of that?"
"Yeah, I know, I wanted to stay here but it got too comfortable. Anyway, let's pack our shit up and go!"
And from there, they packed up their tent and began the trekking. As they trekked, Rebecca asked Yugo, "So… do you actually have a plan?"
He responded, "Not really, just keep on moving until our feet freeze or we find something."
"Freeze my feet, my ass. I'd like to not get frostbite."
"Phef, you're lucky to even be joining."
"Oh please, this is the first time I ever went on a journey and you're the idiot leading it."
"So what? You don't like me, go to the Irish drunkard."
Judas yelled, "I'm not a drunkard!"
Rebecca told him, "Hate to ruin your day, but you are. You were even drunk when we met so don't deny it."
He grumbled under his breath, as the conversation died.
An hour later, they found a nice spot under some trees, providing a little backdrop and a spot by the path. They set up the camp and Rebecca tells them, "Alright, I'm going away to find anything around of interest. You boys have fun, and see ya by lunch."
She jumped off, leaving the group of Judas, Reeka, and Yugo out by the camp. Yugo shrugged, "Well, I guess training?"
Judas said, "You do that, I'll be…"
"Training Emma."
He pulled out Emma's ball and released her, showing the giant Serperior out, arms still crossed and unhappy. Yugo asked, "Still?"
She turned away from him as Reeka whispered, "Ignore the bitch long enough, she'll come running back."
"Thanks for the advice… weirdly."
Yugo walked towards the woods saying, "Reeka, you're with me, Emma, you'll be getting trained by Judas."
Judas protested, "I'm tired of trainin' with yer crazy Pokémon!"
"Please, you're part Sceptile, teach her some grass moves."
"Like hell I…"
A vine appeared around at his face as Emma stood right over him. Judas looked up as a mischievous smile appeared on her face, only giving him a frightening sense, "Um… help?"
Only the two were gone, leaving these two alone… oh well.
(Back to the two…)
Yugo and Reeka went looking for a new spot, and as they walked, Yugo popped a question, "Can I ask you something?"
Reeka nodded, "Yeah, so long it isn't stupid."
"Are you really scared of a Pokéball?"
Reeka didn't answer as Yugo stonefaced, "I thought so. Just another way to get my attention?"
She retorted, "W-well, sort of."
"Sort of?"
"Well, I hate being in there because… I was… once… starved in there for… about two days…"
"Oh… sorry… but the whole acting super scared was…"
"Dramatic so I stay out, yes."
"Look Reeka, I get it, you want me to notice you and from what I've seen, you'll go to some lengths… but that justifies barely anything you've done."
She sat down and crossed her arms as Yugo told her, "Now then… let's get training before…"
"YUGO!"
"Aww fuck… I was just about to…"
A dirt explosion happened, sending Yugo into the dirt as Rebecca appeared from the dirt cloud, "I found something both creepy and cool!"
Yugo mumbled, "A new purse?"
She kicked him, "No jerk-boy, I found a secret base!"
"And why is that good?"
"Nobody's there!"
"Aaaaaand… how do you know?"
"Uh, I opened the door… and it was dusty as all get out… and cobwebs…"
"Ok, fine, and your idea is?"
"Check it out."
"No."
Reeka joined up, "Hey, I'm skipping the training class here so I'll go with the idea."
"C'mon…"
Rebecca then suggested in excitement, "Ooh, let's get Judas too!"
Reeka asked, "Are you sure?"
"C'mon, he claims he a Team wacko himself, maybe he knows who the hell runs the place."
Yugo got up and agreed, "Ok, ok, I'll get the group to see this mess of a base… hopefully it's good."
The three of them went back to the camp, with Yugo leading so they sort of don't get lost, and when they got there…
"Oh… hell…"
Judas and Emma were not going to well… especially since Judas was tied up in a ton of knots, unable to move, and only has limited circulation. Emma, on the other hand, was tying up Judas as she was rubbing his head, asking him how he wants her "done". Yugo asked, yelling out, "Emma, what the hell are you doing?!"
She looked at him as Judas screamed, "YER SERPERIOR BITCH IS UNCONTR'LLABL'!"
Emma unraveled Judas, sending him crashing to the ground. She crossed her arms and turned away as if she did nothing wrong. Rebecca muttered to Yugo, "Can I fucking kick her."
Yugo told her, "I'll have Reeka do that later. Right now…"
He flickered her ball out and sucked Emma right back in, "We gotta see this Rebecca discovery."
Judas went up asking, "What discovery?"
"She found some kind of base, supposedly abandoned, and we're dragging you along."
"As long as… you keep that bitch in there, I'm fine."
"Agreed."
Afterwards, they packed up some sandwiches and went over to see Rebecca's find. A fifteen minute walk earned them a small glimpse of this so-called base. It was just a shack. A shack.
"A fucking shack?"
Rebecca wanted to laugh out loud, but she held it in and explained, "Oh, that's the best part."
"It's underground?"
She nodded with a cheery smile, "Yeeep."
"Aaaaand, the reason you are smiling is because?"
"Oooooh, possibly find some more Pokémon and some gadgets I can use."
"Like what? You don't need anything."
"Hey, you never know what they could have down there, now come on!"
She kicked the door open and ran down, only for her to slip, fall down the stairs, and tumble onto the cold, metal floor, bruised from the fall. The boys and Reeka made it down as Yugo commented, "I'm damn sure you could've walked down?"
She shrugged, "Does it matter that much?"
"Yeeeaaah, anyway…"
They helped her up as Yugo looked down the hallway, "I never seen an underground Team base before. I wonder whose it is."
They strolled through the hall, only to come to a door at the end. Yugo turned the knob, rusted and damp, and opened the door…
"Whoa."
They entered a dark room, with gleaming bits of glass… but when Yugo found a light switch…
"Holy…"
They found a room full of computers, test tubes, tools, and all kinds of electronics. They went from table to table, screen to screen, and all they found from each to each was dusty equipment. Judas remarked as he observed, "It's abandoned, but not old."
Yugo agreed, "You bet. 'Why' is the question since nobody would leave all this tech behind in a bunker in the middle of nowhere."
Rebecca asked, "Isn't your grandfather a mega douche? Maybe he told them to leave it."
"Yeeeaaah, no. Grandpa doesn't control them down to this level so something must've happened to make them run."
Judas asked, "Like what?"
"Well… find something. Anything that looks important."
"Yugo…"
"Ok, find some papers… maybe a tape or a video… anything."
They split up, with Reeka leaning against the wall refusing to do this searching crap, and rustled through the place. Turning drawers upside down, sorting through old papers, they found nothing but diagrams and biology texts.
As the search came to an end, Yugo came to the closet that was deadlocked. He asked Reeka, "Hey Reeka, mind breaking this off?"
She rolled her eyes and walked over. She grabbed it, and ripped it right off. "Thanks."
She threw it aside and leaned against the wall as Yugo opened the closet up…
"Jackpot."
He found what he needed… info. There was a closet full of tapes, each having a date, a name, and a title. There were a few players on the side, so he grabbed a tape marked "9-10-07: A.S.: Project-Genetispec". Yugo grabbed the player and said, "This tape is from about six years ago, I wonder who the hell A.S. is."
Judas pointed out, "I'd like to know what this Genetispec is."
"I think I heard of it, but can't remember what it was."
Rebecca urged, "Well put it in."
"Ok, ok!"
He opened the player and put the tape in. He pressed the play button, and the recording began. It started out some low sound sobbing, nothing they could identify, until the sobbing stopped and a murky voice appeared, "It hurts…"
The group was a little shocked as it was Sycamore's voice… Professor Sycamore's voice. They listened intently as he said, tears in the voice, "I was forced to do all of this… all of it. *sobs* I created a project of horror from… from… oh my…"
It was a break up of his voice as he cried, but he took a deep breath, "I can't keep confessing… they go through all these tapes… making me say… the whole project… success… failure… and worst of all… my family possibly getting killed… oh the horror! *cries heavily*"
Rebecca asked, "This… is actually…"
Yugo nodded, "A grown man crying, very rare, but possible."
The tape went back on as Sycamore began a statement, "Alright… *takes a deep breath* let's… get this over with… the experiment Team Flare has developed… is called Project Genetic Spectacle… Or Genetispec for short. They forced me to work on this alongside their scientists… they have made a discovery that nobody has ever known… until now.
"We have always found something new in Pokémon that exist to such a degree we could never dream of. Z-crystals… mega evolution… battle bonds… such a beautiful but deadly force… and these people found a new frightening force… Soul evolution…"
Yugo asked, "Huh?"
"For those listening, soul evolution is a term I call it, they call it shadow evolution after the shadow Pokémon from Team cipher. It was an enigma that hid under wraps because of what we were holding back… and for good purposes.
"Team Cipher and Flare exchanged scientific notes at one point, trying to find a way to create a shadow Pokémon that can mega evolve… and they found it by accident. A worker tried mega evolving his Pokémon and his Blastoise went berserk. This created the soul evolution. It was found mega evolution was actually a way to crack a Pokémon soul, making its human counterpart able to connect… and why we have many specific questions.
"This crack led to the finding of a Pokémon's soul that composed of the actual evolution… and a dark spirit that the shadow Pokémon are made of. This explains the mysteries of why some Pokémon will go into a killer mode… rampaging against all commands… the crack goes into the dark spirit rather than the real one… then there is the battle bond… it relies on the same technique, like what Ash Ketchum had… but the battle bond is actually not a single event anymore…
"Over years there have been reports of trainers witnessing strange and abnormal evolutions to their Pokémon, suggesting that they have a crack to. And these scientists have found that every single Pokémon has one crack that can lead to both spirits… and it led to the next horror."
The tape stopped as Yugo screamed, "THAT'S IT?!"
It echoed about as Reeka slapped him, "I got sensitive ears asshole!"
Yugo ran back into the closet and pulled another tape, this date dating a week from the first one and still reading A.S., but this time it titled "Nightmare". He put it in as the tape rolled on, beginning, "*sigh*… time will pass… oh time will pass… I hate where I am… but I have no choice… *takes deep breath*… let's begin…
"This time they want me to talk about the nightmare form… a relatively unstable mega evolution that can only be created out of anger… revenge… murder… and the most negative emotions. Prof…. Italy… said there was an alternate universe where this form existed. Like the soul evolution, it revolves on the dark spirit… but this time the spirit overlaps the original spirit meaning that the Pokémon has full control over when it wants to use its form… and it can lead to the more fearful designs… each one unique…
"Charizards with two heads, both sending flames several hundred feet, Blazikens with multiple arms… a Bayleef that loses all adorableness and becomes a killing plant with razor leaves and a toxic plume of pollen… these are nightmares. Nightmares… such ones I'd almost dream of… this is out of my reach and they want me to keep it up… *sighs*… these forms keep on going and going… Last week it was souls… now it's nightmares… purely demonic… nothing to be all cheerful for…
"But they have another surprise waiting… I don't know what it is… but I have a feeling it'll be horrible as all of this…"
It stopped as Yugo went back into the closet. Judas argued, "We can explore the damn place instead of listening to these tapes."
Rebecca grabbed his shoulder, "Hey, this shit I never even knew existed, ok?"
Yugo came out with a tape dating 5-01-08. He said, "It's still a Sycamore tape, but there's this one that ends on June… and then that's it."
Reeka threw in, "So they probably knocked him off."
"Yeeeaaah, he's too much of a, 1, liability, and, 2, a pretty pricey and important SOB. Fine, we can explore but I want to know what's going on."
He took the player and popped in the next tape. They left the room and went into an adjacent hallway that seemed to lead further underground… or further on at least. As they walked the tape played, "I thought I heard of it all… it's gotten to such an extent… I can't bear this… *sobs* they found yet another terrible, terrible part… and it's worse than the soul evolution… soul extraction… Oh Arceus, why did you design these people…
"*takes a deep breath* no matter how much I try to reason, they keep it up… with me in the mix… *sighs* let's do this… again… now, the title of this revolves under soul extraction… it's a broad meaning… but a very precise one as well… it involves a type of creation… a cloning process… if you go through these tapes you know what the dark spirit is… but now they found a way to separate it… making a second clone… and it's not just Pokémon… they did it to a human… not just any human… me…"
Rebecca looked confused, "I'm sorry, they cloned him?"
Yugo was surprised himself, "Shit, that can cause any kind of problem."
It continued, "They found that humans have their own dark spirit… but the difference between that and a Pokémon's… is that a Pokémon dark spirit has feral attributes… humans have very little if any. And they made a clone of me, same memories, same looks, same characteristics… and they gave him to the world while the real one is still in this… testing lab for Rattatas…"
He started to cry, "They even had footage showing my wife and son… with the clone… and they never knew… It's like I'm dead now… DEAD! *sobs loudly*."
The tape ended as they found themselves at another room. Rebecca was saddened from it, "I can't believe that they would do something like that."
Yugo shrugged, "At this point, these people will do almost anything to keep their secrets stashed."
They pushed the doors open, revealing a room full of papers… everywhere. Blue print schisms, formulas… failed theories, mathematic equations… tons of it. They walked around as Yugo popped the last one in. Judas whined, "Thank God it's the last, otherwise I'd tell yer Lucario to kick yer balls."
Reeka told him, "I would."
The tape began, "*sigh* life… I'm losing it slowly… but of course, they decided to… make another 'grand' experiment… what it is? Who the hell knows… Now that they have all the information and works of all the mutilating creations, now they move onto cybernetics… humph, cyborgs… what a great idea. And to make it better, because I know nothing of the subject, they think I'm useless… bloody useless… Oh well… what's the worst of it?"
The tape cut as another voice came on, "So the experimental cybernetics we decide to create have gone… out of the line. Great time to tell Lysander to fuck himself… but the guy writes all the checks, so can't beat him hard. Anyway, the reason I'm on here is because the experiment has gone into a bicker of who gets what patents… Pffph, yeah, like that's what we need. But what I'm seeing is something going wrong… like that game Four Nights at Fredrick's… that Delphox animatronic… something like what we have stored in our little vault… it's malfunctioning… it's creepy… and nobody wants to go in that room unless a personal army is with them… and even then they want to stay out of it…
"But if these creeps want me to check on it… I'm outta this place."
It stopped as they came across a huge door, shut up and closed. Yugo said, "Reeka?"
She looked at him, "I ripped the lock off, and after this, it's your testicles."
"O-ok, Rebecca?"
She rolled her eyes and used a blazing kick on the door, bashing it wide open. "Damn."
She crossed her arms and gave a haughty grin, "Beauty of it."
Judas commented, "Except for that load of shit."
Which was parts… lots of parts. There was a table place in the middle of the room, surrounded by the parts. As they went up, the parts they saw had some similarities… robotic… electrical… mechanical… all kinds. It must've been the storage room. Yugo asked, "Uh, isn't this the room that the guy said…"
Judas crapped himself, "Oh shit, we've stepped on a mine."
Rebecca grabbed his arm, and he turned his head to her, stressing, "Do you mind?"
She let go shyly, "Hehe… sorry."
Yugo hollered, "Another tape!"
All three groaned as Judas told him, "Not another one!"
"Uh… one little boo-boo if you didn't know…"
"And that's what?"
He lifted the tape player, "Where the hell did a second one appear and *pointing to the table tape player* why is that dated only a year ago?"
"That's two, but I get your point."
Yugo played it and again by Sycamore, "My biggest career event made, such colossal dreams I created and made… research… family… life… my best goals and my only goals… but then… oh Mr. Italy… the foreigner of foreigners… the gaijin of gaijins… the worst of worst. You came into my world and ruined it for everyone, killing the innocent and helping the evil… the criminal you were… and you made it worse… by ruining me… you became the one who created the nightmares of us all!
(Play "Hello Bertie")
"I made my own fate, I did! And you threw me out, sold my soul off. And for all this time you thought I was disposable… never!"
Then some noises were heard as the gang looked around. "You ruined my life, but I will ruin yours Italy…"
There were metal scraping sounds coming from the pile in front of them. "You may think I'm gone…"
The group had shocked expressions as something arose from the pile. "But I'm… still… heeeeeeere."
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