Chapter 29: The Truth
The room had mixed emotions in it, while the Champions were more or less frozen in place because of the sudden intervention of Frost and the Rangers on the other hand were trying to calm him down.
"Frost what are you doing!" hissed Forester.
Frost completely ignored Forester as he looked Lance in his eyes
"That is enough out of you Champion." He said in a completely forced calm tone.
Lance gulped at the fact that the gun was still pointed at his forehead and couldn't really clock anything else.
"Champion Lance….." Frost began "You think that as a Champion you have seen everything well let me make something very clear, I don't care that you are the Champion I will not hesitate to KILL you right here and now in front of everyone." Frost threatened in an even calmer voice then before.
Frost's killing intent was clear to all his subordinates….
The room was completely silent at this bold statement when Rain kept a hand on Frost's shoulder and said "Frost he didn't mean it like that, lower your weapon."
Frost looked at Rain and then at Lance before he lowered the gun and said in his normal tone "Champion next time hear the complete story first before you start ordering us around."
Cynthia was shocked to see the change in Frost's voice as she thought
[It was like he was a completely different person….]
Lance and the other Champions who were standing up now also calmed down and took their respective seats needless to say no one said anything.
Rain continue the explanation after this whole scene
"Champions if it is alright with you each one of us would like to have a word with you privately."
Cynthia wasn't gonna refuse after what just happened and she was sure that no one else was gonna do as well.
One by one each Ranger took their respective escorts out with them and now only Frost was left along with Cynthia meanwhile Goodshow and Forester had also left to discuss something with themselves a while ago.
Frost sighed deeply he didn't know what came over him but Lance's statement hit a switch in him, he took a few minutes to calm down and seemed Cynthia didn't object either as she also needed time to recover. He kept the gun back into his blazer and said
"Cynthia let's go to the roof to get some fresh air."
As both made their way into the elevator it was dead silence no one said anything as the elevator reached the topmost observation deck/roof.
Frost walked out into the wind and immediately propped his leg on the safety rail and leaned on it for support now facing a quite Cynthia.
"Ask away I won't lie after all that." he said out loud.
After a few seconds Cynthia stuttered out "That...that gun is real isn't it?"
"Yes it is."
"Why do you have one on you?"
"I am your escort and considering all that has happened in the past 2 days I thought that it was a good idea to keep one on me."
Cynthia could only nod to that as she continued "Why don't you want us to become Ranger's and help you I mean you must have a pretty solid reason since you pointed a gun at my friends head just to prove a point."
"Cynthia these matters are not the affairs of people like you, underground secret societies are just too much for you guys to handle."Frost offered.
"Try me." Cynthia said after composing herself.
"Cynthia these matter involve a lot of….(Frost sighed) violence if you know what I mean." Frost replied honestly.
Cynthia knew this was the answer I mean she saw a gun being pointed at Lance a few minutes ago, but she still wanted to know more
"Tell me more?" she asked sincerily.
"Cynthia I really don't think that is a good idea, just refuse the offer and go back to being the Champion."
"Frost just talk."
Frost heard Cynthia loud and clear and prepared himself
"Champion operating in the underground networks you have only two options 'to kill' or 'to be killed', when Spark said difficult choices this is what he meant, we can't expect civilians to get involved in such matters."
"Have you killed before?" Cynthia asked out of the bloom.
Frost saw Cynthia stand in front of her wind blowing her magnificent blonde hair as he said
"More times than you can imagine."
Cynthia took a deep breath as she asked "Pokemon have you killed Pokemon as well?"
"No god no, but... I can't say the same for the people we deal with." Frost responded frantically.
"I see well that's good to know." Cynthia said in relief.
Frost was honestly surprised by this reaction, he had just told someone that his work involves killing people but the other person was still asking him questions about it usually they leave the topic all together after that but Cynthia continued.
"In that case you must be part of a separate branch of specialists that deal with said hidden societies."
"Correct."
"Who all know about the existence of this?"
"The higher-ups at PLA, the Ranger Corps, the International Police and now you." replied Frost.
"Why such secrecy?"
"Tell me if you were a normal citizen and one day someone tells you that so much crime is happening right under your nose, what would happen?"
"Mass panic, riots?" muttered Cynthia.
"Exactly, these underground societies have existed since the very beginning and so have the people to deal with them, so please don't involve yourself in such matters and forget everything you heard here, it's good for both your family and Pokemon."
Cynthia was baffled at one end was the answer to her internal conflict but at the same end was a world she never imagined existed full of crime and corruption, but her mind was already set and she was ready.
"Frost you remember what I told you in the park this morning." she said.
[Tell me do you feel that you aren't giving it your all?] these words from Cynthia rang in Frost's mind as he nodded.
"I as a Champion wish that my region is well protected don't get me wrong I am not saying that you and your comrades aren't giving it all they must have sacrificed a lot but if there is even a slight bit I could do more as a Champion I would want to do it, so I still want to help."
"Cynthia if you take the offer you will lose your chance at a peaceful life for a long time considering you don't die before that." Frost tried reasoning with Cynthia but it was obvious it wasn't gonna work anymore.
[She has made her mind, nothing I saw is gonna change what she want well…... it was worth the shot.] Frost thought as he stopped talking and looked down.
"You've already made up your mind haven't you?" he said with a hint of sadness in his voice.
"Yes and I can't back down now Frost after hearing all that." she replied.
"Well if that is the case let's go back." Frost said as he returned from to his normal expression from the previous sad one.
He was already walking back to the elevator when Cynthia asked him
"Frost why do you and the others do this I mean why risk your life for something like this?"
Frost stopped in his track as he replied
"Me and the others are outcasts Cynthia we don't have a family to go back to or a place to call a proper home, although I won't talk for the rest of my team but for myself I do it because I made a promise to someone a very long time ago."
Frost left his answer at that but Cynthia didn't object as that was the first personal thing Frost ever told her about himself. Instead she quietly followed him to the elevator where they made their way back down to the conference room.
Inside it seemed that only the Champions were sitting inside with all the Rangers back at the waiting room.
"Choose wisely Champion." was the only advice Frost gave Cynthia before he left her to go into the waiting room.
Frost turned his head around to see Cynthia enter the conference room as he himself settled in the waiting room with Rain, Ember , Spark, Leaf and Stone already inside.
"How'd it go Leader?" asked Spark.
"Well lets just say that whatever happens we will have to work twice as much from now on." he replied with a wry smile.
"The Champion's are thickheaded individuals…." whined Ember as she was lying on her back with her feet dangling from one end of the sofa.
Stone who was sitting on the other end of the same sofa Ember was lying on said
"Well we can't do anything now that the Council has agreed to this."
"Yeah." said the group in unison.
Author's Notes:
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