I'm not putting a disclaimers anymore for this story, I see no reason, since I have one in the first chapter, I think you figure out that I don't own Pokémon, unless someone's like, "Durrr, I'm a gonna start in the second chapter du-hut."

Thanks for reading my story so far, please continue to enjoy it… if you're enjoying it. Otherwise, begin to enjoy it or else (eyes narrow)…

Chapter 2: What's it Like to be a Rocket?

Aidan burst out of the trees and stepped out in the middle of a city built in the trees. He remembers someone telling him about a city like this. Something like Fortree City, he remembered.

While he was pondering this, the pain killer he used at the camp began to wear off, and he started feeling the pain of the wound slightly. Then as he was looking around for the Pokémon Center the pain hit him full force.

The blood from the hole that had been clogged by the injection was now leaking and could be seen outside the uniform. Grabbing his shoulder in pain, he bit his lip and struggled into the PC that he saw just a few feet ahead of him, as his eyes began going blurry. He stepped in and a girl screamed, but Aidan didn't care. He took a step forward, then stumbled and fell forward, and passed out.

He awoke suddenly sitting up instantly and looking around reaching for his combat knife that should have been on his leg, drenched in a cold sweat. Aidan appeared to be where they keep the Pokémon that need to be healed. Realizing the combat was gone he started looking at his shoulder as he began to remember where he was, he could see that it was wrapped and he had a cast all the way to his wrist in a blue sling the held it up nicely. Relaxing he leaned back on his bed. He was fine. At this moment the nurse walked in. When she noticed he was awake, she went over to him.

"You were in pretty bad condition when you got here," Nurse Joy said arriving at his bed. Aidan looked at her a little confused. She looked like a normal Nurse Joy, nothing strange, pretty hot and wearing the generic white nurse outfit.

"Yeah," he replied simply. Aidan was surprised that she was so unfazed by the horn sticking out the side of his head. As far back as he could remember he was rejected because of the horn.

Aidan walked into his new school. It was his first day and he walked in carrying the lunch his mother had packed him, and holding his mother's hand. As he entered, one of the teachers scowled at him, while the other smiled at him.

The one that was smiling was dressed in a blue dress and had dark hair. Walking over to Aidan, she looked at the horn, then looked at his face and said, "Hi there little guy, what's your name?"

"I'm Aidan…" He replied emotionlessly.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Miss Polson, that guy over there is Mr. Jameson," Miss Polson said with a welcoming smile. "Please take a seat in any of the red chairs," She motioned to the half of the room with desks and lots of red chairs, a few of them occupied by other kids of around five or six years old, the same age as Aidan. Each desk could seat two children, and as such, had two chairs in front of it.

Hugging his mother who was crying with a smile on her face, he went over and took a seat at a vacant desk closer to the back of the room. After a minute or so, a little saw him and went and sat next to him, completely oblivious to the horn on the side of Aidan's head.

"Hi there, I'm Katie, that's my mommy up there teaching!" the girl said gleefully. Aidan took a closer look at her to realize she wasn't normal either, she appeared to have strange ears on her head, the type of which he had never seen before.

"Hi, I'm Aidan," he replied still emotionless.

"Is that horn on your head real?" she asked looking at the horn with her head tipped sideways.

"Are those ears real?" Aidan replied now looking over the rest of the class.

"Yeah," she replied playing with them a little. Then turning to see what he's looking at she turned and looked at him again and said, "Hey, do you want to be my best friend?"

"I guess…" Aidan replied a confused look on his face.

"Hello, you still there," Aidan heard from out of his daydream, awaking to Nurse Joy waving her hand in front of his face.

"Sorry, I was thinking about something," Aidan replied turning towards her.

"Okay, but now that you're better I have to kick you out," she said frowning.

"May I ask the reason?" Aidan answered back.

"It's because you're part of Team Rocket, I'm not suppose to treat people from Magma, Aqua, or Rocket," she said still frowning.

"Then why did you treat me?"

"You're so young, I couldn't let you just bleed out on the floor."

"Well, I'm glad you did, since I'm not a part of Rocket," Aidan said in his normal emotionless voice.

"What? You were wearing all of their gear," she said in surprise, not believing him. Aidan got up and found his stuff next to the bed. Lifting up the jacket, he pulled out his wallet and ID for the HDC and also pulling out the Rocket's wallet. Aidan gave them to Nurse Joy, who looked them over, and realized that he wasn't lying. His white hair was combed over to one side with the horn, and everything.

"Team Rocket was after me, and I used one of their uniforms to get away," Aidan said, still emotionless.

"Thank goodness," Nurse Joy said in relief. Then she looked at the age and saw that he was only 16. "Wait, your only 16, you're not old enough to be in the HDC." Nurse Joy began to step away.

"Do you know what I am?" he asked, now slightly annoyed from having to explain this far too many times but not letting it show in his voice.

"Yeah, you're a Pokemorph, right, an Absol, from what I can tell."

"Yes, that's right," Aidan said nodding slightly. "Because I'm about half Absol and half Human, this gives me the advantages of an Absol, mainly just improved night vision and the ability to sense when something is about to happen and the horn on my head allowing for Pokémon attacks. HDC wouldn't miss the chance to have something like that on their side." Nurse Joy nodded in understanding and looked at him in surprise. "A year ago I was sent a letter saying that the options were, I die and my mother is arrested, or I join the HDC."

"That's horrible! I didn't know they did that!" Nurse Joy exclaimed.

"That doesn't matter anymore. Right now I need to return to my superiors to relay the information about the massacre at the camp where I was stationed."

"Do you need anything? How can I help?" Nurse Joy asked ready to help.

"I just need some clothes and hat that can cover my extra appendage," Aidan said motioning at the horn.

"Of course, I'll be back as soon as possible. Also, there's food out in the lobby, so feel free to eat as much as you like," Nurse Joy said leaving Aidan alone. After a moment, Aidan got up and looked at what he was wearing. Just some blue medical pants, and the splint. Shrugging he left the room into the lobby.

Kat woke up suddenly after having another nightmare having to do with Red Rocket killing her. She sat up and looked around. Then, after realizing that there are no Rockets around, she thought, 'That stupid Rocket making me think I was gonna die last night.' Standing up she stretched and saw Nurse Joy leave the treatment room in a hurry, then leave the Pokémon Center, and turn right. Kat Shrugged and started to head towards the food bar.

She took a step, and then saw someone walk out of the treatment room. Looking carefully she realized it was the Rocket. Kat made sure that her ears and tail were hidden. 'Need to make sure that Rocket doesn't see me,' she thought remembering what she heard not too long ago on the radio about Pokemorphs going missing, and the culprit was supposedly Red Rocket.

Then she looked at him carefully, and noticed the horn sticking out the side of his head. She gasped loudly making the guy look at her with a cocked eyebrow. Not caring anymore, she thought, 'He's a Pokemorph too!' The boy walked over the buffet that was laid out for everyone. Kat looked him over from behind, when she noticed now that he wasn't wearing a shirt, she blushed, seeing how strong he was. All of his muscles were perfectly toned.

The boy took the food and sat down on a couch near her. Seeing no one else around, she walked over to the boy and stood in front of him. Aidan looked up and looked her in the eyes. Kat looked into his eyes, his were cold red and her eyes widened in fear. She then pushed herself mentally, and offering her hand she quickly spat out, "HimynameisKatit'sapleasuretomeetyou?"

Aidan looked at the strange girl. She was wearing a pink jacket over a black under shirt, and pink short-shorts along with a pink beret. Slowly Aidan replied separating each word with a space in confusion, "I'm…Aidan…Nice…to…meet…you...?" Then he went to eating leaving Katie standing there with her arm outstretched, looking really weird.

While Katie waited she thought, 'He's really cute but...' as she looked at his facial features and his abs. Then she realized he went back to his food and she was standing there with her hand out, looking stupid. She looked angrily at him for trying to embarrass her, 'But he's a total jerk!' Katie thought clenching her fist, and her eye twitching in anger.

"I was just trying to say hi, you didn't have to be a jerk and make me look retarded!" Kat went off on Aidan, who looked with the same emotionless expression and stared at her expectantly. Kat started getting nervous and looked around, there was no one, then with less force she said, "Yeah, yeah, when someone offers their hand, you should shake it, it's just polite…" The end of her sentence trailing off and Aidan just stared at her. She took a step back.

"Right…" Aidan said, truthfully he didn't mean to offend; he didn't have much experience talking with people. "Uhm…Sorry?" he replied confused.

"Uh…It's alright," Kat replied not expecting him to apologies.

Aidan looked at her starting to feel a strange social feeling, he thinks it's called awkward. Trying to relieve the feeling he scooted over to the right, and said, "Kat was it? Would you like to sit down?"

"Uhm…sure," she replied sitting down next to him. She waited for a few seconds, and when Aidan didn't say anything, she said, "So you're a pokemorph?" Aidan looked at her closely, and noticed that she didn't have any ears on the side of her head, her long pink hair was pushed back slightly on one side and showed a little bit of a ear that stuck up instead of out, stuffed into her hat. In the mean time, Kat looked at him awkwardly as he looked at her then looked at where her ear should be. Then she realized he'd notice and was about to say something when Aidan said.

"Yeah, I'm part Absol, and I'm gonna guess your part Delcatty."

She then expected him to say something like, I need you to come with me, or something along those lines that you'd expect someone to say if they were part of Red Rocket and were trying to kidnap you, instead Aidan said, "I think you'd look prettier without the hat, but I understand why you wear it. I've got the same problem with my horn."

Shocked, Kat said, "Oh…thanks…I like my hat…I've had it for awhile."

"You should work on hiding your ears some more. Red Rocket wouldn't fall for something as obvious as that." Aidan said as he finished eating.

Kat looked at him nervously, "Aren't you part of Red Rocket?"

"No, HDC, long story about the Rocket uniform, you just shouldn't worry about it."

Kat was sure he wasn't older then 17, how could he be a part of HDC if you have to be 18. "How old are you?"

"18." He replied seriously. 'People ask a lot of the same questions.'

"Oh…" she felt stupid. She had just been sitting with an 18 year old and that just didn't seem right.

At that moment Nurse Joy walked in with some bags and handed them to Aidan, who thanked her gratefully, and took them into the other room.

When Aidan walked back out he was wearing blue jeans, and a black hooded sweatshirt with the hood up covering the horn. He also had a simple backpack that looked full.

Aidan was about to leave when as he was walking past Kat, Nurse Joy walked over to him and said, "Be careful, you're still only 16. Watch your cast especially." Kat heard this and looked at him angrily realizing he lied to her.

"I will be," Aidan replied now realizing that Kat had heard Nurse Joy, making him feel nervous.

"Wait a second!" Kat yelled pointing at him. "You lied to me! You told me you were 18 and that's how you joined the HDC!"

"Yes, I did, so I wouldn't have to explain how I was 16 and in the HDC," he replied then turning towards the door.

"How do I know you weren't lying about not being a part of Red Rocket," she yelled running in front of him. People that had come to the PC were now watching.

Aidan stared at her from underneath his hood. Then stepping close to Kat so his mouth was at her ear, he whispered, "Because Red Rocket kills people like you and me, and you just made it that much easier for them to find me by shouting that I'm part of the HDC at a young age and to a Rocket the only people that are in the HDC at the age of 16, should be dead. Also, you've blown your cover." Kat stepped back stunned. Then looking around she realized everyone was looking at her, and some of them were looking at her lack of ears. She stood there for a second.

Aidan stepped forward and grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the PC.

Aidan looked back at Kat. Kat could feel the anger emanating from him. After a moment, Aidan said in his cold tone, "I recommend you shut up and follow me to prevent people from becoming even more suspicious."

Kat was on the verge of crying, she didn't want to die, and this Aidan was so dark. Suddenly Aidan reached out at her face. Kat didn't know what was going on, she expected him to slap her or something, until Aidan started moving her hair.

"There, now your lack of normal ears won't be as noticeable," Aidan said in his normal voice.

"Thanks," she said sniffling.

"Let's go before the Rockets find ou-," Aidan started to say, a gunshot was fired from behind him. As he turned he saw three people with two 'R's on their back and rifles in hand rush into the Pokémon Center. "Shit," Aidan swore looking at them. "Wait here unless you're actually useful for something." Aidan ran off towards the PC.

Kat looked in anger, and was about to shout 'I am useful' when she caught herself and instead of chasing after Aidan hid outside the PC, peeking in through the window watching everything that happened, her sensitive hearing picking up all of the conversation.

Aidan ran in and looked at the Rockets who turned to him and laughed at him.

The one who looked like the leader through laughs said, "You think you can be Hero?! That's funny. Look I'm feeling nice, so why don't you just leave while you have the chance."

Aidan relaxed himself and looked around. Seeing a bullet hole in ceiling realized the shot was just a warning shot. Aidan then said, "What are you looking for?"

"None of your business," the Leader said back angrily.

"I think it is seeing as I work at this Pokémon Center," Aidan lied back.

"Oh good, then you tell me where the Pokemorph is, and don't say he wasn't here, because, then I'll just have to kill you," the leader laughed.

"Oh him, he's here, let me take you to him," Aidan said as though he was glad they were here to kill the man they sought. He walked towards the treatment room. Opening the door, he let them in. Then once they had entered, they looked around the room; Aidan removed his hood, and started charging an attack.

"Where is he!" the leader yelled face red with anger as he turned to face Aidan who was standing hood off horn glowing blue.

"I don't know, he must've got away," he said as he swung his head forward releasing an Aerial Ace that cut through the man's armor made a deep gash in his chest which began bleeding red liquid profusely. Dropping his gun where he was hit he tumbled backwards, the other two Rockets turned to see their leader fall over blood spurting out of him. Aidan dove at the gun and caught it as it fell, with a roll he stood up and turned back around, he aimed it with his one good hand at one grunt and fired a shot, then turning the gun to the other grunt Aidan pulled the trigger again and they both fell one after the other holes through their neck. Putting the gun into his back pack he walked out of the room. Then walking over to the Nurse, he said, "You might not want to go in there for a while." Then he turned and walked outside.

As he walked outside, Kat jumped out at him and shouted, "Yay!" Making Aidan jump and simultaneously reach for the gun in his back pack. Then pulling it out and aiming it he realized it was just Kat and he relaxed, returning the gun to his back pack as a scared Kat stood there shocked, relaxing slightly when he put the gun away.

"Let's go before more show up," Aidan said as Kat walked behind him, not sure whether to laugh or be scared over the incident.

End of Chapter 2

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