Mastermind
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon or any other references that might be use down the line. I only own my OCs and Burning Shadows! Thank you for bearing with me and enjoy!
Michael Kreed looked through the stack of documents that where on his desk. Each one, where countless reports that didn't tell him anything new about his company. His company, Orion, was losing money due to setbacks that is occurring with their latest project. The Matter Energy Converter or M.E.C for short was an idea he personally came up with to help the environment. Its purpose was easy enough, it's meant to absorb any type of substance and convert it into energy that could be harness by M.E.C's partner, "the container", as it was promptly name due to it boxy appearance. The amount of energy that could be harness according to one of the scientist that is working on the project, would be enough to power a small city for three days, and that would only be with a small amount of trash. This would truly be an invention that would forever help his company image.
Kreed's company picked up a nasty reputation that has him picture by many people in the world as the devil himself. The reason, most of the products produce by his company is targeted to help people reduce their dependency on Pokemon. Some crazy pokemon support group took it upon themselves to spread nasty rumors about him and the products that his company produces. No one bother to learn the truth about him, which really irritated him. He happens to be an excellent pokemon trainer, heck, people who still remember him when he was an active trainer five years back thought he was going to be the next champion. Michael was really something back then but fate is a cruel mistress. His father became ill and he was thrown into this corporate lifestyle. Sure, the pay is extremely nice due to him being the ceo, but nothing could beat the thrill of a pokemon battle. Standing up, Kreed pushes a button on the phone, shortly after his secretary answers.
"What can I do for you Mr. Kreed?" asked his young secretary.
"I want you to reschedule all of my appointments if you can Deborah," replies Michael as he lets a smile comes across his face briefly.
"That could be done easily enough but what about the budget meeting for the M.E.C project?"
"I forgot about that… What time is it again?"
"It's schedule for three sir," Deborah answers.
Looking at his watch, he sees that he has two hours to spare before the dreaded meeting.
"That's fine, I would attend the budget meeting at three. Thank you," says Kreed before he cuts the connection and heads out the door.
The sun is shining brightly in Cerulean city as Kreed finds himself heading to the park that his company built a year ago for the inhabitants of the city and their pokemon. Brushing a few strands of his dirty blonde hair from his face, he scans the small park for an empty bench. Finding one next to the pond, Michael's heads towards it and sits down letting a cool breeze calm his nerves. Working in the office for countless hours takes a toll on him and he found out quite by accident that by spending time in the park calms his nerves considerably. It's probably because it reminds him of the time when he beat up a kid when he was around eleven who was abusing a Snorunt. After that incident, snorunt became his loyal companion and they were inseparable.
"Look at what I found boys, it's the devil himself," shouted a voice that was completely unfamiliar to him but at the same time it didn't surprised him.
Kreed stands up and turns around to see three pokemon fanatics walking towards him. They look to be no older that twenty and extremely bold at that.
"What should we due to him boss?" asks the one on the left.
"What do you think, we're going to beat him down by using our pokemon," replies the one in the middle.
"What, you three can't beat me up yourselves? Sending a pokemon to do your dirty work, what a bunch of weaklings," Kreed says as he stretches.
"We may be weak but we are not stupid. Everyone knows you have a second-degree black belt. In a straight up fight, you would mop the floor with us. And because you have no pokemon, you can't do nothing to stop us," the one on the right spat out.
"And who said I don't have a pokemon?" asked Kreed with a smirk slowly forming on his face.
"You don't have any pokeballs on you and besides, you're campaigning against pokemon!" yelled the one in the middle.
"Fine, don't believe me."
The three fanatics look at one another before they release their pokemon. After the bright flash of white light, standing before the fanatics were a Muk, Graveler, and finally a Slowbro.
"That's it? Man, I really wanted a challenge," stated Michael as he looks down at his watch. "I was saying this for the latest press meeting but now's a good time as any. You this ordinary look watch," started Kreed as he shows it to the three punks. "It's the latest device that my company came up with. It connects to one of the many satellites that orbit the planet wirelessly. And thanks to that, I could be anywhere on the planet and summon any of my pokemon as long as their in a PC with a touch of button."
And with that said, Kreed pushes a button on his watch and it shoots out a red beam that slowly forms the silhouette of a pokemon. When it finished, a Glalie stood before him and the fanatic's pokemons.
"The cool thing about this watch is that it doesn't limit the number of pokemon I can release but I don't need to release anymore pokemon because my partner is more than enough for a bunch of thugs like you," Kreed said as he glares at the three would be attackers.
"You don't scare us! It's three against one! You are going down devil!"
And with that being said, all three of the fanatic's pokemons charge forward. Glalie floats in the air as it stares down the pokemons as it awaited a command. Kreed smiles as he said one word "attack".
Glalie began to spin around slowly becoming a spinning blurry white and black blur. He then proceeded to launch himself toward the incoming attackers. Out of the three attackers, the first one to be hit was the Muk, which was launch back towards its owner knocking them both out. The Graveler threw rocks at the spinning blur only to see them bounce off the spinning ball and the same thing happen when Slowbro used his water gun. Glalie stopped spinning and stared at the two pokemon before he used ice beam, which froze both of them in the first try. Kreed walked up to his Glalie and told it to use blizzard. Glalie happily complies freezing the three fanatics and Muk.
"That ought of cool them down a bit," Kreed says as he uses his watch to return his trusted companion back to the PC storage device before he heads back to his company.
Author's notes: The reason why I chose to name the first chapter of my Burning Shadows character introduction short "Mastermind" is because that is what Michael Kreed sees himself as. He's the brains behind BS and a master tactician as shown by the interesting method of attack shown by Glalie. Kreed also happens to be one of the two founding members of BS. The other one would be introduce later on. Please review!
Michael Kreed
Age: 27
Height: 5'10
Hair color: Dirty blonde
Eye color: Hazel
Birthplace: Cerulean city
Personality: Kreed is an extremely educated individual who happens to be extremely proud of it. He is always collected and rarely shows any anger and due to his upbrining it is hard for people to get a good read on him. Due to the many years spent in the corporate world, he appears to be stress out but doesn't allow anyone to know this because he sees it as a sign of weakness. Another thing that the corporate world has done to him is make him appear very intimidating. Kreed hates people who are arrogant and brash.
Accomplishments: Six Kanto badges, Five Johto badges, and three Hoenn badges, a second-degree black belt and ceo of a multi-million dollar corporation.
Appearance: Ever since he began to work for Orion, Kreed only wears suits and the awesome watch that allows him to summon pokemon at the touch of a button (btw every member has a watch like Kreed except it's a little bulkier and not as stylish as) and a 14k gold necklace with the golden letters of BS attach to the chain (every member of Burning Shadows has the same necklace).
Pokemon that he owns: a male Glalie that Kreed nickname Edge, a male Kingler, a female Blissey, a female Kingdra, a male Slaking, a male Dragonite, a male Xatu, a male Skarmory, a female Ninetales, Magneton, and finally a male Victreebel.