A continuation of the growing situation proves to be interesting. After Gran explains his story to Vivi, he chases after Vaison and when he and Max end up reaching him at the same time, a 4 way battle takes place, which includes Ling. A battle with deadly results.
It's now morning time and Max is still unconscious in the snow.
Back at Gran's suppose apartment, he tells Vivi his story in the living room.
GRAN: I was in the same unit as Vaison was at the SciTitan school.
GRAN: It was a harsh school.
GRAN: You said that you didn't need comrades, but i'm attracted to that word, almost to the point of tears.
GRAN: You see that's what we were, Vivi.
GRAN: At SciTitan, we were all allies, friends, and comrades.
Gran remineces about the past.
[Gran's flash back of his time at the SciTitan school with Vaison begins]
The school having to deal with constant sand storms, fire drills over and over again, and the sound of kids, teachers, and principals constantly at war with each other when it comes to using words and violence.
Gran lies back on a bench, near the play ground, when he hears a music box playing to his side, a few feet away from him. In that direction, he sees Vaison and he approaches him.
GRAN: What song is that?
Gran sits down next to Vaison's left side.
VAISON: (talking and looking at the music box with a sad sentimental expression on his face) Sola!
GRAN: That's a good tune.
GRAN: Would you mind if i played that tune on my sax, when i go home after all this?
Vaison hands him the music box and Gran notices the look of grief, despair, depression, and sentimentality on Vaison's face. He then takes the music box and Vaison gets up. Suddenly, he turns around and thrusts a sharp stick next to Gran's head. Gran looks to his side and sees a small scorpion pokemon split in two. Vaison then walks away.
[Gran's flash back of his time at the SciTitan school with Vaison ends]
GRAN: After i came back from a vacation, i was imprisoned in a juvenile detention center.
GRAN: They suspected that i was a serial killer.
GRAN: They thought i had killed a student, a teacher, and a principal at SciTitan.
GRAN: They also suspected that i was a spy.
GRAN: I heard that Vaison testified against me and after that, my parents abandon me and my life began to slowly shatter.
GRAN: In juvenile jail, i went in sane from insomnia.
GRAN: As a result, i became a substance abuser.
GRAN: There were side effects from the substances.
GRAN: My hormones went out of whack and as a result, i have the hairy chest and arm pits of a 44 year old man.
GRAN: Not only that, but this isn't the first time Vaison messed up some one's life and SciTitan wasn't the first school he terrorized.
GRAN: When we were younger, we used to go to this school in Petalburg City.
GRAN: Petalburg City is in the Hoenn region.
GRAN: Even back then, he was a violent person.
GRAN: He was attacked one day in the boy's bath room by 4 boys.
GRAN: He became so furious and that's when a friend of ours came up with a plan to trap the 4 boys.
GRAN: 3 of them saw right through his plan and the forth one, being the dumbest, accepted the challenge to fight Vaison one on one, at night, at the play ground.
GRAN: His other friends tried to talk him out of it, saying that me, Vaison, some other boy, and the boy that was the leader of our group, were probably gonna ambush him and attack him 4 on 1.
GRAN: They were right.
GRAN: We took 1 turn each, beating him up and Vaison was the last one to fight him and well, lets just say that when it was all said and done, it didn't end well for Kevin.
GRAN: You're the second person to know Vaison since i arrived here and the second that i've talked to about this.
VIVI: (holding her gun in her hands) Why are you going to see Vaison?
VIVI: (holding her gun in her hands) Didn't you just say that he framed you?
GRAN: I want to see if he really did.
VIVI: (holding her gun in her hands) He'll kill you.
GRAN: I'm not scared of murder.
VIVI: (holding her gun in her hands) You're lying.
GRAN: (getting up) Either way, i won't last much longer.
VIVI: (holding her gun in her hands) Why did you bring me here?
GRAN: Perhaps i wanted to be with some one.
VIVI: (holding her gun in her hands) So that's it, huh?
VIVI: (holding her gun in her hands) You selfishly help people, bring them along, and then you go off to die?
Vivi shoots at Gran.
BANG BANG BANG!
Gran dodges and binds her.
Else where, at the Rester Houser, Zet talks to the chef, while presenting a picture of Vivi. All stools are up on the counter except for the corner bar stool.
ZET: (showing the chef a picture of Vivi) Are you sure it was this girl?
CHEF: (sweeping) Yeah!
CHEF: (sweeping) It's been 6 months since i last saw a female in the flesh and 2 years since i saw a little girl.
ZET: (holding a picture of Vivi) I would never wanna live in this town.
CHEF: (sweeping and pointing to a chair) She sat there and was talking to Gran.
CHEF: (sweeping and pointing to a chair) Sola always sat in that same exact seat too.
ZET: (feeling surprised and holding a picture of Vivi) Gran and Sola you say?
CHEF: (sweeping) She suddenly wandered in 2 years ago and disappeared before a month passed.
ZET: (holding a picture of Vivi) What kinda girl was she?
CHEF: (looking right at Zet) When it comes to amazing girls, she was 1 in a million.
Else where, voices, visions, and memories begin in Max's head.
VAISON: (talking in Max's head) I'm the only one that can keep you alive and i'm the only one that can kill you.
MAX: (talking in his own head) I'm only watching a life that i can never get out of.
SOLA: (talking in Max's head) It's like i'm living a lie.
VAISON: (talking in Max's head) Be careful when you're with that girl.
SOLA: (talking in Max's head) All females have dark sides.
MAX: (talking in his own head) When the school year ends, i'm getting out of it all.
MAX: (talking in his own head) Will you come with me?
VAISON: (talking in Max's head) Are you going to betray me?
SOLA: (talking in Max's head) They'll kill you.
VIVI: (talking in Max's vision) Oh, you're finally up.
VIVI: (talking in Max's vision) You've slept too much.
VIVI: (talking in Max's vision) It's been 3 days.
SOLA: (talking in Max's head) Your left eye and thumb and your right eye and thumb look a little different.
MAX: (talking in his own head) My left eye and thumb sees and feels the past and my right eye and thumb sees and feels the present.
Max regains consciousness and a murkrow is standing on his chest.
MAX: (talking to him self and laying on his back) I'm not dead.
MAX: (talking to him self and laying on his back) How bout that.
MAX: (talking and laying on his back) Which way is west?
The murkrow flies away.
MAX: (talking and laying on his back) Thanks a bunch pal.
He feels his wound, pulls out the little sharp dart, and realizes it's not life threatening.
MAX: (talking to him self, holding and looking at the tranquilizer dart, and laying on his back at the same time) Tranquilizer dart, huh?
MAX: (talking to him self, holding and looking at the tranquilizer dart, and laying on his back at the same time) Now they're just making fun of me.
Max slowly gets up.
Else where, at a dark alley, Zet finds the suspicious man Max and Vivi met yesterday.
ZET: Sorry, but can i ask you some thing?
ZET: Where is a blue apartment building called Lando?
MAN: Don't ask me!
MAN: I don't know any thing.
ZET: Oh come on.
MAN: I want nothing to do with foreigners from now on.
MAN: I'm gonna go find an honest job now.
The man tosses him self into a passing garbage truck.
ZET: (talking to him self) What the heck is wrong with the people in this town?
Zet turns his head and sees the blue building.
ZET: There it is.
At Gran's apartment, Zet enters a room and sees an unconscious Vivi, hand cuffed to a chair.
ZET: (shaking her) Hey Hey hey!
ZET: (shaking her) Get it together.
Vivi wakes up.
VIVI: (hand cuffed to a chair) Zet!
ZET: What the heck are you doing here?
ZET: What's all this about?
He walks behind her.
ZET: (looking at Vivi's hands) Seems like you got invited to a kidnapper's apartment.
ZET: (looking at Vivi's hands) He was one of those kind of dudes.
VIVI: (hand cuffed to a chair) What are you saying?
VIVI: (hand cuffed to a chair) Gran isn't like that.
ZET: Hold on.
ZET: Do you mean Max's Gran?
VIVI: (hand cuffed to a chair) The same.
Else where, Max is riding on his bike, searching for Vaison.
MAX: (talking to him self and pedaling on his bike at the same time) He's using a special code.
He thinks back to what Vaison said to him.
[Max's flash back of what Vaison said to him begins]
VAISON: Sola was here in this very town.
[Max's flash back of what Vaison said to him ends]
Max receives a call from Zet. He stops pedaling and picks it up.
ZET: (talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) Hey!
MAX: (talking to Zet on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) Hey!
ZET: (talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) Got any thing?
MAX: (talking to Zet on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) Nothing!
ZET: (talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) I got some thing interesting.
MAX: (talking to Zet on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) Catch them your self.
ZET: (talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) I know about the dude from that code name "Sola".
ZET: (talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) He's a bad dude named Gran.
ZET: (talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) He's an escaped convict and has a hefty bounty reward on his head.
ZET: (talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio) If you catch him, i'll let you back on the team.
Zet hangs up and then Max hangs up.
Else where, Gran calls Vaison.
VAISON: (talking on the phone with Gran) Hello!
VAISON: (talking on the phone with Gran) I'm over head.
VAISON: (talking on the phone with Gran) Come to the roof of the building closest to the sky.
GRAN: (talking on the phone with Vaison) I'll send a very hairy short looking man over.
VAISON: (talking on the phone with Gran) I don't care.
VAISON: (talking on the phone with Gran) Although, i would've liked to see you as well.
They hang up at the same time.
Some where else, Zet is riding on his bike with Vivi riding right behind him. They talk about Max, Sola, food, and money.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Vivi at the same time) You stole food, the safe with our money, and you left a fare well note behind.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Vivi at the same time) Did you leave that message so that we'd come find you?
VIVI: (pedaling and talking to Zet at the same time) You've got to be kidding.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Vivi at the same time) Were you just testing us?
VIVI: (pedaling and talking to Zet at the same time) Why did you come for me?
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Vivi at the same time) I want my money back.
VIVI: (pedaling and talking to Zet at the same time) The safe only had a few hundred dollars in it.
VIVI: (pedaling and talking to Zet at the same time) Give or take a few dollars.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Vivi at the same time) Is that so?
VIVI: (pedaling and talking to Zet at the same time) Dummy!
VIVI: (pedaling and talking to Zet at the same time) So what's all the talk about Sola?
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Vivi at the same time) I don't know exactly.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Vivi at the same time) All i can tell you is that she has some sort of hold on Max.
Else where, on top of a building, Gran, in short men's clothing, stands several yards away from Ling and Vaison. He puts down a bag full of viles of pinky eye substance. Ling approaches Gran and examines a vile with a spectrum device.
LING: (talking, holding, and looking at the device at the same time) It has an X+ ranking.
LING: (talking, holding, and looking at the device at the same time) It's all real.
VAISON: Hand it over to him!
Ling puts down a suit case in front of Gran.
LING: This is the ultra opal that you requested.
VAISON: Please give Gran my regards!
Vaison and Ling begin to walk away.
GRAN: It's really ironic when i think about it.
GRAN: You saved me from that scorpion pokemon back then and yet for some reason, you sold me out.
Vaison stops and then Gran slides the suit case over to Vaison. He shoots at it until it opens up.
BANG BANG BANG!
The shooting reveals an explosive device and the case detonates.
BOOM!
From a distance, Max sees and hears the explosion and bikes toward it.
On the roof of the building, Ling is hurt from the explosion while Vaison managed to dodge it in the nick of time. Gran points his gun at Vaison and the wind from the explosion lifts up his long hoody and reveals his face.
VAISON: (shocked) Gran!
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) Long time no see.
VAISON: What are you up to?
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) You must've given me the music box because you never thought i'd take it apart and examine it?
VAISON: You found the transmitter?
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) Sola was the one who found it.
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) She realized as soon as she heard it, it was a gift from you.
VAISON: What about it?
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) Are you trying to ruin my life again?
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) We fought in that messed up school together.
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) Shoulder to shoulder, we fought together in that miserable battle field of a school named SciTitan.
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) It was you and me against those hateful students, those misunderstanding teachers, and those impatient principals.
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) I looked up to you.
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) I believed in you.
GRAN: (pointing his gun at Vaison) We were comrades.
VAISON: (talking with an angry stoic look on his face) There was never any reason to believe in me.
VAISON: (talking with an angry stoic look on his face) There is no one and nothing to believe in, in this world.
Gran shoots at Vaison and he dodges the bullets.
BANG BANG BANG!
Ling runs in to protect Vaison.
LING: (yelling and running towards Vaison) VAISON, LOOK OUT.
BANG!
Ling is shot dead. From a few yards away, Max witnesses Ling's death while on his bike. Vaison picks up the bag of viles and looks at Ling's dead body.
VAISON: (holding the bag of viles) I've said it before and i'll say it again.
VAISON: (holding the bag of viles) There is no one and nothing to believe in, in this world.
Vaison tosses the bag into his fighter jet, with the pilot waiting to take off. Gran gets on his bike and Max shoots at Vaison before he can get in the jet.
MAX: (yelling, feeling thoroughly pissed off, and holding a gun in each hand) VAISON!
BANG BANG BANG BANG!
Vaison quickly dodges the 4 bullets and takes cover behind a water heater on the roof, near his private jet.
MAX: (feeling thoroughly pissed off and holding a gun in each hand) Ling died to protect a low life sadist like you.
MAX: (feeling thoroughly pissed off and holding a gun in each hand) His life is over because of you.
VAISON: (talking near the jet) He wasn't protecting me.
VAISON: (talking near the jet) Don't you get it already?
VAISON: (talking near the jet) He was protecting the order of the White Dragon syndicate.
Vaison shoots at Max 6 times and he dodges.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!
Gran starts shooting again at Vaison while peddaling on the roof at the same time and Vaison targets him.
VAISON: (talking, hiding behind a water heater, and holding a gun in his hand at the same time) You're in the way.
BANG BANG!
Vaison fires 2 shots at Gran and one of them hits his hair and the other one hits him in his spleen. He starts vomiting blood and his bike steadily loses speed rapidly.
BANG BANG!
Vaison pulls out another gun and fires 2 shots at Max and he dodges both bullets with his meowth like reflexes.
BANG BANG!
Vaison continues to shoot at Max, but he dodges the bullets again and takes cover. Vaison gives up and retreats to his fighter jet and he and the pilot lift off quickly. Suddenly, Vaison hears the music box from inside the bag of pinky eye viles. The music box explodes, destroying the right wing of his private fighter jet. The pilot manages to land on top of a very big White Dragon syndicate air craft, flying near the building. The pilot and Vaison managed to escape with their lives. The very big White Dragon syndicate air craft flies away. Max puts his guns back in his coat and then runs over to Gran's crashed bike. He then finds Gran, lying and bleeding in the snow.
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) Hey!
MAX: (yelling and holding Gran in his arms) HEY!
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) Where is Sola?
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) Where did she go?
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) Do you know her?
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) Yes!
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) Where is she now?
Gran coughs up blood.
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) He must have shot 1 or 2 of your vital organs.
Max takes out his walkie talkie cell phone radio and begins to dial.
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms and continues dialing slowly) I don't know if an ambulance would even come to a place like this.
Gran pushes the walkie talkie cell phone radio away and Max puts it back in his coat.
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) Please put it away!
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) I'm not going to make it any way.
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) Can you lift me up on to my bike?
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) I want to go back to SciTitan.
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) You can't possibly go there in your condition.
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) It would take too long.
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) I won't last long any way.
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) Can you please take me there on your bike!
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) Dying during the voyage would be a good way for me to go.
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) I want to return there 1 more time.
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) I want to be as close as i can be to the bad past that i've defeated.
GRAN: (having trouble breathing) Please grant my last request!
MAX: (holding Gran in his arms) Yes!
Max puts Gran on his bike.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) Even though i got shot and i coughed up some blood, i'm starting to feel a little bit better.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) I get it now.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) You're my old friend Max.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) Long time no see.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) You've grown taller and your hair is a better shade of blue.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) Sola was always talking about you.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) That your 2 eyes and thumbs saw and felt different things and time lines.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) That's what she said.
MAX: What was she doing?
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) In the corner seat of the diner, she always sat there while i wasn't paying attention.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) She always requested the same song and smiled.
GRAN: (having a little trouble breathing) Such a pretty smile.
Max pedals off with Gran siting behind him and holding on to him, off the roof by pedaling into the garage. Max pedals quickly in the direction towards SciTitan, but Gran unfortunately dies a few minutes before Max even gets to the trashed abandoned school. He managed to get Gran there at exactly 5:55 pm and laid his body on the play ground. After Max laid Gran's body on the play ground, he stares at him for a minute or 2 and starts to feel a feeling of emptiness and impassiveness. He salutes the fallen warrior before pedaling off.
Else where and a few hours later, after walking all the way back to his own bike, Max catches up with Zet on his bike.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio at the same time) What do you have?
MAX: (pedaling and talking to Zet on his walkie talkie cell phone radio at the same time) Nothing!
MAX: (pedaling and talking to Zet on his walkie talkie cell phone radio at the same time) Nothing at all.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio at the same time) You're pedaling to slow and getting farther and farther away from me.
MAX: (pedaling and talking to Zet on his walkie talkie cell phone radio at the same time) I'm worn out.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio at the same time) Hurry up then, so you can get some sleep at the camp site.
ZET: (pedaling and talking to Max on his walkie talkie cell phone radio at the same time) We'll be at camp soon, team player.
Zet hangs up and then Max hangs up. He smiles knowing that he still has a place to return too.
Back at camp, Ellie paints Vivi's toe nails purple, by the camp fire.
VIVI: (looking at a magazine) Sola!
ELLIE: (painting Vivi's toe nails purple) What?
VIVI: (looking at a magazine) Oh nothing.
VIVI: (looking at a magazine) Just thinking about some one.
ELLIE: (painting Vivi's toe nails purple) Where did all of you go?
VIVI: (looking at a magazine) We went to a place that looked like a winter wonder land, but didn't feel like one.
ELLIE: (painting Vivi's toe nails purple) How come Ellie got left out?
VIVI: (looking at a magazine) I'll tell you about it some day.
ELLIE: (painting Vivi's toe nails purple) Nah!
ELLIE: (painting Vivi's toe nails purple) It's okay.
Ellie finishes painting Vivi's toe nails purple.
VIVI: (holding a magazine) Oh Ellie.
VIVI: (holding a magazine) Why purple like Gran's pants?
Vivi stares at the stars in the night time sky.
Else where, Running Monk and a child sit by a tent and the 2 spot a shooting star.
CHILD: (looking at the stars) Monk, the star fell.
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the stars) That's no ordinary star my child.
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the stars) That was the tear of a fallen warrior.
CHILD: What's a fallen warrior again?
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the stars) One who has finished his battle on this planet.
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the stars) A pitiful soul that did not have peace in this life.
RUNNING MONK: (looking at the stars) I just hope and pray that his soul is at peace now.
CHILD: (looking at the stars) I have a good feeling he's finally at peace now.
Max lives on every one. As for Gran, at least he's in a better place now. The violent Vaison lives on too. The war between Max and Vaison remains at a stand still. It's a personal war that most grown adults would probably know almost nothing about. With the whole team back together, one can only wonder what the future holds for them, for Sola, and for Vaison. Please type up your reviews for what all of you thought about this rare chapter! Stay curious my friends!