Parallel Hearts Chapter 16
Zero couldn't believe what he's seeing... blades are coming out of his arms, he wants to know exactly what they've done to him. He looks up to see that both scientists are unconscious, then ' ' comes back into the room with a smile, "I'm glad you survived... 421."
Zero couldn't help but sigh, is that how they're gonna refer to him now? 421? He doesn't like it, but then again they don't understand him, so he has to stick with a number for a name right now, even though his original name IS a number.
"What happened to the computers?" asks demandingly towards the two scientists with Zero next to him, curious as well.
"When we proceeded with the project, the computer couldn't take anymore and exploded."
wasn't please with this explanation, "that's no good! Project LB data was in that computer," she looks down at the treecko beside her, "so you're saying that this little treecko will be the one and only successful pokemon to go through Project LB?"
The scientists nods at that, "but it is genetic," the female scientist explains further, "when the experiment was a success... it also changed one of his egg groups as well."
Zero was shocked about the information he gets to know, he's glad to hear that they can never do this to another pokemon again, but now he knows this is genetic and one of his egg group has changed... what will happen next?
"Then out with it! What's the replacement egg group?"
The scientists just sighs at 's impatience, "it was changed from Monster to Grass egg group... and his offsprings will always be treeckos that'll know Leaf Blade eventually, but in return they can never evolve," they look at him as well, "along with him."
smiles at the last piece of information, "I think I can go along with this," she looks down at the treecko next to her, "come with me."
walks down the halls with Zero behind her, "you'll be assigned a mate."
This statement makes him glare at her, why should he be told on he falls in love with?
sees his glaring and laughs, "relax, I'm sure you two will get along."
Zero doubts that and looks away, arm-crossed and mad about the situation he's going to be in.
When she stops at a door, she turns around, "this will be your room along with your assigned mate, 418," she says to him, "and tomorrow we'll put you both in training to see how much progress you'll have as Project LB."
Zero listens to the lady's ranting and thinks about the training tomorrow, but what bothers him the most is who exactly is this '418' and what kind of pokemon will she be. The sadist presses a few buttons to make the door open by itself, making Zero surprise on how she does that.
"Your mate is already in there, 421... have fun." She laughs at the last part then pushes him into the room with her foot and closes the door behind him.
Zero looks around and sees that the walls are red, the ground is soft compare to the ones in the halls. He sees a big object in the room and goes to it, it's big and he goes to touch it. The object feels soft and bouncy, "what is this?" He asks himself as he keeps pressing against the mysterious, bouncy object.
"It's call a bed, and it's for sleeping," he jumps a bit from the sudden answer he wasn't expecting, is that the voice of his 'assigned mate'?
He turns to sees a snivy, crossed arm and impatient, "you must be my assigned mate," she looks at him madly, "for the record, I have no interests in you."
Zero just shrugs off the situation, "fine by me, my name is Zero by the way," he hesitates as he asks the next question, "what's yours?"
The snivy just shakes her head, "I don't have a name... they just only refer to me as '418'," the gecko pokemon couldn't help but feel sorry for the snake pokemon.
"Do you want me to give you a name?" He offers kindly to the snivy.
She just looks away, "I don't care, just so long as I leave this hellhole I'll be fine."
Zero sighs at the snivy's attitude, "I can get us out of here... eventually."
This shocks the snivy wide-eyed and turns to him, "how?"
He smiles, "lets just say I have outside help," he looks at the wall and decides to stick himself to it with his hands and feet.
The snivy couldn't believe she was hearing, she can finally get out of this prison? Can she finally be free? This is too good to be true and she knows this.
"Do you still want me to give you a name?"
Her thoughts interrupted by the gecko pokemon climbing the ceiling, "I don't care," she repeats her last answer to that question.
Zero looks at her and thinks of a name, then an idea came to his head, "how about 'Midori'?"
The snivy admittedly likes the name, but she doesn't want to show it, "fine."
Zero jumps down from the ceiling and lands in front of her, "how did you get in here, anyways?"
The now-named Midori just sighs at the memories, "I was born here," she looks at the shock in Zero's face, "the food here is also terrible and there's no way out of here," she was beginning to sob, "I've tried to escape so many damn times... only to go get caught and be put back in this insane room." She wants comfort, so wraps her arms around Zero's neck and pulls him into a soft hug, "I hope you can get me out of here, I don't want to be here anymore."
He could feel the tears hitting his back and returns the hug by wrapping his arms around her waist, "I'll do whatever I can to get you out of here... I promise," he whispers, "now lets go to sleep, we have a big day tomorrow and I don't want you to be tired in the middle of it."
Midori agrees to this... if he promise to get her out of here, she can trust him. She climbs into the bed and pats it to gesture Zero to climb on it, he does and falls asleep almost immediately when his side touches the bed.
She couldn't help but giggle at that, "I hope you can keep your promise... I'm putting all my hopes and dreams for you," with that said, she falls asleep as well.
Morning came too early for them as a loud speaker woke them up, "WAKE UP!"
Zero jumps off the bed from the sudden wake up call and looks around to see what that was, while Midori just rubs her eyes to get the sleep from her eyes.
Then comes into the room and look at them for a moment, "starting to get along already?" She asks them as they look at her with a confusion, "never mind, time for training," she gestures them to come with her, "you're familiar with this training program, 418." Midori just looks at her as they exit the room and goes down the halls, making to look at her, "the training robot," she says in a sadistic smile.
Midori was shocked to do this training program again so suddenly, especially with a pokemon that just joined, who has no idea what's going on
"What's the training robot?"
She sighs at the question, "the training robot is one of the hardest training program in this district," she explains, "there are ten levels, one much more dangerous than the last."
She looks at Zero to see him with a determined face, "I'll try my best," she sighs at his comment as he doesn't know HOW dangerous each levels are. She heard that an experimented rattata died by his limbs being torn apart at once. She actually believe that rumor is true, considering that the robot almost killed her the last time she fought it.
When they reach a certain room labelled 'training robot', turns around and looks at them, "good luck to the both you... especially you, 418." She presses the button to open the door, allowing them to enter the room.
The room was a big white room, there was nothing in there but a window in a higher level and they look to see more humans along with shortly after. There was one particular human that has a much more sinistering look as he pets the persian on his lap, "so this is the successful Project LB, huh?"
The scientists from yesterday are also there with their heads bowed for tremendous amount of respect, "yes, Master Giovanni, sir," they said in unison.
He smiles at the two pokemon in the room he's looking at, "lets get this program started then." There's a nob labled 'Robot Level' with all ten levels and Giovanni twists it to level one.
The room starts to turn red for the two of them as they get prepared to battle whatever's coming. The room floor in front of them opens and coming out of it was a pillar, it has eight sword-like arms, it strikes at them almost immediately. The two jumps in different directions to dodge the massive striking arm, making it strike the floor below them instead.
Zero takes this opportunity to land and run up the arm, "Leaf Blade," and focuses to get one of the blades to get out of his right arm. He doesn't know why, but he feels like he knows how to specificly summon them out at will, it just flowed into his head. He strikes the Robot with his bladed arm, but another robotic arm targets him.
"Zero, look out!" Midori yells from the distance.
He jumps out of the way when the arm was about to hit with shear force, it hits the other arm he was standing on and breaks it instead.
Giovanni is actually impressed by the little treecko's progress, he actually manages to break one of the arms with hardly any effort at all, "time to raise the level," he says as he twists the nob to level two.
The machine suddenly goes faster and strikes Zero in mid-air with one of the other arms. He lands on his feet, impressed about the sudden change in motion, "what happened?"
Midori jumps next to him, "the level was raised, it gets more agile and dangerous when that happens," she explains, "Vine Whip!" Vines starts to grow out of her neck as she attempts to strike at the robot, it blocks with it's massive arm... only to be wrap and pulled by her.
"Go, strike it again," Zero nods and charges at it with his Leaf Blade still out of his right arm, "Leaf Blade!" He grows the other massive blade out of his left arm and puts his arms stacked together to give a more effective strike at the robot. He succeeds and breaks part of the arm that Midori was holding in the process.
"Time to raise the level," Giovanni says and twists the nob to level three.
As soon as he was in the air, the other six arms starts to point at him looking to strike at him. He attempts to block them with his bladed arms and manages to block all of them at once, seeing Midori charging at the robot.
"Leaf Blade," Her tail starts to glow green as she spins in the air and strike at it with massive amount of power.
"Raise the level," Giovanni says and twists the nob to level four. His persian purring from the petting its recieving and the entertainment from watching the struggle between the two pokemon below.
The arms that Zero was blocking suddenly pushes him with great force against the wall behind him. He groans in pain as the arms retreats back to the robot, "Bullet Seed," he shoots energy bullets from his mouth, which blocks with all the remaining arms.
He sees Midori taking the opportunity once more, "Leaf Storm," she starts to spin while leaves starts to form around her. She aims the energy leaves at the robot and manages to break part of the giant robot, and another arm in the process.
Giovanni says nothing this time and twists the nob to level seven.
"Sir, that's too dangerous!" One of the scientists says, concerned about the well-being of the two pokemon below.
"If this experiment is as successful as you say it is... it can survive though this," Giovanni looks at the two pokemon to see how they're doing, petting his persian as he watches.
The arms are aiming specificly at Midori as she jumps around to dodge the sudden increase in speed and power. One of them manages to hit her in the head, she falls to the ground as the other four goes straight at her.
Zero comes between her and the arms and blocks two with each bladed arms, "Midori, get one of the arms," he orders her.
She sees the arm he was talking about and stands back up, "Leaf Blade!" She charge her tail with energy and slice the arm at the side, making it break as she hit the actual robot in the process. It begins to fall apart and Midori was happy, because she never been in this part of the level before.
Without anything to say at all, he twists the nob pass level ten, breaking both the nob and setting itself in the process. Everyone were in complete shock at what he just did, even they don't know what will happen next. They truly have a bad feeling about this, but Giovanni doesn't seem to mind at all what will happen. It's do-or-die time for the two of them now.
As though it was angry from the attack it was getting, the robot turns red and the entire room begins to darken from all the electricity going through to it. It uses the remaining four arms and slashes all over the place as if it was going insane.
"Zero... I don't know what's going on," Midori ducks to avoid the arm as it crashes through the wall.
"Don't worry, I can take care of this thing," Zero shouts back as he runs up towards the mechanical body with tremendous speed. "Quick Attack!" As though it was a signal, the arms points straight at him, then attacks in different timing. He changes pace in order to avoid the fast moving attacks, "Leaf Blade," and slashes the robot.
Midori couldn't believe what she's seeing... that treecko has great speed and reflex abilities. Her thoughts has change when the arms swats him and passes her, hitting against the wall behind her. This level is far too difficult for them and she needs to find a way to destroy the programmed machine for good. She feel the fear eating her when the arms starts going after both her and Zero now... he protected her, now it's time for her to return the favor. But can she do it? The snivy just has to try.
"Leaf Storm," she begins spin around as the leaves starts to spiral around her, but she didn't launch them this time because she needed something to shield them.
As Zero regain his composure after being hit like that, he watches as the arms were being blocked by a storm of leaves, taking this opportunity he goes for the pillar machine monster with another tremendous amount of speed, "Quick Attack!"
The arms pulls back quickly and aims at Zero, "Bullet Seed," and shoots seed-shaped energy from his mouth, breaking another arm in the process. The last three aims at him, like as though it was desperate to win, Zero moves to the right to avoid the first, then left to avoid another, and blocked the last one with his still bladed arm, "NOW MIDORI!" The treecko shouts at the top of his lungs.
Midori doesn't know what he was talking about, but aims the remaining energy leaves towards the pillar, training robot. It hits and breaks apart the entire robot and the remaining arms at once, causing an explosion and pieces to fall apart.
Giovanni is actually very pleased with the results the scientists put in this project, "it seems your little project saved you from being fired." He then turns to , "I'm expecting high-hopes for this one... keep training him like this."
Who nods in understanding. He gets up and walks out the door with the persian still in hand, "I'll be back for the results... if I like him, I'll let him have the honor to join my pokemon team," with that being said, he walks off.
Midori fell on her tail as she breathes heavely from all that experience. Zero walks up to her and offers a hand... for a moment the lights were shining off towards him, making him look more heroic than he already is.
She couldn't help but blush at the smile Zero was giving her, "thanks for the help, I couldn't have done it without you," he says and pulls her up as she accept the offer, "I hope the training is less dangerous than this."
"...however the training was even harder than that as time there passes. We've made new friends in the facility and I promised them freedom if they join our team," Zero says as he finishes the story to the listening team, "well time to sleep, g' night everybody."
With that, everyone found their own spot to sleep and let themselves be taken to dreamland.
