"I have forseen that you would ask this question, they all do, so let me explain.
Several have tried where many have failed, becoming a trainer is not about strenght nor friendship for it is all about your will to survive, if you have none you will not succeed.

This does not mean that just wanting to survive will make you succeed, oh no it's far more complicated than that .. but what knowledge you gain if I just told you the answer right now ?"

Sabrina, Saffron City Gym Leader in an interiew with 'Kanto Weekly' (June 28th, 2529)

Chapter Fourteen

Questions without answers

I fell asleep after my quick 'chat' with Gardenia only to be waken up by a frantic Josh that nearly started crying when he saw me and Danny before saying something I couldn't quite hear.

"What ?" I mumbled, yawning slightly.

"I said .." sniff "Have you" sniff "whatched the news ?"

I shook my head, causing another wave of pain to flow through me, Nurse Joy told me didn't break any bones but I might have a sprained ankle and a rather big bruise on the head so I had to stay in bed, not that I minded because a hospital bed vs some random patch of grass ? Hospital bed wins.

"They no .. you have to see it yourself" he turned on the television in front of my bed, Danny groaned in his sleep and turned over but didn't wake up.

A newsreporter was standing in front of what appeared to be a city while various other reporters could be seen around her.

"It's utter chaos here as you can see .. people are being evacuated right now by officials and-" her hand went to her ear "- I just heard that the Champion, Steven Stone himself, has made an appearance near the Slateport City Pokèmon Center and .. –" her hand went to her mouth as her eyes widened "-The individuals that took over the city have released several pokèmon and are .. the Center is on fire now people .. oh my .. "

The woman walked away, eyes still wide and face pale and a male reporter walked in front of the camera.

"My colleauge is unfortunately unable to continue" his voice sounded shaky but the tried to look calm "The Pokèmon Center is on fire but several firefighters are trying to control the fire, and word has reached me that Winona herself is on her way to Slateport per Pidgeot to offer assistance and –" his voice was cut off by a loud bang followed by a raw, primal roar "- Someone has just released a Salamance, friend or foe is unknown and it is .. it's coming our way ! Mark, Evan, we have to run .. now !" the screen turned black and a Slaking was seen sleeping with the text "We are expierencing some techical difficulties so please sit back and wait"

My eyes were wide, as I gripped my sheet hard enough to make my knuckled white.

"Wha .. what happened ?" I managed to say, my voice as shaky as the voice from the television.

"It was a terrorist attack, or so they say .. they took hold of the center first and demanded that they handed over their pokèmon .. one guy with a Gardevoir managed to teleport away and alert the police who in turn alerted Steven Stone .. the Hoenn Champion"
"Yeah .. I think I know him, he's the best of the best in Hoenn right ?"
Josh nodded "And one of the officers that interrogated us came by, they think our crazy man had something to do with this .. "
"They think ?" I repeated, my voice mocking.

"They think Josh, like I thaught that Babies came from a Pelipper or you and your 'I saw Mew on the bus' phase okay, I don't want to hear what they think because no matter what they think Martin is still dead ! Dead Josh, dead !" my voice went hysterical.

The next thing I saw was a not-so-happy Nurse Joy running over to me with a needle in her hand, she forced a smile on her face as she looked at me before pushing me back in my pillows and injecting the needle in my arm.

Everything went blurry and I fell asleep.

I dreamt of fluffy Mareep hopping around me, occasionally shocking me, but still .. then their soft bleeting turned into a crazy, French voice saying "Kill zee children" and I woke up, covered in sweat.

I looked around and saw that Danny's bed was empty, then I fell alseep again .. without needles this time.

When I woke up again I saw Josh sitting in one of the chairs, his face in his hands as he looked to the white carpet on the ground.

"I'm sorry for what I said before" I said, my voice strained "I .. it's just .. Martin and I may not have been the best of friends but still .. we know .. knew .. him and he wasn't some kid we see on the television at home, he's someone we knew .. and liked .. it's hard okay ? It's hard seeing someone you knew lying on the ground without breathing"

Josh just nodded, not saying anything and I continued.

"I mean yeah it's the risk of being a trainer .. but being murdered wasn't supposed to be one of these risk it's-"

My voice was cut off by the sound of the television.

Heavy breathing was heard from behind the camera, the images were blurry and a crack was on the lens as a voice spoke "This is Evan Jones, cameraman for Sinnoh News .. it appears that I'm the only one here .. " his voice was cut off by a primal roar "The Salamance attacked the others .. " the voice paused "They wore an all black suit .. with a yellow R on it .." the voice became hoarse and the camera view became even more blurry "Emma I love .. I .. I wanted to propose .. so sorry .. so-" the voice was cut off again by a blast of purple energy shot towards the camera, the screen became black again before the sleeping Slaking appeared again only to be replaced by a dishelved looking woman that had obviously been crying.

"This is Janet Allwin and I'm here to update you on.. excuse me" she wiped her eyes with a handkerchief "I'm sorry, I'm here to update you on the situation"
She grabbed the papers that were on a table in front of her and started reading "Inhabitants of the city have managed to contact various outsiders, including us and provided us with inside-information from the city itself, this is what happened once the connection was lost with our crew" the woman's voice faltered a bit.

"Steven Stone, the Hoenn champion, and Winona have succesfully managed to either kill or capture the terrorists and they are now being contained in a building heavily guarded by the army and several other Gymleaders" she read her papers again.

"The exact amount of casualties is unknown but it appears this was only an attack aimed at the Center and City self, sadly enough they did aim their attacks at some people including our very own staff .. our condoleances to whoever may or may not have lost someone .. this will be repeated several times in the next few hours untill we have more information"

Josh turned the television off, his eyes were wide with what he had just seen.

"That guy .. a Salamance .. eh ?"

I just shook my head, not believing any of this.

Then Danny ran through the open doorway, "Have you just seen that ?" he said, his normally soft voice sounding surprised and scared.

I nodded, Josh was still looking wide eyed at the screen that repeated the news again.

We sat there for a good hour, watching the news before I convinced Nurse Joy to let me go downstairs to the main area was.

Lots of trainers were scattered around the room, most of them were squashed together on the couches they placed around the tv hanging from one of the walls that was still repeating the news while some of them were sitting on the ground, or on chairs.

Nurse Joy secured a chair for me to sit down on because all my muscles hurt like I just fell off an Onix .. which in this case was the truth.

A group of teens were huddled together comforting 4 others who were crying, they had family in Slateport.

Others were having the same reaction Josh had, just staring and mumbling incoherent words and others looked at the screen with tears in their eyes.

Once again we were surrounded by chaos and the reminder of how cruel people could when given the right resources.

A reminder we didn't need or want.

But then you ask yourself a question, how can someone be so cruel ?
Why do people hurt others ?
When will things go majorly wrong ?

And you know, the answers never seem right.

* Drags herself in front of screen and re-attaches limbs* Hello there people .. it has been a while ... so here it comes ..
I hereby give you my most sincere apologies for not updating faster .. and I don't own Pokèmon .. yet.

This one was late because of a lot of reasons including:
One too-cute-for-his-own-good Puppy called Falco.
Two annyoing guys that are in charge of our hockeyteam saying Tuesday evening "Tomorrow you all have to go back here and hockey just o get in some team you don't want to be in" which made my evening rather unproductional.
A bunch of annoying teachers bombarding me with homework, tests and exams.
And my newest thing .. another story (Not nearly as important as this one but still) it's about pokèmon in OUR world .. and Apples .. might post it soon.
And ofcourse the puppy .. again .. I love him .. he's cute 3
*Coughs* lets get on with the story now ..

Chapter Fourteen, Questions without answers was is a short one made just to introduce my (for now) main villains .. anyone getting the hints I dropped in this chapter .. they help figuring out just who they are .. and I dropped quite a few thinks you have to connect to others from previous chapters *winkwink*
1. Why does Jacob freak ? *Groans* oh come on people .. he's a kid that just nearly got killed, saw a dead friend and fell of an Onix .. give him his freaking-out day please *rollseyes*
2. You are evil with killing that many and well .. everything ! I know I know .. it's the way I like it, and my evil guys don't do pit-digging and Pikachu-stealing ..
3. When will they get back on the road and do funny/stupid things again ? Soon .. soon !

Reviewers:
Omega the Omniscient:
Thank you, I like my line-up of evil too !
And thank you for liking the thing about Josh's sexuality-thing .. Amber will definetly come back .. just like Ed !
Hope always exists but in my case I don't have any hope for (for example) Josh's intelligence or logic, Danny's .. Danny-ness and Jacob's pokèmon .. except Goliath .. he's awesome !
Well here you got Gardenia's reaction explained, she obviously knew about this .. or did she ?
And yes the French villian's name will hereby be ... Pierre ! .. it was either Pierre or Kevin so Pierre quickly won.
Hope you enjoy this one as well !

Remember people .. reviews make me happy .. and make me write faster .. or at least try to !
Next chapter will be on BEFORE next week, I PROMISE you that ! *Goes off to give puppy away to random people, burns books, locks door, quits hockey, sets school on fire* now I can write again ...