Location: URP aircraft carrier Blastoise
"Do you have any idea, how pissed off the President is?" General Redfern almost shouted.
"Yes sir," Gary and I said in unison, both standing at attention.
"You were told to capture that prison and set up a hard piont for an invasion. Instead you had to retreat all the way back to this ship!"
"To be fair sir," Gary said. "The ASHR force that was closing in on us, outnumbered us three to one. If we hadn't retreated, many of the unarmed prisoners would have been killed; along with all of my men. Retreating was our only option."
"That may be, but this failed act has given us more trouble then we had before. The Orange Islands Federation is seriously thinking about giving its support to the ASHR."
"But sir," I stepped forwad. "The OIF is neutral in the war."
"Thats what they want everyone to think, but thats not completely true. Intel believes that they have been secretly supporting the ASHR. Now that the whole world know about our failed invasion, the ASHR is calling it "continued URP aggresion". If we have to fight the OIF and ASHR, we could loose this war."
"What do you want us to do?" I asked.
"Nothing now. I'm waiting for word from President Croby. Till then, you're dismissed."
"Sir." Gary and me saluted and walked out the room.
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We walked down the hallway side by side, but parted as a team of security Magnemite floated past us.
"So you talked to Dawn." Gary said, breaking the silence.
"Mhmm."
"How is she doing?"
"Well, she doesn't hold the URP in high regards."
"Who can blame her? We did kinda capture her town."
"For like fifteen minutes."
"You know, she asked me a question that I didn't know how to answer exactly."
"What was it?"
"She asked me why I was a soldier, why was I fighting."
"And you didn't know how to answer that?" Gary looked at me with disbalief.
"No."
"You and I are soldiers, because thats who we are. Thats all we can be."
"We were pokemon trainers once, we had a future."
"Thats was then, this is now. Half of my pokemon were sent of and killed. The rest I haven't hear from in years. You know that several of your pokemon are K.I.A. and probaly Pikachu too."
He didn't have time to react before I punched him in the stomach. He wrapped his arms around his midsection and fell on his knees.
"You don't know that!" I yelled bearing down at him.
Gary coughed and slowly stood up. "Sorry." he said in a low tone.
I turned around and stormed off.
So what if Pikachu has been listed as M.I.A. for two years, it doesn't mean he's dead.
I walked down the hall and up the stairs to the deck. I looked out across the deck at the crewman and Pokemon at work. Machoke and Machop were doing excircises with the soldiers. Aircraft and flying Pokemon flew over head.
I thought back to Dawn's question and Gary's answer. Was Gary right? Was being a soldier all I could be in life?"
A/N: Sorry guys, I have to cut this chapter short. I'm very busy, and I just wanted to give you guys something to read. BTW I have a poll on my profile for you guys to checkout. Later.