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The sound of Ethan's last breath made everyone stood still as if time itself stopped. Lance whipped away the blood on the grass as he grins at the dead boy. Lance had finished off Ethan; he then kicks the boy's body aside leaving the trainers gasping in horror. He then looks at the four remaining trainers and grins. The girl with brown curve pigtails and a white hat named Lyra had tears in her eyes widen in horror and shock as she could not stop crying as she stares at the lifeless form of Ethan. Red, the boy in red clothes, clenches his fists and starts pounding on the ground with tears in his eyes cursing everything that just happened. The girl another white hat named Leaf had tears on her eyes too as she looks at Ethan's body cursing herself for bringing him along this whole hell. A red headed boy named Silver gritted his teeth together, eyes shut, and hands tightly shut, he didn't say a word.
"Ethan…?" The girl named Lyra as she continues to stare at the body. She had just witness the death of her best friend, and most importantly, her loved one. She never did respond to his actions when he said "I love you." Those words made her paralyzed as she felt happy, but yet sad at the same time when he said those three words. The body of Ethan didn't respond as he just lay down on his side.
"This…this…has to be a sick…dream right, or a joke?" Lyra dumbfounded called as she looks around looking for a response from one of her friends. Her friends did not respond as they fell silent and cried their eyes out. Lance laughs at Lyra's sentimental statement.
"This…this has to be a joke!" It's not funny! Ethan wouldn't die like that! Ethan!" Lyra cries as she pushes Karen off of her and ran to Ethan's body. Karen pushes herself back up and aimed her gun at Lyra's back, but was stopped by Lance as he shook his head; she lowers her gun. Lyra kneels down at Ethan's body and was shaking him, hoping he's just past out or asleep.
"Ethan! Don't leave me like this! Y-You promised! You promised we'll keep traveling together! You promised to always make me smile!" Y-You even promised…" Lyra stops shaking the body as she breaks down and tremble, at the same time sobbed against his chest. She hits his chest as she was filled with mixed negative emotions. Finally she muttered, "You promised...that we'll be…the best…the best couple in New Bark Town…even though it was a joke…I-I believed in it." Those final words made Lyra cried harder.
Her friends, Leaf, Red, and Silver could only stare at Lyra breaking down as they shut their eyes in pity. "Take her back to the Pokemon League, and leave her pokemons here; I have a plan." Lance ordered as he smiles deviously. Two soldiers grabs her, but Lyra didn't give up without a fight, she punch, bit, scratch, and kick them while struggling against their arms as they pull her away from the dead body.
"Let me go! Ethan! Just leave me here! I want to be here with him! Ethan!" Lyra shouted. One of the soldiers pulled out a needle that has a blue liquid in the glass tube, he injects the needle in her neck and poured the fluid inside her. Lyra slowly stops retaliating as she felt weak, tired and sleepy; she fell on the ground and muttered her final word, "Ethan." The soldiers scavenge through her bags and found six pokeballs and pulled her away. Red, Leaf, and Silver could only stare as they worry on what's going to happen to her. Lance turns to the injured Red as he kneels down. Red looks up at him and spit at him. Lance wipes away the spit from his cheeks with a napkin from his pocket and he kicked Red's face. Leaf struggles, but was pulled away. Red looked look back up and to his horror he saw Lance's gun pointing at Red's face. Red froze in fear as he saw the .357 magnum pointing straight at him.
"Now Red…you have defeated me and humiliated me, I should kill you here and get it over with!" Lance bellows as Red closes his eyes waiting for the shot to be fired.
"NO! Red! Don't do it Lance! Please don't!" Leaf cries out as she stares down at Red. Lance looks at her and chuckles. He put the gun away cracked a smile.
"I won't kill your boyfriend Leaf, at least, not yet." Lance then looks down at Red who peek an eye open at Lance. "I want to break him from the inside first, losing his will to fight." Lance simply stated.
"You're a coward Lance!" Silver shouted out to Lance. Lane looks back at Silver who simply nods his head in agreement.
"Perhaps I am, but let's not forget who ran away from whom, and what he could have received if he didn't." Silver just glares at him.
"Leave them out of this Lance! It's me that you wanted right? J-Just let them go!" Red shouted. Lance looks back at Red and responded back, "Things have changed; your precious Leaf have invaded our confidential room, stealing our files, Silver is a traitor, Ethan and Lyra have just became a part of this whole party that shouldn't have been involved in. It will be most unwise if I didn't take any actions." Lance smiled confidently. He stood up and walked towards Karen and whispered in her ear. She smiles and nods; she took off.
"What's…going on?" Leaf weakly asks. Lance turns and responded back, "You'll see."
A few moments later, Karen came back with a few more soldiers carrying a box full of purple vials and a metal barrel.
"Take their pokemons!" Lance orders the soldiers. Some of the soldiers went to Ethan's body and snatch all six of his pokeballs.
"D-Don't you dare!" Red shouted, but he was butted by the gun and silenced him. The soldiers reach around his waist and found his pokeballs from his belt; they gathered all six of them and placed them on top of the box cover. The other soldiers went for Leaf and Silver as they try to struggle free, but couldn't fight them off. They found Silvers pokeballs and Leaf's lend ball from Ethan. They all place the ball on top of the box crate.
"What…what are you going to do with them?" Red asks, afraid to know the truth. Lance ignored him as he grabs one of the purple vial in one hand and Red's pokeball in the other.
"Red, how will you feel, if you lost your pokemons?" Lance questions Red. Red didn't dare answer Lance so he stayed quiet. Lance chuckled as he smiled, "Because you're about to witness it." Lance smiled deviously as he pours the purple liquid on the ball. Nothing happened at first until the ball started to tilt around. The ball tilted faster and faster until the ball fell down from Lance's hand as it violently shakes around. Finally the ball slowly stops moving and it stayed still.
"What just happened?" Leaf asks as she felt something bad just happened. Lance looks at the three trainers and smiled.
"It's dead." Lance simply stated. Red, Leaf, and Silver's eyes widen in horror on the revelation. "The vial I just poured on the ball is a type of acid that burns through the ball and slowly, but painfully eats the pokemon trapped inside the ball. It eats until the pokemon is no more." Lance laughs. Red, Leaf, Silver were enraged as they try to struggle again.
"You fucking sick bastard!" Red yelled at Lance. Lance laughs as he shrugs his shoulders. He then turns back to what he's doing.
"Stop this! This is too much!" Leaf cries out more tears.
"All of these pokemons have humiliated me, defeated me, and haunted me in my dreams. THEY TOO MUST BE KILLED!" Lance bellowed as he grabs another vial and poured it on the next ball. Lance drops the ball and grabs another one.
"Stop this! Please stop! They don't deserve this!" Red shouted as he tries to crawl. The nearby soldier kkicks Red's chest and halted him. Leaf can only stare in horror, as fresh new tears spilled more when the balls stopped moving. Lance laughs maniacally as he kept pouring the purple content on the next ball. Silver too is in tears as he finally realizes that he never truly appreciated what his pokemons done for him. They were always there for him and all he did was call them weak, poor, and usless whenever he lost a fight against Ethan. He regrets it all, he regrets the day he stole a pokemon from Professor Elm's lab that day. He recalled the event after Ethan's escape with Leaf; he's the one who found Lance stuck in the cellar, telling him that he'll let Silver have one of the strongest pokemon ever if he were to be free. Silver didn't think through and obeyed, but before Lance give Silver the pokemon, he told Silver to track down Ethan and Leaf to uncover any secrets and ulterior motives. Silver agrees and found Ethan and Leaf in the café the next following day, talking about Mt. Silver and a trainer named Red. He heard them when he was passing by in the café and sat down next to one of the booth closest to them. He told Lance about their motives and gave Silver the pokemon. Before Silver could reach it, he recalls the friendship he had made with Ethan and that he had betray it. Silver didn't take the ball, but told Lance not to interfere once he reaches Ethan, but he lied and the plan back fires and he regrets it all.
"I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…" Silver whispered to himself as he started crying. Lance laughed and he kept pouring the vial on the ball which shakes around and stop at one point. Some balls on the floor kept shaking; soon to be dead.
"Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur, Lapras, Snorlax, and…Pikachu…I'm so sorry." Red cries against the ground.
"Was this it? Did Lance do these kinds of things to her pokemons when he heard that they were to be executed in Lavender Town?" Leaf whispered to herself. She closes her eyes and shook her head in disgust, she wanted everything to stop.
It was down to two balls left and Lance poured the last two vials on both of them. They shook, they slow down and they stopped. Lance grabbed one of the ball from the ground and drops it down in a metal barrel. Few seconds later, Lance scoop the ball back out with a metal claw, the ball itself transformed into a white frosted ball that is about to break if thrown.
"Hey Red…" Lance called out to him. Red slowly looks up at Lance; his eyes redder than ever. Lance threw the ball on the ground and it shattered it a million pieces. Red, Leaf, and Silver stared in horror.
"Liquid nitrogen; I froze the ball and shatter it, just like your soul Red." Lance smiled at Red who couldn't say anything else. One by one, the balls enter the barrel and taken out a few seconds later only to be shattered by being thrown. Red closes his eyes and put his hands on his ears, but he could still hear the shattering ball and imagined it being a million pieces. All of the balls are destroyed.
"Take them back to the Pokemon League, I want to personally take care of Red with my new experiment. Oh and one more thing, make sure our guests get their proper suites." Lance orders the soldiers who nodded. They took Silver away without resisting to fight back. The soldiers holding Leaf tries to move her, but she struggles; knowing full well what will happen to her if she went back. The other soldiers carried Ethan's dead body and walked back.
"NO! I'm not going back in there!" Leaf cried out. Red perks his head out hearing Leaf's screams. "Leaf! Don't hurt her!" Red calls out as he mustered all of his strength to stand; ignoring the bleeding leg. Red punches the nearby soldier as he limps towards her, but Red was caught by the other soldiers. He reaches his arm towards Leaf calling out her name. She sees this and she too reaches her hands out.
"Red!" Leaf cries out with their index fingers almost touching each other.
"Oh shut up!" Karen pulls out her pistol and shot Red in the stomach. Red's eyes widen as he felt a sharp sensation going into his body. He fell on the ground and everything went black.
"Red…?" Leaf's eyes widen as a horrible sensation was going around her heart. More tears were coming out of her eyes.
"Karen! Why'd you do that!? Lance shouted at her. Karen shrugs and moved passed Lance. Lance looks down at Red and whispered towards the nearest soldier who nods his head.
"RED NO! You can't be…no…no! You can't! I love you Red…so please…don't leave me…I can't…" Leaf couldn't finish her words as she sobs uncontrollably. She shouted up in the air as loud as she could.
"RED!"
Little did they all know, someone else was watching the whole event.