Grab on to your tissues and weapons because it's time for another chapter of Broken! The news will shock you all.
Rain started to pour as Red finally reaches the lab. He looks up at the building as he inhaled a breath and exhaled; he then fixes his hat and walked in. Red saw the professor sitting down on the desk with a lamp lit up next to him and it seems that the professor is focusing on writing a letter, which would explain why he didn't notice Red coming in.
"Professor?" Red calls out, the scientist looks up and was shock on who he just saw arriving at his lab.
"R-Red!?" Professor Oak yelled out in surprise as he got off of the desk and walked towards Red.
"Yes professor, it's me." Red simply said. Professor Oak immediately grabbed onto Red's hand and shook it causing Red to almost tumble over.
"My dear boy, you've finally came down from that cursed mountain!" Professor Oak cried out in glee. Red simply nodded his head.
"Come, come my boy, we have so much to discuss." Professor Oak said as he walks back to his desk. Red followed him.
Leaf walks into Red's mom room while scanning the area. She sighed and sat on the edge of the bed and noticed something was sticking out of the side of the bed. Her face was puzzle when she sees a white envelope sticking out of the bed.
"Grab a chair my boy and tell me what had happen to you." Professor Oak said with a smile. Red shook his head.
"No thanks sir, I'd rather stand." Red said while putting his hands in his pockets. The scientist simply nodded his head.
"My dear boy, I'm sorry about your mother, she was a great woman, and the moment I found her dead, I was awestruck." Professor Oak said sadly. Red only nods his head.
Leaf pulls the white envelop out of the bed and examined it. It was blank, but there was something inside. Leaf's not the type to fiddle with such private secrecy, but she was curious. She started to open it.
"Professor Oak…Ethan is…dead." Red said with a straight face. Professor Oak nearly fell off his chair as he immediately got up.
"What!? How!?" Professor Oak yelled out. Red shook his head.
"Before I answer that professor, I would like you to answer a few questions.
"What…are you saying Red? Professor Oak said in bewilderment.
"Please…professor." Red calmly said. Professor Oak sat back down on his chair and sighed. Red folds his arms and eyed on him.
"Professor…how exactly did my mother died?" Red questioned. Professor Oak raised an eyebrow.
"Red, I don't know what you're-" Professor Oak was cut off when Red put his hand up, telling him to stop talking.
"Answer me." Red demanded. Professor Oak cracks his knuckles as he looked up to the upper left hand corner of his eyes.
"She was poisoned when I arrived after work around five o' clock. I entered her room and there was an Arbok poison capsule beside her bed. The killer most likely broke into the house and poisoned her somehow." Professor Oak calmly answered. Red raised an eyebrow as he starts pacing around back and forth, eyeing at the professor with suspicions.
"Are you telling the truth?" Red questioned as he stopped walking back and forth. Professor Oak was awestruck by Red's brash behavior, how dare he!
"Red, what the hell are you implying?" Professor Oak questioned as he stood up and placed his hands on the table. Red shook his head.
Leaf tore the white envelop and pulled out its contents. It was a letter, written by Red's mother; she flipped the letter over to the side, but it was empty, then she turned the letter back to its position and started to read.
"The story doesn't add up professor, in the history of Pallet Town, shows that there hasn't been a killer in the last hundred years. If the killer was a burglar, why didn't he take anything from the house?" Red questioned further as he glares at the now nervous professor. Professor Oak clenches his teeth and hands as sweat bead was forming on his head.
"Furthermore, why did the killer targeted that house, there wasn't anything valuable to steal and killing my mother without a motivated reason?" Red continued on with his pursuit, as he leans against nearby machinery.
"Perhaps the killer is a lunatic patient that got loose." Professor Oak tries to comment back. Red shook his head.
"I listened to the Lavender Town Radio Tower after I became champion every day; there weren't any news that said anything of that sort." Red replied back.
"Then, who do you suspect the killer to be?" Professor Oak questioned as he looks at Red nervously. Red clears his throat.
"Someone who was close to my family, someone who Blue and I know best, and that someone who always come over at work when I'm at Mt. Silver." Red simply said.
Leaf's eyes widen in horror as she drops the letter down and ran out of the house towards the lab.
"Red!" Leaf cries out in the night sky as the rain poured harder on her.
Professor Oak just shook his head while clenching his hands tightly.
"Professor…you killed my mother…and made the Harvester…why?" Red finally said. Professor Oak sat down in silence.
Red reached down into his back pocket and threw the red device on the table as it clangs against the desk. Professor Oak looks at the device as his eyes widen, it's Blue's Pokedex.
"It all makes sense now…Blue told me you've created the Harvester when he accidently saw you making it in the lab. You're the only person to come visit my mother, the professors all over the regions are all affiliated with the Pokemon League, and you are the only one that allows permission for entrée to Mt. Silver. Ethan's not the only one who've died…Blue too, your own grandson died by the hands of Lance!" Red shouted as he lunges towards the professor and pulled onto his collars, looking at him in the eyes with hatred and anger. Professor Oak simply smiled.
"That's not all, you're one of the people who've raped Leaf, isn't that right!?" Red shouted as he punched the professor across the face. Professor Oak looks back at Red with a sly grin.
"Ah yes, Leaf…she was delicious…even when we drugged her, she doesn't recognize who we were. An old man needs to satisfy his desire, yes?" Professor Oak simply said with a sly smile. That was it; Red grabbed a nearby pen and stabbed the pen into Oak's left hand, leaving trails of blood dripping on the floor. Oak yells out in pain, but was silence once Red punched him across the face.
"The question remains…why are you doing this!?" Red shouted while glaring at him. Oak smiled deviously.
"Well Red…why don't you take a seat?" Professor Oak exclaimed as his right hand quickly reached under the table and pulled a trigger.
"Red…RED!" Leaf cries out as he runs faster towards the lab when she heard the blast of the gunshot being fired.
"Ahhh! Fuck!" Red yelled out in pain when the bullet went through his right leg and he fell down clutching onto his leg.
"Do you really want to know Red? What is the most valuable thing in the world? Money. The lab doesn't fund itself you know." Professor Oak grins as he pulled the pen out of his hand and aimed his gun at the injured Red. Red could only glare.
"I've created the Harvester for that same purpose, money. I created the weapon; the Pokemon League provides the money. " Professor Oak said as he grins down at Red.
"Then…the Pokedexes are…" Red quietly said as he realized the horrible truth of the Pokedexes true intentions. Professor Oak laughs out loud.
"Kids and young teenagers are extremely gullible, they believe everything an adult would say. Those Pokedexes that I gave to you, Blue, and Leaf, gave me the information I needed to create the Harvester. IT was even more useful when you trainers catch them, giving me even more information than before!" Professor Oak laughs as he looked down at Red. Red glares in full hatred, everything was caused by this man, and they've all been fooled.
"In fact, I should be the one to thank you Red, you've succeeded on catching over one hundred and fifty pokemon in less than two months and became the master of pokemon! Lance was a fool for toying with you." Professor Oak simply said. Red started to crawl towards the door with Professor Oak trailing behind.
"Blue…my own grandson…was such a failure…he deserved such a miserable death." Professor Oak coldly said. Red stopped crawling as his hands started to tremble.
"As for your mother…she knew too much and I suspected it. So I planted Arbok poision pills in her drink. This was not Lance's orders, but my own. I suspected Ethan's the one that told you about your mother?" Professor Oak said while still pointing the gun behind Red's head. Red was in silence, but started trembling, and gritted his teeth together.
"Don't you think the Harvester is a wonderful creation? We will no longer need pokemon as companions, but as enemies, the human race should be the dominant species! The Harvester is the future of humanity!" Professor Oak yelled out as he laughed. Red didn't say anything, but was disgusted on what he's hearing.
Professor Oak pulled out a cell phone and pressed on one of the button for speed dial. It ranged once until someone picked up on the other side. Professor Oak cleared his throat and spoke up.
"Send in the team and pick up the boy named Red and I believe there's a girl here too named Leaf, she always wears a white hat, take them both." Professor Oak shuts the phone off and looked back at Red.
"I'm sending in reinforcements, you're going back to Mt. Silver and Leaf will...hehe…she'll be in our custody." Oak smiled deviously. Red glares at him as he tries to stand up, but was knocked down by the professor.
"Then…what happen to everyone here in Pallet Town?" Red weakly asked. Professor Oak smiled and shook his head.
"They're sent away, fooling everyone that there's a plague here coming soon, and I was left here to supposedly solve the problem." Professor Oak said. Red shook his head.
"Now be a good boy Red and-argh!" Professor Oak was suddenly caught off guard when a dagger plunged behind him as he gasps in pain, and his eyes widen. Red was surprised too as he saw the dagger going through him and then pulled out as blood trailed down the white lab coat. The professor fell on the ground, dead. The person who stabbed him from behind was none other than Leaf.
"Red…thank goodness you're still alive!" Leaf cried in joy as she hugged the fallen boy. Red was still surprised, but smiled as he returned the hug.
"Oh god…can you stand up?" Leaf questioned. Red nods his head as he slowly stood up with Leaf supporting him.
"Leaf…how did you know, and how did you sneak around?" Red questioned as they walk towards the exit. Leaf smiled at him.
"There was a letter underneath your mother's bed that warned about the professor and his schemes. It seems like she knew about him and wrote a letter in case something happened to her, hoping that someone else would find it. Luckily the back door of the lab was unlocked and I crept in slowly, but carefully." Leaf said with a smile. Red chuckled, that's his Leaf.
Surprisingly the professor opened his eyes weakly as he saw the young couple walking towards the door happily. This was his chance; Professor Oak slowly pulled the gun towards him and took aim. Leaf heard the gun scraping against the floor as she turns her head, and her face fell into horror. Red doesn't know as he laughed when Leaf told him a joke.
"Die Red!" Professor Oak yelled out. Leaf immediately reacted.
"Red look out!" Leaf yelled as she pushed herself against Red.
*BANG!* the gun fired and it hit Leaf on her waist, near her stomach.
Her body collapse against Red as they both hit the ground. Red was shock and stunned on what he had just witness; Leaf's been shot.
"Leaf…?" Red quietly whispered as her body laid on top of him with her long brown hair scattered across the floor and Red's face. Red reached his boiling point as he grabbed Leaf's dagger and glared at Professor Oak with his eyes redder than ever before. The professor was quickly trying to reload his two shot pistol.
"OAK!" Red shouted as he miraculously ran towards the injured professor with a damaged leg. Just when Professor Oak finished his reload, Red stabbed him on his head, instantly killing him. Red didn't stop there, he repeatedly stab the already dead man many times as blood flew and scattered all over the floor and wall. Red finally stopped as he digs the dagger inside of the dead professor's head, leaving it inside of him. Red began sobbing as he ran towards Leaf's side and held her against his arms. Leaf slowly opened her eyes with tears cascaded down her face.
"Red…you're safe…" Leaf weakly said as she raised a hand to touch his face. Red held onto her hand tightly, afraid to let go.
"Leaf…oh god…please…" Red begged and sobbed as he held onto her tightly. Leaf's lips trembled as she looks at Red's sadden face. She doesn't want to see him like this. She doesn't want to die.
"Red…I don't…want to die…please Red…I love you…" Leaf cried as more tears were released. Red cried harder as he looked at the wound, it was a deep hole with blood spilling out, she's slowly bleeding out and with no one in Pallet Town, she could die.
"Red…I don't want to die…I don't want to die…I want to stay here with you…please Red…I love you…" Leaf weakly begged as she sobbed harder. Red brought her into a tight embrace, scared, both of them were. Leaf whimpers against his neck and Red held onto her tightly.
"I…promise Leaf…everything's going to be okay. Everything's…going to be…okay…" Red cried harder, almost choking in the sobs. Leaf cried too, as he yelped a pain, holding onto Red for dear life.
There were noises outside; it must be the soldiers Professor Oak called. 'It's over…' Red thought as he shuts his eyes tightly holding onto Leaf as she trembles against his embrace. The door swing open as two figures walked into the room.
Yes, everything will be okay…