Trapped in the Darkness - Chapter Four
A Pokemon Fanfiction
Hello there! I want to be a nice person and upload this chapter early, because I'm going to be busy all of this weekend with a project I'm doing with YourLocalVoldemort and FluffyToaster. So this is good for you guys. :P
Oh yes, Sapphire is the Champion. Not Ruby. That's all!
DISCLAIMER TIME! :D
Silver: The author owns nothing.
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Red was taken aback at the Magma grunt's words, even though he didn't show it. Was he serious? They were from Hoenn? He glanced at his rival, who looked just as surprised as he was for a second.
Green snorted, crossing his arms, adding, "That won't change anything, jerk,"
The Magma grunt laughed, walking out of the room and up the stairs, the Aqua grunt muttering curses behind his back. Green made sure to glare at them until they were officially gone, hearing the click of the door behind them. Sighing, he spun on his heel, putting his hands on his hips.
"Alright, I need a few explainations," he said, mainly planting his gaze on Silver, who was still enthralled in his glaring contest with Gold. He didn't move, even as Green cleared his throat in irritation. It wasn't until Red grabbed Gold's wrist and scared him out of fright that they broke their gazes.
Green rolled his eyes, but sat down on the ground, motioning for Silver to take a seat in front of him. Red sat beside his rival, his crimson eyes looking up through his raven hair at the red-head.
Silver looked to the right, not comfortable with the attention, but sat down awkwardly in front of the Kanto Champion and his rival with his arms crossed. He opened his mouth to speak, but shut it again tightly like he didn't know what to say or wasn't sure how to say it.
"I... I was given a choice," he said finally, studying the bottom of the cell. Gold, leaning against the wall of the cell, seemed to listen closer after his rival said this.
Green crossed his arms. "Which were?"
Silver blinked, but he sat up straighter. "It was either reclaim my position as a Rocket or I could join my..." he trailed off, his silver eyes roaming from Gold back to the ground before he continued," ... friends, hand over my Pokemon and come down here peacefully."
Green looked suprised.
"So you could have had total power over Team Rocket, but you gave it up to join us?" the Viridian leader asked, raising an eyebrow. Silver nodded, so Green took a chance to stretch his question further. "Why?"
Silver didn't respond vocally, but his eyes quickly fell on Gold, who wasn't paying attention. His expression didn't hold anger, like Green expected, but instead held another that Green quickly identified.
A grin broke out on Green's face. Silver noticed Green chuckling to himself and his eyes widened as they darted to the Viridian leader, his cheeks reddening to match the shade of his hair.
Gold looked up from whatever he was doing and Silver looked in the opposite direction, crossing his arms tightly. The Johto trainer, who had missed the whole exchange, looked startled. "What did I do...?" he asked Red, who didn't answer his question but laughed.
Green got up and moved to see the Hoenn trainers who had just been thrown in the cell, pausing when he saw the boy's face fully. He had ruby-red eyes that resembled Red's, the only difference being Green could tell the difference between the boy's and Red's in a heartbeat. Green noticed that if someone didn't actually look at the white hat that adorned the trainer, someone could actually mistake it for his hair. His forgotten glasses, that had a crack going down the center of the left lense, had been rescued by Crystal before they could have been smashed completely.
Green searched through his brain until a name matched the face of the boy.
"Ruby," he finally stated. "Ruby Birch."
At the mention of his name, Ruby looked up with an annoyed expression, but it immediately dissapeared as he saw Green standing over him.
"H-Holy Mother of Arceus. You're Professor Oak's grandson," he struggled to get out, his eyes wide. Wonder and awe seemed to radiate off of the Hoenn trainer, and it seemed as if he met his greatest idol ever.
Green groaned.
This was the point of going on his Pokemon journey all those years ago: so he could stop hearing that all the damn time. Some people don't know how annoying it was when you heard that. Green snapped out of his thoughts then, suddenly wondering how this kid knew his grandfather in the first place.
"You know Gramps?" he asked, honestly curious. Ruby nodded, and Green started wearing a confused expression. "What was he doing in Hoenn...?" The Viridian leader thought for a minute before he came up with an answer. Sighing, he looked up at the ceiling. "He was probably handing out national 'dexes like free candy again. Dear Arceus, he needs to stop doing that, those aren't cheap pieces of equipment..."
Green started muttering about things under his breath that sounded like a bunch of numbers and curses as he sat down in front of Ruby. Crystal took this opportunity to talk to the boy, smiling softly.
"So, who is this? She seems special to you," she murmured, fixing Sapphire's hair as she slept. Ruby's face reddened and he looked away, a smile creeping up on his face.
Red stiffened as he remembered those exact words being said to him two nights ago. "He seemed special to you, that's all." Feeling heat bloom under his face, he looked in Green's direction before looking away again.
"She's my best friend," Ruby said. He grinned then. "And she's the Champion of Hoenn!" Crystal's face turned excited.
"Really?" She asked. Ruby nodded. Crystal laughed, turning to Gold. "What a small world! Gold here is the Champion of the Johto region! And that kid over there..." she said, pointing in Red's direction, "... is Red, traveling Champion of Kanto!"
Ruby looked overwhelmed, but then wore a mask of thought. Crystal and Green both tilted their heads in confusion.
"Don't you think," Ruby began, "it's just a little strange that the Champions for three regions are here? And we're only the first ones here!"
Green finally got what Ruby was thinking.
"The teams. They must be gathering the champions so that we can't ruin their plans!" Ruby finished, looking up a the others frantically.
"You're wrong."
The others turned to see Silver wearing a dark expression. He laughed humorlessly, repeating, "You're wrong. The reason my father and the others brought you here was because you were the ones who ruined all of the plans they had created before. The Kanto Champion defeated my father, who wanted Pokemon to be used as tools to make money; the Johto Champion defeated the Rocket stragglers, who's plan was the same as before. The Hoenn Champion defeated both Archie, who wanted more sea, and Maxie, who wanted more land. The Sinnoh Champion defeated the Galactic leader Cyrus, who's plan was to rewrite the history of time itself to create a new world only for them. Finally, the Unova Champion defeated the Plasma's King, who's goal was to liberate Pokemon from their trainers. They think that doing this-" he motioned to the cell around the group, "- will prevent the ruin of everything they've strived for. This is their revenge!"
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Ooh boy. Silver knows his shit.
And I plan to introduce the Sinnoh trainers next chapter~
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