Last of The Masters.
A Pokemon Legend Unveiled to the public.
Disclaimer: Pokemon doesn't belong to me. If I did, I would've made it so that Ash had grown to at least 14 by now (or at least revealed his father)
Chapter Five: Awaken
The beeping of the machine next to his bed was the only thing that Red could really focus on.
He tried to get a feel of the atmosphere, he tried to move his body, but nothing was co-operating with him. He tried whistling in different tones and depths but none of the pokemon he allows to stay out of their pokeballs were attending to their summons. He tried to reach for his pokeballs on his belt but the belt wasn't there. He even did something he had not done in a very long time, he tried to reach Ignis through a mental link.
Walking through the darkness of his mind, until he found a bridge, it did not look as strong or rich as it once was, but it looked as though he could still walk across it. He began placing his footsteps on the bridge, inch by inch he walked, trying his best not to put too much weight onto the ground. Every step he took the bridge seemed to get longer and longer. He truly did not know where he was anymore.
After a little while of walking, Red saw the silhouette of Ignis, so Red ran towards him, but for some reason he was suddenly thrown back, scraping his back along the cobble stones. Red steadily got up, and looked towards Ignis, he tried to shout but there was no sound coming from his throat, and his thoughts were not even processing. Ignis looked to Red, turning his head at angle as if he was confused, then he looked momentarily happy before Red was no longer on the bridge and instead was back in the shroud of darkness. No one around, just him, and unable to command his body.
"Pika?" He heard it, he could hear the slight chatter of one of his partners. He tried moving his arms to touch him, but there was nothing there, almost as if his arm had never moved.
Days he felt like this.
He would cross the bridge and be thrown back, call for his pokemon, try to reach for his belt, to touch Ignis, to talk to the people that were around him, but he just couldn't see with all this darkness.
Then one day he heard something. A part of a conversation rather than just random words.
"Is he okay Joy?" That sounds like the Professor. "He's not getting worse, and he's barely getting better, its almost as though his body and mind are two seperate things, he should slowly becoming conscious. If he wakes up please call me." Then he heard a door whirl. "I'm such a fool, I should've been there for him, I should've stayed with him, I shouldn't have left his side." That voice? He could recognise it from anywhere, it was the sound of Misty, blaming herself for yet another one of his own stupid mistakes, at least that's what he's assuming has happened. "It's not your fault Misty, they planned for Blue to go there, so that they could kill him. If Red wasn't there, he'd be dead now." That was Oak again. "But now Red is in a coma, with most of his body either scarred, bruised, or broken. Blue has to be put to sleep by medicine and made sure that a nurse is with him at all times because what happened was so traumatising. Neither of them are living, they barely existing, what would you have preferred Professor? That they both live like this forever? Not being able to uphold their duties to the region, their friends and family? to live like a grain of sand in the wind?" Wow, Misty needs to chill out. There was only a sigh in return "I'm sorry professor. It's just hard." Well at least the vixen has the guts to say sorry. The professor forgave her. Misty then hugged his body, and Ignis soon joined her. She somehow moved so that her elbow was digging into Red's knee, making it hurt, so Red screamed at the top of his lungs "That hurts!" Which in reality sounded more like a whisper.
"What was that?" The professor asked, Red sensed him turning around. Somehow being able to read the aura of the room again that he learned from aura reading training, even with his eyes slightly open, it helped that he could see the aura of everything now, and could see better than when in the darkness of his mind. "I said that hurts, your digging your elbow into me." Red whispered, Misty just began crying and gently hugged Red's body "Your so mean and ugly and I hate you!" Misty cried into his shoulder, Red just smiled and went to hug her but his arm got caught on something it was bandaged up and connected to the ceiling through a cable.
"Yes, you may feel some discomfort temporarily, but its not to worry, your body will be just fine." The Professor told Red, his face showing happiness, but his aura showing that he felt both hopeful and upset.
Ignis licked Red's face. He knew that aura anywhere, he smiled in return and whispered something into his pale pikachu's ear "私はあなたを拘束結合を解放します" Ignis just looked at Red as though he was crazy, but he nodded nonetheless, and jumped onto one of the chairs in the room. "Mist, please raise me, I don't like feeling useless laying down, unable to see people" The sound coming from Red's mouth was barely a whisper but it seemed as though the power he usually held in himself was still there.
Professor Oak walked over to an intercom "Joy. He's awake." the old guy then walked back over to Red's bed and grandfatherly laughed "So m'boy, how're you feeling?" He asked. How was he feeling? He couldn't quiet tell. "How's Blue?" Misty just looked to the Professor. "We'll talk about Blue soon" And almost immediately after he said that, Officer Jenny, Nurse Joy (With her Chansey) and Champion Lance entered the room.
Lance stood directly at the end of his bed, his aura was almost the same as always. Neutral, Nurse Joy and Jenny's aura just read that they were curious as to the things they wanted to know. "Read, do you mind if I ask you a few questions in regard to as how you got here?" Officer Jenny asked.
Red closed his eyes for a second, trying to really remember what had happened, but all he could remember was something dark purple and shiny racing towards him and Blue, its red eyes shining bright, almost in glee, and then there was darkness. He told Jenny this, she wrote down what she was told and asked to be updated, Jenny gave her a nod and left the room.
Nurse Joy then checked over his vitals, tried to see what hurt and what didn't, made sure his co-ordination was okay and that he did not have a concussion. He was given some medicine and told Red she would return in a few hours to check up on him, and then her and Chansey left the room.
Lance moved so that he was standing directly "I have been given a message from the lords to you... Your cousins, Calem(XY), Hilbert(BW) and Lucas(DP) have halted their missions to come see you Master Red. They shall be here shortly, but first. The Lords." His aura turned sympathetic... not good "Red, after what happened at the Viridian City Gym, your body and mind went through something that had damaged your body, and left your mind in disrepair, the pokemon you had on you had all been exhausted and had to also undergo extreme care. Ignis is the only one that seemed to withstand the least amount of damage by whatever caused the fire and for you to end this way... I'm sorry to say it, but your Articuno had vanished into the sky after it had stopped the fire. Your Nidorino... Whatever you battled, killed it. Your Nidorino was buried in the west section of the cemetery in Lavendar Town Cemetery. Red, with your body in such a state, I don't believe that you are fit enough to return your mission as a Pokemon Master, and I urge you to take up the position of Champion of the Kanto and Jhoto regions. All of the titles you have gathered over the past six and a half years will not vanish, you shall keep them, even if they were acquired through Masters status." Lance spoke this in a soft tone of voice, gentle and trying to convince Red to take up the offer.
"Let me think it over. This is something important." Red replied, Lance sagely nodded his head and left the room.
That left Red with Misty, Ignis and Oak. "Please tell me... How is Blue?" Red's voice finally gaining some volume.
~Rocket HQ~
Men in black suits running around the underground complex, two men were proudly walking in the middle of all the running about. Watching as nurses run around the place, Rocket Grunts panicking trying to contain the sudden decrease in electricity their base had just experienced.
"These costumes are ugly things." Spoke the taller man, the one with stylish orange hair, and a black suit with orange outlining each of the parts, his black boots making a powerful sound.
"hmm, Giovanni has almost unlimited resources, he might've chosen the outfit of Team Rocket the way it is because it is the cheapest and easily recognisable uniform I have seen a Grunt wear. I think, Lysandre, that this partnership with our organisations might turn out for the best." The 30 year old man with blue hair told his soon-to-be Colleague.
"Cyrus... Giovanni proposed that Team Rocket, Galactic and Flare join forces to obliterate the ugliness that is the Region Board of Governors, in order for us to finally gain what should have been ours. The only problem, that I can see, is that even with our organisations combining forces, we still no longer hold the intimidation we once held when faced with an entire region. The Masters, they are the true reason why we had failed in our undertaking. They're vermin that need to be exterminated." Lysandre stopped one of the Grunts, with long pink hair from running and looked into her scarlet iris' "Tell me..." she replied with "Jessie, sir." he nodded "Right, Jessie, tell me, what in Arceus name is going on here?!" He half asked, half demanded.
Jessie looked at Lysandre for a moment, trying to see if she recognised him and replied "The Boss, Giovanni, had gone to his old gym to retrieve a weapon he left there, by doing so he had found himself battling a twerp that had shut down this entire operation almost eight years ago. Pokemon Master Red, during their battle it resulted in the two using their strongest pokemon, and when the Scouts arrived to obtain Giovanni, who had become extremely weak and his body damaged they saw Red and Gym Leader Blue disappear in a sphere of blue. It has been eight days since then, and he spoke a word to his right hand command James. We are now following those orders, and everyone is rushing to their stations, and the nurses are all trying their best to return Giovanni's vital back to the safe zone as they have gone into critical." Jessie recited to Lysandre, with Cyrus over hearing. Lysandre thanked Jessie and let her go, her running in the direction of the elevator which would take her up to the surface of where there base currently was.
The two boss's continued their walk.
"Pathetic"
~House #6 Pallet Town~
This is Red's home. He hasn't truly spent an entire day there in just over five years. In the house at the moment was Lucas and Hilbert. Lucas was stroking the fur on his Staravia, the pokemon that he flew to get to Pallet town, and Hilbert his Unfezant(A female one).
"When was the last time you saw Red?" asked Lucas, his curiosity getting the best of him.
"I last saw him when I competed in a competition awhile back. I had just defeated Cynthia for the second time, and he was my next opponent, he was training the pokemon he used against Ethan Gold, said that they needed to improve their strength before he could breed them so that some guy called Professor Sycamore could try out Mega Evolution on them, or at least breed them in order to give them to some kids he thought deserved to learn the secret of Mega Evolution and travel around the region of Kalos and see if they could mega evolve them. I managed to beat him, and it was a bit of a surprise, but I guess it doesn't count since he wasn't using his best team, and he wasn't using his true name either (AN: I know that him not using his name isn't correct, but it will be for stories sake) he was calling himself Yusei." Hilbert told his cousin. Lucas looked up from his Staravia to stare at his his cousin who is only a few months older than him.
"I can just about beat his Orange team... please correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that you want to battle one of his stronger parties of pokemon" Lucas asked, a lot of humour in his voice.
Hilbert simply nodded "I do, I so badly do, He's the guy who has every pokemon available to catch. He has separate teams designed for different opponents and the higher you get the more harder it'll be to defeat him. I want to get strong enough one day to battle his AlphaRed team, from what I can remember, he has never used it against anyone except three individuals the first time he ever battled them, and then made them swear to secrecy of the team..." Hilbert replied to Lucas, giving Unfezant a treat from his pocket and watching the bird pokemon of Unova sit on the floor to rest.
"Who were they?" Lucas asked, now checking his Poketch.
"Well you know Red, he would only use that team if he deemed the opponent as incredibly strong, so he used the team to defeat Blue, when he was champion. He then used the AlphaRed team when he first faced Silver, and then when he faced Cynthia, back when she was still under Master status."
"Really? I could defeat almost all of them now using one of my weaker party of pokemon." Lucas stated, laughing at the humour in what Hilbert was saying, but stopped when he saw the seriousness of Hilbert's face.
"I just told you. The first time he battled them when they both were at their strongest. When Blue was at highest ranking status than him. Silver is a pokemon master and son of Giovanni, the only guy that I know of can terrify Red within seconds, and is also one of the people who made Red almost meet death. Silver is also someone who managed to defeat Ethan once. Red was going into that battle prepared. With Cynthia, this was back when she was still a Master, meaning that she wasn't restricted by the League's level restrictments and requirements. Her pokemon were at max level and were also far superior to her Champion team. She was the number one ranked pokemon Master, and was also in the running for gaining a Lordship, her battle with Red decreased her status, to make her second rank. She accompanied him on one of his missions, the mision lasted four months. By the time they returned, she had become someone else and asked to become Champion of her home region of Sinnoh. She won't tell anyone what happened on the mission, but if I'm honest, I'd be too scared to know what it was." the door to the house opened up and in place of an empty space was Calem with his Talonflame behind him.
"Does it make us selfish to want to come here first rather than our almost dead cousins side?" He asked, a smile on his face. Calem was wearing a white tee, with a black shirt over it, blue chinos and black boots. Lucas and Hilbert looked at eachother in fear "Ah, right, you two didn't even think about that either. They're only in Cerulean, why don't we just borrow Red's Pidgeot to take us there?" They nodded and returned their own bird pokemon, Calem doing the same and they all headed towards Professor Oaks Ranch. Catching up on the way.
AN: Sooo I have now came up with a backstory for myself that will allow all of the protagonists of the game to appear. Will allow some of my favourite characters to reamurge.
AN/2: So what do you think Giovanni, Cyrus and Lysandre will end up doing in order to take out the League? Why do you think the League was established in the first place. Where was Ash in all of this? STAY TUNED!
To Be Continued...