Day 4: No Name
I was on the cold hard floor, during my sleep I must have rolled off of the bed. I looked up at the clock. It was however flashing meaning that there must have been a power failure, or power surge. Something to reset it. I got up and looked around. Quickly I went into the washroom and had a hot shower. When that was done I got dressed and walked outside. Today was the day of the physical. I sighed. I figured that I might as well get this out of the way first thing in the morning.
However it quickly came to my attention that I didn't know where the Doctor's office was. I sighed looking around for a map until I eventually found one. From there I began to walk through the corridors looking for Dr. Mario's office. It was at that point that I saw Rai walking out of his room.
"Hey No Name!" Rai said walking towards me.
No Name?
"He likes to give people nicknames..." Mewtwo replied telepathically. This time I didn't jump; it was as though I was expecting it.
I see...
"Where are you going?" Rai wondered.
"I'm... looking for Dr. Mario's office." I replied.
"Well I guess I can lead you there." With that he began to lead me to Dr. Mario's office. I walked in slowly. There I was in the waiting room that was rather inviting. It was brightly lit with a bunch of magazines to read. Sitting at the desk however was Dr. Mario.
"Ah... So you've come..." Dr. Mario said. "The Manger called me yesterday and said that I should be expecting you sometime today. I'm glad that you came first thing in the morning. Hello Rai."
I just noticed that Rai had followed me into the Doctor's office. "Okay just one scan... and you should be fine... It will take about 10 minutes for the results to print out though... Stupid budget... can't upgrade our printers to something modern..." He muttered the last bit underneath his breath.
I was directed to a strange machine and then directed to sit down in a chair. I sat down. Instantly two metallic circles began to go around me and scan me, several flashing lights later I learned that I wasn't epileptic. "All right that's all." Dr. Mario sighed urging me up off of the chair. "Just wait why it prints and I'll bring the results to you quickly."
I was waiting and Rai began to talk to me. "So where are you from?"
"Not around here..." I replied.
"Relax he knows..." Mewtwo said to me telepathically.
"I'm from the real world." I sighed.
"I see..." Rai replied. "So you are getting this scan to see how much time you have left."
"And the Manager said that I would need a physical in order to fight against Marth..."
Rai didn't reply for the next few minutes it seemed like Rai was just distancing himself from me. He didn't talk... he didn't look my way. "Rai..."
"Yes?" He replied uneasy.
"It feels like you are distancing yourself why?"
Rai looked down at the ground. "My sister was hurt by the previous person who came here... both physically and emotionally."
"The lucky bastard who lived?"
"Yeah..." Rai replied. "At first he was nice but once his time expired he changed for the worse. He voiced that he would rule over this universe with an iron fist and that we would come to fear him. He now calls himself The Reaper and is fully capable of killing us..."
"Fully capable of killing?" I wondered what he meant by that.
"Uh... Your scan results are ready." Dr. Mario said. "Do you want to go someplace a bit more private or is right here good?" I couldn't understand why but there was a bit of nervousness in his voice.
"Right here is fine..."
"Well there is some good news and some bad news... what do you want first?"
"Bad news..." I said.
"Well... the scan revealed several things. Most notably that you aren't from this world, and as such you have a count down until you will die. Counting today you only have 32 days to live. But you can fight Marth!"
"The good news?" I asked slightly shocked.
"I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance by..."
"Stop right there!" I shouted something in the back of my head had forced me to do that gut reaction. "So I'm only here for a maximum of 35 days..."
"Yes..." Dr. Mario replied.
"Okay... now is there actually good news?" I wondered.
"Well you can fight Marth now!"
"I said good news..."
"Well in that case I don't have any. The only thing you can do now is just train and work hard. Know that I can heal nearly anything. About the only thing I can't heal is cancer... but I'm working on that... You can leave when you want to."
I got up and left. I could feel Rai following me at a distance. Even to the point of absolute annoyance. It felt like that at any moment he would jump up and strike me down. For a moment I wondered what he could do to me. After all he was just a kid. But then I remembered the pain and the bruises from yesterday. And they were just kids as well. "You know you don't have to distance yourself from me." I sighed. Rai didn't reply. For a moment I thought he fled but I could some how still tell that he was watching me from behind a corner. "Look I'm going to go get breakfast. You can join me. I want to know about this Reaper guy and I want to know what you meant by fully capable of killing."
"You're going to turn on us and go to The Reaper aren't you?" Rai shouted. His hand began to spark. "Is that it?"
"No!" I replied. "I just thought maybe I could beat him... if he is from my world then..."
"You can't..." Rai replied. "He is invincible."
"No body is invincible." I said walking towards him slowly, however I was quickly greeted with a bolt of electricity rushing towards me and striking a few feet in front.
"Don't come any closer No Name!" Rai shouted.
"Don't call me No Name kid!"
"Don't call me kid!" Rai shouted.
"I don't have time to argue with you..." I moaned. "I'm going to get breakfast..." With that I walked away down towards the cafeteria. Rai cautiously followed.
After picking up some food I sat down and began to eat. However it was hard to eat when I noticed that Rai was glaring at me from across the room quickly eating his food and not letting a single action of mine escape his sight.
This guy is getting irritating...
"Who is?" Mewtwo telepathically asked me.
Rai...
"Ah he found out... then again with what happened to him..."
Does this have to do with The Reaper?
"Yes..." Mewtwo replied, even telepathically he sounded uneasy. "He was the first person from the outside world that he met... For a while the Reaper was like an older brother to him." I stared at Rai. "His real older brother, Tei and The Reaper were best friends and he was even dating his older sister Sui. To put it bluntly The Reaper was able to rip apart their family bonds almost effortlessly. It left quite the impression on Rai, being the first person from the 'real world' that he met and all. He thought that all people were like that."
I see... that's why he is now hostile towards me...
"If you're done with breakfast can you come down to the training room? Make sure Rai follows you..."
"That won't be all that hard..." I muttered underneath my breath. I finished eating my food even with Rai's uncomfortable glare looking at me. Eventually I stood up and began to walk away. Just as planned Rai stood up and followed shortly afterwards. Eventually I walked into the gym. Standing there waiting for me was Mewtwo, Young Link, Pichu, and Roy. "Why are you all here?" I quickly asked shocked.
"They are going to help you with your training now." Mewtwo said. "Where is Rai?"
"He's following me at a distance... He will probably be watching from a safe distance as well."
"We will continue from where we left off yesterday!" Mewtwo said charging a shadow ball.
I stood there shocked. "But you said that I would have a days of rest!" I shouted surprised.
"I lied." With that Mewtwo threw the shadow ball towards me with great speed. Quickly I jumped out of the way. "Draw your beam sword!" Roy and Young Link rushed towards me the only thing I could do was block with the beam sword. The Swords clashed, for a brief moment I questioned why mine wasn't cutting through theirs, but that moment was short lived by them over powering me and sending me flying backwards where Pichu and Mewtwo struck me with a shadow ball and thunder bolt. I fell to the ground and hit it with a thud. Slowly they all began to approach me. "Get up or I'll make you get up!" Mewtwo barked.
"No..." I muttered. The next thing I knew was that I was tossed thirty feet into the air and being held there.
"In this time Marth would have defeated you!" Mewtwo said.
"That's fine..." I replied. "I don't want to fight him."
"Fire..." Mewtwo ordered. Electricity surged through my body. Suddenly my arm could move and I sent the electricity back towards them causing Mewtwo to drop me. I plummeted towards the ground only to land perfectly on my feet suffering no damage from the shock.
How did I do that?
"How did he do that?" Pichu wondered.
"He deflected the electricity back towards us..." Mewtwo said looking at me. Mewtwo threw a shadow ball towards me, however I defended with the beam sword knocking it down to the ground. "Lets go all out!" They all rushed towards me.
"Stop!" Rai shouted at the door. His hand was sparking with electricity. "That wasn't how he did it. Your with the Reaper admit it!" With that he threw electricity towards me, I had no choice but to dodge, but I was too slow. I was hit and electricity surged through my body suddenly I moved my right arm up and electricity flew out of it towards Rai. At the last moment a barrier appeared around Rai stopping the attack. "You are with the Reaper!"
I was too busy staring at my right hand in shock to hear what Rai had said. Roy and Young Link were running towards me. Both attacked with the intention to kill. I just grabbed my beam sword and cut them both down in one attack. I faced Mewtwo. "What's going on?" I asked.
"You tell me." Mewtwo replied.
"I don't know what's going on!" I shouted flailing my arms around in the process. The next thing I knew was that electricity had shot out. I stared at my hand once again.
"Instead of electricity going through your body it seems like your body stored it up and your now capable of discharging it, though apparently not by your own free will... yet..." That yet that Mewtwo added at the end wasn't exactly reassuring and was most likely an all-inclusive trip to more hellish training.
It was.
The rest of my day consisted of dodging random attacks and storing up electricity in my body. Even when everyone else had collapsed due to exhaustion I was still able to keep going.
"What is this all about?" I asked. "I have the right to know, right?"
"Yes, you do." Mewtwo replied. "The reason we were so harsh on you today was not because of The Reaper, but because of..." Mewtwo was hesitating to say anything eventually he some how spat it out. "We are being kicked out of the Smashers."
"This decision was unfortunately decided by the Network." Roy said. "Our matches were the least watched and grabbed the least advertising money, even if Pichu's matches only got a couple million compared to upwards of 1 billion that a Marth VS Fox match can get. Greedy bastards that's what they are..."
"That and our track record isn't the best." Pichu laughed.
I stared at him wondering how he could laugh about something like that. "I see..." I said. "You want me to fight Marth and defeat him."
"Yeah." Mewtwo replied coolly.
I just smiled. "Why should I?" I replied. "I'm not fighting for you guys."
"Actually you are." Mewtwo replied. I stared in complete shock. "I made a bet with the higher-ups, if you win we get to stay."
This can't end well.
"Your luck has all ready proven itself once before, hopefully we can rely on it once again." Mewtwo said. "Nothing is absolute, I remember you telling that to Tei right before Pichu's match..."
"Why do you bring that up now?"
"Do you forget so easily? I told you back then that I had all ready foreseen the end of the match. The match I saw Pichu lost. When the match first took a strange turn of events and began to change I looked over to you, you were there but at the same time you weren't. Your very presence altered destiny, for the past three days I have meditated heavily on this and I have come to the conclusion that you were never supposed to come here! My psychic power is now all a blur I can't see what the future brings."
I knew deep down that I didn't belong, but only being here for three and a half days made me feel something. Happiness. "When the Reaper first came here were your visions also like this?" I didn't know what had made me ask this question. Mewtwo was of course hesitant to answer. "I'll take that as a yes. Then I've decided that my role in life is to set right what The Reaper has done wrong and defeat him."
Mewtwo stared at me. It was silent. Eventually he broke the silence. "You have a large task ahead of you then." Suddenly he teleported us both out of the HQ and to someplace else. I knew not where I was; I only knew from the sight what it was previously. We stood on top of a ruined building all around us was a ruined city. "This is what The Reaper is capable of."
"But he is just one person."
"One person can change everything." Mewtwo replied. "You yourself have done this as well. Follow me." Mewtwo began to walk towards another building it had a wall however it had an engraving. "We can't read it, we can only assume that it's your native language." I stared at the writing on the wall. "It was written by The Reaper."
"But it's in English!" I said. "We are talking normally right?"
"No," Mewtwo replied. "We are using a form of magic to understand each other. We are actually talking two completely different languages. But you would have never noticed. Not even I knew until I was told. Now what does it say."
"You brought me here to read to you?" I asked. Mewtwo just nodded. I stared at the writing it was so neatly engraved into the stonewall.
"To who ever is reading this, the world you see around you is nothing more than an illusion. This is our human desire for escape brought to true fruition. This is a world of ignorance, where ideals rest over reality. A world that is perfect, a utopia if you must. And for that it must be destroyed." I read.
"Is that really what is says?" A new voice asked. Both Mewtwo and I jumped not expecting to see someone there.
"A Lucario." Mewtwo said looking at the strange blue creature.
"Yes it is." I replied looking at the letters once again.
"The person who wrote this told me to wait for a person to come here and was fully capable of reading it. For that he told me one phrase that was written there. Where ideals rest over reality, I was to wait and listen to anyone who said that. Many have come and tried to interpret it but none of them had said that key phrase. And when I found the person who could read this I was to join them. But I am hesitant to join you because your aura is strange much like his, the one who destroyed this city."
"I'm going to kill him." I replied. I didn't know where the sudden gusto had come from.
"Good luck." Lucario laughed.
"Your battle with The Reaper transcends two dimensions yours and ours." Mewtwo said. "And you only have 31 days left with the next six booked with training and a fight. Do you think you can do it?"
"I think I can find a way." I laughed uneasy about the situation. Was I going to die? No! In the back of my head I made the decision that after this battle I would look for a way out of this world and to return to my own. Not to mention face The Reaper. I was going to live through this. I knew I would, and clearly I have since I'm writing this... wow come to think of it that was one effective way to quickly kill any and all suspense that I may have just been established.
Rain began to pour down upon the ruins of the city. "We best return to the Smash HQ." he said. "Are you coming with us?"
"I will." Lucario said.
With that we teleported back to the Smash HQ. We appeared in the lobby startling no one. "You can go where ever you want now." Mewtwo said. "The day is almost over."
I began to wander and eventually found my way back to the cafeteria. Having not eaten since breakfast I instantly grabbed a plate and began to get several different foods. After getting a seat I began to devour the food. It wasn't long after that I seemed to feel somebody looming over me. I turned my head slightly and out of the corner of my eye I saw Rai standing there struggling, only being kept there by his older brother Tei. "What do you want?" I asked.
"I'm here to profess my inexplicable undying love to you." Tei sarcastically said. Quickly I spat out whatever I was drinking at that exact moment. Most likely it was just plain water.
"WHAT?" I said shocked.
"Well it seems that only stories with Yaoi get lots of reviews. But in all seriousness I came here so that Rai could apologize to you."
I looked over to Rai, he didn't make eye contact and just stared at something that was apparently 100 times more interesting on the wall. "I'm sorry." He said. It wasn't filled with any emotion or sincerity but it was probably going to be the best that he was going to give me.
"About what?" I inquired.
Rai didn't answer. In fact now it seemed like he was struggling even harder just to try and escape. Eventually Tei let go of him and Rai ran away. Tei quickly sat on the other end of the table. "I'm sorry about the trouble Rai has caused."
"I understand why he would hate me." I said looking at him. He seemed to have a vacant look. "Mewtwo showed me the city that the Reaper destroyed."
"Yes..." Tei said. "When you're done, I would like to talk to you."
I finished eating and Tei began to lead me to his room. Eventually when we got there he opened the door and directed me to a couch in the middle of the room while he went off to the fridge. I sat down and looked at a table that was in front of me. There was some old newspapers on the table, most of them revolving around the Reaper. When he came back he had two mugs with a liquid in it. He sat in a chair directly across from me.
"Rai talked to us." Tei said giving me a drink, I quickly took a sip but immediately spit it out.
"What the hell is this crap?" I asked.
"Beer." Tei replied. "It will kill ya."
"Some how I doubt that..." For a brief moment I seemed to remember something in the back of my head. "Should you really be drinking that? Aren't you underage?"
"In this world? No, besides this isn't even called beer here, it's called 'apple cider' or some other stupid censoring thing for children... In yours? Most likely. But I doubt that seriously matters in today's society. The sad reality is, you are only underage if you are caught."
"That doesn't change the fact that you are underage!" I protested. But my protest fell on deaf ears.
"You have to live on the edge... abiding by the rules is a rather boring lifestyle, don't you agree?"
"Yes, but it is at least safe!"
Tei finally took the cup of beer from my hand and began to down it. When he was done he gently placed the glass down and stared at me. "Rules do not guarantee safety. Take beer for instance. One shouldn't drive under the influence. Yet people still do it. The one who didn't drive under the influence is in just as much danger as the one who is. As long as people have free will they will continue to choose. And as long as they continue to choose they may some times pick the right answer and other times pick the wrong answer." He was silent and quickly walked towards the fridge and opened it. He came back with a bottle and handed it to me. I took it and drank it. It was a lot sweeter than the beer and I continued to drink. "What have you picked?"
I was silent looking down at the floor. "It almost feels as though I have no choice in my life. I have thirty-one more days to live; I've been forced into a match against Marth. It feels like I can't choose my own path, my own way, in life..."
"The Reaper felt the same way..." Tei said leaning back on the chair and placing his feet up on the table. "A daily cycle of wake up, eat, go to school, come home, do homework, and go back to sleep, with very little variation or change. At least that's what he was like when he first came here. In a lot of ways you remind me of him. Just promise me one thing. Don't make the wrong choice like he did!"
"So what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked.
Tei just sat there. "The Reaper..." He replied. "I made a mistake, I once had the chance to stop him. I thought he could change but..."
To be continued...