The surprise at my own thoughts made me shudder in fear, why would I ever think about killing anybody? I've never even harmed my worst enemies!
The room surrounding this one was emptying, it was break time. I could somehow feel the relief and worry drain from others and hear their inner desires. It was sudden and pretty horrifying but I could hear them think stuff like
“It's my daughter's 16th birthday next week, I hope that I can get her that new David Boweon album…” A woman in a black dress thought.
“I wonder if i'm able to run to that burger joint real quick…” a man in a lab coat also thought to himself.
Before I could put any more thought into it, she was back as quick as she left. And this time with some weird looking ball in her hands.
“Zekrom, we have a few more things we must do before I deal with you.” She leaned against her sleeping Aggron as she took out a few pictures from her sketchbook.
A long pause filled the air with slight awkwardness. she took a deep breath as soon as the door outside the lab clicked shut.
“It must be uncomfortable being chained like this. All the evidence shows your innocence, Zekrom. It seems we can legally let you go into trainer custody. but before I do that, I need to know…”
She stepped to the side where the cameras were located and slammed the button to turn them off and yelled at me. not in a pissed off kind of way but in some odd affirmation.
“I know you can break those chains! Why do you choose to even be restrained? Any evil creature would have at least tried to resist before…” She put a hand on my leg as she leaned down beside me and unplugged the thing draining my power.
Power absolutely flooded me.
This is exactly how I felt when I was above that Tower the other day, it was such a euphoric feeling!
I struggled against the chains as the women scrambled to return the Aggron into its ball before I woke it up or potentially harmed it back for that lethal ice punch.
I got my feelings back. Whatever the —-was eating at me was draining me of absolutely everything. I could feel my tail generator go into some kind of overdrive, as feelings that haven't seen the light of day in god knows how long emerge.
“I know you're not evil! You have to get out of here before somebody notices, hurry!”
I ignored contemplating why she would change sides and release me. I struggled against these chains while strength continued to rise within me. The chain on my left arm snaps, then I effortlessly rip out of the one on my right.
While the Woman should have been scared, she was utterly fascinated. like she had been waiting for this for a long time.
“Wait wait, Don't remove your tail yet.” She shouted at me as I froze in place from her command. It felt odd to be so powerful and still obey humanity. But I'm still at least somewhat human… right?
As she went behind me to tinker with the device holding me in place by my tail, I gripped the steel muzzle around my mouth and began to pull it off.
“There…there we go, easier than I thought.” she sighed in relief. I felt a huge relief of my own as the final part that held me back Was finally removed.
The tail generator I'm still unfamiliar with started to whir, quickly building to max power and blowing away every single object near me
She held onto my leg to prevent herself from being blown away. I just knew she wanted something from me. but I had to make it clear I wasn't some legend, I was just some guy who doesn't even know how he's doing any of this.
‘How can I even explain to her that I can't grant her wishes or whatever she thinks I'm gonna do? Maybe I should just try to…’
I opened my mouth and mustered up some kind of noise that could indicate my sapience.
“Merrrrrrgh…gruh”
It was hopeless, all that came out was whatever the hell was between a growl and a groan. I contemplated my chances of suddenly learning how to fly in this body and just busting out in pure embarrassment, but that would definitely harm her.
“See? It seems you do think my ideals are big enough!” She let go of me and ran to where her photos were blown away, bending over to grab them with a small grunt.
I stood like a patient child waiting for his mother to pay attention as she took her satchel off and put the pictures into it.
“Zekrom…this is extremely important, okay?” She placed the satchel into my claws…? Baseball gloves…? Whatever they were supposed to be.
I stared down at my claws as I went between gripping them and holding them loosely. It seemed even just squeezing it a little bit caused the woman to look at me in worry, as if I would crush them.
“There's only one place where you would be safe from us, Zekrom… when you get out of here, please look at the pictures I drew, they'll lead you straight there.”
‘Safe? That's what I've wanted this whole time, right…?’ A feeling of doubt filled me as I glanced at the satchel.
’No, No. She wouldn't Betray me, her ambition to help me is absolutely immense. Maybe she was putting on an act to trick everyone else?’ I thought to myself as she hugged my leg once again.
But something was clearly different about her. Her arms began to shiver, then I felt something wet from her eyes.
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Oh Arceus, she was crying. I didn't know what to do. My eyes widened as she began to sob more frequently.
‘She's getting snot on my thigh, I can't say anything AND I don't know why she's crying.’
“Oh Zekrom, thank you! Thank you for all those years ago… My brother's still alive because of your help.” She said as she tried to wipe the snot off my thigh with her sleeve but just ended up spreading it all over my thigh.
I should've been disgusted. But I really didn't care. This body has made me resist pretty much anything but ice it seemed.
I squinted my eyes trying to refute my own thoughts. ‘Yeah, and ground… And other dragons, Sheesh’
She wiped her eyes and tried to put on a serious face as if she was trying to reassure a child in a dangerous situation. ‘Wait, I wonder how old she thinks I am. Am I still my original age or did I get aged up to an incomprehensible amount of years? Maybe I'm even reborn, so I could technically be an infant right now?’
I shuddered slightly at that thought, it seems my own head is still scarier than everything else right now.
Now that I started thinking about my own biology, I've felt hungry but I haven't been fed at all since all this started. And more importantly, I haven't felt any repercussions besides maybe my mind wandering……
“-And then that's how I remembered you saving my brother, you even talked to us with your telepathy! Of course you don't have to talk to me I guess, it's bold to assume one as mighty as you would listen to me.”
I didn't know exactly what was being said, but I wasn't going to leave her with any doubts.
I gently squeezed the satchel with the lightest touch I could, musty before attempting to put it around my neck for safe keeping.
“Wait, here lemme see…” she held out her hand to me, I sensed complete trust in the gesture and placed the satchel back in her hands.
“Can you show me your back? I promise I won't hurt you.” she asked softly as I willingly turned around to face the wall.
Then I felt pressure on my tail. ‘Is she standing on my tail?! Oh Arceus what if I electrocute her… Wait, why am I putting up with this? I guess as long as she makes sure everyone leaves me alone.’
I then felt a touch of leather on my wing as she knotted it to the base of my left wing, then slung the satchel over my shoulder so I could see it.
As she hopped off my tail she spoke some more “See? Now you can look at it anytime!” Her expression started to grow a bit sorrowful as she opened the huge doors.
‘Is this when I'm finally free? When I get out of here, am I even going to want to turn back? There wasn't much to look forward to anyways.’
“I need you to go to Unova, Zekrom.” She suddenly said bluntly as I walked out of my captivity into the main room.
There were vials filled with my blood, files upon files of information about me and that Reshiram thing again…
“Before you go…” She put a hand on my waist to get my attention “did you know anything about the boy? We have nothing about him, his ID has been proven to be fake. It's okay, we found nothing conclusive about you harming him.”
‘Damn, they're still on about that? I may as well have died, but I just can't remember how I came to be in this form.’
“We suspect it's the missing kid from around 10 years ago, the son of Gabriel Girus.”
I quickly turned my head to her, my Quivering red and white eyes filling her line of sight
“I-im sorry! I know you have a bad history with that evil man. We're honestly not very sure how you came back to us after all that happened to you”
‘My father! How did I forget for even a second? What he did to all those pokemon…and my mother was beyond my control, but maybe I can finally move past that now’
I felt anger course through me, but it was much more manageable than I expected. I didn't even need to take a breather to calm myself down. I was still angry, but felt no reason to take that out on anybody. Not even my father.
She knew she needed to change the subject, so she went back to the topic just before this “As I was saying before, I need you to get to Unova, Zekrom. That's the only place I can possibly think of where you would be safe, these regions near us can't touch you there.”
She opened the front door and that's when it hit me.
I couldn't remember how to fly
It became an even worse of a problem as she quickly closed the door behind me as the workers came in from their lunch break. It was the middle of the day, she probably expected me to fly out of here in just a moment.
‘it's probably easier if I just try, right? I haven't tried since I was injured from that branch.’
I shut my eyes and focused on the power generating from my tail. This was kind of embarrassing, but thankfully there was nobody really around during work hours.
Then I felt it, just like what I felt when I first gained consciousness. It was pure power flowing within my spine.
As soon as I opened my eyes I saw I was already in the clouds. This felt absolutely amazing! It felt just like last time I went up this high, but now I have control over my body.
‘Unova… Unova…’ I tapped my face with my hand in thought. ‘I remember my mother saying it was around west of Mount Silver, and since Sinnoh's so close… I should head west’
I looked down and saw Mount Coronet just beside me. it seemed as if this research facility was just beside an always dangerous mountain? I guess it would prevent many people from investigating
As I glided through the air, trying to get a feel for flight in this body I spotted Spear Pillar.
‘The Unforgiven… Arceus. You know, I never had the word Arceus in my dialect before, why did it change for that woman?’
I slowly descended onto the tip of Spear Pillar and I just observed my surroundings
The wind was still roaring just like that day.
‘No…no I should get to Unova, I was me, but now I'm gone.‘
-AT AROUND THE SAME TIME-
Ethan walked through the lush fields of Pallet town, he really only stopped to take in the sights and write down the pokemon he saw.
“That's weird… I swear that Pidgey is more yellow than the others, and covered in glitter?” He quickly sketched the Pidgey in his notebook, using some yellow crayon to signify its unique look.
“Red! I think it's Red over there!” A woman in her mid 30’s practically tackled Ethan over in excitement and surprise as the Pidgey got spooked and flew away.
“Ah! Damn what are you doing?” Ethan gently peeled her off of him as he bent over to grab his notebook again to see his drawing was smudged by dirt and ripped in the middle.
“You're not Red…” the woman seemed apologetic as she bowed a little bit in a brief apology.
Ethan started to turn around to properly meet her and asked “Red? I…haven't seen him, I'm sorry.”
He didn't know who he really was, but he did get the jist from many other people. Red went missing 2 years ago, and his mother was in pallet town. He assumed he must've just dressed similar to him today.
But as soon as he looked where the voice was coming from, she was gone.
He was obviously baffled and looked all around the big field.
The farms? Nope, just some Miltanks.
There were no houses around close enough for her to quickly go into at all.
The grass wasn't tall enough for her to hide in it, the wild pokemon would be dangerous anyways.
“What the hell?” Ethan whispered in pure confusion.
The streams near him were quiet as he knocked on the door of the big laboratory on the top of a large hill.
The door opened to a sleepy assistant with messy hair and a wrinkled lab coat.
“Sorry kid, you missed the pokemon this morning. Unless you want a rather unruly one however…”
“N-no I'm not here for that” Ethan explained “I'm here to pick up a specific pokeball, it should be black with a yellow Z plastered on the front.”
“Yeah, yeah, it came in just a few minutes ago, you're fast.” The assistant opens the door to let him in and places a small box of snacks on the couch.
Ethan slumps down on the couch and sighs in relief, it's been so long since he felt a nice leather couch like this. And it was amazing
“If you don't mind me asking, where is professor Oak?” Ethan asked as he yawned, trying to not doze off.
“Well, he had a special request for him to go to the nearby Sinnoh region. Even I'm not fully sure what it's for, but it's easy to guess it's about that Zekrom I'm about to give you.
The assistant put the pokeball in a seal And dropped it in Ethan's lap. It was oddly light for some odd reason.
“It's pretty odd to see another kid handle all of these, you know Red right?” The assistant asked
“Yep, just saw his mom earlier. She seemed pretty distraught even after all this time. I would feel horrible if I disappeared from my family.”
He turned around, a confused look on his face.
“His mother passed away 8 months ago”
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