.Agent Gold
"Momma? Momma?"
"She can't hear you anymore, son."
"Then unplug her ears! MAKE her hear me!"
"The only thing that's plugging her ears is death, boy. Ain't no way you can unplug that."
"NO!! SHE'S NOT DEAD!!!" The boy threw himself on the rolling table, over the body of his mother.
The warmth she had provided for him was gone. The soft touch of her hand running through his hair had vanished. All that was left was a pale body with empty eyes that stared out at nothing and everything at the same time. Including their former son.
"She's….somewhere else now, son. I'm sorry, we did everything we could." The man dressed in the doctor's outfit stood behind him, sixteen hours of surgery weariness etched on his face. The young six year old with haunting amber eyes sobbed, his chest heaving. The doctor proceeded to walk over to where another man stood, clean lab coat and glasses covering the puffy eyes that just finished sobbing.
"The piece of metal from the car punctured and inflicted a major wound to her heart. She passed out because of blood loss, and she was still blacked out when she died. She went peacefully." The doctor continued. The boy could hear what the doctor was telling him father, it didn't make a difference. She was still dead. He walked over to his father and listened to what the doctor had to say.
"The authorities are trying to find the car that hit her, but they haven't identified them yet. Don't worry, justice will be served."
The boy looked up at the doctor, face smeared and blurred with tears as he motioned toward the deceased woman. His deceased mother.
"Justice is a lie."
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A deep furrow formed in the boy's brow, he opened his amber eyes. Those cold, lifeless eyes, akin to those of a wolf. He looked up at Starla, the rather large Staravia smiled as she zipped through the air. Riku smiled, a very rare sight to see, and sighed. He had sensed a large pokemon a long way behind him, a Tropius with two girls on it. Two agents, but he didn't bother to greet them. He wasn't really the conversation type.
"OI!"
Riku's eyes were closed, as he enjoyed the peace in the skies. His eyebrow perked up when from the deepest part in his ear, a weak vibration started to ring. He thought he heard someone call out to him, he quickly forgot about it. That's when he sensed it. A cool energy streaming rapidly towards them from below, a water attack no doubt. Being trained by a water gym leader, water was just a petty annoyance to him. The tower of crystal blue bubbled surged upwards, one of Riku's eyes snapped wide open.
"Double Team!" Riku called out, in an instant an army of clones was created. At least ten different Riku and Starlas floated in the sky as the real Riku looked down to see his attacker. A dark hairled girl with a large Azumarill, the girl smirked at the sight of his evasive tactic.
"Oi! You up there, I challenge-" Riku smirked.
"If its a battle she wants, its a battle she'll get." Riku snapped his fingers, "Quick Attack!" The army of clones vanished from their stationary positions and reappeared below rocketing towards the Azumarill. At the alst second, the real Riku and Starla pulled up. The other clones continued to go down; Riku pulled out his pokeball and in an instant the massive Electivire appeared before Azumarill and bellowed violently, shaking the very trees themselves.
"Thunderpunch." Riku smirked, Electro pulled his fist back and in a large explosion of electrical current and explosive energy the Azumarill was left laying there in a crater. Her trainer in complete shock,
"WHA-HUU-BUUU-" She went from watching in disbelief at the crater to pointing at Riku in anger, back and forth the cycle went for a few moments. Riku floated down with Starla nonchalantly as Electro came stomping over, he flipped open his pokedex and poked an eye open.
"Level twenty, no wonder that knocked it out in one hit. Don't bite off more than you can chew. Know your limitations..." He said to the girl, who angrily called her Azumarill back and poked her finger at Riku's nose. The boy raised an eyebrow, "That's NOT how you get someone's attention girl."
"YOU! If i recall, i challenged you to a battle. NOT to get completely killed by that Electivire that came out of nowhere!" She pointed angrily at Electro, who's eyes darted back and forth not knowing what to do. He moved her hand out of the way,
"Don't worry Electro, you didn't do anything." The electric pokemon sighed, while Starla rolled her eyes at the Electivire as if saying 'Idiot'.
"Whatever the case, I DEMAND an apolo-"
"Stop watching you creeper, just come out." Riku called out nonchalantly, his arms folded. The girl hung her mouth open,
"WHAT?" She yelled out, then noticed the Electivire and Starla who were completely disengaged from the conversation just moments ago were now locked onto the bushes behind her. She froze in place when the ground beneath them shook, the finger she was angrily pointing at Riku wilted like a dead flower as tears formed in the corner of her eyes. "...what is that...?" She whispered to Riku, fear obvously present. He sighed, "A wild Hariyama..." She turned very slowly and couldn't help but scream when a giant fighting pokemon stomped towards her very slowly. The towering pokemon growled, sending a cold shiver down the girl's spine. "But there's no such thing as Wild Hariyamas around these parts!!"
"It was obviously recently released by its trainer, who obviously couldn't control it. The idiot didn't think about what they were doing when they released it in a place close to such small towns."
"What do we do..?" She whimpered. Then turned when she noticed the sound of flapping wings, Riku was hovering with Starla.
"What do you think we do? Run." Riku said calmly as he started to float away.
"WAIT! I don't have flying pokemon!!!" She sobbed as she jumped up and down, Riku's moaned. Then noticed the fighting type rushing at her,
"What a bothersome girl.." He mumbled when he released Electro in the nick of time, the electric type slammed on the floor behind the girl and grabbed the fighting type's fist. The girl turned around and ran away as the two beheamoths clashed,
"You're a trainer, and you don't have a flying type? How do you even get anywhere?" He sighed. The girl puffed her cheeks out,
"I WALK! That's why i have such a slender figure." She smiled and she caressed her curves, he quickly grabbed her around the waist and launched her to the side as Electro was luanched backwards.
"Starla, you're turn. Aerial Ace!" The Staravia cried out as it launched itself forward and slashed its wing into the fighting type. The girl cheered from the ground, her clothes dirtier than before.
"Yeah! SUPER effective!"
"Obnoxious..." Riku mumbled.
"WHAT?!" She yelled.
"You heard me, now hurry. Before he gets up!" Riku called out to her, she quicly got on her feet and ran over to Riku who called back Electro. The girl wrapped her arms tightly around him, he couldn't help but blush. He's never really hugged a girl like this before. He shook the thought out of his head as Starla flew over and took hold of his backpack. They flew safely into the sky as the Hariyama shook his head below and sauntered off, defeated.
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The sky was a mishmash of orange and red, a dusky blue blanket over both colors that was slowly deepening as time passed. Twilight was Riku's favorite time of day, without a doubt. It wasn't too hot, or too cold, and the sky wasn't too light or dark. It was just right. The soft wind characteristic of Oldale blew through the wind turbines that power the town. Houses are warm with glowing windows and the smells of dinner, rice and tomato sauce and meat, drift on the wind.
"Thanks for everything...I guess." The girl said, looking down at her feet.
"You don't need to thank me." Riku said coldly and turned to walk away; the girl sighed and walked into the Pokemon Center, sticking out like a sore thumb because of the blood from her knee and her dirty clothes. She sighed, now evevryone would think she was a noob trainer getting owned on Route 101. The name itself was elementary, how emberassing.
Riku opted to sit on a lone bench near the entrance of the town, bathing in the artificial soft yellow light of the nearyby light post. Electro standing besides him, Starla perched on the bench pecking at her wing. He was in one of many yellow orbs around the city, the only sources of light in this darkness. He looked up at the dark sky, the large moon glittering down onto the earth. The stars magnificent, this was an alright ending to the first day of his mission.
"Stupid girl..."He mumbled as he layed his head back, Electro couldn't help but chuckle as Starla wacked him with her wing. Electro seemed to apoligize and twiddle his fingers.