Scores to Settle
What makes a human a human? Is it his origins? No, he is born from a father and mother and conceived thru a mammalian womb. But the right answer is the internal human factor that makes one a human. But It takes more than looks to determine this factor. Any the human race plagued with discrimination, intolerance, impatience has clouded his judgment over those unique few of his own kind, even if they are basically humans but unable to blend in, not because they don?t want to, is that they simply can?t. Many die or suffered greatly, these people often had to do the inevitable just survive in a cold, unfeeling world.
Deep in the night, the streets were silent except for the calling of Ninjasks and cicadas. Cold winds were like music to curtains, making them dance to their ?tune?. As the curtains danced, a teenager turned and tossed in bed, muttered angrily, ?My..Nose?.! Gary!!!!?. This person has no nose and instead, two holes attached to a filtering and odor detection device welded to his nasal passages replaced his nose. As the night went by, the teen?s dream played on like a video tape in its player.
The young man?s name was Anakin. He?s 18 years old now. His story was traumatic to anyone, kind enough to listen. Anakin since young was a real-life version of Dr. Dolittle. His ability to converse with any beast or Pok?mon was a gift from the heavens. But? this gift was his curse too. His peers isolated him for he often hear Nature?s conversation. But for this reason three years back, 15 year old Anakin was in high school back then, aced his Biology and Pok?mon training tests.
This provoked the ire of his classmate, the proud Gary Oak. Gary had entered a spec course that will allow him to bypass his O levels and become a Pok?mon researcher?s apprentice following the footsteps of his grandfather. However, Anakin beat Gary to it. Gary was found it unfair and as a rash hothead, took a penknife and hurt his nose. Anakin shivered as he remembered the incident. Anakin still remembered the feeling of the cold metal blade piercing into his nasal passage.
Anakin?s nose soon became highly infected and was soon amputated. Even though the operation safeguarded Anakin?s life, doctors reckoned that Anakin would not survive for another month. Dr. Penta, Anakin?s father, discovered a way to connect machine circuitry to living tissue. Thus after several agonizing hours, Dr. Penta gave Anakin a cyborg nose. The only thing however was the wheezing noises when inhaling. Anakin now was even more shunned by society. Even the researcher he was assigned to decided to scrap Anakin. But misfortunes come in pairs?..
Dr. Penta was soon involved in an accident that destroyed his legs and his left arm. Anakin?s mother, a materialistic woman, ran off with another man just to make things worse. But Dr. Penta was not crippled; he built new robotic limbs for himself.
As the hands of the clock ticked, Anakin soon recalled something. He remembered the day he interrupted Giovanni, his boss, in his speech and gave all of Team Rocket a traumatic reminder of their goals. But after spending a month in a prison cell, Team Rocket?s members were somehow inspired by Anakin?s words thru sorrow and then anger. The cold and unfeeling world that discriminated them for small reasons had brought them here to Team Rocket in the first place! Over next months, they became a changed secret society and soon reverted back to its roots; to revolutionize the discriminative world into a fair and kind world.
Soon Team Rocket saw Anakin in a different light and soon they began to gain a little support from the public especially after economic downturn recently and the second Gulf War.
The ?blue? rays of the hydrogen fueled sun soon made their way into Anakin?s bedroom. Bluish sunlight was already a common sight here, especially in this Team Rocket underwater colony, Atlantis. As Anakin got up from his bed, two crimson eyes looked into his window. Anakin uttered in a half asleep tone and proceeded to his bathroom ?Good morning? Entei?. ENTEI?? What are you doing on the roof!? The boy jumped in surprise seeing his first pet and Pokemon, Entei, a subspecies of an Ice Age lion, sitting on the roof like a tabby cat and smiling at him. Anakin saved a baby Entei eight years ago from a group of ruthless hunters and loggers. From a baby-sized cub, Entei now stands as large as a big lion that would defend his owner fiercely. Maintaining its adult meals are at first a little costly but not when Atlantis is connected to an unchartered tropical island with grasslands and forest, which hides huge oxygen pumps to supply air to the colony. An exit to the island allows Entei to gain access to the island to hunt Stantler and Tauros.
?Raoww!! Good morning, Anakin. ? purred another feline, the infamous talking Persian, Meowth. With the death of James and Jesse, the Boss, Giovanni, assigned Meowth to Anakin for retraining. The Persian is always in trouble with Entei when the smaller feline steals from the fridge at night. Nevertheless the feline has grown into a great fighter. Then according to Anakin?s will, his toothbrush flew to his hand. ?Anakin, is it true that Hidden Power is that powerful? I could only spew balls of elemental energy.? The 18 year old spat out water and toothpaste into the sink before replying, ?You see, this attack as far as I have known it, is a channel between reality and dream. So it?s half dream and half real. This power can also realize simpler forms like say Pokemon attacks like fire, ice.etc but it cannot realize more complex things like say, make your dream girl appear before you. It is able to teleport things or energy from one place to another.?
Meowth scratched his neck with his foot as he listened. ?Dream Girl?? He He He? Anakin you have all grown up?? Meowth sniggered. Anakin knocked the feline?s skull in ridiculousness upon getting the hint that the cunning feline has put forth. The boy stretched his muscular arms and chest before he left the house. He had to report to Team Rocket headquarters. Suddenly, before Anakin was about to leave, ?Meowth?.!? he articulated. The Persian tiptoed to his trainer since he was a biting feline thus he?s digigrade(walking on his digits). ?What?s this SMS doing in my phone?? Anakin showed Meowth?s message that the feline had sent? to the Boss. ?Raooeeeeowww!! Delete that!? he squealed in terror. ?DEAR BOSS?S PERSIAN, PLEASE TAKE YOUR DAUGHTER IN HAND. SHE?S HAS BEEN... HARASSING ME FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS!!! Signed Meowth. ? Anakin read out the message. ?Well Well Well, looks like our feline friend got a girlfriend.? It was Anakin?s turn to poke fun at his Pokemon who was red in face. A series of short growls from a laughing Entei further emphasized the embarrassing funny incident.
After the good laugh, Entei and Meowth were at loggerheads again, while Anakin took out 6 Pokemon, strapped his special Pokeball holder on his left arm before leaving. Anakin so far had over 25 Pokemon and the number increases slowly for the young man trains only low level Pokemon, Anakin believed that everything has to start out weak before becoming strong and the slow training allows Anakin to establish the friendship between him and his Pokemon. Heightened senses and ability to speak to Nature also allowed Anakin to bring home a special troop of 7 Pokemon just some months ago, The Untamables. As he left his home, one of the Untamables, Seth the Arbok, waved his degenerated rattle tail to his trainer for he had saved it from a lifetime of swallowing and poisoning humans who have destroyed his forest home.
Anakin looked at the children playing in the artificial streets amidst blue sunshine, from an outsider?s look, it would be hideous. For among the children some were genetically deformed from birth and outcasted by society but in here, the children play and accepted them as their own kind without any prejudice. The kids were just eager to have new friends! But on the outside world, such people were often stoned at or even exterminated.
With little time for wasting, Anakin leaped onto his special bike which runs on human electricity and a cushion of air. ?Big Brother Anakin! Bye!? The human and advanced human kids recognized him as the young man drove off to the Rocket Base.
Resurfacing from the Pacific, life went on in the Pok?mon world. Many hidden secrets remain hidden like skeletons in cupboards and yet the so-called peace was everywhere. Peace was for Man but not for Nature, whose craving for bountiful space was often in conflict with Man?s selfish desires.
?Code Red!? sounded the alarm in a high-tech facility. Soon echoing thru the hallways was the stomping of boots. A streak of yellow galloped past the men as they got to their respective transports. Their symbol of a Feraligator?s eye and their respective names were stuck fast to the men?s uniforms. They were the Wild Force?, a team dedicated to the protection of humans from rogue Pok?mon. The familiar yellow streak finally settled down, it was a primitive but high-evolved lemur with short limbs, Pikachu.
It unzipped a bag probably its trainer?s and scampered into it. ?Sit tight, old friend!? said the Pikachu?s trainer, the legendary Ash Ketchum. Ash is 18 years old and now after 1 year of training he has become a full-fledged Wild Force member whose responsibility was to protect his fellow humans and to tame Nature?s anger in the form of Pok?mon? This day such ?fake? drills were already as common as rats in the streets.
Ash Ketchum now is less rash than he was in his teen years and more a little less clumsy and a responsible man. Everyone he knew has changed a lot over the past few years but because of his job that required a flexible sleeping pattern meant that even if Ash were free, he would be snoring like a Snorlax. So he had little time for the opposite gender or friends. Their mission today was a little complicated than usual, as the most high tech and the strongest machines and Pok?mon including Ash?s prehistoric bipedal crocodile, Feraligator and the Mirror Move Emulators were dispatched.
