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If you're thinking, 'Where have all the reviews gone!? WTF happened?' well it was due to an error, you see when the change over happened from the old AGNPH to the new one happened, I had to add my Co-authors back on, seeing as it took them off for some unknown reason. Anyway, when that happened, 2 copies of this story were made. I tried to delete the one without co-authors but when I did, it also deleted the other one, leaving me with no copies of blood and love, so yeah, have to re-upload. This is a pain in the ass but I heard that there was a problem with the text in all the older stories that made the text all glitchy, so maybe it was for the best that I re-uploaded it. Fortunatly, 'Blood and love' over at FanFiction isn't fucked up so that should make things easier. Also I've now noticed theres a duplicate 'Blood and love' story floating around, why this has happened I have no idea but I'm gonna try get it deleted. Oh, hears the stats for the story before it got wiped out.Views: 26,000Rating: 4.5Reviews: 59Oh, disclaimer. Yeah, Pokemon, I don't own it and I don't intend to make a profit out of it. This was done just for fun.
The Avenger.
10 hours later...
Richard and Tera came back to the hotel after looking around the City for something to do. They lovingly made out on the single bed, Richard's hands stroked Tera's silky smooth fur as her paws pulled him closer to her. They only pulled out of their deep kisses to whisper how much they loved each other. They looked each other in the eyes, although they were enjoying the moment of passion, it wasn't enough. They wanted to make love to each other, to give each other that feeling of sheer pleasure shooting through them again, but they couldn't with out fear that they may get caught. It hurt them both to think that they could be arrested just for showing their love. They both wanted to go back home, where they could love each other without fear of being arrested, where they could spend the rest of their lives with each other. They didn't voice what they were thinking though, all they wanted to do is just kiss and lose all their thoughts as they retreated to the warmth of each other's mouths.
Together, they lay on the bed, it was small and uncomfortable but Richard and Tera didn't want to sleep without each other.
Meanwhile...
Bruce woke up in his room and grumbled, "Ugh, I feel like shit." He got up and put a hand on his aching head before walking over to the bathroom. He now looked at himself in the mirror over the bathroom sink, that's when he remembered the cuts on his back.
He turned around and looked at his back in the mirror, he could see his T-shirt was partly ripped around his back, he could also see a long thin cut on his back through his T-shirt.
"Shit." He silently cussed. "Should have changed shirts when I left that shit hole I call home." He thought out loud as he turned his attention to the toilet to take a piss.
Owen was just watching some TV from the bed he sat on when Rhea's voice called him through his earpiece. "Owen, are you there?" She asked.
Owen pressed down the button on the earpiece and said, "Yeah, is there something wrong?" Owen replied, always expecting the worst.
"Bad news and good news, the bad news is that an agent who had successfully infiltrated Silas' ranks has been executed by Silas himself, not only that but a video of his execution has leaked all over the internet." She begun.
So far, so bad.
"The good news is that a group of soldiers have come across a soldier who was stationed at vermillion, and his Gardevoir. They are alive and well, the soldier will be questioned at HQ." Rhea informed Owen.
"Good, do you have any information on any of the recruits' locations?" Owen asked.
"Well it is thought that 'The Avenger' and his Scyther are somewhere within Kanto, 'The Medic' is still in Johto and 'The Sniper' is currently carrying out mission in Unova." Rhea told him.
"Inform me of the exact location of 'The Avenger' as soon as you are told." Owen said.
"Affirmative." Rhea answered as her voice crackled out.
Owen sighed; he wanted to talk to her a little longer.
It was now dark, and Kiara was still outside. Things had gotten a little more interesting for her. Kiara had seen a number of military vehicles passing through the city and towards Vermillion since they arrived there.
She had also heard a few distant sounding gunshots and explosions, she wanted to rush towards them, but she decided not to stray too far away from the group.
There also now seemed to be soldiers in the city too, she had seen a few walking in pairs down some streets. Kiara's plan to piss off Bruce had to be put on hold because when she went looking for his backpack in the car; it was gone, taken by him.
Kiara had found a nice spot to sleep in, bushy, cool, surrounded by trees and out of sight, but she wasn't sleepy, not yet.
The next day...
Richard and Tera climbed into the back of the battered car, joining Bruce and Kiara.
Richard's eyes went over to Bruce's backpack that was now open, it was full of drinks; brandy, gin, absinthe, tequila, rum, beer, and nearly every alcoholic drink seemed to be stored in Bruce's backpack.
There was even a glass bottle with duct tape that read, 'White Russian'.
Kiara watched as Bruce grabbed a beer, opened it up and drank half of it in one swig. "How are you still alive?" Kiara asked the alcoholic man in front of her.
Bruce let out a little chuckle when he answered, "I'm not sure, but I wonder the same about you. How the hell did a rat like you take out that sniper anyway?"
"The same way I saved your sorry drunken ass from the Rhyhorn, you never did thank me for that by the way." Kiara replied with a frown.
"And I never will. I could have taken him." Bruce said as he took another mouthful of beer.
"You could have taken him whilst on your back? Doubtful." Kiara replied snappily.
"Hey, I've won plenty of fights on my back!" Bruce quickly retorted.
Owen tried to block out the argument behind him as he drove the car away from the city. Rhea had contacted him once more since last night to inform him of the location of 'The Avenger'.
5 minutes later...
Bruce and Kiara were silently staring at each other, giving threatening looks. As Kiara stared at Bruce, she thought of ways to piss him off. She plotted deviously, a smile crept to her face when she thought about how angry he would get if she actually went through with her plans.
Richard and Tera leaned against each other. They were both concerned for each other.
He gently stroked her paw as she cuddled up to him. They knew that where ever they were going to next, would put them in danger again, so they just tried to enjoy the time that they will spend with each other as much as possible.
Only when Richard thought about how the next mission, could put both of them in danger, did he quickly realize that he didn't know where they were going to. He thought about asking, but he didn't.
He just silently rested with Tera; he didn't want to worry her by bringing up what was next when she looked so peaceful. Her eyes were closed, but she was still awake. Richard couldn't help but think, 'She's the most beautiful thing in the world.'
Lovingly, he let her lean on him and he pulled her into a loose hug, comforting her.
Bruce noticed how close the man and Lucario were sitting to each other.
'They look... close. I wonder if that guy is doing her... Nah, it's illegal... Here anyway. No, he's just... Wait; did I just see him stroke her? Alright, he has to be doing her! Or is he? Ah fuck, I'll probably find out for sure later anyway.' Bruce thought to himself.
Owen kept his eyes on the road and thought about how he should approach 'The Avenger', that's when he said, "Richard, you should read through the dossier entitled 'The Avenger', he's our next recruit."
Richard let out a sigh; he was hoping that Owen wouldn't say that. Fortunately for Richard, the dossier that he looked for was right besides him so he wouldn't disturb Tera by picking it up, although the other dossiers were scattered on the car floor. He picked it up and looked through it.
'The Avenger.'
Recruit number: #9079
Name: Louis 'Lou' Toney.
Age: 22
Background info: Louis was orphaned during Silas' first ever major attack on Viridian City, his brother was taken as a slave during the attack, and the current disposition of his brother is unknown. Louis was captured but reportedly rescued by a male Scyther (Reaper).
Louis, Reaper and two others fled the city in a car. Louis and Reaper were taken in by young newlyweds Sharon and David Loyd in Pewter City. Louis has trained himself with the help of Reaper to become an adept fighter.
At the age of 18, Louis and Reaper left Pewter City in search of high ranking members of Silas' army involved in the attack on Viridian City to avenge those who lost their lives in the attack. Nearly all of Silas' highest ranks that were involved in the attack are now dead.
Height: *estimation* 5 foot 10 inches.
Place of birth: Kanto.
Richard noticed that the picture was missing, probably shaken out of the dossier when the Rhyhorns rammed the car. He set down the dossier, having seen enough.
Richard turned his attention to Tera who now looked like she was sleeping, her head rested against his arm. 'I'm so lucky to have her.' He thought to himself.
Her beautiful face, with the sunlight peering through the windows and reflecting on her face, making it brighter in turn.
5 minutes later...
The car now arrived at Celadon City; it was mainly made up of large sky scrapers and other large buildings. Owen pressed the little button on his earpiece.
"Rhea, were in the city now, what's the current position of 'The Avenger'?" He asked into the small microphone attached to the earpiece.
"He's near you, stop the car." Rhea advised.
Owen did as she said and stopped the car; he also began looking into the windows of the sky scrapers to see if he could spot whoever was giving her this information. He couldn't see anyone suspicious but he did see man walking with a Scyther a little further down the street.
The young man was wearing a dark blue denim jacket, jeans and a blue baseball cap that he wore back to front. Owen could also see that the young man had light brown hair, and the end of the Syther's claws appeared to have been painted red. "Let's go, only take your handguns and keep them hidden." Owen told the group sitting in the back as he climbed out of the car and closed the door behind him.
Richard gently shook Tera to wake her. "Tera, we have to go now." He whispered to the tired Lucario besides him.
Tera's eyes fluttered open and she gave a yawn, showing her fangs, as she asked, "Go where?"
"I don't know, but were recruiting someone else." Richard answered as he got up and opened the car door.
Richard, Tera, Kiara and Bruce followed Owen who was walking quickly past the crowd of people and towards the man with the Scyther.
Owen thought that getting the man's attention and approaching him in public was the best way to get him to listen to him without thinking they work for Silas. "Louis!" Owen called out to the man on the sidewalk.
The young man stopped and looked to the man that called his name. "You mean me?" Louis asked once the man and his group were close enough.
Owen stopped walking when he saw the Scyther's right claw twitch slightly; he knew that Scyther's could be defensive, and aggressive.
"My name is Owen, and I'm here to recruit you into our specialist team we are building to take down Silas and his entire army, and hopefully, any criminal organizations his army has spawned." Owen said with confidence behind his words.
Louis had a surprised and confused expression on his face. 'They don't look like slavers... Is this man really telling the truth?' He thought to himself. "Why should I or my friend here join you?" Louis asked the man in front of him.
Owen had already planned out what he was going to say to convince his recruits, he had been planning it for about a month. "I know you're looking for the people, who were involved in the attack on Viridian City, join us and I'll give you the location of Ryan Lexer." Owen said.
Louis' looked down to the ground when he mentioned Ryan; the mere mention of his name was enough to make him sick. "Ryan... Fine, we'll join you, but you have to give me his location first." Louis sternly stated.
Owen knew he was going to say that. "He moves around a lot, and he's in Kanto right now. If you're planning to kill him, then you better do it soon so it doesn't interfere with the mission." Owen told him.
"I will." Louis replied.
"Good, I'll make it our first priority. Follow us." Owen informed as he and the group walked back to the car.
Louis looked over to his Scyther, Reaper, who now had a look of distrust on his face. "I think we can trust them, just watch them carefully." Louis stated as he then followed the group back to their car.
Reaper didn't like it, but he followed Louis anyway.
5 minutes later...
Owen had explained everything in full to Louis and Reaper; he had also told him that his contact would give him information on Ryan Lexer whereabouts as soon as his position becomes known.
Bruce looked over to the new guy that sat besides him, and the Scyther. "What's your name?" He asked in his usual casual drunken tone.
"My name is Louis, and this is Reaper." Louis replied motioning to the Scyther besides him.
Bruce gave him an odd look. "Err, Reaper? The Scyther? Who named him?" Bruce questioned.
"Well, me actually; I named him when I was 12, so please, don't give me crap about his name. What are your names anyway?" Louis asked the man besides him, who had a rather strong scent of alcohol on him.
"Bruce. The blue rat is Kiara." Bruce informed as he pointed over to the Glaceon sat on the opposite seat.
Louis then looked over to the man and Lucario. "And your names?" He asked the two sitting opposite to him.
"My name is Richard; this is my soul mate, Tera." He replied as he hugged the blushing Lucario.
Bruce's head perked up and he shouted out, "I knew it! Knew it! Knew it! Knew it! I fucking knew it! Shit! I should have placed a bet or something."
Kiara looked at him with a frown and said, "Are we going to add 'gambler' to your list of charming features now?"
"Depends, are you going to bitch about it?" Bruce quickly responded.
Louis, Richard and Tera ignored the argument now flaring up between Bruce and Kiara as Louis asked a question. "That's illegal isn't it? Your relationship I mean."
Richard was the one to respond. "Over here, yes. But back in Hoenn and Johto which is where Tera and I come from, it isn't. No law will stop me from loving Tera." Richard proudly stated as he looked back over to the Lucario he adores.
Louis found Richard's and Tera's relationship strange to say the least, he wanted to ask why they aren't with members of their own species, but seeing as he only just met them and he didn't know what to expect from them, he kept quiet.
Good thing too.
3 hours later...
Owen had given Louis his communicator and translator; he had also bought camping equipment from one of the stores in the City. They were now just on the outskirts of the City in a hotel, Owen had decided that there wasn't much it could do today except wait for Rhea to contact him, and that could take a day or two.
Owen did not take a room for the night, instead deciding to spend it in the car, he didn't want to leave the car outside unprotected when it had become quite vital in their mission, especially not when it had a smashed out window.
Bruce opened up another beer as he watched TV; he was watching the same show he watched at the other hotel. This time, he watched as a man charged at the other man seated with the host of the show.
One of the men was sleeping with someone's girlfriend, but Bruce didn't watch it for their stories, he watched it because he wanted to see some one get punched. "Go on, knock him out!" Bruce yelled as the charging man was grabbed by two big security guys.
"Oh fuck you guys! You ruin everything!" He shouted out as he watched the other man get out of his seat and run over to the man being held by security. Bruce cheered as the man being held by security managed to kick the man running towards him right in the testicles.
More security filled the stage as both men were held down.
After watching the show, Bruce did his thing in his room, drinking, passing out, waking up then drinking some more, before taking a piss.
Kiara stayed outside again, but she knew that this was going to be boring. There were no people nearby to watch, and Bruce had once again taken his backpack with him into his room. It was way too early to get some sleep, so instead she just scouted out the area.
Louis and his Scyther, Reaper, were now sat in Louis' room for the night. Although Louis had been given the communicator/translator from Owen and even wore it, he still hadn't talked to Reaper.
He had lived 10 years of his life with Reaper, and he had never heard him say a single thing that he could understand apart from its race name. Louis sat on the single bed watching TV as Reaper sat on the wooden chair in the room and watched TV with him.
They both silently watched the TV, until Louis finally decided to speak up. "What do you think of these people?" He asked.
Reaper just shrugged and continued to watch the TV.
"You know, you could try to speak to me." Louis said.
Reaper looked over to Louis and finally spoke. "What's the point... That device is probably just trash anyway." He mumbled.
Louis was surprised that the thing actually worked, and he could hear Reaper just as clear as talking to another human. Louis also noticed how rough and strange Reaper's voice was, it sounded like his voice was vibrating.
"This isn't trash, it works. I can hear you." Louis said, surprise lingered in his voice.
"Really? Well... that's something." Reaper replied. Reaper wasn't used to talking, even with other Pokemon. He kept to himself, but now that he could talk to the one person that he stood and thought by, and even in a way, raised, he didn't know what to say to him.
Louis could tell that Reaper wasn't used to talking, but he tried to strike a conversation with him. "So then, what do you think of the people that picked us up?" Louis asked.
"Hmm, they have weapons; some seem more dangerous than others." Reaper replied as he looked at his own bladed arms.
Reaper had allowed Louis to spray paint the ends and edges of his scythe like bladed arms, he had allowed him to do it because it seemed like a good idea, it set him apart from any other Scyther and it intimidated certain people Louis and Reaper interrogated for information.
"Any people that stick out?" Louis asked.
"Yes, the drunk. He has dog tags; now either he is a soldier, a former soldier, or just a man with a dead soldier's dog tags. Why would they even bring a drunk along? The agent, there is something about him, strange, I don't know what though. The others, I don't know, they seem a little harder to read, or maybe there is just nothing to read." Reaper told him.
"The drunk, what was his name again... I think it was Bruce, anyway, did you notice that he had a backpack full of alcohol with him?" Louis asked.
"Yes, I did." Reaper answered.
"Why would they allow him to get drunk on an important mission like this?" Louis questioned.
"I don't know." Reaper flatly replied.
Louis could see that Reaper was getting tired of his constant questions, so he said nothing more and started watching TV again.
Reaper watched the TV again, he liked the silence between them, but there was one question that he wanted to ask Louis. "What are you going to do when you find him?" Reaper asked.
Louis knew who he was talking about. "Kill him, maybe torture him first." Louis answered as he continued watching TV.
"And what will you do after that?" Reaper asked.
Louis looked back over to Reaper and gave his answer. "I don't know, I haven't given it much thought. I guess I'll just join these people and their mission to take down Silas, but if we actually manage to do that... Then I don't know what I'll do."
"Maybe you should start thinking about that then." Reaper replied as he turned his attention back to the TV.
Louis wasn't expecting him to say that, but he thought about it anyway.
Richard and Tera were now in a room together, enjoying each other's hard kisses as they sat on the double bed. Fortunately, the last room available was this room. Tera slowly pulled out of the kiss, but only to whisper a few words into Richard's ear. "I love you Richard."
Richard smiled as his Lucario princess wrapped her arms around him and gave him a hug. "I love you too Tera." He whispered back to her.
"I can't wait to get back home." She quietly said.
"Me too. As soon as we get back, I promise, we'll get married." Richard quietly promised with a smile.
Tera looked back into his eyes. "Then I hope we get back even sooner." She said as she gave him a little kiss on his cheek.
Richard stroked the side of her face; he couldn't help but admire her beauty. "You're so beautiful." he whispered before he slowly kissed her.
"I love you so much." She whispered after the kiss, staring into his eyes, which she very much loved. "I love you as well Tera." Richard replied, giving her, yet, another kiss.
Meanwhile...
Owen sat outside in the driver's seat of the car; he was reading a magazine that he picked up when he was buying camping equipment. It was a gaming magazine, he never told anyone but he was actually an avid gamer.
Owen heard something outside the car, sounded like footsteps. He set down his magazine and grabbed his handgun as he looked out of the window for the source of the noise. He soon saw an elderly man walking by with his dog, Owen let out a little chuckle as he set down his gun.
"I'm getting a little too jumpy." He chuckled to himself as he picked up his magazine again.
Suddenly, Owen felt the air around him get colder as a chill was sent down his spine and words were silently whispered to him. 'Still here.' Owen immediately picked up his gun and spun around, aiming his gun at the empty back seats.
"What the fuck?" Owen asked himself as he looked around the car, just to confirm that no one was in the car with him.
Owen soon relaxed again and sat back in his seat, but he did keep looking behind him. "The paranoia is getting to me again." He said to himself.
This wasn't new to him; he had been suffering from hallucinations and paranoia since his first mission. He learned to block most of it out, but when he was alone and relaxed, that's when it usually kicked in.
Owen stepped outside of the car, he felt like he needed to breath in fresh air. He looked back into the windows of the car again, checking that there really wasn't anyone in there. Soon, a voice crackled into his ear, he was just glad that he recognized this one.
"Owen, are you there?" Rhea's voice crackled into his ear.
Owen pressed the little black button on the earpiece as he gave his reply. "Yeah, I'm here." Owen responded in a slightly depressed tone.
"Something wrong? You sound a little down." Rhea said.
"I'm fine, think I might be just a little overworked though." Owen replied.
"I don't think I've ever heard say your overworked." Rhea responded.
"Yeah, maybe I'm getting too old for this." Owen stated with a fake chuckle.
"Hey, your only 37. You're not that old." Rhea told him.
"I'm only 3 years away before I hit 40. I'm feeling kind of ancient right now. Anyway, I'm sure you didn't just call to check up on me, what's happened now?" Owen asked.
"Nothing, I just called because I have some spare time. You're not doing anything important right now are you?" Rhea asked.
Owen didn't believe her; he thought that the person or people that feed her information must have been watching him when he freaked out in the car. But he wasn't about to ask her if that was the case.
"No, not right now." Owen told her as he sat on the bonnet of the car.
"Good, so, how do you think the mission is going?" Rhea asked.
"I think its going as well as I expected, and I wasn't expecting it to be easy. Right now the mission is on hold for today until we can get that info on Ryan and the rest of the recruits." He started as he looked from side to side, looking around to see if anyone was watching him.
He thought he could feel somebody watching him, but maybe that was just the paranoia.
"I'll tell you as soon as I get that information." Rhea informed.
"Thanks, so what do you think about this mission?" Owen inquired.
"I think this may be one of the most important missions any agency has ever launched, if we fail, then Silas and his men have the power to take over a whole region, maybe even all of them. If we win, then Silas and his army will be destroyed, along with nearly every criminal organization that he helped build." Rhea told him.
Owen already knew what was at stake, hearing Rhea say it though just felt like a weight was placed on his shoulders. "We won't fail, with the strong allies and people we already have, Silas will have one hell of a fight on his hands." Owen replied with optimism.
"He will, but that doesn't mean we have already won." Rhea said.
Owen let out a sigh and asked, "You just had to bring the mood down again didn't you?"
That night...
Bruce woke up in his room in the middle of the night once again, feeling like crap. "Oh, fuck me." He moaned as he sat upright in his hotel room bed and stretched his arms out whilst yawning.
Bruce unsteadily got up out of his bed and began his blind search for his backpack in the dimly lit room. "I can't see shit!" He thought out loud as he got on all fours and felt around the floor for his backpack until he finally found it.
"There you are my little beauties!" He said as he opened up his backpack and grabbed some whiskey. He drank it straight out of the bottle as he lay back down on his bed.
Louis was now asleep on the bed and Reaper was sleeping uncomfortably on the wooden chair.
Richard and Tera both cuddled up to each other under the covers of the bed. Tera looked at the man she loves as she placed her paw on the side of his face.
Richard did the same as he looked into her eyes. Their legs moved against each other as they both moved closer, and their lips met. They were drawn into a long hot wet kiss.
Kiara was now scouting out the nearby forest for both danger, and pecha berries. She knew that if she could find some, then she could find more.
Owen still sat in the car, he had convinced himself that no one was in the car, and it was just his paranoia making him hear things. He read through the same pages of the magazine that he had already read, he couldn't concentrate, and he still felt like someone was there with him.
He put down his magazine and sat back in his seat as he looked at the fingerless combat gloves on his hands, they were armored around the knuckles to inflict more damage in hand-to-hand combat situations.
Owen could have sworn that he heard a shuffling noise just behind the car; he guessed it was his paranoia but he knew he couldn't take a chance. Owen grabbed his silenced handgun and got out of the car to investigate the noise.
He closed the door behind him and walked towards the back of the car, carrying his handgun in both hands. Owen quickly looked around the back of the car and found nothing. He was relieved, but that sense of relief was only temporary as he soon heard the same shuffling noise behind him.
Owen spun around lifted and aimed his handgun towards a man in a black viper's uniform. The uniform was made up of a black Kevlar vest with a black T-shirt underneath it that had two red stripes on the shoulders both bearing the emblem of Silas' army, completely black combat trousers and combat boots.
The viper's face was covered with a black balaclava.
The viper grabbed Owen's hands in which he held the gun and bashed them off the side of the armored car twice before Owen dropped his gun and gave the viper a powerful kick to the stomach to push him away.
Owen noticed that the viper wasn't armed, so he kicked his own silenced hand gun under the car so no one could get to it and took up a fighting stance.
The viper did the same, right before throwing a straight punch towards Owen.
Owen quickly blocked the punch with his elbow before sending his own fist to the viper's jaw. The viper stumbled a little to the side, but still completely in the fight. The viper responded with a flurry of punches and kicks.
Owen got punched to the side of the head before receiving another punch to the left side of his rib cage, but he managed to grab the viper's leg when he tried to kick at his head with a roundhouse kick.
Owen violently tugged the viper's leg once in his direction, making the viper fall on his back.
Owen twisted the viper's foot quickly and stopped once he heard dislocating and the viper screaming. The viper wasn't willing to let him get away with that though, the viper launched a high sweeping kick towards Owen's face.
Owen the powerful kick connect with the side of his face and stumbled over as he held his cheek before quickly regaining his composure and running over to the viper that now had both of his hands near his ankle as he growled in pain.
Owen knelt down on the viper's chest and grabbed him tightly by the neck, not enough to choke him, but enough to constrict the viper's windpipe so that he could not scream.
Owen knew that he probably wasn't going to get any information out of this viper; they were well trained to deal with pain and interrogation. But he tried anyway.
"What does Silas know? What were your orders and why do you have no weapons?" Owen inquired as he put extra pressure both on the viper's chest and neck.
The viper said nothing, instead he cautiously reached inside one of his trouser pockets and searched around for something, but Owen didn't notice this. "Tell me, or you will die right here, right now." Owen threatened, he wasn't really going to kill him, just knock him out and call Rhea for a pick up on the viper. Only when Owen told him this though did he notice that the viper had pulled out a switch blade.
Owen didn't have enough time to think about his actions he just put out his left hand to defend himself as the viper tried to stab him in the chest. Owen shouted out in pain as he felt and saw the blade go right through the middle of his hand, he shouted even more when the viper twisted the blade.
Owen slammed down his fist down onto the viper's face; the armored knuckles on his gloves did their job and ensured that his punches caused maximum damage. By the sixth time he punched the viper in the face, he couldn't tell if the viper was unconscious or dead.
Owen quickly pushed himself off the viper and leaned on the car as he prepared himself to remove the blade out of his hand.
He took a deep breath and quickly grabbed the switch blade by its handle and yanked it out. He bit down lightly on his own tongue as he tried to stop himself from shouting out again. "Shit." He quietly said to himself as he felt the pain very very slowly subsiding.
Owen looked back over at the viper and walked towards him to check for a pulse. He crouched down besides him and checked for a pulse, he found one, but it was faint.
He then looked underneath the car for his gun which he quickly found and then grabbed with his right hand. He then made his way over to the hotel; he had to warn the others that it wasn't safe here anymore.
He also had to do something about his left hand, it was dripping with blood from the through and through wound in the middle of his hand. He pushed open the door and looked over to the man behind the reception desk which he was slumped over.
Owen walked over to the man, on closer inspection; he could see that the man's neck had been snapped. There were no signs of struggle which means he didn't see it coming.
Owen quickly lifted his gun towards the group he saw running down one of the corridors, but quickly lowered it when he realized that every teammate was in that group. Owen didn't want to waste time on explaining what was happening, instead he just yelled, "We have to get out of here, now!"
Richard, Tera, Bruce, Louis and Reaper all followed Owen out of the hotel and towards the car.
Kiara was on the bonnet of the car, she had rushed over when she heard shouting. She also kept watch on the unconscious man besides the car, but her attention was soon drawn to the hotel as she saw everybody running out of it and towards the car.
"What's going on?" She asked them, she noticed that Owen's hand was bleeding and the Scyther's claws were covered in blood. Kiara also noticed that Bruce still had that backpack with him.
Owen quickly responded to her as he opened up the car door and the others all climbed in. "No time to explain, get in."
Kiara quickly jumped off the bonnet and got into the back of the car.
Bruce looked over to Owen who was staring out of the driver's side window, at the viper. "Hey, why aren't we moving! When there are highly trained killers around, I prefer to be moving right the fuck away from them!" Bruce shouted at Owen.
"We have to take him with us." Owen replied as he opened up the car door.
"Wait, who... Oh fucking hell, you mean the cunt lying on the ground out side don't you? Well news flash, I AM NOT FUCKING BRINGING HIM IN THIS CAR!" Bruce angrily shouted at him.
"Fine then, I'll do it myself!" Owen yelled as he slammed the driver's side door behind him.
Richard looked outside as Owen tried to drag the viper closer to the car, but with his bleeding hand, he was struggling to do so. Richard let out a sigh and turned to Tera.
"I'm going outside to help Owen, I'll be right back." He told her as he gave her a kiss on the top of her head before quickly leaving the car.
Owen looked over to Richard who quickly moved towards the viper and hooking his arms around the viper's upper body before saying, "You take the legs."
"Thanks for helping me out." Owen thanked as he tried his best to support the viper's legs.
As Richard backed up towards the car, he decided now was a good time to ask Owen why he was doing this. "Not that I'm siding with Bruce, but why do you want to bring him with us?"
"He's got information, I know it. I'm going to contact the agency and they'll pick him up, and interrogate him." Owen informed as he let go of the viper's legs and opened up the back door to the car.
Richard threw him into the back of the car; he heard the viper's head bang off the metal floor, which made Bruce chuckle a little. Richard then turned his attention to Owen. "Did he do that to your hand?" Richard asked.
Owen looked at his bloody hand before answering. "Yes, he had a switch blade; he got me when I thought I had him."
"You should get that wound looked at." Richard suggested.
"I will, but first we have to get out of here." Owen replied as he climbed back into the car.
Richard got back into the back of the car and sat down besides Tera, who was now staring at the man in black.
Owen started up the car and drove off, he didn't know where they were going to go, but right now anywhere seemed better than at that hotel.
They drove, as the Black Vipers searched still for them.
Richard and Tera came back to the hotel after looking around the City for something to do. They lovingly made out on the single bed, Richard's hands stroked Tera's silky smooth fur as her paws pulled him closer to her. They only pulled out of their deep kisses to whisper how much they loved each other. They looked each other in the eyes, although they were enjoying the moment of passion, it wasn't enough. They wanted to make love to each other, to give each other that feeling of sheer pleasure shooting through them again, but they couldn't with out fear that they may get caught. It hurt them both to think that they could be arrested just for showing their love. They both wanted to go back home, where they could love each other without fear of being arrested, where they could spend the rest of their lives with each other. They didn't voice what they were thinking though, all they wanted to do is just kiss and lose all their thoughts as they retreated to the warmth of each other's mouths.
Together, they lay on the bed, it was small and uncomfortable but Richard and Tera didn't want to sleep without each other.
Meanwhile...
Bruce woke up in his room and grumbled, "Ugh, I feel like shit." He got up and put a hand on his aching head before walking over to the bathroom. He now looked at himself in the mirror over the bathroom sink, that's when he remembered the cuts on his back.
He turned around and looked at his back in the mirror, he could see his T-shirt was partly ripped around his back, he could also see a long thin cut on his back through his T-shirt.
"Shit." He silently cussed. "Should have changed shirts when I left that shit hole I call home." He thought out loud as he turned his attention to the toilet to take a piss.
Owen was just watching some TV from the bed he sat on when Rhea's voice called him through his earpiece. "Owen, are you there?" She asked.
Owen pressed down the button on the earpiece and said, "Yeah, is there something wrong?" Owen replied, always expecting the worst.
"Bad news and good news, the bad news is that an agent who had successfully infiltrated Silas' ranks has been executed by Silas himself, not only that but a video of his execution has leaked all over the internet." She begun.
So far, so bad.
"The good news is that a group of soldiers have come across a soldier who was stationed at vermillion, and his Gardevoir. They are alive and well, the soldier will be questioned at HQ." Rhea informed Owen.
"Good, do you have any information on any of the recruits' locations?" Owen asked.
"Well it is thought that 'The Avenger' and his Scyther are somewhere within Kanto, 'The Medic' is still in Johto and 'The Sniper' is currently carrying out mission in Unova." Rhea told him.
"Inform me of the exact location of 'The Avenger' as soon as you are told." Owen said.
"Affirmative." Rhea answered as her voice crackled out.
Owen sighed; he wanted to talk to her a little longer.
It was now dark, and Kiara was still outside. Things had gotten a little more interesting for her. Kiara had seen a number of military vehicles passing through the city and towards Vermillion since they arrived there.
She had also heard a few distant sounding gunshots and explosions, she wanted to rush towards them, but she decided not to stray too far away from the group.
There also now seemed to be soldiers in the city too, she had seen a few walking in pairs down some streets. Kiara's plan to piss off Bruce had to be put on hold because when she went looking for his backpack in the car; it was gone, taken by him.
Kiara had found a nice spot to sleep in, bushy, cool, surrounded by trees and out of sight, but she wasn't sleepy, not yet.
The next day...
Richard and Tera climbed into the back of the battered car, joining Bruce and Kiara.
Richard's eyes went over to Bruce's backpack that was now open, it was full of drinks; brandy, gin, absinthe, tequila, rum, beer, and nearly every alcoholic drink seemed to be stored in Bruce's backpack.
There was even a glass bottle with duct tape that read, 'White Russian'.
Kiara watched as Bruce grabbed a beer, opened it up and drank half of it in one swig. "How are you still alive?" Kiara asked the alcoholic man in front of her.
Bruce let out a little chuckle when he answered, "I'm not sure, but I wonder the same about you. How the hell did a rat like you take out that sniper anyway?"
"The same way I saved your sorry drunken ass from the Rhyhorn, you never did thank me for that by the way." Kiara replied with a frown.
"And I never will. I could have taken him." Bruce said as he took another mouthful of beer.
"You could have taken him whilst on your back? Doubtful." Kiara replied snappily.
"Hey, I've won plenty of fights on my back!" Bruce quickly retorted.
Owen tried to block out the argument behind him as he drove the car away from the city. Rhea had contacted him once more since last night to inform him of the location of 'The Avenger'.
5 minutes later...
Bruce and Kiara were silently staring at each other, giving threatening looks. As Kiara stared at Bruce, she thought of ways to piss him off. She plotted deviously, a smile crept to her face when she thought about how angry he would get if she actually went through with her plans.
Richard and Tera leaned against each other. They were both concerned for each other.
He gently stroked her paw as she cuddled up to him. They knew that where ever they were going to next, would put them in danger again, so they just tried to enjoy the time that they will spend with each other as much as possible.
Only when Richard thought about how the next mission, could put both of them in danger, did he quickly realize that he didn't know where they were going to. He thought about asking, but he didn't.
He just silently rested with Tera; he didn't want to worry her by bringing up what was next when she looked so peaceful. Her eyes were closed, but she was still awake. Richard couldn't help but think, 'She's the most beautiful thing in the world.'
Lovingly, he let her lean on him and he pulled her into a loose hug, comforting her.
Bruce noticed how close the man and Lucario were sitting to each other.
'They look... close. I wonder if that guy is doing her... Nah, it's illegal... Here anyway. No, he's just... Wait; did I just see him stroke her? Alright, he has to be doing her! Or is he? Ah fuck, I'll probably find out for sure later anyway.' Bruce thought to himself.
Owen kept his eyes on the road and thought about how he should approach 'The Avenger', that's when he said, "Richard, you should read through the dossier entitled 'The Avenger', he's our next recruit."
Richard let out a sigh; he was hoping that Owen wouldn't say that. Fortunately for Richard, the dossier that he looked for was right besides him so he wouldn't disturb Tera by picking it up, although the other dossiers were scattered on the car floor. He picked it up and looked through it.
'The Avenger.'
Recruit number: #9079
Name: Louis 'Lou' Toney.
Age: 22
Background info: Louis was orphaned during Silas' first ever major attack on Viridian City, his brother was taken as a slave during the attack, and the current disposition of his brother is unknown. Louis was captured but reportedly rescued by a male Scyther (Reaper).
Louis, Reaper and two others fled the city in a car. Louis and Reaper were taken in by young newlyweds Sharon and David Loyd in Pewter City. Louis has trained himself with the help of Reaper to become an adept fighter.
At the age of 18, Louis and Reaper left Pewter City in search of high ranking members of Silas' army involved in the attack on Viridian City to avenge those who lost their lives in the attack. Nearly all of Silas' highest ranks that were involved in the attack are now dead.
Height: *estimation* 5 foot 10 inches.
Place of birth: Kanto.
Richard noticed that the picture was missing, probably shaken out of the dossier when the Rhyhorns rammed the car. He set down the dossier, having seen enough.
Richard turned his attention to Tera who now looked like she was sleeping, her head rested against his arm. 'I'm so lucky to have her.' He thought to himself.
Her beautiful face, with the sunlight peering through the windows and reflecting on her face, making it brighter in turn.
5 minutes later...
The car now arrived at Celadon City; it was mainly made up of large sky scrapers and other large buildings. Owen pressed the little button on his earpiece.
"Rhea, were in the city now, what's the current position of 'The Avenger'?" He asked into the small microphone attached to the earpiece.
"He's near you, stop the car." Rhea advised.
Owen did as she said and stopped the car; he also began looking into the windows of the sky scrapers to see if he could spot whoever was giving her this information. He couldn't see anyone suspicious but he did see man walking with a Scyther a little further down the street.
The young man was wearing a dark blue denim jacket, jeans and a blue baseball cap that he wore back to front. Owen could also see that the young man had light brown hair, and the end of the Syther's claws appeared to have been painted red. "Let's go, only take your handguns and keep them hidden." Owen told the group sitting in the back as he climbed out of the car and closed the door behind him.
Richard gently shook Tera to wake her. "Tera, we have to go now." He whispered to the tired Lucario besides him.
Tera's eyes fluttered open and she gave a yawn, showing her fangs, as she asked, "Go where?"
"I don't know, but were recruiting someone else." Richard answered as he got up and opened the car door.
Richard, Tera, Kiara and Bruce followed Owen who was walking quickly past the crowd of people and towards the man with the Scyther.
Owen thought that getting the man's attention and approaching him in public was the best way to get him to listen to him without thinking they work for Silas. "Louis!" Owen called out to the man on the sidewalk.
The young man stopped and looked to the man that called his name. "You mean me?" Louis asked once the man and his group were close enough.
Owen stopped walking when he saw the Scyther's right claw twitch slightly; he knew that Scyther's could be defensive, and aggressive.
"My name is Owen, and I'm here to recruit you into our specialist team we are building to take down Silas and his entire army, and hopefully, any criminal organizations his army has spawned." Owen said with confidence behind his words.
Louis had a surprised and confused expression on his face. 'They don't look like slavers... Is this man really telling the truth?' He thought to himself. "Why should I or my friend here join you?" Louis asked the man in front of him.
Owen had already planned out what he was going to say to convince his recruits, he had been planning it for about a month. "I know you're looking for the people, who were involved in the attack on Viridian City, join us and I'll give you the location of Ryan Lexer." Owen said.
Louis' looked down to the ground when he mentioned Ryan; the mere mention of his name was enough to make him sick. "Ryan... Fine, we'll join you, but you have to give me his location first." Louis sternly stated.
Owen knew he was going to say that. "He moves around a lot, and he's in Kanto right now. If you're planning to kill him, then you better do it soon so it doesn't interfere with the mission." Owen told him.
"I will." Louis replied.
"Good, I'll make it our first priority. Follow us." Owen informed as he and the group walked back to the car.
Louis looked over to his Scyther, Reaper, who now had a look of distrust on his face. "I think we can trust them, just watch them carefully." Louis stated as he then followed the group back to their car.
Reaper didn't like it, but he followed Louis anyway.
5 minutes later...
Owen had explained everything in full to Louis and Reaper; he had also told him that his contact would give him information on Ryan Lexer whereabouts as soon as his position becomes known.
Bruce looked over to the new guy that sat besides him, and the Scyther. "What's your name?" He asked in his usual casual drunken tone.
"My name is Louis, and this is Reaper." Louis replied motioning to the Scyther besides him.
Bruce gave him an odd look. "Err, Reaper? The Scyther? Who named him?" Bruce questioned.
"Well, me actually; I named him when I was 12, so please, don't give me crap about his name. What are your names anyway?" Louis asked the man besides him, who had a rather strong scent of alcohol on him.
"Bruce. The blue rat is Kiara." Bruce informed as he pointed over to the Glaceon sat on the opposite seat.
Louis then looked over to the man and Lucario. "And your names?" He asked the two sitting opposite to him.
"My name is Richard; this is my soul mate, Tera." He replied as he hugged the blushing Lucario.
Bruce's head perked up and he shouted out, "I knew it! Knew it! Knew it! Knew it! I fucking knew it! Shit! I should have placed a bet or something."
Kiara looked at him with a frown and said, "Are we going to add 'gambler' to your list of charming features now?"
"Depends, are you going to bitch about it?" Bruce quickly responded.
Louis, Richard and Tera ignored the argument now flaring up between Bruce and Kiara as Louis asked a question. "That's illegal isn't it? Your relationship I mean."
Richard was the one to respond. "Over here, yes. But back in Hoenn and Johto which is where Tera and I come from, it isn't. No law will stop me from loving Tera." Richard proudly stated as he looked back over to the Lucario he adores.
Louis found Richard's and Tera's relationship strange to say the least, he wanted to ask why they aren't with members of their own species, but seeing as he only just met them and he didn't know what to expect from them, he kept quiet.
Good thing too.
3 hours later...
Owen had given Louis his communicator and translator; he had also bought camping equipment from one of the stores in the City. They were now just on the outskirts of the City in a hotel, Owen had decided that there wasn't much it could do today except wait for Rhea to contact him, and that could take a day or two.
Owen did not take a room for the night, instead deciding to spend it in the car, he didn't want to leave the car outside unprotected when it had become quite vital in their mission, especially not when it had a smashed out window.
Bruce opened up another beer as he watched TV; he was watching the same show he watched at the other hotel. This time, he watched as a man charged at the other man seated with the host of the show.
One of the men was sleeping with someone's girlfriend, but Bruce didn't watch it for their stories, he watched it because he wanted to see some one get punched. "Go on, knock him out!" Bruce yelled as the charging man was grabbed by two big security guys.
"Oh fuck you guys! You ruin everything!" He shouted out as he watched the other man get out of his seat and run over to the man being held by security. Bruce cheered as the man being held by security managed to kick the man running towards him right in the testicles.
More security filled the stage as both men were held down.
After watching the show, Bruce did his thing in his room, drinking, passing out, waking up then drinking some more, before taking a piss.
Kiara stayed outside again, but she knew that this was going to be boring. There were no people nearby to watch, and Bruce had once again taken his backpack with him into his room. It was way too early to get some sleep, so instead she just scouted out the area.
Louis and his Scyther, Reaper, were now sat in Louis' room for the night. Although Louis had been given the communicator/translator from Owen and even wore it, he still hadn't talked to Reaper.
He had lived 10 years of his life with Reaper, and he had never heard him say a single thing that he could understand apart from its race name. Louis sat on the single bed watching TV as Reaper sat on the wooden chair in the room and watched TV with him.
They both silently watched the TV, until Louis finally decided to speak up. "What do you think of these people?" He asked.
Reaper just shrugged and continued to watch the TV.
"You know, you could try to speak to me." Louis said.
Reaper looked over to Louis and finally spoke. "What's the point... That device is probably just trash anyway." He mumbled.
Louis was surprised that the thing actually worked, and he could hear Reaper just as clear as talking to another human. Louis also noticed how rough and strange Reaper's voice was, it sounded like his voice was vibrating.
"This isn't trash, it works. I can hear you." Louis said, surprise lingered in his voice.
"Really? Well... that's something." Reaper replied. Reaper wasn't used to talking, even with other Pokemon. He kept to himself, but now that he could talk to the one person that he stood and thought by, and even in a way, raised, he didn't know what to say to him.
Louis could tell that Reaper wasn't used to talking, but he tried to strike a conversation with him. "So then, what do you think of the people that picked us up?" Louis asked.
"Hmm, they have weapons; some seem more dangerous than others." Reaper replied as he looked at his own bladed arms.
Reaper had allowed Louis to spray paint the ends and edges of his scythe like bladed arms, he had allowed him to do it because it seemed like a good idea, it set him apart from any other Scyther and it intimidated certain people Louis and Reaper interrogated for information.
"Any people that stick out?" Louis asked.
"Yes, the drunk. He has dog tags; now either he is a soldier, a former soldier, or just a man with a dead soldier's dog tags. Why would they even bring a drunk along? The agent, there is something about him, strange, I don't know what though. The others, I don't know, they seem a little harder to read, or maybe there is just nothing to read." Reaper told him.
"The drunk, what was his name again... I think it was Bruce, anyway, did you notice that he had a backpack full of alcohol with him?" Louis asked.
"Yes, I did." Reaper answered.
"Why would they allow him to get drunk on an important mission like this?" Louis questioned.
"I don't know." Reaper flatly replied.
Louis could see that Reaper was getting tired of his constant questions, so he said nothing more and started watching TV again.
Reaper watched the TV again, he liked the silence between them, but there was one question that he wanted to ask Louis. "What are you going to do when you find him?" Reaper asked.
Louis knew who he was talking about. "Kill him, maybe torture him first." Louis answered as he continued watching TV.
"And what will you do after that?" Reaper asked.
Louis looked back over to Reaper and gave his answer. "I don't know, I haven't given it much thought. I guess I'll just join these people and their mission to take down Silas, but if we actually manage to do that... Then I don't know what I'll do."
"Maybe you should start thinking about that then." Reaper replied as he turned his attention back to the TV.
Louis wasn't expecting him to say that, but he thought about it anyway.
Richard and Tera were now in a room together, enjoying each other's hard kisses as they sat on the double bed. Fortunately, the last room available was this room. Tera slowly pulled out of the kiss, but only to whisper a few words into Richard's ear. "I love you Richard."
Richard smiled as his Lucario princess wrapped her arms around him and gave him a hug. "I love you too Tera." He whispered back to her.
"I can't wait to get back home." She quietly said.
"Me too. As soon as we get back, I promise, we'll get married." Richard quietly promised with a smile.
Tera looked back into his eyes. "Then I hope we get back even sooner." She said as she gave him a little kiss on his cheek.
Richard stroked the side of her face; he couldn't help but admire her beauty. "You're so beautiful." he whispered before he slowly kissed her.
"I love you so much." She whispered after the kiss, staring into his eyes, which she very much loved. "I love you as well Tera." Richard replied, giving her, yet, another kiss.
Meanwhile...
Owen sat outside in the driver's seat of the car; he was reading a magazine that he picked up when he was buying camping equipment. It was a gaming magazine, he never told anyone but he was actually an avid gamer.
Owen heard something outside the car, sounded like footsteps. He set down his magazine and grabbed his handgun as he looked out of the window for the source of the noise. He soon saw an elderly man walking by with his dog, Owen let out a little chuckle as he set down his gun.
"I'm getting a little too jumpy." He chuckled to himself as he picked up his magazine again.
Suddenly, Owen felt the air around him get colder as a chill was sent down his spine and words were silently whispered to him. 'Still here.' Owen immediately picked up his gun and spun around, aiming his gun at the empty back seats.
"What the fuck?" Owen asked himself as he looked around the car, just to confirm that no one was in the car with him.
Owen soon relaxed again and sat back in his seat, but he did keep looking behind him. "The paranoia is getting to me again." He said to himself.
This wasn't new to him; he had been suffering from hallucinations and paranoia since his first mission. He learned to block most of it out, but when he was alone and relaxed, that's when it usually kicked in.
Owen stepped outside of the car, he felt like he needed to breath in fresh air. He looked back into the windows of the car again, checking that there really wasn't anyone in there. Soon, a voice crackled into his ear, he was just glad that he recognized this one.
"Owen, are you there?" Rhea's voice crackled into his ear.
Owen pressed the little black button on the earpiece as he gave his reply. "Yeah, I'm here." Owen responded in a slightly depressed tone.
"Something wrong? You sound a little down." Rhea said.
"I'm fine, think I might be just a little overworked though." Owen replied.
"I don't think I've ever heard say your overworked." Rhea responded.
"Yeah, maybe I'm getting too old for this." Owen stated with a fake chuckle.
"Hey, your only 37. You're not that old." Rhea told him.
"I'm only 3 years away before I hit 40. I'm feeling kind of ancient right now. Anyway, I'm sure you didn't just call to check up on me, what's happened now?" Owen asked.
"Nothing, I just called because I have some spare time. You're not doing anything important right now are you?" Rhea asked.
Owen didn't believe her; he thought that the person or people that feed her information must have been watching him when he freaked out in the car. But he wasn't about to ask her if that was the case.
"No, not right now." Owen told her as he sat on the bonnet of the car.
"Good, so, how do you think the mission is going?" Rhea asked.
"I think its going as well as I expected, and I wasn't expecting it to be easy. Right now the mission is on hold for today until we can get that info on Ryan and the rest of the recruits." He started as he looked from side to side, looking around to see if anyone was watching him.
He thought he could feel somebody watching him, but maybe that was just the paranoia.
"I'll tell you as soon as I get that information." Rhea informed.
"Thanks, so what do you think about this mission?" Owen inquired.
"I think this may be one of the most important missions any agency has ever launched, if we fail, then Silas and his men have the power to take over a whole region, maybe even all of them. If we win, then Silas and his army will be destroyed, along with nearly every criminal organization that he helped build." Rhea told him.
Owen already knew what was at stake, hearing Rhea say it though just felt like a weight was placed on his shoulders. "We won't fail, with the strong allies and people we already have, Silas will have one hell of a fight on his hands." Owen replied with optimism.
"He will, but that doesn't mean we have already won." Rhea said.
Owen let out a sigh and asked, "You just had to bring the mood down again didn't you?"
That night...
Bruce woke up in his room in the middle of the night once again, feeling like crap. "Oh, fuck me." He moaned as he sat upright in his hotel room bed and stretched his arms out whilst yawning.
Bruce unsteadily got up out of his bed and began his blind search for his backpack in the dimly lit room. "I can't see shit!" He thought out loud as he got on all fours and felt around the floor for his backpack until he finally found it.
"There you are my little beauties!" He said as he opened up his backpack and grabbed some whiskey. He drank it straight out of the bottle as he lay back down on his bed.
Louis was now asleep on the bed and Reaper was sleeping uncomfortably on the wooden chair.
Richard and Tera both cuddled up to each other under the covers of the bed. Tera looked at the man she loves as she placed her paw on the side of his face.
Richard did the same as he looked into her eyes. Their legs moved against each other as they both moved closer, and their lips met. They were drawn into a long hot wet kiss.
Kiara was now scouting out the nearby forest for both danger, and pecha berries. She knew that if she could find some, then she could find more.
Owen still sat in the car, he had convinced himself that no one was in the car, and it was just his paranoia making him hear things. He read through the same pages of the magazine that he had already read, he couldn't concentrate, and he still felt like someone was there with him.
He put down his magazine and sat back in his seat as he looked at the fingerless combat gloves on his hands, they were armored around the knuckles to inflict more damage in hand-to-hand combat situations.
Owen could have sworn that he heard a shuffling noise just behind the car; he guessed it was his paranoia but he knew he couldn't take a chance. Owen grabbed his silenced handgun and got out of the car to investigate the noise.
He closed the door behind him and walked towards the back of the car, carrying his handgun in both hands. Owen quickly looked around the back of the car and found nothing. He was relieved, but that sense of relief was only temporary as he soon heard the same shuffling noise behind him.
Owen spun around lifted and aimed his handgun towards a man in a black viper's uniform. The uniform was made up of a black Kevlar vest with a black T-shirt underneath it that had two red stripes on the shoulders both bearing the emblem of Silas' army, completely black combat trousers and combat boots.
The viper's face was covered with a black balaclava.
The viper grabbed Owen's hands in which he held the gun and bashed them off the side of the armored car twice before Owen dropped his gun and gave the viper a powerful kick to the stomach to push him away.
Owen noticed that the viper wasn't armed, so he kicked his own silenced hand gun under the car so no one could get to it and took up a fighting stance.
The viper did the same, right before throwing a straight punch towards Owen.
Owen quickly blocked the punch with his elbow before sending his own fist to the viper's jaw. The viper stumbled a little to the side, but still completely in the fight. The viper responded with a flurry of punches and kicks.
Owen got punched to the side of the head before receiving another punch to the left side of his rib cage, but he managed to grab the viper's leg when he tried to kick at his head with a roundhouse kick.
Owen violently tugged the viper's leg once in his direction, making the viper fall on his back.
Owen twisted the viper's foot quickly and stopped once he heard dislocating and the viper screaming. The viper wasn't willing to let him get away with that though, the viper launched a high sweeping kick towards Owen's face.
Owen the powerful kick connect with the side of his face and stumbled over as he held his cheek before quickly regaining his composure and running over to the viper that now had both of his hands near his ankle as he growled in pain.
Owen knelt down on the viper's chest and grabbed him tightly by the neck, not enough to choke him, but enough to constrict the viper's windpipe so that he could not scream.
Owen knew that he probably wasn't going to get any information out of this viper; they were well trained to deal with pain and interrogation. But he tried anyway.
"What does Silas know? What were your orders and why do you have no weapons?" Owen inquired as he put extra pressure both on the viper's chest and neck.
The viper said nothing, instead he cautiously reached inside one of his trouser pockets and searched around for something, but Owen didn't notice this. "Tell me, or you will die right here, right now." Owen threatened, he wasn't really going to kill him, just knock him out and call Rhea for a pick up on the viper. Only when Owen told him this though did he notice that the viper had pulled out a switch blade.
Owen didn't have enough time to think about his actions he just put out his left hand to defend himself as the viper tried to stab him in the chest. Owen shouted out in pain as he felt and saw the blade go right through the middle of his hand, he shouted even more when the viper twisted the blade.
Owen slammed down his fist down onto the viper's face; the armored knuckles on his gloves did their job and ensured that his punches caused maximum damage. By the sixth time he punched the viper in the face, he couldn't tell if the viper was unconscious or dead.
Owen quickly pushed himself off the viper and leaned on the car as he prepared himself to remove the blade out of his hand.
He took a deep breath and quickly grabbed the switch blade by its handle and yanked it out. He bit down lightly on his own tongue as he tried to stop himself from shouting out again. "Shit." He quietly said to himself as he felt the pain very very slowly subsiding.
Owen looked back over at the viper and walked towards him to check for a pulse. He crouched down besides him and checked for a pulse, he found one, but it was faint.
He then looked underneath the car for his gun which he quickly found and then grabbed with his right hand. He then made his way over to the hotel; he had to warn the others that it wasn't safe here anymore.
He also had to do something about his left hand, it was dripping with blood from the through and through wound in the middle of his hand. He pushed open the door and looked over to the man behind the reception desk which he was slumped over.
Owen walked over to the man, on closer inspection; he could see that the man's neck had been snapped. There were no signs of struggle which means he didn't see it coming.
Owen quickly lifted his gun towards the group he saw running down one of the corridors, but quickly lowered it when he realized that every teammate was in that group. Owen didn't want to waste time on explaining what was happening, instead he just yelled, "We have to get out of here, now!"
Richard, Tera, Bruce, Louis and Reaper all followed Owen out of the hotel and towards the car.
Kiara was on the bonnet of the car, she had rushed over when she heard shouting. She also kept watch on the unconscious man besides the car, but her attention was soon drawn to the hotel as she saw everybody running out of it and towards the car.
"What's going on?" She asked them, she noticed that Owen's hand was bleeding and the Scyther's claws were covered in blood. Kiara also noticed that Bruce still had that backpack with him.
Owen quickly responded to her as he opened up the car door and the others all climbed in. "No time to explain, get in."
Kiara quickly jumped off the bonnet and got into the back of the car.
Bruce looked over to Owen who was staring out of the driver's side window, at the viper. "Hey, why aren't we moving! When there are highly trained killers around, I prefer to be moving right the fuck away from them!" Bruce shouted at Owen.
"We have to take him with us." Owen replied as he opened up the car door.
"Wait, who... Oh fucking hell, you mean the cunt lying on the ground out side don't you? Well news flash, I AM NOT FUCKING BRINGING HIM IN THIS CAR!" Bruce angrily shouted at him.
"Fine then, I'll do it myself!" Owen yelled as he slammed the driver's side door behind him.
Richard looked outside as Owen tried to drag the viper closer to the car, but with his bleeding hand, he was struggling to do so. Richard let out a sigh and turned to Tera.
"I'm going outside to help Owen, I'll be right back." He told her as he gave her a kiss on the top of her head before quickly leaving the car.
Owen looked over to Richard who quickly moved towards the viper and hooking his arms around the viper's upper body before saying, "You take the legs."
"Thanks for helping me out." Owen thanked as he tried his best to support the viper's legs.
As Richard backed up towards the car, he decided now was a good time to ask Owen why he was doing this. "Not that I'm siding with Bruce, but why do you want to bring him with us?"
"He's got information, I know it. I'm going to contact the agency and they'll pick him up, and interrogate him." Owen informed as he let go of the viper's legs and opened up the back door to the car.
Richard threw him into the back of the car; he heard the viper's head bang off the metal floor, which made Bruce chuckle a little. Richard then turned his attention to Owen. "Did he do that to your hand?" Richard asked.
Owen looked at his bloody hand before answering. "Yes, he had a switch blade; he got me when I thought I had him."
"You should get that wound looked at." Richard suggested.
"I will, but first we have to get out of here." Owen replied as he climbed back into the car.
Richard got back into the back of the car and sat down besides Tera, who was now staring at the man in black.
Owen started up the car and drove off, he didn't know where they were going to go, but right now anywhere seemed better than at that hotel.
They drove, as the Black Vipers searched still for them.