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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 Medic.
Bruce got about 10 feet away from the house, until he heard his sister's voice again.
"Bruce!" Kelly called out to him.
Bruce stopped in his tracks and turned to face her to see what she had to say. Kelly gave him a short hug and quietly said, "Come back soon."
Bruce hugged her back and said, "I will."
Kelly soon stopped hugging him to let him leave, even though she didn't want him to. Kelly watched her brother walk down the street; hoping that she would see him again soon.
Bruce walked away, down the street. He hid the fact that he was actually really pissed to be leaving her again, but leaving her wasn't the only thing on his mind.
There we're people that really didn't like him in this city, and he felt like someone was watching him. He just hoped that if someone was watching him that they would come after him and ignore his sister.
Kiara continued to follow him, although she had tried to listen in to their conversation, the glass of the window she was looking in through was too thick to actually hear anything through. All she heard was mumbles, but she was determined to find out what was going on.
Meanwhile...
Owen was now very close to the military base, it was now in sight, it wasn't long until he heard Rhea's voice calling to him again. "The recruit will be waiting at the front gates of the base; he has already been informed of the mission and has agreed to aid you in whatever way he can." Rhea informed him.
As the car got closer to the military base, he could see five men at the main gate, four armed with assault rifles that he couldn't quite make out, the one man that didn't have an assault rifle also wore a different uniform from the rest, and carried a military bag with him.
Owen pressed the button down on the earpiece and said, "I think I can see him."
The car soon came to a stop just a few feet away from the men. Owen stepped out of the car, and nobody else. He approached the man in the middle, which was defiantly the recruit he was looking for, late twenties, short blond hair parted in the middle and light brownish eyes with a red tint to them.
He was wearing combat boots, completely green combat trousers, a gray shirt under his combat jacket and a leg holster strapped to his right thigh which held a handgun. "Are you Kovick?" Owen asked just to get confirmation.
"Yeah that's me, shall we get to it then?" Kovick asked tiredly.
"Follow me, the rest of the team are in the car." Owen told him as he walked back over to the car.
Kovick opened one of the car's back doors to find a female Lucario that wore a silver necklace with a miniature sword on it, holding the hand of a man sitting next to it, and on the seats opposite them, another man with a bandaged up thigh wearing primarily blue clothing with a male Scyther with what looked to be red spray paint on the edges of his claws.
Kovick closed the door behind him and sat on the same set of seats the Lucario and the other man with the faux hawk was sitting on.
'Should I say hello or something?' Kovick asked himself as he sat down on the seat closest to the smashed out window. "Err, what happened to this car?" Kovick asked as he looked at the dented door and the glassless window.
Richard decided he should answer him. "We were attacked, two Ryhorn smashed into the side of the car. Tera and I had to smash out the glass to get out. I'm Richard by the way, this is Tera." Richard informed him as he pointed to the Lucario besides him.
"My name is Kovick, what about you two over there?" Kovick asked the man sitting next to the Scyther.
"Louis, Reaper." Louis replied.
"And you?" Kovick asked the man that had just started driving away from the military base.
"Owen, we'll be picking up two other people that are a part of our team." Owen told him.
Kovick nodded and then asked, "Why do you need me for this mission anyway?"
"Because we need someone with medical knowledge in the team, someone who can treat both humans and Pokémon but can also fight. You were the best candidate for the position. You'll be needing this, take it." Owen told him as he found another earpiece and threw it to Kovick.
"What if I didn't want the position?" Kovick asked as he got out of his seat and caught the earpiece.
"I would have found a way to persuade you to join our team, or find someone else." Owen admitted.
Kovick didn't like the way he said 'persuade', he didn't trust the agent, but the man with the faux hawk seemed nice. "What is this for then?" Kovick questioned as he looked at the earpiece in his hands.
"It's a translator, you'll be able to understand Pokémon speech with that in your ear." Owen informed him.
"Really? Well, impressive." Kovick said quietly as he tried to get the earpiece into a comfortable position.
When Kovick stopped fiddling around with the earpiece, he looked around at the people in the back of the car with him; their clothing didn't exactly look military issue. "Are you guys part of the army?" Kovick inquired.
Richard turned to him again and answered, "No, I used to be a cop with Tera, and before that, I was a mercenary."
Kovick gave a puzzled look before asking, "If you're not part of the army, then why did you two join?"
"We joined to stop Silas and his men from coming to Hoenn, and killing our friends." Richard told Kovick before he looked back over to Tera. Richard couldn't help but feel responsible for her coming along with him, although he knew that he couldn't stop her, she was just strong like that. That was one of the many things that he loved about her, then again, he loved everything about her.
Kovick had a feeling that the man he was talking to, Richard was partners with the female Lucario sitting beside him. Kovick wondered if they were sexually active, and if they knew everything that needed to be known.
In the best of mentions, he decided to ask. "Uh... Are you two... In a relationship?" Kovick asked, oblivious to the embarrassment that came from it. "Err... Well... I love her if that's what you mean. You do mean that, right?" Richard responded. "Never mind then." He replied. He knew that something was going on between them.
If they didn't, then he guessed that he would just have to pull them aside at some point and tell them. Kovick kicked the thoughts about giving the couple medical advice and quickly turned his attention to Louis and Reaper. "What about you two, why did you guys join?" Kovick asked curiously.
Louis was the first to answer his question. "I joined to kill a slaver, now I'm staying to kill some more." Louis answered.
"And I'm here to make sure the boy doesn't get himself into too much trouble." Reaper said with what looked to be a smile.
Kovick was surprised to hear Reaper and understand him; he guessed that the earpiece really works. "So then... Where are we going now?" Kovick asked, trying not to sound too surprised and confused about the earpiece.
"Olivine City, the two I mentioned before are there." Owen told him as he continued driving.
Meanwhile...
'Some fucker is following me!' Bruce thought to himself as he walked down a street, every time he looked behind him, it seemed like the person who was following him just disappeared.
'Right, that fucker is going to get a big surprise.' Bruce thought to himself as he turned to his right and walked down a dark alley.
Kiara took a peek around the corner of the street. 'I can't see him; he must have gone down that alley... The idiot must have forgotten which way he came.' Kiara thought to herself as she began running down the street in an attempt to keep up with him.
Kiara stopped running when she reached the alley and took a peek around the corner. All she could see was two dumpsters and another street down the other end of the alley. 'He's fast for a drunk!' Kiara thought as she began running down the alley.
Bruce could hear footsteps, or paw steps, for Bruce, it was hard to tell. 'Right, get a load of this you fucker!' Bruce thought to himself right before he jumped out from behind the dumpster with a piece of 2x4 wood in his hands.
"AH!" Kiara shouted out right before she jumped back, startled at the sight of the man swinging the piece of wood in her direction.
Bruce swung the piece of wood with great force, but all he hit was the dumpster which made a loud banging noise. "Fuck!" Bruce shouted as he then looked at what he was swinging at. "You! What the fuck are you doing here!" Bruce shouted at Kiara, whose frozen fur now stood on end on her back like needles.
"I-I was just-" Kiara tried to explain before she was interrupted.
"I-I was just WHAT! Spying on me!" Bruce yelled, getting angrier by the second.
"Well someone had to watch your drunken ass!" Kiara quickly shot back.
"I'm not fucking drunk!" Bruce shouted before throwing the piece of wood at a wall and storming off.
"Where are you going!" Kiara shouted over to him.
"To get fucking drunk!" Bruce yelled back at her.
"Oh, like I didn't see that coming." Kiara mumbled to herself before running up behind Bruce. "So, who was that woman?" Kiara asked.
Bruce pretended to not know what she was talking about and asked, "What woman?"
"The woman whose house you went into, you know, the one with the blond hair that you hugged." Kiara replied.
Bruce stopped in his tracks and turned to Kiara. "Fuck! How long were you following me?" Bruce questioned.
"Long enough to see you make a complete ass out of yourself by getting into a fight with a computer." Kiara replied with a smile.
"That fucking computer deserved a punch!" Bruce responded as he began walking again.
"So, who was that woman?" Kiara asked once again, not willing to let it go.
"I'm not telling you shit!" Bruce shouted over his shoulder.
"Girlfriend?" Kiara guessed.
"Ha, you would like to know that wouldn't you?" Bruce replied with a smirk on his face.
"Don't flatter yourself drunkard! So, is she?" Kiara probed.
"Did I melt your cold little heart?" Bruce asked as his smirk grew into a smile.
"Shut up." Kiara said as she started to get a little annoyed, and a little embarrassed.
"Tell me, do you get all hot thinking about me?" Bruce inquired as he tried to stop his smile growing into a grin.
"If I ever get hot around you, it will only be because you sat too close to the campfire and went up in flames." Kiara told him.
"Yeah, try to hide your undying love for my badassary with jokes." Bruce said to her.
"Badassary? Don't you mean your drunken dickary?" Kiara sharply insulted.
"So that's what you love about me!" Bruce exclaimed as he chuckled a little.
"I never said that!" Kiara yelled at him, blushing slightly.
"It sounded like you said it." Bruce replied, leaning in, and noticing the red tint.
"You need to stop drinking, you're hearing things." Kiara flatly told to him.
"Yeah, I'm hearing the sound of an ice rat falling in love with the man with the iron liver!" Bruce shouted out as he let out some laughs.
"I wouldn't be surprised if you actually do have an iron liver." Kiara spat at him.
"I have an iron liver, balls of steel and a cock of rock! I bet you really wanted to know about the last two." Bruce teased her.
Kiara sighed and stated, "Oh, what a pretty picture you paint, I think I'm going to be sick."
Bruce laughed before saying, "If it's a picture you want, all you have to do is ask."
Kiara faked almost puking before replying, "The last thing I want is a picture of you sitting on a couch, in a mankini with nothing but a bowl of fruit covering your non-existent man bits."
"You got a real good mental image there didn't you?" Bruce asked as he took a turn and walked down yet another street.
"And now it shall haunt me in my nightmares." Kiara told him.
"I thought it would be fuel for your dreams." Bruce responded with a big smile on his face.
Kiara suddenly realized something; Bruce still hadn't answered her question. "Then you obviously don't know me well at all, now are you going to stop avoiding my question?" Kiara asked.
"What question?" Bruce replied with a smirk.
"Who was that woman you were with?" Kiara questioned.
Bruce let out a sigh and replied, "You're not going to stop asking me that, are you?"
"Nope." Kiara replied.
"Fucking fine then, I guess I can tell you. She's my sister, alright?" Bruce finally told her as he walked down yet another street.
"Sister? What's her name?" Kiara curiously inquired.
"Kelly." Bruce said.
"How old is she?" Kiara asked.
"I don't know." Bruce told her.
"You don't know? How can you not know how old your sister is?" Kiara asked.
"Well I haven't seen her for the past four years but, she was around 23 when... She's probably 27 now." Bruce said before he began walking quicker.
"Four years? Why didn't you see her for four years?" Kiara inquired.
"Just fucking drop it, I made a fucking huge mistake and she ended up paying for it, alright!" Bruce angrily yelled. He wasn't angry at her, he was angry at himself.
Kiara said nothing more; she just followed him back to the pub where they said they would meet up with Richard, Tera and the others.
10 minutes later...
Kiara was sat on a bar stool next to Bruce, inside the pub. Kiara watched as Bruce downed drink after drink. "Does that crap really taste that good?" Kiara asked as she pointed a paw towards the beer that Bruce held in his hand.
Bruce smirked before saying, "If you want, I could buy you one." Bruce thought that seeing a drunken Glaceon was exactly what he needed to brighten up his day.
"Err, no thanks." Kiara stated to him, not wanting to end up like his drunken ass.
"Are you sure? It's not often I offer to buy someone a drink." Bruce told her.
Kiara thought about it, she wondered why he'd even want to buy her a drink. 'He must be planning something, maybe a plan to get at me for freezing his drinks and following him...' Kiara thought to herself before she said, "I'm sure."
"Suit yourself." Bruce told her before he downed the beer in his hand.
Kiara's and Bruce's attention was soon drawn to a man that was standing by the pub's door shouting, "Bruce, you bastard you're back!"
Bruce looked behind him to see a familiar face. The man was wearing a black shirt and jeans that were wore around both knees. The man himself was about the same height as Bruce, although he was skinnier and had greasy looking brown hair as well as dark rings under his eyes.
"Kirk?" Bruce questioned out of disbelief. "I thought you were dead, I even had a little celebration drink. I planned on finding your grave and pissing on it while I'm still here." Bruce smugly stated to him.
"Ha-ha, fucking funny. Still the worthless dickhead that owes me money from a few years back?" Kirk asked him sarcastically.
"Still the worthless junkie fuck I pissed off a few years back?" Bruce snappily replied.
"Where is my fucking money Bruce!" Kirk shouted at him.
Kiara looked around the pub to see that everybody's attention was on Bruce and Kirk.
"Up your fucking ass! I don't owe you shit!" Bruce shouted back at him.
Kirk stormed up towards Bruce and shouted, "Who the fuck do you-" Kirk couldn't finish his sentence, as Bruce smashed the glass of beer over his head right before he got out of his chair and pushed him back with both hands, making Kirk fall to his back on the floor.
"You fucking want to get knocked the fuck out! Do you? You fucking druggie cunt!" Bruce shouted before he looked to the front door of the pub to see two men, part of Kirk's gang. They were both dressed in scruffy hooded sweaters, sweatpants and old looking beat up trainers.
Their clothes looked almost as dirty as their faces, they were skinny with pale complexions, they were obviously addicted to something. "Fucking come on!" Bruce shouted at them as he raised his fists and got ready for a fight.
Kirk shuffled away from Bruce whilst still on the floor and looked behind him, towards his men. "What the fuck are you dumb shits waiting for? Get in there and fucking smash his face in!" Kirk ordered his men.
'Two against one? That isn't fair.' Kiara thought to herself as she jumped off her stool and besides Bruce.
Bruce looked over to Kiara who was now by his side. 'Heh, she's pretty damn cute.' Bruce thought as he smirked and whispered to Kiara, "Coming to protect your one true love?"
"Shut up." Kiara snapped back at him as she waited for the men to try and come at them.
Bruce could see the nervous looks on their faces, and the pissed off expression on Kirk's face. "I don't think your men are listening to you Kirk, maybe you shouldn't have pumped them full of drugs." Bruce spat at him as he watched Kirk stand up on his own two feet again.
Kirk was really pissed, but he tried to calm himself. He took a deep breath, turned around to his men, and punched one of them right in the face, almost breaking the man's nose. Kirk then turned to the other one and shouted, "Fucking useless cunt!"
Bruce smirked as he sarcastically said, "Wow, skinny drug addicts aren't good bodyguards, who would have thought it, huh?"
Kirk lost his temper and charged towards Bruce. Kirk was about to throw a punch, but Bruce had already threw a right hook punch to the side of Kirk's face, making him flop down to the ground.
Bruce laughed before he looked at the men standing at the door of the pub, the one that got punched by Kirk was now holding his bleeding nose, and the one that got shouted at just looked very edgy, shifting around a lot, not standing still.
Bruce knew it wouldn't be long before the police arrive, so he began walking towards the door. "Out of the way." Bruce coldly said to the Kirk's men who then stepped aside to let Bruce and Kiara past.
Kiara stepped out onto the sidewalk with Bruce and almost immediately asked, "Are you going to tell me what all that was about?"
Bruce smiled and said, "Maybe later. I just hope our ride arrives before the cops do... Thanks for jumping to my side and doing nothing by the way."
Kiara smirked and replied, "It looked like you were handling things well."
"So you just stood there, looking pretty while I do all the hard work." Bruce mumbled.
Kiara's smirk grew into a grin. "So you think I'm pretty?"
Bruce quickly looked back down to her. "Don't flatter yourself ice queen." Bruce replied with a smirk, which gradually grew into a grin. 'Bruce, stop grinning you twat! Stop it! You're going to look like a pervy dick!' Bruce's voice shouted at himself in his mind.
Kiara hadn't ever seen Bruce with a grin like that before, for a second, she thought she could see him blushing, but she ignored that. "Why are you grinning? Did you see a full bottle of vodka or something?" Kiara snappily asked him with a smirk on her face.
Bruce tried to give a pissed off look, but he couldn't get that grin off his face, the harder he tried, the more he felt his face getting hotter. "No, now shut it popsicle." Bruce mumbled back at her as he looked away, towards the pub. Bruce really didn't want her to see him blushing.
'Fuck... Why does the fucking rat have to be so fucking cute!' Bruce's voice shouted in his mind as he glanced back over to Kiara.
"Oh, that's what I get for jumping to your side? Fine, I won't be helping your drunken ass again." Kiara playfully said.
"As if I need your help." Bruce mumbled back.
Kiara smirked as she stated, "You still haven't thanked me for saving your life."
Bruce let out a sigh, he knew it wouldn't be long before she brought that up again. "You're right! Thank you, oh glorious little ice queen for saving this drunkard's life, fucking happy now?" Bruce sarcastically asked.
"Actually, yes." Kiara replied with a grin.
Bruce looked down the road to see that big battered armored car heading there way. "Good for you ratty, now let's get the fuck out of here before the cops show up." Bruce told her just as the car stopped near them.
Bruce wasted no time in getting into the back of the car, and neither did Kiara. As soon as Bruce sat back in his seat, he looked over to Kovick and asked, "Hey, looks like we've got a new guy. What's your name then?"
"Kovick, you must be Bruce." Kovick replied.
"Yeah, that's me. The ice bitch that's sat next to you is Kiara." Bruce told Kovick.
Kiara smirked at Bruce once more before sarcastically saying, "Oh, you say the nicest things to the girl you love."
Almost as soon as Kiara said that, Louis, Reaper, Richard and Tera all looked towards Kiara and Bruce, all wondering what she meant by that.
"The day that I admit my undying love for you is the day the world's supply of alcohol runs out." Bruce responded.
"Oh, so you do love me!" Kiara teased.
"Don't make me throw you out of this fucking car!"
"You didn't deny it." Kiara added with a big grin on her face.
"Fuck you." Bruce angrily bursted.
"I bet that's exactly what you want to do to me!" Kiara exclaimed as she began to giggle.
"In your wet dreams!" Bruce almost instantly shot back. 'I wonder what it would be like to fuck her anyway.' Bruce thought to himself.
"You still haven't denied it." Kiara replied with a smile on her face.
Bruce frowned and mumbled, "If I were to stick my dick in you, it would probably freeze right the fuck off!"
"I bet you would chance it." Kiara teased playfully.
"No I fucking wouldn't!" Bruce angrily retorted.
Everybody watched awkwardly as Kiara taunted Bruce more and more. Kiara enjoyed annoying Bruce, for her, it was the funniest thing to do while she was on this mission where they face death every day.
1 hour later...
Everything had calmed down; Bruce and Kiara were no longer annoying each other, yet. Nobody knew where Owen was driving to, they didn't bother to ask, or just didn't want to know.
Kovick looked around and thought about his new teammates.
'That Scyther looks a little aged, bet it could still do some damage though... I can understand bringing along that man sitting next to the Scyther, the other man and the Lucario and even the Glaceon... But why bring a drunk?' Kovick thought to himself as he watched Bruce finishing off a bottle of vodka before throwing it out of the window.
'That can't be good for the environment... Or his liver.' Kovick mused in his mind as he then looked over to the window, from which he could then see they were at some kind of dock judging from the large ships that he could see.
"Are we leaving Johto?" Kovick asked as he leaned forward in his seat.
Owen was wondering when someone would finally ask where they were going to. "Yes, we'll be leaving on a cruise ship; I believe Richard, Tera and Kiara will be familiar with the ship." Owen stated.
Kiara's ears perked up as she asked, "It's not the same one with those snobby people on every deck is it?"
Owen let out a chuckle. "Well, those people aren't always there." Owen told her.
"I hope not, if they are, I just might be tempted to freeze their expensive shoes to the floor." Kiara told him with a smirk on her face.
"Try to keep a low profile; we don't want to attract any unwanted attention." Owen said to all of them in the back whilst keeping his eyes on the road.
Bruce looked around as he thought, 'Yeah, keep a low profile with two wounded men, a Scyther that has red spray paint on its claws, a Lucario with an expensive necklace, and a bitchy Glaceon.' Bruce began searching through one of his backpacks again and quickly found a bottle pulled of vodka, which he then opened up and began drinking.
Once Bruce had lowered his drink, he noticed Kiara giving him a disapproving look. "What? Do you want a sip?" Bruce asked her with a smirk.
"No thanks, I value my ability to find my own ass." Kiara spat to him.
"That ability is overrated." Bruce stated with a smile as he raised the bottle to his lips once more and took several big gulps before lowering the bottle again.
Tera rested her head on Richard's shoulder as she thought about that cruise ship. She looked up to Richard and asked him with a smile, "Richard, can we dance in that ballroom again?"
Richard looked to her with a bright smile on his face. "Well it would probably piss off more posh snobs, so I don't see why not. You're a really good dancer by the way." Richard told her before he gave her a kiss on top of her head.
"So are you." Tera responded before she kissed Richard's lips.
"You know, I think that was the first time I've actually ever danced with someone else before." Richard whispered to her.
Tera smiled as she replied, "It was a first for me too."
"Well, I can't wait to do it with you again." Richard happily responded.
Tera blushed as she suggestively said, "I can't wait to do it with you again either."
Hearing that turned Richard's smile into a grin. Richard was about to say something, but Owen had something to say to all of them.
"We're here." Owen said as he stopped the car by the same massive cruise ship Owen, Kiara, Richard and Tera all arrived in Kanto on. "You should all get onto the ship now, give them these and the won't ask any questions. Take them Richard." Owen added as he pulled out some tickets which looked very familiar to Richard.
Richard got up and took the tickets out of Owen's hand, as he did he quickly examined them. They were the same first class tickets that Owen had given him last time.
Kiara let out a sigh as she remembered how she couldn't get into her room the last time they were on that damn ship.
"Bruce!" Kelly called out to him.
Bruce stopped in his tracks and turned to face her to see what she had to say. Kelly gave him a short hug and quietly said, "Come back soon."
Bruce hugged her back and said, "I will."
Kelly soon stopped hugging him to let him leave, even though she didn't want him to. Kelly watched her brother walk down the street; hoping that she would see him again soon.
Bruce walked away, down the street. He hid the fact that he was actually really pissed to be leaving her again, but leaving her wasn't the only thing on his mind.
There we're people that really didn't like him in this city, and he felt like someone was watching him. He just hoped that if someone was watching him that they would come after him and ignore his sister.
Kiara continued to follow him, although she had tried to listen in to their conversation, the glass of the window she was looking in through was too thick to actually hear anything through. All she heard was mumbles, but she was determined to find out what was going on.
Meanwhile...
Owen was now very close to the military base, it was now in sight, it wasn't long until he heard Rhea's voice calling to him again. "The recruit will be waiting at the front gates of the base; he has already been informed of the mission and has agreed to aid you in whatever way he can." Rhea informed him.
As the car got closer to the military base, he could see five men at the main gate, four armed with assault rifles that he couldn't quite make out, the one man that didn't have an assault rifle also wore a different uniform from the rest, and carried a military bag with him.
Owen pressed the button down on the earpiece and said, "I think I can see him."
The car soon came to a stop just a few feet away from the men. Owen stepped out of the car, and nobody else. He approached the man in the middle, which was defiantly the recruit he was looking for, late twenties, short blond hair parted in the middle and light brownish eyes with a red tint to them.
He was wearing combat boots, completely green combat trousers, a gray shirt under his combat jacket and a leg holster strapped to his right thigh which held a handgun. "Are you Kovick?" Owen asked just to get confirmation.
"Yeah that's me, shall we get to it then?" Kovick asked tiredly.
"Follow me, the rest of the team are in the car." Owen told him as he walked back over to the car.
Kovick opened one of the car's back doors to find a female Lucario that wore a silver necklace with a miniature sword on it, holding the hand of a man sitting next to it, and on the seats opposite them, another man with a bandaged up thigh wearing primarily blue clothing with a male Scyther with what looked to be red spray paint on the edges of his claws.
Kovick closed the door behind him and sat on the same set of seats the Lucario and the other man with the faux hawk was sitting on.
'Should I say hello or something?' Kovick asked himself as he sat down on the seat closest to the smashed out window. "Err, what happened to this car?" Kovick asked as he looked at the dented door and the glassless window.
Richard decided he should answer him. "We were attacked, two Ryhorn smashed into the side of the car. Tera and I had to smash out the glass to get out. I'm Richard by the way, this is Tera." Richard informed him as he pointed to the Lucario besides him.
"My name is Kovick, what about you two over there?" Kovick asked the man sitting next to the Scyther.
"Louis, Reaper." Louis replied.
"And you?" Kovick asked the man that had just started driving away from the military base.
"Owen, we'll be picking up two other people that are a part of our team." Owen told him.
Kovick nodded and then asked, "Why do you need me for this mission anyway?"
"Because we need someone with medical knowledge in the team, someone who can treat both humans and Pokémon but can also fight. You were the best candidate for the position. You'll be needing this, take it." Owen told him as he found another earpiece and threw it to Kovick.
"What if I didn't want the position?" Kovick asked as he got out of his seat and caught the earpiece.
"I would have found a way to persuade you to join our team, or find someone else." Owen admitted.
Kovick didn't like the way he said 'persuade', he didn't trust the agent, but the man with the faux hawk seemed nice. "What is this for then?" Kovick questioned as he looked at the earpiece in his hands.
"It's a translator, you'll be able to understand Pokémon speech with that in your ear." Owen informed him.
"Really? Well, impressive." Kovick said quietly as he tried to get the earpiece into a comfortable position.
When Kovick stopped fiddling around with the earpiece, he looked around at the people in the back of the car with him; their clothing didn't exactly look military issue. "Are you guys part of the army?" Kovick inquired.
Richard turned to him again and answered, "No, I used to be a cop with Tera, and before that, I was a mercenary."
Kovick gave a puzzled look before asking, "If you're not part of the army, then why did you two join?"
"We joined to stop Silas and his men from coming to Hoenn, and killing our friends." Richard told Kovick before he looked back over to Tera. Richard couldn't help but feel responsible for her coming along with him, although he knew that he couldn't stop her, she was just strong like that. That was one of the many things that he loved about her, then again, he loved everything about her.
Kovick had a feeling that the man he was talking to, Richard was partners with the female Lucario sitting beside him. Kovick wondered if they were sexually active, and if they knew everything that needed to be known.
In the best of mentions, he decided to ask. "Uh... Are you two... In a relationship?" Kovick asked, oblivious to the embarrassment that came from it. "Err... Well... I love her if that's what you mean. You do mean that, right?" Richard responded. "Never mind then." He replied. He knew that something was going on between them.
If they didn't, then he guessed that he would just have to pull them aside at some point and tell them. Kovick kicked the thoughts about giving the couple medical advice and quickly turned his attention to Louis and Reaper. "What about you two, why did you guys join?" Kovick asked curiously.
Louis was the first to answer his question. "I joined to kill a slaver, now I'm staying to kill some more." Louis answered.
"And I'm here to make sure the boy doesn't get himself into too much trouble." Reaper said with what looked to be a smile.
Kovick was surprised to hear Reaper and understand him; he guessed that the earpiece really works. "So then... Where are we going now?" Kovick asked, trying not to sound too surprised and confused about the earpiece.
"Olivine City, the two I mentioned before are there." Owen told him as he continued driving.
Meanwhile...
'Some fucker is following me!' Bruce thought to himself as he walked down a street, every time he looked behind him, it seemed like the person who was following him just disappeared.
'Right, that fucker is going to get a big surprise.' Bruce thought to himself as he turned to his right and walked down a dark alley.
Kiara took a peek around the corner of the street. 'I can't see him; he must have gone down that alley... The idiot must have forgotten which way he came.' Kiara thought to herself as she began running down the street in an attempt to keep up with him.
Kiara stopped running when she reached the alley and took a peek around the corner. All she could see was two dumpsters and another street down the other end of the alley. 'He's fast for a drunk!' Kiara thought as she began running down the alley.
Bruce could hear footsteps, or paw steps, for Bruce, it was hard to tell. 'Right, get a load of this you fucker!' Bruce thought to himself right before he jumped out from behind the dumpster with a piece of 2x4 wood in his hands.
"AH!" Kiara shouted out right before she jumped back, startled at the sight of the man swinging the piece of wood in her direction.
Bruce swung the piece of wood with great force, but all he hit was the dumpster which made a loud banging noise. "Fuck!" Bruce shouted as he then looked at what he was swinging at. "You! What the fuck are you doing here!" Bruce shouted at Kiara, whose frozen fur now stood on end on her back like needles.
"I-I was just-" Kiara tried to explain before she was interrupted.
"I-I was just WHAT! Spying on me!" Bruce yelled, getting angrier by the second.
"Well someone had to watch your drunken ass!" Kiara quickly shot back.
"I'm not fucking drunk!" Bruce shouted before throwing the piece of wood at a wall and storming off.
"Where are you going!" Kiara shouted over to him.
"To get fucking drunk!" Bruce yelled back at her.
"Oh, like I didn't see that coming." Kiara mumbled to herself before running up behind Bruce. "So, who was that woman?" Kiara asked.
Bruce pretended to not know what she was talking about and asked, "What woman?"
"The woman whose house you went into, you know, the one with the blond hair that you hugged." Kiara replied.
Bruce stopped in his tracks and turned to Kiara. "Fuck! How long were you following me?" Bruce questioned.
"Long enough to see you make a complete ass out of yourself by getting into a fight with a computer." Kiara replied with a smile.
"That fucking computer deserved a punch!" Bruce responded as he began walking again.
"So, who was that woman?" Kiara asked once again, not willing to let it go.
"I'm not telling you shit!" Bruce shouted over his shoulder.
"Girlfriend?" Kiara guessed.
"Ha, you would like to know that wouldn't you?" Bruce replied with a smirk on his face.
"Don't flatter yourself drunkard! So, is she?" Kiara probed.
"Did I melt your cold little heart?" Bruce asked as his smirk grew into a smile.
"Shut up." Kiara said as she started to get a little annoyed, and a little embarrassed.
"Tell me, do you get all hot thinking about me?" Bruce inquired as he tried to stop his smile growing into a grin.
"If I ever get hot around you, it will only be because you sat too close to the campfire and went up in flames." Kiara told him.
"Yeah, try to hide your undying love for my badassary with jokes." Bruce said to her.
"Badassary? Don't you mean your drunken dickary?" Kiara sharply insulted.
"So that's what you love about me!" Bruce exclaimed as he chuckled a little.
"I never said that!" Kiara yelled at him, blushing slightly.
"It sounded like you said it." Bruce replied, leaning in, and noticing the red tint.
"You need to stop drinking, you're hearing things." Kiara flatly told to him.
"Yeah, I'm hearing the sound of an ice rat falling in love with the man with the iron liver!" Bruce shouted out as he let out some laughs.
"I wouldn't be surprised if you actually do have an iron liver." Kiara spat at him.
"I have an iron liver, balls of steel and a cock of rock! I bet you really wanted to know about the last two." Bruce teased her.
Kiara sighed and stated, "Oh, what a pretty picture you paint, I think I'm going to be sick."
Bruce laughed before saying, "If it's a picture you want, all you have to do is ask."
Kiara faked almost puking before replying, "The last thing I want is a picture of you sitting on a couch, in a mankini with nothing but a bowl of fruit covering your non-existent man bits."
"You got a real good mental image there didn't you?" Bruce asked as he took a turn and walked down yet another street.
"And now it shall haunt me in my nightmares." Kiara told him.
"I thought it would be fuel for your dreams." Bruce responded with a big smile on his face.
Kiara suddenly realized something; Bruce still hadn't answered her question. "Then you obviously don't know me well at all, now are you going to stop avoiding my question?" Kiara asked.
"What question?" Bruce replied with a smirk.
"Who was that woman you were with?" Kiara questioned.
Bruce let out a sigh and replied, "You're not going to stop asking me that, are you?"
"Nope." Kiara replied.
"Fucking fine then, I guess I can tell you. She's my sister, alright?" Bruce finally told her as he walked down yet another street.
"Sister? What's her name?" Kiara curiously inquired.
"Kelly." Bruce said.
"How old is she?" Kiara asked.
"I don't know." Bruce told her.
"You don't know? How can you not know how old your sister is?" Kiara asked.
"Well I haven't seen her for the past four years but, she was around 23 when... She's probably 27 now." Bruce said before he began walking quicker.
"Four years? Why didn't you see her for four years?" Kiara inquired.
"Just fucking drop it, I made a fucking huge mistake and she ended up paying for it, alright!" Bruce angrily yelled. He wasn't angry at her, he was angry at himself.
Kiara said nothing more; she just followed him back to the pub where they said they would meet up with Richard, Tera and the others.
10 minutes later...
Kiara was sat on a bar stool next to Bruce, inside the pub. Kiara watched as Bruce downed drink after drink. "Does that crap really taste that good?" Kiara asked as she pointed a paw towards the beer that Bruce held in his hand.
Bruce smirked before saying, "If you want, I could buy you one." Bruce thought that seeing a drunken Glaceon was exactly what he needed to brighten up his day.
"Err, no thanks." Kiara stated to him, not wanting to end up like his drunken ass.
"Are you sure? It's not often I offer to buy someone a drink." Bruce told her.
Kiara thought about it, she wondered why he'd even want to buy her a drink. 'He must be planning something, maybe a plan to get at me for freezing his drinks and following him...' Kiara thought to herself before she said, "I'm sure."
"Suit yourself." Bruce told her before he downed the beer in his hand.
Kiara's and Bruce's attention was soon drawn to a man that was standing by the pub's door shouting, "Bruce, you bastard you're back!"
Bruce looked behind him to see a familiar face. The man was wearing a black shirt and jeans that were wore around both knees. The man himself was about the same height as Bruce, although he was skinnier and had greasy looking brown hair as well as dark rings under his eyes.
"Kirk?" Bruce questioned out of disbelief. "I thought you were dead, I even had a little celebration drink. I planned on finding your grave and pissing on it while I'm still here." Bruce smugly stated to him.
"Ha-ha, fucking funny. Still the worthless dickhead that owes me money from a few years back?" Kirk asked him sarcastically.
"Still the worthless junkie fuck I pissed off a few years back?" Bruce snappily replied.
"Where is my fucking money Bruce!" Kirk shouted at him.
Kiara looked around the pub to see that everybody's attention was on Bruce and Kirk.
"Up your fucking ass! I don't owe you shit!" Bruce shouted back at him.
Kirk stormed up towards Bruce and shouted, "Who the fuck do you-" Kirk couldn't finish his sentence, as Bruce smashed the glass of beer over his head right before he got out of his chair and pushed him back with both hands, making Kirk fall to his back on the floor.
"You fucking want to get knocked the fuck out! Do you? You fucking druggie cunt!" Bruce shouted before he looked to the front door of the pub to see two men, part of Kirk's gang. They were both dressed in scruffy hooded sweaters, sweatpants and old looking beat up trainers.
Their clothes looked almost as dirty as their faces, they were skinny with pale complexions, they were obviously addicted to something. "Fucking come on!" Bruce shouted at them as he raised his fists and got ready for a fight.
Kirk shuffled away from Bruce whilst still on the floor and looked behind him, towards his men. "What the fuck are you dumb shits waiting for? Get in there and fucking smash his face in!" Kirk ordered his men.
'Two against one? That isn't fair.' Kiara thought to herself as she jumped off her stool and besides Bruce.
Bruce looked over to Kiara who was now by his side. 'Heh, she's pretty damn cute.' Bruce thought as he smirked and whispered to Kiara, "Coming to protect your one true love?"
"Shut up." Kiara snapped back at him as she waited for the men to try and come at them.
Bruce could see the nervous looks on their faces, and the pissed off expression on Kirk's face. "I don't think your men are listening to you Kirk, maybe you shouldn't have pumped them full of drugs." Bruce spat at him as he watched Kirk stand up on his own two feet again.
Kirk was really pissed, but he tried to calm himself. He took a deep breath, turned around to his men, and punched one of them right in the face, almost breaking the man's nose. Kirk then turned to the other one and shouted, "Fucking useless cunt!"
Bruce smirked as he sarcastically said, "Wow, skinny drug addicts aren't good bodyguards, who would have thought it, huh?"
Kirk lost his temper and charged towards Bruce. Kirk was about to throw a punch, but Bruce had already threw a right hook punch to the side of Kirk's face, making him flop down to the ground.
Bruce laughed before he looked at the men standing at the door of the pub, the one that got punched by Kirk was now holding his bleeding nose, and the one that got shouted at just looked very edgy, shifting around a lot, not standing still.
Bruce knew it wouldn't be long before the police arrive, so he began walking towards the door. "Out of the way." Bruce coldly said to the Kirk's men who then stepped aside to let Bruce and Kiara past.
Kiara stepped out onto the sidewalk with Bruce and almost immediately asked, "Are you going to tell me what all that was about?"
Bruce smiled and said, "Maybe later. I just hope our ride arrives before the cops do... Thanks for jumping to my side and doing nothing by the way."
Kiara smirked and replied, "It looked like you were handling things well."
"So you just stood there, looking pretty while I do all the hard work." Bruce mumbled.
Kiara's smirk grew into a grin. "So you think I'm pretty?"
Bruce quickly looked back down to her. "Don't flatter yourself ice queen." Bruce replied with a smirk, which gradually grew into a grin. 'Bruce, stop grinning you twat! Stop it! You're going to look like a pervy dick!' Bruce's voice shouted at himself in his mind.
Kiara hadn't ever seen Bruce with a grin like that before, for a second, she thought she could see him blushing, but she ignored that. "Why are you grinning? Did you see a full bottle of vodka or something?" Kiara snappily asked him with a smirk on her face.
Bruce tried to give a pissed off look, but he couldn't get that grin off his face, the harder he tried, the more he felt his face getting hotter. "No, now shut it popsicle." Bruce mumbled back at her as he looked away, towards the pub. Bruce really didn't want her to see him blushing.
'Fuck... Why does the fucking rat have to be so fucking cute!' Bruce's voice shouted in his mind as he glanced back over to Kiara.
"Oh, that's what I get for jumping to your side? Fine, I won't be helping your drunken ass again." Kiara playfully said.
"As if I need your help." Bruce mumbled back.
Kiara smirked as she stated, "You still haven't thanked me for saving your life."
Bruce let out a sigh, he knew it wouldn't be long before she brought that up again. "You're right! Thank you, oh glorious little ice queen for saving this drunkard's life, fucking happy now?" Bruce sarcastically asked.
"Actually, yes." Kiara replied with a grin.
Bruce looked down the road to see that big battered armored car heading there way. "Good for you ratty, now let's get the fuck out of here before the cops show up." Bruce told her just as the car stopped near them.
Bruce wasted no time in getting into the back of the car, and neither did Kiara. As soon as Bruce sat back in his seat, he looked over to Kovick and asked, "Hey, looks like we've got a new guy. What's your name then?"
"Kovick, you must be Bruce." Kovick replied.
"Yeah, that's me. The ice bitch that's sat next to you is Kiara." Bruce told Kovick.
Kiara smirked at Bruce once more before sarcastically saying, "Oh, you say the nicest things to the girl you love."
Almost as soon as Kiara said that, Louis, Reaper, Richard and Tera all looked towards Kiara and Bruce, all wondering what she meant by that.
"The day that I admit my undying love for you is the day the world's supply of alcohol runs out." Bruce responded.
"Oh, so you do love me!" Kiara teased.
"Don't make me throw you out of this fucking car!"
"You didn't deny it." Kiara added with a big grin on her face.
"Fuck you." Bruce angrily bursted.
"I bet that's exactly what you want to do to me!" Kiara exclaimed as she began to giggle.
"In your wet dreams!" Bruce almost instantly shot back. 'I wonder what it would be like to fuck her anyway.' Bruce thought to himself.
"You still haven't denied it." Kiara replied with a smile on her face.
Bruce frowned and mumbled, "If I were to stick my dick in you, it would probably freeze right the fuck off!"
"I bet you would chance it." Kiara teased playfully.
"No I fucking wouldn't!" Bruce angrily retorted.
Everybody watched awkwardly as Kiara taunted Bruce more and more. Kiara enjoyed annoying Bruce, for her, it was the funniest thing to do while she was on this mission where they face death every day.
1 hour later...
Everything had calmed down; Bruce and Kiara were no longer annoying each other, yet. Nobody knew where Owen was driving to, they didn't bother to ask, or just didn't want to know.
Kovick looked around and thought about his new teammates.
'That Scyther looks a little aged, bet it could still do some damage though... I can understand bringing along that man sitting next to the Scyther, the other man and the Lucario and even the Glaceon... But why bring a drunk?' Kovick thought to himself as he watched Bruce finishing off a bottle of vodka before throwing it out of the window.
'That can't be good for the environment... Or his liver.' Kovick mused in his mind as he then looked over to the window, from which he could then see they were at some kind of dock judging from the large ships that he could see.
"Are we leaving Johto?" Kovick asked as he leaned forward in his seat.
Owen was wondering when someone would finally ask where they were going to. "Yes, we'll be leaving on a cruise ship; I believe Richard, Tera and Kiara will be familiar with the ship." Owen stated.
Kiara's ears perked up as she asked, "It's not the same one with those snobby people on every deck is it?"
Owen let out a chuckle. "Well, those people aren't always there." Owen told her.
"I hope not, if they are, I just might be tempted to freeze their expensive shoes to the floor." Kiara told him with a smirk on her face.
"Try to keep a low profile; we don't want to attract any unwanted attention." Owen said to all of them in the back whilst keeping his eyes on the road.
Bruce looked around as he thought, 'Yeah, keep a low profile with two wounded men, a Scyther that has red spray paint on its claws, a Lucario with an expensive necklace, and a bitchy Glaceon.' Bruce began searching through one of his backpacks again and quickly found a bottle pulled of vodka, which he then opened up and began drinking.
Once Bruce had lowered his drink, he noticed Kiara giving him a disapproving look. "What? Do you want a sip?" Bruce asked her with a smirk.
"No thanks, I value my ability to find my own ass." Kiara spat to him.
"That ability is overrated." Bruce stated with a smile as he raised the bottle to his lips once more and took several big gulps before lowering the bottle again.
Tera rested her head on Richard's shoulder as she thought about that cruise ship. She looked up to Richard and asked him with a smile, "Richard, can we dance in that ballroom again?"
Richard looked to her with a bright smile on his face. "Well it would probably piss off more posh snobs, so I don't see why not. You're a really good dancer by the way." Richard told her before he gave her a kiss on top of her head.
"So are you." Tera responded before she kissed Richard's lips.
"You know, I think that was the first time I've actually ever danced with someone else before." Richard whispered to her.
Tera smiled as she replied, "It was a first for me too."
"Well, I can't wait to do it with you again." Richard happily responded.
Tera blushed as she suggestively said, "I can't wait to do it with you again either."
Hearing that turned Richard's smile into a grin. Richard was about to say something, but Owen had something to say to all of them.
"We're here." Owen said as he stopped the car by the same massive cruise ship Owen, Kiara, Richard and Tera all arrived in Kanto on. "You should all get onto the ship now, give them these and the won't ask any questions. Take them Richard." Owen added as he pulled out some tickets which looked very familiar to Richard.
Richard got up and took the tickets out of Owen's hand, as he did he quickly examined them. They were the same first class tickets that Owen had given him last time.
Kiara let out a sigh as she remembered how she couldn't get into her room the last time they were on that damn ship.