"So they kidnapped you guys when you were younger right?" said John. He was in the living room with Ken. It was 11:30 at night. Speedy had gone home a long time ago. Everybody else was asleep in there rooms except for Star, Tidus, Elliot, Maraina, and Cici were up. They were in the other living room having a discussion.
"Yes," said Ken, "We were in the age groups of 10-12 with a small amount being 8 when we were abducted from our homes."
"That must really suck."
"Yes, it was quite bothersome. I was not as exuberant towards the fighting and the killing as the others were. Matter of fact, I downright dreaded it. I am more of a peaceful guy."
"Really? What's your head count?"
"9,080."
"I see you're quite the Mahatma Gandhi."
"Heh, very funny."
"Yeah, so you guys used to live in a place called Soronara city?"
"Oh yes, I was one of the rich kids as they would say. I lived next door to Eustace. My father and Eustace's are good friends. They both had knacks for buying very expensive things. Our homes were very opulent you might say. They would be surprised by the way you have your house."
"Yeah, most of the money I make goes straight to the bank."
"That's one thing that fascinates me."
"What's that?"
"How old are you?"
"14."
"You are 1 year younger than me and yet you have already gained autonomy. And not only that, you have two jobs. You're chef and a computer engineer. And the way you talk is totally scintillating. It makes me wish I met you earlier on in life. We could have been good friends." 
"Wow! That's the first time someone said something to describe me besides using the words pussy or coward. Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"I have a question?"
"Ask away."
"If pokémon have cities, how come you be seeing so much out there in the wild?"
"Well the reason for that is that most pokémon prefer live in the wild rather than the modernized living that the legendaries have provided us. You see so many in the wild plainly because the ratio of humans to pokémon is 1:10 and the ratio of pokémon living in the wild to ones living in the city is 7:3. There are 954 pokémon cities throughout the world."
"How long have these cities been here?"
"About 1,250 years."
"Whoa, that's pretty long."
"Yes it is."
"Umm, so you guys have been doing jobs for the harbingers for three years. Do you know how they operate."
"Well yes. They seem to be collecting pokémon and training them in an effort to overrun the World Government. They steal pokémon from top ranking trainers, coordinators, and breeders from across the world. Anyway who found out about them or tried to get in their way were killed."
"They sound like your everyday bad guys. But how did they get you guys. I mean only pokémon have access to pokémon cities."
"And so do saiyans."
"What?"
"Yes, saiyans. Ever since alien war took place those thousands years ago. Pokémon have formed pacts with the saiyan race. They live together in those cities."
"...I thought the reason why you didn't see many saiyans around here was because it was a dying race. So...a saiyan kidnapped you guys."
"Well, not just saiyans. Team Harbinger consists of saiyans, humans, and pokémon."
"Whoa, wait a minute. They pokémon and saiyan members as well?"
"Yes the saiyans in their group think the same way as the humans. The Harbingers raised some of the pokémon to incredible strengths and made them leaders of the group as well,"
"Hold on, Ken. This is too much to take in at once. Let me get this straight. Team Harbinger has humans, saiyans, and pokémon in their group with some of their leaders being pokémon. How do pokémon steal pokémon?"
"Humans kidnap humans everyday. Some with criminal intent like trafficking or slavery. Who's to say that pokémon can't do the same to their kind."
"Okay then, what differentiates pokémon that are kidnapped from the pokémon that are leaders?"
"The pokémon that are leaders are the ones that have been raised by the Harbingers ever since they were babies and have been trained to behave similar to the ways of the Harbingers." 
"It still seems so complicated."
"It isn't really."
"Aiight, they have pokémon and saiyans. What secret did they need to find out they already can open the gates to the city."
"They needed to know where and how to get to the entrance before they could open it. So the team had caught two pokémon in the area first. The pokémon were captured wandering outside the city grounds. They tortured them into telling them the whereabouts of the city."
"Who were the pokémon they caught."
"..."
"It's not gonna change anything so just tell me."
"It was Brock."
"Oh...and the other?"
"Me." The alakazam started to cover his face with one of his hands. He seemed to be trying to hold back tears. "It's my fault. They were gonna electrocute him. Brock would have kept his mouth shut, no matter what they did to him. They were gonna kill them. I told them where we lived, who we were, our powers, everything. I was the one who brought us to this grief. When they kidnapped the rest of the group and took us away from our home. I was abandoned by everyone. No one wanted anything to do with me. They blamed me for everything. And it was true. It was my fault. I am a coward."
"I guess you can say that. But you have to ask yourself what would have happened if you didn't." The alakazam removed his hand from his face and stared at John. John had a nervous expression on his face and was rubbing the back of his head. "Maybe it is your fault. But what would happen if you didn't tell them. They would have probably killed Brock, like you said. Your friend was about to die and you did what you had to do to protect him. If I was in your situation, I would have done the same thing. You did the right thing. Anyone who downplays you for doing that then they are either full of shit or just as heartless as the bastards who stole you."
"...thanks Johnathan. I needed that."
"You're welcome. Well I'm sorry to cut the conversation short, but I need to get up early. So I'm gonna turn in. You remember where your room is?"
"Yes, I do."
"Okay, I'll most likely be gone when you wake up knowing how you alakazams sleep."
"Hey! We do it for a reason you know. Increases brain clarity and activity."
"The healthiest time periods of sleep are between 6.5 to 7.5 hours."
"For humans and saiyans. In alakazams the time period is 10 to 13 hours. Brush up your research on pokémon; you are going to need it now."
"Says the 1,269 I.Q. alakazam?"
"Says the 1,269 I.Q. alakazam and still increasing alakazam to the 218.7 I.Q saiyan."
"Yeah, brag about it later. Good night."
"Good night."
John started to walk towards the stairwell. He was going up the stairs when he saw Cody's bedroom door open. He sneaked towards it and eavesdropped on what was going on inside.
"Yeah! The food was aiight but I still think he's a cunt." He must be talking to somebody, John thought. He looked deeper into the room and saw Cody speaking to a huge murkrow outside the window. "He's talking bout friendship and all that, but I still don't believe him. You can't trust humans nor the fucking saiyans. It was them who caught that fucking traitor Ken in the first place. The saiyans are just as bad as the humans just stronger. For all we know he's with the Harbingers. He could have been told to wait for them just in case. The fancy house and everything. I'm not falling for this shit like the other's. I think he's lying bout his age too? A 14 year old with all this shit. Most likely the harbingers are taking care of him. Probably why the people in town keep away from him. Ken even read the minds of some of his workers and even they are suspicious of him. Yeah, he read the human's mind too. The human doesn't seem to know that much about him. Just found some stuff that they like to do. I refuse to believe they can hold their breath for over an hour underwater. Well anyways, tell Jason that I still wanna join his group. I'm totally not affiliated with these losers. I'm only here because of my sister. The damn bitch can't think for herself. She's too weak. Everything Star says, she does, she follows her like a servant. I can't believe we are even related. Oh yeah, ask Jason if I could kill him? Good. Now get out of here before someone sees you." As Cody finished talking John turned around, walked towards his bedroom, went inside, and closed the door behind him. So Cody's a spy eh, thought John, and to make it worse he wants to kill me. Oh well, what are you gonna do. He exchanged his clothes with his pajamas, got into his bed and went straight to sleep.

He was in a crib. A sturdy dark brown wooden crib to be exact. He was in room filled with bright colors on the wall. Pictures of pokémon that were fighting and some with faces that were unknown to him. John tried to stand up but ended up falling down again. He looked at his hands. They were small. He tried to say something but all that came was "Uhhuuuuh." It sounded like baby talk. There was a mirror to the right of his crib. The mirror reflected the body of a nine month old baby with short black hair and black eyes. Wait those are my eyes, thought John, I'm a baby, but how? The door opened up and a white woman, wearing a long yellow dress came into the room. She came and bent over into the crib. But something about the woman began to scare him. The woman had no face. She had long silky brown hair and small ears on the side of her head, but no face. No eyes, no mouth, no nose. Just an empty space where here face was supposed to be.
"Hello, there," she said, "did someone wake up from their nap."
Where the hell is the voice coming from, thought John, She has no mouth. She stretched her hands around John's tiny waist and lifted him up out of the crib and brought him out of the room. She walked into a kitchen where a man with mocha brown skin was sitting down reading a newspaper. He had no face as well.
"Honey, your son just woke up."
Son, thought John, no frigging way. They said my parents died when I was born. My father had died from a brain disorder and my mother died bringing me to life. How can this be my family?
"Bring em here ________, I wanna see him," he replied. He called her name, John thought, I know it. How come I can't hear it?
He took John away from his "mother" and held him high the air.
"How's my little boy doing today?" He then brought John closer to him. John grabbed for his face. It was flat and it felt he was just moving his hands around on rough paper. "Where is your face, I want to see it," he tried to say but, "Googaa uhhhhuuu wwaaassssaa" came outside his mouth. John's "mother" began to laugh.
"He's trying to pry into your mouth."
"Oh yeah," said John's "father" while dodging his fingers, "Well he's gonna have to try harder than that to conquer this mouth. Its my pirate ship and nobody is aloud to trespass in it buddy." All of a sudden, his body flew into the air and nothing but screams were heard into the room. John body landed on the floor. Blood was splattering against the walls. A blood soaked absol came into his view.
"Hey ya lil' shit. My scythe wanted to have a word with your parents to discuss how much of a pussy you'd become. And it decided to give you a early birthday present to toughen you up." He left the room and came back with a stantler head in his heads.
"Buck up lil shit!" He threw the stantler head at John. Then he woke up.

He was soaking with his sweat once again. This time he didn't piss himself. He looked around and soon became horrified. He wasn't just drenched in sweat. He was drenched in blood. His whole bed was covered and dripping with blood. There was pool of it surrounding the bed as well. There was a huge lump poking upwards between his legs. It seemed to be the source of the blood. He looked at the wall. There was a message written in blood that said "Good Morning pussy. We brought you some breakfast courtesy of Jason." John flipped off the sheets. What he saw between his legs brought him great fear. He began to scream at the top of his lungs. There a stantler head tucked between his legs. It's eyes were hanging outside it's sockets, still connected to the retinas. The corneas of the eyes were pierced and were oozing out white aqueous liquid. Its horns were ripped off and shoved straight through it's skull. The top of its head was cracked and the fur was peeling off revealing what left of its cranium and brain. The horns were covered with white particles and brain matter. It's ears were ripped off and hanging above John on the ceiling fan dripping blood. It seemed they ripped off some the stantler's fur and wrapped it around the ears and tied them to the fan. They reset the fan to slow so that they spun around right over the bed and was easy for John to see. The stantler's teeth and tongue were ripped out of its mouth and placed on top of John's crotch. Both the tongue and teeth had hints of blood and saliva on them. He kicked the stantler head, smacked off the tongue and teeth off of his body and rolled frantically off the bed. He fell face first into the blood surrounding his bed. The door burst open. This time John had more reinforcements. Tidus and Elliot jumped into the room while the others ran in. They saw John's body lying down in the blood.
"JOHNATHAN!" screamed Tidus. He ran to his body and turned him over. He had tears in his eyes. "WAKE UP! PLEASE WAKE UP!"
"I'm alive, Tidus," responded John weakly. Ken and Star walked inside the room. Ken went to the stantler head while Star went to the blood written message on the wall.
"Well looks like there doing there best to scare the living crap out of you," said Ken 
"Humph, this is just what you can expect from them," said Star, "They never learn."
John got up and quickly went into his bathroom, opened his cabinet, and took his medication.
"What's wrong?" asked Cody with a smug look.
"I woke up with blood around me and a dead stantler's head between my legs and you ask me what's wrong. I having panic attack. That's what's wrong."
"Humph, that medicine won't help when it's your head instead of the stantler.' Maraina lifted her pincer and smacked Cody straight across his face.
"You're sister may let you get away with it but I won't," said an angry Maraina, "Say something like that again. I dare you."
Cody held his face with his fin and mumbled something.
"What was that," said Maraina.
"Nothing." he replied.
"Oh that's what I thought."
"I thank you guys for your concern," said John as he looked down in his bathroom sink, he seemed to be hyperventilating. "But would it be too much to ask for a moment alone."
"You sure,' said Star, "You seem a little shaken up."
"Don't worry about me. I'm alright just need to catch myself. And besides I have to get ready to go to school."
"You're actually going to go after something like this happened?"
"Yes. I promised Speedy I'd come to school today."
"I'd think he'd understand if you didn't."
"Yes he would, but I want to go too. That's the point. Staying in the house can get dull."
"Thank you for telling us that since we're gonna be at your house for the day," said Eric.
"No, what I really meant to say is like. Yeah, there things to do here , but it is quite boring by yourself."
"But we're here now aren't we?"
"Yeah."
"Then why don't ya stay home?"
"I'm not really a stay home person and I kinda want to go to school. Besides I've already been absent for so many days, I think it would be better if I went to school today."
Cody was about to say something, but decided to keep his mouth shut when he looked at Maraina.
"So if you'll excuse me, please?" John continued. Everyone began to leave the room, but Tidus.
"You sure you're okay?" asked Tidus.
"Positive, how many times I have to say this." said John.
"Because I don't believe you." Tidus turned around and then finally left the room. John collapsed against the bathroom wall and sat on the floor. He was still breathing as sweat rapidly drizzled down his forehead. He turned and looked at the dead stantler's body parts once again. So this is the beginning of their sick jokes, thought John, Jesus Christ. I gotta find out how they are getting in this house so easily. He got off the floor, turned on the shower, took off his clothes, and jumped into the tub. That dream, he thought, was it real? I was told my real parents were dead from the moment I was brought into this world. But everything in that dream felt so real. It didn't even feel like a dream. It felt like it was a lost memory. The only thing that didn't fit in was the absol. 

He was fully clothed and out his bedroom door 20 minutes later. He went in the dining room and saw his pokémon residents having breakfast. The table was filled with hash browns, bacon, pancakes, eggs (scrambled and omelets), steak, and biscuits. A feeling of happiness started to go through him on the inside. It kinda feels like a family now, he thought. He sat down between Tidus and Maraina. Maraina had an omelot, hash browns, and pancakes. With a wave of her pincer the pancakes and omelet were cut in fractions and she began to eat in a civilized manner. The sandslashes were eating their food properly as well. Tidus had steak, bacon, and scrambled eggs. He was gorging on his steak and he didn't even bother to cut it. Well manners don't apply to everybody, he thought, he started to scan the rest of the table. It was kinda funny watching the difficulty that the empoleons were having eating there food since their claws were in the middle of their fins. They were having trouble gripping their food. The torkoal took a better approach to his food. He placed his in a bowl and was chowing down with his head shoved in it. John didn't notice the massive size of the torkoal until now. It was 5'8" and was over 7' feet wide. It took up a lot of space from the table. He looked at the brelooms. They had nothing on their plates, but they were drinking orange juice. The cacturne also had some juice. Well that makes sense, he thought, they're grass pokémon so they use photosynthesis and get most of there food from the sun. The only reason I can see them eating or drinking would be for the taste of food. He looked at the arcanine. She had the same selection of food as Tidus (minus the eggs) on her plate. A total of four steaks were on it with five strips of bacon. She also had the same manners as Tidus as she violently ripped apart her steaks with the juices covering her maw. He then addressed his attention to Elliot. He had six plates and had all the food separated on each one. He had six pancakes, seven hash browns, five steaks, three omelets, eight biscuits, ten strips of bacon on each plate respectively. John looked at the leftovers and saw three pancakes, one omelet, and a lot of scrambled eggs, three biscuits, one steak, and two hash browns. 
"Well damn Elliot. What up with all the food."
As if to answer John's question, Elliot open his gigantic mouth and swallowed the plate with pancakes whole. He then put his hand in his mouth, pulled out the plate and placed it back on the table. John looked at the spectacle with a surprised look.
"What the..." said John.
"You've never seen a gulpin eat before?" asked the male breloom named Dan, "Wasn't he here longer than us?"
"They ate before me yesterday so I didn't know."
Elliot started to continue the act with the other plates of food. But with the last plate (which had biscuit)s he did something different. He opened his mouth and began to suck the food.
"What the hell!" exclaimed John, "Who the hell is he? Kirby."
This got the table to roar with laughter. They finished breakfast fifteen minutes later. He walked outside the house and started heading out. He kept going until he turned around and noticed Star and Maraina behind him.
"Where are y'all going?" he asked.
"With you," replied Star.
"No, no, no. That wouldn't be such a good idea."
"Why is that?"
"Well you know how the city feels, no offense, about the fact that they are murderers taking residence on the island. Imagine how it would be if they saw them out in the streets."
"No offense taken. Why should we really care?"
"It can cause unnecessary attention."
"Fuck em," replied Maraina.
"The point I'm trying to tell you is that I can take care of myself and you don't have to worry about me."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Well then, what do you want us to do?" asked Star
"Protect the house from Adolf Hitler."
Both of the pokémon gave him a blank look.
"You know? ...Jason."
"We know that," replied Maraina.
"You two have no sense of humor."
"It's not a laughing matter," said Star, "You need to take your situation with Jason more seriously. If you don't, he will ki-"
"Kill me. Yeah, yeah. I know everybody tells me that."
"And why do think they do?" 
"I don't know? Tell me."
"Because you're not listening."
"Yes I am."
"You're hearing us," said Maraina, "But your not listening Johnathan. If you did, you would be taking this more seriously. That is what we want you to do." They both turned around.
"Fine," said Star, "We'll stay here. Just be careful."
"Thank you. I'll be on my way." He then left the area and began to walk towards Speedy's house.
"He's just like Eric," said Maraina. "He's so immature."
"Yeah," said Star, "but what do you expect, he's still a kid."
"So are we Star. We are only one year older than him."
"Yeah, but if you look at the way he's living. You'd expect him to be one of those spoiled rich brats. And he isn't. He needs time to grow up just like Eric does. Besides at least he's trying to be responsible."
"And how is that?"
"He's trying to care of us."
"He looks like he needs to be taken care of more than we do."
"Well than." Star then began to walk back inside the house, "Then let's be the ones to help him." As they went inside the house they didn't notice Donovan hiding in a tree watching Johnathan. The sneasel began to pursue John as he left the area.

30 minutes later John arrived at Speedy's house and went straight for the bus stop. Speedy was already there. He seemed to be fumbling through his social studies book.
"What are you doin, Speedy?" asked John
"We were supposed to have that social studies test the day we found the creatures from hell," said Speedy, "she's most likely gonna make us do a make-up test today."
"Okay."
"You know something was buggin me yesterday."
"What was that?"
"Some of those pokémon called you the n-word yesterday and you weren't offended. Matter of fact you called them the n-word right back. Why?"
"Cuz they black."
"What!"
"They black."
"How the hell are they black? They're pokémon!"
"They're black pokémon."
"How the hell can you tell if a pokémon is black?"
"Tone, attitude and being black yourself."
"You gotta be bull shittin me."
"No, I bullshit not."
"So all the Caribbean pokémon black?"
"And most of the pokémon on Jason's crew, Zachary's crew, Kenji's crew, Star's crew and all the pokémon in Christian's and Psymon's crew. Well except that aipom. I think he's Italian."
"What the hell?"
"Star, Maraina, the brelooms, and the empoleons are Japanese."
"Alright, now John."
"I'm serious. Ask them when we go to my house later. Tidus and Elliot are black too ya know. Tidus is from the Caribbean as well."
"I cannot believe it. If this is true is Jeremy black?"
"Naw. White. But then again he might be mixed."
"Mixed? Man, I don't believe this shit."
"Believe it and here comes the bus."
The yellow school bus pulled up in front of the bus stop and opened the door. The bus driver gave both boys a stern look. Most of it directed towards John and then finally said, "Get on." John stepped on the bus with Speedy behind him. As John walked down the aisle, he received nothing but eyes filled with hate from his fellow students. He and Speedy got in an empty seat at the back of the bus. As the bus pulled off the stop and headed towards the school. John was still receiving stares. He turned towards Speedy and said, "Today looks like it will be a great day."

During the whole day of school John was neglected by students and teachers alike. He was never called on during class. During lunch when he came towards a full table and sat down. Everyone at the table would scatter and go elsewhere. One of the girls said the words, "sick freak" under her breath. The end of the day soon came and the school buses started to dock students to take them home. John would have had to ride the school bus by himself. Social studies was the last class. The test was taken at a time period of two hours. John finished his in 45 minutes, But Speedy wasn't so lucky. He was staying after school. Social studies was only one hour that day, so it would be a while before Speedy would be done. John was about to get on the bus when he was pulled off by Ted Jackson. He had his crew with him too. His crew consisted of three other boys. John didn't know their names and he didn't really wanted to know. All he needed to know was that they were all pokémon trainers.
"You don't have to ride the bus, Johnny boy. Me and my buddies will give ya a ride home." Ah shit, thought John, Maybe I should have brought Star and Maraina with me. They took John to a more secluded private area away from the adults at school. When they were a good distance away. Ted landed a heavy punch into John's gut. John held his gut and stepped backwards.
"You have a lot of nerve coming back here, pussy?" said Ted, "Tell everybody some bullshit bout how you don't like pokémon. But then you go and save the lives of a bunch of murderers. I knew you were nothing but filth from the start."
"Filth?," said a brown-haired boy, "This guy is so low. A muk wouldn't shit on him." They all began to laugh. 
"Yeah. But we're gonna let you know now. You're not welcome here at this school anymore."
"Says who?" said John who caught back his wind.
"Says me, you little shit." He landed another punch. This time to John's jaw. The other boys came in and started to beat down John. After a few seconds Ted signaled everyone to stop. John had a broken nose and blood was coming out.
"Boys I think we forgot the reason we're beating him up," said Ted who grabbed at his belt and pulled out a pokeball, "This guy likes pokémon so bad. Let's let him become acquaintances with ours." He threw his pokeball releasing a houndoom with the height of 5'10. The others threw their pokeballs in agreement as well. A hitmonlee, a hitmonchan, an electabuzz, a feraligatr, and a hariyama came out as well. All were normal size.
"Okay boys," commanded Ted, "Turn this guy into your new punching bag." The pokémon replied with sick smiles and began to pummel John's body into the ground. After 20 minutes of being beat down by the massive pokémon. John had two black eyes (one shut and one half open and already swelling), cuts and scrapes on his arms and legs, his left pant leg was half ripped off, and he was bleeding from his mouth, nose, and his right temple. He looked like he came out of a car crash. The pokémon backed and went back to their trainers with smiles on their face.
"Good," said Ted, "From now on Johnny boy if you keep coming back to school. This will happen to ya. Go ahead and try to snitch too. It's not like anyone's gonna care anyways. It happens when you willingly and knowingly harbor a bunch of sadistic bastards."
"How bout I snitch to your moms," said John weakly, "You'd think she'd listen."
Ted gave him an angry look. His houndoom ran forward a placed its fist in John's face. John was sent flying 20 feet away and into a tree.
"Freak," said Ted as he and his crew walked away. John got up from the tree and started limping away. He took out his cell phone to find it crushed. He then took out his wallet to see if he had any money. It was empty. Pokémon probably pick pocketed me while they were beating me down, he thought. He put his wallet back into his pocket and began to limp back home. 

It was 5:30 when he got home and Eric was standing with his eyes closed in the sun. He seemed to be using ingrain because his legs were rooted in the ground. John healed somewhat along the way. His eyes were open and the cuts on his arms and legs were resealed, but he was still limping. The blood had dried on his face, body, and clothes. As he walked into the area. Eric opened eyes which became wide when he saw John.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU!" Eric screamed A few figures flew over the house and landed in front of John. They were revealed to be his pokémon companions. Tidus and Elliot had surprised looks on their faces. Star group remained neutral except Cody. He seemed to be laughing his ass off. Star and Maraina had their arms crossed. Ken and his group had the same looks on their faces as Tidus and Elliot. Star was shaking her head while, Maraina gave him a mad look. Cici ran to his aid and checked him over.
"Uhhh, said John, "Good afternoon."
"That's all you got to fucking say," said Maraina, "You come home looking like you got in a fight with a bulldozer and that's all you got to fucking say. Good afternoon."
"What's the problem?"
"YOU!" everybody but Cody shouted. Cody was still rolling on the ground.
"Dammit, John!" said Tidus angrily, "Who the hell did this to you."
"Well, I was on my way home when a couple of guys and their pokémon pulled me off and decided to have a little debate. I tried to argue my topic but was silenced by their very compelling reasoning as you can see." Star lifted her foot and stomped the ground creating a massive earthquake. All the other pokémon jumped while John took full force from the attack and landed on the ground. 
"I don't believe you," said Star angrily, "I can take care of myself, he says. Don't worry about me, he says. I'll just go to school and get my ass kicked by a bunch and humans and their pokémon that's all."
"Why didn't you fight back?" asked Maraina.
"I believe violence is not the answer," replied John.
"So getting your ass kicked is."
"Apparently so," said Cody. Star and Maraina started giving him the look. "What? It's the truth. Otherwise, he wouldn't be looking like this."
"What were their power levels?" asked Star ignoring Cody.
"Um the highest was 120,000. For the pokémon it was 4 milli," answered John. Everybody just stared at him. "What?!"
"You know for a smart guy. You are pretty dumb," said Brock.
"You could have at least turned super saiyan, John," said Ken.
"Yes I could," said John, "But you see there some things you guys don't take into consideration. If I was to go super saiyan my power level would be higher than all of theirs. They could then make an argument that I was attacking them."
"How is that?" Ken asked.
"Well first things first. My reputation around this city is comparable to a guy who spits and curses at little children, and push old people in the roads. So yeah I can say that they attacked me and I went super saiyan in self defense. But then the father of the leader of the band of fools that attacks me owns one of the best schools in the Hoenn region, and is the senator representing this island. His son is the captain of the school's football team, head of the student council and is a 'model' student. Even if they would help me, which they wouldn't. It wouldn't change a damn thing. When you have power like that. People are known to look the other way or agree with whatever is their side of the story, because they can be as easily crushed as I can. So pretty much I'm screwed."
This caused silence among the group of pokémon.
"You suck," said Cody breaking the silence.
"What do you mean I suck?" John responded
"You can stand up to us. But you can't stand up to a bunch of fucking humans. That's what I mean when I say you suck. You mean to tell me you can stand up to a bunch of 'killers' and you can't take on a bunch of pathetic humans. Knowing you can kick their asses."
"You know," said Elliot, "I usually don't agree with that guy, but this time he is actually right. Why the hell don't you fight back."
"Look I just don't want any trouble," answered John.
"Is that what you're gonna tell Jason?" said Star, "It's only a matter of time before he starts doing the same thing. You say you won't be pushed around by them, yet you let these guys walk all over you at school." She turned around and walked towards John's house. "It's getting harder and harder to understand you John." She went inside and everybody followed her, but Tidus, Elliot, and Cici. She's right, John thought, It took listening to her to realize how much of a coward I am.
"Are you okay?" asked Cici. 
He looked at the empoleon and said, "Yeah, I think I'm gonna go inside and lay down."
"Some of the pokémon had came over to the house today. I think they got spies on us or something. The main reason Star was pissed is that their may have been a chance that they sent someone to spy at your school. If they saw you get beat down they would-"
"See that as one of my weaknesses."
"Yeah," said Tidus, "Where is Speedy? Shouldn't he have been with you?"
"He had to stay after school to do a make up test."
"How come?"
"We were absent on the day we were supposed to have a test so we had to make it up."
"So how come they beat you up?"
"Ummm. I kinda put a dent in the guys car. He just happens to like beating the crap out of-"
"You're lying," said Tidus.
"What?"
"I may have only lived with you for three days. I have been able to tell when you're lying. You're usual a straight-forward person. You always say the first thing to come to your mind. The only time you don't want to tell us something is when you either try to change the subject or you lie. The fact that you said 'Ummm' gave off that you were thinking about it before you spoke. And besides you never say um." Dammit, John thought, why couldn't he be retarded? 
"Fine," said Tidus, "You ain't gonna tell us the reason now. But could you at least try to be careful. The next time these guys come for you, just run." Tidus and Elliot then walked into the house. John was about to do the same thing when he saw Cici looking in a different direction.
"What's wrong?" John asked the empoleon.
"They know," she answered.
"What?"
"They know. They sent Donovan to spy on you."
"Wait, how do you know?"
"We learned to hide our power levels whenever we went on hit runs. I just so happened to look in this direction and saw his ear poking out over there in the bush. When he noticed that I found him out, he scattered." She then turned around with a sad look on her face. She walked past John and said, "It's about to get worst." She walked into the house leaving John in the opening. I wonder how worst it can get, he thought.

"You mean to tell me he let a bunch of humans beat him around," laughed Justin. Donovan had just returned and reported what happened to John to his group. "The pokémon are a little bit understandable, but you're trying to tell me he's too scared to fight a bunch of humans. How did he get a power level like that anyways."
"Humph he doesn't even deserve to be called a saiyan anymore," said Takani, "The saiyans back home may have been pathetic, but they still held their ground. This one's just a deliberate faulty of a saiyan."
"Man so that piece of shit's all talk," said Ryan.
"Either that or he's one of those "I don't believe in violence" pussies," said Lisa.
"Or he's simply a guy who doesn't want any trouble," said Michelle. Everyone looked at the sneasel who started to give an uneasy look.
"Well that can't be true," said Justin, "Cause if wanted to avoid trouble. He would have avoided us. And I'll make sure he knows it."
"Justin, when I say spy I don't mean attack," said Zachary, "Understand."
"Yeah."
"Now Justin I want you to see if you can find anything about this guy. His past, his present, what he likes, what he doesn't like, if he's sometimes scared of using the toilet, I wanna know the pokémon who bit him his ass while he was on it. I want to know anything that this guy could be holding back. And Justin."
"What?"
"Don't let anyone see you. Matter of fact, Takani and Lisa will help you."
"I can do it by myself."
"Yeah he can do it by himself," said Takani, "I have some training to do."
"No questions just do it," said Zachary sternly.
"Fine."
"I have no problem," said Lisa, "Maybe we can fuck with his mind a little."
"Lisa."
"Hey! I'm not suggesting like an attack. You know a little blood here and there."
"And then we be just like Jason. We are in separate groups for a reason."
"Yeah, but we all have one thing in common. We hate that guy."
"Even so, we will not operate the same way. So, end of story. Now get going."
The three pokémon disappeared.
"How could he allow himself to get beat by humans?" said Keisha, "That's so boring. I actually wanted to fight him again."
"Unfortunately for you, he wouldn't fight back anyway. I can tell he isn't a fighter by looking at the way he acts."
"Or he used to be."
"What do you mean?"
"The beauty mark across his face."
"Shit! Should of asked them to find out about that too. Lisa would probably find out about that for me since she likes stuff like that. Donovan. Why don't you spread the news to the other groups?" Donovan nodded and then left the area.
"Thought ya didn't want anything to do with the other groups," said Keisha
"Yeah, but now that I think about it. I wonder they will take this sort of information."
"Oh yeeaahhh. Let's start some controversy!"
"That's not what I meant."
"But it's what I mean. Sean! You go and help out Donovan."
"Why do I have to go too?" asked Sean.
"Because I said so! But if you don't want too. I could use another training session and you would make a great practice dum-"
Sean disappeared before she could finish the sentence.
"Dammit! Why does everyone run away when I ask them to be my training partner?"
"Because you're a fucking psycho," answered Mark. 
Keisha looked at the lickitung and said, "Yeah, I know! But for being such a smartass, Mark, you're my punching bag today."
Mark shrugged.
"Aha, that what ya get you fucking tongue." laughed Ryan.
"What you laughing for?" said Keisha, "It's a handicap 2-1 training session. And you just volunteered to be his partner."
"WHAT!"
"You two got ten seconds before I start ripping."
Ryan got up and exploded with a dragon dash past Mark who followed him.
"Huh, why must you treat our allies so? One of them is your little brother."
"Yeah, but our little brother's an asshole. So I don't feel so bad giving him a piece of his own medicine. Sayonara." She disappeared leaving smoke in the spot she was standing in.
Zachary looked at his quiet little sister and the female sneasel that was left.
"At least you guys are sane," he said. The two just looked back at him with a smile on their faces.

It was midnight and John was having problems falling asleep. He was gong over the events that happened six hours.

"I'm sorry John but we have to let you go," said the manager of the Tonberry International Restaurant, "The customers seemed to take the pokémon situation seriously and are leaving whenever they see you here. It's bad for business. It has nothing against you. I wouldn't care if you had Hannibal Lector living with you. But the people don't think like this. You're one of the best chefs ever to come to this restaurants and that's my word."
"Don't worry about it," said John, "I understand. I'm used to stuff like this happening."
"You shouldn't. That's my problem. I really don't wanna do this. Despite all the things the people say around here. I know that you are a great kid. You took those guys in knowing this could come and blow back on you. Look. Let's give this a few months to die down and then I'll let you back in. Alright?"
"Okay."
"I really got to say sorry John."
"You don't have to apologize." John then started to leave the Tonberry Restaurant. He went out front door and received a few stares as well and heard the common words like "freak" and "demon". He would catch a bus home, but preferred not too. He would probably get the same stares and lovely compliments all along the ride. So he decided to walk home. There was new comment that was spurted out while he walked down the road. "THOSE FUCKING MURDERERS SHOULD KILL YOU TOO!" He kept walking down the road and continued on. It was 8:30 by the time he was halfway to his house. A black van pulled up and four guys with black masks came out with guns. Two of them had Ak-47s, one had a 9-millimeter and the last had a desert eagle.
"COUGH UP ALL THE FUCKING CASH MUTHAFUCKA BEFO' WE BUST A CAP IN YOUR DOME!" screamed the one with the desert eagle.
"Ahhh shit." said John as he took out his wallet and gave it to them. They emptied his wallet of 100s, 50s and 20s." When they were done they started to beat him down to the ground with their guns. They took his watch and his work shoes while doing it. The one with the desert eagle took his school I.D. from his wallet and examined it.
"So you're Johnathan Ogami huh. You're supposed to be some demon child or something who brings death wherever he goes. You also got those sick pokémon fuckers too? But they don't seem to be with their master tonight. Too bad. There's nothing scary about you. You seem like a regular old pussy if you ask me. If you mention any of this to the po-po and we'll fucking kill your ass. Let's go." The guy took the student I.D. and threw back John's empty wallet at him. They all got into the van and speeded off. John got up brushed off his ruffled up clothes. He was bleeding out of his mouth again and had his third black eye for the week. He then continued on his way back home.

He arrived back at the house at 9:45. He walked in the house and heard his pokémon companions in the living room watching T.V. If they see me I won't hear the end of it, John thought. He then started to walk up the stairs to his room quietly. He made it halfway up the stairwell when Erika (breloom) came out the upstairs bathroom and down the stairs. He never really got a good look at her before. She was halfway past six feet and had a huge tail. She was one of the serious and strong silent types in Star's group. She stared at John with a stern facial expression. She started to examine his body and then looked straight back up into his eyes. She had light hazel eyes which was weird for a normal breloom to have. The mini mushrooms on her mushroom cap were a light pink. She had her arms crossed as if to tell John she wanted an explanation.
"Uhhh Hi," said John. The breloom remained silent. "Um, you're name is Erika right?" She still remained silent. Oh boy, he thought, it's like talking to a wall. "So how are ya doi-"
"Still waiting," she interrupted.
"For what?"
"You're bullshit excuse that's what."
"Well uh you see I got...jacked." Her look changed to one of anger and she shook her head at John.
"We can't leave you for one minute."
"Oh come on, it was unavoida-"
"Didn't you say you would be home around 12:30? How come you're here and don't even think about giving me a bullshit story like last time."
"I...got fired." 
She quickly grabbed him by the back of his shirt, picked him up, and hauled him in the living room. The whole group was sitting down watching professional wrestling.
"I'm telling you those rules make this a pussy sport," said Dan (Erika's brother), "Yeah the submissions are technical and useful but so is a chair."
"Or a table," said Cassie (Arcanine), "And I wanna see them hurry up and burst the guy open. I wanna see some blood!"
"Man that shit is fake," said Elliot.
"What!"
"Cassie this shit is fake and you know it. Those punches are going to the side of his face. Some of them are not even connecting. And the blood's fake too. They probably stop the camera and put ketchup all over the man's face." Cassie got up. She was another one of the 7 foot giants. 
She tackled Elliot to the ground and put him in a headlock and said, "Say it's real."
"Never."
"Say it or I'll light your ass up, you can't absorb it from this distance." Fire started forming on the inside of her mouth.
"Stop it you two," said Star.
"If you guys gonna fight," said Maraina, "Fight outside. The last thing we need is unnecessary damage done to this house."
"Speaking of damage," said Erika as she came into the room with John hanging from her claw. She then dropped him to the ground. Cassie let go of Elliot who started to hold his head. Tidus and the other stared with disbelief while Star and Maraina had blank looks.
"We just can't let you go anywhere can we?" said Maraina, "What the fuck happened now?"
John opened his mouth but was cut off by Erika. 
"He was robbed," she said.
"You can't be serious," said Tidus who held his head.
"That's not all. He also got fired."
"How? How? How does all this shit happen to you in one day?"
"Ahh I had worst," said John as he got up. Star, Maraina, and Tidus blew up on John when he said this.

Now it's midnight. Well it could have been worst, thought John, I could have been raped. He then began to laugh. I said that to them earlier on. Tidus nearly hit me when I said it. Well at least I know they care. If I said that to Bernard would have said "That's very dreadful, master Johnathan. Wait a minute this is not gonna affect my paycheck, is it". He laughed out loud again. The closest I'll get to a family. Wait a minute did you just call them family. Get real. They only stay here because they feel they owe it to you. If something happens to you they would just move on. They are just doing this because you're their "trainer". You heard Star. She called you master before Johnathan. And that's the only way she sees you. That's the only way they all see you. The closest you'll get is Speedy. He began to toss and turn in his bed. Family, he continued to think, Nakama. What would that be like again? But what's the point. They all die when everything it gets good. No matter what. You're purpose in life is to be miserable. Those pokémon will not change that. He then began to look at his closet. He got up and walked over to it and opened the doors. Underneath the long aisle of clothes (some he didn't even wear yet). There was a large chest there. It was locked. He went to his bedroom and opened a drawer. He was fumbling through for a while until he pulled out a key. He went back into the closet and unlocked the chest with it. Inside were a lot of photos and items. There were dolls, toy trucks, a blitzball with some markings on it and a few other things. He started to search through these things in search for something. Before the massacre at the orphanage, Aeris gave me something that belonged to my father that she was able to salvage. It was a chain. He then shoved his hand deep into the mess of stuff and felt something metallic. He pulled out the pendant. It had a long twelve-inch silver chain. At the end hung a pendant. It was three inches in diameter. It was two inches thick and was a combination of silver, and red. It was a sky blue oval gem with a yellow ring placed around it. This belonged to my third adopted father, Rico Velázquez. He was the one I enjoyed the most. He was the guy who said you can always trust pokémon. He could. How come I can't? He took the pendant and placed it around his neck. He then put all his stuff back into his chest and locked it back. He then closed the closet doors and went back to bed. He said this pendant always helped him to stay calm, John thought, maybe it will do the same for me. If I keep using the medication I'll just end up getting addicted to it and it would eventually stop working like all antibiotics. He then closed his eyes. He went to sleep fifteen minutes later. A murkrow was floating outside his window watching him.

The next morning John woke up. This time nothing was different. Wait did they actually decide to give me a break, he thought. He up and looked over his room. Everything seemed normal. He then went into the bathroom and proceeded with his normal morning activities. He was dressed and ready 30 minutes later. He looked at his bedroom clock. It read 6:40. Well that's a record. This pendant stuff must really work. He still had it around his neck. He was about to go outside when he stopped and decided to put it in his pockets. Don't wanna get into any Q&A about the chain so I'll just keep it here. He opened his bedroom door and walked downstairs. I probably should keep it in there until school's over, he continued to think, and I'm far away from Ted the dickhead. As he descended down the stairs and walked towards the dining room. He suddenly stopped. You know what I'm not that hungry, he thought. He turned around and walked into Star and jumped. She had her arms crossed and was staring him straight down into his eyes. Man it sucks when everybody in the house is taller than you, he thought, they're always looking down at you while you have to look up. For some reason when I look at her she makes me feel like I'm inferior to her. She remained quiet. Oh god, he thought, she's doing the same thing Erika was.
"Uhhhh," said John.
"Aren't you going to eat breakfast?" she asked.
"Well actually I'm not that hungry and I think I'll go for a walk."
"Will you be coming back or will you head straight to school after you take this walk."
"School."
"I could ask to come with you, but you'd probably try your best to come up with excuses to make me stay."
"..."
"Well then, promise you'll try not to get killed."
"Okay." 
She reached forward and pinched John's cheek. John's vision then became contorted. Star turned into a sandslash with a black robe. It gave John a smirk. It then brought back it's claw and shoved it straight into John's stomach. Blood started to rapidly flow out of his midsection. John started to spit blood out of his mouth. 
The sandslash pulled his claw out. He was holding his pancreas in his claws. It was still attached to his small intestines which hanged outside his gut alongside his stomach covered in blood. He crushed his pancreas, causing a greenish-yellow liquid to spill out. The sandslash yanked on John's organs causing his small and large intestines to fall out. His stomach flopped out as well. His blood starting coming out of his body like a waterfall and started spreading around the ground, painting it red.
"Well kido, looks like you just fucked that promise up," it said.
The vision broke and John jumped and fell backwards. Large amounts of sweat were falling off of his face. He checked his abdomen to see if it was open. It was okay. Star was on the ground at his side holding him.
"What happened?" she asked in a frantic voice. He looked at her and jumped.
He then finally caught himself and tried to say, "I'm okay" but what came out was "I'm okkuuaaay," Blood starting flying out of his mouth. It was starting to come out of his nose as well. He then touched the blood and looked at it.
"Oh my god!" She grabbed him and tried to lift him up. But he started fighting with her. "Let me help you."
"I'm okaaauuyy. I'm okauuyyy. Hold on." In a few seconds the blood on his nose went back into his nose. Blood came back into his mouth as well. Star looked at John with wide eyes.
"It's how my recovery system works. I guess I started to internally bleed. If it got worse I would have had to use these." He pulled out his medication and then put it back.
"What just happened?" she asked him.
"I don't know. It happens sometimes. Don't worry about it. I'll be back." He walked past her. She quickly turned around and grabbed his arm. He turned back and looked at her. She still had the same look on her face.
"It's okay. Nothing is wrong. I'm alright," he lied.
She looked back at him and stared for awhile and then she finally let go. She sighed turned around and said, "Please come home safe."
"I will." He then left the house and closed the door behind him. She actually looked like she was scared for me, he thought, naw that's not possible. He started walking towards Fatima Beach. Two zangooses and a sneasel were hiding in trees from above, watching him move. They then started to follow him.

He stayed at Fatima's bluff for 30 minutes and then he walked to Speedy's house. He told Speedy all that happened yesterday when he got there. Speedy was concerned about what happened what happened and said that next time he should wait for him to leave as well. The day at school wasn't so bad until lunch came. John was walking towards the cafeteria until Ted and his group came and grabbed him.
"Looks like the saiyan decided he had balls and said 'fuck you' to our warning," said Ted, "Well that's okay, because there is something else that wants to have you for lunch."
"What's that Ted?" asked John drearily.
"The pole." Ted had pressed him against something hard and metallic. John looked up and saw his school's flagpole.
"Ooohhh deeeaaaar God," said John.
At the end of lunch students and teachers alike saw John, hanging by his boxers on top of the flagpole with a black eye. The whole school pointed and laughed at him. 15 minutes later the teachers got him down from the pole and asked who did it. John said nothing.

Later on that day he came home with Speedy. They went inside and saw Tidus and Elliot playing video games.
"Hey," they said to John and Speedy.
"Hey, where's everybody else."
"In the other room meditating," said Tidus.
"How come you guys aren't there?" 
"Cuz we don't fucking meditate that's why." Elliot said.
"Okay, well me and Speedy are going into the back yard."
"Aiight."
John and Speedy walked out the house through the backdoor. 
"Yeah I'm designing these new combat items that are called Impact dials and absorption dials," said John as they walked outside. "They allow you to-" He stopped when he saw two zangooses and a sneasel 15 feet before him. They were all staring at him.
"Wow, I neva expected someone who was able to sneak his way out of a fight with Keisha would allow himself to be beaten by a bunch of humans," said Lisa.
"What are you-" said Speedy but was interrupted by the sneasel who went in a frenzy.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP! I was talking to the saiyan! Not you. Say another word and I will cut your fucking throat."
Speedy gulped and staggered backwards.
"HEY! You're problem is with me!" John shouted back to the sneasel, "Don't you bring any of that towards him he doesn't deserve it."
"I don't take orders from you saiyan," she replied.
"I don't care. You are not gonna bring that hostility towards my friend."
"Ooooooooo someone's starting to get a little angry. Where was that when the humans were kicking your ass."
"That's different then what's going on now."
"Oh really. Keisha is right. The only way to get you into some action is by doing something to your friend. What would you do if I were to rip his guts out and spread em like gruel."
"Lookie here don't you threaten him or I'll-"
"You'll what?" said Justin, "Jump, shout, and piss your pants. You're nothing but a pussy. What would you possibly do." John's vision became contorted and Justin's body turned into the other zangoose again. "You've always been a pathetic, helpless weakling," it said, "Your families were murdered in front of your eyes. What did you do. Nothing. You don't deserve to live. But don't worry. I'll help you with that part." He disappeared and reappeared behind John and whispered in his ear "goodbye". He then shoved his claws straight into John back and straight through his stomach. Blood starting pouring out of his body like a river. The zangoose's claws were covered in blood and fluid from within John's body. The zangoose pulled his claw out and ripped out John's spinal cord along the way. It was soaked in blood. The zangoose took the spinal cord and wrapped it around John's motionless neck and began to strangle him.
"Don't choke on that cord," said the zangoose sadistically. The vision broke and John started convulsing. Blood was starting to come out of his nose and mouth again. He fell to the ground and started twitching.
"Wow!" exclaimed the sneasel, "Look at him dance."
"JOHNATHAN!" screamed Speedy. He fell to John's side and started going through his pockets. "The medicine. WHERE'S THE MEDICINE!"
"Looking for this."
Speedy turned around and saw Justin holding up the bottle in this left paw. "He should pay more attention to his shit," Justin said, "Who knows when a situation like this could happen."
"You son of a bitch!" said Speedy who seemed to have found his inner courage, "GIVE THAT BACK!" John saw Speedy running towards the zangoose and that was all. He blacked out.

John woke up in his bedroom 2 hours later. He saw Speedy sitting beside him with a pack of ice covering his right eye.
"Good to see you've woken up," he said.
"What happened?" asked John.
"Well I tried to get your medicine back and that zangoose bastard, but he gave me a black eye with one cuff and knocked me away. He did it effortlessly too. All seemed to be lost until a marshtomp named Tidus came out of nowhere and gave the guy a super head butt. It knocked the medication out of his hands and the cacturne guy, Eric caught it. Elliot was with them as well. The zangoose got pissed and started beating up everybody. That was until Star came out. My god was she furious. I was witness to seeing the most destructive woman on earth go on a rampage. The zangoose had no chance. She was smacking him all around the place like a pinball. The other zangoose and sneasel came in and they barely managed to hold their own against her. When Maraina showed up they absolutely no chance. They were decimated. Star then sent them off and literally banished them from this place. Man I was scared and she was our side. There are craters decorating your whole back yard if you don't believe me. I'm so glad that we got Star on our side who knows what would have happened to you if she wasn't here. Oh yeah it was Cici who put a tablet in your mouth and a senzu bean to go along with it."
So maybe they actually do care, John thought.
"So where are they-," said John. But was interrupted by the door exploding open and Tidus flung himself into the room. He then ran beside John's bed.
"Oh my god!" he exclaimed, "I thought you were dying. Me and Elliot heard yelling outside. Star sent Eric to check on us because she heard the door open. And then we saw what was going on outside. That guy nearly killed Elliot. If it wasn't for Star I don't wanna think what would happen." And at that moment Star came into the room with everybody else. They soon started crowding around the bed.
"Are you okay?" asked Star.
"That is not the right question," said John.
"Okay, are you feeling better."
"That's the right question and the answer to that is yes. Because I felt like someone shoved their claws through my stomach literally. I had trouble breathing too."
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"If I was there earlier they wouldn't have tried it. I should have stayed outside and waited for you to come home. I should have-"
"No, don't you blame this on yourself." He slowly rose from his bed. "No one could have known this would happen the only people you should blame are the three pokémon that came here."
"...Thank you," she said.
"Don't mention it. I kinda like to hear myself talk," responded John. She gave him a light jab on the cheek. "Thank god you didn't hit me like the other guy." This got everyone laughing again.
"Okay, you guys. Let's give John his rest. Why don't you go home Speedy? It's 7:45. You're moms probably worried about you." She turned around and left the room with everyone following close behind.
"Now she's ordering me around," said Speedy, "Talk about vice-versa. And to make it more scary is that my mind is telling me to listen to her with no objection. After seeing what happened today, I think I need to go home and change my pants."
"What's so scary about the fight?" asked John.
"Ask Eustace. That Mr. Mime is sorta quick with it. He came out with a camcorder and recorded the whole thing. We watched the tape three times."
"I gotta see this tape."
"Well, I think i need to heed her words anyways. My parents. Well mainly my mother. My father doesn't care. As long as whatever I'm doing doesn't get me AIDS and that I'm home before midnight. He's okay." He got up from his chair and began to leave John's bedroom. "See ya tomorrow."
"Yeah, see ya."

An hour later he got a call from Megacell Computers. Guess what they are calling him for.
"I'm sorry John, but we're gonna have to let you go," said John's employer, "The media coverage you got from taking in those murderers somehow came here. We've been receiving threats from people, even other business organizations. We can't take any risks so-"
"Don't worry about it. This isn't the first time that I have been told this. I'm used to stuff like this happening. I should have known this would come back to blow on me. I'm ready to accept the consequences."
"Look we will send a $150,000 consolation check to show there is no hard feelings. We really didn't want to do this."
"Yeah, I know. You don't have to worry about me." His voice started to crack up. "Goodbye and have a goodnight."
"Goodnigh-" John hanged up and put the phone down before his former employer could finish the statement. He looked to the side of his bed and saw his pendant. He grabbed it and sat up in his bed. He closed his eyes and tried to calm down. But soon he couldn't hold it in. At that moment Tidus walked into John's bedroom
"John! Are you okay? Is there something wrong?," said the clueless marshtomp.
"I'm losin everything, Tidus," John said glumly. "Everything...I worked for. I'm losin everything."
"What are you talking about?" 
"I just got fired again."
"You got fired? Wait. Isn't this yo day off."
"Yes it is."
"How you get fired on yo day off? That sounds like some dumb shit. How dumb do you gotta be to get fired on yo day off."
"For some reason I feel like I'm in a movie moment."
Star then walked into the bedroom.
"What's going on in here?" she asked.
"John got fired," answered Tidus,
"What do you mean?"
"I have been fired again," responded John, "I'm now part of the unemployment line."
"But isn't this your day off."
"Yeah," said Tidus, "Sounds pretty dumb doesn't it?"
"Fired twice in the same week. What's next? Will I be expelled from scho-" 
"It's because of us isn't it?" asked Star.
"N-n-n-no it's m-"
"John, you don't have to lie to me. I know that no one in their right mind would have taken us in after the media revealed our colorful past. That's one of the main reasons I took curiosity in you. When everyone was bound to reject us. A little boy with no family and only 1 friend does. Not to forget the town hates the little boy for some reason that is still a mystery to us. Why would he adopt a large band of assassins and murderers who supposedly have a 'taste for blood'? It still kind of boggled my mind and it still does. You may try to avoid questions about yourself and why you don't have family, but I learned one thing about you from living in this house for a few days. You have a kind heart. You have such a nice, calm and admirable personality. You do your best in order to make other people feel better. More so than yourself. I also have realized that you're selfless to the point that it is ridiculous. You see yourself more as a sub-ordinate to us more than an equal. You don't deserve to be treated like this. If this is gonna keep happening then I can't allow myself to stay here and do this to you."
"No! No. That was just a job. I don't need it. I can get another one. You're a living being. That's more important than any job. I can't let you go because of what's happening to me now." His eyes began to tear up as he said this but his voice remained steady. "This house is an empty forsaken vessel which I've created. People have hated me ever since I could remember. The people that even stay here are people who I pay who probably think the same way. Ever since I got you guys I've felt better about myself. I actually had something to come home too. Someone to talk too. Someone to make the whole thing worth it. I was barely surviving with Speedy alone. Now that I have you guys I feel I can make it. I felt like I could start over again. I felt like I...I had somebody again. You say that I'm selfless but the truth is that I'm not. My taking you guys in was all so that maybe I could have or even create that feeling again. What it was like to have a family. I don't care what these people do to me as long as I could get that feeling again. It wouldn't matter. So I'm asking you from the bottom of my heart. Please...stay."
Star embraced John as he began to silently cry.
"Don't worry John," said Star, "No ones gonna leave you."
As this moment occurred, a certain empoleon was hiding on the other side of the bedroom wall. Cody slowly turned around and headed towards his bedroom. 

"I don't know if this guy is lying or telling the truth anymore. But today it seemed like he was." Cody was talking to Henry outside of his bedroom window. "He has lost both of his jobs in two days. He's been threatened and had the shit kicked out him as well. All because of us. And he still won't let us go. And from what I heard earlier on today, I'm starting to think that maybe we might of misjudged this guy. I mean, Justin gave him a seizure and he almost died for crying out loud and he still won't give us up. Maybe all he really wants from us is friendship. He doesn't want to slave drive us like those other cunts. He's different somehow. At first I could have killed him without even thinking twice. But now, I don't think I can do it. It's starting to get serious here. Maybe we should give him a chance."
Henry was sitting and listening to Cody's words deep in thought. Maybe Ricky was right, he thought, if he cares so much for these guys. Maybe he'll care for us too. But to defy Jason. It's just too damn scary.
"Henry, you listening to me?" asked Cody.
"What was that?"
"I said are you listening."
"No. You just called me by my name."
"So? What?" He doesn't realize that the only person that calls me by my first name is Ricky, Henry thought, everybody calls me pussy. Being around John could be changing him. He doesn't even realize it.
"Okay," Henry continued, "Anything else you'd like to report?"
"Yeah," answered Cody, "He seems to be clinging on to this pendant. It has a long ass chain. He started holding on to it as if it's something important. It probably had something to do with his past. I sneaked into his room and saw a chest. He may be hiding something in there."
"I was hoping you would find out about it."
"What do you mean?"
"I saw him pull out of that chest last night. I didn't want to report it until I got some more info about it."
"Well tell him anyway."
"Okay. I'm off."
"Henry."
"What?"
"Don't mention the stuff I said about the saiyan. Jason might start thinking I'm turning weak on him."
"You don't have to tell me that. I would be too scared to tell him that kind of information anyway. See ya." And with that Henry flew off. Cody then turned off the lights and went to sleep.

John stayed home for two days to relieve himself of the stress that he had been going through for the past few days. He decided to finish the project with impact and absorption dials. He tested them privately and didn't reveal them to his comrades in the house. On the third day after the seizure (which was Friday), John had planned to go back to school. He received some protests from the other pokémon but after awhile they decided to let him go. He woke up that morning at 6:20. Everything seemed fine except for one thing. His pendant was missing. He got up and did a frantic search for it. He tumbled through his clothes, his closet, and his dresser looking for it. He gave up 20 minutes later and decided to let one of the servants search for it while he was at school. He then did his normal morning routine and was ready at 7:00. 
He ran down the stairs. His pokémon were in the dining room as usual whenever he woke up. He stared at the entrance to the room for awhile until he was butted in his back by an arcanine. 
"Good morning, John," said Cassie.
"Good morning," replied John. He started to head out the door.
"Oh no you don't." She bit him at the nape of his neck and lifted off the ground as if he was a cub. 
"Waaaahhhh! Hey! What's the big deal."
"You need to eat. You're too scrawny. You need to put some meat on those bones. I'm not gonna have an anorexic trainer." She started giggling as she carried him into the dining room.
She walked in, put him down beside Maraina and sat down on the other side. She then gave John a nice long lick across the face.
"You're soooooo cute, you know," she said with a big smile.
"Watch out, John!" exclaimed Elliot, "She's aiming for what's in your pants!"
"Shut up!" She slammed her paws on the table.
"No!" He slammed his hands on the table in response.
"Fine I'll-"
"Come on people!" exclaimed Eustace, "Let there be peace, not war." Dan was sitting beside him and pushed him out of his chair.
"Fuck that," he said, "I wanna see a brawl."
"Yeah," said Brock, "Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight."
"Settle down," said Star. After they actually did settle down the food came. Plates filled with hash browns, pancakes, sausages, steaks, and scrambled eggs filled the dining room table. After they all filled their plates with food and ate breakfast. John started to head out to leave for school. He saw Star going up the stairs and decided to ask her something.
"Hey, Star," said John, "I want to ask you something."
"What?"
"I remember Eric calling you big sis. But I've done enough investigation to see that the only one you're blood related too is Nail."
"He calls me that because he's an only child and he kind of clang on to me ever since we were with the harbingers. He called me big sis one day. I asked him why and he said because I made him feel like he was apart of my family. The way I treated him and all. And soon after that, Cassie started calling me that and now everyone either calls me big sis or Star. You know Eric has one of the lowest power levels in our group. His power level for his age is not "appropriate" for him as Zachary and Christian would say. He happens to be the same age as you. Well you also know how the others take to power levels. They used to beat him up everyday. Until I came around. He was Jason's punching bag. Now that I think about it. There are only three people whose ever stood up to Jason. You, me and Angel."
"Who's Angel?"
"I'll tell you later. Shouldn't you be going to school?"
"Yeah. One more thing Star?"
"What?"
"Can I...call you big sis too?"
She stared at him for awhile and then smiled. She walked down the stairwell towards John and placed her clawed-paw on his head and went through his hair.
"Sure," she finally said, "Little brother."
John then gave a nervous little smile.
"You know you should smile more often," she said, "It's good for you." She removed her paw from his head. "Now hurry up and get out of here."
He turned around and went for the door when he was tackled by Cassie, Eric, and Frank.
"Woohoo!" exclaimed Eric, "Now I have another big brother."
"And I got another little squirt of a brother," said Cassie.
"Wahhhh,' said Frank who had tears of joy sprinkling out of his eyes, "Another family moment. I love it when this happens."
"Where the hell are you people come from?" said John. After a little bit they got off of him. Erika than walked into the room.
"What's going on?" asked Erika.
"He's part of the family now!" said Eric with an ecstatic voice.
"Good," said Erika as she crossed her arms, "Now I can legally kick your ass if you mess up."
"Wait," said a surprised John, "What's with all the hostility."
"Now that you're my little brother. I'm gonna work you into the ground. You got a low power level and you can't fly. Ooooooooo. Just wait til you come home."
"You know that could encourage me not to come home."
"If you're not in this house by 5:00 I'm comin for you. No matter what."
"Run!" screamed Eric, "Run while you still can! This woman is an evil bitch."
"WHAT!" screamed Erika. John left the house not wanting to see what was going to happen to Eric. He heard a few curse words and hits landing while he left. Poor Eric, he thought. 

He made it to the bus stop at 8:30 and met Speedy.
"You're lucky the bus's late," said Speedy, "How are you holding up? I know that you lost the two jobs."
"You know Speedy?" asked John.
"I called yesterday and Ken told me. It seems he learned English." 
"Yeah well, Things can happen. Well I'm starting to feel better now."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I think I can finally trust everyone in that house now."
"How come?"
"During my current misfortunes, Star and 'em tried cheering me up and everything. I guess I realized that she cared when she said she'd leave if them being there was causing me so much trouble."
"Oh that's nice. But wait, that kinda sounds like what those other guys wanted to do as well."
"This was in a different nature than the other pokémon. But when I pleaded her to stay, she did it gladly. Kinda opened up a little bit to her to."
"Wait, you tell them about the..."
"No. I'm still contemplating about whether or not I should. I did say I can trust them after all but they might get a different perspective of me."
"Okay."
The bus came and drove up to the bus stop and opened the door. The bus driver still had the hateful look in his eyes. John just gave a shy smile and got on the bus.

It was the end of gym class the last period of the day and John and Speedy changed from their gym shorts and shirt into their regular clothes.
"You know I'm tired of these small tight-ass shorts," said Speedy, "My nuts can't even breathe in these mugs."
"You know if you dress in normal clothes, you'll get half the grade."
"It's startin' to seem worth it. It may lower my G.P.A. but fuck it. I make B's and C's anyways. I always have an A in gym so it wouldn't hurt to have a C. One day, I think we should just wear somethin' else."
"Aiight, I guess that be cool."
"You know what would be cool?" said a voice coming from behind them. They turned around and saw Ted and his crew.
"If you would fucking die, but that's not gonna happen," he said.
"I would say the same for you," replied John.
"Oh, so you found your voice huh, pussy."
"Dawg, what the fuck's wrong with you. Don't you got some other nerd or poor sap that you abuse. Get a hobby or something. Why the fuck you always comin' to me. Don't you got a life. Do something with it. Makes me think that you gay with you always comin' after my ass." Speedy's jaw dropped.
"What did you say to me, cunt?" 
"Stop calling me pussy and cunt and go get some goddammit. All these fucking girls in this building and comin' beat up and touch my ass. It makes you look like a suspicious faggot."
"Who the fuck do you think you're talking."
"You muthafucka. I ain't talking to the locker. You got the money, you got the cash, go get the hoes. And if not go ahead have an orgy with your friends and your pokémon. Stop bringin' me this heat all the time. I'm tired of this shit. And I'm tired of you." 

Played during rest of the scene: Saliva-Click Click Boom 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uYf09Slsvc

Ted swung his fist; John caught it and planted his right foot in his chest, sending him flying backwards. Two of the guys from Ted's group then came for him. John jumped and dropkicked both of them at the same time sending them back towards their leader. The last one swung a cuff towards John who easily dodged it and placed a heavy kick in his stomach sending the guy straight into the rest of the group. They went flying through the wall, leaving a big hole through it, flew outside of the gymnasium and on the field. John walked outside the hole he created and towards his former assailants. Ted grabbed his pokeball and released his houndoom and told it, "Kill that fucker!"
"Gladly," responded the houndoom. 
It paws charged up black energy and it shot five shadow balls towards John. All of them connected and they sent John flying backwards. The other people in Ted's crew released their pokémon as well. A hitmonlee, a hitmonchan, a electabuzz, a feraligatr, and a hariyama came out and joined the scene. The houndoom had grabbed John by the throat and slammed him into the ground and started charging a hyper beam in its mouth.
"Good bye, ya little bitch," said the houndoom before it started charging the hyper beam.
That's what you think," responded John as his eyes turned green, "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" 
The houndoom started to shake from the power that was going through John's body as he went super saiyan. The houndoom released the hyper beam causing an explosion. He jumped out of the smoke covering the area with a smirk on its face. But the smirk faded off when the smoke disappeared to reveal a golden-haired saiyan who was unscathed.
"Shit!" exclaimed Ted, "Darren needs time to recharge. Get those other guys in there." The others commanded their pokémon to attack. The hitmonchan came at John with a mach punch which John dodged. John then kicked the hitmonchan and blasted it away with a ki blast. The hitmonlee came in with a Hi jump kick. John rolled to the left, dodging the kick, causing the hitmonlee to crash and burn. The electabuzz came towards John shooting thunderbolts at him. John responded by deflecting them away with his arms. When the electabuzz was close enough, it used a thunderpunch. John dodged by bending backwards. He formed his hands in a triangle shape and screamed, "Blast Cannon!" A huge ki blast came out of his hands sending the electabuzz flying high into the sky. The hariyama sneaked behind him and tried to use smellingsalt, but John turned around and stopped the attack with his arms. He started to push back the massive palms of the hariyama with his arms. He then kicked the fat pokémon square in the nuts. As the massive pokémon held it's balls and bended forward, John brought his leg back kicked the hariyama in its head and straight up into the air. He turned around and was blasted with a hydro cannon from the feraligatr. John gained back his footing and started to fight back against the hydro cannon by pushing with his hands. Okay, thought John as he slowly pushed, this guy is pretty frickin strong. He then saw the houndoom, coming towards him. John then started to push the direction of the hydro cannon towards the houndoom with a direct hit sending it back flying. The feraligatr then stopped using hydro cannon and started resting. John then started to sigh. Then he was being bombarded by punches and kicks from the hitmonlee and hitmonchan. The electabuzz and hariyama soon recovered and joined in on the assault. Shit, John thought, there starting to gang up on me. The houndoom and feraligatr then joined in and starting putting pressure on John. After a little bit more abuse, John finally released an explosive wave sending all the pokémon backwards. He pointed his hand like a gun towards the hitmonchan and said, "Dodon ray," A beam came out from his fingers blasting the hitmonchan knocking it out. The hitmonlee came with a rolling kick but was cut off and knocked out by a second dodon ray from John. The hariyama used arm thrust on John hitting him five times and knocking him down. It then jumped over him for a body slam. John counter attacked with a ki blast cannon the size of a caravan sending the fat pokémon high in the air. It then fell down crashing into the ground 30 feet away from the battlefield leaving a crater in its landing space. The feraligatr launched a hydro pump at John. John rolled out the way just before it made contact. When he finished rolling the electabuzz was in front of him. The electabuzz nailed him with a quick thunderpunch in the jaw sending him spinning in the air. John quickly recovered in the air landing on his knees. He turned around and saw the houndoom had two dark pulses in each paw and was coming from behind. The electabuzz was coming for him with another thunderpunch. Is that the only move he knows, John thought. The houndoom shot the two dark pulses at John. John jumped in the air at the last minute to dodge the dark pulses. They hit the electabuzz and instantly KOed the guy. John was then hammer armed out of midair by the feraligatr. He cart wheeled three times before he landed on the ground. He got up from the ground and was head butted by the houndoom. John staggered backwards from the blow. The feraligatr came forward with another hammer arm but John quickly hit it back with a blast cannon. The feraligatr hit the ground and tried to get back, but John charged up and shot three more blast cannons at it to take it down. He turned around and nearly dodged an iron tail from the houndoom. The houndoom grabbed John by the shirt, punched him in his stomach and released a ki rush wave through John sending him in the air. The houndoom then began to pursue him in the air. John turned his body in the opposite direction, straightened up his body so that it was facing the houndoom body upside down, and released another ki blast cannon from his hands. The force from the blast sent him towards the houndoom like a bullet, headfirst into its skeletal like gut. The houndoom released a sharp "guuuuhhhh" when John's head butt connected. They both shot downwards straight into the field, with the houndoom's body slamming against the ground with John's body pointing upwards with his head still planted in the houndooms stomach. A crater 35 feet in diameter was created upon impact to the ground. John rolled off the houndoom's body, got up, and jumped out the crater. He bent forward and started breathing hard.
"Holy shit, John!" exclaimed Speedy who ran towards his super saiyan friend. "You really beat the shit out all those muthafuckas." Ted and his group looked on, devastated at the defeat brought down to all of their pokémon.
"I haven't done that in a long while," said John, "I thought they had me when that feraligatr came in." John looked at Ted. "I've had enough of your crap Ted. This is where it stops. If you keep comin' for me, this will continue to happen. You better look for a new loser to use as your punching bag. Cause I'm takin' it anymore." John and Speedy turned around and started to leave until John turned back around and said, "Oh yeah. Have a nice day."

John and Speedy arrived at his house at 5:00.
"Erika threatened to go on a search and destroy mission if 
I wasn't back by 5:00," said John.
"Who's Erika?" asked Speedy.
"The female breloom."
They both walked into the house to hear a lot of commotion going on in the room leading to the back of the house. They came into the room to see Star and everybody else surrounding a battered Eric. The torkoal seemed to be crying. Eric had bruises and burns all over his body. One of his legs seems to be bent inwards and most likely broken. One of his eyes was sealed purple while the other was halfway open. Some blood had dried on the outside of his mouth. He seemed to be unconscious.
"What happened?!" exclaimed John who rushed into the room.
"Me and Eric were walking outside," cried Frank, "And we bumped into Jason's crew. I don't know what happened. Eric kinda was inspired by the way you talked to them. So he decided to talk shit to Jason. Jason smacked me away and started to beat Eric ddoooooowwww-" It then burst out with tears flying out of its eyes.
"The cocky son of a bitch is outside," said Brock while looking out the window. John and the others rushed to the windows while Star and Frank remained by Eric's beaten body. Jason was standing there with the rest of his crew. But there was one thing different about Jason. He had Johnathan's pendant around his neck. Something started to click into his mind when John saw this. A feeling of anger was starting to swarm inside his body.
"Hey, John isn't that your pendant?" asked Ken.
"Yes ... it is," said John in a serious tone.
Ken looked at John with surprise written all over his face. John started to rub his face up and down with his hands.
"That's it," said Star as she got up. The spikes on her back were flickering. Her eyes were filled with nothing but rage. "I'm gonna kill him." She slowly started walking towards the door but was blocked by John. "Get out of the way, John!"
"No, Star," He said, "I can't let you get him."
"What the fuck are you talking about John?"
"I can't let you get that houndoom. I can't let you get that houndoom today. No." John voice started to change to one of pure anger. "Because I'm gonna get him! That guy right there is the lowest, slimiest, disrespectful piece of shit on this planet. That houndoom has crossed the line and today ... is fuckin' ... Judgment Day." 
John turned around and kicked down the door. He walked out of it briskly and started walking towards Jason. He didn't stop until he was face to face with Jason. It looked kind of strange because of the uneven heights. John eyebrows were burrowed and was gritting his teeth.
"What the fuck you doing in my face, punk," said Jason.
"What the fuck are you doin' you fucking purple-eyed fuck!" responded John. The moment he finished this sentence the ground started rumbling and Psymon's crew appeared and started to watch.
"What did you just say to me?"
"You heard my words loud and clear, muthafucka. Just like you hear the words come out of his mouth." He started to point Cody. Who gave a horrified look. How did he know, thought Cody. All of the pokémon on John side looked at Cody. Tidus started to grind his teeth in anger towards Cody. "Who tells it to that muthafucka." He began to point at Henry. "Who tells it to your fuckin' ass." He placed his finger on Jason's chest. When he did this Christian's and Zachary's crew showed up.
"Don't you fuckin' touch me." Jason pushed John backwards a few feet, but came straight back into his face.
"I'll fuckin' touch you if I fuckin' want too. I have had enough of your shit. I had enough of all of you and your shit." Kenji and his group showed up when he finished this sentence. "I let you all push me around, but not anymore. Not again."
"Talking like that can get you-"
"Killed?! You know what I'm tired of! All of you and your fake ass threats! If you are going to kill me! Don't bitch about it and tell me in your goddamn monologues! Do it cuz you are not scaring me and you are sure as hell ain't gonna make me release you!"
"Wow! Looks like bold and pathetic finally lose his cool." Jason had a smirk on his face. Jason image contorted and changed to a houndoom wearing a black cloak. The pendant was still around its neck.
"Look at you," it said, "Trying to be brave in front of people who have killed, Don't you have some balls ya weak lil shit." John started to sweat profusely again until he looked at the pendant. He saw his father's face on it. It stared at him and then started giving him a nod. John then looked up and back at the houndoom. 
"I don't give a fuck about what you have to say about me. I want my pendant back." John stopped sweating and instantly went super saiyan.
The houndoom smiled and said, "Come and get it."
John then replied, "Fine. Watch me." John then brought back his fist and swung it forward. Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. He brought his body forward to increase the momentum and strength of the blow. When it finally landed the vision then broke showing John in real life punching Jason in the face.