GamzGuy
January 20th, 2008, 03:59 pm
-Chapter 2- David and the Matrix Boy
Journal Log #35:
I still think about my encounter with Mewtwo from before. Those eyes...it was as if he was trying to familiarize me to someone else... Could it be that he was with Ash Ketchum not too long ago? Seems like the more characters I meet in this world the more I get into all these tie-ins from the old movies...could it really be that ironic? Or did those films have some truth to them...?
I have no doubt in my mind that I will see him again soon...
-Adam Duseman
It would be at least four days before Adam ever saw his new friend again, and it had made him wonder if he should have made him his partner. Still, it couldn't prevent him from fantasizing what his ideal Pokémon partner would be. It was a tradition in this world for children to grow up with a companion Pokémon, and when they were old enough to become legally licensed trainers they would naturally take them along on their adventures. Even some adults would still have their original partner from their childhood; most of them, however, either separated after they concluded their journeys or used them as extra hands around the house. More often than not, their Pokémon's own offspring would become their children's partners.
Being raised in a world that believed Pokémon was an electronic babysitter for children, Adam was still nonetheless raised with the fantasy of having one for himself.
Four days. It was more than enough time for the trio to reach Celadon. The famous Underground Paths, which were used by travelers to reach Saffron from neighboring towns by means of an underground walking trail, were recently remodeled into an entire subway system, which the company (called "Magnx") who designed it advertised everywhere: on billboards, on posters, everything. In fact, it was so brand new that there were no advertisements for anything else yet.
"You look kinda down," Josh said to his sullen cousin. "What's up?"
"Nothing's up. I'm just tired," Adam yawned and leaned on the escalator rail.
They don't know, Adam thought. They don't know of my late-night excursion, of the face I saw, of the friend I almost made...
The Path had to be dug twice as deep to accommodate the large subway trains (and the stations they rested in), making normal stairways unthinkable. Naturally, an elevator was also installed; however it was only for the physically handicapped.
The subway tickets cost 200P per person, one-way, so Josh (being the money manager of the group) calculated 600P total, plus 100P extra fee because of Raikou, and exchanged the cash for tickets at one of the electronic ticket machines.
For the most part, everything about the subway was as it was back home on Earth. The trains came and gone through the station, which was a large arched cavern with the occasional walkways across the electrified rails. The middle lane itself was a no-man's zone; the only thing that resided there were supports for the walkways and occasionally coded signs for the conductors of the trains.
As the trio arrived at the bottom of the escalator, they quickly scanned the electronic scrolling bulletin to see which train was arriving.
Train Color Time
KTMG-0508 YLW ARRV
KTMG-0602 GRN 0:05
KTMG-0800 GRN 0:15
KTMG-1320 YLW 1:00
Yellow color-coded trains went westbound from Lavender through Celadon, so the first train to arrive was the one to ride. They quickly rushed down the stairs from the walkway onto the platform just as the train halted in front of them.
As everyone clamored onto the train, Mindy and Josh sat in a row near the doors, and Raikou laid in the open space normally reserved for wheelchairs. Adam, however, sat in a different row, by himself, staring out the window dejectedly as they pulled out of the station, watching the tunnel lights speed past him.
If Mewtwo stays in Saffron like I think he will, he thought, then I might not see him again for a long time...
Josh glanced at Adam and sighed. "Something's gotten into him," he whispered to his sister. "I'm going to see what's bothering him." He quietly crept over next to Adam's seat.
"Adam?"
Adam looks at him, then turned back to the window.
"Adam, I know something's up. We're cousins. You can confide with me."
Adam sighed and looked him straight in the eyes. "Well...last night, I...saw...Mewtwo..."
"Are you serious? You saw Mewtwo?" Josh asked, surprised. He had to keep himself from saying it out loud.
Adam told him about the thug fight and how Mewtwo had either come to his rescue or was just in the right place at the right time. He didn't really know himself.
"Rescued by the Amazing Spiderman," Josh mused, "but without the love scene."
A dirty look convinced him to stop joking.
"So why are you so bummed about it?" he asked.
Adam leaned against the headrest and sighed again. "Because I want to see him again."
Josh nodded respectfully. He wanted to say something comforting, but he knew it wouldn't really be of any comfort to him. After all, this was his cousin, the one who got him into a world of a mess in the first place. He was willing to come along, so why not share some of the pain? Then he remembered. "But that's what you said about Link and Lugia, didn't you?"
That's right, Adam thought. They said they wanted to go on their own adventures together and left us. Who knows when they'll ever return.
A minute of silence passed. "Hey, does that look at all suspicious to you?" Josh whispered, pointing.
Adam looked. Sure enough, in the window of the car behind theirs was a sullen-looking young man with dark orange, almost brown hair, in a mop that nearly covered his face. He wore deep, dark green clothes and was toying with a strange device in his hands.
He shrugged. "So many people dress as weirdoes as it is that I don't even notice much anymore."
The rest of the ride was in silence. People shuffled, there was a low murmuring. Someone coughed. But for the most part, things were peaceful.
________________________________________ __
When the train arrived at the station and the doors slid open, most everyone (including Mindy) filed out of the cars and into the station. However, Adam and Josh remained to see what the stranger was doing. He, too, waited for everyone to leave for the moment of silence before people would climb back in.
As they watched, hiding from behind the seat in front of them, they witnessed him gently place the device on the space underneath the window, make a gesture as if to say "There, perfect!" and dash out the doors. He harshly shoved through the crowd until he accidentally knocked a blonde girl onto the floor.
He just happened to have stumbled into Mindy.
"Watch where you're going, you little brat!" he spat at her.
Offended, she took the moment to drive her leg and foot into his crotch. Groaning in pain, he firmly stood up to her as she got to her feet and said, "Alright, you, you want a fight? I'll tear you to pieces!" He held up his fists threateningly.
"Hey," a voice called behind him. He quickly spun around just in time to see a fist fly into his face, sending him reeling to the floor as people scurried out of the way of the fight. He quickly stood up, blood leaking from his broken nose.
"That's it! Nobody messes with the Matrix!" he shrieked, wiping his nose.
A large cat growled behind the boy in the red shirt and his companion.
The thug charged towards Josh with evil intentions but was suddenly tripped by a green vine that was stretched out across him towards the train and landed flat on his face.
"Good work, Ivysaur," a voice said, and the vine returned to its owner, a short, stubby dinosaur with a blooming bulb on its back.
The disheveled man quickly sprang to his feet again, now with a noticeable scrape on his forehead. "I don't have time for this!" he muttered, and quickly dashed up the stairs and away from the scene, to the horror of those around him.
"Thanks, man," Josh said to the boy who apparently commanded the Ivysaur.
"Hey, nuthin' to it, mate," he replied with a distinguishable British accent. He was less than an inch taller than Josh, with wavy black hair and a blood-red plaid shirt, with buttons on the collar, and bluejeans. He extended a hand. "Name's David."
"Josh," he replied, shaking his hand firmly. "I don't think we've met before."
"Nope, was ridin' in the car in front of you. Looks like that sis of yours got in the way of a Matrix grunt."
"Matrix?"
"Yeah, them nasty folk. Hate the Rockets, they do. Bound to cause some chaos here an' there. Dunno why one was out here in the open, though."
"He had some device in the car behind us," Adam said.
"Huh. Sounds fishy t' me. Did he put it down?"
"Yeah."
"Odd. That car there," David pointed, "that's the middle of the train, there. Must've got something cooking."
Cooking? Adam thought quickly. Wait a second...he was toying with it on the way here, right? And then...he set it down...gently... Then he was in such a hurry to get out of here...
...Then it clicked.
"Hey," Adam quickly asked, "Those Matrix guys? What's their motive?"
"Nuthin', really." David answered, confused. "Why?"
"Because if that gadget is what I think it is..." he started. Suddenly, he heard the hissing of the train doors closing, and heard the loud humming of the electric rails as it began to leave the station.
"WAIT! STOP THE TRAIN!" he shrieked, running after it, though at the moment it was already ahead of him. "THERE'S A FRICKING BOMB IN THE SUBWAY!!"
Journal Log #35:
I still think about my encounter with Mewtwo from before. Those eyes...it was as if he was trying to familiarize me to someone else... Could it be that he was with Ash Ketchum not too long ago? Seems like the more characters I meet in this world the more I get into all these tie-ins from the old movies...could it really be that ironic? Or did those films have some truth to them...?
I have no doubt in my mind that I will see him again soon...
-Adam Duseman
It would be at least four days before Adam ever saw his new friend again, and it had made him wonder if he should have made him his partner. Still, it couldn't prevent him from fantasizing what his ideal Pokémon partner would be. It was a tradition in this world for children to grow up with a companion Pokémon, and when they were old enough to become legally licensed trainers they would naturally take them along on their adventures. Even some adults would still have their original partner from their childhood; most of them, however, either separated after they concluded their journeys or used them as extra hands around the house. More often than not, their Pokémon's own offspring would become their children's partners.
Being raised in a world that believed Pokémon was an electronic babysitter for children, Adam was still nonetheless raised with the fantasy of having one for himself.
Four days. It was more than enough time for the trio to reach Celadon. The famous Underground Paths, which were used by travelers to reach Saffron from neighboring towns by means of an underground walking trail, were recently remodeled into an entire subway system, which the company (called "Magnx") who designed it advertised everywhere: on billboards, on posters, everything. In fact, it was so brand new that there were no advertisements for anything else yet.
"You look kinda down," Josh said to his sullen cousin. "What's up?"
"Nothing's up. I'm just tired," Adam yawned and leaned on the escalator rail.
They don't know, Adam thought. They don't know of my late-night excursion, of the face I saw, of the friend I almost made...
The Path had to be dug twice as deep to accommodate the large subway trains (and the stations they rested in), making normal stairways unthinkable. Naturally, an elevator was also installed; however it was only for the physically handicapped.
The subway tickets cost 200P per person, one-way, so Josh (being the money manager of the group) calculated 600P total, plus 100P extra fee because of Raikou, and exchanged the cash for tickets at one of the electronic ticket machines.
For the most part, everything about the subway was as it was back home on Earth. The trains came and gone through the station, which was a large arched cavern with the occasional walkways across the electrified rails. The middle lane itself was a no-man's zone; the only thing that resided there were supports for the walkways and occasionally coded signs for the conductors of the trains.
As the trio arrived at the bottom of the escalator, they quickly scanned the electronic scrolling bulletin to see which train was arriving.
Train Color Time
KTMG-0508 YLW ARRV
KTMG-0602 GRN 0:05
KTMG-0800 GRN 0:15
KTMG-1320 YLW 1:00
Yellow color-coded trains went westbound from Lavender through Celadon, so the first train to arrive was the one to ride. They quickly rushed down the stairs from the walkway onto the platform just as the train halted in front of them.
As everyone clamored onto the train, Mindy and Josh sat in a row near the doors, and Raikou laid in the open space normally reserved for wheelchairs. Adam, however, sat in a different row, by himself, staring out the window dejectedly as they pulled out of the station, watching the tunnel lights speed past him.
If Mewtwo stays in Saffron like I think he will, he thought, then I might not see him again for a long time...
Josh glanced at Adam and sighed. "Something's gotten into him," he whispered to his sister. "I'm going to see what's bothering him." He quietly crept over next to Adam's seat.
"Adam?"
Adam looks at him, then turned back to the window.
"Adam, I know something's up. We're cousins. You can confide with me."
Adam sighed and looked him straight in the eyes. "Well...last night, I...saw...Mewtwo..."
"Are you serious? You saw Mewtwo?" Josh asked, surprised. He had to keep himself from saying it out loud.
Adam told him about the thug fight and how Mewtwo had either come to his rescue or was just in the right place at the right time. He didn't really know himself.
"Rescued by the Amazing Spiderman," Josh mused, "but without the love scene."
A dirty look convinced him to stop joking.
"So why are you so bummed about it?" he asked.
Adam leaned against the headrest and sighed again. "Because I want to see him again."
Josh nodded respectfully. He wanted to say something comforting, but he knew it wouldn't really be of any comfort to him. After all, this was his cousin, the one who got him into a world of a mess in the first place. He was willing to come along, so why not share some of the pain? Then he remembered. "But that's what you said about Link and Lugia, didn't you?"
That's right, Adam thought. They said they wanted to go on their own adventures together and left us. Who knows when they'll ever return.
A minute of silence passed. "Hey, does that look at all suspicious to you?" Josh whispered, pointing.
Adam looked. Sure enough, in the window of the car behind theirs was a sullen-looking young man with dark orange, almost brown hair, in a mop that nearly covered his face. He wore deep, dark green clothes and was toying with a strange device in his hands.
He shrugged. "So many people dress as weirdoes as it is that I don't even notice much anymore."
The rest of the ride was in silence. People shuffled, there was a low murmuring. Someone coughed. But for the most part, things were peaceful.
________________________________________ __
When the train arrived at the station and the doors slid open, most everyone (including Mindy) filed out of the cars and into the station. However, Adam and Josh remained to see what the stranger was doing. He, too, waited for everyone to leave for the moment of silence before people would climb back in.
As they watched, hiding from behind the seat in front of them, they witnessed him gently place the device on the space underneath the window, make a gesture as if to say "There, perfect!" and dash out the doors. He harshly shoved through the crowd until he accidentally knocked a blonde girl onto the floor.
He just happened to have stumbled into Mindy.
"Watch where you're going, you little brat!" he spat at her.
Offended, she took the moment to drive her leg and foot into his crotch. Groaning in pain, he firmly stood up to her as she got to her feet and said, "Alright, you, you want a fight? I'll tear you to pieces!" He held up his fists threateningly.
"Hey," a voice called behind him. He quickly spun around just in time to see a fist fly into his face, sending him reeling to the floor as people scurried out of the way of the fight. He quickly stood up, blood leaking from his broken nose.
"That's it! Nobody messes with the Matrix!" he shrieked, wiping his nose.
A large cat growled behind the boy in the red shirt and his companion.
The thug charged towards Josh with evil intentions but was suddenly tripped by a green vine that was stretched out across him towards the train and landed flat on his face.
"Good work, Ivysaur," a voice said, and the vine returned to its owner, a short, stubby dinosaur with a blooming bulb on its back.
The disheveled man quickly sprang to his feet again, now with a noticeable scrape on his forehead. "I don't have time for this!" he muttered, and quickly dashed up the stairs and away from the scene, to the horror of those around him.
"Thanks, man," Josh said to the boy who apparently commanded the Ivysaur.
"Hey, nuthin' to it, mate," he replied with a distinguishable British accent. He was less than an inch taller than Josh, with wavy black hair and a blood-red plaid shirt, with buttons on the collar, and bluejeans. He extended a hand. "Name's David."
"Josh," he replied, shaking his hand firmly. "I don't think we've met before."
"Nope, was ridin' in the car in front of you. Looks like that sis of yours got in the way of a Matrix grunt."
"Matrix?"
"Yeah, them nasty folk. Hate the Rockets, they do. Bound to cause some chaos here an' there. Dunno why one was out here in the open, though."
"He had some device in the car behind us," Adam said.
"Huh. Sounds fishy t' me. Did he put it down?"
"Yeah."
"Odd. That car there," David pointed, "that's the middle of the train, there. Must've got something cooking."
Cooking? Adam thought quickly. Wait a second...he was toying with it on the way here, right? And then...he set it down...gently... Then he was in such a hurry to get out of here...
...Then it clicked.
"Hey," Adam quickly asked, "Those Matrix guys? What's their motive?"
"Nuthin', really." David answered, confused. "Why?"
"Because if that gadget is what I think it is..." he started. Suddenly, he heard the hissing of the train doors closing, and heard the loud humming of the electric rails as it began to leave the station.
"WAIT! STOP THE TRAIN!" he shrieked, running after it, though at the moment it was already ahead of him. "THERE'S A FRICKING BOMB IN THE SUBWAY!!"