Pokemon The Wandering Scientist - Chapter 13 Chapter 13

Porta Vista-

Turns out, the kanto marine wasn’t all but useless, they managed to find everyone but a few.

They were then sent to Porta Vista, after giving details and answering some questions, Alex was sent to a hospital.

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“Gardevoir,” William raised his hand, grabbing a piece of chess that’s made out of energy and moved it. “Do you think we’d have to deal with some problematic issues?”

“(You mean those typical memory lost events?)” Gardevoir took her turn.

“Yea, I hope not, since that would mean a whole lot of trouble.” William moved another step. “Check.”

Gardevoir took her time, she stared at the board for a while.

William raised his head, looking at the large monitor. “Oh, my food is ready, I’ll go grab it.” He stood up, leaving the chair and went off.

As soon as he left the table, Gengar rushed towards Gardevoir, painting from the long run.

“Gen-Gengar!” (Alex, Alex is awake!)

“Garde?” (Already?)

“Gen!” (Yes!)

“Gardevoir.” (Alright, I will tell William.)

And she watched as Gengar sprint back to where it came.

“Hm? What happened?” William asked, holding a tray with food on it.

“(Alex has awaken.)” Gardevoir replied.

“Oh?” William looked at his tray of food. They were in plates, not boxes.

“Oh well, help me with this, it’s a waste to not eat it.” William placed the tray on their table as he was saying. He then poured a plate’s content to his plate of rice and gave Gardevoir that plate.

It took about 7 minutes for them to finish up the meal.

As they finished their meal, they went towards the patient room to check out how Alex was doing.

As they entered the patient room, they saw Alex, who was sitting on the bed and staring off into air.

“Alex.” William walked up to her.

Alex turned her head over, she had nothing to cover her face for the moment.

“I never expected to live.” Alex stated calmly. William raised an eyebrow hearing that.

“Then don’t, keep it a surprise.” William shrugged in return.

“Hmph…” Alex closed her eyes, but also managing a slight smile.

“So, want to hear a story?” Alex opened her mouth, for the first time she started a conversation not involving work.

“Your past in precise right?” William suddenly thought of the novels that his friends used to mentioned about, where people tend to often use stories as an excuse to tell others their past.

“Well, yes, I’d just thought you’d prefer it that way.” Alex admitted it straight away, out of William’s predictions. “So, to rephrase it, would you like to listen to me introducing my past?”

“Fair enough.” William agreed, “go ahead.”

“First of all, I came from the Unova region.” Alex said as she opened her eyes.

Looking at her blonde hair, it wasn’t that hard to guess. So William nodded.

“Secondly, ever heard of The Battle Company?” She asked as she turned her head over towards William.

William thought about the name for a while, but to no avail. So he turned towards Gardevoir, whom also shook her head.

“No, never heard of it.”

“Sigh…” Alex sighed out of relief, her eyes glanced downwards before looking at back at William.

“The Battle Company is a company that is involved in the research of battle items, and also assists in the development of pokeballs.” Alex explained.

“A research company? So what’s it with them?” William was interested.

“Well…” Alex seemed hesitant.

“Don’t say it if you don’t want to.” William shrugged.

Although William is in fact interested in her relationship with The Battle Company, he thought it might be better to let Alex keep her secrets.

It was a change of mindset. Over the course of the operation, he noticed that Alex kept an unusual attitude towards the pokemons and trainers. Something that a pokemon trainer shouldn’t have.

Also, her calmness that was demonstrated on most scenarios was something that a 15 year old girl won’t possess unless something happened.

But more importantly, William acknowledged her as a friend. He didn’t left Alex behind during the ship wreck despite reading Gardevoir’s thoughts on the benefits of doing so.

He himself hadn’t yet realised that until he faced the choices.

Over the courses of traveling, he didn’t really build a bond with Alex, but her way and method of dealing with problems, her overall personality she demonstrated made William acknowledged her, and hence deemed her as a friend.

These combined, made William treat Alex as a friend, no longer as a target that he needed and wanted to fully understand, so that he could counter at anytime needed.

“Thanks.” Alex’s face turned red a little in embarrassment. She hadn’t yet mustered the courage to explain her situation to William despite wanting to do so.

Alex turned towards Gardevoir, who was standing behind William.

Gardevoir tilted her head a little with a smile on her face.

If William could see it, he would knew what that smile meant. It was a signal of acceptance.

“So, when are you able to leave the bed?” William asked.

Alex shook her head a little, “I don’t know.”

“She is able to leave as soon as you’re done with the papers.” A voice sounded from behind William.

He turned around, to be greeted by a male doctor, the doctor was holding a suitcase.

“Oh, and here’s your package.” He said as he placed the suitcase on William’s hands.

The moment William held the suitcase, he noticed a little R on the handle, covered by the doctor earlier.

William glanced at the doctor, to which he was replied by a smile with unknown meaning behind it.

“In fact, I’ll help you deal with the papers. You’re free to go.” The doctor said as he left the patient room.

“So… are you already good to leave?” William asked Alex, whom was about to get down of the bed.

But just as she moved a little, she stopped for a while.

“Oh, wait a minute, Gengar, mind getting me my bag?”

As Gengar handed her a bag that was hidden underneath the patient bed, she grabbed something out of the bag without hesitation, a signal that she was an extremely tidy person.

On a closer note, William noticed that the object she was holding was a sanitary pad, the ones that you’d use for menstrual cycle.

“You still have blood for menstruation?” William raised an eyebrow, remembering the amount of blood loss Alex experienced during the St.Anne incidence.

“Nature’s choice.” Alex replied, not knowing what happened. But in the meantime, she started applying the sanitary pad without caring about the existence of William.

“Nature huh.” William turned his head aside.

After Alex was done changing, she was back in her normal clothings.

They left the Hospital shortly after, and ended up by a pokemon centre that was a few streets away the hospital.

“There are a few things I’d like to ask you.” In the cafeteria of the pokemon centre, Alex initiated a chat.

“Why do some pokemons create a weapon like item while attacking?” She was obviously interested in this.

“Hm? Weapon like item?” William didn’t quite get her thought, until Gengar went ahead and demonstrated what she meant.

A claw like weapon was made on its hand, identical to its claws.

“Oh, this kind. Gardevoir, demonstrate one?” William turned to Gardevoir.

A dagger was formed in her hand, but it was slowly made instead of appearing in an instant like Gengar.

“Yes, that kind.” Alex stood up and walked beside Gardevoir, inspecting the dagger which Gardevoir was holding.

“You seriously don’t know?” William said with a strange face.

“Well, yes, in case you were wondering about Lucario, then I could tell you he’s not my pokemon.” Alex answered, with a pity look on her face.

“That explains a lot.” William nodded. “Gardevoir, would you mind explaining?”

“(This action of creating a weapon is crucial to injuring either a pokemon, or a human. As discovered in the last century, there is a energy barrier that protects both humans and pokemons from energy attacks, only that pokemons have a weaker version of such energy barrier. This is also why pokemons only faint but seldomly die in pokemon battles.)”

After allowing Alex to digest the information given to her in a short period, she continued.

“(To break this barrier, there are two possible ways. Either by outputting an intense amount of energy to overwhelm the energy barrier,)” Gardevoir then started to make the dagger on her hand grow longer, into the size of a sword. “(Or by using a special technique to condense energy into a half energy half physical state.)”

“(The method of breaking the barrier is limitless, according to each pokemon’s knowledge and skills, it is changeable. For me, it is by condensing energy into matter. For your Lucario, it would be a unique energy resonance.)”

Apparently Gardevoir had discovered the technique behind Lucario’s spears.

“Does many know about this?” Alex asked, as she realised why no one would’ve told her about the reason.

“Well, I can assure you not much, probably not even the league knows much about it.” William was the one to speak, he shrugged as he spoke. “We discovered this in an old experiment paper, one that was published but no one really cared about. We’re likely the only few that knows the truth behind it.”

“But why does a lot of pokemon knows this?” Alex asked in question of William’s reply.

“They concluded that in their own ways, for example, the Lucario you own concluded that a certain energy resonance could break the barrier, so he used that as an attacking method. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that it knows why it could do more damage. Or rather, true damage.”

“I get it now.” Alex said as she took a sip of her drink.

“But then why weapons? Doesn’t throwing it out as a projectile work better?” Alex thought for a moment before asking.

“(It is because the special techniques are usually hard to maintain. The unstable state of it requires us the users to touch or be enshrouded in it to maintain them.)” Gardevoir replied for William.

“Hm… Got it, thanks.”

“Say, why don’t you give Gardevoir a name?” Alex’s thoughts were jumping a bit too far, but nonetheless, she asked something they never thought of.

“A… name?” William and Gardevoir turned towards each other.
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