Finding Truth Amongst The Lies

Chapter 62: Neptune's POV

By the time my enhanced Bisharp had been able to wrench the door open that Satoshi had disabled he had already made it through the door that led to my office. I had never been so furious in my whole life. My eyes scanned the destruction that Satoshi had caused with MY creation and I sneered balefully at the scientists who were cowering like the sniveling roaches they were.

This is all that girl's fault. The thought filtered through my mind as I recalled following Satoshi through the crowd less than an hour ago. I had wanted to see how he would react when he had found his rodent of a Pikachu, then turned to have me be the thing he saw right afterward.

But even though he had found his Pikachu, he had not gone to it. I had watched as his eyes had moved to a girl with honey blonde hair and eyes the color of the sky and then that hussy had the nerve to actually throw herself into the arms of MY soldier. I had quite nearly taken out my Bisharp to remove her neck from where it rested on her shoulders, but then Satoshi had actually enveloped her in his arms and I had seen the gentleness in his expression that he had never EVER shown me.

Even though he had chosen to come to me, protected me, and saved me from falling from a tree to my death... He still had not shown me that gentleness he had given to his "cousin" as he claimed she was. So I had shown him my life's work. I thought that he would see just how powerful I was and that he would realize that his loyalties should lie with me and only me. But no. Something had triggered him and THIS was the result.

I stalked across the machinery and products that had cost me millions of dollars to develop and install. I had thought the crectin would be impervious to natural disasters, but I obviously had not factored in the strength of a pokemon's concentrated attacks. Part of me felt proud when I saw the claw marks left behind by Tigrice, but at the same time, I could hardly believe that the man who was to become my perfect soldier had released such destructive power against me.

Pressing my hand against the security pad, I frowned when I realized that the light had gone out of it. Realizing that Satoshi must have destroyed the security pad on the opposite side and damaged its connection on this side in the process, I let out a feral growl before turning away. I redirected myself, marching towards the hallway where Madeleine's team was conducting their experiments.

"Neptune!"

I could not even keep myself from rolling my eyes when Proteus suddenly burst from a connecting hallway where he had been overseeing the creation of more evolution stones. His eyes were wide and panicked and he leaped over the destruction without barely a thought before reaching me and wrapping his arms around me.

"What happened? Are you hurt?" he yelled out, obviously in a panic. I pushed against him gently and nodded.

"I'm fine. I need you to find Major Satoshi and bring him to Madeleine's lab. Now." Even I could hear the cold fury in my voice as the words slid from my lips. Proteus' eyes widened before his entire face twisted into a disgusted snarl.

"SATOSHI did this?" he growled with pure hatred in his voice.

Usually, it annoyed me with how much Proteus disliked Satoshi, but at this moment I felt a similar distaste for the man who had betrayed me so abruptly. But I was done with having things taken away from me. Even if I had to keep Satoshi in a coma until Madeleine had perfected the loyalty DNA mutation in a human, I would have my perfect soldier.

"Yes," I responded without offering any details.

Proteus growled and turned around as if he thought Satoshi would appear behind him immediately so he could punch him in the face. My eyes narrowed though for a moment and I grabbed onto Proteus' wrist before he took off on a pointless search. He glanced down at me with a frustrated expression and I slowly nodded in the opposite direction.