Chapter no.329 A Blast from the Past

[ POV Change ]
Austin sat on the floor with Charmeleon sitting beside him, the glow of his laptop screen reflected from the duo's eyes. Austin was completely focused on the task at hand, completely ignoring the outside world. To the duo the only sound in the room was the faint clicking of the keys as Austin scrolled through the files on the screen.
He sat with his back straight and his eyes glued to the screen, completely absorbed in what he was doing. Every now and then, he would pause to consider something or make a quick note on a nearby pad of paper.
Austin's eyes caught a glimpse of a file folder named ," Dr. Lyndis's diary"
Curiosity filled Austin as he wondered why Giovanni had a doctor's diary on him.
' It must be important.'
Austin thought as he clicked on the file folder only to be meant with hundreds of audio files. He clicked on the audio file on the top, eager to hear the contents. But as he listened, he was met with nothing but silence.
Confused, Austin checked to make sure the audio file was actually open and playing. He looked for any visual indicators that the audio was playing, but he saw none.
Just as he was about to give up and assume the file was faulty, the audio suddenly started playing. The voice of an anxious woman filled the room, causing Austin to jump in surprise.
He quickly turned up the volume, his curiosity piqued by the sudden change in circumstances.
Suddenly the duo heard the voice of a woman who sounded like she was in her early twenties.
As soon as Charmeleon heard the voice of the woman on the audio file, he let out a scream and clutched at his head as if in pain.
Flashes of a woman reaching out to him went through Charmeleon's mind.
Austin was startled by Charmeleon's sudden outburst and quickly tried to close the audio file, but Charmeleon stopped him.
"Char!" Charmeleon gasped, his voice laced with desperation. " Char, Charmeleon!"
Austin hesitated, not sure what to do. He could see that Charmeleon was in pain and he didn't want to cause him any more suffering. But at the same time, he couldn't ignore Charmeleon's pleading.
"Okay, okay," Austin said slowly. "We can keep listening, but if it starts to hurt you too much, we'll have to stop, okay?"
Charmeleon nodded, his eyes fixed on the screen.
" What's wrong ?" Green called to Austin as he turned to see the entire table of players looking at him curiously except Lucario who was still knocked out.
" I think we found who rescued Charmeleon from his experiment site."
Pikachu and the others eyes widened as they remembered the theory their trainer had told them about Charmeleon's past but no one took it seriously since there was no proof.
" Charmeleon!" The dragon roared out causing everyone to stop while Yellow jolted up awake as Charmeleon clicked on the audio file.
" Let's talk later, I'll explain everything for now, let's hear the audio files."
Everyone collectively nodded while Yellow looked around as she was still half asleep before laying her head on Austin's lap and falling back asleep.
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Recorded on September 1.
Not sure why I even decided to record this. It's not as if I would know and I have already experienced everything I recorded myself. This is stupid.
...
As soon as the audio stopped everyone looked at each other in confusion.
Just what was that ?
" Charmeleon, are you alright ?" Austin asked in concern as he saw the dazed look in Charmeleon's eyes.
Charmeleon slowly nodded as he pointed forward at the laptop.
Austin nodded understanding that Charmeleon wanted him to play the other files.
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Recorded on September 8:
Okay, my therapist is a mind reader apparently. Did not even need to see the empty pages of my notebook but somehow she knew I didn't write in that stupid thing. I guess now I'll have to anyway.
Apparently, it is supposed to help me, somehow. I guess I'll just start with the basics even though it is stupid but recorded helps me better, so I guess I'll go with recording over writing but this is stupid since I will be the only one hearing this.
My name is Lyndis Flash and when recording this I am a 26-year-old girl, no friends and still single.
This should be enough information for now, Guess I'll drabble in here if I feel like it.
....
Austin and everyone sat in a circle around his laptop, their faces etched with concentration as they listened to the recording. The voice of the anxious woman filled the room, causing a sense of unease to settle over the group.
Yellow who had been awoken by the first file was the first to speak up, her brow furrowed with concern. "Do you guys think we should keep listening to this? It feels like we're invading someone's privacy. It's like reading someone's diary or something."
Charmeleon completely ignored Yellow's innocent words and clicked on the next audio file while puncturing the key on the laptop.
" Charmeleon!" Austin shouted causing the dragon type to snarl at his trainer causing everyone to frown. They had never seen Charmeleon so angry. Did these files mean so much to Charmeleon that was willing to snarl at his trainer ?
Charmeleon realized what he did and bowed his head in an apology to Austin.
Austin sighed and patted Charmeleon's head.
" Don't worry buddy, just control your anger. I know you can do it," Austin's words seemed to make the dragon type happy as he looked up to his trainer.
" But do you have something to say to yellow ?"
Charmeleon turned from Austin to Yellow who looked uncomfortable with all the attention on her.
" Char." Charmeleon apologetically bowed to Yellow who was quick to forgive the hybrid Pokémon for his burst of anger and utter disregard for her words.
Yellow looked at Austin as she didn't know what to do ?
" Yellow, I know Charmeleon's actions were .... something else but try to look at it from his perspective, these files mean alot to him." Austin said causing Yellow's eyes to widen.
" No, No, No, I didn't know. I am sorry, Charmeleon if you think that my words came off as me trying to stop you, I just didn't know." Yellow said hurriedly.
Austin clapped his hands bringing everyone's attention to him.
" Well, Let's just make up for it already and Charmeleon, try to be careful, the equipment is fragile."
" Char !"
" And Buddy."
" Charmeleon?"
" Can you give me the piece of the key stuck to your claw ?"
" Charmeleon?!"
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[ Omake Paragraph ]
It is amazing that a creature which had survived unchanged for hundreds of millions of years could be nearly wiped out in the wild by man in the space of a few hundred. It is even more amazing that such a creature could be thoroughly domesticated, to the point where Totodile today are a friendly and docile pokemon which have changed so much from their wild forebears that they are properly considered a separate species – T. domesticatus. And yet through the power of artificial selection, Totodile are today among the most common pets in Johto.
Man has created not one species of Totodile, however, but two. For while most Totodile were bred for docility, there were those who saw in the species the seeds of a ferocious, amphibious warrior and bred them to that end. And it is these Totodile which survive in the wild today; indeed, it is their final form of Feraligatr from which we get the term "feral".
The feral Totodile, for all their skill in battle, were simply too hard for their trainers to control. The decision was made to release them all into the wild, for their breeders could not bear to destroy their own creations; perhaps it would have been kinder if they had. The new Totodile and their evolutions went after their prey with complete determination, even chasing pokemon such as Marill and Bidoof onto the land to devour them. The ancient Totodile, who had always waited for their prey to swim by and survived because they always eventually did, never stood a chance.