Gold waited for a moment, for Knife to leave, and said. "Where was I? The whole disappearing act?" he nodded, and drank the last of the vodka. "anyway, once that happened, she pretty much became a legend. Everybody talked about her, you know? the fact that no one knew who her family was didn't help. So, she kind of became my hero. I watched all of her battles, over and over, and swore that as soon as I could, I'd be the next champ. So, I got to ten, the legal age to get a pokemon. And I do this one job for the professor, one stupid little thing. I go, and I pick up this egg that the professor's buddy needed. and I bring it back to him, with my fucking retarded little chikorita, and I start walking out to leave town." he looks at the vodka bottle, then sighs, and goes to grab another bottle. He grabs the second bottle and drinks about half of it before he sits down and starts speaking. "then they showed up. fucking rockets. Burned the town down for the egg. Turns out it was some ridiculously rare 'mon. They held me down and did." he gestures at himself. "And they pretty much left me for dead. Killed everyone else but some girl I knew, who they did things to as bad as what they did to me. she's pretty scarred up herself." he took another long drink, before shuddering. "I didn't have a fucking word for what they did to me, you know? I was ten. They did fucking things to me..." he looks into the bottle, before finishing that one as well.