"No, no, no, don’t die on me!”
He knew Aether would try stooping to low levels to retrieve Cosmog. He knew of their mother’s cruelty, and he knew he could never let Cosmog be returned to her. No matter the cost, he had told himself. But using Team Skull as a means to get to her? That was low, even for her.At least the scream had caused enough noise to scare off the very grunts that used it. No doubt afraid they’d attracted attention, and so they had fled, leaving Gladion to bleed out with his sister right there. How terrible of him. And to nothing more than a makeshift shiv? A broken bottle no doubt found on the streets of Po Town.He wasn’t strong enough. Not to defend his sister then from Lusamine, never strong enough to beat that one trainer, and even now. He wasn’t strong to keep fighting, chills already rampant in his body and darkness prickling in on the corners of his vision. He just wasn’t strong enough, and because of that his hand slowly fell from the wound.“I’m sorry...”