[ WP ] Lt. Surge is in the hospital recovering from PTSD caused by what he saw in the last Pokemon War .

A young boy frolicks through the grass. Uh-oh he's encountered a pokémon! 
 
 The band following him, made up of a small contingent of boys and girls that were pre-determined not to be heroic enough to be trainers, play battle theme A. 
 
 `` Go, Caterpie!'' 
 
 Off in the distance, out of ear-shot, a man Tangela'd to a pole watches in horror, with no way to communicate the trap these small children have just stumbled into. You know this man ( pause for effect ) as Lt. Surge. 
 
 `` Caterpie, use string shot!'' 
 
 A string flies at the metapod, temporarily perturbing it. Metapod uses harden. 
 
 `` Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!'' 
 
 Seeing Metapod # 42's signal, three scythers appear from the nearby bushes while a rhydon comes up through the ground. The music stops as the band of children disperse but its too late, the scythers are upon them. The young frightened hero is frozen as the rhydon grabs the hardened metapod and smashes his caterpie to bits. It then focuses its attention on our young adventurer and... nsfl's him. 
 
 The tangela giggles at his fellow pokémon and their carnage. The vibrations tickle Lt. Surge as he lets out a hellish laughter. 
 
 Every corpse is dragged off as a fearow swoops by gusting away any evidence of entrails. Metapod # 42 banana rolls away as metapod # 17 takes its place. 
 
 This continues for days as the Lt. is forced to watch, truly a hell worse than death. However nine days later a wild pikachu ( must be a sign from the heavens ) stumbles across our scenario and zaps him free, before dragging him into Vermillion, the nearest town. 
 
 Some say once the war ended he became a gym leader so that no hero would ever face that torture again. Some say his mind became so warped he took pleasure in overpowering so many opponents. One thing is clear though: do n't ever fuck with Lt. Surge's Raichu, and for god sakes do n't mention the war!
