Samuel Oak About Lt. Surge

As a boy I had a fascination for people who could die for an ideal. Being a researcher and always relatively safe in my laboratory, the fear of death always seemed to me to be the Father of all fears, and an individual capable of overcoming him was a kind of hero in my eyes. As a researcher, I always read a lot of books about wars, and thought, 'It's just a book, they're fictional characters.' 'Common sense, however, made me remember my meeting with Lieutenant Surge, and his voice. thick and serious, saying, ''In real wars, the deceased have no second chance. A young soldier once asked me, 'What is the difference between a Salamance and a Charizard?' he falls on you, none."

When we die, everything stops making a difference. It doesn't matter if you died fighting for Kanto or Johto, a bloodthirsty general or a peaceful one. Death is the Infinite Zero, the Absolute Nothingness. Is there anything more terrifying than this? For Surge, there is: ''The possibility that the goal of war will not be achieved. If I had a glimpse that my sacrifice would save more lives of humans and Pokémon, and end that horror once for all, I wouldn't hesitate a second.''

But the concept of "giving life" does not necessarily imply in self-destruction everytime. Once after the war ended, Surge had already retired from being a soldier, and become a estabilished Gym Leader, a middle-aged boy, after losing a battle to him, said: ''I would give my life to battle like you.'' And he replied sharply ''I gave my.''