The Ditto experiment
Jack's alarm went off with a loud beep resulting in a groan from Jack as he rolled over and hit his alarm. He sat up and rubbed his face preparing for another day at the lab. He walked to his kitchen and smiled as he saw his coffee pot. He looked around his small house thinking about his day. He walked back to his bedroom and looked at the clock. 5:30a.m. He turned to his master bath trying to block out the sound of his bed calling him. Jack looked in the mirror sleepily. His ice blue eyes were underlined with many long sleepless nights and the stress of work. His short light brown hair was graying so it looked a smokey brown. He shaved, showered and dressed in a Maroon T-shirt and tan dress pants. He grabbed his keys and phone from his nightstand and slipped on flip-flops on his way out the door.
"Ah Jack you're here." A scientist said without looking up from her clipboard.
" Morning Zoe." Jack said walking up to her.
"So how's the analysis going?" Jack asked looking at the clipboard.
"It's going slower than we thought," Zoe said walking to a computer
Jack watched her type in many complicated codes and numbers.
"Here," Zoe said as a graph appeared on the screen
Jack studied the screen for a minute and then frowned.
"How long will it take to complete D-5876-abcb?" Jack asked looking at the screen.
"At this rate we'll be done by December." Zoe said
"We have a dead line Zoe, the boss will have my head if we go over the dead line again. You wouldn't want that would you?" Jack asked looking at her.
Him and Zoe had been working together for 20 years and had gotten many awards for their work but had always gone over the dead line they set.
" What should we do?" Zoe asked
"Well we could take the other half of the DNA and start diagnosing that half or we could B7-alpha."
"B7-ALPHA!?" Zoe shouted "We could explode the whole lab!"
"I know but if we don't get this done I'll have my head on a stick." Jack rubbed his face in frustration.
Zoe turned to the glass wall that looked down at the blob of green being shot by multiple beams.
"Is it really the right thing to do?" She asked herself quietly.
A high pitched beeping blared from the computers and the screens flashed.
Jack looked up and slammed his fist on the desk, "Damn!"
The system had over heated and crashed for the fourth time that week. A count down appeared on the screen to when the system would reboot.
"I don't think we have a choice Jack, if the system keeps crashing like this we have to." Zoe said with defeat in her voice.
"That's what I'm afraid of Zoe," Jack said rising from his chair
"If we do this right we should be the most advanced humans ever." Jack said walking over to the wall where Zoe was standing
"And if we do this wrong?" Zoe asked
"We die and this $20,000,000 operation is a waist of the governments money." Jack said
"Sounds good, let's go." Zoe said
Jack was surprised at Zoe's attitude, she had never been one for danger. Jack typed a code into a keypad and the door swished open. Heave gray suits hung on racks on either side of a cold damp room that had walls made of concrete. Jack always hated these suits, not that they weighed a ton but they required minimal clothing. He had many scares an bullet holes along his back and all over his chest. Being a field serge at the battle of Violet City didn't go so well for him. It was pure luck that he even got to see his kids again. He never liked showing off his scares unlike his friends that body build just to do so. So stripping down to his boxers he never enjoyed. He looked across the room at Zoe and looked away quickly as he looked, blushing. He had noticed over the years that she seemed to linger in bra more than he would have wanted her to. He shook the thought out of his head and pulled on the heavy suit pants and boots. The suit was technically still a prototype but they had never failed to protect him before. He grabbed the steel helmet and turned to Zoe. She was putting on the suit pants while Jack stared at her breasts. He wanted to look away but it was like a train wreck: You don't want to stare but you can't look away. He looked away just as Zoe stood up and reached for her jacket. She zipped that up, grabbed her helmet and turned to a red cheeked Jack. She smiled inwardly but remand cool on the outside.
"Ready?" She asked
"No, let's go" Jack said at he lacked his helmet into place.
Jack hit a switch that closed the doors the came in and then the room went black and then a low flashing red light glowed. The doors in front of them slowly opened and they stepped into the experiment room. They walked over to where the lasers were and shut them off so the whole thing wouldn't explode. As soon as all the lasers were shut off the blob of lime green goo began to grow.
"Ready?" Jack asked
Zoe was staring at the growing goo in amazement. Ignoring Jack she walked up to the goo and plunged both of her arms straight into the goo.
"Zoe!" Jack shouted but was cut off by a earsplitting screech. The goo was about the size a car and beginning to give off green gas. Jack was on the ground with his hands over his ears and his eyes tightly shut. All Jack saw even with his eyes closed is a white light quickly grew until it consumed his vision and then a split second before he went unconscious he heard a voice. It was saying "Go to the star gazer and he'll lead your destiny." Then the voice was cut of by and explosion.
"Are you okay?" Jack heard a voice ask. His head hurt and he felt light headed.
"Hey guys look over here!" Jack slowly lifted his head and was breathless. He was looking at a Nuzleaf and it was talking!
"Oh you're awake I thought you died!" the Nuzleaf said.
"I must be dreaming..." Jack said
"Well you're not," the Nuzleaf said with a confused look on its face
"It's not that amazing that Nuzleaf can talk. You can talk too."
"That's because humans have been talking since the beginning of time." Jack said
The Nuzleaf sighed "So were Nuzleaf, and Lucario. I mean look at yourself will you?"
"I'm not a..." Jack looked down at himself he had turn into a Lucario.
"Whoa I didn't know you guys could turn white!" The Nuzleaf said with excitement.
Jack must look like he just saw a ghost. Speaking of ghosts a Haunter floated up behind the Nuzleaf.
"A...a..." Jack pointed in horror and shot behind a near by tree.
"What's with him?" the Haunter asked
"I don't know he says he's a human but he looks like a Lucario. Did you know they can turn white?" The Nuzleaf replied
Jack looked out from behind the tree and the two Pokemon were standing there in confusion.
"Zoe!" Jack shouted into the sky.
He listened as his call rang through the forest unanswered.
"Zoe!" Jack repeated his cry.
When his call was unanswered he clenched his paws with anger and started to speed through the forest.
"Hey!" the Nuzleaf cried as it followed after him in the trees.
Jack dodged all the blurs that he assumed were tree and then shades of gray started to take over the trees. He ran up what he assumed was a hill side and stopped at the top to catch his breath. He looked up and the moon was almost a lunar sun. As he lost himself in the moon he saw a silhouette against the moon. It almost looked like Zoe...
"Zoe?!" Jack called in disbelief.
She started to run towards him and he just stood there is shock. She walked up to him with her head down.
"I see you changed too." Zoe said solemnly
"What are you saying you didn't change? Jack said
She looked up at him and saw what had changed. Her eyes were a glowing blue.
"Your eyes... they changed. Now they almost look like a Zor...you're a...?" Jack breathed
Zoe slowly nodded as she transformed into a Zoroark. The Nuzleaf silently watched all of this from a nearby rock.
"What the?" the Nuzleaf breathed "Zoroark's and Lucario's are forever enemy's they should be killing each other not chatting up a storm. I must tell Torkoal."
"So what do we do?" Jack asked
"I say we sleep and try to figure out what happened tomorrow." Zoe said
Jack knew that he would not sleep that night but he agreed to it anyway. They found shelter under a rock, said goodnight and were left to their thoughts.
"How did this happen?" Jack's head repeated with that question. Then he remembered that voice that had spoken to him before the explosion.
"Seek the star gazer? What does it mean? Did Zoe hear it?" Jack's brain was pelted with the unanswerable questions.
Jack lay on the cold stone starring at the unmoving moon in the night sky.
"You asleep?" Jack asked as he could stand the silence no longer.
"Yup," Zoe replied
"I knew you were going to ask Jack I didn't want to stick my hands into the hybrid but it just willed me like I was a puppet."
Jack sat up and looked over at Zoe. She was sitting up with her knees tucked in against her chest and was looking into space. Jack moved over to her and put his arm around her.
"We'll be okay, It's not your fault that this happened. Everything is reversible so this has to be."
Zoe looked deep into Jack's eyes and smirked. Jack attempted the same but Lucario's were apparently not made to smile.
They stared at the moon wordlessly and then fell asleep.
"WHAT!?" Torkoal shouted waking near houses.
"Yes and Lucario and Zoroark were talking together and not fighting." Nuzleaf said
"Where did you say you found them?" Torkoal demanded
"I found them by Stone peak." Nuzleaf said
"We'll send a search party out there in the morning, good work Nuzleaf you are dismissed" Torkoal praised
Nuzleaf backed out as a Primeape walked in.
"You called for me sir?" the Primeape said kneeling
"Yes, rise,"
"I want you to take a search party to Stone peak at dawn. Nuzleaf has reported a Lucario and a Zoroark not in combat." Torkoal said
"WHA!? But how?" Primeape said shocked.
"This too is a concern to me but there is no reason to become worked up abut it. Just take Nuzleaf with you. Now go."
As Primeape walked out Torkoal sighed. "What has disturbed this balance of nature? What monster has corrupted these two Pokemon? Has he awoken once more?" Torkoal went through the possibility's. "No he couldn't be back, I put him under a ton of lava rock there's no way he could gather up that much power to lift it. But I must keep all my possibility's open."
And with that Torkoal pushed it out of his mind and left the night to sleep.
"Zoe!" I was woken by Jack shaking me frantically.
"Wha?" I said sleepily rubbing my eyes. I still wasn't use to have furry hands.
"Do you hear that?" Jack asked looking into the trees
I listened for a moment and then heard the sound a Pokemon ruffling it's feathers.
"It's probably just a Ferrow now I'ma going back to sleep." I said trying to lay back down.
"No not that the sound of footsteps." Jack said
I listened again and this time I heard them. It sounded like a whole stampede of them.
"What is it?" I asked now fully awake now
"I think it's more of the Pokemon that I saw last night."
I stood up ready to fight and just took in every sent and sound that I could. What happened next was half expected. A Diglett popped out of the ground a few feet in front of me. I screamed jumped at least 10 feet in the air. It just looked at me and jack with a blank expression and then went back where it came from.
"What the hell was that!?" I shouted at Jack
"Calm down it was just a Diglett. It was probably part of tha...!" Jack looked back towards the trees that we heard the footsteps.
A Primeape was walking towards us followed by a Nuzleaf, Snover, Ursaring, and a Gallade. Jack braced himself to fight but I just stood there frightened not knowing how to react.
"Hello there!" the Primeape said walking up, the other Pokemon behind him
"Who are you and what do you want from us?" Jack scowled
"Not in a very good mood are we? Putting that aside I'm Primeape." It held out its hand
"I can feel you're not here to make friends. What do you really want?" Jack barred his teeth
The Primeape sighed "If you insist, we were sent here to collect you two and straighten things out."
I looked at Jack with a confused looked and he just shrugged with out taking his eyes off the Primeape.
"I don't see anything wrong with two Pokemon minding their own business." Jack spat
"But that's exactly why we're here. See you are a Lucario and they don't exactly get along with Zoroark. So you two should be killing each other but you're not." Primeape said
"What does approaching us like this help?" Jack asked
"We're here to ask you a couple of questions,"
"And if we refuse to answer?"
"I brought persuasion." Primeape said waving his hand to the Pokemon behind him.
I was boiling with anger that they wanted to take us to some place in the woods. I pushed Jack aside and stuck my face right into Primeape's.
"Listen buddy, I'm not going anywhere until you tell us what you're planing on doing to us." I demanded
He stepped and and smiled "A feisty one eh? We only want to ask you two some questions."
"If you want to ask us some questions you lead us there. We're not following anybody." I said
"Then be it, follow" Primeape turned and started walking towards the trees
I followed with my nose in the air.
"No one treats me like that." I thought
Jack followed reluctantly and was closely followed by the others. It became instantly cooler when we entered the trees. It became suspiciously quiet too. I felt like people were watching, staring at me ingraining every last detail in to their minds. I could tell Jack felt the same way. Why? Because, ever since Primeape found us he had been emitting a soft glow of his emotion. He was glowing a bright red that resembled flames when he was talking to Primeape and now it was a purple with little flare ups now and then. I looked up and there were Pokemon watching us or at least in the forest. A Slakoth was silently eating leafs as it watched us walk by. We walked through the forest for about an hour before we came to a thorn wall.
"Grovyle! It's Primeape with them open up!" Primeape shouted to some unseen Pokemon.
The next thing we know there is a hole in the thorns just big enough to walk through. There was a Grovyle standing next to the hole as we walked in. It gave me a short nod and I swear I blushed. As soon as Gallade walked in the Grovyle used grow to replace the hole. Then we walked in a giant log that was rotting, mossy and lit with torches. I gasped as we cam out of the log. There was a whole city here. Giant mushrooms glowed a verity of greens and blues from the lights inside. I looked at Jack and he was lost in the wonders of the city. Primeape stopped to let us take in the city.
"Now let's go." Primeape said impatiently
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