This is the fourth in the Pokémorphs series. The story chronologically before this one is Pokémorphs #3: The Search.

Oh boy, this book. For starters, the cover is probably the worst by far. For some reason I would make the cover backgrounds using colors inspired by the cover morph, which was an awful idea. All the early covers do this because it took me a while to realize that contrast is a good thing, but this cover is particularly eye-gouging. So we've got a yellow and black Pikachu on a yellow and black background, and to top it off Lisa is also wearing yellow and black, ensuring the whole thing is a gigantic mess. Urgh.

This is also a rather silly filler book. It gets its inspiration from the goofier Animorphs books like #14 and #17. Take from that what you will. I apologize in advance.

- Pokémorphs #4: The Gang -

Cover Quote:

Lisa's attitude has become quite shocking...

Plot:

It turns out that a gang named 'The Muks' have been trying to find the Pokémorphs for a while after seeing that news report. They think they're much better than the Pokémorphs, and they want to prove it...

Chapters:

12.

CHAPTER 1

My name is Lisa. I live in Cerulean City.

My life has become totally weird lately. I've turned into Pokémon, fought with Scythers and Pinsirs, and generally had one long, strange adventure.

I mentioned turning into Pokémon. Well, I'm a Pokémorph. That means I can morph.

The rest of the Pokémorphs and I fight the Weederpies. The Weederpies are... well, I'm sure you know by now.

Anyway, Rachel and I were checking out the new mall. It's only just been completed, and only has a few shops so far, but one of those shops is the best Pokémart I've ever seen!

We were going through the place, looking for cool stuff. So far, Rachel had found a Charmander t-shirt and a Hypno hat, and I had found some Raichu socks. Okay, so we don't know how to dress.

"This Pokémart is so cool!" Rachel said. "I've never seen a Pokémart that sells t-shirts and stuff like that!"

"Yeah," I said, distracted. I was looking for something. Suddenly, I let out a squeal. "Oh! Here it is!" I reached out and grabbed something off the shelf.

"What have you... oh," Rachel said. She saw that I was holding a plush Pikachu toy. "And what makes that so special that it's different than these other stuffed Pikachus?"

"I'll show you," I said.

I pressed a button on the back.

"Pikachu, pikachuuu!" the toy said in a real cute voice.

"Aaaaw!" Rachel and I chorused.

"It's so cute!" I said. "I must have it!"

"Hey, look who's here," Rachel said.

It was Boris. He was looking at an Electabuzz plush.

"Hi, what are you doing here?" I asked.

"Oh! Um, I'm just, uh, you know, looking," he said.

He had something in one hand. It was some Bulbasaur underwear.

I heard Rachel giggling. I tried my best to suppress a grin. I failed.

"Oh, just laugh at me," Boris said bitterly.

"Sorry," Rachel said, managing to stop giggling.

I checked my watch. "I'd better go now," I said. "I got homework to do."

Rachel nodded. "Okay. I've still got some time left. I guess I'll go check out that computer store." She grinned.

"I'll go too!" Boris said.

Rachel and Boris are both madly into computers.

We went to the counter and paid for our stuff.

"Catch ya later!" I said.

"Okay, bye!" Rachel said, waving.

I left the mall, carrying my shopping bag which contained my Raichu socks and talking Pikachu.

It was about 5:00 pm, and I started heading back to my apartment building.

I froze. Up ahead, the road and path was blocked. They were laying down new cement. Great.

I turned to take a detour down a side alley, and almost ran right into some kids.

There were six of them. They were all wearing hats with the initials 'TM' on them.

And they looked like trouble.

Author's Annotation: I love how I started this chapter doing the old Animorphs-style recap and then realized it was pointless. The Animorphs books recapped the events which started the whole series every book, usually in the first or second chapter. It made sense because Scholastic probably needed such a long-running series to be accessible, so kids could pick up any book and still know what was going on. That doesn't apply for online stories though because they're all together and free on a website. There would be absolutely no reason for someone to start reading the series from a later book.