Hello readers. This is my second fanfic! Yay! No, I'm not done with the first, but with the release of Pokemon Go and such, well, I couldn't resist. So anyways, this chapter is 2200 words (don't expect the others to be as long) and this is the main reason my other fanfic hasn't gotten much progress, plus, you know, vacation and stuff. Well, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and maybe, if I ever finish, the story.
"And then, there was the really big explosion! Luckily, the main character managed to use the secret pool under the floor to escape!" exclaimed a young 12 year old boy. He was around five feet tall (about 1.6 - 1.7 meters tall) with a mess of brown hair, bright, green eyes, and an animated expression on his face. He sat across from a large cage containing a pokemon.
"What happened next?" asked a small green turtle pokemon with a twig on its head.
"I'll tell you next time, Clark," said the boy, smiling trollishly.
"You! TELL MEEEEEEEEE," cried the Turtwig, an expression of hopelessness on his face. "Pleeeease, Lewis? Pleeeeeeeease?"
"Nope." Lewis, the boy, turned his head and sniffed. "And I'm not changing my mind, no matter what you do."
"Lewis, are you bullying Clark again?" asked another pokemon, this one, a Kirlia who sat in the cage adjacent to Clark's.
"Layla, Lewis is bullying me again!" whined Clark, cutting off anything Lewis wanted to say.
"That's not true!" retorted Lewis. "I'm just keeping you in suspense!"
"That's called bullying," said Clark, pouting. The three of them began arguing about what bullying really was.
"Would all you children please silence yourselves? I am attempting to acquire some sleep." An old Lucario lay on his back in yet another cage. He had one eye opened and stared at the three kids who were arguing amongst themselves in increasingly loud voices.
"Oh, sorry for waking you up, Mercurius, I didn't know you were asleep," apologized Lewis. Layla and Clark nodded twice in agreement with Lewis.
"As a general of thumb, when one is silent, they normally do not want to be disturbed by loud children such as yourself." The Lucario sat up and sighed heavily. "However, I have already been awoken, as such, attempting to return to my slumber would be in vain."
"Heh, sorry…" Lewis smiled cheesily and scratched the back of his head.
"Lewis! Where are you!?" yelled someone from outside the room that Lewis currently resided within. "It's time for dinner!"
"Coming dad!" shouted Lewis. "Sorry guys, gotta go, I'll see you all tomorrow!" Quickly, Lewis ran out of the room, closing the door with a soft click. Technically speaking, Lewis wasn't allowed to be in that room. The scientists and other people had said that it was filled with flesh-eating monsters, but Lewis thought they were just joking. Clark did bite Lewis sometimes, anyways, so they weren't lying necessarily.
"Lewis, there you are." A tall, old man wearing a white lab coat strode up to the boy with a smile. "What are you doing here?"
"Nooothing…" said Lewis, trying to hide his own smile.
"Lewis, were you in there again?" asked Lewis' father. "You know you're not supposed to be in there, you might get hurt."
"But dad, they're really friendly and everything!" argued Lewis.
"Lewis, you remember what happened to Daniel, with the Alakazam, don't you?" asked Lewis' father. "I don't want you to end up like him."
"That's only because you were hurting Arkah!" countered Lewis. "If you weren't doing whatever it is you did to him, I bet Daniel wouldn't have been as badly injured as you said he was- MMhm!"
"Shh, Lewis!" Lewis' father clapped his hand over his son's mouth. "Do you remember something else we talked about? You're not to speak about how you can talk to the pokemon, do you understand? Bad things will happen if someone overhears you!"
"Mmph." Lewis' father took his hand off of Lewis' mouth and wiped it on his lab coat.
"Now let's go, and I don't want to hear you say anything about that Alakazam, do you understand?"
"Yeah yeah." Lewis sighed and followed his father to the dining hall. The smell of food was strong as they took their seat in the large hall. The food was relatively simple, comprised of a meat, some bread, and a soupy thing or vegetable. Today's menu was mystery meat with dry bread and something resembling soup. Lewis knew that the world was having it tough, how tough, he didn't know, so he was grateful for any food he got. Ordinarily, Lewis would've chomped through his food like a ravenous beast, but this time, his mind was occupied with thoughts about Arkah, the Alakazam.
Arkah had been an extremely vocal pokemon, at least to Lewis anyways. Arkah was almost always complaining about how the humans treated pokemon or how much smarter he was than them and how he should be the one commanding the humans. But then, one day, the scientists took him to a super secret area behind a large metal door that could only be opened by the scientist's fingerprints. When Arkah came back his eyes were bloodshot and he was completely silent.
"Lewis? Are you alright?" asked Lewis' father. "You don't seem like yourself today."
"Nah dad, I was just thinking really hard about something," said Lewis, stretching his back. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw an odd sight. Three scientists wearing hazmat suits, but that wasn't the worst thing. They were pushing a metal cage with a small, white, sleeping pokemon with light green hair.
"Layla…?" murmured Lewis, slowly standing up.
"Lewis? What's up?" Lewis didn't hear his father and began walking towards the direction that his friend had gone.
"Sorry, dad, I'll be back soon," he said without turning around. Lewis began to run after the scientists. They already had a huge head start, but they weren't running like Lewis was. It only took a minute for Lewis to catch up.
"What are you guys doing!?" he shouted at them, trying to get their attention. They didn't appear to hear him, and if they did, they ignored him. The scientists kept wheeling the cage down and approached the metal door.
"Hello!?" yelled Lewis, not even fifty feet from the scientists (that's about 14 meters, give or take). He would've made it, save for one reason. Instead of a normal door, the metal door simply faded away, allowing the scientists to get in without stopping. Just as Lewis made it to the scientists, they passed through the doorway and the metal door reappeared. Lewis slammed into the door and bounced off.
"Hey! Bring her back!" he yelled to no extent. Lewis banged on the door several times, but no response was given. Lewis leaned his back against the metal door and slid down. A quick glance at a nearby clock told Lewis that it was 7:11. He sighed, closed his eyes, and waited.
And time passed...
"Hey, kid. Kid. Wake up, kid." Lewis was awakened by a soft nudge from someone's foot. He looked up into the face of one of the scientists, an old man with no hair left and one eye missing.
"Whaaa…?" asked Lewis sleepily. "What happened?"
"What are you doing here kid, you know this place is supposed to be off-limits," said the scientist. "And you've been here for quite some time now-" Lewis bolted to his feet and looked at a digital clocking hanging on the wall. It read 1:24.
"I've been here for six hours!?" he exclaimed in shock. "But how? They didn't even come this way!" A sudden thought struck Lewis and he quickly took out a map of the laboratory that he had drawn from memory. The areas that were restricted had dotted lines representing where Lewis guessed the walls to be, and judging from the overall size of the laboratory, Lewis' map showed that there could potentially be a second entrance to the secret laboratory room.
"Hey kid, is that a ma-" started the scientist.
"Sorry, gotta run!" called out Lewis, beginning to run again. Lewis ran as fast as he could back to the room with his friends all the while thinking, please don't be hurt, please don't be hurt, please don't be hurt. He repeated that in his head like a mantra, hoping against hope that she wasn't like Arkah. Turning a corner, Lewis ran straight at the door to the room of his friends and burst inside.
"Layla!" He yelled as soon as he stopped, noticing Mercurius with his paw sticking through the bars of his cage and into Layla's. A soft blue glow shone from the tip of his paw.
"Silence!" barked Mercurius. "She is trying to rest…" Lewis clamped his mouth shut and walked over to Layla's cage. However, Lewis didn't see Layla inside, or at the very least, he didn't think it was Layla. A Gardevoir lay inside the cage, sleeping with its eyes forcefully shut.
"Layla…?" Lewis dropped to his knees and poked the unmoving body of the Gardevoir.
"Did I not just say she is resting?!" said Mercurius nearly shouting. "And do not irritate her, she is in a critical stage as of now."
"W-What happened?" asked Lewis, his hands trembling.
"It was a forced evolution…" muttered Mercurius. "An unnatural form of the evolution stones… the humans have pushed it too far, they have actually achieved the impossible, and broken the DNA of Pokemon…"
"Uuh, what?" asked Clark, who was busy trying to reach Layla through the bars of his cage.
"Exactly as it sounds. By altering certain genes in Layla's body, and possibly introducing foreign materials into her body, they have induced an evolution." The blue light from Mercurius faded away and he dropped his arm. Layla slowly opened her eyes and sat up, breathing heavily.
"W-Where am I?" she asked, rubbing her head. "What happened?"
"Layla! You're okay!" exclaimed Lewis happily. "Do you feel alright?"
"Umm… I guess so…?" Layla leaned her back on the bars of her cage blinked several times before shaking her head to clear any dizziness. "So… what happened again?"
"You underwent an evolution it would seem," said Mercurius, clearly not telling her everything. "Are you feeling any pain anywhere?"
"An evolution!?" Layla immediately began to examine herself all over.
"Why're you so upset? I would love to evolve!" said Clark, frowning at Layla, who was in a state of pure panic.
"Clark, do try to understand that Layla is in a stage of shock," said Mercurius. "Please do not try to aggravate her further."
"But seriously! I don't get what's the big fuss about-" Clark was cut short by a blast of blue light from Mercurius.
"Guys, come on! That's beyond the point," said Lewis more than annoyed with his friends. He turned back to Layla. "You're not in any pain, right?"
"No, I'm just really tired- What's Arkah doing?" she suddenly asked, weakly pointing at the Alakazam's cage in the corner. Arkah gripped his knees to his chest, curled up in a ball, shaking back and forth, muttering all the while.
"They've done it. It's all their fault. They've done it. It's all their fault." Arkah repeated it over and over again. His eyes were wide and wild, roaming all over the place. The ground began to tremble and an awful wrenching noise could be heard. It was akin to fingernails wrenching across a blackboard, slowly and steadily progressing to be even more and more than it was previously.
"Arkah! Stop this infernal noise!" shouted Mercurius over the ear-grating noise. Seconds later, it stopped without warning.
"Ooookay, someone explain that to me," said Clark, narrowing his eyes. "What the heck was that?" There was no time for an explanation, for at the very moment Clark finished his question, an explosion of pure psychic power blasted outwards from Arkah.
So, you made it to the bottom. Did you like it? Was it good? Was it bad? Was it weird? Leave a review, if you really want to, it doesn't really mean anything. Whatever, if you liked it, stay tuned, it might come, it might not. Whatever, I'll see you whenever I post another chpater. Ciao!
Edit: This story was slightly altered due to some complaints about a joke made. The user said that they were inappropriate for this story, rated as T, and unless I moved it to M, would it be acceptable. I didn't really want to move it to that level, so I had to remove the joke. Besides that, I removed the introduction paragraphs as that was irritating some people. Not gonna name anyone, but you could always just check the reviews. Beyond that, not much else to say. I'll just BS the rest of the story as I go. Ciao.
