This is the third in the Pokémorphs series. The story chronologically before this one is Pokémorphs #2: The Limit.

This is the first book cover that doesn't look completely awful. But it's still a bit of a mess because the cover quote bleeds into everything else. It's called an Outline Tool, past me! Also the cover quote doesn't make sense, so I changed it below slightly. Sadly it's too late to change it on the actual cover. Oh well.

- Pokémorphs #3: The Search -

Cover Quote:

What's pink and cute that fights Weederpies?

Plot:

Bounce and his brother Blitz are trying to get used to their life. But something is bugging Bounce. Something he can't quite remember. But then he realizes: the Ditto Device. He doesn't know what happened to it, so he and Blitz decide to try and find it. But someone has already found it...

Chapters:

11.

CHAPTER 1

Greetings. My name is Bounce-Sal-Malf. I'm just a young Mew, but that doesn't mean the story I am about to tell you isn't important. It's very important.

My younger brother, four humans, and I fight. We fight the Weederpies.

The Weederpies were created artificially. They should not exist. But they do.

They were created by a group of humans called Team Rocket. Team Rocket cloned a Weedle and a Caterpie together and gave it sentience. They also gave it the ability to crawl inside a Pokémon's head and take over its body. The result was the Weederpies, who are taking over Pokémon. They have already infested most Scythers and Pinsirs, and they want to destroy all other sentient life. They want to destroy all Mews and take over more and more species of Pokémon. Then, when they have a huge army, they'll turn on humans.

Us Mews fight them. But we are far too few.

The Weederpies have destroyed many of our colonies, killing dozens of us.

However, they do have one weakness: Draks. To infest a Pokémon, the Weederpies must first inject a Drak into it. A Drak is a special gene, and without one, the Pokémon host would reject its Weederpie. Every species needs a different type of Drak, and they are extremely difficult to create, so the Weederpies only have three types of Draks so far: Scyther, Pinsir, and Mewtwo.

I think new Draks need to be injected every week or so, but I'm not quite sure, so I've never mentioned it to my human friends. Or my brother, Blitz-Kric-Nam.

One particular day, my brother was being extremely annoying. See, he can get a little, oh, misguided. Also wacky and annoying.

˂Are you sure?˃ he was saying. ˂I really think we should try!˃

˂No,˃ I said patiently.

˂Come on,˃ Blitz cried. ˂Let's at least give it a go!˃

˂Blitz, if we were meant to climb trees, I'm sure we'd have longer arms and legs.˃

˂Aaaawww...˃ Blitz said, sounding disappointed. ˂But we've got our tails. Don't you think we'd be able to swing from branches using them?˃

˂Blitz, we are not Mankeys!˃ I said. ˂If you want to climb trees, go acquire one of those pig monkeys.˃

Blitz obviously didn't listen to a word I said. Instead, he jumped at a tree and tried to wrap his arms around the trunk. He wrapped his tail around the tree and then tried to slowly shuffle up the tree. I wasn't at all surprised when he lost his grip and fell down onto his butt.

˂Aaaawww!˃ he said. ˂I got so close! Did you see me? I must have climbed a foot!˃

I sighed. ˂I'm going off to train against wild Pokémon. Seeya!˃

˂Yep. Bye!˃ Blitz said. He was trying to climb the tree again.

I bounded off.

Don't ask me where my little brother gets his ideas. Mews climbing trees! How preposterous!

The six of us (four humans, my brother, and I) fight the Weederpies with the extremely experimental morphing power. We can morph into any Pokémon we touch.

My own father invented the ability. One night, he told those four humans about the Weederpie threat, and he gave the six of us the power to morph.

But then... then his life ended. Parasecter One killed him.

Some day... some day my brother and I would get back at Parasecter One. Well, maybe not my brother, but I certainly would!

I would destroy Parasecter One and then go after the heart of the Weederpies: Council Rocket.

After Team Rocket created the Weederpies, they became Council Rocket and now lead the Weederpies. Even though they're humans, they control all Weederpies.

I felt fury rise within me at the thought of Weederpies. I whipped out my tail restlessly and destroyed a flower. Some day... some day I... we would win.

Until then, I needed to train.

Author's Annotation: I wonder how Bounce heard about Draks possibly expiring. His father may have told him at some point.

Also my usage of the words "destroy" and "kill" here is interesting. As a kid I hated when TV would dance around the word "kill", particularly when it was supposed to be an extremely evil and dangerous villain. So I was quite happy to use the word here. But then Bounce thinks about "destroying" Parasecter One, not killing. I guess kill seemed too harsh a word for a good guy like Bounce to use, particularly when planning what to do to his enemy. So basically bad guys kill the good guys, good guys destroy the bad guys. If that makes sense.