Chapter 1: Disgruntlement and Escape
Kyerrsha looked up with all the irritation a Pichu could have. "Why do I have to learn all these stupid TM attacks from Earth? And don't tell me about my destiny, either!"
His teacher, an Alakazam, sighed. "Kyerrsha…it is because of your destiny that you must learn this. You have been destined to save our world – "
"Yeah, and because of all of this specialized training, my life is gone! I have no friends, my family abandoned me here – "
"Boy!"
"-and every Spark-chick on the planet is begging to be my girlfriend just because of the 'awesome legendary destiny' that I have. I'm not going through with this anymore!" And with that, he shifted to his Pokemon form and took off for the door.
Only to be stopped by his teacher's fine-tuned mind. "You are going to learn Endure before you decide to slow your lessons. Endurance will serve you well in your future."
Kyerrsha sighed. "You said that for Light Screen, Protect, and the Spark attacks, too." And with that, he resigned himself to his studies, schooling his thoughts into a retaining state as instructed.
Several hours later, Kyerrsha was permitted to leave the premises of the school with the technique Endurance well secured in his mind.
This is ridiculous, he thought. I have all the attacks up to Sweet Kiss, and they're still not leaving me alone! I'll probably never evolve, because it takes happiness and will to become a Pikachu even on the Hybrid World. I'm certainly not happy here, and I don't want to evolve in a close-tied environment.
That last thought stopped him. I don't want to evolve here…would I want to evolve somewhere else? Like maybe on one of the moons?...No, that'd be the first place they'd look for me. I need to go farther. Much farther…
He was well acquainted with the systems of the Sun Side. After eighteen hours of work or whatever you wanted to do, you went to sleep for a while. This time, though, he didn't sleep. Instead, he packed up some treasures and slipped out to the hangar bay to look at the space-worthy ships and make his pick.
He found one: the Spark-Shuttle. It was a one-person shuttle keyed to accept any properly-leveled Electric attack as a pass-code. His Thunder was quite sufficient to let him on. Anything less would have set off an alarm.
Upon sitting in the cockpit, he muttered to himself in frustration. "Why couldn't I have learned Growth or something useful?" So he focused and shifted to human form.
Well, the human form wasn't much good as it couldn't use Pokemon attacks very well, but it did make him at least an inch taller than his standard form. And with that alteration done, he took the Spark-Shuttle up and off the planet; out of orbit and into the black unknown.
"All right, time to engage the hyper-drive!"
White light shone around the ship…and around Kyerrsha.
It was a good thing that he had evolved upon activating the hyper-drive, because it took a whole hour, possibly two, before he saw a large galaxy in front of him.
"Okay, this looks promising. Let's see which planet in here has suitable oxygen." Upon studying the charts – and muttering to himself about blind luck getting the ship up and not learning how to pilot or understand it – he finally guessed that the blue planet fairly close to the sun would be sufficient.
So he entered, shutting off the hyper-drive. Moving past the first five planets, he saw a large field of asteroids.
"Oh, boy: time to practice some dodge-and-weave maneuvers!"
Kyerrsha actually did quite well. He did well right up until he was almost out of the asteroid belt. Then one struck him from behind!
The shuttle careened out of control, and he fought frantically to get the shuttle towards the blue planet with what was left of its power reserves.
He got around the red planet just fine and was headed for the blue one when he realized that he didn't have enough power left. So he shifted back to his standard form, leaned forward, and blasted his own strength through the controls.
It was like turning on the hyper-drive again. The shuttle lurched forward – fast!
Once it entered the atmosphere, he noticed it was starting to get hot. After fumbling a bit, he finally got the shields turned on. That was only marginally better, though.
The Spark-Shuttle burst out of the clouds and it occurred to him: he didn't know how to land!
He shifted to his brand-new Pikachu form, ran into the back, and grabbed his bag of treasures, activating his TM ability Protect.
And hoped it would be enough.
