I do not own Naruto, nor do I own Pokémon.
For an artificially created being, Ditto often wondered what the future had in store for him.
However, traveling into a new, unknown dimension was unexpected.
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While Ditto knew his color palette was rather brilliant compared to his counterparts, he wasn't all that impressed with the odd looks he would get and the few whispers about a defective hatchling. His peculiar coloring would often drag him into inconvenient situations, encountering enthusiastic trainers being the main one.
To solve a great part of his problems, the shapeshifter would, quite literally, hide in plain sight. Using his species' main ability to his advantage, he would transform into commonly seen objects, like a pebble, when he would sense a human passing by. It was, after all, a very common and simple tactic used by most Ditto.
This brings us to our current situation, with Ditto disguised as a tree sapling, being closely examined by someone with quite a peculiar hairdo.
It's… unnerving, to say the least. Having a face shoved right in front of you, mere centimeters separating both of you from touching is more than just unsettling.
"Come on, Colress. We don't have all day, and we were supposed to meet the others at noon," a soldier standing beside the man huffed out.
"We can spare a few minutes, Britney. The fact that a rare breed of tree, also endangered, grew in such a forest is a great discovery! Never mind that they supposedly only grow in secluded places in Kanto! Go fetch me a shovel, will you? I'll have to go analyse this little one in my lab!" a man with glasses ranted excitedly to his companion.
Rare, my ass, Ditto thought to himself, they just aren't looking at the right places. Thousands of these varieties of tree grow around Kabutops' hideout. Give them the right conditions, and they'll start spreading like a wildfire.
His associate simply sighed and whipped out a shovel from Arceus-knows-where and began digging out the sapling before depositing it in a jar.
Meanwhile, our blob morphed into a plant desperately wished that a miracle would happen to get him out of this situation. He did not want to know what his lab was like, what the man's intention were, and certainly did not want to reveal his identity to the… eccentric man.
The scientist hummed cheerfully to himself, content with his new discovery. Walking back to their original path they were supposed to take, his jovial mood was interrupted by a low growl.
Both Colress and Britney whipped out each a Pokéball, prepared to engage into a fight with the newly arrived guest. However, before any of the two could send out their respective Pokémon, a beast clad in darkness rushed up towards the one in glasses and snatched out the jar out of his hands.
"Wait! Not the specimen! Britney! We'll follow it!" the man all but shouted out, keen on getting back what he lost.
Regrettably for our dear scientist, the creature already took off ahead and was quickly out of sight.
Back to our little blue blob—well, sapling in a jar—he was currently being carried by the now dubbed 'Shadow Buddy' to Arceus-knows-where. Carried by our Shadow chap deeper and deeper into the forest, the sight two oddballs quickly flashed away, leaving only vegetation in view. Shadow Buddy was surprisingly quiet as it flitted across the terrain, not even making a sound when stepping down or even when breathing. Enjoying the nice breeze that the unknown savior's dash was providing, he peered around curiously, taking in the scenery.
Without Ditto ever realizing, they somehow traveled to a different region, but the landscape remained similar. Now approaching a rocky terrain (When did we even get here? Last time I checked, we were still in wooded area.), Ditto wondered how he could thank this fellow for getting out of that sticky situation.
"Ah, Shadow Bud-"
Before he could finish expressing his gratitude, the beast's grip on him loosened and Ditto fell out of its grasp. He swore he heard a distorted shriek in the distance, before promptly being knocked out of consciousness.
Well, here you go. My first attempt at writing a fanfiction.
This story was inspired by the fanfiction 'Clearing Mist'by shadownumera, it's pretty neat and you could check it out when you have the time!