Transformation: New Dawn
Chapter 1: Dawn
A/N: Hello everyone, and Welcome To Transformation: New Dawn, the sequel to Quarantine! YAAAAY! XD. I've been waiting to unleash this sequel to my favorite story for quiet some time now, and I don't think I can wait any longer. I hope that you fans of the original story or the transformation series in general are as excited about this fic as much as I am! ^_^
I've always yearned to return to the story of Cindy Richards and her place in this wonderful world created by TurtlesandMonkeys, and that time is now.
I'd like to take this time to thank TurtlesandMonkeys for giving me her blessing in publishing another installment in her series, to Swack16 for being a persistent fan and almost like a brother in helping me with this series, Bored-out-of-my-head and Felix the Eevee trainer for thier invaluable support, to Lord Nalthren for being my back up with some of the concepts, and to all my other fans who loved this series and pokemon in general.
Let the story continue.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own pokemon, Nintendo did. And I did not make the transformation series, TurtlesandMonkeys did. It's her series, she made it, and I'm just borrowing it with her permission. Ok lets get started! MEE-YAA!
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Dawn. Dawn was approaching as the night sky became its darkest and tried to fend off the approaching light. Soon, the sky begins to brighten and at the edge of the horizon, the sun was beginning its daily ascent. Life began to scamper while the nocturnal life began to flee to their coves. Creatures of all sizes began to go about their activities, weather it be hunting, hiding, or just admiring the beauty of the world around them. The night seemed dead, and was now being reborn with this coming of the new dawn, teeming with life, or at least life getting ready to live again.
A Quilava watched all this from a hill as the sunlight began to crawl across the dark land and kiss it with light. The suns rays were soon high enough to spread to where the fire pokemon was an began to lighten the area up, the Quilava closing its eyes and soaking in the sun rays, its flame down beginning to rustle a bit. It looked to the sun with a sense of appreciation, being thankful that it was able to see beauty in it, to admire it, to pour over its simplicity. To have any awareness at all…
The Night is darkest just before the dawn…but the dawn is coming…
Cynthia "Cindy" Richards stood in the sun for a little while on her four paws, being thankful to see it another day as herself. Well, as close to myself as I can get in this new body…
It didn't hurt as much to look at her small body, covered with creamy yellow fur and navy blue fur on her back and muzzle. She looked to her paws, slender but round and stubby at the end, to her rear where fur-like flames rustled, the process mirroring her "hair". She listened to the soft breaths of something sleeping with her triangular ears on the side of her head. Quilava…I see you when I look at myself…
She sighed as she began to get down on her paws and began to walk away from the memory of her fallen friend toward her slumbering companion, a lion-like pokemon with blue skin and spiky black fur on her head, black fur on her chest, front paws, and a section near the hindquarters. The Luxray slept on her side, her tail whipping around occasionally as the Luxray inhaled and exhaled. The Pokemon's body heaved in her sleep. Cindy smiled as she walked by the Luxray and tapped a paw on her. She only batted Cindy's paw way with her own. Cindy tried again and smiled again, rubbing on the Luxray as she groaned and stretched her self awake.
"Good morning Sarah." Cindy said cheerfully.
"Grrr…Morning Cindy." Sarah stretched her neck with her eyes closed and opened her eyes a moment later when it snapped into place, she yawned.
"What time is it?"
Cindy out a paw under where her chin used to be as she thought about it. "Umm, daybreak?"
Sarah only yawned again. "Yawwww… Could have used five more minutes…."
Cindy smiled. "Lina used to like sleeping in…." She looked down as she began to remember with sadness. Lina…
That horrible night in Lilycove…Cindy remembered Lina's scream of anguish as six orange tails ruptured her backside and penetrated her shorts...She shook the memory away.
Sarah saw Cindy's face and walked over to her. "You're remembering again, aren't you?"
Cindy only looked down. Sarah sat next to her. "Hey cheer up."
"I lost all my friends that night...I almost lost you." Sarah smiled and put a paw on Cindy's side. "Well you didn't, I'm right here."
Cindy only looked down more. "But the rest…Umi, Maku, Lina…John…."
Sarah's face sort of trembled at the mention of John but she sharpened again. "We'll find them."
"They're out there, somewhere…."
Cindy smiled, but Sarah knew as well as she did, that it was a big world and many pokemon were out there and they could be among any one of them. With this insane virus running around and spreading at a rapid rate, Sarah doubted that Humans will last any longer…
Cindy's flames then began to ruffle with determination. "We will find them. We have to, they would never give up trying to find us, so we shouldn't give up on them." Her flames sparked with determination.
"Ok, that's good and all, but where do we start?" Sarah asked. Cindy calmed down when she thought about it. "I don't know."
Sarah began to walk. "Well, we won't be able to help them by just standing here, lets get a move on."
Cindy nodded. "Right. Let us find that new dawn."
Sarah raised an eyebrow. Cindy grinned sheepishly and held the back of her head. "Well, Lina used to say the night was darkest just before the dawn, but the dawn still comes. It's our darkest hour, but we'll find that dawn. I know it may sound silly and all…"
Sarah closed her eyes and opened them again with a smile. "Its not."
Cindy smiled and began to walk with Sarah down to the road.
"But try not to make it so cheesy next time."
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Hold it down!"
"SQAUWK! SQUAWK! DO-DODUO!"
"Watch the heads! Don't let them bite you!"
Several men were around a Doduo that was going out of control. They were wearing green military outfits and had H.D.C. patches on their shoulders. The Doduo kicked at some of them. The left head and leg seemed to be attacking the troops more ferociously than the other.
"It's definitely a VP. The heads display different personality types. The Doduo stumbled in to one of our camps and started a panic. We're containing things now." A private was reporting to a person wearing a silver HAZMAT suit and had a red patch on his shoulder. His face was hidden behind a black visor. "Good. Proceed with the round up."
"Yes Lt. Garber." The troop left and took a Pokeball.
The red-patch man walked out of the tent and saw a bunch of pokemon on an open field being herded by the HDC troops. Some of them were being caught in Pokeballs while others struggled as troops began to herd them and noose them with lassos. Some of the troops weren't even in HDC uniform, they just wore ranch style outfits and had a big VPCU on the back of their vest, rounding up the human turned pokemon and viral pokemon like cattle. Some even hooted to the air from the thrill of the hunt. Several troops were being careful not to get bitten.
One group came upon a Kanagaskhan with an infant wearing tattered remains of a cap on its small head. One man rode up behind on a Dodrio and swung a rope around its neck, then two others ran around the trashing pokemon with ropes around the legs and tripped it backwards with a tug from the rope around its neck. They soon threw Pokeballs at the stunned giant and captured it, the tattered remnants of clothing of the once human pokemon meaning nothing.
Garber's smile was hidden beneath his visor. It has been good hunting this morning, and there were many bountiful pokemon since the outbreak, waiting to be utilized in their wild states…. All according to plan…
He heard a chirp from behind the bushes and began to look around as he began to head behind it to make sure no one was watching…
"AGH! Damnit!" A soldier fell back when the Doduo suddenly whirled on its left leg and the right leg, though flimsily, swung through the air and clawed his side.
"DUO! DODUO!" The two-headed bird called out.
More soldiers came in and began to prod the bird with poles and hot pokers, pushing the bird as it squawked defiance. The Doduo then began to run, both heads bobbing in unison. The troops then batted their rifles against the bird and ushered it into an open cage, and the grate clanged shut as the trooper closed the latch.
The Doduo was penned up in a cage, squawking defiance at the HDC members.
"Leave it there." One of the troops said. He had a huge scratch mark on is side from the Doduo's kicks.
"Vehicle approaching!" a private called out.
A Humvee was driving down the command station and stopped. Out came an important looking man being flanked by National Guard troops. A private saluted him He saluted back.
"Attention on deck!" A private from the convoy called out.
All the troops stood up and saluted an aged but tough looking man with a dark green Jacket and many medals on his right breast pocket, a starred hat on top of his pepper hair.
"General Kikari of the Hoenn National Guard. I would like to speak with the commanding officer of this unit."
Garber came up to him. "That would be me." he didn't salute.
General Kikari squinted to see any hint of a pace beneath the tinted visor, shook his head and took out an envelope. "I'm here by orders of the Hoenn government to inform you that as of now, the Viral Pokemon Containment Unit formerly Headed by Jason S. Keys is disbanded as ordered by the Hoenn Civil Defense Corps, signed by Kikari, Kenji S." He looked up. "Me." Garber seemed to scorn at him but he couldn't tell. The general continued. "All confiscated Pokemon are to be seized by the restructured Hoenn Defense Corps for proper identification and administration of the cure as mandated by the Hoenn institute of Science, signed by Dr. Harper, Melissa A. "
He put the envelope way. "We're taking possession of these viral pokemon."
"But, the virus…it's still hot with activity and new Virals are being made each day…" Garber hesitantly said, as if he'd been caught in the act of something atrocious. The General didn't seem to show any interest. "Yes, but we're tackling this virus in a new way, a better way then the way your unit has been screwing up. There have been too many incidents with this 'ancient kiddie society' nonsense and possible infiltrations that have been threatening to topple this whole operation. As Keys would so put it if he wasn't lost in the Lilycove incident, his own damn fault, 'it's a necessary precaution for stability.' You'll understand."
The general said. He looked to the guards.
"Ok start loading them up. "
Garber was standing there and pulled out a Pokeball. "You want them?"
He unleashed an Espeon. "They're all yours!"
The Espeon's eyes glowed blue and the locks on the cages came loose. At that moment the Pokemon began to attack from their cages and run loose. General Kikari tensed up on alert as the troops began to raise their weapons. Some of the pokemon immediately fled at this gesture but some still came. The troops fired their tranquilizers and struck some pokemon. A Rampardos came by and one of the troops stepped between it and General Kikari and lifted his rifle but his arm splintered backwards from the impact, the young man screaming as the dinosaur pokemon knocked him down and pressed a foot on his chest, breathing sharply and chomping on his shattered arm, infecting him. His comrades instantly unloaded their sedatives on the rampaging viral pokemon. Other virals began to run amok in the camp, biting, ramming, spitting on the humans that were their captors. General Kikari looked to Garber and ordered some troops after him. Garber pointed at the colonel and his Espeon began to dash toward him. It attacked with its forepaws extended. "ESP!" it cried out as it jumped.
The Espeon was suddenly knocked aside by a rifle butt and the troops opened fired and sedated the Espeon. They looked back to Garber who was fleeing already.
"After him!" the General Kikari ordered.
Garber was about to make it in the forest when a Doduo was running along and he didn't see it coming. He bumped into it and the two-headed bird squawked in surprise. Garber fell back and his mask fell aside, revealing the markings on his face. The Doduo seemed to recognize him and began to jump on top of him and scratch at him with its clawed feet. Some troops suddenly came by and hit the Doduo with a rifle butt and shot a tranquilizer into it. The bird squawked in surprise. "DUO!" it cried out. One of the heads began to slump but the other one was struggling to maintain consciousness. The bird limped itself into the forest.
"Let it go. We found the splinter." Kikari said as the troops surrounded Garber.
Garber only sneered. "You can't stop us. We're everywhere."
He began to laugh. "All will kneel before Yasuo's might!"
"Take him away! He's getting delirious." Kikari said after sending a right hook across Garber's face. They cuffed up the laughing man and began to take him away. General Kikari looked the forest where the Doduo slumped off, sighed and went back to the camp.
"Any Ninetales among the viral pokemon?" He asked. One troop shook his head. "Can't tell with them all running around, but I don't remember seeing any in the initial attack."
"Try and catalogue them and look into the databases about any recently captured VP's." General Kikari earnestly ordered. "I want to see the results on my desk by noon."
"Yes Sir." The troop saluted.
General Kikari looked to where the Doduo ran off then wondered about it, and he straightened up his uniform and put his hat on as he went back to the Humvee…
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Cindy and Sarah were walking down the road when Sarah suddenly stopped.
Cindy blinked. "What's wrong Sarah."?
Sarah looked to the sky. "I don't know…I just had this feeling…it was about John…"
Cindy thought about it and looked to the sky. "I feel it too."
She looked to Sarah. "Come on, lets' get going. I'm sure John's all right."
Sarah had a worried look on her hard Luxray features. "Let's hope you're right.
Cindy sighed as she remembered when she was barely starting out her new life as a pokemon, she encountered a Doduo that John was apart of. She didn't know what torture he was going through, but she hoped that she will find him soon to help him. That anguished cry…those pleading eyes…I'll help you john…
She'll find him.
And maybe tell him what she always wanted to tell him…
"Come on Cindy, you coming or what?" Sarah asked.
Cindy nodded and followed her friend down the road…
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And it begins! I'm so glad to have this story up and running and it feels sooo good to return to this series. Those who have been following all faucets of the series should recognize the name Kikari from Lord Nalthren's Beholder Series. With this story, I wanted to show Cindy's appreciation for the humanity in her soul she almost lost…and what all her friends failed to keep. How long will it stay in her however?
Now in terms of a time line, this takes place between Ancient Society by TurtlesandMonkeys and Double the trouble and also takes place during, but we'll get to that a little in a while on later chapters. Sarah and John belong to swack16. (Would have said it in the disclaimer but that would give away too much…XD)
Well I hope you enjoyed this little introduction and that I've hooked your attention. And for all you fans from before, hoped you liked it! Please review! Jonseycat, out! MEE-YAA!