Here's a new chapter! I hope you like it! Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.

Last time, we were introduced to our hero Seth and his partner, Pichu, along with a few other characters. Then, three agents have been sent on a mission to retrieve a device from another agent who was sent to get it. What are they after and what does their boss hope to gain?

Chapter 2: "How It All Began, Part 2"

After walking home together for about fifteen minutes, Seth and Kelly parted ways at the street corner that divided their streets. Seth went left while Kelly went right.

A few minutes later, Seth and Pichu walked up the steps at the front door and went inside using a spare key under the mat to open the door.

"We're home," Seth sighed as he walked inside. It wasn't like there was anyone else there anyways.

Now, Seth was by no means an only child. He actually had three younger siblings; two twin little sisters who were both fourteen and a younger brother who was ten. However, right now they were with their mother on a business trip in the Kanto Region, and the four of them wouldn't be back for months.

Meanwhile, Seth had of course been left at home alone by himself. Well, not completely by himself.

As Seth slung his backpack to the ground, he took the five Pokéballs from his belt and threw them into the air.

In a flash of light, Gallade and four other Pokémon appeared in front of him.

One was a tailed, bipedal creature with a red body and a yellow flame design on it. Its tail was yellow, and it had a flame at the tip of it. Its thighs, also yellow, were attached to legs that had black shackles on them and red feet with two toes on each of them. Its arms were covered in red, rigid scales, and it had red hands with five fingers on them. It also had another black shackle around its neck, and its back was covered in a row of red spikes that ran down it. The creature had two lumps on its forehead with a flame attached to each one and a yellow beak.

Beside it was a light-gray elephant-like creature with a thick, black band of hide that ran down the length of its back and extended to its trunk, making it kind of look like part of a car tire. It had four short legs with three claws on each leg and a black band around each one of them. It also sported a pair of sharp white tusks and a pair of elongated ears that held stiffly to its sides.

The third one was a purple bat-like creature that flew above the elephant with its four wings. Its upper wings had greenish-blue undersides and two stubby fingers on each one while its lower wings had greenish-blue undersides on the back where one couldn't see them unless they were directly behind them. The bat also had long, pointed ears, constantly bared teeth, and yellow eyes with red pupils.

The last one was a serpent-like creature that was primarily green with a cream-colored underside. It had a yellow collar-like structure that started at its chest and proceeded behind its shoulders. Three palmate leaves grew along its back and tail. It had four short limbs and a small crest protruding from the back of its head. It also had narrow red eyes and a sneering face.

"Hey, guys! You ready to enjoy our evening?" Seth asked.

Pichu and the other five Pokémon cheered with glee. Pichu and four of the others ran off into the living room to watch some TV, while the green serpent Pokémon stayed by his side.

Seth bent down to it at eye level and said, "Boys will be boys, right, Servine?"

The only female on his team smirked and gave him a nod of agreement. The two of them then followed after Seth's five rambunctious male Pokémon to join them in watching TV.


It was around this time that Kelly was staring out the window of her room wistfully as the sun got lower and lower. There was just something tugging at her heart, making her feel depressed.

She knew that right now, Seth was all alone in his house, probably watching TV with his Pokémon. Even with his Pokémon, she knew that he had to feel lonely.

"I wish there was something I could do for him," She said as she gazed at the slowly setting sun. "Something that would make him feel less lonely."

Suddenly, an idea popped into her head, causing a happy smile to appear upon her face.

"Maybe, if I made him some cookies, he would not only have a full stomach, but we could also sit together in house! All alone, just the two of us sitting together on the couch by the fireplace," Kelly thought out loud.

A determined expression took a spot on her face as she said, "I'm going to make him the best cookies ever that he won't be able to get enough of! And maybe, he might begin to fall in love with me!"

Kelly squealed excitedly at thought of this occurring. She then ran out of her room and down the stairs as fast as she could in her effort to make her fantasies become a reality.


Seth had a bored expression on his face as he watched the TV with his Pokémon. He looked up at the digital clock on the TV and saw that it read 7:00.

While Pichu sat on his shoulder, Magmar, Donphan, and Gallade sat on the ground in front of him. Crobat was currently hanging from a small chandelier and Servine simply stood away from the others close to a family portrait that was very dear to Seth and his family.

Seth sighed before he noticed the words "Breaking News" on the television screen. Intrigued, he decided to turn the volume up.

"Earlier today, there was another hybrid attack on a small bakery downtown. Police tried to catch these fiends, but they unfortunately escaped. So far, we have still found no way to stop these attacks."

Seth grimaced as he saw a video of several disfigured humanoids on screen attacking a few policemen and their Pokémon.

For a few years now, there had been more and more hybrids surfacing than ever. They didn't attack small suburban areas like this one, but people and Pokémon still had to be careful.

Hybrids were mutants that had once been human before they were combined with the genes of a Pokémon. They then became disfigured, while gaining enhanced abilities that the Pokémon DNA held within it.

They had been created by the Devon Corporation in hopes of bringing humans and Pokémon together to form a greater power, but after an unknown incident, these monsters had been created. Now, they ran amuck throughout the world, starting with Hoenn, but then moving to other regions like Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh, and Unova.

What made Seth feel worse was that his own dad had been in charge of the project.

Now, Seth knew that his dad had never meant for this kind of thing to happen, especially back when Mr. Stone was still alive and running the corporation. However, after he died, his son Steven never returned and another man (whose name currently escaped Seth) took over as President. It was around that time when the hybrids first appeared and Seth's dad disappeared in his guilt.

Seth had always wondered if his dad really meant to use the project to just gain more power, or if it was for some other purpose.

His train of thought was soon broken, however, when his Servine decided to knock down the family portrait with one of her vines.

"Servine! Why'd you do that?" Seth scolded as he stood up and walked over to check if the portrait was alright.

The portrait looked perfectly fine, but what really got Seth's attention was the metal device that had been behind it.

"Huh? What's this?" Seth thought out loud as he tried to get a closer look. From what he could tell, it was a thumb print scanner and a small glass screen with a microphone and speaker above it.

"Thumb print identification, please," A computerized, female voice suddenly said calmly.

Seth nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard it speak. But then, he shrugged and pressed his thumb against the scanner.

The machine began beeping and then, it said, "Thank you. Now, password please."

Seth's eyebrows furrowed. Whatever this was, it had to be his dad's, but what password would he use? Suddenly, a phrase made its way into the sixteen-year-old teen's head.

"Hitotsu no kokoro, hitotsu no karada, hitotsu no kokoro, hitotsu no mokuhyō," Seth firmly spoke into the microphone. One mind, one body, one heart, one goal.

A sort of chiming sound emanated from the speaker and then, the voice said, "Welcome, Seth Burns."

All of the sudden, part of the wall in front of him began to open up, revealing a little compartment with a small safe in it. The dial on the safe turned out to be a hologram projector, as it suddenly shot a light to the ground and formed a life-sized hologram of a man that Seth knew very well.

"Dad?" Seth said in both awe and shock. The light blue hologram that looked like an older and taller version of him smiled.

"Hello, son. This is a recording I have left for you in case you ever were to find this secret compartment. If you are hearing this now, it means that I am gone and you found the safe."

A serious expression then took a place on his virtual dad's face.

"Listen to me closely now, son. The device that is within this safe is of great importance to all humans and Pokémon. Years ago, as you may recall, I was working on a project that's main goal was to bring people and Pokémon together on a whole new level. However, due to a certain person's greed, a new species of both human and Pokémon that we dubbed hybrids was created due to them wanting greater power.

"I still wanted to achieve our true goal of bringing people and Pokémon, so I continued my work. And in the end, I surpassed this goal entirely with the perfect fusion."

As he said this, the safe opened up to reveal a wristwatch-like device that was red in color with a display background of a Pokéball design on its face. Seth took it out and held it up for a closer look as his father continued.

"This device is called the Armorized PokéFusion Reactor, or simply the 'PokéFuser' for short. It allows the wearer to become fuse together with six Pokémon at the most to create a more powerful entity. The human and the Pokémon's minds become one, as does their body.

"The differences between this device and the hybrids is that for one, the change is easily reversed so that you are able to revert back into your original forms, and also that you hold more power than any known human, Pokémon, or hybrid.

"Son, you're the only one I can entrust with this device. The temptations of the power that this device offers are just too great for me, but I know that you can handle it. I'll provide you with as much guidance as can with all of the hologram tutorials that I left for you, but there are some things that you will have to find out on your own. Good luck, my son."


As the hologram of his father disappeared, Seth's eyes continued to widen after hearing about this device and its capabilities.

This was astounding. But what exactly had his father meant when he said "perfect fusion?"

While Seth continued to think on this, Pichu suddenly tensed up and glared at a certain spot on the ceiling.

The others soon noticed this as well, and Servine proceeded to whack Seth lightly on the cheek with her vine.

"Ow!" Seth rubbed his now red cheek. "What was that for?"

Servine pointed towards the ceiling and after turning to where she pointed, Seth saw a floating, red zigzag stripe.

"Pichu, use Thundershock!" Seth ordered.

"Piiiiiiiiii-chuuuuuuu!" Pichu cried out as he released a bolt of yellow electricity from his cheeks at the floating stripe. As the electricity hit its mark, it caused a humanoid silhouette to appear and then drop down onto the floor in front of him.

Suddenly, a green humanoid came into view on the carpet. It was a human body in a way, but it looked reptilian with its reptile-like face, its skin covered in green scales, and the yellow frills on its head. It also had a tail that was currently curled up into a helix shape, yellow claws on its hands and feet, yellow rings around its eyes, and that same red zigzag stripe on its belly.

Seth felt like he was going to throw up for a moment. It looked like the offspring of a human and a Kecleon. It was a hybrid.

It was then that the Kecleon hybrid looked up at him and snarled before jumping back to the ceiling.

"Give me the watch!" It said in a slimy voice.

Seth looked from the hybrid to the watch and back again before yelling back, "I'm not giving you anything, reptile lips!"

The hybrid growled angrily before opening its mouth and launching a long, sticky pink tongue out at him. Seth luckily was able to react quickly, and just barely dodged the attack. The hybrid then began to jump every which way around the room.

As it stopped at one of the couches, Seth shouted, "Magmar, use Flamethrower!"

Magmar opened his mouth and released a stream of orange-yellow fire from his mouth at the creature.

Unfortunately, the hybrid jumped and dodged the attack, causing the flame to burn a hole in the couch.

"Aw, come on!" Seth said, freaked out that they had just ruined one of his mother's favorite couches. He then glared at the monster angrily and roared, "Servine, grab it with your vines quick!"

Two small pale yellow lights flashed where the yellow collar and Servine's skin met and a pair of green vines the same color as Servine's came out from in between them. Servine then lashed the vines out at the hybrid, but to no avail as it dodged the attack once again.

Seth growled as the hybrid practically gloated at having dodged all of his Pokémon's attacks. Seth had heard that hybrids had the abilities of the Pokémon whose DNA they had within them, but this was just ridiculous. Wait, abilities?

"Hey, ugly! Bet you can't catch me!" Seth teased before running out the front door.

"Why you little!" The hybrid said, completely steamed. It then crawled on the ceiling after the teen until it got outside and climbed up onto the roof.

"Give me it!" The hybrid shrieked.

"Well, since you asked, I'll be happy to oblige!" Seth smirked. "Donphan, use Mud-Slap!"

Donphan immediately slammed his tusks into the ground and then pulled them up, throwing two balls of brown mud at the Kecleon hybrid.

"AHH! MY EYES!" The hybrid screamed as it tried to rub the mud out of its eyes.

"Now, Servine, use Leaf Tornado!" Seth told the Grass-type.

Servine nodded before jumping and spinning on her head with her tail straight up into the air. She then began spinning her body and a large light green, green, and dark green tornado with glowing light green leaves inside of it appeared around the end of her tail and spun around with her. Servine then spun around on her side and caught the blinded hybrid inside of the tornado. The tornado then separated from the air, moved back into an upward position, and floated up into the air. The tornado then crashed into the ground, crushing the hybrid against the front lawn.

"Crobat, follow it up with Air Slash!" Seth continued.

Crobat's wings glowed light blue and it flapped them, releasing multiple light blue glowing saw disc-like energy blades from its wings at the hybrid. The hybrid continued to scream in pain as the saws pelted into its back.

"Alright, Pichu! Let's end this with Volt Tackle!" Seth yelled.

"Pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi," Pichu chanted as he ran towards the hybrid with his body now surrounded by golden electricity that made his body seem black and white. As he tackled the hybrid in the stomach, the hybrid was suddenly sent flying into the air until it was completely out of sight.

Seth and all six of his Pokémon panted in relief after finally getting rid of the reptilian menace.

"Good job, guys," Seth said as he wiped the sweat from his brow. Seth then looked down at the watch in his hand. Was it really that important for a hybrid to come and try to take it? If it really was, than it had to be kept safe no matter what.

Seth then decided to put the watch onto his left wrist. As he did, the watch glowed for a moment before the glow faded away just as quick.

"Weird," Seth said with a shrug. With that, he and his Pokémon decided to go back inside.


What Seth didn't know was that he had been watched during the entire fight by three cloaked figures nearby.

One of the figures took out a com-link and said into it, "Sir, Agent Camouflage has failed."

There was a growl of anger on the other line before a deep voice said, "Fine. Do whatever's necessary to get that device, understand?"

"Yes, sir," The figure nodded before putting the communication device away. They then looked back at Seth's house with a contemplative look on their face.

"What should we do now?" One of the two other figures asked.

The figure thought for a moment before their eyes widened at the sight of someone walking down the sidewalk a short distance away. Whoever they were, they seemed to be heading straight towards the Burns house.

The figure sneered and then chuckled. "Plan B."


It looked like it was starting to get dark as Kelly walked down the sidewalk towards Seth's house. In her hands, she was carrying a basket full of treats that she had worked long and hard on just for her best friend.

Strangely enough, however, she now wore a sleeveless teal-colored top with her white skirt, and she had let her hair down.

'I really hope he likes these,' She thought as she walked. 'And I really hope that he likes my hair.'

Throughout all of the years that they had known each other, Seth had not once seen her with her hair down. She would usually have it in a ponytail, or when she was a lot younger, she had it in pigtails.

Although, she really wondered if he would even notice her new hair style. Seth had always been a little dense when it came to that sort of thing.

Her thoughts were interrupted when all of the sudden, she heard a rustling in the bushes close by.

"Huh? Is someone there?" She whispered, feeling uneasy. She reached down towards her bag and attempted to grab one of her Pokéballs.

But before she could even pull one out, a black blur jumped out of the bushes and landed right in front of her.

Her eyes widened in fear and she dropped her basket.


Seth scratched the back of his head in distress. The fight with that hybrid had just about destroyed the entire living room.

"What are we going to do?" Seth asked Pichu, who shrugged in response.

"Thanks, you're a real help," Seth said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

Suddenly, though, the watch he now wore on his wrist began to beep and glow.

"Huh?" Seth said as he lifted his wrist up to look at the device.

"Hybrid detected," A computerized voice from the watch said as it beeped and glowed.

"Hybrid detected?" Seth repeated. He had begun to scratch the back of his head in confusion when he abruptly heard a girl's scream come from outside. It kind of sounded familiar…

"Kelly!" Seth's eyes widened at realization. He ran outside as fast as he could with Pichu right behind him until he saw a torn-up basket on the ground with a few broken cookies on the ground next to it.

As he frantically tried to figure out what happened, he noticed a note lying on top of the basket. He picked it up, and he suddenly looked fearful.

"If you want to see your friend again, come to this address and bring the device," Seth read. He looked up the street, wondering what he should do.


Next Chapter: Chapter 3: "How It All Began, Part 3"

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