A Pokeball slowly appeared in the time machine slot in Pokecenter's
upstairs. A young female trainer was about to use the machine when she
noticed this. The trainer grinned, she figured somebody in the past
accidentally sent their Pokemon through. "Free Pokemon!" She snickered.
"Wonder what it is? Like opening a Christmas present!" She tossed the ball
on the floor to check its contents. Much to her surprise and dismay a
Pokemon did not come out of the ball, but an older girl. On her knees the
newly appeared girl reached for the ball, but the young trainer snapped it
up first. The girl looked up at the trainer. She had a gauze bandage
wrapped around her head. "Hmm," trainer said as she seemed to be thinking,
"My friends would be impressed to see that I found a trainer caught in a
Pokeball!" The girl on the floor yelled out, "You fool, I'd never fall
slave to an immature brat like you!" The trainer huffed and puffed a bit in
anger but stopped and spoke coolly, "Hmmm. What are you supposed to do
about it?" She twirled the Pokeball on her finger. The older girl on the
floor held up a single arm. The Pokeball flew out of the trainer's finger
and skillfully into the girl's hand. "Dumb luck." The trainer sighed as she
walked away. The girl tore off the bandage, as it was no longer needed and
she tapped the inside of the Pokeball releasing herself. She teleported
herself home to the lab. She didn't see much difference at first. Then her
clothes (Esla's old outfit) faded revealing a different outfit. Esla was
alive now and the dress was now in a clothes draw or something. She opened
the door and stepped inside. She turned to see her mother leaning against
the wall near Ben's machine, reading a newspaper ad for jobs. Sandra smiled
and cried tears of happiness. "Mother! Y-you're ALIVE!!!!" Sandra ran and
hugged her mother, who dropped her newspaper in surprise. "What are you
talking about, Sandra? I've always been alive." Sandra straight up, and
controlled herself a bit. Sandra eyed Esla for a moment. She was scared
beaten down and looked all worn out. "Mother, w-what happened to you.."
Sandra whispered sounding grave. Esla looked confused. "Sandra, are you ok?
You've never acted like this before." Sandra noticed a little kid like
around 9 or 10 starring at her. She had long black hair and starred at
Sandra with deep black eyes. "What are you doing here?" Sandra remarked to
the little kid. The kid broke into a smirk. Sandra had a flash upon the
battle. Suddenly, she no longer saw a little girl but a smirking Dark and
the lab seemed to fade into an open forest pathway. Sandra felt the surge
of adrenaline from the fight. She turned with a distant look in her eyes.
The child looked confused. Sandra pulled her hands together and pulled up a
psybeam. Esla was alarmed. She ran in front of the kid and put her shield
up. The shield absorbed the psybeam like it was nothing. Esla ran over to
Sandra before she started another and grabbed her by the shoulders. Sandra
struggled for a bit and then flashed back to reality. She was sweating and
seemed terrified at what she had just seen. Esla shook her, "Sandra, wake
up! Wake up!" Sandra pushed her mother off and panted and spoke shakily,
"Mother, understand,. I. Have just fought Dark in the past. saved you. That
battle will be engraved in my memory for the rest of my life." Esla winced
rubbing her now healed left arm, "I remember. I owe you for that. Your
probably just confused," She pointed to the little black haired girl, who
glared back at her with almond shaped eyes, "This is Fui, Dark's daughter."
Esla smiled, "Don't worry, you have been raised together. You were six when
she was born. You wouldn't believe the hassles humans go through with
children. I mean, why can't they just have egg like Pokemon?" That's right,
Sandra thought, Dark is not an Umbreon anymore. "Any way," Esla turned to
Fui and spoke to her in Pokemon language, Fui nodded and ran outside to
play. "Do you have any questions? I know you don't remember this time at
all." Sandra looked concerned, "Mother, what happened to you? You seem worn
out some how." Esla blushed and rubbed a large scar on her cheek. "Yeah,
well, somebody else has figured out this, Pokemon-human transformation
technology and they have been sending "recruits" to, well, sorta destroy
me. They have been at it for about three or four years now. I've been
training well and I have defended myself and my family for this amount of
time, although, ever since that first battle, my left arm has been
considerably weaker." Sandra gaped. "Mother, have you finally surpasses my
power?" Esla nodded, "Yes, but you have helped me many times." Sandra
seemed more relaxed now, "I'm thirsty! I think I'll raid Ben's fridge for
sodas!" Esla laughed as Sandra ran into the kitchen. She froze when she
spotted Tyro quietly drinking a cup of coffee. "Uh. HI?" Sandra said
nervously. Tyro smiled and spoke freely, "So, is this the time of your
return?" He guessed this by her hesitation to open the fridge. This time
seemed so different. Sandra was amazed. "You're talking!!!" Tyro ignored
this and smiled, "Hope you're happy. For Ben has taken our power." Sandra
yelled at Tyro as she stuck her head in the fridge, looking for an orange
soda, "Well, Tyro, I could of let Esla kill you." "What?" Tyro snapped
back. Sandra shrugged (holding her soda) but smiled at the same time, "If I
had let fate run it's course, Esla would have killed you and Dark killed
Esla. Dark wouldn't have lost her power, Fui wouldn't be here, and Dito
would be a fricken lunatic!" Tyro starred of into space soaking all this
in. Sandra snapped her soda open and took a sip. "Be thankful." She walked
out of the kitchen. Sandra walked into the main lab room where Dito, her
father, had walked in. Esla was whispering something in his ear. Sandra
fell so alone. The pain of her mother's death had left the household, and
only Sandra remembered it. Dito looked confused and spoke aloud to Esla, "I
don't ever remember seeing Sandra in those days, she wasn't even hatched!"
Esla spoke coolly, "That's because you're an idiot with a five minute
memory span. I don't know what brought me to marry you." Dito looked mad,
"Esla put a sock in it! I finally PASSED collage didn't I?" Esla smiled
tauntingly, "Yeah, with low Cs and high Fs! I passed with A's and B's" Dito
yelled back "Yeah, You probably cheated by reading other peoples minds!"
After a while they were at each other's throats. Ben came out with some
popcorn and a soda and watched like it was noting new. "Why are you just
WATCHING them fight?" Sandra snapped a Ben. Ben shrugged, "Nothing good on
TV" Suddenly, Esla let of a blast from her shield. Ben smiled
enthusiastically, "oh! They're fighting dirty today." Dito wasn't hurt,
fortunately, but he was angry. Before he could get back at Esla, Sandra ran
in between them trying to stop their fighting. They suddenly ceased their
fight and lost their anger as they watched Sandra stand there. Her arms
were outstretched, Eyes shut tight, and she was shaking in fear. *Ben
sighed in disappointment and walks out* They stood silent for a moment then
Esla spoke, "I'm sorry, Sandra. I take full responsibility for starting
this fight. It's just that Dito and I haven't been getting along very
well..." Ben yelled from the other room *sounds muffled*, "They've been
beating the crap out of each other for the past 13 years!" Esla looked down
at her feet. "It's true. I partly lied. Dito has given me some of my scars.
Why couldn't we be like Dark and Tyro and have a peaceful marriage?" Dito
said, trying to brighten things up, "Look at the bright side, At least you
didn't have to teach me common English!" All three of them laughed until
Tyro yelled at them from the kitchen, "I heard that!" When Sandra stopped
giggling at Dito's remark she asked Esla seriously, "Where is Dark?" Esla
leaned lazily back up against a wall. "Oh, she is always helping Ben out
with finances. She got a job at a Pokemart down the street as a cashier. I
had a job, too, at a burger joint but they fired me when I blew up one of
the customer's car radiators." Esla blushed, "I've been checking the
newspapers for a new job ever since." Dito sighed and spoke, "Yeah.The rent
for this place is ridicules! I think we've paid those people three times
what the place is worth already. I wonder if we can just BUY the place?
I've also got a job delivering newspapers. Tyro where is it you work
again?" Tyro called from the kitchen, "I work at the post office sorting
mail." Dito whispered, "Bet Dark had to teach him to READ English, too."
Sandra and Esla giggled quietly so Tyro wouldn't hear. "Would you people
come off it? You're ruthless!" Tyro heard anyhow. Fui came running inside
giggling. Sandra watched her run by gleefully. Then she saw why. Dark had
come home. She walked in the door and turned and carefully shut it. Sandra
blinked a few times. This wasn't the Dark she remembered. She had thought
of Dark as destructive, smirking figure on a dim forest pathway, tossing
shadow balls every chance she got. As Dark turned, again to face them, she
smiled. *Just an innocent smile* She was thin and weak looking, and the
golden stripes that she had in her hair many years before were gone and her
hair was pure black. Dark called out to her daughter, "Fui. Fui, come over
here you silly child! I got you a present!" Fui came running to her mother
excitedly. "Mom! What'd ya get, mom, what?" Dark handed the child a bag.
Fui tore it open and pulled out a bright pink jump rope. Fui gasped,
"Mother. I love it! Thank you mommy, thank you!" Knowing how Ben was about
playing in the lab, Fui ran outside with her new toy. Dark smiled, "She is
easily amused." Esla stood up and stopped leaning against the wall, "Where
did you get that?" Dark looked up at Esla, "Oh, they were have some
promotional thing at the store. They were handing those out free. I would
have picked one up for Sandra, but I figured she was too old for it."
Sandra remembered that after her mother died, Dark had cared for her with
Ben, but Dark had always seemed to have an attitude problem and off to
herself. Maybe if Dark has her power, it makes her cocky. Dark noticed how
Sandra was eyeing her silently. "What? Did you want one? I can go back."
Sandra shook her head but still starred. Esla spoke, "Dark, she has just
come back from the past in the time machine. She remembers nothing of this
time and she had just finished fighting you." Dark looked at Sandra, again,
"Those were bad times, Sandra, and I've not been able to Shadow Ball for
the past fifteen years, so I can't just start now." She smiled, "I regret
ever trying to kill Esla."This sentence sent a spark through Esla, "So
that's what you were doing! Was there any particular reason why? Did you
just hate me or something, back then?" Dark looked at Esla, no longer
smiling, "I had nothing against you. I was merely just on a job. When I was
a Pokemon I pulled all sorts of massacre jobs of other Pokemon for Team
Rocket. I was the top of my class, Dark197A! A Team Rocket scientist, can't
quite remember his name, told me the jobs headquarters had sent for me to
do. I was known as, Dark Dark, and I was partners with Tyro, who was of
lower class, but I like him all the same." Esla snapped, "Why didn't you
tell us this before? What else haven't you told us?" Dark seemed to wake
from a trance, "Oh, you know the rest. Tyro beating the crap out of Ben's
machine and me stealing the secret plans and taking them to my superiors so
they could take Ben's credit." Dark seemed to count her fingers, "Tyro and
I were order to destroy the evidence. Told us to burn any of Ben's extra
notes on the machine and kill any of his living experiments that were
results of the machine. That you and Dito, Esla. We tried to kill Dito, he
played dead, but we didn't know that and we went after you. I found you
walking home from the store and Boom! You know the rest." Esla gaped.
"Dark, you idiot! I've been getting myself beat up for the past 3 years
because you hadn't told me that! I mean, duh, why are poke/humans that Ben
didn't create attacking us, oh well, guess it has nothing to do with DARK
GIVING AWAY THE SECRET PLANS!!!!! To TEAM ROCKET more or less!" Esla was
very angry at Dark. Dark was scared f Esla when she was anger because she
could no longer defend herself and Esla might take advantage of it. "I'm
sorry Esla! I thought you knew! I thought I had told you already!" She took
a step back. And braced herself for anything Esla might do and trembled a
bit before taking a run for it out the door. "One two buckle my shoe!" Fui
called out as she jumped the rope in the parking lot in front of the lab
building.(Ben has only rented part of the building, It's a big building
with many scientists rent labs. That is why there is a parking lot.) "Five
six" a car pulled up and a man jumped out of the car, ran over and grabbed
Fui and threw her over his shoulder as he dropped a ransom note. Fui let
out a cry but then she slammed him in the back with one of her fists,
fighting Pokemon style. The man dropped her pretty quick and stumbled to
the car. The driver of the car jumped out to give it a try. A golden ring
flickered on Fui's forehead as she brought her hands together and gathered
shadows into a ball and shot it off, just missing the man and blowing a
sapling in the lab garden to splinters. The man starred at her in
disbelief. She smirked and held out her right arm and flipped her palm
upward, and started another shadow ball. Her hair flashed with her mother's
golden rings. The man jumped in the car and drove off as fast as possible.
Fui's shadow ball disappeared, her appearance flashed back to normal and
she fell backward unto the concrete. Dark had just walked out when Fui
fell. She raced over to Fui's side and bent down to her. Fui was crying.
Dark gently propped her head up with her hand. "Fui! Fui! What happened?"
Fui spoke though her hysteric childish tears, "Mommy! Mommy! A man jumped
out of a car and grabbed me! I hit him on the back as hard as I could then
*sniff* I can barely remember, Mommy, it was horrible!" Esla ran out there
and looked around. "I though I felt a dark Pokemon out here! Sorta like a
shadow ball. Dark? Did you." They both slowly looked down at the hysterical
Fui. Dark spoke sweetly to Fui, "Do you remember. getting a big black ball
in your hand and throwing it at the man?" Fui sniffed, "Yes, sorta. But I
missed and hit that tree, and I DON'T KNOW!!!!" She cried some more. Dark
looked up and a tree WAS missing. Dark stuttered, "I-I thought since Tyro
and I were both were p-pure human, that Fui would be a normal little g-
girl." Esla was in agreement. Esla got down on her knees like Dark. "Fui,
honey, If you can do it again for me, I'll give you as many lollipops as
you want." Fui stopped crying at this new offer She jumped to her feet.
"OK! I try!" She closed her eyes for a minute and then raised her hands
together and aimed at another tree. She seemed to concentrate. Then her
hair again flashed the golden rings. A single ring shown on her forehead.
She opened her eyes and began to collect shadow again. Dark was amazed and
watched her in awe. Her child inherited her favorite attack. Fui tried
really hard to keep it stable. Then, she pulled her arm back for leverage
and threw the ball as hard as she could at the tree. The second tree blew
into splinters. Fui fell back, once again, but this time Dark caught her.
Fui spoke weakly, "Esla, *pant* I want *pant* my first lollipop now!" Esla
dug in her pocket and gave Fui a blueberry pop. She licked it gratefully.
Dark looked down at the child. The golden marks in her hair and on her
forehead remained. Dark picked up the ransom note the men earlier dropped:
Dear lady,
Leave 200,000 yen out here on the sidewalk at midnight tomorrow, or you will never see your little girl again!
Dark smiled and handed it to Esla, "I wish I could have seen the looks on their faces." Esla smiled after reading it and nodded. "Esla?" "Yeah?" "Do you think I'll ever be able to do that again?" Esla looked Dark in the eyes, "No, Dark. I think you will be powerless for the rest of your days." Dark seemed depressed, "Oh well. At least I had it at one time" Dark longed to have her power back. She got to her feet and held her hands out in a shadow ball motion. She stood there for a long moment with her hands out stretched. Dark wasn't able to do it. She fell to her knees and sobbed longingly. "Esla *sniff* take Fui inside." Esla did so and left Dark outside alone. Dark stood up and tried to collect shadow multiple times. But no matter how hard she tried, it was to no avail. "Damn it!" Dark whispered to herself, " I-I don't understand why I'm still being punished for something I did fifteen years ago!!! WHY?" She took a deep breath of the twilight air. "Sandra, This is all YOUR fault! You should have just let Tyro and I do our job! I probably couldn't kill Sandra even if I did have my power back. Why am I thinking of murdering a child?" She continued to talk to herself for a while, before coming inside. Fui was sucking the life out of that lollipop. Dark forced a smile watching her nine-year-old. Crunch! "Esla! I want another!" Esla smiled sweetly and pulled out a raspberry sucker. The golden rings in Fui's hair remained just as the one on her forehead. Sandra walked in the main lab room from the sleeping quarters. "Mom," She looked astonished, "You didn't tell me Ben sold the bunks!" Esla quickly looked up from Fui to Sandra, "He what?!" She went running to the quarters. Dark just sorta giggled to herself, "That Ben, He probably just wanted to buy a micro chip or something." Fui looked up at her mother, "Mommy, What do you call the big black ball I can make with my hands?" Dark couldn't smile anymore, "Fui it's called a shadow ball. The power Sandra had taken from me." Fui looked confused. "Why did Sandra take it? Did she want it? I think she was trying to take mine too cause she looked at me funny and threw a ball of glowing light at me today, but Esla saved me!" Dark looked concerned, "Sandra what?!" Fui chirped out, "I told you mommy! A ball of shiny light stuff!" Just about this time Sandra and Esla come out of the sleeping quarters room. Esla yelled, "Ben, Ben? What do you expect us to sleep on? The floor?" Sandra walked up to Dark, who was looking down. "Dark, You won't believe." Before she could finish, Dark looked up at her with pure hatred in her eyes. *Esla walks around, looking for Ben.* Sandra froze. Dark reached out and smacked her across the face as hard as she could. Sandra put a hand to her cheek. She yelled out, "Dark? What was that for?" Dark took Fui's hand "Everything." Dark whispered through her teeth, eyes narrowing. She stormed off, pulling her little girl along beside her. Esla had stopped and was starring at her. "Dark? What's been wrong with you today?" Dark shot Esla a lethal glance. She fell silent. Dark threw open the door to the sleeping quarters. Esla and Sandra were right! Only sheets and mattresses remained on the floor. Tyro sat quietly where his bed used to be. He looked up at the sudden noise. "Dark, I think we will be sleeping on the floor tonight. Like the old days, remember?" Dark calmed and became happy to find her companion. She sat down next to him and smiled. "Yes, Tyro, when we were Pokemon we DID have to sleep on the floor." Fui came and sat on the floor with her parents. "Mommy, you was a Pokemon before? Daddy, too? What was it like?" Dark was looking down so her eyes were hidden in shadow. "Fui, you're too young to understand. I'll tell you when you're older." Fui looked up longingly ".But, but I wanna know now." Dark changed the subject, "Do your friends at school have any Pokemon?" Fui grinned childishly, "Yeah, lots of em! Joe has a Bellsprout, Rachel has a Caterpie," Fui's eyes got all shiny, "But the best of all is Kikan! She has a. Umbreon! Gee, I wish I had one!" Dark, who had been smiling and nodding her head the whole time Fui had been talking, went pale. "Fui? An Umbreon?! Set it free, set the poor lost soul free!" Fui looked confused, "Why, mommy, everyone wants it!" Dark looked as if she had given in to some force, "Ok, I give up. I can't explain this very well, but you are part Umbeon." Fui's eyes shown with delight, "I am? Oh, Wait till Kikan hears this!" Dark looked serious, "No, Fui, You mustn't tell anyone for you can still be caught in a Pokeball." Fui looked frightened, "I-I can?" Dark nodded. Fui fell silent. Being the time they go to bed, Esla and Sandra crept in to find Dark and Tyro quietly talking leaning on one another and Fui fast asleep on her mattress covered with her own and Dark's blankets. Dark looked up and pointed a finger at the sleeping Fui as to signal for them to quietly come in. The door creaked and Fui stirred a bit in her sleep. Esla and Sandra quietly tip toed to their sleeping places on the floor, about this time Dito comes clunking up. Esla looks up at Dito and delicately puts a finger to her lips. Esla picked up her and Dito's sleepwear that was crudely folded on the mattresses. She quietly tiptoed over to Dito and shoved his into his arms with an angry force, but she seemed to look in another direction. She was ignoring Dito. Seeing Fui Dito whispered to Esla, "What did I do?" Esla whispered though her teeth, "Take off your fricken shoes before I blow something up and blame it on you.." Esla stormed into their dressing room. (A door in the bunk room.) Dito looked down at his feet. He slowly slipped each sneaker off. Sandra froze, "Dad, Is mom always like that?" Dark answered for him in a whisper, "Yes." Sandra seemed confused, "She didn't act this way when I met her in the past." Dark whispered in a violent tone, "I think all that power is going to her head!" Dito is still looking at his feet *eyes are not visible* "I love your mother, Sandra. I really do, but does she love me?" They seemed quiet for a moment. Sandra smiled *evilly*, "I have an idea that just might put her back in an old attitude." Sandra looked up at all the starring faces, "Ok, people, quickly, here's the plan." Esla walked out of the dressing room in her sleepwear. She noticed Fui was awake and sitting up. She rubbed her eyes in sleepiness. Dito leaned inside the doorframe to the main lab room and Tyro sat quietly on the floor. Dark sat in the dim corner of the room, her elbows resting on her knees, eyes shrouded in shadows. She wasn't wearing her normal dress, but the outfit she had worn fifteen years ago. She had a typical smirk on her face. "Dark, what are you trying to pull? I told you your powers won't comeback, why hope for it?" A single section of hair came into light. It had a shimmering golden ring around it. Esla eyes became wide, "What the., Dark, what happened?!" Dark looked up with her merciless maroon eyes and sneered evilly. Esla took a step back. Dark slowly stood and held her arms foreword in a shadow ball position. A large ball of shadow appeared in her hands and very rapidly grew in size. Esla put her hand up in front of her face in a blocking position. Dark threw the shadow ball. Esla put her psychic shield up but the shadow ball sliced through it like a hot knife through butter. Esla was hurled backward and she hit the door to the dressing room and slid down. She spotted Dito watching her from the door. "Dito, help me!" She cried out. Dito just smiled, "Why should I?" Esla quickly looked around, "Where's Sandra? Get Sandra!" Dark looked down at Esla on the floor, eyes narrowing as she focused on her. Fui looked around at the scene at hand. She was confused but stayed quiet. Dark looked more hardy and powerful than before, she looked as if her power had breathed new life into her. Esla put up her arms to block her face, and spoke from behind, "Stop it, Dark! What about our truce? To treat each other with respect and to treat each other's children like their own?" Dark stood tall and spoke strongly, "Esla, you have shown me no respect. Ever since I lost my powers, you have treated me with less and less respect. Now I have them back and I could make you bow at my feet if I wanted! Coward!," She leaned forward and lifted Esla off the floor by the front of her shirt against the door. She leaned in so her face was inches from Esla's "Explain yourself." Esla seemed frightened, "Well. Um... Dark, Ah.Oh boy." Dito turned the lights on and Dark lost her eerie effect. Dark dropped Esla and stepped back. Dark smiled and her features began to melt away into pink goo like liquid and then reformed again. The pink stuff pulled back revealing a totally different set of clothes. Sandra looked at Esla face still stuck in a sneer. Dito began to clap. "We out to get Sandra into acting!" Sandra walked over to Fui's bed and pulled back the covers. The real Dark was curled up in a ball under the sheets by Fui's feet. Esla's jaw dropped. Sandra now spoke as herself in the light of the room. "So, mom, let's hear it." Esla began to chew on one of her nails. Tyro's silent gaze set on Esla. Dark stood up, straightened her dress out, and whispered with Dito, being the closest person. "Dito, Did she look anything like me?" Dito nodded in awe and whispered back. "She's good. Really good." Dark smiled and covered Fui again. "Have-ve I really been that bad to you Dark, Dito?" Both nodded solemnly. Esla began to chew another nail. "I can try to be less of a jerk." Esla was look at Sandra with a questioning look, Sandra smiled, "Wanna know where I learned to do a shadow ball like that? Well?" Esla nodded. "Dark taught me." This caught Dark's attention, "No I didn't." Sandra smiled, "Remember, from my time when mother and Tyro were dead, Dark, here kept her powers. She had to be the biggest jerk that ever lived when she had her powers in that time but she was nice enough to teach me a trick or to in my, let's see, Isn't this my ninth year of training. I have practiced all of your identities in front of a mirror countless times, excluding Esla and Tyro, I wasn't quite sure what you were like then because you were both dead." Esla stopped chewing her fingernail and starred completely frozen. "Dark impersonations just happen to be my specialty." Dark blushed. Sandra melted away once again and took the form of Ben, the crazy scientist. He looked up with worry on his face, "Heh heh, Sorry I sold the beds. I needed a new part for the transmorphing machine and as you know, those parts are expensive!" He smiled, reluctantly *with droplet of sweat* slowly frowns and looks frightened. Whispers, "Oh, boy." *gulp* Esla, Dark and Dito went into a frenzy of laughter. Tyro didn't get it. *Ben yells from another room, sounds muffled* "You people better not be laughing at me!" Sandra melted away again only back into herself. She looked proud of herself. She turned around and saw Fui sitting up in her "bed". She was starring at Sandra with a frightened look for she had just seen Sandra as her mother. While in that state, Sandra had used shadow ball on Esla and Fui had just seen the damage it can do. Fui grasped her covers tightly and was almost brought to tears with fear. Sandra frowned and stepped silently to Fui's bed. Fui leaned back as if she were afraid of Sandra. Sandra knelt down beside her bed, "Fui, it wasn't real. I mean, It's just a transfor. a change. I just pretend to be someone else. That's just what your mother used to do along time ago, before you were born, she's not mean anymore." Fui didn't seem to understand, "You were pretending? H-how did you make the shadowwe balle if you were just pretending?" Sandra smiled, "Fui, It's time you knew." Sandra stood up and took a step back from Fui, "You are a dark fighting Pokemon, but you are in a human form because of Ben's experiments on you're parents. You mom and dad went the first for this, my parents, too are Pokemon." Fui's eyes got huge and sparkly, "ooh, you mean Esla and Dito are Pokemon too? That explains you light ball and pink stuff! What of Pokemon are they kind?" Sandra smiled at her amusement, "Espeon and Ditto. Your parents are a Umbreon and a Tyrogue. Do you want to know what they were like when they were Pokemon?" Fui grinned and nodded. Sandra sighed, "Ok. I'll try. No guarantees though." Sandra turned around and began to talk with Esla, "Mom, I want to demonstrate some attacks. I won't make them as strong as they should be. Can you put up your shield when I signal and absorb the Shadow balls and things?" Esla nodded reluctantly. Sandra smiled at Fui as she melted away into the pink goo. She began to take shape again. A strong and silent Tyro appeared out of the pink liquid. The real Tyro blushed but watched Sandra for her accuracy. Sandra, who now stood as Tyro, seemed to concentrate on what she/he was doing. *I now refer to Sandra as "Tyro" and "he"* He turned toward Esla and silently nodded, Esla nodded back. Tyro put his hand up in a martial pose. He jumped remarkable high *just below the ceiling* in a spinning/ flying kick known as "hi jump kick". He very gracefully came falling in on Esla. Esla's eyes got a distant look and she put all her strength into her shield, blowing Tyro off. Tyro flew back and collided with the wall. He rubbed his head and very awkwardly began to speak perfect English, "Mom! What did you do that for? It's just a display! I'm not really gonna hurt you!" Esla seemed to snap back to reality when Tyro began to speak. "What? Oh, sorry, Sandra. I too will always remember that fight." "Tyro" quietly smiled. "Too bad that's the only attack I remember of Tyro." Fui looked disappointed. Sandra melted yet again. The real Tyro, who had been watching, wiped his eyes of tears awkwardly and forced a smile. Out of the pink Dark appeared smirking. *Sandra will now be referred to as "Dark"* Fui looked scared again. Dark fixed her maroon eyes on Esla. Then she began her dramatic act. She dropped the smirk and gritted her teeth in anger, "You dare make fools of Tyro and me?" Dark yelled very angrily, "Just for that we'll smash that precious egg of yours once we're done with you!" Esla seemed a little more aware now and didn't drift into battle as she had done with Tyro. Esla smiled, this was the part where Tyro was to make her fall and break her arm. She held out her arm, hand palm up. The shadow ball was real unlike this scenario. Sandra thought in her head, Why don't I give mother a little surprise? Dark's shadow ball double the size it was suppose to be. Tripled, quadrupled. Esla didn't know what to do. Dark threw it at Esla with a force Dark had never possessed. Although the shadow ball was large, it was basically hollow and dissipated at Esla's shield. Dark smirked, "Ready for the real thing?" She began to power another. "Sandra! Stop!" Esla yelled. Sandra stopped obediently. And formed back into herself. She jerkily smiled and then her whole body seemed to give out and she hit Dito's mattress behind her when she fell. Dito and Esla ran to her side. Tyro and Dark looked at each other both teary-eyed. Fui jumped out of bed and ran to Sandra's side as well. Sandra seemed to twitch all over and she starred off vacantly. She was unconscious. Esla flinched with the memory. When Sandra had tried to teleport all four of them to Ben's lab, she had appeared this way when she arrived. Maybe is she tries to use too much power at one time, she will knock herself out. Esla tried to lift her to her bed but couldn't. "Tyro, can you give me a hand?" Tyro wiped he's eyes again and put his meaningless expression back on. He nodded and helped Esla. Even after he had lost his powers, he was the strongest one there. Together, they lifted Sandra easily and set her in her own bed. When Sandra awoke, it was late afternoon and she could smell dinner cooking. Sandra sat up. Her body seemed to ache all over and she felt weak. She slowly crawled out of bed. Somebody had dressed here in her sleepwear. She quickly got dressed and trudged into the lab room. Esla was again scanning the paper for ads. Everyone else was at work. Esla heard her come in and looked up. She quickly walked over to Sandra and put her hand on her forehead, felt her own and looked satisfied. "Sandra do you realize that you have been out for three days straight with a fever and chills. It was horrible! You were breathing funny and shivering." Esla hugged her daughter grateful she was well. Dito came in the door wearing his paper boy satchel. He dropped it when he saw Sandra up. "Esla, have you told her yet?" Esla turned to Dito who was a few feet away in the doorway. "No, Dito, I haven't, want honors?" She said solemnly. Sandra looked confused, "What? Me knocking out? I know! I was still over worked and weak from the battle with Dark and Tyro in the past and I was dumb and pushed myself more. Used to happen to me all the time when I would train with Dark when I was younger." Esla and Dito looked at each other and then Esla turned and looked at Sandra, "No, Sandra. That's not it. You going to hate me for the rest of your life but it was for your own good." Sandra's eyes narrowed, "What did you do?" Esla spoke solemnly, "Sandra, you are now powerless like Dark and Tyro." Sandra frantically felt her forehead and sure enough, her Espeon gem was gone. "No! Th-This can't happen to me. What will I do?" She looked around the room frantically, "Ben! Ben!" Esla seemed sad, "Sandra, We asked Ben to do it for us, he's not about to give them back to you. We, your father and I, had your powers taken because we thought it was dangerous to your heath. I mean At one point you were on life support." Sandra was furious but she kept the anger bottled up inside her, she spoke to Esla with her back turned, "I would rather die than have to give up my only talent and protection. You and father had given me those lavishing gifts of psychic power and transforming, but then you take the away as I slept. I don't understand." Her voice didn't tremble until the final words. She then turned around angrily. "Why don't you go take Fui's too, huh? She is of my generation too! I was one part Espeon, one part Ditto, and two parts human! I was bound to have weakness like Fui will when she discovers her true power!" Upon those final words she broke out crying. Dito watched her, he reached out to put his hand on her shoulder, but Esla gently grabbed his wrist and shook her head. "Kill me somebody! I can't live this way!" Sandra wailed out through her tears. Fui could hear this going on and watched quietly from the hall. Were these powers really that important to Sandra? Fui thought to herself, Maybe if I don't use mine, my parents won't take mine away, make them think that I lost them on my own. Fui nodded to herself. Yes, and I'll try to train myself without anyone knowing, I don't want to end up powerless. Fui tip toed into Ben's sleeping quarters and searched through the books on Ben's desk. She took one out titled, "Pokedex, field guide on attacks". She nodded and sneaked out of the room book in hand. She sat down on her mattress and looked up "shadowwe balle" but could only find "Shadow Ball" but figured she was spelling it wrong. She was glad her teachers had taught her how to read, but Fui seemed to be a slow learner. Esla had been trying to teach her Pokemon language for some time now and Fui still didn't get it all. Fui read the description of shadow ball and it matched what she had done to the tree. Fui wondered what else she could do. She looked in the front of the book where they showed Pokemon and their attacks. Was it Tyrogue Sandra said Fui's father was? "Hi jump kick" sounded something like what Sandra performed for Fui. Fui grabbed the book and went into one of the labs training rooms. She decided to attempt it. "Yah!" She yelled childishly as she jumped. It WAS a hi jump kick, but not as graceful and it wasn't spinning. Fui was performing these attacks on the worn, marked up walls of the training room. Fui performed this attack until she was worn out, bruised, and on the floor. She still wasn't satisfied with it because she felt it wasn't even as good as Sandra's and Sandra wasn't even of fighting Pokemon descent. Fui could not jump as high nor could she get the graceful spin worked into it. Fui wasn't about to give up for she wanted to be a good fighter like her parents were. like Sandra was. like all three of the fallen stars. Fui pulled herself to her feet with a lot of effort she stood tall and firm. She decided then and there that she would be a silent fighter, like her father, but still talk when she was not in battle. This time she was determined to get it right, "Huh ya!" she yelled as she jumped. Esla opened the door to the training room right about then, looking for Fui. Fui went in a perfect, graceful spinning kick, her smaller body was hurled toward the wall. She kicked gracefully off the wall and landed plum on her feet on the floor. She was satisfied with herself. Dripping with sweat, she walked back to the book to look up another attack. Esla stood there, mouth open. The little nine-year- old had just done a PERFECT flying/spinning kick! Fui nodded as she read from the book then she stood up and faced the wall again. Her hair seemed to lift with some kind of force and the rings in her hair shown golden. Esla felt a chill go up her spine. Esla decided to be quiet and just watch Fui attack. Fui made a small shadow ball before the uncontrollable trembling set in. Fui let out a burst of energy into the shadow ball. She held onto the ball as long as she could, without falling down and she threw it at the wall. The final size of the ball was just a few inches across and it didn't do much damage to the wall. Fui stood and starred at the wall with disapproval. She fell to one knee holding one bruised leg in her hands and gritted her teeth. She was still unaware of Esla watching. Fui forced herself to stand again and pulled her hands into shadow ball position, determined to get it right. Esla watched the little girl torture herself for about fifteen minutes. Finally, on her seventh shadow ball, Fui collapsed for the final time bruised, tired, and crying. She attempted to get up again, but couldn't. Esla walked into the room right next to Fui, who starred up teary eyed. Her right leg was bruised pretty bad from falling and hurling herself at the wall in hi jump kicks and she held it tightly to her body as she sat there, looking up. Esla knelt down and said, "Fui let me help you to bed." Fui closed her eyes tight and yelled, "NNNNOOOO!!!!" And with that an enormous blast of dark power emitted from Fui knocking Esla backward a few feet. Fui somehow found the energy to get up. She yelled out to Esla in words that Esla never imagined coming out of her mouth, "Esla! I will avenge my parents and Sandra's power loss no matter how many lollipops you give me!" Her image flicked with her radiating pure darkness. Esla, who was on the ground, backed up a bit in fear of this child. Fui takes a deep, troubled breath, she looked feint but determined. She jumped in a flying/spinning kick toward Esla. Esla was confused and did what her instincts told her to do. She blew Fui off with her shield. Fui went flying backward and hit the wall she had be firing at and slid down. Her eyes seemed to roll back in her head. Esla got up and walked over, a few feet in front of Fui. She looked dead as she lay there against the wall. It brought tears to Esla's eyes as she thought she had killed Dark's only child. She ran out of the room to get Ben. "Ben! Ben!" She yelled through her tears. She notice Dark come in the front door and take off her name tag that said, Hello, my name is Dark Baruki. She froze, this was the time Fui usually ran up and welcomed her home but no one came. Dark seemed alarmed, Fui NEVER forgot to greet he mother when she came home. Esla swallowed hard, "Dark. I've j-just done a horrible thing." Dark looked frantic, "Fui?!" Esla nodded, "Follow me!" Esla ran to the training room, Dark close behind her. When Dark entered the training room she looked around slowly taking everything in. Then she saw her beloved Fui, propped up against the wall in a very lifeless pose. Dark ran to Fui's side in uncontrollable hysterics, "Fui! Fui, what happened?! Speak to me Fui! Wake up! Open your eye! Show me you're alive!" Fui didn't make the slightest twitch. Suddenly Dark stopped and slowly turned to face Esla, eyes wet from tears, "What have you done?" Esla swallowed hard again and spoke nervously under Dark's gaze of fury, "She attacked me when I walked in so I blew her off with my shield and..." Esla stopped talking. Dark gently pulled Fui down to the floor so she lay flat and she stroked her hair and began to cry again. "Dark, I'm sorry." Esla said. She felt really guilty having killed Dark's only child. Dark's eyes became lost in the shadows of her bangs. "Sorry?" Dark said without emotion, "Your just sorry? You have just destroyed the life of a nine year old child and you're SORRY!" Dark quickly got to her feet and faced Esla in a fit of fury, "Esla! Sorry won't bring my nine-year-old child to life again. Sorry won't give your OWN daughter, Sandra, her psychic power back nor will it out of trouble! I swear Esla! I don't know what has gotten into you lately but it's gone far enough." Dark's hair blew into the air with a spark of her old power coming back. The golden rings flashed into her hair and onto her forehead. She gracefully pulled her hands together in a shadow ball and the dark power began flashing in her hands. Slowly, the power was coming back to her. It took the shape of a ball, but still flashing. Esla started to turn to run. But Dark yelled out, "You won't evade this one! Coward!" Esla turned around and yelled, "Coward am I!?" She pulled a psybeam. Dark had a shadow ball and Esla a psybeam, both were going head to head like the fight that took place fifteen years ago. *Esla had left the door open and Dito was walking down the hall* "Esla, Esla! Did you find Fui? OhMyGawd!" He stopped right in front of the training room door. Neither Esla nor Dark paid any attention to him. Esla yelled out to Dark over the sound of attack, "Dark, if you would just LISTEN to me! She mostly did it to herself!" Dark yelled out too, "Liar! You are trying to wipe out all powers! Let me guess Esla! Dito is next!" Dark doubled the ball's size. Esla seemed offended, "The child attacked me! A hi jump kick, Dark, a kick! I was only defending myself!" Dark yelled back in fury, "Well, oops, Esla! Ya killed her! Now you must pay a price!" Dito stood wide-eyed. "F-Fui is dead?" He whispered to himself. He ran out of the hallway and out the lab room door. He stood in the lab parking lot. "Post office is... Uh. that way, yes!" He mumbled to himself nervously. He grabbed his worn down bike that was hooked up to the bike rack (Esla gave it to him for Christmas in an earlier year.) and he took of peddling down the road. Meanwhile, Esla shot off her psybeam and Dark threw her shadow ball. The two attacks met in mid-air, seemed to go right through each other, and both hit their assigned targets. Dark, with virtually zero psychic defense because her full power had not come back, was blown backward. Esla was a psychic and weak to dark and was also blown backward. Dark scrambled to her feet quickly. Esla kind twitched a bit before opening her eyes and slowly getting up. Dito parks his bike in front of the post office in the bike racks and runs in. He walks up to the front counter and speaks with the clerk, "I- *pant, pant* would like to talk to a employee here *pant* family emergency." The clerk looked nervous, "Who?" Dito caught his breath, "Tyro Baruki, tell him Dito Metamon is here to see him." The clerk ran into the back, and a minute or two later Tyro came out looking alarmed. "Tyro, F-Fui is dead. I don't know yet how or why. Please come with me and hurry." Tyro looked as if somebody struck him. He starred off into space for a few seconds, shook his head as if to wake up and yelled to his manager as he pulled on his coat, "Sorry, sir, family emergency! I have to go early!" Esla's eyes narrowed, "You. Don't know when to listen, Dark. I don't think we're meant to stay under the same roof. I'm moving myself and my family out of here as soon as possible." Dark sneered, "Why? Just so you can privately fight with Dito. Don't you realize that Dito and Sandra both probably hate you?" Dark shrugged and smiled coolly, "Let's see. I dislike you and Tyro is an obvious neutral in this little bicker. Where is a psychic Pokemon to go?" Esla clenched her fists, "Dark. you're asking for it." Dark took a confident step forward, "What is it I'm asking for now?" The golden rings in her hair sparkled when she moved. Tyro and Dito burst in. Tyro noticed Fui on the floor and jogged over to her and got to his knees. He looked at her small limp body on the floor and then he looked up at Esla. His usually emotionless eye burned with hatred. "What have you done?" He whispered. All fell silent. Then Dark sneered at Esla's surprised and nervous look and spoke out in her old, cocky tone, "She killed her." Tyro seemed confused and furious at the same time, "Why, Esla?" Dito leaned in the doorway, "Yes, I would like to know, too." Dark's eyes narrowed as she broke into an evil smirk, "Tell them the silly thing you told me." All eyes were on Esla. She began to cry, "I dunno. I just came looking for her. *sobs, sniffs* And she was in here practicing attacks and beating the tar out of herself. I just watched *sniff* and when she was unable to stand I walked in and offered to carry her to bed. *sniff* She refused and blew me away with her d-dark power." Dark interrupted, "So you decided to kill her because of this?" Esla yelled out over her tears, "NO! lemme finish, so I'm over there on the floor, right?" Esla made a gesture with her finger, " And she comes at me in a spinning kick! I'll tell you that that it wasn't a little third grader kick, no... Tyro came at me like that when he made me fall and break my arm." Dark wasn't really listening to Esla's babbled excuses. She was looking at poor Fui on the floor. Tyro yelled out to Esla, which quieted her, Tyro NEVER yells, "Esla we all know you were mobile enough to dodge a kick from a nine year old CHILD! Or better yet, Esla, If you survived a kick from me, you could survive one from Fui! You should have just let her kick you. Or you could have caught her without hurting her or yourself... Esla? Do you think on the battle field or does Sandra think for you?" They heard Sandra's voice from the doorway, "Did I just hear my name? What kind of gossip are you spreading?" She smirked weakly. Her hand at waist level melted pink and dripped, then it pulled back to the original shape of her hand. Esla gasped and ran over to Sandra, "I thought Ben took your powers from you." Sandra smiled, "He gave them back under a new hypothesis of mine. It's a long story but now I have full Pokemon power capabilities and my level limit has been
lifted about fifty levels. To give you an idea, the power I used back in the past.... Seemed limitless to you, I know. My power level since then has doubled and I don't get power sickness anymore..." Dito whispered to Tyro, "Yup, Sandra probably thinks for her." Esla turned quickly, "Dito, you jerk *sigh*.." She couldn't be angry at anyone after what she had just done to Fui. The whole time this is going on, Dark is looking at Fui. She had a flashback. Her vision was blurred, she was exhausted, and was sticky with
sweat covered with a light sheet. She panted as someone spoke softly to her, she could tell to whom the voice belonged, Esla or Sandra. "Dark...you'll be ok... It's all over... Ben says it's a little girl... Dark, you ok? You're kinda twitching... Ben is cleaning the baby up, she'll be her in a bit..."
She felt too tired to move more or less speak, so she remained silent. Someone placed a warm bundle in her arms. She struggled to see her accomplishment. Blurily, she saw a little face looking up at her. The
baby's rosy cheeks matched the blanket she was wrapped in. Dark smiled weakly. The baby had her midnight black hair, but Tyro's deep black emotionless eyes. Dark spoke shakily, "I shall call you Fui..." Her eyelids began to fall, to heavy to hold. Dark snapped back to reality and found herself crying. The nine year old coughed and sputtered, gasping for air. Dark ran to her daugter's side, "Fui! Fui! Your alive!" Esla breathed a sigh of relif. Tyro seemed relived as well. The child tried to get to her feet. Dark gently pushed her back down, "Fui, just lie still, I'm gonna get Ben.." Dark ran out of the room. Fui yelled out, "Esla, I swear, I'm going to kill you for what you've done! You took My parents powers and Sandra's powers
were the last straw!" Sandra walked over to the furious Fui and knelt next to her, "No Fui... It's sweet, but don't fight for me, it was my own battle. Instead of letting my anger get to me, I came at the problem in an
inteletual way. I sweet talked Ben." She grinned as her Espeon-like gem sparkled. Fui smiled back and then gritted her teeth, "Sandra, I think I hurt myself bad..." " I'm sure Ben and I can fix you up." Sandra slid her
arms under her and lifted her up. Fui yelled out in pain. "Hope you didn't break any thing, little girl. ^_^()" Sandra said as she carried her out of the training room, Tyro following her. Ben and Dark met them in the hallway. Fui was tired and let her body hang limp in Sandra's arms. Ben stopped in front of Sandra, "Why are you people always beating the crud out of each other?" He put an arm behind his head. "You know I can't be doing this forever, I plan to kick you guys out soon, sell the lab, and show my machinery break through to the world. Sometimes I don't think you all will last long enough to be experiment examples at my grand appearance in Science Hall." Sandra kinda blushed and smiled. "We drive each other crazy, that's
all. Mother has suggested we go our separate ways, but I don't believe that is financially possible at this time of crisis... I don't want to leave... Fui." Sandra looked down at the child in her arms and then she passed her over to Dark, who took her off Sandra's hands. Sandra looked at her feet. "I-I feel like we're relatives, Fui and I." Sandra looked hopefully at Esla after Dark and Ben had left with Fui, "Mother? Do you remember having any sisters or brothers?" Esla shook her head," I don't remember being an Eevee. Like my life started right after my evaluation. Sometimes, though, I'll get memory flashes.. But Sandra, I don't remember anything like that..." Esla felt bad she couldn't answer her question. Sandra eyes
narrowed, "Eevees are rare Pokemon and are usually distributed one or two litters at a time... Could you... be Dark's sister?" Esla seemed to think, "I never thought of that. No way to know though, Dark has no memory of being an eevee either..." Sandra smiled thoughtfully, "Mother, do you mind if I borrow..." She pulled a single hair from Esla's ponytail and ran yelling behind her, "Thanks, mom!" Esla rubbed the back of her head and spoke to Dito next to her, "She could have warned me." Sandra stopped running when
she got into the lab. They had Fui lying down on a table and Ben was examining her bruises and cuts. Dark and Tyro were watching. Sandra came up to Ben and tried to turn her back to Dark and Tyro. "Ben, In my time where I have recently come from, I have been able to test a certain hypothesis on the abilities of you magnificent technology." She smiled, "I had spent most of my time either training with Dark or working in the lab with you, when I wasn't doing either, I was sleeping." She turned to the machine with her back still to Dark and Tyro, "I have come up with some interesting findings. If the machine can form Pokemon into humans, it can form injured humans into perfect humans, healing the injury. Also, I have learned, with Ben's help, that you can intertwine pieces someone else's DNA with yours. And a way to prevent further injury, is to intertwine a piece of my fathers DNA with yours. You cannot transform as an attack, but you are able to heal your own wounds." Sandra turned to Fui, she could help but face her parents this time, "I have discovered some more use for the machine on myself, but Fui, being of my generation type, would help her out, too. It doubled my power range and destroyed all possible chance of what I call, "power sickness." She cautiously looked up at Fui's parents, "Do you want to give it a try?" Dark and Tyro just starred at her. Tyro, who could barely understand basic English was thoughrally confused. Dark seemed to understand somewhat.
This is where my comp died and I lost some comic plot. I have to retype it. It could be awhile, but stay tuned. ^^()
Dear lady,
Leave 200,000 yen out here on the sidewalk at midnight tomorrow, or you will never see your little girl again!
Dark smiled and handed it to Esla, "I wish I could have seen the looks on their faces." Esla smiled after reading it and nodded. "Esla?" "Yeah?" "Do you think I'll ever be able to do that again?" Esla looked Dark in the eyes, "No, Dark. I think you will be powerless for the rest of your days." Dark seemed depressed, "Oh well. At least I had it at one time" Dark longed to have her power back. She got to her feet and held her hands out in a shadow ball motion. She stood there for a long moment with her hands out stretched. Dark wasn't able to do it. She fell to her knees and sobbed longingly. "Esla *sniff* take Fui inside." Esla did so and left Dark outside alone. Dark stood up and tried to collect shadow multiple times. But no matter how hard she tried, it was to no avail. "Damn it!" Dark whispered to herself, " I-I don't understand why I'm still being punished for something I did fifteen years ago!!! WHY?" She took a deep breath of the twilight air. "Sandra, This is all YOUR fault! You should have just let Tyro and I do our job! I probably couldn't kill Sandra even if I did have my power back. Why am I thinking of murdering a child?" She continued to talk to herself for a while, before coming inside. Fui was sucking the life out of that lollipop. Dark forced a smile watching her nine-year-old. Crunch! "Esla! I want another!" Esla smiled sweetly and pulled out a raspberry sucker. The golden rings in Fui's hair remained just as the one on her forehead. Sandra walked in the main lab room from the sleeping quarters. "Mom," She looked astonished, "You didn't tell me Ben sold the bunks!" Esla quickly looked up from Fui to Sandra, "He what?!" She went running to the quarters. Dark just sorta giggled to herself, "That Ben, He probably just wanted to buy a micro chip or something." Fui looked up at her mother, "Mommy, What do you call the big black ball I can make with my hands?" Dark couldn't smile anymore, "Fui it's called a shadow ball. The power Sandra had taken from me." Fui looked confused. "Why did Sandra take it? Did she want it? I think she was trying to take mine too cause she looked at me funny and threw a ball of glowing light at me today, but Esla saved me!" Dark looked concerned, "Sandra what?!" Fui chirped out, "I told you mommy! A ball of shiny light stuff!" Just about this time Sandra and Esla come out of the sleeping quarters room. Esla yelled, "Ben, Ben? What do you expect us to sleep on? The floor?" Sandra walked up to Dark, who was looking down. "Dark, You won't believe." Before she could finish, Dark looked up at her with pure hatred in her eyes. *Esla walks around, looking for Ben.* Sandra froze. Dark reached out and smacked her across the face as hard as she could. Sandra put a hand to her cheek. She yelled out, "Dark? What was that for?" Dark took Fui's hand "Everything." Dark whispered through her teeth, eyes narrowing. She stormed off, pulling her little girl along beside her. Esla had stopped and was starring at her. "Dark? What's been wrong with you today?" Dark shot Esla a lethal glance. She fell silent. Dark threw open the door to the sleeping quarters. Esla and Sandra were right! Only sheets and mattresses remained on the floor. Tyro sat quietly where his bed used to be. He looked up at the sudden noise. "Dark, I think we will be sleeping on the floor tonight. Like the old days, remember?" Dark calmed and became happy to find her companion. She sat down next to him and smiled. "Yes, Tyro, when we were Pokemon we DID have to sleep on the floor." Fui came and sat on the floor with her parents. "Mommy, you was a Pokemon before? Daddy, too? What was it like?" Dark was looking down so her eyes were hidden in shadow. "Fui, you're too young to understand. I'll tell you when you're older." Fui looked up longingly ".But, but I wanna know now." Dark changed the subject, "Do your friends at school have any Pokemon?" Fui grinned childishly, "Yeah, lots of em! Joe has a Bellsprout, Rachel has a Caterpie," Fui's eyes got all shiny, "But the best of all is Kikan! She has a. Umbreon! Gee, I wish I had one!" Dark, who had been smiling and nodding her head the whole time Fui had been talking, went pale. "Fui? An Umbreon?! Set it free, set the poor lost soul free!" Fui looked confused, "Why, mommy, everyone wants it!" Dark looked as if she had given in to some force, "Ok, I give up. I can't explain this very well, but you are part Umbeon." Fui's eyes shown with delight, "I am? Oh, Wait till Kikan hears this!" Dark looked serious, "No, Fui, You mustn't tell anyone for you can still be caught in a Pokeball." Fui looked frightened, "I-I can?" Dark nodded. Fui fell silent. Being the time they go to bed, Esla and Sandra crept in to find Dark and Tyro quietly talking leaning on one another and Fui fast asleep on her mattress covered with her own and Dark's blankets. Dark looked up and pointed a finger at the sleeping Fui as to signal for them to quietly come in. The door creaked and Fui stirred a bit in her sleep. Esla and Sandra quietly tip toed to their sleeping places on the floor, about this time Dito comes clunking up. Esla looks up at Dito and delicately puts a finger to her lips. Esla picked up her and Dito's sleepwear that was crudely folded on the mattresses. She quietly tiptoed over to Dito and shoved his into his arms with an angry force, but she seemed to look in another direction. She was ignoring Dito. Seeing Fui Dito whispered to Esla, "What did I do?" Esla whispered though her teeth, "Take off your fricken shoes before I blow something up and blame it on you.." Esla stormed into their dressing room. (A door in the bunk room.) Dito looked down at his feet. He slowly slipped each sneaker off. Sandra froze, "Dad, Is mom always like that?" Dark answered for him in a whisper, "Yes." Sandra seemed confused, "She didn't act this way when I met her in the past." Dark whispered in a violent tone, "I think all that power is going to her head!" Dito is still looking at his feet *eyes are not visible* "I love your mother, Sandra. I really do, but does she love me?" They seemed quiet for a moment. Sandra smiled *evilly*, "I have an idea that just might put her back in an old attitude." Sandra looked up at all the starring faces, "Ok, people, quickly, here's the plan." Esla walked out of the dressing room in her sleepwear. She noticed Fui was awake and sitting up. She rubbed her eyes in sleepiness. Dito leaned inside the doorframe to the main lab room and Tyro sat quietly on the floor. Dark sat in the dim corner of the room, her elbows resting on her knees, eyes shrouded in shadows. She wasn't wearing her normal dress, but the outfit she had worn fifteen years ago. She had a typical smirk on her face. "Dark, what are you trying to pull? I told you your powers won't comeback, why hope for it?" A single section of hair came into light. It had a shimmering golden ring around it. Esla eyes became wide, "What the., Dark, what happened?!" Dark looked up with her merciless maroon eyes and sneered evilly. Esla took a step back. Dark slowly stood and held her arms foreword in a shadow ball position. A large ball of shadow appeared in her hands and very rapidly grew in size. Esla put her hand up in front of her face in a blocking position. Dark threw the shadow ball. Esla put her psychic shield up but the shadow ball sliced through it like a hot knife through butter. Esla was hurled backward and she hit the door to the dressing room and slid down. She spotted Dito watching her from the door. "Dito, help me!" She cried out. Dito just smiled, "Why should I?" Esla quickly looked around, "Where's Sandra? Get Sandra!" Dark looked down at Esla on the floor, eyes narrowing as she focused on her. Fui looked around at the scene at hand. She was confused but stayed quiet. Dark looked more hardy and powerful than before, she looked as if her power had breathed new life into her. Esla put up her arms to block her face, and spoke from behind, "Stop it, Dark! What about our truce? To treat each other with respect and to treat each other's children like their own?" Dark stood tall and spoke strongly, "Esla, you have shown me no respect. Ever since I lost my powers, you have treated me with less and less respect. Now I have them back and I could make you bow at my feet if I wanted! Coward!," She leaned forward and lifted Esla off the floor by the front of her shirt against the door. She leaned in so her face was inches from Esla's "Explain yourself." Esla seemed frightened, "Well. Um... Dark, Ah.Oh boy." Dito turned the lights on and Dark lost her eerie effect. Dark dropped Esla and stepped back. Dark smiled and her features began to melt away into pink goo like liquid and then reformed again. The pink stuff pulled back revealing a totally different set of clothes. Sandra looked at Esla face still stuck in a sneer. Dito began to clap. "We out to get Sandra into acting!" Sandra walked over to Fui's bed and pulled back the covers. The real Dark was curled up in a ball under the sheets by Fui's feet. Esla's jaw dropped. Sandra now spoke as herself in the light of the room. "So, mom, let's hear it." Esla began to chew on one of her nails. Tyro's silent gaze set on Esla. Dark stood up, straightened her dress out, and whispered with Dito, being the closest person. "Dito, Did she look anything like me?" Dito nodded in awe and whispered back. "She's good. Really good." Dark smiled and covered Fui again. "Have-ve I really been that bad to you Dark, Dito?" Both nodded solemnly. Esla began to chew another nail. "I can try to be less of a jerk." Esla was look at Sandra with a questioning look, Sandra smiled, "Wanna know where I learned to do a shadow ball like that? Well?" Esla nodded. "Dark taught me." This caught Dark's attention, "No I didn't." Sandra smiled, "Remember, from my time when mother and Tyro were dead, Dark, here kept her powers. She had to be the biggest jerk that ever lived when she had her powers in that time but she was nice enough to teach me a trick or to in my, let's see, Isn't this my ninth year of training. I have practiced all of your identities in front of a mirror countless times, excluding Esla and Tyro, I wasn't quite sure what you were like then because you were both dead." Esla stopped chewing her fingernail and starred completely frozen. "Dark impersonations just happen to be my specialty." Dark blushed. Sandra melted away once again and took the form of Ben, the crazy scientist. He looked up with worry on his face, "Heh heh, Sorry I sold the beds. I needed a new part for the transmorphing machine and as you know, those parts are expensive!" He smiled, reluctantly *with droplet of sweat* slowly frowns and looks frightened. Whispers, "Oh, boy." *gulp* Esla, Dark and Dito went into a frenzy of laughter. Tyro didn't get it. *Ben yells from another room, sounds muffled* "You people better not be laughing at me!" Sandra melted away again only back into herself. She looked proud of herself. She turned around and saw Fui sitting up in her "bed". She was starring at Sandra with a frightened look for she had just seen Sandra as her mother. While in that state, Sandra had used shadow ball on Esla and Fui had just seen the damage it can do. Fui grasped her covers tightly and was almost brought to tears with fear. Sandra frowned and stepped silently to Fui's bed. Fui leaned back as if she were afraid of Sandra. Sandra knelt down beside her bed, "Fui, it wasn't real. I mean, It's just a transfor. a change. I just pretend to be someone else. That's just what your mother used to do along time ago, before you were born, she's not mean anymore." Fui didn't seem to understand, "You were pretending? H-how did you make the shadowwe balle if you were just pretending?" Sandra smiled, "Fui, It's time you knew." Sandra stood up and took a step back from Fui, "You are a dark fighting Pokemon, but you are in a human form because of Ben's experiments on you're parents. You mom and dad went the first for this, my parents, too are Pokemon." Fui's eyes got huge and sparkly, "ooh, you mean Esla and Dito are Pokemon too? That explains you light ball and pink stuff! What of Pokemon are they kind?" Sandra smiled at her amusement, "Espeon and Ditto. Your parents are a Umbreon and a Tyrogue. Do you want to know what they were like when they were Pokemon?" Fui grinned and nodded. Sandra sighed, "Ok. I'll try. No guarantees though." Sandra turned around and began to talk with Esla, "Mom, I want to demonstrate some attacks. I won't make them as strong as they should be. Can you put up your shield when I signal and absorb the Shadow balls and things?" Esla nodded reluctantly. Sandra smiled at Fui as she melted away into the pink goo. She began to take shape again. A strong and silent Tyro appeared out of the pink liquid. The real Tyro blushed but watched Sandra for her accuracy. Sandra, who now stood as Tyro, seemed to concentrate on what she/he was doing. *I now refer to Sandra as "Tyro" and "he"* He turned toward Esla and silently nodded, Esla nodded back. Tyro put his hand up in a martial pose. He jumped remarkable high *just below the ceiling* in a spinning/ flying kick known as "hi jump kick". He very gracefully came falling in on Esla. Esla's eyes got a distant look and she put all her strength into her shield, blowing Tyro off. Tyro flew back and collided with the wall. He rubbed his head and very awkwardly began to speak perfect English, "Mom! What did you do that for? It's just a display! I'm not really gonna hurt you!" Esla seemed to snap back to reality when Tyro began to speak. "What? Oh, sorry, Sandra. I too will always remember that fight." "Tyro" quietly smiled. "Too bad that's the only attack I remember of Tyro." Fui looked disappointed. Sandra melted yet again. The real Tyro, who had been watching, wiped his eyes of tears awkwardly and forced a smile. Out of the pink Dark appeared smirking. *Sandra will now be referred to as "Dark"* Fui looked scared again. Dark fixed her maroon eyes on Esla. Then she began her dramatic act. She dropped the smirk and gritted her teeth in anger, "You dare make fools of Tyro and me?" Dark yelled very angrily, "Just for that we'll smash that precious egg of yours once we're done with you!" Esla seemed a little more aware now and didn't drift into battle as she had done with Tyro. Esla smiled, this was the part where Tyro was to make her fall and break her arm. She held out her arm, hand palm up. The shadow ball was real unlike this scenario. Sandra thought in her head, Why don't I give mother a little surprise? Dark's shadow ball double the size it was suppose to be. Tripled, quadrupled. Esla didn't know what to do. Dark threw it at Esla with a force Dark had never possessed. Although the shadow ball was large, it was basically hollow and dissipated at Esla's shield. Dark smirked, "Ready for the real thing?" She began to power another. "Sandra! Stop!" Esla yelled. Sandra stopped obediently. And formed back into herself. She jerkily smiled and then her whole body seemed to give out and she hit Dito's mattress behind her when she fell. Dito and Esla ran to her side. Tyro and Dark looked at each other both teary-eyed. Fui jumped out of bed and ran to Sandra's side as well. Sandra seemed to twitch all over and she starred off vacantly. She was unconscious. Esla flinched with the memory. When Sandra had tried to teleport all four of them to Ben's lab, she had appeared this way when she arrived. Maybe is she tries to use too much power at one time, she will knock herself out. Esla tried to lift her to her bed but couldn't. "Tyro, can you give me a hand?" Tyro wiped he's eyes again and put his meaningless expression back on. He nodded and helped Esla. Even after he had lost his powers, he was the strongest one there. Together, they lifted Sandra easily and set her in her own bed. When Sandra awoke, it was late afternoon and she could smell dinner cooking. Sandra sat up. Her body seemed to ache all over and she felt weak. She slowly crawled out of bed. Somebody had dressed here in her sleepwear. She quickly got dressed and trudged into the lab room. Esla was again scanning the paper for ads. Everyone else was at work. Esla heard her come in and looked up. She quickly walked over to Sandra and put her hand on her forehead, felt her own and looked satisfied. "Sandra do you realize that you have been out for three days straight with a fever and chills. It was horrible! You were breathing funny and shivering." Esla hugged her daughter grateful she was well. Dito came in the door wearing his paper boy satchel. He dropped it when he saw Sandra up. "Esla, have you told her yet?" Esla turned to Dito who was a few feet away in the doorway. "No, Dito, I haven't, want honors?" She said solemnly. Sandra looked confused, "What? Me knocking out? I know! I was still over worked and weak from the battle with Dark and Tyro in the past and I was dumb and pushed myself more. Used to happen to me all the time when I would train with Dark when I was younger." Esla and Dito looked at each other and then Esla turned and looked at Sandra, "No, Sandra. That's not it. You going to hate me for the rest of your life but it was for your own good." Sandra's eyes narrowed, "What did you do?" Esla spoke solemnly, "Sandra, you are now powerless like Dark and Tyro." Sandra frantically felt her forehead and sure enough, her Espeon gem was gone. "No! Th-This can't happen to me. What will I do?" She looked around the room frantically, "Ben! Ben!" Esla seemed sad, "Sandra, We asked Ben to do it for us, he's not about to give them back to you. We, your father and I, had your powers taken because we thought it was dangerous to your heath. I mean At one point you were on life support." Sandra was furious but she kept the anger bottled up inside her, she spoke to Esla with her back turned, "I would rather die than have to give up my only talent and protection. You and father had given me those lavishing gifts of psychic power and transforming, but then you take the away as I slept. I don't understand." Her voice didn't tremble until the final words. She then turned around angrily. "Why don't you go take Fui's too, huh? She is of my generation too! I was one part Espeon, one part Ditto, and two parts human! I was bound to have weakness like Fui will when she discovers her true power!" Upon those final words she broke out crying. Dito watched her, he reached out to put his hand on her shoulder, but Esla gently grabbed his wrist and shook her head. "Kill me somebody! I can't live this way!" Sandra wailed out through her tears. Fui could hear this going on and watched quietly from the hall. Were these powers really that important to Sandra? Fui thought to herself, Maybe if I don't use mine, my parents won't take mine away, make them think that I lost them on my own. Fui nodded to herself. Yes, and I'll try to train myself without anyone knowing, I don't want to end up powerless. Fui tip toed into Ben's sleeping quarters and searched through the books on Ben's desk. She took one out titled, "Pokedex, field guide on attacks". She nodded and sneaked out of the room book in hand. She sat down on her mattress and looked up "shadowwe balle" but could only find "Shadow Ball" but figured she was spelling it wrong. She was glad her teachers had taught her how to read, but Fui seemed to be a slow learner. Esla had been trying to teach her Pokemon language for some time now and Fui still didn't get it all. Fui read the description of shadow ball and it matched what she had done to the tree. Fui wondered what else she could do. She looked in the front of the book where they showed Pokemon and their attacks. Was it Tyrogue Sandra said Fui's father was? "Hi jump kick" sounded something like what Sandra performed for Fui. Fui grabbed the book and went into one of the labs training rooms. She decided to attempt it. "Yah!" She yelled childishly as she jumped. It WAS a hi jump kick, but not as graceful and it wasn't spinning. Fui was performing these attacks on the worn, marked up walls of the training room. Fui performed this attack until she was worn out, bruised, and on the floor. She still wasn't satisfied with it because she felt it wasn't even as good as Sandra's and Sandra wasn't even of fighting Pokemon descent. Fui could not jump as high nor could she get the graceful spin worked into it. Fui wasn't about to give up for she wanted to be a good fighter like her parents were. like Sandra was. like all three of the fallen stars. Fui pulled herself to her feet with a lot of effort she stood tall and firm. She decided then and there that she would be a silent fighter, like her father, but still talk when she was not in battle. This time she was determined to get it right, "Huh ya!" she yelled as she jumped. Esla opened the door to the training room right about then, looking for Fui. Fui went in a perfect, graceful spinning kick, her smaller body was hurled toward the wall. She kicked gracefully off the wall and landed plum on her feet on the floor. She was satisfied with herself. Dripping with sweat, she walked back to the book to look up another attack. Esla stood there, mouth open. The little nine-year- old had just done a PERFECT flying/spinning kick! Fui nodded as she read from the book then she stood up and faced the wall again. Her hair seemed to lift with some kind of force and the rings in her hair shown golden. Esla felt a chill go up her spine. Esla decided to be quiet and just watch Fui attack. Fui made a small shadow ball before the uncontrollable trembling set in. Fui let out a burst of energy into the shadow ball. She held onto the ball as long as she could, without falling down and she threw it at the wall. The final size of the ball was just a few inches across and it didn't do much damage to the wall. Fui stood and starred at the wall with disapproval. She fell to one knee holding one bruised leg in her hands and gritted her teeth. She was still unaware of Esla watching. Fui forced herself to stand again and pulled her hands into shadow ball position, determined to get it right. Esla watched the little girl torture herself for about fifteen minutes. Finally, on her seventh shadow ball, Fui collapsed for the final time bruised, tired, and crying. She attempted to get up again, but couldn't. Esla walked into the room right next to Fui, who starred up teary eyed. Her right leg was bruised pretty bad from falling and hurling herself at the wall in hi jump kicks and she held it tightly to her body as she sat there, looking up. Esla knelt down and said, "Fui let me help you to bed." Fui closed her eyes tight and yelled, "NNNNOOOO!!!!" And with that an enormous blast of dark power emitted from Fui knocking Esla backward a few feet. Fui somehow found the energy to get up. She yelled out to Esla in words that Esla never imagined coming out of her mouth, "Esla! I will avenge my parents and Sandra's power loss no matter how many lollipops you give me!" Her image flicked with her radiating pure darkness. Esla, who was on the ground, backed up a bit in fear of this child. Fui takes a deep, troubled breath, she looked feint but determined. She jumped in a flying/spinning kick toward Esla. Esla was confused and did what her instincts told her to do. She blew Fui off with her shield. Fui went flying backward and hit the wall she had be firing at and slid down. Her eyes seemed to roll back in her head. Esla got up and walked over, a few feet in front of Fui. She looked dead as she lay there against the wall. It brought tears to Esla's eyes as she thought she had killed Dark's only child. She ran out of the room to get Ben. "Ben! Ben!" She yelled through her tears. She notice Dark come in the front door and take off her name tag that said, Hello, my name is Dark Baruki. She froze, this was the time Fui usually ran up and welcomed her home but no one came. Dark seemed alarmed, Fui NEVER forgot to greet he mother when she came home. Esla swallowed hard, "Dark. I've j-just done a horrible thing." Dark looked frantic, "Fui?!" Esla nodded, "Follow me!" Esla ran to the training room, Dark close behind her. When Dark entered the training room she looked around slowly taking everything in. Then she saw her beloved Fui, propped up against the wall in a very lifeless pose. Dark ran to Fui's side in uncontrollable hysterics, "Fui! Fui, what happened?! Speak to me Fui! Wake up! Open your eye! Show me you're alive!" Fui didn't make the slightest twitch. Suddenly Dark stopped and slowly turned to face Esla, eyes wet from tears, "What have you done?" Esla swallowed hard again and spoke nervously under Dark's gaze of fury, "She attacked me when I walked in so I blew her off with my shield and..." Esla stopped talking. Dark gently pulled Fui down to the floor so she lay flat and she stroked her hair and began to cry again. "Dark, I'm sorry." Esla said. She felt really guilty having killed Dark's only child. Dark's eyes became lost in the shadows of her bangs. "Sorry?" Dark said without emotion, "Your just sorry? You have just destroyed the life of a nine year old child and you're SORRY!" Dark quickly got to her feet and faced Esla in a fit of fury, "Esla! Sorry won't bring my nine-year-old child to life again. Sorry won't give your OWN daughter, Sandra, her psychic power back nor will it out of trouble! I swear Esla! I don't know what has gotten into you lately but it's gone far enough." Dark's hair blew into the air with a spark of her old power coming back. The golden rings flashed into her hair and onto her forehead. She gracefully pulled her hands together in a shadow ball and the dark power began flashing in her hands. Slowly, the power was coming back to her. It took the shape of a ball, but still flashing. Esla started to turn to run. But Dark yelled out, "You won't evade this one! Coward!" Esla turned around and yelled, "Coward am I!?" She pulled a psybeam. Dark had a shadow ball and Esla a psybeam, both were going head to head like the fight that took place fifteen years ago. *Esla had left the door open and Dito was walking down the hall* "Esla, Esla! Did you find Fui? OhMyGawd!" He stopped right in front of the training room door. Neither Esla nor Dark paid any attention to him. Esla yelled out to Dark over the sound of attack, "Dark, if you would just LISTEN to me! She mostly did it to herself!" Dark yelled out too, "Liar! You are trying to wipe out all powers! Let me guess Esla! Dito is next!" Dark doubled the ball's size. Esla seemed offended, "The child attacked me! A hi jump kick, Dark, a kick! I was only defending myself!" Dark yelled back in fury, "Well, oops, Esla! Ya killed her! Now you must pay a price!" Dito stood wide-eyed. "F-Fui is dead?" He whispered to himself. He ran out of the hallway and out the lab room door. He stood in the lab parking lot. "Post office is... Uh. that way, yes!" He mumbled to himself nervously. He grabbed his worn down bike that was hooked up to the bike rack (Esla gave it to him for Christmas in an earlier year.) and he took of peddling down the road. Meanwhile, Esla shot off her psybeam and Dark threw her shadow ball. The two attacks met in mid-air, seemed to go right through each other, and both hit their assigned targets. Dark, with virtually zero psychic defense because her full power had not come back, was blown backward. Esla was a psychic and weak to dark and was also blown backward. Dark scrambled to her feet quickly. Esla kind twitched a bit before opening her eyes and slowly getting up. Dito parks his bike in front of the post office in the bike racks and runs in. He walks up to the front counter and speaks with the clerk, "I- *pant, pant* would like to talk to a employee here *pant* family emergency." The clerk looked nervous, "Who?" Dito caught his breath, "Tyro Baruki, tell him Dito Metamon is here to see him." The clerk ran into the back, and a minute or two later Tyro came out looking alarmed. "Tyro, F-Fui is dead. I don't know yet how or why. Please come with me and hurry." Tyro looked as if somebody struck him. He starred off into space for a few seconds, shook his head as if to wake up and yelled to his manager as he pulled on his coat, "Sorry, sir, family emergency! I have to go early!" Esla's eyes narrowed, "You. Don't know when to listen, Dark. I don't think we're meant to stay under the same roof. I'm moving myself and my family out of here as soon as possible." Dark sneered, "Why? Just so you can privately fight with Dito. Don't you realize that Dito and Sandra both probably hate you?" Dark shrugged and smiled coolly, "Let's see. I dislike you and Tyro is an obvious neutral in this little bicker. Where is a psychic Pokemon to go?" Esla clenched her fists, "Dark. you're asking for it." Dark took a confident step forward, "What is it I'm asking for now?" The golden rings in her hair sparkled when she moved. Tyro and Dito burst in. Tyro noticed Fui on the floor and jogged over to her and got to his knees. He looked at her small limp body on the floor and then he looked up at Esla. His usually emotionless eye burned with hatred. "What have you done?" He whispered. All fell silent. Then Dark sneered at Esla's surprised and nervous look and spoke out in her old, cocky tone, "She killed her." Tyro seemed confused and furious at the same time, "Why, Esla?" Dito leaned in the doorway, "Yes, I would like to know, too." Dark's eyes narrowed as she broke into an evil smirk, "Tell them the silly thing you told me." All eyes were on Esla. She began to cry, "I dunno. I just came looking for her. *sobs, sniffs* And she was in here practicing attacks and beating the tar out of herself. I just watched *sniff* and when she was unable to stand I walked in and offered to carry her to bed. *sniff* She refused and blew me away with her d-dark power." Dark interrupted, "So you decided to kill her because of this?" Esla yelled out over her tears, "NO! lemme finish, so I'm over there on the floor, right?" Esla made a gesture with her finger, " And she comes at me in a spinning kick! I'll tell you that that it wasn't a little third grader kick, no... Tyro came at me like that when he made me fall and break my arm." Dark wasn't really listening to Esla's babbled excuses. She was looking at poor Fui on the floor. Tyro yelled out to Esla, which quieted her, Tyro NEVER yells, "Esla we all know you were mobile enough to dodge a kick from a nine year old CHILD! Or better yet, Esla, If you survived a kick from me, you could survive one from Fui! You should have just let her kick you. Or you could have caught her without hurting her or yourself... Esla? Do you think on the battle field or does Sandra think for you?" They heard Sandra's voice from the doorway, "Did I just hear my name? What kind of gossip are you spreading?" She smirked weakly. Her hand at waist level melted pink and dripped, then it pulled back to the original shape of her hand. Esla gasped and ran over to Sandra, "I thought Ben took your powers from you." Sandra smiled, "He gave them back under a new hypothesis of mine. It's a long story but now I have full Pokemon power capabilities and my level limit has been
lifted about fifty levels. To give you an idea, the power I used back in the past.... Seemed limitless to you, I know. My power level since then has doubled and I don't get power sickness anymore..." Dito whispered to Tyro, "Yup, Sandra probably thinks for her." Esla turned quickly, "Dito, you jerk *sigh*.." She couldn't be angry at anyone after what she had just done to Fui. The whole time this is going on, Dark is looking at Fui. She had a flashback. Her vision was blurred, she was exhausted, and was sticky with
sweat covered with a light sheet. She panted as someone spoke softly to her, she could tell to whom the voice belonged, Esla or Sandra. "Dark...you'll be ok... It's all over... Ben says it's a little girl... Dark, you ok? You're kinda twitching... Ben is cleaning the baby up, she'll be her in a bit..."
She felt too tired to move more or less speak, so she remained silent. Someone placed a warm bundle in her arms. She struggled to see her accomplishment. Blurily, she saw a little face looking up at her. The
baby's rosy cheeks matched the blanket she was wrapped in. Dark smiled weakly. The baby had her midnight black hair, but Tyro's deep black emotionless eyes. Dark spoke shakily, "I shall call you Fui..." Her eyelids began to fall, to heavy to hold. Dark snapped back to reality and found herself crying. The nine year old coughed and sputtered, gasping for air. Dark ran to her daugter's side, "Fui! Fui! Your alive!" Esla breathed a sigh of relif. Tyro seemed relived as well. The child tried to get to her feet. Dark gently pushed her back down, "Fui, just lie still, I'm gonna get Ben.." Dark ran out of the room. Fui yelled out, "Esla, I swear, I'm going to kill you for what you've done! You took My parents powers and Sandra's powers
were the last straw!" Sandra walked over to the furious Fui and knelt next to her, "No Fui... It's sweet, but don't fight for me, it was my own battle. Instead of letting my anger get to me, I came at the problem in an
inteletual way. I sweet talked Ben." She grinned as her Espeon-like gem sparkled. Fui smiled back and then gritted her teeth, "Sandra, I think I hurt myself bad..." " I'm sure Ben and I can fix you up." Sandra slid her
arms under her and lifted her up. Fui yelled out in pain. "Hope you didn't break any thing, little girl. ^_^()" Sandra said as she carried her out of the training room, Tyro following her. Ben and Dark met them in the hallway. Fui was tired and let her body hang limp in Sandra's arms. Ben stopped in front of Sandra, "Why are you people always beating the crud out of each other?" He put an arm behind his head. "You know I can't be doing this forever, I plan to kick you guys out soon, sell the lab, and show my machinery break through to the world. Sometimes I don't think you all will last long enough to be experiment examples at my grand appearance in Science Hall." Sandra kinda blushed and smiled. "We drive each other crazy, that's
all. Mother has suggested we go our separate ways, but I don't believe that is financially possible at this time of crisis... I don't want to leave... Fui." Sandra looked down at the child in her arms and then she passed her over to Dark, who took her off Sandra's hands. Sandra looked at her feet. "I-I feel like we're relatives, Fui and I." Sandra looked hopefully at Esla after Dark and Ben had left with Fui, "Mother? Do you remember having any sisters or brothers?" Esla shook her head," I don't remember being an Eevee. Like my life started right after my evaluation. Sometimes, though, I'll get memory flashes.. But Sandra, I don't remember anything like that..." Esla felt bad she couldn't answer her question. Sandra eyes
narrowed, "Eevees are rare Pokemon and are usually distributed one or two litters at a time... Could you... be Dark's sister?" Esla seemed to think, "I never thought of that. No way to know though, Dark has no memory of being an eevee either..." Sandra smiled thoughtfully, "Mother, do you mind if I borrow..." She pulled a single hair from Esla's ponytail and ran yelling behind her, "Thanks, mom!" Esla rubbed the back of her head and spoke to Dito next to her, "She could have warned me." Sandra stopped running when
she got into the lab. They had Fui lying down on a table and Ben was examining her bruises and cuts. Dark and Tyro were watching. Sandra came up to Ben and tried to turn her back to Dark and Tyro. "Ben, In my time where I have recently come from, I have been able to test a certain hypothesis on the abilities of you magnificent technology." She smiled, "I had spent most of my time either training with Dark or working in the lab with you, when I wasn't doing either, I was sleeping." She turned to the machine with her back still to Dark and Tyro, "I have come up with some interesting findings. If the machine can form Pokemon into humans, it can form injured humans into perfect humans, healing the injury. Also, I have learned, with Ben's help, that you can intertwine pieces someone else's DNA with yours. And a way to prevent further injury, is to intertwine a piece of my fathers DNA with yours. You cannot transform as an attack, but you are able to heal your own wounds." Sandra turned to Fui, she could help but face her parents this time, "I have discovered some more use for the machine on myself, but Fui, being of my generation type, would help her out, too. It doubled my power range and destroyed all possible chance of what I call, "power sickness." She cautiously looked up at Fui's parents, "Do you want to give it a try?" Dark and Tyro just starred at her. Tyro, who could barely understand basic English was thoughrally confused. Dark seemed to understand somewhat.
This is where my comp died and I lost some comic plot. I have to retype it. It could be awhile, but stay tuned. ^^()