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Chapter 3 – Back It Up

*BLEEECCH!* "Oh... Fuck..."

1:00 AM. Max preferred to never be up at such an ungodly hour, but she found it extremely difficult to sleep while retching every ten minutes or so. She had been back and forth from the toilet to Kyla's bedroom since about 8:30 the previous evening, constantly emptying her digestive system and hoping there was an end to the pain. Stupid Picha Berry...

Ugh. It's always the wrong place at the wrong time. Having nothing else to do, and seeing no end to her vomiting streak anytime soon, Max thought back over all the events which had led to her being in this predicament.


14 Hours Earlier...

"WHAT? No way! It's unheard of!"

Kyla's outburst was not entirely unexpected, but it still left Max with a slight chill. That little bunny can certainly get excited… and loud. Max turned her attention to Jay as he began reassuring his sister.

"Yes, yes. She's from the future, okay? Don't get your big ears in a knot!"

Max didn't understand why Jay had told Kyla this falsity. It was no less farfetch'd than the truth. She resolved to not focus on this and ask him later; mainly because a certain buneary had just knocked her to the ground out of pure excitement. "Ow!"

"I'm sorry, Max!" Kyla offered. "It's just... I've never met anyone from a different timeline before! I'm so excited!"

"Eccentric is more like it..." Jay mumbled. He began to wonder why he'd said anything at all. I should've figured something like this would happen. I'll have to apologize to Max later.

"Sorry, what?" Kyla asked simply. "I didn't catch that."

"Never mind..."

Max felt awkward now. Jay still was not giving his "sister" the truth. "Um, guys?"

"Hold that thought, Max – Jay, what did you say?"

Jay put on a gruff expression. "Nothing, okay? I already told you to forget it!"

Kyla was determined, though. "I won't give up that easily!" She tackled him to the ground much like before, and put him in a deadlock. Jay wasn't going to get away with making fun of her. "You'd better tell me what you said, or I'll-"

The two were knocked apart into opposite walls by a small, explosive ball of energy. Both gave up their struggle so as to find out what exactly caused the deflective force. It wasn't much of a mystery; Max was panting hard, her forelegs bent leaving her hunched over, and she glared ferociously at where the brown Pokèmon were recently rolling around. "STOP," she ordered.

A gleam shone in Max's eyes for but a second, and then her gaze lightened. What did I just do..?

"Er... sorry, Max," Jay said. "We were getting off topic."

"Yeah, majorly off topic," Kyla agreed. She scratched her head, "Why did that even happen?"

"Either way, it's not important." I need to tell Kyla the truth, if she's ever going to trust and understand, and if she's going to help me get answers. Max was resolved. "Kyla, Jay didn't tell you the whole truth about me. In fact, that was a pretty pathetic lie, Jay..."

"Hey!"

"The truth is," Max continued, ignoring Jay's interjection, "I don't know where I'm from. Or when, for that matter... Maybe I am from the future. But I don't remember anything about my former self, other than my name and that I'm pretty sure I was a human."


"I'm still pretty sure you're crazy," Kyla admitted. "Both of you. I thought the whole future thing was pretty cool, but now you're saying you were a human from some other world, and you somehow turned into a Pokèmon, transported to our world (where there are no humans), and developed super-amnesia. Sure, that makes sense."

Four hours later, the three companions were walking further down the road, in the direction Max had not been before. They said something about 'Fortune Valley'. Are we headed to some kind of backwater town? They continued walking, not passing up much but trees along the way, and there seemed to be a stream up ahead, in the distance.

"Look, sis, I know it sounds a bit odd, but what else do we have to go on?" Jay stopped and looked up at the sky as he voiced his next thought. "Besides... I've got this weird feeling that something like this has happened before..."

The girls blinked almost simultaneously and stared at him for a moment, confused. "Oh, what do I know, anyway?" Jay continued on, turning his gaze back to his female companions. "Right now, what we need to do is-"

Jay was unable to finish his sentence as something quick-moving and purple thrust into him; both he and the mystery Pokèmon vanished into the forest on the side of the road. Thinking quickly, Kyla and Max dashed in after them. Oh, why do we keep getting cut off today? Kyla began running faster alongside Max at this thought.


Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Well, Max had discovered something new about herself, at least.

After chasing Jay's scent through the forest for a moment, the girls had stumbled into a clearing. Not very comforting, as they found the clearing to be filled with ekans. There were five of them; one was slightly larger than the others, and it seemed to be at the head of the gang. Another sitting close by had Jay caught in a Wrap attack.

"Girls, go! Run!"

"Mmmm... Not sso fasssst."

The big ekans was talking now, addressing Kyla and Max. His voice was... slippery, at best. Max didn't like that one bit. Apparently she was deadly afraid of snakes.

"What do you want with us, assholes?" Kyla summoned up her courage and challenged the snake's presence. "Spit it out already! We don't have all day."

"Ohh, feisty. I like that. But that iss not related to what we are doing here... Nor are you." The purple serpent was being tricky and outright at the same time, somehow, and he didn't seem like the type of guy you'd want to push over the edge. The other ekans seemed to know this, as they stayed quiet the entire time and let the boss do the dirty work.

"We only want your friend here. Eevee meat is the most deliciousss, you ssee. Hmm, yess. We are a nomadic pack and need food. So... if you leave him with uss, we'll let you live. Jussst go on."

"Letting us live sure sounds generous," Kyla began,

"-but you're not taking our friend," Max finished for her.

"So be it. Stay back, all of you! I will fight alone, the honorable way," As soon as he had ordered his lackeys to stay back, the serpent lunged.

Both girls dodged the attack, and Kyla came back around quickly for a Jump Kick to the back of the head. It landed, but even though the ekans was fazed, he was able to swiftly swat the buneary away with his pointed tail. Kyla was knocked off to the side. By this point Max had come back around; no sooner had the ekans knocked Kyla away from him than Max delivered a Flame Wheel to his mid torso. Does an ekans even have a torso? Oh well.

Max could tell he was in great pain, and she saw this as a good chance to try and reason. "Ready to give up, bitch?"

Unfortunately, this particular ekans had incredible pain tolerance. And when she emphasized the last word the way she did, he'd had enough. He shot straight at her and bit down with his Poison Fang before she had time to think.

Max was thrown onto the ground, convulsing and unable to counter the move. "NO!" Kyla shouted. She lunged at the big snake once more, this time delivering punch after punch to his face and neck. She finished off with a rage-supercharged Ice Punch. The ekans was knocked to the ground yet again, this time really unable to get up again.

"Aaaghh... Fine, you win! Murdoch... releasse the prisssoner..." With these words, the ekans in charge fainted. The ekans who had been holding Jay captive ended his Wrap, and rushed over to help his three companions carry their leader. They slithered away in fear, as quickly as they could muster, and left the other three Pokèmon behind.

Kyla helped Jay up, and the reunited siblings rushed over to examine Max. She had stopped wriggling around, but there was a small pool of vomit around her and foam at the corners of her mouth. She looked to her new friends pleadingly, trying to make them understand without words. Help... me...

The brown Pokèmon needed no initiative. Jay began digging through the Treasure Bag, and pulled his paw out when he found a soft pink berry. "Aha!" His sister snatched it from him; she bent over Max and began feeding her the "Pecha Berry". What none of them expected was the effect.

Once about half of the berry was gone, Max had another quick spaz attack followed by fainting. "What?" Kyla exclaimed, "That's not supposed to happen!"

"Oh no..." Jay said with sudden realization. "We were feeding her a lookalike item! Now she must be poisoned worse! Move, Kyla!"

He pushed his sister out of the way and laid his paws on Max's chest. He pushed down hard several times in an attempt to wake her up, but to no avail. Looks like I'll have to resort to old reliable, he thought. Here goes... The unconscious vulpix's mouth was already slightly agape, so Jay leaned in to give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

His lips came into contact with her own, but right as Jay was about to blow air into her lungs, Max woke up and her eyelids popped open. For only a fleeting second they gazed into each other's eyes without moving. Then Max's cheeks puffed up.

Kyla, who had by now recovered from being knocked away by Jay, in turn knocked him out of the way just before Max turned her head and retched on the ground nearby. She then found that while she still felt very sick, she was once again able to stand up and move around. All three Pokèmon stood still for several minutes, glancing back and forth at one another. All were blushing; Max and Jay for what just passed between them a moment before, and Kyla for having witnessed it.

Finally, Jay broke the silence. "I motion that we call it a day."

Kyla and Max, both at once: "AGREED."


Well, that was fun! Sorry it took me so long to get this out, everybody, but I'm BACK! Hope you all enjoyed, please re-

?: Hold it, hold it!

Wha..?

Kyla: You've got some explaining to do, mister! What was all that about us getting off topic?

Gah! What the-

Jay: Yeah, what a load of BS! That whole scene was pointless!

Max: Actually, I think that part had some character development in it, if you squint. But what do I know? I can't even remember how I got here.

I guess the legends are true, characters can invade authors' comments! I'd better get out of here...

Kyla: Hey, where do you think you're going?

Uh-oh. I need to talk with these guys, maybe I can get them to calm down somehow. Please rev/sub guys, thanks for reading and have a good day! Ciao!