Act 3

Tyrian pops up again right in front of Skewb.

"Oh, hello Tyrian."

"Hey."

Scorpion stands a little closer to Ingo, thinking about Pokemon and humans resembling Pokemon. Or should thet be Pokemon resembling humans.

"Hey uh... Does anyone know how to undo a curse?" the boy asks.

"Actually yes," says Tyrain. "I have practiced countercurses a long time."

"How? I don't really like looking 10 years younger than I normally look... I've always looked younger than I am but this is ridiculous..."

"So, child do you wish for me to weave a countercurse?"

He nods. "Yes please."

Skewb talks to Ingo, explaining important things.

"While I'm here, I'm gonna delete a few things from my memory, but I can't actually access my memories right now, so I need someone else to tell me which Pokemon I was friends with."

Ingo thinks. "A Bisharp?" He's best with Unovan Pokémon.

"Hmm, no, I think it was either a grass or a psychic type Ingo. Probably grass, she had a lot of green on her."

"...A... Maybe a Lilligant, then?"

"Warmer, yes, but not that Pokmeon. She was pretty intelligent, I think...Or was she male? I just can't remember..."

Tyrian pulls out a few various supplies.

The boy looks nervous.

Tyrain chalks some symbols into the ground.

"This would be easier if I had my runestones but oh well".

"Ok , do you know your name? Can you recall it?"

"Yuki. Everyone called me Black but Yuki's my real name."

"Ok Yuki, think your name, let it fill you, then drink this once you achieve that." Tyrain holds out a drinking flask.

Yuki looks at the flask suspiciously. "What is that..."

"Honestly it would be better to say after the ritual is done. It's actually rather good, it's name makes it sound inedible."

"Agh. Why can't I remember the Pokemon's name?" Skewb says. "Why does it have to be so hard to remember someone I was so close friends with?"

"Have I ever defended anyone? Has any Pokemon you guys know ever run away in fear before I arrived?"

"Maybe you try to forget painful things. Is the Pokémon lost?" Ingo asks.

"She's dead, but when I know the name or type of the Pokemon, I can make me forget that she died making me think she's lost and therefore hope can save my sanity.

"What did the Pokémon look like?" Scorpion asks. "Can you describe her?"

"Let's see, she was wither mostly green or white, or mostly green or red."

Scorpion wants to examine that flask but he is too engrossed with helping Skewb. "A green and white Pokémon, like a person?"

Ingo thinks, running through all the Pokémon he knows. "Scyther?"

"I think she was sort of human-like yeah. Definitely no Zigzagoon."

Yuki sighs and 'thinks his name' before drinking it.

The runes all across the circle begin to glow fiercely around him.

"W-What the hell?!"

The runes seem to peel off the ground and encircle him.

"Scyther... Hmm, no, I think Lilligant was closer..."

"Roserade?"

Scorpion gets out his Pokedex and shows it to Skewb. "Look in here and see if you can find one like your friend".

"Ah yes. Thank you." Skewb takes it and starts to browse. "Hmmm..."

"Why are there so many Pokemon? I can't find her in the egg group human like? Ugh."

The runes suddenly plaster themselves upon Yuki and he starts glowing. He is inwardly freaking out.

His form starts warping a bit, returning to normal state then the glow dies down.

He looks around 13-15 now, looking around curiously. "Yay I no longer feel like a midget. So... What was that drink."

"It was leer, I only needed you to clear your mind so you wouldn't taste it."

Yuki looks confused. "Leer? Never heard of it. But thanks..."

"No problem, one of my duties is to help those who need help. You never heard of leer, be happy you never tasted it."

Yuki smiles at him weakly. "Sounds like beer."

"I don't know what laws encompasses your realm, but you are of age to have ale in my land, do you want some?"

"Ugh!" Shaking his head at the offer of ale.

"Ok."

"She must be a human resembling Pokemon who nonetheless isn't a "Human" Pokemon egg-wise," says Skewb.

"Do you know what region she was from, then?"

"Afraid not. I tried to travel to Kalos, and I know for a fact I made it to the wrong region because I found her, and you can't find them naturally in Kalos."

"Was it a cold region?" Scorpion asks. "Maybe it was Sinnoh, my home".

"No, in fact I think there was something there you only find in very warm climates."

"Johto, I would guess, or Hoenn is even hotter," Ingo says.

"Hoenn is hot, my mom came from there," says Scorpion.

"Let's see, a Pokemon that looks human but isn't "Human-like", mostly green, probably from Hoenn or Johto.

Yellow pulls her sketch book out and begins drawings. "What is this Pokemon? My friend Ruby has one like it," she said, holding up a somewhat crudely drawn image of a Kirlia.

"WAIT! KIRLIA, THAT IS SO CLOSE."

"Gardevoir?" Ingo guesses. "Or Gallade, didn't you say you thought she might be male?"

"Wait, what was the first one you said Ingo?"

"Gardevoir. Or did you mean way back when I mentioned Bisharp?"

Scorpion shows Skewb the Ralts family in his Pokedex.

"Gardevoir. Bingo. That was it."

"Yes, I remember now, she had a unisex name. One you can give to males and females. How many unisex names are there? Come on guys, we are SO close to saving my sanity now."

"Alex?" Yuki pipes up.

"I don't think it was Alex... But the first letter was in the first half of the alphabet."

"Probably over a thousand. Sam? Kris?"

Tyrian wanders around the 'settee'.

"Don't touch that," Ingo scolds Tyrian like a child.

"Kris. Close to Kris," Skewb says. "Maybe an adjacent letter."

"Jesse?"

"Jesse, even warmer."

Scorpion helpfully asks him if it was Kanon. Which is a very suitable name for a blonde psychopath.

"Kanon. Of course! No wait, what? Of course it wasn't that."

Scorpion giggles.

"Jamie?"

"Jamie, Jamie, Jamie the transgendered Gardevoir! That's it! Thank you! I nailed it!"

Tyrian looks for anything that could possibly appear relatively normal (to him) on the ship.

"Jaime?" Ingo questions. Sounds female to him. "Ephah is a nice unisex name."

Scorpion smiles, pleased that Skewb has remembered his friend.

"Well, 'we' nailed it. Thanks for the help guys."

Yuki smiles weakly and fidgets as he puts his hoodie on.

Tyrian has given up on trying to figure out where he is.

"Now what?" he asks.

"Now, I can break into my memories and destroy any recollection of her dying," Skewb explains. "I will assume she's just lost. Then once everyone leaves this place, full sanity will be restored."

Scorpion sits back on the settee helpfully.

"I'll be back in 5 minutes guys!" Skewb says, bringing out his sword and charging into the chaos around everyone.

Ingo wonders uselessly if guns works in here.

Tyrian pulls out a bottle of fangor ale and takes a sip of it.

Scorpion doesn't know how to fight at all and just sits back and watches.

Tyrian calls Scorpion over to him.

He looks nervous but goes over to Tyrain.

"Are you interested in seeing some more toxins?"

Scorpion is! He nods eagerly.

Skewb emerges from the chaos again, first triumphant, but then confused. "Guys, why are we here?"

"Trust me, it's too bothersome to explain," Ingo tells Skewb. "Shall we head back?"

"Uuh. Yeah. I'd like to get out of, wherever we are."

Tyrain pulls two vials out, one is green and the other is blue.

"Can you show him while we fly?" Ingo address Tyrian.

"Sure I can. The green one is logbone, it causes its victim will be rendered incapable of any movement."

Scorpion is starting in great interest. He gets out a notebook and pencil and begins to write this all down.

Tyrian looks untrustfully at the settee, doubting that they would all fit in it

Scorpion makes more room for him by sitting on Ingo's lap

"Scorpion, you... guy, and also you two, do you mind joining us on the settee?" Ingo asks. He's talking to Tyrian and Black and Yellow, if the last two are still here.

"This blue one is chilled blood. It makes it's victims extremely sensitive to temperature."

Scorpion likes the sound of that. "That would be useful for interrogation purposes in cold lands, like where I come from," he says.

Yuki/Black nods slowly and sits down.

"It's especially useful when fighting in deserts and artic areas, I agree."

Tyrian sits down in the settee.

Ingo assumes for the sake of time that everyone is here. Whether he successfully pilots back to the normal world or ends up somewhere different remains to be seen.

Scorpion writes down about the blood poison. He is happy to have learned of new poisons.

Tyrian gives Scorpion samples of the three poisons he had shown him before going.

Scorpion grins and thanks him! He will find those useful.

"Oh hey, I forgot we don't need to fly this thing. We can all just warp back. Well, one person has to stay and pilot it back, but I'm sure that's no problem, right?" Skewb asks.

"I have to go home, back to 2030s Sinnoh," says Scorpion. "My family will be worried if I am late in".

Ingo tells Skewb that he can warp back to wherever it is he wants to go.

Scorpion says bye to everybody and he goes back to his own time and his family. (With all that new poison stuff, so he is happy. He is also relieved that during their adventure, nobody found out that his "Important job" actually consists of making coffee for a certain blonde psychopath).

Ingo decides he's going to go home and have a drink. It's been a weird day.

To close it all, Skewb goes back, somewhat confused, and unaware that marvellous things were achieved that day.

The End