Hi everyone. I decided to show the problems this pikachu colony faces in a chapter. It has a bit serious tone, you'll see it when you read it. Without further ado, let's go. The pichu will be introduced in the next or oncomming chapter (I recieved a couple of mails asking for them).


"Alright, it started about a year ago." Lukas started, "We went to visit another colony. It was a nice day and when we returned, there were ekans and arboks investing this place!" he said while pointing around him. "They had taken over our nest and used it as a nest for themselves. They could enter by the entrances we had made. When we came back, they had claimed the nest as their own and tried to take it over.

The pichu weren't with us that day. They were playing outside with the babysitters. Then they were spotted by those ekans and arboks, which tried to attack and eat them. Luckily, they were stopped by the babysitters, which got everyone inside the nest and tried to block the entrance. But that didn't work because they found the other entrances and attacked everyone that was inside. They tried to block them, but nothing seemed to work. The pikachu entrenched themselves with the pichu inside the pichu room, which has only one exit. Then they waited until we came back.

When we came back, they were under attack. The ekans and arbok tried to get past those guards to eat the pichu. But time after time they were stopped by those babysitters which did a great job. Then all pikachu from our colony launched a full attack to wipe those snakes out of our home. That worked quite well, but they didn't give up that easily. They also entrenched themselves somewhere in our colony. After a very long battle we succeeded to get them out..."

"Alright, you got them out. But what's your point?" I asked him.

"Well, when they left, they weren't exactly happy about it. They wanted to stay here, because this is a very nice place. It's perfect for little pokémon. They could easily ambush pokémon in this place, which means they never had to look for food again. When they left, they all said they would come back to fight us and they would kill us..." he said. "And since then they terrorise this part of the forest. They want to scare us away from here."

"So they're trying to get you out of here? That's all?" I asked.

"Not only that, they attack pikachu that go outside this colony." Espeon said. "They patrol around here and try to catch anything that's going outside this safe area. They are guarding us. And the ekans you saved Lukas from, was one of them. He had followed Lukas and had ambushed him on his way back." she said.

"And I think they aren't very happy about that." Lukas said. "You may not know, but the guards already..."

"Are you talking about me?" said a pikachu that walked over to us. It was the guard that "caught" me last night and that brought me over here. "Maurice, I was just looking for you. Can you come with me?" he said while waving his paws like I couldn't understand him.

"I can understand you now, thanks to Espeon." I smiled. "No gestures needed as long she's with me!"

"Ah, that's great..." he said. "Remember me?"

"Of course, you just caught me last night and you brought me over here about thirty minutes ago! Why would I forget you already?" I said.

"Just checking. Humans seem to have trouble to distinguish us from each other." he said while he looked at me. "Oh by the way, I'm Volt. But everyone calls me Guardie because I'm one of the main guards of the colony. Nice to talk to you!" he said while jumping on my shoulder and smiled. "I'd love to talk a bit more, but the pikachu are waiting for you. They are all dying to meet you."

"But I just met the pikachu, didn't I?" I questioned. I looked at the three pokémon before Lukas, Espeon and Volt all laughed at me.

"You just met the pikachu of Lukas' age." Volt said. "Lukas told them that you were awesome and that you saved him, so they all wanted to see and meet you." I looked at Lukas. He blushed heavily when I looked at him. "Lukas asked me if he could introduce you to them first. What you have seen was just a small part of our colony!" he said.

"That's great, more pikachu to meet!" I said. "Last time went kinda good I guess..."

"To make a long story short, they loved you. Although we always learn the pichu to not trust humans, you got something that made them love you. I guess you did something incredibly well." he said. "And that includes saving Lukas!" he said smiling.

"I was just telling him about that group of ekans..." Lukas said.

"Oh... Yeah, those guys aren't making our lives easier. They attack anyone that wanders out of the colony..." he said while letting out a sigh. "And then those raichu..."

"What's with the raichu?" I asked.

He sighed. "Nothing good, I'm afraid."

"Those raichu are the reason I'm in this colony." Espeon said. "They are wandering around the forest, looking for victims. They try to mate them, including other pokémon species."

"Mate? You mean rape." I said while looking at Espeon. Volt jumped down and stood next to Espeon.

"Yes, rape." Volt said. "You should know that living in a colony like this brings some rules. And one of those rules is that you don't mate with random strangers or males -or females- from other colonies." he said. "A while back, suddenly three females got banished for that. They all had strange smells on them and they didn't want to say what they had done or where those scents came from.

"But one strange scent doesn't immediately mean a female has... Well... Mated another male, doesn't it?" I asked.

Volt hesitated, but gave me a serious glance. "Sperm." he said. "She smelled like sperm. It's the strongest smell we know and you can immediately tell which male mated which female. And they all smelled like two strange males. Two! You can understand that we got mad on them and demanded them to tell us what happened. But they didn't want to tell us which made us decide to banish them."

"After a week or so, one female was raped by one of those raichu. She had the same smell of the other three that were banished but she actually told us what happened. Then we understood what really happened. The raichu only take single victims and apparently work together to rape them. We still don't know who they are and what they want, but they are a serious problem. We never actually caught them in the act... Most of us never saw them for real. But several pikachu have said that there were raichu around the colony looking for chu's."

"That's just gross... How can raichu do such things? Are they also banished? Or maybe lonely?"

"Well we don't know and we don't wanna know." Volt said. But the thing is, they are dangerous. I don't know how they will react to humans, so watch your step if you're going outside. Not only for them, but also for those..." he stopped. He jumped back on my shoulder and looked the other way. "...snakes." he finished. He sniffed the air. At the exact same time Lukas pricked up his ears and Espeon looked around.

"You heard that?" Espeon said.

"Yes..." said Volt. "We're being watched."

I quickly grabbed Lukas and put him on my other shoulder and stood up and turned to the place Volt was looking at (Volt also turned around). I listened closely. Besides some colony sounds in the distance I heard nothing. Suddenly I saw something... Purple.

"There..." I whispered to Volt. "Just left of that hill. Ekans or arbok, one of both." I said.

"I see him..." Volt said. "I'm right back..."

I sat down again looking at the ekans. He clearly knew he was seen, because he didn't attempt to hide anymore. His location was behind a big rock. The only ones that could see him were me, Lukas and Espeon and probably Volt. We didn't know what he was doing, but I was sure he was planning something.

"This happens every day. At least once or twice." Lukas said. "They always try to attack us like this. That's why we have those guards out. Good thing he didn't try a bit further, because Volt is guarding right now... He wouldn't have noticed."

"Oh, don't worry. He or someone else would have." Espeon said. "They aren't very good at sneaking up onto us. Too noisy."

"Noisy? But I didn't hear anything." I said.

"But we did." Lukas smiled. "Dang, I wish I had pikachu-ears..." I said.

"Be careful what you wish..." Espeon said. "Sometimes it might come true!" she laughed.

"Hah, I don't think I'll ever turn into a pikachu. All those magical stories out there that say people turn into one or another pokémon are just rubbish. I don't believe that. I can adapt to your lifes, but I can't really change into one of you, unfortunately... Sometimes I wish I could." I added.

"Yeah... Sometimes I wish I was a human. Playing boss on pokémon, having all those nice things like that... What is it? You called it 'bone' or something?" Lukas said. Espeon chuckled.

"A phone, silly. That's what people use to communicate over long distance." she said.

"You've been a trainer's pokémon once? You seem to know quite a lot about us..." I said to her.

"Well both yes and no..." she said. "I've been from someone but it was only temporarily. I had been fighting with a trainer and I had won the battle barely. I was still a eevee back then. I had fled through the forest when I suddenly met a guy which also challenged me for a fight. But after one tackle, I already fainted. He then caught me, but he released me when he had healed me up. He said he didn't like unfair catches and he challenged me again. I won that battle and he let me go."

"So there are nice trainers out there after all." I thought.

"Yep, there are..." Espeon said.

"Excuse me? Can you hear my thoughts?" I said.

She chuckled. "I'm using telepathy. What do you expect?" she smiled. "But I noticed that more and more trainers are bad to their pokémon. They just want to battle, battle and battle more. I don't like that attitude. So I decided to just evade trainers all I can... Until I almost got caught by those raichu. Then one of colony members saved me. I am still really grateful about that. I'm also glad they adopted me so easily..."

"So I'm not the only awkward person... Ehm... Creature in this colony." I smiled.

"Look at the ekans..." Lukas said smiling. I looked and saw Volt. He had sneaked up at the back of the ekans, which didn't suspect a thing. I saw his tail glowing bright white.

"Someone's gonna get hurt..." I said while Volt took a jump and smashed into the ekans. It quickly retreated back to the forest while we laughed. "They're so stupid." Lukas said. "What do they expect...? That we'll just leave them there?"

"Maybe..." I said while Volt returned.

"That's one problem solved!" he said happily. "Maurice, you really should come with me. I promised them I would bring you quickly..."

"Alright then, let's go. Lukas, you coming with me?"

"Sure!" he said while jumping my shoulder.

"Espeon, could you be translator?" I asked.

"Sure! I wonder what you're gonna do when I'm gone."

"Learn pika-language. But I guess that'll take a long time..."

"I'm sure it will." Lukas said.

"Let's see what those elderly pika's think of me..." I said while I followed Volt to the center of the field...

To be continued...