CHAPTER 7
The Pinsir had me in its deadly grip. Their pincers can't just squeeze you, but they've got spikes all around, so they can cut you as well.
The pressure was incredible.
I felt one of the spikes dig deep into my side. I couldn't stand the pain.
"Nidorrr..." I half-screamed, half-croaked in pain.
Mistake! As the air left my lungs, the Pinsir squeezed harder. He was choking me as if he was an Ekans.
Air! I needed air! I couldn't breathe!
˂Help! A Pinsir's got me!˃ I cried in thought-speak.
˂Huh? What?˃ Boris asked. ˂OW! That hurt!˃ I saw him turn to whip a Scyther with one of his vines.
˂I can't breathe... help!˃ I called again.
I was weakening. I felt my legs go numb.
I was dying. My vision was becoming blurry.
The pressure in my sides... it didn't seem to matter now.
I could feel my heartbeats. I could also feel the fact that they were getting slower.
"PikaCHU!" Lisa leapt into my line-of-sight, and stared bravely up at the Pinsir.
She looked tired, like she was running out of electricity.
I felt darkness all around me. I felt my heart pumping desperately, but any second now, it would stop. Any second now, I could sleep.
ZZZAP!
Lisa electrocuted the Pinsir. Part of the shock went into me, and it was just enough to keep my heart going.
"PINSSSIRR!" the Pinsir cried. It dropped me.
The pressure disappeared, and I could breathe! I sucked in breath after breath, savoring it.
But it hurt to breathe. My sides were bleeding from the spikes.
I saw Scythers cut, bruised, and burnt. Four of them seemed to be unconscious, but I could not see the fifth.
The Pinsir that had been crushing me was now being repeatedly whipped, fried, punched, and scratched by my friends. Lisa wasn't attacking it, though. I think she had run out of electricity.
What about the other two Pinsirs? They were gone, like the fifth Scyther. And... the Ditto Device! It was gone! They must have taken it.
˂Thank you Lisa,˃ I said. ˂You saved my life.˃
I started demorphing. I had to. I think some of my ribs were broken.
I heard a screech as the Pinsir was knocked unconscious. Boris, Rachel, Blitz, and Michael came over to us.
Rachel was limping, and Boris' bulb looked half-wrecked.
Everyone else started demorphing.
Michael just sat on a rock, exhausted. ˂That was way too close!˃ he cried.
I felt a startling CRACK as I demorphed, then realized it was my ribs re-aligning themselves. They had been broken.
My damaged Nidoran body changed slowly, bit by bit, back to Mew. As it did, the wounds and injuries healed themselves.
As soon as I had demorphed, I ran straight to where the Ditto Device had been.
˂Come on!˃ I cried. ˂We've gotta go! They're getting away with the Ditto Device!˃
Blitz was hesitant. He probably wanted to acquire a Pinsir or Scyther. But no time! They were getting away!
I couldn't let them have the Ditto Device.
I started bounding after them, following the three sets of footprints - two were Pinsir, and one was Scyther.
Author's Annotation: Wow, this got dark all of a sudden. You can thank Animorphs and its incredibly violent and gory battles for that. Though the mental image of the four Pokémorphs ganging up on that one Pinsir until it faints is pretty funny.
