Parallel Heart Chapter 8

"I wonder how the honey-hunting's going?" Rose wonders, thinking Mega and Beauty are having fun. "Maybe I should've gone too."

"Aaaagh! I wish it was Rose here instead of meeee!" Beauty screams while running away from a swarm of combees ready to attack her.

"Thunderbolt," a stream of lightning comes from the side towards them. The combees faint after the attack, much to Beauty's relief until another swarm comes from the sides.

"There's no end to these stupid combees," Mega said sweating from all the attacks he's been doing so far and smirks, "this is the perfect training exercise for me," and charges at them.

Beauty looking at the charging pikachu with his cape wavering over him, "that is one crazy pikachu," she says wide-eyed about what she's seeing.

"Mega," Mega pauses in mid-air in front of the swarm, "Thunder Punch Barrage!" The speed of the yellow mouse's electric punches was incredibly fast and accurate, the combees could see multiple electric-fists attacking them, each one of them that gets punched by it instantly faints.

The barrage of punches ended when all the combees fell to the ground unconscious, leaving Mega exhausted, "man this is one heck of a workout." He looks back to the dazed eevee and walks up to her, "c'mon Beauty, it isn't that big of a deal," he assures her.

But that wasn't the problem, "n-no... look behind you," she musters up.

This confuses him and he does what he was told, "Solarbeam," he hears and gets smacked in the face with a powerful ray of light.

He almost lost consciousness from that surprise attack, but he still stood his grounds for a moment to see what caused such an attack: a vespiquen hovering over him. "I'm surprise that you manage to go through all of my precious combees," the vespiquen said looking through the entire swarm of combees, "anyway, why not you join my hive, little pikachu? You'll have all the honey your heart desires," she offers.

"Tempting, but no deal," Mega refuses.

"Then you'll have to go through me to get it." With that, she flies to the air preparing for an attack.

"You're kidding me, right?" Knolla asks Rose from the answer of where Beauty and Mega are at.

"Nope, they went to the hive to get us some honey," She answers back, "why is it a big deal?"

"Because unlike the previous vespiquen, the new vespiquen is much stronger, agile, and dangerous," Knolla yells at Rose, "that's why."

This make Rose worry as well, but that changes when she thinks about it, "c'mon, this is Mega we're talking about... he'll protect her and she always has a sitrus berry just in case."

"Thunderbolt," Mega shouted and unleashes a menacing stream of electricity from his body towards vespiquen.

"Protect," she shouts and a energy barrier appears around her. When the electric attack connects to the barrier, it stops and scatters across the hive-filled cave.

"Damn, there's has to be a way to get pass her defense!" Mega shouts as he looks through the options he has, not very many he adds.

"Meggy, I'll give you a sitrus berry if you win," Beauty shouts out to Mega.

This causes a pause for a moment as he hears the offer she's giving him, "Quick Attack," Mega just rushes towards the vespiquen with great power and speed.

"Protect," and another barrier appears around her when he was about to connect to her.

The two brawlers struggles between the attack and defense, when they cancel each other out, Mega was the first to recover and tries to launch another attack while she was exposed, "Thunder Punch," he makes a fist, channels his electric charge towards it, and aims it at the queen of the combees.

"Defense Order," but all of a sudden, a swarm of energy surrounds her and cushions the thunderous fist against her. "What the-" "Attack Order," then the same exact energy that protected her, explodes from contact.

Mega couldn't believe what was happening: he's losing. Standing to a side, he dodges another barrage of energy, "what's the matter? Losing your nerve?" Vespiquen teases him; this makes him mad about how she thinks she's stronger than him.

"Thunderbolt," and unleashes a massive amount of electricity from his body towards the bug pokemon.

"Protect!" She shouts and unleashes the energy barrier once more, but when the attack ended, she releases the barrier and comes face-to-face with him. "Attack Order," and channels energy towards Mega, only for him to disappear when the attack gave contact to him.

"Wha-" "Thunder Punch!" Mega hits her from the back, "Thunderbolt," releasing everything he has into a giant bolt of electricity from his body.

The vespiquen cries out from the pain she's taking and collapse onto the ground. "Better get that honey now, Beauty, I'm going to meet you at the entrance," with that, he walks away.

As he walks pass her, "wait," she suddenly said to him, "I still need you to carry some of the honey."

Realizing this, Mega scratches the back of his head in embarrassment, "oops, I forgot you have no hands," and laughs a bit.

Beauty just looks at the scratching pikachu's face and couldn't help but find that look adorable on him, but she focuses back on getting the honey.

They continue to walk to where the honey is supposed to be and find giant combs full of honey being held by wax. "Okay, I'll grab five so we don't need to come here for a while," Mega said as he gets ready to pull the combs.

"Meggy, you're not strong enough to just tear out a honey comb," Beauty states to him, making him think for a moment.

"Yeah, you're right, give me the sitrus berry." She digs into her fur and grabs the sitrus berry with her paw, only for it to be snatched right away by Mega.

After enjoying the delicious snack, Mega was back to his normal self and grabs the same honey comb to pull. Beauty sighs at his stupidity. "Again, you can't just simply pull a honey c-" she was interrupted when he manages to tear the entire comb of honey off its shelf.

"Told you I can do it." He repeats this process four more times before stacking them together and carrying them in his arms, "let's go."

He walks along side with a dazed Beauty; she was too much in thought: what exactly is he? He's no ordinary pikachu that's for sure. When the sunlight hits her face, she snaps out what she was thinking, "let's go back home," she suggests as they walk back towards the hideout.

Knolla was bored, so she decides to look through the book that Mega has hidden in his room, "why is there a picture of Mega on the first page now? And why does the pikachu on the second page look almost exactly like him?"

She examines the picture of those two and sees the hidden page of the second page, the picture of the pikachu holding a baby pichu with a message on it, "'I'm proud to have such a gift like my son, I know for a fact that he'll be stronger than I'll ever will be. If I would leave this world too soon... my last concern would be whether or not he'll carry on without me.'" She read the message and thinks about it. Is this Mega's father? What happened to him? Is he still alive?

"Hey everyone, we're hooome!" Her thoughts were interrupted when she hears Beauty, she places the book back where she found it and flies down the stairs as fast as she could, but she stops dead in her tracks when she sees Rose's stern face.

"What were you doing in Mega's room?" She interrogates the frightened togetic.

"I was cleaning up," Knolla lies.

"You don't even clean your own room," that shot down every chance she has to escape from this situation, "you were reading Mega's book again, weren't you?"

Knolla couldn't hide it and slumps down in defeat, "yes, I was reading the book," she confesses.

"But why do it? You know that Mega needs that book," she scowls at the togetic, "you should learn to control yourself."

Mega was having problems getting the giant combs of honey inside, considering it was too big for the door, "how do I get it inside?" He asks himself, "maybe I should do this one at a time," he put the others against the side of the tree and grabs one towards the entrance.

He tries to push it inside, but that didn't work either because it was too wedged against the sides of the door, so he takes a few steps back or tackles it. The force was greater than he expected, because it went inside and he hears screaming. "Sorry," he apologizes, "please stay away from the entrance."

Knolla was greeted by a falling honey comb and tries to get it off her, "help, anyone." Beauty was the first one there, and pushes it to the side with her head. The comb of honey came off after a couple of pushes and Knolla stretches her body, "thank you," she appreciates the eevee's assistance.

"No times for that, more of them are coming!" And with that, they immediately run away from the falling comb range.

Mega was repeating the process one-by-one with each honey combs, by the time he was finish, he was couldn't move and flops from the entrance, down the stairs. "Done," he shouts out to everyone else.

Rose was the first to come out from her hiding place behind the crystal to grab the combs and put it where the counter is. Beauty was second from underneath the table and closes the door, and Knolla just simply picks Mega and puts him on the dining table, rather rougher than she should.

"Ow, that hurts you know," he complains.

"Well you should have thought of this before you crushed me with a giant honey comb!" She yells.

"I said I was sorry," Mega stated and fall asleep right after.

Knolla leaves the table to go upstairs where her room is, "maybe I shouldn't have yelled at him like that, afterall I did read his book again," she says to herself and look around to find a book to read, only to find that she already read them all and sigh. "Looks like I have to look for a book in the library again," With that said, she flies back downstairs.

Rose heard the yelling and was disappointed in Knolla, "she did read his personal book," she points out to herself as she gets ready to gather honey from one off the combs. She tries to slide the wax off, but that didn't work, "maybe I need to use something else," she thinks of all sorts of ideas of how to get the honey, she need something sharp, but they don't have anything.

"Dizzy Punch," she tries to slam the wax with her uncurled ear and manage to break the top part of it, "yes, now we can gather sweeeet honey now! Lunch will be ready soon!" She sings happily to let everyone know.

Beauty was looking forward to having honey again and couldn't wait for lunch, "I wonder how Knolla's doing," she tries to keep her mind off food. She climbs up the stairs, only to find her mid-way to her room, "where are you going, Knolla?" She curiously asks.

"I'm going to continue to look for the answer as to what exactly Neos Pokemon are," Knolla replies and gently flies down the stairs with Beauty underneath her.

"Ever since Meggy read those papers for you, you've been obsessed as to what they are," Beauty points out the details of the togetic's behavior.

"I know... but I need to know in advance, as to what might happen," she replies to the statement, "and yet, we hardly know anything about Neos Pokemon."

"We know they exists, and that's good enough for me," Beauty states. They soon reach the living room. "Let's go back to the library and find that book before lunch, okay?" The eevee says thoughts full of honey-covered berries with Mega's smiling face in the center, only to get smacked in the head by Knolla, "heheh, thanks."

The togetic just rolls her eyes and flies up to the tip of the crystal to make the entrance open once more.

Mega immediately wakes up to the smell of a pecha berry attacking the senses of his nose, he sees it wavering over him and grabs it swiftly, "yay, food!" He yells and bites into it with great force.

"You could at least say 'thank you,'" he hears a familiar voice beside him and turns to see Rose, "sowwy," he says with his mouth still biting into the sweet-tasting berry.

Rose just shakes her head over his rudeness, "anyways, I woke you up because I need you to make more berry juice," she grabs his arm and pulls him off the table.

"Where's Beauty and Knolla?" Mega asks.

"They're in the library," the buneary replies, thinking about having alone time with Mega for a while, "I still want us to know more about each other."

Mega thinks about it and shrugs, "sounds like a good idea to me," and walks to the counter with her.

"So... what are we looking for exactly?"

"We're looking for books that might contain information about the Neos Pokemon," Knolla answers.

"Uh-huh," Beauty sighs not really getting the situation right. She looks through several books that might help her with romance problems, but not find one with obsession problems.

"If only one of these books has that, then I wouldn't be here right now," she mumbles to herself.

"What are you mumbling about?" Knolla asks with a stern, death-like look, this look always makes the eevee have shivers down her spine, even if she doesn't see it, she can still feel it looking down into her very soul.

"N-nothing," she stutters and looks desperately for the book Knolla's looking for.

Suddenly, a book fell from a shelf and almost hit Beauty on the head and turns to a certain page by itself from the impact, "what the-" "this is the book I'm looking for!"

Beauty was interrupted by Knolla pushing her to the side like she's nothing and begins reading the page it was opened from, "this is the exact page too, 'The Reports of the Neos Pokemon' hmmm, is this some kind of research dialog a scientist left here?" She questions the title and looks at the dizzy eevee standing up and wavering from side-to-side all over the place.

Knolla immediately grabs her by one of the front legs, "stop fooling around and come with me so we can tell the other!" With that outburst, she pulls Beauty upstairs.

"So you never knew your father?" Rose asks feeling his pain, "I only knew him from the day I was hatched, after that he went off somewhere and never came back," Mega explains.

"I grew up without a father too, so I'm taking your father left you for his own benefits." She assumes.

Mega could understand why she would think that, "no, he was needed to be elsewhere, but he never came back... he was a good, honest pikachu, so he would never have left me and my mom for his own benefits," Mega explains more, "part of me thinks he's dead, but the other part tells me to believe he's still alive somewhere in this region."

Rose can understand why he would think this way... if his father was a good pikachu, of course he would believe this, "is this the reason why you want to go off into an adventure?" She asks wondering why he wants to.

"That's part of the reason why... and I want to see all the beauty in the world." He finishes his berry juicing and eats the dried-out, remaining berries, "all done," he goes to the cup of water on the dining table and washes off the juice from his hands, "man, this stuff is sticky."

Rose couldn't help but giggle over his face also being covered by juice, "Mega, you also got it all over your face," and bursts out laughing.

Mega uses the remaining water to wash his face, so the others wouldn't laugh at him, "geez, and pokemon calls me rude."