Chapter 11: The Lab
We arrive in Lumiose City from our flight.
"We have a key, a tracking device, and all the time in the world," I say.
"You are wondering what I will do when you die."
"Yeah. I am wondering that."
"Truth is, I don't know. I have felt a difference in you though."
"What is that then?"
"You actually may be a Time Lord now."
"What, a Time Lord? No way."
"Remember when I healed. You were, well, inside me when it happened."
"Only one way to find out though."
"We are not killing you."
"No, not that. I meant running your Time Lady DNA with my DNA."
"Nice idea."
"Let's go to Professor Sycamore."
"We are in Lumiose City."
We run to Professor Sycamore's lab to run tests. "Hello, there. What's your name?" Says Professor Sycamore.
"Calem. This is Gardevoir."
"Nice to meet you professor," Gardevoir says.
"What she talks?"
"Yes professor. Gardevoir, do you want me to tell him?"
"Do it. It's the only way he would understand."
I tell Professor Sycamore everything that happened in Unova. When I finish talking, he says, "You did that with a pokemon."
"It's okay professor. I pushed him into doing it."
"Well you need DNA tests. Okay, I will do it."
He leads us into his lab. He prick out a piece of my hair and one of Gardevoir. We both wince in pain. He puts them into two different parts of a machine. "Looks like normal human DNA except for this one part that is the same in both of your DNA."
"So, which DNA is that then?" Gardevoir asked.
"I don't know what it is. I have never seen it before."
"That may be Time Lord DNA," I say.
Professor Sycamore walks over to me and whispers in my ear, "There is only one way to know and I am really sorry."
He shoots me in the stomach. I fall down grasping my stomach on pain. "Ahh! Gardevoir, come here."
She walks over to me and asks, "What did he whisper in your ear?"
"There is only one way to know."
Gardevoir turns toward Sycamore eyes burning with rage. Her chest blade glows again. She mega-evolves without me triggering it. "Why did you shoot Calem Sycamore!" She shouts, holding him up with Psychic.
"Gardevoir, stop!" I yell, getting her attention. "I've got the strength to stand, but you are bringing back bad memories. It is like our first mega-evolution all over again."
She turns back, runs over to me and hugs me. "I'm sorry Calem. I'm so sorry."
We kiss. When we release, I say, "Gardevoir, back up."
She backs up and my hands glow yellow. "Goodbye, everyone. I won't see you again in this face. But I will see you again."
I shoot yellow rays out of my hands, but wait. Gardevoir walks over to me. "Please don't change your face."
"I have to. I'm not a pokemon hybrid, but a human hybrid."
"Goodbye," she says, kissing me.
She backs up and I continue. She starts crying. I shoot rays out of my hand and face. I feel strange like something is overcoming me. I feel love overcoming my regeneration feeling. It finishes. I look about the debris of the lab. "I'm sorry professor. The lab is..."
"Happens, but I recorded everything from the moment she attacked me."
"Hey, do I have the same face?"
"From the moment you got out."
"Calem," Gardevoir says. "You didn't change. I didn't want to lose this personality."
"Gardevoir, before you regenerated you were a little shy. After, you got a bit more pushy. You urged me to do more things."
"Regeneration changes your personality and body," says a voice with a British accent.
"Oh, and Doctor, do you ever not sneak up on people."
"I just stopped to say hi. You are my friends. You are Time Lords after all."
"We are going home right now, so whatever you came for, the answer is no."
l walk out of the lab and walk home with Gardevoir. We don't talk really until we get home. "Calem, you got angrier."
"I know, but during my regeneration, I felt more love than the feeling of regeneration."
"I think we should rest."
"Welcome home," a woman's voice says.
We walk in and jump back when we hear, "When would you tell me?"
"Ahh!" I jump around. "Mom?!"
"Not seeing your mother before going to Unova. I thought you were dead. You didn't visit your mother for seven years."
"Calem, that's horrible."
"Now you're both against me. Great, I'm going to bed."
I go to the bedroom upstairs and get into bed. I look out of the window to see three teens walking. I hear one of them say, "Bloody hell, Hermione. We are in another dimension."
The one called Hermione says, "Ron, we need a place to stay. What do you think Harry?"
The one called Harry answers by pointing to my house.
'Ding dong'
I hear Gardevoir answer the door. I run downstairs. I say, "Hello Harry, Ron, and Hermione."
"How do you now our names?"
"I heard your conversation. Do you want to stay?"
"It looks like an open house."
"No, I'm going to sleep in the pokemon center."
"Ok," Hermione says with confusion.
Mom leaves, opening up the guest room. "So you have a guest room to sleep in," I say.
"So I have one question. What is that?" Ron asks, pointing at Gardevoir.
"I want to punch him so bad," I hear in my mind.
"Don't," I respond in my mind.
"So, what?"
"This is Gardevoir. She was my first pokemon and now my girlfriend, which is unnatural."
"What are pokemon?" Hermione asks.
"They are magical creatures from this world."
"We have magical creatures in our world too. Hippogriffs and trolls."
"Ok, but pokemon are better. They help and live alongside most people."
"So, they are people's friends."
"Yes. They are nice, but most can't talk."
"We battle them and take care of them. It may seem cruel, but it isn't."
"Ok."
They go to bed, while Gardevoir and I sleep in our beds.
