Demon: Ooh, I wonder what it's gonna be.
AnonJolteon: It's a secret… :3
Derp: -_-
*Demon facepalms*
Lolnyah: ...Seriously?
AnonJolteon: Yep!
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Chapter 28: ...And Another Transformation
"So, where does your friends Max and May live?" Delia asked.
"Petalburg city." Ash replied. "That's where we are heading now."
Ash took out a map of Hoenn, and he located where it was, along with where they were.
"Here you go, we go from here…" Ash pointed at the airport. "Then we go here." He pointed to Petalburg City, which wasn't too far away.
"Alright then, let's head out." Red stated.
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The man with the syringe walked into the portal labeled "Hoenn."
He teleported into the middle of the forest. More often than not, he had teleported into sewers, oceans, but this time, nothing.
Looks like I was lucky this time.The grunt turned on his GPS, and found that he had teleported to Petalburg city. He looked around, in his "commoners" disguise, and saw a nearby large grocery store.
Hmmm… seems like a good place to start off.The grunt walked in whistling, trying to blend in. He then went to a corner of the shop and stayed there, lingering around.
Milk is a common place for people to come to…
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"Here we are, Petalburg city!" Ash presented everybody.
It had a nice breeze, with plenty of nature surrounding the buildings.
"It's beautiful!" Latias played around in the flower field.
"Alright, here's the gym." Ash walked up to the gym doors and knocked on them.
A bit later, the door was answered. "Alright, you need to have four gym badges to come into thi.."
Norman looked down to Ash. "Oh. Hello young man."
"Hey Norman, me and my family and friends came over to Hoenn to take a vacation, so I figured we could just stop by and say hello." Ash responded. "This is my mom Delia, my dad Red, my fri.."
"Red Ketchum?!" Norman was startled. "I've heard that in Kanto, you dominated all of the trainers in the league with only one pokemon!"
"Yep, that's me." Red bowed.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Norman pulled out his hand to shake Red's. Red responded.
"So he's my dad… this is my friend Serena and my other friend L.." Ash paused for a second. "Tia!"
Tia? Latias had a questioning expression. "Why Tia?"
"Well nice to meet you all, Delia, Red, Serena, and Tia." Why do all the females have "a" at the back of their names? Norman welcomed. "Ash, I presume you want to meet Max and May, am I right?"
"Yep!"
"Max is doing something pokemon-research related and I just sent May to fetch some milk." Norman shrugged. "Hey Caroline! Is it okay if Ash and his family and friends come and stay at our home for a while?"
"Sure!" Caroline replied. "Just don't let them step on the carpet with dirty socks!"
Norman then turned to Ash. "I don't know why she's obsessed with that carpet."
"I can still hear you!" Caroline shouted.
"Haha, right honey!" Norman replied. "Alright then, I'll lead you to our home."
Norman led everyone a bit to the left to the gym and came to a little cozy front yard with plants and flowers. There was a set of stone steps before a door, which Norman opened.
"Alright, everyone inside!" Norman gestured them inside.
"Father, guests are here?" Max shouted from his shut room. "Hold on, give me a second!"
'Hey Ash, I think you should go check on May. I think something bad might happen.' His conscience told him.
"Aaaand I am going to dash to fetch May." Ash ran off to the grocery store nearby.
"...What was that about?" Delia asked.
"I've heard that Ash has a grudge against Max." Norman shrugged.
"True."
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"Hmmdmm." May hummed as she walked down the aisle with money in her hand. Where's the dairy products?
Eventually, May found the area for dairy products. She walked forward and found where the milk were.
Where's the one which Dad always likes…May read through each of the labels until she found the one.
"Why, hello there little girl." A man grabbed her from the back.
"MMPH!" May struggle to get out of the man's grip, but it was no use. What May could really only see was him injecting something into her arm.
The man had done something else with his other hand, before the aching pain on her arm had been sharply pulled out.
A boy had pulled out the shot from her arm, and punched the man in the face. Two balls were formed in the boy's hands and both were blasted into the man, sending him flying across the tiled floor.
"Ummm… thanks person." May thanked the boy.
"May, are you okay?" May finally got a good look at the boy, who was actually Ash Ketchum. "...Oh no. I was too late…"
May looked at his eyes, first thinking why he was here, and then looked to where he was looking to. The arm which was injected was green.
"WHAT THE HECK?!" May screamed.
Ash could hear cops coming into the store, probably called in by the clerk. "May, stay here." Ash dashed towards where he had blasted that man to, and searched for him. He was nowhere to be found.
Even with her body feeling abnormally weird, May still decided to run after him, which seemed to get more unsteady each step.
Unaware of her own surroundings, May didn't see the dark man standing on the side, scarred, still holding a stopwatch.
He peered over and kept on looking at the subject until the point where he didn't see any more drastic changes. He pushed the stop button. He took out a device, and disappeared.
Over with Ash:
Darn it, I can't find him.
"Hands up where I can see them!" A familiar voice shouted from his side. Ash did what she said, and turned to where the voice came from. It was Officer Jenny, with a tazer-gun in her hands.
"Hey Officer Jenny from Petalburg City." Ash waved "hi."
"Huh? Why are you here Ash?"
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A while passed before Ash finally came back, with some weird pokemon-human mix using him as a support.
"Ash! Who's that next to you?!" Norman shouted.
"Team Everest striked again." Ash ignored Norman's comment and took out the partially-filled syringe from his pocket and tossed it on the table. He then put the green body onto the carpet. The body apparently had a headband, similar to what Norman had seen.
"Again?! Is this the person you stopped from them?" Serena asked worriedly.
"Yes."
"Ash, you still haven't answered my question! Who is that?! And where's May?!"
"This is May." "May" opened her blue eyes, which Norman immediately identified.
"...How." Norman was simply shocked at what had happened.
"...Dad… where am… I?" May slowly asked.
Max was even more surprised. "SIS!"
He kneeled down on the carpet and investigated May's body. "What happened back there Ash?!"
"Team Everest attacked. They have the scientific ability to change a person's body." Ash sadly stated.
"So they turned my sister into something else?!"
"They usually do pokemon, so I think they tried to turn May into a certain pokemon. I stopped them from injecting the entire thing, so I don't know what will be the effects."
"...She seems to look like a Gardevoir…"
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"Breaking news, an attack by an unknown team called 'Team Everest' had changed a trainer part pokemon. We don't know which type, but please, be aware of your surroundings. The police are currently tracking down the case." Robert turned off the TV.
"And what's your excuse of failing?!" Robert shouted to the grunt he had sent the mission to.
"The target with the virus, he was there."
"HA! And you'd think I'd believe tha.."
"Sir, the beacon is located in Hoenn, at Petalburg city." A commander interrupted.
"...WHAT?!" Robert checked the teleporter log, and it showed that he was teleported to and from Petalburg City. "God… Did you at least get the time?"
"Two-thirds of the serum, since the virus carrier pulled it out before everything could go in. I got the time of ten seconds."
"That means the entire speed is 15 seconds." Robert stated. "That's a good amount. Even if we got exposed to the public, we can always release the final project."
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"Sooo… is it possible that I can turn back?" May looked at her now-green arm.
"I just have to contact someone who I know." Ash sighed.
"So this Team Everest, they can turn people into whatever they want?"
"Yes."
Ash explained to everyone that Team Everest was a type of team that had turned people into Pokemon or into their opposite gender or both.
"So sis, you're gonna be alright?" Max asked.
"I guess." May sipped from the glass of water.
May's new form didn't really differ much from a regular person: She still had fingers, but only four, still had her own blue eyes, and etc. The things that did change were her body color, which May obviously hates, the white dress that came with it, which May was ok with, green hair, and that abnormal spike sticking out from her chest.
"So, you're Serena, right?" May asked to Serena.
"Yes."
"You've been partially turned into a pokemon? How did you change back?"
"A really smart person helped us out." Serena replied. "Do you know about the Kalos region?"
"Heard of it."
"Well, in Lumiose City, one of the largest cities in Kalos, he designed the entire center of power."
"Woah."
"I've been turned into a girl once…" Ash rubbed the back of his head. "Then that person Serena talked about changed me back. Then I got shot right after and turned into a pokemon that I'm present as right now."
"Wait… you never told us that you're currently a pokemon right now! And how is that even possible?!" May pointed to his human form.
"Max, May, where's your room?" Ash asked.
They both pointed to the same doorway. So, Ash led Latias (otherwise known as "Tia") and Serena into the room, followed by Max and May, leaving their both their parents, one set trying to comfort the other.
"Max, you might recognize what pokemon I've been turned into." Ash started glowing for a bit, until his Latios form appeared.
"A Latios!" Max immediately guessed, but kinda forgot that this was Ash. "The blue feathers, they have so many abilities! I've never seen one befo.."
"OWOWOWOWWW!" Max shouted, due to May tugging on his ear.
"You shouldn't behave like that to him, he's still the Ash we know." May stated.
"Ah, right." Max apologized. "Sorry Ash."
"And Tia, is also a pokemon."
"She got transformed too?"
"No, she was originally a pokemon." Ash turned back to his form then gestured Latias to show her true form.
Latias did the same thing as Ash, and almost the same reaction came from Max.
"Wow, it is true that Latias are smaller than Latios! They also have a more sleeker body form, this is amazi.."
Once again, May tugged on his ear, whilst closing his mouth.
"Sorry, he can be a pest sometimes." May sweatdropped as she could feel heat at her hand.
Max broke free of May's grip and stared at her, obviously annoyed, before looking back at Ash. "Wait, aren't Latias supposed to be the female counterpart of Latios? Doesn't that mean that you two are in lo.."
Latias swiftly turned around and covered her face with her claws and used psychic to clamp Max's jaws together.
"Max, I don't think you should be touching on that topic." May tipped.
"Latias, can you stop?" Ash asked. She let go of the pyschic hold.
"Also, why is she here?" Max pointed to Latias, who was still very embarassed.
"Well, she wanted to come along, so she caught herself in my pokeball." Ash took out Latias's pokeball.
"That means you caught a legendary?!"
"I guess." Ash shrugged. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to call in that smart friend to help your sister out."
Ash opened the door, grabbed the shot, and ran to the nearby Pokemon Center.
"...So May, what did you do with Ash when you traveled with him?"
"I originally set out to be a trainer, just for the great views I can see during the journey. However, as I was traveling with Ash, I learned what my true passion was: Pokemon Coordinating."
"Pokemon Coordinating… So that's why I felt like I knew the Hoenn region! Palermo told me about it!" *A/N: Searched that stuff up on the Bulbapedia :I*
"Palermo?! The legendary woman who had performed the greatest of all?!" May suddenly got hyped.
"You know her?"
"I've only seen her on magazines after I had gone home, where they were showcasing what was going on in Kalos. The moment I read the magazine on her past performances, I started collecting them and inspecting each one for possible methods I could use in a Coordinating Battle." May stated.
"Palermo saw what I had done to go up against the current Kalos Queen Aria, and she advised me to go along with her training. I rejected her offer, but later on, she advised me to go to Hoenn for pokemon coordinating. I had no idea what it was, but I guess I'm here now."
"I can tell you about pokemon coordinating, since I'm probably not going to be doing it anytime soon." May sadly stated, looking at her Gardevoir-ish body.
"That would be great!"
"Hey… where's Max?"
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"Hey Clemont, it's me, Ash!" Ash said through the microphone the moment it was answered.
Bonnie answered it though. "Oh hi Ash!"
"Hey Bonnie, do you know where's your brother?"
"Yeah, he went on a 'tour' in Orangix, personally led by Lilia." Bonnie stated, putting "tour" in air quotes. "Why? Do you need something from him?"
"Yeah, another person got transformed into a pokemon."
"Oh no! That's terrible." Bonnie exclaimed.
"Well, once he gets back, tell him that I called. Okay?" Ash requested.
"Oka.. Who's that boy over there?" Bonnie peered below his shoulder.
Ash looked to his left, and saw Max standing there.
"Max, what are you doing here?"
"I wanted to see this smart person for myself! That girl doesn't look anything close to it." Max pointed at the screen.
"Hey! That isn't very nice!" Bonnie shouted through the call.
"Sorry Bonnie, this is the little brother of the person who got transformed." Ash started pushing Max's head out of the screen.
"It's fine, I'll tell Clemont to message your Pokegear a specific time when he can contact you. See you later!"
"You too Bonnie." Ash ended the call, then turned to Max. "Why did you want to see this smart person?"
"Just wanted to make sure he wasn't a phony." Max shrugged.
"Did you think I lied?!"
"I guess."
"Great, thanks a lot." Ash started walking back to the gym.
Sheesh... I was only curious.
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AnonJolteon: I was originally planning for Ash to be transformed into something else, but eh. I felt like I wanted to chuck someone else into the fray.
*Nerd starts clapping slowly*
Nerd: Super nice of you.
AnonJolteon: Hey, at least I didn't make her get captured or anything!
Demon: That would've been nice.
*Nerd smacks Demon's head into the ground using the mallet*
Derp: violent!
Nerd: He deserved it.
