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Black fog on the High Seas!
The first scene takes place about 5 or so minutes before the fog comes onboard the ship. Enjoy the story
Eric's POV
"I'm getting fed up of running away!" Sparky complained "All we've done since we've gotten on this ship is run!"
"You're not exactly running I am!" I cried as I skidded around a corner narrowly avoiding a Flamethrower attack while clinging onto Sparky, Sparkette, Aiden and Bubbles.
"Stop in the name of the law!" The security guard cried as he and his Arcanine chased us.
"They actually shout that?" Sparkette questioned blinking. No one answered her as we continued running receiving strange looks from the other passengers.
"Oh no!" I cried in distress skidding to a halt. We had come to a dead end.
"Now I've got you!" The security guard cried victoriously.
"Bubbles… what do we do?" Sparkette questioned clinging onto Bubbles.
"AHEM. CAN EVERYBODY HEAR ME IS THIS THING ON? AH. JUDGING BY THE SOUND OF PEOPLE TRYING TO BREAK INTO THE ROOM I'LL ASSUME EVERYONE CAN HEAR ME THAT'S GOOD. I'D LIKE TO INFORM YOU THAT IN A FEW HOURS THE WHOLE SHIP WILL BE UNDER MY CONTROL AND WE'LL BE GOING ON A SLIGHT DETOUR TO THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN." An unfamiliar male voice who sounded bored announced over the speakers causing the six of us to look at each other in confusion.
"What is this?" The security guard questioned frowning. "Is this your fault?!" He accused pointing towards me.
"I had nothing to do with this!" I defended
"BUT DON'T WORRY. MOST OF YOU WILL BE JOINING OUR SIDE IN A FEW MINUTES REGARDLESS THOSE THAT DON'T… WELL LET'S JUST SAY IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A FUN TRIP FOR YOU. OH I FORGOT TO MENTION. YOU WON'T HAVE A CHOICE ABOUT JOINING OUR SIDE. UNLESS YOU HAVE A STRONG WILL YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO RESIST OUR CONTROL. EVEN IF YOU DO HAVE STRONG WILL BY THE END OF THIS TRIP YOU'RE GOING TO WISH YOU DON'T." The man said darkly as a strange black fog substance began to pour in through the vents. Aiden, Sparky, Sparkette, the guard and his Arcanine began coughing violently but for some reason I and Bubbles weren't affected. The Arcanine's and security guard's eyes began glowing red and I swallowed in fear.
"That can't be good." Bubbles stated shivering slightly in fear.
"Aiden? What's wrong?" I cried looking at my Vulpix whose eyes were also glowing red.
"Sparky! Sparkette!" Bubbles cried with horror seeing their eyes turning red. I placed Bubbles and co. on the floor and bit my lip with worry.
"Aiden whatever's happening to you, you need to fight it!" I said looking into Aiden's eyes.
"You guys to! You may be annoying and always getting into trouble but you guys are my best friends so snap out of it!" Bubbles cried with tears forming in her eyes as her friends stared blankly back at her. I hung my head in shame feeling depressed.
"Huh? Bubbles why are you crying?" A familiar voice said causing me to look up and grin to see Sparkette blinking at Bubbles, her eyes back to normal.
"Did anyone hurt you? I swear I'll beat them up if that's the case!" Sparky proclaimed frowning with his eyes also looking normal.
"You guys!" Bubbles cried happily pulling them into a hug.
"Bubbles… you're crushing us…" Sparky chocked out and Bubbles quickly let them go.
"Why are you hugging now?" A familiar voice said and I turned to see Aiden blinking at us making me grin.
"Good to have you back buddy." I said patting Aiden's head while grinning.
"I didn't go anywhere…" Aiden stated confused
"Hate… kill… destroy…" Two familiar voices said in unison and we noticed that the security guard and his Arcanine glaring at us their eyes still glowing red.
"They couldn't defeat that strange voice!" Sparkette cried causing me to blink.
"Voice? What voice?" I questioned them.
"I will… kill you!" The guard roared and his Arcanine growled interrupting us.
"Not today!" I cried "Go Kenneth!" I cried releasing a Slugma who moved slowly, somehow not melting the ship with his lava like body.
"You can't hurt them!" Bubbles cried obviously worried for the guard and his Pokémon's safety.
"I'll just create a distraction! Kenneth use Smog!"I ordered as my Pokémon unleashed a thick smog leaving me unable to see anything. "Now it's time to run again." I whispered as I picked Bubbles and co. up and the six of us snuck away.
Luke's POV
I panicked as a strange black fog substance began to pour in through the vents.
"What is this?" several people demanded at once and a few people ran out of the room only to back slowly in.
"It's everywhere!" the people cried as several of them began coughing.
"It's burning my lungs!" They cried
"Everyone hold your breath!" Billy demanded "Otherwise you'll turn into a mind controlled zombie!"
"We can't hold our breath forever!" Kane cried beginning to cough
"JUST DO IT!" Billy snapped causing everyone to take a lungful of air. The room filled up with fog and I couldn't see anything for a few minutes. Suddenly out of the darkness a pair of glowing eyes opened followed by hundreds of others.
"It's-no good-I can't-last…" Red said coughing violently in taking a lot of the fog.
"Red!" Billy cried releasing his breath before coughing
"Don't you start breathing!" Kane cried shaking Billy's shoulder's violently before beginning to cough himself.
"It's too much I need to breathe..." Paula cried gasping for breath. I looked at my friends in concern as one by one they had to breathe in this strange fog substance and I felt the burning desire to breathe myself. Finally, unable to last any longer I took in a deep gasp of air.
"Guys?!" I questioned worried while gasping for air "what's going on?!" I cried looking at the group but I was unaffected by the fog. More and more red eyes became visible through the fog as the ship became pitch black. "Guys?" I questioned nervously trying desperately to see anything.
"L-Luke…" Shadow croaked from besides me his eye pupils flickering between red and black.
"Shadow!" I cried with worry "This stuff affects you too?"
"T-there's a voice in my head!" Shadow cried in distress shaking his head desperately as his eyes turned completely red.
"Shadow?" I questioned nervously as the rest of the ship slowly became visible but the fog was still present. "Guys?" I questioned looking at my friend who were staring at me blankly their eyes glowing red like Shadow's.
"What's going on?"A familiar voice murmured sleepily sitting up from Billy hood while looking around the ship.
"Liz!" I cried gratefully. Her eyes weren't red either…
"Great. I fall asleep for ten minutes and the whole ship's been taken over." She muttered looking around
"Liz! What's going on? Why are everyone's eyes glowing? What is this stuff?" I cried gesturing to the fog surrounding us.
"I, Billy and Paula have encountered this stuff twice before… once in a lake in Cerulean and again in a day care nearby…" Liz revealed frowning
"In a lake?" I questioned astonished
"A story for another time." Liz said quickly. "We won't be affected by this stuff though… but normal humans and Pokémon are!"
"So what do we do?" I asked her in concern.
"Snap them out of it." Liz said grinning evilly
"Wait what are you-" I started as Liz released a powerful Thundershock attack engulfing all of our friends causing them to cry in pain. "-doing?" I finished stupidly.
"Liz what did you that for?!" Billy cried angrily as his eyes returned to blue causing me to grin.
"Well excuse me for saving your life... or your mind as the case may be." Liz muttered bitterly.
"Guys we have bigger problems than Liz attacking us…" Paula muttered biting her lip as her eyes returned to purple.
"The fog stuff! It's taken over the whole ship!" Red cried looking around.
"What on earth is it?" Shadow muttered sniffing the air.
"Why is everyone suddenly unaffected?" Liz pondered out loud "it's still everywhere…." She said looking around.
"You probably zapped everyone to their senses…" I muttered making sure no one heard me.
"Kill… humans… Pokémon…" a familiar voice hissed and we all turned.
"Kane?" Everyone questioned in unison seeing our friend's glowing red eyes.
"He's still affected by the fog!" Billy cried "Liz! Give him another zap!" Liz jumped up and zapped Kane with another Thundershock making him grunt in pain. Despite this, Kane still managed to stand tall with his eyes still glowing red instead of their normal green. "Again!" Billy roared causing Liz to frown at him.
"Billy stop!" Paula cried desperately grabbing and turning Billy towards herself while looking him in the eyes. "You could kill him if Liz keeps electrocuting him!"
"Would that really be such a loss?" Billy muttered harshly his eyes turning red again causing everyone to gasp. *SLAP*
"How could you say that?!" Paula demanded while Billy touched his cheek blinking his eyes once again returning to normal. "I know you hate the guy but you've known him since you were little! How can you be so insensitive about hurting him?"
"Paula…" Billy began his eyes filled with regret
"Save it." she muttered turning around and everyone else looked awkwardly at each other feeling out of place.
"ATTENTION THOSE ONBOARD THE SS ANNE 2!" the man who had taken over the ship with the fog said over the ship cried through the speakers. Everyone who was possessed by the fog turned in unison towards the speakers. "THIS IS YOUR NEW CAPTAIN QUESTION MARK SPEAKING."
"Question Mark?" Billy parroted confused.
"It's obviously a fake name." Liz said sighing
"MOST OF YOU WILL NOW BE UNDER MY CONTROL… ABOUT 95% FROM OUR ESTIMATES. I WANT MY NEW SLAVES TO START WORK IMMEDIATELY. THOSE WHO AREN'T POSSESSED SHOULD LISTEN UP AS WELL. I WANT THOSE WHO ARE POSSESSED TO FIND THOSE WHO AREN'T UNDER MY CONTROL AND… PUT THEM OUT OF ACTION." As soon as Question Mark said these words everyone in the room turned towards us.
"Uh-oh…." Red muttered
"LUCKILY FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T POSSESSED I DON'T WANT YOU KILLED…. JUST CAPTURED SO THAT I CAN TAKE YOU BACK TO OUR LAIR AND EXPERIMENTED ON." Question Mark said almost cheerfully.
"That makes me feel so much better…" Liz muttered frowning. "Luke... if we're experimented on they could find out…" She said her eyes filled with concern.
"It will be okay." I said loudly causing everyone to turn to me.
"Luke's right. We'll be able to stop this guy somehow." Red said in determination.
"And get Kane back to normal." Paula said looking at our friend
"And be back in time for tea." Liz added rolling her eyes
"ANYWAY I WANT ALL OF YOU WHO ARE UNDER MY CONTROL TO FIND THOSE WHO AREN'T UNDER MY CONTROL AND CAPTURE THEM. THEN TIE THEM UP AND PUT THEM IN THE CARGO HOLD FOR WHEN PHASE TWO OF MY MISSION IS COMPLETE. THOSE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS." Question Mark said plainly.
"Go Pokémon!" Everyone in the room cried in unison sending out Pokémon of various shapes and sizes.
"Go everybody!" Billy cried in determination releasing all six of his Pokémon before yelping and narrowly avoiding a Psybeam attack before returning Kyra.
"You guys to!" Paula cried releasing Alice and Felicity.
"Don't miss the party!" I cried as Shadow leapt in front of me and I released Harry and Blaze.
"I need your assistance!" Red proclaimed releasing his Munchlax, Dewott, Grovyle and Quilava while the Dratini he befriended slid onto the deck as well.
"We may be slightly outnumbered…." Liz said looking at all of our opponents. All of a sudden the ship began creaking and groaning and began to tilt on one side.
"What's going on?" Billy questioned desperately trying to balance himself.
"The ship! It weighs too much! It's capsizing!" Red realised his eyes wide. Even the fog stuff began flowing to one side as we cried in fear.
"RETURN YOUR POKÉMON!" Question Mark ordered through the speakers hastily causing everyone who was possessed to return their Pokémon. Our group kept our Pokémon out just in case but I noticed some of their eyes beginning to turn red. The ship immediately returned to a level position after rocking violently a few times. "WELL…. THAT WAS AN UNEXPECTED RESULT… LISTEN UP MY NEW SLAVES! CAPTURE ANY ENEMIES WITHOUT USING YOUR POKÉMON OTHERWISE YOU'LL KILL US ALL!" He announced hastily
"I don't think he thought this through…" Liz said frowning.
"That's probably a good thing." Shadow said sighing with relief
"We still have to worry about the hundreds of people in this room…" I pointed out as everyone in the room started walking slowly towards us.
"Nicolas, Steve, Daniel, Laura and Liz! Find some way of restraining the mind controlled zombies!" Billy yelled panicking as his Pokémon looked at him in confusion.
"Because that's as clear as mud…" Liz muttered
"Okay then Liz use Thunder Wave to paralysis them! Steve use Quick attack to trip people up! Daniel knock the tripped people out with Bone Club! Laura and Nicolas stay by us encase they get any closer!" Billy ordered
"Got it!" Steve and Daniel said before running towards the people with Liz walking after them.
"Harry use Hypnosis to send them to sleep! Shadow use Confuse Ray!" I yelled and my Hoothoot fluttered away while Shadow chased after him
"What about me?" Blaze asked eagerly
"Blaze you just stand there!" I ordered causing Blaze to sulk.
"Dewott if the people get close to our group use Water gun! Grovyle use Leech seed so they can't move! Quilava, Munchlax and Dratini stay close!" Red yelled as his Grovyle ran after all of the other Pokémon.
"Felicity you stay close! Alice Water Gun anyone who gets close to us!" Paula commanded "Alice?" she questioned blinking.
"… You killed them…." Alice growled causing me to blink. She looked up at us her eyes bright red but they had tears coming from them. "…You all murdered them!"
"You've got to be kidding me! She's turned to the bad side too?" Billy cried angrily
"Well she is over one hundred years old who knows what she's seen in her life!" Paula defended before holding out Alice's Poké ball. "Return Alice!" she cried returning the possessed Pokémon.
"We just have fewer reinforcements now…" Red said looking at the Pokémon.
"Yer…" I said quietly thinking about what Alice said. Meanwhile, Liz ran through the crowds of people zapping all of them lightly, freezing some in their track and causing others to carry on moving just more slowly. Red's Grovyle planted seeds over the ones who continued moving causing plants to sprout instantly pinning the people to the deck. Harry swooped over everybody sending them to sleep instantly. Shadow sent out several Confuse ray attacks sending people walking into each other or falling over as if they were drunk. Steve tripped up the already dizzy people with Quick attack and Daniel was hitting everyone on the head making sure that they didn't get up again. Every so often the possessed people managed to reach us causing Red's Dewott to blast them back to the end of the ship with a Water Gun attack. When that didn't work our other Pokémon would knock them out with their various attacks making sure only to knock them out and not fatally injure anyone.
"This never seems to end!" Liz complained shocking another person zapping herself slightly out of tiredness.
"I don't think I can run anymore…" Steve panted
"We have to keep going!" Shadow yelled sending out a powerful confuse ray engulfing several people at once.
"More appear as soon as we've knocked them out!" Red's Grovyle complained as some of the people managed to escape from his Leech seed attack causing him to run after them.
"The Pokémon won't be able to last at this rate!" I warned
"I think we should retreat for now! Try and find others who might have been able to resist Question Mark's control!" Billy suggested as Nicolas slammed into a person who managed to get close to us.
"But what about human Liz?" Red questioned causing us all to freeze in our tracks.
"What about her?" Billy asked hesitantly
"Well she could be trapped somewhere with people trying to attack her… or under that man's…. Question Mark's control. Shouldn't we try to help her?" Red clarified
"I'm sure she'll be fine. She's surprisingly resourceful." I said panicking for a different reason.
"Yer I'm sure she can resist this stuff and we'll meet up with her if we can!" Paula piped up.
"If you guys are sure…" Red said hesitantly
"Then it's settled! EVERYBODY COMEBACK!" Billy yelled loudly.
"You heard Master Billy! Let us make our leave!" Nicolas yelled
"What does Nicolas mean?" Daniel questioned standing still while the other Pokémon started coming towards us occasionally still attacking people to escape
"It means let's run like-" Liz began
"Liz! Don't swear in front of Daniel!" Shadow scolded
"You sound like Alice." Liz muttered grabbing Daniel's hand and pulling him after her. Together we ran out of the room.
"Laura use Icicle Spear to block the entrance!" Billy yelled as his Shellder unleashed several large icicles blocking our exit. "That should hold them for a while." He said sighing with relief.
"We should keep moving!" Red yelled "it won't be long until the ice melts or until they can get enough fire types to melt it!"
"Red's right." I agreed. The four of us (with our various Pokémon following us) ran into the ship's corridors.
"Stop right there!" some people with glowing red eyes yelled.
"They're everywhere!" Paula yelled in distress.
"Munchlax use Screech!" Red cried and his Munchlax took in a huge intake of air before making a sound screeching noise making everyone cover their ears in pain and blowing the possessed people away. "Great job!" Red complimented making Munchlax smile.
"Let's keep going!" Billy shouted quickly. We headed down the corridor occasionally changing direction and attacking a few more possessed people. Suddenly we bumped into a boy who was also running. The boy had orange and red hair and was holding a strange looking Buneary, a spiky eared Pichu, a Pichu that looked like a Pikachu and a Vulpix.
"Who are you?" Everyone questioned at once.
"You're not possessed?" The boy realised standing up
"Of course we're not!" Billy cried "And neither are you by the looks of things…."
"Yer… I was being chased by everyone on board this ship…." The boy said looking nervously behind himself "Wait a minute… that guy has red eyes!"The boy shouted pointing at Red. "Aiden knock him out with Tackle attack!"
"Red's a friend!" I shouted to no avail as the Vulpix leapt towards Red.
"You're not hurting Red!" Red's Munchlax cried leaping towards the Vulpix and hitting it with a Focus punch attack sending the Vulpix back.
"That's the way you want to play? Fine! Aiden use Flamethrower!" the boy yelled as his Vulpix fired a powerful Flamethrower toward us.
"Munchlax use Swallow!" Red ordered as his Munchlax swallowed the Flamethrower attack. "I'm not one of the bad guys!" Red protested
"As if I'll believe that." The boy scoffed "I can't believe you guys were taken in by his act… he even has red eyes! Aiden use Flamethrower again!"
"STOP!" A feminine voice cried and all of a sudden everyone was electrocuted.
"Liz!" Billy cried in annoyance.
"It wasn't me that time!" Liz protested
"That's because it was us." Some voices said and I saw the Pichus and the Buneary glaring at us.
"Eric honestly! That boy wasn't even attacking us and you just went out and tried to fry him!" the Buneary scolded
"But- he's…" Eric began causing me to blink.
"Is he talking to that Buneary?" Red whispered
"…it looks like it…." Paula replied quietly
"We need to work together with these people and if that boy is one of them he'll probably reveal himself! Until then try not to barbeque him okay?!" The Buneary questioned causing Eric to nod slowly.
"Can you understand that Buneary?" Billy blurted out causing Eric to panic.
"O-of course not! I'm just very good at guessing what it's trying to say!" Eric defended.
"It's okay if you can…" Shadow began "you see…"
"Shush!" I hissed causing everyone to look at me while Eric frowned. I coughed awkwardly to cover the action. "For now we need to come up with some kind of strategy…" I said "without anyone being roasted…" I added quickly seeing how Eric glared at Red. Red frowned and looked away.
"I didn't ask for my eyes to look like this…" Red muttered bitterly.
"Shall we work together to come up with a plan or not?" Paula asked in annoyance.
"I'll work with you guys." Eric muttered somewhat annoyed
"As long as no one else decides it's a good idea to roast me then I'm okay for working together." Red said nodding
"Then it's settled." Billy said looking between the two boys.
"Agreed." Everyone else said in unison and we quickly started discussing our plan.
Aurora's POV
"Get in there!" a man cried angrily shoving another person into the massive cage. The possessed people were rounding up those who those who could resist and keeping them locked away so that they couldn't stop Question Mark's plans.
"Someone help us!" a woman with a small child in her arms cried
"Keep quiet!" A guard cried shoving the woman back. I sat in the corner of the room where the ship was controlled my hands and legs chained together while my brother Adolfo sat in a cage not too far away. I was the only one chained up so the other people kept their distance thinking I was dangerous. A man walked up to me with a nasty look in his eyes.
"Master Question Mark wants to know if you're still keeping up the illusion." He said bitterly
"Yes." I answered emotionlessly.
"You better not be lying to me girl. Question Mark wants me to remind you that he can still torture you and your brother." The guard growled before walking away as I looked at the floor in sadness.
"You're working for that Question Mark guy?" My fellow prisoner questioned me their voice full of anger. I said nothing and continued to stare at the ground.
"Don't worry Aurora we'll get through this." Adolfo reassured me making me smile softly.
Liz's POV
"Der still comein!" Laura cried as the possessed people tried to break through her ice wall.
"Lady Laura! Don't let up! Just keep using icicle spear to hold them back! Master Billy needs more time!" Nicolas encouraged. I sighed as I watched the group discuss plans of various degrees of intelligence. The stupidest plan so far was suggested by Billy involving jumping of the ship and edging along the side until we had reached the Question Mark guy. Unfortunately, while they were still in the middle of discussing these 'ingenious' plans some more of Question Mark's minions found us so Laura had to build a thick ice wall to hold them back. The Pichus that were with the boy ran up to me in curiosity.
"How about this!" Billy cried in excitement "We climb along the side of the ship and-"
"For the last time we are not climbing along the ship!" Paula cut in causing Billy to sulk.
"Hey! You're that strange Pichu we saw through the vents earlier!" the spiky eared Pichu cried in an excited feminine voice while pointing at me causing me to blink.
"Through the vents?" I questioned confused as the spiky eared Pichu looked at me while grinning.
"Wow Sparkette…" the Pichu that looked like a Pikachu said while sniffing me slightly, causing me to back off. "We seem to have all the luck finding strange Pokémon don't we?" he asked her grinning causing me to frown. Wait, how did I know he was a boy? Maybe it was a Pichu thing…
"Yep!" She said happily "I'm Sparkette and this is Sparky!" Sparkette said gesturing to herself and the shiny Pichu. "It's nice to meet you!" she said shoving her tail in my face.
"What?" I questioned and started backing away again causing the two Pichus to blink.
"That's how we greet each other…" Sparky said slowly causing me to blink. "Like this…" He said and the two Pichu shook tails and a few sparks came out. "See?" He questioned.
"Oh…" I said hesitantly "I've never met any other Pichus so I didn't know…"I explained causing the other two Pichus to gape.
"Don't tell me you were bred in captivity!" Sparkette cried in shock
"What are you talking about?" I questioned the strange Pichu.
"I've heard about those breeding centres…" Sparkette said looking at me while biting her lip. "You know they get two Pikachu whose fur is slightly browner then the rest and they force them to breed… then they have babies with slightly more brown colouring then black and get them to breed… each time getting a browner Pichu!" Sparkette cried
"There's only one problem with that theory Sparkette …" Sparky said sighing "Getting a shiny Pokémon is completely random so even if two slightly browner Pikachu breed it would be a very small chance that any brown Pichus would be born. Plus it's been shown that Pokémon that are forcibly bred or born using those methods die quicker so it's illegal."
"Just because it's illegal doesn't stop it from happening." Sparkette said folding her arms stubbornly.
"Right…." I said hesitantly backing off "Well I wasn't bred illegally."
"How do you know?" Sparkette pressed
"Well… because my parents Sarah and Andrew are perfect normal peo- I mean Pikachus..." I said quickly.
"Sarah and Andrew? Those are strange Pikachu names…" Sparky said frowning "My father was named Kachu and my mother was named Sparkette!" Sparky said proudly
"Sparkette?" I questioned "Isn't that your name?" I asked pointing to the spiky ear Pichu.
"Well yes…" Sparkette said sheepishly.
"So is she your sister or something?" I asked them curiously
"NO!" Sparky said a bit too quickly. I frowned at his strange behaviour. "It's a long story…" He said eventually.
"You'll have to tell me some time…" I said looking at them as they fidgeted. "Well I'm Liz…"
"Another strange Pichu name…" Sparky said looking at me frowning.
"You guys leave that poor Pichu alone." The Buneary cried bouncing up to us.
"Bubbles! She didn't even know how Pichus greet each other!" Sparkette cried in distress.
"Really? How do you guys greet each other?" Bubbles questioned them causing them to frown. "Sorry if these two are bothering you." She apologised.
"Yer you should probably stay away they'll infect you with back luck!" The Vulpix cried walking up to us.
"For the last time we're not unlucky!" Sparky cried and the two of them glared at each other.
"I'VE GOT IT!" Billy cried loudly distracting us.
"If you suggest anything else to do with climbing around the side of the boat I'll throw you in the sea." Paula threatened
"No it's a really good idea this time!" Billy insisted. "Eric remember when you mistook Red for being possessed?"
"How could you forget? It only happened about half an hour ago…" Red muttered bitterly
"We can use that to our advantage!" Billy proclaimed ignoring him. "Red you can pretend that you're possessed by the fog! Then you take us to Question Mark as your 'prisoners'! That way we won't get attacked along the way! When we reach Question Mark we'll break free of our 'capture' and defeat him!" Billy cried.
"Of all the stupid… suicidal… idiotic… things to suggest…." Paula ranted frowning "It's… its… brilliant." she admitted
"What?" Everyone questioned and everyone fell silent.
"Well there are lots things that could go wrong…." Eric said thinking "we'll probably have to return all of the Pokémon so we're left vulnerable… plus it looks a bit suspicious if one person can capture four people by himself. We might have to be tied up or something… other than that I don't see what can go wrong." Eric admitted slowly.
"Wait a minute… you haven't got our Poké balls and even if you did we wouldn't go in them!" Bubbles pointed out
"Good point…" Eric muttered softly.
"Can he understand you?" I questioned surprised causing Eric, the Buneary and the Pichus to look at each other.
"Of course he can't!" Bubbles said eventually "We just share a really strong bond! Haven't you heard of trainers who can understand their Pokémon after many years?"
"I have… but you just said he hasn't got your Poké balls… if you share that big of a bond he should have them." I said frowning.
"Erm… well… that's…" Sparkette began.
"I lost them!" Eric cried loudly causing me to blink.
"Lost what?" Billy, Paula and Red questioned confused.
"Bubbles, Sparky and Sparkette's Poké balls… I just realised it now but I must have dropped them or something…" He said sheepishly patting around his waist.
"Either he has scarily good timing… or he can defiantly understand you." I said folding my arms.
"It's the first option." Sparky said quickly.
"That's another good point…" Luke mused to himself "Shadow doesn't like his Poké ball and Liz doesn't like hers either…"
"Can't you bear with it for an hour or two?" Billy questioned me holding up my Poké ball.
"Don't you remember our conditions? No going in the sphere of death!" I cried hiding behind Shadow.
"You won't die." Luke scoffed causing everyone to look at him. Luke coughed awkwardly and looked at the ground.
"Can he understand you?" Bubbles questioned me suddenly.
"No… it's that thing you said earlier… you know strong bond and stuff…" I said quickly.
"But he isn't even your trainer…." Sparkette said quietly.
"Hey your 'trainer' 'dropped' your Poké balls! And how do you know Luke's not my trainer?!" I questioned
"Because you smell like the younger boy…. and you smell like a human girl as well…" Sparky said sniffing me
"Don't sniff me!" I cried in annoyance pushing him away while Bubbles frowned at me.
"So what are we going to do about the Pokémon then?" Eric questioned causing Sparkette to gasp loudly.
"We could rescue that girl!" Sparkette cried loudly
"What girl?" I and Shadow questioned in unison.
"You know! That girl! I'll bet you anything Question Mark was the one betting her up before! If we rescue her she might join our side!" Sparkette cried in excitement.
"You're not being very clear…" Shadow said tilting his head in confusion.
"Plus what if that girl is under Question Mark's control? Then it will be a pointless mission." Bubbles pointed out.
"Bubbles!" Sparkette cried in annoyance. "Grr… come here a sec!" Sparkette grabbed Bubbles and Sparky and ran about two meters away and the three of them began to whisper in a huddle.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Shadow questioned me
"Who knows…?" I said looking at them.
"The three of us have reached a decision!" Bubbles announced and the three of them turned towards Shadow and me.
"That was fast." I said surprised
"We have decided that the three of us… teamed up with you and Shadow… and with anyone else that may decide to join us… should go and try and rescue the girl we saw before… Aurora!" Bubbles announced
"Why the change of heart?" I asked
"Call it a change in circumstances." Sparky said looking at me with an odd look in his eyes.
"That's it!" Eric cried "Our Pokémon can go and rescue any others who can resist this fog then we'll have more reinforcements if necessary!"
"Your 'trainer' is super scary with his 'timing'…" I said narrowing my eyes at Bubbles and co.
"That's a brilliant idea!" Billy cried in amazement
"So we're doing an operation human take down QM? And a Pokémon operation free the people?" Paula questioned
"Basically… yes." Luke summarised
"Then let's plan the finer details before the possessed people break through Laura's barrier!" Billy cried
Billy's POV
We hid in a small closest while Red tied a rope around Paula. I was the only one left who hadn't been tied up.
"Stay safe you guys." I whispered as Liz, Sparky, Sparkette, Shadow and Aiden ran off to complete their mission.
"That should do it." Red said tightening the rope around Paula. "Billy I need to tie you up now."
"Red I think you tied this rope too tightly..." Luke said trying to fidget but failing.
"Sorry but it has to be convincing." Red apologized
"How are we going to break free when we need to?" Paula questioned looking at her ropes.
"I'll release my Grovyle and Dewott to cut the ropes when you guys need to be free." Red explained while tying a rope around me.
"Hurry it up would you?!" Eric whispered furiously "They might find us!"
"I'm doing it as fast as I can!" Red whispered back.
"Are we sure he's on our side?" Eric asked frowning "because if he's not we're basically just let him tie us up."
"For the last time I am on your side!" Red whispered back furiously while tightening the rope around my arms making me wince. "I've done now."
"I just hope this works…" Paula said nervously
"Come on let's go." Red said. Together we edged out of the closest nervously. Me, Paula, Luke and Eric could only shuffle as our legs were also tied together. "Question Mark should be where the ship's wheel is," Red muttered looking at the ship's map. "luckily according to this sign that's not too far away." The five of us walked slowly down the corridors.
"Where are you taking those prisoners?" a voice cried and we noticed Kane glaring at us his eyes still bright red.
"He always ruins everything." I muttered quietly
"I'm just taking them to Master Question Mark." Red answered emotionlessly.
"All prisoners go to the cargo hold." Kane replied frowning.
"These prisoners are very defiant. I'm taking them to Question Mark for punishment." Red said looking Kane in his eyes.
"Very well then." Kane said frowning. "I shall go with you. It may be difficult for you manage four prisoners by yourself." Red frowned slightly but nodded causing Kane to walk by his side. Paula looked at me with worry while I looked at the floor. It had only been five minutes and our plan was already going wrong! We carried on walking down the various corridors with the four of us who were tied up to share worried looks. Eventually, we reached the steering room and Red nervously opened the door.
"Who are you?" A tall blue haired man asked his eyes scanning over our group.
"Are you Master Question Mark?" Red asked making the man frown slightly.
"Indeed I am." Question Mark confirmed. "Why have you brought those children to this room? I asked them to be held in the cargo hold." Question Mark asked frowning.
"Apparently they were being defiant." Kane spoke up.
"They were, were they?" Question Mark asked frowning looking at us. "If they were causing you that much trouble you should have just tortured them or knocked them out. Not bother me while I'm busy." He said glancing at a mechanical console nearby.
"My apologies, Master." Red said, sounding very convincing. "I'll just take them back to the cargo hold..." He said looking at us. Question Mark sighed loudly and turned towards the console. Red's arm reached for one of his Poké balls slowly. Suddenly he was grabbed by Kane.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Kane hissed while Red tried to shake his arm off.
"Good work." Question Mark said without turning around. "Did you honestly think I would be so stupid?" He asked looking at us.
"At least we only have to tie up 1/5 of these intruders." Kane said grinning
"Hey Kane! What do you think you're doing I'm on your side!" Red protested still trying to shake Kane off.
"With that display of emotion you're defiantly not under my control." Question Mark said emotionlessly. "Who are these pests?"
"Billy, Paula, Luke and Red." Kane said pointing to each of us. "I don't know who this guy is though." He said pointing to Eric.
"They don't look like the sort of trainers who could afford a ticket to this ship." Question Mark commented "I'm surprised you have red eyes though… are they contacts or something? Not that it matters anyway…" he said looking Red in the eyes. "Ah. You're one of those aren't you?" he questioned raising his eyebrows.
"What are you talking about?" Red questioned frowning.
"Nothing. It's not really important anyway." Question Mark said turning away.
"What do you want?" I demanded and the man took a quick glance at the console behind him and sighed.
"What do I want?" Question Mark repeated my question slowly. "Well that should be obvious shouldn't it? I want to control everybody on board." He said shrugging but I noticed he still glanced at the console.
"But why? Why the ship? You could have controlled a lot more people if you had attacked a city! It doesn't make sense!" Red asked and Question Mark stole another glance at the console and sighed deeply.
"It makes perfect sense!" He cried "Think about it. Use that globby cabbage-like thing located in your skull and THINK." Question Mark said shaking his head. "Why attack the ship where everyone on board is going to be rich, influential, and have powerful or rare Pokémon?" Question Mark said in a sarcastic voice "I know!" He cried and his face became serious "Because of everything I just said." He said seriously.
"Master Question Mark you probably shouldn't reveal too much." Kane pointed out.
"Good point." Question Mark mused. "You!" He cried pointing at Kane. "Throw these kids in a jail where they won't escape from and you'll be rewarded when we dock again."
"SYSTEM OVERRIDE! SYSTEM OVERRIDE!" A mechanical voice cried and a nearby red light began to flash. The wheel of the ship began to move without anyone touching it.
"What's going on?" everyone (bar Kane) questioned in unison feeling the ship beginning to move.
"Oh finally!" Question Mark cried happily "Change of plan slave! Let these kids watch! It's time for my greatest hour!"
"As you wish." Kane said bowing slightly while keeping a firm grip on Red. I attempted to wrestle out of the rope to no avail.
"Question Mark what's going on?" Eric shouted.
"I may as well tell you... seeing as you all will be witnessing it anyway." Question Mark said grinning "The ship is now heading on a different course towards the part of the ocean where the currents are the most powerful all of Kanto. When we get in the middle I shall release the ship's very special load. Which just so happens to be the chemical that makes up the black fog-like substance. The currents will spread the chemical through the ocean ensuring most of the water Pokémon in Kanto and maybe some of Johto will be under my control." Question Mark said grinning as a Porygon and a Rotom came out of the console. "Took you long enough." Question Mark grunted at the Pokémon who both had red eyes. "Now all we have to do is wait." Question Mark said smiling.
"Oh forget this!" Luke cried angrily and he began glowing bright white.
"Luke?" Red questioned in surprise while Eric gaped. Luke began shrinking causing the ropes to drop around him. Eventually where Luke was there was a small black Eevee wearing a gold necklace. "He just turned into an Eevee!" Red cried in surprise.
"What?" Question Mark demanded staring at the small Pokémon.
"That's not a bad idea!" Eric cried grinning before he too began to glow.
"Eric?" I, Paula and Red questioned in unison.
"He can turn into a Pokémon to?" Paula questioned. Eric stopped glowing and in his place was a large Ninetails whose body was red and the tail tips were orange.
"The colours are the reverse of a normal Ninetails!" I realised suddenly.
"I am the only one freaking out about this?" Red questioned with wide eyes, looking very pale.
"You can turn into Pokémon?" Question Mark said with wide eyes. "Well that is interesting…. it explains that Chatot's message as well… I'm sure the Master will be most interested when I tell him… especially if I capture you!" Question Mark cried. Luke jumped up and bit through my ropes while Eric carefully burnt through Paula's and Luke's ropes.
"You'll have to go through all of us first!" I cried in determination.
"Five against one? Well if you're sure." Question Mark said grinning evilly.
Bubbles' POV
We snuck slowly about the ship stopping every five minutes or so to hide from the hundreds of possessed people.
"I can smell several people up ahead." Shadow said sniffing the air.
"Well that could be anything from prisoners to people who are possessed!" Aiden hissed angrily.
"Don't be too hard on him Shadow has the best sense of smell out of all of us!" I scolded him. "At least he's giving us an idea of what's ahead!"
"Bubbles we can go check it out." Sparky suggested "I mean me and Sparkette are the smallest Pokémon here therefore harder to spot."
"We're not splitting up again! It always seems to go badly when we do." I hissed.
"We're nearly at the cargo hold anyway." Shadow piped up.
"SOMEONE HELP US!" we heard a voice cry loudly.
"I think we have our answer of who it is." Liz said quietly
"QUIET PRISONER!" A different voice cried.
"Sounds like they have some kind of guard…" Sparkette whispered
"I have an idea!" Shadow cried suddenly running forwards.
"Shadow!" I cried as he dashed off.
"Don't worry he'll be fine." Liz said not looking worried at all.
"Hey! What's that Umbreon doing here?"
"Let's grab it!" There was a series of loud crashed and bangs causing me to wince. Finally there was silence and Shadow came running out of the room.
"All clear!" He said happily.
"What did you do?" Sparkette questioned astonished.
"Don't worry all I did was knock them out with a Confuse ray attack." Shadow said shrugging.
"Let's go then…" Aiden said a little apprehensively as we headed towards to cargo hold.
"Hey look that Umbreon's come back!" A prisoner shouted.
"And he's brought back up!" another voice shouted.
"WE'RE SAVED!" The prisoners cried in unison.
"So how are we going to release them?" Liz questioned out loud.
"You Pokémon come over here!" a familiar girl who was chained up beckoned us toward her.
"Aurora?" Sparky and Sparkette questioned in unison.
"Yes." The girl said in surprise "How did you know…?" She asked before shaking her head. "Now's not the time for that! The key for these cages are over there and all of the Poké balls are kept in that box!" She said pointing to each item.
"Got it!" Everyone cried in unison.
"I'll get the key!" Aiden proclaimed "Bubbles, Sparky, Sparkette and Liz you should probably release the Pokémon or pass them to their owners seeing as you guys have hands. Shadow could you keep watch?" Everyone nodded and Shadow ran up to the door. Aiden leapt up and grabbed the key with his mouth running to the cage door.
"Oh thank you! Thank you!" A prisoner cried happily grabbing the key off Aiden and started unlocking the cage. Meanwhile, I grabbed a few Pokémon balls and released them revealing a Larvitar, an Audino and a Dragonair. The Pokémon cried out happy to be released and ran up to their owners. I threw the Poké ball to the trainers that the Pokémon had ran to. Most of the prisoner returned their Pokémon immediately because of the limited space in the room but some kept their Pokémon out. Sparky, Sparkette and Liz repeated my actions and soon we had cleared the whole box and all the prisoners were free from the cage.
"I've never seen a Pokémon throw a Poké ball…" I heard several passengers mutter.
"Thanks you freed us." Aurora said walking up to us. "Hmm three electric types… that should do it…"
"What are you talking about? And how can you understand us?" Liz asked. "Don't tell me you can turn into a Pokémon…"
"You know about people like that!" I cried in surprise.
"You do as well?" Liz questioned me. "I thought it wasn't common knowledge!"
"What are you talking about?" Aurora questioned us. "I can't turn into a Pokémon… rather I AM a Pokémon."
"What?" Everyone questioned
"Aurora!" an unfamiliar voice cried and a Zoura ran up to the girl.
"I and my brother here are rare Pokémon from a region called Unova. We are Zoura the Illusion Pokémon that means we can create illusions. Why do you think no one else has questioned me about talking to you guys? They're all seeing an illusion right now." Aurora explained. "Listen up I need your help with two things they're very important!"
"What is it?" Sparkette questioned
"First I need all the electric types to do one powerful attack towards this collar." Aurora said gesturing to the black chocker around her neck. I noticed that there was a similar chocker around the Zoura. "This is a device Question Mark put on me and Adolfo to make us obey! Your combined electricity should be enough to break the collar!"
"Are you sure?" Liz questioned her with raised eyebrows "If we hit you could get seriously hurt… or worse."
"It's a risk we're willing to take." Adolfo said in determination.
"Don't you worry we'll bust that collar!" Sparky cried in determination. "Sparkette, Liz! Take my hands!"
"We'll defiantly free you guys." Sparkette said taking Sparky's hand. Liz hesitated slightly before taking his other hand.
"Three…" Sparky said and all three Pichus began sparking.
"Two!" Sparkette cried and the sparks increased dramatically. Aurora gulped nervously and held her brother's paw.
"One!" Sparky and Sparkette cried in unison. The three of them unleashed two powerful Thunderbolt attacks, hitting the collars right in the centre, sending Aurora and Adolfo flying backwards.
"Are you okay?!" I questioned them running forwards.
"So… dizzy…" Sparkette said tottering about "Let's not do that again…"
"Agreed." Liz said panting while sitting down. Aurora and Adolfo sat up looking fairly dizzy but relatively unharmed, their collars no more.
"Aurora…" Adolfo said quietly in a state of shock.
"I know…" Aurora said looking just as shocked.
"We're free!" They cried happily hugging each other.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" Aurora cried picking us all up and hugging us while spinning in circles.
"Don't hug me!" Liz cried unhappily, trying to struggle. After a few minutes of hugging Aurora finally calmed down enough to place us on the floor.
"So what's that other favour?" Aiden questioned causing Aurora to gasp.
"It's the black fog machine!" Aurora cried suddenly.
"The black fog machine?" All of us questioned in unison.
"Question Mark made me set up a machine when I was in the battle tournament! It a machine that produces this black fog throughout the ship!"
"I thought it was spread through the air vents…" Sparkette stated in confusion.
"Well mainly yes…" Aurora admitted "But the point which it was produced was this machine which I placed in the middle of the battle field! I need your help to destroy this machine! If it's destroyed the fog won't be everywhere and it will help people break out of Question Mark's control!"
"So it's like getting rid of a weed? You have to go for the roots?" Liz questioned frowning.
"Exactly!" Adolfo piped up.
"Guys!" Shadow cried running in. "We have company!"
"It's the red eye people!"
"They're going to capture us again!" the different passengers began muttering amongst themselves with worry.
"We can't have everyone breaking out into panic…" I said looking around "Aurora can't you say something?" Aurora nodded to herself and took a deep gasp of air.
"QUIET!" Aurora yelled loudly "they're defiantly going to capture us again if we just panic among ourselves!"
"She's right!" The passengers muttered
"We'll hold them off!" a passenger cried in determination holding up a Poké ball.
"And we'll make the random people who never have names in stories look good!" Another cried
"What are they talking about?" Liz questioned
"They've probably spent a bit too long in the cage if you know what I mean…"Aiden said
"What do you mean?" Sparkette questioned confused.
"Let's go then!" Aurora cried and everyone ran out the small room (with lots of pushing and shoving).
"So it's true you guys managed to escape." A man with glowing red eyes said staring at us. There was a large group of possessed people behind him. "Well I hope you enjoyed your two minutes of freedom because that's all your going to get!"
"Just try and put us back in that jail!" a passenger roared and several of them had Poké balls in their hands.
"Come on let's go while everyone's distracted…" Aurora whispered and the 8 of us crept away.
"Go Pokémon!" We heard the (non-possessed) passengers cry from down the corridor.
"Come on we have to disable Question Mark's machine!" Adolfo cried running ahead of us.
Paula's POV
"Do you want any help with these intruders?" Kane questioned.
"I think I'll be okay." Question Mark said keeping an eye on Luke and Eric.
"I'll battle first!" Billy cried in determination.
"Be my guest." Question Mark said grinning.
"Go Laura!" he cried releasing his Shellder.
"Rotom you're my choice." Question Mark said casually and his orange Pokémon came forwards.
"Laura use Icicle Spear!" Billy yelled in determination. Laura fired several large icicles towards the Rotom who quickly dodged them. "It's fast!" Billy cried in surprise.
"That's your best shot? Now let me show you mine! Rotom use Thunderbolt!" Question Mark yelled. Rotom fired a powerful Thunderbolt attacking hitting Laura directly causing her to cry out in pain.
"Laura!" Billy cried but she had already fainted "No way… we couldn't we scratch it..."
"He must have strength on par to an elite four member!" I cried in surprise.
"Well I'll just weaken you so that the others can knock you out!" Billy cried. "I'll use my fastest Pokémon let's do this thing Steve!" he cried releasing his Eevee. "Steve use Quick attack!" Steve dashed forwards in a white light. Steve attempted to slam into the Rotom but passed through it.
"Rotom is part ghost type…" Question Mark said sounding bored. "Rotom use Discharge!" Rotom unleashed a huge wave of electricity sending Steve flying backwards. Steve stood up on shaking legs.
"Steve use Bite! That should be super effective!" Billy cried as Steve ran forwards.
"Here Rotom!" Question Mark cried throwing Rotom an orange box. Rotom grinned and flew into the box, which looked like a fan. "Now use Air Slash!" The Rotom's fan began spinning producing a huge slash of air sending Steve flying backwards.
"Steve!" Billy cried in distress but the Eevee had fainted. "But I thought it was a ghost and electric type…" Billy muttered in confusion. "Nicolas, it's your turn!" he cried releasing his Nidorino.
"Rotom use this appliance!" Question Mark cried throwing Rotom a different orange box, which looked like an oven. "Now Overheat!"
"Impossible!" Billy cried "Nicolas dodge it!" Rotom fired a powerful heat blast toward Nicolas making all us. After the attack Nicolas collapsed in exhaustion. "No way!"
"I grow tired of this." Question Mark said frowning.
"This will be my last one!" Billy cried "I need your help Kyra!" he cried releasing his Kadabra who scowled at Billy.
"This one looks like it may have potential…" Question Mark mused. "But it will turn out the same way!" Kyra fired a powerful Psybeam straight towards Question Mark who casually dodged it. "It doesn't listen to you? It should really be on our side…" he remarked causing Kyra to glare furiously. "But there's no fog in this room so it's a shame I can't make it obey me…"
"Looks like Kyra's up for it!" Billy cried happily. "Kyra use Psycho cut!" Kyra ignored him and just stood in the same place.
"That Pokémon hates you even without the fog!" Question Mark remarked smirking.
"See this is why I'm against trainers catching Pokémon again their will." Red muttered.
"Rotom go back to your original form and use Shadow Ball!" Rotom floated out of the oven and fired a powerful Shadow ball knocking Kyra back causing her to growl. Kyra held up her spoon and closed her eyes.
"What's she doing?" I whispered to Red who shrugged. Suddenly Rotom was surrounded by a strong blue light lifting it up into the air. Rotom was sent flying into a nearby wall.
"One of your Pokémon actually damaged Rotom? Now I'm really impressed." Question Mark remarked. "Rotom it's still tired from your Shadow Ball use Discharge to finish it off!" Rotom frowned a fired an explosion of electricity straight towards Kyra who disappeared. The electricity just hit the ship wall.
"Kyra?" Billy questioned looking around.
"It must have teleported…" Question Mark said also looking around. "Rotom after it!" Rotom flew towards the wall but this time it passed through it looking for Kyra. Moments later, Kyra reappeared in the middle of the room looking exhausted.
"Kyra!" Billy cried in distress seeing his Pokémon collapse.
"That's Billy's strongest Pokémon…" I said in surprise. "And that Rotom made it faint…"
"But… where's Rotom?" Red asked looking around. Rotom came flying through the ceiling and collapsed on the floor.
"No way!" Question Mark cried in surprise "What did that Kadabra do?" he asked looking at Billy's Pokémon. "I might take that as well as those two." He mused pointing to Eric and Luke who growled at him.
"It's my turn!" I cried in determination.
"Wow. I'm so scared." Question Mark said sarcastically. "You're up Bronzor!" he cried releasing a small metal plate like Pokémon.
"Go Felicity!" I cried releasing my Growlithe. "Blast it with a Fire Spin!" Felicity unleashed a powerful spin attack completely engulfing the Bronzor.
"Wow that Pokémon's even weaker than his." Question Mark remarked pointing to Billy as his Bronzor floated there looking undamaged.
"Hey!" Billy cried.
"Bronzor use Psywave!" Question Mark ordered. Bronzor sent a purplish wave straight towards Felicity sending her flying and knocking her out.
"Well at least you hit it…" I remarked "and thanks for telling us there's no black fog here! Let's get going Alice!" I cried releasing my Wartortle who looked around, obviously confused, before focusing on the Bronzor.
"Pathetic." Question Mark commented. "Bronzor use Gyro Ball!"
"Counter with Water Pulse!" I ordered. Bronzor started spinning and glowing silver and headed toward Alice. Alice formed a blue water sphere between her hands and fired it at the Bronzor making it stop for a few seconds before continuing its attack and hitting Alice. "Alice use Aqua Tail!" Alice recovered from the hit and slammed the Bronzor with her tail.
"Bronzor use Payback!" Question Mark cried. Bronzor began glowing black and fired this black energy towards Alice. Alice was knocked backwards and fainted.
"I'm out of Pokémon already…" I said sadly returning Alice.
"My turn!" Red cried in determination running forwards.
"Finally, the last trainer I have to battle." Question Mark said rolling his eyes.
"Master Question Mark we have a problem!" A woman cried running in.
"What is it?" Question Mark demanded.
"The prisoners escaped!"
"What?! Impossible!" Question Mark cried while I grinned at all my friends.
"Alright they did it!" Billy whispered.
"ERROR! ERROR! THE BLACK FOG MACHINE HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY DAMAGED!" The machine cried
"Oh that's just fantastic!" Question Mark cried angrily.
"OUTPUT OF BLACK FOG CHEMICAL TERMINATING!" the machine cried as the man and Kane began clutching their heads in pain.
"Ug… what happened?" Kane questioned his eyes turning back to green before fainting.
"W-where am I?" the woman questioned looking around before fainting due to exhaustion.
"I'll take out the last of you and regain control of this ship!" Question Mark proclaimed
"Now Daniel knock him out!" Billy yelled as his small Cubone leapt from a nearby bookcase and slammed Question Mark with his club knocking him out.
"Chu chu pi!"
"Bun eary bun!"
"Umbreon!"
"Vulpix!"
"Hey wait for me you guys!" several voices cried at once and all of a sudden three Pichus, a Buneary, a Vulpix, a Umbreon, a girl and a Zoura ran into the room. Luke began to glow again turning back to his normal human form.
"Shadow you're okay!" He cried happily hugging his Umbreon.
"You're not a Zoura too are you?" The girl questioned surprised.
"Buneary bun!" The Buneary cried in surprise and it began to glow.
"What?" Everyone in the room questioned at once. The Buneary began to grow larger and larger until in its place was a girl with brown hair wearing a T-shirt with a light blue heart and a blue jacket with a pink a lime green heart wears blue jean shorts that stopped at her knees.
"It's nice to change back!" She said stretching and the Pikachu Pichu and the spiky eared Pichu jumped onto her shoulders.
"Everyone's either turning into Pokémon or turning back from Pokémon!" Red cried in confusion.
"You can turn into a Pokémon?" Luke questioned surprised while ignoring Red. "Eric you should change back! Liz you to!"
"Liz?" Red and the Buneary turned girl questioned in unison as both Pokémon began to glow.
"We're finally all together!" Eric cried happily. "But I can believe you guys could turn into Pokémon as well!" he said looking at Luke and Liz.
"Do we have to make a song and dance about it?" Liz questioned but she was smiling.
"Liz you're a human and Billy Pokémon?" Red questioned blinking.
"Yer... well it's a long story…" She said sheepishly "But what shall we do about these guys?" She said gesturing to Kane and Question Mark. "I'm guessing they saw you change? Because you defiantly weren't an Eevee or a Ninetails when we left!"
"The woman didn't see Luke and Eric change… and Kane seems to have lost his memory of when he was possessed." I pointed out "But Question Mark definitely saw and he might wake up soon!" I cried hearing Question Mark moan.
"I have an idea!" Luke cried suddenly "Shadow use Confuse Ray!" Luke cried as Shadow engulfed Question Mark with a powerful confuse ray. "There… that should make him forget about us turning into Pokémon."
"Are you going to make me forget too?" Red questioned hanging his head slightly.
"Erm…." Everyone looked at each other unsure.
"We can do some kind of vote..." I suggested
"Great idea!" Billy cried "Okay all those in favour of Red remembering raise your hand!" Billy put his own hand up and it was followed by my hand, Luke's hand, Liz's hand, Shadow's Paw, Bubbles' hand, Sparky and Sparkette's paws and Aurora's hand followed quickly by Adolfo's paw.
"Am I allowed to vote?" I heard Aurora whisper causing Liz to shrug.
"All against?" Billy offered causing Eric to raise his hand followed by Aiden's paw. "Red you get to keep your memory!"
"Brilliant!" Red cried happily.
"Ug… what's going on?" Question Mark muttered standing up holding his head.
"There he is that's the guy who took over the ship!" Some voices cried causing Question Mark to panic.
"Damn it… the people are breaking out of my control… someone must have broke the machine that releases the chemical!" Question Mark muttered to himself "I'll retreat for now!" He announced "But know this! We will win in the end! And there's nothing you can do to stop us!" He cried before spinning on his heel and disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"Wow…" Liz muttered "I want to shout cheesy things at people and disappear in puffs of smoke… is it too late to join the bad guys?"
"YES!" Everyone cried in unison.
"Honestly Liz how could you even consider joining them?" Billy shouted
"Alright! Alright! I was only joking!" She defended
"What are you kids doing in here?" A man questioned with a group of people behind him.
"Erm… we were just..." everybody began at once.
"Get out of here! Seriously we've gone through enough trouble today!" the man cried and we were more than happy to comply. After a few hours the ship had calmed down considerably. Kane recovered and like I predicted he couldn't remember anything about the time when he'd been possessed. However, the passengers were very upset with the captain for allowing the ship to be taken over and demanded to go back to port before anything else happened. So our 'vacation' on the SS Anne 2 was cut short as we were dropped off back in Vermillion city.
"So… now what do we do?" Aurora questioned.
"I think I'll be travelling around a bit by myself… I've had more than enough excitement with you guys for a while..." Red said "I'll probably look for this Dratini's home..." He said holding the Poké ball containing Dratini.
"I need to go to Cerulean city for a gym badge..." Eric mused. "So I'll be leaving you as well…"
"You battle?!" Billy cried in surprise.
"Of course!" Eric said grinning.
"I want go as well..." Kane piped up. "I mean I'll be heading for Celadon City as well but I want an opportunity to go at my own pace." Kane explained making Billy look like Christmas had came early.
"That's fine with me!" He said happily making Kane look a bit down.
"What about you guys?" Liz asked Aurora and Bubbles.
"Being with you guys seems like fun!" Bubbles cried in excitement "I think I'll stick with you!"
"I just want to explore this region… without being kidnapped." Aurora mused "Okay I'll stick with you as well then!"
"Then it's settled!" Billy said happily. "We'll be heading for Celadon City for my fourth gym badge!"
"I look forward to seeing you again." Red said grinning shaking each of our hands. "And remember don't catch anymore Pokémon." He growled to Billy.
"I can't wait until our next battle!" Kane cried eagerly making Billy nod.
"See you again!" Eric cried and the three of them walked away into the distance. We waved until we couldn't see them anymore.
"Let's go then!"
Ss Anne arc is finally complete! Kenneth (Eric's third Pokémon a Slugma) means born of fire which I thought was very fitting. Munchlax weighs 231.5lbs which is 105.0kg so it's little wonder it got disqualified from the tournament… I haven't really got anything else to say… please review this arc took a lot of work!