"Pokerus is a disease that pokemon can get. However, it is not really a dangerous one. It's healthy and beneficial to pokemon. But in some cases, it can be dangerous." Professor Henri Lebeau explained to his students.

Professor Henri Lebeau's class where currently in the middle of a lesson about the mysterious virus known as Pokerus, that afternoon. Today marked a very important day as it was the very first day of February. As the students where in class, a winter snowstorm was going on outside. Each of the students was sitting at their desk, currently listening to the teacher speak.

The teacher who was dyslexic turned around, removing his attention away from the smartboard. He was finished giving his lesson. "Anyone have any questions?"

Tons of students raised their hands as they had questions about the disease. Some of the students who were raising their hands we're Josh, Lillian, Leah, Blake, Fiery and even David of all people. The teacher was going to try his best to answer all the questions, but he knew he couldn't answer all of them, so he had to choose carefully on whose questions he was going to answer. "Yes, Fiery?"

"So, can I purposely give one of my pokemon pokerus?" Fiery asked. The young boy who liked fire type was a curious little fellow. Hearing about the mysterious disease Pokerus, really got him curious and interested in the lesson.

Leah was disgusted by that comment as she really cared about Pokemon. The young girl who ha da bit of a temper hit Fiery with the back of her book, which caused him to fall, with his eyes turning into swirls.

"Hush little Magby don't you cry." The unconscious boy said in pain.

"Why did you do that?" Davey asked as he was sitting right next to Leah with his Growlithe sitting right next to him.

"Growlithe? Growl?" Growlithe wondered why she did it too.

Leah balled up fist with a fit of rage. "If you don't shut up, I'm going to do it to you too."

"Okay, okay, okay. I'll never ask again." Davey responded as he was a little bit worried. The young boy started to sweatdrop. Leah had a bit of a fiery temper which caused people in the class to be afraid of her, except for Ryuzaki.

Professor Henri Lebeau chuckled. "Now, now no bullying," Lebeau ordered. The teacher used to get bullied a lot in his childhood and prohibited bullying in his classroom.

"Yes, sir." The ice type pokemon trainer Leah sighed.

Now that; that was over with. The Professor could get back on track to his lesson and Fiery's question. "Now to answer Fiery's question," The teacher started walking back and forth before he could explain the question. "No, you cannot give another pokemon the pokerus virus. The pokerus virus comes randomly and it is impossible to know when a Pokemon will get it."

"How disappointing," Fiery sighed as he recovered from Leah's attack and sat back in his seat. "I wanted to give one of my pokemon pokerus."

The bell rang which meant that it was time for class to be over with. The students were excited, except for Davey wanted to finish learning more about the disease. "Now, now. Before you all go, remember that your reading assignment is on page 35-89 and it's about The Great Pokemon War." He reminded the students as they started to collect their things.

With the room being almost completely empty, Professor Henri Lebeau remembered that there was something he needed to talk to Josh and Tyree about as the class was over with. He walked up to the two students who desks were right next to each other.

Tyree and Josh were collecting some of their things, like their notebooks and pencils before they were getting ready to leave the classroom.

"Tyree and Josh, can I have a word with you?" The teacher asked.

"Sure." Josh and Tyree replied as they looked at their young teacher.

"It's just that I want the two of you to help me with something."

Josh and Tyree both look at each other, as they were confused as to what was going on and what the teacher wanted from him. Another thing that made the two of them curious, was because both were into science with Josh being into Pokemon Biology and Tyree being into Pokemon Archaeology.

The two students followed Professor Henri Lebeau all the way to the school's laboratory, which was also the Professor's main lab that he used at school. Lebeau turned on the lights which brighten the room.

Josh's eyes widen up as he examined the room. "I've never been in the school's lab before!" Josh said as he got starry-eyed from seeing all the scientific stuff in the room.

"We were just in here last week…" Tyree shrugged.

Josh grabbed Tyree by the color and shook him. "That was different. I was with the rest of the class, and there's like 1,000 of us. I'm just here with three people and it's like totally different."

"No, it's not." Tyree sweatdropped.

"Just let me dream." Josh cried.

"So why exactly did you call us in here for?" Tyree asked as he folded his arms.

"That's a good question." The Professor replied. The young teacher turned around and pressed a shiny red button. The button ends up pulling down a glass container that had a Duosion inside of it, however, the psychic type Pokemon had a purple line underneath it which indicated that there was something wrong with it.

"Duosion, doison." The psychic type pokemon coughed, as it looked deathly ill.

"It's a Duosion," Tyree said as he pulled out his Unova Pokedex.

Josh cleared his throat. "You don't need a Pokedex, I'll tell you about it. Duosion, the Mitosis Pokemon. A psychic type and the pre-evolved form of Solosis." Josh said in a robotic tone of voice, trying to make himself sound like a Pokedex. "Since they have two divided brains, sometimes they try to take two different actions at once."

Josh had a smile as he felt that he accomplished something by explaining about the psychic type Pokemon. "I did a good deed today."

Tyree sweatdropped once again, finding Josh to be quite irritating. "We all get it, even the readers. You're smart."

"I know I am." Josh chuckled.

Tyree and Josh both walk up to Duosion and noticed that something was wrong it. They could tell that the pokemon was sick, but they were wondering as to what the Professor wanted to them. "What's wrong with Duosion?" Tyree asked.

"You see." He replied as he walked up towards him two students. "I want to do a presentation with Duosion tomorrow for class, but I won't be able to make it because my daughter has a piano lesson. So, I was wondering if the two of you could be in charge for a day."

Josh smiled. He was excited that the teacher was asking him to oversee the class today. It was kind of something he wanted to go along with being a Pokemon Biologist. "You can count on me to be the best teacher ever!"

Tyree and Lebeau sweatdropped once again, finding Josh to be a little bit too extreme. Lebeau walked over towards Tyree's ear. "What I mean is that I really want you to oversee the class. We all know that he couldn't handle it and will let the power go to his head. So, watch him closely."

"Will do," Tyree whispered back.

"What were you two talking about?" Josh curiosity asked.

"Nothing at all." The boys sweatdropped.

"You see Tyree and Josh. Duosion has Pokerus."

"Pokerus? It's what you were talking about in class the today." Tyree remembered.

"Yes. You see, I want the students to see firsthand what Pokerus is about." The Professor reached down and grabbed a 20 feet stack of papers and handed them to Josh. "Now every single one my lessons for tomorrow are right here, so all the rules are right there."

The Professor runs away in a hurry. But as soon as he gets to the door he stops and looks at his students, as there was something he remembered he had to tell his students. "And whatever you do make sure that Duosion doesn't evolve."

"Now bye." The teacher runs away, leaving all the work to his students.

Josh and Tyree looked at each other and then look at the sick pokemon Duosion who was coughing. "Duo, duo." The ill pokemon was trying to float up but it fainted, leaving Tyree and Josh worried.

"Are you okay?" Tyree asked as he picked the psychic type pokemon up. The boy investigated Duosion eyes and could sense that the pokemon was in bad shape. Tyree wanted to make sure that everything was alright as he held the psychic type pokemon.

Even though the two boys learned that Pokerus wasn't a dangerous disease and that the illness raised up the powers of pokemon. He was still worried about the effects of the sickly disease.

Duosion could barely say anything as he tried to move his mouth. "Duo, duo." The pokemon said slowly, trying to answer the question. But Duosion was in so much pain as its whole body was aching.

Josh and Tyree both look at each other once more, as they both sigh. They were curious about Professor Henri Lebeau's intentions. "Why would he leave us with a sick pokemon?" Josh asked.

"I don't know," Tyree replied as both he and his classmate look down the psychic type pokemon. "But I'm more worried about Duosion's health." Tyree looked down with a sad look on his face, as he almost wanted to cry for the sick pokemon.

"Are we sure that Pokerus can't kill Pokemon?"

"Well…" Josh started as he wanted to reply to his classmate's answer. He took out his smartphone and looked up information about Pokerus and the disease killing people. But he couldn't find anything. "I couldn't find anything about it on the internet."

Josh and Tyree both sigh once more.

"We should try and get everything ready for class tomorrow," Josh said as he picked up the papers that the teacher gave him. "We have a long day ahead of us."

Tomorrow was finally here and some of the students of Professor Henri Lebeau's class were in the classroom before class was getting ready to start. The class was getting ready to start, but since the class wasn't starting yet the students were just spending some time talking to one another.

Noiz walks up to Drama. He was feeling a little bit guilty about the way he spoke to her at the Midterm Exam tournament. He sighed as had a lot on his mind. "Drama." He started as he sat at the desk in front of her. "I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I want to apologize for what I did."

Drama didn't care one bit. The young girl gets up out of her seat as she was holding onto her Litwick who was in her hands. She walks over towards another empty desk and sits down.

Noiz sighed. But he wasn't ready to give on apologizing to the girl.

Cassandra was sitting in her desk. She was still thinking about what she found on her boyfriend's phone during the midterm exam tournament. It broke her heart that she found out about her boyfriend cheating on her, but she wasn't quite ready to confront her yet. "What am I going to do?" She asked herself in her head.

Cassandra's best friend Aamira walks up to Cassandra. She was Keith's girlfriend too. Aamira sat down in the seat right next to her friend and looked at her. She could sense that something was wrong with her and wanted to see what was going on. "Girl, what's wrong with you?" She shouted, which scared her friend.

"What do you mean?" Cass asked. "Nothing is going on!" She asked as she started sweating like crazy.

"It's just that, lately you've been acting differently." Aamira grabs Cassandra by the shirt and shakes her.

"Get your act together girl and tell me the truth." She wanted to shake some sense into the girl, so she could get her act together. She stops shaking the girl as Cassandra finally got her act together.

"Fine," Cassandra said. She was ready to admit the truth to someone, so she could finally tell someone how she felt. "I saw that Rafe got a text message from someone named Sidekick."

Aamira was surprised. She was also disgusted and betrayed as she thought that Rafe was a good guy. "No." She said in disbelief as she had a hard time believing it. "Rafe?"

"Yeah," Cassandra replied. "I was surprised when I found out about it too. I didn't want to believe it at first."

"We have to do something about this. We have to burn down his car!" Aamira shouted as rage was filling her body. "Let's knock him down!"

"No, no, no." She replied. "I'm not ready to talk about it with him yet. Maybe I'm making a mistake or something. Maybe Sidechick is his mom's name."

Aamira gave her friend a "really?" look.

"I know, I know, I know."

"Well, then a girl. Quit making excuses for him." Aamira replied. "You need to have a talk with him sooner or later…"

Cassandra knew that what her friend was saying was correct. But she didn't want to admit it. Even though her boyfriend was cheating on her, she still loved him. "Fine. But I'll think about it."

More and more students started pulling up and into the classroom, as the bell finally rang. The students all sat in their seats as Tyree and Josh walked into the classroom with Josh holding a stack of papers and Tyree holding the container that Duosion was in. They both sit on the teacher's desk placed in front of the classroom and looking at the desks.

The students were puzzled by what Josh and Tyree were doing. "What is that?" Max asked as he looked at the two boys.

"Good question," Josh replied as he removed the glass contained and held Duosion in his hands. The students looked at the psychic type pokemon and could that he was sick, not only the way it was looking but because of how it was acting.

"What is wrong with that poor thing?" Raven asked as she was worried about the psychic type pokemon that the boys were holding in its hands. "Is it okay?"

Raven gets up out of her heat as her Kirlia was standing right next to her. "Kirlia, Kirlia." The fairy type pokemon followed her trainer as the two of them walk up towards Josh and Tyree. Not only did the two of them walk up to Josh and Tyree to see if the pokemon was alright, but the rest of the students did too.

"It's fine," Josh said. "It just has Pokerus."

"It doesn't look fine," Jacob said.

"Don't worry," Josh said. "It's not like Duosion has cancer or anything." He said. "It just has Pokerus, and like the Professor told us yesterday. Pokerus helps pokemon get stronger."

Davey got pumped up after hearing that Pokerus made a pokemon get stronger. He wanted to battle the psychic type pokemon was sick. "So then why don't I have a battle with him?"

Leah slaps Davey across the face, which caused the boy to be in pain as the slap stung. "What was that for?" The boy asked as he had no idea why she slapped him.

"Because stupid. That Pokemon is sick." She explained. "We need to take it to Nurse Roy at the Pokemon Center."

"But we shouldn't do this. Pokerus is not a dangerous disease. It's a beneficial one that helps a pokemon out." Davey responded. The young boy was a smart boy who had been to college and graduated since he has a Ph.D. in Psychology.

"Growlithe, growl." Growlithe agreed with what his trainer was saying. Growlithe who was a pokemon had heard about the dangerous disease known as Pokerus before and never heard of it killing someone. "Growlithe, Growlithe, growl."

"Growlithe is right," Fiery said. Fiery could understand what the fire type pokemon was saying. "Everything is going to be okay with Duosion. Pokerus doesn't kill."

"Fine, Davey," Tyree said as he gave in to Davey's demand. "You can battle Duosion."

Davey was excited that he was going to be participating in a Pokemon battle. He wasn't the only one who was excited, but his partner Pokemon Growlithe was excited too. Davey got down on his knees and looked down at the fire type Pokemon. "Growlithe, are you excited to be battling as much as I am?"

"Growlithe, Growl!" The fire type barked.

Raven didn't like this idea, nor did she like the idea of Duosion being here instead of a Pokemon center. She wasn't the only one who was mad but her Kirlia was angry too. She didn't care if Pokerus was beneficial disease, all she cared about was the fact that the psychic type pokemon was alright. "I don't agree with this." She said. "This is wrong."

"Oh, shh Raven. I am a scientist and I know what I'm talking about." Josh said. "Pokerus helps Pokemon, it doesn't harm or kill them."

Raven growled at him.

David puts his hand on Raven's right shoulder. He was concerned about the girl who was his fellow classmate and wanted to see if she was alright. "Raven calm down."

"I can't calm down," Raven said. "That pokemon is sick and can be in a grave danger. We need to take it to the Pokemon center."

"Raven chill," Aria said. "Kirlia is alright and everything is going to be fine."

Raven rolled her eyes. She knew that she was wasting her breath trying to talk to these people. She wasn't going to give up on Duosion no matter what. She was going to save the pokemon rather or not it was the last thing she would do. "It needs help- "

"Listen Raven. We all get that you're concerned, but Professor Lebeau left both of us in charge of the class today. And if we say that Davey can battle Duosion, then it will happen." Josh said.

Raven sighed. "I'm not going to let you get away with this." She said.

As the school day was almost over, the students all gathered together in the backyard at the Pokemon Academy battlefield. Duosion was lying on the ground, feeling ill as Davey was standing on the opposite side with his Growlithe in front. It wasn't snowing outside like it was earlier, but there were still large amounts of snow claiming February afternoon.

The rest of the student in Professor Henri Lebeau's class were all watching the battle from the sidelines. But Raven was the only one disgusted by the sight of seeing a sickly ill pokemon getting into a battle. She almost wanted to throw up at the sight of it. "Why am I here?"

"Because Josh is letting his substitute teacher job get to his head," Tyree said.

"Don't talk to me." She pouted as she turned her head sideways.

"Listen, Raven," Tyree said. "I also don't agree with what Josh and Davey are doing. But at the same time, there are studies that show that Pokerus can't harm a Pokemon."

Raven sighed. "I knew you wouldn't understand." She rolled her eyes and ran away, leaving the boy to feel a tiny bit guilty for what he said instead of taking her side.

"Go Davey. We believe in you." Scarlet said as she was watching.

Davey was pumped up and so was Growlithe. "As a psychologist it had always been my dream to try and battle pokemon with Pokerus." The young boy said. "Now, let's do this thing."

"Growlithe, growl." The fire type pokemon replied by barking. Growlithe like his trainer couldn't want for the battle to be starting. It was all fired up as Growlithe glared at the ill Duosion.

"Growlithe, use Take Down."

Growlithe charges towards Duosion. "Growlithe, growl." Growlithe tackles the psychic type pokemon and sends the pokemon flying back a little bit. It didn't hurt Duosion much, as the psychic type pokemon wanted to get up but couldn't because of how sick it was.

"Duo, duo."

Some of the students started to feel a tiny bit of regret for not trying to do something. Just like Raven some of the students where feeling disgusted as they felt that the sick psychic type pokemon was in danger and getting sick.

"Duo, duo."

"This is kind of making me feel sick," Zakariya said as he was holding the fire type pokemon Victini in his hands. Zakariya stomach was feeling tad bit sick.

"Victini, tini."

"Yeah." Rhubarb said. "I'm kind of grossed out."

"Are we sure that this is right?" Freddy asked his boyfriend Rhubarb, who looked back at him.

"I'm not so sure." He replied.

"But Pokerus is a disease that helps pokemon right?" Chameko asked as she was kind of getting confused about rather or not if Pokerus was helpful or not.

Davey grinned. He wanted to find out more about Pokerus and didn't want to give up, as he needed to see the power of the psychic type pokemon who was infected with Duosion. The young psychologist glared at Duosion, not wanting to give up. "Come on Duosion show me what you got."

Duosion was trying to get up, but it couldn't. The psychic type pokemon was just way too weak. It was so weak that it could barely say anything. "Duo, duo."

"Come on Davey. I don't think that this right…" Noiz said, as even he too thought that it was a bit much.

"No, I won't give up," Davey said. "Now Growlithe use Fire Fang!"

Ryuzaki couldn't take his eyes of what he was witnessing. "I can't believe that he's about to do this…"

"Poipole, Poipole!"

Raven couldn't stand here and watch this take place anymore. The young girl was getting angry as she balled up her fists. She wanted to save the psychic type pokemon, so she ran towards him.

Growlithe opens his mouth. Growlithe fangs become surrounded by flames as he charges towards Duosion. "Growlithe, Growlithe, Growlithe." Growlithe jumps into the air. But before Growlithe could bite Duosion, Raven jumps in front of Duosion wanting to stop the fire type pokemon from doing any harm to Duosion.

Raven grabs Duosion and runs. The young girl's Kirlia followed behind her trainer. She didn't want to be alone and wanted to help the psychic type pokemon out.

"I'll make sure you'll get the help it needs." The young girl said as she was running through the campus of the school to save the Pokemon.

"Duo, duo." The psychic type pokemon said as he quickly opened his eyes and saw Raven holding onto her as Raven's Kirlia.

As the sun was setting; Raven was sitting in the waiting room of the Pokemon center. She was waiting for the results of the psychic type pokemon Duosion who she brought to Nurse Roy to get him some help.

She had been worried about the pokemon all day, ever since she first saw it.

Nurse Roy and his Audino walk into the room, as the Pokemon Center healing noise played in the background, which woke up Raven and Kirlia who was just sleep. Raven and Kirlia get up out of the seats and walk over towards the nurse. They wanted to see if Duosion was okay.

"Is Duosion okay?" Raven asked as she almost wanted to cry.

The nurse laughed. Which was unusual for a nurse to be doing. "Yes, Duosion is fine." The nurse revealed, which caused Raven to smile and Kirlia too.

"Audino, into."

"Thank you so much, Nurse Roy." She bowed to the male nurse with spiky brown hair as he just sat there and smiled.

"Yeah, Duosion had Pokerus. But I gave it some medicine that helped him out and controlled his pokerus." He explained. "Everything is going to be fine. Besides, it's not like Pokerus can harm a pokemon."

Raven looked down. She felt sorry that she ended up overreacting the way she did and felt bad about it. "I'm so sorry for the way I acted." She said. "I was just worried about Duosion."

Nurse Roy smiled even more. "It's fine." He replied. "You were concerned about a Pokemon and brought it here right away, it shows that you care a lot about pokemon and that makes you a great trainer.

Raven smiled, happy that she heard that comment. "Can I go and see Duosion?"

"Why yes, you can." He replied.

Raven rushes into the hospital room to go and see Duosion. As she walks into the room she sees the psychic type pokemon floating in the air and smiling. "Duosion, you're alright."

"Duo, duo." The psychic type pokemon said as the pokemon floats over towards Raven, happy to see her.

"I'm glad that you're alright." She replied as she hugs the psychic type pokemon. "I was worried about you."

"Duosion, duo." Duosion thanked the girl for saving her, as he smiled.

Nurse Roy and Audino walk into the room, wanting to see if everything was alright. Nurse Roy smiled and so did Audino. "Is everything alright in here?"

"Audino, audio."

"Yes, everything fine." She said. "Can I take Duosion back to the Pokemon Academy? My teacher wanted us to learn about Pokerus and the effects it can have in battle."

"I'm sorry but I can't allow that." The Nurse said. "You see, I want Duosion to here for a little while, so I can do some more tests on it if that's okay with you."

Raven smiled. "Yes, it's fine." She walks over towards Duosion and pets it on his head. "All I care about is that Duosion is alright."

"That's good. You're going to make a good pokemon trainer someday Raven."

Raven blushed. "You really think so?"

"I do. You have a lot of talent."

Raven turns to Kirlia and smiled. "You heard that Kirlia?"

"Kirlia, Kirlia."

"Hey Duosion." She said as she walked up to the psychic type pokemon. "I promise that someday me and you will meet eachother again."

"Duo, duo, duo." The psychic type pokemon replied, agreeing to meet up with the girl sometime soon when he gets better.

The next morning Raven walked into her classroom as the rest of the students where all lined up. Her classmates all stared at her as they where angry at the girl, for running off with Duosion.

"You have a lot of explaining to do." Josh said. He was the most, angriest out of all the classmates as Josh was folding his hands together. The young boy was put in charge of the class as their teacher was out. "Where is Duosion?"

"At the Pokemon center. I agreed to let Nurse Roy take care of it, so he could do some tests on it."

Josh turned white as his whole body shattered into millions of pieces as he was broken. However, a few seconds later he put himself back together as he was disappointed in the girl, but more importantly he was worried about what the teacher would say.

"But what is the Professor going to say?" Josh asked.

Raven sighed. "Look, all that matters is that Duosion is alright." She walked away to go and sit down in her desk. The bell rang, and the other students followed suit.

Tyree walked over towards Raven and sat right next to her. He smiled at the girl. "I'm so proud of what you did today. You are amazing." He winked.

"Well…I try." She replied as she shrugged.

"Kirlia, Kirlia."

The teacher Professor Henri Lebeau walked into the classroom. He went to go and see his daughter preform yesterday and that was why he was gone. "Sorry I was gone yesterday, I went to go and see my daughter preform and she did great." He said. "But let's forget about my talented daughter. Josh, Tyree how did class go yesterday…?"

Josh started sweating as he was nervous about what he was going to say, but Raven gets up as she was nervous one bit. She wasn't ashamed of what she did and wanted to tell her how it was. "You see, I took Duosion to the pokemon center because I was worried about its safety." He explained. "These fools where going to battle that sick pokemon and I had to stop it." She explained.

The Professor stood there and started laughing. "Good. That's what I planned on doing yesterday anyway."

"Huh?" The students asked.

"It seems like you where the only one who passed my test Raven." The Professor walks up towards Raven with a smile on his face. "You see, I wanted to see how far each of you where willing to go for you pokemon. And Raven showed that she deeply cares." He continued as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a heal ball.

"You earned this Heal Ball, Raven." The teacher gave the girl the ball, and she smiled.

"Why thank you Professor." She replied.

"I got a heal ball!" The girl said. Raven showed that despite evidence showing that Duosion was going to be okay anyway, Raven did whatever it took to make sure that he was alright. She showed that she was a great pokemon trainer and that she deeply cared about her pokemon.