Chapter 45: Luke and Stuff

So last chapter was a bit late, so I decided to post another one! Except, it's... extremely late. SHUT.

We're getting really close to the last chapter, which is kind of sad. Unless you guys want this to be more than 50 chapters?

[HQ, 9 AM, A week after last chapter, 3rd Person POV]

Everyone was just waking up in the headquarters, except Speed and Luke. Luke was just really tired, while Speed was "partied out" as he put it last night.

Luke was under his blanket, where no one could tell something weird was going on.

His fur was purple. His eyes were green.

Bolt was the first up, and so, woke everyone else up. He lastly woke up Luke, because he thought to save the best for last. Cute, really.

He swiped the blanket off of Luke, then was astonsihed by his brother's fur. His gasp was enough to wake him up. Luke was confused by Bolt's expression, but then everyone looked and had the same reaction.

"What's... What's going on?" His voice sounded a bit more mature. Flash almost fainted. Luke noticed the change, too, and covered his mouth with his paw.

His fur changed blue and his eyes went purple. He felt a shiver through his spine during the transformation.

"What just happened?" Luke said, his voice now being very squeaky.

"I don't- What- Do- Should we take him to the hospital or something?" Thunder stuttered. He was the most calm. Luke's fur changed red and his eyes changed yellow. Flash was still amazed, but he managed a few words.

"N-no, I know what to do." He said, approaching Luke.

"Why should we trust you?" Blu said, being protective of Luke. She was calm on the outside, but she was freaking out on the inside. Luke's fur swapped back to purple. "This is our son."

Flash laughed and agreed.

"True, true. You don't know much about me except that I'm Thunder's dad's friend." He replied. Everyone was pretty calm, though still confused when Luke's fur kept swapping between the three palettes. "However, I would know much more about this then you would, being an actual eevee evolution."

That was enough to change Blu's mind, though she kept a watchful eye on him as he inspected Luke's changing fur.

A few moments later, Flash had reached his conclusion.

"Luke's DNA must be more unstable than most eevee's." He said, plucking a fur strand from Luke with his paw as it changed colors and grew and shrank every so often.

"How can you tell?" Thunder asked.

Flash was knowledgable in these sorts of things. During the time that he wasn't captured by Threat and wasn't teamed up with Lightning, he was helping Pokemon who had the same problem.

"Experience." He replied. "All we can do is wait to see what happens." No one in the room seemed to like this idea. Not even Flash, since he knew that there was a chance of death, having seen it so many times before. And Flash was his father.

"Can he... die?" Thunder whispered, being the worried parent he had been since Luke hatched.

"Well, there is a small chance. But I doubt it." He pet Luke as he changed colors frantically.

Luke was very afraid, shivering even. He was scared out of his mind, and his spine was now constantly tingling. He felt a bulge in his neck, but it left when his voice went squeaky.

"We can't do nothing!" Blu yelled. She noticed how the changes were affecting Luke.

Mira was being very quiet. She was afraid for Luke, and Bolt was hugging her, as well.

"It would be best to wait," Flash snapped back. His voiced calmed down afterwards. "But, since you insist, there is one other thing we can do."

"Anything. Name it." Blu replied with a look of determination on her face.

"We can evolve him."

"WHAT?!" Thunder screamed. He cleared his throat. "I mean... Why?" Everyone took a second to come back from his scream.

"Well, evolution is a process no one fully understands. In some cases, the Pokemon with this... disease, for lack of a better term, are just incapable of evolving when they should. How long have you had Luke now?" Flash said. Although he was fully aware of how long. He didn't want to be suspiscious.

"About a year and a couple months." Blu said.

"Well, since every Pokemon ages differently, another concept we can't fully understand, some Pokemon should evolve much earlier or later than others," Flash started explaining. "This can cause some troubles with adopted Pokemon."

"What do you mean?" Mira finally spoke up. She was suddenly more curious because she was also adopted.

"Well, most eevees are actually ready to evolve in a year, more or less, but Luke is different. Since Thunder and Blu evolve at different times than Luke, Luke has been forcing his evolution back so he could stay an eevee until someone told him it was time to evolve. Most of the times it's not a big deal, but in a case where the parents are years apart from the child, it can be backed up for so long that it is barely noticed until, well, this happens."

Luke's vision was blurring, and he could only hear a loud humming noise.

"Does this happen all the time in a case like ours?" Thunder asked. Everyone except for Blu and Bolt were just curious at this point. Blu was angry and trying to speed things up, and Bolt was crying in Blu's stomach.

"No, in fact, it's rare. But most of these cases end with an evolution. However, there is still a chance that it could make the 'infected' evolve in reverse, but if the Pokemon is in the basic form when this happens, it can... die."

"WELL THEN LET'S HELP LUKE BEFORE THAT HAPPENS!" Blu screamed angrily. Bolt was done crying, sniffling still. He also looked angry.

"Alright, alright. But... What does Luke want to evolve into?" Flash replied.

"We never asked..." Thunder said, looking dissapointed. "We never asked."

"That could be the whole problem." Flash said. "But since he's in sort of a problem, we are going to have to figure out fast."

"How?" Blu asked.

"Does Luke know any morse-code or sign language?"

"Well, no. We didn't think we would have to teach him that." Thunder responded. This gave Flash a slightly dissapointed look.

"Can he read?" Flash asked.

"Yes, but he struggles a bit with D's and B's, A's and V's, and W's and M's." Blu responded.

"I need some paper then. And a pen." Thunder happily gave him the materials, and Flash scribbled away.

When he was finished, he held the note in front of Luke's eyes. Luke squinted at it, trying to understand. His vision was very blurry, but he could just barely make out the letters. Well, most of them.

Mhat bo you want to eAolAe into?

"I... don't know... what... says..." Luke groaned out, his voice changing as if he were going through puberty and clamping his eyes shut and crying.

"Luke, it's okay!" Blu said, quickly hugging him. She acted as if she felt his pain.

"I... can't... hear!" Luke whispered as he felt a release of some kind. A painful release, yet one he wanted to let embrace him.

"Flash, give me the notepad." Thunder said, reaching his hand out with the most determined look on his face he'd ever given. Flash was astounded by his sudden burst, but handed over the pad anyway. Thunder scribbled out Flash's writing and wrote it again, but in a different handwriting. The original message was "What do you want to evolve into?"

Thunder, still with a determined look on his face, flipped the notepad to Luke's eyes. Luke could still barely see the letters, but these ones were more understandable. The W was curly with a loop in the middle. The D was uppercase, and the V's were curled at the ends.

What Do you want to evolve into? Luke read as his eyes were opened again.

"Sylv... eon..." Luke groaned out, shutting his eyes again. His trembling was out of control.

"Did he... actually understand that?" Flash said, amazed.

"What? You think I don't know how to communicate to my own child?" Thunder said with a bit of anger. "Anyways... How do you evolve eevee into sylveon?"

"Lots of love, and he must know at least one fairy move." Flash answered. "Does he?"

"He is at least level 12, he reminds us whenever he levels up." Thunder said as Blu continued to hug her son. "He never cared for non-attacking moves, which is like me, but he told us he learned 'Baby Doll Eyes' a while back. His other three moves are Tackle, Swift, and Sand Attack, and as far as I know those are not fairy type moves."

"Baby Doll Eyes... If I remember correctly, that is a fairy type move. Does he still know it?"

"Pretty sure he does."

"Well, then he should be able to evolve. We just need to tell him to." Flash explained. "However, this is probably a new concept for him, so, Thunder, can you help him along?"

"Well... You're evolved, aren't you? Can't you do it?"

"I could, but you're the only one who has evolved and can write that way. Plus, would he trust you, his father, or me, a random jolteon who just happened to be friends with his grandpa?"

"Good point..."

"THUNDER! HURRY!" Blu shouted at him.

He obliged and quickly wrote a note. It took up half of the page, but was still readable by someone with Luke's level of education. He showed it to him.

Luke, evolving is easy. All you have to Do is relax and think of the future. DaDDa Believes you can Do anything, let alone this. Mama feels the same. We will still love you.

Luke read it and closed his eyes. He wanted this to be over more than anyone. The painful release he felt dissappeared, and he felt things sprouting out of his ears. The entire room was shrouded in a glaring white light.

To be continued...

Sorry I haven't been active. I know I say that literally every chapter now, but... Yeah I just hate myself for not putting out more chapters.

Anyways, I have a treat for you guys! Since I feel so full of energy at 3 in the morning, I'm going to work on the next 2-5 chapters while this one is being put up! Kind of defeats the purpose of cliffhangers, but whatever. You guys deserve more. Still surprised you guys like this so much.

They will be posted as soon as I am done with them.