Edit(ed) by: Andrizzi
"Beware! Team Rocket is here!"
Blah blah cue song, blah blah cue introductions.
"Now, you can either come with us or try to fight. Our boss is very interested in humanoid pokémon."
"{How do you know you can take me?}"
"A birdie told us that the human form is way weaker than the pokémon form."
Uhhh…
Remembering the article I put online as Seto earlier, I chuckled, then laughed.
"You have no reason to laugh! Hypno, poison her!"
Said pokémon got released from its pokéball and fired something dark at me. Trying to deceive them, I coated myself with protect, hoping to make it look as if I was hit.
Then I charged at the hypno, channeling all my energy into my arm while doing so, and then some. This caused a strong pain, but it also gave me enormous strength for a short moment, and when the attack connected, the hypno got sent flying in a wall on the opposite side of the street, knocked out instantly.
"Scyther!" "Skarmony!"
Both pokémon got ordered to attack me, and I wasn't sure which one I deemed more dangerous but settled on the Scyther as it was more dangerous, it being bug-type.
I jumped, evading the attack of the skarmony, then slammed down on the scyther, having read up on them having a weak spot in the back after the fight in the park a while ago.
Since then, I tried learning flamethrower, as I knew Absol could learn that attack. I could only produce a few embers at the moment, but it got a nice hit when I shot them right after punching the scythor in the back at the same spot, causing its wings to lock up in pain.
I was able to levitate myself, so I did that, making the skarmony the only current threat.
Of course, I kept as much energy in the shield around my body, since I wasn't ready to take my chances with them.
It charged at me, wings aglow. Probably a steel attack.
Jumping, I propelled myself forwards at the scarmony, bringing down my arm alit with psychic energy, causing its attack to miss as I was above it and causing a bit damage to it as well.
Unluckily, in my current form, I probably could not do much against it.
Then, I realized I had the beginnings of a fire attack. As such, when the scarmony charged the next time, my hand flashed red and the scarmony flinched away, not realizing that was all I could do.
That gave me an opening, which I used to throw the scarmony down into the scythor, taking the latter one fully out of the fight.
"Hitmonlee!"
CRAP!
A steel type was a problem, but with a jumping fighting-type pokémon, I had a big problem at my hands right now.
Wait. Can I teleport other pokémon around?
I charged up my teleport, but then channeled all the energy into the hitmonlee as it was about to jump. I switched places with it, the hitmonlee taking the hit from the scarmony.
Using that time window, I crashed down one of the two guys that were accompanying the guy that attacked me earlier using a levitating brick while using my other hand to create a shield, stopping the net one just tried throwing at me.
A moment later, I was hit hard from the side, skidding a big deal to the side. The hitmonlee was even faster than I thought, having landed an attack against me.
Were it not for the shield and my resilience, it would have left a nasty wound, but that way I just got a bruise.
I threw the hitmonlee back, but I did not know where the scarmony was, so I stayed on guard. Using the time I had though, I placed a future sight attack on the hitmonlee, hopefully knocking it out.
{THUNDER!}
And above me, the sky lit up.
The scarmony hit the ground next to me, and when I turned around, I could see Imai, electricity still running along his body.
Having another window of opportunity, I crashed the next grunt in the wall, only leaving their leader in a position being able to battle. Imai seemingly understood my plan and defended against the hitmonlee.
"{Did I not warn you before there are fates worse than death? That I would go after you?}"
I snarled.
"{THAT did it. I will end your life in this world!}" I screamed, channeling a great amount of pure power into him, causing him to fall unconscious after just a moment.
"{Hey! You! That pidgey over there! Come here!}" I called out to the bird sitting on a nearby lamp, and it surprisingly enough followed my command.
Taking out the key stone, I pressed it to the guys' forehead, then touched the pidgey with my other hand.
The police officer arrived, only to witness the end of the fight and hearing the exclamation of the pokémon in human form.
"{…will end your life in this world! Hey! You! That pidgey over there! Come here!}"
The hands of the female started to glow white, and the Rocket grunt fell down.
After that, the pokémon placed a blue stone on his head, and seeing this, she raised their gun to shoot down the white clothed pokémon.
However, before she could press the trigger, she got shocked by the nearby manectric, causing her to drop her gun.
"Let me through! You can't do that!"
The posture of the manectric indicated that it very well could.
Having lived with similar intelligent pokémon once, she tried to understand what it meant, and to do it fast.
"You won't let me through."
A nod.
"You are protecting her."
Another nod, but slightly slower.
"Do you intend to keep me from doing my job?"
A shake of the head.
"Do you protect me?"
After she asked that, he seemed to think about that for a moment, then shook his head.
"I can't allow her to kill him, he still has to answer for his crimes."
He raised a brow.
"This will be punishment enough?"
A shrug.
"She won't kill him?" she asked, only guessing now.
After that, the manectric shrugged and moved to the side. Now intrigued, she got closer, watching what the Absol was doing, knowing she would be stopped would she try anything.
Looking at the individual energies of the human and the pidgey, I eventually found what I was searching for. Their minds.
It was in this part of the energy that their consciousness was stored, and it was what I would never change.
The rest though… it was fair game.
Scanning the inner energies of the pidgey, I eventually found what I was searching for. Using the key stone as a focus, I forced the energy inside him to approach that of the pidgey, and he slowly started to change in color, assuming the form of a pidgey himself.
Then, to my surprise and shock, the key stone started turning ash grey. It seemed like it was undamaged, but it seemed like it would be unusable for the foreseeable future. Unluckily, the more power I pushed behind that to supplement the transformation, the more pain I experienced.
It was the exact same pain I had after turning back as Adam after trying to use the mega evolution for the first time. Eventually, I let go as he had finished transforming, but in the same second, a loud cracking sound was heard, and I realized that my horn had now a small crack in it at its base.
Something similar had happened to me once. My psychic powers would be unusable for the next few days to weeks, depending on the usefulness of the medicine I had access to.
After pushing a small bit of energy in my hand, though, I found I could still transform, although painfully slow. As far as I saw it, the key stone was only affected by it because I changed its target completely instead of simply changing how I was looking, and my horn broke as I forced way too much energy in way too less time through it.
Luckily, I drew no blood.
The humanoid absol now was walking to her, holding the transformed human in one hand.
She gave the pidgey to her, of which she noted had fainted.
"{That… is probably… a permanent transformation,}" she said, using a nearby wall to hold on.
"Well…" she started, not sure how she should go about it.
"{It can… probably reversed. Ask… a psychic pokémon. Use a key stone,}" she said, before pausing again.
Seemingly having enough energy to continue talking normal, she explained shortly what she had done.
"{I used the pidgey as template, and the key stone as a catalyst. If a psychic pokémon has a key stone and is strong enough, it should be able to reverse this.}"
She winced, then looked up at her horn.
"{I'm in no condition to do that, though.}"
Before she could continue though, the manectric made itself known, causing the absol to rush to his side.
{Mane-}
Before he could continue, she clamped his muzzle shut.
"{Shh! Don't go blabbing those things out like that!}"
Ignoring that, she looked down at the pidgey.
"Whatever. I'll take a coffee, then bring him to the police station," she said, using an empty pokéball to capture it.
Now, after the police officer left, we all were sitting in the café, each of us having something they either wanted or needed.
In my case, Lino gave me a potion, and while it hurt, I knew it had a healing effect on the horn. I ordered a hot chocolate, though.
"{After that fiasco I have neither the energy nor the desire to still visit the professor.}"
"You look beat," Lino said, agreeing.
Imai then spoke up.
{How did this happen, anyways?}
I sighed.
"{They probably got the order to capture me. Team Rocket still exists, as they never find those responsible.}"
"Well, did you not promise them to destroy them were that to happen again?"
"{Which is something I'll start on doing. After I have healed of course, and Adam is also out of the equation. We both can fight as of now, but it would be by no means recommended.}"
{I guess we're not going to the market then…} Fujita said, her head hanging down.
"{Not today at least, I don't think I could handle it. Sorry.}"
After that, I leaned over to Lino, whispering to him:
"{He probably has already guessed that I'm the one he fought in the arena, but do you think I should tell him about my other 'condition'?}"
Lino glanced at the manectric for a second, then nodded.
"Yes. You should come clear with him."
I nodded, that was about what I expected from him. He wasn't wrong though – I should be truthful with Imai.
After a few more minutes, I stood up, already having paid.
"{Well, I think it's time to go. Imai, do you want to come with us for a while?}"
He nodded.
{There are still a few things I have to ask you.}
"{I think I already know the question,}" I responded, putting my jacket back on.
"{Doesn't means they are what I think you should be asking, but fire away anyways.}"
{Well…} he said, already out of the café and waiting for us.
{Then, please tell me: why do you…}