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US Journey part 17: The trouble with #3
By Xen
"Say Isaac, how long is it till we reach the lodge. It feels like we've been driving for hours now."
"Well we just passed the falls so it's another half-hour form now. But there's one we have to do before we get there."
"And what's that?" Ash asked.
"Pikett's going to be my girlfriend."
"I'm what!" Pikett said shocked.
"She your what!" The others said.
"Let me explain. Misty is with Ash and Jessie is married with James. That leaves Pikett as the single female in the group. Now a lot of the guys there are also single and very desperate for female companionship."
"So, its a colony of Brock's." Misty said.
"Something like that. And I think its best that we pretend that were a couple so the other guys would back off. I don't think Pikett is ready for male suitors."
"Well you have a point. Is it ok with Pikett?"
"I guess. Will I have to do anything?"
"No. Just saying you're my girlfriend should ward them off."
"But couldn't I just shock them?"
"I thought we explained this." Ash said. "You can't use your powers in public. People are going to act weird if they find out that your half Pikachu."
"But I can handle them. If they come near me, I hit them." Pikett slammed her fist into the side of car, creating a large dent. Everyone's eyes went wide.
"What was that?" Ash manages to say first.
"She punched a dent into the side of the car!"
"Did I do bad?"
"Well considering that you just dented the car with your bare fist, I day that's bad." Isaac said.
"I think we better call Cassandra when we get there. She might be able to explain this." Misty said.
"Till then Pikett, be careful with what you're touching."
"Ok."
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The van arrived at the lodge. The outside of the lodge looked like a large wooden cabin with debris surrounding most of it.
"Gee, I thought it would look nicer."
"Actually, it is nicer. They put out the tire fire that was burning over there."
"Where?" James asked,
"See that black mountain." Isaac pointed to large mountain.
"It's near there?"
"No, it is that." Everyone sweatdropped. As they left the van a man wear a plaid and green suspenders came to them.
"Hey, Isaac how's my favorite nephew doing?" The man asked.
"What do want uncle Blue?" Isaac asked.
"What? Can't I say hello to my nephew and not expect something in exchange?"
"Yes."
"Well you I guess your right. But first are these the people you told me about."
"Yes, this is Ash, Misty, Jessie, James, Pikett."
"Ah your girlfriend."
"Yeah, hi Mr. Blue."
"Call me uncle Blue. Everyone does. And if things keep up, I may just become your uncle." Pikett and Isaac ginned nervously.
"Gee, uncle Blue we don't have to think about something like that for while."
"At least you doing better then your cousin."
"Ah, Lewis is still here huh."
"Yeah he's still sticking around in these parts. We got him teaching the pokemon English."
"Teaching them English?" Jessie said.
"Yeah I'll show you what I mean." Uncle Blue led to the group down to one of the lodge areas. "You see a few weeks ago I got this idea. To raise pokemon at the lodge. But the thing is we had a few problems finding the right kind. The lakes too dangerous for water pokemon and there not enough grass for grass. Then we found the perfect pokemon to teach. The Humanesque."
"What a Humanesque?" Ash asked.
"It a human pokemon. It comes form a Ditto."
"Don't you mean evolve."
"No, it something else. It something's a Ditto creates but its not an evolution. I'm not the guy that could explain this."
"So, why are you teaching it English?" Misty asked.
"Well that's why they're called the learning pokemon. It can learn almost anything, like a human can. They can even learn a human language and speak it. We got three so far, and two of them are doing fine."
"What about the third one?" Misty asked
"Well that the problem is he's refusing to speak."
"Are you sure he isn't a mute?" Jessie said.
"No, he can talk. He just refuses to speak in English."
"Can't you figure out why?"
"No we can't. And he won't talk to the other two Humanesque, so we can't figure out what's wrong."
"Maybe I could help." Pikett said.
"I don't think a pretty girl is going to make him talk."
"But I can talk to pokemon." Isaac nudged Pikett. "What?"
"Well anyone can talk to a pokemon."
"But I understand what they say. I'm a pokemon too you know." Everyone minus Pikett and Uncle Blue smacked their heads.
"Your not so post to say anything about that."
"Isaac, did I tell you have strange taste in women?"
"Ok, I guess we got to tell. Pikett is really Ash's Pikachu that was transformed into a human in an accident. We can't turn her back and she remains a pokemon hybrid. She can understand pokemon speech and retains some power form her pokemon side. You got it uncle Blue?"
"Sure."
"Wait. You understood everything form just that?" Jessie asked.
"Sure. I've seen something's that are twice as strange as this. This is something we do on the weekend for us."
"Isaac, did we tell you have a weird family?"
"Nope."
"Well you do."
"Nah, only seventy five percent is weird." Everybody sweatdropped.
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"Well okay, were here." Uncle Blue opened the door to a cabin. Inside the cabin was something of a makeshift classroom. A large table which was probably used for the students desks and a smaller desk for the teacher. A shabby looking portable blackbroad was behind the smaller desk.
"This is a classroom?" Ash said.
"Well I made it myself. Not bad for stuff we found got form the old school house."
"Well I guess it ok. But were are the Humanesque?"
"I guess there in the back. Lewis? Lewis? We are you?"
"Coming uncle Blue." A Skinny young man dress like Uncle blue came out of the back door. "Ah Isaac, your here." Lewis ran up to cousin and hugged him, then tried to hug Pikett.
"Stop." Lewis stopped.
"So, Lewis were are the pokemon?"
"Ok their training out in the back." Lewis led everyone to outside, where two people were apparently doing some kind of martial arts. At least it looked like that to them till one of the fighters stretched his arm and hit the other.
"So, these are the Humanesque?"
"Yes they are. You two can stop now." The two pokemon stop fighting and walked up to the group. Both the pokemon looked human and quite alike. They looked about 5"5 and medium builds. The only difference between the two was their hair. The one the right had long green hair and green eyes, while the one on the left had dirty blond hair with brown eyes. "Well introduce yourselves."
"I am number one." The green hared one said in a feminine voice.
"And I am number two." The other said.
"If these are two of them, where is the third one?" Misty said.
"Up there." Lewis pointed up at the tree, where a person was sitting on one of the branches.
"Now get down here." The figure jumped down and stood with the others Humanesque. He looked like the other Humanesque, except that his hair was black and looked somewhat likes James hairstyle and had black eyes. Another thing that set him apart was a long scar across his face. "And this is number three. He's the one that I talked about."
"So, he's that won't talk?"
"Why does he have a scar?" James asked.
"Well its somewhat his fault. In an attempt to avoid his learning, he went to the roof where he slipped on a title and fell into the gutter. The gutter broke open his face. We fixed him up, but the mark stayed."
"Wow, that sounded painful."
"It was. He did most inhuman screaming. He then became really silent. He won't even talk in his pokemon language."
"Which if you ask me that's a good thing." Lewis said.
"That's a mean thing to say." Pikett said.
"No, it's that their native language is very high-pitched squeals and noises. It's not a very pleasant thing to listens too." Lewis said.
"I have to agree on that. A yell form him blew out old man Sawnsong's eyepiece out. And he lives a mile away."
"Natural Screech." Number one said.
"I thought you said they came form Ditto's. So how could they have any other attack besides transform?"
"We may come form Ditto, but we know more then our brethren." Number two said.
"Well Pikett, you want to try and talk with him?"
"Ok, Can me and the others be alone?"
"Ok. But you need us, Lewis will be right inside." Everyone minus Pikett and the other Humanesque left.
"Why do think you can make him talk in your language?" Number one said.
"Because were all just pokemon here." The three Humanesque give Pikett a strange look.
"You do not appear to be one of us?" Number two said.
"Well that because I'm not a Humanesque. I'm a Pikachu." The three pokemon give her a look of disbelief. "I can explain. I was a Pikachu till a few weeks ago. I took this potion that could make pokemon talk but it turned me human. I still have some abilities, but I don't even know what I still could do."
"We still find this strange. Do you have proof of this?"
"Well can a human do this?" Pikett held her fist out and produced an aura of electricity. The three pokemon looked somewhat impressed.
"So, you maybe were a pokemon. But you just being one of us makes no difference." Number three said in his native tongue.
"It may not, but at least I'm trying." Number three coiled back.
"You can understand my speech?"
"I still retain the mind of a pokemon. I can understand any pokemon as well as any other."
"That makes no difference. I still will not disgrace myself with the language of humans." Number three said.
"Why?" Pikett asked.
"He feels that the learning of the human language will dishonor him as a pokemon. That's why he barely stands being with us. He feels like we are traitor to our own kind for learning the human language." Number two explained.
"You are traitors to all pokemon. You are abandoning the ways of our ancestors, so you can just please these pathetic owners."
"That is why we are doing this. It a pokemons duty to serve his master. That is what our ancestors did."
"This is nothing like what the ancestors did!" Number three shouted. "This is more then just battle. This is the molding of our species into them. They are molding us into their image. We are not these Humanesque they have named us. We are Dittos, but the humans have made us into their image!"
"I understand your pain." Pikett laid her hand on Number three's shoulder, but he pushed it off.
"You understand nothing. You are just like them." Number three points to the other two Humanesque. "You obey the every whim of your master. Look at yourself, your human just because he want you talk."
"Ash never did have anything to do with me being human. I had taken that potion as an accident. It is my fault that I am like this, and Ash blames himself for what I have gone though."
"That is because you were his pet, his toy, and his property. But now you are none of those, so he can't claim you anymore." Tears started to well up in Pikett's eye, but she managed to hold them back.
"Ash is my friend. He has never let me down before and will look for a way to turn me back."
"That's because he wants you as his property again. You are useless to him now, but as your pokemon, you are valuable to him. That is why you want he wants you back. That is why the humans are teaching us their language, so that we become valuable."
"But its all a pokemon wish to please their master."
"But we are not doing it in the way we are meant too. It is though battle that we show our worth, not though this learning of this knowledge we need not know. We are being used for the wrong things." The four of them remain silent for a few minutes. Finally Pikett said something.
"That is where you are wrong. In my journey with Ash, I have seen pokemon using their skills for others things then battle. I have seen electric pokemon being used to help towns with electric power. I have seen various water pokemon used to help put out fires. I have seen Growlithes be used to prevent crime. I have seen many pokemon help their master and others with there skills."
"But what use would there be for pokemon that can speak English." Pikett thought for a few minutes.
"I do not know."
"You see. There is no significance for this. We are useless developing talents that we do not need."
"Well I can't think of any because I'm not the kind of person to thing of this kind of stuff. I'm just a pokemon you know."
"That is where you are wrong. You are no longer a pokemon. You're about as much as disgrace as them. You keep calling yourself a pokemon, but you are human."
"I may look like a human, but I am still a pokemon on the inside. It is the same as you."
"However, I know I am a pokemon, because I am treated as one. You are treated as human, so you are human."
"But..."
"I think its best that we end this discuss now. I want you to think of what a pokemons worth truly is, and what your own worth is." Number three went inside the cabin followed by the other two Humanesque, leaving Pikett alone.
"But I am a pokemon. Aren't I?"
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"So why are we in a room together?" Pikett asked Isaac inside there room. "And why do we only have one bed?"
"Well it kind of funny if we think about it. My uncle in thinking we were a real couple put us in a room together."
"But we aren't."
"He didn't know at the time. Unfortunately there aren't any other rooms that are ready, so we are kind of stuck this way."
"But why only one bed?"
"He thought it be cute if we could be together. It's a part of the whole couples thing."
"But whose going to sleep in the bed?"
"Well if you want you, can. I wouldn't mind sleeping on the floor."
"No, I guess we could share the bed."
"I promise I won't try any funny either."
"What funny stuff?"
"Uh.. um.. Say why don't we work on your lessons?"
"Ok." Isaac breathed a sigh of relief. Isaac went into his suitcase and took out a book and some pens.
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"Ok, now write the letter T."
"Like this?"
"Yeah, that's it. Now make another T... Good. Now can you tell me what you wrote?" Pikett looked at the paper she was writing form.
"P I K E T T." Pikett read the letter off. "Pi kett. My name?"
"Right. Now you know how to spell your name. You're learning this quite fast. If I didn't know any better I say you where one of the Humanesque too."
"Yeah, one of them." Pikett sighed.
"What the matter? Did I say something wrong?"
"It just what you said reminded me of my talk with the Humanesque."
"Yeah, you did just tell us that he refuses to speak, but not why. Is there something you didn't tell us, right?"
"Well he did tell me why. Its because he feels that he is disgracing himself begin taught English. He feels that it's a skill that won't serve a real meaning."
"But that's not what bother you is it?"
"No, its what he called me."
"And what did he call you?"
"He called me a human. He's says that because I look human and that I'm treated as a human, that I am human."
"Well you are pretty much a human."
"That is only on the outside. I am still a Pikachu on the inside. But he says that I've been treated so much like another human, that I've become human."
"But you don't feel human."
"I don't either. I guess he is right. I really am human. I'm no longer a Pikachu."
"You letting him get the better of you. He guessed that you are still somewhat confused about what you are now, and he played you for it. You can only decide for yourself what you are. Maybe we should head to bed now."
"Okay." Isaac and Pikett got ready for bed. Isaac took the far right of the bed, while Pikett took the far left.
Later that night Pikett got up. Pikett sat in a chair and opened the shades a bit to look at the night sky. Pikett held her legs to chin as she thought.
"Am I human? Am I a pokemon? What is my worth? Have I've really lost touch with what I was? Can I ever really be a pokemon again?" Pikett continued thinking on looking at the night sky. Eventually Pikett returned to bed. When she fell asleep, Isaac whispered something.
"I'm sorry I can't help you here oh my sweet girl of the electric storm. This is a path that you must take yourself."
To be continued....
Stay tuned for the nest chapter of US Journey.
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US Journey part 17: The trouble with #3
By Xen
"Say Isaac, how long is it till we reach the lodge. It feels like we've been driving for hours now."
"Well we just passed the falls so it's another half-hour form now. But there's one we have to do before we get there."
"And what's that?" Ash asked.
"Pikett's going to be my girlfriend."
"I'm what!" Pikett said shocked.
"She your what!" The others said.
"Let me explain. Misty is with Ash and Jessie is married with James. That leaves Pikett as the single female in the group. Now a lot of the guys there are also single and very desperate for female companionship."
"So, its a colony of Brock's." Misty said.
"Something like that. And I think its best that we pretend that were a couple so the other guys would back off. I don't think Pikett is ready for male suitors."
"Well you have a point. Is it ok with Pikett?"
"I guess. Will I have to do anything?"
"No. Just saying you're my girlfriend should ward them off."
"But couldn't I just shock them?"
"I thought we explained this." Ash said. "You can't use your powers in public. People are going to act weird if they find out that your half Pikachu."
"But I can handle them. If they come near me, I hit them." Pikett slammed her fist into the side of car, creating a large dent. Everyone's eyes went wide.
"What was that?" Ash manages to say first.
"She punched a dent into the side of the car!"
"Did I do bad?"
"Well considering that you just dented the car with your bare fist, I day that's bad." Isaac said.
"I think we better call Cassandra when we get there. She might be able to explain this." Misty said.
"Till then Pikett, be careful with what you're touching."
"Ok."
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The van arrived at the lodge. The outside of the lodge looked like a large wooden cabin with debris surrounding most of it.
"Gee, I thought it would look nicer."
"Actually, it is nicer. They put out the tire fire that was burning over there."
"Where?" James asked,
"See that black mountain." Isaac pointed to large mountain.
"It's near there?"
"No, it is that." Everyone sweatdropped. As they left the van a man wear a plaid and green suspenders came to them.
"Hey, Isaac how's my favorite nephew doing?" The man asked.
"What do want uncle Blue?" Isaac asked.
"What? Can't I say hello to my nephew and not expect something in exchange?"
"Yes."
"Well you I guess your right. But first are these the people you told me about."
"Yes, this is Ash, Misty, Jessie, James, Pikett."
"Ah your girlfriend."
"Yeah, hi Mr. Blue."
"Call me uncle Blue. Everyone does. And if things keep up, I may just become your uncle." Pikett and Isaac ginned nervously.
"Gee, uncle Blue we don't have to think about something like that for while."
"At least you doing better then your cousin."
"Ah, Lewis is still here huh."
"Yeah he's still sticking around in these parts. We got him teaching the pokemon English."
"Teaching them English?" Jessie said.
"Yeah I'll show you what I mean." Uncle Blue led to the group down to one of the lodge areas. "You see a few weeks ago I got this idea. To raise pokemon at the lodge. But the thing is we had a few problems finding the right kind. The lakes too dangerous for water pokemon and there not enough grass for grass. Then we found the perfect pokemon to teach. The Humanesque."
"What a Humanesque?" Ash asked.
"It a human pokemon. It comes form a Ditto."
"Don't you mean evolve."
"No, it something else. It something's a Ditto creates but its not an evolution. I'm not the guy that could explain this."
"So, why are you teaching it English?" Misty asked.
"Well that's why they're called the learning pokemon. It can learn almost anything, like a human can. They can even learn a human language and speak it. We got three so far, and two of them are doing fine."
"What about the third one?" Misty asked
"Well that the problem is he's refusing to speak."
"Are you sure he isn't a mute?" Jessie said.
"No, he can talk. He just refuses to speak in English."
"Can't you figure out why?"
"No we can't. And he won't talk to the other two Humanesque, so we can't figure out what's wrong."
"Maybe I could help." Pikett said.
"I don't think a pretty girl is going to make him talk."
"But I can talk to pokemon." Isaac nudged Pikett. "What?"
"Well anyone can talk to a pokemon."
"But I understand what they say. I'm a pokemon too you know." Everyone minus Pikett and Uncle Blue smacked their heads.
"Your not so post to say anything about that."
"Isaac, did I tell you have strange taste in women?"
"Ok, I guess we got to tell. Pikett is really Ash's Pikachu that was transformed into a human in an accident. We can't turn her back and she remains a pokemon hybrid. She can understand pokemon speech and retains some power form her pokemon side. You got it uncle Blue?"
"Sure."
"Wait. You understood everything form just that?" Jessie asked.
"Sure. I've seen something's that are twice as strange as this. This is something we do on the weekend for us."
"Isaac, did we tell you have a weird family?"
"Nope."
"Well you do."
"Nah, only seventy five percent is weird." Everybody sweatdropped.
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"Well okay, were here." Uncle Blue opened the door to a cabin. Inside the cabin was something of a makeshift classroom. A large table which was probably used for the students desks and a smaller desk for the teacher. A shabby looking portable blackbroad was behind the smaller desk.
"This is a classroom?" Ash said.
"Well I made it myself. Not bad for stuff we found got form the old school house."
"Well I guess it ok. But were are the Humanesque?"
"I guess there in the back. Lewis? Lewis? We are you?"
"Coming uncle Blue." A Skinny young man dress like Uncle blue came out of the back door. "Ah Isaac, your here." Lewis ran up to cousin and hugged him, then tried to hug Pikett.
"Stop." Lewis stopped.
"So, Lewis were are the pokemon?"
"Ok their training out in the back." Lewis led everyone to outside, where two people were apparently doing some kind of martial arts. At least it looked like that to them till one of the fighters stretched his arm and hit the other.
"So, these are the Humanesque?"
"Yes they are. You two can stop now." The two pokemon stop fighting and walked up to the group. Both the pokemon looked human and quite alike. They looked about 5"5 and medium builds. The only difference between the two was their hair. The one the right had long green hair and green eyes, while the one on the left had dirty blond hair with brown eyes. "Well introduce yourselves."
"I am number one." The green hared one said in a feminine voice.
"And I am number two." The other said.
"If these are two of them, where is the third one?" Misty said.
"Up there." Lewis pointed up at the tree, where a person was sitting on one of the branches.
"Now get down here." The figure jumped down and stood with the others Humanesque. He looked like the other Humanesque, except that his hair was black and looked somewhat likes James hairstyle and had black eyes. Another thing that set him apart was a long scar across his face. "And this is number three. He's the one that I talked about."
"So, he's that won't talk?"
"Why does he have a scar?" James asked.
"Well its somewhat his fault. In an attempt to avoid his learning, he went to the roof where he slipped on a title and fell into the gutter. The gutter broke open his face. We fixed him up, but the mark stayed."
"Wow, that sounded painful."
"It was. He did most inhuman screaming. He then became really silent. He won't even talk in his pokemon language."
"Which if you ask me that's a good thing." Lewis said.
"That's a mean thing to say." Pikett said.
"No, it's that their native language is very high-pitched squeals and noises. It's not a very pleasant thing to listens too." Lewis said.
"I have to agree on that. A yell form him blew out old man Sawnsong's eyepiece out. And he lives a mile away."
"Natural Screech." Number one said.
"I thought you said they came form Ditto's. So how could they have any other attack besides transform?"
"We may come form Ditto, but we know more then our brethren." Number two said.
"Well Pikett, you want to try and talk with him?"
"Ok, Can me and the others be alone?"
"Ok. But you need us, Lewis will be right inside." Everyone minus Pikett and the other Humanesque left.
"Why do think you can make him talk in your language?" Number one said.
"Because were all just pokemon here." The three Humanesque give Pikett a strange look.
"You do not appear to be one of us?" Number two said.
"Well that because I'm not a Humanesque. I'm a Pikachu." The three pokemon give her a look of disbelief. "I can explain. I was a Pikachu till a few weeks ago. I took this potion that could make pokemon talk but it turned me human. I still have some abilities, but I don't even know what I still could do."
"We still find this strange. Do you have proof of this?"
"Well can a human do this?" Pikett held her fist out and produced an aura of electricity. The three pokemon looked somewhat impressed.
"So, you maybe were a pokemon. But you just being one of us makes no difference." Number three said in his native tongue.
"It may not, but at least I'm trying." Number three coiled back.
"You can understand my speech?"
"I still retain the mind of a pokemon. I can understand any pokemon as well as any other."
"That makes no difference. I still will not disgrace myself with the language of humans." Number three said.
"Why?" Pikett asked.
"He feels that the learning of the human language will dishonor him as a pokemon. That's why he barely stands being with us. He feels like we are traitor to our own kind for learning the human language." Number two explained.
"You are traitors to all pokemon. You are abandoning the ways of our ancestors, so you can just please these pathetic owners."
"That is why we are doing this. It a pokemons duty to serve his master. That is what our ancestors did."
"This is nothing like what the ancestors did!" Number three shouted. "This is more then just battle. This is the molding of our species into them. They are molding us into their image. We are not these Humanesque they have named us. We are Dittos, but the humans have made us into their image!"
"I understand your pain." Pikett laid her hand on Number three's shoulder, but he pushed it off.
"You understand nothing. You are just like them." Number three points to the other two Humanesque. "You obey the every whim of your master. Look at yourself, your human just because he want you talk."
"Ash never did have anything to do with me being human. I had taken that potion as an accident. It is my fault that I am like this, and Ash blames himself for what I have gone though."
"That is because you were his pet, his toy, and his property. But now you are none of those, so he can't claim you anymore." Tears started to well up in Pikett's eye, but she managed to hold them back.
"Ash is my friend. He has never let me down before and will look for a way to turn me back."
"That's because he wants you as his property again. You are useless to him now, but as your pokemon, you are valuable to him. That is why you want he wants you back. That is why the humans are teaching us their language, so that we become valuable."
"But its all a pokemon wish to please their master."
"But we are not doing it in the way we are meant too. It is though battle that we show our worth, not though this learning of this knowledge we need not know. We are being used for the wrong things." The four of them remain silent for a few minutes. Finally Pikett said something.
"That is where you are wrong. In my journey with Ash, I have seen pokemon using their skills for others things then battle. I have seen electric pokemon being used to help towns with electric power. I have seen various water pokemon used to help put out fires. I have seen Growlithes be used to prevent crime. I have seen many pokemon help their master and others with there skills."
"But what use would there be for pokemon that can speak English." Pikett thought for a few minutes.
"I do not know."
"You see. There is no significance for this. We are useless developing talents that we do not need."
"Well I can't think of any because I'm not the kind of person to thing of this kind of stuff. I'm just a pokemon you know."
"That is where you are wrong. You are no longer a pokemon. You're about as much as disgrace as them. You keep calling yourself a pokemon, but you are human."
"I may look like a human, but I am still a pokemon on the inside. It is the same as you."
"However, I know I am a pokemon, because I am treated as one. You are treated as human, so you are human."
"But..."
"I think its best that we end this discuss now. I want you to think of what a pokemons worth truly is, and what your own worth is." Number three went inside the cabin followed by the other two Humanesque, leaving Pikett alone.
"But I am a pokemon. Aren't I?"
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"So why are we in a room together?" Pikett asked Isaac inside there room. "And why do we only have one bed?"
"Well it kind of funny if we think about it. My uncle in thinking we were a real couple put us in a room together."
"But we aren't."
"He didn't know at the time. Unfortunately there aren't any other rooms that are ready, so we are kind of stuck this way."
"But why only one bed?"
"He thought it be cute if we could be together. It's a part of the whole couples thing."
"But whose going to sleep in the bed?"
"Well if you want you, can. I wouldn't mind sleeping on the floor."
"No, I guess we could share the bed."
"I promise I won't try any funny either."
"What funny stuff?"
"Uh.. um.. Say why don't we work on your lessons?"
"Ok." Isaac breathed a sigh of relief. Isaac went into his suitcase and took out a book and some pens.
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"Ok, now write the letter T."
"Like this?"
"Yeah, that's it. Now make another T... Good. Now can you tell me what you wrote?" Pikett looked at the paper she was writing form.
"P I K E T T." Pikett read the letter off. "Pi kett. My name?"
"Right. Now you know how to spell your name. You're learning this quite fast. If I didn't know any better I say you where one of the Humanesque too."
"Yeah, one of them." Pikett sighed.
"What the matter? Did I say something wrong?"
"It just what you said reminded me of my talk with the Humanesque."
"Yeah, you did just tell us that he refuses to speak, but not why. Is there something you didn't tell us, right?"
"Well he did tell me why. Its because he feels that he is disgracing himself begin taught English. He feels that it's a skill that won't serve a real meaning."
"But that's not what bother you is it?"
"No, its what he called me."
"And what did he call you?"
"He called me a human. He's says that because I look human and that I'm treated as a human, that I am human."
"Well you are pretty much a human."
"That is only on the outside. I am still a Pikachu on the inside. But he says that I've been treated so much like another human, that I've become human."
"But you don't feel human."
"I don't either. I guess he is right. I really am human. I'm no longer a Pikachu."
"You letting him get the better of you. He guessed that you are still somewhat confused about what you are now, and he played you for it. You can only decide for yourself what you are. Maybe we should head to bed now."
"Okay." Isaac and Pikett got ready for bed. Isaac took the far right of the bed, while Pikett took the far left.
Later that night Pikett got up. Pikett sat in a chair and opened the shades a bit to look at the night sky. Pikett held her legs to chin as she thought.
"Am I human? Am I a pokemon? What is my worth? Have I've really lost touch with what I was? Can I ever really be a pokemon again?" Pikett continued thinking on looking at the night sky. Eventually Pikett returned to bed. When she fell asleep, Isaac whispered something.
"I'm sorry I can't help you here oh my sweet girl of the electric storm. This is a path that you must take yourself."
To be continued....
Stay tuned for the nest chapter of US Journey.
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