I don't own anything Pokemon, Gargoyle, or Animorph. I enjoy them, though. This story takes place directly following my first Gargoyle/Animorph crossover. It just got stranger. ~Grimwood grimwood83@yahoo.com
BTW, an asterisk (*) equals thought speech.
"The Vacation Saga: Part 2; Charizard, I Morph You"
Marco was watching Alex while eating dinner in one of the castle's rooms. He and the Animorphs had transferred their stay to the Eyrie Building when they realized Xanatos and the Gargoyles were enjoying their company. They phoned Rach's mom and explained the situation, and she was cool with it.
Well, Alex had just been placed in front of the T.V. Owen had popped in a Pokemon tape of the Johto league. Marco hadn't been watching T.V. lately. But then, when you're an Animorph, you find more ways to entertain yourself than television.
The other Animorphs, the trio, and Angela walked into the room. "Hey, guys," Marco began, "sorry about having nothing funny to say this evening. Alex is watching a Johto League Champions tape. I wonder what it would be like to morph some of those guys. I mean, really. If I could morph any Pokemon, I think I'd morph. . . Blastoise. He's got some really cool attacks. Maybe I'd morph a fire element, like that unicorn lookin' one."
"Marco, are you feelin' okay? I didn't even know you liked Pokemon," Rachel scoffed.
"Oh, I'm dandy. I just think morphing a Pokemon would be cool, ya know?"
"Hmm. You may have a point, Marco," Jake stepped in, conversation wise. "If we morphed some of those, we'd be pretty potent."
"Yeah, we would, wouldn't we?" Cassie agreed.
"How much DNA can you guys hold?" Broadway asked, scratching his head.
"Dunno. Ax?" Jake replied.
*Well, provided you're not allergic to a morph, the capacity is infinite,* Ax answered.
*Cool,* Tobias broke in.
"Really?" Angela asked the Andalite.
*We Andalites are seldom wrong. I do admit, however, we are not perfect. Living here has proven that much to me,* Ax elaborated. He then gave Marco a "high-five."
Alex, though appearing to be watching the tape, was also listening to the conversation. "Ev'ry body go Poke-mon! Catch 'em ah!" Alex shouted excitedly, leaking magic. Suddenly, they were all transported into the realm of the Johto region!
"Whoa! Were are we?" Rachel asked.
*I believe young Alex has sent us into his program of Pokemon. Therefore, I think, we are within the Johto region,* Ax assessed.
"So, let's just have Alex send us back," Broadway suggested.
Alex, however, was now fast asleep in Lexington's arms. "That won't work. Even if he was awake, he'd be too excited to wanna go home."
"Well, any idea on who we can contact here?" Cassie inquired.
"If I understand the show correctly, we should try to get in touch with a human called Professor Oak. He seems to be very knowledgeable about this place," Angela spoke up.
"Okay. How do we get there?" Brooklyn wanted to know.
"Simple. We ask him," Jake said, pointing to a Pokemon trainer coming down the road.
When the trainer approached and saw the Animorphs and Gargoyles, he was shocked. "Who are all of you?" he asked.
"I'm Jake. These are my friends: Alex, Lexington, Rachel, Broadway, Angela, Cassie, Marco, Brooklyn, Tobias, and Ax. May I ask who you are?" Jake replied after pointing out who was who.
"Sorry. I'm Ash Ketchum. This is Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Togepi," the trainer said.
"Glad to make your acquaintance. We're new here, and we don't have a map. Would you happen to know how to get to Professor Oak's?" Rachel said as politely as she could.
"Gladly, ma'am!" Brock said with his goo-goo faced expression.
"Gaah! Brock! Quit it. You're an embarrassment to us all," Misty proclaimed, grabbed the older man's ear, and began to tote him away.
"So're ya gonna help us or not?" Brooklyn asked irritably.
"Of course we will! Uh, do all your Pokemon speak?" Ash innocently inquired.
"Hey! Watch who you call a Pokemon!" Broadway scolded. "We're Gargoyles!"
"Sorry. You sure?" Ash asked.
"Yeah, we're sure," Lexington responded with an irritated flick of his tail.
"Oh, okay. Look, we're on our way to Professor Oak's place ourselves. Why don't you just come along?" asked Ash.
After a very brief discussion, they decided it would be a good idea. Especially when the fact that none of them know their way around is taken into consideration.
Brock looked up and noticed a storm rolling in. "Uh, guys? A storm is brewing. We should set up camp," said a slightly worried Brock. "Will you help us set it up?"
"Sure," Jake answered for all of them after glancing at their faces.
Ax, still in Andalite form, walked over to Ash. *I hope the storm is not too bad. I, like all my kind, dislike being in enclosed spaces for prolonged periods of time.*
"What kind is that?" Ash wondered aloud.
*I am an Andalite. I am quite certain you have never heard of my kind before.*
*You tell 'im, Ax-man,* Tobias quipped. Tobias then went over to a nice, large tree. Settling on a branch for the remainder of the night, he fell asleep.
"I can hardly wait to get to Professor Oak's. He'll be so shocked to see you! Tracy'll prob'ly wanna take sketches of you," Ash said thoughtfully.
Everyone except Tobias, who's now fast asleep, pitched in to pitch camp. Just as they finished and began to relax, the storm hit. It hit hard! When the Pokemon trainers weren't looking, Rachel morphed to Hork-Bajir. She climbed up Tobias's tree, gently picked him up, and took him inside the shelter. Then she demorphed without even being seen by the trainers.
The following morning, the storm had mostly cleared away. Only a few clouds remained, turning pink and orange with the sunrise. Misty, stretching her arms, conked herself on something rock hard: Brooklyn's beak, turned to stone for the day.
"AAaaahh!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Huh? Where's the enemy coming from?" Marco asked sleepily.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GARGOYLES?!" Misty continued to screech.
*They're s'posed to do that,* Tobias said with a yawn.
"Sun's up," Alex happily burbled, "sun's up, sun's up, sun's up."
"Hey, Ax? Would you mind getting off my leg?" Rachel grumped.
*My apologies, Rachel. I do not think that we should camp like this again. Andalites such as myself are far to awkward for shelters like this,* Ax admitted.
"MMmm! I slept well. Anyone else?" said Ash cheerfully.
In response, he heard a staggered chourus of "no"s and "not really"s. "The worst part," Misty exclaimed, "is that no one warned me they'd do that!" She pointed an accusing finger at the sleeping Gargoyles.
"How are we gonna move 'em?" Brock wanted to know.
Ash snapped his fingers, reached for some spare Poke-balls, and said, "Poke-balls, go!" He threw them expertly, and each of the stone Gargoyles was "captured."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Marco demanded to know when the four Poke-balls vanished.
"Well, it gets them directly to Professor Oak's. We'll set them free again when we get there this afternoon," Brock explained.
"It'll take that long? Alex will NOT like that," Rachel rebuked Ash and Brock.
"I know a way we can all get there in a hurry. Ash, do you have any large, flying Pokemon with you? If you do, we can acquire the DNA and change into it. It'll cut the time down quite a bit," Jake told Ash in a bit of rush.
"Well, Charizard has grown considerably larger. He's with me instead of Noctowl right now. Also, my Pidgeot is back with me. I let Chikarita stay with Professor Oak to make up for it. They're my only large, flying Pokemon. Not to mention the only flying types I currently have with me," Ash said. He reached for two particular Poke-balls, threw them, and called out, "Charizard! Pidgeot! I choose you!"
The two Pokemon came out of their Poke-balls. Charizard and Pidgeot looked expectantly at Ash, who looked at Jake in turn. "Okay, we just need to touch them. They'll get drowsy, but they'll be unharmed. Then, we'll have their DNA in us. We'll morph into them. Next, you'll have to pick and choose which of us you would prefer to ride. Got that?" Jake instructed.
"Got it. All right, you two. Hold still for Jake and his friends," Ash told his Pokemon.
They held perfectly still. Rachel walked up to Pidgeot and acquired its DNA. Cassie did the same thing to Charizard. Ax and Marco also picked Pidgeot. Jake and Tobias selected to acquire the DNA of Charizard.
*Well, I almost always have feathers,* Tobias told Rachel who had been surprised by his choice.
"Charizard! Pidgeot! Return!" Ash called to his Pokemon, who then went back inside the Poke- balls.
"Okay, Animorphs. Let's morph to Pokemon!" Jake said authoritively.
They all began their morphs. Sprouting wings and tails while having other body parts merely melt into a different shape or position was nothing new. What was new was that, as Jake, Tobias, and Cassie morphed into Charizard, they developed fire that they could spit and that was at the tip of their tails. For the rest of the Animorphs, they felt the immense strength of the oversized bird and its abilities.
The Charizard instincts got a little out of hand. The instincts said that humans were trouble. The Animorphs in Charizard form all started to use Flame Thrower, Fire Spin, and Ember attacks in an attempt to get rid of the humans and their Pokemon. Jake got a grip first.
*Hold it! Get control of the instincts, guys,* he told them.
*You think that was easy?* Tobias asked once he gained full control of the morph.
*These guys are POWERFUL!* Cassie unnecessarily commented.
The Pidgeot morphs weren't much easier to deal with. The Animorphs in Pidgeot form were starting to use Gust, Whirlwind, and Agility. Finally, Jake sent them a telepathic message so forceful that they stopped immediately and gained control.
*Boy, these have got to be some of the toughest morphs we've ever done!* Rachel exclaimed.
*I agree completely,* Ax stated.
*Whoo! Let's do that again!*
*MARCO!* all the others said in tones of agitation.
"I'll carry Alex," Brock informed the others. "We'll ride a Charizard. I would prefer Jake. Which one are you, Jake? To answer that, jump into the air."
Jake complied. Brock went over to Jake with Alex and climbed on.
"I'll ride Marco," Misty told them. "Marco, raise your left wing so I'll know it's you." Marco complied and soon had Misty sitting on his feathery back.
"Well, Pikachu, that leaves me and you. Who should we ride?" Ash asked Pikachu. Pikachu hopped over to one of the Charizards.
"Pika pii pika chuu?" it asked. When translated, Pikachu had asked "Are you Tobias?"
Because it was a morph, Tobias was uncertain how to respond to Pikachu's question. He understood it, but wasn't sure what to do about it. Finally, he merely said, *yeah, it's me.*
Pikachu and Ash climbed on. "Ready when you are," he called to everyone else.
"Same here!" called Misty.
"Me, too!" Brock replied.
The Animorphs then took flight. Since they were with trainers, they were pretty sure that such an unusual group wouldn't look too conspicuous. They arrived at Professor Oak's place an hour and a half later. Jake telepathically told the trainers and Pikachu to get down so that the Animorphs could demorph. They managed to demorph quite nicely.
"Hello, Ash. You and your friends are back a day or so early. Any particular reason?" Professor Oak politely inquired of Ash.
Ash explained as best he could. Then the Animorphs walked over.
"Oh, hello. I'm Professor Oak. You must be the humans with the ability to change shape."
"Well, not all of us are human. Tobias used to be human, but now his base form is a hawk. Ax is an Andalite. The rest of us are human," Jake told the professor.
"Well, that does make a difference. How are you capable to transform into other creatures?" Professor Oak asked them.
*Prince Jake, I believe I am the one that should explain this. Do I have your permission?* Ax thought-spoke privately to Jake.
"Ax, if you would be so obliging?" Jake said without letting the others know it was really Ax's idea.
*Andalites developed a technology to acquire the DNA of other creatures. My late brother gave these five humans that technology,* Ax stated as calmly as he could. *He wasn't supposed to, but he did. The technology allows us to use the DNA we collect to change into that other creature. We cannot mix the DNA of different species, although for my human morph I mixed the DNA of four of the humans.*
"Why only four?" Ash asked when Ax paused.
*Because I was already a hawk by the time we met Ax. I didn't regain the ability to morph until much later,* Tobias clarified.
"Hmm. That's interesting. Could I get a demonstration?" asked Professor Oak.
"Guys, let's go for our Pokemon morphs. I suspect that it would be easier for them to watch that than to watch us change into a species they aren't familiar with," Jake suggested.
The Animorphs morphed the Pokemon again. This time, though, they were prepared for the instincts. It didn't take long to gain control of their morph.
*I still think these morphs are gonna be cool!* Marco exclaimed.
"Are all of you psychic?" Misty inquired.
*No. In fact, Ax and Tobias are the only ones who can thought-speak on a regular basis. The telepathy is a side effect of morphing into other creatures for the rest of us. Since Ax and Tobias must morph to be human, they can still thought-speak when they're in human form. They just don't always utilize it,* Cassie replied.
"D'ya ever lose track of which creature is who?" Brock wanted to know.
*Yes,* Tobias answered. Then all of them demorphed again.
"How did you get stuck as a hawk?" Professor Oak asked.
"That's one of the down sides. We can only be in morph for two hours. If we stay longer than that, we become nothlits. That means we become the creature of our morph permanently," explained Jake.
*Unless we get lucky and the creature has a natural metamorphosis. If we get stuck in a creature that has a natural way of changing, once the creature has changed, it resets the clock. We might get stuck again and we might not,* Ax added.
"Yeah. That happened to me once," Cassie stated. "I morphed a caterpillar. I deliberately became a nothlit because a friend wanted me to experience something important to her. When the caterpillar changed into a butterfly, I was able to demorph."
"So if you were to get stuck in, oh, an Eevee and it evolved you could change back into a human?" Professor Oak attempted to understand.
"Yeah," said Marco.
"What if you were a Gargoyle close to day break?" Misty wondered, glancing at the sleeping Gargoyles.
"We'd try to demorph, but if we got stuck, we should be able to still demorph when the sun sets," Rachel guessed.
The conversation turned abruptly to the Pokemon world. That lasted quite a while. Professor Oak suddenly stood up and walked over to Jake. "I have an idea that just might help you and your friends. First, we might want to see if we can get a babysitter for Alex," the professor stated calmly.
"No way. That kid is how we got here," Jake replied. "He's full of abilities of his own that aren't fully developed. If we lose track of him because of a babysitter, we might not get back home."
Suddenly, Alex decided that he wanted his mom. "Mama!" Alex called, then he teleported himself back to the Eyrie Building.
"Great. Now we don't have a ticket home! How much longer until sunset?" Marco complained.
"About another three hours. Since Alex isn't here, my idea may work a lot better. Come with me, Animorphs," Professor Oak instructed. Then he led the Animorphs, Ash, Misty, and Brock to where trainers recieve their Pokedex and first Pokemon.
He got out ten new Pokedexes. With help from the Animorphs, a Pokedex was designed to be an ID for each Gargoyle as well as each of the Animorphs. "Now, since you are registered, you will want to select your first Pokemon. Choose carefully," Professor Oak informed them. "We'll get the Gargoyles' first Pokemon when they wake up. If they each have one, that might give them a little bit of extra protection during the day."
Ash asked Oak to release the Gargoyles from their Poke-balls. Then he suggested that the Pokemon the Gargoyles select could be put in those Poke-balls in order to keep the Gargoyles from going back in them.
"Not a bad idea," Professor Oak agreed. "So, which Pokemon have each of you selected?"
"I would like to have a Ponyta," said Marco. "Then, when it turns into a Rapidash, I'll ask it if I could aquire it's DNA."
"I think I'll go with a Chikarita," Cassie told the professor. "I think that they're extremely cute!"
Jake said, "I would enjoy having a charmander. If when it evolves to Charizard isn't cooperative, I can morph to Ash's Charizard and take care of the problem."
"I want a Teddiursa," Rachel stated. "It's evolved form shouldn't be too different from my grizzly morph. I'll aquire its DNA when it evolves."
Tobias and Ax exchanged glances. Tobias morphed to human form and said, "I dunno which one to chose. Besides, I'd have to be morphing, demorphing, and remorphing frequently to be successful as a trainer. I guess that since humans are rarely seen without at least one Pokemon, I'll go with a Pidgey."
*I also do not know which Pokemon to select. Since I have hands, morphing and demorphing would not be required for me to access my Pokemon. I think that my choice will be a Squirtle,* Ax though-spoke. *Besides, with having fire around, we may wish to have some water for just in case.*
The Animorphs recieved their Pokemon. Then, everyone waited for the Gargoyles to re-awaken.
Finally, the sun went down and the Gargoyles awoke! Shards of rock fell around them as they stretched and gave growling yawns.
"Good evening, guys," Brooklyn said. After a brief round of introductions for the Gargoyles and Professor Oak, Brodway asked what was going to be for breakfast.
"Breakfast? Oh, I suppose it would be for you. The rest of us are having dinner. We'll talk while we eat," Professor Oak replied. (Also while they ate, Tracy took sketches of all the guests.)
The Gargoyles, the Animorphs, Professor Oak, Ash, Misty, Brock, and all their Pokemon settled into eating and discussing what had happened while the Gargoyles slept.
"I want to train an Igglybuff," Brooklyn said after learning he could chose a Pokemon to have as his own. "I think that by the time it's a Wigglytuff, we'll be good enough friends that it won't care one whit what I am."
"I would like to have a Bulbasuar," stated Broadway.
Angela looked a little startled to be told she could train a Pokemon of her choice. Finally, she told everyone, "I'll pick a Totodile for my first Pokemon. I doubt that having just one Squirtle will be enough since Marco and Jake each chose fire Pokemon."
"I want to start with a Meowth. I know that they aren't the prettiest, but I think that their evolved form of Persian is quite pretty," Lexington explained his decision.
Professor Oak arranged for the various Pokemon that the Gargoyles had asked for.
"So, where do we go from here?" Lexington asked.
"You start on a Pokemon journey. All trainers are allowed to carry only six Pokemon at a time, but you can catch as many as you want. The ones that don't travel with you will remain here," explained Professor Oak. "D'you got all that?"
"Yep," said Brooklyn.
The group of Animorphs and Gargoyles received a map and headed off for another adventure. It is recorded elsewhere, as are all their adventures. Though, they are beginning to wonder just how long their vacation is going to last.
Temporarily The End.
BTW, an asterisk (*) equals thought speech.
"The Vacation Saga: Part 2; Charizard, I Morph You"
Marco was watching Alex while eating dinner in one of the castle's rooms. He and the Animorphs had transferred their stay to the Eyrie Building when they realized Xanatos and the Gargoyles were enjoying their company. They phoned Rach's mom and explained the situation, and she was cool with it.
Well, Alex had just been placed in front of the T.V. Owen had popped in a Pokemon tape of the Johto league. Marco hadn't been watching T.V. lately. But then, when you're an Animorph, you find more ways to entertain yourself than television.
The other Animorphs, the trio, and Angela walked into the room. "Hey, guys," Marco began, "sorry about having nothing funny to say this evening. Alex is watching a Johto League Champions tape. I wonder what it would be like to morph some of those guys. I mean, really. If I could morph any Pokemon, I think I'd morph. . . Blastoise. He's got some really cool attacks. Maybe I'd morph a fire element, like that unicorn lookin' one."
"Marco, are you feelin' okay? I didn't even know you liked Pokemon," Rachel scoffed.
"Oh, I'm dandy. I just think morphing a Pokemon would be cool, ya know?"
"Hmm. You may have a point, Marco," Jake stepped in, conversation wise. "If we morphed some of those, we'd be pretty potent."
"Yeah, we would, wouldn't we?" Cassie agreed.
"How much DNA can you guys hold?" Broadway asked, scratching his head.
"Dunno. Ax?" Jake replied.
*Well, provided you're not allergic to a morph, the capacity is infinite,* Ax answered.
*Cool,* Tobias broke in.
"Really?" Angela asked the Andalite.
*We Andalites are seldom wrong. I do admit, however, we are not perfect. Living here has proven that much to me,* Ax elaborated. He then gave Marco a "high-five."
Alex, though appearing to be watching the tape, was also listening to the conversation. "Ev'ry body go Poke-mon! Catch 'em ah!" Alex shouted excitedly, leaking magic. Suddenly, they were all transported into the realm of the Johto region!
"Whoa! Were are we?" Rachel asked.
*I believe young Alex has sent us into his program of Pokemon. Therefore, I think, we are within the Johto region,* Ax assessed.
"So, let's just have Alex send us back," Broadway suggested.
Alex, however, was now fast asleep in Lexington's arms. "That won't work. Even if he was awake, he'd be too excited to wanna go home."
"Well, any idea on who we can contact here?" Cassie inquired.
"If I understand the show correctly, we should try to get in touch with a human called Professor Oak. He seems to be very knowledgeable about this place," Angela spoke up.
"Okay. How do we get there?" Brooklyn wanted to know.
"Simple. We ask him," Jake said, pointing to a Pokemon trainer coming down the road.
When the trainer approached and saw the Animorphs and Gargoyles, he was shocked. "Who are all of you?" he asked.
"I'm Jake. These are my friends: Alex, Lexington, Rachel, Broadway, Angela, Cassie, Marco, Brooklyn, Tobias, and Ax. May I ask who you are?" Jake replied after pointing out who was who.
"Sorry. I'm Ash Ketchum. This is Misty, Brock, Pikachu, and Togepi," the trainer said.
"Glad to make your acquaintance. We're new here, and we don't have a map. Would you happen to know how to get to Professor Oak's?" Rachel said as politely as she could.
"Gladly, ma'am!" Brock said with his goo-goo faced expression.
"Gaah! Brock! Quit it. You're an embarrassment to us all," Misty proclaimed, grabbed the older man's ear, and began to tote him away.
"So're ya gonna help us or not?" Brooklyn asked irritably.
"Of course we will! Uh, do all your Pokemon speak?" Ash innocently inquired.
"Hey! Watch who you call a Pokemon!" Broadway scolded. "We're Gargoyles!"
"Sorry. You sure?" Ash asked.
"Yeah, we're sure," Lexington responded with an irritated flick of his tail.
"Oh, okay. Look, we're on our way to Professor Oak's place ourselves. Why don't you just come along?" asked Ash.
After a very brief discussion, they decided it would be a good idea. Especially when the fact that none of them know their way around is taken into consideration.
Brock looked up and noticed a storm rolling in. "Uh, guys? A storm is brewing. We should set up camp," said a slightly worried Brock. "Will you help us set it up?"
"Sure," Jake answered for all of them after glancing at their faces.
Ax, still in Andalite form, walked over to Ash. *I hope the storm is not too bad. I, like all my kind, dislike being in enclosed spaces for prolonged periods of time.*
"What kind is that?" Ash wondered aloud.
*I am an Andalite. I am quite certain you have never heard of my kind before.*
*You tell 'im, Ax-man,* Tobias quipped. Tobias then went over to a nice, large tree. Settling on a branch for the remainder of the night, he fell asleep.
"I can hardly wait to get to Professor Oak's. He'll be so shocked to see you! Tracy'll prob'ly wanna take sketches of you," Ash said thoughtfully.
Everyone except Tobias, who's now fast asleep, pitched in to pitch camp. Just as they finished and began to relax, the storm hit. It hit hard! When the Pokemon trainers weren't looking, Rachel morphed to Hork-Bajir. She climbed up Tobias's tree, gently picked him up, and took him inside the shelter. Then she demorphed without even being seen by the trainers.
The following morning, the storm had mostly cleared away. Only a few clouds remained, turning pink and orange with the sunrise. Misty, stretching her arms, conked herself on something rock hard: Brooklyn's beak, turned to stone for the day.
"AAaaahh!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Huh? Where's the enemy coming from?" Marco asked sleepily.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GARGOYLES?!" Misty continued to screech.
*They're s'posed to do that,* Tobias said with a yawn.
"Sun's up," Alex happily burbled, "sun's up, sun's up, sun's up."
"Hey, Ax? Would you mind getting off my leg?" Rachel grumped.
*My apologies, Rachel. I do not think that we should camp like this again. Andalites such as myself are far to awkward for shelters like this,* Ax admitted.
"MMmm! I slept well. Anyone else?" said Ash cheerfully.
In response, he heard a staggered chourus of "no"s and "not really"s. "The worst part," Misty exclaimed, "is that no one warned me they'd do that!" She pointed an accusing finger at the sleeping Gargoyles.
"How are we gonna move 'em?" Brock wanted to know.
Ash snapped his fingers, reached for some spare Poke-balls, and said, "Poke-balls, go!" He threw them expertly, and each of the stone Gargoyles was "captured."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Marco demanded to know when the four Poke-balls vanished.
"Well, it gets them directly to Professor Oak's. We'll set them free again when we get there this afternoon," Brock explained.
"It'll take that long? Alex will NOT like that," Rachel rebuked Ash and Brock.
"I know a way we can all get there in a hurry. Ash, do you have any large, flying Pokemon with you? If you do, we can acquire the DNA and change into it. It'll cut the time down quite a bit," Jake told Ash in a bit of rush.
"Well, Charizard has grown considerably larger. He's with me instead of Noctowl right now. Also, my Pidgeot is back with me. I let Chikarita stay with Professor Oak to make up for it. They're my only large, flying Pokemon. Not to mention the only flying types I currently have with me," Ash said. He reached for two particular Poke-balls, threw them, and called out, "Charizard! Pidgeot! I choose you!"
The two Pokemon came out of their Poke-balls. Charizard and Pidgeot looked expectantly at Ash, who looked at Jake in turn. "Okay, we just need to touch them. They'll get drowsy, but they'll be unharmed. Then, we'll have their DNA in us. We'll morph into them. Next, you'll have to pick and choose which of us you would prefer to ride. Got that?" Jake instructed.
"Got it. All right, you two. Hold still for Jake and his friends," Ash told his Pokemon.
They held perfectly still. Rachel walked up to Pidgeot and acquired its DNA. Cassie did the same thing to Charizard. Ax and Marco also picked Pidgeot. Jake and Tobias selected to acquire the DNA of Charizard.
*Well, I almost always have feathers,* Tobias told Rachel who had been surprised by his choice.
"Charizard! Pidgeot! Return!" Ash called to his Pokemon, who then went back inside the Poke- balls.
"Okay, Animorphs. Let's morph to Pokemon!" Jake said authoritively.
They all began their morphs. Sprouting wings and tails while having other body parts merely melt into a different shape or position was nothing new. What was new was that, as Jake, Tobias, and Cassie morphed into Charizard, they developed fire that they could spit and that was at the tip of their tails. For the rest of the Animorphs, they felt the immense strength of the oversized bird and its abilities.
The Charizard instincts got a little out of hand. The instincts said that humans were trouble. The Animorphs in Charizard form all started to use Flame Thrower, Fire Spin, and Ember attacks in an attempt to get rid of the humans and their Pokemon. Jake got a grip first.
*Hold it! Get control of the instincts, guys,* he told them.
*You think that was easy?* Tobias asked once he gained full control of the morph.
*These guys are POWERFUL!* Cassie unnecessarily commented.
The Pidgeot morphs weren't much easier to deal with. The Animorphs in Pidgeot form were starting to use Gust, Whirlwind, and Agility. Finally, Jake sent them a telepathic message so forceful that they stopped immediately and gained control.
*Boy, these have got to be some of the toughest morphs we've ever done!* Rachel exclaimed.
*I agree completely,* Ax stated.
*Whoo! Let's do that again!*
*MARCO!* all the others said in tones of agitation.
"I'll carry Alex," Brock informed the others. "We'll ride a Charizard. I would prefer Jake. Which one are you, Jake? To answer that, jump into the air."
Jake complied. Brock went over to Jake with Alex and climbed on.
"I'll ride Marco," Misty told them. "Marco, raise your left wing so I'll know it's you." Marco complied and soon had Misty sitting on his feathery back.
"Well, Pikachu, that leaves me and you. Who should we ride?" Ash asked Pikachu. Pikachu hopped over to one of the Charizards.
"Pika pii pika chuu?" it asked. When translated, Pikachu had asked "Are you Tobias?"
Because it was a morph, Tobias was uncertain how to respond to Pikachu's question. He understood it, but wasn't sure what to do about it. Finally, he merely said, *yeah, it's me.*
Pikachu and Ash climbed on. "Ready when you are," he called to everyone else.
"Same here!" called Misty.
"Me, too!" Brock replied.
The Animorphs then took flight. Since they were with trainers, they were pretty sure that such an unusual group wouldn't look too conspicuous. They arrived at Professor Oak's place an hour and a half later. Jake telepathically told the trainers and Pikachu to get down so that the Animorphs could demorph. They managed to demorph quite nicely.
"Hello, Ash. You and your friends are back a day or so early. Any particular reason?" Professor Oak politely inquired of Ash.
Ash explained as best he could. Then the Animorphs walked over.
"Oh, hello. I'm Professor Oak. You must be the humans with the ability to change shape."
"Well, not all of us are human. Tobias used to be human, but now his base form is a hawk. Ax is an Andalite. The rest of us are human," Jake told the professor.
"Well, that does make a difference. How are you capable to transform into other creatures?" Professor Oak asked them.
*Prince Jake, I believe I am the one that should explain this. Do I have your permission?* Ax thought-spoke privately to Jake.
"Ax, if you would be so obliging?" Jake said without letting the others know it was really Ax's idea.
*Andalites developed a technology to acquire the DNA of other creatures. My late brother gave these five humans that technology,* Ax stated as calmly as he could. *He wasn't supposed to, but he did. The technology allows us to use the DNA we collect to change into that other creature. We cannot mix the DNA of different species, although for my human morph I mixed the DNA of four of the humans.*
"Why only four?" Ash asked when Ax paused.
*Because I was already a hawk by the time we met Ax. I didn't regain the ability to morph until much later,* Tobias clarified.
"Hmm. That's interesting. Could I get a demonstration?" asked Professor Oak.
"Guys, let's go for our Pokemon morphs. I suspect that it would be easier for them to watch that than to watch us change into a species they aren't familiar with," Jake suggested.
The Animorphs morphed the Pokemon again. This time, though, they were prepared for the instincts. It didn't take long to gain control of their morph.
*I still think these morphs are gonna be cool!* Marco exclaimed.
"Are all of you psychic?" Misty inquired.
*No. In fact, Ax and Tobias are the only ones who can thought-speak on a regular basis. The telepathy is a side effect of morphing into other creatures for the rest of us. Since Ax and Tobias must morph to be human, they can still thought-speak when they're in human form. They just don't always utilize it,* Cassie replied.
"D'ya ever lose track of which creature is who?" Brock wanted to know.
*Yes,* Tobias answered. Then all of them demorphed again.
"How did you get stuck as a hawk?" Professor Oak asked.
"That's one of the down sides. We can only be in morph for two hours. If we stay longer than that, we become nothlits. That means we become the creature of our morph permanently," explained Jake.
*Unless we get lucky and the creature has a natural metamorphosis. If we get stuck in a creature that has a natural way of changing, once the creature has changed, it resets the clock. We might get stuck again and we might not,* Ax added.
"Yeah. That happened to me once," Cassie stated. "I morphed a caterpillar. I deliberately became a nothlit because a friend wanted me to experience something important to her. When the caterpillar changed into a butterfly, I was able to demorph."
"So if you were to get stuck in, oh, an Eevee and it evolved you could change back into a human?" Professor Oak attempted to understand.
"Yeah," said Marco.
"What if you were a Gargoyle close to day break?" Misty wondered, glancing at the sleeping Gargoyles.
"We'd try to demorph, but if we got stuck, we should be able to still demorph when the sun sets," Rachel guessed.
The conversation turned abruptly to the Pokemon world. That lasted quite a while. Professor Oak suddenly stood up and walked over to Jake. "I have an idea that just might help you and your friends. First, we might want to see if we can get a babysitter for Alex," the professor stated calmly.
"No way. That kid is how we got here," Jake replied. "He's full of abilities of his own that aren't fully developed. If we lose track of him because of a babysitter, we might not get back home."
Suddenly, Alex decided that he wanted his mom. "Mama!" Alex called, then he teleported himself back to the Eyrie Building.
"Great. Now we don't have a ticket home! How much longer until sunset?" Marco complained.
"About another three hours. Since Alex isn't here, my idea may work a lot better. Come with me, Animorphs," Professor Oak instructed. Then he led the Animorphs, Ash, Misty, and Brock to where trainers recieve their Pokedex and first Pokemon.
He got out ten new Pokedexes. With help from the Animorphs, a Pokedex was designed to be an ID for each Gargoyle as well as each of the Animorphs. "Now, since you are registered, you will want to select your first Pokemon. Choose carefully," Professor Oak informed them. "We'll get the Gargoyles' first Pokemon when they wake up. If they each have one, that might give them a little bit of extra protection during the day."
Ash asked Oak to release the Gargoyles from their Poke-balls. Then he suggested that the Pokemon the Gargoyles select could be put in those Poke-balls in order to keep the Gargoyles from going back in them.
"Not a bad idea," Professor Oak agreed. "So, which Pokemon have each of you selected?"
"I would like to have a Ponyta," said Marco. "Then, when it turns into a Rapidash, I'll ask it if I could aquire it's DNA."
"I think I'll go with a Chikarita," Cassie told the professor. "I think that they're extremely cute!"
Jake said, "I would enjoy having a charmander. If when it evolves to Charizard isn't cooperative, I can morph to Ash's Charizard and take care of the problem."
"I want a Teddiursa," Rachel stated. "It's evolved form shouldn't be too different from my grizzly morph. I'll aquire its DNA when it evolves."
Tobias and Ax exchanged glances. Tobias morphed to human form and said, "I dunno which one to chose. Besides, I'd have to be morphing, demorphing, and remorphing frequently to be successful as a trainer. I guess that since humans are rarely seen without at least one Pokemon, I'll go with a Pidgey."
*I also do not know which Pokemon to select. Since I have hands, morphing and demorphing would not be required for me to access my Pokemon. I think that my choice will be a Squirtle,* Ax though-spoke. *Besides, with having fire around, we may wish to have some water for just in case.*
The Animorphs recieved their Pokemon. Then, everyone waited for the Gargoyles to re-awaken.
Finally, the sun went down and the Gargoyles awoke! Shards of rock fell around them as they stretched and gave growling yawns.
"Good evening, guys," Brooklyn said. After a brief round of introductions for the Gargoyles and Professor Oak, Brodway asked what was going to be for breakfast.
"Breakfast? Oh, I suppose it would be for you. The rest of us are having dinner. We'll talk while we eat," Professor Oak replied. (Also while they ate, Tracy took sketches of all the guests.)
The Gargoyles, the Animorphs, Professor Oak, Ash, Misty, Brock, and all their Pokemon settled into eating and discussing what had happened while the Gargoyles slept.
"I want to train an Igglybuff," Brooklyn said after learning he could chose a Pokemon to have as his own. "I think that by the time it's a Wigglytuff, we'll be good enough friends that it won't care one whit what I am."
"I would like to have a Bulbasuar," stated Broadway.
Angela looked a little startled to be told she could train a Pokemon of her choice. Finally, she told everyone, "I'll pick a Totodile for my first Pokemon. I doubt that having just one Squirtle will be enough since Marco and Jake each chose fire Pokemon."
"I want to start with a Meowth. I know that they aren't the prettiest, but I think that their evolved form of Persian is quite pretty," Lexington explained his decision.
Professor Oak arranged for the various Pokemon that the Gargoyles had asked for.
"So, where do we go from here?" Lexington asked.
"You start on a Pokemon journey. All trainers are allowed to carry only six Pokemon at a time, but you can catch as many as you want. The ones that don't travel with you will remain here," explained Professor Oak. "D'you got all that?"
"Yep," said Brooklyn.
The group of Animorphs and Gargoyles received a map and headed off for another adventure. It is recorded elsewhere, as are all their adventures. Though, they are beginning to wonder just how long their vacation is going to last.
Temporarily The End.