Hi-o, there! I'm the other author working on this thing! We two own the
characters, but not Pokemon in general. Got it? That means you don't sue
us! Easy, right? Um. Enjoy the prologue?
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Power is a wonderful thing. It builds empires and destroys them. It gives both life and death. One could almost say that power is like a society unto it's own. Or rather, that we are power. The more powerful you are, the higher you climb the pyramid of infinity, until another, somehow more powerful than you, shoves you off and sends you crashing to the bottom. It could take a lifetime, but the greater power always wins. Until control is found, there will never, ever be balance. Be it in a person, a group, or a system.
Shin looked proudly down at the papers in front of him for what could realistically be said the thousandth time in only a few short months. Only good would come of this. He couldn't imagine the joy that this one last stab in the dark at DNA and RNA combination and alteration would bring. Finally, a way to make everyone equal. Well, for the most part anyway. But with this knowledge. With this knowledge some forms of prejudice would be killed forever. He was sure of it. Pain and suffering from these biases would vanish and these people would be able to live normally.
/Now, you don't know that. You need to test it first/ He mentally chided himself, sweeping his long blond bangs out of his vision, didn't want anything to obscure the glorious finds of his team. The subject had already been selected, various people chosen for various conditions with no ties to the staff that would be changing their lives. It would be expensive, but the government had consented to pay for it so that they wouldn't have to deal with the rich. And any problems that they might make of show of should they occur. Which they wouldn't. In theory, everything would be fine. There would be equality and fairness. He had personally talked to one of the subjects and found him a clever boy who shouldn't have had to be what he was. The mere existence of one of the females was proof of the great things she could have been doing instead of being confined to an IV and bed, every thought going towards staying alive.
"So many things will be righted." he mumbled, touching the papers almost lovingly.
"Aye, Doctor."
He looked up to see a stout woman with eyes and hair the same color as a sky blue crayon fresh from the box standing in the polished oaken doorway, her arms folded over her clean, stiff lab coat in what was a futile attempt to make the cloth wrinkle.
"Taday's the day, in't it?" she asked, sweeping a hand through her closely cropped hair and grinning broadly. Shin replied by grinning just as widely as she was as he stood.
"Com'on, Doctor. We can't keep the little Pichus waitin'." she stated, leaving the room briskly. He fell into step next to her as he chided her jovially.
"Sally, you know that none of them are Picus."
"Nah, just a Growlithe, a Raichu, an Espeon, a Vaporeon, a Nidorino, and--" she halted on the last one, glancing worriedly at Shin. He ignored her obvious concern and finished the sentence for her.
"A Kababra."
"Are ye sure, Doctor? She might not be able ta take it." Sally pointedly looked away from Shin, varying her glances at her shoes and the walls as they neared their destination at the end of the almost mazelike journey.
"Sally, anything less than a Kadabra and her abilities would be wasted."
"I just don't want her ta die. She neva even learned ta talk. I figure if she's kept herself alive this long then we shouldn't be the ones ta break her resolve ta live, ya know? An Abra or a Mime would be safer. Maybe a Jynx. But a Kadabra? I mean, it's better than an Alakazam like you were originally plannin' on but--" He cut her off by finally managing to catch her eyes in a glare. She sighed and looked away again, uncrossing her arms and shoving her hands into two of the coat's many pockets.
"Ye don't have ta give the speech, Doctor, 've heard it before."
"Well, we've arrived anyway." He stated, stopping in front of a metal door that looked like every other one of the few they'd passed. She chuckled, the tension that had built during the walk disappearing.
"Yeh, Doctor. Let's go change the world, eh?"
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Power is a wonderful thing. It builds empires and destroys them. It gives both life and death. One could almost say that power is like a society unto it's own. Or rather, that we are power. The more powerful you are, the higher you climb the pyramid of infinity, until another, somehow more powerful than you, shoves you off and sends you crashing to the bottom. It could take a lifetime, but the greater power always wins. Until control is found, there will never, ever be balance. Be it in a person, a group, or a system.
Shin looked proudly down at the papers in front of him for what could realistically be said the thousandth time in only a few short months. Only good would come of this. He couldn't imagine the joy that this one last stab in the dark at DNA and RNA combination and alteration would bring. Finally, a way to make everyone equal. Well, for the most part anyway. But with this knowledge. With this knowledge some forms of prejudice would be killed forever. He was sure of it. Pain and suffering from these biases would vanish and these people would be able to live normally.
/Now, you don't know that. You need to test it first/ He mentally chided himself, sweeping his long blond bangs out of his vision, didn't want anything to obscure the glorious finds of his team. The subject had already been selected, various people chosen for various conditions with no ties to the staff that would be changing their lives. It would be expensive, but the government had consented to pay for it so that they wouldn't have to deal with the rich. And any problems that they might make of show of should they occur. Which they wouldn't. In theory, everything would be fine. There would be equality and fairness. He had personally talked to one of the subjects and found him a clever boy who shouldn't have had to be what he was. The mere existence of one of the females was proof of the great things she could have been doing instead of being confined to an IV and bed, every thought going towards staying alive.
"So many things will be righted." he mumbled, touching the papers almost lovingly.
"Aye, Doctor."
He looked up to see a stout woman with eyes and hair the same color as a sky blue crayon fresh from the box standing in the polished oaken doorway, her arms folded over her clean, stiff lab coat in what was a futile attempt to make the cloth wrinkle.
"Taday's the day, in't it?" she asked, sweeping a hand through her closely cropped hair and grinning broadly. Shin replied by grinning just as widely as she was as he stood.
"Com'on, Doctor. We can't keep the little Pichus waitin'." she stated, leaving the room briskly. He fell into step next to her as he chided her jovially.
"Sally, you know that none of them are Picus."
"Nah, just a Growlithe, a Raichu, an Espeon, a Vaporeon, a Nidorino, and--" she halted on the last one, glancing worriedly at Shin. He ignored her obvious concern and finished the sentence for her.
"A Kababra."
"Are ye sure, Doctor? She might not be able ta take it." Sally pointedly looked away from Shin, varying her glances at her shoes and the walls as they neared their destination at the end of the almost mazelike journey.
"Sally, anything less than a Kadabra and her abilities would be wasted."
"I just don't want her ta die. She neva even learned ta talk. I figure if she's kept herself alive this long then we shouldn't be the ones ta break her resolve ta live, ya know? An Abra or a Mime would be safer. Maybe a Jynx. But a Kadabra? I mean, it's better than an Alakazam like you were originally plannin' on but--" He cut her off by finally managing to catch her eyes in a glare. She sighed and looked away again, uncrossing her arms and shoving her hands into two of the coat's many pockets.
"Ye don't have ta give the speech, Doctor, 've heard it before."
"Well, we've arrived anyway." He stated, stopping in front of a metal door that looked like every other one of the few they'd passed. She chuckled, the tension that had built during the walk disappearing.
"Yeh, Doctor. Let's go change the world, eh?"