Hey all! Sorry it's been so long again…hope I have some people that are still interested in this story (even if you don't review)…I have two chapters after this that should go up rather fast since they *are* finished…but chapter twenty-two might take a while…fight scenes kill me!…and I'm hopefully going to have a friend proofread it for me since he said he's good with Digimon and Pokèmon fights…

This chapter has some scientific stuff in it and I am no scientist…that's why I'm a liberal arts major…but still, you'd think I'd know more about evolution than I do being an anthropology major, right?

Well…on with the yet another chapter with a major plot twist…^_^…hope you all enjoy…and do review…it only takes a moment…thanks for reading anyway…

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Part #19 – Purity Level

The younger Eisen hurried back from the Level One Research Center and sat down in the seat next to his grandfather, a little out of breath. He handed him a small computer of some sort, which the elderly man then sat on the table with a smile. He looked at Satoshi, who was staring at the device with curiosity.

"Do you remember that when you first got here you had a sample of your blood taken?"

The young man looked at the hand he had the needle go into. "Yeah, I remember it well."

"The three things we did were to check you for any diseases (and you were completely healthy, by the way), to code your pokèdex so that only you could use it, and to see what your blood purity is." He pushed a button on the small computer and a spiral strand of DNA appeared holographically. "When I checked your purity level, I was not too surprised to find what I did, chosen one."

"And what *did* you find?"

"This you see here is a strand of normal human DNA." He pushed another button and a second double helix appeared. "This is yours."

Satoshi looked at the two for a moment then looked at the older Eisen. "I don't see anything different about them."

"There is no difference." He smiled. "The difference is *not* in the DNA, as was long supposed. It took me forever to find it originally…but I did."

The young man looked at him, still confused. "And?"

"When we looked at a breakdown of your proteins, which is basically what DNA codes for, we found a special protein in your cells. There are other proteins out there other than what humans produce themselves and what they get from their foods, but this partucular protein is only present in one other human at this time – and that's Shigeru."

"And that means exactly *what*?"

"That you are a chosen one," the graying man said with a grin.

Satoshi slammed his head into his arms that were folded on the table. That was no answer! Raimei looked at him concerned then patted him on the head saying something soothing, even if his trainer could not understand him.

"What does it mean, though? What's so important about my genetics? Why do they make me a chosen one," he asked in a slightly mumbled voice, his face still buried in his arms.

"It shows that you, as well as Shigeru, are the first of the next evolution for humans," the younger Eisen said.

"Huh?" Kasumi looked at both Eisens then to Satoshi who was looking at them with wide eyes. "Evolution?"

"Humans are not pokèmon. We don't evolve," Takeshi said.

The older Eisen laughed. "Well, you're both right and wrong. There are two types of evolutions: jidai and chikara, though there are very few researchers that actually believe in the jidai form. Chikara evolutions are what pokèmon go through – like a pikachu evolving into a raichu, or a charmander into a charmeleon. Jidai evolutions are more long term and occur when, for example, natural mutations in the DNA accumulate over a period of time. When that happens, a species will evolve, whether human or pokèmon. That is my job in the Lev One RC, to look at the rate of mutations for all the pokèmon *and* humans. There are several pokèmon that show signs that they are possibly going to go through jidai evolutions soon, evolutionarily speaking at least."

"And these proteins tie in *how*?"

"These proteins are only present in pokèmon."

"Whoa!" Satoshi nearly jumped out of his seat. "Are you saying…"

"That you're a pokèmon? Yes."

"No, no, no, no! I…"

"Let me finish." The older Eisen waited till it was clear the trainer was settled back down. "The protein itself has a varied effect depending on the type of pokèmon, but it is still essentially the same effect, which is to 'power' the pokèmon's abilities."

"So this protein is what makes a pokèmon a pokèmon, then," Satoshi asked.

"Yes."

"I'm a…pokèmon," Satoshi asked himself quietly.

Takeshi had his hand to his chin, then looked at the older Eisen, seeming to be taking this in better than either of his friends. "So if humans are going to evolve into pokèmon, what type of pokèmon are we going to become?"

"From the research that I have been doing, it looks like the human species will be getting their psychic powers back because humans were, originally, psychic."

"Wait, are you trying to say that humans came from pokèmon too?" Takeshi was staring at the old man across from him. "That doesn't seem right. Why would we have stopped being pokèmon just to become them again?"

"I have asked her ladyship that before as well and she said that she wasn't sure why. She told me, though, that she did know that humans did, in fact, come from pokèmon. She saw the evolutions taking place. She is a megami after all. She's lived, from what I can tell, for several hundred *million* years. Which is not really a long time when one thinks about it the way I do, but to others it's quite a long span of time."

"I'm a pokèmon?" Satoshi looked at his hands in complete awe. "That is just too weird."

Raimei looked at his trainer with a smile. So that is what he had felt in him for so long. He knew it had been something amazing but he just did not know what it was. He wondered why Satoshi had never gotten a psychic pokèmon to train before, then. He could have opened up an amazing world if he had. He was surprised Satoshi had not come into the powers by complete chance, as well, though Satoshi had not been born into it such a world. He probably would have suppressed anything of that sort at an early age.

"And you will be taught how to use your powers. Shigeru has already learned to us his, though I have not seen him use them." The head of security smiled. "I would absolutely love too, though."

"Shigeru is just like me?"

"To a degree, yes. Though he will probably never have children to pass the genes on to. Only you will be doing that. If anything should happen to you, then Kinakari will have a very hard decision to make."

"Why will he not have kids," Kasumi asked.

"Because he cannot have children with her ladyship." The younger Eisen leaned back in his chair. "But if, like gramps said, something should happen to Satoshi, then she'll have to let Shigeru find someone to have children with so the genes can be passed on. Neither of them like that idea, though."

"I can understand why. From what I've seen, they really love each other," Satoshi said.

"They do, but they understand that if that happens, then it is the only choice for a direct transfer of the genes." The graying man smiled at Satoshi. "Though I doubt that anything's going to happen to you, chosen one."

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Just as a reminder in case you forgot –

Satoshi = Ash

Shigeru = Gary

Kasumi = Misty

Takeshi = Brock

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Deedlit Magic/Fayal Wood – It's just now getting exciting? ^_^ Of course the baby's cute…aren't nearly all babies cute? Thanks for the review!

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